Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, June 06, 1946, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextWomen's World Tight Dress Can Be Altered To Fit Wearer Comfortably Alt'll a 1 u \ DRESS that fits you, and you A alone, is good value. It will give you real pleasure every time vou wear it, no matter how inexpen sive or expensive it may be. But just what is meant by perfect fit, as we know it today? A dress that fits easily at the shoulders without straining when you bend or stretch is just right for vou. The shoulder seam should lie about one-quarter inch back of the center of the shoulder and be abso lutely straight from neckline to sleeve. The sleeve seam should lie at the extreme edge of the shoulder. Now, how should shoulders be padded? If you are square in the shoulders, little or no padding may be necessary. If, “however, you are rounded or sloping in the shoulders, one or even two sets of pads may be necessary. Collars should lie flat without pull ing or wrinkling. If there is any tightness in sewing the collar, you can bet on its wrinkling sooner or later, particularly when the dress is washed. That taut look around the bustline means the dress is too small, and chances are you do not look your best in it. I’ll tell you how this can be remedied a little later, but in the meantime, when you buy a dress or pattern, get one that fits well across the bust. It’s possible, too, that an other style might be more becom ing one with fuller shoulders or more fullness in the bodice. Waistlines, Skirts Sleeves Important. Most dresses you buy will not nestle down on your natural waist line because most of us vary slight ly from the average. But just where is the natural waistline? Tie a tape measure or belt around the waist line and you will find out easily. Bend slightly to the front and the tape measure will settle at the cor rect line. You can also determine the size of the waistline accurately if the zip // y our dress is too tight . . . per slides open and shut easily with out straining. Don’t try to gather in a too-large waistline with a belt. It locks untidy and you’re uncomfort able. It’s far better to refit the waist line. An easy fit over the hips is a big comfort. Sit down when trying on a dress and it it doesn’t ride up, you have a well fitting hjpline. Length is also important. Most women are wearing their dresses just below the kneecap, but this can be varied slightly as looks best on you. Full skirts should be slightly shorter and snugly fitted skirts can be a trifle shorter than average. Armholes must be big enough so that you feel at ease in them. When trying a dress, move the arms up and down. There should be no strain ing. On long sleeves, look for the elbow easing to come right. This is at the crock of the arm. R you have chubby arms, do not wear tight short sleeves with cuffs. Here’s how to make it fit. J nese will not only make the arm look larger, but will not be com fortable. if just the bustline is off, pieces nnay be added underneath the sleeves to ease the fitting, and a bolero can be made or purchased to S° with the dress. if you have a two-piece dress in I Summer Fashion Notes Long full peplums and skirt draperies are a high fashion note nese days as the fullness over l ne abdomen movement gathers strength. It's often been said that most women can wear blue. So, no mat ter what your type, you’ll be seeing plenty of all types of blues, but Particularly blues that match the color of skies and seas. Torso Jacket Hattie Carnegie’s cosmopolitan suit is made of /gray sharkskin and favors the longer torso jack et. Saddle pockets around the hips accentuate the small waist. which you cannot make the skirt fit, you might make a darker skirt to go with the jacket. Dark skirts are very slimming with lighter colored jackets if you are full in the hips. If you have a princess type dress or a button-front dress, try contrast ing panels down the center or on the sides to add fullness. This is a good way to adjust the dress for the short, full figure. If the waistline is too tight, and the dress too short, with no hemline to let out, consider placing a piece of contrasting colored material at the waistline. This may be set in wide or narrow as necessitated by your problem. If the neckline is too tight, let the shoulder seam out enough to ease the strain on it. There is usual ly enough in the seam allowance to take care of this minor problem. If your sleeves are too short, add crosswise bands below the elbow. Add this detail somewhere else in the dress, too, so that it will look as if it belonged. If your skirt has stretched from wear, adjust the bagginess at the waistline. If the skirt is too short, add a band of ruching or ruffles or braid around the hem. Several rows of gay rib bon will also do the trick. Add this detail to the sleeves, too. Stitching Pointers Mercerized thread is recom mended for most sewing because it is strongest and easiest to use. Select the color of thread by matching closely to fabric. Use correct needle and thread sizes and test on a piece of mate rial before attempting to stitch the garment. Fine, sharp-pointed nepdles are best for pinning. In pinning ray on and taffeta, take care not to mark up the fabric from pinning. Adjust the tension to suit the fabric and test on a scrap be fore sewing the garment. Gen erally speaking, a tighter tension is more suitable for sheerer fab rics, a looser tension for heavier fabrics. Stitch with paper underneath the fabric when working with sheer materials. This provides a firm sewing base and prevents slipping. When you have completed as many single seams as possible, get out the ironing board and press them out. Seams should be pressed before sewing other parts together. Press each bit of binding and facing after basting, and some times before and after to assure smooth fitting. They will be much easier to machine stitch if the fabric is pressed and seams are straight. Look for the South American influ ence in play clothes and gay cottons. They have a real south-of the-border flavor. If you have any lace tucked away in the attic, now is the time to take it out. Lace is appearing at the neckline, on sleeve cuffs, pocket trimmings and even hems. This is one of dips fashion is taking into prewar era of the first war. THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY, GEORGIA Hessian Fly Always Troublesome Factor Proper Sowing Dates Protects Winter Wheat By W. J. Drydcn Until recently little damage has resulted to spring wheat from the hessian fly. With winter wheat it has been another question. In the past two years several states have reported outbreaks Hessian fly maggots beneath leaf sheath in the soil. among spring wheat. After a suc cession of cool seasons with good rainfall several outbreaks were re ported. At the North Dakota ex periment station it was found that the Mida variety of wheat showed a high degree of resistance to the hessian fly. The Mida was not im mune to the hessian fly, but its re sistance was strong enough to make toss negligible. Kansas State college found that the Pawnee is highly resistant to the hessian fly in that district. Oth er strains have been developed in other states. With winter wheat, the USDA has determined the fly injury may be avoided by safe sowing dates. These dates range from September 16 in the latitude of central Michigan to October 27 in that of central Geor gia. The exact safe date in any lo cality may be determined from state agricultural specialists. Portable Saw Aids Pasture Expansion f ' ‘ Converting waste brush and tim berland into profitable green pas tures is an important job being per formed by new portable power saws developed in the southwest as an aid to farmers whose land is covered by undesirable undergrowth. In field operation the cutting blade is horizontal. For cutting logs to length, the blade can be raised to a vertical position. The Kraft Foods company are assisting farmers by making the portable saw available on a loan basis. By this plan they hope to assist dairy farmers to pro duce more milk on available acre age. Wheel Foot Scraper 2W \ j V* Foot Scraper Made of an Old Iron Wheel. This type of foot scraper utilizing an old wheel with a somewhat broad rim. The wheel is slipped over one end of a round stake which has in turn been driven into the ground. About two inches from the top end of the stake a hole should be bored and a bolt thrust through to keep the wheel off the ground, allowing it to rotate and always present a clean edge. Vitamin Deficiency May Cause Pink Eye Lack of vitamin A, brought about ! by long periods of drouth or lack of j green feeds often causes keratitis, or pink eye, to occur in range and pasture cattle. The condition may also be caused by injury to the eye which becomes infected with the normal staphylococci and diph lococci. Treatments suggested in clude milk eye antiseptic and as tringents. The cattle should be kept away from dust during treatment. VERY WONDERFUL . . , Mrs. Lois Bernhardt, wife of vet, finds housekeeping “thrilling” even after she typed Japanese surrender terms. Robert Bernhardt, husband, attends lowa State college at Ames. NOW A HOMEBODY From the World Stage To an lowa Kitchen AMES, lOWA.—Stenographer, housekeeper, or farm wife, Mrs. Lois Bernhardt can always recall the glamorous part she played on the world stage during World War 11, for she cun always look back on these experiences: < Typed out the Japanese sur render terms hours before they were made public. Typed out the charter of the United Nations organization when it was being drawn up. Attended the Potsdam Big Three conference as secretary to Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. Mrs. Bernhardt, formerly Lois Kevans of Schaller, lowa, who gave up her exciting career for love, is currently employed in the lowa State purchasing office, while her husband, a childhood sweetheart, studies for a degree in dairy indus try. The good-looking lowa girl quit her job with Secretary Byrnes last November to marry Robert Bern hardt, with whom she attended high school at Schaller, and traded duties of an international nature for the prosaic job of darning her hus band’s socks, keeping house and helping out the family budget. But the change-over hasn’t dulled the memory of a wedding where Secretary Byrnes gave the bride away or of a glamorous job where the secrets of international affairs were everyday routine. After graduating from the Amer ican Institute of Business in Des Moines, Mrs. Bernhardt took a job with the war department in Wash ington. From there it was just a step to a position as stenographer in the state department. “The first job I had in the state department was the typing of the Japanese surrender terms,” she said. “We knew of the surrender before the announcement was made, but we had to stay in the office. The halls were full of reporters. If any of us had gone out they would have known it the minute they saw our faces.” Previously she had attended the San Francisco conference, where she typed the charter of the United Nations organization. “I worked on it night and day un til it was finished,” she said. “There were other secretaries from all the other nations doing the same thing in all the other languages.” And when the Potsdam confer ence was called, Mrs. Bernhardt a gain was chosen to do the secre tarial work. She acted as personal secretary for Byrnes. Her husband is a former navy flier who saw service in South America on anti-submarine patrol. Indian Scout Dies HOT SPRINGS, S. D.—Ben Ash, age 95, pioneer South Dakota In dian scout, peace officer and cattle man, died here recently at the State SSTdiers’ home. Ash served as wag on master for General Custer and as an Indian scout during the Mes siah war from 1889 to 1890 in west ern South Dakota, Earlier he had been a deputy U. S. marshal at Pierre and was sheriff of Hughes county. 'He operated a cattle ranch on the Moreau river in Perkins county for many years. Ash was credited with building the first house on the site of Bismarck, N. D. Home Costs More than in 1940 MINNEAPOLIS.—It costs 44 per cent more to build a home today than in 1940, or a house that coum be built for $5,000 in 1940 costs $7,200 today and will cost more in six months from now, says Northwest ern National Life Insurance Co. Questionnaire surveys have dis closed that four out of five veterans want homes costing $6,000 or less. After World War I both materials and labor costs rose rapidly. J)oeG°% yVVIATION NOTES Airport Chatter Terrell county, Georgia, has pur chased 259 acres three miles from Dawson for an airport. , . . The Aberdeen Flying Service, Aberdeen, Idaho, presented an aerial photo of that city to the local newspaper, which was published—with a credit line. . , . Starr Nelson, age 80, of Del ta, Colo., a retired railroad engi neer, has bought a plane in which he’ll fly to Grand Junction to see his girl as soon as the weather makes it safe to hop Colorado’s cloud-tickling peaks. . . . B. A. Olte of Goodland, Kan., recently flew to the State of Washington. . . .* Jim Eccles, flying instructor at Wold Point, Ark., municipal airport, has added a Fairchild PT-23. . . . Nancy Fowler of Glacier Park was recent ly interviewed over a radio hookup relative to her hunting coyotes from a plane. Her pilot, by the way, was Thor Thorstenson of Plentywood, Mont, . . . Dewey Tatro of the Deco rah, lowa, airport has graded three runways to provide landing facili ties for larger planes. . . . Ray Lauterbach, an lowa flying farm er, who lives near Sumner, needed parts for his light plane in a hurry recently and flew over to Decorah to get them. . . . Former Lt. Ted Carroll of the AAF is now an in structor at Decorah, lowa. Roger C. Lane, Florida bee keeper, and his Silvaire. PLANE QUIZ Q. Did the helicopter see active service during World War II? A. Yes, on Atlantic anti-subma rine, patrol and for rescue work in Burma. Q. How many airports are there in the U. S.? A. At the end of 1945 there were 3,255 airports. With the completion of the CAA program now underway the number is expected to be dou bled. Q. What is “seat of the pants” flying? A. It was flying in*the old days before there were instruments. When the plane went up or down or tipped, inertia of the flyer’s body changed his position in his seat enough for him to feel the difference and he could sense the position of the plane accordingly. ♦ * ♦ CAA PROPOSES NEW AIRPORTS The "National Airport Plan,” pro posed by the CAA, is aimed at achieving a uniformly adequate dis tribution of airports—for town and country; for heavily populated in dustrial areas, and for states with long stretches of sparsely settled land between population centers. To attain this goal, the CAA proposes construction of 3,050 new airports, and improvement of 1,625 existing fields. * * • Fly high, bud, when you’re over a town. MYSTERIOUS Harry Houdini, master magician, carefully guarded the secrets of his trade. When people pressed him for explanations as to how certain tricks wore performed he managed always to be tactfully evasive. “Mr. Houdini, for years I’ve at tended all your performances,” pleaded one of his fans. “And I am more balked than ever. Just how do you make a whole live mountainous elephant disappear?” “That’s a good question,” replied Houdini with his usual finesse. “Why, even the elephant has no idea how it’s done.” Just an Acquaintance An elaborately dressed woman ar rived late for the wedding. As she plowed through the church door an usher demanded her invi* tation. “I have none,” she snapped. “Are you a friend of the groom?” queried the usher, timidly. “Certainly not!” Her voice rose indignantly. “I am the bride’s mother!” DOUBLE-HEADER Back in the pre-Civil War days a Kentucky judge habitually carried a bottle of corn in his side pocket. A rubber tube ran from that corn up to his pipe. The judge would sit on the bench all day puffing, with out any smoke coming from the bowl, and in the afternoon he got pretty mellow. He came out of the courthouse one afternoon and threw a saddle on his horse, ready to go home. A young lawyer standing there called to him: “Hey, Judge, you’ve got the saddle on backward!” The judge looked at him with con tempt and replied: “How do you know in what direction I am go* ing?” Just Another .Step “Well, dear,” he alibied, “what if I have loved another? Don’t you know it has only prepared me for| the greater, higher love I have for you?” “Seems fair enough,” she re luctantly agreed, “but how do I know that the love you now have for me isn’t preparing you for a greater, higher love for some other girl?” NIFTY RETORT A very thin man met a very fat man in the hotel lobby. “From the looks of you,” said the fat man, “there might have been a famine.” “Yes,” was the reply, “and from the looks of you, you might have caused it.” Strong Hint A customer sat down at a table in a smart restaurant and tied a nap kin around his neck. The scandal ized manager called a waiter and instructed him, “Try to make him understand, as tactfully as possible, that that’s not done.” Said the thoughtful waiter to the customer: “Pardon me, sir. Shave or hair cut, sir?” Handicapped “Children,” said the teacher, "be diligent and steadfast, and you will succeed. Take the case of George Washington. Do you remember my telling you of the great difficulty George Washington had to contend with?” “Yes, ma’am,” said a little boy* “He couldn’t tell a lie.” Napoleon Calling! A distinguished visjjor to an in sane asylum went to the telephone and found difficulty in getting his connection. Exasperated, he shout ed to the operator: “Young lady, do you know who 1 am?” “No,” came the calm reply, “buT 1 know where you are.” Playing to Both Sides A good many of us in our attitude toward the evils of this world are rather like the dying Irishman, “Well, Pat,” said a friend at the bedside, “have ye made peace with God and denounced the devil?” “Shure,” said Pat, "I’ve made my peace—but I’m in no position to antagonize anybody!” Black Magic How many times has the matK 1 professor said: “Just watch the blackboard while I go through it again.”