Show WRITER ASKS IF F FRIENDS iV COMPLIMENT WHEN THEY t CALL HER SOPHISTICATED J By BETTY BLAIR BLAm Sophistication To To deprive of simplicity of ot mind or manner to render to-render render artificial artificially or pretentiously wise vi e. e Lincoln wasS was that he seems a riddle to the sophis- sophis S ift IiO sO o simple so modest so good Heated Who would be sophi sophisticated after reading these thes i of the word word- vord S S Dear Miss Blair Many of my friends tell teU me mc I Iv p. p S v I am nl sophisticated I dont don't know c whether they are rire complimenting mo me or giving me a nice little slam S 1 Will you Will you please tell teU me sac what they 4 V mean I am 15 years old SALLY 5 S S I dont don't know enough about your S qualities or those of your friends S to answer this question with a definite deti- deti nite assurance I may be right S Sally Sall but I have a feeling feeling- that when people tell teU a year old girl she ahe Is sophisticated even even though S they may mean it as a compliment S It really is not S They doubtless mean that you have hav an air of oC knowing more than thanS S you should for a girl of ot your our age S of ot being too old for your years and andS S of ot lacking in sincerity and whole whole- S I Apply to to Self Sell Look Look up the word in the dictionary diction diction- 5 ary ry and then apply Its meaning to 5 yourself Take inventory of your outstanding faults and see sec if It you cant can't be the girl you really arc deep down inside and the girl you S would like Jike to have those you OU love b best t think you YO Instead of trying to put on a veneer that really doesn't belong to you at all And If It you dont don't know It l let et me whisper this in your our car ear that soS so- so S Is as old fashioned as last wt years year's Princess Eugenie hat It ItIs ItS Itis S is the sweet feminine girl cirl who is isnow isnow isnow now reigning on the throne of pop pop- S and marrying off oft the best of the eligible young oung men And though you arent aren't old enough yet yetto yetto I Ito to think of at marrying it is just as asS aswell S well that you practiced being a aS S sweet young oung thing now for the theS S day never ne did exist that men didn't S like their women sweet and wholesome whole whole- r some when hen the day for selecting a bride roU rolled d round 1 BRIDES BRIDE'S S 'S SHOWER VER Dear Miss Blair t- t S I am going to give a miscellaneous miscella miscella- S shower for a new bride in inI I I the near future ViII Will you ou please give me an Idea as to what will vill willbe be nice to serve 7 Whatever I 1 have will vill bo be bo brought in from rom the kitchen on on plates where tho the guests may eat cat them from small tables dotted about the room Thank yo you MRS S. S Do you mind my giving giving- you a menu that was used very successfully success success- fully at ata a shower for a bride to be and served ser a as a lap supper It consisted of frozen fruit salad cream cheese sandwiches toasted olives celery curls frosted Individual individual ual cakes coffee and salted nuts Perhaps Id I'd better give you 1 0 the recipe for the frozen fruit salad One Ono and a half halt cups of ot mayonnaise 2 cups whipped cream I iVa 2 cups of I diced pineapple 2 cups of at seeded white whito cherries 1 cup diced peaches cup red cherries 2 tablespoons lemon juice a teaspoon salt Mix cr cream am with mayonnaise add rest of ot ingredients and arid pour into tra tray in mechanical refrigerator In about four hours or when salad is frozen serve on lettuce and top with more mayonnaise combined with whipped cream crem Garnish with strawberries and nd fresh mint leav leaves s. s This salad can be bo frozen by fillIng fill fill- fillIng fillIng Ing molds scaling sealing tightly and burying bury bury- ins ing four hours in five parts chopped ice and ono one part coar coarse e salt saIto THE ETERNAL PROBLEM l Dear Miss Blair 1 Some Somo people have the eternal 5 triangle in their lives 11 but I have havethe havethe havethe the eternal problem of ot soap and water and cleanliness for tor my two small children with which to deal My mother-in-law mother insists that tha daily dally bathing is too often for throe three and year olds and that thata a certain amount a of dirt is healthy Please give me mo your opinion and so 50 help mo me to settle a conflict in which I may be to blame Sincerely YOUNG MOTHER There Is nothing as sweet as a clean child Aside from tram the standpoInt standpoint standpoint stand stand- point of ot health a well-washed well child w with th clear skin shin and shining hair is Js just about the most beautiful thing on earth Even if there Is jam on the small jowls or grime on sticky fingers someway or other tho the clean look underneath shows through S Jam doesn't matter It comes offIn off ot In 30 a second anyway Mud doesn't matter Clean dirt is healthy But ButI it often otten happens that tl the e dally daily bath for tor younger children Is Isa a bug-bear bug to the the busy busy mother And sometimes it is not possible at all aU I If so o twice twice- week a bathing will keep them healthily clean pro providing iding there are daily dally washings of ot the excretory re re- re gions And hands faces tices necks and andears andears ears cars should of course be washed thoroughly At three years of ot age children can learn to wash their own hands as many times Imes as necessary necessary necessary sary through the day As for Jor the mother mother-In mother law faw problem problem lem insist on doing the thing that fits into your scheme of living best and without outside interference So often otten this interference can be dismissed pleasantly with a happy happ remark about each person liking his own 21 Va way best |