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1937 The oI wa Homemaker vol.17, no.6 Grace McIlrath Ellis Iowa State College

Ruth Kunerth Iowa State College

Paul Montgomery Iowa State College

Paul Buehler Iowa State College

Harriet Beyer Iowa State College

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Recommended Citation McIlrath Ellis, Grace; Kunerth, Ruth; Montgomery, Paul; Buehler, Paul; Beyer, Harriet; Dahlberg, Ruth; Swenson, Lois; Button, Donna; Helser, Jane; Dickerson, Frances; Pettinger, Marjorie; Kimberley, Daisy Mary; Lynch, Mary Ellen; Strohmeier, Grace; Dodds, Kay; Metcalf, Jean; Roewe, Rachel; and Danielson, Faithe (1937) "The oI wa Homemaker vol.17, no.6," The Iowa Homemaker: Vol. 17 : No. 6 , Article 1. Available at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol17/iss6/1

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Authors Grace McIlrath Ellis, Ruth Kunerth, Paul Montgomery, Paul Buehler, Harriet Beyer, Ruth Dahlberg, Lois Swenson, Donna Button, Jane Helser, Frances Dickerson, Marjorie Pettinger, Daisy Mary Kimberley, Mary Ellen Lynch, Grace Strohmeier, Kay Dodds, Jean Metcalf, Rachel Roewe, and Faithe Danielson

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JANUARY I 9 3 8 THE IOWA HOMEMAKER

JANUARY

VOL. XVII No.6

.·.. "~: . cor;.rTE;rtP.s· . Genuinely "Big" .· : . . Busine~~ -'5~ ; .·.. ~.• . 1 . ·"by Grace Mcilrath El-lis '22, Every Gram of Jafu. . :._. 2 · by Ruth Kunert~ ... . . ~ . . Confessions. of Shi>e

Published monthly during the school year by the home economics students of Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. Price $1.00 per year. Advertising rates on application. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Ames, Iowa, under the act of March 3, 1879. Genuinely "Big" Business by Grace Mcilrath Ellis '22

The Homemaker's second editor order. Then candid-camera-shoot your cooking schools and day nurseries to returns to the pages of her first fellow round-tablers' faces. be managed. Part-time teaching is fre­ love to write about her last love, There seemed a feeling abroad in the quently available. And newspaper and homemaking. land, for a time, that the statue to the magazine pages are usually open to the Pioneer Mother was out of date. And woman with something to say, and a OMEMAKING-regardless of how that the woman on horse with baby concise and readable way of saying it. H you look at it-is funny business! cradled in arms should be supplanted by Were I to take my home economics It engages more persons than one of a brisk young woman, one toe at course again, I should try to ferret out any other occupation on record, yet has a perambulator, the other in an elevator. every subject which in any way feat­ least organized voice. It is the sort of Be it said to the credit of womanly wis­ ured management. The modern pedia­ job for which variety of aptitudes is of dom, no such statue has yet been made. trician, home editor and manufacturer first importance, yet its academic pre­ There can be laurels and liniment, have stolen part of the edge which the paration leads-of some necessity, per­ both, in store for the woman who, hav­ trained homemaker once had over her haps-to specialization. It requires a ing this biggest of all businesses in lay sister. It is in the application of in­ high degree of executive artistry for charge, has the effrontery-or courage­ formation, not the possession of it, that distinguished handling, yet it is a field to take on another. Hats off to her. But the home economist has an advantage. in which promotions, awards of honor no wistful envy, please. The "Hec" courses, for which I find and- may I add-dismissals, are rarely To achieve any considerable amount myself giving daily fervent thanks, are made. of outside activity may take manage­ those which taught not only foods but In final analysis, it is "big" business­ ment of a high degree. And there's a meal management-not only the theories possibly the biggest business. But for generous galaxy of outside interests of child care but actual diaper and pictorial evidence of its still uncertain open to the home-economics-trained drinking cup manipulation. status, try orally listing yourself as "big homemaker. Besides the customary run Every homemaking student could business woman" at any round table of non-profit community activities, there where occupational introductions are in are fairs and institutes to be judged, (Continued on page 20 )

The Iowa Ho memaker 1 EVERY DROP OF WATER Every Gram of Jam by Ruth Kunerth About three times each quarter she is given a physical ex­ amination. H er en­ tire day is carefully recorded including any unusual activity such as skating or dancing and emotion­ al strain. She says, "I don't need to keep a diary. These records are so complete." This experiment on the physiological and nutritional needs of college girls is one in a regional project in which six land-grant ~olleges of the mid­ dlewest are cooperat­ ing. There is little data available at the pres­ ent time, and Dr. P . Mabel Nelson, head of the Foods and Nu­ trition Department and chairman of this six-state-cooperative project, says, "The situation, therefore, warrants a compre­ hensive study of girls Every food in every meal must be carefully of this age in order to weighed, as this home economics student demonstrates. obtain data on which to establish: satisfac­ tory norms of phys­ ical well-being, or HETHER it's "I'm starved!" or "balimce periods," tests for certain min­ dietary standards, adequate to meet W "I'm stuffed!" our dependence erals are made. During this time, Aline these norms." on food, since time began, has keeps actual portions, weighing the same The problem of receiving good nutri­ been a center of attention. amount as those consumed, of all food tion is complicated for those whose food Would you like to weigh all of the which she eats. She weighs out on the idiosyncracies or improper food habits food you eat every day to see if your scales enough of each food at a meal for keep them from eating all or most foods food intake is nutritionally adequate? two meals; she eats one portion and puts served. The students who don't eat po­ If you are a dormitory woman at Iowa the other one in a jar or "dummy" of tatoes or bread, for example, do not State College, you don't need to worry hydrochloric acid. In this special "bal­ consume the same nutritive materials about it. Aline Haakinson, Foods and ance period," if Aline eats one malted which Aline receives, but the same ade­ Nutrition junior, runs the tests for you milk, she brings another home for the quate nutrition is possible for all women and says she doesn't mind weighing "dummy"; if she eats a candy bar, she in these organized halls if they do not every portion of food she eats. puts another one just like it into the discriminate against parts of the well In a notebook she records the name acid. This food, representing five days balanced meals. This has been proved of every food at each meal, the weight of food or 15 typical meals and any in­ by scientific tests carried on by. Dr. in grams of her serving of it and her between snacks, is chemically digested Margaret Ohlson, of the Foods and Nu- · water intake. Faculty research workers in the Nutrition Department, bottled and trition Department and chairman of the compute the amount of each body food sent to Iowa City, where it is analyzed Iowa State College project. which she receives and check this with for mineral content. Tests are run for Reducing by skimping food really isn't the amount required for good health by calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc. much of a reality with college girls. a normal college woman. Particular Aline eats at a special table in Roberts Although they may be heard to say, characteristics of Aline, such as height Hall dining room. She eats breakfast at "Oh, I shouldn't eat this. Think of the and weight, are taken into account. the same time as other students but has pounds!" it is more for conversation During special five-day periods called lunch and dinner half an hour later. and fun than for serious resolutions.

2 January, 1938 Confessions of- a Shoe Salesman and a Florist

VERY fellow consciously or sub­ colored-pumps with a square-straight­ "FIT the flower to the feature, and E consciously has his own individual out-cuban-heel. Well, I brought out a to the type" advises one of the rating scale for girls, including pair which fitted the description, fairly more glamorous movie stars. She hair, figure, complexion, but I notice well. is never seen without flowers, flowers feet. Perhaps that is because for four She tried it on, looked at it-looked which make her stand out from the years I've watched big and little, blonde some more, felt the leather, walked up crowd. Their subtle and individual per­ and brunette, tramp, swing, or waddle and down, peered into various mirrors. fume pervades the air around her and into stores to buy shoes. After all, the It's a good fit, I thought to myself with is one of the indices of her personality. way the foot is shod has a lot to do with pardonable pride. HER flowers express HER. the way a woman walks and the way "Oh, it's perfect!" the coed exclaimed, Nowadays it is THE thing to wear a woman walks can be one of the most "just exactly what I wanted! The colors flowers; fresh flowers of any kind. impressive-or depressive mannerisms are lovely, and it DOES fit! But this Flowers have come into a glorious own about her. When I think how important little seam here," she pointed it out. "I in the fashion horizon. Where there posture is to the personality- how im­ don't like it." is chic there is a corsage. rJortant a firm, sure step is down the And so it went on. I tried on her pe­ No longer are plain sweet pea and path of life I marvel at some of the tite foot every pair of shoes in every rose corsages seen drooping to an in­ frabjous choices girls make. Why is it style we had in stock. I think she for­ glorious death from the shoulder of a a tall girl invariably buys low he:!ls ?.ot what she had come in for. Finally gown. Now the gown is built around for every occasion, sacrificing grace and she selected a pair of grey buck flats. the corsage. The flower is the center carriage, and a short girl generally I sighed when she left because there of interest. In any case, even if the chooses a French spike for a sport suit was nearly a day's cleaning up left. In flowers are to be put on the shoulder, almost to the point of bordering on the fact I had to dig myself out from under they should NEVER be pinned UPSIDE ridiculous? I don't know and never the shoes. DOWN. could figure out. BOOTS FOR TOOTS TOP NOTCH Imagine my surprise when three days IF THE SHOE FITS PUT IT ON Flowers for madame are best blended later, the little lady (or was she?) came with her personality when they are Maybe the gal in the Ozarks doesn't in to exchange the shoes. They didn't worn in her hair. New winter hair buy shoes but it is safe to say that every just suit her, she said. So she sat down styles have arrived from Paris accenting coed does, therefore each girl should while I unwrapped the shoes and put a forward a!'J.d upward sweep of the know her own approximate size and be them up on the counter. On my way hair with flowers following in the same able to read it inside the shoe. Some back to the stock she called to me. trend. However, sporty hair arrange­ commissioned shoe salesmen are high Glancing up at the shoes so recently ments and the page boy style hair dress pressured-they can't help themselves put on the counter. she said, "Those are are not suited for the wearing of flowers. and will fit the shoe a shade off the reg­ not such bad looking shoes after all. The flowers should oomplement, not ular size rather than lose a sale. It is Wrap them up. I'll take them." supplement, the dress of the evening. almost impossible to tell at the time if Yes, it's a woman's privilege to change If you are the delicate "yin" type, and the shoe fits. Sizes in women's shoes are her mind! Never doubt THAT. wear your hair in simple combed curls, so close that a shady size cannot be no­ Then there was the woman who came lilies-of-the-valley, bonnardia, or sweet­ ticed, but after a few weeks of wearing, in with nine children- from toddlino: heart roses make an excellent choice. pressure will come to bear upon the Jack to 14 year old Junior. She look<"d The rather elaborately simple hair big toe, or the heel will develop a blis­ down the line and said, "Sho:l. th;s dress that fits the dramatic "yang" calls ter, or even the teeth will ache. Though bunch!" for orchids or the exotic bird-of-para­ the shoe salesman is good looking and - by Paul Montgomery dise flower. The roses of either persuasive, that can never compensate the sweetheart or hybrid tea species are fo·r the corns and sore feet that are very effective worn individually in the bound to develop if the size is wrong. curls. FLOWERS EVERYWHERE CHART FOR READING SHOE SIZES Believe it or not flowers are worn 00075 7%AAAA everywhere, on sleeves, in garlands out­ 0075 7%AAA lining yokes of dresses, on hats, catchinl( 075 7%AA veils to the head. Some have even worn 175 7%A them as Hawaiian leis around the neck. 275 7%B But most unusual of all is to wear 375 7%C tuberoses or sweetheart roses on the 475 7%D skirts of a dinner dress. A tall slim girl was born under a For every shoe sold I suppose that lucky star for she can wear flowers ei?ht are tried on- quite a test for the at the waist. The girl a bit on the patience of the salesman. However, as plump side must wear her flowers convenient as a shoe is to throw I've higher, on the shoulder or in the hair. never yet succumbed to the impulse. Fear not to wear your flowers in con­ One of the "smoothest little numbers" spicuous and new ways. Flowers are I've seen came in the store one day and m eant to be seen and enjoyed. asked for a pair of slip-on- cut-out-tri- - by Paul Buehler

The I owa Homemaker 3 What Would You Do If- by Harriet Beyer

You're stuck at a tag dance? He doesn't show up? a friend in town, or have visited some­ Under no circumstances be deliber­ If he has a very good excuse, such as one in a near-by city. Whatever the oc­ ately rude. Etiquette is based on kind­ an unavoidable accident, accept his casion, thank her in person, and then ness and consideration for others. If apologies graciously, and also his re­ write a thank-you-note not later than there seem to be no prospective cutters­ quest for another date. Remember that two weeks after the visit. If you are in, and you don't want to spend the the same thing might have happened anxious to do something especially nice, whole evening with one fellow, ask him to you. But if he fails to show up from yo.u may give her a small gift. to excuse you, and then leave the floor sheer forgetfulness, perhaps you had + altogether. You can come back in a few better look somewhere else. minutes and try again. + You want to powder your nose when + you are at a dance? A man you don't know asks you for a You want to shake hands and are wear­ It's a perfectly ethical thing to do, dance at a college twister? ing gloves? but do it in the right place. Merely ex­ It is perfectly proper and polite to Go right ahead and offer your hand. cuse yourself to your date or the group accept. The same rule applies if some­ You don't need to remove your present and go to the dressing room. one you don't know asks to cut. glove or to apologize because of it. It Men dislike to see girls applying make­ is no more necessary to make apologies + up in public, so don't pull out your com­ pact, even for a glimpse. for your gloves than for your hat. You want to express appreciation for an + enjoyable evening? You must walk across the empty dance Don't thank your date, unless he hap­ Someone you don't like asks you for a floor? pens to have been inconvenienced be­ dance? Practice easy graceful carriage. Don't cause of the engagement. Merely tell Unless you have an awfully good rea­ slide or stride. him how much you enjoyed it. Make him feel that you really mean it. son, try to struggle through it. If you + just can't accept the invitation, tell him You are ordering refreshments with a + politely that you don't care to dance date? You want to express appreciation to a this number. And don't accept another Decide quickly on what you would hostess for weekend or overnight en­ invitation for that dance, even if it is like and tell your date. He gives both tertainment? from the men you've been wanting to orders to the waiter. You may have spent the night with dance with all evening.

Will you have a sandwich or a steak? It all depends upon your date's pocketbook. Would you u.•ant to be called a polddigger?

Januar!J, 1938 Food Shots Are Not So Candid

by Ruth Dahlberg

"H OORAY," cried Jimmie as he behave badly when before the camera. sively and effectively. In addition, the came home from school feeling Cereal kernels become mushy and in­ production and manufacturing sides of ravenously hungry. "Mom's been distinct. To remedy this they are coat­ food industries can be dramatized to in­ photographing ice creams and merin­ ed with a fine skin of paraffin. terest retailers and consumers. gues today." But poor Jimmie was Every food photographer knows what Food photographers have found that doomed to a sad disillusionment. His a miracle worker olive oil is. It is used some food pictures, particularly those clever mother and the food photograph­ on foods to make them shine and bring of cakes, should be close-ups. Others ers had been using a certain kind of out the highlights. Roasts, steaks, and should be of a more general nature and Dutch cheese to give the exact photo­ shrimps are made especially rich look­ merely create atmosphere. Some of the graphic effect of brick ice creams. Jim­ ing through this beauty treatment. detail is lost in the reproduction of the mie did like cheese, but it wasn't a bit The appearance of the model cook photograph so the negatives must be like ice cream and anyway such a big who is to be starred in a food picture is very clear. hunk of cheese was a bit too much at also tremendously important. Any un­ Some foods are much more difficult one time. tidiness will make the food appear un­ to handle before the studio lights than Substituting cheese for ice cream in appetizing. The model must be chosen others. Chocolate cakes, meats, and rice food photography is a trick used to ob­ with great care. Pretty hands and grace­ are difficult foods to picture. Chocolate tain good pictures of frozen desserts. ful positions help to create a pleasing cakes are troublesome because they are The powerful lights used in this work effect. Yet the model must not be so hard to get in focus. A light chocolate necessitate making up foods and using striking that she, rather than the food, cake is usually used as the subject for food fakes and trickery. Every time we becomes the center of interest. The a photograph of a Devil's food. pick up a magazine we are probably reading public likes to have a pretty The brown coloring of meats does not being fooled by some ingenious photo­ girl and charming housewife show it photograph well. A tempting steak for grapher who has discovered a new idea the food. a color reproduction is only slightly in the field of food make-up. Just as broiled and then painted with a chili a moving picture star has to be made powder sauce. up for her big picture, so must foods. In rice photography, the proper back­ Many of the cooking rules expounded ground must be used. It requires a color at Iowa State College are thrown over­ expert to work out striking effects with board when a food is being prepared for dishes, background, and rice. A tray of the camera lights. However, you must numerous small foodstuffs lacking var­ know the rules before you know how iety in color, size, and shape also taxes to break them satisfactorily. the photographer's ability. Looks are very deceiving in this case Stand-ins are used in this field while and "beauty is only skin deep." The the stars, actual foods to be photograph­ gelatine that looks most delicious may ed, are kept on ice. A good photograph­ be tough and rubbery. er completely prepares the set-up before Fidelis Harrer, a noted Chicago food the food is placed in front of the camera. photographer, believes that any trickery Powerful lights and a warm room do or deception practiced on the reader is not keep a food appetizing in appear­ legitimate as long as the right effects ance. are obtained. Pictures of pies that look Fidelis Harrer follows these rules in delicious enough to win any man's directing his food photography work: heart are often in reality only a pie shell Use only objects in the picture which filled with newspaper.· Cold coffee or pertain to the subject. Avoid nick-nacks vinegar usually have to act the part of and distracting backgrounds. Use con­ tempting wines and often the bowl of trast in black and white. The use of red cherries that is so colorful is only Advertisers are demanding more and dark against light back~rounds is good. a sample of the variety used on women's more food pictures. They have found Never stand to one side of the camera hats. Frozen fruits make a good substi­ that picturing an attractive product in making a set-up but get the same tute when fresh ones are not available. miraculously helps sales. As in the perspective as the camera. Make all Some cereals, like little children, often movies, color is being used more exten- set-ups simple, not elaborate.

The Iowa Homemaker 5 Yumph Invades the Formal Field by Sally

J N a national questionnaire of men as to choose from-SHOCKING p ink to what they noticed first in women, (Schiaparelli's lavender-tinted version) becoming clothes came fifth and good sultry-rose, cyclamen, candy pink, complexion, good figure, good teeth and raspberry, fuschia and passion red. It good hair were the first four. "Beautiful takes a clear skin to wear the yellow but dumb" they' used to say. Nowadays cast of passion red, but orchids to the it is a very dumb girl who isn't beautiful. person who can get away with it! A smart girl can't afford not to be. Then No, not orchids on HIS budget, but tack on the old adage "pretty is as pretty put a bug in his ear (or tell him to read does" and believe it or not you have the HOMEMAKER) and order one of an unbeatable combination that Sally those daringly different flower combi­ will put her own personal guarantee on nations-a crest of small gardenias in to swing any deal you want. a little nest on your head, or a halo Have you, too, seen the shiny window of carnations, or little asters, or yellow displays of formals that just drew you chrysanthemums. Or don a crescent of into the store and into the dressing flowers that cups around the Grecian room? There is one thing I cannot re­ roll you've been sporting. Do you sup­ sist and that is a formal with yumph. pose the fellows would send us more Debutante dresses built with a flowers if they knew how HAPPY weather eye on the stag line appeal. they made us feel? They glitter, shine, and fairly draw us I suppose that the little girl with the into the shops to get a close view of chiffon formal in foamy pink will be them. Sequins cover the bodices of in the midst of the large group of men. many, others have sequin boleros, and Her ultra-feminine type makes the n,ot a few are exhibited with sequin "chicest" and sleekest of formals look bags and shoes to match. Some of these backgroundish. Only one caution-don't dresses are definitely "S. S. and G." skimp on goods-the chiffon must look (sweet, simple and good); others are as if miles and miles of it' would be the fitted siren type, black, clinging, left over even if you decided to cut the with a black net veil that drops over skirt in half. What a break for blondes! the head and comes to the shoulders­ There is nothing in the world as angelic you've seen the trick before in Joan as chiffon! Crawford's latest, "The Bride Wore Then satin. It's always good. If you Red." There seems to be everything in have a good figure, there is nothing like shop windows these wintry days that satin to emphasize it. Now is the time could make a coed wish for a million to girdle the waist with a band of satin. dollars, a good figure, and eternal youth. One must be a smoothie to wear a By the by, those formal veils are fin­ satin formal. ished with a bit of metal thread, or Of course gold and silver lame are with "bric-a-brac" around the edge to good, too. Somehow they seem to be­ hold them down over the head. They long to a group older than the college are made of the most ethereal net, that coed. . .. but perhaps if she is very, would blow away, were it not for its bust and shoulders, with stiffened width very, very sophisticated she can get anchor. at the hips, both tapering to a minute away with it. However, lame makes Most of the winter formals are fitted circumference at the waist. excellent trim for crepe, and net. well over the bodice, cut only medium Styles like these just follow one out A magazine took a census not so long low, with small straps over the shoul­ of the shop! ago asking the nation's most eligible ders, and with billowy skirts if the ma­ According to the best authorities, the bachelors what they thought constituted terial is sheer. In other cases the skirts season's accent is on elegance, sweeping the tangible qualities of that elusive drape in rippling folds. lines used in surprising ways. Which quantity S. A. "Odor" was one point And have you seen the "Directoire" reminds me of a lovely-to-look-at for­ agreed upon. The smell of clean shiny dresses from way back in Napolean's mal actually made out of bed ticking! hair, the clean look and faint scent of day? You remember the gorgeous There is an idea for some ambitious opalescent skin, were some of the most gowns that Olivia de Haviland wore in T. & C. major. I have also heard of attractive things a girl and woman "Anthony Adverse." High waistlines, wool flannel, curtaining material, and could possess. Using this for a basis, deep front decolletages, puffed sleeves even candle-wicking bedspreads being some well chosen perfume that fits the and long slender skirts are characteris­ used. However, I am not recommend­ personality cannot go amiss, if used tics of these dresses, and certainly ing that you cut up the drapes of your sparingly and with good taste in the ought to make the belle of the ball room the week before a formal dance! right places. click with the man. That is, not unless you can get away Just what are the right places for Some of the season's formals might with it. For sophistication, heavy jew­ perfume? Always put it on the skin. have been borrowed from a Velasquez elry in gold or copper colors is recom­ The scent then blends with the skin oils, painting. These dresses possess what mended. But if you don't want to glit­ tones it down and brings out a dif­ they call "torso interest." The waistline ter. try striking colors. ferent perfume, one that is your very is the fra~ile breaking point in the cos­ Guess what! PINK is the color of the OWN. Campus town drug stores are tume and there is drapery about the season. There are just dozens of shades wise to the coed's perfume conscious-

6 Januar y , 1938 ness and have many good lines. Blonde "yin" perfumes are light, poignant, and even sweet. Brunette perfumes are gen­ erally mellow for the quiet type, highly spiced for the active type. A perfume can do a lot for one. How­ ever, one scent can become monotonous. Have two and alternate. Just because Harry says "urn, you smell good" and looks at you with "that certain look" when you wear XXX perfume Saturday night, it does not mean that XXX per­ fume will be good every Saturday hence and that an extra dose will make it even better for the military ball. Could you imagine it? Someone spoke to me the other day about styles in conversation. They were right, too. The smartest outfit and the shiniest hair won't make up for a dead-head-ex­ change of conversation. It's a popular girl that keeps up with the day's events and can talk to her date about some­ thing other than the five-pound party that what's-her-name had last night, or the good dancer Janie is. The best kind of conversation is sufficiently lively, twanged up with picturesque speech and no mistakes in grammar­ and, most important of all, says SOME­ THING. A junior zoologist remarked the other day about a very pretty girl, "Oh, she's all right but there isn't much to her. She didn't say anything worth thinking about the whole hour I talked with her." Well, Sally bids you good-bye until next month when she will try to take the campus style pulse and prescribe accordingly. Here's to bigger and better formal season than ever before, all you coeds! -by Lois Swenson

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how not to glare aim for naturalness Just Skin Deep every time. by Donna Button mascara are popular for evening wear Beauty expert, Sally Cramer, says, as they tend to make your eyes look that natural looks are in again. less tired after an evening of two-steps. "The signs pointed that way a o you shine .... . or glow in Then for a lipstick that won't give year ago-but it took a new fashion in D the moonlight? others your school girl complexion. dress to establish it. This new trend Love . . . . orchids . . . . and You may use an inexpensive lipstick was partly brought about because the a skin that looks-well what does your that stays on one's lips through an Duchess of Windsor has a penchant skin do on "big nights?" If it is one hour of dancing, a grilled roll, and two for a certain soft violet-blue. The col­ of those problem skins that need con­ coffee re-fills. Powder brushed on the or pendulum has swung from yellow­ stant attention, perhaps we can give lips before applying color will help red rouge and lipstick and ochre-tinged you a few subtle suggestions that will your lipstick adhere all the longer. face powder, to blue-red rouge and give you that new necessity, dull glow, Extra powder sprinkled on your high lipstick and fragile rose-tinted face without having to dash to the powder spots and left while you finish dressing powder. room after each dance. will make these danger zones stay cov­ "The other principal factor in this Try a liquid powder base that guar­ ered all evening. reversion to the 'natural beauty' type antees to dull your high finish. A If you want to start out right, you is that Schiaparelli designed the clothes blemish-concealer comes in four shades, can sprinkle a few drops of bath oil or for Mae West's newest picture. The and provided that you get it one tablets in your bath. New scents, "Pine" period of the picture was the early shade lighter than your skin tone, it and "Gardenia de Tahiti", sound mys­ 1900's. All French designers showed the will harmonize nicely with your skin. terious, if nothing else, and are cer­ 1900 influence in smart styles. And be­ A dab of blue face powder brushed tainly good for the soul. "Song of In­ cause make-up fashions follow cos­ over your face will give that certain dia" reminds one of the twilight hour, tume fashions, the result is a swing fragile look that would have gone well romance and such. to pink and white complexion and even with Thesbe. Green and blue These hints on how to glow and natural beauty."

The Iowa Homemaker 7 Soft lightr) sweet music-and a floorful ofplodders) bumpers and droopers:

On Your Own Toes by Jane Helser

THE tantalizing strains of "Hot Lips" and that a partner's arm does become trucking and the big apple, there is no JL came pouring out of the red-faced cramped. excuse for not knowing simple one man's trumpet and the dancing "I saw the cutest little dog today, do and two-steps, a few slides and open ups couples whipped up their pace to keep you like dogs? I can't hear you . ... that came into being when most of us time with the music. It was then that Oh! (giggle giggle)" Haven't you heard were learning to read. they first came to our attention-racing specimen C buzzing around the dance But surpassing all others for the by at a perilous pace, the boy with his floor? The steady stream of uninterest­ ultimate of the party why-did-he­ eyes closed. A moment later both he ing conversation must make it difficult comes is Exhibit H who arrives at the and his partner were sprawled out on for her partner to listen to the music, affair with wandering feet and an ap­ the floor looking dazedly at the spec­ keep in time with it, and still follow parently uncontrollable desire to dance tators dancing by. the trend of her chatter. across and against, up and into the traf­ Here is example A, one of the worst Dancing is an art that must be prac­ fic. Joyfully he tramples along using members of the dancing species-the ticed to arrive at skill in it. It requires his outwardly pleasant, inwardly seeth­ race horse who ploughs along with a the whole attention of the dancer to ing partner as a bumper. devil-may-care attitude, using his part­ execute his feet properly and in most If he is a good dancer, and he often ner for a bumper, and usually dancing instances, chatterboxes are taboo. is, he uses every one within his area backwards or with his eyes closed. He Listed under D is that "six-inch-law" to annoy and jolt. If he is a bad is a real menace to the success of any girl who puts her left hand on the in­ dancer, he'll soon wear himself out party. He tears along at a pace too side of the man's right shoulder and and mercifully become a wall-flower. swift to allow perfect balance-and a pushes back lest her escort stand too But be he good or bad, or just one catastrophe usually results. Unfortu­ close. She doesn't glide around; she of those accidents, the man who jolts nately, it isn't always the guilty couple has to be towed whenever moved. and bumps receives the biggest leather who gets the worst of the spill. Men hate to dance with her because, medal of them all. He is without a doubt Exhibit B of the dancing pests is the to be very truthful about it, they can't. the most annoying and most hated of fair lady who droops herself heavily on About this time, we hear a howl com­ the dancing pests. her partner's shoulder, nestles down ing from the feminine side of the dan­ Real enjoyment of dancing is only and closes her eyes. Her protruding cers who protest heartily against the possible as a reflection of pleasure re­ posterior takes twice the space it de­ "tummy-leaders" who bend them over ceived by the partner. Cooperation serves. In addition to wearing out the in an unbalanced and perilous positior. and team work is not only essential in partner who holds her up, exhibit B and still expect them to keep their knees dancing but it is the whole thing. affords nothing but humor to on-lookers out of the way. They stagger home a Therefore, stand up on your feet, and trifle dizzy and aching in every shoulder muscle from being bent forward every minute of the evening. Please, kind sirs, they plead, let us stand up straight and hold us in a relaxed and easy position. We'll fol­ low ever so much better if we're com­ fortable while dancing and don't have to worry about sticking out at the wrong places. Here is Example F which the girls dislike with gusto-the exhibitionist and show-off, the conspicuous of the conspicuous. Up and down the floor he bounces, holding his partner's arm at be positive they are your feet. Keep who wistfully wish for "a board with a a wild angle and doing impossible things them where they belong, under you. nail in it." with his feet- steps he made up himself. Be smart and learn at least some of This peculiar position seems to be At the opposite extreme is Example the latest dance steps. Educate your characteristic of many of today's dan­ G, the plodder, that no-fun dancer toes and keep them that way. Regard cers, but why or how it got its start who knows how to walk in time to your partner with an eye, ear and no one knows. Perhaps the originators music and never bothers to learn any­ hand to please him or her. See that the of the extended derriere bent over to thing else. Dancing is enjoyable only tummy stays at home. Don't pro­ watch their partners' feet. But they when the dancers know how to dance trude behind. Carry your own self must learn that their wilted way of and walking in time to music is cer­ around. Careful now, keep easy and waltzing is not the least bit becoming, tainly not the way. In these days of relaxed. Grand fun, isn't it?

8 January, 1938 college are many opportunities for keep­ ing in the pink through sports, both indoor and outdoor. And how sports do improve circulation and complexion! I will make the most of my looks! Many times a startling change in a girl can be seen after some simple change-hair brushed up instead of down, curls where formerly were none, Resolve to Chartn or powder of a different shade. Here at college there will be no watchful older sister or painfully critical younger by Frances Dickerson brother to heckle your most drastic attempts at change. If your features are not especially E COLLEGE women, busy in fection of dress are wasted. If a college pretty, don't waste time complaining W the hectic pursuit of diplomas man catches a glimpse of a grimy face and mourning. Aim at smartness. Beauty and an unwary male or two, are or a twisted stocking seam (and these without smartness has not a leg to frequently amused at the lengthy beauty days of short skirts should keep one stand on, but smartness can stand alone rituals urged upon us by advisors in more on guard than ever), he won't and look the world in the face without newspapers and magazines. If any coed look twice to see what sort of features a qualm. manages to spend an hour every eve­ or personality the owner has. ning on complexion care, or bloom Cleansing cream or soap and water? I will be a "smoothie!" And herein forth every morning with il. hair ar­ Your skin will tell you which is best lies the real difference between a rangement totally different from the for you. The best treatment is none too charming girl and a merely beautiful preceding morning's, she should make good. Keep skin smooth, soft and clear, one. This year we are calling smooth­ herself known on the campus. We will and protect it when you go out into the ness "yumph," but the essentials are be her disciples until the bitter end. cold raw wind of Iowa winters. If nec­ the same as before. If you are really Most of us must be satisfied with a essary, consult authorities at the College smooth (in the b e s t sense of the hasty routine for hair, make-up and Hospital about any skin problem which word) your manners are unfailingly clothes before starting for morning stubbornly resists your treatment. charming, and you are always courteous classes, and quite often we find later in to other people, whether it be a dear I will recognize my type and dress the old lady whom you meet at a tea, or the day that we have been going around part! We must not be copy-cats. The with the bloom of health higher on one that blind date about which you had tall and willowy type must leave the cheek than on the other. hoped for the best but expected the frills and baby-talk to that little wisp worst. This matter of being a charming coed of a thing down the hall. Statuesque presents a distinctive problem in that poses and gestures don't go if one ,is If you have "yumph," you will be the time factor is the most stubborn to barely five feet tall and about as a good dancer and an entertaining com­ contend with. Yet the college woman stately as a kitten. panion. You will be ·able to carry on has great incentive to be as charming Here is an opportunity to make appli­ a not-too-boring conversation with as possible. The solution? A definite cation of training in costume design. your date about whatever subject he and simple beauty program to follow. mentions. Wear tho~e colors which you know are And we mean FOLLOW. A one or two flattering, and avoid the doubtful ones. Round out your personality with as week trial is worthless. But a little Select your clothes in lines suitable for many varied interests as possible. Every thoughtful planning and a great deal of your own personal type, and try to new accomplishment is a feather in sticktoitiveness will bring results in avoid stepping too far out of your role. your social cap. Learn "the big apple short time. Your dress should fit the occasion, too. dance" if you think that the man will If Santa didn't bring you that perfect Well-chosen combinations of sweaters want you to do it. Learn to play his complexion and all the other things that and skirts for classes, and bundlesome favorite piece on the piano. And don't contribute to the breath-taking appeal woolens for wintry sports, if you choose. forget to thank him for the little favors which you have been longing for, make But for evening, a little bit of glamour! he does for you. Iowa State men hav~ up your mind that you shall have them Try veils that flatter, a soft but smart a lot of sweetness in their souls, but anyway. Take your typewriter in hand hair arrangement, and the final touch, a they do like to be appreciated. and make out a list of can't-fail l~ew faint whiff of perfume. If you are a "smoothie," you will Year's resolutions. Follow them faith­ conscientiously set aside sufficient time fully, and who knows what Santa may I will have a good figure! And why in which to dress for a date. You can't leave in your stocking next Christmas? shouldn't you? The hospital will recom­ Incidentally, we asked a popular Iowa mend a corrective diet for you if you just pop out of the shower and into your clothes and dash downstairs to State man to define "charm." He re­ wish it, and the hygiene department meet your waiting date. plied, "I think that charm consists of can offer many helpful suggestions if beauty, poise and those qualities of per­ you will consult with them. The phys­ Then you won't have the nervous sonality which make friendship a last­ ical education department will yield jitters when you get to the party. You ing, rich experience." Pressed further invaluable help in correcting posture, won't have to keep jerking at straps on this last point, he named among which is, after all, the cause of a great and sneaking worried glances into your those qualities intelligence, sincerity, a many figure problems. Taken seriously, mirror. You'll know that the general friendly warmth and a sense of humor. courses in rhythm and dancing will gain effect is good, and you can concentrate Now does that give you a work.ing foun­ ~or you suppleness and poise. Here in on your state of mind. dation for your campaign? The following resolutions may help: I will always he clean and neat! These factors are the bare foundation for charm. Without them, beauty and per-

The Iowa Homemaker 9 WHAT ' s N EW IN

spring construction to push the powder foods. An attractive mixture of whey Applied Art up as the box is emptied. and tomato juice is useful as a beverage or as a base for tomato soup. Canned A new double-tone drawing paper + fruit whips are manufactured by mix­ has been devised to save an immense A new compact floor-type potato ing sweet whey, fruit and gelatin. Whey amount of time and money on art work peeler with a capacity of 25 pounds and solids and sugar have been combined that requires shading. The artist makes a peeling time of 1 to 3 minutes has and condensed in such a way that the his drawing in outline form on double­ been patented. The newly designed hop­ product has excellent keeping qualities tone drawing paper just as he would on per insures uniform peeling of the pota­ and whipping properties. It has been any drawing paper. With a brush, he toes and any hard root vegetable. used as a porous textured candv filling. then applies a liquid developer to bring out the dark grey tones. With another + A temperature regulator that not only liquid developer he paints in those areas Food Flashes!- alfalfa table syrup for which are to be light grey. Solid black use on pancakes, a series of concentrated is put in with regular India ink. In this bouillon powders, a yellow tomato juice way the artist has complete control of called "Carolina Sunshine," wine gela­ his high-lights, and can actually produce tins in flavors of sherry, Jamaica rum a combination line and half-tone right and Madiera and a lime crossed with a in the original drawing. kumquat. + Flypaper is now appearing in colors According to a British patent, potatoes and in patterns to attract the unwary and other starchy vegetables may be fly! It has been shown that flies are preserved by drying and powdering. Or­ more strongly attracted by certain col­ dinary peeled potatoes are cooked in ors than by others and the relatively open baskets, cut into small pieces and rough and smooth surfaces of the new dried until 60 percent of the water is paper will lead the victim to the por­ removed. The final drying and powder­ indicates the position of the control, but tions of the paper which are coated with ing is done at a temperature of 175 de­ also state the temperature of the food a suitable adhesive. grees F. compartment is found in a 1938 refri­ + gerator model. A "vacation" setting per­ + mits a new economical operation for Egg yolks may now be pale yellow or A new and picturesque type of fo od periods when a temperature just above bright orange to suit the customer's container to be used for informal af­ defrosting is desired. The regulator is fancy! The control of the hen's diet to fairs is the trug. The small rectangular­ let her eat more or less of a certain dye, conveniently placed. shaped baskets come from England xanthophyll, found in a number of + where they are made by a family which has manufactured them for cen­ plants and grains, will in turn control A new feature in a 1938 refrigerator the color of the yolk. turies. They were originally used to model is a specially designed porcelain measure wheat and the name is prob­ + meat compartment for steaks, roasts, ably a corruption of "trough." The only chops and other meat. The meat stor­ place where they may be obtained in Three new colors are being used in age compartment keeps the meat separ­ accessories-navy, cornflower and this country, ate from other foods, conserves the fla­ as far as is moonstone. They are used in combina­ vor and moisture and is easily accessi­ tions of two. known, is at ble. The Little Tra­ veler in Gene­ va, Illinois. Household Equipment A small portable electric washer which occupies only 16 inches square of stor­ A flower pot holder, known as a "sun­ age space fits easily over the burner of shelf," fastens to the center window any stove. It will accommodate two For that cer­ sash of any standard window so that the pounds of dry clothes, equivalent to two tain twang in top or lower sash may be moved up or large sheets. The three fin cast alumi­ fruit cocktails down, with the shelf attached. This num agitator washes the clothes while and beverages, gadget, constructed of steel, enameled they are being boiled. try adding white and trimmed in a desirable color, p o me granate measures only five by six inches. No juice, now ava­ hammer or screw driver is needed as Foods and Nutrition ilable in pint only one adjustment is necessary to bott 1 e s. T h e hold the shelf securely in position. The manufacturers of cheese are using juice has the the by-product, whey, in several ways. bland sweetness + Since the whey contains most of the of the whole As aids to beauty-a thimble-like de­ minerals, lactose and soluble protein of fruit and its vice for milady's use in spreading her milk, it is a desirable way to improve lovely, deep lipstick, and a powder box that has a flavor and nutritive value of certain red color.

10 January, 1938 HOME ECONOMICS

Baked beans are now on the market stocking for winter. The general idea packed in heat resistant glass pots un­ Textiles and Clothing has been that such a stocking would der a vapor-vacuum sealing process. slide and wrinkle, but a broad, lacy Durable and practical is a new velvet + elastic top has been perfected which Fruit served in the usual fashion often which is so super crush resistant that it grips the skin and keeps the hosiery becomes monotonous. Instead of the can be creased under all degrees of tight on the leg. everlasting Brown Betty, why not an moisture--even when wet- and still, Apple Fruit Roll or Apple and Raisin when dry, return to its original condi­ Whip? They are no more expensive and tion without any crushing of pile. The The zipper has taken its place in rug no more difficult to prepare. Prunes new type of velvet is also treated to be manufacture! Large rugs are now be­ may be dressed up by stuffing with less of a dust catcher than yesteryear's ing made in several sections so that they fluffy cream cheese or mashed bananas velvet. can be more readily cleaned. A zipper and nuts. is used to hold the pieces together on the floor. The shaggy pile hides the A radically new method of roasting seaming. coffee has been perfected. Instead of roasting the whole green coffee beans, then grinding them, this process first Education grinds the green coffee beans and then roasts the grounds by tumbling them A new woman's magazine has made through a heated oven. This is thought its bow to the American public. It has to give more uniform roasting with less been published to fill a niche in the wo­ loss of the aromatic oils which give cof­ man's publication field and its intimate in tone, comprehensive in its coverage fee its characteristic flavor. of the beauty field and interprets high + style trends in coiffure, make-up, skin Ingenious manufacturers have inaugu­ care, apparel into practical, individual rated a novel means of identifying their terms. It is called "You." products-that of adding some harmless ingredient in such a small amount that it cannot be detected by chemical means. Changing conditions have made it im­ If the occasion requires, the manufac­ perative that all members of the family, turer can prove which product is his by regardless of their sex, should have an the use of a spectroscope. A novel material made of pure seal appreciation and understanding of the hair from the Arctic, blended with wool meaning of the home and family. Be­ + yarn by a special process to give a scin­ cause of this, there are classes being Tangerine fruit JUlCe is just one of tillating effect, is now being shown. The conducted in home economics for both the many commercial fruit juices now new cloth is produced in a variety of boys and girls in various high schools on the market. Here is a partial list, shades and all the brilliance is kept in the nation. including other new-comers- huckle­ through the various dying and finish­ +i• berry, raspberry, lemon, orange, grape­ ing processes. £ r u i t , p i n e­ A list of the home economics books a p p 1 e, 1 i m e, ·~ that were found to be of value by the cherry, grape, A famous silk manufacturer has been teachers, extension workers and others apricot, prune, granted the exclusive rights to use the working with adults in the teaching of and cranber­ new Walt Disney characters on silk home economics was compiled and ry. piece goods. checked by specialists in the various fields that they covered. This list is + available for a nominal fee at the Home A new and A new and novel slip aids size adjust­ Economics Association headquarters. different des­ ment for the individual. Neatly tail­ sert both sim­ ored, it has adjustable shoulder straps + ple and attrac­ and a skirt bordered by three one inch One of the new ideas in the teaching tive is made of wide strips of the slip fabric separated of home economics is to promote the Adirondack by an open machine hemstitch. One, integration of the pupils through a pancakes. In­ two or three strips may be snipped off, number of considered values, as for ex­ stead of jelly, the scissors following the hemstitching. ample, "The Planning of a Young Girl's use a tart, tan­ No further sewing or hemming is re­ Wardrobe." The idea is to organize scat­ g y cranberry quired. tered subject matter into a related whole sauce between which also deals with actual experiences the pancake la­ + that they may meet. Experiments in yers and dot After a successful summer of knee­ this method of teaching home economics the top with high hosiery, one or two mills are ex­ are being carried out at State Teachers whipped cream. perimenting with a just above the knee College, Mount Pleasant, Mich.

The Iowa Homemaker 11 No Peacock Tongues

by Daisy Mary Kimberley

a rather mild pie, ham, and avocados. Trained by her one. U sua 11 y family to "eat everything" she has no lettuce salad and definite food dislikes. bread accompany Bob Bliss, editor of the Iowa State the meat. Ines dis- Student likes everything, especially "ice likes milk rice an­ cream-at all times." When he comes in other name for our old at night Bob likes to fry eggs in butter standby, rice pudding. and eat them. He also fries bacon. But Knute Hegland, campus this is the extent of his culinary art, for night watchman, does not hesi­ besides preparing these two foods he tate in his choice of a favorite food. says that he is only skilled in opening "I like a good punkin pie," he an­ cans. Bob agrees with Popeye that HE epicures of old who feasted nounced. He likes apple pie, too, and spinach is the best of all vegetables. He T upon peacock tongues and other home fried chicken, graham bread with is also fond of steaks and custard. rare delicacies have nothing on jelly, and pancakes with lots of syrup K. R. Marvin, of the Journalism De­ Iowa Staters, who also esteem good and butter. He doesn't care much for partment and once an editor himself, food. hominy or fish but homemade sausage does not like buttermilk. He admits that In fact, these ancient epicures would and dumplings are on his "specials" he "could get along without spinach" probably have given a whole carload of list. but eats it to set a good example for peacock tongues to have the recipe for Steak and mushrooms rank first with his children. His favorite food is scallops President Friley's favorite homemade Miss Ida M. Shilling, of the Foods and fried in deep fat. ice cream. It includes plenty of whip­ Nutrition staff. She dredges the mush­ Mrs. Vivian Brashear, being a loyal ping cream, and there's chocolate sauce rooms in flour, adds some lemon juice home economics instructor, does not to pour over it. and salt and sautes them in butter. really dislike any food, though she ad­ Fried chicken and fruit salads also Steak with onions, and chocolate cake, mits that she is not fond of strong­ stand high in Dr. Friley's estimation. are other favorites. flavored cheeses. Her favorites are sal­ "We've had fruit salads twice a day, Erich Sauer, Forestry graduate from ads and fruits and fried chicken. every day for 16 years, in about every Karlsruhe, Germany, likes spatzle best. Dorotha Crockard, from Houston, possible combination," Mrs. Friley ex­ This is a dish prepared of meal, eggs Texas, likes hot foods-Spanish sauces, plains, "but I don't think he will ever and milk. Wuft (sausage) is another fa­ chili, hot tamale-everything that a get enough of them." Dr. and Mrs. vorite, also roggen (a bread made of good Spanish meal contains. These foods Friley agree in their dislike of spinach. rye). Germans eat many potatoes and are popular in her home town which Fried chicken would probably be Mrs. more meat than do Iowans because of Friley's favorite food if it were not for the colder climate. cheeses. She is fond of avocados, too. Eloise Sutherland, Home Economics But cheeses are really tops on her list junior, votes for noodles, especially of delicacies. "There's nothing better chicken and noodles, and vetoes greens than our own Iowa Roquefort," Mrs. and rutabagas. Friley is sure. A Norwegian food, lefsa, is the choice Something piquant which is an appe­ of Eleanor Nelson, of Flaxville, Mon­ tite teaser is more to Mrs. Friley's taste tana. It is made of mashed potatoes roll­ for teas than are cakes, candies, and ed out thin and baked on a griddle or other sweets. the top of a range. It is spread with but­ Barbecued lamb is what Ines Rosen­ ter and rolled up and eaten. A variety busch, I. S. Sr., Buenos Aires, Argen­ of cringla is another favorite with tina, likes best of all. A fire is built Eleanor. Pie crust is rolled thin, spread she says is only about 200 miles from and let burn down to coals, which are with butter and rolled up. Then it is the Mexican border. covered with ashes to avoid smoke. rolled out again and spread with butter Jane Helser, Institution Management Then the lamb, or a small pig or calf or and rolled up again until the process has junior, enjoys macaroni and cheese. beef ribs, is stretched on an iron cross been" repeated five times. It is baked in Gwen Griffith, Household Equipment and placed over the coals in a slanting a figure-eight shape. She also likes es­ junior, professes her preference for position. It is roasted for two or three calloped potatoes and cream puffs but baked beans and brown bread. hours and eaten with a sauce made of dislikes spinach and sauerkraut. What if ancient epicures did dine up­ a number of condiments and a touch of What do editors prefer to eat? Peggy on peacocks tongues? We still prefer our onion and garlic. The sauce may be Schenk, editor of the Homemaker, is favorites, agree Iowa State food con­ made as hot as desired but Ines prefers especially fond of mushrooms, chiffon noisseurs.

12 January, 1938 She Knows Her Turkeys by Mary Ellen Lynch

"THERE'S Beth Bailey McLean, the spirit of it all and talked to her lis­ At this time the winner spoke over a another Iowa Stater! We've met teners as if they were neighbors who travelling microphone taken down in them everywhere this week-end, had dropped in to sit on her kitchen the audience to her. Then any others it seems. And that must be Eleanor stool and watch her finish her dishes and in the audience with questions gave Howe. Isn't she good looking?" stuff her turkey. She used no script their names and asked their questions, "Carol Brueck is working for her, did although she occasionally glanced at a again putting Mrs. McLean on test, but you know? Carol graduated from Iowa paper on the table, undoubtedly an out­ again proving that she knew practically State in journalism last year. line of the items she must cover in each everything about turkeys. "Quiet! I think maybe they're going time period. ---+t·--- to begin." The phone number of the studio was The two speakers watched the two given at the opening and listeners were announcers on the small stage conferring urged to phone in any questions while with Miss Howe, checking watches and the broadcast was on so that they might On the Airwaves script for the broadcast soon to begin. be answered over the air. While Mrs. At eight-thirty the girls had been in McLean and Miss Howe discussed the by Grace Strohmeier a long line of housewives and college and various methods of cleaning and truss­ ADIO OFFERS a definite career high school students standing in the ing, of stuffing and roasting a turkey, R lobby of the Wrigley Building, Chicago, there were many slips of paper handed for the enthusiastic, hard working eagerly awaiting the opening of the to them with questions to answer and woman. doors of studio WBBM. They all had no time for looking up the answers. Most people with a little voice train­ tickets for the weekly program "Pantry During the first twenty minutes Mrs. ing can broadcast, but it does require party" conducted by Eleanor Howe of McLean and Miss Howe conversed on skill in writing material used on the Harvey and Howe, a home economics all the aspects of the Thanksgiving tur­ air. Women who have been educated testing firm for advertisers who do not key. They used no system of questions with the thought of entering advertis­ hire their own home economists. and answers nor any formal means, ing agencies have now turned to radio Many college students were in the merely talked the whole thing over advertising because its expansion offers line that morning for there were over slowly and easily, emphasizing various great opportunities. five hundred in the city that week-end points but never using technical lang­ "Spoken writing" characterizes radio for the recently-held annual field trip uage nor explaining the detailed scien­ talk which demands a technic differing for seniors in home economics in mid­ tific reasons for various procedures. from that used in print or speeches. western colleges. They were learning the Homemaker graduates from Iowa State The difference lies in the use of the services of the commercial home econ­ College could appreciate and understand words themselves. An easy "you and omist and some of the ins and outs of their practical suggestions, and the new­ I" relationship results in more daily getting a job. est bride graduate from a high school visits between the radio speaker and Every one of the twenty-one dele­ business course could learn and follow. homemakers. gates from Iowa State College swelled Soon Miss Howe began watching the In order to have simple familiar with possessive pride as they saw that clock more closely. At just the right words in straight forward sentences, a Beth Bailey McLean, chief home econ­ moment she and Mrs. McLean began writer chooses a specific subject to last omist for Swift and Co., was the guest actual work with the big bird. As they six or seven minutes rather than a speaker of the morning. She came on worked they explained what kinds of broad general one lasting for quite the platform with Miss Howe and sur­ stuffing might be used. Miss Howe some time. Other hints like timeliness veyed with approval the plump and very asked Mrs. McLean the questions which to seasons, pocketbook and health, or clean turkey in the center of the table. the studio had received during the hour. novelties that attract attention, must be After several minutes of wise-cracks Although she had no idea what the next considered. from the announcers and the singer, one might be, she never faltered in her The writing of the first paragraph and much testing and rearranging of answers, but talked freely into the takes deliberate planning for it must microphones, Miss Howe welcomed the "mike" and completed stuffing the bird. catch the listeners' interest and also an­ studio audience briefly. She asked for Evidently, her experiments with poul­ nounce the subject of the talk. The the weekly guest from one of the Chi­ try in her meat work stood her in good effective writing and speaking over cago high schools to come to the stage, stead. the air is in first or second person in and the honored high school home econ­ Little recipe folders containing all the active voice. A final wind-up can in­ omists went up to sit with Mrs. McLean. recipes mentioned on the broadcast were clude directions for more information. Just on the hour the program went on distributed to the audience and an­ A good talk leaves the listeners with the air with the singer accompanying nounced to the listeners. something to do and a reason for doing himself on his electric organ for the When the bird was stuffed and trussed, it. theme song and the two announcers pre­ Miss Howe drew a number out of a hat Those of you with ability and inter­ senting the program of the morning and and the turkey was awarded to the est in broadcasting are offered growing chattering back and forth to each other holder of the lucky ticket in the audi­ opportunities with each year in radio through their own "mikes." Everything ence. The Iowa State students were industry. A definite study of radio was very informal, just like "one big eager to get it to carry back to Ames, writing and broadcasting will produce happy family." Miss Howe entered into but none had this luck. more successful women in radio careers.

The Iowa Homemaker 13 • Science 1n the Kitchen

eighty odd products. baking problems made up of chemists The Home Economics Department is from the plant laboratories. She is also called Consumer Service with its pur­ a member of the American Association pose being to represent the homemaker. of Cereal Chemists. Miss Martin keeps The fifteen Home Economist members, the rest of the department posted on chosen as they are from all parts of various technical publications in her the country, bring their own particular field. backgrounds, giving a true picture of Next door to the Consumer Kitchen, women the country over. separated only by a wall of glass bricks, The department tests the products, is the Experimental Recipe Kitchen. edits the material on the products, and Here things new are developed-ideas, distributes the material. recipes, uses for products. The compli­ As the kitchen is the heart of the cated if fascinating preparation of food Elizabeth (Betty) Martin '32 home, so all the work of the Consumer for photography for advertisements and Service Department revolves around cook books includes not only making the experimental kitchens at General the foods, but transferring them to the HAT BECOMES of the thou­ Foods. One of the three is the Consumer studio, and arranging them with the W sands of girls trained in Home Kitchen in which routine testing of proper accessories. products assures General Foods that Economics when they leave Large quantity uses are studied in the school behind them? While many marry its standards of production are main­ tained over weeks, months, and years. Institutional Kitchen for bakeries, ho­ there are as many more who set forth tels and restaurants, cafeterias, tea to conquer the world by other means. Here, too, consumer questions on re­ cipes and products are checked. New rooms and other institutions. A regular Some teach, others train to be hospi­ service of monthly recipes, newly tal dietitians and an increasing number products, although developed in the Research Department of the individual developed, is offered; a regular check become "Home Economics Women in is also kept on quantity products. Business." Business that deals with the plants, are tested here in the process of home must appeal to the woman-in­ manufacture. The Editorial Department, of which the-home; and who knows her pro­ It is here that Betty Martin works. Ruth Buckner is a member, edits the blems, viewpoint, and reactions as well Ideally equipped with her training at recipes and incorporates them into its as another woman-and particularly Iowa State and her special work on literature. It is an added responsibility of one trained in Home Economics. She shortenings and baking, Miss Martin the editors to see that all advertising is the liaison between business and the works on all technical baking. She regu­ is scientifically correct in its state­ home, interpreting one to the other. larly tests the production of these prod­ ments, and that the package labels Ruth Hitzhusen Buckner, '25, and ucts and keeps in very close touch with carry the neccesary information for Elizabeth L. (Betty) Martin, '32, are the Research Departments of the various their correct use. two graduates belonging to this "Wo­ plants to bring to them the consumer's General Foods feels so strongly that men in Business" group and are now point of view. She represents the de­ the Consumer is the ultimate judge that with General Foods Corporation. Ruth partment on a research committee on they have 25,000 Consumer Testers. Buckner brings to her work in General Foods a wide experience of women and a sound knowledge of their needs. She taught Home Economics in Iowa and Minnesota, spent two years with the Home Service Department of General Mills and was County Home Ad­ visor for the Extension Service of Illinois in Iroquois County. Betty Martin tucked her degree under her arm and set out for New York and business career. She had majored in Nutrition and Technical Journalism, then worked with Professor Belle Lowe and received her master's degree in Nutrition, specializing in the study of shortenings. She did a special piece of work with Best Foods on shortenings. She then went to General Foods Corporation, work­ ing first in the technical laboratory and now in the Consumer Kitchen. General Foods distributes over

14 January, 1938 Check Your Radiation Ratings by Kay Dodds

"\\A JITH rings on her fingers and low, green, blue, cinnamon, or electric But as a last reminder to our lady, let's 'f'f bells on her toes"-who has blue. White sapphires enact the dia­ repeat that little phrase, "quality not not heard of her? She's a mond part with as much charm. A quantity", then let her dazzle the night well-known character, but she doesn't white topaz is another good imitator. away. go to Iowa State. For if she did, there The true yellow diamond, often called would be but one or two rings on her the Canary diamond, is very rare. The fingers, and she'd leave the bells in the golden colored zircon, the yellow campanile. chrysoberyl, and the pale yellow topaz Being a typical Iowa Stater, the ring and the yellow sapphire substitute well she would wear would be a precious for the "Canary". Keep gem, a semi-precious gem, or perhaps The ruby, that drop of pigeon's blood, no gem at all. Gems which are spec­ has a double, the ruby-red spinel. Its "in tune" tacular she would leave for evening; resemblance is so close that it reaches those which are small but beautiful she the higher price levels of semi-prec­ with the times would probably wear every day as she ious stones. Let us help you by keep­ would her watch. A garnet, well chosen, not only satis­ ing your radio in condition If it is her engagement ring there is fies the "ruby-minded", but will prove naturally but one finger on which she a gem in its own right as well. Campus Radio Co. will wear it. Otherwise, she usually Pearls are beauty at the highest price. chooses the right hand. Mademoiselle In recent years, cultured pearls have Phone 55 118 Welch shows very bad taste if she wears her been introduced, which cost less. No gem stone on the index or middle finger. woman should scoff at wearing them; Some time in antiquity, the "ring fing­ they are as true as the natural pearl er" was appointed, and today not even and can be detected only by microscope For those the little finger has come up to the "ring and X-ray. finger's" favored position. If mademoiselle has pearls, she should WINTRY If our lady has no cameo ring, the wear them to preserve their beauty. figure should face toward other people Pearls have a tendency to dry out, and eve spreads we have when the hand is down. they receive the necessary moisture just what you want Mademoiselle should know something from the skin. about her gem if she is to get the most An opal is beauty at its lowest price. pleasure from it. Gems have high value Many superstitions have arisen from or low value according to hardness, this stone, but according to one gem­ brilliance, beauty, durability, and rar­ ologist, "Stones are not lucky or un­ MALANDER'S ity. Diamonds head the list since they lucky in themselves, but they bare the GROCERY have all of these qualities. Other pre­ souls and expose the characters and 2526 Lincoln Way Phone 266 cious gems are rubies and emeralds. Al­ temperaments of all who wear or look though not a gem, the pearl is included upon them." in this group. Now, more than ever, jewels are al­ A few years ago, a woman was asham­ most a wardrobe necessity. Necklaces ed to wear anything but a precious gem. are becoming with sports sweaters. Today, semi-precious stones speak for Opaque beads, pearls, corals, jade, and COME IN themselves in the best of company. No inconspicuous bright pendants give the tint of the rainbow is missing. Some of best effects. Great grandmother's locket AFTER THE RUSH these stones can even play the roles of is up to the last minute in style. For the precious gems creditably. And watch those huge brooches! If The tourmaline, serves as a copy of the lady mentioned above could lay POST-CHRISTMAS the emerald. A good tourmaline is even hand on a smooth rust cornelian or a a wiser buy than a poor emerald, since· large turquoise to fasten her silk neck the latter has many flaws. There may scarf, she would gladly throw most of SPECIALS be perfect rubies and perfect diamonds, her hand jewelry to the winds. but a perfect emerald doesn't exist. The For the formals in winter quarter, PHONE 49 most costly emerald will have a few Mademoiselle will bring out the shin­ flaws. The tourmaline, much purer and ing jewels-anything from rhinestones having greater brilliancy than the through the whole gamut of more prec­ emerald, deserves a good setting. ious stones, colored or white. She will Diamonds have many under-studies, search the town to find a tierra to :aJ~~ none of them as hard-consequently match those twin bracelets or that dan­ ~5TUIJIO they become scratched and dull more gerously fragile necklace. She might AMES- IOVVA readily. The white zincon carries as even conduct a miniature treasure hunt much brilliancy, being doubly refract­ to procure some glittering shoe buckles. 109 WELCH AVENUE ing. The zincon can also be honey yel- Now, with a flash, she's off to the ball.

The Iowa Homemaker 15 The Gavel Strikes Happy by Donna Button New Year "T HE meeting will please come to quite closely for efficiency's sake. with order . . ." A general lull of con­ Minerva King, vice-president of As­ versation and the ceasing of the sociated Women Students, secretary of New Hair Styles clicking of knitting needles make this Phi Upsilon Omicron and a member of moment a quiet one, if not otherwise the Veishea Central Committee, says, outstanding. Now that we have the "Most meetings, especially the girls' or­ meeting in progress, the question is, ganizations, are conducted too infor­ ~ "What are we going to do with it?" mally and do not accomplish what they f'Lj,_, The idea of how we shall conduct our could with more system in their proced­ tD~TY ure." She also believes that if the meetings on the campus is sooner or '(_,.--1 SALON later a question in our minds. We have meetings are conducted with more dig­ c graduated from the method of conduct­ nity, the secretary would have an easier Formerly Hart Beauty Shop ing our meetings like a Tammany Hall time keeping notes. Ames National Bank Building rally and are more serious about the Berniece Williams, program chairman Phone 250 whole matter. Some of the students on of Women's Health Council, moves for the campus express the following views more informal meetings. "They give on how a meeting should be conducted. the entire situation a feeling of relaxa­ Doris Young, president of Cardinal tion and pleasure rather than stiffness." Guild, A.W.S., and Mortar Board, says The League of Women Voters' or­ QUALITY MEATS ganization, she says, combines a well­ for conducted business meeting with infor­ mal discussion. Here open discussion of ALL OCCASIONS a stimulating type is required, and while the members are searching their study­ clogged brains for new ideas, coffee is served to them to aid in their mental re­ vival. The following procedure will facilitate POSE'S the action of business meetings: 1. Call to order. MEAT MARKET 2. Reading of the minutes. 3. Reports of committees, communi- FREE DELIVERY cations and announcements. DOWNTOWN AMES 4. Transaction of business. that she thinks meetings such as these 5. Appointment of committees. Phone 238 should be conducted with parliamentary 6. Adjournment. procedure and follow the rules of order

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16 January, 1938 What Goal Posts? We Wish You

by J ean Metcalf and Rachel Roewe a

"B UT, Joe, where are the goal posts?" another dormitory team in the gym. And another blossoming romance It is equally difficult to be a good win­ HAPPY is nipped in the bud at a basket­ ner and to be a good loser. So "play ball game. for the game, not the honor it will You've seen the lovely, fragile blonde bring!" NEW YEAR who spends the first twenty minutes fix­ Never in the background is the boast­ ing her hat and hair, and applying lip­ ful grandstander who yells, "Let me stick and the next ten minutes getting have that ball, we need to win this the details of the hat on the girl on the game!'' left bleacher three rows in front of her. RESOLVE She then remarks, "I don't see why the athletic department doesn't get those to make 1938 a BIG boys some decent looking trunks. Now, year with the little if I were doing it, I'd get white satin things that count. trimmed in cardinal, wouldn't you, Dick?" Or if you've missed this girl, you've probably heard the vivacious brunette Drug Sundries saying, "Oh, Jim, who is that adorable blonde man playing center? Jim, you Candies simply must introduce him to me. I just School Supplies know he's a good dancer." If you haven't already guessed it, there's nothing that makes a fellow any angrier than to rave on about another fellow. Missing one's dinner to get to the gym in time to get a seat-any seat­ CAMPUS alters the mood of the gayest girl. Do you remember the girl who "never did Sc-$1.00 STORE like basketball. It's really an awfully LINCOLN WAY silly game anyway, isn't it? And to think all these people come here and appar­ ently enjoy it- or at least pretend they PATRONIZE do. Well, I prefer a good game of bridge. HOMEMAKER ADVERTISERS Oh, George, how much longer does this last? Are you really enjoying it?" She is cutting her own telephone lines as far as that fellow is concerned. "Miss Smartie" is the girl who "Just knew Number 12 would never make that basket from way back there. Now if he had played to center and then to Number 14 it would have been a cinch." After just one basketball game with "Miss Party Girl," George will remem­ ber to call the "other one" for the home­ coming game and week-end next fall. "Miss Party Girl was a cute number, but, The excuse-maker fumbles the ball, gosh, did I get sick of that incessant misses a basket, or runs with the ball. humming and foot tapping, not only "Oh, I slipped" or "I got my fingers when the band played, but all during twisted," she shrieks. Results not ex­ the game. Then after the half, she was cuses are more important. in such a dither to be off to the party, Typical on the floor is the serious, de­ for your I missed all the good plays trying to keep termined, strong-headed athlete who, if her quiet." the score is on the wrong side, protests, Midnight Spreads One really should not shut up like a "They get all the breaks. I've never yet and clam. A few intelligent remarks and seen a square referee." A little humor much observation of the game will suf­ on the subject should help that attitude. Parties fice to make you a "good sport." George It is easy to remember others who is there because he is enthusiastic about fit into the characters of the poor loser, ~ ~ the game itself. So let him enjoy it­ poor winner, bragger, hesitater, excuse­ and you will, yourself. maker, ball-hogger, and do-or-die play­ Am es Ser vice Grocer y The modern girl not only attends ers. And then forget we ourselves may basketball games, she plays in them. be showing those qualities as we "give an d Market Nothing brings out a person's true char­ our all" in an intramural basketball Lincoln Way Phone 88 acter like a hot, earnest game against game.

The Iowa Homemaker 17 Alumnae News by Faithe Danielson

ITH the ringing in of a New W Year we have more Iowa State graduates from the Home Economics Division stepping 'nto new positions. Phyllis Redman, who graduated at Brief as a dance step-Soft as a the end of the last summer session, is whisper-They leave you soft and taking her hospital dietetics training at the University Hospital, Iowa City. flexible as though you wore noth­ Marjorie Countryman, '36, is the new dietitian at Mary Greeley Hospital, ing, yet smooth out your figure so your frock fits without a wrinkle.

Ardith Virginia Luithly '36 Nye '37

Ames. Miss Countryman recently fin­ ished her dietetics interneship at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. Harriet Buckles, '36, who took her diet­ etics interneship at the University of Minnesota, began work January 1 r~t the new Green County Hospital at Jeffer­ formals son as dietitian. Mary K. Alexander, '29, is head dieti­ tian of the residence halls at Ohio State University, Columbus. Ann Hadden, '32, who formerly worked at the Memo­ rial Union at Iowa State, has recently accepted the position as food service for College manager at the Y.M.C.A. in Minneapolis. Ruth Sperry, B. S. '30, M. S. '33 Uni­ versity of Nebraska, is the new thera­ peutic and teaching dietitian at White ~ances Cross Hospital, Columbus, Ohio. Miss Sperry's work includes the supervision of the diet kitchen from which are served from twenty-five to thirty thera­ at peutic diet trays every meal, as well as the writing of all these and all of the catering diets which number about forty, teaching the foods and nutrition, diet-therapy, and some of the medical and up lectures for the junior and preliminary $6.95 nurses. Miss Sperry says, "There are fifty pre­ liminary students, which means three sections of laboratory, and about forty junior nurses, all of whom I shall have this year in class and in the diet kitchen." Wolf's Dorothy Osler, '32, is therapeutic dietitian at Crite Clinic Hospital, Cleve­ land, Ohio. Des Moines Virginia Nye, '37, is working in the art department at Younkers. Caroline Wallace, '35, was recently

18 January, 1938 married and is now living at Waverly, Iowa. Margaret A. Brown, '34, married Herman Holmes, agriculture teacher at Tipton. Ardith Luithly, '36, who took Flowers Look her dietetics training at Cook County for all occasions Charming Hospital in Chicago last year, is now Mrs. Herbert Schoeneman of Fairfield. from for A recent letter from Helen Avery, '37, says, "Since August 2, I have been em­ HIM ployed by the R. H. White Company of Ruth's Flower Shop Boston. This company is a part of Wil­ liam Filene and Sons. My work has "Your Campus Florist" Let us show been partly training, and partly actual PHONE 2675 you our store service in a junior-executive capa­ Lincoln VVay city. Also, I have done a little teaching NEW HAIR STYLES in the training division. The training group consists of a limited number of college graduates. These people are given a thorough background of the organization, its operation, and policies. Field Beauty Shop We, in the group, observe throughout START 310 Main St. Phone 1069 the store, and report our findings. My the work keeps me very busy and continu­ ally interested with its new and various NEW YEAR demands." Of the five new girls pledged to the RIGHT! Purdue University chapter of Omicron ~ ~ LET YOUR Nu, one of them is Ardith Unrau, '34, Drop in and see our who is on the teaching staff in the In­ complete lines of Application Picture stitution Management Department. ---··:·--- COSMETICS be the and Stepping Stone PERFUMES High Schools Train ~ ~ to a Good Homemakers JUDISCH BROS. Job ow effective is high school home DRUG STORE H economics training? A systematic FREE DELIVERY PHONE 70 Call 347 for survey by Sarah Miner, M. S. Appointments Iowa State College, gives rather conclu­ sive evidence to show that high school graduates with a year of foods training who are now homemakers follow better HILL'S STUDIO food practices than homemakers with­ out high school foods training. 2530 Lincoln VVay Miss Miner chose 45 graduates of Wa­ verly High School, Waverly, Ill., who cooperated in givng her the data for this investigation. Of this number, 23 had had training and 21 had not. Conclusions from this comparison Try Our were as follows: _ A larger percentage of the home eco­ nomics group served two or more DE LUXE vegetables other than potatoes daily. A larger percentage of the trained CLEANiiNG homemakers served fruit more than once daily. FOR YOUR Neither group served sufficient amounts of whole grain products. FORMALS A larger percentage of the home eco­ nomics group served whole grain breakfast foods. toR WINTER SPORTS More milk was served per person in the SNOVV BOOTS home economics group. all colors AMES A larger percentage of the home eco­ LAUNDRY CO. nomics group raised and canned vege­ tables and fruits. 218 Fifth Street A larger percentage of the trained home­ ~).}} PHONE 47 makers read magazine articles on homemaking and belonged to home­ maker clubs. I!JJmsl!i~

The Iowa Homemaker 19 ~~Big'' Business Have the (Continued from page 1) Make it a profitably make a time schedule and at­ tempt to live by it. Not that, as a home­ HAPPY PICTURES maker, she'll ever be able to catalogue NEW her day so patly. Telephone, doorbell, playground squabbles and childhood ills YEAR You received for Christmas can never be adequately scheduled. But every successful homemaker has with our new a somewhat automatic plan of work. It Hair Styles FRAMED may have started as a time schedule. But it is liable to have developed into an Cranford Beauty Shop habitual procedure for what might Cranford Apts. Phone 1576 at otherwise be annoying details. Details which really don't annoy, you see, be­ cause, like brushing your teeth, they've Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow become largely reflex. And details it. TONEY'S which can be dropped at any moment to bind a finger, answer the phone or dash PICTURE SHOP out to see the just-up tulip shoots, and then picked up again with no vain re­ New Des Moines Location grets for moments lost. 705 and 707 Grand Ave. My own job- that of homemaking­ Stephenson's journalist-is, so my friends tell me, one FAMOUS FOR FABRICS of the most ideal. It seasons with the salt of research what might otherwise OPPOSITE CAMPUS Send us a card and Mr. Toney will call be the most flavorless household chores. with photograph and frame samples on one of his monthly trips to Ames. And allows me to turn leisure into profit, while at the same time remaining with my family and handling, myself, Headquarters for A test of good manners is being able all those important jobs whose relega­ to endure bad ones. tion so mentally harasses full-time­ career homemakers. w It frequently seems to require ~ F. & N. Uniforms all the discipline of the high-powered ~ executive, while withholding the execu­ ill Sewing Supplies USED tive's privileges. I can take the baby to the board meet­ ~ ing, in effect, or bring the conference ~ Rhythm Sandals TEXT to the dish pan. But I cannot refuse to ~ iodine a gashed knee, to accept a neigh­ ~ Gym Suits borly offering of petunia plants or to ad­ mire the two-board aeroplane which ~ BOOKS the three-year-old has just contrived. ~ Tank Suits Not even though the "right phrase" be ~ hanging on the very verge of conscious­ ~ Swim Caps ness, never again to be available if it is NOW AT not at this moment summoned forth. ~ The homemaker-journalist combina­ ~ Lingerie REDUCED tion-like many another-is best tackled only by those who have an intense and ~ PRICES continual curiosity, a sturdy sense of ~ Piece Goods humor and the ability to concentrate in ~ the midst of neighborhood bedlam. At ~ Humming Bird Hos- the same time, one must have a sharp iery ear for whatever happens to be tak­ ~ Trade In Your ing place on the playground outside. ill And to these, may I add, facility with ~rr:rrr:rrr:rrr:llr:rrr:rrr:rrr:rrr:r Old Books Now the typewriter! ~ "To be a good homemaker," says ALWAYS AT YOUR Dorothy Thomas, "is harder than to be ~ SERVICE a good newspaperwoman. Harder and ~ rarer." STUDENT To look toward settling the hard job ~ first, is probably the better part of wis­ SUPPLY dom. Outside activities, for the most of us, had best be tacked on after the main Stephenson's STORE job of home-managing has been pretty well brought into line, don't you think? FAMOUS FOR FABRICS (SOUTH OF CAMPUS) For homemaking, regardless of how you look at it, is genuinely "big" busi­ OPPOSITE CAMPUS ness.

20 January, 1938 Up With the Dawn :.­ THE SUN RISES on a new year...... __ ...... of sparkling knowledge gained from Fervently we wish for understanding _.__ reading current books, magazines, and friends, real work to do, a fearless ...... __ _...,..,.,... newspapers and by listening to good mind, an understanding heart, pleasure ------­ radio programs. Have you, too, found in beauty, and the ability to laugh. But yourself in the midst of one of those most of all, right now we would like a silences or meandering discussions of little leisure with nothing that just must the weather, which seemed to envelope be done. your group in a chilling fog? Then someone touched a light key of common * * * interest and all faces brightened again. EDITOR - PEPPER - UPPERS are with the makings, that is important," those letters- to-editor when the last • • • encourages Virginia E. Porter. issue contained flaws so obvious to us. YOUNG BETTY ELLIS, daughter of Like stardust sprinkles, they make a • • * the Homemaker's second editor, ad­ fun-job more interesting. AND STILL WE SEE girls introduced vised her mother once, "You always look to men, rather than men presented to like you're thinking. Why don't you * * * girls. The introduction falls flat as a just let your thoughts go by?" pancake, and what might be the start of THOSE WHO LAY DOWN rules, too • • • a beautiful friendship is off with a THERE IS A LOT of dishwashing in often break them, said La Rochefou­ stumble. cauld. home economics. * * * * * * * * * "WITH EMOTIONS AS WITH FOOD, HUNGARIAN DR. SZENT-GYORGYI IN OLD RUSSIA the host invited the it's the staples you live on," says Helen analyzed a heavily spiced dish one day guest of honor, who in turn invited the Washburn. "The exotics tire as a con­ instead of eating it. This 1937 Nobel guests. stant diet. The people you are happy Prize Winner for Medicine discovered with are people who lead you to be the then that paprika was the best source * * * kind of person you want to be." of Vitamin C on earth. Most convenient "WE'RE NOT HEAYEN 'S GIFT to in­ * * * source of the vitamin, however , still re­ dustry when we emerge, diploma in THAT LOST ART, conversation, can mains in citrus fruits, especially lemons hand, from our chosen colleges. But we be undertaken with more ease and inter­ and oranges. have the makings and it's what we do est if one is fortified with a small fund - Peggy Schenk , editor

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