A PL AYHOU
FORME/”
With vacation from school just
around the corner, the daughter of the
family will soon begin that ever recur
ring question of hers:
“Mother, what can I do now?"
You want her to do something she
will enjoy, but you much prefer that
she do it near home, safe from traffic
and the accidents of unwatched play.
A playhouse of her own is the best
answer you can give ... a playhouse
right in her own backyard. Father,
with a little ingenuity, and some abili
ty at handling tools can build a real
playhouse, large enough for her and
her playmates to move about in, at
little expense. Celotex building board
suggests itself as the logical material
for the amateur carpenter, because it is
so easily cut and so light to handle.
The mother who has watched chil
dren’s appetites fall off on hot days
will welcome a shelter for them which .
is cool and protected from the blazing
son. Just as the real home is made
cooler in summer and warmer in win
ter by the installation of celotex in
sulation, so the playhouse is five to ten
degrees cooler than outside when built
of this material.
Avoid the labor and expense of hang
ing doors at the entrance to the play
house by using an awning across the
front which may be rolled up and down
to close out the midday sun. This, too,
may be made at home, perhaps of
denim or some other cheap well wear
ing cloth.
Only a minimum of cutting and nail
ing will be needed for celotex comes
in convenient sizes in thickness from
a half to one-inch and in four-foot
widths in pieces four to twelve feet
long. Daddy—and the boys—will make
a happy holiday of the building job.
Gay colors should be in order as a
finishing coat for any playhouse. Put
on a coat of sizing first and then apply
two coats of any good oil base paint.
You may let your imagination go on
color choice. What could be more
cheerful than walls of sunshine yellow
and trim of light green? On the inside
of the house you will find the natural
sandy color of celotex a pleasing back
ground for children’s furniture.
If Daddy is really ambitious, he may
want to add a chimney and flower
boxes to give that touch of realism
which little girls love. The same build
ing board may be used for these with
a paint brush outlining the effect of
bricks on the chimney portion.
Long life is assured the little play
house, since celotex is especially proc
essed against dry rot and termites.
Every parent knows that the sense
of possession is strong in children.
Little girls especially love the seclu
sion which a real playhouse gives them.
Build such a house for your young
sters. And let them help in the con
struction. The joy of creative effort
will add vastly to the fun of using the
celotex playhouse.
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WHEN STUPIDITY AND BRILLIANCE GO HftHD IN HAND
When your favorite son begins to
show signs of undue cleverness in early
life, watch out for slipping grades as he
reaches advanced work, says Johnson
O’Connor, director of the Human En
gineering Laboratory at Stevens Insti
tute of Technology, in the Atlantic
Monthly. The human machine is put
together in such away that too much
cleverness often leads to laziness, while
a great aptitude for one branch of ac
tivity may be unaccompanied by any
noticeable degree of competence in
others.
Human talent can be divided into at
least eight branches. Among them are
engineering aptitude, which is the
ability to see and think in terms of
three dimensional space; accounting
aptitude, or a natural talent for mathe
matics and secretarial work; creative
imagination, or the ability to complete
a piece of work mentally long before
it could be given material expression;
and tonal memory, the ability to re
member musical themes.
These aptitudes are combined in hun
dreds of ways and each combination
endows its possessor with a special
flair for some particular type of work.
The catch comes when a person has
too many of them—is a “multi-apti
tude” student—and finds everything
so easy that he won’t concentrate on
any single activity. In school such a
person turns up near the bottom of the
class, in company with th» really dull
witted.
A great source of trouble is the
over-development of one aptitude and
the absence of others which would
support it. Take tonal memory, for
example. If it is strong in a person,
he can carry a tune with the best and
remember it longer than most. But if
he is low in accounting ability he won’t
be able to read complnt-d musical
scores quickly.
The accounting aptitude is the most
important of all for school work. Many
very bright students rank below their
proper position because their work is
slow, or they can’t arrange it effici
ently, or their mathematics is always a
failure. Deficiency in this talent causes
trouble for two reasons. The student
with a quick brain but a slow pencil
gets so far ahead of that his
mind trips over itself. And, unfortu
nately for the br’ght boy. girls ar» '
ahead of boys in accounting ability.
When a quick lad finds himself lag
ging behind most of the girls in the
class he is apt to think that he is no
good. He should be sent to a boys’
BE BEAUTIFUL IN LIVING
“If a woman can see beauty in terms
of life, and hold that one little word
‘life’ constantly in her mind, then her
beauty will become a rounded and
complete thing,” says Elizabeth Arden.
This exponent of complete beauty
urges women to set up a “beauty bud
get.” She explains ill as follows:
Miss Arden advises
to be grateful and
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CANAPES
FOR
PARTIES
This service of canapes shown in the
photograph will appeal to many host
esses. They are really far easier to
make than their ritzy appearance
would lead you to believe, and they
are extremely tasty.
Make a glaze for them by dissolv
ing one package of a quicksetting
lemon flavor gelatin in Ya cup boiling
water. Add 2 tablespoons vinegar and
Yt teaspoon salt. Chill until it begins
to thicken. Then slowly beat in Yt CU P
French dressing (made of oil and vine
gar or lemon juice and spices).
To make the canapes, mix with some
of the glaze tidbits of fish, chicken,
olives, celery and other appetizing
morsels. Then arrange on crackers or
on small shapes of toast. Be sure to
make plenty; they’ll go fast.
TUNA FISH SANDWICH SPREAD
One large can tunafish, 3 hard-boiled
eggs, 2 stalks celery chopped fine,
mayonnaise to bind together, salt, red
pepper. Place tunafish in a deep bowl,
add finely chopped eggs and celery
and mash with a potato masher until
the fish is finely crushed, then add
mayonnaise and mash until a paste.
Season to taste and spread on wheat
bread, adding 1 small leaf of lettuce
to each sandwich. Lovely with a cool
drink for the evening “foursome” at
bridge.
school where this contrast won’t be so
great, taught to work his problems
mentally before trying to put them
down, and then to write them out at
double express speed.
“The woman who has neither a great
deal of time nor much money to spend
on keeping herself attractive must di
vide her time and her money between
these three equally important matters
—cleanliness, nourishment of the skin,
and posture for grace and health.