Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1963)
Page 6 College Station, Texas Thursday, October 3, 1963 THE BATTALION Lightship Basket Handbag Is Woman's Status Symbol Woman’s World By VIVIAN BROWN AP Newsfeatures Writer NANTUCKET UP)_The status symbol of this noted whaling island is a lady’s handbag. The lightship basket bag is known as Nantucket mink by hus bands. Made of cane with a hand- carved ivory motif, it must be ordered a year ahead and costs more than $100. Jose Reyes is a Filipino who has taught English and earned a master’s degree at Harvard. He put a lid on the famous lightship basket made since whaling days, turning it into a pocketbook. Reyes sits in a bamboo-walled shop adjacent to his home, sur rounded by baskets, bags, split- cane and tools, and ladies pleading for earlier deliveries. "Sometimes a man orders one, because his wife refuses to go to the yacht club or somewhere with out a basket,” Reyes says. He is always sympathetic but nothing can be done unless someone neg lects to pick up an order. That seldom happens. He has made 4800 of the baskets in 15‘ years. Some women collect them. The current rage is for a smaller, cocktail or tea-size oval handbag. Reyes’ wife marks the basket bottoms and polishes them. Local artisan Nancy Chase makes the delicate carvings—sea gulls, birds, sea horses, whales—for the basket tops. She has carved polo bears for Alaskan customers, and is cur rently at work on a giraffe for an African visitor. The idea for the basket bag occurred to Reyes when he visited his mother-in-law in 1947. He loved the island and wanted to settle. Yet despite his impressive college degrees and military back ground, he was unable to find a teaching job. Having learned weaving as a boy from his Methodist minister father, he made some basket bags on old molds; oval, round, and in differ ent sizes. When his family began to have a difficult time making ends meet, he put some of his baskets on a table in front of his home. The crowds gathered with money in hand. Lightship baskets were origi nally made by the coopers who made whale barrels. Later men who operated the lightships made them to help while away the lonely hours at sea. Fifty years ago the Navy halted this practice, however, because the materials were a fire hazard. Because The Battalion wishes to be of service to the women of College Station we will set aside one page of our newspaper each Thrusday for stories and pic tures that we hope will be of in terest to the women of our univer sity community. However, in order for this to be a your page, it will be necessary for you to keep us informed re garding the activities of your clubs. The Battalion encourages wives clubs, sororities, civic groups or any other organization to calj The Battalion office at VI 6-6618 and keep us up to date with your activities so that we can plan to publicize them ahead of time. Child's Toy Maker Stark By Making Coats For Do in Russia is a hard cover volume of 245 pages published in 1959 explaining in detail and illus trating step-by-step how to make clothes for men, women and child ren. It also outlines what acces sories should be worn, how to set the hair, etc. By JOY MILLER UP) Women’s Editor Mrs. Marjorie Moyer has stacks of pleading letters from gift shops lying unanswered at her home in Tully, N. Y. She started 15 years ago making dolls and cloth toys for her three children. Since then Moyer toys have become works of art collected by adults. But Mrs. Moyer says: “I make them for youngsters. I wish I could give them away to all the children who need them. As it is, I prefer to place them personally, to give them in the right places. That’s why those gift shop letters don’t get an swered.” Mrs. John Ezzo of Canastota, N. Y., mother of five children needed extra cash. After talk ing with her mother, who runs a pet shop in Albany, she started making coats for dogs. Now Ezzo- WINN'S HARVEST VALUES COFFEE MAXWELL HOUSE PEACHES Libby TIDE All Grinds Yellow Cling Sliced or Halves Giant Size 65‘ CATSUP 21/2 Size Libbys 20-Oz. Size . 59 4:$|oo 4 s $ 1 00 • • PRODUCE TOKAY GRAPES POTATOES WHITE CELERY AVOCADOS CUCUMBERS • • 10 Lb. Bag Lb 10 29 e Stalk 10 C 2 for 29 C Lb. 10 C 14 Qt. Plastic DISH PAN 69c Northern Jumbo TOWELS 4 Pot $1.00 Skyway Peanut BUTTER 3 L L99c Popular Brands BREAD 2 ^ 49c Popular Brands MILK - FROZEN FOOD - FISH STICKS .tl 3%°:; $1.00 DEVILED CRAB 69c Rosedale French Fried ... 8 10 $1.00 POTATOES German, Banana, Cocoanut Colonial CAKE 89 c AQUA NET HAIR SPRAY - DRUGS - SHAMPOO w “ dbur> ^:59c SHAMPOO Dandruff Rinse Away $1.00 LIBBYS FRUIT COCKTAIL 431.00 BARTLETT PEARS 4/$1.00 PINEAPPLE Cr " shed 4 $1.00 JUICE pi " 3 46 t r ta “$1.00 GARDEN PEAS 5 303 Fo c r $1.00 SAUSAGE Vienna 5/$| GOLDEN CORN 6 31.00 GREEN BEANS 5 30 Zr $1.00 CUT BEETS 7 303 F r 9 $1.00 SAUERKRAUT 7 nr $1.00 BLACKEYE PEAS 7 S0 L c r $1.00 CORNED BEEF ,„„49c ROAST BEEF 39c SPINACH 3oa 7/$| COUPON 100 FREE BIG BONUS STAMPS WITH THIS COUPON AND THE PUR CHASE OF $10.00 OR MORE. COUPON EXPIRES OCTOBER 5. FANCY Lb. BRAZOS VALLEY Whole FRYERS FRANKS H ° RMEL * STEAK round it SIRLOIN STEAK 75 e II T-BONE STEAK 25 55 39 79 Lb 98 c WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES. PRICES GOOD THRU SATURDAY OCTOBER 5. Winn's 'YOU CAN'T LOSE AT WINN'S' SUPER MARKET 3800 TEXAS AVENUE (FORMERLY MILLER’S) BRYAN, TEXAS Save 1 i S big § I BONUS 1 | STAMPS 1 clad dogs are among the most sartorially elegant canines. In Brooklyn Mrs. Mildred Abel’s husband was about to re tire and she wanted to do some thing to bring in extra income. What was this grandmother’s so lution ? Making high fashions col ored terry aprons has developed into a good business. These are only three of the many New York women who have made a success of homegrown busi ness. Mrs. Moyer, a small, dark haired woman with a gentle smile, says: “If you find an idea that’s new and different and has some thing of yourself in it, I don t know what is is, but people will knock at your door.” Mrs. Moyer’s particular mouse trap — handcrafter, imaginative character animals and dolls — stems from her years of art train ing. She’s a talented painter and sculptor and exhibits often. But so many of the enterprising entre- preneuses the New York State Women’s Program brags about have had no particular training for their business. “We don’t take credit for their success,” says Guin Hall, deputy commissioner of the state’s De- First Lady Given Oxygen During Flight ATHENS, Greece 'A 1 )—Jacque line Kennedy needed a whiff of oxygen Wednesday on the last leg of a jet liner trip that brought her to Athens for a 15-day vaca tion in Greece. Weary, the American First Lady asked for the oxygen and received it from a small, portable tank while the plane was cruising at 29,000 feet. Nevertheless, she was smiling broadly at she stepped from the plane ramp at Athens Airport, kissed her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill, and greeted waiting of ficials and friends. Only a short time before the landing, Mrs. Kennedy had retired to her special berth in the first- class section of the Trans World Airlines liner for the oxygen treat ment. The purser warned other pas sengers to extinguish cigarettes. Oxygen is an inflammable gas. A stewardess who gave Mrs. Kennedy the small tank said the First Lady herself explained she was very tired. Actually, only a small amount was used, the stew ardess said. immons, 6-1 VMS T/ partment of Commerce ari of the Woman’s Program. “Their own determinate ent and imagination have it. But the free counseling ice provided by the p:; whether it came at the ning or at some interim when expansion or new ing methods were needs probably saved needless ture as well as providing ini tion that made progress ear “Sometimes what we gj just the encouragement tt tinue when things seem bktt At the recent New York Exposition at Syracuse a ;• Woman’s Program booth just how effective the unk- sonal business counseling hasi Here are some of the' makers displayed: Men’s neckwear designed New York City woman ,vL the idea from making hot I from dress fabrics for hei| band. Pillows with sport subjetti Luxury fabric boutique. such as check book coven, [8S starting ring and cigarette cases,: 6 ai ’- Coach mother of two pre-school cii liard to Ceramics. Decorated cutting boards, Handwoven hangings: | grasses and pods. Spaghetti sauces, developed a “secret” home recipe. Chocolate lace candies. NEW YORK < Wooden serving trays r.i broke a j serts of plastic layered over* of dried leaves and flowers.! 1 / j Alice in Wonderland pupptJ^ ers anim \ dolls by the mother of three* 0ai , rUri j 1 children and wife of a uk* e aes ay . mbled the N< professor. ■. Bin the open ■Id Series. Floor Length ^oufax struci K-y Bright, th For Adults, Dorn ^ the nmt ■ strikeout of Kids don’t need to swipe* World ger mothers’ dresses or wait years aj they have achieved at least iL Fr . k - deb status to wear long ^ rooklyn; ag . anymore. P When Mrs. John F. K# 6 ex P/ted , lers fell ap ig when a h way to the pre-school cnmlf 0 * 111 ^° se ' 3 ° I floor length skirt steadily r* a back from young adult, to[ S , es g to pre-teen, until now Cf.: . n ee !’ ea . ts and took a counterparts are in them, f For the at-home bid er: Los Angeles i ing at a mud-pie barbecue anpinst Ford or floral-printed muumuus, inning a it is a birthday cake and fruit* tails occasion brocades and4 are in order. The floor sweeping idea extends to pants with culottes in velvet, and I satin-sashed jump suits. Ko started the long dress trer-l started one that reached il ■ ■I courses.... ugh register... rush stand... wait shuffle... go... twitch... fidget ...yawn... stop move... nearer nearer... filled ...pause things gO better.i .with Coke ON Typing face o trace— lookin at the You light, i Onior sheet boxes. Corras A Berl eatop eat< T/ie traok-mark* Bottled under the authority of Bryan Coca . Cola BoUUng Co . The Coca-Cola Company by: