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. What finally got
him?”
Number one boy—“ Plot number
6, section 13 of Evergreen Ceme
tery.”
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