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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1950)
Tl : EIGHT MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, March 19, 1950 1 t o a " f i ti tj c J ! ? 1 f cnwu Many Travelers Return From Trips South, East Travelers are still much in the news, with several returning in recent days from southern states. including Florida and Louisiana, while others have left for the south and east. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Thorn dike are home after spending three weeks at the Tides hotel, RedinRton beach in St. Peters burg, Fla. The Thorndikes par ticularly enjoy St. Petersburg, and have vacationed there in past years. The trip from Chicago to San Francisco en route home was by the Western Pacific's "Zephyr," and the couple reports the trip in the dome-topped cars very pleasant. Others returning include Mr. and Mrs. F. Corning Kenly and the Alfred S. V. Carpenters. The Kcnlys are home after spending some time in Carmel, Cal., and the Carpenters spent several weeks in Tucson, Ariz., in Death Valley and other southern Call' fornia spots. Miss Bradfish mentioned buying cashmere sweaters in England for about half the price charged in her home state. Mrs. Maude Snider Is home after a month's vacation which took her to southern California and to New Orleans where she spent a few days during the fa mous Mardi Gras festival. In ad dition to the excitement and col or of the parades and balls, Mrs. Snider enjoyed the New Orleans shops. While browsing through an antique store on Royal street one afternoon, Mrs. Snider found the duchess of Windsor among the customers in the store. The duchess, known as one of the best-dre.ssed women in the world, was wearing a blue and red plaid suit, simply cut, with a close fitting hat on this particular afternoon. From New Orelans Mrs. Sni der went to Biloxi, Miss., which she found a charming spot, and (he also visited El Paso and San Antonio, Tex., and from the for mer place made a side trip to Carlsbad caverns. The traveler also was in Juarez, Mexico, for time. While away Mrs. Snider visit ed her cousin, Mrs. Fred Blows of Los Angeles. Looking back over the trip Mrs. Sinder has decided she en Joyed most everything about the south except the cofee, but even though a confirmed coffee ad dict, Mrs. Snider prefers the kind brewed in western kitchens over the strong, black coffee eerved In the south. Departing travelers include Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Carpenter, who left early this week for a itay in the east. Interesting along the' travel theme is the fact that Miss Vir ginia Bradfish of Mrdford is quoted in an article entitled "Mr. Smith Goes to Europe" in the last issue of American magazine. The article tells of the many Americans traveling in Europe and devotes a paragraph or so to a number who were inter viewed by the author. The author explained that Miss Bradfish was among the many who save for long periods of time In order to make the trip and that she had been able to travel three months in Europe for only $1500. The most expen sive hotel room had been $4 in Switzerland and the cheapest 70 cents, in France, this including breakfast, according to the maga zine. Telling of her shopping Friday was St. Patrick's day, and as luck would have it, the Knife and Fork club members heard a speaker whose ancestors left Ireland for South America several generations ago, but who still has a strong Irish wit. Car los (his mother is Castilian Spanish) Fallon enchanted most of his audience and at the same time handed out keen observa tions about politics and economics. The speaker appearing wear ing correct dinner clothes, and a bow tie of glittering green. Be cause it was St. Patrick's day, he junked the opening paragraphs of his usual after-dinner speech and told about the Siege of Limerick in which one of his ancestors participated. Before long the audience had heard about the siege, how bagpipes really came from Ireland and not from Scotland at all, how the Irishmen exiled to France worked out a formula for a now famous drink, how the men of his half Spanish, half Irish fam ily every year on St. Patrick's day get out their bright green Irish kilts to wear for one day and how his great-grandfather named his horse George Tow and One-Half after George the Third whom he considered only half a king. He entertained with descrip tions of his family, including the "administrative aunts'' and after casually mentioning that the servant girls wore six or eight petticoats, added that this figure was based only on a "clothes line count." Later he progressed to stories of the modernization of the an cestral home and the problems which electrification of the kitch en brought about, telling how a servant girl put a turkey in the automatic washer hopefully be lieving that it would remove the bird's feathers. The speaker's accent baffled some of his listeners and when he was accused of sounding faintly Swedish, rather than Irish or Spanish, he readily said this was true and explained that this was because he had learned English while serving on ships manned with sailors of Scandi navian origin. Pageant magazine has released the results of a poll, taken sev eral weeks ago through women editors, to determine who arc America's most influential wom en, and the results tally closely with those obtained in a Meriford poll. The local figures were mailed to Pageant. Eleanor Roosevelt headed the national list, as she did the local list, "because her brains, posi tion and vast compassion for all humanity have made them selves felt both at home and abroad in constructive measures for better living." Emily Post, author of the fa mous "Etiquette," drew second place because "she still inllu ences the manners and perhaps the morals of the nation." Third was Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the courageous nurse who pioneered an unorthodox treatment for po lio, for "her courage against odds and her humanitarianism which have helped dramatize as well as Lady Elks Will Meet For Luncheon, Cards Lady Elks will meet In the party lounge of the Elks' tempi Tuesday, March 21 at 2 p.m. for dessert. Pinochle, pool, canasta and bridge will be played. Hostesses will be Mrs. Orri Brown, Mrs. Merton Lyster, Mrs, Frank Prim and Mrs. Mollie Keene. solve the problems of polio. Clare Booth Luce, former con' gresswoman from Connecticut, topped the list of political lead ers and put her in fourth place for her contributions to politics, playwriting and religion. Fifth most influential woman in Amer ica in the opinion of her fellow journalists is Dorothy Thomp- on, for her "outstanding ap proach to world conditions. Others who ranked high In the poll, both locally and national' ly, were Sen. 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