Evening star., 1949-09-25
Among
Us
Teens
by Vol

Cleverest Teen party Of the sea-
son was capped with = game in
vented by the host and which
brought the colored comics Of sew
eral Sunday papers into use. Be-
fore the party. the Teen and his
sister did neat job of dissecting
from the papers exciting sequels
of we'll known comic characters
they placed these separately into
blank envelopes, sealed them, and
handed one to each guest. The
game was made more difficult be-
cause a solitary Teen had to give
the impression of each comic
character and page, but 1t could
be played with a group acting any
certain sequel A collection
of colored comic pages seems to
be Teen item for any party. One
night large party group shipped
furiously until they had a huge
stack of squares. These they
scrambled hopelessly, each drew
twelve squares and in five minutes
attempted to put together a story.
Teens pieced them together on
floor, mantel, chairs. all available
tables. With odd characters and
situations this made laughable
and interesting sequels.
'TULLIE PATCH" - is what
Teens are warned to avoid when
dating. Teens who desert the gang
are said to head Tor the "Tullie
Patch" pronounced Too-ly)-a
deserted spot formerly known as
''Necker's Paradise" Lovers La
COOP" and Passion Pit" are other
horrible titles to adults, but if
they knew how facetiously Teens
toss these phrases about, they
wouldn't shrink in revulsion every
time.
OLD SUMS what we're nos
talgic for. when melancholy fall
days come. so it's no wonder that
Teens have put into full spin the
Frankie Carle voice rolling out
THAT Lucky Old Sum"
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THE PETITION-Teens may
take little interest in civic affairs.
but we do get a lot of practice in
practical politics when we sudden
ly begin to feel oppressed and ty-
rannized by school authorities. It
is no longer the custom to 60
around grumbling about injustices,
or putting thumb tacks on some
body's chair or pepper in a drawer,
as the bright boys of long ago say
they did. Now we petition. The
most oppressed persons get to-
gether and chew up their type
writer ribbons drafting a simple
statement of fact that 1t Is a cry
ing shame that students cars are
not allowed in the school parking
lot. or that 2 o'clock is altogether
to late for the last shift at lunch.
They play up stories of girls faint
ing from hunger. etc., In a way
that would do justice to the Dec
laration of Independence. Then
comes the horrible job Of getting
signers. Students are of three
kinds:
ca The boys who will sign
anything.
CD The teens who deliber-
ate about the right and wrong
OF the case and will sign when
convinced it's right.
(c) The people who won't
sign anything (afraid OF get
ting their necks in a moose.
These latter are the most diff
f1cult. Often their names mean
the most. They may be up for
consideration as captain of a
team, or cheer leader, or scholar
ship award. and they don't want
to antagonize the authorities. But
II they don't sign, the petition
means nothing to the authorities.
There are many ways to get them
to sign-exchange Of favors, "de-
voted" friendship. political sup
port, help with term papers. If
it's for a good cause, it's worth it.
and our long harangues, conniv-
ing, group action, give us political
know-how.
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AUTUMN FEVER-It seems
we've no more than got our woolies
stored in moth balls than we've
had to get them out again and they
sharply punish US while we hang
them out to air. A delay In put
ting on warmer socks, or any socks
at all, will mean the snifles. Warm
skirts are supplanting cottons at
school already it's hard to
wear old skirts now that the new
shepherd plaids, 50 entrancingly
cut, are on the market with their
matching little weskits we
might as well air our wool mittens
and gloves-the frost will soon nip
our f1ngers-if they were shrunk-
en- too much by use last season or
our joints suffered teen enlarge
ment, it's time to get Ma on the
job helping us knit some more
surprising how much gets done
during our school time If we start
q bungling job, leave it In sight
light flannel blouses 90 well
with our old skirts, give them the
brave interest, but rayon and cot
ton blouses are best for all but the
coolest days as yet.
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SWEATER REBELLION
spite the returning trend to
sweaters after last years bareback,
some teens declare emphatically
they won't wear them. Why?
They admit they can't wash them
worth a darn. It's not difficult
at all, but some of us just don't
have the knack Of warm water.
mild soap powder we'll dissolved
and rinse water the same tenn