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Show THE TIMES- - NEWS. NEPH1. UTAH i Woman's World Use Clever Wallpaper Tricks To Conceal Defects of Rooms Arson Is Harder Crime to Solve Kathleen Norris Says: ' Expenses Family Cooperation Cuts Features Bell Brndicmts. "SMOKE Than Killings WNU by. Carl Starr Weather Vane By Ertta Haley TlERY FEW OF US live in archi- tecturally perfect surroundings, but a reasonable facsimile of can be achieved if we use .'decorator tricks to mask the defects which surround us. Don't throw up your hands in discouragement over a long, narrow dining or living room, a dark bedroom or a cheerless kitchen. These are problems which professional decorators face every day in their careers and solve almost to perfection. Color, lines, design and furnishings have much to do with getting good effects. Armed with a few basic principles, you can change the effect of many a room and make it closer to your ideal. If you have the feeling that you want to push your walls out to and light, give a feeling of here are some s fire tricks to give you that effect. As every woman knows, light colors tend to make her figure larger while the dark shades appear to slenderize. So, to make the room look lighter and larger concentrate on lighter shades of wallpaper. A background of a small pattern or pale shades of wallpaper such as cool blues, greys, greens, cream, ivory and oyster white make rooms look large. The lighter the color of the room and its furnishings the more the walls seem to melt away and give the illusion of space. Use small trim pieces of furniture, enormous overavoiding those stuffed monstrosities you so fre- - t '' - - 5t4 y 1 f ' . - ... square quently see and you actually will have more space in which to move about. Reduce Room Size With These Tips On the other hand, if you have tremendously large rooms and you want to pull the walls closer about you, put the room on a sort of re. ducing diet of dark colors. Warm shades, such as red, terra cotta, cocoa, rose and the like, rather creep up on you and make a room seem smaller. If, however the room is on the dark side of the street and you don't ever get very much light, use moderate shades of the colors just mentioned. In this type of room the furniture may be scaled on larger proportions to take up space and pull the space together some Morse would earn the dollar Gus got for helping Dad clean the car every Saturday afternoon. - 't" 1 Alice of California cuts out this peasant skirt dress with a slim top. Over the basic peasant dress is an skirt which can be worn over the dress or under it (between the white berufflcd petticoat and the dress). The overskirt buttons on with a wide back overlap. full-skirt- "over-and-unde- r" Make long, narrow rooms look height by using white or a paler shade of color than that used in the walls. Pale ceilings improve the natural lighting of the room, while dark colors absorb light and also lower the apparent height of the room. Horizontal stripes also will lower the ceiling while vertical stripes have Just the opposite effect. Still another method used for making the over-tal- l room better proportioned is to lower the molding. Molding may be lowered 12 to 18 inches from the ceiling or by constructing a deep valance or cornice covered with paper to match the rest of the wall. Mold Room Together With These Tricks No room ever completely satisfies its owner. There are either too many niches or jogs or too many unbroken areas. Wallpaper can be the means of tying these jogs into the main center or it can be equally useful in creating artificial divisions. Dining alcoves can be turned into attractive nooks by paper which is what. a complete contrast from the rest It's smart to have the woodwork of the room. a color or shade same the lighter If your kitchen seems bleak and than the basic shade of the wall cheerless, cut its size by using a lovely plaid or trcllise print paper on the top half, with tiling or plain paper on the lower half. If you'd like a fireplace but can't have it, you can get the same sort of friendly cozy conversation place by grouping two or three chairs around a scenic wall in an otherwise muted room. Or you can make believe you're near a garden just by covering one of the walls with e or garden flower paper. a These are but a few suggestions by which you can reshape your home. Look over the situation, then let your imagination take full rein And working rooms attractive while wallpaper is the clastic paper If the room is small because which can stretch and shrink your baseboards, doors. walls to give you just the illusion mantles, windows and cornices all you want. minimize the size of the room. If the room is very small, trim It a bit by pulling out some of these C3 Smart ! things such as a mantle to give more space. ivy-typ- By KATHLEEN NORRIS mHE story of the Cutter J. family is worth telling in these days when prices are skyrocketing, when all the governments of the world are concerned with the problems of living conditions and when taxes are higher than they ever were in the world before and the rising tide of national debts indicates that they'll stay high. George Cutter's salary 10 years when his two older children were babies, was $4,200 a year. The family lived on it nicely and paid for a home that is still comfortable, although in a less desirable neighborhood than it was. Hazel Cutter is a clever and practical woman. She and her husband worked out a budget and felt themselves free of money anxiety. During the war George's pay went up and now he receives $7,200 a year. Taxes of various sorts reduce this income by about $2,000. This leaves him and Hazel $500 a month on which to manage. Hazel-Ann- , Morse and Shirley-Jan- e are at expensive ages: Shoes, car fares, dentistry, schooling, laundry. Hazel tries to keep food under $50 a week, but can't always manage it, for the young Cutters are hospitable and often her main dish, planned for at least two dinners, is finished at one. Then she has all the worry of today's good mothers to see that the children get fruit juices, green vegetables, milk and cream. And this doesn't include the lunch money or extra milk and cones both nourishing, but they count up! They Begin to Worry About two years ago the senior Cutters found themselves getting worried, nervous, irritable and unsatisfied, bitten by all those financial termites that fret our lives today. They simply couldn't keep the pace set by the children's needs movies, cameras, new coats, bicycle mending, radio mending, cleaner, school treats, swim suits and a thousand other claims. The Cutters are more than sensible and practical people. They always have kept and developed the spiritual side of their lives and. as Hazel's letter says, they "took it to the Lord in prayer." Shortly afterward, they invited the children to a family conference and supplied all three, even "Twlrley," with pads and penago, cils. Then George set down his salary and wrote against it the absolute essentials taxes of all types; gas. electricity and telephone bills, upkeep for the car, his club dues and his lunches. The older children also wrote down these sums and dark-colore- d everyone subtracted them. Then Mother offered a few calculations. bnkcr and Butcher, grocer had their turn. These were subtracted, too. The children were Impressed now, but still there was something close to $2no left and they felt that it was a penerous margin.' So George deposited that In the bank at the corner and every night the Cutters cheeked their daily outlay against it. Everything daily paper, the telephone, the car, tooth paste, films, randy, magazines, carwas listed. fare, movies, cum Shape of Room Can Re Changed If the shape of tlie room rather than the size is your problem, there's a solution to that, too. If the room is long and narrow try doing three walls with a plain paper .colored or a and then accentuating the fourth wall with a dark color or a bold pattern. This makes the room seem almost square. Another excellent way to increase the depth of one side of the room is by using scenic paper on that wall to contrast with plain or striped paper on the other three. You may prefer to use contrasting colors to make a room longer or wider. To do this, choose two styles which harmonise vet present a s!rn2 contrast; cover both side walls with one pattern and both end walls with the other. Ceilings often are ncg'ectrd when we di over a room, but treit' l properly they can be n impoitant part of the drrorative scheme. If the ceiling! In your rooms sre low, they can be Increased In harder even small-patterne- TEAMWORK With the advent of zooming prices and higher living costs, the Cutter family finds tliat it is unable to keep its books balanced. Their three children are at ages where demands upon the family purse are exceptionally heavy. Fretful and nervous about the bottomless morass of debt into which they are sloidy sinking, Mr. and Mrs. Cutter evolve a simple scheme to retain their financial solv-enc- At a family conference each member of the family anticipates his needs for the coming month. Grocery, gas, electricity and tax bills are tabulated. When the expected expenditures are deducted from the net monthly income, a comfortable balance of $200 is left. Thus, a complete plan for the ensuing month is outlined. About the third week In the month the money was gone. Children Protest In "But Mother." said Hazel-Antears, "I have to have my dollar for the school picnic." "But Dad," Morse said, aghast, "if your shoes are right through, gosh, don't you have to get new ones?" "Not unless the money is there," said the senior Cutters. "But, Mother, you can charge!" "No, Daddy and I never charge." "But you could this once." "No, because your dentist bill Is Hazel-Ann- , and we in. coming haven't paid for the window Morse broke playing ball." "But do they have to come out of just that one banic!" the children n gasped. "They do, indeed. So now let's just see what v.e can do." The Cutters calculated what they could do without. Mother would do without Dora's help would once a week if Hazel-An- n iron the flat pieces. Morse would earn the dollar Gus got for helping Dad clean the car every Saturday afternoon. Both would walk the extra half mile to public school next term if Dad didn't mind. Dad didn't rnind. Everyone would give up daily dimes for comics, cokes and cones. The rhildrrn grew eager and almost noisy In their cntituslasm. That was two years ago. The Cutters still balance the books every night. If George Cutter gets an unexpected commission, everyone sharei in the extra money. If Illness or any small domestic accident complicates finances the Cutters take to chenper meals for a while. And Ha7el Cutter Is a genius when It comes to vegetable dinners, stews, miners and dried fruit des serts. No. it wasn t easy or always agreeable and serene. What Is' But the older Cutters are solvent And the and they sleep nights. younger Cut'cr are learning the value of m rev and not hear.r.g financial batlW K"ing on over their heads And that's something Who Owns Wedding Gifts? DECATUR. ILL. Taking issue with some etiquette authorities. Judge Martin K Northland denied the claim of Mrs Edith Greenbrrg to S"0 wor'h nf presents She asked them aa she obtained a divorro from her husband Judce Northland commented that an author. ty n etiquette said wedding gifts belong to the wife, "but she cannnt be accepted ss a legal authority." He ruled that U presents belonged to both. - Shades of great grandmother's whalelirne nerkline! That's what yon'll find In the nrwrst Mouse crn.'rrtims of orcandir, lace and with an embroidery, rameo for whimsical accent. Hut h a hlnttse Is properly rnnpted not on'r w:th a flowing skirt but even w th Its own hair-dreminiscent of Victorian days. This Is guaranteed to give you a dramatlo look every time you don It, ed-lin- fr old-ne- . . . I elever, practical woman y. vr 4- WHEN THE SMOKE GOES GUDE WEATHER 15 PAST; WHEN THE SMOKE 60ES EAST 6UDE WEATHER COME NEJST. murder Is the toughest detective problem? If you do, you're wrong. The crime of arson the act Web ster calls "the mallcioua burning of a dwelling or other structure" Is Peasant Shirt per-'fecti- ,A,a. rf Do you think COLUMBUS, OHIO. 4 1 Fire Marshal Asserts Lack of Clues Hinders Suspect Search Ohio to solve. - Take the word of Ray Gill, fire marshal of Ohio and head of the oldest state fire prevention, inspection and detection department in the nation. Gill has been chasing firebugs for 20 years. "In the first place, with murder you have a corpse," he says. "With a fire, all you have is a fire. It's up to you to prove it's arson. Maybe it isn't. Most arson fires look on the surface just like one of those accidental things. "After you've figured out for sure that it's arson, then you begin looking around for the person who did it." There were something like 900,- 000 fires in the United States last year. About 40.000 proved to be hand fired. Mass Murder Gale Owens, assistant Ohio fire marshal, wondered: "What would some of those fiction detectives do if they got a case which had 320 murders in a bunch? That's what we ran up against 18 years ago." He referred to April 21, 1930, when flames shot through gray old Ohio penitentiary, killing 320 convicts and injuring 133. It was one of the big fires in history. It was an arson f&-AMy-- ' k ,U'W " ' &3.alf?& 'J vn.V flBN. L :":' - WHEN AIR IS DRY SMOKE ASCENDS AND DISAPPEARS OR IS BLOWN AWAY. 7 ' " PROVERB xr - teV- FOR. RAIN! THE SMOKE P5M CHIMNEYS RIGHT ASCENDS, THEN SPREADINIJ BACK TO EARTH IT BENDS ""x s: ' " Vr it I ' "V atawPtT ., WHEN THE AUf IS AnOISTURE LADEN THE ABSORB THE MOrSTURg, HEAVY AND SETTLE BACK 'TO BECOME EARTH IN A COMPACT STREAM. SMOKE PARTICLES WHY WE SAY J. by STAN &LJ. COLLINS SLAWSON PALMV rAc " It m fire. One by one, possible causes were ruled out. The prison was heated by steam; it couldn't be an over heated stove. Weeks of expert work ruled out defective wiring. Then came a bit of a break. Gill received a scrawled note from an upstate city. A woman wrote that her son worked in a factory near a girl. The girl said her uncle had just been released from Ohio penitentiary. She said that when he left, before the big blaze, convicts were hiding gasoline. They planned to burn down the prison, then escape. .: Mm Inspectors Query Convicts The correct term is Palmy Days, not Balmy Days as so often said and today infers prosperity. This expression originated with the Roman gladiators who received a palm branch as a symbol of their victory. The investigation went into high Inspectors pulled convicts from their cells in the middle of the night and shot questions at them. One of the more promising suspects was returned to solitary confinement after one of those 2 a. m. grillings. He hanged himself with his clothing. Inspectors put his buddy in solitary, then watched. Suddenly the convict fashioned a noose, attached it to the bars and jumped off to what he thought would be peace from those unending questions. The Inspectors cut the man down and reopened the questioning. The man broke. "Little Jeff did it," he gasped LOOKING AT RELIGION By DON MOORE wearily. A convict called Little Jeff had actually set the fire. He died in it. Three other convicts were in the No legal action ever was scheme. taken against them. Radio-Phon- e Train in the is fopmr? ps?csiDferr william V tele- PA. Radio JOHNSTOWN. phones on trains recently proved their worth on the Pennsylvania Railroad's West Penn branch In In 'r UOAPD TAFT PECENTLV BECAME TUE CIPST IOOPEPCFNT LTVMAN, i. TO HEAD THE "PEDEPAL flt'fLr. diana county. Georee Cheslo. of Climax, saw a car stalled on the 'racks. He hur ried to a "JD" tower near New Florence and notified the operator there of the wreck hazard One of the PRR's fastest freights was headed toward the stalled oar ?1 A COMPLETE BUCK OC THE at the time It was 7:20 p. m. when ML TUE SAINTS HAS NEVEP Cheslo warned the "JD" tower of U been wade ' the crash menace The freight train had passed the tower at Johnstown at 6:58 p. m There was no other tower between the train and the stalled car to warn the speeding freight Fortunately, the "JD" operator knew the Diesel engine on the train was equipped with radio phones He quickly put In s call for the trnin rrew snd sent out a warning of the danger ahead. 1 Vj The warning got through Just In V sTi- - V time The speeding locomotive was A K CloVT-brought to a stop only a car length H 1 l from the stalled nuto. ,.V.4sv v ; KrS IVll Court Dog's Behavior Saves Him From Execution in 4 ftsA CHARLES I! TAFT, SON op Halts Speeding Nick of Time 3k Pri k lJ) ssn1 16-- 4 . 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