Cooked Pears Make Delicious Desserts
By JUDITH WILSON
EARS ure good served uncooked, either as whole fruit or cut
PEARS te scent shape's for salads and cubed to put in fruit
cups. But they are even better in cooked desserts. For baking and pics ask for slightly under-ripe pears. General baking directions are:. Halve and core washed fruit and arrange in baking dish. Sprinkle generously with sugar and a little salt. Dot with butter,
very little water. cover and baite in a moderate oven .(370 degrees F.) until fruit is hut.
Then take eff cover to cook the syrup į.
down.
interesting
There ore several "Verālbuis "of′′ MilzTM Basle-roctpe-For Example, honey may be used for part of the sweetening. Or the hol- lows of the cored fruit may be filled with brown sugar and butter. If desired, cinnamon candles may be cooked in the syrup for flavour and colour. Or add stick cinnamon or other spices. Serve hot in spley
Treatment For An Oily Skin
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DINNERS
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Scalloped Potatoes Carrot and Cabbage Sław Hiked Pears, Gliger Sauce Coffer
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GINGER SAUCE
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For a wholesome, easy-to-make frull dessert try Crisp Spiced Pears garnished with mint and Drakord served hot with cream. cooked pears are dipped in lemon Julee and then in a mixture of crushed cornflakes. A tile fruli juice is added, and the pears go Into a moderate oven where they are thoroughly heated a delicate brown.
Fashions
For Men
BY BARCLAY SWAIN
TUIS years crop of straw hats for tilation without an unsightly effect.
year'a navelly
men's
Last year's success, the cocoanut men will be a repeat on last
weight, straw-now widely aped by women styles-plus. Light
straws, is out again in a new version. The weave, troaleal
with pugree struw still is the name attractive cop- bands in all per tan, but the braid is fancier in sorts of colours weave. They will try to sell you on tell the story the idea of while pugree band for in a broad evening wear, Bands this year, ex- Way. Tho cept for bosch hals, aren't quite so hat goofy. A deep blue with tiny white manufac-dots is smart looking.
Beach hats are wide brimmed turers are making
dirty affairs in nit-wit, colours for faces at the who, for the moment, want to. look millinery trade like lollipops on parade. Fine for because it has the beach and a good time. Mostly swiped Ell they are made of rama woven in all their ideas
sorts of bad dream colours, with ropes and set them utop women's ern- and other goofiness for braid. They nlums. However, they needn't worry, are inexpensive; shade the
Cocoanut Straw
the men wil at wear these hats,
for they are much more. comfortable and cooler than the huts they used to wear.
Even the conventional
has been
made much lighter and more comfort- able. About 55 per cent of men wenr these hats. A now one we saw had o
cropped stitch braid on the des and top. This permit
ted
one half
sailor
Spuris Panama
the straw braid to be practically nothing and allowed plenty of ven-
Business Girl Keep Well-Groomed
By JACQUELINE HUNT
Jipya Jappa
sun
*TL07)
from your eyes und serve their purpose well,
This year's brims are wider. and crowns оге
slightly high- er in some lats. The tel- CRCOPE hat has been car- ried out in straw also. Raia tn nat- ural shades has been used. One very unique, good looking hat was of natural rala, with braid to instch and I small bamboo ring where the band ties. Many of These bats have
brims with 21 slight inward
curl, called a
finger curl.
Most
straws
the cume
from fnr-
away troptent countries and nge interest- ing in them: selves.
Places like the Dutch Enst Indies
****HY shouldn't business girls be smart looking and well-and Madagas-
Straw Salor
"War homemaker asked me recently. She has car are sources of supply.
Hemp is
her own money to spend and time for permanents, wave-sets and used also, as it was last year. facials whenever she needs them!" Being a "business girl" my- "self, as well as a homemaker, I couldn't help feeling indignant at her attitude. A giri who works in an office day in and day out has more beauty problems than any other.
She must combat the dull skin and lifeless hair that come from inadequate fresh air and exercise... She must do something to prevent or overcome the spreading hips and forward slump that results from hours of sitting betore,
her desk. Carbon paper and type-
Parasols
This Summer
By ELEANOR GUNN
writer keys are a constant menace to of lipstick and get as much sun us syrup. Or serve cool with whipped sinooth white hands and dainty nails. possible in a backyard, the roof, cream or a garnish of cream cheese Keeping her desk neat, getting her hiking in the country or at the sea- or cottage cheese.
work done on time and pleasing, an shore. If you can manage the latter, For plain baked pears try this hot exacting boss are as hard on her try to work in some simple stretch- sauce. The bland favour of the nerves
terves as caring for children and ing and limbering exercises, too, fruit goes well with spices and tarif running a house are on those of the or take advantage of any sports that
NEW YORK-Are you planning to fruite,
homemaker.
This will carry a parasol this summer? You are within your means. Even if she doesn't have to dush help prevent that "office spread" are missing a good trick you don't home to a small apartment and pre- that hips acquire after a while.
avail yourself of the opportunity. pare her own supper, the time she
Make-up al Last Minuto
They are a nulennce, you say? May- hus for herself, after leaving her of-
Anal inspec-be, but since when did Give your clothes
any such fee at five o'clock or later is disturb- tion before you leave home. This wearing or carrying something that consideration stop a woman from ingly inadequate. And the budget of Is especially important if you wear "does something for her? the business
Kirl сап rarely be practical dark suits
at or dresses stretched to include as many wave-business, Apply your lipstick at the sets or manicures as she really needs. last minute so it will no! be smudged Excessive oiliness can be corrected, Stir the cornstarch to a smooth but it is not wise to use drying 65- paste with cold water and mix she can manage to keep her com- or faded when you have your fruit tringent Jotions continuously because with the other liquids. Cook 5 min posure and look attractive in spite juice and morning coffee. A pretty of these handicaps, it-is-because she face doesn't excuse unbrushed collars regards a good impression sanor-smudged-lips.- economie necessity and works harder
Freshen or change your make-up at
N oily skin is healthy because it means that the pores are active and doing their work properly, but it never seems to be highly valued because of the complaint that make- up always looks shiny and needs constant retouching...
4 tablespoorts ginger syrup
44 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons lemon juice
teaspoon butter
2 tablespoons preserved- gloger
the skin still needs to be nourishedules, stirring constantly.
uit
and kept in a healthy condition. Itter and minced preserved ginger and
CRISP SPICED PEARS
cornflakes
11⁄2 cups cara
1 teaspoon nutmeg
is wiser to use a soft, fluffy cleansing bent until blended. Serve hot. cream at night-there is a good one which is not at all greasy although anade with pure vegetable oils-und after each applicntion to use a good gentle skin freshener. The freshener will tone and tighten the skin and prevent make-up from sinking into "the"pores."
1⁄4 cup brown sugar
314 cups pents (1 No. 21⁄2 can)
2 tablespoons lemon Juice
eup pear Juice -Mint leaves Crush cornflakes with
A
Ir
yet had time to work out her own
Parasols belong with "pretty" clothes, with feminine bonnets tied under the chin or not, and they be- of-the-century things that have been long, of course, with all the turn-
-reinstated. to achieve it. She must learn beauty lunch time-not in the morning or and for such a long time that dill- Umbrelins have gone gay on us short-cuts wherever, possible and use
at gent trend-diggers have known all every moment of her spare time in alternoon when you should be
work. Don't try retouching from a along that purasols were only a mat- telligently.
powder compact or putting on lips-ter of time and season, Tips for Office Girls
Either tick at your desk, either.
You may weep and wail that you The following tips are for the be-bad taste and bad business.
bove your hands Beauty repairs and most of the de- there's always room for one more full already, but ginning "business Eir!" who has not tails of your grooming must be done thing, especially if it does some- rolling problems. The first rule is "carly to night, so make yourself a beauty thing" for you. A pretty parasol can A for-seeing cosmetic expert has pin. Add nutmeg and sugar. Mix bed and early to rise." If you are poos, wavesets, manicures and such.
schedule for major steps like sham-do plenty. quite recently evolved a powder base thoroughly. Drain juice from pears, a working girl, you know you must Every single night you must do these giddy gloves the shops are showing? Have you fallen for the gay and for oily skins which really does stay saving a cup. Dip pears first in have adequate sleep, and getting up things: remove old make-up and wash if not, you should. A pastel glove, matt. It is a liquid make-up made lemon juice, then in cornflakes mix-early enough in the morning for o
hoir and press the even a brighter one when matched In five skin tenes, and it preserves ture. Place pears in a baking dish. bath or shower, face creaming, make. face and brush
WRve into place, arrange the curls to parasol, hat or some detail of the a amboth, magnolia-like surface dur-Pour's cup pear juice into dish, and up and hair brushing will take at ing the whole of a hard-working bake in u moderisly hot oven (375) least half an hour, while an unhurried and put a net over them to preserve costume, maybe the purse, is really day. It is best to apply the lotion degrees F.) about 25 minutes or until breakfast and getting to your place your hair-do from one shampoo to the a neutral costume. It also helps em- to the face with the finger-Ups, lightly browned. Garnish with mint of business will take another half nails, use hand lotion and apply print. Mitts are on hand again.
next. Inspect and repair damaged phasize the particular colour of # laving first poured a little into the leaves and serve hot with cream. hour or more. palm of the left hand.
Put on your make-up so expertly PEAR COMPOTE than powder rouge with a liquid made from equal parts of susan the you shouldn't use more maite-up Saves On Laundry accessory, are being worn you must
Cream rouge is more successful; Cook pared, cored fruit in a syrup that your face will not need retouch- until your lunch hour. As a rule,
¡deodorant.
you wea them
harmonizes.
see that your nail
If you have not noticed how many Usually, with a matching
red hats,
be strangely oblivious what's go-
moke-up, and I should be used on water with a little salt. When the top of the foundation: The rouge pears are tender enough to pierce more preparations-than you really should be kept fairly high on the with a straw, take them from the need. But office make-up is an ex-
A new and delightful way to save ing, on around you. Red, curiously theck bones, and smoothed away un-syrup, chill and serve with whipped ception. Even though normally you
il there is no definite patch of colour cream. Or dispense with the chil-Can get along without a foundation, summer laundry bills is with glass tough, is always a good summer or visible hard edges.
Hing and serve them at once, hot, use at least a light one for the office fabric lunch cloths. When summer colour, it is good with white, gray,
blend guests are frequent, you will have no navy and black, not to mention a host. A powder in a slightly darker filled will tart jelly, and topped with Vee-rouge-sparingly end. shade should be pressed lightly into a spoonful of lord sauce, grated well. Then powder liberally and worries about clean linen. The glass of other things, but it must be spar- remove the excess. To offset any fabric is always ready. Just wipe offingly used, na accent rather than a 10 foundation, and the surplus coconut or chopped nuts.
tendency this might have to cause with soap and water after using. Off theme. wlped away with a soft brush or a
olliness or clogged pores, keep your go all fruit juice drops, baby's cereuli Don't forgel red piece of cotton wool.
shoes or a red skin "shiny clean and free from all and there is never a cigarette burn. vell over a white hat. Which re- cosmetics as much as possible over Lovely new summer curtains in this minds me to mention that the halo the week-end when you are at home, unusual new fabric are also avall type of hat, much in favour, is often
Or apply suntan oil and a dash able.
A powder
made with an 'olive oil base is best for oily skins because It la.
18- particu
Jarly clinging and the very slight percentage of all is never sumelent
to be sticky or greasy. This powder
also has the invaluable asset of a
BUTTERSCOTCH HARD SAUCE
1⁄4 cup butter
11⁄2 cup brownÍ BÚZAT,
firmly packed
1 teaspoon vaniita
1 ere yolk, weil beaten
* tablespoons milk Cream butter
thoroughly. Sift
special little pourer so that compacts Bugar and add gradually to butter,
creaming together until light and
can be filled without bother or mess-gufly. Add vanilla, egg yolk, and
milk and bent well. Makes 14 cups) stuce,
SHORT CUTS
In hemming linen napkins, be sure to run each needleful of thread through a piece of paraffhi- before using to avoid knots form- far in the thread.
CRISS-CROSS PEAR PIE Ple crust
Pears
2 tablespoons lemon Juice
2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons elnnamon
teaspoon-nuimeg
leaspoon ginger
Lina ple tin with pastry. Peel,
Even the avowed young milk teclo- quarter and allee pears until tin is taler will enjoy this milk drink, well filled. Sprinkle lemon Juleé Banasza Punch Press a fully ripe over pears. Cumbine sugar, cinna banana through a strainer with mon, nutmeg and ginger, and cover spoon. Add 1 cup cold milk and, it fult. Dot generously with
butler desired. Hittle vanila flavouring, dabs. Roll out top crust, cut in long Shake well in drink shaker or covered strips 1 inch wide and criss-cross on
fruit nr.
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A wooden mixing: spoon has many advantages, The, handic rerikina cool: food mixtures will not discoleur; the danger of pols and bowls getting scratched, or nickedals rempy
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A PRAN COMPUTE CREOLE
4-6 cooked peat:halves-and-julco-
31 cup cream
* Bimavings of ungreetened,.
chocolate- Placa pear halves. In sherbet
-- ginases, and, cover with -Juice, Whip
cream, thicker but not
stiff, topping
pears generously, with cream. Cover thickly with chocolato, shavings, made by rubbing choroinid'ngalist shaving |'aldo-of-grator. Servos.six.
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red; and this is one of the important
colours of spring, for all the bright, Shanghai, Japan, HONOLULU, so-called military reds can be seen
LOS
at any fashionable gathering, for en
SAN FRANCISCO,
ure hat or hat teamming, for handbag, ANGELES
blouse, or scart. Even matrons, not
vis MANILA and Way Ports
usually given to such bright tones, SYDNEY, MELBOURNE,
are wearing red hots this summer.
Legion red is comparable to the tone
called castillan, luminous, frank,
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