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The Bride Plays House
By ELIZABETH MacRAE BOYKIN
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for a really fine lamp, don't
'It won't stand the artificial silk. heat and wear well enough to jus- safest, and remember that the de- tail will determine the final beauty of the shade-nice braids and bin- professional finish. Novelty shades that aren't meant to last forever and a day can be of most anything you happen to think
There's more to this business of getting married than dodging the rice and old shoes.. Getting settled in a new home is the big adventure. | It's as much fun for the bride as playing house is for a little girl. And don't think that that brand dings give new bridgegroom doesn't enjoy it too.
He'll be as willing as any body to krimp in order to buy those new andirons or to get those of. new lamp bases on the budget.
A DEARTH OF LAMPS
LAMP NEWS
Here are some of the odds and ends of lamp news we've picked up lately: Self-tone brocades are
effective very
in off-whites
..
a
Speaking of lamp bases reminds us of one certain problem in get-and natural tones if used with a ting settled in the new house. dramatic contrasting colour braid. There's almost sure to be a dearth Dark satin is stunning for lamp of lamps, no matter how many or shades if lined and bound with how beautiful were those that came light colour. Loose over-skirts are in as gifts. Because it takes a lot
for summer lamp shades- of lamps to light properly. Then there are always sure to be certain spots that need very special lamps.
Usually the only answer to that problem is to make the shade to fit the spot. For a really hand- some base, this is practically always the best way because then you can get a shade that matches both base and the room it's going to be used in. If you're in need of a shade tify your labor. Pure silk
FRENCH ICE CREAM
1 tablespoon. flour.
3/4 cups sugar.
1/4 teaspoon salt.
1 egg or 2 egg yolks.
2 cups milk.
3 cups thin cream.
1 1/2 tablespoons vanilla.
Mix flour, sugar and salt, add the egg, slightly beaten, and the milk gradually. Cook over hot wa- ter twenty minutes, stirring con- stantly at first until it thickens. Cool, add the cream and flavoring, and freeze.-Edith M. Barber.
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gay
Try a wreath of artificial flowers around a plain white stretched silk lamp shade.
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 8, 1988.
Beauty and You
by PATRICIA LINDSAY
When you are out of the water play games. Don't Just
sit and burn your skin to a crisp.
How Do You Figure On The Beach?
a
During the summer you are on (possibly a likely subject for
soul with ⚫a candid the spot! What with the bathing humorous they're tied on with a sash of con- trasting ribbon. Pique lamp shades season in full swing, and your new camera!) go to the beach just the But exercise while you are that button on up the side with big swim suit more revealing than ever, same.
If you to conceal there. Swim. Swim lots..
You contrasting buttons are fresh and you haven't a chance
or those bulges! don't know how to, learn. crisp looking. Plain white shades those curves . . .
Swimming develops your Whether you go down to the sea can. with a chain of artificial flowers
It distributes around them for summer had a nos- to bathe or just to sun, you are the body beautifully.
Curious excess weight proportionately, and talgic charm.
the Rope fringe fas-cynosure of many eyes. tened around the top rim of a lamp eyes that judge your pulchritude. if you are too thin it firms shade falls in a decorative design Even your most indulgent friend muscles and induces a mighty good over the shade. Old time ribbon and best beau is critical of the pic-appetite.
eyes When you are out of the water beading run with narrow black rib-ture you make, and stranger
areplay games, don't just sit and burn bon finishes the ruffles top and appraise you for what you
meticulous beauty who delights in your skin to a crisp. Play deck bottom on a sweet shade of pink or looking lovely, or a lazy bones, too tennis, leap-frog, baseball on the gandy.
sand. If these are beneath your indifferent to exercise and diet into pleasing proportions. And the sad dignity then seek a secluded stretch part of it all is that your beach of beach and run. Run with your rating of beauty is accurate. For knees pushed high and your elbows there you are, almost as nature pro-bent-back! Make the most of those duced you, "without benefit of flat-hours under the sun. tering clothes to hide your negli-
All these are bright bride ideas, because they suggest ways to make (Continued at foot of Next Col.)
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I am aware that we all cannot be more of a beauty than you are have figures as glamorous as the now, especially if you will remem- famous beauties of the screen. But ber to protect your skin and eyes You we can, and should, rid ourselves of and hair from burning sun.
mustn't destroy those while you bulges of flesh which make us gro- tesque under the bright sun. Every are fashioning your body. woman should be nicely proportion- ed and supple in movement.
LOOK YOURSELF OVER
Let's get down to the truth. Are you honestly and truly proud to don your new swim suit and strut along the beach and be carefree in your play? Or do you feel a desire to keep covered up until you dash Into the water? Do you look with envious eyes at women who have adhered to the rules of beauty?
If I could make you truly asham ed of your indifference then I could hope that you would heed my sug- gestion to make this an active sum- mer. Even though you are a bit shocked at your season's figure
the details in the new home live up to the imposing big things they have to 'start life with. We also offer them because we're old- that fashioned enough to believe modern brides want to ・ "make something" for their new homes----- just as brides have throughout all
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