PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
TRIM TWO-STORY
BUDGET-PRICED SIMPLICITY makes this brick home a popular choice. The house is small but it looks larger because of the side porch. Window shutters add to the exterior of the house, which is Colonial in style. A trellised porch frames, the entrance.
By Joan O'Sullivan
This brick home is a popular type because of its Colonial simplicity 117] moderate cost. A small house, it actually looks big- ger than it is since the side porch adds length to the front view.
Attractive shutters add In- terest to the windows and the trellised porch gives a note of
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charm to the entrance. A skie rooms. There is no hall closet.. porch is not only pretty but but guests' clothes may be practical, too. It provides a placed in a closet In the far
to all on sunny corner of the Ilving room. shady spot
also be used
Upstairs are two bedrooms. days and might for outdoor dining.
One is arranged to accommo- date twin beds. Closet space Is more plentiful on this floor. Opening off the front door, Fach bedroom has a good-sized,
room closet and there's une in the there's a living-dining
arrangement, ro popular hallway for nens. The bath these days, should air the im- is on the second floor, too. antion of the home The house takes up 13,765 decorator.
cubic feet. Cellings on first There are so many attractive and second floors are B. feet ways
10 x up combination high, basement height is 7 fcel.
WHEELS
TRAILER OF 1950 - Helen Olsen' stands at the re- frigerator in the convertible dinette of a 1950 311⁄2-foot trailer displayed at Bourbon, Ind. Seals can be made into a bed.
Household Hints
To' wish'
ments in
torduroy clothes;
Dɛe mild soap suds, pul gor-
minchine and run
vaimuter. Rinse three times in lukewarm water. Never run through wringer but put directly into rinse water. Hang up drip- ping wet. Don't even wring by hand.
Hang jumperJ
wooden clothes hangers,
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To size a picer of needlepoint intended for a chair niensure the width and length; dip needlepoint in cold water until thoroughly wet. Roll up in turkish towel to get rid of excess water, then think-tock
board. stretching, necessary, to origleal measur micuts, Let dry for al; least free days, away from any bent. The piece must thoroughly dry before I is re- moved from the board.
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BATH
HALL
CLO (LIN)
BED ROOM 13'5'x8'0′′
KITCHEN, 8'3.9'0"
IT'S YOUR HOME
Patch. in time saves
the plaster
By BOB SCHARFF Fmoothness, a plaster Let
MOR all its neat, hard
wall has one big drawback. Sooner or later, holes and cracks, will appear in the wall. When they do, the neatness is, gone.
1
-5--Komora festa plaster and undarent
2--Apply scratch cout
3-Apply the fialch with troval
* Small Burface cracks are, easily filled; just wet them down and thumb them full.of. patching plaster, spackie, or plaster of Paris. To make the plaster hold, it may be necessary to undercut the crack slightly out of the patch causing the *with a beer in opener ΟΙ
patch to shrink and crack. cther sharp pointed tool.
To do a satisfactory job on a Large cracks or holes must deep hole or crack, you should be cleaned out so that no apply patching material in two loose material remains. Then, coats The Arst,
called the undercut the edges with an scratch coat, can be worked old chisel so that the patch will into place with a wide bladed: be slightly larger at the back putty knife. Push the wet than at the front. This locks plaster into bresies and Anish
hardened patch in.
it off about an eighth of an inch below the lovel of the
ihe
DON'T POUND
When filing a large hole, it may be necessary to anchor the patch. This is done by cutting a piece of wire screening to fit the hole and tacking it to the exposed inth with a few brads. Don't pound too hard.
Mix the plaster as directed on the box. Never mix more plaster than you can use in 30 minutes.
Before you apply the patch. thoroughly wet down the edges of the old plaster and the ex- posed lath. It neglected, the old plaster will draw water
CLO
BED ROOM IIT 15'3"
Clo
DINING ROOM
12'8" 8'0"
LIVING ROOM 12'4' 13'6"
PORCH
9'0" 12'3"
PORCH
FLOOR PLANS for this small two-storey home are
be efficiently arranged.
When You wash brushes used for dusting durniture or drapertes stake n
hand them to dry. Also, shake several times surinst tho drying. This prevents
from malting
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bristles
A living-dining room takes up. most of the main floor.
TOP PROBLEM OF TEENS
By H. N. BUNDESEN; M.D.
and a
So for us the high-school, set The face should be cleansed The average life expectancy is concerned, acne is Medical with soap and warm water twice ot a 60-watt Ught bulb is Problem No. 1 1 is certainly a day. The blackheads, should around 1,000 hours. It is wise the one they would most like to be carefully squeezed out! pre-
bulbs when they sce solved and about which furably by a physielan to replace
ve started to blacken. Always many learned dermatologists feet preparation containing resorcinol
bulbs keep fresh
In reading the same way.
and sulphur used at night. It is
lamps.
That we still have no quick suggested that all chocolate be and sure way of clearing up this eliminated from the diet.. tkin condition is evidence of its complex nature, which includes a great deal more, according to The best. authorities, than the mere formation of pimples on
Paint your own dinner plates
By ELEANOR ROSS the plates are sprayed with n with plain, dotted, striped or
HERE'S
A
liquid Hours
plastic several times. floral designs. A woman with later a Arst coat of art experience can probably decorative clear, waterproof ntw
incquer
her or volt
own "designs ог note and a new hobby: painted roleuni varnish is applied, scenes. Or cord raffia or wool
worked additional could be
back and paper plates.
It's 0 unique fallowed by 1wa hobby, offering a nice nste of con
conts, apneed one day apart. forth over a plate base to form self-expression, and a mighty The final and Ainishing touch Interling examples inexpensive one it is, too. And to achleve " product that examined.
when well-handled, the paper closely resembles the Anest Cintes look absolutely charming. china is paste wax. buffed to p
and like the more expensive gloss.
ceramic pieces, de a good job of Plate rinis may be painted & livening the decor of any room. contrasting colour or treated
The trick
though, that the to form an antique effect with plutes
must be of the non-
a sponge dipped in gold paint. absorbent type, the paper hord Or it you don't care for u design may be
we
the skin of the face.
Secms Helpful
One form of treatment which seems to be helpful is the giving of Vitamin A in amounts of 60,- 000 units three Umes a day. In some cases glandular extracts, Block Openings 'such as from the thyroid, or due to estrogens, from the ovaries, are These are primarily
administered. excessive secretion from the
skin glands of the
of fatty X-ray treatments In. severe materials which tend to block cases are helpful, but it is their openings. These plugs are advisable that they not be used known as blackheads and they until the pallent has reached readily tend to become inflamed
en the age of 17,
and to produce pimples.
L The conditions which can Of course, the treatment for affect this process are many. In bene should be carried out under of a physician many cases acne seems to be on the directions inherited condition, since it so who will decide just which often seems to run in families. methods may be of help in the Excessive activity of the glanda particular case.
of internal secretion during the
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surfaced and specially, treated to border, the resist moisture. Otherwise, the brought right out to the rim. surface would lap up paints and When the finol effect Lacquers like a blotter.
nchieved, loops are applied to
Ancient Method
Either the ancient method of decoupage or a
more simplo
the back for hanging purposes. Paper Plates
artistic treatment may be used. Other decorative ideas using For the decoupage treatment, the paper, plates have been worked face of the plates is first given out, too. The edges may be a background coat of tempera cut in ccallop formation or Back Abstract, paint:*
floral or even cul to.simuinte, a flower ruching, oninial. Ruffles, acenle designs for the plates or
paper, braid or wool may be sewed to
Small plate with with any decor. rubber cement, mucilage or any productions of fine art or even ordinary paste. Designs may magazine entouts may be used.
retouched with tempora
Regular paint or nall polish painile dealred, When dry cun supply colour for the rim,
,may be cut from withincs; the rim of the plato to fit in
wrapping paper or and pasted on the
be
Man's evening collar. wórn 'with an outsize, starched pique
how with an 18-inch span, London Exgrass Serviós.
maturing period may play a part..
Anaemia or less:ning of the
colouring of the blood, the use of
QUESTIONS AND ·
ANSWERS
drugs such as jodides or "L. M.: What foods should' a bromides, and the eating of person cat who excessive
of folly of the arteries? amounts
foods. may be responsible for
naking the condition WORLD
har hardening
Answer: For the most
Of course, the treatment of and green and milk
the acne will depend on which of if it agrees
fished surface.
WET IT: DOWN When the scratch coat has And hordened, wet: Il down
this coat of then apply plaster, smoothing it into place with a trowel. Avold leaving of plaster a powdery edge
the old extending out over plaster.
Sandpaper the patch lovel over a block of wood. Before a no paper when dry with: refinishing the patch or wall, mix a thick glue size (oblainable
paint phd hardware stores) and scal the patch,
This week's
GADGET
by JOAN DALE
To prevent; burning the hands with scalding water or steam, this new kind of "colander has a heat-resist- ing plastic handle, which enables it to be held well away when straining hot vegetables.
highly mirror- polished, mside and put and has an 8jin. diameter.
Price Tz. Od.
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