Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, June 28, 1945 Gayly Colored Cottons Favored For Sunback Dresses, Swim Suits K athleen N orris Says: Gay and Practical Sun Suit for a Tot Shortening Sail nt Your Home Stacking cups one on top of the other is not good practice. Pre­ vent breaking handles off by hang, ing them on hooks in the Cupboard. By CHERIE NICHOLAS H e ll S y n d ic« » « — W N U f e a t u r e s . — • — To remove cigarette stains from ; brass ash trays, rub the trays with a paste of salt and vinegar. Then wash well in hot water and soap suds. — •— If the contents of a tube of shav­ ing cream or tooth paste have hardened, hold the tube under hot water for a short time. This will soften the paste. —•— little turpentine on a soft cloth will remove all dirt film from and give a gloss to an enameled bed stead. A — • —. Hot water is better than cold to soak dried fruit and requires only half the time for soaking. — • —- To repair a hole left in the wall by a nail, take equal parts of salt and starch, just enough to make a good patching plaster. Fill the holes and they will be neatly cov­ ered. Il MAKE lurks tu hme u country retreat, it lu re lie run And /retire and t/uiel, w ith farm machinery, raiw ib u kiri,. rr.ilk cows. self fruit, w h ere he run lake hr, lu red w ife, baby girl,, bunks urid forget the world for u while, thunk ) i « i tir e in ille t ICE CREAM bull for it. By KATHLEEN NORRIS [OW long must we put up with my husband’s p o stw a r disillusion­ ment and discontent?” wiites Mrs. Harry Kling of Chicago. “He came back four months ago, and after the first delight at having him home again, honorably discharged, it has been nothing but difficulty and gloom. He was always a well- balanced man, affectionate, steady and contented. He is now nervous, critical, or— worse than all darkly silent for hours. He has gone back into his old firm of claim ad­ justers, and is making good money, with good prospects ahead. But I can’t stand this sort of home life much long­ er. No harmony, no conversa­ tion, no plans, no fun. He is 35,1 am 32; our daughters are 5 and 3. “H* "Harry want* to give up our com­ fortable apartment, where I have a part-time maid, break up all our pleasant association*. upset the girls' schooling—they go to all-day nursery schools—and move to the country He has his eye on a sprawl­ ing farm 35 miles out. house in bad repair, 52 acres partly cultivated, tenant house of three rooms—the farmhouse has about seven rooms, electric light fixtures and plumbing 40 years old, and everything imagi­ nable in the way of refrigerator, telephone, gas stove, linoleums, curtaining, painting., yet to be done. Here he proposes we live for years —perhaps forever. I adore my hus­ band. I have not loved any other man since I met him, at 20, but do you think it wise to pull up all our roots simply because he has been emotionally and nervously up­ set by the war? Won't he outgrow this in time? Wouldn't It be wiser to wait, for the girls' sake and for all i ur sakes?'* My answer to this is. my dear Mrs. Kling, don't make the mistake o f thinking that this fearful war, some of whose phases have ended, is like any other war that ever was. After peace negotiations with the powers of savagery and lawlessness are signed, scaled and delivered, we still have a titanic job ahead of us— service folk and civilians alike. This postwar job will not only be to pre­ serve world peace, it will be to pre­ serve world sanity. A Shattered World. It will not be only to keep a few hundred thousnnd depressed and mentally affected men sane; it will be to keep us all sane. This war has bitten too deep into the equilib­ rium of humanity; too much that is unthinkable and unbearable has happened. Europe will be peopled by millions of folk who have known what it was — for weeks, months, years—to be homeless, hun­ gry, desperate. The sacred thing that is a man's right to work, to love, to serve his family, to build his home—has been outraged and destroyed. Barren wastes of ashes and ruins will be wearily searched and combed by vaguely wandering hordes — children whose first ex­ perience of life was fright, fear, hunger. Women who have looked upon death, death in the mass, neaped hundreds of innocent women His laved wife, his bi,by girls. . . , AI home —Any flo vo r-D e lic io u s — Smooth - N o ice c ry ito lt —N o cooking - No re w h ip p in g —N o scorched Aovor - Eaty — In expensive— 20 recipes in eoch 15< pkg. Pleote tend this od for free full-size iom - pie offer, or buy from your grocer. MOVING TO THE COUNTRY After returning from service Harry was able to return to hi* oltl position a* a claim adjust' er. He is earning a good salary and seemingly should be glad to get back into the old ways. His wife says she loves him as much as ever. They have two daughters, five and three, who are a tte n d in g day nursery school. \ et with all this, Harry is moody, unsociable and rest­ less. He no longer is well bal­ anced and light hearted. Some­ thing weighs him down. He wants to get away—from his job, the association of family and frie n d s, the fa m ilia r scenes. Lately he has fixed his min,I on going into farming. He has found a 52-acre place some­ what rundown, and only part­ ly cultivated at present. There are two houses on it, one of three rooms, the other seven. Roth are in poor condition. It is here, 35 miles from town, that Harry wants to move his family. Harry’s wife doesn’t like the prospects. and children slain, and lying un­ buried in what once were grassy parks and splendid streets. Nothing like this ever has hap­ pened in the world before. Try to realize that we will not only be fight­ ing. in these years to come, for those alien peoples overseas, we will be fighting with every humane and scientific weapon in our power for ourselves. That honor and charity and service may live on in the world, that homes and firesides, books and schools and tree-shaded towns may still exist, that our hearts and souls shall not be rav­ aged again by the fearful cruelties man may inflict upon his fellow- man, will take all that we have of courage and vision and hard, hum­ ble labor. A Country Retreat. Your man has done his share. He has jeopardized his reason in these years when you and the babies waited for him, safe and snug in protected America. Now you three persons whom he loves must give him back those years. If you are lucky enough to have a country retreat, where he can find peace and quiet, where he can putter with farm machinery, raise chickens, milk cows, sell fruit; where he can take his loved wife, his books, his baby girls, and forget the great world for awhile, thank God for it. Take it gratefully, and as he grows stronger and saner you'll see how he longs to share it, to let other wounded souls and bodies rest under his big trees, to let other bewildered soul-scarred men fish his stream, help harvest his corn, sleep deep in the country guest room shaded by the pear trees. We arc going to find some big words for what we have to do for our men now. Teaching, helping, cheering, healing. Begin with your own. Forget all the past, as Europe must. Think only of a better tomor­ row. and do your share to make it come true. Preventing Tooth Decay Fluorine solutions, mouthwashes and fluorine In drinking wuter are under experimentation. A poisonous element not to be trilled with, fluorine in extremely small amounts has prevented dental decay. Citi­ zens of Kingston, N. Y., a city on the Hudson river, will drink fluor­ ide - containing water while their neighbors down the line In New­ burgh will get ordinary water. After a few years, dental comparisons should reveal uhcth< r other cities should fortify their water too. \V ? H A T a sun-worshiper fashion ’ v has come to be! The big idea this year seems to center about the theme of brief and beautiful clothes that bare you to the beneficent and health-giving rays of the sun. The does it make up stunningly in the tactful feature of this sun-exposure new bare midriff, sleeveless and vogue is ‘ hat a bolero or jacket is bareback fashions, but it is “the always added, thus providing a latest” for swim suits with sarong most clever coverage when you skirts and bra tops. Checked ging­ want to go stepping, here or there, hams and striped chambrays are for your bareback play-frock trans­ also high fashion for sun frocks with forms into a charming double-duty boleros and for swim suits with matching beach coats. Yes. indeed, costume. The bare-back frock to the left is it's the soap 'n' water cottons that a perfect example of the new trend hold fashion’s spotlight this sum­ to sun • exposure fashions. Quaker mer. Black cottons for sports and gray broadcloth makes this sunback dress that is far from demure with beach fashions especially rate top its back cut to the waist, but as fashion. Speaking of black, the swim you will note, she has her bolero suit that is creating the big sensa­ in hand ready to slip on at will. tion is a sleek form-fitting one- The dress has a large soft bow at piece made of black elasticized the neck in front. White fluting adds water-repellent velvet that is light a pretty trimming touch. Worn with as a feather in weight. Or you its matchihg bolero, this dress is may choose models of black satin. Practical and ever so good-looking as modest as modest can be. Not only does the costume de­ too, is the swim suit of black wool scribed go sunning on the beach, but jersey. The girl centered in the il­ it will be fun to wear to barbecue lustration is wearing a handsome parties and all sorts of get-together black swim suit. That this fair outdoor playtime occasions. When it swimmer throws a white wool comes to the fabrics used for the sweater about her shoulders is im ­ new sun-frocks, it's gay colored portant news for a new fad is going cottons that turn on the glamour the ~ounds which calls upon the full force. The best of it is that in sweq>er to play the role of a smart these modern times one need have beach coat or wrap. Fashion-wise no misgivings as to whether the girls are taking up the idea with enthusiasm. gorgeous priqts or monotones will Much ado is being made over fade. One of the miracles of the age is the achievement of everfast handsome accessory ensembles' in­ cottons that you can buy as bright cluding bra and headdress made of as you like and launder as often brilliantly colorful striped or plaid as you wish without danger of color taffeta. As you see pictured in the deterioration or shrinkage. Among inset to the right, the bra is formed outstanding favorites, spun crash of an artfully arranged scarf of registers as something ne\y and woven taffeta in gay stripes teamed smart This "classy’* cotton tailors with which is a draped headdress of beautifully and the separate bolero the same beautiful taffeta. To add made of it is chic to wear with to the colorful scene on the beach, slacks and shorts and bare-back huge bags cleverly designed of fab­ dresses of contrast cottons, such as rics to match the sun-exposure cos the modish eyeleted fabrics and the tumes together with wide self- bright ginghams and the gorgeous fringed scarfs of the same material printed piques. Now that you can form a most fascinating twosome. get seersucker in gay plaids, ev­ These sets are ever so smart, made erybody’s calling for it. Not only of gay gingham. LOnOOHDERRy Brond Homemade Ice Cream STABILIZER e « Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEW ORK 709 Mission St., San Francisco, Calif. Enclose 16 cents for Pattern No_____________ Name. Address- (V. (V. (V.j*S£ie An CORN FLAKES Dressmaker Apron Lends Glamor to Basic Dress This New Yoik style in navy and white crepe artfully designs the now-so-voguish dressmaker checks for a woman's figure. The styling given this daytime dress is unusu­ ally attractive. Self fabric ruching, a flat bow at the neckline, and a subtly arranged fullness in the skirt contribute smart details. The large white pearl buttons odds greatly to their charm. e To obtain complete pattern, cherry ap­ plique pattern for pocket, finishing instruc­ tions for the sun suit and bolero (Pattern No. 53831 sizes 2, 3, 4 years included, send 16 cents in coin, your name, address and the pattern number. LSWSSNBISSr- H iS B W U B . UNEMItCUCO ] CJU.» R eleased by Western Newspaper Union. Something new in the way of a striking novelty has happened. It is the dressmaker apron or “fashion apron” as it is sometimes called, designed to glamorize the basic black dress. Made of fine colorful taffeta or faille and other dress-up fabric, and ruffled all around with lace, it is far removed from the humble kitchen type. It ties around the waist like any apron and has sash-wide "apron strings” for a bustle bow at the back. One fetch­ ing style is fashioned of apple green faille trimmed with a wide ruffle of black Chantilly-type lace. Comfortable Sun Suit C H E is much too cool and com­ fortable to care what the tem­ perature is! Lucky little girl to have such a sensible, practical and pretty play suit. The rie rac trimmed bolero can be slipped on to prevent too much suntanning on a tiny back and shoulders, W0MEH'38t«52 HOT FLASHES? are you tmbarrassad by ,If you suffer from hot flashes, feel weak, nervous, hlghstrung a bit blue at times—due to the func­ tional "middle-age" period peculiar to women—try this great medicine—Lydia E. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound to relieve such symptoms. Plnkham's Compound hxlfs natvri . It's one of the beet known medicines for thi« purpose. Follow label directions. “ The Grains Are Great Foods” Kellogg g C orn Flakes bring you nearly a ll th e p rotective food ele- tn e n tt of the whole grain declared CM ential to hum an nu tritio n .