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Show TOE BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH , WOMAN'S WORLD Discarded Fabrics Potential Source of Decorative Effects By Ertta Haley FALL HOUSECLEANING and the of summer clothes to closets along with the pulling out of fall and winter clothes is a job that usually yields a lot of materials that are a potential source of love-il- y decorative effects. Don't view that pile of discarded .heap of clothes, old sheets, bed-spreads, ' tablecloths and curtains with dismay. Any piece of fabric that has enough material to stretch across the window or cover a lamp shade Is fair game for beautifying the home, and with the greatest economy. You'll have great pleasure with old fabrics, especially when you begin turning that old slip Into a ruffled lampshade, the satin skirt from a formal into a swag for a dressing table, a cotton damask tablecloth Into draperies, and an old drindl skirt Into short window curtains. No matter how much storage space you have available, there's no sense to stowing materials away every year, just dreaming that you'll use them at some future date. The time to put them to work is now, before fabrics accumulate too many years of wear or soil that becomes difficut to remove. Make a check list of what spots In the home need brightening, then check what materials are avail-able. It may be that you want to do over a whole room. Work out a new color scheme, dye the fabrics and start working. Personalize your Bedroom With Drapes, Bedspread Bedrooms are an excellent place to start with a decorative plan be-cause they're rooms having plenty might use a pleated oversklrt. In this case the material may be some stiff old drapery material which pleats readily. If heavy enough so that no light shows through, you will not need an under-skirt. The mirror of the dressing table may be framed with the sheer ma-terial used for the ruffled over-ski- rt of the dressing table. In one corner, you can tie a ribbon into a bow, such as is used around the top of the dressing table skirt. Another good idea for framing mirrors, and even the delicate flor-al prints that are used often in bed-rooms is to salvage some eyelet, and glue this to picture or mirror. If the eyelet has holes for ribbon, run this through them and tie in a bow at the upper right hand cor-ner. If the bedroom is wallpapered, you might get a piece of the paper used and cut a piece to fit the top of the dressing table and use this as an effective background under-neath the glass top. Drawers In the dressing table can be lined with the same wallpaper if you want to carry out this theme further. Cover the paper in the drawers with clear cellophane fastened with tape to keep It clean. Solve Window Problems With Old Materials Windows attract attention both In-side and out. They may be formal or fluffy, they may be bright-colore- d or deeply, richly shaded, but they should never be dull. Old homes have window prob-lems that can be solved very easily by using discarded materials prop-erly dyed and manipulated. Do you have one of these common prob-lems? Here's a solution for it, too. Tall, narrow windows in the kitchen can be made a decorative asset by trimming and framing the woodwork with material from an Us discarded materials , , , of opportunities for expressing per-sonality and originality. They also offer an excellent place where old materials can be put to use. For example, if you have one or two quilted bed pads and a couple of sheets or large tablecloths, here's how-- they can be used to yield a spread and draperies. The pad can be dyed a dark color to be used with sheets or tablecloths dyed in a lighter color to harmonize with the pad. The above plan Is very effective carried out in turquoise and yel-low, lime green and yellow, or wine and light gray If you have furni-ture In one of the period styles. Use the dyed pad as the cover for the bed, with the sheets or table-cloths shirred to the sides of the bed. You may also make a valance for windows from the pad, with the old sheet or two or three pillow cases. Use ruffles at the top and middle, with material running down both sides attached to the ruffles. Fabrics should be shirred taut at top and middle. House plants on the sill, or some herbs fill the pretty frame nicely. If you have material for drap-eries, but not enough to match slip-covers, you can stretch the ma-terial with home dyed discarded material, especially if the ma-terial you already have Is printed. Dye the old drapery material a solid color to go with the new print. Use a deep valance and bot-tom border of the print, and the sides of the solid color. For chairs and sofas, cover seat and backs of print, and make arm and skirts of the solid material. Print and solid colors are very effective to-gether. When you bought them, those old drapes looked pretty nice! Now they're dull, even though still serv-iceable. Remove the neutral tan b'n-in-and replace with sheeting dyed a bright light color, like lime Kreen, old rose or turquoise. Hang the drapes so that you can see the bright flash of color, folding back from tie-bac- k to hem. to brighten the home. lighter material shirred to the sides. Ruffled lampshades can be made from small lengths of old sheer curtains, net or Celanese from old formal gowns or any material which is light enough for the light to shine through. Gather a piece of the material long enough to cov-er the bottom of the shade. Sew it onto a length of ribbon to tie around the top of the frame. A one inch ruffle at bottom and top gives just the right amount of fluff. An extra seat in the bedroom is always useful. You might make this out of an old barrel. Cover the top with quilted padding, then use gathered or pleated materia! tacked around the top under the lid. Refresh your Mirrors And Dressing Tables Dressing tables and mirrors in bedrooms, bath or powder room are always a source of pleasure when they're newly covered. They're al-so an excellent way to use such materials like sheer evening dresses for the overskirt, and opaque ma-terials such as cotton sheeting, old tablecloths, draperies or pillow cases for the underskirt. The overskirt should be as bouf-fant as possible and the material should be a shade lighter than the underskirt. The underskirt does not need to be full, as it provides a "slip" for the full skirt. II the bedroom is tailored, you ' These Colorful Tips Brighten the Table Placemats can be dyed from dis-carded materials to contrast or harmonize" your table china effec-tively. For easy finishing, ravel enough from the sides to make a one inch fringe all around. Hard-to-g- et prints can be stretched effectively to give you a nice tablecloth. Cut flower units from chintz and applique these on spots on an old plain bedspread or sheeting dyed to match one main color in the print. sd3r for? - . --v ' Bring out Dean Pot for Hearty Snacks Recipes Below) Hearty Snacks ENTERTAINING the high school crowd after a cold afternoon of football? Or are you providing sup-per to all-da- y hikers? Then plan hearty food and plenty of it. Occasions which involve a lot of physical activity foster appetites Si that are not readily satisfied unless you've planned food with a special stick - to the-rib- s quality. In this class come the Baked Beans, so extra good when home-- Lynn Chambers' Snack Supper Boston Baked Beans Brown Bread with Cream Cheese and Butter Cabbage Slaw Sliced Tomatoes Assorted Pickles Beverage Fresh or Canned Fruit Cookies Recipe Given frigerated overnight, then to be heated while the spaghetti cooks, Italian Spaghetti (Serves 6--8) 1 large onion, chopped a cup salad oil cup butter I pound beef, ground 1 can tomato sauce 1 cup water 1 No. 2 i can tomatoes (3& cups) 1 clove garlic, chopped 'i bay leaf cup chopped celery Y cup chopped parsley Vi green pepper, chopped 1 can mushrooms li teaspoon allspice Salt and pepper 1 package long spaghetti 1 package Parmes-an cheese Brown onion in hot fats; add meat and brown. Add all remain-ing ineredients pxrpnt snaohotM U made tamale pies, and steaming casseroles of spaghetti riding on n meat sauce. WHEN YOU MAKE your own baked beans, start the day before as the beans are to be soaked over-night. The best part of the follow-ing day can be spent in cooking them because they are at their best when cooked slowly. Boston Baked Beans (Serves 10-1- 4 cups navy beans 1 teaspoon dry mustard 1 tablespoon salt Y teaspoon pepper 1 cup pure dark molasses 'i pound salt pork Wash beans: discard imperfect ones. Cover With boiling water; soak 3 hours. Or, cover with cold water and soak overnight. Bring beans to a boil in the same water In which they have soaked (to pre-serve vitamins and minerals), add-ing more water if necessary. Skim. Cook slowly for 50 minutes. Drain, reserving cooking water. Combine "f-- - v and cheese. Cook slowly for 2 hours. Cook spaghetti in boil-ing water until tender. Drain; rinse in hot water. Pour 3 cups cooking water, mustard, salt and pepper; combine with beans and mo-lasses. Pour in-to bean pot or sauce over spaghetti on a large platter. Sprinkle with cheese. BARBECUED SANDWICHES are always a winner for snacks. Mother can just lay out the ingredients and the youngsters can put them together when they want to eat You'll like these: Barbecue Sandwiches (Makes 5) Bread, unsliced Roast pork, ham, beef or hamburgers li teaspoon paprika 4 cup butter or substitute Zli tablespoons Worcestershire Tr- - casserole. Score rind of pork; press into beans, leav-ing rind exposed. Cover; bake in a slow (325 F.) oven for 3Va hours or until tender, uncovering during the last hour of cooking. If neces-sary, ad more water during bak-ing. sauce 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 tablepoon granulated sugar Dash of cayenne pepper Cut 10 slices of bread, thick. Butter the slices on one side. Lay thin slices of meat on buttered side of 5 slices. Then spread re-maining ingredients which have been heated together. Top with re-maining bread slices. Cheese Barbecue Sandwiches (Makes 6) '1 pound grated American cheese 3 tablespoons finely chopped green pepper ;i cup finely chopped onion 2 hard-cooke- d eggs, chopped 3 tablespoons chopped stuffed olives Vi teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 3 tablespoons catsup 1 tablespoon melted butter 6 hamburger buns Combine all ingredients except buns. Cut buns in half and spread Vi cup cheese mixture on bottom half of each bun. Place both sides of buns, cut side up on a cookie sheet under a preheated broiler (400" F.) for 5 minutes or until bun tops are toasted and cheese is melted. Put together and serve. THIS HOT TAMALE pie with its cornbread topping gives a hearty supper snack with lots of zip. Make it ahead of time, if you like, and half an hour before serving, spread with the cornbread batter, and pop into the oven. Hot Tamale Pie (Serves 81 1 large onion, chopped Ua pounds ground beef 1 (10'j ounce) can con-densed tomato soup 1 teaspoon salt H teaspoon black pepper 3 tablespoons chill powder 4 cup chopped ripe olives cup whole kernel corn Brown onion and meat in hot fat. Add remaining ingredients. Pour into greased casserole and cover. Bake in a moderate (325 F.) oven for Vh hours. Spread with cornbread batter and bake un-covered in a hot (425' F.) oven for 30 minutes. SPAGHETTI is an easy dish to prepare for a crowd of hungry folk because the preparation can be done ahead of time. As a mat-ter of fact, the sauce gains more flavor if prepared in advance, re- - LYNN SAYS: Rejuvenate Baked Goods In these Easy Ways Left-ove- r muffins, rolls and bis-cuits can be freshened by placing in the top of a double boiler when sprinkled with a few drops of water and heated for 20 minutes. Reheat muffins in pans in which they've been prepared like this if you want something really delic-ious: Place W teaspoon butter and 1 tablespoon marmalade in each muffin cup. Bake in a moderate (350 F.) oven for 15 minutes. Toasted left-ove- r rolls, muffins and biscuits, are excellent to use for toppings for casseroles. Sprinkle them with grated rhcese, if de-sired. Dried cake should be cut into fingers and used for lining corn-starch or tapioca pudding dishes. It will give much the same effect as ladyfingers. Keep your toasted cake crumbs in a covered glass jar and use for toppings on puddings, ice cream and desert dishes such as pear and apple crisp or coffee cake toppings. was not going very well. "Can any lady or gentleman lend me an egg?" asked the con-juror, coming down to the foot-lights. "If we'd had one," shouted a man in the audience, "you'd have it before this." Just Gossip The movie actor who had been divorced four times proposed again. 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