Evening star., 1942-10-03

Henry McLemore. joined the colors
and were serving with the WAVES
and WAACS. He didn't know
whether to greet them with friend
ly peck on the cheek and MY
Dear Helen, you're lovelier than
ever" or whether to snap to atten-
ton, address them as lieutenant and
tell them that their months at Fort
Des Moines had broadened their
shoulders, put flesh on their bones in
general and made them tough as the
devil.
Just which type of greeting would
a woman soldier prefer? Only Mrs.
Post knows the exact shading OF ad-
dress that would not only please
the feminine side of the WAVES or
WAACS, but also would crafty her
as a fighter for her country.
Along this same line, should a
gentleman give his seat to top
sergeant in the WAVES or WAACS?
Would the offer of his chair intl-
mate that he still consideres woman
soldiers slightly on the sissy SIDE
and in need of coddling?
| When food rationing becomes
general and we adopt the English
custom of taking your own meat,
butter, eggs, sugar and so on when
invited out to dinner, new series
of problems in etiquette is bound
to arise
In the first pace, what is the
proper distribution of shared food?
I mean, who eats what? If go to
a friends house carrying a sirloin
steak and he comes up with a
scraWny chicken, who eats the steak
and who eats the chicken? To be
gracious and proper, must I insist
on his having the best cut of my
sirloin while gnaw on neck or
wing of his tired fowl?-
This should be settled by some
standard authority such as Mrs.
Post, else fists will fly in many a
home in this country ere the snow
flies. The same Is true of sugar. If
you are man who doesn't use
sugar in his coffee, must you take
some anyway, so that the hosts
children can spread it on every
thing they eat?
But where Mrs. Posts counsel is
really needed is on how the food you
take to a friends house, or the food
he brings to your house, shall be
prepared. 1t seems to me-and I'm
not setting myself up as any au-
thority, mind you, only suggesting
that every one should have the
right to decide as to how his food
will be prepared.
Say I take a chicken to A. MS
house. In lot of homes, particu-
larly in the East, the recipe for
chicken is something. called Fried
Chicken la Maryland" 1t has
always been my contention that
either the chicken or Maryland. or
both, should sue the chef who
thought this one up.
The chief feature of this recipe
Is to cover the body of the chicken
with a white sauce that tastes ex-
actly like the paste kids make OF
flour and water and use to glue
their kites together. When I take
a chicken a-visiting, I aim to fry it
my own way, which is to cut it into
10 or u pieces and fry them in deep
fat and nothing else.
Take steak, for example. Who Is
to say how it shall be cooked? There
are many people who like their
steaks rarer than a whole year OF
June days; steaks so fresh from the
steer that they below when the
knife touches them. That's all right
with me-let the cannibals have
what they want. There are a lot
Of us, however, who like our steaks
bit better done.
So, Mrs. Post should lay down
the law.
Mrs. Post could also do a chapter
on just how long a civilian has to
listen to new officer talk about the
grand strategy of war. AS soon as
a man gets commission he con-
siders himself roommate of Wavell
Marshall, Timoshenko, Eisenhower
and all the other generals, and he
can tell you-and does-the COM
plete plan of battle for this
global war.
would appreciate it if Mrs. Post
would write that after listening to
Is seconds of this, the listener has
the right to say good-by and take
a powder (or scram), to use the Ian.
guage of the drawing room. ,
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