The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1928-04-19
BY Pauline Suing Bloom

ciolhes -AlrS u u StfauSZ believes. IF Il
men is accurate and neat she has ali the qualifcl-
tions necessary to make herself the envy of her
friends and every woman be taught both to be
accurate and neat" she continued
am inclined to think that Mrs Strausz is an
optimist, but a woman confronted daily with the
problem of dressing girls and women on budget
allowance less than their sister women use for
'pin-money' would have to be an optmist to ac.
complish her always satisfying results
1t is not only the girl and woman with small
means, however, that Mrs. Strausz dresses She is
called upon to "send brides trousseau" a din
gown that will help make the representative of
the house see the husband of the wearer as the
man that should have the promotion that will take
him to the big city to live, then too there is the
business woman and teacher to be advised: the
one who knows so much more about a column of
figures than she could learn about combina-
lions of colors and cut of skirts and blouses that
she is hopelessly lost in the alsleS of department
store. Wardrobes for trips to Europe-trips around
the worid-trps to California delightful southern
resorts for the woman who wants ''the proper
thing must be got ready and OH what a lot of fun
Mrs. Strauss has in planning and selecting and
advising shoppers-she must keep on her toes all
of the time, too, because-the wrong gown for the
right occasion might make lifetime enemy for
her business
Mrs. Strauss started teaching in the vocational
department of the Lewis and Clark night school ten
years ago The of the town that she has
taught to be good dressers may be numbered by the
thousands The Crescent asked her to serve as
personal service head" or in other words sbopppr
for the store. 1t was from this beginning that
the department known the dressmaking service
at the Crescent was started. To-day from materials
purchased there which may be selected with
thn hnln md aHN Of
one is always making clothes and using Il service
offered free as to pattern, trimming as well as
cutting, fitting and sewing, right in the under
her watchful guidance.
To such proportions has this department grown
that for several years it has held style show
attracting hundreds of women in which patrons
serve as models wearing their new garments 10 be
judged for prizes of money and merchandise orders
OF sufficient size to tempt any woman, offered by
the store.
And the suits and dresses, coats and ensembles
that We're turned out this year! So perfect were
many of them that the judges almost threw a mon
key wrench into the well-lad plans of the DEPART
ment heads, who had the style show in hand. by
the length of time il took TO cast the deciding
votes. The prize winners might easily have had
their garments down the racks with the stores
eastern and Paris models without causing even
the lifting of an eyebrow by the critical shopper
Mrs. Strausz believes that she Is a living exam.
pie of the fact that woman may be good bust
ness woman as well good wife and mother and
h0fnemaker at the time. She presides over n
lovely old place in the lockwood district, f. 172S
Eighteenth, with plenty of lawn and garden in
which her three children are growing to sturdy
manhood and womanhood. There are two boys
Chester, age IA. Lawrence II, and little daugh-
ter six years old. In addition Mrs Strauss father
U. s. Shull, school principal of the Witcheta Kan
public schools for more than 20 years and lat
er head of an industrial training school at Stka
Alaska, makes his home with her Mr. Strausz is
an auditor with the Old National Bank
OF course she keeps competent help in her home
in the way of housekeeper who has been with
her for many years that she needs not even
bother with the ordering of the meals unless she
wishes to do so.