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Show THE TIMES- - NEWS, NEPHI. UTAH Woman's World Decorator's Tricks Utilized To Alter Room's Proportions of us can select 5ust where we want to live, and even go a step further and design Pift wale Corduroy wise all around the paper. You go 'round and Be Smart I season of exquisite blouses, whether of the sheerest permanent Bnlshed organdie with touch of the old time filet lace or handmade tailored affair by Tolande (above). In the latter' collection of handmade, such beautiful combinations as band hemstitching and val lace are employed on the softest crepes. Teamed with ballet length velvet klrU, these blouses make lovely Lnfotmal costumes for evening. It's a snail 'round, fashion, until you come to the center of the page. Bet nobody can read between the Lil lines on In fact, body can read the lines. that one. bet no Puzzling Epistle After you write your letter, you cut it up into odd shaped pieces. Put all the pieces into an envelope and write on the outside back flap of the envelope: "You will understand this thesis "She is simply leading bim on because it flatters her, and be gives her presents. When you paste up all the pieces." By KATHLEEN NORRIS HE WILL COME BACK After you finY REWARD for 20 Hearty Greetings ish your letter, cut the outline of Thelma has discovered that years of faithful one side of a heart on the folded wifehood, writes a her husband, Bert, is in love side of the stationery. The cut-oDetroit woman, "is that my with a pretty divorcee in his piece will be a perfect heart shape, husband is disgustingly, fatuoffice. He is m his forties, since your paper is doubled. It 'will while the girl is only 26. Bert tell him that you've put your heart ously in love with one of the of the between the lines. girls in the office one gives her expensive presents, women, rather, for Sheila has and goes out with her two or 'Round and 'Round A foresighted designer, Lilll Ann looks forward to a rainy day with this newer-than-ne- w "rain dress" of dusty pink pinwale corduroy. Jeweled plastic buttons and jutting hip fullness are headline fash-Io- n notes, weather or not. The corduroy is completely water- room, in other words, the more massive may be its furniture. Make certain the furniture is ar ranged in nice groupings about the room, not just scattered without plan to fill space. Curtains or Venetian blinds are not enough for the windows. You can hold the room together much better if you use floor length draperies. Small Rooms Can Look Spacious and Serene While the small room is more of a problem, the cluttered appearance and proportions easily will yield to decorative treatment. First, your problem will be one of removing everything that is absolutely not essential. Get chests that will go under beds or couches; do not stack them in the room. Hassocks can be made to contain various items, as can a window seat or a couch. Now, let's start on the room itwallself. Use plain, paper and keep it light in color. Striped paper may be used to add height, and so may paper. Avoid dark colors for walls and ceiling. Repaint in lighter colors if necessary. Here is a good list of colors from which to choose for the small room: Pale gray; light gray green; lime green; light yellow; chalk blue; dead white; light cream, but not ivory: beige, but not tan; dusty pink or rose; pale coral, or mauve. Naturally the choice of color .will depend upon the use tor the room, but the list is large enough to take care of any type of room, be it bedroom or living room. solid-tone- d Avoid Fussy Furniture, Cluttered Windows Your furniture for the small room may be delicate or very simple with graceful lines if you choose modern. Scale the size of the furniture to fit the proportions of the room. Mirrors are wonderful for adding depth to this type of room. Large panels might be very effective between windows. Or you might use them to better advantage over the fireplace or even on a wall where the outdoors can be reflected. If you want to use lightly tinted mirrors, this Is perfectly proper. However, never use mirrors with fussy edgings or highly decorated edges, as this will bring attention to the size and shape of the mirror. Sill length glass curtains of sheer material are excellent for your windows. If draperies are used, too, have them long and full, to the floor, but do not tie them back. Lacy net That's how the disc jockies go, according to the popular song that has been dedicated to them. And our hi style scouts have been going 'round' with them. Here are the latest reports: Music in the Air In Houston, "She is pretty, of course, but in a Tex., there's a popular disc jockey who releases over the city every hard way. She has had a great deal d balloons with his of attention from men, and how she day, name on them. The people who find loves it. I don't believe she would them are requested to bring them dream of marrying Bert, even if he hvto the radio station where they were free. She is simply leading him receive popular record albums as along because it flatters her, and he prizes. No wonder everything's eives her presents. The last was a $300 fur coat. looking up in Houston and every"I know this, through another body, too. In Philadelphia a woman in the office who is my School Spirit teen-ager- s friend. When I reproached Bert, he disc jockey invites to send in cards with the names denied nothing, but expressed anger of their high schools. The school and horror at my suggestion of a that rates top each day is hailed divorce; he will fight that to the last over the air as the "School of the ditch, he says. I wish I could teU you how happy Day." Bet our life together has been until this Selected by the Spinners you didn't know that band leader shock burst upon me so suddenly. Stan Kenton rated first in a recent We started as high school sweet nationwide poll of the disc jockies. hearts, began simply, rejoiced in He was voted most cooperative and the coming of our lovely children helpful in promotion of his platters prospered in the American way, and and also for his personal appearonly four years ago built the home ances on jockey shows. Jo Stafford of our dreams. Now all this strut was the only thrush who rated on ture seems to be falling about my the poll; Andy Russell, the only ears. I have cried myself sick. have considered seeing Sheila and begging her to go away. My son, TRIX1E TEES SAYS who is my only confidante, has Don't be fooled by those nonchalant talked to his father. Our once happy glamour gals who boast that they nev- household has fallen into dark days er crack a book, but always pass with and all because a weak man and high marks. They'd like you to think an unscrupulous woman choose to that, for them, making "A" is just consider themselves in love. DoV What Comes Natcherally. They 1 Simply Writhe. don't want to be considered "grinds." Well, being a good student is no disis completely oblivious to "Bert ashamed be to admit all this. He goes his way. He is abgrace, so don't that you read something betides your two or three date book during the week. Good sent from home some marks are a feather in your cab, nights a week, when I simply writhe They're much more becoming than a at the thought that they are to dunce cap on your bead. gether, and that she is getting the tenderness that once was mine. The loneliness of a woman once loved. and then scorned, is something nocan imagine until she has ex body It! Word My perienced it Will you tell me what treatment will cure this situation, By Frank Colby how to handle it wisely and get my husband back? I cannot go on like this." WHAT IS THE ORIGIN? e curtains are another good choice. Venetian blinds, with or without draperies and curtains, also may be used. Wall to wall carpeting will add a great deal of roominess to this room, while scatter rugs make it look tiny and crowded. Any type of patterned rug also will crowd you. Textured broadloom or a monotone of tome type Is best KEEPING IT STRAIGHT If your candles ar Inclined to wobble In their holders, melt tome paraffin and pour it Into the socket. Place the candle In the holder while the paraffin still Is hot This serves a purpose it keeps candles do'e straight and prevents danger fire. been divorced and has a little girl of 3. My own16 family, a and 14, is boy of 18, girls of at an age when a father's inAnd fluence is this is the time when Bert chooses to become infatuated with a grass widow of 26. air-fille- small-patterne- d Plain painted or papered dados with figured walls are especially good, If you do not use the dado trick. have the ceiling come down on the side walls for 18 to 24 inches. This may terminate as a wood or decorative paper molding. Use furniture in proper proportions to the room. The larger the start per and writing clock, proofed. And small rooms larger. Feature. left-han- Avoid Small Things, ... WNU ut Just in case you've a desire to wag your head and say that's impossible, then consult decorators who are faced with these problems every day. It's true that you don't magically create space or lose it, but the effect can be changed. When decorators' tricks are used, pleasant illusions are created and you need not feel outsized in a room that is actually small, but made to appear spacious. Or, if the room is large, you need not feel lost in it, if it is at all properly furnished and decorated. First of all, if you have one or the other situation in your own home, .and to an extreme degree, at that, remember you must go all out and follow the recipe the decorators give, or the effect will be lost. You must take into consideration walls, rugs, furniture and color as well as pattern. .the large size of the room. Here is the place to use large patterns, but they should be in good taste and not too well denned. Scenic papers and striped ones are taboo. Scenic ones make the height of the room too apparent and striped papers' bring out its depth. Break up the large expanses of wall space. This can be done with dados, a divided lower wall section. Bell Syndicate. As if it weren't bard enough to decipher those fly tracks you call "handwriting," you're trying out new tricks with your letters. The next time you're underwater, take your pen in hand and experiment with these correspondence crazes. Round-AboYou start 'Riting d your letter at the upper corner of the pa larger. Make large rooms smaller Jarvis By The Office Sweetheart HARD LINES rooms the size they should really be, then we must do the next best thing use decorative effects either to make- - large rooms .appear smaller or small rooms Seem Flainness in Large Room It s much easier to decorate a large room than a small room, if the former seems a bit lofty and barnlike to you. There are many tricks to reduce the size of the room which has deep windows, high walls and an enormous floor area. Tile fiqs trick regards wallpaper or wall covering. Never use something plain or with small patterns or they will stand out boldly and show Feature -- WNU By NANCY PEPPER i ."fJCE very few Kathleen Norris Says: "GAY GADGETS" Associated Near spa pen INKLINGS of .swoon-croone- r. Take Q. for It always disturbs me to hear army and navy food spoken of as "mess." Why do they use so un appetizing a name because it is Mrs. H. M. S. truly descriptive? A. It has been several years since I gave the history of this curious word, which really isn't as bad as it sounds. The word mess, "food in general; a meal; a dish of food," is simply an English spelling of the French men. It word mets, pronounced: means "That which is placed on the table; the different dishes served at a meaL" In Old French, mets was spelled "mes." and in this form it entered Middle English and then grew another "s." becoming "mess," mean ing "a dish of food." We often hear it said that Esau sold his birthright for a "mess of pottage." But the phrase does not occur anywhere in the Authorized Version. The wording of Genesis 25:34 is: "Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he (Esau) did eat and drink, and rose up, and went nis way. inus Esau despised his birthright." However, "A Mess of Pottage" did occur as a chapter heading in Thomas Matthew's English Bible of 1537 and In the Geneva Bible of but was not taken Into 1560, the Authorized Version of 1611." Mencken's "A New Dictionary of Quotations." The word mess in the meaning of "a sufficient quantity of a given dish or meal" is quite food tor common In the South where many Elizabethan words and phrases have survived. This agitated and powerful letter is aigned "Thelma." But it might be signed by a good many once happy and confident wives, who have had this tame painful awakening. The sad truth is that after just so many years of even the happiest marriage somesomething of the glamor thing of the breath taking ecstasy wears away. That is true of aU human relationships, but especiaUy true of this most delicate and unmarpredictable one. Often, if riage goes on as long as Thelma's. with the normal element of parenthood, homemaking, working and planning together, it lasts. It lives to the beautiful dignity of middle-age- d companionship, the truest happiness in the world for either man or woman. But often, too, it breaks at just this point, when a still young and handsome man realizes that he is tied for life to just one woman. with her goodness and badness and strength and weakness, and that there are younger and lovelier women ready to sacrifice their own lives to bim. Brndlr. WHU feature. Why not accept the situation? It hurts you deeply in your pride, in your heart, of course. Your nearest and dearest has failed you. You are being humiliated and affronted by an entirely inferior woman and it is nature to feel that you just won't you simply won't! put up with it Suffering la Universal. But women everywhere in all the great, wide, troubled, mistaken world are putting up with the unendurable, Thelma. Millions of mothers and fathers are suffering bitter, incurable agony when they pass the closed door of what used to be the boy's room, or when a casual glance at a photograph shows him as he used to be, strong and confident and loving never to be theirs again. Millions of magnificent boys are sitting quiet and patient today, dis blind, lame, maimed, figured, wrecked in mind and body. They have to bear it Nobody wants to hear of their troubles now. The girls with whom they danced have danced away into happier scenes. The ambitions they cherished to be architects, flyers, athletes, surgeons all these are gone. They bear it. They even learn to interest others. to serve those about them, to de velop what is left of life for them. You have had more than your share of shelter, love, protection. Thelma. Among women you are a fortunate woman. You kept your three children; some of us are not so fortunate. You have a home. health, friends, freedom. Use them all. Develop in yourself a lovely and controlled personality. And inevitably, within a few years, Bert will be back to say he Is sorry, to ask forgiveness, to take his old place in everything but your own heart. And marriage, Thelma, is worth saving even at such a cost as this. Turk Says lie Is 139 Turkey seems to be perpetuating the distinction of being the home of the oldest living man, which she was in danger of losing after the death 13 years ago of Zaro Agha at the reputed age of 160. Another claimant to that title ha been discovered In Erzinjan. He Is Veil Sahiboglu, who says he was born In the second year of the reign of Sultan Mahamoud II and therefore should be 139 years old. Veil Is In excellent health except for "... Bell three nights a week. The sudden revelation that she has lost her husband's love is almost more than Thelma can bear. She protests that she has been a faithful wife for 20 years, a good mother, a capable home manager. It all seems so unfair that she should have to endure this humiliation, this mental agony, now. When Thelma confronted Bert with the charge, he denied nothing, but seemed surprised and angry when she mentioned the possibility of a divorce. He said he would fight this move to the last ditch. They have three children, two girls in their middle teens and a son who is 18. Bert is fairly successful and there have been no serious money problems. Four years ago they bought a home, a goal achieved after many years of saving. aliss I orris tells 1 helma that Bert will come back to her in time, if she will patient ly endure this bitter cross. He does not want to lose her or the children. Marriage is worth preserving, concludes Miss Norris, even at the price of much suffering. "1 cannot go on like this. , , - Ws always hava a pretty good idea of Bossie't whereabouts!" BAD EITHER WAY "It's m By vicious cycle. When I work the farm, Willie get delinquent. When he umrhl it, I gel delinquent." By Gluyas Williams NIGHT SOUND jE jfe ROUSE, HALF BECOMES AMMtZ In MID- - OTACLiBIOU SOUND MKC OLE OF NIGHT" LIKE A TAP OR A SCRATCH a ft. i ir Sound L ee&min& jSirs w, - loncMC COME WIPE MJAKZ, SOUNO WONDERING WHATir COULD THAT CEASING ENT7E& NOT BE; SHE rS AtABMEO 0 UN u r. BN UN ry-- Paulson jhia W- - RELIEVED, LIES DOWN AGAIN I ir ffU- - JjW- - ff pear. it the AAlN. WI5ME5 5HE BRANCH OF A TREE v COULD PEXnr-- IT SCRAP1N6 A4AWST HOUSE. then realise but FoitTwmx THERE rSNTANV WIND CONSIDER SlEP FKSF DROPS OFF TO R0USW6 HUSBAND i By Ed Dodd BACK HOME AGAIN lfTl SC by Art Winburg lenny and Benny ( VU I r u y, -- come up np"see my hatcwims3 v fsir4 |