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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH WOMAN'S WORLD Colors Provide Home With Comfort in Hot Weather Round Crown Sailor " ...' - i L -- i J By Ertta Haley HAVE YOU HAD the gratifying of walking into a v room from the sweltering and felt cool and rested after a few minutes? It may not actually befive or ten degrees cooler in the room, but everything in it was so serene you just couldn't help feeling more relaxed. It's possible to cool your homes simply by careful decorating, as women who have done it will tell you; They don't spend a lot of money on summer decorations, but they do apply basic color and deco-ration principals to what they fur-nish. In general, uncluttered effects are to be sought. This means the use of ' cool or plain colors, simple designs that have no "busy-ness- " about th'em, and the removal of everything from that room that is not abso-lutely essential. Stacks of magazines, what-no- t shelves filled with small decorative pieces, extra pillows and such with a deeper or lighter shade of the wall color or even have a complimentary color introduced since it's to be used in such a small amount. Decorating the Porch Can Be Fun Screened, glassed or open por-ches which are- frequently used as dining areas can offer an engag-ing decorating project. It is here that every woman can show true ingenuity since there are no hard and fast rules to follow. You may be able to bring in some dark cast iron furniture for such a porch, and it will be real pleasure to see how attractive it can be made. A good way to lighten it properly is to paint it some shade of white or pastel yel-low relieved with touches (of white. In case the furniture leaves much to be desired in the way of seating comfort, as it frequently does, plan to make chair pads and possibly arm pads for the settees and chairs. These are easily done on the machine. Materials recommended are plastics which may be purchased by the yard, oil cloth, or some of the sturdy cot-tons. Pillow ticking may offer you a cool but sturdy answer to the cover problem. Unless the porch is glassed, draperies offer no problem. It may, however, be more comfort-able if you get inexpensive, dis-posable type Venetian blind for screened porches as this will en-able you to shut out the glare of the sun during certain times of the day. Floor coverings for these porch-es may be rugs woven or sewed at home. Tweedy effects, rough workmanship and a casual air in such rugs usually lends much at-mosphere to these floor coverings. A set or two of nested tables, as well as a coffee table or cart are excellent furniture for porches used for dining. Unless you can salvage some out of garage, base-ment or attic, plan to buy them second hand for refinishing. How To Keep Bedroom Cool and Comfortable Bedrooms are the easiest of all rooms to keep cool and airy during the summer months since the prime requisite for doing so is to remove all but the essentials from them. It is entirely proper to do away with curtains and draperies en-tirely. The windows can be made attractive by using Venetian blinds or some decorative shades. In fact, shades may even be painted white and then trimmed with s. The purpose of leaving windows uncovered is to enable air to reach the room easily, especially at night for sleeping comfort. A certain amount of attractive bare look is especially conducive to cooling these rooms. If curtains are desired, however, they should at all times be kept frosty and crisp looking. Since curtains can be stretched to save ironing, this need not be much of a problem. Worn level on the brow, the broad-brimme- d sailor is one of this summer's smartest hat fashions. Walter K. Marks creates this summer sailor of brilliant scarlet balibuntal whose brim has a flange of navy grosgrain ribbon covered by a soft face veil of confetti-dotte- d navy mesh. Materials designed especially for the warm weather are to be found easily if you consult either drapery yard goods or even fab-ric departments. If the pattern which strikes you as most appro-priate is a bit warmer in tone than it should be for a cool effect, it may still be used if kept at a minimum Draperies in this case might be a cream or wheat color with a bor-der or valance of the print or plaid. If instead of using it to cover chairs or sofas completely, it might be used for just the pleating around the skirt. Plain colored walls in brown, cool green (with more blue than Keep rooms cool . . . . things which contribute so much to the warmth of the room during cool weather are best stored away dur-ing warm months. If you have a plain, cool color on the walls or a small print or plaid, then walls will need no change. However, if you have bright red, orange or rich yellow colors in drapes and slip covers, you would do well to invest in an inexpensive summer set for the comfort they give. Inexpensive cottons can be pur-chased and sewed at home to fur-nish rooms for hot months. You should select them for the cool ap-pearance as well as easy launder-abilit- y since a cool room is also a fresh neat one. Keep Rooms Cheerful When Selectin? Color Cool colors are not necessarily sombre colors. Even though you may choose a dark blue or a ma-roon as a predominating color, it can always be lightened with touches of white, pale pink, pastel ye'llow of gay green. It's especially important to keep rooms looking cheerful even though concentrating on cool col-ors. Though you avoid the warm, lush colors like brilliant rose, warm yellow and orange, and the busy looking large flowered prints in draperies and furniture covers, rooms need not be drab. with uncluttered decoration. yellow in the color), maroon, light gray, white, gray blue or beige are prescribed for cooling rooms. Plain wall treatments also enable you to use somewhat more pat-tern in the other decor of the room, and you may easily choose small prints or shadow plaids to give the cheerful aspect that is so important. Kitchens, too, can be cooled with any of the colors mentioned above. With a definite color in the kit-chen, curtains may be white, edged Waxed paper inside a cracker box. is generally better than the kind you buy. Save it. Clean pearls and amber beads with olive oil on a piece of flannel or chamois. r There is nothing so refreshing on a hot day as a tall glass of lemonade with a sprig of fresh mint. Decalcomania transfers on painted surfaces can be removed without damaging the paint if you douse them with hot vinegar. Cigar or cigarette ashes dropped in the soil around gera-niums promotes longer life for the plants. Secrets of making good coffee include the use of freshly drawn water, fresh coffee of the right grind, and a freshly scalded, very clean coffee pot. Spattered grease on the wall-paper behind your stove can be removed easily if you paint the paper, when it is new, with a coat of colorless shellac. It is a good idea to dry mint leaves when they are very young and tender. Then they can be used for flavoring vegetables, meats, dressings, and stews. For safety, paint bottom step in cellar white. 4 Your Next Picture Kew Typ, Tender,,, cuts. Seventeen Qr Steel Blades. Cuts No hard pound Noiseless. Satisfied J1.99 value for mi", Mail orders L. Saylor, 7610 SI ' PortUn4 6, 0:: Blli love it! Grown-up- s CHILDREN of this woodland scene too. 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You can store Red Star Dry Yeast BB B BB I Q for weeks longer on your kitchen shelf, i Hii and be certain it will keep as fresh as the day it left the Red Star plant L.afiftiftaws V Another Red Star First that L0 ' can never be exactly copied! JyH5r TRY RED STAR TODAY. It will always be your best buy in yeast. --r KATHLEEN NORRIS Duty Ranks Above Casual Fancy Mother, and try to ratify to my children their father's abandonment of us? "My mother is everything that is lovely and welcoming. There is room in the old home, but if this happens I will feel that my life as a living beloved, needed wom-an, is over, and that my closest friend has struck a cruel blow at my heart. On the other hand, I can-not compete with a younger, pret-tier, richer woman, even though I'm a good housekeeper and cook, love my children, and used to be considered full of fun. That's all broken down; I feel like a different woman now. She has won my hus band away from me. Will she win my children? Can the law do any-thing to stop it?" n if FTER 10 YEARS of apparent- - ly happy marriage, my hus-band has just asked me for a di-vorce," writes a woman named Laura Post, of Pontiac. "I am stunned at the idea, in fact I have been feeling actually sick," her letter goes on. "Bill put it to me quite quietly one morning after breakfast. He had enjoyed his pa-per, his coffee, his children's chat-ter, just as usual. But when the children were gone, Jo-an- 8, Timothy 6, he stood up, put his hands on the back of his chair, looked steadily away from me and stated his case. "He is in love with another wom-an; a divorced woman who is the heaviest stockholder in the factory of which Bill is manager. She is rich and handsome. She has a love-ly home in the suburbs where my children have occasionally been asked to go and play with her chil-dren. No, the law can't, Laura, and sometimes I think it's a pity. It is really unfortunate that a man in your husband's position, "with club friends, a fine responsible job, chil-dren, home, and a good wife, can-not somehow be held to his obvious duty. For he does owe you and the children and the commonwealth the duty of maintaining one more good American home. Civilization is built by persons who keep their word, and put honor and duty and decency ahead of then-casua- l passions. For there is no real love involved in this affair between two unscrupulous persons, and if you were inclined to retalia-tion, you could do no better than to give him his freedom, and watch his subsequent disillusionment and discomfort. As for you, remember that what seems to be a situation in which he is and you merely helpless and miserable, will change. Poisoned by Passion "In other words, she has every-thing to offer, and I feel that I have nothing with which to hold him. The children are at trying ages, noisy, disorderly, needing my constant supervision, needing help with homework, amusement, every-thing. They love their father, but Bill has never paid much attention to them, and for the past year it has been almost impossible to in-terest him in anything at home. It is the other woman, Olive, of course. His passion for her has simply poisoned him. "In the beginning he wanted me to be nice to her. She came here to dinner and invited us out to her place for Sundays. Then he began to drop hints as to the advantages . . rich and bandsom . . her children had over ours; which was perfectly obvious. He ad-mired the way she dressed, and would only say 'I know, dear,' when I pointed out that she could spend as much as our entire annual in-come on clothes alone and, in fact, did. "But she told him she made her own dresses and thought she prob-ably spent less than I did and, of course, he believed her. Living with her is a fine middle-age- d cousin who manages house, cook and. children, but Bill gives Olive all the credit for the way the place is run. Two Questions "Now I ask you two questions," this letter finishes. "Shall I give him a divorce? I don't want to, I feel bitterly resentful and jealous that he can so quietly throw aside all we have built up together and all we have meant to each other. But I would like your advice. "Second: Is it fair that a woman like myself not as attractive as Olive, hard working, perfectly hap-py to give all my life and time to my home and husband should have to face this humilation and heart-break? What have I done? Why am I to break up my home, go back to . THE READERS COUR TROOM Wealthy Widow Forgot Children By Will Bernard, LL.B. Does Forgetting Names and Faces Indicate Mental Weakness? The children of a wealthy widow were dismayed to find that they had been left out of her will en-tirely. They determined to contest the will, on the ground that their mother had been "mentally in-competent." To prove it, they re-called that she would often start Should You Wait Until the Last Moment Before Jumping From a Burning Building? A careless janitor dropped a match in the basement of an old hotel, and fire soon enveloped the building. A guest on the third floor, seeing flames in the corridor, quickly decided to take the only other exit the window. He jumped, breaking both legs in his fall. Later he sued the hotel for dam-ages. At the trial, the hotel at-- i torney argued: "The fire in the corridor wasn't very bad at the time this man jumped out the window. If he had gone through the corridor, he probably wouldn't have been injured at all." But the court still held the hotel liable. The judge said that a person can't be expected to make a discriminating choice of exits at such a mo-ment! May a Pupil Collect Damages For Being Kept After School? A schoolgirl made so much noise during class that her teacher kept her after school for 15 minutes. A few days later, the teacher was startled to find himself named de-fendant in a "false, imprisonment" WE AAET .Tl timmmSmiit 5 MINUTES AGO! Jij (JJ ' ZVl.L SETTLE THIS T ' telling a joke, get half way through, and then forget the punch line. Moreover, they said she would in-troduce herself to a stranger at a party, shake hands, and then a few minutes later do the same thing with the same person. But the court found this evidence in-adequate to prove incompetency, and held the will valid. The judge figured that a woman should not be considered mentally unbal-anced just because she lacked a few social graces! An express train ran through a covey of geese sitting on the track, leaving five of them dead. The farmer who owned the birds sued for damages, saying: "I don't ex-pect the engineer to stop his train for a few geese, but I do think he should at least have given them a warning whistle!" However, the court held the railroad not liable. The judge said that, rather than scare the geese away, a whistle would more probably have caused them to huddle together right where they were for defense action. The girl claimed: "I hadn't committed any crime, and there-fore my teacher had no legal right to detain me against my will." However, the court turned down the girl's demand. The judge said that a teacher must have some kind of disciplinary powers, to keep his students under control. Harvard Birds Smart, Naturally Pigeons Can Play Piano, Tell Time, Push Buttons CAMBRIDGE, MASS.. Smart birds, these Harvard educated pigeons. They are able to play a tune on a piano, play table tennis, tell time, press push buttons and understand changing colors like traffic lights. The piano players can rattle off such simple tunes as "Over the Fence Is Out, Boys," and "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." And all the brains are not in the heads of the fancy homing varieties. The common park pigeon is just as smart. B. F. Skinner, professor of psy-chology at Harvard, has drawn these conclusions after a series of experiments. The tests are designed to de-termine whether a child can be trained more effectively by encour-aging good behavior or punishing bad actions. How do you do it with pigeons? The professor explains that pigeons are ideal subjects because they have a reaction time comparable to humans. They are paid off with food if their responses to various tests bring the desired results. The modified table tennis with-out nets is played on a table two feet square. One pigeon, using its beak, tries to bat the ball past its opponent. Rallies sometimes run to three or four shots though most are "aces." Each successful shot brings a reward of food. |