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I I Sugar Substitutes Come Into Limelight After the Holidays Pears and other fruit may be ■tewed or baked with very little ad ditional sugar because the fruit is so aweet in itself. Fruit desserts are kind to low-on-sugar budgets. Sugar-Shy Sweets Have the holidays exhausted your supply of sugar and sweets? Today’s collection of reci pes is especially planned for the low sugar budget, for strange though it may seem, there are many foods which can ue nxeo wim a minimum ui &ugai. Try packaged mixes, dried fruits, candied fruits, and the sugar sub stitutes if the sugar canister is get ting empty. There are many pack aged fillings which will relieve sugar from being used in pie and cake fillings, and these come in a variety of flavors. Substitute as many of the fresh fruits for dessert as possible, and if they are baked, sweeten with maple or corn syrup. If your favorite cookie recipes call for one cup of sugar, use % of a cup. They will be just as good, if a little less sweet. Marble Molasses Cake. % cup butter or substitute % cup sugar 2 eggs beaten 2 cups sifted cake flour 2 teaspoons baking powder Y* teaspoon salt % cup milk 2 teaspoons allspice 3 tablespoons molasses Have all ingredients at room tem perature. Measure out flour, sugar, salt and butter in bowl. Beat for 2 minutes. Add eggs and milk and beat for another two minutes. Take out one-third of batter and mix with molasses and allspice. Drop by spoonfuls into greased loaf pan, al ternating light and dark mixture. Bake in a moderate oven for 1 hour. Serve plain or frosted. Angel Cake. 1% cups light corn syrup 5 egg whites 5 egg yolks 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup sifted flour 1 tablespoon lemon juice Y* teaspoon salt Boil syrup until it forms a soft ball when tested in cold water. ueai egg wnues stiff but not dry, 4 pour syrup over tbem slowly, con tinue beating. ^ Add the lemon juice and vanilla. / Beat this mixture / until it holds its 7 shape. Fold in egg yolks, beaten until thick and lemon-colored. Fold in sifted dry ingredients. Bake in large ungreased tube pan in a slow oven (300 deg.) until well browned and done, about 60 minutes. Invert until cake loosens. Ice with following: Sugarless Icing. 1 egg white, unbeaten 54 cup light corn syrup 54 teaspoon salt 54 teaspoon vanilla Combine all ingredients in top of double boiler. Beat with a rotary Lynn Chambers’ Point-Saving Menu Calves’ Liver Baked in Sour Cream Buttered Spinach Fried Potatoes Apple-Cranberry Salad Rolls Jelly •Ginger Pudding •Recipe given. Lynn Says: Sugar-Savers: When stewing fresh or dried fruits or making fruit sauces, add sugar or syrup just a few minutes before cooking is finished. Don’t forget to add a pinch of salt to the fruit while it cooks. Both these little tricks will help make the fruit seem sweeter without using up a great deal of sugar. Dried fruits are rich in sweeten ing and may be made into fruit whips without any sugar. Simply stew the fruit, cook and put through a sieve. Beat two egg w'hites until stiff and use % cup of dark corn syrup beaten into them. The amount of fruit puree required for this amount of egg white-syrup mixture is % cup. Since powdered sugar is more readily obtained than the granu lated type, use it in icings Pow dered sugar is especially good when mixed in the proportion of one cup to a three-ounce package of cream cheese and flavored with orange juice. beater until thick enough to stand in peaks. Spread on cake. A delightful spicy pudding can easily be made from sugar substi tutes, and these are guaranteed to satisfy the family: *Ginger Pudding. (Serves 6) 1 cup hot coffee 2 tablespoons shortening 1 cup molasses 1 well-beaten egg Vi cup sugar 2 cups flour Vi teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon soda Vi teaspoon cinnamon Vi teaspoon each cloves, nutmeg, ginger Pour coffee over shortening and stir until melted. Add molasses and mix thoroughly. Add egg and beat. Add sifted dry in gredients, mix un til smooth. Pour I into wax - lined W square pan and ^ bake in moderate oven (350 deg.) for 30 minutes. Spread with the following: Orange Topping. cup sugar 2 tablespoons grated orange rind 2 tablespoons orange Juice Mix all ingredients and sprinkle on top of pudding. Return to oven which has had heat turned off. for about 10 minutes. Use an unbaked crumb filling for pie to save fat. Filling can be made of prepared pudding mixes to save sugar. Orange Fig Whip. (Serves 6) 1 cup evaporated milk 1 cup broken fig-filled cookies 1 cup orange sections 14 cup broken nutmeats Whip milk and fold in cookies. Add orange sections and nut meats then chill thoroughly. Pile lightly into sherbet glasses and serve. Pecan Crispies. 1 cup shortening 114 cup sifted flour 14 cup confectioners’ sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla 2 cups pecans, chopped Cream shortening, add sugar and vanilla. Add pecans and flour. Make rolls about 214 inches long and 14 inch wide. Place on cookie sheet and bake 15 to 20 minutes at 325 degrees. When baked, roll in powdered sugar and cool on wire rack. Gel the most from your meat! Gel your meat roasting chart from Miss Lynn Chambers by writing to her in care of Western Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chicago 6, III. Please send a stamped, self-addressed envelope for your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Necessity, Mother of Invention, Works Overtime to Combat Shortages Of BLUSOLltl llJCKAt BUXKI.N There is always news these days about the old subject of making something out of nothing. Espe cially now that necessity, as the mother of invention, is having to work overtime because of the well known shortages we're all having to cope with. The most recent make-over wrin kle we’ve heard about came from a woman who made herself a pair of charming—and useful—dining room cabinets out of a pair of old what nots. She bought two unpainted chests of drawers, finished them carefully in the same walnut tone as the what-nots, then hoisted each what-not up on a chest—thereby achieving a pair of delightful cabi nets with drawers below for linen and shelves above for china. Grim old dark carved oak is often the hardest sort of furniture to fit into a contemporary room, but the solution there is a bleaching and pickling job that makes the piece look light and fashionable. Some times these old pieces need even more than that. Sometimes the tables are too big, but by cutting them in half and using them as a pair of consoles you have some thing extra special. That bedroom furniture with cane insets—remember?—is also sort of difficult to fit into a contemporary scene. But a bed with cane head and footboard easily can be made into one with upholstered panels and then you have something really smart. Sometimes the piece you are faced with is hopeless—in that case con sider how much of it can be rescued for some other use. The base of an impossible old settee or sofa might be used for the base of a large and smart coffee table by adding a new top. Old chairs might be made into stools or be used as table bases. Consolidated Features.—WNU Helease. i ‘Adamless Eden’ Is This Hotel for Federal Workers Washington’s “Girls’ Town’’ is an “Adamless Eden,” a city within a city! This manless community is a gi gantic bousing project for girls, sprawled over 109 acres in the very shadow of the mammoth Pentagon building in the nation’s capital. Offi cially it is known as Arlington Farms. Unofficially it is called Girls’ Town, the first “hotel” ever run ex clusively by civil service employees. Arlington Farms is a project of the Public Buildings administration of the Federal Works agency, and. though only opened in March, 1943, today has more than 11,000 "citi zens,’* including 4.000 WAVES. The general manager is William J. Bis sell, of the PBA, and he is the only man who lives in Girls’ Town! He and his wife reside in the town’s only “penthouse,” atop the towering three-story city hall, overlooking the rest of the development. Because of projects like Girls’ Town, the acute housing conditions in Washington were drastically re duced. The citizens of this com munity come from every state and territory. Most of them work in the Pentagon building, a few minutes walk from home. Only requirements to live in Arlington Farms are that one must be a government employ ee; must earn a maximum of $1,800 a year; and be between the ages of i 16 and 72. The average age is 20 ' Has Own Mayor. Girls’ Town can truthfully claim j to be a complete civic entity. Its ! ten huge dormitories, named after states, each elect one member to 1 the “city council,” which in turn elects one of its members as “may or.” The present “mayor” is 22-year old Lucy Alston, of Jackson, Miss., a clerk in the department of labor. Actually, these girls constitute the Arlington Farms’ recreation council, which checks and double-checks all activities on the premises, and is final authority on the grounds. The Scattered about the 109-acre “campus” of Girls’ Town are numerous “refreshment tables,” where the young women can eat ice cream and chat. Pictured are Pat McCloud, Lohrville, Iowa; Dorothy Hannah, Lincoln, Neb.; Jean Belehrad, Ames, Iowa; and Rosalie Bell, Bedford, Ind. Notice the comfortable-looking two-story buildings in the back ground, where the girls live. last “Court of Appeal’’ is Mr. Bis sell himself, who is contacted daily by the council for official opinion. The system has worked admirably. All buildings in Girls’ Town are built of an asbestos composition in cluding ground corn husks, which is fire-resistant. Nevertheless, Girls’ Town has its own fire department, with one completely equipped fire truck! The ten dormitories, or resi dence halls, more like sorority houses, are resplendent with bright chintzes, modern, light-colored fur niture, and 3,000 paintings and sculp tured works donated by the fine arts section of the defunct WPA. Bot tom rent for a dormitory is $16.50 per month, but 97 per cent of the girls pay $24.50 monthly for the “de luxe suite.’’ A Dollar a Day to Eat. Food at Arlington Farms is an im portant item, and is carefully super vised by Mr. Bissell and his “gov erning body.” In a cafeteria seat A peek into a “de luxe suite.” Phyllis Nord, Buhl, Minn., is powder ing her nose before going on a shopping tour, while Rosalie Bell tunes in a swing band. About 97 per cent of the girls live in the tastefully fur nished de luxe suites, but there are dormitory accommodations at a lower rental. --— ____ i What to Da ! ; Bf PHYLLIS BELMONT I L-^ Question: 1 have some rare old dessert spoons but never see these used in other homes. How may I use mine correctly? Answer: By all means use your dessert spoons. They may be used for cereals at breakfast, for soup at luncheon, except when you use bouil lon cups, when you must use bouil lon spoons. Use your dessert spoons for vari ous desserts such as chocolate pud ding, rice pudding or tapioca, but not for ice cream. Above all don’t let the spoons lie idle. Fine silver is a heritage to be proud of, and should be used constantly to retain its rare beauty. Use and polishing will keep it lovely always—it will not wear out. Ledger Syndicate.—WNU Features. _ • I ICE AND COAL Hans Johnson was a businessman— He dealt in ice and coal. It seemed that when the snow began, He started then to roll. All through the frigid winter days, He filled each vacant bin; Enveloped in a sooty haze— He shoveled it down in. He was as busy as a bee— As active as a cat. From dawn till late in evening he. . . . Had neither stopped nor sat. But then with coming of the spring— With weather warm and nice— His business dropped like anything— He took to hauling ice. All through the sultry summer days He hauled it here and there. Beneath the sunshine's burning rays . . . He climbed each step and stair. Said Hans, “In winter 1 haul coal. To keep the people warm— To do that is my aim and goal. In time of snow and storm. But when the summer days appear, I show I’m no darn fool. I switch to ice that’s cold and clear. And thus I keep things cool. So be the weather cold or hot . Coming or going by . . . I get ’em ... to my profit. . . What a businessman am I!" ing 2,000 a girl can eat three whole some, nutritious meals a day for only one dollar! Further, food preparation and servings are along modern, sanitary lines. Paper eating and drinking utensils, for example, are almost j exclusively used in the many snack ; bars that dot the expansive commu nity, as well as in the huge cafe ! teria. Miss Norma L. Edwards of Al bany, N. Y.. the dietitian in charge of feeding at Arlington Farms, main tains that “Thousands of sanitary paper cups, paper plates and paper souffle cups for salads and pud dings are used each week, and that the annual total reaches astronomi cal proportions.” Has Civic Center. Girls’ Town has its own civic cen ter. built around the administration building, or “city hall,” as the girls prefer to call it. A Washington de partment store has opened an im pressive branch in Arlington Farms, and its first job was querying all the residents via a questionnaire. Prices ! were gauged this way, and now the girls can purchase almost anything within their budgets. mere are six laundry rooms and a drug store in each of the ten dor mitories. Navy chaplains preside at the only church, an inter-denomi national one. The local movie the ater is housed in the huge auditori um seating 1,200. Plays, too, are occasionally presented by the local theater group, and dances are fre quently held. Girls’ Town has, in fact, an all-girl band which almost invariably provides the dance rhythms at such affairs. There are beauty parlors and shops of every type, specially priced, appealing to girls. The “City” is especially proud of its modern infirmary, with 60 beds and complete medical and nursing facilities. Except for major ill nesses, the “hospital” staff can care for almost any contingency. There is no charge for hospital service. Believe it or not, there is even a “college” in this no-man’s land, and regular college credits are awarded to girls passing the night-school courses. The classes are neld in the recreational building. As for sports, Girls’ Town has just about everything. There are bowling alleys, tennis courts, minia ture golf courses, two basketball courts, soft ball diamonds, and grounds for badminton, shuffleboard, quoits and similar games. I ! ! ! | \ flj_B It takes an extra minute to do a pretty powder job—but girls, it’s worth that minute! Pat on your pow- ! der from the base of the throat up ward. Soft, gentle but firm pats. A powder brush will give a smooth finish. And to keep powder freshly fragrant, stir it up from the bot tom. Use a bone spatula or a spoon And keep the lid fastened to keep the fragrance in and the dust out! , Ledger Syndicate.—WNU Features. i Heroes of Bataan Fight Will Get Special Ribbon LEYTE, PHILIPPINES. — The Philippine government announced it would issue two sets of service rib bons to the defenders of Corregidor and Bataan, and to the military per sonnel who fought for liberation of the islands. The ribbons for the heroes of Cor regidor and Bataan will have a red background with two small vertical blue stripes at each end and three white stars in the center. TELEFACT I TOBACCO PRODUCTION GOING UP 1943 . 1,399 MILLION LBS. 1944 I1,616 MILLION LBS. Ham Operators Track Down Illegal Radio Stations, Locate Missing Planes, Uncover Enemv Spy Rings —— uie Helping uncle Sam police the air waves—have been since the war started—as members of the RID, which is short for the Radio Intelligence division of the Federal Communications commission. The job of the RID is to police the airways, track down illegal ra dio stations, trap enemy spies, and most important of all—to save hu man lives. Experience has proved that hams are ideally suited to the work which consists mainly of lis tening to stations over the entire ra dio spectrum. About 70 per cent of the approxi mately 300 RID employees are li censed amateur radio operators. They man 12 FCC monitoring sta tions throughout the United States its territories and possessions. Prac tically all operators are members °f the American Radio Relay league, arcl owners cf smal' stations. Since July 1, lCiO. RID nas put almost 400 urlise.'ssd radio stations out of commission. More man 200 Axis spies in South America have been r-unded rp v.th the oelp of these watchdogs cf the air waves. Altogether seme 0,033 cases of al leged ir.licenscd or subversive transmission in this country and elsewhere have been investigated. , The daily routine of radio hams ; in the RID includes searching for ! aircraft that are lost, disabled or forced down. Hundreds of lives and . By NANCY PEPPER THREE CHEERS FOR THE BOYS We’re happy to report that the soda fountain crowd Is doing its bit toward entertaining the boys both here and abroad. Here are three popular teen projects that deserve special commendation in these col umns, if only to prove that teen tricks aren’t all stuff and nonsense. Join the TAGS—You know wha* “stags” are and you know what “bags” are. but how about TAGS? The letters stand for Teen-Age Group and the idea is to have a spe cial weekly party for servicemen under 20 years of age at the local USO with the Teen-Age Group act ing as hostesses and dancing part ners. Our first report of the TAGS comes from Newport, R. I. Why don’t you suggest a TAG evening to the directors of your local USO? News From Home—Lots of high schools are printing special news papers for the boys who have left school to join the armed forces. Usu ally the editorial staff of the regular school paper handles the job. Local gossip about the Soda Fountain Crowd and plenty of gags fin the columns. The paper is mailed out to the boys, whether they are in American training camps or already overseas. Just imagine how they enjoy hearing about the kids they left behind them! Get In The Scrap—And you can, loo, by making scrap books for the servicemen in hospitals, the way lots of teen-age girls are doing. Give them plenty of pin-up photos, car toons and complete magazine seri als. Here’s something for your club or sorority to do the next time you get together. HEADS AND TAILS If you’re planning to make some novel lapel gadgets, consider these new ideas in animals and birds with long tails. They’re much newer than the funny faces you’ve been making in cork, powder puffs, walnuts and what have you. Our Feathered Friends — Cut pieces of felt or fabric in the shape w* t'CU 1 Ul. OtUli well and sew neat ly together. Finish with long narrow strips of multi-color felt in fantail effect or make a realistic looking tail out of little multi-color > feathers. Use se ' quins for eyes that \ really sparkle! A Ul A UU - X U1 tails make wonderful trimmings for lapel animals, especially little dogs of leather or oilcloth scraps. For real glamour, try white leather gadgets (the white leather from old kid or suede gloves) with ermine tails. For sports wear, black patent leather or oilcloth with brown fur tails. You will find fur tails at any trimming counter. Ransack the family scrap bags for pieces of fur. If the scraps are big enough, cut in shapes of animals and sew together to a piece of fabric of the same shape, with slight padding between. Scotties are particularly doggy. Use beads or buttons for eyes and nose, and out-of-this-world dog collars made of leather embroidered in beads. BOY CRAZIES We’re always talking about girls’ fad-shions. How’s for giving with the goo on boys’ drapes? We don’t sa. that any boy in his right mind and GI haircut would adopt all these fads, but we do guarantee that each one is an anthentic teen trick for which the wolves howl. Coming or Going?—What copy cats those boys are! Just because the girls wear their cardigan sweat ers buttoned down the backs, the boys are wearing their loafer or foot ball jackets backside-front. Scarf Snatchers — The boys are still snatching hair bows from the girls and wearing them in their i beanies or in their hair, but it’s even newer for a boy to wear girls’ babushkas as a scarf around his neck. Hot Feet—We’re referring to the socks the boys are wearing. Wow. what colors! And, it’s considered extra sharp to wear two different socks, one brighter than the other. BAG WITH A SAG A teen-age gal has strange ideas On fashions smooth and sporty, Her dresses may be size 14, Her sweaters are size 40! She calls a coke a “little Joe,” A car is a “Jalopy.” She calls her beau her “O.A.O.”— WE CALL HER SWEATERS “SLOPP Y”! Son of a Borrower Pay* Up Old Debt HOLYOKE, MASS. - Thirty three years ago Joseph Skinner loaned a mill hand $100 to pay his son’s college expenses. When the borrower died, Skinner thought no more about the money. Recently he received a letter from his for mer employe’s son containing a thank you note—and a check for $100. millions of dollars worth of air planes have been saved by the skill of these hams. In addition to radio direction find ers used to obtain bearings on planes and radio stations, the RID operates a continuous private line teletypewriter service covering the country ar.d linking all monitoring stations with one another and with the east and west coast RID head quarters. Each monitor station is supplied with recording equipment, 1 making possible permanent records of signals picked up on the air. Corduroy and Velveteen Make Cunning Frocks for Little Girls By CHERIE NICHOLAS /CHILDREN play a delightful role 'w< in the fashion picture. They are dressed so cunningly these days it would seem as if they had stepped right out from the colorfully illus trated pages of a story book. De signers who create such adorable clothes surely have a talent all their own. It is interesting to note the mate rials these designers favor most in fitting out little folks with pretty and practical clothes. If a vote were taken there is every reason to be lieve that corduroy would score first in favor with velveteen a close sec ond. Corduroy has a way of being sturdy and utilitarian with prac tically “no wear out about it” at the same time that it makes up beautifully in dressy little frocks and coats. When it comes to hard wear, corduroy meets every test unfailingly, and when it comes to fashioning pretty-pretty dresses this winter, it is proving a fabric ideal. The prestige of this practical as well as most attractive material has been greatly enhanced during the last several seasons with the introduction of an especially fine pin wale corduory called cordurella, which is voguish both for chil dren and grownups. You can see, centered above in the illustration, how prettily cordurella makes up into a cunning bolero suit with hat to match. It was a clever move on the part of the designer who took mother’s and big sister’s favorite fashion, the bolero suit, and copied it in miniature for little daughter. The tiny jacket ties at the neck and has a beanie to match. The ensemble is trimmed in gay peasant flowers to the delight of the youngster that wears it. Another type of dress that should be in every little girl’s wardrobe is the jumper. Youngsters love to wear their pretty jumper frocks of bright cordurella, and mothers like this fabric because it can be easily washed over and over again, com ing out as smart-looking as ever. With a change of blouse each day it gives variety, to the delight of the little wearer. Then too, it solves the what-to-wear to school and at-play problem so easily and simply. Ice cream makes a party for most every little Miss, and so does a cun ning red velveteen dress, as pic tured to the left. Especially does it look “partyfied” when trimmed with dainty Irish-type lace, as you see [ here. The nice thing about cotton velveteen is that while it is practi cal and comparatively inexpensive, it tunes perfectly to Sunday-best wear and to all sorts of important occasions in a child’s life. Soft string bows, sweetheart neckline and puffed sleeves such as prettify this dress, are gay little details wee young ladies like. A cotton oxford cloth jumper dress is shown to the right. It is gaily trimmed in narrow bright embroi dered banding which outlines the bib effect and gives an extra fillip to the graceful simulated pinafore that is setved in as a part of the dress. Cotton oxford cloth is attractive in any color, but in navy or wine, trimmed with gay embroidery it looks more than an ordinary wash dress. You can easily get inch-wide Mexican - embroidered band trim ming which adds just the right dash of color to the dress pictured, at lace or dress-trim counters. Since peasant fashions are so popular, this type of trim is appearing on both dresses and sheer Mexican - type blouses for youngsters. The young fry just love the new checked taffeta that is being made up into sprightly little dresses. They also like the gay plaid taffetas, for the rustle of taffeta is music to the ears of a little girl who likes to feel dressed up. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Whimsies for Tots Made of Bright Felt Of course you can buy these little whimsies in way of bonnets and bo leros and cunning suspenders and bags done in the quaint Tyrolean way that make little children look like fairy-tale characters, but it’s fun making them, too. Material needed for these pictur esque items are a remnant or so of felt in the basic colors, red, brown, green, navy or French blue. Felt by the yard can usually be found in any upholstery department Then lay in a supply of cutout felt flowers and amusing motifs which are easily available in various sections, either among the dress trimmings or some times at the pattern counter. You will also need a skein or so of wool yarn to finish off the edges of the little garments with crochet or buttonholing. There are patterns to be had of wee sleeveless boleros, suspenders to attach to little skirts, for bonnets of every type and bags tiny or large to carry to kindergar ten or school. Older little girls like these bright fancies as well as tots. Jumper Dresses Now Made in Larger Sizes For a long time the jumper dress worn with different blouses was re garded as a fashion for the slim and youthful figure. The dress is so practical with the change of blouses it affords, designers decided to turn it out in colors and cuts that would flatter the larger-sized woman A ieftly designed jumper in dark green, navy or brown gabardine with well built-up under-arm treat ment and a slenderizing deep V neckline is available in the better stores in the larger sizes. Knitted Dresses Are Figure - Flattering Slim, figure-flattering and new looking are the knitted daytime Iresses which every woman should lave who wants the comfort and sat sfaction of looking her best during he active hours of the day. It adds nuch in their favor that this year he newer models have gone definite y dressmaker in feeling. The same ran be said of the popular jersey rocks which are now designed to >e trim and shapely. Bustle-Back Drape The rustle of taffeta is in the air. This sprightly rayon taffeta that is making such a splurge in the fabric realm is as fashionable in plaids and stripes as can be. and it is just as smart in plain colors. The bustle evening gown pictured is of taffeta in a lovely cerise shade. The eve ning formals made up with the huge bustle bows with corresponding bows at the shoulder give a new sil houette which is growing in favor right along. It's part of the revival of Victorian modes. Blouses for Variation Alternate wearing a spangled, raspberry-tinted jersey blouse with a gold mesh jerkin that shines like chain mail, for two separate eve ning costumes. Or choose an all white spun rayon, sheer as hand kerchief linen, with ruffles of lace running down the front end at the wrists. As a quick change for. an evening engagement, put on a high-necked white crepe blouse striped in glisten ing bugle beads.