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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1949
Page
3
A home canning guide highlights relishes to pair with meals and includes recipes for Chunk Pickles Chili Sauce Spiced Peaches Plum Catsup Ripe Grape Jam and general tips. Start with cucumbers to make Chunk Pickles and prepare Chili Sauce peaches and jams using vinegar sugar and spices.
A guide on reviving tired clothing with remodeling, trims, and color. It stresses fit and imagination, advising to reuse good fabric, invest in trims, patterns, and buttons, and consider alterations by self or a dressmaker to refresh dresses and blouses.
Practical tips to revamp plain dresses using lace yokes and contrasting fabrics. Instructions cover purchasing patterns, inserting yokes, creating scoop necklines, and adding ruffles, boleros, or plaid trims. Also advice on hem alterations and skirt remodeling for a fresher look.
Crochet patterns feature a stained glass center motif with seven inch corner blocks to form a bedspread. Pattern No 5808 provides complete instructions by mail for 20 cents plus name and address. Floral Design ISET, Pattern No 5935, also offers material lists stitch guides and finishing directions for a chair set or dining buffet use.
Lynn advises selecting good quality salt avoid excess chemicals to prevent caking. Table salt used for butter flavoring is acceptable. For sweet pickles avoid heavy syrup to prevent shriveling. Vinegar solution should not be too strong at first to maintain crispness.
A wall shelf pattern provides an easy home storage project for any room. The pattern is traced on wood and parts cut and assembled exactly as shown with no special tools required. Materials can be bought cheaply at a local lumber yard. Send 25c for Pattern No. 24 to East-Bird Patterns Co. Pleasantville NY.
Hint to waxers. Do not apply too much wax and buff thoroughly. Excess wax will show rubber heel marks on floors and furniture scratches. the robber never was captured.
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