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Taking Care Of Beach Wear
THE
THE day has long gone by when "any old thing did for bathing In, And quite right too, for there was no excuse for the monstrosities seen by any zen or river twenty or thiry years ago. An attractive swim- ming suit is a tonle to the bather, and it actually given confidence to the timid wearer when taking the dest plunge
The life of your bathing suit, how- ever, depends a good deal on how you trent It Don't treat it roughly, and don't be careless with it, and you will find that it will look fresh and smart for two
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Three seasons. When choosing a new sult, see that it- is just a little fight before it fakes you for your that swim, and then, after its dip you will find that it fts like
proverbial glove. the
If you own one of those close-fitting woollen suits which mould the figure so comfortably, dọ not strale its sturdiness too much by wringing it out after the bathe with your hands, because this strains the fibres of the woot. Instead, fold it in a towel and squeeze the water out gently-once
or twice if you can, Anding a dry place each time. In this way you will
I preserve is cut und line.
After a sea bathe, every suit appreciates a dip into fresh water, ant then it should be hung on a line In the sun (if possible) to dry thoroughly. Nothing is worse for a bathing dress than for it to be kept 1075 damp from one day to another.
After Washing
Soft and charmingly feminine
is this afternoon dress of pantel coloured chiffon printed crepe. Draped and pleated into a grace
ful
Hang the costume from the middle for the waist and try to avoid pegs. Never, under sany circumstances,
bodloe, it makes an "Idealng up your suit by the shoulder frock to
for afternoon wear luncheons and tean of terrace or garden
restaurants, A large
natural coloured straw hal, with colourful cherries decorating it completes A pretty U17 picture.
Useful Hints
or you may And it has And your wretched
ankies! never put it away for the season unt
it is hone dry--otherwise the yaru
It may perish. is good
to
wash the bathing suit now and again. Treat if like any other woollly, using
soap-flakes d only hand-hot water, and let it blow about in the It wind to dry. is good for it
murishes the wool.
ff, after your bathe, you go for sun- Lothing. change into another suit. A
A good polish can be given to wet bathing suit covered over in part dang shoes in a few seconds by with sand becomes very unrestful
cracking.
adding a drop of parudiin to the fund will be bound to chate the skin, blacking or brown polish, which also and it may cut the wool when dry, helps to prevent the leather from A good bathing up also needs con-
sideration. As soon as you emerge from the briny, wipe out your cup
Jet it carefully.
dry thoroughly before being put away.
Chamois gloves may become stir and discoloured by frequent washing but by boiling the peel of an orange in the water in which they are washed the original colour will vestured..
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Blackbirds Do Good Deed
be
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inside prevents the rubber side: from A little talcum powder sprinkled sticking. If, as sometimes happens, a small tear developes, it can easily
be
nenderi with adhesive tape, Another cap tip is to the guur helmet with an old silk landkerchief sprink ied over with olive oil, this keeps the hair dry for more effectively than wearing two caps, and it is much more comfortable.
Bathing shoes should always be OROVILLLE, Cal. (U.P.) The rinsed in clear cold water when taken Seagulls that saved early Utah set-off remove all traces of salt and to tiers from possible starvation by get rid of sand-both being in- halting a cricket invasion have had furious to rubber. Dry them off, not a counterpart here on a 20-acre olive in the sun, but in a current of air it orchard. The orchard was being in possible. Turn them inside out to vaded by a horde of grasshoppersdry the inside as well, and before bei that threatened its destruction, when ing put away for the season, they thousands of blackbirds lay to with a should be stuffed stiffly with tissue hearty
Hood
will-and appetite..paper, for, in this way, they will When the birds Anally left there was keep their shape. hardly a hopper to be found.
ATEL
Anna Barton
A collon picker is Rita Hayworth, rising young starlet screen, who wears a two plece hand crocheted sports outfit of Yale blue and while cotton 'rarn... The snug fitling - Jacket, white and blue horizontal pencil stripes, fi buttoned sold blue buttons, matching the goared skirt
of the
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Marjorie
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screen wears this faltering black
and white hostess gown featured
by stripes down the front of the
full skirt and la the softly
gathered Godice. A high, widr
walsiline and wide shoulders are
other features.
A new kind of fashion shoth, rising young starlet of the Hospitality headquarters of the National Advisory Committee, New York World's Fair. Leading American women ilesigners appeared in outille of their own creation Inspired by the theme: "What am wearing to the Fair this summer." Three de- Rigners who cater to the college girl are shown above. Louise Mulligan (left) wore an ensemble of black and pink with the two colours in the print. Vara Mexwell (centre) wittily com- bined scer-nucker and sables. Dorothy Cox (right) used gray solid blue buttons, matching the gored skirt.
Ideas For Small Nurseries
COME of the prettiest and
most alternating panels or sprliged und successful nurseries seen lutely plain wallpaper are more effective | have been in small houses and car- than a pattern throughout the room. ried out under strict budgeting, This wallpaper can be pasted on 10 which goes to disprove the old iden a nursery screen and then varnished that model nurseries must be large to produce a very smart resull. and expensively decorated.
Where the walls are painted a British manufacturers ore doing pastel shade it is more original to their best to co-operate by making decorate the ceiling than to have an suitable furniture for nursery plan- animal døde-though the cut-out ning, furniture which can be added models of the giant panda placed to, bit by bit, as the small owners here and there on the wall have a grow up, changed round when need charm hard to beat.
paper,
be and arranged in quite different Stars of gold and silver (ways.
complete with a silver moon which Built-in cupboards that are a fea- may conceal a light flament, are ture of most modern houses stove pasted on to the ceiling by some! the space problem, and fitted basins mothers. There are also wallpapers in each room are another modern to be bought revidy starred. ainenity that is definitely inbour- wickerwork Cots
saving
After a spate of animal decoration
No longer in the small nursery there is a swing-back to flower and need the cot take up an undue lent decoration where curtains and amount of room. Waven rush cribs covers are concerned. Folk-weave or cols of wickerwork have detach-; Imaterial, printed linen, chintz, Jute able stands and handles, so that they or slab repp are all sultable mate- are easly moved from room to rooni. rials for hard wear in gay or pastel colours.
Net curtains for the nursery have
Cellukir blankets washable a1 home are made in peach pink, lemon,
amusing patterns and are best in yellow, or pale blue, with matching small nurseries with small patterns ber sheets, and the dainty colour of stars or the moon surrounded by harmony of the whole is completed by cot trimmings that are made of stars and there should...be
pastel tint
tinted glet-net, -bought ready. straight against the pane.
hung
way of hanging lace netther tucked and slatted for a draw-string.
These simple cots should be lined where the room is perhaps not so with matching sateen, and a coverlet light, is to gather them into a rod made of sateen with filet net rucked top and bottom and tle them about across. St. the middle.
Dainty Flower Patterns
An alternative for the mother with little time to spare would be cot trimming of lace net with a rose- Flower-sprigged wallpapers are marig design, each sprig picked out being used for nuracry decoration, in colour with doss silk. though where the room is very small,
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Furnishing The Small
Room
that strongly
AE you always envying people will have the look of unily Instead ones to fit the more modern type of
who have large alry rooms, and of being a series of detached rooms, cascinent, remember
that yours did not nok so Suppose for example you have the contrasting, large pulterned curtains hall and staircases done in a welcom- cut sharply into wall space. On the Perhaps you don't make the most ing shade of soft dull sunshine other hand, small-patterned ones,
colour of your rooms. Take a good look ut yellow, then let your rooms lead out whose foundation
blends exactly with your wall paper. add them, and see if you can find out why in deep creamy shades. They have that cramped uppearance. Remember though, that northern an impression of width. Have you paid
sufficient attention to rooms need warmer tones in decorn- In fact, should your room and win- those four considerations which are tion than the southerly
ones that dow be cxtra small, it is on excellent
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of super importance to the woman el plenty of sunshine. But there is plan to choose plain curtains in who is planning that most satisfying wide choice in delightfully plain match the colour of the walls. Drape and enduring of all feminine posses- papers, canging from clear cool cream them widely beyond cach window sions real home. These consi- to the warn peach shades, the latter edge and you will be delighted at derations are:--Decorations, furni- being particularly suitable for a chilly the illusion of airy space on that side ture. curtains and carpets; and room. For more serviceable use, tou, of your room.
harmony,
you will have no difficulty in obtain-
Careful study and application of ing many duinly small-patterned A Restful Effect
the right principles in these, will give Papers which give plain colour Where there is a patterned room
small rooms. and indeed your whole effect,
house, that desirable air of space. An Individual Touch colour, and comfort which makes o home such a restful happy place to live and work in.
For Spaciousness
suite, another idea producing an un- usually restful and harmonious effect, is to have your curtains pick up the You will find quiet tasteful papers precise shades of the tapestry or -ndit space to your small rooms, and velvet, on to a background which
make Idoal backgrounds for the tones exactly with the
walls-but colourful contrasts of curtains, such combinations of colours may Decorations are, your first consi- cushions, pictures, pottery, and other necessitate a rea
really good Eltop hunt. deration, for they represent your finishing touches which make a room Carpets for the small room are best whole background. Remember."that look Individubl.
plain in colour, and fitted through- the small room will look much larger
How easy too with these perfectly out whenever possible, the unbroken line preserving every inch of length
of the floor space. changes so deer to a woman's heart! a lighter into a
Furniture for the small rooms be used, let this be of small neat tone of the same tint as the walls.
Ornate papers, heavily coloured essential only, and be neither cum- tone, and in keeping with the plainly should be strictly limited to what is design, with light "surround" to friezes, "panellings," and hard white bersome nor heavy in appearance, tinted walls, cellings, howeyer handsome in ap Its size: should be in correct pro- pearance, tend to draw and tire the eyes, and have a decided reducing effect.
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