Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 43, DeMotte, Jasper County, 8 September 1944 — Page 3

SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLECRAFT These Smart Bags Knit in a Jiffy

Two Smart Bags

JIFFY knit these two smart bags that will mark you as a wrelldressed woman. They’re done in heavy upholstery cord.

Criminals Given Choice Of No Salt or Hanging

None of us can live without salt. Perspiration resulting in loss of salt from the human body makes men liable to muscular cramps. Several years ago a doctor and three medical students deliberately deprived themselves of all salt. Strange symptoms soon resulted. Appetite was lost, food seemed tasteless, cigarettes lost their flavor, cramps in the muscles developed, and all suffered from excessive fatigue and a general sense of exhaustion. At one time one of the legal punishments in Holland was to deprive a man of his salt. It led to depression and illness. Condemned criminals in Sweden were once allowed, if they wished, to abstain from salt for a month instead of mounting the scaffold. The result was practically a certain death.

Claim for Dead Arab $200; For His Mule It’s $250

While no country is required by International law to pay claims to foreign civilians for death or damage resulting from combatant or nopcombatant action of its armed forces, the U. S. government does compensate for accidents not occurring during battle and has paid over $2,100,000 to some 18,000 claimants, says Collier's. As these payments are based on local values, the accidental death of a North African Arab, for example, costs us only S2OO, while that of his mule costs $250.

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Cord used for smart jiffy knit bags. Pattern 7129 contains directions for two bags; stitches; list of materials needed. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers.

Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 564 W. Randolph St. Chicago 80, 111. Enclose 15 cents (plus one cent to cover cost of mailing) for Pattern No Name Address

Black Ice Simply Dusty; Antarctic Ocean Crowded

Glaciers flow from the land into the sea, where a portion breaks off, thus forming the giant icebergs that start their travels in the open waters. Sometimes these bergs appear to be black, due to the fact that, while still landlocked, dust has settled on their surface, to be superimposed with a thin layer of transparent ice. It is curious that though the Antarctic continent supports very little animal life, the Antarctic seas are more crowded with it than the tropical seas. Practically 90 per cent of the world’s supply of whale-oil comes from whales harpooned in the Antarctic ocean. Apart from whales, however, the inhabitants are mainly minute forms of marine life.

Scalloped Tops for Kitchen Curtains Or Sash Curtains in Any Other Room

HERE is a new idea for your kitchen curtains—or for sash curtains for any room. Crisp, sheer material such as lawn or organdie may be used and white or a plain light color will be most effective. The curtains are hung

Adaptable Wisdom

Wisdom is reason saturated with irrational knowledge and with stored-up experience, continually adapted to the moving waters of life, inseparable from action, which it guides and fertilizes, and so reasonable that it knows, whenever necessary, how to sacrifice reason.—Salvador de Madariaga.

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THE KANKAKEE VALLEY POST, DE MOTTE, INDIANA

By Ruth Wyeth Spears

AROUND THE HOUSE

To clean rust from any kind of farm implements, dissolve one can of lye in five gallons of water and apply with an old broom or brush. Scrub well, the rust will come off quickly. — • — When the metal tip comes off a shoe lace, it is not necessary to discard the lace. A satisfactory tip can be put on quickly and easily by dipping the end of the lace in melted paraffin or beeswax and shaved to a point before the wax hardens. When flour bin or other kitchen container leaks dry ingredients, I pour melted paraffin or beeswax into the cracks and let it harden. — • — A bit of wax rubbed on the bottoms of rockers will prevent them marking even the glossiest of floors. —_ Knitted woolens and wool dresses and skirts washed by hand are less likely to shrink or become matted than if cleaned in a washing machine. Oftentimes a pretty flower arrangement cannot be achieved because the frog is not the right size or shape. In this case, make one by melting paraffin, molding it in the desired shape and punching holes with a heated ice pick.

above eye level on a single rod fastened to the window sash. The four-inch-deep scalloped hem at the top shows through the sheer material giving a very decorative effect and the rings sewn to the points of the scallops make it possible to slide the curtains back and forth on the rods. The trick in making the scalloped hem is in being sure that the curved edges follow a sharp, clean-cut line. All the steps are shown here in the diagrams. Use a small saucer or a large cup for marking the scallops, and when you turn them right side out, pull the material out smoothly at the points with a pin. * * * NOTE The graceful corner bracket that you see beside the window in the sketch, also the stenciled wooden cookie box on the counter are made with pattern No. 266. The shelf is fourteen inches wide and the box is about seven inches high The pattern for the shelf and the quaint peasant figures and lettering on the box are actual size. All directions and color guide are included. Patterns are 15 cents each postpaid. Address:

MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for each pattern ordered. Name Address

Fill coffee pot half full of cold water, add 1 teaspoon of soda and bring to a boil for a few minutes. Then the pot should be washed in clean water. — • — Garden tools free from rust are easier to work with and, if a small can of tractor oil and an old shaving brush are kept handy, it takes little time to clean and oil the tools after using. — • — If it is necessary to carry a number of small drills in your pocket, an old spectacle case comes in handy in which to carry them. — • — _ If ice cubes arc held under warm water for a few seconds, they will have no sharp edges to jab or cut the precious rubber icebag. — •— When clothes must be ironed soon after dampening, always use hot water as it penetrates the material more quickly.

Faulty Work

Every piece of work which is not as good as you can make it, which you have palmed off imperfect, meagerly thought, niggardly execution, upon mankind, who is your pay-master on parole, and in a sense your pupil, every hasty or slovenly or untrue performance, should rise up against you in the court of your own heart and condemn you for a thief.—R. L. Stevenson.

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