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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1940)
The Women’s Page PAGE 2 MARGE FINNEGAN, Editor FEBRUARY 22,1940 Society Senior Ball Ends Winter Season Winter win be ultimately cli maxed Saturday night in McAr thur court as the Senior ball, the last big formal event of the term, holds the campus spotlight. Black and white “top hat" programs and black and white panels around the Vails of the court will strike a note of formality in the decora tions. Flowers, formals, and tuxes will set the “top hat’’ pace for the dancers, when Seattle’s Gay Jones and his orchestra swing out with sweet music in McArthur court. Informal Tea Given By UO Mothers ' The Eugene branch of the Ore gon Mother’s club entertained at "a tea in Alumni hall Wednesday •afternoon from 2 to 4 o’clock. Mrs. Howard Taylor, president of ■the club, was in charge of the meeting held earlier, at which Dr. ”J. R. Branton was guest speaker. *The tea table and room was dec ’orated with arrangements of Jap •anese quince and forsythia. ^Houses Exchange IVlany Desserts • Wednesday exchange desserts included Phi Sigma Kappa-Delta Gamma; Sigma Alpha Epsilon-Pi 'Beta Phi; Sigma Nu-Kappa Alpha Theta; Beta Theta Pi-Alpha Chi Omega; Sigma Phi Epsilon-Susan “Campbell; University housc-Camp 'bcll co-op; Phi Kappa Psi-Gamma Phi Beta; Kappa Kappa Gamma "Delta Tail Delta; Delta Upsilon *■ Alpha Omicron Pi; Phi Delta The »ta-Alpha Delta Pi; and Phi Gam “ma Delta-Alpha Xi Delta. Varied Themes Used for Dances House dances will make Friday night one of the busiest of the term, as six Jiving organizations present their annual winter for mals. The Chi Omega house will be turned into a ski lodge Friday night at the formal dance. A real istic detail of the decorations, car dying out the winter theme, will bo a large moose head hung over the fireplace. Ski posters and ar tificial snow will decorate the rooms. Don Nance's orchestra will play. * * * Phi Sigma Kappa members and their dates will dance to the mu sic of Art Holman and his orches tra Friday night at their winter dance. The house will be decorated with candelabra, amber lights, and palms, and the bids will be black and yellow in the form of a danc ing couple. tt * * A Vogue and Esquire decorative idea will be carried out at the Ph' Gamma Delta house dance with posters and fashions covering the walls. Elmo Bailey and his orches tra will furnish the music. South Sea Influence Seen at Formal Palm gardens will be the setting for the Pi Kappa Alpha winter formal, as decorations will be col ored electric signs, flashing on and off at intervals, copied from the gay electricals of famous South sea restaurants. Palm trees, il luminated by colored spotlights will be around the walls of the house. A large facsimile of the Pi Kappa Alpha pin, made of glass (Please turn la pci'/c Jour) PERMAMENT WAVES Rilling 5* . . Duchess Oil. Du-Art Oil . . $5.00 . $3.00 . $2.50 KGLTSCH BEAUTY SALON ()|)(‘ii S ji.1.11. I (i S p.m. f 972 Wiliam otic (Above Newberry's) I’ll. 10.) it EVERY WANTED ‘ SUIT TYPE IS HERE! *16-75 to *34-50 \"k . .,\o ,c* \w >■ • VL-V^ •>c oV 6^ Seer Judges Character By Eye Color By NOKMAN FOSTER (Editor’s Note: This guest writ er hiis l>een striving for months to (•rash our ranks, perseverance fi nally winning out—here it is.) Mind now, I don’t pretend to be an oracle or a divine seer, and I am far from being in a position to offer advice to the lovelorn, but the present high exchange rate of fraternity brass prompts me to set forth a proven workable theory on how to judge people’s characters. Cause of Trouble This lack of judgment, when it comes to determining an individ ual’s innermost feeling is, I be lieve, responsible for most of the so-called "kiss-offs” and the “I already have a date” business when ye erstwhile swain phones the lady love. Johnson, that worthy exponent of literary gems of wisdom, phil osophizes that “one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with." And therein lies the inspiration for .this theory of mine - in short, a person's charac ter can be told by his or her eyes. The theory works like this. A fellow asks a gal for a date to the park. She looks at his eyes and notes the color of his gleepers. By checking said color with the chart listed below, she can tell whether he means a date for Willamette park or Hendricks park. It's as simple as that. Now It Can Be Told! This “character told by the eyes” theory is a bit difficult to prove on paper, but I guarantee its au thenticity and accuracy. So read over this list of meanings and know what to expect the next time you see your date of the mo ment. Black or dark brown eyes are a sign of deep affectionate nature and congeniality. Dark blue or violet, denote great affection and purity, but not much intellectuality. Clear, light blue, with calm, steadfast glance, means cheerful- . ness, even temper, constancy. Pale blue, or steel colored with shifting motion of eyelids and pu- i pils, denote dcccitfulness and self- i ishness. Russet brown without yellow dc- i note an affectionate disposition. ; sweet and gentle. The darker brown the eyes, the more affec- 1 tionatc the nature. : Be Brave Blue eyes, with a slight ten dency to greenish tints is a sign of wisdom and courage. Grey, or greenish gray, with or ange and blue shades and ever i varying tints, are the most intcl- ’ lectuul, and are indicative of the impulse, impressionable tempera- : menl, Light brown or yellow denote i inconstancy. Green indicates deceit or jeal ousy. Kycs of no particular color (only r—------—-—— i 1 Dress of the Week Picturesque and youthful is MARY JANE SHEPHERD’S blaiek and white striped taffeta formal and its short red jacket, which she herself designed. The dress has a banded waist line on which is gathered a full skirt. The neckline is low, with narrow straps over the shoul ders. The brilliant jacket of corded gabardine, buttons to the waist, and has a bustle ef fect behind. With this costume Mary Jane wears a red ostrich-plumed doll hat with snood attached. Orides Tea Honors Mrs. Mary Farr Mrs. Hazel P. Schwcring, dean 3f women, Mrs. Alice B. Macduff, Miss Janet Smith, and Mrs. Edith Prescott Siefert will be at home Sunday to members of Orides and their mothers or other guests. The Lea is honoring Mrs. Mary Farr, of the home economics depart ment, who is the newly elected sponsor of Orides. The tea will be jin at 4 o’clock. Smartie Party Tonors 200 Thursday evening from 6:30 to 1:30 o’clock, 200 girls will be en tertained by Mortar Board at a Smartie party for girls with a 3 point grade average fall term. The iffair will be held in the sun room :>f Gerlinger and Donald M. Erb, president of the University, will iddress the guests. Ices and cof 'ee will be served. some feeble shades of blue or grey, full, expressionless, dead looking) lelong to the Imyphatic tempera ment, and denote a listless, feeble Imposition, and a cold selfish na .ure. One eye closed and the other jpen with a gleam in it denotes dther a dust speck in the eye or roquetry. In (lie Ked Blood shot eye means nothing 'xcept that perhaps it is the day tfter the night before. Eyes that roll from side to side icnote muscular defects or look it that blonde in the first row. Half closed eyes signify a need or glasses or stayed up with a lick friend last night. The Glassy Stare And last but not least, are the jrotruding eyes that seemed • lazed with ice. This type necessi ates no explanation—suffice to :ay someone is in for a cold, cold vintcr. There it is, guys and gals, I incerely hope that the above chart las not broken up any happy lomc.s. But remember fellas, it is (etter to know the character of the irl friend now, than to hunt all iver a sorority front yard some light for your fraternity pin. ■=E=S=»=L.illL'. —71 Return to Romance vitll Colonial Dames two a;cam iSl’Kt'lAli All-purpose cream $2.00 Biy economy size Limited tune only TIFFANY-DAVIS iitli WILLAMLTTL Orchids Tell Regard For Date By PAT ERICKSON Put your boy friend on a budget and see if you get—an orchid. A real orchid, that is, not the pat-on-the-back kind. Campus floral shops report a sharp rise in orchid sales for this season as compared to last year. One shop says they have sold ap proximately 50 since January 21. Easily Discovered At every formal one can see a number of these exotic flowers gleaming on coed shoulders. They can usually be detected, first, by the benign smile on the face of the wearer, second, by an equally benign simper on the part of the donor. Third, you are struck by the beauty of the flower itself. So we asked the first six or seven fellows we met just why men sent orchids to girls anyway. Local florists quote prices on them at $2.50 to $10 apiece, with the most part selling for around $3. At first glance, noting the in creased current members of or cids as corsages, you would say “Extravagant things, these Ore gon males!” Perhaps it's a differ ent story. Masculine uommenis “They’re suckers!” declares Ray Foster (referring to the 'orchid sending men). “They got it start ed and now they can't stop.” But Jimmie Leonard says, “Boys think that girls think it’s the little attentions in life that count.” A good hedger, Jimmie. “Presige of the price is what gets them,” insists Jonathan Ka hananui from Hawaii. “There are lots of flowers that are prettier.” Maybe he is thinking of the island leis. “Well,” Ray Schrick puts this in, “the girls have just built up a myth about orchids;" But Lyle Nelson and Jim Browne stand up for the chivalry of orchid-buyers. “When a fellow sends an orchid, he wants to show her really cares,” says Nels, and Browne adds, “it makes a good impression./’ Jack Burton thinks they fit in most properly for a house daneo (Please turn to page jour) >7- '' ~ ! For Women Only By MARGE FINNEGAN Here it is Thursday again, and time to pound out another column. Things have certainly been quiet around the campus lately it seems. But with so little time left in a very short term, I guess we just don't have much time to be noisy. Rally Raleigh! Have you noticed the clever necklace Pat Taylor is wearing lately? Pat is the Raleigh cigarette representative on the campus, as you probably know, and has de vised this necklace as a means of publicizing her cigarettes. She has strung several of the tiny Raleigh match folders on a gold chain, and the brown and white of the fold ers blend nicely on a beige sweat er. Mighty cute stunt, Pat. Topper Affair Set The Senior ball committee has certainly been plugging away this week to make the dance a success. Sounds good, too. The black and white motif and "top hatter” idea should be effective. Who Enlightened Who? Have you heard the tale of the Alpha Phis? We hear the girls were worn out Monday, having spent a strenuous weekend enter taining 19 of the Portland moth ers. Before the mothers arrived, the girls solemnly resolved to keep the house in order and be on gen eral good behavior, to make their stay an enjoyable one. A fireside was planned, to which the mothers came dressed in gay wooly night ies, bed sox and snug caps—well prepared for a night’s sleep on the porch. Everything about the fireside appealed to them, and they ap plauded the singing loudly and at great length, making it difficult for the girls to continue with the arranged program. When the girls broke up the affair and suggested going to bed, the mothers refused to cooperate—holding bull-fests all over the house until the wee small hours. (Please turn to page four) 7i MILLER’S Eugene’s Newest Dept. Store Phone 1090 840 Willamette Exclusive at Millers New Spring Colors HOSIERY PROPORTIONED CAN THE YOU TAKE CANDID CAMERA TEST? Can your logs lake: the test? Not a seam wiggle, not a pucker at tire knee „ . . not an ankle wrinkle, not even a slant to the heel. That's the Larkwood proportioned ht Choose? your length from three individually proportioned stockings . . . short, regular, long . . « and take the short skirt test with assur ance ' Style 300 o pairs $3.—u Hare •veu opened your cliargs account yet? 1 Coed of the Week By CORRINE YVIGN'ES Brown eyes, naturally curly dark hair, a height of one inch over five feet, and a 3.8 GPA, distinguish Aida Brun, twenty-year-old Oregon coed of Hilyard house. Aida came to the University from Klamath Falls after being awarded an Oregon Mother's scholarship, and is now a junior. She is majoring in English, and hopes to continue studying foreign lan guages and English after graduation from Oregon. Twice this attractive brunette has achieved a four-point grade average, and also was valedictor ian of her high school class. Likes to Study “I don’t spend a great deal of time studying,” she said, ‘‘but I enjoy reading and really do like to study.” All kinds of literature are in teresting to this outstanding girl, and she likes to listen to good mu sic. Philosophy and journalism, according to her, are two subjects she would like to learn more about. Active in Honoraries Besides being a member of Phi Theta Upsilon, junior women’s service honorary, Aida has been pledged to Alpha Kappa Delta, German honorary, and Pi Delta Fhi, French honorary, and is a member of the Master Dance group. She is vice-president and social chairman of her house. As a committee member for various campus activities, this young coed has been active in YWCA and student body affairs. She also does stenographic work in Dean Earl's office, so does not have much time to participate in girls sports, although she says she enjoys all kinds of athletics, and especially likes to swim. Given Nickname “Little Brim’’ is the name given her by her intimate friends, be- ^ cause she is so small, and her first name rather difficult for some to | pronounce. Her charming manner of speaking—rather slowly and precisely—makes her an interest ing conversationalist, and her mod esty and friendliness have made her outstanding on the campus. •a SKI WEAR SALE New “White Stag” Poplin Parkas Gabardine. Down Hill Trousers Fine Selection 14. &. C©-. EUGENE OWNED, WITH NEW YORK BUYING CONNECTION 957 WILLAMETTE High .... wide .... ’n’ handsome for Spring They just arrived and its the beat looking shipment we’ve seen . .. paa tel aud pastel plaid skirts m pink, powder blue, yellow and aqua . . . striped and pastel blouses . .. jackets with the new, longer lines. Skirts,. $2.95 to 7.95 Blouses^$1.00 to 3.95 Jackets . $5.95 to 7.95 LUGEyZ S i JbbHJOM ClsMEft