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?
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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.
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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