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prinq Desserts Add Sparkle to Simple enus Here's Beauty Quiz to Test Make-Up Score BY GRACE BARBER HOW MUCH DO you know about correct make-up? Mel Berns, Hollywood make-up expert, has worked out a way for you to find your exact score. By answering each of the 10 true-false questions that follow you can find your rating. Give yourself 10 for each correct answer, then add up your score. from brows and lashes as well as the rest of the face. 10 True.

Use eyeshadow only on the upper lids. Touch it on the lid of your eye just above the iris of the eye. Then blend it out and up toward the brow and temple. Eyeshadow should always be used with a light hand. I -F Vr.f UV.

's Delicious Fresh Fruit Saves Ration Points BY GERTRUDE VOELLMIG YOU DONT HAVE to serve drab menus just because we are at war and many of our favorite foods are scarce or rationed. It's spring! If you are wise you will give the meals you serve the spirit-lifting touch they need with spring desserts. Modern mothers know that the best substitutes in the world for the sulphur-and-molasses remedy are fat red strawberries toppling over shortcake, tart pink rhubarb and prickling pineapple bursting with golden juices. If there ever was a time when these "tonics," and others like them, were a necessity it is right now. Here on this page are desserts planned especially to help you through this trying spring.

Clip them to use when your meals lack sparkle. Fresh fruits are unrationed. While they are expensive we know you will be serving them as often as you can. These recipes will help you stretch the flavor of fruits by combining them with less expensive foods. Good Use for Extra Sugar SUGAR RATIONING has been in effect about a year.

Nearly everyone has learned to manage on the amount allowed. Many of us have sugar to spare. It is quite natural that we should turn to desserts for that exciting touch war-time menus require. While there is sugar enough, there is none to waste. Jams and jellies are excellent substitutes for butter.

Most of us want to put up at least a small portion of the summer's fruit into these preserves. Unless there is a radical change in the allowance this year no more than one pound of canning sugar per person will be allowed for this purpose. The recipe3 on this page will help you save for next winter's breakfast treat. Light Cake with Maple ONE ANTIDOTE for monotony in war-time meals is a light, feathery cake spread thick with frosting. It is a year-round dessert which takes on a spring dress when flavored with maple and served with a pineapple milk shake.

SPICE CAKE it unrationed. Use them as often as you can in combinations which require small amounts of sugar. Keep your war-time meals from becoming dreary by serving delicious spring desserts. Fresh fruits are shortening "3 sugar 1 ,3 water i dark corn sj-rup, maple syrup, or thin honey If you make 80 or over pat yourself on the back. If you make 50 or over you re doing fairly well, but you could improve.

But if you get less than 50 take care, for that mens you've got a lot to learn. Here is Mel Berns quiz. (The correct answers are tabulated at the end.) 1 The real basis for a beautiful skin is thorough cleanliness. True False 2 No rouge at all is better than too much rouge. True False 3 Never follow the natural line of your eyebrows when you pluck them.

True False 4 Mascaraed eyelashes should always have a heavy, beaded look. True False 6 The best way to have a smooth lip line is to use a lipstick brush. True False 6 A good foundation should be used before any make-up is applied. True False 7 It is old fashioned to follow the famous rule about constant hair brushing for healthy hair. True False 8 Excessive make-up is a handicap to real beauty.

True False 9 A powder brush is the best means of removing excess powder after powdering. True False 10 Always harmonize the color of your eyeshadow with the color of your eyes. True False Now for the correct answers In Mel Berns glamour and beauty quiz: 1 True. The face must be faultlessly clean. You cannot apply successful make-up on a skin that is dull with old grimed powder or coated with dust.

2 True. One doesn't use rouge to make cheeks look red. Rouge should be used so subtly, blended so vaguely that you don't see it as red. Correct effect is a healthy freshness and graceful contour that it can give the face when properly applied. 3 False.

Nature put your eyebrows on in an arc that harmonizes with the curves of your face. They usually follow the curve of your eye socket. If you distort this by plucking your eyebrows too much or by using eyebrow pencil heavily to give the brows a new shape you may look queer just because the new curve you design is likely not to parallel the other curves of your features. Pluck out only obviously straggling hairs and use an eyebrow pencil only to darken or define the natural curve of your brows. 4 False.

Brush on mascara from the roots of the lashes outward to the tip, curling the lashes back as you brush. Use mascara on upper lashes only. And don't overload them. 5 True. If lip rouge is applied with a lipstick brush a sharper outline will be obtained.

Work a small amount of cleansing cream into the bristles of the brush and take color directly from the lipstick with the brush. Then place a tissue between the lips and blot the surplus rouge. 6 True. A good foundation preparation thinly applied adds greatly to the success of makeup. It gives depth to the coloring of your cosmetics.

It gives smoothness. It makes make-up last. It gives skin protection and it is of use in hiding imperfections. 7 False. Brushing is to the hair what massage is to the skin of your face.

Brush upwards and outwards, wiping your brush on a rough towel after a few strokes. 8 True. Make-up is only good when the make-up itself is invisible and the only effect wanted is to make one's skin look more naturally lovely than before its use. 9 True. A powder brush helps remove all surplus powder 2 cake flour 2'i baking powder 1 cinnamon 1 nutmeg 1 salt Cream shortening; add sugar slowly, beating in well.

Add unbeaten egg, beat well. Blend water and syrup. Sift together dry ingredients and add alternately with liquid to first mixture. Bake in two greased eight-inch layer cake pans in a moderate 375 degree oven for about 25 minutes. Put layers together and cover top and sides with maple frosting.

Makes one two-layer cake. To Brighten Up Your Meals IF YOU WANT meals suffering from a severe case of the doldrums to make a quick recovery, serve these rhubarb filled cakes. Have them for grown-up guests with sweet wine. RHUBARB CREAM FILLING 1 plain gelatin 3 cold water 1 coffee cream (20) 2 powdered sugar Vz thick cooked rhubarb sauce Soften the gelatin in cold water; place over boiling water and stir until dissolved. Combine with cream, chill slisrhtlv.

Outside the Kitchen Door BY GRACE V. SHARRITT NOW IS THE TIME to take your small son or daughter by the hand and plant a tree, or the seed of a tree. If your garden excludes the necessity of another spruce, or maple, or elm, plant this tree for your country in an open space of woodland, or meadow or state park. Plant this seed as an insurance of your faith in America. Make a little ceremony of the planting.

Young Bob or Diane will love the story you can tell them of Johnny Appleseed who became famous for the apple orchards which he sowed in a pioneer America. Tell them of this pioneer with the missionary spirit who sailed down the Ohio, planting apple seeds throughout his wanderings in a primitive wilderness for the welfare of a future country. OR PLANT a nut tree to replace the walnut and hickory trees being used in war production. During World War Boy Scouts were asked by the Federal Government to find and record on maps the location of all walnut trees suitable for gun stocks and airplane blades. To replace trees destroyed for this purpose, Scouts immediately started the planting of walnuts.

Nut planting is simple. All you need is a small garden trowel or a sharpened stick to make a hole three inches deep. Or you can use your shoe heel to drive the nuts into soft ground. And just see how soon young Bob will imitate your act! YOU HAVE taught an impressionable child the lesson of conservation of our natural resources and of creating beauty and usefulness to the land. Our land! When a child can absorb that elemental lesson of the land, in older years he will not quickly destroy, but will pause to contemplate upon the purpose of all plant life.

That is the seed you have planted today towards a world peace of tomorrow. It is our children who will create beauty and usefulness in that world. Fill light fluffy cup cakes with rhubarb cream, top with cake covers and sprinkle with powdered sugar. That, in short form, is the recipe for the luscious cup cakes shown above. Serve with light sweet wine for grown-up parties, have them with milk or coffee as a dinner dessert.

add powdered sugar and beat until stiff enough to hold its shape. Fold in the rhubarb sauce. Use as filling for cup cakes. Wendover Air Base Puts Wives to Work for Rooms I Brush gives even coating 3 A Tissue blots off excess Pencil accents eyebrows Mother Owes First Duty to Children BY GLADYS BE VANS THERE HAS, sinee the outbreak of war, been a shocking increase in juvenile delinquency. That is something the local communities and our country at large must face and deal with.

In fact, national and local committees are now at work on this. There have been horrifying instances of children neglected because both parents were in war work. Sometimes in areas to which families had moved there were no housing facilities. It has been reported that children were locked in cars or trailers for the day, and children turned out with the house key tied around their necks. Group Care, Education FOR THESE children a country-wide movement is gaining momentum to provide group care, food, shelter, and, in some cases, education.

Volunteers from the "women's army" are being trained for these duties. There is another thought that should tag right along with this one. It is not an argument against the need of every American woman contributing everything she can to the winning of this war. The thought I refer to has been publicly put forth by Dr. Regina W.

Wieman, consulting psychologist and director of the family community project at the University of Chicago, in a discussion on "The Child in a World at War." "Mothers who go into defense industries (unnecessarily) are endangering the welfare of their children. The plan which has been put into effect in some parts of the country of having women come in to take care of groups of children while the mothers work is shortsighted and pernicious. Child Needs Family Care "TO INSURE normal development of personality, the child needs the security of the basic nurturing group, which is the family Dr. Weiman states. "War, which tends to disrupt normal family relationships, will have a harmful psychological effect on the child unless special care is taken to offset its attendant strains and tensions.

"Many of the material values which are being destroyed, although important, are not vital. A house can go, a city may be injured without doing permanent psychological harm to a child, if he has been taught that the vital things of life belong to the human spirit. "A child is as important to the country as a soldier," Dr. Weiman declared. "Any one who helps to make conditions more wholesome for children during the stress of war conditions is performing vital defense work for the coming generation." 15 S5 1 1 I Spring is definitely here to stay when fresh strawberries appear on the menu.

Serve the first of the season with fresh baked shortcake. Top with cream. Cream Topped Shortcake THERE is no better way to serve the first strawberries of the season than with a freshly baked shortcake. Incidentally, shortcakes taking little sugar and no frosting- are one of our best sugar stretchers. While coffee cream, makes a good topping served plain you can whip it if you like.

Bring the cream to the boiling point. Cool; chill overnight. The next day it will whip thick enough for topping. Add gelatin, if you want it to "peak." Strawberry Shortcake 1 qt. strawberries sugar, honey or corn syrup 1 recipe for shortcake dough Wash and hull berries.

Crush and add sweetening. Split baked shortcake and spread crushed fruit between layers and over the top. Garnish with whole berries if desired. More sweetening may be added to the berries, if desired. Shortcake Dough 3 sifted flour 4 baking powder salt 1 sugar lard milk (approximately) 2 softened butter or margarine Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.

Cut in lard until mixture resembles coarse meal, stir in milk gradually, mixing just enough to make a smooth dough. Divide in half. Pat one-half in a seven-inch square pan. Spread with softened butter and put other half, patted to fit, on top. Bake In a hot 450 degree oven 15 to 20 minutes.

Makes six servings. Orange Floating Island 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten 3s salt 3 sugar 13 milk, scalded ,2 orange juice 2 egg whites, beaten stiff li powdered sugar Vanilla Orangeslices or segments Combine egg yolks, salt and sugar; gradually stir in hot milk and orange juice. Cook over boiling water five minutes or until mixture coats a metal spoon, stirring constantly. Cool quickly in a large serving dish or sherbet glasses. To make the "islands" beat ege whites until stiff.

Gradually beat in powdered sugar and flavor with one teaspoon of vanilla. Drop by spoonfuls onto custard. Chill. Garnish with wafer-thin slices of whole peeled oranges or segments. Serves PART THREE wwqu wmiwiwm un i 11 mj 1 7 i rV- '-'A I '-'l i 1 1 the library or any one of a dozen other departments.

At 5 o'clock the day ends for most everyone except officers on special detail or mission, and an hour later the officers' club and mess assumes the complexion of a resort center, for the plan also provides a joint wife-husband dining table and a lounge for bridge or just plain conversation. Wives Live at Dorms UNTIL. "LIGHTS OUT" the officers and wives are on their own, but when bedtime comes the wives trudge up the hill to the dormitory while their husbands take off in the opposite direction for the barracks. The jobs these young women do are important to the routine of the big base. And the rank the husband holds has no bearing on the status of the wife's assignment.

For instance, Mrs. W. B. David, of Tennille, the wife of a lieutenant colonel commanding a heavy bombardment group, does a routine desk job in the base sub-depot which handles civilian personnel and consignments of supplies and technical equipment to the squadrons. Girls Are Congenial ONE OF THE most attractive, of the younger wives, Mrs.

G. W. Harris, of Beverly Hills, presides as a sort of "housemother" over the hillside dormitory as her contribution to the common cause. Capt. Harris is another squadron commander.

The big paneled mess hall at the officer's club resembles a resort dining room at dinner, for Lieut. Col. Dippy has permitted an atmosphere of complete informality. At his table may be Mrs. David and her husband, Lieut, and Mrs.

Wise, and other couples dining at the time. In the words of Lieut. Madden, the base, the setting, the entire picture have character." "Desert or salt flats, miles from anywhere, this is really a war-time home away from home and we love it." SUNDAY, APRIL. 25, 1943 BY TED M. METZGER U.

S. ARMY AIR BASE, Wendover, Utah, April 25 (AP) Less than a skip and a jump west of the State Line Hotel, the highway marker at the fork of the road reads: Ely 118 miles. Caliente 250 miles. Las Vegas 419 miles. Reno, listed by name only, is more than 400 miles due west; to the east, the first city is Salt Lake, more than 120 miles across a dismal desert.

Sounds lonely, doesn't it? But distances mean little at this air base, just a few feet from the Nevada line. It used to be a barren spot in the salt flats; but now it's a graining base where families may be kept intact and where wives join their officer-husbands in the war effort. No Delegation to Washington WENDOVER. proudly described by leading, citizen "Bill" Smith as "the only town in the country which didn't send a delegation to Washington to get an army project," usually boasts about 250 residents. Lieut.

Col. Robert N. Dippy, base commander who jokingly calls himself a "desert rat," hit upon the plan that transformed Wendover from a dull desert station into a camp that sparkles with feminine allure plus an efficient, smooth-running, organization in which the officers' wives handle much of the camp's detail work. A wife doesn't have to work If she comes to Wendover but remember Bill Smith's hotel Is crowded! The only alternative is a room in a frame dormitory built by the Army on a hillside opposite the air base entrance. And the wife can get quarters in the dormitory only by taking a job at the air base.

From the early dawn of each work day, husbands are busy in the air or in classrooms or on the range, and their wives are just -as busy in the base sub-depot, the supply headquarters, the infirmary, the trailer camp, THE DETROIT FREE PRESS nrv.g urn jinn wuMiijii m'j i.ww.mw wwjf hf i '1 -y "Anyone who helps to make conditions more wholesome for children during the stress of war Is performing vital defense work for the coming generation." Light, creamy, delicately flavored a floating island makes a perfect spring dessert. Accent its mild flavor with bits of fresh tart fruit like orange slices..