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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH --, v WOMAN'S WORLD Decorative Tricks Make Extra Storage Space Possible By Ertta Haley IF YOU'VE lived for any length of time in your present quarters, the chance is good that you'll be casting about for extra storage space. You may have had enough when you moved in, but every month brings something new Into the house. The closet you designated for clothes, the cupboard for extra dishes, or the shell for new books may now be filled to a point where there's overcrowding. It's a situation guaranteed to give no dec-orative appeal, and it undoubtedly complicates your cleaning day prob-lems. Is there a way to find space for new and old things? Is there a way to keep it neat and immaculate with things stored in apple pie order? You'll be happy to learn that many of these problems can be solved pretty neatly with some reor-ganization, some modernization, plus some construction work. When you're through you'll probably find the place is more of a decorative as-set the new way than the old way. It's important to know what you're doing and how to do It. If you're handy with tools, some of the jobs can be done without outside help. Don't hesitate to call in a car-penter, however, if the job looks too complicated to accomplish. In the long run it will probably save you more than it spends. Cast a critical eye at your rooms and see what can be done with some thought and imagination. Know, too. A storage chest placed at the foot of the bed and the top covered with some drapery material used in the bedroom offers excellent storage for bedding. It can also be used to sit on while dressing. Hassocks which are durable but hollow can house all manner of things. If used in a child's bedroom, they can be used for putting away toys, clothing and footwear. Cover them in smart, washable plastic materials, and they're easy to clean. It's Easy to Change Size of Rooms Do you have one big room where you'd like to have two? If you lack a much wanted dining room and have a large living room, it's easy to separate the two by installing glass block which is just waist high, between the two rooms. Partial plywood walls might be used for the separation, too, and so might high bookcases between the rooms. Useless corners of rooms can be put smartly to use if you replace small windows with glass blocks, which you can install by yourself. Then you'll have good light and background against which to place a conversational grouping, sofa and two chairs, or two chairs with a table Fill a large room by bringing in more conversational groupings. In place of the large couch and low table arrangement, make two or three chair groupings at other places in the room. Turn another corner into musical activity, or into a study nook. This lessens load on some of the smaller rooms. mirror or top part. Remove, also any gingerbread trimmings from the chest so that it's completely plain. Repainted to match the kitchen, this dresser or chest can serve as a buffet. It will give you a table top handy for food service at meals, or a place for a gay pot of plants or a flower or fruit arrangement in be-tween meals. The drawers are ex-cellent for linens, silverware or large trays and platters. A wide chest such as just de-scribed can also be used to give a buffet for the dining room. You may want to refinish the chest, but if the old finish is good, keep it, es-pecially if it harmonizes with the dining room. The mirror and its hinges and woodwork are removed, of course. You may want to put a larger mirror above it, .a pretty set of prints, or even a knick-knac- k shelf to add a decorative note to the dining room. Add Storage Space To Bedrooms If you cannot enlarge your closet space, and need extra place for storing clothing, then buy a collapsi-ble chest for this purpose. If the room has a floral note in the wall-paper, then try to match the wall-paper to cover the chest. Thus it will melt into the room. Unused corners of the bedroom can be built Into a study or desk unit. A desk moved flush against the wall takes care of many items. It may be built into the unit which should have shelves constructed above the desk to take care of books, pottery and other decorations such as a china or hobby collection. Gay House Frock ;. S :f A i Jjjh 1 'J; TT1', t $ ' Combining style, beauty and value, this plaid classio has a use in every woman's wardrobe. The classio collar Is set off by dark plaid, and the self cuffs in light with dark buttons give con-trast. The bodice has sewn-i- n darts for good fit and an Invert-ed back pleat for fullness. verted to shelves made out of In-expensive wallboard, then painted era to match. Lumber is frequently recommended for shelf and cup-board construction, while the wall-boar- d is used to close the entrance. On the other side, finish the wall flush with the wall of the room. Then paint or paper it to match the room itself. If desired, a fabric wall piece can be used to cover the open-ing until you get a chance .to paper or paint. Add Cabinets To Kitchens Do you have an sink that just stands on its legs, the lat-ter exposed? You can make or buy a cabinet that will enclose the legs and give you a storage spot besides. Bra I i ' Replace an unattractive colonnade . whether you want stored items to be shown off through glassed doors or open shelves, or whether they're so assorted they'd better be in closed cabinets. Eliminate Colonnade, Get a Cupboard Many living and dining rooms have colonnades between them be-cause it was once thought this was a great decorative asset. Now think-ing and practical living have illus-trated that the open space can be put to much better use by turning the upper part into a china cup-board, or a place to show off your prized glassware, while the lower part can be turned into a bookcase. Building board can be used for the construction work, and it can then be painted to match the rest of the room. The interior of the cup-board can be painted to match or harmonize with draperies or other decorative notes in the room. This means you'll be adding not one, but two cupboards and twin bookcases. Isn't this an excellent idea for gift china you've received through the years, and for the books the children want to hold onto? Unused doorways can be closed especially when there are other en-trances to a room. In fact, if you want to eliminate traffic from one room to another by this means, it's a good idea to do so. The large doorways that are made rounded on top will be especially at-tractive when the top part is con- - with practical shelves. All cleaning supplies such as soap, powder, brushes, dish cloths and towels can then go underneath the sink. Then, if you want to modernize still further buy two matching table top cabinets, or construct them out of wood and put heavy linoleum on top of the tables. These are set to either side of the sink, thus helping to eliminate the ugly open spaces and also to give you drawer storage and table top working space. An old painted dresser can come in handy in the kitchen if you'll ap-ply a little work to it. Remove the EASVI No tlciU required. RESETr Handles like putty . . . and hardens LOOSE into wood. HANDLES A CEUULOSC Fit IE NtlEI mm IO mitai OK wooo yp On electric fans, lawn mowen KJ. roller skate$3-IN-ON- E Oil CFWIHB CIRCLE PATTERNS Girls Frock Uses Two Fabrics : Figure Flattery for All Sizes Vbff A H lT. 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V VSf lV Now, for amazing new relief U i when colds cause coughing, up- - A?? 5"V ! i per bronchial congestion, or that SKjaaftlu .A M&wvlS&T11 Packa- - Then . . . breathe in Sal too S.P?I soothinS. medicated vapors, bring? relief atanS T'J oerf breath eases coughing. Put 1 or 2 1 stently. relieves that "chokey" feeling. Use it in sfeom-R- ofa it on, too! UVa?oRub KATHLEEN NORMS Marriage Rules Annoy Wife SEATTLE WOMAN got a di-A vorce the other day because her husband drew up a list of the "ten commandments of marriage," and requested that she sign it. These laws included the following promises; that she should never embarrass her husband; that she pay attention when addressed pre-sumably by him; that she neither smoke nor play the radio too loud-ly, nor keep him waiting, nor make comparisons again presumably between him and other men; that she shorten her telephone calls and make fewer; that she not harp on topics of conversation, that she cook three meals a day when re-quested, at specified hours, and that she continue to do well the things she has done welL Now these rules of Mr. Horowitz are not radical nor cruel in any way, and they embrace only such concessions as most good wives make to loving and generous hus-bands. But the audacity and com-placency of a man who can attempt to rise to a state of such superiority, of such medieval male supremacy, is something at which to marvel In these days. I would visualize such a man as small in every sense, building up an Innate, and perhaps unconscious, sense of inferiority by puffing his little self up into something of a domestic dictator. Too Busy Sniffing Somehow one doesn't imagine this man as whistling as he cleans the car Sunday mornings, picking up a cookie as he goes through the kitcien, admiring his wife's new permanent, and lending a helping hand to Junior with his arithmetic. No, he is too busy timing his wife's telephone conversations, sniffing er! Keep it on, keep it on, if the kids are so crazy about the pro-gram, but turn it down!" Yes, and which one of our loving husbands hasn't said to' his loving wife, "Would you mind looking up from that pattern and listening to Judy's doll house problems long enough to give me your attention for three minutes?" One husband I knew, with such constancy, used to shout "I want your undivided attention!" that the very babes of the household used the phrase among themselves. Yet that marriage held happily for more than 40 years. As for embarrassing your mate, only immature, adolescent little wives of the junior prom school think that is coquettish and funny. Nothing makes a real wife more sorrowful than accidentally to ex-pose to others some weakness or mistake of the little man. That is an easy game to play, but too ex-pensive to be a part of the bigger game of marriage. One wife I knew spoke perfect English because of a European education. She didn't say much that was worth while in that language, or in her own, fT that matter. The Horowitz rules offend the dignity of women because they are superfluous. It is as if Dorothy had asked her spouse please to put his shoes on the right feet and get out of the bus at the come- - nearest his office. If such rules are neces-sary in a marriage, they won't have any effect. They are all im-plicit in the original covenant with the possible exception of smoking, which ought to be settled, as it were, out of court, his rea-sons against and hers for being taken into account. ". . . turn it lower . . ." to see if there's been any smoking, watching her sharply to see how attentive she is to his account of the practical jokes he played when a boy in grammar school. Few wives could stand that. Dorothy Horowitz couldn't, and she got her divorce. It must have been a great shock to her husband, because a man must feel himself perfect to demand such perfection. The clause that especially im-pressed me was that she must promise to "continue to do the things she has done well." No let-up for Dorothy under the new rules. But in a happy marriage the can include most of these marital suggestions without friction. A tired man, relaxed with the big chair and the news-paper can permissably call out to his telephoning wife, "honey, could Clarissa get it through her head that exactly at six o'clock is not a good hour to go over the whole week in review, Including refer-ences to your happy childhood?" Some Permisslbles He may say in perfect safety, "Mollie, we've thrashed this af-fair of Caroline's marriage dry. Let's wait until we know more." He may even yell, "Turn it low-- QSnileAujhilfri of books, and the rather Umitt: r accommodations for them. "Yes," agreed Mark, a bit wis! fully, "yes, but it's so difficult I: get friends to loan you shelves." y Down the Hatch j The doctor was examining i naval hospital orderly for at vancement in rating. "What won!: you do if the captain fainted on th: I bridge?" "Bring him to," warbled fe i aspiring orderly. "Then what?" asked the doctor "Bring him two more." returnti J the man promptly. Lazy Actor John Barrymore was in San Francisco on the morning of the earthquake. He was thrown out of bed by one of the shocks, spun around on the floor and left gasp-ing in a corner. Finally, he got to his feet and rushed for a bath-tub, where he stayed all that day. Next day he ventured out. A soldier, with a bayonet on his gun, captured Barrymore and com-pelled him to pile bricks for two days. Barrymore was telling his ter-rible experience in the Lambs' Club in New York. "Extraordinary," com mented Augustus Thomas, the playwright. "It took a convulsion of nature to make Jack take a bath, and the United States Army to make him go to work." Reason for Applause Actor (to colleague) "What de-lightfully cold weather, Laddie. We're sure to get some good ap-plause today from the unreserved parts of the house, while they're getting their hands and feet warm!" Cash on the Brain "What is your chief wory?" "Money." "Oh, I didn't know you had any!" "I haven't." This Cured Him "I used to snore so loud I'd wake up; but I cured myself. I sleep in the next room now.." Scratch! "What makes you so uneasy? Is your conscience troubling you?" ' "No; it's my winter under-wear." Paradox "I notice that you smoke your cigarette shorter." "Yep. That's because I smoke 'em longer." .Can't Borrow Shelves A visitor to Mark Twain's home commented upon the abundance BUOUSEHOll IHlMTSfi In kitchenettes where serviis-tabl-space is scarce, if you hav; the kind of ironing board tte comes out of the wall, let it con; out just before dinner's ready t be served. It'll give you adde: space on which to put servi; dishes and such. If you're goii; to use it regularly, you migp make an oilcloth cover for tk board. Discarded window shades makf good, durable shelf papers. A shoe bag that's not being use: for that purpose can be put ': work in the kitchen. Hang it b-ehind the kitchen door as a co-ntainer for paper bags, wrappi"! paper, string, and the like. Gilt frames never --need aP thing more than dusting as Ion; as pe.ople understand they're su-pposed to be antiques. If you wart to clean them up and forget tb! antique gag, it can be done coating the frame with petroled jelly. Let the jelly stay on abouj ten minutes before you rub it with a clean cloth. Or boil a ,' onions and douse the frame a cloth dipped in the water I1 onions were boiled in. Then n - I ' it off with a cloth dipped in clei-'- water. I New Machine Pegs Criminal Polygraph Operates As 'Remorse Meter' NEW YORK, N. Y. Science is using a device that may prove to be a diagnostic tool to test whether a person is a habitual criminal. The device is the polygraph, a copying machine which records changes in blood pressure, the heart beat, breathing, and the elec-trical resistance of the skin. Use of the new technique on a series of persons has been reported by Dr. C. J. Ruilmann, associate professor of psychiatry, University of Tennessee, in the Southern Medi-cal Journal. Studies with the device, accord-ing to the report, show that when most persons commit a crime, or Injure some one, they feel a sense of shame or remorse. But not so the "psychopathic personality." The habitual criminal, the tests show, steals and then steals again with no feeling of remorse. Such personalities, who make up a high proportion of the criminal popula-tion, have a lifelong character defect "which prevents them from reacting to social or interpersonal relations," Dr. Ruilmann reported In using the polygraph, Dr. Ruil- mann hooked up the device to a subject and a series of 20 questions was put to the patient. Dr. Ruilmann said "there ap- pears to be a close correlation be-tween feeling in the general area of apprehensions or anxiety and the electrical resistance of the skin measured from the palm of the hand." . ONCE OVER 1 Duty and Star Spangled Jackpot By H. I. Phillips UNLESS PEACE COMES, THIS, be it, mister! .... The ultimate test, the battle on the home grounds, the crucible of faith and fortitude! Already the pledge, the command and the tone of defiance rise above the small talk, the night-clu- b ban-ter, the cocktail lounge laughter, the juke-bo- x melodies, the radio jingles and the hysterical screams of studio audiences on jackpot programs. John Q. Citizen rises to, a stern call to duty instead of to an appeal to get vitamin-enriche- d biscuits, the right cereal and the super hair tonic. Dawn comes with a clear sum-mons instead of a crooner, a radio breakfast couple's program, a disc jockey's hour and a commer-cial for noodle soup. Night falls to a summons to high courage and not to a thousand Video gags, radio stunts. Eat More Bananas Week, the coarse laughter of the rack-eteer, the leer of the the mad nrge to get something for nothing all do a fadeout as horse sense and the hour of decision take over. The America of jackpots, jazz, giggles, gags, joy rides, playboys, box top slogans, four-rin- g circuses and marathon waltzes bow to the America of consecration, sacrifice and herolo endeavor. "Come out fighting!" drowns out "Shall we dance?" and "You, too, can make a million dollars." "What can I do to help?" rings across the plains and mountains completely effacing the routine "In conference," "Sorry, but I'm too busy to bother now" and "Let's get together at lunch some time next month " The jackpot is Freedom. The $60 question is, "You and who else, Joe?" The top tunes of the Hit Parades are "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "The Star Spangled Banner" and "America, I Love You." U.N. is moving rapidly from Lake Success into its new skyscraper home on East River, New York. On a clear day you can see peace from the top floors if you have a telescope, a powerful light and a little opium. Chicago is trying out a y test of By pay-ing $1 a day 300 families are get-ting two Hollywood movies. As we understand it the picture is sent out all scrambled up and the pieces come together the right way only on sets equipped for the dollar charge. It is going to seem mighty strange to be get-ting only half a horse or two thirds of a cowboy on your set while the man next door sees the complete movie. "Hello, central, give me 'Gone With The Wind'" |