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FASHIONS AND FANCIES
PLYWOOD PANELLING.
FASHIONS IN STOCKINGS.
APPLIQUE WORK,
Applique work is displacing for the last cross-stitch, which three years has enjoyed a great vogue and has been used in numer- ous ways for decorating jumpere and coats, or for chair covers and house furnishings. The decorative possibilities of applique are only just beginning to be recognised, and other important points are that It requires less time and skill than cross-stitch.
The brevity of skirta bas had a The use of plywood for covering the walls, and callings of the marked effect upon fashions in modern house is a comparatively stockings, Not very many years new idea. This material is fami- ago black cashmere and lisle were liar to most people as the fabric worn by the vast majority of ladies. of which suitcases and hatboxes Nowadays the number, quality, and are made, but in the form of colour of her stockings mattor a panelling or as a basis for dis- good deal to a woman, and there is temper or wallpaper in the place no article of attire on which she is of plaster walls it has yet to be so willing to spend more than was fully appreciated. Plywood la originally intended if that should
The pioneer of the simply timber consisting of thin be necessary to the carrying out of
new fashion was the embroidery layers of good sound wood cement- a harmonious scheme of dressing.
Whether silk or artificial slik artist, who for some time has been ed together with the grain of the alternate pieces crossing at right-stockings are chosen, care must be using it with great effect for wall- angles. It cannot aplit, warp, or taken when buying to make sure hangings, employing modern sub- shrink-advantages which cannot that the gauge is fine and the jects and colourings. Fashions in always be obtained from the use general effect soft and good-looking. dress and in art needlework have of ordinary wood which is difficult The length of the silk panel is very simultaneously adopted the. Iden. to procure in a well-seasoned con- important; silk all through is the The attractive coloured coatees. most satisfactory. Silk stockings for the coming tennis season have dition.
There is no doubt that a room with lisle tops can look very bad, appliqued pockets. A blue coatee, now that skirts are often knee for example, will be decorated with panelled in wood gives a sense of comfort and homeliness, and when length, when the wearer is sitting pieces of red, green, and blue ap- The worst of the double plique. This form of decoration is It is realised that this can be down. obtained at a fraction of the cost heel is that the extra thickness also being used for hats. of ordinary panelling, few people makes a square patch above the who are interested in the making back of the shoe. In the new stock
suitable for adorning of a home will overlook the charmings the extra thickness tapers to of plywood in the scheme of de-a point above the heel, the effect cushions, fire screens, chair seats, and similar objects. Provided the coration, Used in the cheaper being much daintier.
Most people require stockings needlewoman has a good colour qualities made of alder or birch and fastened direct on to the for four different sets of occasions. sense, she can evolve her brickwork, it does away with any They want country (including golf ideas from suitable pieces of need for the walls to be plastered, and walking) hose, and hose for material in her rag-bag. Wallpaper, distemper: or paint can tennis, town; and evening wear. finds difficulty in visualising the be applied to this surface with Twelve pairs can therefore be taken result, or if she wants some am- as a reasonable minimum for a bitious design, such as, for in- entirely satisfactory results.
small wardrobe. In the choice of stance, a Spanish girl or a galleon. shades lies one of the secrets of she will find that the West-end correct stocking wear. Light pinks shops are selling the materials and mauvy pinks, including lilac ready cut out. The task of new. nude, rose mauve, and tourterelle ing them on involves only a very are still in favour. There has been small amount of trouble. some talk of the reappearance of black stockings in Paris. There are
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In the hail and dining room this plywood panelling in the finer qualities of oak, pine, or ash can be used with good effect as a dado to a height of about three feet from the skirting boards. Not only will it form an attractive finish to
but the cost of re- the rooms, decoration will be less, as it is generally the lower part of the wall surface which becomes quickly soiled. When the hall of a modern house is panelled in this way it *the is an excellent plant to run dado up the stairway and round the landing above. In the dining room the design of a dado carried out in decorative oak plywood NEW SEASON GINGER || els can to extended to the form ing of a mantelpiece in the same A fireplace and hearth wood. built of red bricks, either well pointed or left with the mortar in a rough state, will be successful in such a room.
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For purposes of needlework at home, the shops are showing de signs
Own
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It is because such striking effects
no signs of such a vogue Invading are obtained with comparatively Britain at present, but darker little effort that applique is likely shades are certainly being worn to enjoy a great vogue. Pictorial across the Channel, and stockings work, such as would only be pos in gunmental, a dark grey, are be-sible to a skilled worker in cross- ing shown in small quantities in the stitch, is easily carried out in ap-
plique by the amateur.
West end.
Lisles and
The
Clocks, either in lace or em- Spanish galleon and the tiger are Vivid broidery, are more fashionable than among numerous popular designs ever, and owing to the length of for decorating cushions.. stocking exposed patterns such as blues and yellows are used, and checks are small, and often in the the result is very striking. same colour as the hose, in order to be less noticeable. chiffon liales, exceedingly fine and At present smartly made, are likely to have a A gas fire of Vogue this summer. the dog-grate type will look well, they are chiefly of foreign make. and is a convenient way of heat-Stockings for evening wear may be ing a dining room which is used embroidered in bende or hand-
painted all down the front. Their at meal times only.
Plywood may also be used for decoration is most elaborate. the ceiling and upper parts of the novelty conslets of "tennis socks," walls either in similar wood panel which fit over the silk stockings ling or in one of the cheaper quali-and really serve to protcet them tles, which may be distempered or from being rubbed into holes. They painted in ivory white or cream colour. A room such as this will always give a sense of restfulness
and have something of the dignity
of the solid decoration of a by- gone day.
ON SCREENS.
A screen is one of the most use ful articles of furniture imaginable. It lends an "air" to the dullest room, and it will if necessary make one apartment appear like two.
are made in woo! or silk and wool, and finish at the ankle with coloured border. Ladies are also beginning to take them up for golf.
GRADUATES IN BUSINESS.
MATS TO MATCH,
We are getting right away from white linen for dinner tables. Even our mats are no longer white.
For walnut furniture there are A the most charming sets of embroid- ered net, the net being of Paris or string colour and the stitchery of sume tint that is to be found in the scheme of the dining-room. dinner service or in the colour Every-day table sets are quite attractive in the kind of thick canvas on which cross-stitch em broidery used to be taught. A long runner and a set of a dozen mats seen the other day were of this canvas in a very deep cream tone. A Greek key pattern in dark brown had been embroidered rather heav!- ly round the edges and a small eon- ventional design was scattered here and there on the centres.
An increasing number of women from the London colleges are tak ing up secretarial or business work, and a brochure lasued by the Appointments Board of the Univer
sity
of London invites inquiries from business and professional employera who are in need of women private secretaries or clerks.
economica,
The mats were used on an oval table of dull Jacobean oak and look- ed quite pretty with decorations of
deep yellow flowers.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This `cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonstic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho,)
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Farther, or more dietant An animal's hairy coat 18-A short cut-and-thrust sword 14 Lubricating
16-One of the montha (abbr.) 16-Passge
19-Prefix meaning "apart;
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#3-Greek goddess of the dawn 85-Exclamation of disgust
86-A constellation 87-Egyptian god of light
59-A traitor in the American Revo-
lutionary War
42-Conditions
44~~ Greasy
47. Like
46-To now back (almplified
spelling)
49-Affection
82-To touch with the fouR 53-Southern State of the U. B.
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55-Upper Canada (abbr) 67-Man's name (familiar) 68--Ons who ornaments, adorni B1--Prefix meaning "through" #3-Not a "dry" 54-Grief
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That which autually existe
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Errors to printing
7---Frustrated
Prepared; ready
g—of the nature of a teunt 10-Joined together
11~Royal Geographical Society
(abbr.)
12--Girl's name
17--Thon who analyze
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(The solution of the shove cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
The
handsome piece of furniture, has the usual accommodation for table linen and cutlery, but there are glass doors at each side for display Lace and net sets are, of course, of china. The cabinet part of the A second-hand screen can often
beautifully dainty, but they are not sideboard takes up very little space, be picked up very cheaply and this
After their college career, the the "handy-woman" may decorate at small cost. One great advantage brochure states, it is usual for particularly serviceable for constant and as the sides are at an angle of this method is the fact that the these girls to train in a secretarial use. Instead there is almost every which enables the glass doors, to Their college life gives tone of cambric and linen to be had, be seen from the front, the whole acreon thus treated may be made school.
will cut and embroider her own cabinet Bideboard is a far more de- exactly to match the particular room them experience of team work and the woman with artistic fingera effect is very pleasing.
which trains them to think formats. which it is to adorn.
A shade of butcher's blue linen corative affair than is any ordinary It is a good plan first to cover themselves and to bring to their
piece of furniture of the same the screen with similar material to duties enthusiasm, and loyalty. As looks very smart on a dark table kind, and the display cabinets at
or sofa special qualifications graduates can and it could be embroidered in dark that used for chairs
of the wood. eovers, to bring it into line with the offer one or more of the following: brown or black; or, if the colour each side enhance the appearance rest of the furnishing. Screens English, modern languages, ma scheme of the room permits in a dull orange. The latter is a most with neutral backgrounds of blue, thematics, statistics, grey, or dull may be delightfully commercial subjects, chemistry, effective combination. decorated by appliqued wreaths physics, biological sciences, his- or posies of gaily coloured flowers; tory, and classics. A woman with wool enbroideries are also useful, the right personality and so and cushions for the couch might educated and trained makes an be adorned in the same way.
admirable private secretary. Types Patterned wallpapers are excel- of work in which the college train- lent for screens, the lovely motifs ed woman is especially well quali- cut from the modern papers being fed to give expert help are private glued on to the background in the correspondence and accounts, in- required positions. Plain frieze like bands pasted right across the terviewing or investigation, publi. folds, of the screen look effective; city, organising charity campaigns, while another attractive notion is care of books or papers, research, to cut lengths of the cream frieze getting together "raw materials," paper that is made for the nursery preparing statistics, or translating walle; adorned with silhouettes of foreign letters. children at play, this forms an ad- mirable decoration. Great care must be exercised when pasting the paper on to the fabric. See that it is kept taut; be careful not to wrinkle it at the same time be sure that the paper is not stretch ed too tightly, or it will tear when the paste dries.
GOOD FOR THE WHOLE
The shape of both runner and mats can be varied to suit the taste of the hostess. Just now there is a great fancy for a square centre and small square mats, but oval and round patterns look equally well on the table,
CABINET SIDEBOARD.
by
The sideboard has always been the subject of experiment cabinet-makers, who have between them evolved a useful and almost Indispensable plece of furniture FAMILY.
from the original oak chest of our Mothers always give Chamberlain's ancestors. But so far as utility is Cough Remedy for croupy cough, concerned finality appeared to have colds, difficult breathing, bronchial and been reached long ago. It is, influenza coughs. It is good for the therefore, interesting to discover a little ones and grown ups' tou and every one knows it contains se aar- sideboard which embodies a new cotics Sold everywhere.
idea. This sideboard, which is a
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