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There's A Twinkle On Her Gown

Crystal beads are embroidered on the white net yoke of this formal gown to create a novel treatment. White pebbly crepe is the material of the dress, which is styled with a voluminous · skirt and a sash of bright kelly green. Bette Davis, screen star, is the model.

How To

PLAY

Equip The GARDEN

HESE are the days when the lids which open out into seats or

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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 13, 1937.

Patients Will Be Cheered By

FLORAL GIFTS

HEN

W often struck by the dreary

invalids one is standing

~The various seasons have some- appearance of beautiful flowers in thing definite to say about your the sick-room.

choice of vases. You will-or Harassed nurses and relatives should find yourself using clear cannot be expected to arrange flow glass vases more in the spring and ers to the best advantage. The donor early summer, and tending to turn must obviate this difficulty by takto pottery, opaque glass, silver, ing the flowers already arranged or pewter, copper or, of course, cut requiring the minimum amount of glass for roses in the last months. arrangement. Your floral gift must The reason for this is that the be self-contained.

fleshy green stems of spring flowers

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If you are prepared to spend a daffodils, tulips, iris-keep perfect- few dollars on your floral tribute,ly, and are very decorative under it is difficult to improve upon a water. But the stems of most sum- mixed bunch, It will revive the mer flowers are less beautiful and most jaded spirits and can be tied often become slimy In water, even up and need not be loosened. if all the leaves are carefully taken

off when arranging.

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A cheap but decorative terracotta bowl can be converted into a charm- Hide them in pottery or opaque ing garden by transplanting into it glass; or, if driven to use a clear some flowering bulbs.

glass vase, do not put it on a win- Delightful, too, are the little dow-sill where any below-water cactus gardens with their brilliant- unsightliness will be discovered. ly-coloured stones and sand, or 3 Grasses are much neglected little globular-shaped cactus plant they are particularly plentiful just growing in a choice Oriental

Either alone, or mixed with and saucer.

bright flowers, they make lovely

cup now.

A longing for the cool presence of flowers in every room should not be allowed to blind one to the fact that many cut flowers cannot stand up to a heat wave for long-aspirins, coppers, and deep water notwith-

vases.

Coronation

Footwear

and

Approaching events in England are having a great influence on evening footwear in Parla, and average child spends practic-tables when in use and, when closed,A SAFE CHUTE©

stones of varying colour simulating ally the whole of his waking (and form a slope off which the rain can The first grade of chute is achiev- those that are precious are applied some of his sleeping) hours in the run.

ed by means of tiny staircase with to silver and gold kid sandals which garden. While the very essence of a Then, of course, there is a range a hand-rail. This stair-case hav-have closed vamps or garden is freedom for

open-ended the child, of brightly-painted shovels, buckets ing been negotiated, the child finds ones. there is no reason why some subt-and attractive little pots for dig- itself on a small platform, still ly organised form

The latter, by the way, urge of recreation ging, building and the making of safely railed in, from which it can demand for stockings without rein- combined with employment should the beloved pies, while a sufficiency contemplate the vista of slide fixed forced toes. Those of American not be introduced.

of exercise is afforded by a strong-at the innocuous angle of about cast are now being made in France The effect of a beautiful and ly-built sand-wagon, which, in-twenty-five degrees from the ground. on a very fine mesh, which is be- sound toy or recreational structureeidentally, is so firm and low that The wood of the chute must being classified at 500. is not superficial for nothing is so there cannot be the slightest dan splinterless.

Coronation shoes are made to wearing and disappointing for a ger if, by way of variety, the chil- A climbing frame may sound measure in gold and silver child as a thing which has to bedren decide to become the cargo. somewhat more ambitious, but in satin.

ver kid or Some I have seen are of treated carefully lest it break down The young gardener would revel one or other of its grades it is well the sandal with closed toes in

in an entrancing hand-cart fitted worth considering as a garden fix-satin when a chain motif of gold * with tools and even a water tank. ture, When it is not required it is or silver or a contrasting coloured It is complete down to the smallest easily dismembered and packed one-rises from vamp to ankle detail, and a particular feature of away.

strap. these things (for which the de- scription toy s

seems hardly adequate) is that they are all utilitarian and, within the limits of their size, per It is a low, box-like arrangement form the work of ordinary garden about three feet square, built with tools.

or come to pieces.

IMPROVED SANDPUT

One home constructed sandpit I have seen is a thing of inexhaustible possibilities and joy, and the amal lest child may safely be left alone to play therein.

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$24.00

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$23.00

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$24.00

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