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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 22, 1939.

SUMMER

OUTLOOK

DID you ever read the story of the two women who lived and grew old together in a house which stood in the shadow of a tall factory_wall? As they mellowed with the years they com- miserated with each other over the fact that the sunshine. passed them by and the windows they sat by gave them very little outlook.

And then one day the wall was pulled down. The sunshine streamed in and the world and the view was vast, But then, alas, the two women dis- covered how faded had become the house that the woll had sheltered, and that they were old and faded ton.

I shall never forget . It made me want to have big windows; to look out on a seane that was as vast as the limitations of any town could mate

I didn't want to live in any fouls' paradise.

Actually it is a fact that your materkil outlook can hoye a very great effect on your moral one. And since to-day we have no window tax, and the

you use of glass is being extended, we can look forward. I hope, to mi outlook that has more sumbine than sorrow in it. That is, if worden have anything to do with it.

Bul, to get down to mare domestic matters, there's the matter of dress- ing up the "glass covered holes in the wall" that give us light and air. There are five suggestinfią sketched in this page, and one idea for a couple of movable window seats which can be used for the window or the fireplace. The sketch on the top left shows 'curtain arrangement for a rather typical square

window, which can be used for elther à bedroom or a skiing- room with Regency leanings. The top "drope" is quite easily done by pass- Ing a long strip of material over an old-fashioned curtain pole, and fixing it rather arbitrarily at intervals with drawing-pins-so that they don't show. of course.

The next arrangement is on the same window, designed to give ʼn greater effect of light. Good for a more modern room. Please note the built-on pelmet which is an American idea

it's made of strips of

: bamboo.

The third drawing shows a rather unusual way of hanging lined secr sucker or cretonne for a nursery. Boles are made in the curtain top, and it is threaded through an old-fashioned curtain pole (they're coming back into vogue).

Fourth drawing is a kitchen arrangement. Oiled silk curtains are fixed top and bottom so that loose ends don't interfere with whatever work may be going on near the window.

The last window arrangement, be- lieve it or not, is my idea of a both- room setting. The curtains are in towelling and the cords are plain white or coloured cotton with tassels attached. All easily washable, and you must admit, rather amusing,

The window stat arrangement, last but not least, is described in the caption beside it.

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Nothing is worse than a limp. bedraggled veil flopping over a smart hat.

To Iron veils, first lay a sheet of tissue papier over the ironing

Archery Called Cruel board, then spread the veit m

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it and presa carefully with a hot iron. Veils come up like new after this treatment,

If a veil has been soaked in the rain, it should be allowed

to dry before, it is pressed,

Nursery

Line your curtains for the nursery with a plain cotton material, they'll keep their shape much longer. The ones sketched here are in a cotton folk weave with a crinkly sur- face in horizontal stripes of red, fellow, and cream,

Bedroom

Sitting Room

For the arrangement on the left you could use furnishing satin or sateen for the top drape and spotted volle or starred ningn for the trans- parent.

The curtains above you can make in a plain material, with contrasting coloured satin ribbons stitched at intervals. But for those who prefer patterns, I suggest no ribbon and one of the new mercerised cretonne Jabrics that look exactly like glazed chintz, guaranteed fadeless.

Kitchen

Oll silk-in tchigh there is an in- Anite variety of designs nowadays might be used for this kitchen ar rangement. Alternatively, try some of the new swiss valle patterned with small squares in blue and white. Squares are broken up with white flowers.

Bathroom

Turkish towelling has been used for this bathroom window.

Plain

this one, but you can buy it. with nertical stripes in green and white, pink and white, blue and white, 60in. wide (you only need one width for a narrow window).

This is my idea for a window seat that doesn't necessitate you putting your back the view and the sun.

The units are movable and, in the winter, can be put round the fire- place. They could be made with folding legs.

The curtains sketelied here are made of cotton with a linen finish, anforized shrunk, which means that however much washing you give them they won't shrink any more.

Pattern is in bright yellow, brown, and white. The seats are upholstered in brown.

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Why All This

Marriage Advice?

ASKS A YOUNG MAN

THE

HERE were once days, I suppose, says, "Now, look here. my boy, I'm when the fact of marriage was not an expert in. these things, but accepted without polher and allowed your mother, and I have been very to full itself, unhindered, along happy for 30 years, and mark my rational and commonsense lines; days words, if there's one thing a woman when the average sanity and biological likes, it's being able to do things for sense were trusted to carry a young a man." man and a young girl along the not

too terribly complicated ways of Quickly follows one's brother, a Ilving together as man and wife, I mortal of strange thinking, who scoffs nt the whole principle of marriage sigh for those days.

and says that its only hope of sur- The momentous step of an engage-vival is for the couple to spend at ment makes friends and relatives least six months of the year away Hight-headed, and from them all there from one another. pours a well-meaning, but infinitely irritating stream of good advice.

Then uncle chuckles, "Now, you *young people: I expect you've got

It would seem evident that reason all sorts of modern ideas, but here's and Instinct and normal intelligence my tip, and don't say I didn't tell you. are not considered, alds to happy give and take, that's the plan. We marrlage nowadays. When we con- have followed it for 40 years, and template the business, the entire un look at us." comfortable possibilities are spread enticingly before us.

of

Does one know one's own mind?

the

overhasty?

temperaments step? Are

Two, Camps

Added to this is the

chorus of

Has one paused to consider the gravity mothers and fathers, divided into compatible? Do We realise the two camps, pro-husband and pro- wife, each pouring out an incessant disasters that befall those who are. casende of useful hinta on how to keep out of the divorce court, show- We understand all these things? ing us how best to deceive one an- Right (shrug), it is our affair, but offer, and how each must tackle" fhe don't let it be said that we were not other when a bad temper is imminent: warned. A nice. cheerful beginningi

A Plethora of Hinta

All the time, of course, there are only two people capable of doing mything about it, which they try to do through the useful. diciates of But that Is. not all. The reason, commonsense, and circum- paychologlats, the professors of stance: eugenics, the students of social re-

lations, the philosophers, and -- all Marriage is surely not so mazed. women with their natural curiosity so hinzardous a business that it re-i about everyone's affairs have set up quires a gross of rather unpleasant table upon conflicting table of rules rules lumped together, and sold to bo applicable to any and every, case,

for marriage. Reactions ons, ro's elders, I suppose, will never | and the simple fact of feminine wiles are marked here and tiro of that phrase, "Well, if you're there upon the matrimonial chart. happy as we've been, you won't do and brother, sister, fathers, mo- budly, and here's my little tip. thers, aunts, cousins and uncles come

forward with their advice. Very Most ardently do we wish that they little, peace we have had for a year. would keep their little tips and lot us discover our own in a natural First. It is the wife's mother who was without making.a.wort of busl- tells her. Now, don't spell him, ness of marriage, complate with dear. It makes men selfalt and is charter of incorporation, rules, and ruinous to your happiness? Then it balance-sheet. is father-who draws one aside and

JOHN COTTERILL. NA

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