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ADDING TO THE SPRING WARDROBE
Cottons for Spring Sewing Include Many White GtKds.
{Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
The warm weather wardrobes, in
most families, need a certain amount
of replenishing in the spring—a few
mew garments added, old ones fresh
ened up, and in the case of growing
girls, hems let down and other adap
tations made. Most of the spring
and summer clothes are made of cot
ton fabrics for the sake of frequent
changes and easy laundering. Each
feminine member of the family needs
to have enough dresses to last over
the interval while one week’s clothes
are out of commission. The inex
pensiveness of most cotton fabrics
makes it possible for everyone to
have a complete and varied outfit
without great cost, especially
the sewing is done at home. Cotton
is easy and pleasant to sew on, and
a great many women like to make
most of the washable clothing them
selves. Better fit and more individu
al design are assured, as well as a
Wider choice of fabrics and colors.
New curtains and other household
furnishings are often made at this
season of the year, and a purchasing
trip may result not only in prints
for Mary’s bloomer dresses but in
several selections from the white
goods counter which will shortly ap
pear at the windows, or in cretonne
iyardage for sofa pillows or draperies.
In buying cotton materials of any
sort, it is well to go shopping armed
with some definite knowledge about
the different weaves preferred for
different purposes, the yarns used,
how textiles are dyed, and what dif
ference it makes whether a fabric
has been colored in the yarn or print
ed in the piece. Here are some sug
gestions from the bureau of home
economics of the United States De
partment of Agriculture, from which
you may also get a helpful Farmers’
Bulletin, No. 1449, “Selection of Cot
ton Fabrics,” if you want more de
tailed information:
3 To judge the weave and durability
-of a material, ravel out a small por
tion carefully and see bow it is con
structed. Bull the fabric in the hands
-and note if there is an excessive
of slippage. Scratch it with
.the finger nail. If the yarns are read
ily displaced the fabric will fray at
the seams when used in a garment.
■Notice the number of yarns per inch
ijoth up and down and across (warp
and weft yarns). The closer the
weave, the more durable the fabric,
other things being equal. Excessive
FOLDING IRONING BOARD IS HANDY
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
When other improvements were be
ing made in the kitchen at the sugges
tion of the home demonstration agent,
one Masachusetts farm woman had
her ironing board hinged so that it
would fold away into a narrow closet
if not in use. A hinged leg provided
the necessary support for it at the
best height for her to work. The elec
tric plug Was located conveniently,
and shelves were put below the iron
ing board, in the closet, to hold the
iron and stand, the sprinkler bottle,
wax, pressing cloths, and other acces
sories.
A wise housekeeper plans to do her
ironing at the hours least subject to
interruptions. It is poor economy to
have to heat up an electric iron or
any other and then allow it to cool
while one goes to the door or chats
with a neighbor. Sprinkled clothes
often dry out, and one loses the mo
mentum that comes after one has
started well on a definite job.
If laundry work has to be done at
home the less ironing there is, the
better. This point should always be
kept in mind in purchasing either
household linens or clothing, and in
planning washable dresses. The flat
ter and plainer the garments, the more
quickly and easily are they ironed.
Sitting dowm to iron is a good idea,
if one has a stool or chair the right
height to permit the comfortable nse
of the right arm and shoulder. Good
light is essential, both from a window
in the daytime and from an artificial
source on the shorter days. The iron
ing board should be smoothly padded
and should have at least two remov
able covers of unbleached muslin to
shrinkage is due chiefly to looseness
of weave.
Look at the finish of the material.
If it is heavily sized or stiffened, like
paper cambric, or other fabrics with
a coarse, loosely woven foundation,
the filling or sizing will wash out and
the result will be unattractive and
often useless for its purpose. Mercer
ization, however, is a process which
adds to the strength and beauty of
the fabric. Cotton may be bleached
in the raw state, in the yarn, or as
the completed fabric. Sometimes
Daily Food Problem
By NELLIE MAXWELL
“We may build more splendid habi
tations.
Fill our rooms with paintings and
with sculptures,
But we cannot
Buy with gold, the old associa
tions.”
There is the ever daily problem in
every home, all over this broad land
where plenty of
° ° ° ° ' S
uals who are nat
urally thin and cannot be made fat,
and fat ones who cannot k6ep thin.
For those who would put on more
weight, there are all kinds of foods
to nourish them, that the poor fat one
loves, but dare not eat. For example,
butter, milk, cream, sweets, all are
fattening.
The best way to reduce, so the emi
nent authorities tell us, is not by
starving oneself, or taking some ad
vertised cure, but a sane and reason
able diet. Sweets should be very
sparingly eaten; other foods of all
kinds that one likes, eaten, but much
less in quantity. Reducing is an in
dividual problem; it takes self con
trol, perseverance and its success de
pends as it does on all things, if you
want it enough to pay the price.
It is sad that we must lose health
in order to appreciate it. Youth can-
be used alternately. A rubber spray
head on a medium-sized bottle enables
one to sprinkle the clothes lightly,
rapidly, and uniformly. A clothes
horse nearby and some hangers for
freshly ironed dresses will keep fin
ished work from wrinkling and aid in
airing and dryin'g it.
The electric iron should always be
Hinged Leg Provides Support for
Board at Right Height.
disconnected when it is not in use,
even for a short time. The electric
iron, or any other kind, should be
stored in a clean, dry, cool place. If
put away for any length of time it
should be greased.
THF. POrKPH E RErORD. Convert. fin.. Wed Mreh i’l i‘>o
Children’s Fairy Tale
By MARY GRAHAM BONNER
The robins and orioles and song
sparrows and members of the gold
finch family all agreed to furnish the
music for a concert, while the mem
bers of the trilium and hepntica
flower families said they would give
the stage.
They asked the crows if they would
act as ushers at the concert and
show the birds who were not taking
part to their perches—for the birds
always say perches and not seats.
The flowers thought that there were
some nice ones along the ground in
some of the low shrubs, and of course
the fence was always the best and
finest for the boxes held by the moth
er and father birds.
The crows were delighted to be
when durability is the chief consid
eration, unbleached fabrics are pre
ferred, but for use in garments many
cotton fabrics are satisfactory
bleached, whether finally used white
or printed. In ginghams the yarns
are colored or left white as the design
may require, and are then woven.
Take home samples of fabrics you
would like to buy and test them for
fastness to water and to light. Wash
a sample to see if it fades. Expose
another to strong sunlight for sev
eral days, covering up a part of it
with a piece of cardboard so you can
judge how much it has faded. House
hold methods of setting colo. in fab
rics are now known to be worthless,
but dyes are getting better all the
time, and manufacturers are making
a great many fast or almost fast col
ored fabrics. These mav be found by
such simple tests as the above.
not seem to learn from advice or
example; it must prove all things in
its own way.
Proper sleep is as important as food
and exercise, for health. Some indi
viduals need less, but the majority
should have at least seven out of the
twenty-four for sound restful sleep.
The children in homes where care
is given to food, sleep and exercise,
are able to ward off most diseases or
have them very lightly.
The loss of appetite is often occa
sioned by monotony in food. There
is excuse for the
sameness in meals
mZaJ where there is pov-
V l 'f erty; but even
then, one may feed
~ i'of--S a family well, if
| /'* / V'!\M there is sufficient
I plain food and the
marketing is done
wisely and with greatest care.
A cheap cut of meat from the neck
of an animal has all the nutriment
and more of the extractives than the
finer cuts which are cooked quickly
and are much more costly.
Brown the meat in a deep iron
kettle, turning until well seared on all
Use of Selvedge
Making fashions supply their own
trimmings is fashion’s latest miracle
performed. In the yesteryears of life
the selvedge of this and that material
was an eyil to be done away with—to
be kept out of sight at least. Which
usually meant that the unwelcome
selvedge was cut away and relegated
to the scrap bag. We have, at this
late day, learned better.
Stylists have discovered that the
selvedge edge is a “thing of beauty.”
If you still have doubts, hie away to
the smartest shop in town and inquire
about selvedge trimmed coats and
frocks. To your skeptical eyes will
be revealed one demonstration after
another of the decorative power in a
selvedge edge.
Perhaps the object lesson will con
sist of sw'agger cloth sports coats
wdiose front openings, pockets, cuffs
and scarf collar revel in flattering
selvedge finishings. Then again you
may be shown several nifty suits or
ensembles of tweed or some handsome
wool novelty weave, whose selvedge is
its adornment.
However, selvedge trims are only
one phase of the self-fabric treatments.
Just as unique is the self-fringed or
frayed edge. The dark blue twill silk
blouse in this picture is the dernier
cri of fashion, mostly because its hem
line is frayed to form a self-fringe.
Cloth manipulated in the same way is
also a hobbj with the stylist. So if
you are puzzled as to the best way
of finishing the edges of the silk blouse
you are making, echo answers: Fray
it, frjnge it.
Another element of smartness ex
pressed in this costume is the fact of
a colorful blouse worn with a white
woolen jacket suit. White touched
with color is already an established
fact for coming months. This also car
ries with it another style prediction—
white footwear, especially dainty kid
shoes. So modish Is white that even
asked to act as ushers, for they were
much flattered.
They went around eaw-eawing in a
very proud manner.
“They asked us to act ns ushers,
caw-caw,” they said. “They wanted
smart, handsome black shiny ushers,
caw-caw," they boasted.
“They knew we must make the con-
Soon the Birds Began to Arrive.
cert seem very grand, caw, caw,” they
bragged. And so on.
The day for the concert came, and
the birds all arrived on time.
But long before the time for the
concert to begin the crows reached
the out-door concert hall.
The flowers were hardly awake
when the crows came cawing along,
saying,
“We are here. We are ready to
show the people to their perches.
sides, then add a small amount of wa
ter and cook at low heat for hours,
adding more water a tablespocnful at
a time, seasoning with onion, or gar
lic (one clove will add a delightful
flavor), a pinch of cloves and salt
and pepper to season. Thicken the
gravy and serve the meat with onions
and baked potatoes; one will have a
fine meal at very little cost.
We must get back to foods which
have to be well masticated if the gen
eration now growing will have good
teeth. Coarse foods that polish the
teeth, excite the flow of blood to the
gums will keep the teeth, as well as
the alimentary canal, in activity.
If only the kinds of foods which we
especially enjoy are given us, only
the things we wish to do, done, we
become warped, physically and men
tally, making us uncomfortable to live
with, and eventually most unhappy
ourselves.
The indulgent parent who wishes to
give his child all the happiness that
he has missed more often thrusts up
on a cold world an individual unable
to cope with life’s problems and fail
ures and unhappiness for the child is
the result.
((c). ,1929. Western Newspaper Union.)
M:’ >/. : g \t.
>\v, ere the dawn of spring, black
hoes piped with white are making
their appearance—this as a forerun-
Must they show their tickets? Is it
to he a pay concert?”
"No," said the flowers, shaking
their heads, “it is not to be a pay con
cert.
“It is to be a free concert, for we
have invited everyone."
"All right,” said the crows. “Caw
caw, we only wnnted to know."
Asa matter of fact they only want
ed to talk and make a great deal o(
noise.
They wanted everyone around to
know that they had been chosen as
the ushers at the concert.
Soon the birds began to arrive. And
such a hurst of color.
The orioles were looking very love
ly with their bright, gay coloring,
and the goldfinch family looked like
bright gold.
The robins had such handsome red
waistcoats on, and the song sparrows
were singing merrily and saying,
‘We are happy and say and free.
Even if we are not much to see.
For though our colors are not very
bright.
We can play by day and sleep at night.
And we. without fine feathers anJI
frills.
Will sing you now our very best trills.”
To he sure the song sparrows sang
beautifully, and all the other birds
were saying,
“Twit, t-w-l-t, chirp, c-h-i-r-p,”
which was their way of saying
“Bravo.”
All the birds sang and the crows
showed all the guests to their perches.
The flowers were the stage, and
how proud they were to give their
beauty for the decorations.
The butterflies came because Mr.
Sun had invited them. And Mr. Sun’s
guests were always welcome.
The humming birds and thrushes
came too, and before the day was
over, Mr. Sun said,
“Well, 1 don’t know when I have
had such a noted gathering to shine
upon, for I have had the lovely flow
ers, the birds, butterflies, and the
handsome ..rows.”
So everyone was very happy, as the
great Mr. Sun had paid them such
tine compliments.
((c), 1929, Western Newspaper Union.)
m ■ *
NOTES FOR HOUSEKEEPERS
*
Backaches can sometimes be pre
vented by raising a sink or a wash
tub.
• * •
The most useful table lamp has a
shade large enough to allow a wide
distribution of its rays.
• • •
Do not let flannel or other woolen
materials freeze after they are
washed, because freezing causes
shrinkage.
• • •
Ilemember cereals, cabbage, root
vegetables, cheaper cuts of meat and
inexpensive fish when you plan eco
nomical menus.
* * *
Raw chopped vegetables such as let
tuce, cabbage and carrots put be
tween slices of buttered whole-wheat
bread are recommended for the small
child’s diet.
By
JULIA BOTTOMLEY
ner to the vogue for pure white foo
wear in the “good old summertime. 14
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The city of Stockholm has owned
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