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Show "GAY GADGETS" I Associated Newspapers WNU Features. Bv NANCY PEPPER SKIRT SPURTS Ton don't have to be an expert dressmaker to make yourself some smooth school skirts. Buy yourself your-self a good pattern pat-tern and some material and see how good you are with the needle. Here are some tricks esDeciallv classrooms. Or, as the teacher says, they distract attention. FISH STORY Ask dad for some of his fish flies. Wear them in your lapel or in your beanie. COMIC CHARACTERS Cut out the faces of your favorite characters charac-ters in the comics. Paste them on little cardboard or wooden discs. Preserve with colorless nail polish. String on yarn to wear around your neck. SPOONY STUFF When you bend a spoon over your wrist to make a bracelet, see that the bowl of the spoon faces away from your wrist. Paste a picture of your favorite D.P. (Dream Prince) in the bowl and then paste a piece of cellophane cello-phane over the spoon to it. Looks like the glass over a picture frame. OUT OF THE NUT BOWL Take a walnut, four whole cloves and two raisins and make yourself a turtle gadget. Use one half of the walnut shell, paste a raisin at each end to represent head and tail and paste four cloves to represent feet. Attach At-tach a pin in back. Fickle Fan Oh, yon can sigh your heart out with Boyer, Or maybe he - man Gable makes you spoony, Oh, you can harmonize with Nelson Eddy, And you can go to town with Mickey Rooney. Yon can ride the range with cowboy Rogers. ' To dance with Fred Astaire can be your honor, Take all my loves of yesterday, for now I'd rather cut a rug with Don O'Connor! for yon, Miss Nimble Thimble. BLOOMER BELLE Make yourself your-self a pair of bloomers to match your skirt. Then you can wear your skirt very short and when you dance you'll show your pants (poetry again). It's a cute fashion in bright plaid. . Try it SEW SWEET Make two little hearts out of your skirt fabric. Pad them like little pin cushions and attach at-tach one to each end of a string-like string-like piece of fabric, piping. Knot the string around your belt and wear your gadget pin (or HIS class pin) in your hearts. Or let the hearts dangle from your dickey collar. LETTER PERFECT Cut your initials from your skirt fabric and applique them on your sweater. The bigger the better and smart as all get-out IN THE BAG Make a drawstring bag with the fabric left over from your skirt. Be sure to make the strings long enough to wear over your shoulder. You can use the crown of an old felt hat for a "feed bag" style. Jitterbug Joolery How's for some new lapel lunacies? They certainly do attract attention in |