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March, 1958
THE WOLVERINE OBSERVER
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The Year of Chemise
This will be known as the “Year of the Chemise” (circa
1958) and Mr. Mort has taken it, in all of its many and
talented variations, and adapted it to show how completely
and feminine a silhouette it can be.
After seeing the latest rendi-
INK DROPS Age No Guarantee of Maturity
from Ben’s Pen Reader’s Digest Article Warns
tions of this new and wonderful
theme there should be no doubt,
even among the most stubborn
who thought they could never
wear this completely wearable
fashion. After all, as any owner
of a Mr. Mort Chemise will state,
loud and clear, “to wear one is to
love one.” The eye, the male eye
in particular, has become educated
but not without the aid of gentle
tailoring, meticulous fit! and dra
matic detail.
These points, thanks to Mr.
Mort, have made this collection
Mr. Mort’s “Chemise Coup.”
And it’s going to a coup in flat
tering chic for -all who wear itt
Spring takes on new life with a
basket weave wool chemise. Deep
V-neckline, long cuffed sleeves and
a pocket full of smartness. Be
neath the chemise, a perfect blend-
Mr. Mort’s “Chi Chi Chemise.”
Newest shift in pure silk shantung
—the chemise in sand beige, new
navy and city black. Drawn with
feminine flattery, Mr. Mort shapes
the chemise where it should be
shaped . . . gently at the hips.
Contrast stitching accentuates the
one that’s appealing and exciting.
Take yours two piece, one piece,
gently blouson or starkly simple.
Have yours in silk, in wool, in
crisp cotton, in cotton tweed or
cotton knit. For early morning
until late at night, dress or cas
ual . . . Whatever your desire in
the way of a chemise, Mr. Mort
has the chemise for your figure.
This whole new group is spirited,
young and wearable and as always
Mr. Mort’s fashion is the kind of
good fashion that becomes a way
of dressing . . . nob the way of a
fad.
ing silk surrah print blouse. Note
too, the newly shortened hemline
that focuses attention once again
on leg art! Colorful tandem in
green, beige or navy with com
patible-color printed blouse.
Style No. 411 — Retail about
$55.00 — Sizes 5-15.
subtle contours and big-as-life bow
of black silk organza highlights
this wonderful new way of dress
ing. Best of all, buttons from
neckline to hemline add a new de
signer touch to a dress of com
pletely simple elegance.
Style No. 414 ■— Retail about
$45.00 — Sizes 5-15.
By BENJAMIN GEER
A man went into a drugstore
and asked for a small tube of
shaving cream. While waiting for
his change he looked at the carton
the clerk had given him and on it
was the word “Large.”
“Say,” the customer said, thrust
ing the box toward the fellow, “I
asked for a small size.”
“Sir,” the clerk explained, “this
product comes in three sizes:
large, extra-large, and colossal.
What you have there is the small
size-large.”
Policeman to driver of a long
new car: “Look lady, if you can’t
park it all, park as much as you
can.”
One husband to another: “Now
take my wife—the most wonderful
woman in the world; loving, gen
tle, tender, sweet, a perfect help
mate. If you don’t believe me just
ask her.
Down-and-outer, as he watches
successful man whirl by in a
Cadillac. “There but for me go I.”
The Guide on a sight-seeing bus
in Milwaukee informed his passen
gers that at that moment they
were passing the largest brewery
in the world. A bored man in the
back suddenly came to life.
“Why,” he demanded, rising to his
feet.
Mother of small boy to child
psychiatrist, “Well, I don’t know
whether or not he feels insecure,
but everybody else in the neigh
borhood certainly does.”
One woman to another — My
dear, we’re having such trouble
with young Tommy. He’s too
young to be left alone with baby,
but too old to be left alone with
the baby-sitter.
Two days after her latest son’s
arrival a young matron received
a beautiful plant from her baby
sitter with a card reading:
“Thanks for the new business.”
KEEPING UP WITH
THE JONESES
Keeping up with the Joneses is
the greatest impetus to the pres
ent social life existing in America.
As unsound as it seems, America
is fortunate that this impetus
exists; it has unlimited advan
tages.
Keeping up with the Joneses is
what stimulates within most peo
ple the desire to progress, for
most people would be complacent
with life in its simplest form, were
it not for the progress of their
neighbors. In fact, most people
aren’t ambitious until their neigh
bors have achieved something.
The reason why everyone likes
to keep up with the Joneses is
relatively simple; everyone wants
to be recognized, and it appears
that the only way to be recognized
is to keep up with everyone else.
One must forget individualism
however, if he wishes to keep up.
For it matters not what one
thinks, or how one feels, because if
he wishes to keep up with the
Joneses he must think and feel
like the Joneses.
Keeping up with the Joneses
stimulates e c o n o m i c activity.
Think of the people who buy cars,
electrical appliances, homes, leath
er coats, hi-fis, etc., just because
the Joneses have them. In other
words, the more cars sold, the
more people are employed.
Keeping up with the Joneses is
what keeps the “ball rolling” in
schools. Therefore, the key to the
success of many students is the
fact that in doing so, they be
come successful.
Keeping up with the Joneses
prevents many communities from
becoming slums. When one person
has the initiative to keep his home
up and soon everyone else tries to
follow; consequently the potential
slum disappears.
To that grand old intercollegiate
institution, the bull session, has
come a great new subject of dis
cussion. In this era of the tran
quillizer, emotional maturity has
marched into step alongside sex,
politics and religion as a favorite
topic of college conversation.
What is maturity ? How can you
tell when you have achieved it?
What’ll it get you when you have
it?
The sad truth, according to
Michael Drury, in the April Read
er’s Digest, is that maturity can
not be gained in ten easy lessons,
like the latest dance step. Rather,
it is a slow and continuous process
which can slip away more easily
than it is gained, and is sometimes
never found at all.
Age is not necessarily a guide
to maturity, the author says. In
fact, youth and inexperience fre
quently breed the qualities that
one must retain if he is to be ma
ture: trust, curiosity, flexibility,
willingness to learn.
Failing repeatedly in her efforts
to ride a bicycle, one young lady
said laughingly to her companion:
“It takes real brains to be as
dumb as I am!” This ability to
poke fun at herself marked the
girl as a mature person—though
she was only eight.
On the other side of the ledger,
author and teacher Edith Hamil
ton made this observation at the
age of 90: “The older I grow, the
less I know—but that isn’t to say
I trust less or have less apprecia
tion for what is beautiful. Life is
more interesting as it goes on.”
How de we recognize maturity
in ourselves? There are no set
formulas, but there are some sign
posts. Ability to bounce back
from staggering grief or disap
pointments, doing something you
’ve always feared, being able to
part with long-held convictions—-
these are some of the hallmarks of
maturity.
Arrival at maturity gives no as
surance of a Utopian life, the au
thor warns. Anguish, self-doubt
and despair afflict even the most
stable person. But recognizing
that you are neither quite so won
derful nor quite so hopeless as
you once believed brings the kind
of inner peace that makes one a
mature person.
“Are You Mature?” is con
densed from “Glamour” Magazine.
Sports In Retrospect
By ROBERT MAYCOX
Basketball:
Was it the cold snap that
crushed Atlanta that caused the
drop in the Wolverines basketball
performance? Was it the absence
of former stars, George Williams
and Howard Glover ? Or was it the
presence of numerous freshmen
that had to learn the Wolverine
method ? During the 1956-57
season when the cold wave was
not as chilling as it was this
season, the Wolverines went to
Tuskegee to perform in the SIAC
Tournament, coming out in the
second position. They left with
only one defeat. These were the
final days of George Williams and
Howard Glover, who very rarely
scored under 25 points per game.
This season the Wolverines fin
ished their 1957-58 season of . play
by kneeling to Knoxville College
in the SIAC Tournament. With the
numerous but able freshmen, the
Wolverines suffered a 9-13 record.
The Wolverines, with the excep
tion of Willie “Dutch” Rivers, will
be out again next term to capture
the SIAC championship. Captain
Robert Myles declares that after
the present performers get the
touch of playing together, the
team will show much greater per
formance. He based his opinion
on the fact that the Wolverines
won most of their games during
the last season.
Football:
In the absence of Coach Clem
ons, the Wolverine gridironmen
began their spring drills under
Coach Green and assistant coach
Lowell Williams. The teams show
ed great spirit in an effort to go
undefeated during the 1958-59
season of play.
The able men have an eye for
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refreshment for a Discriminating Coterie,
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