For the house in summer there e two schools of thought there. is the elegant and there is the sturdy. Both have their moments, There is the moment when vou feel like a million dollars and wish to look like it and there are more moments when you feel like ten cents. The ideal is to be prepared for both moods. To enhance the elegance of your transparent organdies and chiffons there should be flowers crystal vases, delicately shaded silk curtains, soft lights, jades and ivories and enamels.
But as constant companions through hot summer days the sturdier rooms are the friendliest. Thick loose covers which people can flump down into with puffs of exhaustion, without causing your smile to lose anything of its elasticity, cushions which will come in from garden or verandah still looking good—these are the things with which to spend the summer.
Both elegance and sturdiness can be found at the North China Industries, 505 Bubbling Well Road—lovely gauzes. exquisite silks, and the comfortable things as well. These later are real peasant industry stuff, solid and wholesome as the northern countryman himself. They will greet the washerman as a friend, and will enjoy his stones and washing boards.
Here, too, are, cottagey checked tablecloths, bed" covers pretty as paint—but which you don't have to take care how you lie on, always a consideration on hot days, And everything is in shades that are in tune with Nature and merge with flower colourings and leaves.
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