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» Eo xz Brides Of 1700s Many New England Young Wo- men Had Economical Trous- seau -- Wedding Gown "A Sheet 4 At least one New England. bri'e 'of the early 18th century had gn - economical | trousseau." Her -wed- ~ ding gown was simply 'a sheet, Record . of. this: unusual attire . was found in a manuscript collec ~---tion -in-:the --Andover' Public "Lib: rary 'by the PWA historical vee- ords survey. The ceremony. was performed December 24, 1738, at Bradford, now- a part of Haver- hill, Mass. " "Smock Marriages" Such marriage ceremonies were called "smock marriages" and, it is believed, were common in Eng- land and the American colonies, Although the usual costume of the "smock marriages" was a white sheet, or chemise, the bride at times wore nothing at all, Mustn't Be In Debt The unusual procedure was bas- ed on a belief that if a man mar- ried a woman who wus in debt he would be held liable for her in- debtediiess if he veceived her at the hands of the wunistér or inag- istrate with any of her property, It alio was believed that if un wo- man married a man who was in debt, his creditors could not take her properly to satisfy them pro- vided he reecived wothing from her, Spy Suspect Interned -- er After having twice attempted to #scape while: being transported from Toronto's Don Jail to King- ston, Katharine Haidinger, spy suspect, arrived safely at the wo- _ men's -prison in connection with Kingston penitentiary. Miss Haid- inger was arrested -for illegal en- try from the U.S. into Canada and ey will be interned for the duration ih] of the war, ! i os we gl = . . Ag Handy Hints A roll of hdlf-inch adhesive tape will make dozens of name- tabs for kiddies' coats and caps. It is the work of a moment to snip . off a couple of inches, write the name and stick the tab on the gar. ment. LR ---- ed When: you hang stockings out . lo dry, put a clothes peg in each toe to fasten them to the line, and join each phir with a peg in the top. The weight of the peg keeps them from blowing up and twist- ing round the line. sd - ---- - ----1f you have any thick, knitled garment that is practically worn out, pull it undone and wind the wool into a large skein, just like the skein' of new woo! you'd buy at the shop, but make the skein much' thicker. CEN : ~ Tie both ends securely and wind ~~ round a wooden stick of some sort. This will make an- excellent ~mnd uséful floor mop. Another way of using up the wool is to plait .the skein. loosely, tying it .at each end, and using it as a hand polisher, 4 ARR To clean paint brushes that have * become. hard put some vinegar in 'a saucepan ahd bring it to the vo boil. Put the brushes 'in it and al- Y low them to simmer for half an 4 hour. Then wash them thoroughly A 1h * in very soapy water, rinse and you will find the brushes are as good as the day you bought them, a ---- © L] Dampen an iron-mould stain ith peroxide of hydrogen and let dry in strong sunlight. If the 4} stain is very bad, several applica- Vo : 1 ons may be needed, but it will 4. FI ¢ bleached out eventually. This. ih © treatment is only suitable for thite material or colors that are ast to light, of course, = ; : en Attractive kitchen cannisters van be made by covering empty coffee eans with gay ollgloth, Cut the * oileloth as wide as the can is high and long enough to go round the 'and lap 'oven about one inch, Bind with te and' sew on snaps Were Thrifty 4 , cheerfully. But his bride. was not © arm, ---she knew all along that you-want- ~dnvested in-her entire week's gro- © you know how you always like «They're So Convenient "SALAIA i _ *TEA BAGS ® SERIAL STORY E BRIDE ON Copyright. 1939, fs A BUDGET BY JANET DORAN NEA Seryice, Ine. CAST OF CHARACTERS IRIS IVES--a radiant bride who thought love came first and money could take care of jtself. BART WHITTAKER--a right. eous bridegroom who looked at the bankbook first and his wife afterward. CHAPTER 111 It was, declared the new Mrs, Bart Whittaker, just like her to - be that rattled over her wedding, and the supper at the Tivoli, afterward, to completely forget about Sunday, and shops being closed. It was just their .Juck to face the very first day of their married life with not a thing in the pantry to cook, 2 "No Sunday dinner----Bart, I'm a wretched woman," Iris wailed, "We can throw something to- gether from odds and ends--I'm not fussy about any big dinner Sunday," said the bridegroom to be consoled. "There are no odds and ends, oh lord and master," she stated "hollowly, "looks like the -young Whittakers gnaw a hotdog at" a lunch-wagon. Oh well, it could be worse, Bart, I might have forgot- ten your breakfast = bacon, and your favourite shirred eggs." "Can you make an omelet?" he asked suddenly, inspiration lend- ing wings to his imagination. Iris made a grimace, "Can," she agreed, "but won't. This is the first day of our mar- riage Mister Whittaker, and we start out right." Worth It For Atmosphere They , had roast. chicken and fresh - strawberry sherbet at the very swank little Pickwick Grill, a popular dine and dance adjunct to the old Hostler's Inn, overlook- ing Linwood-Common "in-the 'busi- ness - district. They had romaine salad and black coffee in eggshell tiny cups, and a single yellow jon- quil nodding in a slender vase in the center of their tiny table. They had music by the famous 'Four Horsemen Orchestra, and the check was $3.20, but Iris said it was oworth it.. They had atmo- sphere, didn't they? - : On the way out, a flower vend- er- accosted them, and Bart never knew that Iris picked the Pick- wiek® Grill because past-experience had taught her that there was al- ways a flower woman prowling the street in front of the old Hostler's Inn, and the Bon Ton Cafe. "Flowers for the pretty lady?" the old woman whined. Bart made an impatient, gesture but Iris' fing- ers tightened pleadingly on his ; "Darrrrling," she cooed plain- tively, "isn't it too funny? I'think ed me to wear violets! Remember how you insisted, yesterday? And then promised you'd buy me some to wear on my suit after?" If Bart remembered that it had been she who did the.planning on the violet issue, the day before, he 'said nothing, But already, in one day, he had spent as much as Iris ceries. ' The First Day Still, it .wag the first day of their married life. It was their very first day: of being Mr, and Mrs. Bart Whittaker. You couldn't tote .an adding machine and a double entry bookkeeping system around with you on that day, They went 'for a walk out be- yond the Lower Falls, because it was such a beautiful, warm spring day, and they had to be indoors all week, but by the time they'd reached the spot where Bart hop- ed to find training arbutus un. der the Warm dry leaves, Iris dis. covered her feet hurt, "It's walking so' far, darling," she said plaintively, "I guess I'm Just a sissy afterall, Do your sup- pose there's a bus back to town?" There was. And in the campus Chocolate Shop they had toasted cheese sandwiches and hot coffed and cake, and Iris decided they must see the new feature at the downtown Met, Eating Out All Week "It's Carole Lombard, Bart, and her. So gay and peppy, and such daffy stories she plays in," said Going to sleep that night, with her blond head curved «into the - warm hollow of Bart's shoulder, Iris decided they'd eat out all next week, too. It was such fun, and the food was so grand, And it ing at home did. She even planned what she'd do with the money she saved. Money she wouldn't have to spend on groceries and meat and fruit and cream if Bart took her out to dine, There was that jonquil yellow knitted dress she'd-wanted so, and the new. honey-betge kid sandals, and the little burnt orange straw hat that was scarcely more than bow at one edge. It would mean "budget payments for seven or eight weeks, but she was married now.- And Bart would help with expenses. It would be 'easier now. It was that very Monday noon that the girls in the office insisted she lunch with them, and intro- duce the brand-new husband. Iris tried to evade the invitation, but had to capitulate when they crowd- = ed her. "Bart may not be able to make it," she explained uneasily, "He'd better," Ellen Kent someone so devastating he'll re- gret playing hooky." ' "All right," Bart said a trifle shortly, when Ivis telephoned him at the shop a' few minutes later, "though I have only an hour, Iris. I have to get right back to the shop and relieve Henry so he can go to, lunch." "Henry won't die if you're a few minutes late, Bart; after all he works for you and you've some say "about things, I should think." Bart didn't answer that. He felt that women rarely understood the duties and responsibilitics of "a man toward his help, and attempts td explain 'the bond only confus-. ed the issue further, "We're all going Dutch," Iris explained promptly, when: Ellen "told him they'd decided on the Tivoli, "everyone loves the Mon- day Italian specials they have at the Tivoli, so we thought if each one paid for her lunch we'd have something really good, and not be a burden to anyone." When, You've No Pantry That night Bart brought home cauliflower and a pineapple and suggested they eat at home. "But of course, darling," his bride exclaimed wistfully, "youn know how I love to hide away in . our little nest here. Only--well I wish I'd known. There are so many things we have to have to make.a really good dinnef." "Don't you buy your groceries ~ ahead, Iris?" Bart asked bluntly. She dimpled a shy smile at him as she wriggled into the lilac sat- * in Housecoat and hauled the zibper 'up, patting the purple sash into position fondly. ' "Mostly, things have to .be bought as they're used, Barf, when you've no pantry, These small places have a cabinet and refrig- go along. It isn't such really." y "It's an expensive one, Iris! Look, you save dollars, buying bar. gains in large lots. But you know that, naturally." A "Yes, I. know, Bart, It makes me so mad. It scems as if the : people with money enough to not worry over savings, get all the bargain chances while the folks who really need to economize, make it up' by paying 'extra for small quantities of everything." "Well, let's see 'what we need, honey; can't be helped." 2 © He went to the little store ~ around the corner and spent $2.70 on the list Iris gave him. And by the time she had the meal cooked 2 head was aching, and Bart' "had a bad plan, the dishes 'wished onto him «a8 an. dfterydinner token, But ho whistled, cherfully as he cleared "up the kitchen, confident that he had married the one and ofly wonder girl in the world, and that thelr future was a wide, serene road to Paradise, It took time to get 'things organized, and get ade Justed 'to 'changes; and Iris; was' npt used ito running a shome for: two, : x 3 - didn't cost much more thun cook- - an inverted waffle _with a perky-- chuckled, "or we'll ask a proxy-- a pound: and a -half of steak; a. | erator, and it means'buying ag you | exchanged for a scratchy throat. and Iris insisted she felt too punk to care about eating much of any- thing. They could go around the corner to the Campus Chocolate shop and have 'a hot vegetable soup and rolls, and she'd go straight home and to bed after. Only the hot slip' was so good. Her throat felt mueh better after she'd had the 'invigorating broth, and a lamb chop, and the regular menu followed, with Spanish 'Cream ex{ra, 'Bart thought of the - triangle, of left-over steak he had with a chop for.Ivis, and his bud- get book had a severe erimp in it, even without consulting the fig- ures, : n To Tired To Cook That first week was but a fore. runner of woeks to come that were to fa)l into the same pattern, Ivis was tired after her day at the office, too tired to cook supper for them. But not too tired to dance at the Cove . Inn, or the Royal Palace Arcadia, or the Blue Moon. \ *And after a while, Bart stopped arguing, stopped protesting. After a while, he grew to dread the "Tenacing threat of her swift tears, and stormy sobbing if he tried to remonstrate with her, or deviate from the course she wanted their matrimonial bark fo cruise on. "Why, Bart? Money isn't every- thing, and we're only young once," she cried petulantly. Then, winding her warm round arms tight about his neck, "Don't you lofe me, darling? Don't you want your little wife to have any fun? "It isn't as if you weren't the hand- somest man on the dance floor, and by far the best dancer. It isn't as if I weren't half dizzy with pride over my big hubby!" ger. Until the budget became prac- tically lace. Badly torn lace. Heli together with the fragile, delic-te thread of Bart's love for her, his belief that everything would come out all right. It was giddy now, but she'd get it out of her sys. (Te Be Continued) NOVEL YOKE ON GAY HOUSEFROCK PATTERN 4824 i By ANNE ADAMS There's a light-hearted peasant- girl look about this little house- frock, Pattern 4324. Don't you love the shape of the neck, that's en- cored in the yoke? A delightful + effect that you may play up eith- er by using ric-rac at the yoke, pointed sleeve bands and high, double-peaked - waistline, or - by in vivid contrast, The slim waist and hips are.emphasized by un- ustial softness through the bodice and full skirt lines, Maka comfort. ably flared sleeves if you prefer, and choose a gayly flowered print fabric for this young charmer, Pattern 4324.1is available in misses' and women's sizes-12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 80, 82, '34, 86, 88 and 140, Bize 16 takes 3% yards 85 inch fabric and 2 yards rie-rac, Send TWENTY GENTS (20c) in coins (stamps canhot be accept- 4) for this Ahne Adams pattern. tite plajnly SIZE, NAME, AD. DRESS and STYLE NUMBER, ams, Room 426, 78 West Adelalda Irie, 'Phe next day her headache was I .- A 2 8t,, Toronto, planned to dine on, supplemented . So they went. And the holes in the budget grew bigger and big-- tem and settle down. All girls did. , cream. Or this: Increase the sugar making the yoke and sleeve bands : eS cholacsbiy___ Send 'your order to Anne Ad. | By SADIE B. CHAMBERS BREAD AND GUSTARD PESSERTS 'Of gpecial' {importance just fol. lowing the holiday season are the simple, nourishing desserts, for two reasons, Firstly, they are inexpen- sive, secondly, they are. excellent food value incorporating milk and eggs as they do, thirdly, this type of dish is a much needed change from the rich foods -of tradition of - thg Yuletlde season. CHOCOLATE BREAD PUDDING 1 cup dry bread crumbs 1 square of chocolate (unsweeten- ed) shaved 2 cups of milk scalded 1 tablespoon butler 1 cup sugar 3% teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla © 1 egg well beaten Mix crumbs "with shaved choco: late and add to scalded milk In saucepan, Stir over low heat until chocolate melts, Add butter and cool slightly, Add the remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly, Pour into buttered casserole aud bake ona hour in oven 375. = Test with silver knife to see it it comes out clean (which is the best test for all custards), Serve hot with sweetened whipped cream, sprink- leq with chocolate shot." BUTTERSCOTCH PUDDING Combine two tablespoons of but- ter and-three-fourths cup of brown sugar in the top of a double boiler and cook over direct heat, -untjl well blended, about one minute, Add two cups milk and place over hot water to scald, Add slowly two well-beaten eggs and season with a . pinch of salt and gp teaspoon of vanilla. Arrange one and one-half "of buttered bread cubes in a greas- ed baking dish and add the cust. ard mixture. Ilave oven 350 de- grees, baking until' firm in the -- centre, Cover with a meringué made of two egg whites, one-fourth cup of brown sugar and vanilla to flavor. Return ta oven to browf. CREAM PIE This simple basic pie fs one which should be cultivated. in every. family. It lends itself to many In. teresting variations, Mix one third cup flour and two-thirds cup sugar and ¥; teaspoon salt. Add two cups scalded milk, stirring constantly, Cook over-hot water, stirring until thick about 15 minutes. Add two tablespoons butter. Pour mixture over three beaten egg yolks, stir- ring constantly. Cook two minutes longer, Cool and add 3; teaspoon of vanilla extract. ~ VARIATIONS FOR CREAM PIE itl a- baked shell with alternate ° fers, of cream filling and sliced bandas and top- with whipped to one cup, and add two squares of bitter chocolate to the scalded milk to melt; top the dessert with whip- ped cream and chocolate shot. If a butterstotch flavor Is desir ed, substitute one cup of brown su- gar for the granulated in the basic recipe. Or still another surprise; Serve a date dessert by adding 4 1b chopped. fruit and one teaspoon grated lemon rind to the milk mix: "ture before thickening. And still again, add one cup shredded cocoa nut to the filling-and sprinkle an "additional half cup over the' merin- gue bgfore browning, for another dessert. READERS, WRITE IN! Miss Chambers wolcomes - personal lattérs from interest. ed readers. She is pleased to: receive 'suggestions. on topics + , for her column, and is even "veady. to listen to your 'pet peeves." "Requests for recipes 'or. special 'menus are in order. Address your, letters to "Miss Sadie B. Chambers, 73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto," .Hunter Borrows 3 Wife's Corsets The new streamlined corsets are lacihg canine figures 'now. 5 'A Fulton, Mo., sportsman tried adhesive tape to protect stitches: . in the side of his wounded hunting - dog but when that failed to stick he, borrowed a corset' from his wife. Laced in, little could be seen of 'the dog except his bead and tail, Results of the hunt, 10 birds, and 'cash awards for meritorious eal compositions offered to Cal of éither sex under bs 0 The Contest Hd 53° iE L: i ed, 04 TY Le Achievements of Canadian Women During Year 1939 Revibw of Events During Past Year Contains Interesting Data in Feminine Accomp. lishments i $ Smiling Queen Elizabeth whose graclousness and charm won mil. liops of hearts and left cherished memories in the mountains, plains, woodlangds,. cities and towns of the Dominion, earned an outstanding place in the achievements of wo: mea in Canada in the past year: Lady Twesdsmuir,' wife of Can: ada's present Governor-General, In turn is pulling the weight of her" exceptional abilities in leadership of Canadian women in the present stress of war. In War Service From coast to coast more than .200,000 women: rallied to the call for service through th@ channels of the Voluntary Registration of Can-. adjan Women under the chairman- ship of -Miss Margaret Hyndman, K.C., of Toronto, rs 'In The Alr Canadian women took to the air also in 1939, Twenty trim just-over- five-foot girls donned navy blue un- fforms and became stewardesses .at the inauguration of a trans-Can. ada afr line schedule. In another - angle from the air, Mrs, Erna Wat. son of Montreal distinguished her: self by keeping pilot Captain And. erson afloat until rescued when the flying boat Cavalier fell into the sea en route from New York to Bermuda in January, -- - In Literature A Toronto woman and a Mont. realer now- living In. Torouto, up-: held the feminine place in lterary fields, Gwethalyn Graham was awarded one of the Governor-Gen- eral's prizes for her novel "Swiss Sonata." Joyce Marshall formerly of Montreal, won the Canadian Wo- men's Press Club award for her short story "And the Hilltop Was Elizabeth." 2 Two Canadians, well known fu welfare and nursing circles, Miss Charlotte Whitton," 0.B.E, and Miss Edith Kathleen Russell, were called to- King's College, Halifax, to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Law. $ . Women were accepled in many roles heretofore confined to men. From the Maritimes Molly-Koo! of Alma, N.B,, became Canada's first woman master mariner. Dr, Jessie Gray, of Toronto, was the tirst wo- man to receive the degree of Mast: er of Surgery. Elsie Gregory Mac- Gill, first woman in Canada to re- ceive a master's degreo In. aero: nautical engineering, has become the first woman _to design, build and test her own airplane. Dr. Mary Wong, daughter of a Chinese restaurateur, of London, Ont.,_ was appointed to the staff of the Medical Research, Banting In- stitute, University of Toronto, K] Politeness In Hand-shake Firm But Not Tight, and Never Fishy, Not Pumphandle Pump-handle handshakes are ev- en worse than "fishy" handshakes; pump-handles are often painful, The. polite hand-shaker will grasp a hand firmly, but not too down; he won't squeeze so hard that finger rings cut the person whose hand he is shaking, says the "Associated Press. Sit It's a woman's place to offer her hand to a man, That is especially true if she is being hostess in her own home. Most men, however, are- so used to shaking hands they are likely to take it for granted they |. should. shake hands Yith women, Four persons shouldn't shake hands all at once--in wheel-fash- ion. That has nothing to-do-with-- * superstition; it simply saves every. body from feeling awkward. When two men and two women meet, -it usually works out to' everybody's advantage if the men shake hands and the women greet each other verbally and with a nod or a smile, £2 = Letter Mailed In Last War Returns Emma Williams, of Spokane, Wash, one day last week opened her mail 'box, took out a letter, then wept softly. It: was one she had mailed 21 years ago'to her = brother, Oscar Birkland, soldier with the American army in France. He dfed several months after re- turning 'home. Clues to its jour- " neys mostly were undecipherable, There - was a, purple 'notation "wounded 10 - 18 "Tours," ' sov- eral illegible red ink 'marks and Miss Williams' return address, "He mustihave been in a hospital when the letter got to France," she. sald, "and they didn't find him, I don't even remtmber | 'what's in the' letter, I'd' like ito 3 tightly. He won't shake up and | / know.~+in a way. But I'm never: going to open it." - SERA y ; "The Horse Seems To Like "Him 5 1s the welld Robert. Montgom 8 the welld : dressed horseman he gives his horse its all workoyt on the bridle paths near his home, ' 'Fashion Evolves Through Ages Development of Clothes Trac- ed From 1100 B.C. to Pres- ent Day -- 'Byzantine Emp. - ire Once Style Centre The evolution of clothing from , early days down to the beginning of modern times last week was -sketched by Miss Ruth Dingle, of the drama department of McGill - University, Montreal. Ahe First Petticoats The only example of women that wore as a regular piece of apparel a biturcated garment, before 1870, the lecturer sald, was in the: Min- oan period, and down to 1100 B.C, The first '"petticoats' were worn by Egyptian women, late Egyptian art Indicating a thick petticoat un- der a stiff transparent drgss..The German' lady added to costume a _ brassiere and continued the waist with a "zone." 4 From the fifth to the twelfth cen. tury the Byzantine Empire, the cen. tre of the civilized world, was the seat'gf all that was original-in fa- shion fund culture. Costume design took salient features. of the culture of both East and West, the "mingl- 3 ing of the emotional color of the East with the intellectual line and form of the West." . I 'Lsarning From. Orlent . Miss Dingle traced varlous in fluences. that affected dress for both men and women in European ~~ countries, In tho Plantagenet per- fod, the crusades and other travels further familiarized 'the 'English with Eastern cultures and affecled the dress'of the times, Gorgeous "fwurics and profuse 'embroidery made. garments highly decorative, - in the fourteenth century women's dress showed the. "princess" line, fitted at the waist and with wide, gored skirts and long titted sleeves w cuft over the hand. At-this time plucked eyebrows became "the fashion." The reign-of Henry Vill showed unparalleled 'magnifi- 'cence In dress both for men and .women, The women added to their array of garments the hoop or the "farthingale" as It was called in England. It was a_wide stiff petti- coat mounted on hoops of from,' wood or whalebone. The time of Elizabeth Tudor -was the' "age of the ruff, of perfame and 'wigs, of padded sleeves, spreading fartbing- ale, peaked bodice -- of every artl- fice that human nature could .de- vise." Girls, Wear More AndyHave Long Life -- Wom- an of 105 Celebrates 105th . Birthday at Her Home in Morewabd, Ontario 3 A littld white:haired woman who lived under the reigns of six British sovereigns looked: back on ~105-years_of life last month and opined that girls: could do with more respect for ¢old weather, . "If they dr warmly, the way I do, girls would be healthier and live'a' good deal longer," sald Mrs, 'May Jane Bogart, of More- wood, Ontario, who was céelebrat- ing her '105th birthday annivers- ary. ; ATE Rdinnek "Mrs. Bogart came to Canada in 1846 as a little girl when her par- ents moved from Fermanagh" County, Eire. She has: yet to suf- fer a serious illness, another point in' her argument -for moré winter garments for Canadian woman- hood. "oo SE ; Mrs, Bogart can recall 'many in- cidents during the sailboat trip of seven weeks and four days acrors the Atlantic Ocepn 94 years ego. : In Cold Weather - et ~