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grit carried in on shoes. Though worn places in the finish may be re ft is difficult to prevent the pa from showing. White spots on are caused by moisture.

Quite different is penetrating seal—a mixture of wood ofl, varnish gums or other similar mater4als which sink into the wood,

lng the da : sealing pores and giving a

ished with shellac or varnish, complete sanding and cleaning is necessary.

Time Element Enters

Worth consideration also in refinishing floors when the house is occupied is the time the floor must be out of service while the finish dries or sets. THe Rhode Island women reported that varhnished floors were out of service an average of 55 hours, shellacked #1 hours, penetrating seal 20 hours. Only one coat of shellac or varnish was used but two or three 2pplications of the seal were used. Beal can be applied every 20 or R0 minutes, as fast as the wood absorbs it. Then the excess is wiped off and the floor left overnight before waxing. . How much time does it take to apply these finishes? In this study the women reported an average of 52 minutes to shellac 100 square eet; an hour and 14 minutes for aah; about 18 minutes for eal.

Use Soap s Perfume

WHY let your scented soap waste its sweetness in a wrapper? Before it gets around to working up a lather, soap can be used to scent a whole drawerful of lingerie. ‘ A cake or two unwrapped -and dropped into bureau drawers containing lingerie, blouses or handkerchiefs will diffuse its fragrance over these personal effects. . If you'll match the scent of your bath soap to the scent of your toilet soap, the two will unite fo create a more lasting aura of fragrance. Scented soap left unwrapped in the same fashion in the linen closet among towels and sheets Will leave a light fragrance on these everyday necessities. A young housewife might try the same trick of scenting her husband's personal effects with soap freighted with pine, balsam or other perfume scents which men like.

Make Cedar Chest Of Any Closet

Any ordinary clothes closet can easily be made into a spacious cedar chest through installation of an incense cedar lining which gives off a pleasant fragrance to humans but repels moths. Incense cedar linings cost little more than lath and plaster and are attractive as well as useful. No finish is needed because varnish or paint destroy the aromatic qualities, For maximum protection, the lining should be applied to the closet floors and backs of doors as well as to walls and ceilings. Doors must fit

htly. . If you're lining the closet of an

a large piece of furniture is an pocketbook can afford.

tour school. The pieces conserve space ingeniously, exercise a number of functions in the home, are multi-versatile. Three are pictured here. They're candidates for the antiques of tomorrow just as the well-executed European and Early American patterns are valued today. Designed by Harold Schwartz, these modern originals set the pace for many of their contemporary brothors. Available in Great Smoky, palomino or bone finish, the oak vanity has a center section that raises as shown. This, equipped with a mirror and fluorscent light, comes sectioned for cosmetic items. The interior is deep enough to hold high bottles. Beneath each side section there's a wide drawer.

Doubles for Desk

The vanity also can be used in the living area as a console. It doubles, too, for a desk. With

Designing Woman—

By ELIZABETH HILLYE

THERE'S A 8 al sort of satisfaction in making ideas do the work of dollars, no matter how big the budget is, or how little. Keep your designing eye alert to old furniture. There may be a chance, if you see it, to make an old piece over so handsomely that it's far more an idea success than a money saving ‘make-do. A little Victorian chest, for instance, can become a big and important step table.

: By JEAN TABBERT IN HOMES where budgets are a necessity, the purchase of

event, Consequently it homemakers

should be the finest quality and the best design the

For lovers of modern, the line manufactured by the Romweber Co. is one of the leaders*in the straight line, simple con-

the addition of dual cabinets which fit beneath each side section, storage space is available,’ The cabinets may be bought with the first “drawer” equipped to hold a typewriter; the instrument is nailed to the bottom. Efficient as a well-trained maid, the server in the line also comes in three contemporary finishes. Its utilitarian compactness boasts a bottom storage drawer and a sectioned one, lined for silver, at the top. The panels above extend in both directions. When they're spread, they reveal a sunken copper tray which runs across the entire top. Rollers add to the server's competency.

Functional Design Designed in a completely functional way, the twin dressers come only in walnut. The darker trend in modern furniture shows up here. Other style points are the

Ideas Can Do Work of Dollars

IT'S ALL a matter of pulling the drawers out and adding new plywood. ; Cover the drawer sides to the floor vith the plywood, use it to finish the lower drawer to the floor in front. . Top the second drawer with the plywood so it will add table top space. Cover all the new wood parts with tortoise shell or marbleized paper and leave the bottom drawer open to fill with tall plants.

Dual dresser

curved drawers to permit easy accessibility and the cane sections in the upper portion of the dresser, The hanging cabinets slant outward to make the shelves easy to reach. A recessed mirrored door in the left section guards a tie rack, the right side a set of adjustable glass cosmetic shelves. Shielded fluorescent lights make “prettying” easy.

Adjustable Compartments

Upper drawers in the base sections are fitted with 10 ad-

Bed Styles | Have Changed

New Fashions Have Comfort, Beauty

Streamlined in appearance, functional in design and equipped with trim, well constructed bedding, new fashions in bed styles are by far the most comfortable and attractive in history. What a far cry from the beds of old! Actually more progress has been made both style and comfortwise in the last few years than in all the centuries before. The beds of both ancient Greece and Rome were solid couches of marble, bronze or ivory. Some of these were elaborately decorated with inlaid gold, silver and ivory—others were extreme

as rocks,

The Greeks, attempting to alter the hardness of their beds, developed the first springs of thongs woven back and forth across a frame.

The Romans made the first mattresses which were handloomed fabric sacks stuffed with hay, reeds and wool. These were laid on the riid couches, and were the first innovation in sleeping comfort.

"Room" Beds

Then the early Europeans developed beds that were practically rooms, Solid plank floors, roofs and sometirhes sliding panels to close out the night air must have made them quite stuffy as they often accommodated from eight to twenty people. As politics In Europe became more tempestuous, beds became smaller and simpler so they could be easily built and as easily aban-

children when it comes to nailbiting. The advantage that an older person has over her little fellow culprit is that she can use more conscious control in keeping fingernails out of her mouth, Good trick for those who forget is to put the same kind of bitter stuff on .the tips of fingers as is sometimes used on baby’s thumb

old home with incense cedar, first apply furring strips over lath and

Hand Colored

8 gold-plated frame Reguler price $10. Nov... No Appointment Necessary

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when he refuses to Keep it out of his mouth.

plaster, then nail panels to strips. For the beauty-conscious wom- —

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COME IN NOW AND AYOID THE

Christmas Rush

MANY women are as guilty as

Some Elders Bite Nails

an, another kind of trick is suggested. That is to keep nails per-

doned when flight was necessary. Later, in the 16th, 17th and early 18th Centuries, when life became more elegant and luxurious, the beds grew massive in size. Elaborately decorated with costly hangings and canopies, they

fectly manicured. This is even a|frequently were the most prized

better trick, when nails are professionally manicured. Few beau-||p

ty-conscious women who take

pride in the shiny perfection of

possession of a family as symbols of their wealth and social stand-

g. . Their mammoth size, however, must undoubtedly have stified that inherent feminine urge to re-

their nails will want to wreck that! arrange the furniture.

impeccable look by gnawing at their nails.

In the 18th Century, under the influence of Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton, bedframes

Even the woman who takesipeoamg lighter in scale and took great pains to give herself a mah-|on new grace and beauty

icure is going to be a little more

Better heating methods gradually outmoded heavy canopies

careful to keep nicely polished and draperies as protectio

tips away from her mouth.

against drafts. ’

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justable compartments; the second and third drawers are divided into three sections and the lower in two.

a pull-out shelf to accomodate luggage ready for unpacking. There also is space for shoes

and other miscellaneous articles behind: the front platform of this shelf.

departments of local stores and through independent decor ators,

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in their simplicity. All were hard §

Plan Table Decoration § Contest

there for the public to vo the winners in this final

the winners of this final elimination

ithe exhibit will be a talk by Miss jon

will be Miss Jean Tabbert, The Times; Stewart, the Indianapolis Star; Miss Bettijane Mosiman, the Indianapolis News, and Miss Ruth Reynolds, radio station WIRE.

Girls Seize On Bow Ties

Below the bottom drawer is

Available in the decorating

NEW YORK—Lady Iris Mount-

able frippery—his bow tie—has been taken over by the girls,

hauls from gentlemen's ward-

Six Women's Groups “To Take Part Members of six women's organi-| will participate in a table judging contest to by Block's and

Groups include the of Catholic Women,

Block’s will give three prizes to

. They are: First place, $25; nd place, $10, and third place,

lyn King of Columbia Mills “Table Glamour.” Judges in the first elimination

Mrs. Lotys Benning

New Style Adorns Collar and Nape

MAN'S last claim to fashion-

Girls are not only snapping men's bow ties under their shirt collars but are converting their

robes into hair bows. The results come out far better, in most cases, than the effects which the helpless male is able to achieve with his bow ties. No girl is being encouraged to lift ties from a man’s tie rack with these fell purposes in mind. But if there is a man in the family who has switched to four-in-hands, he might be coaxed to pass on his discarded bow ties to his sister or daughter. If she can find two bow tiles that harmonize in color—say, for

batten, 29-year-old cousin of King George VI, plans to go to work|Print and the other is all navy

in New York to suppierhent her| income

valuation of the pound.

Plans to Retire

example, one is navy and white

blue—she can snap one under her shirt collar and the other one

o-OVEr her curls pulled to the back

of her neck to make a chignon.

U. S. Employs Women

WASHINGTON — One-fifth or

DETROIT- Mrs. Lillian M. nearly half a million of all Fed-

Plom, aged 61, who has been al/eral employees

LOUISE HOFFBAUER ANNOUNCES THE OPENING SUNDAY, NOV. ¢ OF THE LITTLE HOUSE 42 West Tenth Street

Between Illinois & Meridian Sts. Featuring furniture of all kinds and misc. items in china and glass. Cooper Chafing dish with small alchohol lamp. B & H and Rays lamps, electrified, cherry drop leaf table.

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This week we have a sale at 625 Middle Drive Woodruff Place, complete furnishings to vacate, property for sale.

ONLY AT RECKER'S We appraise and sell estates. Oarlos Recker; 1330 N. Meridfan Street. Phone RI ley 7847 Hours: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p. m. * *x * Willard Hotel Antique Shop, Franklin, Indiana “Eighteen miles south of Indianapolis on U. 8. 31. Open

FEATURE OF THE WEEK ‘Walnut silver table, turned legs, brass pulls, 3 drawers divided

in the United

barber in Detroit for the last 19 States, are females. * About 500 years, plans to retire, although|are top administrators earning she protests, “I love my work.” more than $5000 a year.

J. W. LEWIS 2008 W. Washington Street Fine selection of china and glass including pattern glass for Christmas Gifts. Many odd pieces such as decorative plates, vases and lamps. Items in unpolished brass and copper, ideal for potted flowers, odd chairs, day beds and stand tables.

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GA-BELL ANTIQUE SHOP Antiques, 517 N, New Jersey St. Several sets of rose back love seats and chairs, 2 sets of brass fireside tools, two 6x9 imported hooked rugs, _ one unusual; very old iron Franklin stove, several pieces of Dresden. Start your Christmas shopping early.

* * *x Take your anNS / tiques, such as old tea sets, candelabras, trays,

or any other item “ for plating by ex= veer Gold and sil » ne . an ver pla of all description on any kind of metal. Datings and markings not eliminated. J. A. Miles, 115 8. Capitol Ave. LI. 9160, * * *

DEN OF ANTIQUITY 1628 Pierson St. (Between Me-

deon, side stikrup type pump, Doz. Meissen lacy edge plates, needle

fg point foot stool, steins, Jersey swill Com-

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