Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-09

a cross eyed old bag with rags of red
and green, and a purple hat with a
chicken feather stuck on at a rak-
ish angle. Don't invent monstrosi-
ties. Nobody wants them. Picture
a bit of real life. When you have
gained some experience, you can try
your hand at fanciful writing, but
you "a never get that over unless
you make it seem real.
There is thrilling, fascinating LIFE
about US all the time. Let's use
our eyes to see with, and let's use
our brains to make use of all III
impressions. We don't need eyes,
IL we see not, do we?
Try again. and this time write
about something that really comes
within your experience. You will
find that you have done something
that will make you much more
proud.
lOften I have a pleasant sort of
surprise. 1 find that some girl who
has always seemed to me hopelessly
frivolous, is really a very matter-of-
fact, capable little person, and that
pleases me tremendously. Just be-
cause a girl is pretty and has u
ming clothes and is lots of fun one
need not conclude that she is con-
ceited or shallow or hasn't an idea
in her head" She may be the gay
est sort of girl. and yet know how
to make bread and get up a good
dinner, and make all her own
clothes. 1 am beginning to think
that the most attractive girls are
usually the most capable, and that
they are attractive because they are
capable.
. .
Sometime ago I had a letter from
a girl who wouldn't sign her own
name. but who wanted TO know IL
we wanted her to tell us about the
window shades she "a making. 1
asked her to tell US by all means,
but to sign her name! I was sorry
that she didn't answer. but another
girl did, and now we have "Jeritza"
added to our circle with a letter
about her window shades.
Dear Mary c.:
/ was SO wishing that there would
be a letter about making shades. and
after what you wrote in the column
about it, I waited, hoping that 1
might get some ideas. But the let
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style Of my own. The Five-Fifteen
girls may be interested.
We have a cute little new bunga-
low type Of house, and we have the
walls of the big living-dining room
finished in rough gray plaster. There
are windows everywhere and are nat
urally not very long windows. There
happen to be thirteen all together.
The woodwork Is stained a dull
brown, and we have two plain dark
brown rugs on the floor. We thought
c%retonne hangings would rather
overdo the matter of drapery be-
cause there are SO many windows.
So we thought of making the regula-
ton window shade of a oretonne that
was fine in quality and fast in color.
We got an unusually attractive piece
in dull green and tan and bright
golden yellow, and the reverse side
was beautifully plain and neutral. in
tone. OF course it was too wide for
the old rollers, but we trimmed off
a strip on each edge, and made the
narrowest hens so that the edges
don't show at all from outside. Then
we made a nice hem at the bottom
to slip the stick through, and
screwed in the little screw with the
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color. We covered two side chairs
with the same cretonne, and they
stand one on each side of the fire
place. The upholstered furniture in
the room is done in perfectly plain
coloFs, so that we could select quite
a striking pattern for the shades, and
we are just SO pleased with our re-
suits You have no idea how
pretty the sunlight is, filtering
through those coIors.
The incest part of it was that u
shades didn't eos US as much as or
binary, made-by-the-million window
shades do, and they are so decorative
or course we don't use any other
curtains at the windows.
Won't some other girl tell about
some of these practical things? I
did k Gretchen Of Metuchen's
room. She was certainly clever, and
she made me think I could do these
shades! I hope my story will make
some other girl feel hal she can do
something original. 1t is such fun.
l shall be glad IL you will let me
belong to your circle, and will try
to write something different next
time.
Sincerely yours.
"JERITZA."
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That is a good letter, "Jeritza,"
and we want you to belong"