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New pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of U.S. wartime living:

Womenpower. In Center Church on the Green in New Haven, Conn. girls last week replaced men as ushers at a wedding.

Old Stockings. Into department-store receptacles U.S. women last week started to drop used silk and nylon stockings, run beyond repair, which the Government wants. Nylon will be reprocessed and used for something the Government is keeping a secret. Silk (which burns without leaving an ash) will be rewoven into powder bags.

Kitchenware. WPB banned further production of thousands of kitchen utensils after this week, including bottle openers, corkscrews, dippers, sieves, bread-boxes, jugs, dustpans, washboards, wringers. A little steel will be allowed for frying and roasting pans.

Shopping. New York's Lord & Taylor opened a Store Door Canteen staffed with 60 A.W.V.S. girls to aid service men in the selection of Christmas gifts. While shopping the men get free cookies, cigarets, out-of-town newspapers, magazines, lounging space, game tables and buying advice. For 5-c- a portion they can get (from a 30-ft. bar) coffee, apple pie, Coca-Cola, milk and Scotch broth, served by singing waitresses. Filene's in Boston introduced self-service in its gift-wrapping department, invited buyers to take a tray, register for payment, do their gift wrapping themselves at a 40-ft. counter.

Diaper Dilemma. From coast to coast U.S. diaper services (which supply, collect and wash diapers) were having trouble keeping up services. Numbers of prospective customers are up. Curtailed are diapers, laundresses, plus tires, oil and manpower for the trucks, some of whose horns play Rock-a-Bye Baby.

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