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DEAR MRS. MANNERS: “TO THE WIFE of the drunken husband. You could have told your story in three words, “ I hate him.” Those three words. close
Ithe door on love or understanding or help for the husband and
father who is’ an alcoholic. The wife who tells the world she hates her husband with her own words paves the way for his drinking to excess. a STO Go back a few years into your| me and we get together only early married life. If he-drank, tVeTY two months. He says he
{loves me, but I don't know if why did you marry him? You hé is true to me. I don't know|
surely loved him then—why not| ich about him. Should I be- |
now? If he started ‘drinking after your marriage, try to re-i member what seemed to set him
{lieve him and go with him? OUT-OF-TOWN READER.
You don’t “need me to tell you what you already know, He isn't spending his free evenings at the library er asking his mother if he may make fudge. He'd see you oftener than every two months
Talk kindly to him—don’t scold or preach. Tell him that you feel] to blame—that you must have failed him somehow. Though you feel you've been morally good, see his side of the story. It may See
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prise you. Try to give him the] companionship and friendliness that he must seek in a tavern.
and he would convince you of his love with a diamond and “marsiage license if he were
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Coats Belonged To D. C. Hostess
NEW. YORK, Dec. 4 (UP)—Tle furs: that went with the Hope di-| amond were sold this week for $16,930. ; Seven fur coats—two in rare] chinchilla, two in sable and one| each in silver: fox; silver blue, mink and black brosdtail-were| among the 23 fur pieces ‘from the| estate of the late Evalyn Walsh McLean auctioned In a two- uy | session at the Parke-Bernet Galleries. All the buyers were individuals. Presumably they planned to trans-| fer to their own back some of} the glamour of Washington's most noted hostess. None would]
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\ [France Invade US. for Dollars
tay-at-Homes Deplore outure Move to N, Y.
By BARBARA BUNDSCHU
United Press Stal NEW “YORK, "Dec pes, {French dressmakers are staging a minor invasion of America with the dollar as their apparent aim.
At least three of, Paris’ top.
. |name designers have gone into
give their names for publication. | /
A full-length chinchilla cape, appraised at $4000, despite the! yellowing of age, went on the|
{auction block for $375.
The sables brought the Highest] prices—$3600 for a full coat which showed wear only where its five skin wide collar rubbed across the shoulders it hid, and $4000 for a full-length coat of| more modern lines. Little Evalyn ‘Walsh, Mrs. Mc-| Lean confessed: in her autobiography, wore red flannel underwear in the Colorado mining camp where she ee W her ld Hfe~—
oe iy or Ani under the spell of jewels “and furs. The silver mink coat, almost new and appraised at $4500, sold for $2100. The silver fox coat, also new looking, was “sold for $200. The silver fox trimmed broadtail brought $130. Other items in the sale included six automobile robes, ranging]
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from a 68-skin Russian - sable throw, each skin complete with a tall, warmer. The sable robe brought $1000; a plain old mink sold for $50 and a badly worn ermine auto robe for $110. A DeW-appeaTIng Russian -ermine jacket was sold for $423 and a pair of sable collars went for $290 and $250. A platina fox jacket in excellent eondition was sold for $140. Low price in the auction was $25 for two silver fox scarves, Sable scarves and a platina fox stole all sold for under $100 each.
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business, in New York, in the last.
- {few months, Stay-at-home memes °
bers of the French couture deplore the invasion—politely, All ‘the leading French dressmakers have plenty of dollarpaying customers in Paris, But those dollars must be turned in to the French government, in exchange, for francs, to bolster France's currency balance.
The arrival of the dressmakers on the New York piers is, sources’
close to them believe, strictly a *
means of socking away for them~
—tseives—-or-their- financial backers. iy “Insurance” bank account in
U. 8. money. ‘Most prominent of the design‘ers who have turned to New York this fall are Christian Dior, whe opened his—own wholesale business In New York, and Plerre Balmain and Jacques Fath, who have. designed special collections
(here for already established ready-
to-wear wholesalers,
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press sho ng 18 costumes which are alleged to be part of a spring collection not to be shown in Paris until February., The sae costumes will be shown to. would-be copyists here for a $50 fee. Maguy's representatives say his showing is
strictly for publicity and that the -
copy fees will barely pay the exexpenses,
The three others, however:
make no such claim, As members
of the top rung of the couture; they all made their mames well known in ‘America lofig Defore they stepped off the boat.
Critics of these “commuting” 3
designers feel that Dior, in par«
ticular, will find himself losing
some of his best Paris customers: —American - stores which viously bought to copy and will “copies,” are on sale in this country. Dior himself believes they are wrong, and some of his fellow dressmakers agree with’
him.
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RE By LOUISE FLETCHER
Times Woman's Editor IGHT SMACK in the middle of the Christmas shopping season, there comes a pause for the arrival of resort clothes. Not even holly wredths in’ carload lots and Santa Clauses by the dozens can compete with the fascination of “styles designed for winter vacation wear, :
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serious. See him, but see some other boys, too—boys you faiund “escape from that “some={ know - lots about.
"in dripking—find-out what'\Wants Seymour Data i) | WHAT IS the area in square Bim tis possible for YOUimiles of Seymour, Ind.” What is to be happy again, that there IS {the population? My friend and reliable treatment for alcoholics!y would like to know. by those who under- M. S., DOWNTOWN stand alcohalics. So much good) The area is 1.861 square has been acdtomplished for 80 jiles, and the last census many through proper medical care| listed ‘the population at 10,000.
Something, sometime took your |
and the Alcoholics Anonymous! program. Encourage your hus{band to seek help. ‘Perhaps new lhope and an earnest effort at! {sobriety will’ succeed Nn rekin-| dling the old love, avoiding one]
Loves Old Sweetheart I CAN'T adjust myself to col-lege-life and new boy friezds for {I'm still in love with my old boy {friend. I can’t get over him and IL constantly compare other fel-
Tired of It?
It makes no difference that few of us are headed for midwinter holidays in the South or Southwest. A look at the clothes _destined for wear in sun- -kissed | “latitudes provides a preview of those to be worn here when the last shovelful of snow is only-a memory. ; + = » » FIRST on deck for cruise and resort wear, of course, are summertime fabrics... lustrous cottons and linens’ heading the parade. Color trends emphasize the neutral shades, with an occasional bold tone splashed in. for fashion excitement. As to silhouet in the néw styles there's a straighter look in skirts, although pleats and low placed fullness provide knee room. And, as a result of the Empire influence in styles generally, many waistlines are
true g with this trend come loftier . midriffs and molded bodices which do their incurving at a higher level than formerly. Typical of the season’s collections. are the five outfits pictured. They are all at Ayres’ or on their way to that store. (A resort-wear show will ~be onaged there Tuesday at 12:15 and. 2:30 p. m. in the third-floor | sports-shops.) } . ” B ” . i THE OUTFIT at upper left is | .a bathing suit which becomes a sun dress when a separate skirt | is added. Of multi-color plaid |
cotton, the swimsuit combines |}:
boyish shorts and wide bra top, | shown with its halter strap | tucked under. A long sash at- | tached to the skirt in back | drapes up over one shoulder and down again, tying at one side of the higher waist. i On the tailored side is the frock (upper right) by.California’s Pat Premo. It is of striped and monotone chambray, with alternate bandings of the two fabrics forming the skirt.
Filmland’s Esther Williams models a one-piece swimsuit (oval inset) designed by Cole of California. Of rich ‘elasticized matelasse, it has an uplift ballet bodice tapering to' a slender | waistline. It comes in white, beige, green or red. | Frilly and feminine is Tina Leser’s “powder puff” bathing suit (left). This one’s of printed calico, pink. or blue, and. the skirt - is shirred on each side from black piping ties down to | double ruffles edged in black. ‘An example of the Victorian | trend to small, close motifs in | printed fabrics ‘appears in the | Joseph Zukin costume (lower | left). The tiny motifs are blue | or red on white crepe,
|Alimony Laws |Sorority to Meet If you are tired of the color of, NEW YORK--Nine states have Alpha Kappa Chapter, Delta Hie gress and your accessories 3 vy approving of “alimony pay- Sigmix ‘Kappa Sorority; will meet have, avis o ahabhy: 3 iments by wives. They are Towa, Tuesday in the home of Mrs. Emil! time have it dyed. It will seem Massachusetts, North Dakota, Strakis, Maywood.’ Gift packages ike a new frock and you will en-/Oklahoma, Oregon, Illinois, Utah, for the children of Riley Hospital, $y wearing 1t until it 1 goaa. 3 and Californias will be wrapped | " gr ’ ’
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more broken home. lows with him, We were child-
hood sweethearts and sweethearts "| when he was in the Army. I think lof him night and day. Another. girl broke us up. s not have such a good character, and is not as good looking m. -She constantly tells him
tressing, costly and embarras {but there is a cause, maybe a h {den one, maybe imaginary, and {that your husbaxd finds an excuse to drink. Domestic trouble, financial worries, nagging, jéalousy, ill health or grief — or just a plain desire to keep tp with the crowd— often leads a person to drink. Replace the hatred within your tells his friends that own heart with the Christmas), j, jn jové\with me and always spirit, with compassion and hu-|win pe but h ashamed to ‘ mlity Make your hasty feell; a ok to me.. come at you are still a prize package y instead of the War Department, Ba utes» fer me to the and Alcoholics Anonymous will ‘havé opened new doors to a better way of life for your entire famfly. Yes, very definitely, there 18 help for alcoholics. NIGHT NURSE:
wife who hates has of her just as uch as the drinking husband, doesn't she? She won't fn happiness or make a real home with hate in her heart. Thank you, “Night Nurse,” for the fine letter. I'll" give that private material to the. wife if she sends her address. :
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PM O17 and go. With a bog! eight years older than I am. -I think I.love him, although he,
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The you willing. He would try
You dén’'t want a man wouldn't live up to you, or-a man without backbone enough to try. That girl couldn't get him" if he were the man you're frying to make Yoursel? think he is.
Let Mrs, Mannan and readers of the column share your: problems and answer your guestions. Write in care of The
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