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Show J THE TIMES- - NEWS, NEPffl, UTAH Thursday, April 10, 1947 Woman's World New Techniques Are Required For Sewing Plastic Materials plastic film and fabrics, it's easy to achieve all sorts of smart effects for the home. Using them, you can make things that have a smart appearance and are easy to clean. With these fabrics appearing in stripes, checks, florals and plain designs, you'll find it easy to turn out attractive curtains for the kitchen and bath, bedspreads, shower sets, chair covers and other household accessories that can be kept fresh and stainless with a swish of a damp cloth. If they need more attention, you can even launder them periodically In lukewarm suds. Even beginners can achieve the ultimate In thrifty home decoration with these newest of fabrics after a few short-cu- t decorating lessons at a local sewing center. You'll find, too, that many of these new fabrics come in arrays so you can mix stripes, florals and plain designs for any sewing project you've set for yourself. There are just a few things you should remember when sewing on these new fabrics. It will require some adjusting to learn how to stitch most efficiently, but actually that's an easy matter to learn even if you're an amateur at this sewing business. WITH Adjust Sewing Machine For Stitching When using either plastic film or plastic-coate- d fabric for such projects, local sewing center instructors recommend the use of a size 11 needle for the sewing machine. Thread the machine with mercerized thread and regulate machine for a slightly longer stitch. Light Plastic fabrics are ideal Kathleen Norris Says: sheen, novelty touches as to weave. You'll love 'em! silk-lik- e 'vcii!'" A n lililllMrfT- - "TiHliniirnnimH"';-- - -jj .... -- rt"" Denis coaxing. .vBS.'i;. ..;4j,, d vessels of the central group of the Byrd expedition While the THE WORLD OF ICE to the Antarctic wait In an open water area, the coast guard's Northwind returns to them after scouting through the pack ice in quest of a "lead." is piwwwwwkpMwaiiyuj.;ioimiwi'''!pr' Designer Kiviette knows value not only of glittering quins but also of the tailored classic in which a woman lives most of her life. This one is in beige with peplum that has pockets and a soft silk scarf at the neck. ' ' ILI" " iw'wi.i.....ii, "ft J .1 -- m. fj -- c- 4 1 ... If ' sj J r v - .I k v 1 - 4 y i I mi im ' :iM 1i,t -REEDS FOR ROMANIAN CHILDREN . . . Jean Gay and John Garcia, Detroit, Mich., members of the American Junior Red Cross, lend a hand with parking $22,575 worth of seed being sent to Romania where children will plant and tend school gardens designed to help alleviate the food shortage in that country. The Junior Red Cross in the United States had previously sent to Romania 2,450 bars of soap and 3.234 remade garments, a project of home economics classes throughout the country. ' iij j.i grr""".--, P'lHimiiVMjiW vm i.HJii.uuj j U ' : I'j . i inclination to skip gathers. The emery cloth will provide a gripping surface for the blades since continued contact with plastic film sometimes causes a waxy or oily deposit to interfere with the drive of the blades. If an oily condition develops when using plastic film, simply dust very lightly with talcum powder. If waxi-nes- s appears, use emery paper on the underside of the gathering foot. Plain fabric binding may be used with plastic film and this Is simply treated as In average sewing. When plastic binding Is used, cut binding in width and insert in the outside slot of the binder. Since plastic film does not fray, it is not necessary to fold the edges under as in fabric binding. t si'iWtfifiiiiliiiiiltirirfa'sisllt iissIT nl j JJtr- 1' Jl BEST DRESSED . . . Mrs. George C. Marshall, wife of the secretary of state, who was judged by the New York Fashion academy as the "best dressed woman of the year In public life." She Is shown wearing a native Chinese costume. I rH r. When parents are divorced, the children are divided in loyalty, bewildered, embar rassed. A senstttve girl, like Denise in today's story, suffers a great deal, particularly dur ing the trytng years of adoles- Denise felt it bitterly, although she was only 8. I immediately married again, and she disliked her stepfather, although he was always kind to her. Bruce had two daughters at that time, 13 and 17. The elder has since married, but the younger, Betsy, and my own daughter, are continually quarreling. The family has increased since by the arrival of another girl and now a baby boy, and we could be ideally happy but for Denise, whose wretched disposi1 tion, jealousy and resentment spoil everything. Betsy, now 18. is a charming girl, pretty, musical and full of fun. Den ise is too tall, too heavy and at the clumsy, shy, difficult stage of adolescence. Betsy is like another mother to the vounger children; Denise re sents being asked to do the for them. the slightest thing BEST PHOTOGRAPHS OF TEAR . . . Winners in the fourth annual Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of Year news photography contest have just been announced. Seme of the winning photographs are shown above. One of the winners in the feature and pictorial photographs category was by Howard Shirkey, International News Photos, showing little boy inquiring for his lost pet. Harry Hall, Associated Press photographer, won an award in sports category for photo of 1946 World Series action, when Red Schoendienst collided with Johnny Pesky. William J. Smith, Associated Press, was a winner in news contest with his picture, "Silent John Lewis." N UNHAPPY DAUGHTER '"T""HERE was always a I deep devotion between X my first husband and our daughter," writes Marian Lent from Chicago. "When Armand and I were divorced, 1" ii.muwi had hysterics, left the table, and refused to return even at Betty's By KATHLEEN NORRIS thin-hulle- 1 Y h ... - Peplum Pockets Smart! Look for the biggest, richent block plaids ever Imagined In coats, suits and dresses. Cottons are a dream of color combinationsoften five or six pins Bell Syndicate.- ' tension and light pressure also are recommended for plastic film stitching. When using plastic film for shower curtains and matching window curtains, it's a good idea before cutting desired lengths to hang the fabric over an open door with ends balanced evenly on both sides. You then can smooth out the wrinkles with the balls of the fingers or the palm of the hand. Avoid fingernail contact, however. The use of weights rather than pins on the cutting table also is a big help when working with plastics. You can fill small sacks with beans or borrow marbles from the youngsters for this purpose. Use a pencil to mark off heading, hems for curtains or follow pattern markings. Do not use tailor's tacks under any circumstances. You can easily keep the pattern pieces together with ordinary paper clips and thus avoid tearing the fabric. Tubes or rolls of wrapping paper for making shower sets. come in handy, too, for you can roll of talcum powder lightly over bit each cut section over it in the opto be inserted into the the edge to the on order the sequence posite construction chart of the pattern. sewing machine attachment. If the This will keep pieces from becom- film seems tough from cold, brush a very thin film of oil along the ing wrinkled as well as giving neatness and orderliness to your work. edge of the fabric with the finger tips. One drop of oil is sufficient. When a great deal of ruffling is necessary, as in curtain making, it's advisable to pass a strip of very fine emery cloth be- tween blades of the ruffler from De It's the Children Who Suffer in Divorces j''lL Pinning and basting are conwhen sewing sidered with plastic film. Another thing, you won't have to turn under raw edges as the fabric does not fray. finish Always edges plain or "pinked" with the pinker attach, ment on the sewing machine. Tips to Make Sewing Easy It's easy to achieve smart decorator finishes such as ruffling, gathering and binding on these fabrics with attachments of the sewing machine such as the binder, ruffler and gathering foot. The fine hem-me- r and edge stitcher attachments can readily be used, also. If the plastic film becomes soft and moist from humidity, brush a . . . PAGE THREE h J cence. baby-tendin- "Armand, my first husband, has married again and has two boys Denise wants very much to live with her father, but for several reasons that would not be practicable. His second wife is a flighty and hysteri cal woman who had had two pre vious unsuccessful marriage experi ences before she married Armand and if Denise cannot be happy here with me, the chances of her being happy there are certainly slim. If we could afford it we would send her to a boarding school, but beside the expense there is the consideration that we need her here to help out with the housework and baby care. Denise Moody, Difficult. "My husband has been all patience and kindness ud to now. but now he is beginning to suffer from Denise's moods, as we all do. Last night he spoke to her sharply at the dinner table; it had been a cold, long dragging winter day for everyone, the house for some reason was chilly, dinner wasn't quite a success and all these things contributed to shorten tempers and cloud the atmosphere. Anyway, Denise had hysterics, left the table and refused to return even at Betsy's coaxing. "I myself am a writer," the letter concludes, "and I realize you know some of my books. But my imagination refuses to cope with a situation in which a mother and daugh-- i ter are completely out of sympathy. This child is only 13; she cannot leave home, and apparently she cannot be happy in her home. I reason with her, I ask her to make it a matter of prayer, and she looks at me with a long, bored yawn and says patiently. 'Oh, please. Mother.' Will you pretend that this is one of your stories, and bring it to your usual happy ending?" ' My dear Marian, 1 don't think this is a matter for imagination to solve; it is a question of supreme diplomacy on your part and character on that of Denise. Denise is suffering from Jealousy: first of the man who took her loved father's place, secs ond of the charming and third of the babies who replaced her in your affections. All these feelings, infinitely ramified, are making bfe step-sister- u p. !,,-- - ,vf.,V4,V,vX;,7 r w ' i5 s ' iT rrTT. intolerable to her. and being 13, she can't see any way out for what seem sees. Quite natural- 'y you admire the pretty musical Betsy, quite naturally you and their Fashion Flashes A fashion trick which Is popular Clever Ideas for making new dresses out of one good on In- with the use of black dresses for clude different sccensorles such as spring and summer is the introduction of loose swinging coats to be scarves, gloves and belts. Even though your hats are small worn with them to give the enthis lesson, they should fit your semble lightness and airiness. If head, lay the experts. The styles you use lace or organdie trimming particularly filling this order are with the black ensemble, point up bonnets, bretons and small side the simplicity, as this is the most tolls. . elegant way of showing It off. 1 j r7 ' FRANKLIN INSTITUTE MEDAL WINNERS . . . Karl I Billner, left, Philadelphia, who has Just been announced a winner of the Frank P. Brown medal by Franklin Institute In consideration of his Invention of a practical process for treating concrete and development of equipment. Edgar II. Dix Jr., New Kensington, Pa., right, was awarded the Franris J. Clamer medal in consideration of his meritorious consluminum. tribution to development of hi'lh strength eorroslin-res'stan- t 'M(f?' ill ' . . . Baseball does not seem to be topsy-turv- y enough for Jackie Trice, when it is played according to the rules. Here he It hanging from his heels and hanging away at a few pitches at Tucson, Arix. TOP8Y-TCRV- She is shy, rfumiy, diffUtlt . , , Denise is 13 and lives with her mother, who has remarried. The girl quarrels with her stepsister, Betty, who is 18. The younger children, a brother and sister, complicate things further. Denise does not want to help with the work or the and is moody, resentful, jealous and unhappy. Because her father is married again, this time to a "flighty, hysterical woman," there is little likelihood that Denise would be any better off with him and her stepmother. Denise is getting to be a seri ous problem. Her stepfather is beginning to lose patience with her. Miss Norris suggests a way out, however, that should be satisfactory to everbody. Miss Norris advises that Denise be allowed to board at the home of some schoolmate, Here she would have com panionship and would be free from the constant frictions that are now besetting her. She would have a chance to devel op her own personality unfet tered. i g father rave over the baby daughter and son; meanwhile poor Denise forgets things, breaks things, falls over things, blots things, burns things and of course feeds hate and resentment all the time. Let Her Visit Father. Possibly a visit to her father's home might help her see this situation in a saner light, but that is unlikely. She and her stepmother would not be friends, and domestic slavery for the two there would repeat the miserable situation of your own nursery. If she became desperately unhappy under her father's roof, and felt that she could not return to yours, it is not improbable that she would take her own life, causing you a lifelong remorse, no matter how justified you feel now in the course you have half-brothe- followed. So I suggest that you look over the list of her school associates and find one whose mother could take her in as a boarder for a while. This means that you would pick a humble home, with housework to do. But Denise would be on her own, and if I know anything of these shy awkward, youngsters she would blossom forth in colors that would amaze you. With a constant companion of her own age, with no painful contrasts between her and an older girl, with no burning jealousies to poison everything she snys and does, Denise will develop far more normally and happily than s!ie can in your care. The charge for this sort of young boarder is light; prh.ips as low as $7 or $8 a week. It will be worth it to you to make this experiment; she and her housemate will do their homework together, chatter of school affairs, bake cookies. e.o to Saturday movies and live t.eit own satisfied lives. I have known several cases where this rlni worked a real miracle, and I heartily recommend it to you. Teen-Ag- e Marriage More American girls are married between the ages of 15 and 19 than is the case In Canada, western Europe or Australia. Twelve per cert of the young women In the United States are ed some time between their 15th and 19th birthdays, it was noted, while the figure is only 8 per cent f;r France and Canada; 4 per cent for Italy, Belgium, Portugal and Australia; and 2 per cent for England, Wales, Scotland, Sweden and the Netherlands. |