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SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN; LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28. 1940
Midweek, Play This Evening
Sheerness Demanded In Hosiery
Co-eds, long accustomed to bare legs in freezing weather; no longer want warm hosiery; they demand sheerness.
Manufacturers have answered this demand by improving thread twists. While thread used to be twisted 10 or 12 times to an inch, modern methods call for two strong threads, each twisted 120 times to each inch and then retwisted together. The more the thread is twisted, the thinner it becomes. Thus new hose have that sheer look but are as strong as ever.
Colors Are Lighter
Hosiory colors are lighter this season. With the coming seasons navy and patriotic red, white and blue, hose should be light with golden or rosy undertone.
New shades are not pronounced, but harmonize with spring finery. Nude, beige, golden sun, pink tones, all with a filmy sheerness are in harmony with costume colors.
Hosiery concerns have heeded thedemond of women everywhere tomanufacture hose that will meetthe strain of everyday wear.Lastex has become one of the newestand most essential reinforcements for hose. Another new feature,recently placed on the market, is the snooded or gartered type whichfits over the knee, to be worn withor without supporters.
Different Leg Sizes
Another plea which the obliging manufacturers have answered is concerned with leg lengths in hose. For years tall women have had to wear hose apparently made for midgets while the short women felt lost in the too-long hose they were forced to buy. Today you buy accurately knit lengths, 21, 31, and 34 inch for the asking.
The hosiery business has been booming because women have discovered that any pair of legs look lovelier in sheer trim-fitting hose.
Authorized Parties
Friday, March 1, 1940 Varsity Dance, Memorial Ballroom, 12:00.
Phi Delta Phi and Phi Alpha Delta,
Dance at Country Club, 12:00.
Christian church forum at Meyer hall, 12 p.m.
Saturday, March 2, 1940 Delta Chi, Party at House, 12:00. Phi Delta Theta, Dinner-Dance at Union Building, 12:00.
Presbyterian church forum West-
minster ball, 11:30 p.m.
Elizabeth Meguiar, Adviser of Women, for the Joint Committee on Student Affairs.
ARE WE GOING TO BEAT MIZ-ZOU? HELL, YES!
Spring of 1940 is due to witness a riot of color. Sulphur yellow and electric blue are the gay and daring colors in this happy but loud plaid wool suit.
Confucius Say This Is No Joke
Send Them to the Post
By Bill Koester, c'41
Okay, you wise guys, here's your chance to put Confucius and his wit to work toward some constructive end. Not only that, but instead of achieving for your "pun-itive" efforts a sarcastic smirk, you can make them pay, in monetary returns.
If you'll send that "original" Confucius proverb you heard today to the Saturday Evening Post and it is published, in connection with the Post's current advertising scheme, you may win $100 as a first prize for your ingenuity. There are two second prizes of $50 each, four third prizes of $25 each, 10 fourth prizes of $10 each, 50 fifth prizes of $5 each, and 100 sixth prizes of $1 each. And if you aren't smart enough to win one of these you still get a chance to keep from flanking the "Confucius tests" through additional awards offered for acceptable sayings received early in the contest.
Say, kids, it's worth it—but, there are a few stipulations in the path to glory. First of all, you must obtain the contest leaflet which lists 14 facts about the Post's leadership on which "Chinese" provesbs could be based. Write the contest committee, in care of Professor Bellatty, of Boston University, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass. After
reading the dope in the pamphlet they'll send you, write a proverb like this: "Horse win once . . . luck; horse win twice . . . coincidence; Horse win every time . . . BET ON HORSE!"—which is another way the Post has of admitting it has been first for years in dollar volume of advertising. Send in your proverb and if the group of eminent professors and publishers who are judging the contest use it—Confucius say you make money!
The contest, we are told, closes at midnight, April 5, so get busy, punsters, send in a proverb, and, if you win nothing else, be awarded a "Campus Confucius" diploma, which is one of the 500 Honorable Mention Awards.
Home Economics Staff honor Mrs Jones at Dinner
Mrs. Gladys Becker Jones, president of the Garland school of Boston, was guest of honor last night at a dinner given for her by the home economics staff of the University at Evans Hearth.
Other guests Mrs. H. R. Gempler, Miss Lalia Walling, Miss Beulah Morrison, and Miss Rosemary Ketchum.
BEAT MISSOURI!!
A.O. Pi's Hold Hour Dance; Other Society
By Virginia Gray, c'41 Kansan Society Editor
The style of dancing seen by most students at the San Francisco ballet will not be attempted at the mid-week tonight in the Memorial Union ballroom when Clyde Smith and his orchestra will play for the weekly hour dance.
Following the dance many students will go to see "Her Master's Voice" given by the Wichita U.
Following the dance many stud Voice" given by the Wichita U. Players in the theater in Fraser hall.
Alpha Omicron Pi sorority entertained with a dinner and hour dance last night. Clyde Bysom and his band played for dancing. Guests were: Joe Lindsay, c'43; Allen Cunningham, c'42; Bob Bradley, e'41; Boyd Morgan, c'40; John Yoder, b'40; Frank Perkins, c'43; Martin Wainscott, gr; Bruce Thomas, fa'43; Eldon Corkill, c'40; Joe Walter, e'41; Myron Harries, c'40; Carles Amyz, gr; Oren Baptist, c'40; Dean Lemon, e'41; and Luther Lyon, gr.
Phi Delta Theta fraternity held initiation services for the following men: Stanley Parr, e'43; Jim Walker, e'43; Byron Kern, e'43; Ed Moses, e'43; Thad Robbins, e'43; Earl Snowden, e'43; Jim Borders, b'41; Sam Kneale, e'43; Bob McCarty, c'43; Joe Lindsay, c'43; Curts Alloway, c'42; Ralph Weir, c'43; Lacy Haynes, c'43.
Adrian Sherman of Stanford University, Calif. and his mother, Mrs. A. F. Sherman of Topeka were guests of Delta Chi fraternity today.
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Hamilton W. Baker, worthy grand master of national Kappa Sigma fraternity was a dinner guest it the Kappa Sigma fraternity last night.
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Jane Ellen Jones, of Topeka, was a guest yesterday at the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.
Delta Chi fraternity had as lunch-on guests Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Burton of Phoenix; Frank M. Burton, Jr., of Ft. Bliss, Texas and John Thomas Burton of Washington, D.C.
Alpha Omicron Pi sorority elected the following officers for this semester: president, Jean
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Stores to Close For Unveiling
Lawrence business houses will not remain open Thursday evening. March 7, as the city observes its annual spring window unveiling and style show, the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce announced today.
The possibility that Lawrence merchants would open their establishments between 7:45 and 9 p.m. for the event has been under consideration of the Chamber of Commerce, but it was decided today that stores would remain closed as they have in the past.
The show this year will feature a parade of bands and a guessing contest on the content of window displays. Some of the firms will stage fashion reviews in their display windows illustrating spring fashions.
The parade of bands is scheduled to start at 7:45 and will include the University band, the Lawrence high school and junior high school bands and the Haskell Institute band. was still undecided today whether
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Are sororities and fraternities
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