The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-10-28
By Msude Tanlunscn

If you see group of folks ex-
citedly discussing a magazine ar
ticle, 10 chances to one that it is
Carl Carmer's Seven Sisters" in
the November Holiday" in which
PaScagoula practically occupies
the limelight The author and
Mrs. GARNER three years ago
spent about two weeks in the
Chronicle-Star office going
through its files, probably look
ing for material for this story.
This isn't the first time that he
has written about Pascagoula for
some years ago he put into print
an eerie story - its accuracy
vouched for by highly reliable
men and women who knew about
it first-hand - of a sailing boat,
that, after having disappeared for
a year. kept rendezvous made
by its owner with friends just be-
fore his tragic death. You see,
Mrs. GARNER is the former Eliza
beth Black of New Orleans and
used to spend her summers here.
In fact, she was one of the wit
nesses of "The Return of the
Sparrow so dramatically told by
her husband.
Spelling Lesson
Daphne Cameron was all of
nine years old Saturday and of
course it was celebrated with a
party. l heard about it and rang
for details. Her mother, Mrs. R.
A. Cameron was not in, but her
place was filled by Daphne her
self who gave the facts with all
the poise of grown-up. Indeed
she went further than many do
in this age of casual manners for
when I asked what her name was
she told me and then tactfully
added, Some people might not
know how we spell it. 1t is
D-A-P-H-N-E''. She has a fine
start on the road to popularity,
for tact, which also means cour-
tesy, is like mercy: "It blesses
those who give and those who
take" as Shakespeare said num-
Der of centuries ago.
Story Telling Hour
An innovation put into effect
by the Junior Woman's club is a
storytelling hour for children in
a Sunday school room of First
Methodist church Thursday. AS
members of the club are young
matrons, many of them with chill
dren, they should know how to
tell story with all the necessary
thrills.
It's wonderful to see the re-
juvenating effect that can be at
tained by an expert with a pair
of shears and a head with flow
ing hair to work on, in fashion
ing the new short hair cut. Only
the very young should wear long
bobs, for each downward line
adds age to any face. Artists
know this and eschew upward
lines in drawing an old persons
visage.
CopY-Caf Males
have always maintained that
men copy women, basing my the
ory in the way their clothes, aft
er year or two adapt, or rather,
are adapted to the current fash
ion in women's clothes. | first
noticed this years ago when the
hobble skirt was worn. After an
interval of some months men be-
gan to wear what were then
called "peg-top' trousers. When
skirts became long, mems trous-
ers almost dragged on the ground,
then they moved upwards, the
hens, l mean, with the upward
swirl of skirts. OF course, tailors
may not be able to do anything
with drapery. bustles and so
forth, you know. But there'll be
some changes made in mems
fashions, you may be sure of that.
Hattie Gautier" as she is af-
fectionately known to most Pas
cagoulans, but who officially is
Mrs. Hermes Gautier, president
of the Mississippi Federation of