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Thursday,.. HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
June 22, 1939..
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SUMMER OUTLOOK
DID you ever read the story of the two women who lived and grew old together in a house which stood in the shadow of a tall factory wall? As they mellowed with the years they com- miserated with each other over the fact that the sunshine passed them by and the windows they sat by gave them very little outlook.
And then one day the wall was pulled down. The sunshine streamed In und the world and the view was vasi. But then, alas, the two women dis- covered how faded had become the house that the wall had sheltered, and that they were old and faded too.
I shall never forget it. It made me want to have big windows; to look out on a scene that was as vast as the limitations of any town could make it. I didn't want to live in any fools' paradise.
Actually it is a fact that your malarial outlook on have a very great effect on your moral
one. And since to-day we have no window tax, and the use of glass is being extended, we can look forward I hope, to an outlook that has more sunshine than sorrow in it. That is, women have anything to do with it.
down to more domestic matters, there's the matter of dress- ing up the glass covered hotes in the that us There are suggestions sketched in this page, and one iden tor a couple at movable window seats which can be used for the window or the Breplace. The sketch on the top left shows a curtuin preangement for a rather typical square window, which can be used for either a bedroom or a sitting- room with Regency leanlags. The top "drape" is quite easily dune by pass- Ing a long strip of material over an old-fashioned curtain pole, and fixing rather arbitrarily at intervals with drawing-pins-so that they don't show,
of
course.
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The next arrangement is on the same window, designed to give -greater effect of light. Good for a more modern rom. Please note the
built-on pelmet which is an American idea
it's made of strips of bamboo.
The third drawing shows a rather inusual way of hanging lined-seer sucker or eretonne for a nursery. Holes are made in the curtain top, and It is threaded through an old-fashioned curtain pole (they're coming back into vogue).
Fourth drawing a kitchen arrangement. Ulled silk curtains are fixed top and bottom so that loose ends don't interfere with whatever work may be going on near the window,
The last window arrangement, be
it fir not, Is my idea of a both-
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towelling. The curtains are in
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are plain white or coloured cotton with tassels attached. All easily washable, and you must admit, rather amusing.
The window seat arrangement. ast but not least, la described in the caption beside it.
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If a veil has been soaked in the rain, it should be allowed
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Nursery
Line your curtains for the nursery with a plain cotton material, they'll keep their shape much longer. The ones sketched here are in cotton folk weave with a crinkly pur- face in horizontal stripes of red, yellow, and cream.
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Bedroom
Sitting Room
For the arrangement on the left you could use furnishing satin or sateen for the top drape and spotted voile or starred ninon for the trans- parent,
The curtains above you can make in a plain material, with contrasting coloured satin ribbons stitched at intervals. But for those who prefer patterns, I suggest no ribbon and one of the new mercerised cretonne fabrics that look exactly like glared chints, guaranteed fadeless.
Kitchen
Oll silk-in which there is an in- finite variety of designs nowadays-- might be used for this kitchen ar- rangement. Alternatively, try some of the new swiss volle patterned with small squares in blue and white. Squares are broken up with white flowers.
Bathroom
Turkish towelling has been used for this bathroom window. Plain this one, but you can buy it with vertical stripes in green and white, pink and white, blue and white, coin. wide (you only need one with for a narrow window).
This is my idea for a window seal that doesn't necessitate you putting your back to the view and the sun. The units are movable and, in the winter, can be put round the fire- place. They could be made with folding legs.
The curtains sketched here Gre made of cotton with a linen finish, sanforized shrunk, which means that however much washing you pive them they won't shrink any more.
Pattern is in bright yellow, brown, and white. The scats are upholstered in brown.
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Why All This
Marriage Advice?
ASKS A YOUNG MAN
THERE were once days, I suppose, says, "Now, look here, my boy, I'm when the fact of marriage was not an expert in these things, but accepted without pother and allowed your mother and I have been very to full itself, unhindered, along happy for 30 years, and mark my) rational and commonsense lines; days words, if there's one thing a woman when the average sanity and biological likes, it's being able to do things for senae were trusted, to carry a young a man." man and a young girl along the not terribly complicated ways of living together as man and wife. I sigh for those days.
too
Quickly follows one's brother, a mortal of strange thinking, who scoffs
at the whole principle of marriage) and says that its only hope of sur
The momentous step of an engage- vival is for the couple to spend at ment makes friends and relatives least six months of the year away light-headed, and from them all there from one another.
pours a well-meaning, but Infinitely irritating stream of good advice.
Then uncle chuckles, "Now, you young people: I expect you've got
It would seem evident that reason all sorts of modern ideas, but here's and Instinct and normal Intelligence my lip, and don't say I didn't tell you. are not considered alds to happy give and take, that's the plan. We marriage nowadays. When we con- have followed it for 40 years, and template the business, the entire un- look at us,” comfortabic possibilities are spread enticingly before us.
Does one know one's own mind?
Two Camps
Elas one paused to consider the gravity Added to this is the chorus of of the step? Are temperaments mothers, and fathers, divided into compatible? Do We realise the two camps, pro-husband and pro- disasters that befall those who are wife, each pouring out an incessant overhasty?
We uniterstand all these things? Right (shrug), it is our affair, but don't let it be said that we were not warned. A nice. cheerful beginminat A Plethora of Hinta
cascade of useful hints on how to keep out of the divorce court, show-. ing us how best to deceive one an- other, and how each must fackie the other when a bad temper is imminent.
All the Ume, of course, there are only two people capable of doing anything about it, which they try to do through the useful dictates of Aut that 15 not all. The reason, commonsense, psychologists, the
and circum- professors
of ataner. eugenics. the students of social re- intions, the philosophers, and nil Marriage is surely not so mazed, women with their natural curiosity as hazardous a business that it re- about everyone's affairs have act up quires a gross of rather unpleasant table upon conflicting table of rules rules lumped together, and said to for marriage. Reactions, inhibitions, bu applicable to any and every cREC. and the simple fact of so-called Cre's elders, I suppose, will never feminine wlles are marked here and tire of that phrase, Well, if you're there upon the matrimonial chart, happy as we've been, you won't do and brother sister, fathers, mo- badly, and here's my little.tip/1 thers, aunts, cousins and uncles come forward with their advice. Vory would keep their little lips and let Most ardently do we wish that they Itle peace we have had for a year.
Firat It in the wife's mother who way, without making a sort of, busi- own in a 'natural tells her. Now, don't spoil him, ness of marriage, complete with dear, it makes man selfish and la, charter of incorporation, rules, and Fuinous to your happiness." Then it balance-sheet.
JOHN COTTERILL
is father who, draws one aside, and
us discover our
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