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By VERA WINSTON

HERE IT IS sult me again, and while the emphasis is on sults that will adapt to town,

suit may be worn with a. scarf

or Jowellery at the neckline.

Then There Are The "Torpedo" And "Roman Candle" Silhouetles

slightly lower waistline for both day and evening and the Agure becomes flatter at front ond back at hipline.

form a collar. These aro

Loose, coats here tend to be straighter, and slimmer,

Raised Shoulder Effects

Many sleeves have

effects that ruloo the shoulder King: PARIS. Woollen coatdresses have such as small points on sult Ta Paris couture house's e ines are collar and THE first big collection of peplume at front or button of jackets and a flange across the the side with some fullness on back of coats that replaces the extends along the new designer, Louis Claverie fur-trimmed. Fabrics include shoulders. Several coats have shows a touch of audacity death for afternoon, and to

woollen crepes, thin fur shoulder yokes mounting and sophistication, particu- so taffetas and fallics, these mostly dyed mouton or scal larly in evening gowns in moulding Torpedo silhouette which are diversified for with drape or floating panci. different types of women.

Evening gowns

are widely Hd calls his silhouettes, decollete or with a high collar "Torpedo": this is a alender framing the face and with long moulding sheath.

after sleeves. Many have trains. noon and evening tight draper, are auded, and there is some. fullness below the knees. High. collars from points framing the face are endorsed on dresses; or two swallowtall points ap pear at the back. Coats have corolla shapes lined with fur. Dress sleeves extend onto the hand in points

rume. Shoulders are well marked but

For

'Fur Redingotea.

Minaret Popluma · Dresses show

of a variety skirts, bomo slender, wrapover and lightly draped and others with fullness toward the back. Still others are slit into nar- There are several handsome row pancis suggesting fur coats including a seal

box dingote for

re pleats but disclosing a match- eening which ing foundation when the man~ touches the floor; and

nequin moveThis last iden broadtail redlagate. for day

for both day and is showni with skirt fullness mounted evening. A minaret peplum. su and flaring, is used on a in cartridge. pleats.

much black, There is

also black afternoon sult with shirred Slender waistlines are bolt grayish belges, blond, shell, collar and peplum, again on

apricot belt curamel;

brandy, a black broadcloth dress with less or will

bronzy velvet peplum and also which comictimes ratches two autumn loose panels down the lack to browns; plan, garnet-red, and black velvet dress with an form a toured line. ·

rounded.

V:10

& NAITOW

Pockets play a big role. Some are pointed: some AIT double flapped,

Wrapover Coats

SHY LONELY

hard green.

and Jeaf,

dresses cut

ottoman boned and sectioned

peplum like an.umbrella.

Inches evening

Cosmetics for the College Girl

Courtesy Coty V Every college girl needs at least two lipstickstone light shade and one darker one to blend with daytime and evening, costumes.

By HELEN FOLLETT

more

higher among

When

It comes

to selecting belong strictly to the oxolle ladly

An.

neckline iden used for both Bonnet Silhouettes

day and evening dresses closes SKIRTS, sweaters and coats à falat one, precisely and to be the important exactly the colour of the blush to lio close to the throat or seem Hata which are made by the opens into

items in tho wardrobe of the that mamu -Naturo paints on Inpets which arg house are bonnets with shovel often faced in contrasted fabric. college girl. You can't tell her young cheeks. The lipstick is theso items, going natural in a big way. with n beret crown Coals Include wrapover brims or

Daytime lengths • averaga į anything about

over started looking

the Even a distributor of cosmetics ond fur collars or narrow brim ending in a point fourteen

many She travel or country wear, there is styles with big

will agree that the disarmingly are stuck in stores in midsummer, Howns Bill

a demand by the fashion-entirely bordered by fox. There at each temple. With ovening slender

aro coiffunc

of lac- this length, while others reach picking up a cartorial treasure modified "scrubbed" look wins right shopper for a regulation are also redingotes with fairly gowng

feathers,

The hands down over a complexion while

the the ankles with points forming here, another one there,"

carries an town sult. To meet this demand wide skirt section and varied quered

overload of ermino an irregular hemline.

sweaters sho bar, the that gray model bride wear an scarf treatments, as A here is one hundrome model, Π

her social standing ballic, town sult of sheer black woollen coat with a border of fox that bonnet. :

Diagonal Decolletes

friends and acquain- Light toilet water will serve with satin revers, buttons and can be a cape or a tunic,

better than heavy perfumes that The house attracted busfers' visored hood; I pointed folds, one of which con- raincoat has a

Decolletes гіду

stress diagonal tances, skirt is others have detachable hooded attention on the opening ceals a pocket The

with a display of cute change- lines bearing one shoulder or blade-straight. With the suit is capelets.

nole taffeta

like hug the shoulders with con- tolleirler she is not quite so sure of fashion who seems able to

away with them. shown a long-sleeved, high-

men's olti-fashionti chris trasting band such as velvet of herself. She gravitates to a get draped neckline blouse of black

comelle counter, takes a look atomleer, filled with a woodsy with the hem rounded front with satin dresses, salin. Without the blouse the THE

Fabrics include

Such an cologne, comes in handy atter and back and slit at the sides,

velvety around, feels dizzy.

of producers of pul- the bath to spray · arms, neck small checks, aITOY worn with wide suedo belts woollen rome

and shoulders, Ano stripes, many plaids, also chritudet In another couture house wool jerseys, crepes and Anc She will be told to get a jar Shining hair is a must and Robert Piguet's "Fusce" or ro broadcloth. There is much of good-for-everything cream, as the college girl in usually on It the jump, she will probably man-candio silhouette is slen velvet for evening, often com- not too light, not too firm. der with the top extending in bined with taffeta or salin.. will serve to remove make up shampoo-her-locks. She will to high coat collars with lar- Black predominales.

often

before going to bed and to apply find the most wonderful sham- .ng front points or with up- combined with bright

after coming in from exposure poo mediums being offered, not "Mephisto." Another

to biting winds or sleely only dozens more than we had. Tailor featured colour is a mauvy weather. She should have in the past, but better ones. teens (even much younger, on dresses and sults.

posed to medium blue called. "Orient."

large bottle of hand lotion to Let us hope that she has a hair. Indeed) chooses to spend most ed, fabric belts are of his

brush of strong bristles, that she or her time alone and

soothe roughened skin.

have powder dois her hundred strokes every rarely seeks the companionchip

It's correct to of other youths of approximate-

match the skin, If she needs night. That is mama's good Iy, hla or her own

age, this

rouge, the attendant will select Airli is missing valuable -es-

wholesome, educa

When this lonely youth, Is an only child. his parents write with great concern about his lonely ways. But if there is

You're Only TEEN-AGER

As Old As You Think

By PATRICIA CLARY

Hollywood. SMART woman can

By C. C. MYERS, Ph.D.

WHEN a boy or girl In the standing, turnover collars on called.

betion

A charming and attractive at

20, says Marjorie Main, who on believes you're only as old as you think.

may

"There's a fountain of youth, brother or sister, especially a younger one, the mother usually

all right," she said. "It's all writes only of conflicts between your mind, Men like George the two children. usually Bernard Shaw are spry and placing all the blame on the interesting at 90, and women folder child. Rarely, in such can be, too.

cases, does the mother seem to bo conscious of the shut-la ex- periences of this lonely youth or of how very unhappy he must be.

--Two-Boys

"I'm no example of wit and charm, know. But I do think too many other women give up when they get to be 40, tale old age for granted and "Tesign themselves to being dull."

Here's

1 case, which For the first time in her mother writes: I have two and fifteen. The sereen career, Miss.Main appears boys, eleven as a chle woman in Universal- younger one has many friends International's "Ma' and Pa and gets along with every one. Kettle Go to Town." One of Now the fifteen-year-old almost her prizes for winning a con-never leaves the house expept test is the full glamour treat-for school and church. He does ment at a swank New York read a lot and is interested in beauty

salon Sho

in radio, television and astronomy. Koes looking like a Kettle and comes This is all fine but he is so cut closer to Lillian Russell,

annoying with his brother and his brother's friends. He just Headwork Counts Morc doesn't get along with children

his own age or

younger." "Paint, fancy hairdos and fine

I advised this mother like clothes are only half an answer this: The ⚫ problems to the problem of staying young express concom about are but and charming after 45," she symptoms of

bigger, much said. "What goes on inside your problems.

elder сод head counts more."._____

spends so much of his time at Women whose wrinkles have home because he finds it hidden their dimples have one easiest way for him. Yet he advantage on their side, and surely, often wishes he had many that's experience.

"A

girl who has lived," Miss friends of his own age. His of social skill among them Main said,

"25

something to must often worry him. Yet he talk about. Experience is a dreads failure at winning their great weapon to keep the rest friendship and thus spends more of the world interested. Men ime

at staying home alone, all

Your

you

tho

like to falk to a woman who the while growing less able to thinks for herself and has some- win friends. His craving for thing to say. If she has the more companionship Induces ability to look on life as an him to spend more time with

the younger boys who inevitably adventure, she'll have charm."

annoy him, causing him to be ugly to them.

Sex, Not Everything

Winning Friends

Sex, she added, is not every-

His younger brother's suc- thing.

"Skin-deep beauty can't keep ¡cesses at winning friends among any man but the dumbest in contemporaries) cause this older The paid, boy to be more conscious of terested very long," "From there on it's a battle of his own lack of normal friends. brains instead of bosoms... Besides, this older child must

the

auprovals his The most important physical observe thing charmers after 45 have to younger brother wins a normal is atnying neat social fun, causing the elder lo worry about The rest of the recipe is reading be more aware of his loneliness, good books, developing the arts Naturally, this older boy feels stands less well in the ho conversation of thought and fond forgetting, about the birth family than his younger brother

doos. This miffering days. United Press.

jealousy incites him to ffe quent antipathy toward younger brother. Then the younger

annoying

from

“Wrapped" Look brothe probably takes pleasure

h's older brother often. Cuffs with a "wrapped" took,

Chils Indicative of this season's skirt

brother could find some ofher allhouette, are used in double youths of his own age who en

love, cotton gloves designed by

Joy

astronomy. illo' and Jacques Fath for Shalimar,

television

on with him,, Invite more The shorter style has a self young guests to your home. If how perched beneath the thumb you do so be in the younger and a winged cuff

brother, then minds, his own business and does not become Three dark pearl buttons, re-tag-long and greal nuisance miniscent of those used on but to his older brother and guests.. toned shoes, trim this longer Help him to coluvale wider glove, again with a "wrapped" interests enjoyed with other look.

[youths of his nge-

Classic Plus Novelty

By PRUNELLA WOOD

THE most conventional devotee to cont and skirt Costuming could not cavil at cut or fabric of this biscuit and brown tweed jacket, teamed with a dark wool sharkskin skirt

But remove the jacket and see a handsome fashion novelty In the belge waskit with double breasted closing and notched collar around a low U fitting nicely over a shirt-sleeved neckline blouse which has a flat, high, guillotine neckline. Vest is attached to the wraparound skirt, and is cut low behind as well as before:

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

Chicken & Meatball Fricassee

"EYE

AVERY houswife dreams of healthfully clean. If the dish- the day when she, too can drainer is set in the sink for this have an electric dish-washer process, first thoroughly wash and a sink disposal for garbage. and scald the sink. Let the But until that time comes dishes stand in the drainer 15, millions of families will still bo minutes or more to steam-dry. washing and wiping dishes by Or

Or if planning toʻgo

out, cover hand."

with, a clean cloth and forget think Madame, many them until the next meal. husbands would welcome come It is sometimes necessary to way

of avoiding this boring polish the glass and silverware. business of drying the dishes. but not if they have been pro-

You wash and I'll dry is the perks after-dinner song of Mr and Mry Moderner. I am sometimes em

ed at a private dinner at o house to have the lady and gentleman excuse themselves to do the dishes."

perly rinsed with scalding hot. water. If It must be done, use paper napkins or paper

towels. This is the sanitary way to handwash and dry dishes. Wip- ing them with dish

towels-by

the "time-honored" method is a hazard to health

"But that is really inexcus able, Chef. The dishes should not be washed. They should be faken to the kitchen and the Chicken and Meat Ball Fricassee

food scraped off then stacked and left to be washed after t the guests leave. Then they can be. quickly dispatched"

suggest

"Madame, can

can you

Dinner Grape Fruit Juice

Flaky Rice

String Beans, Rhubarb with Raisins Chocolate Oatmeal Cookica Coffee or Tea Milk (Children). All Moururements Arg. Level

Recipes Serva Four i Chicken and Meat 'Ball

how to emancipate the husbandă from the dish towel?"

That's very easy; don't have

Fricassco any dish towels! But who is go ing to emancipate, the housewife Clean a small plump alewing herself from the dishwashing?" chicken. Tweeze out the “pin. mlid "Madame,

there are some du feathers and scrub, with

Rinse thoroughly, dr ties that are time-honoured for water the home-maker to do."

and disjoint., Put tho.chicken in Well, Chef, let's not get fato a 3-gt kattle with 4 tbsp; drip-

an argument. I'd suggest the pings. Brown slightly) all over. man and wife take turns with Then add boiling water to bare the dishes. Here is a good ly cover, 1 tsp. salt

salt, 1⁄2 tsp. pepper, a few fresh or dried com 1 small bayleaf lery yeaves several

routine."

Washing Utensils Wash and put away cooking and utensils while preparing the

meal.

ench

until:

Cover

and

similar

sprays parsley.

lender,

about

hrs..

(Or

use half the

After clearing the dishes for use the quantity of water course. table and pressure cook 35 min. nt 15 iba quickly scrape pft with a chicken will be done, add small iba.) 30 min. before the rubber dish-scraper or paper chi

towel and stack. When the meat ment balls the size of a walnut, is over they will be ready for made from chopped beef, and Washing. More than half the well browned in butter or mar- works in already done.

wonderful

Usa

garine. (These add flavour to the fricassee) - When done, drain off the broth ty, of ; mild soap and very water. Heat the water if neces- this, melt 2 tbsp. butter or Baryon't try to wash dishes aring and sur in 1 tbsp. flour. water. Wash with slowly nud 2 g of the chicken in lukewarm

a good detergent of not and with it-muke a'satice. To do.

dish-mop

nylon

sman or a long handled hour back over the

brush.

Then

This keeps the hands out of water and insures chicken and reheat. Serve, in a border of Balty rice on a deep quicker cleaning. But if you

to the

String beans may; be ar-- platter. Dut you

your hands in dish-

ranged at the edge around the water wear rubber. gioves.

Stort with glassware; follow rice. Sprinkle the fricassee with minced parsley. Enough for 2 with

silver, small dishes, plates, mcals and n leff-over, soup.

Borying dishes and any

utensils. Baked Rhubarb with Raising cooking

Select Young rhubarb. Cut off: the dish water tre

the leaves and the tough root quently,

Stack the silver, glasses and ends; do not peel. Cut into 1/4" dishes in a big dish trainer as pieces and placo In a casserole. they are washed. Use 2 diah Add 1⁄2 oralsins, C., Bugar drainers if necessary. Then rinse and 134 c. balling water. Cover with scalding hot water, at least and slow-bake at 825 to 950 F. 180 degrees E. This is the only untie rhubarb is soft and way

to make sure dishes are pink, about 15 hrs. Then chill,