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Keeping Hot in August- A Aug. i. 195! ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Seelc Early Treatment of TafcT Word for It Men Still Fashion Slaves By Inez Robb 1 JS vs It i y. 1 -i wrf 2 must free himself from heavy suits and four-in-hands in the dogdays, but I doubt he ever does. The last time I saw 11.

Stanley Marcus, the merchan-dising genius of Dallas, Tex and titular head of that phenomenal store, Neiman-Marcus, he told me a sad tale of his defeat in an effort to free the serfs. Mr. Marcus found it duck soup to change the feminine clothing habits of the great Southwest. He cozened the ladies into doffing blue jeans in favor of Diors when they came to town to shop. He got the cattle queens out of boots and saddles and into Faths, Balenciagas, and Jane Derbys.

He wheedled the oil empresses out of calico and into Hattie Carnegies. Then he went to work on the men. He felt knee-length shorts would be heaven-sent in that tropic clime. He laid in a large stock. And he's still got it.

The daring Texans didn't want to be freed. Out where men are men, the boys rejected any effort to force comfort on them. "I was licked, Mr. Marcus whispered hoarsely, "licked!" It is obviously up to the men to work out their own salvation. But a word of advice in the meantime: Lords of creation, arise! You have only your neckties, shirt, coat, pants and low boiling point to lose! Jules Plerlow horor-tph, TO BE MATRON OF HONOR.

Many St. Louisans -Join Visitors at Douglas, Mich. By DOROTHY GARESCHE HOLLAND. DOUGLAS, Mich Aug. 21, THOSE, who came north seeking bright sunshine have certainly been disappointed by 10 days of damp, sometimes rainy, weather with the foghorn blowing at 30-sec-ond intervals.

However, as August swings Into its second half, more and more people arrive for belated vacations. Dr. and Mrs. John Hammond and Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Hefernan spent a few days at Five Acre Farms lately on their roundabout way to Brainerd, Minn. While in Minnesota they will visit their daughters, Mary Lou and Gertrude Hammond and Sally Ann Heffernan, who are enrolled at Camp Wabigoniss. The newest arrivals at Five Acre Farms are Dr. and Mrs. Garald Stryker.

who will stay a short while before going to -Chicago. There are several new addi- tions to the group of young people on the Lake Shore, among them Barbara and Joan Bauer, Jean Cronk and Kather-ine Hoffman, all of whom are staying at Beachmont, and Robert Miller who is staying with bis mother at Robins- wolde. Other new arrivals at Robinswolde are Mr. and Mrs. William Wendell of Grand Rapids and their children.

TTVO COUPLES have' been sharing a cottage -this summer, Mr. and Mrs. John Roberts and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Heiss, who are here with their children.

They have been joined by a third couple, Mr. and Mrs. William Orthwein. Other members of the younger married set who are vacationing at Douglas include Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Cooney. who are staying at Idylease. While their parents have a carefree trip, the three Cooney children are visiting their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William J.

Bramman. who for many years have had a cottage in Douglas. Far down the Lake Shore is Gull Cove, the cottage where Miss Paula and Miss Marie Hughes and their brother, George, spend their summers. Last Tuesday with Miss Grace von Phul they motored to Mac-atawa to have luncheon with Miss Janet Cocke at the Yacht Club. Saturday night, Aug.

11, Mr. and Mrs. John Barron invited their friends parents and children both to a buffet supper at their cottage. The Barrons have bought a lovely old house in Saugatuck and will live there this winter. William Fogarty, who has been visiting Michael Barron for several weeks, left here Tuesday for St.

Louis. An attractive spot on the Lake Shore is the little private road just south of the Shore-wood-section. Mrs. Anna Lively has a cottage here and various ntembers of her family are her guests during the summer. Another St.

Louis family. Dr. and Mrs. Albert C. Stutzman and their children Nancy.

Melissa and Albert are spending their third summer in a cottage on this road. 210 Rosemont avenue. Webster Groves. Completing the list of parties will be the rehearsal By Frank Colby What's the Origin? FEW people would associate "peculiar, "odd, eccentric." with picayunish, meaning "petty or yet the words are more than kissing cousins. Identifying private property has long been an important problem among men.

-In the Latin of ancient Rome pecunia was the word for peculium meant "private property." The French borrowed from the Latin peculiaris (from peculiari-um) the word peculier, describing something belonging exclusively to one person or certain persons. Then the English borrowed from the French. By extension we came to use peculiar to mean "odd; eccentric." as it describes a trait or mood belonging exclusively to one person. Picayunish was born of colonial days in America, when there was a great scarcity of small coins, such as pence and shillings, and making change usually was difficult, if not impossible. American ingenuity solved the problem by the invention of "cut money," I.e., by cutting the Spanish valued at eight reals (pronounced ray-AHLS) into eight pie-wedge bits with a value of 12 cents each.

This is the origin of our "bit," in such terms as two bits, four bits, etc. Since the real was only one-eighth of a coin, and valued at 12V2 cents, we can well imagine the size of half a real, which, in the southern United States, came to be called a picayune, a word of Carib origin which came through the French pecune, from the Latin pecunia, "money." Because of the comparatively insignificant value of the picayune, and also because of size, the word picayunish evolved in the meaning of mean, petty." The expression "to pull no punches." originated in the jargon of prize fighting. To pull a punch is to give the impression of punching heavily, but in reality hitting lightly and harmlessly. The pulled punch is common in a fixed fight in which the losing fighter appears to be taking a severe beating. In general usage, to pull no punches means to state one's opinion frankly, and in strong, belligerent language.

It is similar to "mince no words." Business Women Open Evenings Special REDUCING VISITS SPECIAL 120 WASHINGTON CE. 8788 0 Mental Ills By Glen R. Shepherd, M.D. WE laugh at things that make us uneasy. Thus, psychiatrists and the mentally ill have long been subjects for jokes.

Peo-. pie are uneasy about mental illness because they don't understand it. Actually, there Is no more need for fear of mental disease than there is for fear of an infection. There is nothing special or supernatural about mental illness. It is just as definitely a disease as any purely physical illness.

It occurs simply as a reaction to the stresses and strains of one's whole life. THERE is no single "type" of person who so suffers. Anyone, may have some kind of mental illness if personal, family, social or physical troubles repeatedly happen hich exceed our limits of adjustment. We are somewhat like electrical devices in this respect, with a lot of little fuses and several larger ones. When the overload of troubles becomes great enough, we blow fuses.

How great thtf troubles have to be and for how long they have to continue before reaching the personal limit varies. When the limit is reached, anyone may react in various ways. These include such overindulgences as getting drunk or drowning troubles in intensive work or the reaction may be what is called mental illness, a disturbance in emotion and thinking. Just as fuses can be replaced in motors and they will run again, so can our personal mental fuses often be replaced by modern methods of treatment. And just as the fuse will blow again if the same overload goes on.

so will mental illness recur unless doctor, minister, family and friends help to remove the cause of the troubles for the sufferer." ONE REASON why sufferers from mental illness have been neglected is due to the common belief that they can't be cured. This is not true. Early treatment with modern methods gives four chances out of five that a mentally ill person can return home without having to be committed for a long stay in a mental hospital. On the other hand, when someone has been suffering from a mental disease for years without treatment, full restoration to normal life may not be possible. People who have been treated for mental illness will continue their recovery best and avoid relapses if their family and friends understand the nature of mental illness; if they realize that it, like any disease, has definite causes and definite treatments.

Further progress requires an open. non-t secretive attitude toward this ease. Sm Our Hemmtiiml olferf ion Welelc A .11. lOlh Si. ce.

a.t.io JEROME F. KIRCHER JR. MRS. Parties Planned For Mrs. Wasson, Thomas H.

Lydon MRS. ALICIA LEU KIRCHER WASSON and Thomas Hubert Lydon will be honored at many parties before their marriage Sept. 8. The wedding, to be attended by members of the families only, will be held at the home of the parents of the bride-elect, Mr. and Mrs.

Jerome Frederick Kircher. 41 Pieardy lane, Ladue, where the subsequent reception, to which additional guests are invited, will also take place. Mrs. Wasson has asked her sister-in-law, Mrs. Jerome F.

Kircher the former Miss -Mary Toy Thomas, to be her matron of honor, and Mr. Lydon will be attended by Mr. Kircher Jr. and Carl A. Bischoff Jr.

The prospective bridegroom is the son of Mrs. Thomas Francis Lydon, 9 Willow Hill road. Ladue. A MEXICAN DINNER will be given Saturday evening by Mr. and' Mrs.

John C. Harris at their home, 27 Pieardy lane. There will be two parties the following day. the first a late breakfast at which Mr. and Mrs.

Norman M. Bassctt will be host and hostess at their home, 410 Melville avenue. University City. Following that Mr. and Mrs.

A. Clinton Lindburg Carol Hughesi will give an evening party at their home; 2 Chilton lane. A cocktail party is planned by Mr. and Mrs. John C.

Cunningham Jr. for Monday, the party to take place at their home. 808 South Warson road, Ladue. Mr. and Mrs.

Jack W. Kelly will entertain the engaged couple and the two families Saturday, Sept. 1. at a barbecue supper at the Kelly home, 49 Willow Hill road. Mr.

and Mrs. C. Todd Clark Jr. will give an all-day picnic at their country home in Golden Eagle. 111., on Labor day, and the following evening Mr.

Bischoff will be host at the bachelor dinner. An uncle and aunt of the bridegroom-to-be. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert A.

Stanley, who make their home at the Park Plaza Hotel, plan to give a dinner party at Bellerive Country Club Sept. 5. Mrs. NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (INS).

AS I have said so often before. I think men are just as good as women. Only prejudice against this weaker sex has kept the nation from enacting an equal rights amendment to give the boys their just doe. However. I believe one factor that has long mitigated against man and prevented him from obtaining full freedom and influence in the market place is his addiction to swaddling clothes in mid-summer.

Obviously, it is hard to credit anyone with intelligence who insists on going through June, July and August in a two-pants suit, complicated by boiled collar and bow tie. Responsible citizens are leary of offering full citizenship to a group that has for generations nay, centuries refused to strike a blow for its own freedom. THIS HAS BEEN one of the hottest, most uncomfortable summers on record. Pavements have melted in New York, sidewalks have smoked in Kansas and what has happened in Texas shouldn't happen to a Texan. But men are still going around muffled from ankles to ears, scornfully rejecting any compromise with their discomfort.

Some have taken refuge in seersucker, which is an eyesore and an abomination before the Lord. But on the whole, the boys I see daily cling to what was good enough for grandpa when it was 100 in the shade. There are exceptions. Occasionally a pioneer raises his head only to have it bashed in by his brethren. Such is more or less the fate of one Gary Merrill, who has been meeting, more or less, with the bum's rush in -New York restaurants when he appears wearing shorts.

Mind you, now, it not the ladies who have objected to Mr. Merrill's bare shanks or thumbed him out of the smart eateries. No, it is members of Mr. Merrill's own timid sex who have given him the glassy eye and the go-by. It is head-waiters who "have flagged him down.

He was permitted in one restaurant when his companion explained that he was now husband to Bette Davis, the mo'om picture queen. But this seems a poor sort of triumph to me, spirited advocate of equal rights for men. Even Mr. Merrill has been somewhat less than daring in his approach to hot weather comfort. True, his shorts may eventually make sartorial history and a footnote in masculine fight for freedom and equality.

But above those shorts, he showed neither imagination nor daring, clinging to a sport shirt (open-neck: give the guy credit) and plaid jacket, a hot combination in August. I OFFER no solution. Man Wouldn't drink pur wouldn't Sociaf Activities Miss Kilgen Engaged to J. Fiedler THE engagement of Miss Alice Louise Kilgen to John Lawrence Fiedler was announced today at a luncheon the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Christian Kilgen 54 Tealwood, Clayton. The party was in honor of Miss Jean Elise Gronemeyer who will be married Oct. 13 to Edward Joseph O'Brien Jr. Miss Kilgen's wedding is planned for January. 'Miss Kilgen, an alumna of Villa Duchesne, attended Washington University School of Interior Design.

She made her debut in September 1947 with Gronemeyer at a garden supper dance at ihe home of Miss Gronemeyer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Gronemeyer, 12 Georgian Acres, St. Louis county.

The sister of Charley C. Kilgen III, she is the granddaughter of Robert Emil Bisch, formerly of Ste. Genevieve, and the late Mrs. Bisch, and of the late Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Christian Kilgen. Her paternal grandfather was a pioneer church organ builder and her grandmother was Miss Louise Eobyn whose family is well known for its contribution to the musical history of St. Louis. MR. FIEDLER is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Lawrence Henry Fiedler. 286 Parkland" place. Glcndalr. A former student at St.

Louis and Washington Universities, he was graduated with a B.S. degre from the Merchant Marine Academy, King's Point, L.I., and served in the Mediterranean area. He now holds the rank of lieutenant junior grade in the Naval Reserve. Mr. Fiedler's fraternity isTheta Kappa Ti.

He is the brother of Miss Constance Fiedler, a student at Fontbonne College, and the grandson of John Mc-Manemin, St. Louis, and the late Mrs. Manemin, and of Mrs. Lawrence H. Fiedler.

St. Louis, and the late Mr. Fiedler. Mrs. Kilgen and her daughter were assisted in entertaining their guests by Mr.

Kilgen's stepmother, Mrs. Charles C. Kilgen. There were two luncheon tables, each seating 15 guests. The one at which Miss Kilgen was seated was decorated with a heart of white flowers, centered with her name and that of her fiance, and at the other, at which Miss Gronemeyer presided, the centerpiece was a crystal eprgne filled with mixed summer blossoms.

MISS GRONEMEYER and Mr. O'Brien, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. O'Brien.

7372 Northmoor, will be married at Our Lady of Lourdes Church at 10 o'clock in themorning with Msgr. F.dward Rogers o-lii iating. Miss Lois Gronemeyer will he her sister's maid of honor. Bridesmaids will be Mr. O'Brien's sister.

Miss Mary Rose O'Brien, Miss Kilgen, Miss Ivelou Kuchins, Miss Ruth Hogan. Louisville. and Miss Mary Sue Moran. Carlisle, 111. Mr.

O'Brien will announce his attendants later. Debutantes to Be Feted At September Parties INVITATIONS printed on brown wrapping paper and inclosed in small brown paper bags have been received from Mr. and Mrs. Henry Morrison. Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Jackson and Mrs. Stanley Waite for a party Sunday. Sept. 9.

in honor of Miss Inez Garesche, debutante daughter of the Ed-mond A. B. Garesches. The invitations, decorated with a Mexican tsoubadour. bid guests to "a shindig at Deep Hollow at 5 o'clock" and on the reverse side is a map showing Deep Hollow, the Morrison country home.

Miss Garesche and Miss Sally Wcbcr, debutante daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Weber, will be honored at a small party Sept. 5 with Mrs. John H.

Radford, 115 Orchard lane, Webster Groves, as hostess. Guests have been invited by Mrs. Radford to a swimming party and country supper at St. Albans at 5 o'clock. Miss Garesche also will be honored at a tea Sept.

19 to be given by her aunt. Mrs. S. Douglas House. 657(1 Ellenwood avenue.

DR. RAYMOND M. SPIVY. 4723 Westminster place, has returned from a Canadian vacation, which he spent in Kenora. and the Gold Point Camp on Lake-of-the-Woods, also in Ontario.

Dr. Spivy's daughter. Miss Frances Spivy, wno. with Miss Lee Brashear, has been in Europe for several weeks, has returned to Paris after visiting Rome. Florence and Venice.

She and Miss Brashear. the daughter of Mrs. Ellen Lee Brashear, 501 Clara avenue, will return home early next month, flying from London to New York. Miss Spivy's mother is Mrs. Eaton Spivy, 30 Westmoreland place.

Miss June Dennis, daughter of Mrs. Dorothy Dennis. 522 Dougherty Ferry road. Kirk-wood, is in Rimouski. Qucbeck.

guest of Miss Suzanne Brillant. Miss Dennis and Miss Brillant. students at the University of Missouri, are members of Alpha Chi Omega scrority. TII SalBi-day Onlv Beg. 5c Wvew GINGHAMS 44 Uids at Plait's la AH Colan FINE FOR IACK TO SCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S CUSSES.

HOUSES. LININGS the night before the w-edding at the Dorsett home. FUR CAPES Restyled from your I LOW I a i i SUMMER 'outmoded fur coat. PRICES 0n Men. nmtt Lydon will honor her son and his fiancee with a family dinner at the Missouri Athletic Club the evening before the wedding.

Among the many out-of-town guests who will arrive the week of the marriage are: Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Kuhrmeyer, Chicago, Mr.

Lydon's uncle and aunt: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stanley. Scarsdale, N. another uncle and aunt, and Mr.

and Mrs. Peter Roy Stanley, Dallas. cousins of the bridegroom-elect. E. Lee Dorsett Family Plans Two Weddings Within Two Weeks HERE will be two weddings I in the family of Dr.

and Mrs. E. Lee Dorsett within two weeks. On Saturday their son. Robert Edward Dorsett, will marry Miss Elizabeth Jane Beckett in Columbia, and the next Saturday their daughter, Miss Joan Lee Dorsett, will become the bride of Seymour Bennett Johnson at First Presbyterian Church in Webster Groves.

Miss Dorsett was guest of honor Friday at a shower given by Mrs. Curt P. Ayers and Mrs. Alfred MacGregor at the latter's home. 326 Hawthorne avenue, Webster Groves, and Sunday Miss Donna Kay Hyde, who will be a bridesmaid, honored the bride-elect at a dinner and shower at the Green Parrot Restaurant.

Parties still to come will be a dinner to be given this evening by Mrs. Eldred Newton, 238 South Elm avenue, Webster Groves, and Mrs. Merwin Cable. A picnic dinner is planned by Mrs. Harold Beecher, 1900 Signal Hills drive, Kirkwood, for tomorrow.

Aug. 29 the spinster dinner will take place with Miss Mary Jo Grone, 234 Glen road, Webster Groves, as hostess. Miss Constance Canavan and Mrs. David Hurlin of Antrim, X. will be co-hostesses Aug.

30 at an evening shower at the former's home. utmaifck NOW A COMPklTt till SCOUT SHOP 'w TT mtm Kt ftmr i il Brain Game FICTIONAL characters are the subject of today's quiz. Answering six of the eight questions correctly is excellent. 1. Who ate a baby bear's porridge? 2.

Can you name the two German children who ate a house made of cake? 3. What girl ate a poisoned apple that put her into a deep sleep? 4. Can you name the nursery rhyme character famed for eating curds and whey? 5. Sancho Panza was a servant in what country? 6. What country was home for Kimball O'Hara? 7.

In what country was The Man With the Iron Mask imprisoned? 8. Can you name the nursery rhyme character who went to sleep with his stockings on? Answers 1. Goldilocks. 2. Hansel and Gretel.

3. Snow White. 4. Little Miss Muffet. 5.

Spain. 6. India. 7. France.

8. "Deedle. deedle, dumpling, my son John." Bulky Skirts Featured Not satisfied that skirts should be so full that many of them are complete circles, the designers like them bulky, too. Heavy materials with a rough surface are increasing in number. Fur fabrics are returning.

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