Show k THE GARLAND UTAH TIMES GARLAND WOMAN'S WORLD SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Be Smart! Nev Window Curtains Give Crisp Look By Ertta BEFORE Haley No Purse Problem warmer the makes its appearance a woman is apt to take a The good look at her window curtain look very dirty and sleazy after a winter’s heating If you’re certain they won’t stand another laundering session then get out the tape measure and sewing machine It’s time to make new win iow dressings! Glass curtains are among the easiest Items that can be made at home Most of them require only long stretches of straight seams There’ no fancy stitching or cutting no elaborate patterns and hardly ever any ripping if you follow the simplest rules JUST Use Stiffening At Heading If you like transparent curtains to Jiang" properly it’s best to use some stiffening et the beading of the curtain Usually three Inches or slightly more la best Firm crinohne or buckram are fabrics which are best In measuring the turning necessary tor the beading decide first on the depth of the pleat then turn the top edge In two Inches more allow a double than this measure turn so the buckram will not show When measuring the buckram the edge from two measure Inches because the top stiffening should not extend to the dutside hem of many I Soft full gathers will make the simplest materials exquisite when they’re made into curtains First measure the windows as to height and width The curtain material should be purchased twice as wide as the window You’ll need at least two inches at both top and bottom for seam allowances and from two to four inches for a shrinkage tuck so add at least eight inches to measurements on the length Net marquisette scrim sheer rayon or nylon are all used for glass curtains A good quality firmly woven material will give you the most satisfaction and most wear and is well worth the few cents more a yard which it costs C ' f myntmeK J- 4V fj 4 if V' ?’ '' ' v 2 - never need again worry about what to do with your purse when dining out tf you have one of these smart purse holderettes These inexpensive gadgets are small and compact they fit Into your bag when not in use and will help yon avoid uncomfortable Juggling of the parse on the lap or trying to find a place on the table or floor for the bag They may also nnbrel-la- s for holding be used or packages You Measure windows carefully important to buy good material if you live in a community that’s dirty or smokey because then curtains will have to withstand frequent Have For washing Straight Appearance Edges Good Because curtains are so large is best to cut them on the floor where you’ll have enough space to spread them out If you place the curtain material on a rug the fabric adheres to the rug and you it full pins to secure it Use the vacuum cleaner rug and run over it with For nice need curtains no the damp on a pleat If ou are putting In the shrinkput age tuck of two to four inches this In at the top In a narrow beading above the casing Or to avoid the shrinkage tuck wash the curtain material before sewing and It will shrink as much as it Is going to and oo allowance Deed be made 5L This season silk prints are reallv beck for the first time In substantial quality and quanlty You'll see them now as one of the favorites for resort wear: very classic as to lines extremely brief as to sleeves and pleasing ss to pattern Polka dots will costinne their popularity and New and prints are Innumerable are the small scale refreshing often so conventionalipatterns that they are zed or stylised The loveentirety new looking It "possily hand of silk makes ble to give these new classics Interpretmany original collar ations and most of them are KATHLEEN NORRIS Exaggerated Bell Syndics to— WNU Youthful Self-Pit- y Is Poison OUTHFUL V 1 figure - flattering and so wearable is this two piecer for misses Sleeves can be or length-e- dge wing the pert peplum and brief sleeves with tiny ruffling 8405 6 Features further destiny it is to complicate than help straighten out this "mHEN MY SISTER was three rather is life that enigma and I almost five years old Some 40000 of us die in auto our loved Daddy was Wiled in a motor crash” says a letter ly- crashes every year so that detail didn't particularly distinguish these desk “Mother here on ing my Terrible but it’s the was left penniless but she resumed little sisters her old profession of teaching and truth And as for a pretty mother we at 29 taking a second mate for we had some happy years happy years of motherhood and comOur little three together — apartment was full of love panionship was that such a crime and harmony and Lily and I wanted never to be forgiven? "Mother’’ says another part of only to be with mother for the Diana’s letter "was always trying rest of our lives ‘‘When mother married the fami- to make us like Uncle Rob as we straight called her husband But we saw ly doctor a widower” the letter Selvage edges are woven tighter the the curtain fabric and should goes on “what has proved to be through her devices” In other words you and Lily were be removed before cutting and sew- a fatal injury to my development I was not conscious ungracious little jealous minxes and ing the seams Why? After the cur- took place tain is washed you may find your- of it then naturally but the seeds did all you could to ruin your mother’s chances for happiness in self with baggy curtains which nev- of what grew to be absolute morbidher marriage ity were sown then er can be ironed smooth I'm all for modern psychological Sense Of Injustice This selvage does not show up “Our stepfather loved Lily and methods when they deal with the in the new curtain but it will alto problems of the immediate present show up after laun- me but two boy babies came most always take our places and at 12 and 14 Many good doctors and teachers dering know how and all good mothers we were sent to boarding schooL Use Iron to Save and to handle those cases that arise Our happy country summers with almost every Basting Stitches the letters and packages from in connection adroitchild’s Their development seamstresses always Mother never could remove our Professional and method is work with an iron and ironing sense of deep Injustice and it has ness in analysis evident to those of us board set up ready to use in their colored both our lives Lily never amusingly who can remember our own young sewing room Many edges can be married and has worked for years inhibitions and fixations pressed immediately after cutting In the county home for mental cases vagaries As under simpler names —only so that the fold is sharp This may I have married twice unsuccessfully take toand now feel that while my present long as the psychologists without basting be stitched is cut or husband is an absolute angel I am day tell their patients Just what’s As soon as the curtain wrong today then I’m with them torn turn the side seams using too sick weary and disillusioned But when they encourage us to The to be a good wife for him or good an iron to fold them neatly hem edge on these Is one or two mother to my boys now 17 and 6 dig into the past to discover that at four months one’s bottle was finished Press first years old inches when late In arriving and at three years a quarter of an inch turn then a who “It was my psychoanalyst said she already had second one inch turn Pin the hem searching painstakingly through my Mother on the outside edge and then stitch past unearthe4 this unhappy situat- kissed us goodnight and was going now— and that these thus having basting ion in my girlhood and has helped downstair heinous crimes lived on and The top edge is turned in a casaffected all our later malignantly ing Dut this usually is basted first nonsense is sheer that then years so that you can hang the curtain Silly? You'll find all these infor a trial to see that it fits your stances solemnly portrayed in a curtam rod This fitting will also recent moving picture that suphelp you in seeing that the curtain posedly represents a woman's exhangs properly These are perience in a madhouse the causes that sent her there cloth to catch any dirt or you will soil the curtain tear the curWhenever possible tain fabric rather than cutting it as this will give you straighter If the fabric does seams to sew not tear draw a thread and cut on If you cannot the thread line pull a thread use a yardstick or ruler and draw a chalk line on which to cut Pay special attention to the grain of the fabric in cutting folding and so the curtain will hang stitching It’s very curtains It's also possible to use washable buckram banding made with eyeNo lets t( form the French pleats rings are needed The curtain pole ts slipped right through the eyelets thus giving the necessary d JJoude 2)rcA3 3s yjeat an Smart 'IJoutlijui Cli r ' Dainty Ilouse Dress A SIMPLE crisp at a daisy house dress to start the day with a song Brightly colored ric rac makes a pretty trim a narrow belt ties softly on the side — deep pockets are as handy as can be Pattern No 20 40 42 of 35 or 44 Pattern No 1752 Is for sizes 10 11 14 16 18 and 20 Size 12 blouse short slseve skirt 25k or Hi yards of yards of Send an extra quarter for your copy of the Spring and hummer FASHION— it’s brimful of tewing Ideas for every home dressmaker re pattern printed Inside the book I 8405 Is for sizes 14 18 18 48 Size 18 yards 5 yards trimming and SEWINO 4' South S3 Enclose desired No Pattern j ASK ME ANOTHER j PATTERN DEPT CMct0 t cents lxt coins for sack CIRCLE Wells St Size Name ) Address ? ? A General Quiz 1 When Columbus discovered The Questions the new world in 1492 where did he land? 2 How many registered Ameri- can voters failed to vote in the 1948 presidential election? 3 Has a vice president of the United States ever resigned? 4 What would you do with a demijohn? 5 How long is the world’s longest railway tunnel? 6 In what country was the Battle of Waterloo fought? The Answers flEHTHOlATUf1 Peace At Last From PERSISTENT ITCH! to— 1 On San Salvador in the Bahamas 2 Approximately 20000000 3 Yes —John C Calhoun in 1832 4 Fill it with liquid — it is a glass or earthenware vessel with a large body and small neck enclosed in wickerware 560 5 12 miles yards — Simplon tunnel in Switzerland and Italy 6 In Belgium— about 12 miles south of Brussels d tf Itchy tor No woodsr thousand moot bless the day they chanted to It—inoi Here's quick setloo from Ant mososot — a lasts sad last blissful sense of pssoo thanks to active soothing agent la s lanolin base that stays oo Don't be eoatant sitk Ointment anyth Ini toss effective Uuta Best the! SHADE TRIES Orsss Ash w Hardy Chlneie Sent postpaid at plant in time WASHINGTON Toppsnlsh Ki 20 ro tj NURSERIES Washington THE GARDEN SPOT Beware of US Filming Over-Cultivati- By You'll live IT EASY is a common saying and in garden you will enjoy yourself more if you apply that principle The most pathetic garden ts the one that started out early in the spring as a grand affair and then fizzled out as the hot weather caused the worker to “done run out of as on lady put It ambition" The first factor is soil preparation A clay loam or any stiff soil is benefited by a turning to loosen it up Plowing spading or rotary tilling will do the job In hand spading remember that you do not plant all the garden at once Dig it as you need it This will save backache and keep a crop of weeds from starting on the soil that is “TAKE longer" the £ J'i(l turned too long ahead Sandy or light soils may need only a raxing to fit them for planting The soil needs to be loose that is all a In planting large perennials the peonies or trees and shrubs soil Deed only be prepared where the plants in between Eld red are can E Green I Old to be set The area be taken care of later Heavy soils will be aided If rotted humus of some kind is worked in Leaves old sawdust manure peat This can compost are all valuable be mixed in when the soil is prepared Generally a depth of eight for most plants inches is enough Trees and large shrubs may need more Cultivation in the garden should one Idea: be limited to killing and lawns In weeds around of snrubs the new preparations a In the garden are fine light of the soil is noemg or scuffing sufficient generally Watering is a chore unless a hose and Is able to reach Watering weeding can be kept to a minimum or eliminated if a good mulch Is used Dried leaves grass clippings or straw old manure sawdust of heavy weighted papier strips can be used to cover the soil between plants or around larger ones The mulch prevents weeds from hold and keep soil the taking from drying out Fertilizing may seem difficult but in the home garden a sack of a complete plant food Is the best and way of adding fertility cheapest Manure Is excellent if It can be obtained and worked into the soil Testing for individual elements may be a pleasant pastime but the amount of special chemicals needed in most can be more easily added balanced formula in a Pests may cause trouble but now there are many preparations that will control all of the garden pests with one spray These combination have been supplemented products to good advantage by DDT which most of them contain " too sick and weary the me enormously by putting blame for this injustice where It belongs— on the accident that robbed me of my father and my mother’s second marriage " letThis Is only part of a ter which I have not answered than I It takes more patience with to such a possess sympathize And yet she is typical of woman me actual hundreds who write every year that fancied slights infar and disadvantages justices In back their perfectly normal everyday American childhoods have for mental balances upset their life It has become the fashion to seek back for something Mother or Dad did or something they left undone resentand lay today’s stupidities ments failures and Haws In char acter all to that Documents Microfilm to Preserve Records for Posterity A campaign to save part of the world's cultural heritage is being carried on by the United States of congress library A library of congress laboratory In Mexico City Mexico has photo20000 historical docugraphed The ments of northern Mexico brary operates a second laboratory in Japan A third project still in the planning stage is photographing medieval manuscripts of value In St Catherine's monastery in Palestine head of the George T Smlsor Mexico laboratory unit recently rewhere he turned from Washington conferred with library of congress officials “Both the state department and the library” said Smisor “feel a for cooperating to responsibility preserve documents throughout the Most Compensate For Wrongs world documents that are a part of But good heavens which one of our heritage and part of our culus hasn't far ture suffered wrongs ones deeper than these imaginary "The United States is the only Diana lists here not once but all country in the world with the exParthrough our younger years! and the desire to do it” ents will have favorites teachers perience The desire entails plenty of hard will put the blame on the wrong child and young bewilderment and work Men from Smisor's unit have Into ridden muleback across Mexico’s confusion will lead children and humilating mo bleak Sierras to photograph preembarrassing rasses Unless we make up our cious manuscripts in old colonial minds at 5 or 7 or even earlier that towns They have to date put on that's the way the stupid world of film the comple'e cabildos (records for Durango from grownups Is and develop some sort of city councils) to the iime of of shell or spiritual the 16th century philosophy balance to offset it we shall grow Benito Juarez the middle 19th cen and Diana— lopsided tury Durango was big operating up like Lily base for the whose human wretched early church fathers beings PISSOLVEP PACKAGE EQUALS 1CCMPRESSEP YEAST CAKE WHEN I ) HEY— Buy 3 packages at a time Extra-activ- e always 3 times women handy! as many prefer FLEISCHMAIlIft YEAST t |