Friday, December 14, 1945
THE NEBRASKAN
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KMen, Odd Creatures, Present
Shopping Problems io Women
BY GENENE MITCHELL,
When the male of your week
ends proceeds in trotting you past
jewelry store windows and per
fume counters and slyly asking
you what you might want as a
stocking-filler on the 25th, that's
a subtle suggestion he expects a
gaily wrapped nonentity from
you. From this day forth, it's your
problem what it's to be for your
big heap of masculinity.
They Never Say.
Gone is the man who, when you
ask him what he wants, whispers
endearingly into your ear, "You."
And we women can rightly assert
that men are veritable gold
diggers after our ghastly pecu
niary experience of the Mortar
Board Ball. Learning from pre
ceding events, it is not best to
ask them what their little hearts
desire, but plow into the problem
with minds free of obligation.
When the male is past the
teddy-bear and electric train
stage, possibilities for gift pur
chasing decrease markedly. And
so our question... what? "What?"
covers a multitude of brain
teasers and our weary minds must
search for the answer to "What
is good enough for him?" Men
have a peculiar trait of being
very particular, not only in their
dress but also in their accessories.
Anything we might touch upon
must be of the highest quality and
yet match our allowances.
Next of the "What?" series is
"What don't they have?" At the
conclusion of a meticulous survey
I found men have more of every
thing than they possibly can use.
Inquiring of a typical college fel
low how many shirts he owned,
he answered that he had the pal
try sura of fifty, and followed
down the line with thirty tie
clasps, forty-two pairs of sox,
one-hundred-eighty ties, thirty
four glamor poses of former pin
mates, and eight combination cig
arette lighters and cases.
"What size" always provides
one of the woman shopper's ma
jor difficulties. Most men can't be
distinguished from their shoulder
pads, and that leaves we women
with little or nothing from which
to judge. Perhaps a fitting sug
gestion for all prospective receiv
ers would be to leave their meas
urements posted in the Union on
the bulletin board.
Just Try to Find It
If you've been close enough to
examine the shade of your sub
ject's eyes, your "What color?"
situation is solved. If not, you find
men's favorite selections run from
pink to pink and blue. Since men's
furnishings are featuring only
bleak purples and oranges .this
season, we women must gnash our
teeth over the hue of our gift.
Usually, if you break the bank
with a special donation, the last
you see of your expenditure is
when you fold the tissue paper
over it and gently tuck it into
the box. This miglt be the result
of men's odd taste, but the least
they can do is sleep in it. If you
have the luck to give them some
thing they're quite taken with,
they admire it on themselves
immensly and forget all about
your new creation of a dress out
of Harper's.
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HERE, at last, is an Ail-American
football team selected hy the men
best qualified to judge the football
coaches of the nation; .
It's the first time in the history of
college football that any publication
has been privileged to announce a selec
tion from the top authorities in the game.
350 COACHES TO VOTE
These are the men who have Set the
college football stagediscovered,
trained and turned out the players. To
gether, they Lwfc witnessed all of the
good football in the entire season.
NEW METHOD OF JUDGING
During each week of the football season,
coaches watched with trained eyes every
man who looked like All-American
material. Week after week, these re
ports were filed with, the Association,
tabulated, and returned to the coaches
for a careful study and a final, end-of-season
vote.
The men who made this final All
American team are the real "Who's
Who" among die nation's players, as
selected by the "Who's Who" among
the men best qualified to judge.
Don't miss the American Football
Coaches Association 1945 AH
American Team in the December 29th
issue of The Saturday Evening Post. ' '
Again the Post pioneers in a sports venture
of interest to millions of fans. To keep up
with all that's new in the nation's favorite
sports he sure to read the Post every week
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