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HOW TO USE CRETONNE.
SOME HINTS-AND WARNINGS.
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Long before winter is actually here, one begins to look round the house with speculative eye. "That chair," one says firmaly, simply must be re-covered this autumn. Those curtains have to be re- placed."
The truth is that cretonnes and chintzes are
so fascinating, the merest excuse, together, of course, with a few spare dollars, are all one noede
to start adventuring among them. Then, too, they afford such an effectivo means of dressing up the house. Only, because of the and great variety of patterns colours, care must be taken not to "lose one's head."
Everyone is familiar with certain general principles to be observed
in choosing chair covers and hang inga. You know that with figured wallpapers, plain colours are usual ly a wise selection for the material.
Also, you 370 aware that there should be a distinct tone relation between the two. But there is more to interior decorations than that. Suppose wo think about some of the other pointa.
In the first place, how does the room face, and is it light or dark?
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For Small Rooms,
Another point to remember is that if the chairs and settee are a
bit on the large side for a small room, they will be las overpower- ing when dressed in dark, rather A happy than light, material. solution would be to have them closely allied to the colour of the walls. This enables them to merge into the walls, and so helps to give a feeling of apare in a little room.
The purpose for which the room
is intended should also be a guide in the choice of cretoane. A small, quaint flower pattern is excellent for the intimate lounge or sitting- room, but for the formality of a drawing room, conventional de sign is more suitable.
The size of the chairs and settee has to enter into one's calculations. The all upholstered chair looks) out of proportion when it is covered in large figures. Its. daintines is better served when the design is sallish. It is your big roomy chair the can stand a lavish pattern, I Bat if for any reason a large figured cretonne is desired for use on a small chair, the pattern should not "he too clearly defined. The figures should merge softly into one another and into a background.
Backgrounds,
Another thing to watch is ground shades or backgrounds. A black chintz or cretoune is not necessarily dull and sombre. It all depends on the colours used in the design on the black.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1929.
SNAPSHOTS OF A BOY WALKING TO SCHOOL
STARTS FOR SCHOOL
EARLY
GIVES THE BANG CALL OUT SIDE EDDIE SELZER'S HOUSE FOR FIVE MINUTES, UNTIL MR. SELZER RAISES WINDOW TO SAY IRRITABLY THAT EDDIES
GONE
CALLS TO BUDDY BEMIS WHO REPORTS FROM BED ROOM WINDOW THAT NES EST CHICKEN POX, DIS- CUS & SYMPIOMIS AT LENGTH
HOPS "THE NEXT BLOCK AVOIDING HOPPING ON CRACKS AND WISHING HE LID CHICKEN PEK
(Conyzigbu, 1929, by The Ball Gyndicats, Far.)
CLASSICAL MUSIC
"AT SCHOOLS.
TIVE TO-DAY.
Recently I visited a house in
In choosing black backgrounda which the sitting-room walls were however, it is well to beng, in mind primrose, the woodwork green, and that the curtains for slip covers) the cretonne chair, covers bad should be gleaned rather than wash HOW IT IS MADE ATTRAC brightly-coloured flowers on a primed, since washing tends to make rase background. Such was the the black grey and cottony." effect of sunny cheer, I was sur- prised when my hostess told me she had selected the scheme because that room never got any sun. Yet sunniness was in the very atmos- phere. Think how pleasant this would be on one of our dull or misty -days!
I have already reminded you that figured wallpaper and figured cre- tonne cannot live together without quarrelling. But even when the paper is pinin, the design of the
cretonne or chintz must be care- fully considered. For a small room. the design should be small, for a large-figured pattern will pull the room in, and make it appear even smaller.
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There are other ground shades which are colder than black-stone grey, for instance. If this is select ed for a room which does not get much sun, the design should be warm and bright.
The entire problem in choosing eretonnes can he summed up in this way-a recm to be pleasing and restful should form, a harmonious whole. Too much Squred a mate- rial, at windows and on chairs and setter, will cause confusion and disintegration." Even when the same cretonne is used throughout the ream it is not always right, Better te combine a plain colour, taken from one of the cretonne tones, than lats overdo a figured fabric.
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HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN..
A labourer said to his wife on Saturday night—" Maggie, the boss has given me the D.C.M." she asked.
What does that mean, Bill"
"Don't come Monday," said Bill.
Caller is Mr. Smithers about!
nid-No, sir, he's gone to "buy Christmas cards.
Caller Christmas cards in Octo-
Maid-Yes, sir Mr. Smithers stutters very badly!
How many of us can rerxember with awe our school's annual pil- grimage to a concert, when, after considerable expense in the way of tickets and fares we filed into the concert hall in an awful "croco- dile," feeling thoroughly conspicu-ber? sua and completely unmusical.
"None of these,agonies for the girls and boys of today. Instead of these young Mahomets having to go to the musical mountain, the) mountain (in many cases) comes to them, and plays in their own school hell.
Blinks-What kind of a fellow is
he?
Jinks-Well, he is the kind whe doesn't know that there are several million other things besides him- self that could be used as the sub- ject of a conversation.
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answered Senator Sorghum." But why say anything to interupt the activities of intel ligent and sympathetic friends in- tent on preserving peace."
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Several schools have discovered with surprise that many well-known) musicians demand a quite reason- able fee to give a private recital. The enjoyment and educational | value of these concerts are all the greater by reason of the boys/ur girls having the artist all to them- selves in their own familiar sur- roundings,
Where the Money Comes From.
Some of the richer public schoola have a certain sum every year to spend on such concerts, but in several of the secondary schools, where money is of more conse- quence, an enterprising member of the music staff has founded a con- cert society or club, all the mém- bars being in a way concert pro- moters and having a personal in terest in whatever music takes place in the school.
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Membership in these little socie- ties costs usually, two or three shillings a year, and for. this small sum they get three, or perhaps four, first-class recitals by well-known players. This probably sounds too cheap to be true, but four hundred members each paying half a crown make up a substantial sum,/and just think how delightful it is for them! No travelling, a minimum of ex- pense, and a famous artist is sitting in their own ball playing and ex- plaining the music to them like a real friend.
With Explanations Beforehand. In one girls' school recently, Miss Harriet Cohen, the pianist, played. among other things some works of Arnold Bax. At an ordinary con- cert sich modern music would have been quite unintelligible, but not so when she had previously, told them what it was all about. Her young admirers understood it and wanted more.. In the same school, another occasion, Miss Marjorie Hayward and Mr. Harold Craxton played violin and piano sonatas and were received with the greatest enthusiasm.
When the Boys Wanted to Whistle.
When the music is made so at- tractive and easy to follow boys are just a keen as girls. At one large school for boys quite recently a string quartet played a work by Dohnanyi, and the boys (who had been taught the theme beforehand) ware so excited when they heard these familiar tunes being pinyed that they could hardly refrain from whistling them with the players.
Some of these concert clubs admit parents as members, and the and girls, instead of looking on classical usio as an unavoidable bare, love these private concerts and look for- ward to them as the events of the term.
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24. Billiard stick.
26.-Part of formal gown, 28.-Negative. 31.-Pronoun. 32.-Boring tool, 33.-To act.
34. To request humbly.
33.--More elegant. 38.--Corded cloth... 30.-8hower. 41-Rounded roof. 43.-Kind of oar, 45.--Adores, 48.-To walk unsteadily. 50.-To respect. 51.-Margin.
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WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY "AIRY NOTHINGS
OCT, 16th & 17th
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SILK STOCKINGS OF A DUKE'S DAUGHTER.
STOLEN BY FOOTMAN FOR "YOUNG THING" WHO LIKED THEM.
These things were stolen simply because I came to know a young thing in Kettering with a liking for silk stockings, and I undertook to supply her,' was the plea of Arthur Harrison, aged 24, footman in the employ of the Duke of Buc- cleuch at Boughton House, near Kettering, when he pleaded guilty at Kettering Petty Sessions to theft.
JUST FOR FUN BOOKING AT MOUTHIE'S AND THE STAR THEATRE PRICES: $3, $2, $1.
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KEATING'S
He was charged with stealing from Boughton House a telescope, a pair of dessert dishes belonging to the Duke, five pairs of silk stock- ings and two articles of under- clothing, the property of Lady An- | alda gela Montagu-Douglas-Scott daugh- ter of the Duke, and six pairs of silk stockings and some silk under-
clothing, the property of Lady one of two men who had employed Alice Moatagu-Douglas-Scott, an-
him..
other daughter of the Duke, to the He obtained his situation with the Duke with a forged reference, total value of 12 guiness:
Superintendent Tebbey said that but proceedings were not proposed Harrison had been employed by the in regard to this owing to the ex- Duke since May, but owing to his pense of bringing witnesses from unsatisfactory conduct, be was un- Cuailerland. When arrested Har- der notice to leave. When the po- rison had "£0 15s in his possession. lice were called they found the arti- eles wrapped up ready to be taken away. V
Harrison pleaded for a chance to pull himself together, and repeated that the articles were stolen nos for profit for himself, but for Lost Beveral Bituations.
young thing in Kettering. Harrison belonged to Cumber- Superintendent Tebbey: You land, and had been in service ná a knew a young thing somewhere else. footman for several years. He had When ordered to pay a fine of lost several situations through un£ Hurrison exclaimed: I can- satisfactory conduct. A watch found in his bedroom belonged to (Continued at foot of next column).
not pay that, It will break me.
He was removed from the court protesting.