Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-03

poems now "A cup of gasoline
and thou. and wilderness were
paradise enow
Are any OF YOU guys old
enough to remember when every
Sunday paper carried AT least
one story about ladies' legs, and
said that American girls soon
would be deformed from wearing
high heels and not walking
enough: And that in n few
thousand years people would be
born without legs, because we
wouldn't need them any more:
Now look.
In fact that's the great Amer
lean pastime-looking. Now you
spend half your time trying TO
decide whether a girl is wearing
stockings. or has been using that
new stuff that they paint on.
Some of them are putting the
seams on with eyebrow pencil,
but most of them don't bother.
That's women's fashions for
YOU. Just about the time silk
was getting scare, the girls
started wearing seamless stock
ings 10 make people think they
didn't have any on, when they
did.
Now they start painting their
legs, so wei think they have
got them on when they haven't.
Pretty soon somebody will
start selling stencils to the girls,
10 they can paint artificial runs
when they're just staying home
doing the housework.
Our women's department In
forms me that some girls even
go so far as TO use stencils at
the tops of their painted-on
stockings to make them look
like mesh tops.
Think of all the husbands
being told by their wives, Bring
me home a bottle of stockings.
Size nine and n half"
What happens when girl
gets into a one-piece bathing
suit and discovers she can't get
her stockings off. because they're
painted on? It'll look sort OF
silly, won't IL?
The coolest thing vet, though,
IL one brand of paint that Il
recommended by the manufac-
turer TO wear underneath sheer
stockings. That's something.
Paint that looks like stockings
hut isn't, and sheer stockings
that don't look like stockings.
but are. All at the same time.
The only thing they haven't
thought of is girdles. With rub
Der getting so scarce. some
smart aleck ought TO start sell
ing a 10-cent tube Of rubber
cement for a dollar, and adver-
tise: "Paint-on girdles' Posi-
lively won't ride up! Ten girdleS
in every tube"
THE SERIOUS SIDE: Here's
a letter from Detroit lad who
Joined the coast guard. He
writes.
Recently ! was back home in
good old Detroit on furlOugh.
Something I noticed disturbed
my mind. That's just this: The
gals are as distant a. the clouds.
They seem to regard men In uni
form as strange and dangerous
beings from some other world,
like outcasts from leper's
colony. You pass them on the
street and they make an effort
10 avoid you. You meet them al
dances and they are a. cold as
Little America and twice as icy.
You talk with them and they
think about the weather.
'In short. they are just plain
Indifferent.
What's the NATTER Don't
these gals realize that their own
brothers are in uniform In some
distant city, yearning for some
pleasant female company: Don't
they know that though the uni
form might hide an occasional
beast. IL usually covers the
stouthearted and carefree typi
cal young American?
81 am stationed In Philadel'
phia. The girls here In this big
sailors town are just a. fine and
pleasant. and generous Of their
time. their dances, their glances
their babbIing conversation and
their interchangeable good humOI
- they can he. Why not the
girls in Detroit Very peeved
and disappointed in the home
town hospitality, ! am. sin
cerely, y. CT. =. e. g."
How about ~: j. Detroit that