QUEEN'S THANKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 151, 29 June 1938, Page 18

QUEEN'S THANKS

message of sympathy

The following message,- dated June 27, has been received by the Governo.- ; General in reply to one which his Excellency sent to the Queen on the occasion of the death of her Majesty's | mother, the Countess of Strathmore. . "I am deeply grateful to you and the Government and people of New Zealand for your kind message of sympathy in my great loss. Please convey to them my R." NURSERY jSEWSREEL NEW FURNISHING FASHIONS Planning a nursery is such fun nowadays. It is not just a question of thinking out a colour scheme and buying a few pieces of furniture which appeal to you as useful and hard wearing. It entails a study of child psychology, states a London writer. You have to understand the needs and interests of a child, and know what type of room he will like best. . A light, cheerful colour scheme is, or course, a necessity. Children react to colour to a remarkable degree and need bright surroundings. Sunshine yellow walls and deep blue painted furniture with touches of scarlet is. a cheery scheme: while for a night nursery shelipink walls with lavender-blue and green furnishings is a restful choice. Another point to consider is that a child feels very small and frightened when surrounded by giant furniture intended for grown-ups' use; so in his nursery let him have a tiny chair and : table suited to his size, and see that his toy cupboard is low to the ground. If you would like to furnish the nursery with a whole suite of miniature 1 furniture and yet not deprive Nanny I of a comfortable place to sit, arrange i the room in two sections, so that one side of the room is furnished in miniature, and all the children s toys are kept there. The other side of the 1 room is devoted to Nanny's armchair, the big nursery table, and several cup-

boards. ~ Another nursery furnishing problem presents itself if you want baby to

sleep in a room alone, yet feel you would like the nurse to be able to keep her eye on him during the night. A modern solution is to fit a glass wall between baby's and nurse's bedrooms. Light switches for both rooms are controlled from beside the nurse s bed, and curtains are hung on both sides of the glass wall. THEIR OWN ROOM. The children should be able to feel that the nursery is their own room and that they can play their games there without interference from the grown-ups. There is nothing more annoying to a child, after he has spent hours laying out on a table a jigsaw or a farmyard, than to be told he must take it all to pieces at once because the table is wanted for something else. Let him have one table, or the low top of the toy cupboard, where his games can be laid out and left for days without anyone bothering him. When the children grow older, provision should be made in the nurseiy for their hobbies. The boy who loves miniature electric trains can have a narrow shelf built round the walls at low cost to take a permanent railway track, and a portable gramophone vvill give endless pleasure to the musical ones of the family, who can be helped to make a hobby of collecting their favourite type of record.

When milk has boiled over on to the stove the stains can be-removed quite easily if salt is sprinkled oyer them and they are then wiped with a cloth wrung out in warm water.