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Show THE BEAVER PRESS, BEAVER, UTAH WOMAN'S WORLD I New Window Treatments Pay Dividends in Home Decorations By Did Ertta Haley that you know in new window your home will more in decorating dividends than anything else that you can do to a room? Windows can be such a striking feature, even though they are small, and they can be treated decoratively, at less expense than furniture or walls. Old curtains and draperies may often be used as the means for decorating windows, if they lend themselves to new color by dyeing or simple trimming like fringe or ruffle. If old draperies are worn and cannot be dyed, they can frequently be turned Inside out and used again. This is particularly true of velvet, velveteen or corduroy. Cotton fabrics, such as homespun or muslin types, can be dyed readily. Remnants will often yield enough material to utilize for trimming, too. Check over old formals, feed 6acks, old sheer curtains or pieces of materials picked up at sales. Combined cleverly with what you have In the way of draperies or curtains, you can come up with good win- 11 rr - ii j t m ty t 1 n i FREQUENT meat appearing on menus is chicken because it's versatile and delicate flavor are a favorite with most. Even though you serve chicken frequently, you can have unlimited ways in which it's brought to the table. High in protein, rich in Iron and phosphorus and valuable for it's vitamins, chicken can be served to both adults and chil dren. You may have it in simple fricasee form with dumplings, an favorite, or baked or barbecued, as something special when you entertain. i I f i M, i I i ' , f it il ; ; If 1 k fi tM: Lightweight red tweed with textured Interest Is used In this Its Interesting travel coat. crossover front Is belted In with red leather, while the sleeves are full and worn pushed up to the elbow, or slightly below. of plain material well with the predominant color of the print, make two rows of ruffles and hang at the top. Use the print on top of the and the other that contrasts plain. Old sheeting Is excellent to use for ruffles, as described above, for it can be dyed any color to effects planned have to be carried match the printed cloth which Is out with good workmanship and picked from a remnant counter or is left from an old cotton bedspread care, if they are to be effective, so plan to give these the utmost in or drapes. For dining or living rooms, you attention to detail. the can make old sheer curtains look If you don't want to double or triple their original valwhole room, choose a window treatment that will not make the walls ue simply by adding rows of ruffle and furnishings look too shabby, to panel curtains. Then dye the and thus force you to go further in whole panel with the ruffles the same shade, something which will your efforts at decoration. go well in the room. Use Fringe, Ruffles Sheer and panel curtains in conOn Old Draperies shades can be used on the trasting Fringe trimming can be used in same windows. The panel curtains both modern and traditional rooms. in be shade, while the may light old to trim an excellent way It's sheer curtains, hung over them in drapes and curtains, because of its the manner of draperies, could be easy application. the darker Both sets of curcolor. an old You may have fringe from tains should be full to give a luxpair of drapes that can be dyed to urious look to the windows. suit your new scheme. It may also Striped wallpaper In a room frebe purchased in different colors. Use matching or contrasting fringe quently gives rise to a curtain problem. Solve it easily by using for any of the following suggestions white sheer curtains tied back with An old pair of turned draperies can be treated to a fringe decora- a tailored bow. Use a cornice over tion in "V" formation, using three the curtains, with a tailored bow at the center. Cornice and tiebacks 1 LPlijijUMlJi ssjs. LM may match the stripe In the wallisy Clyi paper. '"r'r' i JUifiiia I Use Feed Sacks For Curtains Feed sacks offer excellent curtain material because their textures are so Interesting, and the fabric source so economical. Dye them into the desired color, and use one of the following treatments for them. 1 i Using two or three feed sacks for each side of the curtain, depending on the length of the window, stitch them together and place a ruffle of feed sack or other material at each seaming. These should be of the same color. and frtng odds tlyl. For informal rooms, such as rows of fringe coming just about dens, play rooms or nurseries, plan at the center of the drape. If dyed to use sacks dyed In several colto a bright shade that contrasts ors to give a rainbow or circus efnicely with the drapes, this can be fect. These may be attached to a effective. wooden pole at the top of the winIf your room is modern In con- dow by means of wooden rings. Small windows strung In a line ception, you can us any plain material for draperies, the more tex- across the room, such as you might tured the fabric, the better. Add have tn an attic or basement room narrow fringe to the draperies in can be treated nicely with several graduated rows, starting with one sacks hung to sill length. Use sacks row at the top, followed several of one color, but have the cornice inches lower with two rows, then in a contrasting shade. Bathroom windows can be Inexthree and four rows. Fringe may also be used as the pensively dressed with feed sacks edging on coarse net curtains. This since they can be dyed to match the towels. Cottage type curtains, is especially good on single wincurtains with a dows such as you would find in a or straight-hanginFor ruffle at the top are excellent. If hall, dinette or bathroom. washable curtains, simply baste the desired, the ruffle may be in a fringe on, or sew It to a strip of contrasting solid color or print. Here's a good treatment for a snaps such as you might use for attaching a cover to the dressing bay window Dye enough feed sack Remove the fringe before to use for a ruffle at the top of the table. laundering and then snap It on windows, and for draping two sides, again after the curtains are clean in a dark color, preferably a room Ruffles don't even have to be of color. On the windows themselves, the same material as the curtains use Priscilla curtains tinted in a to which they're attached. Another curtain shade, or in plain white. nice Idea to know in this respect Keep Materials Moving: Is that two different materials can In the Dye Bath be used to ruffle trim the lame When you're dyeing materials, window. the important thing to remember is that they be kept moving constantCurtains Look Expensive ly to get an even shade of dye as With These Tricks For kitchen or bathroom, use a well as to prevent any streaking. You may use whatever utensil deep ruffle at the top of the window. Add three or four rows of is handy, but the larger the better. ruffling to the lower half of the Use a bath or laundry tub, a large half curtam. All the ruffles can be basin or vessel, a preserving ketdyed tn darker or lighter shades tle or large wash boiler. of the same color, yellow, green, Light shades can be tinted with tap water, but darker shades repink or blue. For a narrow row of kitchen win- quire simmering temperatures. dows, here's a neat idea: Using One package of dye is usually two kinds of material, one of print enough for three yards of material. .... re-d- o m U HERE'S A NEW portrait of a tried and true favorite that you can easily duplicate with this simple recipe: Chicken Pot Tie (Serves 6) 1 four pound fricassee chicken pound salt pork Water or stock Salt and pepper Dumplings Cut chicken Into convenient pieces for serving and dice the pork. Place saucepan, together in a good-sizecover with water or stock and bring to boiling point; cover closely and simmer from one to two hours depending on the age of the chicken, seasoning when about half done Thirty minutes before serving time put in dumplings and be sure to keep pan closely covered while they are cooking. Arrange meat in center of dish with dumplings around It, pouring gravy over meat Dumplings Vi cups flour Ys teaspoon salt bakVt teaspoons ing powder About cup milk Sift flour, salt and baking powder. Mix thoroughly but quickly with milk and drop by small tablespoon f u 1 s Into hot stew gravy. Cover closely and cook 12 to 15 minutes without remov ing lid from saucepan. Barbecued Chicken (Serves 1H to 2H pound young chicken (broiler) Barbecue Sauce: 1 teaspoon salt Ys teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon paprika 1 tablespoon sugar 1 medium onion, chopped fine 1 cup tomato puree or catsup Ys cup fat 54 cup hot water )4 cup lemon juice 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce Cut chicken in half or In quarters. Arrange in a baking pan. Brush with hot Barbecue Sauce. Cover, then bake In moderate oven (350M until about half done. Uncover, continue cooking, basting frequently with the hot Barbecue Sauce until tender and nicely browned. Total cooking time: 1 to 14 hours depending on size and weight of chicken. Barbecue Sauce: Blend salt, pepper, paprika, and sugar in saucepan. Add onion, tomato puree or catsup, fat and water. Heat to boiling. Remove from heat. Add lemon Juice and Worcestershire Sauce. Use for basting during cooking, and to serve with the cooked chicken. d 2-- 4) "r" "- ieSU.piJM.0 Ml V '""'"''I r g Chicken, mushrooms and peas with a rirh cream sauce. Then they're tupped with triangles of rich cheese pastry and baked until golden brown to give a colorful, flavor-packe- d main dlh. go Into these ramekins LYNN SAYS: Ideas Try Kitchen-Teste- d For Meal Appeal Cabbage, cut fine, and cooked with sour apples and caraway seed makes a good vegetable dish served with spareribs or pork roast Squash takes to orange juice as a seasoning. You can mash the pulp, season with the juice and return it to the shells. Glaze your carrots with sliced oranges, brown sugar and meat drippings. They'll have a ipicy, interesting flavor. n bii i ci j As on of January 1. about 500,000 regularly employed workers farms and in farm households Fluffy dumplings and chicken fricassee provide a heartwarming, appetite filling meal for moderate cost. Diced pork adds an Interesting flavor touch to the chicken. First Horse naste of laundry water can be used to 2,000 B.C.. several :lean plaster of paris statuary. of About a wild mountain tribe call Just smear the paste all over J and until every part of the surface beautiful new animal jZ the whole thing looks like such a and citv of Babvlon. r,... mess you wish you hadn't started the in the markg .t in the first place. Then forget crowds gathered until the starch paste is com- piace uj staie ai mis animal. was a horse the first hori pletely dry. After you think it's known in i to history. iry, wait another hall hourthejust dry .nake sure, and brush Old Custom stuff off. t Eligible For Insurance Benefits Half-Milli- i irritni;';:":!-- 'r jesm Javwr. j trrh m Social Security Act Covers Farm Workers A v JiSSS ) fsraPlIfi mm it Tasty Chicken Dishes Enhanced by Proper Use of Seasonings dow treatments. Do your planning of the new project with a flair, and don't get sidetracked with an easier but less effective way of doing the Job once you're In the midst of it. Some if jciJ 'it tlo Travel Coat pay you Double ruffles add color jaA M on be- came eligible for social security. This means they became eligible for the first time for benefits pensions and for benefits paid to survivors if a wage earner dies. Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social said the Security administration new program covers anyone who does planting, cultivating, or harvesting of crops; raises or tends anilivestock, bees, or mals; prepares, processes, or delivers crops or livestock to market from Perhaps grandma, who jj To prevent mattresses the fashion of "tweezer sicking up rust marks from the garded as too modern aitf eyebrows" coat a the springs springs, give neilur la&ies, never heatri aarmg the original pain' jf paint when of the ladies oi Ancient Sumeri shows signs of wearing thin. The women of this highly! - tured. Asiatic civilization tweezers in their vanity cases early as a.uuu ts.u. Ivory objects, all in one piece :an be safely cleaned with soap and water. If several pieces are glued together, though, better take a piece of raw lemon, dip it in salt and rub the surface with it Let the juice dry on the ivory before you wipe it off with a damp J Keep Posted on Values Reading the By Ad: :loth. LYNN CHAMBERS' MENU Barbecued Chicken Shoestring Potatoes Slivered Green Beans Tossed Green Salad Whole Wheat Buns Lemon Meringue Pie Beverage Recipe Given Baked Chicken Goulash (Serves 8 -- 10) 2 3!4 pound young chickens Flour 1 teaspoons paprika 2 teaspoons salt Y cup fat or salad oil 4 cups sliced onion cup hot water. Wash chicken; dry; disjoint. Mix Vt cup flour, paprika and salt. Dredge chicken with flour mixture. Brown chicken in fat or salad it trrr'u 1MT Ml lii aT-C- tCK r' 351 Paste moleskin on the bottom heavy ornaments and flower pots to prevent scratches on table tops. Old felt hats can be cut up, and the pieces used for the same 3f COUGH RELIEF purpose. A total of 500,000 farm workers became eligible for social security benefits with the ex- tension of the Social Security Act as of January 1. storage; cooks or does other household work on farms, or does their general farm work. However, each worker must "qualify" first. Farm owners or operators are not covered. Wages paid by an employer to his children under 21 do not count, nor do other payments within a family. Altmeyer said employers of farm oil. Remove workers covered by the extension of chicken; brown the law should get instructions from onion in same their local collectors of internal Alternate revenue concerning when payments pan. layers of chick should be made and methods for en and onion in casserole. Add keeping records. water. Cover; bake in moderate oven, (350), U4-hours, or until Disaster Relief Program chicken is tender. Thicken stock with flour mixed to smooth paste For Farmers Expanding with cold water. The government announced reChicken with Mushrooms cently that the simple relief meas(Serves 6) ure started in 1949 to aid snowcup canned grean peas bound ranchers in the west has i cup mushrooms mushroomed into a tremendous 2 cups cooked, chicken, diced business. It has grown into a 2 tablespoons butter business and covers parts of 2 tablespoons flour 37 states and Puerto Rico. 2 tablespoons blanched almonds The farmers home administration. cup milk or cream In charge of the program, reports H cup chicken broth or water more than 26,000 loans have been Salt, pepper made to farmers. They average Dash of ginger about each, although there 1 teaspoon chopped parsley Is no limit on the amount a farmer Sliver or chop the almonds. Saute borrow if he qualifies as a mushrooms. Melt butter, blend In may victim" and can "disaster flour and stir in slowly the milk sufficient collateral. The put up largest and broth. Cook until thickened, loan approved to date was $400,000 stirring constantly. Add all remain- to a Mississippi farmer. ing Ingredients. Place in ramekins One of the most recent disaster or a large pudding dish and set in a pan of water. Cover with rich areas was the entire state of Mischeese biscuit triangles. Bake in sissippi where the cotton crop was bad weather and weea hot (450') oven for 5 minutes, damaged by then at 400 for 15 minutes or un- vils. "The end isn't in sight" one oftil the biscuits are golden brown. ficial said, "It looks like the proRich Cheese Biscuits gram is here to stay unless the 2 cups sifted enriched flour government starts taking losses 4 teaspoon baking powder like it did in the V teaspoon salt of the depression era." program H cup batter 94 cup milk 1 cup grated American cheese Oil Barrel Rig Sift flour, measure and sift again with salt and baking powder. Cut in butter; add grated cheese and milk, mixing gently. Roll to thickness and cut into triangles or other shapes desired, using floured biscuit cutter. Place on top of chicken in ramekins and bake as directed. Chicken Creole ff Air Hole (Serves 6) Pu$ 34 pound chicken Salt, pepper, paprika Y cup chicken fat or shortening 1 onion, sliced 1 cup uncooked rice Men on farms and ranches have 1 can (No. 24) tomatoes many heavy barrels containing oil 1 green pepper, seeds removed keroseir, etc., to empty sheep dip, Dress, clean and cut chicken into and at times a faucet may not be serving pieces. Season with salt, at hand. Here Is an easy way to and Brown pepper onion overcome that difficulty. Secure a paprika. In chicken fat, add chicken and piece of 4i inch pipe with one end brown lightly Cover and let simmer threaded, eight to 12 inches long for 1 hour. Add remaining ingrePlace a chunk under one end of the dients and place in casserole. Cov- barrel so contents will fall away er and bake in a moderate (350') from the upper portion of Uie head oven until tender, about 1 hour. near the chime. Then bore a hole inch bit. through the head with a Quick and easy is this Jellied Thread portion of the pipe into this salad: to one package of lemon-favore- d hole. When ready to draw off any gelatin add one cup of hot of the contents Just roll the barrel grape Juice, then 1 cup ginger ale. a little until the liquid starts to Chill with mixed fruits if desired. run. When sufficient has been Heat canned corn, then break drawn, roll the barrel back to a eggs, slightly beaten, over the veg- position where the pipe is upperetable. Cook gently until eggs are most and contents will stop flowing set. Serve for a quick lunch. or 2 rt Is Put Try adding raisins to your hot Dehydrated few a On minutes before Sale in Netherlands applesauce it finishes cooking. They'll be plump Cheese tn powdered and tablet and flavorful, then serve over toast form is being marketed in the triangles. Netherlands, according to the U. S Grapefruit makes a good meat department of agriculture. The new garnish or dessert If you spoon dehydrated cheese product Is made apple mint or currant Jelly over it from Gouda and Edam cheeses unbefore broiling. der a process which Is said to reBlanc mange made with a bit of duce the volume of the cheese by coconut, then poured into small one half. The report says that a molds to chill makes a pretty des- variety of flavors ran be obtained sert when unmolded and served depending upon the age of the with raspberry sauce and thin but- cheese used for dehydrating. ter cookies. "World't bMatin9 Cough Msdicationl" When a miror breaks, you may nave seven years' bad luck; but you can also have several attractive things to put under vases and bowls if you get a glazier to put the unbroken portions of the mirror into squares and bevel the edges. SMITH BROTHEBS Now She Shops "Cash and Carry" For marble objects, whip up a strong solution of sal soda and combine that with fuller's earth. 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I Chocolate Fluff Cake...Quicker...more luscious... because pure vegetable Snowdrift is emulsorized! In just 3 minutes mixing time. Snowdrift gives you cake that's richer, lighter, moistert Just put everything in 1 use "low speed." Scrape bowl often; scrape beaters alter 2 minutes. Add: 3 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla quick-metho- Beat I minute. Bake In quick-metho- d bowL Creamy Snowdrift blends so easily I Remember, you can make calces only with emulsorized shortening. And Snowdrift Is emulsorized. Make this Snowdrift cake todayl d CHOCOLATE FLUFF CAKE single-actio- Add: Vt lii cups cup shortening 14 sugar cup milk Mix enough to dampen flour. Beat 2 minutes. If by hand, count beat- ing tune only. With electric mixer WHIN GOOD TASTE COUNTS Cram Snowdrift with cup sifted confectioners' sugar. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla and 3 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted, and blend. Beat 2 egg whites until stiff; add cup sifted confectioners' sugar (2 tablespoons at a time) and beat after each addition. Continue beating until mixture stands in peaks. Fold into chocolate mixture. Frost cake. Decorate with paj'el colored mtnta cut In half. (See pic- double-actio- teaspoon salt 2 greased layer pans, lined with plain paper, In moderate oven (375 P.) about 25 minutes. CooL Frost wlt- hCHOCOLATE FLUFF FROSTING: d 1 cup milk 4 tablespoons A Snowdrift Recipe Sift together Into large bowl: 2 Ml cups lifted colts flour 3 teaspoons n baking powder (or 4 tip. Quick-Metho- Vt ture.) - raeteiue N5S2S' IfAl!...... . PURE VEGETABLE SHORTENING D01D DEMONS' f8ifi: Cheese Don,t et "Cold Demon" make bis chest feel sore and cn- - fTliX Rented rub on Menthnlntum. afe Mentholatutn help lessen congrattion. IU vapors soothe inflamed pawuigw. w rT C0UbinK spasms. For ... hr-H-d makes breathing colda, too easier. In jars, tube. |