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Have you been to Cafe Wiseman lately?
**It's «re-decorated”
"It's re-arranged"
"It's airconditioned"
FULL WINE LIST •
a la carte
and table d'hote meals served
OPEN TILL 10.30 p.m. NIGHTLY
SHOP AT
TEL. 28157
PAN ORANT
SINCERE'S
DEPARTMENT STORE
FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS.
UNMISTAKABLY THE FASHIONS
IN SWIMWEAR
FOR 1951!
LOVELY
STYLES ENCHANTING
By
FABRICS
JANTZEN GANTNER
C-O-L-E-
ETC. ETC.
CHOICE OF LADIES' SUITS WITH FLARRING OR STRAIGHT SKIRTS, MADE OF SILK VELVET, NYLON OR LASTEX, SHIRRED OR PLAIN.
A VARIETY OF STYLES FOR MEN,TOO.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1951.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
ÞARAKAT FLEK (EAKOB ZA TAZKIRANJE
Conscious Of Colour
By JOAN O'SULLIVAN
"W
ARM..
cool.. sunshiny" sounds
like a weather forecast, but It's really a report of how colour can control the at- mosphere of a room.
kitchen. Take example.
'
for
rose coral
Paint the walls a shade, use white cabinets or enal gray ones. The result is a roon that's warm in appearance, yet not hot or stuffy-looking. The asme kitchen with wall and wall
en. cabinets painted screen, cabinets in white,
would cool and quiet, Or, if you pre- fer, a sky bhe ceiling and Ivory- yellow cabinets will produce a happy, sunshiny atmosphere.
floor Inak
So it's up to you to work oul your own indoor weather when you decorate, using colour to create the kind of climate you like best.
Colour is fun, and it's ex- pensive. Smart shades cost more
than dull. uninteresting ones.—so-keep-this-in-mind whether you're furnishing your first home, or doing an old house over.
to
Of course you'll want look around and collect ideas before you gel going on any! decorating programme. One print company offers at-a-
guidance in home de glance corating through a new colour service.
LITTLE THINGS THAT PLEASE.
JAEGER-LECOULTRE
GENEVA
MAKERS
OF THE
1IGHT MODERN furniture with lime and beige up- holstery is placed against Spanish brown walls. This light and dark colour combination is featured in an interior-decoration guide book for home decorators,
WITH ROSE coral walls, white cabinets, this kitchen
has a warm look. Green walls and cabinets would make room appear cooler.
POWDER POINTERS
TO FOLLOW
Choose powder by texture as well as colour, says screen siar Janis Carter, Light powders be- long on a fine-textured skin; heavier powder on a dry skin.
The effect to strive for in powder colours is one that
makes your face appear ns you were not wearing powder at alt The cosmetic industry has sa muny experts working out blends that the average woman can easily find a shade that matches her complexion exactly, not only matches but glamorises.
The consistency of powder is important. There are light pow- ders, medium and heavy. The first type is the happy cholce for a one-texture skin
or onc that has started to succumb to the ravages of time. The arld
WORLD'S epidermis calls for a heavy pow-
der with a creamy base; It is the only kind that will stay by one
SMALLEST for any length of time and it
AND
SMARTEST WATCHES
'ART SCIENCE AND FASHION COMBINE WITH SUPERB CRAFTSMANSHIP TO OFFER YOU "INFINITE RICHES IN A LITTLE ROOM:"" Jaeger-LeCoultre watches are available.. at Hongkong's leading watch dealers.
really soothes a rough surface.
The blonde has the fixed idea that she should use a dellcate flesh tint. Sometimes that will serve. More often a blonde's skin is more golden than pink, on which even a
rich cream- coloured powder in more effec- tive, gives her complexion more character..
The sallow.skin is a tough- problem. Strange though it may appear, a deep racholle with Hille green added will tone down the sallow appearance."
Brunelles have Uttle difficulty, There are many different shades of rachelle-or brunette-powder. The darker the skin, the darker the .cosmetic colcimine, of :course, et p
After applying, with the lamb's wool pad, top the flesh lightly with the Unger, diDS,
Modernistic Your Sewing Scrapbook
Furniture Takes Human
In
Now
Shapes
York. Furniture taking unusual shapes theso dayı! In its trend to functionalism.
Veteran designer Erno Fabr;
his Intest group of living-room pieces featured a glass-topped coffee
table shaped like the human eye and o 'luxuriou upholstered chair with a back cut In the shape of an elephant
car
Fabry defended both design 19 "Functional and easy to live with."
The coffee table. Anished Ir
Mary Brooks Picken
Charming Suit Blouse
EVERY suit needs its blouses
“Aśovernt blouses, in fact.............. to keep pace with 1051 fashion. For the blouse shown, mer- sure shoulder to walstling and buy twice this length in fabric plus ค or 12 for luck-in. 1% or 14 yds. in ample for average figure. You can buy plisse crape snow-whita nylon with imitation awias dola or linen, or organdle. Embroidered organdle _ar_all-over_lace is especially nice for simmer blouses and is quite reasonable,
ס
fold tour209 10-
• neur cocon-colourod shadtp side edges or called "platinum walnut," it ample in size-measuring 42 by 37 inches.
Не explained the unusua shape was inspired by the house- wife's love for sectional sofas,
It'll
To chalk out: Straighten fab- rie. Place wrong side of fabric
gether, anch
yout. Chalk out as diagram shows. B is V bust plus 3 above A.
Fold fabric so top selvage is In line with B. D is halfway be
tween A and C. E Y neck
to
Lengthwise Facing Strips
Cut 2 lengthwise facing strips, and to right, both 2" wide. Stitch a strip
"No matter how the furniture is to neck plus 35" above D each side of front, using a
en you
and
Hon sivage directly scam. Fold the strip on left- above D and G. 1 is 1⁄2 armhole hand side and stilch it on as
to left of H and J is 3" directly band. Use the right-hand side bolow I. K is. 2" below J. L. Is 3′′ below B. Chalk a line J to L..
Through Top Thicknoss
as a facing
2"
Make a 24" wide band collar
longer than neck
measure-
is arranged, the coffee table will At with it." he said.
Fabry's "clophant car
car" chair is a modification of the tradi- tional wing-back.
The section where your head rests is wide, or winged. But the rest of the chair back is narrowed some eight Inches so that, as Fabry
"You don't feel all shut said, in when sil
down Fabry goes along with several other designers whose newest lines stress versatility.
He designed a ten or serving cart' on roll as a table.
and folds up to n Dat slabs for easy storage. An- and stitch ends, then turn hem have true line, baste, then other end table, with drawer
back
to position and slip-stitch stitch collar to position, con- inside to place. has a convertible top.
ecaling neckline seam space,
French-seam the underarms colfar Folded, It's the usun! lamp and face
the under armhole Finish bottom of blouse with But opened on invisible portion with bias binding ora a V hem Mark for lengthwise hinges, it becomes a small desk blas scrap of the fabric. Make buttonholes in centre front, Cut or sewing table.
ment Place right sides together, stitch on ends and along one Out from L to J, J to K, J edge. Turn right side out, clip 14 apart, to I through top thickness along neckline of blouse selvage to H. Fold fabric on clip ** der all way around
neck. line D-H and cut back same as front, except at neck. Unfold, Put blouse en, pin collar on neckline, centre front of collar on to centre
fron! of the front fold line from E io A. Turn line facing. Make sure collar fis
- back to the right side 1% smoothly, remove, re-pin
table.
rollers. I'l serve also
Bridge Table Expande
A 36 by 30 inch bridge table has a convertible top also, Pull out the top and the legs don't move in the process-insert a leaf, and it becomes a dining
Lable to seat six.
Designer Russell Wright
equipped a day-bed with drop icsf wooden arms which can be raised to serve as end tables. He also made night tables on casiers, and with shelves which pull over thé bed to hold a breakfast) tray.
Designer Deering Davis built a dining room table which extends to seat 14 but can be reduced 1 a fea cort. It is on rubber-tyre casters and holds linens anc silver in its base.
A night table has removablɩ legs and becomes a small chest which can be combined with i larger chest for a mutiple unit it the bedroom. Even his be design provides for a funétiona extra-o bulit-in tray for break- “fast, reading or welling-Uniter
Press.
THIS BEDROOM takes on new character with coloured walls. Its green rug and pink spread can be used against gray, pink or green walls.
SPECTACLED
HENS
PRODUCE MORE EGGS
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PARKERSBURG, W. Va.--Spcoincles for chickens are ont of the newest devices science has provided to increase egg pro duction.
The spectacles, which allow the chicken to see only wher Its head is lowered to eat, are said to keep members of the flock from fighting among themselves.
.
The result is botter dispositions and more eggs. Designed to fit over the fowl's beak, the spectacles are hex in place by a, pin fitted through the breathing holes in the beak. Hinged flaps of red plastic drap away when the head lowered to eat and close over the eyes when the head is raised.
United Press,
COCONUT
BISCUITS
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and cut neck F-G, G-E.
Cut blouse front down
il to
finish is
sure this
secure and and work these. Sew buttons to that the ends are caught secure position on left front pleat. ly with handstitches to the hems Press-and your blouse is finish- each sido of the armhole.
A
Collar
ed.
selvage
Barmhole
1/4 Bust +2"
FRONT
Front Facing
1/4 neck
E DF
BACK
Fold
Helpful Hints On Care Of House Plants
By ELEANOR ROSS
JUST about the easiest method Don't let a hard crust form we know to bring colour and and stay on the top of the plant good cheer into the home is to soil, because it keeps out the make use of houseplants.
air. Carefully use a fork or similar article to loosen the soil, Some people are blessed with but don't push it more than half n "green thumb" but there are an inch deep. plenty of fallure-proof plants.
that thrive against all odds. It is best to water plants in Certain plants require definite the morning, so that they have care, and florist or nurseryman the entire day to drink up the should be consulted about these. water and synthesise It into But there are general rules to nourishment. Don't let plants be followed.
ever."go
to bed" with "wet feet." As plants hrive, re-pot in a Foliage plant roots will
larger pot. Not too dificult much healthier if they are UR
even for city apartment-dwelling properly watered and never children. And there is such allowed to dry out completely satisfaction as one becomes ex- When watering plants it is best pert with even this simple phase to use tepid water, and see that
of gardening.
the
water reaches the
plant
roots. But never let surplus.
the pot for more than an hour Household Hints
water stand in the saucer under
This is one of the reasons why plant soll turns soggy and even, rancid. And healthy soil is a "must" for healthy planta.
You can take cretonne porch pillow covers that have faded loo much for future use, remove the Green-timber people tell us pillows and store them for the that plants need less water on winter, to be recovered later. cloudy days than on sunny ones. Then wash the faded covers and They also dry out quiciter in use them to keep your hats free summer than in winter. The fram dust in the closets, general rule is that follage plants
usually require water only about once a week unless their pots are rolling pln. cover
To keep a pastry cloth and clean, sonk Amail. Blooming plants do res amail. quire more water. And plants them overnight, in cold water; with
such thin leaves
athen wash in soapsuds several often need Caladiums,
more times and rinse well. water than the thicker leafed varieties such as the popular Copper screens, copper flash. Sansevieria.
ings, copper leaders and gutters To keep planta handsome and should also be given a thin coat healthy, spray the foliage or go of shellac annually to prevent over each leaf with a pledget of stain from dripping water on molat cotton. Some gardeners the sides of a house. Remember that copper has gone into de- advocate a mild sudsing, then n quick rinso..
fence work,
THEN 1 ROLLED IT OUT
THINLY, CUTAN
IT INTO SHAPES
AND BAKED IN A MOSH "GRATE OVEN ! ON A WEU- GREASED · AND FLOURED BAKING-TIN.
MILL LIGHTIN
BROWN
I MUST REMEMBER
THAT PETER'D LOVE THEM
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