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Style News

The Importance of the California
influence in current style trends
was pointed out recently by Miss
Helen Davis, Tacoma authority on
women's apparel. on her return
from the annual market week
activities in Hollywood and Los
Angeles late in January.
She Indicated that the Southern
California style center is fast be-
coming as important as the east
in debating swings in fashion
notes.
II feel the California market
gives us more merchandise suited
TO our climate and activities, more
so than the eastern market. Need
less to say it has its advantages
being close at hand, and the NOV
ing picture industry is playing
such an important part in the
styling of women's apparel that
this adds a great deal of prestige
to this market also" Miss Davis
said.
Milo Anderson one of the main
speakers at the Breakfast Clinic
during the market week pointed
out the influence of the movies on
present styles. Mr. Anderson is
a designer for Warner Bros. and
bases his statement on actual
facts, giving Msrlene Dietrich
credit for the introduction of
Stacks, and Greta Carlo for the
box coat. Loretta Young the
Wimple hat, Irene Dunn strapless
evening dress. Bette Davies the
upward hairdress and many others
So much progress has been made
by this California market that
they are now planning the editing
of a magazine called Glamour
that will deal exclusively with
their market The magazine will
soon be on the newstands.
The market week this year was
better attended than ever before
The manufacturers provided gala
entertainment for their guests
with a banquet dinner-dance al
the new Earl Carol Inner Circle
theater, special style showing al
the Biltmore bowl and trip Il
c. B. S. radio station for the A
Jolson broadcast.
The eastern market was wei
represented by their buyers from
the most outstanding houses.
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Permanent Ideal
Base For Hair-dO

The ideal foundation for any
type Of popular couture except,
possibly . straight bob in some
fattering version of the old wind
blown il 4 permanent wave. Ma
turally, . good one can be JOY
indeed. while 4 mediocre or down.
right poor one can cause more
hair problems than you ever
dreamed existed.
OF course. II you 60 to a reput-
able shop and put yourself in the
hands Of IN experienced operator,
your chances Of getting a salts
factory permanent are excellent.
But II you decide to shop around
or try . place nobody you know
ever heard Of. be absolutely sure
to find out 4 great deal about
permanents before you make the
appointment. II you know what
you want and should have. and
on getting it, you're pretty safe
anywhere.
First thing you ought to know
you should have Is q test curl.
No operator who isn't thoroughly
familiar with your hair can pos
sihly tell exactly how tightly II
ought to be wound around the
rods and how much heat il re-
quired except by making 4 test.
This you must insist upon.
Insist also on . thorough sham
poo and plenty Of rinsing before
any winding - done. The night
before won't do. You must have
your hair washed and rinsed and
dried carefully Immediately before
! getting the permanent.
he success Of q wave really
depends on the skill Of the opera
tor who does the winding. After
you have had . shampoo and the
teot curl has been made. your fate
y "a his hands. So do pick ar
operator IN whom you have conf
denoe. He or his sssistant viii
stay "A the booth with you ever
single second while the heat u
: turned On
{ AftsEward you ought to havs
: anothsr good shampoo-two soap
z 1nGB and many. many rinsings. Il
{. yonr hair ID dry and rather coarse
have . vinegar rinse. followed b,
& nore fresh water rinsings. II it.,
Z silky and inclined to be . bit oily
: . vfnAgar rinse won't be necessary
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Good 7 aste
7 oday
VIA GRANDMoTHER's HOUSE
BY EMILY POST

Dear Mrs. Post: A woman I've
known for years sends my two
children presents at Christmas but
she never sends to the children di-
rect. That is, she sends them 10
their grandmother who lives down
the street. IL is true that this wo-
man In primarily a friend of my
husbands mother but nevertheless
I think IL continues to be very
strange that she sends the gifts
for our children to her. I've never
written thank you notes TO her
because I've felt that she has more
or less overlooked me as the chill
dren's mother and that ] should
stay in the background and let
their grandmother thank her. Can
you explain her motive in doing
this, and do you think, with me,
that this is sighting to me?
Answer: Christmas is so much
childrens day that | think we
are all more interested in giving
to children than to grown people.
/ am wondering, therefore, II this
woman is perhaps a friend of your
mother-in-law and, having no pres
ent she wants to give her, buys
presents for her grandchildren in
stead. Or she may send their
grandmother gift and merely
enclose the children's packages in
the same wrapping. At least, this
is the only explanation I can make.
But I feel sure that If she meant
to be discourteous to you, she
would hardly send presents to your
children at all.
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IL may be mans world. But
women can't afford to forget that
they must get along with the
other women in tiff they are not
to Be unhappy misfits.
If you aren't thoroughly con-
WINGED Of this--look around you
at the women who boast that they
don't like women. They are an
unhappy. miserable. jealous lot.
Complains
Dear Miss Grey: have just got
TO confide in someone so am COM
ing to you again since you solved
one problem for me. hope am
not imposing on your kindness.
We live in an apartment house
and have three children under
years Of age. Sometimes the chill
dren and ! never get outside for
two or three weeks at time.
The point ! am getting to is
this. Our income Is very small and
we don't have anything left for
pleasures. In fact. hubby does not
care for shows or any kind of
recreation and thinks / should be
contented to sit at home day in
and day out. have plenty of work
to do around the house and don't
have much time for myself.
This is what burns me up.
Hubby does not like the idea Of my
leaving the house in the evening.
even for q walk. He does not ap-
prove Of my having friendly neigh
bora and also kicks up q fuss if
90 around any relatives. He says
Familiarity breeds contempt" II
] enjoy the radio too much. he de-
lights in running 1t down. II
want to 60 to a show, he gets
peeved. Then ! can't enjoy it, If /
do 60.
He romps with the children and
makes 10 much confusion ] can
hardly stand it. am quiet-natured
and keep my feelings to myself.
He would only make fun Of me If
told him how sick and tired ! get
of my home. He has all the plans
for everything. He carries the
pocketbook. too. / don't care, but
i have to angle" around him for
money and give account of every
nickel. ! need clothing badly
couldn't 60 to 4 dog fight" If
wanted to.
Please don't think ! am crying
for sympathy, for l am not. The
single girls don't know what they
have to be thankful for. I can just
imagine what all the old cranks
who read this think.--ANOTHER
COMPLAINING WOMAN.
You will have to take the sit
uation in hand If you are to get
any pleasure out of life. Living,
rs your husband would have you
live, you get nothing out Of il.
When you stop to think about
It. he is narrow, cross and un-
reasonable in limiting your
friends, wanting you to avoid
your relatives and fussing about
the radio.
Al 4 result Of his being so
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rich, Tallulah Bankhead. Hell
ena Rubenstein.)
PHYSICAL
CHARACTERISTICS

SVelte figure, pale features,
large eyes, extreme coiffures.
This lady has a foreign flavor,
mysterious and Oriental. She is
apt to be an actress or fashion
model or someone who has wanted
to be either or both She. like the
sophisticate. adores night life.
She enjoys being looked at
and she usually looks like the
popular conception of an inter
national spy.
The French do special dresses
for this type, whom they call the
femme fatale.
TYPES OF CLOTHES
The exotic will never wear sports
clothes or suits. Her day begins
at noon.
And she never wears simple
dresses. but costumes complete
with hat lin the daytime) and
barbaric jewellery.
Her wardrobe runs to teagowns.
afternoon ensembles, dinner gowns
and evening clothes.
LINES
The exotic draws her inspirations
from the Orient. Dominant notes
in her wardrobe are Chinese man.
DARN robes. Hindu wells. decol-
letages suggested by Javanese
sarongs, Moorish wraps, harem
skirts, needle sheathes, and. in the
daytime, Cossack lines.
Her hats viii be Russian
mitered crowns, Manchu head
dresses, turbans or Russian
chechias.
COL0RS
Favorite color schemes of the
exotic are: black in the unrelieved
1 Russian manner. Chinese red. Ming
yellow. Jsvsnese brown especially
in lame), Egyptian prints.
FABRICS
Chiffon worked with silver mesh
in Hindu fashion. Chinese brocades.
cire satin. lanes In metal tones
/ like FURNISHED silver. gold or
bronze. COG feathers, monkey fur.
silk jersey, anything bizarre and
outre and fantastic will foster the
/ femme fatale idea.
Even in homeopathic doses
this sort of thing will lend a
fatal fascination" II you're
tired of being called that nice
little woman" try dressing ex-
officially.
And the women Will start calling
/ you that woman" and the men
will start calling you-on the tele-
i phone.
Ito BE Continued
co 1885 Register & Tribune Syn.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-20
81 Don't Like Women"
Is Senseless Comment
Girls Can't Afford to Forget They Must Get
Along With Each Other to Be Happy
BY CYNTHIA GREY

Women need women friends. The mother who is seeing
her daughter grow up without ought to point out the
fact that it isn't enough to be popular with the opposite
Maybe she could bring the lesson home with few
histories There's Mrs Mler-for exampewho has always
had plenty of men attention her. but who is getting
little older and beginning to need to fill in of her
time with But she has ignored them for long she
doesn't know how to make friends with her
Then there's young Mrs. Brown, the newcomer The men
in town think she's knockout But she doesn't get with
the and the Browns invitations few and far
between. After all the do the asking.
And there's Nel-a smart business woman-but lonely
for she isn't interested in anything feminine than
finance might possibly find her interesting to talk to-
just because her mind works fast But will concede
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And 1t Did Hurt
His Mother More

PORTLAND-"This hurts me
more than it does you" said Mrs.
John B. Calmus to her 4-year-old
son as she started to spank him.
Apparently to ward off the i'm
pending blows, Donald instructive
ly thrust a long lead pencil behind
him. The pencil impaled his moth
ers hand and she was treated at
the police emergency hospital.
She told hospital attendants she
would use a hairbrush next time.
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GIRLS HEART RIGHT
and SO IT'S WRONG

LEWISTON. Me.-Though Bet
" Cowing's heart is on her right
side land thus. wrong. what real
~ interests her friends IS the
sensitivity Of her skin 70 pressure.
Messages written on her back are
visible 20 minutes or more
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CHAPTER TWENTY NINE
TIIE CnDIIIcTJC ATE

CHAPTER TWENTY NINE
THE SOPHISTICATE
EXAMPLES: The Duchess
of Windsor, Ina Claire, Gloria
Morgan Vanderbilt.
physical c h racteristics:
Trim, slender figure, irreg-
ular but striking features,
sleek couture.
The sophisticate is apt to be a
career woman, restless, doer.
impatient, easily bored, Her con-
versation is amusing. brittle. intel
ligent
She is essentially a city
dweller and likes night life.
She has a mind and admits
il.
She puts her wits to work to
shop for clothes that are daring,
dramatic, sensational. She adores
tailored severity.
TYPES OF CLOTHES
She wears housecoats rather
than teagowns. suits whenever
possible. not conventional tailleurs
but brilliant tweeds for sports and
formal dinner suits.
She cannot tolerate anything
fussy but prefers to use stark
simplicity as . background
for one striking decorative
note (the Duchess of Windsor's
famous lobster, printed on a
dinner dressl.
Her favorite clothes are those
worn for restaurant dining. And
she may wear them all evening
because they are spectacular
amongst formal evening colors.
LINES
/ The sophisticate is proud of her
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bossy, you are firing of IL all.
All work and no play is taking
the zest out of your job. No new
clothes, no neighbors or friends.
nothing-without a few things
how can you be happy?
II you don't raise protest IL
will always be thus. You have
got to stand up for your rights,
demand few privileges or
pleasures. Go to show once
in while, buy new dress or
hiatt will improve your spirits.
Hearing
Dear Miss Grey: ] am a woman
by problem and would
like to have help.
Here Ii my trouble. I am deaf
and because IL is so difficult for
me to hear my family asks me
to buy an audicle. I hate to do
this because ! am afraid the
sudicle will be a badge Of my
deafness. On the other hand, 1t Is
embarrassing to ask other persons
to repeat what they have said.
Do you think people have feel
ing of pity for person who wears
an ear phone? My husband says
I would be much better off If !
would get one. A. N.
Anything that means scien-
tific advancement carries no
stigma of shame. II more people
would forget their foolish pride
and resort to audicles we would
find happier contacts in life.
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HOUSEHOLD LINENS PATTERN 1882
Choose these striking pickup that
will fascnate Do them wool silk cotton the embroidery
mainly single stitch The baskets and lend themselves to
of
10 motifs l2@xl2& inches 2x2 inches illustrations
of stitches materials required;
The Tacoma Times
Needrst Dept Write plainly PATTERN NUMBER your NAME
and ADDRESS.
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Answers TO Test Questions

Below are the answers TO test
questions printed on the editorial
page:
l. No.
2. Vice president of the U. S.
s. Commerce within q state.
4. No.
5. Joe Louis. by a technical
knockout in the first round.
6. The Mediterranean
z. Yes.
S. No.
9. No.
10. Central Europe.
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FABRICS

No clinging, diaphanous fabrics
for the sophisticate, because they
make her feel wilted. Definitely
she is not a clinging vine.
She likes lacquered surfaces.
cire satin, wildly colored lanes,
metallis embroidery. starched lace,
scintillating pallets and sequins,
tweed for evening wraps.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-20

The church pennant is the only
flag that can be flown from the
same hoist above the Stars and
iStripeS
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COLORS

Black is the sophisticate's stand
by. 1t may be unrelieved, the bet
ter to show off some fantastic line.
or it may be frightened with a
brilliant splash of color.
White is another tone fav-
Ored by modernists. And so
she uses white. too, as a back
ground for vivid color.
Black with beige is also sophis-
ticated scheme, or black with gold,
or purple with magenta.
The stronger the contrast, the
better, from her point of view. For
the sophisticate, pastels simply do
not exist
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streamlined figure and reveals it
with sheath silhouet.
She goes TO extremes always.
Her decolletages will he breath
taking.
She will wear fabulous jewels in
the evening with gowns designed
expressly to set them off.
In the daytime she will wear
great hunks of costume jewelry.
Her hats will be small and quite
mad, inspired by anything from a
French telephone to strawberry
basket.
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TYPES OF CLOTHES

The sophisticate is proud of her
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Sample Dietary Yrs

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MIX / qt SIS calories
Egg. 10 calories
Whole cereal -Croled oats), y to3t
cup, cooked, 100 calories
Whore grain -bread.i slices 200 cal
orics,
Butter ? tablespoons, 200 calories.
Potato, l medium size, 100 calories.
Spinach. 4 cup (cooked) p calorIes,
Tomato, / medium size or u cup.
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Primes. 4 10 5. 100 calories.
Oranges, l medium size. rs calories.
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Rennet Vanilla Waters
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SOCIAL NOTES

tending the shower were Dorothy
Pettiford, Marjorie Greenidge. Con-
ME s,5wers, Norma coker Marian
Goadson, Christine Tandy. Toby
Morscll Of Chicago, Charlotte
Brown, Mao!e Roscoe and Shirley
Pryor.
Mr. and Mrs. Eliza Robinson OF
Clinton street -eelebra'ed their fif-
l.e;h wedding anniversary amid
slis'eHins gold decorations. TIE
evening was given over 10 reminis-
cling Of happy days, making Of fam
ily pictures and dining.
At the party were Mrs. Early
Brarham, Mrs Emma Gee, Mr. and
Mrs Curtis Smith, Leroy Brandon,
Mr. and Mrs Carson Anderson. Mrs.
Lillian Jasper Rev. J. H. Masto,
Mrs. Virginia Edger,on. Mr. Neal
Robinson, Jr.;
Neal Robinson, ST., Miss Marian
Robinson Mr. ard Mrs. James Ward,
Walter McCrary, Miss c. Scott, Dr..
T. E Cunn-nGham-- William Maasa,
Miss Glsdys Garter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Nathaniel Spencer, Mr. and Mrs.
Calvin Rice;
Ralph Howard, Mrs, Mary Hope,
SgHItar- 'ii5d-M MIS- Charles -Dicgs.
S. wilkins, Mr.. and Mrs Lee Suges.
Mr. and Mrs. WestEeld, Mrs. John
Giddens. Mrs. Henry Meade, Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey Christmas, Bob
Williams Mr. ard MIS-. Ed Briggs
Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Gary Mrs. Bernice Griffin.
Mrs. Hattie Milestone. Edward
Wynn. Tony Wynn, George Robln7
son, Ralph Henton.
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FOOD FACTS-By ]. Gladys Coleman

or small meat serving Gee. / gm. Em
Iron-l at milk, one egg.
serving Of whole cereal..l GIN. l GIN
NltamtHS--a green iesfy veRe-
table, potato .......-A BCDG oBeDG
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G)
Corn Flakes and Cream
Cocoa or Mix
Eggs in Baked Potatoes PURGE Of Peas
S-eWed Peaches
Angel Cake
LUNCHES
"a
Chicken Soup with Rice
Spinach
Broled French Chops Mashed Potatoes
Vanilla Ice Cream
Sponge Cake
(2)
Mutton Broth with Barley
Cleaned Chicken Boiled Rice
Carrots
Floating Island Cup Cakes r,
THE above menus are aDpetzinv.
wholesome. and a little more elaborate
han the childrens usual everyday
farel
SPINACH TIMBALEs: Prepare as
you would for boiled spinach. Bet
one egg very STIFF and add it.. FIJI
bu,tered ;imoale-moulds with mixture
and put them in pan Of hot water
IN a hot over t45o degrees Fahrl for
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Never a dull week in old 1885
seems 10 be the slogan Of hostesses
with, the social calendar filling with
interesting parties.
The Amici Novem bids have beer
received, and will be the event 70
look forward 10 next week. How
ever this week we remin!sce:
The Jones party tBess and dsugh-
ter CIarissa- Steeiel for Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Turner Of Columbus, o.
was delightful They are house
guests Of Gratha Woods. family
and have been the reason for end
less get -togethersr
Tuesday night was the evening
OF Mrs. Jones party, and all the de-
licious vitals to complete buffet
service were in evidence. Having
fun were Mr.- and Mrs Cunning
ham. Mr.. and Mrs. James Watt. Mr.
Charles Finley Mrs. Lillian Robbie
Mrs Taylor Mrs. Marian McClain
Robin Lewis, Miss Elizabeth Case
-1HiIliaH4-GeRpieA7 AfF-ahd Mrs VII.
liam Green and many others.
The N. A A c. P. birthday
celebration will take place all over
the country on the evening Of Feb
ruary 10 TO celebrate thirty years
Of the N. A. A. c. P.'s fine achieve
ments.
The committee to sponsor this ball
at Mayfair ballroom assembled a,
the IN C A Thursday under Dr.
McClendon's guidance were organ
zed. Mrs Brummal enick and Mr.
Jap Sneed will head the Detroit
affair.
The Ladies Auxiliary Of the
Brotherhood Of Sleeping. Car Por-
,ers are planning a party Saturday
night at the Lark club. The en-
,ertainment committee headed by
Mrs. Maude Kelley is going to make
the party a success. VIII you be
present?
Mr.. and Mrs. George REYNOLDS
who live in one Of the new Brews-
ter projects apartments gave a par
ty New Years TO entertain their
friends, and invite them to Their
new home
Present were Miss Ida Dawson,
Miss McCHne. Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
Fields, James Fields. Mrs Be-.ie
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Child Host To
Young Friends

Herman Shelton Jr, was the host
to a number Of his friends at party
given recently in mis- honor on h;y
seventh birthday. Herman received
many useful gifts.
Those present to enjoy the dcli-
cious repast served by his mother.
Aifs-Leera Shelton, were: Come
lJs Ivory, Jr. Geraldine Robinson.
prcsly Hanback,, James and Ed
ward G. Robinson Cora Lee and
Gertrude Brooks. Estella, Marilyn.
and Gloria Shelton. Herman is a
pupil Of Moore school. -
Evening star., 1939-09-09

moved them to book earlier pas
sage on the Conte de Savoia. The
Conte's voyage was Cancelled. They
obtained passage on a Dutch ship
sailing from Amsterdam, but the
French closed the border, hating
civilian rail travel northward to
the Netherlands. Finally they OBJ
tanned berths on the Champlain.
In Paris Mr.. and Mrs. Shepard
saw stream of taXicabs coming
from the garden of the Tuilleries,
and filled with many of the valua-
BILE paintings from the Louvre, be-
ing removed to safer storage places.
At the United States Embassy in
Paris, where crowds of Americans
were seeking aid in reaching home,
Mr.. Shepard said he saw the tall
figure of Postmaster General Farley,
who was paying last call prelim-
mary to his return home.
The Champlain left Southampton
at midnight, and passengers
glimpsed four British battleships
guarding the harbor there. The
stateroom Mr.. and Mrs. Shepard oc-
cupied was obtained from one of
the ships officers, who yielded his
own accommodations for the voy-
age. Passengers were crowded into
every available space, with cots laid
down in the gymnasium and other
public quarters, while some travellers
slept In deck chairs, Mr.. Shepard
said.