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!"
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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. Mrs. Mahoney has been
making her home with her moth
er, Mrs. Lucille Brock, 851
Palm street. Her husband is a
son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Ma
honey, 2445 Happy Valley drive.
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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.
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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
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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
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