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Show "GAY GADGETS" Associated Newspapers WNU Features. By NANCY PEPPER Trixie Teen Says "Don't wait until the last minute to get ready for a dale. No boy likei to make conversation with the family while you're deciding decid-ing what dress to wear. And, for that matter, the family doesn't enjoy it much, either. Instead In-stead of getting your hair just so, you have to be satisfied with a few hasty Rooms for Improvement Every girl wants a pretty-room pretty-room of her own. While you might not be able to afford one that looks like a set in an M. G. M. movie, you can certainly certain-ly improve the one you have. Some tricky teens thought up these ideas and they're keen. PATCHWORK PRETTIES Everybody's Ev-erybody's making patchwork skirts and blouses. Why don't YOU be different and make curtains or drapes out of patches, sewn together? togeth-er? For a bureau scarf or bed spread, get your friends to give you small squares of any left-over materials ma-terials with their names written on them. Embroider over their autographs au-tographs and sew the squares together to-gether into bureau scarfs or bed spreads. WRITE IDEA Make drapes out of unbleached muslin. Hang a heavy pencil or crayon on the tie-back tie-back and invite your friends to sign your drapes. CRATE STUFF Two orange crates, stood on end and connected dabs with brush and comb. You're in such a tizzy that your hand slips when you put on your lipstick and you look like a fugitive from a circus. You don't notice until it's too late, that your slip is dripping below your skirt. You haven't time now to sew on that loose button. Instead of sailing downstairs serenely, looking like a Cover Girl, you come tumbling down with a red face, a crumpled dress and a general feeling of not being put together. It was the early bird that got the worm and it's the early girl that gets the boy." Will You Join the Dance? Gone are the days when your swain would bow politely in front of you and beseech you for the pleasure of the next govotte. Now he asks you to dance something like this: "Like chicken? Grab a wing." "Greetings, Gait, let's circulate." "Come on Chubbin' start mug gin.' " "Hi, bug, let's cut a rug." "Get hep, you cat." by a board over the top make a grand dressing table. Just dress it up with a skirt of chintz. A butter but-ter tub, turned upside down. makes a perfect bench if you make a cushion for the top and gather a skirt around it PINCUSHION MIRROR Make a padded fabric frame for your mirror mir-ror so you can use it as a parking space for your gadget pins. COKE BAR BARGAIN An old bookcase makes a wonderful coke bar for your room; cut it down if it's too high. Paint it and cover with Jabberwocky or autographs. Use the shelves for glasses, bottles and pretzels. The Worm Turns like chocolate sodas j And popcorn that is salted; I like extra ice cream With my double malted. I like juicy hot dogs And I like ice cold cokes. I like you 'til you started Those corny Moron Jokes! More on Morons Did you hear about the little Moron Mor-on who put his father into the refrigerator re-frigerator because he wanted some cold pop? Did you hear about the little Moron who jumped off the roof of the Paramount Theater because he wanted to make a hit on Broadway? |