The Evening News from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Page 17

PAGE SEVENTEEN Typewriter Now Recognized LET BOY HELP As Educational Instrument IN PURCHASING OWN CLOTHING THE EVENING NEWS, HARRISBURG MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1938 1 By VICTOR C. RICE The boy in the household is a very Tersatile chap, and his many activities have to be taken into consideration when his school wardrobe is beinjr assembled. Above all, he wants to wear the kind of clothes "the rest of the boys" are wearing. Too much dressing up will make him feel like a sissy. Yet, if he is permitted a hand in selecting the clothes that answer his requirements he'll a Ins I ill r-yu KO 1 take enough pride in them to keep them neat and to keep himself generally well groomed through the school term.

I Most of his day will be spent in the classroom, and what he wears should be comfortable without be ing bulky, so that he may enjoy comfort coinc from classroom to classroom and while sitting at his desk writing. DOUTRICHS big final sale is now on in full swing good merchandise at sacrifice prices throughout the store. AH Men's, Boys' and Students' clothing at big reductions for quick clearance. You'll save money at DOUTRICHS. Consider Kecess Perhaps at recess time he plays baseball, with hopes of being a big league player; for active games such as this he 11 want free and easy fit in the arms and at the waist: clothes that can take plenty Better report cards result now that the typewriter has come to occupy as important a place in junior's and sister's school life as it does in dad's business world.

of strain, without pulling or tear- 1I1K. Always Reliable91 ft By ROBERT LOWELL The first advertisement for Most boys are marble experts ducted the investigation, reported that far from retarding handwriting, use of the typewriter acts as and their trousers must be of good, sturdy fabric that can take knee bending or perhaps he'll typewriter, published back in 1875, asserted that "there is no device an incentive to better handwriting, that it stimulates the pupils to produce more written material, that it' seems to raise the level of prefer the knee action of shorts. There'll be spills while he's skating and bicycle riding; there'll be achievement In many school sub some rougn-ana-iumDie piay, ana jects, and that teachers regard it a valuable educational instrument explorations in nature siuuy, via long woodland hikes. There are so many practical, while pupils enjoy its use. 12 Weeks to Fay As one teacher phrased it, "lhe machine gives an opportunity for original thought work before the comparable to it for teaching idren to spell and punctuate." Yet, for fifty years, teachers generally overlooked the use of the typewriter while business found It indispensable.

Today, however, it has at 'last taken its place among the most useful of educational facilities. High school students find it use-' ful in doing their home work. College students find it a veritable necessity in many cases the stu- dent not owning a machine being obliged to pay outsiders to write theme3 professors required typed. The youngest children, fascinated rugged, colorful types of clothing for school boys this year that shopping for the school wardrobe will be a happy adventure for parents, son, and clothes budget! child can write by any other means." Until recently all typewriters Tills ft teL Corduroy Popular Corduroy is particularly popular were built for "grown-ups," and they were usually unwieldy in the hands of a small child; but with the development of. the portable, this term, and it's a fabric that can take rough treatment in any kind of weather.

There, are jackets puces have been brought down to where sturdy and practical typewriters suitable for the child may be had for comparatively small by the typewriter, are encouraged to think by using it, and grade school pupils who use the type-writer usually bring home better outlays. with plenty of pockets, well-fitting knickers and practical slacks, as well as shirts all in solid color or masculinely patterned corduroy that a boy will be glad to wear in school and out of doors. In schoolboy suits, for the lads of prep, high and college age, the A research organization formed to study the educational possibilities of the typewriter concludes a Boys' $10.95 Knicker Suits Boys' $8.95 $9.95 Rugby Suits Boys' $12.50 Suits recently published report thus: belted back is most popular in "Children whose parents furnish Report cards. Recently there was published the results of a three-year study involving 14,949 students and more than 400 teachers in some fifty elementary schools located in twelve American cities. Dr.

Ben D. Wood, of Columbia University, and Dr. Frank N. Freeman, of the University of Chicago, who con them with a typewriter for use at either three-button single-breasted or double-breasted styling with herringbone tweeds winning by a home and at school during the valuable formative years will un doubtedly gain a valuable advan loud, shout of approval from lads everywhere. tage for their life ahead.

Young boys are showing a pref erence for shorts in the English manner and they are more com Hatlessness Disappearing; fortable and neater looking on the shorter boy than are knickers. owever. in colder weather knick Boys Welcome New Fashiohs ers do serve the purpose of keep- ing young legs warm. In many that susceptible lads cover up be- types of trousers elastic waist xore going out. Among hats chosen for the "cor bands have been introduced, which Feature Group Feature Group Feature Group are another score for comfort and 1 rect" young man's wardrobe this season, sports models will predominate with Tyrolean numbers even A picture of the bare-headed youth trudging his way through three feet of snow with a load of books under his arm is conjured up by the imagination as something typical of the 1920's.

It is seldom seen these days, however, because the average high school or college boy has learned that sensibly chosen neatness! Probably the most uniformly stronger than oetore, some or wnicn are said to look like the real thing worn in the Alps. A new waterproofed stitched cor worn outfit of the American schoolboy is sweater with slacks; and this season's sweaters afford a great variety of choice in jacket headgear can make him look just as Boys' $1.95 Kaynee .59 duroy sports model, introduced recently in London, will be popular on campuses this season, as will be "snappy" and "collegiate" as his tax-less brother of a decade ago. Boys' $1.25 Wash Knickers 90c The nractice of coins without hats the lever-smart crushables for early Wash Suits styling, bush shirt treatments, cardigans and windbreakers many of them with slide fastened closure and pockets to protect a boy's treasures. the year around doubtless had its origin in the foeliei that it wouw 2 for i an ami the new pebble-grained numbers. Many college boys especially the younger ones who are not averse to ft prevent baldness a belief that has little or no scientific basis.

Fresh Shirt Daily A fresh shirt every day is prac proclaiming their identity wherever Far1 from benefiting the scalp, it is now established that the sun's tney go are eoine to wear small rays, which are still strong at back shape varsity cpds. And while the tically an unwritten school regulation for boys and there are many to-school time, tend to dry out the older high school student will con attractive shirt styles to select tmue to ape his college brother, car from this year. Even the least ticularly in regard to the Tyrolean trend, many of the younger school style-conscious lad will want a variety of the new colors, new natural oils. The student has learned that proper head covering provides the necessary protection from the pun for his book-weary eyes, and in addition the recent increase in Winter colds and sinus infections lias led parents and doctors to insist oys win aaopi tne revived tweed Youths' Students' Suits At Final Close Out Prices cap style and others will continue stripes, and comfortable long and to wear Eton caps, in navv. brown short pointed collar styles.

ana gray, With masculine good judgment, boys' clothes have become as prac- is really interested in big game hunting. The chances are his son tical, wearable, and comfortable as could be wished, taking the prob would a thousand times rather have that book on interesting ex lem out of clothes planning for the boy happily on his way back to periments cnemisrry wnicn a school. boy can do at home since chem isi.ry is uie passion of young All $15.50 Pants Suits URGE CHILDREN TO SELECT BOOKS FOR THEMSELVES By ALICE DALGLIESH Children'. Book Editor. Th Parent! Magazine Many parents these days are Pants Suits HELPS HANDWRITING Pants Suits A toy blackboard for the home, oonn me at tnis particular moment.

If your child doesn't like to traditional equipment for every be read, try to find the special book which will unlock his interest- ginning school child, is frequently the means of helping along the youngster's handwriting, because he is inspired to imitate the writing done by the teacher on the blackboard in school, and is sometimes there is always one if parents are alert and understanding enough to find it. Or it mav be that he is realizing that books for their lw-ffl anil mWc! WocorvA a rotmlar Yilani. "lecimn 5 the means of stimulating genuine creative activity because of the pleasure the child gets from the ics of reading and "I hate to read" is merely self-defense. arge pictures he is enabled to draw. in the family budget.

Many of them are providing this place, with the cooperation of the chil dren themselves. One family we 'know made uir. nil rnvereri Why Not See a Specialist? Outfit lhe Children for School al Tobey's THF DFPAPTMFNT tfflPF MP fMinDFM cniniz oaiiK, hi shape of i book, in which; jaach member! dropped weekly coins out of his allowance or in mr ki f-i 11 VI Villa I VII VI llhSlkll i ijj i Mil Hi iii I Boys and Girls will return to school In high glee wearing their new clothes from TOBEY'S, the one store that specializes in children's wear only and shows the city's largest variety of newest and finest styles. Come to TOBEY'S and outfit the children for the "parade" back to school! earnings, At the! each i Jond of Boys' $1.00 Polo Shirts for $2.25) 79c Boys' $1.00 Dress Shirts (3 for $2.25) 79c Boys' $1.95 In Out Shirts (2 for S3) $1.59 Boys' $1.95 Wash Slacks (2 for S3) $1.59 I month they went! Ion a book-buying! 1 spree together, 1 with everyone's i Fine Fast Color 3 tastes and inter- esis consuueu. i For.

notwitb- WASH DRESSES In All New Styles and Colors Boys' Shoe SALE Students' Men's Fine Fast Color WASH SUITS New Combinations of Shades and Styles SIZES TO 10 Alice Dalgliesh standing the motion picture and the radio, books are still playing a tremendously satisfactory part in the life of boys and girls as they did long ago in the childhoods of many grownups of accomplishment today. We are realizinsr however, that they must 600 Worthmore .98 1,.2 be chosen to meet young people's! npprla and that, t.hev should never SIZES TO It A Few Styles Higher $3.50 and $4.50 Values EVERYTHING YOUR BOY AND GIRL NEEDS FOR SCHOOL WEAR be jammed down youngsters' throats. Because mother and father Joyed certain stories or poems at a certain youthful age is no reason for filling up a boy's or girl's growing library with these same volumes. Let children have a major part in the selecting and buying of their books with wise; guidance, of course. And when1 father is tempted to buy John the; book on killing lions- in Africa1 which he himself loved as a 1 ham, first make sure that John THE CHILDREN'S STYLE CENTER OF CENTRAL PENNA, 307 MARKET ST..