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W OM AN'S WORLD Cutwork Flowers Are Beautiful Prize-Winning Pineapple Doily Harm ony, Balance Necessary to Decor By Ertta Haley HOME looks just too plain A and drab. How can I intro duce color and design to the best advantage?’* * Here’s a question which many women ask when they start to look critica lly at the rooms and wonder just how to go about achieving beauty they've seen and read about. F irst of all. we must consider that there are different kinds of beauty, and what may look good with one room is not proper for an other kind. To illustrate, quaint prints or faded out colors which ap pear old-fashioned would not be appropriate at all in a modern set Easily Cleaned Drapes Even though a home is complete ly free from prints, it can s till be a thing of rare beauty. So much in terest in weaves and textures in various fabrics are available to day, that beauty may lie in them. Whenever you choose prints, be certain that the print suits the fab ric. Certain prints may be too heavy for sheer fabrics while others may be too fragile for heavy mate rials. Feel, as well as see them. ting. On the other hand, the luscious textures and colors so fitting in modern rooms would not add much to a Colonial home or one done in French provincial or 18th century style. Beauty is an individual matter, and it should express the personali ties of those who live in the home. With good taste to guide you, you may select those things which will create the most pleasing effects If you’re uncertain about the choice some study and guidance w ill put you on the right track. G ive Rest Impression W ith Single Idea How Best to Shop These handsome draperies of delicate color on a pure white background do away with all concern about grime, sun and rain. Made of vinylite plastic drapery material in decorator colors and designs, they can do much toward putting attractive window treatments within the reach of modest budgets. Avail able in a host of patterns, both ready-made and hy the yard, the material wipes clean with a damp cloth. It may be used for bedspreads, dust ruffles and dressing table skirts as well as for draperies. The best effect in the home is achieved with a single outstanding idea. I f you have a lot of ideas flittin g around your head, let one of them take precedence before you start renovating. Too many ideas, create the proper background for highlighting the rug. even though good, can ruin the room’s decor because they w ill W alls, Upholstery M ay C a rry Design Patterned drapes look best against a background of plain, painted walls, but if you feel that a certain wallpaper reflects your personality best, by all means use it. Then, pick out one or two of the wall paper colors and use in the drapes. These should be plain so as not to introduce too much design into the room which is apt to look quite a bit smaller with a patterned wall. Certain geometric prints or quaint calico designs are at their best for Use a single pattern . . . . create a confused impression. If you are using pattern in the room, you are safest in introduc ing it in the drapes. Stripes, checks, plaids or dots are safest to use if you are inexperienced. Fern and foliage patterns are often among the best designed. Stylized patterns and geometric patterns are fre quently desirable. Good period pat terns are frequently available for period rooms, and these are fa irly easy to select. I f you have a valuable Oriental rug, however, you do not want to introduce either too much pattern or color in the draperies. In this case, the rug is the main item in the room, and other furnishings should be as plain as possible to done in a single, solid color, and this may be true of the drapes, too. One or two colors in a room are far more effective than three or four. The colors which are related in rugs, upholstery and drapery are essential for beauty, which to a great extent depends upon the principles of unity, balance and harmony. To achieve unity in rooms. upholstery. Here again, let this be the only pattern in the room, with drapes and rugs on the plain side. This, you may feel, makes for too much of a plain impression, but it is part of the over-all impression you are creating. The rug may have interesting texture, even though -THE READER'S COURTROOM- For C urtains, Drapes Too much money should not be spent on curtains and drapes since these should be changed every five years or so to keep the windows looking attractive. The cost should also be economical since so much more has to be spent on the other furnishings of the room. Do Barmaids Have the Same Rights as Bartenders? ■ 59681 Bound to Win New Start Is Always Available OllP thfl blessed hlnccArl miracles rv, • Mi» ».1 „ _ of One C of if the life is that we can always make a fresh start. In moments of depression, of course, that is exactly what you feel you cannot do. That's one rea son why they are moments of de pression. But the truth is that no matter how hopelessly tangled, how fixed and unchangeable the circum stances in which you find yourself may be, there is always the divine right to start all over again. You begin this process by a little clear thinking. You ask yourself “ what do I want my life and myself to be, and what is the first step toward realizing that ideal?” You may not be able to see the outcome, or indeed even the second step, but the first is there before you if you can recognize it. Considers Suicide Take the case of Lauranna Jack- son, for example. Lauranna’s af fairs have become so miserably unsatisfactory that she cannot see any way out—except suicide, and she says she hasn't the courage to try that. ” 1 am 36, healthy, good looking and smart enough to have kept several good jobs at different times,” says Lauranna’s long let ter. “ At 22 I married the man who was immediately ahead of me in the office, and four years later our daughter, now 10, was born. That year Keith went to the South Paci fic and I went back to my mother and my job. Those were busy, prosperous years for my little Sharon and me, but when Keith came back I was ready to return to the old basis. as if I could not stand this situation any longer.” Here is one more case of an im pulsive woman, herself undiscip lined, who builds up trouble through long years, and expects to escape from the result of her actions in a matter of days or weeks. Trouble has to be unravelled the way knitting does. You have to go right back to the wrong stitches, and start over from there. Lau ranna’s predicament wouldn’t seem trouble at all to half the women of the world. Thousands of discour aged husbands have been helped along by a wife's courageous ex ample to the rebuilding of fortune. This is an everyday story with the right man and woman. New babies arrive every day by the hundred, all over the big world u n d e r circumstances infinitely more distressing than these. Small girls are trained to be gentle and useful under the influence of a good example. And making her home a place of harmony and interest is the quick est and the unfailing way foi Lauranna to lure little Sharon back into it. The important problem in the pic ture is Lauranna herself. She’s been shirking all along the line. 'Other Woman’ Inspires Book Blondes, Housecoats Feature New Novel B O U N D to win firs t prize at the | F a ir this sum m er is this hand- ! some d oily! 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At the hearing the res taurant owner opposed the claim, saying that the dispute was purely a personal matter between the two employees. But the court granted the chef an award. This is the season when the range of novelty handbags is so large that you can even match your favorite spectator sports footwear with a compan ion bag. Sketched here is a com bination of wheat colored linen trimmed in brown suede. At the upper left is one of the newest of the novelty bag styles, a school lunch basket of intrigu ing straw in a fine, almost fab ric-like weave. One of the nice features of these bags is that you II find them nicely lined with good fabric as well as carefully finished in details. KATHLEEN NORRIS Wife Support-Double Trouble A young couple were divorced, and the wife was granted a monthly sum as alimony. After a few years, the man remarried. Finding it d if ficult to support both wives, he asked the court to relieve him of (•s alimony payments. However, A 1 ‘ < They inspired her new book “ The Other Woman.” Miss Moore confessed that she’s had three unfortunate careers and a like number and quality of mar riages. She said: . • . broken in health and spirits.** However, he was so completely changed that after much quarrel ling and making-up and quarrelling again, we got a divorce. My mother died at this time, and Sharon went to her other grandmother. Two years ago I married again, a man who promised me every comfort, and agreed that I should have my own daughter back. He has two daughters, now aged 14 and 11, by an earlier marriage, and I have tried to do my duty by them. They have been badly spoiled and are difficult to handle, and financial reverses have made it advisable for me to resume my office position. My h u s b a n d , cheated by his partner and unlucky in investments, is broken In health and spirits and may have to retire. Not Happy With Mother "Maybe people won’t think that record qualifies me to speak . . . But I think the trouble with most married women is that they wear cheap housecoats, don't pay attention to beautiful blondes, pre pare too few breakfasts for their husbands, and think they’ve made a supreme sacrifice when they take the children to the dentist.” The young novelist speaks her mind frankly from a Cheery Gar den apartment in suburban New York, where she lives with a midas- touch typewriter and two pretty daughters who adore her writing. "There’s real smoking comfort in ■ pipeful of Prince Albert,” says Carl Walden. “P.A. is a cool, mild smoke. And the new Humidor Top keeps P.A. rich tasting.” P iP * M n . and » m ä k ln ’. » s m o k e r . , g r . . 2 .CrlmP eUl r r ‘BC< la r g e s t s a llin g sm oking to b a c c o . crimp arr She tells the story of how—as “ a PRINCE ALBERT IS not-too-exemplary w ife "—she hap when it appeared that the first wife The owner of a barroom decided pened on a best-seller inspiration. had no other source of income, the to economize by having his wife M y TOBACCO! PA. ROUS court ruled that the husband must help him at the bar. As It hap- It came on a spring-house- , continue making the payment. The pened, there was a local law pro UP FAST AND SHAPES cleaning morning,” she recalls, I judge said: "A man may not shun hibiting the employment of women “ when I was working like mad, UP EASY INTO MlLDf the m arital obligations undertaken to serve liquor. Somebody reported wearing chipped nail polish and a in one relationship by contracting the matter to the police—and the $2 98 housecoat that didn’t fit. Up RICH-TASTING' others!” man was arrested At the trial, he to the door came a blonde with J X M • • • cigarettes glamour and a desire to see an old friend—my husband.” Is a Hospital to Blame ’Sharon has visited us, but is not happy here, and assures me that Luckily, Isabel grins, her hus- For Letting a Smallpox she is well treated in her grand band was off on a week-end trip „.x Patient Escape? mother’s comfortable home. And and the blonde had only one day the most unwelcome prospect of in town. another baby’s arrival has Just A man caught smallpox and was But after the g irl left, novelist about wrecked my nerves. I find confined to a special wing of a p ri Moore ran upstairs, studied her w 4 ■ j myself faced with the prospect of vate hospital on the outskirts of self in a m irror, threw away the “Crimp cut Prince Albert holds in the paper for fast roll stopping work—stopping paid work, housecoat and went on a diet. town. One night the man’s nurse that is—but working as an actual ing of neat cigarettes that are extra mild”, says C. Lorow. fell asleep on the Job. and the deliri A month later, combining shock servant in t h i s inharmonious "And that new Humidor Top sure keeps P.A. freshl” ous patient wandered out into the household, agd replacing my own and imagination, she began writing fields. He finally was picked up at her best book, ’’The Other Woman.” IL J 'iblili T- haeco Company, Winston Halen. N <’. a farmhouse—but not until he had insisted that the law was uncon child with two utterly undisciplined little girls. Moreover, presently This experience hag paid off In passed the dread disease on to the stitutional because it discriminated THE HEW HUMIDOR TOP lecfcs IH the FRESHNESS and FUVOH farmer. After the farmer had re against women for no good reason. there w ill be the exacting care of a sale of the title to Warner Brothers in Hollywood, sale of the novel to covered, he sued the hospital for If men can serve whiskey, he de small baby when our finances are MORE MEN SMOKE damages. The hospital protested manded. why can’t women? But the unable to stand the strain of pres Bantam Books—and a petite new figure for Miss Moore. ent expenses. that it wasn’t responsible for the court saw things differently and What can I do to extricate myself At age 37, in face, the looks I acts of a delirious patient, but the found the man guilty as charged court disagreed and granted the The judge pointed out that the law from this slough of despondency, younger than she did in pictures farm er's claim The judge said the was designed to prevent “ the hilar- I bad nights, quick temper, anxiety, taken 21 years ago when she started hospital was just as much to blame Ity and disturbance so often caused and the dread of fresh responsibil her first career as a trapeze artist THAN ANY OTHER TOBACCO as a circus would be for letting a by the combination of wine, women, ities when my baby is bom? There for Sells-Floto circus in New York. She took that Job, she sa;,, be- must be a solution. I ’m still sane vicious animal loose on the streets! I and song!” ~T h e n a tio n a l j o y s m o k e — enough to believe that. Far I feel cause she had "courage, but no ~ brain» ” turn IN » s a g Oto O pr, ts ta rg a f M «M s sa NBC /
