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O O O o 0 o o 2 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, July 28, 1938 No Tipping in Japan Is Delight of Tourists (A well-known American fashion editor, Lenore Brundige of the Pittsburgh Press, has just completed a tour of Japan and the Far East. In the followinq dispatch for United Press International, Miss Brundige gives some of her impressions of Japan.) BY LENORE BRUNDIGE United Press International Tokyo. (LTD It's one of the most delightful tourist at tractions imaginable. No tip ping in Japan! What a joy for the Amer- an tourist, who has probably paitf for his luggage twice over in tipping bellhops from New "bftrt to San Francisco. It stri rfle the Japan Travel direau would do well to play uie this feature to the tip f5y tourist skipping the colorful posters of Mt. Fuji Jwhich most don't get to see nyway, since it is usually shrouded in clouds), and just say, "Come on over to see us; no tips." In addition to the no-tipping custom, I'm all for the hot towel custom of washing your hands. Just squeeze out wash cloths from hot water, twist them so they looked like fat sausages, pile in a wicker bas ket and pass them around be fore eating. This ought to do away with the "Johnnv-rush- $o-bathroom-and-wash- before- dinner" routine I hear when visiting friends back home Think I'll adopt it at my first dinner party back in Pittsburgh. On second thought maybe not. After two martinis the guests might mistake them for hors d'oeuvers. Camp White Bridge Club Schedules faster Point Play Te regular monthly ses sion of master point play by the Camp White Duplicate Bridge clubj will be held Fri day, August 1. Mr. and Mrs. Berg Marten ere top scorers with 57 V4 poiSts at the July 25 session of Holl movement play. Mrs. John Dougherty and Thomas Randall were second with 57 points; E. K. Ricker and George Polski, third, 56Vi points, and Mrs. Jack Mitch ell and Mrs. Frank Baker, fourth 54 points. 7W ,s;Wt .-5"- '- : -jmr -v vt w '&. 41 b y K'4ZJL!af jr' JKm X'KV1 ' 'y 1 601 E. Main St. 1 i ) Free Parking Right t I f0 J Door JJ" H. D. CHRISTENSEN (( Taking a bath, Japanese style, is as bewildering to a tourist as trying- to eat eel with chopsticks. (I tried both. Of the two, I'll take eel). You soap; and scrub first, before getting into a tub! Then you sit in a tub the size of a small swimming pool, in boil ing water,' and soak presum ably for hours. I zipped in and out so fast my little Japanese maid was completely baffled and thought I was angry. Anyway, she massaged me afterwards within an inch of my life for about 60 cents American money. It is no trick at all to get lost in Tokyo. The streets all go in circles (I think), and when taxi drivers don't under stand English you're in for a hard time. The trick, I learned, is to get someone at the hotel to write out the name of the place you want to get back to. Then the going is easy. It is my observation that people never stop working in Japan. At the Imperial Hotel, where a new second addition is being built, the work went on all night long. The sound of building is different. In Pittsburgh, it is noisy and the boom-boom, bang-bang type. Here, it is a tap-tap, but it never stops. Most of the young girls wear western type clothes. This, I think, is too bad. The girls look so pretty in kimo nos. They have the figure for them. I've tried a kimono and look like, a fugitive from the hunchback of Notre- Dame with bulges all in the wrong places not feminine and dainty as the Japanese girls do. Tourists are a demanding lot and I marvel at the pa tience, courtesy and gracious ness of the pretty shop girls. They show endless merchan dise, wait patiently while women make up their minds, and don't show annoyance if a shoppers walks away and doesn't buy a thing. Ail Mu wmmmm mmmmmm 1 -1 "Don't try to wash these lovely things yourself' ia the earnest advice of both those who design and those who sell today's fabulous high-style summer cottons. Be safe Be Sure Trust your lovely cottons to our Sanitone Cotton Clinic. Not only are they returned spotlessly clean, but the special mill finish which gives fine cotton cloth its tissue-crisp freshness, is completely restored every time. Colors and pat terns regain their like-new sparkle, too . . . both the look and feel of newness are amazingly renewed. So, why not' call on us for Service today? Phone SP 2-9169 Your Charge Plate Store . . . Trail Riders Hold Two Day Outing A two day outing was held Saturday and Sunday by the Medford Trail Riders at H a m i c a Meadows. Thirty members participated in the event. Saturday afternoon the group rode for three hours in the mountains, returning to camps in the evening for a potluck dinner and evening of music. An early Sunday morning breakfast was held with the day spent riding in the hills, returning to the camp last evening, for a watermelon feed prior to returning to the valley. 4 Two Sessions Set For League Event Members and guests of the Medford League of Women Voters will attend the annual summer party Tuesday at the home of Mrs. John Day, Gold Rey. Swimming is planned for the morning session from 10:30 ajn. to 12:30 p.m. with bridge scheduled from 1:30 p.m. throughout the after noon. A' tour of Mrs. Day's new home, a short comedy skit on league activities and refreshments will be held dur ing both morning and after noon sessions. A one dollar charge will be made for the event. ' Picnic Held A swim and picnic were held Wednesday by Interna tional Order of Job's Daugh ters, Bethel 14, Medford, at Twin Plunges and Lithia park in Ashland. Approximately 40 persons attended. Wednesday Meeting Roxy Ann Home Economics club will meet Wednesday. July 30, at 8 p.m. at the Grange hall. Hostesses for the occasion will be Mrs. C. P. Van Ortwick and Mrs. R. D. Van Ortwick. Royal Asparagus Treat asparagus in a royal manner. Make a rich cream sauce using V cup sherry wine as part of liquid. Stir in a little grated Parmesan cheese and spoon over hot cooked asparagus stalks; sprinkle with toasted slivered almonds. Whites are whiter Colors brighter when - Way does my smart summer cottons Roman Miscellany By Margaret Schuler Rome Italians have a cu rious aptitude for mathemat ics. I have never found one making a mistake in my favor; they have a propensity for confusing their lire in making change in their fa vor; and seemingly, they have a second sense in knowing how inept I am in my arith metic. It isn't that I be grudge the little fellows a few dishonest lire. It is that I hate tc be taken so continuously for a sucker. In the U. S. if you can be sure of anyone being honest, it is our postal clerks, or our railway ticket men. They will not short change you, or sell you a 100 lire ticket for 150 lire, depending on your not knowing that the price is on the ticket. But the one who really hurts my feelings is the madonna faced girl in the little tobacco shop where I buy my stamps. She will look at me with velvet eyes, tell me how pretty my chain or dress is and short change me every time. (I will say, though, you never have to argue with anyone. You just look at the money and at them, and they will produce the remainder). I try to remember that in the U. S. we sold gold bricks and the Brooklyn bridge. At least no one has tried to pawn off the Colosseum on me yet. Believe Americans Rich No, here it is another mat ter it is, I am certain, that the average Italian firmly be lieves that most tourists and all Americans are rich. A guide asked me (of all per sons) if I had a Cadillac car. (Of course, I told him "no" but that I knew some one who had a Ford). With that psy chology in mind, that all Americans are rolling in Cad illacs, it is easy to understand what happened (and I saw this) when a big, cigar smok ing American, said to a wait er as he pulled out a wad of money, as big as an average worker's month salary. "Here, take whatever it costs. I can't make the d d stuff out." Well, the Italians aren't stupid. They are only human, and they can't miss bets like that. That, and the cheerful American, who adds to the 18 per cent he is always charged for service, a tip, half as big as his bill, encourages the Ital ian and discourages the poor fellow, whatever his nation ality who follows him, and can't afford to throw his lire about in such abundance. So, from one who has learned the expensive way, may I offer a few tips to you, who are planning a first trip to Europe this year. Naturally, you expect to be gypped a lit tle. It is part of the fun in reminiscing, to remember how you paid false customs once, or bought a gadget for eight cents at the thieves' market as one innocent did, guaranteed to cut glass. (I cer tainly saw the man who sold it to me cut through a big, heavy glass). But that is something again. But Rome is expensive in any man's cur rency, and there isn't any rea son to drop more money than is necessary. Sliding Scale One thing, but I doubt whether it is worth mention ing as it is a game requiring patience and practice, is never to pay the asking price for anything (excepting at the ten cent stores where prices are fixed.) All of Rome is sort of a sliding scale of values with an eventual point of agreement. For- an example: You buy perfume and say, "a friend of mine, Senora so and so of the Embassy, said, that you would give me ten per cent off if I mentioned her name." Or you go to buy gloves. If you buy two pairs you get a dis count, if you buy six pairs you get another reduction. One big yardage shop is run on the discount principle. Al most everyone is eligible for up to 20 per cent discount, if he is aware of it. Often a ho tel clerk tells guests to men tion his name and so of course he comes in for his cut, also. Then, here is the same slid ing scale, in another business. You think it would be fun to have a ride in a fiacre the horse and carriage. "The horse is darling, and the old driver, so cute." But the dear little old man may charge you as much as a trip to Naples on the train, if you don't bar gain, in advance. This is . the commonly accepted method. "Quanta costa?" Then you huff and puff, and walk off scornfully when he gives you the ridiculous price he cer tainly will. Never fear he will follow you with another offer. You still gesticulate, It alianwise, and keep going. You don't give in yet, or you lose his respect. But on his third offer, which will be half of his first (and plenty) you'd be wise to turn around and jump in. He has a certain base price, beyond which he will not budge. So with the cameo selling man. It would be madness to pay his asking price. And, just in case you don't care to have a cameo, you will have to be fiercely definite, or he will follow you home al most. Taxi Drivers Taxis too. The Italian taxi driver is different from the Frenchman, who not only cheats you, but is high and mighty about it, or the New Yorker who settles world problems with you and ex pects big tips. The Italian driver is quiet and humble. He has only two tricks, he will quickly flip his meter to zero or will not have change for your 1000 lire note so that you have the choice of going off after the change or letting him have the remainder, which may be far too much. It often seems less complicat ed to let him have it. Of course-he operates on that as sumption. But not all drivers of taxis are like that, and be sides, taxis are reasonable in Rome. It costs less to ride the same distance here than in Medford for instance. "II conto," your bill. Of the many things tending to confound you in Europe, you bill for, say, soup, wine and spaghetti will come first. When you have finished eat ing you wait and continue waiting even if it's hours, un til you call the waiter. He will never come and present a bill. But after you have sig nalled him, he comes, and looks the situation over (but he knows full well what you have ordered.) Then he goes after a pad and returns, and starts writing and writing, un til you are certain you will have to give up the extra trip you have planned. He lays the torn paper on the table, a page of mathematical sigh, which will read some thing like this when trans lated. Pane (bread) whether you have eaten it or not (in Aus tria the waiter counts the number of rolls and charges accordingly). Then the cover charge; then the wine, then the soup and the spaghetti. Following this, the 18 per cent service charge. Total, prob ably around 80 cents in our money. Taxes and Surtaxes It is also the same with your "camera your bed room." You have charges and surcharges, taxes and sur taxes. You have from 40 to 80 cents for the "bagne" bath (without soap) and if you have been injurdicious enough to order orange juice and an egg with your continental breakfast of rolls and coffe, your bill grows into great length and proportions. But again, after all is said and done, and translated from lire "into dollars it will probably about equal the comparatively simple one in the States. There is no question but that their method of doing things is different from ours, but when you are in Rome you may as well do as the Romans do, without fussing. After all, they didn't ask you to come. I know I have decid ea this much, lost face or not, I won't try to haggle about prices. If it's a matter of a 100 lire or two, and the cost seems reasonable by our standards I pay it. If you can't haggle in Italian you can't haggle, anyway. But I don't buy anything in Rome that I don't need or have to have. You can save money by going to Florence for a couple of days if it is' a matter of buying gifts leather, linens or painting. Many of the things sold here come from Florence. Adjusts for Comfort! Back adjusts up and down, in and out, tilts automatically! Adjust ments made easily, without tools. Rubber-treaded "swing-away" steps.'Chromium finish; Duran up holstery, choice of colors. Use ACME'S BUDGET PLAN! No Down Payment en approved credit! AIR-CONDITIONED COOL FREE PARKING Specialists in Hemewares 245 S. Central at 10th Model 40-A ff JTT( I "'y , M (11 $18.95 Superstitions Play . By PAT HERMAN United Press International Paris (UPD Superstitions help keep some of France's top designers on pins and needles. They're naturally apprehen sive right now about the suc cess of their fall and winter collections, which they start ed showing today. But many of them are plagued with ad ditional "nerves" because they feel their luck as couturiers is tied in with numbers, with showroom customs, even with the hour of the day in which their collections go "on". Designer Castillo, the tem peramental Spanish designer for the house of Lanvin-Cas-tillo, insists on wearing red suspenders when he watches the final parade of his men nequins. He is equally insist ent that none of them wear even a touch of green a color he abhors nor dare to carry an umbrella that might accidentally be opened inside the house. Needs Sheaf of Wheat Castillo will not begin work on a collection unless he has a sheaf of wheat un der glass on his desk. He s H O E S F O R 1 A Better and flats styles in whites for fall S H O E S 2 F O R t A Caressa 2 SIHIES! SH0ES!ri' SHOES! i3 .113 ... Some Johansens . want and Nylons 88c 2 for 1.75 Major Role With French Designers claims that this sign of fertil ity will make his collection "fruitful." Another superstitious Span iard is moody, mysterious Ba lenciaga. He combines talent and temperament in a one man show. This not only means refusal to show his gowns to the press, but he will not allow his staff to help him in selecting material and cutting, sewing and pressing his top designs. Young Pierre Balmain is said always to put his money on the gown he numbers 44; that is because it is the street number of his fashion house. Pooh-Pooh Superstitions But his colleagues Guy Laroche and Jacques Heim, also members of the younger generation of designers, pooh pooh superstitions as "im practical." So do the outstanding wom en of the haute couture Gres, Maggy Rouff and Made leine de la Rauch. M. Barbas of the House of Jean Batou believes that if his cigaret lighter works on the first try when he lights up, before the collection, that the showing will be a success. Half-Year Can Buy One Pair At The Marked Price . . . And Receive the Second Pair FREE . . . Bring a Friend and Share the Cost. . . The Values Are Out standing As Usual! All Sales Are Final On This Sale! Group 1 Play shoes . . . sandals . . . odds and ends sizes . . . many sold regularly even higher . . . now placed in the group to clear. 4 95 now! FirExicfly fitPrictc! Group 3 grade casuals . 10 95 . . . also many dress shoes . and some dark shades . . . IIOU! ftrBsdrf Group 5 . . . Rhythm Step 14 95 n Some of the best values on the sale . . . you oan buy out of any two groups you split the cost All Summer Bags Vb off Designer Bernard Sagardoy ; would rather be caught with a fabrics shortage than use green thread for basting his creations. ; Nor will he ever, start work on a dress on a Friday. Tuesday is taboo for talent ed young Greek-born Jean Desses. He recalled that it was on a Tuesday that the Greeks suffered a serious de feat at the hands of the Turks. Whether the influential Chambre Syndicale de la Cou ture Parisienne caters to his whims is something for con jecture. But it never has scheduled the opening of his collection for a Tuesday. "M. Griffe counts on the stars for choosing the time of his' showing," said a mem ber of the staff at Griffe's. "Not only the day is import ant, but the hour. There are certain days when the hours from two to ten are good, but the hours from ten to two bad . . ." Superstition is so much a part of the collection at the House of Dior that customers at the first show after his death sighed with relief when they saw his favorite flower It's Women Wait For ... Shoe Clearance . Group 2 Flats . . . casuals . . . leath er thongs . . . even some dress shoes all grouped to gether in this price range. HOW! 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