Collegiate! Yes, we are collegiate! What\u27s more-so are the rooms we live in. And still more -we make them that way

Iverson, Alvina

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Collegiate! Yes, we are collegiate! What's more-so are the rooms we live in. And still more -we make them that way.</p

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C OLLEGIATE! Yes, we are col-legiate! What's more-so are the rooms we live in. And still more -we make them that way. Perhaps there is nothing more de-pressing than walking into your un-adorned room when you arrive at col-lege. Four denuded '\valls greet you with all their bleaknes3. The large win-dows glare at you hopelessly. The fur-niture seems to be waiting for the moving van. What's to do about it? That's where the fun comes in. The room is yours. You're the doctor, figuratively speaking, and must restore life in what may seem a hopeless case. You'll find the treatment is not as difficult as it seemed. By prescribing a liberal dose of ina.ividuality to be taken with a grain of common sense and with regard for color, harmony, and the pocketbook, you'll notice that your patient will soon assume a cheerful col-lege atmosphere. A room doesn't have to be gaudy, loud or ramshackle to be collegiate. At Iowa State a collegiate room is one that com-bines good taste and simplicity with furnishings that express the personality of a youthful co-ed. If you would like to have your room just a little different, why don't you center your decorations around some selected motif? My roommate and I en-joyed a nautical room in blue and white last year. We made drapes, spreads and dresser scarfs of plain blue percale, trimmed with white rick-rack, and ap-pliqued large anchors on the drapes and a simple ship design on the spreads. At the head of each bed we placed a "porthole picture." This was a wide circular frame of white cardboard pasted over some left-over blue mate-rial we had left. Inside it we appliqued a small ship with a few sea gulls on the blue. Perhaps you would prefer a wild west room. Rough, heavy material trimmed in bright colors make interesting drapes and spreads. Try tying the drapes back 8 My LatchString Is Out By Alvina Iverson loosely with a piece of small rope. Red bandana handkerch iefs sewed together offer novelty in dresser scarfs. You can have a pioneer room, using bright colored calico prints with appro-priate pictures and other furnishings to lend atmosphere. If you really plan your room, you'll undoubtedly think of other interesting motifs. Little touches come to your mind to carry out the scheme. It's like planning a party. You get the main idea and all the finishing details that really put it across come to you as you work. However, such ideas can be carried too far. No matter how you arrange your room, avoid extremes in style, color and arrangement. After all, you have to live in this room for nine months and room furnishings aren't like white elephant clothes which you can tuck away in a drawer when you tire of them. Many girls like ginghams, percales, prints or other wash materials for drapes and spreads because they always resume their perky, fresh appearance after an old-fashioned washing. How-ever, they do wrinkle quite easily. But with you, your roommate and every other girl in the corridor lounging on the bed whenever in the room, what wouldn't wrinkle? Some of the heavier crashes, monk's cloth and special bed covering material do offer more resist-ance and are preferred by some, but they are harder to clean. Your drapes and spreads are your -Courtesy Genera! Etectric major room furnishings. They should harmonize in texture, color and style. If you are using gingham spreads, don't choose monk's cloth drapes. If your spreads are drab, brighten the room with the curtains. But if your curtains have a frill, why not throw a plain, heavy coverlet over your bed? Now for some of the little things that can make your room more convenient. October, 1937 Need some extra table space? Get a radiator cover or a board to go over the top of your radiator. If you have any material left over from your drapes, you might thumb-tack a skirt to the board. Need some more chairs? Try some hassocks. Handy, comfortable, at-tractive. Tired of having your soap flakes, sink cleanser, shampoo, et cetera, scattered around? Use a small wall board just to fit that nook beneath the lavatory. Keep it in place by forcing two cork halves on each side between it and the wall. You don't know where to put those cookies you got from home? That's usually not a problem, but tin con-tainers are nice for any food you may want to keep in your room. The silver fish don't like it but they'll have to learn to watch out for themselves. Do your dance programs, pom-poms, souvenirs and clippings accumulate in jumbles? WJiy not erect a bulletin board? A piece of heavy cloth or wall board suspended from the molding is a handy place for pinning such trifles. What's more, you can have a lot of fun putting up notices for and about the gang and if you post the best joke of the day, your room will soon become one of the most popular. Uncovered boxes in the top dresser drawer are most convenient for pre-venting a messy drawer. It's much eas-ier to find what you want. Want to know what to do with your china menageries and numerous gim-cracks? Save only those you absolutely can't do without, pack the rest in a box and send them home. It's best sooner or later anyway, because they take up room, break easily, and catch dust. Wish you have something for that huge bare wall? A colored wall hanging will do the trick. Stencil your design on some material, color heavily with crayola, cover with a cloth and press with a hot iron. If you haven't made one already, you'll have a lot of fun in one of your first applied art classes. Want some good advice? Invest some money in a standard table lamp with indirect light. Your eyes will appre-ciate a well-lighted study table when you burn the midnight oil. Canning Cautions "I'VE brought some girls in for lunch, mother. We'll have it ready in a jiffy. I'll open some cans!" To those who use commercially cann-ed goods and those who use their own canned goods, the government has given the following directions: Tin cans should be flat or curved slightly inward. Neither end should bulge or snap back when it is pressed, and all seams should be tight and clean. The metal cover of a glass jar should The Iowa Homemaker Where Dress Designing Is Done With Dolls MISS BERYL SPINNEY, '28, as head of the Dress Design De-partment of the Chicago Art Institute, uses mannequin-dolls to dem-onstrate dress designing. This system is similar to the method used by famous Parisian designers whose work she has observed at first hand. "My original idea in using the wire-framed dolls covered with sun-tan pique was to teach my students the necessity of designing for materials alone. The best effects are procured when the garment design is fashioned with the material's weight and weave in mind," Miss Spinney explains. She believes that a design planned for the quality and "fall" of taffeta will flatter neither satin nor crepe-and she uses mannequins to show this difference to her students. Miniature modes are worked out on the doll from original sketches by the students. Other designs are originated on the doll. One-half yard materials of the same general classification are draped and pinned on the mannequins by the students. Miss Spinney works in full yardage on a regular size 14 model to give her conception to the class of what is good design for that particular material. This experiment in the handling of yard goods is only a small part of the general instruction. "It also makes possible the execution of original ideas without great expense or labor," Miss Spinney says. Miss Beryl Spinney was graduated here from the Applied Art Department. Prominent on the Iowa State campus, she was a charter member of Delta Phi Delta, and a member of Omicron Nu and Pi Epsilon Delta. ;Warner Brothers' First National Stu-dio in Hollywood, as well as Nelly Don be firm and flat, or curved slightly in-ward. No sign of leakage should appear. The contents of the cans must show no unusual cloudiness. After the can is opened, an outrush of air or spurting of the liquid indicates spoilage. If the air sucks inward, it shows the vacuum seal isn't broken. The inside of the tin can should be clean, bright, and well lacquered. Under no circumstances taste home canned asparagus, corn, string beans, or spinach before boiling. Boil them for two minutes even though there is no sign of spoilage. by Gaynold Carroll and other textile manufacturers has used her commercial costume designs. She likes to work with her students and to help them bring out their individual talents. Miss Spinney is also costume designer for the School of Drama of the Chicago A du Pont mannequin in "Ace!e" acetate rayon yurn. Art Institute. She and her assistant design and produce the costumes for the many versatile plays given in the theatre each year. Strikingly dressed in a guava (greyed red-violet) alpaca weave dress trimmed with wire flowers taken from her grandmother's hat, the former Holly-wood designer said, "A person who wishes to be individual and well dress--ed will always be seen in off-shades and greyed colors. Usual colors are sold by the dozens, and it takes much more taste and artistic training to get up an ensemble of odd colors. The off-shades are individual," she said. 9 

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