| Show lenry McLemore EW YORK Mrs Mrs Emily t owes It to her purse her hersher's sher's purse and to her iu un n try to toUte Ute It tte a book a r time ette f ince the of Utilities t t i iti in y new newt t In m in fF a L- L rop p e r beL be- be h have a v e ien and ande e r leans r j t a loss t to how to toLt tor r et them n 1 y the Lt i. i day I McLemore ii LS talking Gt man who was seriously as to how to greet ds who had joined the i ors and were serving with lW A V E Sand and W A A C. C know whether to greet sm m m with a friendly peck on the j ik ek and a My dear Helen ure re lovelier than ever or tether to snap to attention d iress ress ess them as lieutenant and l them that their months at ati i I 11 s Moines had broadened their their t put flesh on their 1 f ones es s in general and made them gh as the devil j r st which type of greeting L Jd id a woman soldier so prefer 3 ily Mrs Post knows the exact fading ding ading of address that would i please the feminine side the W WA WAVES A V VES E S or W WAA A A C C. C would gratify her as a a. ahter for her country j Along iong this same line should gentleman give his seat to a in the W A V E S SiW Sh h rt iW W A A C Would the offer his his chair intimate that he 11 IX considers women soldiers slightly on the sissy side and In need of coddling 1 When food rationing becomes general and we adopt the English English Eng Eng- lish custom of taking your own meat butter eggs sugar and so soon soon soon on when invited out to dinner a anew anew anew new series of problems in etiquette etiquette etiquette eti eti- eti- eti quette Is bound to arise In the first place what Is the proper distribution of shared food I mean who eats what 1 If I 1 go to a friends friend's house carrying carrying carrying carry carry- ing a sirloin steak and he comes comesup comesup comesup up with a scrawny chicken who eats the steak and who eats the chicken 1 To be gracious and proper must I insist on his having having haying hav hay ing the best cut of my sirloin while 1 gnaw on a neck or wing I of his tired fowl This should be settled by some standard authority such as Mrs Post else fists will fly in inmany inmany inmany many a home in this country ere the snow flies The same Is true of sugar If you are a man who doesn't use sugar in his coffee must you take some anyway so that the hosts host's children can spread it on everything they eat 1 But where Mrs Posts Post's counsel is really needed is on how the food you take to a friends friend's house or the food he brings to your house shall be prepared It seems to me and me-and and Im I'm not setting myself up as any authority mind you only s suggesting that suggesting u g g est i n that g-that that everyone should have the right to decide as to how his food will be prepared pre pre- pared Say I take a chicken to A. A M Ms M.'s s 's house In a lot of homes particularly in the east the recipe for chicken Is something something something some some- thing called Fried Tried Chicken a la Maryland It has always been my contention that either the chicken or Maryland or both should sue the chef who thought this one up The chief feature of this recipe is to cover the body of the chicken with a white sauce that tastes exactly like the paste kids make of flour and water and use to glue their kites together When I take a chicken visiting a-visiting I aim to fry it my own way which is to cut it into 10 or 12 pieces and fry them in deep fat and nothing else Take steak for example Who is to say how it shall be cooked There are many people people people peo peo- who like their steaks rarer than a whole year of June days steaks so fresh from the steer r that they bellow when the knife touches them That's all right with me let me-let let the cannibals have what they want There are a lot lotof lotof of us however who like our steaks a bit better doneSo done So So Mrs Post should lay down the law Mrs Post could also do a chapter on just how long a civilian has to listen to a new ew officer talk about the grand strategy of the war As soon as asa asa asa a man gets a commission he considers considers considers con con- siders himself a roommate of Wavell Marshall Eisenhower and all the oth other r and he can tell you you you- and does the does the complete plan of battle for this global war I would appreciate it If Mrs Post would write that after listening to 15 seconds of this the listener has the right to say good-by good and take a powder or scram to use the language of the drawing room Distributed by Syndicate Inc |
