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WOMANSENSE
Hobson's choice: A dress ‘born
300 years ago
VALERIE UDUSON AND SUSAN GIBBS
fare 300 years old.
Successful
Indoor Gardening
By ELEANOR ROSS
[JORKING with
W
living things, which respond to kind treatment by growing and becoming moro beautiful, brings 'a satisfying feeling of accomplishment and joy to the soul. Which is why so many of the, famous people are enthusiastic gar- deners But many city children fat dwellers that they
must perforce forego this pleasure.
are,
It is a grond idea to at least take up indoor gardening, and dé- vote small portion of the kitchen or utility room as an indoor gar- dening dening centre, and invest in a stock of plants. Growing plants, used as accessories, add interest and charm to the decorative scheme through- out the house, no matter how plain ar pretentious it may be, no matter the decorative scheme! Developing a green thumb is always a delight, especially since the majority of _plants_respond beautifully, to even a modicum of care.
Plant Scissore
,
IT WAS MADE OUT OF THREE BRIDAL VEILS ---
By PATRICIA LENNÄRDLASTI THREE dresses made news at the premiere of the film, "Blanche Fury," at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London recently,
First was worn by Valerie Hob- son, both in the film and at the premiere.
Girls at the studio made this full- tkirted, ankle-length dress out of three bridal vella of creamy Bruk- sele lace, 300, years old..
It had a low neckline, tiny sleeves and short Brussels lace mit- tens matching the tiny bow of lace at the back of hor hoir.
Red velvet roses trailed - from the waist, the same shade as 'her high-heeled satin sandals. and, round her neck, was a back-to- front five-strand pearl choker; the ruby and diamond clasp at the thront.
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LEATHER SHOES
Inside the second dress was year-old Susan Gibbs, who is in the film: this, too, was of Brussels Ince, over pale blúc satin with pale blue satin sash. Her New Look In- cluded red feather shoes and a “Red Riding Hood" scarlet velvet clook.
Third (rock-in-the-news was Hazel Court. It is the Arst time I have seen an ordinary prico-coll- trolled dress, made by a British wholesaler, worn by one of
stars to a premlere,
on
our
It was in plain black wool, trinı- med with black moire, with a near- ankle-length hemline; any woman can buy a similar frock. With it, Hazel were here red hair in un at- tractively fresh style: short, and curled round the head, including the soft fluffy. "bang."
COLDER BUT FLESHIER Why is it, at premieres, that the colder the night, the fleshler
-the horizon?
Jean McFadyenn was one of many women in strapless, low- cut dresses--hind black sutin
MARRIAGE
DEALS OF
EX-G.Is
1
HAZEL COUNT
-price-controlled
apron
skirt over her pink and
Choose Powder Very Carefully
Marguerite Chapman of the movies selects her face powder welentically.
By HELEN FOLLETT
As for the consistency of the pow der, that depends upon whether the MANY women select complexion sebaceous glands are busy little powders in the most casual manner. workers or are loafing on the job. But what can you expect? Few of The dry skin needa a. powder with them really know the colour of their un ally base, the olly epidermis calls facial conte. At least that`is what for a ́light, fluffy powder that will beautician tells us, and they add go on smoothly without much felc- that avery powder buyer needs ad tlom vica from one who knows all about the matter.
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may be
Clean Surface
The cutaneous surface
Some day we will dispense with creamy, ivory, almost belge, even
powder and rouge pads, finding light yellow with interblends of
some kind of substitute that will bo flesh tints that may be rosy, florid, used just onco and then discarded. or a delicate pink. Also, one's face To ply the pad on a skin surface is not always the same. A digestive that is not scrupulously clean is lo upset, a cold, spell of nerves and
pores.
Some
the
it may go almost chalk white. It is force atmospheric dust into a health barometer, in a way.
Selecting Powder
fastidious women cut tiny When selecting powders, try to squares of absorbent cotton, keep. black striped dress, a silver (And 'a shade that conforms but is them. in a covered glass jar. Cotton filigree collar. which husband alightly darker. It will impart a isn't as satisfactory as the lamb's Gavin called "early Georgian," soft appearance, while 1 shade a wool pad, we allow, but it is better Facial: but which I think is contemporary bit too light, make the skin look for the health of the skin. Indian.
operators use it-with good results.
cold, without character.
BOYS AND GIRLS
What General Tin Learned
You Shouldn't Turn Down Book Corners BY, MAX TRELL GENERAL Tin the tin soldier
The U.S. Immigration Service
was saying to Knarf and agrees that the course of true Hanid, the shadow-children with love dosn't always run smooth, the turned-about names: "Now Keep in one spot a sharp knife, but the Cleveland bureau chief, I've hunted a lot of strange plant scissors, various plant foods Floyd Ault, says he views animals in my time-the and such, together with a basin, a suspiciously some of the inter-monkey-faced
gabbius, the water pall and a sprinkling can. national affairs of the heart chickadinx, the five-foot walliga- With all the necessary items cou- that wind up in his domain. veniently located, the routine care
tor, the winkle-dinkle, and the
Besides this weekly care, some
Ault sald he believes some of
Syrian Girl Jilted
Common in Africa
MAGAZINE
Ged the
the
COIN AND POP BOTTLE TRICK
By CLYDE J. OGDEN
WHILE eating lunch one day, our
milk bottle cap-the flat kind- suddenly popped into the air and landed in the dessert No one touched it. It "just happened,"
or
This was caused by changing tem- perature within the battle. Bottles removed from a refrigerator, even from cold water, will "blow their tops" if the caps Gro .light enough and not fastened down when the change in temperature takes place,
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Here's a similar trick you can use next time you're at a party or when you want to show your friends how smart you are.
Wet the mouth of a pop bottle, place a coin over the opening, then ". grip the neck of the bottle in your hand. In a few seconds the heat of your hand will change the tem- perature in the neck of the bottle
or plants takes but a few pleasant them may have been "engineered, Yellephant with pop-corn eyes. minutes.
For the amateur, such plant va- Most of such cases arise out of the But the strangest and oddest rictles as ransevierin, philodendo bring a foreign girl into the U.S. to I ever hunted in all my born dro, law which permits a veteran. 10 and most extraordinary animal fvies and geraniums, can be grown with little difficulty. Most plants marry her. The -boy puts up adays was the woonk." thrive on a thorough watering cach
ach S5600 bend to guarantee he'll walk The what, General?" asked weck. Use tepid water and at the down a church aisle with her, and
Before General Tin knew it, the same time spray the leaves gently then the government gives them 90 Hanid in surprise.
Woonk was gone. to wash away accumulated dust. An days to make arrangements,
According to Ault's theory 'con- "No, my dear-not the what, the woonk. You always easy way to tackle both operations Is to set the plant, container and all, rerning some of the cases, the law is The woont. Haven't you ever heard woonk standing next to it. But it Into a pall. Then sprinkle gently just being used to get marriageable of the woonk? It's very common in has a good appetite. It cats from overhead, using the sprinkling girls from the "old country" into the the middle of Africa, especially in edges of grass, the underside of cnn. Set the pots on newspapers to United States.
the summertime."
leaves, and the tips of shoelaces. It's dry before returning the plants to
Neither Hanid, nor Knart had a very genue animal and makes a their
ever heard of the woonk. They had fine pet. I once kept a woonk. for places.
of the monkey-faced many years. It used to cat out of never heard plants may require additional water. 17-year-old Syrian girl arrived from foot walligator, the winkle-dinkle, story book.
For example, he said, recently a rabbius, the chickadinx, the five my hand. I kept it inside an old If the soll becomes dry or powdery, Lebanon to
But one day-dear me, water the plants as often as neces veteran. Immediately they got a corn eyes.
marry a Cleveland nor the yellephant with the pop- how I hate to remember that day. WHICH But remember, it is important licence and set the date. Then the
My poor woonk!" sary!
General Tin shook his head sadly. not to over-water most varieties of house-plants. If you have any doubt boy's American girl friend saw the "You've just never been to Africa "What happened?" Knarf and
announcement
In the about taking care of a plant, get
The bridegroom-to-be talked it ble. Well, just so that you'll know,
in the summertime, that's the trou- Hanld asked anxiously. full instructions from the florist or over and made a decision. The day I'll tell you about all those erea- from which it was pur- before his scheduled wedding to the tures Please remember what I say chased, and stick to the director Syrian girl they eloped.
"I was reading the book, quito that are given.
Rather than see the girl deported,
The monkey-faced gabbius has his brother married her. But the face like a monkey and is always forgetting that it was inside i
Then, when bedtime came, I turned talking. Nobody ever knows what ** brother wasn't a veteran,
It's talking about, because no one down the corner of the page, just so can ever get near enough to it to a to remember my place. I should Bad out. The chickndinx is a bird never have done that. Suddenly the with a head like a
woonk let out a howl and came paper blown-up bag. It lives on sawdust and old springing out of the book. I took a corner of the page, I had acciden- tally turned down the woonk's car.. lives
Out the window it went. I never saw it again."
"You you should down the corners of pages in books," the bottle's neck Hand said.
nursery
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Only if there la
0
high
percentage
paper.
damp
mole.
Reading the Book
nover turn
DIME
the lid of o tea-kettle under stepm: pressure. The warmer your hands. the better and sooner it will work It is also better if the bottle is not full, leaving plenty of air space in
U.S. Takes Bend. trile found a law permit the of red cedar hardwood in a codar | girl to stay, but the 5500 bond went chest will it be effective for keeping into the government's coffers. pins. The five-foot walligator has quick glance. In turning down the and the coin will lift itself up like your clothes and blankets free frum Ault said he was a little suspicious five feet and lives under
walls.
winkle-dinkle The an international under ground like mothe. After about three years this of that one but
#romance" involving an Italians girl und effectiveness wears off; then crys- tals of paradichlorobenzene should recently left no doubt in his mind. sleeps all day and then, when night be sentiered through the articles In this case, he said, "friends" comes, it turns over on its other adde stored in the chest. Oil of cedar is persuaded a veteran
to exchange and
goes to sleep again. The yelle thought to make other woods moth-letters with an Italian girl. Anphant with pop-corn eyes is always proof, but it won't, Use moth crys-"engagement" fellowed
his yelling for pop-corn. When It doesn't tals for the best protection.
family put up
bond and paid get any, it sits on a rock and cries.
General Tin nodded sorrowfully.. And then there's the woonk" "I've never done it again. Yes, my Look Through ́tr -.. dear, it not only hurts the woonk, Knart and Hand, walted for but it also hurts the book. And I General Tin to describe the woonk. don't know which is worse. But "The woonk," mid General Ting anyway, that's the story of the is so thin that you can look right woonk. And I do hope you'll remem- through it. You never really seo ber it."
her planes.
and
The fruit jar method of washing The girl stepped from the plane fragile Inces La excellent. Put the at the Clevoland Airport, took one lace in a jar half Ølled with warm, look at her flance and declared soapy water, screw the lid on Ught, nothing on earth would convince her and shake vigorously. Run several to marry him. She went right back fresh waters in the jar for rinses. to Italy at her own expense.
RED RYDER
[ME COME HOME LATE GET HOME
FROM SCHOOL TODAY. | BEFORE DATOS.
RED RYDER? VISIT INDIAN RESERVATION
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FIRST!
LITTLE BEAVERS
Temptation
TELLUM INDIAN HOW OLD TIMER GNVA SMOKE SIGNAL IN MORSE CODE
· MAKE-OM BIS.
SET LAUGHA
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THEY'RE STILL SHIPPING' ANYTHING GOLD FROM DUSTER NEW IN STOKES'S PLACER." RIMROCK, DONNA/ OLTIMER:
By Fred Harman
IT'S A WONDER DON'T TEMPT ME COME OWL-HOOTER) THATAWAY! ANT/HELD UP 'MY BUSINESS
CTHE TRAIN? SURE HAS BEEN
BAD/
Rupert helps Dr. Lion—7"
And Doseeriaid Dilly both wish they could set out with 'Rupert, but they have other things to do. so the little bear goes off stone. hardly know how to begin, ha thinks. Now, who would 'mai likely to understand what makes sunshine?" Wandering along in deep thought, he suddenly sca bent old figure ahead of himi, Why, it's Gaffer large," he says.. "He has lived longer than anyone round here, so he should be ter tibly wise, Hi, Gaffer! Do please" stopa minute.”
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