The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12

men and visitors from the forces
of the United Nations are able to
have a good time during Sunday
stay in New York.
So after almost twenty years or
comparative silence the Italian
Garden of the Biltmore has ap-
peared again with music, dancing
and young people making merry or
an afternoon.
Thousands of college graduates
and students, representing 10 diff
ferent colleges, are registered at the
Offices of the center as volunteers,
anxious to act as hosteSSeS and
dancing partners. Various universe
ties and colleges in turn assume
hostess duty on different Sundays.
About $50 young women who can
talk and dance, and whose records
are on file, show up to entertain the
military.
Officers Not Welcome
Oficers are not invited to these
Sunday afternoons" The number
is limited TO $50, who obtain their
tickets from the N. Y. c. Defense
Recreation's Office. There is music.
dancing and refreshments, the lat
ter including man'S-Size sandwiches
and plenty of homemade cake OF
the gooey kind that men, soldiers
and sailors especially, are supposed
to like.
And, strange as it seems, lots and
lots of milk
Miss Ruth Howard, director OF
the center, makes a CHEEKY observa-
ton. I'VE had heard the soldiers
wanted beer, so we had it on de-
mand. To our surprise, it didn't
prove popular" she said. Then,
somebody suggested milk, and we
served it. How enthusiastically the
men all went for it, Why, we had
to send out for more and more!
Those boys drink it as If it were
water. It's amusing TO see them
wandering about between dances
with half-empty glasses of milk in
their hands, just as at parties in
civil life one often sees men cling
ing to a partly-conSumed highball.
las a matter of fact, continued
Miss Howard, who during World
War / saw long service in France
and in the Rhineland as a volunteer
with the National Catholic Com
munity Service, my observation Of
our soldiers and sailors so far has
convinced me that, in contrast with
World War l. this is not drinking
war;"
The italian GARDEN is the roof of
the low portion of the Biltmore,
between the two big wings Of the
hotel. 1t overlookS the Grand Gen.
trail Terminal, and is always shaded
during the afternoon.
Uniforms Galore
Now 1t is the locale Of colorful
scene, with uniforms OF many varl-
cites among the dancers. Not only
does one find Uncle Sans blues and
khakis, but the light blue Of the
Royal Air Force and Of the Canadi-
an and Australian Air Forces, as
well as of the Dutch cadets in train
ing over here.
Yet one must not forget these
parties are very exclusive posi-
lively no officers admitted
Speaking of doing right by the
boys, right off the press and filled
with helpful hints to girls who en-
terrain service men is the Girls
Service Organization Manual. pub
lished by the Army and Navy de-
partment of the National Council
of YWCAs of the u. S. A.
This booklet goes to some $4,000
girls as far south as Key West, Fla.
and as far north as Anchorage,
Alaska. There is much good mate
rial in the book, such as how TO
dress for the interesting job of pro-
viding recreation for soldiers and
sailors In the form of dances, par
ties, and special entertainment.
Every bright girl knows that she
dresses to please men," the book
reads. IF she doesn't dress I'D in
this present work she is surely let
ting the men down. Whether you
get into an evening dress for one
of your formal dances, or dress in
formally for a barn dance, the same
careful selection should 90 into
your clothes. 1t doesn't matter how
much you spend, but it does matter
how feminine you look"
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