BLIND
MARVEL
ALEC TEMPLETON is totally blind. He
has been so from birth. And yet
this talented Englishman is winning wide
fame as a composer-pianist, and he has
learned how to lead a rich, significant hie
in a darkened world.
Recently he has been playing in the
Rainbow Room, a night club 65 floors
above the streets of New York. A mighty
panorama stretches out below the win
dows of the room where he plays. He
cannot see it—but somehow he can sense
it.
“It’s true that I can see nothing ot
all this view, this terrific elevation,’’ he
says. “And yet I am aware of a gran
deur, of enormous space—it's like walk
ing on something huge, walking on
through illimitable space.”
He knows things, too, about the au
diences he plays for.
“I can always tell if the auditorium
Is filled with sympathetic people, even be
fore I go on the stage.” he says. “I can
‘smell’ a good audience, if you want to
put it that way.”
He laughs almost with embarrassment.
“And I can tell w’hat kind of people are
in the elevator with me even though i
cannot see them. I always know’ when
I am in a department store elevator,
packed with women,” he explains. “Quite
a lot of shrill noise, isn’t there? Oh, yes,
I do say, there is a lot of terrible fun to
listening to a crowd of women trying to
squeeze out at each floor.”
He played recently w’ith the Detroit
Symphony, was successful in a series of
broadcasts in Chicago, is scheduled as a
soloist at the coming North Shore Festi
val which will be held at Evanston, 111.
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kdUT I don’t think you friendly Amer-
O icans manage yoi r radio broadcasts
as well as the British do.” he says. “Your
radio programs are really not up to your
taste. You are time-mad —everything, a
lecture, a musical number, anything—
must end on a predetermined second.
Then a gong rings, even in the midst of
a symphony, and some fellow talks about
cough drops. No, I can't say I like it,
it really boils me down.
"Yes/ I like to entertain people at a
place like this. I have fun with my
piano and though I can’t see the audience
in their beautiful clothes and jewels, l
do feel them somehow. So I do have
fun with them and when they laugh 1
feel the warmth of it and see their per
sonalities in terms of sound and music.
“But of course, serious music gives me
greatest happiness. Then I do touch peo
ple more deeply, feel a response that is
stronger than humor, than mere amuse
ment. Then the depths and summits of
life turn real to me, to them, too, and
the audience and I become people to
gether facing the terrific mystery of the
past and the future as we soar on musi
cal vibrations.”
He stops talking, turns his sightless
eyes toward the keys. Sun splashes on
the black wood of the piano. The nous
begin, the sky-hung room vibrates with
melodic sound—Alec Templeton is cre
ating light of the sublime kind that his
listeners enjoy.
You Can Expect Good Cooking When A Girl Scout Is Around
MILDRED SIMPSON may be only 15,
but she made Jeny Cooper, dashing
young radio and screen singer, stop, look,
and taste her cookies. A girl scout. Troop
200, a student a Bushwick High School,
Brooklyn, N. Y., this creative young lady
won a prize in a recent contest for better
cookies. And this is why:
Mildred Simpson’s Cookie Keeipe. In
gredients: % cup butter, 1 cup peanut
butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup light brown sugar,
PLanninq fiox Atothexhood
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By Mrs. Penrose Lyly
THE young mother-to-be can select a
wardrobe which is attractively styled,
adjusted to her present needs and also
comfortable. Modern designers have
tackled this probltm, and today’s expect
ant mother can follow her regular social
and outdoor activities conscious of being
w’ell dressed and not conspicuous.
The accompanying photograph shows
one of the newest dresses. It has a
sleeveless bolero with a cut-out print
flower appliqued around the edge. An
inverted pleat down the front banishes
plainness, and the skirt is a wrap around
which fastens in the back rather than in
the front, avoiding the tendency of old
fashioned maternity skirts to fall open
when the wearer is seated.
On the shoulder and at the waist a
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1 cup granulated sugar, 2 cups flour, 2
teaspoons baking soda, Vi teaspoon salt.
Cream butter. Mix in peanut butter.
Beat eggs and add to butter with brown
and white sugar. Sift the flour, baking
soda and salt together. Add to butter
mixture. Beat well. Chill, roll out 14-
inch thick and cut with cookie cutter.
Sprinkle with sugar. Bake in moderately
hot oven <375 degrees! for about 10 min
utes. Makes quite a lot of cookies, but
Mildred’s mother tells her that a lot ol
such cookies is never too much.
This is new —a five-piece canister set
in wood. The finish is the latest blond
maple. The canisters are hand carved
and sized to fit standard coffee packages,
flour, sugar, etc. Each has a removable
cover with a detachable measuring device
hooked inside. These long-waited for
container novelties come in either ta
pered or plain design.
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A NOVELTY lor the afternoon bridge
party—celery stuffed with Brazil
nuts and cheese. You need 12 stalks
celery, 1 package cream cheese <3 ounces),
1 teaspoon onion juice, 2 tea poons chin
sauce, Vi cup chopped Brazil nuts.
Mix cheese with seasonings and hall
the nuts. Stuff celery. Then dip each
"Mother and Son," by M ary Cassatt
series of snappers permit the size of the
dress to be increased as needed without
any loss of graceful line or comfortable
fit.
Physicians prescribe at least two hours
a day in the sunlight for pregnant- wom
en. The new sun-back cottons and linens
which open on a slanting line have been
designed for such hours. These, too, have
the series of snappers for adjustment.
They come in attractive prints, such as
peach with blue dots and in particularly
lovely pale blue linens.
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FOR street suits the new jigger coats
are excellent. Maternity designers
have cut this type of coat wider under
the arms. They advise expectant mothers
not to buy a coat too big for them across
the shoulders but to select their normal
size cut with an extra flare under the arm
which can easily be taken out alter the
baby arrives.
Social engagements should not be in
terrupted beyond an intelligent minimum.
Nor is there any need, so far as lovely
dinner dresses are concerned. Mostly ol
crepe and chiffon, they have wrap-around
skirts, and are cleverly fastened on the
loft shoulder. The skirts are adjustable
through the tie-ends of the sash slipped
through slits.
stuffed stalk into the remaining chopped
nuts. Has a spring-like tang.
Here's another slightly different tid
bit for the afternoon gathering—Brazil
nuts, whole, dipped first in white of egg,
then rolled in grated American cheese
and toasted for a few minutes in a hot
oven. Serve on toothpicks with whatever
beverage your bridge club likes best.
They’re good with either tea or cocktails.
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More formal evening gowns have crepe
skirts with tailored blouses in bngnt
prints, and short straight crepe coats
which drape over them. The dress ad
justs in a slanting line from the right
shoulder to the left underarm at the
waifct.
There are new satin slips, too. whien
open all the W'ay. They are cut with a
wide wrap-around panel which is adjust
able month by month at the waistline on
a series of snap*. Panties of silk or satin
are made this same way—perfectly flat at
the waistline but with a wide panel that
permits comfortable adjustment.
* * *
OBSTETRICIANS usually advise the
wearing of some sort of support at
the end of the third month in order to
help the abdominal walls carry the
weight. For the very slight or very young
woman who is accustomed to wearing
only a garter , belt, there are small light
belts fitted with surgical elastic in the
front and fashioned to coniorm to the
figure.
All maternity corsets should be de
signed to give the maximum in support
and comfort. Among the best on the
market are those with a panel of surgi
cal elastic over the abdomen, lastex over
the thighs and four sets of wude pleats
in back. These pleats can be let out as
needed.
Bleaching Teeth
Is Often Harmful
WHITE teeth that gleam seem to be a
national ambition. Many young
women have asked for the name of a
bleach which will turn their teeth trom
darker to lighter shades.
The regular brushing of the teeth, plus
regular half-yearly visits to your dentist,
will keep your teeth in first cla s condi
tion and materially improve your appear
ance and charm. But the matter of
bleaching is a dangerous one, and you'd
better investigate carefully before you de
cide to do anything about it.
In the February, 1937, issue of Hygeia,
published by the American Medical Asso
ciation, this subject is di cussed with
authority. The article said:
“Teeth cannot be ‘whitened’ except by
drastic methods and only through the
inside of the tooth. Teeth which vary
from their normal shade because of dis
eased pulp may be lightened in color.
Teeth vary in color from white to almost
a steel gray. No safe method is known
by which teeth can be bleached beyond
their original shade.