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Change The COMPLEXION
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YOUR ROOM
10 change the complexion of ful manner.
your room is to give it a new A NOVEL IMPLEMENT
lease of life with a fresh interest.
It is not difficult to do, for dis- tempers are so good and cheap nowadays that it is only a question of selecting the right colour.
The improvements that have been made in the manufacture of dis- temper have resulted in a greater range of colours and shades and a better texture of material.
It is possible, therefore, to ar range your walls to form à definite part in the colour scheme of your rooms, or to be a background that brings out the colours of your pic- tures and hangings, giving them more value and your room much more interest.
The secret of this transformation is selecting colour that suits the size and light of your room.
To begin at the top, do not have a white ceiling. If the window has a cold steady light from the north, tint it a pale straw colour; this will give the room a warm tone.
Then the walls could be a fuller shade of the same colour.
Finish up by staining the floor a warm nigger brown, that when waxed will reflect and add to the brightness of the room and its depth of colour:
MAKE YOUR ROOM FRIENDLY
This is all very well for a mo- derately-sized room, but in a big one with a lofty ceiling it is better to colour the ceiling and walls alike. This will make the ceiling appear lower and the whole room more friendly and less big.
If, instead of creating a sunny at- mosphere, you want something posi- tive, you can have tints such as shell, or beige, pink, flesh or apri- cot, and many other light shades that will make your room warm and bright, but at the same time give it more definite colouring.
It you aspire to mix your own colours or want one that is not or- dinarily procurable, you can buy white distemper as the base and then some “stainers" of the parti- cular shade you want. You can then stain the white until it gets down to exactly your tint.
TWO COLOUR SURFACES
Washable distempers or water paints are more durable, and cap- able of producing more varied ef- fects.
They can be stippled to produce a two-colour surface that is much more decorative than the level single colour of ordinary distem per. They are oil-bound, so come near to oil paint, but are better in that they produce an absolutely matt wall surface, where oil paint is inclined to. shine as the light strikes it.:
effects
It is in the decorative which can be produced that "wash- ables" offer the greatest scoper
Shading or graduated colouring starting from a deep tone at the base to the palest on the ceiling has variety with a certain trans- parency that tones with shades of a colour scheme in a very delight-
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 29, 1937.
The Woman I HATE
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Brags about her inability to cook wash her neck or clean her nails. and her loathing for children. She's lying or she's not normal.
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Calls for "a double brandy” when it's my round and “just an honest beer" when it's her husband's. I'm thinking more of his pride than my pocket.
Believes in keeping men waiting. She's over-sure of her attractions.
Could afford good, simple clothes, but affects mock expensive ones. I'd | Always says, “Can you bring a rather see a good jumper than friend for my friend?” (Her friend cheap frills.
is always terrible and you always Has mottled, fat, skinny or hairy get her friend in the end:) legs, yet goes without stockings.
Makes up her face and forgets to
an actual shell pattern, you should give the walls a first coat of strong pink. This should be dabbed over with a sponge dipped in pale grey, then go over the dabs again with still smaller sponge dipped in grey white.
Should you feel you have a flair for decoration, and want to try something still more ambitious, you can make an altogether out-of-the-la common effect by using three col- [ours and arranging them so that together they produce a pattern with light and shade.
To obtain this result you have to use a novel implement, and that is a small sponge.
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Is pitifully faithful to an unfaith- ful husband. (This type usually get murdered.)
Wastes half a good dinner trying to be dainty, (This type usually have a stock of shocking cream buns at home).
Pretends to get tight or does get tight.
Tells a "raw" story one night and is shocked when she hears one the next.
As you dab the sponge on the last time, give it a twist with a circnlar Will never kiss you because she motion. The result is a series doesn't believe in kissing men until of circular or shell shapes of semi- she knows them better. You usual- transparent white deepening into ly take this type out a score of grey and showing a warm-tinted times before you try. And you go
on...and ̋on.
If you would like shell, pink with background.
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