TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29,1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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There Are Two Ways To Wrap Xmas Gifts: The Right Way Or The Way A Man Does
Washington, Nov. 29—(U.P.)—There is more than one way to wrap a Christmas package, as any man can tell you.
Most men use the ten-thumbs
method and wind up with something that looks like a job done in the monkey cage at the zoo. Others go for the no-string system. All sticky tape. Guys who are smart in things like wrapping packages figure that whoever receives the bundle will jump on it with all fours, anyhow, rip it open and concentrate on examining the goodie inside. And to heck with the expensive paper and pretty ribbon!
Women take a different view.
They spend hours putting a dollar's worth of expensive paper and ribbon around a dollar and a half tie.
Mrs. Doris Dunn, who is in charge of a crew of fancy wrappers at Julius Garfinkel and Co., said, "Women are fussy, even about the gifts they have wrapped for men," she said. "And most women would rather have fancy wrappings than fancy gifts."
Mrs. Dunn employs many experts at work on package wrappings. Her firm is located in the Bronx.
First, you take the price tag off. Then you rip off a slice of copper paper a few inches longer than the box you are going to do up. Take off the lid and put tissue paper around the present. Then fold the copper paper, which Mrs. Dunn explained had a "little metal in it," and see that the corners are square around the box. Then you reel off several yards of ribbon and wind a pretty bow on a pretty box. Set this aside and put a ribbon of the same color around the box. Then take the bow and tie it in the center of the knot around the box—as simple as that.
The experts, Mrs. Dumw said, can do it corner-wise, or center-wise, however you want it. The whole performance takes less than a minute. The big stores offer this service free, if you want cheap paper. But if you want the special job it runs from 25 cents for a plain wrapping up to $1.50. The best includes a cluster of mistletoe or some other artificial flower, plus the best paper money can buy.
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The whole performance looked easy. Maybe it is, if you know how. One man tried it with an expert looking on and giving instructions over his shoulders. But it was the same old story. The paper still stuck out of the corners. The ribbons looked something like hand-tied bow ties, and he had enough transparent tape off the wheel to take care of the package for greater Washington.
Wrapping packages is an art, which no male should attempt to perfect.
Airplane Ride Is Cure For Whooping Cough
London—(U.P.)—The Colonial office reports that a party of 24 Solomon island children "whooped the whoop" on their first flight in an aircraft.
The children were ordered into the air by the medical officer of the islands as a cure for whooping cough.
In six cases the whooping spasms wholly disappeared, and in eight other cases there was definite improvement.
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Socially Speaking
A O Pi Pledges Three
Alpha Omieron Pi announces the pledging of Barbara Cottrell, fine arts sophomore, Irving; Doretta Anderson, College freshman, Newton; and Lou Ann Dyck, fine arts sophomore, McPherson.
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o Pledge Tri Alpha
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Tri Alpha, KU. local petitioning group for Alpha Phi, pledged Helena Boese, fine arts freshman from Coffeyville, and Ruth Williams, College junior from Leavenworth, Monday in a formal service at the Hearth Tea room.
Alpha Phi Alpha takes place
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity announces the pledging of the following men:
Alpha Phi Alpha Takes Nine
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James Blair, and Curtis Herron College freshmen; Roosevelt Strickland, College sophomore; LeRoy Briset, sophomore in medicine; and Claude Ellison, College sophomore, all from Kansas City, Kans.
John Howell, College freshman from Kansas City, Mo.; LeRoy Marks, College freshman from Leavenworth; Alfred Lewis, fine arts freshman from Hutchinson; and Kenneth Rogers, College freshman from Bethel.
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Sigma Kappa Pledges Three
*Sigma Kappa sorority announces the pledging, Nov. 22 of Glenn Anderson, education, sophomore from Manchester.* Mr. Anne O'Neill, journalism freshman from Winchester, Kans.; and Frankie Waits, journalism senior from Dallas.
Civil Rights Group Elects 3 Officers
Howard W. Hallman was elected chairman of, the Civil Rights Co-ordinating committee recently. Other officers are Elmer R. Rusco, vice-chairman; and Helen M. Ulatowski, secretary-treasurer.
The group was organized to promote racial equality at the University. It is composed of representatives from campus organizations. Interested groups are held on the first day or observer to the next meeting. Meetings are held on the first and third Mondays of each month at 7 p.m. in the Union.
Transient Gets 10 Days For Stealing Diapers
Omaha—(U.P.)—Perle Caughron, a transient, was brought in by police, charged with grabbing a package in a downtown store and fleeing with it.
Police opened the package and looked at Caughron with raised eyebrows.
"I must have been drunk," explained Caughron.
We have the most Delicious
It contained six diapers.
He got 10 days.
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Moore To Show Movies On Japan
The first public showing of color movies taken in Japan the past summer by Raymond C. Moore, state geologist, will feature his talk on "Japan—Eight Years After Pearl Harbor" at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the University club. The pictures were taken during the three months that Dr. Moore travelled throughout Japan as an adviser to General Mac-Arthur.
"I had an opportunity to study every section of the islands," he said. "My pictures show aspects of rural and city life in Japan today, four years after the atom bombs were dropped."
Dr. Moore recently spent four months in Germany and other parts of Europe and has made some first-hand comparisons of the post-war attitudes of people in Germany and Japan.
Dr. Moore arrived in Japan on June 25 after visiting Guam and Saipan. He returned to Lawrence Oct. 7. He was awarded a citation of merit by general headquarters of the Pacific command for his report on the geological resources of Japan. He is research director of the State Geological survey and was recently chosen vice-president of the geology section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
KU Fraternity To Pledge 24 Business Students
A pledging ceremony will be held for 24 rushees of Alpha Kappa Psi, professional business fraternity, at a day in the Kansas room, at the Union.
Rushees will meet in the East room of the Union.
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