The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20
By MARIAN YOUNG
NEA Service Staff Correspondent


 NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 San Francisco-Maybe women are called the fair sex because they like to go to fairs. Anyhow, the same spirit that makes Aunt Molly-when she visits the county fair back home head directly for the "Homecraft Exhibits" to see her neighbors strawberry preserves and embroider- ed bedspreads, is turing the ladies in droves to the Golden Gate Ex- position here.
 The Hall of Foods and Beverages where you can see (and sample) foods and wines from all over the world, would be likely to give Aunt Molly "conniption fit." She wouldn believe, unless she saw with her own eyes, how labor saving the newest labor-saving devices really are. Efficiently demonstrated are improved methods of gathering, cleaning and preparing fruit and vegetables for canning. And the newest actual canning and sealing equipment makes a plain pressure cooked seem as old-fashioned as the idea of putting cans in tub of water.
 When you've learned all there is to know at the moment about foods and wines, you can skip over to the Decorative Arts Show and see a fashion show of the future-eXciting enough to make any woman fashion conscious afresh. Here, in a series of windows, plastic models were cos- tunes especially created by such great designers as Muriel King, Elizabeth Hawes, Helen Goldman, Clare Potter, Schiaparelli and Lan- win.
 When you have indulged to your hearts content your natural fem mine interest in honest-to-goodness originals, you can wander around the building in which the Decora- tive Arts Show is housed and see one of the finest collections of mod ern paintings and old masters in the world. There are $40,000,000 worth of them here.
 If at heart you're a decorator-as what woman isn't?-the Homes and Garden Exhibit is soulsatisfying. There are elaborate displays of of model homes and model land- Scapes. Even a quick look will give you better idea of what colors go together nicely, which fabrics to combine with what, and so on.
 Incidentally, the Fair buildings themselves are interesting, the gen. eral architectural theme being a blend of Pacific motifs - Mayan, South American, Cambodian and Burmese.
 Whether your interest in flower gardens is restricted to couple of window boxes outside the kitchen window or extends to mental visions of rolling lawns with formal borders or elaborate rock gardens, you'll find the Holl of Flowers interesting and helpful. Flowers from all over the world are grwoing in every imaginable kind of garden, big and little.
 Treasure Island, man-made site of the Fair, is itself a vertible flower varieties, in the Golden Court of Flowers alone. On the western side of the Island there are 25 acres of Persian Rug, made entirely of living flowers and get the right answers. After all, people who can make $1 100000 worth of trees, flowers and shrubs grow on 400 acres of soil piled up to make an artificial island. ought to know something!
 If it's a bit of giddy social life you're after as well as new ideas on ways to re-decorate, serve more appetizing meals, dress more smart ly, have better garden and be better mother, the Palace of Ele- gance and the Yerba Buena Club are your meat.
 Social life at the Fair centers around the former spot and for sheer glamor can't be beaten. Here you'll dine in evening clothes, dip your fingers in the fountain of per- fume, thrill to the sight of a cham pagne bar done up in true conti- mental manner.
 At the Yerka Buena Club none other than Elsa Maxwell holds forth Go there when you're in a sophisti- cated mood to dine and dance and to admire the glass furniture and the six elaborate lounging rooms for women only, two of which are mod ern. One is supposed to be what a business women likes and another is