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A w-'j McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1941 That Old Black Lace Shawl Is Right in Style This Season, By CHERIE NICHOLAS Hill W HEN those cherished bids to yuletide parties begin to ar rive, when those coveted invitations to smart afternoon affairs await ac- , ceptance, then it is that fancy turns to visions of pretty clothes that will - make you look your prettiest. To these ever-recurring “what-to- « wear” problems, lace, always a i gallant flatterer, brings one of the , happiest solutions fashion has to of fer this winter. It is not only that • the charm of lace ever makes re sistless appeal, but this season the use of lace . takes on new empha- ' sis. Modern laces are so diverse ..in fepe and in kind there’s literally a lace for every mood and mode, whether informed or ever so formal. ' This adaptability of lace is a most > convincing “reason why” it is more - widely a favorite among designers ; than ever. It can be made to fit modest budgets and simple occa- . sions successfully and glamorously. A wise supplement to any ward- ” rObe that must include a “pretty- -*'pretty” informal frock that is not expensive is the .model shown to the • left in the illustration. You can get , this very wearable oak-leaf pat- . terned. lace in a long list of delec table colors, and the dress will al- •’ ways be ready for any occasion. ■ 'The bodice is horizontally tucked in a new treatment and is made ..smooth by a dainty slide fastener. A taffeta bow gives it a final fillip. Count it among your blessings if you are so fortunate as to have ' Willed to you a handsome black lace '.shawl or shawl-scarf. • Now is the psychological moment to release this priceless heirloom from its lavender-scented wrappings, for be guiling mantilla effects like that pic tured to the right in the illustration are recapturing the charm and ro mance of yesterday and bringing their allure to modern fashion. One sees these charming lace fantasies everywhere in the current formal fashion picture, either worn over the head as here illustrated, or thrown artfully and casually over the shoulders to serve graciously as a light evening wrap. The black velvet gown so alluringly veiled in this lovely shadowy Chantilly lace scarf makes simplicity its theme. Petite black lace edging finishes off the low decolletage, while wide bands of the velvet are brought up to each shoulder top where they tie in intriguing big bows. Youthful party dresses of filmy Chantilly lace in lovely pastel shades are given high fashion rac ing this season. The bouffant dance frock centered above in the group i» of flesh toned Chantilly, the mesh of which is as delicate and elusive as a silken cobweb. The corselet waistline is banded in taffeta, which also defines the pleated shoulder ruf fles 'and appears, as trimming, on the skirt. Scores of charming lace fantasies are being shown for sophisticated moments at opera, banquet and ball. There are tiny black lace calots with a metallic weave and sequin-sown edge. You can buy gay gauntlet gloves made all of lace for the dashing and the debonair. Black lace mitts are shown that boa$st a double tier of lace reaching to the elbows. The new lace eve ning handkerchiefs are luxuriously fragile with lace and chiffon. And for the romantic touch, see the new lace muffs. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) *-■ > Wide Peasant Belt To Match Hat Band In'thfe way of accessory items, a new twosome has been brought out this season that will add intrigue to many a daytime costume. This gay and flattering alliance consists of a wide colorful felt or leather belt embroidered in peasant colors, to gether with a matching band to en circle the crown of your nonchalant felt hat. Also available is a corselet that laces up the front in a vestee effect. The bright colors of this felt or leather corselet add gaiety and chic to the simplest wool dress or skirt. This Veil Can Be Useful As Well as Ornamental Tiny hats set back of the pompa dour are a welcome fashion. They are purposefully designed to give full play to the costume. In fact, milliners are more and more in clined to design headwear that re veals the hair-do. A new venture in veils is the trick of enveloping a tiny hat in a filmy black Chantilly, bringing the ends down at the back to form a voluminous snood to pro tect the hair, yet reveal it through lace mesh in all its charm and prettiness. You Just Can f t Wear Too Many Gadgets These Days If you are properly fashion-wise you will wear not one but several pieces of lapel jewelry—all at the same time I Designed for this popu lar vogue, tiny lapel pins are sell ing in sets of 10 different gadgets, or they can be bought singly with the thought in mind of collecting them as one does charms for brace let or necklace. These sets, worked out in bright colored enamel set with tiny jewels, are very effective. You can get floral designs, jeweled beetles, bugs, butterflies and hum ming birds. Head Lines Treat your face like a picture, and wear a hat as a frame to en hance its beauty. A hat is a line, a silhouette, and through the hat a “square” face may be made to ap pear oval, which is supposed to be the perfect type. Here the black felt hat shown at the top in the pic ture rolls up at one side and forma a soft peak at the center front to extend nature’s line. Then, too, a good rule is to wear hats to bring out the beauty of your coloring. The felt and feather hat shown below in the picture is a creamy beige all the way through, and it makes the skin look its best. In any case, the trick is to treat your face as though it were a pic ture. £ IESCREENRADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) C UNNING Nancy Walker is the latest Broadwayite to win Hollywood favor. Nancy’s busy at present with a featured role in the stage success, “Best Foot Forward,” and will report at the Metro studios when the final curtain comes down on that delightful comedy, in which she is making her theatrical debut. Want to go into the movies, girls? The best advice would seem to be “Get a job as an airline steward ess.” Mary Sheppard is the latest recruit who took that route; she was taken off an airliner and given the lead role in Pete Smith’s short, “What About Daddy?” * . Robert Benchley’s all set to be a busy man. All set for the role of a stage producer in Paramount’s “Out of the Frying Pan,” he discovered that he was also booked to be Rosa- ROBERT BENCHLEY find Russell’s business partner in “Take a Letter, Darling,” the two films to be made simultaneously. A bicycle or a motor-driven wheel chair seems to be the only solution to the problem of getting from set to set. • * 1 When you see “Louisiana Pur chase” take a long look at Jean Wallace “Mrs. Franchot Tone” and Lynda Gray. They’re New Orleans belles in the picture, and Para mount liked them so much that they’ve just been given new con tracts. — Asia, famous canine of “The Thin Man” series, has a plaque all his' own, to hang in his dog house. It was awarded by the McKinley Ken nel club of Canton, Ohio, for “out standing service to canine friends and the work he has done to gain appreciation for all dogdom.” The perfect retort from all the rest of dogdom is, of course, that few dogs belong to people like Myrna Loy. —*— Nelson Eddy has co-starred with Jeanette MacDonald in eight films, but only recently found out what she really looked like. During the film ing of their recent picture, “I Mar ried an Angel,” he asked if he might model a head of her. “You never know what a person looks like till you paint or model that person,” said he. Seems that her jaw line wasn’t as he’d remembered it, and her eyes were set differently. Said she, “He knows what I look like novrl He peered at me so much and so long that I was embarrassed.” * David James, the 11-month-oid baby whom Marlene Dietrich was carrying in her arms when she tripped over a fight cable and broke her leg, recently resumed his film career, in Rosalind Russell’s new picture. This time Fred MacMur- ray toted him. Charles Laughton sort of startles the onlookers nowadays when he shows up for that radio program he’s doing with Milton Berle. He looks like a Forty-niner, with an inch-long beard and a month’s growth of hair—both required for his role in RKO’s “Tuttles of Tahiti.” Incidentally, if Laughton goes on making pictures he’ll be an expert dancer; he learned the conga for “It Started With Eve,” and the hula for this new picture; he did the hula recently at a broadcast rehear sal, with Shirley Ross playing “Aloha Oe” on the piano. & Jack Benny has never lived down his “Buck Benny” routines that were featured on his NBC series a few seasons ago, and later incorporated into one of his motion pictures. “Buck” has become his nickname— the rest of the cast never calls him anything else. * ODDS AND ENDS—Several well known tingert will be starred in the new musical S rogram, as yet untitled, which makes its ow on CBS January 7th . . . William L. Shirer always holds an informal discus sion of international affairs after his broadcast . . . Ann Shepherd, of “Joyce Jordon—Girl Interne," posed for public ity pictures at a New York hospital re cently, and now she’s “interned" for all her spare time . . . Irene Rich, famous on both radio and screen, has bean given a leading role in Metro’s “Just BetweSh Us" . . . Babe Ruth has finally signal up to play himself in “The Life of Lou Gehrig." Uuf Ji*f4Ut GUcufth&ul. Ring in the New Year — Buffet Style (See Recipes Below) New Year Patterns Brand new ideas for a brand New Year I What better way to usher in the year than a table laden with something really new, provocative and colorful? So here’s the menu and here are the recipes each with a new slant that will put you as a hostess in the higher brackets for smart entertaining. Whether the buffet is planned for the eve be fore or the day itself, this menu is designed to give you as little last-minute bustling as pos sible. Just see that your table’s set properly and the food cooked be forehand. The combination will do its stuff. Two meats that lend themselves especially for good-looking platters are tongue and corned beef. Be cause of their color, flavor and tex ture they can’t be too highly rec ommended for a platter such as I’ve suggested. Here’s how you pre pare them: *Beef Tongue. 1 smoked tongue Cold water to cover 4 bay leaves 4 peppercorns 1 teaspoon whole cloves 1 onion Wash tongue and if salty let stand In cold water overnight. Place in kettle with seasonings and let sim mer slowly until tender, from 3 to 5 hours. Remove brine, pull off outer skin, cut off root. Let cool in brine. Serve thinly sliced, either hot. or cold. *Corned Beef. 4 pounds corned beef Clove Of garlic Paprika Wash the meat in cold water. Soak an hour in cold water if salty, then drain. Place in a kettle and cover with water. Cook slowly 3 to 5 hours. When thoroughly cooked, cool, rub with garlic and paprika. Heat thoroughly in oven before serv ing. Slice thin and serve on platter with beef tongue. Crisp and chewy cabbage done up as a cole slaw is a good accom paniment for the tongue and corned beef plat- ten. A To • make your table really attractive, serve in a red cabbage scooped' out and filled with the creamy mixture of cole slaw. ♦Cole Slaw. (Serves 8) 4 cups finely shredded cabbage % cup finely chopped green pepper % cup finely chopped celery 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons vinegar Vz cup sour cream or mayonnaise Combine vegetables, seasonings and sour cream or mayonnaise. Fill LYNN SAYS: If you’re in the mood for reso lutions here are some pointers that will help you make this New Year a year for more delectable food, better meals, and more at tractive platters: Season food carefully to bring out its hidden possibilities. Rub roasts with garlic or onion, and salt before roasting. Melt but ter for vegetables and stir it throughout before serving. Hot foods should be served as hot as possible and cold foods as cold as possible. Foods should be good to look at because the eye takes them in first, teo arrange platters neatly and use parsley or fruit or vege tables in garnishing their respec tive platters. Heavy meals call for fight des serts, fight meals for more filling desserts. Make use of contrast in texture, color and flavor when planning menus. You can stretch that food dol lar by planning two or three days’ meals in advance and thus save duplication of foods too often. THIS WEEK’S MENU New Year’s Buffet •Platter of Sliced Tongue and Corned Beef •Cole Slaw in Red Cabbage Assorted Bread or Rolls Celery Olives Pickles Jelly •Apricot-Strawberry Gelatin Mold •Fortune Cake Coffee Mints and Nuts •Recipes Given scooped out red cabbage and serve at once. Fruit molds lend tone to a buffet table besides giving the guests a sweeter type salad and thus satisfy ing their appetite for fruit. Here’s a truly delectable combination: •Apricot-Strawberry Gelatin Mold. (Serves 8) 2 packages strawberry-flavored gelatin 1 No. 2 can apricot halves 1 No. 2 can pineapple pieces 4 cups water (juice from fruit to make up part of this amount) Heat 2 cups water and pour over gelatin. Stir thoroughly, then add remaining water. Pour part of gel atin mixture over apricots laid at the bottom of a mold. Let jell. Mix pineapple with remaining gelatin mixture and pour over first layer in mold. Let jell until firm. Unmold and serve on crisp lettuce with sweet french dressing or mayon naise combined with whipped cream sweetened with honey. The dessert problem for this type of buffet is easily solved by a fight, delicate cake frosted with chocolate and decorated with numerals to car ry out the theme of the New Year; •Fortune Cake. Vt cup shortening 1 cup sugar 2 cups cake flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 4 egg yolks Vz cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Cream shortening, add sugar, then beaten egg yolks. Whip until fight and fluffy with Dover egg beat er. Add flavoring, then flour sifted with baking powder, alternating the adding of the flour with the milk. Beat well, place in greased and floured layer-cake pans. Bake in a moderate (350-degree) oven 35 to 40 minutes. Surprise item in this cake is its custard filling: 2 Mr tablespoons flour Vx cup sugar Pinch of salt 1 cup milk, scalded 1 slightly beaten egg Vz teaspoon vanilla Mix flour, sugar and salt. Stir in milk. Cook in double boiler until thick (about 15 minutes). Add hot mixture to egg slowly, then cook about 2 minutes longer. Cool, add vanilla and spread between layers of cake. You’ll need a whizz of an icing to do justice to Fortune cake. Take 2 cups of confec tioners’ sugar and blend in 4 table spoons butter. Add 2 ounces un sweetened choco late which have been melted over hot water. Then mix enough hot milk into the icing to smooth it out, flavor with 1 teaspoon vanilla and spread cake. Team up the Fortune cake with a really good cup of coffee and you’ll have a perfect close to the buffet supper. Use one well-rounded ta blespoon of drip grind decaffeinated coffee for each cup of boiling wa ter. Pre-heat drip coffee pot. Put coffee in upper compartment of pot. Pour fresh, briskly boiling water over it. Cover and let stand in a warm place until all the water has dripped through once. Remove up per compartment and cover pot. f Setting the Table. The table is the high note of any buffet, so if you want yours to be the topic of conversation do it this way: Set the two largest platters (your nicest and most important, the meat platter and the salad molds) at either end. Have plates, silverware and napkins off to ope side and rolls, butter, and relishes on the other side. Plates of nuts and mints may be near a center- piece of two candelabra with ever green and silver bells at their base, (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ^CcroCCt Pattern 7115. I-JERE’S a lovely wall hanging that’s fascinating to em broider in soft colors. All the stitches are very easy. ' ^ * * * Pattern 7115 contains a transfer patter* of a picture 15 by 20 inches; illustrations of stitches; materials needed, color chart. To obtain this pattern send your order to:. Sewing Circle Ntedlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave. New York Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pat* tern No Name Address; Tenderness of Life v What seems to grow fairer to me as life goes by is the love and grace and tenderness of it; not its wit and cleverness and grandeur of knowledge 1 —grand as knowledge is—but just the laughter of fittie children and the friendship of friends, and the cozy talk o'f the fireside, and the sight of flowers, and the sound of music. «COLDS T ?oS&l quickty. u-it LIQUID TABLETS SALVE NOSE DROPS / COUCH DROPS We Can All Be EXPERT BUYERS # fat bringing us buying Information, as to prices that are being asked for what we Intend to buy, and as to the quality we can expect, the advertising columns of this newspaper perform a worth while service which saves us many dollars a year. # It Is a good habit to form, the habit of consulting the advertisements every time we make a purchase, though wa have already decided just what we want and where we are going to buy It. It gives us the most priceless feeling In the worlds the feeling of being adequately prepared. # When we go Into a store, prepared beforehand with knowledge of what is offered and at what price, we go as an expert buyer, filled with self-confi dence. It Is a pleasant feeling to have, the feeling of adequacy. Most of the unhappiness In the world can be traced to a lack of this feeling. Thus adver tising shows another of Its manifold facets—shows Itself as an aid toward making all our business relationships more secure and pleasant. DON’T LET CONSTIPATION SLOW YOU UP • When bowels are sluggish and you feel irritable, headachy and everything you do is an effort, do as millions do — chew FEEN-A-MINT, the modern chewing gum lakhtive. Simply chew FEEN-A- MINT before you go to bed—deep with- 1 out being disturbed—next morning gentle, thorough relief, helping you fed swell again, full of your normal pep. Try FEEN-A-MINT. Tastes good, is handy economical. A generous family supply FEEN-A-MINTIV* 11 1 '■ is . i ■■ « y is. ■■■i ■ ■ i ■ Whip of Repentance No mEpi is more severely pun ished than he who is subject to the whip of his own repentance.— Seneca.