EIGHT MEDFORD (OHEGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday, July 21, 1957
IPolponirri
Someone has come up with a design for a summer shirt which
we think might solve a problem for the men. For years manu
facturers have been trying to find a summer shirt which would
look reasonably dressy and at the same time be cooler and more
comfortable than the conventional so-called dress shirt with high,
tight collar and long, cuffed sleeves.
While in the Big City we saw shirts designed with turn-down
collar and yoke and with three stitched pleat-like folds down the
back. The shirts had short sleeves and a band around the bottom
which matched the back pleats, and were of white and other solid
colors.
Made to be worn outside the trousers, the shirts are somewhat
dressier and neater looking lhan the sports shirt almost universally
worn by western men in small cities and towns for the warm
months. With a climate like that of the eastern seaboard in the
summer time, seems like even the most fastidious and formal of
men would welcome a cool garment.
Not all the new tricks are known in the East, however. When
Potpourri and the Army wife were shopping for a suible gift
for the head of the household, the man clerk asked, in one of those
"1'ILask but it won't do any good" voices "Do you know his size
madam?" So we whipped out the little blue card which Mann's
department store had given us, consulted, and rattled off the
number. "May I see that?" inquired the clerk, in a most interested
manner and after he had examined it, he murmured to himself
"Now why don't we do the same thing."
The card, in case anyone is interested, has Mann's name and
a bit of advertising and "Personal Size Record" on the front. On
the reverse it says "This Is My Man" and lists spaces for the various
clothing sizes. Real handy.
The clerk where we bought pappy's present was friendly and
accommodating, but one we came upon later wasn't. Seeing a gar
ment in the window which looked like a light cotton tee, or polo
shirt, in colors, and with a mesh weave, the two of us popped in
and asked to see them. The haughty looking man said they were
$6.50 each, just reduced from SI. 60. When we exclaimed, involun
tarily, he said icily, "Madam, this is Madison avenue. If you aren't
prepared to pay Madison avenue prices, you shouldn t shop here
Completely cowed, the two of us crept out. We're still burning
because we couldn't think of a suitable retort which would leave
the nasty creature as speechless as we were.
Relating this incident to our sister-in-law, she repeated one
which has kept her laughing for months. Examining a hand bag
while in a store, Mrs. H. asked the clerk if the price tag read
$10. 95, or $79.95. "Madam," replied the clerk. "If it had been
$19.95, I would have bought it myself long ago."
Today Potpourri, pappy and Photographer Bob Vroman will
join the C. of C. wild flower class for a trek up on Mt. Ashland
in the hope of getting some good pictures. Class members heard
lectures and saw films last winter, and now have been making
field trips in southern Oregon.
Last Sunday we attended services in the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine in New York, a vast vaulted, -Ti.te structure which
has been a-building for 60 years and which is not yet completed.
Arriving a bit late, we were seated about three-fourths of the way
to the rear of the main church and so far away were the altar and
lectern that we wished we'd brought the opera glasses. The ritual
was broadcast in a subdued manner, and the sermon in a somewhat
louder fashion. The organ tones crashed and-rolled, and the voices
of the all-male choir at times were beautifully amplified by the
echoes. However, we found it a bit difficult to be devout with
the officiating priests about a block away.
The service was one specially arranged for members of the
American Bar association, convening in New York City, and the
sermon was delivered by the Very Rev. James A. Pike, dean of
the Cathedral Church and adjunct professor of religion and law
of Columbia university. Dean Pike, who has a delicious sense of
humor, explained that the service was being dedicated to attorneys
of the nation and spoke briefly of the special altar in the Legal
Bay, at which a small portion of the service had been conducted.
Obviously enjoying his own remarks. Dean Pike told how the
altar had been erected with the idea of dedicating it to a lawyer
and a saint, but that church officials had been hard pressed to
find a lawyer who had also been a saint. Finally St. Yves was
chosen, and he quoted, again with great relish, the tombstone on
St. Yves grave. It went something like this: Hhere lies . . . an
honest lawyer who did not steal, a fact which the poor found
hard to believe."
It is interesting to note that Dean Pike, formerly an attorney
in California, deserted his profession to study theology and even
tually was ordained in the Episcopal church.
Looking around the congregation in the cathedral we saw a
number of women with uncovered heads. When the woman seated
next to us discovered that it was to be a communion service, she
extracted a paper handkerchief from her handbag, begged a hair
pin from Potpourri's bun, and pinned on the makeshift head-covering
before leaving her seat for the altar. We saw another wor
shipper with the same emergency headdress.
Also a surprise to the two visitors was the fact that many
eastern women attend church in the summer time wearing frocks
which are very "bare." Apparently comfort comes before tradition
After church the two of us spent some time in the Museum of
Modern Art, where dozens of Picasso's works are now on exhibit,
and later we attended a matinee performance of "The Country
Wife" at the little Renata theater on Bleeker street in Greenwich
village.
We h-J gone because Joan Kugell, former Ashland Shake-speare-ii
festival actress was to play the lead in the show for the
day. out were doubly pleased to find Joyce Womack Ebert, another
ex-festival actress, also in the cast. Joyce and Michael Ebert, who
also played in the Ashland festival in 1954, were married about
six months ago and Mike is now in the Army.
Both Joan and Joyce are outstanding in Wycherley's Restora
tion comedy, and the play is enjoying a fair run.
Boy Scouts of more than a dozen faiths attended religious
services last Sunday during the encampment at Valley Forge, and
one of the outstanding speakers was the Rev. Louis H. Evans of
New York, minister-at-large of the Board of National Missions
of the Presbyterian church. The New York Times, reporting the
sermon, printed this quotation from his talk entitled "Tomorrow
is Yours."
"My hope for the world brotherhood today Is that I see the
brown men from India, the black boys from Africa and the United
States, the yellow-skinned youth from Japan and the red boys of
the Indian prairies. Like a multi-colored sunset, we need all these
colors to make up a rich sky of brotherhood." O.S.
Home Economics Teacher
Urges 'Love of Persons'
As Weil as of 'Things'
St. Louis ilP A clergyman
has urged home economics tea
chers to counter people's "love
of things," with " a love of per-s-ons."
Dr. Wesley H. Hager of Grace
Methodist church told the home
economists at their recent na
tional convention here, that
"There are too many people
content, or trying to be content,
with what is not life at all."
He put the burden of respon
sibility on women to keep kind
r.ers and love alive in the
world.
"Women by nature are un
iquely equipped to appreciate
the human values." he said.
Dr. Hager placed emphasis on
the role of education in counter
ing anxiety in a fast-changing
world. He cited the work of
Susan B. Anthony, who helped
gain for women the right to
equal education with men, add
ing: "In the kind of a world where
men wield the destructives pow-j
er which even in an experimen-l
tal use threatens the very health
Today's Family Moving
Back Into Kitchen
Chicago Ml Today's av
erage family is moving back
into the kitchen, reports a Chi
cago architect-builder,
"The average home-buying
family now is bigger and has
more pre-school age children
than the home-buying family of
two and three decades ago," said
Harry J. Quinn, head of a home
building firm.
Quinn said the return to lar
ger families gradually is bring
ing home buyers back to the
Edwardian-Victorian eras, when
large houses, with big rooms
and extra-big kitchens' were da
sired. "Kitchens now are becomin?
multi-purpose rooms." Quinn
said, "and a housewife can use
them for more than just cook
ing. No longer does the house
wife have to isolate herself from
the rest of the family."
East Africa
Art Influence
Home Decor
By VIVIAN SANDE
United Press Correspondent
New York wi Ronda Rob
ins' enthusiasm for the art of
wood carving in East Africa
soon may be influencing the
decor of American homes. It also
may open a new phase of inter
national commerce.
Her interest in trade began
with a job in a New York ship
ping company office when the
Canadian-born Ronda was in her
teens. During the days of World
War II she worked with the U.S.
government's Economic Defense
Board, the Foreign Economic
Administration and the Office
of International Trade of the De
partment of Commerce.
Now she heads a foreign and
domestic trade consulting busi
ness in Washington. She began
it when the war ended, and is a
one-woman enterprise to pro
mote the import of fine carvings
from East Africa.
Interest Began
Miss Robins said that seven
years ago she saw a few carv
ings from Kenya at a private ex
hibit in Manhattan. The work
manship and wood grains fasci
nated her, though she never had
had any special interest in wood
sculpture before.
She learned more about the
primitive art, and began a col
lection which turned into an ad
venture by mail. As her collec
tion grew, she began to think in
terms of importing the sculp
tures for sale.
She has made contact with
five tribes who have skilled
craftsmen.
The paper work was painful.
Imagine what it is like to do
business with people who know
little of the written word, and
nothing of international rules
and regulations.
But the enthusiastic Miss Rob
ins would not be discouraged by
difficulty. She collected thou
sands of good works, with the
cooperation of the East African
governments interested in de
veloping an industry and trad
ers who saw opportunity for
themselves and the carvers.
Sculptured Jewelry
So far Miss Robins has ex
hibited the works in museums
and art galleries across the
country, and filled about one
thousand individual orders. Now
she has designed a line of jew
elry of small carvings, and in
troduced an "animal of the
month" club which would make
it possible for a child or adult
hobbyist to collect carved ani
mals of Africa.
Now on the threshold of intro
ducing her East African art to
the general public in the United
States, Ronda Robins sees advan
tages to both sides of the trade.
In Africa, she said, good
craftsmen will be able to in
crease their incomes from the
average 10 to 20 dollars a year,
to about that figure per month.
In the, U.iited States, she
added, purchasers will be able
to have original art works for
their homes, without spending a
fortune.
Flower Garden
Welcomes All
Memphis, Tenn. IW Mrs.
F. M. Cooper likes her huge
flower garden .so much she
wants to share it with the world.
At the entrance of the color
ful garden is this sign: "Wel
come flower lovers, come in any
time."
Mrs. Cooper, a first-class flow
er lover herself, often is up as
early as 5:30 a.m. to work in her
acre of plants. When she comes
home in the late afternoon from
day's work in an office, she
dons her garden apparel again.
Her husband, who has arthri
tis, does much of the work in
the soil with her.
Her welcome sign, up for four
years, has made hundreds of
friends for her among the city's
flower lovers. She said she
never buys plants. So many peo
ple want to add something to the
garden that everything I have
in it has been given to me."
I have enjoyed seeing other
people s gardens and now I want
to share mine," Mrs. Cooper
said.
Trees, perennials and annuals
grow along the borders. Long
beds of roses flanked- by iris
bloom nearby. Mrs. Cooper sayi
it's easier to say which kind of
garden plants she does not have
rather than what she has.
A path from the garden bv
way of a goldfish and lily pool
leads the visitor to another sign:
i am giaa you came and I hope
you have enjoyed your tour.
Frances Crump Coope."
Canada has about 228,300
square miles of fresh water by
area.
of our children, the hope for
tomorrow lies in homes where
creative women shape the souls
of children who are the light
and the hope of the world." j
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Summer accessories for rooms, porches, or patios may be
found among the many imports from Japan. They were first
introduced in this country by the San Francisco Japan Trade
Center. At the lop, center, are a modern wood-carving and a
reproduction of a pottery head excavated from an ancient
grave; right, a brilliantly lacquered lion's head for the tra
ditional lion dance. The pottery and bamboo baskets speak
for themselves. The amusing fish (center below) are plastic,
and the mask is a reproduction of a priceless antique. All
were created by Japanese craftsmen for American homes.
New York Restaurant
Invents Barbecue Sauce
With Maple Syrup
New York UP A Chinese
restaurant in New York, Hang
Far Low has a new barbecue
cause for spareribs. Mix 6 table
spoons pure maple syrup with
Hi tablespoons salt, 2 table
spoons Chinese Hoisin sauce, 1 V2
tablespoons soya sauce, 1 table
spoon sherry and a touch of garl
ic powder. The Hoisin sauce is
available in most supermarkets.
Marinate ribs in sauce 2 to 3
hours. Broil under medium heat
for the first half hour, then un
der low heat for 1 hour. Serve
plain or with a sweet-sour sauce.
Earrings of Cotton
Change to Washcloths
New York IIP) One girl
on the go combines her earrings
and washcloths.
Sounds unlikely, but the 1957
Maid of Cotton, Helen Landon,
has a pair of trick earrings
which turn into washcloths. The
earrings, made of cotton, natur
ally, stretch when dunked in
water then regain their shape
when dry.
Maggi Ryan, a New York cos
metician, made the earrings as
a gag. Miss Ryan also makes
a packet of compressed cotton
sponges for travelers. When wet,
the sponges can be used for a
Old Couple Has Moved
To New Home 171 Times
Ripley, Miss. IIP) Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Lee Decanter are
the "moving-est" people around
here.
Decanter is 81, his wife 79. In
their 62 years of marriage the
couple moved 171 times.
Decanter, a retired timber
man, said they just moved about
in their section of Mississippi.
"We'd be renting a house and
sec a chance to get a better
place," Decanter said. "So, we'd
move, or we might find a place
just as good for less money."
Cucumbers
Summer cooler . . . fresh cu
cumber sticks, served with a
sprinkling of salt and ground
dill seed. Serve chilled.
Complete Inter-Corn
System Newest Gadget
For Modern Kitchen
Connersville, Ind. (IB The
latest gadget for the kitchen is
which allows the homemaker to
communicate with any other
room in the house, answer the
doorbell or chat with her neigh
boor without even dropping the
paring knife.
The new "Kitchen-Com" unit
is a compact m e s sage canter
much like those used in the most
modern offices.
By the simple flicking of a
switch, the homemaker can talk
to any selected room in her
house, carry on a conversation
with who ever has been ring
ing the doorbell, or use the tele
phone. The phone can remain in
place, and she does not even
need to touch it.
Don't Say
"Hello"
Say
"FILTER-FLO"
quick clean-up and then thrown
away.
STANLEY A. BROWN, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Announces
The Moving of His Office
from Gold Hill to
55 North Third Street Central Point, Ore.
Phone NO 4-2475
If
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if
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