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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1917)
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 1, 1917. In handling- higrh-class ware?" asked a dealer in bric-a-brac of an appli cant for work. "No. sir,- was the reply, "but I think X can do it. "Suppose." said the dealer, "you ac cidentally broke a very valuable porce lain vase, what would you do?" "I should put it carefully together," replied the man. "and set it where a wealthy customer would be sure to knock it over again." "Consider yourself engraped." said the dealer. "Now, tell me where you learned that trick of the trade." "A few years ago." answered the oth er, "I was one of the "wealthy-customer class." SUCCESSFUL FURNISHING OF APARTMENTS IS . . QUESTION OF MAKING MOST OF LIMITATIONS Living-Room, Keynote of Closed-In Habitat, Can Be Made to Reflect "Homey" Atmosphere by Adding Harmoni ous Colors Dining-Room Often Is Found Problem to Make Cheery. ENTRANCE OF AMERICA INTO EUROPEAN WAR BRINGS WOMEN OF TWO LANDS INTO LIMELIGHT American and Parisian Prima Donnas Sing National Anthems of Welcome to General Pershing in France New York Woman Offers to Raise Regiment of Women Ambulance Drivers. 3S T. -K Stenciled Jersey Sport Coats Meet Fashion's Demand. SUp-on WrapM With Deep V-Xeclc Open Ins; and Loose Belt Are Attractive. Jf2 3Zmos-ph?r& be DESPITE the fundamentally arti ficial conditions which confront the furnisher of an apartment, much may be done to mitigrate these conditions and because the problem is jel difficult one it is distinctly Interesting-. Also, because it is a problem, it calls for a considerable amount of care In the selection of f urnishlngrs, and considerable foresight if a future home In the country or suburb is contem plated. Perhaps It should have been stipu lated at first that we are speaking- of the average or "moderate" apartment. Apartments renting from $3000 to $4000 a year, and upward, are a different story, and present different furnishing problems. They usually show, in vary ing1 degrees of interest and merit, how much money may be spent in furnish ings. Such, however, is not the pur pose of this article. In considering the average apartment we must contend firstly with a com parative smallnesa and fewness of rooms. Many schemes of decoration which have seemed attractive in pic tures or in memory are found to be quite impossible. Successful and at tractive apartment furnishing be comes a question of making the most of limitations. In the compass of an ar ticle which is as mucn restricted for space as the average apartment house floor plan, the most beneficial outline of suggestions may best be made to proceed from one room to an other, assuming, for the sake of being definite, that these consist of a living room, dining-room, two bedrooms and a maid's room, besides the kitchen and bath. Living-Room Is Keynote. One expects to find the keynote of the apartment, the reflection of its oc cupant's character, in the living-room, and it is this room which may best be made to express some of the atmos phere of a home. Its color should be harmonious walls, rug. furniture and hangings all In conformity. The furniture need be i of no specific style or period the im portant consideration is one of creating an impression of domesticity. The presence of books will aid in this, and for the apartment-house (which is rarely a place of permanent abode) the sectional type of bookcase is to be recommended. There should be as large a reading table as space will per mit, as well as a few really comforta ible chairs. To make up for the usual absenct of a fireplace, lamps with "warm" colored shades of red or yellow or orange silk should be selected to create, in the evening, a "firelight" im pression in the room, a certain repose ful mellowness. Other than accommodation for books, a good reading table la the most im portant piece in the room and a few home-like chairs: selection may be al lowed considerable range. If there be a piano there will be room for little else. A phonograph "fits in" almost ; anywhere, as do various useful and at tractive bits of 'incidenta, furniture, such as tea tables, magazine rack, rec ord cabinets and a small writing desk. A desirable effect may often be had by Introducing at least one piece of furniture of some unusual degree of interest a piece of red or black lac quer, a decorated piece or a richly carved cabinet. Even one such piece may save a room which is well but un interestingly furnished from the sad fault of being commonplace. Lack of Windows Often Noted. Since the average apartment is not blessed with too many windows, hang ings should be selected according to the amount of light in the room Printed chintzes are sometimes pleas antly appropriate, or other light weight materials in yellow or tan or light blue. The rug in a room which does not receive much light should not be of a dark tone, for such rugs absorb light and tend to lower the key of the whole scheme. As the dining-room usually opens from the living-room through a wide doorway, there should be maintained some agreeable relation of color scheme between the two. ' The scheme may often be atractively kept iden tical in the two rooms, giving a sense impression of one large room, though in some cases a variation, is desirable. A harmonious relation, however, is essential. The furnishing of the dining-room Is often a problem. In many cases the room is too small to admit the usual matched suite table, chairs, large sideboard. serving table and china closet. If one contemplates eventually moving to a house, it is a mistake to acquire only part of a matched suite, which in a few years' time might be difficult or even impos sible to complete. The living-room furniture can always be "worked in" to the future house, since it consists of odd pieces. Why not furnish the apartment dining-room with odd pieces? Many distinctive and unusual ar rangements will be found most at tractive. The table may be a large fate-leg. destined later for a corner of the living room, or for the dreamed of "breakfast room ;" the chairs a se lection of simple rush-seated chairs of good design which will do later for use in upper halls and bedrooms. The side table may be a lowboy, a. console or drop-leaf, any of which will fit In readily in hall or living room of the house, while the side board may consist cf a larger console or a sofa table, with a long, horl sontal mirror or a large picture hang ing over it. The household china and linen, for the time being, may be kept in the capacious built-in dresser, which forms one of the very few convenient provisions of the apartment. The bedrooms, unfortunately, are Cr&aZ&cf by Grouping -the TVia Ode- of Inexpensive usually qulta small, but modern furni ture designs offer many attractive possibilities, even though there may not be room for the complete suite. The bedroom essentials of llerht and cheerfulness are often attained by the use of gay figured chintzes, the same material being used for cur tains, chair cushions and beneath plateg'lass dresser and - table tops. Perhaps a bedspread and bolster cov ers may be made, as well, and Blip overs for the chairs in summer. A word about wall papers may be taken as applying throughout the apartment. A paper with a conspic uous figure or pattern always makes a room seem smaller, so that plain tones or, in the bedrooms, a vertical self-tone stripe of gray is most ad visable. Maid's Room Is Problem. The maid's room presents no very great problem, but if more thought were given to making It a bit cheer ful and "smart" looking, the time honored Joke of the ever-departing maid might lose some of its reality. There is usually but one window, and wr :wrfvr!'. ! - ,4 AIRY HOOD KEEPS TRESSES OF AUTOIST FROM FLYING LOOSE Printed Chiffon Makes Evening Motor Bonnet That Is Becoming Quaint " Chinese Pattern Followed. ONE of these airy hoods will keep tidily arranged tresses from fly ing loose when one motors to a Summer dance. An evening motor bon net this, of course, and its becoming ness is part of its allure. The model pictured is made of plain and printed chiffon, the printed fabric showing a quaint Chinese pattern of birds and dragons scattered over a ground of flesh pink. Plain pink chif fon was used to make the hood por tion, the strip of chiffon, shirred in three ridges over the top of the head, being drawn down in full folds under rosettes set back of each ear. A double frill of the printed chiffon, hemmed at both edges, trims the front of the hood, and wide streamers of the printed stuff start from the rosettes. These hoods are liked also for yachting. They protect the hair and keep the hair from flying about In wisps. The yacht's awning provides plenty of shade, so the dainty chiffon hood, pro tecting the hair. Is all the headgear needed. Another Small Brother Talks. Puck. Toung Man "So Miss Ethel is your oldest sister? "Who comes after her?" Small Brother "Nobody ain't come yet: but pa says the first fellow tnat comes can have her." f 2rzrr2iZtzrs .ArpzzricZ iZ. Odd F'scrs 7socZ czces S . ? . T - w?s , ' '- m 7 -. v-i rM ta 0 JiXL Br & -'V- ' J" r- & - n for this a dollar or so expended in a cheerful chintz will do wonders; the same chintz, perhapf, being- used to cover a chest for ocds and ends, and for the curtain of the shelf which usually serves as a hanging space. A brass bed is neat and cleanly, a com fortable chair and a reading light are humane considerations, a chest of drawers a necessity, and an Inexpen sive triple glass dressing table a stim ulus, perhaps, toward keeping up a desirably "smart" appearance. Perhaps the usual failure in attrac tively furnishing an apartment is due to mistaking it - for a house. The result is, naturally, an expression of neither. An apartment is not a house, and its peculiarities of space and room arrangement demand special consid eration accordingly. The problem Is more difficult than that of furnishing a house and results depend upon the understanding of existing possibilities and, even more, of- - the inevitable limitations of the apartment. Experifnre, New York Telegraph. "Have you ever had any experience . j f I r iCW " i. Ur fl . w I ' ? 4 f tv , z v 1 : if a - S 1: r I"? . Y ? ! h f ' : ' 1 it, 4 - ! J l " . . jbi. ,Se. Sst. 4 ew Motor Hood - of Printed I Ckiffoa. - I ' STENCILED jersey sport coats meet fashion's demand for something new. They are not really coats but slip-on wraps with a deep V-neck opening through which the head may be passed, and a loose belt confining the fullness at the waistline. A model Just from Paris Is of Joffre blue wool jersey with a bold design in black stenciling around the lower edge, along side each of the V-neck opening, down the center front and on huge patch pockets that extend around toward the back, over each hip. For wear with this stunning sport wrap is a high crowned, mushroom brimmed hat of black straw with a band and how of Joffre blue .ribbon. Puritan caps of gray wool worn at the races this Spring gave to their wearers a quaint suggestion of Pil grim forbears, particularly when the capes were accompanied by buckled Colonial pumps and tall crowned black straw hats and women who wore the new capes wore such pumps and such hats, possibly with an appreciation of the picturesque effect conveyed. The Puritan cape is of gray wool jersey or broadcloth and hangs in full folds from shoulder to ankle. The eape is mounted on a skeleton foundation to which are attached sleeves, and a belt, passing around the waist under the cape, crosses the foundation or waistcoat at the front, insuring a trim line. What has made green so fashionable this Summer? Perhaps the over-use of red, white and blue which has been loaded upon woman's costume to the point of poor taste. At and rate the excluslves have abandoned red, white and blue in clothes and have taken to green. Sport skirts are In green, black and white stripes; sport coats are of green velvet and green and white checked tub silks are the rage for sport frocks. A word of warning is in season concerning the purchase of ready-made wearables In green tints. Be sure that the green velvet sport coat or the green plaid sport skirt is seamed up with silk thread look critically at the inside be fore yielding to the allure of the out side. Cheap thread substitutes for silk fade rapidly when exposed to sunlight and all sport garments should have silk In the seams, but green shades fade with special celerity in any material but silk, and a cheap thread used in green sport wear may cause the smart wearable to look shabby in a week. Be Canny. H OME preparedness cans loaded with food. That rubber ring you put on a pre serving Jar helps you to stretch your income. The awful question. "What shall I have for dinner?" is easily answered if your shelves are full of home-canned products. Can't eat 'em all In Summer. Not enough in Winter. Home canning is the answer. Tou put a lid on waste every time you seal a preserving Jar. Canned berries are bird-proof. Frost doesn't nip canned vegetables. Canned green peas and yellow peaches help fight the blues. See that your garden produces dry beans, cabbage, potatoes and root crops that can be kept without canning. . DESSBHT RECIPES, BY ISOBELi BRANDS. Even the child who doesn't like milk usually does like "junket" scientifical ly known as "rennet" and this easily made food dessert should be on the regular menu of the growing child. A quart of milk and one Junket tablet there are many brands from which to choose will make Ave or six cups, and If kept properly cold will be good for several days, either at different meals or as the little snack after school that the children usually demand. The simplest Junket is made by dis solving one tablet in a tablespoon of cold water, then adding it to one quart of lukewarm milk, which may be fla vored with sugar or vanilla, maple or other flavoring preferred. Here are some other varieties of Junket: Caramel Jimlcet. One cupful of milk, three tablespoon fuls of sugar, three tablespoonfuls of water, salt, one-quarter Junket tablet Stir two tablespoonfuls of sugar in a saucepan until dissolved and allow it to become brown, then add the water and cook until sirupy. Pour this sirup, one tablespoonful of sugar and a dash of salt into the warm milk; add the quarter Junket tablet dissolved in a teaspoonful of warm water and pour Into cups. Here are a few different custard recipes: tint Cnstard. One-half cupful of sugar, one-quarter cupful of sliced almonds, four eggs, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, one and one-half cupfuls of milk, one-quarter teaspoonful of salt. Cook one-half cupful of sugar .0 car amel, then add .the sliced almonds and cook one minute more. Pour the mix ture over the bottom and sides of a pudding mold. Beat together four yolks ami only two whites of eggs, add the milk, sugar and salt, beat in the milk and pour into the lined mold and bake. Here is a custard recipe that requires only the yolk of one egg. LITTLE BENNY'S NOTEBOOK. THE PARK AVE. NEWS. Weathir. Warmer with sounds of berds laying eggs. Slsslety Notes. Miss Maud Jonson and Miss Lily Levy was, wawklng up and down Broad street in their new Sunday clothes looking as if they owned the erth last Sunday, and all of a suddln it startid to rain and Miss Jon son and Miss Levy ran home looking as If they dldent even own a umbrella. Spoarts. Wile Miss Kitty. was rite ing the homewerk on the blackbord last Thersday, a spit ball shooting con test took place between Sid Hunt and Sam Crawss to see witch one cood shoot them the ferthest off of their hand with their finger nale.. Sid Hunt win ning with one wlch went so far it hit Miss Kitty in the back of the neck be hind the ear, and both of them had to stay a hour aftir skool and rite, I throo spit balls, 600 times for exter homewerk. POME BT SKINNY MARTIN. The Rest Stood There and Laf fed. On your mark, get reddy, set! The haff a block race began! Puds Simkins won it easy. Being the only one that ran! More Sissiety Notes. Miss Mary Wat- f i 1 rp I . Tr' ill 11.; ' f. it- JSfwnkrt t t 1 -. ' .. J 1 1 V i ' ; ' V ft; tpY. H ' -: j ?it- - I lit u " ill afl .vh- . r .f - &ir y'l Uri - - V X .. ... 2? ry a-1' " " x -r"- In - . J lit:-- YJJZ'' crr" ' ' If l 1 7 -: a- III T 5 " r' r- - III t ; ; t oxilV Ill J I 1 " Xf 1 : !fW C ' f : N m t j - 1 . I MARTHE CIIENALs a favorite oper atic singer of Paris, represented vocally the French nation when General Pershing was welcomed at the Paris Opera. She sang the "Marsel lalse," while Madame Richardson sang the American National anthem, amid great enthusiasm. Mme. Chenal is to appear in New York with the Chicago Opera Company In January. Jane Boland ' Sutherland, of New York, through the British recruiting office in that city has offered to raise a regiment of women ambulance driv ers for service in France. She has tendered also the use of her two can. Edith Mason, the pretty young prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera Com pany has been sued for divorce by Nor man Mason. The papers in the case are sealed and no one knows the name of the co-respondent- Divorces axe not uncommon in operatic circles. Mrs. E. R. Stettlnius is the head of the Economy League of the Junior Col onial Dames of America. They are de voting themselves to the conservation of paper by collecting old waste paper and selling it for what it will bring for the benefit of the Red Cross. They also collect old automobile tires and any other old thing which the owner does not seem to want, but which has a scrap value. Mrs. Stettlnius Is wife of the member of the Morgan banking firm who has had charge of purchasing supplies for the allies. He is a former St. Louisan. Among the political prisoners re leased from the Hertchinsk prison in kins won a bewty contest held last Sattiday between Mr. Benny Potts and Mr. Leroy Shooster. Miss Watkins re seeving 2 votes. For Sale or Exchange A big book with gilt edges, lntitled 1000 Gems of Thawt, for 15 sents or enything ixcit lng or useful. Se Ed Wernick. Avver tizement. Lee Pape in Chicago Dally News. How to Keep Good Complexion. In a recent number of the American Magazine Dr. Arthur R. Reynolds says: "To maintain a good complexion through life or to regain a lost com plexion it is necessary to eliminate all wastes of the body promptly. If dally elimination of waste is equal to the production of waste in the body good complexion will be the rule and bad complexion the exception. The reason why all wastes are not promptly elimi nated is because the right food is not eaten. Elimination cannot go on thor oughly unless the intestines are kept in a tllled-up condition by eating food that leaves residue in the intestinal tube after digestion has done its part. Concentrated food leaves little or no residue. Every farmer knows that his livestock, in Winter, needs to be fed what he calls roughage, that Is, straw. It nils up the stomach and the Intes tinal tube. The filling up is necessary for stock: it is equally necessary for human beings." Well-Kept Bands Are Charm. Well-kept hands are always an add ed charm, no matter how many others a girl may possess, and a month's treatment will make a big Improve ment in any hands. Each night Just before retiring scrub TIP Siberia was Maria Splridonova. TTpon her arrival at Chita, she was recog nized and carried through the streets on the shoulders of the crowd. Maria Splrldonovo is the daughter of a Rus sian General She shot and killed Chief of Police' Luzhenoffsky, of Tambov, in 1906. She was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to 20 years' imprisonment. While in Jail she was terribly tortured by two police officers, who for 11 hours kicked her back and forth .across the cell, tore her hair and burned her flesh with lighted cigar ettes. Both of her torturers were aft erwards murdered. Even a German would find it hard to resist the appeal of Diantha Patti son, of the Hudson Theater, as she re cently offered the flags of the allied nations at the Actors' Fund Fair in New York. It was the biggest fair the actors have ever had. The fair was patriotic, and recruiting and appeals for Red Cross aid divided attention with the fund which keeps the actors out of the' poor house in their old age. the hands .in . water as hot as can be comfortably borne, then rinse in sev eral warm waters and quickly after drying and before the skin gets cool rub in warm olive oil or cocoa butter (either is very nourishing to the skin). Work and rub the hands together in the same manner as when washing them. Do this for about 10 minutes, then dust them well with good quality corn starch and slip on old loose gloves with a little tip cut off each finger, as hands so incased need ventilation. Words of Wise Men Vital. To produce a work of art you must first master the art of work. Take thought for the. roots of life, and you will not need to worry about the flowers and fruit. If. seeing evil, we pass by on the other side, how shall the waste places of the earth be cleaned or the wilder ness break forth into sonrr? Do not keep your noble thoughts for tomorrow's poem; put them Into today's pros. All transitions are dangerous: and the most dangerous 'is the transition from the restraint of the family circle to the nonrestraint of the world.' To work and live only for one's self will by no' means promote happiness. On the contrary, it Is a source of in tense misery. The secret of many a Joyless life which has gone out in bit terness, suicide or insanity, may be found in the selfishness which domi nated it from its beginning to its close. To live in love is to live in everlasting youth. Faith is not born for days of sun shine - only. Faith does not find her truest and greatest power when the sunshine appears unclouded along the pathway of life. It Is the attribute of faith to believe in good in spite of evil; it is the attribute of faith to believe It the light, although she is environed bx the darkness and is difficult to see. Impediment. Judge. BITly "I would lay the world-afcyor feet but for one thing." Milly "And that is?" Billy "Some other people are using FRECKLE-FACE Sua and Wind Bring Oat Tff.r Cpotft How to Remove Eaully. Here's a chance. Miss Freckle -faea to try a remedy for freckles with tha guarantee of a reliable dealer that it will not cost you a penny unless it removes the freckles, while If It doe give you a clear complexion the ex pense is trifling. Simply pet an ounce of othine dou ble strength from any druggrist and a few applications should show you how easy it is to rid yourself of the homely freckles and get a beautiful complexion. Rarely is more than one ounce needed for the worst case. Be sure to ask the druggist for the double strength othine, as this is the prescription sold under guarantee of money back if it falls to remove freckles.-: Adv. To Acquire Curly Hair in a Single Night Hair tortured with the hot curling iron is bound to become dry, harsh and brittle, as so many know from sad ex perience. It's far more sensible to use plain liquid silmerine, which can do no harm and which produces a curlinesa much prettier and more natural in ap pearance. This has the peculiar prop erty of drying in the most beautiful waves and creases Imaginable. It is also a fine dressing for the hair, pre serving its texture and health, keeping it delightfully soft and glossy. A few ounces from the druggist will last for weeks, so it is not at all expensive. Liquid silmerine Is not sticky or greasy and it won't stain or streak hair or scalp. A convenient way to use it is to pour a little Into a saucer and then with a clean tooth brush apply evenlv to the hair from root to tip. if this is done before retiring the added glorv to one's "crowning glory' will be quite in evidence in the morning. The hair will be nice and fluffy when combed out. Adv.
