The Wilmington morning star. [volume], November 16, 1944, FINAL EDITION, Page 6, Image 6

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Wife Chooses
To Live With
Her In-Laws
BY RUTH MILLETT
The young war wife who took
lerself and her baby to her hus
3and’s parents to live instead oi
joing home to her own people
Jove this explanation for her
ihoice. Her reasons may explain
vhy so many young wives are liv
ing with in-laws for the duration.
“To begin with, I knew my fam
Jy would be too sympathetic.
They’d feel so sorry for me, I’d
;oon start feeling sorry for my
self,’ she says.
“Also, I knew how easy it would
se to slip back into the role of
protected daughter’—even though
;’m now a wife and mother and
sught to be making my own de
lisions and shouldering my own
•esponsibilities.
“I have a very close bond with
ny in-laws. They look for the
same handwriting on envelopes
hat I look for. And good news
irom my husband means as much
;o them as it does to me. There’s
mother reason, too. I have too
nuch pride to give way to tears
md moping around my husband’s
jeople when I go for weeks with
iut a letter. If I were living with
ny parents, I’m afraid I’d give
,vay to my fear and loneliness,
.mowing they would baby me
hroueh the bad times.
PLEASES HUSBAND
“Then there is the comforting
cnowledge that my being with his
aeople means a lot to Dick. Sev
eral times he has written such
ihings as ‘It means so much to
me to have my family all together
while I am away.’ And ‘I’m glad
2ad and mother can get acquaint
ed with the kid’.”
Some or all of these reasons
rave probably influenced many of
the girls who have chosen to live
with their husband’s people for the
duration.
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What-So-Ever Circle
To Have Sale Friday
The What-So-Ever circle of
king’s Daughters will have a sale
if fancy articles at the Tide Water
Power company on Friday, No
vember 17, beginning at 9:30 a.
m
This sale will include handmade
Christmas presents, baby gar
ments and many fancy articles.
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BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. W. Hufham, Jr.,
announce the birth of a daughter,
Mancy Cassandra, October 30, at
he Marion Sprunt annex. Mrs.
'rlufham was the former Christine j
"lolev of this city.
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For Holiday Party-Going
FESTIVE FASHIONS
ARE MORE FORMAL
BY EPSIE KINARD
NEW YORK. — Keyed to the
holiday needs ahead when a mood
is clinched by the clothes that you
wear, at-home and party fashions
are made more festive for this
year of elegance with heightened
color, applied glitter, interwoven
gleam or traceries of lace.
Featured by New York design
ers are three general types of gala
duds—long and short dresses and
the cocktail-type of suit—all ol
which will be swishing around the
Thanksgiving table and the Christ
mas tree and making an entrance
at New Year’s Eve parties.
Long party dresses for the forth
coming holidays are a shade more
gala than they were last winter,
and you’ll see the bit-more-formal
look in bright sheathes of lame,
damask, satin, velvet; in brown
and black lace—with necklines a
little lower and sleeves a good deal
shorter.
Typical of the uncovered - lady
look is the torso-molding dress of
black lace shown at the right which
boasts something of a decolletage,
short cap sleeves, and for decora
tive interest a black lace bow at
the point of origin of flowing skirt
fullness and aqua velvet ribbon
bows for bodice trim.
Any short dress that’s posy
bright or has firecracker shine is
a good dress for holiday at-homes
or to go jaunting off under a dark
fur coat. Many of these come in
velveteen, satin, pastel - colored
woolens and rayon crepes and in
style they stick generally to two
types; the draped sheathe and the
drindl. Best liked by the home
coming collegiate and out-of-school
belles is the dirndl, which makes
a quiet background for holiday
flash, as does the wool dress shown
left of holly-berry red, liberally
polka-dotted with shinny gold se
quins.
More sophisticated than the
dress is the cocktail-type suit
which is also a lady-of-the-world’s
choice for dinner, theater-going
and gala at-hornes, especially if
it’s made of jacquard, upholstery
satins or brocade and sparkles with
jewel-like touches, as does suit
of lavender brocade, shown cen
ter, teamed with a black wool jer
sey shirt.
Sparkling like red bulbs on a
Christmas tree, are garnet-like
stones which make latchets for
lacing the wine-colored belt and
buttons which fasten the jacket.
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PERSONALS
Miss Henrietta Helfant of New
York city, is expected to arrive
Friday to spend a week’s vacation
with Capt. and Mrs. Howard
Kurtz at their home, 226 South
Fourth street.
* * *
Mrs. L. T. Sanford, Jr., and
Mrs. Vista C. McIntyre and
daughter, Nancy, left yesterday
for Laurinburg, where they will
spent several days with relatives
and friends.
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Major Bergner Speaks
Tonight At P.-T. A. Meet
The Bradley’s Creek P. T. A. will
hold the November meeting this
evening at 7:45 o’clock at the
school and guest speaker of the
meeting will be Major Earl W.
Bergner, base surgeon at Bluethen
thal Army Air Base, who will ad
dress the group on "Care of Our
Flying Personnel”.
Fathers night will also be ob
served at this meeting and a short
talk will be given by Robert Ker
mon, local attorney. A cordial in
vitation is extended to all parents
to be present.
• * •
BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Leggett of
Sunset Park, announce the birth
of a son, Richard Carlton, Novem
ber 9, at Marion Sprunt annex.
Mrs. Leggett is the former Billie
Bizzell of Kinston.
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Sorosis Group
To Meet Today
The Literature department under
the chairmanship of Mrs. Graham
Burkheimer, will have charge of
the meeting of North Carolina Soro
sis this afternoon at 4 o’clock at
the clubhouse, 116 North Third St.,
and will present Mrs. Rexford Wil
l's in a review of Lillian Heilman’s
current play, “The Searching Wind”
which Mrs. Willis recently saw
now showing in New York.
Each member of the club may
bring a guest to the meeting, which
is to be followed by a social hour
with refreshments being served la
ter in the afternoon.
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MOVING?
SHAWNEE, Okla., Nov. 15——
Mrs. A. J. Lind advertised extra
household items for sale and her
telephone began to ring. No, no
body wanted the household goods—
just house seekers asking if she
were moving. She wasn’t.
-V
The Val d’ Aran, upper valley
of France’s Garonne River, is a
geographical accident, formed by
an overlapping twist of the main
Pyrenees ridge in the shadow of
the highest summit of the range.
CLUB CLOCK
The Myrtle Grove Home
Demonstration club will bold
the November meeting and
luncheon today at 10 o’clock at
the clubhouse.
The East Wilmington Home
Demonstration club will hold
its monthly meeting today
at 3 o’clock with Mrs. J. T.
Carroll. An oyster roast and
white elephant sale will be
sponsored by the club and
each member is asked to bring
a white elephant gift.
The Crepe Myrtle Garden
club will meet with Mrs. W. E.
Starnes at Garden City on Fri
day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock.
Mrs. Snell will talk on Suit
able Trees for this locality.
A meeting of the What-So
Ever circle, King’s Daughters,
will be held at the home of
Mrs. Leon L. Motte, 313 Church
street this afternoon at
3:30 o’clock. Mrs. D. B. Rob
ertson, Sr., will assist the hos
tess.
The Addie Hart class of
Grace Methodist church will
meet with Mrs. J. E. Mc
Carty, 123 Colonial Drive,,
this evening at 8 o’clock. Mrs.
Maude Carr will be assistant
hostess.
The Past Pocahontas League
will meet tonight at 8 o’clock
at the home of Mrs. Alpha
Brewer, 14 Hudson drive.
A community sing will be
held in the city hall audito
rium at Carolina Beach Fri
day night at 8 o’clock. The
public is invited to join in the
singing of popular and old
fashion songs. The Beach
Home Demonstration club is
sponsoring this event.
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17 Here Hear Bowles*
Inflation Broadcast
Seventeen representative Wil
mington citizens and Office of
Price Administration workers
heard a special “closed circuit”
Blue network broadcast to grocer
consumer anti-inflation commit
tees gathered in 125 radio sta
tion studios throughout the coun
try Tuesday, local OPA officials
announced yesterday.
The group assembled in radio
station WMFD receiving room at
1:45 p. m. to hear Price Admin
istrator Chester Bowles speak on
the dangers of inflation.
CONTRACTS AWARDED
RALEIGH, Nov. 15.—W—The
State division of purchase and
contract today awarded definite
quantity purchase contracts total
ing $69,607.98 for supplies mostly
for the highway and public works
commission and the state penal
division.
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Should Aunt Emmy Tie
To This Tie, She's Sunk
By JACKSON ELLIOTT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—(£>)
—If Aunt Emmy sends along
the usual tie this Christmas,
resplendent with dancing does
or some Such, you may want
to wear the price tag where
the stick pin goes.
It may have set Aunt Emmy
back a hundred skins.
OPA said today it had
“heard” that 5100 ties were
being offered for sale in ele
gant West coast establish
ments, These gay draperies,
the OPA said, are hand-paint
ed with slinky females in var
ious stages of undress. Pre
sumably there are other mo
tifs. Aunt Emmy couldn’t send
that kind.
OPA hasn’t put a dollars and
cents ceiling on such articles
for the reasons that (1) nothing
comparable was on the market
when price ceilings went into
effect, and (2) nobody has been
able to decide whether these
hand-painted jobs are properly
classified as ties or works of
art.
While OPA has only heard
of (not seen) these 5100 cra
vats, it does have on hand a
handsome coconuj silk job
which came in with the re
quest that the agency allow
555 price tag.
Ties come under the gener
al maximum price regula
tions which sought to fix prices
at the level prevailing in March
1942. However, as far as spe
cific ceilings are concerned,
an OPA man said such things
as underwear, pants and shirts
are more important and OPA
has devoted most of its at
tention to pricing these.
After all, he pointed out, if
a man found himself in front
of city hall in the winter time
with no pants on'he probably
wopld get embarrassed, cold
and arrested. Without a tie, he
would only get embarrassed.
Since very little real silk is
available for ties, most of those
on the Christmas counters will
he made of rayon or cotton.
This includes the “Christmas
dogs”, the name retailers give
to bright ties which can be
sold only to women at Yuletide.
-V
BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Benton an
nounce the birth of a daughter,
Lou Ann, November 8, at Marion
Sprunt annex. Mrs. Benton is the
former Ollie Mae Baswell of this
city.
9 States Represented
At We]fareJo„lern"
RALEIGH, Nov. 15 i p, _..
welfare workers of „ine soath^
states were urged here tndav
‘ assume a more humane and ■ °
aividual approach” in dealing
family welfare problems and 5
the same time heard a p!ea f, h a‘
ter training for teachers hlndr
the educational program of
children. slriaU
The workers were attending m.
second of a three - dav '*
ef the southern regional confer™!"
of the Child Welfare League *
America. The conference will ™!
elude its discussions tomorrow w k
an address by Howard Hopkirk ™
ecutive director of the league and
other social workers.
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