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Show CACHE AMERICAN, LOGAN, UTAH To Mark 300th Year of Boston Common Finds Men Prefer Dumb Their Co-Eds s of Evanston, 111. Northwestern university were accused of making low scholastic grades to attract the men. Prof. John J. B. Morgan, of the psychology department, said girl students proceed on the theory that men like them dumb. He suggested that men submit s to Intelligence tests tiie before dating them. If they were required by prospective escorts to establish high intelligence quotients before dates, the universitys scholastic record would soar like a rocket," Professor Morgan added. Co-ed- Pageant Next Summer to recruiting for the Civil war in tents near Tremont street all this and Depict Historic Events.' much more is in the scope of a celebration which could almost defrom Boston. Saved modern pict a nation's history and progress road builders and street wideners as well as a city's. only bj tbe high powered IndignaFirst Woman In Boston. tion of the Boston Common society, Anna Pollard, a woman noted for tbe tercentenary of fifty acres of her plain 'ace, her fine tavern on cowpaths, lawns and shrubbery, uncrossed by rapid transit line or Beacon street, and the fact that she was the first woman in Boston, highway, will 'be celebrated next may well find some mention in the summer. Of course, thousands of persons ceremonies. She was a favorite of are Inconvenienced each day be- the Harvard class of 1038 as well cause of the disinclination of Bos- as of 1039 and 1040, and others who loved her entertainment until at ton antiquarians to let go another to her reward. In foot of land from the Common for last she went needed street wldbnings or permit those days Beacon Hill, according to a recent description, was the the building of roads across tt, but tenderloin district." It thousands for revere its other More than sixty of Americas place in American history and the statesmen. breathing space it affords in the great soldiers, poets, Presidents, preachers, architects heart of downtown Boston. were wont to roam in leisure hours For tlds reason, a committee is s the routes that this patch now raising a fund, tentatively-placeof green in the heart at $1500,000, to reconstruct of a city. the scenes and homes of vanished days, the duels, ducking stools and hangings, during the 1935 celebration of its three hundredth anniversary. As It Was 300 Years Ago. Canaan Cuneiform Writing With the help of the Emergency Important Discovery. Relief administration, the committee, headed by Everett B. Mero, New Haven, Conn. Discovery of hopes to draw from the past a rep- a hitherto unknown prebibllcal resentation of three hundred years language, revealing the of history to show the plot as It Semitic was when Quakers and pirates source of the ancient and modern to dangled from Its elms, as it was alphabets and offering a new key when young Woodbridge and his controversial passages in the Bible, rival dueled at forty paces for the was announced by Dr. Julian J. Obern ann. visiting professor of Se favors of a Boston belle. The committee, if sufficient funds mltlc languages ct Yale. Cuneiform tablets, found at Ras are raised, hopes to reproduce the Common's ducking stool; show the Shatura, near Antioch, In northern Syria, disclosed the language of smokers circle where henpecked devotees of nicotine repaired when Canaan, and, according to Doctor driven from the home; reproduce Obermann, are written In a new tiie spinning bee of 1753 when young ladies revealed theii matronly ti aits for the edification of their swains. The meeting of the '50s. Earl Percy and his Itedcoats before the Revolution; William Biaxton (or Blackstone), Bostons first settler who sold his land, now the Common, to u community which he found too crowded and moved to Rhode Island; Beaeou street when respectability stalked unchecked; the coming of the railroad in 1830; the water celebration in 1848, when a public system was first installed; the arrival of Lafayette on the Common, June 17, 1825, when he came to attend the Bunker Bill exercises; criss-cros- tree-studd- Business Leaders Predict Recovery Early This Year d 1 di- r s of 1935. (. Old Alphabet Aid to Language Study y Metoposaurus Is Back After 140,000,000 Years Berkeley, Calif. After an absence of some 140,000,000 years the metoposaurus has returned but he isn't his old self. In fact, the miniature amphibian in the University of California Museum of Paleontology is only a clay model of the extinct creature, which, scientists say, was a distant relative salamander. of the present-daThe model was constructed by sculptors, Adele StackpoJe and Audrey Horn. It was modeled from a skull and ther skeleton remains dug up in the Painted Desert of Arizona recently. Paleontologists estimated from the fossil remains that the metoposaurus was about eight to ten feet long. y Lake Erie Is Prolific Source of Peat Moss Sandusky, Ohio. What has been identified as peat moss has been coming from Lake Erie recently in Its source is a large quantities. mystery. Never until this year has there been more than a little of it. Now tons are available. The moss, when bleached and treated, may be used in beautifyIt commands ing rock gardens. high prices. alphabet that proves to be the oldest known. He termed the find an discovery In the field of Semitic antiquities and the most important find since the Babylonian cuneiforms have come to light." The tablets, he said, were Inscribed during or before the Fifteenth century, B. C- and offer a previously unknown link between techniques of cuneiform and the principles of alphabetic script The Ras Sliamra tablets, he said, although written in cuneiform characters, employ only 30 signs, using them as alphabetic letetrs, whereas other systems known consisted of hundreds of signs representing syl lables of ideograms.. The new Semitic dialects of Ras Shamra promise to throw light oa tl e evolution of the letters com mon to ancient and modern alphabets, revealing how the various let-- . came to have their individual shape, and how they came to be ar ranged In their traditional order. As a result of the discovery, ho said, Biblical literature and antiquities will be better understood. Neither the language nor script was understood when the tablets first were found by an archeological expedition of the French Academy of Inscriptions and he said. The decipherment was by French and German scholars, opening a door to the understanding of Semitic lore and civilization which scholars only a few years ago did not know existed. epoch-makin- g -, Belles-Lettre- surprise comes when you put It on. for there are more ways of wearing the hat than the five squares of which It Is made. Recently a whole bridal party apThe peared wearing these hats. bridesmaid, in a silver and pale blue lace frock, wore a matching hat of the lace. The maid of honors dress and hat were in deep blue and silver lace. The brides mother, in black and silver lace, wore the very black lace hat from which these sketches were made. The fun of It is that one can take a half dozen such hats on a week end and have a matching or contrasting one for every occasion. A novice can make one in no time All credit to Worth for the trickiest hat of the year. It solves the at all. As for the cost, three hats for a hat that can be can be made from one yard of lace. problem worn In the evening, for dress-uGold in Chickens Craw occasions In tbe afternoon and the Sitka, Alaska. Millions of dolcocktail hour, for the movies and theater, and for tucking away In lars worth of gold has been shipped from Alaska to Seattle. Some of It ones suitcase for a trip. Made of five seven-incsquares apparently is going back. As Mrs. of lace, with french seams to the Josephine Brojack dressed a chickright side, and folding down like en shipped from Seattle, she found In its craw a gold nugget worth a pocket handkerchief, it Is the simplest litt'e affair possible. The $2.50. Uses "Rainbow p to Speed Seed Germination By CHERIE NICHOLAS Some industries, such as the automobile Industry, are already leading the way to recovery by courageously setting out to supply the demand for consumer goods and their success is sufficiently marked that we may expect other industries to follow suit If business generally does play ball with the President and the Supreme court does not cnll the game, we may find ourselves In such a crisis that the government against Its will, may be compelled to turn to socialistic measures as the only way In the emergency to keep the masses provided with the necessities of life. Trying to balance all factors, my expectation is: 1. There will be some Improve merit during the first three months 78, 474, (132, 390,847, 1 41 , 970, 01 7,375,-81700, 539,909, 331,281, 128,978, 279, S71 is the largest known prime number. A prime number Is any figure visible only by Itself or L Paris Acclaims the Beauty of Lace flation. Largest Prime Number Chicago. Dr. Samuel I. Krleger wore out six pencils, used 72 sheets of legal size note paper and frazzled his nerves quite badly but he aide to announce that 231,584,-w-- unemployment Insurance thoroughly sound business measures and millions of Americans wlU begin to spend money which they have not dared to spend before, satisfying their wants and Immediately stimulating business and providing mors employment and more buying power. On the other hand, congress may more than undo all this good by flirting with unsound radical legislation, particularly currency Intlon-wld- e Dawes Charts Show Prosperity on the Way. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY bluebird is back again. harbinger of happiness once more is Just around the corner, twitting a merry tune of prosperity and plenty, all to come to us who anxiously wait, sometime in the year 1935. At least that is what our business The deleaders are predicting. pression is over, say the Big Wigs who know, and with that welcome message they have been getting luncheon groups drunk with Joy and sending sltters-lsinging their ways home In hysterical glee. Most ardent champion of the bluebird is Chicago's Gen. Charles Gates Dawes, banker, diplomat, former Vice President of the United States, and more recently sotto voce angel of his citys Century of Progress exposition. Practically all throughout the depression. General Dawes had forsaken the Hell Maria pipe with the subterranean bowl for a comfortable curved briar of more orthodox center of gravity. Well, hes back smoking Hell Marla" again. He was puffing away at a great rate on Hell Marla" when he told Chicago's Association of Commerce at a recent luncheon that the depression was ever. Nothing can stop the progress toward it, said the general, Just as nothing could stop tiie progress toward the chasm in 1929. The various steps taken by the government to aid business and employment .will neither greatly retard nor greatly accelerate the return of good times. Shunting back and forth between an Imposing display of figured charts and a microphone, the general growled, This Is a devil of a way to make a speech, but went ahead and made one, anyway. He predicted a definite boom in durable goods In May or June, and he used the charts to prove it Trend Definitely Upward. General Dawes concisions were the result of a study of the steel Industry and other heavy Industries over a period of several months. Ills chnrts showed the trend In pig iron and steel prices and the volume of pig Iron production during r three separate periods marked by depressions. They showed that In each depression prices slid downward for five years and eight months, then turned upward abruptly and climbed for about a year. Although prices were not allowed to decline In the present depression, production of pig Iron and steel has declined vastly more. This has resulted In a tremendous accumulated demand, which the general says will begin to be felt In large volume this sum- THAT y business-c- n onference world-fame- is unemployment In the durable The three great obstacles which block the way back to normalcy are political ones, he says. They are the fear that continued governmental interference in business will make It Impossible for corporations to show a profit, fear about the future of our money, and the newly revised securities act Only after these readjustments are made can the accumulated shortage of durable goods begin recovery, according to Mr. Ayres. The shortage he estimated to be as much as the total output of all the goods Industries. d ten-yea- mer. Steel companies will make huge profits when this action occurs, he Frederick H. Ecker. said, and then prices and output will become stabilized at substantially Dr. Lewis tl. Flint of the Department of Agriculture is pictured In the rainbow room of his laboratory higher levels. Not so rosy a picture Is tliat paintwhere colored lights bring dead lettuce seeds back to life. Seeds which fall to grow under ordinary conditions will germinate in 24 hours If soaked for an hour or so and then exposed for a few seconds to sunlight ed by Col. Leonard B. Ayres, Cleveor the proper kind of artificial light. Uls discovery will save millions of dollars to growers throughout the land economist He said the chief ensolved problem of tbe depression country. Col. L. B. Ayres. durable goods industries for two and The indusyears. tries would have to operate at 25 per cent above their normal rate for ten years In order to make up the shortage. As Dawes Sees It. Mr. Ayres predictions may be much more attractive than he intended them. The whole thing depends upon whether or not he is right about the attitude and action of the government. Here is what Mr. Dawes says: the difference between Colonel Ayres and myself Is a marked one. He evidently looks upon the Intervention of a changed governmental policy into the situation as being definitely determinative of the question as to whether the coming year of 1935 will mark an advance in prosperity over 1934. While I recognize the overwhelming long time Importance of a balanced budget and wise governmental policy, I point out that the normal course of recovery Involving mass action Is not determined by human reasoning, but by human nature, and that the rate of recovery Is following the same course In this present depression and for the same simple causes that It did In the two great former major depressions In the country, those of 1873 and 1S93. Priming the pump through great does expenditures governmental nothing but force an Increase In business activity as long aa the priming fluid lasts, be said. The return of prosperity In 1935, If all goes well. Is also looked for by Edward A. Filene, widely known Much depends Boston economist on whether or not the Supreme court will uphold certain phases of the New Deal. He warned that If the Supreme court does not with the President, the country might be compelled to turn to socialistic measures. Will Begin Spending. Business is pledging with the President, and there Is undoubtedly a more widespread understanding that prosperity, both for consumer goods and durable goods industries, depends basically upon the buying power of the masses. There is no telling, however, how far this promised will go and we cannot expect rapid Improvement until business generally acts upon this new understanding. Congress will arrange for na- one-ha- lf 2. There will be some Improve ment In the spring and summer over the conditions of 1934, but not Indicate that recovery enough has come, 3. The full will show a marked Improvement and the trend from then on will be definitely upward. 4. By the fall of 1938, we will be so far recovered as to make It generally evident that we are on the road to unprecedented real prosperity. Upturn to Start Soon. Business magazine and newspaper editors throughout the country agree that business will be on the upturn during the first quarter of 1935. A survey published by Associated Business Papers, Inc., Indicated that the editors expected department store sales to keep up their recent gains into the first quarter, with narrow profit margins. Shoe production was only 10,000,000 pairs behind the 1929 peak in 1934, but the last year"s performance is expected to be passed early In 1935. The outlook for the textile industry Indicates that Us business will be about 10 per cent- - better In 1935, according to the business editors. Editors of automotive trade papers predicted a substantial Increase for the first quarter of 1935 compared with the first quarter of 1934. In the steel Industry, small Increase In production which has existed for the last few months Is expected to be projected Into the first few months of 1935. The estimated steel output of 1934 was 24,700,000 tons, an Increase of 2,100,000 tons over 1933. Machine tool trade paper editors called the prospects for both volume and profit In the first quarter exceedingly bright Electrical apparatus wholesalers look for improvement So does the oil Industry. Although much depends on governmental policies, It Is thought that the building trade might even triple the 1934 business, with remodeling on a scale twice as great as In 1934. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, who should know the situation If anybody should, called the indeed very satisfac1935 outlook tory. He predicted a sizeable upturn In the heavy goods Industries. Every place 1 go, he said, faces and features and the approach of persons Indicate a more optimistic outlook than has been In evidence for some time. Probably one of the most substantial reasons for expecting a better year In 1935 Is thnt advanced by Frederick II. Ecker, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance sheer loveliness whenever, If ever has eye beheld a more entrancing array of lace evening gowns than those which are now gracing the midwinter social When we say sheer loveliscene ness we mean Just that sheer and lovely as the smart new laces and nets, chiffons and marquisettes can make the party frocks and evening formula now so vogulsh. The Importance of lace and net and various beauteous sheers of similar character cannot be over emphasized. Reports pour in from Paris In regard to the enthusiasm shown for gowns thnt are that thin and flattery and diaphanous they needs must be fiiade over foundational slips of silk, or satin, crepe or lame. In describing the group of distinguished lace fashions pictured, we are so enthusiastic about the superbly lovely lace frock to the right In the trio we are going to tell about it first It Is a wedding gown which Is real style news, gives It an added touch of glamor and More and more romance, too. brides are Intrigued with the Idea of lace for the nuptial event One of the reasons, perhaps, Is that lace Is so luxurious and beautiful In Itself, It needs no furbelows and Intricate cutting to enhance It. Silver lace Is particularly sumptuous, and It makes a really thrilling wedding gown. Ardanse of Paris, whose creations are ever strikingly original, creates this exquisite bridal costume of this silver lace. It has a square court train which may be draped as s wrap, as here shown, which makes It practical for the bride to wear as an evening gown later. A white satin gndet Is Inserted at the The same satin borders the train, also the long sleeves. Fait I side-fro- CONTRAST SLEEVES B) CIIhRIE NICHOLAS In the charming black lace dress centered In the picture, Paton has very Ingeniously contrived to coax a youthful little peplum to circle the hips and go ruffling down the back. From the picture one might easily fancy that net of large open mesh fashioned this dress Instead of lace. However, It Is really a rather heavy lace, smartly patterned In a conventional design which Is younger looking than the more for-- i mal and ornate orals. There is Just enough sophistication about this dainty frock to appeal to the bnd Just out In society who aspires to poise and dignity. Speaking of the new net frocks, marlikewise the quisettes, they are going In for color for all they are worth, nn usual tones such as raspberry, violet (said to be the coming big color), Marina !. blue, rust and dark red. In regard to the gown Illustrated to the left In the group, color adds to the enchantment of the lace which fashions It For this gown of classic simplicity Callot uses a lame lace, gorgeous posing It over a white crepy silk slip. The collar of white coq feathers In a grand climax. A word should be spoken In regard to the tendency this season to employ laces of a filmy texture both In colors and black. The newer black lace dresses hold cne almost spellbound In their fragile beauty. Then, too, among recent showings lace modes which display a riot of fine knife pleatings which form wide flounces and bertha decollettes and shoulder capes and other captivating details. copper-colore- d & Western Newspaper Union. NEW WRINKLES IN SPRING SHOWINGS Peplum and pleats are the new wrinkles In advance style showings for spring, and in touches for costumes. Pleats are creeping out all over the place In evening gowns and daytime frocks, nsed to give skirt fullness In back or front, or to add character to a peplum flare. They are showing up even la s and In scarfs. In bustle effects on evening gowns and la whole skirts for formal costumes of the naughty nineties school. The tiered cape Id starched net gains distinction If the net Is pleated. Sheer evening gowns are knockouts with voluminous skirts from waist to floor, with aa additional pleated peplum flare oa the fitted Jacket last-wor- d company. We can see many reassuring facts on the economic horizon, he continued. Among these, the outstanding one, In my Judgment, Is the Increase In the combined na- - knife-pleat- waist-lengt- ed h Wide Belts and Princess Lines Are Now Emphasized The Idea of sleeves contrasting the rest of the dress Is holding good in midseason Advance styling. spring fashions and resort modes also emphasize this feature. Not only are sleeves In direct contrast nut the matter of cutting sleeves and yoke in one Is Important, according to reports in regard to advance fashions. The dinner dress pictured is of dull black velvet with cut sleeves and yoke of sheer ribbed velvet which makes this dress practical for wear. A delicate rhinestone neiklnce, just the right length for the neckline, adds formality. The very wide rhinestone bracelet also sounds the glittering note which fashion demands for evening. In reality, this dress la part of a suit, having a simple, fitted biplength Jacket fastened at the collar with two handsome silver fox tails. e Edward Filene. tlonal income, which for 1934, according to our economists, probably will exceed that of 1933 by something like 15 per cent Labor Income In the form of all wages and salaries In the United States Is also expected to show an Increase of 1933, bringing it to a total of about $35,000,000,000." Q. Western Nnrtpnper Untow. Two fashion specifications wide belts and princess lines are emphasized to a degree that makes It seem certain that theres to be do fooling about women keeping their waistlines well corseted and smooth. In either case, tt must be carefully and thoroughly digested that It Is not a pulled-lor nipped waistline. Wide belts are now shaped so thnt they have a curved profile to coincide with the natural waistline, and thus putting a stop at once and for all the abrupt cut at top and bottom that has been the big drawback In wide belts In the past. Turtle Neck Collar The turtle neck collar Is a feature of many sweaters and a novelty Is the posing of this collar in a dark color on a light sweater, such as wins red on a creamy off, white. |
