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Show 1 I I BY MARY TROY, i Homemaking Consultant 3 Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp7 Young America is on the move. Most brides, for example, will move at least three times during the first five years of marriage and some of them will move as often as every six months. 1. Pack for common sense, not sentiment. Great Aunt Susie may be quite loving about her gift of fragile family teacups, tea-cups, but if you like them, leave them until the day when you have proper and safe storage space and the teacup life. The same rule applies to fancy linens lin-ens and glassware suitable only for party use as well as breakables break-ables that require extra care. 2. Pack first for every day. Take all the small appliances you can accommodate: electric skillet, coffee pot, mixer, toaster. Appliances of stainless steel are durable, good travelers travel-ers and easy to care for soap or detergent and hot water, plus a stainless steel scouring sponge, if needed. When you're on the move you may often find yourself in a poorly equipped temporary kitchen which you can transform in a twinkling with versatile portable appliances. 3. Pack for a pretty table. Here, too, you can be practical, and have convenience and beauty at the same time. Good stainless steel flatware, now made in heirloom patterns, survives sur-vives the mobile years and the settled ones to follow. Pack it and repack it. It will never tarnish, is easy to care for, and will look just as good if you want to pass it on to your daughter. 4. Pack for a slim pocket-book. pocket-book. The first years probably will be budget years. So take along a practical trousseau of linens, sheets and tablemats you can launder yourself with the help of a communal or apartment house do-it-yourself laundry. 5. Pack for a purpose. You'll know in general what kind of a life you'll be leading at first so pack for it. If your bridegroom bride-groom is in the service and you, can go with him, your life will be impromptu and informal. Take along serving dishes for one-dish meal parties. If your husband's on his way up the business-career ladder, entertaining enter-taining even on the move may have to be a little mora lavish. Certain items, however like stainless stee serving dishes are adaptable to either an informal supper or a candlelight candle-light dinner. These are jut. five hints for the new br; ' :s packing up her 1" the first tir-- . '-last. |