WOMAN’S WORLD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5513, 13 December 1929, Page 1

WOMAN’S WORLD.

HOME-MADE GIFTS. SUGGESTIONS FOR CHRISTMAS. A charming gift is a lamp-shade. The materials required are a wire frame, mellow toned parchment, and filoselle. Take a pattern in brown paper of the size and shape of one of the panels of the frame, then cut out six duplicate panels in parchment. Punch holes along the top, bottom, and sides of the panels, and hand-paint or stencil on to each panel a flower or fruit motif in rich colours. When the paintings are dry whip the panels to the framework with filoselle, lacing two panels together at the side seams. A Lavender Bag.—This is just two fair-sized rounds of mauve ninon, laid one over the other, and gathered up to form a bag with frilled neck. Fill the bag with scented lavender seeds, and tie the neck with mauve ribbon, tying in with it the head of a china doll that peeps from among the ninon frills. A Table Runner. —This may be of linen, hand-embroidered and trimmed with crochet lace, or of tapestry, taffeta, or pochette ribbon, bordered with galon. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. If when sewing white garments a drop of oil gets on the fabric, rub it at once with chalk. Leave the chalk on for a few minutes, then brush it out. Broken china may be mended in the following way: Mix a teaspoonful of alum and a tablespoonful of water, and place in a hot oven until the mixture is transparent. Wash the broken pieces of china in the water and, while they are warm, coat them thinly and quickly, as the preparation sticks instantly. It is a bad practice to put a burnt saucepan in soda water to soak, for, although this removes the burnt portion, it makes the saucepan liable to burn again when it is used. A better plan is to fill it with salt and water, leave a few hours, then bring slowly to the boil. The burnt particles will then come off without any trouble. A new enamel pan should be placed in a larger pan of warm water, which should be brought slowly to boiling point, and then left to cool. It will then neither crack nor burn, and will last far longer. When slicing bacon place it with the rind side down, a*nd do not cut through the rind. When the slices are cut slip the knife under them as near the rind as possible. When the handle of a knife feels loose, don’t wait till the ivory cracks or the two parts separate and get lost. Remove the blade, fill the hollow in the handle with powdered resin, make the iron stalk red hot, and thrust it into the handle. The resin will then melt, and, when it resets, will grip the blade firmly. A GREY ROOM. The present happy craze for colour schemes in the home is evidenced in the following :— Imagine a room panelled in light silvered oak, unpolished and hung with apple-green hangings. The table and chairs are of the same wood as the panelling. The table is laid with an apple-green cloth or white mats with applique work in pink and green. In the centre of the table is a bowl in greenish-grey pottery, filled with pink ramblers. The glass is tinted pale grey, the knife handles smoked mother-of-pearl, the china is also pale grey. The cruets are old pewter, also little dishes for salted almonds and olives. On the mantelpiece are pewter candle-sticks and a pewter bowl of pink ramblers. On the sideboard are one or two pieces of pewter, pottery bowls (similar to those on the table) filled with strawberries and cherries. If there are other spaces for vases they can be filled with pink and white pinks. Table-napkins should match the tablecloth or mats. AIRMAN’S ROMANCE. KINGSFORD SMITH TO MARRY. ' The engagement of SquadronLeader Kingsford Smith, the Australian aviator, to Miss Mary Powell, of Hawthorn, Melbourne, was announced on November 28. Kingsford Smith’s and Miss Powell’s was a shipboard romance, which started on the Aorangi, in which they travelled to Auckland and Australia from America a few weeks ago. Miss Powell was a Geelong Grammar School girl. She has travelled extensively and spent some months in America. Miss Powell’s engagement ring is a square cut diamond solitaire. The date of the wedding has not been decided, but it will not take place until Kingsford Smith flies the reconditioned Southern Cross back to Australia from England about the middle of next year.