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WO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE New Picture Phones Add To Modern Woman's Worries By ELIZABETH TOOMEY United Press Corresponded . New York U.R) Modern woman must be made of sturdy stuff, able to cope with prob lems as hazardous in their own way as any grandma ever faced on the covered wagon trail. Beautiful faces wait in am bush, ready to jump out larger than life size on billboards when the family car rounds the as phalt trail or to smile radiantly while dishing up a picture-perfect meal from the 21-inch screen in their own living room. Comparison, a woman learns ruefully, does not always lead to the sincerest form of flat tery. Neither is competition stimulating. It'd be nice to relax in a lone cabin, 25 miles from the nearest neighbor and 1,000 miles from the nearest beauty, and know you were the best looking wom an, most stimulating conversa tionalist and most expert cook your husband was likely to see this year. Picture Phones Alarming Then there's the little matter of lack of privacy. First the pic ture window exposed the living room furniture and the entire family to the neighbors' gaze. Now it has been announced that picture telephones soon will be a reality. If any happy inven tors don't think women regard that development with alarm, they should emerge from their ivory testing grounds and ask a few. The most beautiful model goes through some pretty un- glamorous stages getting ready for an appearance. The rest of us may never achieve the mod el's spectacular results,, but while we're trying we certain ly equal the shambles wrought by cold cream and hair curlers. Soon the phone may ring in the middle of a quiet afternoon of repair work: There is going to be a switch to turn off the picture, the inventors promise. But that does not shut off the uneasy mental picture s waver ing potential husband gets when his sweetheart shrieks, "No, you certainly cannot see me right now. I look a mess!" Budget Booby Trapped Much simpler when a girl Do you own a FRONT LOADING WASHER? Maybe you've wondered why your clothes don't wash as clean and white as you'd like. Or may be you've had the unhappy ex perience of having excess suds gush out over the floor. You have to be careful about what and how much you use in a front loader. With White King Soap you can be atire sure of a clean wash and sure that there won't be too much sudsing. Makes your clothes so much softer, too. Try White King Soap in your next wash load, and see the wonderful difference. ADVERTI5KMEVT OUR i F I could lower her voice to Mar lene Dietrich huskiness, make the man think she looked as lovely as she sounded, and let a rosy glow cloud reason for a couple of hours. Besides having her confidence undermined and her privacy in vaded, today's housewife has her budget booby trapped with steadily increasing temptation. She may have resisted a new pink refrigerator on the easy time payment plan, but how about the recent announcement that she now can open a charge account at five and ten cents stores? It's these small tempta tions that take such character to resist. Grandma may have been short of spending money, but at least the woods weren't full of shop windows and promises she could buy now and pay later. And there wasnt' a single Jones to keep up with for miles. Couple to Wed In Church Rites; Party for Bride The late summer iud early fall rush of weddings continues in the valley. Among the week end marriages will be that of Miss Virginia Dew, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Dew, Route 1, Box 100, Central Point, to Howard Morris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Morris, Medford. The ceremony is set for Sat urday, September 1, at 8 o'clock at First Methodist church, with the reception to follow in the church. , Monday night Miss Dew was honored at a family shower party given by her cousin, Mrs. Frank Dressier, and Mrs. Ro land Pacey, at the Dressier home, 15 Stewart avenue. The bride elect was presented gifts for her new home,-, and refreshments were served. Guests were Miss Dew, her mother,. Mrs. Morris, and Mrs. A. F. Dressier, Mrs. L. R. Dressier, Mrs. Chester James, Mrs. F. H. Dressier, Mrs. Don Walker. Klamath Falls, Mrs. Doyle Stockton, Mrs. Milton Gordon and Mrs. Lester Gordon. Medford Woman To Join Husband At German Base Mrs. Patrick W. Mahoney will leave Thursday by air for Ger many where she will join her husband, Pfc. Mahoney, on duty at Worms with the 746th Armed Infantry Battalion. Mrs. Mahoney will make the trip tby way of San Francisco and New York, and will land in Frankfort. Pfc. Mahoney has been overseas for more than four months. 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Send to Marian Martin, care of Medford Mail Tribune, Pat tern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11. N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. CALENDAR Wednesday 6 p.m. LOOM and WOTM, Moose hall. Visitors Leave Mrs. F. E. Reynolds and Miss Dorothy Reynolds left today for their home in Syracuse, N.Y., after spending three weeks in Medford with Mr. and Mrs. C. Earl Bradfish, 220 Bradford way. Mrs. Reynolds is Mrs. Bradfish's mother, and Miss Reynolds is a sister. Shoe Store MEDFORD M Mr, A Medford Woman Finds Swedish People Prosperous But Unhaopy; Taxes High Mrs. I. E. Schuler, of Medford, has returned to Oregon after spending the past year traveling and living in Europe. M r s. Schuler spent her last weeks in Europe traveling in the Scandi navian countries, and has writ ten her impressions of Sweden and Norway. After the roar and squealing of tires, the sound and fury which is Rome, the quiet of Got enborg was unnerving. Trains slid past as on rubber rails, buss es rolled along on four wheels, and cars stopped for pedestrians to cross well marked walks. No body honked at me. Nobody honked at anyone. That was my first impression of a Swedish city; the second and outstanding one was of the obvious prosperity and modern ity. Gotenborg is grandly beau tiful and Stockholm is a bigger edition of Gotenborg. The two cities have more big parks, beau tiful bronze statues and fountains more vivid flower beds and old trees, bordering wide avenues, than I've ever seen. Stockholm seems unique, cut into, and al most surrounded as it is, by Lake Malaren, and miles of water front connected by innumerable bridges, and edged with hotels, palaces and houses. Having by now learned the ef ficacy of my Mail Tribune letter, I took it to the tourist bureau to inquire where I could find out about the city and state. They telephoned and made an appointment for me to meet Mr. Goran Dahlin, cultural relations secretary. He was a young and handsome man, more British in appearance, voice and manner than Swedish. These are the most interesting facts I learned from him: King Liked The King is well liked, but is purely a figurehead. The govern ment is Social Democratic. Everyone in Sweden has money. . There is no unemployment absolutely none. It is necessary to import labor. Everyone may have the luxur ies of life as they consider them deep freeze refrigerators, elec tricity, good heating systems, good clothes and plenty of iood. Food is expensive. Restaurants are very expensive. The state is geared to the av erage man. A trained worker earns an equivalent of six thous and American dollars a year. Taxes are high. There is free hospitalization for everyone free doctors. There are private doctors, also, who earn a great deal of money. Denial Care Free Children have free dental care until 17 years. Children do not pay for school books. Children have free lunch at school. Communist party is recogniz ed, but is no threat to the state, as everyone is too prosperous. Amusements are state subsi dized. (Even such big people as the Metropolitan tenor, Juss: Bjoerling, are . inexpensive x to y hear. I paid half as much to hear him as an ordinary movie costs at home). There is complete freedom of press in Sweden. (They use the freedom to full advantage. The king's son was in Spain while I was there, and was involved in a bit of notoriety, and it was all written up in the Swedish pap ers). The Lutheran church is the state church and everyone must pay a little towards it. Ostensibly there is no social distinction in Sweden. (But ac cording to Mr. Dahlin education and family counts a great deal. He said, "That little something you can t buy for money. bervants are very expensive and will soon be a thing of the past. No one in Sweden wishes to be a servant. It is thought that eventually all restaurants will be self serving. Everyone Pensioned everyone receives a pension at sixty-five years of age, but may continue working at regu lar wages. I asked Mr. Dahlin if the Swe dish people were happy and to my amazement he said, "No, we were a happier people when we were a poor state. There is too much- prosperity.' There is to be an election this fall, and, although he didn't say so, I fancied the cultural rela tions man hoped for a change of party. Hall Impressive The most impressive building in Stockholm is the City Hall, the magnitude, style and grand eur of which is incredible. One banquet room is perhaps the biggest and most beautiful room I ever saw. The walls are cover ed with 24 carat gold mosaics eight million little pieces. It is lighted by real candles in great candelabra, the reflection of which catches the gold, which shimmers. The room will seat 800 people without a dent in the size. Any organization may rent this hall for eight or ten dol lars. The countryside in Sweden and Norway, in August, is rich with waving grain. The trees. predominantly white birch and evergreen, remind me of Minne sota, and it is understandable that so many Norwegians and Swedish people choose that state in which to settle. The farms are clean, and clear red painted. Oslo Visited At Oslo, I had a friend, and I was glad. Because of her, I feel I saw and did interesting things I probably would have missed. Although modern in appearance, Norway is not so beautiful nor so prosperous as Sweden. Nor wegians still feel bitter that the Swedes did not fight in this last war, and consequently had none of the difficulties and privations which are the natural aftermath of war. Oslo was Interesting because of the historical things and places. Having seen the movie, I was particularly interested in seeing the raft, Kon-Tiki. I learned that Mr. Thor Heyerdahl has just returned from another expedition, is in Norway, and now is certain that he has proved the Polynesians were from Peru, which was what he had attempt ed to prove by his first trip. We saw, and Went all through Raoul Amundsen's and Nansen's ship. We saw the flag which had gone to the North and South Pole. We saw the Viking ships, built in 900 A.D., which had been buried In concrete for a thous and years; the ships in which the Norwegians claim they dis covered America long before Co lumbus did. In Oslo, too, is the Nobel Prize building. We saw, and went through, Ibsen's study. We saw the famed, controversial Viegland statues in Fragner park. Liken i Skogan My friend said to me, "You like Shakespeare, why don't you go to see "Liken i Skogan?" Translated, I learned that meant "As You Like It." (In the three weeks I was in Scandinavia, I was sure of but two words. They were "Inn" and "Ut", and even with those, I somehow felt I'd find something to eat, when I went "inn.") I thought I knew the play well enough to chance hearing it in Norwegian, and besides I wanted to see what they would do with Shakespeare. Oslo's summer theater is In Fragner park. The setting for the play as a forest natural trees and shrubbery. The stage if you could call it that was on a slight knoll. It followed the natural contour of the ground uneven and sloping a bit. The characters instead of dis appearing behind scenery, would go off in various directions down a winding path, between trees, or out through bushes. The NEW, MODERN VAULT Cleaning, Gluing, Rtmedelina Frances' Furs Formerly Frances Dallalre 1100 Crater Lake Ave. Telephene Remeins 2-e52e only properties were a log and a tree stump. The only conces sion to the artificial and theatri cal was the lighting. The forest was ingeniously lighted from above, and different effects were created by change in color and spotlighting in the shrubbery. In terspersed throughout the play were the old English country dances. Sometimes they were in among the trees not on the front of the stage. The six girls dainty and petite, were from the Oslo ballet company. Silvius brought along his sheep when ever he came on. -The smaller ones wandered freely about, nib bling at bushes and grass, and doing amusing little things, ex actly as though trained for their roles. The total effect of it all was a Watteau picture. Shakespeare Outdoors There was one "pause." The placard read so. Everyone in the audience walked out into the clear night, which was itself theatrical. Below was the lake, on which swans were white on the black water, and water birds flew about. On a hill, silhouet ted against the sky, was the Viegland monolith. Altogether it was one of the highlights of my European trip. Copenhagen Visited More than any other place in Scandinavia, I had anticipated seeing Copenhagen, but it turn ed out that it was a disappoint ment. Due to change in my plans I landed in the tourist crowded city without a place to stay. How ever, an efficient travel bureau handles such situations as people without reservations, so I sat happily until my number 56 came up. I thought how good it would be to stay with Danish people, and see how they lived. I had heard how kind they were to visitors,-and how much they wished to be hospitable. I drew a room in a good resi-. den tial '.district, and with (my now despicable) four pieces of luggage, I went in a taxi to the address. The taxi man dropped me at a gate and left. The land lady looked doubtfully at her book, and gave me a price quite above that quoted by the bureau. She assured me they were mis taken. She ushered me up three flights of stairs, to what obvi ously had been an attic room. Then she left me. I trudged down and brought up the bags. I dressed and went back to the travel bureau. I asked for the director, and told her that, although I knew they were crowded, I felt that it was tak ing advantage of tourists to raise the price set by the bureau to more than a hotel room, and ex pect them to carry their own luggage. She apologized, called the woman instantly, took her off their list, and found a room for me down town in a good hotel for the same price. Which all proved to me that Copen hagen at least one person L 1 Helps "cream away" years from your Tussy Moisture Sajtens the driest skin because it contains "Humidine," a special ingredient which brings ' invisible beautifying moisture right to your skin. Helps "cream euay" years from your looks. Linw, crow's feet, forehead creases become less and less visible. . Use it as a powder base and rich night lubricant. Hurry while yon can live Vs. AUpricu pUu tax. has caught on to the Idea of "tak ing" the tourists. They tell me Denmark is making i great bid for tourist trade, and has ambi tions to be the crossroads of the north. At the time I- was there, besides the great number of tour ists, there was an international meeting of physicians 6000 of them. As I could have the hotel room for only two nights, I did not see much of Denmark, but I went to the famed Tivoli, took the trip to Hans Andersen's home and went to Elsinore, Hamlet's home. Sees Elsinore It was not that I expected Hamlet's father to be still stalk ing about, but always, in my im agination, I had visualized a stark and dramatic setting, bleak surroundings and high dashing waves against stone battlements. I was disillusioned. Hamlet will never be quite the same. Of r your out-dated fur. can ' a stunning fur For Only For I 4 a RESTYLE YOUR FURS! See what mogic our skilled furriers con perform with your old fur coat! 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