TKe Battalion - s: - College Stc PAGE 6 tion (Brazos County), Texas Tuesday, November 6, 1956 Jewelry Design Goes 6 A tom ie 9 The nation’s jewelry designers are catching' up with the atomic age. Winners of the recent Diamonds U.S.A. awards exhibited modern istic tendencies employing motifs suggesting neutrons, protons and electrons arranged in decorative effects. Fifteen jewelry designer’s from all sections of the United States received citations this year for original and effective designs in diamonds, gold, platinum and other precious ingredients. The winning pieces ranged from necklaces, and bracelets to rings and earrings, and covered a price range from below $500 to six figures. Among women award winners was Marianne Ostier of New York, whose prize entry was a pair of earrings in diamonds and pearls shaped like crescent moons to fit both the top and bottom of the ear. A winning watch design called “Saturnalia” hid the time mechan ism within a miniature Earth of blue enamel seas, platinum con tinents and diamond equator. Officers’ Wives Enjoy Luncheon, Fashion Show Members of the Officers’ Wives Club entertained many twin-city and out-of-town guests with a style show and luncheon Thursday at Mgggie Parker’s Dining Hall. Members of the club acted as models for the variety of lovely casual and semi-formal frocks and accessories presented by the Col legiate Shop. Narrator, as well as a charming model, was Mrs. Frank Walker, who expertly described the cos tumes shown using clever refer ences to the forthcoming election. Mrs. Robert Smith, pianist, ac companied the descriptions with appropriate music, and Mrs. Jack Mowery, modeling a striking vel vet dress, offered three vocal se lections. Other models were the Mes- dames V. M. McConnell, Henry Dittman, Harry Ellis, Donald Swi- gert, John Redman, Delmer An derson, Doug Slingerland, Jack Palmer, Donald Sakanick, Edward Scott, Edwai’d Erickson, and Wil liam Lewis. Members of the style show com mittee were the Mesdames Dave Philips, Charles Jeffries, V. M. McConnell, Chailes Taylor, Wil liam Henson and Raymond Deng- ler. The door prize and table decora tions were made and donated by Mrs. Elizabeth Franks, a hostess for the occasion. Also serving as hostesses were Mrs. H. R. Matson, Mrs. Kenneth Edwards and Mrs. Henry Pate. Social Whirl Newcomers Club has planned a bridge party for 2 p.m. Wednes day at the home of Mrs. Joe Davis, 410 Throckmorton, College Sta tion. There will be separate tables for beginning players. 'k A game party to benefit the scholarship fund will be sponsored by the Brazos County A&M Moth ers Club at 2 p.m. Thursday in the recreation hall of the A&M Pres byterian Church. Those wishing reservations should call Mrs. Bar- low Irvin, VI 6-5370, or Mrs. I. M. Atkins, VI 6-6660. ★ Civil Engineering Wives Club will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the south solarium of the YMCA. R. L. Elkins will speak on “How to Be a Good Professional Man’s Wife.” Friday’s column erroneous ly stated that this was to be a meeting of the Chemical Engineer ing Wives Club, which will not meet this week. Women Take Over Blacksmith Shops POTTER, Neb., OS’) — Black- smithing is a woman’s business in this western Nebraska wheat coun try town. Mrs. Doreen Harmsen, a 51-year- old grandmother, is busy at the anvil and hearth of one of the town’s two shops. The other is run by Mrs. Lola Nelson, though she leaves the shpp work to others. Mrs. Harmsen was pressed into service in her husband’s shop when help was short during the war. When he died in 1952, she took over. She has a man to help her with the heaviest work. They keep the smith busy in these parts. 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She looked at me in great sur prise. “Why, I suppose so,” she said finally, “but why do you ask?” “If you • are a good cook, of ">urse Tom can have french fries.” There is a great superstition bout fried foods. Many people : eem to think there is some spe- ial evil in the frying pan. This is mostly superstition now adays, but like many beliefs, it has an historical basis in fact. A generation or more ago the custom in many households was to keep a can of drippings on the back of the coal stove. A ladleful of drippings was put in the fry ing pan whenever a food needed to be fried. No wonder the food so cooked