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Show w W S MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH SmileAujWf No Apology Jane "Would you be insulted that good looking stranger offer you some champagne?" Joan "Yes, but I'd probab swallow the insult." Oh, Her! Harry "She sure gave you dirty look." Pete "Who?" Harry "Mother Nature." WOMAN'S WORLD Bring Rooms Up-to-Da- re by Discarding Some Furniture Combined Periods " s ,t S to - "a L "' ' 1 By Ertta Haley MANY a room which was the of good decoration a dec-ade ago today has a cluttered look which Is neither in good taste nor good design. The majority of people have acquired possessions, as most people have an aquisitive instinct, and they simply cannot bear to part I with them, be they bad or indiffer- - ent. If you can bring yourself to part-'-i lng with unnecessary pieces, or by substituting sleek, pieces for some you have, a new clean look is possible for your rooms. Consider the advantages of an un cluttered room: a sense of luxury and freedom which comes when some space is released. You'll be ' able to breathe again! Another freedom which every homemaker can appreciate is the ease of cleaning that comes when a room is freed of some of its trap-pings. In the first place, there is actually less furniture to clean, and good pieces are more readily done than those which are worn and bat-tered by the years, Once a room has been stripped to Its essentials, it's easy to pick up and put in order. It looks clean, even without a thoroughgoing clean-- ; lng every day, say homemakers who have tried it. An important thing In clearing a room of clutter is to hava a place for everything. Some old pieces of furniture do not have the capacity floors bright and shining with a minimum of effort. A well-wor- n rug can be removed from the floor if you're renovating a room. Before waxing, however, remove stains, blemishes and dirt which have accumulated on the floor with soap and water. Use only a little water at a time and wipe it as you progress over the floor, so it is not left to swell the wood. Stub-born spots can be removed usually with steel wool. Make certain the floor is dry be-fore waxing. Apply wax sparingly and evenly with a cloth or a long handled applier, working with the grain of the wood. Thin coats of wax" will produce a perfect finish after a short time while thick applica-tions of wax cannot be brought to a hard, dry polish and are apt to be smeary. When wax has been applied, allow at least 30 minutes for the solvent to evaporate. The wax is ready to polish when it no longer feels damp. Run a polisher back and forth along the grain of the wood until the floor takes on a soft, satiny shine and the finish is smooth and glossy. If no electric polisher is available a weighted brush may be your solu-tion. Another is a brick wrapped in soft, clean rags. With heavy traffic, surface dirt should be removed with liquid wax every six weeks or two months and the floor On other areas less frequently used, two or three waxlngs a year should be sufficient. Several waxings will give the floor a beautiful finish. If properly kept up, it will remain beautiful. Wooden floors, properly tended, grow more beautiful with age. Decide Color Scheme Before Buying Rug Choose a serviceable color when you're buying a rug for the room. Another tip to remember before buying is to select a rug which can be readily cleaned. Certain types of looped rugs, though handsome, may give difficulty when you at-tempt to run a sweeper or vacuum cleaner over them, while a shorter napped rug cleans much more readily. The trend today is away from elaborate patterns in rugs, as they crowd the room and give it a clut-tered look which you are attempting to banish. It's only reasonable that a pattern seems busier, and thus seems to take up more room than a plain color. It's best to choose the colors in your room, before rug choice is settled. Then you can choose exact-ly the right background for your desired draperies and upholstery, in cotton, wool, rayon or combina-tions of these. Keep Furniture In Condition For Pleasing Appearance All furniture does not have to be placed against the walls to give an uncluttered look, but it should be kept in an orderly arrangement that is determined in advance. Tenderly cared-fo- r furniture is an asset in any room and aids in giving the impression of pleasant-ness. Wooden pieces should be kept polished so they are smooth and satiny. If neglected they are harsh and dry, and hard to dust. Small scratches, scars and scuff marks can be hidden with colored wax, which should be applied as1 soon as damage appears. Here is an excellent example of how traditional and modern furniture can be combined. First wall-to-wa- ll carpet was removed in favor of good wood-en floors well polished and easi-ly kept, and a single scatter rug. The traditional sofa was cov-ered in modern fabric and the modern occasional chair and lamp are harmonious with an old pine table. the same room with knotty pine chests. In dining rooms you'll see a good dark mahogany table and it may be teamed with light, modern chairs which are more comfortable than the ones which went with the table. Secretaries of the dark wood with their many wonderful drawers for storage are part of many, well furn-ished ' living rooms though chairs and sofas may be strictly modern. If you're doing some reorganizing about the furnishings in your home, plan to discard those pieces which are no longer serviceable and re-place them with pieces which are useful as well as attractive. Those things which need expensive or refinishing may often be replaced with new at a saving. It may be that you need no other pieces, if you will simply discard those pieces which add nothing at-tractive or useful to the room. It may be a wrench to part with some of the things but the comfort and beauty which comes from eliminat-ing them will be well worth the ef-fort. Polish furniture thoroughly ... for storage that new ones have, and consequently things which should be out of sight never have a place. This, naturally, clutters a room. You may be very fond of a cer-tain old chest, let's say, because ; it's an heirloom, but does it "pay i for the space it takes" in the amount you can store in it in the way of magazines, sewing, snapshots, etc. which need a place? Combine Traditional With Modern Furniture Those who have traditional furni-ture need no longer worry about combining it with modern. Decora-tors realize that those with cher-ished pieces will never want to, or should they, discard them all. Now the contemporary furniture is so made that it can live happily with older pieces and their darker woods. In fact, today's most liveable i rooms are departing happily from the strictly period atmosphere which was the mark of the well decorated Iroomfor many decades. be seeing traditional sofas covered with fabrics in bold modern ! design, modern desk and chair in use mitts for dusting quickly. Inexpensive Scatter Rugs May Replace Carpeting Well polished floors with attrac-tive scatter rugs are in many homes replacing overall carpeting which is expensive to replace. With waxing devices and waxes, it's easy to keep GOT A COLD f symptomatic 6f$ RELIEF EMPTY MEDICINE CHEST-- NO CONSTIPATION EITHER "15 years ago our medicine chest was full of laxatives of one kind or another. Then we tried eating ALL-BRA-regularly. No r constipation since!" " Sam Waters, Route f - 4 Box 29, Renton, 1 $S Wash. Just one of 1 many unsolicited let-te-from ALL- - BRAN users! 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"Florelle was then 10, the child of a very poor family who had acted as nurse and sitter for our baby, and of whom we had grown very fond. When my busi-ness moved from Albany to Kansas we could not part with her, and took legal steps to make her our own. As younger children came along, this affectionate big sister was a Godsend; we now have an-other daughter, now 4, and a boy of 2. Kissless Wife My wife is a reserved woman, not demonstrative. I think she has never kissed me of her own accord, in all our married years. She man-ages the children superbly, and is economical, capable and active in social affairs. But she regards emo-tional demonstrations of affection as rather distasteful. Eileen, now 10, is also a cool and unresponsive child, though brilliant and pretty. "My trouble is Florelle, my adopted daughter. She is radically different. She is now nearly 18, although to me she still seems the gipsy child we found ten years ago. She rushes to meet me at night with laughter and a kiss; if there is disturbing news it is Florelle who like this is right in his own home, and his own wife, who ought to be the first to see it, deliberately shuts her eyes?" The Reason Why My dear John, I say in answer, Edna is weighing the invaluable assistance she gets from this daughter-n-urse against the overwhelming struggle one woman has with three children of assorted ages, a kitchen, a laundry, marketing, cleaning, cooking. She, being unromantic, feels that Florelle might as well cut her teeth on a first love affair with a sobersided old fellow like John, and that it will all be over soon, and the housework going on undisturbed. But there are elements here that are dynamite indeed, and it is your immediate business to move Florelle to some family group or preparatory school of business that will launch her into a life of her own. Obviously, your wife is a practical person, who expects you to be as de-tached as herself in your devotion to home, family, business, and the future. But your 44 years and gray tem-ples are anything but a safeguard against wreckage. Wreckage like throwing over all those advantages mentioned above; wife, home, chil-dren, position in business. ". . . goodnight kiss . . ." says 'Oh, don't tell him, Mother, until he's had his supper!' "In everything I come first with this devoted little heart. At night she never leaves the room without stopping behind my chair to press her cheek against my hair with a goodnight kiss. Any plan means her quick, 'Is Daddy going? I'll stay with Daddy.' "Of course I like it. I am a loving sort of fellow, and I had a mother who kissed me goodnight and good morning until I was big enough to go away to war. But I've just come to realize what perhaps you have suspected all along, that Florelle means a great deal to me, and that I mean a lot more to her than I ever meant to. "When I saw this first I spoke to Edna, my wife, about it. She laughed at the whole thing; it was just my vanity. Florelle, she re-minded me, has some Latin blood in her veins, and dramatizes every-thing romantic. Anyway, she could not possibly get along without Flo-relle- 's help with the children, 0 please to forget the whole thing and not be a fool! Later, when a casual remark of mine so hurt Florelle who thought I was scolding her, that she rushed from the room, and was actually ill for a whole day, Edna grudgingly admitted that she might 'have a crush' on me, but observed that the only thing to do was to let it run its course. 'She'll take a fancy to some butcher boy or marine or someone,' she said. And she said again that she could not spare Florelle. What the dick-ens is a man to do when dynamite . ONCE OVER : , Emil Analyzes Current Events I By H. I. Phillips Dear Babe: I am not sure what the score is over here in Korea but the Com-mies are out ahead in unsupported allegations, wild charges and loose insults. They are using a new type of war tactics known as the Dream Book Assault, which consists of I dreaming up new charges every hour on the hour. The Reds' new mystery weapon is a rapid-fir- e typewriter. Munchausen model, with special anti-reco- il devices attached. Ridgway and me just got accused of flying over Kaesong on a broom in violation of the agreement on I' witches. It was a nice summer of mutual distrust. There never was a series of peace talks that made both sides more warlike. Malik turned out to be using the old upside-dow- n talk by remote control. His record for never letting a peace idea get to first base remains 100 per cent. The GI today. This Army has cooks who have been in more parts of the world than any dozen admirals you can name. Well, it was swell to read how Acheson and Dulles pitched at Frisco where Gromyko was made null and void and stamped "Not good if punched" all over. Stopping a Russky from gumming up the works is a trick of the year and it makes Acheson our latest mystery weapon which we should stockpile at once. Say what you may about Dean he is no sucker for monkey wrenches. I hear he may be matched with Vishinsky, but that Vishinsky won't sign unless he can meet under the Marquis of Billings-gate rules and have any statement of fact called a foul. What's new back home? Have the Giants sued for peace? What's the latest communique from the fight-ing in the Hollywood colony? I see a couple of fellows got around $200,-00- 0 each for fighting thirty minutes whole thing was a farce comedy en-titled "How Simple Can the Free World Get?" with music by the Chinese, words by Machiavelli and direction by Joe Stalin. We were always and In any dealings with the Commies you should get a Nobel peace prize if you come through without being forced to sue for de-famation of character. We are getting woolen pants so I guess we are here for another win-ter. The Reds have used the cease-fire months to build themselves up, but our side did not use the inter-mission just to smoke cigarettes in the lobby. We have some big sur-prises for the Reds. I am getting used to war in strange faraway places, in fact the Army don't feel natural any more if it is in a coun-try where there are no strange smells and a demand for interpret-ers. Join the Army (not the Navy) and see the world! A sailor doesn't et round at all compared in a baseball park, free from mine-fields, booby traps, ambushes and canned eggs and got praised for showing raw courage! Well, it is all in the point of view and I trust the two boys did not suffer from a lack of blood plasma. Keep your chin up, honey, and whenever you hear of the Foreign Legion think of me as I am getting more foreign with every new com-mand from my sarge. Paul Revere got famous in history and he only traveled a few miles on horseback. I've been farther than Dr. Living-stone, Jules Verne, Perle Mesta, Eisenhower, Citation and Averell Harriman put together, and on foot, too. When you and I get married we must make a trip around the world, Heaven forbid. All My Love, - Emergency Emil (Wars fixed day nr night. No iob too big or too small.) American Tuna Harvest Grows Bluefin, Yellowfin Skipjack Plentiful RAPID EXPANSION of the tuna fish industry is proof that the big ones don't all get away. In the United States canned tuna has skyrocketed from 91 million pounds 10 years ago to last year's record pack of 175 million pounds. Tuna fleets operating along the west coast of North America and south to the Galapagos Islands west of Ecuador brought in an estimated 400 million pounds of fresh tuna in 1950. Interest in the development of tuna fisheries from a summer-tim- e sport to an important industry is being shown by packers along the Atlantic coast. The itinerant tunas the bluefin, yellowfin, skipjack and the more elusive aristocrat of this group of the mackerel family, the albacore today are a valuable world food resource. Roaming over tremen-dous distances and migrating across oceans, the tunas move in near the shores of every continent in their quest for food. Mainstay of the United States west coast industry and the vast Japanese fisheries, now supplying some duty-fre- e fresh and frozen tuna to the Western canneries, Is the yellowfin. It is a smaller species than the big sporty bluefin of tournament fame. Cannaries prefer tuna between IVi and 150 pounds, the average being 30 to 50 pounds. The albacore, with the whitest and least gamy of all tuna meat, comes mainly from the California-Orego- n coast. Re-cently it has ranged as far north as British Columbia and Alaska. Its migrations are less predictable than the yellowfin. It has been known to disappear for 12 years at a time. The reason is a mystery. |