News for Your Home
I! The Kitchen Becomes A "Guest Room"
Gone are the days when the kitchen door was shut against visitors.
Planning, perfect balancing of equipment and the use of modem ma
terials such as silvery monel sinks and work surfaces have brought new
concepts of utility and beauty. Literally, the kitchen has become another
guest room where visitors are not only welcomed, but entertained.
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COLORFUL CROCHET
BRIGHTENS TABLE
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Dress up the informal luncheon
or breakfast table with this Italian
mat set of linen, with a deep border
of colorful mercerized crochet. With
gay pottery and colored glassware,
it makes a cheery and hospitable
table. Crocheted luncheon sets do
not need frequent laundering.
When necessary, however, they wash
well and seldom have to be ironed.
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Tips On Shopping
Labels on upholstery often serve
as guideposts to the quality of the
furniture itself.
Smart shoppers are learning to
look for the hidden signs that re
veal the actual value of a piece of
furniture.
It may be hard to tell the quality
of a sofa from the exterior, but not
if yon know where to look. For
example, the upholstery alone may
tell its story—if a good quality mo
hair velvet is used, it’s a safe as
sumption that the internal con
struction is also good.
Look for the shield-shaped U. S.
Bureau of Standards tag some
where on the upholstery. Only mo
hair velvet that meets the bureau’s
rigid standards of quality can dis
play this tag.
Likewise, under the cushions you
should find the manufacturer’s label
and a mothproof guarantee. A good
mohair velvet is guaranteed moth
proof for five years, and a maker
always puts his name on his work
when he is proud of it. If the tags
aren't there—ask questions!
These little points may mean
years of life in your furniture.
Cloth Window Shades Lend
Themselves To Triple Windows
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By Bettina J. Vigleze
THIS photograph was taken In
the combined studio living-room
of a noted beauty editor. Since she
writes for four magazines, she se
lected her apartment for light, and
then placed her maple desk against
triple windows.
She decided to hang her win
dows with sheer cream net cur
tains, and cream color window
shades. She went brightly ahead
and selected lemon yellow chintz
for her draperies and ordered them
bound in brown. Her large maple
arm chair is covered in lemon yel
low with brown stripes. In short
she has ensembled her windows!
More and more smart women to
day have realized that fresh cloth
windo•” shades are the most im
portant and least expensive to buy.
As in "his young lady’s case she
knew that an excellent shade would ]
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last her for years (many have beei
known to last from five to twelvi
years) and always keep its gooc
appearance. She knew too tha
shades of this type won’t crurnpl
up with rain storms, or steam fron
bathroom and kitchen. Nor wil
they get full of “pin holes” a
does a cheap shade.
Then, too, there is so much new
about color in shades to harmoniz
with the entire tonal scheme of th
various rooms. You can order a
your local shade shop, or at you
favorite department store sue
lovely shades as rich cornflowe
blue, poppy or old rusty rose, th
very palest of boudoir colors, del
cate pink, soft apple greens. Lari
spur blue. Striped shades in a moc
ern “Vogue” design also a nei
tweedtone pattern. You’ll be se<
ing them on the windows of th
very smartest homes in your con
munity this spring!
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Lace Net Curtains Add
Soft Beauty to the Room
By VALLETTA TAYLOR
Graceful, soft and feminine lines
In home decoration are very much
in Fashion these days. A charming
way to get softness and grace into
the decorating of your windows is
to hang lace net curtains in full
folds right over the window pane,
using a fresh cloth window shade
or Venetian blinds under the cur
tains.
The open and airy weaves of
these curtains are as feminine as
ran be, so ycur windows will be
right in Fashion. And the open
weaves let in all of the light and
air that you can wish, while mak
ing a misty veil in a pretty pattern
for the windows, adding to the at
tractiveness of the entire room.
For the new season there are
hundreds of lovely new designs in
the American-made curtains. Some
ire very simple in open-mesh or
onia.ll novelty designs. Others are
wide-open in weave in exquisite
lace patterns. State are rugged
and sturdy looking, others as dainty
as can be in appearance. So what
ever the kind of home that you
have, you can find textures and
designs to suit you and your home.
For Spring and Summer some
women like to hang glass curtains
without using over-draperies, feel
ing that the windows have an espe
cially cool look this way. Other
women like to use both the cur
tains and over-draperies, selecting
cool looking fabrics, such as
chintzes, for the draperies hung at
the side of the curtains
Skilled American craftsmen
weave and finish these lace net
curtains so that they hang well,
launder well, and last a long, long
time. And when it conies to "How
much do they cost?” you can rest
easy about that. You can find
many of them in inexpensive prices
as well as at the higher prices, in
your favorite stores.
RANDOM HINTS TO ~jt
A BUSY HOUSEWIFE
To a busy woman, no matter /Mr
much she may love to sew, tbs,
necessary bit of sewing druci**ry
like mending and darning become
a burden. But even these tire—
consuming housewifely chores r»n |
be simplified if you know some of |
the tricks and short cuts.
For instance, when you are mend- |
ing a fine material, rub your hands §
frequently with a cake of mag- |
nesia; this will keep them from |
perspiring and soiling the cloth. If *
you have to darn a jagged hole in
a small boy’s woolen trousers, and A
have no suitable patch stuff, sew a
piece of net under the hole and
darn back and forth over it, taking
loose stitches to allow for the
elasticity of the material.
You know, of course, that thread
should always be chosen slightly
darker than the fabric on which
you are to work, as it will appear
lighter when the stitches are in.
Probably the best general short cut
of all in sewing, to save time, en
ergy and frayed nerves, is to choose
only the best thread, and be sure
it Is boilfast. A good six-cord
thread, made with a cable twist
for extra strength, will save split
seams and hanging hems, and a
boilfast thread will face the wash
tub without a tremor. •
Spring is a fine time of year, but
every woman thinks with dismay of
spring housecleaning—rugs to be
cleaned, furniture to be renovated,
curtains to be washed, floors to be
refinished. Science is doing its best
to relieve busy women of some of
this yearly drudgery. For the lim
ited income, small one-room air
conditioning units are available
which will eliminate the dust and
grime and keep the moisture of the
air at such a point that furniture
and floors will not dry out and
warp. A recent survey by an air
conditioning institute showed that
a bottle of dirt, filtered from an
apartment house in a residential
district of New York City contained
oil. wood chlorides, salt, silica,
coke, rock, plaster, fibres of wool
and cotton, human hair and splin
ters of steel. Pleasant breathing,
is it not? *
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A Blind Reader |
WASHINGTON. D. C. . . . Sites
Prances Wright* 8 years old and
blind, reads a Braille booh during
t. Congressional hearing on a bOl
to aid the nation’s physically
handicapped. •
Prefers Her Pipe
LOS ANGELES . Mrs. Abigail
Lefflngwell. 98 years young, is a
firm believer in things modern, as
her new “permanent" indicates.
When it comes to smoking,
though, she prefers the old corn
Cob pipe.
I Standard Oil Employee |
BAYONNE, N. J. ... For the past
eighteen months, Minnie the Cat.
has received a pay check of $3.20
a month as official mouser for the
refinery. She spends It for milk
and saimoh to supplement her
mouse diet.
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| Hints
By J. F. W-rchsitsr
Snjjervlser cl Me'nr V«hWo
Equipment, Esso Marketers
SELDOM does the motorist take
any more than passing interest
in his car’s cooling system. But the
minute the motor becomes over
heated, he in
vestigates it
More often
than not be
finds the trou
ble could easi
ly have been
prevented.
A slack fan
belt often
causes over
heating. Motor
ists should
realize how im
portant it is
to keep the fan
working smoothly. It is largely re
sponsible for cooling the motor.'
Either they should make the adjust-'
ment themselves or have a me
chanic do this minor job. Another
simple preventive step is to lubri
cate the ball bearings ln^the fan
mechanism now and then.'
Many motorists unintentionally
Interfere1* with cooling systems by
placing obstructions in front of;
radiators. They probably do not;
realize that they are redncing'the
free penetration of air through the
radiator when they fasten license!
tags, shields, and other objects; but
they are. It is the flow of'alr trackedj
through the radiator cores by the!
fan that keeps the water *cooled.1
Any interference with the sir sup-!
ply necessarily reduces*.the. effl-J
clency of the cooling system.!
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