Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C- MAY 8, 1942 Prints Combined With Plain Fabrics Make Fashion News By CHERIE NICHOLAS ' I 'HIS season’s prints are gorgeous ■■■ and excitingly beautiful, espe cially the gay florals which are such flatterers every woman adores them. To add to their lure, they are being styled with artistry and re sourcefulness which are breathtak ing in their novelty and eye-appeal as well as their versatility. This is especially so in regard to the print-with-plain theme which is interpreted so artfully one could al most believe that a contest is on among designers as to who will cre ate the most ingenious and fascinat ing effects. The flair for individual izing prints in dramatic ways is strikingly interpretated in the at tractive gowns pictured in the above illustration. In these smart New York creations the accent is on bright and brilliant florals dramat ically contrasted with dark back grounds. The dress to the left looks toward summer. It is of navy sheer. The designer employs a technique which is receiving wide exploitation this season, namely, that of appliqueing cutout print motifs for accent and excitement. Sprightly white daisies are appliqued on the skirt. Also, white daisies are appliqued to out line a wide band of bright red faille around the midriff, this girdle effect adding a definite note of style distinction. A spray of the cutout daisies decorates the shoulder. What promises to be most popu lar of all skirts during the coming months is the skirt of fabric-con serving type, such as wrap-arounds that eliminate zipper or button fas tenings, or the dashing side-saddle skirt that goes back to the days of the side-saddle riding habit. The dress shown to the right in the above illustration belongs to the last category. It features an adroit use of the newest of the new colorful border prints as shown in advance summer collections. The hat is of lacquered navy straw trimmed with grosgrain. As a guide to buying your print frocks and ensembles it is well worth while to saunter through fab ric displays with the thought in mind of discovering what’s new in prints. You will find a revelation of new and original ideas, for prints this season have quite a way of their own that differentiates them from the usual order. Some give you a special design for the skirt, perhaps a splash of gay florals on navy or black, with a waist section that poises a single huge match ing flower cluster at just the point to give the effect of a corsage either at one shoulder or to accent a gir dle effect. If you “make your own” this mat ter of having the color and scheme of design worked out for you in per fect ensemble simplifies home sew ing. Then, too, if you plan to buy a print costume ready made, you will select it more intelligently after acquainting yourself in advance with fashion-right prints. Featured items that give print dresses and ensembles “style” in clude such interesting details as quilted pockets, cuffs, collars, lapels and borderings. An eye-catching fancy is a single cluster of flowers here and there that sparkles with exquisite hand beadwork. Bouton nieres made of floral cutouts that look realistic add a beguiling touch, as do also the ruche effects formed of the flowers of the print. And so the story of prints goes on in end less pageantry this season! (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Soft Styling This dress in the original is in tensely interesting. It is done in gray, which is a color of definite importance this year. Then, too, it claims distinction in that it adopts the new soft styling with huge dol man sleeves. The material is silk gabardine and being in gray makes it doubly smart. The gored skirt is topped with an interestingly cut hip- length blouse with a white bengaline dicky. Outstanding fashion details are the unique cone-shaped pockets of quilted gray satin, the laced- down-the-front fastening and, espe cially, the sleeves which look strict ly new - this - season. Gray, softly draped, as you see it here, is as easy to wear as any other color. Culotte Meets Need As Cycling Costume The pendulum of popularity swings back to the ever practical culotte costume. It is declared to be the logical dress to wear in many of the defense activities, for garden ing, flying, bowling, tennis, golf and, above all, for bicycling, which has become so very popular. In fact this return of the culotte is attributed for the most part to the bicycle fad. There’s a new culotte that is much in demand because of its practicality. By a simple snap adjustment it can be transformed into an undivided skirt—travel in it, go about on your shopping tours— in fact make it a practical all-pur pose utility dress. For the new culottes sturdy cot tons are best, especially denim (handsome in the new rust shade), gabardine, and also crinkly seer sucker. Dickey Front Is Lovely In Pin-Tucked Organdy There is considerable interest shown in dickey fronts, in pique for tailored outfits and in laces or bright prints for dressier effects. Very lovely are those of finely pin-tucked pastel organdy with frilly cuffs to match. While white is the first choice for neckwear there is a decided favor expressed for frills and furbelows in pastel tones. Checked A widespread vogue is on for checks. Suits in brown or black checks are at the top of the fashion list. These are made in classic tailleurs, or they are styled with eton or bolero jackets. Wear with them a pique dickey for a crisp, clean look. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) XTEW YORK.—It appears to this onlooker that there is a lag in this war in issuing pencils and paper to song-writers and putting them on If* Time We Call shift. We Out Song Writers made a fast To Help Beat Axis sin 8 in «? Sf 4 * away in the First World war, with that one about the little bit of the sunshine in the YMCA almost beating the first crack of the guns. Possibly we are at least getting under way with Geoffrey O’Hara limbering up his writing-wrist with a ditty calculated to start a rush of bond-buyers to the neighborhood post office. Mr. O’Hara is a veteran song-leader of our 1918 singing and fighting days and the author of “K-K-K-Katy.” He has a copyright on “The Star Spangled Banner,” taken out and duly recorded in 1929. This was his stepped-down version of the Nation al Anthem. The copyright is a bit of a joke which, says Mr. O’Hara, will enable him to bequeath a singa ble National Anthem to his country in his will. He scouted some interesting historical background in his pro fessional Study of _ “The Star Spangled Banner” and how we got it. In England and Wales, in the late Eighteenth century, it was sung by tavern roisterers as “Anacreon in Heaven.” They could reach the high notes easily. The explanation, Mr. O’Hara’s researches disclosed, was that in a cold, foggy cli mate the larnyx grows smaller, in order to keep out the weather. Therefore there are more tenor voices. Mr. O’Hara probed still further and found that California had more basses and baritones than colder states. So he reset the anthem to a steam-heated singing range. He came to the United States in 1904, at the age of 22 and worked four years as a clerk in the Cana dian Bank of Commerce. All that time he was writing songs, surprised and happy when Caruso suddenly featured his “Your Eyes Have Told Me,” and A1 Jolson did the same for his “Tennessee.” Last month he was elected to membership on the board of the American Society of Authors, Com posers and Publishers. He got his nautralization papers in 1919, and has been a diligent expounder of our democratic faith. W E’VE asked a lot of philoso phers, but we never could get it straight as to whether there could be any humor in a perfect universe. _ __ __ It is some- Gets More Money thing to wor- Kidding Baseball ry about, as, Than Playing It ^ th ® At ' lantic Char ter millenium moving in after this war, there might not be any place for A1 Schacht. His errant foolish ness wouldn’t do in such a perfect ly ordered world. But, in our present state of some what ostentatious imperfection, he still belongs, and today’s good news is that the “Clown Prince of Base ball” is still clowning over in New Jersey just now, still touring the baseball circuits, making everybody happy with his durable pantomime. We have an idea that if A1 Schacht were shrewdly used he might be worth a brace of bat tleships to this country. As we see it many of the invocations of democracy which come from the Washington founts of erudi tion do not quite get the public ear; that they need a bit of “corn,” in the Broadway lingo, or at any rate a widened public appeal and a dash of humor. U A1 Schacht should take to rib bing Hitler before the baseball mobs, with an appropriate anti climax for Der Fuehrer at the finish, it ought to help a lot in getting over the news that there is a war on. He was a top-bracket player, bought by the Giants in 1917, and can still put a hop on a fast ball. He was literally bom in left field— in the left field territory of what is now the Yankee Stadium. He was a whirlwind pitcher in high school baseball and was three years with Newark before the Giants bought him. He and Nick Altrock formed their famous comedy partnership with the Washington club. . He is a born comic and one of the best pantomimists in the coun try. When “Cash and Carry” Pyle of Bunion Derby fame was staging Suzanne Lenglen in tennis matches around the country, A1 Schacht’s act was a part of the program. It was a burlesque of Suzanne which set the crowds wild. Suzanne didn’t happen to see it for the first few matches but when she did: “Meester Pyle, deescharge at once zees clown or deescharge me!” He had no trouble in making other engagements, his “take” rounding out about $50,000 a season. Perfect Close for a Meal—Apricot Jelly Roll (See Recipes Below) Mother-Daughter Luncheon Once a year it is becoming for Daughter to don the cook’s cap and uniform and come out with a whole meal cooked to please Mother. And the day Moth er appreciates it most is on her day of the year— Mother’s day! So, today, I’ve planned a menu which even the youngest cooks can make into a glorified meal to which they can invite their mothers. flow, young cooks, on your toes if you would gather laurels at Moth er’s day luncheon time! Bring out the measuring cups and ingredients, first. Then read the recipes over several times and visualize each step before you start. Ready? Good. Your first course—served in small glass cups with a sprig of mint, if you can get it—will stimulate the appetites and brighten the table: •Fruit Cup. (Serves 8) 3 oranges, peeled 1 grapefruit, peeled 1 pint strawberries, hulled 2 bananas Section the oranges and grape fruit. Peel the bananas and dice. Mix with fruit sections. Sprinkle lemon juice over the fruit, sweeten to taste. Let stand and chill. When ready to serve, place in fruit cups. Eggs are plentiful now because the government asked farmers to have their hens work overtime to increase egg production that they might be sent abroad and have enough for home use. So, bring out the eggs and their surplus of nutrition to menus by choosing one of these two recipes for your main luncheon dish. Eggs are noted for the facility with which they can be cooked, and there is but one major rule to follow in cooking them: use as little heat as possible I to get a tender product. •Eggs a la King. (Serves 6-8) 4 tablespoons butter 4 tablespoons of flour 2 cups hot milk 1 teaspoon salt Pepper Vi tablespoon chopped onion 1 tablespoon chopped green pepper Lynn Says: The Score Card: The nation’s sugar bowl is due to be some what smaller than last year’s be cause we will have to get along with a third less sugar than we had before. This means we will be using several substitutes. You smart homemakers • will learti how to use maple sugar, where you like maple flavoring. One and one-third cups of maple sugar may be substituted for one cup of granulated sugar. Honey, oldest sweetening, nas versatile uses. Use it on your breakfast fruits, cereals, sauce for ice cream, in cakes, quick- breads, cookies, even in sugars, jams and jellies. Since honey has a distinctive flavor, use half hon ey and half sugar in recipes or the consistency and color of the product you make may be changed considerably. Corn syrup may be substituted cup for cup for granulated sugar, but when using it, cut the liquid in the recipe down by one-third. Molasses makes your ginger breads, baked beans, brown bread, cakes and even cookies. Besides these substitutes you’ll have dried fruits which are high in sugar content. When stewing fruits, add sugar toward the end of the cooking period: it will take less to sweeten the fruit. Make desserts with fruit juices, both canned and fresh, and you will find it bridges the sugar ra tion well. Above all, do not waste sugar. You can probably get along with less in the morning coffee and tea. Try it. This Week’s Menu Mother-Daughter Banquet •Fruit Cup •Eggs a La King Asparagus •Orange Frosted Berry Salad • Biscuits and Honey •Jelly Roll Tea or Coffee •Recipe Given H tablespoon chopped pimiento 6 hard cooked eggs Vt cup sliced, cooked mushrooms Melt the butter, add the flour and stir until smooth. Combine with hot milk. Let cook eight minutes over hot water (in a double boiler). Stir with egg beater. Add onion, green pepper, pimiento, sliced eggs and mushrooms. Let cook five minutes. Serve hot on buttered toast. Eggs a la Rockefeller. (Makes 1 serving) 1 slice bread 1 thick slice tomato 1 soft cooked egg 2 tablespoons cheese sauce Parsley Toast the bread slightly and spread thinly with butter. Place the slice of tomato on the bread, then on the tomato, put the soft boiled egg. Over this pour the cheese sauce and garnish with pars ley. Cheese sauce: Add % cup finely grated or finely cut cheese to 1 cup hot white sauce, and stir until cheese is dissolved. •Orange Frosted Berry Salad. (Serves 6) 1 tablespoon gelatin 2 tablespoons cold water Vt cup orange juice, heated % cup orange juice, unheated cup sugar 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 cup orange pieces 14 cup berries or seedless grapes cup sliced peaches Orange sections Frosted berries Soften the gelatin in the water 5 minutes. Dissolve in the heated or ange juice. Cool and add the un heated orange juice. When slightly thickened add the orange pieces, grapes, and sliced peaches. Pour into individual molds. Chill until firm. Unmold and garnish with or ange sections and clusters of frosted berries. (To frost berries, dip in slightly beaten egg white and roll in granulated sugar. Spread on pa per to dry.) Serve salad with lemon flavored mayonnaise. As you go into your sugar-ration ing period, are you keeping your eyes peeled for recipes that take it easy on the sugar without sacrific ing any of their appetite appeal? For that very reason you'll like this one of jelly roll because it uses nat urally sweetened apricots for the filling and eliminates the powdered sugar sprinkled over the top. •Jelly Roll. (Makes 10-12 slices) 3 eggs % teaspoon salt • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup sugar 1 cup sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 5 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons butter Add salt and vanilla to eggs, beat until light and fluffy. Add sugar in 2-tablespoon portions, beating after each addition. Add sifted flour and baking powder. Fold in carefully and quickly. Stir in water and but ter, heated together until butter is melted. Pour into a jelly roll pan, about 16 by 11 by 1 inch that has been greased and lined with paper, then greased again. Bake in a mod erately hot (375-degree) oven about 18 minutes or until nicely risen and delicately brown over the surface. Loosen edges and turn onto a piece of waxed paper or a towel sprinkled with powdered sugar. Remove pan and peel off waxed paper. Spread with dried fruit— cook your favorite dried fruit (apricot, prunes or peaches are good) in a minimum of water, then put through a sieve, cool and spread. Roll lengthwise, cool or. a cake rack. // you would like expert advice on your cooking and household problems, write to Lynn Chambers, Western Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines St., Chicago, III. t'lease enclose a stamped, self ad dressed envelope for your reply. fRelc-sed by Western Newspaper Union.) T ET little sister’s first new outfit ' for sunshiny days be this flat tering frock and a matching bon net! The dress is cleverly de signed to flatter young figures with the raised skirtline, the short, de- UOUSEHOLD MINTS To keep bacon from curling, cut ends into three or four strips with a knife. • • • Try light brown sugar on any breakfast cereal. It takes less and adds greatly to the taste. • • • Never let eggs stand in a warm place. The lower shelf of the re frigerator where the temperature is about 40 degrees F., is the best place to place them. • • • Thoroughly rinse rag rugs be fore drying them. If soap is al lowed to remain in the rugs it will make them sticky and they will catch dirt more easily. Do You Bake at Home? If you do, send for a grand cook book—crammed with recipes for all kinds of yeast-raised breads and cakes. It’s absolutely free. Just drop a postcard with your name and address to Standard Brands Inc., 691 Washington St., New York City.—Adv. mure bodice topped with its at tractive neckline and curved shoulder yokes! Here’s a set to interpret at almost no cost in one of the inexpensive cottons—it will make up charmingly in calico, percale, gingham or a flowery cot ton print. • • • Pattern No. 8139 is designed for sizes 2, 3, 4, S and 6 years. Size 3 frock re quires 2',i yards 35-lnch material, bonnet % yard. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 11U 211 West Wacker Dr. Chicago Enclose 20 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size Name Address Cash on the Counter With Each Proposal An elderly widower had been spending a week-end with an old friend, and found himself very charmed with the daughter of the house. So much so, in fact, that be took the first opportunity when they were alone in the parlor to pop the question to her. “Oh, Jessie, my dear,” he sighed explosively, “I’d go through anything for you, darling! Any thing, if you will but have me!” The girl eyed the receding hair and the obvious “store” teeth. Then she replied, with an air of business: “And, Mr. Macintyre, how much, may I ask you, have you got to go through?” Fills His Task Nothing is void of God; He Him self fills His work.—Seneca. " Arm rWOFtwO Dy SOUTHERNERS in Nmw York City More and more Southerners are making the Collingwood their home in New York. They like iti convenient location, just off Fifth Avenue, and the cheerfully furnished rooms each with tub or shower. SINGLE from $075 Double from $3.85 Special weekly and monthly rates TWO DELIGHTFUL RESTAURANTS Under Knott Management HOTEL Waltes D. Swrrrta , Manager Get several packages today and enjoy the “SELF-STARTER breakfast" A big bowlful of Kellogg's Com Flakes with some fruit and lots of milk. ~ ( VITAMINS! PROTEINS! MINERALS! FOOD ENERGY! THE POWER OF THE PRESS i • Manufacturers and merchants sense the power of the press. Early they began using it to carry their advertising facts and ideas into homes. And they found it a most profitable way in which to tell their story to buyers. And the buyers in turn found it profitable to deal with those who were willing to state in print the values and services they offered.