The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-13

General Has Good
Appetite According
to Cook
BY Helen ESSsry

postwar planner is without hohor
In his own home town.
Nor is any man hero 10 his
rhiropodist
But do YOU know that a four star
general and commander.in-chief OF
the Allied Forces Is not camou-
tagged to his COOK?
And the proofe-a hopeful ma
tron in Chevy Chase was interview
ing a possible servant The ser
want said she had WORK ed for plen-
~ OF Army families,
Good" exclaimed the hopeful
matron Army families always
have swell food and pleasant
homes BY the way, did you ever
work for General Eisenhower
81 sure did worked for him
when he was nothin but colon
sl"
Really, DO tell me about him.
There's nothin much 10 tell.
Lots OF ladies ask me that. They
think ! must OF fed him some kind
Of fancy food 10 help get him where
he IT, He eats Just like everybody
else. Only more OF il And he
WASH fussy when he got home.
Mrs. Eisenhower. she was different.
She was always wantin everything
nice.
DESPITE THE MANN OF my
unbeheying friend. H. l. Mencken,
there sometimes can be TWO prma
aonnas in one family. Two Span
lsh prima donnss at that
Consider Caferino and lsobei
Palencia. recently arrived from
Mexico city where they went as
political refugees from the Franco
government senior PalenCla *
having an exhibition OF his paint
ings at The National Museum. The
Mexican amba sador has invited
,ome friends for the gala opening.
Senior Pslencia does fascinating
conyases in his own modern man
RaE-a manner that might be Dan
or Rivera or Sert, but ism l. n IL
completely Palencia. CharminS
and stimulating 10 the imagination.
Senior Palencia il one OF the
most famous living artists His
wife. lsobel is one of the most
famous women in Europe BEFORE
Franco. she represented Spain IN
Sweden for year and half and
was a brilliant success as her coun.
she was SPANS labor representa-
tive in Geneva where she was a
vellknown international hgure.
While Nine. Palencis was in
Stockholm. Senior Palencis WAS rep
rssenting Spain just across the
Spanish border as minister 10 Lith-
uania. Madame Isobel is not only
diplomat, she il scholar and
Literature She has written several
enchanting children's books. Late
" she did a daring biography, Il
Mast Have Liberty
Read Il Must Nave Liberty.
You will be thrilled by lsobel
Palencias spirit Madame Palen-
eta is also handsome and gay.
ONE OF THE AlSERlES ~
Washington life for the moment is
the waiting around you have to
do in shops and restaurants until
your mum Der is called. II you want
10 buy a dead chicken or new
hat or eat last months lamb
chop in some places you have 10
cope with this new kind OF number
racket
Clerks are few. Customers are
many. Not only in butcher aud
bakery shops do you have TO draw
your number on a little card from
out a counter box but things have
come TO even worse shopping
pass In some smart clothing and
hat shops a manager gives you a
number and writes it down in a
book. Then you NOPE about or
stand on one foot Ike 4 crane in
a swamp. until your turn comes 10
squsnder the money You Ought to
be saving for taxes.
Here is true story OF the new
racket and q good wife and
mother who arrived home late the
other afternoon She was wearing
new shoes, a new hat, a new suit
and an extremely cross expression.
She threw large package into
the lap OF her husband, who had
already arrived home
Take your old devils food cake
she said in family voice I'm a
wreck was number II at the
meat counter. Was IL in the hat
department. lS in suits. AZ in the
shoe department And. 80 help M.
was S. at the cake counter"
At this point the good lady
swooned and revived only when
told that the new mad delayed
al being 1873 al the uniform coun-
ter. had just arrived to get the