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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,
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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?
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*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.
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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.
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The Questions
1. Where is bilge water found?
2. What two countries fought
the Hundred Years war?
3. A one-inch rainfall is equiva
lent to how much snowfall?
4. Where in London is the clock
called Big Ben?
5. What date is set by the
Greeks for the beginning of the
Olympian games?
6. According to the Arthurian
legends, what knight found the
Holy Grail?
7. What West Indian island
yields large amounts of asphalt?
8. Gilbert Stuart painted the
portraits of how many Presidents?
The Answers
1. In a ship’s bottom.
2. France and England (1337*
1453).
3. Approximately ten inches.
4. The houses of parliament.
5. tfhe year 776 B. C.
6. Galahad.
7. Trinidad.
8. Six—Washington, John Ad
ams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe
and John Quincy Adams.
Nursemaid to a
20-ton Clipper!
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wuller is chief of the
"Beaching Crew” for the big,
ocean-flying South American
Clippers. He says: "You've
got to keep your eyes open
on a big job like this. The
breakfast that helps keep me
in there pitching is a big bowl
of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes with
fruit and plenty of milk. It’s
a great favorite here at the
employees’ cafeteria, too.”
Copr. 1942 by Kellon Company
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by using more of Clabber Girl
US' than your favorite recipe di
reefs ... Don't waste money by
paying more than Clabber Girl's
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SPECIAL SERVICE WRAPPER
With men in the Army, Navy, Marines,
and Coast Guard, the favorite cigarette
is Camel. (Based on actual sales records in
Post Exchanges, Sales Commissaries, Ship’s
Service Stores, Ship’s Stores, and Canteens.)
