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Show THE SALINA SUN, S ALIN A, UTAH WOMAN'S WORLD , New Window Treatment Pays Decorating Dividends By Ertta Haley new window Did you knowIn that your home will pay you more In decorating dividends than anything else that you can do to a room? Windows can be such a striking feature, even though they are small, and they can be treated decoratively, at less expense than furniture or walls. Old curtains and draperies may often be used as the means tor decorating windows, if they lend themselves to new color by dyeing or simple trimming like fringe or ruffle. If old draperies are worn and cannot be dyed, they can frequently be turned inside out and used again. This is particularly true of velvet, velveteen or corduroy. Cotton fabrics, such as homespun or muslin types, can be dyed readily. Remnants will often yield enough material to utilize for trimming, too. Check over old formals, feed sacks, old sheer curtains or pieces of materials picked up at sales. Combined cleverly with what you have In the way of draperies or curtains, you can come up with good window treatments. Do your planning of the new project with a flair, and don't get sidetracked with an easier but less effective way of doing the job once youre in the midst of it. Some Travel Coat Old sheeting is excellent to use for each side of the curtain, defor ruffles, as described above, pending on the length of the winfor It can be dyed any color to dow, stitch them together and place match the printed cloth which is a ruffle of feed sack or other maThese picked from a remnant counter or terial at each seaming is left from an old cotton bedspread should be of the same color. For informal rooms, such as or drapes. For dining or living rooms, you dens, play rooms or nurseries, plan can make old sheer curtains look to use sacks dyed in several colors to give a rainbow or circus efdouble or triple their original value simply by adding rows of ruffle fect. These may be attached to a to panel curtains. Then dye the wooden pole at the top of the winwhole panel with the ruffles the dow by means of wooden rings. Small windows strung in a line same shade, something which will across the room, such as you might go well m the room Sheer and panel curtains In con- have in an attic or basement roum trasting shades can be used on the can be treated nicely with several same windows. The panel curtains sacks hung to sill length. Use sacks may be light in shade, while the of one color, but have the cornice sheer curtains, hung over them in In a contrasting shade Bathroom windows can be inexthe manner of draperies, could be the darker color. Both sets of cur pensively dressed with feed sacks tains should be full to give a lux- since they can be dyed to match the towels. Cottage type curtains, urious look to the windows. curtains with a Striped wallpaper In a room fre- or straight-hanginquently gives rise to a curtain ruffle at the top are excellent If problem. Solve It easily by using desired, the ruffle may be in a white sheer curtains tied back with contrasting solid color or print. Heres a good treatment for a a tailored bow. Use a cornice over the curtains, with a tailored bow bay window. Dye enough feed sacks at the center. Cornice and tiebacks to use for a ruffle at the top of the may match the stripe In the wall- windows, and for draping two sides, in a dark color, preferably a room paper. color. On the windows themselves, t'se Feed Sacks use Priscilla curtains tinted in a For Curtains Feed sacks offer excellent cur- curtain shade, or in plain white. tain material because their tex- Keep Materials Moving tures are so interesting, and the In the Dye Bath When youre dyeing materials, fabric source so economical. Dye them into the desired color, and the important thing to remember is use one of the following treatments that they be kept moving constantfor them. ly to get an even shade of dye as Using two or three feed sacks well as to prevent any streaking. g Lightweight red tweed with textured Interest Is used In this Its Interesting travel coat. crossover front is belted In with red leather, while the sleeves are full and worn pushed up to the elbow, or slightly About 2,000 B C , several men a wild mountain tribe called the Kassites, brought a strange Social Act the whole thing looks like such a and beautiful new animal into Covers mess you wish you hadnt started the city of Babylon. Curious .t in the first place. Then forget crowds gathered in the market Half-Milliuntil starch the paste is com- place to stare at this animal. It t Eligible pletely dry. After you think its was a horse the first horse For Insurance Benefits iry, wait another half hour just to known in history. As of January i, about 500,000 make sure, and brush the dry Old Custom regularly employed workers on stuff off. farms and In farm households bePerhaps grandma, who reTo prevent mattresses from came eligible for social security. the fashion of tweezed the from garded marks rust This means they became eligible oicking up as too modern and fur the first time for springs, give the springs a coat eyebrows" tastes, never heard surance benefits pensions and for it paint when the original paint daring for her of Ancient Sumer. of the ladies thin. of shows benefits paid to survivors if a wage signs wearing of this highly-culturewomen The earner dies. Asiatic civilization carried Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social tweezers in their vanity cases as one piece Ivory objects, all in Security administration said the B C. as 3,000 early new program covers anyone who :an be safely cleaned with soap and water. If several pieces are does planting, cultivating, or harvesting of crops; raises or tends glued together, though, better take Keep Posted on Values a piece of raw lemon, dip it in anilivestock, bees, or By Reading the Ad: salt and rub the surface with it mals; prepares, processes, or delivers crops or livestock to market Let the juice dry on the ivory before you wipe it off with a damp :loth. - Security Farm Workers IgoClAL MXtRllT- purpose. Deuble ruffles edd color . , , , i effects planned have to be carried out with good workmanship and care. If they are to be effective, so plan to give these the utmost in attention to detalL o the If you don't want to whole room, choose a window treatment that will not make the walls and furnishings look too shabby, and thus force you to go further in your efforts at decoration. Dae Fringe, Ruffles On Old Draperies Fringe trimming can be used In both modern and traditional rooms ItS an excellent way to trim old drapes and curtains, because of Us easy application. You may have fringe from an old pair of drapes that can be dyed to suit your new scheme. It may also be purchased In different colors Use matching or contrasting fringe fof any of the following suggestions An old pair of turned draperies can be treated to a fringe decoration in "V formation, using three rows of fringe coming Just about at the center of the drape. If dyed to a bright shade that contrasts nicely with the drapes, this can be effective. If your room Is modern In conception, you can us. any plain ma terial for draperies, the more textured the fabric, the better. Add narrow fringe to the draperies In graduated rows, starting with one row at the top, followed several Inches lower with two rows, then three and four rows. Fringe may also be used as the edging on coarse net curtains. This la especially good on single win- re-d- AMERICAN FAMILIES are to have a terrible time in the next few years, and they are going to make difficulties for us aU. and remind us that we are in a bad way. Other American families will face this crisis as an adventure, and make it a period of such famthat it actually wiU ily be enjoyable. It is for Mother and in a lesser sense Dad to decide which path the family is going to take. If you decide for the courageous way, get things in line right now. Gather the family together and make a little speech something like this: We are now climbing up into a prairie schooner, popularly known as a Covered Wagon. We are going to take along only the very necessities of life. Here on this blackboard your father and I have made a note of what we owe. You will see that it is something over $300. Our first job Is to pay that off. end fringe adds style. When that is paid, food limitais that two different materials can tions, gas limitations and power be used to ruffle trim the same limitations will have come to Amerwindow. ica. They will not be as rigorous as those other naUons almost all Curtains Look Expensive other nations have had to endure With These Tricks For kitchen or bathroom, use a for the past 10 years. But to you they will seem severe. deep ruffle at the top of the window. Add three or four rows of Inexpensive Meal ruffling to the lower half of the will include meals that wiU They half curtain. All the ruffles can be fiU you warmly and appetisingly, dyed in darker or lighter shades but that to you will not seem like of the same color, yellow, green, meals at ail. This means that such pink or blue. as macaroni and cheese, or dishes For a narrow row of kitchen winbeans, or a thick soup, or waffles, dows, here's a neat idea: Using will each form a whole supper. Once two kinds of material, one of print will have vegetables, a you day and the other of plain material a little meat, but put and that contrasts well with the pre- steaksperhaps and roasts and and dominant color of the print, make broilers out ofchops your minds, once and two rows of ruffles and hang at tor all. Breakfast will be an Inez-the top. Use the print on top of the drill, the lack of personal freedom these things you are not expected to meet. And this is the best of war. The worst Is the cold, the pain, the shock and fear of battle fronts; the misery of dying without one look from a loving home face; the dazed horror of coming home to be forever helpless, or in pain, or in the dark. Poverty Abroad In gallant England children now speak, and will always speak, of an ordinary egg as a shell egg. They have been allowed two shell eggs a month for a period of ten years. In Denmark because of fuel and power conservation, there is no hot water after four o'clock, except for hospitals. In Germany children pick up the chocolate wrappers our occupation forces drop and suck them for the taste of sweet In China small boats crowd about our service vessels, scooping up for food the grapefruit shells, n the stale bread, the potatoes that are thrown overboard. Youll never come to that. Youll emerge, as your country always has emerged, from this time of trial, all the stronger." You may be grateful all your life that you had it. You may get a new sence of values, of the meaning of money and budgeting, and above all, of the beauty of home love and service and mutual dependence. And remember, that whether you like it or not, we have, as a nation, to face it We can scramble through it with debts and complaints and black marketing and discomfort or we can leave much of our old waste and extravagance and personal possessive selfishness behind and come out wiser, better than we went In. half-rotte- A total of 500,000 farm work- er became eligible for social or storage; cooks or does other household work on farms, or does their general farm work. However, each worker must qualify" first. Farm owners or operators are not covered. Wages paid by an employer to bis children under 21 do not count, nor do other payments within a family. Altmeyer said employers of farm workers covered by the extension of the law should get instructions from their local collectors of internal revenue concerning when payments should be made and methods for keeping records. Disaster Relief Program For Farmers Expanding The government announced recently that the simple relief measure started in 1949 to aid snowbound ranchers in the west has mushroomed into a tremendous business. It hat grown into a business and covert parts of states and Puerto Rico. The farmers home administration, in charge of the program, reports more than 26,000 loans have been made to farmers. They average about 11,192 each, although there Is no limit on the amount a farmer may borrow If he qualifies as a disaster victim" and can put up sufficient collateral. The largest loan approved to date was $400,000 to a Mississippi farmer. One of the most recent disaster areas was the entire state of Mississippi where the cotton crop was damaged by bad weather and wee37 SMITH BROTHERS cut the unbroken portions of the mirror into squares and bevel the edges. . For marble objects, whip up a strong solution of sal soda and combine that with fullers earth. Coat the marble with this paste, and let it stay at least twenty-fou- r hours before removing it. Cash and Carry Without Painful Backache U n pi aldw, treat odm (trala, government starts taking losses like it did In the program of the depression era." Planning for the Future? Women Good Hitchhiker's Thumb Seen on Video tmnm In just 3 minute mixing time. d Snowdrift gives you cake thats richer, lighter, WIDEN THE ROADS, men! the guard rails! Get the women and children off the streets) To the hills, pedestrians, one and all! Video aets in automobiles are threatened! The I.C.C. has the matter under consideration, provided tha screens are not where the driver can see 'em. Soon we may have to duck not only the carelets driver, but Howdy Doody, Uncle Miltle, the ninth Inning rally and Versatile Varieties. , To the danger of the sharp street and curve, the dead-en- d the defective traffic light may be added the screen western. Double or Nothing, Inner Sanctum and a Presidential fireside chat. It Is not enough to have the road full of cockeyed truck drivers, Imbecilic Joy riders and we have got nitwit tourists to dodge PUPPETS! I I ... We rebel. We want to know, as we pick ourself out of a tree, whether we were run over by a trailer or by Six Gun Playhouse We insist upon being fairly certain we are dodging a taxicab and not working our way between Chuch Wagon, Johnny Olsen's Rumpus Room and Leave It To The Girls. The homicide trial of the future Is easily imaginable. Jndge. Now go on and tell in your own way how you and your ten-inc- h screes crashed through the butcher shop window injuring eight people. Autolst. Judge, 1 am the most careful driver in the world. I always use extreme caution. I have never . . . Judge. Cut the commercial! Just give me the facts Autoist. Weil, yerroner, I was driving downtown by way of the Arthur Godfrey program, when everything went black. Judge. Your steering gear fail- moisterl Just put everything in 1 bowL Creamy Snowdrift blends so easily I Remember, you can make cakes only with emulsorized shortening. And Snowdrift is emulsorized. Make this Snowdrift cake today Private Eyes By H. I. Phillips d 1 CHOCOLATE Especially Valuable In Shadowing Women A Snowdrijt Sift together into " the family together . . ." pensive fruit, like baked apples or stewed apricots, oatmeal, and toast with butter substitute. cokes and chocolate bars and milk shakes are out If you don't like one meal let us say you do not ed? care for stuffed cabbage, baked Autolst. No. My focusing dial. sweets and prune shortcake why, then you will be all the hungrier Judge. Go onl Autolst. Well. I was proceeding for the next meaL slowly when all of a sudden a Lights must be turned out the football game. Grade Allen and minute you are through with them. Kuka, Fran and OUie cut right Towels must be used carefully. across me. Clothes must be worn for more than Judge. I bad an accident like one season. Long distance calls are that, too. I was driving to court this out. If you children can find means morning when a cooking program, of making pocket money, by all the Fitzgeralds and the Dennis means do so, and take in Saturday James program came out of a side movies or Sunday hikes. But street without tooting that this household is doAutoisL-W- ere you hurt. Judge? ing its share in the great governJudge. I lost two teeth and my ment effort by going through the outside aerial process known to mariners as shortAutolst. Driving is getting toughening the sail. There must be no er and tougher, yerroner. 1 hit a complaints. Any suggestions as to telephone pole last night on account further economies or more appeof the Twenty Questions program. tising meals will be welcome, but no grumbling Judge. How come? And Just get It Into your young Autolst. My car is only equipped tor 10 questions. American heads that whatever you Judge. I can't get the video sacrifice or suffer you are not enof what your big stars to appear in this court with- during out paying them, so I'll have to do brothers and cousins are facing-ev- en when they are only in army the best I can with you. I give you six months. camps at home. Loneliness, homeAutoisL In what channel? sickness, th deadly monotony of . Mid-me- one-tent- h FLUFF Quick-Metho- d CAKE Recipe large bowl: 21? cup sifted rale flour 1 teaspoon, doublo-acti- o baking powdar (nr 4 tip. - NEW YORK. N.Y. Only two women have graduated so far from the New York Institute of Criminology, but they prove what Asst Dean Emma Predicker has been saying all along. Women are naturals in the field of private investigation. mmwM Chocolate Fluff Cake...Quicker...more luscious... because pure vegetable Snowdrift is emulsorized! quick-metho- tinglo-actio- 1 Men on farms and ranches have many heavy barrels containing oil sheep dip, keroseiw, etc., to empty and at times a faucet may nut be at hand. Here it an easy way to overcome that difficulty. Secure a For reasons best known to other women, feminine investigators do piece of 44 inch pipe with one end threaded, eight to 12 Inches long a more thorough Job of snooping, Place a chunk under one end of the Miss Predicker says. barrel so contents will fall away With their suspicious minds and from the portion of the bead natural curiosity, they work out near the upper chime. Then bore a bole very well." she added. Miss Pred- through the bead with a Inch bit. icker teaches both men and women Thread portion of the pipe into this the finer points of shadowing and bole. When ready to draw off any writing up reports describing the of the contents just roll the barrel scene of the crime. a little until the liquid starts to You cant go right from the 13 run. When sufficient has been week course to your own detec- drawn, roll the barrel back to a tive agency, since a man or woman position where the pipe la upperneeds three years of experience be- most and contents will stop flowing fore getting licensed as a private investigator. Dehydrated Cheese Is Put But there are many more reOn Sale in Netherlands quests now for people to serve in Cheese In powdered and tablet factories, screening war workers and Just generally protecting plant form la being marketed to the security," the vivacious shadowing Netherlands, according to the U. S department of agriculture. The new expert said. cheese product is made Policemen around the area have dehydrated from Gouda and Edam cheeses unbecome accustomed to seeing th der a process which Is said to reslim, well dressed school instruc- duce the volume of the cheese by tor start off an eager group of stu- one half. The report says that a dents on complicated shadowing variety of flavors ran be obtained assignments up and down depending upon the age of the cheese used for dehydrating. -- Doaiis Pills U.S. Sayings Bonds! quick-metho- ONCE OVER IS U expoeur ffertioo, iceestve emoklng dowo kidney too old to nod not flew folk to eoo tlott. TbU nay load plain ! tagging bncknche, lot W pep headache and ditiioee Getting energy op eights ar frequent paeBegee any reeult from Dinar bladder Irriutfooe due to noldL Aampnee ar dietary Indierretlona are due to theoa U your diacomforte aild oaueea, doa't wait, try Doaae Pill. (Jeed by Dttitone for eucceeatully dmretia aver 60 yean- While tbeee eyaptoma may ftaa etheririe occur, If emaaiog bow Deny time Doant five happy relief help the 16 mile of kidney tube end filtora iuah out vaeta Get Doaot Pill today! Good Lesson And did my little pet Mother learn anything at school today?" The Pet I learned two kids bettern to call me mammas little pet I Buy rotds How She Shops vils. The end isn't In sight," one official said, "It looks like the program is here to stay unless the Oil Barrel Rig plain. WwM'l bast --tasting Cough Modkation I" a miror breaks, you may nave seven years' bad luck; but you can also have several attractive things to put under vases and bowls if you get a glazier to When KATHLEEN NORRIS SOME of Paste moleskin on the bottom if heavy ornaments and flower pots to prevent scratches on table tops. Old felt hats can be cut up, and the pieces used for the same security benefits with the extension of the Social Security Act as of Janusry 1. Families Will Suffer Austerity :lean plaster of paris statuary, lust smear the paste all over every part of the surface until on below. dows such as you would find In a For hall, dinette or bathroom. washable curtains, simply baste the fringe on, or sew It to a strip of snaps such as you might use for attaching a cover to the dressing table. Remove the fringe before laundering and then snap it on again after the curtains are clean Ruffles don't even have to be of the same material as the curtains to which theyre attached. Another nice idea to know in this respect First Horse A wet, gooey paste of laundry starch and water can be used to teaspoon sail 11? cup, sugar 14 cup milk cup shortening Add: Mix enough to dampen flour. Beat 2 minutes. If by hand, count beating time only. With electric muw use low speed." Scrape bowl often; scrape beaten after 2 minutes. Add: 1 eggs Vi Beat I cup milk teopoon vanilla 1 minute. Bake In 2 greased layer pans, lined with plain in paper, moderate oven 375 F.) about 25 minutes. CooL Frost wit- hCHOCOUTE FLUFF FROSTING: Cream 4 tablespoons Snowdrift with cup sifted confectioners sugar. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla and 3 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted, and blend. Beat 2 egg whites until stiff; add cup sifted confectioner? sugar (2 tablespoons at a time) and beat after each addition. Continue beating until mixture stands in peaks. Fold Into chocolate mixture. Frost cake. Decorate with pastel colored mints cut In half (See picture.) WHEN GOOD TASTE COUNT- S- SNOWDRIFT PURE VEGETABLE SHORTENING Dont let Cold Demons make his chest feel sore and con- rub on Mentholatum. Fast, safe Mentholatum helps lessen congestion. Its vapors soothe inflamed passages, ease coughing spasms. For bead makes breathing eolda, too easier. In jara, tubes. gested ... |