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SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS You Can Do Such Clever Things With Odd Scraps of Gay Print Pretty House Frock for Matrons A Sunback-Bolero— or Pinafore By CHERIE NICHOLAS C A V E the scraps) It's about (he short remnants and the swatches of gay print we are talking Hidden away In a scrap-bug. they do not seem to mean anything, but under the magic touch of a girl who can sew and has Ideas of her own. wonders can happen It's really sur ¿■rising the clever whimsies that can be concocted out of even tiny bits of pretty print. To have and to hold In readiness one simple black or navy basic dress in any of the attractive cotton weaves or of wool Jersey or crepe that lends Itself to many changes of accessories is a worthwhile economy gesture. You will find If you make it a hobby to conjure up all sorts of pretty accessory Items to dress your simple basic gown up or down, sccordlng to where and when you wear it. that you have helped In valuably to balance your wardrobe budget. Perhaps you have a length of print left over from the dress or blouse you recently made, or perchance In a moment of high enthusiasm you bought a remnant because the print was so pretty you couldn't re sist Why not make a dainty peplum dickey that Is as smart worn with a one-piece dress as pictured as It Is worn under a suit Jacket The model shown here Is of white rose printed glazed chintz. The red grosgrain rib bon belt worn with it enhances the effect. Be sure to note the clever pocket arrangement which adds practicality to the chic and charm of this most attractive Item to Include in your wardrobe of smart acces sorles. If you've been reading latest fash Ion notes, you already know that one of the newest style developments is the overblouse dress This two- piece teams a long-torso printed top with a plain skirt. It Is said G raduni ion Dress that this type of dress will be fea tured all through the summer and again in the fall as it fits Into a fabric program keyed to war time economy These simple long overblouses with their brief sleeves require a minimum of material and the fact that they are so simple and easy to make Is nothing less than opportunity knocking at the door of the girl who has learned to sew Note the overblouse shown to the right above. Merely a remnant of print is all that you'll need to make it. Wear it with a floor-length skirt for evening and with shorter length for day. And now for using up the scraps! An ambitious girl made for herself a dirndl-type skirt of bright print with which she wore a black rayon crepe bodice There was a mere trifle of the print left but one piece was large enough to include the bouquet motif This thrifty little lady had a vision and this Is how she made this vision a reality: She carefully cut out the flower motif (it was a quaint bouquet tied with baby blue ribbon) and appllqued it on the bndl<$ to the left of the lowcut neckline. It not only unified the dress, but the ef fect was charming beyond words. Imparting an-- air of exclusiveness found only In high-style modes. Gay print applique Is the rage this season on sports clothes, also on dainty summer afternoon gowns The sketches scattered about In the background give you a fair Idea of what's being done with applique cut outs this year. It's a fascinating pastime to cut out florals and other motifs and apply them In varidus ways. If you are taking up the ap plique idea In a big way you can save time and patience by using the ap plique attachment that comes with the modern sewing machine You can get Instructions at any local sewing center In just a few moments time. You esn also applique by whip ping about tumed-in edges or by buttonholing all around. It is more practical to do it the machine way permanent (See Recipes Below) Carly Canning Strawberries and rhubarb, green peas and asparagus are all flaunt ing their gay col ors b e fo re our eyes and begging to be eaten, ei ther now or later. One of the most b a s ic ru le s in canning is that fruit and vegeta b les should be canned at the peak of the season to be their best. If you want a good product, you will have to put up a good food is another way of put ting this rule across. Canning at best does not improve the food, it simply preserves it for future use. Unless strawberries are sweet and bright in color, they will not become so in the jars. The same is true of everything else which we put up. Less canning sugar Will presum ably be alloted this year than pre- viously, and it would be well to de cide just how much of what you are going to put up before you start in using sugar. It will have to be strictly budgeted if it is to reach over all the winter's needs. Those of you who have canned while sugar has been rationed know that it is possible to can with a great deal less sugar if you will put the fruit up not quite so sweet. Most of us can do with less sugar as long as we have nice looking jars of fruit. One of the "musts” on your can ning list this year should be sev eral jars of jams, jellies and pre serves to spread on bread next win ter if butter sup plies are low. The family will greet these fruit con coctions with cheers: R clsated bv W v.t.rn Newspaper Union Petticoat, Gilet Combined. Make AII-in-One-Garment In the new petticoat and halter neck gilet combination, women find a garment very much to their Ilk ing. It comes as a flrst aid to neat dressing In that the gilet you wear with your suit is made to "stay put" with no coming apart at the waist line for It Is seamed on to the petti coat. This season designers have elaborated on the Idea, styling these two-ln-one garments so attractively they can be worn ss sunback dresses. You will find in this sea son's petticont and gilet combina tions such practical and adaptable fashions as a plaid taffeta one-piece that tops a petticoat with a smart halter that ties about the neck Smart to wear with a navy Jacket or redlngoat suiti Then there is the dark sntln sheath which can be worn with a tailored suit during the day and alone with a flower at the waist, for a short evening dress A summer dickey style with a halter neckline has a soft taffeta bow tie at the throat. It Is rhlc to wear with your low-cut V-neckline sweat er and wool-skirt costume. It is wise to have a number of these on hand for the summer and early fall Crinkled, permanent-crisp shadow print organdy makes this charming class-night dress for the graduate The crisp beauty of the fabric and full sweep of the skirt gives It a dramatic quality, combined with quaint feminine loveliness After graduation it will make the perfect cool dinner and dance frock. You will And this charming gown a real standby all the summer through as It requires a minimum of upkeep •Ince the finish in the organdy Is Canning Is Food Insurance ior Winter Knit led Fashion Is Growing in Favor A keen Interest in knitted fash ions is being shown by women who. from experience have proved that for practical wear there's nothing that surpasses the serviceability of knitted dresses and suits Corona tlon blue Is a color that is going over big In the knitted fashions A smart new version shown In a band knitted dress keeps the skirt and the very short sleeves in a mono tone, knitting the Itodlce pail In multicolor horlsnntal stripes Strawberry Marmalade. (Makes 12 (Pounce glasses) 2 oranges 2 lemons '» cup water ■s teaspoon soda I quart strawberries 7 cups sugar *« bottle fruit pectin Lynn Chambers* Point-Having Menns. * Mixed Vegetables in Bologna Cups Creamed Potatoes Perfection Salad Toasted Muffins and Jam Chocolate Souffle Beverage Use tender red rhubarb, trim off hard ends, wash without skinning, cut into small pieces. Mix fruit and sugar, let stand several hours. Cook gently in preserving kettle until thick and clear. Pour into hot sterile glasses and paraffin at once. For canning spring's first fruits, use the directions given in these recipes to save color, food value and quality. • • P attern No. 1333 Is designed for sizes 38. 3S. 40. 42. 44. 48. 48. SO and 52. Size 38 requires 4’ . yards ol 35 or 39-inch m a te ri al; 2 yards ric rac to trim . Due to an unusually large dem and and current w ar conditions, slightly more tim e is required In Alling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: ■ E W IN G C IR C L E P A T T E R N D E P T . 149 New Montgomery St. San Francisco, Calif. Enclose 25 cents in coinc for each pattern desired. Pattern N o . . . . . ..................Size............... Nam e ............................................. . . . . . . Raisins w ill be plump and much larger if you place them in a saucepan and barely cover them with cold water. Set them over a small flame and allow to simm er for a few minutes. A d d re s s ...................................................... —•— Hang up dresses and suits, but not sweaters. Lay them flat in a Canning Strawberries. Use only fresh, ripe, Arm and drawer so they w ill retain their sound berries. Wash and stem. To shape. " each quart of berries add 1 cup sug- Place in a porcelain enam eled kettle (to prevent the berries from turning dark), let stand until ! juice flows. Cook slowly to the boil- i ing point, then rapidly for 3 to 4 ; minutes, then cover kettle and let I stand overnight. Drain berries and pack ¡nto hot sterile jars. Heat syrup until it boils, pour immediately over fruit to within one-half inch of the top of the jar. Adjust cover and process in hot water bath 8 minutes or in pressure cooker 5 minutes un der 5 pounds pressure. Remove jars, let cool and store. This is an excellent, if unorthodox method for canning rhubarb. It is prepared by baking the fruit and then canning: , Canning Rhubarb. Wash tender, rosy rhubarb and cut into H-inch pieces with a sharp knife. Measure the rhubarb and place it in a baking dish and add V « as much sugar by measure as rhu barb. Cover and bake in a mod erate (350-degree) oven 30 to 38 min utes until rhubarb is tender, but whole. Pack into hot sterile jars immediately after removing from oven and process 10 minutes in a boiling water bath or 5 minutes at 5 pounds pressure in pressure cooker Canning Asparagus. Wash young, tender asparagus Remove peels from oranges and and remove tough ends. Cut to fit lemons: cut olf white membrane. into ja r or in ’¿-inch lengths. Tie Force peels through food chopper. into small bundles and place in a I Add water and soda. Cover and saucepan. Add a small amount of simmer for 10 minutes. Add orange boiling water and cook 4 to 5 min and lemon pulp and Juice. Simmer utes. Place immediately into hot for 20 minutes. Add crushed straw sterile jars, adding boiling liquid to berries. Measure 4 cups prepared within H inch ol the top along with j fruit: add sugar. Bring to boiling 1 teaspoon salt to each quart. Adjust and boil 8 minutes. Remove from cap and process Immediately in a heat; stir in fruit pectin. Let stand pressure cooker, processing pint 8 minutes: skim; seal in hot, jars 35 minutes at 10 pounds pres, sure. sterilized glasses. Canning Peas. Currant Jelly. Select tender, even-sized green (Makes 4 to 8 small glasses) peas. Shell and wash. Place in I quart currants s au c e p a n w ith H cup water boiling water to Sugar c o v e r. H e a t to Wash and pick over currants but boiling. Pack as do not remove stems Mash a few hot as possible in the bottom of a preserving kettle Into sterile jars. and continue until all berries are Add 1 teaspoon used. Add water, cover and heat salt and 1 t e a - ______ slowly. When fruit Is thoroughly spoon sugar to each jar. Process in heated, put Into a Jelly bag or in sev the pressure cooker 50 minutes at 10 eral thicknesses of cheese cloth arid pounds. drain off Juice Measure 4 cups Vitamin Value and Retention. juice, bring to boiling point and The more quickly you work once boil 8 minutes Add 3 cups of sug the fruits and vegetables are col ar and boll 3 minutes, or until jelly lected, the better will they retain sheets off a spoon. Pour into sev- their nutritive qualities. Everything ria l hot sterilised glasses, cover should be In readiness so there is with paruffln and store. no time lost going from step to step. Mrawberry ami Rhubarb Jam. If Jars are stored In a cool, dark (Make« « 1» I (Uasaeal place there Is a better chance ol their keeping their vitamins and | cups cauked pink rhubarb minerals. | cups strawberries Rskuaad by Western Newspaper Union. 4 cups au«ar ! Sunback Dress p O R precious hours in the sun, a nicely fitting sunback frock with a sm art bolero to match. O r if you like, make the pinafore ver Slimming Frock sion with perky over-shoulder ruf T 'H IS charm ingly simple house fles edged in colorful trim m in g. * frock for the larger woman has slim ming, clean-cut lines and w ill No 1285 is designed (or sizes 12. keep you looking as fresh as a 14, Pattern 18. 18 and 20 Size 14. sunback dress, daisy. All-over flowered m aterial requires 2% yards of 35 or 30-lnch m a or bright checks w ill be pretty terial: bolero. l*,i yards; dress w ith ru f fles. 3*,. yards. trim m ed with bold ric rac. —•— To keep the potholder handy when working around the stove, tack a piece of tape onto the hold er and place around your neck. —•— To avoid a musty odor in a metal teapot that is seldom used, keep a lump of sugar in the pot. —•— Odds and ends of soap can be saved by putting them in a small bag made from a wash cloth. When taking a bath, this bag full of soap can be put into the tub and you’ll have wash cloth and soap in one. POSTS f t r n m BRAN M O M E1CAKES OE nw&ir —•— a&w To clean a vase, cut newspapers into sm all pieces and swish the pieces around in soapy water on the inside. —•— A secret to making delicious po tato salad is to cut the potatoes while they’re warm and while warm add the onions and salad dressing. As the salad cools, the flavors w ill penetrate the potatoes. —•— When sweetness of cream is doubtful and there is no more on hand and it must be used, a pinch of soda stirred into it keeps it from curdling, even in hot weather. delicious N E W breakfast idea • Good? I t ’« delicious! I t ’s a ma gic combination of nut-brown, crisp-toasted Post’s 40% Bran Flakes plus lots of seedless rai sins ... right in the same pack age. Better ask your grocer for the big blue-and-white package today. Your whole family w ill go for Post'» Raisin Bran. Stone Images in Tokyo Strange evidence of the fanati cism of the Japanese is found in the 84,000 store images of Jizo-San or child Buddha, to be found on the greonds of a temple in Tokyo. Each image, two feet high and about a foot wide, has been do nated to the temple by a member ol the Buddhist cult. , B A L A N C E D ... 11 S (àat’s the answe Balanced double action. • • for positive action in the mixing bow l. . . for gratify* ing results in the oven. CLABBER GIRL U I M A N A N D » A N * T f t A f H A U T I IN D IA N A
