Jewels and Beads Glitter on
Dresses for Every Occasion
By CHERIE NICHOLAS '
FLATTERING is the word for the
' charming dresses that are given
a new loveliness with artful touches
of gay embroidery and go glittering
through the style parade with a
wealth of nailheads, sequins, jew
els and beadwork. Indeed, this is
a season when it is every woman's
duty to look her prettiest in gowns
designed to "do something for you."
Now that sparkle for daytime
frocks as well as evening gowns
is the vogue the new fashions are
playing up glitter for all it is worth.
Every woman should yield to the
call of black with a dash of color and
the gleam of beadwork and jewels.
A dress or suit of this description
will prove your standby for almost
every occasion. Pictured are several
eye-appealing fashions selected from
a collection of daytime modes de
signed and displayed by the style
creators of Chicago at a recent
winter preview.
The good looking black crepe tunic
dress shown to the right emphasizes
its molded shoulders and hipline
by means of steel nailheads. Shown
with it is a high and handsome hat
of colorful feathers. You will make
a well-dressed" appearance in this
dress wherever you go
To the left a dressier type spar
kles with rhinestones. The slim fitted
jacket has rhinestone pockets and
is worn over a dress with a sheer
yoke outlined in rhinestones.
Speaking of sheer yokes, they are
a new styling detail that is being
worked in fascinating and versatile
ways. The latest dresses have
yokes of the sheerest black lace,
and for extreme flattery designers
are styling wools and crepes in
black or browns or the new deep
Smartly Styled
Here is a perfect (own to wear
under your winter coat. It gives
you color. It gives you chic. And
this slick town dress designed by
Joseph Whitehead is in the best
American tradition of perfect work
manship. It is of ravishlngiy col
ored striped wool with velveteen
touches at neck and waist. The
"pinch" beret has bright coq
feathers.
Like a Cape
An English idea borrowed tor out
?port coats: Bibbon bands to slip
your arms through when you Just
toss the coat over your shoulders,
like a cape.
"black cherry" tones with pastel
chiffon yokes, some of which are
beaded in matching colors, while
others are joined to the dress top
and the seaming is concealed under
sequin bands and bordering.
The figure seated in the center
wears a dress of velvet trimmed
with revers. There is a double
peplum on the pert jacket The
dress is finished off at the neckline
with a deep rhinestone necklace and
a glittering rhinestone buckle fastens
the jacket. Curly feathers cut out of
black felt make the pompadour hat
which is graced with a floating veil.
The dainty young lady in the back
ground to the right is wearing a
delectable gown which follows the
new trend toward colorful beadwork
on black. You can get this model'
with light blue or dusty pink ac
cents. Here is an apt illustration
of the new trimming effect achieved
with a bordering of embroidery out
lining the seams of the sleeves,
which have the new wide armholes.
The midriff belt in matched bead
work balances the color inserts.
Very smart dresses are shown
with all-round pleated skirts, the
bodice top being of the long-torso,
fitted type with an all-over sprinkling
of beads or sequins or tiny gold
nailheads. The spray of flowers
worked in metal threads and beads
is placed so as to take the place
of the usual bodice clip or orna
ment. Black jet beaded sweaters
of the middy type are also in smart
fashion.
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Wear a Scarf or Shawl
Over Your Formal Gown
As an avenue for expression in
romance and feminine allure, there
is no accessory that surpasses the
witchery of a picturesque scarf or
dainty shawl. That is, perhaps, the
reason for the preference this sea
son for flattering scarf or lacy shawl
instead of a bolero or jacket to
wear with evening clothes. This
new acceptance of evening shoulder
covering is further noted in tha cape
let shawls of self fabric, or long
tulle scarfs matched to tha dress. '
The vogue also accounts for the ap
pearance of ostrich neck ruffs in
the formal evening picture.
'Down in Back' Hems
Herald New Silhouette
In the very newest sophisticated
dresses something happens to hem
lines that give skirts an entirely
new aspect. That "something" is
that hemlines are made to plunge
down in the back achieving a most
graceful, pleasing new silhouette.
For the most part the new "lines"
are seen in slim black dresses for
smart afternoon wear, and in nar
row, seductive evening skirts. In
the formal skirts the narrowness is
relieved by a slit at the side that
reveals your beautiful evening slip
pers.
Handkerchiefs
Fur fashions lead the way in
novelty handkerchiefs with 22-inch
chiffon squares bordered with gen
uine ermine. "Naughty Nineties"
handkerchiefs are reminiscent at the
era when every taffeta dress was
the background for a big, bold cab
bage rose. Brilliant colors and
effusive floral patterning! are fea
tured in this group.
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Meet the Pot Roast?Juicy and Tender
(See Recipes Below.)
Savory Meals
Pep up the personality of your
meals by serving meats more often
as the weather
becomes frost
nipped and cold
er. Meats are sy
nonymous with
good, wholesome,
hearty meals be
cause they're sat
lsiying and filling. Meat sets good
tone to the meal and rounds it out
to give you a sense of complete
ness when you've finished eating.
Meat is honest and straightfor
ward both in flavor and purpose.
Its abundance of vitamins and min
erals really come through and give
you sustaining energy. All in all
meat contains nine out of the thir
teen food essentials of a normal
diet:
First is protein and meat's pro
teins are complete. They help to
build or repair body tissues which
you wear down every day and keep
you on good maintenance level. It
has iron the oxygen carrier, copper,
iron's partner and the builder of
hemoglobin.
Meat has phosphorus that helps
calcium in building good teeth and
bones and helps give you energy.
Meat has fat, too, producer of more
energy and heat.
As for vitamins, meat is an im
portant source of four: vitamin A,
the resistance and growth vitamin;
thiamin (vitamin Bl) which helps
the body translate sugars and
starches into energy; riboflavin, of
which meat is the top source, that
helps prevent nervous disorders, and
finally nicotinic acid, which prevents
a nervous digestive disorder known
as pellagra.
Fortunately for economy's sake,
the lower-priced cuts of meat are
just as good for these minerals and
vitamins as the higher-priced ones.
.loaay? column
gives you tricks
and tips on how
you can use them
for savory meals
and have them
juicy, tender, and
full of - flavor.
First call is for pot roast which you
can make just as desirable as the
best steaks and chops:
?Pot Boast With Vegetables.
Wipe meat with a damp cloth.
Brown in hot tat and add one or two
small onions sliced to meat while it
is browning. Season meat with salt
and pepper. Combine % cup catsup
with 1 cup hot water and add to
meat. Place in a roaster or cast
iron skillet or pot, cover tightly, and
allow to simmer gently 49 minutes
to the pound. Add more water if
necessary. Whole carrots and onions
may be added to the meat and
cooked with it the last 49 minutes of
the cooking period.
LYNN SAYS:
You're going to sell nutrition to
Tour family not just because of
its virtues but by attractively gar
nished, well-cooked food. Here's
how:
Whenever possible serve the
vegetables with the meat, as
browned potatoes, whole carrots,
browned onions. These can be
placed around the meat for ef
fective coloring.
Radish roses with parsley
brighten almost any kind of meat
platter.
Spinach, chopped, seasoned
and mixed with white sauce can
be made into nests or mounds
and served around meat.
Baby beets may be scooped and
filled with green peas served
around the meat or on a plat
ter by themselves.
Ham can be scored in circles
for a change by using a small
cookie cutter and a maraschino
cherry placed in each circle. Cir
cles look best if they overlap.
Bananas or pineapple slices
broiled make a tantalizing ac
companiment to baked ham, roast
beef or lamb chops.
Slices of orange topped with a
smaller slice of jelly is excellent
for meat platters.
THIS WEEK'S MENU
?Pot Roast
Carrots Browned Potatoes
Apple, Celery, Raisin Salad
Bread and Butter Beverage
Baked Custard, Strawberry Jam
Sugar Cookies
?Recipe given
Veal is tender and delicate and de
serves careful cooking.
Breaded Veal Cutlets.
(Serves 6)
2 pounds veal steak, cut in 6 pieces
1 egg
Cornflake crumbs
1 small onion, chopped
Salt and pepper
4 tablespoons lard
1 No. 2)4 can of tomatoes
Dip pieces of meat into the egg
and cornflake crumbs which have
been seasoned with salt and pepper.
Brown in hot lard on both sides, us
ing a heavy frying pan or skillet.
Add tomatoes and chopped onion,
cover and cook slowly for 1 hour.
Variation: Make as above omit
ting tomatoes and onion. Add 1
cup of sour cream after meat is
browned and cook for 1 hour. Thick
en the sour cream gravy with flour I
and water and serve.
A cut which you may not have
used is lamb shanks, but I assure
you they are simply delicious when
braised. They'll be a good food dol
lar stretcher for you this season:
Braised Lamb Shanks.
(Serves 6)
0 lamb shanks
2 tablespoons lard
Salt and pepper
1 cup celery
1 cup carrots, cut fine, if desired
1 cup green beans, cut fine, if
desired ?
Brown the lamb shanks in hot
lard. Season with salt and pepper.
If you're using vegetables, place
them in the bottom of the casserole
and add a small amount of water.
Put in the lamb shanks. Cover and
cook in a slow oven (300 degrees)
2 hours.
Kidneys are right up there among
the top-notchers as a source or ribo
flavin, preventer of nervous diges
tive diseases. They're good broiled
with bacon and good also in this de
licious savory loaf: &
Kidney Leaf.
(Serves 6)
1 pound of beef kidney
1 cup milk
8 slices bread
V* cup bacon drippings
3 slices bacon
.1 small can pimientoes
Salt and pepper
3 tablespoons grated onion
)4 teaspoon powdered sage, if
desired
Wash kidney in cold water. Drain
well and grind, using internal tat.
Pour milk over bread and soak.
Combine all ingredients except ba
con and mix thoroughly. Line bot
tom of pan with uncooked slices of
bacon, add meat mixture and pack
firmly. Bake in a moderate oven
(330 degrees) for 1)4 to 3 hours.
What could be better than spare
ribs with barbecue sauce as a tasty
meat dish on a
cold night? Bake
the apareribs
brown and crispy
and brush them
with the sauce for
a dish you'll long
remember and
enjoy looking at:
Barbecued Sparerib*.
(Serve* <)
5 pounds sparerib*
Brown sparerib* under broiler.
Cover with the following sauce and
bake about 2 hours in a covered pan
in a slow (323 degrees) oven.
Barbeeae Saace.
1 small onion chopped
2 tablespoons lard
2 tablespoons vinegar ?
2 tablespoons brown sugar
3 tablespoons lemon juice
% cup catsup
cup water
Salt and pepper
1 teaspoon paprika
Daah of ground cloves and cin
namon
Brown onion in lard and add re
maining ingredients. Brush over
spare ribs.
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Aristocracy of Farm and Ranch Gather
In Bid for Top Honors at Live Stock Show
(Special to Western Nawspapar Unkas.)
CHICAGO. ? Aristocracy of
farm and ranch will foregather
in a spectacular display at
America's largest live stock and
farm show, the International
Live Stock Exposition, held this
year November 29 to December
6 in the International 'amphi
theater at the Chicago Stock
Yards.
Famous throughout the world,
the show celebrates its 42nd an
niversary as the country's pre
mier showing of the meat-mak
ing breeds of live stock, draft
and pleasure horses, and farm
crops. Under present condi
tions, it also takes world preced
ence for size and importance
among all events of this kind.
Officials of the exposition report
that earlier predictions that the
total number of animals to be ex
hibited this year would exceed the
12,000 mark have been realized
with the closing of entries. A final
tally of the exhibits discloses a huge
increase over last year's entry.
It is reported that an all-time rec
ord entry has been set for three
principal breeds of beef cattle that
will be featured?the Shorthorn, the
Hereford, and the Aberdeen-Angus,
which yield the main supply of the
nation's finest meats.
Swine Exhibits Large.
There are also big increases in
the swine exhibits this year, with
six of the eight breeds in this divi
sion showing large advances over
1940, and the total is the highest in
many years. The draft horse ep
try of approximately 400 head, and
the sheep entry of nearly 1,000 head,
compare closely with the showing
in these two departments at the 1940
show.
Visitors at the coming exposition
will see 1,000 or more of the finest
horses of this country and Canada
which will include ton weight draft
horses of five different breeds as
well as riding and driving horses
that will be exhibited in the famous
International Horse show which will
be held every evening and on four
afternoons during the eight-day run
of the exposition.
Owners of the leading stables of
three and five gaited saddle horses,
harness horses and ponies, and
roadster horses have listed their
finest specimens for these compe
titions. Each of the International
Horse Show programs will also fea
ture trick riding and driving per
formances, a demonstration of
sheep herding by the national
champion sheep dog, parades of
prize-winning draft horses and beef
cattle, led by a kilty-clad band of
bagpipers, plus the thunderous
paces of huge six-in-hands of draft
horses, shown by the packers and
brewers.
Illinois Top Entries.
Illinois leads all of the 39 states
and Canada from which entries are
received, the management an
nounces. Prospective exhibitors
from 80 Illinois counties have reg
istered entries. Iowa is second
( among all the states in county rep
resentation, with entries from 91
counties, followed by Indiana with
exhibits to come from 33 counties.
All past records have been far
surpassed in the number of prime
steers, lambs, and pigs exhibited in
the junior classes of the show by
farm boys and girls from 10 to 20
years old. The entry is over 700
I
Here's a youth > mite too young to
have an entry la this year's exposi
tion bat bo's busy helping his father,
Allan Atlanson of Wilson, 111., get a
pore-bred Shorthorn ready for com
petition representing the Edellya
Farms, one of Illinois' 1941 record
Scrap Iron on Farms
Sought for Defense*
WASHINGTON.?The department
of agriculture hits announced that
fanners throughout the country will
be asked to sell their scrap metal
for use in defense production.
Secretary of Agriculture Claude
R. Wickard has requested U. S. de
partment of agriculture defense
boards in each state to make plans
for their states immediately and
enlist in the county defense boards
in the effort.
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Above at left la shown Lucille
Rbende, Sheldon, 111., with her
champion Angus steer at the 1941
Illinois state fair, which Is entered
In competition at this Live Stock
Exposition. At right above Is an
other 1941 entry, Herbert Rees,
Pleasantville, Iowa, winner of
championship at the Iowa state
fair this year. At right below is
last year's "Corn King," Charles
Fischer of ShelbyvUle, Ind. His
"crown" and that of all former win
ners are again at stake In this year's
reeord entry show In Chicago.
head, an increase of nearly 50 per
cent over any past year. A tribute
to the Skill of these young people
is the spectacular success of one
of their number at each of the past
three successive shows, when the
grand champion steer over all
breeds was exhibited on two occa
sions by a girl and once by a boy,
all under 18 years old; and six
times within the past 13 years the
grand champion steer has been Ex
hibited by youths under 21.
The 12,000 or more animals that
will be exhibited this year by own
ers from nearly every state in the
Union and province of Canada will
compete for awards that carry with
them more than $100,000 in cash
prizes. It will require the services
of 85 of the continent's leading live
stock, horse show, and farm crops
authorities to name the winners.
Canadians Will Judge.
Chief judging task goes to W. L.
Carlyle, noted Canadian stockman
of Calgary, Alta., and to J. Charles
Yule of Carstairs, Alta., who will
together judge the individual steer
classes consisting of well over a
thousand entries.
Mr. Carlyle was formerly head of
the animal husbandry department
at the University of Wisconsin and
was successively dean of the Colo
rado, Oklahoma, and Idaho State
agricultural colleges. He is now
manager of the duke of Windsor's
Canadian ranch near Calgary.
Mr. Yule is well known to Amer.
lean stockmen as the judge of the
steer classes at the International
show last year.
The climax of their work, after
three days of preliminary judging,
will be the naming of the grand
champion ateer from among the
thousand or more beeves that will
be shown for this honor by scores
of cattle experts, young and old.
It will be the third time in the
past 40 years that a Canadian has
Judged the steer classes at Chi
cago. At all other times, cattle ex
perts from England, Scotland and
South America have officiated.
Six other Canadians will act as
judges this year, five in the sheep
classes of the exposition, and one
in the small grain classes of the
International Grain and Hay show,
the latter ranking as the world's
largest competitive farm crops
show. This feature is being held
for the twenty-third time in connec
tion with the Chicago exposition.
Grain and Hay Show.
The crops contest annually at
tracts a showing of several thou
sand samples of the current year's
harvests in competitive classes
that include corn, small grain, seed
and hay. Growers of the cham
pionship crop samples in each di
vision are named "Kings" of that
particular crop for the year. Of
ficials of this division announce that
championship exhibitors will be
guests of honor of the exposition at
a banquet for champion growers to
be given at the Saddle and Sirloin
club, famous stockmen's club at
the Chicago Stock Yards.
Farm youth will take an Impor
tant part in the programs of the
opening week-end. As a poe-open
ing event, championship teams of
boys and girls from >0 or more
states will compete on Friday, No
vember 28, in a Junior Live Stock
"The National Defense program
is seriously threatened by actual
and impending shortages of iron
and steel scrap," Mr. Wickard said.
"In addition, civilian shortages of
steel including metal for farm im
plements and parts needed by farm
ers will be more severe if steel
mills cannot be kept running at
capacity. Farms have long been one
of the most important sources of
scrap metal. Therefore it is a
patriotic duty to see that the scrap
should be made available for use."
added the secretary.
?elHHiiakMaiBiaM
Judging contest, in which finalist
winners in state-wide judging con
tests earlier in the season will com
pete for national honors. The con
testants will all be either 4-H or
Future Farmers of America club
members of high school age.
The Chicago Association of Com
merce will award three agricultural
college scholarships to the three
highest ranking individual partici
pants in this contest; and one of the
large Chicago packers will present
$100 scholarships to the three in
dividuals who score highest in judg
ing cattle, sheep and swine.
A similar contest is being staged
for teams of agricultural college
students. Last year 31 state agri
cultural colleges sent .teams to com
pete in this event which has been
a feature of the International Live
Stock exposition since the initial
show in 1SOO. A great many of
the leading live stock judges and
live stock farmers ai the present
day obtained their first actual judg
ing experience in training lor and
competing in these contests.
4-H Clak CMINM.
For the past 1? Tears. the Natur
al 4-H Club cony earn has a sen held
annually In connection with the
Chicago show. A permanent 4-H
Club building stands adjacent to the
International Amphitheater at the
Chicago Stock Yards, where the
winning state exhibits in 4-H work
will be on display during the week
of the exposition.
It is anticipated that 1,450 farm
boys and girls from 45 states will
take part in the Twentieth National
congress, representing top winners
of the current year in state-wide
contests in which 1,430,000 rural
youths, now engaged In 4-H work,
participated in the preliminaries.
They will visit Chicago on free
all-expense trips to compete in con
tests that will determine whom
among them will be the national
champions of the current year in
4-H accomplishment. According to
officials of the congress, 11 national
contests are planned this year.
Most of these events will be
judged during the opening week-end
of the show, and the winners will
be introduced to exposition visitors
at the International Horse show. At
this time, the entire congress dele
gation and their leatters, number
ing over 1,800, will parade.
Leading them will be a team of
eight ton-weight draft horses, fea
turing four matched pairs of geld
ings, each symbolic of the four
fold club standard: "Head?Heart
?Hands?and Health."
Highlighting the procession and
ceremony will be two 4-H bands,
one from Douglas county, Nebraska,
consisting of 80 members wbot
have completed their fourth sea
son of concert work?the other from
Calumet county, Wisconsin, a band
of about the same size that has
been organized for 10 years.
New features of the 1041 congress
will include a 4-H wool exhibit of
fleeces produced in sheep and lamb
projects, and a Boys' Sheep Shear
ing contest. This event will be
open to any youth under 21 years
old who has had some previous
shearing experience. It will be held
as an adjunct to the National Sheep
Shearing contest, which has been a
feature of the Chicago show for the
past four years.
Sheep Shearing Title.
Top professional shearers and
amateurs from all parts of the
country annually compete in this
event for the national shearing title.
Awards are made on the basis of
speed, plus efficiency in handling
sheep and fleece, and absence of
cuts.
The International sales of prime
beeves, lambs and hogs are famous
sources of supply for the choice
meat cuts in demand for the holi
day trade. Hotels, restaurants, the
railroads, and clubs, the country