Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1947 — Page 18
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“Teen-Age Legs Make It a Sparkling “Table: for-Two’
Don't Compare With Mom's’
They Need Exercise,
" Beauty Expert Says _ Ry VIRGINIA MacPHERSON Onited Press Stall Correspondent. MOLLYWOOD, Aug. 22.--Teen-agers: may be clutching frantically for dignity now, but it's too late, a. beauty expert 1#*fsked today We have with us-a coming generation of piano legs. “The modern girl'ss idea of strenuous exercise is getting up off her too-rounded hustle to change a
Sinatra record.” scolded Veronica Dengel, author of a nook called “Hold Your Man." She doubts if any bobhy-soxer eould live up to that title, Not without a little bouncing on the floor first anyway, Not even the current crop ol movie Leen-agers gels past Mrs Dengel's curve-searching squint They, too, flunk out on lesson 2 in beauty-pretty legs.-- (No, 1's been taken over by the manufacturers who package sweater-girl curves by the carload.) Actresses Jane Powell, Vera-Ellen and Barbara Whiting are horrible examples to movie-going juveniles
the beauty counselor The oughta walk more
Vera-Ellen may
said
exercise for her
career, according to Mi Dengel but she pays more attention to a triple-tap than the taper of her thighs, Mer legs bulge In all the wrong places, ’ ‘ They Just Sit Around On Their Shirt-tails’ The Dengel analysis of Singer Powell is that she grows up in her film roles and stays adolescent around the fetlock “Janile's a big girl now,” ths beauty engineer said She should
be walking and exercising to make
her legs look romantic She cat still chase after Jose Iturbi on thin ner ankles and with better results Barbara Whiting is a little gal who Jeans toward ballerina slip pers, moccasins and flats, Mrs
Dergel thinks she would do better to stick her stems in high heels. “Pew young girls around the country go In for the right exer cise,” she added. “All the exertion they show is just what they need to sit around on their shirt
tails and squeal at Frankie-boy's Teen T alk -
recordings.” Mrs, Dengel's werrying about the poor wolves who'll be parked in front of the pool halls in 1956, At
this rate, there won't be a trim ankle around to leer at. “Look at Marlene Dietrich, Joan
Bennett and Gertrude Lawrence.’ the added. “Their legs are still good."
Their daughters? Don't even begin to give maw any competition in the glamour gam department. “And for perfect leg beauty,” Mrs Dengel wound up, “men still go back three generations and sigh over the French atar Mistinguette. ”
B. P. W, to S Sponsor Radio Program
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Miss Sally Butler, recently elected
president of the International Fed-
eration of Business and Professional
Women, will appear tomorrow morning in a radio interview. Also on
the WISH program at 10:30 o'clock | wjss Elizabeth B. Ward, dean of will be Miss Betty Foster, head of the Manual Training high school
art department,
The two, who have just returned from the B. P. W's international congress in Paris, will discuss conbe interviewed by Miss Lucille Pryor, The program will be sponsored by the In-
ference highlights. They will
Indianapolis attorney dianapolis B. P. W. club, Sunshine ClubPlans Party
The Children’s Sunshine club will sponsor a card party for members
and their friends at Thursday. Mrs. Berkley rd, will
130 pm
entertain
‘The hostess is to be assisted by Claude Giesendorf, C. T, Johnson and Mar -
Mesdames Edward Feeny,
tin Peterson.
James French, 402
TABLE SETTING FOR TWO-—Pink roses accent the to arrange an attractive tabl
in any table setting, but originality is the personal touch which makes a table truly a hostess’ own. : Just as the clothes she wears or the home she livés in emphasize her personal tastes, the table at which she presides should reflect her own ideas Carole Stupell of Néw York is one young designer of table decor who has done much to rouse whether America’s dining habits from the a full- horse and buggy stage. will add fun y ® =u FOR YOUNG brides she advises ‘Just-us-two"” dinners. By buying several sets of co-ordinating table ensembles, Miss Stupell thinks even the most Inexperienced hostess can produce “just-us-two" dinners as well as more formal ones.
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By JEAN TABBERT WITH LOTS of late summer and early fall weddings coming the three-meals-a-day-rou-big problem new homemakers not enjoy all of the but they dally spot of
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Glamorizing its In a traller fledged dining room
unaccustomed cooking sched-
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Lo ule It's an opportu Lo use new linens, china and silver, For the modern housewife—if she has room to spread her precious table appointments--likes to use them for everyday meals as well
niLy
crystal,
as for parties Waging a revolution against Pattern, color and design are drab monotony and unco-ordi-three of the fundamental factors nated i Miss Stupell
Going to College. Means More Than Buying New Wardrobe; Dean Ward Gives Pointers
By BOBBIE SCHAEFFER
"SOYOU'RE GOING to college?” . Sounds like an old worn-out punch line flied at prospective students since time was. She must know what to wear -college fashion boards lend profuse help and there won't be a knee showing this fall. College girls rooms necessarily follow a decorating theme set by thelr predecessors and there are ample Suggestions in every | MARRZING Or newspaper, ——————— Suggestions are tossed back dean of women reminds girls, and | and forth until the freshman = one should be in excellent shape—
woman feels as though she's had = have eyes, teeth, ete., checked,
four years of rigorous college life. “Most girls do not know defia 8 nitely at first what career they BUT . THERE'S one little | Will pursue” Dean Ward says: | detall tho often overlooked. Just = “But they should have a general |
idea if they want to enter the | business world, teaching profes. | ‘sion or to develop culturally, “And very important—when a girl is entering college life, she
why are you going to college? There is no “board” to advise students-to<be. on the matter, but
women at Butler university, offers some valuable suggestions. ! should not remain tied to her “Plan ahead, think. seriously home and {rienda, Use college about why vou are going to for full growth. college,” Dean Ward advises. So there's quite a program in
itself. “ Déan Ward has lald the groundwork for some serious planning for teensters entering a new
Every girl should plan a work-study-play schedule her first week
of school, instead of whirling around in the glamour of the new | Pracket in life. It may not be life until it's too late to come 3° exotic aM the new fall ward- | down gradually. Avoid the fall Yobe- but it's part of “going to which comes, usually, around college. | exam time ‘ Se ———————— - TT ale Social Organization AN WARD believes a ght should specify so many hours for In Argentina her study, for a part-time job if | BUENOS AIRES—The Sociedad
she has one, snd for relaxation and play. She should justify her position in college from the very first day And also important to think | about 1s physical welfare. College entalls strenuous activity, the
de Benificincia of Argentina is a combination D. A. R.-Red Cross organisation in this country.
Women of the “first families” have done social welfare work here through the organization since 1923,
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5m plicity of this china set e sett ng.
thinks place mats should be used instead of a fablecloth. Buy a solid. color, she advises, with napkins in a contrasting shade. By buying two sets in different shades, they can be changed about as the occasion demands, B8he cautions against buving a complete set of patterned china for the entire meal. Instead she alternates patterned china and transparent glass, If a patterned service plate is used, for example, then a glass fruit cup or soup plate and saucer should be placed on top. This means neither design is hidden. “A homemaker needs a complete wardrobe for her table as much as she needs one for herself,” Miss Stupell belieges, Then she'll be ready for aby party emergency and have several table settings for her “just-us-two”
| dinners at home,
TEEN TOGS-—A Farnsworth wool plaid suit takes top rating ™ on Veronica Pacala’s style list. It's in green and has a box jacket, With a slip-over swaeat-
er, it gives with campus glamour. Veronica is a junior at Ben Davis high school and it a member of the Tri Del ch b. (Bloc k's).
Quaker City Mecca For Bowling Group PHILADELPHIA. — Some 400 teams are expected to compete when the Pennsylvania State Women's Bowling association holds its 10th championship tournament here next March. The 1947 tournament at Harrisburg attracted 387 teams, 682
{doubles and 1200 individuals
Gardening—
Humid Weather Bri
Ry MARGUERITE SMITH UNLESS THE weather turns hot and dry, not humid, there's danger of late blight on your tomatoes, 80 here's advice from Harlan Fulmer in the county agent's office. up first as irregular splotches on the leaves, The spots look watersoaked. The fruit shows the same symptoms at first, then rots rapidly. There are three good controls They are dithane, insoluble copper” dust and Bord®aux. Prob« ably best for the 18 the copper dust. various trade names (read the Iabel!). It should be used at orice if you suspect trouble, Repeat every five to seven days, depending: on how much rain falls. Also, if you want the complete low-down on tomato diseases, the county agent's. office will send you, free for the asking, Purdue's latest booklet on tomato troubles.
Buy it under
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SWEET potatoes just didn't like
that eool “summer” weather they had during July, Now that heat has got the plants growing, give them fertilizer solution and you'll increase your yield. Victor Tied- , practical expert, says that “almost unbelievable wields” result from liquid fertilizer used at the precise time that plants need " . :
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Late blight shows |
home garden °
“MY NOSE has a good time jn
this part of the garden”
SAYS
| mint (or so we decided from their
| Curly mint, as its name implies, |
wgs Blight Danger
A MINT ‘OF MINT—Miss Emily McCullough, 5259 Park ave., Jathars mint from one of her nine varieties to make a cooling mint punc Miss Emily McCullough, 5250 Park , leaves and lemon scent are the | ave, of ber collection of mints. most familiar. Orange mint has There's ‘spearmint and pepper- °& smaller leaf, 8 more orange fragrance. Her apple ming. is the “variegated green and gold leaved |
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flowering habit), with a similar | but. smaller, darker leaved kind . that's probably “black” - mint. | softly gray leaved apple mint or | the variegated green and white wears ruffled edges on its leaves. | pineapple mint. /Of her fruit-scented mints, mint
Semin stove’ som; want a
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| type, not to be confused with the |
to Tomatoes
with the various “bergamots” such as bee-balm) is so fragrant of lavender it should be raised by every gardener who likes scented
plants. It's much less temperamental than true English lavender. Then last there's calmint,
favorite of them all as far as Smoky, her all-black, green-eyed
garden helper, is concerned,
” » » MISS McCullough gave the gar-
| den column a decidedly tasty | recipe for mint-punch. You can use whatever mint you have, or
mix a collection. Chop a cupful of mint leaves.
oranges with the grated rind of
| one lemon, Let stand a half hour, |
Then make a sirup of two cups of water and two cups of sugar.
| Pour this sirup, hot, over your
mint-fruit’ mixture. After 15 min-
| utes’ steeping, strain it,
Miss McCullough says she finds this much too sweet to se as is,
so she adds a bottle of ginger ale | Starting with the | foundation sirup, you can make a |
for sparkle,
variety of concoctions, And did you evar use the berries from your high bush cranberry shrubs to make a sauce? Miss McOullough says it's fine with any kind of meat. Prepare & as you would eranberriot.
HOW ballyhoo is born: To the
| garden column comes a most formal -{nvitation—almost, but not
quite, engraved, with tissue: swathed enclosure--to announce the “world premiere” of a new zinnia at the Waldorf-Astoria (no less) at 3 o'clock on Septem.
ber the sacond, and mn on, and 80."
on. Oh, yes, it's the “Luther Bur-
THE [RUIANAPOLIS TIMES Safe at Home—
Check Canners | a For Safe | Operation
a list by the National Safety council.
canner and arrange filled
canner as directed by the
Pour over them the juice of four lemons and four |
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Keep Valves, Gauges' Thoroughly Clean Most pressure canner accidents
happen becquse manufacturers’ in-| structions were not followed or be- | cause the canner was not checked for
fe operation.
The home safety division, Indian- |
apolis Safety council of the Cham(ber’of Commerce, points out some of the dangers to be avoided when using the steam pressure canner.
“This is the last of four articles | on “Home Canning Without Aec- | :
| cldents.”
“One h housewife was s scalded when
she removed the cover before all| steam had been released. Another used a canner with an inaccurate FH gauge: and a safety valve which AY lA had not been cleaned. |
High pressure developed and a
{hole was blown in the side of the canner,
The home safety division offers’ of suggestions prepared
” » ~ ? } 1. PRESSURE canners vary considerably in the details of operation. Read the instructions for
your canner carefully.
2. Have dial-type gauge checked If possible, have the entire canner
checked.
3. Openings to the petcock, pres-
sure gauge and safety valve mus!
be clean. 4. Put the amount of water specified by the manufacturer into the jars on the rack so that they do not touch sach other or the sides of the canner,
of the manufacturer, Open the petcock and allow steam to ‘escape for 10 minutes, 6. Close the petcock (or put on weighted gauge) and let the pressure rise to the recommended number of pounds: Adjust the heat to keep pressure steady. 7. When processing is complete, move the canner from heat and allow the pressure to fall to zero. Then, open the petcock GRADUALLY (or remove the weighted gauge),
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If youre the tafloféd you'll adore the casual, well groomed air of this youthful
frock, Have a demure white col-
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open
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neck and add soft edging. Either version will win a host of compli-
ments.
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In Coins.
Size 14, 4 yards of 38-inch;
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Girls Like Machines NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Peabody col- . 8. When steam stops issuing from lege of this city gives Instructions i canner, lift back of the cover first in aviation and automobile repair- | so that steam escapes away from ing. Yet its student body is made
up largely of girls,
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SCAN » 5125 By MRS. ANNE CABOT The Star of Hope bedspread is one that has been made, lived with and passed down from generation to generation. Each hexs agon is 4's by 5 inches and is crocheted separately. Instructions are included for the interesting block and fringe effect along the edges of the spread. Crochet it in white for a colonial bedroom and remember heirlooms never go out of style. To: obtain complete crocheting instructions, block chart and stitch illustrations for Tried and True Bedspread (pattern 5125) send 16 cents in coin, your name, address and the pattern number to Anne Cabot, The Indianapolis Times,
530 8. Wells st., Chicago 7. eel
Mother Seton May Be First U. S. Saint
THE VATICAN.—A plea has been made to Pope Pius XII for the canonization of New York's Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton, 18th century founder of the American Catholic parochial school system. If Mother Seton completes the long process of elevation, she will be the first native-born saint of the United States.
Let’ 8s Eat—
Capers Add New Tang
To Food
Fish, Chicken, Lamb Enhanced With Spice By META GIVEN CAPERS, those little
pickled flower buds from the Mediterra- | nean, make a specially harmonious
contribution to fish and chicken salad or lamb and mutton dishes and a few tossed in the last thing in a vegetable %alad bowl do wonders for it. Capers are used in a sauce in today's recipe. Tasting is the only ‘ dependable criterion to ‘produce different and palate tickling food that you can expect practically everyone at the
| table to pause, consider and ap- | prove.
» » ” CAPER MUSHROOM SAUCE 3 tbsps. butter 4 1b. mushrooms 1 tbsp. flour Pan gravy Water Salt Pepper. - 1 tbsp. chopped capérs Melt butter in saucepan, cleaned sliced mushrooms,
own juice. Blend flour with two tablespoo cold water until perfectly smoo
and stir it thoroughly into mush-
room mixture, then add pan gra
from lamb loaf or from broiled
mutton chops and enough water make one cup.
cover tightly and saute for three or four minutes or until swimming in their
Boil gently until} smooth and thickened, Add capers
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and enough salt and pepper to suit)
taste. Makes one cup of sauce.
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SOCIAL SITUATIONS
SITUATION: You are going to visit a family that has several children, the youngest just a toddler. WRONG WAY: Take the baby a gift, whether you take anything to the other children or not. RIGHT WAY: Don't take a gift to one child unless you take gifts to all the children, or something they all can
share.
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