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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH r WOMAN'S WORLD Personalized Xmas Decorations Will Please Everyone By Ertta Haley Festive Card Wreath QLAN to enjoy yourself to the fullest this Christmas season! It's easy to get bowed down with shopping and so busy that you just wish it were all over, but you can have fun! The secret Is to plan in advance and never try to do too much, like decorating the house all at once or wrapping all your presents at one time. Do your house decorating bit by bit, and with every decoration thoughtfully and tastefully placed, you'll be saying "Merry Christ-mas" not only to yourself but to everyone who sees the final re-sult. As for gift wrapping, you're In for a real treat if you try to be imag-inative and creative about the pres-ents. Don't you like to get presents which look as though they were wrapped for you alone? Other peo-ple do, too! You'll find real pleasure in giving if you make a special effort not only in choosing carefully, but in wrapping with distinction. Plan to do two or three presents at a time, and your wrapping will be ever so much nicer, as well as so much lovelier. Those who do a lot of gift wrap-ping will find that it's advisable to save all sorts of cards, bits of ribbon, cards, tinsel, broken tree fragments and paper doilies. Most delightful packages can be con-cocted from them. Scissors, rubber cement, cellophane tape, ends of wallpaper rolls, pins and new rib- - Make your own Paper For Wrapping Gifts When you're feeling creative, you can make your own gift wrapping paper with excellent results. One of the simplest ways to do this is to use plain white tissue paper. You'll also need ruler and colored wax crayons. Spread the paper out and make stripes, plaids or checks, and other designs, too, in whatever colors you want. Some lines should be light and others dark for really beautiful effects. Then, too, you might like to make starch paper for gift wrapping. For this you'll need white or light col-ored wrapping paper. Cut it in a size, like 18x24 inches, for ease in making. Make a batch of clear, thin cooked starch free from lumps and divide into several different bowls. Color each with food color-ing. Use a brush or a sponge and spread the starch thinly over the paper. Then using fingers or a stick, make designs with a free hand, clouds, trees, waves or whatever is desired. You might also like to write messages with the colored starch. Decorate your Home With Greeting Cards Just what do you do with your greeting cards? Pile them away somewhere after opening? Or, do you display them so that friends can actually see they were re-ceived and are being put to a dec-orative use? For a holly wreath on which cards can be displayed, take a two foot square mat board and cut it into a big "doughnut" shape. Paint green with poster paint. Now you'll need two yards of pale pink or green tarlatan, sprigs of holly, se-quins, green and gold ribbon and cards. Cut tarlatan or other stiff net material into holly leaf shapes and fit them to the board, starting at the inner edge of the circle and leaving no bare places. Wire or tack holly sprigs to the outer rim overlapped by tarlatan leaves. Attach cards, as they arrive, with paste or pins. Sprinkle tarlatan leaves with sequins and finish off the wreath with a big bow tied with two yards of colored ribbon. Should there be available space above your mantel or on any other wall in the living room or entrance hall, use it for a gay Christmas tapestry. Let your Home Sparkle, Glitter You can add glitter to your fire-place by making two large card-board stars and covering with metallic green or red paper. Mount cards on these as they arrive. If you have shadow boxes or hanging shelves in the room, re-move the decorations temporarily and use them for Christmas fig-ures or candles molded into figures. The whole shelf or shadow box can then be wrapped in glistening cello-phane for hanging. You may even want shiny stars on the ceiling of the living room. These can be cut from metallic pa-per and suspended with string, at-- tached to the ceiling with cellophane tape. The slightest movement of air makes them sway and glitter. Dramatize your front door with this colorfully different holly wreath to which you can attach Christmas cards. Stiff net or tarlatan in pale pink or green Is cut Into holly leaf shapes and mounted on a board. Holly leaves, sequins, ribbon and cards complete this gay decoration. then paste a carol from an old card on top. If desired, you can paste ribbon cut appropriately for a staff, cleff and notes on top of the box. If you know someone with a fav-orite flower, you might be able to cut these out of odd bits of wall-nan-and Daste on a box wraDDed in plain white paper. A spray run through the middle, and ribbon ties on either side are effective. Any child is fond of Santa Claus pictures. After wrapping a gift in plain red and white paper, half and half, make small bows and paste these on the package with- - Santa stickers. Names placed on packages as a decoration are made in several different ways. You can buy indi-vidual letters, of course, but you can use large size print for cutting them out of the desired paper. Simply cement these on the pack-age. Names can be cut from red cello-phane ribbon, too. Then use cement on the back to put them on the packages. Make imaginative . . . bons and papers should go into this carton so everything will be handy. Set aside a table to use for gift wrapping as you'll need space for wrapping. The box can rest un-derneath the table as you work. Everything that is ready for wrap-ping should be assembled so that you need not stop once you start, and, of course, while you're in-spired. Here are Suggestions For Personalizing Gifts Are you giving some feminine hankies or a bit of lingerie? You don't need a box if you will wrap the gift between a sheet of white tissue paper and enclose it in a wrapper made of two paper lace doilies held together by red ribbon laced through "holes" in the paper and tied in a bow. On top you might place a large sticker of Santa Claus, or one cut from an old greet-ing card pasted with cement. For musical friends, you might wrap a present in plain paper and and decorate the borne tastefully. You can also print names with a glue brush, then sprinkle it gener-ously with mica snow. Let the "snow" dry on the glue, then blow off excess. i. 5 V i ' ' i it-- . CHRISTMAS DREAMS I FIRST AID to the grs AILING HOUSE rTTQ BY ROGER c- - WHITMAN Mistake Made With Asphalt Paint :! QUESTION: I had my cement block foundation damp-proofe- d with asphalt roofing and paint applied to the underground parts, Before refilling the trench with earth, the workmen accidentally painted a large part of the foun- - dations above the ground level with this asphalt paint. We were going to paint this part white. How can I paint over this asphalt j coating? I'm told that neither paint or cement paint will adhere to it. What is your fuggestion be- - fore I pull my hair out? ANSWER: Before you pull all of it out, I suggest that you try to engage a representative of a sand blasting company to come and clean off the walls. There are companies who specialize in clean-- 1 ing the outside of buildings, and I believe this would be your best bet. The asphalt paint cannot be painted over with any degree of success. It would have to be cleaned off before the walls could be repainted. If the sandblasting '! idea does not work out for any reason, you might try softening the asphalt paint with turpentine and then go through the tedious job of rubbing it off with steel wool. As cement block is some- - what porous, some of the paint may have penetrated below the surface of the masonry and the job will not be easy. Lovely for Towels Beautiful 7 inch Petunias in pink and green. No embroidery needed. Lovely for towels, scarves, table cloths. ... Send 25c for the Petunias in Color (Pattern No. 389) transfer and launder-ing instructions, YOUR NAME, AD. DRESS, PATTERN NUMBER to JOAN STUART, Box 424, Madison Square Sta- - tion. New York 10, N. Y. YOU'LL BE GLAD YOU DID! You'll be glad you took this piece of advice. This Christmas give the cigarette-smoker- s on your list car-tons of Camels . . . and the rs and Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco. You'll be- glad for two reasons: first, they're gifts that are sure to please they're by far the most popular cigarette and smoking to-bacco in America. Second, they're gifts that are so easy to give. Camels come in bright and cheery Christmas cartons this time of year, all ready to give. There's a space right on the top where you just fill in your personal greet-ing. The big one - pound ' tin of Prince Albert ("The National Joy Smoke") comes in a festive Christ-mas box and it, too, is all ready for Christmas giving, with a built-i- n Christmas card. Don't put it off. Go right to your dealer today while he still has plenty of these time-savin- g, money-savin- g gifts . . . mild, flavorful Camels, by far A..m.erica's most popular cigarette and Prince Albert, America's largest - selling smoking tobacco. "The bite's out and the pleasure's inl" Adv. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPFOR. FOR SALE: Hotel, Apartments and Cafe, including building. Box 305, Basin, Wyo-ming. 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Sfofj Ysa lip It's so easy to relieve coughs and stuffiness of colds in a hurry this home-prove- d way . . . with 2 spoonfuls of Vicks VapoRub in a vapor-izer or in a bowl of boiling water as directed in package. Just breathe in the steam Every single breath carries VapoRub's soothing medi-cations deep Into throat and large bronchial tubes. It medicates irritated mem-branes, helps restore normal breathing. For coughs or upper bronchial congestion there's nothing like using Vicks VapoRub in steam. For continued relief al-ways rub it on throat CE$5 Vbcahecstt and ?V VapoRubJ GOT A COLD TAKE;yTsymptomatic WW RELIEF WNU W 5051 IMS EXCESS WASTE When kidney function slows down, many folka complain of naggine backache, loss of pep and energy, headaches and dizziness. Don't suffer longer with these discomforts If reduced kidney function is getting you down due to such common causes aa stress and strain, or exposure to cold. Minor bladder irritations due to cold, dampness or wrong diet may cause getting up nights or frequent passages. Don't neglect your kidneys if these condi-tions bother you. Try Doan's Pilla a mild diuretic Used successfully by millions for over 60 years. While often otherwise caused, it's amazing how many times Doan's give happy relief from these discomforts help the 1& miles of kidney tubes and flltert flush out waste. Get Doan's Pilla (odayl Doah's Pills m HiiMiimn- HUSBAND HAPPY-K- IS CONSTIPATION GONE "My husband is a different man since he started to eat a year ago. For years he'd take a harsh laxative every i morning and again at night. Now ALL-- k , BRAN alone keeps J him regular." Mrs i?'tJ A. M. Earney, Cobb f Island, Md. One of many unsolicited let- - rr s tersfrom J ' users. This may be l " your answer to constipation due to lack of dietary bulk. Eat an ounce (about cup) of crispy Kellogg's ALL-BRA- daily, drink plenty of water. If not satisfied after 10 days, send empty carton to Kellogg's, Battle Creek, Mich. Get DOUBLB YOUR MONEY BACK1 Decorative Effects May Be Obtained By Christmas Card The deluge of Christmas cards that descend upon the family during the holiday period can be used in many decorative and attractive ways. One of the most interesting ways they may be used is the form of a mantel or door decoration. They can be attractively grouped togeth-er with ribbon and evergreen and add a festive touch to any room. An display can also be arranged by taping the cards to the panels of an inside door and accenting with sprigs of evergreen and gay, colored Christmas-tre- e balls. The big, wide Christmas cards that feature reproductions of fa-mous paintings will show well if placed in bleached-oa- k frames and hung singly or in pairs in a narrow wall space. Six of them, in a panel arrangement, will give a center of interest to one wall. If you wish to really make a display, then thumb-tack the cards to cardboard cut in a tree shape and covered with gold metallic paper. Edge them with evergreen. KATHLEEN NORRIS The Psychoanalyzed Youngster ABSURDITY of sending an eight-year-ol- d child to a psy-chiatrist struck me forcefully when I first heard of it some years ago. Nowadays it has become quite common for children to be sent to these specialists. Poor ..children! One wonders what they think about it. "You heard Mother and Daddy quarrelling?" says the sympathetic voice of the strange man. The lit-tle girl, bewildered, but willing to help, leans against his knee. She nods solemnly. "And then you cried and tore your dolly into pieces?" And then the psychiatrist works out the interpretation. It seems that the child's mother spoke of someone having a new baby and the child was afraid it was coming to their house and that, as she, the child, was secretly in love with her father she anticipated that her mother would perhaps love Into Mazes And so on and on into the mazes that the twisted mind of a dis-gruntled old Austrian put into our healthy American way of thinking. According to Freud most girls are that much of what we feel and are stems from sex. Strange Doctors And instead of married folk lift-ing their lives to the level of re-spect and dignity, and giving their children a background of security, peace and affection, to ship these puzzled little folk off to strange doc-tors may well be to permanently upset their sense of values. Nothing is ever going to take the place of a good home, good talk, good nature, good ideals in that home. This is our children's only safety from the terrible troubled waters of today's thinking. Any woman who wants to give her chil-dren a priceless heritage needs only to love them and their father, keep peace and home fires burning, and solve the problems of the whole group with common sense, affec-tion, and that worldly wisdom that all good fathers and mothers attain. A ridiculous and yet tragic situa-tion along these lines has recently arisen in my neighborhood. The family consists of a father and mother, both rich, both rather steady drinkers, her son by an earner marriage, aged 17, his daughter by an early marriage, aged 8, his grandmother, in whose magnificent home they all live and a young psychologist, aged 28. jealous of their brothers, and most boys want to take their father's place in Mother's room. And the tears and tantrums of the nurs-ery, the vapors and discontents of the teens, the vague dissatisfac-tions of married life are all trace-able to that. There are mighty few books that I would undertake publicly to burn in the market-plac- for I believe in free thought and free speech, but the works of Freud are among them. I'd like to prove to Freud . . tantrums of the nursery . . that jealousy is a common failing among children, and that plenty of boys envy their sisters. Girls, who don't have to go to work unless they want to, who learn things faster in school, who never experience the embarrassment of a voice that shifts from baritone to tenor in the most horrifying way, who don't have to shave or enlist in the army, and who don't get bald! Gee, they're lucky! If girls were smarter they wouldn't let a sour old lan tell them that they envy their brothers and fall in love with their fathers. They'd burst out laughing instead. But the truth is, it isn't funny, because like all other theories the Freudian one has a basis in scientific fact, and with our American enthusiasm, in which we successively exhaust ourselves with the bicycles of the 'Nineties, with dancing with the Castles, with miniature golf courses and radios and television and motor cars and all the other things we do too hard and too much like everything else we've taken Freud too hard. All having been conceived and born by exactly the same process, and that process being called the sex relationship, It is not unnatural J Can't Fool Him j Billed as the circus' "Human ; Ostrich" because he could swal- - low glass, razor blades, bolts and j watches, the great man became suddenly ill, complaining of pains in the stomach. "I swallowed a cow," he wailed, "and it's giving me a terrible stomach ache." Doctors examined him but could find nothing wrong, so the medicos decided upon a bit of trick sur-gery.' They took the sufferer to the operating room, gave him a little ether, led a cow into the room, then woke him up. "You're well again," declared the doctors. "Here's the cow we took out of your stomach." The human ostrich let go with an agonizing scream. "You're a bunch of fakers," he said. "That's a brown cow. The one I swallowed was purple!" BShE FIRST1 The famous carol, "The First Noel" means the first Christmas and this holy anthem goes so far back into history that there is no record as to who wrote or when it was first sung. An old belief is that the shepherds sang the verses to the music of the angels heralding the birth of Christ, but no one knows for sure. The beautiful carol, however, has come to be one of the many impor-tant things that make Christmas the holy, celebrated season that it is. Weeks before Christmas, from radios, from concert halls and from the throats of carol singers and just plain singers, the strains of the First Noel remind us all that the celebration of the birth of Christ is once more upon us. . ONCE OVER You Get Taxed Just the Same! I By H. I. Phillips : FISHING tackle is one of the few left without a higher tax in the new Federal tax law. As a fisherman we felt pretty good until we gave it second thought and dis-covered it will cost ruore than ever to go fishing just the same. It works out this way: 1. You decide to go fishing, but need a pal, so you call Joe Burpee over to the house to make plans. This calls for a highball. The tax on whisky is up. 2. Yon set the trip for Mon-la- y. It dawns beautifully but y the time you've got the car packed a heavy rain starts. You nd Joe sit in the car a while waiting for it to clear op. Yon smoke at least a pack of ciga-rettes on which there is a high-er tax. You have another high-ly taxed drink to cover your dis-appointment. You set Tuesday for the trip. 3. Tuesday you wake up to find a howling storm. You go to work but at 10 a.m. it turns into a swell fishing day. You meet Joe for lunch. This costs you a couple of drinks to cover your general dis-gust. 4. Wednesday is okay. You go in your car and the gasoline tax is up. 5. If you needed clams and dug them yourself you strained your back and had to pay more for the alcohol for the alcohol rub. 6. Just before reaching the river your car blows out a tire and the new tube carries a higher tax. You smoke a few more cigarettes. 7. The boat livery proprietor raises the rate to $2 from $1.50 be-cause he had to paint the bottom and there's a higher tax on paint. 8. You fish five hours without a bite and have a few cans of beer that cost more, due to the new beer tax. 9. You fish three hours more and finally catch one. It's pretty small, but you celebrate with another drink from a flask on which there was a higher levy. 10. You get home and call a friend to tell him about the "one that smashed all my rig-gi- n' and musta weighed fifteen pounds." It takes another drink to put you Into your best form as a liar. 11. You wake up the next morn-ing with a bad cold. This calls for hot whisky. You stay abed all day, smoking cigarettes. 12. You get up and start for the office the third day, but the car won't start. It seems you ran low on oil during the fishing trip and will need a new part which will cost you 20 per cent more, due to new taxes. 13. This brings on a relapse. 14. You call the doctor. He finds you have high blood pressure, a leaky valve, a touch of pneumonia, a fever and a rapid pulse. He says you are too tense. He advises you TO GO FISHING AND CHARGES YOU $10. REAL NEWS NEWSREEL Rudy Halley, new political sensa-tion, entered Columbia at 15 and got his start as a counsel to the Truman Committee in his early twenties. But the important thing is that he got a video start in his thirties . . . Fulton Oursler's "The Greatest Book Ever Written" should help restore the Bible in the Amer-ican home . . . The Garble Sisters got so mixed up lsst week that they thought Rudolph Halley won the In-ternational jump, that the voters passed the amendment authorizing more horse shows and that Sharkey was knocked out by Colonel Mariles of the Mexician Army team . . . Would you sum up the New York election by saying Tammany was the victim of a "Halley-ween- " party? Christmas Eve in Syria Time for Earnest Prayer There is little merriment in Syria on Christmas Eve. It is more a time of prayer. In both Syria and nearby Lebanon, the Christmas season be-gins on December 4th and is not concluded until January 6th. In these two ancient countries there is no Santa Claus. The Syrian believes his gifts come from the camel, for legend tells that the youngest camel to accompany the Magi was tired and weary upon reaching the stable at Bethlehem and the new-bor- n Saviour blessed it and gave it immortal life. In the Lebanon district the "magic mule" is the gift bearer. Children sprinkle freshly mown grass from the thres-hold to their beds to entice the mule to visit them during the night. All during the Christmas season, pilgrimages are frequently made from Syria to Bethlehem. Then, on New Years Day, comes the cele-brating. Presents are exchanged and children, go from one house to another, receiving presents and gifts of money, like children every-where. Synthetic Tire Skids Farther Safety Council Cites Driving Test on Ice The National Safety Council warned motorists that the war-bor- n use of cold synthetic rubber in most tires now being produced has in-creased the danger of skidding be-cause of less effective o traction ability on snow and ice. As an early winter battered much of the nation, the council said ex-haustive winter driving tests con-ducted earlier this year had proved the need for motorists to drive more cautiously with synthetic tires. Prof. A. H. Easton, director of the University of Wisconsin's truck research project and chairman of tests for the council's committee on winter driving hazards, was tech-nical supervisor of the latest series of experiments on stopping and trac-tion abilities of various types of tires on hard-packe- d snow. Natural rubber tires, manufac-tured before defense requirements forced tire companies into using more synthetic rubber, were eight per cent superior to similar present day synthetic tires in stopping on hardpacked snow and 47 per cent better in traction ability. On glare ice, natural rubber treads were 10 per cent better in stopping ability and 16 per cent better in traction. The tests indicated that on snow and ice even the specialized winter tires now appearing on the market showed relatively little overall im-provement over conventional tires in comparison with the stopping and traction ability possible by using reinforced tire chains, Prof. Easton said. The test report defined three types of special winter tries: "win-terized" tires of conventional tread containing embedded materials or fine lacerations and cuts; "mud-snow- " tires characterized by a deep tread pattern or lug design; "win-terized mud-snow- " tires combining deep tread with the lacerating treJt-men-t. Great Is He Honored This Christmas Day! It is indeed significant, this birth-day that is celebrated on the twenty-fift- h of December! It honors the birth of One who never delved into politics, Who be-longed to no party, political or otherwise. He led no revolutions, conquered no vast domains with mighty armies or eloquent words. He advocated little more than a life for salvation and for that He was crucified on Calvary. |