Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1940 — Page 12

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AGE 12

Homemaking—

Let the

Man, or Boy:~ ‘Dictate’

When His Room s" Redecorsled

B MEN WILL GRAVITATE toward the modern furniture sections of

a furniture store—just watch them.

So if you are planning to redeco-

rate and refurnish a man’s or boy’s room do let them stand firm in their masculine rights and “dictate” about the furnishings, "= - Unit furniture, made of different! :

sections that can be combined in many and varied ways, is a favorite ivr a man’s room. Let him arrange it himself. He will probably want the furniture in natural wood grains with no hardwood or; with a touch of leather, or perhaps plastic, on it. For the walls, use the natural wood grains. For curtains and coverings, inspect suitings, flannels and wool plaids. Remember that :blue is the favorite of all colors. with the, majority of men. Grays and browns are “safe bets” and a touch of .red usually appeals to the masculine taste. As for accessories, buy large articles in glass, copper or leather covers. Don't clutter the place witn knickknacks. Pictures of ships and maps are the masculine favorites for decorative details on the walls.

The Question Box

Q—What is the best way to rerondition an eiderdown comforter? A —Shake it, brush 4t and expose it to direct sunlight for several hours. Spread it on the lawn and work over it with a stiff whisk broom to loosen the nap, and restore its elasticity so that it will feel soft and downy again.

Q—Please give me directions for making an old-fashioned potpourri. A—Take 1 pound of dried lavender flower, 1 pound dried rose leaves, ¥% pound crushed orris root, 2 ounces crushed cloves, 2 ounces crushed cinnamon, 2 ounces crushed allspice, 1 pound table salt, and mix thoroughly.

Q—What is the best method to cleanse cut glass? A—Add a little ammonia to the mild soap suds in which the glass is to be washed, using a small brush to. clean the indentations. Rinse in clear water and dry with a soft, lintless cloth. Have the suds bath and the rinse the same temperature, and make sure the water is not too hot.

Q—Please give me a recipe for baked oranges. : A—Use unpeeled oranges, cut in half crosswise. and core, fill the centers with sugar, dot with butter. Put water in baking pan to cove ttom, and cover the pan. -‘Cook'in a moderate oven about 2 ‘hours. Uncover for the last 15 minutes to brown.

Q—Kindly advise what to use: to remove cod liver oil or orange juice stains from baby garments.—Mrs. H. S. ..A—Spots of orange juice should be washed before they are dry, or soaked in lukewarm water and then washed with; wa orange juice ing, it will have to be bleached. Potassium permanganate and oxalic acid are used for bleaching, but this can only be done on white goods. Cod liver oil is an easy stain to remove when new, hence the best time to remove it is as soon as it appears, or before laundering. Place the stained portion over a pad and apply carbon tetrachloride liberally to the stain. The pad absorbs the oil as the earbon tetrachloride dis- , solves it. Repeat the process until the oil is removed. While the carbon tetrachloride is still in the ar-

ticle, wash it with soap and water,

giving special attention to the stained part. . Another solution that may be used on either white or colored materials is the following: Mix 1 tablespoonful of soap flakes with 2 tablespoonfuls of boiling water. Add 2 tablespoonfuls of amyl acetate (banana oil) after the mixture of soap flakes and water begins to thicken. Rub this mixture on the stain. Cod liver oil clings to fabrics, and thorough rubbing is necessary to remove the stain completely. After the oil has been rubbed away, the garment should be laundered in warm suds. When cod liver oil stains have

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been laundered, they are difficult to remove, because the washing and ironing process has “set” them and a brown stain appears. The ‘stain is almost impossible to remove. However, stains in white cotton and linen may sometimes be removed by boiling the garment in a solution of one gallon of soap suds to which one tablespoonsful of peroxide has been added. Let the suds come. to a boil before adding the peroxide. Repeat the process if necessary. I

Wars Against Moths

EVEN ‘ARTICLES in daily . use are not immune. to destruction by moths. Keeping rugs well vacuumed discourages moths from lodging in dark corners or under divans or heavy furniture, Remove slipcovers and use the upholstery attachment frequently on stuffed pieces. Use the power spray attachment to thoroughly disinfect storage closets and boxes before putting away ‘winter things. The practical little hand vacuums have a trick of clearing out difficult corners efficiently. . Besides they are excellent for use on clothing and furs. Some are equipped with a pulverizer which will grind up moth crystals into a fine powder and blow it out into the garment or blanket to be stored.

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PATTERN 8786

Pajamas are a must on your gift list for the modern girls like their tailored lines for lounging and sleeping. You can make at home, with Pattern No. 8786, the same kind of ‘slim, tailored .outfits that

cost several dollars when bought ready-made. Here is a pajama suit on smock-like lines with comfortably full jacket top (butcher boy Sie) and flatteringly wide pajama egs. Make it up in a pretty flowered flannelette for winter, or in printed cotton chambray. Choose an unusual pattern—the new "South American prints are smart—and you can make a gift that will bring real joy. Trim it in bias banding or in candlewick braid for tailored effect. Pattern No. 8786 is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 14 requires, with long sleeves, 5% yards of 35 or 39-inch material, and 5 yards of braid to trim. Directions are included for crocheting the bedroom slippers. : For a pattern of this attractive model send 15 cents in coin, your style number and size to The’ Indianapolis Times Today's Pattern Service, 214 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis, Ind. If you want to find out, quickly and authoritatively, just what’s doing about waistlines, necklines and skirt flares, send for tae New Fall and Winter Fashion Book! -It pictures all the established styles for

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that you can -quickly and easily make for yourself at home, Pattern, 15 cents; Pattern Book, 15 cents; one Pattern and Pattern

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There isn’t a woman on your Christmas list who wouldn't be

This set, of dashingly bold zebra So were the gold-fringed earrings

‘which are worn, please note, at the top of ears.

Christmas Party

The annual Christmas party of

convention held recently on: the

presented and dolls will be dressed for the sorority’s Lockerbie Unit of Riley Hospital. Mrs. Douglas Brown, Cumberland, will assist the hostess.

Pledge services for Mrs. Vietor

f.| Salb will be held by MU CHAPTER,

ALPHA OMICRON ALPHA SORORITY, at a meeting tomorrow in

:| the Hotel Washington.

Election of officers will be held by BETA CHAPTER, SIGMA DELTA

“| ZETA SORORITY, meeting tonight

at Craig's. Mrs. Claybourne Blue, 3165 Ken-

at 8 p. m. today at the home of Miss Mary Lewis. Miss Thelma Whitt

mas party to be given Dec. 23."

Fashion Show

Director Here

Even Mayor Fiorello. La Guardia of New York is interested in plans

for a fashion show to be presented in Manhattan next month, accord-

i| Careers. of New :York, who visited {| here this week-end. Mr. La Guardia ilis honorary chairman—and a quite

active one, says Miss Coburn—of the “New York’s Fashion Futures” show to be held at the Hotel Astor Jan. 8 and 9. The show, fo be staged at a time when buyers arrive in New York to do their spring purchasing, will draw members of the press and fashion authorities from throughout the country. Local stores will have representatives at the: event which: Miss Coburn predicts. will be “as New York as the ‘New Yorker.”

N. Y. New Fashion Center

Miss Coburn is president of the Fashion Group. composed of 1000 women in every field of fashion, which planned the show in collaboration with the Fashion Originators’ Guild of America. “The show,” Miss Coburn said at a luncheon in her honor at the Columbia Club Saturday, “besides marking the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Fashion Group, will focus New York as the fashion center of the world.” The mammoth style review will present fashions created by leading dressmaking concerns of New York for every type of wardrobe. The directing committee for the event includes Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase of Vogue, Mrs. Carmel Snow of Harper's Bazaar, Miss Dorothy Shaver, vice president of Lord & Taylor, and Tobe of the TobeCoburn School.

Show 500 Costumes +

Between 200 and 250 Fashion Group members have been working on committees for the show since August and it is estimated that approximately 500 costumes will be exhibited. Miss Coburn explained that the event would be novel in that it would be “half way between a musical review and a regular fashion show, the garments being displayed against appropriate backgrounds to emphasize fashion points.” To make it a completely gala event, a champagne supper will

-| follow. -

Miss Coburn has been visiting graduates of - the Tobe-Coburn School employed in local ps and interviewing girls interested in fashion careers at schools throughout the country. She came here from Indiana University and was to be at DePauw University today, returnihg to New York Saturday.

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Butler Trianon Alumnae to Hold

at Oaklandon;

A. O. A. Chapter to Pledge at Hotel

A Christmas party, a pledge service and election of officers appear in sorority activities for today through Wednesday.

the Butler University Alumnae Unit

of TRIANON, national college sorority, will be held this evening at the

home of Mrs. Amos V. Smith, president, in Oaklandon. Miss Edith Barbour, national president, will talk on the national

Ohio State University campus.. A}: _ ! | Christmas music program will be

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BE THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ The Ideal Christmas Gift

|2:Col. Ralph Rogers, Fort: chaplain, recently thanked the members for

{soldiers at the Fort. |at the rae of 100 a day. {been working in. orienting them in (entertainment facilities are helping in their entertainment when off] duty. o ot ‘the Fort has reported receipts of

-|post library and hospital. ‘|band formerly was minister to Po-

Offers H use ~ For Draftees

Facilities of the Caroline Scott Harrison chapter house have been offered for Saturday night social activities for draftees at Ft. Harrison, The offer was made by Mrs. Gustavus B. Taylor, regent, and the board of the Daughters of the

use of the chapter house as a receiving center for: books and. for their activities: in ‘giving books for

‘ Draftees are arriving at the or ol. Rogers and. his six chaplains have

army life. Donations: of books and

Warrant Officer Charles A. Ross 1300, books 8000 magazines, 52 phonograph records and 26 games. Many of these are already in use at the recruiting recreation ‘center, the

Mrs. Alvin M. Owsley, Whose husland, ‘Ireland ‘and Denmark, has indorsed the work of :the Chamber of Commerce in’ aiding leisure time activities for the draftees. . She is president of Bundles for Britain,

ec. : Receiving stations for: books for the soldiers are located at:the Butler University Library, the Indiana State Library, Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, Grace Methodist Church, Irvington Methodist Church, the ¥Y. W. C. A, the Y. M. C. A, the D. A. R. chapter house, the Woman's. Department’ Club and the fire station at 38th and Ruckle. S o

~The drive for-books-has been extended to the state in order that books: may -be supplied for Camps Custer and Selby in-addition -to the

JANE JORDAN

£ DEAR JANE JORDAN--I am 22, have been married three years and am quite attractive. Even from the first of my marriage there always has been a doubt in my niind as to whether I'm satisfied or

‘1 just feel dissatisfied. There have been weeks when I was happy and other weeks when I hardly could stand it another day. My hus- - band is very, very jealous and is always accusing me of things which ¢ I.do not do, and ‘all because an ex-boy friend walked home with me. _ before we were married. He accuses me of flirting with clerks in

friendly disposition. You ‘can stand just so many false accusations and it seems to drive you to the very thing you are accused of. ‘There is a young man - til recently I' never have allowed myself to go out with him, I like him but I-don’t love him. At times I don’t think I ever was in love. , I cry ahd think so'much.. I don’t know if I am crying because I want to be free or if ‘it’s because I love my husband and hate myself. I have a cute home and I do love it but some nights when we just sit and sit I hardly can stand it. Am I not fit to be a wife? Am I too * fickle for my own good, or what? QUESTION. ised og wo LN miei, a ~~ Answer—Perhaps: you are one of those who expected more of marriage than it has the power to give. A lot of girls expect marriage to. be a sort, of perpetual engagement, packed with thrills, + parties and good times. When they are obliged to settle down to

romance, life loses its flavor and dissatisfaction sets in. Reality does . not come up to the vivid picture painted by the imagination, If this + 1s your dilemma, you'll have to learn to adjust to things as they are and give up your excessive expectations, _ Idon’t know what kind of little girl you were, but somewhere in ‘your childhood lies the explanation of your spells of discontent, Were you brought ‘up by doting parents who led you to believe that the - world was yqur oyster and who gratified your every wish? Did you “live in a whirl of merriment that makes sititng at home now dull in

to replace? . Perhaps it is"he whom you miss and he who makes your . husband seem inadequate by comparison. If you were not attached to your father you may have carried your negative attitude over inte “your marriage. A failure to love the father ofttimes resulis in a failure to love any other man. The happy medium is love which can let go of the original object and attach itself to another. Your husband’s'unjustified accusations do not serve to strengthen “~the rather weak relationship between you. It is true that a person falsely accused is tempted to do the very things of which he is ac--.cused.. However, although you have done nothing until recently to + justify such -accusations, it is possible that your husband feels your ‘inner. discontent and. it disturbs his security in your love. Since he ihas-nothing tangible to blame he makes up something. He-feels that .he has fallen, short, soméwhere in your estimation nad it’s only hu“man for him-to/put’ the blame on you. JANE JORDAN.

Fort. Mr. Longsworth is honorary chairman, dian Te Sn ey

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stores. - I always have ‘worked for the public and am naturally of a

an whom I see almost every day at work. Un-

_* the humdrum routine of existence, when the édge has worn off of .

compdrison? Was your father a man whom you've never been able

Wrap Yule Gifts att

Margaret's Hospital Guilds will meet at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow at the Old Tea Shop at the City Hospital to wrap Christmas gifts. § The meeting will be: an all-day event. The Guild presents gifts to « all patients, nurses and internes at the Hospital. .

Zelotais to Meet

The Zelotai Club of Butler University, an organization of College of Religion students’ wives, will meet Tuesday at 2 p. m. in the home of Mrs. Peyton H. Canary, 1215 W. 36th St. er

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