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
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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.
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New Start Is Always Available
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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.
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NEW YORK.—Thanks to a beau
tifu l blonde and a $2.98 housecoat,
novelist Isabel Moore expects to
net $20,000 this year.
By W ill Bernard, LL.B.
May a M an be Forced
May a Chef Collect
To Support Two Wives
Compensation if Assaulted
By the Dishwasher?
A t the Same Time?
During the breakfast rush, a
restaurant chef became annoyed
by a mounting stack of d irty dishes.
He told the dishwasher to move
them out of his way, but the latter
was slow to comply. When the chef
grew more insistent, the dishwasher
became very angry and finally gave
his tormentor a jolting uppercut to
the jaw. The chef was injured, and
put in a claim for workmen's com
pensation. 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,
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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.”
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She tells the story of how—as “ a
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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
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others!”
man was arrested At the trial, he
to the door came a blonde with
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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
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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
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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.”
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a farmhouse—but not until he had insisted that the law was uncon child with two utterly undisciplined
little
girls.
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presently
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experience
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passed the dread disease on to the stitutional because it discriminated
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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
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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!”
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enough to believe that. Far I feel cause she had "courage, but no ~
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