Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1950 — Page 32
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_ SUNDAY, SEPT. 10, 1950
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“Food o on Wheels Will Make Homemaker’ s Life Simpler
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rtormal Tricks | Make Company Tables Prettier
: Tiny Bouquets of Flowers, Unusual Holders : Will Distinguish More Formal Meals, Too
By ELIZABETH TOOMEY, United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept. 9—A table can be set perfeetly, down to the last pickle fork, and still be a dull background) for a company meal.
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Just didn’t Ey the’ table ting job correetly. She didn't take time to have fun and try some original ideas. ; Mrs. Morrison arranges some glittering table displays for the International Silver Co. even though she insists she's just a housewife, not a table stylist. “I was called in by my husband, who's an executive at the | company, to arrange some tables once in an emergency, and I've : 4 heen doing it ever since,” she explained. “I don’t know any rules. | I just fix them the way I think they look pretty.” : At home, when she and her husband entertain their grandchildren in their rambling Connec ticut farm house, she's likely to use informal tricks. Here are some of her ideas, both for formal and informal’ meals: . “Keep it simple,” she says. “If Two-handled model with removable serving trays. vou start out with an elaborate — }
flower arrangement, then the din- | ner looks like an ossabion hd Plan Kitchen ! vou have to live up to it. ! | Efficiently
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Locust May
Replace Elm °r Variety Looms
Cork-surfaced shelves will hold an entire meal.
Peonies Grow
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As Ideal Lawn Tree : you use individual flower grou Plant breeding history is full your guests won't expect of exciting stories. A recent one pcp» oe"
involves the new Moraine honey She scatters tiny bouquets of Kk hs eiciency kitchen, the If you've. a shady vard. con-| Jocust, new tree that promises to flowers over:a table, sometimes SOR tat CAN De Jun sider peonies. They'll do best in replace many much-mourned elms. putting one near each place, and husband runs his office, is just! full sun but they'll take half sometimes just grouping them shade if they must,
An Ohio nursery with seeing a dream for many women, There!
around candles in the center. Al-
turned out to be'a fast grower, silver salt shakers, fill the shak- ern appliances. Yoo ers with water and tuck a few portant to the housewife, home . little flowers in them,” she said. economists point out, is an efiIts: thornlessness and seedless- “Or I use silver baby cups, open ciently arranged kitchen which! ness make it neat as a tea apron salt dishes or cigaret boxes.” features the use of labor-saving| when it is planted as a lawn tree! When her individual flower materials.
But just as imSand and gravel make “poor| { peonies — they want a | humus-y mixture, get: bone meal, | fertilizer, not manure. And they
doesn’t sucker from the roots. puts a tiny pin. flower holder in splashbacks is proof that the Filters Sun the center, covers it with foil, wiser homemakers -are working! Added to all these virtues, it too, and sticks the flower stems forward to a shorter day in the grows in the lovely vase form of through the foil. kitchen. the elm as it gets older and ifs If she uses artificial flowers, One of the big reasons some lacy locust foliage is not only a she packs modeling clay inside housewives are needlessly putting delight to look at but delights the the aluminum foil lining and in extra, tiring hours in the grass under it with filtered sun- sticks the flower stems in this. kitchen, most home economists _ shine, She prefers place mats to a agree, is that counters don't fit] The Moraine locust, say those table cloth, since “to look really the woman. A good height for who have observed it, may well well a damask table cloth has to counters is 32 inches. That's just become the “elm” of the future be pressed within an inch of its about right for the average five as a disease resistant shade and life, and most women haven't the foot, four inch American houselawn tree. time today.” wife,
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By JEAN TABBERT TODAY'S HOSTESS hasn't discarded the tea wagon along with the antimacassar. She's just.made it serve a new purpose, | Where her grandmother used a tpa wagon for the orthodox | | | |
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serving of tea, the modern homemaker regards it as her extra | servant . . , more likely her only servant, With it there’s no need, she finds, to adopt a jumping jack | technique at the dinner table. She needn't pop up and down to bring In each course. Plates and food stand stacked beside | her place; used plates can be stacked and rémoved with a mini- | mum of effort, Because of their increasing popularity, manufacturers have | offered a wide range of styles to fit into any decorative scheme. | | They've given them dual-purpose functions, too, serviceable attributes that add to their usefulness. Shown top left is a two-handied model designed by Edward | Wormley, designer for Dunbar. Modern in character, the wagon is fitted with two removable serving trays on the lower shelf. The
drop leaves at the sides turn up to make a breakfast-table for two, The piece is made in sandal, old world or amber mahogany | along with 20 other finishes, | | |
ANOTHER DUNBAR unit I= version shown top right. Also designed” hy Mr. Wormley, three cork-surfaced shelves. an entire meal, A single, capacious drawer stores fine silver, napkins and place mats, When not in use as a tea cart, the piece can be set against the wall to store 12-inch record albums on the lowest shelf, 10-inchers on the upper one. All Dunbar- pieces are exclusive . at Ayres’,
More and more Americans are using wrought ‘tron in their home interiors. In the latest Salterini line a tea wagon is included, too. Shown bottom above, it has two glass levels on which drinks as well as food can be served, It's designed to fit in with other wrought iron designs of the firm. That means it can be wheeled outdoors next summer to | aid the summer hostess. Available at Adams., Inc.
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eves picked out. the parent tree most anything serves as a holder re still a lov of iheficient; Their needs are Simple. They're -. from some 10,000 locust seedlings. for these tiny flowers. Kitchens around, the experts say. not ducks, so they" don't like! ! ! . " Many housewives, however, . i rou | With hardiness natural to its line Aluminum Useful have cut their kitchen work time water sianding around them. of ancestors, the tree happily ‘Sometimes I take the top off a great deal by installing mod- {They don't like to be crowded
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"Design Your Home To Suit Husband, New Brides Told
Men Must Have Room for Hobbies, Place to Work After Office Hours
By JOHN ROSENBURG, United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept. 9—Brides who want to preserve
oil Marriage are ard by Sebi “Let the old boy put his feet on the furniture if Hh wants to,” {the designer, Harriet Sherry, said. “Therefore, buy furniture that ican stand it.” 5 . : . Miss Sherry said too many women try to design homes to sui themselves and ignore the needs and desires of their husbands. It's la good way for a newly- -married woman to get off on the wrong foot, she observed. . “th ov thy men alike when it comes to the w There are no two re |fore designing and decorating her home, should try to learn just {what her husband's needs would be. “Her objective is to please her man, ‘not to. try to arouse the envy of her friends, or to keep should be a place furnished praclup_with ‘the current vogue.” tically and one that is decorated First, Miss Sherry said, it must jn gych a way as to cause the pe decided just what functions the least amount of distraction. home furnishings are to perform.| «Other men have hobbies. They, The bride must ask herself too, must have room to practice whether—in addition to living— their hobby. It does no good for the home is to be used for enter- a wife to laugh them off or to try taining or business, and suppress them. “Here's a warning about the . man with a hobby—don't try te “Many men, especially attor- stick him in fhe basement or in neys, must bring work home after the garage, where the lighting office hours,” Miss Sherry said. and heating probably are poor, ‘In that case, there must. be a Give him a room he'll be proud place for them to work in. It of.”
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