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Mil BUDGET ACTRESS ATHLETE d How to Wear It What to Wear an Spring Prints Run Gamut of Flor al, Geometrical and Tribal Designs SCARF IMPORTANT TO COSTUME SETTLED IT Jill TO STUDY THRIFT ; -. won lira mm Flying Becomes Paramount Interest and Graduates rfrom Special School BERLIN (A P) Marga von Etzdorf, an athlete and sports woman, has become the first Ber lin "woman to pass the state ex amination as an air pilot. Although she had excelled in hockey, tea ing running and jumping, she nev er gave aviation a thought until one day she .won a gratis flight in an 'airplane. .Thenceforth firing became her paramount interest. She applied for admission to ; the training school for aviation at Staaken and has been graduated with her pi Jot.s certificate. Another of German's promising ' avjatrtxea -in- Antonie Strassmana, ah; actress, who, unlike Frauletn Etsdorf, has only taken an on loojker's interest in sports. A few flights with the noted aviator, C. H.j Edsard, led ; Fraulein.. Strass- msCnn to lake an ittereet in avi ation. So enthusiastic, did she become that, although bound to her pro fessional duties as an actress, she entered the training school at Staaken last September and has diligently divided her time be tween flying and nightly appear ances on the stage. Frauelin Strassman does not ex pect aviation to become a "fash; Jonable sport," because she ex plains, "in flying , mediocrity or bluff are out of the question. One is, fer Is not an aviator. There can never be any halfway measure." SonAs of a Housewife QV MARJOPIE K RAWL1NQ5 80X08 OP A HOUSEWIFE By Marjorie K. Rawlings THE 1.UCKY HOUSEWIFE Dame Nature stops work In the . Fall I And doesn't tidy things at afl. She calmly passes And leaves dead grasses And wind-swept dust by every Then on some winter's morning snow, Falling thick and soft and alow! Her floors neglected. As she'd expected. J White-carpeted, no longer show! Alas, when I leave my debris Strewn op and down for all to v see, No miracles hover, My sins to cover .and hide my carelessness for me! SOME OTHEi: TIME I have a trick and no doubt you Are guilty of it sometimes, too I Of leaving stupid work undone ' Until some more propitious sun. T11 feel like doing it tomorrow," I tell myself. And to my sorrow Days, weeks, and months have sometimes passed Before I've done the Job at last. I must control my whims, my fancy It makes accomplishment too chancy. To put unpleasant work away Merely postpones the evil day! CAUGHT I've held my head most awfully high At Annie Perkins goina bv. She buys the baker's bun and scone. While I. proud housewife, make my own. - But yesterday I was so late That, not to make my family wait For dinner while I made one, 1 Stopped at the bake-shop for a pie. No more 'twixt her an J me a wall After my pride, behold my fall! The ways of Providence do awe me For who but. Annie Perkins saw J , .. .me! TOO MAXY COOKS (Suggested by Mrs. F. K., Roches. tor, X. Y.) I put the soup-pot on the fire Em volunteered to guard it. We both went out with easy minds, -Quite free to disregard it. Jane put , the ' crackers in the stove ' Anne said, "Oh, let me do it!" They took the history of the town - And sat down to reviewit. When scent of cinders filled the J . air V There was a great to-do. Too many cooks had spoiled the bfoth And burned the crackers too! 1 PICTURB-KITCIIEXS The ; kitchens In the "ads" are neat; - The busy ho use wife s working . there " ' Has spotless floors beneath her fet; - Her talK top Is all bat bare,; -No nsed utp ip" fill her sink; 1 - . ......w - .... ...... 1. .w rVJiftarS! IHave Saidin MvIfedr By Idah McGlone Gibson . ' Recevlns; J "It must be wonderful; to give," laid a woman to me, rather wist fully, recently. "To be rich enough to rive money, to be sensible enough to give advice, to be broad enough to give sympathy, to be good enough to give one's self. Surely this Is very, very wonder ful." This woman unconsciously hit upon the very reason why it is more blessed to bestow than to iccept.. It ia very probable that most of us have taken that biblical affirmation in the sense that it Is kinder and better and bigger to jive than to receive. When we read this sentence, be fore our eyes comes the figure of i Man whcee hand was always ex tended to help the needy, whose great hart was full of sympathy for suffering, whether of soul or body, who gave Himself to the ut most even unto the last breath of His life. " ! To give In thjs wayj to give one's self continually as well as continuously while living and to give up at least one's very life for others merits the eulogy, "Greater love than this hath no man." In this way it is wonderful to tfve, but in all history we have The oven shows her fresh-made pie. I She makes it out of air, I think, Her board's so clean! ; But oh, not I! With flour strewn all along my , way, . Soiled pana nay cookery's chas tisements I wonder if I'll have some day A kitchen like the advertise ments! ! CHORAI, SOCIETY SUCCESS BOSTON (AP) The Choral Society of the Massachusetts Fed eration of Women's clubs has be come a self-supporting j organisa tion, and no longer receives con tributions from the federation treasury. Tlmpirea seldom studied the game. What they had to know best was how to run and Jump ences. THE UNUSUAL IN X v 4 y ' r ' 1 1 ' ' 1 1 . v ri,--??-"l 'I - " f a-v; y?L. s i - v- ' 'f i v vyrT) Id this day of Individuality la costume it is the unusual that at tracts. The semi-formal frock (left) is made of heavy crepe in wal nut shade with satin inset and embroidered trimming in the peasant (sleeves and a bioused waist. . The evening dress (right) is composed largely of sequins. It baa a brief, tubular black skirt with overbloase of iridescent .sequins, thedeeoUette of which is outlined with black sequins. Brilliant jewelry completes the ensemble. only the tradition of this one Man who via unselfish enough to spend His whole life in giving. To my mind, however, the per son who can receive with humility and gratitude, and which speaks of lack of envy. Jealousy, must have a great souL To bestow in the modern sense, means more or leas- patronage. The man who gives, stands high, and the man who receives is al ways on a lower level. One has something which the other has not. Everyone has experienced that warm sense of well being that comes when one has reached into one's pocket or checkbook, and relieved the stress of the pitiable object behind the trembling hand outstretched for alms. One, if he is human, may not fail to get a pleasurable reaction of superiority after one has ten dered what one thoroughly be lieves is good advice. To dispense sympathy is always a gain to one's soul. In truth, the mere fact of giv ing presupposes in one direction or another superiority, and It is sop to one's vanity and a prop to one s selfishness. Few of as, however, may have within us that true sense of values which makes one understand that to accept graciously is far more difficult than to bestow bounteous ly. Does not everyone, have a sense of humility when his friend lends him the .money to help him over a bad placet ........ Does anyone ever accept advice, does anyone ever-ask for advice with the idea of accepting It? Rather, does not one want confir mation of one's own Judgment? Does anyone ever accept criti cism without a rankling sense of hurt is left in one's mind? It is verr wonderful to be able to give, bat when I find a person who can receivewlth the same largeness with which the gift la bestowed I wHl have met-one who is truly great. . . v Memo: Generosity 13 the mark ot a great heart. To receive with lppreciation is the mark of a great iind. DRESS ATTRACTS L J S :-"5r-r,- "'" MB By I.ucy Claire Expert for Central Fraas 4 Th Statesman.) Prints and more prints! Once printed silks heralded the arrival of spring, but here they are at smart hotels at the luncheon hour, at morning musicales and lectures, and in the sheer chiffons at even ing: activities, fully three months before the advent of the proverbial first robin! There are; prints ranging from the tiny, winsome, old-timey floral and fruit all-over patterns, tweed-llke effects ' and plaids, a gamut. of -geometries, in genious tolendineiu of fruits and tneir blossoms, to splashy, gorg eous norai motives, an in an amazing blending of color. There are the new, sp? called "grayed" prints, on dark or gray backgrounds, with the design in the new dusty colors of the season. yellow, red, green, blue, and the sheer chiffons where the design Is more scattered on a light ground. and the yery latest note in the silks of Indian design, each bear ing its tribal insignia. Here is marked another trend toward the greater feminity in dress I have frequently stressed. With prints such an important fashion note even the bottlers are sopnsoring printed kid. Greco pins his faith to it in small all-over patterns, mostly geometrical. Indian Motifs Used Among the newest, as well as the handsomest print-designs of the season, is the Sioux war bon net, a band from which rises or droops a semicircle of eagle fea thers. In wonderful soft colorings. such as the eagle himself never boar ted. You can get an idea of this print in the semi-sports cos tume at the left ot the layout, as well as in the scarf in the center, which shows it up much larger. The Sioux originally wore these bonnets of 60 or 75 feathers, with the belief that they protected the wearer from the missiles of th nemy. The photo at the right shows a ports blouse sbowin-g the more feminine trend in its wrinkled walt treatment, caught with a buckle In" the front This is of black and white silk in "a Zuni tribe design. This happens to be in squares and circles, but we us ually find this tribe's designs with the triangle predominating at any rate in geometrical figures ymbolic of rain, clouds and light ning. These are tut two of the many Indian designs, each with a mean ing all its own, that will appear at souinern resorts wnue the snow rovers the north, and later at our northern summer resorts, for they ae designs paticularly suited to sports or semi-sports costumes. XEBRABKANS STUDY FIXANCE3 BROKEN BOW, Neb. (AP) - A course of Instruction in Ilome finance is offered by the Nebraska State Federation of Women's clubs through the medium of clas ses and printed leaflets. - Instruction In banking, property laws and rights, making of wills. Insurance and building and loans Is given. Prizes are offered for the best essays on these' subjects. Thev large tracts of fossil beds in northwestern Nebraska would make an admirable site for a state park, the club women believe, and the federation is planning an in tensive campaign In behalf of the project at the coming session of the legislature. - XKW JERSEY COLLEGE AIDED NEWARK (AP)-The music studio ot the New Jersey College for Women, for. the construction of which the federation raised $100,000, is to be ready for use in the spring of 1928. This fs the second gift of the federation to the college. It first raised the money for Science Hall. . A state, monument In recogni tion of the work of the New eJr- sey Federation of Women's Club" for preservation of the ; Hudson RlverPallsades as an interstate t and national rark will be crsctei joi a. Jersey Wuff. - '. . r Ohio has at least four possible presidential candidates , which would be enough to" start a reni eral massacre in Mexico. Ability As Buyer Determines Measure i of Prosperity Says iChairmjari WASHINGTON (AP) t The American woman's buying power is the basis of all business, the General Federation ojt Women Clubs asserts. . I! ' ' National statistics show that $72,000,000,000 went lto the pay envelopes of the nation last year. and that women spent ; more than $52,000,000,000 of that amount for food, clothing, shelter' and re creation. . It Nine out of every ten purchases are made by women; it;ls asserted. This making the woman buyer by far the largest purchasing agent In the country. - These are some of the reasons why the federation is participat ing in the annual observance of Thrift Week, January ;jl 7-2 3. The Department of the ' American Home, the division of family fi nance of which Mrs. Edith Mc- Clure Patterson of Dayton, Ohio, is chairman, is urging jeach of the 14,000 member clubs! to observe the week by studying thrift and budgeting, hearing an i address by an expert on economics! or in some other fitting way. 1 1 "Woman's ability as a buyej, de termines in a' large measure the country's progress and prosper ity," said Mrs. Patterson. "In view of this it sometimes seems ludicrous that; many ij merchants, salesmen and ' advertising agents still profess to believe that men, not women, are the: persons to whom the, appeal to .dispose of merchandise must be made. The average man (seldom buys more than his personal wear. Even in the purchase of an automobile It is usually his wife who Ills the last word in the selection "Women are realising that they must use business methods in the conduct of that important busi ness, institutions musjt use busi ness methods and so classes for the study of family finance, bud geting, banking and Investments are springing up in hundreds of women's -clubs throughout the country, for the modern woman, when she has; a Job to do, wants to do it in the' most approved and businesslike way." Palm Beach Styles Stress Pale Green PARIS (AP) -Special bathing suits, golf and beach costumj showings were held in Paris dur ing the period the American buy ers were looking over the mid season collections. The costumes designed especially for-Americans, in these shows were simpler, and usually more boyish in type than the styles Europeans will wear on the Riviera. The American Girl type- Is beginning to be understood In the Rue de la Palx. ' 1 ! MOVIE REVIEWS IN R. I. POVIDENCE (AP)i Club wo men's views i on the movies are broadcast twice a week by the chairman of the motion picture committee of! the Rhode Island Federation of Women's clubs. In some respects the election machinery in Mexico is quite sim ilar to ours, 'except that a candi date who is eliminated is elimin ated. Detroit! News. ! Radio Is Heard and Uy Hilda Hunt Our two main Indoor sport3 for winter are ; radio i and bridge. Everybody and his wife has a ra dio, as you!! soon find out, if you happen to live In an apartment and try to find a ; spot for i your area!. And if you j (don't j play bridge you'll find yourself a wall flower at the home party, not to -ncntion the'iifteraoion (bridsej club. o the radio and the bridge table become an essential in the fur nishing of ' the' modern home ' as the piano used to be In the days - i - . i -; i ii i - 1 1 ?w 1 53 m j S! t I V vV ?a vism Si 4! sssr !r mimm if S-f M 1 l' vr-f gwigcgy. f ,mmtr t V f h fil f " ssiwsy .. ff.sss cZ'J XAH'i sssf i rPSlj iSSr . I t s-, ai ' . "" ca i The scarf is almost as important to the modem costume as the frock itself. In the illustration r a long chiffon scarf is draped around the low neckline of a charming dance frock, with the ends left flowing. The frock has a long, fitted basque of gold embroid ered chiffon, with a skirt consisting of tiers of circular ruffles edged dn gold, with an irregular hemline. I lMn and Loving No Doubt About This Answer Most young things like to dance and frisk-about. That is natural. Rhythm is born in most of us, and there is almost an intoxication in the music, bright lights, and com panionship found in a ballroom. But the enjoyment we get in this manner is not worth risking our life's happiness for. It Is only passing pleasure. A young wife asks my advice as to whether she shall go to dances with a girl .friend, as "hubby" does not care to dance'. She would not tell the boys she danced with she was married, but she is afraid of the consequences, as she well may be. The deception you would have to practice, the risk of making your husband angry and 'jealous, would not be made up to you by the fun you would get out of the dancing, dear Lonesome. Dance by yourself to the radio or vic- trola, dance with friends in your own home, but do not, I beg of you, risk your life's happiness just for the pleasure of going to dances. It is not worth it. "Blue Eyed Bab" and "A Wild Rose" are interested in the boy whose letter was signed "Doubt- iui. f us gin tnougnt he was "slow" because he didn't pet. "Bab" writes: "Dear Mrs. Lee: I am a work ing girl of 17. I have had a few dates, but as I will not allow pet ting, the boys never seem to care to call a second time. They speak when we meet, and seem as friend Not Seen; Tables Fold when' music didn't coma In from the air. . ' , " ' Interior decorators will tell you that a thing muat be useful, as well as beautiful, to fulfill its mis sion. We're verie beautifying our kitchen utensils, according to in terior atr, by using colored pot tery, knives, forks, big. spoons, egg beaters and whatnot with handles tk match our color: scheme." But there's nothing-very haandsome In the uncabineted radio set, nor in the regulation of bridge table. These things mast be concealed. ly as ever, and although I know I have won their respect, it huts aw fully to know they don't care To return. I only wish I had s chance to prove to 'Doubtful' that, although they are few and far be tween, there are some girls left wsbv apreciate boys who show them respect. Blue Eyed Bab." And "Wild Rose" writes: "Dear Mrs. Lee: I think. 'Doubtful,' that you can thank the girl for what she said, for she isn't the right kind of a girl for you. Don't give up hope, for 1 know many girls who are of the same opinion as you. t wish you would take a d fferent attitude to ward us, 'Doubtful. We all get disappointed once in a while. "A WILD ROSE." The next writers "boy friend" is too popular, at least so she has been told, and she is wondering what to do. "Dear Mrs. Lee. I have been quite friendly with a boy In high school who seems to like me very much. However, I am repeatedly informed that this fellow goep lth about 10 girls. Do you think I had better give him up, Mrs. Lee? I don't want to cheapen myself. WONDERING MISS." You are right about the matter dear, no matter what your friends say. Enjoy all your friends and expect the boy to do the same. Butte precinct in Wallowa county is said to be the largest election precinct in the country It fs 40 miles long and has a width averaging 10 miles. Up in Modern Room So the home maker has her radio Installed In the old Colonial desk. to save ; the. space the radio cab I net. would require. If. not the ex pensa. The desk is as necessarv s-s th radio, so why not combine themr - In the Illustration the radio has been installed In a desk that tits fnta the -corner. It's built that way. yetj being, oM fashioned. Is roomy enough for the radio sef and all the wires are nicely hid '(Contian) from pace 14 School Girl ; Who Spends More Per Year Running Ahead Shows Survey WASHINGTON (A P) T h high school girl who spends more than $110 year for clothes Is running ahead of the average. This Js the conclusion reached by Janet M.' Stevens, of the Cen tral high school, Minneapolis, for mulated in a report published by the American Home Economics as sociation. It Is based on budget ex penditures made by tenth grade girls who have kept accounts throughout a year or more. It has been shown, says Miss Stevens, that keeping a budget has a marked effect in regulating fam ily relationships and will be of great advantage In helping the bride, to weather many marital storms. "A family budget for two," she 3aid, "must be worked out so that the clothing budget may be seen in relation to the other expendi tures. If girls while in school have given thought to this home prob lem they will be better prepared to work expenditures out wisely and economically, and instead of having no idea what a young worn an'a clothes ought to cost will have discovered the amount approxi mately necessary for herself, even though she insists that 'a man doesn't need so much.' "Most fathers and brothers are not very helpful on this point, be cause they never kept an account, but s young man who has done so and his budget will be a help. The girl sees that this is just one more place In the marriage relation where there must be an arrange ment fair to both sides." S BUTTON PUSTEID Molyneux Has New Model with Pockets Entirely Cov ered With Buttons By Hazel Res via f Atn,-iated Prrsa Fashion Editor) PARIS (AP) Buttons hate suddenly shot into importance as a style factor. Their nlld revival a few months ago In useful guises la entirely -clipsed by the furore of button sewing going on in some of the smartest dress houses. Paris has new dresses which depend entire ly on buttons for ornament. In their enthusiasm the dress makers even forsake straight lines and rowg and sew buttons broad cast like polka dots or use them like large sequins to trim jackets, pockets and cuffs. Jeanne Lanvln sponsors the 'Uyle of a continuous row of but tons around the hem. Chanel goes further and de signs a bolero Jacket with a yoke encrusted with closely arranged white pearl buttons that give it a Spanish bull-f!ghttng look. , The buttons on this Jacket gradually thin out until they are .sparsely scattered around the bottom. But the miniature cavalier cuffers are covered with them. Chanel shows the bolero as part of a skirt and blouse costume. Molyneux. has a new model with pockets entirely covered with but tons. The lead of these important houses -is followed by designers of lesser importance who find button trimming an easy form of novelty. Manufacturers are preparing for a, button boom. Similar vag aries of fashion make sizeable for tunes for - manufacturers allied the fashion trade. Each seaeon it is something different. The only difficulty Is to know what fash ions will last and which will fade away almost as quickly as t hey are Introduced. I SCHOOLS IMPROVED WILMINGTON. Del. ( AP). A state school building program which was passed at the last ses sion of the legislature was intro duced and supported by members of the Dele ware Federation of Women's clubs. i - A campaign for the eradication of mosquitoes in Deleware by spraying - marshes and other breeding .places wtlljbave an Im portant place on the next year's program of the Federation, OBJECTIONABLE MAGAZINES BLOOM FIELD. la. (AP) -The removal of 16 objectionabl maga zines from the news stands of Oowa has been" effected by the State Federation of Women's clubs. OHIO RECOGNIZES TALENT -LIMA, Ohio. ( AP). A com pilation of Ohio-iborn writers and artists Is being made by the Ohio Federation of Women's clubs for the . purpose of giving state and national' recognition to taen from the Buckeye state. Tho pack of the Ilillsboro can nery for the 1927 season totaled 700,000 cases as-compared with 604.000 In 1926. ' The pack is rained at m6re than $2,000,000. Hit