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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 19, 1938.

BRIGHTENING UP Making The

Your Summer Wardrobe

The smart bonnet you see il- lustrated is made from a folded scarf, this particular uses a very amusing patterned material. There are beige elephants out- lined in red galloping across a brown background. The wooden shoes are just the thing you need to bring chic to a beach ensem- ble. You can use any colours you like, and they will not cost you more than a couple of dollars. The wooden shapes can be bought in clog shops. Fashion decrees dark hats for light.co loured frocks and the lady on the left shows you how right fashion is. Your accessories can be light, or dark, either will look smart,

Everybody's

Talking

about

OUR FRESH FROZEN STRAWBERRIES

$130

per carton

THE DAIRY FARM. ICE & COLD

STORAGE CO., LTD.

PURE FOOD SPECIALISTS.

Fireplace Attractive

(By ELIZABETH MACRAE BOYKIN)

if If there's anything that puts a flowers here as elsewhere, so damper on a crisp cool summer you're a good hand with the garden room, it's a dark cavern of black and are assured plenty of cut flow- fireplace. The very sight of iters for the house, then by all means, raises the temperature.

room

grees.

degrees and

anyway it feels

of

a plan on having them in 'your fire-· de-place in graceful arrangement, Your that best bet here would be to get a way. So we've been digging up glass fish tank in a size to fit into ideas for making a fireplace attrac-the fireplace opening. This you can

greenery keep banked with tive.

a

The most successful idea we know of is to have a panel of -ply- board cut to fit into the fireplace opening. Then cover this with large scale floral medallion..

Another way to get the same effect is to have a fire screen frame made with a pedestal base so that it will stand up steadily. Cover this with chintz or needlepoint and see what you have.

THINGS YOU CAN BUY

You can buy tilt top tables that make lovely fire screens when their tops are painted with attractive

and.

summer a flower panel is fresh and cool looking for the fireplace opening.

floral designs. Or you can buy in- large dramatic flowers for a charm- teresting folding firescreens in lacing, fragrant effect. Next best quer or some other pleasing finish.

THE BEST: BET

would be a large vase or bowl for flowers. Or even fish tank filled with tropical fish indirectly lighted contribute done, would standout and But when all's said and nothing is half so nice a8 fresh design and interest. to this space.

Where Wasps Wage War

On Cockroaches

Cockroaches are not pleasant pursues it, alights on its back and neighbours when we find them in thrusts a sting into the side of the our homes, and wasps are often a cockroach's body. nuisance in the garden when

ripe fruit is on the trees.

the

It might be useful if English wasps were to clear our houses of

In some parts of the world, as in cockroaches, but no doubt many Africa and India, wasps destroy people-so-fear-a wasp's sting that cockroaches.

they would prefer the cockroach.

In West Africa wasps enter the houses that are infested by cockroa- ches and attack them. A wasp will struggle boldly with a cockroach four times its size. The wasp al- ways wins, for it stings its victim, and then the cockroach becomes still. The wasp at once drags it away to a nest-hole, where later it provides food for the grubs that hatch out of the wasp's eggs.

A naturalist once saw a West African wasp sting a cockroach and carry it away to a keyhole. Then, ovidently realising that the cock- roach might recover from the sting and escape, the wasp carried some ualls and placed these in the key- hole keep the cockroach a pri-

soner.

thing occurs in

A fine amber colour may be given to soup by adding finely grated carrots to the clear stock when it is free from scum.

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