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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1941 New Date Frocks Add Rhythm To College Girl’s Wardrobe By CHERIE NICHOLAS anerf incne P ROBABLY “full credit for chic” won’t be listed on college report 'cards this fall, but it’s one course that is getting plenty of “cram ming” the country over, as college girls settle down to the routine of classroom and campus life. According to a recognized authori ty who annually advises hundreds of college girls on how to buy and how to wear clothes, as\part of the functionalized “how to live” cur riculum on a Midwestern campus, grooming has a significant influence on the adolescent girl. There is a relationship between success and a feeling of well-being which springs from the knowledge that one’s best self is being expressed through the proper habits of posture, dress and general bearing. “Wardrobe rhythm” is the way this authority describes the proper assemblage of clothes that are ade quate for all occasions. Being well dressed on a modest budget is a matter of wardrobe integrating. One of the weaknesses of the average American girl is that she buys a one-occasion dress or an eye-appeal ing number on the spur of the mo ment without giving any thought to how it will fit into her general ward robe scheme. The girl who wants to assemble a wardrobe that will be adequate for all occasions should decide on a col or scheme for the season and stick to it. She should select frocks, en sembles, suits, coats and accesso- ries that are interchangeable, mean while being sure that a dress or en semble is suitable for wear on a variety of occasions. Variety can be achieved with bright belts, bags and carefully selected costume jew elry. If you are planning a basic fall and winter wardrobe on a limited budget you might include a gray or tan herringbone tweed man-tailored jacket with a matching bias-cut skirt, a campus coat of bright red and gray or tan and green wool plaid lined with gabardine for gen eral utility wear, a wool “dressy” dress for dates and those “special” occasions, a wool reefer in gray or brown to harmonize with the skirt of the suit or to be worn over the wool dress and a separate blouse- and-skirt dinner dress. These items, with a collection of sweaters and blouses, will keep you looking smart on all occasions. Three simple “date” dresses that will major in chic for all more or less dress-up occasions are shown in the illustration. For “five and aft er” the “good little black dress” is ever a loyal standby. The tea dress of black crepe, left, with its long torso line accented by scallops and its American beauty red velvet bow at the neckline, should win high hon ors. The tricorn hat adds just the right note of dash. Off to the movies? Wear the “date special” shown to the right and you’ll steal the show. It’s tan with brown passementerie across the square neckline and around the waist. And the skirt—well, it looks as though the dirndl is here to stay. A characteristic feature of this sea son’s fashions is the importance at tached to light wool daytime dresses in oatmeal, tan, beige, muted greens and dusky browns. The emerald green taffeta dinner dress in the center, above,- should be a “come” signal for the stagline. The frock with its slimming torso line ending in a peplum will be voted an ideal basic evening dress. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Feature Ensembles In Costume Jewelry It is a season of pretentious, im portant - looking costume jewelry. The massive sort predominates, such as huge wide bracelets with massive necklaces. Great clusters of colored stones or rhinestones form spectacular lapel pieces. Topaz and amber are in high fashion, to wear with autumn browns. The newest effect comes from three separate pieces, varying in size but otherwise identical, that clip to dress or coat lapel in groups. Matched to these are earrings, bracelets and often finger rings. Campus Favorite m m ■■ ** • . •. 8$; Jet Gives New Sparkle To All Black Ensemble For the sophisticate who likes to “say it” in terms of smart apparel there is an avenue of approach that leads directly to heights of modern ism. It is the “black as a crow” ensemble that is being exploited this season among the ultra fash ionable. To achieve this your black crepe or jersey dress is flecked with jet, intensified with jet passemen terie at throat and sleeves. A tiny jet hat with a snood at the back or a drape carries out the theory of seductive black. Gloves are black, and wispy sheer black silk hose are worn with black suede shoes. The hand bag is either jet embellished or of lassie suede to match the shoes. Use Lace Trim Now that peplums and tiers and flounces and overskirt effects are in fashion, designers are enhancing them with edgings of either black or white lace. Lace yokes are also being featured. Removable, very sheer lace guimpes are sold at the neckwear counters. Blouses! You can’t have enough of them! Here is a beauty. It is one of the most stunning campus originals brought out this season. It has long full sleeves, a round, high neck, fly-front fastening and double button-over pockets that are very new. It carries a convincing mes sage of “style” told in terms of sophisticated simplicity. The colors are luscious pastels to contrast with dark fall clothes. Little Folks to Wear Colorful Long Hosiery No more winter chill for little folks, the latest news being to the effect that long stockings in bright colors will be worn again. They are arriving in bright attractive colors that will make appeal to littla girls who have an eye for pretty as well as practical apparel. IIWNU Sctvu Notes of an Innocent Bystander The Front Pages: President Roosevelt, who has taken many a lashing from the press, saluted Na tional Newspaper Week with a mes- age to publishers to guard the press’ freedom. In short, he urges it to hang on to its right to slam him . . . Royal Cortissoz, celebrating half a century with the H-Trib, also said something worth remembering about press freedom. “Opinions,” he said, “#re a critic’s capital, and he is useless if he cannot find free dom of expression for them” . . . Virginio Gayda, the typewriter that talks like Mussolini, urges the Fas cist dailies to fake news to keep the people’s spirit up. According to dispatches from Italy, the Italian people would prefer to have him fake up a few plates of spaghetti. • • • — The Wireless: Jan Masaryk’s broadcast was heartbreaking enough to wring a tear from an isolationist. He reported that the victims of the Hun slaughters in Czechoslovakia are not the revolters, but just any helpless Czechs they lay their hands on . . . The squeeze is on the Nazis in South America, however, take it from broadcaster Herbert M. Clark. It’s getting so uncomfortable for them in Argentina, he said, that some of Der Fuehrer’s busiest dag ger troops are screaming alluva sud den that they’re Swiss . . . C. Fadi- man and B. Hope ping-ponging hu morous insults at each other made laughs come like bananas — in bunches . . . Eleanor Roosevelt’s chatter does more to keep her lis teners awake than the coffee she plugs. • • • — The Story Tellers: Runyon makes a monkey out of the fiction rules in “Broadway Incident,” his entertain ing piece in Cosmopolitan. His hero is a drama critic, which is definitely a contradiction in terms . . . Garbo is news for the funniest reason. She used to collar space on being a mysterious recluse, out of the world. Now Life blows her to lots of pages because she's a simple, friendly girl like you, Toots . . . Paul Gallico’s word-halo for Lou Gehrig in the Nov. Cosmopolitan creeps into your heart like a smile from a baby . . . Writes Kyle Crich ton in Collier’s: “When ecstatic cries of dah-ling greet a Hollywood actress entering Giro’s, she knows that her last picture has been a success” ... Or her first marriage has been a failure. • • • — The Magic Lanterns: The cinema gets a pretty good report card. “Hold Back the Dawn” is a large afternoon for the sighing set. Charles Boyer plays put and take with two hearts, Olivia de Havil- land’s and Paulette Goddard’s (who is a heel with a tender side). The yarn, about how he marries his way past the immigration gate, is skill fully told . . . Things are milder in “It Started With Eve,” but all oof’ly nice. Deanna Durbin is the same likeable lass, and Chas. Laughton is the funny-mans of the occasion . . . Tom Harmon runs and kicks a gamut full in “Harmon of Michi gan.” Football shots from the newsreels are woven into the love story, which also looks like cuts from previous films. • • • — Typewriter Ribbons: F. E. Freed man: Is the Atlantic Ocean ver- boten or fer boatin’? . . . Kin Hub bard: Ther ought t’be some way feat celery so it wouldn’ sound like you wuz steppin’ on a basket . . . Youngstown Vindicator: The gen erals most likely to defeat America are general inertia and general apathy . . . Toronto Star Weekly: All Europe is now divided into three parts: occupied, unoccupied, and pre-occupied . . . Olin Miller: It’s when a man first feels his age that he has the hardest time being it . . . Damon Runyon: She has an ice-cream cone where her heart is supposed to be ... M. Foster: The plaza was drowsy with history . . . H. Klurfeld: She was a good secretary, but clockeyed. • • • — New York Heartbeat The Big Parade: Ambassador and Mrs. Martins from Brazil at the Stork ringside cementing Good Will with United Statesmen—by applaud ing the rhumbacrobats . . . the Joe E. Browns staying young in the sinful places up ’til almost half-past eleven! . . . Sonja Henie swapping a chilly howja-dooo with her boss, Darryl Zanuck . . . The Drew Pear sons of Washington gaping at The Big Town’s tallest buildings, the hix . . . Beatrice Kay and her defini tion of a diplomat in Washington or on Broadway: “A guy who knows how to keep his chin up without sticking out his neck.” • • • — New York Newsreel Subwayites gazing at people across the aisle as if they were a blank wall . . . The once famous actress who now performs in five- and-ten-cent stores, exhibiting all kinds of kitchen utensils . . . The debutantes who have everything to make life worth living, yet few of them have learned how to live . . . The amazing dexterity of cabbies weaving through the traffic, listen ing to their radio, talking to pas sengers and smoking a cigar at the same time. 'T'HE seasons’ fruit, crocheted in gay shades of gimp, will add that attractive note to your kitchen as shade pulls, tie-backs and other decorations. • • * Pattern 2921 contains directions for mak ing accessories; illustrations of hem and stitches materials required. Send your order to: Sewing Circle Needleeraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave. New York Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pat tern No. Name Address..... First Political Cartoon The first political cartoon in this country was designed by Benja min Franklin and appeared in his Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. It depicts a snake cut in eight parts, representing the eight colonies, and is captioned “Join or Die,” in an attempt to unite the people during the French and Indian war. For over 20 years, whenever an occa sion arose to consolidate the colo nies, this crude drawing was re printed, thus probably exerting influence over a longer period of time than any other political car toon ever drawn. Pattern 2921. DON’T LET CONSTIPATION SLOW YOU UP • When bowels are sluggish and you fed irritable, headachy and everything you do is an effort, do as millions do — chew FEEN-A-MINT, the modern chewing gum laxative. Simply chew FEEN-A- MINT before you go to bed—sleep with out being disturbed—next morning gentle, thorough relief, helping you feel swell again, full of your normal pep. Try FEEN-A-MINT. Tastes good, is handy and economicaL A generous family supply FEEN-A-MENTTo* We Exaggerate There is always less money, less wisdom, and less honesty than people imagine—Bacon. ST.JOSEPHI ASPIRIN Self-Love In jealousy there is more self- love than love.—La Rochefoucald. T0 LIQUID TABLETS SALVE NOSE DROPS COUGH DROPS Plainly Told An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. 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