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WOMANSENSE
Time For Beauty
By ALICE ALDEN
Her Parties
Are
The Talk
Of Washington
By Frederick Cook
OR the young man in a hurry who wants to build a career for him- self in Washington, there is Inow a short-cut.
He has unly to get to know Perle Mesta, and sce to it that she likes him. If he succeeds in that, all other unto things will be added him--and fast.
Peric Mesta (Mrs George Mesta on very formal occasions) is the most remarkable woman in Washington.
MRS. MESTA
Her ago is a secret”.
It's Not Hard to Stay Slim
Courtesy Paramount Pictures
Five minutes of calisthenics a day does wonders for the figure, says? Movie Star Mona Freeman.
By HELEN FOLLETT
have
the to.
JUST ABOUT THE best ex- lerinn lapel watch, sculptured was a millionaire. So was her "Supreme Court justices, des right at the mid-seetlon where butler or gravy that goes with
design
The
of
ample of the practical becom- from life and embodying the ing pretty is the evolution or newest Jewellery motion,
Ford authentic the watch into a high fashion climactic
figurines deplet an То illustrate
our ballet pose and are delicately theme here is an exquisite bal- set with diamonds and pearls.
Accessory.
Half-hour Shows After Office
They had
She is the giver of the coun- .extra- ⚫ most try's biggest,
Even a blushing and bashful ordinary, most exclusive and General Eisenhower has been
un- avold the diet. Buttermilk and parties. She dragged to the piano and made
is easy most influential
enough to
are ideal knows everybody who matters. to sing for his supper, with a over-curves; it is a dismul sweetened lemonade
drinks for wooing slenderness. Mrs Mesta is an Oklahoman. performance of "Dring To Me business getting rid of them.
With Thine Eyes" in
the vegetables noticed Perhaps you
Among But sho Only Ker nge is n secret.
spinach, onions, married in 1916 (after having what has been described as a that the cute frock you bought best are
dog last autumn doesn't zip together matoes, cabbage, string beans. been presented at the Court of somewhat tremulous but
as casily as it did. Hop on the A baked potato now and then
you St James's), and is today said sed baritone,
Is permitted. Potatoes are not bathroom scales, Just as
fattening: it is the to be edging sixty,
Many Washington top-liners feared! Only five pounds, but especially Her father, W. B. Skirvin,
that them
builds adipose partmental heads, masters of fat cells first gather. Unless you
45 Soon change your living habits the cushions.
By the Beware of starches. husband, an Italian-American industry-would just who left her his
not be reminded of the night five pounds may double. Then
of digestion somer to give "The Green Dey had his death.
you are in for it. No movie star processes
sugar and Eye of the Little Yellow God" would tolerate even the alightest starches change to or Hamlet's soliloquy for Mrs gain. Let these Inssies be your sugar puts on the pounds, Clote
good examples,
your eyes when you aro about Instead of eating white bread to pass a candy store,
Five minutes of torzo Iwist- spread thickly with butter, take toasted rye without butter. In ing and stretching exerelser ime you'll like it. Avold fat will tend to hurry along the campaign. You should do them meats and fried foods. Lamb is
if you aro not probably best for retalning the anyway even svelte shape: have it roasted galning. Activity is a law of or boiled. Fresh fruits and fruit life: we all need it for health,
Included Julees should be
in and well being.
fortune on
FIRM FRIENDSHIP
One day, soon after Senator Truman became vice-President she learned that he was to make a speech in her old hometown, Oklahoma City. She flew out three days ahead, rented the Crystal Room In
the Hotel she had Skirvin, (which herited and had sold) and put on a party for Truman such as the off town is talking of yet.
in-
her
Her friendship with the Trumans WHS Armly rooted By PETER LOVEGROVE
when Roosevelt died. She was one of the closest confidantes that tune of the family NOVEL idea for troduced the models. Just over by
feeling strange and six years ago, when a major in which, women's fashion shows,
the first battalion of the Black alone, had taken up residence conceived by a twenty-year- Watch, he was smashed up at in the White House. Few in old Army signalman while El Alamein while with Washington knew the Trumans the for the hnd never moved Division. He then
wealthy in the set of the ferrying trucks across the Highland
for a Ume with the Po in Northern Italy. has served
Camel Corps in.
Tripolitania. Hoosevelts. Perle Mesta bridged sides loved just been put into effect by a and was eventually invalided the gap, and both well-known Oxford Street out of the Service at the end her for it.
of 1945 after going down with
In the last two years store in London,
bluckwater fever in Eritren.
parties have grown bigger und Instead of the unui elaborato
almost better and more numerous. To to start show with professional mano-
.red brick Georgian quins displaying exclusive and from scratch again. Barry's first be asked now up to her white-
to scrub the areadel pillared
the suburbs is the audience house in expensive models at a time the job was
none And business woman is busy pound-
run nearest thing in Washington to ing a typewriter and the shop watching that smoothly
ning
effelent dress parade, Royal Command. assistant is busy at her counter,
ALWAYS THE BEST young Mickey Hutton proposed realised that the brothers had to de Iny it on, physically, from the shows after office hours,
start to finish, spending their
af arc always The menus signed to give ordinary working evenings after office hours lay-
enoice Alet mignon, to see opportunity girls
building the best,
guine hen, honed squab, saute coats, suits and dresses within ing the carpets and
the stage step by step.
of froglegs, terrapin à la Mary- their-income-and-worn, not by
land. or down glamour
Only the nest drinks- straight up
Another Idea
are served: ripe Scotch, vintage girls, but by wonten like them-
wines from France and the lumpy, or selves, lean, lank with hip-measurement varying
ties 300 qunrts of champagne from the sylph-like 34 to that
Rhineland. At one of her par-
awkward" 47 inches.
and whisky were provided and consumed.
The Audience
the of
This fashion show with difference is only the first of the brothers' experiments to take the leg-weariness and the and bother out of the choosing of clothes for Britain's ordinary folk,
fuss
Mesta's guests.
Charming
Nightgown
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Inexpensive Foods Properly
Cooked Can Be Luxurious
IN
foods you
оп
deep
the
the giblets fine. Add to chicken matter what buy, whether luxurious cream gravy, Serve on squares of rich baking powder blacuit high cost Items or more com-
a heated monplace everyday foods, they arranged
platter.
cut Meantime, will taste good only if well-
in inch squares; prepared and correctly cooked. chicken skin
OT margarine in fry crisp Good cooking me
means serving natural flavours.
chicken fat and sprinkle over
are
Choice of Foods
con- pre- serving food values and pre- the chicken..
Chicken Cream Gravy: Com-* senting an attmetive dish. Com- pared
to poorly cooked costly bine 2 c. chicken stock and i c. mlik, cvaporated foods. the most inexpensive undiluted
cooked, Bring to boiling point. Mean- foods, when properly
1/3
chickch luxurious. For instance, while, cream dainty seven-minute" cooked fat, skimmed from, the top of cabbage compared to drowned,--the-broth, with generous over-cooked cauliflower; Swiss half cup of flour. This will be If necesary, art a sleak compared to over-broiled very thick.
to chicken broth little cold Porterhouse.
blend. Adde. of the bolling mixture, stir until smooth, thre We can, to a very large ex- turn into the combined stock par milk Cook and stir until tent. control our choice
Simmer 3 min. Add Mrs Mesta herself is teetotai
foods. A comforting thought, as boiling, -at cocktail time she drinks
By GRACE THORNCLIFF
we contemplate rising costs and salt and pepper.
millions of other Square Baking Powder Bis tomato juice, sometimes with a dash of Worcester sauce.
ITALIAN SILK in pale yol turn with
recipe rich lier guests never know what low is used
for this dainty, homemakers to the more plen- cult: Make scasonable.
called baking powder biscuit, using 1 to expect.
Tho bodice nightdress.
and ful,
foods that are with extra tbsp. lnrd or shortening. "common" sleeves arc prettily
Pat into oblong shape a scant Mr Truman has been induced puffed clerks from Government de bring feets of lorries, complete to play the pinno for the pleated. A shoulder-band and, in our budget,
Through surveys, we know in 14 in thickness. With a very His daughter Margaret set-in waist-band are of match-
general run of sharp knife cut in 2" partments; the models were with dressing rooms and, por guests. picked from the staff of the
table singe,
on to the vilinge has often sung. General Patrick ing embroidery with scalloped advance the store itself and had been hard
the day seen, and put over their dis-Hurley has been prevalled up-edges enlivened by touches of foods that will be most plenti- Flace, not touching. in an alled the open air. Any on to give his own rendition of pale green. The skirt is graceful, and the Chef and I care baking pan. Bake 20 min, in a
the waist fully build them into the daily hot oven, 425 to 450 F. and the clothes they displayed plays in
model on view will be purchas the Arizona Indian war whoop fully gathered from tle lilly able on the spot. His plan Jaan horrendous sound which is yoke. This is a charming bir dinner menus for this column.
to have scared, the of silken femininity to own or civilias adaptation of the reputed
I attended the first of thes. the nightly half-hour shows
Another bright Mickey idea, ofher evening. There is no doubt about their appeal. The inspired by his Army days, 15 was almost entirely to take. Diese displays out to audience composed of City typists and outlying villages. As soon
the weather improves, they will
appetising a Paris-model Army's mobile cinema units and pigeons off the Capitol doine a to give as a beautiful troussenu
Por-
ENSA tours in the field.
at work throughout
varied from 1 afternoon dress of spun rayon the worth £3 jo purple coat at £21.193. haps the greatest interest was centred on the bridal dresses, which indicated that there i no reason why white weddings should be beyond the most humble
Опе means.
outfit, consisting of dresses for a bride and two bridesmaids, only cost a total of £10. 4.
It may scem a far call from hauling three-tonners on and off an Italian river ferry and working. Diesel generators 171 Venice, which was Mickey's lot not so long ago, to dual-pur- pose swing-back swagger-cum- Atted
coals and all-round plented skirts In Oxford Street. "How come?" I asked Mickey,: as he rushed to and fro be hind the
the seunes putting
to the Highing toucher
to step model about
through Bitsy white curiains onto the trilliantly-li temporary stage.
Not Fantastic ¿
next
"Not so fantastic", he assured me breezily. "Though I had no provious experience of it, the rag trade has always been i the Hntions' blood, Father ones had a chain of chops through- cut Britain my elder brother Pip and Barry were in it too. I always wanted to fallow in their footsteps,"
The war called a half to these activities and hopes. Pip didn't come back: he was shot down and died while ferrying nie- craft
to the Middle East 374 1943. But Darry and Mickey now carry on the family indi- tion. Barry has enthusiastical- ly endorsed his brother's ideas. At the Arat show, In striped trousers and morning cont, ho wielded the microphone and in-
mile and a half away.
plece.
ARMY NURSES THROUGH. THE YEARS-Uniforms worn by the U.S. Army Nurse Corps Washington. Hospital, are shown at the Corps' Anniversary celebration at Walter Reed
Left to right: 1917-1920; 1920-1930; 1942-1945, summer belge: 1042-1045, Might nurse, 1040 to present,
05
of
We trust that these suggestions produce you to are helping
meala for your family at a cost you can afford,
Dinner Tomato Noodle Soup Pickles Chicken
Celery Cream Fricassee
Modern
Blscult
Paralled Potatoes
up
1
squares.
Danish "Red" Pic Bake a piecrust shell of plain American ple pastry, or use a mix. Meanwhile, make up the contents of 1 package Danish "red"
pudding, using 1 c.
Stir in 1 water.
C, drained Linnert
tin- raspberries or use
ned fruit cocktail mixture, or a
tinned
on af diced
and fresh or tinned the crust- ncars. Spread in lined plate and chill an hour or Serve plain, or until firm. sprinkled with 1 c. shredded spri
coconut er Ane-chopped flberts; or with a spreading of sweeten- ed whipped cream or whipped
ry skim milk.
Buttered Onions Danish "Red" Pic Coffee or Tea Milk (Children) All Measurements are Lane! Recipes Serve Four Tomato-Noodle Soup Use as a foundation any kind of meat stock that not, too salty, or use 3 e. bolling water
hobils with 24 tsp. beef extract, or 3 bouillon cubes. Add 2 c. julcy
this past year? Yes, tinned tomato. 4 c. raw carrot, changed
and na you may scraped and cut in very thin they have,
this change is from the round slees, and I medium-higher cost foods to those more sized peeled onion, fleed vaner reasonable in price.
Bring
10
bulling
Our Eating Habits Have Our cating
This year'
thin, point and bolt 10 min. Then we are eating more fresh and frozen fish, and less ment, lur- add 1⁄4 10, fiac noxxiles hroken key and chicken. We are buy- simmer ing more evaporated mlik, and
in inch lengths, and
about 12 min. longer.
until the noodles are
tender,
Chicken Croam Fricasseo
margaring-less cream, butier and saind pils. We are buying more finned fruits and lulces, and less ice cream. Unfor- Select a plump fowl weighing tuuntely, we are using less freal about 4 lbs. Singe, tweeze out fruit and vegetables
Modern
We are buying what we can
10
pln feathers, scrub with mild Soapy water, rinse thoroughly afford and our choice is more and drain. Place in a deep end more limited by the high kettle with 1 bayleaf, 1 sliced cost of eating. But if we balonce
prepare foods mild onion, 1 e celery tips or our meals,
2 anve full nutritive values and diced coarse. stalks celery, tsp. salt and 8 c. boiling make them really good water. Add the cleaned giblets ing" we can sill be a well fert Bring to boiling polat: cover nation and balance our budgets. and simmer until the fowl is
tender, from 2 to 3 hrs,
(Or
Trick 'Of The Chof
of
cnt-
use only 1 pt. water and pres- To save money, buy stewing
Instead sure cook 35 min. at 15 lbs.) chickens
younger Cool the fowl. Remove the skin bird. They cost less n pound but gave it Cut the fowl in and contain a larger portion of large bite-sized pieces, Chopment.