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Evening star., 1940-01-13

style that looked as we'll in 46 as
1t did in 16, Mary Lewis hunch
turned into something closely akin
to a landslide. She feels that
American women recognize the
utility and functional character of
the basic design, and that it will
continue because we have acquired
a definite sense of discretion about
clothes, recognizing the comfort and
usefulness of practical fashions.
Its Reign Has
Only Begun.
Almost every one feels that the
shirtwaist style has only begun its
long reign of popularity. Fourteen
years is mere breathing spell for
this accepted fashion, which finds
its best medium in the spectator
sport field. Due to manufacturing
facilities in this country, mass pro-
duction is possible, and we venture
to say that there are few women
who at one time or another have
not owned shirtwaist dress-or one
of its little sisters or brothers. On
the other hand, in Paris the style
is still made only to order, con-
trasting their methods with those of
this country.
This season when you shop for
resort clothes or buy a casual dress
for running about in town, don't
overlook the possibilities of the
shirtwaist. Whether you choose
those created by the girl who has
glorified the shirtwaist by creating
it in velvet, lame or satin with
jeweled studs, or whether you select
a casual little linen or crepe model,
you can't go far wrong. Thanks
to a talented Partisan shirtmaker.
a far-sighted fashion expert and an
American public that knows a good
thing when it sees one!
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Dorothy Dix Says
Clubs Have Given Women Chance
To Do Immeasurable Good

Hark from the tombs, what dole
full sounds arise! Most of us thought
chat the woman's club problem was
settled some 30-odd years ago
and was dead as the proverbial
doornail. but here comes along Mr.
Theodore Dresser, who tells the
sweet young things of the Junior
League that all women's clubs are
baloney.
OF course, there was a time when
the question of whether women
should belong to clubs or not was
a burning issue. Preachers full
minated against it and declared
that it would unsex women to belong
to Browning societies and that FEM
mine study clubs would bring about
the downfall of the home. Hus-
bands forbade their wives to take
part in a movement that might take
them out of their sacred sphere in
the kitchen, and politicians, with
prophetic foresight, gloomily pre-
dicted that if women ever found
out the strength there was in union
they might even stick their fingers
in the political pie.
Well, women went along and
formed their clubs and the heavens
did not fall, and listening to lectures
on early English dramatists or trying
to find out what Mr.. Browning
thought he thought when he wrote
some of his poetry didn't seem to
corrupt any ones morals or break
up any homes. Husbands still got
their meals on time, politicians who
came to scoff at womens clubs re-
manned to pray for their support
and women's clubs came to be ac-
Evening star., 1940-01-13

laced, but it's really sound and
sensible viewpoint. No girl will have
respect for boy who let's her get
away with breaking dates, nor will
the boy have any respect for him.
self. And that's pretty poor basis
for building any kind of personal
relationship.
So if girl breaks a date with
you, you'll be smart to accept any
good and genuine excuse-and &C
cept it graciously. If the girl is
genuinely sorry, she will usually
give you the opportunity to make a
substitute date Immediately. But
II she gives you no excuse, don't
ask for one. You'll know then that
you're simply not much in demand
around those premises, SO take the
hint and go elsewhere AS some
wise dater observed years ago, there
is still an abundance of sea food
beyond the three-mile limit!
Dear Miss Caldwell and Mr.. Har-
rison:
please tell me who is supposed
to speak first when meeting on the
street.-The boy or the girl"
E. E. S.
The girl should speak first-on
the theory that she has the privi-
lege of recognizing the boy or not,
as she sees fit.
However, you can see that the
rule might become pretty silly if
observed slavishly. 1t really ap-
plies only to acquaintances and not
to good friends. When Johnny is
so glad to see you that he bursts
out with spontaneous greeting be-
fore you speak to. him, We wouldn't
advise you to tilt your perky little
nose in the air and play insulted.
Just be glad you have such en-
thusiastic friends as Johnny!
Evening star., 1940-01-13

royalty can do no wrong, and the
fact that they seem to be able to
keep their friends in spite of this
irresponsible attitude toward their
engagements, doesn't alter the basic
truth that a date shouldn't be ac-
cepted unless girl fully intends to
keep it.
And once having mace it, she
should break it only when conditions
make any other course virtually i'm
possible. The maids-in- may
be able to f1aunt the rule, but the
ordinary girl would do better to OBJ
serve it religiously. And we have a
ell-founded suspicion that in the
long run even the most popular girl
loses much more than she gains by
date-breaking.
Answering your second question,
if girl breaks a date and offers no
explanation, a boy can't very we'll
believe anything else but that she
is offending him intentionally. The
girl certainly owes the boy an ex-
planation under these circumstances.
However, we'd rather have girl
give us the brush-of with no ex-
planation whatever, than to serve
up some excuse which turned out
to be outrageously phoney. In the
former case we'd know she didn't
like us very much, which would
hurt our vanity and offend our dig
nifty. But at least we could respect
her for being honest.
In the latter case, however, our
vanity and our dignity would be
bruised just as badly, but on top
of that, we'd know that the young
lady was also a bit of a truth
stretcher. And in our book, all the
glamour from here to Hollywood
doesn't make up for dishonesty and
poor sportsmanship.
Perhaps that sounds a little strait
Evening star., 1940-01-13

MISS LnBIchiHBs
, painted their tummies bright blue?"
It's patter like this that makes Miss
Engleking one of the best liked and
respected stylists around town.
This same originality is best ex-
pressed by the way in which she
works. Believing that sometimes
it is best to ignore the approved
combinations of colors or clothes,
she often throws things together
to see what will happen. And
surprisingly enough, the system
works with great success. (Note
to all prospective throwers-
together: Don't try this, though,
unless you really know what it's
about)
The stylist OF the future is going
to stress this individuality among
women even more than she does to-
day, teaching them to avoid the
"all-look-alike" appearance, and ex-
press their own-we shy from the
word-personality. That is the
reason Miss Engleking chooses
Queen Mary as an ideal, for she
dresses to suit her own taste and meet
the needs of her station. Get away
from eccentricities as eccentrictties
and have more oddities for a rea-
son." is a slogan followed by this
fashion co-ordinator.
OF careers, Helen Engleking has
two, for she also is very happily
married and has a charming 3-year-
old son who is learning to make
clay models and express himself in
whatever that means.
Hard work at a job she enjoys
has made the dynamic stylist a
joy to the public, as well as to a
great many befuddled fashion
writer's. She knows what makes
the wheels OF. merchandising go
round. H. v.
Evening star., 1940-01-13

10. (a) If iced tea or iced coffee
Is served with a meal, when is it
poured? tb) If ginger ale should
be offered as an alternate, how
would it be poured?
Answer: (a) 1t is poured as soon
as the first course is served, or at
the beginning of the second. That
is, if you are having bouillon or
melon, or something like that for
the first course, the iced coffee or
tea is properly served in the mid
die of the second course, as soon as
everybody has been helped. On
the other hand, if your first course
is a substantial one, the iced tea
or coffee would be served in the
middle of the first course. Both are
poured in the kitchen. Iced tea is
usually brought in complete, but
cream and sugar are passed for iced
coffee. (b) The glass for ginger ale
or anything else that you drink un-
mixed is put down on the table and
the beverage is poured into it. (The
only time when a glass is lifted up
to have anything poured into it is
when you serve beer. The glass has
to be lifted off the table and tip
ped and the beer poured gently SO
that it doesn't overflow with foam. }
n.-(a) If salad is served on a
separate plate with the meat and
vegetable course, where is the salad
plate stood? CO. If salad is served
with the meat instead of vegetables,
are people expected to put it on the
hot meat plate?
Answer: (a) There is no rule
since salad in addition to the vege-
tables is not correct. 90 The ma
jority of Americans like their salad
on a cold plate and their meat on a
hot one Only those who like
tired" Oimp) salad prefer to put
their salad on a hot plate with fowl
or game-the only hot meats with
which one eats salad.
II. If no knives are needed at a
luncheon, should they be put on
the table anyway? That is, is a
table setting incomplete without
them?
Answer: Yes, it is incomplete
without one knife. In fact, there
must be a knife and fork at each
place, no matter what you are hav-
ing. That makes place"
13. When the hostess pours after
dinner coffee in the living room,
please explain this procedure.
Answer. The procedure Is very
much like that of afternoon tea.
Sometimes she makes the coffee in
the living room. Sometimes it is
made m the kitchen and brought in
in the coffeepot. In any case, a tray
with sufficient cups and saucers, and
either pounded rock candy or else
lump sugar, is put on low table
at which the hostess sits to pour.
"a pitcher of cream is at present
included almost everywhere with
after-dinner coffee) AS the host
ess pours a cup she asks how many
Jumps, and If he Cor she) would like
cream, and hands the cup across the
table.
IA. If liqueurs are served by the
host with after-dinner coffee, what
is this procedure?
Answer: A tray with liqueurs and
glasses is put down on not too
low table. That is, man does not
sit at a table to pour as a woman
does. The host asks each person
his (or herr preference, then fills
glass and takes 1t to the one for
whom it was poured.
Evening star., 1940-01-13

46, 48, so and 50. Size 38 requires
with short sleeves, Az yards of 39-
inch material without nap; with
three-quarter sleeves, Az yards;
u yard contrasting.
It's smart to sew your own! It's
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from more than 100 new designs fol
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Evening star., 1940-01-13

1t for distinction.
Today the shirtwaist goes to the best
places, sees the best people and is a
pampered little darling which holds
its head high in any company .
In sport clothes it appears in woods,
f1annels and jerseys for Northern
"spectating," then turns to rayon
crepe, silk or countless other fabrics
IN prints or pasteis for warmer
climes . In modified versions it
appears at luncheon tables, cocktail
parties and informal dinners
And, of course, Channels sponsorship
of the shirtwaist evening gown last
season finally established its place
in evening attire-if such definite
sponsorship was even needed
Countless fabrics, endless variations
of detail and color make it suitable
for every woman, every place and
every time
Idea Originated
In Europe.
The strange story behind the shirt
waist dress is that a fashion so
definitely American could have
found its inspiration in Paris. Mary
Lewis was the first person RESPONSE
BILE for the shirtwaist dress and in
q recent interview she explained
how this popular mode came into
sI1ch proujnepoe
The germ of the idea came from
Paris in 1929 she says. "At that
time, on the Avenue de pOpera,
there was mans shirtmaker
named Boivin. He isn't there today
but at that time French women
were so taken with the beautiful
tailoring that he put into mems
pajamas and shirts they took fine
silk fabrics to him to have made
up in tailored styles exactly like
those of their husbands shirts and
pajamas. An embroidered mono
gram usually trimmed the pocket
and they paid s75 or thereabouts
in our money to have the dress
made up. 1t seemed very practi-
cal idea to me and when I returned
I adapted the idea to American
mass production in the first shirt
waist dress"
And, needless to say, when the
fair ladies of this country found a
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Delicious Salads

Equal portions of chopped cooked
ham and white or cottage cheese.
blended with savory seasonings
(green peppers, onions, pimientos,
sweet pickles. and pressed into a
loaf dish makes a delicious salad.
Cut in thin slices and arrange on
crisp lettuce. Pass salad dressing
Thin slices Of this mixture also make
4 due filing for sandwiches.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
This Adaptable Fashion
Is Found in Wardr0bes
For Every Occasion
Great Variety of Fabrics Used
In Creating These Clothes;
Casual Feeling Remains
BY HELEN VOGT,

doesn't pain you too much shut
most
lines nat hit us at the hips hats
weren't all stolen inverted and used to bulbs We
remember too the dstressngly
and we forget expanse sheer
ngs at something around 1900 ~
% more S nan that we have visions of unneing
sleeves that
Nineteen twenty six was great but fashion
But IN the midst OF distressing
New
also happy During those 12 months the first
shrtWast those
models seemed wanted clothes
but interesting. " ~ ~ o'N' '""""1
there was ever fashion scheduled for near-immortay certainly
shrtWast
growing popular deng n,omenav trends
1t has varied slightly line the delight
Evening star., 1940-01-13
0puar SWas Dress Celebrates Fourteenth Anniversary This
Girl Should Never Break
Dates Without ADEQUATE
Cause and Explanation
She Becomes Just as Guilty
Of Downright Rudeness as
Young Man Who Does So

CALDWELL q ALDEN HARRISON.
Dear Kay Caldwell and Alden Harrison:
As read
several questions mind
wondered about the things
" Is serious girl to break date a
2 explanation breaking
suppose Intentionally offending him
that breaking the date a
49, What should excuse
offered? Should he ask for reason?"
between boys girls with
breaking dates.
habitualy break
dates and misses
which be broken if keeping nconveen
tiff better date
the
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Naming Mahogany

The scientific name for mahogany
is "Swietenia." This name was given
1t by Nicholas Jaquin of Leyden,
who was sent to the West Indies
by Francis I of Austria to study
the flora of that region. The name
honors Gerard Van Swieten, bo-
tanist and physician, also Of Ley
den.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Bristle.Stifener

To help keep brush bristles stiff,
soak them every two weeks in salt
water-two tablespoons of salt to
a cup of cold water. Always hang
up brooms or brushes so the bristles
won't bend.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Something New

Here is a great find for the tea
table: Stuff seeded dates with small
bits of pineapple, roll the dates in
sugar and place them on l1a-inch
squares of pastry dough. Fold the
pastry over the dates and pinch it
in place. Prick with a fork. Bake
Evening star., 1940-01-13

Contrasting Uth the unfatterng ugy styles of
years ago the modern shDaist dresses right
(aboUe) the finds this casual dress 1h
print Dide stripes both Senderising becoming
The golfer hoDeUer chooses pastel uith
matching angora Jacket Note the specially sleeve
10ane of the jacket Both typical of
shtaiSt mode of this and glance at bellies
1926 (beoU makes plain ho this fashion has progressed
since time of its introduction
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Lemons and Oysters

For a different flavor, add q
piece of lemon peel to sauce used
for oysters. (Creamed or cheese,
served hot) Remove the peel when
serving the sauce.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Child Learns
Morals by
Example
Influence of Home
Most Important
In His Training
By ANGELO PATRI

We are all agreed that children
should be taught to live moral lives.
Parents tell the children to be good
The church tells the children to be
good. The teacher tells the pupils
to be good. But they still show
strong signs of being otherwise in
great numbers.
Words do not make a child moral.
Saying the catechism and the creed
and the commandments does not
make him moral. He has learned
the words of morality, but they are
empty of meaning for him. He will
say his prayers if he has to, but
unless they have meaning for him.
and usually they don't he will rise
from his knees to go toward evil.
Words without deeds are empty
sounds. What puts meaning into
teaching, into any form OF Ian
guage, is experience. Children must
have experience with moral behavior
or remain strangers to it. This
seems difficult for parents and
teachers to understand. Again and
again we hear some one say, But
he knew better. I told him.
He had been told in words, but
nobody had thought to allow him
to be told in the only way he could
hear and understand, by way of
personal experience.
1t is stupid of us to tell child
to be good unless we start him on
trail of action that brings good
ness to fill his SOUL Stimulate him
to unselfishness, first by showing
him a good example, then by sug-
gesting service he can perform
for some one else. Show him ways
of serving, behaving and doing, that
create moral feeling. No child can
experience the glow of satisfaction
that comes from good deed we'll
done without wanting to make that
feeling his familiar attitude. That
is how attitudes are set.
A good deal of the trouble we
have to face in this field comes of
the attitude grownup people take
toward ordinary behavior. We have
not shown displeasure; we have not
withdrawn approval; we have not
shamed the Wrongdoer who, because
of his wrongdoing became rich and
powerful. We saw gangsters riding
in gorgeous cars, admired by the
onlookers who said, you've got to
hand it to him. He's smart, all
right" And when he was laid
low by more astute gangster we
saw him buried in a casket that
cost more than many a decent
family had to live on for years.
We won't say anything about the
ladies whose marriages we're honored
more in the courts than in the
churches and whose presence on a
train or in shop meant such con-
gestion of the populace that the
police had to be called. We praised
those who won money and notoriety
whatever the means they used. We
| taught the children that of such is
the kingdom of success.
The moral standards of the family
are those of the children. No school,
no church, no state can affect that
fact. Morality begins in the home,
1ourishes in the home, flowers in the
home, or it does not exist. Fathers
and mothers, the family, are the
source of moral inspiration of the
children. The public can express
its powerful opinion. the church can
exert its great influence, the school
can exert its full teaching power
Great as these are home is greater
in the mind of a child.
Evening star., 1940-01-13

You will be greatly helped, in
guiding your youngster to popu-
larity, by reading Angelo Patri's
booklet, "The Child and Other
People," Send for it, inclosing 10
cents in coin. Address Angelo
Patri, care of this newspaper.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Continuation
OfQuestions
On Serving
When Iced Drinks
Are Poured at
Seated Party
BY EMILY POST.

Ed. note: The first section of
this guest dinner appeared in
yesterdays Star.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-02
BANDITS CAUGHT
AFTER CUNFICHT
One Wounded Man Makes
Escape Bystanders Is
Also Slightly Hurt

Boston, Aug. 2.-(UP)-A third
youth, believed wounded, was sought
today after two alleged bandits were
seized at the end of a running gum
fight during which an innocent by
stander was hit by one of 80 bullets
fired by police.
Booked as John F. Malloy, 10, Of
Roxbury and william F. Shea, 16,
of Jamaica Plain, the captured pair
were said by police to have admit
ted last night that they committed
two holdups, with loot totaling $148,
shortly before the chase. They also
allegedly admitted they previously
had robbed five places in Boston,
two in Quincy and five in Connec-
ticut.
The innocent victim, Edward o.
Brien, 16, was hospitalized with a
hip wound which physicians said
was not serious. He was hit as the
fugitiVes, using machine reported
ly stolen earlier from Policeman
Theodore F. Reiman of Watertown
sped past him in Jamaica Plain.
The case led through streets of
Roxbury, West Roxbury, Forest Hills
and Jamaica Plain before the fu-
gitives turned into a dead end
street. AS Patrolmen Elmer Brooks
and Walter Garland jumped from
their prowl car to seize them, three
youths leaped from the bandit car.
One youth cried, ''They got me!
They got mel" but he ran with the
others and was the only one to es-
cape. One of the youths trapped
between the two officers, drew a re-
volver, but Garland felled him with
flying tackle. The second youth
was caught hiding behind hedge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-02
WASHINGTON AVE.
BRIDGE INSPECTED
Beard May Request Funds
for New Structure; Re-
| pairs Halted

! IN inspection of the Washington
avenue bridge over the Naugatuck
river yesterday afternoon by several
members of the board of works con-
WINGED most of them that some ac-
tion should be taken speedily to-
wards rebuilding it, so that its use
lslse will not be confined to pedes-
Erians in the future. Several OF
those who made the inspection felt
that the need of rebuilding the
Washington avenue bridge was
more pressing than the building OF
q new bridge on Baldwin street,
which has been. much discussed
lately. However, it remains a ques-
ton whether the aldermen may
legally transfer the fund which has
been earmarked for the construction
of new Baldwin street bridge, to
this purpose, even in an emergency.
It is expected that the finance
board, the board of works, and the
aldermen all will have meetings in
the near future to discuss the
problem.
Those who made the inspection
OF the bridge yesterday were Com
missioners Joseph Wilhelm, Fenton
Niver, William A. Carpenter, and
Henry Bowling, City Engineer
Charles "A. Root and his assistant
Henry C.. Whitlock, John P. Fitz-
maurice, and Superintendent of
Streets Herbert Scott-Smith. Repair
work on the bridge was stopped
Tuesday night when Commissioner
Wilhelm stated it as his opinion that
repairs were a waste of funds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-02

Waterbury housewives are able to
choose from a larger list OF food
bargains right now than at any other
season of the year, according to an
announcement by the Connecticut
Department of Agriculture, issued
today. Midsummer is harvest time
for a large number of fresh fruits
and vegetables here in Connecticut,
the announcement states. resulting
in abundant supplies on the bargain
counters of city food retailers.
Snap Beans Plentiful
Snap beans are cited as one OUT
standing example. More than 1000
acres of them are grown annually
right here in this small manufacturS1
ing, state. About a quarter Of mii1
lion bushels of them are harvested
each summer, enough to fill nearly
600 railroad freight cars. Right now
Connecticut vegetable farmers are
in the midst of their annual snap