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Show i j MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH . I Be Smart! i Play np sleeves because it's been practically generations since they've been as drama-tic as they are today. Sketched here are two examples of cur- - rent successes. The separate blouse at the left makes use of fine pleating to create truly dramatic sleeves, the kind that are born to bloom without a suit jacket, of course. Today's , permanent pleating in ever so many materials makes laundry and cleaning no problem. At the right, developed in sheer wool checks, Is one of the youthful versions of the sea-son, sleeves that give the dress the earmark of the season. ' WOMAN'S WORLD Don't Let Figure Defects Distress You By Ertta Haley SolveGrooming Problem FACE AND FIGURE are common, but it's ex-tremely doubtful they look as com-mon as they really are for women have at their disposal the ways and means of enhancing their good paints and minimizing those which are slightly out of line, A good example is seen In the slim silhouette so popular this sea- - son. As any designer can tell you, the slim look is something that is more of an achievement than it Is actual fact. That should come as good news to the girl whose figure is more plump than slender. Faces don't have to look as square or round either, as nature made them. With the right collar and hat effects, even these contours can be changed without covering them! It's a good idea to be just as aware of our Selects as of our good points, for that is the starting point of dressing properly. When you Jcnow what stands on each side f the beauty ledger, you can use all the tricks available to play up the good, and play down the fair or poor. Knowing your face and figure defects should not give you a com-plex about them. When you have brimmed hats which minimize height. Those who are short and full figured can select p hat on which the trimming is perched ligh so that longer lines will be achieved. Short, full figured girls can choose the single breasted s lits that give the illusion of slenderness. Those who are slender and tall will like double breasted fashions that pad the figure. Coat Styles Solve Figure Problems Those who are short and heavy may well borrow a tip from the ex-perts on wearing coats properly. The advice is this: never wear your coat or jacket open as it will draw attention to the inside figure. The long, unbroken front of a closed coat can do much to give the illu-sion of slenderness. The easy fitting coats, the half belts and d fabrics which help to give the slender silhouette are widely available now. Short stout figures should make a special effort to shop for them. Thick, bulky, textured fabrics a: : taboo on large figures. The sheer fabrics which are now making fashion news come as a big help for those who want to cut down their size. Fashions may change, but personal daintiness continues to be important as ever to good grooming. To neutralizs per-spiration, use baking soda in your bath in the proportion of one-ha- lf pound to a tub of water. If you prefer a shower, apply moistened baking soda over the entire body and then wash it away under the spray. them can come. The pleated skirts are popular and made to order for those with natural slenderness.' They may choose from the boxy silhouettes, too, or the very wide, gored skirts which are just coming in. That's not all the good news, either! The two-piec- e fashions, be they tailored suits or casual bolero fashions, will give enough hori-zontal lines to cut the tall figure down and give it more of the aver-age look. No attempt should be made to hide slenderness. That is the silhouette of the season. If you have bony arms, look to full dramatic Choose clothes with care .... properly concealed or played them down, you can forget about them secure in the knowledge that all has been done to make them least obvious. At the same time, you have accented or dramatized a cor- - responding good detail of appear- - ance so that is what will impress your friends and acquaintances when they see you. Choose fabrics and styles with as much care as you would make an important decision affecting any phase of life, and you'll be better dressed and more confident in meet-ing the public. Season's Silhouette Helps AU Figures The willowy effects which this season's clothes strive to create will help the woman whose fig- - lire Is plump, be fihe short or tall. Narrow vertical lines are used rather than wide horizontal ones. There are side drapes which will catch interest and thus draw it away from a midline that is not above reproach. Those who are tall and naturally slender may wonder where hrlp for to minimize figure faults. sleeves to soften the angles. ,If the neckline is angles rather than curves, depend on the wide collars to do the right job. Hats can add or detract to the height of the figure. For those who are tall, there are sailors and wide- - SERVICE IN PEACE AND WAR Red Cross 'National Blood Program' Called Jus! as Important How in Defense, Security As It Was as a Survival Factor in Wartime By General George C. Marshall of Americans are MILLIONS with the nation-wid- e blood donor service of the Ameri-can Red Cross during the war be-cause most of them made a per-sonal contribution of their own blood. They knew that their dona-tions saved the lives of many sol-diers and sailors. Few however, are aware that cannVa hna hppn revived and expanded by the Red Cross. Now it is called the "national blood program." It is probably just as important today for our de-fense and security .as it was during the war when it Iwas a maior fac- - tor in the L al of more than 97 per cent of all wounded Ameri-can servicemen. Since taking up my new responsi-bilities with Red Cross in October, I have visited a large number of cities from coast to coast confer-ring with Red Cross leaders. I found in most regions the blood program of the Red Cross aroused greater interest and made a greater appeal to the Red Cross workers than any other activity at this time. They felt that they were mak-ing a very important contribu-tion to the health of the people and were establishing the or-ganized framework to meet any great disaster instantly and ef-fectively In this phase of relief. A national military emergency might possibly require more blood in one week than all our require-ments during one year of the late war. In a great emergency, volun-teer donors would come forward in the desired numbers, but without the framework of the system now being progressively established, the contributions of these volunteers Immune serum globulin, a blood derivative used to mod-ify or prevent measles, is being used here on a girl following her exposure to the disease. More than two mil-lion vials of serum have been distributed since 1944 by Red Cross to physicians throughout the nation. Another blood derivative is said to be invaluable in treatment of shock, burns, and certain kidney and liver ailments, and there still are others now in use or being clin-ically tested for future availability. Most of this fractionation to date has been done with surplus war plasma returned to the Red Cross by the army and navy. In one case, a ship that had been sunk in Manila Bay was raised and the plasma aboard was found to be in satis-factory condition for this fraction-ation. But today this supply is about exhausted. Therefore, the national blood program is being stepped up to meet this special need. It is estimated that a donation of one pint of blood from one out of every 25 American adults will be required each year to meet the nation's normal de-mands for whole blood and blood fractions. People have asked me why the Red Cross does not require replacement by the recipi-ent's friends or family. To demand replacement in kind, rather than replenishment, or to make any charge whatever for blood which has been donated voluntarily would be a departure from the basic Red Cross principle of helping people solely on the basis of need. Some people ask why the pro-gram must operate on a nation-wide basis. The answer is simple. A major disaster would require' the instant shipment of large quanti-ties of blood from one section of To help speed his recovery, a small patient is given a trans-fusion with blood made available through the national blood pro-gram. could not be processed and made immediately available to save the lives of the injured. ' iff i11Tu7T, f . w t J? There is only one known source from which this blood can be ob-tained, and that is from the veins of living, healthy people. I found that there were 30 region-al centers of the national blood program in operation. Blood was being made available through these centers to 1,550 hospitals located in- - areas embracing more than 40 million people. Mobile units had visited some 1,100 smaller com-munities, and about 640 Red Cross chapters were participating in the work of these regional centers. All this had been accomplished in less than two years' time. In times of peace, vast quan-tities of blood are needed for people undergoing major sur-gery, for accident victims, for childbirths, for people suffer-ing from anemia or other blood diseases. Research has already uncovered the fact that one pint of blood which formerly helped only one person can now be broken down into fractions which may provide treatment for a dozen or more cases. . While the whole country is not yet covered by the network of Red Cross blood centers, every com-munity now receives benefits from the program through the blood fractions, or derivatives, which it provides. I have learned that one of these fractions, has been distributed to every state of the union to prevent or modify measles. I am told that it lessens the dangers of compli-cat.on- s which sometimes follow measles such as pneumonia, some types of sleeping sickness, middle parainfection, and heart impair." Last year, 688,532 vials of this toT. W6r S.UPP'ied by Rd Cros physicians. : Before leaving Rochester, N. Y., to set up blood center in Hornell, the driver of a Blood-mobil- e confers on the route to be taken with a Red Cross nurse and volunteer Motor Service driver. the country to another. Only a na- tional hookup, to use a radio term, would facilitate this service to the injured. A frequent question is whether this program is not a form of so- cialized medicine. Socialized medi-cine implies compulsion. It also im-plies governmental control. There whinhther,,in thE Red Cross Prs on an entirely vol- unteer procedure and is not sub- - control t0 gVet "p th' Present time the major control and financing is centered at American Red Cross national but this procedure ha, set theeenr ll0Wed 38 under way Tailored Shirtwaister s Tops in Summer Wear Crisp Shirtwaister TOP favorite in every summer A wardrobe the crisply tailored shirtwaister that's so versatile. This one has comfortable yoke and sleeves in one, two hand; pockets, a neatly tied bow. Pattern No. 8564 Is a e ne rated pattern for sizes 14, 16. 18 44 and 46. Size 16, 4 yards of'38-it- Send today for your opy of the strut and summer FASHION. 48 pages smart, easy to sew styles; special fatal news; decorating hints; free pattuj printed inside the book. 25 cents. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. B30 South Wells St., Chicafo 7, U. Enclose 25 cents In coins tor eaco pattern desired. Pattern No Size Name ..,,. Address . s . J "FOR PROUD BAKERS, jTfyJ U ESPECIALLY'yJVT fell JSS;- doubl. HAPPY DAYS M- - NOT CONSTIPATED "I feel happier, VWrUt! I constipatedlEatingyourAd does so much for me! Wif VJ relief, after so many p A pills and medicines- IV Ever your friend, , j Vy W.H.Rooney,Detroit , l, 2, Mich. Just one o f " J many unsolicited If tcrsfrom ALL-BRA- N users. If you suffer v iy from constipation due to lack of dietary bunt, try eating Le ounce of BRAN daily, drinkplenW not copipktey satisfied m. to send empty carton Qh- l- Battle Creek, Mich. YOUR MONEY BACA' KATHLEEN NORRIS Divorce Is as Much a State... ago, I might have made a success of my first marriage, and perhaps spared Von her own mistake." This is only one of a thousand just such hopelessly complicated situations of which I hear every year. It seems impossible to con-vince our children of just two simple truths. One: that no mar-riage is easy; that it has to be worked out with the utmost strength of character. And two: that the outcome of a happy, strongly-kni- t marriage, no matter how difficult to achieve, is the most worthwhile thing in the world. And perhaps we should add three: that divorce isn't freedom; it is, instead, a plunge into deeper and deeper complications. A certain Chicago1 divorce at-torney, one Samuel M. Starr, is trying to do something about the appalling increase of divorces in these United States. He has estab-lished "Divorces Anonymous." My respect, admiration and best wishes accompany Mr. Starr in this undertaking. I.lore power to himl Of the thousands of letters I receive every year on this subject of divorce, more than half are from men and women who admit that, had they an opportunity to try again with the same partner, they would find it easier to make the first marriage a success than to make the divorce one. In many, many small homes there are vaguely dissatisfied wom-en who somehow expected married life to be more varied. "T GOT MARRIED without know- - ing anything about marriage. And five years later I got a di-vorce without knowing anything about divorce." This sentence in a letter that came to me this week expressed something that I had never thought out before. I mean that divorce is just as definite a state as mar-riage is, and an even more diffi-cult and complicated one. "Before I had worked out any of the problems of marriage," the letter goes on, "I found myself with a whole set of new ones, as a divorced woman. I hadn't made Hal's home comfortable, I was restless and dissatisfied, always wishing that I was back on my old job, with $40 a week to throw away just as I pleased. I was bored with dust, dishes, and eventually baby. Yvonne was a delicate baby, I was nearly mad with nerves, and 'men-tal cruelty' provided an escape. "Escape! You know what I es-caped into. I'd never made the slighest effort to make Hal's peo-ple like me, and they didn't. "I did go back to my old job, but it wasn't the same thing, with my little girl's claims tearing at my heart. I tried combining with a girl friend who had a small boy; that didn't work. I tried boarding homes; Vonnie and I were miser-able through all those years. I felt myself neither one thing nor another, and when Von was 12 I married again. Could Have Been Friends "It was a mistake. I saw the mistake all the sooner because I had strangely enough made a close friend of Hal's sister, and through her, of his mother. We could have been friends all the time. If I hadn't been so immature and so "... nearly mad with nerves . . ." spoiled. My second husband had good points, but business acumen wasn't one of them; I found my-self supporting him and second baby daughter. "So when Von made a foolish young marriage, followed within two years by a divorce, I divorced also, and we combined forces. I now am back at the old job I ran away from 17 years ago, with Von supporting the family with pay-ments from the fathers of both children, and myself cook and nurse for all four of us. "I am only 40, but my life as a loved, protected wife is over. Von sees her father, who is married again and has two boys; I never see anyone. I go to movies in the evening; my daytime hours are crowded with domestic duties, and I am tired all the time. Mother Takes Blame "Deep in my heart I blame my own mother, who was also divorced in my childhood, but perhaps Von has as good a right to blame me. She is pretty and popular at 19, and of course will marry again. Then I don't know what will be- - come of me. A job, I suppose, and some arrangement for my little Marie-Louis- such as I made for Von. This youngest little girl is very gentle and clinging, and it kills me to think that she has not the secure, happy home back-ground of other children, "I know I have made a mess of my life, and that if I had known the true values of things 15 years Watch It! Your watch got its name from the fact that the first portable p timepieces, cumbersome devices made of iron and shaped like a A huge egg, were carried by town criers or "watchmen" on their nightly rounds. THE READER'S COURTROOM . I Some Promises Aren't Binding ' By Will Bernard, LL.B Are You Bound by a Promise Made Under Great Emotional Stress? A sudden fire trapped a woman in the attic of her home, and fire-men were unable to reach her. In the midst of the blaze, the woman's husband returned from his office. Frantically, he cried: "I'll pay 0 to anybody who brings out my wife dead or alive!" A bystander rushed into the flaming house, fought his way upstairs, and car-ried the woman out. Unfortunately, A woman wrote a magazine arti-cle maliciously and inaccurately attacking the character of George Washington. Acting on the protests of outraged citizens, the police ar-rested the writer on charges of de-famation. At the trial, she argued that her attack couldn't do any harm because Washington and his family were all dead anyhow! But the court found the woman guilty as charged. The judge said that it was wrong to maliciously blacken the name of a person who still lived in the memories of his countrymen. May You Stop The Neighbor's Dog From Howling? A doctor fitted up a room at the back of his home, and began using it as an office. All went well until a new family moved In next door with a dog. Every morning the neighbors would go out for about two hours, leaving the dog locked in a bedroom. During that time, the animal would give vent to such m WW she had already died from suffoca-tion. Later the rescuer demanded the $5000 he had been promised. The husband pleaded that he should not be bound by a promise under such circumstances, but the court ruled that he must indeed pay the full amount. The judge pointed out that the bystander had risked his own life to fulfill the husband's plea and therefore was entitled to his reward. An advertising executive quar-relled with his wife almost daily. At last, after an especially bitter ex-change, they decided to call It quits. Acting on a friend's advice, they soon obtained a "mail order di-vorce" from a court in a foreign country without ever leaving town! However, when the decree was test-ed later In a United States court, the couple found out that they were still considered husband and wife. The judge said that the foreign court had no jurisdiction over the parties. a howling and yelping that the doc-tor could hardly examine his pa-tients. At last he went to court for an injunction. The neighbors arg-ued that there is nothing unlawful about the barking of a dog, but the court granted the doctor's request. The judge said a dog's noisemak-in-is ordinarily permissible, but at least must be kept within reason-able bounds! Is It Raining? Just Drop Coin New Vending Machine Hands Out Umbrellas GARY. INB. No need to worry about sudden showers. Just pur-chase an umbrella from a vending machine at a department store, depot, airport even at a baseball game! Such a possibility may be-come a reality soon, all because of an idea that came to Jane Burgess, an Indianapolis, Ind., housewife and mother of three children, reports National Patent Council. Mrs. Burgess's idea came to her out of necessity. Caught in the rain without an umbrella and without money enough with her to purchase even the cheapest umbrella she could find, Mrs. Burgess began thinking someone should invent a throw-awa- y umbrella that would cost well under a dollar. The idea haunted her until at Christmastime last year she came across a little folding Christmas bell. There was the answer, and her idea materiali-zed. She and her husband, Bob, a rail-road conductor, developed the idea. Then they took their umbrella to a friend. Curtiss McCoy, a toy and gadget manufacturer. He liked what he saw, and by early summer their product was ready for marketing. The product consisted of a neat packet of black, accordion-pleated- , waterproof paper, 16 inches long,' and a wooden rod 19 inches long. Unfold the paper into a circle, snap together, insert the rod in a metal holder, and the result is a service-able "papersol." With their idea ready to be mar-keted and already accepted by one Indianapolis store, the inventive Burgess had to face still an-other problem. There was no ma-chine available that would fold pa-per into accordion pleats. So Bob went to work and, with his type-writer, scored paper so that it could be evenly pleated. Later the job was turned over to a company wi'h ma-chinery for scoring, until a machine for such pleating could be manufac-tured. 'I Was Tremendously Impressed' bK7ciu?i:pri,wi,th' f - " one the most mZT??' ''" tMs and it is of vital importance in the event efforts certain that its national importance T!u 1 Dm inspiring to I ' U"y Underst-voluntar-way and at the sail ' in Purely degree of public appreciatJof Z XT! ,UCh G Smal' d'ng." Ooss volunteers are |