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Show Woman's World Several Sets of Lend Variety to XHEN well-dressed women give tips on how they manage their wardrobe planning, most of them will tell you that one of the easiest ways to operate on a limited lim-ited budget is to have several differ-ents differ-ents sets of accessories for well chosen basic clothes. If your budget this spring permits per-mits only one suit or one dress, don't despair. Either of these will do the work for several different occasions, provided the accessories are chosen with care. It's surprising how many of these clever accessories can be whipped together at home. I've been noticing notic-ing how many smart hats have been turned out at home during an evening eve-ning or two, or how hats could be changed from season to season with bit of fresh veiling, or a sprig of flowers, and how gloves can take on new glamor when some Interesting detail is sewed on their cuffs. Start right now to add little springlike touches to your clothes and see how much fun it Is to do: You might begin by adding a pert bow to your hat out of grosgrain ribbon or one of the new prints Then carry the print theme a little further by making cuffs on your gloves of the same material. Have everything cleaned and pressed perfectly per-fectly so that you will look starchy and neat, and, of course, springlike! spring-like! If you have some good basic dresses, remove their gold, silver and sequin trimmings. Use in their place some crisp ruffling which may be purchased by the yard, or some dainty lingerie trim. Blouses and Dickies Add Wear to Suits As you probably know, there's no limit to what may be done with accessories ac-cessories for suits. First of all, you have a choice of several blouses and dickies to wear with the suit, and I would suggest that you have several sev-eral colors to use with it. Don't concentrate on white blouses or dickies, for you can add more variety vari-ety to the wardrobe by several colors. col-ors. A navy blue suit, for example, not only will look well with white, but also may be worn effectively with Choose several sets of accessories . . . yellow, kelly green or chartreuse and even pink. Blouses and dickies dick-ies frequently can be made from scraps of material or from dresses that are too worn to serve as such any longer. If you are making a special blouse or a dickie for your Buit, then try to save a few pieces of material that can be worked into a decorative decora-tive handkerchief or perhaps a bow or trimming for your hat or even your gloves. These little touches tie the outfit together and enhance its appeal. Touches of white add greatly to costume, and may be worked into the wardrobe in cuffs and col- To nuke on suit do for the season. lars, ruffle trimmings and gloves. Keep them well laundered so they will always be fresh. Use Old Hat Frame For New Bata If you have purchased hats carefully care-fully with an eye to good line, there's no reason why these cannot be used over and over again. Hat frames may b covered with scraps iterial from dresses, blouses Slim hipllnes ara being accented with loose swinging jackets, especially espe-cially of the bolero variety. Jewelry shown with prints needs to be chosen very carefully. It's supposed to add glitter, but must be In good taste, the kind that strikes you In the face. Consider it as a very important part of the tostuzne. sfK-i L Or , Fashion Forecast Accessories Slim Wardrobe Brown and White This prut In brown and white from Joseph Halpert's collection for spring features jewelled buttons but-tons that fasten the jacket in the center of the waist. and suits. Make a purse from the same material to match, and, you have a fresh start on accessories. Some of the large-brimmed picture pic-ture type hats which are very seasonal will yield their fullest in wear if you keep changing them slightly every season with fresh veiling or flowers. If hats need a stiff brushing or cleaning, this frequently fre-quently can be accomplished at home. Take lessons from the milliner milli-ner in draping veils properly, and never make them look skimpy. If you don't feel quite confident of your own ability to remodel a hat, or if you have a lovely piece of felt which you would like converted con-verted into a useful and up-to-date head dress, it will be more economical economi-cal to take it to a professional milliner mil-liner than to buy a new hat. It's often possible to change the way you wear a hat, accompanied by a change in hairdress and have it look new and fresh. If you have a good basic dress, don't neglect to have several belts with it, selected, of course, to harmonize har-monize or contrast with the dress. Belts and peplums made out of scarves are easy to sew together at home and are some of the little touches that add interest and change in a dress. Handbags, too, frequently may be made at home to harmonize with the costume. Save old frames after their fabric wears, ana use these as a basis for a new bag. All these details may be tied together to-gether with costume jewelry much of which can be made at home after purchasing inexpensive wherewith-all from which to make them. Laundering Aids If the water for laundering in your vicinity is a little on the hard side and you find it difficult to get suds in your wash tub, try adding a little ammonia or borax to soften it. There are also several sev-eral good types of water softeners soften-ers on the market. Use mild soaps for ordinary laundering, and flake or chip soap for the washing machine. White cottons and linens can withstand a moderate use of soap without turning yellow. They usually may be boiled without injuring them. Only gentle soaps should be used on colored cottons and they should never be washed In too hot water. Never hang in sun. Silks and rayons take mild soap and lukewarm or cool water. wa-ter. Never rub or twist them while washing or you will break the fibers. Three rinses are necessary for most types of clothing if you really want to remove all the soap from them. Dull silver is replacing gold In Jewelry, it seems. This is particu-larly particu-larly effective on the pastel woolens, wool-ens, but gold is still the best choice for black. Bumper hats which can be dressy as required for some occasions such as weddin n will have their spree too, so if you're the type for this hat, investigate its possibilities. 1 i " ' Kathleen Norris Says: Everyone's Life Is Poor Stuff, Too Bell Smdlcat. irrLM if vrrW HM By KATHLEEN NORRIS "AR1 RE there times in every woman's life when she thinks that unless something unexpected hap-jens hap-jens she will simply go mad ? " asks Mrs. Perry Allen of East St. Louis. "Such a time has come to me and I can tell you it frightens me. I have a nice seven-room, two-story house; we have a car; Perry is steady and affectionate; my mother lives near and is devoted de-voted and helpful and I'm afraid I'll go mad. "I'm sick unto death of putting the lame clothes in the washing-machine for the children, and ironing the same clothes and carrying them upstairs, and putting them into the wash again. I'm sick of putting the lame pot roast into the same pot, and cutting biscuits with the same cutter, and buying three new dish-towels dish-towels this week and three pairs of locks for each of the boys next week. I'm sick of my beauty parlor, my book-lending library, my bridge club; I'm sick of giving my husband hus-band steak only twice a month, and having him tired and grateful about It; 'my favorite dinner, Mommy." "And I'm deadly sick," continues this spirited letter, "of kindly advice ad-vice from older women, who remind me of starvation in Poland and China Chi-na and practically everywhere else, and I'm sick of being told that if any real sorrow came to me, like Perry dying or one of the boys being silled in the street, how grateful I'd be to go back to where I am today! Of course I worry myself sick every time the children or Perry have colds, or are late for dinner; they are dearer to me than life. But here t am, 34, married 10 years, no debts, loving my husband, loving my restless, dirty, troublesome, noisy boys and afraid I'll go mad!" 'Terribly Dull.' "Well," the letter finishes in a quieter vein, "just writing this to you has been an enormous relief to me. I'll start the rabbit pot-pie and the creamed carrots in better spirits. I'd like to have crab cocktails for dinner tonight, followed by fat little iteaks and fresh asparagus, and ended end-ed with my famous baked Alaska. We've had baked Alaska twice in 5ix years. But if it must be rabbit and carrots so be it. Only believe be-lieve me, life can be terribly dull in a seven-room suburban house on (4,000 'a year, even when you love your husband, buy bonds, go to church Sundays, entertain the bridge club every fourth week and have every Sunday dinner at one or the other mothers." Yes, I know it can, Roberta, and know how hard it is to carry on io apparently aimless a routine from fear to year. But when you get to my age you realize that life is much the same for everyone. Life itself, this queer brief time of sensibility between birth and death, isn't what it seems to be. Nobody has as much tun as you think. Millions of lives snow actual want, fear and suffering. suffer-ing. Millions of others are like yours, just in the comfortable, dull, safe middle zone. A few thousand leem to escape all that, and the women wear diamonds and take trips on private yachts and have leading parts in movies. And between them all there is precious pre-cious little to choose; that is the stupefying fact. The tiny details that make us happy or sad, proud or ashamed, exist in the mansions of I f I .' A l" tw 'Bt-T.tif w ItillV If ! V W 1 I "My restless, troublesome, noisy boys . ." WNU Ftatur. Hi iihn tudx her. ti)hn comes borne to i DULL AND POINTLESS Life is so drab, so dull and pointless, complains Mrs. Perry Allen in a letter, that she fears she will go mad unless something some-thing unexpected happens. She bos almost everything a woman wom-an can rightfully expect; a loving, lov-ing, dutiful husband, two healthy little boys, a suburban home. The family income is adequate for her needs and there are no bills or other financial worries. Nothing really is wrong, but Mrs. Allen is just weary of the routine of household cares, cooking, marketing mar-keting and all. Her club connections con-nections are not interesting enough to give her much diversion. di-version. She is looking for something bizarre to give her a new interest in life. Miss Norris replies that life settles down to a dreary sameness same-ness for nearly everyone, in time. Wealth and beauty and fame do not make much difference. differ-ence. The only element, says Miss Norris, that can lift anyone any-one out of monotony and despair, de-spair, is religion. A realization of the supernaturel part of life, she says, transforms everything commonplace and makes it sparkle. The dull, daily routine rou-tine becomes thrilling. Park avenue just as plentifully as they do the crowded tenements of Silver street. Wealth and fame and beauty are only fresh exasperations when they cannot hold a man's loyalty, loy-alty, save a child's life, or build about her the home fireside, the books and friends, the dear sense of being loved and needed that are every woman's dream, i Supernatural Goal. The history of failures, divorces and suicides among the apparently great and favored prove this over and over. Life if you live it only in terms of this world, is a dull and discouraging business for everyone. Earthly life isn't enough for us, we are geared to something else. We need supernatural help. Once sure of that, there is no more dullness. We are the servants then of an invisible master. Nothing is humble then, nothing is monotonous. Life sparkles; the commonplace seven-room house, the two sturdy boys; the garden, friends, club, market mar-ket all combine in one absorbing absorb-ing miracle. And the love' of a tired, puzzled man, who needs her, who comes home to her at night, is the greatest miracle of all. To make his life comfortable and complete is a daily and secret delight. Once you come to feel that disillusionment dis-illusionment and drabness are the fate of us all, your own share of it becomes easier to bear. You begin to reach about for that hidden alchemy al-chemy that transforms life in an or dinary city flat into the most thrilling role a woman can be called upon to play. Believe me, the materials are all there, ready to your hand. Or rather, ready to your heart and soul. A ballroom and a swimming pool don't keep hate and fear and despair out of a house. Income has nothing to do with the joy of living. That is something for which you must seek as a certain merchant did a certain pearl, knowing that its heavenly luster would light alJ the rest of his days. Arthritis Relief One of those peculiar situations in which the onset of a new disease brings about an improvement in a previously existing disease is reported re-ported by Oxford university. A group of 32 patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis were ar-tifically ar-tifically infected and developed jaundice. Of these, 10 were rendered ren-dered temporarily free of all pain, free movement restored and swelling swell-ing reduced. Partial relief was experienced ex-perienced by 15 pa ie.its and 7 showed no improvennn AUt SCREEN;-RADIO Rsltated by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE r T'S Fred MacMurray whom the public chose for the stellar role in RKO's "The Miracle of the Bells." A blank ballot was printed in the New York Times and ballots were inserted in each copy of the book, so (as is not al- ;ways the case in such mat ters) the public really had a chance; to vote. The character is that of a i lively, hard boiled press agent. FRED MacMURRAY perfect for MacMurray. Clark Gable Ga-ble and Cary Grant also got plenty of votes; right now the public seems to want to see Clark Gable In practically prac-tically anything! Same with Ingrid Bergman; she led the list for the role of the motion picture actress; second place, an unknown, with Jennifer Jen-nifer Jones and Greer Garson com ing next. You'll learn some surprising facts when you see the new March of Time, "Germany Handle with Care!" You'll learn the reasons for the British and American attempt to break the economic barriers separating sep-arating the four zones of Germany; you'll see German crowds at the races, and at fashion shows. And the curtain is lifted on the obscure Russian zone. "Germany Handle with Care!" is Important! ' Ancient Aztec civilization gets a lot of attention at the NBC "Life Can Be Beautiful" rehearsals; the star, Alice Reinhart, and her hus band, Les Tremayne, also on the show, spend their vacations in Mex ico each year; his hobby is studying and photographing archeological ruins. Next time they'll visit the Yucatan peninsula they're doing research on the ruins there now. When Milton Berle supplants Rudy Vallee on the air, beginning March 11th, you'll hear a new singer for whom great things are predicted. He's Dick Farney, and the movies are already after him, but he wants to make a name in radio here first. He's very handsome "and sounds so much like Crosby you can hardly hard-ly tell the difference." When you see "The Locket," with Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum and Gene Raymond star ring, you'll see samples of art work by other players. In an art gallery sequence displays include charcoal sketches by Douglas Fairbanks Fair-banks Jr., water colors by James Warren, oil paintings by Barbara Hale, statuary by Ginger Rogers and pastels by Myrna Dell. Just pastime art, but good. The report on Fred Astaire's first movie test is practically a classic "Can't act Slightly bald. Can dance a little." But he's not the only one who hit the top after a discouraging dis-couraging start. Of course, there's Ray Milland, who made four trips from England to Hollywood before he made the grade. ." Abbott and Costello yearn to do "Hamlet" in the movies; it'll be a burlesque version, of course, which may cause admirers of the classic to shudder. The boys won't get around to it till after they make a picture in England next summer. Joy Ames and Dick Landry, dancers, danc-ers, were paired as a romantic team jln "My.: Wild Irish Rose." They'd J never met till the picture started, 'So they fell in love, and were mar-!ried mar-!ried on the set, with stars Dennis .Morgan and Andrea King as best man and matron of honor. After more than eight years on CBS, "Kate Smith Speaks" will 'switch to the Mutual network on June 23rd, with Ted Collins as News com-jmentator; com-jmentator; it's a five-year deal. i"Kate Smith Sings" will continue on CBS till further notice. I 01. m AND ENDS Barry Thorn-son Thorn-son of "Young Dr. Malone" could tie : himvlt in knots with his hohhy he hoards string ... Mary Pallon's 'alher ' is a d'ictor and her mother is a nurse, and Mary plays one nurse after anotb-' anotb-' er on "Road of Life" . . . They say ' Humphrey Bogart blushed one of the deefiest blushes in Hollywood history when he bad to do a scene for Dark iPaijaee" in bahy blue pajamas . . . Cis Young, u ho plays those romantic ' roles, recently lectured a boys' club on '"The Care and Feeding of Tropical fish'' ... loan Crawford took four trtinh from Hollywood to New York, i returned to H ollywood with eleven. .1 3 . i a f ti Easy and Inexpensive Woven, Braided MAKEVT cur UOOKED rugs are among the simplest to make yourself. Inexpensive, In-expensive, too! The foundation may be burlap or discarded linen; Rocket Brakes The jet power of rockets, which has so far been employed almost wholly as a propulsive force, is expected to be used soon in the opposite op-posite way to brake the speed of planes and trains in cases of emergency, emer-gency, says Collier's. Experts estimate that a train which travels 1,500 feet after the air brakes are applied could be brought to a stop in 375 feet, or one fourth the distance, by the additional ad-ditional braking force of forward-firing forward-firing rockets installed on the locomotive. loco-motive. Beware Cougbs from common colds That Hang On Creomu&oa relieves promptly because be-cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed in-flamed bronchial mucous membranes. mem-branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding un-derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you ara to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs. Chest Colds. Bronchitis " 033 Safe? 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