Do not place cut flowers full in the direct sunlight, or in a strong draught. Such faults shorten their lives.
Roses like fresh cold water, even fey cold. The soft-stemmed roses should have their stalks split at the end, and the eqidermis braised foran inch or two before being put into their vases.
Bare Legs Are But a Passing Craze and Dainty Hose Outlives em, One of a woman's biggest problems has always been and no doubt always will be stockings.
It es impossible in this day and age to wear cotton or lisle-ones like our grandmothers did, although for the very cold winter months a combination of silk and wool is con red smart for street wear.
The main reason why stockings are such an important item is that they ai 80 expensive. Inexpensive silk: hose of coarse silk look as badly as cotton ones.
Woody-stemmed. roses (and this precaution applies to all woody-stemmed garden shrubs, like syringa rhododendron, sweet Wil-iam and 0 on) should have the bark peeled off: for several inches from the base. They want snipping daily; half an inch will do. This treatment enables the flowers to absorb freely the.moisture they need.
Poppies, particularly the frail and dainty Shirley and Californian varieties, must, if one wants them to last any time at all, have their The new hat with scart to match {is considered very smart end. will set off a plain frock to a very good advantage. cut. ssiest way to do this is immediately they are
to dip each stalk in a saucer of hot candle grease. the Buds All flowers in spring, summer or autumn, should be picked-whenever possible in the budding stage.
Lupins and stocks, delphiniums and all the spike-heads in which the basic flowers open first, should be picked while their tops are yet tight-closed:
The annoying thing about our expensive hose is that almost always when we wear a lovely new pair, we manage accidentally to catch them on the commer of a chair or other inconvenient object and our five dollars and new stockings are finished. full fashioned hose fare the only kind. Even with these we always worry about our seams. Crooked seams are very unattracthe market known it is a seamless stocking and though it gives a stockingless effect at the same time it has not the sheenless look of bare legs. These stockings as yet are little known but in a short time I believe will be very popular as it seems they offer just what we want, From the United States comes a new cream. It is of the same order as the sunburn power. This can be applied to the legs like any hing cream and then dusted with the power and it is impossible to tell whether one is wearing the "bare limb" hose or not, Going stockingless is not fashion, it is a fad and one that will probably pass away. A fad does not become permanent unless it can be proved to be more convenient and usefal than the things we did and used before. Stockingless legs are not attractive. They lack the gleaming sheathlike effect that a good-looking pair of hose gives. No doubt this season of going without stockings will give us a better hose. The manufacturer cannot allow women to stop buying stockings and for that reason every effort will be made to put a more reasonable and better wearing stocking on the market. The better-looking a stocking, the shorter its life. The thin cobweb-like hose that all women like and buy is impractical as far as lasting powers fare concerned. A stocking that could be sheer and cobweb like and that will last as long as the every day service weight hose will solve the problem provided the price is the same, It is an undisputed adage that felothes make the woman or man.
No costume complete no matter how smart without proper shoes and stockings. With the new fashion of shoes to match every dress, it is most essential to have the proper shade and texture of hose, Almost every imaginable shade can be obtained and whet the unusual happens and th correct match cannot be made the new sun brown colour tones in with everything.
The short socks are very.good for golf or tennis. They -are cool and comfortable and look well when they match the sport dress and hat, For morning wear they can also be used but they never look as well as a plain neutral pair of service weight hose. One reason they are so popular is that we do not like to wear our silk stockings on the course or courts and it is well-nigh impossible to ruin a pair of thes socks.
Going stockingless has caused a great deal of comment, favour able and unfavourable. It all depends on how one feels about this. The well-dressed woman will' always wear stockings. No fashion house or any of the worlds Dest dressed women whom we follow has ever given the word or set the style by going stockingless. With bare legs we certainly are cool and comfortable and save money. Nevertheless when a woman considers clothes and smart ness of effect, money is usually the last thing she thinks about. There are few Woman who can go stockingless and still appear smartly dressed. These fortunate few are favoured, With evening clothes essential (o wear stockings. The new evening dresses with" Jong flowing draperies, uneven hem lines and circular' skirts demand stockings and the pleasing and graceful effect is taken away by bare legs.
Sweetpeas, which last a long time, look their best and keep their best' in glass bowls and vases, because they are light lovers. Roses keep better in thick china or pottery bowls and vases, when the stems can remain in cool darkness.
The buds of carnations and irises can be coaxed into living on if a little sand is put at the bottom of their vases, after the first bloom has withered and been cut away.
Always when possible cut flowers towards dusk in the evening.
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