GAY CHINTZ APRONS FOR HOME SUNSHINE

NZ Truth, Issue 1201, 6 December 1928, Page 17

GAY CHINTZ APRONS FOR HOME SUNSHINE

.Whilst we're all. so busy improving the home, homemakers mustn't forget to keep pace. The idea that sunshine and saucepans don't mix is dispelled by. such kitchen costumes as these gay little aprons and smocks, most of them made of flowered cretonne, and all as colorful as the flowers m an old-time garden. The ideal home isn't complete without the ideal wife to match— -and, as far as kitchen wear is concerned, l It Is easy for any woman to p emulate that ideal.

PIXIE, child,— Absolutely noth- ' ing to talk about except the weather/ and that's unmentionable;' so. as the lesser of two evils,, and just, for' a change, we'll talk about you.; . Is the gorse all out, Pixie, yellow as flames or,, the sun? Are the ssheerp r behaving like perfect ladies m the matter of lambs? And have; you eight or nine fat: golden-brow.n ■'_ collie pups' to- wobble along after you When, you attempt-to ride that attenuated thing which you call your horse? .-.••'• ..-..''■ ,We, s get such a second-hand, sort of spring down here: bits of lilac m the shop windows, "birds'-: furnishing flats m our • few poor trees, and a. tjred businessm an. dr. two brightening .up ■■- his. eyegjass and watchchain.' That's all. ■ I'm jealous bfypu, "flower- lulled m sleepy . grass," even if there isn't : another reasonably human being •for you; to talk to within the next, fifty miles. ; - ■ -- '■• Do- you still keep that spare blanket? AndY if so, what about letting the Assyrian come down Uke a wolf oh' the fold?— Contemplatively, TAFFY.