Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1948 — Page 15

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TUESDAY, APR. 6, 1948

GARDENING—

Stone-Edged

For Flower Beds; Prevents Washing Away of Soil

pours (and when doesn’t it in early 7) gardeners sit down to

raised front-of-the-house bed, put such a stone-edged terrace is one way- to drain &pring flooded beds of perennials or roses. It adds to a yard’s good looks while it keeps the soil from washing away. “WE'VE moved into a newly built home, no planting around it.” writes a new gardener. “I'd 1ike to have a nice flower bed, put with two small children, T'll not have much time. So thought of perennials. Would you suggest some that are easy to raise?” Some perennials that once flourished for me in a border where Norway maples fought with them constantly included the sunny daisy-like perennial coreopsis; hardy ageratum’s tufted lavender flowers and low growing, soft yellow wall flow-

ers. The Chinese larkspur's del-phinium-like sky-blue blossoms; live forever (sedum spectabile) for edging, and late summer pink flowers grew well there. Sedum acre (wall-pepper) and blue bugle (ajuga ° reptans) covered the ground to smother out weeds and save time. _ Day-lilies (mine were the double variety but you've a large choice here) throve in spite of shade. And false dragonhead (physostegia) gave height to the border with tall lavender spires. For a sunny border peonies and iris are good. 8 » 2 S. L. JOHNSON, Franklin, asks “if it's true that iron filings are good to use around roses?” Iron, reacting very slowly with soil moisture, makes soil more acid. That's why it's used around hydrangeas to bring out blue color in flowers. It's also important for bacterial life in the soil. As for its effect on roses I wouldn't prophesy.

» ” 8 SEEN around town: A forsythia that thinks it’s a yine, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Amos, 3126 N. Capitol Ave. Its long branches, trained on a trellis, give the Amos porch privacy. A thought for those who struggle to raise -columbines from seed: The 50-odd “columbine seedlings, self-sown in sand

Teen Topics—

Be Proud Of Your

§ Parents By JEAN YOU HAVE PLENTY of poise, and no problems? Well, you're a lucky teener! You're confident you'll be all right in any social situation. Sometimes, though, you worry about “your pafents’ behavior, don’t you? Even small fry have parental complexes. “Don’t wear a flowery hat and don’t be smiling all the time,” a kindergartner admonjshed his mother on her first visit to school. » o ” YOU OLDER kids, also, may be embarrassed by your parents’ too-obvious pride, by Mom's frivolity and Pop's friendliness. You think they appear naive and unsophisticated—and how you hate it! Well, stop worrying. Your mother and father know how to behave. What you consider over-zealous interest seems natural to everybody else.

People expect parents to act that way,

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Pop aren't tottering with ayy: They can be young an

gay and friendly without losing their dignity—and without causing you to lose yours. Try to see your parents with an unbiased eye. And be as

proud of them as they are of You.

Mrs. Bruee McClain 0 Review Novel

. Mrs. Bruce McClain will review Party Line” (Baker) at 1:30 P. m. tomorrow in the American Legion Post, 305. There will be a tea after the talk.

Mrs. Denzil Oldham and Mrs. Amos Stevens are chairmen of the event sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary, - 305.

the wrong idea about dressing

Terrace Provides Excellent Drainage,

it provides good drainage.

pile and border at 307 W. Westfield Blvd., the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ester.

# ” ” AN AFRICAN violet catalog: that came in the column’s mail is a honey. “For beginners and collectors” it features leaf collections, plants (one a double), -plus do’s and don'ts for violet fans. The catalog is free on request to the nursery. If you want the nursery’s address, send a selfaddressed, stamped return postcard to the garden column.

» » 2 + FOR beginners with vegetables: Don't neglect greens—

Let's Eat—.

PRACTICAL AND ATTRACTIVE—A stone-edged terrace in the yard of E. ©. R. Johnson, 730 W. 43d St., is as practical as it is good looking

they're so full of vitamins and minerals you'll burst with good health if you eat them. And they're food for a gourmet when properly cooked (all too seldom) with no water to make soup of them, Plant them early—you’ll then eat out of the garden fast. Chard is easier to raise than spinach. But spinach hustles out of its row to leave room for a follow-up crop. : New Zealand spinach travels under an assumed name—it's no spinach but a long season crop of the cut and come again

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sort. Give all greens plenty of nitrogen — rotted manure, “lawn” fertilizer, or a boost with ammonium nitrate after they're up. Nitrogen makes succulent leaves and good eating. s

8 = TIME-SAVER: When you plant onions, spill the sets out of the. bag thinly along their trench. Then use both hands to plant, sticking two sets in at a time. ;

Send letters and questions for the garden column to Marguerite Smith, The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis 9.

Seasoning Should Only Accent Flavor

By META GIVEN

AT SEEMS WE have given

some inexperienced ‘homemakers

up common vegetables to make them

look and taste better. We certainly don’t mean a lot of tedious work

with the vegetables to cover them up

garnish should achieve just one result—accentuate the natural beauty and good flavor of the vegetable. The following recipe is one example of dressing up common vegetables for a change of taste and presentation. = » » CARROT SAVORY (For Friday dinner) 2 bunches carrots (10) 1 c. water 2 tbsps. butter 2 tbsps. minced onion ‘ 1 c. milk 2 egg yolks 15 tsp. salt 1 tsp. sugar Pinch nutmeg (optional) 2 tbsps. chopped parsley Scrape and cut the carrots in half lengthwise. Cook, covered, in the water for about 10 minutes or until tender. (The water should be evaporated.) Add the butter and onion in one side of the pan. Saute lightly. Keep hot. Scald the milk, add to the beaten egg yolks. Add the salt and sugar and cook over very low heat until the mixture thickens, stirring constantly. Do not overcook. Add the nutmeg if desired. Place the carrots in the serving dish. Pour the sauce over the carrots and sprinkle with the chonped parsley. Serve immediately.

THE DOCTOR ANSWERS —

By E. P. JORDAN, M. D. QUESTION: Can hydrocele be treated without operation? ANSWER: Some cases >f hydrocele have been successfully treated by injecting a solution into the involved area. Operation, however, is often the preferred method of

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|added to suit the taste. ‘Cool and form balls from the mashed po~ tatoes about two inches in diameter. Bury one-eighth of the pineapple slice right in the heart of the ball ar one-half of a marshmallow. Roll the balls in the chopped nuts. Lay on a greased baking sheet and place in a moderately hot oven (425 degrees F.) for 15 to 20 minutes to reheat and toast the nuts. Serve on a hot platter. Serves five to six.

Health Groups Will Meet

Representatives of the Ft. Wayne, South Bend and Evansville Planned Parenthood Committees will meet with the members of the Maternal Health League of Indianapolis tomorrow to organize a state group. Mrs. George W. Hamilton, 3231 N. Meridian St., will be hostess for the meeting. Among those planning to attend the meeting are Mrs. C. A. MacDonald, South Bend; Mrs. Arthur Rogers and Mrs. Lester Jacobs, F't. Wagxne: Mrs. Herbert 8. Dieckman and Mrs. R. H. Schoonover, Evansville; Mrs. Tom 8. Elrod and Miss Mary Sinclair.

SOCIAL SITUATIONS

SITUATION: When a guest in another's home you feel the house would be more comfortable if there were more ventilation.

WRONG WAY: Get up and open a door or raise a window.

RIGHT WAY: Wait for your host or hostess to do something about the matter.

Men and Women—

By ERNEST E. BLAU EN’'S CLOTHES could stand more color, ill right. The American male, without doubt, is the most timid, sheeplike clotheshorse the world has ever seen, And now, - when some are daring to wear bright, bigfigured ties and hat bands, people say, “Aren't men’s clothes getting gay!” Poor average guy! Bound to two or three conservative suits, a couple of gray or brown hats, two or three pairs of dark shoes! Sometimes he must dream of more romantic days, when men were emancipated and lovely to look at. : . Colonial times, for iInstance. - Men outdid one an-

Think of showing up at the office in those! : Yes, it was quite the thing then to wear a corset, too— his figure, you know. As for

a few extra suits—well, one

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Dress Prices Up 73 Per Cent

have cost approximately $43 in 1939.

These figures are reached by round number combination c* U. 8. Census industry and popuiation figures and a report on the American dress industry released yesterday bv the Market PlanService of the National

The average wholesale pricé of] drasses made in New York in 1948 was $7.73, or about $12 at retail, the report said. That was 73 per cent above the average for 1939 in the New York market, where 66.8 per cent of the nation's dresses are made. The survey said retail prices on rayon dresses were 81 per cent higher in 1946 and rose another 145 per cent in the first six months of 1947.

Prices on wool dresses went up 40 per cent in the 1939-1048 period. Cotton street dresses rove 87 per cent at retail. Cotton

cent price rise.

Fewer Dresses Are Made As More Suits Are Sold

Production of dresses reachéd an all time high in 1943, census figures showed. It has been steadily declining since that time. The industry’s dollar sales, however, doubled between 1943 and 1946, when they reached a peak of $1,907,614,000.

Figures for 1947 have not yet been compiled but preliminary reports show unit production off 18 per cent during the first nine months of that year, and the report said, “the trade's 1947 dollar volume held close to 1046 levels ”

The report showed that American women in the worst depression year of 1933 bought 79 per cent of all their dresses for less than $7 retail. In 1946 less than 40 per cent of all dresses sold wera in “popular price” ranges, defined as under approximately $9 retail for cottons, under $12 for rayons and under $13 for wool,

Despite any increase in dress production, the dress industries contribute a smaller proportion of a woman's wardrobe today than they did in 1939, the report showed.

Percentage of women’s outeswear sales made by the industry has declined from 65 to 58 per cent, most probably because of the Increased wardrobe !mportance of woolen and worsted suits, the report said.

We, the Women—

‘Clothes Make The Woman, Styles Show’

By RUTH MILLETT NEA Staff Writer CLOTHES make the man. And that's not all. They make the woman, too. The past six months have proved that. Take a look at the college campus. Where are the sloppy, awkward coeds who used to stride along in their dirty sad-dle-oxfords, blue jeans, and long-tailed shirts? In just a few short months they have blossomed into young ladies. The long skirts called for shoes with heels. The heels on the shoes necessitated a ladylike walk instead of a masculine stride. The old-fashioned look of the suits and dresses demanded some old-fashioned grace. The grace didn’t come overnight. The first month or two the girls looked awkward and ill-at-ease in their lady-like fashions. o 8 » IT EVEN took some of them a while to catch on to the fact that bobby-socks and saddleoxfords looked absurd sticking out of a ballerina skirt. But now they've got the hang of how to walk and stand and sit like ladies, and how to dress the part of a lady from head to They have learned how to manage long skirts and even starched petticoats. And they're fast acquiring the femininity that goes with them. Clothes are turning teenagers into ladies. And that's something parents, educators— even the veterans who returned to college campuses and turned thumbs down on blue jeans and

pedal pushers-—couldn’t do.

Should the Men's Clothing Become More Colorful?

European once included 1500 wigs and 4000 suits, each equipped with a watch, snuff box, sword and

cane. Today? News clipping: “Well known men’s wear manufacturer has created men’s coats in fireman red

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