MASCOTS FOR THE WINDOWS.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 301, 15 August 1929, Page 2

MASCOTS FOR THE WINDOWS.

A PRETTY NEW FASHION. * =* •• V The gay Chinese mandarin or Russian' peasant mascot doll, which dangles impertinently against tlie back window of nearly every car to-day, has just found a new home. It hangs between the curtains in the dining room or drawing room window. A peasant person dressed in barbaric red s and blues, for instance, dangles between curtains of honcy-coloured liner\, striped with black and . scarlet. The Japanese damsel looks out demurely from hangings of dull blue silk crepe, patterned with almond blossom and wee flying birds. Again, blue and white checked curtains are parted to rev&al Miss Hook of Holland, with rosy cheeks, long, fair, woollen plaits over her blue-clad shoulders, a striped full skirt, and long white legs ending in ridiculous miniature wooden sabots.

Another window idea —bright jars of vivid flowers, painted on'wood and cut into silhouette, are arranged along the middle bar of the centre window. Red and yellow, purple and blue, the blossoms shine in the sun, 4 4 growing ' ’ perkily out of their cheery crimson jars, and making the whole place look delightfully decorative. Somewhat similar in conception is the casement which boasts a row of quaint spiked cactus plants in tiny pots along the upper bar. There is every variety of cactus, from tall ones like .minute palm trees, to squat ones like little porcupines; some are flat and spiny, others angular and ridged, and one or two have queer vivid fed flowers.