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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 15

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1 n1 -y Sybil Defies Trend in 'Arthur' A THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Tuwday, June 22, 1965 15 Hints from Heloisc New Paiiit Pan Works Out Fine To Cook With ByHELOISE CRUSE Dear Heloise: I had a new paint pan (the kind used with a roller) that I didn't really need. So I lined it with foil and used it as a roasting pan. Nl ft It has the nice deep part which the juices can drain into for basting! I just wouldn't be without my "roaster" now. Mrs. S.

H. Now, folks, this is what I call ingenuity personified! The slant on the pan is wonderful, too. Also, 1 those little ridges on some paint pans allow for perfect drainage. Next time you're by a paint store, why not walk in and take a look at these slanted pans? They come in many sizes, and can be bought roller and can of paint! HelolM Crau without the Heloise TASSEL ADDS INTEREST TO PILLOW Little Vicki Johnson finds this 36" Japanese pilloto ideal or reclining when she has to play indoors on rainy days. I'fciA it i Dear Heloise: I just found a wonderful lint remover Just put on a rubber glove and rub the garment.

The lint comes off like magic! Eleanor Dumas Dear Heloise: As one of seven children my mother always became very annoyed with "the kids" running in and out of the house when she was entertaining the afternoon whist club sooo to prevent the running in and out, and knocking at the locked doors, she would put us all out in the yard and then cover all the door knobs with oil. It Butch Know it's not so, Butch, but thanks for giving us a laugh, anyway. Heloise Dear Heloise: I wash and save the wooden sticks from ice cream bars I put them under the lid of a pan to let the steam escape, and they are also wonderful to use as markers for plants in my flower beds and garden. Mrs. William Shinn Dear Heloise: Here's something I saw my friend's family using at the beach.

I think it is a terrific hint. I guess everyone hates getting into the car with sandy feet. So next time, before leaving for the beach or pool put a plastic detergent bottle filled with water in the car. Before getting into the car when leaving the beach, rinse your feet with the water to wash off the sand, and wipe dry. A.

Harada 1. Vtiivf NEW YORK Wl Ten years go the squares were predicting the doom of rock 'n' roll. Last year they were foretelling fading fame for the Beatles. Now they are portending an early death of discotheques. In the face of these maledictions Sybil Burton opened "Arthur," a dark, dissonant discotheque which is so in that there is no room for the stockholders.

But then this cotton blonde swinger from Wales has the formula down pat. The 1 a who became a celebrity by losing her husband Richard to Elizabeth Taylor made a thorough study of the world's jumpiest places. OWN RECIPE She has arrived at a recipe which when cooked up as directed, she feels, should keep the gloom doomers away from the discotheque doors. (The recipe also cooked up another marriage for Sybil, this time to Jordan Christopher of Akron, Ohio, leader of a group called "The Wild Ones," which appears at Sybil's discotheque.) The most essential ingredient to Sybil is noise. "If you can hold a conversation in a discotheque it's all wrong, turn it up," orders Sybil.

Proximity to the floor is important. "I learned that from the Ad Lib Club in London (a hangout of the Beatles)" says Sybil, easing down to a round white table no higher than a footstool. "People should not be too comfortable sitting if. they are here to dance." Darkness is a must. Sybil's wide gray eyes, surveying a glowing wall panel of deep reds, oranges, and purples, ordered the illumination turned down a little.

On the ceiling red and green pin lights flickered on and off flirting with the fluttering candlelight on the tables below. A dance floor helps. You don't have to go all out on this the smaller, the better. The bostello, that falldown dance originating in Paris and banned at Ondine's, a hip discotheque in New York, is not off-limits at Arthur, but it is not possible to find the room in which to fall down among the writhing, vertical people. "Silly dance anyway," comments Sybil in her clipped British English.

"It probably came about in the first place because somebody slipped." DRESS INFORMALLY Informality of dress is the last ingredient. Nobody at Arthur hands out horrid ties at the door to open collared men. "It's come-as-you are," adds Sybil. "Going to a discotheque should be an impulsive decision. People just in from a ski trip shouldn't have to go home to change to something frilly first.

That spoils the mood." At Arthur (named after a wisecrack by Ringo in a Bea-tle movie,) men appear at the orchid door in anything from white tie and tails to dungarees. The ladies have been wearing a lot of lacy pajamas lately, although any costume goes for them too. You still won't get in, no matter what you're wearing or who you are unless you're very, very early. iw- -i swv. fj 1 IsH vl If i i SiiWii -X.

i IvSav T'i iy 4 i ii a v4v J-i i iH i I -l i in ti atom i v-- i 1 i5aikMkt Staff Photo Chirlei Pugh If you have a question or household hint for Heloise, write her at this address: Heloise, co The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. Heloise will answer queries in her column as space permits. NATIVE MATERIALS ARE USED FOR PILLOWS AND CURTAINS WITH AN ORIENTAL TOUCH Mrs. Robert Reeb (Right) Sews Pillow; (Left), Shows Curtains by Hawaiian Bed Zabutons by Mrs. Reeb Bring Orient to Atlanta Mrs.

Robert Reeb is using her background as a home economist in Hawaii to bring a touch of the Orient to Atlanta. While working as an associate home economist with the University of Hawaii in 1962 and 1963, she became interested in making "zabutons," Japanese floor cushions, as an ideal complement to modern interiors. "The zabuton has a history dating back to early Japan," Mrs. Reeb said. "At that time it was a circular cushion used by aristocratic families.

"Woven flat and round from stems of cattail or bullrush, By NANCY MASON it was also used in Zen training when an individual had to sit and meditate for many hours and days with his legs folded under him. Later it was made into a square cushion with a cloth cover and cotton or feather filling." REPLACE CHAIRS The zabutons, Mrs. Reeb added, are usually 24 inches square and can be used instead of chairs for everything from a woman's club meeting in a small apartment to decorations on a pune'e (poo-nay), a square bed that doubles for a sofa. "They are made for both fragrance A GO-GO -June Wilson- Compared to Today's Wife, Grandma Had It Made summer and winter use, depending on their thickness, color, design, and cover fabric," she said. "They are made with an inside muslin case for the filling so the outside cover may be removed and washed." This is done about twice a year.

Mrs. Reeb makes the zabutons most often with a smooth top surface, with the only seams basted on the bottom. She does not use zippers because of the size of the pillows and because she feels they spoil their Oriental effect. "I also avoid using buttons," she commented, "because buttons are strictly an American innovation." TASSELS Tassels, however, are placed on the corners and in the center. Stuffing is either shredded nylon or foam rubber, to keep the pillows lightweight.

Mrs. Reeb uses fabrics from a small Georgia mill and makes the pillows with the hope of developing a small home industry from them. Uninterrupted, she can make two a day. To add to the effect of the zabutons, she also makes curtains out of matching materials, including nubbed linens, which closely resemble Oriental raw silk. The biggest zabuton she has made is 36 inches square.

"I made it so big because I had an exceptionally wide piece of material and didn't know what else to do with it," she said. EXPECTS POPULARITY She feels that the idea of floor cushions will increase in popularity with the casual design of contemporary living, with the various sizes suitable to individual personalities, as they are in Japan. "In Japanese homes the large ones are kept for the use of guests and the smaller ones are used by members of the family," she explained. "Like the custom practiced in some Western homes of reserving a particular chair for a certain member of the family, particular zabutons in some homes are assigned to certain members of the Men think that with packaged soap, disposable diapers and instant whipped cream fellll all's well with the world of today's a pered" woman, and they do not under stand how we can i --t iff ever De iirea. We don't, ft thev sav.

an- Go with White Shoulders from Evyon the fragrance that is the ultimate in femininity. Tuck this feather-weight atomizer into your purse or bag and take it wherever you go to the lake, to the beach, touring, romancing. Take along White Shoulders in the new year-around Beach and Travel Atomizer. $2.75 Plus fed. tax Rich's World of Beauty, Street Floor Also Lenox, Belvedere, Cobb County predate what jji.

Ksttmm It If have to keep everything and everybody surgically clean, bug-free and odorless. The front parlor stayed neat but was for display only, and one day with the half dozen neighboring kids who litter your living room would have given her hives. The family, in the good old days, lived in the rest of the house, but no visitor dreamed of invading grandma's kitchen or poking around her pantry. She didn't have to shower every morning and have a tub every night; neither did she have her hair "done" weekly and apply every trick in the book to keep her skin tone, her figure, and her gray hair was not a guilty "secret." Nobody suggested that grandpa might skip with a spryer model unless she kept herself remodeled and "interesting." As for keeping abreast of the world, she listened (or did she?) when grandpa talked politics. Period.

The Ladies' Aid met monthly but in between she felt no guilt if she did not join the Great Books Club, the League of Voters, or collect for good causes. She was not compelled to show up at PTA meetings to prove she cared about the children's education. And grandma NEVER ferried the little darlings to and fro 20 times a day in the family buggy. Grandma fed her family solid, uncomplicated meals with the zeal of a taxidermist she did not have to be Condon Bleu about them. She didn't count calories, dispense vitamins, worry about balancing meals or inspiring the family's palates.

Unlike woman a a she did not lie awake worrying over toilet training, sibling rivalry, delinquency and self-demand schedules. The "social acclimatization" of her charges was simply not in the language, and while she applied the peach tree switch with regularity, she would not have known an id, an ego or libido if one had grabbed her. It did not occur to her that she might lose her own "identity" down the kitchen drain. And you know what else? Five gets you ten any woman you know would gladly take to boiling her own soap and feeding a pen of pigs if it would get off her back the 50-odd other trained monkey chores that replaced them. 1 Afomhtr i mm meir genius jum wum has done for us.

All those labor-saving machines! Sometimes they mutter to themselves, "they just don't make women like grandma, anymore," and sigh for a gal like grandpa had. Nuts. Grandma had it made! Today's woman works so bard and under such pressures that Grannie's dawn-to-dusk day looks like Victorian leisure. A fraction of the responsibilities that all but pull the modern woman apart would have given grandma the vapors and sent maiden Aunt Melissa scurrying for the smelling salts. First of all, grandma didn't.

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