"Seen in the Shops”

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 28 January 1933, Page 13

"Seen in the Shops”

The all-white kitchen, with its resemblance to a hospital ward, seems to have quite gone out of favour and the tendency is for more colour and brightness. Pursers have some lovely a ay linoleums, one I specially noticed be.ug patterned in a mixture of almost a coral with dull green, fawn and blue. With dull green curtains, chairs painted coral and canisters of green and blue you would have a most uncommon and pretty kitchen. Women have to ispend so much of their time in the kitchen and it is just as easy, if one only gives it a little thought, to have a pretty kitchen as a dull and uninteresting one and it won’t cost any more] either. If your dining room is on the cold side of the house it is a good idea to paper the walls with a pale gold paper. A coppery brown carpet, brown furniture, table mats of deep blue with .gold and copper embroidery, a yellow pottery bowl of marigolds and copper beech and deep blue curtains patterned with gold roses and copper leaves would make a lovely colour scheme. Symes have the curtains in an artifi-J ci'al silk madras, heavy enough m quality to look rich and yet not so thick ,as to keep out the light. If you are thinking of new curtains these are -realty very attractive and with a fresh wallpaper would entirely transform your room. The success of a room depends enormously on the manner in which the walls are papered. They can be exactly right or they can be so dreadfully wrong. If you have furniture covered with a patterned material a plain wallpaper is best, but if your chairs are covered with a plain material with plain curtains then a patterned wallpaper can produce a very decorative effect. The size of the room makes a difference, too. A patterned wallpaper in a tiny room is usually wrong unless it is one of those small sprigged designs for a bedroom. A small bedroom with sloping ceiling can look perfectly charming with a- paper covered with a tiny flower design, cream furniture and frilled cream muslin curtains looped back with ties to match the colour scheme. Vha’tever the size of your room, whatever your taste may be, whatever style of furniture d may in the extensive choice of wallpapers at Bennett and Suttons you are hound to find just tne very thing to fulfil your requirements The sales are all beginning now and with the high exchange just arranged by the Government, it behoves everybody to buy what they can at the prices now prevailing, because as soon as the fresh goods arrive there may not be such an opportunity for a long time. One glance at the 0.R.l . s win dows will give an idea oi the great variety of goods stocked by this firm. Thev range from men’s suits to pepper pots and, while their prices are. always low thev are now cut to ribbons. I noticed especially a lino of such nice looking cups and saucers very cheap. White china, a ghod size with a little powder blue and black edge they would be well worth buying for breakfast use for eamping or picnics.

(By “Rachael.”)

Now that the holidays are over al. the business girls are back at work am. they may find that they badly necc. a frock suitable for work and at tin same time nice enough to go out n. afterwards, especially now when tlior* are still some hours of daylight artei ■■closing time. George and Doughty have a whole counter full of uncrush able crepes, rayons, georgettes, am crepe de chines in dress lengths a. reduced prices. Among, them I saw a very nice darkish green and white broken check in uncrushable crepe which would be ideal for a dual purnoise. Made with a white organdi collar and cuffs it would be charming foi any occasion and not a bit out of place if you had to wear it to work before going out. I always do think that China teapots are very expensive. One spends a few shillings on a new teapot, someone drops the lid or chips the spout and you have neither teapot noi money. It would be much cheaper in the Jong run to buy a plated one that always ’looks nice and lasts for years. Gerrands have a new style m silver teapots conforming to the modern^i dee •’ angles and straight lines. Tt n squat and diamond shaped. with straight sides and a spout like that of a jug. The lid is as big as the bottom of the teapot so that it opens wide and is very easy to empty. A sugar basin and cream jug match it and complete a set just a little different from every one else’s. There are many most charming designs published in papers and magazines for .the verv fashionable lacy wool jumpers. Harrops have 'iust opened up a new shipment of wools m the loveliest colours for this jmrpose and also for bathing suits. The latter is a heavier wool guaranteed fast to sun, also to sea water and unshrinkable. Everyone is wearing such bright battling suits this war and with tho wools you could make something really distinctive at about a third of the price of a smart ready-made suit. People on a diet will welcome the new biscuits iust imported by Johnson and Hey." They are unsweetened! biscuits made of rye, tasting something like Scotch oatcake. They * would be excellent for children and would make a valuable addition to the larde.r to serve for afternoon tea or supper. 1 haven’t seen them before, but i am sure there will he a great demand for them once they become known Provided you know exactly what von want and don’t buy odds and ends iust because they are cheap and not because you need them, sale time gives a great ‘ opportunity for renovating vorTr house and replenishing your sup-, plies of linen at a low cost. A careful buyer can save" a great deal el money‘in a very short time. MeCorwick’s windows are full of a variety ot things at .sale price, some of them down by 50 per cent. Some of the cretonnes would make very useful smocks for morning or beach wear. The v are well patterned and in attractive colourings. A cretonne overall is one ot the most- useful garments on’e can pos<insilv made too.