- -===Ay Jtytut ClujJtiM&tA ==. Ice Cream — Perfect Dessert for a Shower (See Recipes Below.) Bridal Showers Pretty, but practical—that’* the cue for this year's bridal showers. Chancel are this year's bride will be an army or navy bride with but a whirlwind wedding with her husband on a short leave, so there won't be much time for the frill* and fuss of other years. Her plans will be sketchy, most probably, and very often they will not include a permanent home or bungalow. That means that bridal showers will be simple and inexpen sive and gifts for the bride-to-be will include only things ■yvhich are not too elaborate, and which can be packed in a small space in case she is to travel or take a small apartment by herself. What kind of showers, then? Well, there are always the personal show ers in which you give her lingerie or other personal toilet items that you know she needs or wants. Another practical shower is the Kitchen Gadget shower. Get small items like dish mops, kitchen knives, forks, mixing spoons, dish cloths, soap flakes, clothes pins and a tew sets of bowls. Glass sets are popu lar, coming three in a set, fitting together in a nest so they don’t take up much room. They’re practical plus, too, because they can be used for baking dishes if you get the heat-resistant kind. Include measuring cups and spoons, custard cups and small skil lets and pots in the kitchen gadget shower. A new bride will appreci ate your thoughtfulness in getting necessities like these for her. The Kitchen shower is extra nice because you can carry out table decorations in the theme of the shower. Make a bouquet of some of the items for a centerpiece and use the dishcloths for doilies or place mats. Sewing Shower. Spools of thread in a riot of bright colors tumbling out of an attractive sewing basket can make the center piece for this party both novel and economical. There’s a variety of things to give the bride in this kind of shower and none of them will strain the pocket book—needles. hooks, snaps, darn ing thread, thimbles, etc.—all these are "musts” on the bride’s list Recipe Showers. Is the bride-to-be interested in cooking? Most of them are, and if they are not, they will be soon. That’s why recipe showers get "most popular” rating often. For this shower you and your friends can gather together your most pop ular and favorite recipes on cards or in notebooks, or collect several cookbooks to give the guest of honor. Decorations. Pretty up your table with pastel and white colors. This is the time to use your nicest linen and most fragile china to lend daintiness to the occasion. Color combinations may be white used plentifully with pink, green or pale yellow. Fresh sprays of garden flowers, even in small quantity add charm. Lynn Says: The Score Card: Egg produc tion has been upped 15 to 20 per cent to take care of national and allied needs, so there will be no shortage of this staple item. Although there have been ru mors of a tea shortage, tea will be rationed on a 50 per cent basis to assure plenty for summer, thirst-quenching use. There is enough tea in the country to last eight months, and in spite of the war, shipments are still coming in from India and Ceylon. The War Production board has allotted enough tin to the pine apple industry for this year's pack and operations for produc tion In Hawaii have been hiked to the maximum. It is expected that supplies will be somewhat curtailed because the government has reserved about 26 per cent of the pack for its own purchase. This Week’s Menu Bride’s Shower •Salad Luncheon Plate or •Asparagus Loaf Tiny Hot Rolls Preserves •Ice Cream With Green Gage Plums •Recipes Given A light, dainty luncheon platter can be served by way of refresh ment. Accompany this with tiny hot rolls or muffins and no shower guests could desire more: •Salad Luncheon Plate. (For One Serving) 4 cup cottage oheese 2 deviled egg halves 2 to 3 slices of tomato 2 to 3 slices of cocumber 2 Anger strips of sliced cheese 2 crabapple pickles Miscellaneous: 2 olives Slices of hard-cooked eggs Salad dressing Paprika Heap cottage cheese in crisp let tuce cup arranged in center of chilled salad plate. Then around this cen ter, arrange the remaining foods in neat, symmet rical fashion—the deviled eggs op posite the crabapple pickles, the overlapping slice of cucumber next to the apples and opposite the over lapping slices of tomato on the op posite side of the plate, bread tri angles topped with a slice of egg, op posite each other, 2 slices of cheese opposite each the 2 olives. Garnish the cottage cheese with paprika, and pass french dressing with the salad. If you prefer to serve a hot dish in place of the salad plate, you'll like this asparagus loaf in this versatile combination with cheese and white sauce: ‘Asparagus Loaf. (Serves 6) 2 eggs, slightly beaten 2 tablespoons butter 4 tablespoons flour 1 cup milk 94 teaspoon salt 96 teaspoon pepper 2 cups grated American cheese 194 cups fine, soft bread crumbs 1 (1-pound) can asparagus tips Plmiento strips Drain asparagus, reserve liquid. Line bottom of buttered loaf pan with half the asparagus tips. Place strips of pimiento between tips. Melt butter, blend in flour and mix well. Add milk and % cup of the aspara gus liquid and cook until thick, stir ring constantly. Add salt, pepper and cheese and stir until cheese is melted. Fold in crumbs. Add grad ually to eggs and fold in remaining asparagus tips, cut into one-inch pieces. Pour into loaf pan, place into a pan of hot water and bake 1 hour in a moderate (350-degree) oven. Serve on a platter surround ed with watercress and overlapping slices of tomatoes which have been marinated in french dressing. Your figure - conscious young guests will appreciate the good news about ice cream. Recent tests show that ice cream has much less cal ories than other favorite desserts such as cake and pie, but nutri tionally it is excellent. •Ice Cream With Green Gage Plums (Serves 6) 1 quart of vanilla Ice cream 1 No. can green gage plums Drain syrup from green gage plums. Arrange big spoonfuls of vanilla ice cream in center of a large glass bowl. Garnish or sur round with plums. Serve immedi ately, with a Jug of syrup, drained from the can of plums. Plums may be rolled in shredded almonds or finely chopped nuts, if desired. Have you a particular household or cooking problem on which you would like expert advice? Write to Mist Lynn Chambers at Wextern Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chicago, Illinois, explaining your problem fully to her. Hlease enclose a stamped, self addressed envelope for your reply. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON j Consolidated Feature*—WNU Feature*. NEW YORK.—Henry J. Kaiser, breaking all shipbuilding rec ords at his West coast shipyards, I used to be a photographer in Cano Ex - Photographer Known How to Make Thingn Click jaharie, JV. Y. It wag inevitable, of course, that a gen ius in the mass production of ships would appear when needed. Here he is, in the business less than three years, and now outstripping all others. He is quoted today as having said he could build 9,000,000 tons of ship ping next year. Contracts for 874 out of the 1,073 ships ordered by the maritime commission under the Lib erty program up to February 1, 1942, went to his firm. Mr. Kaiser was a demon road, bridge and dam builder who turned to shipbuilding as a side line at the age of M. Taking on some big contracts for the long over-due fortification of Pearl Harbor and Guam, he bought two old freighters to carry bulk cement. He towed them to the Todd shipyards for repairs and there combined his organisation and working forces with the Todd shipbuilding Interests. The combine swelled quickly into seven big West coast plants, with an array of tributary com panies, rising to a tremendous momentum at this moment and still on the uptake. He devised, among other new techniques, the Kaiser process, by which ships are built In a concrete chamber, allowing men to work both above and below. Completing the ship, they flood the drydock and the ship is floated out Two years ago when 6,000 tons of magnesium were being produced each year under patents held by a German cartel, Mr. Kaiser heard of an Austrian scientist. Dr. F. J. Hansgirg, who had a novel process, and he also learned of large depos its of low grade ore in Nevada. He brought the scientist and the ore to gether, built a big plant near San Jose, Calif., and in a short time was producing magnesium at the rate of 20,000 tons a year. He is a whirlwind of energy on the job, frequently on the airways between his vast plants at Rich mond, Calif., Los Angeles and Port land, Ore. _a_ Faith Baldwin wa» busy a while back bringing up two sets of twins, running the school they at tended, turning out novels like lunch Stick to Your Laat To Beat Beat Axia, Saya Thia Noveliat counter short - or ders and keeping up a steady run of magazine serials and verse. She Is now ready to go to press with her 50th novel, "The Breath of Life," a record better than one novel for each year of her life, and, ap parently an ambidextrous writer, she’s doing a lot of straightline pro duction for Archibald MacLeish’s big wartime word mill. In the first World war, women gave pie and doughnuts to depart ing soldiers, danced with them at benefit balls, and helped brighten up the YMCA. Miss Baldwin has been dubious about such wartime activities for busy women and has indicated that things are different, and should be, in this war. In view of the current urgency and interest in women’s war effort, we told Miss Baldwin she could have space here for her views on this subject. She writes: "Everyone wants to help in the war effort. Everyone is try ing and sometimes chaos and confusion reign, often, I think, because people try to do things for which they are not fitted. Some of us won’t ever qualify as first-aiders and air raid wardens. "It seems to me that it is a good idea to find out what you can do best and then do it. I believe that the function of a writer in wartime is to write—those of us who cannot carry guns or man ships. Writing is easily adapted to the war effort, to propaganda and the selling of war bonds, the supporting of our va rious relief organizations. And to entertain. Reading is entertainment and escape and it is no aspersion on one's patriotism if it is indulged in, now and then.” In private life. Miss Baldwin is Mrs. Hugh Cuthrell, a resident of Brooklyn for many years, until her purchase of a colonial homestead near New Canaan, Conn., several years ago. Several of her books have found screen versions and her | earnings have run as high as $300, 000 a year. She is small, big-eyed, 1 smart and alert and, working in her "boiler factory" as she calls her home workshop always seems to have time to do a little bit more. With all her added war work, she manages to get about a lot and keep humming with an “A" gas card. I NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Higher Tariff Demands Are Expected After War Ends . . . *Sea Otter Is Still in Blueprint Stage Of Production . . . Bell Syndicate—WNU Feature*. WASHINGTON.—In all this talk about after the war problems very little attention is being paid to trade. Naturally everyone is more inter ested in preventing a recurrence of war than in anything so common place as buying and selling. Yet whenever we plow through some learned article about the necessity of international co-operation after the war, to make this a better world, we come to the notion of "free trade.” Most of the writers and professors and economists avoid those particu lar words, but any attempt to put their ideas in words of one syllable results in their use. They talk on a high plane about the necessity of free markets, etc. Into nearly every such article creeps a dispar aging reference to the Smoot Hawley tariff bill, which the Demo crats were fond of saying brought about the 1929 depression. Now there is not the slightest de sire on the part of this writer to de fend the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, except that not one person in a thou sand who will* agree what a terrible measure that was could give you the vaguest idea of what that tariff bill did to any particular com modity. In other words, without the slightest idea of appraising the law, it has been condemned by die pub lic, and by the professors and econ omists, too, without most of the self appointed judges knowing anything beyond the general idea that it raised tariff duties. But let’s stop a minute and won der WHY that bill was passed I And then wonder another minute as to whether, after the war, there will not be the same sort of reasoning favoring an even higher tariff bar rier. We have two tremendous forces which will be working for just that sort of thing. One is that, being cut off by the war from the sources of many arti cles which normally we import in large volume, we are devel oping new industries to supply those needs. Synthetic rubber is one of the best illustrations, though probably that will not be among the leaders in demand ing tariff protection after the war. New Kindt of Production But we are developing new kinds of production at such a rate that a very high figure in the National De fense setup remarked that after the war we would be sufficient in nearly everything except rubber! Naturally every one of those indus tries, after peace comes, will be demanding high tariff duties. Ob viously they cannot survive if they are going to be exposed to compe tition from the former producers in overseas territory, all of whom have always had cheaper labor than we want to have, and who undoubtedly will continue to have cheaper pro duction. Bear in mind also that there will be no lack of shipping to transport those products, once peace comes. At the rate of ship building now going on all over the world, when the pres ent rate of destruction of bot toms ceases there will soon be a glut of ships, as there was after the last war. To make this demand for tariff protection tougher, politically, there will be an unemployment problem. The millions of men turned out of the army, and the hundreds of thou sands from the navy, will need jobs. Are we going to complicate that problem by permitting cheap for eign products to close down plants which, up to the day peace is signed, will be working at capacity produc tion? ~ w w *Sea Otter* Building Slow* Down We are not going to have wooden ships in this war—not because we would not like to have them, but because we haven’t the labor avail able to build them. It takes a lot of work to make a wooden ship, and highly skilled work at hand, for the most part The Maritime commission, in be tween tears over the ruthless burn ing of the old wooden ships built in the last war, anchored for years in various rivers and estuaries, and then destroyed, has reluctantly vetoed any further ventures along that line. Underneath all the foolishness about the sea otter is a sound idea. That idea is to produce something that will carry goods across water without straining any existing fa cility. One of the greatest strains at the moment is on engine produc tion. Every engine that can be turned out, at the present time, and for as far as we can see in the fu ture—while the war lasts—will be needed for other purposes. NEW IDEAS By RUTH WYETH SPEARS rCOTTON I BASTED TO MUSLIN BACK AND SEAT OF K COMPOSITION BOARDS OR PLYWOOD NAILED TO FRAME OF LUMBER* P VERY day we homemakers are gaining confidence in our own resourcefulness. We may not brew herbs and roots to make dyes as in Revolutionary times but this pair of flamingo red chairs in a modem setting shows that we un derstand the importance of the warming glow of color. The tan of the couch covering makes the cording for the chair covers and the red of the chairs makes the cording and cushions for the couch. The sketch shows how the chairs are padded and an article appearing soon will show the covering process. • • • NOTE: Clip and keep this article as this sketch ts not in any of the home making booklets prepared by Mrs. Spears for our readers. The dimensions for mak ing the chair frame are in the new BOOK To help preserve the color of beets and red cabbage when cook ing, use a tablespoon of vinegar to each quart of water. * • • When cotton sheets begin to wear out in the center, rather than sew the outside hems together, make two pillow slips of the two good ends. • • • To protect posts against ter mites, soak them (the posts, of course) in fuel oil before putting into the ground. * • * A fruit jar, tightly capped, can be used effectively for mixing fruit or milk shakes. • * • Pineapple and peach juices mixed in ginger ale make a de licious punch. Add the ginger ale at the last moment and serve in glasses or a pitcher half-filled with crushed ice. The ice is needed to dilute as well as to chill the beverage. • * * Put sugar in the cup before add ing tea or coffee and you can use a smaller amount for the same degree of sweetness. The hot beverage immediately melts the sugar and no undissolved grains are left in the cup for the house wife to wash down the drain. * * * Light-colored leather seats on chairs should be washed frequent ly. Make a lather of warm water and mild soap, apply this on a sponge to the leather. Wipe with a clean cloth. Repeat until the lather comes off clean, then wipe dry and polish with another soft cloth. See that the chairs are per fectly dry before they are used. • * * Syrup from canned fruits can be used on cereals and for sauces. I 8. which contains working directions for 31 things to make from what the average household has on hand, or from inexpen sive new materials. Send your order to: 1 ' . MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARI Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents for Book 8. Name .. Address . I r fV- O- (V. <\. fv. (V. (V. (V. fv. (V.