Illinois Valley News, Thursday, December 18, 1941
Pase Three
It’s Up to Y oh W hether Your
Cape Will Be I ^ong or Short
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
shoulders and fitting smoothly
over the hips helps the average
figure achieve youthful slender­
ness—the skirt is comfortable to
wear for walking, standing and
sitting, the dickey provides a note
of freshness for this costume so
that it is always attractive to
wear. Make it now for yourself
in gabardine, twills, plaids, nov­
elty rayons or serge.
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Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1485 B is tie-
signed fur sizes 3J, 34. 36. 38 . 40. 42 44
and 46. Size 34 requires 5 yards 35-inch
material, 3 yards 54 inch.
Dickey re-
quires
yard 35-inch material.
Send
your order to:
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT.
149 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco
Calif.
Enclose 15 cents in coins for
Pattern No..........................Size................
Name ................................. . ......................
Address ......................................................
Jones Found It Difficult
Matter to ( '.lianfic His Diet
Let a Star-Studded Ham Say Merry Christinas!
(See Recipes Below)
Deck the Table
Greetings, homemakers!
Here’s my Christmas present to
you. ■ menu with recipes designed
to ring in the holiday season and to
crown your table with luscious food,
just wonderful to eat. The menu is
worked out in the best colors of the
season.
THIS WEEK'S MENU
Christmas Dinner
•Grapefruit-Persimmon Salad
•Sweet French Dressing
•Baked Ham
’Holiday Sauce
•Virginia Cranberry Mold
•Sweet Potato Pone
•Green Peas With Beets
Crescent Rolls
Celery
Olives
Jelly
Plum Pudding with Sauce Coffee
•Recipes Given
There's a touch of the traditional
in the menu in the baked ham and
sweet potato pone topped off with
the plum pudding, and then there's
a dash of newness in the cranberry
mold, the salad and its perky dress­
ing and the holiday sauce.
Whether you’re welcoming your
sons from camp,
your daughters
from
college,
make this their
gala feast, for
Christmas din­
ners are some­
thing to cherish
and remember.
♦Grapefruit-Persimmon Salad.
Be versatile with your grapefruit.
Peel, separate into sections, then
slip the thin peeling off the sections
being careful to leave the section
whole. Alternate the sections of
grapefruit wth thin slices of persim­
mon, having the outside sections on
top so the fruit together gives the
appearance of a mound. Use three
sections of grapefruit per serving.
Lay this on a crisp bed of lettuce
and serve with dressing. Avocado
and pink grapefruit sections may
also be used in this way.
Bake in a shallow, buttered casse­
role in a moderate (350 degrees) ov­
en, 30 to 35 minutes.
•Baked Ham.
You can depend upon your holiday
dinner to go over if you serve a
ham,
glistening
and shimmering.
baked in sweet.
spicy juices. Wrap
the ham in clean
wrapping paper.
Place fat side up
on a rack in an
open pan. Use no
water. Bake in a
slow oven. Hams
weighing 16 to 18 pounds require
4 to 4H hours baking; 12 to 15
pounds, 3'4 to 4 hours; 10 to 12
pounds, 3 to 3ti hours; and 8 to 10
pounds, 2’i to 3 hours.
Remove paper and all rind, Cov­
er with a glaze of pickled peach
juice or 1 cup honey and *-i cup or-
ange marmalade, or 1 cup pureed
apricots for extra special goodness.
To make stars, cut slices of pineap­
ple and form into a star. Use a
maraschino cherry in center. Bake
until brown (about 15 minutes) in
a hot (400 degrees) oven.
•Holiday Sauce.
For your masterpiece, the ham,
serve a sauce that's rich and jewel-
red. Ladle it over the ham gener-
ously to bring out the best in the
meat. Like all good things, the sauce
is a simple, good-tasti-g combina­
tion. Melt 1 small glass of currant
jelly in double boiler, add 3 table­
spoons chili sauce, blend, and serve
hot
•Green Peas With Beets.
Bright red and green touch in the
best tradition of Christmas is your
beet and green peas vegetable com­
bination. Boil the beets with two
inches of their tops left on until ten­
der. 25 to 35 minutes depending on
age and size. Plunge into cold wa­
ter and remove skins. Scoop out
center, add salt and butter. Just
before serving, heat beets, fill cen­
ters with cooked, seasoned green
peas, heated piping hot.
colored jewels embroider the cape
and the low decolletage. A draped
velvet bow-toque and long black
gloves make it correct for all for­
mal wear. Capes of this type are
to be seen in increasing numbers
as the midwinter season advances.
LIVENING wraps are so refresh-
* -‘ ingly "different'' looking this
season they thrill one with their
newness of theme and technique.
The fact that many of the smartest
evening wraps are now made of
handsome wool weaves is a depar­
ture from the beaten path that is
attended with excitingly new fash­
ion interest.
Add to these richly colorful wools
a sumptuous embellishment of glit­
tering embroidery or applique, as
designers delight in doing this win­
ter, and the after-five fashion
parade becomes a pageantry of re­
splendent beauty.
In this new movement of embroid­
ered evening wraps, capes either
long or short are the big sensation.
Made of bright wool or of velvet
they are given an air of newness
with richly embroidered yokes that
extend down over the shoulders and
sometimes down each side of the
front closing.
Regal looking, indeed, are the
full length velvet capes that fashion-
minded women are wearing this
season. A striking version of this
type is shown to the right in the
illustration.
This model holds a
particular note of interest in that it
was displayed at a fashion show
staged at Copacabana Palace, Rio
Janeiro, recently under the aus­
pices of the British Fashion Tour.
Over a hundred beautiful costumes,
designed by couturiers who fled
from Paris to London, were shown.
For this striking evening ensem­
ble Norman Hartnell, the designer,
uses rose-colored moire for the
lovely gown, with black velvet for
the stunning floor-length cape. Rich
Don't forget the big. overflowing
bowls of fruits and nuts for the
family to nibble on during Christmas
day. Cluster raisins, apples, yellow,
supple bananas, and nuts in the
•Sweet French Dressing.
shell—all these the family will want
(For fruit salads)
to make their festivities complete.
9 tablespoons oil
The children will give you three
3'i tablespoons powdered sugar
An interesting new coat silhouette
cheers if you string red cranberries
H teaspoon salt
and popcorn on a string and hang looms on the current style horizon.
3 tablespoons paprika
It is a slenderizing cloth coat cut
on the tree or in their stockings.
teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
along princess lines, and it has a
Steaming the Pudding.
4 tablespoons lemon juice
pert little capelet to give it youth.
Plum puddings are best when
Set all ingredients in icebox for
The capelet itself makes big fashion
served
piping
hot.
This
means
they
three hours before mixing. Com­
news, but it adds to its newsiness
bine in order given, blending thor­ should be steamed for at least l‘i-2 by taking on novel trimming such
oughly. Chill again in mason jar. | hours before serving. If the pudding as hand-tied yarn fringe to finish it
Before using, let melt, then beat is in a mold cover with a lid or with off, or a pleating of wide velvet rib­
heavy waxed paper. Place on a rack
until thick with wooden spoon.
bon, or maybe a flat velvet border­
in a large kettle. Have about 2 inches
ing. As to fur edgings and band­
•Virginia Cranberry .Mold.
of water in the bottom of the kettle,
ings, these jaunty little capes revel
You’ll want something tantalizing- and have this water boiling all the
in them. An interesting future is In
ly tart as foil to the bland sweetness while. More water may be added if
promise for the cape-coat.
cf the ham. Here ft is:
necessary. A double boiler or a
pressure cooker may also be used
1 17-ounce can cranberry sauce
to good advantage for steaming.
Juice of two oranges
Grated rind of 1 orange
To serve, unmold the pudding and
1 cup hot water
garnish the platter with holly or
The lingerie neckwear vogue is
3 packages gelatin
other leaves and bright berries.
taking a new lease on life. Very at­
Mash cranberry sauce fine; add
a
tractive are the simple black frocks
rind and orange juice. Dissolve gel- |
LYNN SAYS:
with which are worn exquisite large
■tin in hot water and add to first
pleated sheer white or lace-trimmed
mixture. Pour into molds and put
Few holidays can offer you the
collars.
It adds allure to black-
in cool place to set.
same decorative possibilities as
and-white to fasten the dress with
•Sweet Potato Pone.
Christmas season, so make the
sparkling rhinestone buttons.
most of the evergreens, berries,
(Serves 6 to 8)
cones, candles, ornaments, and
Delicately spiced, heart-warming
rich colors.
■ nd gracious •ccompaniment to
Fleece is not only a major factor
Here are some centerpiece
your dinner is
in medium price sports coats, but
ideas
which
would
be
effective;
this sweet potato
there is a definite trend toward lux­
Use a green wreath on a mir­
pone. Satisfy your
ury fleece coats with fur collars.
ror and fill with evergreen
desire for sweet
Dyed in high, vivid shades of gold,
branches dipped or sprayed with
potatoes with
green or fuchsia, the new fleeces
white paint and place brightly
ham this new-old
are ideal to wear with gay print
colored
ornaments
or
fruits
way. It's like
frocks at winter resorts. There will
among the branches.
grandmother used
also be a great deal of white fleece
to make, homey,
Surround candles with pine
seen, along with those tinted in off-
tasty, just won­
branches and cones and have sev­
white shades.
derful food!
eral small silver bells around the
24 cups grated raw sweet potato
base of the centerpiece as though
H cup butter
they came out of the branches.
Your evening slippers must glit-
cp sugar
Make a gingerbread house, frost
ter with rhines me embroidery or
H cup milk
with a thin powdered sugar icing
with sparkling beadwork, Bows on
1 teaspoon powdered ginger
and sprinkle with silver snow.
your evening pumps are set with
teaspoon mac«
Set this on a mirror or surround
rhinestones
or
scintillating
jet
Grated rind of 1 orange
with spruce or pine branches and
beads. Newest of all are the nail-
Blend sugar ana butter.
Add
cones.
bead-studded shoes that are worn
sweet potato and milk. Beat well,
for less formal occasions.
then add spices and orange rind
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Slender Princess Coat
Has Capelet and lion s
It is well worth keeping in touch
with this new cape movement for
it is rapidly developing into a wide­
spread vogue. In the young set as
well as among the more mature,
capes made of bright wool mark
“last word’’ chic with utmost em­
phasis.
Hip-length capes are as
fashionable as the full-length types.
The colors of the wools that make
them are gorgeous and daring, such
as, for instance, the new and lovely
cerise, the deep plum tones, the fire
reds and the Kelly greens. Black
with gold is also a favorite and the
younger generation is reveling in
white wool capes that are gaily em­
broidered in peasant colored yarns.
Typical of the long wool evening
coats worn this season is the dra­
matic full-length black wool coat
pictured to the left in the group,
On the yoke and all the way down
the front opening there is an ap-
plique of gold cloth encrusted with
jewels.
Centered in the picture is a coat
that is marvelous for holiday par-
ties. Persian influence is reflected
throughout the styling of this coat,
which is of rich black wool, the zip­
per closing assuring a smooth un­
broken line and extra warmth, An
extravagant
gold
boullion
and
bright bead embroidery stresses
Persian color and technique.
Going to a new restaurant for
lunch
Jones
ordered
brown
bread. The waitress brought him
white.
Jones, being a reserved
fellow, said nothing. The second
day he ordered brown anti again
got white.
This went on for a
week.
Then he decided that the only
way to get what he wanted was
to order the opposite. So he start­
ed the new week by adding to his
luncheon order:
“And bring me some white
bread.’’
“But,”
exclaimed
the
girl,
aren't you the gentleman who
always has brown?’’
Stop worrying about what to
send that man you know in the
l_I ERE'S good news for belles- service.
He’s
answered
that
A
on-a-budget who yearn for Christmas gift problem for you in
any
number
of
surveys
made
in
| the smooth smartness of a two-
piece frock!
Pattern No. 1485-H camp and on shipboard. It’s cig­
offers a streamline version—sleek, arettes and smoking tobacco first.
The favorite cigarette is Camel.
simple to make with a three but­
The big favorite among smoking
ton cardigan neck topper, a skirt tobaccos is Prince Albert, the Na­
with a front pleat and a dickey tional Joy Smoke, according to
collar which gives a trim touch actual sales records from service
of white in a flattering line next stores in the Army, Navy, Marine
to the face. This dickey is easily Corps, and Coast Guard. Local
adjusted—doesn’t need to be even dealers are featuring Camels in
your choice of two gaily wrapped
1 pinned in place.
packages, also pound tins and
We easily can see the advan- I pound glass humidors of Prince
tages of a suit of this type. The Albert as ideal Christmas gifts for
I jacket emphasizing width at the the men in the service.—Adv.
Soothe ihat throat tickle which comet from a
cough due to a cold! Quick—get a Smith Bros.
Cough Drop. (Black or Menthol—5C.)
Smith Bros. Cough Drops are the
only drops containing VITAMIN A
Vitamin A (Carotene) raise, the resistance of
So outstanding is embroidery in
mucous membranes of nose and throat to
the scheme of things this season
cold infections, when lack of resist­
that even fur capes are showing
ance is due to Vitamin A deficiency.
embroidery done in yoke fashion.
Mink with sparkling brown sequins
Trunkfish
but their bodies are encased in a
is very effective, while jet on black
Trunkfishes, of the family Ostra- hard shell, like that of a turtle,
broadtail or Persian lamb is in per­
fect tune with the new mode which ciidae, which are found in warm and only the jaws, fins, eyes and
seas, are shaped like other fish, tail are free to move.
calls for black on black.
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Zebra Stripes
New Lingerie Neckwear
For Plain Black Dress
Fleece Coats
1 winkle Toes
THE SMOKE OF SLOWER BURNING CAMELS CONTAINS
It is considered the smart thing
this season to give chic accent to
one's costume with accessories that
are daring and unusual.
Zebra
striped black and white velvet is
used for this striking turban and
glove ensemble. It is an excellent
duo to wear with a basic black dress
for afternoon. This year many mil­
liners are making companion bags
and gloves to match hats, so keep
this in mind when buying new ac­
cessories. Or should you be of the
self-reliant type and can “make
your own,” you can find patterns
for gloves, hats and bags in most
stores where pattern service is
available.
These offer styles to fit your purse
and your wardrobe.
LESS NICOTINE
than the average of the 4 other
largest-aelllng cigarettes tested —less than
any nt them—according to independent
Scientific testa of the smoke itself I
_THE CIGARETTE
OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS