Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1941 — Page 17

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VESDAY, MAY 25, 1941

Homemaking—

‘Painless Picnicking, or

‘Speedway and Sandwiches'

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A PICNIC attended by upwards of 150,000 souls . . . that is what

& Speedway Race crowd usually is.

Costumes may vary from raincoats

to the most summery of garments—depending upon the weatherman’s pleasure—but hampers of sandwiches and jugs of beverages are unvarying

items of equipment.

This year the stores have blossomed with picnic equipment designed

to expedite the transportion and

serving of the racegoers’ lunches.

There's the snack kit at Ayres’, a zippered arrangement with double handles for “toting.” Inside is an elongated sandwich box and two quart vacuum bottles, each with four bakelite drinking cups. All for $6.95. ‘Also in Ayres’ seventh floor housewdres department is a willow picnic basket, wire reinforced, which has a wooden division “shelf” halfway down to protect articles in its nether regions from “squshing.” It will set the buyer back the paltry sum of $2.50. A brand new item on the floor is a beverage icer. It looks like an oldfashioned hoop-bound wooden washtub -and is waxed on the inside and aluminum painted outside tc deflect the sun’s rays. A firmly locking hinged lid does its bit in delaying the melting of ice. The price is $3.98. » ” =

~The Thermos Family

ONE OF AYRES’ prides and joys “is the unbreakable Stanley vacuum ‘bottle—unbreakable because the lining is stainless steel. In quart and ‘half-gallon sizes, it is priced at $5.95

_ "and $9.95.

The store also has ‘a Thermos Yacuum jug with a one-half gallon capacity for hot or cold food or ice cubes. With a black exterior it is . $15. A chromium model costs $30. = The Therm-a-Jug comes in a va-

_ riety of models, some with smaller

‘top openings and pouring spouts, ‘some with wide necks for inserting

*- foods or ice, and one and two-gallon

models with spigots. They range from $1.50 to $4.95. Then there is the Ther-Mo-Pak at Ayres’ — an insulated container which holds a quart fruit jar and keeps the contents hot or cold. Its modest price is 39 cents. Ayres’ housewares also has a metal picnic box at $2.98 with handles like those of a basket. Gaily enameled on the outside, it is lined with galvanized metal and has a compartment for ice. : One floor above housewares, the luggage department displays a line of hampers and tweed-fabric covered’ cases for picnicking in topnotch fashion. They have metal sandwich boxes and plastic handled cutlery, bakelite plates and cups, salt and pepper shakers and eyen can openers, neatly strapped in place. One super number adds bakelite tumblers and jars for holding liquidghy salad dressings, etc. The * priced are $5.95 up to $30.

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Ice vs. Sun

THE PROBLEM Of keeping beverages cool is neatly disposed of by Charles Mayer & Co., The store has one refrigerator basket at $11.50 in which the ice is neatly confined fo its own compartment. Another hamper, exclusively for bottles, has a wire rack.designed to hold 12 bottles upright as:they are incased in ice. The latter costs a mere $2.25. Mayer's also has a de luxe snack kit, with a double-sized sandwich box and space for two thermos bottles, at $8.50. They also have fitted hampers with all the impedimenta necessary for disposing of a picnic meal. For prolonging the life of the ice cube, they have the ThermoServ, a spun aluminum sphere with a white-enameled steel container insulated with rock wool. It holds two quarts, costs $2.95 and also may be used for hot foods, such as baked beans. Mayer's is the home of the ServaDish, a square metal tray (25 cents) _ for which paper refills may be purchased at 25 cents a dozen..The re‘fills are neatly divided into four compartments for segregating the soupy from the solid in the food line. 4

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The Picnic's Rainbow

COLOR, in all the rainbow shades, has invaded the paper plate and cup field. At Kresge’s there is a whole series of paper plates, cups and dishes, round, square or crinkled, in rainbow hues or white, done up in 10 cent packages. Also offered are cellophane glassips and Lily straws in pastel tones for sipping drinks; wooden spoons and forks, waxed paper, paper napkins (including some in vivid Mexican colors, patriotic and floral motifs), and—neatest trick in a long time—a package of 25 individual paper sandwich bags for 5 cents. The shops have everything for serving the picnic—excepting ants. And to make the thing completely painless, the hotels and clubs stand ready to supply the food. The Marott Hotel, for .instance, will prepare box lunches in individual or Rpo.portion amounts. "The Columbia Club management has informed members that its cuisine staff will prepare either of three box lunches, with napkins and everything needed for eating—and will have. them ready as early as 7 o'clock the morning of race day. Orders should be placed before 6 p. m. tomorrow. : The Indianapolis Athletic Club, too, lists three box lunch menus which can be ready at the “crack of dawn” on Friday if ordered tomorrow. They contain everything from salt, pepper and napkins on through sandwiches, fruit, etc., to chocolate mints. Beginning at 75 cents they are priced up to $1.25 for “more fried chicken than you can eat.”

Delta Theta Chi Unit To Arrange Picnic

Mrs. Max Moss will conduct a business session of Delta Theta Chi’s newly organized chapter, Indiana Nu, tonight at 7:30 o’clock in her home, 5901 E. Washington St. An educational program to follow will be led by Mrs. Charles Speake, retiring state president. ‘A report of the spring state convention in Muncie last week-end will be made by the delegates, Mrs. Carl Hansing, Miss Lola McCollum and Miss Katherine Hickman. Members will plan summer activities, including a state picnic.

Stars Average

12 Pounds Heavier

By ALICIA HART Times Special Writer HOLLYWOOD; May 28.—There are more curves on any one movie set in Hollywood today than there were in the entire film capital five

years ago.

So says Travis Banton, famous]

Hollywood designer who has been taking the measurements of the film stars and making their clothes for many, many years. “The change in figures has been gradual, but it has been definite,” Mr. Banton continues. “Guessing roughly, I'd say that the average weight of the female star today is higher by about 12 pounds than it was in 1935.” The designer attributes the change—and he adds that it’s a change for the better—to the:general masculine revolt against painfully thin, shapeless female figur and to youth's enlightenment Oo the subject of good health. “Ten years ago,” Mr. Banton continued, “the youngsters who arrived in Hollywood all strove to look like replicas of their 13-year-old broth-

ers. They’d had a physical prece-

dent set for them by the older, more seasoned stars. Those were the days of the lamb-chop-sliced-pineapple diet fads which kept the stars not only thinned down and bony, but also jittery and on the verge of nervous breakdowns.”

Extra Weight Helps

The designer points out that the potential - starlets who arrive for screen tests these days have curves —plenty of them, and that not one looks as if she might burst into tears at the drop of a leading man’s voice, or get too over-wrought during a hard day before the camera. He is convinced that the extra bit of weight which 1941 stars: permit themselves makes for robust health and steady nerves. Mr. Banton says that Hollywood's top-ranking designers, as well as the public, are all out for the new type of glamour girl. “Dressing an extremely thin woman is twice as difficult as dressing one with a lovely, really feminine figure. It’s quite a problem to conceal bones and hollows without making the dress positively chi-chi.” For the non-movie star, who has decided that she would rather have curves than hollows and angles, Mr. Banton says: . . “Proper diet and proper exercise and enough sleep and rest are essential, of course. In addition, there’s the matter of learning to take it easy. Lynn Bari, for instance, managed to gain weight not only by sticking to intelligent rules for daily eating, exercising and sleeping, but by slowing down. She learned to walk slowly instead of rushing about. She learned to relax when sitting instead of fidgeting and remaining tense. She forced herself to stop worrying and fussing aout practically everything. As a result, the pretty little star acquired

poise as well as curves.”

JANE JORDAN

DEAR JANE JORDAN—I am a widow of 64. I get very lone-

some sometimes with no one to go out with. Do you think I should stay in or go around with gentlemen friends? There is a gentleman friend who would like to take me out but I think I am too old. He wants me to marry him. He says that he is lonesome, too, and could give me a nice home. That is what I need ‘but I feel so out of place in doing so. Please tell me if you think it would be the thing to do. «MRS. M. C. D. 2 » n u ” n

Answer—It would take a hard-hearted person to sneer at two lonesome people who want to get married in order to make a home together. You feel out of place because youth is the time for love and marriage and you have no desire to renew your adolescence. However, there is nothing undignified in marrying a man your own age to share your interests and fill up the empty hour's you spend sitting at home alone. * Surely you are old enough to know whether or not the man is capable of sharing your interests. Usually it is hard for an elderly person to adjust to a new situation. Sixty-four is not an ancient age by any manner of means. Most people are still active, vigorous and alert at 64 and capable of enjoying life. However, they are pretty well set in their behavior patterns and would not be apt to get along well with a person of an opposite temperament. If the man is temperamentally congenial, and you are interested in the same things, a marriage would be a fine solution to your lonely lives. But if you get on each other’s nerves, beware! A lonesome life may be miserable but it is not half so miserable as one filled with dissension. . : -

DEAR JANE JORDAN—I am a young girl of 17, keeping steady company with a boy 19. We have been going together for 10 months. For the last four and a half months we have quarreled on almost every date. Our quarrels seldom amount to anything but start over some disagreement. I like to skate and would like to learn to dance, but he won't do either. He says a decent boy wouldn’t take g decent girl to places where they dance and skate. Sometimes I'q just as soon quit him when he acts like that. I have a chance toc go away con g long trip. It would be one way of finding out if we really cared about each other. Do you think I should go? UNHAPPY. Answer—By all means take the trip. Both of you need a change. There is nothing wrong about either skating or dancing. Both are healthy diversions. The trip comes just in time to give you an ex-

ing session. Go away, and when you come back you may wonder

what you ever saw in the boy. JANE JORDAN.

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