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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH Chocolate Shutters Chocolate brown is most effeo tive when used as an exterioi trim color on a house. Browi shutters are attractive with white, pale yellow or pale green. WOMAN'S WORLD Add Color and Spice to Rooms With Unusual Slip Cover Designs By Ertta Haley Feminine Suit YOU'RE an WHETHERseamstress who can touch any material and turn it into lovely creation or a beginner with ideas and the desire to learn, you can make slipcovers of unusual beauty and design. A perfectly ordi-nary room can change its appear-ance as a woman with a new hat, and you can have a different room twice a year or with every season. Slipcovers made or purchased from professionals are expensive and thus limit many homes to one set. Made by the woman of the home, there are several sets availa-ble because the expense is so small. Dull rooms can come to life again with brand new, d cov-ers for chairs and sofas, and the cost Is limited to material alone. Fortunately there's a wide selec-tion of this available, and many of the materials can be picked up at sales for such reasonable prices that It's plain laziness not to take advantage of the spice they can add to your home. Even one chair, if it's Important to the room can lift the furnishings to a new plane. Then, as time goes by you can gradually remake the room by adding other slipcovers in keeping with the first one, as long as the tempo has been well set. Fitting is the important thing in making the cover, but this is easily ulved. The sewing really doesn't mount to a great deal, and as most V .'XI HI! OTOT--fM"fW2- I i u 1 1 i I 'i "j This little feminine suit of navy crepe, moderately priced, is designed In New York for all purpose wear. The collarlesa Jacket Is scalloped up In front and buttoned Into green-pipe- d buttonholes. It's a perfect com-panion for warm weather when combined with a tailored but lacy hat and a white boutonnlere pinned Just below the shoulder. ' , Cover old chair for bedroom use . . , of It is straight, and on good mater-ials, this offers no problem. Slip covers can be as Individual as the seamstress herself, and she need not limit herself to patterns. With a change, and simple at that, corner and skirt finishes can change a traditional cover into something apt to bring forth many a compli-ment through the years. Vary Skirt Finish Ta Change Style The style of almost any easy or lounging chair in the living or bed-room can be varied with its slipcover. Lines may be hidden, lines can be changed with the cover-ing alone, and most of the change can come in the skirt or in the corner treatment If you want to buy a pattern for a chair, then buy a simple style with classic box pleats in the skirt overstuffed sofa which for many years has had a floral covering can become a brand new and interesting piece if you will use a lovely shade of plain material. If the draperies are floral, you might cut out flowers from them and applique them to the plain material, on back or arms, depending upon the size of the spray or blossom. A layer of cotton between the plain material and the applique will help the applique stand out for good effect. Panelled sofa covers are excel-lent if your home is modern. The panelled effect can be achieved by quilting over thick cotton lining. This treatment may be used on the back as well as the sides, with seat covers and front left plain. Tailored sofas can be given a sec-tional look, too, if you will do them in two kinds of material Use a plain material on sides and center panel, with floral, striped or geometric material on the two end seats. Use Part-Tim- e Covers To Keep Them Fresh Upholstered furniture can be kept bright and attractive looking, as well as decorative if you want to make part-tim- e slipcovers, or Just covers for those parts like head and arms which soli most easily. Think of how easy they are to make, and how quickly they can be whisked in and out of the laundry back to chairs and sofasl You can also save wear and tear on furni-- hire and their own covers if you have these miniature slipcovers. A plaid chair and sofa for exam-- pie can have a cover to slip over j the back. Make this in plain fabric and use large scallops for finishing it-- Arm and head rest covers tor your favorite easy chair will keep it neat and clean. Make these with straight edges, tailored, if It's a plain large chair. These should fit over back, several inches down from' the top, and come two or three inches over the arms on each side as well as at the front If your chair seats take lots of wear, plan to make covers that tie under the seat with tapes to keep them properly anchored. Partial covers for ottomans can be made to slip over the top and come down on the sides for two or three inches. Make them snug enough so they don't slip off. Dresa Up Plain Chairs With Colorful Covers Chairs for bed and dressing rooms can be ruffled and very decorative, but the fabrics for them are usually Inexpensive. Old curtains and draperies as well as sheets, table-cloths and dressing table skirts can frequently yield enough material for the chairs if there is enough dura-ble material remaining in them to be worth the sewing. Floor length skirts for bedroom chairs can cover the legs or rungs of an old dining room or straight-backe- d living room. The back and seat of the chair can be covered with a plain boxed pattern and the skirt with knife pleated material or flounce. Plaid for back and seat and a plain fabric for skirt boxed trimly, is always good for a man's or boy's room. The plain material for the skirt should pick up one of the colors in the plaid. For a feminine chair, use a ruf-fled dotted Swiss skirt and a perky overlay of knife pleated trim which may be purchased ready-mad- e. De-mure satin bows can be used at the back sides of the chair. sdd spite to your soft cover. since this is the classic skirt finish. This may be used with almost any atyle of furniture. If you want the easiest style to make, then buy a skirt with a flounce. Use this In In-formally furnished rooms. ' Another good style to buy, for pat-terns, Is the straight skirt with sim-ple pleats at the corners. Then, if you wish, you can make an extra skirt pattern out of tissue paper when you want variety. For formal rooms, for example, you may finish the skirt with fringe, and this is usually set right on top of a plain skirt. Fringed skirts are at home in Victorian, modern or traditional rooms. Shaped skirts are good in all types of rooms, as long as the shaping harmonizes with the room. Take the scalloped skirt for instance. The simple round or oval scallops are best in Informal settings. Inverted pleating at the corners of a chair make the piece at home in modern or tailored settings. In traditional rooms you might like to bide ponderous or portruding legs with draped corners on the slip-cover. Should the room be less formal, and you still want to hide or dis-guise faulty chair legs, use flounced corners. This treatment is especi-ally good for Informal rooms,' and for those ugly cabriole legs. Another corner treatment for covers that Is good for chairs up-holstered all the way to the floor, are the corded or lace trimmings. Vary Sofa Style Ta Add Interest It's surprising what effect you can give an old sofa or studio couch Just with smart slipcovering. An I ' I - ' V 4 i 4 v 1 A f " i At - Freeze Foods Now for Later Use (Set Recipn Below) Successful Freezing ONE OF THE MOST satisfactory Ways of preserving foods that has come into the limelight recently for home use is that of quick-freezin- g it. Compared with canning and de-hydrating methods, freezing is easy. There are, however, many mis-conceptions regarding the process LYNN CHAMBERS' MENU Deep Fat Fried Chicken Mashed Potatoes Cream Gravy Pineapple Cole Slaw Buttered Green Beans Hot Biscuits Strawberry Jam Strawberry Sundae Butter Cookies Beverage country. For those living West, broad leaf epinach gives the best results. see Always Blanch Vegetables For Freezing of freezing and storing them in home freezer or locker, and one of the main ones is that you sim-ply have to wash the food and Prepare vegetables for freezing by washing them thoroughly. If you desire a uniform pack, try to sort them according to size as they are washed. Scalding or blanching of vegeta-bles should never be omitted in preparing vegetables for freezer use. Scalding retards enzymatic ac-tion and stops deterioration. It Im-proves color and saves vitamins, and also softens the vegetable mak-ing packing easier. Scald a pound or so at a time, using steam pre-ferably, or plunging the vegetable into hot water. Five minutes by steam is used for most vegetables except greens such as spinach which require only 2Vi minutes and green peas which need 3 minutes. Place the vegetable In water and ice until thoroughly cooled, then drain on a tray with absorbent paper or toweling. Package at once and refrigerate. Only moisture and vapor-proo- f packages should be used for any type of freezing. The liners should be used only once although the car-ton may be Leave head space In all cartons as food always expands during freezing. Use Syrup for Fruits To Be Used For Sauce If you're putting apples into sauce for freezing, use Baldwin, Green- - store it. Five essentials are necessary to the successful freezing of fruits, vegetables, poultry and meat. The variety used must be good for freezing; fruits and vegetables must have reached a certain degree of maturity, for like any other pre-serving process, freezing only keeps food until' it's used and does not Improve it Preparation for packaging must be done carefully, and proper pack-aging should be used to prevent a common ailment of frozen foods, namely, that of freezer burn. Stor-age must be at the recommended temperature 0f., or below. Equipment for freezing naturally includes a locker or a freezer to which you have ready access. If you rent a locker, then freeze only enough foods to fit into the refrig-erator before you can take them to the locker. This must be within 24 hours of their packaging. High Flavor, Color Gives Good Froten Product Generally speaking, in the matter of fruits and vegetables, those with high color and excellent flavor should be used for freezing. Those who freeze foods have al-ready run Into the term "optimum maturity." This means that fruits and vegetables suitable for freez-ing should have reached their peak of ripeness to be ready for the freez-er. Fruits and vegetables at this stage art sweetest, full of flavor and ripe. This is the flavor and ap-pearance which you want to pre-serve. Get fruits and vegetables into the freezer right after picking, if it's ing, N o r t h e rn Spy or Yellow . Transparent va-- rleties; for pie, j use any high acid variety. In blueberries, use any small seeded at all variety. possible. If you wait for too long after picking or harvesting, the produce loses flavor and deterio-rates in texture. e Check These Varieties For Vegetables If you're planning to freeze any of the following vegetables, check varieties to get the best results. In asparagus, for example, you'll find that both Mary Washington and Martha Washington rate high. The Dwarf Improved and Long Island Improved varieties of Brussels Sprouts are considered good. Fordhook lima beans retain su-perior color and flavor when frozen, and so do the Kentucky Wonder green snap beans. Italian green sprouting broccoli is superior because of its fresh Montmorency is a good variety in the sour red cherries, while In peaches of the yellow type, Hale Haven and J. H. Hale are excel-lent. For white peaches, choose Golden Jubilee or Georgia Belle. Any type pineapple is good. Wash fruit carefully, but do not allow it to soak. Drain thoroughly on absorbent cloth or paper, and let stand in refrigerator, if possible, to permit fruit to become firm for packaging. Stem and seed berries. Peel fruits such as apricots, apples, peaches and pears but place immediately after peeling into a solution made of one gallon of cold water with 3 ta-blespoons lemon juice, or 4V4 tea-spoons citric acid to a gallon of water to prevent discoloration. Let remain only a minute, then drain. If using dry sugar, as for whole fruit sift sugar with a flour sifter, right into the package. The mini-mum amount to use for freezing is one part sugar to eight parts of fruit. More may be added when fruit is thawed. Seal, label and freeze package at once. To make medium syrup for fruit use 1 cup sugar to 2 cups water. Cook for 5 minutes and let cool be-fore using. flavor and color for freezing pur-poses, while the Thomas Laxton and Dark Podded Thomas Laxton peas give a su-perior frozen product Savoy type spinach is recom-mended for those freezing this vege-table in the Eastern part of the LYNN SAYS: Serve Summer Foods With a Flair Keep the flavor intact In those tender asparagus spears. Don't scrape. Just brush it. Break, don't cut and tie with a string. Cook with the heads up, then served with browned butter and bread crumbs. Lemon gelatin salads are cooling for hot days. Choose a canned fish for plain gelatin and lemon Juice molds: shrimp, sardines, lobster or crabmeat Serve with garden red tomatoes. ' Those summer fruits and berries make wonderful fritters, and are tasty for dessert served with honey sauce. Make the sauce by cooking together a cup of honey with two tablespoons of heavy cream, the juice of a lemon and two table-spoons of butter. Fry plenty of chicken next time you're making it and serve the oth-er half chilled veil the following day. Put on the plate with cold, sliced tomatoes, black olives and bread, butter and lettuce sand-wiches. Need Special Finish Because the power tubes in tele-vision sets cause wide changes in the temperature of wood, cabinet manufacturers were faced with spe-cial problems. Ordinary cabinet finishes checked and cracked. Spe-cial television lacquers ?nd sealers that are extremely tough and flexi-ble have been developed. They are now used on both light and dark woods and are also employed on any furniture where the highest durability and quality of finish is desired. Concrete Bird Bath Is Easy to Construct iTibfunto if WORK WITH CEMENT I make bird ,fj baths with JpVM-LJ- - K PATTERN , tb,"'vm'w"" K 227 J tJ-t- , Birds Like This Style II BAG of cement, some sand and gravel will do for several of these. Illustrated directions with list of materials for pedestal and puddle types are shown on pattern 227. Price of pattern is 25tf. Workshop Pattern Service Drawer 10 Bedford Hills, New York ' KIDNEYS MUSTME EXCESSWASTE When lridney function alowi down, many folks complain of nagging backachef loan of ep and energy, heauachea and dizzineaa. Don't Buffer longer with these discomfort 11 reduced kidney function is getting you down due to auch common cauaea aa atreaa and atrain, or exposure to cold. Minor bladder irritaUons due to cold, dampness or wrong diet may cause getting up nights or frequent passages. Don't neglect your kidneys If these condi-tions bother you. Try Doan's Pills a mild diuretic Used successfully by millions for over 60 years. While often otherwise caused. It's amazing how many times Doan's give) bappy relief from those discomforts Kelp the 15 miles of kidney tubes and filters flush out waste. Get Doan's fills today! Doah's Pills it's Wonderful the Way Chewing-Gu- m Laxative fi Acts Chief ly to Fi REMOVE WASTE J --M fefl GOOD FOOD Eera's the secret mUllona of folks tun discovered about rr, the mod-ern chewing-gu- m laxatlTO. Tea, hero la why srac-a-Moi- action la so wonder fully different I Doctors say that many other laxaUvea start their "flushing" action too soon . . . right In the stomach when food Is being digested. Large doses of such laxatives) upset digestion, flush away nourishing' food you need for health and energy.' You (eel weak, worn out. But gentle nzH-a-Mn- rr. taken aa rec-ommended, works chiefly In the lower bowel where It removes only waste, not good food I Tou avoid that typical weak tired, worn-o- ut feeling. Us ran-A-Mi- irr and feel your "peppy." energetic sell I Get No InoxesM In price (till 25, 50 or only Us. W FEEN-A-MM- T ffl FAMOUS tHfyHHC-GU- UOWTIVf .VTrtj Just what is INFLATION? Infl tion starts when I there is more money than goods and you and your neigh-bors compete unfairly for these goods. That sends prices running away until the prices of more and more things are higher than you can afford. How to cut down this danger. iwP hold the line on prices and wages. Buy only for current needs. Save in every way. Buy U. S. Defense Bonds. Strive for still more efficient government spending. It will take all 150 million of us to lick inflation. " """" ." Tee for Two Add a mother-in-la- w story. Nib-lick, a man inordinately proud o his golf scores, took his mother in-la- w with him to the course ont day. After depositing her on bench, he and a chum started foi the first tee. There Niblick an-nounced, "I want to make a good, long drive now. My mother-in- . law is watching from the bencli outside the clubhouse." "Why, that's almost 300 yards!" his chum cried. "You couldn'1 possibly hit her from here." Portable Fence for Ball Games A portable fence is a unique de-vice used in Cameron Park, South Orange, N. J., to keep crowds at a proper distance as they watch base-ball games of the South Orange Community Little League. The play-ers are aged 8 to 12. The fence is set around the outfield before each game and removed at the close. Stair Hazards Basement stairs will be less haz-ardous if they are covered with a non-ski- d material. A durable cover-ing for this purpose is Masonite 'quarter-inc- h tempered hardboard, nailed with its screen side up. This is the flooring that withstood the millions of footsteps of Chicago World Fair visitors. Top Railroad Span What's the longest railroad bridge in the world? Diligent tearch into the records reveals that the Lower Zambezi bridge is 12,064 feet long. This bridge cost $10,000,000 to con-struct, at a time when a dollar bought a dollar's worth. It took three-and-a-ha- years to build. Sandpaper Sagacity Before using new sandpaper, rub two pieces together to remove coarse grains of sand. Never tear sandpaper. Cut it. Where rough paper has been used, always follow up with a fine sanding. TJse only the finest sandpaper between paint coats. Every Day Is A Salad Day JTjVERY DAY is a salad day, and at this season of the year it is easy to find something crisp, something fresh, something green, and something colorful for the salad. There's no one way to make a salad, but with a little imagina-tion and an eye for color and ar-rangement you can surprise your family and whet their appetites too, especially on these hot days, by serving simple and attractive salads. Armed with a few basic recipes for salad dressings, a variety of interesting ones may be prepared for lunch or dinner. The dinner salad, to accompany the main course of a meal includes tossed green salads, fruit salads, or mix-tures of fruits and vegetables which may be picked fresh from your garden. Serve them with zesty dressings, or with a few herbs, if you like. A French dress-ing is best with a green salad. Your salad greens should be crisp, chilled, and dry. Add your dressing just before serving, and toss the salad lightly. One experiment showed that where salads were tossed in enamel bowls with steel forks the loss of vitamin C was greater than when mixed in a glass bowl with silver forks. Trees Attract Desired Birds TaATTVE BIRDS with their ' friendship and song are most attractive features of gardens. You can have them visiting your door almost the year 'round by planting a few trees and shrubs which at-tract them. Cherry trees are most attractive to birds when in fruit. Robins, cat-birds, brown thrashers, orioles, scarlet tanagers, rose - breasted grosbeaks, kingbirds, towhees, flickers and sparrows all like cher-ries. The loss you may suffer in fruit is often compensated by the pleasures you will have from the feathered visitors. Some of the small fruited flower-ing crabapples and hackberries yield abundant and acceptable bird food, especially for robins, in late fall. The mulberry attracts many birds. One tree expert counted 29 species of birds feeding on a single mulberry, among them bluebird, bob-whit- e, flicker, bunting, cardi-nal, catbird, chicadee, white-breast- ed nuthatch, oriole, pheas-ant, robin, songsparrows, wood-pecker and a house wren. Berries of the flowering dog-wood and of the mountain ash fur-nish food for robins and blackbirds in October. Of the evergreens, the blue colored berries of red cedar are eagerly sought by kinglets, warblers, chickadees, woodpeck-ers and other winter birds. Juneberry or shadbush, elder, buckthorn, chokeberry, European barberry and sumac also have fruit highly palatable to birds. Blackberries, blueberries and huckleberries are eagerly de-voured by birds in the summer. Later in the fall such shrubs as viburnum, spicebush and euony-mu- s contribute bird food. Bar-berry and sumac seeds are much valued for birds' winter diet. |