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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1938)
Editor: Martha Stewart Society Editor: Rita Wright Staff: Bernadine Bowman and Marge Finnegan Page Two OREGON DAILY EMERALD Easter Fashions Take Week’s Spotlight Center Thursday, April 14, 1938 I hope it rains torrents on Eas ter morning! I hope that it is so wintry that no normal human be ing would venture forth in any thing but galoshes, umbrellas and dull, drab clothes. But wait . . . before I go any farther I must get rid of the men! * * * Today I’m going to talk girl talk . . . about new Easter bon nets and veils and flowers and . . . oh . . . just stuff. The sort of talk that men sniff at audibly and re mark with supercilious expres sions on their smug men faces that “That's just like a woman. Not interested in anything but clothes and . . they add to themselves, “US.” And so lest some stray male should happen to fall in between the pages on his way to the sport news and be tempted to steal a furtive glance in this direction I shall head today’s backseat driv ing “For Women Only!” All men who venture past this paragraph do so at their own risk. si: :H * And now, what was I saying? Oh, yes . . . about rain on Easter. Yesterday I decided to meet spring more than half way, and donning my ancient raincoat (aged four years this term) and my very best optimistic smile I trudged forth with Alice Toots to buy a new Easter hat. Now to Alice Toots and me there is no pastime quite so pleas urable, no entertainment so charm ing, no funny paper so excruciat ing as is the simple task of trying on the season’s latest styles in hats. May I suggest that if you are •feeling a bit on the jaded side of life you really should go down some afternoon and spend an hour or two at it. For a pick-me-up I can think of nothing- better. The first couple of hours we just wandered about enjoying our selves, trying on inverted tea-cups made gay with spashing crimson roses and black straw soup bowls that were designed to sit at an angle over one eye, going into hi larious gales of girlish giggles over each new find until we were stared out of the store by sales ladies’ haughty glares. Then we got down to the busi ness of picking and choosing in earnest, and that's where our trou ble began. You s<M*, Alice Toots goes in for the more dashing' type of chapeau, and I cling to the good old conser vative styles with crowns that look like hats and not like lop sided egg baskets draped with veils. “Do you like this?” 1 would ask, meekly tipping my head so she could get the full charm of the lit tle number 1 was considering at the moment. • “Positively not,” she’d set her foot down emphatically. "Makes you look like Queen Marie. How about this?” And she would shove down over my eyes a froth of dotted netting that obstructed the view and practically put a stop to my breathing. “Nothing doing,” I would re tort. “Think I’m going around be hind this camouflage all summer?” We became quite bitter about it and finally after much ado dur ing which the sales girls gathered around and watched with inter (Please turn to page seven) Veiled Threat A menace to any man's equilibrium will be this demure black straw hat with its charming- veil and chin strap. The delicate lace collar with its gay ruff effect adds to the femininity of the costume. Whole Oregon Campus Enjoys Pastimes of Fine Spring Weather By MARGE FINNEGAN Believe it or don’t—some people are actually wondering what to do with their spare time in this super-colossal spring weather. (Mean ing those hours when it doesn’t rain.) It would seem the only trouble that should arise would be in trying to decide just what to do first. With the exception of a few unenthusiastic dullards, students are finding spring activities really fun. The University tennis courts, as well as the one belonging to the SAE boys, are well filled all day long, and many a lovely maiden is now a golf widow—unless she enjoys the game herself. Intramural baseball is now in full swing, with both the boys and girls batting ye old softball around the field. It’s a little early for swimming in the mill race, an Alpha Phi re ports—she should know, too, as she tried it 'Saturday morning, and br-r-r-r-r, she’s still shuddering. Picnics are always fun—unless you are one of those poor unfor tunates who gets poison oak eas ily. For the past two or three weeks we have seen groups of couples headed, with basket lunch es, toward the Meadows, up the McKenzie, across the mill race, or to any of the other prominent pic nic grounds Oregon students have been haunting in past years. Bicycle jtiding is .becoming a more popular pastime than ever before. It's loads of fun, good ex ercise, arid an inexpensive amuse ment. It does one’s old heart good to see the beaming faces of the pedalers ruling merrily across the campus. (Giving never a care for mid-terms, which are less than a week away.— Paid plug.) Roller skating' is fun, too, but we haven’t noticed much of that sport so far this year. Perhaps they have a fear of skinning their knees. The Delts and Tri-Delts have even reverted to the play of their youth—and report it is “more fun!” They’ve been playing ‘Run Sheep-Run” on nice evenings. The Phi Delts, Pi Phis, and Alpha Chis play baseball on their street. Such are the joys of spring— Tra-La! So, if you’ve been one of these old sticks, who is not en joying it in all its glory, now is the time to start. Toss away your win try scowl and get out in the air, for rosier cheeks and a new spring smile. a'lmiiuiimuiiiiiimmiiiiiiiimiuwHmiHiiiiiimiHUiimmmiiiiHiiHiHHiiiHiuiiiimmimg 1 EASTER 1 | ACCESSORIES | | are as important to your | | EASTER OUTFIT as frost- | | [ng to a cake. | | FLOWERS ... all kinds and | | sizes . 49c § | PURSES .. $1.00, $1.95, $2.95 j | COSTUME JEWELRY ... in | | very clever designs. Charm | | bracelets . . . bugs, beetles | | and grasshoppers for your | | lapels ... | | “LAUGHING MEN” are new | 1 floppy beaded wonders for | 1 your spring suit. MMimillllliniffli;lllllKllllUH!IIIIIIIIHJIIIIIIIIIIII!!llltllllllMIIUIIlllllllllllllll!iHll!!milllllllliniHI!lllllllllllllllillllllllHIIIIIIIII[lltllllli HANDKERCHIEFS . . . New § linen colored ones .... . 25c, 35c, 50c | GLOVES . . . 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Sorority Heads Elect Officers For Next Year Officers for the coming year were elected at the Heads of Houses meeting held Tuesday af ternoon in the AWS room of Ger linger hall. They are Mary Eliza beth Morvell, Alpha Phi, presi dent; Carolyn Dudley, Delta Delta Delta, vice-president; Lorraine Hunt, secretary; Blanche Browne, Hilyard Co-op, treasurer. The group has planned a des i Plans Being Macje Plans for the pioneer fun festi val are rapidly taking shape under the direction of Marionbeth Wolf endon. Special attractions for the evening are to be numerous, she says. Representatives from all living organizations will meet today to decide on which businesses they will run for the evening. sert party to be held Tuesday eve ning, April 19, at 6:20 o’clock at the home of Dean Hazel P. Schwering. 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