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Wl i'l "'I I 1 '1 I (CvSL. Eli i 1 I I I i' I f2k i I. BY DOROTHY CLOUDMAN A SEASON WHICH CATERS to that bare, brown look and dresses you in cottons of black, brown or gray, cries out for white toppers to contrast with drama and cover up with ladylike dignity. Decoration Day and thereafter, top your dark cottons or sheers, your plaid town suits and your bareback dresses with a frosting of white. There's Shetland wool, shaggy white wools, lightweight gabardines or crisp white cotton twill.

There's nothing so flattering to blonds, brunets or redheads as stark white. Slim, dark skirts beneath are further contribution to smartness embodied in the topcoat of white. THE BRIEF, BELTED AND BOXY topper stopping just below the hips (top left) is stunning in pure white 100 per cent wool. Big revers bedeck the buttonhole-less front accented by outsize buttons of simulated tortoise and gold on either side of the closing. The back, with a long plait, has its fullness belted In trimly.

In sizes 10 to 18, at $85, you may choose it also in raspberry, sea foam green, blue, gold, or rose quartz. From Kay Cooley's. Smooth-finish pure Shetland wool in a herringbone weave has its fullness of fabric belted in a tie-sash at the waist, making the thirty-seven-inch length "pilot full enough to stand out just above narrow skirts. In sizes 10 to 18, at $29.95, it comes also in powder blue, and yellow. Shown at the Rollins Co.

(large figure). i -Y I i 'o i i i fV" I 1 'i) I A- I-' i' i ji jj.fi! A FABRIC DARLING OF SUMMER, washable white cotton twill, makes a casual topper you'll practically live in. That set-in belt provides plenty of skirt and bodice fullness above and below the natural waist. A neat cardigan neckline aad full bell sleeves enable the unlined style to go over everything in jour wardrobe. This stop-fashion for summer is priced at $7.95 for sizes 10 to IS (below).

From B. Siegel Co. Classics are ever to the fore and they're more dramatic in pure white shaggy wool, soft as down. The precision tailored topper (far right) has welt-seamed flap pockats, revers and raglan sleeves. Buttons are white mother of pearl, and the lining is a fine basket weave rayon crepe.

For sizes 10 to 20, it is priced at S59.95. Wear it three seasons of the year in other colors, including red, green or powder blue. From Best Co. I I 4 -tf 1 i iff 7 it 'r -If i i 1 it'll A I yyfy 'ill' yyym 1 -i )' i A I i i a li rf sxfr Travelers Return i I 1i Hi -sxr- t.5 Trips 1 DOROTHY PEXXIXGTOX has returned to her homo on Victoria Ave. after a visit with Mr.

and Mrs. Ashley Lawrence in Toronto. Mis. Gordon Morris of Riverside Drive, Riverside, has as her house guests her sister, Mrs H. James Godber of Montreal, and her sister-in-law, Mrs.

George McCullagh of Toronto. Complimenting them, Mrs. A. S. Ellis and Mrs.

W. M. Wilson, of Victoria entertained at luncheon at the Essex Golf Club on Friday. Complimenting Mrs. M.

S. Brooks of South Bend, formerly of Windsor, who is spending the month at her summer home at Kingsville. Mrs. G. Herbert McDonald, of Victoria is entertaining next Tuesday at luncheon, at the Essex Golf Club.

1 DETROIT FREK PRESS 3 Tart Thire Sunday. Mav 21 SEW YORK Pai Takes Society 1 by surprise BY NANCY RAXnOI.rH Spet'iai to th rw Prs NEW YORK We've often spoken in this column of surprises to the social set perhaps have been guilty of letting it become a hackneyed expression. But here's one to which we'd attach our departmental guarantee: Pretty Pauline (Polly) Wise Mcll-waine, golden glam-gal of yesterdecade. has been the bride of Charles Taber. son of Congressman John Taber and Mrs.

Taber since Saturday, May 13. Only a feu- members of Charlie's family were on hand to witness the ceremony, which was performed in the Second rrcsriyterian Chinch at Auburn, N. Y. Polly's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Paul T. of this burg's Park were unable to attend the wedding: because of the sudden illness of the bride's mother, so Mr. Wise phoned their blessings to the couple. This is the second trip Polly and Charlie have made to the altar. She recently divorced 1A.

Comm. David R. McIKvaine, in Reno. Their wedding: was a veritable Mt. Everest among social peaks of 1935.

Charlie's previous wife was Eleanor Holland. They were married in 1941 a few months after she was crowned Queen of the at the Saratoga Spring Festival. Polly has been a popular mem-ber of the Junior League since she was presented to society in ISM. She attended Miss Porter's School at Farmington. and added the finishing touches in Paris at Mile.

La-bouchee's School. Her bridegroom was graduated from the Hill School and attended Wesleyan and Syracuse Universities. FOR THOSE of his Xew York pals who've been wondering where Horatio Seymour Shon-pard has been keeping himself tliis past month or so, a letter addressed to Reno will reach him. The dapper sixty-five-year-old clubman has been living quietly in the nation's divorce capital and will file suit against his second wife, Sophie d'Antig-nac Meldrim Coy Shonnard, on Wednesday. He and Sophie have reached a property agreement and she will not contest the divorce suit when he appeals before the judge and charges her with mental cruelty.

The divorce will end a marriage that began not quite 15 years ago in a surprise ceremony that took place in Savannah, home of the bride's parents. Judge and Mrs. Peter V. Meldrim. It was a second wedding Xor both.

Sophie, a celebrated southern beauty, was the first wife of the famed Yale foot-hall star, the late Ted (Edward Harris) Coy. She divorced him Jn Paris in and, a few-months later, Ted took the MH'oml of his three wives, the late Jeanne Eagels, actress. Mr. Shonnard had also previously been divorced. His first wife.

Mary Elizabeth Joyce Shonnard, shed him in a Paris court. Citv Noises BY DR. IRVING S. ANY SOUND THAT is unpleasant can justly be labeled We welcome music and reflect its mood, whether it be soft and soothing or spirited and martial. Racket, on the other hand, is unwholesome.

A sensitive musician will actually shiver when he detects a discord, while Their Betrothals Told from "Varied HITHER AND THITHER news tops the column this week in Windsor. Capt. and Mrs. Robert W. Meanwell and their baby daughter, Elizabethhave arrived from the West Coast, where the former has been stationed, for a visit with Mrs.

Meanwell's patents, Dr. and Mrs. George F. Laing. Pilot Officer J.

G. O'Xeill has returned to his RCAF duties on the East Coast after a 14-day furlough spent with his mother. Mrs. J. G.

O'Xeill, of Dufferin Place. Mrs. Paul Robarts returned this week to her home on Victoria Ave. from Port Hope, where she attended the cadet inspection and gymnasium display at Trinity College School, which her son George attends. THE THOMAS E.

WALSHES ate back in their home in Riverside Drive, and their daughter, Mrs. J. C. Liddle, has returned to her home on Argyle Road, from London, where they attended the graduation of their son Tom, from the University of Western Ontario Medical School. Mrs.

H. I. Wiley of Sunset is also home from the Western commencement, her daughter Madge, having been graduated. Frances Forbes and Peggy Lang, of Kitchener. Barbar Wilson, of Casgrain Place, and Grant Wiley of Cleveland, accompanied Mrs.

Wiley down for the exercises. ANOTHER POPULAR VISITOR in town is Section Officer Kay Fulmer, formerly in charge of recruiting for the RACF (Women's Division) here, and now stationed at Rivers, Man. Judge and Mrs. J. J.

Coughlin returned to their home on Ouel-iette Ave. Thursday from a few riayr sojourn in St. Thomas with Judge and Mrs. Duncan C. Ross.

Lt. Irene Page, who Is stationed in London with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, is back at her post after a visit with her parents, the Leo Pages, of Ouellette Ave. Mis. James R. Coulter of Victoria spent the week in Toronto, and Mr.

and Mrs. R. H. Wilson of Casgrain Place have as their guest the former's mother. Mrs.

A. A. Wilson, of Toronto. CHATTERBOX Talented "Youngsters Launch Campaign Continued from Page One dress displays, and details gleaned from her own stock of patterns, make the resulting creations noteworthy. Knit Knacks THIS VERSATILE LASS knits like a streak, too.

and is credited with starting the current vogue for pastel argyle socks among the feminine contingent. For Christmas Mary made some baby blue, pale pink and white plaid socks for Sally, who was enraptured and thus the fashion was launched. Now when any of Mary's pals have birthdays, or any other occasion for present-giving comes along, her standard offering, always enthusiastically received, is pastel-hued socks. In the interims between sock-knitting flurries, she has lately managed to concoct for herself a sweater of a wood-violet lavender, glamorously embellished with her initials in white angora. At the moment she is in the midst of making a navy sweater and socks for the Red Cross.

Another clever seamstress among the teensters is Barbara Hughes, who has just finished one summer dress and begun another. The latest one is of butter-yellow chambray trimmed with crisp ruffles of white eyelet embroidery. Both of Barbara' small sisters, Nancy and Peggy, have benefited greatly by this capability, and count among their favorite garments the gay dirndl skirts she has made for them. Peggy Duffy likes to make tricky things, and with infinite patience and many stitchings, pinnings and try-ons, has made two most elegant bathing suits, which are the wonder of her friends. Her latest creation, departing briefly from the sartorial, is a dressing table skirt for her room, complete with blue ruffles edging its folds.

Peggy is a knitting star, too, and has a complete wardrobe of matching sweaters, socks and mittens of her own manufacture. System The face will appear pale and the countenance anxious. This means that lesser impulses probably produce body changes despite the fact that outward manifestations may be lacking. Brown-Dunitz Nuptials Read in Bride's Home DOLLY DUNITZ, DAUGHTER of Mr. and Mrs.

Max Dun-itz, of Fairfield became -the bride of Lt. (j g) Bernard B. Brown, USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Brown, of Grand at a recent ceremony held in the home of the bride, with Rabbi Abraham Herschman and Cantor Jacob Sonenklar officiating.

The bride wore a gown of heavy candlelight satin with inserts of Val lace over the shoulders and in the voluminous skirt, which ended in a four-yard train. Her veil of illusion was full length and she carried a white prayer book with white orchids. Shirley Dunitz. the bride's sister, was the only atterviant, attired in pale blue taffeta with a head dress of blue illusion and, carried a colonial bouquet of pink roses and blue irises. Wallace Friedman was the best man Following the ceremony and reception dinner, the bridal couple left for Lt.

Brown's station at Yorktown, where they will make their home. Can Affect raucous sounds will disturb even the most phlegmatic. The repeated reverberations of a pneumatic riveting hammer will drive the average listener to distraction, particularly if it keeps up hour after hour, day after day. System Becomes Conditioned BUT THERE is such a thing as becoming conditioned to sounds which at first may be extremely unpleasant. The boiler-maker's apprentice, for the first week or two, may return home exhausted and fatigued.

After a time, however, a wall of resistance will be built which spares the sympathetic system and hence will fail to influence the heart rate, respiration or the disposition. We are all familiar with the experience of the city lad who lived adjacent to the elevated. He had grown up in an environment of jangles and jars. Invited to the country, he could not sleep for several nights because of silence. Traffic Noises Take Toll BUT THIS DOES not imply that any one of us can become immune to the roar of traffic, as it does take its toll upon every one emotionally'.

Not a few will experience upset systemic functions. Regardless of training, a sudden report for example, an explosion or a crash will startle and alarm. A sinking feeling in the vicinity of the stomach usually indicates that the heart has stopped momentarily, with marked abdominal congestion. i i -s i r'v'. Xf O'Connor Thoto fr.

and Mrs. Ivor Hoff Lee. of Royal Oak, announce the encasement of their daughter. Barbara Jean, left, to Robert Senter Rarey. son of Mr.

and Russell S. Rarey, of Columbus, O. They will be married July 15. Florence Ann Morehouse, right, daughter of the B. II.

Morehouses. of Lakewood is engaged to Apprentice Seaman Eugene Miller, USN'R, son of Mrs. Blanche Miller, of Concord Ave..