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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FEBRUARY 6, 1942 Smart Midseason Dresses Are Dignified and Simply Styled By CHERIE NICHOLAS Eleanor Roosevelt RURAL PEOPLE AND RATIONING Recently 1 attended a dinner given by Dr. Louise Stanley of the bureau of home economics in the depart ment of agriculture for the mem bers of the conference on extension services. This conference is a year ly event and people come to it from many states. This year some of them came from Wyoming and many midwestern states. Miss McGeachy of the British em bassy spoke on some of the prob lems confronting rural women in England. I asked her to tell about her plan for rationing clothes, since I was sure that these were the peo ple who would really be able to ap preciate the ingenuity which turns candlewick bedspreads into fashion able evening coats. Of course, their objective in ra tioning clothes was to put more workers into defense industries and fewer into producing consumer goods, and to preserve certain ma terials for vital war needs. We may find ourselves doing the same thing. Miss McGeachy’s re mark, that it was only a hardship on people who had no margin of supplies in their homes, reminded me of something said by an Eng lishwoman, who came to see me a few days ago. Extra coupons, she said, were given to people who were bombed out or lost all their posses sions in a fire. However, even with extra coupons they could not hope to supply them selves with an adequate amount of clothing. One pair of shoes, two dresses, three pairs of stockings, and one set of underclothes is all the usual coupon will buy for about a year. Men are worse off, because their clothes are sold according to weight and weigh more than wom en’s. I always feel that rural people are better prepared to meet these adjustments than urban people, be cause in cities it is easier to buy and very little thought is given to making up new materials or making over old garments at home, a prac tice which still prevails in many country families. * * • LATIN-AMERICAN FAIR In New York city one evening, I went to a very charming dinner, given before the opening of Macy’s Latin-American fair. Even during the dinner, the stage was set, for we were delightfully entertained with music and dancing, performed by artists from our neighboring repub lics. At the fair, I could not help but be impressed by the architecture of the buildings and the charming ar rangements of flowers and merchan dise. There will be music and danc ing and food served during this ex hibition. You can buy groceries, fruits, and handwork as they come from these neighbors of ours. Their designs and skills are also adapted to modern needs. Some of the leath er work and rugs, and much of the glass and pottery, make you want to furnish a house at once. After I left the fair, I stopped for a minute at a weekly dance given by Miss Anne Morgan’s committee at the Henry Hudson hotel. Here, a crowd of boys in uniform, belonging to both services, were having a good time with some very charming girls. On my arrival, they released some balloons from the balconies and I was told the boys and girls caught these. In two of them, lucky num bers were found, which entitled a boy and girl to a prize. I presented these prizes, but the boy who found the lucky number for the girl’s prize, had lost his girl, so we had to send him scurrying, box in hand, to find her in the crowd. • • • CIVILIAN DEFENSE ACTIVITY I reached my office next morning at nine o’clock and was sorry to bid good-by to Miss Eloise Davison, who has been assistant director of civilian defense, in charge of group activities, under Mayor LaGuardia. The New York Herald-Tribune lent her for a part-time job, which took up all her time. She feels she must return to her job in New York city. Miss Davison hopes to be able to help civilian defense, however, by working in New York city on some special assignments fqr the mayor. That morning was spent largely with Dean James Landis at OCD, though I saw two or three members of the staff. The entire afternoon was taken up with appointments of various kinds. Mayor Cain of Ta coma, Wash., lunched with me and I was happy to see him again. I remembered how much impressed I was by the way in which he was taking hold of his job in the hectic week after the attack on Pearl Har bor. * * * CIVILIAN DEFENSE RADIO BROADCAST On one afternoon, I talked on a local radio station with Mr. John Kelly, head of our physical fitness program; Dr. Dearing, of our OCD medical group; and Dr. Gwynn, head of the District of Columbia Medical association, who has in augurated this series of broadcasts. He tries to interest the general pub lic in keeping itself well and in do ing the things which will be a help to the medical profession. ' I 'HERE is a new psychology in the matter of dress. It’s a most wholesome one which yields to no compromise with feminine charm and flattery, but tends toward great er simplicity, careful selection and an appreciative evaluation of wear ing apparel that avoids extrava gance. Clothes are made to serve de pendably and at the same time gra ciously, during the stress and strain of the present war period. It’s well-mannered clothes that women are wanting, the sort that won’t shriek with glitter and gew gaws, yet will be spirit-lifters in their colorfulness, suavity of line and genuine charm. The winsome little wool dresses now so popular give the answer. Not only do they exploit color but they are styled to a nicety with all sorts of “catchy” details that individualize them and make them of outstanding style im portance, not only for immediate wear with fur wraps but also to wear into the summer. The accompanying group picture eloquently tells the story of quality, materials of distinction and flatter ing color. The first of this trio, that shown to the left in the above illus tration, is a clever sports dress for the teen-age girl. It is in chocolate colored wool panelled with brown- stitched beige. Simple tailored prin cess lines enhance this model, to gether with an easy grace achieved by the full-gored effect below the hipline. The dress to the right in the pic ture above stresses the new 1942 classic simplicity to a nicety. It ex ploits the sleek-fitting long-torso lines now so popular with college girls and the junior set. One of the Ribbed Jacket If you’re headed resort-ward, | plenty of lightweight sports things should be in your trunks. Here is one of the new loafer coats (the j name reveals its purpose) to wear when you loll around on the veran da or beaches or wherever the spirit moves you. These jackets are made of cordurella, a feminine version of cordurex, the popular velvety-ribbed men’s wear fabric. If you are a husband-and-wife combination, his windbreaker and slacks should be made of the finest lightest cordurex in order to interpret fashion at its smartest. persuasive arguments in favor of the attractive colorful daytime wool frocks is that they are “up to tricks” in the way of ingenious detail. In this instance it is the lacing at each side of the long-torso bodice that is eye-catching. Self material is laced around gold hooks. This model comes in delectable pastels or in lush colors. Centered in the group above is a perfect “date” dress for the girl who must wear her "special occa sion” dress all day in the office. This gown of leaf green crepe has a striking triple - tiered peplum, a smartly curved yoke and the some what full, straight sleeve favored this season. Too sweet for words are the dainty little afternoon dresses of light wool or rayon crepe in exquisite pastels. They are fashioned with cunning self-fabric trimming. One has three rows of tiny ruching applied to a medium flare skirt line, three huge hand painted wood buttons • and matching ruching about a clever yokeline. Made of China pink crepe it is the ideal answer to the demand for something dressy but not too dressy. The fuss made by the younger set over white date dresses continues. White jersey seems to be the out standing material for these dresses. Now that color is so important, many of these jerseys are made gay and bright with embroidered flow ers and motifs done in multi-colored yarns. Some of the most attrac tive white jersey frocks are high lighted with effective trapunto quilt ed design. Others are made festive with gilt buttons and girdles. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Save Stockings to Help Student Work Women throughout the states are being asked to jota a unique cam paign to save old, worn-out silk or nylon hose (no rayon), to help send American girls and boys through college. For every thousand pairs of old hose contributed one girl or boy is enabled to attend college for 12 months. A curtailment of silk has forced many in the student body of Athens college in Alabama to stay home this year. They had been earning their way working in the college’s hosiery mills. The stockings sent in will be re conditioned and “backwound,” the process done under government su pervision. For Blackout Some of the stores are featuring blackout accessories, such as bags done in plaid fiber to wear over the shoulder. They have five pockets, and it is advised that they be kept stocked with emergency require ments—flashlight, sweater, and oth er useful items. You can even get shoes that have tiny flashlight at tachments. Floating Suit For those who cannot swim it should be good news that a floating swim suit has been devised that is non-sinkable, its patented feature being the lining of a spongy sub- stance that floats. You can get these novel, practical suits in fitted or in dressmaker styles. Brunch Coat A fad that is growing into a pro nounced movement is the brunch coat. It’s as practical to wear as the usual smock, but is more formal and can be found in a greater vari ety of styles. T OS ANGELES.—For some time ■*—' ahead, outside of two such phys- ical and mental conditioning games as football and boxing, where body contact is vital, the main demand on the country will be for playing games above spectator games. The two leaders here are golf and bowling. Basketball is also a play ing game on the major side, but it also carries a ma jor spectator follow ing, which neither golf nor bowling needs. The bowling call on the playing side now runs away with all the others. Ex perts tell me we have 20,000,000 Grantland Rice b °wlers of one de gree or another now actively engaged at' target work down the alleys. This far over shadows golf in numbers. But golf still has the call in the matter of open country and five miles of hik ing for some 3,000,000 club swingers between the ages of 8 and 80. Bowling today is by all odds the most popular sport in the United States. It is a game that costs far less than golf, that requires as much skill, but which still misses the sun and wind and rain and the longer leg hike. We are not trying to com pare the two, since they are totally different. They are both great games. Neither has the toughening, fiber- ,making aspect of football and box ing, in which you have to take and give a physical beating to get any where. But not everybody can play football or box. And almost every body can play golf or bowl. About Bowling The astonishing feature about bowling popularity is that it hap pens to be a difficult game to write about. It lacks the thrills of foot ball, boxing, tennis and other sports. I mean for the reader. It lacks the diagnosing qualities of golf. But it is one of the simplest of all games for the player, especially on the equipment side. And it happens to carry just as much entertainment as any game one can think about in a hurry. A game must have amazing quali ties to round up from 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 players without the bally hoo so many other games get. If you have never bowled or if you haven’t bowled for many years, give it a try and you’ll be converted. ; About Golf Golf has always been—and always must be—a game for the player. Many have asked me why big golf championships don’t draw with oth er sports. In golf it is the spectator who takes the beating, not the play er. Although, in a big tournament, the player takes his share. How often would you draw big crowds in football, racing, baseball or any other game if the spectator had to gallop five or six miles over cross - country territory, jump ditches, climb fences, wade through a morass, fight through briar patches, be a broken-field runner and a blocking back to see every other shot played? A golf spectator has to be an ath lete, in training, willing to take a hard beating, to see most of the shots played in a championship by some leading star who is drawing the crowds. If golf had the same accommoda tions for the spectator that other games have, it would be on a par with any game played in the way of admissions. It is the only game I know where the spectator gets a harder workout than the player draws. The Range of Games This happens to be the greatest sporting country in the history of a cock-eyed world. But with war con ditions as they are there must be certain readjustments. For the youth of the country I still insist there must be a maxi mum of body contact games—espe cially football and boxing. Baseball is also a great game. So are track and field and basketball. Also ten nis. Also golf. They help to make legs. They add to physical stamina. They are strictly worth while. This is especially true of (jolf and bowl ing for those who have bumped into the march of the years. But for high school and college play there should be a big increase on the side of football and boxing. I am not referring to champion ships, to big spectacles, to money making enterprises. I am taking into consideration the major values of give and take in the way of disci pline, punishment, hardihood, stam ina—rugged qualities of manhood. This doesn’t mean there should be any falling off, aside from all the needs of war, on the part of the old er men participating in sport. To help win an all-out war an entire country must be physically ready. This means participation in the sport or game that is best suited for the individual. How to Do Newest Dance Steps Diagram Explains Tango Steps. '\X7'AIT! A tango’s not a hundred ’ * yard dash! A 'girl hates to dance with a man who rushes her, Apache fashion, around the room. Lots of men do that who aren’t sure of their steps or how to lead. Are you? You could learn the steps from diagrams. Our 32-page booklet has complete dance Instructions for men and women and gives footprint diagrams for the smartest steps —in the tango, rumba. Conga, waltz, fox trot. Westchester, Lindy, Samba, Peabody, shag. Send your order to: READER-HOME SERVICE (IS Sixth Avenue New York City Enclose 15 cents in coins for your copy of HOW TO DO THE NEWEST DANCE STEPS AND VARIATIONS. 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