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S O U T H E R N O R E G O N N E W S R E V IE W WOMAN'S WORLD Modern Coffee Table Features Simple Lines Add Glamour to Wardrobe by Sewing Own Accessories By Ertta Haley Whether you're cluihea budget conscious or (Im ply wunt to put your own Ingenuity to work, your wardrobe can undoubtedly benefit by ueeeiiorlei of your own making The woman who can afford only a few Items basic to the wardrobe can expand It almost Indefinitely by muklng attractive accessories fur It. On the other hand, even though they can afford to go out and buy gloves, purses, scarves and other such Items, many women prefer to make their own because they feel they can get something original and different. You don't have to be an expert on sewing to add these clever and at tractive touches to the wardrobe. Neither do you have to expend a lot Circular Skirt Style R em o d e lin g lle lp a S tretch S len der W a rd ro b es E a s ily A m ong the m ost pop ular of e u r r r n t fashions la the fu ll sw eeping c irc u la r s k irt shown h ere w ith an e n c irc lin g m u le tra in design Insp ired hy a C a ll fn rn la fashion e x p e rt. W it h th e ir flopping e a rs and flirta tio u s ry e s , the m ules a re set again st a stip pled b ackground. T h e s im ple p uffed sleeved blouse Is of solid colored cotton b ro ad cloth. /*»/< y o u r u u r d r o h e w i t h j ih ir l of time and energy making them. The rewards, however, are for greater than you would dream: the pleasures of creating, the Inter esting effects for the wardrobe and your friends’ praise of your ingen u ity Take, for example, the case of the g irl who could afford only an inexpensive sun dress It fitted her nicely and looked attractive but since she had to wear it all season long, she took steps to get three different dresses out of It. Her firs t step was to make a cape Jacket for it ao the dress could be appropriately worn for going shop ping as well as colling instead of Just a sports' tog. This took less than a yard of m aterial in a contrasting color and alxiut two hours to make. It gives her an “ extra dress." Her next step consisted of buying still another piece of contrasting m uterial. This was used for making a scallopped cuff which snapped around the tup of the bodice. This guve her still another change for the original dress. M ake Old Hain Do E xtra Duty If you feel that summery hats arc a poor investment, then you probably haven't used them to their fullest wearability. Of course you can refresh veiling and change flowers or remove one or both, but •ven that doesn't always give you enoug.i wear to muke them worth buying. Just In case you have one or two old sailor hats knocking about In the buck of the closet, here are some good ideas for them. When you get through remodeling them, you won't be able to recognize the old huts. Sailor hats, because of their reg ularity, are easy to cover with new material. This might be some ma terial from a dress you’ve Just made or a small piece of fabric picked up at the remnant counter o r a r e n o u tr d b jl. which w ill give Just the contrasting note you need with some summer clothes. Fabric, felt or straw may be cov ered In this way since you need only to cut the m aterial to fit. It's easy to tack on with small stitches. You might make a belt or purse cover with the same m aterial If there’s enough left, and thus give yourself matched accessories. If the old sailor hat docs not look as snappy as you would have it. -----THE READER'S COURTROOM--------------------- Make Bridges Safe for Elephants ------------------------------------- By W ill Bernard, L L.B --------------------------------- If an Elephant Falls Through a Bridge, Is the City Liable? Every spring a travelling circus ■topped In a certain sm all town to put on Its show. The day before the opening, the company would stage a parade—headed by a five-ton ele phant. The parade route, which was approved by city officials, led over an old wooden bridge. One spring day, during the parade, everything went along fine until the animals came to the bridge. The elephant took a few steps into the structure, when all of a sudden It cracked beneath his weight. The huge beast dropped through the hole to n road below, and rolled over - dead. The owner of the c ir cus later sued the town for the val ue of the elephant. The local o ffi cials insisted that anybody who puts an elephant on a bridge does so at his own risk, but the court disagreed Holding the town liable, the judge said that a public bridge should be kept safe for any proper and lawful use thereof. s e e A wealthy manufacturer gave his church a g ift—a huge iron bell. Grateful church officials began us ing the bell not o n ljT fo r services bu. also to toll the hours. From early morning to late at night, the m ighty chimes rolled out over the neighborhood. Some of the neigh bors found this very annoying, and finally one home owner took the m atter to court. He complained that the chimes woke his children, drowned out conversation, and even shook his house. The court ordered its clamor stilled. you might try trim m ing off soma of tha brim since most of the new hats In this style have rather narrow brims. Change tha angle at which you’ ve been wearing It, too. If that's a help. Picture brimmed hats need not be new. Cleaned and refreshed, they, too, can take on a new look. One of the easiest ways to bring them back Into circulation Is to cut off some brim and to sew some stiff veiling or ribbon around the outer most edge. Add a hat band to mstch or contrast your dress, and possibly a bow, and see what these w ill do Are the Parents to Blame If a Child Runs into the Street? A mother told her five-year-old son to play In his room until she finished cooking dinner. After a few minutes, the boy became bored. He slipped out of the house and ran Into the street—rig ht in front of a speeding car. The young ster was killed, and his parents later sued the driver for reckless ness. The man tried to shift the blame onto the boy's mother, say ing It was her own fault for letting the child run into the street. How ever, the court felt otherwise and held the motorist liable. The judge said that parents can't be expected to keep their children under lock and key—or watch them every single Instant. His Honor comment ed: “ Parents are not required to do the Im possible!" • • • It's a truth of long standing that your wardrobe Is what you make It, rather than what your present bud get happens to offer. If. In previous seasons you purchased wisely, you’ll bless those days now for many of these clothes can be used. Even though clothes are worn thin In spots, a few remodeling tricks can give them the magic that yields another season or two of satisfac tory wear. Long, full sleeves on blouses which have worn out at the arm holes, for instance, can be cut off entirely to give you a sleeveless blouse which Is so popular right now. If you don’t have a skirt, get right into fashion by making a brightly printed, circular type. There you have a costume that Is strictly fashion-right. Tailored b l o u s e s particularly yield themselves to having their sleeves cut off entirely. Simply bind the sleeve edge, and you may wear the blouse with not only the skirt Just mentioned, but also with suits which always can use an extra blouse. Collar and cuff fashions lend themselves to many provocative changes on clothing. One of the newest Is the stand-up collar that can be made for any good basic dress. I f you like, add some Inter esting large cuffs to a short or long sleeved dress or blouse. Use some of the new fabrics with Inter esting textures to give the dress the desired lift. Old boleros take on a great deal of Interest If they’re lined with a bright new print. Add a bow of this same p rin t to your hat, and you have a brand new outfit. Long rows of buttons may be added to bodices or slender skirts for a decorative touch that Is both new and novel. Purses and Gloves Yield Themselves to Treatment Unless gloves are so worn as to be cast out, then take them aside for renovating. The efforts to give them a lift are so little yet so re warding in results. With the interest In decorative cuffs on gloves you can see what an easy m atter it Is to change an old pair into something that looks like it came out of a fashion window. Ruffles of nylon, gathers of fine lace or embroidery work are all good techniques to apply to old gloves. Truman Dinner Farm Commodities Pose Big Problem T IM E before leaving on S OME his whistle-stop trip. President Truman held a hush-hush dinner with one of his most vigorous po litic a l enemies—Senator Brewster of Maine. The dinner was held not In the White House, but at the Carlton hotel. And it was the President who Inspired the meeting. He and Brewster had worked together on the old Truman committee, once had been warm friends. Chief result of the Carlton dinner was a challenge to test out the F air Deal. Brewster Is chairman of the Republican senatorial campaign committee, and has the Job of elec ting as many GOP senators as pos sible next November. Government Limited In Selling of Stocks At the moment the government owns approximately $1.8)8,365,438 worth of farm commodities, pur chased through the years to sup port farm prices, agricultural de partment officials report. Products stored in government bins include 3.5 m illion bales of cotton, 145 m illion bushels of wheat, 167 m illion bushels of corn, 422 m illion pounds of linseed oil, 294 m illion pounds of dried m ilk, 79 m illion pounds of dried eggs, and quantities of various other items. What's become of it all? I t may be disposed of in various ways, but not dumped upon the Knowing thia, Truman chak lengrd: " I ’ll lay my program out and you lay your program out, and w e'll have a show down." Brewster agreed. Though they didn't actually plan It that way, part of the showdown Is coming rig h t now. Truman is now putting his policies before the public, while Brewster has been busy lining up speakers to refute him. He has already lined up Taft for a speech in Chicago, Wherry in Nebraska, Hickenlooper in Iowa, Morse In Oregon, and congressman Keefe In Wisconsin. Brewster says the battle, hatched over the dinner table at the Carlton hotel, w ill continue until November. KATHLEEN NORRIS Don't Look for the Dull Facet The rry S N 'T THERE any guidebook • for wives, isn't there any school course that they ought to take?” demands a husband from Trenton. N J. “ I've got the darndest sweet wife any man ever had." his letter goes on, “ and I love her But Rhody has about as much idea of system, order, management, budgeting, as a white bunny, and if I talk about such things her eyes go vague, and she looks rather distressed, and in five minutes she's forgotten all about it. “ We have six children, two girls who are mine by my first wife, who died when they were mere babies; four boys, now 8, 8, 3 and one year old. born to Rhoda and me. When we were first m arried, 10 years ago. my mother lived with us, and managed everything, as Rhody was s till teaching. After this, Mother was Invalided for two years by a stroke, and the babies began to arrive and Rhody stayed home. “ I know that though she was de voted to Rhoda. Mother must have suffered through the disorder and the slipshod ways of our house hold, baby garments everywhere, no regular hours for naps or meals, and Rhoda as apt to give ua a bread pudding for breakfast and oatmeal and bacon for dinner if the fancy struck her. or pick up the children and telephone me to meet them on some distant beach or mountain road for a picnic supper. Feels Disloyal “ W riting this m uch," the hus band continues, " I feel disloyal for as I began by saying, I have a darned sweet wife, and Rhody is a fine cook as well. She never wastes anything and she can make a good meal out of an ice box fu ll of scraps that look like nothing plus, to me My little girls have never had to realize their own mother’s loss, for Rhoda was their kinder wrong. Rhody reads every word you write, and if you could Jack her up a little on these things, it would make my life a little sim pler." P r ic e le ss Diamond Chester, my dear, you are not wrong; there is no question of right or wrong here. But you are a man who holds a priceless diamond in his hand and turns and twists it to see if one of the facets is not a lit tle out of line The brilliance of your diamond ought to blind you to any such defect, and I believe that if you could truly appreicate the woman you have in Rhody. it would. Here is a g irl who makes babies love her in school, and when their mother died, carried that love right into their lives as a new mother. She gallantly went on teaching for awhile, presumably to help you out financially, and stopped when the care of the elderly invalid, a home, a man, and an increasing number of babies interrupted her own ca reer, or rather, replaced It with a higher career. She has given you four sons; she nursed your mother in the last hard months of an illness. She handles a job that would put some women into a psychopathic ward, and evidently she enjoys every moment of it. Six small chil dren, and your Rhoda has spirit enough to get up picnics, to plant vegetables, to drag even the baby off to distant lovely places to en joy an outdoor meall As for the bread pudding for breakfast, has it ever occurred to you that when you eat two pieces of raisin-bread toast, coffee with cream, two boiled eggs, butter and sugar for your breakfast, you’ve eaten a bread pudding? govern m en t 167 m illion ca's finest the price question is, to d a y M ite r la la and fin ishes to e lu d ed on p a tte rn 230. P r ic e 25c W ORKSHOP P A TTE R N D r a w e r 10 B ed ford H ills . N e w use a r e In« o f p a tte rn la S E R V IC E Y e rk Each VVith Your Own Initial! Teaspoons Only 754 with rrhilo-riar end fr o m K E L L O G G 'S V A R IE T Y PACKAGE • Lovely silverware with your own script initial. Old Company Plate made and guarantied by Wm. Rogers M fg. Co.. Meriden, Conn. With spoons, you get prices on complete service—offered by . . . Kellogg's variety of 7 cereal delights. . . 10 erous boxes, anytime! Acheson’s Big Problem h as bushels of Ameri corn stored under support plan. The what to do with it? Before Secretary of State Acheson left for the big three conference, he had a report from the Orient Indicating that French Indo-China was the most vita l area in prevent ing the spread of communism. The report came from Ed Dickin son, ace trouble-shooter fo r ECA adm inistrator Paul Hoffman. State department officials concur with Dickinson’s views. open m arket to compete with com modities now in private ownership. To do so would flood the market and depress the commodities of fered fa r below support prices. The government would then find itself b u y i n g the commodities placed upon the market. These commodities, however, can be sold should the m arket prices strengthen considerably above sup port levels. The government has two methods at present of moving commodities. They are: (1) Persuading the consumer to increase their purchases through normal purchasing channels, thus reducing the supply and raising the price to where government stocks can be put on the market. Also, reducing supplies to a point where support prices would be come unnecessary. (2) Many of the commodities in government stockpiles are being distributed to school lunchrooms, charitable institutions, indian af fairs, and needy groups. They believe that If commu nism once takes over Indo- China, then Burma, the Ma lays, Siam, India and Indonesia w ill also fa ll, making a ll of the orient a Russian sphere of In fluence. SEND TO D A Y! X s llo g g 'i.D s p tF F , W allingford, Connecticut Please send m e . . . . “Signature” tea spoons with following initial............ For each unit set of 4 spoons. I en close 1 white-star end from Kellogg’s variety package and 75« in coin. N a m e ........................................... .. (p le o te print) A d d re ss ........................................... ............... .. C ity ................................. Z e n « . . . State . . • • • • O l f f good only In U. $., ivbticl to ail ttsio and Iota I ’■•yulatiooi. r-HOT-^ Furthermore, it is believed that this is Moscow’s chief goal. For the Red arm y today lack» oil, gasoline, tin and rubber. A ll these Are you going through the functional things are to be obtained in the "m iddle-age” period peculiar to wealthy area lying south of French women (38-52 years) ? Doe» thia make you suffer from hot flashes, feel so Indo-China. nervous. high-strung, tired? Then do That is why Indo-China is One of try Lydia E. Plnkham'a Vegetable Compound to relieve such symptoms I the toughest jobs facing Acheson Regular use of Plnkham'a Compound and also why he met it head-on fol helps build up resistance against this annoying middle-age distress! lowing his a rriva l in Paris. Here are some of the factors he still _ 2 LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S cfopoffag has to contend w ith: 1. THE U.S. SENATE IS HOT AND BOTHERED ABOUT CHINA, but not Indo-China. This may be because of the well-heeled Kuom- Intang lobby which has spent thou sands in Washington influencing congress. Whatever the cause, when Acheson publicly proposed Aa we get older, »tree» and »train, over* exertion, excessive smoking or exposure te aid to Indo-China, he was rebuked cold sometimes slows down kidney (uno- next day by Senator George of don. This may lead many folk» to com Georgia who wanted to know who plain of nagging backache, lose of pep and energy, headaches end dizxlneaa Getting was going to vote the money. np nights or frequent peerages may result 2. THE FRENCH ARE A HAND from minor bladder Irritations due to cold, dampness or dietary Indiscretions. ICAP. French adm inistration of I f your discomforts are duo to these Indo-China in the past has been causes, don’t w a it, try Doan's Pills, e m ild inefficient, corrupt, im perialistic, j diuretic. Used successfully by millions low The natives don’t like them, shoot ' ever M yearn. W hile these symptoms may often otherwise occur. I t ’s emaxlng how down French troops at night If they many time» Doan's give happy r e l i e f - stray a mile or so outside of towns. help the I t miles of kidney tubes end filters flush out waste. Get Doan’t Pllla todayl 3. INDO-CHINA IS SPLIT AMONG VARIOUS FACTIONS. There is no love for Em peror Bao Dai, one- ! time Paris playboy, whom the French have set up as ruler. There is also b itte r hatred for guerrilla leader Ho Chi Minh and his scorched-earth policy. H A SH ES?’ ^ MANY NEVER SUSPECT CAUSE OF BACKACHES New Corn Spray U ntil recently, the corn earworm has prevented profitable s w e e t corn growing, especially in the South. Sometimes every ear in a crop is infested. Such com cannot be sold. Now the department of agricul ture has developed a spray con taining DDT, m ineral oil, and Beat Fatigue With Oxygen D oan ’ s P ills Few Whiffs of Ozone Perk Up Mind, Body PITTSBURGH, PA.—Tired house wives, fainting women and over worked businessmen have been of fered new hope through experi ments conducted by two local bas ketball teams. The experiments seemed to indi Should a Policeman Ride cate that a few whiffs of pure oxy The new spray, when applied On Your Running Board gen from a portable container w ill at the right times, w ill elim i To Guide You to the Hospital? stop that breathless feeling and nate earworm and pay in A woman stopped her sedan garten teacher when my firs t wife perk up both mind and muscle. growth of healthy corn on the died, and they adored her then and alongside a tra ffic officer and said: The basketball teams, threatened American farm . " I ’m taking my aunt to the hospital. they do now. with "slum ps" from overwork, “ I honestly have nothing to com bought oxygen dispensers, used Could you tell me how to get water that may be applied to silks there?” The policeman Jumped plain of, but although I hear other them during games and walked off a n d husks of developing ears. onto the running board and cried: fellows at the office talking of in with Just about all the honors in When applied at rig ht times it kills “ Straight aheadl" After driving a surance and buying bonds, and see western Pennsylvania. worms before they attack and ruin other women's houses neat and Homestead high, tra ilin g the Al the corn. well-organized, I come home to R. A. Blanchard, bureau entomol- racket and confusion, find Rhody toona (Pa.) team 15 to 8 in the and the children digging vegetable firs t quarter, hauled its firs t ogist, developed the method. He gardens at six in the evening, and stringers out of the game and tested it in the field during three the baby with them in his disrepu made them take a few pulls at the growing seasons in Texas, Missis table basket. And sometimes I won machine. At the half, Homastead sippi, Missouri, and Illinois. Ear- der If there m ightn’t be a school, led, 27 to 19, and the “ oxygen eat worm« were controlled in ever in or a course in girls' schools, that ers” won the game going away, 80 stance, he reports. would teach them something about to 44. In another case a woman slipped January Exports Pass Just the simplest sort of housekeep « ing. It must be simple, because so on a freshly waxed floor and many women do keep reasonably cracked her head against a wall. $224 Million Mark A few whiffs of oxygen revived January agricultural exports to orderly homes. “ Now don’ t rip Into me.” Chester her faster than smelling salts could taled $224,300,000, the agricultural few blocks, the woman made a Heyman disarm ingly concludes his have and she felt no headache department reports. Cotton topped sharp stop at a corner and the po letter, “ lor 1 (eel like a prude and a from the concussion—only a sore the total with $83,500,000. Wheat and wheat flour were sec- liceman tumbled off—breaking his sissy, when 1 heckle my good wile spot on her scalp where her head leg. Later ha sued the woman for about children's d irty hands at hit the wall. ond to cotton, valued at $47,300,000, • damages, but the court turned meals and comment on the state of During the war the a ir force dis while corn was in third place with down hts claim. The Judge said that the window curtains. Having so covered that oxygen had almost $14,700,000. Im ports during the even a policeman shouldn't risk much, perhaps I'm exacting to want magical powers. Although the prac- j $14,700,000. Agricultural imports riding on the running board, when more, but is It so hard for a woman tlce wasn't authorized by higher- during the month were valued at it would be Just as easy for him to to observe just the ordinary routine ups, fliers inhaled pure oxygen to | $290.700,000, or approximately 68 m illion more than exports. get lnsidel of housekeeping? Tell me if I'm cure "hangovers." A .Modern Coffee Table TT IS 19 by 30 inches w ith a shelf open on both sides fo r gre ate r convenience. Its m odern lines are ao sim ple th a t it harm onizes in a s tr ic tly m odern setting or when used w ith E a rly A m e rica n pieces. • • • Possibly the United States could handle the situation bet ter without the French. But that would eliminate one of our old est allies. Thus Acheson has the senate to buck on one hand, the French on the other and the Communists all around them. John L. Lewis Purge John L. Lewis, Republican, has been busy backstage tryin g to purge a Democrat, Rep Anthony Cavalcante of Pennsylvania. Lewis is sore because Cavalcante demand ed that d istrict four of the United , Mine Workers have local autonomy : and the rig h t to elect their own officers. Cavalcante used to be a J member of this local, has an excel ! lent record in congress, and w ill be supported by many rank-and- file miners. However, Lewis' strong- arm men are doing their best to elect Edward Dumbault, Caval cante’ s opponent. ! New England Slump H I, in just 7 days. . . In one short week . . . a group of people who changed from their The President's council of eco • Id dentifrices to Calox Toolh Powder aver aged J8Ç4 brighter teeth by scientific test. nomic advisers, while pleased with the recent unemployment drop, are Why not change to Calox yourself? Buy j s till deeply concerned over the sit Calox today . . . ao your uation in the New England area. teeth can start looking Throughout the nation unemploy brighter tomorrow! | ment now averages 5-*4 per cent, j but In New England it averages around 12 per cent. As a result, the council w ill soon set Bp a task force of prominent businessmen ! and economists with instructions to make a thorough and inten- | McKesson A Robbins In c, Bridgeport, Coon slve study of the causes and cures CALOX
