The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-25
observations
Gastronomic Note
It's Onions For
Admiral
BY Helen Essary

No piece OF informal news VII
months has delighted me as much
as this bit written in by a bosom
friend in the South Pacific;
Admiral Nimitz gets definitely
upset II he can't have onions. The
admiral just dotes on onions. He
eats more OF them than you would
ever dream anybody would eat-of
onions
so Admiral Nimitz dotes on on
ions, The admiral is as fine a
fighting sailor as ever put a polish
ed toe on quarter deck. He is
star among feet commanders.
Indeed he may be chosen as head
of the coming big offensive against
Japan.
II would be interesting and very
instructive to find out do other sue
fessful fighting men dote on on
ions? What kind OF food do they
dote on? What is the special deli
cacy or the roughage OF other COM
bat leaders? Does Macarthur
crave chocolate ice cream? Does
General Eisenhower thrive on fried
chicken and mashed potatoes.
General Patton, so we used to be
told, at fire and birthstone. Gen.
eral Grant knew good whisky when
he tasted it, Just what is the fay-
orite dish OF various heroes? In
other words-what are heroes
made of? Speak up, you dietitians!
THE OFFICE OF WAR INFOR-
NATION has been sending out
postcard questionnaires-"Do you
or do you not-wish to continue
TO receive releases from this Of
fice?" Obviously the war news or
the information which the OWL
thinks 1t can give to the public is
diminishing.
Meanwhile. what are the Bright
Minds of this sprawling organZa-
ton doing with their red corpus
Giles? may be wrong, but as |
read the fashion copy in the maya
ines and newspapers | begin to
think that in this poisoning prose
are naughty inspirations from idle
brains with nothing in particular
TO do.
Certainly there's a military hang
over in such an order as: Attack
autumnal gloom with this sword
slim. fame-bright satin suit that
owes much OF its drama to its braz-
en- outside seams" Or +.
March boldly forth in gay. tri-
umphant colors. Perch on
your upswept couture a black,
black double black beret that
rises and sweeps and plunges to
dramatic proportions and subli'
mates your entire soul arresting
costume with its grandeur"
Here's another-done likewise
with exclamation points, a Roget's
Thesaurus and a Blue Back Speller
Book Of Cliches-"The woman who
filings this superlative fox stole
over the slim shoulders OF sim
pie jumper stands out alone in all
her beauty like some new divine
instrument soloing to the gods!
Humph. Some babe-in the
language Of the average male.
The prophetic silhouette" is
worrying the stylists. Probably
part of the postwar planning. Has
the prophetic wiggled into the
Dumbarton Oaks conversations yet?
! hope not, because in the fashion
advice TO the careworn you-s and
he's, the truly prophetic silhouette
has 1.-The lure of a sophisticated
mermaid transplanted from the
sea 10 the sailor"
Such goings on. When all a
woman wants is dress that Is rea-
sonably becoming. will make other
women reasonably envious and en-
courage some man TO say: You
look swell today. honey"
For exciting as may be the
thought OF the essence OF blonde
bewitching-'twas said one drop
would make a woman the most raw
ishing thing in life" there just is
not time to 'e the most ravishing
thing in life-always.
Until store deliveries improve
don't want TO go a-marketing In
a gallop down LIES highway, oil
TO frisk through fall days with
shoes frankly flirting at the toes"
don't care for toes, frankly flirt
ing or beguilingly bunioned. MOI
do ! want TO be bothered will
"drawstring drama" when I'm cop
ing with 10 pounds OF unrip'
though divinely dyed oranges II
an ecstatically bulging bus. Ever
IL have topped my sleep head will
"a cartwheel hat. halo to a calot
and emphasizing it's fragile beaut.
with my strict suit"
What's a strict suit?
Maybe II is a military secret. TIL,
owl probably is at the bottom q
the whole hilarious, dramati
(never forget "dramatic") fashion
outlook for the woman with a "su