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Show I SOUTH CACHE COURIER Woman's World : Quick Mending, Home Pressing Keep Clothing in Condition Original Stitcher) EverSoPopuljj Kathleen Norris Says: Has Mother or Husband First Right? Beii Syndicate. WNU Features STflGESCREENftA0IO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By INEZ GERHARD E Ella J4Je MAYBE hung up as soon as they are taken off, rips should be stitched as soon as they appear and buttons sewed when they become loose, said a woman to me the other day. But now that Ive learned how easy it is for clothing, I shall never - to care forget. It is the simple things such as these that most of us have difficulty learning, but it is these very things which make everyday living a lot simpler, One woman I know has one of those little mending boxes in each of her bedrooms, and as soon as the youngsters are old enough to handle a needle, they take care of the little rips and loose buttons that consume so much of mothers time if she has to do them all herself. How do you get children to do such things, I hear a chorus of womens voices ask. Just as you get them to do innumerable other tasks which are fairly routine. You make them interesting, and when you make the initial presentation to the child, make it a glamorous, adventurous thing not drudgery or routine. One mother I know shows her little boy the box of needles and different colored spools of thread, and pretends they are soldiers, each of whom is designed to do a special job. He likes to sew just as much as some who have made a hobby of it. Buckle Interest F "W;,''. , m. ' ' ''4 ' Real scene shifter Is this stunning new buckle of heavy, spiraled metal. It is made in broad gauge to effect a wide belt of self fabric band, bright colored ribbon or braided cord. The buttons are the popular shiny torpedo-shape- d novelties, in gold and silver finish. inconspicuous that it is unnotice-abl- e. If the tears are small, and not in too prominent places, the best way to mend them is to use a darn. Work patiently, use small stitches and have matching thread. If you have difficulty matching the thread, Minor Rips you may often find it best to unravel some from the garment itself Mended Half the problem of quick mend- on ohe of the inside seams. In this ing is solved easily if the needle and way you can be certain of an exact thread is readily available. If you match. If the tear is diagonal or across have taken care of this by having a mending kit in every bedroom, the grain of the goods, it may be best to work across the tear, rather half the job is done. Small rips may be overcast with than lengthwise. a few stitches. The thread should be - Sometimes it is practicable to place a piece of fine net under the dam to strengthen it without adding bulk. Some patches may be pasted on. The tape is fastened with a resin agency and it resists a number of washings. On some dresses and aprons, it is possible to work out a decorative patch that is attractive. Consider the possibilities of the garment before you mend or patch. When you patch print fabrics, match not only the print, but also the grain. Allow seams in cutting the patch and place it so that the mending . . . design patches accurately. secured with care or the mending For patches under tom out butwill have to be repeated within a tons, use a double patch for secushort time. Loose buttons should be sewed be- rity. Cut a piece of cotton tape or fore they fall and get lost; other- other strong fabric and apply this wise extra time will have been con- under the patch. When the patch is sumed before the right button again secured, resew the button. is found. The same holds true for Freshen Frayed Edges snaps and fasteners of all kinds. When They Appear Ripped shoulder straps, belts and When it comes to frayed edges, a sashes should be caught securely at stitch in time really does save nine, once. Stitch shoulder straps all as the old saying goes. It not only around the edge. Use long stitches save stitches but also it probfor belts and sashes and cover with may will save the garment. The ably buttonholing to secure them. best thing to do is to turn the frayed Small rips in hems and coat linings should be caught immediately when the garment is checked, or you may have a much larger job on your hands than just catching up an inch or two. Small rips in glove seams can be repaired at home on both leather and fabric gloves. If allowed to go further, they will require, often enough, expensive professional attention. Some hosiery runs may be repaired neatly at home, particularly if you have special equipment that will actually reweave the run. Saves many Garments. Otherwise the best idea is to collect a and once least at month, them, edge to the other side and brush it, take them to a professional mend- then machine stitch it back and cut ing establishment. Dont let them the worn edge. assumulate until you have lost Mens shirts and sleeves often track of mates. will give much extra wear if the collars and sleeves are turned when Patching is an Art are frayed. Before you remove they When Properly Done mark the center of the collar them, will on tears garments you Many or seam. Pins may be used for the have to patch instead of just pulling the material together. The idea be- marking. Turn the sleeves or collar and hind this is to make the mending so stitch them carefully in place, using the pins as markers. If you are not accustomed to doing this type of mending,'- it is best to baste them in Be place and then press them to help make- the work more accurate. The whole procedure is really simple, but ripping and turning must be done carefully so there is a good match. On woolen garments, preserve their good looks by pressing frequently. This task is much easier if you keep the ironing board handy, and always have several different sized pressing cloths right at hand. A sponge also will be helpful. This can be allowed to sit in a small dish of water, near the iron so as to save steps when it comes to pressing. Are-Quick- ly ' - - When John Larkin was in Hollywood he tried to get a bit part in the Perry Mason pictures, but didnt succeed. Disheartened, he "Helma went once to sit in her husbands lap, and her mother made such she has not done it since. The skirt and blouse theme is being featured in evening fashions for Some of the skirts and blouses are very tailored, while others are as billowy as you please, with big ruffled sleeves and huge dirndl skirts with all sorts of trimming imaginable. teen-ager- stitchery in PASY - a scene that By KATHLEEN NORRIS women take their in their two SOME and strangle it. They take a mallet to it and smash it. And then they turn around and innocently demand: Why do you suppose George and I are not making a go of it? What on earth is the matter with him? mind you. Never With him with me. Women who in other ways have plenty of common sense, women who can keep house, raise children, play bridge and make friends, yet who are extraordinarily dense about some of the, fundamentals of creating and maintaining a good marriage. But Ive rarely come across anyone as blind as Helma Wilson! Helma is 33. She married, seven years .ago, a good strong steady but man not scintillating perhaps named Manny. They had about a year of real happiness together, then Manny went off with the marines. Helmas father died at about this time and she moved in with her mother. The mother, incidentally, had never liked Manny, she feels that he is a rough, rather uncultivated type, not our sort, not a gentleman, she says. Since Manny came home a year ago, things have been going badly in the Wilson house. Helma writes me that her mother and husband are always quarreling. They differ politically. Her mother hates tobacco smoke and Manny is always smoking. What is more serious, the old lady, whose daughter describes obher as nervous and half-sicjects to any evidences of affection between husband and wife. Helma went once to sit in her husbands lap, and her mother made such a scene that she has not done it since. Any talk of a baby also drives Mama wild. Helma, she says angrily, has a fine job, and a baby would force her to resign it. The Other Woman. Now Manny has done the thing. He is deeply attracted to a pretty young married woman at the office. He goes to her home, and the husband and he play gin rummy, and the wife cooks up delightful little suppers. He is always there. Helmas mother is sure that he and the wife are carrying on a secret affair. Helma is heartbroken, for she evidently loves her rough, big, affectionate husband and yet, how can she be mean to Mama? She has decided upon a divorce. Manny pleads that he will give up his new friends, he will do anything, but Helma must forgive him. Mama. tells Helma to keep a stiff upper lip; men always talk like that when they are caught playing with A SELFISH MOTHER When a wife must decide between her husband and her mother, she is torn between two loyalties, two types of affection. Helmas mother doesnt like Manny, who is the boisterkind of ous, man. He is steady, sober, industrious, but "not our sort according to mother. Now that Manny is back from the marines, he and mother have constant arguments over politics and everything else, since they live in the same house. Manny wants a baby, but mother is furious at the idea, because it would mean that Helma would have to give up her good fob. Helma doesnt dare show any outward signs of affection for Manny, whom she really loves, because it upsets her mother so. Manny has been spending a good deaf of time lately at the home of a married woman who works in his office. He is willing to break off this friendship if Helma will do something to take her mother out ot the picture. Helma thinks her first duty is to her mother. She is in Reno to obtain a divorce, although neither she nor Manny really wants one. "It is too late to patch things up now, she insists. unfor-giveab- le deep-roote- s. She is nervous and half-sic- k. 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Send your order to: ultra-masculi- long time ago, though she is not as comfortable there as she is with me, writes Helma innocently, "for I know all her little tastes and ways. Manny and I both cried when it came to dividing our things, her letter goes on, but I believe it is for the best. My first duty is to my mother. Mother Conies Second. So there goes another marriage on the rocks, and there goes the happiness of another man and woman who might have gone on together into a companionable and happy middle age. Helmas first duty is, of course, not to this jealous and unreasonable mother; from the moment she said I will her first allegiance is toward Manny. If she didnt want to stand by him she didnt have to marry him. It might be interesting to her some day to find out just how loyal her mother wad under these circumstances 35 years ago, just how much she sacrificed for her own mother. Invariably the Helmas of this world, stupidly bound to the rigid wheels of another womans chariot, discover fire. that that exacting mother never My advice to Helma was to put made such concessions in her own Mama in a semi-pa- y home; she has young days. Obviously she didnt, d just enough money for that. But for selfishness is a thing, even if she hadnt, I would advise and the woman who can drain the it, and let Helma and Manny pay youth and life and joy out of her off the necessary five or six thouchildrens destinies was just as selfsands by degrees. I said, Get rid ish a generation ago. of Mama. Youll have a chance at If we women, in the difficult task a happy marriage, and shell be no of .keeping a home happy under tomore miserable than she is now. days many pressures, could learn Put up with the inevitable scenes, only one thing, the most useful thing when you first propose it, but be of all might to be to gain the power firm, place her somewhere else, and to hurt those we love be firm with those we love plan strongly and give Manny this proof of your confidence in him, and your anxiety to courageously for those we love, face the inevitable pangs, and in the end play fair. But Helma writes me back that find our relationships with mother it is too late. She is in Reno, and or father, child , or sister-in-laMama is with an aunt. Mama stepson or dependent, upon infiniteshould have been with this aunt a ly more reasonable grounds. For Evening Wear This season a blouse is a costume, especially when made of dream-lik- e chiffons. Those exquisite touches of handwork, shirring and other ornamentation can be concentrated where they are most effective. an- derision that he deserves. Of course nobody whos at all familiar with the workings of the industry believes him, but a lot of "unknown girls do. They have high hopes of being then the producer anchosen nounces that some experienced actress has been given the part The latest offender is Jesse Lasky; after about the role all the whoop-to-d- o of Olga in The Miracle of the Bells he gave it to Valli, the Italian actress who recently made The Paradine Case. , Smart producer nounces that he will search for an unknown girl whos perfect for the leading role in a big picture, and star her in it, hell be greeted with the TT HAS TAKEN me years to learn that clothes should be some day, when JOHN LARKIN headed for New York, took a radio audition and now hes the Perry Mason you hear on the air! Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept Box 3217 San Francisco 6, Calif. 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The pleted a featured role in There she built a palace and, Chase. with some 300 entertainers, attendants and servants, held a court or After five strenuous years in the party nightly to remind and help army, Dan Dailey returned to Holly- her write her memoirs of the days wood and dropped 20 pounds in his when she was a lady in waiting in first stint before the cameras in 20th . the Imperial Court of China. Mother Century - Foxs Lost the weight during the long dance rehearsals. In the Betty, Grable picture he has two solo dance numbers, four elaborate production routines, and plays a strong bi VtuvuHrv) dramatic role. 1943-44-4- 1928-2- 9 Wore-Tights- Poaslvslfiimm. After 16 years of performing dangerous film stunts without a single serious injury, Don Turner had his nose broken three times in one year after he retired to his farm near Hes back in pictures Hollywood. now, in Silver River. Probably the briefest romantic role in movie History, is Paul Bradleys in The Unfaithful. After appearing for exactly two minutes as Ann Sheridans lover he meets death at the hands of an assassin, and becomes the photograph of a corpse. Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson used up 10 pounds of crepe beards in comedy sequences for the Warner Bros. Technicolor musical Two Guys From Texas. Figure it up a shoe box full of crepe weighs only two ounces. t ' , , Many of the tunes you hear in Western movies are written by. Red Foley, the singing guitarist, of Grand Ole Opry. In all hes written 91 of them, one of the best being "Old Shep, written when his favorite dog died. Pet Neighborhood A fellow anybodyd be proud to own lively p on and Ribbon! These crisp, toasted ribbons give him every vitamin and mineral dogs are known to need. Economical Gro-Pu- ed one box supplies as much food by cans of dog food I Gro-Pu- p also comes in Med s. 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