Verhovayak Lapja, 1941. január-június (24. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)
1941-03-13 / 11. szám
March 13, 1941 Verhovayak Lapja Page 5 LADIES’ PAGE Conducted by BALEGA Aunt Mary's Column “Now sure you’re invited To come and be gay, Sir, With the rist of the childer On St. Paddy’s Day, Sir.” With Saint Patrick’s Day just around the corner, green seems to be the color of the day. For the party table there are simply lots of clever ways to color up festivities. You can use little green plants at every place with tiny Irish flags, clay pipes and shamrocks, too. For a centerpiece your Aunt Mary thinks there is nothing better than a large greeniced cake with tiny green candles on it for luck. Here’s a sponge cake recipe that works out very nicely with the colored frosting— 6 egg yolks 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon lemon juice 14 teaspoon salt % teaspoon baking powder 6 egg whites 1 cup flour Grated find of % lemon. Beat yolks until thick, add sugar gradually and continue beating. Add lemon juice, rinds and whites of eggs which have been beaten until stiff and dry. Fold in flour, baking powder and salt which has been sifted together twice. Bake 45 minutes in moderate oven, in angel food pan. Frolt with plain white icing to which a few drops of green vegetable coloring have been added. Decorate sides and top with small shamrock leaves or candies. For the candy dish we have Peppermint* Creams—• 3 cups granulated sugar 1 cup water Boil until it spins a thread. Add twelve drops of extract of peppermint and four drops of green vegetable coloring. Beat until it creams, then drop on glazed paper. Now that we are in the middle of Lent, your Aunt Mary knows just what a time it is to think of and plan something new for Appeal, Beauty and Charm By BETTY CAROL BALEGA “Vanity—all is vanity.” And after a few very busy days in New York covering spring fashions and beauty requisites, your editor is inclined to agree with these oft-quoted words. Appraising perfumes, cosmetics, creams and whatnots through one lovely salon after another, with each new item rivaling the last, is always a thrill. Spring presentations on Fifth Avenue—and all for the sake of vanity! So sweet are the words for you after using Schiaparelli’s new release, “So Sweet.” Three Shocking sachets form a crinoline your dinners and lunches, so maybe she might be able to help you out with a few suggestions. There, for example, are Scalloped Oysters— 25 oysters 2 cups bread crumbs Vi cup milk 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon salt V* teaspoon pepper Grease casserole and cover bottom with bread crumbs, then lay oysters in carefully; season and cover with bread crumbs; pour over milk and cover top with butter. Bake in hot oven 15 to 20 minutes. Then here is my recipe for Old-Fashioned Barbecue Buns— 1 cup sugar % cup shortening 1 yeast t cake 2 cups water % teaspoon salt Enough flour to make a soft dough. Stiffen this at night. Let raise till morning. Form into soft balls—small, set in pan and let raise till double in size. Bake in a moderate oven. Try these with melted Old English Cheese for something a bit different when the children come home from school for lunch. How about Banana Fritters? Everybody loves those— 1 cup flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 tablespoon powdered sugar Vi teaspoon salt 1 egg Vi cup milk 1 tablespoon lemon juice 3 bananas. Mix and sift dry ingredients. Add others in order. Force bananas through sieve before adding. Beat thoroughly. Drop by spoonfuls into deep, hot shortening. Fry. Drain and sprinkle with powdered sugar. There now, that should help you along the Lenten road at least a little bit. And if any of you readers have any good recipes that you’d like me to look over and publish, just send ’em in! \ around a dram bottle of her Shocking perfume. This newest addition to the Shocking line is designed for coat hangers. Each sachet has a tiny ribbon loop which clips over the hook of a clothes hanger and keeps the dress or coat subtly fragrant with Shocking. While browsing about in Yardley’s, I came across so many new and interesting presentations that it took careful editing to select their Double Size Night Cream, Complexion Milk and new Penny Red Lipstick as most worthy of attention. The Night Cream will be found in the round creamcolored jars resembling old ivory, and like the Complexion Milk, it is capped with the familial Honey Bee motif. Incidentally, they have also packaged six small packets of assorted bath salts in a clever little box. The assortment includes Freesia, Verbena, Red Roses, Lavender and April Violets, the latter especially popular now that spring and its violets are on the way. To get back to the story of vanity, Helena Rubinstein has taken those words literally and has designed a new and utterly practical vanity for milady to carry this spring. Available at a budget price too! The Water Lily Lipstick Vanity has a generous size powder compartment and the famous full-sized lipstick clasp, while the Water Lily Triple Vanity has a rouge compartment in addition, if you prefer a more extensive beauty equipment. They are busy doing things with “Confetti” at the Lentheric Salon. A spot here and a dash there—and behold! you have captured the gaiety of a masked ball. For the first time “Confetti” has been added to the famed “Three Silent Messengers,” a trio well worth remembering! From Shulton’s Friendship's Garden come the first sweet scented breezes of spring. Their refreshing Toilet Water is a combination of five floral scents, each scent having its own and distinctive meaning. In Friendship’s Garden, primrose betokens early youth, violet betokens modesty, pink betokens pure love, heliotrope betokens admiration, and jasmine betokens amiability. Newspaper headlines make fashion news, and the LaCross Deep Sea nail polishes are the last word in nautical elegance! With oceans and navies, strange, exotic seas on everyone’s tongue, what could be more natural than that the dominant fashion note this spring and summer be sounded from the shores and very depths of the deep seas themselves? That is the' very _ note that LaCross strikes in its new Ladies: The LADIES’ PAGE has been created at your request and is featured in the first English issue of each month. You are invited to contribute matters pertinent to the development and enhancement of this, YOUR column. „ Your questions will be answered, or you may obtain additional information, by sending your letters, with self-addressed stamped envelopes inclosed, to Miss Betty Carol Balega, Ladies’ Page, Verhovay Journal, 345 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. GADABOUTS Gadabouting can be so much fun if you have an interesting place to browse about in. And can you find a more interesting place than New York’s Fifth Avenue? I agree with you it can’t be done, especially now since the fashion experts have been concentrating their efforts on styles right here in America. A fashion and beauty editor’s Utopia! To begin with, the whole Avenue has gone patriotic to the utmost degree! There are navy blue capes with vivid red linings borrowed from the Annapolis cadet, very striking and complete with chevrons, braid and what have you. There are large navy purses with military and naval insignias on one corner to match these capes. Even the shoes are sporting sojne sort of patriotic trimmings. Crisp white organdy blouses are again in order. Nothing enhances a dark tailored suit as well as one of these, frilly front or plain. The white blouses have it! Three piece suits again spotlight the cape. This year it takes the place of the loose swagger coat over the strictly mannish suit underneath. Saucy Bretons of shiny straw perch right smartly over milady’s eyebrow this season. They, too, are both plain... minus all feminine fol-de-rol, or fussy ... with loads and loads of veiling! Ribbons are tying under the chins, just as I predicted weeks ago! Spring skirts will be just as short as ever, with sheerer and lighter shades of hose. Gloves will be lacy with plenty of openwork to show off your hands. Evening mitts will be fingerless, so look to your hands, girls! Longer-waisted, slimmer-hipped nail polish shades, Sea Wheat... a dainty shell-coral, Red Amber, a clear, cool, fresh red, and Lobster, master of them all, a tawny cast to a vibrant rosered. We can’t join the navy, girls, but we’ll all be riding high on this fashion tidal wave fpr months to come! suit jackets are the order of the day. Time now to lose those extra pounds you picked up over the winter months! A few of the delicately, handmade linen handkerchiefs are still coming into this country from Ireland; A bit' expensive, but aren’t .they worth it? And ye shall know them by their lapel gadgets! There we go again! That seems to be one fad that has gained momentum as the months roll by. From sport jackets to fur coats, they all display some sort of lapel adornment ... whether they have a lapel on the coat or not. Jade is coming back into its own this season. Rings, bracelets, earrings, pendants—are most beautiful* when set with these stones. i If I may hazard a guess, 1 predict (again) that the flowers in this year’s Easter Parade will also tend toward the patriotic hues. White roses, blue irises, and particularly red camellias. I wore the latter, for the first time, to the Metropolitan Opera last Monday night, and believe me they are gorgeous! Orchids, of course, still have top billing with me, but red camellias come a close second! Coiffures have taken a decided upward trend again. Flowers in the curls for evening. Very exclusive “Hand-Sewn” kidskin evening slippers rate a word of approval. The kidskin is so soft it looks like liquid gold, and is strapped with matching golden python. Dramatic finger-rings again shine! One in particular has a' great natural chunk of real amber, centered with a tiny simulated ruby. Smart no end! Chinese influence has entered our fashions in the form of an evening wrap, a pomegranate pink bouclé weave, weighted with bands of deeper-toned soutache braid and embroidery. Of course, I could go on elaborating for hours on these future styles, but methinks this will give the average girl and woman a general idea as to what is what for spring. T i
