Southern Oregon New» Review, Thursday, August 25, 1949
W O M A N 'S W ORLD
Be Smart!
Many Homes Contain Valuable Space
By Ertta Haley
ly rn D K K N IZ IN G the home does
* not always mean that you
have to get an architect In to lift
the face of the house. Much of the
work can begin Imide with such
eaally managed thing* aa turning
a door Into a built In bookcaae,
cutting down the lega of a dining
room table to make a handy cof­
fee table, removing an old-fash
loned archway to make place for
glaaa block* or modernizing wall*
with plywood or plaatlc.
Don’t be ton atartled with pic­
ture* you've aeen of huuse* of the
future. Remember, these are prod­
uct* of evolution and take time.
For m oit people, their varinu*
feature*
are Incorporated
Into
home* little by little.
Many older home* do not have
a* much light or storage space a*
I* necessary. These are two Impor­
tant feature* which It’ » Important
to try to achieve, even though you
do only a small umount at a time
Lota of home* nre full of clutter
such as heavy old banister* and
handrail* on the stairs, semi-par­
titions w i t h
column* between
room* or In the hall, ugly cabinet*
over mantle*, not enough spuce
for books, heavy piece* of furniture
Turn timing table mlo collee table . , .
that take more space than they
give use and too few narrow win­
dow* which should be combined
Into one to let sunlight and air into
the horde.
Modernizing the place by your­
self can be lot* of fun because you
watch ugliness transformed Into
loveliness with your own hands,
st p by step with your own eyes.
The sum total of the effort I* well
worth the sense of achievement as
well as * more livable and lovable
place to live and truly call home.
S ta rt with the small things first,
and a * your energy and zeal grows,
as it certainly will, go on to the
bigger tasks.
First, however, plan, mull over
and then replan what you want
to do. Though you may star,
with smaller tasks, you should
have an over-all, unified plan In
mind so the house, or that part of
It you're redoing w ill give, finally,
a harmonious appearance.
Smart Storage Space
A few square feet of clay
tile
and
some
built In cup­
boards w orked wonders In g iv ­
ing this old kitchen m ore stor­
age space. Even space under­
neath the sink, so often wasted
In old kitchens, was boxed In
and now serves for storing the
d ryin g rack and (le a n in g m a te ­
ria ls . O raln b o arri* and counter
a re finished w ith clay tile be­
cause of Its euse In cleaning
and w aterp ro o f q u a lities. The
tile was also used to face the
low er cabinets, giving them a
trim look, and for w all spare
over the counter tops.
Take the case of an old dining
room table which is round and was
found too small us the fam ily grew
in size. The first thing to be done
is to saw the legs down to coffee
table height. Nex, the old, dark
finish I* removed with varnish re­
mover and sanding The table may
be finished with lacquer or painted
with a high glossy paint, whatever
is needed to mutch the room.
Other furniture renovating tricks
may consist of taking of, "ginger­
bread” the name frequently ap­
plied to ornate and excessive trim
One of the easiest ways to give
a more pleasing appearance to
rooms I* to do a face-lifting Job
on some furniture. This is often
economical because you yourself
can do most of the work. Often old
and discarded pieces can be re­
claimed from the attic by this
method at very little expense.
And door into bookcase.
on legs, arms and backs o, chairs,
sofas, tables and cabinets. The
furniture w ill then have to be re-
finished, to show the good and
simple basic lines of the pieces.
Divorce Isn't Happiness Road
O ’i'EPHEN JACKSON is one more
victim of the divorce scourge.
He was m arried for six years. He
loved his home, he dearly loved
his small son and daughter. He
was a good provider, he didn't
drink or gamble or look at other
women.
But Adele fell In love with an­
other man. and was crazy with
love and passion and pain. Stephen,
after months of resistance, agreed
to get a divorce, surrendered his
children, and has never had a hap­
py hour since.
Divorce brings more tragedies
to American homes than infantile
paralysis does. We should fight it
with the same horror that we do
the psysical disease. Wise mothers
should warn their daughters of the
dangers and symptoms that lead
up to it; fathers should instruct
their sons as to the best ways of
avoiding it. Nobody should ever
lightly suggest it as a solution to
m arital troubles, for it never is.
May a Creditor Badger
A Debtor for His Money?
r
would "go to court and take away
your furniture." The widow, who
happened to be a very sensitive
person, was so unnerved by the in­
cident that she filed a damage
suit against the collector for up­
setting her. However, the court
turned down her claim. The judge
said that a creditor has a perfect
right to demand his money — and
he needn’t be too polite about it
either!
• • •
A man was killed in a bus
crash, and his widow sued the bus
company for damages. At the
tria l, her lawyer worked himself
up to a high emotional pitch. "This
rich corporation,” he cried to the
jury, "is trying to hornswoggle
this poor widow out of her rig h ts !"
The corporation’ s attorney was so
shocked by this language that he
demanded a new trial. However,
the court refused his request. The
Judge ruled that "Hornswoggle”
made sense to the average person,
and was OK in court.
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Running Tests Prior
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-By W ill Bernard, LL.B.-
A spiritualistic medium invited a
skeptical neighbor to a seance, so
he could “ see for himself” what
happened. Soon after the lights
went out, the neighbor felt the me­
dium's chair slowly moving! In­
stantly he struck a match. The
keeper who would care for them.
So Adele has them.
The children at firs t welcomed
their father when he came to see
them. But that is lessening. In the
institution where their stepfather
works they are absorbed. There
are other children; community
meals. They are not unhappy,
Stephen tells me, although in one
sense they have no father and no
mother.
For Adele, three weeks after
her marriage, after the achieve­
ment of her dream and her dream
man, was stricken with a disease
that has baffled science. She is
bedridden in the big institution.
She has books and callers and care,
but she w ill never walk again. If
it is merely a fixation it is a very
real one, for she makes desperate
efforts to walk, without success.
The children visit her. One wonders
what goes on in their small minds
about the whole thing.
Stephen’s heart is broken. Or
rather it is stilled and sobered in
a way that makes seeing him hard
for those of us who love him. He
is very quiet about it, but he can­
not understand what went wrong.
Here was a lovely home with a man
and a woman in it; a garden; here
twice w e r e
those tremendous
hours that usher in a new life, and
twice the delight of bringing home
a child to its new home. What hap­
pened? Aren’t those things per­
manent,
fundamental?
If they
aren’t, what is?
Census Bureau
Jumping Gun
Badgering a Widow
How Strict May a Medium
Be During a Seance?
Pleats and m o re pleats are
In the fashion p ictu re fo r fa ll.
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and
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plaids, stripes and tw eeds to
flu tte rin g acco rd ian s In light­
w eight wool and m a n y kinds
of Jersey. T h e y ’re w onderful
for school or business because
these
m odern
p le a ts
a re
treated so they a re p erm an en t!
This fac t plus fashion im p o r­
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portant than e v e r fo r the com ­
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or for w e a r w ith w esklt, crisp
pique and e v e r so m a n y d iffe r­
ent blouses and toppers.
KATHLEEN NORRIS
THE READER'S COURTROOM-
A creditor got a Judgment against
a barber, and demanded — among
other things — the barber’s chair,
A widow borrowed some money striped pole, hat rack, hair tonic,
on her furniture, and then found and cuspidor! At a court hearing,
nerself unable to keep up the pay­ the barber pleaded that such items
ment. One morning, a man from were exempt from attachment be­
the loan company came to her cause they were the “ tools" he
home and angrily demanded that needed to carry on his trade. And
'she pay up at once. If she didn't the Judge agreed with him. Order­
he threatened in surly tones, he ing the creditor to keep hands off
these articles, the judge said that
no self-respecting man would go to
a barber who didn't have "the
usual incidentals.”
• • •
Young Style for Campus W ear
Have you a cracked plaster cell
Ing or one where the plaster I*
constantly falling? This is not only
an unattractive sight, but also an
unsafe one. Patching mere crucks
may be done by yourself with
many available preparation*.
In cases where there is a large
piece out of the celling already,
you may have to consult a profes­
sional plasterer who w ill have to
cut out a section of the ceiling and
then patch It. It may be necessary
to give the whole ceiling a finish­
ing coat of plaster.
When side walls need renovating,
you have a wide choice of wall-
board, In finished and unfinished
varieties. A lumber dealer or
building supply dealer can show
you various types for specific
problems, and also give you help
in choosing.
If walls are sound but shabby
looking, why not try painting or
papering them to give the room an
elegant new loolj. If you do not
consider yourself an experienced
painter, you might try doing the
Job with a spray which is simple
enough for a child to use.
As for wallpaper, there are many
kinds of ready-pasted papers avail­
able which need only to be damp­
ened and hung, each step of which
is quite simple.
D iv o rc e M u st Be
W ipe T ire d Look
F ro m F u rn itu re
Apron From a Yard of Fabric
I t ’s E asy to Kenovat«
C eilings and W alls
True, if a marriage is childless,
and if circumstances are unusually
serious, there must be divorces.
But where there are 50 now. there
should be only one. No money paid
to psychiatrists in years to come
w ill undo what your divorce does
to the minds and souls of your
children now.
But to come back to Stephen
Jackson. Here is a man I have
known since he was a cheerful
sturdy little fellow of 10. He de­
livered papers in high school days
took a part-time job to pay his
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS
", . . with the usual white veil . .
way through engineering school at
college, and immediately upon
graduation obtained a good job.
He has changed jobs twice in these
10 years, but always upward.
He married a nice girl, with the
usual white veil and the usual
promises—and Steve meant them.
L ittle Georgia was born, to com­
pletely captivate her father, and
then a sturdy small edition of him ­
self in Steve junior. He loves them,
he loved his home, he deeply
loved Adele. But Adele, three
years, ago, fell in love.
The man is a vocational adviser
in a large institution. It makes me
wonder who advises him. For,
from the moment he and Adele
decided to shake off their respec­
tive mates at any cost, they pro­
ceeded to make everyone con­
cerned thoroughly miserable.
Adele took her children and went
to her mother's home. Her mother
warned her that she couldn’t stay,
but at the same time she didn’t
turn out Adele, and she loved her
grandchildren. She prayed and
hoped that the situation would
clear up.
Everybody Miserable
spiritualist got so angry at this in­
Philip, the vocational adviser,
terruption that he knocked the got his divorce with no trouble,
neighbor down on the floor — and and he and Adele went to Steve
that was the end of the seance. Af­ and begged him to relent. Stephen
terward, the neighbor sued the finally gave in, but he claimed the
medium for damages. The latter custody of his children. Adele
claimed that he had a right to pun­ agreed, perhaps because she knew
ish anyone who disturbed the se­ w h a t
would happen. Stephen
ance, but the court held him liable hasn’t a relative in the world; the
anyhow. The Judge pointed out that care of children of five and three
the neighbor had been invited for simply isn't possible for him. As
the purpose of seeing what hap- an engineer he comes and goes
pened — so he had a perfect right between the west coast cities; he
to strike a match and look!
couldn’t be sure of getting a house­
WASHINGTON. — Although t h e Planning for the Future?
big 1950 census doesn’t start until
next April, the federal bureau of
the census isn’t waiting for the Buy U.S.. Savings Bonds!
kickoff whistle to get going.
Every month census bureau en­
umerators visit about 25,000 house­
holds in the United States. They
ask questions about the m arital
status and employment of mem- I
bers of these households.
The employment census on which
the bureau bases its estimate of
the number of job holders and job
hunters, is now rated more impor- ,
tant that the population count. Em- ;
ployment information is valuable
Yes, a wing of genuine aluminum metal
to the government and to private
inside every PEP package 1 Body of plane
industry as an indicator of business
printed in color on outside of package. Put
’em together . . . Z O O MI Directions on
conditions.
package. Set of 6. Collect ’em—«wap ’eml
Some householders resent the
Urge Mom to buy Kellogg’s PEP today.
questioning as "prying into private
Start enjoying crispy, delicious flakes of
affairs.” A few others are scared
whole wheat. Get MODEL JET PLANE
by it in these days of agitation over
WITH THE PACKAGEI Hurryl
Communists and charges of dis­
loyalty.
Census officials say people have
nothing to fear from the interview­
ers. The inform ation is strictly con­
fidential.
Names of individuals are not sent
to Washington headquarters. The
information is used only for com­
piling the number of employed and
unemployed and other statistics.
Not even the F B I or internal rev­
enue colectors can obtain census
information for investigation or
tax collecting purposes. Federal
law prohibits its use except in
statistics.
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Some people refuse to co-operate
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every
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way with
with enumerators or interviewers.
However, relatively few persist in
bake the CUb^eerbakingPoWtkr
refusing after the interviewers
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d ° ublC aCti0° ’ ”
have shown identification cards
w ith ^ nC
reashe KnOuAr
with their photographs and have
explained why the inform ation is I
Ask Mother, She
being collected.
Care is taken to put the questions J
in simple words and in terms which j
are well known in the community
where the Interviewed person lives.
The interviewers take short train­
ing courses.
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