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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Jan. 9, 1953
New Household Items to Make Handyman's Life Much Easier
New York—(U.P.)—Science has put the rolling pin into a new use in the home. This time, hubby can wield it.
The rolling pin is one of the household items which is called on for new duties in this era of the handyman and handywoman. A new use for it was demonstrated recently by the Monsanto Chemical company, which is interested in seeing more plastics serve more uses in the house.
The rolling pin is used to apply a formica top to a battle-scarred end or coffee table. You just use a small hand-saw to cut the formica to fit the table-top, apply an adhesive which is just coming to market and use the rolling pin to roll the top flat and firm.
The adhesive will bind the formica to a wood surface, but the manufacturer doesn't recommend it for tile or metal.
You also can refinish your bathroom or kitchen with a plastic tile that comes in some 150 shades.
All you have to do, the experts assure you, is make sure the wall surface is clean, apply a white resin mastic - a sticky, pliable substance that looks like chewing gum;
let it set for half an hour, and then start laying tile.
The several concerns making the tile said it will wear as long as the ceramic type and costs about half as much.
Plastics even have their place on the children's playroom. The company has a plastic sandbox filled with plastic sand, and plastic toys to go with it.
One authority says the newest trend in home decoration is to make the inside look like the outside.
"The colors of the outdoors are being brought indoors," said Margaret Riley, stylist for Waverly fabrics.
She said the top drapery and slipeover colors for spring are the "landscape tones"—chocolate, sand, tan, cocoa, terra cotta and blues and greens.
She also predicted a growing popularity for the various purple hues, violet, lilac and mauve.
Winter Weather Follows Student On His Vacation
Bv BOB NOLD
I don't think my parents are going to be glad to see me any more.
The vacation ended and things cleared up.
Back in November, the weather had been warm and comfortable up to Thanksgiving vacation. But the Tuesday we got out—boom: snow-storms, icy roads, and miserable weather.
So what happens? Nineteen days later comes Christmas vacation and the very Friday I leave for home—boom: snowstorms, icy roads, and miserable weather again.
This wasn't bad enough. I hadn't been home 24 hours before our fair city, St. Joseph, suffered a crisis. The gas pipe line broke near Beverly, Mo., and for the first time in a quarter of a century, St. Joseph was without gas
In the next day and a half, we would have frozen to death if not for the generosity of our relatives who live outside St. Joseph.
As I went out the front door Sunday to return here, my mother and father smiled lovingly and said, "I don't suppose you'll have a big enough vacation between semesters to come home, will you?
Cold Cream May Come in Pills Someday
New York—(U,P)—Some day your cold cream may come in pill form—like cod liver oil or vitamins
That's the word from Dr. Joseph Schultz, a research chemist turned cosmetic expert.
The tall, scholarly looking doctor says that health and a good complexion undoubtedly are related but only to a point.
"As a woman grows older," he explained, "health isn't enough to
New York—(U.P.)All that junk cluttering up the attic has some use after all.
It says so in the new book just for attic clutterers—those persons 'hrow anything away because "we may need it for some-
The publication, "Dictionary or Discards" (Association Press), rounds up uses for what otherwise would be useless items. It is an "a" (for alarm clock) to "z" (for zinc sulfate) checklist of 800 scrap items found around the house, garage, barn and school, with 8,000 useful things you can make from them.
Take "a" for alarm clock.
He does not say how to make the conversion—nor does he in most other items listed.
Frank M. Rich, the author, says the works of a clock can be converted to a furnace damper control, or as the motor for small toys.
Now every woman knows the multitude of uses for a bobby pin, but author Rich comes up with a few new uses. Had you thought of using bobby pins as lacing needles for balls and leather work; as pincers for holding small nails and tacks for hammering, or as miniature pedges to tighten wooden handles on utensils?
Take that broomstick which the children have been using to play horse.
It can be used as handle for a butterfly net, as a chart or map roller, as a curtain rod, pants hanger, rolling pin for toy bakery
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On the subject of skin health generally, Dr. Schultz said that every woman in this country should be grateful for the government protection she gets through the pure food and drug act.
Those Christmas cards can be made into bookmarks, handkerchief cases, stationery ornaments, and as designs for drawing, embroidery, or stenciling. Rich also says they can be made into earrings, but again doesn't say how.
"They use too much soap," he complained. "Now, don't get me wrong. I believe in washing with soap, but too much of it, or a too strong soap, removes the protective oil from the skin."
Use a discarded handbag as shoe insoles, or as decorations for picture frames. Old lace curtains can be converted to aprons, caps, collars, costumes for children's parties, doilies, edging for handkerchiefs; filters for paints; for tray cuffs, even for Valentines.
The scientist-cosmetician, president of Lady Esther Cosmetics, estimated that about 70 per cent of the nation's women have dry skin, and he blames this on too much cleanliness.
Skin metabolism, he explained, has to do with the building up and breaking down of skin tissue.
keep her skin fresh and young looking. Skin metabolism enters the picture."
"And the rate at which new skin tissue grows changes as the years go by," he continued.
But scientists in the fields of dermatology, geriatrics and cosmetics are making great strides in their study of skin metabolism, he said.
"I believe that eventually they'll come up with some sort of a skin toner—something a woman will be able to take in pill form—to keep a complexion young through the years," he said.
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Says Secret of Living Long Is 'Getting Absorbed in Work'
Philadelphia—(U.P.)—Dr. Henry Augustus Pilsbray, 90-year-old scientist says the secret of living long is "getting so absorbed in your work that it never entirely leaves you."
For 64 years Pilsbrush has been active as curator of mollusks at Philadelphia's famous Academy of Natural Sciences. He hasn't given a thought to quitting.
"I've got 10 or 15 years' work stacked up in front of me now," said the white-haired scientist with the Van Dyk beard. "When I get it finished, there will be just that much more waiting to be done."
Pilsbray observed his 90th birthday recently at work at his cluttered desk in the Academy, writing busily with a quill pen and studying the snails, clams, oysters and other mollusks which are his specialty.
He has explored the Andes, the Australian reefs, the South Seas and Central America during his long career as one of the world's leading authorities on mollusks. He has written 30 volumes during that time and classified thousands of mollusks.
Emperor Hirohito, who wrote a book on Japanese marine shells before the war, put the U.S. Army to work in 1945 locating Pilsbry to present the dean of conchologists with a copy of his work. The Iowa-born "mollusk man" is known throughout the world.
Pilsby keeps busy every day. He walks one mile from his suburban Morton, Pa., home to the railroad station to go to work and frequently takes his "mollusk problems" home with him at night. Some of his best solutions come to him while he is asleep.
"Of course, you only get inspirations like that when you are thoroughly soaked with the subject," he admits.
Right now, Pilsbury is working on a paper dealing with land and fresh-water snails of Ecuador. Then he'll take up Ecuador's marine shells. He
has no expeditions lined up—beyond wintering in Florida—but thinks he "might" explore Europe a bit one of these years.
Judith Tate Pinned To Glen Beauchamps
The pinning of Miss Judith Tate to Glen Beauchamps, Theta Tau, was announced Tuesday night at Watkins hall's traditional New Year's dinner at the Castle tea room.
Miss Tate's attendants were Miss Esther Hund and Miss Patricia Powers. Miss Tate wore a 'one-red rose' corsage. Attendants corsages were white carnations tinted with red. The rose theme was carried out by passing mints decorated with red roses.
Miss Tate is a fine arts sophomore from Seneca. Mr. Beauchamps is an engineering senior from Pomona.
Francis L. Van Gundy, husband of Marguerita Van Gundy of the University Press, is expected to return to Lawrence this week from Korea. Van Gundy is a private in the U.S. Army and is attached to the 23rd Signal Construction battalion and has been in Korea since last May. The Van Gundys live at 2131 Tennessee st.
To Return from Korea
Ireland to Speak Sunday
Dr. H. A. Ireland, professor of geology, will show slides and talk on "Timeless Mexico" at the Faculty club at 5 p.m. Sunday. The hosts for the evening will be Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Twente and Mrs. Gerald Carney. Morgasgard will be served.
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SUNDAY SERVICES
Sermon: "Should the Christian Be a Pacifist"
5:30 p.m.. College Age Youth Meeting
8 p.m. Bible Class
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10:00 - Bible Study 11:55 - Communion
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7:45 - Evening Service
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9 a.m.—Holy communion for collegeans. Breakfast and Canterbury meeting follow in Rectory.
11 a.m.—Morning prayer and sermon.
Thursday, 7 a.m.—Holy communion at Danforth Chapel.