Page Four.
THE 5ALEMITE
Nov. 3, 1944.
Fortune Teller
Reveals All
The owner and proprietor of the
West Knd Beauty Parlor on Burke
Street is a unique character. That’s
what Booty and Peggy found out
after their excursion there Monday
afternoon.
The two girls had unsolved ques
tions in their love lives, mailbox
worries, and numerous other pro
blems about which they wished to
be enlightened. There was only one
person who could provide the sdlu-
tions—Ifadame Mabel. So they
trekked out to the block beyond the
Toddle House, turned to the left
at Burke Street, walked past four
or five buildings, and entered the
West End Beauty Parlor. They cross
ed the black, white, and red linol
eum-covered floor, and nervously sat
down upon the wicker sofa on the
right side of the room.
At this point Booty and Peg be
gan to wonder what was beyond
the beaver board partition that held
a large sign proving this to be a
“firade A Beauty Shop.” They did
not wonder long. Before they had
found the match that they were
looking for to light their Luckies,
the phone rang and an obese brown
figure in a white cosmetologist’s
uniform came into the waiting room,
picked up the receiver and said,
“Yas’m this is Mabel.”
The conversation continued.
“Does you want me to wear my
costume ?”
“Yas’m, it’s plenty warm!”
“Yas’m, I’ll be glad to come
to dat party. You folHs down dair at
the Silver Service Bur-ro is my
friends.”
“Yas’m. Yas’m. Y'as’m. No’m.
No’m. Well goo’ bye.”
The receiver clicked and Mabel
faced the girls.
“Would you-all like to talk to
me?”
“Y-Yess,” the adventurers stam
mered simultaneously.
Booty went behind the partition,
first, while Peggy sat and observed
the room whose floor now held the
last remains of her fingernails. She
saw the tinted picture of a colored
soldier on the table by the window.
She was puzzling over a framed
picture of the 1916 class of The
Renouard Training School for Em-
balmers which contained about
eleven white faces and one black
one, (She later found that the
latter face belonged to Gene, Mabel’s
Harvard-graduate husband, a form
er employee of Vogler’s.) when
Booty ru.'ihed back exclaiming ex-
huberantly, “I told her not to tell
me anything but the good things,
and she did. just that! I’m going on
two trips very aoon, and I’m gonna
get an extra-special letter. Not only
that but—a very wealthy boy at
home is secretly in love witii me. Be
fore long I’ll hear from him.”
Peggy could stand this no long
er. She jumped up from the couch,
dashed past the chairs where custo
mers have their hair shampooed and
set, past the dryers, the shelves of
shampoo, rinse, and nail polish, and
burst into a little nook where Mabel
sat in seance. Now for the solutions
—the welcomed words of reassur
ance.
Mabel took Peggy’s hand and
held it in her own enormous brown
one. (Through the vibrations she
is able to judge the person and
“see” into her life.) Looking
straight into Peggy’s wondering
eyes, Mabel’s beady black ones
read, “You are nervous at times and
worry very often.” (This she told
Booty also. She evidently realized
that they were Salem freshmen.)
“Are you in lovet”
“Well ye-es, uh, uh, and no-ooo.”
(Cont. on page six)
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Shown above are Helen Kobbins, Teau Council, and Mary Lon Stack, ofiEicers of the Pierrettes.
Her Heart Is Still Young And Gm
Emily Kimbrough declares that
she always strives to be a real
mother to her twins, A and B whose
names are really Alis and Margaret.
The occasion was Parents Day at
.their high school, and she left
her writing long enough to go. To
her amazement when she arrived the
twins said, “We didn’t know YOU
were coming. You won’t make a
speech, will you?” She tssured the
girls that she was “just visiting.”
A insisted that she visit B’s classes,
but she compromised by visiting all
their classes. The next morning Miss
Kimbrough came down with the
mumps. ‘ ‘ The whole school was
quarantined for weeks, and all be
cause I exhibited my maternal in
stinct. I decided I was never going
to take any interest in my children’s
lives again!”
Along with her many funny
stories, she offers sound advice to
young writers. She says, “I believe
in a thorough foundation in the
classics, and as much Latin as you
can take. I started out doing ad
vertising. This job taught me how
to write on all subjects and in all
different kinds of styles. It was
very good experience. In fact, I
think modern advertising is the
best aproach to becoming a writer,
although sometimes I wish I had
never learned to write or read!”
Beginning with a hearty laugh, she
told about the first assignment she
had while working for Marshall
Field’s fashion magazine. Her boss
told her to write a page advertis-
ment of corsets, which were then
called “restraining garments.” She
wrote the page, but couldn’t think
of a title for it. Being a Latin
major at Bryn Mawr College, the
famous line from Virgil, “Even
these things may at one time be
pleasing to remember,” came to her
mind. She wrote this line in Latin
at the top of the advertisement.
The boss only reply was, “You
tell her that when I want a caption
written in Yiddish, I’ll let her
know!”
On November 14 her latest book,
How Dear To My Heart, will be
released to the public. In this book
she makes fun of herself and her
childhood. The setting is in her
hometown, Muncie, Indiana. She
said she was not going to publish
the book she wrote about her twins,
because “it is not fair to them. I
am enough of an embarq,ssment to
them as it is!” When she is writing
a book, she spends ten hours a day
at it. In Chicago, after a lecture,
she autographed 700 copies of her
book. She said the only thing that
kept her going was the bookseller
on her left who continously said,
“Keep on,fMiss Kimbrough, no one
can return an autographed book!”
The motion picture ■ of “Our
Hearts Are Young and Gay” is
showing in New York now. Thepe
will be a Big Opening in Philadel
phia on November 9 at which Diana
Lynn (as Emily) and Gale TTussell
(as Cornelia) will appear in per
son. Between her movie and her
new book. Miss Kimbrough found
time to give a lecture tour. She
wrote an article, “My Heart’s in
My Mouth,” for the July, 1944, issue
of the Atlantic Monthly concerning
this tour which was indeed full of
adventures.
At the Salem Academy tea for
Miss Kimbrough Tuesday afternoon,
she refused to eat anything, be
cause “I have recently gained 12
pounds!” She is indeed a very charm
ing person with more than the aver
age share of personality and indi
viduality. She wore a black crepe
dress with mink furs. Her hat was
a ma^s of curled, black ostrich
feathers, wide, black satin ribbon,
and black net. As she talked, she
made many gestures with her hands
and laughed much more freely than
she did on the stage Tuesday night.
(To give away a secret of hers, she
is mot the straight-faced person
she appears to be on the lecture
platfoj-m. Informally she practical
ly rocks with contagious laughter.)
Her home is on Avon Road in
Ha,verford, Pa., and there lives
her husband, John Wrench, whom
she married in 1926.
Column
The report for the World Stu
dent Service Pund at Salem College
is as follows:
Goal—$500.00
Pledged—$458.45 *
Collected—$167.75
Girls, Christmas is coming soon
and that means Christmas shopp
ing. Don’t you think it wise to
plan a place in your allowance for
your W. S. S. F. pledge early this
month? Remember, the limit is
December first!
Below are some news briefs sent
to us by the World Student Ser
vice Fund:
Studqnts in Canadian universi
ties — both English-speaking and
P’rench-speaking have given $15,000
for the war relief of their fellow-
students of other countries. This
represents a great deal more per
capita than the giving of Ameri
can students.
A single quinine tablet in China
costs $2.00, reports the -W. S. S. P.
In one university center in China,
20 per cent of the students are
active or incipient tuberculosis
cases.
There are more students in col
leges and universities in New York
City than in all the colleges and
universities in China.
Scientific studies are the most
popular of any in the “universities
of captivity” in prison camps. One
camp offers 170 hours of courses a
week.
$1.00 a month will provide soy
-bean milk for a Chinese student
with tuberculosis, says the W. S.
S. F.
$8.00 will enable a refugee stu
dent in Switzerland to leave a re
fugee camp and study for a month
in a university, reports the W. S.
S. P.
The World Student Service Fund
has a goal of $500,000 for world
student relief in 1944-45.
Lablings Elect
Viera President
Tlie Lablings, the new science
club, was organized Wednesday
night, November 1. Mary Jane Viera
was elected president; Nancy Jane
Helsabeek was elected vice-president
and chairman of the program com
mittee; and Teau Council was elect
ed secretary and treasurer.
This club has been organized to
activate an interest in scientific
subjects among the students at
Salem College, and to bring to the
campus some of the leading scien
tists of the day. Membership is
limited to those girls who have had
or are taking two years of science,
or who are taking the first year
and are planning to take a second
course.
RAY W. GOODRICH
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317 W. 4th St. — Dial 7994
SALEMITES
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THIRTY-TWO YEARS
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RADIO SERVICE
24-Hr., Beasonable Service
858 W. 4th St. Phone 2-1290
VOGLER SERVICE
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Dependable for More Than 85 Years
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