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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1927-06-23, Page 7311,040.401 itsKom 4/.50341 40,14001 fasereea mums akietwa losmas WARM eereaels ARS • or OCCUPIED AND orlon ups WOO aCU'iC4 tAto l i um 1 ,////r3//i /ail/.•P///1%///4//1: e.W iffy . / t'clneae s !cask Industry fi.gri•cu1tume "graphecL" to stew the development of land improvement during the fifty years' for which records are available. .Oanada's ' Nartural. Resources shown mitt locations where found plainly marked. CURTAINS How to Choose Them ing, It Is done with yarn on a woven filet net. The yarn is threaded in a tapestry needle and Is simply pulled through the net as in a running stitch. Cross-stitching done In colors can Curtains, like clothes, are being make bright the plainest curtain, Made on straight, simple Lines. Win- In your bedroom perhaps you now dows are . discarding their many lave plain white curtains of serial or flounces of silk petticoats that hide the marquisette. You can brighten them view and keep out the air. They are up by adding a narrow band of color wearing ruffled wash skirts of ging- ed sateen or voile. With heavier ma - ham, voile and muslin. That is the terials, like unbleached muslin, strips kind of curtains I would choose for of gingham, cretonne or colored cot - your house. tons are often used for trimmign. A Curtains are not half the bugbear narrow ruffled valance made of the we would make of them, or that fa- trimming material is nice for high shion once demanded. They can be windows, with ruffled tie -backs to had as cheaply as aprpn gingham if match. Or the valance may be made we know just • what to buy and how of the same material as the cutain to use new goods with the scraps from and trimmed with colored bands. our sewing bag. Wash curtains trim- Sometimes a three or four -inch in- med with ruffles, or bias folds of a set of color is put in above the hem. eontrasting color, or a touch of hand- Again two or three bands of color work may be used in any room with- are sewed across the skirt of the cur - out an overdrapery. Drapes are a tains Suppose your old white curtains matter of choice. j are ragged on the hem edge, they can Our summer dresses and spring be made new with a set -on double. curtains may be made of the same hem of colored gingham, line or sa- materials, and it's a saving to use the teen, either figured or plain. dress scraps for curtain trines. Voiles,' Curtain scraps of colored materials muslins, dotted swiss, dimity, pale-. may be snipped into • flower patterns colored tarlatans, mulls, lawns, ging- l or conventional designs and appliqued hams, calico, chambrays and sun -fast with yarn or stitched into place under organdies, made either straight or be- rickrack braid. Sometimes motifs ruffled, are appropriate to curtain are cut from cretonne and appliqued your house. There is unbleached mus- in the curtain corners. lin and cheesecloth, not to mention Ruffles are a favorite trimming. the nets, scrim and marquisettes. Many of the white voile curtains are There are pretty cretonnes and chintz, ruffled in blue or rose with triple and this spring striped denim. ruffle tie -backs to match a narrow What shall we choose from this list ruffled valance. Pretty they are and of materials? colorful too. Your room will decide that for you. I Did you ever notice that some win - Every room demands certain things dows can wear a sash curtain with of its curtains. Right texture, right an air of style while others, preten- color, that's what it asks for first. tious in their silk folds, drag their There are rough and smooth ma- I skirts at the corners? The secret of terials. You will choose according to smart curtains lies in the measuring your walls. With a smooth wall you and the cutting. will like your windows. best curtained) M in a smooth material. Walls finished with a toothed plaster or rough paper Hints to Overnight Campers need curtains of a roughish texture Warmth le not .wholly a' matter of such as a wide-open net, a dotted the coverings you have over you. swiss or a marquisette. Quite as important is the amount un - If you want to make your rooms der your body, You need fully as bright buy gay -colored wash curtains mach, sometimes twice as much under, and dont bother with an overdrapery. than you have over you. Failure to If you can use any of the shades of realize this need is why many camp - rose or yellow, do. Light filtered ers sleep cold. This applies both to through curtains of these tones givea canvas cot and ground sleeping. _ a room the feeling of sunshine. Cur- When choosing either a blanket or tains are best when their color accents a sleeping bag, demand a generous the window just a little, making it supply of length- Otherwise, cold. will stand out from the rest of the room, cheep in around your neck and shoul- but not too boldly. I like curtains to ders, Sleeping bags are often equip - snatch the walls but they must be of .ped with flaps that you can pull over a little stronger tone, If the curtain your head; an 'excellent idea.. is of a patterned material the design Feet being some distance removed should be of the deeper, more vivid from .the central heating plant, they 'colors of the rug and uphosltery. are especially susceptible to cold. You may stay in the straight and Wear a :pair of heavy wool socks, re - narrow path of white and still not be served. solely for sleeping. without color. White- nets are now Many timesit's a wise Idea to aug- nmade with a colored motif. Sometimes ment blankets with Clothing. Perhaps, there is a yellow or rose thread run a suit of wool under clothing for night through with the white. I have seen wear will take the place of an extra dotted swiss of every color, and mar- blanket. quisettes with patterns in yellow, rose Some sleeping bags are cut to the and blue. There are ginghams, check- shape of the body instead of being the ed and striped and cotton muslins with same, width -from head to foot. • That colored designs. eliminates a certain amount of weight Have you seen the new theatrical and bulk- Instead of carrying •a full scrim? It is a pure linen gauze that length telt or wool pad to serve as, a makes itself at home in any room. In mattress, a hiker can get one of head the ecru it costs around 29 cents a to hip length. That also eliminates yard; in colors it's a few cents more. weight and bulk. The newest trimming for scrim is colored yarn flowers forming an ir- regular posy border. Mrs, Grub (after a tiff)—"When I Add a few touches of handwork to married you I didn' know you were your most ordinary curtains and they suoh a coward. Y thought you were will take on an air of luxury. One a brave man." Grubb—"So diel of the' newest curtain trims is barn- everybody else.' a TENNIS AT$T. CLQUD Bill tiller► Defeatec ;,,for the International Championship The ir, etlonal hard -court tennis. chaimpionships at St, Cloud, %"Lance, lasted a fortnight. As the finals ap- proached, the temper of the crowd sizzled at fever heat, the umpires' et" decisions became erratic, the serves 1 of William Tilden II, o1' the U.S. e p hissed like rockets, and although his e nerves were beginning to crack, it seemed` inevitable that he would win the singles championship. Rayinond v, Tilden—"Lean Bill's" first real test cane when he met Louis' Raymond, youthful champion of South Africa, Someone "spread a e report" that Rayniond had a" sore ` �"�°� Nin,; e� � hs foot, that the referee had agreed to ¢ -a!� R�IiNNnn� -. 1 postpone the match, but that Tilden "" had .refused. So the crowd cheered loudly when Raymond slashed to • vic- tory in the first set and threatened nac•aP �"�se�rwcr again in the third, Tilden was criti-wo5,,, ;,r cizing the linesmen's decisioue, bark- - ^—�. ing brusque commands at the ball o, Tilt POMENlON WHO 4""N1IAATURAL RESovRCES _'i" i,: Canada's Natural Reso Arpeo shown with locations where found plainly mark. et. boys, playing magnificent tennis. 7'11• den won three sets and match. "-"" Coehets v. Tilden.—Henri Cochet The Snow White Sail. started like the cyclone that defeated' Tilden in the U.S. lawn champion CTO Capt. Chas. Lindbergh, New York t 1927,) o Paris by ateplane, May 20 21, ships last summer. But Tilden on his . peak was undisturbed, won three straighli -sets. Gallant in vicory, he .-The snow flowhite ease from the sea has refused to accept the umpire's deal-, v'n� sions which went against Cochet. On Aud this ciippew that !yore like a this day the crowd' applauded Tilelen-1 aloswan; Lacoste v. Tilden. -The finals .:.For tele slxlps that fared by the breeze Rene Lacoste, a leading, eel -like man' >' with blue -black hair, with dark cir- ' Are gone trout the ooean—gave, cles • under his eyes .. . Tilden, long. NOW the calm) may fall. and the grouitd- arms and long legs covering the court sea flaw, like a madcap daddylonglegs . . both i And the comber roll in the galls confident . both using every .wee-' But it makes no.odds how the faux pon of the game, tantalizing chop- I winds blow, strokes, lobs, uncauny placements, To the steamer that bears no sail. cannonballs ... Lacoste injuring a leg trying to recover a Tilden cannon- The pirate dreal on the lone high sea, in less time and. with fewer boughs, ball , . . Tilden being called three'And the frigate is sighted no mare. In this case the branches axe Iain flat times for foot faults by Allan Muhr, Now the watch is not what it used to on the ground, although.1 a aeries of umpire from the U.S. , . Tilden be rows, as dust meatloned. Cover all arguing with Mohr, On the ships that the wild winds the hard stems. with feathery tips. In the fifth and deciding set, with bore. In .localities where evergreen boughs game score 5 -to -4 against him,. Tilden Se the steamer, too, from the sea may are not to be found, treee nob. as asked Umpire Muhr to watch' his ser . go, vice closely He then served four Like the snow white sail they un- successive aces and soon brought the furled, game score 9 -to -8 in his favor. After When we look serene on the waves be - that, spectators debated whether Til- low. - den wilted or whether Lacoste became From the airship over the world, invincible, but the fact remained that Montreal Star. —John Loye, Lacoste took three straight games - and the championship. The match , How to Makea Bed in the ,,n The making of a good. bough bed• is not as dlfll-cult an undertaking as it to commonly credited with being. Wt's mostly a matter of time, patience, and care; patience in cutting plenty of; boughs and then arranging these in an orderly manner. There are two Ways of 'blinding sash a bed. In one cease you jab the branches into the grootheir feathery tips leaning lightly forward and all in the same direction.: Plant a reooies of rews across the bed, reaching from head to foot. This is the .best kind of bough. bed: in that its springiness taste, The other kind of bed can be made score: 6-4, 4-6, 5-7, 6-3, 11-9. "Shop girls have a splendid chance of getting married," says a writer. The "Try one of my•oigars, old man; only trouble is that even when they They are the best things out" "Prob- are married they have.a habit of still ably, but what are they like lighted'?" calling, "Cash, please!" MRS. HOWARD RERGUSON Above ie a eel;ghtful new photograph o; Mrs. How and Ferguson, wife of the Premier at Ontario, THE ST. LAWRENCE Our National 4-lighway fos World Commerce' In last month's record of river trek!, flc there appeared the news that t trans -atlantic steamship of 19,0041 .. tons had arrived at Montreal. press Item certainly created no sax' - sation, Yet eeonosni'sts read it wittil an interest which, Should be shared by every Canadian wh,o desires th* advancement of his fume -Ian& This simple fact of a ship of 19,000' tons entering Montreal harbor with.,, out difficulty Is Indeed a stalking lustration of the importance our St. Lawrence has acquired maritime trade, and a most satiate& tory result of the labor expended up%•1 on making this river a real national highway. Not long ago the channel of the SU Lawrence was only ten feet deep in) certain places. The first statistics' birch, aider and willow may Tie fairly dealing with the improvement of this well. .01 course, the s6ftness ofever- waterway, published in 1361, would green tips is absent. But you can add have led no ane to suppose that the a layer of soft forage such as moss, St. Lawrence channel would ever be ferns, grass or leaves. If your forage deepened to 80 feet. To -clay this is .of the right sort and plentiful, channel is being cat to 36 feet. 'Very there's no special need to cut and lay soon ships of stili greater tonnage a bough foundation. Choose forage will be bringing their cargoes direct that is withered and dry whenever ly to Montreal, there is any choice in the matter. Dry From Montreal to Father Point, the moss is good. An armload of hay Is channel of the St. Lawrence is 340 worth a walk -to the next farm. Dur- miles long. From the .Atlantic to ing the fall of the year, tall withered Montreal, the St. Lawrence route has ferns can become an especially warm a lenth of 900 miles and possesses and comfortable bed. unusual advantages for navigation. In case the forage Is green and damp, In length and depth this waterway is spread a ground sheet over it. On the unique. Its system of lighthouses other hand, if the forage is dry, you and other aids to navigation is one of are better off by sleeping in direct the finest in the world, so that ves- contact with it, ` Dry ferns or hay sell are as safe by night as by day- possess marked heat holding qualities 1 The St. Lawrence, with its two ,from which you might as well benefit. chief ports of Montreal and Quebec, in such eases an excellent bedding ar-already plays a part of the first im- rangem-ent Is as follows: ground Cloth portance in the commerce of Canada. spread on the ground, forage tn. the It is the great artery of the country's cloth, and a •blanket spread over the maritime trade, and is of as much in - forage. Roil in another blanket .on terest to the West, with which it is top of that foundation. connected by the Great Lakes, as to --from Field and Stream. the East. e.._.__- Much could be written of the his - Britain Does Her Bit to interest attaching to this river, Singapore Free Press: It almost the point of deparure for all our ex - looks as if in the end Great Britain piorers, the scene of so many heroic will take her own line and if that exploits, the pathway of hope for should be the case she will once more each nation in turn. Its banks are add to her prestige as she did when crowded with memories. the decision was taken to send the And how much it holds of majesty, troops, an inasmuch as she can hardly of charm, of romantic beauty! The be worse hated in China by the agi- towns, villaes, and hamlets all along tationists than she is at present, it its course, interspersed with forests does -not matter a great deal if her or meadows, its bea.ohes, sandy or independent action should be scored stony, the broad lakes into which it up against her. • sometimes expands, the mountains .2.. ,g. I and hills which form a picturesque News Item. background to the landscape, the col - 1 or and even the sound of its waters, In reporting a washout on the Can -';the inflow of its innumerable tribu- adian Peale, the section foreman taries, the surprises of its slightest wired in a complete report to the sup- bends, and a thousand other attrac- erintendeut, gave all details as to tions should influence us, whether on mile posts, bridges, track distance;i pleasure bent or on education, to to which the superintendent wired ' travel on our own St. Lawrence. It back instructions to make the wire 1 can supply subjects for novelists, for report shorter i nthe future, and fol-, our historians, for our musicians, for low the message up with details In a' all our artists. Without leaving our . ( own laud, we can go on Journeys Several weeks later another wash- quite as interesting, in many re - out occurred, the section foreman spects, as those which we undertake wiring: in foreign countries, "Where the track was the river is. " "And they call England the land of » free speech!" said the disgusted Scot A good safety drive is to drive safe- when the telephone operator told him ly. to put two pennies. in the box" FOURTH OF NINE ;HISTORICAL SKETCHES BY JEFFERYS • (CUT OUT AND SAVE) ,r,r„'*r p,1 , t ad 3,r. 1 ,. h �l ,.ft;;till III; 1 4 4