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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-08-25, Page 6CHICKEN TRACKS — The pock shoe, left, and the hen shoe, right, make a pair in Rome Where Albanese has designed the fowl items, The shoes feature gold leather beaks and red leather- combs. TABLE TALKS ekme Andrews. fitociern Beauty k Big Business I saw her often on the streets Paris. She was tall; she was OUngl she was blend. Her hair as piled up, beehive style. She teed long, eideeetept bangs, And *lo e'xpression. Usually she wore suit with box Jacket, tight, nee-length skirt, or perhaps a *heath dress, It was some time before I die- sseverecl it wasn't the same girl all the time, but many different a irls, What made them look so like? It was the expression, I de- cided. Or the lack of it. But where had I seen "that girl" be- fore? Then I remembered. She was a fashion-magazine cover Sleek, smart, and dead-pan. eautiful, of course, with every muscle in her face under com- plete control, Later I saw her counterpart in Italy, Not just in the big cities, but even in small inland towns. The hairdo was the same, skirts abbreviated, Obviously fashion magazines have a wide circula- tion. And then, too, there's tele- vision. The fashion model today ap- pears to have even more influ- ence on the teenage-and-up crowd than movie stars. Indeed, the influence of the movie star as a model to be copied has waned considerably in recent years. All of which means that the beauty business today is big business, it is a well-organized business, and it a business cater- ing to the teen-ager, the young Married woman, the woman with ;small means as well as the wo- man of wealth. In. other words, to be smart and stylish, or at least to achieve -that effect, is not necessarily ex- pensive, The beauty business caters to all classes. Some of the big drugstore chains have beauty consultants these days at the cosmetics coun- ter. Supermarkets carry cos- metics. And if the working girl ;wants to learn about proper make-up and good taste in dress, all she has to do is go to the nearest YWCA where courses are usually available at reason- able fees. With the increasing popularity of the model as an ideal to pat- tern, charm schools have boom- ed, There young women learn how to dress, how to walk, how LAOS COUP — A revolutionary group ho's seized power in Laos, southeast Asia kingdom. The coup is believed to have been carried act by dissident army elements, to behave at social functions. Wu may credit Dale Carnegie as having organized the original "charm" school, but be has a lot of competition today! As for beauty salons, the country is salted and peppered with them. No shopping center worthy of the name would think of going into business without its beauty shop. In Paris I was told, when heel. teeing to patronize a small beau- ty salon near my hotel: 'In Paris you can't go wrong on a beauty shop any more than you van go wrong on a restaurant." They were so right. Seauty shops do a billion- dollar-plus business a year in the United States. They have been springing up like daisies all over the country until today there are estimated to be more than 110,- 000 from coast to coast. There are few women, of any age in these times, who don't have their hair "done." Most of them wear it short — a vogue started by dancer Irene Castle some 4e years ago, Along with increasing atten- tion to hair-styling has come an increasing attention to make-eP. Most women would no more think of venturing out without cosmetics than they would of starting the day without comb- ing their hair. There was, a time when practi- cally' the only women who used make-up were actresses. Today any woman who doesn't use cos- metics is conspicuous, Not only that, but women have learned how to use them tastefully, writes Josephine Ripley in the Christian Science Monitor. In an article on the "beauty business," Editorial Research Re- ports puts it this way: "The Miss America who won the first an- nual beauty contest at Atlantic City in 1921 was a dimple-faced blonde whose curly hair and de- mure features showed little evi- dence of any use of artifice to enhance her natural prettiness. "The Miss America to be chos- en in September, 1960, is likely to be a streamlined beauty with deftly arched eyebrows, tinted eyelids, enameled fingennails, and lips of the currently fashion- able pale hue. Her face no doubt will have been treated with nu- merous creams and make-up bases before application of the final layers of coloring, and her hair will have been profession: ally 'styled' before she faces the judges." The article goes on to point out that this contrast is paralleled among American women in gen- eral. "It is within this period (of 40 years) that the cult of beauty has overtaken virtually the en- tire female population of the United States." In fact, it is said that franchise arid the lipstick came to Ameri- can women at about the same time — both symbolizing the freeing of women from tradi- tional restraints. The use, of beauty aids goes back many centuries. Women — and even men — have always used creams, powders, paint, and wigs to improve their appear- ance„ "Archeologists have unearthed beauty aids used by the Queens — and Kings — of Babylonia 5,000 years.ago," says the Editor- ial leeeearch Reports. Wonder what charm school they attend- ed? The reason worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work, FRANCE'S LATEST — 'Newest French film find is Dahlia UM, 18-year-old from Israel—loung- ing around in Paris. Insurance Agent Carries Tape Jack Keevil must be the only insurance agent who goes around with a tape measure in his pocket — for assessing the value of items to be, covered! For in- stance, he has Sabrina's vital statistics insured for $300,000! ft her famous bust measurement drops to 38 in. or less and stays that way for three months and the loss is considered permanent, Sabrina is entitled to draw $7,500 per lost inch. "She was only 40 inches when she took out the insurance"? says Jack. "She's gone up to 42 since, so we're two inches in hand, so to speak." The only strings attached to the policy are that Sabrina mustn't take undue risks or run into excessive danger except for the purpose of saving life. She must eat well and regularly, She may marry but, ie her figure is permanently affected as the result of having a baby, she can- not claim. Jack Keevil got into this un- usual branch of the insurance business through his wife, Di- ana. She was an adagio dancer, contortionist and film stunt art- When she was asked to do a mock parachute jump from a high tower with the wind blow- ing strongly from below, for a film, she tried to take out an insurance. None of the compan- ies she approached would con- sider such a risk. Jack Keevil, after a lot or difficulty, arrang- ed it with the help of a friend. Then it occurred to him that there was a market for this kind of insurance and that it could be much more profitable insuring chow-business folk than hook- ing their acts, Winifred Atwell was one of his first clienten Her hands are insured for a larger sum than any other pian- ist's in the world; $125,000. He had to spread the risk among three insurance companies and sixty underwriters.. If anyone dies laughing at comedian Jimmy Wheeler, the next-or-kin would get $25.000. You think that's an easy way for an insurance compeny to earn a dollar a year? Well, it leaked like it — until a woman listening to Jimmy Wheeler on headphones in a hospital laughed so much that she split her stitches after a serious operation, Trumpeter Eddie Celvert's lips are insured for 875,000 and ven- triloquist Arthur Worsley's dum- my, Charlie Brown, negotiated his own policy With Jack Xeevil against all risks — including woodworm This year's crop of apples should be particularly delicious. When they become available in Your community, remember this good and unusual way of using them. It's especially recommend- ad as an appealing lunch for chit dren. Place thin slices of apple- en a frittered slice of bread. totter with a slice of sharp cheese. trail until the cheese is bubbly. Grapes are not only decorative for fruit plates, but give a pleas- ingly cool flavour to many dishes. If you've seen frosted grapes and would like to dupli- cate them, it's simple: wash and day the grapes then cut into small clusters and brush each with slightly beaten. egg white. Hold over waxed paper and sprinkle w.ih fine, granulated sugar. Depending on your use of the grapes, you may wish to vary the flavour by adding to the sugar a pinch of cinnamon or some other sweet spice. For supper meals, don't forget that French toast sandwich corn- ibinations provide a fine way to use small amounts of leftover meat or fowl. Fry bread slices in the usual egg and milk com- bination for French toast and immediately place small slices of pieces of leftover meat or •fowl between each two slices. Pour over the top warm, left- over gravy and serve at once. This type of sandwich makes a substantial meal, especially if you add a vegetable, There is one school of thought about the tossed salad that holds it cannot be correctly made ex- eept in a large wooden bowl. This bowl, to begin with, must be rubbed with a clove of garlic that has been cut in half. The next step is one that comes up for argument. Some experts say that now the bowl must be fill- ed with several.kinds of greens, broken, not cut, into bite-size pieces, or larger—never smaller. These greens must offer a vari- ety of taste and shades of green. Then the dressing is added. Other experts say that, after the garlic-rubbing ceremony is over, the dressing must. be made in the wooden bowl before the greens are added. The woman. I know who makes the best tossed salad I ever ate belongs to this latter group. After the bowl is rubbed with garlic, she places an ice cube in the bottom. She then pours in the required amount of oil and viegar, adds salt and pepper (she tastes it often) — then she adds the greens, writes Eleanor Richey Johnston in the Christian Science Monitor. A tossed salad means just what the name implies. You do not stir the greens and salad dressing together — you toss and toss lightly until every leaf and portion is lightly coated. Then, and not until then, is the tossed green salad ready to serve, nit The dressing is, of course, ins- portapt to any salad — in fact, it is one of the most important things about a salad, Ingredients ,should be fresh and freshly sha- ken together. The basic French dressing consists of oil, vinegar, salt, arid pepper. Many other in- gredients are often added -- paprika, tomato sauce, mustard, onion and spices make this basic dressing' into other types of dressing, This is go true that, to get the original French dress- ing in some restaurants, you have to ask for an oil end vine- gar dressing. Just is news items are often hdcloct to the dressing, now in- gredients are often added to the green salad: such as cucumbers, tomatoes, green peppers, celery, onions, and radishes. They are especially desirable when the salad bowl is the entire green vegetable and salad combined, ; to go with the steak or other meat served. If you ate interested more in the meal-in-one salad — a popu- lar dish for ladies' luncheons — you'll find the chicken salad per the most popular one alt (Net the, country. A chicken salad surrounded by sweet pickles and tiny sweet onioh rings is always delightful. sweet gherkins give this salad a tangy flavour and a &lett texture that make it, a cool, satin= lying dish. gAtAli two chopped sweat tutu itookea till eked 1 cup chopped celery Salt and Pepper 'Y's cup mayonnaise Combine all ingredients; mix lightly but thoroughly. Chill. Serve on salad greens and gar- nish with sweet pickles and raw onion rings. Here is a much more elabor- ate chicken salad that adds whipped cream to the dressing. It is decorated with sliced stuff- ed olives and sprigs of water- cress, CHICKEN CHUNK SALAD g cups canned or fresh chicken, cut into chunks % cups diced celery 4 sliced green onions 2 tablespoons slivered toasted almonds 2 tablespoons minced parsley 2 tablespoons mayonnaise 1 tablespoon prepared mustard 14 cup whipping cream, Whipped Seasoned salt Lettuce, ..or other geeetia Ripe OliVes or vapors. Watercress Oombine hipke n, .celery, onions, almonds and parsley, mixing .lightly with a fork, Chill, Fold mayonnaise and mustard into whipped ereArA. Add to chicken and mix lightly, Add Seasoned salt to taste, Serve in. lettuce cups, Sprinkle top with sliced olives or capers and de,. Orate with sprigs of watercress, Serves 0. TUNA CIiCNK SALAD Use 2. cans. (61/2 4 • oz, eaclu tuna instead of - chicken. SALMQN CHUNK SALAD Use a 1.-pound can salmon in- stead of chicken.. If you like to make your own s a la.d dressing but don't. want to make the sometimes te- dious mayonnaise, here is a good substitute. It isn't a may, onnaise but neither is it a cook- ed dressing as so many mayon- naise substitutes are, It is called. 'EASY-MIX' SALAD DRESSINCI 1,V2. teaspoons salt 11/2 teaspoons dry mustard 3 tablespoons sugar 1/4 .cup undiluted evaporated. milk 2 cups salad Oil la to 34 cup vinegar Combine first 4 ingredients in deep bowl, Beat with rotary un- til thoroughly mixed. Add oil, 'A cup at a time. Beat after each addition until oil is blend- ed and mixture is smooth, Add vinegar, all at once, and beat until smooth and thick. (After vinegar is added, dressing thins slightly but thickens immediate- ly when beaten.) Store in re- frigerator in covered jar. Makes 11/2 • pints dressing. If you want to make mayon- naise, cooked dressing, or the above ""easy mix" dressing into a fruit cream dressing for fruit salads, add to each cup of dress- ing Y2 cup of currant or rasp- berre. jelly, , Beat together in small bowl • until well blended. ;Fold in 1/4 cup heavy cream,.• whipped, 112 it's a herb dressing you Want, add to each cup of dress.- log 1 teaspoon Chopped .parsley, Piz teaspoons chopped chives,' teaspoon chopped basil, terra., On or dill and a few drops of lemon juice, Serve on vegetable. salad, To ',make this dressing into. A tartan' sauce to serve with fish, add to each cup tablespoon chopped stuffed olives, 1 table- spoon chopped sweet pickle, 2 teaspoons chopped parsley and I teaspoon grated,' onion, • To make it into a sandwich spread, to each cup add cup Peeled, finely chopped cucum- ber, 1 tablespoon chopped chives and 1 coarsely chopped hard- waked egg. Shot .or .Not? A duel was fought in Texas by John S. Nott and James Shott, Nott was shot and Shott was not, In this case it is better to be Shott than Non. There was a rumour that Not( was not shot, and Shott avows that he shot Nott, which proves that either the shot that Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or that Nott was shot notwithstanding. It may be made to appear on trial that the shot Shott shot shot Nott, or, as accidents with fire- arms are frequent, it may be pos- sible that the shot Shott shot shot Shott himself, when the whole affair would resolve into its original elements, Shott would be shot and Nott would be not. We think, however, that the shot Shott shot shot not Shott, but Nott. Anyway, it is hard to tell who was shot. ISSUE 36 — 1960, MAKING MOOEtt BAtiNtARO — A 1061 datameitive styling departure hot k4ris bock'td the "classic" period in American .4riOtardom. Clare E. Briggs, Chrysler afficicil, leahs an a 1081 lirriperictil In beffott, Mich,, to tOrnpore the old car's free-standing 1}t eldbilcirtips With the modern dual version ai left whith will be itfriticleird on the '61 Imperial, -abet how's your x-ray vision ? Here cite some common, everyday obiects as they appear on X-ray film. How many can you identify? Answers below. These photos originally appeared in Delta Digest, employe magazine of Delta Air Lines. .epoo *-4tift0lOw 6u!mgt ..iawmad,(1-=-t 888MSCCV