THE CHINA MAIL" FRIDAY,‹ ‹ FEBRUARY | 26,). 1960,'
WOMANSENSE
Your Home
Are you shadowed about the
GOOD
house?
by JOHN E. BLAKE
EDITOR OF DESIGN, MAGAZINE OF
THE COUNCIL OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
100D lighting can contribute more to the enjoyment of home life than almost any other Most houses
type of furnishing or equipment.
and flats are provided with a central ceiling light, but this is seldom satisfactory, however bright it may be.
If you find that you are in the way of the light when you are cooking or washing up, or have to twist round in your chair to read, then probably centrul light is to blame.
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A little effort with a long flex and some form of shaded bulb will soon show where the
bart positions for your particu-
lar needs are (more thon
ilght 1s NECESSITY- in rooms).
But equally important is the quality of the light which will be different for euch job it has to perform.
Less harm
Most of us at one time or an- other have played with a burn- one ing glass and have seen how the most sun's rays can be concentrated in a pinpoint of light and heat strong enough to set light to paper or wood shavings.
JACOBY
on BRIDGE
The idea of a lampshade roughly to reverse this principle ---to diffuse the pinpoint of light from an electric bulb over a wide area and thus reduce its intensity.
less harmful to the eyes is the
The more we can do this the
effect of looking directly at the LITTLE learning is a dan-light.
I the Jampshade merely gerous thing. South had heard that a wull is more likely covers the top part of the bulb, to break three-one than two-twoke the conical shades that most and used that little piece of in- famation to
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reasonable six spade contract,
He ruffed the second diamond and lod a spade to dummy's kinst.
Both opponents followed and South led the nine of spades back. Ens followed to that also and South fel the nine ride.) West produced the queen and that was all.
South had heard,correctly about the three-one break being more likely than the two-two break but that particular picce
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A shade which throws the ceiling Into shadow but leaves the bulb visible should be avoided,
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A deep cylindrical shade with the Gütb well concealed. also good for general use.
of us still have somewhere in the house, then the effect of the shade is almost negligible, bo cause the bulb is still directly visible.
A shade shaped like an invert- cd flower pot is also of little use as a pendant since the bulb Is s visible when you are sit- ting down, unless the fitting hangs very low.
A solution
pletely encircles the bulb, or is
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The commonest type of shade- but only really
suitable for a table lamp.
For concentrated work this metal shade will shield the light source and throw the light on the working
louvre is necessary
area.
if the light is set above eye level.
A soft glow from this type of encircling shade gives good background lighting.
One of several new shades which throw light on to a working area. but also spill reflected light
lo reduce the harmful effects of contrasted light and dark areas
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and many types are available in
DS a direct sight of the bulb, plain or decorated opal glass or in plastics (both of which can and some form of louvre should
It a be taken down and washer) or be incorporated. also in piper, which is, of course, directed at a working arch in very strong light is less durable.
an otherwise dark room, this also can be tiring and normally should be used in conjunction with general background 'light-. ine
A choice
For special purposes, where a Several metal shades have greator concentration of light is recently been developed which necessary (over a sink, writing sitempt to meet both these desk, or
table, for requirements. dining a metal shade which
desirable.
be
They completely cut off the
A much more satisfactory completely cuts off the source light from the eyes at a variety sulution is a shade which Com-
of light from the eyes may of heights, give a brightly ift so deep that the bulb can be
working area, but spill sucleient seen only from directly under- Such shades should be care- light through the top and neath.
fully chosen because the intense bottom to provide a comfortable This type of shade is ideal for reflection inside the shade may, level of background Illumina- general buckground illumination if it is visible, be lumfui tion,
NEW IDEAS THE AIR
THE MOVE: ON RAIL, AND IN
COMFORT ON
AT SEA,
ALL you have to do if you want good furnishing ideas is to keep your eyes.open, Good design is all round you. Not only in other people's homes but in shops and offices, theatres and hotels, on the sea and in the air.
SEA
Ian Hodgson, who has designed the cabin Interiors for the new liner Orlans, which starts on the Aus- trolla run this year, saya the effect he aimed at was "to make luxury look completely up to date." 1 picce de resistance was the "verandah multe," an exquisitely cool- looking dayroom, bedroom, and bathroom. Bedroom and dayroom love walls of padded white leathercloth, celltags of sound-absorbent acoustle board. You could copy the sound- muffung devices for a noisy house, Padded Jeathercloth would be ideal for a children's room - tough and hard-wearing as well as sound absorbent,
AIR
Gaby Schreiber is the designer of the in- terior of the famous Comet 4. The overall colour schemo is
grey and stone accented by head-reat covers and seat pillows In subtle shades of tangerine, cyclamen, lime green, Tiber Blue, wheat, and aquamaring. Dotted around casunity, she You could says, these give a relaxed and cheerful effect, copy Mrs Schreiber's idea for breaktig up the monatony of a long, tubular aircraft cabin —–— in a'long, narrow room per- haps. She has grouped her aircraft seals asymmetrically in blocks of various colours, Walls between the blocks of seats are covered in strawcloth
LAND
Gunther Ioffstead was the co-ordinat- ing designer for the stand at the Furniture Exhibition which All showed British Railways' exciting new railway coach, the seats, with arma padded in luxurious reai tentber, are individual. You could copy the clever colour scheme of the now railway coach. Ribbed seat covers are in a smoky blus with black leather arm-rests. The general effect is rather like a man'a study solid and good-looking but not for a minule dull.
'We bought it for a song' school.
by MEL
"Cedric scraped the table down and then spent all winter french polishing it..
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your
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horoscope
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26
today to do something quite onorthodox.
AQUARIUS (January 21- give in to a sudden impulso
February 19): A promise to meet a friend today ought to be kept, oven though Inter developments have made it rathor in- convenient.
PISCES (February 20-March 20): Don't mistake wishful thinking for reality, and avoid embarking on a ven- turo which does not meet with the approval of your partners
ARIES (March 21-April 19); Consider well if the im- portant purchase you are about to make will give you the best value you can obtain for your hard earned money. [TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
You may be able to tap « now source of income, but be prepared for hard work und stil competition. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): The independence to which you
aspiro can only be achieved gradantly and by adhoring to established principles of proper proce dure,
CANCER (June 22-July 21); Don't be discouraged if your point of view does not coincide with the opinions of others. You can't always be right.
LEO (July 22-August 21): it would be n mistake to
VIRGO (August 22-Septem.
ber 22): If you feel that a tradesman is over-charging you, tell him so boforo pay. ing what you feel is not reasonable,
LIBRA
funds, SCORPIO
surplus
(September 23-Octo- ber 22) Be careful about money matters for a while and don't use up every
of your penny
(October 23-No- vember 21): A person born ut the beginning of October is likely to prove an in- different
from colleague whom you cannot expect much co-operation. SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21); Try to forget a controversy with a friend in the past coltCDETI- ing matters of finance. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): Instead of guing out of your way in search of new friends, you will be surprised to and some very stimulating people in your immediate neighbourhood.
YOUR BIRTHDAY: If this
is your birthday, a lucky year is ahead of you. Some travel is indicated, also tho start of a lifelong friend- ship.
Rupert and the Windies-13
Up and up to the two pals, and of the weird creatures. His frill as they reach the clouds they shut no longer rippling and flying, is their eyes.
All at once they hanging straight like a gown.
"Don't make so much noise, realise that their captors have let so al them, and they cry out in orders." This is our home. Stay fright, but after dropping a few here." Rupert rises gingerly. **IE inches they land on something this isn't a cloud, whatever is Gem. In front of them stands one it he says, trembling.
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STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
of knowledge has nothing to do with the core of the tinesse for the queen with nine of a sult.
Once both opponents followed small to the first spade, ail three-one breaks with the queen singleton had disappeared. When Eost followed to the second
By MAX TRELL apade all three-one breaks with Erst having a singleton had Joined the singleton queen in "MY, OH MY," Hald Hanid, "MOH MY," Hald Hani. Ilmbo.
A Very Happy Poodle
-Hanid Can't Guess What Picky-Poo Found-
Hence, South's correct play Turned-About Name, when she was to go with the ace.
looked at Picky-Poo, the Poodle,
If all this is hard to remember "You certainly lock happy this there is a simple rhyme to cover marning!
What
happened?
Whom did you
Picky-Poo stood in from! of
Picky's ncel, Picky began speaking English.
Pinky Picky danced around the room "Wait till you
see what. I found! Oh, wait till you see!"
Why he's happy
"So that's why you're to hap
finesses for the queen It is, Where have you been? What by this morning?" asked Hank. "Eight ever, nine never." When did you find? there are nino trumps in the two meet?" hands, don't Anosso,
that it looked like a brown blur Hanid.
shoc, a bell, a ball. But all of them were wrong. Finally she fell silent.
"Do you give up?" asked
Picky.
"I can't think of another thing, sald Hanid. You'd bet ter tell me."
"All right," said Picky, "come outside with me and I'll show You,"
Loft outside? "You mean,” sald Hanid, in surprise, that you left this wonderful thing that you found, outside?"
take it?"
"Yes yes yes - yen - yer -
"I did," said Picky. Yea!" barked Pleky (sti in
"Aren't you afraid that some- Hanld, wagging his tall so fast English, of courset)
What did you find?" asked one else will come along, and,
She wondered what it
"No," answered Picky. "No Hauld looked over the fence to
sen what Ficky found. Hand followed Picky outalde.
the Poodle, Picky-Poo, Doesn't soo it "Well, where is it?" asked found! Hanld when they 'stood in the Pretty Girl-Poodle
It was a Girl-Poodle, with middle of the garden, "I don't
big eyes and curly hairt
"Isn't abc beautiful? Isn't
In the air. But he didn't any a could be that could maito a Dog one will inke it." word. Then Hanid suddenly reke Picky so happy. membered how to mako him
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What do you do?
Ald four dismands. This Ibid, shows the son of dialorađ
and also leayés your bariner foll cholen hetween élubs and spades for the final contract,
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner biðs five clubs.) What do you do now?
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"Don't go away. Picky!"
Found ribbon
"Guess," said Picky.
"A soup bone," said Hanld.
"No," cald Picky,
Danced around
He danced around some moro,
stood up on his hind legs and
apped his ears.
had
"Come this way," said Picity. Hand walked behind Pický tho the most wonderful thing 1 in the next door neighbour's could flod? Don't you love her!" fence.
onld Picky.
Then she ran sicross the room. He felt happler than ever. He seo anything." When she reached the long green drapes hanging at the side of the window, she looked behind the one hanging nearest the bookcase. And here she found what she was looking for. It was a plece of red ribbon hanging on a nail.
"Guess again,” he said. "A stick," old Hanld. "Not
"A glove?" naked Hanld. "Nol Not a glove!" Picky-
Guessdd some more'.
"I left it on the other side of Hanid smiled and bugged the fence," Pleky said. "Just Ploky. sald look over the top of the fence
'and' you'll' saa,
"You're wonderful, toot" she sold. And she took the magie Only thin wan no ordinary
Hanid stond on her tiptoes talking ribbon off, and Picky plece of ribbon. It was a magio
and looked over the top of the squeezed through a hole in the |ialking ribbon. The minule Hanld guessed several more next-door neighbour's fence. fence and went to, sed hils beau-
Hanid hung the ribbon around things: a box of biscuits, an old And there she saw at inat what'tut now-found friendl
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