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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE, UTAH ON THE HOME FROM RUTH WYETPEARSjgffi-g- ) SPARKY WATTS By BOODY ROGERS TO CUT PAD REVERSIBLE TOP AND BOTTOM FLOWER CHINTZ SIDES OF PAD DOWN iREEN TABLE FITTED WITH GATHERS SEAM ARE you using one room for odds and ends also helps to make and bedroom these the couch do day as well as night days? Or perhaps you have had duty. to put an extra cot in some corner NOTE This illustration is from living of your house or apartment. In either case it is worth while t give a little extra care to the daytime appearance of the bed. A flat box on casters holds all the bedding for the simple cot shown here and slides underneath out of sight. This arrangement makes it possible to cover the cot and pad with neatly fitted slip covers which give it all the dignity of a real sofa. The contrasting side section of plain material around the pad with end and center back cushions to match it is a nice 'touch. The improvised table from REGLAR FELLERS Height of Chivalry By GENE BYRNES BOOK the series of homemaking booklets offered with these articles. Every page of book gives clear this directions for things to make your home more attractive with odds and ends of things on hand and inexpensive materials now available. To get a copy of Book t send 15 cents with name and address to: 6 of MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS New York Bedford Hills Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Book No. 6. Name Address Huge Basket Granaries Natives of South Africa may not put all of their eggs in one basket, but in huge hampers they store a good deal of their grain. The average one, for example, holds 18 large bags of grain. Although the climate is quite A coat ot white shellac applied dry, the baskets, called isilula, to the cover of your cook book are so tightly woven that no rain can leak into them. They also keeps it looking like new. keep out most rodents. A wet sponge within arms reach when ironing makes it easy to dampen the spots which have dried. FACTS I SNAPPY ABOUT To fix window screens so you can see out and the neighbors cannot see in, paint the inside of the screens with a thin white enamel. POP Better Blacked Out By J. MILLAR WATT The blunt end of a pencil may e used to turn a fabric belt right side out. And orangewood stick is excellent for working the corners out sharply. When making aprons, sew on two pockets. Then, if you need a patch you can use one of the pockets. A large wooden salad comes in handy in washing and pitchers. With the dish an the end of it, the job is inished. RAISING KANE Say It Right Out By FRANK WEBB fork jars cloth soon Beware of dusty shoulders. Cut paper protectors to slip over clothes hangers and onto yhur dresses before hanging them away. RUBBER A recent report of tho War Dopartmont showed that of crude or synthetic rubber for corn bat material included 810 pounds for a medium tank; 105 pounds for a fighter plane; 404 pounds for a 77 mm. gun carriage, dawn to 1 Vi pounds for a gas mask, and 19 pounds for a mile of field wire. Army requirements officials estimate that an average of one million gallons of alcohol a day will be used this year in the production of synthetic rubber. This Is a big contributing factor In the shortage of certain tpesof beverages. Government Take a large paper bag with paescNTs PEOPLE' COLOSSAL you when cleaning or tidying up the living room. Into it empty contents of ash trays and wastebaskets. Somehow the Bus Driver Guessed Passenger's Need Xjwis is the man coho (MPOOTS THE HAM THy voeea. Don't use to make mams For the 10th time that day the meek little man boarded the bus that passed his house, laboriously dumped a large bundle near the entrance and took a seat. Look here, said the conductor, with a scowl, how many more times are you going to litter this bus with your bundles? Only once more; then Im finished, pleaded the little man. I dont suppose that on the next trip youll have a piano to put aboard, will you? asked the conductor sarcastically. Well, I hadnt thought youd take that, but if youll give me a lift with it, thatll just about finish our moving. REGoodrich first 003313 Get Your War Bonds To Help Ax tlie Axis 10 BIG, COOL Drinks I So Crisp-Solhsiy The Grain ara Graat fend Kelloggs Rice Krispies equal the whole ripe grain in nearly all the protective food elements declared essential to human nutrition. 1? |