Evening star., 1950-04-09
Rx Vol

COAT Thai WAS-S your
last years spring coat causing you
despair at this moment? Did it
shrink at the cleaners? Quickly
now, get Nom to pin it up cor
rectly for you and cut it OF to
three-quarter length. Be sure to
allow for hem If the shoulder
line has shrunk, too. or you've
grown somewhat, take a piece
from the newly discarded bottom
of the coat and insert It into the
shoulder, to resemble darts. Re
member it has to cap the front
and back of the shoulder. False
cuffs can be added to the sleeves,
too, with this excess material.
Use another piece Of the Goth 10
make a beret or helmet to match
your coat.
in Grandma S
Day, practically every literate per-
son tried his hand at rhyming,
and thought nothing of it. The
verse was usually very poor stuff
| but it was favorite indoor sport,
nevertheless. Teens used to get
together in the evenings and
somebody would start a poem
Somebody else would add the next
verse, all impromptu, and so
around the circle Teens today
have taken up this kind of poetl-
cizing and it's a lot of fun and
no harm to any one. 1t has
cropped out in Teen letters. more
often than anywhere else. 1t has
also shown results by an increased
interest of Teens in poetry con-
tests. High school newspapers,
|quarterlies, and ANIMALS also have
burgeoned forth with some good
efforts. Teens seem to excel in
the practical .humor of popular
magazine verse-said that more
Of it is not seen by the general
public.
PLAID AT NIGHT-The young
bloods of a fashionable set in the
British Isles have taken to wear
ing their hunting plaids (plaid
suit coats in place Of tuxedo
coats or tail coats, for formal eve
ming events. Now watch out for
mackinaw coats and lumber
jackets-as native to our soil as
clan tartans in Scotland-to ap-
pear at our high school formals.
All joking aside. those plaid
coats, smartly cut, looked sur
prisingly well as background for
beautiful evening dresses.
JUST A COUGH-This is what
mothers say to baby-sitting teens
when they leave us for the eve
ming, with lone teaspoon of cough
sirup to be administered at 8
O'Clock" This often proves harder
to do than any job in our whole
careers. Begging, pleading, scold-
ing. bribing, COMMUNICATIONS
of these methods seem to work.
Sometimes there's just no sense
arguing with the little teenies, and
it's best to conceal the medicine
in a favorite food, like honey. Be
sure it's a small portion, so that
it all goes down. You can't re-
peat on a medicinal. A "madeup"
story to accompany bad-tasting
spoonful usually helps lot. too.
Remember. you were young and
stubborn once yourself.
TELEPHONES-"Start talking,
it's your nickel" is one of the
most horrible examples Of teen
telephone answering. Even
teens best friend can't abide this
one. When teens pick up phone
the natural thing is to say. Hi"
Most adults have very little sense
Of humor, and they fail to see
the point to this CHEEKY greeting.
They think we are wasting their
time. And somehow we also fail
to make the right impression
when we give out with sophis-
ticated "Ye-e-es?" Hello" draws
blank, as well. It's neutral
gets us absolutely nowhere. Jokers
like to say things like co.
Schmaltz's Meat Market" but a
few sessions like this and nom
or dad misses an important phone
call, and the teen himself loses
an invitation to the club dance.
Most families prefer their teens
to answer with the family name:
Jones residence" Some favor
the answer, which gives the tele-
phone number. The argument
against this is that the wrong
number caller and some crackpots
will mentally tag that given num-
ber and make themselves a nui-
sance by calling again and again.
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