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Saturday.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 25, 1939.

When making a colour scheme:

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a young married woman, who has completed a fawn and belge effect in her dining-room.

She is nurprised because the room lacks character" and has adull, lifeless nir,"

The answer is-she did not know that all successful colour schemes- depend upon the discreet use of three colours,

Or, if you don't mind being di- ferent from your friends, on the bold use of gay colours.

Now Schemes

I often get letters from women whe need help in the matter ut hunk des coralion.

Sometimes they write after trying out n colour scheme that should have been right--but isn't.

Now that spring cleaning and re- decoration are in the

alr, let's plan some tri-colour seliemes tu-thuy.

Suby roomus ured cool and restful colours, but all the colours need not be cool ones. You will

need some КАТЛА

ABOVE. A TOWN SITTING-ROOM IN GREEN, BEICE AND MULBERRY

Anished scheme will be cheerful and practical.

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Wallpapers in fawn and beige

Yoll tones, for example. cheer these up by including sonte brilliant green, blug or orange, in the rest of the scheme.

A Peralan or Indian carpet In which these colours predominate suggests deep orange curtains, blue and green cushions and orange or

With green candles. fawn walls and paint, this is a cheerful schomo

a for family sitting-room.

Red and Grey

Clear shades, like tomato red, go well with cream wallpapers For a three colour scheme you could combine cream and tomató red with pale green or old gold, using the red for curtains and cushions, cream for walls, celling and paint, and green for the carpet.

Toinato red curtains and cushions also look charming against pale grey

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Touches to provide a contrast and give the rout ones their full veður, and the reverse also applies to warm colours chasm for mortis romy.

I'm starting with the cool schemes became grech is a favourite colou What about planning pale spring green walls as a background for walnut malterany furniture in a sunny bed- rons?

The compleatent of green is erit, se I would choose a warm pink tone, such as fe or plak, as the second main volour, and a third colour Bike gold. which will tore with both, to complete The balance of the schrme.

For Comfort

In a scheme of this kind, don't allow one colour to dominate another,

Green could be used for the walls. relling and woodwork, the deep run. de for the carpet, bedspread gold with a ruse elderdown, and patterned

Peninsula Hotel curtains combining all three colours.

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c/o The Banque de L'Indo-Chmw,

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old net screening curtain.

With lighter woods like natural waxed oak and walnut, green forms a satisfactory scheme combined with brown and rist.

For solid comfort in your dining. room green would again be chosen för walls and woodwork, celling deep cream or parchment. colour, carpet in two or three shades of brown. from aigeer to fawn, curtains rust, chair kenta green.

or

In the autumn you can make up for the absence of sun by adding a large bunch of copper beech leaves bronze chrysuithemums in a creamys white pottery Vase Just now the purples of anemones would look lovely agains! the fight onk surface of th dining table.

Coloured Ceilings Purphs can often be used mo surressfully 11 Lese iri-colour schemes, bul keep them for accessories. s that you can change them easily

you tire of them.

A scheme for a north bedroom could

Seaside fashions for youthful resoriers are shown here.

At top: A maillot in while chenille knit in a novelty stitch with ribbed waistline. The hal- ter forms a deep V neckline in plain stlich,

The stated child wears while rayon mtin trunks in clastic fabric with gay flags printed all over,

Chevron stripes in red, while and blue for a one-piece zephyr mult with haller sirap neckline.

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A ROOM WITH A VIEW IN GOLD, BLUE AND CREAM

be planned round printrose, jade green und petunia purple, which is less hard

alindes. than the royal

Primrose being the lighter colour and chosen to give the lusion of sun, should be used for walls and ceiling. woodwork gloss painted green, with green corper.

A. Sunny Room

Chairs covered natural linen or potunla folkweave with green and cushions, curtains petunia or green.

Another aunny colour for a north room is pale coral pink, and I have seen this combined most successfully with brown and turquoise blue for a bedroom scheme.

A very pale shade of coral looks exceptionally well in distemper, and this would be my choice for walls and ceiling. woodwork: teng painted n deep purclunent colour.

A nigger brown carnet with touches

ol off-white or beige, and blue bed- spread.

curtains quilt, and

would! balance well with the coral walls, and you could choose a corni cushion for the blue easy chair.

If you like pastel coloura pale! robin's egg blue with rose pink and primrose still another suggestion for a bedroom. If it happens to be n Aunny room, choose the robin's ex blue for walls, ceiling and woodwork. old rose carpet and curtains and a

with primrose nen bedspreati border of rose.

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To carry out the three-colour nate. bave primrose organdi mats and rose candles for your dressing-table.

For Neutral Shades The Indeterminate neutral colours have their place in these three-colour schemes, but use them in rooms where you have very strong colour in carpets and other furnishings, to that the

Truth About Stepmothers

Hy ONE OF THEM

TARIENDS always complicate step- whilst one of the children was chub-

motherhond. One group works ing a tree.

There has been in our home the hard to intensify a Cinderella cum- ples in the minds of the children, usual "pop-pup" of exploding nerves. The other group works on the step- Mine went for instance when 1 walk- ed up the street one afternoon and mother-to-be,

Personally I found it harder to be a fourteen-year-old Johm astride pitied than abused, I could more the highest gable of our house art- the legends of my presumable, step- Justing his wireless aerial.

I waited until he cine down. motherly malignity: what enraged

me was the sympathetic cry: "How Then I said just what every mother explosions Jean

young girl like you the your may imagine. But the self to a widower with three chil- suppused to be involved in the re- dren? Aty dear, you will make the lation between stepmother and step-

children have never securred. mistuke of your life!"

Sometimes I have frunitly dodged an issue on which I thought a warn ing hung. For example, I made no insistence that the children called I spent the week-ends for six me 'Mother. All of them could re- months before my marriage in the member they own mother, and to house where the children lived with ask them to give to another this their father and grandmother. I name would have been to hurt their know them and loved them, for in natural loyalty. They called me by

After thirteen years of stepmother hood I can tell my friends that there has been no mistake,

walls. And this

case you could choose anary blue carpet for the third colour. Chair covers would be natural linen crash piped with tomato.

It is possible, too, to build up a three

colour actieme of this kind from exist- ing furnishings.

Say you have a patterned carpel which must be retained. Pick out

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for the walls, and the two darker

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furnishings. other ones

and the result should be a well-balanced scheme,

As the walls, however, should never be too dumlunt, you will probably have to ure your judgment la deciding en a shade of wallpaper or distemper two or three, tones fighter than the actual carpet colour.

It is a Rund Iden to experiment with shade card on patterna of praterial before making Q final dreiston,

Take care before you begin your alterations and there will be no reason for regrets.

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It's the details that distinguish this rout dress

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one boy I found his father's mind; thy Christian name, as their father Corned Beef-Noodles

In the other, his father's charm; in did. I preferred to be accepted the little girl her father's favourite! willingly as a friend rather

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