Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1941 — Page 29

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1941

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Homemaking—

They're New: "Auto-Motit'" Fabrics, Brushkeeper, "Straw Hat" Perfume

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FABRIC AND DRESS MOTIFS inspired by the modern automobile are the latest in women's fashions Eleven apparel manufacturers have incorporated design themes from the 1941 Buick in a co-ordinated fashion project that ranges from textiles to turbans. At first glance the “auto-motif” not obvious closer discloses Buick's steering wheel as one motif, a second features 1941] headlights and another has tiny prints of Buick's 1004 models scattered over it. One firm has made buttons, pins, clips, studs, lapel ornaments, ete, In metal and plastic in the shape of the steering wheel, fireball sym- | bol of power, radiator grill license plate,

is but a view seals the can airtight, keeping the

morrow or next month.

in an airtight the bristles are kept soft and pliable and paint particles loosen and fall out to the bottom of the can, thus cleaning the brush,

“PUT ON YOUR little Easter and | bonnet, with the tulle and birdies lon it” ., . and you'll catch the admiring glances of the gentlemen you covet. But don’t stop there. Discard the heavy stealthy perfumes, that you've been wearing with your furs all winter and put on a new fragrance. Mayer's has perfume called “Straw Hat” which Faberge has just put on the market. It's light in bouquet. The packaging is nice too—natural straw with scarlet linen.

If vour gift to the Easter bride is to be an Irish linen damask TABLE CLOTH, here's the newest news about monogramming it. Have the

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brush clean and ready Yor use to-|

By holding the brush suspended well of turpentine,

| initials put at both ends instead of

It gives balance to the twice as

| just one, table as well as looking

handsome. The spot for such mono-!

grams is 21 inches from the center of the cloth.

YOU CAN ACHIEVE unusual effects by stitching your own cornices at home, because window treatments have a way of dramatizing a plain room or letting down an attractive one, The kitchen, for instance, would welcome the delightful change from straight-hanging curtains to a sunshade awning cornice. You might use a wide striped material for this, or one of a gay, splashy print. For the dining room, over full, sheer straight-hanging curtains, a shirred cornice is sugocested. Use the gathering foot attachment on your sewing machine for this. If you don’t know how to go about making window cornices, the sewing center in your town will show vou how and also instruct you how to achieve attractive decorator touches with your modern sewing attachments. Here's a new trick, too: Instead of using the conventional metal rings in whioh you arrange the swag for the living room window, use three enormous fabric target discs.

A headlight turban with matchone of the “autoTiny replicas light shade dark background to form the print on the fabric.

ing scarf is motif” fashions. of a headlight

are scattered

in a

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GOOD NEWS “artistes” of the paint brush who love to spread cheer in the home with a little enamel here and there. The job isn't distasteful at all until the end—what to do with the brush, It usually to dry hard The Devoe

GIRLS, for you

is left

and Raynolds Paint Co. has come to the rescue. With the American Can Company they have designed a new brush keeper. It is a smart lithographed can with removable top and rubber “lock” that the handle and

JANE JORDAN

DEAR three

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JANE by

JORDAN-—I former

been married twice and have marriage, My present husband by a former marriage, too, and his children come to they want to, which is all right with me. I treat them as I would like him to treat my children but he will not let mine come on the place. He doesn’t want me even to write to them or to anyone else. {He won't let me invite anvone to come to see me or to go any place unless he is with me. He invites anyone he wants in and that is all right with me, but I do think I ought to have some privilege, I am ga good housekeeper, have my meals on time and am always home I am in my fifties and would like a lite pleasure. Any mother likes to be with her children once in a while. I just can’t call this my home as I haven't any privileges in it; it is my husband's home. Of course, he is a good husband in his way. He is a good provider but he just wants me to live for him and his children and not to be with anyone but him. Please give me some advice. WORRIED MOTHER.

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I wonder how long vou have been married for the secsounds to me as if it might have been rather recent husband is still jealous of al] evidence of your vour children. The situation calls for vour part. When the man was courting much about your children. Now that reality, he is jealous and wants you all to

Answer time. It and that you: former husband some skillful managi vou 1 imagine vou didn't he is confronted with the himself Remember

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plenty of middle aged women who would give be wanted that much by any man, Of course, he is being selfish and unfair, but since he loves you vou can bring him around to a more just point of view if you use enough diplomacy, You have made an excellent beginning by making his children welcome in your home and by accepting his friends as your own. : If you are smart you won't praise your children in his presence or say anything about your correspondence with them. In due time you can exchange visits with them if you have refrained from antagonizing him. Many a father is jealous of his own children, and it is much harder for a stepfather not to regard his grown stepchildren, particularly grown sons, as his rivals. The adjustments of marriage are not ‘easy, especially in a second marriage where there are children on both sides. Nevertheless, it. is far better for you to have a husband and a home of vour own than to be dependent on your children. If you make a go of this marriage, you never will have to ask your children for help. It is to their interest to win their stepfather's tolerance of them. Get them to co-operate with you in softening his attitude JANE

Bride's Bouquet Quilt

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their eye-teeth to

JORDAN.

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By MRS. ANNE CABOT

A whole field of lovely flowers for the traditional “Bride's Bouquet!” Six diamond shaped pieces of variegated flowered materials rise from a flower-holder of dark material. Five small squares of plain color, either the same dark shade as the flower-holder, or in brilliant hues, accent the diagonal flowered pieces. The block measures ten inches square. In each there are six pieces of plain color and six of flowered material set on a white | background. The blocks are set together, diagonally, so that the bouquets all point upward toward the top of the bed. For cutting pattern (5114), complete piecing and sewing instruc- | tions, send 10 cents in COIN, YOUR NAME, ADDRESS and PATTERN NUMBER, to Mrs. Anne Cabot, The Indianapolis Times, 106 Seventh Avenue, New York City,

Linda Haves of the films wears white flannel slacks with a raw silk blouse. This shirt is strictly tailored (note the smooth shoulders) and is stitched all over with blue soutache braid, one of the favorite trimmings for spring.

QUESTION BOX

Q—Please give direciions for making a barrel pool for a garden

A—Saw the barrel in two and sink the halves in the ground almost to the rim, about two feet deep. This allows for one foot of soil and one foot, of water, the ideal condition for most water lilies and aquatic plants. A few clumps of moistuie-loving plants, such as iris, forget-me-nots, cardinal flower, turtle-heaa, ferns and ornamental grasses lielp to make a frame for the lilies. For the soil, mix three parts good garden soil with one part of well-rotted cow manure. It should not discolor the water. Ground bone and some commercial fertilized can be substituted for the manure, The propoition to

| use is about one quart of bone meal {and one-fourth pound fertilizer to

one bushel of soil. This is enough

for one half-barrel.

Q.—How {is dry skimmed milk

used in cooking?

A.—In beverages, soups, gravies

| sauces and custards, dry skim milk [ rombines best when

first diluted with water, and it may then be treated like fluid milk. To dilute, sprinkle the dry milk over the water

"and beat until smooth. One part diy

skim milk to four parts water or nbout i; cup of the milk powder to me cup of water makes a milk abou: psqual in food value.to fresh fluid skim milk. To increase the food ralue, use 's cup of the milk powder in 1 cup of water. The powder'd milk may be added to fresh flu vhole milk. In breads, cakes anrookies, dry skim milk usually combined by sifting it in with the dry ingredients, windows and

Q—What causes

| valls to sweat?

A—Condensation of moisture from

Mm a warm day. Suggestions for relucing the sweating of walls and vindows may be obtained by sendng a stamped, self-addressed enelop to our Service Bureau, 1013 3th St., Washington, D. C.

Q.—How may 1 repair the worn

| sdges on the collar and cuffs of a | fur coat?

A. —Rule a straight pencil line on on this line with a razor blade and then rebind the fur with cotton tape. The tape should be securely sewed with overhand stitches on the edge and caught back on the leather to give a good finish. water

Q—Does placing pans of

on radiators save fuel?

A—It will add to the moisture in the air and fuel will be saved to the extent that one feels more comfortable at a slightly lower temperature with proper humidity. The difference in fuel consumption, however, is insignificant.

Q.—Should the bride's parents or the bridegroom's provide the bride's! bouquet? A—The bridegroom. |

Really Clean Dishes

Dishes are only as clean as the cloths they are washed and dried

with. After dishwashing, cleanse the dishcloth in fresh, soapy water, rinse in warm soda water, then again in clear hot water, and dry, | if possible, in the fresh air, Dish | towels should be rinsed in hot suds, ! brought to a boil if desired, rinsed in clear water, and also dried in fresh air, i

Cereals Brown Crisply

If you happen to have no bread or cracker crumbs for dipping and frying cutlets, ete, rolled dry cereals like corn flakes or wheat flakes do nicely, or dry corn meal. |

Stains and Odors |

To remove vegetable stains or! fish, onion of garlic odors from | the hands, rub with lemon juice before washing with mild, water,

In New York

by Helen Worden

| NEW YORK, April 4--Louise Bernat, a graduate of the Jordan | Conservatory in Indianapolis, is taking special piano instruction under Mme. Olga Samaroff at the Juilliard Graduate School in New York. Already a finished soloist (she has given three concerts in Indian-| apolis), her one hurdle is her petite figure. This morning, in her red! blouse and short black skirt, she looked like a little girl. Barely five | feet tall, she includes a telephone book in her musical repertoire. Too | tiny for the regular-sized piano bench, she now increases her stature! by putting a telephone directory on the piano stool. | She spends about six hours each | day at the piano and does every- (up more time than it was worth.”| thing from accompanying the sing- | Now Louise spends her spare moers in Mme. Samarofl’s class in ments going to the Rainbow Room

’ i on top of Radio City, visiting the German diction to playing in a| y : a. rib musical trio with two other girls Hayden Planetarium or wandering

from the Juilliard, around the museums and art gal-|

“We've been too busy ‘rehearsing leries. She attended the opera a and performing to think up & name | number of times this winter and for our trio,” Louise said. “In the | Particularly enjoyed “Aida.” Jus: tall ‘we ‘did some radio Work. ‘We now she is interested in spring shopexpect to play over Station WNYC ping and her spring vacation which later in the spring.” comes in two weeks. She expects " to visit friends in upstate New Jer-

LOUISE is living this vear at 189 Claremont Ave. a block down from her school. She has an attractive studio in a large apartment whieh she shares with a family. . “I decided to give up apartment last fall,” she said.

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| A DAUGHTER of Mr. and Mrs. John Bernat of Evansville, Louise | has been studying the piano as far back as she can remémber. She attended Jordan Conservatory from 1935 to 1938 when she won a scholarship to the Juilliard

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A Great Group of

Chairman

Mrs. Joseph LL. Hammond is publicity chairman for the Indianapolis American Legion Auxiliary Drum and Bugle Corps, which is sponsoring a benefit dance Saturday night, April 19, at the 40 and 8 Chateau, 119 E. Ohio St.

To Soften Stiff Jam

Ho place

jam becomes stiff or

| Beauty

By Alicia Hart

THE WOMAN whose hudget, won't| DON'T OVERLOOK the

stand for a brand new, complete spring wardrobe can take tips for making old outfits look like new ones straight from the 1941 collections of Amerlea's smartest designors. | Por example, it might be pos- | sible to add new zest to an old black evening dress simply by covering the front of the skirt of it with

| tiny clusters of little yellow flowers. |

| Mainboucher uses this theme suc- | cessfully. For the home dressmaker the trick lies in not placing the | clusters too close together and in | fastening them on neafly so that | there are no bulges and no loose {ends or thread showing. | White pique collars and cuffs are | headlined in a number of spring collections. It may be that new collars and cuffs of snowy white pique will give last spring's navy or black {dress a fresh new look. Anyway,

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heste dressed women's trick of using necks wear, jewelry and clusters of flows ers to make one dress do the work Try changing the ap= pearance of the new navy blue dress while it is still fairly new, Don't 3 wn : i wait to buy'a new collar for it until the dress is almost threadbare and you are prefty weary of it, Also, don't discard an old evee ning dress until vou have cons sidered the possibility of cutting off the skirt and wearing it, with sweat ers now or separate blouses, ‘There are more ways than one to be chie, The obvious way is to have plenty of money and plenty of time te shop. Any of the other ways des mands imagination and a willing= ness to make use of good things left, over from other seasons.

of several

sugary wrap in a warm oven just long this vear over day dresses cnough to allow the sugar to melt. are news, and so are red day coats. also color-fast

Choose Trimmings

When purchasing materails for washable garments, make sure that buttons, belt buckles and shoulder paddings are of the sort that will stand up under frequent tubbings and that contrasting materials for trimmings, braid or bindings are

you might try this idea before resigning yourself to wearing last | year's clothes just as they were. { It may be that last spring's coat can be made over into a cape. It may be that last year’s red evening can be shortened and worn Capes

Spring

RUFFLED CURTAINY

SPE i AL SALE! erent

WASHABLE Ravon Panels

ling as new.

wide.

They don't even need stretching! Just toss them into mild suds and they come out fresh and sparkExtra deep hems, carefully cut for straight hanging. It will be easy to fit your windows too, for these handsome panels are available in five

different lengths. In eqq shell and white. 44 inches

Huge and Brilliant Group of New SPRING DRAPERIES

new garland bouquet

soapy | fF

Choose from such styles as heavy, handsome rough

textured draperies in stripes, plaids and stunning

patterns. Or spun rayons,

printed satins and all kinds of novelty textures.

As many as six color combinations in each pattern.

PAIR

Curtains and Draperies, Fifth Floor

Flower-fresh pastels! Dainty pin dots! Great, fluffy cushion dotsl

Gay and colorful printed marquisettes! All with deep, full ruffles and fine, soft folds that will fall billowing to your floors! Most are

46 inches by 2/, yards long. Take advantage of this unusual sale,