Show THE GARLAND You Buiia Haley NEW Sides Is Popular Shantung BRIDE moved next door and you should see the beautiful furniture ahe hast But it juat doesn’t look right the way ahe’s fitted it in the rooms” said an acquaintance of mine recently Many people have such good common sense about arranging furniture they need little or no help However certain basic rules applied to room arrangement can help those who are a little weak on knowledge of Just what is right Balance is the key to arranging furniture properly but the balance snay be formal or informal de pending upon the rooms the type and architecture of decoration which each has In his home There are some rooms which are so constructed that several ways of arranging the furniture are pos slble while other rooms are liml ted in what they permit Those people who want to re arrange furniture constantly show they are basically dissatisfied with how the house looks Once a pleasing arrangement has been achieved you’ll be so happy with it that nothing could induce you to destroy the convenience service and beauty of it All t ' £ 4i of Room Should Have Balance A is feeling of equilibrium for giving a pleasing feeland this ia achieved by distributing weight according to tha walla Each should balance the opalso be posite wall Each should balanced with equal weight on each half The highest part ahould be centered on the wall When you have formal rooms the formal type of balance ahould predominate The centers of terest like sofas secretaries and fireplaces are usually flanked with take too out your having to movt chairs or tablea to get to them Large pieces are always placed parallel to tha walla so they do not violate the basic lines of the room chairs may bo placed Upholstered at angles to add interest while chairs look well placed against walla Try giving plenty of open apace between various groupa within the room for a pleasing uncluttered effect If a picture belongs to a certain grouping hang It low enough so that it becomes a part of its own group rather than a wall decoration in its own right Tall pieces are usually placed centered against a wall to add balance to the room and still giva it plenty of space Arrange Furniture Group For Certain Activities Furniture group the phrase we meet so often in interior decoration refers to arrangements that are part of a room A conversational group is planned to take in several people who just like to relax and talk readily A musical group may be placed around the piano or radio to make these activities pleasing Groupa such as this are logical and useful arrangements and thus contribute to the utility and comfort of a home "1TYbut MARRIED one A V 1 J4 A slim cool dresa la Is Ideal for shantung weltering days when you want to look neat and trim Silver and blue buttona starting at the large neckline bow march three q garters of the way down the front which la also with skirt Interest highlighted The skirt is slim in the bsrk BE) ways should be cleared sufficiently to allow for easy traffic The passageways between furniture groups should also be free for easy going and coming and an uncrowded Bsiews articles of flow to Achieve Uncluttered Effect One of the rules most often violated in furniture arrangement ia The door- that of free passageways For effect is pirating rrrangrments essential even within furniture groups Fireplace bookshelves and radios should be approached easily with- THE READER'S COURTROOM It's a Transparent By Will h Shopper to If H Mistakes' Door? For th a Bernard Blame a Window front of a paint store was plats glass — Including tha One sunny day a customer In bought some paint and started out But in a moment of confusion he aimed in the wrong direction— and didn’t atop until ba a had put one foot right through plate glass window! When the store The mostly doora walked LLB- for damages the customer protested that he had been confused by all that glass and all that However the court resunlight jected this excuse and held the man liable for the value of the window a person was if The judge said that able to find his way into the store be ought to be able to find his way out A student riding a on a sidewalk struck a pedestrian from behind and knocked The pedestrian later him down an assault and battery acbrought tion against the youth At the trial the student argued that while he been a little careless have might he wasn’t guilty of assault and battery because the accident wasnoj when the However intentional judge learned that the sidewalk was no less than 14 feet wide he indeed decided that the youth had committed an assault and battery and never and cook housekeeper intruded in any way on our parties or trips but I am of the school that believes firmly that old people don’t belong in young homes "That brings me to today’s probis a lem My oldest daughter sweet great big girl who is marrying a man in every to a fine owns he suited her way old suburban house Inherited from his father and he and Carolyn are already talking of the family they mean to raise The problem is his mother and father who have been living in the old house Harold charging them with neither rent nor taxes and in fact paying a nominal board They propose to stay Harold wants them to stay and to my distress Carolyn appears perfectly satisfied with the proposed arrangement Threat to Marriage troubles “Having suffered most of my married life I feel justified in objecting strenuously to this plan I don't think Carolyn - man checked his suitcase st a depot parcel room receiving for it a numbered claim ticket Ha didn’t bother to read the ticket— and bo didn’t see the clause that In case of loss the check room company was not liable for more the suithan $10 Sure enough When the man sued tcase vanished for $200 — the value of the contents —the company pointed to the $10 limitation clause on the ticket But the court ruled that the man was entitled to full reimbursement for his loss A It 'Trespassing" To Visit Someone Without an Invitation? him had Ufe has real trial In It writes a St Louis woman who is the “That sign of mother my husband’s presence in the house half the year She died last year Before that she went to keep house for a widower eon in Florida every winter came to us in May and did not leave until October “Gann was a sweet woman lovely with my children and on two occasions took a small boy south with her for the entire winter We never quarrelled but at the same time I never forgot what I considered the injustice of my me to have husband's expecting another woman in my household She was an excellent continually Mistake Is sued neckline neck or piunrtng for dancing and - the more classical but Just as feminine blouse for contrast for other occasions Grandparents Devoted Sitters El ' Easiest way te smart fashion sod the Interest that variety give to the wardrobe ia the separate blouse! Particularly dressy blouses are ideal for nil sorts of Informal afternoon and casual evening occasions More and more detailing is creeping into the blouse picture especially on sheers including nets and chiffons as well aa the other fragile materials Metallic yarns woven Into sheers are another popular and effective means of achieving richness In ornamentation Cbooae the most 100 different pattern projects can be built at a price that shows a considerable saving over similar articles purchased ready made Through the medium of these patterns even the most unskilled person can do a professional job Most important this pattern as well as the others that will be featured weekly is designed that no special tools or skill are required You’ll have fun making the workbench and lots more fun using it It measures 6 feet long inches wide and stands 30 inchWORKING with wood provides 30 es high It is the ideal size for and fun It also prosolution to every home vides an economical obtaining the many articles of 25c (or Workbench Pattern No Send and furnihousehold equipment IS to Pattern Company Dept ture everyone needs Each of al W PleaaantvUla N V AID first tn H0USL the MUNG by Roger C Whitman paper around a block of wood and rub" down the rough places with it If the walls are painted they will have to be refinished after of course A this coarse abrasive stone can be used in place of the sandpaper QUESTION: The plaster in our front room is very uneven in places and in others there are real humps and ridges Are there any tools we could get to level down the humps and ridges? ANSWER: Wrap coarse sand KATHLEEN NORRIS care many your fumiturt furniture as they will make the room look stilted Informal balance may be combined with formal to a certain degree because it offers relief from strict balance as well as a certain charm Early English modem and ranch type homes employ informal are since the homes The masses of furniture need distribution so they will give a steady balanced effect it New Method Simplifies Work Important ing chairs With formal balance that you do not have UTAH Bi Smart! Furniture Arrangement By Ertta GARLAND WORLD WOMAN'S 7J TIMES A farmer’s son decided to pay a visit to a neighboring farmer As the youth pushed his way through a field of tall com the neighbor heard him coming— but couldn't sec him Deciding the intruder was a fox the neighbor hastily grabbed a shotgun and fired — hitting the " at drvotrJ 21 la apart the leg Later sued for the neighbor insisted that man was an uninvited “trespasser” and therefore had no kick coming However the court damdisagreed and awarded ages to the Injured youth The judge said be was not a trespasser “because there exists among farm folk as well as among others an Implied invitation to visit each youth in damages the young other” tbo a position babirt ’ to forsea what It means To have two old persons at the at tha breakfast-tabland at the seema to me aa real a threat to married life aa any that could be Imagined Carolyn’s father Is as aa she is and easily says to let time show whether it will work or not I say tell them now that the house is Harold's and that he wants it and oblige them to make some other arrangement which they could on modest terms afford “I know that in one of your articles” this agitated letter ends “you say that families are better fluence father bicycle In to Your with Will word will Carolyn and you advise have with her her?” I am “Molly-OUnfortunately very much with Carolyn and Harold in this particular case Here ia an amiable unexacting girl marrying an affectionate and easygoing man with the prospect of a in with loving couple of moving elders who sound pleasantly comtoo fortable housemates You seem to be the disagreeable You element in ail this Moliie-never forgot the injustice of a situation that must have been q real advantage to you most of the time Today’s frantic young parents searching for reliable sitters and paying these sitters more for an evening than wa used to pay a good maid for a week would be extremely glad of tha services of a “Gann” who not only expects no pay at all but is as devoted to the babies as their parents are Your sensible girl wants a family perhaps she is smart enough to know that Gran and Cramp ara to help her with all that family NEEDLECRAFT PATTERNS You'll Feel Rich with This Cloth beautify your table! You can chet it in various sizes Live and Let Live It seems to me that the rising generation in America needs one lesson it is to live and let live We raise our children to feel that in everything must be arranged the most pleasant and least responsible way possible And the minute things go wrong— as of course they will — there is the ready divorce court and a chance to plunge into fresh mistakes and selfishnesses Some weeks ago I went to tha only wedding of an old friend' daughter The girl has and wtU have considerable wealth and her farsighted father showed me the and signed divorce settlement sealed before the weddltig In the papers at about that time was the story of a girl divorcing after three her husband because spent years of happy matrimony s in Fifth Avenue shops found her she and and self headed for motherhood YOU’LL always in fury went off to Reno where this lacy she is now No Name -- Address For Your Future Buy U S Savings Bonds MAKES SEWING MACHINES HUM GRAKi'MA feel rich with cloth to Old Dice Sign Poses Problem Texas Community Studies a 'Slogan' DECATUR Tex— The city fathers of this community of 4200 residents hava a problem over the world Dice players have been crying “Elghter from Decatur tha county seat of Wise” for years This Is Decatur the county seat of Wise and the local city council would like to tell the world about It The But there la a problem aldermen aren’t quite sure whether they want to put their official apon of this the north fame proval Texas town Tha problem hinges on a faded signboard which has hung for years near the railroad station here The sign has proclaimed to one and all: the “Eighter from Decatur county seat of Wise” SAVE PRECIOUS KITCHEN TIME WON xeo &M$pecja£ pay y&sr to Mayor Syl Hard According the city fathers are faced deciding what to do about the wick with sign For years tourists passing by the sign hava had their pictures taken — in poses This sort of “tomfoolery” doesn't please some of tha residents of Decatur But some residents are pleased These include filling station and restaurant owners who say the faded sign and Its slogan means more business from traveUeri who might not otherwise tarry Mayor Hardwick favors a motion “that a new and bigger ’Eight-e- r from Decatur’ sign be erected” He promises to “put It where ell can see it— if the council approves” According to Cliff D r M Star h die yeoal lor bvty hoeiewivei-i- fr (oiler Il keeps wilfcevt refriperorton month’i wpply end Ivy pore S ea the ihelf with other bokinp Ingredient! “w t”0 ton &OSTAZJHOWS 'AV SWVS FAILURES FOR ML into T$ FASTFR YOUAVO STARTS THE Asnwr WARM FATE& Cates author of “The Pioneer History of Wise County" the “Elghter from Decatur” slogan Is attributable to this Texas community on the basis of historical facts It seems Decatur became famous among dice players because of a Negro girl in Decatur who was named Ada ST &'-- cro- This crochet Is a prize indeed to hand down to your children! 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