Show THE GARLAND WOMAN’S TIMES GARLAND UTAH WORLD NEEDLECRAFT Glamorize Tired Closets With Colorful Decorations PATTERNS Little Cutie From a Sock f i By TS Ertta Hale Accent on White YOUR CLOTHES” closet Just a place to hang clothes and to store unattractive boxes? Do you bate to open it because it’s such a dark unattractive corner compared to an attractive bedroom? Closets other rooms in their own parin decorating schemes They can be done in the same manner as you've done the bedroom or ha'l or they can be decorated in a complimentary color scheme The cluttered storage look which many closets have is now a thing of the past With fresh ideas put into use the closet can be an attractive adjunct to the room a bright and cheerful room all by itself With proper use of storage space you can not only get more work out of the closet but also make it to give the bedroom or possible hall a vacation from some of the duties to which it’s now accustomed For example closets if large can beconvi a enough dressing room as well as a Storage center when treated properly from a decof view orative point Even small closets can be used in this way if the door is papered or painted and has a mirror and a small shelf for cosmetic items Closets do not take much paint or wall paper and neither do the accessories require much yardage just like the house can have ticular charm Gilet and sleeve cuffs of white faille accent this modestly priced Junior dress of black wool The low neckline of the dress itself is collared and the pockets are set Into the puckThe ered front of the skirt neck bow Is black taffeta and the belt black patent use the same material If it’s floral and you want to use something a little different select one of the colors in the floral and use that Be certain to repair boxes first if they are broken Then make a tissue paper pattern by tracing the box When cutting the pattern from for the fabric make allowances seams Stitch the seams together turn right side out and press seams Smooth the cover over the open box gluing firmly in place or eyelet rufCording pleating fle may be used as a lid trim to add a feminine touch so the exin chintz or cording pense is small If you do the decorating and sewing yourself cost can be cut even more and what a lot of pleasure you’ll be able to get from an attractive closet Add Extra Shelves For More Storage Take a critical look at the closet and see whether or not every inch of space is being properly used Many closets are high ceilinged affairs and all the space at the top is not in use If space at the top is going unused construct shelves there to use for housing blankets and extra hats and bedding clothing If you want easy access to the high shelves you may keep a small step ladder in the closet Smaller shelves can be constructlevels to hold such as purses jewelry scarves sewing boxes like shoe equipment brushes and polish cleaning fluid If you have carpentering available it may even be more practical to have a row or section made with small drawers for these items Cardboard boxes in different sizes can be covered to house hats seasonal blankets purses fur pieces and other clothing on the higher shelves so they will be ed on Protect Clothing With Garment Aids Quilted hangers are excellent for hanging clothes because they will not permit the shoulders of dresses blouses and suits to become pressed if space is crowded They’re easy to make and add a lot of charm to closets too To make them pad the hanger frame with cotton and then cover with bias strips If you like add a lower small items belts gloves and cleaning clean A good covering for boxes is glazed chintz because it sheds dirt and can be dusted easily If you have glazed chintz in the bedroom or a Sachet at the hangadded effect covers and garment wonderful for protecting are bags suits and dresses from dust When cutting the shoulder cover add a little extra for garment bulk These should be from six to ten inches long and the top should be shaped to fit the- - hanger When seaming the front and back sections together add cording to the seams for a gay decorator perky bow er top for Shoulder touch You can make yards of this cording for trim in no time at all foot with the aid of the cording attachment for your sewing machine Garment bags are good for the “best” dresses since they make such attractive storage compartments These are made in the same way as the shoulder covers but are usually cut as long as the garment itself You may have long ones for dresses and shorter ones for blouses When seaming front and back pieces together leave one side open for snaps or a alide fastener so that you can have easy access to the bag and at the tame time a container Garment bags can be made of or other attractive glazed chintz cotton prints that will compliment the bedroom color scheme If cotton print is starched stiffly Plastoo since you can tics are good see what’s In the bag ' Keep Shoes Neat In Proper Compartments Shoe bags have long been popular for keeping shoes neat and orderly When contained In a bag you have some protection against the dust that is so often found on the floor A bag hung on the door of the closet or against one of the walls of the closet is an excellent way of keeping the shoes in a place where you can get to them readily Shoe bags which match the garment bags will do much to make the closet an attractive place and the bags are easy to make It’s a good idea to quilt the back of the shoe bag for extra firmness This accessory when finished should be KATHLEEN NORRIS I MARRIED” writes MTirHEN Eileen Johnson from Princeton "I seemed to myself and to one of the luckiest everyone else girls in the world Bucky had come to the small California college town where I lived with a big car a big income and a bis name behind him It was like a dream to have him fall in love with me My father was dead I am an only child Mother and I came to the Philadelphia suburb where the Johnsons lived and Bucky and I were married in circumstances of such beauty and luxury as are every girl’s ideal His people were wonderful to me their wedding gift among other things 1 the home in which am writing “Even from the beginning I knew Bucky was spoiled and sometimes selfish but Mother had warned me it might be that way and I had much to make me happy (He loved me — he really did love me then) and in a few years we had two little boys to raise our sons are now 4 and 2 Bucky has never made but any especial fuss over them his mother and father and everyone else were so delighted that I guess I much I didn’t notice Bucky thought he was as happy as I was ' Never Was Happy “But he wasn’t He says now he was happy with me and he puzzles me and hurts me by asking if he is supposed from now on to be satisfied to sit around and listen to people praising the children He is terribly restless wants to travel then wants to go west and buy a camp then wants to get into Hollywood somehow buy a picture or work in a studio He picks queer never Cleaners Find H A Journal Now we could go the salt box with sufficient nerve to ask Moonglass of water “What’s the big Idea?” asked Mooney as we came up with some salt Mooney is a stern man We were sure be was not a subscriber to the Quarterly Journal It would take another martini for ns to explain “Same thing” we repeated Wow! This time we could do It We look an extra large of salt and asked for a glass of water “What?” asked Mooney and (There were two of Mooney for additional ey for a them now) “Water Forsh shawlt” plied we Just a College Boy say humdrum But of course life with a young wife a new home a nursery full of children with plans and hopes and joys and anxieties shared isn’t humdrum at ail Only Bucky isn’t developed enough to see it that way His viewpoint is still that of the college boy he was when Eileen met him He wants change new faces adventure he wants to take chances on trips and friendships and races and gaming tables and theatrical ventures To sacrifice one moment of his hunt for excitement to the demands of small children the claims of a wife absorbed in the tremendous business of motherhood seems to him not only tame but absolutely insufferable He feels trapped And if his old friends his parents praise his wife and rejoice in his increasing amily that only makes him angrier Ail over America young men situated as Bucky Is are doing what he wants to do out on the They are walking only things that will make life worth while in the middle years and the years after that Long years and they come fast Years when the love of wife home family seem to the men who have destroyed them to be miracles seem like a promised land out of which they have voluntarily shut themselves Buqky may be able to force you to divorce him Eileen his wealth You may may make this possible have to raise those children without their father When you married a rich boy you ran that risk re- Everything PHILLIPS “What goes on here?” barked three Mooneys (There was a in the picture too but I left him out) “Juarterly Quernal of Doncha read all the mopular pagaiines? Look! Salt!” we said “I read Look but not Salt That must be a new one” replied the four Mooneys We with explained difficulty throwing in a few dance steps and four of Sweet Adeline choruses But not before another martini Ultimately two Mooneys got a tall glass three Mooneys got a spoon and the remaming Mooneys helped us with the salt we “Walleff” “Shawlt said Now put in Swater okay okay walliff-ff- “He's trying to say ’olive’” said all the Mooneys walking across A sixth Mooney the ceiling stayed on the floor and served us another double martini for which the need was now desperate We then walked up the sidewall and joined the ceiling Mooneys We looked back at the tumbler of salt water It had an admiral's hat on and was waving an oar at us The spoon which had two heads and spoke in the tones of a QuarJournal of Alcohol editor terly commanded "Come down here Are you a man or a mouse?” “A mouse” we replied “the unshawlted kind” 4 30c pattern In coin number name jrour to i lt Name Address fi SAVE A KEEPING STEPS LOT OF AN EXTRA CAN J asTf b MOMMY 7 natiid really did love me friends invests money in their schemes goes off sometimes for three or four days at sr time He does not drink but be goes to dances and races and dinner places and joins up with various groups He is very popular Meanwhile I am alone “We have been married six years is I 31 That is young am 27 Bucky isn’t it? But our marriage seems to have gone dead Bucky is just plain bored by me and our home and our No children plans nor suggestions of mine make any impression He says he wants to be free “His mother always has been lovely to me but she feels sympathetic to him too and tells me I must make more of an effort to interest him that he has always been a difficult boy to amuse that I must change myself and try to rise to his level and be a real companion to him And of course that is what I want to do but I feel so discouraged and sad all the time that I can’t even start He truly doesn't want me and I can’t start all over again to make him love me So my life seems already wrecked and although I am still young and pretty and have a rich husband and two adorable children with a third child on the way I aeem to have nothing at all What shall I do?” WASHINGTON D C— An attendrushed out of a small suburban cleaning store here one day not a man on his way long ago spotted down the street and hurried after him “Just a minute sir” she called and then told the startled customer "here's your bundle of checks book and your pack your address of cigarets” The telephone rang in the home of a customer of another laundry and dry cleaning firm here "Would the gentleman please drop by” asked the voice at the other end “and pick up the $100 that has just been found in the pocket of his shirt?” The attendant and the telephone caller were acting out parts that are familiar to members of the cleaning world some of whom turn pale at the thought of the damage a forgetful customer can accidentally do ’Take a fountain pen full of ink or a tube of lipstick" said the manager of one dry cleaning store "We search carefully for them in men's pockets and in the lining of women’s skirts’’ he explained “It’s only once every two or three years that a lipstick slips into the wash” he added "but when that happens it means a day’s work for us doing the garments over again and spotting the stains out by hand” BY OF IN THE BASEMENT) vl DAYS ONLY I “Wish play hairdresser! 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This troubled young wife has run Into a very usual situation A boy raised as Bucky has been raised really does not have much appetite for the somewhat humdrum life of a husband and father Send and to Make ewtaff Clrele Needleeraft Part P O Rea 1e Ckleape a ID at Old Cbelaea ItaUsa P O Re Mew fork 11 N T Enclose 30 centa for patters tions The Salt Hath Lost Its Savor By Glue Fabric to Box For Storage Use To permit handy access to a storage box it’s smart to make it with a front opening Cut one side from a square box Cover the three remaming aides of the box by glueing fabric in place Now rejoin the cut side to the box with gummed fabric labels Glue fabric to this edge The front side then can be dropped open for easier use The Rich Boy Wants Adventure -- ONCE OVER SWIG OF SALT WATER will definitely end the craving for a highball or cocktail says the of Alcohol Quarterly announcing the findings (Whodat?) exafter exhaustive of physicians periments among men who can im-be argued into salted drinks We mediately felt the yen for a marwe happened to tini Fortunately have a salt box strapped to our back as we turned into Mooney’s take this courage Why Things like not one cocktail to brace a man lor a tumbler of salt water? Logical enough Mooney began prepar“Make it a double" we ing it not being much of a saltsaid man water Fun about 18 Inches wide and long enough to house at least four pairs of shoes If you have a large shoe wardrobe and enough wall space you can make a large enough shoe bag to house all of them It will help to insert a flat wooden piece through the top of the shoe bag to give more strength to the bag and enable it to hang straight This Is inserted like the rod to curtains Use the binder attachment to finish tops and pocket edgings for each shoe pouch This prevents fraying especially when the bag Is cleaned or washed For the girl who travels a lot individual shoe bags are an excellent idea Make these large enough for a pair of shoes and have extra long drawstrings at the top for closing them These can be hung on a row of hooks when at home to keep the shoes in good order The shoe bag Idea is also good for keeping shoes and evening summer sandals in order These can be hung on higher hooks when the shoes are not in use Sew labels on the bags so you'll know what shoes they house BAUME byTbot“l" if ANALGe'sIQUE k0” |