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CURTAINS

Treat them like pictures and

Give your a new view

your room

Says JOHN BETJEMAN

THE train takes me past many miles

T

of houses every day.

From the windows various cur- tains flutter like Monday's washing brown and dingy, orange and arty, pink and sickly. There's never much variation.

You

would think people didn't care what their windows looked like so long as they let in plenty of light,

Inside effects

-N Georgian days, just over a century ago, when people know more about decoration and architec

were treated like turo than they do now, windows valuable pictures. They were carefully framed-but then there were more views to be seen from windows.

curtains not decorated with The windows were

external. The architect saw whose chief effect was.

looked well proportioned in a house.

to

it that

they

If you have

Window or a

large, high

win

French ensure

low which it in it

the

to look at, then you must make something

that it becomes a yjow, sa huge picture on the walls as well as a hasty escape into the garden when some one you don't want to ace

comes to call.

You can make the win dow look well with a com-

frame of pact

curtains.

When choosing stulta for French windows remember that the larger the pattern and the heavier the mater ial the botter the effect.

2017

Heavy material keeps the

from overheating the

room in suntmer and keeps house

warm In winter.

There appear

How not to arrange your curtains. Pattern is too large for small windows pelmet keeps out the light.

Curtain rod extends beyond

A better way. Plain curtains and no pelmet.

window to give maximum amount of light

vip

Vertical,

striped curtaisi

pole painted with

the same stripes.

are many faleless fabrien obtain through 11. See it in artificial light

when the sun is striking notice arul

colours whether the able for curtains,

not change. Greens are often suscepti Choose a pattern that will

tir electric light and vary Irritate you after a time with its ble no-called "modernity." The old strangely. flower patterns plain fabrics

If

semi- you have bought with a wide border are better than transparent fabric, line it. with plain Rost. There are some excellent new cotton of some dark colour. patterns produced now, and revivals. of old ones.

or

lake care

Take

Jashions

A

OR small windows in bed- HOUGH sounds a little wild, rooms and bathrooms choose small patterns. Glazed thintzea with old-

very bol rich colours are fashioned patterns of little roses or

Crimson, -blue,

look very and cotton.

wind-resisting by lining it with do Domett keeps out the

'old fast

Ho

AVE the curtain rod made

quarter as long again as the win- dow frame. Fix it an inch nove the frame and let the ends which project beyond the window be fixed into the wall.

rings can be fastened two inches the case of three-foot curtains and four inches in the case of large curtains, below the top.

mportance

DO not advise your going in The beat method of doing this is too much for patent ways of draw- to nail or plug a piece of wood on ing curtains. It is annoying if you to the wall pain: the wood the rame want to keep the light off no object if you like), or throw it on to another to lind. colour as the wall,

you cannot pull one curtain The wood must project so far from that the wall surface that the red can without its opposite getting pulled be fixed on to it (either by a nail too. or slot) without bonding.

Windows are really big and in- You will now be able to draw portant pictures on your walls. See back the curtains further from the to it that the pattern they show at window.

night. is as good ar better than Curtains hang beat when the what they show by day.

THIS WAY WITH

White on Black

A

will solve a

tiresome dress

problem

LTHOUGH white on back

ix so smart and

business-

Jike when clean, it spalis your whole appearance once its freshness has worn

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Of course, the ideal would be to have a net for every day-one always intends to have this when the outfit is now, but somehow each payday brings more urgent demands,

and the extra set never purchased.

hard. Do not despair-you worked business girls, who wash your collars and cuffa overnight. and iron and sew on again before breakfast the next ming, the latest idea is to make yourselves 'n "two-way" reversible get

It is perfectly simple. In pique, does or linam-organdio cloque not lend itself to the schemo-- choose a flat design (no frills) cut it out double, and be careful to finish off both sides alike..

Collars and cuffs never get really dirty on the under side, and if made in this way can be taken off and wom reversed as soon as the top side shows signs of grubbinessS.

Plque is very accommodating, and one side can be worn for two days without fear at offending the most immaculate chiof; then the other side for two slays.

If the net were put on clean on Monday morning, I need not be changed until Tuesday night, and the second side would carry you through until Thursday night."

For Friday and Saturday why nol two flowera at your neck? During the week-end, at

your Leisure, you could give your two- and cuts a really way, collars good wash ready and fresh again for Monday morning.

Girls' and Boys' Corner

Your FIRST MODEL YACHT

with ne

screws la-

How to Build It-and the Tools Required best for heavy curtains-1-coral look well. You can make a MANY boys long_to_build___ windows-scarlet,

curtain quite tractable small

and model yacht but do not boat bright primrose yellow.

The patterns you select for your mett, which is a mixture of wool know how to begin or what tools serted (from inside the hull) curtains will probably different from how you see them in light when the curtains are drawn. are required. Here, then, is a as shown. Having hollowed the shop unless you take this pre- Do not use a valance or pelmet simple design for a boat which out the hull, give the inside.

caution.

Hold the fabric up to the light in a and try to imagine how

two coats of vanish, and t small window. It takes off can be made very easily. it will too much light during the day.

lead "step" for the heel of the You will need a large pocket- mast (see Fig. 10), then get a knife, a chisel, a small iron plane, plece of fretwork wood for the

deck (see Fig. 11). a-inch gouge and a spoke-

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shave; a screw-driver, a light Brass Screws Needed

hammer, and a saw will also be use

ful.

Fasten the deck over the hull with small, Ane, brass screws, in the manner shown on Fig. 5

the seam with gold-size stop

Do not attempt too big a host at putty. Now plane and glass.

first, the one shown on the diagram paper the bull

To, the bottom of the wooden

in 24 inches long, & inches wide, and fin a lead keel, weighing 3 or

21%

pine,

inches deep, without the keel. 4b, must be attached. To save

Get a piece of soft, knotless yellow. melting you could use several thicknesses of sheet lend, fitted and mark out the deck-plan as shown on Figs. 7 and 9. (see Fig. 11), then," to save trouble, Fasten this with screwn or brass

heel-nails (clinched). saw off the corners. With your big pocketkaife, chisel and. spokeshave, cut out the boat to the shape shown on Figs. 3, 4, 9 aml 11. Then, using your ‘gouge, hollow out the hull, na shown on Fig. 4.

The Wooden Fin

To the bottom of the hull (body) a wooden fin must be fitted. This is akown on Figs. 0, 7 and 9. Tapor the wood, making it thick at the top' and thin at tho bottom (see Fig. 7), and kcrew it to tho

SALESMAN SAM

HERE'S A LITTLE GIFT. SAMMY BE A GOOD Báy AND WRITE ME OFTEN

The main-sail (M) and the jib (J) should be made of fine longcloth and hemmed-always keep the selvedge at the after side of each suit. Mnke your most and the spars at the fool of each sail of light wood. Shape them with spokeshave and plane, then glasspaper, them well before varnishing. Copal varnish, two or three conts, should be used for apars and dock. Fig. 2 shows how the main-

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sail boom (spar) is attached to the mast, and Fig. 1 the tackle for ad-

A sails B is small Justing the "bowser."" Fig. 8 ahows how the jib (J) fastened,

Having thoroughly glasspapered the boat, give her one coat of prim- ing and two coats of paint.

Now your yacht is ready for her at the exelting maiden voyage nearest beach.

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1 Went back again, and if it had been out would have been re- viewed:

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5 Garments that take every bit

of space.

You want a straw hat: in fact, about Atty. This looks very Ashy.

10 Let us in for a vessel of utility. 11 Exist between one and ten like

ik

east

12 Tips for the 18th Century ser-

vant.

13 What does Ruth mean? 16 Eostem drug,

17 I know he attempted to find a crab big enough to be returned,

as an extra inducement to the others (hidden).

18 Light and Abrous.

20 Stick the punishment, though I know the animal's very un-

pleasant.

22 Eight bells in the forenoon

watch. 23 for Information and ex-

Asks press doubt.

States.

24 This is simply stupid in the

28 There's something. difficult about a short answer given in official Parliamentary reports. 20 Dribble.

30 Hidden in Clue 17.

31 How discharging a debt made

Amy repent.

DOWN

1 Hidden in Clue 17,

2 Its love for flowers is ciuily

3 Gumes placest

sech. ·

4 The mediaeval garment that makes one think of a number.

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5 The dietician's advice"--about-

food. This flower sounds all the rage. 7 Sarah takes wine in the old

castle gateway,

Fish-for un insect with a bird. 14 The Redskin who reminds 'ono

of a debt In Essex.

15 An everyday word in common

use.

16 Let "her wash? No." (Anag.). (18 An abrupt movement in trim-

ming.

19 This benefactor may be given

to casting his brass.

20 Form of sport.

21 A very small piece of bread the

French break up,

25 Hidden in Clue 17,

20 Separate, but only some.

27 Ils disposal after the crime would present no difficulties to Boyd.

J Yesterday's Solution.

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