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i By Marty Links MR BREGER On Th Squqra: BOBBY SOX The Charlotte News A Paul UFRE NOR THERE: In line I suppose with the announced intentions of some of the fashion designers to dress our womenfolk In modified versions of the styles of the turn of the century garters are back oh the market I mean simple efficient bands of elastic either I mpan fancy ones There are ruffled ones with artificial roses and they come In all shades Some have silver buckles I looked through the display of one department store but failed to find any with silver bells Not long ago I wrote that this era has no Symbol of Sin and harked back to the days when a garter was the symbol of wickedness when some sports wore them for sleeve-holders In this year of 1946 I know what the garter will symbolize However I did notice while I was in the same store that a fellow was buying expensive lingerie for a platinum blonde I also noticed that the lady wore no wedding band The gentleman did not buy garters It could be of course that he see them Wonder where I could have been when they passed that the one requiring the motorist to ease halfway around the corner while waiting for a red light to change? Oh must have been while I JUNK 12 1916 I Believe Everything Dorothy Knox THE following story comes in a letter fiom New York City friends of mine were in need of a maid and put an ad in the paper The girl who applied walked in and said 'Just one question before we talk Do you peel or are you Since my friend desired peeling needless to say she did not qualify for the maid's services" Recently talked to housewives from various sections of the San Francisco Cleveland Ohio Oak Ridge Tcnn Columbia and several northern cities All of them have different theories concerning future developments of the servant problem As usual I could think of a different solutiqn from anyone else Whether or not it is practical I wouldn't know One of my friends thinks that hours a wage scale vacation and time off should be definitely settled Naturally she believes also that this labor should be graded according to labor standards as and and paid accordingly She believe it fair to pay the prompt efficient conscientious maids no more than the shiftless bungling slow motion ones who are always late and often absent A trained maid she says like a trained mechanic should ecelve more money company? I think the air intake needs a slight Rcr Herbert Spaugh DD was trying to figure out how a girl goes about wearing smeared lipstick THINGS I REMEMBER about growing up: The boys sprinkling the dusty streets in front of the shops Summer mornings The preacher who carried his handkerchief in the tail of his jimswinger coat DASHES BETWEEN DOTS: Some other writers of popular songs come and go and are forgotten but the quality of Irving work is consistently excellent His current and choice is an example Warning: try to read a book hailed by its publishers as the best story of a woman ever written It rhymes with thinks which the publishers (Creative Age if you simply have to know) apparently indulge in Diets for reducing purposes probably are being used less than in many years For one thing you find anything to wear that will fit your stream lined torso The fellow who used to claim to be just like that with the Mayor now boasts that he can always get a hotel room ODDS ENDS: People who thought peace would be a two-pants suit for $25 are finding out that a $30 sport coat and a $1995 pair of slacks Any body else who can remember all the way back to when a long line of people meant there was a good movie instead of bacon or nylons? So many men are wearing iow ties that tempted to buy ome but every time I get the notion I am deterred because contends I would look so funny wearing one Just fourteen countries now have kings so the ballyhoo for king size cigarettes is a trifle belated it? WHAT EVER BECAME OF: Red checked tablecloths? The baby that teethed on a piece of Everyday Counselor can we do with these perpetual calamity howlers who are fore forever going about telling us how much worse things are going Ernie not home If Moyer tell call back If Saxon tell to wait a minute Mirror Of Your Mind By LAWRENCE Consulting Psychologist i New York Doings Earl Wilson to be for observed a reader to me the other day have been riding me ever since I can remember When my children were babies they told me how much more trouble they would be when they were older Now that they are older they tell me how much more grief I can expect as they grow up When I plant flowers in my garden they come alongside and tell me how much trouble I can expect in raising them No matter what I undertake to do they are always at my elbow telling me what a terrible time they have had and therefore I am going to I have no satisfactory cure to offer You can sometimes overcome them with kindness but they die hard The chief trouble with such is their attitude toward life In the first place they feel their lot is exceptionally hard and they have more trouble than anybody else The next step in their thinking Is to try to push it off onto other people In their warped thinking they seem to feel that by making other people miserable they may lighten their own or else they hold the old philosophy that "misery loves and try to pull others dpwn to their level of unhappiness Such unfortunate ones ought to remember that all of us have trouble and the way to get rid of it is to ask guidance in how to deal with it Then when you have that get to work and either move it or bury it Griping help at all A childhood fairy story comes to mind There was an old man who was always complaining about his hard lot One night he had a dream in which he was summoned with many others by the fairies to bring all their troubles written on scrolls and place them in one large pile Then the queen of the fairies made a speech in which she said that everybody had troubles but inasmuch as this old man felt that he had more than anyone else he would be allowed to go first to the pile and select any scroll that suited him Finally he found one that seemed to fit him and he brought it to the queen of the fairies who said is the one you had" Stop griping and complaining about your troubles to people who care to hear them If you must talk about them and all of us feel that we must at some time or other select the ears of a sympathetic friend or your pastor priest or rabbi Then ask help and take it up and go on note: The third printing of Dr new book Pathway To Is now off the press and orders can be filled Address them to The Everyday Counselor Box 4145 Charlotte Enclose $1 During the depression I talked to the head of one of best Negro institutions Though she wouldn't let me quote her in my column she told me that she could get any number of jobs for trained domestic help at $20 a week And during the depression that wasn't hay In answer to my amazement she said matter how hgd the times there are always wealthy people and Charlotte has plenty There is no way they can spend their money which will afford them more comfort and satisfaction than in having trained maids chauffeurs cooks or nurses to make life smooth and pleasant for them But I interest the girls or the boys in taking any sort of training They want the high wages but they refuse to become interested in domestic Since the war been surprised at the number of Charlotte women who are now doing their own work and expect to continue to do so They say they couldn't put up with the sloppy and indifferent maids they used to take for granted All of my friends who are now In the kitchen said they feel light hearted and free at the thought of eating any time of evening that suits their families and their guests instead of having to gallop to the table at the hottest time of a Summer day in San Francisco before Pearl Harbor said she'd had the perfect arrangement there She patronized a house-cleaning service For $10 a month a supervisor and trained cleaners came to her apartment once a week and kept the place spotless The floors were waxed rugs vacuumed the Venetian blinds cleaned pictures mirrors and windows washed the walls wiped down the flat silver polished and everything left in perfect order Since the workers were bonded she never had to bother about being present when the cleaning was in progress The company provided the vacuum cleaner and all the rest of the cleaning equipment It seems to me that the service trades are the solution to the servant problem noticed more and more of them being advertised in The Charlotte classified ads Some say others specify window and woodwork washing floor-sanding and waxing Since I've been chewing it all over in my mind and reading the ads also become conscious of the signs on the trucks being used by the service trades and by the sign put outside a house saying being done by such and such a Even if you do not want a weekly house-cleaning service it must be wonderful to turn your Spring and Fall cleaning over to experts But my solution is service from a slightly different angle Maybe someone else has thought of it before and already put it in operation Anyhow J'll tell you about in column working conditions mattermore to women than to men? office the girls who are more sensitive to lighting decorations restrooms and such matters A woman may leave home but sh still wants her surroundings to be homelike Yes think the industrial psychologists In factory Jobs for instance women take less interest in their work than men do and because their thoughts are elsewhere they are less bored by monotonous tasks For the same reason they are more conscious of their surroundings and of the people they work with Even in an NEW I was out with the mad Rita Brothers $15000-a-week comedians and pie-throwers at the cockeyed Club 18 show and they were bent double with laughter (Harry Just to be differ ent was bent triple) 1 Brothers are having a Jimmy announced PLEAS Harry said having a 11 It Ritz Brothers Al declared very hot kids now Going Into the Capitol throw excuse me pie Only ONE pie That refill with whipped cream after hitting the bandleader in the kisser with it regularly Hollywood wants the Ritzes now likewise Miami and the Chicago Theater gets them soon at 15 a week But at the Club 18 they bowled over everything especially when their old pal Roy Sedley comedian introduced them as "the Andrews Then there was a scene where Fat Marco comic asked pretty Gaye Dixon that coffee I is and you she said breaking them and me too responsibility may be I want those photographs and intend to have them he added slowly am prepared to take any steps that may be necessary to overcome your KAUFMAN He said you think you are being foolish Mr His skin tightened suddenly he said your prim notions of responsibility may be I want that photograph and I intend to have It Furthermore I am prepared to take whatever steps are necessary to overcome your THE MIDNIGHT EARL By Earl Wilson and Paul Denis Shipwreck Kelly at the Embassy chased photographers away from his wife Brenda Frazier He wants to de-glamourize her Wolcott Gibbs in this week's New Yorker praises Orson extravaganza as damn good show and certainly like nothing ever seen before A spectacular rough Patricia Bright is satirizing movie stars at the Madison Hotel Cafe William Eythe worried about food shortage In England is having Barney Josephson of Cafe Society send him food oackages to London Lester Wolff's photographer Bill Rlethoff suggests to news pho-toes searching for cheesecake: shoot till you see the whites of their earl brother By Dr George Crone But few women I know fee) light-hearted about house-clean tag When I mentioned the fact ai a girl who'd had an apartment I it The Worry Clinic Test Your Horse Sense Do advertising writers try to appeal to our reason? No according to a recent book by one of them who hides behind the pen name "A To bring satisfying results he says advertising copy must ba addressed to four so-galled fear sex rage and hunger A psychologist might add other emotions such as self-esteem or even But if you want to get someone to do something its his feelings not his reason you should appeal to Mr Gould dues not answer questions by readers However if a problem Is of sufficient general interest he will disruss it in his column Can you help your veteran stop drinking too much? In time most of them will stop without help but since I believe the basis of the drinking is chiefly resentment at the fact that he had to endure so much while the civilian was rela tively well off coupled with i natural Impulse to even the score the ex-service toper can be helped in two ways: (1) by seeing that he gets a good enough Job to make him forget his grievance and (2) by his realizing that his revenge hurts him the most Do you know why people grow childish when they reach old age? Thera are several reasons to explain this common result It can be prevented to a large degree Incidentally is the average grandmother of 70 more genial than the spinster lady of 70? Select the answers which you consider best The last problem counts five points Then look for the correct answers below 1 Coke Is usually produced from which one of these sources? Bauxite Anthracite Peat Bituminous coal 2 Which one of these terms is inappropriate in this general grouping? Diameter Girth Perimeter Circumference 3 The name Morello should make one think of which fruit? Pear Grape Cherry Apple 4 A woman employs a rat In connection with her Fingernails Laundry Make-up Hair 5 Brimstone should make one think of which chemical? Chlorine Hydrogen Sulphur Potassium 6 In the left hand column below are listed the names of five famous cities that mark the sites of early forts Try to match them accurately with the capitals of the states wherein they are located You are entitled to one point for each correct judgment (a) Fort Wayne v) Res Moines (b) Fort Worth (w) Toronto Fort Dodge (x) Austin (d) Fort Myers Indianapolis () Fort William (z) Tallahassee Score yourself as follows: 0-2 poor 3-6 average 7-8 superior 9-10 very superior The last question counts five points) ANSWERS I Bituminous coal 2 Diameter Cherry 4 Hair 5 Sulphur i (a) Fort Indianapolis (y) (b) Fort Austin (xi c) Fort Des Moines v) (d) Fort Tallahassee (z) (e) Fort Torontp w) ON THE ALERT! Walker's is never caught napping by an unusual prescription order because our stock of drugs and serums Includes Items that are rarely used as well ss those that are called for dally Here Is one drug store that is ALWAYS on the alert and prepared to serve you no matter how exceptional the demand Keep looking forward One of the best forms of In surance against becoming fossil ized 1s to have children and then grandchildren for they keep us looking into the tomorrows I roughly classify elderly persons Into four groups as regards their self-centered and introverted personalities CASE K-221: Polly 52 Is a vivacious charming woman are the spilVster? tries to anticipate problems before she meets them prematurely senile Second the childless married couples havue noticed an unfortunate Thirdly the married couples with th ng about elderly she chlldren and finally those old volunteered at a dinner which I people with both children and attended recently When we ap- grandchildren The latter are proach old seem to be- usually the most mellowed and come childish Why people genial of all remain alert and Interested in life until the age of 90 if they live nalyze old that innirv know according to the above clas sification and see if the grand- I want your advice upon parent type tat usually more ia this: how can I take precau- popular more In tions so that I do not lose zest lfe than the gpjter lady or old for living? I want to lead a vital I bachelor of equally advanced years active life mentally as long as I Ml live life span of our population is rising and we have millions of people past 65 "Are there any rules Dr Crane that you can give for safeguarding self against a narrow in trovertive old age? If so please let me have them" WIIY PEOPLE GROW SENILE Hardening of the arteries tends to lessen the blood supply to the brain Then the brain becomes less active and alert This is an organic 1 What is wrong with this Turn your OLD GOLD or PLATINUM INTO WAR BONOS AND STAMPS Due to a slip of the tongue Jack Kirsh new prez of the Independent Theater Owners remarked at a Chicago meeting that he was glad there were such present Everybody looked around And sure enough there was Carole Landis! One of the strangest cases of modern literature involving pho- tographic memory led Simon Schuster and Author Wolfe Kaufman voluntarily withdraw mystery book Hate from sale Some fifteen similarities to Eric 1937 mystery Ground to have been noted They occur only In an early part of the Kaufman book Kaufman ex-Variety reporter former Chtcago Sun drama critic and well-known Broadway press agent has long been aware he possessed a photographic memory As a reporter he take notes He Just HIGHEST (ASH PRICES PAID RUPTURE Come In Let Us Show You FREE of Charge 1 We arc equipped to 9 Th 1 fit any type and condition of Reduc- 0 3 fble Rupture with a fiIRCSS that will ij "4 i hold the Rupture 1 FREE examination Daily hours 9 to 5 Sundays by ap- A pointment Fitting the Most Modem Rupture No Leg Straps Come to see Riddle the In our 8th year In Charlotte No Case of Reducible Rupture too bad for us We fit 'em all nnrmWj Eft-arms ImwAmmj Ohtut 14 JUST LIKE NEW! 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