NEW BIRD PRINT DESIGNS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19959, 17 November 1934, Page 11

NEW BIRD PRINT DESIGNS

Bird patterns are rivalling those of flower and leaf and the geometrical variety. A navy ground with a white seagull impression is one of the three new bird prints. It competes with black swallows in flight on a white ground

of fine cotton rep for an evening gown, and white ducklings waddle, as it were, on a foreground of navy. Reverting to seagull impressions, one shows up in white on saxe-blue ground for a dress that has an almost tubular look, ending in a pointed kilted hemline which corresponds with the edging of a capelet. It is completed by a black belt and hat. Belts take a new turn in black on light summer frocks when petalled out across front wastlines. Petals are also observed round the high neckline of a dinner gown. There is one white organdie gown which is perfectly plain on a semifitted trained line, and simply adorned by a blue bird in navy organdie encrusted from one shoulder to slant in an opposite direction on a high front necked corsage.

ROSEMARY AND BEAUTY Make for yourself a delicately fragrant face lotion which will soften and whiten your skin and renew its vitality. Take as many sprigs of rosemary as you can pick easily, and put them in a large saucepan. Bring them to the boil (let the boiling for a few minutes be hard), then allow them to simmer gently for half an hour. Strain the liquor off, first through a strainer and then through butter muslin. The liquid is now ready for use. BEAUTY ALONG THE HIGHWAYS Garden clubs are peculiarly American institutions ,says Elsie Jenkins Symington in the “Ladies’ Heme Journal”). The first ones, coming into existence about 25 years ago, were the natural outgrowth of a manner of living then comparatively new on this continent, known as country life. Many women, faced for the first time with making suburban homes, had to learn how to include in those homes the grounds which surrounded them. In those days horticultural information was not so easily available as it is now. So women met together in groups in order to exchange their experiences in gardening and thus overcome their ignorance. There are now approximately 2,000.000 garden-club members in America.

Since all growth brings with it increased responsibility, so has this growth of garden-club organisations laid at the door of the members a greater challenge. No longer can their meetings consist only of gardening talk, tea and a stroll through the hostess’s garden. The natural beauty of America cries out to them for preservation.

Highway planting offers an immediate challenge to landscape-minded members of the garden clubs—and definite planting programmes are now in operation in 27 States. But public planting is a grave responsibility. On its wise direction will depend the outdoor beauty of our children’s world. If it represents the co-operative efforts of road engineers, garden club members, and State foresters, acting in collaboration with a good landscape architect, public planting will undoubtedly give us boulevards of refreshing beauty. Since it is computed that 50 per cent, of all motor travel is for pleasure, an investment of a small part of the public’s money in highway beautification seems reasonable. With little effort, many charming pictures could be created for the motorist. The clever use of flowering stuff against evergreen banks; the opening of vistas to reveal distant mountains or lakes; the use of perspective in planting banks along straight stretches!