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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE, UTAH S & ,nty Kathleen Norris Says: of Room for Action Is ;Sential That Too Late Feeling in Clothes for Boys c!rlla Jla(tij .hTHER have little girls one hears a 'because it's so hard to , boys in clothes, little boys. t ed, 200 jstributor Aleii k Mac eco-clothi- compl AtU'lC ld. dainty but if you do your JL'and use sturdy materi-'Too- d seams and also allow ? room for the active play engage, there j, the boys difficult about .anything too them in garments. old clothing 5nd that Dads utilized to make sturdy, for Junior. Pants cut down or ripped Uy be sewed into little pants Shirts, too, are youngster. make from larger ones and U that the material stands for all the baseball, iiitifully In skating or other sports may participate, jbe boy d plan to make wear. They everyday boys ,cb too active, they get into cb dirt for you to be cuffs clean on every wash. Short sleeves are easier to care for, but allow more freedom of ent for boys at play, seam construction carefully vou start sewing and bear in clothes will that everyday stand up under innumerable Big patch pockets are because they are nice for eg all sorts of incongruous if you dont always like of cleaning them out. Bound ioles and bound slits are also useful because they will stand better than any other type of JSTj 'g Bible 0 are just a suppose boys on clothes than Tac TION 'n'pHoi chool f School G ass enteri OF Kl eful, heh sehold Snllivan i POUfilAS KVAN Older persons try to advise youth; it is the tragedy of all the generations that youth never will listen. d long-sleeve- VEOCS By KATHLEEN NORRIS F A GIRL could only see both-trubbi- ell Typewrit ash Reg Ci things now as shell surely surely surely them a few years from ob-ev- b indiscreti ng wate tatber ca action. Wakefii oldatalli Felled Seams Clothing sake seams properly for be sure that you leave .ent allowance of fabric for If you find that sized seam. saterial ravels easily, for ex-- r, to Vi of an allow about more for the seam, you are not an experienced stress, the best rule to folklore putting seams together baste everything before stitch- Flat jforgoi frock of blue print shantung designed by Emmet Joyce gives a graceful waistline by a series of gores which taper toward the center of the buttons. The shoulder treatment is called a peacetime epaulet. Gloves and hat match the dress. A lility util-nnen- fare uornoul mens clothes. . a a im ipn eu b machine. You may also seam, allowing the foot machine to push the materi-Thi- s method is good for heavy the pinned -- e it flat-felle- a ?ins close a the edge d as you make dry in le by bi keejif oder fo il In tn lit et pieces and press the seam lowance over the edges of the cardboard. This will assure all the pockets being the same size. In heavier fabrics, cover the raw edge with flat seam binding after you have turned the edge, then hem it. Pin the pocket on the garment and check accuracy of placement. If you stitch the pocket close to the edge, the top is finished with one or more rows of machine stitching. If you stitch away from the edge a bit, the seam seamline is followed across the top of the pocket. In finishing the shirt youll want to make the shoulder seams, then the yoke, then the sleeves. Inci dentally, in stitching up the sides of the shirt, the sleeve seams can be stitched at the same time, making just the one seam. The collar may be stitched in place at any time after the shoul der seams are finished, but most of the time the collar is attached when the facing (down the front) is turned. When you are making shorts for the boys, pin the pieces together as you cut them. Often, women get confused after cutting out the shorts because almost all the pieces look so similar it is difficult to assemble d them. Always use the seams for shorts. If you are altering a pair of Dads trousers for the boy, you can cut them down yourself, if you feel competent enough to do so, or if you wish, buy a pattern and cut from al- pinned seam, place together and set in so they can be reastitch. seam is very popu-- x mens and boys clothing seam is flat, easy to press that. looks well tailored. To make drst stitch the raw edges of the do of the garment as for a Trim off one edge of the ra to within Vi inch of the seam Make the most of your closets Turn under the raw edge of by arranging them efficiently other side Vi inch and rather than hit or miss, which pull it over the short side. Hem by gives you little space. d or machine so the seam lies Hooks should be placed about seven inches apart, and their placement behind the rod is not Ikk Pockets Are Made to be encouraged because they Cardboard Pattern are difficult to reach. 'tch pockets should be made If your closet has room for as shelves and drawers, these will correctly as possible to look tailored garments, such give you additional space for storage of many small articles like underwear, belts, socks, etc. Store shoes on vertical or horizontal racks or rods, or, if you have room for a tilted shelf above the clothes, this will also give a very neat appearance. Avoid wire hangers unless they are well padded, since they tend to make sleeves poke out in the wrong direction. If women have a closet to themselves, they will like the dainty padded hangers that come in lovely pastel shades. If you like an especially into garments for Junior. lovely closet accessory, choose these padded hangers in your faforts and pants. Cut the pat- scent and they will keep vorite from a piece of cardboard, but closets delightfully peryour leave an allowance for seams jot fumed and also prevent that pattern Itself. Place the card-!jt- o musty odor on your clothing. pattern over each of the pock-be-aet- reg-'sea- Closet Arrangement now! wails Rosamonds mother. The man admits to 47; Rosamond is almost 18. She says she will be married on her birthday. He has been married before; he has sons older than she is; he must depend on her small fortune, for he has none of his own, and no job, and yet she is completely infatuated with him, and nothing her grandmother and I can say is of any use. Well, poor Rosamond must be left to her fate, if she feels like that, and allowed to ruin her life in her own way. We parents cant save our children from their follies. If love and advice and example have no effect, then sometimes they have to be allowed to go over the whirlpool and swim to shore afterward as best they may. But Id like to know more of Rosamonds background, and satisfy my suspicion that something was lacking in her training, that she can be so utterly beyond influence and control now. Where did her mother fail her? Somewhere, you may be very sure. As for seeing things in youth as we see them a few years later how different this world would be if we could! How many miserable young mistakes would be avoided, how much we could save ourselves! Older persons try to advise hotheaded youth; it is the tragedy of all the generations in turn that hot headed youth never will listen. Now Wants Baby Back. Marie Louise, a college girl in our town, went on certain house-partie- s a few years ago and did what all the others did. In other words she entered into a with a man she hardly knew and didnt care about particularly. The result was a heartbroken family in Minnesota, to which she returned in disgrace, and a small babys concealed arrival and hasty disposition for adoption. The girl married, discovered that she could not have more children, and went to the town where her child lived. She saw a small, fairylike little girl with a wistful, searching little face. The neighbors said werent too that her foster-parent- s kind to her. And the mother was helpless! She came back home, as she had come in the beginning, to reproach me for having advised adoption. And yet adoption, in these cases, certainly gives a baby a better chance than to be raised by an unmarried mother and marked with the still inescapable stigma of illegitimacy. This was the girl who told me that irregular sex relations in her school days didnt concern anyone but herself! Then there is Betty, another childless young mother, who had a silly quarrel with her brother, when they were young. Just a few hot words about the girl he loved, and eventually married, and there was a barrier between them forever. Pride on neither side would break down, and cant break down, even now, when they need each other so. For Jim has been widowed, and has two small girls to raise, and Betty lost her husband In the war, and Is hungry for maternal cares. Just a phrase of apology and regret would have ended this, 10 years ago; brother and sister dont know each other now. But Marie Louise and Betty free-and-ea- love-affa- sring. ! With fine, sheer woolens in the picture we can probably expect many draped effects for fall clothes, shirring and other such details that require a fine fabric. Notice the bright colors in coats being shown for summer wear. Youll like particularly the bright greens and reds, but if you like pastels, there are enough to delight anyone. of the young and headstrong. A girl who thinks she knows better than anyone else cannot be reasoned with; sometimes there is nothing to do but to stand aside and let her go through with her foolish plans. Miss Norris tells of an girl who is determined to marry a man 47 years old, with two grown sons. He has no job, nor any income. It is hard to see why she is so infatuated with this middle-age- d man, but so she is. Nothing her mother or grandmother can say has any influence on her. It is obvious to everyone that Rosamond is in for a heartbreaking experild ence. Many other foolish, willful people are suffering needlessly, continues Miss Norris, because of stubborn pride. For instance, a woman quarreled with her brother years ago, She is now a widow, and her brother a widower. He has This two small children. brother and sister would like to help each other, but pride stands in the way. Quarrels over wills divide many families. The occasions for flare ups are numerous, and longstanding feuds develop all too often from trivial circum stances. On the other hand, concludes Miss Norris, everyone has frequent opportunities to make amends for the harmfu acts of life by little deeds o kindness and thoughtfulness. ... Off hand one would imagine that the thin, elongated giELEPHANT WINS LIGHTFOOT CONTEST d elephant. Such Is not the case, however. raffe would be lighter on her feet than the lumbering A G. E. vibration meter made the rounds of the circus at Schenectady, N. Y., and came back with some was the lightest stepper of all, Interesting observations. Toby, the elephant, with the exception of the python, 6 mils of vibration per registering 3 mils of vibration per second. The giraffe, left, is shown registering 10,500-poun- ir Summer Fashion Notes Jtoestones and sequins are still ,cted to hold down the main bulk dimming, although its probable . !fe some other new decorative like braid borderie anglasie. Jre will be brims and welled millinery for the after twen-- d older crowd, while are favored for the teen-s- ? group because theyre so very RASH, WILLFUL ACTS Few people like to take advice. This is particularly true AIRLANES TO RAILWAYS . . . TWA mainliner, carrying 18 passengers and a crew of S, shown after off from Chicago airport for New emergency crash landing on a railroad right of way shortly after taking were and stewardess slightly hurt. The pilot stated was Injured, although pilot York. None of the passengers that both engines quit shortly after the takeoff, and that he did not have sufficient altitude to gUde back to the field. "She returned in disgrace. aren't the us doesnt only ones. Which one of look back at some fool- ishness, some indiscretion, some mistake of youth with bitter regret! Just to have been ordinarily polite to mother, as she worried and pleaded. Just to have gone back that evening, and surprised dad by spending an hour beside his sick-beleading to him. Just not to have written that angry letter. Just not to have cultivated that dangerous friendship, against everyones advice. Just to have forgiven and forgotten the unintentional slight, or critthe accidentally overheard icism. To have made less of the Grandmas opal tangible thing breast-pi- n or Aunt Lizzie's Canton set and more of the spirit of giving and sharing. It is a strange heart indeed that does not remember scores of these omissions and stupidities, some of them seemingly slight, some of them affecting our whole lives. But what we must also remember, in hours of compunction and remorse, is that all about us are other opportunities for kindness and thoughtfulness, chances to save ourselves fresh reason for regret in the years to come. Sometimes I fancy that generosity today actually wipes out those old mistakes, and that to have learned the lesson is more important than the painful way in which we had to learn it To say I was wrong, and that that is past I start from here to go right, is to have mastered a very important mystical secret. There is no blunder, stupidity, sin of youth that may not be wiped out and forgotten; and, if we will have it so, may not be turned from loss into gain. Prickly Pear Killer. The Australian town of Boonarga has a memorial to an insect. This is Memorial hall the Cactoblastis built by farmers to honor the tiny insects which freed thousands of rich acres from prickly pear. The weed from North and South America had a strangle hold on 30 million acres of Australian land by 1925. In the Argentine, Australian scientists tracked down the Cacto-blasticactorium insect. Within seven years the last big belt of prickly pears in Queensland has gone. TRIBUTE TO F. D. R. . . . John G. Winant, former U. S. ambasvoice the prinsador to Great Britain, delivers tn an emotion-shake- n In the cipal tribute during the congressional memorial services held of the House of Representatives. President Truman and members Roosevelt family attended. Photo shows Mr. Winant as he delivered the address. Seated in back. Sen. Richard Russell (Ga.), Rep. Alfred Buiwinkle (N. C.), Rev. James Montgomery, chaplain of the house, and Rev. Frederick B. Harris, chaplain of the senate. 50 cents a month DREAM TRIP ON 50 CENTS A MONTH . . . 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