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PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
LITTLE THINGS THAT. COUNT
By JOAN O'SULLIVAN
*X/HO Bayn decorating
W can't be done
budget? It can!
on Д
You don't have to put a fortune into furnishings--at least you don't if you use a little imagination and in- genuity, and, make do with. what you have. In any decorative scheme, it's the little things that count. a lot of those little things you can do yourself!
There are
Take the matter of hang- Ing pictures; as an example. Instead of just putting them up on the wall to fill an empty space, hung em
so they'll be a conversu- tional piece. Take three or four small pictures and make a dramatic grouping by joining them together with decorator's tape. The tape, which is
about two.
inches wide, is tacked, to the back of each frame and then hung on the wall with a picture hook.
This idea particularly
works out well in
E
can
small entrance hall above a telephone table and, if the table is old, you dress it up quite attractive- ly at little cost. Make a cotton coloured bright cover, which repeats the trim around the bottom
in a double row.
slip cover
A table
works wondere than
in more ways
one.
Not only does it dress up an old piece of furniture but,
more important, it. does so inexpensively.
DECORATIVE LAMPS
If you want to shed a little decorative light on the scene but can't afford a new lamp, you can make one without spending much money. Any pretty bottle will serve us a base. You can buy a complete wiring attachment for your hume- made lamp that will do the job in a jiffy. As for & shade. a paper one is n natural for trim. Cover it rows of with rows and green and white shag loopa in alternate stripes. Stitch the trim on with needle-and. each thread. measuring length separately so that it. fills the circumference. You'll be surprised at the effect you'll achieve. The finished shade will have the
those extra inches smart, textured look that's
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Ho popular in decorating circles these daya,
CHAIR COMFORT
Dne
Here's sill, another idea... this
for women who'd like a pretty boudoir chalbur can't afford one of those comfortable upholstered
Take an old wicker porch chair
if you don't have one, you
THE TAPE WAS SIMPLY TACKED to the picture frames and then hung on the wall with a picture hook,
to make an unusual group.、
use
cushion
You can carry out this same can buy one reasonably second- idea in a dozen colour combina- hand. Glve it coal of white tions, of course.. For a dramatic paint. Then recover the cushion. look, try a black and white print
and
black trim
on the. chair cushion. More feminine, is a on the The cushion
with trimmed was today's pago shown on
Flowered ticking covered
deeper pink. with blue and white
variety of colour com- striped ticking. Soft chartreuse comes in cotton brush trim added the binations and also fits well into right note of galoty and went a strictly feminine room, And final tip, be sure you well with the solid blue bed- here's spreto, also trimmed in char- choose colours that tie in with
other furnishings,
treuse brush.
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THE DRINT FARM ICE OF COLD STORAGE
THIS OLD WICKEN rocking chair doesn't look like much, but'a cont of paint worked wonders with it
Household Hints
FURNISHINGS NEEDN'T BE EXPEN SIVE to have eye appeal. This hallway setting, for example. features an old table dressed up with "a: gay cover and three prints. chung #on a length of decorator tape.
YOU CAN MAKE A LAMP inexpensively by using a bottle for a base, buying wiring attach mont
PAPER SILADE lakes on new Interest when you sew on shag loop trim
rows
HERE'S THE dished article! The bottle base is green, the shade fa a bold green and white stripe.
COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED, the chair's been painted ɛnowy white and a pretty blue and white ushion has been made for th
Washing Synthetic Fabrics
8
By ELEANOR ROSS
Your Daily Required Calories
What are calories? ::
Calories are a measure of the amount of energy generated by the body from three major ele- ments In food-proteins, corbo- hydrates and fats. For normal persons, each day's meals abould of include the required number calories for the day, Proportion of Calories Required Dally Proteins 25 percent Carbohydrates (augar
and starch).... 55 percent Falaiyan 20 percent Vilaming and minerals normally present. In a balanced dlot
Are!
If you study the preceding percentages, You will see that we should ens five peromi more and protein, than fat calorien,
twice as only little over mach carbohydrates as protein calories
DINNER
Anchovy-Letince Slice
Casserole of Boot and Maratonl Succotosh
Pickles
Deep Apple Ple Hot or Iced Coffee or Ten Milk Au Seceuramenta -Are- Ladei Recipes Serve Four Casserole of Beef and
Macaroni
1 chopped Sauts together good-sized onion and man!), seeded chopped green pepper in 2 tbsp.
ment or vegetable fat. Add to a (11⁄2-lb.). tin tomato together with tsp. salt, top. monosodium glutamate and 4 tsp. pepper, Arrange in layers arcasserole together with 8
in
and 1 lb. chopped boot, or
cz, high-protein elbow best
and veal mixed. Sur in 14 c
water
containing
1 beet
bouillon cube. Cover with
hot
c. grated sharp cheese. Put on 蒜 lid; bake 45 min. fa a
aven.
375*2
Then
moderato
uncover to brown.
Succotash Thre
Three
WAY!
Indian Style: Combina 2 c. cooked "cranberry" beana and i Ee of the liquid, with 2 c, green corn kernels cut from the cob. Season with 1 tbsp. butter; add and pepper to tastes, then reheat
Lima Bean Style: Substitute cooked, lima beans and quid for the cranberry beans in preceding "recipe
salt
R
Biring Bean Style: Substituto string beans for the cranberry beans in the first recipe, and - instead of bean liquid, uso 1-0.
rich milk.'
Children's Frocks Are In High Style
By CAY PAULEY
The custom
New York. dresamakers, aro taking high style to the chil-
dred
This autumn at least three well-known designers have add- ed collections in miniature to their regular lines and now the young miss from two to 12 con go shopping with muther "anti come home with a wardrobe. bearing the zame labels and somewhat smaller but stiik - high price tags.
hat
A small girl can, have a
made by Sally Victor, a coat and dress combinatian by Vora Maxwell, and an evening, frock by Philip Hulitor. Her outfit can approximate her mother's in style, colour and materials. The works would cost approxi- mately U.S.$153...her mother's, about U.S.$319.
Demand Mot
"It was my customers who put me in the childrer's hat said Mrs Victor.
This autumn, Mrs Vietor is completo turning cut her first
by
line.
gor
THERE'S paradox later with a steam iron, or a business," about many of the new dry iron and damp cloth "They were always asking me It has been discovered that to make something pretty for fabrica, those wonderful dresses of nylon actually do their children." man-made fibres, oncé rare, look better if laundered but now taken for granted. machine rather than by hand
This is because which the As one expert sald, most ment is manually handled, it It features fluffy, angotas and synthetic fibres are easily apt to be squeezed and there in cloche and helmet style. They and thereby roft velours, velveteens and felts Three-minuta washable, yet many of the
washing, garments rande from such
Spinning and bear such names as "peppermint fabrics are difficult to laurtising are advised for nylon tick" "orange Ice" and cherry
find they should be
belip." dresser,
A child's hat, made to order, I'der.
allowed to drip-dry. The seams At a recent symposium, should be smoothed by brand costs around U.S.$40. Mother's The always the head of the home occasionally to prevent pucker are U.3.150 and up.
2 Vera Maxwell said she wanted to design for children laundry department of a.
but never got around to doing great electrical appliance
Mixture
it until this summer, when she company had some interest-
A dress that leb mixture or dipped her regular trip to ing advice. The homemaker, nylon, and rayon may be wash- Europe.
With time on her hands sho she advised, should examine od in the wine tanner. After the pockels, binding and it is dry, it may be pressed with created "the costumett look for
the small girl. trimmings of garments to or new tie rod in Twand Featured
There's big news this your determine if they are made
A a now fabric, for men's währ of a fabric that would not suit of this febrle stiould be
riinutes in the
ing.
Nylon-Rayon
Typical of the line is a dash- ing tweed tout, atted or full
worn with a jurney dress of the
dostume sells for around. US-
Steaming velvet is the easiest Wash well. Mostly, though, washed fromachalne dve and lined with Jersey. It is
spuri
| andvilft crushed pile. Place the fabrics do like to
keep the; for thifed man for
"the child in Budientes
way to smooth out its wrinkles velvet garment on a hanger in a garment free from trim- spurt der b alcamy bathroom for an hour,
manufacturers of synthetic for three minute and rinsed same colour as the lining. Tho
for mother around US$110.
well-known
·Philip Huiltar,
then let it dry. Be sure it hangs / mings that don't wash well, from it and should be bund designer of cocktail and evening
I free, with nothing touching until entirely dry. Small velvet
wringing,
of clothes, added children parter
Seams That Packer up to drip dy The weight
the water: as it drips pieces may be steamed over the Sometimes cotton rayon, or wording to coperto day to his collection after ho
A gift frock for a friend's daugh
had shoppell unsucessfully for a spout of a teakettle.
rayon-ori
alk thread has been tuled to broningen
Bow germenis, expecially in the kid The trousers should-be hung Be sure to look for wash initial stages utilitepecial hair from our name He has approximated mother's able" tag when you're buying a thread is available. This may ens. The jacket, sipported on a silk Locktail dress in sand balga wind-breaker of waterproof cause puckers after laundering properly shaped wood of plastic with a high neck,”. Dared skirt seams hanger, may be padded at the and built in petticoat which poplin. They can be washed in Finger-preading these lukewarm soapsads and rinsed while the article is drying is shoulder with wishcloiting and peeks out from the yards.of until the water is clear,
rocommended, or prewing them the shoulders andothed by hand, kniikan SEA
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