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Marjorio Reynolds, film starlot, wears a light blua crepe Har Ascot is of navy spectators sports dress with navy trim. blue with polka dots, and her matching straw hat has a gros- grain band and streamer. Her kid bag and shoos are navy blue.

Thonping is a new idea

for trimming.

pelmet

"CHARMED magic casements." These words of Kents always come to my mind when I am planning to dress the windows in their new finery,

Our magic casements may open only on to a green lawn with the flowers budding round and the vegotable patch nicely dug over, but doesn't this optimistic string out. look make you want to perk up the house to match all the brightness outdoors?

.It in just 1ke having a new hol

Windows are the gateway for sun. Frilled ninon or shine to get into the house. They're scroll design for

the eyes of the home and we must

keep them bright and cheerful..

pelmets.

-but there are homes and homes

TIME to

Window DRESS

Says JANET JAY

One simple way of making a change summers peach, green and

gold

in the rooms is to have new curtains, scheme, with peach ninon or organdi which can also make a variation be glass curtains, peach and green shades tween winter and

colour in the cretonné draw curtains, peach

schomes.

summer

Suppose you have warm

brown,

orange or wine velvet winter curtain

cushions for the bed and for the arm- chair, and a new set of peneli organdi dressing-table mats.

You could perhaps make a change

for the situng-room, and the rest of without going to the expose of new

the scheme is in greens and browns, curtains.

The room will look different for

--

If you haven't so far had a pelmet summer if you substitute cretonne or try one for the sitting-room. I am chintz-satin curtains, with pattern in Gure you will like the finished look orange or wins with green on a light it gives the window.

ground,

One or two envelope cases And a new set of organdl or muslia for the cushions could be made to glass.curtains relleves the severity of match,

plain draw curtains.

Or perhaps you have a green and Pelmets are easy to make, provided gold bedroom. Transform this to a you take careful measurements.

Evening Frocks Are

All a-Glitter

By ELEANOR GUNN,

NEW YORK-If you like gilter, skip its pasiblities with the mere the-season's evening dresses are for mention that is being revived-with

you, Some are harsh and entirely caution.

too bright to be humanly possible to

The girls who graduate, elther

the

wear well, but others are all they claim to be, which is to say gay and from college or into matrimony, scam sparkling. Goodness knows we can immensely Intrigued will the statue- white, draped silk jerseys, usually all stand for such,

with full-skirted chiilons of There's something about shiny whirling dervish type. They are not black sequins which, like ostrich so keen for the cigarelle or match fcalliers, is likely to appeal to the silhoueties. It's drapery or gathers wrong people. Yet both sequins and for them... feathers are elegant, and when worn.

HOW SMART ARE YOU? Be honest; would you have known how to solve these everyday, pro- blems that might be yours?

The Atkinsons have just moved into a small, bright house that has rather low ceilings. For the sitting-room, which faces Bouth, Mrs. A bought a modern Chesterfield suite square-looking covered in a nice flowered chintz, and tho to match had curtains made

She bought four small low a bureau, a pouffe, a A box-pleated frill would look well on a chairs,

What "cottagey" window, and. like the pelmet, could be coffee table, a tea-table, and had one made of a plain material to contrast with pattered wali Hned with bookshelves.

would have struck you about the curtains, or vice versa.

Now about lengths and shapes. Floor-length room if you had gone to tea with Mrs. draw curtains look best, but if you prefer them A.? short, let them hang at least two inches below the window atll.

covery.

Before you got claustro- phobia you would have

I make them half as wide again as the wla noticed she had too much furniture: dow; this ensures that the curtains still hang in a large suite is overpowering in a pretty folds when they are drawn across at night small room. Two armchairs and a Instead of straight-hanging full-length cur mall couch would be enough for tains, you might like to try lying them back to comfort. And in a small room large the sides of the window. This is an old-style flowered materials-are- too over- revived, but it looks specially well for tall sash win-whelming. With small furniture and soften the

plain fabrics, the room would look dows. The draped curtains help to

twice the size. outline...

Materials?

or

Cretones and the chintz-satin Just mentioned are good if you have decided on a striped floral windows, and I have just found

green seersucker, in pretty shades of orange, blue with natural.

This would make up into pretty and practical curtains, because it washes so well and it does not need ironing.

If you want a contrast pelmet, make it of firm fabric like linen or repp so that it wili le fat and keep its shape.

Q

Young Mrs. Morris has modem inclinations and furnished her house to suit her tastes, But a favourite aunt gave her some

What Victorian furniture, and she didn't want to offend the old lady. "did"sho ̈dot

She realised in time that there is an increasing

When making a pelmet at home it is usually fashion for Victorian furniture. She best to keep the shape simple and let the trimming didn't mix it with her own things

that would have been a fatal mistake. She add the interest.

For instance, a thonged pelmet is something She made a Victorian room. new. This could be made in leather cloth but took of the old dark chair covers and would be just as effective in material, the thonging did them with fresh-looking cottons, being done with a flick silk or cotton cord in a decorating them with white braid and fringe. She painted the Victorian lighter colour.

The pelmet Itself is straight, which simplifies overmantel white and gold, and hung dimity curtains in the window and making.

a muslin flounce round the Dormer windows are something of a problem, put because the sloping walls on either side already mahogany dressing table. All her exclude a certain amount of light. For these win-friends are copying her, and won't dows I suggest nlnon or organdi curtains, with a belleve she didn't get the idea from a frill all round, and a little shirred pelmet of the film of American high life. kamo material.

SHORT CUTS

sre

When

hot applications needed for a patient til at home, msn the potato ricer for squeezing los cloths. You will find that it sandezes: simost · dry - without burning the hands

A large size sponge rublier knee pad to stand on will take some of the

Make this on a sateen foundation; pale peach organdi over pale blue sateen or pale yellow over green would be pretty..

+

Q

Mrs. Smith lives in a

modern, int, and for her

birthday friends gave her (a) a re- production Elizabethan oak lamp and (b) a bowl of goldfish (but the gold- with fish died). What did she do them?

With these curtains you would

Gave the lamp away to a have a blind for blacking-out pur-

convenient jumble salc; poses, which could be in green or

you can't mix periods to that extent. blue, with a scalloped border.

Which retainds me that you will be (b) Emptied the water away, filled wanting ideas for making other win the bowl with coloured glass bubbles dows light proof. Dark and had it fitted up as a lamp with a

aro apecially plain white parchment shade.

blinda neat, but

an alter native is screens made

of

sheeting,

black which you can put up

*

The Robinsons went to live in an old-world half- with a new press stud timbered cottage. Mrs, R., who had dovice.

always had a hankering after film-set

A large furniture, chose a pretty rose-shot It is like edition of the press taffeta for the sitting-room and poach fasteners we sow en satin for the bedroom. Both looks Was frocks, but one half is nice against the cream walls.

nail which is she wrong or right?

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strain out of standing when there is a large ironing to do.

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When collars and cuffs of boys shirts become frayed cut theso down to semi-low necks and shert looves and rise for summer play shirts.

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Add'salon of lemon to each alful of ginger ale for a smoother drink.

Meilers who have difficulty "get- ting children to eat fruit, ought to with something that resembles a Plenty of inesses, for either day or the flounces and aprons take suggests Intinet for restraint, are very, very night, have decorative and very theme

Wifrivolous .aprons. There and many For a while, et lati, one can contry trying fruit as a part of the! chiti

deep flounce, too, ascend at back centrate on the filmy, frothy type of meal more in salads or in frult cups French dressmakers are proceeding giving the faintest bulls suggestion, dress, either in white, gray, black or for dessert. with caution with this jet bulness. But don't let me mislead you into pastels, for it is the reason for these It's one of those revivals that fe nono thinking that busties are backe in any lovely things lovely in themselves 100 ure. To begin with, Jot im't sense of the word. It's just that the and calculated to bring out loveliness exactly a summer trimming. So let's up-la-the-back Une that so many of in all women,

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The Georges dining-room

Q Is a bit of a problem.

tho

The table is in the middle of room with the fire-place on one side,. the window on another, the door on another and the sideboard on

fourth.

their popularity with

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