Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1941 — Page 14

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~ Children's Clothes May Affect Their Personality When Adult

THE GIRL WHOSE SLIP generally shows may owe her untidiness ~ to the way fond relatives dressed her, when she was very young. : Same with the boy, or man, who looks as if he slept in his suit. Clothes have far-reaching influences on health and personals ity. So runs the advice—you might say the warning—of two psycholo-gically-minded hope economists of Iowa State College Extension Service, Mary Wood McLintock and Eleanor Sandstrom.

7 “Children’s Clothes,” # suggestions on buying or making young children’s garments, not only : to mothers who have the outfitting job regularly, but to devoted grandmothers, aunts, and friends who like to-buy useful gifts ‘at Christ- ~~ mas and birthdays for small girls and boys. : It’s a long way back to the Lord © Fauntleroy lace and velvet suit plus curls that once made life miserable for little boys. But well-meaning adults still have fun putting complicated garments on lively preschool boys, and fluffy ruffles on small girls. : “Cute” is the glib adult word for such outfits. To the psycholo- . gist, looking deeper, clothes hard to put on and off make a child "increasingly dependent on adults— just when he or she should be blossoming out into a proudly selfhelpful young person. And the «child dressed differently from his companions feels just as “inferior” as Mother does when she arrives for a party in full evening feathers and finds every other soul wearing street clothes. ” 2 2

Pointers on Buying

PRIMER LESSONS in child clothing psychology include such _ pointers as these, culled here and ‘there from Miss McLintock’s and Miss Sandstrom’s wise advice: ... You may be delighted by odd color effects in fashion, but for . “Schild garments—hesitate! «Violent colors are generally too harsh for a child's own delicate Meoloring and fine-textured skin. 5 Weak, neutral colors do not fit a # healthy child. Sophisticated, queer colors are wrong, too. Just as right ‘as the Littlest Bear's chair and porridge are cheerfully bright and ~ glear—but not too intense—colors that bring out child personality. Bad consequences are apt to result, if a child is dictator in selecting his or her wardrobe. But ~ —an adult can promote content‘ment by selecting two or three suitable garments in a shop, and then giving the child final choice before

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! To promote the desirable inde- .; pendence of a small child in dress- © ing and undressing, there are many pointers worth remembering. : : Buttons too big, or too little, for example, are discouraging to small, inexperienced fingers. So are hooks, . éyes, snaps, ties, and lacings. Just i ht, again, are buttons sized one- _ half to seven-eighths of an inch in * “diameter. . Marking the front of a garment In some way helps a beginner at . gelf-dressing to learn back from ~ front, and wards off the discourag- ‘ Ing confusion of getting tangled. Hooks low enough to be reached By short arms encourage tidiness in care of clothing. * Plastic in the neck of a buttonSs underwear suit enables a child 10 slip into the garment, with help ' dt first, to learn the way in. «For practice in self-dressing, it helps if a child is.provided with several outfits of the same simple attern, and same arrangement of biittons. + “A wise mother,” the clothing experts declare, “plans the child's wardrobe as carefully as she does

her own.” ? » ” »

The Question Box

' Q—Is an Infant’s ability to digest food lower during hot weather? A—Yes; because there is danger of fermentation in the digestive tract, causing stagnation of the ' bowels and multiplication of germs. Infants: and small children should “3 never be allowed to remain constipated.

* @—Should bananas be fully ripe for cooking? A—Partially ripe bananas that are yellow with a green tip, are best for baking; broiling and frying and for

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tise as a substitute for a vegetable. Yellow ripe bananas, after the green has entirely disappeared from the tip, are at the right stage for use in pies, cakes, puddings and salads. Fully ripe bananas, the yellow peel of which is flaked with brown, are at their best for eating raw, as they are most digestible.

@Q—Does bluing remove the cause of the yellow tint in white fabrics? A—No; it merely produces a gray to which the eye is less sensitive and which apears white.

Q—Is it possible to remove stains caused by the bleeding of a colored material into white cotton or linen? A—Sometimes the stains may be removed by boiling the material in

heavy suds, although the ease with which such stains can be removed depends entirely upon the nature of the dye.

Q—Why should green vegetables be cooked in a small quantity of water? : : A—Because many of the vitamins and minerals for which they are valuable, dissolve in water. If a large quantity of water is used, some of it must be drained off before serving and many of the valuable ingredients of the vs3getables are lost.

Cool Linen

This fresh-looking, Irish linen dress has a girlish neckline and scalloped pockets. The buttons down the front simplify the allsummer problem of ironing and the colors are perfect. for either town or country. It comes in

grey, green, natural and rose.

Wear the Right Hat

When the prospective employer is a man, the smart job. hunter turns up for the all-important first interview in a simply tailored dress with crisp white collar and cuffs and a hat that is smart and fashion-right but not frighteningly chic or too attention-getting. - This lovely off-the-face model of navy straw with a pale yellow bow is ideal. 8 ” 8 > 8

Smart Graduate Uses Her Head

_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

NEW YORK, July 4—You are a

After all, you can’t very well look: the man you hope will hire you straight in the eye and say, “In addition, I'm clean and neat and, more importantly, a woman of excellent taste.” No, you can’t say that. So let your clothes say it for you. You go to be interviewed in an ensemble that is quiet and dignified without being dull and, above all, fresh and crisp. Men vs. Women Executives If you are doing summer jobhunting in a big city, a navy blue or black shantung dress or suit with frosty white collar and cuffs, white cotton gloves, a white hat, dark shoes and bag make a perfect outfit. The type of hat depends on whether you are being interviewed by a man or a woman. If the executive who quizzes you is a woman, wear a hat that is more chic than pretty. It can be flattering, of course—all hats should be— but it ought to make you look like a bright young thing who can take responsibility from the start rather than an extremely feminine, appealing little somebody who will take great wobs of guidance and training. A chic hat tells the woman executive that you at least know- how to dress, that you have been able to learn * your "fashion lessons well, anyway. And that's something. On the other hand—unless he is khee-deep in the fashion business _the average masculine executive is likely to think that an ultra-smart hat is silly, or, worse yet, just plain screwy. For summer interviews with men, better stick to moderately wide-brimmed hats with: conservative trimmings. There's much truth in the old wheeze that a widebrimmed hat makes a woman, seem prettier than she really is. : ‘All of this is not to say that you ought to turn your séx appeal on and off during the job hunting campaign, depending on ‘which sex is doing the interviewing, or to get any mistaken notion that no man will hiré you unless you look like a ¢inner date as well as a good employee. We're just trying to be honest. And the truth is that the smartest job hunter should wear chic hats for women executives and pretty ones for men.

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When She Goes Job Hunting

By MARIAN YOUNG Times Special Writer

job-hunting graduate. Your diploma

proves that you measure up to the educational requirements of the job you are trying to get. Your letter of application and what you say during the interview prove-that you want it. But it’s the way you are dressed and the way you are groomed that tell the interviewer across the desk whether you meet certain important requirements.

hatless, wearing a sweater and skirt, flat-heeled shoes and a polo coat. That is, unless you are applying for a job in the dean’s office of a college. Don’t go to be interviewed in dusty shoes with slightly run-over heels or in stockings that look the worse for wear. Tiny “catches” and pulled threads in the legs of stockings are almost as untidy as holes in the heels. Don’t wear a wilted white collar or white cotton gloves that were worn the day before. Don’t choose a dress with ruffles or other distracting trimmings. Stick to simple lines

and restrained trimmings. Even in choosing a chic hat, beware of lines or trimmings that will take attention away from your face. You will be selling yourself—not your clothes. Don’t wear anything that will be remembered longer and more vividly than your own looks and personality.

FOOD

THE FRESH VEGETABLE sea-

sortéd flavor. Begin now to discover new ways of introducing more vegetables into the family menus.

FRESH VEGETABLE SHORTCAKE

(Serves 8)

Two cups cooked fresh peas, 1 cup cooked diced fresh carrots, 1 cup diced cooked celery, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons butter. TOP: 1% cups prepared biscuit

| mix, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 egg, % cup

milk. Mix vegetables and arrange in bottom of a well layer cake th salt and dot

cording to directions on package. Add sugar, well-beaten egg and milk, ‘Mix thoroughly and spread over top of vegetable mixture. Bake in a hot oven (425 degrees F.), for about 20 to 25 minutes or until top is browned. Serve with a cheese

‘sauce, .

CHEESE SAUCE. (2 cups sauce) Three tablespoons butter, 3 tablespoons flour, 1% cups milk, 1; teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, 1 cup grated cheese. Melt butter in a one-quart heatresistant glass saucepan. Blend in flour and add milk gradually, stirring constantly. Cook about 5 minutes, or until no starchy taste remains. Add seasonings and cheese; continue cooking until cheese melts. Serve in a teapot or pitcher to put the finishing touch on a vegetable shortcake. .

KNOW YOUR ONIONS

Onions are always important. Do you know your onions? The most common variety is the northern-grown winter storage onion. The strongest of this variety —the kind for cooking—is about 2 to 2% inches across. Spanish onions —also the northern-grown type— are milder and can be used for eating. You can tel] these because they are larger, 4 to 5 inches across. Bermuda onions — which don’t come from Bermuda at all but from Texas—are smaller than Spanish onions, are mild, and tops for eating raw. You can tell them from Spanish onions because they are flat. They are on the market from April through July.

Alpha Chi Founders Have Reunion

Four of the seven founders of the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority will be together again for the first time since their school days at DePauw University this afternoon at the home of Mrs, Ralph B. Clark, 3322 Guilford Ave., a founder. Three of the women are en route to the sorority’s national convention next week in Pasadena, Cal, and will stop off here for a visit with Mrs. Cunningham. They will leave late this afternoon for Chicago where they will join the sorority’s special .train bound for the West. The four of the seven founders of the organization in 1885 at Greencastle are Mrs. Edward W. Childe, Martinsville, Ill.; Miss Estelle Leonard, Union City, Ind.; Mrs. Scobey Cunningham, Indianapolis, and Mrs.

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Visitor’s day at the training camp, and you in this frock. Imagine the smart impression you would make. It’s a remarkably flattering design, the corselet waistband sets off your nattiral slimness beautifully. The pretty open neckline is a perfect background for pearls, lockets, smart jeweled clips. Since it is a soft, drapy dress, wear it with a wide brimmed hat. ’

Pattern No. 8972 is designed in sizes 12 to 20. Size 14 .takes 45 yards of 35-inch material. For this attractive pattern, send 15¢ in coin, your name, address, pattern number and size to The Indianapolis Times, Today’s Pattern Service, 214 W. Maryland St. Send for the Fashion Book. An authoritative fashion review of our best current styles, all designed in easy to sew patterns. Pattern, 15¢; Pattern Book, 15¢. One Pattern and Pattern Book, ordered together, 25c.

Delta Theta Chis Will Picnic Monday

A state picnic and several rush parties will be planned at a meeting of . Indiana Alpha Chapter,

at 8 p. m. in the home of Miss Helen Wallin, 3501 N. Sherman Drive, Miss Martha Davis, chapter president, will be in charge of the busi-

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ness meeting.

Delta Theta Chi Sorority, Monday:

__ FRIDAY, JUL

JANE JORDAN

DEAR JANE JORDAN—I have been married s year sud months to a man whom I dearly love and I know He loves but since wé’ve been married it's been a money quarrel all-the 1 detest quarrels of any kind and would do without to keep peace, but I've done without so long! Every time I ask him for a little money to get things every woman wants we have a quarrel which

. lasts two or three days at a time. If it's even a dime or a quarter

he gets mad and tells me I don’t need it, that he hasn't got it when I know he has. If I wait for him to give it to me without asking I'd never get it. I keep house and take care of his invalid grandfather and never complain about it, but I need a little money as well as he does. I have quit asking him for anything at all but I can't do without much longer. He is not a man to be driven to do something he doesn’t want to and no one can make him, I feel that this will hreak up our marriage sooner or later and I don’t want that. What can I do? MRS. M. L. ” s ”2 ” ” . Answer—I suppose the easiest and pleasantest solution to the problem would be for you to find a way to earn your own pin money. A part-time job or something you could do in the home would bring you in some spending money. You might take care of - children in the daytime while their mothers shop, or perhaps. there is something you do unusually well, such as baking the best cakes or doing the best needlework which won’t represent too heavy a burden in addition to your housework. At least the wear and tear would be less than fighting for money. Actually your husband should give you a small allowance for

extras and perhaps he could be persuaded to do it if you approached him-in the right way. When you have to ask for every nickel and dime it gives too many causes for argument. Some men find it. more difficult to part’ with nickels and dimes than with dollars. Therefore, you might as well ask for an adequate allowance and have the. Srgument to end all arguments instead of spreading it out day y day. > If you decide to do this be prepared for a strong resistance and try not to get mad. Give your husband a period of meditation and then bring up the subject again, calmly but firmly. Drop it when he gets too mad, but try again and again until you wear him down by your steady persistence. . . Many men are aroused to anger when asked for money, but if given the period of meditation which I mention, sometimes they come through with quite a little show of generosity. Above all, keep your head and don’t show anger. The method is worth a trial but

it takes patience. I've seen it work many times. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer your questions in this column daily. .

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Favorite Dish for the Fourth!

Home-made Ice Cream on the Fourth of July is the AllAmerican dessert.

Youngsters and oldsters alike delight in its rich creamy texture, its unmistakable, not-to-be-matched flavor, its down-right goodness,

Favorite dish for the Fourth, it’s the favorite all year . ‘round. If you forgot to include it in today’s menu, plan it for Sunday. :

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