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March 7, 1934 THE SKYSCRAPER Home Economists Study Etiquette, Bridal Costumes Brides are in season again At least, a portion of the home economics depart ment has turned its interest to wedding finery and formalities as a project in the clothing section. The class studied first the etiquette of invitations, preparations, and gifts. They then focussed their attention upon that part of the wedding dearest to the heart of all womankind, the trousseau of the bride-to-be. Costumes for formal and informal weddings as well as those suitable for different types of persons are taken into consideration. Color harmony for the different seasons also plays an important part in the bridal drama. From the deli cate shades of spring and summer to the more somber shades of fall and winter the bridal party progresses in designs and colors appropriate for the occasion and the various personalities. The following girls are accumulating this information which may prove valu able in future years: Mary Moore, Mary Bergen, Mary Frances Lang, Margaret McKeon, Lillian Scholzen, Lucille Rusk, Honore O'Brien, Mae Sexton, Catherine Schoen, Marie Antonia Schreiner, Marga ret Anderson, Bernice Rategan, Helen Bulchunis, and Armelle Steinbrecher. Cosmetics Face 'Trial By Jury7 The usual place for powder, lipstick, and cold cream is in the boudoir, but the home economic classes have defied custom and tradition. They are bringing these cosmetics into the classroom to be dis cussed and examined with all the thor oughness of a chemistry formula or an algebra problem. This survey on cosmetics is especially intended to show the intelligent use of cosmetics for improving personal appear ance, and, in so far a-s they are part of good grooming, it is of interest to every girl. Not only will the students discuss the various brands and the amounts of each generally used, but an open discussion will be held to determine how women and girls usually happen to choose the cosmetics they use. An intelligent attitude toward the pro posed revision of the Food and Drug act will probably be one of civic benefits resulting from the investigation. SODALISTS ORGANIZE TO HONOR EUCHARIST Under our Lady's own title, Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament, the sodalists of Mundelein College have pledged them selves to be crusaders by spreading de votion to Ihc Blessed Sacrament. This end is accomplished by receiving Holy Coinmuunion once a week, by en rolling new Handmaids, by genuflecting reverently and profoundly before the Blessed Sacrament, by making the Sign of the Cross with dignity, by attending Benediction frequently, by paying a visit to the Blessed Sacrament daily, and by opposing vigorously anything in thought, word, or deed that may endanger purity. Attractive placards posted daily on the Sodality bulletin board have issued an invitation to the sodalists to organize themselves into a Guard of Honor before the Blessed Sacrament from 9 until 3 o'clock on every school day. Periods of fifteen minutes duration have been formed, thus permitting the sodalists ,to have a constant Guard of Honor in the chapel. The Eucharistic, Our Lady's committee asks all to co operate with this new project. Miss America's Easter Clothes Are Reviewed Do clothes make the girl ? You'll find the answer at the Style show and tea given at the Mundelein tea room on the afternoon of March IS. The style ex hibit will be sponsored by the clothing department of the College and will feature the newest creations of the foremost de signers of Paris and America. Just what Miss America will wear in the Easter Parade and the latest in spring and summer fashions will be modeled by 16 college girls. Chiffons, laces, prints, organdies, tweeds, linens, and scores of the new popular fabrics will be included. Gowns suitable for every occasion and time of day will be shown suits, ensem bles, afternoon frocks, semi-formals, for- mals, and whatever the fashions of the coming seasons dictate. The display of fashions will be fol lowed by a tea with members of Alpha Omicron officating as hostesses. The home economics department wishes to ex tend invitations to all to attend this Style show and tea. Tickets are available from the department at 50 cents. FRESHMEN ORATORS ENGAGE IN DEBATES The promising Demostheneses of the freshman class have completed the first round of their debating tournament, held on Feb. 23, in the rhetoric classes. The subject of discussion was: Resolved: That the proposed child labor amendment should be adopted. The verbal fray was bravely fought, and the young debaters, both victorious and defeated, thoroughly enjoyed the contest. Both sides had three victories to their credit, and one draw resulted. The fol lowing teams won for the affirmative: Section lbB, Genevieve Del Beccaro, Jane Malkemus, and Mary Rose Brown; lbD, Frances Sturm, Dorris Brown and Maxine Corey; lbH, Margaret Mary Nolan, Betty Neil, and Eileen Madden. Negative victors were: Section lbC, Helen Sheehan, Mary Houlihan, and Rita Tatge; IbE, Ruth Quirk, Harriet Johnson, and Mary Rose, lbF, Margaret Vendley, Ann Pazemis, and Mary Her- lihy. A draw resulted in Section lbG where the affirmative was upheld by Lorraine Horn, Helen Hunter, and Ella- belle Michael, the negative by Adele Kash, Charlotte Heun, and Bernice Walters. Modern Lighting Exhibit Attracts Student Artists What the ultra-modern home will have in the way of lighting effects and wall paper formed an unusual exhibition at the Civic Opera House which the Art club attended on Feb. 23. This new manner of illumination skill fully conceals glaring electric bulbs in panels. By this indirect lighting shad ows are eliminated and the effect pro duced is the same as daylight. Figured wallpaper will also be passe in these future homes, for the color and design can be changed with this new lighting system by merely pressing an electric button. The day will probably not be far distant when the home will, match the varicolored gowns of its owner. Besides this lecture on lighting, there was an art exhibition from foreign high schools in countries both large and small. Even far-off Persia was represented, and the skillful mechanical drawings from Czecho-Slovakia and Poland were espe cially interesting to the Mundelein artists. Belden-Stratford Chef Talks on Menu Making Arnold Shircliffe, head chef at the Belden-Stratford hotel, lectured on menu- making to students in the department of home economics on Feb. 19. Of the many different types of menus that have come down through successive generations, only two, Mr. Shircliffe point ed out, remain of respectable importance, the table d'hote and ithe a la carte menus. Artistry, attractiveness, appropriate ness, balance, and originality, according to the chef, are the general require ments for a good menu. A word to the wise in good menu making, he declared, is this the more originality put into the menu the greater the business produced. To illustrate the points he had recom mended for a good menu, Mr. Shircliffe composed at the close of this lecture an appropriate menu for a St. Patrick's day dinner. It reads as follows: shamrock appetizers, green turtle soup, green olives, green onions, green grass, bubble and squeak (boiled vegetables and pork) or Irish turkey or steak patties, green peas, murphies, emerald salad and blar ney dressing, Irish hat ice cream mold, Cork cakes, and green tea. Colonial Atmosphere Pervades Laetare Tea A bit of the glamour and grace of colonial days glowed again in the candle lit mezzanine, cozy with divans and set tees, as old fashioned misses in hoops and powdered wigs welcomed guests to the China tea given by the Laetare pledges on Washington's birthday. The proceeds of the tea, the first activ ity sponsored by the pledges, will be used to help defray the expenses of Lae tare Sunday. Suited to the atmosphere of the occa sion, the refreshments, dainty tit-bits cut in the shape of a George Washington profile, and red, white, and blue sand wiches, clustered round a white cake flecked with red and impudently adorned with a tiny cherry tree. After a recitation by Caroline Palma telling how grandmother bowed and smiled in the minuet, the demure young colonials, to the accompaniment of the organ, wove into the figures of the same graceful dance. Roma Murphy was chairman of the tea and the assisting pledges were: Mer cedes Beyer, Jeanette Kuzba, Mary Rose Brown, Margaret Cleary, Kathleen Feely, Jane Malkemus, Mary Louise Metcalf, Caroline Palma, and Clotilde Philippe. SCIENTISTS WITNESS SURGICAL OPERATIONS The histology class witnessed several surgical operations performed by Dr. Percy at Augustana hospital on Feb. 24. Promptly at 9 o'clock the students, un der the direction of Marjorie Rodgers Nesbitt, M.D., instructor in histology, took their places in the amphitheatre of the operating room. As Dr. Percy appeared, attended by a corps of helpers, and the first patient was wheeled in, the watchers shivered with expectation. There followed five opera tions, each different in nature and all in tensely interesting. The purpose of the tour was to acquaint the students with modern medical meth ods. The members of the class who went to the hospital were: Caroline Holland, Jane Gorski, Anne Smaza, Margaret Vi- das, Harriet Steigelman, Mary Domes, Marie Smith, Estelle Wingler, Helen Bellows, and Mary Orpha Albright. Reviewer Recommends Four Books For March Reading The Skyscraper extends the sympathy of the Faculty and students to Annarose Schofield on the death of her father. . March is a good month in which to try new things, because, with the arrival of the spring days, a fresh mental outlook is just as essential as a piquant sailor hat or a new print dress. If your reading has fallen into a methodical rut, we rec ommend these four new books which we feel sure will act as a rejuvenating tonic. Claudel Publishers Essay Collection First there is the collection of essays written by the eminent French Catholic statesman, Paul Claudel. If you have read The Satin Slipper, you will be de lighted with 'the author's new volume, Ways and Means, which has not as yet been published in France. Although these essays are written for the most part on religious themes, their subjects range from an address delivered before the Cadiolic actors of New York, to a discussion on art. These are the staid, age-old truths of Christianity expressed in a new and for midable manner, for in his choice of words, Claudel displays all of the delicacy of the French linguistic connoisseur whose thought flows naturally into phrases which are admirable not alone for their polish and finesse, but also because they are particularly apt, and at the same time succeed in achieving a remarkable artist ry of style. Vera Brittain's unusual biography, Testament of Youth, is a stirring review of the events which took place in the first quarter of the twentieth century. It is especially concerned with the fate of the group which was of college age when the World War broke out in 1914. Miss Brittain gives an account of her life at Oxford, and her adventures as a nurse during this period. Like so many others, the author tells how she too lost relatives, friends, and a lover in the great conflict. After the armistice, she returned to Oxford to resume her interrupted studies, and she continues her story with an ac count of the new era which followed the war. The book ends with the author's marriage in 1925. Eead Testament of Youth This work is a supreme portrait of the tragedy of war and should be read by every one of our youthful enthusiasts, who are prone to look upon the glamor ous side of war without giving any thought to its horrors. The story of the lost generation which preceded us is one of the finest and most effective of the nu merous pleas for world peace. The ma terial is competently handled and is pre sented in such a direct personal style that it makes an instant and lasting appeal. Hilaire Belloc, who has written an enormous amount of literature of prac tically every type is again represented by a new historical biography, that of Charles I of England. This is a brilliant picture of the life and men of the period which marked the rise of Oliver Crom well. Mr. Belloc has here given us an im portant study of the last reigning and governing king of England who believed implicitly in the Divine Rights of his autocratic position, and who met death with a spirit of heroic dignity and self possession which had been lacking in his earlier life. Mr. Belloc's treatment is at all times honest and sympathetic. Princess Alice Writes of Herself The reminiscences of Alice Roosevelt Longworth have been published in a vol ume which she titled, Crowded Hours. If you are interested in political science you know that Princess Alice, the daughter of the late Theodore Roosevelt, has been an important figure in Wash ington, D. C, for many years, and is con sidered one of the most intelligent wom en in the capital. In this story of her life she discusses many of the brilliant people whom she has known. Here one can learn the in tricate workings of Washington political, social, and diplomatic life, and also come upon a good many historical sidelights which one could not find in textbooks. Borneo Missionary Impresses Scribes with Strange Tales The Right Reverend Monsignor A. Wachter, Prefect Apostolic of North Borneo, visited the College on Feb. 19, and, after touring the building, told some of his experiences to Skyscraper re porters. Monsignor Wachter, who was born in Austria, is a member of St. Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society of Millhill, London, and has been a missionary in Borneo for 28 years. While in Chi cago, the Monsignor was guest speak er at the Ninth Annual Mission Celebra tion held at Holy Name Cathedral. The student reporters were appalled and impressed by the stories Monsignor Wachter told of the savagery of the seven native tribes on the island of Bor neo, who arc gradually becoming civilized under the influence of the missionaries. Until the last few years, the Monsig nor declared, the favorite national sport of Borne has been head hunting, an activity resembling in many respects the scalping engaged in by the American Indians. In the interview, Monsignor Wachter pointed out the great need for funds to enable the missionaries to carry on their work, and he described graphically the almost miraculous things which can be done with as little as five cents in Borneo. Outlining the progress which the mis sions have achieved, Monsignor Wachter made his interviewers realize the com parative ease with which they acquire on education, while children in Borneo have to walk for from two and one-half to three hours in order to get to school. Monsignor Wachter is in charge of a territory of approximately 35,000 square miles, having 70,000 people under the in fluence of missions. In a voice which is distinguished by an unusual foreign ac cent, he said, in concluding the inter view, I am very pleased to see the great interest in missionary work in the schools of America. Five Gain Places In Orchestra Club To assume the role of the dunce is an extremely hard task for such intelligent persons as the Orchestra pledges, but by fulfilling this requirement they were re cently qualified to become acquainted with the Orchestra laws and aims. Dorothy Grace, Frances Regan, Irene Timko, and Mary Touhy served on the initiation committees. The new members are Mary Costello, Catherine McBride, Emily Paska, Ann Pazemis, and Sidona Zdenek. The next step for the rising Orchestra members is the honorary society, estab lished this year to encourage musical ap preciation. The qualification for entrance is the acquisition of points. The pres ent group comprises Mary Frances Burke, Eleanor Kucki, Dorothy Grace, Frances Regan, and Irene Timko. The Tau Mu, which has furnished music for parties in the past, was re organized this year with Dorothy Grace as chairman. Dorothy Boynton, Mar garet Madden, Violet Kilbane, Sidona Zdenek and Catherine McBride are the players. PHI LAMBDA PLEDGES BEAR 'ALBATROSSES' Large red placards on which are en- scribed in golden letters the insignia of Phi Lambda, have been greatly in evi dence during the past week about the necks of five pledges who are being ini tiated into the Glee club honor society. The singing of a parody upon greeting all members, and the recitation of the Greek alphabet are just a few of the things that will eventually culminate in a well-earned party. The lucky pledges are Charlotte Wilcox, Marian Home, Mary O'Brien, Frances Mikkelson, and Edith Dorn.
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1934-03-07 (3)
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