Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1947 — Page 14

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Local Merchandisers Foresee Stable Furniture Prices

By JEAN TABBERT

LOCAL MERCHANDISERS ex. How to Build Your House:

pect stable prices in furniture an home accessories and a general ae more for your money” theme running through the goods expected in| home furnishing departments here in the next several months. The yvetailers “polled” recently re.! turned from the International Home | Purnishings market held in Chi. cago twice a year, Ralph Cole, merchandise man-, ager for Block's’ foresees a frm price level, perhaps inching up a trifle. However, merchandise will be more attractive with a pre-war quality, There ‘will he more properly ne {shed furniture and a trend toward the functional in traditional as well| as in modern furniture designs, Mr. | Cole maid The French Provinelal pattern, | which formerly could be obtained | only in higher priced furniture, | now is being aimed toward the middle class brackets, he said.| (The pattern especially is popular | to fit in with the informal trend in today's furniture styles.)

Strong Colors Shown In New Materials

Gordon Farnsworth, divisional merchandising - manager for furniture and lamps at Ayres, em-|

| phasized the strong and interesting

enlors shown in fabrics at the market. He also said prices were “up, f bit" hut saw ho serious break in the price structure.

The much «in - demand dining foom and” meditum-priced bedroom furniture still will be in short sup- | ply, he said. It will be about ax |

months until there is an adequate supply eof these types, Mr, Farnsworth sald small tables were more in evidence. The mare ket offered a complete varied pelection of lamps, he sald. A. L. Masten, divisional manager! for rugs and draperies at Ayres, reported there Is a noticeable im- | provement in fabrics, and a determined effort by the manufacturers to get production on the wanted items,

He mentioned one outstanding

_hew jtem, a material called "cella- |

loom.” Available in plain colors and | patterned designs, it's easy to clean, won't shrink or stretch and has an! amazing dimensional stability in ad- | dition to an outstandi textured effect Prices in the fabric field are sub- | stantially down, Mr. Masten said, | but there. still will be a scarcity of | marquiset, nylon and rayon sheer | fabrics. New colors will be seen in floor

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By PAUL T. HAAGEN Noted Architect “THIS ATTRACTIVE one-story modern house ix really practical and of good proportion and design. It is not radical nor of hizarre appearance, will snpggle close to the earth, and have a hospitable, inviting look.

The actual house Is not large 30x40 feet—and with well-insii-lated walls and roof will provide comfort and livability The living room is entered directly from tlie’ breezeway -con- | | ectirg, the house and garage. EDITOR'S NOTE: Architect Paul T. Haagen's master guide plans of the above home are available at $5 to readers of The Indianapolis Times While these are not complete architect's working plans, any good builder should be able to build from the plans and provide a close estimate of costs. The plans consist of: Basement or foundation plan, first floor plan, two elevations and one wall section at !/4-inch scale. Use the blank below to order plans through NEA Service in Cleveland, being sure to enclose a cashier's check, draft or money order for $5. payable to NEA Service, Inc,

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This breezeway, if necessary, may be glazed In winter, thus offering [extra cold weather protection, | The coat closet is near the entrarice door. There is plenty of "slaset space. The plan arrangement whereby passage is provided to every part of the house is noteworthy, Kitchen and utility room are closely connected: for easy operation, the kitchen being large enough for a small dining nook for many meals. The exterior would look well if constructed of concrete blocks, or brick painted white, but (rame could be used if desjred.

Iced Tea Made Ahead of Time

Loses Flavor

Pour Strong Brew * On Cubes to Chill

‘By META GIVEN ICED TEA OR coffee should be

.|made of a strong brew and poured

immediately, while hot, on enough ice to chill quickly and reduge the flavor and color to their most appealing point. . Making the beverages ahead of

the refrigerator to chill and save on

lose its aroma. . The resulting beverage hasn't the pep and sparkle that steaming hot beverages produce, ~ ” ” ICED TEA For Monday dinner Choose a good grade of tea of

| (should be freshly boiled),

coverings, he sald. There's a ten. dency to the yellow side of the spectrum rather than the blue Chartreuse and turquoise are two of the new shades to be shown in CAL | pets, he said.

Foreign Exhibitors Are Showing Again | Mrs. Mary Grace Dalton, In. terior decorator at Adams, em-| phasized that fabrics are coming back rapidly and are much more | plentiful, Foreign exhibitors, Including representatives from South

America, Canada, Mexico and Eng-

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land, were seen again, she said. As for furniture, antiques and eproductions seemed to be most | popular when they appeared in a | contemporary setting rather than | an all-period one, she said.

lamps at Charles Mayer, said thal imported Czech cerystal was back | in boudoir and table lamps. pottery bases will be seen again, too. | “Planter lamps,” the metal ones | planted with greens or flowers, were { shown in great quantities, she said. | And good quality floor lamps again will be available. vucly nicer, oo weclally being of better -quality.

Screen Star Adopts ‘Four Children

| crawford, motion picture actress, is time In Miss Ruth H. White, buyer 1n|unmarried at the present time, she climbed to the summit of Mt. Me-/| is the mother to four adopted chil-| Kinley, Alaska, the 20,270-foot roof! Italian | 4 {to 8 years.

Lamp shades are nurses she said, with silks Austria and sending them uniforms, 'a soap and other useful things.

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| the variety your family prefers, Al-| | low one teaspoon tea for each cup, {to be brewed. Place tea in a clean, scalded china, earthenware or glass tea pot. Pour over it the required amount of vigorously boiling water

ice gives the beverage a chance to

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Gardening—

“If your iris leaves are

time, cooling and letting stand in,

cover |

{pot, turn off heat, and let stahd|

{two to five minutes or until it ia of the desired strength. Stir thoroughly, pour hot tea through a strainer directly over ice | cubes or cracked ice in ‘all glasses or a pitcher, It is best to make the hot tea very strong since ‘it may | be diluted easily by adding, ce {water. If it is too weak it is dm possible to make jt stronger with tout. brewing more hot Serve with lemon wedges, sugar and a | 6prig of mint if desired, “Note! If tea must stand after it is steeped,

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Girl ¢ Gets Bogico As Foot Doctor

{ EAST AURORA, N.Y. -~ Taping sprained ankles and nursing stubbed | toes for girls on the athletic teams {here made Coach Sara H. Hil] "foot | conscious.” She was the only girl in a recent (graduating class of 11 at Temple university, where she received her degree as doctor of ehropody.

TEEN TOGS — Looks school days for Barbara Sperling, who will soon be trekking

back to Tudor Hall school. She

is wearing a Belle frock per cent wool suit in a fetching

bottle green plaid. “[Ayres'.)

| enough to bud,

browning from the tip downward,” says Mrs. Elbourn, “that's leaf blight. If it's borer trouble, you'll see whole fans of leaves dead, “Blight can be conurolled coms pletely it you begin fighting it in the spring. Atl this ume of year whe best treatment is to cut off and burn the yellowed parts of the leaves. But don't cut back healthy leaves—iha$ just means & smaller bloom next year.

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On F Pe

Restriction to Suped Against I WASHINGTON, July SA the purpose of preventing the entry of injurious insect pests and plant diseases, quarantine restrictions have been placed by the sectetary of agriculture on the importation into the continental United States, Hawail, and Puerto Rico of cut flowers from most forgign countries, Dr. P. N. Annand, chief of the Entomoélogy and. Plant Quarantine bureau, announced today. The restrictions will

»As for borer, there isn't much you can do now, Ii you have'ex= | pensive iris affected it's worth the | ume it takes to cut -out rotied | poruous or the aay, JesUlL Of borer aamage. ! » » THEN GLADIOLUS should go on your worry lst, too, Alden Branson, 836 8. ‘Worth “| ave, described the damage on his glads. “Their leaves are Sure ing yellow from the thrips I on the plant tissue and 3 Bvine out its life.” What to do about ' ? be Paul Ullman of the conservation department, glaa grower us well 8s enLomoivgist, aavises three or five pér cent (wiucheve. you cau get) DDL dust or a 50 per cent wettable DDT spray tthat's roughly half an ounce 0 | a gallon of water). Put.dust on when air is still, and plants a bit moist.- If plants are coming into bloom when thrips attack you probably won't be able to save them but treatment is. . advisable anyway. ot will mature a better bulb [or next year. If you cut off and burn infected flowers you'll get about 75% of the thrips, he added, for ! they prefer to feed »m flower tissue. ‘Repeat your treatment every week or 10 days, ” . ” STILL ANOTHER came up when I visited Mrs, W. Cullom's pleasant yard at Ho Lee st. (Her spider plants reminded me that here's an -easy-to-raise annual more flower lovers should know about.) Why, she’ asked, did her lilies come up this spring healthy then blast, turn brown, and some of the lems break over. That sounded like botrytis blights on -peonies. And lilies, I find, suffer from a similar fungus. Remedy-—burn all dead foliage now. After frost, cut and burn all infected lily and peony leaves and stalks, Then next spring, spray every two weeks with Bordeaux beginning as soon as the young plants emerge. " » o THEN {f you have any worrying time left over, pity a garden reporter in a summer iike this. Here 1 was all set to tell you of the cooling system A. R. Wilson built into his yard-at 702 Iowa st. (How should I know your mato plants would be almost Hon bitten in mid-July?)

self a pool, with a charming bridge “strong enough to hold an elephant” and equipped it with a sprinkler system; all “in odd hours.” “On hot summer

evenings we can sit out here and watch the spray on: the water lilies and cool off,” he said. Then he added, “but we haven't needed it much this summer!”

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law or he to her.

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Anyway, Mr. Wilson beillt him-

be effective Aug. 1. OVER THE BRIDGE--A R, Wilson, 702 lowa st., built a | Until recent years transportation special cooling system with his garden pool—but this summer he | facilities were such as to discourage _hasn t needed it very often. {importations of cut flowers on a WY : v ny ‘commercial basis. Now air express Teen Talk— offers a convenient, rapid, and

Back -t0-Schoo l Fa $ hi ion S how somewhat inexpeusive meaps of

transporting cut flowers from wany foreign countries. Set for Aug. 6 at Ayres’ f the world. A growing interest in With 30 Teen Models i TO Te will be here all too soon Lite entry of cut flowers, But it must be faced—and there's a tingle of antic ipation for the

This has made it possible for fresh cut flowers to arsive in marketable condition from many parts By BOBBIE SCHAEFFER pressed by the florist trade. Except SUMMER MIGHT BE a flying saucer—it flashes by with such a in a few special cases there have swish. Already back-to-school ideas are floating around and September b€en no quarantine requirements on Leensters preparing for that school-house trek. of the high school fashions young Hote, ir i ov.

On Aug. 6 a pre-view tine is to provide for restrictions will be given in Ayres’ auditorium with 30 and procedures needed to take care

‘Beauties’ Hints— Sun Reveals

Skin Faults

in connection with such inpore tions in the future.

Quarantine Will Net Affect Three Nations Possibility of entry on imported v 1c : cut flowers of injurious pests, inBr LIcIA HART cluding the citrus and a | GROOMING faults that may pass Cereospora leaf spot, led io issuance ,of these restrictions. unnoticed indoors will not escape!’ Importations of cut flowers prooe 30 p. J ; { yen HEA m. and is open [55 easily on a sunny beach. Here | juced in Canada, Labrador and x3 are two examples seen often enough | Newfoundland are not affected, Dr. MODELS will be Carol Baum, in the glaring light of the sun to Annand says. Insect pests and plant Rebecca Lane, Marti Knauer, An call for a few words of warning. | diseases likely to be found in. cut Spalding and Barbara Kershaw, | Take eyebrows plucked for cleaner fOWers from these three countries Teen Music canteen; Marjorie |outlines. A slight regrowth of strag- |2‘¢ largely common to the United | Reed, Lee Golden and Martha glers might escape the notice of States. i-Jane Lauk, Boogieville;" Rosemary even the gimlet-eyed when you are! Under the new regulations, im- , Soots, Truk On Inn; Nancy Lee indoors, but ‘not so.when the sun's! ported cut flowers, other than those | ‘Schiele, Radio Workshop; Betty powerful searchlight “picks up” the | {from the three countries named, reMaines, Recreational Aid; Nancy strays. ‘If youre in tHe habit of, Quire inspection at the port of entry. Gossett, Patty Ewing and Gwen plucking-out brow hairs, hetter ply Injurious infestations or infections

TEEN CANTEENS from all over the city sent representatives to the fashion-show tryouts, held this week at Ayres’. Eighty-six teen-agers toed the ramp and the 30 were selected. An orchestra will be on hand for atmosphere and it's rumored some maie talent will ad lib on the continuity. The show will

Spangler, Keystone canteen; |Your tweezers before you go to the found will be eliminated by’ treatJoyce Jones, Joy Ann Wilson, | beach, rment if possible. If, this is not Gloria Wood, Margie Joslin, Carol | " {feasible, the importer has the op-

u y --Arnholter,- Diane -Hays, Marilyn | TAKE bleached or dyed hair, tion of shipping the flowers to a | Arbuckle and Barbara Schram, Made more glaring under the bright point outside this country or de- | Hornet's Hut; Nickie Bliss, Mar- light of the sun is the dark line of Stroying them. tha Jo Thurston and Patty demarcation between a girl's own | Prant, Melody Manor: Delores |Dair-color and the artificial one Shumm and Ruth Meehan, Teen | She Wears. Beachgoing time is not Chorus; Margie Garner and Joan |'he time for her to skip touch-ups, O'Connell, Southside Teen can- /if she wants to keep her color-dodge

Families Lose ‘Millions

teen, and Jesslyn Ball, Teen Age 2 Secret. | Movies. | * NEW YORK.—American families rere Woman Heads New {lose or misplace many millions of [Woman Has 260 Political Patty . <| datlard gn year because they fafl Descendants PARIS—Headed by Mune. Jacque. ° J Danks, life insurance Arms

MARLBORO, Mass.—Mrs. Ange- line Thomepatencire; a mew pariia.- and other institutions know their

{line Daniels of this city, who re-| mentary group has been formed |cently. observed her 93d birthday here. { anniversary, has 260 living descend- ~ It is known as. the Council of the ants. Republic, and {ts ‘purpose is to Among them are two great-great- Strengthen political and cultural grandchildren. | ties between France and the United LStates.

make prompt claims: for- social security. benéfits, according to the Institute of Life Insurance. Companies advertise; use pub licity -and even engage corps. of experts to find addresses, but with litle result. Families loge considerable sums if they fail 10 make prompt claims for social security. Only three

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