From the Marriage and the Family course, here are the results of two dating surveys. Sherron Boyer, Joyce Gibbons, Phyllis Ross, Mildred Simpson and William Stewart questioned 136 representative students. Georgine Clausen, Marian Dawson, Barbara Silleto and William Winlock surveyed 300 students.

Antique furniture touched with modern accents, plus imagination and hard work-that's the combination Barbara and Ed Dreschler used to make their half of a duplex-a 20 by 20 foot room-into a comfortable college home at 3210 West street, Ames. They squeeze in work while Ed, a chemistry major, attends classes at Iowa State and Barbara, a '45 textiles and clothing graduate at Iowa State, designs draperies for a Cedar Rapids firm, in her home.

Frigid February date nights require warmth and luxurious beauty in the same dress. Emogene Olson has found the solution in a dress of felted black wool jersey. Its basic qualities, embodied in a modified turtle neck, smooth shoulders and elbow-length sleeves are combined with a skirt gathered to a set-in belt. The dress is buttoned down the back with covered black buttons.

How Is Your Date-Rating?, Ethel Mae Hendrickson, page 2

Home Economics Looks Ahead, Ruth Hackett, page 3

Ingenuity Keynotes Their Home, Barbara Parsons, page 4

“Fourth for Bridge?” – Say Yes, Margaret Rutherford, page 5

Teach Men Homemaking, Agnes Wells, page 6

Vicky Greets The Social Season, Joan Ahern, page 7

What’s New, June Welch, page 8

’47 Graduates Speak, Muriel Collier, page 11

Here’s an Idea, page 12

Where to Start Your Bookshelf, Margaret McKee, page 14

Keeping Up with Today, Nancy Johnson, page 16

You can enjoy bridge and you don't have to be a shark. Maybe you don't play because you aren't? Maybe you don't play?