MISS HOUSEMAID OF 1936

Evening Star, Issue 22382, 4 July 1936, Page 13

MISS HOUSEMAID OF 1936

CINDERELLA'S CORONATION From time to time.in the past models of feminine charm, beauty, and grace have paraded before solemn areopagi, accompanied, by the tumult of orchestras and dazzled with lights; there have been harmonious- battalions of sexappeal, permanent waves, and scarlet fingernails, each girl bearing the name of hei 1 provincial capital. But the maid, the treasured housekeeper, has always been in the eclipse. So it remained for a ' famous Paris evening paper to correct the injustice. Accordingly, 1936 is going _to have its Miss Housemaid. The elimination trials will assemble the candidates in a small place near the Place Vendome. These maid contestants will be armed with scissors, thimble, needles, No. 60 white thread, .two medium-sized buttons, and a piece of sewing material. They must also carry in their heads the 50 ways to prepare eggs, a recipe to remove ink stains, the mysteries of beef , a la mode, and the family secret for reviving swooning mayonaises. The young queen of the contest, then, -will find herself in possession of an honestly-gained diadem, for what a battery of model cooks she will have to battle against. Miss Housemaid, garbed in simple modesty and white linen will likely tall a prey to some selfish, gormandising male who scatters his pants’ buttons to the four winds, loses his braces, and cannot find the mates of his gloves. .Maylie she will he suspicions; a fussy old bachelor will probably bo waiting at the exit of the Salon of Household Arts to get her to care for him and his rheumatics. Nevertheless, it will be a delightful task to crown Cinderella. And it will then remain only to find a Prince Charming for her. ;