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MiHSi - ' Sit*"' * '*<• *' ' *- T^TT^i * «*rv *\ ™ -• i#5 f- " ?** . v •?* ITsTr ^\VJ: »\\XA'" vs* ^ Thursday, November 26, IMS M:'.v It's Patriotic to "J* Use Up Remiitts ^•",S ' Patchwork Effects Are Now p.- Popular. f'W By CHERIE NICHOLAS This fabric conservation program has its good points, for it is unfolding new ways and means to the home dressmaker of using up scraps , and remnants of materials in the most surprising ways that lead to a wardrobe of pretty and smart looking clothes. The style importance of color contrasts is one of the arguments in favor of putting two and two together and getting a fashionable dress out of it. You can even do a regular patctfwork if you have half a yard, of this, a quarter of a yard of that end about a yard of Something e?S3, kfor some of the smart dirndl-type skirts fjre really made of squates of jTijiny colored material sewn tog e t h e r . . . . . . One of the outstanding new fash-, ions is the dress that has a contrast yoke and sleeves. 'Nuff said! That black crepe dress hanging in the closet can be combined with that yard1 and a half, or more or less, of light blue crepe you have folded so neatly away. Black with turquoise blue is real high style news. And there's the wine-red taffeta party dress that needs something done to it to give it a refreshing, modern touch. Pick up a remnant of fuchsia purple toned taffeta. Inset a border treatment just above the hemline in the skirt. Insert a midriff girdle of the fuchsia color. Add a taffeta bow at the left shoulder and another at the waistline. Like to crochet? Well, why not crochet sleeves and a yoke of mercerized yarn, for the latest fashion stories are calling attention to the smartness of hand-crocheted or knitted sleeves done in contrast color, or to match if you prefer, the tone of the dress material. Speaking of patchwork effects, if you have bits of velvet or suede or cloth in several colors, patch them together in tiny triangles or squares. You can get a pattern of a beret without any trouble or a large "tam," for the new patchwork hats have been quite a subject of conversation. Again, if you crochet you can make pretty little yarn posies which, strung on a long silken cord in lei fashion, are charming to wear as a necklace. Some ambitious crocheters who learned to crochet hats last season are this season maku^Juige muffs to match. JOHNSBURG Red--White Fads and Fancies There's smart style in the new tall Cossack turbans. It styles a dress to "last word" swank to button it up the back or diagonally across from left shoulder to right waistline. You'll be wanting a pair of lace mesh hose accurately colormatched to your new party frock or velvet dinner gown. Want to give your last season's fur coat a distinctly "thii-season" look? Fasten it at the neck with a large bow pf matching fur. The demand grows for bowcatcher combs that have flatter ing little bows, flowers or jewelry gadgets attached to wear in the hair. You can buy sparkling sequin butterflies to applique on your sweater or to attach to the bodice top of your smartest afternoon frock or "date" dress. Beit and hat ensembles made of felt or velvet are embellished with dangling clusters of crochet flowers or multi-colored cutout felt flowers or amusing motifs Some of these peasant belts have a deep pocket suspended at One side which is also gaily .beflow •red. - (By Mrs. Arthur Klein) On Thursday afternon a number of ladies surprised Miss Elizabeth Struchtrup in honor of her name day. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith and Mrs. Elizabeth Schmitt were also honored. Bunco was played and a delicious lunch was served6. x Mrs. Arthur Klein entertained her club Wednesday afternoon. Five hundred was played and prizes were awarded to Mrs. Lois Britz, Mrs. Emma Kattner and consolation to Mrs. Dolores May. Mrs. Agnes May and Mrs. Lois Britz won traveler's prizes. A luncheon concluded the afteinoon. Next meeting will be Dec. 17, with. Mrs. Katherine Kagan as hostess. Arthur Klein resumed his duties at the Central garage Monday morning, after an absence of eight weeks, following an operation on his leg. Glad to see you back, Chuck! Mrs. Elizabeth Tonyan is spending several* days in Chicago with her daughters, Miss Asella Tonyan and Mrs. Frank Rhejsa. Miss Anna Schaefer returned home Monday after spending the past week in Crown Point, Iud. Mrs. John Herdrich entertained her <:lub Monday evening of last week. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Alma Freund, Mrs. Lena Guercio and ilrs. Marion Schoenholtz. The traveler's prize was won by Mrs. Alma Freund. Miss Thelma Lay, Miss Anna Schaefer, Mrs. Tena Lay, Mrs. Regina Michels and daughter, Judy, motored to Waukegan Tuesday afternoon. A shower was held in honor of Mrs. Rose Mary Carson in the home of her father, Ben J. Schaefer, on Friday evening. Prizes were won by Mrs. Regina Michels, Miss Thelma Lay, Miss Diane Smith and Mrs. Arthur Klein. Lunch concluded the evening. Those present other than those mentioned were Mrs. Tena Lay, Mrs. Peter M. Freund, Mrs. John Herdrich, Miss Vivian Peterson, Mrs. Earl Turner, Mrs. Delbert Smith, Mrs. Roy Schaefer, Miss Anna Schaefer, Mrs. Leo Smith and Mrs. Joe E. Freund. Mrs. Stephen H. Smith, Mrs. Herman Kreutzer and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Regner recently visited with Miss Betty Regner, who is in training in St. Anne's hospital, Chicago. Miss Lorraine Kennebeck of Chicago spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Kennebeck. Mr. and Mrs. James Geier, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Freund and daughter, Nancy, were Sunday callers in the Stephen H. Smith home. Mrs. Wm. Klapperich, Jr., visited her sister, Mrs. Peter H. Smith, one day last week. Sunday evening callers in the Leo Freund home were Mr. and Mrs. Leo Michels, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Schaefer and Mr. and Mrs. Joe E. i Freund. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Miller entertaned Messrs. and Mesdames Wm. Klapperich, Jr., Art Stilling, Arnold May of Richmond, Leo Young and Fred Fuchs in their home Sunday evening. Father Horner' of Galena visited with Rev., A. J. Neidert Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. George King celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard A. Freund are the parents of a son, born Monday night at the Woodstock hospital. Mrs. Freund was the former . Anita Schaefer. The bright red sweater coat shown above tops a navy blue skirt and white blouse. The new sweater coats are masterpieces of knitted artistry. Very slenderizing, too, is a coat of the type shown. For a complete knitted ensemble, add a muff that is easily made. One can buy a muff foundation of the size and type wanted, cover it with the knit work and finish it off with a knitted ruche edging, adding a cluster of flowers or ball fringe. SPRING GROVE Glasses Sparkle With Bluing Try adding a small amount at tbfuing to water in which glasses are washed and they will have a hi|h sparkle when dried and polished. Remarkable Trait it has been said the most remarkable characteristic of the y. S. mafines is the result attained by com* paratively insignificant numbers. Best Art "Nature is the art of God."--Sir is V . 3 j» ~ f P ; & •. ' \ r.-ij Released by Western Newspaper Union. 'Versailles of the Plains' 'TPHIS month markes the 75th anniversary of the "Versailles of the Plains"--the famous Medicine Lodge peace council of 1867. Not only did it bring together a galaxy of frontier notables, both red man and white, but it was attended by a greater number of journalists than had ever before assembled for such an event. Some were destined for future fame and among these were: JOHN Aging Secret The process developed by C. Walter Clewell, Canton craftsman, duplicating nature by aging bronze with a beautiful incrustation of blue salts will not be lost.with his death. The Amer* Federation of Arts haa asked to je made trustees of the processes and formulae, of which Clewell is believed to be the sole possessor, so they can perpetuate his work of reproducing the blue effect which nature sometimes gives to bronze exposed under the right conditions for a long period. Clewell has been interested in the patination of bronze for 35 years and in his home workshop has produced many art objects which have been purchased for museum display. Others have been bought for the homes of some of the country's wealthiest men, several pieces having been selected for the home'of Edsel Ford in Detroit. The Canton craftsman saw a copper vessel which had been cleaned with a chemical solution with a green cloud covering the surface, once began experiments to color effects which would interesting variations andthat shades of green were He at obtain show found comparatively easy to obtain. ?F Whatl/oH Buy WdU WAR BONDS. • • The "Stovepipe," as the 60-millimeter trench mortar is commonly known, is used by our infantry for close-in fighting. It fires a 2.4-pound shell at the rate of about 35 a minute. (By Mrs. Charles Freund) Mrs. J. J. Freund was hostess to the members of her club at her home on Tuesday evening. Eight members were present to spend an enjoyable evening at cards and prizes were awarded Mrs. Ella Siegler, Mrs. Frank May and Mrs. Ernest Peacock received consolation. A lovely lunch was served at the conclusion of cards. Mrs. Anna Meyers of McHenry was a visitor in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Meyer on Thursday. Rev. John Daleiden and the ushers of St. Peter's parish held their regular meeting in the honje of Frank Bergsma on Thursday night. A social evening at cards was enjoyed following the meeting and refreshments were served. Among those from here who attended a club meeting at the home of "Mrs. Arthur Klein in JohnBburg Wednesday afternoon were Mrs. Arthur Kattner, Mrs. Albert Britz, Mrs. L. L. Kagan, Mrs. A1 Schmeltzer, Mrs. Charles Freund, Mrs. Ray May, Mrs. George W. May and Mrs. Norbert Klaus. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Klaus and Miss Marie Lay of Chicago spent Sunday in the John Lay home. Sunday guests in the George W. May home were Mrs. Peter Weber, l Mr. and Mrs. Henry Weber, daughi ter, Nancy, Mr. and Mrs. Martin j Weber and sons and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith and son of Johnsburg. Mrs. M. J. Freund, Mrs. Paul Gerasch, Mrs. George P. Freund and Mrs. Charles Michels of McHenry spent Thursday in the Charles Freund h$me. Mrs. Mike Huff is spending several days in Chicago with fier daughter, Mrs, John Sanborn, and family. Mrs. Huff has been in ill health. Pvt. Clarence Karls, who is stationed at Manton Field, Arizona, is enjoying a furlough at his home here. Mr. and Mrs. A1 Schmeltzer entertained a party of friends at their home on Saturday night. Cards furnished the entertainment and refreshments were served. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. George Orth, Arlington Heights; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Orth, Round Lake; Mr. and Mrs. Russ Boehm, Libertyville, and Mr. and Mrs. Black of Chicago. Mrs. Bertha- Esh, Mrs. Abert Britz, sons, Terry and Tommy, and Mr. and HOWLAND (From a photograph taken in 1887. Original in the collections of the State Historical Society of Colorado.) No newspaper camera men were present at the Medicine Lodge council to snap pictures of the treatymakers. But John D. Howland, "artist - correspondent'1 for Harper's Weekly, was there and posterity is indebted to his skilled pencil for its only pictorial record of that historic event. Howland was a descendant of John Howland who came to America on the Mayflower. His grandparents, natives of New Bedford, Mass., emi-: grated to bhio soon after the Revolution and helped found the settlement of Zanesville where he was born May 7, 1843. One of his uncles, Len Owen, was a trapper in the West and a contemporary of Kit Carson and Jim Bridger. His tales of adven-; ture on the frontier so stirred the imagination of young Howlaiid that at the age of 14 he ran away from home and entered the employ of the American Fur company. He accompanied a band of trappers up the Missouri to Fort Pierre^ then crossed theiplains to old Fori Laramie on theroorth Platte. The next year he joined the rush of goldseekers to the ntew diggings in the Pikes Peak region of Colorado but, failing to make his fortune there, he returned to the fur company. Because young Howland was one of the few white traders who dealt fairly with the Indians, he became a great favorite of. the Sioux. Unde* the tutelage of their warriors he became a skilled hunter with the bow and arrow and the women kept him supplied with handsomely beaded and fur-trimmed buckskin clothing. At the outbreak of the Civil war, Howland enlisted in the First Regiment of Colorado Volunteers. He had a part in the campaign in New Mexico which saved the Southwest for the Union and he also served as a captain of scouts in the campaign against the hostile Indians in 1864. Mustered out of the army that year, the youthful frontiersman decided to satisfy his longing to become an artist. In 1865 he went to Paris where he studied under several of the French masters until 1867 when he was notified of his appointment as interpreter for the commission appointed to make a treaty with the Sioux. During his stay in France he had acted as "artist-correspondent" for Harper's Weekly, so when he returned to America, Harper's immediately commissioned him to cover the negotiations with the Sioux in August and with the Southern Plains tribes the following October. Thus it was that he went to thf Medicine Lodge council and there drew the pictures, one of which, first published as a full-page illuS* tration in Harper's for November 16, 1867, has become the classic representation of this high spot in the annals of the frontier and has often been reproduced in histories of the West. * % • j < \ Central portion of (lowland's fa mous drawing M>I (he Lodge peace council. Millions in Pelts Headquarters of the giant Canada an fur trade as in the days of Radisseur and Des Grosseillers, Montreal,. Province of Quebec, is the clearing center for millions of dollars' worth of pelts every year. Mrs. Kenn«sth Cjrain and son attended cago visited on Sunday with her parlthe birthday party fo% little Yyonne Straub at her home in Chicago on Sunday. ^Yvonne was celebrating her fourth birthday anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nelson of Chi- The mortar fires its projectile in a U-shaped arc and for this reason may be successfully camouflaged behind an obstruction. It costs about $500. You and your neighbors, joining together, can buy many of these effective weapons for use of our Army. Investing at least ten percent of your income in War Bonds every payday will do the job. Get. .on .the firing line on the home front , V join the "Ten Percent Club." U. S. Trrosury Department English Pot Hole and Cave District Discovery Although the pot hole and cave district around Cheddar and Priddy had been sensationally advertised to the foreign delegations which recently attended the conference of the British Speleological association's international conference at Bristol, England, a special show was staged for the visitors by W. F. Rankine, a schoolmaster of Aldershot, who had guarded his secret until the eleventh hour. Five thousand years ago, when the British cave man emerged from his cavern into the open air--just preceding the age of tents of pelts and huts--he dug holes in the earth of basin shape and covered them with the boughs of trees. Last spring Mr. Rankine discovered a number of these holes in a field at Farnham. Dr. Graham Clark of Cambridge tmiversity was called in and excavations were quietly begun. The doctor soon laid bare what appeared to be the abode of the headman of the colony. The earliest type of artificial dwelling in the world, he told the conference at Bristol -- an announcement which started a rush for Farx^ham. At the same time it was revealed to the News Chronicle of London, that in one of the pits had been found a fire-blackened hearth and many flints which the ancient Britons used in heating water and cooking. They obtained water from a nearby spring, which is still in existence, and heated it in skins by dropping hot flints into them. Hundreds of delicately fashioned flint implements used for catching fish and for making spearheads were also found. Paint Reduces Fire Hazards Paint has been Tecognized by insurance underwriters as being effective in reducing fire hazards for some woods by as much as 400 per 6kL_Two coats are more, effective tKaB one. The paint tends to eal the surface where ignition starts. The species of wood, the wood grain exposed, the resin content, and the rate of heating of the wood all affect the flame resistance. Getting in the Scrap War Production Drive headquarters has been informed that workers in the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company, Kearney, N. J., have collected 11,700 pounds of rubber and 147,650 pounds of paper in two months in addition to tons of steel, copper, aluminum and brass normally saved. Order your Christmas Cards "from The Plaindealer. The MenWho "Keep 'Em Flying The men who will "keep 'em flying" for Unck Sam are the mechanic* and -Service specialists of the Air Force Technical Training Command. Learning by (ioing, they are being trained by service expat* in such center* &s Chevrolet^! jPratt k Whitney Engine Overhaul School, which occupies an entire building In Detroit. Here every three weeks ISO Air Force mechanics are graduated (B Swell the ranks of the ground crew* that keep America V planes aloft. Soca that number wiH be doubled, aa Chevrolet wpindi its staff of trained inctrao- .tora. Above, a typical group of Air Force mechanics in one of the 30 indivklaal Itoorkahopa in the new school gets the "fed" of the PfcW service operations. Flat Pictures, One Eye Two eyes are better than one, for the world would appear like a flat photograph if human beings had only one eye, says the Better Vision institute. The slight differences between the flat pictures of each eye are utilized by the brain to see an object in three dimensions, and to Judge distance and sizes of objects. White and Green For a room that is beautiful, easily cleaned, and ultra-modern this suggestion of white and green should be appealing. A decorator recommends pale greenkote insulating paneled walls, polished white linoleum floor, and silky white voile curtains hung criss-crossed and tied back With green sateen. „ Bayonets American troops are beingequipped because of that radio-phonograph Mr. and Mrs. America didn't buy this year. The steel in an average radio-phonograph would make close to a dozen bayonets. Subscribe for The Plaindealer! Clean Tour Paint Brushes ' With imported hog bristles from which the best quality paint brushes have long been made, as scarce as the proverbial "hen's teeth," due to the war, it behooves every owner oi a real imported hog bristle paint brush to take the very best care of it for the duration. Thorough cleaning witft turpentine or other available paint thinner or solvent, and suspension of the brush in linseed oil to the full depth of the bristles is an effective way to prolong Hw life of these quality tools. wm 0* U.S.WAR BONDS ^American housewives, restricted by scarcities and more* interested in putting extra cash into War Bonds, are making old things about the house do double duty. There was a time when a dirty lamp shade meant a trip to the store for a new one, but now the picture is changed. Modern American housewives now look for a way to repair and renew the nice things they have, to keep their bomes bright and shining at minimum expense. One direct way to a bright, cozy home is to have clean lamp shades. Read these easy rules on cleaning them up safely,^as recommended by our Home lighting Advisors. FIBST I Most fabric shade! which are sewed are washable. Shades which are glued on, painted or made with materials that shrink when wet are not washable. Shades which are. held with glue can be dry cleaned. SECOND: Before washing remove all loose dust with a sloft brush, and tie a cord on the wire at the top long enough for hanging the shade. Then make a sudsy solution *>f warm water and completely dissolved mild soap flakes. If the top or bottom is especially soiled, dip a soft brush in the water and brush lightly. Then dip the entice shade up and down in the soapy solution a number of times. • , • .V I THIRD" After removing shade from soapy water, immediately rinse thoroughly in clear warm water (which has been prepared beforehand) by dipping up and down. Large tubs such as basement laundry tubs or bathtubs are ideal for shade washing. FOURTH a Dry by hanging shade from clothes line by means of cord. Fast drying is essential to prevent the metal frame from rusting. Do not hang in sunshine or near artificial heat. Wind blowing through the shade will dry it q\iickly and evenly. FREE I-Brand-new Wartime Ideas for Homemakers Bulletin No. 4, "Care and Use„of Lamps and Lighting." Includes many useful tips on conserving your present equip- v mcnt. Stop in today for your copy! ents, Mr. and Ms. Math Nimsgern. Mike Wagner of Chicago spent Monday with his children at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs^ Frank W a g n s ^ . 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