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WOMANSENSE-

Navy Mesh for Spring THE COMPARISON

By PRUNELLA WOOD

Louise Barnes Gallagher

LOUISE BARNES GALLAGHER, the American fash- ion designer, has more buttons than Bob Hope has she has more of them. (with bows) In The Paleface

and uses them in more ways, than anyone else in the fashion-field.-

Here she has used silver ball buttons to fasten the tunic of a two-piece navy mesh dress, making more buttons into trimming details for the pointed tabs at neck and waistline. A box line coat of the same fabric belongs to the dress, made with sweeping shawl collar and big patch pockets,

now

SHOPPER COMES

TO LONDON

By EVELYN WEBBER

UST before I left New Some just go round looking York 1 bought a fire for new ideas, watching custom- place. It cost me £10.ers in other stores, listening for

their comments.

in Gimbel's popular-price Anonymity

department store. But when

ment stores employ them

the fireplace arrived at my NEARLY all London depart flat its paint was slightly scratched.

At the fashionable Alt man's department store on Fifth Avenue a few days later I saw the identical fireplace-price at £12 10s. I went inside, told Altman's of my £10 purchase, and offered to buy their fire place if they reduced it to Gimbel's price. They agreed immediately.

now.

She is

I went comparison shopping with one of them, Australian; pretty, blonde, 25 years old, "Please don't men- lon my name," she said as wo "Just arranged the expedition. call me Joy. Our job depends on anonymity.

еле for

of the

Joy works biggest department stores in Oxford Street. ("It caters for ordinary income groups earning about £7 or 8 a week.")

Giving Yourself a Shampoo

Corry Fullet Brush Co

Proper brushing plays a big part in the saccess of your hamse saam. poo. Brush beforehand to remove murines dirt; later, brush dry to make hair shine.

strand by atrand, holding the tress away from the head. Then she will give her head a three- minute friction.

Sometimes it is best to dilute the liquid soaps. If a cream is used, not more than a table- to fluff spoonful is necessary

Before it advertises any of its

By HELEN FOLLETT goods she shops for similor lines in competing stores, making sure

WITH hair as short as short Altman's delivered their that those her employers want to WIT

can be, with fewer ringlets product with apologies for publicise are newer and cheaper,

no rolls, the "I type a factual report when and practically E

La head

not the what might have been

to my home base," she said. feminine ("Our

Ket gross overcharge

"It's terrible to see the dis- problem that It has been in the hairdo comparison shoppers were appointed look on the salesgirl's past when the uppity

More and more not on the job"). Gimbol's face; she never known why she prevailed.

women are washing their own upologised, too, for sending hasn't made the sale.

"Questions I

ask her are

not hair, not always to save money, me a scratched article with those of an expert-just some an but to save time. With duties out the customary reduction intelligent housewife would put. screaming at one, it isn't fun to

next "We have 10,000 customers a sit for nearly an hour under in price and came

fire week in my store: comparison hair dryer. day to remove their

Cosmetic chemists are aware shopping ensures they are never place free.

evercharged if we can help it." of this trend, have offered

of mediums for variety

glorious crown: novating the creams, oils, liquid soaps. I o going in for home woman

This couldn't happen now in price-controlled Britain. Here the customer still has not gone back to being king. But signs of something like it have appeared in London shops.

Not Much Left RTICLES she buys are left

re-

ກ

it up like egg white. Whatever Is used muist be thoroughly distributed. Rub it in well at the temples and along the nape ·

line,

If the inle is excessively oily. there should be three applica- tions. Each one followed by a thorough rinsing with bath spray and a strong current of warin water. There is no such thing getting the hair too clean. If soup scum remains on the shafts, wave lines will dis-

A entirely to her discretion. Heavy ones are sent home, never treatments, she should learn to "What happens do a good job. A shampoo acts to the store.

withke a scalp treatment, rousing when we have finished

the blood streams, giving exer- them? There isn't much left bycie to the fibres beneath the appear, the growth will eling

skin.

to the scalp and lack lustre,

The vinegar rinse is a help. Fill the wash bowl with warm water, add three tablespoonfuls of vinegar, pour the rinse over The the head with a cup. A spray- should have ing with clear water two, She will groum the hair follow.

At the end of the day Joy said With the return here. of a she was satisfied that we had Start with a rousing brush- buyers' market the department seen all the silk serves In the

ing. The brush should be nar- stores: and so with bristles set in groups stures are employing American- department

shoppers that those her firm intended to

if it is to be kept clean, style comparison

out advertise were the cheapest and

will wonin spy

fastidious battalions to secret.

best. prices of each other's shops.

Armed with coupons and money they

burrow round

Greater London, buying and nanking notes; checking quality, service and above all, price.

Price Reduction

WHEN They

discover tome

competitor giving betler value than their own employer, they buy the competing article regardless of cost, and rush, it to

base

for store their home analysis:

The result? Nearly always a reduction of that store's price. Majority of the new compart- Are women. shoppers SON Average age, 29 to 10; salary £8 to £13.

week

The lowest-paid scurry out only to buy articles specified by the merchandise managers, themselves study fur Others from them map individual com- competitors' advertisements and parison raids.

Guiding Brings New Hope To Handicapped Girls

By MARGARET LAWRENCE

very

They Are Trained To Be Wives

HERE'S

for a bouquet women of Denmark Sweden:

the Brasch

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

Old-Fashioned Corned Beef

4

tender, about

At the end of 3 hrs. femove

be

or

66 HEF, Isn't this the day we Simmer until Stage and screen writer Sid-"CH planeed to have a comed hrs. ney Sheldon, who has just beef and vegetable dinner?" returned to Hollywood from a "Oui, Madame." He stepped some of the liquid and boil the

European tour. three-month

intu the cold pantry and came beets in it until tender, about 45 (Oki beels believes they are "the most cut with a inrge covered crock. min. for new beets.

bolled plain cover, took a should beautiful women in the world."He removed the

Put peeled Sheldon-tall-handsome and big kitchen fork and lifted out pressure cooked.)

anc-looking-piece of beef white potatoes and thick slices the with of pepled turnips in only 31. recently signed a con-

corned beet and slow-boll 30 platter. tract with MGM which will which he carefully placed on a of

"Here we have the corned min. Then on jop and around bring him a total of US$10,000-

vegetables, put 000 over a period

of seven beef, a nice 4 lb. piece of brisket. the beef and he's Unmarried.

the colour, Madame. inch-thick slices of well washed the core removed. Scandinavian And see

It is not red. That is because I cabbage, women who care to return his did not use any saltpetre. In Cover and cook 15 min. longer. To serve. drain the beef and "You can wallc one block in stead. I corned it in a simple

rock salt and place in the centre of a very any elty in Denmark or Swe- heavy brine of

will find that the large platter. Pile the potatoes den." says Sheldon, "and fall water. We

meat has a better flavour, and at each end, and arrange

turnip and cabbage around the in love six times.

will be more tender."

ment. Peel and slice the beets, dust with pepper, and serve in

separate dish.

years. staine

for

admiration,

any

fair

"Falling in love over there

is much more satisfying than

it is here. If you fall in love

the

to

Old-Fashioned Method "That's a good old-fashioned with an American girl you method for home corning beef,"

Corn Muffins CRA almost bet you're-letting I approved. "It's quite money-

Mensure 3 tbsp. baren mat into youself in for trouble. Our saving, too. For you can often ti-tree company of Exten- craft hostel sel among the girls haven't the faintest Idea buy large pot-roast, enok half a mixing bowl and melt it. Slir N Australian girl guide leader of a

Arc all of whom

scrub and sion Guides,

gun trees on 26 of how to make a man happy. for Sunday dinner, and corn the in le corn meal, 1 c all-purpose who suffers from severe

remainder to use later in the flour, 1 tbsp. sugar, 3 tsp. baking disabled girls shores of Port Phillip Bay, physically

powder and 1 tsp. salt. Beat 1 spastic paralysis and is al- Although she has

week." little miles southeast of Melbourne. and wouldn't If they did.

swimming. make

"But you can fall in love "And this is so easy to do," CHE Add 14 c. milk and stir most

Transfer completely dumb control over her hands and can Members go

Europe the Chef went on.

"I dissolved in. Bent well, more write only shakily, she manages tight work of their camp chores, almost anywhere in

salt in hot well ulled muffin pans and bake taught herself the

know that the girl you've just enough ruck code in three days, and is to hit the typewriter keys, and re for drives and bikes, work Des ont all her messages

for their badges, and generally he will make you glad you in

water, so a medium-sized raw 26 min. In a moderate oven,. 375 Types two members of her patrol;

chase her. have a grand time together. teaching it to

There's no question potato would float on the top. F. Makes 1 dozen small muffles. of There is a wonderful air

about it. European girls are then I cooled this salt water. Corned Beef Salad Plattor She has Austrollu has crippled girls.

no keener friendliness und helpfulness bend

shoulders Above Next 1 put the brinket of beef Diane and her

Slice cold corned beef thin passed all her second class guides than

Exten about this camp. Girls who are

American cult in looks, intel in the large crock and covered alightly crippled will com-

ligence, enliure and disposition, it with the salt water. The beef and place ovrlapping in centre tests, and is well on the way fellow-members of the sion Guide movement..

which only

Boufed also. So I put a plate on of a platter. At one end heap towards her first class has branches in

ench of the pete for the pristine of wheel- chairs

with others in wheel

seasoned Personal Preference top and weighted it down. I potuto salad, badge.

Australian states. The Victorian around the grounds, while those

seed and then covered and let it stand in grated onion, celery while their Mendelsohn, branch was established in 1926

who have She Is Diane

passeri

the cold pantry for 3 days and barsley, and put together with leading physio-therapist,

to boiled..anjad 3 nights. Now it is ready tests are eager to help beginners

dressing. At the capable and enthusiastle patrol by n

and has six companies, with 130

with theirs. As one luss un

cook."

other end, heap a salad made of members.

crutches said: "I guess the dis-

reinalalag left-over vegetables have in

pub

French abilities we

together with give us a greater understanding

dressing Decorate with pickled of each other."

beets and shredded tellure." Fluffy Orange Custard

HOME & BEAUTY SUGGESTIONS

soap,

wash

Sunshine is a natural bleach, and clothes dried out of doors usually need no other. Extra after moisture left in "clothes the final rinsing increases the bleaching netion of the sun.

own

common

Our

+

young ladies. very preity and sophisticated. are trained to compete with They are trying to do a fitted by Job they are not noture to do, and their frus-

2111*24.

tration

Me.

make them unhappy,

to

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like

First make and cool plain soit custard. To do this, senld 1 pt..

a double-boller. Beat

sült and 4 c.

In Cool Place If you do not have a crock, Some of the companies com- One of the best beauty real-

Institutions children in

On the other hand, European use a large bowl or a glass or prise ments for the face is a thorough

Children's Ortho-

girls are trained to make men enamelled refrigerator dish. The such as the Use. roap and water cleansing.

be partners with eat must stand in a cool place, with piedle Hospital and the Deat neutral

One of the happlest members happy. to Dumb Institute: The of the last camp was

Shirley them, rather than competitors. but not necessarily in the re

frigerator. If you

well. warm or hot water, to open the others are Post Companies func-

Work up a father with toning by correspondence, for shorter

tall with one leg Coller, d

"All European girls are that salted corned beef, let it stay in mille in pores.

than the other whe way. The only difference is in the brine 4 days; if a light together 2 egg yolks, 1 tsp. corn- the soap. You may rub this Inion and let it dry for extra-clean-country 'children and those con lives on a farm near the Eildoni personal preference as to typé, corned flavour is what you want, starch, tsp.

finett to their own homes. There weir, about 100 miles northeast

like those beautiful 3 days is sufficent. In any case, sugar, Slowly stir into this the sing action. Then rinse off with also iwe Post companies of of Melbourne. Shirley, who is blonde Scandinavian girls the you will find the flavour vastly resided milk. Return to the cool water, to close the pores Brownies and a Post Old Guides making her first camp, hus

superior to lint of corned beet double-boiler, and cook and stir best." Group.

her second

about 3 min.. or until the mix- Sheldon's marriage

as commercially sold. Extension

passed about belf Gulders wear the

Seats class

ture conts the spoon. Remove and practices every American girlt ended in divorce. me uniforms as other guldes morning for her tracking test.

Dinner

́at once and chill, covered. Then "If I ever get married again." same and, wherever possible, do the The camp brought Shirley her

and tsp. flavouring. Just be- he promises, "I'm going back same proficiency tests. The girls test meeting with her Patrol

to Europe and find me a woman

fore serving, fold In the stiffy themselves are very Insistent

beaten whites of 1 or 2 eggs. fender by correspondence, Mar- who wants to be a wife."

Sheldon tlust the tests shall not be made

is In

To make it fluffy arrange sex- Next autumn

ments of chilled orango test seventh year as a guide. Mar- going to make a three-month

sherbet glasses or snuce dishes. any enster for them. If their Earet Lowe, who disability makes a certain test ret, who has both legs.in irons tour of South America. He may impossible, an equally dificult it walks on crutches, has all change some of his ideas then.

Pour over the custard and top to the teeth of a saw when test is devised. For instance, one her second class badges and is especially

as to the habitat of Coffee or Ten Milk (Children) each serving with orange sag- it mbi in use, is good insurance

ment. world's most beautiful that the teeth will not be bent of the Brownie tests to develop working for her first class first the

All Measurements Are level food posture is skipping. The old badge. She and Shirley Women. "But I don't think I'

Recipes Serve Your and broken. the next time it is

alternative test for those who each embroidered their own!

change my Idea about to be used,

cannot akip is to walk a certain

of the "bel American girls," he says, "un-Corned Beef with Vegetables company badge

less they change themselves." After a session in the noon- distance will book on their com

walk

Sheldon

Academy won an

Rinse to lb., corned beef from Guiding is the main interest day sun, give your skin a heads; those ho cannot

Award last year for the screen (brisket .or any other cut) in beef-eut It in dice; heat Iabricating treatment to keep it have to balanta matchbox on in life for most of these girls.

the ends of their noses.

play of "The Bachelor and the cold water. Tie into shape and white sauce, season with a little -soft and smooth. Mineral oil

By building up their confidence applied lightly with the Anger- Highlight of the Extension and encouraging their skills, it Bobbysoxer. Currently he is place in a large kettlo. Cover table mustard, add some drained tips helps to prevent its dry- Gulders' year in their week's has done a great tent to help scripting "Annie Get Your Gun" with cold waler: heat to boiling tinned peas, reheat and

for MGM.

point; and skim off any froth. on flaky ice. ing.out.

holiday camp. It is held at a them overcome their disabilities,

A length of rubber hose, cut down the middle, and when it

her

is

Grape Fruft Cardinal Corned Beef with Vegetables Horseradish-Mustard

Turnips

Beets Potatoes

Corn Muns Butter or Margaring Fluffy Orange Custard

Trick Of The Chef

To make on excellent entree

a little left-over corned.

in

serve