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are not agreed in either their op ions 9 Share . customer reaction. Some say spa sell, others shake their heads and pit the buyer. - ey e buyer I mean the man or woman who sinks someone else’s dough into stock in hopes their Judgment is correct as far as the consumer is concerned.

Buyers Hope for. the Best

THE BUYERS are hopeful, of course. Listening fo a couple of them I got the impression spats will be a must this fall and winter. Looking at stock which included practically all types of materials from plaid wool to brocade and black satin, I had my doubts, ' 5 I raised several questions about getting the

i ANKLE BLINDERS—Fashion has covered the knee and calf and now it's working on-the ankle.

‘*Where to next? ue ’

Tootsums Wootsums

{ NEW YORK, Aug. 23—Things have been different around here since the baby came. Nobody

gets any work done any more. The doctor is in

and out of the house at the slightest sniffie. The formula takes more fixing than an emperor's dinner. Also baby talk gets spoken. The baby, I might add, is named Admiral the Baron Schnorkel von Doenitz, and he is a 10-week-old boxer puppy. He is completely omniverous, which is to say he savors a shair-skitt; shoe, cigaret butt or cake of soap equally as much &8 a dab of hamburger or the groceryman’s ankle. He has no preference in live meat. He is just-as happy with a chunk of his’ mama's hip as with a small, choice cut from his papa’s foot. Meat is meat to the Admiral, whether it comes from the butcher or,off the flank of a lady guest. The beast is about the size of a long legged dachshund, at the moment, which makes him little larger thah:a roll of salami, but hé seems to be able to consume his weight in fancy vittles four times a day. From thé looks of the grocery bill, he dines on a diet of pearls, interspersed, for roughage, with uncut emeralds and an occasional pigeon-blood ruby. We named him after the new submarine device—S8norkel, but with the Germanic spelling, and also after that old Kraut submarine admiral, Doenitz, for ample reason. I can think of no small thing, unless it be a submarine, that can do such great damage in such a short time. And like Doenitz, my dog shoots first and inquires afterward.

The Puppy Who Lives in Mirror

OUR BABY is invested with an overweening arrogance that can only come of generations of Prussian training. Ever since he vanquished that evil puppy who lives in the mirror—you know, the one who is bigger than a Dane and carries a pistol—there has been no living with him. He will turn, with a snarl, on the bathroom rug, swearing on a stack of kibble that it drew a knife on him: He has reduced to tatters a chair that callously kicked him. As to housebreaking, I would say he has excellently trained, when you consider he has only had us a week. We are trained to take him outside four times a day, to swab the rug at frequent intervals, to remain stoically silent under chewing,

Getting the Bird

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23—It is my pleasure today to assure the National Audubon Society that it still is respectable to be interested in our furred and feathered friends. No matter what the evidence may indicate, the House Un-Ameri-can Activities Committee sees nothing subversive fn the hobby of watching birds. 1iy only suggestion, members of the Audubon

Society,.is this: If you happen to observe any Red birds, just keep quiet about it. What brings this on is .a melancholy communication from an old friend and bird fancier, George Dock Jr., of the Audubon Society in New York. The spy hunt of Rep. J. Parnell Thomas and Co. is making the feathers fly at Audubon headquarters. Dock reported in language as temperate as he could manage that Mrs. Lillian Howard of the Investigating Committee interrupted contemplation of the birds and the beasts with a long distance phone call from Washington.

Urges Search of Files

“SHE ASKED us to search every available file and record in our office for the names of Alger Hiss or Priscilla Hiss,” Mr. Dock said. “She also gave us six different Washington addresses where these characters could be regarded as former Juans She not’ only insisted that we conduct e search, but also asked us to call her yesterday anything could be found in our files.” Mr. Dock sighed. He said the Audubon Society fin’t interested in politics, but only in robins, tawny pipits, great horned owls, ring-tailed moose {ind maybe little foxes (excluding red ones, of course). : “It is concerned entirely with such work as the protection of wild animals and birds threatened with extermination, the conservation of wild life in North Ameriga and the education of people in many forms of conservation and nature instruc-

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. with a shoe horn and mutter a few stock words’

proper fit, the lost art of using a button hook and protection

from the weather above the spat. SECOND SECTION MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1948 The little matter of proper fit in spats wasn’t! oldtimers in the

Its Deen Faghel pleasant for a number of years when they to do was slip a shoe on a foot With 3 sho (Picture Story by Victor Peterson ) “That's the only rub” an elderly shoe ! 2 3 : told me, “is this business of fiddling around with ee. the button hook and getting the will cut into our commissions.” On the other side of the picture, think the coming of spats will give the business! a shot in the arm. It will make people more shoe con I was shown two models with buttons. The shoe with one gold button, I liked. The 23-Skidoo number is a tricky piece of leather that I hesitate to comment on. “If manufacturers stay within the limits of these two styles we won't worry too much” buyer sighed. “Let’s get back to spats,” I suggested. “What is the public's reaction?” § We got back to spats but we didn't settle any- | thing. There were reports of enthusiasm. One, clerk told of a young girl who bought two pairs and returned with a girl friend who bought three. | This was tempered with the story about a'® young lady who bought a pair of spats and re-| EE turned the next day with her mother and the spats. FE Si “Most of my customers laugh at them.” “All the people I talked to either were interested in spats for future wear or bought them immediately.” “I think they'll sell.” That's the kind of talk I heard in stores and departments where spats have appeared. I even| stood in front of a window display and felt the public pulse. ! “I wouldn't be found dead in a pair of spats.”

‘Beat It Bub,” She Says

I THINK they're smart and in a few months everyone will be wearing them.” “May I quote you, lady? Would you give me your name?” Beat it, bub.

LODGE NIGHT TONIGHT-—Almost every night in the week is lodge night for Mrs. Fannie Draper, 1130 W. 29th St. Indianapolis is composed of joiners and lodges flourish. Mrs. Draper perhaps more than typifies the average lodge member for she belongs to nine organizations not including her church and Sunday School class. Here Older women looked at the display and rocked : : la wi To Wo Tiao: she looks over the || formals she wears for meetings of her various Teen-age girls had that I-wonder-I-wonder look. Jroups. These are for special occasions: Most of the time street The fashion plates were sold on spats the minute i vented - i The ashion lites wore la ess is the adcepted-clothing to wear. It’s too early to say for sure what's going to = happen to spats as far as women are concerned. Men’s shoe stores report men need not worry about the revival of spats. Not this year. I thought the button hook would be tricky enough to stop the spat fad. My first attempt with this ancient tool was surprisingly successful. If I can use a button hook, anyone can use it.| I'm sure that won't stop the ladies once they| take to spats. Spats. What next?

songs and marches if by chance she is called to fill in for any regular pianist. Now 72, she has held executive positions in. sight of her nine lodges and currently holds official capacity. in five. Her longest affiliation is with the Rebekah lodge, OOF, she was 19 years old. She specializes as press reporter and is a familiar figure in the editorial rooms of local newspapers. To most newsmen she is known as "Fannie." = ss :

By Robert C. Ruark

and to smile ruefully when a swathe is mowed from the old lady's best frock. We are trained to rouse at a whimper, and to call the doctor if his Shoved-in nose begins to drip. We have been perfectly conditioned to amuse him when it pleases him, and to speak in

‘whispers when he expresses a desire for slumber,

A thing I never thought to hear—baby-talk— has cropped up in the joint. When the hardbitten bride of your bosom, who can shrivel a cabdriver or a husband with a terse phrase, suddenly gets down on her knees to murmur: “Oo is ums mamas itile Tootsums Wootsums"—1I tell you, fellows, it turns the stomach. She never said anything like that he me.

A Ham That Loves to Ham

THE DECEIT of this animals is boundless. 3 A buckle-swashing ruffian indoors, he becomes] a martyr outside. When a passerby heaves over| the horizon, the admiral stops short. He sits| down. He puts on his best panhandler's face— and, Lord knows, that worry-wrinkled pan is sad)

OFF TO THE HALL — When not aitending | bership, Mrs. Draper makes a point of visiting othe ; five nights a week. Here, however, Mrs. on W. Bowers, 1142 W, 29th dutside Mrs. Draper's house so the two can go to the regular meeting of the Rebekah Lodge at 1120 W. 30th St. Other groups of which she is a ms Royal Neighbors of America: Degree of Pocahontas, Wi Zou ters of America: Order of Ameranth; North Park Chapter, O / Jerusalem: Past Noble Grand Club of Chappell Ruborah Lodge cilors Club, District 5; Daughters of America. « hee

FRIENDSHIP RETURNED—A firm believer in the fraternal aspects of the*lodges to which she subscribes, enough already. He sucks in his stomach, as if| Mrs. Draper has made a point of visiting, telephoning to say we're starving him. and sending cards to the sick and affending funerals. Then, somehow, he manages to intimate that| Recently she broke a collarbone. Her friendship was beat hi kick hi hide his to d filch 3 hp We beat him, Kick him, hide ys, and fiich| returned. She received 225 cards, 216 telephone, calls the daintiest tidbits from his dinnerpail. ' The strangers move off, muttering that the| 196 personal calls and 16 plants and bouquets, The ASPCA ought to do something about people who! year ar : 3 A EE 40 A win) A roid Mrs Draper averages three funerals and jumps six feet in the air chews, a filet off the '''©© SICK calls a week. handiest cat, and rips the hem out of your 4 aida dress, or pants, as the case may be, | There are only a few of advantages to own-| ing a puppy in the city. One is you stay home, because dogsitters are hard to come by, and anyhow, Tootsums Wootsums’ mama wouldn't trust precious with just anybody. This keeps you out of ginmills and horseparlors, which is just as well, because the budget couldn’t stand it anyhow, now the baby has come to live with us, Tootsums Wootsums’' papa got to meet a lot of interesting blonds when he was out walking the baby-—that is, until mama found out, and made baby’s constitutional a joint operation. ‘But chiefly, a puppy is a great antidote for| parents who oppress you with the feats of their human child. Say, I just happened to have this| picture with me—cutest thing you ever saw, and| did I ever tell you...

By Frederick C. Othman

tion,” he added. “Why on earth anyone would bother with a toll call from Washington to New York to ask if the Hisses were members of the Audubon Society is more than we can dope out.” Mr. Dock had some more to say, but it wasn’t exactly polite to the lawgivers of Rep. Thomas’ Committee. - A number of Audubonites, in any| event, spent hours looking for the Hisses, man and wife, in the files. This unhappy circumstance I have taken up| with the lawgivers, who insist they love birds | ; and also bird lovers. Contend they were just “a - 4 Lt checking up on the credibility of the Messrs. Al-| De 3 . ” a Se ger Hiss’ and Whittaker Chambers, the genttemen se

who Bave ealed each other liars on the witness) = = CALL TO ORDER—Mrs. Eva Mason, Noble Grand of Chappell Rebekah Lodge, : : : raises her gavel to call the group info session. This chapter has about 200 members. Could Have Been a Finch In all, Mrs. Draper associates with some 4000 people in her various clubs. While CHAMBERS, ‘the reformed Communist, her dues are not excessive, she spends an average of $150 a year for cards, flowers charged that his old pal, Mr. Hiss, then a State| and gifts for various members. In the past 45 years, Mrs. Draper estimates that her

for v for 31 years and reqularly attends the St. Paul A Department official, was a leading pinko in Wash- club participation has cost about $10.000. ¢ Church of which she is a member. i ington. He sald Mr. Hiss had pictures of birds on eae ;

his walls, knew all about ’em, and was such an All Warren Schools 6 L | Stud ts A ; 4 d % hel : hi ‘ { enthusiastic ornithologist that once he rushed | Plan to Open Sept 6 oca en war e Cc ars ips ” y i . “ § i home all excited to announce he'd just d scovered | All. Warren Township Schools LAFAYETTE, Aug. 23-8ix In- Other holders of the University Wayne E. Humbert, Selma; Cy a new variety of great-beaked whippoorwill. Or Sept. 7 dianapolis residents “are among Merit scholarship are Eleanor Bann Bransvine Angelo maybe it was a blue-crested finch. Anyhow it "'! open Sept. 7. the recipients of Purdue Univer- Ruth Cunning, Charlestown, and Raymond E. Letbach, Ham was a bird. The Warren Central High ‘Don C, Patton, Waveland. doe Ted ian Hiss, whe since has left the government, at School office is open daily trom, y scholarships for the All| Renewsis Jor the University Merit and Detothy J. Peterson. fr, denied hat hed ove men Chambers. LATly'y 13 p.m, tor stents of "“marehich ober Ser 5, |f5 nt Soult Foe li mine ma but insisted—Mr. Hiss did—that he never was a|Srades 9, 10, 11 and 12 who have| 6200 Broadway; Edward A. New- i, Loucks, goshen Richard N. Miller, UI thd Wayne J. Communist. : into the township and burg, 6034 Guilford Ave.; Frieda|Point; 3 Tote.

moved The Bleanor Bennett That explains it, ladies and gentlemen of the nays not registered. Parker, 234 W. 25th St.; 2d Tooele esiriotad to are )

Alice Audubon Society. The committee's Mrs. Howard Jane Fs : simply ‘was to discover how much of a| ¥or students in these grades and Charles E. Jacobs, R. R. 18, holders of the University Merit went to Charles R. Heimlich,

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JUST IN CASE—Mrs. Draper keeps in practice on all the lodge

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WORD OF GOD — Mrs. Qcie Atkins, acting _ chaplain of Chappell Rebekah Lodge, reads from the Bible as part of the club's ritual. This religious a