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i 1 11 FT Parade asmon-1 HiBorts on Wnomen ln fr CST I Jfl zl 1 MOVIES AMUSEMENTS Part 2 Page 3 Tuesday, March II, 1958 Babies Differ in How and When They Talk BY MARCIA WINN rflHE ONLY FLAW in his- I jewel, the doting grand--- father said of his first grandchild, is that she is 18 months old and won't say a for more. In fact, they beg and coax for more, but baby usually has had it. He seems to, sit back and gloat Actually, he is gathering his forces. What seems to be a period of stagnation really is a plateau on which he word except O. She talks i sant-ly," he said, but it's all in nonsense You and Your Child i A 5 -SS? i syllables." Practicing phonetics," some one quipped.

Seriously," he persisted, when does a normal child talk? Don't you think her normal? Doesn't she under- stand?" "Normal!" he ex-' ploded. She's brilliant! She understands everything that's said to her. She just doesn't say anything back." Babies vary so tremendously in when, how, artd why they talk that no age can be considered -normal. Many children- who are physically and mentally sound are slow to' talk because they have no need to talk; everything is done for them, their needs, wants, and desires anticipated. Others are slow because of heredity; the mother or father was a slow starter.

Some babble as fluently as radio announcers by the time they are a year old. I once saw a little boy not even 2 years old who had only to hear a song once to be able to sing back every word of every verse. I also know a little girl almost 3 who rarely said a word except Hein." Hein meant yes." A year later she had, and used, an astounding vocabulary. Exciting as a baby's first real sentence is, it usually comes after- a long period when the baby understands a great deal but says little. Then He Speaks Up For six months he may say nothing but mama or dad-da or good-by or O.

KT Then he may flash out with extraordinary fluency. He Short Chemises Star in Annual Show BY MARYLOU LUTHER WITH EMPHASIS on the leg-leg-leg, French fashions are short-short-short. This is the style capsule presented Chicagoans yesterday at Marshall Field Company's spring import show. Commentated by Mrs. Kathleen Catlin, the store's fashion director who bought the 52-garment collection, the fashion extravaganza transformed the Sheraton-Blackstone hotel into a typical Parisian street.

With a for trapeze I Constance Bannister Photo 'Will you be so kind as to hand me the unabridged dictionary?" stands alone while he assimilates the learning he already has. This done, he goes on to another peak. Plateau in All Fields The plateau takes place in all fields of learning. Parents see it, but don't know what it is, when a child stands alone but won't take an independent step for weeks; when he climbs a trellis but won't come down; when he thrashes about in a swimming knows how to stroke, kick, and breathe under water, but won't let go of the rope; when he mounts his bicycle confidently as long as an adult holds it upright but' "falls off the minute the adult hand is removed. Then suddenly one day the child who would never walk begins to run, the child who would never take his feet off the bottom of the pool swims alone, and the child who could never balance on his bike sails forth, confident and unafraid and skilled.

This is equally true in speaking. Plateaus in mountain ranges are where one catches one's wind. They occupy the same role in human growth. may even say, Will you be so kind as to hand me the unabridged dictionary? Parents are as joyous about that first sentence as about the first teeth or the first step, tell every one about it, and wait eagerly backdrop; short skirted dresses were paraded amidst smock garbed street cleaners the Parisians credited -with inspiring this season's mobile, flaring chemise. Christian Dior's successor, Yves St.

Laurent, was the in absentia star. Clothes by this 22 year old designer, France's daring young man on the flying trapeze," are the pace setters most likely to influence American apparel. The Chemise Stars Not the sack, not the shift, but the newly-cropped, ly widened chemise takes many forms at the hands of St. Laurent. As a loose, princess like silhouette that pays no attention to the waist, it.

is a smock-frock called "la blouse" in trapezoid language, a triangle minus its apex. As a two piece suit, "or dress-jacket combination, it is a smaller trapeze superimposed on a larger one. Under the loose jacket, the tarlatan-shaped skirts are Front4ews Profiles By LUCY KEY MILLER Golden Rule His favorite game has turned out to be more than French fashions shown yesterday at the spring import show of Marshall Field Company at the Sheraton-Blackstone hotel: 1. Givenchy's balloon chemise' billows from shoulder yoke, front and back, is caught low with drawstring detailing to achieve tunic effect. 2.

Balenciaga hints at a high waist line in this tapered coat with important collar. 3. The triple trapeze by Yves St. Laurent of Dior: Waist skipping flared jacket is posed over a panty waist camisole that in turn is worn over a box pleated skirt. 4.

wo hats by Givenchy illustrate the importance of high crowns: brimmed silhouette is fashioned completely of black netting; towering pillbox of white organdy trails two full-blown windsocks. 5. A summary of the news at hristian Dior is contained in this short late-day dress by Yves St. Laurent with its shaped bosom, concave midriff, trapeze slope, and full-blown back. 6.

Cardin's favorite silhouette shown here in soft pink, is shaped like a sickle with back-blown drapery and concave diaphragm. 1 Ai V. Oi im.r a recreation qr a Golden, vice president of 'the Nedlog company. This university political science a u-ate won a either hung on their own high under-bodices never from a restricting waist-band or attached to camisole visites that just touch the body. Shoulders are uniformly narrow.

Diaphragms are almost always concave. Endless Variations To point up the infinite variations of the newly-shaped, silhouette, the Marshall Field collection includes billowing chemises, bowed chemises, balloon chemises, blouson chemises, spiraled chemises, bias-cut chemises, yoke chemises, and long-torso chemises. Pierre Cardin, another young designer whose fashion fortunes catapulted this season, is the -leading spokesman for "the bowed chemise. His serpe sickle line with its arched-back "blade" and long-legged handle," represents the backward motion of the current collections. "An old-timer, Balenciaga, heads the long-torso chemise camp.

His suits may be belted low, or marked high, but the jackets most frequently are as long as the Hubert de Givenchy marks the bust line in his high belted suits with broad shoulders. Tho belted just below the bosom, these short waisted chemise suits they're called chemise because the waist line is still free are not cinched. The belts are more for decoration than shape. Dress Like a Suit The one-piece dress that looks like a suit is sponsored by Gres. Her chemised-back, shaped-front costumes feature free, loose backs, cut like boleros, and gently sketched one piece fronts.

For Guy Laroche, it's the baby look a sentiment shared by St. Laurent for Dior. Unlike the Dior smock with its concave diaphragm, however, La-roche's- is a more evasive silhouette exemplified in a. checked coat with fullness gathered all around into young, easy lines. The Grant Golden Women's Emotions Mixed in New Styles train from Geneva to Zurich, when she left it in their compartment while lunching in the diner.

"Don't worry," said her husband. Nothing will happen to it. We're in Switzerland, remember. The Swiss never steal." Returning to "the compartment, they found an camera case. Upon their arrival in Zurich, the Ellises sadly reported their The Swiss officials, chagrined, shook their heads.

"No Swiss took that," they insisted. And Found Six months later, Mrs. Ellis received a telephone call from E. H. Bovay, chancellor of the Swiss consulate general in Chicago.

His cellency the consul general, Mr. Schneider, wants me to tell you that we have found your camera," said he. The thief, an Italian, is in jail. The camera is being returned to you from Switzerland." Mrs. Ellfs has her camera, and an unbounded faith in the honesty and efficiency of the Swiss.

BY ELEANOR PAGE (Picture on preceding page) I rose petals. Mrs. William F. Borland wore a white straw hotel, one of several gatherings arranged for M. Alphand rilHERE WERE mixed emo- I tions on the part of those bachelor buttons on some of the tables and in the hats worn by Mrs.

Herbert P. L. McLaughlin and Mrs. George S. Isham.

beret. The wide brimmed hat while he is in Chicago this week. A collection of modern fashion show with Marshall Field Company as host at a Mrs. Virginia Doering Part French tapestries loaned by ridge, here from Charlottesville, watched the show Mr. and Mrs.

Gilles Abrioux will form a continental setting luncheon yesterday in the Mayfair room of the Sheraton-Blackstone hotel. Models were with her' sister. Mrs. Am- for the wine tasting party, greeted with demonstrations The tapestries are reproduc brogio Cassmerio. Wine Tasting ranging from stony silence to tions of the works of a number Adding an international of young Paris artists.

Tonight, the ambassador will dine in the Fortnightly at a touch to the luncheon was the presence of Mme. Jean Beliard and Mrs. Robert W. Mason, wives, respectively, of the dinner arranged by the Laird i 1 -I 1 Bells. Pittman-Bowes French and British consul generals.

M. Beliard and Francois Gavoty, French commercial outright giggles with generous bursts of applause between times. And many a woman departed with a gleam in her eye, determined to give her wardrobe a critical once-over, and; perhaps, take the chemise plunge. "I'm here to see how I should be looking," said Mrs. Nevins Kirk, who will be wanting to look her best tomorrow night, when, as president of Big Ten crown in college and is, at 28, a ranking tennis player.

He believes that international participation in the sport, is' a truly effective means of "selling" the American way of life to the rest of the world, and promoting a better understanding between countries. Currently, Golden is playing his way thru invitational tournaments in South America. Other tours have taken him thru the near east, Central America, and Europe and he taught tennis to youngsters in Korea, Japan and Okinawa during two years of army, service. He learned the game from his father, and the" two have won many a match as a doubles team. Honor Roll There is a Shirley booth in the Pump room of the Ambassador East hotel, with a neat gold plaque on the wall to proclaim that Shirley Booth sat there after winning the 1957 Sarah Sid-dons award.

Lost Last summer Mr. and Mrs. R. Winfield Ellis toured Switzerland, where Mrs. Ellis rapturously photographed everything in sight with a stereo realist camera from which she was never parted until the day, on the Mr.

and Mrs. Jerome Bowes Jr. of Winnetka an arid nounce the marriage Feb. 24 of their daughter, Courtney Al1? monique Mrs. William F.

Borland atop Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank's head" resembled a cabbage rose. If hats didn't boast of flowers, then they were made Curtis, and Joseph C. Pittman, son of the Charles E. Pittmans of Bartlesville, Okla.

Mr. Pitt- the woman's board of the Al man and his bride are study of veiling. Three versions of black veiling scattered with ing voice at the Chicago Con liance Francaise, she acts as hostess at a dinner and dance for the French ambassador to seivatory of Music. blackbirds or. butterflies Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Hellyer waist line is high in were worn by Mrs. Maurice the United States, Herve Alp- II Jeanne Vidal of North back, low in front. hand. P.

Geraghty, Mrs. Bruce Thorne and Mrs. John A. brook, 'became the parents of their first child, a daughter, Many Flowered Hats LASHINGS of lavender, patches of puce and masses of ma-gent a on these three solid color foundations Milliner Jean Fosse has launched some of the most successful 1925 chapeaux worn with the current shower of chemise styles. His brow beating bonnets and tea cosy toques, pouring from the unfashion-ale 5 rue Nocard workrooms towards the most fashionable addresses in town, are accompanied by Fosse's own sack series of gowns.

Prosser. A row of tiny brown velvet Ann Brus, March 6, in Evans ton hospital. bows were attached to veil The mimosa hats worn by Mrs. Hughston M. McBain and Mrs.

E. Hall Taylor added bright yellow notes to the sea ing atop Mrs. Robert-A. Gard ner head. White feather Mr.

and Mrs. Timothy Read Ives Adnenne Osborne of Bloomington," are parents of Mme. Jean Beliard of flower chapeaux in the audi We used to do things for posterity, but now we do things for ourselves and leave the bill for posterity. NUGGETS birds ornamented Mrs. Wesley M.

Dixon's headveil. There were lots of blue ac counselor, will be hosts at a their second daughter, Sandra ilhcv.ette from ence. Mrs. Byron Harvey's extravagantly draped beret was made of hundreds of white Trapeze Dior. wine tasting party this after Read, born Feb.

15 in Bloom ington. noon in the Ambassador East cents, too, notably in the.