Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1943 — Page 17
Color-
Stabilized Rayons Pass
A Variety of Tests on Fading
FIFTY YEARS AGO, when a colored dress met water and emerged
with its color intact, it was news.
‘To meet today’s requirements for
- service and quality, fabrics are being made which have exceptional
been going with a boy a year ahead
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~==There may .be some foundation,
: ‘riage you must put your career as a
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pH ‘of the station hospital staff in their
Parachutes Clean
go ever since I was a freshman in
“fo stop practicing until you are
‘that unless you put your husband
/ wife or a singer? You can be both
eolor-fastness not only to washing,
but to strong sunlight, atmospheric
gases, perspiration and many other causes of fading. Compare this to the advice given to the ladies of the 1870's in “The
DEAR JANE, JORDAN —I have of me in school. I have gone with
gh school. He graduated this year and wants to go ahead and gave enough so that we can be engaged when I graduate. I love him nore than anyone but I am planning a -career in singing and am gure of making a success of it as I /have gone far already. | He doesn’t think I should go fhead with my music until we are married and he is able to afford it for me. I am afraid if I wait I never will get to go ahead, but if I don’t wait he may not want to ‘marry me and I love him very dearly. We both are awaiting your tdvice. J. G. ” ” » | Answer—TI think the boy is wrong fn his attitude. If you want to be & singer it would be folly for you
ready to marry. You would lose a Whole year or more in your progtress. It is very generous of the boy to wish to pay for your music lesgons later on but perhaps he is too optimistic about what he can afford in the first years of marriage. Then, too, there is the war. He is sure to be called and what better thing could you do than apply yourself to your music while he is away? "I suspect that you talk about your career a little too much in his presence. Perhaps he secretly feels that he is playing second fiddle to your music and that the time might come when you would prefer a career to marriage. If he can delay your study until after marriage he is sure of getting you.
in fact, for his anxiety, and this is something for you” to consider. Jf you want to be happy in mar-
wifé ahead of your career as a singer. I do not mean that you should drop your music, for no talent should lie idle. I only mean
first and your career second in imsportance you will head into trouble. A {Which would you rather be, a
8\ sfully as long as your mar-
riage comes first. JANE JORDAN.
An, Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer your questions in this column daily.
Hall Named for Army Nurse
Times Special PT. EUSTIS, Va. June 3.—Memorials to individual army nurses dying in the line of duty in the present war are taking various forms in different sections of the country. Throughout the nation club women are raising funds for scholarships to young women just entering the nursing profession as a tribute to those who died. In some instances the funds are acctimulated as a memorial to a specific nursing heroine. Lt. Gertrude J. Irwin is the first nurse from Ft. Eustis, Va, to die on foreign soil during world war II. She was on duty in Africa at the time of her death and has been memorialized with the naming of a new officers’ and nurses’ recreation uilding at Ft. Eustis where she perved for six months in 1842. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Irwin of Ligonier, Pa. journeyed to Ft. Fustis for the dedication ceremonies and unveiled a portrait of their daughter which is to hang in Yrwin hall. The building will serve as a recreation center for members
| dt-auty hours.
| Soap Flakes Keep
Soap flakes and two-and-a-half | hours’ good scrubbing are used by | the women employed at army air fields to wash the parachute
canopies for the fliers,
| times and otherwise get soiled when jumps are made, but | painstaking. care and lots of suds
' bring them to snowy clean-
Ladies Book of Etiquette,” to pre-|§
vent fading in washing: “To wash
silks—Half a pint of gin, four i
ounces of soft soap, and two ounces of honey, well shaken; then rub the silk, with a sponge (wetted with the above mixture), upon a table, and
wash through two waters, in which!
first put two or three spoonsful of ox gall, which will brighten the colors and prevent their running. “The silks should not be wrung, but well shaken and hung up smoothly to dry and mangled while damp. The’ writer has had green silk dresses washed. by this recipe, and they looked as well as new.” Well, that's one way of doing it —if you don’t mind doing things the hard way—and if you are willing to play along with the “laws of chance.” However, youll find that nowadays “Lady Luck” is taking a back seat and scientific tests are proving much more satisfactory. Today, many tested rayon fabrics must pass as many as six different fading tests before they are approved as serviceable. How dependable a fabric which ‘has passed these tests must he can readily be seen when we analyze just one of the strenuous tests to which stabilized rayon fabric is subjected.
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The 'Crock Meter’
TAKE, FOR EXAMPLE, the test for ‘“crocking” —to determine whether or not the color in a rayon fabric will rub off onto underclothing or skin, A sample of the fabric is tested in a “crock meter,” in which a square of white cloth, held firmly over a mechanical “finger,” is rubbed back and forth over the specimen to be tested under a constant load of 32 ounces. The “finger” is slid back and forth 10 times, that is 20 strokes, timed at the approximate rate of two strokes per second. And the test is not yet finished. The entire operation is repeated again, with another sample of the test specimen being rubbed, this time, with a dampened piece of white cloth. To be considered satisfactory, a fabric must pass this test with “flying colors.” .No appreciable amount of color must rub off on the white cloth. If any small amount does rub off, it must be so slight as to easily be removable with soap and water.
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'Gas' Fading Test TESTS FOR FASTNESS to washing, dry cleaning, hot pressing, perspiration and sunlight are just as precise. "A unique test, which is particularly important in determining a high degree of color fastness for rayons is the test for “atmospheric gas fading.” You may have noticed that the color of some garments may change right in your own clothes closet. Such changes are due to gases in the air, and occur most frequently in acetate rayons. The only prevention is to select fabrics which have been tested for atmospheric gas fading. In this test, the fabric is placed in a machine where it is subjected to the various gases which cause fading. Satisfactory. fabrics must show no perceptible change in color after several tests. Rayon fabrics which passed these tests may be labeled “stabilized.” No longer need we, as our mothers did, avoid blues, greens and other ‘fragile” colors in clothes which must be frequently washed or exposed to strong sunlight. If the label on the fabric tells you that it has been tested for colorstability, you need have no questions about its fading in the use for which it is intended.
Dehydration Saves Cargo Space
Lemon powders—so useful in the long desert marches and in global spots where water has a strange taste—are the most popular of the dehydrated beverage elements made by the army. But grape and orange powders also are used in the making of thirst quenchers. “In this same group of space-sav-ing concentrates are vanilla tablets. As small pellets, vanilla flavoring can be sent overseas at a savhy 92 per cent of its former 0 room. This is because three ounces of vanilla tablets can do the work of three pounds of .glassbottled vanilla extract.
Soloist
Miss Connette —Nelidoff photo. #88
Miss Connette To Sing With
Maennerchor”
Miss Constance Louise Connette will appear as soloist with the Maennerchor in a concert to be given June 13 at Camp Atterbury. Known to her Indianapolis friends as Miss Betty VanDerbilt, Miss Connette is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Vanderbilt, 7302 N. Pennsylvania st. She has appeared in concerts and operas in Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Chicago,
Studies In Chicago
After attending Indianapolis schools and Indiana university, she began advanced study of music in California and has continued in Chicago this year. The program at Atterbury will include two groups by Miss Connette in addition to Schubert’s “The Omnipotence.” Her selections: will be “Ah, mio cor” (Handel), “Un certo non’ so che” (Vivaldi), “Zueignung” (Strauss), .“Dich Theure Halle” from “Tannhauser” (Wagner), “Apres Un Reve” (Faure), “Carnaval” (Fourdrain), “In the Silence of the Night” (Rachmaninoff) and “Love Went A'Riding” (Bridge).
Miss Mueller To Be Honored At Shower
Miss Elizabeth June Mueller will
‘be honored Sunday with a personal
shower and garden party given by Misses Marian and Norma White at their home, 3680 Birchwood dr. Miss Mueller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William G. Mueller, 1017 Fairfield ave., will become the bride of Ensign Harold E. Twietmeyer on June 13. The prospective bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Twietmeyer, 3523 N. Illinois st. Guest List
The guests at the shower will include Mesdames Mueller, Twietmeyer, Roy W. Rafert, E. H. Kassing Jr, W. F. Wright, Robert G. Matzke, Kenneth G. Bradford and William J. Swisher. Others will be Misses Frances Wells, Dorothy - Dorrell, Betty Bauer, Susanna Bayman, Helen Wilson, Virginia Russett, Alice Murphy, Harriett Millikan, Juanita Fultz, Geneva Shelly, © Dorothy Cross, Florence Pfeiffer, Mildred Simon, Josephine Hurley, Marguerite Walker and Margaret Fuller.
Gold Bars Do Double Duty
One pair of gold bars served at commissioning exercises for William T. Hill of Harmony, R. I, and his wife, Margaret. When Mrs. Hill won her rank as a third officer in the WAAC last January, M. Sgt. Hill pinned the gold bars on her blouse, A few weeks ago Sgt. Hill was graduated from the officer candidate school at the quartermaster center, Camp Lee, Va. with the rank of second lieutenant. Third Officer Margaret Hill pinned those same gold bars to the blouse of her husband’s uniform at the graduation ceremonies,
Wooden Eggs Used To Teach Candling
Smoothly turned wooden eggs, minus splinters, are given the military personnel enrolled as students in the meat inspection and daily hygiene school conducted by the veterinary division of the army's surgeon general's office in Chicago. These mocks eggs are used by the students for practice in handling their egg candling dutics.
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Week — Pan-American Exhibition We urge you to see the Grace Steams ship Lines $50,000 collection of South American treasures. The exhibition ends Saturday.
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SPECIAL SALE OF DINETTE SETS
44.50
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liness.
| | Class of Nurse Aids | To Note Anniversary
The third nurse aidsclass in the | city will celebrate its year’s anniversary at 6:30 p. m. next Wednes- | | day in the Seville. | ‘Those attending the dinner will be Mesdameés James Stottlemyer, | Walter Wessels, Roy Rogers, Harlie F r, Otto Elkins, Paul B. Hall, 1 ell Ward, Lewis Warrenfelt, oA ‘Harold Kiepfer and Leslie B. Brandt {| nd Miss Esther Siefker.
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