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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH WOMAN'S WORLD Fashionable Tricks Can Round Out Winter Wardrobe By Ertta Haley MOST WOMEN AND school girls their basic fall and win- - ter wardrobe completed by this time, but many of them are still searching for those extra special, certain effects that will give their clothes distinction. Clever accessories mean so much to those who would be appropriate-ly dressed, and some spend hours hunting for just the right belt or button to complete a certain cos-tume. In many cases. It's not money that's involved. It's just a matter of finding a certain item that will turn a dress or suit from something ordi-nary to something distinctive. When you're seeking such items, It's wise to investigate what you al-ready have, for you may have some-thing tnrkpH nwflv in thp recesses Practical Pumps i r Is f: " :,S! J?'::;:' '' JM Is: W. ::;: t''sf !! :'t :? i hMV ; W :!. fiii ii: ?. fci' sss fciMS ;4 U ! ii i S?: ii iii i i i ii i iii i iiiiiii :'iiii ::'i will take but a short time. If the dress is brown, try a black trim-ming if you want to be right up to the minute In the fashion-wis- e de-tails. Other good choices include orange, rust, purple or a deep bright shade of red. Do you have an old shirt that can be converted to a weskit for the college or high school-ag- e daugh-ter? She can wear it with long shorts, slacks or a skirt. If she already has a weskit, it can be made even smarter with an piping of velvet or velveteen. Since reefer coats are back, you might try remodeling an old one with touches of velvet at the neck-line, or putting on velvet buttons. These are simple changes, but very effective ones. Old dresses and formals frequent-ly yield excellent buttons. If you have some with rhinestones, re-move those and use them marching down the front of a classic button-fro-dress for a very smart look. The same kind of buttons can also be used on sheer wool or velvet suits. Last year's suit with a plung-ing neckline can be trimmed with velvet and velvet or rhinestone but-tons substituted for old ones. Add a bunch of soft velvet flowers, from an old formal, possibly, and you'll have a costume such as is being widely shown. Skirts, Weskits Make Wardrobe Extenders Skirts, blouses and weskits to go with them make exceptionally nice wardrobe extenders since the three together may be worn to make a good casual costume. Then, too, the skirts may be worn with sweaters and jackets. while blouses will go with the other skirts, and weskits may be worn with other skirts, as well as slacks and shorts. Tubular jersey is a popular ma-terial that may be purchased by the yard for making skirts. Corduroy and velveteen may be used for the weskits, and, if you like plaids or woolens for these, you can easily get together enough material for them from old dresses or coat linings. Weskits are made in two popular styles, the small, men's type with a V neckline, and the other, a tux-edo front, that shows small, tucked blouses off so well. If you have any d old white blouses in your wardrobe, these can easily be brought into use again. Dye them, in the rich fall shades, if you want to spice the costume with color, or bleach them to snowy whiteness if you prefer. Robes, Gowns, Pajamas Should Yield Warmth You can cut the corners on your clothing budget by sewing pajamas, robes and gowns at home, especial-ly when you use easily managed cotton flannel. Both cutting and sewing are easy, and the flannel is modest in price. Classic two-piec- e pajamas are still being used extensively, but a new favorite style currently Is the one-piec- e which is gathered at the wrists and ankles. It has an oversized Peter Pan collar and front opening, with the waist nipped with a narrow self belt. Plaid and flannel nightshirts that are made like large men's shirts, with long sleeves and large upper pockets are also being favored. of the closet that can be used or ' altered into something with a lot of service. Before you buy. Investigate what you have. It's often surprising what you can find, a nice piece of plaid that makes just the right belt, some old rhinestones that can be glued to buttons or that might be made into costume jewelry, so correct for the current fashion picture. Belts, Cummerbunds Are Distinctive Skirts and blouses of luxury ma-terials are an important part of the Pumps that go anywhere and keep your feet comfortable are these black calf sling types with a fairly low heel and a jaunty cocarde at the instep. Open toes assure comfortable room at the tip of the shoe. Search for Remnants To Use as Neckwear Plain classic sweaters, tailored dresses as well as coat and jacket fashions all demand some sort of ornamental scarf at the neck. Most of these are small, tiedln a knot at the front of the neck, and then ornamented with a single dec-orative pin. Remnants are good sources for these scarves, whether you buy them at a bargain counter or find the material 'in the attic or scrap bag. Little or no sewing is re-quired for these have simple hems. The short jacket coats made of fur or pseudo-fu- r give an excellent background for scarves made from luxury materials such as taffeta, crepe, satin, faille or chiffon. With dressy sweaters, a bit of chiffon to which is attached a flower of crushed velvet, is excel-lent. For the more rugged costumes, use plaid, striped or plain wool scarves. Old Fabrics Yield Excellent Trimmings Many not quite new dresses can be easily rejuvenated with just a Make a weskit out of a remnant . . . fashion scene. If you're tall and slender you'll want to put them to-gether in a single costume with a cummerbund effect at the waist. Cummerbunds can be made from all sorts of old, luxurious, pieces of material such as old dresses, scarves, or a wide ribbon trimming on an old hat. Many of the pieces of fabric you find will need only a light clean-ing or pressing to bring them into condition. Wash only those ma-terials which are washable. If you're in doubt, snip off a piece for laundering before trying out the whole piece. After recondition-ing, cut and finish the material to fit the waist, cummerbund fashion. Plaid belts and cummerbunds are high fashion, too, for long shorts or slacks whether you're at home or on campus. Sources for the plaid might be a remnant tucked away in a scrap bag, an old woolen dress, or even the lining of an old coat. Cummerbunds or belts for tail-ored clothing should be neat and clean-cu- t. For wearing with tail-ored clothes, the plaid cummer-bund is cut just long enough to go around the waist. It's flat, and high and rounded in front, and may be fastened with snaps in back or front. Sometimes a huge orna-mental pin is attached to the front trim a dress with rhinestone buttons. touch or two of luxurious trimming to bring them right back into the fashion spotlight. For these you need mere strips of satin or velvet, velveteen or faille. Take for example, a good basic dress that needs a bit of brighten-ing. You might trim the small col-lar and cuffs with velvet or satin. This trimming is easy to apply and Plant Starvation Lowers Corn Yield Lack of Phosphate May Be Factor in Failure By checking signs of plant food starvation on the corn you harvest-ed this fall, you can take steps to Increase yields next year. For example, if the corn in your crib has a lot of ears like those in the accompanying illustration, the crop was starved for phosphate. The reason for this was that part of the silks came out too late to catch any pollen. The kernels were not fertilized and so failed to fill out. The unfilled rows or parts of rows make the ears lopsided and curled. It ; Crop starved for phosphate is Illustrated by ears above. Ears are twisted and whole rows of kernels failed to fill. ' You can add phosphate to the soil next spring through the use of fer-tilizers carrying this plant nutrient. But corn needs oth-er elements besides phosphate. It needs nitrogen and potash, too. So the surest way to keep your corn healthy and well fed and to get high yields per acre, is to give your soil a balanced supply of plant foods carrying all three major elements nitrogen, phosphate and potash. Good soil tilth is another essential for getting high corn yields. You can build tilth and put the soil in prime condition for growing corn, alfalfa and sweet clover, mellow the soil, loosen tight compactions below the plow layer and make the soil more porous so water and air can get in. the Red Who is he?" said to a policeman, who Wa7 oring to raise an intoxt dividual who had tMen "U k "Can't say, sir," replied hceman, "he can't Eive th e count of himself." a" "Of course not," said them "how can you expect an ! f: from ance." a man who has lost huf1 Miscast Film Magnate "Who's that?" enn8sW: Director - "Why leon." muh, Film Ma?natp"TOi.- - ,.. I. get such a little man to pu' 1 1' an important part?" - More Fun Burns and Allen said t greatest laugh came from a they used to do in vaudevi'.'1 Gracie set it up by saying sister put in a new swimming last night, and we had George - "Yeah, that's B, sport." Gracie "We'll have even t , fun tomorrow when they w-ithe water." To add to the eye appeal of gravy when it isn't brown enough, add a little leftover coffee. The name, "Journeyman Paint-er" comes from the painters who, at the time of the Renaissance, journeyed from country to coun-try with their brushes, palettes, and secretly blended paints. In today's parlance, a journeyman painter is one who has had at least three years' experience and schooling as an apprentice. When you thicken gravy with flour, you can avoid lumpiness by mixing a little cornstarch with the flour. Small holes in the bottom of an aluminum pot can be mended at home. Buy some small copper or aluminum rivets, th of an inch in diameter and one-eigh- th of an inch long. Enlarge the hole so you can force the rivet through from the inside; then rest the head of the rivet on some hard metal surface and tap the other end with a hammer until it flattens out and tightens up in the hole. Precaution Always stop all machinery before oiling, adjusting or unclogging. 2m UlJivsvaJ duetocc:, For fine soothing comfort VapoRub ft flAiy on your throat f flWO andchest.Tryit! V VapoRus CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. FOB SALE at Sacrifice Highway Stand and Grocery grossing 65,000 year. Going' into farming. A. B. Gate, Jr. Phone 2641 Route 2, Box 90 Delano, Calif. MISCELLANEOUS Wm. A. Rogers A-- l Plus Silverware serv ice for six S18.95. Write for free Cata logue. SKIPPER, Delkern Station, Bakers-field- Calif. WANTED TO BUT Cash registers adding machines safes. A. R. DAV13 CO. 155 East First So., Phone Salt Lake FOR SALE A TRUCK PLENTY CHEAP Used hearses and ambulanceB with mileages as tow as 25,000. Can be made into utility trucks, camp cars, etc. Write for list and pictures. LORENZO SMITH & SON 257 East 2nd South Salt Lake City, Utah a IUU CAN BE SURE WITH VCLABBER GIRL if m ;li Pllh ill! 111 i I Good Houselueplnj gfY , .J 3Sil3P' " WNU W 4050 I Y Musclef QUICK.' rC'KftfU RUB IN Jj . - THE ORIGINAL BAUME ANAl&ESI KATHLEEN NORRIS Are Your Children "Common? NATURALLY, we can all make for each other. The power to be cruel is as close as the power to be kind, and some-times much easier to use. Any woman is free to say slighting or cutting things to her husband. Any man may neglect the mother who loves him and break her heart. Any parents may make life hell for their children; short of actual violence no one will stop them. Some homes are full of small instances of mean-ness and coldness, little daily hu-miliations and hurts. It is actually frightening to think how easily we may all fail each other in this way, and how the results of this only d rudeness and thought-lessness can be. The members of one family of brothers and sisters, neighbors of ours many years ago, never said a kind word to each other. Too Much Unkindness Their dinner-tabl- e talk was quiet sneers, criticisms, and complaints. If one of the daughters, rather shy and not too pretty, observed that a young man had walked home with her, or sent her candy, all the oth-ers metaphorically tore the young man from limb to limb. Only a bold girl would go on into courtship after that, and, as a matter of fact, none of the girls married. If the flushed, tired, overworked mother observed that her mother or her sister was coming in for an overnight stay, there were groans. Dishwashing was done, for all the have it applied to them. And bad manners are "common." Squab-bling and bickering and hurting peo-ples' feelings, laughing at their troubles or embarrassments all in-dicate a background without cul-ture or spiritual guidance; in oth-er words, "a common family." If I can sit through just one din-ner hour with any family of boys and girls, I can tell you just where the parents failed them or helped them in wise guidance, and predict pretty closely their successful or unsuccessful destinies. All this comes to my mind be-cause of the predicament of a young wife who writes me from Wichita. "Matt and I will have to live with his folks for another year at least," says her tear-staine- d letter. "They don't hate each other, I know they don't. But if anyone stays long at the telephone, or is just a few min-utes late for a meal, or buys a hat, the way they all scream at her, or laugh at her clothes, or push their pudding away and say they never have liked it is simply terrible I If ;ou say 'Will you do me a favor?' the usual thing is to say, 'I like that! When did you ever do one for me? What is it?" "Matt says this doesn't mean any-thing, it's just their way. But my own home was different. We weren't allowed, as kids, to keep up this kind of silly, mean picking and grumbling at each other. The result is that we four brothers and sisters love one another; we like to be together, and our children, as they grow out of babyhood, will have happy times together as cousins. My mother-in-la- has two sisters to whom she has not spok-en for 15 years; Violet, the oldest girl, has married a very nice man, but they sneer at him." "... cheap family quarrels . . . six years I knew them, under pro-test, recrimination and dislike. It was Dorothy's turn, it was Ma-bel's turn to wash. As for the brothers those boys were so lazy and so stuck on themselves and so spoiled that, according to the girls, they were simply no good. Not many families are quite as disagreeable as were the Optics. But unkindness of this sort does exist in too many homes, and it destroys one of the most valuable assets any child can have: a back-ground of love and help and se-curity. Cheap family quarrels destroy many a sensitive and hungry heart. Goodness just simple goodness and thoughtfulness, and a humble desire to promote family harmony completely make any life heaven. Goodness isn't easy to achieve. But there is a consideration that, to many women who are socially ambitious, who want everything about their houses and their chil-dren to be "nice," might make fine manners and sweetness and tender-ness worth their cultivating. Bad Manners Are Common Such women average wives and mothers avoid the word "com-mon." They would far rather die than USDA Recommends DDT For Termite Control The U.S. department of agricul-ture has come up with the answer for one of the farmers' serious problems termites. The USDA says a single treat-ment of DDT will prevent termites from attacking woodwork for at least five years and anyone can ap-ply the treatment. Here's the mix-ture to use: 5 per cent DDT in No. 2 fuel oiL It will give wooden structures complete protection from termites. Entomologists suggest digging a trench along the building's founda-tion about 30 inches deep and about the width of a spade. Then the earth should be saturated at tne bot-tom with the DDT preparation. The soil which is used to fill up the trench also should be saturated. Ap-ply the treatment at the rate of one quart per cubic foot of soil. . ONCE OVER Lei Dan Cupid Replace Malik ' By H. I. PHILLIPS THE UNITED NATIONS is a big chance. It failed to put love on the agenda, with the Cre-tan disturbance over the elope-ment of Tassoula Patrak-ageor-crying out for action. Tass-oula, daughter of a Liberal deputy, was whisked off to the mountains in knightly fashion by dashing Kephaloyannis, a member of the Conservatives. Something close to war followed. Disturbances are still going on. This column urges that the case be taken up by the security council at once so that for the first time love and romance may figure in its proceedings. So far they have never been mention-ed. Think how It would cheer the heartsick world, fed up with grim debates at Lake Success, to dis-cuss via radio and video a crisis of the Romeo and Juliet type! With the agenda listing it as "Complaint of aggression in the Cretan moon-light"! U.N. needs an asmosphere of orange blossoms, a mood of and distant strains of "Here Comes the Bride" and "This Can't Be Love, Because It Feels So Good." It could even hold moon-light sessions and use a balcony scene. The elopement and marriage of Tassoula and Constantine brought out the army. It caused disturb-ances all over Crete. Tassoula's father declared the romance an act of aggression. The bridegroom's supporters are for a fight to restore love and kisses to their proper place In a war-tor- n globe. We want the Security Council to seat both sides. How will Russia stand? Probably against love and romance as the crude pastimes of the ruling classes. Wall street and Warren Austin. Mr. Malik might charge Foster Dulles with starting the whole business. (If we were Tassie, the happy bride, we would demand that Malik be kept out so her case could be ruled on while she was still young.) Consider what a relief It would be to hear simultaneous and con-secutive interpretations of such im-mortal pleas as "Come live with me and be my love" and "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun!" instead of "As is well known, the despicable vassals of these bloodthirsty warmongers, etc." We repeat, this is U. N.'s grand chance. The world is sick of con-flicts based on hatreds, jealousies, frontiers and parallels. Let's hear something like "Marry me now, my sweet, and tell your folks later" translated into three languages. Make Irving Berlin or Cole Porter chairman for the month. Now is the time for United Nations to drive Tassoula Patrakageorgi back be-hind the 38th parallel of parental frigidity and Insist that "fair Ve-rona" be kept under the rule of Will Shakespeare! Belated story from the Malik din-ner to his colleagues; one of the Russian delegates seemed unneces-sarily noisy drinking his soup and somebody asked, "I hope we don't get simultaneous and consecutive translations." Milk Pail Rack This stand Is welded from an-gle Iron and pipe. The bottom support shown here is made from two pieces of W pipe welded together with a slight space between them. This per-mits water to drain off. The stand can be mounted directly in the earth or it can be grout-ed in cement. Lightning Still A Big Mystery But Science Advises Cooperating With It PITTSBURGH, PA. There is no use getting all charged up about lightning. "Lightning Is something you have to with," A. J. Fink, a Westinghouse expert on the subject, explained. "You can't fight it." There are no real experts on lightning. Though everyone has seen lightning, few folks seem to know how - the "bolts from the blue" are born. Scientists them-selves aren't .too positive; Henry Rockwood, Pittsburgh's weatherman, explained that light-ning occurs mainly during summer months because the earth soaks up more of the sun's heat. A vertical column of moist air starts moving upward when it is heated by the earth. As it reaches the "dew point," or condensation point, the air is saturated with moisture and that's how clouds are formed. But if the moist air column is deep enough and high enough, that old bogey of the airmen, a thunder-hea-is formed. Through a mysterious mechan-ism in the movement of ic crys-tal sand droplets, a separation of electrical charges occurs. Record Cranberry Crop Forecast for Wisconsin A record production of 969,000 barrels of cranberries is forecast this fall, agricultural department of-ficials report. The prospect is 15 per cent above the previous record of 967,700 barrels in 1948. Production in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Wisconsin and Oregon is above last year. Washington's crop is above average but below that of last year the agricultural depart-ment said. |