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Marjorie Reynolds, film starlet, wears a light blue crope spectators sports dress with navy trim. Hor Ascot is of navy bluo with polka dots, and her matching straw hat has a gros- grain band and streamer. Her kid bag and shoes are navy blue.

Thanging is a new- idea for pelmet trimming.

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

Our magie easements may open only on to a green lawn with the flowers budding round and the vegetable 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 is just like having a new hat, Windows are the gateway for sun- shine to get into the house, They're the eyes of the home and we must keep them bright and cheerful.

Frited ninon er scroll design for pelmets.

-but there are homes and homes

TIME to

Window DRESS

Says JANET JAY

One simple way of making a change wintery pouch, green and gold in the rooms is to have new curtains, scheine, with peach ninon or organdi which can also make a variation be-glass curtains, peach and green shades tween winter and summer

schemes.

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colour in the eretonné draw curtains, penel cushions for the bed and for the arm- chmit, and a new set of peach organdi dressing-table mats,

Suppose you have warm brown,

You could perhaps make a change

orange or wine velvet winter curtains without going to the expense of new for the sitting-room, and the rest of 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 eretonne or try one for the sitting-room. I am chintz-satin curtains, with pattern in Sure you will like the finished look orange or wine with green on a light gives the window.

ground. One or two envelope cases And a new set of organdi or muslin for the cushions could be made to glass curinina relieves 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-It you like gutter, skip Its possibilities with the more

the season's evening dresses are for mention that is being revived-with

you. Soino, are harsh and entirely caution.

too bright to be humanly possible to

wear well, but others are all they

The girls who graduate, either

claim to be, which is to say gay and from college or Into matrimony, seem sparkling. Goodness knowE WO can immensely intrigued with the statue- droped silk jerseys, usually white, all stand for such.

with full-akirted cllTons of the There's something about shiny whirling dervish type. They are not black sequins which, like ostrich so keen for the cigarette or watch feathers, is likely to appeal to the silhouettes. It's drapery or gathors 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 thèse everyday pro- blems that might be yours?

The Atkinsons have just moved into a small, bright house that has rather low ceilings. For the sling-room, which faces south, Mrs. A. bought a modern square-looking Chesterfield

Buite covered in a nice flowered chintz, and bact curtains macht

ade to match the She

four four smali A chairs, a bureau, a pouffe, a low

Covers.

A

What

A box-pleated frill would look well on "cottagey" window, und, like the pelmet, could be coffee table, a tea-taisle, and had one made of a plain material to contrast with patterned wall lined with bookshelves.

would have struct 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.7 short, let them hang at least two inches below the

Before you got claustro- window sill.

phobia you would have make them half as wide again as the win-noticed she had too much furniture; dow: this ensure that the curtains still hang in a large sulte 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- small couch would be enough for tuins, you might like to try iying 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 dows. The draped curtains help to

the plain fabrics, the room would look outline.

twice the size.

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

or seersucker, in pretty shades of orange, green Blue with natural.

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

It wani n contrast pelmet, make it-of-firm

you fabric like linen or repp so that it will lle flat and keep its shape.

new.

Young Mrs. Morris hos modern inclinations and furnished her house to suit her tastes, But a favourite aunt gave her some Victorian furniture; and she didn't What want to offend the old lady. did she do?

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 trimrning didn't mix it with her own things- that would have been a fatal mistake. add the interest.

She For instance, a thonged pelmet is something She made a Victorian room.

but took off the old dark chair covers and This could be made in leather cloth would be just as effective in material, the thenging did them with fresh-looking cottons,

them with white braid ecorating being done with a thick silk or cotton cord in a

She

painted the Victoriam lighter colour.

The peimet itself is straight, which simplifies

curtains in the window and making.

Dormer windows are something of u problem, put a muslin flounce round the 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 ainon or organdi curtains, with a believe she didn't get the idea from a frill all round, and a little shirred pelmet of the film of American high life. same material.

SHORT CUTS

When hot applications aro ncoded for a patient ill at home, Uso the potato ricer for squeezing hot cloths. You will find that it squeezes almost dry without burning the hands.

A large size sponge rubber ipad 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.

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With

these curtains you would have a blid for bisciting-out pur- poses, which could be in green or blue, with a scalloped border,

Which reminds me that you will be wanting ideas for making other win

dows light proof. Dark blinds aro specially eat, but an alter

native is screens made

of black sheeting, which you can put up

Mantel white and gold, and hung

Mrs. Smith ives ha

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

'Gave the lamp away to a

A convenient jumble sale:

you can't mir periods to that extent. (b) Empiled the water away, filed the bowl with coloured glass bubbles and had it fitted up as a lamp with a plain white parchment shade.

with a new press stud timbered cottage, Mrs. R., who had

device.

The Robinsons went to live in an old-world halt-

always had hankering after film-şet pretty rose-shot furniture, chose large edition of the press taffeta for the sitting-room and peach fasteners we sew un satin for the bedroom. Both look frocks, but one half is nice against the cream walls. Was on a. nall which is she wrong or right?

It is

like n

tacked into the wood-

work.

Sew the other

A. Completely wrong;

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phisticated fabrics just

half to the sheeting, don't go in a simple cottage. She which con thus be could have been amiarter to have quickly

put

or considered gingham or printed linen, crisp cotton or furnishing tweedia,

taken down.

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

When collars and cuffs of boya' #hirts become frayed cut these down to semi-low necks and short sleeves and use for summer play shirts.

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The Georges dining-room bit of a problem.

aisa

The table is in the middle of the room with the fire-pince on one side, the window on another, the door pn

sideboard another and the fou!th,

on the Result, when they have to dinner and the most im- nt woman guest sits, at Mr, Q's fight hand, she always sits in a bowl- ing drought. What did they do to keep their popularity with their friends?

bought GTL old Aereon in the local street

Add a alloe of lemon to each glassful of ginger ale for knee

smoother, drink, with something that resembles, an Plenty of dresses, for eliler day or the flouncer and aprons tako suggests Mothers' who have difcuity get- Instinct for restraint, are very, very night, have decorative and very them.

ting citilären to eat fruit, ought to

A They frivolous aprons. These and many chic.

For a while, at least, one can con-try serving fruit as a part of the deep. flounces, too, ascend at back, "Freien drekkaners” are proceeding pleng the fontest bustle buretion the Almy frothy type of meal more in salads or in fruit cups market, ripped it and scrubbed it ender in whhe grty black or for Vesturbedecek tenen la cabe with caution with this jei business. But don't let me mislead you into pastels for. It is the season for these

painting it with Regency stripes In It's one of those revivals that is more thinking that bustles are back in any lovely things lovely: in themselves.

red and yellow. They put it by the too sure....To begin with, det fan't sense of the word. It's Just that the nnd calculated to bring out loveliness

door ap that, it, kept thi draught off. oxoctly a summer trimming. So let's up-in-the-back lins that so many of in all women.

“And it looked very nice..

As a safety precaution, koep pot handles túrnech. away from the front edges of the abovE.

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