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Show THE PACE SIX " OV WNU Features. , l j Thursday, August 21, 1944 r SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Gems of Thought Smart, Comfortable House Jacket Pretty Skirls for Dressing Table Husbands, Take Notice! Bell Syndicate. ' htWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK Kathleen Norris Says: NEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- IT IS thy duty oftentimes A It's Cool, Tubbable and Slimming Brother-Siste- r Summer Play Set to 6z what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone what thou wouldst do. Thomas a Kempis. ' "It isn't life that mattw; it's the courage you bring to It." John Galsworthy. : Success, the mark no mortal wit. Or surest hand, can always hit: For whatsoe'er we perpetrate We do but row, we're steered by fate. Which in Success oft disinherits, For spurious causes, noblest merits. BUTLER. From the lowest depth there path to the loftiest height. Carlyle. is a Good Table Manners as They Were Back in 1884 ' SctSO I QUIT NAGGING been harping war-1- Y for months on the time duty of wives to keep the home front happy," writes Daisy Chalmers, a spirited young matron of Springfield, Mass, "why don't you sometimes blow up the men for the ridiculous demands they are making on us, their insistence that everything shall be exactly as it always was, war or no war, and their calm expectation that a house without servants will run just as smoothly as a house with a good cook and a nurse in it! With laundry and delivery, and practically every other sort of service curtailed, with domestic help almost impossible to get, a mother of three little boys is bound to be very busy. She is willing to do everything she can, but necessarily she must neglect her housekeeping a bit. Everything would go along all right, except that her husband is one of those neat, efficient souls who want cleanliness and order, no matter what the situation is. He will rub his finger over the piano, and hold it up to show the dust, or he will hint that the drapes need washing. While he is polite and even sweet, he is constantly nagging. These people are well off. They have an income of $6,000 a year, and live in a apartment, and are accustomed to a rather high standard of living. stiff-neck- ed "I have three adorable, noisy, destructive little boys," the letter goes on. "Dick wanted boys and boys only, and fortunately I was able to oblige. They are healthy, I am healthy, I am a good cook, with, I think, a fairly even and amiable disposition. Until just before Paul, the youngest, was born, I had a domestic helper of sorts. She was old, slow, stubborn, but she was absolutely faithful, scrupulously clean, and she loved the babies for their very naughtiness. We paid Josie $15 a week. Dirk's income is $6,000 a year doesn't it sound big? But it isn't as big as it once was. And whatever it's worth now, it won't pay for a maid. Cramped in Apartment. "We live in a six room apartment, up two flights of stairs. Of course, the children can't go out without me, and when they do all four of us, including Paul, now a year old, have to be dressed for the street, the coach has to be bumped out from the locker under the stairs, pillow and covers dumped into it, and Paul established in state. Crossing a street with a baby buggy and boys of two and four is no fun; getting the groceries home is no fun either. We have no dumbwaiter, but the delivery boy pants up our stairs twice a week; everything else I carry myself, sometimes including Jack, or even my eldest, Marty. "Now, I love all this; I'm equal to it; I'll get through. But what upsets me is my husband's mild, sweet, incessant hinting and criticizing of everything I do. Our part of town is dirty and dusty, grit comes in and Dirk runs his fingers over polished surfaces and shows me the grit. "All this distresses Dirk terribly. 'Would you mind touching up your hair before we sit down, dear?' he says. 'May I have a spoon that isn't quite so sticky?' He asks If the boys have been out in the glorious fresh air; scowls when I say only for an hour's marketing. They ought to have more of an airing than that. 'But I've been washing today. Dirk,' I say. 'I've got almost a hundred pieces out on the line.' Xet's have no excuses, Daisy,' he says genUy. Tm not criticizing, I'm only disappointed.' "When I had influenza he took care of us all for three days, then he got a nurse in at eight dollars a day," the letter goes on. "He was furious; the house was never clean J? a light and a dark lhade this one was done in pale blue and a bright electric blue or In two contrasting shades. Red snd black navy and white make ood combinations. Size 16, 18, 20. To obtain complete crocheting instructions for the House Jacket (Pattern No. send 16 cents in coin, your name ind address and the pattern number. 1490) For Dressing- Tables - O.IVE that old, scarred table a new coat of paint or a wallpaper and glass top and a frilly, feminine "skirt" and you'll have A RlT 36-5- Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1998 is designed for sizes 36, 38,. 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, and 52. Size 38, short sleeves, requires material. yards of 2 "Speak not at table. Laugh not at For Favorite Pastels table ; it shows unthankfulness." "The mouth and teeth should be T TN ADORNED save for the For Boys and Girls scoured out once each day with charming detail at neckline, cole dust, which is not only good this matron's dress is quietly de- DRIEF, comfortable, cool and to cleanse the teeth, but is also an signed to make you look taller, pretty that's the sort of sumexcellent preservative to them." slimmer! Make it up in your fa- - mer clothes the youngsters like! This play set is easy to make and launders like a charm when done in nice cotton materials. 50 3 Salt Worth Its Weight In Gold in Some Areas h er Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1991 is designed for sizes 2, 3, 4. 5 and 6 years. Size 3. boys' overalls, requires yard of material: blouse l' yards: girls' material; yards of Juniper, 1 blouse, IV, yards. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time Is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: h Milk which has changed may be Braising, browning and cooking1 A few cents buys a packet of in a small amount of moisture sweetened or rendered fit for use salt in this country. Its very abun- with the lid on, is used for less again by stirring in a little soda. dance here makes it difficult for tender meat cuts. . . us to realize its value to manA tablespoonful of turpentine kind. The fact is that salt is one Waffles are grand for dessert boiled with your white clothes will of the most precious products in when topped with cream cheese greatly aid the whitening process. the world, and in desert areas it mixed with cherry or blueberry is literally worth its weight in jam. Be generous with both the Rain water and soap will regold. Intrinsically, it is even more cheese and jam. No need for but- move machine grease from washvaluable, for gold ' cannot buy ter as the cheese is rich enough. able fabrics. ' health, but salt can maintain it. The famous traveller, A. Tschif-felNever pull awnings np or leave A dry cloth is better for removwho rode horseback from ing a pan or dish from the stove them up while wet. Rolled damp Buenos Aires to Washington, says or oven than a damp or wet one. they will mildew or rot. . that when journeying in desert regions, acting on the advice of naJellied vegetable and fruit tives, he always carried a bottle dishes which be prepared beof lemon juice mixed with salt fore the sun may into goes high noon water to save him from fatigue. are a boon to the housewife on hot summer days. h SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street Calif. San Francisco i Enclose 20 cents In coins for each - pattern desired. Pattern No Name . . LAddresi y, Size - a S 113 Hear 'em Crackle o" Tl IK BEAT U liCHI I 1998" -- 50-ye-ar W." 1 HM plate." yrj. vorite summer pastel shades in rayon sheers and in cool, tubbable cottons - brother-and-sist- ArfHr. oil-ca- high-spirite- d 2-- 6 , d, It of wool in 1991 1V No no-tail-or i Be Considerate. . . '''iSajjil afterward, I asked him what he thought of my Job. He merely observed that if he had It to do he would so organize it that there wouldn't be all that confusion. War Conditions. "I'm a college graduate, intelligent, enthusiastic, but I won't stand Indicator That's It too much of this! Please write an How much did you spend Clarkson That man must live article saying that unless men onJoan in a very small apartment. her last night? understand the infinite difficulties of Harkson What makes you think Between seven and Jasper these the endless housekeeping days, dollars. so? eight of wife a is and that that job mother, Clarkson Well, can't you see Joan Oh, I see. A dollar. the complications of his dog wags its tail up and how help, Must instead of sideways? down Be marriages will continue to go on Jasper Look at the pretty telephone the rocks. at the next table! That Proves It "What started all this," Daisy girl Jerry How do you know she's a teleBobby Daddy, will you buy me a concludes, "was something that hap- phone girl? of roller skates if I can prove that Marty is Jasper I said "Hello" twice, and I pair pened this morning. a dog hat ten tails? therwith the no answer. measles, quarantined got Father Well, yes, I think I can prommometer at 82, the baby refusing ise that. his breakfast, and Dirk putting his Hobby Well, one dog has one more Suggestive? head in the door after he had left to "I understand your husband has tail than no dog, hasn't he? Father Yes, that's right. say sweetly 'Bathroom windows taken up the violin." Hobby Well, if no dog has nine tails, Yes, and he's doing fine with crying for five minutes of soap and and one dog has one more tail than no n water!' Please write something that it. They've returned his dog, then one dog must have ten tails. will make these exacting husbands from next door already." ashamed of themselves." At Long Last A guy stomped into a restaurant Dear Daisy, I say in answer, your Wife (reading paper) Think of letter seems to me to be as good an and shouted at the waitress: it. Here's a couple who got marargument as any I could think up. "Bring me two fried eggs, burned ried after a courtship. Dirk isn't the only husband who has top and bottom, a piece of damp He I suppose the old fellow was a two old in of critical coffee these and toast, cup too weak to hold out any longer. grown exacting days tense days. It's partly a nervous re- and strong as carbolic acid." action to the fearful events that are When the astonished waitress had She'll Find Out shaking the world, and as such brought the order, the patron "I shouldn't keep telling her ought to be treated with patience shouted: "Now sit down and nag you'jee unworthy of her." and kindness. But at the same time me, I'm homesick." "No? Why not?" a lot of husbands ought to wake up "Let it come to her as a surand take stock of themselves. prise." Sprinkle your heat rmh If she's sweet, if she's distractedirritated akin well with "I've been Jceped," cried the ly and gaily doing her best, if she " Mexsana, the soothing. INI as the army car hit can cook, if she loves her children, pedestrian mkJ Coois ted powder. C AT burn a-- it soothes itctunc. him. home, and husband then for the duration try to regard her as she regards you, a courageous individual who is managing to get through the most convulsed and agonizing period oi vm just all history with a minimum of nerve to set Zting center damage. HURRYJOLKS! I LL VICM-IM- f When window shades wear and become soiled at the bottom they can be taken off the roller, turned tacked back on the roller and hemmed at the new bottom edge. 7&m D SB9B5 end-for-en- d, E E To repair a break in an extension cord, strip the insulation from the wires for a few inches on either side of the break, twist the ends of broken wires together .sol- 3 "The Craias are Creat Faadt" Kellogg's Rice Krispies equal the whole ripe grain in nearly all the protective food elements declared essential to human nutrition. nnnnnnnn der, tape with rubber splicing compound and wind with friction tape. Don't put two splices side by side when repairing broken wires. Offset them a little. Counsel Had Gone to Great Length to Make It Clear The scene was in a courtroom. Counsel looked sternly at the man in the witness stand and demanded: "Did you, or did you not, on the date in question, or at any time previously or subsequently, say, or even intimate to the defendant or anyone else, whether friend or mere acquaintance, or, in fact, a stranger, that the statement imputed to you, whether just or unjust, and denied by the plaintiff, was a matter of no moment or otherwise? Answer me! Did you or did you not?" The man in the dock clutched at his throat. "Did I, or did I not, what?" he gasped. fir inoraUM WVvSr5TJ tmiiiii.ii SSS ASK MOTHER, SHE KNOWS...' finely-traine- material with soap and water and I House Jacket A BIG, comfortable, loose house jacket which will keep you sarm and looking very smart, at the same time. Crochet six-roo- m Removing Mildew Stains Fresh mildew stains will often come out if you simply wash the 1 Bay SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 149 New Montgomery St. San Francisco, Calif. Enclose IS cents (plus one cent to cover cost of mailing) for Pattern ichieved a dressing table that looks like a million dollars! Dotted net, scrim, seersucker, flowered chambray, organdy, rayon crepe, chintz, pastel cottons, are only a few of the materials you can use. And making the "skirt" is much or orderly or quiet, and he spooned easier than you think! cold cereal into the boys and went out for his own meals. Once, WtW- - To obtain complete Instructions for making the Dressing Table Skirts (Pattern No. a variety of decorator finishing 57S7) tricks, send 16 cents in coin, your name, address and the pattern number. Send your order to: "Marty is quarantined for the measles, and the thermometer at 82 . . . and Dirk saying, 'Bathroom windows crying for five minutes of soap and water."' By KATHLEEN NORRIS it These excerpts are from the "Manual of Good Manners" published in 1844 quoted by Arthur Train in "Puritan's Progress": ."Never be squinting and scowling and examining the victuals, to see if you can discover a coal or a speck or a hair; if you find one, take ,it out decently, and not make a great ado about it." "Eat what you need before you rise from' the table; and not be picking and 'eating afterwards. Never pocket victuals at the table, it denotes a thievish disposition." "When you have done eating, clean your plate, knife and fork, lay the bones you have picked in a snug heap by the side of your plate, scrape up your crumbs, and cross your knife and fork pn your put it in the bright sunshine. If thi doesn't work, try covering the spots with lemon Juice and salt, and placing the garment in the sun. Or you can use sodium perborate as a bleach oe white or colorfast fabrics. tablespoons or sodium perborate to a Dint of soapy water. 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