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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1948,
WOMANSENSE
Wallpaper Can Do Tricks For The Modern Home
By ELEANOR ROSS
Tore clover
ODAY we outline a few ing to about 13 to 10 inches from
wallpaper the ceiling, or by constructing
tricks, smartly designed to do a nice job of overcoming minor architectural defects through the house, such as a difficult corner at one end of the room, too low or too high a ceiling.
Let's look upward and take stock of the celling. If it is too low it can be Increased in height, by using a white or paler shade of the same colour of paper as that used in the walls. A pale celling improves the natural lighting: dark colours ab- For more light and these warm colours lower the apparent height of the room. Striped patterns used on the walls horizontally will also lower the ceiling, a smart trick Cor A amar, staccatto type room. Verli- cal stripes have just the opposite effect and give room a tall look. Ou the American market now are handsome wood-like papers that would be just right for lowering ceiling height, as is a fabric-type reslin on a light-toned paper.
Still another method of making the overtoll room seem beller pro- portioned is by lowering the mould-
AUTUMN HANDBAGS
İlard-wearing dress materials are now belag used for handbags In addition to leather, and here you see two bags of new design for autumn: a fat slung-trom- the-shoulder pouch in scarlet corduroy, and a "miser's bag" in black velvet with silver ser- vlette-ring fastener.
deen valance or cornice covered
with paper to match the rest of the room, Besides being a good trick. this treatment is extremely amark wat attractivo.
Celling beams, so often encoun- tered in modern city apartments, but may neem a blemish at first. they can be turned into an asset of
·w small outlay. Cover the beams or even the entire celling with paper simulating wood, very good with Jacobean or Early American furni- ture,
are
A dainty bedroom becomes a veri- table gardeh bower if the beams are plain coloured and the interven
with ing spaces papered
pastel floral wail paper. No room, unless custom
designed, ever completely
There owner. satished its elther too many niches and logs ur Well- 100 many unbroken arcas,
be the paper, well handled, can means of lying these ins and outs into the main centre, or is equally successful in creating artificial divi- slons, making for good eye-foolers,
Illusion
Alcoves can be turned into inter- esting and attractive nooks by pa- complete contrast per which is a from the rest of the room. If there Is no nleove where you would like one, the luston can be achieved with contrasing paper or by setting off a portion of the wall with panels of wood-like paper. Such tricks are especially good in small rooms and lend charm and distinction.
If you would like to have a re- place but can't, try for the sort of friendly cosy
same conversation three
place by grouping two or
PANNIER STYLE
UNIQUE in design, of pannier
alylo Jenn Patou creates this lovely evening
Hown in grey-green shot taffela; haller neckline
high waisted and bodice
above rises
31 slim skirt tiered in front with puffed drapery,
chairs informally around a teenie London Adapts
wall in an otherwise muted
Or
Or you can make believe
room.
You're "New Look" For
near a garden just by covering one wall with a scenic garden design or with an ivy Lype or flower paper.
garden Outsized Women
It all takes careful planning, of
Pursuing their policy of making Colours must be right, de the "New Look" essentially wear- course. signs must be right.
But with this able many of Britain's designers are provise, you can prove yourself a concentrating on adapting the new elever magician performing mira-tv
styles for the larger woman. Padded cles of illusion if you'll follow these hip
hips, voluminous
and skirts and other simple wallpaper tricks. sharply nipped in waists are not for the woman with a forty-two inch hipline. Designers and manufac therefore relyince of cut
on quality of ma-
After all the roses and feathers for larger sizes are
We Turn To This
ANNY LEWINTER MODELS HAND KNITTEDWEAR-SPORTSWEAR
AIDEN
terial and
rather than on variety of trimming or ex- aggerated line. and are suggesting the new fashions by the skilful use of killing, pleats and graceful sleeves. Hips are kept smooth, but lip in- terest is there too, in the shape of slit pockets or embroidered patch pockets, The cross-over bodice lins been revived and can be smoothly wrapped, softly draped or tucked. Flat pleats in the skirt give graceful swing.
Cold Weather Beauty Routine For Your Hands
H
Courtery L'ery frie
1.d weather, hands teed frequent applications of good hand cream to keep them smooth.
By HELEN FOLLETT
[ANDS up! Are they handsome, winter season when the hands are
likely to chap,
or are they not?. If not, why inot? You have been neglectful. You have not used your lotion faith
lo other small fully, or mitended duties that keep the feminine mitts in fine form.
The skin on the hands is subject to for more punishment than the the face. cutaneous covering of More attention should be given to them than to the complexion if they are to retain youthful appearance. Hands can grow old looking, the before their same no faces, long time.
The natural lubricating substance that keeps the skin soft and smooth is removed because of frequeni woshing. There must be a substitute for this lack. Cold cream isn't quite the happy choice; a heavy massage emollient In better. Use it twice 1 week at bed line, giving your hands a brisk massage to force the cream into the flesh. And during cold weather, you should do this little task even if you use a lotion every day, especially during thu
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The lady of leisure with plenty of me to spend at the beauty shop for manicures and hand massage han no problems. It is the hard working housewife who has her hands in and out of cold or hot water many times a day who is troubled. krep them looking nice diligent enre.
To
requires
When creaming and massaging the hands, be sure to do circles over your finger rails. This treatment will produce good colouring, will well- make for the health and being of your pink talons. Rub the
well into the cream
cuticle that surrounds the nalis.
That is a good time to use the orange wood stick. Lut the cuticle gently. Never press down at the bee of the nait; you may so injure the matrix that a deformed ridged nall will result,
or
Don't fancy that when you have applied the glowing polish, you have done everything that 13 necessary. That's just the cream on the beauty cake..
BOYS AND GIRLS. MAGAZINE..
A Story of Punch's Grandfather
ID
He Had an Adventure on an Ice
By MAX TRELL
you ever see an iceberg, Mr Punch?"
Mr Punch looked up from his book to see Knarf and Hanld, the shadow-children with the turned- about names, standing In front of his chair. It was Hanid who had just asked him the question.
iceberg
"We just read about an
in a book," Knarf added, "and wo were wondering if you had over seen one."
Mr Punch smiled, then nodded. There were very few questions he couldn't answer, and
fcw things he handn't seen. To their surprise, however, he snid: "No,
very
a
I've never seen an iceberg.”
"Oh, what i shame," Hanld begun. we We were 30 sure-
For the larger woman " London Dresa Company has provided dresses of which onc,
In plain
"But my grandfather did," Mr coloured smooth wool, with side Punch added hastily. "He was a bodice closing and the skirt fullness sailor.
-concentrated-in-three-deepuis up north.
on the left side, is typical.
J.
Mintz has produced many member It, my grandfather rayon models with jacket lived on an iceberg,"
artful
effect
suggested by the
Cake
Punch's grandfather on the ice cako. "He decided to stay on it,” salá He often spoke to me Mr Punch. about the icebergs he had seen, far-
"It was quite cold, of course but on the other hand, it In fact, now that I re-
was also quite beautiful. When the onen
sun shone on it, it gütleres liko Grandfather found A diamonds, beautiful cave and lived in it.
"But then," Mr Punch went "grandfather began to notice some- thing. This beautiful Iceberg seemed to be getting smaller, and smaller."
"Lived on au "Iceberg?"*
of narrow killing. An- and Hanid exclaimed together.
USC
other London
1
Here, dat
advocates Arm jacket effect for the woman with the large hip measurement. hip interest is attained with pockets embroidered in white on a navy rayon dress.
Britain's designers are also alive to the fact that many young people come into this large size group, and extremely youthful looking dresses and soft suits are being produced
for them.
On a Ship
Knart
an,
"Was it melting?" Knarf asked.
Floating Southward Mr Punch nodded. "That's exact-
where
It
Mr Punch nodded. "You see, my
far dears, grandfather salled
up north on a ship. He went to catch scals. Well, one night as
grand- father was watching over the side of the ship, he saw a great number of seals, all sitting on an enormously what it was doing. It was doating
He told the southward all the time while mountain of ice. captain of the ship what he had grew warmer and warmer. And the Eeen but the captain didn't want to warmer I got, the quicker it melted. From being a mountain, It became go and catch those seals.
a hill, from being a hill, It be- "Why didn't the to?" asked Knarf.
a cake of lee, just big enough for grandfather to stand on. And "The captain said," continued Mr all the while, grandfather was still with Punch, "that the mountain was too at the middle of the ocean, steep and that i was silly to try nothing around him but water." to catch seals on such д pince. Grandfather thought there
captain
want
came
"My goodness!" Hanid exclaimed was in dlamay.
ho
out
"What did your grandfather da when it finally meliod?"
Every Night May Not Be Christmas, but - - -
CANON CITY, Col.-Every night | nothing silly about it at all co FTER ALL THE moonlight and
bc Christmas at Canon got into a small boat and rowed may not
Dolun Aroses, ostrich feathers and lace, City, but John
and hts to the mountain of ice and
Mr Punch sighed. "I never found we'll settic for tho beautiful, Scotchilte
out. Grandfather never told me, the highway advertising to catch all the seals by himself
What happened?" Hanid
asked. beguiling, artless little hat fash-signs make them look it,
lot of very curious things hap end of the story. I don't know what
Mr Punch. "The
"The first
happened.. I loned of fine fabric deftly manipu
only wish I did." Knart and Hould wished he did lated, with the trimming only used Dolan took a war-time develop pened," said
soon ·AS
But there was no.hing they because it is an integral part of ment, small bits of reflecting glass thing that happened, as
the mountain too.
That was all the design.
attached to waterproof and flexible grandfather reached plastic backing, and turned it into a of ice, was that all the seals: jumped could do about it.
off and swam away. The next thing they could ever Brud. out about Mr As a prize example of our theme lucrative business.
that happened was that the whole Finch'o grandfather and the tee- here is one of the delightful pinhead
Now the Utile Canon City com-ice-mountain broke
in half-and berg series from an American fashion
has taken a pany doce business with some of the the half that grandfather Clothes & Accessories of Distinction..house. The designer
companies in the nation began floating off into the middia Rupert & Mr. Punch-41 hood of power gray, beaver felt largest
Scotchlite
to ceen and the of the ocean. Instead of being an and fashioned it into a little peaked colours
enjoyo in the daytime, ice-mountain, it had now become a borinot trimmed effectively with but it's night, when lights fall on regular Iceberg." pearl-headed pins and a neat little the signs, that the colours of "What did your grandfather do?"
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