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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Dec. 19, 1952
Home Made Gift Wrappings Inject Personality Into Gift
By DOT TAYLOR
Wrapping gifts is as much a part of Christmas as trimming the tree and baking holiday goodies. *
And even though the gifts pile up the wrapping is as fun as helping Santa, in fact, it's a challenge to see how original, clever, and gay you can get.
So use your imagination and ingenuity to dress up your packages, and the gifts you give will be exciting ones that reflect the personalities of the receiver and you.
There are some unusual and inexpensive wrapping materials right at hand that you can find when you get in the holiday mood.
Get out your last year's greeting cards, cut out the pictures with pinking shears, and paste them on top of the box. Try small snapshots of your family and friends in the same way. Look through your family sewing basket for odd bits of lace or rickrack to use in place of ribbon.
Wrap kitchen gifts in plaid shelf paper or colorful wallpaper. Or personalize your gift, spelling out the name of the receiver with tiny stars or letters.
Tie tiny toys to a child's package or top a box of Christmas cookies with a ginerbread horse.
Bright and lavish bows can be made from inches of colorful satin ribbon. Or, if you can't tie fancy bows, make tailored wrappings. Glue on cutouts of bells. Use red and green tape or insert glossy foil under a lace paper doily to add a decorative touch.
Delta Tau Delta Gives Formal
Members of Delta Tau Delta fraternity and their dates danced to the orchestra of Matt Betton at the fraternity's annual Christmas formal Saturday night at the chapter house.
The decorations centered on two lighted Christmas trees. Evergreen rope was hung from the walls and several large candelabra were hung from the ceiling. The front hall was decorated with one large candelabrum with a bowl of red roses, evergreen, and holly set at the base.
Refreshments were served in the basement lounge. At the end of the dance, the members of the fraternity serenaded their dates with the Delt "Memory Song."
Guests were Pauline Palmer, Frances Henningson, Mary Jo Kincaid, Roberta Taylor, Jann Duchossois, Earlene Hovey, Kay Ames, Fredrica Voiland, Dorothy Brunn, Lavina Lou Corryell, Cleo Dlabal, Marilyn Martenius, Susan Montgomery, Ann Helsby, Jane Johnson, and Ann Stevens.
Pat Hayes, Ann McFairland, Ann Morgan, Connie Connelley, Jackie Bushley, Janet Whiteside, Jean Dennian, Jeannette Gowan, Helen Anderson, Mrs. John Cox, Jerry Street, Maxine Ratzlaff, Georgann Vanderberg, Martha Peterson, Corolyn Kay Scott, JoAn Hietman, and Marilyn Button.
Ann Kelley, Marilyn Miller, Diane Walker, Pat Grade, Beverly Hamel, City Crane, Marcenele Richards, Pat Constantos, Donna Woods, Kay Vetterick, Gene Grout, Lucy Ann Mullinax, Pat Aylward, Annabel Hunge, Mrs. Don Muir, Patricia Dlabal, and Bet Lowell.
Shirley Bussard, Mary Metchner, Dottie Twente, Caroline Holmes, Ann McCutcheon, Jean Loudon, Diana Harrison, and Billie Bergen. Chaperones were Mrs. Dean S. Nite, Mrs. John R. Scott, Mrs C. H. Wetnworth, and Mrs B. A. Mayher.
Gamma Phi Beta Announces Russing-Clewinger Pinning
Gamma Phi Beta sorority announces the pinning of Miss Suzanne Russing, college junior, to Mr. Hal Clewinger, first year law student.
Miss Russing's home is in Pittsburgh, Kan. Mr. Cleavinger is a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. His home is in Manhattan, Kan.
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Toy Buying Needs Careful Planning
New York — (U.P.)— Between now and Christmas eve, you and several million other grownups will shell out millions of dollars for toys.
Mr. Freud, president of the Toy Guidance council, an educational and promotional organization, said there's one bargain the grownups are pretty sure of this year.
"That's safety," he said. "Most manufacturers now give toys thorough tests before they go to market."
And, one expert says, you should spend just as carefully on playthings as you do on groceries or clothes. For, as in any other buying, you get what you pay for in toys, according to Melvin Freud.
1111 Mass.
To help you get the most for your toy-shopping dollar, Freud made several suggestions.
Look for the Underwriters Laboratories seal on all electrical toys, he said, and don't buy electrical toys for the under-six age group.
Do provide a balanced variety of toys for outdoors, and indoors, and choose those which give the children a chance at self-expression.
Don't buy on impulse. Both the child and your dollar deserve more than a gadget giving only momentary pleasure. Don't wait until the last minute to shop, because some of the best playthings—especially those of steel, wood and rubber—will be in shorter supply this year
Don't buy toys for eye-appeal alone. Freud said if the child can only watch, and not participate, much of the toy's value is lost.
Lappa Sigma Installs Officers
Tony Marz, engineering senior,
was installed Monday as president of
Kappa Sigma fraternity. Other officers installed were Calvin Spradley, engineering senior, vice president, and Walter Rickel,
pharmacy senior, master of ceremonies.
Kappa Sigma Installs Officers
Kastens-Mavbrey Engaaged
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kastens of Olathe, Kan., announce the engagement of their daughter Jean to Mr. Donald Mabrey, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Mabrey of Liberal, Kan. Mr. Mabrey is a sophomore in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
New York—(U.P.) You can put the Christmas touch into every part of the house instead of just stopping with a tree in the parlor and a wreath on the front door.
Christmas Touch Can Be Added To Every Part of the House
Here are some suggestions from Claire Kennard, a free-lance decorating expert in New York, and Allyn Wayne, flower stylist.
Mr. Wayne said the basic rule is to
Formal Theme Is Silver, Blue
Gene Johnson, Tod Haren, Joe Fink, Mary Larson, Bill Cunningham, Frank Williams, Terry Williams, Jeanne Spencer, Jim Burgland, Phil Petitt, Ethan Smith, Kathleen Soden, Dean Owens, and Larry Cheatham.
Silver and blue decorations centerering on a silver Christmas tree decorated with blue balls and tinsel and spotted with blue lights highlighted the Gamma Phi Beta sorority Winter formal Saturday night at the chapter house.
Robert Fulton, Andy Hall III, Cliff Lambert, Hal Cleveringer, Merie Hodges, Duane Estes, Clark Wesley, Bob Pfumm, Jane Pfumm, Gerald Kelly, Dick Bowen, Jack Rodgers, Bob Mayer, and Bill Crews.
Dwight Adams, Don Green, Bill Michener, Bob Roth, Rosalee Osborne, Bill Hall, Brandeberry, Sterling Waggener, and Merl Sellers.
Glittery silver and blue snowflakes were hung from the ceiling and walls. Guests had their pictures taken in a Christmas sleigh in the front hall. Evergreen boughs coated with synthetic snow completed the decorations.
Guests were Lea Herboth, Bob Babcock, Jack Dryden, Jack Glick, Stan Smith, Jim Endacott, Bert Baker, Bud Dalton, Jerry Houghland, Nancy Blackley, Dean Edwin, Bob Asmann, Jerry Brownlee, and Leslie Kellogg.
Chaperones were Mrs. Thomas H.
Stuart, Mrs. C. A. Thomas, Mrs.
Astrid M. Dohner, and Mrs. Ralph
Park.
fit the style of the decorations to the
style of the home. Miss Kennard
said her rule is to keep the decora-
tions colorful but simple.
Mr. Wayne suggested this simple arrangement for a coffee or end table in the modern home:
Put a bowl or any handy container inside a deep red and white Christmas basket. Fill the container with shredded styrofoam to hold the arrangements in place. Then design an "L" of foliage—either cedar or spruce—anchoring each branch firmly. For contrast with the greenery, use six or eight big white chrysanthemums, placing the larger flowers lower in the design. For a final note of cheer, wire clusters of red berries onto the branches and add three or four painted cones with the tips painted silver-blue.
Try pinning colorful Christmas balls to plain curtains in any room of the house. Make a Christmas mobile by decorating an artificial branch and suspending it from the ceiling by a fine, dark wire.
Miss Kennard said that popular as the poinsetta is in home decoration, she would like to see women use other flowers.
Her favorite materials are Christmas greens, small trees, whether natural or artificial ones cut from styrofoam or foil, and fruits such as grapes and apples.
"None of that dry stuff, like driftwood, unless you gilt it or paint it Christmas colors," she said firmly.
One of the simplest table centerpieces, she said, is made by filling a small container with holly sprigs and a few carnations, and surrounding this with various fruits.
Delta Chi Elects Officers
J a m e s. Hoefener, engineering junior, was elected president of Delta Chi fraternity Monday. Other officers elected were Earl Knaus, college sophomore, vice president; Don Gates, engineering sophomore, recording secretary; Jack Dryden, pharmacy senior, treasurer; Bill Thompson, engineering junior, corresponding - secretary, and Hans Peterson, business senior, sergeant at arms.
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