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Show "GAY GADGETS" Associated Newspapers WNU Feature t. By NANCY PEPPER ROOM RUMORS Before the gang gathers for the next Harpy Huddle in your bedroom, bed-room, how about trying out some decorating tricks that cost free and work wonders? i Spool Shelf You need two smooth boards about 15 inches long and 6 inches wide and 32 empty spools to make an original knick-knack shelf. String the spools on strong cord four rows of eight each. Bore four holes in the boards at the four corners and run the strings ttirough them. Big knots will keep them in place. certain syllable before every vowel in a word. A favorite is 'egg" before be-fore every vowel. You sound like the natives on one of superman's planets. Addled Accents As they say in that popular song, "You put the accent ac-cent on the. wrong Syll-A-Ble." Better Bet-ter not start this in English class. Rhyme Time "How's the weather, weath-er, Heather?" is the way you're making with the poetry. Here's a gem that doesn't make any sense, but it's typical of your rhymes without reason: What d'ya mean, Jelly Bean? What I said, Cabbage Head. It doesn't rhyme, Frankenstein. Yes, it do, Fu Manchu Don't get hot, Coffee pot. Don't get mad, Alan Ladd. Oh, ' brother we can read the words but they don't make sensel Color with paint or polish. Now you have two shelves for knick-knacks knick-knacks or nail polish bottles. Trunk Bunk-Make Bunk-Make a padded top for an old trunk and cover the sides with a ruffled flounce and you have a comfortable seat for your friends when they gather to talk over tomorrow's assignments or tonight's dates. Blackboard Bulletin You thought you were too grown, up to have a blackboard in your room, didn't you? Well, just get it back from the attic, cover the wooden frame with padded fabric and hang it over your desk as a bulletin board. You can pin pictures and letters to the frame and write messages and reminders on the blackboard. See? Lip Trick Plain paper lamp shades look swoonderful if you have your friends autograph them with lipstick kisses. Cover over the lipstick lip-stick outlines with colorless polish to preserve them. DOUBLE TALK Are you majoring in jabberwocky this semester? l's a tough course, but if you study this column conscientious-ly conscientious-ly you may be able to make a passing grade. We've been snooping around soda fountains again and we're in a state of utter confusion about the strange sounds you call conversation. Pig Latin Variations You're not content with old fashioned pig Latin. You've discovered new ways to torture the language by adding a |