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WOMAN'S WORLD
Add Interest to Dining Room
By Trenting with Decoration
By Extta Haley
TNINWO ROOMS used to b*.
mousy affairs: you put tbe
table in the center of the room
surrounded by chairs, a buffet witr
a picture cr mirror above it and,
of course, a rug on the floor.
No longer does the dining room
have to be juat a utilitarian room
used only for meals. It can and
ahould have a special place in the
affairs of the family, much more
than just a place to have meals.
Thus, new and interesting dining
rooms have come into existence.
Smartly planned and decorated, a
dining room can be used for sev
eral activities, and, at the same
time, be an asset to the decorative
scheme of your home.
If you're planning to re-vamp the
dining room, the first thing to do
is to stop thinking of it as just the
place for meals. Do you need a
sewing room? a place to listen to
music? a comer for a hobby col
lection? Dining room* can, and
rightfully to, house one of these
special interests.
Throw eway your old rules for
decorating and see how interesting
the new ones can make the room.
Consider first what you want the
room to do, then plan the deco
rating achcme.
Harmony is essential in any dec
orating scheme, and continuity in
the decorating scheme is impor
tant if the home is to have a well
balanced and agreeable look. This
doesn't mean that your colors and
furnishings will be the same from
one room to the next, but at least
there should be a fee'ing that they
are part of the same pattern. After
all, they're rooms In the same
home, and, more Important, used
by the same group of people.
The place where your dining
room is, in relation to other rooms,
should have an important bearing
on how it's decorated.
Take Color Cuea
From Hall ar Living Room
: Since dining rooms are entered
from a hall or from the living room.
Hsm diming room itrvt dust purport
It'* especially Important to have
• related feeling between the ad
joining room. Color can, and often
Is, the tie-in.
Colors from the’ living room or
hall can be brought Into the dining
room by means of walls, draperies,
rug, upholstered pieces or dining
room chairs.
If the dining room is not sep
arated from the living room by
walls, as is often the case in many
of the new homes, the rooms can be
tied together very dramatically
by all-over carpeting. However,
this la not at all necessary since
you may went to separate the one
room Into two units, so use carpet
ing only in the living room and a
fluted or other interesting type
screen to separate the one room
into two.
Consider, too, the walls of ths
adjoining rooms befrre doing some
thing with your dining room. If
living room or hall or both are
plain then use a bold pattern In the
dining room for the sake of accent
and interest. There can be a color
in the pattern which goes with
wail color in living room or hall,
of course.
Patterned halls and plain living
rooms call for plain or floral
■tripes in the dining room.
or itritm U from hang room.
If hall la patterned and living
room striped, then it would be too
much to have anything but plain
walls in the dining room. In this
case, the relief of something plain
is needed to offset design in the
other rooms.
Use Original Combinations
In Dining Room Furniture
It's becoming more and more a
thing of the past to purchase dining
room furniture as a unit or a suite
In some lines you can select a
suite and be lucky enough to have
It meet your requirements, but of
ten it’s wise to buy the pieces
singly.
The Important thing to remem
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ber is that the furniture does not
have to match. There should be a
general harmony übout it, but
tables and chairs do rot have to
match, and neither do sideboards,
cupboards or other pieces.
If you have to economize on
funds, your saving can be in the
dining room table. You can even
paint an old table with good lines
in a positive color to take care
of tills item.
Dining room chairs, on the other
hand, should be padded to give
comfort while dining. A pair of
comfortable armchairs from the
living room might be used at either
end of the table.
Chairs receive hard wear and
they should be selected for strength
as well as appearance. If there are
several youngsters in a family,
have the seat of the chair covered
in a leather or plastic that sim
ulates leather, or a good solid
color so that tt may be readily
cleaned.
The center of Interest tn a dining
room it frequently a distinctive
wall piece. Corner cupboards, tall
cupboards, hutches, dressers, hang
ing shelves or built-in wall cup
boards usually provide more inter
est than the usual sideboard, ex
cept tor distinctly period-type
rooms.
Another item which is especially
useful in a dining room is a serving
table, usually placed near the kitch
en, or tn an Inconspicuous spot.
How le Furnish
Dual-I’urpoae Room
If yours is going to be a dining
room which is lived-in as well as
dined-ln, the dining room shpuld be
treated as an extension of the
living room. This means grouping
the furniture comfortably in
groups.
For the dining room which Is go
ing to serve as a sewing room, plan
to have the latter activity near
the dining room windows for the
light provided. The dining table, or
one of the serving tables can be
used for a portable machine. If
your machine is In a cabinet, ar
range the furniture so that this is
near the windows to prevent mov
ing.
In place of a high sideboard as
a center of interest in dining rooms
which are going to serve also as
music rooms, you might have one
wall of cabinets which will take
rare of music books and records
Underneath this arrange to have
your radio, photograph or combina
tion music unit, with comfortable
chairs or a sofa arrangement.
Study in the dining room? The
desk or secretary will then provide
the center of interest. You might
like to have wall bookcases above
the desk, and this ran bo very dec
orative and attractive.
Families which need a small
private sitting room removed from
the living room might consider
part of the dining room for this in
terest. This can be t two or three
chair or small sofa arrangement
with a small coffee table againsl
one wall of the dining room.
Should your dining room aoem
a bit small when you want to make
a dual purpose room out of it. then
try to fit a drop leaf table Into the
arrangement which will rive space
It can have leaves dropped to be
set against the wall; then, pull it
out during mealtime
llining Room Furnishings
Need Sturdiness
As mentioned above, chairs foi
the dining room need to be prac
tical, but this applier to othei
items, too Your tab’e will serve
around a thousand meals a year
it will need good finish if you use
place mats rather than pads anc
tablecloths.
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Solads, Swpp* RrprHs
Form Good Mainr'n ; 3
For Summer Meals
A SAI.AD RFPOSINO In the re
frigerator and some sweet bread
resting on pantry shelf or kitchen
table can be the nu-in ingredients
for a simple summer meal, lunch
eon or supper. It’s light fare, true,
but hot days make less food neces
sary for appetites wilt readily.
For the really warm days, salads
can be very light
indeed. If the
weather is warm
mS but no * too * u *'
L try, make your
salads a bit more
substantial, both
insofar as ingre
-J dients as well as
''yi -'/ dressing.
Why a sweet
bread? Thi* will give you both a
bread to go with the salad, and if
it’s sweet, you'll find It’s enough to
take care of the dessert, too. Add a
simple beverage and your meal is
well balanced as well as complete.
Smooth textured avocadoes give
vegetable salad bowls distinction,
and this one is especially elegant
and good tasting.
Avocado Salad llowl
(Serves 6-8)
2 avoradora
Lemon Juice
Salt
l ooked cauliflower flowerets
Sliced, cooked beets
French drenfting
4 halved, hard-cooked eggs
Krd radishes or sliced onion
Shredded salad greens
Cut one avocado into halves
lengthwise and remove seed. Cut
each half into three lengthwise
slices and remove skin. Sprinkle
fruit with lemon juice and salt. Cut
remaining avocado into halves cross
wise and remove seed. Cut each
avocado half into rings and remove
skin. Sprinkle fruit with lemon
juice and salt. Marinate cauliflower
and beets in French dressing. Sea
son eggs to taste. Place salad
greens in salad bowl. Arrange avo
cado rings and slices, cauliflower,
beets and radishes or onion over
salad greens. Serve with lemon
wedges and additional French dress
ing
• • •
Macaroni Salad
(Serves 4-6)
1 cup uncooked elbow macaroni
12 stuffed olives, sliced
H cup cubed cheddar cheese
S cup cubed rooked ham or
bologna
H cup chopped celery
1 teaspoon grated onion
H teaspoon salt
Vi cup salad dressing
1 tablespoon French dressing
Salad greens
2 hard-cooked eggs, sliced
Cook macaroni In boiling, salted
water until tender, about 0 to 10
S minutes. Drain.
rinse with hot
water; chill in
| refrlg erator.
1 Combine macs-
A Jtk roni with olives,
cheese, ham, cel-
JJ ery, onion, salt
and dressings. Place In a bowl
lined with salad greens and garnish
with egg slices.
There are many occasions for
chicken salad, which is delicious:
"Chicken Salad
(Serves 12)
4 cups diced, cooked chicken
1 tablespoon salt
2 cups finely sliced, crisp
celery
H cup sliced ripe olives
1 cup French dressing
Crisp lettuce
H cup mayonnaise
Tomatoes or radishes
Combine chicken, celery, olive
and French dressing Cover. Chil
in refrigerator for 2 hours At serv
ing time, stir in
mayonnaise to
loosely on crisp
\ lettuce. Top with
Li \ a spoon of may
oniMise
paprika
Garnish the
salad with chilled, sliced tomatoes.
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Kings and slices of avocado min
gle with sliced, hard-cooked
egg*, cauliflower flowerets, lem
on wedges and green* In this
refreshing salad howl. Villorcd
to order for summer appetites.
French dressing provides a
sippy touch »o the well chosen
ingredients.
Nuts and dates go Into this deli
cious loaf which may be served
as a bread with salad, or frosted
as a delirious rake for weary
warm weather appetites. It's
good toasted or plain for break
fast or handy to have when com
pany drops In at tea time.
LYNN CHAMBERS' MENU
•Chicken Salad
Tomato Slices Sliced Egg
Radishes
•Cinnamon Prune Bread Butter
Pineapple Soda
•Recipe Given
sliced hard-cooked eggs or crisp
radishes,
The above recipe may also be
used with turkey to replace chicken.
Variations: Garnish the salad with
a lew capers or top with shredded
sharp cheese, slivered, toasted al
monds, salted pecans or bits of
pimiento.
Here's a good sweet bread to have
on hand to serve with the salads.
When used in a sweet bread, nonfat
dry milk is sifted with the other dry
ingredients and water is added as
the liquid.
Nut and Date Loaf
(Makes 1 loaf)
H cup shortening
1 cup brown sugar, firmly
packed
1 egg
Hi cup sifted flour
H cup nonfat dry milk
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup water
h cup chapped dates
1 cup chopped nut meats
Cream shortening; gradually stir
in sugar; beat until light and fluffy.
Add eggs and beat well. Sift together
flour, nonfat dry milk, baking pow
der and salt. Alternately stir in one
third of the flour mixture and half
the water to the sugar mixture, be
ginning and ending with flour and
blend well after each addition. Stir
in dates and nut meats. Turn batter
Into greased 10V4x5Vkx3-lnch loaf
pan. Bake in a moderate <3SO°F.)
oven until cake pulls away from
sides of pan and center springs back
when touched lightly with finger,
about 1V« hour.
If desired, frost with the follow
ing:
Orange Butter Frosting
cup nonfat dry milk
1% cup sifted confectioners'
sugar
H cup butter
1 tablespoon lemon Julre
H teaspoon finely shredded
orange peel
l tablespoons orange Juice
Sift together nonfat dry milk and
sugar. Cream butter. Beat in half
of milk-sugar mixture. Stir In lemon
juice. Stir in remaining milk-sugar
mixture. Blend in orange peel and
juice. Beat until fluffy.
'Cinnamon Prune Bread
(Makes 1 loaf)
>, cup sugar
ti cup soft shortening
* eggs
1 orange
2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
cup rut-up, rooked prunes
! cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
<j teaspoon soda
■s teaspoon salt
I teaspoon cinnamon
H teaspoon each, nutmeg and
allspice
'« cup chopped nuts
Combine sugar, shortening an
ggs in large bowl; beat w ith rotar
measuring cup and fill with water to
make 1 cup. Add to batter; blend in
prunes and lemon rind. Sift together
dry ingredients and add to batter
Blend in nuts. Turn into greased
9x5x3-inch loaf pan. Let stand 20
minutes. Bake in a moderate
<3SO'F > oven SO to 65 minutes, un
til done.
Of the million* of Inhabitant*.
8,000,000 are Africans. European*
rank second with over 2,000,000;
the colored, or mulattoo* number
close to 900,000, and the Indians
LYNN SAYS: only 250,000.
Those who like tangy orange fl.v Pown through the ages various
vor can use it in either biscuits or land acts have taken the lands
muffins. Add some grated rind to away from the native tribes, until
the dry ingredients, and substitute now. the 8.000.000 Africans are
orange Juice in place of milk j herded into a 12 per cent area of
Bit, of candied fruit lend an in- the 473,347 square miles com
triguing flavor to muffins Simply H _.
dice it very fine and add to dry I P ri,inff the Un,on Th ° "‘ malnin K
ingredients before mixing Chopped I P*' r ** allotted to Euro-
candied pineapple, citron, orange ot p*M».
lemon peel may be used Before this disintegration of
Veal u tender but requires longer j tribal society, the African held his
cooking than beef since it has a i land collectively. There was no
great deal of connective tissue. Cor )por t v in land and it was looked
braising, use these cuts runic heei 1 ,
of round, loin or kidney chops sir U f' on ** na,ur< ‘ s * ,ft to a ” »* O P ,e
loin and round steaks, cuts from the aml not the *' xcluslve Propetry of
leg. breast, heart, kidne—
By Bert Thomas
SUNNYSIDE
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300 WOMEN ATTEND N. E. REGIONAL OF PHI DELTA KAPPA
More than 300 delegates attended the recent Edna A. Thomas, soror scholarship winner of Oslo
Northeast Regional Conference of the National university in Norway, and Mrs. Marian H. Bluitt,
Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, held in Camden, N. J. Washington, D. C., supreme basileus of Phi Delta
Top speakers at this gathering of teachers in- Kappa. Business sessions, workshop meetings and
eluded Mrs. Vivian Carter Mason, vice president a luncheon highlighted the meeting.— (ANP)
of the National Council of Negro Women; Miss
Destiny Of Africa
By GEORGE DANIELS
Editor's Note: This Is the first of two parts on the DESTINY
OF AFRICA and her importance to world survival; the exis
tence of the British Commonwealth; and the comity of friend
ship.
For years, America has been lax in providing information of
this vast continent that may someday-possibly 50 years— be
three times as strong and rich as America herself. Here, the
black man Is rising. His might is being felt and his voice is
might in a bloodless revolution taking place on this "black man's”
continent.
PART I
For centuries, Asia, the largest,
richest, and most densely popu
lated of the continents, was Great
Britain's chief milch-cow. Now
that India and Burma have
broken the fetters of imperialism;
Ceylon has attained dominion
status; and Malaya is straining
at the leash, the Britain ruling
class must look elsewhere for new
sources of profit. Raw materials,
food, manpower for workers and
troops.
The most industrialized section
of the British Commonwealth
and the Empire on the African
continent is the Union of South
Africa, the territory where the
white man came over 300 years
ago and disputed the soverignty
of native tribes.
This Union comprises four pro
vinces. the early Brittish settle
ment of Cape Colony and Natal,
and the former Boer Republics of
Transvaal and Orange Free State.
any particular section.
With much of this 12 percent
slotted land of the African useless
and unsuitable for agriculture and
pastoral purposes, land hunger
among the natives became acute.
Soon, acts were passed which
segregated the native in every
conceivable form and fashion.
Among these acts were a "Mas
ters and Servants Act", passed in
1913, and a "Native Service Con
trol Act," in 1932
When the native labored, one
act required him to pay a poll
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tax. When he was without work,
another law forced him to still
pay a poll tax. Every native from
18 to 65 paid or either went to
jail. The whites, rich or poor, were
exempt from any type of direct
taxation. '
In more recent years South
Africa has not only turned itself
into a racing inferno that has
threatened world peace, but it
has also warned America of the
insane danger of white supremacy
as worshipped by race haters.
In America, over the years, it
has been the Ku Klux Klan. the
White Circle league, the Colum
bians, the Daughters of the
American Kcvolultion, Sen. Rich
ard Russell, Herman Talmadge
and Gov. Byrnes who have re
tarded the progress of American
culture and democracy.
In South Africa, its all one
man and his doctrines, Daniel
Francois Malan Prime Minister
supreme of the Union.
Since Malan was heralded into
supreme rule after the death of
his tutor. Jan Christain Smuts,
Malan has invented, schemed,
passed and nearly drawn his own
laws and constitution without re
buttals
He has fought and walked out
on the United Nations General
Assembly in Paris and has sought
to herd every African into one
small concentrated area to "in
sure sterner control." so that the
blacks will "never rise" against
his government.
Under his rule the natives, col
ored and the Indian must carry
identification cards and work
passes. And to get out of the
country is an almost impossibil
ity.
In 1952 a rapid change can be
seen Malan has gained little pop-
ularity. He has made few* friends,
and his followers have diminished
while his enemies grow each
passing day
As Malan's delight came in
making law after law. the people
began breaking them one by one.
Malan miffled the drum. He came
to the feast early, became over
fed and tired, and then walked
away declaring all feasts illegal
and all feasters law breakers.
It was at this point that the
people are beginning to lose their
fear of the Prime Minister and
decided that they would have to
abolish unjust laws by methods
other than burning the books of
law.
Here begins Africa's bloodless
revolution.
Dean Hancock Retires
Dean Gordon B. Hancock, pro
fessor and founder of the Depart
ment of Social Science at Virginia
Union university, last week an
nounced that he has retired from
the field of education. This an
nouncement climaxes a career of
more than 30 years of teaching.
Recipient of numerous educa
tional honors and awards. Dean
Hancock received his latest on
May 27. when he was awarded an
honorary LL.D., from Benedict
college. On May 26. he delivered
the commencement address at
Shaw university where he also re
ceived another I-L D.
He is also widely known as a
columnist, probably the most
widely read of all Negro writers
with "Between the Lines" for
the Associated Negro Press, and
as a minister, being pastor of
Moore Street Baptist church in
Richmond. Va.—iANPl
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By Eric Wilson Barker
And fire whose ash is all life's
ending sings
Through deep and branching
forests of the mind,
Through prairies maned and
rustling like the sea.
Its flames, fanned upward by a
rising wind
From instant fuel of grass and
resinous tree,
Ignite the clouds, set fire to
falcons' wings.
Find strange combustible natures
in the air.
Even in sleep, its streaming
comet hair.
Impelled beyond the dream that
gave it birth.
Across the jungle of the star
wild skies,
Tangled with lesser stars, has left
its mark
Where owls have heard a rushing
through the dark
And lions have seen it with their
yellow eyes
Bearing its fruit of burning
back to earth.
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