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WRITERS DISCUSS SADISTIC WHIMS CLUB SGeraidine I ETY so fttIAtl Mlt( Most of us, I think, axe emotionally adjusted to life. We Tuesday, July 30, 1946 8 know about those who are not, and in our readme have 'A picked up information about sex customs throughout the MOPSY By Gladys Parker world. And we know that people with certain obsessions often weave fantastic tales about what they'd like to happen. Some frustrated souls stand on a soap box, figuratively speaking and shout about the sins of sex. In this way thev can IS THIS TICKET GOOD FOP.

ALL DAY, NO MATTER HOW MANY STOP SIGNALS indulge tneir thoughts and ly Man to rf to Bride 1 Se t6? August 17, 4s the wed-tflnf of illss Grace Seed Clark and Mr, ttobert S. FarrelC on of Mrs. Katherirle M. Farrell of Piedmont, Johif H. XarreU of Lot Altos Calif, ashington, D.C The ceremony will be conducted in Sr.

iohn's Church on Fishers Island. N.Y., with the Rev. Tooey Kinsolvii of Princeton. NJ of '( nACcr I justify them at the same time Rationing Timetable 1 rnuw A rnwv by condemning the things that plague them. Null Said knows about SUGAR Book 4, Spare Stamp 49 good for five pounds throagh An-gast 31.

Book 4, Spare Stamps No. 9 and No. M. each good for five posoids of canning sagar threugh these mental quirks of ours, but she .1 recognizes too, that the majority or us have struck a happy balance October 31. Save Book 4 for ra tianed sagar.

with, life: ficiating Mr. Farrell will leave make too many mistakes to even' uear ueraiaine: I wonder wny J. T. seems to think nobody but he has read up on all the strange marriage customs of the world, both now and in primitive tribes? Most of us have, more or less, run across this type of literature, and also the various schools of psychology (both pass. And you four serious ones in a year.

At best, just average. Your Piedmonf by plane on August 2, for New jYork and will be attended by Mr. i Howell Turnery lifelong friend of the benedict-elect, who boss is slightly sadistic, and pays you to spank you. Not too bad just yi rrr will Serve as best man. Mr, Turner and his family, former residents of MenlU Park, now live in Bronxville, N.Y.

usher list includes the iaa ana basic tact). Maybe T. doesn't realize bow generally well-read people are because most of us funny mat you neoDle kDt it an office affair. Four girls in an office, no other force. Law.

or accounting or some such requiring office work bride-to-be's brother, lieutenant Cemrtiander Clark, and Mr. Warren A small omce an Oakland nr FTipn nffiro ViiTtlriina? Am Breed of Piedmont, now doing grad uate work at Columbia University. were wen enough adjusted emotionally that such things didnt bother us. Just because we go on living or trying to live a NORMAL life doesn't mean we are all ignorant We can read of such things without developing a compulsion to go out and adopt similar customs in our own lives. J.

T. seems to be especially obsessed with the idea of handcuffing wives. The ceremony over, the couple iM A. lM ii riv wpiTWBrri inr rrrisFT honeymoon before establishing their, iiome here in the Eastbay. right? Don the neighbors hear? Sound-proofed? And how do you keep it from your folks at home? Please write.

Your decision would be interesting. And New York Filing Girl sounds like she wants your job. AN AVERAGE OFFICE GIRL. Our New York Filing Girl was writing with her tongue in her cheek. She was using sarcasm in answering Miss and often that form of reply hits home when' serines dispussion fails Nw Vnrlr Fil- OBSESSED, SHE SATS Fm not lust sure what that has betrothal of Miss Clark to the, Calif ornian was announced last month byj her parents, CoL Solomon Foot Clark, USA, and Mrs.

Clark, of Governor's Island, N.Y, and Dallas. Texas. to do with the spanked wives who got a thrill, or Miss Xs little daydream of "Beating But I'm sure if you saw fit to leave out parts of his letter, or failed to print some I The! future-bride was graduated from Fine's School in Prince or them, Geraldme, It was wisely ling Gir? wouldn't be caught nea done. I such an office if such an office enjoy reading different GIACrys viewpoints and Dersonallv I think wpo existed. Miss I believe, was a case for a psychiatrist There was no need for the police.

younean over backwards to i-lea Deiair fiyou. ton, and in 1945 from Sweet Briar tCoilege, Virginia. During the war. he! served as a nurse's aide at BeUeyue Hospital New She ii now with her family at Fort H. G.tWrfght.

Farrell, who received his de I Ti ffrrr rrii miiSir fcw Dm noiiimi when DeoDle disaeree Particularly those who claim to be uEfi discriminated against in the col 4ain i vvvi Wearing hottest gowns mad from discarded sheets and practicing on borrowed pianos, fees six girls and their rolunteer teacher hare an unusual class that may be the nucleus lor a community music center. Left to right are Beverly Hippie. Sally Byrne, Mrs. Francis J. Byrne.

Evelyn DuebalL Patricia Curtis, Audrey Texeira and Deanna DIE. GRAPES EASILY OVER WATERED Roily Langley NEEqLEART umn, are unreasonable. As for J. i I think we have all heard QUITE enough of his particular obsession. I don't think that the effect of "civilization" is all to the good, and there is a tot to be said against the modern attitudes in marriage.

Lots of women are determined to rule the roost, and then wonder why they are dissatisfied with their poor little hen-pecked husbands, and marriage too. There is a lot of unrest, and plenty of marriages wind up in the divorce courts that could gree from the University of California' in jl 938 and later his Masters Degree in '41 from Stanford University, recently completed his terminal, leave after having served with the Navy as a gunnery officer in the Pacific and European theaters of war. It was during his last tour of duty with a fleet training groups at jGuantanamo Bay, Cuba, OAKLAND HOUSEWIFE FORMS COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL Club to Hold Picnic Friday There's a tendency to overwater grapes during the Sum mer. If they get three good soaking irrigations during tht period, they should produce a good crop. Just think of th tilting acres of hillside, vineyards in California.

Out in, the that he tnet his bride-to-be, who was then the guest of her brother ihave been worked out with both By BUFFER YATES Tribune CInb Editor and his Wife, Lieut. Comdr. Reed i bright sun, with no irrigations at all. Yet their probing roots A picnic in the gardens of Dr. Minora Kibbe's home in San Le-andro is the next event on the calendar of Fruitvale Women's Club.

lot of other things along with mu find enough moisture to supply the juice for our most tftvor- and Mrs. Clark who was Audrey Islin of New York before her, marriage to the Navy officer. sic how to make entrances and exits, how to receive aDDlause. how fill grapes. parties applying the Golden Rule.

But trying to drag woman back to the role of a slave in marriage is certainly not the right answer. While some people find pain emotionally exciting, this handcuffing business is nothing more or less than a symbol of abject powerless- 1 a IUST HEARSAY to greet guests, and how to acquire ne ouung is piannea ior rnaay, Mr. Alexander C. Farrell, brother social poise. First steps toward a community music school offering Oakland's children cultural advantages and recreation are being taken today in East with a housewife as the "angle." Finding herself an unexpected volunteer piano instructor of a class of six little girls, Mrs.

Francis Byrne 1 ness and subjection, a symbol of of the prospective and Vivian Villadsen Van Horn, surprised, their Bay area- friends with But don't be afraid of dust- ing your grapes with sulphur at the slightest sign of mildew. A heavy coating of sulphur isn't necessary; Just eive them a thorough, light cover with Mrs. Frances McNab. junior past president, as chairman. Members will welcome home their new president, Mrs.

Joseph Dias, who, with Captain Dias, has just completed a 7000-mile automobile tour of points of interest in the The little girls show their ingenuity and satisfy their love for "dressing up" by making Kate Greenaway hostess frocks out of discarded sheets and trimming them with ribbons and fresh flowers. the news! of their marriage last ownership of the wife by the man. This used legally to be the case. Certainly then there was less confusion of ideas and emotions. WHY WOMEN REBELLED of 1917 Foothill Boulevard wants to age.

That's a pointer for Mrs. H. enlarge her horizons. If six children These they wear for the frequent United States and Canada. The cou But I doubt if the women were Williams of Sacramento.

Mrs. Dorothy Green of Oakland in one neighborhood are hungry for as satisfied with the system as J. Eydns-Thoms Wedding Set With! the1 arrival of her fiance, Mr recitals at which they entertain their pie visited Zion and Bryce National neighbors. Parks, Grand Canyon, Lake Louise the fun of music, there must be hundreds of others without instru assumes, mey nad to put up with it because there was no choice, if they so thoroughly enjoyed sadis With the class too numerous for and Banff, and stopped for a week ments of their; own or financially unable to pay for lessons, she fig Chicago, where Mrs. Dias at tended sessions of the general fed ures.

Additional hundreds would the Byrnes' piano, the girls now practice at a neighborhood piano store, where customers are 'startled to find three or more grand pianos tic treatment, then they would not have rebelled so completely against that sort of thing. The minute a girl was allowed to choose her own husband, she chose someone who. had beginner's luck with transplanted corn. It all grew but still it isn't usually sound practice. Mrs.

C. A. Beach of Sacgamento writes: "My who is 80, and I have almost an acre of flower garden as1 well as almost an acre of vegetables. My husband plows the vegetable garden and spades the flower garden. We do most of the planting, weeding and learn io love music if lessons were eration of women's clubs.

She is Northern publicity chairman for the as far as she knew, was kind and considerate. And when a divorcee California Federation. Friday Meet Planned Bv Elmhurst A. fun. Familiar with the work of the Music School Settlement in New York City's East Side and with the Community Music School financed by the San Francisco Community Chest, Mrs.

Byrne believes that a similaf here would to a Donald H. Thorns, and his best man, Mr. Kenneth Borchardt of Marquette, University, from Milwaukee, last week Miss Jane Evans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Evans of Berkeley, has completed 4or Jher marriage this Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Piedmont jCommunity Church.

Sev no longer was a social outcast, women with normal instincts began to walk out on men who refused to Irrigating. going full tilt in the sales rooms. 1 Next step on the expansion program will be to interest the schools in providing practice pianos a project in which "Aunt Isobelle' hopes to interest the P-TA. Later, with the help of other believers in music, might come Mrs. Byrnes' dream of community-sponsored centers open to all children.

treat them like human beings. If New. officers and chairmen of Elmhurst P-TA will meet at 1:30 men are "wishy-washy these days ANTS AND STRAWBERRIES "It has kept my mother-in-law young. She does love, her flowers and we think we have a very attractive earden." it is because they need women and some women don't realize they are just as much in need of men. (I long way toward preventing juvenile p.m.

Friday at the home of Mrs. John L. Moody. 6568 Simpson Street, eral httndfed invitations are out for delinquency. Bearing her out is the claim of the -New York school.

to complete plans for the years (And I think Mr. Beach is very! Students in the experimental program and budget. lucky. To start a couple of acres the ceremony, which will be, followed, by ja reception at the Clare -mont o4ntry Club. which boasts that in nearly 50 years schoolt to Sally, are Preliminary plans were outlined "What't wrong with me, 'Doctor, am 1 losing my senses last night dreamt of Frank Sinatra?" none of its thousands of children Evelyn DuebalL Patsy Curtis, De recently when Mrs.

Ira Davis, first vice-president, entertained the anna Dill, Audrey Texeira and Beverly Hippie. and have someone else carry on is the easiest way to get a garden.) Mrs. M. Hinsey remarks the myriad ants in her strawberry patch. You can't very weU spray your strawberries with DDT.

since that would leave no one to pick group at her home. At that time Mrs. F. W. Whitener, finance and budget chairman, Mrs.

Fred Esta- Fourj her closest friends will precede the bride to the altar. They will include Mrs. Byron Broderick Mary-iParker) as matron of honor, nd Mrs. sWinthrop Coxe (Helen Waterhouse) of Covina; Miss Isabel Phillips of Piedmont and Miss new home and will start their garden from scratch. I'd advise deeper cultivation to start.

GARDEN TO RANCH brook. president, and Mrs. Davis said SOME). It would be just as sensible to start having wives keep their men handcuffed as it is to advocate handcuffing the women. It.

just simply isn't the answer' to anything, but a mere obsession of J. TVs. If that woman J. T. knows who approved and enjoyed that type of treatment happens to be his wife, and they are mutually happy with their little idiosyncrasy, he is lucky Otherwise, unless he is planning to go native and live with some primitive tribe in some obscure corner of the world, he had better go see a good psychiatrist who might be able to help him to adjust to the civilization he lives in.

Please don't blame Geraldine anyway. J. T. and all you others who think she doesn't let you say enough. DESIGN NO lne Dernes aiier inc kiccihiiuiuucis Vegetable motifs are embroidered or! had taken the DDT on the berries, appiiqued on kitchen towel, curtains or I But the containers with ant poison has ever become a delinquent nor come before ihi Juvenjle Court.

Mrs. Byrne's, experimental class, which teaches: poise and social graces along with music, began when her niece, seven-year-old Sally Byrne, wanted to study piano, although there 'was no instrument in her parents apartment At the second lesson Sally brought a friend to make the lesson more fun, and when she brought two, the class ended in a party. It was at that party that "Aurit Isobelle" began to see he possibilities of teaching a offered their suggestions. 'Our Responsibilities' Chosen as P-TA Theme place mats. Hot iron transfer iron transfer pattern No.

jghould be distributed through the got motifs with complete ipatch you can.t expect t0 put 600 contains ei P-TA to Assist At Hospitality House Oakland High School P-TA's canteen committee will devote every third Monday to Hospitality House work during the coming year, according to Mrs. Leon CasteL unit president. Members of the group include Mrs. Rexford McKee, Mrs. George Katt and Mrs.

Joseph H. Brown, Apparently Mr. and Mrs. A. Feige took to victory gardening like the proverbial ducks to water.

They've now purchased a 25-acr ranch in, the Perkins district and planted it to potatoes, onions, peas and strawberries. "Our Responsibilities for Tomor Hew to ObUlm Keedleart Deslcas Print your name ana address, tncludina city postal zone and State. Clip and enclose this design, tocether with 19 cents, which includes cost of mailing. A reasonable time should be allowed for delivery. row's Citizens is the theme chosen by Daniel Webster P-TA for its monthly programs in the 1946-47 containers out in tne morning ana have the ants all gone that afternoon.

The poison is taken back to the underground galleries, and the coming generation is killed as well. Jessie Anderson of San Rafael writes they've just purchased a A .11. W. serviceman who bas come three Hre Alpha Delta Pi sorority 'isters bf the bride-elect Her small rousing Pjritty Peck, who arrives Thursday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Lfwis Peck, from Los Angeles, will the role of flower maiden. Last jr evening Miss Phillips was hostess: at a kitchen shower in the home fief her- parents, the John Wildwood Avenue. Friday evening at the Evans home -the bride will entertain at dinner for her attendants and an equal complement of men in the season. anxious to try his hand at garden Address your order to TBIBUNe NEEDLE-ART BUREAU, P. a BOX SOS.

OAKLAND 4. CALIFORNIA. Mrs. Charles Janney is program BQbby lobby chairman, assisted by a committee if she decided to let us read more wholesome discussions in the future. 'NUFF SAID? Many thanks to you, 'Nuff Said.

You've helped to keep a healthy balance for all of us. ing. Thomas E. M. Farlane would make it another buck.

Mrs. -C. L. Falck Jr. of Del Paso Heights, realizes she's hooked.

I haven't Ihe will power to quit if. composed of Mrs. Delia Van De-Marie, principal; Mrs. R. M.

Stephenson, parliamentarian; Mrs. Clyde LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND Kramer, secretary, and By ALBERT E. WIGGAM Just What's Done to SOME PEOPLE GET TAN; OTHERS DON'T eui.uu'j ii Misbehaving Males? or years I nave planted tomatoes hoping to get the big luscious ones, but all in vain. They turn out marbles. The larkspur you sent me didn't come up at all.

And the last stringbeans from you were a fizzle. Still, she's at it again. Says she reads this column and gets quite a bit out of It Mrs. F. O.

Babcock, president Visits in Woodacre Mrs. Sue G. Sturtevant of Versailles Avenue, Alameda, is spending the Summer at Woodacre, Marin Another answer to J. T. I'm still grinning: Dnaai pany.

Future home of the young couple will be; in Madison. while the Mr. Thorns completes his course of study al the Universitr of Wisconsin. PRE-EDDING PARTIES SET WiU J. T.

please 1 Dear Geraldine: By BETTY SULLIVAN It may be a little late in The County. plain that she had used All Kinds inform us as to the methods the i Arab tribes use for men who mis-! Season to start worrying about The behave? Or does J. T. and his kind i of lotion. She said she tried the stuff that is Supposed to "prevent painful sunburn, allow a beneficial tan PAIR TOVISIT actually believe that the husbands! WHAT THE MOST WPOPTANT- Sunburn, but there are still a Few people who have yet to make their annual and very personal sacrifice to good old Sol i so we'll worry.

are above reproach? They say there are two sides to everything, so I guess Mrs. Falck gets her bit from the bad side of this column. RARE CUCUMBER Mrs. Charles A. Brown grows a banana cucumber in such quantity' Anytime they prove themselves THIN6 FOR A BO (whatever THAT is), keep her on! oiiLAKE LOUISE Whei Miss Betty O'Kane returns perfect I will gladly submit to being tied ud.

but until then iust try OS 6W5L TO LEARNT For example only yesterday we here August IT after an extended wa ouvaj vui iju ea a aw a crimson-splotched, freckle- YWttCPihhON. Also, she informed the Superior Snd tie my hands! To J. T. and his olier-than-thou tribe, I say nuts! Planning to build their own home sr m. One.

she had used another lotion spattered representative of young American femininity noisily sipping when that is possible, Mr. and Mrs, that had received much publicity as tie ouiucs ucr mumcs a tearoom and the neighborhood with them. "Besides being the best cucumber for eating, we like ft because it a I a Edward E. Coulon are bound for a irosted malt the while, she be-J Lake Louise in Canada on a wed ding trip that began following their "the secret of a glorious the lotion you use "to lubricate the lotion which leaves the skin "tanned, soft and smooth." "As far as Tm concerned, they're cum os ana in uiat way aoesn i lajte as much ground space and is easier to pick and the cukes are marriage and reception Sunday aft 3 "WHAT 15 THE vacation aj lanoe sne wui plunge Into a round of pre-wedding parties1 land wiU I make final plans for her alUr date September 14 with Joseph fsTaaner Richards. Community Churcb will bethe scene of the afternoon nuptials, which will be followed by a receptionat Orinda Country Club.

Six attendants will precede Betty Idown the aisle her twin sister, Mrs. George Richard Peterson (Sally O'Kane! and another sister. Miss ernoon July 21. Mrs. Coulon is, the former Geraldine Carroll, who moanea ner i em Die Plight to a girl friend.

"Look. Fm peeling like a steamed tomato, Fm peeling," she groaned. I And she was too. "It's your own fault," returned her golden-brown, companion disdainfully. "Why? don't you use lo MARPE5T OBSTACLE A still keeping it a secret." griped clean.

"Maybe you'd better not tell yourS readers about these cukes." Mrs. served with the Marines, and her MEETS husband was an Army Air Corps Brown Tm not sure you can i pilots so both are among those eli sincerely, E. S. J. Psychiatrist's Job, Not One lor Police An Average Office Girl is taking Miss seriously seriously in that she thinks she was telling the truth.

I didnt. I thought she was presenting her secret longings as facta, and that is why I suggested a bit of fresh air: Dear Geraldine: This is a letter to Miss of April 26. I ask that you publish it. Miss how on earth did you ever get such a iob? Frankly, dear, I have been bawled out, scolded, threatened with being discharged. buy tne seeax we nave always saved WTRY1N6TD CURE A DRUNKARD? IN HUMAN NATURE 3TR0NSERJTHAN SEX vgg Aon gible for veterans priorities.

The wedding ceremony took place SOUROPNtOH. ii irusii jrear hj year. I figured you readers could take it even though I haven't seen the tion like all sensible people do? I The Victim, And as a last resort, she said, I even tried that lotion which purports to filter out the sun's burn-rays and let the tan-rays through.1 "They certainly didnt get through to me. Just look! Only the filtered stuff And she pulled back the neck of her blouse to let The Pal examine The Mess that had never get burned." at North Drae Community Church, where. Mrs.

Lucille Lee, Dolores Gomes, Mrs. Olivia Taylor, Mrs. Mary Juj O'Kane, in the honor ANSWER TO QUESTION NO. 1 roles. Bridesmaids will "be Barbara dreaming and greatly increases concentration.

It leads children to read many good books which educates them, makes them better conversa In no uncertain terms the Peeling One informed her friend-of-the-tan that she Did use lotion, that she Had used lotion and that all it had Mary Lou Leach, Mrs. Grace Mur pny ana jvuss Joyce coulon were tionalists and gives them self-confi Brace, Higglns, Phyllis Brieriypanp Joan Fernhoff. all former classmates of the bride-to-be Piedmont High School. the bride's attendants. Her father Mrs.

Hinanen of Berkeley trans- planted a camellia in February. Irr i a month all the leaves had turned brown, and since March, the plant has shown no signs of life. She Wonders if she should leave 'it in place; until next- Spring to make sure it's dead. I don't think I'd a brought her wasfj Utter Misery. L.

J. Carroll of Albany, escorted "Perhaps, you Sustdon't use the her to the altar. Betty Shai staying with her For her marriage the bride wore once been a lily-white back. Anyway, That's why we are worried. Here it is July and thousands of tender.

Unsuspecting vacationers are yet to expose themselves to the sun under, what they Think are Yes. Marriage is the greatest institution for satisfying the strongest urge in human nature the urge, to be important Hosts of people cannot alone carve out ior themsefves a place of importance; but, as one sociologist observes, being a mis-band or wife, a father or mother, and owning your home gives one a feeling of being important to others without which no human being can be happy. ANSWER TO QUESTION NO. How to read well the most important single way to build a child's character. Reading well stops day vpvu mm tv viuun elf Life's too short and more camellia dence.

ANSWER TO QUESTION NO. 5 To induce him to admit wholeheartedly to himself, family and friends that he is a drunkard. Authorities say that until, a man has fully surrendered to his true situation he has not changed his point of and he still believes, consciously, he can some day take a vacation and "drink like a gentleman." Now and then he tries it and always finds he can't tight kind," the Disdainful One suggested. "If you used the Right Kind, things like that wouldn't have she saidL eyeing the Poor Girl's weather-battered arms which were flaked wiUv tiny bits of dead skin. jj That isnt it at alV the PG said, -It's just that nothing works." protective lotions and probably and "fired" on occasion.

But so far never received a spanking from the boss. No, honey. I never had perfect working conditions, or above average pay. Maybe you think you are better oft Maybe. SPANKINGS PAID FOR Tell me.

bow on earth did you get your first spanking, and how did the boss bring up the subject? And you girls "experts in office detail." Frankly, you admit two girls fiance's Jarnts. Mrs. Frank S. Richlrds of Piedmont, at their home at Tahoe for the past few Her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

ArthurjPa trick O'Kane of Oak. land left Sunday; for the lake, to take a Cottage for' three weeks, and the bride-elect will be with them for the of her' stay. a gown fashioned with bodice and sleeves of satin, net yoke and skirt sweeping into a train. Her veil was held in place by a pearl trimmed coronet, and she carried gardenias and carnations. Her attendants also were in net, some in pink and some in blue, and all carried French bouquets of white carnations.

they Are protective for a Lot of people, but there are always Jhose easily A person wants a ajood growing garden, not a plant clinic. That's why it's- best to get sick plants out of the way to make room for the things that will give us a lift which Nothing effects. Better they: should stay in the And the sufferer went on to ex hothouse and tend the begonias. JANE ARDEN MARY WORTH By Barrett and Rose By Date Allen 2 i t-T' i 1 I iin mu 1 I 1 1 ONUT AHAMATE1WJ 1 1 1 1 cw'fwyoaMarHOfu xmd voim specialist specialist acn sick. r1HEfUU4ElWM0MJutE0J tqCICr -CMOUg ADVICg 50 "-L ZT DOCTOR, tit? vcyiM6soL0riTia ITT rlkl l-r Jt) Ftti M0ftJ4SWElt5 itfSC Uffl AJ.

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