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DAVID KIDD, designer for Arthur Jablow, offered this coachman coat over a white dress today as the New York Couture Group opened its semi-annual press preview. (AP Wirephoto) The Whole Family Adopts | Women's Outlandish Fashions By JEAN SPRAIN WILSON NEW YORK (AP)--Women's fashions often start out as a laughing matter and wind up with the whole family taking them seriously, and wearing them, too. The evidence to support this theory was presented Monday by pretty girls, handsome men, and children who tripped across the stepping stones in the lily pond of a famous restaurant wearing a variety of such fash- ions. In the audience were more than 250 fashion writers here for the New York Couture Group's fall style previews. Take those zany patterned stockings for women, which men hooted at last year. This year the Argyles are even gaudier. But men are not laughing. They are wearing the same kinds of socks with their golf knickers--yes, men are wearing knickers again. The same leg art in diminutive size is for the small fry. SNICKERED AT FIRST Take the Andre Courrege look. Paris did, after snickering at the Frenchman who made baby doll clothes--boots, bon- ANN LANDERS Blonde Bomber Has Feminine Streak Dear Ann Landers: You said in a column recently that a mother who streaked her 16- year-old son's hair with perox- ide was off her rocket. I think maybe you are off your rocker, Granny. I am a boy, 17, and it so happens that I streak my own hair and it looks great. My hair used to be a lifeless, dull brown. Now, girls who never knew I existed come over to me and tell me they think my hair looks terrific. In fact, a couple of the girls call me the "Blonde Bomber." From the picture of you in the paper I would like to suggest that you do something with your hair, It looks terrible.-- Former Reader Dear Former: So the girls call you the "Blonde Bomber." What do the boys call you? If you want to put your hair up in curlers it's all right with me, Bub, and it may even at- tract more attention than the streaks. Dear Ann Landers: We have five children who are normal, healthy and well behaved, thanks to the firm handling of my husband and my own be- lief that parents need not take any sass or nonsense. | Sunday we were visiting in the home of my _ husband's brother and his wife. They have three boys who do as they please. There isn't one piece of furniture in their home that isn't broken. The floors are scratched because the kids slide in their golf shoes. Holes have} been punched in the wall by the! kids on their tricycles. | The seven-year-old asked my husband if he could take his shoes off and walk in them. My husband said no. The boy asked, "Why not?" My husband re- plied, "Because my shoes are not. toys." The youngster then said, "If you don't let me I'll sock you." My husband said, "You'd better not." The boy struck my husband in the back KIDS WHEEL AND DEAL EDMONTON (CP) -- Opera-| tion Wheeler Dealer, a country- wide Red Cross drive to buy wheelchairs, was a success here -when five junior Red Cross or- ganizations raised more than $600. The aim is to provide wheelchairs to allow hospital patients to return home for vis- its. Otherwise 'those who can- not afford to rent wheelchairs are forced to stay in hospital,"|: Elaine Krause, Alberta says with his fist and ran to his father. My husband got up and gave the child a hard swat on the rear. The boy's father was furious. He shouted, "You have no right to strike my son. If you want to beat your own kids that's your business, but our children are not accustomed to violence." An argument followed and we left on strained terms. May I have your opinion? Frankly, I have mixed emotions, Please direct your remarks to my hus- band. Thank you.--Q. T. Dear Q. T.: I have only two words for your husband. Heart- jest congratulations. Dear Ann Landers: I am con- cerned about our grandson. My daughter says it is just a "phase." I'm not so sure. Please tell me what you think about a 15-year-old boy who has a deep-seated fear of germs. Frank washes his hands for at least 15 minutes before each meal. He scrubs up like a sur- geon, then uses an antiseptic solution. The boy refuses to carry out the garbage for his mother because he is afraid of being contaminated, He will not shake hands. when introduced unless he is forced by someone who grabs his hand. | can't tell you the hours he wastes wash- ing things that don't need to be washed, He refuses to use the telephone until he has wiped the mouthpiece with an antiseptic solution. My daughter says Frank is just overly clean. I say it's more complicated. Please state your views.--Concerned Grand- mother Dear Grandmother: My views would probably not carry any more weight than your views So here are the views of three psychiatrists: The boy's preoccupation with cleanliness is out of proportion to reality. He is sick and needs professional help. WIFE PRESERVER Use the vacuum cleaner hose to clean the inside of boots be- fore storing for the summer. PESIGNER HANNAH Troy offered this magenta silk satin feathered costume as an entry in the semi- annual press preview of .the New York Couture group, It appeared at the Internation- al Silk Association showing at New York's Hotel Pierre. (AP Wirephoto) nets, and high-waisted, high-|These are giving U.S. couture hem dresses--for grown-up la- dies. The American woman has bought it~even as lingerie. Those bold-black stripes on his short - welt - seamed white dresses from the winter collec- tion criss-crossed white petti- coats in the same fashion at Monday's show. Another model wore a striped suspender jumper. All peered through Courrege - style opaque sun- glasses -- exaggerated to the size of saucers. Then the babies walked cau- tiously across the stepping stones in mite-sized versions of the courrege baby doll dresses for big girls. Later, preceding his fall col- lection preview, Larry Didrich politely scolded women who aid and abet the popularity of the so-called hard chic designs. a bad name, he said. Then he showed his audience the quiet, ladylike styles made for his fashion house by Marie McCarthy. There were princess slim dresses and skimmers skinny with bolero jackets; softly rounded suits with dirndl skirts; turtle-necked costumes with V-neck jackets; exotic Jap- anese dinner gowns with ka- buki-cut sleeves and high cum- merbunds; semi-modest cock- tail dresses with high fronts and no backs to the waist; and skinny evening reefers in white matelasse with real diamond buttons. Also on Larry Aldrich's side were the Branell and Nat Kap- lan fashion houses, There, fall collections. were classic, pretty, CHILD GUIDANCE pointed out that, whereas his Child's Speech Problem Can Be Helped At Home By GARRY C. MYERS, PhD {dren easily understand your sonjchildren, Now and then in this column,|despite his indistinct speech. So I have discussed the child whojhe probably does not feel occa- the othe: doesn't speak plainly. I havelsion to speak more distinctly.|hov '< no if he often were However, stopped in his speech anl cor- rected he might grow very self- conscious, Dad might occasion-|trying to find ways each of you) PLAN FAMILY CODE ally help this boy; while they|could help him kindly, You) BERLIN (CP) -- The East are companionable out door 8,|would all consider ways to win|German government is THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesdey, July 14, 1965 19 i : f | ly and playmates may eas- understand him and think h g of the matter before he enters school, his teacher and schoolmates will incline to treat him as much younger than he is, This treatment will make' him self-conscious of his speech and cause him to feel shy and 'uncomfortable. So you can see that it is very important that this child should be helped to speak more dis- tinctly before he enters school. FAMILY HELPS Any kind and patient parent, brother or sister might easily find ways to help this child con- siderably. Should they fail to see any improve ment after some weeks or months, a speech expert should be con- sulted, The child's hearing should, of course, be tested. If he does not hear sounds distinctly, he could not so easily make them. In this case he should be in the care of an ear specialist. But in most cases it is not a matter of a hearing defect. The youngster has just not hit on good ways of sounding words distinctly. Perhaps the child re- ported in the following letter from Ontario, is of this type: A FARM FAMILY "We are a small farm family --children eight, six, five and three. Our problem is with the only boy, five years old. His speech is slow. He does not pro- nounce 'S', 'F'. or many blends and slurs 'R.' "He says: 'Where may cap?' ('Where is my cap?'); 'It wn upstairs.' ('It was upstairs.'); 'Hilo' (silo). Fred attempts all words and does lots of 'talking' and both parents give him at- tention when he is talking to us. He is read to a great deal and 'reads' the pictures back to, me. ADVICE AIDS "We have found your advice on child - rearing most helpful and very adaptable to our everyday living. I have found your chair-sitting type of cor- rection 100 per cent effective and I have always been im- pressed by your teaching of tolerance and cooperation among all groups of people. Having definite chores for each child is a recommendation. of yours that we follow also." 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