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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07
Beauties Hints
Daily Repairs
Give Maximum
Good Looks
BY ALICIA HART
NEA Staff Writer

Best way to keep good grooming
on the up and up is to keep jump
ahead of repairs.
"a rundown look is waste
of both time and money" says
Miss Roberts, land isn't good either
for you or other peoples morale"
To keep manicure from run
ming down, here are Miss Roberts
tricks: Push cuticle back each time
you wash and dry your hands.
Work cream around the base of
your nails each time you rub lotion
on your skin.
A manicure will be chip-proof,
she says, if you'll glaze your nails
every day with clear all-over
liquid that seals up polish and
CLOSES over tiny scratches or blurs.
To keep eyebrows from becom-
ing scraggly, Miss Roberts plucks
out pin-point stragglers every day
or SO. Never waits for dozens Of
stubby hairs to push out and mar
the clean line of her brows.
To hold deeply furrowed waves
in your Golf and bounce in your
curls, brush out soil each night.
For thorough job of stripping,
spike bristles with layers of abb
sorbent gauze, ard don't stop
brushing until the last packing of
gauze comes out of your brush abb
Solutely simon pure.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07
A FIGURE 4 LA HOLLYWOOD
is YOURS FOR THE SEWING

and collar. Cut front edges two
inches wider than pattern and
fold these back to make double
thickness facings 1-inch wide. Take
in shoulder darts. Sew up side and
shoulder seams, and take in waist
line darts at front and back to fit
bodice snugly to your figure. Fin
ish armholes and neckline by roll
ling and whipping. Finish bottom
of bodice with pinking shears. Put
snappers on front facins tog fasten.
To make shoulder pads, use a
piece of cotton batting of three
thicknesSes and of size desired. Cut
in shape OF square. Holding
square diamond-wise, cut in half.
which gives you two triangular
shaped pads. Catch-stitch around
each pad to hold layers of cotton
in place. To cover, cut two finch
squares of any thin material-net,
chiffon, or georgette-fold this
square in half, which gives you a
triangular covering for your tri-
angle of cotton. Cover cotton and
haste around edges. Place finished
pad on shoulder of bodice with the
triangle pointing toward neck; with
the opposite side of the pad extend
ing about one-inch out from arm
holes. Tack in position.
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derstaffed retailers also demands
more informative labelling.
Some informative labels can be
found now if you look for them.
Many are sponsored and approved
by the National Consumer Retail
er Council, Inc, made up of such
groups as the General Federation
of Womens Clubs, the American
Retail Federation, the National Bet
ter Business Bureau, the American
Home Economics Association, the
American Home Economics Associa-
ton of University Women, working
with heads of large merchandising
concerns.
GIVE SPECIFIC FACTS
These labels will have such a
designation as This is the type
of label suggested by the National
Consumer Retailer Council, Inc"
For instance, typical labels on three
price-lines in towels list specific
quality differences. According to
Mrs. Harriet R. Howe, in charge
of consumer education at the
AliltI1CdIl t1OulG GCOllOIIllCo ASoO-
citation, and members of OPA's Con-
sumer Advisory Commute, the vi
tai part of this type of labelling
is that specific information is CIV
en- about the same factors for diff
fercGt price ranges, SO the shop
per can make comparisons.
Towel labels give the size and
such quality specifications as weight
per square yard, number of terry
loops and basic yarns per square
inch. Also, the exact amount of
strain the yarns will withstand is
given.
This type of label can be found
on blankets. 1t will give wool per-
centage, size and weight per square
yard, tensile strength, warmth rat
ing according to precise test, color,
mothproofing and binding durabil-
ity. Consumer interest will bring
more of these labels to help you
shop for textiles.
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Current Rationing Regulations
(MEATS AND FATS

FATS
Red stamps "A8" E8" "F8" &C., HS' and J0 III
BookI points, valid indefinitely
PROCESSED FOODS
Blue stamps "D8" "EG "FE. "GS H0 cD'
each worth 10 points ace valid mde1neV.
SUGAR
Book ~ valid Tor five POUNDS OF
indefinitely. r.. H.. .su 1..
home Canning through maximum Of 20 pounds OF sugar
canning will be granted in addition on apps
local ration board
Stamp pair Of shoes VIII expire
April Apane valid indefinitely m one
be designated shortly Will take erect May
valid for three gallons through May
B and B-l valid for two gallons
B3 and CD valid Tor i've ganonS
INSPECTION
deadline "A' March
&C" May 81
Period four coupons valid through spten.
Der 80 All coupons are worth 10 gallons per unit
Ali dwelling units including houses
roong houses and hotels
and
Office within five
all rented dwelling units other than roong
and hotels
delivery anthracite coke be made unless the
vendor his possession signed statement the
number to be heated and the
type heating equipment used.
his possession dealer
October 1914 so
which
1O4 limited to 81 IL Of the
amount received during the period April 1912 to March g. lSA
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folk songs. Previously they are
scheduled for Palm Sunday con-
cert in Boston on April 2. The
Traps have just made their sixth
American tour of 90 concerts in CT
ties from coast to coast.
The New York City Center Opera
Company will present spring sea-
son of opera at the City Center for
two weeks, starting May 2. nj ad-
dition to "Tosca," Martha and
Carmen" with which the company
started its career in February, it is
preparing La Boheme," 'Travia-
ta,' "Cavalleria Rusticana' and
"Pagliacci.' The operas will be CIV
en- at the same low price of So top.
Helen Jepson, Metropolitan Opera
soprano, who took leave of alb
sence this season after the birth of
a son last September, will rejoin
the company in Cleveland on its
abbreviated spring tour, singing
Guillietta in Offenbach,s "Tales of
Hoffman,
The Baccaloni Opera Company,
which has just appeared in San
Francisco in Don Pasquale" and
THE Barber of Seville" on a tour
of this country and Canada, expects
to have played As engagements be-
fore returning to New York on May
l. The company features Salvatore
Baccaloni, basso-buffo of the Metro
politan, Dorothy Chapman and
Ruby Mercer.
Dorothy Maynor, soprano, gave
her 25th recital since Jan. l when
she made her only New York ap-
pearance of the season at Town
Hall last Saturday. Miss Maynor
visited every section of the country
and sang at military camps and for
service organizations when her
schedule permitted. She reported a
healthy taste among soldiers for
good concert music and observed
that they showed excellent dis
elimination in what they liked.
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, MCKINNEY
ON BRIDGE
BY VIM. f. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Today's hand is one of the lucki-
est have seen in a long time. 1t
is not improbable that many play
ers would arrive at six contract,
but now see what happens. The
opening club lead is won by South,
the declarer. He leads a small spade,
and wishing to avoid too many
illnesses, he plays the nine-spot
from dummy and it holds. The eight
Of hearts is led, and again the god
dess of luck is gracious and the
finesse holds. The five OF hearts
was led and the nine-spot finessed
and West showed out.
One pair became careless at this
point and as a result, failed to
make the contract. The proper play
is to lay down the ace of hearts,
then lead another spade and finesse
the queen. East can take his king
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07

Now If the scientists could just
find a substance that would help
folks to mature mentally and
emotionally-that would be real
help to the war effort.
Then we wouldn't have to be
sold" on the war, by stunts and
super craftsmanship.
NO NEED FOR BRIDES
Girls would join the WAC's be-
cause the Army says it needs them.
And it wouldn't be necessary to
put male movie star, such as Sgt.
Gene Autry, to recruiting women
for the Army, as has been done re-
Gently.
Housewives wouldn't have to be
bribed with ration points, as well
as money, to get them to take their
waste fats to the butcher shop in
sead of pouring them down the
drain. They would do it for nothing
because the need for such salvagiing
was pointed out to them.
And we wouldn't have to have
all sorts Of stunts and drives to get
us to buy all the war bonds we pos
sibly can.
That is the kind of growing sub
stance" we really need. Something
capable of making grownups face
the war and its demands on them
instead of regarding it like children
who have to be bribed, wheedled
and flattered into doing the things
that must be done.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07

The charmingly simple and ador-
ably pretty yoke dress which is SO
easy to make-the skirt is easily
and gracefully gathered and hung
from the yoke. Make it in pretty
cottons for school and play-in
breath-taking organizes for party
wear!
Pattern No. 1868 is in sizes 1, @,
3, 4, S and years. Size 2, dress
and pantie, requires 3-8 yards OF
39-inch fabric; IL yards bias
fold to trim.
For this attractive pattern, send
IS cents, plus l cent for postage,
in coins, with your name, address,
pattern number and size to Water
bury Democrat Today's Pattern
Service, 1850 Sixth Avenue, New
York 10, N. Y.
Ready NOW, the Spring issue Of
Fashion, just 15c. Complete. Full
Of brand new wardrobe ideas.
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square silk scarf "A"I1 "0U
will do nicely. Fold it cornerwise
and place it over the chest with
one end of the triangle over the
shoulder opposite the injured arm.
The point (the right angle) of the
triangle should be behind the elbow
of the injured arm.
LEAVE FINGERS EXPOSED
Bend the lebow until the hand is
about four inches above its level.
Garry the second end of the tri-
angle up over the shoulder of the
injured arm and tie the two ends
together with a square knot back
of the neck. (Your Boy Scout son
or Girl Scout daughter can show
you how to tie square knott
Now fold the point of the sling
around the front of the elbow and
pin it securely with a safety pin,
to make comfortable pocket for
the elbow. If you are caring for a
injured hand, place it far enough
back in the sling so that it is we'll
protected and supported, but leave
the tips of the fingers uncovered
so that you can see them. If they
turn blush in color, or if they
swell and ache, it is likely that
the bandages are too tight and are
interfering with circulation. In
loosening them avoid disturbing
the dressing or the injury.
1t is wise to practice putting a
sling on we'll person so that you
will know how to do it quickly in
an emergency.
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&g2M Gln11 @H}a
IT, Kitchen - -
Let Green And
Yellow Be Easter
Color Theme
BY GAYNOR MADDOX
NEA Staff Writer

It's easy to select balanced
menu for Easter with green and
yellow foods predominating. These
colors have important nutritional
Importance, too.
Here are two yellow" recipes.
Green vegetables and salad are
the best source of the green.
Lemon Meringue Pudding
(Serves g.
One half cup water, l IL tea
spoons grated lemon rind, IA cup
lemon juice, 2 tablespoons butter,
3-4 cup sugar, 2 eggs, separated,
1-2 cups fresh, soft bread crumbs.
Mix water lemon rind and juice.
Cream butter, add 1-2 cup sugar.
Mix and add in egg yolks and stir
in crumbs and lemon mixture.
Turn into creased baking dish,
place in pan of hot water and bake
in Moderate oven $3.50 degrees F. for
0 to IS minutes, or until firm. Beat
egg whites until stiff, add remain
ing Ia cup sugar and beat until
blended. Spread on pudding and
bake IS minutes longer, or until
meringue is delicately Drowned.
Sweet Potato Stuffing for EOast
Chicken
(WilI stuff 1-2-pOund chicken)
Chicken giblets, onion, ! cup
water, 1-2 teaspoon salt, few grains
pepper, medium sweet potatoes, l
tablespoon chopped parsley, l cup
fresh bread crumbs.
Simmer giblets in water with
onion, salt and pepper, until giz-
card is tender, adding liver during
last five minutes of cooking. Drain
and chop fine. Save liquid (there
should be about IL cup). Boil po-
tatoes, peel and mash. Combine
with giblets, parsley and bread
crumbs and add cooking liquid.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07
Bad Housekeeping Proves Good for Fat Saving

When we asked Gretta if we
could watch her cook dinner, she
said. Come on, but have to clean
up the kitchen first. I had two girls
in for lunch, and before We real
ICED it, it was time for the movies,
so we Just left everything and ran.
The kitchen is a sight
1t was that. The sink was litter
ed with cooking utensils and I'M
scraped plates cluttered the work.
table.
81 really threw a good lunch,
Gretta told US, though l had no
idea what the menus would be when
I so cordially invited my friends.
Fortunately, there was plenty OF
salad green's adm I found a pack
age of eight frankfurters in the
icebox, so everything shaped up
fine.
A Film of Fat
1T Just popped the frankfurterS
in hot water and boiled them while
I fixed the salad But I certainly
ought to have thrown out the water
instead of letting it stand. Look at
the grease"
We looked. There was a thick
film of yellow fat on the now cold
water in which the frankfurters had
boiled.
I'D better heat it up SO it will
not make the sink so greasy" she
said turning up the gas.
This is pure fat" We told her.
"You have fat salvage can, haven't
you?"
Certainly" she said, and pro-
duced it. Then we dipped off the
fat that had solidified on the water
and got four and a half teasoop-
fuls.
Patriotic to Save
"That is a new one on me-" she
admitted. 81 though I was a pretty
careful fat saver. scoop it off from
stews and soups, and drain the last
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07
EASTER SUNDAYS MENU

BREAKFAST: Orange juice,
ready-to-eat cereal, milk and
sugar, scrambled eggs, with
chives, enriched mullins, butter
or fortified margarine.
DINNER: Grapefruit and
mint cup, roast chicken, sweet
potato stuffing, green beans,
brown rice and gravy, mixed
green salad, French dressing,
lemon meringue pudding, minis,
coffee, milk.
SUPPER: Dreamed minced
chicken on toast spears, veget-
able salad, baking powder bis
cults, butter or fortified marga-
rine. stewed strawberry rhu-
barb, white cake, tea, milk.
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the goal of 100000 in its recent a
now to be able to meet its current
The fund campaign was deemed
necessary despite the fact that the
opera had one of its most success.
full seasons in many years, result
ing in repeated box-office ell-outs.
George A. Sloan, president of the
Opera Association, explaining this
said the campaign was made nee
essary by two factors over which
the opera had no control. They
were the necessity of continuing tt
pay heavy and unexpected real es-
tate taxes and the loss of income
through curtailment of the operas
spring tour because of wartime
transportation restrictions.
The association still hopes thai
the tax exemption bill passed by the
State Legislature last year will be
applied retroactively to this sea-
sons operations. In any event, II
will be effective not later than o.
tober, 1914, freeing the opera there
after from having to pay approXim-
ately $4,000 annually.
The New York Philharmonic
Symphony is devoting the next to
last week of it's season to perform
anceS of the Bach st. Matthew Pas
sion on April 6, and under Bru-
no Walter. 1t will mark Walter
last appearances before taking q
years "Sabbatical' from opera and
concert work after SO years as q
conductor.
The advance sale for the Bach
Passion assured capacity audiences
as was the case with the Beethoven
Ninth Symphony under Walter, all
three performances of which were
sold out weeks ahead. The veteran
conductor was given an ovation at
each performance in recognition OF
the 50th anniversary of his debut,
and was honored with stage cere-
monies for which the audience re-
manned after the last presentation
on Sunday, March 10.
For the final offering OF its New
York season of 10 concerts at Car
negie Hall, the Philadelphia Or
chestra, under Eugene Ormandy,
will offer an all-Brahms program
on April II. Marian Anderson, the
great Negro contralto, will be solo,
list in -Four Serious Songs Opus
121, while the orchestra will present
the First Symphony and the Seren-
ade No. in A Major.
Elizabeth Rethberg, for years a
brilliant star of the Metropolitan
Opera, will return to the concert
stage on April 80 when she will be
heard in recital at Town Hall, New
York, in a program of lieder and
old English songs. Nine. Rethberg,
who sang almost every important
soprano role at the Metropolitan
from Bruennhilde to Mimi in La
Boheme," is credited with a roper
toire of 106 operate roles.
A famous Metropolitan star of a
much earlier day, Frieda Hempel,
also is back on the concert stage
and was heard this week in recital
at Town Hall, her second appear
ance this season.
The Trap Family Singers, an
nually heard in New York in Christi
mas carol concerts, will introduce
another holiday festival of song
with their first Easter Sunday con-
cert at Town Hall. They will give
Lenten and Passion Week music of
five centuries from all parts of the
world, as well as Easter carols and
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drops from the skillet. But would
never have thought of frankfruter
water as producing fat. You see
it's patriotic to be a bad house
keeper and let your dishes stand"
Its certainly patriotic to save
fat" we assured her, and all water
in which meat has been boiled
should be cooled and SKINNED
Boiled tongue, and boiled corned
beef also yield fat. Don't let Ia
blespoonful of such fat 60 down
the sink when all fat is SO precious"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07
GROWN IN WASHINGTON

Jean Heather, who has the ro.'
mantle feminine lead in Paramount's
Going My Way" with Bing Crosby
and Rise Stevens, Is one of five
graduates of the university OF
Washington drama course to win
film fame. The others ar Frances
Farmer, Ella Raines, 10 Ann Sayers
and Marian Hall.
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acc ord n g to
Standards Divi-
sion of the Of
flee of Price Adj
ninistration.
r e spO nsible
retailers trou-
bled with un-
trained help and
merchandise re-
turned by in
dignant shop
pers are holding
their heads and
screaming for
manufactu r e r S
to put enough
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07

OF G a l l I o r II Ia
biological scien-
fists.
Although n o t
enough of t h e
stuff has been
collected to in
nee t h e
growth of a sin
gle human be-
ing, There is a
p @ S S ! b / / t y,
t h e S e scientists
say, that it can
be put to prac-
tical use in time
to help the war. -
SO says a recent
-
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of hearts whenever he wishes, be-
cause the losing diamond goes on
one of the good spades. But inter-
estingly enough, even the diamond
fineSSe works.
Not one pair played the hand
at spades, although seven-odd can
be made without even taking the
diamond fineSse.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07
PICTURE INSPIRES FARM

Because soy beans figured promi-
nently in the script of Paramount's
And The Angels Sing" musical CO.
starring Dorothy Lamour, Fred
MacMurray and Betty Hutton, Mac
Murray became interested in their
personalities and plan purchase
of a farm to raise them.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07
SOUTH SEA ENGAGEMENT

The most lavish setting ever Gre
ated for ia South Sea picture was
erected by Paramount for use IN
the bethrothal ceremony which is
seen in Rainbow Island" Techni-
color musical headlining Dorothy
Lamour, Eddie Bracken, Gil Lamb
and Barry Sullivan.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07

The heat may be lowered as soon
as the contents of a porcelain
enameled pan have reached the
boiling point, since enameled ware
not only conducts heat quickly and
evenly, but retains the heat as well.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07
WELL CAST

In THE Hour Before The Dawn"
Binnie Barnes plays the wife of ap
Raj flyer, portrayed by John SUIT
ton. In real life, she is wife of Lieu
tenant Mike Frankovitch, an Amer
lean pilot.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07

It is important
that the HON e
n u r S e should
know it. A sling
is iften used in
the are of a
broken arm or
collar bone, or for
injury or infec-
ton of the hand
or arm.
To m a k e a
sling, take a piece
of cloth about a
yard square - a
flour S a C k a
square dish towel
or a So C k, a
III
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07

Foods which have subtle, delicate
flavors should be prepared in proce-
lain enameled utensils, experts say.
The hard, non-porous enamel finish
does not change food favors.
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1--WE, The WUMEN--
Miss Miuett
Suggests Task
For Scientists
BY RUTH MILLETT

"a substance theoretically capable
of bringing understood people to
normal stature has been obtained
in pure form by two University
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The World of Music

NEW Metropolitan Opera having gone well past
public
able meet its current needs until the is
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PALS WITH KIDS

Eddie Bracken may be important
enough in movies to star alone in
Paramount's Hail the Conquering
Hero" but to the boys in his neigh
borhood he is just a playmate in
baseball, football, and "shinney."
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information on labels so customers
will know what they are getting.
The system of self help used by I'M
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4I%S :; inr'ISg
49,
For Broken Arm or Hand
How to Arrange a Sling
By MARY BEARD
Director, Nursing Service,
American Red Cross
Written for NEA Service


If you have taken a course in first
aid, you have learned how to
put an arm in a sling. For those
who have not had that privilege
we present the procedure because
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07

Washington, April There is
hope that the chaos of wartime
conditions in textiles may bring the
blessing of more Informative labels.
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HOME FRONT FORECAST
Tips On Textiles-NO. s
Customer Complaints Are Forcing Manufacturers
To Put Informative Labels On Some Materials
HOME FRONT FORECAST

This is the sixth and last of
a series of articles telling how
to judge the quality and work.
manship of cloth and clothing.
BY ANN STEVICK
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WE, THE WOMEN
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(WEAIO
Red stamps "A8," "B8" "C8'', ''E8" "F8", "G8',
Book w. each worth 10 points, valid indefinitely
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07

The Trap Family Singers, an
nually heard in New York in Christ
mas carol concerts, will introduce
another holiday festival of song
with their first Easter Sunday con-
cert at Town Hall. They will give
Lenten and Passion Week music of
five centuries from all parts of the
world, as well as Easter carols and