CURTAINS
Treat them like
pictures and-
Give your room a new view
Says JOHN BETJEMAN
T
HE train takes me past many miles
of houses every day.
From the windows various cur- tains flutter like Monday's washing- brown and dingy, orange and nrty, 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.
"
nside effects
N Georgian days, just over a century ago, when people knew more about decoration and architec ture than they do now, windows were treated like valuable pictures. They were carefully framed but then there were more views to be seen from windows.
The windows were not decorated with curtains. external. The architect anw whose chiaf effect was
it that they looked well proportioned in a house, If you have a large, high
window, or a a French win.
dow which
A
pleasure
to look at, then you must the of make something view, so that it becomes a huge picture on the walls as well as a hasty escape into the garden when some one you don't want to
comes to call.
see
You can make the win- dow look well with
A boller way.
Vertical. striped curtain-
com-
"pole painted with
pact frame of curtains. for When choosing stuffs
the same stripes.
French windows remember that the larger the pattern and the heavier the mater
• How not to arrange your curtains.. Pattern is too large for small window: pelmet keeps out the light,
Plain curtains and no pelmet. whudow to give maximum old fast
Ho!
AVE the curtain rod made
a quarter as long again as the win- dow frame. Fix it nn inch abovo the frame and let the ends which project beyond the window be fixed into the wall.
Curtain rod extends beyond. amount of light
ringa can be fastened two inches in 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 best method of doing this is too much for patent ways of draw- to mail or plug a piece of wood on ing curtains. It is annoying if you to the wall (palet the wood the same want to keep the light off an object colour as the wall, if you like), or throw it on to another to find The wood must project so far from that you cannot pull one curtain the wall surface that the rod can without its opposite getting pulled be fixed on to it (either by a nail too.
or slet) without bending.
Windows are really big and im 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 or better than Curtains
the what they, show by day.
hang best when
THIS WAY WITH
White on Black
A
will solve a tiresome dress problem
LTHOUGH while on back
is so smart and business. like when clean, it spolls your whole appearance onco Ite freshness has worn off,
Of course, the ideal, would be to have a set for every day-one niways intends to have this when the outat is new, but somehow each pay-day brings more urgent demands, and the extra sot never purchased.
hard- Do not despair-you worked business girls, who wash your collars and cuffs overnight, and iron and sew on again before breakfast the next morning, the latest idea is to make yourselves a "invo-way" reversible set.
It is perfectly simple. In pique, cloque or linen-organdio does not lend itself to the scheme-- RhODAD flat dealen (no frills) cut it out double, and be careful to finish off both sides alike.
Collars and cuffs gever get really dirty on. the under side, and made in this way con br taken off and wom reversed as soon as the top sile shows signs of grubbiness,
Pique is very accommodating, and one side can be worn for two days
without fear of offending the most immaculate chief; then the other side for two days.
If the set were put on clean on Monday morning, it need not be changed until Tuesday night, and the second side would carry you through until Thursday night.
For Friday and Saturday why not two flowers at your neck? During the week-end, at your leisure, you could give your two- and cuffs a really way collars good wash ready and fresh again for Monday morning.
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lal the better the effect.
Heavy material koeps the
oun
the from overheating
room in summer and keeps
house warm โรง winter. There
Arc
not
its
many fadeless fabrics obtain able for curtains.
Choose patter that will Irritate you after a time with 80-called "modernity." The old flower patterns or plain fabrics with a wide border are better than inost. There are some excellent new patterns produced now, and revivals of old ones.
Jake care
Take
appear
when the HuR is striking through it. See it in artificial light and notice
colours whether the changy. Greens are often suscepti- To electric light and vary blo strangely.
If you have bought
semi- transparent fabric. line it with plain cotton of same dark colour.
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Your FIRST MODEL YACHT
MANY boys long to build a model yacht but do not
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small windows in bed- rooms and bathrooms choose small HOUGH it sounds a little wild, patterna. Glazed chintzes with old- very bol tlch colours are
fashioned patterns of little roses or
How to Build It-and the Tools Required best for heavy curtains to big coral look well. You can make a windows-scarlet, crimson, blue, small rutioia quite tractable and
-boat-with-fine screws_in bright primrose yellow,
of wool know how to begin or what tools serted (from inside the hull) The patterns you select for your wind-resisting by Tining it with do--
mett, which is a mixture look very will probably curtains different from how you see them in and cotton. Domett keeps out the the shop unless you take this pre- light when the curtains are drawn are required. Here, then, is as shown. Having hollowed Do not usE a valance or pelmet simple design for a boat which out the hull, give the inside two coats of vanish, and fit amall window. It takes off can be made very easily. Hald the fabric up to the light in
a lend "stop" for the heel of the It will too much light during the day, and
imagine how try to
You will need a large pocket- mast (see Fig. 10), then get a knife, a chisel, a small Iron plane, piece of fretwork wood for the
deck (see Fig. 11). Brass Screws Needed
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ja -inch gouge and a spoke- shave; a screw-driver, a light hammer, and a saw will also be use ful.
Fasten the deck over the hull with small, fine, brass screws, in the manier shown on Fig. 5; the seam with gold-size Do not attempt too big a boat at top
putty. Now plane and glass- first, the one shown on the diagram paper the hull.
ix 24 inches long, 6 inches wide, and
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fin
To the bottom of the wooden lend kedd, weighing 3 or inches deep, without the keel. 4ib, must be attachel. To save Get a plece of soft, knotless yellow. melting you could use several thicknesses of sheet lead, fitted pine and mark out the dock-plan ns shown on Figs. 7 and 0. (see Fig. 11), then, to save trouble, Fasten this with screws or brass
heel-nails (clinched). saw off the corners. With your big pocketknife, chisel and spokeshave, cut out the boat to the shape shown on Figs. 3, 4, 0 and 11. Then, using your gouge, hollow out the hull, as shown on Fig. 4.
The Wooden Fin
To the bottom of the hull (body) a wooden fin must be fitted. This is shown on Figs. 6, 7 and 9. Taper the wood, making thick at the top
thin and
the hattom at
(nee it screw
to the Fig. 7), and
SALESMAN. SAM
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The main-sail (31), and the jib (J) should be made of fine longcloth and heramed-always keep the selvedge at the after side of each anil. Make your mast and the spare at the foot of each sull of light wood. Shape them with spokeshave and plane, then glasspaper: them well before varnishing. Copal varnish, two three coats, should be used for spars and deck, Fig. 2 shows how the main-
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Or
sall boom (spar) is attached to the mast, and Fig. 1 tho tackle for ad- a small justing the sails B is "bowser." Fig. 8 shows how the Jib (J) is fastened.
Having thoroughly glasspapered the boat, give hor one coat of prim- ing and two coats of paint,
Now your yacht is ready for her at the exciting maiden voyage nearest beach.
Break For Shivers
ARE YOU YEH,SHIVERS, THEN I WON'T) WON'T. OUPALI NEED THIS, NEED REALLY
WHAT ANY MORE! LEAVING, REALLY
MASTER
SAM?
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SNIFF
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ACROSS 1-Went-back-again, and if it_bind_ been out would have been re- viewed.
5 Garments that take every bit
of space.
8 You want a straw hat: in fact, about fly. This looks very fishy.
10 Let us in for a vessel of utility. 11 Exist between one and ten like
a beast.
12 Tips for the 8th Century ser-
vant.
13 What does Ruth mean?
18 Eastern 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 fibrous.
20 Stick the punishment, though 1 know the animal's very un- pleasant.
22 Eight bells Ja the forenoon
watch.
23 Asks for Information and ex-
press doubt.
24 This is simply stupid in the
Stales, 28 There's something difficult about a short answer given in official Parliamentary reports, 20 Dribble.
30 Hidden in Cluo 17.
31 How discharging a debt made
Amy repent.
DOWN
1 Hidden in Clue 17.
2 Ita love for flowers is easily
3 Games places?
seen.
4 The mediaeval garment that
makes one think of a number.
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126
5 The dietician's advice about
food.. This flower sounds all the rager
2 Sarah takes wine in the old
castle gateway.
D Fish-for an insect with a bird. 14 The Redskin who reminds one.
of a debt in Escx.
13 An everyday word in common.
use.
16 Let "her wash? No."'. (Anog.): [18'An abrupt movement in tri-
ming.
19 This benefactor may be given
to costing his brass. 20 Form of sport.
21 A very small plece of broad the
French 'break up.
25 Hidden in Clue 17.
20 Separate, but only some.
27 Its disposal after the crime would present no diflculties to Boyd.
Yesterday's Solution.
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By Small
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