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Porcupine Advance, 16 Sep 1937, 2, p. 5

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With Real Lace | ergy than money to spend on making If you have the urge for lace and| your dGay nursery fit for a king, then satin for your baby. better stay away here are some suggestions we‘ve seen from map‘le, though. Of course you can worked out: get something of the same effect with: Chicken Littieâ€"Cream walls and dctted swiss ruffles,. or even frilled orâ€" ' cream ensmel paint for eid furniture gandy, etther of which can be used with ,commandeevd for the purpose, light map‘s. But real lase and s¢ in ribbon ; blue slip covers for chair and cot, white belong to pink cor blue babyiaad blue bedding. chicken cutâ€"outs for furniture, and proferable in the very}the walls . . . flufly litt‘e yellow hbaby pale shades, We saw a bassinet with chicks, Rhode Island red roosters and a real Belgium lace flounce. ; all kinds of fat hens cut out of And another notâ€"so plutocratiec but coloured paper and pasted in a procesâ€" nearly as lovely with a pleated voile sicn around the walls, Oream eurta‘ns, nmmmmmmwm course, with av‘lique chickens across ing. Pleated pastel linen for a bes the hems of them. ainet fSounce is terribly smart looking.| Funny Paperâ€"Enlarge (by means of When baby graduates to his‘crib bot| squared off paper) the comic characters you‘re still wanting to hold on to these | in the eartoon strips. Then trace these frouâ€"frou details, a ruflle around the‘ enfargements all over the walls of the lower rim of the crib sides is a dainty| room. Add bright blue chintz curtains marthes across the lower corner in military manner, while a diagonal stripe across eazh piece looks for all the world like the strap across a soldier‘s front, and the knobs of the chests are painiâ€" ed like bright buttons. Maple furniture for baby‘s room is a pleasant variation from the usual enâ€" amel. ‘The early American versions aren‘t new, though they‘r> still agreeâ€" able to have and popular because they adapt themseilves to other uses as the child â€"grows clder. Provincial maple is newer and smarter and more fun to deâ€" corate, too. The present vogue for Tyrolean motifs and the bright printed ectton fabrics that are available with their Rhsarts and flower designs sugâ€" gest many jaunty nursertes, ard: the coming Swedish provincial boom (yes, it‘s coming kack, this time in a volume vogue) is even jollior to adapt for nurâ€" sery decorations. We‘ve besn szcouting arcund the smart centres of the last few days for fashion pointers in miniature interior d2coratiors. The most interâ€" esting designer of juvznile furniture we found to e a daughter cf a former residen‘ of the United States. At her Little Miss Muffet is quite particular about the tuffet she sits on, and Little Boy Blue prefers an innerspring hayâ€" stack to fall fast asleep on. For the babies of this streamline age can‘t be just tucked in a corner or shushed in a cradle. Fashions for the Younger Setâ€"Modern Provincialâ€"Blond Wood for Rhymes Still Lead When All‘s Said and Dane A whole parade of little white circus figures cut out of Permatex and rubber cemented on to red chintz make a gay valance for this window in a nursery, Wi nifred Wadsworth was the designer of the little circus figures called Pasterettes and Sidney Kelly decorated t he room which is mostly in red and white. Mrs. Ogden Hammond, Jr., was decorated by a smart shop run by a daughter furniture has brightly painted motifs in a modernized peasant style and the reds and clear ma rine blues against a soft offâ€"white. . The practical point be adjusted to make a mate to the single bed. This nersery in the home of of President Cleveland. The colours are mostly strawberry pinkâ€" about the furniture is that the crib can THE MODERN BABY NEEDS A MODERN NURSERY PLEASANT HoMEsS ) J VA â€"_ 1o9k y _ A1 here are so i worked out: _ Chicken ‘cream commandee and a red linoleum floor. You might While you cant still ke pink and blue if you fea very traditional about your baby, yellow is a smarter colour just now for nurseries in the dainty manâ€" ner. If ysou don‘t want to be pastel, then white or pale blue with bright red and deep blue is the thing .. .. that‘s the colouring usually preferred in all the peasant nurseries There‘s a coral colsur that‘s new and very much in vogue in nursery dGdecoration now. Clear light green and white is very clean and crisp looking . . . pale green walls, white dotted swiss curtains and bassinst, a dezsper green linoleum, white enamel furniture, white bedding and covers ard whit> slip covers for the chair amd ¢ot thave extras for fresh frequent changes) gives a lovely effect. Ideas For Walls If you have more ingenuity and enâ€" ergy than money to spend on making your day nursery fit for a king, then here are some suggestions we‘ve seen the cutside. It will be 2asier to keep studio we were told that a modern verâ€" sion of peasant designs are highest ranking styles in children‘s furniture. These areâ€"very bright motifs and very contemporary loocking, and children adore them, which ‘belies the old conâ€" tention that juvenile decorations had to ‘be ultra realistic. As a rule these motifs are handpainted on a lovely soft white, specially created by this particuâ€" lar shop. The origins of the motifs largely are Swedish and Bavarian with a large seassoning of nursery rhymes brought up to date. by Elizabeth MacRea Boykin bave one is nesessary, and if you don‘t nrave a nurse you‘ll need the cot anyâ€" way when you sleep in with baby when he‘s sick. (Copyright 1937, by Elizabeth Macâ€" a contrasting colour to the rest of the piese. An open top chest is the best thing for toys. You can use a rough tex with a hinged top. Cover it with padded oil cloth. Dor‘t skimp on the crib. A baby is astive ard will demolish a cheap crib tefore he‘s cutgrown it if you don‘t watch out. Also be sure you have a comfortable chair to sit on that doesn‘t have arms too high for handling baby Makeshift â€"Furnitureâ€"A chest of drawers will serve for c‘othes and atop this a bookcase will hold a basket for bath things, bottles, medicines and cddâ€" ments. Paint the ins‘:des of the shelves trace one or two designs on the furniâ€" ture fronts as well. PBirdie on the Window Sillâ€"Collect all the pectures of various birds you can find (out of old books from second hand stores as well as from tenâ€"cent picture bocks) and paper the nursery walls with these patchâ€"work fashion. You‘ll have all varieties of birds on the walls . . . if you like you can shellac over them. Then paint the furniture sky blue and add fluttery white curâ€" tains at the windows. Nursery Rhymes Mc‘her G Paper the walls with brightly illusfrated pages from five and tenâ€"czent store nursery rhyme books, thellas over them with clear shellac and paint the furniture in the room white. Letter a verse on each piece of furniture, that is, a chect can have one line of a jirgle on each drawer. ‘ We‘ve also seen some stunning baby furniturs in blond wood which has a smart delicacy about it for nursery use. And a dramatic crib has huge wooden "ccunter" beads all across the ends. These are in brilliant colours just as are the small ibead versicns of counters that ©o often turn up on play pens and high chairs. In huge sizes they are strikingly decorative as well as fun for somebody very young. The Tin Soldier A little tin soldier contributes decoraâ€" tion for another nursery ensembleâ€"he ‘~â€" _ This is intended to do away with Jealousy and interdepartmental poliâ€" tics. Salaries will be all the same. Later results will count, and increases in pay will be made acz:ordingly, although there will be no promotion as regards rank. The detective with more ability than his brcther detectives will receive more pay. All toâ€"day are on probation, land- thoseâ€"whose work is not satisfacâ€" tory will be weeded out. A feature which is being installed for the force is a short wave system through which headquurters can keep in touch with the men in all parts of the provin:e. Automobiles used by members of the force will be equipped with receiving sets. Division headquarters are to be esâ€" tablished in strategic sections The force toâ€"day is the youngest police department on the continent. The members are in their early twenâ€" ties; the majority are university graduâ€" ates and others have high school cerâ€" tifica :s. Applications are pouring in for this, perhaps the most unusual police force in the world. To date, few have been ableto pass the physiecal and educaâ€" tional tests necessary for the Provinâ€" cilal Police of Quebec. All members of the force are to be of equal rank. Briefâ€"spells of authority will be bestowed on individual memâ€" bers when deempd the most suitable to handle any specific case. All will rank as detectives and will take orders from one of the force believed to be the most suitable man to ‘be placed in charge of that case. Montreal.â€"One of the most outâ€" standing police units on the North American Continent is being organized under the jurisdiction of Premier Mauâ€" rice Duplessis of the Province of Queâ€" bez.: New ideas seldom if ever tried in a modern police force are being introâ€" duced. > Rather than continue making "amâ€" biguous and indefinite charges" about some toll being levied against the hotelâ€" keepers of Ontario by the Liberal parâ€" ty, Mr. Rowe, said the premier, should "come right out in the open."" "Let him tell the world what he‘s got, if he‘s got anything," said the premier. ‘"That‘s the way I like to see things done. I know no member of the Hotelâ€" keepers‘ Association and I know nothâ€" ing of which he complains.‘" Elliott Named The Prime Minister spoke on behalf of the Peterborc‘ riding candidature of Alex Elliott to an armouries audience of 3000 or more. He was given an en-] thusiastic reception, although one smallâ€"‘ section of his audience indulged in some scattered booing. With the ex-,‘ zseptisn of the provincial income tax with which he said the obsolete and unâ€" workable municipal income tax had been replaced, his governmernt had imâ€" posed no new taxation since assuming office in 1934. "And if Mr. Rowe doesn‘t agree with our provincial income tax," said he, "let him repeal it. I challenge him now to say whether he would repeal it, in the event of his election. Unusual Ideas Obtaining in Quebec Police Plan Says Stand Charged "A week ago," said the Premier, "Mr. Roewe waxed most indignant and deâ€" manded of me that I not only publish the names of all the estates which we have under investigation, but that we send to jail all millionaires who have defrauded Ontario out of its just dues. But now the picture has changed and Mr. Rowe, for some reason or other, is saying that he proposes to be a genâ€" tleman and that he does not intend to disclose the identities of the estates if and when he gets into office. It‘s just what I thought. Mr. Rowe‘s hands may be perfectly clean themselves, but he is so tied up with the old gang that they wouldn‘t let him carry on our sucâ€" cession duties drive even if he wanted to." to recover all the duties owing to the province. The Prime Minister again scored the Conservative leader for his "weatherâ€" cock!â€"stand cn the issues of the day, charging that not cnly had the forâ€" mer liquor tollazs> cperators of the Henry regime hauled him away from any pcossible acceptance of the recent government proposal to take liquor out of politics, but that now "the old gang that was mixed up in the succession duties business‘‘ was bringing pressure cn him because of â€"his stated intentions Epeaking at Peterborough Monday night, with the address being heard on the radio throughout the country, Preâ€" mier Hepburn challenged the Conservaâ€" tve party leader, Hon. Earl Rowe, to m the publication of his party‘s paid advertising attack on the rmncw record of the Hepburn govâ€" etrment aftéer having been warned by the agency with which the advertising was placed that many of the statements ard tigures set forth therein were misâ€" leadingz and untrue. "I am informed," said the premier, "that executives of this agency went to Mr. Rowe and pointed out the glaring mistakes that had been made in the advertising, but that Mr. Rowe sent the . eccpy ‘sack to the agency and inâ€" papers as it was. "If that is trueâ€"and it is up to Mr. Rowe to say now whether it is true or rotâ€"it well indicates the campaign of misrepresentation to which a desperâ€" ateâ€"man canâ€"lowet:himselfâ€":in the hopes them to send it cut to the will soon be nc more than a more or lsss humorous memory. ‘"Tim Buck Boulevard" was named after the Toronâ€" to communist leader. Judging from teports from Blairmore it was well namâ€" ed being so cutstandingly ambitious and presumpticous in intention and so wseak and ineffective in actuality. . The statistical department will operâ€" ate a press service through which the newspapers may receive reports of acâ€" ckdents and criminal cases throughou: the province. The provincial police deâ€" partment will also seek closer coâ€"operaâ€" tion with police fortes in all cities and towns of the province. A statistical and identification burâ€" eau is being organized which will exâ€" tend its work beyond ordinary inforâ€" print activities. It will contain inforâ€" mation and descriptions of all known convicts. Tim Buck Boulevard at Blairmore to be Changed "Tim Buck Boulevard" at Blairmore, Alibsrta, constructed in 1934; and mads more or less famous since by the ironic references of The Blairmore Enterprise, 17 PINE ST. N. Mayor Enoch Williams, who succeedâ€" ed Kanight this year, has decided the toulevard is a needless expense with its hugeâ€"electric signs with large and red letters reading, Tim Buck Bouleâ€" vard, and its flowerless rockeries and special waterâ€"sprinkling system. It was never a suscess. Grass refusâ€" ed to grow; flowers failed to bioom and Tim Buck boulevard was built at Plairmore during the regime of Mayor William Knight and his Left Wing Council, the boulevard‘s fancy trimâ€" mings will be dismantled. Once again it will become Victoria avenue. JEWELLER 39 THIRD AVENUE TIMMINS Follow the Crowds to terms as low as $5 per month. Tim Buck of Toronto, head of the Communist Party in Canada, did not attend the dedication ceremony three years ago. His place was taken by Rev. A. E. Smith, then General Secretary of the Party. A year later, however, Buck came to Blairmore and a civic holiday was proclaimed in his honour. Try The Advance Want Advertisements Blairmore is a mining centre in the Crow‘s Nest Pass, absut seventyâ€"five miles southwest of Calgary. the sprinkling system created pot holes in the rocadway, a menace to motorists. PHONE 190

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