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PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
A NOVEL SHRIMP DISH
By ALICE DENHOFF
ALL sorts of good ideas today, all in keeping with the time of year.
Shrimp Baskets aren't com- here-on ideal ing. they'TC choice for that special luncheon, and sure to go over big with thrimp enthusingts.
To serve 6, make a cream sauce of they, fat, 4 tbay.
flour LAD mit, dash of
and milk. ̈· Add
cayenne and
one e grated cliccse: slir until melted. Make rectan gular-shaped hollows, 14 x 214 inches, in Ochredded wheat bistulis. Fin with 2 pounds
shrimp
that corked
shelt have been taken from
hot Pour and de-veined. chocac
rauco over each Garnish with CATE Squaro. wedges, green Lettuce anch olives,
Good Family Dish
་
Now for a good lunchcon dish for the family, a healthful ane without frills.
To serve 6, mtl 4 tbsp. fat 4 tbsp.
In excepan. Add flour, tsp. salt, dash of pep- per; blend. Add slowly 2 c. and milk, stirring constantly, cook until Bulak. Sur in 2 pre- grated
tsp. pre- onion, 14
C. cach CROM pared mustard, one fresh
lima beans,
cooked
cooked peas, rooked, diced
carrots and 3 chopped, hard- cooked eggs. Reheat. Serve oh shredded wheat bisculla.
feels wholesome veg:table
dish may be varied by the addi tion of leftover meat, bits of unned or fresh Bah, chicken or mushrooms. Makes a nice sup-
per dish, too.
Sweet Potato Balls add a nice shine to any dinner,
3
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PARIS... is the news-spot
for today's FASHION INTERNATIONAL -and here is the curtain-up commentary by ANNE EDWARDS
NOTHING YET TO WRECK 1951 WARDROBES
Paris.
THE Paris dress shows opened with a Desperation Look. Needled by the new competition Rome, Barcelona, and from
Peanut Butter in Centre
Combine 2. mashed sweel potatoes with one beaten ear, 2 tbsp. sugar and 4 tsp. salt, Shape into 1-0 balls, putting London, they
tweed woven in two
•
ecloura
shaggy, whiskered cloth, or wool With a looped, curly surface like
imkaléta colquakinan,
Looking are making a
a teaspoonful of peanut but-frantic bid to stay at the head
ter in the centre of each of the fashion industry. Ron balls in cracker meal,
This season they offer more
pealing well, and try in deep
untit (375°F.) hot fat
de new lines than ever before, but Ilcnicly browned. Drain an they put them over with less They offer new absorbent paper and serve, conviction. but keep away from calorie-fabrics-just because they counters, if you can!
FOR BETTER
WEAR
how.
16
Better still-if It 13 fastened with huge but- tons, has a vast
ahead to callar, and enor-
winter!
mous cleeves..
Your saturna
wait will do
it
very well if has a long, fitted jacket over a arc
fairly straight skirt.
You will be up-to-the-minute
In called Croche ed in tones of light yellow, this charming place mat "Sammer Sunshine but it will be cqually lovely in any other colour
decor. dining-room AICh your to harmonise charen, or course,
How to unconfirm a confirmed bachelor
BY A WOMAN WHO DID IT
TARGET No. 1. "I'm afraid I conta sever endure anyone's taste but my OUTE
-By Cummings
THEN they dig up the
WHEN
They try on madder-than- if it has a flat-chested look with Age, I'd like to bet they're ever-colour combinations--just a loose blazer jacket belted at going to find a whole lot of
the waist, or a shurt
bulky tablets advising the ladies cape, or a stole with loops round of the time how to attract
to catch your eye.
But the whole thing, in my view, is just a gallant effort to perzinde women all over the FASHIONABLE footsteps in. I world (and especially That Gir. handsome with Dollars to Spend) that the deed, with those
are the ones walking shoes, those afternoon only chic clothes
SOLE AGENTS: UNITED PAPER CO. LTD. Dumps and those evening jobs Paris think up today.
A
CHEMICO!!
the front.
Your cocktail dress will do very well if it is slim and topless, with a tailored jacket or a large, silk crat
the man with the club..
ter
THE
Since then, from the papyrus to the newsprint age, telling women how to get their men, has been the most written You're up to the minute if it about subjøck.
Consensus of opinion nown- that are just the merest strips After one day's viewing (three is brilliantly shiny black satin, of leather held together by sheer dress shows, 000 dresses) the trimmed with a fringe of let, or days indicates that it is a mat-'
of the right cos magic.
real low-down on Paris fashions in navy blue silk and velvet, But the shoes won't stay hand-inis year is that the clothes you
meties, plenty of fresh air and exercise some long unless they are given have got now will do very well Your evening dress wit do very well if it's topless and treatment worthy of their fine
or two.
and It helps you full-that fpchien is still in. But leather and good construction.
you're up to the minute if it's read a good book oc- Shows ard the one thing we wear
in shimmery dove-grey satin casionally, that affect our comfort, more
with a pleated coffee tulle coat; But one woman now than any
other piece of ap-
If it has a boat-shaped neck in Londo:—successful parel, yet we would seem to
meeting just at shoulder-point.
1L attaining her ob- abuse them most. So for a resolution let's plan to do the
Your winter solour scheme ective proves that
The WONDER HOUSEHOLD CLEANSER
now,
"Locknend"
shold decre
Save Time. Save Money
do as the housewives
of Great Britain, are doing
Usa CHEMICO.
CHEMICO, for Washing up, Floors, Tucs Paintwork Woodwark, Brass, Copper, etc. Try this, WONDER LOUSE- HOLD CLEANSER TO-DAY.
SOLE AGENTS:-TALAN & CO, LTD, SHELL HOUSE TEL,31175
for a season. EXAMPLE,
*
If it's full
FOR
Your winter coat will do very well if it is large and
minute if it is in thick, loose
Mr. Mosh Hart, in London.
Eve Perrick
COLUMN
pursues the bachelor theme launched by Anno Edwards
TARGET NO. "But I got: never give up the uttia. lusury 1st occasionally Dermit myself;"
right thing by shoes old and full. But it will be up-to-the-will do very well if it's grey | worth hours of routine beauty circle-George Kaufman, Edna your trip to the South Pacificl'
ew, and for ourselves, in- cidentally, too!
Shoes will wear longer and
look better if given frequent Carefully kept records
rest,
show that two pairs of shoes It's The Same
alternated daily will last more
than twice as long, and give the
feet more comfort, as the same shoes worn out one pair ht a time.
A
one
All happy families another; every
resemble unhappy
or black-and-white. But you're up to the minute in caramel and bronto, dazzling violet and mud- dy green, crimson and inky blue, dove-grey and absinthe-green.
If it's flat
Your winter hat will do very well if 'e small and
a little brathwork is
imitation astrakhan.
at a
somo
family is unhappy in its own at or pinned to the side of Moss Hart with the future Miss did. And, of course, he never tupel
When shop leather becomes way-(Tolstoy)
dry and requies oil, tion Job in the home!
(Alas, how we women, all lenow that one.)
affair, decked out with rubles, diamonds, and sapphires, you see above.
Oscar
"The travelogue took about Hammerstein, Ferber, Dorothy Parker, and Alexander an hour. The next morning he Woollcott, before his death - called me up. Surprised?' he
so hard to break asked. "No,' I said." From the American columists, which was
Well, all that was exactly over the years, I had learned into. that playwright Moss Hart was "You know how it goes: I'd six years and two children ago, trophy, the victorious Mrs 1. sec Moss
party. He'd As not the marrying kind.
There was even a gag about say: We must have dinner to Hart wears her heart (sorry, unavoldabia) "ồn her time. I call the pun reluctance to give up gether
It the 22-carat gold Here
comes you.' chelorhood.
The heart on the Hart lapel your head, but you're up to the go-and-So," quoted
columnist minute If it's shaped like a cup Bennett Verf whenever he saw or a Bluebell and clapped over his friend
escorting girl. will be safe if a 10 to 20% solu
che bar..
Well you know what hap tion of sulfonated castor oil or
one Beauty means this to
You're still in fashion, with pens to confirmed bachelors. It sulfonated, heatsfoot or cod oll person, perheps, and that to the artificial pearls, but you're up just takes one woman... is used. The oil should be rub-olle. And yet when thy one to the minute If your pearls.are
So I asked Mrs Moss Harz how it was done. Sha WES soft cloth of us has rech ev heard or head triple row like the Queen's or bed on gently with
actress-singer Kitty Carlisle sparingly applied. After that which to him is beautiful, long single row, and you're
shoes should be he has own an emotion which okay with short hair brushed before
proved after which the condition of the kind, if not in degree; an emo-put up to the minute : it's leather should indicate whether tion precious and uplifting coloured auburn-red to look more applications are required. (John Galsworthy).
pretty with the new, caramel and green.
(London Express Service)
anti
allowed to
"Then he went on a tour of the South Pacific, acting in his play The Man Who Came to Dinner.'
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TER A COLD STORAGE 60.
of Mr Hart's life.
to
"Hollywood postmark, Letters Prde Of course, there was a trick think that after three months remailed. 25 cents cach, It" said Kitly. "I'd known all his old friends would be alok tend you're here Honeymoon, Moss on and off for years. We to death hearing about the trip. vacation. It. McCauslin, P.O. were both old bachelors. but he "I went up to him, and Bald: Bor 2568, Hollywood 28. Calif." belonged to that Now York: 'Oh, Moss-do tell me about
(London Expresk, Service);
SHE'S NAMED COTTON'S BEST FRIEND
New York.
Hops Skillman .... would
By GAY PAULEY
She "stumped the gurihent
of Dore Schary, the. Hollywood producer, modestly deny it but in the hut so far as she con determine, guces I get hungry. On the district for years, praling, the textile business they talk she's the chly woman "con- magazine 1 had a big tie
virtues of cotton in smart and emalt pay. Not being the chilting, and lured "name" about her as the best friend. Venter," cotton has had since. El A converter, as defined by the type who can live on art alone, desighors by producing fabrics
fat Them exclusively, Whitney..
texille industry, la bhe who I began to job hunt again.” buys the grey, unfinished fabric
"That time, she went to work Miss Skillmon has been came from a mill and converts is to ne nu assistant to afabrics paigning for fncreased use of the hished fabric, tired by designer for A large textile cotton ever, bines she opened dress manufacturers or sold in manufacturing concern, shop to years ago. The cams pièce goods form to the home
Ton yours ago she opened her palan has paid off for both
own busineİ.
her this a wealthy women, la ✯
textures, and weaven; d
Her regular customers include Accio
Simpson, Claire,.,, Me- Cardell, Joget Walker, Cole of California and Jacques Fathe
Many of Mia Skipman's busi- hese procedure are unorthodont
employee...
Hor use of the fibro exclusive.
you killman, is known for "My first office' was a dot tudi as running the complex. ty Has helped to built it to m high fashion réling and a yours her unusual coloute, designs, across the street," she said, drganiation with only wamch round image. It also has built a native of Shauls, Miss looking out the window of her career unique among women Skillman Rudied are and began his blue-and-grey quarters "Oh, we don't distal me
a career as, a writer. Slib migrated-and-own Manhattan he explaincy has
"The closet, didn't, havo, a fill, women around, the pric
• The small, bishdo Mu, skúli ed to New Yorte during the de- mark, who's Bull in her 308, poes: premten and loaded a job as art, window, so my husbarst paintedt put our live frm to
ent on the kind. My skill- Our accountante are mon- And smini million dollar Sualoest erije: fox a magazino, s Intro dealen and sale of cotton fabrict, the mold.
You asked me how I go into man is the wife of Soul Schary, so are most of our customers, Tobrich) Other women design,
"Well, I a woël-known' artist and brother United Press
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