The Syracuse Journal, Volume 22, Number 17, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 22 August 1929 — Page 2

CHARMING FROCK FOR CHILD; GAY JACKET FOR EARLY FALL

IT IS not so easy to distinguish between fashions of an American tot and those of a wee daughter of France ns it was of yore, for the reason that Juvenile America is more and more developing a style complex commensurate with that heretofore ascribed to la petite Parisienne. in referring, therefore, to the cunning dress pictured one does not hesitate 'to recommend this Paris-made model as charming for any little girl whether she he of American or French extraction. The clever note about this modish frock is its fanciful pointed Jabot treatment. Also it has a very

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wpJI / b ''X I a / I A Cunning Dress for the Little Giri. unusual yoke which is deeper at one side than at the other. It seems that Paris couturieres are this season making striking trimming the individualizing touch on little girls dresses rather than •‘lines” or silhouette of the frock itself. All sorts of fantastic decoration is employed as achieved through appliqued motifs, intricate insets and band Stitr-hery of every description. With the decorative thought in mind, washable hand-painted flowers beautify georgette party dresses, likewise florals 01 modernistic designs done in gay wool yarns give high color to many a diminutive coat or dress. Chenille embroidery is very new for tots frocks. Worked on either crepe, taffeta o>- wool chalfls it is very effective. Puffed flower work is also a departure from the usual flat applique. For this thin silk is crinkled or puffed to form each flower petal rather than stretched smoothly or laid flat. in appliques the modernistic Influ ence is strong both as to color combinations and designs. Especially do imported Italian felt coats stress the extreme in color effects. There are esi>ecially many border effects encrusting bits of multicolored felt in a manner reminiscent of mosaic work. Amusing applique motifs are also ap-

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plied to dresses of various materials. Because of this flair for felt applique design, the better fancy work departments offer for a few pennies each swatches of felt in any desired color. Three popular materials for children’s dresses are wool challis, shantung and silk pique. It is said that challis in dainty solid tints or prettily printed will be very much tn evidence this fall. Shantung being washable Is very practical and its attractiveness Is enhanced with gay yarn embroidery. Coats for infants are made of silk pique in the daintiest of tones. Short rather than long is the verdict recently rendered for the unllned separate coat. Midseason styles

The Scarf Bandeau Smart heads are wearing the scarf bandeau in modernistic printed silk crepe. This scarf is specially cut so that it ties at one side in very beguiling fashion. It is worn for tennis, motoring, boating—any out door sport. New Apron* Aprons, curiously, follow the new vogue for skirt fullness. Many a new one is belted, with plaits, godets, flounces <>r other of the season’s skirt innov: in rated in their cut

especially place emphasis on the shortened jacket. It is a short-rather-than-long coat which gives the final touch of chic to the costume in the lower picture. If one is the possessor of a sleeveless print frock (most women own not one but several), the addition of a little jacket similar to this one will tune ft admirably to midseason wear. Which is exactly what many are doing this very minute—buying or making cunning jackets such as will extend the wearableness of their frocks of gay print into the cool fall days. Color is a very Important considers-

tion when choosing the right jacket for the right gown. Either white or high colors are most successfully mated with the more summery frocks in light print for Immediate wear. It is a little jacket of heavy white crepe which imparts a flattering finesse to the print gown illustrated. The jacket which fastens with a softly tied bow as does this one is a favored type. Many women are taking advantage of the short-jacket vogue to sound s startling color note in an ensemble way. For Instance, a tangerine and brown silk print dress topped with an orange-colored flannel or crepe jacket, the same surmounted with a matching felt hat, becomes an exponent of midseason chic. If there is one color more than another which is being featured at this writing it is orange, or call it tangerine if you will, the vogue carrying even into bright pumpkin shades. Coming back to the short-jacket phase of the mode, the popularity for immediate wear of the sleeveless pique frock with jacket accompaniment should be mentioned. The smart est are self-colored. That is. a pale yellow pique which companions with a jacket of flat crepe silk tn perfectly matched color bespeaks that which is fashionable. In the same matching spirit, a delicate pink crepe coatee -is posed over a silk or cotton pique, the one equally as fashionable as the other. Contracting the white and vivid toned little jackets are those in navy these same being very popularly worn with white and printed frocks. The subject of jacket and frock costumes suggests a very Interesting theme —that of the new silks for fall which feature a print weave with a plain in choicely related colors. The newest types which are simply too

beautiful for words are called plumage silks, so named because of their real istic bird colorings. Watch for these' If madam asks to be snown plumagt silks in pheasant colorings, or pea cock tones, or parrot shades, the sales person will bring our the most in triguing combinations, perhaps a mar velous print all in yellows and ruddj browns which look as if it had cap tured all the glorious tints of the pheasant. With it will be shown the same silk weave in a beguiling pheas ant brown in solid tone. The Idea is* to use the print for say the frock and the plain for the coat, or vice versa if you prefer. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (©. 1929. Western Newspaper Union.)

Red Evening Wrap* Transparent velvet evening wraps-in a luscious raspberry shade of red are worn over white or egg-shell frocks. In the majority of cases they reach just to the knees, a length that is smartest with the longer evening frocks. Unlined Silk Coat* Unlined silk coats, some in straightline effect, others with tiers of capes, are shown by the most exclusive shops for wear over printed silk frocks.

S: ™ KITCHCNM CABINETSa <©. 1929. Waatarn Newspaper Union.) One of the curious superstitions of friendship is that we somehow choose our friends. To the connoisseur in friendship no idea could be more amazing and incredible. Our friends are chosen*for us by some hidden law of sympathy, and not by our conscious pwills.-—Ran-dolph S. Bourne. HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS Do as much of the canning, pickling and preserving as possible each week

as the fresh berries, apples and other fruits come on. One of the nicest sweet pickles may be made from the early Duchess apple before it has

matured. Pickle Just as one does peaches and they will be enjoyed next winter. When the apples are quite green the peeling is best left on. Core and cut into quarters and proceed as for peaches as follows: Make a sirup of four pounds of brown sugar, one pint of mild vinegar and boil ten minutes with a loose bag of mixed spices, stick cinnamon, cassia buds, allspice and a teaspoonful of cloves, one-half cupful in all. Skim and add the apples. cook until tender, then remove the apples, cook the sirup down a few minutes and pour over boiling hot. Pears (the small hard ones) are nice pickled in this way, but they will need longer cooking. Uncooked English Chutney. — Take one pound each of ripe tomatoes and tart apples, four medium sized peppers, eight medium Sized onions, half a cupful of mint leaves, one and onehalf teaspoonfuls of salt, two cupfuls of granulated sugar, and three cupfuls of vinegar. Chop the tdmatoes. add the salt and mix. Chop other ingredients. Scald the vinegar and cool, add sugar and mustard, mix all well, and let stand two weeks before using, stirring occasionally. Piquant Apple Jelly.—Cut up crab apples or any early tart apples, add a cupful of vinegar, a bag of mixed spices and enough cold water to just appear between the fruit. Boil covered until mushy, stirring and mashing, then strain through a jelly bag. The next morning measure the juice, boil hard with the bag of spices ten minutes, remove the spices and add an equal measure of hot sugar. Boil three to five minutes, skimming carefully. Put tn glasses. Plum Conserve.—To six pounds of pitted plums add six pounds of sugar, three oranges and one lemon, put through the meat chopper, add one and one-half pounds of seeded raisins. Boil slowly until the consistency of jelly and put into hot sterilized glasses. Midsummer Desserts During the warm weather, light iesserts and those that are frozen are

the most acceptable. The following will be suggestive : Grape Juice Parfait.—Boil one cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of grape juice until

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It threads, then pour in a; fine stream | slowly over the whites of two beaten eggs, beating constantly. Chili. Add ine-half cupful of grape juice and one tablespoonful of lemon juice to two cupfuls of heavy cream, beat until stiff, then fold in the first mixture. Turn tnto a mold, adjust the cover and pack in ice and salt Un mold after standing for four hours or longer. Serve on a lace paper covered plate, covered with candied violets. Orange Tarts.—Make small pastry shells by baking them on the bottom of small gem pans. Fill with the following: Take one cjspful of sugar, four tablespoonfuls of flour, a bit of salt and the grated rind of an orange, three-fourths of a cupffll of orange juice, two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, two eggs slightly beaten and one-half tablespoonful of butter. Cook ten minutes in a double boiler, stirring constantly. Fill the shells and spread with a meringue. Use orange extract to flavor the meringue. Serve cold. Currant Pie.—Mix two and one-half cupfuls of fresh ripe currants with two cupfuls of sugar, one-half teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of flour and two egg yolks mixed with two tablespoonfuls of water anti a tablespoonful of butter. Bake in two crusts. Sprinkle the top with powdered sugar and serve. Baked Tapioca Pudding.—Mix onefourth cupful of minute tapioca with one-third of a cupful ok sugar, one-half teaspoonful of salt, stir into three cupfuls of boiling water and cook until the mixture is clear, then stir in three well beaten eggs. Turn into a buttered baking dish and bake in a moderate oven .until the pudding is firm in the center. Pineapple sauce or any fruit sauce may be served with it. Apples cut in eighths, or peaches or pears may be baked with the pudding and serve with cream. Junket ice Cream.—Heat to luke warm one quart of milk, add one junket tablet crushed and dissolved in a tablespobnful of warm water. Flavor with vanilla and add one cupful of heavy cream and one cupful of sugar. Freeze and serve in halves of muskmelon well- chilled. Top with bit's of candied ginger. Inherent Ambition Every child born in Ober-Ammer-gau is bred up in the tradition of the Passion play. From the time that it begins to speak it looks forward to the time when It shall be one of the 500 or 600 chosen to perform. • Marvelous Emerald An emerald as large as an orange was one of the wonders that the Spanish adventurers found in an Indian village when they came to Colombia' in the Sixteenth century.

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MfIIAKD WHEN HARD RIPE PICK APPLE CROP Keeping Qualities of Fruit Depends on Ripeness. Picking, handling and exhibiting apples may be summarized as follows: Produce the best quality of fruit possible. Pick it when it will make the highest quality and most attractive product Handle carefully at all times and keep it as cool as possible after picking. Apples should be picked for market when hard ripe. Hard ripe means that the fruits have not softened to any extent, but are mature enough that they will soften and become eating ripe after picking. Picked too late these fruits soften either on the tree or soon after picking, and as a consequence break down and decay. On the other hand, if picked too early, they have poor color and eating quality when they are eating ripe, and are more subject to diseases in transportation and storage. There are limits on either side of the proper time to pick fruit These are easy to recognize, and economic necessity forces fruit growers to observe them. Fruit should not be picked before it has attained fair size and color, because the grower cannot generally sell it to advantage. Fruit should not be left on the tree until it drops, for fallen fruit as a rule cannot be sold at a satisfactory price. For best results, fruits must be picked between these two stages. One of the best indications that apples are ripe enough to pick is the change of the ground color from green to yellow. Immature fruit is leaf green. Some varieties never have any red color, but most varieties develop more or less red color as they ripen. The green is called the ground color. The red, which appears later, is called the over color. When fruit Is eating ripe, the green color has become yellow. This change begins, however, before the fruit is eating ripe, and about the time it is hard ripe. In general, the fruit is ready to pick when the green ground color takes on a tinge of yellow. An Instrument known as a fruit pressure tester is now being used to determine the hardness and softness of apples and other fruits. Growers and investigators have found its use , valuable when supplemented by known characters of fruit ripening. The determination of the proper time to pick fall and winter apples is more difficult than is the case with summer apples. The different varieties offer different problems. Some varieties, of which Jonathan is an example. become hard ripe relatively 'early; others ripen later. Some suffer in keeping quality if picked too late; other varieties keep if left on the tree until relatively late. Jonathans tend to soften on the tree and suffer from Jonathan spot and decay after picking if left too long. It is best to harvest them as soon as they have developed good size and color. Old Apple Orchards Are Best for Fruit Grower Old apple orchards are more profitable to their owners than young orchards, according to Prof. G. P. Scoville in a talk at the New York State College of Agriculture. Orchards set 50 to 70 years ago on good soil are paying a better income than those that have recently come into full bearing. Orchards on soil not suited to apples become poorer and poorer as they grow older. Professor Scoville said that the fruit grower has one great advantage even though his income does fluctuate. He gets used to living on the small income of poor years, so when a big year does eome he spends the surplus to improve his farm and buildings or to pay off his mortgage. He believes that this, to a great extent, is the reason why many fruit growers get ahead. Lighter Soil Is Favored for Northern Spy Trees The Northern Spy apple grows well on a soil that is not too heavy. The main problem with this variety seems to be to get it thoroughly matured. On soils that are slow cr that delay the ripening of the fruit, it is an inferior product. Climate complicates the matter still further so that there are relatively few places in the coun-’ try where Northern Spy is at Its best. As for pollination, the Northern Spy Is supposed to be one of the few varieties that will set fruit with its own pollen. Any variety, however, is benefited by having several varieties nearby for cross pollination. Time of Picking The time of picking is an important item within the control of the grower which affects the susceptibility of the apples to scald. Early picked and poorly colored fhiit is extremely susceptible, while well-colored, well-ma-tured apples are more resistant to the disease. Color and maturity are influenced by the weather conditions, the pruning, the soil, the fertilizer, and the orchard management. Good exposure to sunlight makes the apples more resistant to scald. All in the Fuzz A nectarine is only a peach without the fuzz. There are cling-stone and free-stone varieties of each, and they both have the same color range of white, yellow and red flesh, and are hard to separate. Furthermore, nectarine trees sometimes grow from peach stones, and peach trees from nectarine stones. The trees can only be told apart by the fruit Occasionally a branch of the one kind of tree will yield fruit; of the other soif

Cottage Type Bungalow Makes Ideal Design for Narrow Lot J I Bed Em. I 1 / lo'crxiov I . it I w ...J j Porch ” A LWIN6SMmI Floor Plan. This cottage type bungalow contains only four rooms and bath. However, the living room is designed so that it makes a combination living and dining room. This is an excellent design for a home to be built on a narrow city lot; it Is only 26 feet wide and 26 feet deep.

By W. A. RADFORD Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to practical home building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as editor, author and manufacturer, he Is. without doubt, the highest authorityx on all these subjects. Address all Inquiries to William A. Radford. No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago. 111., and only inclose two-cent stamp for reply. Home I There is magic in that word. It brings thoughts of a place that is your own—a place where you and yourk are happy—a place where you forget your cares and business problems—where your wife may rear your children and where, as they grow into young manhood and womanhood, they may have their friends. Home at once brings to mind the comfort and companionship that is found only at one’s own fireside. Then, too, there is the mental picture of the grounds surrounding the home. The lawn is smooth and velvety ; there are flowers in beds along the walk and the driveway; at the back is the garden where you may grow vegetables for the family table. Truly there is magic in the word “home.” Thoughts of home may be turned into a realization of a home of your own by firmly resolving that you will have a home, a lawn and Bowers, and a garden. Building a home is a considerable

Home Builders Need Help of Experienced This is the “open season for indoor building,” architects say, but they are distressed at the way the game laws are desregarded. It is now that people, planning to build homes or to remodel those they already have, are busy with paper and pencil and blue print. “Two things amaze me,” said one i architect. “One is the real ability I shown by so many novices. The I other is their stupidity regarding ob- j vious and vital details, which they so | often utterly overlook.” He went on to explain—stairways in the wrong place, necessary closets forgotten, plans for artistic lighting equipment and the placing of this equipment ignored, doors in the wrong spots or not at all. any number of grievous and costly errors. “This is particularly true of light furnishings,” the architect said. “People generally don’t appear to realize how necessary it is to have lighting equipment in harmony with the house and its furniture if the house is to have the charm they seek. “Apparently they don’t know that colonial wall brackets clash with a Spanish type dwelling; that period furnishings require lighting equipment of the corresponding period. They are apt to use any old thing, just so it gives light." Especially was this the case, he explained, when the owner of a house decided to remodel and refurnish it.

Copper Finds Many Uses in Modern Home Columbus scarcely had his first glimpse of the New world when copper also came upon the scene. Cruising off the coast of Honduras, he picked up a native canoe which bore among other articles a number of copper hatchets. _ , These were the first links of today s mighty chain of copper, brass and bronze which binds together the world’s greatest copper-producing, cop-per-using country—the United States. Great though our copper and brass industries are today, their beginning was humble Indeed. The tiny brass pins were the pilgrim fathers of the giant business that was to com—tiny forerunners of the ruge industi ies that today make America the reigning queen. , , There is plenty of evidence to show that the comparatively short history of our country has already a treasured heritage in copper. Its retrospect is copper written, its present copper laden and its prospect carries promise of greater and grander ac-

undertaking but millions of other American families have achieved homes of their own. and what millions have done, those who have not yet secured a home of their own, may do. Begin now to know the pleasure of living in a home suited to your own requirements and to know the satisfaction of owning your home and get acquainted with the magic In the word “home.” It need not be large or expensive. We look at the larger estates and mansions and admire them and perhaps borrow an idea here and there, but it is our own little home that really arouses our enthusiasm. A small home can be added to and improved year after year, and every investment of money or time and labor is not lost, but becomes a real and growing improvement for years to come. Today we show a four-room love nest, and how can love fail to endure and thrive in so lovely and cozy a bungalow. Every room has cross ventilation, are all of generous size, and the arrangement is all that anyone could desire. As a well-known writer once said : The little white gate stands open and rambler roses beckon, To rest within the little house where time doth never reckon. Truly there is magic in the word, '‘home.”

“The owner and his wife are .so likely to let the old light equipment stay,” said the architect. “They’ve heard them called ‘fixtures’ and they believe iL They have an untru picture of great expense in removing the old equipment. They really are more concerned over that than about the relative inexpensiveness of the new fittings which would harmonize with the new furniture. Floors Must Reflect Architectural Plan A floor should always be selected for its suitability. No successful architectural and decorative treatment of a room is possible unless the floor harmonizes with its character and individuality. It must conform to the architectural design of a room, which is the key to Its decorations and furnishings. Whether the proper floor would be antiqued oak plank floor or one of rich colorful tiles, is a question for your architect to determine. Try Many Experiments With Metal Shingles Many experiments have been tried with sheet metal shingles. Interlocking patterns have been invented, and you will see roofs covered with copper or zinc pressed into these shapes. The latest is the sheet steel tile, covered with lead. No one doubts the durability of these metal roof coverings.

complishments because it builds with the substance of the eternal, copper-brass-bronze. The United States produces 60 per cent of the world’s copper, and we consume over 50 per cent of this; constantly, day or night, the average American is in contact with and served by copper and its products. Rising from a brass bed. he draws his bath from brass pipes and brass fittings and fixtures. Copper wires as a medium for electricity toast his bread, which is mixed in copper vats, light his way, cool him with mechanical breezes, warm him and perform unnumbered and unnoticed services every hour. Bronze bushings make his automobile ride easier, or if he commutes the electric or steam train depends upon the everlasting metals for mobility. His quietly operating doors swing easily In a building roofed with copper, and every minute of the day he is timed by watches and clocks whose works are brass. His sense of the esthetic and beautiful find expression in countless ornate things made of the everlasting metals

Using Fish Oil in Poison Spray Needed as Spreader and Sticker in Treatment for Gypsy Moth. (Prepared by ths United States Department ot Agriculture.* Among the problems incident to gypsy-moth control work are those of applying poison sprays effectively. Lead arsenate is the spray most used, but with it Is needed some other substance as a spreader and sticker, preferably some material that will make the spray adhere to the leaves throughout the season in spite of rain or other weather conditions. Many different substances have been tried for the purpose—soap. glue, casein, molasses, gelatin, glucose, flour, and various oils. Best Results From Oils. Experiments, carried on by the bureau of entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture have shown that, of these substances, the oils, especially linseed, fish and corn oil, gave by far the best results. Linseed oil is the most satisfactory of all. but it is also expensive; and when after numerous experiments on trees at various stages of growth, it was found that fish oil gave almost as good results at a much lower cost, it was felt that fish oil could be recommended as an economy in large-scale control operations. Fish oil mixes practically as well as linseed oil with lead arsenate, and is nearly as adhesive. Foliage sprayed with a fish-oil mixture as early as the first week in June was found in September still well covered with the spray, although some rain had fallen. The use of either oil. hut especially fish oil. makes t possible to reduce with safety the proportion of lead arsenate used, and to start spraying operations sooner, even though the foliage is small and likely to grow, since the quantity of poison that adheres remains effective. A few experiments have also indicated that fish oil is a good adhesive to use with bordeaux mixture or a combined lead arsenate and bordeaux mixture. Details of Tests. petaits of the experiments conducted at different times with various adhesives are given in Techn’cal Bulletin 111-T, published by the United States Department of Agriculture. The work was done by Clifford E. Hood, associate entomologist, who is the author of the bulletin. Copies may be obtained upon application to the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. No Treatment Known for Eradicating Corn Smut Unfortunately, there Is no treatment known for corn smut. It can be reduced somevrhat by growing the corn on land that has not grown corn for some years and by cutting off and carrying out of the field any smut balls that form, These should be buried or burned to destroy them. Ordinarily, they are allowed to go with the cornstalks to the feed yards .where they become incorporated with the manure supplies. This happens to be a good place to preserve them and they go back to the land when the manure is applied. If the cornstalks are left standing in the field, the smut balls become incorporated with the soil when the land is plowed or disked and reinfection occurs when the corn is grown. There 'isn't any remedy for it except to reduce the smut balls all you possibly can by destroying them and keeping them out of the feed supplies. Early Soil Preparation Insures Big Wheat Crop Timely preparation of the ground is one of the principal factors in insuring a good wheat crop. Early preparation aids in conserving soil moisture and in the development of nitrates in the soil. When it is possible to plow or list immediately after harvesting the wheat crop, the land should be disked early and then plowed as soot, as possible. After the land has been plowed or listed, it should receive sufficient cultivation to destroy all weeds and volunteer grain. Agricultural Hints More growers each year find that to thin overloaded trees increases their profits. • • • Too much or too little fertilization of vegetables may increase their susceptibility to disease. • • • It is a good plan to beware of all alfalfa seed that is selling at prices considerably below those of good seed. * • • Steel fence posts, painted green, are best for the farm yard. • • * A close relation exists between the growth of an apple tree and the amount and quality of the fruit borne. • • * The Delicious is without doubt one of our finest winter apples, excellent of flavor, crisp, tender and a good keeper. The requirements for success in growing sweet clover are an abundance of liine in the soil, thorough inoculation and a well-prepared, firm seedbed. • • • The virus that causes the mosaic of cucumbers and muskmelons winters over in such perennial plants as milkweed. pokeweed, ground cherry, and catnip, and in the seed of the wild, or bur cucumber. • * • There is no single crop or even combination of crops that is better than Ifalfa for hog pasture, when soil and lunatic conditions are suited to this >gume. Next in value to alfalfa come he various common clovers.