SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Friday, lune 14 1940 Page 3 Apron Dress Is an Intriguing on the Fashion Program By CHERIE NICHOLAS STAGE SCREEN RADIO By VIKG1NIA VALE lHeleuted by Westarn Nvw»p.4 cup brown sugar ■nd serve at once. *4 cup white sugar 1 egg Minted Pineapple Gems. 2 tablespoons orange juice (Serves 4) 1 tablespoon orange rind (grated) 14-ounce can pineapple (spoon ­ i 244 cups general purpose flour size chunks) V« teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons lime juice V« teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon fresh mint (minced) V4 cup pecan nut meats (broken) Arrange pineapple In fruit cock­ Cream shortening and add sugars tail glasses. Combine lime Juice slowly, while beating constantly. and mint, and pour over the pine­ Add egg (well-beaten), orange juice apple. Chill thoroughly before serv- and orange rind. Mix and sift flour, Ing. salt and soda together and add to Hot Weather Vegetable Plate, the creamed mixture, together with the broken nut meats Form in rolls New potatoes browned in butter in wax paper and chill overnight in Small whole beets rolled in mint refrigerator. Slice thin, place on Spinach with hard cooked eggs greased baking sheet and bake in Nutted squash moderately hot oven (375 degrees) Green onions. Parboil small pared potatoes in for 12 to 15 minutes. Fruit Salad. salted water, drain and brown in hot butter. Cook small, whole beets in Toss together in a salad bowl 1 boiling water un­ cup watermelon balls, 1 cup canta­ til tender. Drain loupe balls, 1 cup honey dew melon and peel. Add balls, 1 cup pitted red cherries. Add melted butter. french dressing enough to coat all Then roll but­ the fruits, and mix lightly. Serve on tered beets in Individual plates with two or three chopped green stalks of well-chilled french endive mint. Cook spin­ for garnish. ach in salted water, drain, and sea­ son with salt, pepper and butter. This Practical Cook Book Costs Garnish dish with hard cooked egg Only Ten Cents. white rings and top with riced egg When you serve a salad or a vege­ yolks. Steam small summer squash table plate as the main dish of your until tender. Cut in halves, scoop out centers, and mash. Season with meal, serve with it delicious and un­ melted butter, salt and pepper. usual bread or rolls. You’ll find test­ Sprinkle chopped nut meats over ed recipes for different biscuits, muffins and bread in Eleanor top. Arrange vegetables on Indi- vidual plates and garnish with a Howe’s inexpensive cook book. Bet­ ter Baking. There are recipes for sprig of parsley. apricot rolls, blueberry muffins and Fresh Asparagus With Lemon honey drop biscuit; and recipes for Rutter Sauce. crusty peanut butter bread or data (4 servings) and nut bread to complete your 1 small bunches fresh asparagus salad meals. (or 1 large bunch) You'll find recipes for cookies, • cups boiling water cakes and pastries, too, and this 1V4 teaspoons salt practical booklet la only 10 cents. % cup butter To get your copy promptly send 10 1 tablespoon lemon juice cents in coin to "Better Baking," Cut off lower parts of asparagus care Eleanor Howe, 910 North Mich­ stalks as far down as they will snap. igan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Discard, or use in soup. Tiu stalks (RiltaMd tty Western Newspaper Union.) city of the sixties, where Wesley Ruggles is currently Aiming Clar­ ence Budington Kelland's "Arizona." Situated IB miles north of present- day Tucson, it Is a monument to movie ingenuity, a village of 125 buildings, re-created by Columbia studios' technicians from the origi­ nal plans of early Tucson. "Running water is a luxury out here," Miss Arthur said, wiping the perspiration from her face. "To speak of hot water is heresy. There just isn't any. Not that a tub of wa­ ler wouldn’t reach the boiling point If placed in the sun, but there are so many horses, cows, dogs and pigs Out-In Frock With Bra id Edged Panels rjON’T you think it's one of the prettiest ideas for cotton prints that ever bloomed in the spring—all set for a summer of ; great popularity? There’s some­ thing so perky and young about 8716, with its choice of low-cut or tailored collar finished with a icome-hither bow, and panels out­ lined in braid, to call attention to i the supple slimness of your waist! I ► I 1- 1 k t 1 i -i b- b i r V ' Ml k it F lt- v 4- k- lt- ♦- It- -k lt- 1 li- X\ THAT Is Import- ’ ’ antly new on the style program? The answer is the dress with a detach­ able apron front. Can you Imagine aprons putting on fashion airs? Well, that's just what is happening. It's not only your daytime frocks that are being smartly aproned but evening gowns are flaunting the most gorgeous (either tie-on or sim­ JEAN ARTHUR ulated) apron fronts wild flights of around here that a tub of water fancy could possibly envision. wouldn't have a chance to get Watch and you will see dainty warm." black evening sheers glorified with She has turned her back on glam­ cunning apron attachments that are our these days She is bent only on embroidered and bespangled most making "Phoebe Titus," who sold gorgeously. By the same token sim­ pies for a dollar apiece, believable ple little daytime frocks take on a •nd real. She is starred in "Ari­ dress-up mien in that cunningly de­ zona,” with William Holden and vised lace-frilled or quaintly beruf- Warren William backing her up. and fled apron fronts are made to tie on ahe's going to give us a picture or take off in a jiffy. worth seeing and remembering, And what a boon these fascinating though the thermometer does regis­ new apron dresses are to a limited ter 126 degrees. clothes allowance. You can see the ----- *----- logic of the argument in an instant "Waterloo Bridge" is another pic­ —sans apron front attachment you ture that yoa’ll remember. Vivian have a simple fouhdation gown that Leigh proves that. In "Gone With will carry you through trim and the Wind," she was-no flash in the trig during the "don’t-dress-up” pan; In fact, she's as good or better hours of the day or evening. Comes in "Waterloo Rrid«e" as she was in time to "doll-up” a bit for a lunch­ that Civil war epic. eon or tea or the unexpected what­ And the picture gives you a new ever the occasion may be, and Robert Taylor. His little moustache here's where the new apron attach­ is tremendously becoming (even ment performs its magic. Tie it on though his wife, Barbara Stanwyck, and you will be "all dressed up" said "Thumbs down!" when he and some place to go. And if this raised a real one). He puts real life isn't economy, thrift and good style into his role, that of a young Brit­ all in one what better could fash­ ish army officer in the last war. ion offer, we would like to know, ----- ♦----- than a two-some that can be faith­ The movies are doing very well fully utilitarian one moment and indeed by Arizona these days. Two glamorously festive the next. hundred and fifty members of the The attractive frocks pictured pre­ cast and crew of Edward Small's sent the theme from both a day and "Kit Carson” troupe landed in Flag­ a night viewpoint Consider them staff the other day; among the ac­ as merely a forerunner of what "is tors were Lynn Bari, Jon Hall, yet to be” in way of apron frocks Dana Andrews. Raymond Hatton, for now that the vogue for the apron Director George B. Seitz, and many others whose names are familiar to movie-goers. From Flagstaff the entire troupe well go to the Indian trading post of Kayente, on the Navajo Indian res­ ervation, where a special town has been built to accommodate the Hol- tywood folk for their month-long stay. Go Military - *- The mail response to Johnny Sunday evening Green's new "Rhyme-O" program seems to up­ set the common belief that writing poetry is the special province of a selected few. On this musical audi­ ence-participation program. Johnny uses four-line verses, and asks teners to send them, $5 going to writer of each verse used. In one week Green received 000 individual letters containing rhymes—and there was an average of three rhymes in each letter. ----- +----- The Andrews Sisters, famous "swing" trio formerly heard on Co­ lumbia Broadcasting company's net­ works with Glenn Miller and his or­ chestra, have journeyed to Holly­ wood; they're broadcasting nightly from a night club there, and pre­ paring to be starred with the Kits brothers in a Universal picture called, of all things, “Argentine Nights"! - *- ODDS AND ENDS H, H hen the sequence of Columbia’s “Society Girl” called for composition of a song, musical director Ted Steele dashed off a few bars, and ever since, people have been writing in to ask the name of the composition and where they can bust it; it’s probably the only successful four-bar song in history. Lloyd Nolan scored such a personal triumph in "Johnny Apollo” that he’s been given the leading role in 20th Century-Fox's “I Married a Nasi,” re­ placing the be-dimpled Richard Greene, whose illness caused him to leave the cast. dress has been so successfully launched, designers are all astir de­ veloping the wealth of possibilities offered in this new and fascinating fashion trend. Describing the daytime frock shown to the left in the illustration. it is made of a red, white and black polka dot silk print, which has an interesting border design, as have so many of the newer prints this season. The “off-again-on-again” apron front is accented with the wide silk bordering. For momenta of lesser social importance whisk the apron front off and you have ■ gown simply and tastefully styled for the more practical moments of the day. Mousseline in a new shade of hi- minous blue is posed over a taffeta slip to create the enchanting bouf­ fant evening gown pictured to the right The same flowered lace that creates the youthful short-sleeved bolero outlines the trick apron, which may be removable or not as you please. Garden party dresses of organdy and the new sheer seersucker and prettily flowered dimities are taking on these quaint little tie-on aprons more or less beruflfied with self-fab­ ric or with lace and ribbon-run bead­ ing in endless variety. The apron idea invites all sorts of decorative touches in way of em­ broidery beadwork and applique. Perfectly charming aprons have hand-painted florals which gives the amateur artist a chance to do some very clever things. Another sugges­ tion worth trying out is to applique little ribbon bowknots at strategic points. Insets of lace butterflies is another thought rich with possibili­ It’s simple and comfortable enough to wear around the house, but it’s much, much too pretty to spend all its time at home. Wear it to market and for runabout, too. Make this of plaid or checked gingham, polka dot percale or plain - colored chambray, with bright ric-rac braid. Step-by-step sew chart comes with your pat­ tern. Pattern No. 8718 is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 14 dress with either neckline, re­ quires yards of 36-inch fabric without nap; 8 yards ric-rac to trim; % yard ribbon for bow. Send order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTEEN DEPT. 14S New Montgomery Ave. San Francisco - Calif. Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pattern No......................... Size.................. Name ............ .............................................. Address FEEL GOOD ties. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Comfortable Wedge Shoe Now Popular One reason for the popularity of wedge shoes is that they present un­ usual foot comfort They give excel­ lent support to the instep and ankle and create a firm base for walking To lighten their somewhat heavy appearance, many of the new ver­ sions are trimmed with scroll cut- outs. Some of the best liked styles are made of elasticized serge or gabar- dine fabrics. They are usually com­ bined with patent leather or kid. Very light in weight, they cling to the foot snugly and give it a well- fitted feeling that is very comfort­ able. Death No Evil It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so uni­ versal as death should ever have been designed as an evil to man­ kind.—Swift. Evening Pinafore Pinafores are a quaint old fashion Interpreted in lavish materials for •labórate new evening gowns. J JUST A DASH IN n*TMM ROOSTS OR SPREAD ON Little Hats With Turned-Up Brims Go military the American way by pinning to the lapel of your smart tailored suit a gadget, as here pic­ tured, of a miniature cadet cap like the real West Pointer. Marion Weeber, American artist noted for her cunning in handling ceramic jewelry and plastics, designs this cunning piece. It's enameled and studded with tiny rhinestones. As a Atting touch to this most attrac­ tive bit of artistry it is made jaunty with a real feather tuft. Wear this cunning ornament and you will create a commotion in your set, for it is really most unusual and distinc­ tive and destined to enjoy a wide­ spread vogue during the coming months. Please to observe that her straw hat is a la cadet cap in its jaunty ''lines." ILL! LICE M f 1 f, I How to Read Read not to contradict and con- Little hats with their brims turned fute, nor to believe and take for up sharply on both sides to give ■ granted, nor to And talk and dis- tricorne effect are smart accompan course—but to weigh and consid­ iments for the fitted coats and dress­ er.—Bacon. maker suits of this season. Effective in its simplicity is one WNU—13 of white linen-weave straw banded and tied on with a narrow black ribbon. Another plain Homburg type of white pique with a deeply creased crown and rolled-up brim is also banded in black ribbon. f 24-40 Miserable with backache? Tailored Taffeta Suits Are Popular Have you seen the stunning new daytime taffeta suits that have just recently entered the style parade? This matter of tailored silk suits and coats is well worth looking up for designers are turning out fav • nating models not only in taffeta, but in moire, faille and bengaline, both in navy and black. 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