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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH . . WOMAN'S WORLD Simple Table Decorations Help Build Family Culture Textured Place Mat A place mat for any type of table that is both practical and durable is this one made of vinylite sheeting that has a raised tulip design against linen textured surface. It will neither slide nor scratch the table, and can be cleaned by wiping with a damp cloth. By Ertta Haley DO YOU TRY TO make every meal a thing of beauty? A mem-- ory to cherish? A way of building i' taste and culture? If, not, try it for J. awhile and see how much pleasure you and the family can have. One woman can get together an economical casserole and salad and set it on the table with flair, while another has to spend hours in her ;! kitchen on a meal that is not en- - joyed nearly as much. Often the secret of enjoyment lies in the way the table is set, and the way in :, which the meal is served. Even the simplest meals can be turned into the loveliest occasions '.' with the proper settings. A single houseplant placed in the proper h container and tasteful appointments !i in china and glassware can increase the appeal of the meal. accessories need not Involve straining the budget, but ; ' they will probably stretch the im-- agination. It's fun to see how crea- - '', tive you can really be, even with a limited budget and storage space. Many decorations which are chosen can be used for both table and buf-fet, and they may go on mantel, ;, desk and console as well. !j The style and trends reflected in ij the furnishings of your home will j! dictate in some degree the kind of j; table settings you have. You will ; have china and glasses, along with !' . silverware, which goes along with You might have an assortment of inexpensive table cloths in textured cotton or rayon in aqua, forest green, chartreuse, wine or brown, as a basis for the dining table wardrobe. Woven and simulated place mats in natural or deeper colors will help out for breakfasts and luncheons. Traditional Types Should Spell Elegance when Formal Elegant crystal and silverware are part of the traditional or Eight-eenth century home, and are there-fore at home on the dining table. When you have to be formal, it can be done on short notice with your fine damask or linen, ornate silver-ware and exquisite china. In this case the floral centerpieces which are most appropriate, should have a purely classical line, and must be carefully arranged rather than massed. Tall candelabra, tall salt and pep-per shakers, and even tall silver vases for the flowers will be en-tirely in keeping with the tradition-al table set for formal dining. Informal dining will call for your porcelain birds, figurines and ce-ramic flowers that can be arranged to fit any shape in tables. Flowers are not necessary if you have enough figurines and ceramics to make pleasing settings from them. Many of the epergnes will hold flowers and fruit at the same time, and are in good taste for informal occasions that will still have that "dressed up" look. For long buffet tables, you will probably want to use more of state-ly silverware in your collection. Serving dishes and their lids, set end to end are good for holding flowers, in the absence of other suitable containers. Give Variety to Table With Different Cloths China, silver and glassware are usually not changed at different in-tervals and women want to know how they can achieve different ef-fects with the tables. The easiest way to do this, no matter what style of decor you use, is to change the background on which you set ' the china and silverware. Linens are replaced, and these hold the key to changing the table just enough to give the necessary variety. For informal dining you can have place mats of inexpensive cottons, many of which can be made at home. The same is true of the smaller cloths so useful at, break-fast and luncheon. A colorful solution to this prob-lem can also be provided by smart-ly styled place mats made from flexible vinylite plastic sheeting formed with three dimensional sur-faces that look like fabric but give no laundering or ironing problems. They're easily cleaned with run-ning water or a damp cloth. In the absence of much center-piece information, you can add colorful coasters to the table, thus giving it more interest. These should, if possible, match the place mats. style your dishes are. For plaids, use cloths or place mats in one of the colors predominating the plaid, or at least one which harmonizes well with them. For delicate floral dishes, sheer white cloths are al-ways good, and they may be starched cottons, organdies or linen. Modern Tables Need Clean, Simple Lines Should the predominating style of decoration In the home be Modern, then you'll need to make the table simple, sleek and completely un-cluttered. Table decor for tables in homes where Modern is the main influence may be as inexpensive as possible, or they may be as expensive as you wish since pottery, glass or high priced silverware are used. Lines are often rectangular or square, but they may have odd shapes even though the basic lines are simple and graceful. Many pieces of this period have square shapes with suddenly rounded or turned up corners. Colors may be muted or bright, whatever is in keeping with the home, but most often solids are used. Deep colors and off shades are especially good. Breakfast pottery, which these, homes have, often have pieces which can serve dual purpose. Many of the water pitchers make clever l3 ; Modern tables use simple lines . . :! , i a traditional. Colonial or modern house. Table decor should conform to these to be in the best possible '; taste. ;: Seasons 'will help you to plan in- - j teresting centerpieces for your ta- - bles, too, and this will help foster appreciation of nature in the young-- ji sters. i Provincial Styles Use j Plaids, Florals, Copper I !i If your home is done in one of the I:; Provincial styles, then plaids, flo- - (:':, rals or any of the early American (;'; china patterns will be perfectly in H; .; keeping for table decor. Any of the Jjlj ;. pottery pieces might also be used '' for accessories. .i: The burnished or d sand !' tones which you see in pottery can be chosen for pottery pieces. Use !' these for table service, especially tj for the very Informal meals. They can serve a dual purpose by being i' used as flower, fruit and plant eon- - tainers when the occasion demands, i Burnished copper and even brass j; have the color and sturdiness which Is also in good taste for homes in ;; Provincial styles. The skillets can be used to serve oven meals from the broiler, for rolls, plants or ', flowers. If you have a collection of peasant ; figurines and can tuck plants in them, these are excellent to use ! either singly or in groups as a ,: centerpiece for the table. ;! Backgrounds for the table depend ;! a great deal on what particular Period styles adhere to tradition. flower and plant holders, while crystal blocks, bowls and pieces used on mantels, coffee or side ta-bles may often be brought to the dining table for centerpieces. Plants offer excellent material for the tables, and are best when used simply, such as a single spray in a rectangular container without any decoration. Ming trees and oth-er Oriental figurines may also fit well into Modern decor. Table linens for the modern ta-ble are severely simply, and most often rely just on color and texture for their handsome appearance. X Get 'AST V ( RELIEF! I t 1 . Easei parched throat due t0 llnot 2 . 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Its vapo" v4 li vV ' ' 'l'y soothe inflamed passages, es f ' YJZ . coughing spasms. For heal A colds, too ... makes breathm n- - J";',tT S7 " easier. In jars, tubes. SKY WONDERS Glowing Gas Found in Sky CLEVELAND, O. Dr. Edwin F. Carpenter of the University of Ari-zona reported the recent discovery of vast rivers of glowing gas and stars formed by cosmic collisions. Long and thin, the streams of gas stretch like a faint filament or link between two galaxies, the great star cities of the universe, he said. He suggested that they were formed by a great sideswiping col-lision of two galaxies that lasted for 1,000,000 years. Hot gass were sucked out as a long streamer of wreckage as the galaxies tore through each other and then rushed apart. The swirling river of gas appar-ently condenses into stars as it cools, and thus keeps glowing all the time. The rivers give a clue as to how some stars are created, and indicate that more stars are being born continually. Gas Clouds Collide Dr. Carpenter said he found 15 cases in which pairs of galaxies are engaged in collision or emerging from one. Galaxies are great col-lections of stars, containing up to 100,000,000,000. Our Milky "ay is one of the largest Some are spiral and some globu-lar. They may be 100,000 light years wide, a light year being the dis-tance light travels in one year. There are millions or billions of galaxies in the universe. Stars in a galaxy are so widely separated that one galaxy can go right through another "without either group being aware of the other," Dr. Carpenter said. But gas clouds in. the galaxies collide and grow hot, and the glowing filament of gas is pulled and trailed out as the star cities race on away. In some 4,000,000 to 6,000,000 years, the streamer becomes as long as a galaxy is wide. Some are relatively thin, form-ing almost threadlike streams. , Others are wide and fuzzy in ap-pearance. Some look like an axle connnecting two spiral galaxies. New Type Star Found Dr. Carpenter found the rivers in studying pairs of galaxies, or even larger groups, far out in space. Meanwhile, three other astron-omers have announced the finding of what seems to be a brand-ne-type of star, a blue dwarf. It is one of the bluest stars in the heavens, and very hot. All other very hot blue stars are extremely large. The blue dwarf lies in the North-ern Cross constellation, but is well outside the Milky Way. That is, in a place where hot stars are found only rarely, they explained. It may represent a new family of dwarf, stars, never be-fore seen. KATHLEEN NORRIS Plan Together, Stand Together "I asked hiin to eat what he liked at noon downtown, but to let me see what Ii could do with meat-less suppers for one whole month. Well, we've had shellfish salads and sometimes a chicken salad for supper since, but meat has never been the main dish on our table for three years. We sleep bet-ter, our bills are negligible, and we eat better, too. "Then we moved. ' We moved from the city to an abandoned out-lying shabby old place that we bought for $11,000. It had electric light, but antedated plumbing and it hadn't been painted for about 40 years. Labor was high, but Frank's a 'laborer,' and he worked right along with the men. The house is divided into five small apartments now, and if I had 10 I could rent them all tonight. We have a bank balance; the boys flourish in coun-try air; and best of all, Frank is a younger and more confident man than he was even when I married him. He has moved his business to some little sheds .in our back yard. The boys help week ends." That is Marcia's letter, and what Marcia did other women can do. So don't be satisfied with silence, evasions, even irritable snubs from the man of the house, win him somehow to a mood when all his anxieties are brought out in-to the open; and bring out your own assortment. Perhaps some-thing that you have been doing Shirley's dancing lessons, Bill's school marks have been fretting him out of all proportion. You may be sure that his worry is all for you and the children, as yours is for him. rpHE FAMILY that prays stays together" is a say-ing as beautiful as it is true. I have another saying to match it: "The family that plans togeth-er stands together." If you and your husband and children don't plan together yours isn't a real home and it isn't a real marriage. These are days of planning; rev-olutionary planning. We all have to get new viewpoints in these days. Never in the entire history of the world have peace-lovin- g countries faced such catastrophic possibili-ties. There isn't one of us whose life isn't going to be touched by the onrush of events in the next few years, and the survivors and there'll be millions of quite pros-perous and secure survivors are the ones who look ahead today. Marcia Connelly is a forward looker. She writes me a most heartening letter from which these are excerpts: "My husband, Frank, began to be tired, overworked and depressed about three years ago. He's always been a hard worker, but since the war he's had all sorts of troubles; strikes in our very small business, difficulties in getting inventory, high prices, high wages. He be-came very silent anxious about me and the boys, but never ugly or interfering. Lost Her Job "I'd been a dressmaker when I married, and I tried to get in with a big shop, but my styles weren't today's and I lost that job. Then I went into a hotel as noon wait-ress, but noon wasn't their big hour, and they wanted me at night, which I couldn't do. Both these ef-forts distressed Frank, and he was glad when both failed. "I tried to make him tell me where we stood financially, but he ". . . began to be tired . . quietly refused; my housekeeping money did less and less, and he gave me less and less. But his shamed, sorrowful look when I served Inexpensive meats or no meats at all went to my heart. One night the boys and I had bowls of oatmeal with raisins and a short-cake which we love, and I put one chop on Frank's plate, with a baked potato. "He cut the chop and the potato in two and divided them between the boys, got up and went out, and I learned afterward that he had no dinner at all, but just walked the streets that night. "Well, then I got mad. I told him that I could manage well, feed the family well, get through whatever was ahead, yes, and enjoy it, too, but that I wasn't going to go on in this unbalanced way. I wanted us all to be in on it, and agree, and face it together. No Steaks "I told him that if he'd eat his dinner every night before he looked at it despairingly, he'd always be well filled. But that if thick hot soup and a tomato salad and apple dumplings didn't look good to him just because there wasn't a three-inc- h steak dripping in among them, he'd have to get another cook. Washed Out French Cadet Steals Army Plane, Dies CALDWELL, Tex. A French air cadet, heavy hearted because he couldn't win his wings, stole an air force plane and, laughing, flew it to his death. Jean M. le Mitourad, 22, son of a French surgeon, was at the Ran-dolph air force base with other young Frenchmen for training un-der the north Atlantic pact. Randolph officials said that he had been downcast since failing as a pilot trainee. The cadet went to the flight line, climbed into the plane and took off. He zoomed low over Stinson and Brooks air bases, whizzed down over Randolph, then headed north. A note indicating that he intended to crash the plane was found just after he took off. In it he apologized to "the American air force for de-stroying this plane." Flights of other planes chased him over the skies, but returned to base when their gas started run-ning low. Capt. Alain Jourdan, a French liaison officer, who flew along-sid- e the cadet in another trainer in an effort to coax him down, said le Mitourad told him by radio: "I spend my last hours to the air and then I die." Jourdan said the cadet seemed In command of his emotions and "laughed many times." He crashed in a wooded pasture about five miles west of Caldwell. . ONCe OVER i i Observe Diplomacy, Even with Mice I By H. I. Phillips TWITCHELLS are at odds THE And all over a question of naming an aggressor. They keep roomers, one a little guy, the other kingfish size, Mrs. Twitchell caught the little one sneaking down into j; the kitchen at night and raiding the j' Icebox. She routed him at once, ii ' but he returned with his big pal and II began operating in the icebox and !t liquor closet, too. "We have got to go In there and name the big guy an aggressor just like the little guy," declared Mrs. Twitchell. ' . "Let us weigh the matter," urged !; Elmer. ' ' "The time to act is now," insisted Mrs. Twitchell. .! "It is an occasion for caution," ;i said Elmer, who has been follow- - lng U. N. on the video too much. "You were all for action when I Ii cracked down on the little feller," snorted the wife. "I supported you because it seemed it would limit the trouble," said Elmer. "Our first hope must always be for peaceful understand- - ' tags. I propose we suggest that ': both withdraw from our kitchen." "I just did that," said Mrs. ': Twitchell. "They rejected my cease-- - closet proposals." ; "It is very brazen, but we must leave the door open," cautioned El- - ii mer. ! .: "Not the ICEBOX door!", snapped j Mrs. Twitchell.. Laughter, and ;,lcnlo noises I came from the kitchen. !... "I demand that YOU go In hjii and put the finger on the big guy at once," said Mrs. Twitch-- . ell. "He's the real offender." "I would prefer a delay of 24 hours to consult," said Elmer. "Consult whom?" demanded the wife. "Anybody who nas bad Ice-box and liquor closet trouble and would have suggestions to offer In a delicate situation fraught with serious dangers," said Elmer. "Open the kitchen door now, point to the big fellow and tell him to scram or you'll throw him outl" demanded the wife. "I question the need to point," argued Elmer. "Well, just glare at him and say, 'Scram ya bum!'" urged the wife. "I would amend that by elim-inating the word 'scram.' I feel that it would be advisable to sub-stitute the word 'depart.' And 1 question the term 'bum,' " said El-mer. "After all, what we want is a peaceful settlement." "What I want is a peaceful ICE-BOX!" corrected Mrs. Twitchell. "I shall go in alone and call a spade a spade, an aggressor an aggressor and a creep a creep." Mrs- - Twitchell barged into the kitchen. A terrific hubbub ensued. She emerged after a while, pretty battered, but the icebox raiders had taken it on the lam. "They're gone," she said In triumph. "Yes, but how will Asia react?" demanded Elmer. Mrs Twichell swept by him with a look that kills. 28 Offenses For Big Question Is How to Reform Him BELLAIRE, OHIO What would you do with a 7 year old bank burglar? "He's too young for the reform school and too ornery for the chil-dren's home," says Judge Harry Albright. The Judge was thinking not only of the latest escapade of a young-ster whom we shall name Jimmy. He was thinking also of Jimmy's police record of 28 offenses. He said that Jimmy had: Stolen a car; broken into a private home with two 10 year! old girls; set fire to papers around' the Bellaire police station; pinched all the keys from a used car lot and. distributed them up and down the street, and burglarized a number of business places. To cap this record, Jimmy pulled a $16 burglary of the Belmont' Federal Savings & Loan Co. with his 5 year old brother Saturday! night. Jimmy tossed a brick through! the company's window, rifled the! petty cash drawer and picked up' two boxes of book matches. Tracks in the snow enabled po-lice to locate the younger brother. He readily admitted his part in the burglary his first crime. But Jimmy steadfastly refused to talk. Finally a patrolman said: "Weil, I guess I'll have to call in the FBI." Jimmy took a peek at him to see if he was kidding. Then he replied: "Okay, then, I'll talk." Albright finally decided Monday to send Jimmy temporarily to the county's child welfart board. Glasgow University Rector Showered With Eggs, Fruit GLASGOW, Scotland Glasgow University has a new rector, but not without a bit of a ruckus. Dr. John MacCormick took office in a shower of tomatoes, firecrackers and rotten eggs. Rattles, bells, shouts and piercing blasts of a trumpet drowned out the speech-makin- A live duck flung on the platform by angry students lurched around under the feet of the assembled dignitaries. When it was all over, Dr. Mac- Cormick, daubbing at egg, and tomato stains on his suit, told re-porters: "One of the liveliest in-stallations I've ever seen." Dr. MacCormick, one of the best hated and best loved men in Scot-land, was elected rector in a lively campaign a month before. He is chairman of the Scottish Covenant association which demands a great- er measure of home rile for the highlands. The association claims it is supported by 60 to 70 per cent of the Scottish people. |