WOMEN AND HOME

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 17, 15 August 1928, Page 2

WOMEN AND HOME

ITEMS OF BNTEREST. DELIGHT OF THE HOST. NED IDEAS FOR SETTING DINNER TABLES. Every hostess desires to have lier table and its appointments looking perfect when she entertains. Crystal and linen should always be spotless, and silver and cutlery should always b e polished ready for use. Stainless steel eliminates one of the most unpleasant dutiescleaning knives.

At a formal dinner the decorations should strike a new note. This is possible if you are lucky enough to possess-a centre-piece of glass orchids, in a beautiful mauve, which gives the colour motif. Glass flowers were used on the Renown when our Royal visitors entertained. Match the orchids with some fine purple linen, on which you should applique in mauve linen, the orchids as they are modelled in glass. Small'table napkins of mauve will match the mats. The table should be given an extra polishing. Beside each mat put a fflas s goblet; if you have them,' with a mauve glass stem, which will add to the beauty of the table. If not cut goblets will look well. This simplifies the ■ matter of wine glasses, as any drink may be served in the goblets. HOW TO PLACE CUTLERY. On or beside each mat place fish knives and forks, small silver fork and knife, large knife and fork,.a dessert spoon, and soup. Knives and forks for savories, or hors d'oeuvres, may be placed either on the table (or, better still, on the plate); the same ,applies to dessert knives and forks.

Another delightful idea is to have a centre-piece of glass in flamingo colour filled with tulips or any flower of a pinkish tone, and complete the charm with goblets, liqueur glasses, and dessert plates, of scintillating crystal. Low candlesticks, with tall caudles, look beautiful. With this table, the new buff Italian linen is ideal. People who possess good silver, like to use it. " In that case the

candlesticks should hold green candles, shaded with absinthe-toned shades a low silver bowl filled with green leaves of many tones and maiden hair, and the damask should match. When the effects at Woollabra House were sold, a Sydney woman bought for a song some old-fash-ioned glass candle-sticks with glass prisms, quaint table vases of fluted glass in moons and half-moons, and a beautiful old glass jug which was destined for a girl friend's wedding gift. OLD-FASHIONED SILVER. If you are setting a table in an old-fashioned atmosphere, with old silver and glass, and linen table cloth, carry out the idea thoroughly by laying knives and forks on each side and placing spoon and fork for the sweets so as to form a perfect square. Complete this scheme with branched candlesticks. Old-fashioned cut glass should be U sed, and the table set with all the art possible, to b e in keeping with the epoch, flowers from a herbaceous border should be used as a

contract to up-to-date ideas. Thes is an opportunity to use oldfashioned silver dishes, sauce boats, and Aunt Jane's gift of mammoth silver meat covers. A dinner served in this fashion makes guests feel they never know what Is -in store, or what scheme will be used at your liable. Uncertainty is always aldinners should have SOUP served in up-to-date twohandled cups, or if an early Vic dinner, old-fashioned soup, plate* that match the dinner service wall he derigeur. WHIMSICAL SIDE-LISES. Tnc side-line is one of Fashions latest wbims. Every day new thmgs happen as a direct result of c It vating the side-line, Ithmgs Vke great artificial flowers, or clusters of flowers and fruit poised So o f a .own, or a single Bilvei L trailing It, long stem down one side of a gown, while the o he side develops a panel starting ftom a wide girdle, pulled very low over the hip. • 0„ 0 fashion creator gives, as the

only bit of ornament to a white mouseline gown, a large red rose on the left hip. Another, cascades tremendous loops of blue and rose ribbon over both hips of a blue and rose crepe de chine dinner gown, so that the Farisienne inside it will look like a little animated rose and

blue waterfall. Yet a third does several eccentric things, but does most of them on one side. In a iltt'le "afternoon gow n of salmon moroeain there is a great loop, and a fluttering end of salmon-coloured satin ribbon ori the let! Wp, but the* right hip has a draped fold Of the material contradicting every frivolous thing the pink ribbon does. The tweeds which are being worn

in the. morning would lie too mannish if they had no bright blouse, no scarf, no gay little bat, to lift the mind to a happy feminine thought. Clothes may have a touch of naivete which makes them look more simple than they are. The motor calls for simplicity, too, but theVe are so many ways of being simple that a woman does well to be careful. To be boldly simple is good, to be simple in a dull, pettifogging way is to fail in effect. TWO LATEST FADS. Fashion frivols show the diagonal neckline for evening wear. A flesh ping georgette creation is described as being designed this way, with a. decoration of large, transparent mother of pearl paillettes finished with a small tassel.

Colour combinations are also prevalent. A unique frock exemplifying this had the upper part composed of daffodil yellow georgette, while the lower part of the skirt was of flame colour, with an appliqued design of flowers and leaves in shades of lilac and green. FASHION AND THE FACE.

The tight felt hats of to-day are among modern beauty's many pitfalls. It is a great asset to beauty to have a smooth, unlined brow. The tight hat often destroys this. If the skin is a little loose, as with some older women, a tight hat will crease-it. It takes very few days f or thi s constriction to give a crumped look to the forehead. Have von naturally greasy hair. K so, and you wear a tight hat, it Will prove a fruitful source of tiny spits on the forehead. Many schoolgirls have this trouble, but once they leave off wearing their heavy, thick school hats, the spots disappear. The superfluous grease which collects on the scalp finds an outlet on the forehead, and so when a ti.<?ht hat is worn and the outlet is closed, the modern woman finds herself faced, with the same problem as the young girl. Bad habitg carry a menace with them. If you have the trick of propping our face in your hands, look in the glass as you do so, and notice how tiny lines are formed. Do it once and the lines will quickly disappear. But it is profoundly true in beauty matters that the constant drop wear s out a stone. And one day the lines will not go. Some women have a trick of raising the brows to express surprise, and in this way mark their foreheads. The only thing to be done is to apply a little skin food, which will make the marks less apparent. And cure yourself of the habit. Perhaps the greatest pitfall of all is relaxing below the chin, for this is usually the beginning of a double chin and of that ugly line just under the chin. When reading, do not use the chin as a cushio n for supporting the f head. The support should come from the muscles at the back of the neck. Prop the chin in your hand if you like. That will not hurt. :