The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 44, Ed. 2 Monday, August 2, 1954 Page: 4 of 24
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Monday Evening, Aug***, 16
ABILKNK BUILDS *
Cool Greens, Browns Make Life
Not so Warm in Etter Home
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD—It’s a burled top able in the home of the- Frank Et-
ters 2110 Campus Courts, and not their home that is 100 years. The antique table is
the one on the left in front of the picture window. Inside and out, the Etters’ home re-
flects coolness in the use of subdued colors. Never clashing, greens and browns are the
main color tones for this coral colored Roman brick house. (Staff photos! ^ -----
BRIDEELECT
Pink and Silver Decorate
Parties for Jerry Stringer
- Jerry Stringer, bride elect of
Car] Ramon Spence, was feted st
a luncheon and gift tea recently.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs John Bruce Stringer. 1433
Matador St. They will be married
Aug. 11
Mrs. Marshall Moore, Mrs. Pat
Mitchell, and Mrs Jack Moore of
Snyder hosted a luncheon Saturday
in the Marshall Moore home.
1532 North 16th St.
A violin, made of pink styro-
foam, and pink asters decorated
the mantel in the living ream.
The dining table was centered
with pink asters, and laid with a
Madeira cloth. Appointments were
silver and crystal.
Greeting guests with the honoree
was little Diana Moore of Snyder.
She wore a wristlet of baby roses
and the honoree wore a corsage
of pink gardenias.
Mrs. F W Nussbaumer, 4110
Monticello Dr . Sara Ellis and
Mary Page hosted a gift tea hon-
oring Miss Stringer, in the Nuss-
baumer home
Miss Ellis and Miss Page will
be in the wedding party. .
No Zipper, No.
Sleeves in This
No sleeves to make. No zipper
to put into place. Cut in only four
pattern pieces for you to make up
to no time to favorite cottons.
No. 2114 is cut in sizes 12. 14,
16. 18, 20.36, 38, 40. Size 16: 1 14
yds. 35-in. or S 14‘yds. 39-in.
Send 35c in coin (no stamps,
please) for pattern, with name, ad
dress, style number and size. Ad-
dress Pattern Bureau. The Abi-
lene Reporter-News, Bos 42 Old
Chelsea Station, New York 11,
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The table was laid with ecru
lace and centered with a minia-
ture bridal couple walking on n
pink etoad. Pink daisies and sal-
vor foliage backed the cloud.
Mrs. Charles Ellis and Mrs.
Stringer were in the houseparty.
The honoree wore a grey silk
shantung dress made with empire
waist and flared skirt with tucks
at the waist. Her jewelry included
a rhinestone clip and matching
earrings. She wore a pink daisy
corsage.
Shake Your Wrists
To minimize enlarged veins in
the hands, press down on them
when applying hand crean. And
raise your arms and shake the
wrists frequently to stimulate eir-
culation.
Casy C
M’
2114
By BETTY MEDERMETT
Perfect far this 100 degree
weather, even without the air con-
ditioning, to the Frank Etter home,
2110 Campus Courts.
Decorated in a jillion shadings
of greens and browns, the house
plays like a civilized jungle cooling
off everyone from the family to
the parakeet, Dennis the Menace.
He’s different shades of green, toe.
In the combination living-dining
room, the dominate colors are suit-
ably accompanied by a soft grey-
ish rose textone on the walls, ex-
cept for the wall behind the Duncan
Phyto divan. A farm acene pat-
tern in shades of green is dupli-
cated on a white background tor
a wall paper on this side of the
room. Near this paper in a corner
sits a green chair that goes with
nothing but the wall paper and to
never moved from its habitat.
The other upholstered furniture
is a dark rose and two chairs are
gold satin covered. These chain
flank the prize antique as far as
Mrs. Etter is concerned
In the picture window to a burled
topped natural finished walnut ta-
ble A furniture dealer thinks that
it must be at least 100-years-old
since the thin veneer is set in two
pieces. A SO-year-old buried top
would be cut in more pieces. Buri-
ed wood — for other ignorant an-
tique admirers — to a thin slice
of walnut root and Mn. Etter’s
table to in two large matching
pieces.
A few selections from her plate
collection hang on the walls and
Mrs. Etter’s earlier collection of
cups and saucers dot the end ta-
hies, coffee table and buffet.
The dining room suite to oak
and the table will seat U when
the drop leaves are extended.
Wall to wall wool carpeting of
gray greens and browns is used
in the living-dining room and L
shaped hall. The cotton shantung
draperies in the combined room
bring out the darker tone of green
in the wall paper scene.
Happy Paper
The smile provoking kitchen wall
paper creates good spirits even
when the roast burns. An orang-
ey Chinese red adds color to the
green and brown figures of rooster,
ben and ripened ear of corn.
Chartreuse tile cabinet top bor-
ders double sinks. The cabinets
themselves are white wood and
the other kitchen appliances are
white chrome. Minus the utility
room of their old home, the fit-
ters now have the deep freeze and
automatic washer to the kitchen.
The blurrod greens in the lino-
leum could bring on a good case
of sea-sickness if one looked too
long straight down!
Added to the kitchen in a sunk-
en effect is the den done in satin
finished knotty pine This room
was, once a carport but has been
enclosed and louvered windows
added for a truly relaxing place
To tie in the kitchen with the
den, the orange rod color of the
rooster’s comb is used on the door
and inside of a built-in book euse.
A cinnamon colored cotton carpet
covers the floor.
The living room suite that Mr.
and Mrs Etter started housekeep-
ing with has been newly uphol-
stered in brown and green denim
with the tweed look. This and an
imported coffee table are the mov-
able pieces of furniture The cof-
fee table to split bamboo in the
center trimmed in a natural fin-
ished mahagony.
Hideaway Closet
Vertical blinds with a linen-like
finish are brown and light char-
treuse Conserving all space, there
is a hide-away broom closet full
of those implements that combat
the dust.
The master bedroom follows the
same color tone with a green cot-
ton carpeting, white ruffled organ-
dy curtains, maple bedroom suits
and green and brown striped wall
paper. '
All woodwork and doors are
done in a natural finish. Out in
the hall, the wallpaper takes on
a woven effect with only shades
of brown to the figuring
The two boys, Don and Frank,
Jr., have their own bathroom
bloomed out in a flower and bird
design wallpaper in shades of
rose, brown and green. The fix-
tures are Claire de Lune blue with
dark brown shower curtains and
rug The tiling to tan flecked cer-
amic.
Mrs. Etter couldn’t quite get over
the other bathroom done in t’ange
red tile trim and basic green tile.
This red to very nearly maroon
and gives an out of character feel-
ing with the rest of ths house.
Something like a black sheep of the
family only this one’s red.
Quiet Jungle Scene
Most people like it, though, and
Mrs Etter to adjusting to it. A
dr mint table has boon tiled in and
the wall paper is a quiet jungle
scene of birds and trees on this
red background. :
Typically boyish with a wanton
atmosphere is the boys’ bedroom.
The twin beds are maple with a
covered wagon-insignia — maybe,
a western coat of arms. Mrs. Etter
made the green and brown early
American print bedspread and cur-
tains
A gun rack dominates one wall
and is topped by deer antlers
Their daughter Patsy's room is
to the mental stage of being re-
done in pink and brown. Her bed-
room suit is elm with a double
drossing table. But there is no rush
on the transformation. Patsy to go-
tog to Austin to teach to the ele-
mentary schools next fall and won’t
be home.
Fenced to with redwood, the
backyard to undergoing the usual
grassing period. When the Etters
moved into the house in March,
the rains came and it was too wet
to do any yard work and now it’s
too dry.
The front, however, does have a
nice sidewalk to sidewalk carpet of
green. Built of coral color Roman
brick, the house to topped with
white slate rooflag. Two fancy
white wrought iron columns deco-
rate the front porch.
The Etter family to chiefly con-
cerned with education. Etter to the
principal for Travis elementary
school and Mrs. Etter to Ubrarian
for Abilene Christian High School
Don to finishing Abilene Christian
College next year and Frank, Jr.,
will be starting. Definitely out of
the color scheme, but not out of
the family, to Wingo, a black and
white toy terrier, who to jealous of
the right shade of green parakeet,
Donato
They're All Square
But Handy to Use
RALEIGH, N. C m-Get Ml tor
another revolution in the kitchen.
Round pies, cakes and cookies are
on their way out.
With home treesan spreading to
many kitchens, the North Carolina
State Extension service says a pie
or cake baked in a rectangular or
square pan makes good sense
when it comes to storing those
sweets.
“Square pane fit into your
home freezer much better than
round ones," t says Miss Nita
Orr, a food specialist. And, she
also says, a pie or cake with corn-
en to easier to wrap than a round
one. .
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If you've ever taken much part in affairs of your school, church,
community, state or nation, chances are Mrs. Myrtle Fowler has
you "numbered and filed.” If your picture has been printed in
The. Reporter-News, you're "in the morgue." Don't get excited
about the word, however. The morgue, in this case, is a very pleas-
_ ant place. That's just the newspaper name for the files of pictures
' and clippings. The Reporter-News has more than 50,000 different
filings in its morgue. Each includes engravings and clippings on
people who have,been in the news, everyone from president to
constable, from clergyman to criminal. It's Mrs. Fowler's job to
keep track of all this and have the needed picture or information
ready for immediate use.
and what this means to YOU
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rote, newsy newspaper. Much of the behind-the-scenes work is
done by such people as Mrs. Fowler. When a news event ‘‘breaks,”
she goes to work to supply reporters and editors with background
information which will be incorporated in the final story.
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mirrow to see that nothing mars
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