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July 21, 1939.
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DAIN oľ shine, our beaches won't want for colour this summer. Every bathing girl can have all the colours of the spectrum in her swim suit, and what could be more exhilarating than gorgeous tropical colouring as a change from
the trim, prim office clothes in dark colours that Miss X and Miss Y wear most of the year round for daily-brending.
We advise them to indulge in all the colour They enn on holiday, for colour'should be as much 'n part of the suminer change ns sen breezes and sunshine-it accentuates the contrast from the daily round.
So this sur, stend of conventional navy and white, black and red, and so on, chouse n sult that will give some South Sea Island glamour, full of coral reds, azure blues, palm greens and sun-glow yellows.
There all-wool "bathers" have been printed by quile i now process, so that a very wide range of colours can to useil, and they are absolutely fust to sea and sun.
Flest comes a suit with green ground floral-pat- teined in corul pink, blue, yellow and white. It's minde with a lastex bust line and front skirt. The Instex bust Une Is Battering to the, figure, as well as giving ft and comfort.
Next suit is printed with all the under-the-sen glories of a tropical island? There are seaweeds of many colours, and fish of a dozen shades and shapes. This also has the lastes bust line and back and a front skirt,
The cross-over brassiere top is specially attractive on the third bather. This is in white, with an all-over design of colourful galleons, and elastic at bust line, buck und legs makes for perfect Rt.
Last, and gayest of all, is a sult with coral ground patterned in palm trees, South Sea maidens, flowers and birds, in dazzling array. The white wool-ribbon shoulder straps are adjustable, the wool-ribbon being slotted through to lie in a bow in front, It also hos elastic al the bust line and a front skirt.
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THERE is a singular belief inherent
in most hostesses that they have
only to get their husbands trace wavering white lines upon the lawi, erect a net, by a dozen tennis balls, and command the first duzen people who come to her mind to come over for ten and tenuis," in onder ensure the most successful Rind of social and sporting afternoon.
Sewing Aids
FEW items, not generally found A DELICIOUS hot-weather drinks Is annoying when a favourite tance to be favoured. But the tigers in work baskets, may be usefully is iced coffee. This can be pair of stockings suddenly of the last set are selected, since the included: For sharpening scissors, a made with Uie least, trouble, simply springs o ladder, or a large hole, or set was so short, and the same thing (square of emery paper is ideal. A by juking aliánull Us of cafe au lait (when a well-liked dress of cont, gets happens again, and everyone is un- funil file is useful for tuckin under and diluting it with cold water actor, for the repair is generally der the trees in five asinutes, feeling sinall seams on thin materials. The cording to the directions. Pour the obvious unless we are very careful that the Hest lot, whose turn it is to ordinary, darning mushroom is too diluted cafe into a cocktail shaker about it, play again, are having very much lig for children's socks and other or large stoppered jar and shake Here are several ways in which the best of it, having run their open-small iteras. A large empty cotton with one or two spoonfuls of vanilin mending may be almost invisible. ing sel to 34 gaines.
reel serves the purpose well.
Ice-cream until frothy.
-A memled ladder is less noticeable They do play ogult and keep it up. At the bottom of the trustel keepi Pour into tall glasses, add a dab when a very small tuck is made on - Personally, I dislike terinis purtigs, till tea ting, having how learned tie a small tin of talcum powder. A of whipped cream if liked, and serve. the wrong side, then the laddered although, like the majority of us. | grafty tricks which keep ʼn sol go- [lite speinkled on the digers now If it is not required ul once, keep purt eut away its closely as possible from that very frst afterntion when ing. Then, when tea is over (a and then, particularly when sewing the mixture in a refrigerator or lee-to-the stitching. On the right aldo I respond to the wheedling, "Do | draughty business under the trea), (out-of-doors. In hot weather, pre-box. · Add the cream just before it looks ie o flaw, which is less come, we're having a few people the inevitable happens and the host,vents then from becoming sticky, verying. along for tennis on Saturday, itching to be it it, rries. Now.
In prominent position near the continue to rally to the coll without, what about a men's four, eh?" The top of the basket keep a magnet. smile on my face, And yet, howladies settle into their chairs. The There is no quicker way of recover- absurdly funny it all,ix.
high spot of the chy has arrived. ing lost needles and plns than by
Rods Bre at their frolics. A pushing it round the basket or over- The
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You necept; you don' your clean annels, take train or car and arrive
Fisher of Balls
And the nien, however bnd they i
to find the traditional scene. There is the court all rolled and marked: there is the net alightly sagging and calling for that solemn business with may be. ore conscious of what is two racquets; there is the non-play= | expected of them, and with sterĮ ing hostes sitting under a tree with gusto they proceed to slash, tunge. her supposedly non-playing husband. | fump, crouchi, strut, slum, drive, and who intends to be in on every possi- dash the perspiration from their eye- bie wet.
brows all to no great purpose beyond There, too, are your fellow-part-1 that of causing the odd rabbit out ners in the raul--the tigers (craggy- to take up a portion in the rood with looking fellows will Important a landing net for fishing balls out blazers), the
(brown, the stream. tigresses
Then it is over, and
everyone sturts having return matches, and it is recalled that the women haven'
| had a four, and they have one, and
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Hot Weather Hints
hot, sticky evenings, don't take
obvious than a darn-or we hope sol
Always use' very fine needle and mending-silk that matches perfectly, and trim with a sharp pair of em- broidery scissors, being careful not to cut the stitches, or another lad- (der will start,
Holes in the heels and. Locs may be patched if you always keep handy. in few old, stockings of various shades, ad use thein cut patches slightly larger than the hole to be mended.
Trim the ragged edges of the hole.
UT same lean, cooked ham into a cold. bath, it will only make Place the patch under the hole, and small pieces and put them into you hotter. Take a teuld one just run-stitch it all round, about one
inch from the edge,,, a battere: fire-proof dlah. Sprinkle before you go to bed, and then pat eighth of an with dots of buller and put in thee eau de cologne over your en-making the sinollest possible stitches" lire body. Use a fresh-smelling on the right side, and, of course, ven to heat through.
matching slik. Run-stitchi Have ready some chopped, dates variety of bath salts or bath essence, using mixed with a liberal qunätity of any i During the daytime, lighten your again round the extreme edge. of of the breakfast cereals and pile this male-up. A gond Rica is to dilute the hole, ar silp-hem the edge to the over the hom. Return It to the oven your wat liquid foundation with a'patch, using very small stitches. to heat and to crisp on the surface, Bifle skin tonic, so that your face is You will And this method much and serve at once.
prevented from becoming too greasy. neuter and more durabin, than a
Give the feet a cooling treatment.darn.
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sinewy ladies with rolled socks, un- powdered noses, and a couple of rac- quets oplece), the nondescripts like uneself (n job lot of men and girls in white), ance the rabbits, terror- more return mutches are played, stricken youths and maidens with ac- and a freshly assorted men's-four | ting themselves into hats and coats, tagonul racquets and an appalling | gets going.
and cars, grow quite boisterous and consciousness of the hungry Bigers
Twilight falling finds the finale to uppish in their confidence. and their mates nearby.
all tennis parties in progress-a And the hostess says, "Well, it has
the two been nice, and all. You must come oy between dashing single worst rabbits, who, taking the op- again." And, oddly enough, we def
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Spun Racquets
For a while the lalk is general, and then the host says, "Well, wint about starting?" Everyone starts edging away from the court depre- catingly, it the same time Intent upon being in the first set. Then, after everyone has sald "No fear, not the first cot for me," racquets are spun and four players find themselves facing one another with twitching smiles. Then the chorus begins by the first to say, “Well, how'll we play? I tell you frankly, this is iny Arst game this year,"
Racquels are spun again for part- ners, and again to decide about ends, and the attnetting pale thrust balls at each other imploringly, with "You serve first," and, "No, really, you do, please," and the tennis party opens according to ritual with a ma Jestic double fault...
tite away, and
The set wears players chaff one another, and the bout fotches balls from Bower-bed and rond, and the other guests ilsten nolitely to their hostess and now their holle us the vantage set of deuce games potters to 15-14, 15 all, 10-15, and on, on; on.
But at last it is over, and again. nobody wishes to play, and all ery entnestly, "I'll sit this one out," and racquets are twirled, and another set begins, and the host, still out of it, goes on fetching stray balls, and the whole thing is over in about five minules, a deceitfui liger and tigress having been opposed to two perfectly honest rabbits who were just as bad as they said they were, and who Wander dazedly off the court.
Then the hostess says, "Now, who hasn't played?". You haven't, Sims, and you haven't, - Mr. Crane,
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but everyone else has." At bashfulness sets in again and roluc-
once
Rub eet astringent on the heels and Stockings that have airünk; in the arches, and spare a little time to foot in the wash can have "alig; the
age them before you relire at piece added in the same way. htt is well worth it,
Tears in Clothes Pon't try putting new make-up clogs the old-it' invariably
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Red, white and blue rayon Jersey blauso and wish with white carded abarkskin Blacks are shown at the left. The hostess wears shirt and slacks of: yellow, abarkakin, the giri at the right combines slacks of aqua spun rayon with a plaid shirt of the same fabric.
clothes can be Jagged tears in mended_pruetleally invisibly in this way!--Turn the garment inside out ant Jay But on the ironing table, with the damaged part upper- most.
Cnrefully draw the edges to- gether so that the broken ends of the threads come together, but do not overlup. Pin or tack them through to the ironing blanket to prevent silpping, then secure with strips of adhesive tape, cut half on Inch longer than the tear. Press lightly with a warm frön. It cure- fully done the mend will be invisi- bie on the right side.
A hole can be patched in the sume way if you have a piece of the ma- terial. Be careful that the grab of the patch follows the same direction as that of the garment, It is best to eut the edges quite straight all round the hole.
Take the patch in position on the wrong side of the garment. Turn over to the right side, tuck once ngoln, then, with matching colton, or better still with strands of he actunt material run-stitch along the grain of the material, taiting the atitches through the double material. and just over the edge of the hole. Make very small suiches, and work from the right side so that you can keep your lines straight. The patch should about a quarter of an inch lurger round, this provides for any pull on the patch. Don't pull the stitches too tight.
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Match up the holes, then tack in Press well on the wrong side and position all round. Over-saw the the patch will be invisible. That is Holes can be patched Invisibly in two-thicknesses together, keeping to much better that darning a large surface, but it is essential to see that
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the same net, and matching cotton. Afterwards carefully cut away tha|the holes correspond, and the lines Cut the edges of the tear straight. loose edges on both aldes of the run straight. Lay curtain Int on the table, right patch. For better security a second