Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1942 — Page 17

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Start Early in Making Plans for That Special Christmas Dinner

ig THE INVITATIONS have been mailed and the acceptances received] and now it’s time to figure out the menu for that important Christmas| dinner. If your guest list includes some of the boys in uniform, you'll} - want to have a dinner as impressive as the menus planned for the.

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armed forces, so it's wise to begin early. } Order your poultry at least a week in advance so that your dealer

DEAR JANE JORDAN—Do you think a girl 13 or 14 years old is old enough to go out on dates? I don’t think so, but. most of the mothers in our small town are letting their girls go places with the boys; so I am wondering if I am wrong. They say majority rules and naturally my daughter can’t see why she can’t go too if all the others are getting to 80. When I was 13 and 14 I was the bashful type and was afraid of boys until I was 16. I don’t want to be unjust to either the boys or the girls. I just want to do the right thing. The child thinks she is being fussed at if I argue against going with the boys. We live in a small town where the older people really enjoy picking the young people to pieces. There isn’t much for young people to do here. There is just a basketball game .accasionally, an ice cream store, but no shows closer than five miles. . ‘ Do you think it safe to let a girl 13 or 14 go out of town to the show with a boy of 18 who is expecting

to be called to the army? I would

greatly appreciate your advice. A MOTHER. ” os 8

ANSWER—From kindergarten to college, girls should be allowed to associate freely with boys at school and at home. Usually they do not pair off for dates at 13 and 14 except for parties when they are chaperoned to and from such gatherings by an older person. If girls have had plenty of fun with boys and haven't been ridiculed for their early crushes by grown-ups, there is no reason for them to be either bashful or afraid in the presence of boys. The girl who has played with boys all her life, walked to school with them, fussed and made up, has a better chance to make a good adjustment to men in later life. Any mother who has allowed her daughter these privileges without restraining her unnecessarily, usually has no trouble in persuading her to postpone going out alone with older boys. A little tact carries more weight than gloomy warnings about the dangers of going out with older boys. There is no point in filling the girl full of fears about big, bad boys. A better plan is to make social opportunities for her with a group of children her own age. If her hunger to mix with other young people is satisfied she won’t rebel against reasonable restraint. Any girl will try for more freedom and as she grows older she should have it. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane n who will answer your questions in Shis column daily.

Party Tomorrow

The Victory chapter, International Travel-Study ' club, will have a Christmas party at 6 p. m. tomorrow at the Summit cafe. Mrs. Amos Jackson and Miss Ruby Bartlett will be hostesses for the party at which there will be a gift exchange, carols and games. Reservations may be made with Mrs. Bennie Fora, president.

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can have it ready for you ih the size you specify. Allow at least one]

‘| pound per person in buying. A 12

to 14 pound turkey, for instance, will serve six to eight for Christe mas dinner with enough leftover dishes to serve four or five later. A 6 pound capon is a wise buy for the small group of four and will make one extra meal later. To go with the. turkey or capon, how about starting out with honey broiled grapefruit? For the poultry stuffing, you might try the sausageapple variety, or celery stuffing. Add to the menu whipped pota= toes, giblet gravy, cranberry orange relish, vegetable relishes, creamed peas and onions and apple or spiced peach ‘salad. To round out’ the menu, try mince pie or steamed mince pudding, coffee and salted nuts.

Tips on Trussing

TO TRUSS the bird: Fill the small cavity at the neck end, fold skin over the back, and hold it in place by a meat skewer. Allow one cup of stuffing for each pound of poultry. Rub the body cavity with salt and fill with stuffing, being careful not to pack it. Insert two or three skewers across the opening and lace the edges of the skin together by a cord, making a neat closing. The skewers and cord can be easily removed from ihe roasted bird before carving it. Fold the wing tips under the back of the bird and tie in place if necessary. Tie a cord around the crossed drumsticks to hold them together, and with the same cord tie them down to the tail. Weigh the stuffed, trussed bird so that tbtal cooking time may be approximated. Lay it breast side down on a rack in an open baking pan. Brush skin thoroughly with melted butter or other fat. Then cover it with a cloth dipped in the melted fat to help retain the juiciness of the meat. Roast in moderate oven 325 degrees F. half of the cooking time. Turn breast side up and baste the cloth over the bird with more fat. The cloth may be .removed toward the end of the last half of the cooking if the bird is not browned nicely. If a softened rather than crisp skin is preferred, the roasting pan may be covered toward the end of the cooking. The bird is done when the leg joint moves easily.

In the Oven

HERE'S A TIME TABLE for roasting poultry:

CHICKENS Avg. Total Time 3%=-4 lbs...2 -23% hrs.

.2%-3 hrs. Ov'r51bs...3 =3% hrs.

TURKEYS

6-10 1bs...3 -3%% hrs. 10-16 1bs...3%-4% hrs. 16-25 lbs...41%2-6 hrs.

DUCKS .1%-2 hrs. GEESE .3%-4 hrs. CAPONS

6-8 1bs...3 =3% hrs. 30-35 mins. If a thermometer is used, insert it in the thick part of the thigh muscle so that it doesn’t touch the bone. When the thermometer reaches 185 degrees F., the bird is well done.

Club to Meet

The Janet Ada club will meet at the home of Mrs. Mildred Shaw, 1508 Kesling ave., Thursday evening. Following a business session, euchre will be played.

Avg. Time per 1b. 40-45 mins.

30-35 mins. 30-35 mins.

20-25 mins. 18-20 mins. 16-18 mins.

5-6 1bs.. 20-25 mins.

10-12 lbs.. 20-25 mins.

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HOME FRONT FORECAST

By ANN FRANCE WILSON Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—The office of defense transportation has a new mileage-saving trick up its. sleeve. still in the planning stage, is to save rubber consumption by milk delivery trucks through the zoning of cities and “allocation” of these zones to the various milk companies, that you would have to order milk from the company serving

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petition, . . , But expect ODT to stick to its guns and try to

CERTAIN departments of official Washington are giving a lot of thought to the subject of bread. First there was the standardized “victory loaf” plan, and now there's talk of preventing the return of stale bread. As things now stand, 5 per cent of all bread is returned by groceries to the bakery. Time was when there was a sizeable demand for day-old bread. which was sold at half price. But with increased buying power at his command, the average citizen

HERE, THEN, is a potential waste of manpower and material. Washington’ bread experts wish that grocers would get in habit only the amount of bread required for one b's happened during the last war, when aha return of stale bread was pro-

The idea,

This would mean

your particular district, even if it weren't the company you had been dealing with or would prefer to deal with. However, the plan would mean the elimination of all present duplicated milk routes. ODT is well aware that it’s biting off, if not more than it can chew, at least «a large chunk of trouble. It’s anticipating: the howl that is sure to come—that 'ODT is infringing upon the good old American custom of free enterprise and com-

| wheat, but other ingredients like list. So it adds up to the

the less nutritive bread

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verse or cuddly little baby’s pic=ture in the whole book. It looks about as lovable and cozy as a temperature chart in the hospital. You know, I rather approved of it when it arrived, shortly after Tim and I came home from the hospital. “What a fine book for a scientific mother,” I said with some feeling of importance. “When mothers write to me, I need only to refer to my records.”

# ” s WELL, Tim is three and a half months old and I could cheerfully throw that baby book out the window, lock, stock and barrel. Babies are too much fun— why try to reduce them to a scientific formula? » Objective, critical measurements of Tim's progress are cheerfully left to the doctor. And Timothy is spared the fate of a scientific mother hovering over his every move and comparing his development with the charts and graphs of child psychology. ‘What was the date when Tim first smiled? I couldn't tell you. When did he begin to notice people? When did he find his hands? Oh, I have it down in the book, but it’s just a guess. What day did he turn onto his back, or reach for a toy? I was too tickled when each thing happened to remember to write it down! ” 2 ” AND ANYWAY, babies have a way of doing things by halves and by accident. You can’t really count a new trick like noticing or grabbing a toy until you've seen it done several times over. Perhaps it is just as well that some of us forget to keep accurate records. It may be a healthy sign that we will not worry much over how our babies compare with other children of the same age. For although psychologists have been working for years trying to get a reliable test of young babies that would measure their intelligence, so far they have found nothing certain enough to be of use to you and me. Of course it is true, as it has always been true, that the average baby will hold his chin up at one month, and his chest up at two, sit with support at four months and sit alone at seven, creep at 10 months snd wale 8b 15.

BUT SUPPOSE your baby sits by himself way ahead of schedule —say at five months. Suppose he walks at a year? Of course you will brag about him to your friends and relatives, but does this rapid progress have anything to do with superior intelligence? Absolutely not! He has no better chance of making honor grades or otherwise making his mark. in the . world ‘than the next normal baby. Perhaps your child is slow by a month or two to sit up and . slow to walk. Do not fear that -this means he will be slow mentally as well. The child who is fated to be hopelessly retarded usually shows very early signs that are unmistakable to your doctor. Watch the slow baby, give him practice in doing what he shows he is ready to try next, but don’t urge him to try to catch up. And ‘remember—so far as psychologists can tell us, he has just as good a chance of becoming president of the United States as the next fellow!

| Saenger-Chor Ladies

Book Card Parties

are being planned by the Ladies’ society of the Indianapolis SaengerChor, Both will be held at the organization’s new home, 1238 ae

| chapter, International Travel-Study

Two pre-Christmas card parties!

By MARY ANDERSON _ i! Times Special Writer GIFT WRAPPING—that favor-

‘ite indoor Christmas season sport

—is just as much fun as ever this year. New, ' ve papers, seals, tags and ties were all made up, it seems, before shortages

caught up with us.

To swing full tilt into the Christmas spirit, just pick out some of the new papers brightly

decorated with sleds, pine cones,

angels jumping ropes made of bells, or jolly snow men. Get Bambi or. snow men Christmas tree hang-on tags, jolly Santa seals. Youll soon be rushing

. around to get the gifts to wrap.

_ Candlewick pompon, paper, white on red or blue. Tie with white

acm balls.

Hospital Guild to

Sponsor Review .

The third in a series of four book reviews sponsored by the St. Vincent's Hospital guild will be given at 8 p. m. today in the World War Memorial building. Mrs. Olive Enslen Tinder will review “The Robe,” Douglas.

I. T.-S. C. Party

The annual Christmas party and gift exchange of the Mayflower

by Lloyd C.

club, will be held next Tuesday at the Colonial tearoom. Mrs. Petrache

For her man in service she ties up an important gift in federal paperegid a and white spread-eagles on bright red ground—with a war stamp boutonniere as a timely fillip. Other gay wrappings are of patterned papers, plastic bells, and a war bond.

Science Has No Rigid Laws to Forecast Baby's Development

By MRS. THEODORE HALL ' Times Special Writer TIMOTHY HALL has a baby book. It is a very scientific baby book. bought for what was going to be a very scientific baby. There is a space for his weight and a space for his height, a space for his bad habits and one for his good ones, and page upon page for every little detail of a baby’s development you could imagine. But there isn’t a single blue ribbon, or stork or cradle or sentimental

Spring F oa To Be Bargains

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U. PJ). —Women shopping for spring and

summer dresses are going to find that bargains are not only just as good as they were last year, but in some cases probably better. And there will be frills and fancies in abundance, because the office of price administration is confining its regulation of spring and summer dresses to a rigid control over manufacturers’ prices. Theodore Weinberger of the OPA legal staff said styles and types of material will remain much the same as in the past. But if a dress is priced at $3.75, he said, the manufacturer must put at least $2,94 of value into material, trimmings and labor. He is allowed a maximum margin* of profit of 46 per cent. The net profit ceiling also will bring down the price of marginal luxury goods, where markups were often high. Thus a dress selling for $29, where the luxury lines stars, will move into the lower price lines,

Velesscu will be the speaker.

orobably for about. $22. 50.

Little angels spilling stars from big bags is a delightful design done in muted tonés of blue, green or red. In the same tones there's an all-over pattern of squirrels,

‘bunnies and fauns that look like

the lovable animals from Snow White—and another one with fluffy fledglings percheds on pine boughs. E ” ” os YOU CAN BUY gift wrapping ensembles to take care of most all your packaging. A de luxe box for $3.50 includes 16 sheets of gift wrapping paper, 50 seals and 25 enclosure cards to match the assorted papers, bolts of ribbonette, ribbon rosettes and one silver gift box. This ensemble also includes craft paper, strong tying tape and mailing labels so you have the works for packages to be mailed. For gifts. to men, the new federal paper, which has gold and white spread eagles on a red ground, is cheerful and trim. Gold eagle seals will hold the paper - intact on your boxes. The new papers that give a third dimensional effect are pompons which look like candlewicks

Beribboned angels (left) add a

heavenly touch to a gift package;

balls of yarn trailing “Merry Christmas” give a third dimensional look

to this paper (right).

on blue or red grounds, and knitting with balls of yarn and knitting needles standing out in relief. On the latter “Merry Christ~ mas,” written in yarn, forms part of the design. Real yarn is -effectively used as ties and pompons with these papers. 2 8 = MAKE YOUR GIFTS for children this year gay with new special papers. Painted sleds in bright blue and white on red grounds, little pink angels jumping ropes of silver bells, hollytrimmed snow boys and snow girls with swirling snowballs and candy canes, and a most enchanting Santa Claus workshop design. The latter has Santa painting toys, writing in his big book, decorating his reindeers’ antlers, sewing on doll clothes, chopping down a Christmas tree, and just plain exhausted. The whole story of St. Nick is here. Boutonnieres made of war stamps, a bit of holly and pine cones are the newest and smartest

Winners Announced in Annual Camp Fire Girl Doll Contest

Winners in the Camp Fire Girls’ annual doll contest are announced by Mrs. Jessee Barker, chairman. Forty-four dressed dolls, 21 rag dolls and 16 stuffed animals were entered in the contest. Carolyn Schuster won first place among the dolls dressed by 10-

year-old girls. Beryl Annis placed third. Carolyn is a member of the and the second and third place winners belong to the Ko-Wa-Ki group. Winners in the 11-year age group were Phyllis Baumgart of Tanda group, first place; Shirley Ross of Tanda group, second, and Georgianne Davis of Miskakia group, third, In the third division of dressed dolls, first place’ honors went: to Lois Anderson of Wa-Ha-Lo-Chee group; second place to Marian Annis of Ko-Wa-Ki group, and third to Mary Ellen Halgren of the School

70 group.

The rag dolls were judged in one class and Louise Finehout, a member of Tawasiya group, won first prize. Betty Kendall of Caula group won second place and Wilma Haz-

elwood and Betty Bertrand dressed

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second and Georgia Ann Graves, Wa-Ha-Lo-Chee Camp Fire group

the third winner, They belong to Wico-Wicango group. First place in the stuffed animals class went to Palmer Alling of Okicipa group. Cynthia Baker of Okicipa group won second place and Jean Fuller. of the School 70 group received the third award.

Other girls who will receive honors for dressing dolls are Katie Wilson, Jo Ellen Tweddell, Barnice Stratton, Mary Bertrand, Patty Sanders, Patty Meyer, Betty Hobensack,” Carolyn Lee Edwards, Barbara Gaddie, Virginia Appleby, Cloe Ann Merz, Barbara Jackson, Peggy Lou Kirk, Pamela . Nolen, Helen Gaddy, Marilyn Gaddie, Rose Marie Elicker, Donette Warnock and Janet Colber. Also Carroll Stout, Diana Miles,

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Carload Purchase and Sale!

HASSOCKS

Three Big Value Groups!

fee. 89, 388

Brighten Your Home! Buy for Gifts!

Colorful, comfortable hassocks are among

the season's most outstanding values. Ideal

for extra seats in the living room, den, bed-

room, powder room! Tremendous variety of

colors and shapes—r ound, Durable, washable

fireside dnd bench!

square, oblong,

materials! Many with pillow:type tops.

Others at 4.89 to 9.89

WASSON'S GIFT SHOP, MONUMENT

decoration to tie into the ribbons on your, packages—unless you tie in a bond, which is better still . 2 EJ # YOU'LL FIND a large assortment. of artificial pine cone or holly ‘sprays, small wreaths, mistletoe, gold and silver leaf sprays with Christmas bells, and colored Christmas tree ball ornaments to add an’ extra decorative note to your gifts. These range from 35 cents a dozen to 35 cents each. Don't overlook the heavy cotton ' cord, really rug filler. In wine, green, blue or white, it looks individual and stunning on any number of papers. In doing your own wrapping, youll get neater packages if you . cut the paper so there's no more. than an inch for overlapping. Use pins or Scotch tape to hold the paper in place while you tie the gift. And don’t forget that any little remembrance gains in ime portance if you put the little ex= tra personal touch of pretty wrappings on it.

42’ Club Will Have

Dinner Tomorrow B The monthly meeting of the “42" ' club will be a Christmas dinner at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Riley hotel. Contract bridge play will follow the dinner. Mrs. Robert G. Wolfred is a ‘new member of the club. Mrs. Jackson Keith is president. :

Patty Cauldwell, Polly Ann Forcum, Katie Wilson, Bertha Kenyon, Phyl« lis Cummins, Susan Bassett, Bare . bara Campbell, Dolores Howard, Ol« ney May Wright, Joyce Lovell, Mar= lene Springer, Lydia Rinehart, Bés = atrice Grimes, Viola Jeffries, Janet = | Miller, Emma Behr, Jean Ann Tut Mary Lou. Stumpf, Joyce

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Jones, Celestine Lockwood, Colan |

Sinclair, Patty Cummins, Deere and Margie Garner. : Others are Evangeline Callis, Mar« - ilyn Haislup, Patty Lou Prather, Barbara Davis, Barbara Snodgrass, Marilyn Woods, Ann Hughes, Jean Campbell, Grace Lightle, Mary Jackson, Carol Renfrew, Nancy Dearmin, Nancy Riches, Sally Julius, June Macnabb, Eleanor 'Pedlow, Jerry Nard, Barbara Kempler, Pa~-

Marcia

tricia Kreider, Nancy Boutwell, De< lores King and Jane Duckwall.