The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 15, 1953, Page 7

Thursday, January 15, 1953 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 7 OUTSTANDING in n the Key West High ‘School ‘Junior class aie is Patsy Byrd who plays the part of Celeste, an octaroon maid from Martinique. Celeste is given to seances foretelling the future, and she sets a spooky note throughout the entire per- formance of “Drums of Death.” The play will begin in the High School auditorium Friday entation will be giveri Saturday night. . at 8 p. m., and a second pres- African Natives Demand Hundreds Of Different Designs, Qualities Of Cloth By Louis C. D. JOOS LEOPOLDVILLE, Belgian Congo (#—Just any old yard goods doesn’t satisfy the women of the Belgian Congo. It takes several hundred different designs and qualities of cloth to meet the African natives’ demands. The only thing that never varies is the type of dress. Congo women wear a large blouse with a low neckline. They play almost scien- tifically with it to bare one or the other shoulder. This blouse is tucked into a piece of the same cloth which is wrapped around the hips and ‘draped there, A third piece of cloth is finally tied around the torso to carry parcels or a baby. If nothing is to be carried, the cloth is draped around the head.| ‘The Congo ladies concentrate on the color or design of the otherwise unchanging pattern of the dress, British and Dutch manufacturers have long been specialists in pro- ducing the right designs and col- ors. It occurred to two young Greek traders, A. and B. Papadimitrious, that they might specialize in selling cotton cloth on an exclusive basis, if only they could spot what the native womenfolk wanted. Today Papadimitrious and Company is the biggest shop of the kind in Leopoldville. It was not easy to reach its pres- ent position. Nothing is so erratic as a forecast on exactly what Congo women want. There are a number of classics like indigo colored pieces, originally made in Nigeria, which show curious white designs, produced merely by mak- ing strong knots in the cloth be- fore dyeing. But if classic designs have a steady sale, they will never be enough to establish a fashion shop's reputation. The firm therefore went over to ‘buy exclusives; that means that a | given pattern bought in England ‘or Holland may not be sold by any other merchant in the Belgian | Congo. As a counterpart to this | privilege, the producer generally asks for a very high order. And here lies the hitch: to know wheth Vital Questions To Come Before State Councils OCALA (®—Question of repeal of Florida’s homestead exemption amendment and consolidation of | the University of Florida and Flor- ida State University will come be- fore the Florida Legislative Coun- cil and State Reference Bureau Jan. 24-25. ; State Sen. Wallace E, Sturgis, council chairman, said that the | meeting would be held at Horse- shoe Lake near Citra. The two matters were discussed Dec, 31 by a council sub-commit- jtee in Miami. The sub group, headed by Rep. Roy Surles, Lakeland, emphasized the committee did not make any recommendations but simply re- ported on the possibility of amend- ing the homestead law to allow homes under $5,000 to be taxed for school purposes only. The change could be made only jon approval of Florida voters. The full council must consider |the questions before reporting to |the 1953 Legislature. In any merger of the two uni- versities, branches would be at Gainesville and Tallahassee but they would be under a common directorship, Also up for consideration would be a subcommittee discussion of repeal of a law creating a medi- cal school at the University of Florida. Among the Tuaregs, a tribe of the Sahara Desert, upper class men go veiled day and night but the women are not veiled. 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