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Show j; . ' MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH . j WOMAN'S WORLD Room Personality Is Acquired by Decorative Tricks By Ertta Haley mtttHAT a clever dressing table W you have in the front hall!" exclaimed one of the club members to her hostess. "It's just small enough to fit, and yet so clever. Where can I buy one for my teen-age- d daughters' room?" The hostess explained that they had not bought it. They'd had an old vanity table wished on them and had simply cut off the two drawers at either side and attached them to the wall in the hall. A glass top was used to provide a connect-ing table top for the two drawers. Above this was a mirror. Result: an unusual dressing table. This type of strategy is being used In countless homes today. Very little outlay of money is required to add these sparkling, personal and very decorative touches to rooms. The little work and effort in- - Plastic Top Table Renovate Furniture; Make It Adaptable Almost every home either has or acquires old furniture which cannot be used just as it is. Don't think of chopping it up for firewood before you investigate its true potential values. Perhaps there's an old chest stand-ing on spindle legs with lots of fancy carving on them. Visualize the chest without the legs, refin-ishe- d or painted attractively. Would it do in the hall, living room or dining room? Some old furniture is large and cumbersome. Can they be separated easily and used that way? Vanities, for example, those with drawers on both sides can frequently be cut into two pieces and used as small bed-side chests. The table top is excel-lent for magazines, ash trays or a decorative plant. Can some of those small chests of the drapery or bedspread mate-rial and use as a seat. It comes in handy for sitting down to dress. If your children have outgrown all their small stools, why not pad them appropriately and use as fool rests with your lounging chairs? Here Are Basic Rules For Slip Covers Women who have selected wash-able materials for slip covers will find it easy to keep overstuffed furniture in excellent condition, for these covers can be washed along with the weekly laundry. Good quality thread, nicely fin-ished bindings and good construc-tion make the task of washing them a joy for there is usually no need for repairs. Vacuum cleaning before washing will help immensely in ' removing much of the loose soil which gath-ers. Use an attachment around the seams and bindings. be made into cnest-en- a tames lor your favorite chair? This gives drawer space as well as table top. Old magazine racks? They don't all have to be used for magazine racks. Some of the old large ones are excellent to place at the foot of a bed to hold extra blankets or pillows. If they can be finished to match the bed, or at least to har-monize with the decor, you'll have a useful addition to the room, as well as a decorative one. Foot lockers and old chests can easily be placed on legs, sturdy and solid enough to be in keeping with the chest. These, too, can be placed at the foot of the bed for storage. Then, go a step further and pad the top of the chest and cover with some Close zippers before laundering, and baste pleats in place to save time during the pressing. Only one large piece should be placed in the washer at one time, then run for five minutes. Arms and backs, as well as those edges near the floor may need to be rubbed with soap jelly before the laundering because of their heavy soil and stain. Just rub in thoroughly before placing in the washer. Thin starch enhances many cot-ton slipcovers which have become flimsy and lacking in body. If desired, when still damp, put the slipcover on the furniture and stretch to shape. Some can be pressed right on the furniture. volved m maKing uiem muic man triples in the joy of achievement and the reward of compliments. "But how? Why can't I think of something clever?" are the ques-tions usually asked about anything that is the result of imagination put to good use. The fact of the matter is that you don't really have to think too hard. Just look around you, everywhere you go there are lots of ideas which can be made to work for your own home. Think about some of your own decorative and furnishing prob-lems and how best they can be solved. You'll be well surprised at how often an easily made gadget or decoration can result which is Individually yours. Antiques, shelves, small chests and all kinds of old and impractical A lovely, yet practical table which would be an asset in any room is this one with a plastio top. In addition to being resist-ant to heat, stains and scars, the top will also be easy to clean and dust. The beautiful wood grain plastic table top comes in limed oak and honeywood finish and is a yard square. Its grace-fully contoured step Is designed for maximum accessory space, and the legs are of natural fin-ish beechwood. As for the small chest, have you thought of placing it on a regular tray top table, and using it in the dining room for silverware? The drawers could easily be lined by gluing a tarnish-proo- f cloth to make a lining for the drawers. This gives you an excellent place for storing silverware. Or, perhaps you'd pre-fer it in the bedroom as a jewelry chest! spice racks might be rescued from oblivion to be pressed into service as shelves for plants or miniature china collec-tions. They may be used in almost any room, kitchen, dining room, liv-ing room or bedroom. , ()) I j o o o o II O Qi Drawers can make a dressing table . . . furniture can be put to practical use. A bit of carpentry, some refin-ishin- g and imagination are your tools. Small Chests Reveal Many Unusual Roles First place to look for materials is in your own attic, if you have the kind of attic that holds many inter-esting treasures from grand-mother's day. They used lots of chests in those days, and many of them are interesting. Perhaps yoiv have one of those 'highboys with the large drawers, and then the table top on which is perched a small chest with several small, shallow drawers. The chest itself could be modernized by removing the small chest, and with refinishing and re-moving ' the "gingerbread" trim- - mings might well fit into bedroom or den. and chests a hallway decoration. Remember those salt boxes? Why not try a pair of those on either side on a hanging rack for plates to add more balance to the wall. The small boxes can hold bits of things and thus prevent clutter to your drawers: stamps, needles, pins, spools of thread in a convenient place for a quick bit of mending, package labels or I change which you want to have handy. One Pattern Makes Shelf, String Box y j KITCHEN '! I r"Ps,lTTrl 11(1. 1 SHELF i'f Mili2iSayy STRING Sgtj CUTTING1 PATTERN Z3Z :h$m YHIS two-dec- k shelf with grace-- ful back and slots for utensils is just what is needed over a stove or work counter. Pattern 232 gives actual-siz- e cutting guides foi shelves and string box, with a ca1 peeking from behind the brighl flower. Price of pattern is 25c. WORKSHOP PATTERN SERVICE Drawer 10 Bedford Hills. New lark. Flowers Pardon Us Pardon me, I'm a little deaf. That's all right; I'm a little Bohemian. Quick Thinking Show me an Irishman and I'll show you a fool. I'm an Irishman! Er-r- -r, that is I'm the fool! Ready for Anything What is the idea of standing there with a straw hat on your head, an umbrella in your hand, a fur coat on your arm, and wear-ing a bathing suit? No matter what the weather I'll be prepared. Cold Chinaman Belly chilly this morning, belly chilly. Then, why the devil don't you tuck in your shirt tail? rvELICATE rose - pink fli;. green leaves and stems li-the permanent-dye- , instant transfers which require no broidery the color is in the t: fer itself! A delightful rfc;: use on spring linens, housed blouses, scarves! There are;: inch sprays; four b'.os; four blossoms and baby buds of all in ft: transfer pattern. Send 25c for the WILD " " MULTICOLOR (Pattern No. plete transfer and launderin! tions. YOUR NAME, ADDP,E;: " TERN NUMBER to CAROL CUE: " 652 Mission Street San Francisco, California ' ;i Patterns ready to fill orders irrr-ly. For special handling oi order ' class mail include an extra - pattern. . Pie Dough A good way to handle pie is to place it on waxed Gather up the paper into a t L manipulate the dough thrc. V paper until it forms a bat J ( well blended. Save Old Socks Don't throw away old "" socks. Put them over your " when you start painting v , furniture. If paint spills j.. wipe it up with your fool, j6 Face Powder i. Your dressing table wi! immaculate if you keep yr f powder in a decorative b er. You can put just tl: amount of powder on y; ' anrl urnn't snill anv. II Caught Cold I had a bad cough. I went to a party where they had some draught beer and I sat in the draft i too long. ' i Flowerpots Won't F: Flowerpots won't fall :' window sill if you place J rod across the window. It : j, noticeable if you paint the , same color as the wi ,, h say thousandsJ about good tasting SCOTT'S EMULSION U "Sj If colds hang on, or fot V I I catch them often, m.rW 1 you don't set enonlb l.j V Vitamin food. Tben W .; , taating Scott . Enml ? oromptly it helps b" ' ; help, build you" 1 : own S EN.";: ) oiL E i, fyour t powerful"1 than w"' J "Miracle t saySUtff Pains off Arthritis, Neuritis, LumW'L j RelieUaiiJt3rth( rA.r.'.no.nt.rnal'1;;: t Nothing to .wallop,; J for relief. You, t a f risht at the pomt V relief starts "P,"off & skin grets under f a reason for this i external fast p f)f born of research d f, y ffi It acts speed ly H h SURIN's P'nS'iT J Methacholina 1, lasting pain "lie' M fy up of local blood suPP t, i; tfj remitr hospital K patients and in h" '':., Ijy different fsUVj linimenta. X ' lief, longer ; smooth without on SUBir1 ,.. ,1 if feel pain ease In""", icg: drug store if fSr faster ',j,rtJ.. .U. erused.Age;",'lr not a KIDNEYS ..USTREH EXCESS WASTE When kidney function ilowa down, man; folks complain ol nagging backache. Lom of pep and energy, headache and dizziness. Don't auffer longer with thes discomfort If reduced kidney function hi getting you down due to such common causes as stress and strain, or exposur to cold-- Minor bladder Irritations due to cold, dampness or wrong diet may causa getting up nights or frequent passages. Don't neglect your kidneys if these condi-tions bother you. Try Doan's PUls 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 relier from these discomfort help the 15 miles of kidney tubes and filters flush out waste. Get Doan's Pills today. Boah's Pills Thopper7! CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY THE RAYON STORY wool getting scarcer, and Wnot nearly so necessary with weathe rt the coming of warmer all, that rayon good news to you new hbric nylon, cotton and many alloys, loom large and plent ful on have lot to the horizon. So you'll for that choose from at your store of spring furbishing , 1 self, family and A home. The big cotton FSmtJ crop of 1951 you of plenty dfACCf for your ci0thmg FEATURE needs at much the I. same price as of yore, in spite of rising wages, taxes and transportation costs The rayon and nylon story is sua from yteryear, A large carry-ove- r when many of you weren t buying, influx of new fibers, plus a large and combinations of new and old make your shopping easy and worthwhile. Just watch for those have fun. sales at your store-a- nd So important has rayon become, will be seeing a that soon you mysterious label on both the ready-to-we- ar and yard goods at your store. That large AS (American Standard) is a guide to the best buy for your money, for durability, and perfect suitability to the purpose. And that AS guarantee is due to appear on all garments and fabrics that contain 50 per cent or more rayon. No longer wiu you uc uw "j look, feel and hope. No longer will you be let down when a favorite garment wears out before you tire of it. The AS label is awarded only to rayons that fill this new set of requirements. It guarantees good wear under normal use. Eayon, as you know, is not just one fabric, but a big family of fab-rics with different characteristics. When you spy a rayon dress at your store, and see the AS label, you are assurer! that it will hold up well under all the wear conditions to which it would normally be sub-jected. For the fabric was orig-inally made up, tested and guaran-teed for that specific dress. l" The same theory applies to the yard goods spread so temptingly on your store coun-ters, too. With the AS label, you'll know the performance standards it will meet, and sew it up into the type of thing for which it was tested, guaranteed and designated. And would you believe it, there are 51 different items coming under the banner of these new rayon standards. Your own wearing ap-parel, from suits and dresses and underthings to gloves; your man's shirts, ties, and suitings; and such household stuff as bedspreads, slip-covers and upholstery fabrics all these will have that stamp of ap-proval, from AS, from your clerk, and from yourself. SHINE ON RAYON Shine on your rayon, when you iron it? Then you're doing one of four wrong things, according to au-thorities in the field. Maybe your iron's too hot leave it at the rayon spot on the dial of your automatic iron, or alternate on and off if you haven't the automatic heat control. Or maybe your board is too thinly packed-t- hat could explain a shine. Or you're ironing on the right side, without benefit of pressing cloth. Or shiny spots appear here and there' That could be soap left from insuf- ficient rinsing. It's not a hard job to iron rayon its just different. KATHLEEN NORRIS Worry Makes Woman Seem Old MAKES a woman look NOTHING worry. Worry simply destroys youth and beauty. Nothing hampers a man's career as does a worrying wife. Often when she is worrying because Jim doesn't advance faster and make more money, her worry is the thing that is stopping him. Worrying mothers have nervous babies. They know that everything is all wrong, and they can't do any-thing about it. So they become tearful, go back to wetting the bed, lose appetite and get attacks of asthma, colds, nausea. A bracing, confident home atmosphere would do for them what no doctor can do. One mother I knew used to take three small children to the circus every year. She worried so much about them that nobody got much fun out of the circus. "It's a curious thing," she said to me, "that my children are al-ways sick on the way home from to do with it, she might perhaps learn what a neighbor of mine learned painfully some years ago. Chronic Anxiety She was in such a state of chronic anxiety that one day her husband said mildly. "Helena, will you use your hand-kerchief, dear?" "What!" said Helena, aghast as we all are when so humiliating a reminder is made. "Oh, no, no," he said laughing. "Your nose is all right, but when 1 say that to you in future it will mean you are making yourself sick over something that doesn't in the least concern you or at least that you cannot change. Or else some-thing that may never happen. Do you mind?" Of course, she minded terribly, and she looked at her children for support against this preposterous idea. But the boy laughed and- - said, "It'll keep you busy, Dad," and the little girl added innocently, "Who'll do it all the times Dad isn't here?" the circus and au mat rugni. It wasn't curious at all to me. Children reflect grown-u- p moods as sensitive sea plants shrink from hot winds. Mother's worrying dries up their small spirits before they have time to flower. When older children don't eat, do poor school work, imagine griev-ances and slights, look for the worry-ing mother. She is there. Form of Fear Worry is merely a form of fear. Any average woman in a normal American home can find fifty . . worry about situations , , ." reasons for fear in the course of one day, and some of them do. They worry about things they could change with half the energy they waste on worry. They worry about things that don't concern them, and they worry about situations of which they are completely ignorant A woman can start her day worry-ing because that clock is slow, be-cause she thinks it is going to rain, because George's suit should have been pressed, because she may be going to have a headache, because Kent was so rude to Lily last night, because Di's invitation to that party hasn't come, because she forgot to tell Louella about the extra milk, because Grandma's birthday is to-morrow, and so on and on until she has covered with a thick coating of worry, every possible duty or sit-uation that the day is likely to develop. Naturally, after 15 minutes of this, she gets up tired, and her voice is a whine. Millions of Amer-ican women must be habitual whin-er- s, because I notice that in many of the "soap serials" the heroines almost incessantly whine; Sunday, Big Sister, Helen Trent, Stella rare-ly raise their voices above a pained note of complaint and fear, and lis-teners seem to like it that way. If the worrying woman could get it through her head that worry is weakness, and that she chooses it, and that circumstances have little Poor Aim It takesh me an hour or sho to get to shleep when I go home drunk. Thash funny. I alwaysh fall ashleep ash soon ash I hit the bed. Sho do I. My trouble ish in hit- - ting the bed. m Good Ennff She: So! Drunk again! He: Yeah and thish time I had a speshial reason for gettm' drunk. She: Yeah? And what was the special reason? He: Whash the difference as long as it sherved the purpose? -- - , ONCE OVER Clay Pigeons Flying the Coop By H. I. Phillips the Democrats the election. There is a big dinosaur skeleton vote in this country and it will go to the Republicans. (I hear that Taft, Stas-se- n and Kefauver have already come out for dinosaur control and that Ike Eisenhower will soon an-nounce a stand for maintaining ceil-ings on prehistoric men, Egyptian mummies and fossilized fish.) How can you justify removing controls from bowling pins at this crucial period when our people are harassed by economic worries and need to go to a bowling alley to get away from it all? Don't you know the next demand will be to have ceilings removed from bowling balls, pool cues and canasta sets? In concluding let me say that your ac-tion on waxed fruits is really a heart-breake- r. The wife and I checked on our waxed fruit situa-tion only last week. Do you know what? We are down to three waxed ("Washington. Price controls were removed from clay pigeons, howling pins, waxed fruits and dinosaur skeletons used exclusive-ly for educational purposes." News item.) Dear OPS: I wish te protest your latest ruling removing controls from clay pigeons, bowling pins, waxed fruits and dinosaur skeletons. I am sure you acted without due consideration of the consumers. Do you know what this means? The cost of clay pigeons will shoot up at once, mak-ing it harder and harder for a fam-ily to keep a supply in the house. I guess you are not aware that there are millions of Americans who have not been able to afford a good clay pigeon for months. I used my last one a year ago and cannot af-ford another. In fact, I am using substitutes like old tin cans and glass balls. pears, six glass grapes and a waxed persimmon. (We were pretty hungry and ate two of the pears and four glass grapes, assuming we could go out and buy some more reason-ably. And now you go and decontrol them, permitting the dealer to up the price to the sky!) am bewildered and annoyed. If there was one thing I thought Mike Di Salle would not put reach it was waxed fruit. Hoping it is all a mistake, I am Sincerely yours, Elmer. p.S. I trust there is nothing In the rumor you are going to remove ceilings on decoy ducks, iron deer, plastic flowers and elk teeth. The Metropolitan is reviving "Car-men" along more modernistic lines. Don't tell us that the lady will take a cigarette test explaining the value of a filter. I will bet you that Russia has the clay pigeon situation well in hand and is keeping them with-in the reach of the people. It is yonr decontrol of dinosaur skel-etons that disturbs me most, however. If you had checked carefully you would know they are already hard to get. Very few stores have them in stock. You have to bid high to obtain one Yes, I know you are decon-trolling only dinosaur skeletons "used for educational pur-poses," but this means noth-ing to a skeleton shopper. I tried to get one just for amusement or general utility purposes, but the dealer said everything he had was the educational type. He had one dinosaur skeleton that was obviously of no use except as a hatrack or doorstop, but he would not listen to my argument that there was still an OPS ceiling on that model. Your action may tost Peruvians Had Ancient Cat God Indians Kin to Incas Ruled by Feline Deity WASHINGTON, D.C. A great cat god dominated the people of Peru's northern coast in prehistoric times. The various pebples whose re-ligion and art centered in this feline deity are described by Dr. Raphael Larco Hoyle, director of the mu-seum of archeology at Trujillo, Peru, in a handbook on South Amer-ican Indians issued by the Smith-sonian Institution's bureau of Ameri-can ethnology. Most advanced of these people, probably vaguely related to the In-dians who developed the Inca civil ization in the Andes, were the Mochi-cas- Presumablv this rat snd ed as a local deity, but among the Mochicas he was elevated into a supreme divinity. He is shown in Mochica art as a man with grea' fangs, a wrinkled face, and catliks whiskers spreading from the nose. This supreme god, Dr. Larcc says, apparently was considered as ruling the destinies of the world, but he lived like people and could reveal himself both as a man and as a god. That he is a human embodi-ment of divinity is shown by the paintings on vessels with four faces, on which human and feline faces are back to back and where the cat eyes are those of the divinity. Numerous pottery vessels show the deity receiving sacrificed hu- man beings who are being thrown from a high cliff. He sits at the foot of the cliff, receiving the blood oi the victim as a precious offering. He is shown in other pottery de-signs as a farmer shelling corn as a fisherman in a small balsa boat a uocior, ana as a musician anc a hunter He is pictured also hold-in-up the rainbow in the form oi a d of serpent, and as a god war whose Intervention is nee essary for victory. f,ffhlaPerS0nif!Cati0n cf eod he pictured as vampire bats in the form of men, sea demons se Tn hTdf ,dragn WUh one head and a serpent with A court is often shown surround ing the cat deity. CATCH BABS i rrVHAT A BIU FINAUV IfS TIMETO yPGKBD V0U FiXtA " catch 'T VArejJ -i HERE'S AJCS FOR. I CPMErnHOATUM RELIEVED HER MrSERVCACHEV1 l)j 27 CHECT MUSCLES Imentholatums swell. XSSSfe. 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