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SEWING Many Homes Contain Valuable Space By Ertta Haley the home doei rODERNIZINQ not always mean that you have to get an architect in to lift the face of the house Much of the work can begin Inside with such easily managed things as turning bookcase a door into a built-icutting down the legs of a dining room table to make a handy coffee table removing an archway to make place for glass blocks or modernizing walls with plywood or plastic Don’t be too startled with pictures you’ve seen of houses of the these are prodfuture Remember ucts of evolution and take time their various For most people into features are Incorporated homes little by little Many older homes do not have as much light or storage space as is necessary These are two important features which it’s important to try to achieve even though you do only a small amount at a time Lots of homes are full of clutter such as heavy old banisters and handrails on with the stairs Oj between columns - ’W'-- rooms or in the hall ugly cabinets over mantles not enough space for books heavy pieces of furniture i” T'- V- few square feet of clay tile and some built-icupboards worked wonders in giving this old kitchen more storage space Even space underneath the sink so often wasted In old kitchens was boxed in and now serves for storing the drying rack and cleaning materials Drainboards and counter are finished with clay tile because of its ease in cleaning The and waterproof qualities tile was also used to face the lower cabinets giving them a look and wail for trim space over the counter tops A Take the case of an old dining Turn dining table into col ft table room table which is round and was that take more space than they found too small as the family grew use narrow in and few win too size The first thing to be done give dows which should is to saw the legs down to coffee be combined Into one to let sunlight and air into table height Next the old dark the home finish is removed with varnish rethe place by your- mover and sanding The table may Modernizing self can be lots of fun because you be finished with lacquer or painted into with a high glossy paint whatever watch ugliness transformed loveliness with your own hands U needed to match the room step by step with your own eyes Other furniture renovating tricks The sum total of the effort is well may consist of taking off "gingeworth the sense of achievement as rbread” the name frequently apwell as a more livable and lovable plied to ornate and excessive trim place to live and truly call home Start with the small things first and as your energy and zeal grows as it certainly will go on to the 'bigger tasks First however plan mull over and then replan what you want to do Though you may start with smaller tasks you should unified plan in l have an mind so the house or that part of It you're redoing will give finally a harmonious appearance - Tired Leek WlpFreni Furniture One of the easiest ways to give a more pleasing to appearance rooms Is to do a Job And door into bookcase on some furniture This is often economical because you yourself on legs arms and backs of chairs The can do most of the work Often old sofas tables and cabinets and discarded pieces can be re- furniture will then have to be reclaimed from the attic by this finished to show the good and method at very little expense simple basic lines of the pieces THE Apron From a Yard of Fabric It’s Easy to Renovate Ceilings and Walls Have you a cracked plaster ceilthe plaster ing or one where is constantly falling? This is not only an unattractive sight but also an one unsafe Patching mere cracks may be done by yourself with many available preparations In cases where there is a large piece out of the ceiling already have to consult a profesyou may sional plasterer who will have to cut out a section of the celling and then patch it It may be necessary to give the whole ceiling a finishing coat of plaster When side walls need renovating you have a wide choice of in finished and unfinished A varieties lumber dealer or dealer can show building supply you various types for specific and also give you help problems in choosing If walls are sound but ahabby looking why not try painting or papering them to give the room an If you do not elegant new look consider yourself an experienced painter you might try doing the Job with a spray which is simple enough for a child to use As for wallpaper there are many kiiids of papers available which need only t0be dampened and hung each step of which is quite simple KATHLEEN By Wilt Bernard for His Money? A widow borrowed Running Tests Prior To 1950 Tabulation LLB- some money usual incidentals” How Be would “go to court and take away your furniture" The widow who happened to be a very sensitive person was so unnerved by the cident that she filed a damage suit against the collector for upthe court setting her However turned down her claim The judge said that a creditor has a perfect right to demand his money — and be needn’t be too polite about it eithefl man keeper who would care for them So Adele has them The children at first welcomed their father when he came to see In the them But that is lessening where their stepfather institution works they are absorbed There are other children community meals They are not unhappy in one Stephen tells me although sense they have no father and no mother For Adele three weeks after her marriage after the achievement of her dream and her dream with a disease man was stricken that has baffled science She is in the big institution bedridden She has books and caUers and care If but she will never walk again it is merely a fixation it is a very real one for she makes desperate success without efforts to walk The children visit her One wonders what goes on in their small minds about the whole thing Or heart is broken Stephen’s rather it is stilled and sobered in a way that makes seeing him hard He for those of us who love him is very quiet about it but he can not understand what went wrong Here was a lovely home with a man and a woman in it a garden here twice were those tremendous hours that usher in a new life and twice the delight of bringing home a child to its new home What hapAren’t those things perpened? manent fundamental? If they aren’t what is? Jumping Gun got a judgment against a barber and demanded — among other things — the barber’s chair striped pole hat rack hair tonic and cuspidor! At a court hearing the barber pleaded that such items were exempt from attachment because they were the "tools” he needed to carry on his trade And the Judge agreed with him Ordering the creditor to keep hands off these articles the judge said that no man would go to a barber who didn’t have "the was killed in a Strict May a Medium During a Seance? A spiritualistic medium invited a skeptical neighbor to a seance so he could "see for himself’ what happened Soon after the lights went out the neighbor felt the medium’s chair slowly movingl Instantly ha struck a match The wta v y bua crash and his widow sued the bus company for damages At the trial her lawyer worked himself up to a high emotional pitch "This he Cried to the rich corporation jury "la trying to hornawoggle this poor widow out of her rights!" attorney was so The corporation’s shocked by this language that he demanded a new trial However the court refused his request The Judge ruled that "Homswoggle" made sense to the average person and was OK In court spiritualist got so angry at this interruption that he knocked the neighbor down on the floor — and that was the end of the seance Afterward the neighbor sued the medium for damages The latter claimed that he had a right to punish anyone whv disturbed the seance but the court held him liable anyhow The judge pointed out that the neighbor had been invited for the purpose of seeing what happened — so he had a perfect right to strike a match and look! 8392 IMS Buttons Census Bureau A creditor Badger and then found on her furniture herself unable to keep up the payment One morning a man from came to her loan the company home and angrily demanded that she pay up at once If she didn't he threatened In surly tones he A pleats READER'S COURTROOM Creditor A Debtor Fleats and more pleats are In the fashion picture for fail and Ton’ll find them Urge stitched down over the hips In and tweeds to stripes plaids in lightaccordianm fluttering weight wool and many kinds of Jersey They’re wonderful or business because for school are modern these treated so they are permanent! This fact plus fashion importance make separates more important than ever for the coming season so choose yours to wear as an ensemble as blouse and skirt combination or for wear with weskit crisp pique and ever so many different blouses and toppers with tbe usual white veil " way through engineering school at and college immediately upon a good graduation obtained job He has changed Jobs twice in these 10 years but always upward He married a nice girl with thfe usual white veil and the usual promises— and Steve meant them Little Georgia was born to comher father and pletely captivate then a sturdy small edition of himself In Steve Junior He loves them he he loved his home deeply loved Adele But Adele three years ago fell in love The man ia a vocational adviaer in a large Institution It makes me wonder who advises him For from the moment he and Adele decided to shake off their respective mates at any cost they proceeded to make coneveryone cerned thoroughly miserable Adele took her children and went to her mother’s home Her mother warned her that she couldn't stay but at the tame time she didn't turn out Adele and she loved her She prayed and grandchildren situation would hoped that the clear up Miserable Everybody Philip the vocational adviser with no trouble got his divorce and he and Adele went to Steve and begged him to relent Stephen finally gave in but he claimed the children Adele custody of his agreed perhaps because she knew what would happen Stephen hasn’t a relative In tha world the care of children of five and three As simply isn't possible for him an engineer he comes and goes between the west coast cities he couldn’t be sure of getting a house the WASHINGTON — Although big 1950 census doesn't start until next April the federal bureau of the census isn’t waiting for the kickoff whistle to get going Every month census bureau enumerators visit about 25000 households in the United States They ask questions about the marital status and employment of members of these households census on which The employment the bureau bases its estimate of the number of job holders and job is now hunters rated more important that the population count Em information is valuable ployment to the government and to private Industry as an indicator of business conditions Some householders resent the questioning as "prying into private affairs” A few others are scared by it in these days of agitation over and charges of disCommunists loyalty Census officials say people have nothing to fear from the interviewers The Information is strictly confidential Names of individuals are not sent to Washington headquarters The is used only for cominformation piling the number of employed and unemployed and other statistics Not even the FBI or internal revenue colectors can obtain census for Investigation Information or tax collecting purposes Federal law prohibits its use except in statistics Some people refuse to with enumerators or interviewers However few persist in relatively after the Interviewers refusing shown identification have cards with their photographs and have explained why the information is being collected Care is taken to put the questions! in simple words and in terms which are well known In the community! where the Interviewed person lives The Interviewers take short training courses For Hostess Duties K GAY little bib apron that you can sew in no time at all Nice for hostessing or kitchen duties— and you’ll need just one yard of bright fabric fruit applique on Parade of buttons TWO ROWS parade down the waist front of this stunning junior frock— perfect for a back to school wardrobe for the for general career girl wear Have short or three quarter sleeves Divorce Isn't Happiness Road OTEPHEN JACKSON is one more victim of the divorce scourge He was married for six years He loved his home he dearly loved his small son and daughter He he didn’t was a good provider drink or gamble or look at other women But Adele fell In love with another man and was crazy with love and passion and pain Stephen after months of resistance agreed to get a divorce his surrendered children and has never had a happy hour since Divorce brings more tragedies to American homes than infantile paralysis does We should fight it with the same horror that we do Wise mothers the psysical disease should warn their daughters of the dangers and symptoms that lead to it should fathers instruct up their sons as to the best ways of avoiding it Nobody should ever lightly suggest it as a solution to marital troubles for it never is Divorce Must Be True if a marriage is childless and if circumstances are unusually serious there must be divorces But where there are 50 now there should be only one No money paid to psychiatrists in years to come will undo what your divorce does to the minds and souls of your children now But to come back to Stephen Jackson Here is a man I have known since he was a cheerful little fellow of 10 He desturdy livered papers in high school days took a job to pay his Wear Young Style for Campus NORRIS Badgering a Widow May a PATTERNS CIRCLE Pattern No yards of 16 4 Use scraps for the and 8392 18 comes or 35 Sie In sizes short sleeve! lEPT SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN 530 Sosth Wells St Chicago 7 Pattern No 1880 Is a forated pattern for sizes 40 and 42 Siza 14 yard 20: 14 of 16 Enclose 25 cents pattern desired Pattern No per18 Address Bumper Crops Eliminate Famine Scourge in World States All except a few of the more pessimistic began to regard the food situation with cautious optimism Famine for once was not prevalent in any large portion of the world during 1948 As bumper crop piled on bumper crop worries returned in the surplus exporting areas particularly the United States as to whether world markets would continue to absorb the surpluses and how price support programs and accumulating stockpiles might be managed This turn of events received emphasis as evidence accumulated that the acreage already sown under favorable conditions and to be sown with wheat for 1949 harvest would probably be a new high record FIRST by Roger refrigerator gets A cleaning agent removes the finish I would appreciate this information ANSWER: As the refrigerator is still new why not call up the dealer who sold it to you and ask him either to come and clean it up for you or else recommend a cleansing preparation? I could give you a better answer if you had told me what the material is since it is not porcelain If the finish is washable which it certainly ought to be try a damp cloth sprinkled with a scratchless scouring powder rub very lightly and follow with another clean damp cloth The powder should not be used in instances of stubborn except spots Mild soap and water on a damp cloth should be sufficient 7ur6o-JeMlan- 'MGXL RSV&- a wing of genuine aluminum metal inside every PEP package! Body of plane printed in color on outside of package Put em together Z O O Ml Directions on package Set of 6 Collect ’em— swap ’em! Urge Mom to buy Kellogg’s PEP today Start enjoying crispy delicious flakes of whole wheat Get MODEL JET PLANE WITH THE PACKAGEI Hurryl ye$ bake HOUSE Whitman Marks on Refrigerator 1 have QUESTION a new rea finish that is not 1 would like to know porcelain what to take marks off with I mean when something is bumped against it and leaves a black mark I have a small child so you can imagine how many bumps the Yes III'11 C frigerator with tlOfflfiA Coffin rftod AIDjto the AILING Gets A R&L for each Size- Name your copy of the Fall and Winter FASHIOcomplete guide In planning a eraart wearable winter wardrobe Free pattern printed Inside the book The “long expected postwar recession in agriculture” got under but it was proving way in 1948 to be unlike the often mentioned agricultural panic of 1921 The world food crisis still in a dangerous phase in the early part of the year became notably easier with the excellent harvests in many parts of the world and more particularly the bumper crops in western the United and Europe In coins jp TTbeoyou °n eve C°Giii way Vt eI Mow PEP - MODUS |