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Show i c THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH I WOMAN'S WORLD Clever Mending Tricks Make Many Uses for Odd Materials By Ertta Haley Fabric furnishings don't always wear out altogether, as most home-maker- s know, and there's always the problem of knowing what to do with those parts which are not com-pletely worn out. Drawers, attics and closets are often full of pieces cut from dress-es, drapes, bedspreads and other furnishings, but the problem Is: Just to what use should these be put? Now is a goixl time to start a project using old materials, not only to give you space for things to be bought this fall and winter, but to renovate some of the furnishings which need mending. It's never wise to make something simply for the sake of putting it together and using it, if the item does not fit into your furnishing scheme. With a little thought and .perhaps a little more work, you can make something that actually goes with your home. Take, for example, two old sheets which are torn in the center, but which have good widths of material ' at their sides than can be used. In- -' stead of using these in their white an Ideal solution in the narrow ruffle placed around the window for framing. This permits light and air to come into the room and still gives a curtained appearance in place of the bare look. Old ruffles saved from curtains, neatly starched and ironed, are excellent for this use. Sheer curtains which are torn beyond repair can be folded several times, then stitched and used as a filler for pot holders. Large beach towels which are torn or frayed but which have enough serviceable material in them might be used to make youngsters' robes for beach or indoof wear as they are cool but lightweight. If you have no robes to make, cut down the large bath towels into hand size, sew simple hems in them, and use in both kitchen and bath. Smaller sized towels can be cut down to wash cloth size and simply hemmed or crocheted at the edge for many months' usage. Colorful edging on kitchen towels, which will only infrequently wear, can be trimmed off to be used as a decorative edging for table linens, casual skirts, blouses or curtains. When cutting these off, trim enough of the material on either side of the border to fold under to give a fin-ished edge. miscellaneous Materials Offer Various Uses There's many an attic or clothes closet which houses several old for-ma- ls or bridesmaids' dresses. They'll never be used as clothing but they can be put to useful work. If you need some decorative pit-low- s for living room, porch or bed-room, you might check into the possibilities of making them out of some of these colorful fabrics. If the color does not go into the room Investigalt new uses ...... color, dye them to match or har-imoni- .the color scheme in the 'bedroom. Put them together with a 'border or band cut from some old drapes, which might also be dyed if it doesn't work out in its original color; or, buy some band trimming that can be used with the sheeting. The band trimming can be used on each side of the bed with one i large width of fabric to cover the ' bed, and two narrower pieces to i fall down the sides. All of these can be attached to the two bands. Extra sheeting material and con-trasting band might be used to make a matching pair of drapes or a dressing table skirt, runners for .the dresser or a chair cover. The new use for old material, new furnishings for the bedroom. Many Solutions Offered For Worn Tablecloths Every now and then we acquire a tablecloth which for one reason or another is a particular favorite with us. These are used over and over again, but no matter how much tender care is lavished on them, the best will finally show a worn spot. There's still use In the cloth, how-icve- r, if the worn spot is near the side or edge, because an applique can be used to cover it. You may buy appliques or cut them from ma-terials with patterns. Some women in which you want to use it, then you might investigate colors into which it can be dyed or tinted. Some of the satin dresses with their elaborate ruffles might well be used for lampshades. This re-quires careful work, but the results can be beautiful. Colorful chintz materials which have been drapes can also be used as pillow coverings. If you'd like to use some of these as drapes or a spread, then add enough solid color as a decorative border to make them the proper size. Old oilcloth table covers can be converted to seat covers for porch, kitchen or playroom. They are oc-casionally put to good use as liners for shelves or drawers in young-sters' rooms when you want some-thing easy to clean and durable. Old oilcloth is fine, too, for mak-ing a clothes pin apron or bag which can slide along the line as you hang the clothing. Clean and Dye Fabrics Before Cutting, Sewing If you want to enjoy your job of making new things out of old as greatly as possible, then do your cleaning, dyeing and tinting before starting the new project. Working with new colors, or, at least, freshly cleaned or laundered materials is more satisfactory than trying to cut and sew accurately from slightly dusty or wrinkled ma-terials. Beauty can be put back in old materials with simple cleaning and laundering, and new interest can be created in using them if you repair faded spots with a brand new color that covers these spots. If you have no immediate use for for good, though old, fabrics. cut them from flowered print draperies which have no further use, thus taking two worn articles and making one of them useful. Holes in the center of an other-wise good tablecloth can be treated thus: use a white or colored cloth to go with the old tablecloth to give a square center and a border to match the center. Sew or hemstitch this in neatly. Tablecloths which have worn at the edges can have this cut off and be replaced by some contrasting material used as a border. If the napkins to such a cloth have been lost, make napkins to match the border, and you'll have a practical-ly brand new tablecloth and napkin set. Cloths which are worn in too many places can be cut down for doilies or table runners. Old lace is put to good use as an edging, as are other materials for contrasting borders on the doilies and napkins. Many inexpensive edgings are available, too, for use as a trimming on these doilies if you have nothing to press into use. Old Curtains, Towels Can Give More Service Old sheer curtains which are torn in many places may offer several possibilities. If they have ruffling which is torn in a few places only, rip this off the curtain and put to-gether the good pieces of ruffling. These may be used for trimming a dressing table skirt or to give a frame to several pictures used in the bedroom. Women who do not like curtained windows during warm weather find some good piece of material, then restore as much of its original look as possible. While working with it, you might find a use for it. Wrap-aroun- d junipers, fashioned in sturdy denim, are one of the neat-est tricks of the season for the woman who likes comfortable clothes that withstand wear while she gardens, goes on picnics or does the housework. Two big catch-al- l pickets, double stitched seams and adjustable shoulder straps are among the excellent features for which to look. Chiffon Over Taffeta I 1 Mi Pi- - i9 Those who wear women's sizes will enjoy this classic dress of gray chiffon over taf-feta. The bodice Is made of shirred chiffon, buttoned with rhlnestones, while the collar Is layers of plain chiffon. rS Harmonious f Union fcliiil By Richard Hill Wilkinson IT WAS incredible that Tony and Leah Cranston shouid have quar-reled over so small a thing. The neighbor! would have been horri-fied, for the neighbors thought no two people were more ideally suited. The neighbors were right, too. Tony and Leah were harmoniously united. They I were deeply in -- Minute love. There was 3 Fiction perfect under-- standing between them. Then one day Tony came home from work and went into the bed-room to freshen up for dinner and found two five dollar bills and some change lying on the bureau. He scooped up the money. "Hey," he said good naturedly, "we can't afford this. I found this money lying on the bureau. It might have blown away. Don't be so Leah smiled. "Oh, my!" she said. "Did I leave the change from the grocer there?" A week later Tony discovered a dollar bill where it had been idly dropped on the living room table and forgotten. "Listen, honey, you've got to be more careful. Money Is pretty Important to us right now." "I'm sorry," said Leah, "but It's only a dollar." "We can't afford to lose a dollar or even a part of a do-llar," Tony said, smiling. The next time the time Tonv dis-covered three dollars on the kitchen tables and one on the floor, where it had blown he didn't smile. "Good gosh, woman! Show a little more consideration, will you! If I hadn't noticed that dollar on the floor it would have been lost." "Darling," she said altogether too precisely, "I've never lost a penny of our money." "How do you know?" asked Tony, a bit smugly. "Because," said Leah, just as smugly, "I can account for every dime you've ever given me." "Ha!" said Tony. "Let's see you!" So Leah got a pencil and paper and sat down and figured out her expenditures, to the last pennv. "Well," said Tony, "that doesn't mean you won't lose some if you continue to be careless. After it's gone well, you've heard the crack about locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen." "I've heard," said Leah icily, "a lot of cracks." SUDDENLY it occurred to Tony was their first major crisis. Somehow he'd have to break Leah of her habit without a quar-rel. It was the next Saturday noon when he came home from work that Tony discovered three ones and a two-doll- bill on the bureau where it had been absently dropped by Leah while she rescued the roast Tony and Leah Cranston were harmoniously united. The neigh-bors would have been horrified If they thought there was trouble between them. from burning. Furtively Tonj scooped up the money and stuck it in his pants pocket. Sooner or latei Leah would discover it was missing. She'd become concerned. She'd asl him to help hunt. He'd make a pre-tense of hunting and then pretend to find the money where it had blown into the bathroom. That afternoon Tony went playing golf. All the while he was gone, while he was in the locker room nnd on the course and later in the showers, he kept thinking of Leah hunting for the missing money. He came home an hour earliei than he had planned. The momen he saw Leah's face he knew she hac discovered the loss. "Darling, I laid some money 01 the bureau. Have you seen it?" "It must have blown off," sale Tony. "Boy, I hope we can find it ' His face wore a look of grave con cern as he began hunting. "Wi can't afford to lose a cent," he kep saying. Tony waited until Leah looked a' though she were on the point o bursting into tears, rememberini she had been saving for a new ha and knowing she couldn't have t unless they found the money. Thei he ambled into the bathroom, and chuckling to himself, reached inti hi3 pocket. A startled look came to his face He reached into his other pocketj They were all empty. t 3 Q O O Q a 9 o V ? - i47, - 'Lias V - I r v 4 Serve Taste-Tempti- ng Sulads for Summer (See Recipes Below) Salad Days THERE'S NOTHING quite so cooling as a jellied salad brightly garnished with crisp greens. There's nothing quite so delicious as well chilled fruit or vegeta-bles attractively arranged on frosty looking let-tuce, watercress or endive. You can make a meal out of a LYNN CHAMBERS' MENU Jellied Tomato Salmon Mold Sliced Cucumbers Potato Chips Assorted Pickles Toasted English Muffins Fruit Jam Lime Sherbet Butter Cookies Beverage Recipe Given !i teaspoon salt 3- -4 bananas 3 tablespoons lemon Juice Melon balls Strawberries, halved Ulueberries Teach halves Wedges or slices of fresh pineapple Water cress Pare avocados; halve. Fill halves with cottage cheese combined with nut meats, olives, parsley, and salt. Press two halves together; JE3) sprinkle with lemon juice. Arrange fruits on water cress. Pass Fruit Dressing: Com-bine Vi cup su-gar or light corn syrup and four saiaa mat s protei-n- rich, or, if you prefer, you can combine both the salad and des-sert course into a luscious fruit salad. 'Jellied Tomato Salmon Mold (Serves 0) 2 envelopes plain gelatin lj cups water and juice from salmon 1 10!6-oun- can condensed tomato soup 1 package cream cheese 1 tablespoon grated onion 1 can salmon, drained well cup mayonnaise Soften gelatin in M cup water. Combine soup and remaining wa-ter; heat to boiling. Remove from heat. Add softened gelatin and cream cheese; beat with rotary beater until smooth. Cool. Add onion, salmon and mayonnaise. Pour salad into a greased 8- - inch mold. Chill thoroughly. Tomato Aspic Ribbon Loaf (Serves 0) Layers 1 and 3: 2 envelopes unflavored gela-tin Z'i cups canned tomato juice 2 teaspoons onion juice teaspoon salt Layer 2: IJi teaspoons unflavored gela-tin 2 tablespoons cold water 4 eggs, hard cooked and diced ?4 cup finely chopped celery cup finely chopped green pepper l:i cup light cream 1 teaspoon prepared mustard U cup mayonnaise li teaspoon salt Layer 1: Soften gelatin in Vi cup cold tomato juice. Heat balance of - juice to a full boil. Add onion l?vL fY juice- - salt- - and li-- Lfc 'iS) gelatin. Stir un- - &UJW til gelatin is flfi J ...) thoroughly dis--' ' i H"':')S solved. Place half of mixture in a loaf pan (8M-- x 4 x 2Vi inches). Chill until firm. Layer 2: Soften gelatin in cold water. Place over boiling water and stir until gelatin is dissolved. Add to balance of ingredients and mix well. Spread over first layer. Chill again until firm. Layer 3: Pour remaining aspic over egg mixture to form third layer. (Soften aspic, if necessary, over hot water.) Chill again until firm. Unmold and garnish with salad greens. Slice to serve. Fruit Basket Salad (Serves 8) 2 avocados 1 cup cottage cheese 1 cup chopped pecans 1 cup chopped ripe olives 1 teaspoon minced parsley teaspoons enriched flour; gradual-ly add Vi cup vinegar. Cook over low heat until smooth and thick, stirring constantly. Add one tea-spoon salt, two teaspoons paprika, one tablespoon onion, minced fine and two teaspoons celery seed; mix thoroughly. Pour 3,i cup salad oil into mixture very slowly, beat-ing constantly with rotary beater. Party Chicken Salad (Serves 3 cups cubed, cooked chicken 1H cups diced celery 3 tablespoons lemon juice 1 cup seedless grapes 1 cup toasted almonds 1 teaspoon dry mustard Vt teaspoon salt Jh teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon capers cup light cream 1 cup mayonnaise Combine chicken, celery and lemon juice. Chill one hour. Add grapes and almonds. Combine re-maining ingredients. Add to chick-en. Toss. Garnish with slices of hard-cooke- d egg. Cool Sea-Foo- d Platter (Serves 6) 1 can tuna 1 cup crab meat 2 cups shrimp 2 tablespoons French dressing 1 cup diced celery cup diced cucumber 2 tablespoons chopped radishes 1 tablespoon capers 2 tablespoons lemon juice W cup mayonnaise Salt, pepper, paprika Flake tuna and crab meat Re- move black line from shrimp Mar-mat- e tuna, crab meat, and shrimc m French dressing 15 minutes Combine with remaining ,e"ts- mgred KArran6e all ln lettuce-line-salad bowl. Garnish with additional shrimp, water cress, and lemon wedges Hostess serves from salad oowl. Pass more mayonnaise LYNN SAYS: Broiled Sandwiches Make Good Summer Meals Scrambled eggs, mixed with some grated onion, chopped green pepper and prepared horseradish, to which are added some bologna strips make a delicious and filling hot sandwich. Sliced hard-cooke- d eggs placed on toast slices, then topped with a slice of cheese and broiled until the cheese melts, adds variety to summer lunches. Grated American cheese mixed with chopped green pepper, d'eed onion, chopped hard-cooke- d stuffed olives eggs and seasoned w:th catsup makes a good mixture to spread on buns. Broil until cheese bubbles. Sauteed. corned beef hash makes a hearty luncheon sandwich when served on toasted, buttered bread or buns. Spread the hash with tar-ta- r sauce and top with lettuce and another piece of bread or top half or tne bun. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Charm in Women's Fitted Si2e ! Yoked Dress For School, P0rt;J wriafi "OlOj practical for school, ISfiSaB1 ' " ' I4-46- this yoked style for the: I school miss. Narrow r I flattering; edges the unusua, SOFTLY tailored and particular- - and pocket flaps. If y011 to a woman's fig- - three-quart- er sleeves are ' ure is this versatile shirtwaist vided. t frock. 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'T WIU ALWAYS BE VOUR BEST BUY I" Princess Husband Climbing Ladder Princess Elizabeth's husband has started out to work himself to the top of the ladder. Prince Philip won his first command in the British navy recently. The admiralty announced the tall, handsome Philip would take charge of the anti aircraft frigate Magpie in August. Court circles predicted also that at about the same time he would be upped from lieutenant to lieu-tenant commander. Philip, 29 next month, now is first lieutenant of the destroyer Chequers, based at Malta. He re-turned to active Naval duty last fall. The 1,430-to- n Magpie is manned by six officers and 186 men. She mounts four six-inc- h guns, eight rs and several pompon anti-aircra- ft pieces. |