Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1949 — Page 14

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Short, But Formal Evening Dress Is Popular—Although h Len Style Is Wern

"NEW YORK, Dee. nes This when he winter season brings

~~ of the hy hg, This for pig Ben igs A en wha i win

acts 1s the women are wearing. a al wha, When She ates heads turning het Wak, mh cl "In the Jaen of looking her loveliest when the lights . The short but formal evening dress hy erideared itself to any pumber of women, Others continue to love. the traditional long dress. Both types in current New York collections are shown In variety, many with sheath skirts and others with full-blown width, Beautiful gossamer fabrics, including nylon net and tulle, are

in on

to fall in soft folds from a molded

black velvet, designed bodice, are other, equally elegant

choices for special occasions and Don’ t Disca r d

holiday parties to come, Often | Pi he a aries or street: Tan Powder evening dress is often twopiece in the sense that it combines, Blend Shades 4 dress and companion Wrap Carefully Bummer's tan powder doesn't

coat, jacket or cape as the case may bs, Next shortest is the above-ankle-length dress, shown ngye to be discarded during the by several New York designers inisail when a girl needs to switch sequinned. or beaded chiffons 14 5 paler shade. reminiscent of the Twenties, | An economy trick is to continue One, with “bathing suit" bodice, 14 dust on any suntan shade of is in pale green over peach-tinted ga00 powder that's in use, but to taffeta, delicately embroidered ail jjit" oalor by blending in a light- _ over with iridescent sequins and or shade. A small box of powder “tiny beads. Another, in periwin:inat’s not much larger than a le blue chiffon, has an accordion-| ya mple size used for blending will pleated skirt and completely not only lighten the shade of a i bodice with cap sleeves. quark powder but will stretch a 3 The beloved ballet pe evening girl's supply, ress in a version, also ankie-| This blend-your-own procedure length, is shawn in white yeh is also one of the Ag ways to tulle over ‘White. taffeta, ¥ [accommodate .a face powder “layered, the skirt 1a decorated ao Ace as it dual loses its one side with drifts of pale-colored tawny color, tulle dividéd by a cluster of Pink If a fading tan leaves skin 1ookroses. < {Ing sallow, as it so often does, the Shi m-in-Front |owder- Diender showe mix a good of out-and-ou ink wder’ Typical of many of imier ono the dark powder shade which regal satin’ evening dresses 18 a 5h wants to lighten. #lim-in-front dress in rich te =

Instep-length-in- front, it stands

to a the Tat i WnoNG WAY Ask th i T Al * all and yet dif- for dinner, assuming ¢ will know that he is ex-wide-sk pected to spend the rest of

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handled simply for the most decorative effects, Heavy satin, lending ftsélf to standout drapery, wispy chiffon finely pleated, and rich!

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that it is necessary to include the friend's host and hostess | in the invitation. | RIGHT WAY: Realize that “the visitor cannot accept your invitation unless it in-

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should pace and good looks of an up-to-date room.

help his wife, a novice at the cooking game. When he heard her lament for the umpteenth time her times volved in broiling and roasting, he decided to put the informaHoB.on the kitchen wall.) graphs meant Mrs. Schwed no longer needed to

decided to make \ colorful. The addition of t

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By ELIZABETH HILLYER A CLOCK MAY keep time

accutately and still lag behind the times.

How about the clocks at

your house” Are their faces so familiar you don't notice how dowdy they look?

Important as clocks are, they: certainly match the

Here are stand-out clock

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George Nelson, The hands stand out Sepeciaily. NEL SON "feels you

Series Condenses Information

A BUCCESSFUL cook used to! become that way by charting her! HQT course with mother's heip. Mods! srn-day kitchen experts have al i much easier road. Simon and Schuster, Ine. the book-publishing people,” have released. just in time for Christmas, A cook chart series which neatly ~./condenses vital culinary information. The charts; made of toughbacked plastic, were concocted by Peter=Schwed.

(He voncéived the idea to

inability. to recall

and temperatures in-

t through a cook book while nds were covered with or her glasses were slidown her nose. Later they the charts

contrast backgrounds. and the different from each other that they can't be confused.

satin brass, walnut, birch and plate glass.

|A—Each houseplant is a problem . by itself. Philodendron is one

. solution on the plants when they

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Do Your Clocks Fit In?

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know where the numerals are, but what you want to know is where the hands are. Thus he uses numerals on only one clock, hands on all of them,

but unusually distinct

These hands are broad and sharply with

minute hand are so

Materials in these clocks are

chrome, lacquer,

Plexi-glass bubbles encase

the faces of both clocks on the right and the upper left clock has a ._coneave face.

By MARGUERITE SMITH

have terrible luck with houseplants. I've bought philodendron until I'm ashamed of myself. When new leaves come on they are only about half the size of others. I try not to water them too often. I wait until the earth gets dry, then water them. I've tried various methods of watering them, too,” but they all end up the same way. Can you help me? MRS. M. W.

that needs plenty of water. Do not let itg'get bone dry before watering again. I get best results with mine when I keep it always moist and let water stand around it at least part of the time. But check the soil, also. It likes a loose rich mix.

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The Doctor Says—

Cough That

Hangs on

Is Serious

Chronic Condition Can Hint Disease

A LONG-LASTING cough is no

to ignore it and just try to ea the cough = with drug sto remedies,

in medical books. One of

lease, Valuable time may be lo

[if a cough caused by tuberculbsis

is ignored.

Chronic sinus infection or in-

fection in the nose may cau

{small amounts of mucus or pus to |drop down the back of the throat {producing an irritation and hack-|

{ing cough.

An inflammation of the bron-

chial tubes called bronchitis frequently at fag.

cov GH CAN * a for a long recovery,

[trom pneumonia or other acute

after apparent

{Infections of the lungs.

Even if the cause of the cough [itself is not impoytant and does a severe {eough over a long period of time may cause the small air tubes running to the lungs to become | dilated and filled with mucus or |pus, eventually producing the dis-|

[not require treatment,

ease called bronchiectasis,

| Bronchiectasis-ts-hard to treat {and may itself cause the cough

to go on and on. It is not necessary

if other symptoms,

the exact cause.

lead to the negleet of some ser ous-undertying disease.

DR. ANSWERS—

Question: What are the chief characteristics of a person addicted to the use of dope? Answer: I presume this question means narcotics of the opium family. The symptoms at first may be unobservable. Later, loss of weight and appetite, excessive paleness of the skin, nervousness, sleeplessness and other symptoms can develop.

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ture. Try straight compost for it, if you have any. Of course, you-can raise it in water alone but that brings problems, too. You might try some fertilizer

Gevelop such small leaves.

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Pennsylvania made them decorative, tao. Local housewives will ba delighted to find the set—there two charts — under Christmas tree. They'll .

merely by wiping the surface with a clean cloth. Punched |

hung on kitchen wall, door or cabinét by using tacks, hooks | of or picture cord, i {lable in local book shops.

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service organised by the South Africa, branch of

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" when there's less garden work] to do. But light sandy soil turned in fall exposed

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and thereby to constant winter wind may have the finest and richest part of it blown away

At a time when contributions

parents are

by wind erosion. And on a slope, however gentle, bare land erodes so much during winter rains and snows that the ad-

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three-fourths of the stomach removed for an ulcer, is it still possible to gain weight? Yes. As long as _ sufficient food can be taken into the stomiach, even if in many small meals, and digested, it remains possibie to gain weight,

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There are many possible causes for a chronic cough. At least 20 or 30 possible causes are described,

the most serious, of course, is tubecculosis of the lungs and indeed cough may be the first {symptom of this dangerous dis-|

to be| alarmed unduly about a cough] which does not seem to gO AWAY. if. however, a cough seems to be lasting too fong and éspecially such -as- loss of weight or slight fever are tit {s-wise-to try to find A succession of self-purchased cough sirups may

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