The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 44, Milford, Kosciusko County, 3 December 1969 — Page 12
THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., Dec. 3, 1969
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Tricks For Holiday Table Setting
NEW YORK — For festive entertaining during the holidays every hostess wants to set a table that reflects both her personality and her good taste. Tricks with table linens can provide these keys to elegant holiday decorating. Home furnishings experts report that a linen collection of interchangeable colors and textures can provide endless unique effects. A single set of china can be given an entirely different look by using it with table linens in two colors taken from the china’s pattern — or in two shades of the same color. For instance, with a Wedgwood china pattern, you might use a Wedgwood blue tablecloth with white napkins. Or you can contrast two shades of blue, one of which matches the Wedgwood. Or you might want to select the traditional colors of the holiday itself. For a table with its own beautiful wood finish, a heavytextured green linen runner, a pot of red poinsettias and a pair of chunky red candles can provide a contemporary Christmas table setting. Change to a sheer-weave linen tablecloth and your table setting takes on a more formal personality. For that late buffet by candlelight, try a heavy-textured cloth in a deep red with masses of red and purple anemones, and watch your china change its face again! Or let yourself be guided by the color of the food. For example, cream of celery soup looks most appealing when it is set on a cool green cloth with green napkins. And you can also tuck a green and white print napkin inside the roll basket. If you want to go completely dramatic, use a black cloth with hot pink or lemon-yellow napkins. Fold the napkins on the plate,
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rather than placing them to the side. Or, if you are using placemats rather than a full cloth, roll the napkins on the diagonal, then fold them in half and tuck them into the water glasses. At first glance, the napkins will give the impression of individual candlesticks. The exciting aspect of linens is that they are not only elegant and festive but they are practical, as well. Belgian linen, which is deservedly known as “the aristocrat of fabrics,” is fresh and lovely after laundering — but all linens require certain care techniques. It’s important to know how to keep them looking new and how to make them last. Stains, such as gravy, catsup, coffee, egg, wine, many fruits and fruit juices, yield to an Axion pre-soak in cook 6r lukewarm water. And since bleach can be used on only pure white linen, authorities recommend the en-zyme-active pre-soak for the natural shades as well as for all colored linens. They also advise pre-soaking stains on your linens as quickly as possible. If you have linens that have yellowed or grayed since you last used them, the Axion pre-soak laboratories report that the enzyme action can help bring them back to brightness again. When laundering the printed or solid color linens, use the “cold” or “warm” setting of the washer and the normal amount of regular detergent. Embroidered or lace-trimmed linens should be hand-washed in cool or warm suds, or done on the delicate cycle in the washer. Hang to dry, pulling the linens taut. Or dry on the cotton-linen cycle of the dryer until damp-dry. Then iron slowly, while they are still evenly damp, using the hot iron “linen” setting. Before linens are stored, care should be taken to see that all spots have been pre-soaked from them. Then, either wrap them in tissue paper or large plastic bags or inter-slip them with sheets of wax paper, and they will be fresh and crisp for the next use. To start your linen collection, home authorities recommend the following minimums: 2 mat sets in plain colors, prints or weaves 1 or 2 bright-colored table squares (52 inches or full table size) 1 informal, no-iron table-size print 1 large white cloth, plain or lace-trimmed 1 fine mat set or Madeira
Mt B , i k I dL Mi MUSIC THEME—The drama of these Christmas music print napkins is heightened by folding them on the plates and using “Deck the Halls” lyrics on a linen print as runners—all on a pure linen tablecloth in solid red or green.
b#La # I A’ < fl Ki USE WOOD FINISH—To use the wood finish of your table as part of the holiday party decor, use runners with napkins in the accent color.
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embroidered cloth 12 individual napkins in white, or solids, or prints (to mix-and-match) And, of course, since linens are so beautiful, and modern laundering techniques have made them so practical, they make excellent solutions to the problems of holiday gift-giving. I shall temper justice with mercy. — John Milton.
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Mrs. Mack Bright Receives Mental Health Award WASHINGTON, D.C., — A woman who learned tolerance, compassion and the love of handicapped through her young, retarded and psychotic nephew, and, therefore, dedicated her life to helping the mentally ill, today received the nation’s highest mental health award during the meeting of the National Association for Mental Health at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington. D. C. Mrs. Mack Bright, 788 South Broadwhy, Blackfoot, Idaho, received the Katherine Hamilton Volunteer of the Year Award presented by the Indiana Mental Health Memorial Foundation. Miss Amy Vanderbilt, chairman of the Awards Committee of the National Association for Mental Health, presented a plaque and a check for SI,OOO to Mrs. Bright, which she will use to help purchase a bus for the patients at State Hospital South in Blackfoot. Nominations for the coveted award came from 18 states. Only close relatives of patients who are or have been hospitalized with mental illness are eligible for the award which is named in honor of Miss Katherine Hamilton of Terre Haute, a long time volunteer worker for the mentally ill and a sister of a patient who died in an Indiana state hospital. Senator Frank Church of Idaho said, “The honor which is being bestowed on Mrs. Bright is highly deserved and is an honor for the State of Idaho.” Mrs. Bright was the sixth person to win the national award. It was first awarded to Mrs. Reuben Waller of Salisbury, Maryland in 1964; to Mrs. Franklin Kearney, Indianapolis in 1965; to John Edward Counts of Farmington, Missouri in 1966; to Norris Adams, Jr., of Ankeny, lowa in 1967; and to Mrs. Joseph DeGross of Weehawken, New Jersey in 1968. The award was made possible when Miss Hamilton left the bulk of her estate to the Mental Health Association in Indiana and to her Vigo county chapter. The "State Association then formed the Indiana Mental Health Memorial Foundation which is dedicated to undertake, promote and develop research, education and all services related to the field of mental health through the careful use of bequests.
Attend GOP Meeting At Shrine Several persons from this area attended the Republican meeting at the Shrine building November 19. Will Erwin was the featured speaker, and as usual, he spoke freely with only a few notes. He held the attention of the crowd with his direct manner of speaking. He spoke of the recent demonstrations in Washington, D. C. and his horror when he saw a young teenage girl wearing a jacket which had a picture of the American flag on the back, but the flag had a big cross through it. He spoke mainly of President Nixon’s interest in the rural areas and small communities. He barely touched on his work on the president’s agricultural program as he said President Nixon wished to release the board’s findings at a later date. State Representatives Arthur Coblentz and Thames Mauzy were present and spoke briefly. Ralph Heine was unable to attend.
Indiana Schools Undergoing Some Radical Changes
A MAJOR CHANGE in Indiana’s education system has been making bigger school units out of little ones. We interviewed Arthur Campbell director of School Reorganization in the Superintendent of Public Instruction’s Os Hee. Campbell has had a distinguished career in education and business. He served as State Correction prison head and in his present capacity under nine Indiana governors of various political faiths. Between 96 and 97 per cent of the some one million 100 thousand school children in Indiana are now in reorganized schools. It took a 30 year battle to get rid of the one-room school houses and to reorganize inefficient and costly small school units into efficient larger ones. Whether we like it or not, the job of school reorganization is nearly complete; awaiting adjudication of a few court appeals and a final act by the Legislature. Most states completed school reorganization by a single legislative act, while it has taken Indiana 30 years to see light at the end of that tunnel. The late Gov. Henry F. Schricker explained delay by telling me that school reorganization should come from the grass roots up rather than the top down. A few lawyers have found it lucrative to collect funds from opponents and tie up school reorganization by appeal after appeal. However, in every case tried the courts have upheld the reorganization. We asked Campbell to present the case for school reorganization. Highlights of what he said follows. Schools are costly but would be more so were it not for reorganized schools. Principal hurdles of school reorganization in Indiana have been pride in the basketball team and the opposition by township trustees. Take for example the little town of Holland in Dubois County. It had a good basketball team. It fought school reorganization to the bitter end
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before it was accomplished. Township trustees, a constitutional office, ran the schools and at the same time had a heavy hand in politics. Joining with allies of county office, they could block any piece of legislation presented. Now they are a vanishing breed. Their functions now are carried on in the reorganized schools by a board. Way back in the Townsend administration of the 1930 s three of we educators, at our own expense, surveyed the wasteful one room school houses. All eight years of schooling were recited in one room. Were you a good pupil the teacher would let you tote in wood and bring a bucket of water upon which a drinking cup was tied. I took a picture of the last of the one-room school houses. It was in Franklin county northwest of Brookville. Reorganization of small school units into larger ones has been accomplished in 74 of the 92 counties of the state. Reorganization in the remaining counties may be only one township to half the county. Half a dozen suits against reorganization are pending. In Posey county all schools unorganized are New Harmony and Harmony township with a mere handful of students. Reorganization exposes pupils to a better educational program. It affords a broader curriculum of studies and better qualified teachers. In some counties formerly offering some 40 units of credit now enable the student to get 60 or 70. Reorganization into larger units is especially valuable in
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obtaining qualified teachers in specialized subjects such as language and science. It permits the broadening of vocational education which Indiana needs badly. From an administrative standpoint the larger school units under reorganization operate much better. For instance Crawford county had 10 townships and now it is one. This effects much cheaper buying of supplies and other necessities of education in quantities. Reorganization effects savings in bus transportation. There is less overlapping in mileage of school busses. Reorganizing small school units into larger ones involves a more nearly equalization of the tax burden. Likely a legislative mandatory act will be necessary to bring the holdout units into line with the rest of the state, and for Indiana to obtain 100 per cent school reorganization. LET YOUR CAR ENGINE WARM UP On cold mornings it is important to let your car engine warm up before venturing into traffic, advises the Chicago Motor Club — AAA. This good safe driving habit helps prevent stalling and also prolongs the life of your engine. But remember: If you keep your car in a private garage, open all doors of the building before starting the engine. In a closed garage, the concentration of carbon monoxide from the exhaust of your car can be deadly. Militants hail Episcopal move on “reparations.”