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…Board in Floor…Recreation Room
August 04, 1933
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A portion of a Beauty in the Home column including an advertisement for the Detroit News Wonder Package, an advertisement for the Quilt Club radio show, and letters from Quilt Club Corner members.
Beauty in the Home
…Board in Floor…Recreation Room
by Edith B. Crumb
This department seeks to give assistance to all who are interested in beautifying their homes and will be glad to answer questions pertaining to interior decoration. In order to serve all who, seek advice promptly no more than three problems will be discussed in any one reply. Readers are invited to write to this department as often as they wish, but to limit each letter to three questions. State your question clearly write on only one side of the paper, enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope and address Beauty in the Home department, Detroit News. Letters with their answers will be published for the benefit of all homemakers but names and addresses will not be made public.
(clipping cut-off)...wish in the way of indoor recreation and at the same time affords guest room space. One would not mind placing a guest in a second floor recreation room, this location having the advantage of light and air over the room in the basement.
Three tints of yellow have been used for walls, these being arranged in vertical planes, the lightest tint covering the larger portion of the wall space.
For the floor covering there is blue linoleum with an inlaid border of inlaid linoleum and also an inlaid shuffle board.
With windows on three sides of the solarium reaching nearly to the floor and equipped with Venetian blinds only there is every certainly that this room will be the most cheery one in the house.
The Venetian blinds are white with yellow straps, and the furniture, which is in the contemporary manner, has coverings in blue, yellow and gray.
Tall lamps equipped with indirect lighting flood the room with a pleasing glow and the ferneries give a balance arrangement at the end of the room.
The card table show at the left is very clever. The top is hinged and opens to discloe a storage space table top size in which all manner of game equipment may be kept. This does away with the necessity of keeping a desk drawer full of these accessories; for a permanent card-table set-up one could not possibly find a style more ideal. The chairs which belong with it, though small, have been designed with a view to comfort - which cannot be said of some card table chairs.
Tomorrow you will see another view of this recreation room which will have a novel mural treatment and one in which I am sure you will be very interested.
Quilt Club Corner.
I am enjoying your Quilt Club Corner so much and find it very helpful.
I have pieced one quilt and am finishing a Trip Around the World that was begun by an old lady in Bay City. She gave it to me when it was still a small square, about 24 inches wide, and I forgot how she told me to do it and it was over a year before my aunt came to visit and told me how to finish is to I am still on my Trip.
A friend of mine has started to make the Double Wedding Ring and she can't make it stay flat. Can some one suggest the reason for this? It has been done on the machine and I thought perhaps that was the reason. Possibly the semas are not accurate. If it was taken apart at the square corner blocks and made larger would that make it flatter?
Mrs. M.E.H.
East Detroit, Mich.
Perhaps someone else had the same trouble with the Double Wedding Ring pattern as your friend and, if so, I am sure she will be only too glad to write to the Corner and tell how she remedied this. Just watch this column, and please write again.
I am a young girl of 13 and would like to joing the others in quilt-making so am sending in my membership blank.
I am finishing the top of my first quilt. It is the Maple Leaf pattern and I would like to know whether or not it is a News pattern. When it is ready to be quilted I am going to have my girl friends in and have each one quilt a block with her initials in it. It is for my Hope chest.
My mother has made one quilt and has another ready to quilt. She gave the finished one to me and is planning on making one for each of my two sisters - The one that is ready to be quilted is the Double Wedding Ring, but she is not going to enter it in the contest as part of it is done on the machine. I am doing mine by hand. Much luck to the column.
Maron Dial
16561 Cheyenne, City
I am sorry to tell you, Maron, that your pattern is not from The News. Isn't that too bad for I would certainly like to have you enter one; and perhaps most of the work on your mother's is by hand with the machine being used for joining the large blocks. If so, why doesn't she enter it? I certainly hope you will write again.
I think I am a member as I sent in my name in the first days of the quilt Club though I missed ever seeing my note in the paper saying that you had received it.
I am in Canada for the summer now and still making quilt blocks, though these are not for a News pattern, but one I have had on hand for some time and I want to finish it before I return to Detroit in the fall and start my Trip Around the World, which I am so eager to do.
I have a pair of Flower Garden quilts and one Dresden Plage all ready to go on the quilting frames when the weather is cooler in the fall.
The quilting ring is lovely and I believe I will get one when I start quilting.
Best wishes for the continuation of a most interesting corner.
Mrs. C.R. Bishop
Pointe Pelee, National Park
Ontario, Canada
Yes, Mrs. Bishop, your membership was filed on Nov. 3, 1932, so you see you have been a member for a long time.
Do try to get one of your quilts finished for the contest which will be held about the middle of October.
I am so glad that you wrote to the Corner, even while you were on your vacation.
Radio Corner Hour Has Another Change
This week listen for the Quilt Club Corner Hour over WWJ at 10 o’clock Wednesday instead of 10:30. You will be notified later if this is to be a definite change. But don’t forget to listen for the organ at 10 a. m. when “Seeing Nellie Home” will announce the “Corner" Hour.
The Detroit News,
Beauty in the Home Department.
Enclosed please find 56c for which I wish you would send me THE DETROIT NEWS WONDER PACKAGE of over 800 transfer patterns.
Name…………
Street and Number…………………
City…………… State……………….
If you prefer to call for this at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in the Majestic Building, the General Motors Building, or the Main Office, Second and Lafayette, the price will be but 49 cents. Please do not send coin in letters.
On account of customs regulations, Canadian orders cannot be accepted.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
…Board in Floor…Recreation Room
by Edith B. Crumb
This department seeks to give assistance to all who are interested in beautifying their homes and will be glad to answer questions pertaining to interior decoration. In order to serve all who, seek advice promptly no more than three problems will be discussed in any one reply. Readers are invited to write to this department as often as they wish, but to limit each letter to three questions. State your question clearly write on only one side of the paper, enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope and address Beauty in the Home department, Detroit News. Letters with their answers will be published for the benefit of all homemakers but names and addresses will not be made public.
(clipping cut-off)...wish in the way of indoor recreation and at the same time affords guest room space. One would not mind placing a guest in a second floor recreation room, this location having the advantage of light and air over the room in the basement.
Three tints of yellow have been used for walls, these being arranged in vertical planes, the lightest tint covering the larger portion of the wall space.
For the floor covering there is blue linoleum with an inlaid border of inlaid linoleum and also an inlaid shuffle board.
With windows on three sides of the solarium reaching nearly to the floor and equipped with Venetian blinds only there is every certainly that this room will be the most cheery one in the house.
The Venetian blinds are white with yellow straps, and the furniture, which is in the contemporary manner, has coverings in blue, yellow and gray.
Tall lamps equipped with indirect lighting flood the room with a pleasing glow and the ferneries give a balance arrangement at the end of the room.
The card table show at the left is very clever. The top is hinged and opens to discloe a storage space table top size in which all manner of game equipment may be kept. This does away with the necessity of keeping a desk drawer full of these accessories; for a permanent card-table set-up one could not possibly find a style more ideal. The chairs which belong with it, though small, have been designed with a view to comfort - which cannot be said of some card table chairs.
Tomorrow you will see another view of this recreation room which will have a novel mural treatment and one in which I am sure you will be very interested.
Quilt Club Corner.
I am enjoying your Quilt Club Corner so much and find it very helpful.
I have pieced one quilt and am finishing a Trip Around the World that was begun by an old lady in Bay City. She gave it to me when it was still a small square, about 24 inches wide, and I forgot how she told me to do it and it was over a year before my aunt came to visit and told me how to finish is to I am still on my Trip.
A friend of mine has started to make the Double Wedding Ring and she can't make it stay flat. Can some one suggest the reason for this? It has been done on the machine and I thought perhaps that was the reason. Possibly the semas are not accurate. If it was taken apart at the square corner blocks and made larger would that make it flatter?
Mrs. M.E.H.
East Detroit, Mich.
Perhaps someone else had the same trouble with the Double Wedding Ring pattern as your friend and, if so, I am sure she will be only too glad to write to the Corner and tell how she remedied this. Just watch this column, and please write again.
I am a young girl of 13 and would like to joing the others in quilt-making so am sending in my membership blank.
I am finishing the top of my first quilt. It is the Maple Leaf pattern and I would like to know whether or not it is a News pattern. When it is ready to be quilted I am going to have my girl friends in and have each one quilt a block with her initials in it. It is for my Hope chest.
My mother has made one quilt and has another ready to quilt. She gave the finished one to me and is planning on making one for each of my two sisters - The one that is ready to be quilted is the Double Wedding Ring, but she is not going to enter it in the contest as part of it is done on the machine. I am doing mine by hand. Much luck to the column.
Maron Dial
16561 Cheyenne, City
I am sorry to tell you, Maron, that your pattern is not from The News. Isn't that too bad for I would certainly like to have you enter one; and perhaps most of the work on your mother's is by hand with the machine being used for joining the large blocks. If so, why doesn't she enter it? I certainly hope you will write again.
I think I am a member as I sent in my name in the first days of the quilt Club though I missed ever seeing my note in the paper saying that you had received it.
I am in Canada for the summer now and still making quilt blocks, though these are not for a News pattern, but one I have had on hand for some time and I want to finish it before I return to Detroit in the fall and start my Trip Around the World, which I am so eager to do.
I have a pair of Flower Garden quilts and one Dresden Plage all ready to go on the quilting frames when the weather is cooler in the fall.
The quilting ring is lovely and I believe I will get one when I start quilting.
Best wishes for the continuation of a most interesting corner.
Mrs. C.R. Bishop
Pointe Pelee, National Park
Ontario, Canada
Yes, Mrs. Bishop, your membership was filed on Nov. 3, 1932, so you see you have been a member for a long time.
Do try to get one of your quilts finished for the contest which will be held about the middle of October.
I am so glad that you wrote to the Corner, even while you were on your vacation.
Radio Corner Hour Has Another Change
This week listen for the Quilt Club Corner Hour over WWJ at 10 o’clock Wednesday instead of 10:30. You will be notified later if this is to be a definite change. But don’t forget to listen for the organ at 10 a. m. when “Seeing Nellie Home” will announce the “Corner" Hour.
The Detroit News,
Beauty in the Home Department.
Enclosed please find 56c for which I wish you would send me THE DETROIT NEWS WONDER PACKAGE of over 800 transfer patterns.
Name…………
Street and Number…………………
City…………… State……………….
If you prefer to call for this at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in the Majestic Building, the General Motors Building, or the Main Office, Second and Lafayette, the price will be but 49 cents. Please do not send coin in letters.
On account of customs regulations, Canadian orders cannot be accepted.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
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