EVE’S Vanity Case

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1127, 15 June 1927, Page 2

EVE’S Vanity Case

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Thg Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication in the “Woman’s Realm” items of social or persona] news. Such items should be fully authenticated, and engagement notice# must bear signatures. COLOUR ! One fall vase Unit’s chosen with cine; a cushion to match on a comly chair; a corner bookshelf, with croton uc—bound books; and your Jriouds will say, “How artistic it looks 1” “Picking up colours” is wonder! ill fun, as you’re sure to agree when the job is done, and the corner that once was an eyesore to you, is transformed to an alcove ol beauty—lor two l APHORISMS. If she's a woman and the shoo pinches she buys if. -Nobody wants the man who gives himself away. The poet’s new suit is oltcn only an “Owed to a Tailor.” Tf poverty is a blessing in disguise the disguise is perfect, Tt is the men with squeaky shoos who have music in their souls. Among the tilings which run in all families are silk stockings. Rolling stones may not gather any moss, but you can’t sit on one. Opinions are .just like watches. No two are.alike, yet each man believes in bis own.

OIRUS IN RUSI NESS. During the war, a prosperous business man told me that be was foolish enough to mention at the dinner table thai, bis young men were joining the Army and tbaL be contemplated engaging some girls to take their places. His daughter, whose friends were leaving home one by one to undertake jobs vacated by men, at once volunteered to. come into her lather's office. Thai was flic very last thing lie wanted, and he opposed the suggestion rather scorn! üby. The girl persisted-? as girls will, and rather to his surprise her mother turned out to he her chief ahy—lor if her daughter must go into business she preferred her to he with her own parent. The father gave way, as fathers do, and he declared to me that from that day his dignity vanished. In the old easy-going days - dear dead days he.vond recall he had come home, night alter night, professing to be worn out with the overwhelming burden of the day’s work. Poor, weary-? pathetic lather! Ho was so tired by the strain ol earning enough money to support a famny in comfort that he was welcomed with swift attentions, pampered by rich food, and even encouraged to take a little wine to restore his reduced vitality. His daughter pricked this pleasant bubble alter one week in his office. The game was up. “Dear old daddy,” she told her mother, “lie thinks he’s worked to deathMy dear, anybody could do the. worv on his head. He turns up about It).HO, dictates a few letters, smokos a cigar with a friendly caller goes out to lunch at l, comes hack at 6, ?fgns his letters and is done lor flic day. In a West End club, some ol the old members wore incoherent with anger when waitresses first invaided the sanctity of tho coffee room. Within a week they realised that never in all their lives had they been so mothered, so comfortable and so well looked after. I remember the fierce indignation of an old member who one ' ight found a hairpin on his chair. Three years later lie was moved to much wilder anger when the girls departed to make wav for out-of-work soldiers.

MODERN WILTOXS THAT M i KUOil THE COLOURS AND DUS 10NS OF OLD PERSIA. Jiy Joseph in Htiwkes. .Persian carpets. 'ion who '•ove them ami seek to bring their colour beauty into your home —yet beenme I hat monitor, eonseienee, says, ’‘lhus ami thus the amount for carpets, ami ho more”—avoid them. Listen! 11 you avou ld have for your very own those exquisite colourings so be.r.uitill I hat the heart is stirred with longing to possess, and memory recabs to mind the enchanting wonder 'Eastern lairy stories—they are with in |lie length of your reach. At all times I prefer the real thing. Imt when the real is heyond my power of purchase, I make a bee-line for that which embodies the spirit and atmosphere of the original creation. Ho in this question of carpets the great elan called Wiltons have aeliiev.

ed suck triumphs in the art of jiiirioring old Persian colours and designs, and producing them at possible prices, that T Tun able to appease my taste for that particular type of colour harmony. You all know flic smooth, silky pile of the “plain-faced” Wiltons-, ami can mentally image how admirably such a surface lends itself to the carriage ol Eastern colours. Here are the turquoise blues of early dawn, the sapphire hue of a summer night. . . reds that speak of coral sheen and glowing depths of rubies rare . . . and bits of green, emerald eyes of graven image . . . the darkest amber . . . and many another tint veiled and sot in the palo and tawny shades of desert sands.

Here again are all the symbols •-•nd hieroglyphics found in the real Persians. Glyphs tha|_ tell of ancient religions, family traditions, aincnfauces, predestined futures; and for tiio.se who nave the preoeiving eye the. passionate joys and deep despairs that pulsed the hearts of the ancient artists. One is like a bed of "Jove in the mist,” abash with the rose mauve gold of early dawn, n foun i u -on c f exquisite beauty for those walls, (he soft grey green of the tiigella's I outage, the curtains and covers in rnauvy pale rose of a midsummer evening sky .... lamp shades o f “sheening” coral, and cushions of bronzy goid and deeper coral hue. Can you imagine a more lovely setting for those precious pieces if rich walnut and treasured silvered candle sticks. 7 have said there is naught like tlio real thing; K o it is. If'-? however, you had seen those Wilton Persians as they unfolded •’and disclosed their entrancing loveliness, you would ve'j. come, give thanks, and bless the British craftsmanship and manufacture. that had created those reproductions and brought them with m the -reach of flip majority.

LONGER LIFE FOR CUT FLOWERS. All Howcm are bcnuliftii, hut none is quite so lovely a# those we gamer in our own garden. Flowers are like those whom the gods love—they tile young. Tint with proper eare all kinds of flowers can he made to last for at least ;i fortnight after cutting. Flowers should he gathered in the early morning while they am still wot with dew. The blooms snoiiid be gathered with as long stalks as possible, and must he placed into water without delay-., before the sap in the stalks has hardened. On to account must a drop of prater touch the petals nothing ...causes them to wither more rapidly. ... 11 is better to use rain-water than laird tap-water, hut this is not essential. There arc a number of .substances which, when dissolved in water, are supposed to keep flowers fresh for a very long time. A .' inch of salt, a little washing soda, a lump ol sugar-? each lias its champions, hut none of these is of any.value. A iift'e saltpetre dissolved in the water is the only substance which is. ; uf use lor this purpose. It contains nitrogen, which is the only food,. except plenty of water, which may he necessary to a Ilowcr. The water in which, flowers are kept should he changed daily. At, the same time, about a quarter of : n inch should he clipped from iho cm! o!' each stalk. Attention to this apparently trivial item will keep flowers fresh for a surprisingly long time, and is well worth the trouble. i no reason that this is. necessary is because when a Ilowcr is cut the sap oozes out and seals the end of the

stalk. Ami unless the hardened end of the stalk is removed each day tho flower will quickly fade. It is delightful to awake in the morning and see flowers in tho worn, and there is not the slghtest loason why flowers should not lie allowed to stay all night in one’s bedroom. Few doctors nowadays insist oo 'lowers being removed at night, even from an invalid’s room, providing, of course the window is kept open. The flowers also need plenty of fresh air; in a stuffy room they soon die. Fowers that have drooped and wilted are revived ver.r quick I v by placing in water in which an aspirin has been dissolved,, '

FASHION JOTTINGS. Fashion isn’t in the least tired of fringe, from the tiny silk fringe winch sometimes edges the jumper of a “two-piece,” to the very long glittering crystal fringe on dance I rocks. One of Patou’s newest models, which lie calls “dernier cri,” is an example of the contrasting coat and skirt. It has a sleeveless beige jumper, to which is attached a black pleated skirt, and the short coat is of beige. Trimming is sparingly used: it generally consists-;' in woollens, or bands of striped or cheek material, and in silks of tucks, gathers, f the contrast of the dull and shiny x-des of the same stuff, which continue to be seen a great deal. Though it is not new, this idea can never become vulgarised by imitation in shoddy materials-; as it demands a silk of first rate quality. The many sleeveless jumpers and sports frocks .show that sunburnt arms are going to he as popular this summer as they were last year, when smart women prided themselves on their beautifully bronzed arms, and took as much trouble to “colour” them as their husbands would lake to bring a pet meerschaum to feetionA most amusing idea was seen oil an afternoon frock of black chiflon. The sleeves were long and tight, and glic left one was absolutely plain, but the right was embroidered, from the wrist, halfway to the elbow in diamante of different widths and pat--terns, to suggest the mass of diamond bracelets so vital to smartness nowadays !

NEW FLOP A L SCHEMES. POUO.UETS FOR TALL 131UDESMAIDS. The floral sclicme is hardly less important chan the frnclcs at the 1027 wedding, and. the florist is consulted just, as carefully as is the dressmaker. To her very olten, is lett the choice ol the flower that the bridesmaids will carry, especially if their frocks are ol a colour that if is difficult to match with a flower shade. Houqucts to tone with, say, blue or green dresses are generally chosen .with a view to an artistic contrast, and the colour of the frock is repeated in tlii> ribbon with which the (lowers are tied (says a writer in the London Daily Telegraph). II the bridesmaids an* tall what are known as “long” bouquets are chosen. These are not the shower pattern, nor are they slieatlilike, but the blooms are arranged in bunch fashion, each flower coming a little he !q\v (he other. The small, slim bride •still chooses a shower bouquet; the taller one carries a sheaf. Flmvor.deeoralecl staves are favour, ifcOo with bridesmaids. They go very well with the long straight lines of the fa,shoiis of 1,0-day. The states can bo enamelled to tone wth the Frocks, and the flowers either match or contrast in colour. A stave done for n bridesmaid of this week was of silver, and was decorated wTUi pink ‘roses and irises of mauve and cream. If was tied with silver ribbons. Favour baskets are of -silvered cane, and popular favours are tiny sprays of white heather. For the trainbearer-. who is often rather disappointed if no flowers are provided for her to carry, there are little baskets Ailed with flowers with handles large enough to siip over tiny wrists.

aoMK i>o:iN(J colour ghaut Blue dyes mauve or violet by dip. pinir it in rod dye. Yellow turns orange if dipped in rod, and green if in blue. , Red becomes orange if clipped in yellow. Density of the Dye depends on bow deep a shade is required.