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specially smart appearance. It is of navy blue silk with tiny white
lowers that look like dots. The bodice ig of plain navy crepe and
lgrosgrain ribbon trims the pockets.
BY MARIAN YOUNG ‘
EA Service Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK — Printed silks
adline the fabric story for day
pe and evening. Due to unusual}
lor combinations ‘and original
puping and spacing ideas, thi:;(‘
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Things to make housecleaning easier are assembled in a neat. capacious closet. Hanging from the
tk cn the door are (from left to right) a radiator bruzh, a mattresg beateér, a Venstian blind brush
d a chamois skin polisher. Inside the cabinet is an electric waxer, a home dry-cleaning apparatus
can, and new cleaning and polishing fluids. On the floor in front of the of the clo3et (from left to
ht) there is a can of the new “water” wax, a covered dust pan, an easily cleaned sweeping brush
a non-tippable mop-pail. '
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a silk suit. Jodelle endorses ani
mal shields, .
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chessmen and various sports mo
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black crepe with pink carnation prints and is made to look very dressy through the use of flowing
short sleeves.' Her friend goes in for a brown silk print with tiny bouquets of yellow, orange and tan
flowers, and is cut on classically simple lines. ki
tifs. Colcombet shows Irish greeu{]
top ghats printed on beige sillkk crepe
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In the picture prints, life, land
scape and still life ‘obje¢ts are used.
lDucharne shows rings of dancing]f
IBrittany peasants, a theme used by |
iJodelle in her spring ceollection.|}
Schiaparelli shows lanterns, but-|
Itons and envelopes with colorea|:
seal prints. 1
_ There arve, of course, prints which
show American landscapes, newis- |
BY MARY MARGARET McBRIDE
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK — You dread it and who wouldn't?
But, spring house cleaning does lose some of itg ter
rors as the vears go by simply because the industry
of designers and manufacturers, who, while their
motives probably are not very altruistic, still make
lite-"easier for the housewife on her spring rampage.
‘A non-tippable mop p:-in with an automatic
wringer and two compartments, one for clear, one for
soapy water, plus a iong-handled covered dust pan
are the first two essentials for this private clean
up campaign of yours,
Next comeg a brush kit containing a neat assembly
of special brushes for all thpse places that are
hardest to zet at . In the colléction is a brand new
threc-pronged brush in two handle lengthg for the
Venetian blinds which we all have in our houses
these days; a triangular brush for closet corners;
a steel bristléd, fairly long brush for gas stoves;
a full-headed bhrush fior bed springs; a slim, long
handled one for radiators, and a button brush (you
will love that one) for tufted embroidery.
WORK GLOVES THAT ACTUALLY
IMPROVE HANDS
The kidskin work gloves, cream-treated, which
leave your hands softer than t}iey found them,
might not be califed work equipment by a man but
any weman will appreciate their importance,
Then there are new rubber gloves for working in
water that have a roughened palm and finger sur
face to prevent precious breakables from sliding
through soapy fingers.
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THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
paper copy and musical notes. The
flying horse motif, launched by
Schaiparelli, is prevalent.
Florals in Profusion
Fruit and vegetable designs are
featured, too. Apples, cherries,
grapeg and plums appear on silk
backgrounds. Jiadishes, carrots,
beets, green and red peppers, mush
rooms and tiny earz of corn make
arresting psticrns.
Floral prints-—always smart and
alvrays with us—are large for aft
in Order
Never were there so many spociall
creams for furniture, waxeg ror|
floors and cieansers for upholslery.;
For instance, there is one (:reami
that takes off heat rings: a clean- |
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ing fluid which will restore uphol-;
stery amd drapery fabricg without:
odor or moisture (sounds miracul- |
ous, that one:) an electrie dusterl
that. draws dust from ecrevices: u‘
spray gun that cleans your win-!
dows; a fluid that keeps your rugn!
from skidding; a floor wax that'
requires no rubbing (so they say.) |
And there are as -many new stor
age uids as there are new cleaning
accessories. Have you seen, for
instance, the cellophane pouches
and bags tor‘glove_s? Also the air
tight cedar chests that stand up
right and the oneg that slide un
der the hed a la the old-fashioned
trundle-bed?
Oh, it's still a chore, house clean
ing, but it used to be a Jot worse!
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Total value of furs shipped outl
of Alaska during 1931 was §1,770,-
324, 5 L A l
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lemoon and evening and infinitesi
mal for daytime. Printed silk
lcrepes ahd sating, in large motifs,
often are wveiled with marquisite
| for evening =~ wear: Incidentally,
printed satin looms quite large in
| the Easter fashion picture.
Twin prints are good. Both flor
als and geometrics are used for
these,
The water color print is endorsed
at home and abroad. In one of
these, near tones of a single color
Helen Welshimer Says:
CURB ON KISSES IS
UP TO CO-EDS
~ The nice young men of one of‘
our esteemed institutions of learn- |
ing have announced that the co-!
ed who letg them kiss her the first
{ time they have. a date l-'won't be‘
lasked to see another movie. High
! minded and discriminating, the
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lads call themselves. Plenty of
older’ heads are nodding approba
| tion of the boys who are asking
which path the
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g sense! The boyt
sel have learned the
N ' Weve o easy
: ‘»"z“fi;‘f’wic(; money and easy
K. %fi‘g % SRkisses. Both go
£ "My% g4as quickly as
Sk seaageetsd they come, The
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R e deether to restorc
7§%@”@¢ its challenge. As
e pt——— .O] all, if Tom
i <isßsed Mary
| S Monday n i g h t
| Welshimer Dick kissed per
Wednesday and Phil had the os
culatory privileges for Thursday,
!what was the sense in kissing
'.\hn'y at all?
| Now if becomes a game again
;—?L game to see which lad has
| enough charm 'to woo and win in
| spite of the ostablished rule. No
!m:m wants a bargain counter girl,
| one who has been relegated to a
!markpd-down case bepause she is
islightl\' the worse for much hand
| ling. He wants his kisses straight
! —while the are his—and the
;-only way he can prove he is get
| ting them that way is to establish
{ Mary. as a girl: who doesn't give
: too generously.
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| Talking Things Over
{ How do boys know if the co-eds
| kiss their fraternity brothers, you
i:tsk'.’ The same way that girls
[ ‘know when their dormitory or so
| rority sisters receive bide to ro-
Im:m(-o. They talk it over. They
idangl(- their conguests—on the
! plea of asking advice, in a girl's
! house—~just as. the Indian chief
imins swung their scalps from
'Lheir belts. Men, so Wwe have
heard on good authority from
time to time, talk over matters
too. .
Otherwise, how .did any boy
know that his brothers also were
finding kisses easy taking on the
initial date?
We might as well get the mat
ters straight, girls. Boys like af
fection, but they want some chals,
lenge to it. Men never appreciate
a free-will offering. They prefer
to have the pay made difficult in
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Brown silk taffeta bearing or
gandiz and green flower prints
makes this ensemble with the
tunic-like coat, which is tied Chi
'nese fashion on the side.
[are employed to give a shaded ef
fect. with considerable- depth- ana
form.
Stamp prints are shown in taf
fetas, silk nets and chiffons. The
design ig. stamped ‘on and. usually
has a high lustre which resembles
patent leather.
Dots, commas, squares and dia
monds, are stamped in white, black
or color. Tiny airplaneg m white
appear on a black taffeta surface.
Rigidly Styled Bleakness
Dooms Ultra-ModernVogue,
Pioneer Decorator Insists
MRS. JAMES ROGERSON DENIES IT AFFORDS FREEDOM
BY MARY MARGARET Mc¢BRIDE
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK—For all its boasts,
modern youth is not free. Nor is!
modern architecture. Nor yet mod
ern decoration. The reason is that
all are stylized to a point whers
freedom- could - not possibly exist,
declares Mrs, Jameg C. Rogerson,
decorator. Mra. Rogerson sees &
revolt in: prospect,
“In fact, the revolt has begun,”
she insizted. “It is going on right
now, a revolt against super-impos
ed ideas and thoughts. It doean’s
in the least matter whether the
thing that is imposed iz old or new.
‘That it is imposed at all ig what
takes away the prospect for in
‘dividuality and growth.”
~ Mrs. Rogerson, who helped to
decorate what she calls a livable
1936 drawing room for the fiftieth
exhibition of the Architectural
League of New York, believes that
we are seeing the end of the ultra-
order to prove their own mascu
line superiority in conquering.
Warned Against Careless Kissing
The matter does have a more
serious intent. however, underly
ing its selfish surface. Men do not
like campus-property women, and
@ girl- who endeavors to be every
body’'s sweetheart :preads her af
fection so thin the boys will look
to others who give better por
tions.
The Dean of Women and a
girls mother have told her re
reatedly for years that she should
not indulge in careless affection.
If she—and: her sisters—had lis
tened to the preachments it would
not have been necessary for the
hoys to start a reform act.
Now that they have, the girls
should carry on ilie ecrusade in a
worthy manner. No hoy is worth
kissing merely in order to get a
bid to the next dance. There is
no need to have a stated time at
which you Kkiss—say, the fourth
or fitfh date. It is a whole lot
more honest for a girl to gaily
refuse until the seventeenth—and
after, if she is still having dates
with the man—unless she sincere
ly wantsg to kiss him. It is much
more honest tg kiss a boy the [first
date because she wants to than
to ki*s his roommate on a sixth
date because custom requires. ti. i
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‘Sincerity Is Real Issue {
Romance is a mood which seizes
two people independent of rules,
customs and kissing etquette. That
rule concerning first date Kkissing
CHILDREN CRYING FOR OPERA!
That’s American Marvel Marion Selee Found on Tour
With National Music League Company
NEW YORK.—The spectacle
of children erying so hard for
opera that the police and the fire
department had to be called out to
quell their enthusiastic demon
stration is just one of the many
oddities in our national life that
have amazed Marion Selee, young
singer of the Opera Company ofl
the National Music League. :
For three years Miss Selee hasl
traveled north, south, east nnd‘
west with the Opera Company
to bring music to the hinter
lands. It was in Jacksonville, Fla.,
that the children cried for opera.
A small hall had been selected
for the league’'s performance of
“Hansel ana Gretel” on the as
sumption that there would not be
enough of an audience to fill a
larger place. To everybody's sur
prise, the children were lined up
for blocks and when they realized
they might nout get in, they began
a tearful demonstration,
Young Miss Selee holds a
‘strange world record — she has
'played the witch in “Hansel and
Gretel” oftener than any other
living singer-—nearly 400 times.
It seems a strange role for the
slender, blue-eyed singer, still in
her early twenties, and Miss Selee
“has recentiy traded it for that of
iHansel. which gives her more
- chance to sing.
| Country Wants Music
l “Here in New York, it is im
possible to realize how hungry
'Lhe country is for good musie,”
Miss Selee declares. “They are
like the Florida children, ecrying
for it. We started three years
ago with one opera and each year
we add another to our repertoire.
‘We now have besides ‘Hansel and
Gretel,, ‘'‘The Blue Forest,” also
for children, and Flotow's ‘Mar
{ tha.’ 4
“The league (every musically
ambitious young person should
know about it) is a non-profit
making organization that helps
young artists to get started—gets
them engagements without charg
ing managers' fees. The opera
company is a lucky outgrowth.
Fourteen of us have played in all
sorts of halls from Carnegie Hall
in New York to a small country
"sohoo)house in Alabama, where
the lights were oil lamps. Once
we did a performance on a swim
ming raft. That was in Miami.
But wherever we are, we give the
full performance, except maybe
- for the chorus. And the scenery
is constructed so that it ean be
contracted or expanded to fit.”
Miss Selee is a Boston girl, de
scended from a long line of min
isters. Her family wanted her to
| be a teacher, but she was deter-
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| MRS. JAMES C. ROGERSON
imodern movement which would noq‘
permit any deviation from its um
adorned, mechanized rule of thumh.]
Kitchen Hides Gadgets |
] “I think often of a little girl !l
Iknow who visited a modern house,’
Mrs. Rogerson recalled. *‘The chlldi
‘looked rather appalled by the rooms
jwith their lack of touches that
| would make what she had beenl
'brought up to consider a home./
{ Finally she asked to be allowed to
‘see the kitchen. She felt, I sup
!pose. that even a modern kitchen
!would‘ have some of the makings
lof a home. Well, she was right. In
cuphboards, cagefully put away, were
khomey ornaments and objects from
all the other rooms. The family
|owned them but did not dare dis-.
| play them, because it was against
;the modern order.” ~
! Contrasted with the living room
'done by Mrs. Rogersén and sever
'al colleagues of the Americian In
'stitute of Decorators is a drawing
!room of 1886. eLN
{ Old Charm Lacking Now
| “And that wasn't freedom, eith
er,” admitted Mrs. Rogerson, smil- |
lingly at the unfurled fans spread
‘about on little tables, the fussy{
{lights that are usless for reading. |
[the elaborately panelled and bro
lcaded walls with a Japanese printrf
!primly placed in the 'M“center“
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MARION SELEE
mined to sing and finally went
to Paris to study. A real Boston
girl in flat heels and slick-back
hair, she had Carmen as her first
incongruous student role,
Better Casting Needed
She is convinced that opera
parts ought oftener to be cast
with a regard to appearance and
dramatic ability of the singer.
“We Americans have such a
sense of humor that we laugh in
stead of cry when we see a great
big woman dying of consumption
on the stage,” she points out, “And
we are likely to spend our time,
instead of admiring the music,
wondering how even two husky
men will ever be able to drag
a fainting two hundred and fifty
pounds from the flgor. '
“I think we should do some
operas in English, because we
lose a lot getting the words of
opera in a foreign tongue. French
audiences laugh outNght at funny
things in Carmen while we yawn.
But I certainly believe that stu
dents should be taught repertoire
in the original language. Then
later they should sing really good
translations,”
Miss Selee once had a notion
that it was ‘Dbetter for a singer.
not to marry on° account of her
career. However, three months
ago, she changed her mind. She
married a Welsh baritone.
“Maybe what I meant was that
singers should only marry sing
cis!" she mused,
of each panel
“Yet all the same there was a
grace and charm in those days that
is completely lacking today. Wome
en were not concerned with rush
ing out into the world and making
their marks in competition with
men. They expected to be taken
care of and shielded so that they
could stay at home and make them
selves beautiful for men, They had
time for all the little courtesies
that seem superfluous today.
“But a great many people are
coming to fee] that they are not
superfluous — that we must have
them again in our lives if we are
to have color and beauty. Lately
people have had no one home. They
have had five or six places where
certain of their possessions ' were
kept and which they visited in turn
according to the ‘weather. But
homes are necessities and so are
grace and beauty, All will come
back.”
Combines Decorative Pariods
The room which Mrs. Rogerson
helped to fit up has works of art
instead of the gimeracks of 1886.
There is sculpture and there ig a
fine painting. The furniture does
not keep slavishly to any one per
iod, but combines a number of them
in harmonious fashton. £
“The decoration of any time exX«
presses perfectly the people of the
period,” Mrs. Rogerson adds. “The
girl of 1886 was covered from throat
to toe with frills and furbelows.
With the ultra-modern decoration
came the nearly-naked girl. And
now we have a saner, freer form
that is the outgrowth of a saner
freer individual.”
Mrs. Rogerson took up decora
tion in the day when her socially
prominent family considerec it be=
vond the pale as a profesiion to
follow. She was one of ¥z earl
ier women decorators and went into
art seriously. That is, she made
an intensive .study of enamels to
aid her color sense, spent a long
time with the finest teachers of
sculpture and painting. . : e
“My friends said, “Oh, how ter
rible for you to spend your life
hanging curtains and puiting down
‘carpets; but I didn't. mind,” m
adds. ‘T knew that it was utern
iu! expression that satisfled some
thing in me. The most important
thing I have learned in W‘*‘*
iis that you can not créate a «oom
lor a house without, knowing coms
fpln‘(r‘l,\‘ the individuality of the
iperson. Before I begin to' work av
'a room, I study thoroughly the
!personality of the occupant. Once
|1 went all the way to Hawaii to do
ithal.'f R S