Evening star., 1925-03-27

troduced into rooms by
$780, means of cushions and fur
niture covers. With tan or
buff walls and brown rugs,
loose-eovers and cushions look ex-
tremely we'll in sapphire blue, dull
old rose, tan and touch or black.
With gray walls and taupe rugs, COW
ers and cushions may be a vivid rose.
dull pink, old blue and black, with
touches of turquoise blue. With
green wall paper and rugs with
brown or green predominating, tan,
brown, old rose, black and pink give
the desired touch of warmth and
color With blue walls and blue rugs,
yellow and black should predominate.
Choose materials that are bright and
gay, but remember that those with
light background will soon soil.
If there is much furniture In room,
do not have all the loose covers Of
one material or all made in the same
style. If the room is to be restful, q
few of the chairs could be covered in
plain material and the remainder with
chintz or cretonne.
In the new cretonnes there is a
strong tendency toward landscape
designs. There is also q great re-
vivaI or Chinese scenes and figures
from old prints and documents. Two
of the most attractive floral Gre
tonnes of the season are on a ground
of pale lemon, one showing groups of
hollyhocks and wistaria, and the
other punches of huge and exquisite
sweet peas in natural colorings. The
latter is a cretonne that would look
lovely in a bedroom with ivory walls
and mahogany furniture. There is
reversible cretonne with a rose, blue
and yellow flower and green leaf de-
sign, with a blue selvedge making a
decorative border.
To Brighten Dark Closet.
A dark closet can be greatly i'm
proved by painting the floor white
and papering the walls with very
light paper. Get some sweet clover
blossoms and put them into thin bags
of old lawn or cheesecloth and hang
them up in the closets. You will be
met by delightful fragrance when
you open the door, and the clothes
hung there will always be sweet
To Repair Rugs.
If you have an old rug in which
the colors are worn and faded until
you can scarcely see them, don't
throw it away, but get a package Of
dye, or as many packages ss there
are colors in your rug. Dissolve each
package in half a gallon of hot water
and boil for 10 minutes. Then take
a paint brush and paint the rug as
You would paint anything else. Keep
the dye as warm as possible. Let 1t
dry and you will have rug which
will be bright as new.
III you have some old carpet that
you are using for rugs or for a run
ner to protect your good rugs, in
stead of binding the edges. turn un-
der one inch, dampen on the wrong
side, and press with a hot iron.
Treated this way the ends will never
turn up, and the work Is much easier
than the old way of sewing.
When rugs have begun TO wrinkle
and the fiber is sweeping off, make a
stiff starch and spread it on the back
Is dry turn over the rug, and it will
lie out smooth and straight. This
VIII also keep the fiber from sweep
ing OF
Windows and Screens,
To clean windows easily and thor
oughly, wash them well with a fairly
wet chamois skin, then rinse the
leather. wiring it until fairly dry, then
wipe the windows. A brilliant and
clean surface will be the result Mir
rors and pictures may be cleaned in
this way, but care must be taken to
wiring out the chamois skin so that
1t is quite dry before the final polish
takes place. You can remove paint
from windows anG mirrors by the
Following method: When the paint is
perfectly dry, take safety razor
plade or very sharp knife and shave
OH the paint. This works Ike :.
cnarm Tor removing paint from any
glass. any
II your window screens or scream
uoors need repairing this Spring. trv
'h!s plan: Take piece of new wire
screen little larger than the hole
20 De patched Ravel out about two
Io"s around the edge of the patch
Pehd the ends of the wire that is
IdNeHed so that you can stick them
tnrough the screen to be. patched
theh bend the ends back fiat and
manner down tight. If the screen is
painted after this, the patch will not
snow at all, and 1t is scarcely notice
aoie, anyway, unless the old screen is
TOO shabby to mend at ALL
Curtains and Shades.
Bright days soon show up the weak
points IN window curtains, which can
easily be overlooked when the wealth
er is dull. The best way to mend lace
curtains is to use the material from
an old curtain of the same pattern or
a near the pattern as possible
Patches should be cut out to fill
the broken or torn spaces which as
closely s possible correspond to the
broken pattern. These may be fixed
in place with very neat running
stitch, although if the curtains are
clean it is a good plan to stick the
patches down with very strong