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S o u th ern Oregon News Review, Thursday, April 22, 1 {>48 Woman's World * * * » * ♦ * » ■ zi*! I HOUSfHOlD PrinceAA, 2)^eAd 9A CaAy Seuùiu^ Window Treatments in Home Pay Big Dividends in Cheer t n M-.ÓH "■ SEW ING CIRCLE PATTERNS Cle,u&i Part, Susuuj, ‘iVe.zthe/i By Ertta Haley , else that costs so little and W HAT still means so much can you do for a room than redecorate your windows? All other Investments like new furniture, rugs or knick-knacks can run Into a lot more dollars than curtains or draperies, and yet their effect is not as great. You can achieve an absolutely new room with window treatments of various kinds, and if you have a lot of remnants plus imagination, you actually can redecorate with just windows alone. If you can’t embark on redecorat ing in a big way, see what a bit of fringe or ruffle will do! Or, re-dye some of your sheers for the kitchen or bedroom. You can even dye feed sacks for very little and make tiered curtains for kitchen or hall. Take a critical look at the win dows in your home and ask your self these questions: Welcome the Crowd with Mocha Punch (See recipe« lie low) Good Refreshers Versatile homemaker« keep »up- pile« on hand to prepare lusty re- freihrnents for unexpected friend» who may drop In for a visit or after ■ game of bowline or golf. It'« well to keep the cookie Jar »forked for Ju»t «uch occasion». An other idea 1» to keep packaged ice cream in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator or the home freezer and your problem of what to serve Is solved. There are any number of way» to serve Ice cream with frozen, fresh or canned fruit, and, of course, It's wonderful to use In milk shakes, sodas, sundaes and coolers that con be prepared with little effort. A large bowl of milk punch with Ice cream floating on top will be a taste-tempting and satisfying drink to serve for a large crowd. Pass this with cookies or sand wiches made from items on the emergency shelf. Any large bowl may be used for the punch. Mocha Punch (Serves 12» 1 quart chocolate Ire cream I quart freshly-made coffee, chilled I 2 teaspoon almond flavoring Few grains of salt 1/2 pint whipping rreain 1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg Chill coffee In refrigerator. To prepare punch, pour coffee into punch bowl, add half of the ice crenm, snlt, and stir until partially melted. Whip cream until stiff, add flavoring and blend. Fold In whipped cream and rest of Ice cream. Sprinkle lightly with nut meg and serve immediately. What about those easy to bake cookies at the last minute’ Yes, refrigerator cookies are wonderful made just before serving because they lake less than a quarter of an hour to bake. Have the dough ready for Just such emergencies ns this. Butterscotch Refrigerator Cookies (Makes 50) 1/2 eup butter or shortening 1 cup brown sugar 1 egg, well beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 11/2 eups sifted flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt Work shortening or butter until light and fluffy. Add sugar gradual ly and cream until light. Add well- beaten egg and vanilla and mix thoroughly. Sift together dry in gredients. Add gradually blending thoroughly. Shape Into a roll and wrap in waxed paper. Chill thor oughly. Cut In slices 1/8-inch thick and bake on sheets in a hot (375 de gree) oven for 10 minutes. Here are other cookies which keep well and are nice to have already in the cookie jar: Hermits (Makes 4 dozen) 3/4 eup lard 1 1 '2 eups brown sugar, /irm ly parked 3 eggs, well beaten 2 1/2 cups sifted flour 1 z4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup seedless raisins 1 eup chopped walnuts Cream together the lard and su gar. Add eggs, and then fold in flour which has been sifted with the spices. Just before all the flour L Y N N SAYS: Equipment Wears Better With Dally Care Refrigerators should be defrosted at least once a week. Excess forn> lng of Ice can be avoided if you keep the door closed. Get what you need out of the refrigerator quickly to prevent air from entering. The interior of the refrigerator may be cleaned with warm water to which is added a bit of baking soda. Never use abrasives on the enamel. LYNN CHAMBERS* MENU Cold Salmon Salad Potato Chips Toasted, Buttered Roils Carrot Sticks Radishes Pickle Fans Ice Eox Lemon Pie I. Do the curtain» or draperies flatter the window and room? 2. Do they darken the light room or lighten the dark room? 3. Is the color flattering to the room and its contents? 4. Is the style in keeping with the general effect? Ruffles Will Provide Cheery Effect In Room White is always right for spring gloves and this year, white pig skins are being shown to go with suits for casual and street wear Wearing a pert bowler and white "stock,” this young lady completes her costume with white, finger- free pigskin shorties. These Amer ican-made gloves have black sad dle stitching and a "V” opening at the wrist. Little Twosome CLEVER little twosome you’ll wear all summer long—pat tern 1740 has a simple yet flatter ing sunback frock for sun-tanning weather plus a pert flared jacket with scalloped closing. An eye- catcher for certain! . A Princess Dress Ruffles may be used in kitchen, AINTY as can be—and so easy bedroom, playroom, sun porch or to sew, too! This prettily an Informal sitting room. If you trimmed dress is cut on princess Pattcrn No. 1740 ia for size« 10. 12, 14, have ruffles, and you want more 18. 18 and 20. Size 12. dress, 4(4 yards of lines, has a narrow back-belt that Beverage for a more pronounced or cheery 35 or 39-ineh ; jacket, 1% yards. For the third fourth of the dye, ties in a bow. For school or parties. The Sprint and Summer is«ae of FASH effect, they're easy to make and keep the two top sections out of the ION offers a wealth of sewint information No. 82.® I eomes in size« 2, 8, 4, bath. Add the remaining dye for 8. Pattern is blended adu the nuts and raisins. add to curtains you already have. tor «very home dretnmaker. Free knittin* and 6 year». Size 3. 1’» yarda of 3S- instructions and a free pattern printed in If you are using plain half cur just the bottom section. ineh ; 1 yard ric rac. Drop by spoonfuls on a greased or side the book. 25 rente. If you desire a variegated dye ef oiled cookie sheet about two inches tains- let's say on the lower half of Send your order to: fect, use thee above dying tech apart. Bake in a moderately hoi nique. but do not stitch and dye the Easily Built Garage w ith (375 degree) oven for 15 minutes. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. material. With each additional dip S3« South Wells St. Chicago 7. III. Extra Storage Space Apple Butter Cookies ping enough color will be absorbed E nclose 25 cents In coins for each (Makrs 24) pattern desired. by the panel above to give a vario» F you know the difference be gated effect. Pattern No_________________ Size_____ 1/2 cup shortening tween a hammer and a saw, you 1 cup brown sugar Unusual Windows Benefit shouldn’t have any difficulty with N am e_______________________________ 1 egg, well beaten this 13 ft. x 20 ft. garage. Even A ddress- With These Tricks 1/2 teaspoon salt if you don’t want to do all the 1/2 teaspoon baking soda If you have two small windows building yourself, the pattern 3 cups sifted flour where the effect would be better method of construction provides all 1/2 cup buttermilk with one large window, cover the the information needed to buy your 1/2 cup apple butler or tart jam separating area of the wall between own materials and to act as your Place curtains over bed . . . Granulated sugar the two windows with another drap own contractor. Cream together shortening and fhe window—add a narrow ruffle to ery, hanging your swag over the sugar; add egg. Sift together the the top of the window either in the center drapery, but under the two dry ingredient« and blend in alter same material and color as the cur outside ones. Make a small window look larger nately with buttermilk. Chill until tains or in a contrasting solid or easy to handle. Roll to an eighth print of cotton remnant. Be sure by hanging the draperies on the wall of an inch thickness then cut with you pick up one of the colors in the beside the window, leaving the en lia s tire window area exposed except for 2 1 2 inch cookie cutter. Put togeth room when doing this. □□□CDD If you have some windows with the frames er in pairs with apple butter or □□□□□□ Here’s a lovely way to treat bay • In NR (Nature's Remedy) Tablets, Jam in the center. Press edges to out curtains, you can make the windows. there are no chemicals, no minerals, Frame the bay window room less barren-looking by using gether with a fork. Sprinkle with no phenol derivatives. NR Tablets are with a deep ruffle and two drap sugar. Place on greased cookie a two-tiered ruffle at the very top eries only, using Priscilla curtains different— act different Purely vege table—). combination of 10 vegetable sheet ubout an inch apart and bake of the windows. Make one ruffle of at each w’indow. Dye ruffle and With the purchase list of material« you ingredients formulated over 50 years in a very hot (400 degree) oven for solid color and the other of a con draperies to room color and tint the ran «hop around for the 2x4s and other lumber az easily as shopping for groceries. ago. Vncoated or ca.idy coated, their trasting print. Here again, use col 12 to 15 minutes. Then by foliowing the step by step direc Priscillas one of the curtain shades. tions action is dependable, thorough, yet ors you already have in the room. and assembly illustrations you cas gentle, as millions of NR's have Give your bedroom more depth , do all or part of the work yourself. If you are using sheer curtains in proved. Get a 25< box. Use as directed. As the floor plan indicates, there is ample If Die crowd is hungry you can some part of the house, you can add by framing curtains at the head of I »pace for even the longest car. Best of add some sandwiches to serve with rows of ruffles to sheer panel cur the bed to make it appear as though all this garage provides a separate storage i space for garden tools. Entry to this room the punch or milk shakes if you are tains, tinting them all to the same a window were there. Is from the outside. Here the lawn mower, entertaining a crow'd of youngsters. curtain shade. This is an easy way rakes, roller and other garden tools, as well as a bicycle or two. can be stored Here are sandwiches easy to make to get expensive looking curtains Selection of Colors Plays ALW AYS CARRY without cluttering up the garage. QUICK REUff with materials easy to keep on hand: that cost little more than time. You Along one wall, directly below two case Major Role in Renovation FORM» ment windowji, there is room for a six foot Deviled ham and cream cheese may use good portions of other workbench. Toward the rear is a closet ÌN0W ESTMM sheer curtains for the ruffling. In renovating your rooms for the that can be used for any number of good with lettuce on whole wheat or rye For a window—usually a small spring and summer, selection of Ideas. It's large enough for a deep freeze bread. unit or for a reserve canned goods supply: screens or storm sash, paints, darkroom or Egg salad alone or combined with one in the hall—where you want to colors will play an important role. endless other uses. shut out a poor out-of-doors scene, It spells the difference between a sliced ham or tongue on wheat or Building the garage yourself can be lota use solid color at the window and TAe tfa n c fe s f Too A.. dull, lifeless room and one that is white bread of fun. You'll not only save a lot of money but you'll be surprised to see what a profes Peanut butter mixed with honey make several rows of wide, full cheerful and livable. looking job you can turn out. Building There are three primary colors- sional and chopped dates on toasted white ruffles. from a pattern eliminates all guesswork. The pattern tells you what to buy and where red, yellow and blue. All others bread. Make Pretty Windows to use each piece. Step by step directions are are formed by combining these Crisp bacon, crumbled and mixed With Feed Sacks easy to follow. Full Size Patterns simplify three in varying degrees and by making angle cuts on rafters and gable with cold baked beans and chopped studs. All construction is laid out so that Feed sacks, if dyed and pressed addition of black or white to darken no special mustard pickle on white bread. tools are needed. Directions for building the cupola are included. carefully, may be used for play or lighten the value. Cold canned chicken, chopped and Directions and assembly illustrations are To make a small room appear mixed with celery, minced and rooms. children's rooms, bathroom also provided for building a breezeway con larger, utilize the cool or receding or kitchen. necting the garage to your house. green pepper. One way to do this is to dye them colors, such as the light blues, grays, Finely diced bologna with finely and Send 11.00 for Garage and Tool House stitch together for the neces- greens, ivories and off-whites. The Pattern No. 113 to Easi-Bild Pattern Com- shredded cabbage, prepared mus warm or advancing colors, such as psny. Department W, Pleasantville, N. Y. tard, salt and moistened with sand red, terra cotta, rose, brown and wich spread. tan, have the opposite effect, ap Cold meat loaf sliced thin and Simmered Eggs , pearing to reduce the size of the \ W ith Swedish Steel B la d e y spread with chili sauce. Eggs cooked in the shell will look room. Thousands of progressive farmers ) Dried beef, washed and minced, Rooms which are too large and and taste better if simmered in know and appreciate the numerous then mixed with cream cheese and stead of boiled. appear to run away with the fur- uses of this all-purpose saw. Fine for seasoned with minced onion and a ryshings can be brought together by cutting firewood, fence posts, tree dash of horseradish. using big, over-scale wallpaper pat trimming and general rough work. WITH Prepared Smithfield ham with terns in warm colors. On the other Razor sharp blade cuts smooch at cream cheese or chopped hard- hand, small patterns in cool colors high speed, stays sharp longer. 24. cooked eggs or mayonnaise. tend to "spread out” the walls. }0, 36, 42, 48 inch lengths. Ground leftover meat (pork, beef Or fringe them for decoration. "Insist en Bushm an,"nothing else compares. or ham roast) mixed with chopped hard-cooked eggs, grated raw car sary length, placing a ruffle at each AT LEADIN G HARDWARE STORES — Double-duty Insecti seaming. rots and mayonnaise. Be Smart! cides Kills by contact: GENSCO TOOL DIVISION Another way is to dye them in Minced baked or cooked ham i<* kills by fumes. Destroys GENERAL STEEL WAREHOUSE C 6 „ INC mixed with chopped hard-cooked several colors for a rainbow effect plant lice but spares '8 3 0 N Kostner A ve., Chicago 39. Ill eggs, and seasoned with a dash Of and scam together. The effect is so beneficial Insects. In u it good that it quite belies its inexpen dry mustard, mayonnaise and a bit on original factorr-iealed con- On« ounce plus loop makes 6 lain en to inuire fn li Urcntth. of grated onion and Worchestershire sive origin. galions at ef TOBACCO SY-8BODUCTS 1 sauce. fective aphid- CHEMICAL CORPORATION tßuy. and. f o l d tyouA. Unusual Effects Possible Nicotine SpecialiUi Since IS M iproy. Deviled ham mixed with chili LOUISVILLE 2. KENTUCKY With Use of Color sauce and softened butter, spread LO O K FOR T H f LEAF O N THE PACK AG E IA. SavinqA. tßondä. on freshly toasted white bread. Here's a good idea for the living Tuna fish and chopped olives, or dining room. If you have Vene tian blinds, dye the tapes and paint mixed with mayonnaise. Peanut butter combined with the Venetian blind slats with one of the room colors. Dye the drapes a orange juice and chopped datas. second color, and then use two Released b;- WNU Featurm sways at the top, one dyed to match The outside should be wiped dally the tapes, another to match the to prevent an accumulation of dirt. draperies. A damp cloth to remove finger A dramatic effect can be achieved Because K ellogg’s Corn Flakes prints as soon as they are mad« by what is known as tie-dying. To are so popular, they com e to do this, run basting stitches across will keep the finish gleaming. Wipe spilled foods immediately be the width of the curtain, dividing you fresher. Crispy-delicious! Two new ideas are sketched In fore they get a chance to dry and into four sections, the largest at require an extra portion of elbow the bottom. Pull up the thread and the outfit here. High color con trast and a revival of the long wrap around the curtain and tie grease. linen coat are very new. The dress tightly. In a dye-bath made up of Dust which accumulates in th« unit compartment at the bottom of one fourth of the dye, dye the en with Its sleek mandarin collar and virtual sleevelessness Is In mauve the refrigerator should be cleaned tire curtain a very pale tint of tha linen, while the coat Is a rich color you have chosen. Add a sec out periodically. green. The linen Is, of course, ond fourth of the dye and hold the Ranges will give better service if treated for crush resistance. MOTHER KHOWSTBEST/ fop of the section out of the bath. pilot lights are always kept cleaned. D I S«sS <BUSHMAN SAWA SP.RAY, 5- &her-so.. Tastier, Crisper
