Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1945-11-01

and sometimes even on ten right.
You should see the folks buy the
Sunday evening paper that comes
out at six o'clock and gives all
the football results. You pay twen-
ty-five ore for betting one row,
on the list, but you may bet as
many rows as you wish. They have
one special betting list that has
five ore added to the cost, making
it 80 ore, and this extra five ore
goes towards helping the Finnish
war invalidS.
L know many of you are inter-
ested in what type of furniture
are being used in these ultra-mod-
ern apartments in Sweden. The
blond wood seems to be predom-
mating just now. AS most Swed-
ish families combine their dining
and living rooms into one they
also have combined furniture that
is both compact and attractive
Dinette tables are what they use.
and these can be enlarged by hid
den leaves that are drawn out
from beneath the table. Dining
chairs have the upholstered seats
and sometimes backs in the most
attractive colors. The combined
room has a comfortable daven-
port or bed in diversified colors.
Easy chairs are most appealing,
being light and easy to move.
Upholstery seems to vary from
cretonne to the solid colors in
every shade imaginable. The day.
export and two easy chairs are
often grouped around a center low
table in blond wood.
Writing desks are the flat kind
with built-in book shelves and the
bar cupboards. These are
streamlined and very lovely. Book
shelves are very popular, the long,
low types that can be placed
against the long walls. Rugs used
are always smaller than ours in
the States, as most modern apart
ments have the beautiful parquette
floors, so with waxing they serve
sufficiently as base for this
modern, lovely furniture.
Bedroom sets are twin beds with
the most modernistic dressing
tables and dressers. Floor lamps
are very unusual and modern. the
base being curved so that the
lamp itself can be adjusted COM
fortably above your head when
you sit in the easy chair and the
shades are quite flat in shape.
Some of these floor lamps have
a round table built around the
base, SO that it also serves as an
end table.
The pocket-books used in Swed-,
en- now are very large-the larg-
er the better. And all have arm
straps on them.
An article in a popular Swedish
magazine discusses what hats"
the men remember most. Among
the ones mentioned are Mrs. Min
iver's large, brimmed scallopped-
edged hat from the film of the
same name; Irene Dunn's lovable
flower top-knot in Love at First
Sight and Joan Crawford's rose
adornment in the Last Couple
Out"
The new street cars here in
Gothenburg are really something
Streamlined, and so large and
roomy they run like they moved
on silk. They have immense Win
dows that may be showed aside
in the summer weather, and they
are so clean that they fairly shine
Sweden can really be proud of
these modern new vehicles.
l wish you could have seen the
long banana line" that were
strung along the sidewalks and in
the railroad stations, wherever a
fruit store or stand was situated.
The banans have gone off the ra-
| ton list, and it seems everyone
in Sweden has an overwhelming
desire to eat a banana. Folks in
the States can never imagine what
| a delicacy these commonplace