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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH WOMAN'S WORLD Simple, Inexpensive Tricks Add Charm to Your Room All-Seas- on Suit By Ertta Haicy T0 YOUR rooms need a bit of a change to make them colorful and refreshing for the holidays? You can achieve the result at prac-tically no cost and little labor if you arm yourself with simple tools like scissors, paste, shellac, a roll or two of wallpaper, or a few pots of flowers. If your time Is limited, concen-trate only on one aspect of refresh-ing a room, preferably that which will be most imoprtant in your holi-day scheme. If you find you have more time, then you can apply a new look to one or two more rooms. The best thing about decorating In this way is that it involves no drastic changes in furniture ar-rangement or color scheme. What-ever is harmonious to the room as it stands will be in good taste. Cabinets, drawers, chests, ceil-ings, windows, lampshades, place settings or doors may be used for the tricks you're about to apply. Cheek the room to see which of these could best stand some face lifting. You may have tucked away in the recesses of the attic some fav-orite wallpaper, or perhaps you can find it at the store. Attractive wrapping paper, if heavy and dur-able enough, might also be pressed into service for some of the decora- - A good trick to use In bedrooms is to apply a border near the ceil-ing, especially if the room is painted in a solid color, or has a paper of no design. You can frequently buy a border of rose garlands to go around the upper part of the walls, and this may do the trick. In other cases, only the ceiling need be papered, especially if the room is a d one. You may paper the ceiling completely, or cut morning glories, large roses or peonies out of the wallpaper and paste each one on individually. Use floral decorations of large proportions only on rooms with high ceilings as they lower the ceiling. For those who are short on furni-ture, the problem is easily solved with partial wallpapering. Doors to a room can be papered, and they will appear to furniture it. Choose the design of the paper that goes best with your furniture and style of architecture. A good solution for a point of in-terest in a room is to have a decora-tive wallpaper panel. This can be used in a large living room right above the couch. Use Borders for Windows Or Place Settings Borders cut neatly from paper with a small sharp scissors or a razor blade are excellent to use for decorating windows, especially when you want to make them a group in themselves. If you have a group of three win-dows in the living room, plan to run the decorative border all around the windows to take the place of heavy draperies. They add pattern, but not too much. You can then use plain sheer curtains on the windows. If you want a good conversation starter at luncheon, you might try making decorative place mats out of paper flower cut-ou- or borders. Paste these carefully on plain back-grounds, and protect with two or three coats of shellac. A plain dining room table can be used as a base for a runner of large flowers cut out from paper. With a profusion of flowers down the center of the table, about a foot and a half in width, you need not have anything for place mats. Lampshades can be made decora-tive assets if they are treated with cut-out- Potted flowers run along the bottom edge of a shade are good, and so are all-ov- floral patterns. These, too, are best, when protected with a coat or two of clear shellac. Give Importance to Rooms With Proper Use of Plants Plants can create lovely decora-tive notes when they're used cor-rectly. The idea in using plants is to give them importance with prop-er grouping and containers. Use plants where it's natural to have them, near light, for example. Place them where they won't be knocked off easily. Don't use tall, spiky plants which will hide a nice mirror or pictures. Plants with vines belong in brack-ets on walls, not on tables where they would interfere with traffic. Fit the size of the plant to the size of the table on which you're using it, so balance and harmony will be kept intact. The smooth material of rayon womenswear has come into prominence this season because it is adaptable to indoor, out-door and undercoat wear. Styled for the mature figure, this suit features a bloused look with interesting pointed pockets at-tached with buttons. The skirt is smart and slender but al-lows sensible walking room. this room with decals or cut-ou-from wallpaper. If desired you can run a narrow border near the ceil-ing of a matching motif. Kitchen cabinets may be decorat-ed all over the surface with small sprigs of strawberries or floral de-signs; or. if you prefer, place a inn nrl'' decal in just opposite corners. Buffet drawers or drawers in the dressing table will be freshened with a lining of wrapping paper or wallpaper. Paste this on the bottom as well as the sides of the drawer. If you desire to protect the finish, cut a piece of plastic or cellophane paper for the bottom of the drawer. Glass-toppe- d tables may also be treated with colorful paper. Cut the Potted plants liven rooms .... tive schemes, especially for drawer linings or for glass-toppe- d dressing tables. Small sharp scissors should be at hand for whichever of the jobs you undertake. Include also some good paste wallpaper or other type, and shellac for those surfaces which take wear and need a protective coating. While you're doing the planning, see if you have some nice pieces of glass or china which you'd like to display against their new back-grounds. They'll add new interest to rooms. Perk up Cabinets For New Look Take a critical look at the cabi-net you have in your dining or liv-ing room, that tall one with the glass doors. Is it a decorative asset or a poor step-chil- d in the room? The inside of the cabinet can be papered easily in small floral print or even in a nice solid color that will go with the colors in the room. pigs If the draperies are plain, select a prominent color from them and match this in wallpaper. After the papering is done, you can place your prized china or glass-ware in the cabinet and show it off properly. Old china, milk glass, sparkling crystal or a collection of bottles or old figurines do very nicely against the new colored back-ground. Is your kitchen as colorful as it should be by current standards? It's easy enough to relieve the dead white appearance of cabinets in and wallpaper cut-ou- ts add charm. paper to fit the top and then set the glass on top of it. There is no need for pasting or attaching the paper in this case. Save Decorating Expense With Partial Papering If your budget does not allow the papering of a whole room, see what miracles can be managed with a partial papering job. This can fre-quently be done if the original cov-ering on the walls is clean, but old. and needs freshening. National Barrow Show Entries Total 2,560 F.F.fl. Chapter Swine ' Judged Grand Champion The national barrow show was held at Austin, Minn., September 12 to 16, with 2,560 hogs entered for 16 states and Canada. The grand champions of the show were a Poland-Chin- a barrow from Oklahoma, owned ty the boys of the F.F.A. Stillwater chapter; a pen of three Hampshire barrows from the e farms at Sabina, Ohio. and Pennville, Ind. ; and a truckload . 7. X x I " i f I 'I v i The. Poland China named grand champion at the national barrow show at Austin, Minn., guided in the auction ring by William Felton, Oklahoma as-sistant supervisor of education. of 15 Berkshire barrows owned by 14 orphan boys who live at the Oklahoma state orphans home at Pryor, Oklahoma. In the carcass event of the show, 128 barrows were entered and the champion carcass came from a Hampshire barrow owned by the e farms. It had the most yield of valuable cuts, and when every product was evaluated separately on today's market, it lead all the 128 carcasses in total selling price. The national barrow show is lead-ing the way in giving America a pic-ture of the kind of swine which best meets the consumer's wants. The judges put the longish, meat-typ- e hogs to the front. Planning for the Future? Buy U.S. SavingsBs , 7K THIS flZt HfWMINSR ff ' Prize Winning Reaps in the $100,000. Grand Notion..! n Waldorf l. Astoria. M,. t. J. Wipp.rfurth, Madison. W. 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Like all other house-wives I add to these the extra tasks of such crisis as illnesses, family visitors, and general supervision of manners, homework, radio pro-grams, garden, moderation in use of light, telephone, car gas. "This seems to me a full job, de-manding real budgeting of time and energy as well as money. To Johnnie it is merely a haphazard collection of minor duties, easily shunted and changed about, and never to be regarded as important. For example, my training has been to leave a spottless kitchen at night, half-se- t the breakfast table the last thing, wipe and air the chil-dren's lunch boxes, and generally get ready for the morning. The Children Help "Greg and Tony help me with clearing up. They are as handy as girls. These are twins of 10; the baby is only 5, but even he is use-ful. Johnnie hates all this; he says his mother always piled the dishes, in the sink and amused her husband ward Johnnie and I had a talk, not quarreling, and decided to ask you whether my job doesn't justify me in making my own rules and my own hours, and having them re-spected?" Ridiculous Conduct My dear Minna, Johnnie's ridic-ulous conduct is similar to that of thousands of husbands, who take their own stuffy office filing and copying and dictating as important and sacred, but toss off the little woman's laughable jobs as spor-adic gay little duties that need never soil her pretty fingertips or very seriously interrupt her novel reading and chocolate nibbling. Such men are immature. The job of homemaking and of raising a family takes two persons. And of the two jobs yours is infinitely the more important, in its effect upon the morals, mentality, and physi-cal health of the race. It must be handled not only with good will and affection, but with real knowl-edge of food values, child psychol-ogy, sanitation domestic science, in a word. I gather that Minna Carew knows something of all of these, and puts her knowledge into energetic practice. They tackle the congealed gravy, the crumbs and sticky plates and crusted pots next morning. Person-ally I have always belonged to the other school. Except, of course, on the occasions of entertaining distin-guished visitors. That was pure mischief on Johnnie's part, and in-dicates something wrong with both his heart and his head. I would advise Johnnie to confine his observations regarding affairs in his household to two remarks: "Min, you're a wonder," and "Dar-ling, I don't see how you manage it all!" "... business is the kitchen . . ." in the evenings. He says I am mak-n- g sissies of the boys, and though I love and admire his mother and know that it was only on rare oc-casions that she was a slipshod housewife, and though my boys sturdily persist that they are going to help mother, Johnnie will never give in. "When the kitchen is in order a matter of perhaps 20 minutes we go systematically at homework. Johnnie then says that he has no wife and no children, and he will turn on the radio so loud it dis-tracts the boys. Sometimes we move upstairs into the back room for quiet. "What especially exasperates me, and makes me feel really un-friendly to Johnnie," concludes Minna, "is what happened two nights ago. We had four guests, our clergyman and a visting bishop and their wives, and I gave the boys an earlier supper so that everything would be nice for us. The dinner was perfect and everyone was in a relaxed and conversational mood afterward when Johnnie over my astonished protests, said suddenly that we always had to do the dishes right after dinner, Min wouldn't stand for delay, and we had to set the breakfast table, too. They all played up most kindly, everyone helped, but my evening was ruined, and I think theirs was too. After- - Hobby Room Gives Added Pleasure to Farm Homes A farm home can become even more livable with the addition of a hobby room. It can be a corner in the basement where a boy can store his wood-workin- g tools with just enough space to put the tools to good use. Or it can be a finished room where the children can have their club meetings or a of the gang. Furnishings can be inexpensive by exercising ingenuity and imagina-tion. Built-i- n furniture, such as book shelves, shelves for knick-knack-cupboards, a wall seat with a hinged cover in which toys, games and odds and ends can be stored, can be economically made by the carpenter or by the gang of "future farmers" in one of their meetings. Other ideas for hobby room furni-ture include a drop leaf table fast-ened to the wall, a sandwich bar where hot coffee and other refresh-ments can be dispensed, a bunk on which to stretch out and rest during the day. Farm living can be pleasantly improved with the addition of a hobby room. Star Farmer V v ' ' v' i " J L.. .' !:t;.,,,.,..,. . i Forest Davis, Jr., Florida farmer, was named winner of the nation's highest award of achievement by a farm youth, that of star farmer of America. Davis was presented a check for $1,000 from the Future Farmers of America foundation at the 23rd annual F. F. F. convention in Kansas City. ONCE OVER - , Harold, Joe Pow-vo-w in Moscow By H. I. PHILLIPS TJAROLD. you remember me, of course. Joe. The face is familiar, but I don't recall the persistence. Harold. You and 1 had a previous interview. Joe. How did we come out? Harold. Nothing special came of it, but I feel it may have been a slight contribution to world peace. Joe. We should have quit when we were ahead! e e Harold. I feel the main has been your coldness. Must you be the only ruler in the world with whom a confer-ence produces only ice cubes? Joe. A government is at Its best when its defrosting equip-ment is out of order. Harold. Can't we and the whole world problem? Joe. No matter how I ex-amine the world, It still comes out Russian. But. proceed! Harold. Why, for example, must Russia maintain an iron curtain with a big "Keep Out" sign on it? Joe. What you don't see won't hurt ME! e e Harold. In our last conference : you predicted Amerca would have an economic collapse by nineteen fifty. You were nnety-nin- e per cent wrong. Joe. That still left me one per cent right. From a Soviet angle that is not bad. Harold. It also seems to me that you should wake up to the fact your agents supplying you with in-formation on conditions in the U.S.A. are amazingly inaccurate. Joe. You do not understand the Russian approach; first we decide how we wish to find conditions; then we proceed to find them that way Harold. You seem as unyielding and difficult as ever. Joe. I've noticed that, too. Harold. Can't the other fellow be right once in a hundred times? Joe. You want me to go to ex-tremes! Harold. I thought possibly you were ready for a new blueprint or plan for world understanding. Joe. My position is clear. I am for any blueprint, provided it is red. Harold. We are not getting any-where in a program for peace. Joe. Nonsense. I approve every point in every program for peace and brotherly love everywhere. Harold. But deeds count more than words. Joe. Don't be absurd. I make my words so loud that deeds don't ever finish in the money. Was this trip necessary? If you wanted to know how Russia stands today you could have followed the Soviet speeches before U.N. Harold. That's the trouble. I DID follow them. Do you really mean you were satisfied with them? Joe. I liked everything except the television broadcasts. THEY SHOWED MY SPEAKERS RIGHT-SID-UP1 I I Dowry System Beats Suitors African Bachelors Stay Single for Lack of Funds BRAZZAVILLE, French Equato-rial Africa A strong movement is afoot here and in the Belgian Congo to end the ancient and traditional "dowry" system which for centuries has proved the virtual ruination of poor young prospective husbands. Understandably, they are strong-ly backed by the young native bachelors who, according to tribal custom, must pay out exorbitant amounts to the family of the girl of their choice before they can marry her. Opponents of the "dowry" say the price is so high that most of trie, healthy young working men would rather stay single than face the al-most certain financial ruin... They say it is virtually a system of bride selling. The system tends, they say, to make marriage the privilege of only rich old men, es-pecially where polygamy is still the practice. But the tribal chiefs and even some educated Africans favor con-tinuation of the old system. They argue it seals the bond of alliance between clans and that to abolish it would break up the whole tribal system. In a still pagan society, say the supporters of the dowry, nothing would remain to instill the sense of responsibility and be-tween husband and wife, or clans, if the system disappears. 1949 Sugar Beet Crop Valued at $15 Million Nearly 10,000 midwestem farms are splitting a million dollar melon from the final payment on the 1949 sugar beet crop. Checks for the bal- - orwihr.011 th,e,"0p have gone ut shortly, the asri- - culture department reports The total value of the crop in fnd Wgan' hi0' Indiana' Ilno.s lWlfM to 1949. including payments, was aboutlj |