S o u th ern Oregon News Review, Thursday, April 22, 1 {>48
Woman's World
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Window Treatments in Home
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SEW ING CIRCLE PATTERNS
Cle,u&i Part,
Susuuj, ‘iVe.zthe/i
By Ertta Haley
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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.
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If you have some windows with the frames
er in pairs with apple butter or
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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
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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.
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SP.RAY,
5-
&her-so.. Tastier, Crisper