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DOES YOUR PORCH SUIT YOU?
Lucile. Kelly writes in the "Manila Timer":
I was talking to a young matron the other afternoon as we sat on her perfectly adorable verandah alpping tea. "You know, I have lived in this house two years and I feel the need of a change." "A change, my goodness what's the matter with it, it looks as cool and as comfort
1 able as any porch in Manila." was aghast for I loved her porch, so wide, so comfortable. "Well, that's it. It's as cool as any place in Manila but I haven't been away except for a few days up at Baguio during the hot weather and I simply have to have a colour change. You, being at your work every day don't notice whether your home is blue, black or green. When you come home you are only aware that it's cool, cozy, and easy to look at. I put in nearly every hour of the twenty four in this hotse, from the porch to the kitchen and back again, and I am getting terribly tired of its arrangement, its furniture and everything else, and I am going to change it and you are going to help me."
It was a pleasant porch but I could understand just how she felt. We decided that it really didn't need any drastic changes but just a wee bit of rearrangement. a large square affair with a floor of red and tan tiling, a high rail Ing entirely around it and hanging baskets fastened from the top of The furniture is the ceiling, wicker consisting of several arm chairs, a few tables, a large wicker lamp, a couch and chaise lounge.
So, that was that.
Its
'PARIS HATS.
The lady correspondent of a Manila paper writes:
I have just received a letter from my friend, the Paris buyer; of aeveral San Francisco shops of whom you have read of in this column many times. Her last lot ter reads in part":
TUCKED HATS,
Trimming is being featured on
felt new wide-brimmed
hats. These felts are quite a novelty and are a development of the vagabond and the dustman hats save that crowns are not such an obsesalon and are more moulded to the head than they were and have not nearly You ask me about hats. I have so many folds and pinches-for never seen so many different kinds which one may be devoutly thank- and different styles. Since the ful. On the wide-brimmed hats, Lindbergh flight, there has been a which are short at the back, there sudden revival of the little felt hel- is usually a large flower or flowers, mots and they are very pretty be to match the daytime chiffon flowers ing in lovely pastels shades and now being worn on the shoulder of cleverly cut. Some have wings in many of the crepella jumper suits. either side, others have the regula-Others are trimmed with ribbon, tion aviation cut and many bear the and acme of the new paibuntal stamp of aviation in form of a tiny straws show satin ribbons in mixed propeller. But all the new felt hat colours wrapped round the crown are small as the one pictured. and tied in the loose choux that Whenever I want to get a new used to be popular four or five "slant" on style I have luncheon years ago. This is a change from at the Paris Ritz. There is no bet- the hard, formal bands of peter.. ter place than the Ritz during the sham brought round the crowns and season to view this interesting finished In formal hard flat side fix- gathering in the world of fashion. Ings. The whole tendency is to
world ward softness and less hardness of People from all over the come to the Ritz and if one is the line. Petersham is still used both least bit discerning: one can soon to trim and to make hats, and there gather just which style is suitable are many new patershams, some and becoming to the different na with embroidered spots, but on the tionalitice. The American profers whole the softer ribbons seem be- one line or cut, the Parisian an-coming more and more fashionable. other, the Senoritas of Spain an- Ospreys and birds of paradise, other and although the cut in Paris, though not allowed to be imported,
It is just have there is a difference.
reappeared. 35 trimming, that which makes it so interesting. This la amusing when one thinks Of course this great gathering is of the scrutiny through which all well interspersed with smart man- feathers have to pass when going kins from the best known houses through the Customs. Only the who are sent out to promote some other day the buyer in a miscel fad or mode, be it a new gown, a fancous fancy department of a big new jewel or a new vanity case.
store had enormous delays and You particularly asked me about trouble in getting some feather Colour Change Important. First we studied over the colour. the hat and of course I kept in dusters for motors, through the mind the climate of the tropics but Customs. They were to retail at The tiling being of tan and red, it is cut and line no matter the 58. 6d., and were obviously from the the wicker furniture gray and material I saw one hat to-day that plumage of some domestic fowl, but rather shabby as we looked at it was smart as smart. It was being feathers they were "queried” with critical eyes; the cushions stamped all over with that inde- at the ports for some weeks, And were of tan and red and the fern finable something which tells the yet many "dreasy" hats are shown boxes along the ledge, green, De-style expert that here is something with jutting ospreys and flowing cidedly we needed new colours. Of it was a medium sized hat and in paradise. Milliners say they are course we couldn't change the the new coarse straw known as pail- from old hoards laid in before the floor, but we could change that lasson, in unbroken black. A par prohibition of their import. furniture and after much debating row gross grained ribbon, ending orange with an occasional splash of green. But, auch a lot of colours, you will say. But never mind the colours, when they are all in just the right places you will agree with me that our colour scheme was rational. First, we painted the chairs and tables black. A nice shiny black that fairly sparkled when it was dry. Then we made cushions and back pads and arm pads of red and black chintz, and the red in the chintz was that really bright turkey red which picked out A pattern of perfectly gorgeous birds. We then hunted around un-
Tucking is another strong fen-
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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rather squarish crown. It made me think of the old time sailor yet the brim had a suggestion of drooping rather than being straight. It was worn with a very clever ensemble, and its very true that the hat la nothing unless it plays its part directly in making the entire en- semble.. Mi-lady wore a very cleverly cut tailored auft, a white blouse and a stunning silver fox far-but she did look warm even though she was the last word, in chic.
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process or three to of the exercise two producing a comely throat.
the whole figure will within every one's power is balance a book upon the top of times, the head and walk about for & be improved. This exercise should firmly around the throat. When but when taken regularly is of last. quarter of an hour, keeping it in be continued for at least a month, position. It the stairs are ing improvement.
hats and straw hate. Some of the drops of almond oil, the whites of feit hate have sets of fine tucks, top two eggs, and sufficient corn meal sewn, to give them substance at one to make a smooth, easy, workable side of the seam, which is now paste. This should be spread thick- somewhat lower in height and not ly on a piece of linen about three so much folded or pinched. Other inches--or the size, required by the ways of using tucks is in geometric individual-in width, and fastened patterns. across the front of the firmly around the threat. crown and this is both on straws the bandage is taken off in the and felts. Stitching is also being morning wash the throat very goat- used largely on millinery, and some
ly with good soap and warm water. in which a handful of oatmeal has of the large felt brims, which are unwired, are stitched to keep them been put. Great care must always from being too floppy. Small hats be taken not to irritate the skin in Many Varieties of 'Straws. of the pull-on type, in taffeta and any way. A reliable skin food may be massaged. in. Some wo til we found a bright orange table You wanted to know about straws velvet, are being stitched to give cover and we edged that with a-well I see every day very at-them greater importance. There men find olive oil excellent. black sateen band. The large tractive models in balikbuntl, are new "homespun" felts-so call- wicker lamp shade we lined with woven Japanese straw, Baku, which ed because they look like homespun orange silk. The couch we covered is shiny Chinese straw, and many materials and these also are stitch- with a rug of tan and red and of the natural leghorn, I saw quite ed; other new felts are treated with heaped it high with cushions of recently a very lovely hat in purple poker work effects, with patterns tan, black orange and green. The Japanese straw worn with a violet burnt in on their surface-"Manila
Times." fern boxes were repaired and paint-chiffon frock. This straw la of fine- ed a bright green and along the weave and will outlast the season. railing on the floor we placed large and round pottery jars and painted them a bright orange. And in these jars we placed green growing plants. For 50 centavos each we bought some little wooden tables and painted these black with little fine bands of orange for decoration and on these, which were placed conveniently near the wide soft cushioned arm chairs were used for trays and magazines. The large wicker table held the usual array of books and papers and at one end was a long wooden box in which were bridge pads, pencils, cards all ready for any guests that might drop in for an evening round.
Results Good.
The coat was little; the result big, for it was a great satisfaction to see friend husband's face light up when he came home from the day's toil to a cool comfortable porch, where he could lay his hand on his favourite magazine, find it not too much of an effort a reach his humidor and pipe, and the light was just at the right angle aver his left shoulder. Then too, when guests dropped in for a round of bridge it was worth a lot to be able to bring out the folded table from against the wall, reach in the long box and scramble, the cards, pencils and score pads, without the usual
scramble.
Your Porch Just Right. Why don't you look at your porch to-day and see if there isn't some thing missing, something which will
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BEAUTY SECRETS.
If girls only realised it (writes a leading beauty specialist) the care of the throat is a duty that should almost amount to a rite. Many women possess a pretty neck naturally, but are so careless about it that by the time they are forty it presents something of the ap- pearance of the neck of a plucked fowl.
By the way, I did see a hat which is most suitable for your climate. This was of a large droopy hat of hair braid. The colour was of a soft rose and trimmed in velvet plisse and a deeper shade of rose. With it was worn a flimsy flowered chiffon frock of white with im- mense rose coloured flowers. The colours are fascinating; Pastels predominate then there is much pale-blue, pale rose violet and as Indian summer comes along belge shades. Isn't it funny that as fall It is most important to wash the comes: fashion turns to brown and neck before retiring most thorough- tans and the deeper colours. Wholy. All trace of the dust that is it that says nature plays no inevitably leaves its mark after a part the role of fashion? I heard day in the city should be as soon e designer tell that to a group of as possible carefully removed. friends and then he turned squarely Warm water, in which has been around and watched a most gor-placed a handful of oatmeal, should sky all rose,be used instead of cold, and' a 'good 80008 sunset' with and blue and gray and orchid and vegetable soap which suits the in- All of a sudden the most dividual skin should be evenly gold. beautiful soft rose-gray cloud ap-applied with a washer of Turkish peared and he was entranced. He towelling. turned to me and said "Ah-it I could only reproduce that shade" and he gazed at it perfectly en- thralled until it faded away. And set Nature plays no part.
Funny lon't It."
After drying with a soft linen towel, an application of peroxide of hydrogen may be beneficial, if there are any brownish stains be- hind, the ears. If preferred how. ever, about a dozen drops of ben- zoin may be added to the original washing water, as this, too, is an ex- cellent bleacher.
help it to look a little better, some
If the neck be really discoloured, thing to make it more comfortable.no amount of washing will improve Maybe it's just a new cushion, and it without some bleaching agency. added touch of colour, a canary Sometimes it is necessary to wear-a singing in its cage, or some new bandage all night to keep in place growing plants. May be a bit of some soothing emollient. One, that rearrangement Look it over with may easily be made at home is con- cocted from one ounce of honey, the critical eye.
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