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Woman's World Cottons Steal the Spotlight For Cool-as-a-Breeze Fashions hif ?rtta ~J4a(eif l/'EEPING cool is the first consid eratioo for summer clothes. The other consideration, which in the past has too often been neg lected, is style or smartness. Style is difficult to achieve in a summery dress because no matter how lovely, it can take on the ap pearance of a rumpled, dowdy thing within an hour after you've put it on, simply because the weather takes all the starch out of you and your dress. Because it is difficult to keep cool and at the same time look well groomed, I'd suggest you concen trate on the simpler fashions for summer. Pleats are very nice, but they're hard to keep well-pressed when the temperature's soaring. Ruffies may look very nice on a blouse for a dressy suit, but they wilt easily when you're perspir ing. All this is said to suggest you consider the choice of a summer afternoon dress carefully. Look at the work of the country's best de signers and you will always see sim plicity the basic note, the guiding factor in a dress, suit or coat. Another factor that has an impor tant bearing on your style is the fabric you use. You would hardly consider a waffle weave for a ruffled effect, nor would you consider the cool but weighty mesh prints for lots of furbelows on a dress. a If you want to look cool and collected, then you'll choose your print and color with a lot of care. Unless you want to appear very gay, don't buy red unless it's re lieved by plenty of white or neutral. Nor do I suggest you choose a very warm shade, like orange or yellow orange. Take your pick from the pale yel low tints or cool colors like green, blue and violet. Brown and black with touches of white or neutral are also very attractive. White is difficult to keep clean in some sec I 1 II you have drestUenglh material. . . . tions of the country, but it is cool to wear, and particularly nice for dress-up. Cat Tour Pattern With Architect's Precision Remember there's nothing hard about any part of sewing if you work as a professional. Naturally this will permit no slipshod cutting or careless fitting. If you are working very carefully and with fabric which is quite ex pensive, it may be best to cut and fit your pattern of inexpensive un bleached muslin. This can be run together on a machine with long stitches ? just well enough to hold it through a good fitting, and then ripped and used as the pattern. The easiest way of keeping the material from which you are cut ting in a straight line and even fold is to tack it lightly on your work ing table. Clerks try to keep mate rial straight when they cut it for you, but some fabrics are so slip pery, this is impossible. It is bet ter to take a little time to get it in I 1 Make a pretty afternoon frock. line, "to lie straight" before cutting than to have a dress that does not set well. The little notches on your pattern which are designed as tucks and darts are mighty important in mak ing the garment fit you. The neck line may require more than one or two darts to make it fit snugly. The darts at the waistline may have to be a little smaller than shown in the pattern. Perhaps the underarm darts should be just a little deeper to give you good line. All of these little things can be determined by basting first, then fitting. A recent bit of news suggested that we women were spreading across the hips much more since the war than our designers antici pated. And, they tell us, that does not apply only to the older women, but to the teen-aged youngsters as well. Because the skirt fit is so impor tant it's a good idea to baste the entire skirt in place before attempt ing any sewing. Slip the garment on, and if the seam allowance has been too generous, you can always let it out. If the garment is too snug, it may be necessary to place panels at the sides to give more room. At any rate, it's better to know just what the score is before you put in those hard-to-rip stitches. Don't feel that just because you're sewing on cotton that you can afford to be careless. Whereas cot ton used to be an inexpensive mate rial before the war, it is anything but that now. A good piece of mate rial deserves just as good treatment as you can give it. Care of Fabrics For washing woolen garments use a neutral soap. Soaps with alkali have a harmful effect on woolen garments. Use as little friction as possible when wash ing, as it may ruin the fibers. Squeezing gently in lukewarm suds is the best method. Hang the garment where air circulates freely and is neither too hot nor cold. These same precautions are necessary for washing silk. To prevent yellowing, hang silk in the shade. Cotton and linen wash easily, although alkali cleaning agents should be used carefully. Sun shine tends to whiten both of these fabrics and they can with stand the higher temperatures fairly easy in washing. Soft water and mild soap are the essentials for washing rayons. Two sudsings should be used if necessary. The fabric should not be rubbed or twisted. Ironing with just warm heat is very impor tant. Bemberg fabrics are handled like silk, wrapped in *a towel and ironed with just a warm iron. Tailored Interest The skirt of topaz brown with a flat-seamed center panel is teamed with a taffy gabardine Jacket to make this a smart selec tion from Molly's collection. No tice the fine interest in detail and careful tailoring. Spring Fashion Notes Button interest is paramount for summer clothes. A simple cotton dress receives elegance from rich, frosty white buttons or jet black ones. Black skirts with pink blouses make nice dress-up costumes, that are bound to be arresting. Don't for get black poplin or linen-like fab rics with white embroidered touches for dressy and smart suits. Skirts of cocoa or blue chambray are nice business like affairs when teamed with yellow or pink blouses. Easy to keep looking neat. too. You'll be seeing more frills and furbelows on women's clothing now that some Civilian Production ad ministration controls have been rescinded. The main features re stored by this are trench cuffs, pocket flaps and all types of belts. Released by Western Newspaper Union. RUSSIAN LABOR NOT ALLOWED TO ORGANIZE I CANNOT FATHOM the reason ing of those leaders of labor who father the demands of the workers for increased wages, changes in working conditions, insistence on seniority regardless of merit; who foment strikes to enforce the de mands they create, and go so far as to defy government, and then en dorse and approve communism. Many of those labor leaders are loud in their approval of the dic tatorial government of Russia, and do all they can to install the same system of government in this coun try. In Russia that system of gov ernment does not tolerate such activities as these men follow in America. The conditions that la bor, under the leadership of those admiring communists, refuse to consider in this country, are all, and more, than the established practices under the Russian dictatorship. Labor in this eotmtry objects to and, as a role, refuses to ac cept the piece work system. The poor worker must be paid re gardless of his ability to pro duce. The capable worker is encouraged to slow down on production to meet the speed of the sloth. In Russia the worker is paid by the piece. He is also assigned a stint, and failure to meet that as signed quantity and quality of pro duction calls for a line or imprison ment. Workers are paid a bonus for exceeding the assigned stint, and when they do meet it the stint is increased. Superintendents of government owned and operated plants are paid high salaries; provided with fine hoipes, equipped with all modern conveniences, and are paid a bonus for forcing increased production in the Dlant bv drivinv the workers. WAGES OF ALL WORKERS FIXED BY GOVERNMENT THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT fixes the wages of all workers. It designates the hours, the place of employment, and all working condi tions. Labor unions, or labor lead ers, as we know them, are not toler ated. In Russia the worker is a serf. He is not a free man. If that is what the Russian people want we can have no reasonable objection, bnt why do some labor leaders in Amer ica advocate the Russian sys tem for this coontryT For ns to adopt the Russian system of government would mean the la bor leader wonld be out of a job, and the worker wonld have no voice in the matter of honrs, wages, working conditions or place of employment. Individu ally or collectively he wonld have nothing to say. He would do just as be was told, or else. No, I cannot fathom the reasoning of the labor leader who advocates the communistic system for Amer ica. It is quite possible that those com munistically inclined labor leaders are phonies. It may be they are serving a foreign master as fifth columnists, wolves in sheep's cloth ing, a master whose every practice and precept is diametrically op posed to what the American worker considers his best interest. If that is true why does organized labor permit them to promote their dia bolical schemes under the banner of American labor? It might be well for labor to do some house clean ing if it is to further its own inter est, and retain the respect of the American public. Something of the same thing can apply to our federal government. ? ? ? SOME OF THE industrial wage and hour disputes have been settled for a time. There Will UC ? CVU9MUI 9I1CIUI Ul others. Whatever the resnlt it U only temporary. No basis on which wages and boars will be adjusted has been ar rived at. Increased wages to day bat means new demands for tomorrow, and that will continue until there Is some recognised method of deter mining the workers' share in prodaetion returns. It is the consumer, who Is never con sulted, who must pay the price in increased costs ef commodities. ? ? ? GOVERNMENT has become so complicated that none of those we employ to operate the machine can know all of its parts. In that ma chine are many needless cogs that perform no function. ? ? ? PROGRESS REPORT: Great grandmothers of the youngsters of today did not have time for card parties, they were too busy caring for the needs of their families. Mothers of today are sufficiently ex pert that they can change the baby's diapers while "dummy" in a bridge ' game. . . . THEY TELL US in Washington, j that though we spend more than wa take in, but pay the difference out of money in the cash drawer, we have balanced the budget. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Mar. WiJnff SpoM Shm jf^rinceAA Summer JrocL Sports Set U ERE'S a charming bare mid A 1 riff sports set for sun-gather ing days. The cap sleeved top has a flattering square neck and but tons down the front?the dirndl skirt is beloved by every junior. ? ? * Pattern No. 1489 comes in sizes 11, IS. IS. 14. 16 and 18. Size 12, top. Ufc yards of 35 or 39-inch; skirt, 1% yards. Graceful Princess pASY as pie to make is the graceful princess frock. 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