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THE CHINÀ MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1960.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

LOOK WHAT THEY'RE PUTTING

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ON THE WALL!

DO-IT-YOURSELF someone har signed

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corators are becoming bolder in their choice.

on the walls. Patterns for 1960 decorators have ore for more decisive and bright, sparked off a boom and because the do-it-yourself de- the manufacturers are working overtime to keep up with it.

Whether you have a plain white, there are new white stately home or a log ticularly kecd for covering cabin there's a wallpaper cracked or discoloured walls,

to suit it in 1960.

It is not dificult to see why wallpaper is so popu- lar. It is the quickest way

I know of covering a wall, even for a trembling- fingered amateur. You can move back into the room inmediately afterwards no waiting for the paint to { dry-and it mukes the stark cutines of a contem porary home look more comfortable to live with.

Wallpaper is the poor man's answer to any sort of wall covering, for it Imilutes", any thing from brocatie to bamboo, But it is for the connolsccur at well, Take these hand-painted Chinere panels, for instance, or the hand-printed designs by top artists that can make your walls look Bke murals.

Flowers are still the top choles. That is obviowa from one look at the designs for 1900.

Following the rose 79 the flower of the year comCY the geranium, traling fin way across papers for the bedroom and sed more formally, in pols, for the living room and it- chen.

If you prefer

for to play safety and keep your woils

textured papers which are paz-

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#thicker and there is covering with the texture of rush matting that you can paint any colour you choose.

Rugged outdoors

If you toney your awn leg cabin, there is an ingenions new three dimensional paper that looks exactly like hund-hewn oak planking overlapped in evenly. It is the easiest way of making a log cabin that I know -you simply paste it on the wall.

To continue the rugged out- door, theme

papers there are which Jinitate knotty pine, whitewashed bricies or stone, and to go with them there is a new, bold tartan pattern.

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Going to the other extreme, Halian-style you can have an

marbled room by using a new paper, reproduced by a photo- gravure process. And an Adam- riyle selling for the dining room In easy: The wallpaper facturers have a stock of stick- en relief decorations in the traditional classic designs which can be bought as all-over cell- ing panels, or in separate strips. Ouce they are in place and painted while or the traditional green no-one except an expert could twig the differencę.

Choice of flowers Adam

But you can take your pick, Ico, from carnations, tulkoo and feld flowers. Some of them are

arranged in posies, other Inid mit in wide Victorian stripes or

By MAX TRELL

PURR-PURE, you're

lovely Kitten. I hard

trel designs. Sometimes they you playing a sg on the plans are simply splashed haphazard- this morning It must have

ly around, They are washable, been you, because there was no and their plastic coating gives one else in the room. It was. them an attractive chintz-like you, wasn't it?" appearance.

There arc fewer of those designs that look us though

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McDougall's is the most popular Self-Raising flour in the world, and no wonder! For with McDougall's, Your cakes rise perfectly -your pastry is just right every time! And McDougall's 'is_always

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Ask, for McDougall's at your store and see for yourself "what 14 difference it minkes to your baking.

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WHAT 1960 BABIES

ARE WEARING

By HAZEL MEYRICK

Picture by TERENCE DONOVAN

THE small girl in the Victorian boater who looks

Tlike the sort of nursery heroine who always ke

her bread and butter, is the Hon. Henrietta Roper- Curzon. Four-year-old Henrietta wears the hot which is going to be the rage of the nursery this summer. "Honriatta is Says her mother, Lady Teynham... all-woman. She takes longer choosing her clothes than I do."

pinafores

THE arrival in Paris, where the "himba f in any household, of a seven-pound sends the brighest ideas in boby bundle, Brigitte Bardot's clothes Small back-buttoning son, put babies in the Victorian headlines again. But from Ane cotton chambray, de- this year every baby will be news-and big size slipper-socks perfect for business too.

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like those worn by children are made

commed with rows of baby-lace.

From Italy too.come, small-

the child who is at the crawling- stending stage. The soles GTO

For we are spending mere made from the finest. softest on cur children than we've ever leather, blanket-stitched on to done and the nursery-alda in- uppers of avarm ribbed wool. dustry is booming.

Baby's wardrobe in 1960 will be brighter to look at,

are

For the child who CAN TUR around the house there Kallan-made pirap shoes in diminutivo checked singham und easier to care for, too, ection. Although the soles are of Dressrs that started life in n leather the shoes ore completely test-tube need no trening and washable and can be worn In- can be washed and dried in a doors or out,

Now with the fashion for less Jiffy. Vests no longer shrink now they fro mixed with nylen. clinicsk-tocking nurseries, the And they have lost that, idiotic cradle is back in favour again. bnek fastening The newest de- signs have envelope necklines lastead, large enough to en- compass the head of a ten- pounder, plus taba near the hem to act as a hitching POSL for nappy pins.

WOOL OUSTED

MOSES BASKETS

CO

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on thein to bang

Italy comes into the lime- Hight again with brightly-colour- ed Mozes baskets. They are de signed to serve, as cradles for very small children and

come with fairy-tale figures appliqued Along the sides. They are light. Wool, which never did like flexible and cheap, and they can dribbled milk and baby food be lifted off their stands and

carry-cots, with has been largely replaced by used Auffed-up synthetics like Tery sharp edges lone or Orion. Cardigans and father's ahina. prom suita no longer shrink or Coming to one, London shop felt, and will even stand um to soon from behind the Iron Cur enslaughts of cod liver oil and tain is ⚫ consignment of low orange juice.

wooden cradles on rockers. They have delightful, peasant like The best-selling coat for carvings on them and are mado babies is made from nylon. The from pino. winter version Is in nylon fur fabric which can be put through

But there

particular cradles

the washing machine. The sum- won't be seen in the nursery. mer stylo is in ribbod nylon The shop intends to sell them

as coal sentiles)

velvet.

STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Hanid Heard A Song

Honid, the Shadow Girl with the Turned About Name hii taken Purr-Pure on her Fap. She stroked Purr-Par's. fur. Pur-Purr looked up at anid with her great green eyes. Purr-Purr didn't say anything. "Weren't you playing a song on the plans while we were all in the ather room having break

-It Was Purr-Purr Playing The Piano-

Was it Pure-Purr?

But

"It was you, wasn't It, Purr- fast?"

Purr dear?" Hanld repeated. Pur-Purr still didn't answer.

Rupert and the Windies-55

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Golly. "I must be off." And. waving goodbye, he streaks into the sky. Well, now for home," amilca Rupert, "My, what a wand all of a sudden I can hardly keep my feet. Hi, what's happen ing ? it's blowing me straight in my cottage

When Rupert is feeling better the Galliwog returns briskly to his littic plane replaces the strange black box in the cockpit, and elimba in after it. "I wish I could tell you where I went,” says Rupert, "but I've no idea}" couldn't wait in any case," wea

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Then nil at once Hanid

something. She membered reached behind the curtain and opened a tiny door in the wall, She took out a coloured ribbon. She hung it around Purr-Purr's neck.

It was a magle talking-ribbon,

It made animals talk.

Instantly Pur-Purr sold: "Yes, I was the orie."

Lovely song

"I was a lovely song," said Hanid delightedly.

"Thank you," said Purr-Purr.

"I didn't know you could play the piano, Purr-Purr," said Hanld. "When did you take

lessons?"

Purt-Furr aboyed Hanid how she played the song,

"All I took," said Purr-Pure with a Cat-emile, "was a little wolk."

"A little walk!" exclaimed Hanid. "And is that how you played that song on the piano?"

I'll show you how I did it,"

"Lessons?" asked Purr Puer .in, a surprised voice. "I never cald Purr-Purr,

took a lesson in my life."

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And from

the piano chair she jumped on the keys of the plano

Showed Hanid

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Then Hanid watched Purr- Purr walk up and down the keys. Every time she took stop the keys went down and the sounds of piano notes came out

"Se that's how you played the

plano" Hanld said, after Purr Purr finished taking her plano- walks and sat down on top of the piano.

That's what I told you," sald Purr Pur. "I didn't "ever take any plano lessons. I just took a walk."

Hanld laughed and said: "You fooled me all fight, Purr-Pure. Everybody else plays the plane with their hands. You play the piano with your hands and your feet.”

Very pleased Purr Purr was very pleased with herself. She played Hanid But "You didn't? Then how did The Killen jumped of Honid's unalier song on the plane.

plano? lop. From Henid's lap she jump- this time, instead of walking you learn to play the You can't learn without taking ed on the floor. From the floor the keys; she hopped and scamp- lessons."

she jumped on the piano chair. ered and skittered across them.

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"That's A wonderful song, Purt-Purri" said Hanld, "I wish I could do what you're doing."

Just then Picky Poo, the Brown Poodle, came into the room, Hond quickly put piece of the magic talking- ribbon around his neck, 100,

"Purr-Purr is playing the plano by walking up and down the keys," Hanid explained,

"Come on up here and try it, you stupid old Dog" said Purr- Purr, be you can't oven play. a note!"

* Wants to show

"Can't 17" growled Pleky, who didn't like Kiltens any more than he liked Cats. "l'il show you how I can play!"

With that, Picky' sprang up Into the air. Purr-Pure Jumped

| away.

"Plekyl Plcky! No! No!" warn ed Hanid.

"BANG" went the piano ga

| Pícky landed on the keys,

It was the loudest noise that the piano aver mado. Everyong In the house heard. It and came running, Into the room. All the alghbours heard it mezzi looked out of their windows

Poor. Picky1 Ho Wne scolded. He was chased out of the rooni.

And Pur-Purr laughed until Hand took the talking-ribbon away from her, Then she just purred.

8 Anfor Picky, the ribbon tell Coft his neck and he marked -- -but no one sanderstood a Wond