Slipcovers and sewing tips brighten the home this spring
Evita Haley offers advice on choosing light color slipcovers to refresh rooms for spring. She notes coordinated fabrics, two sets for seasons, and practical step by step methods from pattern to finishing seams, including a new ripper device to remove stitches and save time.
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Trees Make the Difference in Garden Spot Shade
Advice on selecting and planting trees to improve home appeal and climate. It outlines quick growing options like Chinese elm and silver maple, long term hardwoods such as sugar maple and American elm, and considerations for space, wind, shade, and soil. Emphasizes early care, pruning, watering, and avoiding storm damage.
Fashion Spotlight Promotes Simple Hats and Bonnets
The piece extols hats as ornamental with simple bonnets like Mere as a close fitting tiny cap. It highlights color accents above bangs and underhair, and favors feminine styles with small flower sprigs, rib bon backed corsage and velvet ribbon under the chin.
Fit Yourself to Your Own Life
Kathleen Norris reflects on Marjorie a patient in a state hospital for the insane. Four years in custody, Marjorie has withdrawn into a dim routine while family finances and social pressures eroded her stability. Norris urges practical self care and budgeting as paths to personal resilience.
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Britain tightens meat ration sparks vegetarian push
Britain faces meat shortages as Argentina shipments lag, lowering rations to 10 pence weekly with a fifth in corned beef. London's Vegetarian Society leader Roy Walker warns against fake vegetarians while ministry counts about 307000 vegetarians, roughly double the wartime figure, and calls for genuine commitment amid rising vegetarian groups.
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