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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C- JUNE 26. 1942 Cotton Plays a Stellar Role Throughout the Fashion Drama By CHERIE NICHOLAS W HAT’S the smartest fabric for summer? Cotton! Ginghams, calicoes, denims and other equally humble cottons have soared to such heights of importance you can count on finding them ’way ahead of more pretentious fabrics in popularity. Then, too, there is a feeling spreading among women that cot tons are American and that it’s a fine patriotic gesture to wear sim ple, pretty clothes that radiate cot ton freshness. And so it is! In the gallant “spirit of ’42” we are re turning to the sweet simplicity of fashions made of cottons ranging from the most lowly, practical work aday types to appealing, lovely sheers that are correct even for for mal wear. To add to the zest of things, the current trend to cottons brings into use materials that were once never thought of in connection with cos tume design, such as, for instance, upholstery prints, pillow ticking, awning stripes, quilted calicoes, quilt patchwork prints. The truth is, anything on the “what-have-you” list of cotton materials qualifies as high fashion these days if given art ful and ingenious styling. Just now a novel cotton that comes under the glare of fashion’s spotlight is quilt patchwork print. It is used for the cunning dress to the right in the above picture. You will see these amusing prints that make gay color contrast their theme in all the best store windows and on all the best beaches and in all the finest gardens. That calls to mind the latest entertaining “stunt,” backyard barbecue parties for stay- at-homes with whom long motoring trips are taboo due to gas restric tions. Alert to the new movement. designers are creating cunning fash ions of gay cottons. In the country casual pictured the patchwork de sign of the printed calico adds in terest to the simple lines of the dress. The square neck and set- in waistband are smart style de tails. A triangle of light color at the neck achieves a yoke effect, with another in the skirt to look like an apron. Darling daughters, as the illus tration to the left in the above pic tures shows, are going to the shore and out to swim as well, in striped glazed chintz. This cotton drapery fabric has made the hit of the sea son, appearing everywhere, in eve ning gowns, daytime dresses and play clothes. The pinafore shown covers striped “bra” and plain green chintz shorts. The clam-digger overall and wrap around skirt of the play suit cen tered in the group is equally at home working in the garden or on the beach. The material for this outfit is long-wearing and easy-to-wash denim in the popular faded blue. Its demure blouse, with pleated frills on the collar and cuffs, utilizes yellow calico in a quaint print. Without the blouse the overall is a grand costume in which to absorb the vitamin-giving rays of the sun. Watch summer suits made of cot tons! They’re the rage this season. The long-jacket types lead, and they are of gingham, seersucker, gabar dine, chambray, denim and shan tung (black shantung is very smart). They are the smartest ever for about-town wear. Dressier suits are made of gay cotton prints. Released by Western Newspaper Union. War Bride This charmingly feminine coiffure, especially designed for the war bride, is presented by the Chicago and Illinois Hairdressers’ associa tion. The bride’s hair is arranged in a rolled-back pompadour in dented with a deep shadow wave, yhich provides a perfect comple ment to the coronet bridal veil. Clus ters of loose finger curls are ar ranged at the neckline. Clever Designers Use Glass, Seeds and Nuts Now that so many materials have been restricted, it is interesting to note what clever media are taking their place. Just to mention a few, there’s silver, vegetable ivory, glass, nuts, seeds shells, wood, string, hemp, rayon and reprocessed wool. End less other items to follow are being transformed into smart jewelry and wearing apparel with consummate art under the magic touch of skillful designers. Suit Fabrics Can Be Sheer or Sturdy The suit mode has carried over from spring to summer. The dif ference in suits now and then is chief ly in the materials, which feature ginghams, washable gabardines in pastels, navy or black. A leading favorite is the suit made of black shantung. You can wear the new shantungs all summer long and look well dressed. An interesting item about summer suits is that so many have short sleeves. Most of the longer ones are of the open “bell” type, and they do not reach to the wrist. Thin black mesh suits are a fore most fashion. These illustrate the renewed enthusiasm for the dress ier uses of fragile black. This trend is carried on in lace-trimmed aft ernoon dresses with their exquisite detail. Newest of the Browns Is the Smart ‘Ginger’ Making conversation everywhere in fashion circles are the new sum mer browns. Merchants are show ing everything from hats and shoes to dresses and wraps in the new browns. These are called by various names, including toast, cinnamon, cocoa, luggage, and the newest of all is ginger brown. A shantung suit in ginger brown is a “last word” in fashion. Also, many of the best looking prints are in brown and white. Quilted Hats Ask your milliner to show you the newest in quilted hats. No doubt you will be shown hats of yellow chambray quilted in the latest smart manner, for yellow is a much em phasized color in millinery fashions this season. Flowered chintz quilt ed is also very smart. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON Consolidated Features—WNU Feature*. N EW YORK.—In June, 1940, a few months after becoming gover nor of Alaska, Ernest Gruening said, “A few parachutists could take Alas- ThU Doc Doesn’t He pondered Treat Eyes, Ears, the observa- But Uses His Own , tion ° f th ® late General William Mitchell, “He who holds Alaska holds the world,” and, a man of peace and a foe of imperi alism, the governor thereafter never missed a chance to urge the stra tegic importance of Alaska, and to insist that “It has the greatest pos sibilities for an offensive of any land under the American flag.” Congress was not, at first, responsive. Just how effective the governor’s pleas have been is still shrouded in the mists of that frozen domain. The least insular of men, Dr. Gruening has long been con cerned with insular affairs, and was chief of the division of terri tories of the department of the interior from 1934 to 1939, re ceiving the Alaskan appointment on December 5 of the latter year. He is a doctor of medi cine, with a degree from Har vard university, diverted to newspaper work early in his ca reer. His studious bent has been such that he might have been put down for bookworm, had it not been for his success in prac tical affairs, notably running big town newspapers and making them pay. The son of a famous New York eye and ear specialist, Dr. Gruening also had intended to treat eyes and ears, but began his career as an alert reporter for the Boston Ameri can. That led him to the successive managing editorships of the Boston Herald, the Traveler and the Jour nal, the New York Tribune and the New York Nation, with time out for his service as a private in the World war. A liberal and reformer, he began back-trailing our tentative adven tures in imperialism, in the Philip pines and in establishing our he gemony over the Caribbean. Enter ing the department of the interior he became the administration torch- bearer for a territorial New Deal. He was born in New York city in 1887. LJOWARD MINGOS is a skilled A writing man who also can add and subtract. This unique combina tion of talents naturally has made ,, , „ himourcur- Howard C. Mingos rent histori _ A John the Baptist an of avia- Of Air Wilderness tion P r °g- ress, as edi tor of the annual aircraft year book, published by the aeronautical cham ber of commerce. The 1942 edition of the book, just out, says our plane manufacturers have some “frightful surprises,” for the Axis, which will jolt the enemy clear down to his cloven hoof. “Who says it?” is the wary on looker’s natural query about wartime news like that. The first answer, as to Mr. Mingos, and it is reassuring, is that he is cautious and never has gone off half-cocked in reporting avia tion news, good or bad. In 1937, he did not pull his punch in re porting the swift ascendancy of the German Luftwaffe over the British RAF. He has long sustained a reputation as a good reporter, on the New York Sun for quite a spell. He is the au thor of more than 1,000 articles on aviation in newspapers and maga zines, and several books. “The Air Is Our Concern” was the subject of a book on which he collaborated in 1935. He now gets long over-due agreement on that. After his graduation from his home town high school in Athens, Pa., young Mr. Mingos studied two years at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art, then switched to a long stretch of newspaper work, with the Philadelphia Telegraph, the Scranton Republic, the New York Times and Sun. From 1922 to 1930, he was special contributor of avia tion articles to the Times. With the volunteer ail service of the U. S. army, overseas, in the first World war, he became a special repres'ent- ative of the aeronautical chamber of commerce in 1920. He is 51 years old, our outstanding professional score-keeper in air doings. • A NY day now we may get word that swarms of American planes, manned by Americans, are fighting and bombing with the Brit ish over Germany. Maj. Gen. James E. Chaney will wing them eastward, as commander of all American army forces in the British Isles. He is a flying general, a military stu dent of the German industrial re gions in the post-war years, an in ternational authority on military avi ation, on tactics, fighting and bomb ing interception. He is 57, and grad uated from West Point in 1908 Magic for Your Meals—Berry Jams (S«e Recipes Below.) Time for Jam With the arrival of the fruit and Jelly season, you homemakers will want to make the most of these garden products for winter use. This year it is doubly important for you to can fruits and jellies wisely, as this will help you not only in conserv ing the nation’s resources, but also assure you of delicious accompani ments to your meals during cooler weather. Since sugar is used in canning not only as a sweetener, but as a preservative, the government will allot five pounds of sugar per per son, in addition to what you receive in your ration, so that you will have sugar for canning. *Ripe Raspberry Jam. (Makes 10 6-ounce glasses) i'/i cups prepared fruit 6 cups sugar 1 box powdered fruit pectin To prepare fruit, crush thoroughly or grind about 2 quarts fully ripe raspberries. Remove some of seeds by sieving part of pulp, if desired. Measure sugar into dry dish and set aside until needed. Measure pre pared fruit into a 5- to 6-quart ket tle, filling up last cup or fraction of cup with water if necessary. Place over hottest fire. Add pow dered fruit pectin, mix well, and continue stirring until mixture comes to a hard boil. At once pour in sugar, stirring constantly. (To reduce foaming, Yt teaspoon but ter may be add ed.) Continue stirring, bring to a full rolling boil, and boil hard 1 minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. Paraffin hot jam at once. Jam takes slightly less sugar than jelly, and you will work an economy by making use of the fruit in addi tion to the saving on sugar: •Ripe Blackberry Jam. (Makes 11 6-ounce glasses) 414 cups prepared fruit 6!4 cups sugar 1 box powdered fruit pectin To prepare fruit, grind or crush thoroughly about 2 quarts fully ripe blackberries (not black caps). Sieve about % of ground or crushed pulp. (For Spiced Blackberry Jam, add Vs to 14 teaspoon each cloves, cin namon, and allspice, or any desired combination of spices.) Measure sugar into dry dish and set aside until needed. Measure prepared fruit into a 5- to 6-quart kettle, filling up last cup or frac tion of cup with water if necessary. Place over hottest fire, adding powdered fruit pectin, mix well, and continue stirring until mixture comes to a hard boil. At once pour in sugar, stirring constantly. (To reduce foaming, H teaspoon butter may be added.) Continue stir ring, bring to a full rolling boil, and boil hard I minute. Your Jam Shelf •Ripe Raspberry Jam •Ripe Blackberry Jam •Sliced Strawberry Jam •Spiced Ripe Peach Jam •Cherry Relish •Recipe Given Lynn Says: The Score Card: The status of tin available for commercial can ning has at last been clarified, and now we know exactly what will be available to use by way of canned goods. The “Big Four” in canned vege tables, peas, tomatoes, string beans and corn, plus asparagus, pears, peaches, evaporated milk and fish will be allowed unlimited amounts of tin for canning pur poses. “Secondary” products such as spinach, beets, cherries, berries, applesauce, grapefruit, sausage, luncheon meats, beef and others will continue to be canned, but they will be allowed only the same amount of tin as used in 1940, with some exceptions hav ing more or less. Foods packed last year will last until fall at least, and the goods packed this year will be availa ble even before last year’s are gone. There’s no need to hoard. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. Paraffin hot jam at once. •Sliced Strawberry Jam. (Makes 10 6-ounce glasses) 4V4 cups prepared fruit 7 cups sugar Vi bottle fruit pectin To prepare fruit, cut about 2 quarts fully ripe strawberries in halves length wise ; cut large berries in quar ters. Measure sugar and pre pared fruit, solid ly packed, into large kettle; mix well. Bring to a full rolling boil over hottest fire. Stir constantly before and while boiling. Boil hard 3 minutes. Remove from fire and stir in bot tle fruit pectin. Then stir and skim by turns for just 5 minutes to cool slightly, to prevent floating fruit. Pour quickly. Paraffin hot jam at once. •Spiced Ripe Peach Jam With Brazil Nuts (Makes 11 6-ounce glasses) 314 cups prepared fruit 14 cup lemon juice 7*4 cups sugar 1 cup sliced Brazil nuts 1 bottle fruit pectin To prepare fruit, peel about 214 pounds fully ripe peaches; pit and grind or chop very fine. Add 14 to 1 teaspoon each cinnamon, cloves and all-spice, or any desired combina tion of spices, to ground or chopped peaches. Squeeze juice from 2 me dium lemons. Slice Brazil nuts very thin. Add to fruit mixture. Measure sugar and prepared fruit into large kettle, filling up last cup with water, if necessary. Add lem on juice and mix well. Bring to a full rolling boil over hottest fire. Stir constantly before and while boiling. Boil hard 1 min ute. Remove from fire and stir in bot tled fruit pectin. Then stir and skim by turns to cool slightly,' to prevent floating fruit. Pour quickly. Paraf fin hot jam at once. Relishes are excellent to ' serve with meats of any kind for they give the meal added zest. Here’s a rec ipe for a real sugar-saver: •Cherry Relish. 2 cups pitted cherries I cup seedless raisins 1 teaspoon cinnamon 44 cup brown sugar 14 teaspoon cloves V4 cup honey Vi cup vinegar 14 cup pecan nutmeats Mix all the ingredients except pe cans and cook 1 hour, slowly. Add pecans and cook 3 minutes longer. Pour into hot sterilized jars and seal at once. Sugar Substitutes. If you feel that you cannot use sugar in all of the canning recipes given here, even with your extra canning ration, here are the rules for substitutions: If you are using a bottled fruit pectin recipe, you may substitute 2 cups light corn syrup for 2 cups of the sugar. Do not use more than 2 cups of corn syrup in any recipe, however, as this will give unsatis factory results. In a powdered fruit pectin recipe, you may use 1 cup light corn syrup for each cup of sugar omitted. But, do not try to use all corn syrup in the recipe instead of sugar. You may substitute corn syrup for only 14 the sugar required. If, for exam ple, the recipe calls for 6 cups of sugar altogether, you may use 3 cups of light com syrup, but you must also use 3 cups of sugar. Why get hot and bothered over your cooking and household problems when you can get expert advice on them? Write, explaining your problem to Miss Lynn Chambers, Western Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chi cago, Illinois. Please enclose a stumped, self^iddressed envelope for your reply. Released b> Western Newspaper Union. A PATRIOTIC kitten is Tom, the tea towel cat. From Mon day to Saturday he is a willing subject for illustrating six timely and clever captions, and on Sun day he dons his best cap and hangs out a V for victory. You’ll adore Tom on your kitchen towel rack; a few quick stitches will put him there. And he is not stopped then, since he also poses for a trio of panholders—Hip, Hip, Hoo ray. Cause Enough Professor—Why were you late to school this morning, Henry? Henry—Because the bell rang before I got here. Few Virtues Lady—That parrot I bought here swears frightfully. Dealer—I don’t deny it, madam, but you must admit he doesn’t drink or smoke. Concisely Aunt—I suppose you will be at the picnic, John? John—Now, I ain’t gain’. Aunt—Don’t say “/ ain’t goinFll qive you a lesson: 1 am not going, you are not going, he is not going, we are not going, they are not going. Now can you say all that? John—Sure. There ain’t nobody gain’. Heart’s Desire Spinster—So the waiter said to me, “How would you like your rice?” Friend—Yes, dearie, go on. Spinster—So I said wistfully, “Thrown at me.” Economy is the art of living as though you were poor when you are really not so; whereas, if you are really poor and live that way —that’s stinginess. Advantage “They say that with war cut ting off imports of insecticides, the insects are steadily winning their eternal war with man.” “They’ve made a good begin ning, anyway. I pay five cents a pound for potatoes and the potato fci'g gets his free.” (— Different Views Sonny—Dad, what do you call a man who drives a car? Dad (a pedestrian)—It all depends on how close he comes to me, son. All Spent Duzzi—Back from your vaca tion, eh? Feel any change? Bruzzi (hand in pocket)—Not a cent. Meteoric Shower The Perseids, one of the ten principal meteoric showers occur ring annually, is usually seen about August 11 and presents the greatest celestial display of its kind in the Northern hcrusphere. It is one of the oldest meteoric showers on record, its first record ed appearance having been 1,111 years ago. If You Bake at Home ... We have prepared, and will send absolutely free to you a yeast recipe book full of such grand recipes as Oven Scones, Cheese Puffs, Honey Pecan Buns, Coffee Cakes and Rolls. Just drop a card with your name and address to Standard Brands Inc., 691 Wash ington St., New York City.—Adv. Order this '‘Man of the Hour” as pat tern Z9476, 15 cents; make tea towel and panholder sets for yourself and for gifts— bridal or otherwise. The transfer is the kind that stamps several times. Send your order to: AUNT MARTHA Box 166-W Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. 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