FEBRUARY 26,1947
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
K.U. Crisis Extends To Othman; He Has Trouble With Lingerie, Too
FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington. (UP)—If the ladies kindly will turn their heads to avoid blushing, I will expound my personal crisis in lingerie. I have exhausted all other means. The blue-white glare of publicity on my underwear is the last resort.
All my life, until recently, I have been unconcerned about my lack of hips. Did it matter that my middle was bigger? Not to me, it didn't, because I wore union suits. ◎
These hung from the shoulder. They did not depend on a waistline smaller than a hipline for the mechanics of their support. Came the war and my kind of chemises started getting scarce. I bought a pair here and a couple there. I hoarded 'em. A good thing I did, too, because they disappeared from the market altogether back in 1944.
Time and the laundry took their toll. My bride says my union suits today are a disgrace. She is tired of patching patches, particularly since new rips now appear between each mend. In her ignorance of my dimensions, she said why didn't I get some shorts?
I did. They were beauties with blue spots. They cost $3. An intricate system of seaming, buttons, and hips was responsible for keeping them up. It did not. Not on me, it didn't. I bought a second pair, which the man said didn't need hips. The elastic in the waist kept them in place, he said.
It did, but it bit me in the doing,
Caused me to squirm and itch, left a red streak around my equator and in general made me misrable. The man said I must have had it too tight. He sold me a third, looser pair. Same old trouble. Collapsed.
This, as any psychiatrist knows, warped my personality. Sourced my outlook and caused me to snap at haberdashery salesmen. I consulted a history book, "As We Were" by Pentridge and Bettman, and discovered that not until the Civil war did most American men wear underwear at all.
The Union army issued same, insisted that soldiers use it, and men ever since have been addicted to the custom. I referred the book to the lady who patches my union suits and what she said I shall not repeat
In following her instructions I have for the last two days ignored congress, the patent office, the White House, and the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. I have aspened my waking hours, tramping from haberdasher to haberdasher, looking for union suits. I have been uneased by and smiled upon as an old-fashioned fellow. One sympathetic storekeeper rummaged in his cellar and came up with some pre-war union suits, size 32. Said if I could reduce eight inches he'd save them for me.
Americans To Eat Better-And More
New York. (UP)—The domestic food outlook for 1947 appears definitely encouraging after shortages of basic ingredients retarded complete recovery in 1946, L. G. Blumenschine, president, The Best Foods, Inc., said today.
"One reliable barometer," Mr. Blumenschine noted "is the delayed appearance of thousands of war-born products. Others should be appearing soon, bringing new high standards of quality, convenience and nutrition to the packaged food business."
He stated that while fats, oils and sugar are acutely short and may remain so for many months, the situation is improving from week to week.
Bumper crops, delivery of machinery and equipment long on order, and gradual easing of packaging problems, Mr. Blumenschine believed, should bring forth recovery in the food picture in the coming months.
"With it all, Americans will continue to eat more and better foods than ever." he said.
Thieves Do Less Damage
Than Cautious Farmer
Upper Sandusky, O. (UP) — A poultry farm operator thought he heard nocturnal noises in his chicken yard.
taked his shotgun and crept out of the house to catch the thieves. He could fetch the shotgun and stoppe r peer into the chicken enclosure. At that moment his big coon dog dashed up and Both barrels of the shotgun boomed. The next morning he counted 26 dead, hens, found no
Both barrels of the shotgun boomed. The next morning he counted 26 dead hens, found no traces of a chicken thief.
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