Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 129, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1904 — Page 29

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1904. Miss "Wong, AH Mae, Chinese Physician, - Will Visit Dr. Marie Haslep Soon Nathan Morris House, on Southside, Already Accomplishing' Much Good V

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She Will Also Spend Some Time in St. Louis -with the Family of Wong Kai Hah... Earned the Money to Hdvicate Herself.. .A Brilliant Chinese Woman

Ml XEkTAXAPOLIS wems to be establishing a little Oriental corner all it3 own. and the latest addition who indeed has not yet been added la Miss Wong Ah i!Ae, who will come some time thU month to visit Dr. Marie Haslep. Later, Miss "Wong will go to St. Louis with Mr. Wong 2Cai ICah and family, and will spend part of the summer with them there. Miss Wong Is not related to the Indianapolis Wongs, but 13 an Intimate friend of that family and, like them, comes from Shanghai. She is at present studying medicine In Toronto and will eonae here at the close of her examinations. Dr. Haslep, who practiced for eight years In China, and with whom Miss Wong worked for almost the entire length of Dr. llaslep's stay, talks interestingly of her quondam assistant. Dr. Haslep had charge of hospitals In Shanghai and Wuchang during her stay In China, and Miss Wong worked with her In both places. No objection was made by her family to her taking up the study and the practice of medicine, as her people are of the advanced class of Chinese who approve of the progress of woman. I Jut in spite of their acceptance of Western standards, many of the Chinese conventions ore still observed, and one of these is in the matter of attendants on the street. Mis& Wong never went to make a call, whether personal or professional, unless the was attended either by her mother or a. maid. Miss Wong is unusual in that she I3 one of the very few and possibly the only Chinese woman who ever earned the money for her own education. During the years that she worked under Dr. Haslep fhe had an income which she saved and invested to such advantage that she found "herself, several years ago, in possession of several thousand dollars. It was her original intention to come to the United States to study, but she eventually chose Canada instead, for several reasons, among them the greater facility with which the Chinese may enter that country. She entered a Toronto university a year ago last November, and In the college ypar elapsing, between that time and last September she was so eoaipped in Iatin, mathematics and physics, all of which studies she had never undertaken before, as well as In the work of the hrt year in medicine, as to pass the entrance examination for the second year. The first year's study in medicine is rejrardd as the hardest in the course, embracing as it does the elementary portion the science. For the remainder of her course Miss Wong will have the advantage of the practical work that she had with Dr. Haslep in their years together in China. BRILLIANT INTELLECTS. The record is a brilliant one, but according to Dr. Haslep, Miss Wong is not unusual among the Chinese women in the brilliancy of her intellect; the fineness of rier intellectual fibre is, of course, unusual, but Chinese women are almost invariably bright and wonderfully quick. In spite of a strong impression to the contrary, the women of China are not retarded in their efforts toward intellectual advancement, and there is probably no country where

Stories Dealing' with Foibles of Women

I I who do not speak as they pass by. A I 4 U V. w.l- .. 4 xa iwcj iievi nave i-yj i a , u would perhaps make the matter clearer and more emphatic to eay that they never will speak as they las3 by. Mrs. Uptown is one of the women. 31 rs. Uptown is not in the innermost circles of the smart set, but sho is near enough to make those further on the outskirts aspire to her acquaintance. One who thus aspired was Mrs. Northslde. Somtf time ago Mrs. Northslde took a residence next door to that of Mrs. Uptown and she had fond hopes that the fact of their being next door neighbors might induce Mrs. Uptown to call on her, and be the means of bringing about an Intimacy that would place her In the inner circle in which Mrs. Uptown moves. Mrs. Uptown, however, exhibited no symptoms of calling and Mrs. Northside found her hopes of even the incipient stages of an Intimacy receding further and further away. She still clung, however, to hopes of what the summer and its incidents of out-of-door life on adjoining lawns and porches might bring forth, and she planned to have her luxurious lawn swing placed on the side nearest to-Mrs. Uptown's Uwtlling. One day early in the spring, Chloe, Mrs. Northside's black jewel of u cook, unexpectedly gave warning. "Ah's goin' to leave you all. Mis' No'thslde," she said, as pleasantly and as easily a3 though ahe thought black jewels of cooks were to ba dug up anywhere. "But Chlce," protested Mrs. Northslde, "where are you going and why are you going?" "Mis' Uptown she come ovah yistldy mahnhV, Mis' No'thslde. an' she say she hear Ah mighty good cook, and she wantin' a good cook pow'ful bad. She ask me how much Ah gittin and she say huccome so erooJ a cook ain glttin mo money dan dat. Sho say she pay me a dollah mo' a week." x "Well, I'll pay you a dollar and a half more a week, Chloe," said Mrs. Northside vrrathfully. "You just stay where you are. The idea of her trying to steal mv cook!" A week later ilr3. Uptown visited the Northside kitchen to find out why Chloe had not reported for duty that morning and when he found the state of affal.-s he promptly raised her bid and directed Chloe to give her mistress a second notice. Mrs. Northside. more wrathful than ever upon receipt of the notice, went Mrs. Uptown one better; but tho third act of the kitchen comedy proved to be too much for Mrs. Northside's household allowance and she was forced to see her black jewel removed to another setting. It waa some weeks later that Mrs. Northside had the opportunity of meeting Mrs. Uptown that she had been coveting ever since she moved Into the neighborhood. It was at a little afternoon party and one of the other guests in conversation with Mrs. Uptown happened to pause beside the chair where Mrs. Northside was seated. "Mrs. Northside, do you know Mrs." Uptown?" she said with the query that usually takes the place of a formal presentation in such. Cases. Mrs. Northside chose to regard the query as a question pure and simple, however. Her desire to meet Mrs. Uptown was not equal to her wrath and she was unable to resist the opportunity for revenge. She leaned back a little in her chair and her eyelids drooped with a fine assumption of indifference. "Mrs. Uptown," she repeated, reflectively "Mrs. Uptown. The name seems familiar, but I am sure I do not know her. Mrs Uptown oh yes, I remember now she is the lady who visits my cooks. I have heard them mention her, I think." A mystery envelops the doings of a young woman in one of the Indianapolis apartment houses on one rainy evening last spring-a mystery which will probably never be cleared up. The other women in the house did their best to solvo the mystery, but they failed and whoa the other women In the house give up a mystery it's a foregone conclusion that It is hopeless. The young woman lives in one of those big modern b'udins houses where one gets all the comforts of home with all the discomforts of all other places thrown in with n-j extra charge. One of these extras is the privilege of bing talked about by all the other women lnthe hous This is the way they tlid it in the case of tho one particular young woman. "Miss De Smythe is alwayn talking about the lovely times she has und how attentive the men are to her. But I declare I've never seen any men hovering around her acj where in this house. Sho says that she

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P tu 71 Miss Wontf Ah M ae in Native Dress attainment in mental attainments are more highly honored than in China. It has leen more than eight years since Ir. Haslep and Miss Wong parted in Shanghai, but during that time they have kept up a constant correspondence, and Miss Wong's letters breathe a warm affection for her American friend. "There is an impression that the Chinese are not g(od friends, but I have never met people who were more faithful to the ideals of friend-hip than are the Chinese," says Dr. Haslep. "They do not make friends easily, and they do not try to attract friendship; but once you have succeeded in winning their affection, there is no one 'who is.moie constant and steadfast in friendship than the Chinese man or woman." Miss Wong's letters to her friend are delightful, not merely from their personal interest, but in that they illustrate the ease with which a Chinese woman has taken up tjie English speech and handwriting. There is nothing qf the "pigeon-English." with which foreigners are sometimes credited in trying to express themselves in the unfamiliar language. Miss Wong has so far assimilated the KnKlish vernacular that she speaks and writes idiomatically, rather than with the usual painful preciion or incorrect constructions. "So you see," she writes, referring 'to a recent examination in which she made the second highest grade of her claes, "my luck has not gone back on me." Dr. Haslep recalls many interesting instances of their life together in China, one of the most entertaining of them an incident which illustrates the intense respect which the Chinese have for the teacher. During their stay in Wuchang Dr. Haslep became aware that the little ponds which were before each of the houses there were used indiscriminately for washing utensils, clothes and for making the tea which is one of the mainstays of life. Naturally the thought of Uinklng the tea thus made, which was proffered to them everywhere,- became something more has such a'dandy theater man and that he Just takes her to see everything that comes. But I asked Mrs. Johnson, who knows her better than anybody in the house they're i awfully good friends, aren't you, Mrs. John sonif she had ever seen her going out with the man or If she had ever mot one calling on her even, and she said that she had never seen even the shadow of a man hanging around Miss De Smythe. It's my opinion that her men are all glücke." "Well. I wouldn't breathe it to anybody but you, my dears, but I think the very same thing. Didn't she sow me the biggest bunch of violets only last Saturday evening and she said that they came from one of those dear men who were so sweet to her; and Mrs. Van Jones told me later that she saw Miss De Swythe with her own eyes In the flower market Saturday morning and she was positive that she bought 'tm herself." ; "Well that wouldn't surprise me the least bit. She did get three lovely valentines and several boxes of flowers on Valentine's day, but I just told Mrs. Robinson that I'd be willing to wager my new party coat that she bought 'em every one herself." Everybody else In the group had something to add to the circumstantial evidence that Miss De Smythe was a bcauless being and the party broke up later, agreeing that they had had a perfectly lovely time. The following night Miss De Smythe came down to dinner after all the rest were seated. "Oh. dear me, I didn't mean to be late." she said. "I'm in such a hurry, for I'm going to the theater, and I put off dressing till after dinner." The other ladies at the table exchanged significant looks. Misv I1 Smythe might have read suspicion if she had been an expert In the translation of elevated eyebrow signs. - Put she wasn't. "And I'm going to wear that lovely new gown of mine that Madame la Mode just sent home," she went on, comiding'y. "I do hope that dear man of mine comes in a carriage, for it's raining cats and dogs, and my frock will Just be ruined." Miss De Smythe disappeared immediately after dinner, but the other women clustered in the hall. "Well, you can do as you please," said Mrs. Johnson. Miss De Smythe's dear friend, "but I'm going to sit right here in the hall and see what really happens this once." Two or three of the women sat down in the hall. The rest went into the parlor, which commanded a view of the stairs, and after a time of waiting they were rewarded by the sight of Miss De Smythe sweeping down the stairs clad in the sweet newgown, a picture hat and a stunning party coat. She said nothing as she viewed the women clustered about until she had gone to the door and peered out. "Dear me. It's still raining," she said. "I do hope that man of mine brings a carriage." The women In the hall looked a little dubious. "She's so calm about it; I do believe maybe there is a man, after all," whispered one of the grotip. Miss De Smythe swept back past the cluster to the janitress'a room a little-way down the hall. It was only a few minutes later that the bell rang and an elderly man and woman asked for Miss De Smythe and were ushered into the parlor. The boy went to the room where Miss De Smythe was seated and Informed her of her callers. Miss De Smythe, however, remained seated. The elderly lady and gentleman occupied their chairs iu the parlor. Once Miss De Smythe came to the door of the janitress's room and peered into the parlor, where she saw all the members of the group and the elderly lady and gentleman. Then she went back and seated herself again. At 9 o'clock even the most persevering of the feminine Sherlock Holmes's of the boarding house was ready to strike her colors. The group ascended the stairs and melted away Into Its component parts, leaving Miss De Smythe in the janitress's room and the elderly gentleman and lady in the parlor. And to this day the other women are unaware as to whether Miss De Smythe really expected a man to take her to the theater, and the man was unexpectedly detained, or whether the elderly lady aral gentleman constituted Miss De Srnythe's theater man; or whether indeed Miss De Smythe really expected to go to the theater at all. And Miss De Smythe hasn't told. Sho is a very good little girl, otherwise she would never have thought of so shocking a thing. She goes to Sunday-school Just as often as Sunday comes 'round, and she always knows her catechism every word which goes to show how very good. Indeed, she Is. Also she drinks in all the knowledge that she can get about heavenly things, and she knows considerably more about the habits and the habitat of nngels and other celestial things than do her grown-up friends and relatives, who are too wise to know mny things. They took her out to one of the parks one day and she had a grand and glorious time. To ride on the switchback, to be swung in the swing, to sit right out of doors under the trees and eat Ice cream, to be taken rowing and a dozen other things, all had the bliss of

Dr. Haslep Says Westerners SHoild Not De Surprised at the Intellectual Qualifications of HighGlass Chinese "Women... Pictured in Native and American Dress than distasteful to her. But she hesitated to refuse the cups of the steaming beverage for fear of wounding the feelings of her hosts. At first she accepted the tea and merely sipped it; then it became impossible for her to do more than to touch the cup to her lips and then set it down untasted. She had in the beginning confided her distaste for the beverage to her friend and assistant. Miss Wong, and finally, after several weeks of martyrdom she appealed to her to know if there were no way that she could escape the cups of tea which were poured upon her without offending her hosts. "But do you not know," said Mis? Wong Ah Mae, "that in China it is far more polite to refuse anything proffered than it is to accept?" Dr. Haslep gasped. Here she had been doing her best to match the courtesy of her Chinese friends, even at the expense of her own peace of mind, all to.no purpose. "Did you think I wanted to be a martyr?" she mourned. "Why didn't you tell me before?" ADMITS OF NO CRITICISM. "Because you did not ask me," said Miss Wong, "and I could not criticise my teacher." That is the feeling that characterizes the Chinese attitude toward instructorsan absolute respect that admits of no criticism whatever.

Like all Chinese, Miss Wong is Imitative and adaptable to a marked degree, and Dr. Haslep says that it was almost impossible to distinguish the voice of her assistant from her own during their residence together. One reason for that is that in the Chinese language the same words pronounced in different ways means different things, and the tone values are necessarily of greater account to Chinese than they are to English ears. So In learning English words and phrases from a companion, the pupil unconsciously adopts the very tone In which the thing is said as well as the words, and reproduces to a remarkable extent the voice of his teacher. Since her arrival In America, Miss Wong has adopted the dress of the country, and in the first photograph which she sent to lr. Haslep, her Indianarolls friend noticed that the unaccustomed dress displayed an Incorrect carriage and standing position, and she suggested in her letters to Miss Wong that she should tiy to improve her carriage. Her latest photographs in American dress show her adaptabihtv in that regard as well as in others. Miss Wong will bring her native costumes to Indianapolis with her and will also take them to St. Louis, end will wear them on special occasions; but she will cling to her adopted dress most of the time, and she will probably be as satisfying a shirtwaist girl as her sisters of the Western hemisphere. Personally. Miss Wong is most attractive and interesting, and Indianapolis friends of her hostess will be delighted to meet a Chinese woman of so unusual a type unusual to them at least. If Miss Wong finishes her examinations in time, she will be in Indianapolis during the visit of Prince Pu Iain to this city: but much as she would like to be here for that event, which Is even more important to h?r than to Americans, she will not miss her examinations. At the close of her university course Miss Wong will return to Shanghai, where she will re-establish herself in private practice. hitherto unexplored joys to the eager little soul. But the climax of everything about the wonderful day came at night nfter darkness had settled down. A man was to walk across the river on a wire swung from side to side. The man was clad In spotless white and the calcium light thrown upon him made him a dazzling figure against the blackness of the river and sky. Mariana watch d the figure with solemn eyes. It was very wonderful to her. "Where did he come from?" she asked. Auntie, who sat next to her. tried to point out the wire fastened to the pole on the father side of the river. "He climbed up th pole and just came out on the wire," she ended. Mariana's eyes are not yet sure enough of vision to. see everything, and the explanation carried no conviction to her understanding. "Mamma, where did he come from?" she pleaded, turning. to the other side. - Mother was occupied In watching the man balancing himself above the dark water. "Oh, I guess he dropped down from the sky." she answered, carelessly. That was an explanation that Mariana could grasp. He dropped down from the sky. The sky was where the angels lived. And the man was very white and shining. Mariana's eyes grew big with awe and wonder. Her voice was freighted with reverential fear as she voiced her last question "Oh, mamma, is that God?" "If maidservants had to go through any kind of a religious service when they took a position I know what I'd do with my maid," said little Miss Youngwife to a sympathetic circle. "I'd make her promise to love, honor and obey me but she shouldn't be allowed to vow to do more than love and obey Charlie. "You see, she happens to, be a German girl, and as she has always served in German households she has hal impressed upon her that the man of the house is the all-important being. That's the way it is in German families, you know. Everybody kowtows to the man and he is looked after before anybody else is considered. "I have never been able to break Gretehen of her habit of serving Charlie first." ("Never she's been married just three months," whispered one of the sympathetic circle.) "But I stand it pretty well when we're alone I think pretty well of Charlie myself and I don't blame Gretehen for wanting to look after him well but it's awfully embarrassing when we have company to have Gretehen bring in the soup or the desert and dump Charlie's portion down rtrst of all, ignoring the guests ad me with tine disdain. "Well, one day laat week Charlie brought Mr. Plank home to lunch with him. You know how desperately grand and proper he is and I wouldn't have had anything go wrong for anything in the world he's such a pink of propriety. We had some soup left from the night before that was awfully good, so Gretehen and I agreed to have it for luncheon. I went out in the kitchen to warn Gretehen not to serve Charlie before she served Mr. Blank and to be careful about everything and then, as we really had a nice lunch, I sat down at the table In peace. In came Gretehen with the soup on a tray two dishes. She placed one before Mr. Blank, then, without even a glance at me. she sets the other at Charlie's .elbow and left the room. I was a little mortified, but I thought she would be back in a minute and it wouldn't make any difference. " 'Iet me give you my soup,' Mrs. Youngwife, said Mr. Blank with his grand airjust as if he were offering me a diamond tiara, you know. Charlie had already commenced to eat ho was so hungry, poor dear. " Oh no please keep it. Mr. Blank.' I said sweetly. 'Gretehen will be in in just a moment with mine.' Then I explained to him my troubles with her. That kept us occupied several minutes. At the end of that time Gretehen and my soup were still Invisible, Charlie's soup was pretty well gone and Mr. Blank's soup was cooling rapidly. I simply couldn't coax him to begin, and finally, in despair, I got up and trailed out to the kitchen. There sat Gretehen calmly awaiting my bell. " 'Gretehen, why don t you bring In my srvn ri I demanded. They ain't none for you,' responded Gret?hen cheerfully.- 'We only had enough left for them two dishes.' "Imagine my feelings. If I had no soup Mr. Blank would refuse to eat his, and I couldn't take his portion and let a guest go sounless. If there is one thing on earth that I can't bear it's hot water but I was desperate. So Gretehen and I fixed up a bowl of hot water, and she brought it In on a try, set it down at my place with as much ceremony as though it had been nice thick soup, and I ate that miserable tuff and mide a martyr of myself. Don't you girls ever get yourself mixed with the servant question." and Mrs. Youngwife sighed tho igh of the overexperienced.

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Miss "Wong Ah Mae in American Dress Indianapolis 'Women Have the Veil Fever is INDIANAPOLIS has the veil fever in an aggravated form, and the symptoms exhibited by the veiling departments of the shops indicate that there will be no abate ment of the malady for some time. Lovely woman Is wise enough to recognize that, no matter how charming she may be without her veil, she is almost invariably just a mite mere charming with it, and so the increasingly elaborate lengths of net and chiffon and lace keep their vogue with her. The chiffon veil is not so popular as it was during the winter when the hat which was und raped with a black chiffon veil mit;ht be regarded as a rara avis among the millinery tribe. The veils of omber chiffon, however, are etill good, though they are not seen with too great frequency, women wisely reserving the lengths of soft, brilliantly-colored chiffon for wear with their dress-up chapeaux, rather than with the little street hats an which they are sadly out of place. But Is is the net veil that has the place of honor just now, and most of the chiffon veilings have gone a considerable distance back and sat down, for the moment, at least. The pattern veils of net with chenille dots are the prevailing drapings for the hat, and the various arrangements and sizes of the dots seem to be of Infinite variety. There are veils covered with big chenille dots all of the same size and placed at regular Intervals; veils with up-and-down borders of dots of graduated sizes; veils with vandyked borders of the dots, the upper portion of the veil spotted with tiny dots arranged iu various patterns; veils covered from one edge to the other with dots, those at the uper edge as large as a pinhead. those at the lower edge as big as the end of a finger. Some of the veils are patterns, others come In the piece, and all are exceedingly reasouable in price. In colors, brown and navy blue lead the procession. The black veil Is always popular, and the white veil is always a standby, but both these are being treated with comparative neglect just now In favor of the blue and brown, which match so many of the new spring frocks. The lavender veilings, which were so much worn in the East last summer and so much talked about here, are shown In scattering numbers, and the black veils with dots of red or other contrasting colors are also among the filmy lengths shown at the veiling counters. The chiffon veil, however. Is expected to regain its popularity a little later in the year when milady goes a traveling and needs a faceeovering that will prove more of a protection against smoke and grime than the loosely woven meshes of net. The hoop veils and the veils cut in circular effect, both of which fit smoothly and easily about the hat brim and are fashioned from several yards. of chiffon, are or will be the smart thing for wear with the hat that goes exposltioning. Face veils were never so popular, say the clfrks in the veiling sections. The fine meshes iu black and white or the black and white mixtures are the most favored, and the plain Brussels nets, which wear so beautifully, are also popular. The small hats of the season are quite the most satisfactory things imaginable for the adjusting of the little face veils which must be close and trim to be effective. Thev have happily almost entirely done awav with the funny custom which, the wide-spreading street hats Imposed, of pining the veil over the face and hair and placing the hat on top of the completed whole, and one is now less frequently, at matinees and lectures, compelled to view the absent-minded lady who has removed her hat but has forgot her veil, and who sits with the rard of fancy meshed veiling drawn tightly over her nose and pompadour, the extra length wadded up into a little ball, confined to her scalp by a hairpin. In novelty veils there are some pretty things and some that could scarcelv he called pretty by the most casual observer. In the latter category are the painted veils, which have a good deal of the mournful aspect of the hand-painted "throws" of many years ago. Hig reses bloom on either end of the length of hemstitched white chiffou. but they do not appear to be particularly desirable blooms and the entire effect falls considerably shfrt of being smart, in spito of the wide vogue of painted dres. accessories for this summer. A newveil that is really very attractive, however, is the veil of white net with scattered dots worked here and there and an applied border of lace. The veil is shaped to fall deep over the face and the long scar-like ends are narrowed down until they may be brought around the face and caught beneath the chin with charming effect. Another scarf veil that is particularly pleasiug is the veil of black chantilly. The lace is delicate and the patterns are graceful and light, still the veil has a better effect draped up over the brim of the hat rather than falling over the face, and is usually arranged in the former manner. How Lfinf Are Made. When a popular camera was first under consideration, it became necessary to' secure a good lens at a popular price. This was possible only by the devising and making of special machinery and tools, and by buying the raw glass and manufacturing in large qtrantitles. Lens glass, as all the world knows, or will after this story is published, is made principally in Germany, France and England. Brought to the manufacturer In small slabs, it Is cut by revolving saws into the different sizes and then subjected to a series of grindlngs and pohshlngs that must eventually enable the tester to fit the lens over an absolute form of the shape and size required, so perfectly that a deviation of one two-millionth of an inch is instantly detected. The cement used for building up lenses from single lenses Is a preparation so delicate that it cannot alter this perfection. The making of lenses for photographic work has now. become an immense Industry, and in many cases the shutters are also made in conjunction. Highest skill Is employed to perfect this first requisite of the apparatus, but careful as these makers are to prove their work, the lenses are also always thoroughly tested by the camera experts. This does not mean that they are subjected to anything like the different tests the amateur will apply later on. but finish, focus and mount, and the focal scale Is tested by objects at the stated distances: the linder is brought Into alignment, and then the camera needs only the final touching up of rubbed spots to bo ready for the market. W. B. Ashley, iu Hay Outing. -

It Was Opened Last Fall and Given the Name of a Man Well-Beloved... A Social Settlement and Classes and. Clxibs Include Jewish Girls of all Ages

NE of ths interesting settlement houses of Indianapolis is the Nathan Morris IIous( established and supported by a number of the Jewish women of the city. The settlement occupies a suite of five rooms at 528 South Illinois street, simply but adequately furnished. It is the hope of the association which supports the house to build at some future time, but there are no definite plans as yet. The house was opened last fall, and Its name was given in memory of the man who was so beloved not only by -his own people, but by the whole city. The settlement Is, however, not entirely a memorial to Nathan Morris, for plans for its establishment were in hand for some time before his d-ath. The officers of the association are: Mrs. Henry Rauh, president; Miss Augusta Selig, vice president; Mrs. Harry Kahn, secretary; Mrs. Sylvan Kahn, treasurer, and Miss Delia Krauss, financial secretary.The membership includes many of the prominent Jewish women of Indianapolis. The house is purely a social settlement, and its classes and clubs include Jewish girjs of all ages from the children in the kindergarten to tho girls of eighteen and over who constitute the evening classes. The women who are interested in the house give much of their time to its work, and the classes are in charge of groups of members of the association. The first two rooms are used for the reception rooms, and a number of the classes are also held there. The rooms are pleasantly furnished, and in the front room especially there are attractive pictures and hangings. The American flag is much in evidence in the decoration of the room, and the large portrait of Mr. Morris, which occupies the place of honor, hangs over a draped fiag. The last room of the suite, which is light, pleasant and airj', is the kitchen, and the cooking classes are held here, A long table occupies the center of the room, and the little maids who are anxious to be initiated into the mysteries of good cooking work away there. The intervening rooms are used to keen the large supply of extra chairs and the various paraphernalia required by the different classes. SCHEDULE OF CLASSES. The week Is divided up into a schedule of classes, which is as rigidly adhered to as is the schedule of a school or college, and there are few hours i:i any day when there Is not a group of busy little girls bending over work of some kind or another In some part of the Nathan MonJ House. The house is open at all houis and whether there are classes or not visitors or members of the clubs and classes are free to come and go as they please. Monday evening a class In embroidery Is taught by Mrs. Schwartz and Miss Schwartz. The class includes a number of girls of twelve or fourteen years of age, whose deft fingers are learning to fashion all kinds of pretty fancy work. Tuesday afternoon a class In the plainer kinds of sewing is taught by a group of the younger women of the association. Including Mrs. Sylvan Kahn, Mrs. Harry Kahn, Mrs. Ira Helstein, Mrs. E. Leopold, Miss Augusta Selig, Miss Faullne Feibleman and Miss Irma Rosenthal. Each of the small seamstresses in the class has a box in which she keps her pieces of needlework, and the daintily set stitches and trimly finished articles are sources of much pride to their makers. The young women who teach the class are deeply interested In the progress of their pupils and to their enthusiasm Is due much of the progress of the small workers. The class meets after 4 o'clock, the members coming in from school to work for an hour or two. Tuesday and Thursday evening there are classes in dressmaking, sew-

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II me, ch my," sighed the Girl Who Observes. "Which would you rather have If you could choose a good reputation or a bad reputation?" O m 2J The Other Girl's eyebrows went up in shocked surprise. "Well the idea," she said primly. Now don't be a prig, Molly," said the Observant Girl. "Look at the thing in the calm light of unprejudiced judgment. Think what an easy thing a bad reputation is to live up to. No lylug awake nights to plan out a circumspect course of conduct; no fretting because you've done something that people may comment on. No indeedy. If you've got a real bad reputation you can just be carefree ando ahead and do any old thing and rest assured that your reputation will be kept up for you. You don't need to do wild things if you don't really want to: the most straightforward, innocent thing in the world will be construed into fome kind of a way that is dark or a trick that is vain; and if you do want to do the wild things it's Just the same, only that it doesn't tax the Ingenuity of other women to such an extent for an explanation. "Rut with a good reputation it's oh so awfully different. Now look at me." The Obesrvant Girl sighed wearily as she poured out her third cup of tea. "I am a Horrible Example of a good reputation, and I advise you to be warned in time. You see I have a reputation for being something like a near approach to an angel of mercy and light. I've got such a teader heart that when anybody I know falls 111 or anything I'll break my neck to carry her a sweet smile and a bunch of posies. I always think ' 'Sposing it was me. And that sends me scooting off no matter how tired I am or how many other duties I have waiting. And just because of that eternal readiness of mine to look up the sick list, my visits are looked on as matters of course, and nobody gives me the tlnest credit mark -for them. This afternoon, for instance, there were a dozen things I wanted to do. It was so perfectly lovely that I was wild to get out on the links; then I had a white silk shirtwaist most done and I could hardly keep my fingers off that; Dalsie telephoned me to ask me to go for a spin in her auto and there were lots of other things that just shrieked for me to come do them. But I turned my back ou all of 'em, took the car down to the florist's, and trotted off clear across town to see little Mary Jones who has been sick for months and months. I had missed my usual visit last week and I Just felt that I must go to-day. "Mary and her mother were both kind of cross with me and they made me feel that I had committed a crime in not coming last week. All my faithfulness in the weeks before weighed for nothing against that omission. But things were beginning to cheer up, when who should come bubbling In but Louise Iane. Now Louise knows Mary every bit as well as I do, but to my positive knowledge she hasn't been near her sine Mary has been sick until

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ing and millinery. Tne original class had so many members that it was necessary to divide it and hold it in two sections. The clafs is for the older girls and Is under the charge of practical dressmakers, assisted by some of the young" women of tho association. The girls Jn the class are those who already have some knowledge of sewing and the instruction assists them materially iu the making of their own garments. The still more difficult art of making hats Is also undertaken and some of the pretty pieces of millinery turned out by the girls in the class would do credit to the more experienced lingers of the professional milliner. The hats are made over frames, the pupils working out their own Ideas In combinations of braids and colors and the exquisite neatness with which the work is done is not the least part of the attractlve- . V- . ' Tho Late Nathan Morris ness of the completed chapeau. The classes are under the direction of Miss Erdelmeyer and Miss Kane, assisted by Miss Adallne Mayer. Miss Delia Krauss and Miss Caroline Kiser. COOKING CLASS Wednesday evening a cooking class for the older girls Is held and Sunday morning the younger girls get their chance at the kitchen tables and range. Mrs. Emma Eckhouse has charge of the, Sunday morning class and under her direction the embryo housewives concoct a variety of toothsome dishes. The Sunday morning class includes almost twenty girls and very trim and neat are the small cooks with their white aprons and caps, badges of their membership in the culinary department. Two of the most delightful classes in the weekly "curriculum" are the Fridaynight and the Saturday afternoon classes the recreation classes. There isn't much of the class atmosphere about the meetings, however rather they re recreation clubs, for the girl members have nothing to do except to have a good time. They dance, play at games, and do whatever their fancy prompts, and there are usually a number of the association women present to help further the gayety of the evening. The Friday night class includes the girls of fourteen or sixteen years of age, and the this afternoon. But in she came in a whirl, kissed Mary and cooed over her. tucked the bunch of flowers she had brought into Mary's hand and told about how good she was to come because she never went to see sick people at all. And Mary and her mother just glowed over her. I stayed till after Ijouise left Just out of curiosity well, she didn't stay long enough to hurt her anyway; explained that she had an engagement to drive and couldn't waste a minuteand the way Mary and Mrs. Jones went on about her after she was gone would have made you think that the Queen of Sheba at least had Just made a visitation. 'Wasn't it just too lovely of her to come,' breathed Mary with the uplift still in her face. "Just think, all the way out here to see me. It was the dearest thing. Vut her llowers'here where I can see them, mother, and let me have her card again. Oh. must you go, Cynthia? Well I'm sure I hope you'll fUid time to come to see me again. Mother, what did Louise say when you went down stairs with her I do hope you told her how lovely you thought It was for her to come.' And little me trudged off from the house wondering why, if Ijouise got gushed over for coming once in three or four months, I couldn't get a little word of praise for coming every week. . Rut I'll just venture that when Mary Jones gets well Khe'll g;o around telling- how lovely Louise was to her when she was ill and I'll not get even an honorable mention. You see. I'm merely living up to my reputation and so I don't get any credit." "But what did I do only last week. Didn't I go to lunch with Laura Lee one day you remember her? We used to say that we'd be sorry-for her husband if ever she got one, for she was so untidy and kind of shiftless about things. Well, her house looked real nice by comparison with what I expected. It was well dusted, but the furniture certainly did need polishing and the windows weren't too speckless still it looked pretty well. And her luncheon was unexpectedly good, too; she let-the potatoes scorch and her dessert had to be sweetenenl at the table still It was better than I thought it would be. And I said myself, 'Why she's a real nice housekeeper after all.' And then the very next day I went to Eugenia's for lunch and, of course, I expected everything to be perfection there In spite of the fact that Eugenia has too babies and no maid. Eugenia has been held up to' me as a pattern ever since I was so high; and snce she has been married and had a house of her own she has been regarded by all the mammas as a model young housekeeper. Windows and tables and chairs were all in a high state of pollshment, but my wicked heart sankwhen I saw dust on the mahogany center table In the library. Now I know that it's almost impossible to keep mahogany dustless unless you live and move and have your entire being with a, dustcloth In your hand but Just the same I turned up my Inward and spiritual nose at the sight of dust In the Immaculate One's house. And at luncheon the rolls were sad little things they didn't rise; anil Eugenia explained that she hadn't had such a thing happen before In the course of her housekeeping. Now I could make bread forty times in succession and never have it come out once, but I'd never blame myself nor would anyone else blame me. because my reputation as a cook anel housekeeper Is way below par; but when I saw Eugenia's misguided rolls I was Immediately imprevU that her whole house

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Saturday afternoon class has for its members the younger girls of the sewing nrd cooking class s. A gleo'chib, led by Mrs. Ihllip Efroymson. freiuntiy meets with the Friday night class. Plans are being arranged for a recreation claj-s for the pir's of eighteen or over on Sunday afternoons and th-re will probably be other classes added to thos now in progress as the possibilities of thai work in the settlement develop. The house' is in a measure self-supporting for all the members of the classes pay small dues. All the moraines of the week except Sat-i urday arid Munday tho Nathan Morris ' bouse is given up to the kindergarten class, which. whi!e it vices not come directly under the supervision of the asociation, is not tho least interesting part of ; the settlement work. The kindergarten is the one department of the bouse in which i the masculine clement is r presented, butj as the masculine element is not infrequently clad in petticoats and dresses, it it ot so great an Influence even there as might 1 be Imagined. The kindergarten membership Is limited to little Jewish children and though all the little faces do not exhibit the rar la 1 characteristics, there is a preponderance of curly locks and big, dark eyes that make' the iittl ? group decidedly a thing of beauty. It is doubtful if any of the fre kindergartens of the city can show a prettier lot of small pupils than is this little cluster of long-lashed, curly-headed tots. They are such a quick, alert little group, too. One morning last week they had a delightful walk under the budding trees to Greenlawn Park, where they romped on the Kras and hunted for dandelion Kold and if there was anything of Interest along the entire way that the big dark eyes missed, at least the teachers .didn't discover it. LOVES THE CHILDREN. The caretaker of the house, Mrs. Rappaport, is as Interested in the kindergarten as are the teachers themselves. "I have children of my own, so I love them," she says, as though her deep Interest needs an explanation. She stood In the door the other morning when the bevy of children with their teachers came in from the walk, many of the mites holding up their stubby-stemmed dandelion treasures for her to see. To the uninstructed eye there wert children enough in th group, but Mrs. Rappaport's eye is by no means uninstructed. "Where is Willie?" she asked in her soft voice, after a survey of the little circle. The teacher hesitated and looked about the room. "Why, where is he?" she said. "He was with us when we tstarteel, wasn't he?" "Willie, he run home." ventured a small, red-sweatercd boy from tho corner. Rut the observant caretaker was not through, yet. "Rut where is ldy?" she persisted. : Nobody knew about ldy. The teachers, were not wholly certain that ldy had ben; with them at the start; but "on suspicion"' somebody was sent to Idy's house, a fewi doors away, where it was discovered that the small curly head had run home, too, and she was coaxed into returning to kin--dergarten.. There is small danger of any of the kindergarten tots being lost or stolen so loner as Mrs. Ranratort keeus her

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There have not yet been many entertainments in the Nathan Morris House. Th members of the classes are fo many and so constant in their attendance that th rooms will not accommodate 'many guest in addition. A May party has been planned, for the members of the classes and clubs for next Thursday enlng, but this will, be given at the Boys') Club, which Is only a square or two away from the settlement house. A euchre has been arranged by th association; which will be given next Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at th Americus Club. keeping had been vaunted too high. Oh, well, I have to get some fun out of it too. "Now you poor thing I'm sorry for you and the Observant Girl ratted the hand of the Other' GirL "To have to live up to your reputation of beauty and rtyle. You are always preceded by hints of your charms, so people are always expecting you to be as wonderful to behold as a fairy princess. They don't reflect that, like other mortals there are days when you have to have a cold in your head and your eyes are swollen and your pretty nose is red; or that there are other days wr en you are Just too tired or too Indifferent to car whether the middle of the back of your skirt Jibes with the middle of the back of your waist or not. Now I might go down,' town with a pcarlet patch for my nose and: my skirt on front Fide backwards and nobody would know the difference because at my best I look like a Joblot anyway; but unless you are up to your reputation, every minute everybody says: WelI, 1 that the girl you think such a beauty or 'How Molly Browne is going off In her looks,' 'or stylish my dear, she hasn't any more distinction that a feather bolster That's what you get for having a reputa tion as a stunner. "About the saddest thing though Is when you get the reputation for being a churcli gor and a church worker. Once get that and .you may eome to werviee till you'r black in the face or work yourself so lit doing things for the church that you haven't any firiKers left but nobody will ever think you ve done more than your duty. Your servkes are taken for granted, and you get no more credit for giving them than the pulpit or reading desk receives for being In their places. You are regarded merely as a rjeee of church furniture. Hut let little Miss Frippery. who hardly ever comes to service she gos to many parties, and she's always so sleepy in the mornings let . her rustl into church late, of course and everybody sits up and takes notice; and after eervlce she gets all klnda of glad hands from the dear, purry eld ladies, the working sisters, the wardens and vestrymen who cluster lu the Uack of tha church to speed the parting puent. Even, dear old Dr. Sixthly leaves his most important parishioners to tell Miss Krippery how glad he Is to see her at churchwhile J. who have been brought up to go to service every time there Is service, ajnl consequently go rain or shine, com In for Just a careless good morning. And as for church work. There is one woman who I know never did a bit cr work for th church in her life; but the other afternoon, mother says, she came to the Dorca meeting and spent the whole afternoon starting to make a night gown. All she did had to be ripped out afterward, for even a little heathen couldn't sleep in that nightie but mother says the way that woman was gushed over for coming at all was enough to make the devoted members swear off regular attendance. "You mark my words. Molly darling. Just so long as you have a particularly good reputation in any one particular you will never get one bit of credit for doing or being that particular thing, no matter how back-breaking or heart-breaking it is. "But I'e got one comfort. I have troubles of my own. what with my reputation of ministering angel, and the other one that I've somehow had thrust upon me of leing bright. The pitying smiles that I I've hatl to bear from people who have heard that I was entertaining 1 ran read 'Well, for goodness sake, where did that girl get her reputation for brilliancy?' in every hair of their uplifted eyehrows. But in spite of that burden I've got my Comfort. There's one reputation that 1 don't have to lug around with me and live up to that's another girl's mournful duty, n-4 t-he's getting thin and wrinkled und grayhaired doing it." "And that is?" queried the other girl. "That, my dear, is the reputation of O rying her. well." -

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