MODERN NURSERIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 359, 21 May 1928, Page 5

MODERN NURSERIES

AND LUCKY KIDDIES. The up-to-date nursery becomes increasingly a joy to behold. Beauty and hygiene go hand in hand to make it a place of sheer delight. The old insanitary wall-papers, tempting babyfingers, incidentally. with coloured crayons to improve the pattern!—belong to the limbo of the past. The nursery now provides legitimate outlets for such zeal, while at the same time the walls are made charming with a half-way-up flowered linoleum that is easily washed, and that makes no appeal as a drawing-board to infant .taste. The other half of the walls is in some jolly distemper, jonquil yellow being a first favourite. Where the kiddies get their own hack on hygiene, so to speak, is in the furnishing equipment. The elder ones can enamel their own nursery chairs, j If the wall scheme is yellow, a lovely leaf-green is the ideal choice. The same ! applies to the colour scheme chosen for the wood-work of the room, though this, of course, is the concern of a more experienced craftsmanship. Then with a porcelain-topped table, pen and. ink and paints can make any old artistic riot. It can all be “smoothed out,” as one small boy of my acquaintance described it, and “new pictures to-morrow-day” can take its place. Baby, too, is specially catered for in new stainless trays for babies’ feeding utensils. These trays can be bought in the loveliest shades of dark or light blue, in eau-de-nil, in primrose, or in tango. Semi-oval in shape, they have the most lovable little pussy-cat decorating each corner. And then there are pussy-cat teapots —the head being the lid. ’And vivid-hued china ducks for cruets. And on the serious side, cottage money-boxes to encourage the saving-up zeal of the toddlers. And another sweet little red-roofed country cottage from the front door of which emerges string! Another good habit inculcated in string-economising. As for nursery writing materials, try them! There will be no difficulty in persuading Molly or Jack to write that duty letter to Uncle or Aunt when they are given a supply of long, thick, pointed pencils, and pens to match, not to mention a large inkwell that refuses to spill over; and notepaper with the nursery letter-writer’s own initial in the top left corner. NANA.