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Show CIRCLE PATTERNS SEVIIIQ ... - WOMAN'S WORLD r for Matrons Pair Well Fitting Rooms Add Color to Slip Cover Designs Bare Top Dress . By Ertta Haley YOURE an WHETHER seamstress who can touch any material and turn it into a lovely creation or a beginner with ideas and the desire to learn, you can make slipcovers of unusual ' beauty and design. A perfectly ordinary room can change its appearance as a woman with a new hat, and you can have a different room twice a year or with every season. Slipcovers made or purchased from professionals are expensive and thus limit many homes to one set. Made by the woman of the home, there are several sets available because the expense is so small. Dull rooms can come to life again covwith brand new, ers for chairs and sofas, and the cost is limited to material aloqe. Fortunately theres a wide selection of this available, and many of the materials can be picked up at sales, for such reasonable prices that its plain laziness not to take advantage of the spice they can add to your home. Even one chair, if its important to the room can lift "the furnishings to a new plane. Then, as time goes by you can gradually remake the room by adding other slipcovers in keeping with the first one, as long as the tempo has been well set. Fitting is the important thing in making the cover, but this is easily solved. The sewing really doesnt amount to a great deal, and as most comer and skirt finishes can change a traditional cover into something well-design- extremeplaid chair and sofa for exam- HERE is a simple yet ly charming bare top dress ple can have a cover to slip over in this fabric Make the back. and jacket combination in larger plain and use large scallops for finishing sizes. Soft contrast trims the dress it. and forms the neat rolled collar. Arm and head rest covers tor your favorite easy chair will keep it neat and clean. Make these with Pattern No. 1247 is a sew-rita if tailored its straight edges, perforated pattern in sizes 36, 38, plain large chair. These should" fit 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52. Size 38, over back, several inches down from bolero, dress, 314 yards of the top, and come two or three 1 1 contrast. yards yards; inches over the arms on each side as well as at the front. If your chair seats take lots oi The Spring and Summer STYLwear, plan to make covers that tie smart under the seat with tapes to keep IST is filled with ideas for summer sewing. It contains fabric them properly anchored. patPartial covers for ottomans can news, special features; gift Send book. be made to slip over the top and terns printed inside the A Feminine Suit e 39-inc- ed suit of navy crepe, moderately priced, Is designed in New York for ail purpose wear. The collarless jacket is scalloped up in front and buttoned Into green-pipe- d buttonholes. Its a perfect companion for warm weather when combined with a tailored but lacy hat and a white boutonniere pinned just below the shoulder. This little feminine come down on the sides for two or three inches. Make them snug enough so they dont slip oft Dress Up Plain Chairs With .Colorful Covers " Chairs for bed and dressing rooms can be ruffled and very decorative but the fabrics for them are usually Old curtains and inexpensive. as well as sheets, tabledraperies cloths and dressing table skirts can frequently yield enough material for the chairs if there is enough durable material remaining in them to be worth the sewing. Floor length skirts for bedroom chairs can cover the legs or rungs of an old dining room or straight-backe- d living room.. The back and seat of the chair can be covered with a plain boxed pattern and the skirt with knife pleated material or flounce. 25 cents today. SEWINO CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. , III. :i07 West Adams St.. Chicane each for 25c coin patin Enclose tern. Add 5c lot 1st Class Mail If desired. Pattern No. Vary Skirt Finish To Change Style The style of almost any easy or lounging chair In the living or bedroom can be varied with its slipcover. Lines may be hidden, lines can be changed with the covering alone, and most of the change can come in the skirt or in the comer treatment. If you want to buy a pattern for a chair, .then buy a simple, style with classic box pleats in the skirt since this is the classic skirt finish. This may be used with almost any style of furniture. If you want the easiest style to make, then buy a skirt with a flounce. Use this in informally furnished rooms. Another good style to buy, for patterns, is the straight skirt with simple pleats at the corners. Then, if you wish, you can make an extra skirt pattern out of tissue paper when you want variety. For formal rooms, for, example, you may finish the skirt with fringe, and this is usually set right on top of a plain skirt Fringed skirts are at home in Victorian modern or traditional rooms. Shaped skirtsare'good In all types of rooms, as long as the shaping harmonizes with the room. Take the scalloped skirt for instance. The simple round or oval scallops are best in informal settings. Inverted pleating at the corners of a chair make the piece at home in modern or tailored settings. In traditional rooms you might like to hide ponderous or portruding legs Size Street Address or P.O. Box No. State City Motto Now, Sunday School Teacher 1 want to memorize you Jimmy, todays motto, It is more blessed to give than to receive. YeSm, but I know it Jimmy now. My father says he has prize-fighte- of HCJSECIS YOUR EiOf.lE which kills flies, mosquitoes, roaches, ants, bed bugs, moths and silver fish Leaves no unpleasant odor and is harmless to humans and pets when used as directed. Sold at drug, hardware and farm supply stores. Vary Sofa Styles To Add Interest Plaid for back and seat and a plain fabric for skirt, boxed trimly, Its surprising what effect you can is always good for a mans or boys give an old sofa or studio couch room. The plain material for the just with smart slipcovering. An skirt should pick up one of the overstuffed sofa which for many colors in the plaid. For a feminine chair, use a rufyears has had a floral covering can become a brand new and interesting fled dotted Swiss skirt and a perky piece if you will use a lovely shade overlay of knife pleated trim which Deof plain material. If the draperies may be purchased ready-madcut out flowers mure satin bows can be used at the are floral, you might from them and applique them to the back sides of the chair. plain material, on back or arms, depending upon the size of the spray or blossom. A layer of cotton between the plain material and the applique will Sheer cotton lingerie will keep you help the applique stand out for good cool and fresh during hot spells. effect. come in wonderful pastels These Panelled sofa covers are exceland many are featured with wide, lent if your home is modern. The type lace that makes them panelled effect can be achieved by eyelet look far more expensive than they quilting over thick cotton lining. This treatment may be used on the actually are. Tiny light openings on the vamps back as well as the sides, with seat of your pumps are featured in the covers and front left plain. . look on shoes. Some of the new Tailored sofas can be given a sectional look, too, if you will do them shoes have string bows, others a in two kinds of material. Use a plain braid motif and still others have material on sides and center panel, clusters of leaves. Have at least one smart straw hat with floral, striped or geometric in your wardrobe, with veiling, with material on the two end seats. flowers. You can have them in fine-iJ Use Part-Tim-e Covers woven straw, rough straws or To Keep Them Fresh any types. Youll be corthe rect in new Upholstered furniture can be kept pastels, whites brilbright and "attractive looking, as liant colors, navy or black. well- - as decorative material that looks like ,ifyouwanttq Is linen make part-tim- e or Just being' shown in' some of the slipcovers, covers for those parts like head and attractive dress-udresses for ho, weather. The material is arms which soil most easily. Think of how easy they are to washable and crease resistant as make, and how quickly they can be well. whisked in and out of the laundry Troubles Pigs, Too back to chairs and sofas! You can furniScientists have made the discovalso save wear and tear on ture and their own covers if you ery that many pigs suffer from have these miniature slipcovers. arthritis. e. TOBACCO CORPORATION & RICHMOND, Acts Chiefly to REMOVE WASTE WT -I- GOOD FOOD Here's the secret millions of folks have the moddiscovered about laxative. Yes, here Is ern chewing-guaction Is so wonderwhy fully different Doctors say that many other laxatives start their flushing action too soon . . . where food is being right In the stomach 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 only waste, not good food! You avoid that typical weak, feeling. 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TRIAL SUPPLY ONLY 10 If your druggist doesn't yet carry ODORID f tablets, send only 10 for a trlol supply 4 tablets in otfractlvo, useful coin container worth IS alone. for full 3 weeks supply OLD MISSION LABORATORIES Burbank, Calif orniq Deporfmtnf f me toi a mm Change to SAllO the distinctive cigarette with p P nt, ut on fade-proo- f, r8 I en -- nt, m CHEMICAL VIRGINIA Fashion Flashes y Laxative m iten-a-mi- Press the button and the handy dispenser ejects a cloud of aerosol fog Should the room be less formal, and you still want to hide or disguise faulty chair legs, use flounced corners. This treatment is especially good for informal rooms, and for those ugly cabriole legs. Another corner treatment for covers that is good for chairs upholstered all the way to the floor, are the corded or lace trimmings. Chewing-Gu- r, maam. E1ID It's Wonderful the Way al- ways used that as his motto in his business. Teacher Oh, how noble oi him! And what is his business? Hes a Jimmy cover of it is straight, and on good materials, this offers no problem. Slip covers can be as individual as the seamstress herself, and she need not limit herself to patterns With a change, and simple at that, apt to bring forth many a compliment through the years. ............ Name (Please Print) with draped corners on the slip- Cover old chair for bedroom use . . . h; i" Not a Substitvto Not I,odkated Sano's scientific process cuts nicotine content to half that of ordinary . cigarettes Yet skillful blending I makes every puff a pleasures I tlemnq-hal- l tobacco co., Dta ' T 0G2 DOCTOR ABOUT SAXO aCASITTTS ''' "T iiaisiiijir-H.iin- w7t |