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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH WOMAN'S WORLD Add Charm to Inexpensive Curtains with Simple Tricks String Bows I i i Mi By Ertta Haley ARE curtains at your windows just to have something there, or do they add the interest-ing note to the room? One of the most inexpensive ways to decorate any room in the home is to provide a bright accent with curtains, a cheerful note or some-thing so lively as to start conversa-tion just as soon as someone sees your curtains. Just in case you think curtains haven't changed much, just look at some of the new designs and colors which are available, to say nothing of the new styles in curtaining. All rooms in the home have been ex-posed to the new things in curtains kitchens, living and dining rooms, entrance halls, bedrooms and game rooms. Just as refinishing furniture can improve it, so can curtains be used to hide any number of construction faults in windows. They can en-hance the view if you have one, or replace a poor view just in the way the curtains themselves are treated. Remember the days when curtains were mostly white or ivory? These are sometimes used, but the use is quite different from what it used to be. Curtains have plenty of color and design now, and they can be used to bring out room colors by harmonizing or accenting them. There are even certain types of prints available which will help to constant dampness of the room, and the curtains will not wilt. Curtains for the bathroom can match the'shower curtains if they're used. In fact, in a small bathroom, it's best to have them not only of matching material but also in style. Tailored shower curtains naturally call for straight curtains. If the room is not strictly tailored, ruffled curtains may be used, tied back, as to cottage sets. Both the 'shower curtain and the curtains can be made from plastic material bought by the yard, espe-cially if you like the shower cur-tain especially long and generously full. There was a time when kitchen curtains had to be organdie or one of the other sheer materials, and preferably in white. Now that color has been introduced more strongly into the kitchen, curtain materials have a wide range. Let's suppose that your kitchen is Early American in theme or has an informal peasant theme. What would be more appropriate than some colorful chintz or one of the peasant prints which are often done on natural or gray-whit- e linen? Here, then, is the ideal choice. Solve Window Problems With Clever Curtains Rooms with small windows can probably use all the light they can get. Curtains, rather than drapes are the answer. Sheer curtains on double rods will answer the purpose nicely, especially those which are can have as nice a picture as you want. Figured lace panels are ex-cellent for living and dining room windows. You might have an atten-tion getting cornice and some strik-ing pattern in the drapes hung at either side to complete the effect. Informal living rooms with win-dows, bedrooms and kitchens, too, can have the outside view blocked with gathered sheer curtains. You might try use of three or four rows of these, with the bottom edge piped in a solid color that goes well in the room. Windows which show nothing at all on the outside, especially those which look right at the wall of an-other house can have tailored cur-tains in good colors. Take a cloth of good texture and add some ver-tical stripes of bright color, and use these at the windows. Let Remnants Make Attractive Curtains How often have you gone out to buy material and then found some- - thing later in the home which would have served the purpose as well? Too often! Check your stock at hand first and see if old things can be converted to usefulness. For smaller curtains you're cer-tain to find material unless you've just started housekeeping and have no remnants at all. Good portions of sheets, linen towels, crash, men's shirts and many such items can be cut and used for short curtains. Trimmings may be needed, but these are certainly less expensive Dainty string bows are a fa-vorite trimming feature of the season's shoes. Here they are seen on an open-toe- but closed heel shoe done in black suede, but may be had in brown suede or blue calf as the wardrobe dictates. they can be drawn easily. .Use closed or open, as desired. Curtains treat-ed in this way should be luxurious for they have no draperies "to help them out." Pinch pleats should be full; have hems at least five inches deep. tied back in hour glass fashion. Views outside the window cannot easily be changed, but you don't have to look out! Treat windows like this with pretty curtains and you than buying everything new. Shirring in different colors is avail-able to make the task easier, and so are rick-rac- ruffling, bias tape and ribbon for stripes. a valance at the windows to help cut down the disproportion of the room. Even though the windows may just be average length, they can be made more effective if you use tailored curtains of sheer mate-rial, falling to sill or floor length. At the top, drape generously with a ruffled curtain to give the effect of a valance, though the curtains themselves may be perfectly straight. This is a very effective way to treat windows in houses as well as rooms in which there is sufficient color and design interest elsewhere in the room. Drapes may be used with sheer curtains, but they should be full and generous. If they cannot be be-cause of the expense involved, it's far better taste and much more good sense to spend the money on sheer curtains and make these like drapes, pleated and full, placed on traverse rods. Sheer curtains refresh comers . . . carry out furniture or decorative themes. These, used in curtains, can often be the most effective note the room has. When rooms have sufficient color and design interest, theri add no more conflicting accents, and use plain sheer curtains. Study your rooms and see just what kind of curtains they need. Once this is decided, you'll have fun getting together just what's needed. Use Unusual Treatments For Sheer Curtains Sheer curtains aren't always per-fectly plain; neither are they al-ways feminine and ruffled. Today's trend shows interesting effects ob-tained by treating sheer curtains almost as draperies. Take, for example, the room with a large corner window. If you need the light or don't want to close out the view, then sheer curtains are an absolute essential. But, you may say, the room is a living room, and you want something really appro-priate. Sheer curtains for this type of corner window may be strictly tailored. 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Doctors say that many other laxative; start their "Hushing" action too soon . . right in the stomach where food Is belnp digested. Large doses of bucq laxatives upset digestion. Bush away nourishing food you need for health and energy. You feel weak, worn out. But gentle taken as rec-ommended, works chiefly in the lower bowel where It removes mostly waste, not good food! You avoid that typical weak, tired, n feeling. Use and feel your "peppy," energetic self full of life! Get t! No Increase In price still 2bt. 50 or only 1G. W FEE!l-A-fi!lifl- T IS tfK FAMOUS CHEWING-GU- IftXflTlVE Aj? Silent Manners Teacher: "What is eti0 Jackie?" , Jackie: "Etiquette is don't make when you at;" ing soup." Difficult Feat Professor of History: "y. your estimation was the gr, achievement of the Romans' ' Sophomore: "I'd say it f. speaking Latin." ojp Greatest Respect Customer: "Do you have thing for gray hair?" Conscientious Druggist: '"; ing, sir, but the greatest res;' k Future Days j In the very near future, ms: t eat baked beans and say: j dear, these are just like m. used to open." ff . go AFTER TOM (fgtSV W"1" WHEN THE BOSS UnCp A TIMS SlS SENDING METO 'I'M TO SEE-- ) HE NEEDS ouhtop v menthoutum!a MENTHOLATUM RELIEVED HIS 7 I MrSER..ACHEy M4 A r CHEST MUSCLES... -- VW ' MENTHOLATUM HAS "VCv b LOTS of uses... civSS mv1 6RAND FOR. JASi57 j PAVS LATER. ..IN CHICAGO pv?J HERE'S .V MENTHOLATUM MADE KATHLEEN NORMS Home and Job Need Not Conflict The women I advise to stay at home are the failures. They are the women who can't run the affairs of five rooms and one child and one man with any success, and yet who feel that they are quite capable of sensational exploits in the field of movies, art, letters anything that gets their names and pictures into the magazines and papers. Not long ago a pretty, restless, discontented woman did get her name into the papers. She won a dance contest in a rather low type of roadhouse and afterward went home with the man up to that eve-ning a stranger to her with whom she had danced. The police and the man's wife brought charges against the pair the next day, charges that included drug taking, drug peddling, reckless driv-ing, car stealing, drunken driving, infidelity, and, in her case, criminal neglect of children and man-slaughter. She had her moment of fame of a sort. Her three small girls, aged 6, 4 and a few months, were in a damp basement room; she said the only place for which she had a key. The older child was feeding raw vegetables to the young-er; the baby had found eternal peace. "T'M A VICTIM of what I call dishwater ache," writes Penny Vickars, from Uniontown, Pa. "I think lots of American housewives have it, and I want to know if there's a cure. Let me tell you of myself, because I've an idea I'm typical. "I worked in a nursery apron fac-tory before I was married, 12 years ago. Johnny wanted a family, and a family we have, three lovely girls, whose ages now are 10, 9, and 5. We wanted Pamela, the youngest girl, to be a boy before we saw her, and then we wanted Pam. Pam is now in school, and the other girls are helpful and normal and a great delight. Every Day Tasks "You know what I do every day. I make beds for people to muss up in a few hours, I clean bathrooms so that they can be strewn with soap-suds and wet towels again, I sweep floors to make room for more dust and scraps, I go to market to buy supplies that dnly last a few days, and I wash dishes that aren't cold before I have to lift them off the shelves for the next meal. I have a group of Scouts, we belong to a country club, and in our eight-roo-house, which we own, is every con-venience and luxury that we Ameri-cans take for granted. "My dishwater ache is because I know I can do better than this. My apron designs are still on the mar- - ftp J U2 ". . . I can do better ..." ket; my color patterns are still framed in one of the offices. They want me back, at a good weekly salary, but truly it isn't the money. It's the chance for even if only through nursery aprons! I don't want to go to Hollywood, or into the legislature, I'm not tele-vision material. But I want to hold my own in the business world, and while cotton clothes for children may not sound thrilling, my working at it may free some other women for the nursing or teaching they say we need so much. "Johnny won't hear of it. To em-ploy my loved old Mandy regularly, instead of one day a week, would mean a d home. The older girls would take on Pam until I got home at half-pa- four. And I would have all the thrill of really working again. But my dear kind Johnny disapproves. "What is your solution? You must have had this problem presented to you before." Indeed I have. Penny. You are quite right in thinking that dishwater ache is a common disease. But there are two ways of putting this question, and yours is the rational, reasonable, and even highly desir-able way. Many a Johnny would be relieved of his most pressing anx-iety, many a Johnny's life would actually be prolonged, if he could feel that the woman at home could take care of herself and the chil-dren should he die or be incapac-itated. Johnny doesn't know how lucky he is! Grandma Recalls Maple Sugaring Sap Boiling Trips All-Da- y Expeditions lUTAPLE SUGAR TIME in upstate New York was an exciting event to farm children of 80 years ago take Grandma Moses word for it. "That was a pleasure for us chil-dren," she relates in her autobiog-raphy, "to run to the woods to gath-er the sap and run back with it, and we had lots of fun keeping the fires burning to boil the sap down." The sprightly little farm wife who began a fabulous art career at the age of 76 has painted a dozen can-vases of "sugaring off" as she re-members it, many of which have appeared on Christmas cards. In a recent issue of a magazine she de-scribed her recollections of the sea-son. "We had all the syrup we wanted to eat on buckwheat cakes in the morning and syrup on hot biscuits for supper, with- butter," she re-calls. "Then' for drink we would have sweet fern tea." Fern tea, Grandma reveals, was "maple sap boiled down to a cer-tain degree with sweet fern. With cream it made a very nice drink and Father would say it was health-ful, a blood purifier. You had to cultivate a taste for it, but it was very nice and Father let us have all we wanted of it." Winter, in fact, meant "happy days" to Grandma as a child, she says, especially on one occasion when it was too cold to go to school. With the thermometer at 25 degrees below zero, she and her brothers played for hours in the snow. "Lester had a sleigh with cast-iro- n runners, Horace had an old wash bench, upside-dow- n but very safe, Arthur has a dustpan, and I an old scoop shovel," she remem-bers. There had been a deep snow, a slight thaw, and then "it froze so hard it would almost hold up a horse." , ONCE OVER j 1952: Seen by A Crystal Gazer By H. I. Phillips ' JAN. Mike DiSalle says prices are under control. Food, clothing and fuels hit new high. Auto dealers announce an increase of $150 a car. Truman says inflation is being checked by vigorous action. Dollar value drops to 47 cents. Vishinsky sets new record for hurling the invective and slur. FEB. Clue to Brinks robbery re-ported. Florida has a $2,360 daily double. Video announces a code pro-hibiting material, overem-phasis on sex and the blueprinting of crime routines. Franchot Tone pokes somebody in the eye. MARCH. Mike DiSalle says prices are under control. All prices hit new high. Vishinsky excoriates U.S., U.N., the free world and two fellows who weren't even playing. APRIL. Video announces a code prohibiting mate-rial and the blueprinting of crim-inal routines. American political campaign warms up. Country Is shaken by a report the real President Truman is still In his beach costume at Key West and that the one at Washington is an Impostor. Tallulah Holm sues Billy Joyce who sues Ava Matthews who sues Ali Sinatra ot somebody. MAY. Prices are declared under control by Mike DiSalle. New highs announced by butcher, baker and candlestick maker. Franchot Tone pokes somebody in the nose. A na-tional committee to investigate na-tional investigations is named. JUNE. A committee is named to investigate the committees engaged in investigating investigations. Mike DiSalle says prices are under con-trol. Everything leaps another 3 per cent. President Truman says inflation is being checked. The dol-lar declines to 39 cents, "when, as and if." The Republican National Convention, unable to get Eisen hower, nominates Taft for President with Faye Emerson for The Democrats counter by naming Dagmar for President, Dag-m-for Dagmar for left tackle. They adopt the slogan "A Dagmar in every home and two videos in every garage." JULY. Mike DiSalle says prices are under control. Everything goes up. The dollar drops to 32 cents fahrenheit. Franchot Tone pokes somebody in the nose. Vishinsky ex-coriates the U.S. and U.N. Things look pretty bad all over the world. Leon Keyserling says not to worry as we owe it to ourselves. AUG. Joyce Khan sues Ali Rose who sues Ava Matthews who sues Eleanor Gardner or somebody. SEPT. Mike DiSalle says prices are under control as prices take an-other leap. OCT. See Sept. NOV. Election results in a dead heat. Issue goes to a video panel which decides the country must be governed by a triumvirate composed of Errol Flynn, Milton Berle, Howdy Doody, with the Ritz Brothers as a second platoon. . DEC Video adopts a code prohibiting material, on sex and the of crime routines. Billy Rose Is sued by Rita Hay-wort- h, All Kahn is sued by Elea-nor Holm and Joyce Matthews is sued by Frank Sinatra all of whom are then sued by Ava Gardner or vice versa. Prices are declared under control by Mike DiSalle. Everything goes up another 4 per cent. Vishinsky celebrates the passing of his 3,456th brainstorm. Truman says inflation has been checked. The dollar drops to 30 cents. Fran-chot Tone pokes somebody In the nose. Leon Keyserling says not to worry as we owe it all to ourselves. |