University Daily Kansan
Page 14
Thursday, May 17, 1956
Silver, China Are Good Gifts
Linens Welcome Gifts
A college wedding is sure to present difficulties for both bride and groom. But just as sovely pressed are people who buy gifts for the couple, particularly if they are on a limited income as most students are.
However, finding suitable gifts that are inexpensive is not such a problem if the bride makes known her housekeeping plans.
Silver and China
Linens Welcome Gifts
Linens are always welcomed as gifts. Sheets, towels, pillow and linens, towels and napkins are inexpensive. Towels and wash cloths, though less elegant, are a necessity in any household.
Silverware and china are ideal gifts. If the bride has already started collecting a particular pattern of silver, she will be delighted with additions of knives, forks, or spoons, and perhaps some of the extras that go along with a complete set of silver; salad fork and spoon, butter or sugar knife, or a chest to put her pieces in.
China as a gift follows the same rule as silver. If the bride has preference for a particular pattern (most gift shops will carry pattern registration files to aid the gift shopper) then it is a simple matter to purchase cups, saucers, plates and salad bowls and still keep the cost down.
If the bride's taste in design and the color scheme of her home are known, lamps, pictures and pieces of furniture are in good taste though somewhat more expensive.
Knick-knacks and items of little utility should be steered away from. Most brides will have little use for a cocktail shaker or egg poacher, at least until the couple has a home of their own.
Kitchen utensils too are useful for the new couple. Pots, pans, skillets, spatulas, potato peelers and knives are some suggested gifts.
If an expensive gift is desirable, two or three persons may contribute to its purchase.
Officers Elected By Watkins Hall
Watkins Hall recently elected the following officers for next year:
Laurel Marshall, Onaga junior,
president; Joyce Klemp, Leavenworth sophomore, vice president;
Lorraine Gross, Bucklin junior, secretary;
Barbara Emison, Muncie sophomore, treasurer.
Gayle Barry, Kansas City, social chairman, Barbara Booker, Augusta, house manager, and Helen Owen, Kinsley, freshman counselor. All are freshmen.
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Shower Suggestions
A fresh and unusual theme can add much to a shower for the bride-to-be.
There are many types of showers which may be given other than just "a" shower. Among them are:
Kitchen Shower: pots, pans, and all types of cooking utensils are a necessity in the new home. The guests might include with their gift a copy of their favorite recipe.
Pantry Shelf Shower: For a practical shower which can be as expensive as you wish to make it, this is ideal. The guests give canned goods, packaged foods, seasonings, canister sets, etc.
Green Thumb Shower: This is a shower for the bride who lives nearby, for the gifts are not packageable. This shower includes gifts of window boxes, bulbs, plants, vases, simple tools, etc.
Clean-up Shower: This is an excellent theme for the package shower plan for it involves one or two expensive gifts and a number of inexpensive ones. The suitable gifts are a vacuum cleaner, mop, dusting cloths, bottles of polish, wax, etc.
Glamour Shower: A personal shower which will be long remembered by the bride, is the glamour shower. Included in the gifts are lingerie, stockings, chiffon handkerchiefs, or anything which is feminine and frivolous.
Rainy Day Shower: For those rainy days when the couple will loaf in the house, gifts of photograph albums, records, writing paper, etc. received at a shower are long remembered.
Brunch Showcase! This is effectively carried out, at a brunch for the bride's most intimate friends. Gifts would include coffee pot, coffee cups, table linen, bright pottery, electric grill, etc.
With a little thought and imagination a shower will be an event which the bride will long remember.
A pre-wedding custom which seems almost extinct is the cake-cutting party shared by the most intimate friends of the bride-to-be.
Try A Cake Party
Little silver charms or symbols are wrapped individually and placed in the cake after it is baked but before it is iced. These symbols may later be worn on a charm bracelet.
Ameng the charms which are included are a thimble (for the "old maid"), a wishbone (success), a good luck charm (bachelor), crescent (good news), head (knowledge), a ring (for the next bride), dog's head (tenacity.) anchor (hope), and horseback rider (sportsman).
The music for the wedding ceremony provides the atmosphere and background, and unites all of the elaborate arrangements into one splendid production.
The traditional church wedding blossoms with thundering organ music and the self-conscious voice of the friend who is soloist. Before the ceremony, the organist, experienced in these affairs, plays some "come along" music to entice the guests out of the parlorors into the church, and to cover the squeak of the ushers' new shoes.
Wedding Music Is Traditional
The organ roars, and erupts into the "Bridal March" from Lohengrin, by Wagner. Even though the artist carefully explains that this march signals the entry into the bridal chambers in the opera, and therefore is hardly suitable for the procession into the church, the bride's mother rallies her sense of tradition and insists. Lohengrin goes on, the bride has her doubts, and no one in the church is the wiser.
After the mother of the bride is seated, one or two solos may be sung. Many brides have the courage to choose their own favorite songs appropriate to the occasion, but others lose their nerve and fall back on the old faithfuls, "Oh Promise Me," and "I Love You Truly."
Somewhere during the ceremony the friendly soloist tries again, either with Malotte's "Lord's Prayer," or another religious number.
Sounding as a fire gong to interrupt the kiss after the ceremony, the organ crashes into Mendelssohn's "Wedding March."
White Cake Is Not Necessary
Although price is always a limiting factor, brides are no longer restricted to the traditional white tiered cake; the field is wide open.
White, chocolate or both? Colored frosting or plain? Bell-shaped double wedding ring, heart-shaped, round tier or maltese -cross? The choice is yours to make.
Cakes with color now are popular, one baker reports. Traditional white cake is passe, he says.
Brides usually choose a white tier or malteese cross, says a caterer. While the tier is traditional, the cross is more practical. This is because there is not waste in preparation of the cross. Also its appearance can be preserved even after many people have been served. Extra arms may be trimmed into hearts of with a new one put in place after each original arm is sliced and served.
Bell and heart-shaped cakes are varieties of the cross. Instead of square arms, as on the cross, the arms may be trimmed into hearts or bells. These cakes serve fewer people than a comparable cross.
As for price, one caterer observes the cake usually costs less than brides anticipate.
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Ushers Are Important Part Of Wedding
Relatively simple, but important are the ushers' duties at the average wedding. Seating the guests, seconding the groom and best man, escorting the bridesmaids up the aisle and then returning for the mothers of the bride and groom are the four parts of their performance.
When seating the guests, the ushers ask if they are friends of the bride or the groom. Friends of the bride are seated on the left aisle, those of the groom on the right.
The ushers accompany the groom and best man to the altar when the service begins, stand at a slight diagonal to them facing the back of the church, and wait for the bridal party.
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At the conclusion of the ceremony, the ushers escort the bridesmaids out of the church. They then return to escort the mothers of the bride and groom from the church, the bride's mother leaving first.
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Electric lights reached the KU campus in 1888, when they were installed in Room 11 of University Building now Fraser Hall.
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Sellards Hall has elected Sue Gewinner, Webster Groves, Mo. junior president. Other officers are Mary Roger, Chase, vice president, Kathryn Ehlers, Kansas City, Kan. proctor, and Shirley Stout, Lombard Ill., social chairman, sophomeres; Barbara Bell, McPherson junior, secretary; Peggy Peterson, Independence, Mo., treasurer, and Alice Kimble, Leavenworth, assistant social chairman, freshmen.
Alpha Kappa Lambda
Alpha Kappa Lambda social fraternity held its annual Delta Day banquet May 6 at the Student Union.
Union. Chuck Mather, football coach, was the principal speaker, and Don Williams of Kansas City. Kan. received the outstanding senior award.
Gamma Phi Beta social sorority announces the pinning of Lelan Walker, Hutchinson sophomore to Gary Welch, Hutchinson senior and a member of Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity.
Miss Winchester's attendants were Diane Warner, Cimarron, Lorete Hunt, Liberal, and Nancy Hood, Junction City, juniors; Mae Cheltain, Chicago, Ill.; Martha Maxwell, Columbus, Ruth Ann Anderson and Barbara Davis, Hutchinson, Susan Tyler, Sabeth, JoAnn Benton, Overland Park, Sylvia Frost, Kansas 'City, Mo., Sallie Wyman, Coffeyville, and Matgaret Peach, Topeka sophomore.
There are 132 pages of names in the University of Kansas' Directory.
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