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Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, June 30, 1949 WOMAN'S WORLD Be Smart! Simple Smartly Styled Frock Twosome for Sun-Filled Hours Home Decorations Should Reflect Taste O HAVE A HOME In the truest sense of the word means that the home should reflect those who live In It. When you walk Into a home, you should be able to get a certain feeling and Insight about the family who lives there, even before you know them very well. Properly furnished and decorated, a home will reflect your Interests and hobbles. It will give some In sight Into the personalities of the people living In It. Sometimes these qualities are all too transparent for n home can give the Impression of carelessness, lack ot Interest and hobbles. The first thing to do, If that’s the case. Is to change It by making the home the Interest and hobby. T Chambray Fashion Make Living Hoorn Place to Live Today’s homes are quite a bit smaller than those of the past decade, and for this reason, every room must be used to the fullest advantage. Gone Is the "parlor" which was opened for company only. You may be fortunate enough to have a den, study or library which Is much used, but for most families the liv ing room Is the center of most social and fam ily activity. If you don't use the living room enough and find yourself crowded In one of the other rooms, then do some simple remodeling or reshuf fling of furniture to make the room. For example, If yours Is a social family, and you like to entertain, plan plenty of comfortable seating tute with something that would be of more use, either practically or decoratlvely or, preferably, both. Sometimes it’s wise to buy a whole matched set of furniture such as a suite of upholstered furniture. How ever, If this does not include enough of the pieces you’ll need, or, on the other hund, contains too many pieces for the space or use you have, then try selecting sectional or separate pieces that will be most valuable. One family may need only two comfortable easy chairs, while an other needs three or four or even more. These may be bought sep arately, to harmonize pleasantly, or covered to match other pieces. You no longer need to have all one kind ot wood in your living room. Dark and light woods are used together, in good taste, in the same room because they compli ment each other. Perhaps you’ve found a desk in one of the light modern woods. There’s no reason why you can’t use it in a room with some dark mahogany or walnut finishes. Recall Forebears on the Fourth AN YOU TA KE your thoughts stains our battleship linoleum C back, in this week of July and knows, and they and the childrens’ THE READER'S COURTROOM- Zealous Doc Caught on Tonsil -By W ill Bernard, LL.B.- A businessman went to a sur- eon for a nose operation. While e was under anesthesia, the doc- >r decided that the man’s tonsils ere in bad shape—and removed >em. Later the man sued the sur May a Careless Driver Collect Damages if Hurt in an Accident? Speeding along a country road, a motorist swung out to pass the car ahead—driven by a woman. Despite his honking, the woman did not slow down at all. In a sud den rage, the man cut in sharply— and a little too soon. The two cars tangled and both of them skidded into a ditch. Despite the woman’s carelessness, the court granted her claim. Are You a "Trespasser"— If You Enter Someone's Property by Mistake? geon for removing the tonsils with out permission. The doctor argued that, even though he may have been hasty, no harm had been done because tonsils weren’t worth any thing anyhow! However, the court sustained a jury verdict of $2,000. The jury said: "The law presumes that every organ in the human body has some function to perform —even though medical science has not ascertained it.” • • • Dotted Hwlss is a revival of one of the soft fabrics of a gen eration ago, but no longer is it confined to the typical styling of the past. It is particularly popular for the pretty draped effects of the current season. Another new and equally in teresting Interpretation is the dotted s w i s s for Jumper dresses, so stunning In dark grounds combined with white or worn without a blouse when weather or occasion dictates. KATHLEEN NORRIS Fourth, to a New England farm 100 years ago? It is one of those picturesque farms that you and I see on our happy vacation trips; we stop with a queer inexplicable twist in our hearts as we look at the steep high roof, the elms sending leaf-shad ows across the high small-paned windows, the well-sweep, the mel Two-toned chambray styles lowed lines of bams and sheds this feminine warm weather stretching away toward orchard d re s s by Terry Rodgers. and pasture, the summer gracious Vnlque appllqued cui - hu I m and ness of one of the thousands of a modified "pussy-cat" bow in homesteads that were the Am er contrasting chambray highlight ican scene in the dramatic days of the plunging neckline of this America’s beginnings. fashion-right casual. A skirt If we go in there are more ex with fullness flaring out from clamations of sheer admiration and the hips, gives that extra free delight. Oh—a spinning wheel and dom which adapts Itself for all- a loom! Oh—hand-hammered fire- around wear. irons painted like the redcoats of cabinets, for the records or albums King George, so that any casual Decorate rooms Io lit . . . . or both. You may also want to have spitting upon them might be pleas urable as well as necessary! Oh, space in the living room. Group Revere teapots and Chippendale chairs and sofas into “conversa chairs, blue home-made and gay tional groups" which make sitting patch-work q u i l t s , four-posters and chatting a pleasure. with faded calico valances, warm If everyone In the family rends ing pans and melodeons, highboys a lot, good chairs are essential. and dressers in applewood or Good lighting is a problem here weathered maple! too. and each comfortnble chair to The floors are soft, almost yield be used for reading needs a light ing beneath our feet; the doorways that will make this interest easy. low and irregular, and between the old part of the house—circa 1800 Plan Music Corner and the new, added 40 years later If That's Your Interest indoor irregularities are masked Does the family enjoy music? by cupboards, by steps up and If this centers uround the piano, down, by a narrow stair here and this Instrument will be the main an angled passage there. interest In the living room. Try to Your living plant. Draught of Patriotism arrange chairs and sofas so that Who doesn’t know New England, you can enjoy sitting around listen books and magazines on the subject in an easily accessible spot for this or that part of the Old South that ing comfortably. matches it in Revolutionary age activity. Many families enjoy records, and doesn’t know America. And it isn’t if so, one of the best corners of the How to Restyle Rooms too late to pack some bags, climb room should be devoted to this in In Good Taste into the car and cruise off in that Take a critical look at your fur terest. The radio, phonograph or direction now. As a great draught combination unit, should be the nishings and see whether they meet of patriotism and enthusiasm and center of interest with chairs ar with your approval. Do you have any wonder, it is a lesson we all need. pieces of furniture which are not ranged comfortably around it. Wonder—yes, that’s what we Have plenty of storage space, in used? Eliminate them and substi- women feel as we visualize the life women led on these beautiful old farms. Men led the hard life of Do Tonsils Have a Dollar Value? SEWIN8 CIRCLE PATTERNS Motoring at night on a dark coun try road, a man took a wrong turn and drove out onto a dock. Think ing it was a bridge, he kept going —until he plunged off the end, right into the water. Luckily, he man aged to break a car window and swim to safety. He later brought a damage suit against the dock Must a Trolley Conductor Help a Fat Woman Down from the Car? The conductor of a trolley was busy collecting tickets, when the car stopped at a corner. One of the owner, blaming him for not putting passengers who wanted to get off up some kind of warning signal. was a 207-pound woman. Rather However, the court rejected the than wait for the conductor to come motorist's claim, on the ground that and help her, she started to dis he had "trespassed" on the dock. embark. But she tripped on the The judge said that, although the edge of the step and tumbled down. man had driven onto the dock by Injured, she later sued the trolley mistake, he was still technically company for damages. She argued a trespasser—and thus had no kick helped. The court ruled otherwise. coming. clothes and the heaped heavy dishes knew no other cleaning agent than homemade bars of yellow soap. They gathered bedraggled baby clothes and rumpled bed linen and school children’s stockings just as you and I do, but they didn’t have flying foaming washers and swift fragrant dryers. No, they soaped and scrubbed on tin-faced wash boards, dried on kitchen lines, ironed with heavy iron pressers that cooled every few minutes and had to go back on the hungry great range that devoured firewood as a hippopotamus gulps down food. They fought on, when the spring rains kept all the children, all the measles and mumps and whoops shut indoors, when boots brought in their own weight in mud, when milk soured on the way from the springhouse to the table, and when the t e r r i b l e "second-summer" meant that the current baby was always a source of burning anxiety. And they kept good, kept busy, kept rejoicing in the Lord. They preserved th e niceties—washed small hands and combed unruly heads; changed linen, dragged steaming kettles to the wash tub. They fostered learning; there was a switch ready if the school- m arm —she boarded about among the different families—reported im pudence or idleness. One Can Think Bulges Away Physiologist Cites M ental Procedure NEW YORK.—Almost any m a tron with a bridge-table spread and an aching back can restore herself to competitive shape again, if she'll ¿b lie down and think the bulges and pains away, Dr. Alda Kelly claims. Dr. Kelly, a cheerful, slender woman, herself, has come up with a real morale booster for girls who want to reach for a sweet and still be able to touch their toes. She’s worked out a reconditioning method through which she says you can get your girlish figure and fancies back merely by thinking you are exercising to beat the band. That’s right. You don’t have to move a single muscle—except, of course, the one between your ears. Dr. Kelly, a physiologist, calls . . . a picturesque farm . . , herself a "neurosomatic recondi farmers and settlers, too; up in the tioner.” That’s scientific girl talk dark freezing nights of winter to for a person who teaches people look to lambs and calves, swelter ing in the hot rocky pastures how to get the most out of life with the least possible amount of energy through the summer noons. But the Women! Ah, you fore —a n d that includes banishing mothers of our present easy day, bulges, too. She said her system how did you do it, what made it worked on 100 housewives in Cleve land, so there isn't any reason why worth your while! The cemeteries tell a part of the it shouldn’t work on a lot of others story of these first American wom just as w elt Essentially, her plan involves the en. Stop to read the stones, when you pass an old graveyard. There idea of sending the right kind of you will find the Aarons, the Silases, genteel, relaxed impulse from the the Johns and Joshuas and Wil brain to the nervous system. The liams, reaching decent ages; 68, nerves carry the good word to the 76. 90. muscles, which obediently become Women’s Names, Too strong and supple without flexing And there you'll find, too, the or reflexing. women’s names. Sarah, first wife "Just pretending has the same of the above, aged 26. M ary Jane. effect as real motion, and it saves 3rd wife of the above, 18. Eliza and a lot of energy,” Dr. Kelly has Matilda and Abigail aged 23, 31, found. “A man can build up some 19. It cost our women something, muscles merely by thinking he’s did America. lifting weights. I t ’s slow, but it Imagine their waking in a stone works." cold great house, with the snow But Dr. Kelly specializes in prob packed outside, the November sky lowering and dark, the seventh lem girls. When a cranky, aching, child a fretful feverish teething overworked housewife goes to see burden at 11 months, the eighth the neurosomatic conditioner at the child already on the way. Imagine Shailer Em ery Lawton foundation, the dark descent to the stone-cold, she is put through a series of 24 chatter-toothed struggle in the treatments and gets home-work as kitchen; ashes cold in the cold signments of 10 minutes a day. Mrs. Harassed Heckled House stove, snow on the low window sills, wife starts out by lying down and water frozen in the pail. The floors we find so satin-smooth thinking she’s a rag doll with the today were subject to all the spills stuffings leaking out. For Summer vpAKE YOUR place in the sun in 1885 a pretty sunback dress that « ■ (» > » 3 1 can be made in two versions— monotone or with a bright con Pleasant Wearing VOU’LL GET many hours of trast. For cover-up, add the brief pleasant summer wear from bolero. this simple yet smart daytimer P a tte rn N o. 1874 Is a s e w -rlte p erfo rated p a tte rn In sizes 11, 12. 13. 14, 16, 18 And it’s so easy to sew—try a and Size 12, dress, 3% ya rd s o f 35- printed fabric or cool, dark sheer. lnch 20. fo r m onotone; bolero, ’/ . y a rd . S E W IN G C IR C L E P A T T E R N D E F T . 33« S o . l h W e lls St. C hieage 7, DI. P a te r a No. 1885 Is a s e w -rlte p e rfo rated p a tte rn fo r sizes 12, 14, 16. 18. 20: Kt and 42. Size 14. 4 ya rd s of 39-lnch. Enclose 25 cents In coins fo r each p a tte rn desired. T h e S pring and S um m er F A S H IO N offers a w e a lth o f suggestions fo r s m a rt sum m er w ardrob es— sp ecia l fe a tu re s , fa b ric n ew s, fre e p a tte rn p rin te d Inside the book. 25 cents. -S iz e - F i f t e e n-year-old Viola had Once there was a very rich old reached the crossroads of life but bachelor whose sole recreation for her it was positively the end, seemed to be in leading the girls but really. Her father went up to a merry chase. One young girl her room when he heard a lot of was a little doubtful about the ad sobbing after she had returned visability of chasing a man so old. from a dance. “ Don’t you think he is a little "Why, Viola, darling, what hap too old to be considered eligible?” pened?’’ he asked gently. she asked her aunt. “ Oh, Denny and I had a fight,” “My dear,” she replied with a 6he explained. "Now I just know wisdom born of years of expe- I’ll never get married. It seems j rience, “he is a little too eligible I’m not old enough for the young to be considered old.” men and not young enough for the Son—“Well, dad, you’ve man- old men.” ! aged to live to a ripe old age. How He—“They tell me Colonel Live did you manage to keep the germs ly is a sexagenarian.” of disease away from you all She—“The old fool; and at his these many years?” Father—“I ’ll let you in on a age, tool” little secret, son. I attribute my longevity to the persistent use of garlic. Now don’t breathe that to a soul.” Son—“The secret or the garlic?” Extend the curtain rods out on to the wall and push draperies back to expose all the glass: this will make the window look wider, permit a more expansive view, and admit more light into the room. —• — An empty nail keg can be easily converted into a novel magazine rack for the rumpus room. Set keg on barrel rack and nail into place, and paint any color, colors, de signs, etc. to harmonize or con trast color and motif of room. —• — Empty egg shells can be easily converted into attractive place favors for your next bridge lunch eon. Start saving shells in advance by taking time to blow out eggs when recipes do not call for separated eggs. Blow out eggs by making hole in round end with point of knife and carefully lift off shell until the hole is about the size of a dime. Hold egg over bowl and, with the point of a large pin, puncture a hole in the other e n d - blow through small puncture and egg will drop out into bowl. Rinse and dry shells: then dye or color them as desired. Holes may be covered with gummed paper or secure decorations, etc. within them—let your imagination, party motif, etc. be your guide. Number one boy—“ My grand father lived to be 98 years old.” Number two boy—“Gee, that’s j old all right. 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