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Evening star., 1940-03-04
'Maidcraft
Is Helpful
Volume
Another Book Gives
Menus and Recipes
For Soda Fountain
BY BETSY CASWELL.
Woman's Editor.


Two. more books have come to
my attention recently. They are not
entirely new publications, but for
some reason or other I have not
encountered them heretofore. And
each one, in its own field, is q very
useful piece Of work.
The first, entitled "Maidcraft,"
by Lita Price and Harriet Bonnet,
published by Bobbs Merrill, is
splendid handbook for the woman
who is expanding her housekeeping
activities to include a maid. Many
of us have little or no idea how to
deal with the so-called servant
problem" which needn't be a prob
lem at all if properly handled. This
volume should smooth out most of
the rough spots, and aid materially
in the establishment of mutual un-
derstanding and respect between
the lady of the house and her en-
ploye.
A glance at the chapter headings
will show you what wide field the
book manages to cover. Starting out
with the details of how to go about
employing maid, we find a dis
sertation on Little Things That
Matter" which include such perth
nent details as adaptability, prompt
ness, appearance, attention, etc.
Specific rules are given governing
the procedure to be followed when
answering the telephone, door bell,
the service door, and so on. The an
nouncing Of meals. and even the
arrangement of flowers are care
fully explained.
Daily routines are worked out,
and schedules for Various families
suggested. The care of the house,
hold goods is detailed, step by step:
odd jobs to be done in spare time
suggested.
Care of children occupies quite
a number of pages. and the latter
section of the book is devoted to
giving minute instructions for for
NAL and informal service, service
Of wines, and table setting. The
niceties of uniforms and their care
are also clearly presented.
The other book on todays list is
a tiny little volume, published by
the indefatigable Dahls of Stamford,
Conn. Soda Fountain Luncheon
cite Drinks" by L. P. De Gouy, is a
handbook for those of you who are
interested in soda fountain menu
making, and the recipes for those
weird and wonderful concoctions
found in the world of shiny taps
and clinking glasses.
| Here you may discover the in
| gradients of that delectable sand
wich you consumed at the counter
yesterday-or the secret recipe for
that remarkable sundae is yours at
the flip OF page. In Mr. De Gouy's
book there are laid bare all the mys-
teries of the soda fountain, from
sundaes and phosphates to wafies
and three deck sandwiches.
And heaven help your fgger!
Evening star., 1940-03-04
NJ rs
Of the
m e n t

These wrap-around hats are my
Waterloo. I like them, even if every
one I pass on the street has one on.
They look wonderful on me in the
store, when the salesgirl wraps them
around my head. I feel, when look
into the counter mirror. that at last
I have found just the type of head
gear that I can wear forever.
And home come, proudly bearing
my strip of jersey.
But the next step is awful. I sit
down before my own home mirror,
and I start to wind. can't keep one
part down while I wrap the other
part. Or get it all wrapped beauti-
fully about my head, only to discover
when the job is done, that a whole
section of tangled hair is irrevocably
wrapped into the outside rather than
to the inside of the hat.
It's hopeless. Or I'm hopeless.
Plenty of girls seem to be able to do
1t. But not I. I'm going to have to
60 back to my last winters felt. It's
comfortable, anyhow. JEAN.
Evening star., 1940-03-04


Give hobby show, charging a
small admission fee and inviting
the public.
Put on play df you have an able
dramatic group, a puppet show, or
a program of movies (either good
amateur films or rented profess
sional pictures).
Make and sell some speciality, such
as those we described in our recent
column on money earning activi-
ties OF younger boys and girls.
Get the candy concession in the
school cafeteria, having the capable
cooks among your members prepare
good candy in small and inexpensive
packages.
Sell refreshments at school basket
ball games or other athletic con-
tests. And how a crowd will 60 for
hot dogs and coffee between the
halves of football game!
Form a sales team for taking SUBJ
scriptions TO popular magazines,
selling Christmas cards, etc.
Give "pay-as-you-weigh" party,
charging each guest admission &C
cording to his weight on a scales at
the door But make the party good.
so that they all get their moneys
worth.
Put on a dance, perhaps, after q
basket ball game. This takes work,
good management and financial
backing. but can be very profitable
If properly handled It's no project
for beginners or very small groups.
Making the Club
More Fun.
And now for some general sugges-
tions for making the club more fun.
A general social club should plan
its activities well in advance. Have
Program Committee that has ideas
and isn't afraid of work. Mix things
up so that everybody will get a
chance to do the things he likes
best.
A girls club can often have a
joint party or meeting with a boys
club to the benefit and pleasure Of
all. For instance try challenging a
boys group to a debate on some
such subject as Resolved, That
Boys Have Worse Manners Than
Girls" The watch the fur and the
adjectives fly!
Put on fathers and daughters
Evening star., 1940-03-04
'Brainy' Girl
Not Sought
By Men
Yet Requirements
OF Wife Compel
Her to Be So
By DOROTHY DIX,

There is nothing OF which men are
more firmly convinced than that
they cannot abide brainy women. To
them, in theory at least, a clever
woman is anathema, and for a girl
to have the reputation of being a
highbrOw is a greater handicap to
her popularity than for her to be
the heroine of scandal. The first
question that any man ever asks
about a strange woman is about her
looks. Is she pretty? He never
inquiries whether she is intelligent or
not. And no mother trying to launch
a debutante daughter would ever
dream of Dragging about Mamie's
record at school. On the contrary,
she would shush it up as much as
possible and discourse loud and long
about Mamie's profile and what a
good dancer she was. That men
still cling to the superstition that
they don't want clever women for
wives is amply proved by the fact
that statistics show that the Dumb
Doras have nearly twice the chance
OF getting husband as the intelh-
gentsia have. And yet:
Every man wants his wife to be 4
companion to him. He wants her
to have enough education and cul-
ture to be able to talk Interestingly.
He wants her to read the books that
he does and keep up with the papers
and magazines and to know what is
going on in the world. He wants
to be proud of her when he takes
her out among his friends.
He wants q wife who is as good
a flnancier as any banker. He
wants a wife who will know how to
pinch the pennies and get hum
dred and twenty-five cents out of
every dollar, because he knows that
whether a man is sitting pretty on
Easy street in his middle age or
wallowing in debt up to his neck,
depends, as general thing, upon
whether his wife was moneywise or
a silly little spendthrift.
He expects his wife to rear his
children and develop them into fine
men and women. He expects her te
be enough of a doctor to look after
their health and keep them well and
hardy; enough of dietitian to feed
them properly; enough of an Emily
Post to form their manners; enough
of judge to hold strong hand
over them and keep them in the
strait and narrow way.
He wants wife who can take
troubles on the chin and laugh OH
misadventures instead OF making
tragedies out of them.
Every man wants a wife who is q
sleuth who can find his lost cuff
buttons and locate his fishing tackle
that he hasn't used for three years
And he wants wife who will be q
discreet press agent and know how
to show him off in company. AND
he wants a wife who will laugh at hi.
jokes and ask him to tell that funny
story over again. And he wants .
wife who will open social doors fol
him. And ne wants a wife who will
write his family letters and get him
out of scrapes and tell his white
lies for him and do about q million
other chores.
And it takes q smart woman to Dc
these things!
Evening star., 1940-03-04
General Social Organization Should Plan Its Activities We'll in Advan
Housewives
In Finland
Aid Army
Voluntarily Give
Up Those Foods
Needed by Men

Nine. Pearl v. Metzelthin, dy-
manic writer, lecturer and world
traveller, blew in and out of WASH
ington just the other day. Inter-
viewed between trains, she proved
most interesting and charming per-
son, and an unusually entertaining
raconteur.
This last characteristic explains
the entirely readable" quality of
her books. Her latest work, THE
World Wide Cook Book" was re-
viewed here some weeks ago and has
become must for all kitchen
libraries since. Nine. Metzelthin
had an interesting bit of news, con-
meeting the book with the terrible
times abroad.
1t seems that the author received
a letter, just the other day, by clip
per, from a friend in Finland, who
told her that while no official ra-
tloning has been proclaimed in the
beleaguered country. the Finnish
housewives have, themselves, volun-
tarily cut down on their home foods
so that the best in quality and most
in quantity can be used to feed the
soldiers at the front. Chief among
the Finnish main dishes-according
to Nine. MetZelthin-and one which
Is particularly nourishing is her
nerokka," a thick soup made of yell
low peas. unsplit. and with the skins
on. Salt pork is among its ingre-
dients-and because the women have
banned the use of the peas and the
pork in their homes, the soldiers are
able to get quantities of the rich,
steaming soup to nourish and warm
them in their fighting in the bitter
cold.
And" Nine. Metzelthin pointed
out. IF you would be fully informed
about everything, and would like to
know just what this soldiers fare
is, you can make it. yourself, for the
recipe appears in my book" And
here it is:
"HERNEROKKA."
(YelloU Pea Soup With Salt Pork
pound whole dried yellow peas
2l2 quarts of water
2l2 pounds lightly salted lean pork
cut in 212inch squares
! bay leaf
3 whole peppercorns
/ root celery, diced
l onion, quartered
6 sprigs parsley, tied.
Clean and soak the peas in cold
water overnight. Four hours before
serving soup, put peas in water and
cook two to three hours. Stir peas
occasionally the first half hour of
cooking The skins will rise to the
top and should be removed. Re
peat this several times. IF split
peas are used this will not be neceS-
saryD After the peas have been
boiling for about two hours add pork
meat and the spices. root celery,
onion and the tied parsley. and cook
until all is well done. Be careful
meat is not too salty, and do not
add to soup until you are sure that
1t is not. If it is too salty, meat
should be boiled in water to cover
for five minutes, and water drained
off before adding meat to soup. Be-
fore serving remove parsley, and
dish up soup in tureen. The soup
should be as thick as a vegetable
stew. This recipe will serve six.
Evening star., 1940-03-04
Several Suggestions Given
For Ways to Raise Money
To Help Support Club
Hobby Show, Play and Dance
Included in Group of Good
Profitable Undertakings

You'll have to forgive todays a
eegaphic We're suggestions
activities possible into allotted with
least few of them will practical particular
organization
clubs might suggestive
These grouped according to and activities
General social bridge other dancing ncludng
ng athletic devoted to sport two musical including
study health charm etiquette practice entertaining
cooking
b such stamps model aiplanes, checkers
combining
of these of activities.
Second possible yraisng activities club
jobs bureau, with
calls
Evening star., 1940-03-04
Modern Day Beds

Sleeping comfort has long re-
ceived primary consideration in
building sofas that lead a double
life. Now sitting" comfort and
appearance are getting special at
tention. Deep-cushioned, with
spring backs and well-upholstered
arms, the newest of the convertible
divans are a far cry from the stiff
day beds" of q few years back.
Evening star., 1940-03-04
Soak Clothes

Soaking clothes to be laundered
overnight saves energy and the
clothing because you don't have to
rub them SO hard. Cover the clothes
with warm soapy water and cover
the tub with lid or paper to keep
in the steam. Next morning, drain
and rinse the clothes, then put
through the regular laundry process
Evening star., 1940-03-04
Ny keiehbor Soys:

Most flowers for least effort
can be had from petunias and
Zinnias.
Rubbing a candle stub along
the sliding edges of dresser
drawers will make them move
in and out much more easily,
even when they are heavily
loaded.
Grease spots may be removed
from the kitchen floor by
sprinkling them with baking
soda and then pouring boiling
water over them.
If you need to conserve space
in your kitchen, a shelf with
hinges will be found very useful
and practical. Since it can be
raised or lowered as needed, a
work table is quickly available
and as easily removed when not
in use.
Evening star., 1940-03-04
Our Quest for Beauty
Excellent New Cosmetic Items
Shorten Road to LONELINESS
By HELEN yOGT.

you're one the people who take spring just another
we'll
Because ts only for who find
take new lease life speak
the helpful n
they are 50 dsgusney dismal
Evening star., 1940-03-04

ming
Send IS cents for our new Spring
Pattern Book. and choose from more
than 100 smart and original designs!
For afternoon and for daytime! For
yourself and the children! You can
make lovely things so easily and in
expensively with these patterns,
each including step-by-step sew
chart to guide you.
Evening star., 1940-03-04
Baked Fish MavOnnaise

To give little extra zip to baked
fish, spread savory mayonnaise over
the top during the last 10 minutes
of the cooking. This applies to fish
cooked on top the stove or in the
oven.
Evening star., 1940-03-04

II you're looking for a job we'll
have help for you in next Tuesdays
column. Don't miss It.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-06-28
Social and Personal
. MINNEAPOLIS O

son, Dorothy Parker, Gwen Ray,
Mildred Ray, Mildred Clark, Zelmo
Powers, Marguerite Tresvan, Inez
Clark and any others who will Of
fer their services.
The Misses Arvaida Milton,
Mary Gilbert and Mrs. Starr Girls
sam entertained few friends at
a breakfast June 16 at Glenwood
Park. Among those present were
Miss Eula Sims, Marian Majors
and Messrs. Vincent Westbury,
Russell Walden, Boyd Yancy,
Lawrence Mccoy and Albert Girls
sam.
Mr.. Larry Peoples from Omaha,
Nebraska, is here visiting his
brother, Frank Peoples, 22O1 Fifth
Ave. So. The Frank Peoples also
have as their guest Miss Irene
Crawford from Omaha.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. V. Russell of
Waco, Texas, are visiting their
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. H. T.
Russell, of 5O49 James Ave. North,
while attending the University of
Minnesota. Both Mr.. and Mrs.
Russell are teachers of mathe-
mates in the public schools of
Waco and Texarkana respectively,
Mr.. Russell is a member of the
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, and
Mrs. Russell, Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority.
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non Pittman, John Radford, Man.
ley J. Rhodes, Walter Sothern,
George Saunders, Lawrence Stew
art, Dorsey Slaughter, Freddie
Slemmons, John Scott, James Toll
yer, Robert Turpin, Peter Thoma-
son, Homer Townsend, Martin
Wellington, John Williams, o. B.
Williams, Robert Wallace, James
Moore of Kansas City, Misses Eva
Ign Aston, Millicent Burgess, R.
Blaney, Thelma Davis, Wyllie East
man, Mildred Clark, Edith Cole
man, I. Myrtle Garden, Hellaine
Galloway, Vivian Ellis, Florence
Collins, Christine Carter, Beneta
A. Edwards, Annette Hatton,
Frances Fair, Dorothea and Shirlee
Harris, Lucille Holland, Annie
Pearl Horris, Mabel Hickman, Jua-
nita Jones, Villa Johnson, Betty
Lee, Fern Lee, Mary Lewis, Caro-
line McWatt, Barbara Mallory,
Janabelle Murphy, Albreta Neal,
Ethel Mcintyre, Esther Luster of
St. Louis, Harriet Parker, Mar
guerite Payne, Theresa Ray, Billie
Rita Rhodes, Elizabeth Schuck,
Helen Scott, Delgracia Turner,
Mary Turner, Margaret White,
Marguerite White, Johnetta Wat
son, Harriet Maybe, Harriet Walls,
Elizabeth Wheatley, Hazel War
ricks, Juanita Wallace, Stella Eus-
tace of Texas, Mesdames R. Meek
er of Oklahoma, R. Turner of Ok
lahoma, Hazel Warricks, John A.
Mundy of Louisville, Mary Combs,
Cora Parker, Eunice Glass, Cecile
Boswell, Harold Brown, A. Grigs-
by, Messrs. John Armistead, A.
Askew, Gordon Albright, Albert
Black, Maurice Bellamy, Kenneth
Blair, Earl Bell, Ozell Davidson,
Joe Danford, Leroy Coleman, Lou
is Cason, Donald and Ernest
Charleston, Maurice Copeland, Tai
madge Carey, Louis Commodore,
William Carroll, Raymond Cannon,
John Nellie, Robert Gardner,
Douglas Green, Samuel Harris,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-06-28

won by Mrs. Ralph Gardner, Sec
ond by Mrs. John L. Banks, Jr.,
and the consolation by Miss Eva
Ign E. Kelly. The next meeting
will be Thursday, July a, at the
home of Mrs. Stanley Bradshaw
7O1 Rondo Ave.
MR.. AND MRS. Andrew Combs,
$50 St. Anthony Ave., and children
left Friday for a summer vacation
trip to Omaha, Nebraska, and
Kansas.
This Little Note Is Your Invite
to a Shower for a Kitchen of Black
and White is the text of the
invitations sent out by Mesdames
Arthur Herring and Beatrice
Brown for the shower party they
had Wednesday of this week at the
home of Mrs. Herring, 389 N. ST.
Adams St., honoring bride-to-be
Shirlee Patricia Harris, whose wed
ding to Mr.. Paul Thomson will be
an event of Saturday, June 20.
Mr.. and Mrs. David D. AlbrittOn
of Cleveland, Ohio, Leo Torrant OF
Alabama State Teachers College at
Montgomery, Mr.. Walter Revell OF
Kansas State Teachers College at
Pittsburgh, Kansas; Mr.. Archie
Harris, Jr., 225 Bay Street, Ocean
City, New Jersey, who attends In
diana University; Mr.. Glider Far
row of Xaxier University, whose
home is in Long Branch, New
York, and Joshua Williams, Xavier
University, New Orleans, whose
home is in Atlantic City were all
house guests at the R. F. Wilson
home, 697 St. Anthony Ave., dur
ing their Twin City stay.
Mr.. D. M. Johnson, 1859 Collins
St., has been seriously ill at Be-
thesda Hospital. He is much i'm
proved at this writing and expects
to 90 home this week.
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moving pictures of the affair.
Among Credjafawn members and
company attending were Messrs.
and Mesdames Huron ]. Shelton,
Jr., Bert Davidson, James Lee,
John L. Banks, Jr., John R. Lawr-
ence, Jr., Gerald Hargrave, Earl F.
Kyle, Burrie Carmichael, William
Helm, Percy Green, Cornelius Ben
ner, Edward Bruce, James F.
Simms, James Cannon, Victor Cal
loway and Norma Stokes, Bert
Shannon and Doris Coins, John
Whitaker and Leah Mae Minor, AL
bert Harris and Florence Ward,
Beatrice Vassar and Leroy Cole
man, Lillian Tyler and Ollie Lewis,
Marcella Copeland and August
Piper, Nilee Luckie and Archie
Walton, Laura Jeffrey and Reuben
Hargrave, Eva Lee and Walter
Coins, Emma Lou Jones and James
Miree, Fannie Butler, DeVaughnia
Coleman, Rosamond Collier, Paul
Woods, and among the guests of
the members included Messrs. and
Mesdames Richey Adams, Theo-
dore F. Allen, Albert Allen, Don
aid Allen, Clarence Anderson,
Maurice Boyd, Donald Bryant, AL
bert Butler, George Brooks, Jr.,
Gerald Bailey, E. A. Bell, Martin
Brown, Franklin Brown, C. Collins,
Glenn CLANCY, Maurice Crouch, J.
H. Cook, J. Boyd Crawford, Ma
thaniel A. Evans, Leonard Davis,
Warren Grissom, Mark I. Gibbs,
James Gresham, Edwin Salters,
John Hauser, S. E. Hall, Norman
Howell, Thomas Hargraves,
Charles Hargrave, William Hanna,
Robert Jones, ]. D. Jones, Boscoe
James, Colonel Milligan, James
Oliver, D. McAdams, Lawrence H.
Mccoy, Rudolph M. Martin, Jr.,
Clarence Miller, E. V. Marshall, AL
bert Mcclure, Claude Mason,
Charles Noble, Earl Onque, Loun-
neer Pemberton, John Patton, Yer
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-06-28

back-WaX! ASK your halrdreSSer
for a waxy. brilliantine. If she can
not supply you, tour the nickel
and-dime stores or drug stores. Be
sure that the brilliantine you get
contains wax, or the sun and heat
will cause you to have to Change
your oil" more than usual.
My, My! Summer surely does
take it's toll -. at the hairdressers!
We can manage to keep cool by
air conditioning; we can manage
or control our tan by bleaching;
but managing or controlling our
HAIR when the elements cOnspire
against US is something else again!
Oh, well! This is the Age Of
Miracles. Who knows, maybe some
day someone will invent something
that will change the nationality"
of our hair permanently!
Until then, as Amos says, you'll
have to stay like you is BEENw
Unless you are clever enough to
glamourize what you "is been" into
what you would like to be.
It's simple. The Sepia Charm
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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-06-28
FOR THE LADIES!
By Dezbe Hilliard-Knight

Better "lay" your charm strong
this summer, gals, cause the funny
little man with gatherings for a
brain will be blitzkrieging all over
your Brown BOmbers soon! You
heard me-SOON!!!
Aside from it's being Leap Year
and your having the right to col
lar your man, Mrs. Hitler's little
boy, Adolf, is all but chasing some
handsome veteran of the good old
WPA straight into your arms!
married men are drafted last, you
know. }
And even if you DO have to sup
port him, or go on Relief together,
just look at the money you'll be
saving Uncle Sam, to say nothing
of saving the poor sap's life (fOr
a while. }
If worse comes to worse, there's
always the Widows Pension.
Besides, Hitler's grandchildren
will have to have somebody to
shoot, too, and it's your duty to
supply them with cannon fodder, or
what-have-you.
The sum and substance of this
argument, milady, is that you'd
better coop" a husband while the
cOppin' is good!
In the summer time Mother Ma
ture just bubbles over with the
milk of human kindness - what
with moonlight, perfumed breezes,
ripping waters, and stuff! It's a
set-up! ..
Your greatest problem, probably.
will be keeping your hair in a con-
dition where it will softly caress
his cheek as the breeze gently
blows it, instead of curling up into
sodden mass of gooey BRILLO,
Your only hope is something
which will cause the perspiration
to slide off like water off a ducks
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-06-28

The Misses Louise Rhoda Lee,
and Elaine Escue, 3741 4th Ave. S.,
gave a party in honor of the Ne
gro track stars competing in the
NCAA. Those present were Harold
Sinclair, Bill Lacefeld and Jacky
Robinson of UCLA; Glider Farrow
and Eddie Cop of Xavier. Other
guests were the Misses Janebelle
Murphy, Hazel Warricks, Corrine
Powell, elaine Hughes, Patricia
Mallory, Celeste Burg, Claudia
Frazier, Ernesteen Thompson,
Thelma Roberts, Florence Green
Lois Stovall and Messrs. Jim Todd,
Roger Johnson, Buddy Blair,
Maurice Copeland, Lowell Brown,
Kenneth Mason, Lewis Williams, AL
Burgess, Tully Hickman and Rob-
ert Murray.