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Gifts by Airplane
Is Latest U. S. Fad
MILDRED JOHNSON specializes in air
freight. “Monkeys from Texas and
love birds from Mexico are this year s
most popular gifts,” she says. “Men who
ride the airplanes order these things sent
by air-freight to their girl friends, and
it’s up to me to arrange for delivery.
“It seems to be a new form of luxury
giving—gifts from far off, delivered by
night plane. The idea is catching on
quickly and we’re doing a rushing busi
ness. We hope, though, that no one calls
up and orders an elephant from Africa.”
At 19 Miss Johnson decided that the
air offered lots of space to a girl with
career ideas in hre head. She began
with the Department of Commerce. She
traveled all over the United States lec
turing on the advantages of airmail Later
on she left the department and flew all
over Europe planning air tours for Ameri
can tourists. Then she helped inaugurate
airplane stewardess service for several
American companies.
And now she is gathering and delivering
monkeys and other things and arranging
their air delivery to every corner of these
United States.
. Miss Johnson says that she tried to
find a career that would be “different.”
It looks as if she had succeeded perfectly.
Trick Gadgets Will Make Household Duties More Pleasant
SPRING brings a desire for change.
Why not change some of the gadgets
in your home for newer and more prac
tical ones? How about a clock watcher.'
Mothers often get cricks in the morning
while preparing breakfast for the young
sters and at the same time watching the
clock to see that they get started f° r
school in time. This new clock watcher,
left below r , can be set for the exact mo
ment of departure and mother can go
about her work until a musical chime an
nounces “Time for School.” Or it can
time the breakfast eggs to each mans
best desire.
By Mrs. Penrose Lyly
A COSMETICIAN of international fame
has Just launched a series of luminous
eyeshadows in jewel tones to wear with
the brightly colored and highly feminine
evening gowns of the new season.
Emerald eyeshadow, or jade, worn with
a white taffeta gown or a new flower
bouquet print evening frock w r ill make a
coronation right in your home town. And
sapphire blue eyeshadow, shot through
with silver points, worn by a girl with
deep blue eyes will heighten competition
among the roval claimants.
The girl with brown tones in her skin
should investigate bronze eyeshadow, par
ticularly if she contemplates wearing any
of the dusty-pink or pink-beige tones so
popular for spring and summer. To carry
out the “jewel” effect in evening make-up.
Use bright coral Unstick and rouge.
* * 3*
FOR daytime wear, blues ranging from
navy to very pale icy blue tints will
be popular. To harmonize with these,
emphasize the rose cast of your founda
tion. Powders should have a rose cast,
too. and to bring out the blue of the
costume a rose rouge and lipstick are
suggested.
When your street clothes are of rusty
rose wool, or in dusty pink tones, a pinky
powder, brown mascara, a suspicion of
the bronze eyeshadow, a clear pink-red
rouge and lipstick to match, will high
light your costume.
Beige and gray costumes for spring are
forecast and these two color- call for par
ticular care in make-up. They have a
tendency to make the complexion seem
drab. Pink foundation and powder, gay
and daring lip tick, and French gray and
sky-blue eyeshadow are wedged with
these two pale colors.
* * *
AS a quick and highly convenient aid in*
keeping the skin healthy and well
groomed, there is a foursome of essential
preparations now on the market. Three
jars of ivory bakelite containing a herbal
cleansing cream, a night cream and a
peach-toned face powder are ingeniously
screwed together, one on top of another.
Space has been so utilized that the top
knob, or cap, unscrews also and reveals
a little pot of coral creme rouge.
A completely perfect jar set for travel
ing, for the office desk —or, for that mat
ter, the family bathroom.
Light and easy to handle, it comes in
ivory with trim in popular colors. For
cake baking, for countless other "timings,’'
it is useful and pleasant.
Had you planned to remodel in the
spring? Then why not add a wall of
light to your room? The center photo
graph shows how a wall can be “opened
up” with a translucent glass panel. Light
comes through cheerfully, but the neigh
bors cannot see through it. Made of the
new glass blocks, such a wall would be a
rreat advantage in the dark kitchen or
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TRY WARM CAKE ON CHILLY DAYS
FRESH from the open, warm with spices,
coffee cake seems a friendly thing on
these April afternoons. Better call up a
friend or two. settle down for a chat, and
nibble your fresh cake and enjoy clear
coffee.
There’s a new glass coffee maker on
the market which is both practical and
living room. It gives your home added
decorative value, too.
Even such a humble matter as crumb
ing the table can take on a note of prac
tical beauty with the new chromium fin
ish crumber and tray shown at right.
The handles are solid walnut and the
tray is shaped right. The metal is non
tarnishable and requires no polishing.
So give in to that urge for change.
Get at least one new thing for your home
and your heart may cease in yearning to
roam—partly because you will find stay
ing at home is ever so much more pleas
ant and satisfying than vou had Mipposed.
interesting. It uses regular grind coffee
although it is actually a "drip” type, and
though it drips the coffee no filter to
remove. All in all, this newest of coffee
gadgets may be the answer to your prayer.
Orange Coffee Cake: 12 servings. In
gredients for top mixture: % cup flour,
< cup brown sugar, i% teaspoons grated
orange rind, \ teaspoon cinnamon, 2
tablespoons orange juice, 2 tablespoons
melted butter. Ingredients for cake mix
ture: 2 cups flour, ] 4 teaspoon alt, ’4 cup
sugar. 3 teaspoons bakmg powder, 2 tea
spoons grated orange rind, 4 tablespoons
butter, l egg, >4 cup orange juice, cup
milk, thinly sliced sections of l orange.
Blend together with a fork al] ingredi
ents for top mixiure. Sift all dry ingredi
ents for cake mixture together. Cut in
the butter as for pastry. Add the weli
beaten egg and orange juice and milk.
Spread the dough in a well-greased glass
utility dr h and cover top with cake
mixture.
Arrange thinly sliced orange sections
over the top. Bake for 30 minutes in
moderate oven <350 degrees). Use a bak
ing dish 6 by 10 inches.
The third section of the Alice Bradley
Menu-Cookbook is just out. This April-
May-June section of Miss Bradley’s prac
tical guide to American houewives (Mac
millan: $' 50) contains a c p’endid coffee
hour recipe.
Mi s Bradley's Spice Cake With Baked
Frosting; ingredients and method: Work
4 tablespoons butter until creamy and
add slowly % cup brown ligar. Beat 1
egg. beat in 14 cup brown sugar and add
to butter. Sift 1 cup flour with ’i. tea
spoon soda, *4 teaspoon baking powder,
’4 teaspoon clove. teas’>oon cinnamon
and % teaspoon salt, and add a "ornately
with % cup sour milk
Turn into cake pan about 8 inches
square. Beat 1 egg white until stiff and
beat in % cup brown sugar. Spread on
cake and sprinkle with 3 tablespoon*
broken nut meats. Bake in moderate
oven for 25 minutes.
QA7ING for
ward toward
the comma sum
mer of romance,
she stands on
the cliffs over
looktna the sea,
graceful and
strona the
American girl
of 10 37.
She wears a flow
ered c hall is
bathing suit,
seamed and gored
to give a princess
effect. Front
and back panel
seams end in deep
pleats which give
grace to the shirt
and allow for
full freedom of
movement.
The white wool
coat, almost knee
length, with its
puffed sleeves,
has collar and
revers of the same
gag flowered
challis as the suit.
One button is
ready to hold in
its princess lines
when cool breezes
blow up.
So how could the
approaching
summer be any
thing but
romantic when
mermaids plan
to look so
irresistible to
both waves and
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