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Show THE JOURNAL Page 6 SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1952 WOMAN'S WORLD Folding Sewing Set Is Novel and Useful Charming Dress Is Easy for Beginner Simple Tricks Add Charm to Curtains By Ertta Haley your windows ARE . curtainsto athave something just there, or do they add the interesting note to the room? One of the most inexpensive ways to decorate any room in the home is to provide a bright accent with curtains, a cheerful note or something so lively as to start conversation just 'as soon as1 someone sees -- your curtains. Just in case you think curtains havent changed much, just look at some of the new designs and colors which are available, to say nothing of the new styles in curtaining. All rooms in the home have been exposed to the new things in curtains kitchens, living and dining rooms, entrance halls, bedrooms and game rooms. Just as refinishing furniture can improve it, so can curtains be used to hide any number of construction faults in windows. They can enDainty string bows are a fahance the view if you have one, or vorite trimming feature of the replace a poor view just in the way seasons shoes. Here they are the curtains themselves are treated. seen on an open-toe- d, but closed Remember the days when curtains In shoe black done heel suede, were mostly white or ivory? These but may be had in brown suede are sometimes used, but the use Is or bine calf aa the wardrobe quite different from what it used to dictates. , be. .Curtains have plenty of color and design now, and they can be used to bring out room colors by straight. This is a very effective way to treat' Windows in harmonizing or accenting them. There are even certain types of houses as well as rooms in which prints available which will help to there is sufficient color and design interest elsewhere in the room. Drapes may be used with sheer curtains, but they should be full and generous. If they cannot be because of the expense involved, its far better taste and much more good sense to. spend the money on sheer curtains and make these like drapes, pleated and full, placed on traverse rods. - -- goes a button or pOP a seam but this ri-i-- goes ip tiny donkey stands ready for the emergency. The portable outfit holds the things that are needed for a real big job of sewing. Everything is complete on pattern 233 including tracing outlines and colors to use for decorating and the finished job. Price of pattern is 25c. WORKSHOP PATTERN SERVICE Drawer 10 Bedfa'd HiUe. New Terk Future Days In the very near future, men will eat baked beans and say: . Ah, dear, these are just like mother used" to open. LL" J 1 Joining People have shown a tendency to join churches in greater numbers at nine-yeintervals, a stuly of church membership records over the past 120 years indicates. The churches represented by these membership studies include the Presbyterian, both North and South, and ;Methodist, Congregational, is believed Episcopal. However, it that these cycles apply generally to nearly all Protestant denominations. the-Churc- h . , ar New Table Salt .s ' . old-fashion- ed Vitamins from a salt shaker will become possible, it is claimed, through a patent issued to Merton A. Searle, St. Paul, Minn. The patient explains the system as a table salt having the surface of each granule uniformly coated with a powdered vitamin from the class 'Bl, B2, and C and mixtures thereof the particles- - of powdered vitamin being small relative to the Sheer curtains refresh comers . granules of salt. carry out furniture or decorative themes. These, used in curtains, can Emotional Cycles be the most effective note the often Definite cycles have been found room has. in the emotional life of human beWhen rooms have sufficient color ings. Professor Rex B. Hersey of the University of Pennsylvania has and design interest, then add no discovered that individual males more conflicting accents, and use tend to have their own emotional plain sheer curtains. ups and downs in rhythmic cycles Study your rooms and see just which may vary in periods, depend- what kind of curtains they need. ing on the individual, from 2 to Once this is decided, youll have fun weeks. getting together just whats needed. Use Unusual Treatments For Sheer Curtains Sheer curtains arent always perfectly plain; neither are they always feminine and ruffled. Todays trend shows interesting effects obCreomulsion relieves promptly because tained by sheer curtains it goes right to the seat of the trouble almost as .treating draperies. to help loosen and laden QGISGF AT IASV ForVca?S0 expel germ phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial membranes. Guaranteed to please yon or money refunded. Creomulsion has stood the test of millions of users. CREOMUESION pUtvM Cough Chest Colds, Acute Bronchitis Take, for example, the room with a large comer window. If you need the light or dont want to close out the view, then sheer curtains are an absolute essential. But, you may say, the room is a living room, and you want something really appro- ... -- of, colored ruffle through which you run elastic can be placed to go all the way around the window, thus giving you the color accent and the freedom ot view desired. i Solve Window Problems With Clever Curtains Rooms with small windows can probably use all the light they caq get. Curtains, rather than drapes are the answer. Sheer curtains on double rods will answer the purpose nicely, especially those which are tied back in hour glass fashion. Views outside the window cannot easily be changed, but you dont have to look out! Treat windows like this with, pretty curtains and you can have as nice a picture as you want Figured lace panels are excellent for living and dining room windows. You might have an attention getting cornice and some striking pattern in the drapes hung at either side to complete the effect Informal living rooms with windows, bedrooms and kitchens, too, can have the outside view blocked with gathered sheer curtains. , You might try use of three or four rows of these, with the bottom edge piped in a solid color that goes well in the room. Windows which show nothing at all on the outside; especially those which look right at the wall of another house can have tailored curtains in good colors. Take a cloth of good texture and add some vertical stripes of bright color, and use these at the windows. Candy-stripe- curtains are good d in many rooms, whether these are tailored or feminine. A girls room may have frothy organdie bedspread and dressing table. What could be lovelier than red and white candy, striped curtains, tailored, but still a good contrasting note to all the femininity? Childrens rooms are excellent with tailored, striped curtains, too. You might select several colors in d stripes and sew these on Novelty Curtains Have Many Use Need curtains for your bathroom? Plastic is frequently an excellent choice because it will withstand the constant dampness of the. room, and material. the curtains will not wilt. Curtains for the bathroom can match the shower curtains if theyre Let Remnants Make used. In fact, in a small bathroom, Attractive Curtains its best to have them not only of How often have you gone out to matching material but also in style. buy material and then found someTailored shower curtains naturally thing later in the home which would call for straight curtains. have served the purpose as well? If the room is not strictly tailored, Too often! Check your stock at ruffled curtains may be used, tied hand first and see if old things can back, as In cottage sets. be converted to usefulness. Both the shower curtain and the For smaller curtains youre cercurtains can be made from plastic tain to find material unless youve material bought by the yard, espe- just started housekeeping and have cially if you like the shower cur- no remnants at all. Good portions of tain especially long and generously sheets, linen towels, crash, mens fulL shirts and many such items can be There was a time when kitchen cut and used for short curtains. curtains had' to be organdie or one Trimmings may- - be needed, but of the other sheer materials, and these are certainly less expensive preferably in white. Now that color than buying everything new. Shirring in different colors is available to make the task easier, and so are rick-racruffling, bias tape and ribbon for stripes. and charming, want to make several youll versions of this daytime dress that even a beginner can turn out with confidence. Soft scallops finish the CO practical front closing. Pattern No. -- 1312 Is a aew-rlt- e forated pattern in sizes 14, 16, 42. 44, 46. Size 16. 4 yards of DEPT HI West Adams St.. Chleafs 6. III. Enclose 30c tn coin for each pattern. Add 5c for 1st Class Mall if desired. Size Pattern No SEWTNG CIRCLE PATTERN - Name - (Please Print! Street Address or P O Box No State .City Good Mileage Farmer: I get 45 miles to Stranger: Gosh I What kind of gas do you use? Farmer: Dont use any kind of gas. I just give my old mule a gallon of water and shes good for 45 miles. At an e ' Coincidence authors tea: You write? What a coincidence! I. read! Fashion Flashes at add luxury to long, narrow windows. has been introduced more strongly into the kitchen, curtain materials have a wide range. Lets suppose that your kitchen is Early American in theme or has an informal peasant theme. What skirts. would-bmore appropriate than You can accent' many of your e some colorful chintz or one of the slender basic dresses with a white peasant prints which are often done linen dickey, particularly when you e on natural .or linen? want to. do something new for your . gray-whit- Here, then, is the ideal choice. wardrobe. Try the If the kitchen has a gay informal- dickeys with plaids or solid colors ity and you want a clear view of like purple, deep blue, brown, and, the outside, why bother with cur- - of course, black. on the gallon. k, If youre investing in a coat at the end of the season, choose a smart conservative style that will do just as well next year. Select a color like gray, for example, that goes with everything. A dress to spice the wardrobe and get you into the next season would be black, accordian pleated and should have a covered up look. Your trimmings should be scant, such as a slim velvet belt and a single pin at the throat. Have you seen some of the new woolens? Theyre done in a luxurious Paisley print - with stained glass colors. Make theminto dresses or per- 18, 20; 40, 39-inc- h. solid-colore- priate. Sheer curtains for this type of corner window may be strictly them at the tailored. Pinch-plesolves laxative problem top and place on traverse rods so can be drawn easily. Use closed - "I have had great success with they or open, as desired. Curtains treatall-bra- n, writes Paterson, N. J., in this way should be luxurious ed man. After years of constipation, for they have no draperies to help I am now regular. Thanks to my them out. Pinch pleats should be Vz cup of all-bra- n every day! If you suffer from irregularity due full; have hems at least five inches to lack of dietary bulk, try a bowldeep. ful of this tasty cereal every night High ceilinged rooms usually need bed a valance. at the windows to help before back it may bring ' the youthful regularity you . cut down the disproportion of the is the room. Even though the windows thought long lost, all-bra- n cereal that may just be average length, they only type ready-to-e- at supplies all the bulk you may can be made more effective if you i need. Its high in cereal protein. use tailored curtains of sheer mateessential B rial, falling to sill or floor length. . rich in iron, provides and D vitamins. Not habit-formin- g. At the top, drape generously with If youre not satisfied after a ruffled curtain to give the effect 10 days, send empty carton to of a valance, though the curtains Kelloggs, Battle Creek, Mich themselves may be perfectly and get double money back! Bedtime Snack i tains at all? Youll find that a piece Its so easy to relieve coughs and stuffiness of colds in a hurry this way . home-prov- ed 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 membranes, helps restore normal breathing. For coughs or upper bronchial congestion theres nothing like using Vicks VapoRub in steam. For continued relief always rub It on throat, chest and back. ' Vv |