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Show It's Simple Furniture With Quaint Ruffles and Frills for the Home rSD CURTAIN C-TO-D f A-TO'B T HEIGHT OF-T-f i ' DITANCE BEO CURTAIN YERTlCALrH ! PART OF J4 -f- C JJd D q WALL " 10 j:!, 72" FLOOR 1 By Ruth Wyeth Spears TF YOU have been wondering if quaintness, frills and ruffles were going into the decorating ash can after the war, the answer is no. There will be many strictly modern rooms but there will be rooms also in which all the war years' pent-up longing will burst forth in the most romantic versions ver-sions of the traditional Home, sweet Home with variations according ac-cording to taste. Period themes and quaintness will be stepped up to have a dramatic dra-matic quality. Modern ideas will creep in and add to this effect. Simple furniture will be built in and fabrics will be cut and sewn especially to fit the spaces they are to fill. The bed curtains for the slanting wall in the sketch are an example and the triangular shaped window curtains to give extra fullness. Frills will be even fuller than those of our dreams, and many a homemaker who never nev-er before used her sewing ma- chine attachments will be learning the mysteries of the rufller and hemmer. NOTE Why not start your dream room now with a skirted blanket chest like the one In this sketch? It Is grand to have extra covers handy on chilly nights and the padded top makes a comfortable scat. Pattern 259 gives complete and fully Illustrated Il-lustrated directions with detailed list of materials needed for making the chest, full skirt and top cushion. Enclose 15 cents with name and address to get pattern 259. Address: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Pattern No. 259. Name Address SNAPPY FACTS y-v ABOUT fe) RUBBER Consumption of reclaimed rubber in the United States increased mere than 50 per cent from 1940 to 1943. Reclaimed rubber may frequent! fre-quent! bo vied in the manufacture of the same articles from which It was reclaimed. In 1943 gasoline and motor vehicle tax revenues combined accounted for nearly 30 per cent of the total state revenues. Next year will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the use of motor vehicles In the rural free delivery mall service. Rubber-tired mail cars had a bearing on the passing of the first federal aid highway law in 1916. BIGoodrich Invest in Liberty & T Buy War Bonds f ' " & s r ' i!5s ' "All officers and men I will advance to , $ ' A ; : kill or be killed" ' SM'- :' J f ' - . . . $K W ' 'j ' ' , : y y'Tvi ' '4 ' - ' Jrx ,v .- - v& f7. cdr-.- - : : : . - s 1 v 1 , ' ' '? i. i in in i hi ii i Mimir i --- n imn f -ir V-L m 1ms is NO dreamed-up headline no "tone poem" conceived on an inspired typewriter. It's the way the army explains the command "Fix bayonets charger Only the Infantry has it put to them in these words. As one doughboy said: Til remember those eleven words the rest of my life." Remember? How can he forget them? They describe the climax of th Infantryman's assault they describe the most cold-blooded action on a battlefield. battle-field. Yet Infantry officers and men have advanced, countless times, to kill or be killed ... at Saratoga ... at New Orleans . . . the Argonne . . . New Guinea ... Salerno. There's no rescinding of this order no retreating no nothing but plain killing. Right now, the men of the Infantry are closing in for the final kilL They're advancing every day advancing to the order of "kill or be killed." Remember this the next time you see a doughboy on furlough. Remember this the next time you almost forget to write that letter. Remember it. till your dying eiay. You can't pay the doughboy back but at least you can be forever mindful of bis role in this fight for freedom. Keep your eye on the InfanttyTHE DOUGHBOY DOES IT! |