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‘de Huenig alone. ‘Another instance where it pays to be single. Before your eyebrows brush the ceiling; let. me explain. Miss Huene (she prefers the American title) is a’ fashion designer from New York, where she has one studio and two salons. This layout is not to be confused with a dress shop and two stock- . rooms, cherie, So, the former Paris fashion big-wig blew into town with & couple bulging trunks ull of her creations and an idea to:interest some of ‘our local style-conscious. ladies. S80, 1 went to see what a lady with a studio and two salons had to say. She had plenty to say and I'm tickled pink that I wasn’t in the market for taffeta, tulle, Jegandy or silk brocade, It was a “just-looking” tri When Miss Huene td the door to her Claypool. Hotel. room... she. smiled--pleasantly and asked me to come ib. You might be. wondering why I mention such a trivial happening. The fact is, I was expecting something a bit more extravagant from a baroness. How: was I to know Miss Huene was to conduct herself as any enthusiastic, competent saleslady would?

| Wasn't Buying L.HAD A BIG LIST of terms which I wanted explained. Miss Huene had a great number of creations she wanted to show, I told her I wasn't

buying, My mission was to gather information about such things as “a softening method,” “tights

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“LA COLLECTION" Helen ‘de Huene, de-

signer extraordinaire, gives a whirlwind exhibition of her art,

SS PN-GLADS CALLED onthe Baroness Helen st Tis)

. women would shriek at the sight of it, but that’s’

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..dip--into-.the merits of cotton. \

{al cloth,” “evening dress as ol 8

charmantes.” . “Certainly,” she said. “Won't you sit down?” Good deal. No use standing when you can sit

“p don't repeat myself,” began Miss Huene,

It may aot be cricket to interrupt a baroness, ‘but I did. “I'll listen very carefully, Miss Huene. There won't be any need for you to repeat.” “No, no, no. You don't understand. I don't repeat myself in designing. Every design must be a revelation, exquisitely fitted to the individual and still harmonize with the present fashion.” rattled the lady with the flashing eyes and waving ‘arms. ) Miss, Huene uses her hands a great deal when she speaks. We didn't make much headway with my problem. The designer was so effervescent and so ane with (he creations she brought to the city] at all T did was listen. Not that I dbjected. I \was receiving a liberal education in textiles, fashions, history and salesmanship. {

Nothing ..: an Empty Dress

“I'M NOW MAKING a shoulder that looks like, you picked a kitten up by the scruff of the neck.” Miss Hugne continued and ran to the closet to show

fie the dyess. There's something about an empty .

dress that doesn't appeal to me and I mentioned it! to Miss Hyene. She agreed. “That's Why in salons we use models. That's why we want our customers to try them ‘qn.” she, It a dress is designed to slenderize

directly from the Napolfor days that were not

be worn anywhere but \church; evening dresses with and without bustles &nd sport coats. Frankly, it was a whirlwind affair. : One little copper, number Miss Huene held up was puzzling. She laugh , So did I “It looks fattening. 4 gn't it?” “Well, yes. “Ah, but it has ‘the opposite effect. Some

where they are wrong --see’l ; Miss Huene was wearin a ‘black and gray. striped linen dress. I told |her I liked it and . A woman is a woman and ever it will be thus. Wow. Coming down the homestretch, I found out Miss Huene wears whatever the weather dictates. When it's cold she wears wool and when it's hot she wears silk or linen. She j& just beginning to -Not too deep, though. Her first trip to ‘this country/was in 1926. And she is sorry she didn't stay. Six trips, back and, forth, followed and it ‘wasn’t until 1941 that Miss | Huene decided to stay put here; “I kicked the title of baronedss off when I got! my eitizenship papers; " she laughed. “Designing | is so much fun.” : i It. must. be, -baroness; ‘3 an, Miss Huene.| “Les robes zont toutes charmantes.’

r m Desperate

NEW YORK, May 19—1It is coming on time to move again, and for the past week I have been picking my brains for some place to go to duck the whole horrible process. Don't care where: Tahiti or jail ... anywhere, just .to get out from under foot. As a practicing nomad, I have discovered that the simple process of transplanting a few. sticks of furniture from one hovel to another drives a woman temporarily insane. Being selfish little beasts, they are lonely in their insanity, and deo their level best to communicate their mental unrest to their lifelong partners. In my case, this ig real easy. I can roll up one rug: dismantle one little rack of books, and I begin to make faces in the mirror and pluck at my buttons. I don't know precisely what there is about moving day that. so terrifies all wearers of the heard, but it's something that all men recognize. There never was a man who could do anything right when you. start to take a house apart. Anything he touches brings on a fresh attack of hysteria from. his pearl of great price. You can’t sit, because they come and drag the chair out from under you. If you stand, some ape-muscled moving-man jerks thé rug out from under you. - i you go into the bath to shave, you find they have heaped the cubicle with ancient schoolbooks and stacks of elderly magazines. You are a lost mortal, wandering dolefully through a ro-man’s land of erated china, rolled mattresses and. dismembered. beds... —

One Ran for Congress

80 GREAT is the male distaste for involvement in a transfer of household goods that a fellow named Grady Lewis, out in Oklahoma. once ran for Congress to avoid helping his wife move tfpreasure chromos and party table-linen. Mr. Gzady took to the sticks on a stumping tour. He was in fair way to be elected when he heard that Bsther had completed the moving transaetion. Mr. Grady tiefeupoh retrieved his hat from the

ring and came home. He hadn't craved to be a

“avoiding this moving “operation "artér one aAwril™

Congressman, anyhow. All he sought was peace. A friend of mine named Parker LaMoore once endeared himself to a gross of newspapermen, when Parker was skippering the Secripps-Howard Bureau out in Columbus, 0. Anytime Parker learned that one of his reporters was~faced by a change of domicile, he shipped. the reporter away ' on- an out-of-town assignment fintil the. all-clear sounded. When the last chenille curtain was hung, | LaMoore summoned his hireling home. A husband involved in moving, is as utterly useless as an incipient father at\ a maternity hospital. Nobody's got time for hia; theréds no way he can help; everybody's brusq with him, and he feels, finally, as if he'd done\ something wicked. If he seeks solace in a saloon. then he is automatically a heel, a shifker and a wiktrel and shooting’s too good for him.

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How to Avoid the Ordeal \

TO DATE I'VE BEEN pretty successiul in

experience, involving some dropped dishes and a scarred heirloom, I began to shop around for wiys to get out of town. Generally I was lucky. So / times business beckoned, and I eagerly responde: Bd Once the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, and thereby delivered mre from another move. During the war.\ I was always careful to ship out just before Mama came down with a new craving for a change of apartmental scene Time is getting mighty short. now and T am’ getting desperate.’ Tried to talk the office into a trip to Palestine; they wouldn't buy.” The Republican convention in Philadelphia won't help. We'll be moved by then. I would even go for a lecture tour, except I don't lecture very good and those things take time to arrange. anyhow. Can't get jailed for vagrancy; I got a job. . ‘ . It looks like all T.can do is sit here and trust: that the Lord will provide me a furnitureless sanctuary for June 1.5. Failing that, I suppose I ean always run away, but I am getting a little old for running away. Besides, I always get caught. These women have Sples everywhere.

Yricky, Eh?

WASHINGTON, May 19—If you see an auto: mobile with & South Carolina Jicense on it, 1 suggest you duck. Rep. L. Mendel Rivers of Charleston may be at the wheel—shaving himself on his way to work. I have no doubt that he's an expert at shift: Ing gears with his right hand while he works up a lather with his left. Or maybe he brandishes an electric’ razor through traffic. But it sounds dangerous to me. __ This cepfession . » the gentleman from South Carolina -came up the Senate Finance ComMittee's inquiry into taxes on aleomargarine. Everybody knows the Senate's going to eliminate these taxes, but the committee's got to go through the motions, anyhow. So the boys are kind of relaxed. Sen. Alben Barkley of Kentucky said this hew-fangied oleo .that you massage to make it Yellow is a tricky thing. A fellow can buy a pound of it for his wife, he said, and before. he Bets off the street car at home, he can have it Nicely colored. It still oughtn't fo be taxed, snapped Rep. Rivers, who wrote the bill that would put yellow Oleo on the grocer's shelves. He's mixed a lot of oleo for his wife, he continued, but never en route. He just shaves when going places. “® keep a razor In my car,” he said, “and sometimes shave myself on the way to the office.”

Why Not Rosebuds?

SOON THE SENATORS were in an elegant Argument abdut how to identify pats of mar- , Barine ig restaurants 80 that the customers would know. they weren't getting butter. Sen. Eugene D. Milliken of Colorado, the chairman. wondered If the pats of oleo couldn't. be fixed up fancy, like some housewives carve butter into rosebuds, Sen. Barkley said restaurant butter and, or, ole, pats aren't big enough to make rosebuds. Seri. J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas said why did it, Matter, if the customer couldn't tell the difference’ by the taste and since science had proven that Withee and: thargarine were equally good. to eat. Ben, Robert Taft of Ohio thought maybe the

-oleo plate ought to have a sign on it: “Oleomar-

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garine.” Then the diner-out- would be sure. This ‘did not worry witness Donald Montgamery. a representative of the CIO. Make the restaurants label margarine if you want, he said. but why not make 'em put signs on their other foods, too?” “Have ‘em put up a sign.” he added. “saying canned orange juice is mixed with fresh here. and water is added.’ ” Other signs he suggested for restaurants included “We buy our spring chickens in barrels” and ‘we serve processed cheese." “On second thought,” he .said, “I wouldn't mind if you'd pass a bill outlawing this processed cheese. I don't like the stuff,” a

And How About Coffee

AND ANOTHER THING, he said, when he orders a cup of coffee in a restaurant, he hopes he'll get coffee but often he doesn't. He wishes Congress, in its wisdom, could see fit to do something about that, toe. |

Anyhow, mused Sen. Taft, labeling foods on the plates in eating houses does pose a problem. He sald ycu can't Jabel a pork chop, but what about the idea of making pads of margarine triangular in shape? The trouble with that, replied Rep. Robert J. Corbett of Pennsylvania, is that the stuff is inclined to melt. How you going to keep. if triangular if a restaurant keeper serves it on a warns plate? Anyhow, testified Dr. Anton J, Carlson of the University of Chicago, margarine is a fine, -wholesome food. One of “his scientific colleagues ‘in California has fed 21 generations of rats on olen instead of hitter. That: is equivalent to 600 ears in the Hves of humans, and the rats still feel fine. He himself fed margarine to one group of orphans, and butter to another. The oleo voungsters were healthier, the doctor said, but not enough for him to make any "decisions about " butter. And some ‘day, when 1 feel brave. I want to “watch Sherman Rivers shave while he drives Sowntown. {

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SES Children New Clothing For Europe

(Picture Story by Victor Peterson)

mantic as an old world portrait” and “toutes —

READY TO SHOW-—The day of Midwest isolationism is dead. No longer is there a shell around Hoosierdom. Daily more and more persons realize “that the people of war-torn Europe are vital to our lasting peace... The Mormon Church is no exception to-this-pre Recently the women's group of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter ~Day-Samts; Prospect St. and Villa A je. - children's dresses to Europe. by (lett to right) Mrs.. Ethyl Button, Mrs, and Ethyl-Rae Thompson.

JUST LIKE BIG FOLKS — To commemorate the shipment of the society held. a. style show. in -- parishioners. packed the. house- of. worship. 5 "re used for a building fund for the national - from professional models, ‘par aded onto the stage, whirled gracefully and walked The eye-catchers here are Linda The society's 49 women made

for 2 to -8- year-olds, Adm ssion har ges are sponsored the shipmen

hing touch. is placed ort one ~ ill, society president,

down one aisle and up the other. Liggett followed by Sandra Baker, some 20 dresses tor the occasion.

SHE NEEDED HELP — The exc iteme nt of re rom Yodding. With the aid of to win\ the hearts of all spectators. of Mrs. Button.

HAND-IN- HAND—Europe and its people probably méan nothing to these tots but they symbolize. the " youngsters who will receive the clothes they modeled. As winsome as can be- are (left to right] ‘Mary Evans, Karen Sebastian and Barbara Hightower.

tyle show kept even the youngest hand, tiny Joan Damrell promenaded The church women worked under the direction are Mrs. Sophie Liggett, first councillog: or. and Mrs. Minnie. Farley secretary-freasurer.

Officers other than Mrs. Hil Mrs. Frigda Surface, cecond council

FOUR TO GO--Crepe paper bonpet | of these '"todels’ who participated in the showing. (left to’ right), Ruth Thompson and Naomi Dale, | to right) Barbara Thompson, and Patty. Taylor;

READY, WILLING AND ABLE The young ‘ond ‘old of the church always are ready to answer a call for help. Pleas for clothing began during the war. Shown in this group are (left fo. right} Janice &7, Forlag. Mary Katherine Farley. and Gloria 3 3

“They are, rear