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Regenstreich-Segal
The engagement of Toby Joy
Regenstreich, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. M. Regenstreich of Youngs-
town, Ohio, to Ensign Jerome S.
Segal, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Segal of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was
announced on Jan. 18.
Miss Regenstreich is a senior in
the School of Dental Hygiene. She
is a member of Senior Board and
Dental Student Council, president
of the Dental Hygiene Class and
senior advisor to Hillel Council.
Ensign Segal is a 1952 graduate
of the University. He was a mem-
ber of Sigma Alpha Mu and is now
in the U. S. Naval Reserve serv-
ing in Hawaii.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
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Macol m-Leydorf
Justice and Mrs. George A. Mal-
colm of Hollywood, Calif., re-
cently announced the engagement
of their daughter, Mary, to Fred
L. Leydorf, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Loftin H. Leydorf of Toledo.
Miss Malcolm is a junior in the
literary college. She is affiliated
with Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
Mr. Leydorf is a senior in the
School of Business Administra-
tion. He is a member of Phi Delta
Theta.
Wedding plans have been set for
March 28.
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Average Budgets' Survey Shows High Prices
Influence Spending, Saving Habits of Workers

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By MARY JANE MILLS
With employment a word fore-
most in the minds of the majority
of graduating Senior women,
topics of conversations among
coeds are often on the subject of
jobs.
A worry that many women will
have to face who are going to at-
tempt to stake out a career in
the business world is the problem
of the high cost of living.
* * *
FIGURES PUBLISHED during
the last three years by seven state
governments show that it may cost
an employed women twice as much
money to support herself now as
it did in the late 1930's, according
to a report by the Institute of Life
Insurance.
Part of this increase has come
about through changes in the
nation'shstandard of living, but
most of it as a result of today's
higher taxes and higher prices
for food, clothing and housing.
Seven states show living costs
for women revised to take into ac-
count today's prices and the
changes which have taken place
in standards of living and in diet
standards.
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ALL SHOW much higher costs
than similiar surveys published
before the war, an indication of
how deep a bite today's prices are
taking from the pay-check of the
woman who must support herself
and in many cases contribute to
the support of others.
These states have set up stan-

tritioinal standards of the Amer-
ican career woman are reflected.
In the 1951 New York State
women's budget, for example,
there are no longer silk stock-
ings, but nylons; there are three
coats in the closet instead of two.
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GONE ENTIRELY are smocks
and there are fewer dresses includ-
ed for the dress has been replaced
by the suit which was not even
included in the 1938 budget.
Ever more numerous are the
changes which have been intro-
duced in food allotments. In
general, the woman in today's
New York State budget eats
more and better than she did in
1938.
Milk has increased in the budget
from 182 to 260 quarts a year, eggs
from 17 to 26 cozen, lean meat,
fish and poultry from 78 to 124
pounds.
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SAVINGS and life insurance
have also been moved upwards in
the New York State budget.
These savings now amount to some
13 percent of the total budget,
around $230 for savings and $75
for insurance.
Food takes 18 percent of the
working woman's income, hous-
ing and household expenses 18
percent, clothing 16 percent,
taxes 14 percent and 21 percent
is allotted for miscellaneous.
The Institute of Life Insurance
report states that the listing by
the states are all designed to be
average budgets and that none of
them are ideal ones which an in-
dividual woman would be able to
follow.-
Women with lower incomes could'
not follow them, claims the report
and women with equal or higher
incomes would inevitably find
their own spending patterns de-
veloping according to their own
living situations, tastes and needs.

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Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Kalmar
of Ferndale, Michigan recently an- MARY MALCOLM
nounced the engagement of their
daughter, Sue, to Gordon Duvall, S
son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Du- Silhouettes of Des
vali of Arlington, Virginia. Show 'Matchstick,
Miss Kalmar is a junior at the ieWiyaSchsamcko
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Dr. Duvall is a graduate of
Michigan State College, where he
was a member of Sigma Phi Ep-
silon. He is now in the Army.
Wedding date is uncertain.
Horton-Hicks
The engagement of Frances
Horton, daughter of Mr. and Mr$.
Howard Horton of Battle Creek,
to William K. Hicks, son of Mr.
and Mrs. William B. Hicks of Port
Huron, was announced recently.
Miss Morton is a junior in the
literary college.
Mr. Hicks received a degree in
chemistry in 1950. He is now a
junior in Medical School.
The wedding date is set for
June 13.
Birthstones
Coming into being as an effici-
ent way of carrying a personal
seal, rings today are used orna-
mentally and, as gifts, signify
warm affection. The most com-
mon ring is the birthstone ring,
the stone of which has come to
mean good fortune. The stone for
the month of March signifies cour-
age and may either be the aqua-
marine which is favored by the
women, while the blodstone is es-
pecially popular in men's rings
and cuff links.

N~ew silnouettes willbe seen room" contour. This silhouette dard budgets for women workers
this spring as New York fashion features the wide rounded shoul- with average spending plans al-
designers display their latest col- der, brought out by the addition lowing a woman to live health-
Aft ',of a cape or bolero. fully, "adequately" and to save
Afternoon dresses will take on The "clarinet" silhouette is the for emergencies and old age.
a "matchstick"-slim look. This must for evening dresses. A full
style is brought out by clinging ruffle flaring at the knees offa Prices are worker out for the
fabrics, the nipped-in waistline, black or navy taffeta is the pre- items on these sample budgets and
and a soft neckline accented by requisite of this look. the totals are then published for
a bow or scarf of a contrasting Topping all this newness will be the information of minimum wage
color. fur jackets, stoles, capelets, shawls boards, of state government
The "bell" silhouette will be and boleros. The latest word in agencies and others.
much in evidence as spring and furs is "cut it short." Designers * * *
summer favorites. Dresses with taper it, fringe it, mould it or IN 1938 FIGURES from such
full skirts will be belled out by wrap. it, but they make it short. budgets ranged from $925 to $1,-
the addition of one, two, or per- Large pink roses on the brim of 200 whereas today they ranged
haps three crinolines. a picture hat, dark pink silken from about $2,000 to $2,500.
Dark cottons and taffetas, and petals on a shell bonnet, yellow
silk surahs all will be seen with roses dangling rrom a yellow straw In comparing listings on the
this added elegance. calot or cabbage roses on black budgets in allotments for food
Coat dresses and dress ensem- straw will take their place in this and clothing the new buying
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