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Show I "GAY GADGETS" Associated Newspapers WNU Features. By NANCY PEPPER RICK RACKET JUST LET A REAL TRICKY TEEN GET HER HANDS ON flj SOME RICK-WfstfX RICK-WfstfX RACK BRAID vM AND SHE'LL iU-rMj AMAZE YOU. -xrufT HERE ARE r L S0ME 0F THE r mw TRICKS WITH RICKRACK REPORTED REPORT-ED TO TRICKS HEADQUARTERS. HEADQUAR-TERS. RICKRACK JEWELRY With a nee-die nee-die and long thread make running stitches right through the center oj rick-rack rick-rack braid; then shirr up tightly in a rippled effect. Attach several strands together. Dee-vine with tvhile peasant blousest especially tvhen your cotton skirt is trimmed with the same rick-rack. rick-rack. STATION WAGON SILLIES Well, the manly Station Wagon for Pell Mcll) coat is turning sissy with trimming of rickrack braid around collars, cuffs and pockets. All the gals are doing it. There are rickracking their Jeep hats, too! SWEATER INITIALS-Write'your monogram or initials on your sweaters (and blouses, loo) with contrasting rickrack. Very made-to-order look it gives 'em, too. WRITE WITH RICKRACK How about writing some jabberwocky in rickrack as a ' border for your cotton skirt? You've seen that cute dress with "Kiss and Tell" rickracketed around the skirt, haven't you? Well, think up something sharp mebbe your telephone tele-phone number and write it in pencil or chalk in HUGE LETTERS. Then cover the lines with rickrack, sewn on with simple running stitch. TRICKS FOR VICTORY IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT THE MOST POPULAR XrSSk. TRICK FOR V7A TEENS IS BUY -L4i' I N G WAR PlMfAm STAMPS AND X&W'r MORE WAR fkjM STAMPS. ' HERE'S SOME OF THE WAYS THAT THE JIVE SET IS HELPING TO STAMP OUT THE AXIS BUT GOOD! ! PRETTY BABY We heard from one teen club that a Baby Picture Contest netted $.3G in war stamps. Here's how it was done. All the teens in town were invited, to submit sub-mit their own baby pictures. Entry fee for the picture was a war stamp. Then a big exhibit was held with admission ad-mission a ten-cent war stamp. Win-! Win-! ncrs were selected by photo and the prizes were war stamps. Some fun seeing how the local wolves and witches looked in their pre-Sinatra Daze. PAY FOR YOL'R MISTAKES Why not have one oral class a day where a forfeit of a ten-cent war stamp must be paid by everyone who fails to answer a question correctly. cor-rectly. It works best in mathematics mathemat-ics or in history. You ought to have enough stamps for a bond in no time or are you smarter than we think you are? TRICKS BAZAAR It's always fun to plan bazaars and fairs. This year get the gals together to make as many Tricks for Teens (Jitterbug Joolery and such) as they can. When you have enough for a sale, announce an-nounce a Tricks for Teens War Stamp Bazaar. Sell the Tricks for a 10 or 25-cent war stamp (have two price groupings) and watch the sales mount up as the Tricks dwindle away. All right, now get busy on those powder puff funny faces; those cork lapel gadgets; those nutty Carmen Car-men Miranda pins! ; STAMPS WITH YOUR JAM Most of you gather at somebody's house on Saturday night for a jam and jive session around the platter box, don't you? Well, the next time you're hostess, get the family to buy a supply of ten-cent war stamps and make everyone buy a stamp at the door. You can pay the family back after the party. In addition to having a swell time, you've helped buy a gun, or a tank or a jeep and everybody, including Uncle Sam, is happyl |