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Non-Clashing Breed of Marigold Produced After Ladies Complain B7 GAIL GREENE United Presi Correspondent Detroit, Mich. lf Com plaints from the nation's color- conscious housewives has in spired the nation's largest seed grower to produce a marigold which won't clash with other flower shades. Pleasing the thousands of lady gardeners and flower arrangers is how the century-old Ferry Morse Seed Co. keeps buyers happy. "The ladies just didn't like that harsh orange color mari golds have," explained James W. Wilson, director of consumer relations. "That's why we devel oped the Double Dwarf Mari gold." The "Double Dwarf went Into full scale distribution for the first time this year. "It's pleasant gold color that will blend well with reds and pinks nd grows evenly fine for edg- ing flower beds," Wilson said. The company has found that women don t go for muddy-colored flowers, either. To eliminate the dull cast from certain petals, it spent nearly 25 years developing the New Century Zinnia. Compact Flowers "It took that long to get the right number of clear, fresh col ors salmon, rose, yellow, gold and red," Wilson said. Currently researchers are con centrating on flowers that will grow evenly and more compact ly. Houses are getting lower and people don't want leggy, lanky flowers," Wilson ex plained. "We keep in touch with gar den club members, he said. "Wiat they want in a seed is usually what the public will de mand a few years later keeps us right on top of the market. "Southerners insist on their periwinkles." Wilson said. "It's a carefree flower that can take the southern heat and still bloom. "California has to have sweet peas because they provide an ex tremely early-blooming flower they can plant in fall," h added. Throughout the Midwest there Is a demand for varieties that make good cut flowers. "Flower arranging is becoming more popular than ever," Wilson not ed. "We have to be careful no to give them flowers that close up at night. Regional Difference! "Farther west they want rug ged flowers that can take the hot summer sun." Through the years Ferry Morse has evolved 26 basic geo graphical and nationality assort ments. The geographical preferences in vegetables is even more marked than with flowers, Wil son explained. Radishes, turnips, beets, let tuce, and other fast growing vegetables are in demand in the North. Okra, collards, mustard greens and turnips have a strong fol lowing in the South but a boom in the demand for these items in Chicago and Detroit is a sign of the population migration, Wilson said. The New England assortment is stable calling for pole beans, early corn, winter squash and midget watermelons. The Italian assortment, sell ing best in several metropolitan areas, includes red pear toma toes, zucchini, escarole and broc coli. "And," said Wilson, as long as there's a Pennsylvania Dutch appetite longing for a pea pod, we'll stock them." Sweet Potato Stuffing New York (IP Treat from the oven . . . apple-stuffed sweet totatoes. Scoop out the centers of baked sweet potatoes and sea son well with butter or marga rine, salt and pepper. Add grated raw apples, cup of ap ples to 4 sweet potatoes, and re fill the potato shells. Put under the broiler to brown, and serve hot. Ice Cream Topping 3utter Crisp Topping is de licious on ice cream. Mix to gether V4 cup ready-to-eat rice cereal crumbs, l'i tablespoons each brown sugar and butter and '4 . cup slivered almonds. Stir in shallow pan over medium heat until mixture is crisp. The Launderette CLEANS at LOWEST COST LAUNDERETTE'S new giant washers (ten times larger than home washers) have plenty of room to thor oughly wash any size shag rug. Oversize steam dryers have ample room to fluff dry your rug to its original beauty. 4' x 6' rug average size $ .98 9' x 12' rug average size .'. 3.85 IS' x 18' rug average size 9.45 LAUNDERETTE Call SP 2-2565 327 N. 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Half-Size Duo 1UH SIZES 9191 UVi-24'A Easy-sew pleats a slimming line for the half size figure! Make this pretty dress with our PRINTED Pattern it's perfect for sunning. Add the little jack et for a "go everywhere" outfit! Printed Pattern 9191: Half Sizes 14'j, 16',z. 18'.2, - 20,i, ; 22' 2, 24Vi. Size 16'-i dress takes 3-"8 yards 35-inch fabric; jacket, lis yards. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, faster, ac curate. Send FIFTY CENTS in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for 1st -class mailing. Send to Marian Martin, care of Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME. ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. mEAST 1 European Gals Much Busier Than Americans By CLAIRE COX United Press Correspondent Paris (IP) American house wives who camplain that wom an's work is never done haven't seen anything yet. A tour of Europe would open their eyes to the fact that women never have had it so good as in the United States. While American mothers have time to play bridge, attend PTA meetings or read a book, many European women toil night and day every day of the year just to keep themselves and their families alive. Women's work really is never done among large parts of the population on this continent. For example, a housewife usual ly has to shop at different types of stores for each item on her list. Supermarkets are rare. There are no paper bags for gro ceries and no containers for eggs, so a housewife must jug gle her purchases the, best she can. If women have jobs, they may work 10 to 14 hours a day. They fill many types of jobs other than the traditional distaff posts of clerk or secretary. In Germany, women are letter carriers. They also clean streets in some German and Finnish towns. It's common to see them as gas station attendants in France and Germany or work ing as train crossing guards, cranking rural railroad gates up and down by hand. Sometimes these women have one day off a week . . . some times none. Waitresses in hotels- in France and Switzerland have been seen hard at work at 10 p.m. and scrubbing floors at 6 or 7 the next morning. But even these jobs appear soft, compared with the lot of farm women in Italy, France, Switzerland and West Germany. On farms, household chores are done between other tasks. Women can be seen in fields, hoeing, digging or steering plows while men perch on tractors. Farm women in Italy do the weekly wash by hand in cold water in a town trough. They must make several trips a day to ihe public pump for water to use in the house. A motorist driving through Italy gave up counting the num ber of women walking home with tubsfiil of wet washing, in cluding heavy sheets, balanced on their heads. Italian housewives have de veloped the art of balancing pot tery jugs full of water on their heads and walking without a waver along a road filled with roaring trucks and speedy little cars. Another interesting sight in Italy is a deep gorge next to an outdoor restaurant near Villa D'este in suburban Rome. Lunch eon visitors look out at a water fall and next to it, a group of town women doing their wash. As a result of hard country life, only very young and very old-looking women are seen. It is difficult to tell if this is be cause it's hard to keep young women down on the farm or because they age before their time. Wednesday. July 17, 1937 MEDFORD (OREGON! MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Oldest Washington House Faces Possible Destruction By PATRICIA WIGGINS United Press Correspondent Washington IIP) The oldest house in Washington, destroyed once by the British 143 years ago, faces destruction again at the hands of Congress. And Congress is liuely to en counter as much opposition within the old red brick walls as did the British. This time the fight will be led by the National Women's Party, the present oc cupants and a group experienced on the political battlefield. Cause of the upcoming strug gle is a bill introduced by Sen. Carl Hayden (D-Ariz.) wnich would add one and one-half blocks of property, including . historic Alva Belmont bouse, to the Senate side of the Capitol grounds. , The lawmakers, already await-: ing completion of a new Senate uflice building to help take care of mushrooming committees and , staffs, have been eyeing the nearby Belmont House laud for i future needs. Support Grows "It's a sad thing," says Miss Alic Paul, founder and honorary chairman of the Women s Party, "to see buildings which have so much history woven around them destroyed. " She has rallied a growing number of House and Senate votes each year for her pro-, posed "women's rights" amend ment to the Constitution. And she feels that 'public support also has grown" for preservation I of Belmont House. I The women were joined by j the American Society of Archi- tects, the Capitol iiill Kestora- j lion Society and other historical preservation groups to success-, lully beat ofi three previous ; Congressional attempts to flat ten their headquarters. They hope sufficient support j will be mustered again this time and are awaiting dale of a hear ing on the bill to rally their forces of opposition publicly. Last session's bill finally was re ported out of committee but never reached a vote. Oldest Belmont house is named for Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont who donated a previous site to the Women's Party. That site was destroyed to make way for the Supreme Court Building, so the party, which moved into Bel mont House in 1929, would be evicted for a second time if Hay den's bill passed. The house believed to be the oldest in Washington was part of the original grant given Lord Baltimore by the King of England and reportedly provid ed the only resistance to the British when they marched into Washington in the summer of 1814. A National Historical Maga zine account says "Commodore Barney and his men fired on the advaneing forces from the upper stories, killing and wounding several of the enemy and killing General Ross' horse. This last indignity so enraged the general that he immediately ordered the house burned." The house was rebuilt several years later with one center por- i tion erected in the 17th century still intact. The house today also holds mementos of the women's rights struggle. Among them are a desk which belong to Susan B. Aanthony and a key to the old District of Columbia jail tem porary home of some enthusi astic suffragists during a 1917 demonstration which included picketing the White House. 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