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Show 1 4 DESERET A NEWS,- - Monday, October X, 1 972 Utah Pen Women Slate Tea IT'S A PLAYFUL THING IN COTTONWOOD : A Little Learning i By ELAINE JARVIK Deseret News Staff Writer I I i few weeks ago three ladies in their right minds led 12 children through a mud puddle. It was just one of the small A grown-u- p : puddle, listened to the noises their feet made, and painlessly learned a little lesson about sound. splashes they and 21 other women have made in the past three years as they have quietly demonstrated that a group of mothers can successfully run a cooperative nursery school for their children. The children kicked at the Two mornings a week for two hours the children attend the nursery school, known as the Cottonwood Flay Group. NaAll Utah chapters of the tional League of American Pen Women will be represented at an annual state guest tea Saturday The event, sponsored by the Salt Lake group, will be held and will at the The mothers take turns shifts, teaching m three-weesix mothers at a time. The other 18 mothers are then free to do what they want. get under way at 12:30 p.m Chairman is Mabel Farmer. She will informally greet Muriel J guests along with Heal, State Pen Women presi- More than just a babysitting service, however, the Cottonwood Flay Group attempts to learn help - and through play. dent. Branch presidents who will be in attendance include Gladys Burnham, Salt Lake, Ruth Rothe, Provo; LaVerna Odd, Logan; Iris Schow, Box Elder, and Maxine Jennings, Chuck-A-Ram- k 3- The six mothers who will a three-weesession pick a theme and organize activities around it. teach k During the first six weeks of this fall, season, the children were introduced to the Five Senses. Mud puddles, they learned, make splashing sounds. feel soft. Flour may look like powdered sugar, but it tastes different. The children made guitars out of shoe boxes, and visited a bakery. Last week they tried their own hands at making cookies. Of course children sound more civilized on paper than they do in person. hard on her upside- y, Susan Stout concentrates down approach to cookie making at Cottonwood r would rather play than learn how to break an egg into Ogden. riiBnAHJUJfii The Cottonwood Play Group is run entirely by the mothers of the 24 children enrolled, including, from left, Mrs. Joseph Andrade, Mrs. George Matthews and Mrs. Gary Taylor batter. Others would rather eat dough than waste time making it into a recognizable cookie. The theory of the Play Group, explains Mrs. Joseph (Barbara) Andrade, 6100 Hign-lanDr., mother of Tonio, is to let the children d join in programs voluntarily and to gear activities toward each individual childs needs. The Cottonwood Play Group DEAR EUNICE: My great- test difficulty is knowing how BIGv to tack the facings neckline and the when my dresses are Can you help? MARY for the armhole unlined. M. DEAR MARY M.: Glad you brought this up. This is one detail that if not properly done, will certainly make your garment look homemade. First, be sure you have graded the facing seam, and clipped any curved seamlme clear to the stitching line to 101 IV TIME POP CORN SaCiae Siamfi- - Begins Tues. October . 31 release the fabric and prevent pulling. Then, understitch the facing. This is done by bringing all the seams toward the facing itself and machine stitching very close to the seam on the facing. This will not show from the right side of the garment because the stitching will actually appear on the facing. Lastly, tack the facing to the shoulder and the underarm seams only. If all the other steps have been completed properly, it wont be necessary to tack the facing down all around the outer edges. 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The money goes toward materials such as paper and crayons. The Group shares other equipment with the church. At Some of the popular costume jewelry pins for fall in- clude DEAR READERS: Mrs. Michael R. Russo, Waterbury, Conn., is this weeks Tailor Trix pressing board winner for the following sewdng suggestion: When purchasing you like and after few times, you find fit properly into the was begun three ears ago by four mothers, Mrs. John M Stewart, Mrs. Bennie Williams, Mrs. R. Sidney Cloud, and Mrs. Richard Harper Jewelry Pins Neckline Facing 'Sew' Easy By EUNICE FARMER ' Some Play Group. ; a pattern using it a it does not envelope. Purchase a manila envelope 9 by 12 inches. Paste the original picture on the front, and cut the back off and paste it to the back. Your pattern will fit nicely into this larger envelope, and the result wdl be a nice flat package, easy for storing and using. intricate filigrees, and chatelaines, animal looks. whimsical LOSE WEIGHT THIS WEEK Odrinex can nelp you become the trimi slim person you want to be. Ordinex is a tiny tablet and easily Contains no dangerous swallowed. drugs. No Each mother contributes $2 per month for each of her This year there is a waiting list of six mothers. Sue Stewart, 3409 Loren-VoDr., one of the Play Groups founders, urges other mothers in Salt Lake to start similar groups, and says she would be happy to help n She also suggests contacting Helen Smith at the YWCA, who helped the Cottonwood Play Group get otf the ground. cajususa 7f f-- 1' HEBER VALLEY .35 Ms Tins., Old. 31st. (Less Rope Pull) ' .. a ii LOCATIONS. EXTENSION FLAT RUNG i! MILK DEPOTS I SALE PRICED JUST $16.95 Gallon at Your Neighborhood ttm Special ,0UNB IT. RUNG LADDER Oflc Half ict i' I |