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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 22 Mar 1929, p. 34

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34 . WILMETTE LIFE March 22, 1929 FOX SCARFS for Spring Kenilworth School Cage Team Wins Championship The Joseph Sears ·school heavyweight basketball team in Kenilworth won the championship of the North Shore Grammar School Basketball league by defeating VJilmette in the final game on the Joseph Sears schedule last . Friday. The Kenilworth heavyweights went through the season with six victories and two defeats. In the featherweight, lightweight, and middleweight classes, Joseph Sears dropped a11 of its games to Wilmette last week. Drapes Can Make or Mar a Room, Expert Declares By Mariette Caaaels .l (Glencoe) Nothing can so easily make or mar a room as the drapes. The wall may be AKE your selection now from the a soft neut·ral color, and excell~nt finest assortment of skins obtainable. background for good pictures, the Chokers that are of the highest qualityfurniture may be correct a·s to period, and well arranged, but the total effect such as is always found in Okean's furs. will be ruined if the draperies are unWe are offering suitable, complicated, or if an inharPointed Fox White Fox monious color. Silver Fox Originally curtains were used to exRed and Cross Fox clude unnecessary light and draught, HOSTESSES AT ART TEA Stone, Baume and Japanese Martin Miss Betty Knapp of the Georgian but today they are principally thou~ht Sables and aV'iiiiety of Wolf hotel and Miss Edna Harbeck were of ~s decoration. Generally, two types hoste'3ses at the informal tea given in of drapes· are used on a window, over LADIES' TAILORING DEPARTMENT the lobby of the Georgian for visitors drape s and glass curtains. IN CONNECTION Gla·.:;s curtains are not only used to viewing the exhibition of paintings in the French room and library of the let in light while · exc1uding the view 33 1-3% Discount on All Repair Work from the outside, but are used also to hotel last Saturday. hide the ugly but necessary roller These curtains should be inshades. Miss M arv ~therine Lannen, daughconspicuous and of a color to represent ter of Mrs . -T. E. Lannen, 1021 Greenlight. Semi-transparent materials, ·s uch leaf avenue, who is attending Rockford Manufacturing Furrier co;lrge, will spend several days · of her as net, gauze, gaudy voile. or dotted spring vacation with a school friend, swiss are best. They should be made 567 LINCOLN AvE., WINNETKA PHONE 2752 Miss Doris Sherer of Knoxville, 111., to slide on a draw cord, and should hang to the sash. In a papered room, before returning to her home. overdrapes can sometimes be omitted and gla·ss curtains · can be used as principle curtains. Overdrapes made of some heavy ma terial such as velve brocade, damask, taffeta, pr:i'nted linen, cretonne, or chintz should in most cases be lined and he hung from · the outer edge of the trim to the floor. creating the illusion of the trim carrying down to the floor. This makrs the curtains appear to belong to the structure of the window and th e architecture of the room. They ·should be made to drav,r (with pulleys and clra w cords) to a \'oicl using roller shades [f the overdrapes are so elaborate that they cannot draw, there should be curtains in back of them that do draw. The ugly gap between the cornice and the top of the trim can be disguised by either a valance or a valance board. Of these two the valance board is prefer~bl~, for by projecting from four to stx mches from the wall it i·s a~le to conceal the ugly, exposed curtam rods. In a north room, colors to admit light, such as tones of yellow and rose and occasionally a warm green, if outlinecl 1 should be used. 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Pershing in 1892, when he was professor of military science and tactics at the University of Nebraska, now has chapters in the leading universities of the country.

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