The Coloured Towel Scheme Will be sure to recognize his or hors. To-day, it is possible to secure towels of similar texture yet different colours—all-over colours, from top to bottom and even on the re-
Peach, jade, And why not?) We at the thought of choosing the wrong toothbrush while half awake certainly should be deeply interes ed in the latest idea wi calls of different colours for the. members of the house-the very colours mentioned in fact, says an atte clinical teats,. has recently announced that bacteria deposited from one's hands to a towel, live on that towel for from 24 to 48 ours and that they definitely can be transferred from the towel to the hands of any other person who uses it.
"We avoid the—toothbrush, the napkin, andthe handkerchief of our {dearest friend, yet are often far too caveles when zeaching'for a towel. "Four members of 1a family have four times the possibility of, depositing transferable bacteria upon Tone piece of, toweling a6 has one member, so° that the family towel Becomes an leaky medium through which a disease contracted by one may spread to several.
Tt has always been difficult to mark towels of one colour or design If there be seven, poor dad may at I sst_have the bath towel for himself—it he's fortunate, So much for the sanita ry side of the subject. From the decorative angle thre is qui much to be modernised bathrooms done in eslpossoyq {Ie 304-920 OAK "pres oured tile and enamel with smart touched of black. Many of us must. still" struggle along with all-white bathrooms—although keenly conscious of the fact that this severe and qlinieal scheme is no longer considered "good."
This leaves us with the job of introducing colour through. such media as the shower curtain, bath mat and towels. To be handed coloured towels in six-pastel shades that blend exquisitely. when hanging from the same rack seems almost too good to be true, and docs much to make us forget the lack of colour la the construction of the bathroom itself.
Th design, too, these newer towels are' in fecling'with the modern trend in decoration, featuring" such motifs as polka-dot combinations, a statistical" pattern showing \'an\ up-and-down design; a stepped pat-torn suggesting skyscraper con struction; an angular motif of eon '50 that each member of the family, ventional arrow heads.
Tu our own grandmothers' day the country people of England not only drank sage tea but ate it liberally with their broad and butter, and even flavoured their cheese and batter with it in the making.
'Although daisy roots are still used bythe peasants of Italy' and Spain. they were little used elses where us salads. Probably" the curious old. belief that their use stunted growth may have had much to do with their unpopularity.
Rosemary and Balm All the old herbalists praised rosemary, and it certainly has never Tost its popularity, and has many fuses to this day, although fow of us "powder it and bind it to our arms with a fine lingn cloth in order to make us merry," as a, quaint old saying used to run.
Balm, of course, has always been esteemed for its vivifying power of making the heart morry and glad fand a8 a sovereign brain specific in many countries. The Turks transplanted quantities of it to their own gardens from the Holy Land, and guarded it most carefully when the balsam was flowing, so. much did they value its medicinal properties.
The tansy was in use in England] even before mint became the chief Vegetable for young lamb, and a tansy cake or pudding at Easter much the fashion as a goose at Michaelmas or gingerbread at Hallowe'en.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.