TWO MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, January 29. 1958
Ceremony Held
By Electa Club
Officers were installed at
the last meeting of Electa
Social club, held at Girls
Community club. The new of
ficers are Mrs. Allen D. Curry,
president; Mrs. Carrie Walt
ers, vice president; Mrs. Clara
M. Franklin, secretary-treas
urer.
Mrs. Clara Hodgkins was
appointed pianist, and Mrs. D.
W. Bowers, reporter. Mrs. F.
B. Root conducted the instal
lation. Red satin, roses were
presented to the new officers,
and to the retiring secretary,
Mrs. Laura Aldredge.
A welcome was extended to
Mrs. R. J. Doneison, charter
member of the club who has
returned to Medford to make
her home, and to Mrs. J. L.
Davidson, Eagle Point, also a
former member.
Luncheon was served by
Mrs. Roy Miller. Mrs. Ald
redge and Mrs. Esther Cole
man. The February committee
will be Mrs. Fred Eyde, Mrs.
Jennie Creager, Mrs. Lora
Stewart and Mrs. Beryl
Lyons. The meeting will be
held February 24.
Members of the Order of
Eastern Star not affiliated
with a valley chapter are in
vited to become members of
Electa Social club which
meets the fourth Friday of
each month at Girls Commun
ity club. Luncheon is followed
by cards.
American Women Tricked
By Designers, Says Scaasi
By GAY PAULEY
Uniled Press Women's Editor
New York 1? All right,
the American woman is the
best dressed in the world. But
she can't credit her own good
taste, says a young and rapidly-rising
designer named Arn
old Scaasi.
Scaasi said we out-dress our
sisters in other countries sim
ply because we have more
well-styled clothes to choose
from, no matter what the
price range.
"The American woman has
a tremendous choice, like no
other woman in the world,"
he said.
The designer, who at 27 Is
so successful women will pay
as much as $3,000 for a Scaasi
coat, charges that we women
are reluctant to try anything
new in fashion
"Designers have to trick the
American woman into being
stylish.' said Scaasi. "Look
. . . it took people like me
three years to get you women
away from basic blacks and
browns into bold colors. We
just kept sneaking them in,
until they caught on.
You women are afraid.
You're constantly rebelling
against the new! "It's so much
easier to play the sure thing."
Scaasi, born in Montreal
and trained in Europe, said
the continental woman has a
wholly different approach to
clothes.
New Lodge Officers
Preside for Session
Jacksonville New officers
of Ruth Rebekah lodge of
Jacksonville conducted the
last meeting with Mrs. Lloyd
Norman, noble grand, presid
ing. Mrs. Albert Hackert, dis
trict deputy president, in
stalled Mrs. Lewis Jones as
inside guardian and Mrs. Job
Barriman as left supporter to
the vice-grand. Mrs. Carl
Black, conductor, assisted.
Plans were made for the
initiation of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas E. Thompson, Ash
land, February 3.
Refreshments were served
by Mrs. Mardell Matheny and
Mrs. Mabel McCaully.
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Financial Problems
Of Older Residents
Subject of Study
Ann Arbor, Mich. HP)
Women who go back to work
when their children go off to
school may face fewer eco
nomic problems in old age.
This is one of the findings
reported in "The New Fron
tiers of Aging," a collection
of papers and research re
ports published by the Uni
versity of Michigan Press.
In a report on income and
employment of older persons,
University of California Pro
fessor Peter O. Steiner said
working women are usually
able to cope with financial
problems.
"There is still much to be
done, however. The problem
must be attacked in terms of
encouraging working and
finding employment opportu
nities for women in their
thirties, forties and fifties
primarily to provide a form
of insurance against age, rath
er than merely augment the
family income."
Labor Secretary James P.
Mitchell recently estimated
that by 1965 better than one
out of two women 35 years
and over will be at work,
most of them in full-time jobs.
Children Dance
For PTA Session
Children of the first three
grades of Oak Grove school
entertained with folk dances
at the last meeting of Oak
Grove Parent-Teacher associ
ation. A business meeting fol
lowed the entertainment.
An invitation was extended
to all women of the commun
ity to play volleyball each
Wednesday evening in the
school gymnasium.
It was announced that the
unit now has 166 members.
Refreshments were served
by mothers of children in the
fourth grade. Mrs. W. W.
Driskell was chairman.
"It's hard to define the dif
ference," he said, "but if
bustles came in tomorrow, the
European woman would im
mediately change her posture,
haul herself up straight and
show it off. The American
woman would wear the bustle
with a slouch."
In Fashion Since 17
Scaasi has been working in
fashion since he was 17, study
ing design first in his home
town and then in Paris. He
worked behind the scenes for
the French House of Paquin
before coming to the United
States where he joined
Charles James' firm.
Now he has his own whole
sale business, specializing in
dramatic clothes for late day
and evening.
He's unorthodox in his use
of colors combining orange
and fuchsia, yellow with or
ange, or peacock blue with
lime green, for some startling
but handsome results. His
clothes retail generally be
tween SI 85 and $750 per cos
tume. A few are higner.
A pale blue moire evening
coat, lined with white fox, re
tails for around S3.000.
He's designed clothes for
Arlene Francis, Eva Gabor,
Gloria Vanderbilt and the
singing McGuire sisters. Cur
rently, his number one clothes
horse is Patricia Munsel. He
designs all the gowns for the
Metropolitan Opera star's
weekly television show.
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There is progress in the world after all. If you don't
believe it, listen to this.' Yesterday St. Martha's Episcopal
guild in Prospect held a "stay at home" bake sale. Instead of
baking a cake, or pie, or bread, or making a batch of cookies
and taking these to a sale, each member just stayed at home.
The money she would have spent to make something, she
w-ill donate to the guild. Much less work.
One of our earliest recollections is of the women of the
Methodist church 'in Lebam, Wash., giving suppers and
baked food sales and carrying on other projects to raise
money for the church. Mother was one of the faithful she
served her terms as president of the Ladies' Aid society
and one of her specialties was baked beans for sales, dinners
and picnics. As the years went on and we learned more and
more about fiinri-raisinu nrnipcts. we've wondered why it
wouldn't be more efficient just to donate the money in the
first place, instead of bothering with the food sale, or rum
mage sale or coffee hour.
However, there are arguments on both sides. In many
households the bread-winner may not be sympathetic to all
the causes to which wifey is devoted. In that case, it's a lot
more diplomatic for her just to bake something than it is to
ask the head of the household for a few extra dollars. Then
there's the "fellowship" and "propaganda" angles to be con
sidered. A coffee or tea may not only result in a few dollars
for the treasury, but serve the purpose of promoting friend
ships, bringing a few more workers into the fold, or indoc
trinating the guests.
Or, as one local minister said a few years ago "we don't
make enough money on this bazaar to really warrant the
work but it gives the women something to do.'
If you want to send the newsroom gang into a shiver of
apprehension, say something like "just look what changing
one little letter can do to a word." For it happens all too
frequently with more or less horrible results.
Monday it happened to a word in the review of the Phil
harmonic society concert, thereby changing the meaning in
a way which really counted. An unwanted "s" was added
to the word "member" thereby making it appear that more
than one faculty member from Southern Oregon college had
been involved in the disagreement which led to the with
drawal of the women's chorus from the concert program.
This was not true, and in reply to a protest, the proof sheet
which showed how the error had occurred, and absolved the
writer from blame, was mailed to Ashland.
Impressed with the costumes which the young ballet
dancers wore for "The Carnival of Animals" Sunday after
noon, Potpourri called Colleen Hope to ask if any of them
had been rented from costume houses in a nearby city.
"Heavens no," said Miss Hope. "We the mothers of the
children and relatives made them all ourselves. In fact, we
were downstairs putting the last stitches in a counle of
minutes before the youngsters went on stage."
Miss Hope said the whole performance had been a race
with time, since she had less than a month to plan the
dances and costumes, order leotards and other needed arti
cles, and rehearse the children. The leotards were late in
arriving, and when they did, many were the wrong color
and had to be dyed some twice in order to achieve exactly
the right shade. We agreed that Margaret Miles' mask and
headdress designs were extremely clever, and that the com
plete effect of the ballet had been good, considering that it
was a "hometown" effort accomplished in so short a time.
A bright postcard came last week from Mrs. Alfred S. V.
Carpenter, who with Mr. C. is spending several weeks at the
Buccaneer hotel, Christiansted, St. Croix, in the Virgin
islands, in order to be near their son-in-law and daughter,
the Burton Daughertys. Mrs. Carpenter said they planned
to leave soon to spend a couple of weeks in Florida, would
be in New Orleans at Mardi Gras time and would stop at
Palm Springs and Carmel, Calif., en route home.
Another brief note and a big clipping came not long ago
from Mrs. Patrick Hargrave, the former Pat Wilkinson of
Medford. The clipping was from the Oregonian's society
front page and showed a group of kindergarten children, one
being the Hargrave's daughter. "Have brothers, John, 3, and
Bill, 1 year," the note said. Before leaving Medford, Pat was
on the staff of KYJC.
Car comment (made by recent speaker in Medford from
San Francisco): "American cars are no longer just a means
of transportation to Americans they are an extension of our
personality." O.S.
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combine with equal parts of
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cocktail for an un
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a gay touch, add a celery
stick as an edible stirrer and
serve over ice cubes in old-
fashioned glasses.
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mary, chili powder, garlic I
salt, onion salt, celery salt !
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