Women's
Page
Editorials
VOLUME XLVIII
Section
Number 52
A Waman'l Place.
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By GLORIA CARTOZIAN
Time’s up! The Thanksgiving va
cation has gone into retirement for
another year and the turkeys are
all slim-pickings now, so it’s time
to get ready for the jolly old fellow
with the white beard, red coat, and
shiny black boots—Santa Claus,
that is. In case you don’t believe in
such fabulous legends, it’s just the
same old Christmas spirit that
seems to sneak up on everyone this
time of the year, so we’re going to
do some arm-chair speculating on
some ideas for your Christmas list.
Slippers
At the top of the list will possibly
be a girl—a friend, sister, or your
mother. If she's not yet used to this
sudden cold spell that has descend
ed upon Eugene, there’s many va
rieties of warm slippers that ought
to solve the problem. “Oomphies”'
has several to choose from this
year—the ballerina in striking satin
stripe; the scuff in varying shades
of plaid and also in white bunny
fu£- and the platformed Chinese
slipper. Equally feminine are the
llama slippers Which are fluffy,
light-as-a-feather and warm. They
/ are made in Peru of silky Alpaca
fur, soft leather lining and outer
sole, fur inner sole.
Blouses
Blouses find a place in almost any
wardrobe. For sport and evening
wear, we’ve seen the very popular
Joan Kenley “Sonnet,” which has
the jewel neckline and push-up
sleeves. Also, Glenwear’s latest is
a short-sleeved, round necked
blouse with a lace insertion, which
is also good for campus wear under
suits.
Now’s the time, too, to begin col
lecting sweaters. In many of Eu
gene's shops, new shipments of
wools, nubby-knits, angoras in both
long and short hair, and ski sweat
ees have arrived. One sweater in
Articular that has caught our eye
■ one autographed by Jantzen by
me name of “Jewel Box.” It has
Ke luxurious “Feather Fleece”
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—EMERALD photo by Don Jones.
THE DISENCHANTED SANTA ...
St. Nick tells unsuspecting Gloria Smith that people can continue to
disbelieve if they wish—he doesn’t believe in people.
Professional Life Exhausting
For Cynical Saint Nicholas
By JULEE THIMS
Some people don’t believe in
Santa Claus, but this Santa Claus
“don’t believe in nothing.” In fact
he doesn’t even love little children.
Despite his cynicism, he’s a right
jolly old fellow, sans sleigh, sans
reindeer, and sans belief. “I had to
think awhile before taking the
job,” he said, "But then I decided it
was a helluvagoodidea.”
When a little child wandered
into this modern Santa’s lair he
greeted him with, “Hello, honey,
you little deleted. What do you
want for Christmas, a train?”
Victorious Susan Campbell
jCompletes Successful Season
As a climax to an outstanding
season of women's intramural vol
leyball, Susan Campbell hall, the
victors topnotched a sensational no
loss season. Susan Campbell de
serves all honors not only because
they copped the 1946 championship
but because of their straight three
j*ar win in this event.
The term ending has found many
her women's sports just begin
ng. Most of winter term is devot
3 to the WAA intramural swim
eets and the international tele
raphic swim meets sponsored by
he Amphibians.
Intramurals
The intramurals, where the out
standing swimmers are selected to
represent the University of Oregon
jn, the telegraphic meet, were held
'ovember 13 and 20. Winter term
[ll see the outcome of the tele
aphic swimming meet February
26 and March 5. Interesting is the
fact that the University placed sec
ond in competition with seven oth
er universities of the western re
gion and tied for fourth place na
tionally when they participated in
last year's intercollegiate telegraph
ic swimming meet. Maryanne Han
sen placed first and set a new rec
ord in*the 60-yard individual med
ley.
Other Sports
Other sports in the feminine
scope this term were field hockey
and modern dance, the latter organ
ized and demonstrated by Orchesis,
women's dance group. The purpose
of this organization is to organize
into two groups, advanced and be
ginning, those girls with special in
terest in dance as an art and to help
further interest in, and apprecia
tion of the dance.
Looking into Santa’s disillusioned
eyes with naivete and faith found
only in a small child, he* replied,
“Naw, I got two of them darn
things last year.”
Instead of raising his powdered
white eyebrows, he dropped them
a couple of inches, but not from
shock. The arc lights which ele
vate the temperature to 105 de
grees fahrenheit occasionally melt
the foundation grease which sus
pends them over his sweaty brow.
“I’ll tell von ^
what really gets
on my nerves in
this racket,” he
said. “All these
little kids want
to pick up the toys in the window.” |
His daily amusement comes
around 4 p. m. when the high
school students gather outside the
window to exhibit their superior
knowledge concerning the legend
of St. Nicholas. Picking up one of
the furrier bunnies, Santa beckons
the group of disbelievers to join
the ranks of the faithful. This
never fails to embarrass the offend
ers, the crowd is seen to disperse.
Was Santa suiprised when a size
L4 blonde appeared one day to
perch on his knee and demand a
pair of nylons, a mink coat and a
Buicty! ‘Tve been waiting for this
for two weeks,” was his only com
ment.
This was a little out of line of
the usual requests, which had thus
far been dominated by electric
trains, doctor and nurse kits, bi
:ycles, and dy-dee dolls.
One little boy, obviously im
pressed by the housing shortage,
asked for a five-room house in his
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Parity *7ime
By MARY HIBBITT
and JACKIE WACHHOKST
The fortnighter is all packed for
the much anticipated Christmas
holidays, the only thing left out
is that special
checked travel
)ing suit which
will adorn Betty
j-. Coed when she
"steps off the
N train into moth
Jer and dad’s
m arms on Dec. 20.
“Home at last! What bliss! Just
peace and quiet.” Then with a
bang the social merry-go-round be
gins and Miss Coed is caught in
the whirl of Christmas parties.
Peace and quiet go out the win
dow when that reunion with the
gang is planned.
Wool Dresses
All those informal gatherings
will demand dresses which ex
press Christmas party gaiety at
its prettiest. Soft wools in vibrant
green and holly red with touches
of shining gold and silver will ac
company the festive holiday mood
and bring back that old glint to
his eye.
When you’re heading for those
more formal parties bring out that
under-the-mistle-toe dress that
you’ve been saving for this “ im
portant occasion. Christmas belles
will really ring when attired in
dance and date dream dresses of
black ebony trimmed with clusters
or stripes of dazzling sequins.
The holiday-party will be com
plete, and you'll sparkle as a
Christmas star in that bare-shoul
deied taffeta formal that rustles
and swirls with the music. Gay
plaids bring out that evergreen
spirit of that gala Christmas en
tertainment schedule.
Santa’s Suggestion
Dressed as Christmas angels,
and looking just as heavenly under
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Men Like Femmes
Sweet and Lovely
By VIRGINIA FLETCHER
Women are the "poetry of the
world,” said Hargrave. Fielding
claims that men like most in
women what is opposite their own
characters. Punch hit the nail on
the head in asserting that . "a
woman’s heart, like the moon,
the head in asserting that “a moon,
is always changing, but there is
always a man in it.”
But what does the average Joe
College think of the University of
Oregon co-ed ? This was the ques
tion that was bothering a group of
frosh girls in their Monday eve
ning YWCA Commission, and with
the characteristic initiative of their
sex, they set forth to find the
answer.
Scientific Poll
Questionnaires were sent to all
boys’ living organizations. A panel
made up of four BMOC’s (A1 Pop
ick, president of the Order of the
O; Tom Hazzard', yell king and
president of Druids; Bob Daggett,
president of the junior class; and
Bill Barnum, president of Skull
and Dagger) discussed the ques
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Possible Presents
Seem Hard-to-Get
By BETH BASLER
All you eager Christmas shop
pers, attention! If you don't know
what to give that typical college
coed on your list, just cast a glance
at these little items found on the
lists of some of Oregon’s lassies. In
case you think you can’t afford these
things just see about one of those
easy-payment loans at your local
branch—whoops, no commercials in
this column.
Busy little Beryl Howard, Alpha
Gamma Delta thinks dt would real
ly be nice to have a private tele
graph system to save letter writing
and help rescue her lagging corre
spondence. Surely Santa Claus will
speak to Pacific Tel and Tel.
Handy Item
.Dtn uai a xieu
ton seems t<
have the inter
est of her Trig
Delt sisters aiW
heart when she
asks the beard J j
ed one for a sk.i I
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mi irom tne line 10 me lop oi you
know-what hill. Not a bad idea, not
bad at all.
A little on the dreamy side is
the—wish of Dee Gee pledge, Zeta
Sinclair, for a black mirror-bot
tomed swimming pool surrounded
by graceful weeping willow trees.
A large helping of peace and quiet
goes along with this order. What a
Christmas vacation Zeta could have
if this little knick-knack appears
under the Sinclair Christmas tree!
A Topular Request
Because she hates the thought of
coming back for Friday, Kathy For
sythe, charmer from Susie, wishes
that she might have a longer
Christmas vacation in her new
home in sunny Santa Rosa (Cali
fornia, of course).
After thinking about it clear
through lunch, Hendricks’ Lynn,
Renick decided that most of all she
would appreciate a portable tele
phone. “For obvious reasons,” she
says. She also wishes in vain for
someone who could understand her.
Marjorie Dunn isn’t quite sure
there are such things, but she would
love to have a live panda bear. No
tice to giver: Please include feeding
instructions for Margie says she
hasn’t the least idea what one would
eat.
Another Neatie
Here’s hoping Alpha Chi Janet
Beigle has an inventor who is will
ing to help Santa, for she would like
a typewriter which would write out
all her journalism papers automati
cally. She’ll make it easier for the
typewriter, however, by sending
it thoughts, so that all it has to do
is put them into the right words.
A plane ticket to Brazil so she can
hop off to South America the day
those grades come is the request of
Mary Hibbitt, Gamma Phi. Bqtter
send a copy of this Emerald home to
“mere et pere,” Mary, so they'H
know too.
Kappa Page Leard wants a “wa
ter warmer” to use off the beach of.
Carmel where she is planning to
spend her Christmas.
Say, this sounds more like the old.
game of London Bridge is Falling
Down than a Christmas list. Any
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