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EIGHT MZDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday December 12 1954 rPdDttjpciDiiiiiPipn About this time every year order and efficiency declines to practically nothing at our house. An extra card table and the sideboard are stacked with Christmas cards, those coming and those going, the upstairs hall is filled with gifts aed the bright litter of wrapping paper and ribbon, and in the kitchen there's the makings for fruit cake, cookies or candy. Somehow or the other, everything is finally done by Christ mas eve. The cards and packages are mailed, the cooking done, the house cleaned and decorated and the family is ready for Christmas. One day last summer in desperation we took practically every thingexcept a few battered cookbooks we couldn't live without out of the big drawer in the kitchen which was filled with thousands, and we do mean thousands, of recipes. The rest we stuffed in a box and put out in the laundry room and we vowed a solemn, solemn vow not to cut out any more recipes, or take any more home from the office. Well, only a few, anyhow. Now the drawer is already a quarter full again. If the recipes didn't have such interesting titles, maybe we could resist. Last week, in a few weak moments, we added Chicken Exotique, Cur ried Turkey with Rice Mounds, Vintage Cranberry Molds, Chicken Tetrazinni, Duckling Stroganoff, and a recipe for jellied tomato ring. Maybe in heaven there will be a corner set aside for cooks who want to spend the first aeon or two trying out all the recipes they collected while on earth. Warren Weaver, director of the division of natural sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation since 1932, thinks "this easy-does-it movement has gone too far." Writing under the title, "Peace of Mind" in the Saturday Review, Mr. Weaver mentions Joshua Liebman's book, "Peace of Mind" and Norman Vincent Peale's "The Power of Positive Thinking." Admitting that he Just couldn't make himself read all of either book, Mr. Weaver says "This 'How To Be at Peace' gimmick seems to me part of a general lazy movement which we find urged on us from all sides" and mentions that people are induced to get to know literature without reading books, how to speak foreign languages without any study and now to grow thin without dieting. Mr. Weaver reviews the physical concept of peace, says there isn't any such thing, moves on to the biological world and con cludes that if the elemental forms of life, millions of years ago, had been content with their lot "Where would you and I be now? Single-celled, untroubled by responsibilities, and with no stimulus to improve, we would be at perfect peace, inert in the cool cosmic slime." In the rest of this stimulating article Mr. Weaver, who says he belongs to a church and attends regularly, declares he doesn't want peace of mind and doesn't ask that his religion bring him this state of mind. "I want no sluggish languor, no bovine com placency," he says vigorously. "A phenobarbital philosophy does not appeal to me. I want to be concerned, stimulated, stirred, worried. I most emphatically prefer a divine discontent to peace of mind. "God pity m on the day when I have lost my restlessness! God forgive me on the day when I am satisfied! God rouse me up if ever I am so dull, insensitive, lazy, complacent, phlegmatic and apathetic as to be at peace!" So concludes Author Weaver. Rosemary Clooney, according to Ron Burton, UP writer, wishes she didn't have to smile all the time. Miss C. thinks politicians and actors have one thing in common, "that ever present smile." She said actors can't show their true feelings, even if they are tired, blue or ready to blow their top about something. What makes Miss Clooney think the "ever-present smile" . is confined to actors and politicians? How about the nurse who knows she must smile to cheer her patient, the doctor who smiles away the worries of an anxious mother, the teacher who smilingly soothes the frightened first-grader,' the cheerful salesgirl in a department store or the musician who thanks his audience with a smile and bow? , On the other hand, let's not overdo this smile business. And if you don't think it can be overdone, just watch a certain TV star at his candle-lighted piano on Thursday nights. Newest invention to aid milady in keeping her hands beautiful is the artificial fingernail. Acording to the West Coast Oil in formation committee, a dentist devised the formula. The beautician fits stiff silver paper forms to the tip of the nails, then a plastic is painted over both the nails and the form. After the plastic hardens, the paper forms are peeled out from under, the new nails are shaped and filed to the desired length. A special colorless liquid is then applied to set the plastic and there you are, a new set of nails, ready for a coat of polish. It's practi cally impossible to break them, and they can't develop rough edges that snag nylons. At least one Jackson county resident responded to a story in Wednesday's paper about little Charles Smart of Coquille, who wrote a letter to Santa Claus asking for a wheel chair for Christ mas. William C. Jennings, veteran assigned to Company A, Camp White domiciliary, sent Mrs. Minnie Zahnow, Red Cross Grey Lady, in to The Tribune Friday with a dollar bill to be sent to Charles, badly injured when he was struck by a hit and run driver. Mrs. Zahnow says that every month Mr. Jennings shares part of his pocket money with some boy or girl in this fashion. A laundry in Memphis, Tenn., is doing its part to keep the home fires burning and peace In the family. When a bundle of clean cotton shirts is returned, the band around them has a discreet reminder to husbands. "Have you kissed your wife this morning?" ' OS. Portland Commodity Service Chief Named Washington (U.R) Earl C. Corey, federal marketing spec ialist, Saturday was appointed chief of the Commodity Stabili zation Service office at Portland, Ore. ' Corey, now serving as market ing specialist with the Agricul ture Department's Foreign Agri cultural Service, will replace Walter R. Johnson, who is re signing. , Corey was director of the Commodity Credit Corp. Reg ional office - at Portland pre decessor of the present office, A TRIBUTE TO GRANDMAS Grandmother sits quietly in her beloved corner ' and knits little things for that babe on the way. Lovingly she 'darns your socks or patches up old clothes, or just patiently potters around in a sort of reverie. Or maybe she's a young and modern Grandmama, bristling with activity attending club meetings and keeping right up with the fast tempo of today. In either case, however, she is your Grandmother and deserves that special kind of love which only Grandmothers can understand. Let her know what a grand Grandmother you think she is. One day, remember, you, too, will have silver threads among the gold! Medford Pharmacy; Inc. We Are Open Today 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. 127 EAST SIXTH PHONE 2-6253 WE SALUTE OUR TOWN! 0 o P3H 0 3 I! (5 To decorate a small house for Christmas, George Howard, holi day lighting specialist for Gen eral Electric, suggest the use of tiny new C-7V bulbs in outdoor strings. These tiny bulbs which are in perfect scale with small architectural features may be placed about four inches apart for a jewel-studded effect. In the picture window indoor tree lights are scattered against a flameproof midnight blue pa per sky. Lighted twin choir singers, 18 inches high and made of red and white plastic, sing from a Noel hymn book. Stars which are small alumi num frozen pie tins pinched into five points and inserted over bulb sockets, are held in place with fine wire. A large red and white translucent rope-twist can dle adds a welcome at the door way. Blue and white lighted bells are hung from the center lock on the inside of the other front window. Frenchman Advises On Perfume for Gifts New York (U.R) Men usually . could wear everyday to help find one perfume they like and then give it to each woman on their Christmas gift list. This is the wrong approach, one male authority warns. Harang, a volatile Frenchman who is vice-president of a lead ing perfume company, has sev eral helpful suggestions for pick ing right perfumes for different women. "If you don't know the lady well and don't know her prefer ence, stick to the well known classics and steer away from ex tremes," he advised. "Chances are a housewife would appreciate a perfume she Woman to Spend Three Months On- Wagon Trip Los Angeles (U.R) Adriana De Zola, . 47 - year - old widow, carrying a sawed off , shotgun, left Los Angeles today on a haz ardous three month wagon trip to her birthplace on the tip of Baja, lower California. The senora's 12-foot wagon, nicknamed "Amukiriki", The Lord Willing, was blessed by a cadre at the Queen of Angels church here before it was hitch ed to a car for the first leg of the journey to Ensenada, Mex. There Mrs. De Zola will pur chase two $6 burros and wend her way southward over the pen insula's rough terrain to the fish ing village of San Jose Del Cabo. "I plan to hunt, fish, cook and visit on my trip," she said. I'm taking along a lot of Mexican beans and corn flour and I'm going to cook cactus and rattle snakes if I can find any. I'm going to have a roaring good time." She plans to set up a library in the little fishing village where she will teach children to speak English. . ' ! TAFFETA WINSOME" Winsome and wonderful- this SemiTeen two-timer Lovely dress-up dress of acetate taf feta, with its own separate jacket. Flare skirt circled with, rows of niching. Jewelled pussy-cat bow trims the bolero. Red or Navy, SemiTeen sizes TO ,ott take the monotony out of her daily routine. A floral scent is appropriate," he said. "A perfume that is somewhat oriental in scent is good, for a woman with a busy social life. It is sophisticated, heady and intense. "A young girl should be given a perfume with, a clean, fresh citrus note." The executive who gives his secretary perfume, Harang con cluded, better make sure it's suitable for daytime wear. Then he won't have exotic fragrance wafting across a solemn business conference. Monday 9:30 a.m. Howard Garden club, .Mrs. Don Elliot, 2705 Howard ave. 12 noon Adarel Past Mat rons club, Mrs. George Dror baugh, Hillside dr., Route 2, Medford. 12 noon Scottish Rites Wo men's club, Medford hotel. 2 p.m. Retired Teachers as sociation, Girls Community club. 7:30 p.m. Women's Missionary group, Mrs. Clarence Young, Eagle Point. 7:45 p.m. Gorsline circle, First Baptist church, Mrs. Ray Bishop, 384 Stewart ave. 7:45 p.m. Degree of Honor Protective association, Redman hall. 8 p.m NOW, Odd Fellows hall. 8 p.m... Wanderers club, Mrs. Margaret Davis, 1205 East Main st. 8 p.m. Butte Falls Parent Teacher association, high school auditorium. Tuesday 10 a.m.- Eagle Point Feder ated Garden club, home of Mrs. Augusta Perry. 10:30 a.m. ; " Sams Valley Home Extension unit, home of Mrs. William Duggan. 10:30 a.m. - Oakgrove Home Extension unit, Mrs. G. W. Kell ington, 87 Perrydale lane. 1 p.m Lady Elks, Elks club party lounge. 1 p.m. Women's Fellowship of First Baptist church, Mrs. S. Ai Moore, 1222 West Main st. 2 p.m. Woman's Relief corps of Central Point, home of Mrs. Elizabeth Faber. 6:30 p.m. Pythian Sister club, Girls Community club. 7:30 p.m. SPEBSQSA, Room B, YMCA building. 7 p.m. Ladies Mounted troop, auxiliary to Jackson County Mounted Sheriff's posse, dinner and meeting, posse club house. 8 p.m. Elta Deuel Hubbs tent, DUV, courthouse. 8 p.m. American Legion Auxiliary, Legion home. , 8 pjn. Central Point Nev ita chapter, Masonic temple. 8 p.m. St. Mark's Evening guild, Parish house. v 8 p.m. DAV auxiliary, DAV hall, 1515 North Riverside ave. 8 p.m. OSNA, Community hospital penthouse. 8:15 p.m. Barracks 14, WWI auxiliary card party,; Veterans hall, Camp White. , Wednesday , 10:30 a.m. Central Point Home Extension unit, Central Point Grange hall. 12 noon Reames Social club at Masonic social hall. 1 p.m. Central Point Past Matrons club of Nevita chapter, Mrs. Everett Faber, Freeman rd. 6:30 p.m.. Past Chief club, Pythian Sisters, Mrs. Delia Watkins, 19 Mistletoe st. 7 p.m. Chapter CP, PEO, Mrs. R. B. Temple, 2146 Hill crest rd. - 7 p.m. Medford Lions and Lady Lions, Tally Ho cafe, Tal ent. 7:30 p.m. Jackson County Medical society auxiliary, Mrs. Charles W. Lemery, 200 Windsor ave. ' 8 p.m. Bow Bells chapter, DBE, Girls Community club. 8 p.m. Medford Jaycettes, Dr. George Jennings, Saginaw dr. Thursday 12:30 p.m. Thursday Lunch eon club of Medford, Mrs. E..F. Archer, 3950 Jacksonville high way. 1:30 p.m. Jacksonville Gar den club, home of Mrs. Paul Godward. 2 p?m. Sams Valley Ladies club, home of Mrs. C. W. Dug gan. 6:30 p.m. Adarel chapter, OES, Jacksonville Masonic hall. 7 p.m. Chapter CG, PEO, YOUTHFUL SINGER Ray Mc Coy, youthful gospel singer and evangelist, will speak and sing today at 7:30 p. m., at the Med ford Assembly of God church. He recently signed a contract to appear as a singing star in radio, television and films but became j 1 J 1 . convened ana now pians to enter evangelistic ministry work.: Manufacturer Says Rug Styles Changing New York (U.R) Fashions In women's clothes aren't the only things taking a leaf from the ' past this season. Floor coverings , too are reverting to styles of 25 years ago. ' ' Richard C. Kline, president of Rugcrofters, manufacturer of hard-woven carpets, said Amer ican women are revolting against the monotony of endless9 yards ' of plain color and weave. They,T now ask for striking patterns . and designs in both large and small carpets. Kline said his : company recently completed a rug in eight colors. . . Mrs. K. S. Campbell, 21 South i Groveland ave. 8 p.m. Phoenix Thursday club, home of Mrs. M. O. Grove. Friday ' 12:30 pjn. Electa club, Girls Community club. Saturday 2 p.m. Crater Lake chap ter, DAR, Mrs. T. J. Gifford, 419 South Oakdale ave. 8 p.nu Idella Rogue Santha, Nomads of Avrudaka, Pythian building. f- You can save work in ironing ruffled curtains this way. After the curtains are thoroughly washed and rinsed, apply a heavy starch to the ruffles only. Iron only the starched ruffles and the curtains will hang! straight and stiff. 4 Wires or lampcords under rugs wear ridges in the fiber, are a fire hazard and may void insurance policies. j . WITH... s -"'V - .-.-.iNaSHP- w To that 'Special" Someone . J . . Give a costume jewelry gift from our - superb selection. . ?. Make this Christmas . "a day to rememberl" MATCHING . ... 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Her Slip..; ... h different too . . longer ... sleeker . . . reminiscent of "old lace and lavender" . . 9 2195 8.95 "Her Negligee... From the Victorian era Like a picture come to life . . . thii very "prim" (and perhaps quaint too) gown and robe set. ... White . . . Pink ... Blue ... 16.95 24.95 USE YOUR CHARGE ACCOUNT OR OUR CONVENIENT LAY AWAY PLAN! . 0":: "Her favorite Santa Claus TOTS-TO-TEEHS 105 East Main Medford 21 NORTH CENTRAL .,,
