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They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo rj4 sSJ I - THERE'S NOT .4 I I TVtlNG TO 8E I ' X- I HEWOQSABaJT-l y( V JUST REUJX ffifL VtXJtL H4TOty In !S OFTICE.DOC SUMBOyLE IS THE CALMEST, MOST REL4XED D.D.S. TUiIT EVER NIPPED 4 NERVE"- BlTT GET 4 L04D OF U!M PITYING A LITTLE GdME OP P4STURE POOL KOTWtNl' TO IT.' JUST CEL4XJUST4MICE. KS. tasy swing feijivT 7r-rj I THE TENSION Igf X&yly "SAVFULT0O K Pl2JOV''V MUCH PRESSURE ' kyT5fr ) VlN -mis G4ME" The Family Council Editor's Note: Th Family Counrll consist! of a Judge, a psychiatrist, a wspapr editor, a women's pace editor and two newspaper writers. These ronsult wttb elerrymen of ail faJtba and denominations. All letter! are held In complete confidence. Mri. B. R. T. My husband Is being vain about it. B.R.T. Her working would bust my career. Mrs. B. R. T. My husband and I have come to a very serious disagreement because of my con cern for our daughter, an only child, who is now 16. My hus band does not earn very much money and we cannot afford, on his salary, to give her the things she should have. I would like Florence to have nicer home to which she would be happy to Invite friends, and I would also like her to go to college. I do not expect my hus band to leave his job in order to find a better-paying one, be cause he can look forward to a good pension on his present job. It is my thought that I could hold down a sales job and earn enough for all the extras. But my husband is furious at the suggestion. I really do not have enough to do, and I think it would be a fine thing for Flor ence if she knew I were working for her benefit and if, on that account, she had to learn a little about housework and help out in the house. Mrs. Maxine M. Hammond NEW OWNER Rollands STUDIO of BEAUTY 24 South Grape PHONE 2-5020 MRS. Come In and meet Mrs. Hammond, a beautician for 1 5 years with months of advanced training with leading stylists . . . and a member of tha State's Style Body. OPERATORS: Mrs. Maxine M. Hammond, Owner, and Elain McNeill AIR CONDITIONED FOR YOUR COMFORT I think my husband is unrea sonable and vain about this. B. R. T I have a civil service job, but I have a reasonable hope of rising to a much better posi tion. I do not think it will help if it is known in the community that my wife is helping to sup port me. Besides, I cannot understand how she will hold down a job without neglecting our home and our daughter. My wife talks about getting a nicer home to which Florence could invite friends, but I think it is more important that Florence have a mother who can do things for her and be around when her friends call. The Council This difference of opinion calls for patient un derstanding and compromise. The husband has some good reasons for objecting to his wife's proposal, but she has good reasons for wishing to work. Aside from the ambition to pro vide better for the daughter, the need io develop a new interest should be recognized. Florence, I now 16, may be on her own be j fore many years, and the wife I will have even less to keep her ; busy at home. Clearly, it is desirable that the ' wife refrain from taking the kind of work that would make her husband feel conspicuous. It is also to be questioned whether, at this state, she should con sider full-time employment. Since there is no urgency, Mrs. B. R. T. should abandon the project of seeking a full-time job, but her husband should agree that they explore the pos sibilities of her getting into some , part - time arrangement that would broaden her lhterests as. wejl as provide some income. Such work maf not be readily found, but there are opportuni ties for gainful part-time em ployment and self - employment for women of responsibility and judgment. No good can come of exagger ating the problems. It has been exaggerated because each has feared 'the determination of the other. r "y7,5g 11 1111 i at. . " . ;. : "1 v.. .:. . -t. . - r ,- s 4 -. - Mrs. Helen Rolland Says: Have Your Blankets Washed Before You Store Them! M'lf Blankets Washed, T - ',f t Motn Treated and ; Tjk Pj i. it 1 SeaIed ln Ceipnane - jw or $ j 20 1 Send us your blankets NOW before you store them for the summer. All blankets are W AHFn THE GENTLE WOOLEN" MILL METHOD LN " J II fc GENTLE LtX FLAKES PI I I P F P D S0FT AS DOWN FOR GREATER WARMTH r - ' fc AND COMFORT! CELOPHANE PROTECTED ' For Summer Storage! For FREE Pickup and Delivery CALL 2-6165 Watch For Mrs. Rolland! She'll be calling at your home to help you with the care and mainte nance of the new miracle fabrics, washable gar ments and the many oth er fabrics in use today! MOTH TREATED Don't risk finding your blankets riddled with moth holes next Fall! Dirty blankets attract moths. a We Specialize in Cleaning Electric Blankets! a New Binding Installed at a Nomnial Cost! Medford Domestic Laundry & Dry Cleaners WHERE ONE CALL DOES IT ALL 30 North Riverside Medford Phone 2-6165 "YOUR APPEARANCE IS OUR BUSINESS" Origin of Wedding Customs Studied by New York Woman Bt h. d. quigg TJnilad Press Correspondent New York (U.PJ June is here and brides are bustin' out all over. And well they might. Nobody is going to hit them across the crown with a wed ding cake. Not right away, any how. But time was when weddings were considerably more athletic than they are now. Take, for in stance, ancient Rome. That's where wedding cakes were born, according to our June bride ex pert. In early Rome the cake was broken over the bride's head, a joyous rite. The wedding guests then picked up small broken pieces and took them home' as mementoes of the happy occa sion. Thus anointed, and properly chastened and subdued the de gree of bridal softening appar ently depending on the specific gravity of the chef's cake batter, the bride was ready for nuptial bliss. Modern brides assemble a trousseau. There, too, they are carrying on a centuries-old tradition- but not quie in the wav it was done in the olden days. In early times the bride took to her home a small bundle called a "trusse," that's the Middle Enclish form of the word.' This "trusse" was a sort of dowry on the part of the bride's family to compensate in part for what the bridegroom already had dished out to purchase the bride from her father the an cient system was one of mar riaee by purchase. These matrimonial facts are among many gathered over a period of years in European countries by Mrs. Andre Dubon net, a local lady who plans to tour the country making speches on old bridal customs. In the Middle Ages, according to Mrs. Dubonnet, it was the custom for a swain to suspend a betrothal ring from his hat band and swagger around look ing important and eligible. When he had made his choice, he would send the ring by a servant to the maid. If she wanted to say "No," she returned the ring, whereupon the swain restored it to his hat band and resumed swaggering as if nothing had happened. Up to a century ago, in cer tain parts of Europe, a ring worn on the little finger meant "No marriage for me!" Changed to the first finger, it meant "I'm looking around." A middle-finger ring meant "I'm already married" and a third-finger one meant betrothal. Egyptians Used Rings The Egyptian pharaohs, Mrs. Dubonnet says, apparently were the first to sketch the circle as a symbol of eternity; they be lieved the ring was a heavenly sign that life, happiness and love had ho beginning and no ending. Some old Roman wedding rings had tiny holes in the form of a key attached, symbolical not only of the fact that she had unlocked the secrets of her husband's heart but of her right to open his storehouse and help herself to a bolt of cloth or a bag of grain. As for the old custom of car rying the bride across the threshold, there are several the ories of origin. One is that it is a survival of marriage by cap ture. Another is that the bride might trip while crossing the threshold a bad omen. Anyhow, this month 182.427 young women are expected to become brides, according to re liable forecasters. Cheers, girls! New York Shop In Expensive Ha By GAY PAULEY United Press Correspondent New York (U.R) Some of New York's best-dressed women wear hand-me-downs. Not ordinarily cast-offs, how ever. These are second-hand gar ments with the labels of some of the world's most famous design ers. These also are second-hand garments which may have be longed originally to a Broadway or movie star. The clothes have cost the wom en only about one-third of what they would pay were the dress or suit new. They've come from a small, walkup shop on New College Education Said Necessary For All Women Madison, Wis. (U.R) You've probably heard someone say: "She shouldn't go to college be cause she'll get married someday." Mrs. Mark G. Troxell, dean of women at the University of Wis consin, deplores this attitude. "What good is a woman's edu cation?" she asked a group of 500 co-eds. "Most importantly it is some thing to live her life by, married or single, employed or unem ployed. It is an-anchor to wind ward in those days in which many of you. now see your mo thers those days women can n o t escape except by dying young the days when the hus band puts on his hat and leaves for his day's work and the house is as silent as a tomb because the children have reached the point of no return, the point where the mother is not necessary to them in the old dependent sense because they are grown up. "The woman who has kept her capacities alive through either formal or informal education ends that happy chapter and starts a new one full of differ ent but Just as exciting adven ture." She said women are educated for the same reason as men and that "a woman is more effective if educated." "Both sexes can learn, so you educate them partly because Sa tan finds work not only for idle hands but also for empty heads," she said. "You educate them be cause people are more effective educated than those same people would be uneducated and it's fun to learn. I mention this last item because I know how impor tant it is at your age whether or not a thing is fun." NUTRITION NOTE "Fact, Fad and Fraud About Food" is title of folder F-207 of Michigan- State University Ex tension service. Among ques- Specializes nd-Me-Downs York's Madison avenue "En core," run by Mrs. Florence Mor ris Barry, wife of a theatrical agent. Mrs. Barry's business in cut rate glamour started, she said in an interview, because "I found my own wardrobe was costing me a fortune. Big-Nam Labels "My husband's business meant that we had to go to a lot of par ties. Two or three appearances in one cocktail dress, and it was dead. I was going broke on new clothes and decided a lot of oth er women might be doing the same, so why not sort . of a clothes exchange" She opened the shop with $600 capital and 35 garments with such designer labels as Traina Norell, Harvey Berin, Hattie Carnegie, Ceil Chapman and Adele Simpson, Customers in the main event aren't secretaries and clerks looking for a bargain. They are wealthy women looking for a bargain. "Many of our customers arrive in chauffeur-driven cars," said Mrs. Barry. "When money's in volved, no one is snobbish about second-hand things." Top-selling items at the little shop are daytime dresses and suits, in size , 12. But evening clothes, some accessories and furs also are available. Business Grows Although an occasional design er dress is available for $15 or $20, most of them cost $50 and up. A Traina-Norell evening coat in fur-trimmed brocade, for in stance, sold for $225. Mrs. Barry said it cost th? original owner $850. Mrs. Barry calls the women she buys from her "donors." One donor, she said, has sold her 93 garments since last Nov. 25, and not a one of them cost less than $250 originally. The woman turns the proceeds over to charity. Mrs. Barry, 45, has had no previous sales experience, ex cept for a year of running the Mt. Holyoke thrift shop in Man hattan. When she opened her shop, It was with a staff of one herself. Now she has five assistants, and the cast-off clothes business is booming. "I sometimes feel like I'd swallowed a whale," she said. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday tor Monday; other days 5:30 prevlouaday. tions it asks and answers is: "Can a 'perfect' food be pur chased in tabled form?" The an swer given is: "No. The body's food needs make a variety of foods necessary. For one thing, the amount of bulk supplied by fruits and vegetables would be difficult to obtain in a tablet." SHOP TODAY For ALL Your Needs f MARKET I 1202 North Riverside V OPEN EVERY L k NIGHT 'TIL M MIDNIGHT yk Sunday, June 10, 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Helter-Skelter Home Life Said Stuttering Cause New York (U.R) A smooth-running household has a lot to do with the way a child talks. One speech expert said that children in helter-skelter homes are more likely to stutter than those in well-organized homes. Prof. R. Corbin Pennington, head of the children's speech clin ic at City College of New York, reported that confusion and quarreling make a child insecure and increase his chances of be coming a stutterer. Other factors in home envir onment also affect the child's speech, said Pennington, who has worked with stuttering children for 15 years. Parents make a child's, stammering worse by worrying about it, he added. If your child shows sign of a stammer, Pennington suggested that you make a special effort to create a happy home; make the child glad he lives there. Be con sistent in discipline, and keep your child in good health. Ill ness, he said, makes it harder for children to meet the prob lems of growing up. "True" Cantaloupe ' All cantaloupes are muskmel ons but not all muskmelons are cantaloupes. The "true" canta loupe variety of the muskmelon is grown in Europe and is not known in America. The Euro pean cantaloupe was named for the Castle of Cantalupo, the county seat of a 16th century Pope, in whose gardens a variety of muskmelon brought from Armenia was first cultivated. In America, "cantaloupe" has become the generic name of the small, oval, heavily netted, musk-scented muskmelon. PARLEZ-VOUS Thickly sliced white potatoes simmered in condensed bouillion or consomme and flavored with bits of bacon and fried onion earns the French name "Pomme de terre bonne femme." Free ly translated, we'd call them home - style potatoes, since "bonne femme," is french for "housewife." TASTY CASSEROLE Take one can of salmon or tuna fish, add one medium onion grated or finely minced. Com bine and put into a shallow greased casserole dish. Top with mashed potatoes to which a dash of garlic flavoring has been added. Dot with butter and sprinkle with grated American or parmesan cheese. Put into the oven of your gas range to bake and brown. The Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association sug gests a temperature of 300 de grees for fifteen minutes. Serve with green peas and a tossed salad. For an American version of Italy's famous ham and melon appetizer, serve a wedge of fresh cantaloupe with a paper-thin slice of cold boiled ham. For cantaloupe cup, fill a half cantaloupe with pitted cherries and orange segments. Garnish with fresh mint leaves. 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