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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-
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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. ■.
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mothers’ dresses or wait years aj
they have achieved at least iL Fr . k -
deb status to wear long ^ rooklyn; ag .
anymore. P
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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
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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.
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