FURNISHING THE PERFECT HOUSE
Let's have a
nice
plain dining-room
by John Betjemun
ARE you a sufferer from
horror vacui? It is a
disease to which many of us are subject.
'Translated into English i meana horror of
vacuum,
vacuum being taken not in the vacuum-cleaner sense of that. word, but ns meaning a blank space,
People who have horror encni are people who cannot bear any blank spaces on the walls of their houses. They cannot see a blank wall surface without wanting to fill it with pictures, however amall and however hideous those pictures may be.
That is why our dining-room is If the walls and pur- a plain roum.
tains and carpet are an aprecudzie colour and texture the room will be
a pleture in itself.
Cure yourself of the diseme. If you have it. You will
save yourself a lot
of
dusting
Into
the bargain. There
are some rooms,
especially the par- of cottages
Joura
in
the country,
where
a crowd of
pictures look well. But in modern
house, with plenty
of
rooms,
one
"This dining-room is a pint room
THI
the
colour and texture of walis, curtais, and
carpet make a picture is themselves."
room only should have most of the Cheerful Colours plctures.
Furniture First
Now for the dining-room these days of floor. In vacuum cleaners a earpeted surface dining-room of some neutral grey or fawn colour A table is one which fulls looks best over the whole floor.
plalu crimsun carpet laid over It may the following conditions:-
for the table and (1) A surface which can be easily act as a plinth
THE perfect
cleaned and does not show the marks chall not advise green or blue of hot Pere should be plenty of purple for wall surfaces in a dining-
(2)
room for knees, and the legs should room: they are too cold and absur be right at the corners and not some the hight. Nor do 1 advise a bright
liverish, yellow, on IL is where near the centre of the table so
the skirting, A pale but with that
you knock yourself. (3) The table should be the cor- board painted a paler buff still or rect size for the roam. There must white, with the skirting board and be plenty of room for handing vege surrounds to the doors painted a tables round each of the four sides. shiny pale buff, is the most cheer- The table in the illustration is, I ful if you are painting the walls
paint the
cornice
tuo.
but on no
funcy, in modern birch wood, a light couni colour the ceiling: leave it
to white.
colour and finished with a a colourless polish which is not too susceptible heat. The chaira
Sir
the
round it are
are part
There is an old English tradition should be red.] of a set and taken from a design by that dining-rooms
and Sunday John Soane,
greatest Red for roast beef architect-designer of furniture we joints. Deep crimson curtains, lined ever had. Sir John died in 1837, but with golden yellow, look well with
Is dateless. his furniture
for it is ghi or buff walls.
Chair coverings may be either comfortable, easy to clean and looks well in any room.
royal blue or scarlet.
The cupbourd on the left is built
into recess. The lower part juts Radiators
oui so that there is an open shelf
above it for used plates. I don't
agree with my friend the architect
about the rd.
of this
Any
HERE is a dotty notlon, that!
radiator should be con-
doors in the upper part cealed as though it were something to be ashamed of. Yet a radiator is
at all absent-minded as much a piece of furniture as a
one light brackel or a fireplace. Turn
would knock herself silly on
of the doors if it was left swinging into a decorative feature. Paint it open. Sliding doors please, The pale grey, or better still a light steel- cupboard should be white or
natural colour of the wood.
the blue.
In this dining-room the radiators The sideboard at the back of the are recessed under, the windows. A round will notice, room is, you
con piece of fibrous wood curls near the kitchen veniently
door, behind them and goes down to the which
faces you on the left. The bottom of the recess. This board door opens the correct way, so that deflects the heat out into the room, it gives immediately on to the side so that the window sill is not turned. board. The sideboard
be into a hot-plate rack.
You will see
should
the natural colour of the wood.
Extremely
that
the
radiators
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They And the tiny perfume bottle
Flexible Brushes
here improve the look of the wall.
There is no need to hide them with an nrty iron grille,
Picture Rails
HO
THIS dining-room has
picture raft round it. Ple- ture rolls hre survival from the itid days when prople had high Modern houses have low TOOMIS, rouma and picture rails are no longer necessary.
Not
only that, but they spoll the appearance of a low room by nunking it appear poky
badly in modern What we want houses is the spaciousness they had in the big houses of the past. You can get this by removing the picture Fail from
house if it is your modern one) this spring and con- Unuing the coinur of the wall right up to the celling and colouring the carnice
shade
walls.
the same
Os
the
Dining-room lighting
must be kind.
the
LIKE candids on the table myself and electric light round the walls and over the sibeboard. Then when the last course 1 renched electric light is turned out, the business deal can be put acros or the hints of love can be made and the candies are kind enough not to show our blushes,
If you must have an electric Hight over the table, choose lamps covered with a pearl sur- face, which difuses the glare. Also have a shade which throws the light on to the table and not on to the faces of the guests.
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Why Bananas Must Be
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Why is it stressed that bananas must be ripe before they are caton?
Bananas are carbohydrate frults, When fest formed they are mainly starch but when very ripe (at the brown be-speckled stage) the starch has been almost entirely trans- formed into sugar. They are then much more costly digested.
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What is the effect of taking an excess of carbohydrate joods?
An excess, that is more than the body can utillso for heat and energy, goes to form neld. If the excess is great body flis will result and unnecessary fat will form but if the excess is slight and an equivalent) increase of alkaline forming foods (fruits and vegetables) is taken they will counteract the acid Dah which the starches leave behind.
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the
foods taken at an alkaline meal are mainly neutral foods. Vegetables
D!
for instance (with the excing
potatoes and artichokes)
with all foods. Therefore the extrus may be held fruits which are also alkaline forming. Milk, although a protein, may be taken at an alkaline farming meal provided no starch is)
taken.
Why Straps Break
an art In the THAT there is
making and the caring for lingerie, is a fact which most women learn by experience,
It shoulder-straps are too fight they break constantly, narrow rib- bons being the only kind now used for straps to cami-knickers, vests and petticoats.
In
One solution is Lo make the the gather straps longer, and ribbon an inch elther end, where It is sewn to the garment. This ruched inch is backed with a plece of clastic.
The result is a pair of straps which remain snugly in place, with- out dragging-or breaking.
The Ironing of lingerie is always easier It sufficient equipment is to hand. Have it all ready before ever you start this important port of the laundering.
An essential part of the equip- ment is the Ironing blanket and trom now Ironing pad made
a
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An old blanket as an ironing pad
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A bracket has appeared consisting of small oblong sections linked to- gether, and bearing a close res- emblance to mosaic work.
Round earrings resting flat to the ear are also in this modern mosaic, and bar brooches have an enamelled motif set at one end.
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