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Anne Shirley is showing us how to complete the exercise she started yesterday.

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 2, 1938.

A Studio-Bedroom

By ELIZABETH MacRAE BOYKIN.

Ernestine is just fourteen but she's done a better job of fixing up her room than a lot of people could who think she's just a child and they're wise old hands. And she did it with next to nothing for money,

A GEOGRAPHICAL THEME

First, she collected a lot of bright travel maps (which she got from steamship agencies) and used them for wall decoration.... She-sized the wall, then pasted up her maps, a coat of clear shellac, The floor she polished, for rugs, she dyed rags in graded shades of green and made oval Crocheted mats.

GREEN AND YELLOW COLOUR THEME

The bed seemed pretty hopeless. Liquid weed killers are not ex- You will never get a good crop

the It was an old oak bedstead. with pensive and one or two applications of beans if you leave any on a season will be sufficient to elimi-vines until they are ripe, A ripe neither style nor possibilities. The

nate all weeds and grass on garden paths. These weed killers can be applied with a sprinkling can, and in a few days the weeds and grass turn brown, soon disappearing. It is important, of course, to avoid al- lowing the weed killer to fall upon the grass, as it will burn out the grass in a lawn as quickly as that in a driveway.

Summer FOODS

bean is a seed bean, which is what the vine tries to produce. Keep on picking the beans and they will yield for a long time, often until the end of the season.

Cucumbers should be put in the refrigerator for last-minute slicing after being peeled and scratched down the aides with a fork to give. the scalloped effect that adds so much to their attractive appearance,

that HIT the SPOT

Papering the wall Maps.

travel.

FISH CHOWDER

1/4 pound salt pork, cut in

small pieces.

onions, allcod.

2

-pounds white fish, cút in

amall, pieces.

3

cups potato cubes.

71

cup boiling water.

quart milk, or 2 cups eva- porated, milk and 2 cups water."

2 teaspoons salt. 1/8 teaspoon pepper.

tablespoon minced pars ley.

tablespoon butter.

Pilot biscuit.

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Fry salt pork in a deep sauce pan until crisp. "Cook onion in fath five minutes. Add fish and pota- toes. Cover with the boiling wa- ter and simmer until potatoes are soft. Pour in the milk, slowly. Cook five minutes longer. Add: seasoning and butter. Pour over....... pilot biscuit.-Edith M. Barber.

yellow gave a sunny gaiety to what was now a daybed.

off

The mirror Ernestine took the old dresser and hung it, over what she now calls a console table.. A hinged-top box on this keeps her toilet articles out of sight. Over the drawer part of the dresser she put two orange boxes, one on top of the other, like hanging shelves for books and oddments. This she.. painted green with yellow knobs. and yellow inside the shelves. For the discarded chair, she made a green cushion, and for two, cane. bottom chairs she made yellow per- cale slip covers,

Now Ernestine has what she can very legitimately call a studio. And she adores it. She has even made herself a couple of smocks to

match!

headboard extended practically to the ceiling and even the footboard was too high for any good. Ernes tine could saw, so saw she did- cutting both head and foot way down to the same graceful height. The raw edges she left, because A good disinfectant for the kit. She covered both head and foot with chen sink is made by mixing two: slip covers of plain green percale tablespoons of soda, a teaspoonful with a spread to match and long of ammonia and a gallon of boiling round bolsters at each end, also of water. Pour down the sink while green, Odd extra cushions in solution is still very hot.

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