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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH WOMAN'S WORLD Glamorize Tired Closets With Colorful Decorations Accent on White t i I - w f ' i;1 Jam04mm By Ertta Halei TS YOUR CLOTHES closet Just a place to hang clothes and to store unattractive boxes? Do you hate to open it because it's such a dark unattractive corner compared to an attractive bedroom? Closets, just like other rooms in the house, can have their own par-ticular charm in decorating schemes. They can be done in the same manner as you've done the bedroom or hall, or they can be decorated in a complimentary color scheme. The cluttered stor-age 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 possible to give the bedroom or hall a vacation from some of the duties to which it's now accustomed. For example, closets, if large enough, can become a dressing room as well as a storage center when treated properly from a dec-orative point of view. 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 touch. You can make yards of this cording for trim in no time at all with the aid of the cording foot attachment for your sewing ma-chine. Garment bags are good for the "best" dresses since they make such attractive storage compart-ments. 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 slide fas-tener so that you can have easy access to the bag, and at the same time, a dust-pro- container. Garment bags can be made of glazed chintz or other attractive cotton prints that will compliment the bedroom color scheme, if cot-ton print is starched stiffly. Plas-tics are good, too, since you can see what's in the bag. Keep Shoes Neat In Proper Compartments Shoe bags have long been pop-ular 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 gar-ment 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 about 18 inches wide and long enough to house at least four pairs of shoes. If you have a large shoe ward-robe, 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 excel-lent 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 evening shoes and 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. Glue Fabric to Box For Storage Use To permit handy access to a stor-age box, it's smart to make it with a front opening. Cut one side from a square box. Cover the three re-maining sides 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. 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 puck-ered front of the skirt. The 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 the fabric make allowances for seams. Stitch the seams together, turn right side out and press seams open. Smooth the cover over the box, gluing firmly in place. Cording, pleating or eyelet ruf-fle may be used as a lid trim to add a feminine touch. 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 Add colorful storage boxes . . . in chintz or cording, so the ex-pense is small. If you do the dec-orating 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 af-fairs and all the space at the top is not in use. If space at the top is going un-used, construct shelves there to use for housing blankets and extra ' bedding, hats and clothing. If you want easy access to the high shelves, you may keep a small step ladder in the closet. Smaller shelves can be construct-ed on lower levels to hold such small items as purses, jewelry, belts, gloves, scarves, sewing boxes and cleaning equipment like shoe polish, brushes and 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, blankets, seasonal purses, fur pieces and other clothing on the higher shelves so they will be 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, and padded hangers to closet. perky bow or a sachet at the hang-er top for added effect. Shoulder covers and garment bags are wonderful for protecting 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 Modern Milk House Built Under Drive Idea Could Be Used On Many Midwest Farms Like most people, farmers have a desire to maka use of all available space in and around their service buildings. Few, however, thought of locating a modern milk house un-der a driveway. That this is possible is shown In the accompanying picture. Like so many midwestern barns, the two-stor- y structure is located so that about half of it (extending from front to rear) rests on a ridge of land. In this case the ridge is about eight feet high. Only that portion of the first floor, which i! built on the low ground, is used for milking operations. This eliminated tirf ib of excavating un-- jj'' 4 " The above picture shows one idea the farmer might use to make use of all available space in and around service buildings. der the ridge. Also, however, it created the problem of building a milk bouse which would be conven-ient to the milking area and not be affected by drainage from the slop-ing land. Since the driveway to the mow followed the ridge line, it was a comparatively easy jog to construct the milk house beneath this natu-ral dirt "ramp," and to connect it to the adjacent stanchion section of the barn. 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His people were wonderful to me; their wedding gift, among other things, the d home in which I 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 now4 and 2. Bucky has never made any especial fuss over them, but his mother and father and everyone else were so delighted that I guess I didn't notice Bucky much. I thought he was as happy as I was. Never Was Happy "But he wasn't. He says now he never was happy with me, and he puzzles me and hurts me by ask-ing if he is supposed from now on to be satisfied to sit around and listen to people praising the chil-dren. 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 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. Just a College Boy I 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 all. 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, adventure, new faces; he wants to take chances on trips and friend-ships 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. All over America young men, situated as Bucky is, are doing what he wants to do. They are walking out on the 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 prom-ised land out of which they have voluntarily shut themselves. Bucky may be able to force you to divorce him, Eileen; his wealth may make this possible. You may have to raise those children without their fattier. When you married a rich boy you ran that risk. " lmX ' ' "... really did love me ..." friends, invests money in their schemes, goes off sometimes for three or four days at a time. He does not drink, but he 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; Bucky is 31, I am 27. That is young, isn't it? But our marriage seems to have gone dead. Bucky is just plain bored by me and our home and our children. No 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 sympath-etic 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 discour-aged 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 al-though I am still young and pretty and have a rich husband and two adorable children, with a third child on the way, I seem to have nothing at all. What shall I do?" Protein Supplement Cuts Swine Production Costs Farmers with ample supplies of grain may be tempted to fill the hog self-feed- with corn and cut down on the amount of, or even eliminate, the protein supplement. Such a step is not as thrifty as it may seem. Experiments have shown that hogs fed corn alone in dry lot re-quire 11 to 12 bushels of corn per hundred pounds of grain. When a good protein supplement is used in the ration, 100 pounds of pork can be produced with five and one half to six bushels of corn and 50 pounds protein supplement. With hog and feed prices what they are, this means that every bushel of corn fed with a good pro-tein supplement is worth $2.25 to $2.75 per busheL while hogs fed corn alone return only $1.50 to $1.75 per bushel of corn consumed. Hogs fed grain and a balanced supplement will reach market weight in five and one half to six months. Shop or Home Desk Here is a desk that is quite handy for the shop or home. The top may be built to any size desired or made from a targe drawing board. It is fast-ened to the frame with hinges so that it may be raised. The other parts of the desk are made of small pieces of lumber. . ONCE OVER . The Salt Hath Lost Its Savor By H. I. PHILLIPS If SWIG OF SALT WATER will definitely end the craving for a highball or cocktail, says the Quarterly Journal of Alcohol (Whodat?), announcing the findings of physicians after exhaustive ex-periments among men who can be argued into salted drinks. We im-mediately felt the yen for a mar-tini Fortunately we happened to have a salt box strapped to our back as we turned into Mooney's. Things like this take courage. Why not one cocktail to brace a man for a tumbler of salt water? Logi-cal enough. Mooney began prepar-ing it. "Make it a double," we said, not being much of a salt-water man. Brr-rr-r- r! Now we could ge for the salt box with sufficient additional nerve to ask Moon-ey for a glass of water. "What's the big Idea?" asked Mooney as we came up with some salt. Mooney is a stern man. We were sure he was not a subscriber to the Quarterly Journal. It would take another martini for us to explain. "Same thing," we repeated. Wow! This time we could do It. We took an extra large por-tion of salt and asked for a glass of water. "What?" asked Mooney and Mooney. (There were two of them now.) "Water. Forsh shawlt," we re-plied. "What goes on here?" barked three Mooneys. (There was a hi the. picture, too, but I left bim out). "Juarterly Quernal of Alco-ha- . . . Doncha read all the mopular pagazines? Look! Salt!" we said. "I read Look but not Salt. That must be a new one," re-plied the four Mooneys. We explained with difficulty, throwing in a few dance steps and four choruses of Sweet Adeline. But not before another martini. Ultimately two Mooneys got a tall glass, three Mooneys got a spoon and the remaining Mooneys helped us with the salt. "Walleff" we said. "Shawlt okay. Swater okay. Now put in walliff-ff.- " "He's trying to say 'olive,' " said all the Mooneys, walking across the ceiling. A sixth Mooney stayed on the floor and served us another double martini for which the need was now desperate. e e 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 Quar-terly Journal of Alcohol editor, commanded, "Come down here. Are you a man or a mouse?" "A mouse," we replied, "the unshawlted kind." Cleaners Find Everything Carelessness Causes Considerable Concern WASHINGTON, D. C An attend-ant rushed out of a small suburban cleaning store here one day not long ago, spotted a man on his way down the street and hurried after him. "Just a minute, sir," she called, and then told the startled custom-er, "here's your bundle of checks, your address book and your pack 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 accident-ally do. "Take a fountain pen full of ink or a tube of lipstick," said the man-ager of one dry cleaning store. "We search carefully for them in men's pockets and in the Uning 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 gar- ments over again and spotting th. stains out by hand." Reasonable Care Will Extend Life of Pillow Pillows don't need a lot of special care, but reasonable attention will extend their serviceability. They should be aired outdoors often in cool, dry air. or placed on a chair near an open window. Airing not only clears the pillows of possible dust but also helps prevent lumping of feathers. A simple daUy routine is to remove cases and fluff the pillows when making the bed. This helps force in air. |