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Show CIRCLE PATTERNS Ready to be Enjoyed --j) Kathleen Norris Says: Home Front Is at War Too Princess Charming for 'Teen Age Cool and Practical Barebaeker mm Bell Syndicate. WNU Feature!. ( A little paraffin on a sticky window win-dow cord will be found helpful. When you have an old clock that refuses to run any more, it can be used in a -sick room to tell when it is time for the next dose of medicine by moving the hands to the time it is to be taken. This "The Griini are Craat Feodt"- Kellogg's Rice Krispies,equal the whole ripe grain in nearly all the protective food elements oeciarea essential to human nutrition. HOUJEHDLD HlNTJal- Kg EVERYBODY'S BVSY A soldier home on leave after many weary months in the South Pacific area writes that he is sadly disillusioned. Nobody has much time for him. His mother, his sisters, his girl are all so busy at their war plant jobs that they can spend only a little time talking talk-ing to him, and they are too tired to go anywhere with him. Walter doesn't think his girl is going to wait for him, either. She is making three hundred dollars a month and running around with a lot of greasy mechanics. Things look pretty dark to this tired fighting man. Well, Miss Norris 'replies, what would the soldiers and sailors think if people on the home front weren't thinking and working and sacrificing? It's everybody's war and the harder everyone pitches in, the sooner it will be over. Every girl , . . driving a riveter, grimly toiling over m turret lathe, is working under pressure like that of battle. By KATHLEEN NORRIS SOME of the boys on leave get too much spoiling. They become absolutely surfeited with parties, cake, visitors, compliments. They don't have a moment alone. Aunts, uncles, cousins, friends they have hardly seen for years unite to indulge and pamper them, until they long for just a little peace a little of the old ignoring and solitude soli-tude and casualness that used to mean "home." Other boys are In the position of Walt Baker, who writes me a blue and disgusted letter from one of the South Sea islands. 1 am Just back from leave." says Walfa letter, "and up against all the discomforts and loneliness of this place. We get enough U eat; we're not In any immediate danger; we have movies and cigarettes but we're all so homesick that we can't talk of anything else but what we'll do when we get back! "But as far as I'm concerned I'd Just at soon go anywhere else than home,' when the war Is over," the letter goes on. "My last leave was a funny eye-opener for me. ne folks are all into the war up to their chins nothing else talked about but war work. "My mother's working, both my lsters are in volunteer hospital service, serv-ice, my Dad's on ration boards and bond drives, and my girl is making three hundred a month and going around with a lot of guys who wear il-soaked jeans and look as if they never washed. For that matter, she looks that way, too. No Rest at Home Now. 1 thought I left the war out here, but I'll be darned if anyone was talking about anything else, where my folks live. It was paper drives and fat collecting and canteens and bonds, entertaining the dear boys from the marines camp, knitting, with everyone reaching for the radio ra-dio when the news commentators were on. Everyone talking of Normandy Nor-mandy postwar Ploestl oil fields East Prussia De Gaulle more cookies ration stamps. Maybe that's their idea of a nice restful rest-ful homecoming, but I can tell you it wasn't mine. "From what I saw I don't believe be-lieve my girl's going to wait for me," this despondent letter goes on. "There doesn't seem to be any place for me in any of their lives. I'd go In and sit on my mother's bed to talk to her at night, and pretty soon she'd say, 'Darling, I'm terribly tired. That old alarm is set for six o'clock. Trot oft to a movie.' "With my sisters it would be, We're on night duty. Walt. Can't help it shorthanded.' And with Eleanor El-eanor it was apt to be, Tve got to get to bed early, Walt. We've promised prom-ised a shipment before the first and we're all working overtime.' "Can't you pep up some of these women," finishes Walt, "and tell them a man likes a little fuss to be made over him when he comes back from the Marshalls?" WeH, yes, I can, Walt, and I do. There's a happy medium even in war work. But I can't help laughing at your predicament, for never before, be-fore, in all the long history of the world's wars, have men had reason to make this complaint. Women have been encouraged more, they makes it easy to remember. A handy receptacle for sundry tacks, nails and screws that will be polite to your fingers, is a large cork kept in the kitchen cutlery drawer for convenience. When having difficulty in opening open-ing a fruit jar with a metal top, place it upside down In hot water and leave for a minute or two and try again. The metal top will usually expand and loosen readily. To keep cookies fresh longer, add a tablespoon of jam or jelly to the dough. Coarse sawdust put in a hen's nest is more satisfactory than straw or hay for the hens do not pick or scratch the sawdust out. Is there an old blackboard around the house that the children have "outgrown?" If so, why not draft it into use as a bulletin board for the family? Place it in the kitchen and use it as a reminder re-minder of household chores, dates that must not be forgotten, or notes to the family when called away. With the nse of a hand spray or even the garden hose, starched clothes may be sprinkled right on the line. Roll them up as they are taken from the line. One should keep a small bag of fine sand in the kitchen if coal oil or gasoline stoves are used, in case of an explosion or fire, the sand can be thrown over the flames which will probably extinguish extin-guish them and save the destruc tion of the home. is i u w m't-t-r w i. a 1111111 t RTF I have been urged to do their share to day, and royally they have respond ed. Comfort yourself that what you saw was the supreme effort to help at the very top and crisis of a world disaster. They answered the country's coun-try's call for help, and they are as absorbed In their share of winning the war as you are in years. If Tables Were Turned. Imagine just how embarrassed and bored you would be if your two sisters turned up in camp, in the very middle of an engagement. You couldn't knock off work to take them about to restaurants, theaters, mov ies. The smoke and din of battle, the roaring of the guns, the hurried movements of troops and supplies and hospital would distract you so completely that the girls would be onky an annoyance and responsibil ity. Just so are affairs at home with the women who are straining every fiber of their beings to keep up with hospital work,, fill army contracts. keep assembly lines red hot. We may not actually hear the guns or see the wounded, but the racket and smoke and groans are forever in our hearts. Every girl swiftly changing hospital beds, hurrying about with trays, driving a riveter, grimly toil ing over a turret lathe, is working under a pressure like that of battle. Every girl feels that unless she comes up generously to her quota f work somehow the whole structure struc-ture of defense will fall through. You needn't worry, Walt. These are unnatural times; bad for you ' out in the Marshalls, bad for us on the home front We're not trying to make them normal it's no use. We're Just trying to get through. We feel that every hospital tray, every cooky, every knitted helmet or V-mail letter, every bomb and every gun barrel completed and sent is ' one more nail in Germany's in Ja-. pan's casket We want their obsequies obse-quies to be swift and complete. It we can do our job here half as well as you are doing yours far down in the Pacific. 1945 will see you all home again, and the girls pretty and dainty again, and free to entertain enter-tain tired soldiers. Www 1 .x 8662 11-18 Princess Charmer HpHE 'teen age goes for these Princess frocks as fast as the new designs appear! Not surprising surpris-ing as they're the most nattering type of dress a girl could possibly wear. Do this one in the prettiest pret-tiest ginghams, checks or flower prints you can find! Pattern No. 8662 Is in sizes 11, 12, 13. 14, 16 and 18. Size 12, short sleeves, requires re-quires 3 yards of 39-inch material. SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK Bassinet for That Darling Baby ft! 5748 Siil Baby Bassinets A BEAUTIFUL bassinet for the new baby i3 every young mother s dream and usually a rude awakening comes when she prices them In the good shops, They range from fifty to well over a hundred dollars! So make your own! It's easily done. A large-sized market basket is covered with unbleached muslin, then padded with chintz or lovely pink or blue rayon crepe or satin Lace, net, organdie or dotted scrim makes the flounces. An ordi nary bed pillow is baby's mat tress. To obtain complete instructions for the Baby Bassinet (Pattern No. 5748) vari ous finishing and decorating details, send 16 cents, your name, address and the pattern pat-tern number. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time Is required in filling orders far a few of the most popular pattern numbers. SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 149 New Montgomery St. San Francisco, Calif. Enclose IS cents (plus one cent to cover cost of mailing) for Pattern No Name Address. 8664 12-20 A Barebaeker PROM coast to coast women are " wearing these strapped, sun-backs! sun-backs! It's the new look in fash ionsand it's practical, cool and very, very pretty. Have at least one real barebaeker with matching match-ing jacket. Pattern No. 8664 is in sizes 12. 14, 16. 18 and 20. Size 14. dress, requires 2,4 yards of 35 or 39-inch material; jacket. H yards. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is required In filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street Sao Francisco Calif. Enclose 20 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No ...Size Name Address ft rA u 'a No Split Lawyer I must know the whole truth before I can successfully de fend you. Have you told me everything? every-thing? Prisoner All except where I hid the money. I want that for myself. Pretty Girl Had Reached The Age of Discretion It was long after midnight in the home of the famous author. He looked haggard and worn, for he had been working on a novel. "Darling," called his wife, "are you coming to bed?" "No, I'm not," muttered the author. "I've got the pretty girl in the clutches of the villain and I want to get her out." "How old is the girl?" asked the wife. "She's twenty-three," Informed the writer. "Then for goodness sakes put out the lights and come to bed," snapped the weary wife. "She's certainly old enough to take care of herself!" The Truth He Since I met you, I can't eat, I can't sleep, I can't drink. She (shyly) Why not? He I'm broke. Taking No Chance Prospective Roomer This win dow is quite small. It wouldn't be much good in an emergency. Landlady There ain't goin' to be any emergency, mister. My terms are cash in advance. Ain't It So! Teacher Who is man's noblest friend? johnny The hot dog it actually feeds the hand that bites it. Girls Every One Smart Guy Can you name the sister states? Bright Boy Certainly. They are Miss Ouri, Mrs. Sippi, Ida Ho, Mary Land, Callie Fornia, Louisa Anna, Delia Ware, and Minnie Sota. CLABBER GIRL goe, wUh PZ"X e s j Our Fighting Men- Keep Em Supplied on Land and Sea All for the Cause of Liberty! 4 St- "80.6 of sufferers showed CLINICAL IMPROVEMENT after only 10-day treatment Foster D. Snell, Inc., well-known consulting consult-ing chemists, have just completed a test with a group of men and women suffering from Athlete's Foot. These people were told to use Soretone. At the end of only a ten-day test period, their feet were examined exam-ined by a physician. We quote from the report: "After the use of Soretone according to the directions on the label for a period -xx nf nnlv ton ifavc fin fi nf tho rntoc ,s V VHIJ mil UHJtf, WWbW' VI IIW VUWVtf showed clinical improvement of an infection infec-tion which is most stubborn to control." Improvements were shown in die symp-tonu symp-tonu of Athlete's Foot the itching, barn-ing, barn-ing, redness, etc. The report says! "In our nnininn Snretnnn Is nf verv def inite benefit in the treatment of this disease, which is commonly known as Athlete's Foot." So if Athlete's Foot troubles yon, don't temporize! tem-porize! Get SORETONE! McKesson & Rob-bins, Rob-bins, Inc. Bridgeport, Connecticut n yy.-yyy. oc Jy.. s I I 1 x J I TlHM hull" Any stockman deserves to be when he goes to the expense of vaccinating, and still loses valuable animals! Who's to blame? Here's a clue: vou can't buy vaccines like tractors. Ether a vacdne's goodot worse than no good It protects your animals or it doesn't. That's whv it Davs to insist oa CUTTER 4 A for horses, cattle, sheep, hogs or poultry. Cutter Vaccines & Serums do tx job the same fine job of protecting your animals that they do protecting humans. Cutter laboratories, Berkeley, uuit. CUTTER VACCINES & SERUMS IS ri Ribbon-and-Flower Headdress ' For an attractive headdress to set off sleeveless frocks appropriate for theater or restaurant wear, simply take a length of velvet ribbon (or a ready-made velvet bandeau complete com-plete with ribbons to tie it on with for about 50 cents), add a spray of flowers to your own liking, sew sequins se-quins on the leaves of the flowers and presto, you've a charming headdress. Or take a black velvet bandeau, sew three huge silk roses ' iMOD tSl6 ffll&V GGEWT (imiWIif T-18&S L across the top and a tiny velvet rib Some boys get too much spoiling. . , . bon bow over each temple. .-Advertif |