From Milady's Boudoir

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 193, 1 September 1937, Page 14

From Milady's Boudoir

Hints About The Home Ice Cream Oartons. Thoroughly wash and save them for making jellies in. Mauve Jade. Mauve jade, usually the shade of the deepest lilac, makes ideal bangles, earrings, and necklets for wear with grey evening gowns and is a favourite of Queen Mary. Semi-precious amethyst combined with crystal makes other ^■•harming orhaments that harmonise with grey and some of the modern crystal has a "matt" finish that gives it an opaque look instead of glittering— almost as though it had been frosted. What Gems Mean. Crystal, by the way, according to an ancient belief, induces its wearer to sleep soundly and also helps one to see visions. Emeralds, which are enjoying a wave of popularity for engagement rings, are supposed to assure constancy ! If your birthday is in July you may like to be reminded that your birth stones are rubies and pearls, the first giving prospects oi great success in life and the second although brides so often choose them, being reputed to bring tears. Beauty Aids. s Another type of "hold-all" is a novelty container of beauty aids and other little necessities and is especially attraetive because of its appropriateness to this season. It is a gilt sceptre and holds cigarettes, purse and comb, besides powder, lipstick and rouge and has a tasselled cord so that it can be hung on the wrist. Mixing Colours. No longer are we wary of mixing colours in our rooms. Turquoise blue and peach pink are at present an alliance in new home decorations with oatmeal and brown to back them up. Oatmeal walls, peach pink paint for the woodwork in a room and turquoise covers for armchair* and * divan are an example of the fashion. For Windows. V Using the two shades in wlndow furnishings, peach pink net is seen in panel curtains close to the glass, and blue net in long curtains draped and hooked back at the sides. Ihe blue has a cool effeet on very sunny days and the pink covering the glass has the advantage of robbing the light o| a gloomjr cloudy day of its greyness". . / Flower Bowls. Something newer than holed glass holdcrs for flowers in bowls are chromium circles from which rise numerous spikes. The stalks of the blooms are impaled on these spikes and enable you to obtain a more natural grouping of the flowers. When you are using shrub flowers or foliage with woody stems, these holders are more satisfactory than the usual glass ones, and they support heavy flowers with thick stalks bet*e~ too.