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Show SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1952 Out-of-Da- Beds te THE JOURNAL - Pw 11 WOMAN'S WORLD Easy to Remodel Baby Quilt Set Your Dining Room Table Attractively By Ertta Haley TF, Just once In your life, you 4 have set an attractive table, you know that you are never content to sit down to one which shows no imagination or beauty. Even simple, everyday meals take on something special when they are served on a table. The average homemaker must set the table many and almost countless times during her career as the head of her household. If it can mean fun for her and enjoyment for the family, then this task becomes less of a chore and more of a hobby. Each woman's family deserves her very best, and especially in the matter of table setting, for they are the ones who sit down to eat most often. Practice your skill every day with every meal, even if Its only a tray lunch for yourself at noon, and see how much pleasure there is in table setting. Consider your table as carefully as a picture when youre setting it. Start with a few well chosen items, and add to them as your skill and interest increase. With simple and even Inexpensive accessories you can create tables that are interest-catchin-g as well as important to the pleasure of dining. In gathering china, glass, silverware and linens for the table, have some idea of what you want, or some motif in mind so that the items will be related. Table accessories should harmonize with Sturdy Table table you set. Those whose budget permits only pottery and textured cotton doilies or cloths will find that tve luscious eolors and good design can lend a dramatic touch that is just as effective in its way as more expensive accessories. well-appoint- PATTERN gives directions for several styles of beds with illustrated details for cutting and stitching the right spread and valance for out-of-da- te each remodeled design. Directions for making the roll-awa- y cupboard are included. Everything is on pattern 313, price 25c. WORKSHOP PATTERN SERVICE Drawer 10 Bedford Hills, New Tork Slip of Tongue of the railroads claim chief The igency found it hard to believe the report submitted by one of his men which stated that the farmer Had lost 2,025 pigs through the roads negligence, and, of course, ie went out to the farm to inter- the shipper again. Thats a lot of pigs, the claims thief growled to the farmer. Are fou sure you lost that many? Yeth, lisped the farmer. Thanks, said the wise claims thief and changed the original reTwo sows and port to read: view twenty-fiv- e pigs. Set every table dramatically . . . It's so easy to relieve coughs and stuffiness of colds in a hurry this whatever period predominates in your home. This does not mean match exactly your furnishings, but at least have them the same in spirit and feeling so there is no lack of harmony present. home-prov- ed way . . . with 2 spoonfuls of Vicks VapoRub in a vaporizer or In a bowl of boiling water as directed in package. Just breathe in the steam! Every single breath carries VapoRubs soothing medications deep into throat and large bronchial tubes. It medicates Irritated Set the During Scene Carefully It does not matter which room mem- it on throat, ways rub chest and back. It's Wonderful the Way Laxative Acts Chiefly to Chewing-Gu- m REMOVE WASTE --NOT SsM GOOD FOOD Heres the secret millions of folks have the moddiscovered about em chewing-gulaxative. Yes, here is action Is so wonderwhy fully different! Doctors say that many other laxatives start their flushing action too soon right in the stomach where food Is being digested. Large doses of such laxatives upset digestion, flush away nourishing food you need for health and energy. You feel weak, worn out. taken as recBut gentle works chiefly In the lower ommended, bowel where It removes mostly waste, not good food! You avoid that typical weak, n tired, feeling. Use and feel your peppy, energetic self I No increase full of lllel Get in price still 23, 50 or only 10. feew-a-mi- nt, m mx-A-MiN- T's ... feen-a-mi- nt, fexn-a-mi- nt run-dow- feew-a-mi- nt EPGGH-A-r.- il NT LAXATIVE part of the a kitchen, regular dining room or even the living room. The room should be restful in the way its decorated, and it should be appealing so as to enhance your dining pleasure. Dining is more than Just eating the food you need. It Is a way of doing it graciously. It should be pleasant talk and relaxation and jomplete enjoyment. To do this, vou must have a room for dining which helps you in these things. If the room for dining is small, use just a single color on the walls. This makes the room appear larger. If you go in for something that has design, be certain it creates a restful feeling you use for dining: branes, helps restore normal breathing. For coughs or upper bronchial congestion theres nothing like using Vicks VapoRub in steam. For continued relief al- H or rather than one of busy-nes- s jitters. - Have only the essential pieces of furniture in the dining room, for when you set the table, you add quite a bit to the room, and you do' not want it to look over-furnishe- d. . ! Small dining rooms should have furniture appropriate In design so and size they do not make the If you overcrowded. look room to furnish, then, by are starting all means, get only those pieces which you need. You can always add more, as you get the room as expert to know that these just would not go together. The same holds true of whatever kind of Whether these youngsters play . games, do clay modeling or coloring, they need have no fear of harming the many layered plastic table top that resists heat, beverages or scratches. Tabular steel legs hold np against vigorous activities. A leaf added to this extendable table makes It a dinette set which will serve six people adequately. Boild Perfect Settings Piece by Piece In buying glassware, you might start with a small jlatc &even or eight inches in diameter to use for both desserts and salads. Next choose water tumblers with or . ig in without a foot, wh-te- vi with taste and style keeping your of home. Long-stemme- d, hand-blow- n cry- stal is considered formal, while d low glasses are equally good in teste. Some of the formal modern patt ms have low-slu- g lines. If you cannot buy a great variety, remember that flngrr bowls can be used for dessert or for holding small flowers and cigarettes; ash trays double as candle holders; vases double as borc ends. well as the money with which to If you are just rtarting out and purchase extra furnishings. cannot afford fine and expensive Keep accessories to a minimum table accessories, you can still of to much taste have display Its poor good taste and effective your dishes, glassware or even tables. silverware. Only those pieces When choosing things for dining, which are functional and decora- have place settings put together tive should be displayed on shelves for you, using glass, silver and or glassed cupboards. china so that you can study file effect. In this way you can corTastefully Set Tables relate table appointments for the Use Decorating Principles sake of harmony. Just as you decorate a room You may not always want to use properly, you will set your table. best glassware and china for time-teste- d your These are principles the simpler meals, but silverware and youll want to apply them for can and should be used, as it good taste as well ai good sense beauty through use. Select For example, if you hav' strong, gains breakfast settings that will go with it dominantly-figure- d dinnerware, should have a plain background. it Use plain glass with it, so the din- Decorative Arrangements nerware will stand out. Or, if you to Need be Simple have ornate glassware, combine orTwo You will dinnerware. often like some decorait with plain nate things together will give you tion for tables, be these flowers, too busy, as well as too restless figurines or a combination. These an atmosphere. should be low and simple. You do Do you have a cloth handed not want to detract from the beauty down from grandmother or great of the other things. for special occaFlowers should always be real, grandmother sions? Display Jt to best advan- as anything else is an Imitation tage by keeping china and glass- of the real thing, and imitation is ware simple. Let the doth tell just not in good taste. Few flowers its own story, and without inters are often better than many and ruption. youll find that birds and figures Rich and very heavy silverware often make flowers go a long way. should be allowed to stand out in There is so much available in all its beauty: set it on an unpat- the decorative line. A simple terned table cloth, and combine green plant In an attractive tuwith plain, or at the most, banded reen, bowl, arrangements of bds on a mirror, or carved woods or dinnerware and plain glass. ceramic figures, all these can be used effectively. short-stemme- IT N IDEAL gift for that new babx an adorable crib cover witif appealing animal designs. Em-void- er each in simple outline stitch on pink or blue squares. Pattern No. 2579 contains hot Iron transanimals, stitch illustrations and complete directions for finishing cover. The new Anne Cabot ALBUM le chock-fu- ll of needlework Ideas for nimble fingers knitting, crocheting, embroidering. Gift pattern printed inside the book. 25 cents. fer for 18 SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 67 West Adams. 8t., Chios ge f, HI. Enclose 20c in coin for each pattern. Add 5c for 1st Class Mail it desired. Pattern No Name (Please Print) Street Address or P.O. Box No. State City They 'll Du It! Government Executive: If we dont find a way to spend that well lose our jobs. Assistant: How about building a bridge across the Mississippi lengthwise. 120-milli- on, ) SCOWS EfAUlSION HOPS 'EM GROW STRONG Wsakly chlldrin whs need more natural A AD Vitamins begin to grow and develop when Scotts Emulsion you give them good-tastievery day. It helps promote strong bones, sound teeth, a husky body helps 'em fight ng Fashion Flashes Small and feminine hats are used with many of the new suits with medium-cu- t hair styles. The over-a- ll this lives adds picture up to a very feminine look. In addition its correlated and wel1 balanced. Sweater and blouse have been combined in some of the new fashions to give beauty and warmth at the same time, and still deduct cost as well as apparel from the wardrobe. Ballet type and pixie slippers vie for attention for stay-at-howomen. Both offer comfort with style.' The pixie type ties it the ankle and is attractive in plait while the ballet types fit neatly to the lines of the foot. Smartest fashion note to come out recently Is to match your handkerchief to yourv pur: e. If its plaid, select one in a matching plaid; if black velvet, gelebt a sheer black lace or chiffon. oft colds ! Seotts is ENERGY FOOD gold mine of HIGH TONIO natural -a A AD g Vitamins and natural oIL TASTES GOOD-TH- EY LOVE IT I Economical! Buy today at your drug store. energy-buildin- MORE than fust a tonic its powerful nourishment I CJGXTJ oasy way to y' There should be a consistency of quality in everything which you use on your table. Though both silverware and china cannot be elaborate in design, their quality and craftmanship can and should match if theyre going, to be used together, or one will show off to disadvantage. Take a tea table, for instance. 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