HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS
For Leather Chairs.?Rub equal
part:; of unseed oil and vinegar,
well shaken, into leather chairs,
occasionally. !t keeps them in
good condition.
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II is not too early to look over
window screens. Mend and paint
them now so they will be ready
when it is time to put them in.
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Save the Buttons.?The continu
al ripping otT of buttons by the
clothes wringer can be prevented
by folding the buttons inside the
garment and holding it flat as you
turn it through the wringer.
Grt an Early Start
Or, Garden Figures
IJERE is a new department that
* we know is going to meet with
tremendous popularity with our
readers, for it brings you the op
portunity of combining pleasure
and profit. With jig. coping or
keyhole saw, you may cut these
designs from wallboard. plywood
or thin lumber. Each pattern
brings accurate outline of the de
sign. and complete directions for
making or painting.
Today, we are showing a yard
design that will appeal to many,
for the long-ago days of "Gone
With the Wind" are recalled vivid
ly in these charming cutout fig
ures. Your own imagination
might turn them into the vibrant
Scarlett O'Hara and the reserved
Mclanie Wilkes in person. And
your jig or coping saw plus a bit
of wallboard or plywood will pro
duce these figures for your yard.
Each comes on its own pattern.
The berufTled hoop skirt lady at
the left is about 24 inches tall and
is given on Z9067, 15 cents?she
holds a box for flowers. The belle
at right is on pattern Z9068.
15 cents?about 21 inches tall, and
a sprinkling can is in her hand.
Order numbers Z9067 and Z9068,
15 cents each, from: Aunt Martha,
Box 166-W, Kansas City, Mo.
Ferry's Seeds produce
flowers and vegetables like
those shown In actual color
photograph* on the packet*.
Buy the convenient way
from your dealer's display.
FEW'S
Pat&f SEEDS
Under Foot
Ec that falls all the world runs
over.
('itv of Flint Crew in Home Waters
Members of the crew of the City or Flint turn thumbs down on the
banner with the pinwhee! eross. The City of Flint arrived in Baltimore,
Md.. recently after an epic cruise which lasted 114 days. This Nazi
flae was hoisted by uie oerman prize crcw put ?uu4iu iv mh? n?v mui< i
to Germany after its capture by a sea raider. Tlie ship was later treed
by Norway.
Farm Families Are Found Thriftiest
Conclusion of Department
Of Agriculture After
Extensive Survey.
WASHINGTON.?A house-to-house
survey of more than 1,000.000 farm,
village and city families under de
partment of agricuiture direction re
veals some interesting differences?
and similarities?in living habits.
Some of the old comparisons,
gathered from thousands of pages of
reports covering every section of
the country, every income strata of
society and all races, include:
Farm families are the best-fed
population group in the country.
Village families are the poorest-fed.
City families fall between the two
in the proportion having an ade
quate diet.
Farm families on an average con
sume 60 per cent more milk, 15 per
cent more butter and 25 per cent
more leafy, green and yellow vege
tables than small-city families.
Farmers have larger families.
Forty-two per cent of the farm fam
ilies have five or more members,
compared with 26 per cent of city
families. Farmers, on the average,
Tyrolean Lad'
You can almost hear the yodel
shrill from the throat of the "Ty
rolean Lad"?that being the title
of this photo by Lamar Mumbar
of Pennsburg, Pa. It is one of the
350 pictures pot on display at the
fifth Rochester (N. T.) International
Salon of Photography. Mare than
2,300 photographic artists in the
United States and 35 other coun
tries submitted their best work to
the exhibit.
Mayor Writes Letters
To Each New Resident
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO.?Mayor C.
B. Todd believes in making all new
comers to Willoughby feel they are
wclcome.
Every time a new family moves
to town, the mayor writes them a
personal note, telling them he's glad
they have come, and giving them
i pertinent information about his
| town.
| Examples of the mayor's informa
i tion:
The schedule for garbage and rub
[ bish collections; location and facili
i ties of Daniels Memorial park; mu
j nicipal parking-ground sites behind
the Terminals building; a list of vil
lage-owned public utilities, of tele
phone numbers for police and fire
are younper. Thirty-six per cent of
persons living on farms are under
15 years, while in the city the per
centage is only 26 per cent.
Live Within Income.
Farmers are more thrifty; they
tend to live more within their in
come. In the principal farming
areas, farmers within an annual in
come, including home-grown food, of
$1,000 to $1,249 a year, saved an
average of $26. City families at
that level were "in the red." When
the income rose to $4,000 to $4,999,
farmers saved $2,182 and city fami
lies $1,183.
Fewer than half the farmers had
electricity, while 98 per cent of city
and village dwellers had it. The
percentage of farmers having elec
tricity ranged from 8 per cent in
Mississippi to 95 per cent in Cali
fornia.
In automobile ownership, howev
er, farm families were ahead?94
per cent to 70. Three fourths of the
automobiles bought by farmers were
from the used-car market, while
only half the city purchases were
in that market.
Daily newspaper circulation va
ried widely in different sections of
the country.
Telephones and Radio.
Telephones were installed by 52
per cent of the farm families and
60 per cent of those in small cities
in the north-central region. In the
Southeast the figures dropped to 5
per cent for native white farmers
and 49 per cent for city families.
The number of radios on farms
varied in about the same proportion
as electricity. In the north-central
region 24 per cent of the farms had
running water, while 94 per cent of
the city homes enjoyed that con
venience.
City families spent more to "keep
up appearance." Their clothing bills
were a third larger and they spent
an average of twice as much for
beauty treatments, toilet articles
and preparations and in barber
shops. Another item was the fre
quency with which city families pur
chased new automobiles.
Latest Fad in Paris
Is Patriotic Jewelry
PARIS.?Slogan brooches ?nd
"patriotic jewelry" arc the rage
of Paris.
"Not one inch." words pro
nounced by M. Daladier in an
early wartime speech, has been
produced on clips and brooches.
They also appear with other
Franco-British slojrans embroid
ered in wools or beads on dresses.
nn it.
British Military Orders
Control of Photography
LONDON.?A wide range of things
of which photographs must not be
taken, or sketches or plans made,
without a permit, is mentioned in a
British war office order.
They include any fortification, bat
tery, listening-post, searchlight, or
other work of defense, any aero
drome or seaplane station, any as
:;~b!y the king's forces, any
buildings occupied by troops, arse
nals, factories or stores for muni
tions, wireless, telegraph, telephone,
signal or cable stations, docks, har
bors, shipbuildings, or loading piers.
The ban also applies to war ves
sels complete or under construction,
to vessels or vehicles engaged in
transport of personnel or supplies,
aircraft or the wreckage of aircraft.
Outstanding Woman
Mrs. Elias Compton of Wooster,
Ohio, was named by Durward
Howes, editor of American Women,
as an outstanding woman of 1939.
She is the mother of three famous
men, Arthur H. Compton, Nobel
prize winner for physics; Karl T.
Compton, college president, and Wil
son M. Compton, lawyer and econo
mist.
Accidents Are Reduced
By Non-Skid Pavement
ST. LOUIS.?Traffic accidents at
busy intersections have been re
duced here more than 50 per cent
as a result of special non-skid pave
ments, according to Frank J. Me
Devitt, director of streets and sew
ers.
McDevitt said non-skid paving of
intersections was inaugurated after
tests showed a car with average
tires required 134 feet to stop on
ordinary sheet asphalt, while only
57 feet were required to stop on non
skid pavement.
The non-skid preparation was de
veloped at the city asphalt plant.
AMAZE A MINUTE
SCIENTIFACTS ? B* ARNOLD
Zuider Zee going -
"The i 8 !k mile main dike closing
the Zuider Zee from the North Sea has
BEEN COMPLETED. ADDING HALF A MILLION ACRES,
IT MAKES THE ZEE A FRESH WATER LAKE 'A
ORIGINAL' SIZE. Th
m Creosote
gasoline
CrE0S0T? OiL, WASTE
PROOUCT OF GAS INDUS
TRY, HAS BEEN SUCCESS
FULLY USED AS GASOLINE
SUBSTITUTE.
IOO POUNDS OF
MEDICINE
A FIFTY YEAR
OLD PERSON WILL
HAVE CONSUMED IN
HIS LIFE ABOUT too
POUNDS OF MEDICINE.
Btll Syndicate.?WWU Servlcr.
Wise and Otherwise
When a girl in her early
twenties has a birthday she
sometimes takes a day otT. Aft
er that she usually takes a vear
off.
A man starts out with a big
resolve on Monday and before
he rets fairly well started, it is
Saturday.
The frllttu uhn ml up at tint, n
see the um ri?e cim/iin't hal e eKoien
a better I ime.
Puppy love Is the beginning
of a dog's life.
England complains of an in
ferior foreign product being
sold as British steel. Forged
steel?
White Embroidery
On a Dark Color
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
O ROSS-STITCH is combined here
with plain running stitches to
make a smart luncheon cloth that
may be embroidered quickly in
coarse white embroidery thread.
The material may be broadcloth
or other smooth-finish cotton. The
color is a deep maroon and the
white design is very effective on
this background.
This cloth is made of two 1H
yard lengths of 36-inch-wide mate
rial. Split one piece lengthwise
through the center and join to the
sides of the other piece by ma
chine. The seams are covered by
the rows of running stitches. You
do not need a stamping pattern
to make the cross-stitch design.
Baste coarse open-mesh embroid
ery canvas over the material;
then follow the design given here
at the lower left. Repeat the cor
ner of the design to make the four
corners of the center square.
NOTE: There are 36 em
broidery stitches illustrated in
Mrs. Spears' Sewing Book 2; also
?several original designs for table
covers; men's ties; mittens; hats;
purses; Baby's bassinet; doll's
wardrobe; five ways to mend fab
rics. Ask for Book 2, enclosing
10 cents coin. Address Mrs.
Spears. Drawer 10, Bedford Hills,
New York.
To Check Constipation
Get at Its Cause!
If constipation has you down so
you feel heavy, tired and dopey,
it's time you did something about
it. And something more than just
taking a physic! You should get
at the cause of the trouble.
If you eat the super-refined
food most people eat, the chances
are the difficulty is simple?you
don't get enough "bulk." And
"bulk" doesn't mean heavy food.
It's a kind of food that isn't con
sumed in the body, but leaves a
sof t"bulky "mass in the intestines.
If this common form of con
stipation is your trouble, eat
Kellogg *s All-Bran regularly, and
drink plenty of water. All-Bran
isn't a medicine-it's a crunchy.
toasted cereal. And it will help
you not only to get regular but to
keep regular. Made by Kellogg's
in Battle Creek. If your condition
is chronic, it is wise to consult
a physician.
Full Trust
I am the only one of my friends
I can rely on.
THE AWFUL PRICE YOU FAT
FOR
BEING
Read These Important Facts!
Quivering nerve* can make you old. h a win!.
cranky?can make your life a nightmare of
jes!cusy, eelf pity and "the blues."
Often such nervousness I? due to female
functional disorder*. So take famous Lyrlia
E. Pinkham'n Vegetable Compound to help
cslm unstrung nerves and lessen functional
"irregularities." For over 60 ysars rclief
giving Pinkham's Compoiind has helped ten*
of thousands of grandmothers, mothers ana
daughters "In time of need." Try iu
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