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NE day you decide that you dislike calling out the fire department to quench your tablecloth every evening you have dinner guests. You must have enough ask-trays. But they must not be just ash trays, You are a homé-proud woman; everything in your house has been selected to create n' perfect harmony. Sq it is quite natural, that those ash-tray's cannot be simply ush-traya; they must fit into the general scheme..
You went around of the shops: You never realised before, how difficult it is to find the type of nah-trays you fancy. There was one In blue with pink spots, but you hate pink spola. And the pro- blem is much more complicated than it seems, as you intend using the ash-trays in the dining room as well as in the ving room. And the dining room is all in pale blue, the living room cafe au isit. It must be a colour which TOOME. will harmonise in both Porcelain wouldn't do; the boy loves to break porcelain. Wooden ones are so impractical, as they get scorched soon. You have dislike for cloissone; they are too common.
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Modern clock in chromium and black enamel
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An original cocktail set.
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FASHIONS in dogs. change
with the years, What constitutes the right dog is hard to say but all at once one all Bees him everywhere and around. Fortunately, although his shape may change, hin in- herent dogginess seems to re- main,' whether he be a Great Dane or the smallest Pekingese.
The cocker spaniel is on the crest of the wave just now, even though the cocker should have lots of exercise, including that in water, which most town-dwellers are unable to give him. But he's Buch a delightful companion! In fact, he's often been called "the merry little cocker." He was, and still should be the sportsman's dog, with a hardy constitution. His name comes from the wood- cock, one of the game birds, for which shooting he was frat used in England. As a result of in- heritance the cocker is easily It is this trained to his work. ability to learn that makes him so adaptable. He has a quick intel- ligence, a placid disposition, and an almost pathetic, eagerness to + please. Mrs. Browning's
tribute
DOGS
to her dog Flush should be read by
friends of this breed.
A really smart dog to-day is the long-haired Dachs, who kug- gests those maidens who
now
once
were neatly shingled and have turned to semi-tidy, semi- long hair about their shoulders. Then we have the extremely popu- lar Scottish terrier, Rugged,
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So you go some more rounds of the shops, and when you are just ready to give up in despair and are thinking of dispensing with table cloth altogether and putting a glass top on your dining room table, your tired eyca light on something. It is green, a colour which might give the happy blend- ing in both rooms. The shape is . not so bad...a half a dozen of them please. Next day you dis- cover that your, eyes 'must have. been indeed tired. They are not the right tone of green. You look In disgust every time you glance ut them.
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