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Mildred Milanowics S. U. A.’s Jubilee Gift To Youth SCHOLARSHIP FUND ESTABLISHED The 20th Jubilee of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (Soyu-z Ukrainok Ameriki), has found a fitting memorial in the establishment by the League of a Scholarship Fund. Three scholarships, for medicine, journalism and music, amounting to one hundred dollars each, will'be awarded to three worthy young*wo men of Ukrainian descent, to heiip finance further study in her chosen field. The applicant for one of these scholarships must be a memiber of at least one year’s standing of the S.U.A. and must have her application submitted by the una nimous approval of her branch. The awards will be made orf basis of individual merit and scholastic standing, proofs of which must be submitted with the .application. Awards will be made by a Scholarship Committee to be elected at the coming S.U.A. convention and to be comprised of four mem bers o-f the Executive Board and three delegates. With the establishment of this Scholarship Fund, the S.U.A. furnishes youth with modern equipment — higher education — to carry on its traditions of furthering the cause of their Ukrainian parents. For twenty years the S.U.A. has carried on here in. America, this centuries-old task of all Ukrainian women — to preserve and enhance the culture and traditions that form our Ukrainian heritage. This task has now become a (bit more simplified with a world more familiar with the name Ukraine. It remains to youth, Ukrainiian- American youth, to carry on. With the establishment of the Scholarship Fund, the S.U.A. begins a new era in its existence. MAKE YOUR OWN EASTER EGGS Decorating Easter Eggs in the Ukrainian tradition can become such a fascinating hobby, yet many who admire the art hesi tate to take it up, fearing it too difficult to master. This batik method is not at all difficult to learn and the old saw stil'l holds true that practice makes perfect.. Try the Americanized version of the art and you will find your self entranced by a new hobby that grows more satisfying with the years. Folk groups that in clude folk arts and crafts in their programs will find this a worth while project. Materials are easily procured, no essential war materials are wasted. You will need eggs, of course, smooth-surfaced, clean white. Candlled, storage-eggs will not’ dye properly. To boil or not to boil the egg before dyeing has developed two schools of thought on the subject and the reader can satisfy his own curiosity on that score. The thing to remem ber is, that boiled or raw, the egg must be absolutely clean and free of any clinging grease spots, which will interfere with the ad herence of the dye. The rest of the materials in clude a number of thick j*elly- glasses, as many as you have colors, kept for f convenience in a tray. An ordinary pen-holder, by Mildred Milanowicz with one or two sizes of pen- points of the type called Speed- Ball. The different sizes produce different thicknesses o>f lines, but the No. 6 is good for all-purpose work. A cake of bees-wax can be purchased at the drug-store. An ordinary candle in a holder, or a small spirit-lamp, is used to heat the pen-point. Special dyes can be purchased at Ukrainian art-stores or simply made by putting some good grade of crepe-paper, one color in each glass, filling the glass two-thirds full otf boiling water and adding a jigger of vinegar before letting it cool off. For the elaboi^ite Ukrainian Easter eggs sought for private collections and prized for alii the work and ima gination expended upon it, it is NOT recommended to use the packaged dyes generally offered on the market before Easter time because of their tendency to fade quickly. For stirring dyes use old spoons. You might be able to buy wire eggJhandilers that can be quite useful. Have some old cloths on hand for wiping. Face tissues are grand if you can get them and, partly wrapped around a half-finished egg, prevent warm, moist fingers from smudg ing wax on the egg as you work. Just to majfe sure, see, if you have everything. Glean eggs, tray of glasses, crepe-paper or dyes, (yellow, red, green, purple) vinegar, speed-foall pens, spoons, candle or spirit-lamp, bees-wax, cloths, a small «bowlful of chlori nated laundry-washing fluid and finally,- a bottle of colorless nail polish. Oh yes, and the Sunday papers. The latter are not for divertesement, but to supply a thick covering for the table. You •MIGHT stain it and you MIGHT break an egg or two. (This is where the hard-tboiled egg argu ment wins). ^ For designs you can use the traditional ones pictured here, or make up your own, which can be endiless funr Here is a favorite design which even beginners can suocessMlly carry out. Try it. While the dye you have pre pared is cooling, light your can dle, take up your pen in your right hand and the egg in your left. Eventually you will master the light grip on the egg that will not melt or mar the wax de sign. The wax will melt (and bladken later on) and adhere to the point. Reheat for a second, then start drawing your first line on the egg, from the “head to the tail” i. e., from the wider to the narrower part, then completely around the egg. Now bisect this line at the “head,” dividing the surface in four parts. With a line around the “middle” of the egg, the surface is now divided into eight equal parts. (Diagram 1). How are you doing? In the six squares formed by jthe interesting bandte, make a cross from corner to corner as in Diagram 3, then divide the rest of the bands with crosses as shown. Now trace in the small diamonds in every bond. Did you skip a space? And please, lighten your grip, you are smudging the wax. Now you can repeat the design in Diagram 4 in all eight sections. When all eight sections have been copied, you have com pleted tracing the entire* design. Pretty even now, isn’t it? Now you can think of color. First wax in the parts of the de sign that will remain white, in this case the center of the flowers and the V-shaped figures in the bands. See Diagram 5. Skip any? Look and see. * Now dye the egg the first col or, yellow, and when a strong color is obtained, wipe dry. You can now filll in the yellow design, which will be the flower petals, and the curlicues in each corner and the small center diamonds. Now dip the egg in the red dye. Remove, wipe and fill in the red scallops and the large diamonds with wax. Ready for the green dye now. But to save time, it is best to remove the preceding colors by giving the egg a quick bath in the chlorine fluid. Twirl it a bit and*wKen the color is, re moved, hold the egg under run ning water till the slipperiness is* gone. As you can see, the parts under the wax still remain dyed. COLORS ls^.WHITE Center-dot V-ehepe 4th.GREEK Small triangles Diagr. 4- 3rd RED Scallops large As in Diagram 2, draw a paral lel line 1/8” on each side o-f the three lines just drawn, forming three quarter-inch-wide bands, two lengthwise, and one cross wise on the egg. You have just complleted the hardiest part of the design, from now on it is easy. Remember that -the thing to do is to keep equal distances for every stroke and you will not go '-wrong. 2nd .ТЕШИ Petals Snail diamonds Curlicues Diagr* 5. LAST: HJRPLE jSForvv dry the egg and dye it green. The regaining space in the band's, which should be small triangiles, is now waxed in. You! could add some green leaves to the flowers too. Now dye the egg! purple. When it is a good dark, purple, remove, wipe dry. Take! a clean cloth. With one hand hold'*' the egg JUST NEAR the candle^ flame, to melt the wax, and wipe’ (Continued on Page 8) Junior League Section
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