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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 13B3
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
A rrrrplinn today at (lie home of Mr. and Mm. (iusl Ekdahl,
2,'liO Highway Wi. Ashland, will celebrate Ihc rntiilns 5ll(h wed
ding anniversary. Friends nnd relatives are invNctl lo call
between one and four o'clock.
Reception Set Today
ASHLAND Mr. and Mrs. i their sons and daughters with
Gust Ekdahl, 2370 Highway 66, 1 their husbands and wives, Mr.
Ashland will be honored in ob- and Mrs. H. R. Spiller, Mr. and
servance ol their Iillietn wed
ding anniversary at a reception
to be given this afternoon in the
couple's home. Friends and rel
atives of the couple arc invited
to call on them between the
hours of one and four o'clock.
Hosts for the event will be
Mrs. E. G. Edison, Portland;
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ekdahl,
Central Point; Mr. and Mrs.
Norman Ekdahl, Concord, Calif,
and the seven grandchildren
and two great grandchildren.
The honorees were married
December 211, 191.1.
Relaxed
Rooms Said
Necessary
By Gay Pauley
IP
su mm . AHA
Vanilla Products Now Protected Through FDA
Vanilla extract, says the
standard of identity, is the solu
tion of vanilla constituent in eth
yl alcohol. The content of alco
hol must be no less than 35
per cent by volume, and the
content of the vanilla consti-
tnnnl nnt Incc than nnp unit npr-
fore that, the dark little bottle ! gallon. (A unit rcorcscnts the
labeled "Pure Vanilla Extract" j flavoring equivalent of 13.35 la constituent,
was a status symbol of the well-1 ounces of vanilla beans, con- If you glance again at these
stocked pantry. taining 25 per cent moisture or standards of identity, you'll dis-
Romance. gold, and history . less.) Vanilla extract may also cover that the difference be
am all hirlHen inoredienls of the rnntain olvenrin nr nrnnvlpne tween vanilla extract and va
"Make mine vanilla." How
many times have you heard or
said this yourself? The familiar
phrase has become part of our
language pattern, j u s t as the
product itself is part and parcel
of American tradition. For back
in grandma's day, and even be-
tains two or more units of va-
nilla constituent.
Has Ethyl Alcohol
Vanilla flavoring has an ethyl
alcohol content of less than 35
per cent by volume, and one
unit of vanilla constituent; con
centrated vanilla flavoring con
tains two or more units of vanil-
and if it's combined with va
nilla, that fact must be clearly
stated on the label. Standards
have also been set for vanilla
vanillin products; and these
three highlights are of particu
lar consumer interest. In any
vanilla - vanillin product, the
amount of flavor contributed by
vanilla beans must be more
than half the overall vanilla fla
vor; the flavoring strength must
be printed on the label; so must
the statement "contains vanil-
of Tahiti produces a different
species of bean, vanilla Tahi
tensis Moore, a sort of fraternal
twin of Mexican vanilla. There
are minute differences in form
and shape, a n d if your'e fas
cinated bv odors, a deep whiff pointed. So if you ever sudden
will reveal a variation in frag-1 ly feel, in an off-moment, that
ranee, too. For the Tahitian
vanilla bean carries just the
faintest scent of heliotrope, so
elusive it can hardly be pin-
there's heliotrope around as you
lift that spoonful of ice cream
to your lips, you're not dream
ing. It's there. And it's vanilla.
NEW YORK (UPI) - Fash
Ion's been through its "relaxed",
look in women's clothing. Could
be that the home next is lo be
affected.
In this age of tension, one
New York interior designer
holds that every house should
have one "relaxed" room; one
where no one color or one piece
of furniture figuratively shouts
for attention.
Staniford Squire, the designer
Currently one of his projects
is on display at New York's
National Design Center.
It is a series of room vig
nettes as settings for Hudson
Paper Products' introduction of
its new line and new package
design.
Because of limited space, the
designer used a lot of illusion
to make the vignettes seem
larger. Any homemaker can use
the same techniques to give
says that today there's so much spacious look to small rooms,
color mat sometimes u uunu- ne saU.
fragrant vanilla bean. A new-
world plant, it was first report
ed around 1519 by "stout" Cor
tez, the intrepid Spanish con
quistador who observed the Az
tecs, in the Yucatan peninsula
of Mexico, blending it with
chocolate. Vanilla beans are
still a source of our domestic
supply.
But, from time to time, the
established integrity of certain
food products has been threat
ened in a number of ways. Not
so long ago, this happened to
vanilla. Pure vanilla products
are made by placing ground va
nilla beans in a tank, pumping
an alcohol solution through to
extract their taste and odor con
stituents, and mixing the ex
tracted materials with either
water or alcohol.
Price Raised
Recently, however, the price
of vanilla beans zoomed to a
dollar an ounce, and the tempta
tion to keep the price low by
cheapening the product grew
strong. One way to do it was to
go "short" on the vanilla bean,
and "long on less expensive
substitutes like vanillan, a syn
thetic product, or nun - vanilla
natural products such as cas
cara or licorice.
What protects consumers and
responsible industry from situa
tions like this? The answer: Fed
eral Definitions and Standards
of Idontity.
In September of this year,
standards f o r vanilla extract
and other vanilla products were
published by the Food and Drug
Administration, with industry,
consumers, and proiessionai
experts helping to determine
precisely what me standards
should be. The standards go into
effect in December.
Here's a brief summary of
these standards.
glycol as additional solvents, . nilla flavoring is largely one oi un, an arm lui idvui
and sugar, dextrose, i
syrup to add sweetness.
Concentrated vanilla extract
is the same as vanilla extract,
except that each gallon con-
corn i alcoholic content, i ne extract
j contains more alcohol, but the
amount of vanilla is the same.
I Vanillin, on the other hand, is
i an artificial flavor or flavoring,
English Weaver First
To Make Turkish Towels
To some people the invention
of the towel is as important as
the wheel. But just when the
first towel made its debut, no
one knows.
We learn from the Old Testa
ment that when Abraham was
visited by three angels, he gave
them water with which to wash
the desert sand from their feet
and towels with which to dry
them.
In the New Testament, we
read that Christ taught his
disciples a lesson in humility
and service by washing their
feet in a basin and drying them
with a towel.
The earliest known examples
of linen terry, amazingly like
our terry towel of today, dates
back from 20(H) B.C. to the
Eleventh Dynasty of the Egyp
tian Empire.
The lncas of Peru in 400 A. IX
wove terry poncho shirts which
closely resemble a rough terry
towel.
In Greece and Rome, as in
Egypt, the gentry used towels
to dry their hands after wash
ing, and lo wipe them after a
meal.
Terry Towels
In the I7lh century, women
of leisure look rough loose cloth
and, as a form of handiwork,
made loops by picking up
threads in a sort of decorative
pattern thus creating what
today our terry towels.
In the middle of the inih cen
tury, the principle of weaving
Labeling, like this, of course,
is one way to "promote honesty ,
and fair dealing in the interests
of consumers," a prime objec-'.
live of Federal food standards.
Shipment of a product (like va
nilla) that does not conform to
lhn Federal standard set for
that products can result in seiz
ure by the Government, and the
shipper can be punished too,
thus protecting both the ethical
businessman and the housewife.
Here's an aromatic postscript.
The romantic South Sea island
had not changed since the stone-
age man first made cloth.
Hence, in 1851 Samuel Holt, an
Englishman, developed the first
production machinery for mak
ing cotton fabric with a pile
construction of surface loops
which acted as tiny sponges to
absorb moisture.
England, at this time, favored
acce t Hoil's ld weave. "!- ?." variety of colors
African Violets
Make Ideal Gifts
African violets continue to
hold their own as one of Ameri
ca's most popular year-round
' flowering plants. Lush green fo-
he moved his equipment to
Turkey where his new fabric
achieved immediate success.
Within a few years this looped
material became popularly
known as "Turkish Toweling".
In 1003 Holt established his
hand looms in a small factory
in Palcrson, N.J., thus produc
ing the first lurkish toweling in
America.
Today modern machinery has
replaced the hand and itiot
method making it possible to
create not only terry towels hut
coordinated kitchen cotton en
sembles such as matching teny
aprons, toaster covers, dish
towels, all purpose cloths,
placemats and napkins. The Re
search Department ot Morgan
Jones, Inc., one of the leaders
it cheerfully produces make it
an ideal Christmas plant. To
make them most enjoyable,
give African violets en masse,
In afford the recipient a number
of colors, in porous clay pots,
essential (or proper drainage.
To help keep humidity high,
send along a tray and some
pebbles or vcrmiculite with
your array of clay-potted Af
rican violets. Pots can then
stand on the tray, full of peb
bles, and be watered from be
low. Ilanincrs Visit
In Corvallis
HORNBROOK Mr. and Mrs.
Dwain Hamner spent three days
last week in Corvallis, Ore.,
where they made a pre-Christ
mas visit at the home of Mrs
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nates dccoralinR schemes unlil
"people arc the background.
He's all for color in room
setlinRs, restaurants, offices,
and other design schemes he
creates. Brinht, clear poster
colors are. his Inols because, as
he explained, he is scums a
production.
Hut in his own Manhattan
apartment, beige and brown
neutrals prevail as a "rest"
from the bright shades with
which he works all day.
"I like a lot of color, but not
for myself," said Squires, a
Califomian who has hatl his
own New York design firm for
six years.
Keep II Subdued
The ('.'sinner said in an inter
view the "relaxed" room could
be either living or dining room.
The best way lo achieve it:
Use of monochromatic color
schemes cither in pastels or in
the beige or gray neutrals.
Squire, a native of Pasadena,
studied desiun at the University
of Southern California and (he
( ' uinurd Art Institute and Art ;
Center, Los Angeles. ',
Before setting up his own
firm, he was decorating editor
on one of the borne furnishings
magazines. He currently has
design commitments to four na
tional magazines.
Squire's design approach is
simple: "Don't use a fabric nr
a niece ot lurnmue or any oin
Illusion Of Space
He listed some ways:
Through color again, the mo
nochromatic, nr variations ot
one color throughout a room.
Preferably, he said, a light col
or, nut the living room ot his
apartment has one windnwless
wall in a dark brown so thai
at night wilh lights and candle
light on Die dark wall seems In
"move off into the night" giv
ing a feeling of unli niled space.
Through scale. Small rooms,
scale furniture proportionately.
A 12-foot long sofa is loo much
or Ihc average living room
"besides, it lines people up as
if seated at a banquetle." he
said.
Through use of mirrors.
They're one ol Ihc best meth
ods for making small areas
look larger. Squire hung a con
nio nf Inioe framed mirrors, as
he had hung pictures, on the
wall opposite the living room
windows of his own apartment
lo "add" depth.
Other tricks. Wall lo wall,
(Kinr to ceiling window treat-
menls. Some chairs without
arms. Oltomans to provide ex
itia seating for gnosis, but fur
I nilure to be shoved beneath a
i table or elsewhere nut of the
1 wav when not needed. Klimina
' lion of footboards on beds in
1 small bedrooms Kven lowering
the hed height by sawing down
element ot design Jtisl be-, the legs (lie mix springs set mi. i
cause it's Ibe newest. Use il be-: Use of scenic or three dimcn-1
cause K is lasioiui, cottin'!i, i siimihi wjmii'iuti i ti"' "m""
functional and livable." i in small areas
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Holiday
Greetings
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