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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1949)
Illinois Valley News. Thursday. October 13. 1949 W O M AN 'S WORLD The Home Workshop Children Need Clothes that'Belong' M a k e Beds as Good as N ew o ELECTING / IN THE HOME « /W O R K S H O P ^ AND S E W I N G clothes for children can be lots of fun. When dressed properly and admired by a ll who see them, mothers feel that the reward is worth all the tim e consumed. More im portant even than having people admire your children Is the sense of grooming, poise and well being that is being developed in your youngsters as you choose clothes for them which meet that standard of fashion rightness. True, you don’t have to worry about hemlines on little girl's dress es as about your own, or about the extent of the cuff on a little boy's trousers as your husband is con cerned about his, but still there's a certain amount of fashion which needs consideration. Certain styles may be better on your little g irl than others, for they do have small individual figure problems. Then, too, colors can be as important to them as they are to adults. Some do more for them than others, as you can easily find out just by trying on a few things. Your little boy and g irl can prob ably look just as adorable as some you've seen pictured even though their clothes budget is lim ited and mother does the sewing. Tasteful selection of colors and fabrics and Children deielop grooming sense . . . proper styling are the keys to cloth ing children attractivly. An armload of cheap fabrics that fade and thin with each laundering, skimpy styles or too large clothes and hit-and-miss sewing without re gard to what’s good on the tot w ill do nothing more than cover him. Good fabrics chosen with a keen eye as to what’s right in style and color, sewed with care w ill make of the youngsters angels even when they're not! I f you start early to instill an ap preciation of quality, workmanship and styling in your youngsters, you’ll have given them qualities hard to duplicate. For Rough Wear This young gentlem an is well d ressed for sehool or play in his sm art two-button Jacket m ade of an all-rayon worsted type fabric. The fabric, woven from A visco yarns, is color-fast and com p letely w ashable, and will w ithstand all sorts of rough and tum ble w ear. T here’s a liberal sleev e and seam allow ance to let the clothing grow with the boy. late daddy and big brother as much as possible with good tailoring. Pants are full enough to drape or to have well pressed pleats. Shirts are sewed carefully so they can look tailored and correct in even small details. I t ’s discouraging to see children outgrowing clothes so rapidly, and for this reason many mothers like to make clothing a b it on the large side so the youngster can grow into it. There's no better way to start an inferiority complex in the young New designs and colors are avail able in fabrics every season, but there is little change in actual fabrics to use for children's ploth- ing. Novelty fabrics are for adults, be they men or women, but the more conservative m aterials look better on the youngsters. For play clothes, select the sturdy materials which wash easily, and are sunfast: corduroy, broadcloth, duck, denim, gingham, poplin, per cale. calico, rayon, seersucker and cotton gabardine. In dress clothes, linen, chambray, pique, dotted swiss, organdie, sheer cottons, fine lawn and muslin may be employed. Although some textured mate rials, such as corduroy, are favored for play clothes, the smooth fabrics are much more popular for dress. The smooth surfaces mean easy ironing and less opportunity for picking up d irt while being worn. A ll fabrics chosen should be sturdy enough to hold buttons, fasteners and such essentials. Don't be afraid to experiment on the different types of fasteners being shown even though you may never have seen them used on tot's clothing. The beautiful sim p licity of the necklines of the new wool dresses and the sm artn ess of the m any new typ es of upstand ing collars com bine to g ive a perfect foil for ornate n eck laces. Setting the p ace are the long strands which are looped as you desire. Equally good for the Jewel neckline or a collared dress is the choker, usually highlighted with a pendant or pin-like cluster. E arrings and pins repeat the m otifs as de sired. Typical exam p les are sketched, the choker of Jade and pear], with a pendant of Jade, coral, pearl and rhine stones on gold filigree. The long necklace has opals with pearls, rhinestones and a touch of green. D o n 't Lose H a p p y M id d le Y ears 'W 1' ARE IN A RUT' and its getting on our nerves. Lee isn't as kind to me as he used to be. I bore him. He seems tired and quiet all the time. I f I start a sub ject he may say wearily, “ Let’s not talk about it.’ Sometimes he says, Please don’t use that word.’ Often he hardly seems to hear me. 'We are run-of-the-mill people,” continues the letter of M ildred M il ler, of New York City. “ Lee's sal ary is $100 a week. We pay $85 rent for five rooms in the West Sixties. Lee is 52, I am 47. We lost our one son in 1945, and his widow has rem arried and lives with our grandson in Los Angeles. Our daughter died as a baby, so we have weathered two great sorrows. But until now I always felt that while Lee needed me I had reason for living. Now there isn’t any question that he feels himself tied to a woman who means nothing to him. Security Isn't Enough Freight Car Is No Plaything -By W ill Bernard, LL.B leg Later a damage suit was tiled for the youngster against the rail road. The suit charged that the railroad was to blame foi leaving such a "dangerous object' wuerc children could get at it. However, the court rejected the boy's claim The judge said that a box-car isn't “ dangerous" at a ll—at least, not when it is standing still. • • • When applying for a marriage license, a young man took an oath that both he and his bride-to-be were over 21. Actually, the girl was only 16 years old. Later the youth was arrested on a charge of perjury. At the tr ia l he argued that the oath “ didn't count'*—be cause he hadn't had his hand up at the time I However, the court dis agreed ar.d found him guilty. The judge said that raising one's hand was a ''mere fo rm a lity "—not an es sential part of the oath that he took us o curt . Quintuplets Use 'M usterole Fur Chest C olds! to relieve coughs— achy muscles The Dionne Quinta have always had the best care. Ever since they were babies, they’ve used Musterole to promptly relieve coughs and local congestion of colds. Be sure your kid dies enjoy Nlusterole's great benetitsl Bring Old Beds Vp to Date p A T T E R N 313 shows nine dif- feren t w ays to m ake old beds as good looking a s the la te st m odels. W orking d etails a re shown for m aking over beds of m etal FOR ARTHRITIS Life miserable f rom a rth ritis , rheum atism , neu* ritis. stomach trou* ble caused or aggra* vated by faulty elim ina* . tio n ? T r y C r a i y W a t e r Crystals. Money-back guaran tee M illions have benefited. Send SI 25 for I lb. bo« if your druggist doesn't stock. C ra x y W a te r C o.. Mineral W ells. Te«at. Bed I.e tte r Day O rigin of the te rm “ red le tte r d a y " m ay be tra c e d back to the 15th century, when red and purple colors w ere used for m ark in g sain t o r church festivals on the calen d a r. F ro m this an cien t custom aro se the p ra c tic e of designating any m em orable day as a red le t te r day. CRAZY CRYSTALS À KATHLEEN NORRIS “ I am a good cook, I keep the house going. We’ve never been in u ith well styled clothes. Any mother who sews for her debt. We have a good nest-egg in children would do well to copy some than to have them improperly fitted. government bonds, and insurance of the trade tricks to top children's Whether they tell you or not, they —all that. But that isn’t enough, is designers. For one thing, good qual are aware of how people look at it, if one’s heart is restless and ity dresses, trousers and other ar them, and how their friends react unsatisfied, and life has grown dull ticles of clothing are never skimpy. to their clothes. er and quieter day by day? There You’ll find skirt fullness because Clothes often lose their style be is no other woman in the case, I designers take tthe required two cause they are practical, and it's know, although Lee is at the age widths to make them perky. Deep far more satisfying to have them when men sometimes fa ll for fla t hems are employed because they fun to wear and be admired, than tery and interest. And physically, make skirts flu ff out, not because to shy away from putting them on. we are both well, sleep and eat you w ill want m aterial for lengthen It's easier to spend the few extra like the normal human animals we ing. hours doing more sewing than to are, and feel bewildered at this Collars should be appropriately undo damage to the spirit. apathy that has fallen upon us. narrow, and tiny, well puffed I t ’s better, too, to have a few As for amusements, Lee has a sleeves are essential for chic. In carefully sewed clothes than a cocker he adores. He works on the ■boy's clothing, the trend is to simu- closet fu ll of hastily thrown together window garden which is quite a success. He likes walking, bridge, and a few special movies. I like THE READER'S COURTROOM movies, am taking a weekly lesson in interior decoration, and love to One Saturday afternoon, several boys began playing rear a box car on a railroad siding One of the boys decided to climb the ladder But Just as he neared the top he lost his footing, fell, and broke his P attern is 25c. Send order to Workshop P a t t e r n S e rv ic e . B ed fo rd H ills. N e w Y o r k . Select F ab rics, F a sten ers For W ashing E ase Take Tips From Top D esigners If a Child Falls O ff a Freight Car, Is the Railroad to Blame? and wood, for m aking a roll-aw ay cupboard and for m aking t h e new est sp reads. a garments. The latter never wash well, they're In constant need of mending, and the style is Impaired unless proper sewing techniques are used. A man got mad at his wife be cause his dinner wasn't ready at the hour he had “ ordered” it. He seized a heavy stick, turned his wife over his knee, and gave her a couple of hard whacks. When ar rested for assault and battery, the man claimed "the ancient p riv i lege" of a husband to discipline his wife. But the court decided that such a privilege no longer exists nowadays, and found the man guilty. The judge said "This p riv i ”. . . I am a good cook . . ." lege, ancient though it may be, is no longer acknowledged by our law.“ fuss with curtains and flower ar rangements. • • • I want to save our marriage. 1 Must a Jailer Protect want to go into the fifties busy, His Prisoners From appy and useful. Thousands of A “ Kangaroo Court?" persons live as we do, on less money, and seem content. Neither A college student was jailed on a charge of theft. That evening, Lee nor I had any religious train a special committee of prisoners ing when young, but we both be put the young man through a reg lieve in God, and sometimes go to ular "initiation ceremony” —which church.” consisted of beating him up and M ysterious E lem en t taking whatever he had with him This is an ordinary enough story, A few days later the theft charge and yet it has one mysterious element. Why is it, one asks, that what makes certain couples ab solutely content, with a nice home, adequate income, health, compan ionship. Isn’t enough for other couples? Well, the answer is that one couple has found what it wants, and the other one hasn’t. The very fact that M ildred considers her self and Lee to be in a rut, shows that she doesn’t belong there. That reaching out for interests, his fuss was dropped and the student was ing with window boxes, her patient freed. The first thing he did was to attention while professional decora file a damage suit against the ja il tors lecture to her, shows that both er for tolerating a “ kangeroo are unsatisfied. court” In the prison. The Jailer Has it occurred to Mildred and protested he wasn't responsible for Lee to move out of the city? The how the inmates treated each other, rent they are paying would more but the court disagreed and held than cover the monthly payments him liable. The judge said that on a small farm w ithin—well, not a jailer's duty is not only to con an hour of the city, but an hour and fine his prisoners but to protect 20 minutes. Wouldn't buying a them. too. small neglected farm somewhere give him a chance of gardening on a larger scale, give her a real chance at interior decoration, and give the cocker an all-day run, in stead of a few moments of freedom morning and night? M ildred doesn’t mention Lee's job. Is it a job that could be transferred to a smaller city, more accessible to suburban farms? There is no Joy in the world like feeling the ground under your feet to be your own, like feeling that every faucet, every picket, every shingle you add to it is making it more yours. You don't have to do without hot water, electric light and power, radio, gas stove, as your grandmother did when she moved into the country. You can still get your consomme canned and your peas picked. But you'll hear the logs crackle in your own fire, winter nights; you'll see the moonlight whitewash your own roofs and fences in summer. To say "we raised that rooster" when you serve the fried chicken to send people home carrying a r m s f u 1 of huckleberry and bunches of long-legged white vio lets, to hang your Monday wash out in blazing sunshine, and eat your Sunday breakfast under your own grape-arbor, this is to find youth and life and delight again. Peaceful, b u s y , healthy, un worried age is a goal worth work ing toward. It has to be achieved according to pattern, and with in telligent effort. Don’t lose these all- mportant middle years. Grocer Would Revive Old Art Ramapo Mountaineer Basket Art Is Goal LADENTOWN, N. Y. — Pincus Margulies, who opened a country store here 45 years ago, is attempt iqg to revive the lost Ramapo moun taineer art of making baskets, scoops, salad bowls, spoons, chop ping bowls and various other wood en utensils. "Pine's Store,” a trading post both for the mountaineers and the residents in near-by movie and professional colonies, has been run by the founder's son Harold since he returned from the war. When Margulies arrived here in 1904 there were 200 residents in this hamlet, and in the adjacent hills 150 mountaineers, descended from the mixed races who settled there before and during the Revolution ary war. Scotch, English and Hes sian were the principal strains, with no Negro or Indian blood, such as predominates with the Jackson Whites, who also live in the Rama- pos but miles to the west. The mountaineers were making and peddling their wood products to summer visitors when Margulies and his wife came from Brooklyn. He took over the trade and estab lished outside markets. The weekly output of these 150 widely scattered mountain inhabitants soon reached 200 dozen baskets. 100 to 140 dozen scoops and a miscellaneous assort ment of products, including colored baskets for the bon voyage steam ship trade. "The mountaineer's daily income soon was $1.25,” Margulies said. “ I paid each only a small amount in cash, as they wanted to be paid off in merchandise and food from the store. When they were without money I gave them flour, tea, cof fee, groceries, tobacco and medi cine on credit. 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