Splashes of sea water leave ugly stains which may become permanent unless they are treated fairly soon. Quite the best plan is to spread the stencils are bought ready cut, as they our cold fresh water over the mark. This will remove all salt ang other matter, and, if the part is finally pressed with a moderately hot. iron no cockling will be left and" the stain will have vanished. Of course, with delicate silky materials this plan cannot be followed. Here the sea water stains should be left until they are quite dry. Then the material should be stretched rather tightly and brushed ang beaten with a little switch. In this way the salt is removed. Then steam the spot and finish by pressing, when it wi be found that all traces of the stain have disappear When sea water makes white marks on black footwear these scan removed by rubbing with a paste made of black lead and lemon juice, Leave for an hour or so and then rub gently.
The Coloured Mat Table-cloths disappeared during the war, largely for economy, but the fa mained, or, where the cloth {s used, it is very often coloured instead of white, In many eases the colour is, more attractive than the dead white cloth, which needed to be of supe lative material ang demanded the most exquisite silver ang glass. Be. tween the big white tablecloth and,, the mat comes the little—colou cloth, which, with its points scallops, just reaches the edge the table, instead of enveloping the ground. The coloured clo be patterned, or shades of Sx, and cream and orange ate. its most satisfactory manif®~ With the dark mahogany tac. white mat, even where 160 "ann openwork are used, is tending to disappear as being so spotty as to give the table the appearance of an archipelago, Instead, white mats embroidered-or eross-stitched in colour ave used, and 0 also are mats in a good, strong, plain colour. Italian, work is very' popular just now, and here some of the most beautiful eross-stich is found, which has the advantage of being the same on both sides. "Almost more effective and good deal simpler are mats of very fine linen in such colours as coppery rod, deep orange, deep pastel blue, which have only'a tiny hem: and that not oven hemstitched. Instead of the hem-stitching, a couple of threads are drawn next to the hem, und instead of the threads of the material, one thick thread of silk is inserted in a contrasting colour. In the copper red mat, for instance, 9 greenish thread is inserted, which raises the surface a little and gives a colour contrast that looks as though it were woven into the mat
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