Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1951 — Page 30

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By JEAN SPICKLEMIRE Times Homes Editor

t GCRAPBOOKS help one : '7 Indianapolis housewife set her table, pick her

dinner menus, arrange her

flowers. : _. She also uses them as a guide to wrapping gifts, planning parties and decorating her home. Clever Mrs. W. Irving Palmer, 5726 Broadway Terrace, began her collection 10 years ago. Now she literally spans the calendar with the books, a * “Just for fun” idea that’s turned into a “sing for your supper” hobby. Her ingenuity showed up early. When she and her husband first began to entertain, she typed her dinner¢ menus, kept a record of the likes and . dislikes of her guests.

= = LJ WHEN FAMILY duties became more pressing, she had td stop temporarily. Then ghe began again, keeping clippings from the magazines to which she subscribed. These include color picture layouts with the menus and recipes attached, ads with attractive table settings and stories with Unique suggestions: Mrs. Palmer also clips the *. descriptive portions of newspaper wedding notices, underlining the color schemes, church * “and reception decorations. Says. Mrs. Palmer, “Attrac- » tive tables and well-arranged food play a big part in a happier home life. The scrapbooks are a convenient way of keeping reference material to carry out these goals. They are a » constant source of inspiration 2 {ome ~ Although she does no professional work, the talented © homemaker enlists her books « 40 help her friends. She’s called * upon by her club and church groups to arrange-their parties, “ always does so graciously.

LJ = ” JUST RECENTLY she deco- % rated the tables of a church ¢ Thanksgiving dinner for 350 . people. All this, on a moment’s & notice. But it was no task at ¢ all, according to Mrs. Palmer. , She simply referred to her ++ scrapbooks to turn the trick. She gives talks to mothers ._ clubs, stressing the parent-

Rayon Carpet Wears Well

The woman who asks, ‘But

Scrapbooks

VIA SCRAPBOOKS—Mrs. W. Irving Palmer wraps her Yule packages.”

child relationship in gardening and home management. She also addresses church groups to whom she emphasizes the spiritual value of home activities. And she speaks on the practical phases of flower arrangement to the various city garden organizations. For 15 years she was a mem-

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‘ber of the Spade and Trowel Garden Club, now belongs to the Rose Society, u = » WHILE HER children were growing up. her parties for them made her a popular teenage erowd hostess. She simply drew on the wealth of fancy and foreign foods in her scrap-

ing as well as are the straightline tailored models.

In upholstered furniture,

Times photo by Dean Timmerman, a

books, the party ideas and holiday themes in her “archives.” For the beginning or veteran hostess, she suggests a simple formula for successful table design. Have a theme. Co-ordinate table linen, silver: china. Serve a variety of dishes, blending the latter with the table decor.

Type Designs

of richly figured veneers, and also in color tones in the wood finishes, to harmonize with the

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Guide ‘Matron Through Year

‘Women's Group

_ToHearMr.Dortch

Carl Dortech, Indianapolis’ Chamber of Commerce, will talk on “Problems of a Growing Community” at tomorrow's meeting of the Inter - Group Council for Women as Public Policy Makers.

The meeting will be at 8

p. m. in the Hotel Washington. °

Miss Alice Harding, program chairman, will introduce the speaker. Mrs. Walter Leckrone is council president.

Wreaths

Centerpiece |

Brightens Yule Table

ERE is a centerpiece that can be small and simple, or big and as elabo-

rate as you please. It's a beautiful bright spot for the family Christmas dinner

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table set with colored place |

mats, or important decoration

«for the 'big Christmas party

Add to Yule Spirit

AKE the inside of your home at holiday time as serene and beautiful as the snow-covered countryside on a clear December night.

Add delicate snowy-white wreaths throughout the house, Make them by skillfully combining dainty lace paper doilies with crepe paper, small Christmas balls and bright holiday

| ribbon.

First make a frame for the wreaths out of a piece of heavy spool wire bent to form a circle. Then take 5-inch.round paper doilies in the familiar snowRake pattern. Pinch each doily -in the center to form a rosette. Tie a piece of narrow spool wire around the pinched section leaving a 4-inch length of wire

table that's covered with a formal white cloth. :

The main ingredient meedn't |

be packed away until next year, —it can be eaten, and left unguarded, it may be dipped into too soon. Striped candy canes wrapped in cellophane, evergreen and ribbons are the makings. The

canes should be two or three |

heights for the center and tiny

to tie to the ribbons that stream |

outward to place settings. ” = »

USE A LOW bowl to hold the |

center canes, filled with wet sand or crushed chicken wire.

Place the bowl on a lazy | susan and bank the bowl with |

thick ‘evergreen, plenty of it to conceal the container. If the centerpiece is a big one, bright colored wrapped hard candies, tree ornaments or gilded nuts and cones might be sprinkled among the green.

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Ribbons may be all red, or |

red, pink and two shades of |

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Wrap your Gifts in Glamour . . . new glitter designs, foil stripes , , , truly the most beautiful wrappings, you can buy. With matching tags and ribbons for exira Ask to see our wonderful selection of matched gift a *for Christmas.

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green, Tuck a small sprig of | green in the bows tied to the |

canes.

You'll love them.

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at the end.

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| \ ATTACH THE doily rosettes | to the frame by laying the ex- |

tended ends of spool wire along

the frame and wrapping them 14 ¥ 4 with strips of white crepe paper | 9 0 { L 0 , K | L C #4 Ri A to hold them securely in place. | . C ] ]

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doily rosettes, Then add | sparkle touches. Attach tiny | clusters of red Christmas balls | at two or three places on the wreath.

Fasten a glamorous red satin |

ribbon bow at the top of the wreath with a loop from which the wreath can be suspended. Hang inside the front door, on hall doors, room doors, in archways and in windows.

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Use a | , J i - ' These are heavy-duty carpets ,. ,.... tilts "a5 h liked title from fruits, “Punkin” and trend will continue strong, with Second sudsing if necessary. | : ! _ made for use in public places styles on stilts,” 559 much like Black Raspberry.” Cinnamon full advantage taken of wood If a large and heavy eandle- — 7 much as theaters, stores, hotels DY some designers of the Salva- .brown adds spice to the palette. grains and textures, The ranch rip stain is stubborn, rub it | - : ’ N | and restaurants —places where tore Dali school, have not taken Forest and leaf green are hold- type home and the glass-apart- With turpentine before the sec- | » people meet in large numbers, hold in Towa. in Utah, in Ar- ing their own, while gray, a ment trend find double-purpose ©0nd sudsing. HHH] I . giving carpets a wearing which kansas or Tennessee. Free long-time favorite, has lost a’ furniture making full use of , | { * would cause the average living form tables, however, are sell- little ground. Metallic threads wall spaces necessary, and S S First i * room rug to wear {itself down are still doing well in the “functional” will again be a oap Jaw Firs ’ | i Rr to tattered shreds in a matter weaves. Nylon is coming for- word much used. Trestle-type Less elbow grease will be re- | f | of months. 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