Women Enter Century’s Better Half
Gals Will Reach New Heights In 2000
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(By Vivian Brown)
((A3) Newsfeatures Writer*
In the year 2000 people will talk
about the Gibson girl as if she’d
been a pygmy. Six-feet-two Dian
as will hide those family albums
revealing their “midget ancestry”
and little Sister’s favorite doll will
•wear Granny’s wedding dress.
Since 1900 women have been
growing by leaps and bounds. In
that year the average woman was
about 5 feet tall, wore a size three
shoe and was as dainty as a Dres
den figurine. Today 36 per cent of
the femae population is between
5 ft. 4 in. and 5 ft. 10 in.—and at
age. 18 the average shoe size is
seven. By the year 2000, experts
figure that the ratio should have
crept up to a height of between 5
ft_ 10 in. and 6 ft. 2 in. and shoes
will look like violin cases.
Today’s modest little giantesses
do not know their own strength.
But any year now they should,
and just wait unti they do, says
beauty expert Ann Delafield, who
explains:
"Nature seems bent on produc
ing a new race of Amazons. With
in the next 10 years you'll find the
emancipated woman engaging ac
tively in such sports as fooball,
baseball and soccer. She'll think
nothing of chopping the wood and
acting as family car mechanic."
Miss Delafield has found that
the shoulders of girls in her beau
ty success school are two to three
inches wider than their mothers’,
their gloves are several sizes larg
er than Mom’s, and many a gal
stoops down to kiss her teen age
boy friend. Says Miss Delafield:
"Goodness knows what will hap
pen if they continue to soak up
vitamins and sunshine and just
keep sprouting. Girls from the
sunshine states. California, Texas
and New Mexico can dwarf the
girls from the Northeast."
That’s one thing our future
Paula Bunyons must guard against
—the danger of the sun. The aver
age girl bakes her face and just
develops a large patch of wrinkles
—three months in the sun can age
her three years, says Miss Dela
field, and at this rate in the year
2,000, young girls will look older
and wrinkled, she believes. Sun
shine should be absorbed gradual
ly, measured out more by the tea
spoon than the tablespoon, she
says.
Apparently, women are going to
be hard to distinguish from their
brothers according to hairdressed
Victor Vito who says:
"By the yw 2OQ0. women will
be weftring completely masculine
hair styles. They will be doing %
man's work, in many instances, so
it will be a question of wearing a
recrular boy's bob for most of their
activities."
Victor believes that the boyish
bob will bring the wearing of wigs
into great prominence. His "crys
tal ball’’ says women will have
wigs in every color in many dif
ferent hairstyles to wear at home,
for parties, and for particular oc
casions ... or perhaps to distin
guish them from their brothers
and husbands.
Her hairdo in general for every
day work and play will be cut like
a man’s, with the possibility of a
few straight bangs across the
front, says Victor, who adds:
"At this point I wouldn't even
guess what men will look like,"
The odds against a poker
player getting a straight flush
before the draw are 64,973 to 1.
Odds against a pair are one and
one-quarter to 1.
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Monday, January 16. 1950
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Tuesday. January 17, 1950
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Wednesday, January 18, 1950
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NATIVE BROTHERHOOD
DANCE MUCHLY ENJOYED
Saturday night the Arctic Na
tive Brotherhood held another of
I its increasingly popular dances at
their clubhouse on Fifth Ave.
.
Music for the dance was furn
ished by Walt Miller on the fiddle,
Cpl. Tucker and H. Jorgenson on
guitars. Joe Amarok had charge of
• the snack bar.
A good crowd enjoyed the eve
ning and the Club members voted
the entire proceeds to be donated
to the Nome School to be used to
swell the fund to send the boys of
the basketball team to Anchorage
as contestants in the All-Alaska
meet usually held there in Febru
ary. i
Petersburg faces
Water Shortage
PETERSBURG, Alaska, UP) —
Like New Yorkers, the residents
of this Southeastern Alaska fish
ing town are worried about their
water supply.
Some housewives drew tubs of
water Saturday in preparation for
an anticipated drought. Others
frantically washed everything in
their homes and cast a dishearten
ed eye at the snow drifts, they
might soon have to melt for drink
ing water.
All this is occurring 100 miles
from Ketchikan, where 202 inches
of rainfall set a new record in
1949.
Petersburg’s reservoir was be
low normal when the first freez
ing weather hit three weeks ago.
Kenneth Welde, superintendent of
public works, reported Friday
there was only a puddle behind
the dam. No water is coming in
during the freeze.
City officials expressed concern
over the danger if fire should
break out in the town. Salt water
was piped in to cool the city’s die
sel power generators.
The city council is pushing a re
quest through the General Serv
ices Administration in Juneau for
planning funds to complete blue
prints for a new water storage
dam. They hope to get it next
summer. The town had a dry spell
last year, too.
,rir<* Destroys
Third Of Ruby
RUBY, Alaska, UP)—A $150,000
fire destroyed a third of the Yu
kon River town of Ruby, 250 miles
east of Fairbanks Thursday night.
Origin of the fire was undeter
mined. Exploding oil drums spread
the flames as the barrel-tops blew
high into the air.
No one was injured, altnough
the entire portion of the Village
west of the river was leveled. -
The fire was believed to have
originated in a machine shop own
ed by Stanley Nichols, United
States Marshal at Fairbanks, who
is a former Ruby trader.
The flames ignited 200 barrels
of gasoline and oil, spread to the
Northern Commercial Co., ware
house, the Standard Oil ware
house and the Nichols Trading
Post. All burned to the ground.
Nichols now vacationing in the
States, said his trading post was
unoccupied.
The fire was discovered by Sam
and Tommy White, bush pilots
who were staying overnight on
their mail run. They said they
threw three chemical fire bombs
into the burning machine shop,
but the heat was too great to make
the chemicals effective.
A Cessna aircraft of undisclos
ed ownership was destroyed.
A favorable wind, blowing
toward the river, was credited
I with saving the rest of the town.
Use the
Newspaper
Not so long ago, a circular was sent out to store
managers by a large chain which operates retail
stores all over the United States, We were inter
ested, naturally, in the subject matter discussed
with the store managers and believe our readers
will be, too, and so, we print it, in part, below:
“(1) Do you want to be certain of reader inter
est? Then use the newspapers. Many a circular re
ceives only a glance, while the local newspaper,
with hundreds of general news items, is read thor
oughly from first to last page.
“(2) l)o you want representation in the same
‘shopping window' the other merchants of your
town use? Then use the local newspaper. Women,
the purchasing agents of the home, read newspaper
advertising daily, whereas many a circular is tossed
into the waste basket without a glance.
“(3) Do you want fast action? Then use the
newspaper. The ad that you run today, if it con
tains real merchandise news, will bring immediate
results tomorrow. You can receive and sell out a
consignment of merchandise with newspaper ad
vertising in less time than it takes to prepare a cir
cular.
‘‘(4) Do you want to be recognized as a fatcor of
importance in your community—a real hometown
store? If you do, use the newspaper—it undoubted
ly is a strong factor in the building of good will and
acceptance by the whole town of your store as a
good place to trade.”
The Nome Nugget