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A lot of people have to see a robin or a red-. pird or a daffodil before they wake up to the fact that gpring is here. How does that robin go? Something about one noisy robin not
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you have to have ! a robin. In the first-place you have to have the feelJ mood that
his hat so the sun could reflect off his bald head. A natural thing to do after a long, hard winter. He was waiting for a bus, it was warm—why not soak up some Vitamin D? .poors to small shops around town were propped open and the air was full of the sweet smell of spring, donuts, popcorn, hamburgers with onions and new lingerie.
office. girls, minus topcoats and suit coats, walked slowly to the nearest cqffee counter.
Hote! doormen have sprouted sun: glasses. Several already have discarded their long over.coats. The door keeps seem to’ swing the portals with a little more gusto, too. Maybe it's my imagination: X University Park benches, as good a harbinger as you'd want, have snagged customers. A couple guys I saw looked as if they hadn't moved since last fall. Where they spent the winter is beyond me. It's a cinch it wasn't Miami Beach.
SPRING — Plenty of "spring" in skipping rope the way Marilyn Quentin does sisting of a returned GI, his wife
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thing I can get along without. Spring house cleaning never appealed to me. At School 43, 150 W. 40th St, a group of 7 A’s were indulging in an activity more to my tastes than carpet beating. They were skipping rope.’ Rather a strenuous pastime the way Marilyn Quentin went at it but what does youth | care? 2 :
“I've skipped as high as 500," she puffed. Her ‘schoolmates, Carolyn Ashpaucher and Marjorie Lach, who were swinging the rope, speeded up with the idea that their friend wasn't Boing to set any records that day. Just watching the operation made me tired. Too much work for a beautiful spring day. A! better occupation would be to sit on a curb “on the igi side of the street” and watch the worla, go by. If it should snow—I'd move.
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Built-In Ideas
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1948
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Between skips and breaths, Miss Quentin said She was up to 123. ve :
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FOR GRACIOUS LIVING—This low, early American coftage-type home will be one of the two principal displays at the 1948 Indianapolis Home Show. A blend of the modern architectural theme with early American, it was designed by Edward D. James, Indianapolis architect.
Two Houses Designed For Exhibit in April
SKETCHES and plans of two model houses which will be fea- | tured in the 23d annual Indianap-' | olis Home Show were released to- | day by Carl C. Welland, president.’ | The houses, one a small frame { structure representing the mini{mum cost for agmodern dwelling and a larger, more pretentious ‘dwelling, will be the major displays at the rgrounds, dur.
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building, State Fairgrounds, during the annual Home Show exposition April 18 to 25. Tr Construction of the two projects will start March 25 > 4
10s »120"
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‘by three young architects, all vet-|
"| erans of World War II. They are
it as fleft to right) Carolyn Ashpaucher and Marjorie Lach swing the rope.
Why, Mildred
WASHINGTON, - Feb. 20-—-You should have _
heard the other ladies applaud, gents, when Dean C. Mildred Thompson of Vassar College teetered up to the rostrum om her high heels and said “there was nothing men ean do that women can't do better. ? I bet Mildred can’t grow a mustache, long. Silky, and curled up at the ends, like mine. Hey, an? She told the other lovelies at.the National Conference of Women's Organizations here that she felt sorry for men. Frustrated, she said, PiYingly. Women have caught up with ‘em in a nes. I hate to interrupt the lause, Mildred, but what. kind of pipe baer do you prefer? I. mean, Dean, you have overlooked a few things. Like swimming at the beach. I can do that in shorts and nothing else except my own manly beauty, Mildred, I defy you to try that.’ Getting into arguments with the female sex, including the fair daughters of Vassar, I know, is dangerous. But the Dean upped and said that not until some gent named Kinsey wrote a book about man’s sex life, the male didn’t: know he had any. Goodness, Madam! There are gentiemen present. &
When Men Felt Sorry for Selves
DEAN THOMPSON is a nice-looking lady of 67. Her first name is Clara, she hails originally from Atlanta, Ga., and she claims that one of the things that got mere man to felling sorry for himself was when the ladies started wearing pants. : ata I sat there in the blue and gold departmental auditorium, trying to visualize how Mildred would look in a pair of pants, but I did not succeed. And all the time she kept passing out insults to the sons. and the fathers of this nation. She said (and I quote her) that we had lost
Corn Pone Moan
he MONTGOMERY, Ala. Feb. 20-1 am a man fet by hog jowl and the black-eyed pea; fried Chickens hang about my neck like the albatross Of the ancient mariner. Afr is breathed by other People; all your correspondent gets to smell is the fat spittin’ in the skillet.
Nearly two years ago, in a misguided moment I rattled out a quick piece on. southern cooking. It was my idea that everything wrong with the South could be traced to its cuisine, which in a great many instances was unfit for consumption by anyone with digestive juices inferior to a goat. It seems to me I mentioned that the only true fouthern cooking was committed by Greek. chiefs With a grievance; that nobody down here could fry a chicken right, unless he had a Yankee grandmother, and that the famous beaten bisCuit deserved just what it got-—a beating. I don't think that I would have stirred up 8 greated ruckus if I had attacked the chastity of southern womanhood, or smirched the memory Of Jeff Davis. A marked man, I have been payMg for. my sin on this trip. There hi% been A concerted ‘effort, so far, to make me eal my Words, and I mean that literally. ‘
“Invited Out to Many Dinners IN EACH town I have hit, so far, there has *n a delegation of folks who still rankle at my Bross slander. Wiping their fioury hands on their aprons, they say: “You're the guy who wrote About southern cooking, huh? Weil, let me tell
"YOU. , ™ And so I get asked out to dinner, to
Ample old Aunt Hattie’'s corn pone. or old Aunt f'amie's spoonbread, or old Aunt Bessie's deep dish deep dish,
By Frederick C. Othman
of our barber shops, and that. we couldn't even escape women in the corner saloon. . Dean Thom toque. Try to lap up a short beer in the National Press Club bar, Mildred. Stick your powdered nose into these sacred précincts, my dear, and you get the bum’s rush. Vassar, or no Vassar,
Few Little Pointers to the Ladies
I TRUST the ladies, who assembled here in honor of the 100th anniversary of the women’s suffrage movement, will appreciate the moderation of my language. I think women are won-
- derful. Even if they don't wear pockets and their
lips rub off on the water glasses. What if they do varnish their fingernails the color of fire engines? What if they wear short skirts one year and long ones the next? weep when they lose an argument, stumble around in silly shoes, pluck their eyebrows, have
-- constant trouble holding up their socks, make
the coffee too weak, and vote for handsome candidates, only, Mildred, I am not complaining. love the ladies. ) ’ Neither, Ma'am, am I- quibbling My point is this, Dean Thompson and members: If I am a sick and frustrated male, a member of the lost sex, and a menace to myself, then ladies, you can't expect poor; tired little me to give you my seat on the trolley, } © One more. peep out of you. Mildred, and I'll quit taking my hat off in elevators. If your ,8hoe comes untied vou can stoop down and knot it yourself, your own trap for all of frustrated me. And when you get back to Vassar, Mildred. remember who's paying the bills for all the beauties ‘in your: student body. Their pappies. Males, every one, and probably feeling a little frustrated by now, at that.
a losing battle with an infernal concoction called privady of bedroom areas, open-
sole rights to the symbols, meaning pants, of our, maleness. that .we’d been forced out of the privacy] ays.
pson, you are talking through your ..., eq upon a concrete slab with
Catch a mouse and you can empty plac
| Alfred J. Porteous, Willam C.| | Wright and Charles T. Donegan, | members of the firm of Vonnegut, I BRARY Lin & Yeager, LIBRARY rv. » »
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THE LARGER home was de- ' signed by Edward D. James, mem‘ber of the firm of Burns and James, architects. Mr. James also designed the French Regency “home in the 1934 Home Show. i In ‘designing the small home, the trio planned for a family con-
{and one or two small children. | Their house contains approximate- ) '1y 4500 cubic feet. They estimate Ee r x : [it can be built for around $5000, aren ; A no exclusive of ‘the i. itis of tile MODEL HOME" INTERIOR—Floor plans of the large mod home show spacious rooms and planning for dwelling of four rooms 1s the sb. convenience. Features of the house are a glass inclosed ining area, a two-car garage with facilities for a home\sence of waste space caused by ant type heating. g | The overall size of the GI house! “BSF spl ei {18 16 feet and 4 inches by 35 feet.. NE ; ool $3 It has no basement and is-con-
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{asphalt flooring. Its floor plan consists of a living room-dinette; {with guest closet, 11 by 15 feet; {a child's bedroom, 8 feet square; parents’ bedroom, 10 feet 8 inches by 8 feet. Each bedroom has a (closet. The kitchen and {is 14 by 7 feet. Off the kitchen is {a bathroom with linen closet and a storage closet, 4 feet square. i i. . . | THE ROOF over the entire area is flat with a slight slope. Te {front entrance at one end has a| covered platform. Interior wall) {and ceiling finishes will be of dry-| wall construction. The exterior, surface will be of wood. | The kitchen which will look out {upon the front garden will have {standard equipment with built-in {cabinet « height electric water {heater and automatic clothes {washer. The heating unit will be, an under-floor heater near the guest closet in the living room. | Built-in conveniences and furniture will be kept to a minimum to provide more flexible furniture] ément. The equipment to be. installed in the kitchen and laundry will be supplied by the owner. The larger house has been developed by Mr. James around the ‘ [ ‘3 i yo” 0 Lo ; : theme of modern architecture for “ Nios 8 F Si Wig ARE gE lh Hh 3 ; i, traditional living. It is a one- : f ’ 3 : Bris y istory, early American cottage) with a flavor of the old stone
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Gl "HOUSE—This small four-room frame house was designed by three ex-Gl architects to suit the needs
- By Robert &: RUGEK retening varsany of the roore | of a returned veteran and his family. The house. designed to be built at around $5000; was planned by Alfred
The floor plan is developed for the normal living of the family,
J. Porteous,” William C. Wright and Charles T. Donegan. THE KITCHEN has a U-shaped
Hopping John, which seems to be compounded of ness of living areas, space saving work area and a small breakfast cow peas and melted horse's hoofs. back in North anq step saving food preparation bar looking into the porch and
Carolina.
Sprout on my back.
Never would I knock southern hospitality, but laundry work.
Mammy’s little baby is a-wezrying of shortenin
Pin feathers. induced by constant over areas. The handiness of the laundoses of Alabama chicken, are beginning to gry with modern laundry methods garden.
Floors are’ greaseproof allows a minimum of time for asphalt tile. The garbage disposal sink and electric dishwasher unit
'| “mn is under a window overlooking
bread. When I eat T like to eat without having! THE LIVING areas have large the utility and kitchen yard. & gun pressed against my neck, while a hard- glass expanse to the garden. The Counter tops are linoleum, except
eyed rebel commands me to like ‘it or else. Colonel
I} living porch is part of the garden around sink, which . is stainless like it. Honest I do. Lay that pistol down, and adjacent to the kitchen, since | Boss, But if I see orie more hot |
steel. There is a range and reit is an outdoor dining and Hving|frigerator. The cabinet sections
m apt to blow my roof and take the room. Garage and service ares (have abundant storage space.
consequences. »
Fattening Me Up for Sacrific
THE KEY to this concerted effort to founder Ruark allegedly is that they don't want me to fashioned brick floor, wood dado jaundry with sorting table, one peddle’ any more ‘erronious” ' ideas about the and plain gray walls above the ‘tub, automatic washer, drver and _succulence of the southern sowbelly, prepared dado. Woodwork and a glass roner. : with collard greens, or the nobolity of cornbread shelved case between hall: and™ The garage is two-car, concrete
sogged up with pot licker.
is direct to the living area and, The utility room has plywood adjacent to the kitchen and stor- walls and cefling, asphalt tile
. floor and contains in addition to The entrance hall has an old- the heating unit, the modern KITCHEN
DINETTE
living room are toward the mod- floor with plywood walls and
I have been told that my mission to shout ern. (Note: A dado is the lower ceiling. . the superiority of southern cuisine to the earth’s part of the wall when specifically) The heating i$ a radiant type
four corners, but it is my private opinion that decorated.)
with floor panels. Warm alr is
they are fattening me up for sacrifice, like a , The library has cherry wood-| run through coils in fl : . shoat in the fall, and that I am apt to reach the work and dado and a stone are- (rooms and Fotw is : ’
table one day with a sprig of parsley tucked place wall Hkh over one ear and an apple in my mouth. is morbid thought occurs as I reach for the window draperies. The floor is Tums, after a breakfast composed of ane pe the Fdiatar Gr Jegisers. hominy grits and a piece of curled sole leather The
purporting to be meat.
roast columnist might * change on the menu. . ‘
You will notice that I have not come right when closed complete y covers A. C, Crandall, M : Jet Propulsion Subject Lodge PI . out to say that I-still think that the South windows and wall.” The fireplace line and H, A. Frei og Tuy P Ubi ib ge Plans Dance might have won that war if it hadn't been weak- is surrounded hy marble, pina Ae ened by generations of hawg-and-hominy, dished: The bedrooms - have
‘up by" vengeful slave mammies who had
I figure that if you large modern type windows from phy the ge ; ; 3 neral: pl p eat grits long enough, a fillet from a freshly floor to ceiling. The window wall house WStmeral pian ana, model provide -a welcome is draped from floor to ceillBg Griffin. Other members are Arthur
Above the dado, /themselves becoming radiatin colorful wallpaper blends with|surfaces. The system eliminates |
cork tile.
The designs and pl living-dining igns and plans for the
room has two model houses were approved
; INSIDE GI HOME — Elimination of waste space and planning to utilize every inch of space are features of the floor plans of the smaller modern Jor The house
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with traversed ' hanging that/A, Smock, Richard €. Lennox. ! , Monument Masonic Lodge will } : i hold & George Washington birth- Ww Even papered C. K. Martin of the Allison Di- | closet walls of natural Club Plans L ) | vision, General Motors Corp., will Jay dintier Sg lenp r Annes in, Cumberland Chapter finish. The floor covering' Cumberland Home Makers Club, discuss jet propulsion at a meet- nos Sts, Feb. 26. Judge Saul 110" "ill have a stat fs either asphalt tile with small will hold & luncheon at the home Ing of the Scientech Club 0 be Raab of Marion ‘ in the Cum of Mrs. Ruth Stevens, 181 N. Post held at noon Monday in the Hotel 2 will speak. Robert P. Pried-| Temple at 8 pou >|Rd. Feb. 26. The hostess will be Antlers, He will illustrate his talk iman is chairman of the entertain: Worthy Matromt Lgo
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is designed to house comfortably a returned veteran, his wife, and ‘one of two
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