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Show Utah County, 1960 ‘Girl's oe Utah December 22 Rites Will Unite ‘To Conclude -Marian Ashby. and Mr. Johnson es Coed Week Mr. and Mrs, George M. Ashby of | Provo announce the engagement of their | The Preference Ball, most popular girls’ choice.event of the year, daughter, Marian, to G. Wesley Johnson Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Wesley Johnson of Phoenix, Ariz. | will be the concluding event of the annual Women’s Week scheduled Monday through Friday at Brigham Young University. Miss Ashby graduated from Brigham Young University in 1959, where.she was sored by The week’s activities are spon- a member of Cami Los social unit. She| coed fashion show Monday. Them- was active in A Cappella Choir and studied music and elementary education. Sheis at present teaching and living in New York ed ‘“Coed’s Clothes Closet,” the fashion show will be at 8 p.m. in the Smith Family Living Center. It will feature fashions from Provo City. stores. Donna Gosar; local radio |, personality, will be narrator, and Mr. Johnson studied at Brigham | Young University -where he was associated with Goldbricker social unit. He gradu- | ated from Harvard College, class of 1955, | Charlene Johnson is chairman of the event. Trousseau treasures, “A Bride's Horizon,” will be the Tuesday where he was a member of the Hasty VELMA WHITEHEAD Pudding Club and editor of the Harvard Lampoon. He served an LDS mission in France and is at present studying for a PhD in the International Fellows program of Columbia University. event. Each girls’ unit on campus will have a model and will take turns modeling wedding gowns on the hour each hour in the Family Living Center. The modeling will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and displays will also be set up, Jean Velma Whitehead Biscloses The couple will exchange wedding vows Engagement to Mr. Madsen in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on Dec. 22 Dalley is chairman. ’ The regular matinee dance will and will be honored at a reception that MARIAN ASHBY evening at the Reception Center in Orem. the Associated. Women Students and will begin with a Announcing the betrothal and coming marriage of their daughter, Velma, are Mr. and Mrs. E. L. a 2A SUNDAY HERALDS™™Y, Novewner 2, and Mrs. N. H. Madsen-of Provo. Miss Whitehead is attending Provo High School and LDS Sem- be sponsored by Women’s Week and will be themed “Socialite | Horizon.”” The dance will be in the Social Hall at 4 p.m. Whitehead of Provo. She will mar- inary and is a member of the Mrs. Mark E. Peterson will be ry Richard Madsen, son of Mr. Deeca Club. guest speaker at a special Women’s Indoor Gardening Basket Grass Makes Colorful Hanging Plant With Delicately Striped Leaves Mr. Madsen has graduated from Club Notes inary and is currently working in Theme Wife’s Provo, The couple has not set a def- Songers LADIES LITERARY / p.m. in Will meet Wednesday for guest inite date for the wedding. day at the Provo Utilities Building By KATHERINE B. WALKER One of the very nicest and most ‘eolorful vining plants that I have grown this past year is Basket Grass (Oplismenus hirtellus variegatus). I it is a delicate-looking, creeping, branching grass with leaves neatly striped and edged with white. 1 given the proper amount of fight, including morning sun, the leaves display a bright pink color along the white edging. Basket Grass has thin, wiry stems, and since these branch freely and the plant 4s a rapid grower, H soon makes a fine display. I have a youngish plant with graceful runners over three feet long, a spread half that wide, and a depth (extending out from the wall bracket in which the pot is hung) of well over a foot. If you have a partially sunny spot where you would like to grow a hanging plant, do try Basket Grass. As I have already noted, Basket Grass enjoys a little sunlight—just enough to give the leaves an attractive rosy edge, but not enough to scorch them. The plant enjoys normal indoor temperatures, and appreciates a pleasant rich, loose Week so *- @ at 3 p.m. only small flowers. If your plant on my dieffenbachia plant just a's OLESCA LITERARY CLUB has runners with little plants at I did on my Rubber Plant? My Will meet at the home of Mrs. their tips, aand if it bears good- florist says I can’t air-layer the Bruce Ostler, 536 E. 550 §., Orem sized, trumpet - shaped, fringed dieffenbachia. at 8 p.m. Monday. Marian Kawablossoms, then you have, an episA. Perhaps he said it wasn’t kami, beautician will present the cia. necessary, rather than that you program. Questions and Answers couldn’t do it. Air-layering is done Q. Why ean’t I do an air-layer with plants which are difficult to root from cuttings handled in the African violets have never bloomusual fashion, but a length of stem ed; the Wax Plant needs almost from a dieffenbachia will root all the sun it can get, and African Mr. and Mrs. Gordon L. Bullard readily in damp sand, vermiculite, violets require at least two hours of Lompoc, Calif., announce the of morning sunlight to bloom at forthcoming marriage or in plain water. of their all weil. daughter, Shirley Ann, to Thomas Poinsettias Q. IT can grow beautiful green Dean Mattinson, son of Mr. and A booklet especially designed to Mrs, Dean W. Mattinson of Salem. plants, but I can never get one to bloom, not even those that are answer many questions concerning Church ceremonies Dec. 4, in supposed to flower easily. Believe ‘Christmas plants, has been pre- Lompoc will unite the pair with a me, the foliage on all my plants pared by Katherine B. Walker and reception to follow that evening. is luxuriant, but nary a blooming is now available to “Indoor Gar Miss Bullard is a graduate of plant blooms, if you’ll pardon the dening” readers. To obtain your Lompoc High School and ig now feeble pun. copy, write to Mrs. Walker in care employed in California. Mr. MatA. First, are you using plant of this newspaper, enclosing a tinson is in the Air Force stationed food that has too high a nitrogen long, self-addressed envelope and rat Vanderburg Air Base in Calicontent? This can cause leaf 20c in coin to cover handling. . fornia. Mrs. Walker is always happy to growth at the expense of flowers. Second, are you sure you are giy- hear from readers, and whenever ing your plants enough sunlight to possible she answers their quesCOLORFUL SHOW PLANT — encourage flowering? Few plants tions on house plants in her colBasket grass makes a colorful ‘will bloom without having at least umn, but she regrets that because hanging plant which needs a a few hours sunlight each day. of the vast volume of mail re-| partially sunny spot with adeYou mention in your letter that ceived she cannot reply to indiquate moisture. your Wax Plant (hoya) and your vidual letters. Salem Man To Marry Californian soil Watering must be done as fre- assembly Thursday at 7 Provo High School and LDS Sem- p.m. in 184 Jesse Knight Building. of the assembly is “A Horizon.”” The Madrigal concert will follow at 8:15 Joseph Smith Auditorium. Barbara Benson is im charge of the assembly. The Friday student assembly will be under the direction of Women’s Week at 10 am. in MRS. RICHARD M. SHEELEY » LDS Temple Rites Unite Miss. Moon, Mr. Sheeley SPRINGVILLE — Maple Val- George Dunmire, Also receiving George Albert Smith Fieldhouse. Theme for the Preference Ball ley Inn was the scene on Friday, guests were twin sisters of the is “The Loving Touch.” The dance Nov. 18, of the wedding reception will be held in six halls to achonoring Mr, and Mrs. Richard M. commodate the expected crowd. Sheeley, who were married earlier The halls are Family Living Center, Fieldhouse, Social Hall, Frank- in the day in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. lin School, Maeser School and NaThe bride, the fommer Carole tional Guard Armory. Barbara Aradian is chairman of the dance, Moon, daughter of Mr.. and’ Mrs. and Jill Carlston is general chair- M. N. Moon, was gowned in white antique satin’ A yoke of handman of the week. ~ * * @ made lace beaded with tiny pearls The degree of shock when a tire and long pointed sleeves accented literally yards and yards’ of leafbearing stems, i will need more leaves. for -the evening FESTIVE DRESS-UP SHOES CITY CLUB SHOES FOR MEN $999 attached where the stem is branching, may pull the dry, brown leaves off. Basket Grass is easily propagated by dividing the roots, or by pinning the stems to damp soil until they take root at a node. soon as tip-lengths rooted this wa: < TO “Pre - Furred”’ Hoffmannias or Episcias Some time ago we. did a column Coverage on hoffmannias, in which I described the vividly patterned leaves of these plants, and noted the taffeta-like sheen that adds so much to their beauty. Many readers believer, mistakenly, that the plants being described were episcias Episcias first-of all, are noted for producing stolons, which hoffmannias never do. Second,. episcias are more often than not hairy-leaved, while hoffmannias are smooth-leaved.~ Third, while episcias do have gorgeous foliage, they are ‘classed as flowering plants and produce large blossoms freely during their season, Hoffmannia, if it blooms at all, has Here’s a dashing young $1795 VELVET STEP -$g95 TO $1095 IT’S NICER WHEN THE GIF COMESIN. 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A crown of cousins of the bride, were gift than in direct proportion, accord- beaded lace petals caught the veil bearers. ing to Goodyear Tire and Rubber of silk illusion, The couple is making a home in Mrs. Glade Hall, sister of the Provo where ‘both are continuing Co. engineers. They say a blow received at 30 miles’ an hour is bride, was sole attendant. She was their education at BYU. The bride nine times as severe as a blow attired jh rose taffeta, and earnied is a senior in foods and nutrition, received at 10 miles an hour, other white carnations. and Mr. Sheeley is doing graduate factors being equal. Best man for the groom was work in- chemistry. frequent watering. Once in a while or Hostess Dorothy Harmer. Mrs, Catherine D. Wills was in charge of the HAPPY HOLIDAYS a small plant, once or twice a week may be sufficient, but if the plant is large and has developed leaves, At the guest register were FAleen Heurkin and Suzy Towler. Serving were Judy Lee, Sharon Young, and Paula Draper. FOR quently as the plant needs it in order to keep the soil moist. With old groom, Mrs. Wilford Fellows of Ogden, and Mrs. Grant Tucker of Cedar City. Glade Hall greeted guests at the door, MILT PATTON, Mgr. JIM EVANS, Asst. Mgr. “===: - |