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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 (©, 1329, Western Newspaper Union.) Mrs. John Durrum Saps Could Write All Dag and Not Sag Enough Good About Milks Emulsion ‘‘Have been thinking for some time of writing you In regard to Milks Emulsion. “When I wrote you last fall I was very much discouraged. Doctors had told me for five years that I hud T. 15. Five doctors told me last fall that I was in advanced stages of T. B. “I have taken your wonderful medi cine all winter. Sometimes I would neglect taking it every hour, but would take several doses a day, and this is the first winter for seven years that I haven’t spent most of the win ter In bed. I haven’t been in bed sick this winter, and for two years I had been so sore across my abdomen I couldn’t bear to press on it. That is all gone. I do all of my housework now except washing; weight 117 pounds, and feel fine. “I can’t praise your Emulsion enough. 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