Womans World
Men’s Discarded Suits Provide
Material for Jackets, Skirts
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U*VEBY home has a clothes clos
et with a down-and-out suit that
not Quite worn enough to throw
Hit or a dress that has passed out
bf fashion. Every “rag bag” has a
piece of material in it which, prop
erly treated, would solve the prob
lem of trimming a dress or making
a smart hat or bag.
Qh the other side of the picture,
there is no suCh thing as the wom
an or her daughter who has a large
enough clothes budget to buy all
the wearables which their hearts
desire. However, armed with a pin
and needle, sewing machine per
haps, a dyeing dish, and a little
ingenuity, every woman can make
rapid strides toward creating, the
wardrobe she wants.
In many homes right now, there
are a number of men's suits which
are not suitable for wear Just as
they are. Big brother, who has been
in the service, finds he has put on
both inches and pounds and his old
clothes do not fit. Or, dad wants
something new and snappy in a
suit, and decides the old blue serge
suit will not do for another season.
This suit, then, is fair game for
remodeling.
Clean It First.
Before any actual cutting and
sewing can be started, the garment
should be washed or cleaned de
pending on the fabric. Woolens may
be washed in warm soapy suds and
then dried in a warm place. If you
fear shrinkage, dry cleaning is al
ways safe. Then the seams should
be carefully ripped, either with a
small scisEfors or a razor. They
may also be unravelled, but in
any case, care should be taken to
prevent pulling threads in the fab
ric or small holes which might
make it unusable. Careful pressing
is also important If the suit is
cleaned at home, it should be laid
on the ironing board as smoothly
as possible, then covered with a
damp cloth—cheese cloth or mus
lin vdU do—and pressed with a fair
ly warm iron.
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Dlls preparation might seem like
unnecessary work, but it will pre
serve the lines of the material and
will simplify recutting. The mate
rial will also be in long pieces and
will be easier to piece together.
A boy’s or man’s suit can be
clearly fashioned into a blazer
jacket for daughter, and the pants
may be used for a wrap-around
skirt for mother or daughter. The
jacket will probably need few
alterations. In some cases it will
be necessary to rip it apart to cut
down for size, but this is easily
done.
Contrasting Trimming.
Now, here’s how, the jacket is fin
ished into-a blazer. A tape of con
trasting color is selected for trim
ming. This is piped around the col
lar and down the front If there are
pockets, these may also be trimmed
with the tape.
Wbat about the color? If the suit
is navy, brown or black, don’t fuss;
just use a bright colored trim. If
it is any other color, take it out
with color remover, and dye it
navy, brown, dark or kelly green,
■ or bright red.
The trousers, when ripped, can be
pieced together for a nice, trim
skirt This may be gored or plain
in the back, and it will have an
opening in the front to the side.
The end of the skirt that will be
wrapped eo top is fringed by the
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Cuff Bonnet
Thte black off-the-face caff bonnet
la worn by Martha Vickers who la
featnred In “The Bit Sleep.” The
hat baa gold lace across the caff
and colored Jewels are set In the
lace. The black veil, laced with felt
cords, ties in bows at the back.
simple process of unraveling an
inch of the material. The skirt, of
course, is set on a waistband which
is an inch to an inch and a half in
width. The wrapping may be se
cured with inside fasteners, or a
giant safety, if daughter is going to
use the skirt.
Dark Skirts Versatile.
The dark color of men’s suits will
be particularly adaptable to skirts,
for a dark skirt can be worn with
almost any colored blouse. If you
want to dye it, remove the color
first, and concentrate on dark col
ors such as dark red, green or navy
when re-dyeing. The deep colors
such as those you find in clan plaids
are favorites for a skirt of this type.
Vests are very popular for wom
en this year. They may be worn
with dresses, skirts or slacks. If the
suit has a vest, it can be made
smaller by ripping it apart, and
then cutting down to fit. The vests
from tweed suits need no re-dyeing
as they will go beautifully with both
skirts and slacks.
Darning the Garment.
In patching, cut on the straight of
the goods. Sew the patch on so
crosswise yarns meet the crosswise
yarns in the garment, ' and its
lengthwise yarns meet lengthwise
yarns. Patch a faded garment with
a faded piece from a hem or a
pocket so that it will match the
material.
Yarns are well adapted to mend
ing woolen material, especially
small holes, tears and worn spots.
If possible, use yarn unraveled from
the same cloth the garment was
made from, or raveled from the in
side of a straight-cut seam or hem.
Patching Pointers
Shrink new fabric* before using
them to patch old garments. If
this is not done, the patch may
shrink and pucker later.
Careful steam pressing makes
patches seem less noticeable. If
ironing on woolen patches, cover
with a damp cloth before iron
ing to prevent shine.
When you are buying material
for a dress buy a half yard extra
and make a wrap-around turban
for yourself. This will give you
a hat to match the dress.
Keep a small whisk broom
handy for brushing clothes thor
oughly before and after wearing.
A small stiff brush is excellent
for suede bags and shoes,- felt
hats or suede gloves.
The legs from an old pair of
pajamas are excellent for an
ironing board cover. Cut off the
pajama leg and slip it over the
board. Cover with the second leg
end sew them at the ends.
Jumpers can bW made from any
simple dress and are an excellent
wardrobe pepper-upper. To con
vert them, Just rip out the
sleeves, reshape the armseye and
neck and finish the seam*.
Jumpers may be tailored or
dressy, depending upon the
blouse you wear most becom
ingly, and they are worn- sum
mer and winter.
- Split seams in gloves are meal
ed in the way they were originally
stitched—whip or running stitch.
On lapped seams, sewed close by
machine, if there is not enbugh
room for a seam, make blanket
stitches along the edges of the
ripped seam to strengthen it
Draw tiie edges together by over
handing through the „ blanket
stitches. Conceal all thread ends
Inside glove,
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Fashion Notes
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Broad shoulders, deep armhotaa
and set-in waistband giva that much
desired slim look in a soft gray plaid
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Iba lateat idea to ooatuma
Jewelry la to have some Idea be
hind It Crossed swords decorating
a black suede bag have been seen,
and a simple pin depicting a sheet
of wheat may adorn a Waeh or nary
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, Wide,, round-callers of pink or
white pique make alee trotting Cor
e simple, dark basic dress.
Pink print Jackets are smart with
solid black skirts tor dress-up wear.
This makes a pice ensemble for
town wear.
Swirled print blouses are. increas
ingly popular with .the bolsro type
suit The blouse usually girdles at
the waist and ties is a bom
Homes This Way, Please
This is la dizzy age. You can now
buy a borne in a department store!
And get the landscaping one flight
up and the poultry house in the
basement.
Alladln was a small time magician
by comparison. He couldn’t get any
more staggering results using his
wonderful lamp than a shopper can
get using the elevators.
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Even a man who thinks he has
been everywhere and seen every
thing yells for an aspirin when he
hears the elevator girl chirp “Sixth
floor for bungalows, villas, du
plexes, country estates and small
farms!”
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We Joined the shopping rash at
one .of the big stores selling homes
the other day. It was terrific. We
lost a rib in the hall of a cottage
for two, got a dislocated shoulder
between the bath and the kitchenette
of a country home and had our
dhiw barked in the patio of a demi
tasse residence marked down to
*4,898 from 9S.0M (only one to a
customer).
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You may think the women folks
are tough when in search of nylons
but you haven’t seen unnecessary
roughness until you see them with
their boy friends determined to find
out which department store is of
fering the hottest sale of bargain
domiciles.
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An embattled shopper in the
Christmas rush trying to grab the
last bottle of perfume is a mildly
aggressive foe compared to a wife,
mother or sister out to find the best
buys in kitchenettes, guest rooms,
sun porches and picket fences.
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Some of the hardest looks we ever
saw exchanged between human be
ings we saw exchanged between two
recent brides claiming an inspection
priority on the threshhold of a lft,
by 12 living room.
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Artificial trees, rocks, rills and
grass gave snch an effect of reality
to the homes. that we sat on one
porch and complained to the floor
walker that there was no sea breese!
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In the patio of the house in the
next alley, we heard a woman ask
' a salesman. "Haven’t you some
thing with a better view?”
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Be it ever so humble there is no
place like home, wrapped to be
taken out or sent parcels post.
Next elevator, please, for garages,
cabanas, extra circular stairways,
spare cellars and hanging gardens!
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GOOD LOSER
"I never lose a thing of mine,” .
A woman oft win hrag-r
That is, she ought to add, unless ,
She puts it in her bag. ?
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Those Old Baggies
Do you recall the one-cylinder
- Pierce-Arrow Motorette which had
a surrey top and; was steered by a .
lever which came out at. right
angles from the side?
Prior to that one, I rode as a kid
In a one-cylinder Selden. This had
wheels like a bicycle and the seats
were back to back and it was
steered with a tiller in the center.
The old model K-Winton (four-cyl
inder) was driven with planetary
drive, which had a low and high,
speed, of course, and this was con
trolled on a side lever, .There was
a second side lever, which, when
pushed forward, was supposed to be
an emergency. brake,t but had no
ratchet to bold it and if you relied
on the braking power you were Com
pletely lost.
The Thomas Flyer, which was
built in my home town, in Buffalo,,
was a very good car and most ex
pensive, X remember that one of
them wpp a race around the world
tin competition with two or three,
others, one of which wae a Fiat.
Jack L. Desbecker.
■ Vodka drinking in Hew Fork la
Increasing. We never touch t ike'
staff. Metes ns see "Pinsk"/ele
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. "NOTICE. I wish the two
snakes who paid me/ a visit last
Friday wouldn’t pay me another.
t The rest efthw turkeys are all
promised. It takes two cheap.
, guysto rob their own friend. Bill
: Exware, <3 Cedar street." —
, Tupper .Like Free. Press. Si;
. ; That’s telling the pesky var>
f mints!
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: A sailer with his hands ontalde
I, The packets of Ms coat.
& Add frost Ibtos o/ the theater: Chlaf
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In These United States
Girls, Here’s a Husband—
U You Can Milk 14 Cows
GRANTSdURG, WIS. — Arthur' Bimstengel, a farmer,
made a New dear’s resolution to get married in 1946, but he’s
going to be careful which woman he picks. He insists that she
be willing to help milk 14 cows, among the other small chores
a woman will find to do on a farm. *
The mating matter began last
year when Bimstengel, a husky 44
year-old farmer, • found he was too
busy operating his 610-acre farm to
go courting. So he wrote his con
gressman.
Rep. Alvin E. O’Konski was short
on wives but long on advice. “Be
sure she’s honest,” he replied. Art
ful Arthur advertised, - “You must
be honest,” he said in his ad.
It was a relief, he said, to dis
cover that there are 1,600 honest
women in the world. They answered
from New York to Chieago, from
Georgia to Alaska.
He Isn’t fussy. All he asks of a
wife is that she must:
1. Be between 30 and 42 years old.
2. Not weigh more than his 195
pounds.
3. Be between five feet and five
feet, eight inches talk
4. Be truthful. (His congressman
said so.)
5. Not smoke or drink.
6. Be healthy. •
7. Be friendly.
8. Not be a gold-digger.
9. Have a sense of humor.
10. Be willing to take good care
of Amie, his six-year-old son by a
former marriage.
11. Be willing to help milk 14 cows.
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KEN’S IN BUSINESS
While he teas soldiering in Iceland,
Kenneth Wickman of Pittsburgh de
cided he'd go into business for him
self when he got out of the army. He
bought an old school bus and turned
it into a store, which he takes directly
to hit customers.
Filling Station
Robbed 26 Times;
A World Record
' BELAIR, MD^-r'^'he most [bur
glarized service station in the World
—26 times since Pearl Harbor—may
get out of the rut after all.
That’s the hope, at least, of Wil
liam H. Holmes who operates it at
Stepney, two miles south of Aber
deen, reports the Harford Gazette.
All of the robberies have occurred
between the hours of midnight and
nine o’clock in the morning' when
the station was closed. Now that the
war is over, Holmes has hired Floyd
Pitts, a returned serviceman^ to op
erate the station during those fate
ful hours. .
about $3,500 in money and,* goods
has >een taken. Some 14 "arrests
have been made by police’during
that time, with Id, convictions and
•about. $1,000 in property restored.
, Holmes says people stop by to put
air in a tire or fill a radiator late at
night, and see the untended station.
R has been a relatively easy place
to pilfer-raipost an invitation to
-burglary. •• V \ ■ ■ ■ "• a: :
The worst headache of all has
been' that Holme^ couldn’t get bur
glary insurance after the^first rob
bery. ,i Since that time be has to
stand alt4he Igss himself.
One Language for All
Declaring “the language barrier is.
a severe one to international peace,"
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has proposed
one internationally understood lan
guage to be.taught in the schools of
the world.
Altogether, accprding to
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Grandpa Bags Deer
With Pocketknife
DETROIT LAKES, MINN —John
S. (“Grandpa”) Pretts, who got two
deer last fall with only a pocket
knife as a weapon, tops the list of
hunters this season, according to L.
Benshoof, editor of the Detroit
Lakes Record.
Grandpa Pretts' feat happened
this way:
He was working inside his house
one afternoon when he glanced out
and saw three deer strolling leisure
ly between the house and the barn.
Pretts grabbed his shotgun and
went after them, but in the mean
time the dog had started out after
the animals and they broke into a
gallop. He fired four shots, but
failed to halt them.
A neighbor boy, who had been
hunting, got on his bicycle and aided
by the dog chased the deer onto the
glare ice of the lake. The animals
fell down and the ice was So slick
they could not get up. Seeing their
predicament, Grandpa went after
them with his trusty jackknife,
artistically cut their throats right
there on the ice.
Pan Gold from Mud on
Helena's Main Street
HELENA, MONT.—“Gold!” The
magic word which gave Helena a
16-million dollar boom in the last
century rang through the streets
again when contractors were exca
vating for a building. Hopeful spec
tators lined up three and four deep
but a boom was averted.
Henry KaSman, a placer miner,
poked out some of the dirt with his
pick and panned it in icy water
while Mayor John J. Haytin and
others looked on silently.
Pretty soon Kasman straightened
up, holding in his hand a tiny bit
of black sand.
“By gosh! It’s gold all right,''
exclaimed the mayor.
And everybody agreed—a dozen
small pieces of the precious stuff.
•A dredgemaster estimated the gold
would run $1.75 per square yard.
But even for that much you don’t,
rip up the main street of a state
capital. Everybody soon went home
except for contractors who went
back to work pouring cement over
Helena’s new gold strike.
More War Casualties:
Oil-Soaked Sea Birds
. Perished by Millions
Oil and waterfowl don’t mix,
either. The department of the inte
rior reports that “thousands of auks,
murres, puffins, sea gulls and
ducks” perished during the war.
The auks, murres and others were
victims of oil on the sea “which
penetrates the feathers and ruins
them as waterproof coverings.”
STILL JOHN BULL . . . Still look
ing like on animated picture of the
cartoonist’s “John Bull,” former
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
posed for photographers while he
was vacationing in Florida. He
tipoked cigars, painted, rested and
otherwise enjoyed himself.
‘POCKET POOCH*
$" Walter Ward, Philadelphia, who
calls hlmaelf the vagabond poet,
makes a hobby of picking op stray
animals and gives them a home
until such time as be can find the
owner. The dog shown Is Pee-Wee,
one of the seven owned by-Ward,
who often travels In the overcoat
pocket of the vagabond poet. Once
a Joint owner of a boiler factory In
New Orleans, Ward says he prefers
the life of a peddler to that of
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SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS
Home Fropk for Long-Day Chano
A Trio of Blouses for Your Suit
Slimming House Dress
A SIMPLE side-button home
frock with slimming lines and
a neat, efficient air. Novel scal
loped pockets add a decorative
touch. Make it in bright cottons
for morning wear, in rayon crepe,
spun rayon or shantung for after
noons.
Pattern No. 8928 comes In sizes 34, 36,
38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36 re
quires 4 V* yards of 35 or 39-inch.
Three Lovely Blouses
THREE pretty blouses, to add a
touch of glamour to your ward
robe. You can have a youthful
i round neck with gathered or cap
sleeves, or a flattering V neck with
short or three quarter sleeves. All
button down the back. Choose the
prettiest fabrics you can find and
trim with ruffling or your favorite
jewelry.
Chauncey Believed There
Was a Time for All-Things
The late Chauncey Mitchell De
pew, who was a U. S. senator from
New York, had a genius for after
dinner speaking which was univer
sally acknowledged and admired,
and as a result he was called upon
to eat everywhere and with every
manner of organization.
“Chauncey,” remarked a friend,
“I don’t see how you can stand it.
I should think it would give you
dyspepsia. I suppose you can eat
everything?”
“No,” replied Depew, “there are
two things I always positively re
fuse to eat for dinner.”
“And what are they?”
“Breakfast and supper,” he re
plied. '
Pattern No. 8964 is for sizes K ii N
18, 20; 40 and 42. Size 14. ftitlisf
sleeves, lJ,i yards Of 35 or 39-inch; esg
sleeves, 114 yards; short sleeves. W
yards.
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DBHE.
1150 Sixth Ave. New York. M. T.
Enclose 25 cents in coins for easfo
pattern desired.
Pattern No.
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Ever Try Making
Cough Syrup In
Your Kitchen?
Quick Belief. No Cooking. FriI
If you’ve never tried mixing year
own cough medicine, you’ve mimed a
lot. It's no trouble—needs no cookiac
—and gives you about four times as
much cough syrup for your mrww.
You’ll say It beats anything you ewr
tried for coughs due to colds A■#
here’s how it’s done;—
Make a plain syrup by sBritqg *
cups of granulated sugar and one caw
of water a few moments, until ft Is
dissolved. Or you can use core syraw
or liquid honey, instead of sugarsynqR
Get 2*4 ounces of Pinex from yam
druggist. Put this Into a pint bollls
and fill up with your syrup. Thfo
makes a pint—a familysupply. Tastm
fine and never spoils. Children love El
And as for results, you’ve never
seen anything better. It goes right!*
work on the cough, loosening ifo
phlegm, soothing the irritation.
helping clear the air passages. 'HRw
will like it for its results, and
merely for the money it saver.
Pinex is a special compound*?
proven ingredients, in concentrate#
form, a most reliable Nothiatsis#
for throat and bronchial ,li ilUTMmi
Money refunded if it 'doesn’t ptmn
you in every way.—Adv.
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'DADDY, YOU ACT
AS OLD AS
GRANDPA TODAY”
’ MANY MEN are persecuted by
lumbago or other nagging muscle
pains—especially after exposure to
cold or dampness. If every sufferer
tould only know about sobxtohk
Liniment 1 In addition to methyl
salicylate—a most effective pain
relieving agent. So retone acts like
cold heat to speed relief'
2. Quickly Soretonm vet* to en
hance local circulation.
2. Chock mutcmlar cramp*,
8. Help reduce local mediing.
4. Dilate tor face capillary blood
voids.
For fastest action, lot dry, nth In
•gdif. There’s only one Soretono—
. Insist on it for Soretono results,
SOI. Big bottle, only $1* I
soothesfasf with:i
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MUSCULAR PAINS