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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER WOMAN'S WORLD U I Smart. H Advantages Await Home Seamstresses By Ertta Haley new. GLORIOUS FABRICS and those await stylet of you who are handy with the needle and like to whip together your wardrobe on the sewing machine. You'll like the feel of the new fabrics when you sew them; then again when you wear them. Patterns employ aU the latest style tricks, and there's no reason why you can't come out with clothes that look as though they bad been purchased from the smartest shops. If you don't consider yourself professional enough for a strict tailoring Job, nd still want a suit, why not choose one of the new soft bolero style suits? These are for girls as well as for their mothers, and look equally attractive. Another new wrinkle In the fashion picture which has been used extensively with the bolero type suit is the print blouse that goes with the skirt. In some cases these are attached to the skirt, so that when you remove the bolero you have a dress. If you prefer, make a basic dress in one of the new soft woolen materials, then top this with a bolero. Wear the dress with scatter pins or a necklace, and you'll be well dressed for club activities, shopping, business or calling. Coat Budget-Wis- e n V .1 I :Z ; ? : solid-colore- I X i t pattern . Swirling Skirts Suitable For Casual Wear The full skirted dresses are used for casual or dress-uoccasions among the younger crowd. These, too, are simple in line and style. Easy to make, these dresses take time only when you hem the full suitable This quflted coat, made of economical Indian Head cotton, Is easily created at home with the aid of a quilting attachment on the sewing with a machine. Steel-gra- y bright red lining Is a good combination to use. The coat serves now for school and casual wear and later over light dresses on breezy summer days. Note the natural shoulder line and full back which are fashion -- wise features. p By KATHLEEN NORRIS NOT a letter of com- "THIS IS plaint" writes Rena Janzen, 19 years old. "Ii is to ask you a question. Is there anything ahead in my life that will make today's difficulties and humiliations worth while? "We live on the fourth floor of a New York City apartment house far downtown," the letter goes on. "It is one of the thousands of high. temments that crowded brick form more than half of this city. The ones down our way are old er,, dirtier, more crowded. We have four rooms: parlor, kitchen, two bedrooms, bath. There are eight of us: my young brothers of 17, 13 and 7, a sister of 11, Grandma, Mother and Dad. Joe and Matt sleep in the parlor; Henry with Mother and Dad; Grandma, my sister and I have a room so small that there is no space for a chair. Grandma's mattress is under the three-quartbed, and under the bed are also my brushes and make up, a box with spare blouses, and GrandAnya's school-bookma's black valise. Live in the Kitchen "Of course we all live in the kitchen. It is smelly and noisy in summer, and hot as only city kitchens get hot; in winter it is smelly and noisy and hardly warmer than the rest of the house. "Only the halls are warmed. "I will leave to your Imagination what chance a girl has of beauty, leisure, rest hospitality in a life like mine," writes Rena. "Papa is an angel, he works steadily, he hks the tired look of an old saint. Mother works hard. They would move us to some better place, but er Shrubs Give Privacy, Beauty ,By Eldred E. and a good deal of pleasure too. If Just privacy Is needed a tall hedge of privet Chinese elm or bush will honneysuckle work very nicely However, privacy v? sy ..tilrt f uni 1". 17- j. obtained at the time by k:'lt2 Panning a shrub border with lower " I s b r u b 1 rivlna bloom and hiding fi'irirfr' . s the bottoms of the I "kX. Vjiou'u wuer unci. & -,0'' i ry lrM FV. K ways effective and are many there kinds from which to cnoose. The Persian lilac bas loads of purple flowers and forms a dense bush about ten feet tall. The French hvbrid lilacs have several different growth habits but most of them form bush shrubs between eight and 12 feet high. Both of these kinds flower when quite small so that they give an immediate effect French hybrids are available in many colors. Mo.koranges make large bushes that fffertively shield the garden. The old single common one grows about eigh feet high anc nearly as wide Virglnale. a double flower, is about two feet shorter and only sp eads about five feet It sometimes flowers In the late summer and lll as well as spring. These are both very fragrant Snowballs are fine for large el tects. The big bushes are dense and make a fine screen. In spring lJ Aa oerennial I as the robin Is outfit! In this the redingote season of the eoat, yon can choose a double duty coat that gives yon the effect of a redingote dress, plus an ever so wide versatility in yonr wardrobe. You'll find some of these coats sold with their own matching print dresses, combinations such as the dress of darkish green print with a lighter green coat in the sketch. Or, you may assemble your own basic outfit, with an eye to the other teammates, present or future. nt Green. the white round balls are very at tractive. The cranberry bush is a close relative of the snowball and has white flat clusters of flowers. The red berries are very showy. Pussywillows grow into medium size shrubs and are the first plants to announce spring. Rose of Sharon gives a fine sum- mer and fall display of bright holly hock "haped flowers In many colors These may be trained into low trees, or grrwn as shrubs While the tall shrubs give the main framework for privacy other shrubs will be needed to fill in the space at the bottom. Here Weige- lia Beautybush, Goldenbcll, Flow ering almond, flowering quince, bridal wreath, and the nydrangeas will help out Bush roses are also excellent Any good soil will grow shrubs Keep weeds out until the plants are spreading out Then they will . Ji shade out the 'weeds. Place tall shrubs about six Va. y-3 Meet apart unless you want a solid wall of foliage than n1nA IKm U1C11I J"Vt .Mill half that Low 1 need tour for best develop- msn Shrubs need little prun Ing. Remove the old dead branches by cutting off at the ground. Insects and diseases are only serious on rare occasions and then special treatment may be needed, but most people will go through a lifetime without spraying their shrubs There are many other fine shrubs that can be added for special et fects. but the common ones men tionea wil give a fine background tor your garden and a lot of privacy lor you. rjf, mm iz0 t Baked Fish Fillets. Tomato Sauce THERE'S NOTHING FANCY about ice cream and" cake, but for they make a wonderful dessert any occasion, plain or fancy. Then, too, there are few who can resist of turning down a heaping bowl of slice a and cream ice creamy no have so e feather-likyou cake, or worry about pleasing family guests. For youngsters who have getting their daily quota of milk and other dairy foods, ice 1 s the cream perfect answer. The same i s true, too, of adults who cannot drink their pint of milk. Ice cream is a highly nutritious dairy food that furnishes energy as well as minerals such as calcium and phosphorus. It also gives significant amounts of vitamins A and B2 and quality protein, all of which are needed for proper growth, strong muscles, bones and teeth. You don't need to do anything special to make a festive dessert out of ice cream. Simply pile it in a glass bowl for easy serving ty own. Fix your thoughts upon that little country home with the flowers and open spaces about it, and it will begin to take shape and move toward you as steadily as tomorrow's dawn. Out of just such sordid, crowded, noisy, squalid, odorous environments as the one you describe have come thousands yes, of our men and women who now occupy suburban homes, who have flowers, a car, fresh suitable clothing, pleasant plentiful meals in a word, happy, busy, useful lives. Some have risen to actual wealth and power, but you will be satisfied with less than that and you can win it In 10 or 15 years many of these neighbors you pity will be busy in important work: Secretaries, buyers, superintendents, politicians, dress designers, movie and radio performers, living the kind of life you now consider unattainable. What your father and mother and grandmother have, after their terrors in their own country, their suffering and privation, seems to them riches. Good food, light amusements, education for their children, clinics and shops and movies accessible these to them represent luxury. These things are not enough for you, and you are right You are exercising your, inherent and glorious American right to go farther; to give your children a better start than you have had. Work and plan toward that day, as all these hur underried, crowded, privileged boys and girls about you are doing. on your mil-bon- s, hard-workin- g, r.v- - MEND CHAMBER'S LYNN i t Buttered Asparagus Baked Potatoes Cole Fudge Slaw-Pineapp- Cupcakes Salad with Ice Cream Beverage & teaspoon v; V 2 Chocolate Frosting squares unsweetened choc- olate, melted 2 tablespoons hot milk 1 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (about) 1 teaspoon vanilla pecan nut meats Melt chocolate over hot water, add hot milk, sugar and vanilla to make a thick frosting. Beat vig orously to make it creamy and more sugar, if necessary, to make spread tet v Lace frill, can , at home with corn lace on a clean, and dust witha liSr-ircom starch. Work S ift la:: 3ffi ". rZ? I Attractive Bird I House Is Easy to Cor ' Mi l l TF YOU want to tirm mM J time into a useful and ' tive hobby, make up this tive birdhouse. You'U hav.1 building it and be agreeabhf prised to see what a profe looking job you can do m( hand tools. J Since each component full size I ol Is reproduced 5, ,!J on with woodworking ii Merely cut each piece ol wood to the shape and sue of th taC togetherla " tadicStedCh ... I X UI IV. DEPARTMEK desserts. Quick Alaskas (Serves 6) 6 leftover cup cakes 3 egg whites 6 tablespoons granulated sugar 1 teaspoon lemon Juice 1 quart vanilla Ice cream Cut the centers from the cakes. leaving a wide center to hold the and to get the full benefit of its ice cream. Save the cake centers luscious appearance. Around the for another dessert Beat the egg bowl you may have bought or whites until stiff enough to hold homemade cupcakes or several peaks. Fold in sugar, one table- bowls of assorted jellies, jams or n sundaes. sauces for ; Send 20c for Pattern No. 11 fc fc ' Pattern Company, Dept. W, Pleas;, CLASSIFIE HERE ARE uses lor leitover caKe mat are served with ice cream. A bit of dressing makes them glamorous ' dated Coffee flavor goes beautifully with vanilla ice cream. If you a sauce, like here's Just the one: SOME excellent cious fudge cup cakes topped with swirls of chocolate frosting and pecan halves make a gala dessert for a festive occasion. Pass this with assorted sauces or jams and Jellies for sundaes. BUSINESS & IXVEST. 0Pf HEALTH FORCES Salon In Denver. ploys 8 operators, Nets $800 month. BOND CO.. 33 HELP SAL! of finest E Fully equipped Hi sells cosmeda, ii. Price 116,000. j Broidwiy, C(il I . WANTED-WO- 1 MT SALESWOMAN j to demonstrate and take orders lp30 MINUTE HOME HAIE DRYL, Nationally Advertised, uncondittora! ntee, comrouea neat, u., oi Write ANNETTE LABOBATORItS, MuUiL 108 Old Timti Bld(. At Last Fror Peace PERSISTENT make-your-ow- HERE ARE SOME delicious cupcakes which - you may want to serve: Fudge Cupcakes (Makes 12 cakes) 2 squares unsweetened chocolate V cup sugar 300 Words a Minute 2 tablespoons milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Held Possible Pace Yt cup butter NEW YORK, N. Y. K it takes H cup sugar you more than three minutes to 1 egg read a story "you are 1H' cups sifted cake flour wasting valuable time." This is the IK teaspoon baking powder contention of Dr. J. Wayne Wright-stonU teaspoon baking soda assistant director in charge y4 teaspoon salt of tests and measurements for the Melt chocolate over hot water, board of education, who asserts add cup sugar and two that there is no valid reason why stir until very tablespoons milk; any adult of average intelligence smooth. Add vanilla and remove cannot read at the rate of 300 from heat. words per minute. Work butter and sugar to a soft Although it takes only a few cream, add egg and beat hard hours' practice to acquire good until blended. Stir in milk, then reading habits and speed. Dr. the flour mixed and sifted with the Wrightstone says that 80 per cent other dry Ingredients. When mixed, of the adult population of this city stir in chocolate mixture and pour need improvement In their readInto buttered cupcake pans. Bake ing. in a moderate (375.) oven for All that Is required to be a about 25 minutes. Cool and cover good reader and to be able to tops with: complete an average sited novel Apple-RaisSauce In five hours Is patience, per(For Ice Cream) severance and proper Judg3 cops sweetened, strained aps ment, according to Dr. Wright-stonple sauce H teaspoon cinnamon Proper Judgment h exclaimed, H cup seedless raisins enables a good reader to tell which 1 tablespoon orange marmapassage he can scan and which he lade must scrutinize. This Is the techMix apple sauce with all other nique employed by most book reIngredients and heat slowly to the viewers and as a result they can boiling point Simmer 10 minutes achieve a reading speed of 500 to over a slow fire or until raisins 600 words per minute. are plump. Cool before serving. Dr. Wrightstone'a own reading Coffee Cream Sauce rate is 500 words per minute, which, (For Ice Cream) he adds, "is why I would never 1 cup tight brown sugar 1 make a good copy reader I read tablespoon Instant powdered too fast." coffee Of all the reading faults, he said, LYNN SAYS: the most common Is that of "vocalMake the Most ization." Of your Meats Some "vocallzera" mumble When you roast beef or oat loud; others "keep quiet Iamb, cut small slits In the fat of the but allow their throat muscles meat and Insert in these small to form words, therby slowing slivers of garlic This adds a lot the reading process." The second most common fault of flavor to the meat that many like Remove garlic before Is to read words one by one, Instead serving Honey mixed with orange Juice of reading groups of words. For and grated orange rind may be example: The poor reader pauses poured over the scored fat of ham after each word. , Sauteed mushrooms may be addThe good reader, however, needs to beef gravy to ed provide inter only one or two pauses to complete esting flavor. the sentence. e without running. A large serving bowl of ice cream surrounded with lus- rub agahS drying flufn 8 they dry. salt teaspoon cornstarch I tablespoons butter t cup coffee cream Mix sugar with cornstarch, coffee and salt Add butter and cream and stir over a slow fire until boiling. Boil for one minute, remove from fire and cool slightly. Add one teaspoon vanilla. Serve cold. Another delicious way to serve ice cream and cake is to arrange two slices of spice cake for a serving. Place a portion of ice cream in the center and top with fruit sauce, as sauce, an apple-raisi- n or crushed pineapple, below, given pineapple and ginger or mincemeat sauce. easily, 1 uiTs 1 frosting f t over line gently through lace to 'Recipe Given wonder thouwndJ men? ble.. th. dT th( Here'f quick action boo lr m,.Z,& blissful en of peace Good Readers Un Need Patience THE GARDEN SPOT shrub; can give the wanted results I ,1 Ice Cream, Cake Make Acceptable Desserts For Nearly Every Meal No Life Is Wholly Without Hope print in much the same style since this style will go anywhere. Should you want to save on sewing, skip the bolero and make a scarf or a cape. Fringe, which is so smart for the new season, may be purchased by the yard and used skirt to finish the edge of the scarf. If you're planning to be Fit Your Patterns much, you'll undoubtedly Carefully want a casual dress with a bared No matter how excellent your neckline, topped with a quaint it will not do you Justice pattern, bolero. Even an inexperienced fit it to unless Very you seamstress can make an attrac- - few of us coincide yourself. with pattern measurements , and this means slight adjusting. Those of you who have had ex perience altering clothes know it's much easier to take in a dress that's too large than to enlist material for use in a dress that's too small. The same is true of pat terns. It's better to buy the next size larger in a pattern if you have one or two measurements in excess of those given on it Tucks are easy to take on those portions in which you have smaller measurements. Patterns do not run the same For your own measurements. tivt cotton dress in this style be- sizes as ready-mad- e dresses, so it's cause the lines are simple and cot- best to check measurements be ton is so easy to sew. fore buying, After you've had success with a now to Achieve cotton, you may want to enlarge Good Fit the wardrobe with a rayon or silk Don't rush the dress to comple- - DID l'OU EVER nave a snoopy neighbor? The kind that is always peering over to see what goes on. if not, there are still times when you want to have hamburger fries or lawn parties, or you Just would like ti sit on the' lawn in old, cool clothes without the whole neighborhood watching. A good planting of eeP electric mw. automatic juice KATHLEEN NORRIS all-ov- er Select tion without fitting it carefully to the figure. It's a good idea to baste the dress and press it then try on and check fit carefully before doing the permanent stitching. Should the dress be too large to look attractive or too loose for comfort, make the tucks at the waist, under the arms or on the shoulders large enough to take up the excess. When the dress is too snug, let out some of the tucks and see if you can't give yourself additional room by making the side seams slightly smaller. Redingote Ensembles Are Popular are the Redingote ensembles favorite fashion among more mature women or among those who must look well groomed, well dressed, crisp and business-like- . With the new prints now available as well as with the luscious, lightweight woolens, these fashions will be among the most popular ones made at home. Smart women select not only one print for the woolen coat that buttons down the front but two so they will have an easy change of costume. b. that tayi 'S.,. . 1 I M?iiP 1 900-wor- d e, wmmm Hardy. Chi net one-fourt- h , the look of m tired taint , , . we pay $30 now, and can afford no more. Joe wants to be a doctor; the nearest he gets is being an orderly in a hospital "Now my problem isn't what frightens me," the letter ends, "but the terrible, the overwhelming fact that so many thousands of lives all about me are as utterly hopeless as mine. Girls crowding Into subways, punching snatching sandwiches and cokes at lunch, wearing cheap clothes to Coney on summer Sundays or waiting In line at cheap movies on winter nights. Why are we here, what are we doing all this for, how do we get out of it? I dream of a little country place, cleanliness but flowers, space, what good are dreams? time-clock- Parents Knew Poverty "Mother and father are They knew poverty and terror In the old world. They escaped to this. Mother revels In her electric light radio, telephone, gas stove, washing-machine- . Dad never complains. But I look about me and sometimes I despair." Aus-trlan- s. Rtna, in answering you I am going to begin by warning you against a dangerous error into which you have fallen. The prob lems of the hundreds and thou sands of that you see about you. caught as you think In this same Industrial and social treadmill, are not yours. Yours Is one problem; tha of Rena Janzen. Sweep all the others out of your mind, concentrate up fellow-worker- s in e. rr m , 7 Gr. El Leftover cake Is easily glam- orized If served In this way: place two thin slices of the cake on a plate, center with Ice cream and top with a spicy fruit sauce like apple-raisi- n, given In this column. at a time, then lemon Juice. Just before serving, place the cakes on a bread board, fill centers with Ice cream and cover the ice cream A ..... WASHINGTON i NUSH. "rr Swiss Herbs of the The Messase spoon and all the outside of the cake with a thick layer of meringue Bake in a moderate (375) oven for five minutes and serve immediately. Ice Cream Trifle 3 cups crumbled spice, pound or sponge cake 1 cup orange Juice 1 cup chilled pineapple Juice Ice cream H cup chopped nuts Place cake crumbs in a large serving bowl and pour mixed fruit Juices over them. Let stand for at least f hour. Fill bowl with small scoops of Ice cream, then sprinkle with chopped nuts. Leftover beef, like lamb may be curried and served on hot. fluffy rice. If hamburgers tend to look skimpy, place a thick slice of cheese on them before broiling. Add drained horseradish to med lum white sauce If you want to a boiled cut of the meat Minced scallions and parsley ma bring oul delicious beef flavor lr be arifled to melted butter to brinj; out the full flavor of chicken steaks or chops which have beet broiled i at ph""- Sent poiipa.d Ina lime. iflnv & I; $ugBIM ''""efe, imported means RHEUMmSM TOt'R It tj your bu8in?ip&si2 success EASES QIICK" AVE MONE- Y- id. Special fy, "-- T.W(; M forO tfl&x T.J J0O Swl.. 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