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Show By NANCY PEPPER ROOM RUMORS Before the gang gathers for the next llarpy liuddle in your bedroom, bed-room, how about trying out some decorating tricks that cost free and work wonders? . Spool Shelf You need two smooth boards about 15 inches long and 6 Inches wide and 32 empty spools to biake an original knick-knack shelf. String the spools on strong cord four rows of eight each. Bore four holes In the boards at the four corners and run the strings through them. Eig knots will keep them in place. Color with paint or polish. Now you have two shelves for knick-knacks knick-knacks or nail polish bottles. Trunk Bunk Make a padded top for an old trunk and cover the sides with a ruffled flounce and in a word. A favorite is "egg" before be-fore every vowel. You sound like, the natives on one ol! superman's planets. Addled Accents As they say in that popular song, "You put the accent ac-cent on the wrong Syll-A-Ble." Better Bet-ter not start this in English class. Rhyme Time "How's the weather, weath-er, Heather?" is the way you're making with the poetry. Here's a gem that doesn't make any sense, but It's typical of your rhymes without reason: What d'ya mean. Jelly Bean? What I said. Cabbage Head. It doesn't rhyme, Frankenstein. Yes, it do, Fu Manchu Don't get hot. Coffee pot. Don't get mad, Alan Ladd. Oh, brother we can read the words but they don't make sense! To the Point Those abbreviations abbrevi-ations of yours go on and on. The latest are "magnif." for magnificent, magni-ficent, "sensash." for sensational, "splen." for splendid and "div." for divine. Isn't it all too Sinatraful? CONSOLATION PRIZES What have I to show for a broken heart? I've saved souvenirs from the very start. Ticket stubs from movie shows, Photographs in every pose, Bracelets with his name and mine, Menus from each place we'd dine, Bottles that once held perfume, Candy boxes 'round my room, Records we would sway and swing to Tunes that we would swoon and sing to. Dried up flowers from bonquets Relics all of happier days, lie's somebody else's but just the same I still have my date book filled with his name! DID YA HEAR About the electrician who went to work in a candy factory tightening tighten-ing nuts in the taffy? About the electrician who went to work in a bakery putting currants cur-rants in buns? INSULT WITH A SMILE Gee, you're a cute kid. Do you think so? Yes, you're an attractive goat. you have a comfortable seat for your friends when they gather to talk over tomorrow's assignments or tonight's dates. Black Board Bulletin You thought you were too grown up to have a blackboard in your room, didn't you? Well, Just get it back from the attic, cover the wooden frame with padded fabric and hang it over your desk as a bulletin board. You can pin pictures and letters let-ters to the frame and write messages mes-sages and reminders on the black board. See? Lip Trick Plain paper lamp shades look swoonderful if you have your friends autograph them with lipstick kisses. Cover over the lip-' lip-' , stick outlines with colorless polish to preserve them. DOUBLE TALK Are you majoring in jubberwocky this semester? It's a tough course, but if you study this column conscientiously conscientious-ly you may be able to make a passing gratle. We've been snooping around soda fountains again and we're in a state of utter confusion about the strange sounds you call conversation. Pig Latin Variations You're not content with old fashioned pig Latin. You've discovered new ways to torture the language by adding a certain syllable before every vowel |