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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1933)
Women’s and Society Page of the Oregon Emerald JESSIE STEELE, Editor ESTHER HAYDEN, Society Editor House Dances Crowd Week-End Social List As a respite from the doldrums that accompany mid-winter term, with the exams and continuous rain that depress the average student, come the extensive social affairs of the semester. The bright spot of I campus winter society was last week’s Senior ball, lovely in its formal ity and dignity, a relief from ihe typical all-campus dance. This week sees the usual multitude of exchange dinners, the fastly degenerating informal dime crawl, and the week-end is capped with a Widening Horizons J. L. S. Prohibition is not going to die a natural death if the Woman's Christian Temperance union can help it. Active drives, including marches on the capitals of nine states, havi already started the fireworks in Minnesota and neigh boring states. * * * A resolution protesting budget cuts in educational and health programs of the nation was vigor ously indorsed at a recent annual board meeting of the General Fed eration of Women's Clubs. The organization plans to wage a cam paign during the coming year against “mistaken ideas of econ omy.” * * * Wives of wool growers in the Pacific Northwest are organizing to help promote their husbands’ industry by selling woolen blanks ets manufactured in Pacific coast mills and publishing recipes for the use of lamb. Among other things, they have interested meat markets in producing and adver tising “lamburger.” * * » Should married women work? Yes, says Mrs. Oliver Strachey, chairman of the Cambridge uni versity women’s appointments board. No, says Clare Gunning, representative on the executive of the National Association of Wo men Civil Servants. * * * Maturity has a distinct advan- i tagc over youth in many of the professions, with higher earnings and more rapid advancements, ac cording to a survey jointly con ducted by the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs and Bryn Mawr college. * * * Mrs. Strachey defends her stand thus: “To my mind, this is a funda mental matter of human liberty. Is marriage a state of slavery . . . or has anyone the right to stop women from doing what they are good at, and employing someone else to cook? "I do not wish to force out into employment those women who prefer (and can afford) unadulter ated home life. Neither do I wish to force in those who prefer, or who are driven by need to enter the labor market. It is for the in dividual to decide.” * * * ■ Miss Gunning views the situa tion of married women in business more from the economic angle. “The fact that employment of married women would, and does, increase the problem of unem* ployment is the strongest argu ment against it. “The matter of promotion is definitely linked with marriage. Naturally, the woman who does not marry looks to the normal ‘marriage wastage’ to give her her chance of promotion. rgaiaxy ui uuuse uances. oureiy the campus should not lack for ‘‘something to do" with receptions, teas, and faculty dinners added to the aforementioned enter tain ments. Alpha Gam Semi-FormaW Soft lights, graceful palms, and melodious music will furnish the background for the Alpha Gamma Delta semi-formal dance which will be held at the chapter house Saturday night. Patrons and patronesses will be Mrs. Jeannette Lange, Miss Maude Kerns, Mr. and Mrs. Prince G. Cal lison, and Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Holt. Miss Elsie Peterson is in charge of the affair. Phi Delt Gold Rush On A bar, across which hardened sourdoughs will pass gold nug gets for the prohibited stuff, will furnish part of the decorations for the Phi Delta Theta Gold Rush dance to be held at the chapter house on Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Riddlesbarger, Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Burrell, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wallser, and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hall will serve as patrons and patronesses. Ed Cross is completing arrangements for the dance. A. T. O. To Hold Arabian Formal A setting taken from' one of Scherizade’s famous tales will fur nish the Arabian Nights motif of the Alpha Tau Omega formal dance to be held at the chapter house Saturday night. Patrons and patronesses will be Lieutenant and Mrs. Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Spencer, and Mr. and Mrs. Russ Cutler. Glen Heiber and Howard Lewis form the com mittee in charge of the dance. Gangsters Guests of S. P. E. Gangsters and their molls will be entertained at the Sigma Phi Epsilon Racketeer dance to be held at the chapter house 'Satur day evening. Patrons and patronesses will be Mr. and Mrs. Riddlesbarger, Mr. and Mrs. Washke, and Lieutenant and Mrs. Kelly. The committee in charge of the dance is composed of Ken Lottridge, Arne Lindgren, and Robert Anderson. Hotel Scene Of Kappa Formal Fragrant spring flowers and candles in shades of blue will com bine with palms and floodlights to form the decorative motif for the Kappa Kappa Gamma formal dance to be held at the Eugene hotel Saturday evening. Mrs, Elizabeth Talbot, Dr. and, Mrs. Edmund Conklin, Dr. and Mrs. Schwering, and Dr. and Mrs. Oscar Barnett will act as patrons and patronesses. Margaret Wag ner will be in charge of the dance. Black and White At Alpha Phi Dance Adorable little black cardboard Scotties will peek from corners of the Alpha Phi house Saturday night when they will entertain Labor Secretary - Frances Perkins, President-elect Roosevelt’s choice for the position of secretary of labor in his cabi net. She is the first woman ever to be appointed to a cabinet post. Father s Remark Leads to Career For Dr. Smertenko (This is the first of a series of interviews with Oregon women who have earned the Ph.D. de gree. ) By ELINOR HENRY “Greek is the only perfect lan guage,” a chance remark made by her father, a Congregationalist minister, led Clara M. Smertenko to take a course in Greek, “just because I wanted to and not be cause I expected to have any use for it.” Now she is head of the Greek department of the Univer sity of Oregon. She finds keen de light in the reading of Greek poetry and prose. A sociological study of Greek religion is her hobby. Dr. Smertenko was born Sep tember 14, 1873. Her home, from the time she was 1 year old until she went to Grinnell college, was Chicago, Illinois. Even before she received her A.B. degree, she be came a member of the Grinnell faculty, and remained on it con tinuously from 1894 to 1919, ex cepting three years on leave of ab sence, one spent at work in a hos pital in France during the World war and two spent in Chicago and in Berlin doing research work for her Ph.D. John Stark Evans, of the Uni versity music TTepartment, was a student in the Greek department at Grinnell college when she was teaching there. She taught at Columbia univer sity in 1920-22 and at Skidmore college from 1923-25. She came to Oregon in 1927 and has been head of the Greek department since 1930. She loves music and poetry. “When I was in Berlin in 1906,” she said, smiling, “writing my doctor’s dissertation was only my minor interest. Attending con certs and operas was my major occupation.” As to the value of a Ph.D. de gree for women, she said, “I’m not enthusiastic about a Ph.D. for anybody. It looks very exciting in prospect, but after you have it you wonder if it was worth all the work it took!” with a Black and White plaid in formal dance. Patrons and patronesses for the dance will be Mr. and Mrs. George Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. James Harding, Dr. and Mrs. Schwering, and Mr. and Mrs. Graham Schmidt. Beth Payne is handling the arrangements. Make-up Art Dates Back To Cleo and Her Court By CAROL HURLBURT Modern maidens, 1933, paint their faces, smoke, tell a casual joke or two. They rouge and tint their lips, shadow their eye lids, as their mothers never did in 1900. Truly, modern maidens have! flung discretion to the west winds | and gone to the proverbial bow-' wows. Eut I would remind all those who give vent to dire prophesies that the art of makeup and the use of cosmetics date back farther than any written records. Five thousand years before Christ the women of Egypt lavishly adorned their bodies with oils and paints. It was during the days of Cleo patra that Egyptian makeup reached its height. Women ar nointed their whole bodies w’ith a fragrant oil. They painted their cheeks with white and with red, touched their finger-tips with car mine, stained the palms of their, hands and the soles of their feet ■ with henna. It was in the maketip! of the eyes, however, that they' excelled. They tinted the lower lid with green, the upper lid, the' lashes, and the brows with black kohl. Then, with a needle of ebony or ivory they outlined the orbit with a black line. The veins I in the forehead they traced in blue. Slaves carried balls of amber and glass in gold and silver nets. Women used the balls of glass to cool their hands, the balls of am ber to warm them. These balls of amber, when warm, gave off a i delicate perfume. At banquets the slaves perfumed guests with saffron, cinnamon, nard, fenugreek, or lily, according to the caprice of the individual. The Romans at first paid scant attention to the beautification of j their physiognomy, but by the time of the bull-necked Nero they made even greater use of makeup than did the Egyptians. The wo men used white lead or chalk to whiten their skin and they bleach ed their hair with a special kind of soap imported from Gaul. The Gallo-Roman belle took cold baths and endeavored to keep that “school-girl complexion” by bathing her face in the froth of beer. She rinsed her hair with lime and dyed her eye-brows with a juice which was extracted from the sea-pike. Under Queen Bess, England’s virgin queen, women became ex travagant and luxurious in their mode of dressing and makeup. At Elizabeth’s death she had 3,000 gowns in her wardrobe. The ladies of her court took very hot baths so as to perspire heavily and then washed their faces with wine, which they thought made them glowing and rosy. Tradition has it that Mary, queen of Scots, was forced to ask for a bigger al lowance because she bathed in wine, as did a number of the elder ladies of the court. The younger maids were forced to- content themselves with baths of milk. Dress became so magnificent that England passed the sumptu ary laws, and Englishmen became so alarmed for fear that they would be tricked into marrying some plain fig^ireless wench that in 1770 a bill was passed in parlia ment which provided, “That all women of whatever age, rank, pro fession, or degree, whether virgins, maids, or widows, that shall, from and after such act, impose upon, seduce, and betray into matri mony, any of his majesty’s sub jects by the scents, paints, cos metic washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes, bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty of the law in force against witchcraft and like misdemeanors and that the marriage, upon con viction, shall stand null and void.’’ (From: “A Study of Costume,” Elizabeth Sage; “Le Costume Historique,” A. Racinet; and the i "Encyclopedia Dritannica,'' edi-1 tion lit. i Theta Sig Aim Of Co-eds Good In Journalism Pledging Will Be Held at Same J Time as Gamma Alpha Chi Honorary By ANN-REED BURNS Editor’s note: This is one of a series of articles on women’s honoraries which will appear on this page. "Hitch your wagon to a star,” says the old housewife’s tale—and in this case the star for journal istically minded women is Theta Sigma Phi, national women’s hon orary in journalism. For if a woman is elected to the gveatest journalistic honor she may receive in college, she stands a good chance of reaching the highest star in later life. Theta Sigma Phi, which was founded in 1907 at the University of Washington, has as members those women who are majoring in journalism, and after leaving cof lege, intend to work in the jour nalistic field: reporting, editorial and feature writing; short story, specialized press, or any work con nected with the writing side of journalism. The business and ad vertising field are not included. Elections to Theta Sigma Phi are held during spring and some times during fall term. Girls are chosen during their junior year, although occasionally in their senior. Sophomores are some times elected at the end of the year, but are not initiated until their junior year. Henceforth, Theta Sig will give invitations at the same time as Gamma Alpha Chi, women’s advertising hdnor- > ary, so that if a girl is asked to | Dinners Feature Mid-Week Social Campus Affairs Tp INNERS for personal guests, members of the fac ulty, and other living organi zations have been the main so cial recreation on the campus for Tuesday ahd this evening, with Wednesday a closed night because of Dime Crawl. On Tuesday evening Kappa Delta entertained for personal women guests; Alpha Omicron Pi for members of the faculty. Tonight Zeta Tail Alpha will entertain personal women guests; Gamma Phi Beta for Beta Theta Pi; Delta Zeta for Sigma Phi Epsilon; Sigma. Kappa for Theta Chi; and Chi Psi for Kappa Kappa Gamma. Phi Gamma Delta will have a special upperelass dinner to night, Delta Tau Delta will have a preference dinner to night, and Delta Delta Delta will honor its upperclasswomen with a dinner Saturday night. join both, she may take hei choice, depending on whether she is interested in the writing 01 business side of journalism. Woi^ien are elected to member ship on the basis of their journal istic activities and their grades — especially grades in joumalisrr courses. Such activities as work ing on the Emerald and Oregane or writing short stories are of im portance in the selection. The chief activity of Theta Sig ma Phi is Matrix Table—a forma banquet given once a year, invit ing some outstanding speaker tc talk. Invitations to Matrix Table are considered a great honor, and are extended to those women whe are outstanding in journalism literature, and the arts. The officers of the Eugene chap j ; Woman Without a Country! 1 t- - -. i I1' - -‘eras-:, :■ . — .■ Mrs. James Montgomery Book, Jr., of Eondon, daughter-in-law o the Pennsylvania congressman and a leader in Mayfair, has asket British authorities to grant her citizenship, which she now possesses in neither England nor the United States. Her second marriage to ai American citizen deems her an alien ill English law, and lack of resi dence qualification bars her front being a United States citizen. ter are: Betty Anne Macduff, president; Virginia Wentz, vice president; Esther Hayden, secre tary; Thelma Nelson, treasurer; and Jes3i3 Steele, keeper of the archives. Chi Oijiega entertained at din ner Tuesday evening for Dean anc Mrs. J. R. Jewell. All alumni wen invited. Dean Jewell gave an in formal talk on the founders o Chi Omega, whom he knew. Folk Club Honored At University Tea By Faculty Women Yesterday afternoon saw anoth er of the exchange social events which have sprung into promi nence between members of the University and the college, when the Faculty Women's club enter tained with an informal tea hon oring members of the Folk club, faculty w o m e n ’ s organization from the Corvallis campus. Mrs. Calvin Crumbaker was in charge of arrangements for the j tea which was held in Alumnae hall of Gerlinger building. Mrs. Charles G. Howard, president of the Faculty club, Mrs. William Jasper Kerr, and Mrs. C. L. Schwering were in the receiving line. Assisting in the reception about the rooms were Mrs. B. W. De Busk, Mrs. H. V. Hoyt, Mrs. J. It. Jewell, Mrs. Dan E. Clark, Mrs. R. R. Huestis, Mrs. Edmund S. Conklin, Mrs. Edwin T. Hodge, Mrs. N. H. Cornish. Mrs. Andrew Fish, Mrs. Paul Washke, and Mrs. Guy S. Claire. Mu Phi Entertains Mrs. Adele Ratcliff Mu Phi Kpsilon, women's na tional music honorary, has had as its guest this week, Mrs. Adcle , Beeves Ratcliff of Seattle, pro I vince president of the society. A tea honoring Mrs. Ratcliff was given by the chapter on 1 Tuesday afternoon in Alumnae hall of Gerlinger building. In vited guests were all patronesses of the organization, active mem bers, and alumnae. I On Friday evening Sigma Pi 1 Tau will entertain with a pre-ini tiation dance to be held at Lee : Duke’s cafe. The affair will be semi-formal. / t and we’d like 1 to talk with you about it All races of people since the beginning of time, so far as we have been able to read, have had some kind of a pipe and have smoked something—whether they called it tobacco or what not. since smoking a pipe is so different •om smoking a cigar or cigarette, we made a most painstaking, scientific study in an effort to make, if we could, a tobacco which was suited to pipes. We found out, first, that there was a kind of tobacco that grew in the Blue Grass section of Kentucky called White Burley, and that there was a certain kind of this tobacco which was between the tobacco used for cigarettes and the to bacco used for chewing tobacco. It is this tobacco which is best for pipes. We found out that Mr. J. N. Wellman, many years ago, made a pipe tobacco which was very popular. But it was never advertised and after he passed away nothing more was heard about it. We acquired this Wellman Method and that is what we use in makiug Granger. The Granger pouch keeps the tobacco fresh Next was the cut. We knew that fine tobacco burnt hot because it burnt so fast. You could hardly hold your pipe in your hand, it got so hot at limes. So remembering how folks used to "whittle” their tobacco we cut GRANGER just like "whittle” tobacco—"Rough Gut.” It smokes cooler, lasts longer and never gums the pipe. So far, so good. Now we wanted to sell ibis tobacco for 10c. Good tobacco — right process — cut right. So we put Granger in a sensible soft foil pouch instead of an expensive package, knowing that a man can’t smoke the package. GRANGER has not been on sale very long, but it has become a popular smoke. And we have yet to know of a man who started to smoke it, who didn't keep on. Folks seem to like it.