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Show THE BULLETIN Italian Hemstitching For a Chair Set "THE chair set ihown here is an even meshed marked off in squares of Italian hemstitching;. Tiny scrolls in outline stitch with two diamonds in satin stitch are embroidered in all the outside cor ners. The scroll motif is shown at lower left. The tassels are made by raveling strips of the material and then rolling them. The chair back piece measures 15 by 10 inches finished, and the chair arm pieces 7vi by 7 inches. made cream of linen, Log Cabin, Soddy or House of Stone All Have Been 'Home, Sweet Home' Celebration of "Better Homes Week" Recalls Evolution of American Houses from the Days When the Pioneer's Cabin Was Both a Dwelling Place and a Fortress Down to Houses of the Present With Their Great Variety of Architecture and Building Materials. C Western Newspaper Union. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON AMONG the multifarious ZA "weeks" we are called L unon to observe each year is one that is associated with an idea very dear to the hearts of all Americans. That is Better Homes Week, April 24 to 30. For we Americans give to the word "home" a senti mental attachment which we bestow upon no other word, with the possible exception of "mother." "Home Sweet Home" and "My Old Ken- ffu) cO?l Id at all edges for the rolled hems. The hemstitched squares measure 2& inches. Mark them in pencil. The method of hemstitching the rolled edges is shown here at A and B. Remem ber that a moist thumb always helps in rolling an edge evenly. Italian hemstitching is really just two rows worked together as shown at C and D. To prepare the rows, draw two threads, skip four and then draw two more. Allow tt-in- ch Readers who have received their copy of Mrs. Spears' book cn Sewing, for the Home Decora tor, will be pleased to know that Book No. 2 is now ready. Ninety embroidery stitches; fabric repairing; also table settings; gifts; and many things to make for yourself and the children. If you like hand work you will be pleased with this unique book of complete directions for every article illustrated. Postpaid upon receipt of 25 cents (coin preferred). Just ask for Book No. 2 and address Mrs. Spears, 210 South Desplaines St., Chicago, 111. tucky Home" and "Old Folks at Home" are still among our folk songs and "Tin Pan Alley" knows that best-belove- d the chances are better than 0 for writing a "sure-fir- e hit" if it can get "home" in the title of a new song or build the theme of it around that word. Has any popular song of recent years showed greater promise of enduring permanently than Billy Hill's 'Home on the Range ? Yes, we Americans love our homes, even though we are sometimes called "the most restless people on earth" who, in these days of the automobile and the hard road, seem to spend as little time as possible in them. 'Twas not always thus, of course, as a glance back 50-5- Proof Dictor What can be the cause of that crowd over there? Oemog I can't imagine. Vulgar curiosity, I presume. Dictor Let's go over and see. The "Soddy" If, as one of our popular modern writers of verse says, Advertisement In newspaper "It takes a heap o' livin' motor "For sale, second-han- d To make a house a home." liearse with brand-nebody." then we had real homes back In the days when our pioneering Unreasonable Cuthbert I don't understand forefathers lived in log cabins. For they certainly did a "heap your father. o' livin " in houses of that kind. Roberta Why, dear? Cuthbert Because he tells me Not only was it a place of rest for not to lose sight of my. object in the pioneer after a hard day's life and then he kicks when I work clearing the forest, but it his bulwark of defense call on you seven nights a week. was alsoone of the most redoubtagainst able foes in history the Indian That Depends She Do you think kissing is warrior. Truly the log cabin was the dangerous, Claude? American pioneer's castle in a Claude Where's your father? more literal sense than Sir Edward Coke, the famous English jurist of the Sixteenth century ARE YOU could ever have realized when he 3 Man l declared that "a man's house is UNLT A his castle." For the story of the American frontier is a saga of Mm cm Barer Tudaratand wife a wila who ta lovable lot tana waaka of men and womthe tha moath but a tha fourth. en who lived in this combined No matter haw your back aehai bo matter how loudly your narvai acraam don't taka it home and fortress against whose out on your hnabasd. thick walls the tides of savage For three generation ona woaua haa told another how to go "unilint through with hatred beat in vain. Lydia E. Piakham'a VoiataUa Compound. It Irawn thua tone tha Nature ajntem, up htipi By the middle of the Nineteenth lag tha diaeomlorta from tha functional the log cabin had be century which women must endura. Make a sou NOW to grt a bottla of come a symbol of American dePinkham'a today WITHOUT FAIL from your druniit mora than a millim woman hava mocracy. It, with its allied symwritten in letter Koortinc benefit. bols of frontier life, the coonskin Why not fry LYDIA K. FIN ESAU'S and hard cider, helped send Wil--. VEGETABLE COMPOUND! liam Henry Harrison to the White House and long after the frontier 17--38 WNU W era had passed, one of the surest ways for a candidate for office to appeal successfully to the SALT LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY electorate was to emphasize the fact that he was "born in a log Oar lobby la deUghtfally air cabin." coaled daring UMSuBnMr.TMaths Even in these modern days ftaattw far Cvery Rm Beta memories of the log cabin era 200 Haa-a-00 survive in our everyday speech. When you invite someone to visit you, do you assure him that he will "always find the latchstrmg out"? Your srandfather used that term and he meant that a buckskin thong, pushed through a hole in the stout oak door ox his home, would be hanging down outside. When HOTEL the visitor pulled the string, it lifted the latch, a bar of wood. from its slot so that he could push the door open and walk m. Kates $1.80 1 $3.00 Although that era Is long past. Tha Sfntal Tetania Bquars kaa It does not mean that it is for hiably deelraMa, friendly gotten. Significant of the fact, will always find Itlmwiaa that Americans still cherish the iilate, MMMMir ewmfartablw, aaal tharaiwahly enrer able, laei can log cabin as the symbol of a way wdaralattad why thla helal lai of life that was somehow freer niCIILY RECOMMENDED and happier than the one they Yaw aaa elan appreciate whyi to st f fa mark f 41ttlmctS know in this machine age, is the at (Ma haairUfwf hMtory nostalgic attempt by many of ERNEST C ROSSITER, Mgr. them to recapture the past by w 'A WIFE? thraa-quait- cr stout-heart- I love the A Typical Log Cabin Home of a ridgepole was secured. It was usually a native tree, with other smaller trees or branches to be used for rafters or supporters. Brush was thrown over this, then a layer of prairie hay or straw, after which the sod roof was put on, the layers being leveled off and chinked up so that not a drop of water entered. Doors and windows were then made by the homesteader from native lumber or from the boxes. Few of the first soddies had glass in their windows. Oiled paper or muslin was used instead. The soddy was now ready "for the pioneer and his family to live in. In many instances, to make it more attractive, a coat of whitewash was given the inside walls. It was made from native lime, which he secured from the hills along the river and burned himself. Most of the pioneer soddies had no wood floors, the floors being made of clay which whs dampened and tamped down until it was smooth and even. With its walls two feet thick and its roof from eight inches to a foot thick, the. soddy made a comfortable home for the pioneer family warm in the winter when one of those terrible blizzards swept across the plains and cool in the summer when the hot sun beat down upon it from a cloudless sky and blistering winds swept over it And, like the log cabin of his Eastern forefathers it was a veritable fortress which could resist Indian attack, espe cially when its defenders were armed with those straight-shoo- t ing Kentucky long rifles or heavy Sharps buffaloa guns. building log cabins in which to spend their vacations. Ernest Thompson Seton once wrote a magazine article in which he told how a group of men Joined together to do that. Of the result he said: "And what had we got? Something out of the woods, conquered out of the woods by ourselves, a mixture of nature and human enthusiasm, a something which we could not but love, for it was a part of ourselves. We had contacted the wild woods at almost every point without any intermediary." the frontier had been pushed beyond the forest-cla- d lands east of the Mississippi and began spreading across the great plains of the West, the pioneer had a new problem. Timber was scarce and what there was, mostly cotton-woo- d and elm, made poor lunv - When home-buildi- the Early American Pioneers. ng a ber, for it warped and twisted while drying in the sun. So, with characteristic versatility, he turned to the only material avail-abl- e and made it serve his purpose. Thus came into being the type of pioneer home known as the sod house or "soddy." Selecting a likely site for his new home he hitched his yoke of g oxen to a plow, the only implement that could cut through the tough sod with its interlaced roots of grass and prairie plants. Setting his plow to a depth of about three inches, he ran a long straight furrow as near to the location of his soddy as possible so that he would not have the task of moving his "building materials" so far. Strips of sod a foot wide and three feet long were then brought to the site of the new house and the building begun. After the dimensions of the house had been prairie-breakin- ed With the passing of the fron tier era on the plains, the pioneers and the sons and daughters of the pioneers who no longer needed to live in these combina tion homes and prairie fortresses, began building houses of wood. stone and brick similar to those in the East. Americans today-E- ast and West and North and South live in houses as varied in architecture as this broad land of ours is varied in its soil, its climate and its traditions. While one style may predominate in' one section of a country, you are quite likely to find examples of it anywhere in the United States a New England type in Califor nia, a Southern Colonial in Min nesota, a Spanish type in With the growth of our cities came new housing problems and out of them were evolved apart ment buildings with many fami lies living under one roof. But there are signs that the tide. die-r9-ra 1M ataaoa-phara.Y- oa tbtwa-fa- re ato spirit hcU-c- Temple Square JTWIMTfWf'flfB Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of America, Dearer than if they were haunted by HOTELS ghosts of royal splendour: HOTEL PLANDOME. SALT LAKE They are simple enough to be great 4lh Kate ll.N ta U N in their friendly dignit- ygi'IKT RKHPKCTaBLR CLEAN Homes that were built by the brave Whan In SKNO. NEVADA elep at the HOTEL GOLDEN Ken' larieet aaa beginners of a nation. pepalar haul I love the old farmhouses nestled in THE WILSON HOTEL New England valleys, In tha heart of the rity. Kataa Via a a. ak Laha Ample and long and low, with elm- - M E. lad Ra. St. trees feathering over them: SEEDS Borders of box in the year, and li am Priam Lav ana FtoW Bead All Cardan roses. lacs, and varietiea Near atark IIAXFll FEED A fan-ligabove the door, and little COAL CO. Salt Laha aaa Marrar the windows. in square panes ALCOHOL TREATMENT The wood-shepiled with maple and birch and hickory ready for Cur accompli bed without dram. Miners., or Narcotic a ruler eupervuloB of your Physi winter. ir dralrcd. Intcrawaataln Banatanea with its garret cian The gambrel-roo- f 114 Kat th South - - Salt Laka City crowded with household BUILDING MATERIAL All the tokens of prudent thrift and INTKHftTATE BRICK CO. Bulldlna and Fira Brick Fira Clay the of -- Frontier Home on the Great Plains of the West. through our history will show. THE ANCESTRAL DWELLINGS d v " One of the finest tributes evei paid to American homes is this poem by Henry Van Dyke: (Phata. aaartaay Fadaral A Modern Low-Cos- t decided upon, the ground was smoothed off so that a space was left for the walls, which were two feet or more thick. The growing grass was left on the sod and this formed the chinks between the layers, so that it was not necessary to chink up the spaces between the layers of sod. The walls were built up to a height of seven or eight feet, openings being left for the windows and doors which were recessed into the walls for a distance of a foot or more. After the walls were completed aaalag Adaalaialratuia.) American Home. which swept increasing numbers ox people into the cities and produced congested centers of population, is now be e inning to ehh and to carry some of these num bers out into the suburbs and into the smaller towns. More and more Americans are beeinnin to want to live in their own homes, individual houses with vards and gardens and "elhnw. room." And with that desire is coming the desire expressed in the week we celebrate from April 24 to 30 the desire for "better homes." Hollow Building Tlla VltriOad Kaarar, Roof and Manlala. Drain TUB Iltb E.. SALT LAKE H SaB. ' Pipe SIM S. shingled houses that front the ocean; They seem to grow out of the rocks, there is something indomitable about them: Their backs are bowed, and their sides are covered with weather-beate- n, OFFICE EQUIPMENT NEW AND USED dtika and ahnlra. tlea. antes, aaainn eata'a, upewriiere. B. State. Salt Laha. S. L. DESK a. KX.,M CLAY PRODUCTS Drain Tila gan-a- r Pipe Fata Brick Fira Brick and bH clay aradacta UTAH PIRB CLAT CO. SaH Lata . Soft in their color as gray pearls. they are xuu ox a patient Facing the briny wind on a lonely shore they stand undaunted. While the thin blue pennant of smoke from a heartn ana a cradle. ATHLETIC GOODS GREAT WESTERN ATHLETIC GOODS Unifanna, Bat. Gam. Baathalla. Bafthalh, UTAH- VaUraaUa, Athletic aha, at. IDAHO SCHOOL SUPrLT COSaM Lak I love the stately Southern man sions with their tall white They look through avenues of trees. over fields where the cotton is growing: X can see the flutter of white frocks along their shady porches. Music and laughter float from the windows, the yards are full of hounds and horses. Long since the riders have ridden away, yet the houses hsve not forgotten. They are proud of their name and place, and their doors are always open. For the thing they remember best Is the pride of their hospitality. ICE CREAM FREEZERS SODA FOUNTAINS ICE CREAM COUN TS! FREEZERS and laa Craaaa aaa Bar Futoraa, Btoota, Carhanntara. Taalaa Alaa raaaniltlaBad aanh MOSER-- H ARTM AN CO. Maanfactarara II Fan! Offtca Plaea . . SaH Laha Ctt MOTORCYCLES HASLET FA RTS-Aa-nn Frlaaa Wrlta for aataloana. Matoreyclaa. Iliad DOWSE OF HOPPER. IIS E. Bdr.. Bah Laha MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS FACTORY PRICES ON ACCORDIONS ctltatlaa PaH Laha anr Baikal Inatrnaianta. uaaral tradaa on Bhiit. - 411 C PAINT BARGAINS MM lala. wan aiada Ha Paint at 1141, aaiora and white r aaL Prepaid IrrlrSt in It gal lota. L. BECK J. SaH PAINT CO. Ba. State Laha ill LONG DISTANCE MOVING MOVE BY MOTOR VAN Radnead Rataa BULUSKlir MUV1NU BTUKAWR CO. 1M Sa. W. Tempi Waa. 1M1 Salt Laha In the towns I love the discreet and TEACHERS WANTED tranquil Quaker dwellings, Tcaehcn Wanted. NORTHWESTERN With their demure brick faces and TEACHERS AGENCY. Bah Laha City. Utah door immaculate marble FARMER ALMANAC steps: FARMER ALMANAC far And the gabled houses of the Dutch, Mar DONALD'S "Now Rradjr", Prle S0a a copy. lilt - Blaahallaa. N. Atlaa Printing Ca. with their high stoops and iron t. railings. FURNITURE (I can see their little brass knobs Maw I a II carpet roc IU.IS : Uaad Monarch shining in the morning sun aoalranna SSC.M: Uaad mohair livta room let 119. 10 : Uaad Bargain Baaeaunt South State light): houses of the descendants of the Pur itans, Frowning on the street with their narrow doors and dormer win m And the solid dows; And the triple-gallerie- d, lared mansions many-p- il of Charleston, Standing open sideways in their gar dens of roses and magnolias. are all dear to my heart, and in try eyes they are beau Yes, they tiful. For under their roofs were nourished the thoughts that have made the nation; The glory and strength of America come from her ancestral dwellings. Most famous of all songs with the "home motif' is John Howard Payne's "Home Sweet Home." And it is an ironic fact that the man who wrote it never had a home! Payne was born in the village of East Hampton, Long Island, in 1791. He was a boy prodigy who won fame on the stage, then went to England where for a time he was a great success as a dramatist and actor. But his good fortune did not last long. He became hard pressed financially and to escape the debtor's prison, he fled to France, where he lived in the garret of a lodging house. One day while gazing from the window of his "sky parlor" at the gay Paris throngs, the discouraged young man began thinking of his boyhood home on Long Island. As he pictured to himself those happy days he had spent there he found himself writing down the words which were to make him immortal. They were the words of "Home Sweet Home" which he made the theme of a play, "Clari, the Maid of Milan," that was successfully produced in London in 1822. It was not until 1832 that Payne returned to his homeland and when he did so he was again in poverty. His friends gave him a monster benefit at the Park theater but the proceeds from that did not last long. He drifted from one unsuccessful occupation to another and finally in 1842 President Tyler appointed him United States consul at Tunis. He lived there "an exile from home" for ten years, dying April 9, 1852, a melancholy and broken man, and was buried in the English cemetery. His body lay there for 30 years until admirers in the United States started a movement to have it brought back to this country. So in 1883 John Howard Payne came back to his homeland at last, never io leave it again. ... aprinht piano S49.M. Waaura Farartnr Ca. Salt Laha City Why Huskies Are Timid Many folks have probably wondered what kind of a disposition it possessed by a dog of the North, particularly The cautious the wolf-lik- e a htukie. expression of Siberian or Labrador hnskie makes the averag person a bit wary, writes George Buts la the Philadelphia Inquirer. Huskies an timid of humans because of their environment in the North. The dogs, de not come into contact with pso- pit, so it can be easily understood'' why they are reluctant to ba pet, ted and pampered. However, thai Eskimos and dog sled drivers will tell you huskies do not bite. Why Dog Is Index to Owner Dogs kept as house pets become almost four-foote- d replicas of their masters, or mistresses. They reflect even the smallest details in the characters of the human beings with whom they live. Unlike the human beings who sometimes cover np their true characters, the dog is always the same. That it why he is such a sure index to the owner. New Haven and Hartford were Joint capitals of Connecticut from 1701 to 1874. Week Nab 1117 WNU SALT LAKE Why Oyster Is Liked Since Roman gourmets praised its succulence in poems at their feasts, the oyster has been held in high regard. Despite its ancient lineage and the aristocratic company it keeps, the supreme shellfish is a valuable food and an economical one, to boot It's high in mineral content iodine, iron and calcium. It's comparatively cheap because it's all food no waste from to Measure for New Glaaa Use a rigid measuring rule or a steel tape (not string) when measuring glazing area of a window for new glass. The dimensions must include not only the sixe of the actual opening to be glased, but also the little ledges against which the glass How will rest The dance known as the "big apple" is a combination of the square dance and modem swing. From four to twenty persons gather in a circle on the floor and go through a series of steps to the call of a leader. The steps are a combination of the Charleston and various drags, swing steps and The dance originated at truckin'. the University of South Carolina where students saw it at a night lub and named the dance after tha dub. |