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Show STRICTLY FOR THE GIRLS CKT WHAT YOU WANT OR DON'T BUY ANYTHING Now is the time to think about what clothes you'll need to look your best at Christmas and it's the time to go out and look for them, too. But . if you don't find the dress, be it ball gown or office suit, that really does something for you don't lny anything. Every woman has a bunch of old clothes hung up in her closet that she never wears when she wants to look her best. And usually they are things she was not too fond of even on the day she bought them. For it's not the age of a dress that counts half so much as the fact that it wasn't right in the first place. And every woman will attest to the truth about the day when "she just put on any old thing to run out to the store." That is always the day when she runs into somebody special somebody she'd like to have .see her at her best. The answer is get rid of that junk in your closet so you'll never be tempted to wear it. And never buy anything any-thing just to have a new dress to put on in a hurry. Fashion trends are no secret. You can read up on them in almost al-most any newspaper or magazine, maga-zine, and hear about them any day on the radio. Shop whenever when-ever you can and then when v(ou see the thing for you, buy it whether there's going to be a party tomorrow to wear it to or not. Even in these days, of high prices there are a lot of pretty dresses in all the shops at moderate prices if you look before you buy and have confidence con-fidence in what you want. And these days, too, are good ones in which to give away the wliite elephants with the knowledge that there are people in the world who can use them with pleasure. That will clean the slate and give a fresh start and impetus to help keep that most important resolution look your best always. . SUPERSTITIONS DATE WAY BACK ' Most of us have a silly superstition super-stition or two. We know there's nothing to it but we keep on taking notice of it just the same. Last October a national na-tional magazine's poll on the subject showed that while most American women were too intelligent in-telligent to actually be super-sitious, super-sitious, they admitted that they crossed their fingers for luck or threw a pinch of salt over their left shoulders to avoid a fight even so. The December issue now has an article telling about the origins of the most common com-mon superstitions, and when you realize how long all this has been going on, you can understand under-stand why we probably keep on observing the silly practices. For instance, fear of a black cat crossing one's path grew out of the belief that it might be a witch in disguise. And in the Middle Ages people believed a witch could take on the shape of a cat at will. And the salt spilling spill-ing superstition came about because be-cause salt was once so precious and was thought to have magical qualities too, because it colored the flame when sacrifices were burned. Picking up pins dates back to the days when a pin was really valuable in itself. The belief that fear of the number 13 dates back to the Biblical Ktory of the Last Supper at which 13 were present is false, the article says. For if this were true, non-Christian nations would pay no attention to it. But the Turks are more obsess- ea by be number 1? than anybody any-body else and other nations before be-fore the time of Christ believed it unlucky, too. There are many other superstition-backgrounds in the article, but the subject should no be dropped here without with-out a quote from Mark Twain on omens. It seems there are very few good omens, like four-leaf-clovers, horse-shoes or finding a pin. But there are scores and scores of bad omens. In accounting account-ing for this Mark Twain said, "Why do you want to know good luck is coming? To ward it off?" CLEVER IDEA FOR CHRISTMAST WRAPPINGS Now is the time to gather all your Christmas wrappings and sometimes the wrapping makes ' even more of a hit than the gift! There are a myriad of wonderful ideas for novel and gay and personalized packages guaranteed to make any present pres-ent a knockout even if the gift itself costs only ten cents. A few examples are wrap a bottle bot-tle like a party snapper in crepe paper or tarlatan; wrap a round tin of cookies by disguising dis-guising it as a cake, candles and all; give away a bill or a check in a lace paper doily folded ilke a purse, put a tiny gift in a paper covered cup paper cup that is, or even a tin cup if the gift is fragile; and for the man in your life, if you're giving him a shirt, wrap the box like a shirt with striped paper for instance, in-stance, and a dark contrasting tie. All you have to do is use your imagination and take plenty plen-ty of time. One thing about wrapping parcels it's a lot of fun and if you ever liked to play with paper dolls when you were a little girl here's your meat. Incidentally, paper dollars dol-lars look mighty festive on the outside of a Christmas present. |