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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1938)
V VCE FOUR T1IF. DAILY NKBKASKAN, SUNDAY. JANUARY 16, 193ft Societu By Johnny Howell Quarterback Mary Anna Cockle JOHN HOWELL" AS JOHNNY SKKS n deb call One of the brighter boys of our school cornered inn yesterday :im1 asked if I wanted to hoar tho eco nomic explanation for the length of girls' .skirts. I usually don't appreciate the economic explana tion of anything hut frankly, the idea of one on skirts startled nio so that I lost my resistance and told him to fire. 1 have been holding the belief for a long time that the length ot the skirt depended entirely on the frame of mind that milady was mi when it came time to decide Whether the hem was going to move up or down. I had a mental picture of some razzle-dazzle d taking a hasty glance at her c and then deciding that her legs weren't really us bowed and fat as they looked in the mirror. The deb, according to my illusion, then whacked off an inch and three eighths of cloth and set the stand ard by which all well dressed Women must abide. Hut this didn't exactly jih with the story the smart young man was telling me. In fact thele seemed to be a definite clash in the trends of thought, lie informed me that skirt lengths varied di rectly witli the condition of the stock market. That is, if the mar ket is up the skirt goes up (the leg) too. If the market is down the skirt drops accordingly. You think it's crazy ? Well, so did I until 1 heard the logic behind it. In the same definite manner as you just displayed when vol threw this paper down, I drew my self up and started to stalk away from the he-spectacled scholar. Hut he clamped on a hammer lock and flopped me back into my straight back before I knew what was hap pening. Then followed the logic. If the market is up times are good and women will buy more skirts. Skirt manufacturers, who are really the boys who set the length shorten the skirt so that they will have more cloth to make more skirts so that they can sell more skirts so that they can make more money. Likewise if times are bad the women will buy fewer skirts. In protection of their industry, manufacturers must then put more cloth in the skirts to maintain some sort of balance in produc tion. As a representative example of this trend you can rememlier back in the early twenties (or can you i when the women were wear ing dresses a couple of inches above the knee. Times were good in the early twenties, I hope. Then as the dec ade grew older times becam- steadily worse, the skirts steadily lengthened. When the market crashed in '29 they tell me women nan 10 nave rour leet or train on a formal to be considered well dress ed. Ordinary street dresses looked hke Hattie at the barn dance In her grandmother's first formal. About four or five inches from the ground was the standard. Then anie the WPA and Mr. Koosevelt and dressmakers began to apply the scissors more liberally. Bar ting an upset in Roger Babson s predictions for a good year, I pre dict another inch and a half swat'r. from milady's last year's model. (Note: This is the first of a se ries of two articles by John Howell, authority on feminine apparel. To morrow in this column Mr. Howell will discuss the relation between the skirt and the hose (sock) tak ing into consideration the present business recession. The problem .liieh he will discuss has wide ec onomic as well as social aspects And should prove interesting to one nd all. i balls wrapped in blue celophane balls wrapped in blue celaphane and tied with silver ribbon were brought in. Instead of devouring them, everyone chiseled them down until they arrived at the favors which were hidden in the center. These, thanks to the Fiji's were smooth gold compacts witli an en graved l'hi Gamma Delta on top. Sat on the balcony and watched the people arrive, as they made rather a colorful picture. Saw one little girl with a very tricky pair of white fur mittens to match the collar on her wrap. Noticed Claire Kubendall as she came in wearing something silver, ami Helen Marie Kincaide looking queenly in white crepe. Frisctlla Keitz' fascinating little blue sequin cap reflected the lights in the chandelier, and I couldn't help turning to stare at trances knudl son in black velvet set off by a single strand of pearls. On the dance floor, Trl Delt president, Alone Mulliken, was much embarrassed when a well meaning friend had a piece dedi cated to her ns Mrs. Allen Smith. These pranksters! PHALANX CHOOSES AVERY Honorary Military Group Names Three Others. lob Avery was elected notional commander of I'halanx; Bill Tay lor, national adjutant; Frank How ard, local commander and Willliam B. Williams, finance officer at the last meeting of I'halanx. The honorary military organiza tion was entertained by a discus sion of the Ludlow amendment given by Lieutenant Bell of the lalth infantry and by authentic World war pictures shown by Ser geant Nelson of tlie military department. whom some of the people will be with, the twins and everyone, but they'll all be theie. And later, we're going to try to crash the Dorm formal. Don't know what they could do to us, except to show us the door. It ought to be pretty well mobbed when all the Raymond girls gather forces. While I'm on the subject of Sat urday night parties, 1 might .is well let you in on a word that's been going round at the Alpha XI house. Remember Carolyn Skans, who was here last year? Her fam ily moved to Texas or some place. Anyhow, she recently announced her engagement. To close, I must tell you some thing about A. T. O. Bob Leadley, It happened way last spring, but it seems that at that time he got no little practice in typewriting while on dates only the poor girls took an awful ribbing. Met just scads and scads of people I know at the l'hi Mu formal at the Cornhnsker. Kvery one was having such fun, that I even caught Mrs. Scott trucking; when she thought no one was looking. ' Had a glimpse of Junior Wilson and Fat Jensen which reminded me of something that happened earlier in tho evening. Junior was at the Tri Delt house for an exchange dinner, and he and Dor othy De!l McClelland had been dancing quite a while when Ben Bushman suggested that they ought to be getting to the basket ball game, but Claude kept saying just one more dance. This went on for some time, and finally Ben made Claude put up his, entire funds, 77 cents, that he would leave after the next piece, which of course Junior failed to do. So Ben walked off with all the cash Junior had planned to spend on Rat. Couldn't tell you wdiat they did for coke money. Or maybe Tat is used to Claude's gambling spirit. But to get back to the subject of the l'hi Mu party, would hate to tell you how many times we bumped into "Oolie" Anderson, and this time she was with Sigma Chi, Frank Coufal. Speaking of Sigma Clii's, doesn't it amaze you to see Al Leffenlink on one of his non stop flights around the rim of the dance floor? Looks like fun, tho. Hadn't hem lo I lie Alpha Xi Delt formal yet at the time of writ ing this, but we're practically on our way. I've heard they issued a limited number of bids, so the lucky people who have one ought to have fun. Couldn't tell you Oh, and just one more word about little Leone Wilson, who claims she spends more time study ing French than any other subject, She really tries but always flunks when it comes to recitations. All we can say is that she must be having her Fling in class. SHUCKS (Continued from Rage I.) every crevice bv the battalion. Not Kid's' Fault. Coins Begin to Flow. How most of them get in, still baffles authorities. So you see, it isn't the kids' fault, it is our students who are the root of the thing. You can't blame a youngster for picking up Major W ood Spraka lo Guidon Asemlly About Map DoMnin Sm-akine on "TW Methods and Problems of Map Designing," Ma jor Wood of the engineering corps addressed the members of the Red Cuidon association assembled for its regular meeting lust Wednes day evening. Major Wood spoke to the group following the regular business meetimr. at which plans for at tendance at the 3tlst-342nd re serve corps banquet were made. It also was announced that Major Jones will be guest speaker at one of the. meetings in the near future. pennies, toriune lo nun. iin.mii.- aren't putting on a show, they're increasing their estate, as stu dents toss coppers me Rios iu chase 'em. Now, all we have to do Is tell the student about 70-u reasons why he should buy stamps with those brown coins lnsieaa oi en tering them in that maple melee, (t) That floor, made of the choicest wood, is groomed and re-groomed by staff custodians, who watch over it with a ma ternal Instinct. One good slide across that delicate finish with a hob-nailed shoe, as the youngsters wear, and all that tender care has gone to naught. (2) Players move about the court with amazing speed and shiftiness. Get the floor "slicked up" a bit, or leave any foreign matter of any kind, or scuff the surface and the eager has a 2-to-1 chance to slip, caus ing an injury or at least a bauble In play. Amen is an ex ample of this. (3) Most of those waifs sneak into the coliseum early in the afternoon and wait for the game. They are the causes of disturb ance and disorder, one instance can be cited where one of the rambunctious "kids" tore thru the crowd, ran into some students, and tore a coed's ex pensive evening wrap. Such things could easily be avoided if we would discourage waifs' at tendance by doing away with the penny pitch. (4) Even though kldt shouldn't be there, the univer sity doesn't want a lot of In juries done to the youngsters in a wild scramble for pennies on the basketball floor. One of the EOYNTON, HUNTER WIN NEW ASSISTANTSHIPS Mis9 Geilatly s Dramatio Art, Speech Classes Taken by Aides. Miss Portia Boynton mid Arm and Hunter have been named as sistants in the department of speech and dramatice nil for the second semester to care for the work previously handled by Miss Pauline Geilatly who has resigned. Both of the assistants have been identified with the department and the University Players for several years. During the first semester Mr. Hunter was n graduate assist ant in the department of philoso phy and psychology. little urchins suffered two broken fingers as a result of the copper competition between halves at the California game. (5) Lastly, there might be an excuse for tossing pennies, but the "dirty, thick skulled, low lifes, "who throw apple cores on the basketball court are Just about three shades lower than a worm's boudoir. Yes. Miss Ames, those are our students! MISS WHITE WINS LEADERSHIP POST OF CITY Y. W. C. A. (Continued from Page 1.) automatically will fill the position of vice president. The new officers were first nominated as candidates on the basis of the activities In the "Y," for scholarship, and for their per sonality with regard to the Y. W. C. A. ideals. The city president, Muriel White, has been a former member of freshman commission groups, the personnel staff, cre ative leisure, Rites Co-Op, finance drive, freshman commission lead er, secretary of the cabinet, Has tings leadership training confer ence, and the Kstes student con ference. Frances Boldman's former work In -the "Y" includes freshman com mission, freshman cabinet, pro gram and office staff, conference staff chairman, and cabinet. Mary Jo Henn has been a member of freshman commission, freshman cabinet, finance drive and finance staff. AS MAKY ANN V S1T.S IT Before you gel hack to your j studies, just a word iiIhiiiI the ' week-end. It all started at the Phi Gam dinner dance, which by the way was elegant. The gals each received a corsage of three j gardenias, so all evening you ' could catch whiffs of their frag- j ranee here and there. 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