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Show - ' Tuesday, June 20, 1950 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH PAGE SIX WOMAN'S WORLD Cy iiiiaos J:rvlj Enhance Dining With Table Decor By Ertta Haley rOOL, LOVELY TABLE settings can give as much pleasure to dining during hot weather as foods themselves. Soft colors which In themselves are In direct contrast to the weath-er- , frosted glasses and plants, leaves, flowers or fruit can contribute to a feeling of tranquility that makes mealtime more enjoy-abl- e Refresh Your Table Just as hot rooms can be cooled with the use of certain colors, so can tables achieve the same atmosphere. "Properly, every dining room should be equipped with tablecloths, doilies, napkins and dishes which suggest warmth or coolness, each to be used in ap- with easy arrangements. -- Branches or flowers with small blossoms may be used .with more profusion than large ones, and its an excellent idea to include some of the foliage with them because the green coloring lends cool enchantment to the summer table. Use the simplest containers you propriate seasons. Shades of blue and green, Napkins to match crocheted doilies may be of cotton or linen with a very narrow edge to match the crocheted doily pattern. Keep Table Centerpiece Informal and Cool Heavy, formal flower, fruit and other arrangements for the center-piec- e are out of place when you are trying to keep the table as serene and cool as possible. Youll be amazed at how much easier it is to achieve the desired effect as well as some of the light pastels have. A neatly woven basket fitted with a water container at the. bottom can be a very effective setting for many blossoming branches. It Dishes, decorated under the glaze with a wreath of - Ivy in natural colors, make a cool and informal setting appropriate to the warm weather. Natural colored mats and simply designed napkins help avoid a cluttered look on the table. Keep table uncluttered . , , are all correct to use when the weather is blistering hot. These colors may be- used advantageously in linens as well as in china or pottery. If you eat In the dining room, then your coolest shades of these colors should be used.' If eating slightly warmer colors and more rustic effects are appropriate. "Neatness is of prime importance in giving the table a cool look because it suggests calm. Anything wrinkled or even slightly soiled should be tossed aside because it suggests confusion and turmoil, and accents the effects of the weather. Some smart homemakers use only their sheerest cottons and linens during warm weather, and they starch these lightly so they are smooth and cool looking and give an unwilted appearance during hot days. Add to these their lightweight dishes and frosted glasses, and you have some idea of how cool looking tables can really be. Its important ot to overload the table, but to keep it as orderly as possible. A single blossom in a small, dainty bowl of clear water can be more effective than a whole massed arrangement of flowers. Plain Cotton Remnants Slake Attractive Doilies After youve checked your supply of table linens and decide that you need some first aid in that department, check your supply of old cotton remnants. Old tablecloths, sheets, towels and pillowcases can often be made into a set of doilies and napkins. White may be used successfully to achieve a cool look, but you may want to renew the finish to some extent if the material is old and somewhat wilted. Launder it carefully and let it dry in the sun to bleach it out. For any stubborn stains, use a bleaching solution, rinse carefully and let dry. If the cottons are sheer, youll want to starch them rather stiff, but this may be done after you've finished sewing or decorating them. When heavy, textured fabrics are used, you can dispense with most of the trimming since these materials have enough interest in themselves. Other sources of material may include organdies, starched voile or sheer linen toweling. See what - out-of-doo- might also be used for an edible centerpiece of vegetable or fruit. Glass containers are very cool appearing, especially when you can see the clear water. If you use STAR DUST Dan Seymour Heads 7950 Drive For National Cancer Foundation you have in the way of leftover materials from previous sewing. If the search yields little, you might check remnant counters as a source. Should you decide on colors, white cottons as well as other fabrics might be tinted or dyed to go with dishes you have. Its easy to tint pastels in a wash basin with just warm water. Tor deeper shades of blue, green, maroon or aquamarine, all cooling colors, youll probably want to use hotter these containers for some of the water. These should be rinsed out larger flowers, use only a few - so there is blossoms so the effect of the water carefullyafter-dyein- g no running of the colors in subse- can be appreciated fully. quent laundering, especially if the Frogs, wiring and pin holders, if they tend to destroy the effect, edging has a contrasting color. The simplest edging to apply is a are cleverly hidden by carefully fringe which is done easily by un- placed foliage or some green modravelling the material. eling clay patted into place. Avoid ragged, largely massed Keep Edgings Small, arrangements, especially on smallNeat for Cool Look er tables by trimming both flowAny edgings which are heavy, even though they might fit the ma- ers and foliage very carefully. Plan to eliminate anything from terial, will detract from the cool the table which might destroy its look you want to accomplish. Stay restful by using trays appearance with the very simple edgings, be and for wagons bringing in food as they lace already made or cro- well as for disposing of soiled chicheted by you on the material, at na. hand. These are best removed as soon Contrasting bindings are very as possible so that the table is neat and cool, especially when free from clutter during the whole chosen in the cool colors already dining period. mentioned. Any of the colors would be appropriate with white, and should be chosen to highlight one of the colors used on your set of dishes. ' Redingote frocks are a wonderFor porch or garden eating, ful double duty surprise this seawhen you may have chosen checks, son with their sunback dresses plaids or prints, use a white edging the coats. You, can sun underneath or at least one of the basic colors to perfection without the coat, then in the materials used. If possible, don it and do your shopping or have it in blue or green since these make business calls. are most cooling. Gloves for the season may be If you do not want separate filmy, sheer nylons or heavy, chadoilies for each plate setting, you mois type cottons. Though the fabmay decide on runners. Use one rics differ widely, theres one feaof these down the center of the ture thats similar: all gloves have table, and one on each side. These a great deal of cuff interest are especially easy to make with Sailor hats in rough straw conmachine or hand to be one of the fashion leadtinue hemming simple when you are using toweling since ers of the summer months, with the 17 or 18 inch widths fit tables picture hats, profile types and bonnet and open crown types follownicely. Those who want to save on ing closely behind, depending upon laundry will undoubtedly dispense the style the wearer employs best. with matching napkins and will Narrow belts in patent, gros-grai- n use the paper products. Here or braid are still leading the again, white would be the best fashion parade, but with softer, choice as it goes with any color dressier materials like voile and or a combination of several. organdie youll find that velvet Crocheted doilies lend a cool and rates high. frosty look to tables, particularly Golden Gate Bridge when they are of a simple pattern. There are 80,000 miles of steel White is the most popular shade, and when starched, they will give wire in the two main you as neat and attractive a table suspension cables of the as its oossible to have. Golden Gate Bridge. DAN By INEfc GERHARD SEYMOUR, despite his busy and television schedule, still manages to find time to lend a helping hand to those in need. The emcee of NBCs We the People, CBSs Sing It Again and other programs has accepted the invitation ofThe NalionarCancer Foundation I re- David Brian is a tough guy on the screen, a killer in The Damned Dont Cry, a jewel thief in The Great Jewel Robber. But his chief interest is the cook book hes preparing for publication, made up of his wifes best recipes. John Close, as doorman at Grau-man- s Chinese theater some years ago, spent his evenings handing ticket stubs to John Garfield and other Hollywood celebrities Now hes playing an important role opposite Garfield in The Breaking Point. Its his third picture. He is a Los Angeles boy, a graduate of Hollywood High, where he appeared in class plays with Alexis Smith. Tommy Summers, who has been Alan Laddsstand-i- n for the past five years, gets a break as an actor on his own in George Stevens Mr. DAN SEYMOUR and Mrs. Anonymous at Parato be the national chairman of its mount. Joan Milland Fontaine, Ray 1950 fund drive. This on top of his and Teresa Wright are active participation with the Boys Clubs of America and other public Laraine Day, organizations. And Seymour has her home, wants to have a canno intention of being merely an vas from the brush of a film d. honorary chairman and letting other people do the work. Hes busy as a beaver, lining up to peoples in all Fashion Flashes fields to act as his theyre accepting gladly. star Bonita Granville plays the piano in s Guilty of Treason. and actually plays! No e double performs for her, as is usually the case. Originally she intended to be a concert pianist; experienced musicians say she easily could become one now if she would give up her motion career and buckle down to practising and studying. off-stag- Eve Arden, winding up her stint in Warners Tea for Two, has both eyes on Broadway. Richard Whorf has written a comedy about life in a Boston The Birds boarding house, Were Up AH Night; she wants to play in it. The newspaper plant operated by Macdonald Carey in the in "The Lawless, which is wrecked by a mob, was a real one. Bill Pine, on location, saw that it was what he wanted, told the owners hed have to wreck it for the picture, but would rebuild it afterward. They agreed. .So he went ahead with scenes in the plant, it Pine-Thom-- as In each room. Right now 6be is after original clown paintings by Red Skelton and Richard Whorf. She stars in The Woman on Pier 13. assistants; Eagle-Lion- load-supporti- 4 was wrecked, and he had it paired, for $25,000. Denis ODea, Dr. Livesy in Treasure Island, pronounces his last name ODee. His wife, Siobhan McKenna, an actress, pronounces her name Shevan. Edwin Rand makes a comeback after a war injury in The Capture, so successfully that Producer Niven Busch placed him under contract for three more pictures. He was in a veterans hospital for a year, still wears braces and sometimes has to go back for treatment. ODDS AND ENDS . . . For the fourth consecutive year, Protestant. Radio Commission has won an award from Ohio State Universitys Institute for Education by Radio for excellence in transcribed religious programs on the All Aboard for Adventure series . . . The lunatic asylum in s Harvey" is actually the writers building on the lot . . . Ward Bond threw James Cagney across a room so hard in a scene for Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye that Cagneys shoulder went right through the opposite wall. U-I- Released by WNU Features t k V I |