Real Lace

As a decorative work of art, lace, accord, no to many people, is not surpassed by anything in the line of pottery, tapestry, oriental rugs, or any other product of applied art. But how little we know of this beautiful work! The price makes it prohibitive for the person of ordinary means, and we are not all so fortunate as to have heirlooms of beautiful handmade, or real lace as it is called. Furthermore, the machine made imitations of every kind of lace, which may now be bought in any shop so closely resemble the originals that it is difficult for one having but little knowledge of lace to detect them

The Iowa Homemaker vol.5, no.6

Table of Contents The Thanksgiving Dinner by Barbara Dewell, page 1 Safe and Adequate Food Supply by Mildred Rodgers, page 2 Real Lace by Grace Bonnell, page 3 When in Doubt – Try Apples by Beth Bailey McLean, page 4 “In the Candle Light”, page 5 With Iowa State Home Economics Association, page 6 The Mechanical Maid by Grace Heidbreder, page 7 Girls’ 4-H Clubs, page 8 Editorial, page 9 Who’s There and Where, page 10 The Eternal Question, page 12 New Faculty Members by Virginia Reck, page 14 Birch Hall by Margaret Ericson, page 15 Recipes – Old and New by Muriel Moore, page 1

The Iowa Homemaker vol.6 no.8

Table of Contents Possibilities of the Modern Home by D. S. Jeffers, page 1 Old Fashioned Equipment, page 2 A Bit About Switzerland by Cleo Ftizsimmons, page 3 Types of Colonial Chairs by Gale Pugh, page 4 The Food Value of Milk by Helene Heye, page 5 Merrill Palmer by Frances Jones, page 6 4-H Club, page 7 Iowa State Home Economics Association Page, page 8 Editorial, page 9 Who’s There and Where, page 10 Farm and Home Week by Barbara Dewell, page 11 Sonny’s Room by Grace Bonnell, page 11 Eternal Question, page 12 Shall We Tell Stories? by Gwendolyn Hall, page 13 Fine Ware Made of Iowa City by Mary Yancy, page 1

Drivers of aboveground wood production in a lowland tropical forest of West Africa: teasing apart the roles of tree density, tree diversity, soil phosphorus, and historical logging.

Tropical forests currently play a key role in regulating the terrestrial carbon cycle and abating climate change by storing carbon in wood. However, there remains considerable uncertainty as to whether tropical forests will continue to act as carbon sinks in the face of increased pressure from expanding human activities. Consequently, understanding what drives productivity in tropical forests is critical. We used permanent forest plot data from the Gola Rainforest National Park (Sierra Leone) - one of the largest tracts of intact tropical moist forest in West Africa - to explore how (1) stand basal area and tree diversity, (2) past disturbance associated with past logging, and (3) underlying soil nutrient gradients interact to determine rates of aboveground wood production (AWP). We started by statistically modeling the diameter growth of individual trees and used these models to estimate AWP for 142 permanent forest plots. We then used structural equation modeling to explore the direct and indirect pathways which shape rates of AWP. Across the plot network, stand basal area emerged as the strongest determinant of AWP, with densely packed stands exhibiting the fastest rates of AWP. In addition to stand packing density, both tree diversity and soil phosphorus content were also positively related to productivity. By contrast, historical logging activities negatively impacted AWP through the removal of large trees, which contributed disproportionately to productivity. Understanding what determines variation in wood production across tropical forest landscapes requires accounting for multiple interacting drivers - with stand structure, tree diversity, and soil nutrients all playing a key role. Importantly, our results also indicate that logging activities can have a long-lasting impact on a forest's ability to sequester and store carbon, emphasizing the importance of safeguarding old-growth tropical forests.This study was funded through a grant from the Cambridge Conservation Initiative Collaborative Fund entitled “Applications of airborne remote sensing to the conservation management of a West African National Park”. T.J. was funded in part through NERC grant NE/K016377/1. A.C.S. was funded in part through a grant from the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund.This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from Wiley via https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.217

Sonny's Room

Recently a friend of mine (Mrs. B), who has a son three years of age, said to me, "Everyone to whom I show the house always says in an amazed tone, after seeing Sonny's room, 'Yes, it is nice for Sonny to have a room, but that leaves you without a guest room'."</p

Real Lace

As a decorative work of art, lace, accord, no to many people, is not surpassed by anything in the line of pottery, tapestry, oriental rugs, or any other product of applied art. But how little we know of this beautiful work! The price makes it prohibitive for the person of ordinary means, and we are not all so fortunate as to have heirlooms of beautiful handmade, or "real" lace as it is called. Furthermore, the machine made imitations of every kind of lace, which may now be bought in any shop so closely resemble the originals that it is difficult for one having but little knowledge of lace to detect them.</p

Real Lace

As a decorative work of art, lace according to many people is not surpassed by anything in the line of pottery, tapestry, oriental rugs, or any other product of applied art. But bow little we know of this. beautiful work! The price makes it prohibitive for the per son of ordinary means, and we are not a ll so fortunate as to have heirlooms of beautiful handmade, or "real" lace as it is called. Furthermore, the machine made imitations of every kind of lace, which may now be bought in any shop, so closely resemble the originals that it is difficult for one .having but little knowledge of lace to detect them.</p

The Iowa Homemaker vol.5, no.6

Table of Contents The Thanksgiving Dinner by Barbara Dewell, page 1 Safe and Adequate Food Supply by Mildred Rodgers, page 2 Real Lace by Grace Bonnell, page 3 When in Doubt – Try Apples by Beth Bailey McLean, page 4 “In the Candle Light”, page 5 With Iowa State Home Economics Association, page 6 The Mechanical Maid by Grace Heidbreder, page 7 Girls’ 4-H Clubs, page 8 Editorial, page 9 Who’s There and Where, page 10 The Eternal Question, page 12 New Faculty Members by Virginia Reck, page 14 Birch Hall by Margaret Ericson, page 15 Recipes – Old and New by Muriel Moore, page 16</p

The Iowa Homemaker vol.6 no.8

Table of Contents Possibilities of the Modern Home by D. S. Jeffers, page 1 Old Fashioned Equipment, page 2 A Bit About Switzerland by Cleo Ftizsimmons, page 3 Types of Colonial Chairs by Gale Pugh, page 4 The Food Value of Milk by Helene Heye, page 5 Merrill Palmer by Frances Jones, page 6 4-H Club, page 7 Iowa State Home Economics Association Page, page 8 Editorial, page 9 Who’s There and Where, page 10 Farm and Home Week by Barbara Dewell, page 11 Sonny’s Room by Grace Bonnell, page 11 Eternal Question, page 12 Shall We Tell Stories? by Gwendolyn Hall, page 13 Fine Ware Made of Iowa City by Mary Yancy, page 17</p