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Show . MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH WOMAN'S WORLD Proper Care of Winter Clothing Gives Longer Service Suspender Skirt been tested for washing, you may wash by hand, if care is followed. Water for washing woolens should feel cool to the touch. This applies both to the water used in washing and rinsing. Hot water causes wool fibers to shrink and felt. Mild soap which makes a rich lather is best. Detergents are excel-lent for hard water areas. If using soap and hard water, use water normalizer for the water first, so that the minerals in the water will not harden the garment. Squeeze the suds through and through the garment with a gentle motion. Rubbing or soaking will cause the fibers in the clothing to knit closely together and make it shrink. Rinse thoroughly to remove all traces of soap. If left in the gar-ment, they will make it gummy and unpleasant to the touch. Too much heat in the drying of woolens and wool-fabri- c combina-tions makes the fibers brittle. Keep woolen materials, either those made all of wool or wool plus silk, rayon, etc. You'll find that the steam pressing is fine for velvet, velveteens and corduroy, too, which, are such an important part of the fashion picture. A moderately hot iron is the best for wool and rayon combinations while a barely warm iron is good for all wool materials. Never press directly on. the material; always use a damp cotton, lint-fre- e cloth or a chemically treated one. Rayon and wool blended fabrics should never be pressed when bone dry. Better results can be obtained if they are slightly damp. The gar-ment should be slightly damp when you've finished pressing. Hang clothing promptly after pressing and smooth into shape. Then permit the garment to dry completely so that it will have its natural lines. Pleats and buttonhole closings By Ertta Haley JT'S SAID THAT people attain greater cleanliness in the warm feather than the cooler weather because they bathe more frequently tnd most hot weather clothes are washable, while winter clothes need more attention and thus get less care. However, since cold weather clothing is more expensive, it is reasonable that we give it more care than less expensive ones, to get full value for money spent. Actually, It Isn't too difficult to give winter wearables the attention they need and should have. There will be lots of satisfaction, too, in the dividends that such clothes care gives in better grooming and longer wear. If s a good idea to read and save labels which come with materials and ready-mad- e garments because they give valuable clues to gar-ment care. Such items as sweaters may be washed, if done carefully. Many pieces of clothing which con- - tain around 30 or less of wool may also be washed by hand, if the label tells you it has been tested. For garments which have to be cleaned, keep the labels and give them to the cleaner. He'll appre-ciate it and will be able to do a better job on the clothing which means a nicer job all the way around. Spot cleaning done at home will also save on cleaning bills, and en- - tne clothes away from direct heat such as radiators, sunlight or stoves. Slow drying will help retain the fiber strength. If you want to hasten drying, the clothing can be wrapped carefully in an absorbent Turkish towel and kneaded gently to remove the ex-cess moisture. Do not let it stand in the towel, however, for it may get out of shape. Pat into shape as soon as taken from the towel, smoothing out wrinkles as much as possible. Steam Pressing Gives Good Results Steam pressing is excellent for offer some difficulty unless care is taken or they may become mis-shaped. An exceUent way to avoid this is to baste pleats and closing with long stitches. Then you don't have to worry about lining them up just right under the pressing cloth. In pressing hems, collars, lapels, cuffs and other heavy parts of the garment, use a heavy pressing cloth to prevent shine and ridges. New seams on home-sewe- d cloth-ing should always be pressed on the wrong side with the seams opened. Go over them lightly without a press cloth, then steam press. Suspender button skirts en-able little girls to wear smart separates. Pop the skirt over a printed cotton frock and the young lady is suitably skirted, bloused and petticoated for a busy day at school. The button-hole attachment for your sew-ing machine will turn out both keyhole buttonholes for the corduroy skirt and slot type but.tons for the dress. Proper hanging of the garments will save cleaning and pressing. Use hangers as soon as the gar-ment is removed and see that dress or suit hangs perfectly straight. Fasten the top buttons on dresses, jackets and coats so that collars and shoulders will not be dragged out of shape. Skirts should be hung from the waistband. Blouses and jackets will look better if you stuff some tissue paper in the shoulders and sleeves, especially when they will have to stand some time before the next wearing. Use bags or shoulder shields on garments worn frequent- - Overcrowding the closet will cause clothes to become wrinkled more than necessary. Let clothes rest in a roomy closet where they do not touch each other if you want to nreserve them. Air woolens frequently . . , ables you to be better turned out every time you put the garment on. Prompt attention to spots and stains may save the whole dress or suit from being permanently ruined. Keep a well closed bottle of dry cleaner in the purse, wrapped in small cleaning cloth so it can be applied promptly if you're away from home. How Care for Clothing Pays Big Dividends Establish weekly and daily habits of good care for clothing and you'll always have a well kept gar-ment to wear. When the routine is firmly established, the time spent will seem very little in compari-son with the big jobs that must be done when clothes are neglected. Plan to use a medium bristle brush on all woolen and wool com-bination garments at least once a week. This raises the nap and gets rid of surface dust and dirt before it becomes imbedded in the cloth-ing and dulls the finish and color. Perspiration is harmful to most fabrics be they cotton, wool, silk or rayon. Dress shields can save many a dress if you attach them as soon as the clothing is made or purchased. Change or launder the shields frequently. Press properly for frequent wear. All winter clothing should be giv-en frequent airings Turn the pockets and cuffs in-side out while airing, then straight-en the clothes on hangers, brush, and hang properly. Use Cool Water For Washing Woolens When the label on a wool combi-nation garment tells you it has Good Dairy Barn Lighting Essential Speeds Up Work, Aids Sanitation Problems Good lighting in the dairy barn is not only convenient, but neces-sary. For it speeds up work and helps the dairyman with his sanita-tion problems. Farmers, therefore, are cautioned by agricultural engineers to wire their barns so that they have plenty of illumination on the job, around the job and going to and from the job. For these purposes, it is rec-ommended that lighting outlets be located every 12 feet on the center line of the litter alley and every 20 ! - I i , , iv n r - The above picture illustrates lighting outlets at Inter-vals on the center line of the litter alley and every 20 feet on the center line of the feed alley. feet on the center line of the feed alley. H more illumination is desired than can be obtained from the above plan, a second line of lights can be placed in the litter alley over the hind quarters of each row of cows. Flood lights on the outside cor-ner of the barn, or conveniently placed yard lights, will help pre-vent accidents by illuminating the farmer's path from the barn to the house. If a milk house loading plat-form is used, it also should be well lighted. Paint an Old Tin Tray; Make a Plywood Basket PAINT ON WOOD OR METAL ff-j- ? ft ""Vi PLYWOOD in W?; HJji--1 PATTERN 331 Paint Trays and Wastebaskets AN OLD tin tray or metal waste-bask- et may. become a prized possession. You can even make a handsome basket out of plywood scraps with pattern 331. which gives actual-siz- e cutting guides, tracing designs and complete di-rections. Price of pattern is 25c. Send order to WORKSHOP PATTERN SERVICE Drawer 10 Bedford Hllla, New fork. COME AND YOU FEEL GlUfo Use Chewing-Gu- m Laxativ REMOVES WASTE... 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"It's aw t i ing, no difficult special other yeast can beat it for active. Fleischmiss'1 directions to follow. It's speed. Just add it to warm New Improved Diy Yet the easiest yeast yet and water and stir it well. It's cuts rising time, i'S the fastest, too." ready to use!" perfect results." OLD PRIZEJOOKS PREFER fLElSCH'WfSjfEf p STHE OBRIGINALeBAD MwE ANAaL&iSSlJ KATHLEEN NORRIS People Don't Commit Sins Now JiHE UNUSUAL and painful situa- - tion into which one Percy Field, of San Antonio, Tex., has gotten himself, is described to jme in an agitated letter from his mother. She does not say that it was sin that brought about this tangle, be-cause like most persons today she evidently doesn't believe in sin. The word has gone almost com-pletely out of the language. People don't commit sins, nowadays, they are the victims of reactions to un-fortunate early influences, traumas, inhibitions, fixations, phobias and other influences beyond their con-trol. raise little girls. I have come to feel deeply sorry for Alma, who married to give Lucia a protector, and was widowed in 1948. I believe her aunt is taking her little boy. "What I am asking you." con-cludes this agitated letter, "Is to give me some argument to use with Kathryn. Surely she can't re-fuse Percy the joy of providing for his own daughter. Surely there is some way to show her how simple and harmonious such an arrange-ment would be. She swears that if Lucia comes to my home she will never enter it, or allow Jacqueline, her own child, to pntpr it " impossible Background What Percy did was fall in love with a girl- in a Her years were 24 to his 20, and his mother writes that she was impossi-ble. Her background also was im-possible. Percy's mother met Al-ma, and descended promptly into that special Purgatory reserved for the mothers of impressionable only sons. Alma was beautiful, ungram-matica- l, uneducated, not only with-out culture, as old Mrs. Field then saw culture, but unaware that there was any such thing. "Right or wrong," Percy's mother writes, "I prevented their mar-riage. My boy was willing to give this girl's child his name, but I could not I simply couldn't agree. "Isn't it inhuman for her to re-fuse a dying woman?" Well, Louise, you have changed. Perhaps Kathryn will. No mother can entirely blame you for shut-ting off so unsuitable a marriage for a boy of 20, but you didn't show much concern for the baby, and the casual way you observe that you believe the younger child of poor wrecked Alma is to be pro-vided for, shows that your feeling is still stronger for Lucia as your granddaughter than as a small precious human being, with rights of her own. I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd for-get Kathryn for the moment. I'd take Lucia, and I'd take the small-er baby too, ana give both those youngsters the sort of joyous child-hood that only Granny can give. Little Jacqueline will soon find her way across the garden, and if you will be patient, and tactful, and remember that the most telling ar-gument of all is silence, time will do the rest. It isn't often that so involved an affair comes out so well. Two children will be happy, an unlucky girl will die content, with so much in order. ". . . mother met Alma . . ." Marriage then would have inter-rupted his college career, for I told him that if he married, he would have to work to support his wife. I told him I would not help, and sometimes I have felt since that this was pretty severe. But things you do at one time of your life look strange at some later time. Percy's sister was on the eve of a fine marriage and Percy's father had held a fine position in the Pennsylvania town where we lived then. j.uc war came along ana Percy went to the South Seas, earning more than one medal for bravery. On condition that she would never trouble him I sent Alma a check every month for three years. I saw Lucia, the baby, infrequently. Percy came home, married, and we moved to Texas. His business interests took him back frequently to and I learned much later that he saw Alma and little Lucia then. He and his wife have a daughter, now 5. Afraid of Scandal "Now Alma, who is tubercular, has moved to a sanitarium a few miles away from where we live. I have seen her, and the beautiful child. Percy is devoted to this older daughter, and wants to adopt her. But his wife, Kathryn, objects. She says it will jeopardize the future of her own daughter, cause scandal, and that she simply will not con-sent to in what she calls an old disgrace. I have, of course, suggested that I take Lucia, but Kathryn will not hear of it. Our homes are joined by a lovely gar-den, an ideal place in which to Individual Lifetime Meat Quota Set at 55 Animals Your lifetime quota of meat in terms of live animals represent 33 hogs, 10 lambs, 8 steers and 4 veal calves, a livestock publication re-ports. That's provided you live to be 68.3 years of age the life expectan-cy of a man born in the United States today. The data was based upon actual consumption of the amount of meat eaten by the average person over a 52 year period. Since the turn of the century, average per capita meat consumption has been 67 pounds of pork, 61 pounds of beef, 7.5 pounds of veal and 6 pounds of lamb. "Since the beginning of the cen-tury," the publication said, "the high point in per capita meat con-sumption was reached in 1918 at 163 pounds. The low noint was 117 pounds in 1935. Since that time, however, meat consumption per capita has been fluctuating around 150 pounds per year." ONCE OVER . I Ford Seeks fo Undo Work of Lizzie By H. I. PHILLIPS L I and the squeaky rear door made folks a little more jumpy. Then the designers in all auto plants everywhere designed a body In such a way that a tire could only be changed by a contortionist with a stick of dynamite. (This was the last straw; man hasn't been even moderately happy or peaceful from that day on.) The auto filled man with the yen o violate danger signals, cut corners and break laws. It filled millions with a sense of unearned impor-tance. .The world got "uppity." In grandpa's day one man didn't think it a social injustice if another man Ford Foundation, Gentlemen: YOUR ANNOUNCEMENT that a Ford Foundation will be used to promote peace, human happiness and human con-duct rates everybody's appreciation. And I think it is swell to see money from the auto business used for such objectives because, making full al-lowances for the many wonderful benefits the auto has brought to mankind, there is no escaping the fact that it has also contributed to making man a pretty irascible, nervous, bad mannered and not too happy creature. The world was more placid when it walked now and then, drove a horse or hopped a trolley. Mankind began to get irrita-ble and jumpy with the first traffic congestion, and has grown steadily worse. could afford a horse. But ever since the auto came, every man, woman and child has thought him-self or herself entitled to a car. Jealousy, irritability, impatience, uneasiness, dissatisfaction, lawless-ness and bad manners became uni-versal. The auto turned a quiet, peaceful world into a planet loaded with belligerent, trouble-m-akers. And it's nice to see the auto industry deciding to put some of the money back into correcting and reforming human beings in all models. Folks who saw John Steinbeck's "Burning Bright" out of town say it is shocking in its plain treatment of a delicate subject . . . Tom one of the better press agents, for years with Brock Pern-berto-has turned producer ... It can no longer be said of Joe Louis that he knows the fight game from A to Ezzard . . . Insiders report that O'Dwyer is so burned up over the turn of events in Gotham that he may issue a blast soon. A fellow could relax and be thoughtful over a week end in the horse and buggy days. He knew no urge to get out on a crowded super highway and eurse anybody who would not move over. You rarely saw a man lean from a "buggy with the fringe on top" and bawl out a pedestrian or a man In an-other vehicle. Impatience, bad manners and general Irritability are as much to blame for the lack of peace in the world today as anything. Patience went out the window the first time a man had to change a tire in the mud before the days of the demounta-ble rim. Courtesy did a fadeout with the development of the idea that the auto horn conquered aU. The defective windshield wiper, the deml tasse tool kit Final Vaccination Oscar Floresr director, (left) and General Harry H. Johnson, were on hand to see the final dose of vaccine administered in the three-yea- r battle to eradicate disease in Mexico. During the campaign approxi-matel- y 17,000,000 animals were vac-cinated three times, and the ma-jority of them received a fourth immunization. There nave been no outbreaks of the disease since December, 1949. Motorists Get Better Gasoline 2 Gallons Today Are Worth 3 of 1925 Type DETROIT If you take the fuel refiners' word for it, two gallons of today's gasoline are worth three 1925 gallons. Today's motorists many of whom had no experience with 1925 motor fuel may want to dispute this. But Ethyl corporation's research lah. oratories made exhaustive tests and report that today's gasoline is not only far ahead of 1925 fuel but also that its price, exclusive of taxes is about the same as it was 25 years ago. Ethyl corporation does not at-tempt to give the oil industry all the credit for what has been ac-complished in the last quarter cen tury with motor-ca- r fuel. It em-phasizes there has been close co-operation with the automotive in-dustry, which has greatly improved power plants since 1925. Some interesting figures cam, ,t of the research carried on by the corPration laboratories. Checking on 50 cities throughout the country, it found that the price of regular gasolinei wUhout 1925 was 21.93 cents a gallon. T day the price In the same cities also without taxes, averaged 20 n cents a gallon. Inclusion of taxes raises the av-- S mm r tPriCelnthe Same citi ? " gall0D 10 1925 I gaso6l8e.CenU 6all0n 'r Fresh Market Vegetable Tonnage Tops Last Year The total tonnage of vegetables for fresh market during the 1950 summer season was approximately per cent more than last year, the United States department of agri- culture reports. Substantially larger quantities of onions, watermelons, and cabbage and more lettuce than last year! were noted in the report. Tonnages of celery, tomatoes and peas were down somewhat |