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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 22, 1939.
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 and the world and the view was vast. But then, ains, 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 muude me want to have big windows; to look out on a scene that was as vant as the limitations of any town could make it. I didn't want to live in any fools' paradise.
Actually it is fact that your material outlook can 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, if women have anything to do with it.
But, to get down to more domestic matters, there's the maiter of dress- ing up the "glass covered holes in the wall" that give us light and alr There are five suggestions sketched in this page, and one idea for a couple of . movable, window seats which can be used for the window or the fireplace. The sketch on the top left shows a curtain arrangement for a rather typical square window, which can be used for either a bedroom or a sitting- room with Regency leanings. The top "drape" is quite easily done by pass- ing a long strip of material over an old-fashioned curtain pole, and fixing it rather arbitrarily at Intervals with drawing-pins-so that they don't, show, of emirse
The next arrangement is on the same window, designed to give a greater effect of light. Good for a more modern room. Please note the bullt-on pelmet which is an American idea... It's made of strips of bambou
third drawing show's a rather unusun way of hanging lined seer- sucker or eretonne for a nursery. Holes are made in the curtain top, and it is Dreaded through an old-fashioned curtain pole (they're coming back Into vogue).
Fourth drawing is a kitchenet arrangement. Olled silk curtains re Axed top and bottom so that loose ends don't interfere with whatever work may be going on near the window.
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The last window arrangement, be- +++|-|-|-|-|-|- lieve it or not, is my idea of a both- I room setting. The curtains are in towelling and the cords
plain white of coloured cotton with tassels attached. All easily washable, and you must admit, rather amusing.
The window seat arrangement, last but not least, is described in the
• caption beside it.
Nothing is worse than a limp, bedraggled well flopping over a smart hat.
To tron veils, Arst lay a sheet of tissue paper over the froning
Archery Called Cruel board, then spread the veil on
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it and press carefully with a hot iron. Veils come up like new after this treatment,
If a vell has been soaked in. the ruin, it should be allowed
to dry before it is pressed.
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 a cotton folk weave with a crinkly, sur- face in horizontal stripes of red, vellow, and cream.
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 glazed chintz, quaranteed 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
Plain
Turkish towelling has been used for this bathroom window. this one, but you can buy it with vertical stripes in green and white, pink and white, blue and white, 60in. wide (you only need one width för a narrow window).
This is my idea for a window seat 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 are made of cotton with a lincu 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 seats are upholstered in brown.
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Why All This
Marriage Advice?
ASKS A YOUNG MAN
HERE 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 sense were trusted to carry a young a man." man and a young girl along the not
too terribly complicated ways of Quickly follows, one's brother, a living together as man and wife. I mortal of strange thhiking, who scoffe sigh for those days.
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 tip, 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." comfortable possibilities are sprend enticingly before us.
Doca ono know one's own mind?"
Two Camps
Added to this is the chorus of and fathers, divided Into
Has one paused to consider the gravity- mothers
the
two camps, pro-husband and pro-
of the step? Are temperaments compatible? Do We realise disasters that befall those who are wife, each pouring out an incessant overhasty?
casende of "useful" hints on how to keep out of the divorce court, show- ing us how best to deceive one an-
other when a bad temper la imminent.
We understand all these things? Right (shrug), it is our affair, but other, and how each must tackle the don't let it be said that we were not warned. A nice. cheerful beginningi A Plethora of Hinte
All the time, of course, there are only two people capable of doing anything about it, which they try to do through the useful dictates of But that
not all. The reason, commonsense,
and circum- psychologists, the professors of stance. eugenics. the students of social re-. lations, the philosophers, and --- all Marriage is surely not so mazed, women with their natural curiosity so hazardous a business that it re- about everyone's affairs have set up quires a gross of rather unpleasant table upon conflicting table of rules rules lumped together, and said to for marriage: Reactions; inhibitions, be applicable to any and every case. and the simple fact of so-called Grie's elders, I suppose, will never feminine wiles 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, me badly, and here's my Illile tip. “.. thiers, aunts, cousins and uncles come Most ardently do we wish that they forward with their advice. Very little peace we have had for a year. Would keep their lille tips and let First it la the wife's mother who way, without making a sort of busi
us discover our own in a natural tells hor. "Now, don't spoil him, ness of marriage, complete with dear, it makes men selfish and is charter of Incorporation," rules, and rulnaus to your happiness." Then it balance-sheet.. Is father who draws one. aside and
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