Furnishing The Home

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21280, 25 February 1939, Page 22

Furnishing The Home

TF you are contemplating the decoration of a modem flat you will probably be as much concerned with webbings as with tapestries and cretonnes. For not only chairs of tubular metal, but those with wooden frames also, are taking on both backs and seats of coloured webbing, and proving how practical as well as decorative this material can be. The combination of chromium with colour gives an opportunity for a number of subtle alliances, particularly when the grey of the metal is repeated in walls or woodwork. Webbings are now made in a number of widths, the wider being the more suitable for seats, because they resist weight more readily. They are perhaps more strikingly effective in plain colours than when fancifully striped, and, in addition, the former provide an opportunity for an extension of their tints in such details as the table china, the glass or the candle-shades. Figure to yourself a dining-room where steel chairs, banded with apple-green webbing, are drawn up to a table laid with lettuce-green pottery and tumblers of a similar hue, the candles being set in sticks of green glass and shaded’ with green spotted parchment. The possibilities of webbing are infinite, and give scope, moreover, for many variations in the interior decoration of the home. A Harlequin arrangement of chairs is one which will make a wide appeal, especially in a room where both metal and wood are employed. A chair of weathered oak will be best suited by interlaced webbings in terra-cotta; one in palest birch will find the finest foil in black webbing, while purples and earth-browns will set off the hues of metal stools.

Shirt Collars

Now that it is becoming increasingly the fashion to paint metal furniture in some pleasant shade of green or yellow, the possibilities of coloured webbings are considerably increased, and some of the combinations are very gay. A particular shade of grey-green, which I can only compare with the peculiar tone of the verdigris copper takes on when ex-

moss just before boiling. Add sugar to taste, and cinnamon, lemon or ratafia flavouring. Simmer for ten minutes, and strain through a hair sieve. Fold in the whipped whites of 2 eggs and pour into small moulds. Rice Goes Well With Cabbage Cut up the cabbage and steam it for half an hour with a couple of slices of bacon cut into small pieces. Add salt, pepper, chopped parsley, half a pint of white stock, and four ounces t>f partly

Webbings Are In The News

Rice and Cheese Rissoles

posed to the outside air, is being widely adopted with metal chairs and stools. This looks exceedingly well when combined with webbing bands in apricot or in china-blue.

Incidentally, the webbings form admirable borders for curtains, and even for bedspreads, weighting them nicely at the edges and providing a bold line of colour without any accompanying fussiness. On hangings of velours, or the thicker woollens webbing sets with a good tailored effect, but it is -unwise to attach it by sewing machine, lest it puckers the material beneath. Handsewing gives a neater result.

Baby Crochet a loop about one inch long each end of Baby’s through which to slip ribbon “strings.” Ribbon is then always easy to remove for washing. Hot Tea

Tea can be kept hot by pouring into another pot that has been previously warmed and putting small cork in spout. Cover with cosy. For Burn f

Pain caused by a burn or scald can be relieved if the white of an egg is quickly applied.

After washing hang from line by means of tape threaded through stud holes. Peg marks on the collars will then be avoided.

Knitting Pin the edges of a knitted garment to the ironing cloth when it is to be pressed before being sewn together. The pinning keeps the curled edges down.

Fire Save the waxed paper in which biscuits and other groceries are wrapped and use it for lighting the fire.

cooked rice. Steam again for twenty minutes, and serve sprinkled with grated cheese.

Blend together two ounces each of flour and butter, in a saucepan, add half a pint of warm milk by degrees, and stir to a thick white sauce. Remove from the fire and add half a pound of cooked rice, four ounces of grated cheese,

a teaspoon of chopped parsley, and salt and pepper. Form into rissoles, roll in