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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.

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-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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Avold- greasy applications to the skin ed, should be avoided, as well as "In general, the avoidance of excessive amounts of fat in the excessive amounts of satis dict.

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