'A saunter around the West-End dress shops this spring may produce Ged results in ideas for the home dressmaker. For instance boleros are here, there and everywhere and among them can be seen a model which might have been made to be copied quite simply and inexpensively. All that ig needed to make this delightful ttle "evening jacket seven-eighths of a yard of curtain net and one. ball of a contrasting colour rabble wool.
"The net may be star-patterned, but does not matter what light net yor choose. Having cut out and sewn Bolero, outline the stars, or what lover the design may be, with a double row of running stitches. in wool and Tun more stitches in two rows around the short sleeves and the bolero' edge.
From alt sides one hears the question: what are they doing now—the women who led the women of the lit war Only one of the Service lets of 1914-1918 is in uniform ain, Commander of the W.R.AL Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan Ghiet Controller of the A.TS., a rank er responding to major-general in the my. "Dame Rachel's father was the 'A. D._ Ht, Fraser of the Scots 5 family and was a Professor {Botany at the University of Lon-before the present war.
Same Katharine Furse was the frst woman to receive the DBE, and [5a VAD, before she commanded WRN,' from 1917 to 191 age of sixty-four this daughter féohn Adaington Symonds, the Vie iden critic and poet, and widow of Charles" Furse, the artist, working for evacuee children. 2,3 Conttollersin-chief of the KAAES, from 1018 to 1920, sixty-[BS years old Dame Florence' Simp-in Who is "now the only. woman rector of the National Camps scheme Hall Should Look Stylish:
First Impressions are often lasting! ones, so while you are fixing up your home, perhaps you should look at your hall. Does It tell a casual Visitor that the Fest of the howe is tastefully furnished? Does it make guest welcome, or is it just " place: where you hang hats and coats?
How much furniture to put in hall depends entirely, of course, upon its. size, tit is undersized it shouldn't be overloaded with massive furniture It" will Took even smaller. Use the minimum of furnishings—perhaps a [small console table with mirror above itvand one chair alongside, Ifyou have a large hall and a grandfather's clock by all means use them together, The clock is an deal sentry to" greet guests upon entering.
"if you have a large hall closet you might convert it Into a powder room, which is found in so. many of the smartest homes today.
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