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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Ripen Avocados at
Room Temperature

It's good idea, nowadays, to
be able to check avocados for
salad ripeness for yourself. When
you take the fruit home to your
own dining room temperatures
to soften for eating, the unhan-
died fruit repays you we'll. And
It's interesting to watch the diff
ferent stages AS this tropical
minded fruit reaches salad soft
ness. Avocados are ripe, you
know, when picked, but need to
soften for eating, much AS ba-
nanas mellow to brown fecked
ripeness.
Pick up several of these nutri-
tive pears next time you go mar
keting. Plan to let them soften
at home and do the testing for
eating softness yourself. There
are two ways by which you can
judge when the avocado is ready
to eat. Gentle pressure with the
palms of both hands is the best
known test. If you use finger
pressure you're much more apt
to bruise the fruit. Soft fruit,
ready to eat, yields slightly to
light pressure. And there's a pre-
cedlng rubbery or elastic stage
that is easily identified. When
the fruit is elastic to your touch
it needs two or more days at
room temperature before you cut
into it.
The second method is newer
and less known. If the seed
cap of the avocados seems loose
and comes out readily, remove it
and insert a wooden pick in the
meat of the fruit beneath. If
the fruit isn't soft, the short stem
should be replaced and the fruit
allowed to remain at room tenn
perature for a day or two longer.
Never refrigerate an avocado
that you want to soften for eat
ing. Use refrigeration only to
postpone service of the fruit or to
chill the fruit for service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Flattering Color Scheme

Women doing volunteer war work,
may be buster than ever, but women
are never too busy to think about
looking beautiful at home. Smart
women long ago learned what fiat
tering colors in their rooms can Go
to them.
Pink and blue is undoubtedly the
most feminine and flattering color
combination for the majority of
women. Pastel colored insulating
board makes charming and light
modern wall and ceiling treatment.
One decorator chose a deeper blue
plain broadloom rug. draperies of
rose chintz. and pink and blue
striped satin chairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Timely Menu Suggestions
For Next Weeks Meals

By Edith M. Barber
SUNDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Tdnqerines
Quick Sally Lunn
Coffee
DINNER.
Cream OF Pea Soup
RodiSheS Pickles
Stuffed Beef Heart
Mashed Potatoes
Buttered String Beans
Raspberry Ice Almond Cookies
SUPPER.
Cottage Cheese and Escdrole Salad
Broun Bread Sandwiches
Jam Cocoa
MONDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Applesduce
ReGdy-to-EGt Cereal
Poached Eggs on Toast
Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Potato Cakes With Heart Crazy
Grapefruit Salad
Tea
DINNER.
S1Uedish MentboNs
Noodles Broccol,
Chocolate Pudding
TUESDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Orange Juice
Hot Cereal Bran Mullins
Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Dreamed Mushrooms
Lettuce Salad
Grapes Mir
DINNER.
EGqs Morndu
Buttered Whole Kernel Corn
Buttered Spinach
Cottage Pudding, Sherry Sauce
WEDNESDAY,.
BREAKFAST.
Grapefruit
Reddy-to-Edt Cereal
Cinnamon Buns Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Cream OF Corn Soup
Cabbage Salad
Griddle Cakes, Sirup
Tea
DINNER.
Pot Roast of Beet
Baked Potatoes Glazed Onions
Annie Pie
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Growing Glory
Deserves Good
reatnent
Faithful Brushing
Gives the Scalp
Stimulation
Br Patricia Lindsay

DI mffCf0 Lfn1SUv
Well-groomed and shining hair is
q wonderful asset! No meticulous
beauty is ever content with her ap-
pearance if her hair is in need of
reconditioning and a new couture
Today's emphasis on the practical
has brought back the feather bob,
the 2-inch cut and the windblown.
But short hair is not must even
for the women who have taken
strenuous man-sized jobs in fac
tories. There is a wide choice of
hair-dos. The main thing is to keep
the hair neatly coiffed and shining.
A clever stylist in Well-knoWn
salon once said, 1T is amazing that
women understand so little about
hair. For one thing, they are afraid
to brush it! They think it takes
the curl out and they never realize
hair is sensitive to atmosphere.
"A correctly set wave is strength
ened by brushing - for brushing
makes it fall in deeper, more nat
ural lines. Hair is sensitive to
warmth or steam and will acquire
an unbecoming crimp or misplaced
wave by a hasty tucking under
net or shower cap
Brushing gives the scalp needed
exercise and stimulation, and it
helps to keep the hair clean. You
should have a hair brush with long.
stiff bristles and begin at the scalp
brushing rhythmically to the very
ends Of the hair. Every few strokes
the brush should be wiped on a
turkish towel This is the time to
use corrective lotion if the hair
is too oily or habitually dry. After
ward, carefully comb the hair in
place. Never try to change the line
unless you have special two or
three way set and your hairdresser
has explained just how to do it. For
hair is never really receptive to a
new couture except after shampoo
Often one sees hair with a
"washed-a away look Literally it is
washed away. If shampoos seem
necessary more than once every 10
days it is an indication that special
treatment for excessive dryness or
oiliness is needed. Or it may be
simply that the soap is not thor
oughly rinsed from the hair during
the shampoo. Soapless oil sham
poos are a conditioning treatment
which used to be in the luxury class,
but now. with the aid of towels
wrung out of hot water Ito take the
place of an electric steamer, they
may be done at home with great
benefit.
To obtain list of the products
mentioned in this article. send 5
cents, coin preferred, to cover
costs Of handling and postage,
tn Miss Lindsay. care of The Eve
ming Star. Ask for leaf1et r.
$1-42.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31

boarding garments because they
may take precious coupons in the
future. 1t seems reasonable to as
sumo that should rationing be put
into effect it will be done fairly and
squarely with enough for everybody
as has been the case in almost
everything else rationed.
One of the most interesting opin-
ions of what will happen to clothes
was voiced by Dorothy Anderson,
executive director of the New York
Dress Institute, the association of
more than 300 manufacturers who
supply the bulk of Americas retail
dress trade. In an interview given
to Dorothy Roe, Associated Press
fashion editor, Mrs. Anderson de-
clared. Look for shorter jackets,
simmer skirts, quantities of buttons
on your new spring clothes. Be pre-
pared for narrower range of colors
more staple, monotone prints, new
developments in fabrics.
You will see more suits and
dresses made of aralac and nylon
jersey, more coats of nylon fleece
These last two fabrics are made
from the nylon brushings that can
not be used for any other purpose
and science has made them into
beautiful and durable fabrics.
I'VE can expect shortages not
only of wool and silk but also of
cotton and rayon. Yet in the face
of multiple problems designers and
manufacturers are meeting the
challenge of the times, turning out
beautiful and practical clothes for
t. e best dressed women in the
World-Americans"
Naturally, as time goes on, we
will have less nonsense and fewer
frlllS in our clothes. Functional, be-
coming styles of good quality will
be the choice Of the discerning wom-
an who wants to stay we'll dressed
without extraVagant buying or
Wastefulness. Authorities believe
that far from causing regimenta-
ton Of fashions, the WPB rulings
have encouraged designers to turn
out the best looking and most
Wearable collections since we took
the style leadership title from Paris.
Next month in New York a fash
ion show for retailers will be spon-
sored by the Fashion Group. Inc.
According to our advance notice
this showing Will feature new
clothes made below the minimum
requirements of the WPB regula-
tons. In other words, fashionists
in many instances think that we
can use even less material than the
law allows" and that clothes pro-
duced can be good looking func-
tional and completely in tune with
our needs and activities.
All of which is just another way
of saying that 1943 should hold nc
terrors for you and me where our
Wardrobes are concerned. Rest as
sured that we will be more than
adequately clothed in fashions that
please us and those around us.
What's more, We'll be patriotically
CARRIED in fabrics that are not need
ed by Uncle Sam, our clothes fas-
tened with closures which contain
no precious metals Well stream
line" for victory. And We'll like it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Linoleurn Care

Kitchen hnoleum that has been
waxed can be kept clean by wiping
1t daily with cloth wrung out in
cool, soapy water Dry the floor
with clean scrub cloth or other
soft material. Scrubbing should be
reserved for the times when it is
necessary to apply a fresh coat of
wax. Frequency of rewaxing de-
ponds upon the amount of traffic
that crosses the floor and the be-
tween-care given the linoleum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
WhyGrow
Old?
By Josephine LoaOman

Many women write to me asking
If they can take exercises following
an operation. This is question for
your doctor to decide-not for me.
In most cases when the general
health is satisfactory and enough
time has passed after the opera
ton, physicians are eager to have
their patients exercise in order to
build health and to avoid adhesions.
1 have, however, noticed that
many women adopt an attitude of
semi-invalidism simply because they
have had on operation. Letters say
things like this: Il cannot exercise
strenuously because had an opera
ton five years ago"
If you have had an operation do
not adopt this attitude unless it is
necessary, Consult your physician
and ask him before consigning your
self to physical inactivity. This at
titude is bad for your health and
your morale when it is not neces-
sary and you may find, to your sur
prise, that your doctor is enthusi-
astic over the idea of exercise for
you. Never exercise following an
operation until your doctor tells you
it is safe for you.
Then, too, there is group of
women who seem determined to eX-
ercise even though they tell me
that they have a rupture, high
blood pressure or heart trouble.
Naturally exercise can be most dan
gerous for these individuals.
There are heart conditions which
will allow the victims to live to an
old age if they know how to take
care of themselves, but which might
prove fatal on a gym floor.
The safest course is to have
physical examination before begin
ming exercises, particularly if you
are near middle age or certainly if
you have had an operation, any in
ternal trouble. a baby or any other
unusual occurrence in your life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Wedding Guests
Stand During
Ceremony
Preferred Custom
In the Majority
OF Churches
By Emily Post

I had believed that with more
than hundred answers to wartime
questions printed in this column,
wedding details were all answered,
and fully! But today comes this
plea from a bride to-be: II have
kept all clippings of your column
and I also have your books, but you
don't answer this: At a church
wedding should the guests rise when
the bride enters the church and re-
main standing during the ceremony?
Or do they sit and then rise? If it
is correct to rise, does the mother
of the bride rise first and then also
give the signal to others when to
sit? If so. just when does she seat
herself? Since my daughter is to
be married in January, naturally
desire to know whether there is a
definite rule regarding this matter"
If this reader has really kept all
my articles, she will find quite a
full discussion on this subject among
them. Because more than 200 letters
from clergymen had told me that
their congregations preferred to sit,
l turned my column into a tempo
rary forum on one occasion and
asked my readers for their opinions
OF remaining seated throughout the
professional so that all of the con-
eregatlOn might see the bride. In
the answers given me were 70 per
cent against, to 80 per cent for.
The majority of my readers OBJ
Vlously approved of the custom
observed in all Episcopal churches
and IN the majority of other Prot
eStant ones. In these churches all
people rise as soon as the first bars
OF the professional are played, and
do not sit down throughout the en-
tire service.
Dear Mrs Post: AS presiding off,
Ger shall | wear gloves at our meet
lngs? And shall l wear gloves to
receive members and their guests?
MISUNDERSTANDING. When re-
ceivlns, if it's to be a really formal
occaslon-yes. But if you would like
the occasion to be informal and
friendly, then-no.
Dear Mrs. Post: I am invited to
spend the week end with the family
of a man friend who works in this
same city, We are making the trip
together on the train. Shall I pay
for my own ticket in this case?
AnSwer-Yes, of course you do,
unless it is such a short distance
that its cost is in cents instead of
dollars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Food Picture-Old and New
Big Demands on Most Commodities
Will Bring More Belt. Tightening
y the Bureau of Home Economics, USDA

By the Bureau of Home Economics, USDA
Ring the old, the the and
resolutions for the Now
and plans for the
Probably
food suggest home economists of the
Food will the
American homemaker
family
more important than ever to have wel-fed Nation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Here's a PrevieW
Of Our Easter
Chapeaux
Big Three Decide
Shape and Type
OF New Hats

ny bbF ofHJ hbt
Want a previeW of your Easter
hat?
Here 1t is: 1t will be strictly senti-
mental, feminine and pretty. 1t will
have nostalgia. old-fashioned look,
and yet be as new as next years
cargo planes. 1t probably will be in
one of two general shapes-half shell
or ship shape. The first you can
figure out for yourself. The last is
a nautical-looking dingus, in tempo
with the times.
I can gaze thus into the crystal
ball because I sat in on the final
session of the 1943 spring millinery
pow-wow of the big three-Lilly
Dache, Sally Victor and John Fred
cries. Already they have set the
trend. decided the mood and agreed
on the angle of your Easter bonnet.
Hats will have no elastic, no wire,
no silk. They will sit firmly on the
head or be anchored with ties or
wells. They will be gay and romantic
and they'll make You look nice.
They come in "heartbreak colors'-
that's the name: Tiger lilly pink,
Sally blue, Johnny blond and Fred
die green. In case you didn't know,
John Frederics. Inc, is two persons
John and Fred, so, of course each
must have a COLOR
Lilly, Sally and John start plan
ming the next seasons hats before
this season is we'll on its way. Under
the banner of Millinery Fashion
Inspiration they pool their ideas and
talents, design joint collection of
so hats 30 apiece and invite in the
trade. In the six months since they
presented their first MFI showing
American hat sales have scared,
millinery shops throughout the land
have taken new lease on life.
How do they work? Well
First Lilly gives a party" says
Sally. There's much telephoning
and quite bit of argument. After
a dozen or so meetings we decide on
the main trends and colors. Then
we go to work.
Out of the parties and the tele-
phoning emerges the shape of things
to come-your next seasons hat.
And that, my children, is how hats
are born.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31

and lease-lend. Seasonings, such
as parsley, onion flakes, celery and
few soups will be found in the
stores, but the really big foods. now
being used with success by the Army
and other outfits. will all be pressed
into active service.
This, of course, is due to the fact
that dehvdrated foods are invalu-
able In that they take up so little
space for shipment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31

Best party manners 60 with the
sweet little girl frock presented in
today's Barbara Bell pattern! 1t is
style which you can make in tat
feta, VelVeteen. silk crepe or any Of
the sheer materials with simply raw
iShlng effect! 1t is not too formal
either to be most becoming school
frock in wool crepe or cotton.
Barbara Bell pattern No. 1624-B
is designed for sizes 6, 8. 10, II. IA
years. Size years requires 2 yards
of 39-inch material.
Find patterns for all of your home
sewing needs in the Winter Fashion
Book - our valuable catalogue of
latest new styles. Send Is cents for
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for postage.
For this attractive pattern send
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
From a Woman's Angle
New Type Cans Differ in Looks
But Not in Efficiency
BY Betsy CasweN,
Womens News Editor,

FROM THE MORNINGS MAIL; release
nerS Association describes the
canned foods They will have much appearance
the will
won't be kinds
Items that the housewife containers
electrotc tin of steel
1urther enamel Eectroytic
not bright the formerly coating on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31

THURSDAY.
BREAKFAST.
SteUed Figs
Hot Cereal Toast
Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Cheese Sandwiches
Grape Salad Milk
DINNER.
Beef and Kidney Pie
Rice Creamed Cabbage
SnoU Pudding
FRIDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Tomato Juice
Ready-to-Edt Cereal
Scrambled Eggs Hot Rolls
Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Toasted Sardine Sandwiches
GRAPEFRUIT Salad
Cookies Tea
DINNER.
Broiled Mdckerel
Dreamed Potatoes
BeetS With Vindigrette Sauce
Baked Custdrd
SATURDAY..
BREAKFAST.
Orange Juice
Hot Cereal With Roisins
Toasted Rolls Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Potato and Fish Chonder
Cucumber Salad
French Toast Houeu
MIR
DINNER.
Casserole OF Sdusdoes.
SUeet Potatoes and Apples
Kdle Pecan Tart
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Fashions for the Future
Confident Reply Given to Query
where Do We Go From Here?'
By Helen V0gf


Now that we're lettering the edge of year. the
big question in fashion circles is Whau happen clothes 1892"
of
those who believe it unlikely
Apparently nobody knows for whether ratonng clothes will
1t likely
terribly worried primarily because ratione not will be buying
the things
unavailable automatically becomes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31


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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-11-14
ARMISTICE DAY

Thousands of American boys who can remember
family the triumphant cheers that rang out across
the nation on November H. 1918, are now, two
decades later, taking up where their fathers left
off in the fight against those who are bent on world
conquest The Armistce of the first World War
brought phony peace which lulled the democracies
into false feeling of security. Our illusions about
our superiority over other peoples were mistaken
and America assumed world leadership as the proud
champion of the democratic way of life. Oppression
of the Negro at home was renewed, and neither
Britain nor America felt impeled to make their
democratic ideals work in the everyday lives OF their
subject people all over the EARTH We became victims
of complacency and turned deaf ear to the pro-
gressive and liberal voices among many peoples.
The Nazi nightmare shocked us to action and at
the eleventh hour, recognized that our clvlllza-
ton was being threatened and the ideals which we
cherished but never practiced were about to be
crushed for all time. We fought the first World
War to make better world, and after our victory
in battle we decided to leave world affairs to fortune
and chance. Even now as we are fighting again
for much the same reasons, there are loud voices
here in America who say that this effort should
not promote social reform" These stupid reaction
airy elements still believe that world peace can be
achieved by defeating a given enemy in given
battle. They do not see that the enemy will rise
again few decades later unless we end the very
conditions which nurture unrest and war.
This second World War must end in peace
that will demand new world order of equality and
freedom for all peoples No Armistice like that of
1918 will be tolerated by the masses of people who
provide each in their own generation, vast host
of brave men for death on bloody field of battle.
This tragic cycle of destruction and death must stop
and arms alone will not stop it, no matter how
powerful they may be.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-11-14

Richard Wright in the introduce
ton to NO DAY OF TRIUMPH, by
j. Saunders Redding tHarper and
Brothers, New York City, 1912, S3)
has this 10 say of the book: 81 pre-
dict that it will rock the Negro
middle class back on It's heels;
forecast that it will set the Talent
ed Tenth on fire with its anger; l
prophecy that it will be as acid
poured in the veins of the SNUG
Negro teachers in Negro colleges"
Mr.. Redding has certainly spared
none Of the sacred cows Of middle
and upper class Negroes whose hy-
pocritical ideas on color, education,
the welfare of their less fortunate
brothers have long cried out for
exposure. The book is partly auto
biographical and partly an account
Of trip of discovery made by Mr.
Redding in the South under the
auspices of the University Of North
Carolina and the Rockefeller Foun-
dation. There is no sharp line of
division however because the auth
or finds in his travels and observa-
tons an opportunity TO discover
himself and a kinship with his peo-
pie.
Mr.. Redding tells his story and
that OF his trip through personaM-
ties. The contrasts between his two
grandu1others,- one black and the
other yellow, is as revealing in his
hands as would be many more
pages of self-analysis. Very simply
he shows the problems OF living
which beset Negroes on all sides,
housing, companions, color Difficult
ties. Mr.. Redding grew up in Will
mington, Delaware and spent his
college years at Brown university
but any Negro will find In his early
experiences incidents to match
those recounted here.
In 1910 Mr.. Redding started out
on his motor voyage OF discovery
through Virginia, West Virginia,
Kentucky then into the deep South
of Louisiana and Mississippi. He
makes no attempt to write a de-
tailed account Of the places he visit