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.SPRINGTIME
GAIETY--That
is the theme of the New York models. On the left is a brillant coral and Persian blue silk print dinner gown with a **lowing wing" streaming scarf. The oitier romantic gown, of petal pink lace, has its floral pattern outlined in black embroidery. Four petil- coals give badly to the full skirt.
Women's Hats
Tell Their Own Stories
HAT is going to happen wo-
W men's hats now? This question
the
Woman's Part In Industry
Finds Strong Booster
Courtesy Untersal Pictures
Lovely eyea, enchanced by just the right amount of make-up are a strik-
HAVE you
ing beauty feature of Morio Blar Louise Allbritton.
By HELEN FOLLETT
an eye for romance? motors. This closing causes puckers that the in the surrounding tissues. Once
Then don't forget
on the
and
beauty of your soul orbs is largely turkey tracks are established, it is no easy matter to erase them Why In the expression. Turn lights. To do that you must have will women bring beauty griefs up- splendid
on themselves? It is senneloos. Time health, physical
you must keep the mental, and
does enough damage. Why help the mean old guy with the long whilto brain works clicking. Animation is
whiskers in his nefarious business? on eye brightener. Good nature is a factor. Keep your blinkers sunny; don't let them be clouded
Bathe the eyes night and morn-
with warm
water, then ing; first with cold. If they smart or burn, or have been subjected to a dusty at- mosphere, use a tonie lotion. Your druggist will supply you with ove that is safe.
The human eye is a marvellous piece of mechanism, yet the average
them less woman #lves
attention than she gives to an old sewing mas chine. She reads on trains when the motion legies the print. She sews dim light, and for that bad
Don't rub your eyes. If there is in R
Sometimes sensation, as an itchy BY ELIZABETH TOOMEY
habit she should be soundly spanked. She motors along white roads that happens, wring a heavy washcloth place over your NEW YORK movement for women. She puts it reflect the glare of the sun without out of ice water.
wearing dark glasses. These aids soul windows, hold close to the flesh for eye vitality and until it is warm end glowing. Small JOMEN will play a much more simply.
are necessary "Women have an economic staketo prevent turkey tracks from form- pads of gauze don't caver enough of the tissues to cause complete re- America's major industries in in our country," she said. "They g
laxation of the tiny Abres that sur~ Glaring light causes the lids to know what's being done with their close partially to protect the optie round the eyes.
We went part in
the next decade if Mrs Wilma have a right and an obligation to
Soss has her way.
money,"
Mrs Soss, u pelile blonde who has startled big business with her She hopes eventually to put out Ideas of
economies, brief, interesting news of big bus- says simply, "Women control the iness in a form women will like to money, and money talks."
women ad
Mrs Soss organised the Federa- of Women Shareholders in
America Bigsiness, Inc., to see that
women got appointed to beards of major industries.
was put by Mr James Laver, one of the greatest living experts on the history of costume, when he spoke
"There are more wome than at a recent London display of mil-
Steel, linery organised by the Millinery men stockholders in U. S. Information Centre. Me Laver, who General Motors, International Har- is Keeper of Prints and Drawings Telegraph," she pointed out,
vester and American Telephone and
"but and Albert Victoria
Museum,
none of these companles has a wo Londen,
the traced
history fashions
man on its board of directors to re- in headgear as an ex- pression and mirror of changing present the women stockholders." Conditions. "Today",
said Mr
Concerned About Widows Laver, the field is open to the de- signer, that_sensitive_medium who contacts sooner than anybody else The Spirit of the Age and is able business woman. to express it".
Taver
Hats And History
read. If they own stock in Big Steel, they'll be able to get a concise ac- count of the annual stockholders meeting.
Occasionally, Mrs Soss gets a call from a big company wanting to put n woman on the board. "I'd like to have a file of women qualified to serve on those boards," she said.
How do men feel about the idea? Invariably they're charmed by the woman behind the movement and the facts she can Impressed with list to show the economic power of feminine funds.
"Actually, they
the recognise need for woman's representation on ale sald smilingly? major boards." "but boys will be boys. They hate to give up the idea of women as fragile things with 110 economic.
Mrs Soss ̄lm't—alming at the She is concerned about the woman who's been left a widow or who has inherited stocks or money and Ands herself with no idea of what happens in the com- 'know-how.!! panies she owns
Hundreds of letters from widows who feel lost in the economic world they find themselves Into which thrown come to the tiny oflice of the federation. Mrs Soss makes no attempt to act as investment coun- sellor for such women.
Mr Laver passed from the veils
al- "Women stockhollers have of the Middle Ages and elaborate head-tresses of the Tudors, to investors, but
ways thought of themselves us in- And
they're actually own- the first proper hats for women about the time of Queen Elizabeth.ers," she said. Just before the French, Revolution bats really the first
extravagant were worn by women. These, Air
pointed
out,
were extremely lorge, ne women's hats tend to be come before some major upheava) alendency noticeable again just be- fore World
Soon after War I. Tore
"We want to see that economies great social upheaval, however, wo- excessively become men's
is explained to them in their own hats small and at clase over short hair.
language, and then that the quali- The mid-Victorian poke-bonnet was Red women get a chance to serve mentioned as illustrating a period on the boards of major industries," of submission to male authority,she emphasised. particularly
in
д
conjunction with
pinched-in waists, very full skirts and flat-heeled slippers.
of the
78 percent. Women own privately-held wealth of our coun- try and inherit about 68 percent Hots, sald Mr Laver, were a little of all estates, the federation con- mad during the 30's, and during tenda. Too often, according to the the troubled 40's many women wore federation officials; they turn their to a lawyer or an over no hats at all.
power executor and lose their inheritance.
Today It would seem that there is a revèrilon from war-time un!-- formity and to judge from the new hats in London the widest variety of styles are, competing pularity.
IN
·
Economic Suffrage
Those are wants for pu
Mrs Sosk the cuses to prevent. Her idea been called an economic suffrage
has
Choosing Colours To
Greet Your
Visitors
Perennial Polka Dots
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Tasty Watercress in Salad
Chef opened the refrigerator sprinkled with lemon juice and Took cut a dish containing chopped cress. And it's nice added to spinach, or to a butter sauce for or a cream sauce for the remnants of a boiled tongue.
"Not much here to make a lunch- cauliflower,
potatoes. Let's try cress eon salad, Madume. But we have a celery
dinner menu.. little left-over cooked macaroni we with cabbage in our can mix with it and some stalks of I bet it will taste wonderful!" celery I will dice."
"And how about adding water- "Excellent, Madame, that will give cress," I suggested.
cut the crisp stems In short pleces to mix the salad real pep. I will
little French with the salad, add dressing and mayonnaise, and I will bed of serve the salad itself on a green leafy watercress tops. In that way 1 whi get twice the value from one bunch,**
Dinner
Tomato Julce
Whole Wheat Crackers
Lamb a la Mode Whipped Potato Cabbage with Watercress Whole Pench Compote Coffee or Ten Milk (Children) All Measurements Arc Level Recipes Serve Four
Lamb a la Mode Combine 1% c. mild vinegar, 1 c. water, 2 tsp. whole allspice and 4 bayleaves. Fresh Watercress
Put in a sauce pan and "This is wonderful looking cress," boll 5 min. Cool: pour over a 4 to 5 I observed. "Such large green leaves, Ib, section leg of mutton or lamb, or use rolled breast of mution or fresh!" and It's so
lamb from which as much fai ng "You know cress in a delicate plant, and it ncerin good care." the possible has been trimmed off. Add "At once when I 3 Bellum-sized mild onions sileed, Chet observed.
and 1 1 sliced, peeled section garlic bring it from the market. I untie if desired. Cover and refrigerate 24 the bunch, and remove any yellow
ม
meat several times.
leaves. Then I wash with cold water r Turn the under the fine kitchen spray, I put so it will be well seasoned with the the meat. it in a colander to drain for a few liquid. To cook, drain
Dust with salt
and and pepper finish drying on minutes. Then I
roast in moderate oven, 375 F. absorbent paper. I put the cress in
to 3 hrs, or until tender. a quart jar or refrigerator dish with for 2
Baste occasionally with some of the a tight Atting cover, and place it in
spiced liquid. When done, pour off the refrigerator. It keeps fresh and the fat from the liquid in the pan, green for several days. When I was Then add to the nan.. 4 tbsp. flour In France we used to gather blended with 3 tbsp. cold water and a boy in watercress from the brooks. But the leaves were very small. This ans larger lewes and it is cress
Where does it much more tasty, come from?"
"It's cultivated cress, Chef, grown in water. It's because of these watercress farms that this valuable green vegetable-herb is now avail- Able all over the country."
tsp. quld gravy seasoning, Gradually add 134 c. boiling water or chough to make a plat of gravy. Stir constantly.
Cabbage. With Watercress' Wash and cut up enough tender cabbage into 2 in. strips in, wide, to make 2 qts. Meit 2 tbsp, buiter or margarine in a heavy frying pan.
Then
1
"It is what you call a "pepper. Add the cabbage and saute, stirring upper of many sainda
and other constantly until the fat in absorbed. foods that would otherwise not be Don't let the cabbage brown. Ada so interesting," said the Chef.
1/4 tsp. salt and c. water in which "And it's just, as important a chicken bouillon cube has been or use chicken stock. pepper-upper from the standpoint dissolved. commented, "This
hen add the stems cut from because it contains generous amounts bunch of well washed water cress,
cook
a briske heat of Vitamins A, D, B2 and C-and and
Kenlly over magnesium,, sulphur
and about 5 min., or calelum,
until crisp-lender, and not moment more. Stir in I 1 tron, besides
tsp. corn-starch blended with 2 tbsp. cold water, and cook, stirring with a fork until the liquid bolls. Then ourse-chop and mix in the tender leaves from the bunch of water cress, Serve without further cook-
Whole Peach Compote
24
little Combine sugar, with 1
c.
3
Prescribed Watorcross "Now I understand why years ago the old French doctor used to pre- the houses of the future, colcur customers off their food, and that
neribe watercress for my grand- schemes will be all important. white walis in an office make typists
By VERA WINSTON father," said the Chief, "My mother The kitchen will be painted in a irritable and inefleient. It is re
ured to chop it fine and serve it to cool shade to CITset the heating from ported that several air-lines havo
IN search
in soup. She made a clear con- ing. con-ISE SHOPPERS reduced nir-sickness be even whil TODELS cooking. Living
new clothes generally try to romme and barely heated the water neutral or warm cream; bedrooms siderably by changing the interlor
One select apparel that will fit in nicely cress in it. I used to have will be Unted in restful colours colour schemes of aircraft.
at home, as does bowl too," he chuckted reminiscent water in a qt-sized sauce pan; holl pale primrose: line cinima to have had half the for Spring wear Breen or
It is of such as
"and it fasted so good! We must min. Then add 4 tsp. almond ex- ly, bathrooms in blue, green, cream or number of air-sick passengers since this urbane little number.
they redecorated their aircraft in pure alik, the colour scheme gray, a never overcook watercress. For extract if convenient. Drop in & peeled,
when I make a water cress small whole peaches. Cover and sim pink,
green and blue instead of yellow pale tone for the ground, and decomplete. I hent the chopped cress mer until they are tender, about 20
per gray for the polka dots. The Nor will the hall be overlooked, and brown. for this is an important part of the Before very long a team consisting bodice has gently rounded shoulders only very lightly in butter before I min. Turn occasionally to cook even-
tech-cut in one with the short sleeves.put in the fold. And when I beat it ly. Chill before serving.
Trick Of The Chof house where a guest will be made of designers, selentista and
To give whole peach compote de-, to feel welcome or not! And warm nologists may be set up to deal with There are two waistbands, one be- into the whipped potatoes to serve at the with sealt, I do not cook it at all. bustling and ono colours give the greatest sensation the whole question of the functional low the
white cooling colour. At any rate, the normal waistline which is marked The heat from the potatoes is lelous favour and delightful colour,
adid
1. kyrup of welcome. All this has been use of worked out by the British Colour Brilish Colour Council, working by a narrow self belt. There is enough."
with drained from Unned or frozen straw- "Watercreas combines well at the small turned- Council. The Colour Council has with the British Council for Innelt bow-tio discovered, for instance, that yellow dustrial Design, intend to do their down collar and unpressed pleats many other vegetables," I observed. berries; serve with strawberries da
on the graceful skirt,
"For instance, silced buttered beets a garnish. walls in a restaurant are apt to put best to get that team worlding.