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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1048.

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PROPORTION AND HARMONY IN

FURNISHINGS

By June. Loc. Smith

of The Christiin Selénce Moultors

America's top interior decorators got together re; cently to talk about Furnishing the Home. Here is their report.

colnus,

Ever hear of a "good The California school of de- house keeping complex?"corating is marked by three out- This is the humorous appel.standing trends: extensive use of lative given by Mason Rose traditional to the American woman's in-furnishings, elination to be a "Martha"bringing the instead of a "Mary" in her home,

boldnesę in mixing

and

contemporary in and a freedom

Into garden

the ouse by generous openings and nwide use of plants,

Popular colours for back. ground in California houses are corala and dusty pinks, lamon

and yellow.

browns.

warm

Hurling a dart at delegates to the annual conference of the American Institute of De- corators, meeting in Beverly Hills, Mr. Rose, guest speaker, said the decorating profession

Paul Clemens, priist, expressed was encouraging this tendency, his views on paintings used for to the detriment of family life. decorative effect in the home, for "Most women," said Mr. Rose, he firmly holds art is for the enlarging upon his statement, home, not

not just for the museum, "spend their me in frantie

sentimentally search for stuff they don't need No matter how old the painting.

philosophy is nequisitive valuable

Or perhaps the

family portrait, Mr. unterinlisin, he maintained. The

Clemens believes that a fine plc- sterior decorator can help by ture is rarely out of place in, a educating his llent to Require setting that A tasteful; ever uly what he needs, not what though there may he a gulf of he wants, verstimulated as he centuries between the times Is by magazine articles, extra-

their creations, that there is a na- vagant navle sels, and constant tural kinship between the finer- pressure to "keep up."

things in life.

This

Cl

of

Eve de Wolfe, Lady Mendi, John Entenza, Editor and Pub- dean

of Interior decorators,lisher of the magazine' Arts and spoke to the conference, She Architecture, feels increasingly Teliever, "It is part of a woman's important that the professional Job Lo have her surroundings decorator realize that he is not a beautiful and to express herself ¡erentor, of fashion, but that he is to them.

colinborntor In the develop-

To most women, this questionment of a 'style' that allempts to of decoration 11 second only to best express a logical way of the sefeetion of clothes."

life in his own time."

Main Points

She stanchly states, too, that although "Ideas may have changed as times and tempa and materials of decoration have changed, there is still no substitution for those gallant decorative words: scale, bal. ance, suitability, colour, har mony, proportion."

PRINCESS OPENS WOMEN'S HOSTEL

with

Princess Elizabeth wore an attractive hat, trimmed veling, when she opened A church army hostel for young women in London this month, before her trip to Paris. Open. ing the hostel, the Princess said that. In these days, when there WAS auch An acute shortage of accommodation and prices were often beyond the reach of modest incomes, it would be hard to exaggerate the value

·Spring is here -- so is Mud!

and

Therefore, the specialists ud!

Here are some pointers on the fabric, thus leaving a larger removing mud from shoes and stain. clothing, offered by the textile "Recently," continued Lady specialists of the U. S. Depart-vise letting it dry then brushing in well, and sponging with clear Mendi, "my publisher, asked me ment of Agriculture just

water.

alcohol Sponging with to rewrite a book I had written the nick of time.

will help remove any last traces years ago. I said to

For spring is here in all its

of stalu. 'Nothing should be changed but nuddy glory,

so that we shall

On coloured material or acetate the pictures. My, creed is exuel-hase the task of removing heavy rayon, dilute the alcohol with ly the some as when the book and from shoes or from splash-water, using twice as much at- ed conts and suits. So here are cohol as water. Washable clothes Most of the delegates feel con- the timely suggestions: fident that modera

was first written."

him,

furnishings

20

first in clear

of this re hostel.

When wanting cold. bolled custard in a hurry to go withi

be

summer sweeta, make it the Usual

but why,

halve the quantity of milk.. When the custard is cooked it will be too thick, but It can thinned (off the stove) the rest of the liquid water or milk. It will then be juke- warm already and will soon freeze.

BETTER

with

lukewarm water, and then wash 'FORTYISH'

should be soaked

wet

SHOES ** can be successfully blended with

Even though dry mud. comes antiques. There is no basic,

of shoes more easily than Besthetic conflict between well.

advise the- specialists mud, designed pieces of one period and against the comment practice of another.

letting it dry on before brushing Mud stains leather, and it of.

with soap.

RUGS

Scrape of as much of the wet

FASHIONS

as possible with the dull side By Barbara E. Scott Fisher

Allow the rest to of a knife. Junt be careful to avald shoddy furniture, poorly made the longer it stays on, the worse dry, and then brush off. and badly

口 proportioned,

whatever perlod, I their warning.

Simplicity And Colour

the stain-is-likely-to-be-

mud off moist Scrape promptly 09 possible

ця

A fashion champion has

it a stain romalns, sponge with come-to-the-front-in-behalf- than a damp cloth, providing the rug of women in the forgotten

Is of the type which can take

wipe the leather clean with # soft cloth,Let shoes dry, slowly and then repolish.

CLOTHES

+

moisture. Water removes the age group of 45 to 65. twist-from-the-pile-of-some-rugs.)-

FLOORS

Wipe up mud promptly with Scraping wet mud off clothes damp cloth and apply wax if the is likely to sprend and rub it into floor is already waxed,

Mud should be wiped off leather! More decoration counsel specl-gloves promptly. Bles: Open up your walls by eliminating draperies, avoid the "hat-shop" look by using lamp. shades that match, get your colours in upholstering, carpeting, and walls, not at the windows; If you use draperies, dye. them to tnatch the walls so they won't break up the continuity, and keep your background simple!

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Groundwork For A Good Figure

"Only if you're blessed with a fine figure can you afford to be lary and do without exercise. But if you're far-viloned, you too will givers work-out its place in the daily schenfe of things. Good groundwork routines are outlined hereby Hollywood newcomer Regan Callais, whose good looks helped her win a rolla RKO Radio's "If You Know Sasle, co-starring Eddie Cantor and Jean Devil. Lia flat on floor, hands under-head, legs extended, feet together, toes pointed. 1. Bring knees up to point just past a vertical position, feet drawn. back to body. 2. Stretch feet up, legs in vertical position, toes painted. 3. Re tum to position-nos and then.original position. Repeat, An old ballet favorite for all round trimming and toning: Stand erect, sight foot forward, both heels on Boor. Bend' body "Tron waist," grasping right ankle with both hands, and "pu-l-l'hard," head toward floor, chest toward knee. Besume original-position and repeat with hands on left ankle. For slimming waist and hips, itand erect, hands on hips, fect slightly apart. Knees straight, raise right leg forward, then swing back as far as possible. Repeat swing, pendulum fashion.

Mrs. Margaret Harris Blair, of the University of Georgia, has been delving into both the problems and potentialities of the women who no longer

wear sizes 14 to 20, and fear- lessly faces both.

Ine

-"Everyone knows the trouble women of this group have in find- -rendy-made clothes in-shops," said Mrs. Blair, "and how often they are flattered Into buying clothes that do nothing for them. Nor is it always the woman who spends the most that gets off more. successfully than the one who pays less for her clothes."

Figure-Flattering...

"The number of people In this group is constantly Increasing," Mrs. Blair sald, "because older women are feeling much younger than they used to and are living more active lives.

Patterns cut particularly to suit their figures are the great need a larger arm-hole in the back, larger waistlines, and something besides surplice walsts and side-drapped skirta. "Women, however, have some- thing to do about this themselves. Blame does not rest solely with the_clothes,.

"They must be more

awake

to their posture, carry themselves nure gracefully. Foundation gar- ments are important in their ap- pearance, and they must con- design Rider colour, textile, and

of fabrics, and use greater' dis- crimination.

on

Changes

"Another hazard on the road to

attractive appearance

flexible mental

approacit

in a

to

clothes. Many people decide once Fund for all that certain colours

and fashions are becoming-and-|- never change their minds.

"Their own colours chango howover. Hair turns gray, skina ofen become lighter-so do eyes. Often this makes a great im- provement in a person's peararice,, but you have to keep up with yourself and be ready to move into newcolour schemes that compliment your new took. Keeping an interact in your appearance-la-Vaally-important. Mára, Blair, concluded,

Ap-

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