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Evening star., 1942-07-04

able, and snowy white-purSes
slip-covered in gay cottons or
linens that take to Tubing like
the proverbial duck, and shoes,
for the most part the traditional
brown and white or navy and
white spectator pump.
But in evening. Washington
ladies go glamorous with a big
"G." Real summer weather brings
out the floating, fllmy frocks-
and we're willing to bet that their
owners are going to cherish them
as never before, with the possibil-
ity of full skirts disappearing as
the war goes on. 1t soon won't
be any disgrace to wear evening
gowns that are two-or even three
years old--and the smart gal will
take care of her dance frocks
with an eye to making them last
for the duration.
Mrs. Jack Whitney has one of
these be-treasured gowns, this
one of filmy black chiffon, the
floating skirt topped with a brief,
crisp little white organdie jacket,
tucked in tiers. Another favorite
OF hers Is Of trailing gray chiffon,
cut low at the neckline, and worn
with scarf of the same thin
material. -. Pretty Ann Noland's
full-skirted white starched or
candle dance dress has a draped
and twisted bodice of taffeta
In shades Of fuchsia, green and
black. And who was the lovely
seen dancing on a local hotel
terrace in dress with a swathed
black jersey bodice, and a bouf-
FAINT skirt of white organdie
painted with enormous black
poinsettias? Mighty effective!
At luncheon last week, Mrs.
Ross McIntire, who says she pays
little attention to clothes, caused
onlookers to doubt the assertion,
for she was most smartly turned
out in a two-piece jacket suit in
soft colors, topped with a trim
straw sailor with a rolling brim.
. Mrs. John Thomason wore
sheer black, with touches of crisp
white, at the same luncheon, and
perched charming little black
and-white hat, with a veil on her
dark hair. Mrs. Armistead
Peter. III, busy renewing old
friendships at a recent tea, also
chose black, with a fiat-brimmed
hat tilted over her piquant little
face.
Mrs. Angler Biddle Duke wears
a fascinating hat-a black calot,
with two long streamers falling
from each side. Mrs. Harry
Roosevelt looks stunning in a
huge cartwheel of thin black
straw and starched net.
Baroness Stackelberg clings to
her closely wrapped turbans in
variety of colors, all most be-
coming. Mrs. Emmons Smith
favors little pillbox bonnets made
OF the same materials as her suits
and dresses-iust about the
height Of perfection IN ensembles!
Evening star., 1942-07-04
Patriotic Motif Popular
By Marearet NoyeH

The United States has been
treated to a deluge Of patriotic
designs this last month in which
the American flag has been
prominent on the cover of almost
every magazine in the country.
Many of these are exceedingly
beautiful. well worth keeping, if
only for the pleasure of the
grandchildren who may peruse
the scrapbooks of 1942.
Fabrics, wall papers, carved and
decorated furniture all bear the
national emblem this year in one
way or another. All Of these will
have historical interest at later
date as have those of the days of
Washington, Napolean and We'll
lington at the present time.
The American eagle grasping
the shield In his claws, with
crossed draped flags was a grace
full motif which was very popular
in the early 1800s. Instead of the
painted insignia which adores the
airplane Of this era, or the Ameri-
can flag painted on the sides of
ships to show their nationality.
the sloops of 1910 carried a carved
wooden eagle, gilded brightly, with
draped flags realistically painted
on the sternboard. The bow of
the ship often carried a carved
and painted figure of Victory with
a torch held aloft in one hand
and an unfurled flag in the other.
Handsome and decorative, these
emblems we're carefully gilded
and repainted by the ships crew
and kept in perfect condition.
The careless dockhand who made
disparaging remarks about these
brilliant insignia might just as
well have made them about the
flag, so jealously was their dignity
and beauty guarded.
Today many of the wallpapers,
fabrics and magazines using pa
triotic emblems and the flag
colors for designs are worth
keeping. Aside from their pur-
pose as wall decoration depicting
the spirit of the times, the amaz-
ing versatility of hundreds of
artists using one motif as their
inspiration have turned out an
unbelievable variety of patterns.
There are star spangled blue
and white and red and white fab
RIGS, which, by themselves, are
merely arresting color schemes
but combined with striped fabric
of the red and white or blue and
white Immediately have flag
like effect that is fascinating.
There are others with tiny flag
like symbols In true colors on a
white or pale blue ground which
were designed as dress material,
and made up on the trim, neat
patterns Of this years workaday
clothes have an unmistakable
military flavor.
Wallpaper, designed by the
foremost American designers. is
completely covered with medal
lions incorporating the nag col
ors IN a variety OF ways. These
Evening star., 1942-07-04

fHe didn't ask, Have you ever
seen her swim?')
"Ah, but yes
Gee, what a soft racket" he
commented, in a wild burst of
originality. Just think, watch
ing all those beautiful girls
Esther Williams, Alice Marble,
Sonia Heinie. :"
A dum-dum bullet put stop
to this and set us to rejecting
moodily how little some people
know about women in sports. 1t
is true the muscle gals of today,
as a group, are more glamorous
than they were back in dads day,
when the young ladies had an
impost of half a dozen petticoats
Evening star., 1942-07-04
Joan's Question and Answer Box
Clearing House for Readers Problems of Whatto.Wear

me from looking large. I can
not get one this year. What
would you suggest in place?
There are velvety- looking fab
RIGS made UP into simple bathing
suits that should be as slinlming
and AS hattering as wool If Sc
lected In a dark color. These
dry quickly and are very COM
Portable. Another good choice
is dark rayon crepe or faille,
made into dressmaker suit with
good lines.
" X
"As 7 am trying to save my
stockings, I have started wearing
socks to the Office. The Office
manager does not think they look
well. What is your opinion?"
For the average Office. with
people coming and going. socks
are much too casual. l am in
clined to agree with your office
manager. There are plenty of
excellent rayon-and- cotton stock
ings on the market, so that you
need not feel you must hang
onto your present stock for dear
life.
X X
my thighs are a little heavy,
though my figure is slim other
wise. Do you think I should try
to wear the new draped skirts,
especially the peg-top skirt?"
There are certain draped skirts
that will be becoming to you.
The newer drapes, even the peg
top, are straight rather than
tapered toward the bottom. and
SO you get the benefit of width
all the way down, though they
hang slenderly. If you can have
one fitted carefully it should be
becoming Many have draped
section at the front of the skirt
and are cut to flare gently be-
low that. Such a line should be
good for you.
Il want to start making school
clothes for my children early this
year. AS I haven't seen any fall
fabrics, can you tell me what will
be available for suits and coats
for the little ones7"
II you mean outdoor suits and
Evening star., 1942-07-04
By Dorothy Dis.

Christian martyr, she bemoans
herself as another victim of mar
riage.
The husband, on his part, who
is mentally and physically worn
to a frazzle with his days work,
who has talked and been talked
to until he hates the sound of the
human voice, who desires nothing
on earth so much as just spend
ing the evening slumped on the
living room couch, can't for the
life Of him see why his wife wants
to CAD the streets, or go to see a
silly movie, or visit the Joneses
Evening star., 1942-07-04

coats, there will be excellent
mixtures of wool with other
fibers, said to be as warm as all
wool. There are also good vel
veteens and corduroys, which
make smart little suits. and when
interlined, are as warm as wool.
A new fashion is the bright,
quilted lining, which not only
gives extra warmth, but makes a
pretty. cheerful. garment.
Il want to make use Of some
plaid gingham that 4 have on
hand, but find the big pattern
hard to wear as 7 am inclined to
be heavy. Can you suggest ways
of using It? I have enough for
two dresses"
If you are clever enough with
your needle to make accessories
you could make a hat or turban,
gloves and handbag to wear with
solid-color cotton dresses and
suits. Otherwise combine your
gingham with plain dark color,
making a top for a dark skirt,
jacket for dark dress, or If your
weight Is at the top of your figure
wear a plain-eolor dark jacket
over skirt of the plaid. Try to
arrange it so that the light color
is under pleats and you get the
effect OF a dark striped skirt. If
all of these suggestions seem diff
f1cult to carry out why not make
housecoat of your gingham,
using 1t on the bias so that it will
hang closer to the figure and will
not look quite so large?
II like to wear slacks on the
street when I go down town shop
ping. Lately my friends tell me
that there has been a lot in the
papers by fashion writers that say
this is incorrect. What do you
Think"
I only wish there were more
fashion writer's to keep up the
cry. Slacks-even the most ex-
pensive and beautifully tailored
ones ON the most perfect figure
have no place on the streets OF .
large city at any tina.
Evening star., 1942-07-04

have been exceedingly popular for
the small room where intense
background design was the sole
decoration.
Drapery material has numerous
patriotic emblems in which the
flag design is prominently fea-
tured and similar to the hand
some toiles which were designed
for George Washington, Benja-
min Franklin and numerous
other notable gentlemen in the
18th century has interesting dec
orative quality.
Evening star., 1942-07-04

and listen to Jones tell how the
war should be won and Mrs.
Jones discourse about the baby's
teeth.
There you are. And there is no
use in telling the wife to COM
promise by taking her fun in the
afternoons, for half or a woman's
pleasure Is IN parading her hus-
band In public. no matter how
gloomy he looks. So there IS
nothing to be done about 1t. But
really the poor man shouldn't be
killed for baking. That Is too
severe a punishment.
Evening star., 1942-07-04

of course, accounts for the dunn
dun bullet.
Just offhand, it seems to us
that a certain group of women
athletes, say golfers, bowlers and
wrestlers, either are indifferent
as to how they look or they are
the innocent victims of horrible
discrimination on the part of the
beauty-aid people and style die
tatorS.
Some of our bowling ladies, for
instance, seem to think that as
long as they carry averages of
106 or 110 they are to be excused
for bulging in the wrong places
and we have seen gal golfers, who
can shoot 80, who look like in
Evening star., 1942-07-04
Smart Washington Wears

AS compared with the fashion,
ably turned-out ladies of New
York, Washington style-setters
dress very informally in summer
time. However, no matter how
casual the outfit appears, it has,
in most instances, been carefully
chosen for cut, suitability, and
hot-weather practicality. Seen
going briskly to Offices, or shop
ping, are smart, simple dresses,
Evening star., 1942-07-04
By Francis E. Stan

and a bobbing hustle whenever
they raced back-court for a lob.
1t is true that one can pick a
swell chorus line from among the
girl athletes. Ziegfeld couldn't
have improved on a line such as
this-Sonja Henie, Bess Ehr-
hardt, Eleanor Holm, Esther Will
liams, Alice Marble, Belita, Clio
ria Callen and Jinx Falkenburg.
Now sportswriters aren't hard
to please, as a rule, but for every
Holm or Falkenburg there are
500 or maybe 1000 women in
sports they wouldn't look at twice
if they didn't have to follow them
around golf courses or watch
them fail at tennis balls. This,
Evening star., 1942-07-04

often OF the classic shirtwaist
type, in washable materials. that
manage to look chic as "all-get-
out" by virtue of their excellent
tailoring, and entire appropriate
ness.
Hats are plain, for daily wear,
with large brims that f1atter the
face and shield the wearer from
the sun among the preferred
models. Gloves are usually wash
Evening star., 1942-07-04
Butterfly Wife VS.. Tired Husband
Which One Is Right About STEPPING Out in the Evening?

A young woman who murdered
her husband because she asked
him to take her stepping and he
refused and told her to go to bed,
has been acquitted by a jury of
her peers, II women, all of whom
probably had felt like Staying
their own husbands under similar
provocation, but had lacked the
nerve to do it.
Let us hope and pray that this
case will not set a precedent for
justiflable homicide and make a
husband. wanting to stay at home
at night and rest his feet when
his wife wants to go dancing,
one Of the crimes that entitle
her to shoot him on sight. Heaven
knows it has seemed bad enough
for the poor tired businessman to
be divorced by his wife because
he didn't feel frolicsome after
toiling for 8 or 10 hours to pro-
vide her with beauty treatments
and fine clothes, but for her to
commit mayhem upon him for
that reason is really carrying the
matter a little too far.
Most women stop short of that
and content themselves with
shedding a few buckets of tears
over their forlorn lots and telling
their friends about how mean
and selfish their husbands are,
and how little they appreciate
all they do for them, telephoning
In the grocery order every day
and spending the morning look
ing for bargains that have been
marked down from $50 to $59.98.
This emotional outlet conduces
10 the safety of husbands and
makes marriage less dangerous
occupation than 1t would other
wise be for them, but it does not
remove wives ancient grievance
about having husbands who are
not willing to play around with
them of evenings.
Probably there is no other one
thing, unless it be the bills, over
which husbands and wives have
so many fights as they do over
the amusement question, for each
looks at 1t from a different and
purely personal point of view.
The woman who Is tied down
with little children and has moth
ing more exciting to listen to all
day than the baby's dada and
the eternal cry for mother
wants her husband to entertain
her with brilliant and scintillat-
ing conversation when he is at
home, and tell funny stories that
will set the dinner table in a roar.
And when he retires, with his
pipe and the evening paper, and
passes into silence as soon as he
has gorged himself, she feels like
ramming the pipe down his
throat and choking him to death
on the war news.
The housewife who cooks and
scrubs and patches and mends
and has nothing to occupy her
mind, except to think how bored
she is, wants to do something Of
an evening that will give her
change, If it Is no more than to
go window shopping, or to play
bridge with the Joneses or eat
hamburger that she didn't cook
herself, and she thinks her nus
band an old meanie for not going
gadding with her.
And the woman, who thinks
herself a good d-looker and has an
expensive new evening gown,
wants to fiaunt in public where
she will see and be seen. She
practically married to get a per-
manent date who would take her
out and give her a good time, and
when she finds that she almost
has to chloroform him to get him
into his evening clothes and that
On all festive occasions he sits
around looking like an early
Evening star., 1942-07-04

Il have always worn a dark
wool bathing suit, which kept
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31
Monday Sports Wash

Johnny who lives hardby the Chase Country cub
 
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 again Wednesday, this time taking the Bebrds at Hamilton Park
 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31
BY HARRY CRIMSON NEA Service Sports Editor

New York Aug. 31.-Pennsylvania as now completely surrounded by race tracks-New York, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio and finally New Jersey.
 'sWhat suckers we are," remarked Q Philadelphian who returned with us from the Camden opening in the crowded car of a mutual friend. we contribute to the taxes of a half dozen states-furnish good yhare of their play. I guess they want to keep Pennsylvania clean and nice"
 "Yeah," cut in another passenger. "Take look at Pittsburgh"
 The shore line train which runs right through the parking lot does not serve the new Garden State Park. four miles out of Camden. Special buses are out. You can ride 8 taxicab from Camden, but not from Philadelphia.
 The last of many Instructions was 8 terrific thunderstorm, for which some of the local church people had been praying, the night before and morning of the opening.
 But all this did not prevent 31 ,682 people from charging the windows for chance to lose their money.
 It was additional proof of the old adages, Give the people a good race track and they will find their own way" and "The shortest dis lance to a race track is bee-line." "
 The customers didn't get there in parachutes. While many walked miles, you only had to look at the spacious parking lots for the bulk of the answer. More stringent gas rationing may lessen the number of automobiles at tracks, but I doubt that 1t will reduce attendance per- ceptibly. Playing horses is a mental disease and it's in the country'S blood.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31
BROOKLYNS SEW UP CITY LEAGUE
 CHAM PIONSHIP
Hills Defeated Az for 14th BAG. Win; Mullen HurIs
 Tribes to 6-3 Victory

Over the years, there have been many odd and unexpected happen ings at Hamilton Park during City Amateur League baseball play, but if someone had told you Saturday that Larry Mullen, standout short stop for 20 years would pitch for the Tribunes Sunday. you would have suggested a room facing the sun in certain Middletown insti- tuition, at least flor the duration" !" Yet, Larry was out there on the mound for the Tribes yesterday and pitched well enough to give the dangerous and sometimes surprising Overlooks but eight hits while strik ing out four and issuing three walks winning the game, 6-3. Not bad for a shortstop, suddenly turn- ed twirler.'
 Clincher
 The feature" game gave the Brooklyn A. c. good chance to sew up the 1942 championship again which the DiNapoli club did to the tune of 4 to over the Washington Hills, which was about as expected, though the Hills never stopped try ing to win the game, even import ing Bridgeport pitcher, Steve Check for the occasion. However, Check couldn't check the B. A. c. entry long enough to beat them, the first two runs coming in when Quil- ter dropped Grabeck's fly ball to right field; Kilmer, who had walked scoring. Grabeck reaching third base and coming in easily on Todd's first hit of four for the day, sin gle to left field. Summary:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31
Newark Bears Capture
 Seventh Int. Crown
(By United Press)

The Newark Bears clinched their seventh International league cham pionship in Il years Sunday, split ing a doubleheader with the Balti- more Orioles.
 The Bears edged a 2-1 decision in the nightcap to assure the title, af- ter they had been beaten by Balti- more in the opened, 5-1.
 Ray Flanigan held the Bears to five hits in the first game and Mar win center turned in four hitetr in the nightcap. The Orioles knocked in three runs off George Washburn in the third inning of the first and added two more in the seventh. Baltimore made only five hits off Jim Turner in the second game. The Bears put over a run in the third and scored the winner in the sev- enth.
 Jersey City swapped 40 vsrdicts with Syracuse Chiefs winning the nightcap after losing the opened, by identical scores. Ewell Blackwell, aided by three Giants errors and a three-run Syracuse foray in the third, pitched a five hit triumph in the opener. Johnny Wittig gave up eight hits in the nightcap.
 Montreal divided with Buffalo in doubleheader studded with five homers. Buffalo won the opener, 8-3 and Montreal took the night cap, 5-0.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31

after the selective service act. Three weeks ago his wife had a baby girl. He is in Class IA of the draft. He applied for enlistment in the Coast Guard on Aug. IT, and was accepted last Monday. He will remain in New York for two days, completing personal arrangements, and then report to the Coast Guard at Buffalo, N. Y. He goes in as a boatswain's mate, first class.
 'Therell be no baseball for me until this war is over," he con- cluded. We're at war, and I'm look ing for action. That's why joined the Coast Guard. I'll get fast action there. You're the first reporter who interviewed me when I came to New York six years ago, and the last now. Maybe thatll bring me luck"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31
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Mori Would Rage New Track If He Thought It Would Help the War Effort, But Betting on Pigeons
 Wouldn't Be as Good for Morale

Garden City was a bit disap- pointed in it's mutuel handle for the curtain-ra -raiser-$569,34l, but this will pick up with crowds to come and the schooling of the men at the windows. The state law compels Mortimer Mahoney to make 85 per cent of his employees home guards, and the great majority of them are green hands who are not too quick on the trigger.
 Experts contend this cost the handle an additional $3O0OO0.
 Garden City is as fine and modern plant as you would care to see with every possible convenience for the sucker. It can't miss, even though news of it has to be lugged by car- rier pigeon, there being no direct wire communications.
 Eugene Mori. picturesque head of the group of Vineland, N. J., Italians who put the $2,0OO 900 plant over despite hell and high water plus the added headache of re- ligious, newspaper and business op- position, says he would tear it down bit by bit if he thought it would help the war effort.
 Well, they could always wager on the pigeons.
 But would they provide the morale that race track people claim horses do?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31
Segura, Schroeder,
 Parker Favored
BY OSCAR FRALEY United Press Staff COreSpOndent)

United Press Staff COrespOndent)
 New York, Aug. 31.-(UP)-Fra1- cisco Segura of Ecuador strive to catch up with the fild in the na- tional amateur tennis champion ships at Forest Hills today with two Californians the United States chief hopes of haltlng the dead end kid from the Andes.
 The swarthy little two-handed Slugger made a delayed start yester- day and thrilled a crowd of 5000 spectators by polishing off Ensign Ronald Edwards, Ithaca, N. Y., 9-7, 6-3, 6-1, in a first round match. He now goes against Eduardo Buseo of Peru for the right to enter the third round.
 Segura's exhibition demonstrated that he was definite prospect to become the first foreigner to win the crown since Fred Perry won the title in 1886. The issue apparently was left to Ted Schroeder and Frankie Parker, the top-seeded Americans.
 Schroeder, from Glendale, Calif.. continued to uphold his top ranking by dusting off Pvt. Gil Hunt, Lang ley Field, Va, 60, 6-1, 6-1, in what had been expected to be tough match. Stronger opposition also failed to bother Parker, former Da- wis cup star. The Los Angeles vet eran, showing surprising form de- spite a long layoff. advanced with a 6-1, 6-3, 7-5 win over Dick Hart of Miami, Fla.