Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1943 — Page 19

‘Homemaking—

i i on 2 Simple Menus Are Appropriate

For Wartime Wedding Receptions

ames N NO NEED TO FEEL

apologetic for the simplicity of your

‘wedding reception menu, even if the bride is elaborately gowned

n trailing white satin.

“Top flight caterers, their organizations streamlined to. handle toW's weddings even if notified of them only today, make no attempt

serve the “collations”

' DEAR JANE JORDAN--My husband and I have been married: for ix years. He turned out to be one f those men who can’t leave drink d women alone. What I've gone ‘through the nights I've waited for “him to come home, the times I've seen him devoting himself to other women, I can’t describe. I've left him three times and he begs me to come back, saying he loves me and can’t live without me. He even threatens to kill me and has gone so far as to load a gun and hold it against my heart. , The only reason I came back the last time-was because of our baby. My parents want me to leave him and are willing for us to live with them, but have I the right to deprive my son of his father? He is good to him and some people say any kind of a home is better than a broken one. I've tried everything I “know of with no results. He'll never change. I know that now. I don’t think I can endure any more. As I write this to you my husband is out. ‘The baby and I practically live . alone. I'm still young, only 24. ‘Perhaps I could make a happier life for myself if I left him now. * When I leave again it will be final. I've lost most of my love ‘for my husband and all of my respect. I'm so bewildered and hurt that I can’t think for myself. IN DOUBT.

” ’ Answer — Even though you are confused and bewildered, you still will have to decide this question for yourself. It is a decision which no one else can make for you and hope to be right. You are more fortunately placed than most women in your position because you have parents able and willing to help you. This does not mean that you should settle down and let them support you entirely. You still can work and help yourself. Divorce ‘is one of our social institutions and no one whose situation is unbearable should hesitate to apply for one. To be sure it is a bad thing for your baby, but is it any worse than your present Situation? No child with a drunken father who threatens its mother’s life can feel secure and happy. "If your husband is incurable, then the child is bound to be better off in a more peaceful environment. ‘Since I do not know the man, all I can tell you is to use your own judgment and choose the lesser of evils. Divorce is not good. The question is whether or not it is better than living in fear and misery. JANE JORDAN.

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

Guild to Meet

. St. Hilda's guild will meet tomorrow from noon to 4 p. m. with Mrs. Finck Dorman, 27 Meridian lane. Mrs. Benedict French will assist the hostess. :

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that once were considered a necessary

feature of such festive events. Today a typical menu offers assorted tea sandwiches, an ice, small cakes and coffee. Even the wedding breakfast, usually composed of a number of dishes in addition to the hot entree, has succumbed to the trend. Scrambled eggs and ‘bacon have given way in some in-

|stances to simple sandwiches or

sandwiches and chicken salad. 2 8 = Less Work for Mother

IN THE RUSH involved by a furlough bridal, these new customs ease the job for the mother who must take care of details herself. Preparing elaborate food at home

for the minimum size wedding party, with families, is no small task but almost anyone could handle one of these modern menus. Whatever you decide on, be sure it is presented as attractively and appetizingly as possible. Jellied salads or mousses can be made in molds, garnished with watercress or other greens, radish roses or slices, sprigs of parsley. Salads made of chicken, turkey or fish may be packed into molds just before serving so as to give them pretty form and sliced olives, pimientos and garnishes of greens can. add the finishing touch. Thin sandwiches shaped with cookie cutters or made into rolls or cornucopias are a festive feature. , ® 2 2

Frosting the Cake

IT TAKES AN expert hand to frost a cake with fussy designs and this job could be entrusted to your local baker even if the cake itself is home baked. Otherwise, we suggest smoothing the frosting on simply and using a fresh flower wreath at its base and a ready made top decoration from the confectionery shop to dress it up. Seafood, being unrationed, is the logical choice for salad. Cooked fresh lobster and crab meat are sold in many shops in the city as are shrimps prepared for the table. The meat of some of the other fish such as salmon and white firm fleshed varieties may be substituted for one of the shellfish in this recipe. Amounts are given for enough to serve eight since few households afford a larger mold. The salad can be jelled in individual molds if preferred, however.

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Salad Recipe

INGREDIENTS include two cups of flaked lobster or crab meat and two of shrimp, cut fairly fine; two cups of chopped celery, one cup mayonnaise, one-half cup chili sauce and two tablespoons of horseradish. Soak four tablespoons of gelatin in four tablespoons of cold water and dissolve over boiling water, combine mayonnaise, chili sauce and horseradish and mix the gelatin into this.. Set aside to chill. When the gelatin begins to set, fold in the fish and celery. Garnishes of sliced tomato or olives may be set in place in the molds before the jelly mixture is poured in if desired. Molds should first be rinsed with cold water, but not dried, so that salad will not adhere. When unmolding, run a knife around the edge to loosen the contents, invert on the serving plate and tap the mold. If jelly sticks, wring a cloth out of hot water and run it quickly over the outer surface of the mold.

Butter Extender IF YOU ARE serving sandwiches

flyou may need to extend your

supply of butter or margarine. Mayonnaise is an excellent substitute for either in many sandwiches and it gives flavor to this combined spread which produces

two and one-half cups of the fin-

lished product and uses only onehalf cup of butter. ‘Let the butter or margarine

¢|stand in a warm place to soften, g¢|but ‘do not let it melt or become

oily. Soften a tablespoon of gelatin in cold water, add three tablespoons of boiling water and stir until it is dissolved. Add one-half cup of milk and blend; add this mixture gradually to one-half cup of ‘mayonnaise and stir until smooth. Cool until thickened, but

J do not chill with ice.

Add the mayonnaise mixture to the softened butter, taking one- * |quarter of it at a time and beating it in with a rotary egg beater until the two mixtures are well blended Store in the refrigerator.

Harringtons to Have Guests at Lake Home

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Harrington will have Mrs. Warren Harlow, An- | dover, Mass., and Mrs. Grace Baker, ‘Boston; as guests at their summer home on Oliver lake. . The guests will arrive in Indi‘fanapolis tomorrow and spend a few days here before leaving with the Harringtons for the lake.

Piano Recital A group of Mrs. Thelma Todd's piano students will be presented in a recital at 8:30 o'clock Saturday evening in the D. A. R. chapter house, 824 N, Pennsylvania st. The

odes: 11 A. M. to 8:30 P. M.

uturare, 104M. to 1 FM , SPubLiE may atiend a,

; Iouis Eahn and Frank Ney,

Moorefield photo. Mrs. ‘Wayne E. Jester was Miss Katharyn Louise McKinney before her marriage May 1 in the Second Friends church. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. R. B. McKinney, 1349 Ringgold ave. and the bridegroom is the son of Mrs. H. C. Jester, 2201 Morgan st. The couple is at home at 4918 Kingsley dr.

No ‘Babying’

Bosses Find Women Workers Can’t Be ‘Coddled.’

By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON United Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, June 17.—Women in industry have mastered spot welding machines with the same proficiency . they once displayed in handling vacuum cleaners, but they become flippant when kidded or coddled. i This was the consensus among speakers addressing the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on the- subject, “Women in War Industry.” William A. Simonds, public relations official of the Ford Willow Run bomber plants, said his foremen had learned two things from their women employees — women are especially suited to ‘detail work, and secondly, they must not be Kkidded or coddled by their bosses. “In such unexpected flelds as tinsmith, locksmith, plumbing and cabinetmaking, women workers are proving satisfactory,” he said. “Jobs requiring patience, sensitive fingers, and a delicate touch seem particularly adapted to them.”

‘Intelligent as Men’ “On fine bench work, such as

superior to men.” But any tendency on the part of supervisors to “baby” feminine recruits has resulted in less efficient work, Simonds said. “Women cannot be kidded or instructed flippantly. If they are, they will carry out their work in the same manner,” he said. “A few of our foremen at first tried to baby them and have been sorry ever since. If you coddle them at first they expect to keep on being coddled.” . Simonds ventured to suggest that women were as intelligent as men —at least in industrial activities— but indicated that, womanlike, they “had to be shown” once instruction got beyond them into mechanical techniques.

' More Women Needed

“In the classroom most women trainees could not grasp the idea until they were taken into the shop and shown the item under discussion. Then they returned to their desks and gave even the old grease monkeys pretty stiff competition.” As for keeping the new-found jobs after the war, Simonds sajd, it was pretty much of a fifty-fifty proposition. “About half consider their jobs temporary and have no intention of continuing,” he explained. “Most, of the others, having found a timeclock is something more than a neat device to control heat ap baking oven, would like to keep o! working. ” Womanpower is the only solution to the national manpower shortage in the opinion of J. I Onarheim, employment supervisor in the industrial relations department of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee. “Only two-and-a-half million women are employed in our industries,” he disclosed. “That is less than 4 per cent of the feminine population and is not enough.”

First Day Camps To Open Monday

Registration will be open for the Neighborhood day camps until the first camp day, Monday. The camps offer supervised games, hikes and trips, community singing, nature study, Tareas story telling and dramatics and lessons in handling and displaying the flag. Girls between the ages of 8 and 14 years may attend the camps. Mrs, Robert 8. Wild is general chair man,

Turners’ Auxiliary Plans Card Party

The Women’s . auxiliary to the South Side Turners will have a card party at 8:15 o'clock Saturday evening in the hall, 306 Prospect st. The committee will include Mesdames Harry Collins, Fred Helcher,

\M embership Closed _ James H. Makin, president of the

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