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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1946
Page
3
Homemaker advice on choosing fabrics and methods to cover faded couches with informal or tailored slipcovers. Steps include selecting color and weave, cutting to fit, matching patterns, hemming, and adding pleats, skirts, or ruffles for a polished look.
Choose a firm weave and fast colors for durability. Use contrasting piping that wears well and can be turned under to prevent fraying. Match fabric to existing room furniture and era. options include chintz and cretonnes for early American rooms, solids for modern spaces, and ginghams or calico for Victorian settings.
Summer fashion notes highlight waffle pique touches on lingerie accents for black costumes. Necklines cuffs and decorative touches shift with hats returning to sensible fashion. Rhinestones roses veiling and velvet set trims for the season with floral silk prints in afternoon dresses.
Andre Baruch announces the birth of his son Wayne Edward, joining a chorus of star parents. Joan Edwards and Bea Wain prep for radio work, while Reginald Denny returns to acting with model airplanes. Lanny Ross, Betty Hutton, Fred MacMurray and Sara Haden star in varied projects.
The text lists house improvement hacks and everyday maintenance advice. It covers sealing basements when drainage is impractical, sewing with dental floss, using an embroidery needle, saving rice water for starching, cauliflower leaves as a side, candle wick as a temporary gasket, cleaning carpet sweepers, and soaking stiff towels to remove stiffness.
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