CHINA MAIL, HOME SUPPLEMENT
SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1935,
Make your own home
Ti machine age has put its
deffblo stamp on all things, whereas our main dellght vred to be in the touch of the craftsman's hand. Most of our silver, textiles, china is made to-day by machinery, and the artist craftsman's work in most cases limited to providing the machine with, good and appro- priate designs. Perhaps the only material which has escaped the fron hands of the machine with
more success than any other is Hlasy. Although much cheap gliss is made by machinery. godd glass is still turned out by good
glass purity of form is an art not only of the original design but of the craft of blowing and
craftsmen
In
little tricks
One To Do With, Doyleys' Boyleyn ure npt to become erens- ed when not in use, To prevent this, ut two rounds of cardboard. cover in cretonne and, whien, the doyleys are jacked between them, fasten with ribban orn, robber band.
A Jelly Tip
A few drops of cold water sprinkled into the bottom of a glass dish before a jelly is turned into it will onke the shape slide easily". into the centre of the dish.
A New Idea for Applique Work on Hilk frequently
cult
It is
to execute applique work on crepe de Chine and satin so that the applique lies perfectly flat. It is almost impor sible to avoid puchers when
work is done in the usual way. A plan, which will definitely eliminate. thia, difficulty, is to stick the appli que on to the material instead of tacking it. In this way the appli. que canum packer and there are be tacking threads to interfere with
PERSONALITY
IN GLASS
FINAL
REDUCTION
shaping The finer pleces of decorative glass must always, be Individual.
Ou illustrations show the work of Maurice lleston, An who de American craftsman
signe and manufactures each of his day glass pieces.
the embroktery. Use us little gum as possible, and the method will be found most satisfactory in the case of slippery silks and satis.
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Furnishing Dept.
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Leafy Sprays
FOR
check gingham for Hangi a pair of brown stained wood bag kumiles, 12in. ncross; 1 oz, of Beehive Dou- ble Knitting Wool by white: two skelns of White Heather" em- - broidery wool in dark brown, draw- lng paper, tracing paper and a
[OR summer days, when you want to take your knitting out of doors, you just must have a nice roomy work-bag-gvej poncil. Its flie enstest thing, to make - and of the anme time you might embroider a beach cushion with a deląchable cover matching You pipe its your work-bag. edges with brown and sow lightning. fastener along one side..
A
Bot about the bag. Make of stone-coloured crash, embroider. 11 with frail skeleton leaves in white wool, hanging from boughs of brown wedi worked in buttonhole stitch.
Materials Required.-- yd. of Barrow width linen crash in deep atuite colouri
white brown and
Directions
Cut out two 12-inch squares of Inen crash. allowing inch tarnißga rond three sides of ench one inch along the square rund fourth side, for the top of the bag. Enlarge the leaf branch to the size you want and traév it onla ond POLATO.
Cut onl the cheeked gingham Robg to At the crash sqilářon:
Embroidery--Leaves-Outline in back-stitch in white wool, fitting the stitches to the horizontal lines stamped serass the leaves. Fill in with buttonhole stitch, spacing the stliches as indicated on the trans- for. Work from left toʻright, not backwards and forwards across the lenf, drawing your needle The
back of the work when have
finished the row, and 45
before. Branches Buttonhole stitch in brown. Work over from one side ofthe branch to the other. spacing the stitches very slightly. apart, then All in, the" "apugon hy working along the opposite side, 80 that you have a hop edging in both sides of the branch,
embroidery
Making Up.Press over a dump, cloth. Seam the two linen sections together, leaving an spraine at the top for a depth of 311⁄2 inches. Seam ap the lining, in the same way and 6t it into the bag. Turn in the raw edges along the top and upper sides of the bag and firing so that they lie face to laer, fack round" firmly and stitch Attach the wooden Bhit hilles
double oversewing stitches is brown wool, working through the pitched holes in the handles.
No. 20
China Mail
HOME SUPPLEMENT
Introducing ...
More Ideas On The Attractive Man
MISS Doris Zinkelsch is a
portrait painter who la also famous as a sconic and costume designer. "How hard it la to define attraction in A man, or to give reasons for the cholee of those people whe Como Instinctively Into one's mind!" she exclaims. "Yet 1 must Inimediately mention Novi Coward; who is amazingly at- tractive, If I can put my finger. on two reasons for it, I would elte his welt and his tremendous versatility-to say nothing his ability in all folds which he has conquered.
of
"Then Dr, A. J. Cronki, who, to ue, le attractive as a man apart from his work, though I think his books themselves reveal him as Kreat * person.
"I cannot onit. Augustus John. a genius lu other things bestdes portrait painting.
The world knows the brilliance of Mr. C. B. Cochran, but in ad dition to these gifts, 1 find him attractive for his courtesy, kind- ness, and unfailing thoughtful
ness,
Then there is A. P. F. Chap man, whose cricket is seized the public Imaginating and Whose delling is the talk of the sporting world.
an attractively Jovial personality.
Thers romes also to my inlud the name, so well known hunt. ing circles, of Captain the Hon. ' MacDonald-Buchanan, Reginald Joint Master of the fantous Pytch
leg
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"Though I have never nuet bin, I possibly omit. Lord how can Lousdate, surely an extraordinarily attractive person to everybody? lenst "An astly--here be generally svem likely to dorsed Herbert Marshall, whose attractiveness cannet fairly be tied down to any one particular charin or physical attribute, except that, I must mention his caressing volco in his very gracious manner.", P-By a Man
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1935
MISS RENAISSANCE
BEA, Beln Vanna--such
all Florence's put naine for -Gloyanna deg!! Albizzi, the most beautiful, the most aristocratic woman of the elly when it, was the world capital of the Ane arts, during the Renaissance,
Art-lovers will pay their golden tribute to her beauty when Exisel Ford. J. P. Morgan and their re- cent $600,000 leal over her pleture are forgotten." The portrait that has just changed hands is only the least famous of three portraits of her that have conte down to us. It Ghirlandaio, who painted her again, to even better advantage, in the Dominican church at Florence. Sandro Botticelli, great felend and rival of Ghirlandaio, made another portrait of her, which is now in the Louvre.
If the painters of Florence - had met to name "Miss Renais. sance," after the fashion of modorn Hlustrators, they would surely have chosen Giovanna degli Albizzi tớ bo "Miss Renaissance"
What was the mystery of this girl-and who was she? Obviously, to have made so clear na impres sion upon the masters of the Renais sance that her imprint will re- wal vivid hrough the centuries, girl must have extraordinary
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beauty, La Bella
essed sonie bealdes hid two:
nobility and a foreboding sadness. nobliny apprehead,
in
21-
profile--the high pearing to curve gently into a long, straight nose; the straight, rotiras geous lips, the delicate, firmly moulded ching, well-shaped head balanced on n' long, proudly slen der neck.
Much is known about her life, Her family, the Albizzi, had domin ated Flarence before the Medici. Rtch bankers, like all the leading Tamilies of Florence, they were at the same the guerilla chiefs, liv- ing in a forthed castle in the very centre of the city, and statesmer holding the chief offces of the Re public. And through the Hons of commerce and civil strife, they remained patrons of the arts. never too occupied to spend an evening in discoursing of poetry, or a morning in posing for some new painter.
genera
Lorenzo the Magnificent, head of the comparatively upstart family Alfred Lant, for his personal
of the Mediel, ruled Florence in charm--and also because he is the Gilovanun's day; but her family, husband
older than Fontanner of Lynne Heath Robins, because he always Auggests unlikely depths that would
rephy probing: Grock: Led D'Abernoui
Dun Beadman,
Rafael Sabatini, Wallace leery,
Sir Hubfrudranath Tagore.
Lorenzo's, remained
wealthy and Influential, Her wedkl Ing to Lorenzo dei Tornabuoni, the wittlest and most elegant young bachelor of the city, was a national The dictator Lorenzo took event, part in the ceremony. Ambassadors
LA BELLA VANNA
from the great neighbour-states of Milan and Venice attended,
But the young woman's eyes were somehow and, as, if, peering into the future, she could desery some tragie doom. It was this incon gruota andness that so fascinated the Ghirlandaio, Botticelli aud sculptor Florentino,
The painters and the sculptors set to work, a historian writes.
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cised her, spell over another group' of painters, the Pre-Raphaelites of Queen Victoria's later time-petits like William Morris, Dante Gabriel- Rossetti and Sir Edward Burne- Jones, Looking back to the Floren tine painters of the Fifteenth Cen- their pattern, they natu for
tury
rally fell under the charm of that lovely lady of the Botticelli paint Ing. La Vanna was Bottleelll's
"They made haste, as, if they rodeal woman the modern idolators
membered that she belonged to a skurt-lived family."
It
was the truth. When Giovan
na was only twenty years old, in the second year of her marriage, she was brought to tied of her firat chikt, and, died in childbirth. thinking of her it must be realis.
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were considered fully mature At sixteen, so that she was remember. ed, not as a girl, init as a woman of the world.
But her personal tragedy could on that was not have been the mirrored in that mysterious dig. nity. Perhaps this child of ancient race possessed a psychic gift. After the death of Loreaza the Ringnin cent, the Medici were driven
the
city
"by jealous rivala, who set
up a renibile. Lorenza del Torna buoni, the
widower of th young Bella Giovanna, had always been a friend
With other of the Medlo. loyalists, he plotted a counter-te- volution. He and his followers were seized and executed. So had La Bella Yanna lived to what we to-day call the full bloom of wo manhood, she would have went over the headless hudy of her knight.
Centuries later, I Vanus exér.
of Botticelli naturally sought" a nineteenth century English woman
who
should resemble La Vanna
as closely as possible. They found sucli a one in Mrs. Wiliam Mor ris, the model for "The Blessed Damozel and other Pre-Raphaelite pictures.
in
By Goya's time, the pendulum of appreciation had swung from La Bella streamlines to curves, Vama, as appears her full- length portraits, was tall, straight and slender, with long logs and arms. The Duchess of Alba, how ever, was aniply surrounded with tender embonpoint, a la Mae West. Through the centuries there have models, famous other
Tike though anonynions,
the
been
eyen
pink,
bers, women who would have Venuses of Peter Paut looked at home behind the pastry counter; the red-haired women of Titian, with their fair white skins, and the chocolate-hued Tahitiennes of Paul Gauguin,
But it is unlikely that any cone definito person appears as the sub- Jeet of three portralla having so great an aggregate value as Glo vania degli Albizz"Miss Re naissance," the winner of Ford's $600,000 beauty prize,
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