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. THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE SEVEN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY B, 1952 A border crocheted from gold metallic thread added to place mats made from sparkling white crochet cotton will give you a rich and attractive luncheon set. i PER) for Di are self-addfessed king this PLACE MAT if you send a stamped, k Department of this paper requesting Leaflet No. PC-5569. CHILD GUIDANCE: Going on Thirteen No Fun By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph.D, Miss Polly Dee Ishmail of Okla- homa City contributes this article, titled "Going on Thirteen." It was written as a school assignment and brought to my attention by her teacher through a mutual friend, and is printed by permission of Polly and her mother. "Have you ever looked forward to the occurrence of a long-awaited event and as the time draws near become apprehensive of its hap- pening? "I find myself in this sort of situation right now and can find no solution for it. The cause of my plight is that I'll soon qualify to be a called a teen-ager. In a few months Ill be thirteen years old. DREAMED OF NEW WORLD "For years I have longed to be a teen-ager. I've dreamed of wear- ing lipstick, rouge, powder, and having my dressing table covered with all sorts of sweet-smelling creams and lotions. I've pictured wearing high heels and glamorous evening gowns. I've dreamed of entering a completely new world, the teen-age world. "Being a teen-ager would mean that I am practically grown-up. I would no longer be a child. I could talk freely among adults without being given a tolerant smile, I could demand the right to stay up until ten-thirty on school nights and midnight on week ends. "Lately, I'm not so sure of my- self. I'm not certain I want to give up my so-called 'childish ways." I still like to play"® jacks, and have been playing frantically for fear they will be taboo next year. "Maybe I should be chagrined to admit it, but playing dolls and dress-up still seems lots of fun. Sally Herrman has a superior col- lection of dress-up clothes, and I'd sacrifice a Saturday afternoon movie anytime to play at her home. Will I feel free to do this when I'm thirteen? "It's fun to play football and Boxy! Easy! SHORTIE-COAT! The dressy and the sporty coat for Spring! Sew- easy--3 main pattern parts! No collar! Patch pockets! Turn-back cuff in one with sleeve, so adjust sleeve to your favorite length Be sure to admire that new silhouette, too! Pattern R4701: Misses' sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 2% yards 54-inch fabric. This pattern egsy to use, simple to sew, is tested for fit. Has com- plete illustrated instructions, Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (35¢) in coins ( ps cannot be accepted) for pattern. Print plainly, SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, care of The Times-Gazette, Pab Ji Department, Oshawa, On 0. . baseball with my brother and his friends after school, but I'm afraid I'll be considered a tomboy if I join them next year. "As my birthday draws nearer, Mother keeps reminding me that I should assume more responsi- bilities around the house. She says that I am reaching adolescence. Of course adolescence is a good sixty-four dollar word, the type Mr. Bloodgood might use as a mys- tery word, but teen-ager is far more exoressive. "I realize I have grown a lot during the past year, but that's no reason for Daddy to greet me each evening by saying: 'Sis, you're getting as big as a horse.' "I wonder if.I dare ask for a private telephone for my birthday. I can't answer the telephone any more without Bill, my brother, singing in an obnoxious voice: 'Sister's got a boy friend, Sister's got a boy friend." "I've practised and practised and still can't manage to get lip- stick 'on straight. I have worn out a puff trying to make the rouge on both cheeks match. Somehow I continue to fall flat on my face with each step I take in Mother's high-heeled shoes. "Turning thirteen has many problems, but Daddy insists that turning forty is worse!" Easy to Handle "THESE SQUARES are tiny and easy to handle. A perfect size for your pickup work! Budget a few a week--then you'll soon have plen- ty for a new accessory! Filet-crochet square five inches in No. 50 cotton. Edging too! Pat- tern 7348: charts; directions." Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in Ottawa's Mayoress Throws Qut Challenge For Ploughing Match Ottawa (CP)--Charlotte Whitton is ready to outplow any mayor in Canada. The doughty and daring Ottawa mayor said yesterday she is chal- lenging any mayor to 'match skill against her in a plowing match at nearby Carp next fall. The 55-year-old woman mayor, who recently did some training in motor mechanics, is scheduled to open the international plowing match at Carp, about 20 miles west of Ottawa, The challenge, she said in an interview, is open for either tractor or the horse-drawn kind. Raised in Renfrew, some 60 miles west of the capital, Miss Whitton has had some experience in driving a buggy and in plowing a straight furrow with a horse. She admitted that she's had, little experience with a tractor, but she's prepared to do a little training in the field if she gets any takers. Homemaking Ideas Must Change to Meet Shrinking Houses The American "dream house" will undergo great changes in the next five years, predicts Russell Wright, nationally known home and houseware designer. "The greatest change," says Russell Wright, "will have to take place in our heads. We'll have' to change our "attitude, toward home and homemaking." Houses must become smaller. Material costs are very high. Labor costs are up. Servants as we knew them a dozen years ago have van- ished. We'll have to do more real living in less space. Everything we live with must count for much more in economy, utility and good looks. Here are some suggestions #r accomplishing this as outlined by Russel Wright in Pageant Mag- azine: ! Living Room--Use wall storage to eliminate lots of chests and tables. Cover furniture with slip covers or with fabrics which can be wiped clean with a damp cloth. Put all heavy furniture on casters or easier housecleaning. Stain- proof all table tops. Eliminate table and floor lamps as far as possible. Use built-in or pin-up lamps to avoid clutter. Dining Room--Eliminate it. Toss it. into the kitchen or the living room. Bedroom--Get rid of the tradi- tional fussy feminine ideal--fluffy curtains, fancy bedcovers, dressing table skirts, dirt-catcher carpets. Use mitered sheets and electric blankets or. quilts to cut bedmaking time in half. Reduce floor care by using a strip of washable carpet from bed to dressing area or bath- room. Kitchen--If you're building, make it big enough to ho a plastic cov- ered sofa, lounge chair, radio and possibly, television, If you're stuck with a small room, make it as com- fortable and colorful as possible. Decorate it with as much care as you would the living room. Have table and counter surfaces that won't stain or mar. The present young homemaking generation faces a problem of re- making itself such a few genera- tions before it have ever known, says Russel Wright. Many of the present developments may make for a better home life. For example, smaller quarters make informal en- tertaining imperative. This new etiquette which is more human and more intimate, may make home entertaining more fun than old fashioned formality ever did. SHE SELLS SEASHELLS No telling where this latest fad for putting seashells on everything will wind up, but in Nassau, Ba- hamas, the latest fashion is that of fashioning the tiny ones into flowers, binding them together in- to a wreath and wearing them, either around a chignon or hair knot or as a band around a straw hat. Chokers, bracelets, brooches and trimmings for blouses and even- ing or cocktail sweaters are also thin wire or heavy thread. coins for this pattern (stamps can- not be accepted) to (Name of Your Newspaper, Household Arts Dept., Address. Print plainly NAME, AD- DRESS PATTERN NUMBER. NEW The 1952 edition of our Alice Brooks Needlecraft Books Brimful of new ideas, it's only Twnety-five cents. "ONE illustrations of patterns of your fa- vorite needlecraft designs plus SIX easy-tp-do patterns printed right n the hook. 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Ann and John are planning to be married in June. Their funds are very limited. John has nothing saved, and Ann has a small bank account and her own furnished Spariment, where they expect to ve. Both are employed and plan to keep their jobs after they marry, and they have in mind a simple wedding. Ann's mother is dead, and her family consists of her father and sister. Her father is un- employed and lives alone; and the sister is married and has a child. John's parents are living and he has five brothers and sisters. The problem is that John seems to think Ann should pay for the wedding supper and honeymoon. They are to be married at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and have a small supper just for the bridal party before going away. Several friends have been advising "John to share expenses, but he keeps quoting Emily Post, saying the bride is supposed to pay for everything. Will you give us the straight of it--so I can show your article to John? C. 8S, PREPOSTEROUS ASSERTION Dear C, S.: John's absurd alle- gation that a bride pays the expen- ses' of the honeymoon automati- cally exposes his false claim to scholarship in the field of decorum. There is no traditional precedent for his statement. It is my impression that Emily Post, in her classic "Blue Book of Social Usage," keeps up with changing times in revised vol- umes--adapting the enduring prin- ciples of good form to latterday exigencies in human relations. But even so, I'll take oath that she hasn't yet sponsored the idea that John promulgates in her name. It is probable that John picked up his self-indulgent notion of who pays for what from the Edward Streeter book and movie--"Father of the Bride"--which makes a rue- ful joke of how little a wedding costs the bridegroom, but how ex- haustively the bride's family is supposed to spend to launch the undertaking. Still, in suggesting the sky as the limit for the bride's- family spending, nothing was said or implied by Streeter to the effect tsat the bride or her side of the house finances the honeymoon. I've seen maybe half a dozen etiquette books, antique and mod- ern, in the lifetime's reading; and if memory serves me, each de- crees that the bride and-or her famliy "(or guardian) pays for all the folderol of the wedding--ex- cept her ring and bouquet, and the clergyman's fee. These are the bridegroom's obligation prior to the Couturiers Check Black, Grey Stocks London (Reuters)--The blacks, navy blue and greys which dom- inate the spring and summer fashion collections of London's leading dressmakers will strike the keynote of every official function in Britain in the months of mourning ahead. . Designed, made and shown to the press for the first time last week, the colors used might have been selected with a sense of fore- boding of what the future held. Today, the couturiers frantically checked their stocks of black and grey materials, ready for the mourning and half-mourning or- ders which will now replace those expected for the big events of the season, : The Shire draught horse, a fam- ous English breed, often reaches a weight of 2000 pounds. YOU JUST GUIDE... it does all the work GENERAL ELECTRIC FLOOR POLISHER EASY BUDGET at $69.50 5 KING W. DIAL 3-3425 MARY HAWORTH'S MAIL: Problem of Honeymoon Expenses ceremony; and it is permissible for him' to provide flowers for the bridesmaids, and small gifts for ushers and other attendants, if he desires. Once the vows are ex- changed, however, the costs of bliss devolve upon 'him in toto, theoretically. He foots the bill for the honeymoon. As a matter of fact, the practice of a man's financing the honey- moon if any is so generally fol- lowed hat authorities on manners don't even touch on it. They take for granted that everybody knows and subscribes to this unwritten ue; and that nobody will dispute As John has no money saved and plans to move into Apn's apart- ment after marriage, I take it that he cannot afford € honeymoon-- which means that Ann would have to finance their going-away, if she wants a trip, To cover his help- lessness, he is trying to argue that he's not supposed to do what he knows he can't do, namely--pick up the checks as the marriage gets going. All things considered, I think his attitude is that of a heel; and I believe any jury of self respecting males would agree with me. M. H. Mary Haworth counsels through her column, not by mail or per- sonal inter%iew. Write her in care of this newspaper. (Copyright, 1952, The Washington Post) Hollywood Highlights By BOB THOMAS Hollywood (AP)--Annette Keller- man, the woman who revolution- ized beach styles, today predicted he: decline of the Bikini bathing suit. This is hardly the time to be talking about bathing suits. Buf it won't be long before North Am- erican women will be shopping for beach wear. Miss Kellerman, who popularized the one-piece suit, de- clared the girls will be hitting the beaches with more cover-up than the French-style suits afford. "I don't think women like the Bikini suit," she declared. "The women who have worn them have told me they feel uncomfortable and conspicuous in them. Besides, they expose some of the less grace- ful parts of the anatomy." Mack Sennett, who also. helped revolutionize beach apparel with his bathing beauties, has predic- ted that the trend in swim styles will reach the point where suits will be dispensed with. Miss Keller- man doesn't agree with that. "I don't think women will ever appear on the beaches in the nude' she commented. "It isn't a matter of modesty, because that can change with the times. The reason is that only one woman in 100,000 has the right kind of physique to appear in 'the nude. Most women would prefer to wear suits, which can cover up whatever physical inadequacies they might have." Miss Kellerman, who starred in Perfect tea is so easy) \ to make with St "SALADA TEA BAGS swimming roles in movies before Esther Williams was born, has opposed the scanty suits since they 'were imported from the Riviera. "If I had known that women were going to wear those flimsy pieces of cloth, I don't think I would have started it all by intro- ducing the one-piece suit," she sighed. "But on the whole, I'm glad I did. I think modern bathing suits have had a good effect on women. In the old-fashioned suits, every woman looked the same, no mat- ter what kind of figure she had. But now they have to pay atten- tion to their figures, especially in the summertime." 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