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.
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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
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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.
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oldest sister? "Who comes after her?"
Small Brother "Nobody ain't come
yet: but pa says the first fellow tnat
comes can have her."
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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.
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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-
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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
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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.