Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1923 — Page 5
TUESDAY. MAY 15,1923
“Love Me, Love My Garden,” Seems Author’s Slogan in “Garden Whimseys”
By WALTER D. HICKMAN 4 4 I—>LOWER-LOVE"1 —>LOWER-LOVE" is a won|H derful thing. We who live in flats can have our home flower gardens regardless of the fact that we own no ground. Have just discovered how one can acquire a flower garden, rich in perfume and personality. I made that discovery while reading “Garden Whimseys” by Charlotte Rider Lomas, which is anew publication of the Macmillan Company. Every one of us may have a “mental flower garden,” although we do not possess an actual flower garden. I am not going to say that this book will interest only those who have actual flower gardens, but it will furnish a “mental flower garden” to every one who reads it. Every flower and every shrub has a personality and a definite language. The beauty of this book is that the author is on such good terms with flowers that she speaks their languages. And flower-love and flower tailk must be wonderful to those who understand. In introducing her garden, the author states in the beginning: "Most garden books overwhelm me with discouragement and despair—the
PAVING CONTRACTS AWARDED BY CITV >Board of Works Plans Sewers for North Side, Resolutions for paving three streets and constructing two local sewers were on the records of the board of works today. The streets are Winthrop Ave., Carrollton Ave. and Guilford Ave., be tween Fifty-Fourth and Fifty-Sixth Sts. Sewers are to be constructed in Riley Ave. between Tenth and Thirteenth Sts. and Wallace Ave. between Tenth St. and a point 300 feet north of Thirteenth St. These contracts were awarded: First alley east of Tuxedo St., from Tenth St. to Brookside Pkwy., paving with two-course concrete. Abel Bros., $2.23 a foot, total, $11,023.20; first alley east of Broadway from Twelfth to Thirteenth Sts., two-course concrete, Columbia Construction Company, $2.30 a foot, total, $1,540.46; first alley east of Churchman Ave., between Woodlawn Ave. and the first alley south, two-course concrete, Columbia Construction Company, $2.55 a foot, total, $2,307.^ Dobbin's Owner Sought Patrolmen Frank and Morarity kfound a horse tied to a fence In front |cf 218 E. Henry St.. Who’s the owner?
EIGHTEEN YEARS OF STEADY PROGRESS Indianapolis Life Insurance Company The Indianapolis Life Insurance Company was organized eighteen years ago for the purpose of furnishing sound Life Insurance to carefully selected members at a Low Net Cost. The Company Is Purely Mutual —that is, a Policyholders’ Company, owned and controlled by the Policyholders for the benefit of the Policyholders. There is no stock. Therefore, the Company can not be sold or traded. Not only do the savings and profits go to the Policyholders, but the ownership of the Company Is permanently fixed in the whole body of Policyholders, and not subject to the whims, weaknesses or greed of individuals or groups. The Company started without promotion expenses. The statutory guaranty fund was deposited with the State, and the required two hundred and fifty Policyholders secured before an office was rented or a clerk employed. The first home office consisted of one small room and one clerk at $lO a week. The Officers and Directors served without pay. No inducements, such as special contracts were offered. The only promise made to members and the public was the pledge of an earnest endeavor to build a safe, sane, Mutual, Policyholders’, Legal Reserve Company, along established lines, ■without, deception or experimentation, and at as low a cost as possible. From Its inception, the Company has grown steadily, and prospered. Its record la without a blemish. It stands out conspicuously among the Companies for its character and dependability. During the past year— There was a gain of insurance in Force of $3,961,081.95 A gain in assets of 475,622.78 Dividends paid to Policyholders amounted to $96,675.48, a gain of 17,497.26 Death claims paid (only 35.9% of the expected) 112,469.61 Death claims have always been promptly paid. The Company has never found it necessary to go into court to make settlements. The Company’s reserves are invested mainlv in high-class real estate mortgages which net the Company better than 6% interest. The market value of bonds held by the Company give a profit of approximately $75,000 over the purchase price. The value of real estate held by the Company shows a big increase over purchase price. Operating expenses continue very moderate. Home Office rentals and salaries are exceptionally low. The service to Policyholders has always been prompt and efficient. The record of dividend payments to Policyholders is unexcelled. There is a healthy Increase from year to year. The Company has among its Policyholders the best citizens of its home city and state, and a fine, growing clientele in neighboring states. It has a clean and capable agency organ ization, which is one of the valuable unlisted assets of the Company. The Company, by sound practices, good service, fair policy contracts, honest and liberal consideration of the rights Qf Policyholders and Agents, and clean and capable field representation, has established the good will and confidence of the public, as well as the hearty co-operation of Policyholders. The present year, 1923, gives promise of being the best in the Company’s history. The Company Is steadily extending its field of usefulness. We always have openings with splendid opportunities for men of good character and selling ability. GROWING STEADILY 1905 $325,000.00 1910 $3,760,237,61 1915 $10,231,921.21 '920 $27,006,018.90 1922 $35,236,427.74 1923 to May $37,500,000.00 FROM “BEST’S LIFE INSURANCE REPORTS” From its inception the, methods of the Indian- of new business is moderate. The mortality rate apol.s Life have at all times merited commenda- is very low, and the substantial dividends paid tion. The company has had a steady and healthy render the net cost of insurance very low. Death growth, and has an ample surplus. The invest- claims are promptly paid. The company has ments consist chiefly of mortgage loans, which never made use of “special contracts" or other are of good character and are remunerative. The schemes, but has adhered to correct underwriting management expenses are reasonable and the cost practices. INDIANA INVESTMENT AND DEPOSIT LAW Investments of Indiana life companies are limited to non-speculative and non-fluctuating securities, mainly first mortgages on unencumbered real estate worth at least double the amount loaned thereon, bonds of the United States, county, city, town, school and road bonds, and to loans upon its policies within the reserve value. These securities, as required by law, are deposited with the State of Indiana under the direction of the commissioner of I nsu>-ance as an added safeguard to policyholders. Frank P. Manly, President. Edward It. Raub, Vice President and A. Portteu*, Cashier. Joseph R. Raub. Secretary. Counsel. B, P. Pfeiffer, \ ... , , Or. Frank A. Morrison. > Medical C. B. Rouse ' Assistant Joe C, Caperton. Arenoy M*r. n r . James R Yoon*. | Directors E. M Kelly’ 1 Cashier. Elder A. Porter. Actuary. W. Irvirjr P.Umer, Field Supervisor. E. F. Kepner. Mgr. Policy Der>t. ' Indianapolis Agency E. H Caperton City Manager C. E. Ferrell Manager Eastern Indiana M. 8. Keyes Field Supervisor '’ r w T T'TC Hi " t,e _~ D ~ S ’ Kltt , pr W. T. Sort well Paul M. Miller H. A. Tidwell G. W. Hastings Roy L.. Myers J. W. Eubank A Good Company to Itasure With, to Work With, to Grow With, to Prosper With
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people who write them have so much knowledge and so much money. I confess at the very outset to having neither the one nor the other, so that those who expect or desire a profound treatise on flowers may not be deeoySd into going any further along the path with me. Yet it is without presumption and in serene confidence, that I swing, wide my gate and invite kindred spirits, filled with a love of simple flowers, and a worship of colon As embodied in them, to come with me into the narrow confines of my little garden and compare notes.” With this introduction, one really wants to get lost in the actual as well as the mental garden of Charlotte Rider Lomas. Flowers Live and Die Just Like People The big thing of tkls book Is the ability of the author to put one on speaking terms with flowers. Let us see how she does it. Here
MOST POPULAR BOOKS Books of fiction in demand at the public library this month are: “The Cathedral,” by Walpole; “This Freedom,” by Hutchinson; "Robin,” by Burnett; “Wanderer of the Wasteland,” by Grey; “Black Oxen,” by Atherton, and “Dim Lanterns,” by Bailey. Books of non-fiction most In demand recently are; “Life and Letters of Walter Page;" “Mind in the Making,” by Robinson; “Outwitting Our Nerves,” by Jackson; "Book of Etiquette,” by Post; “Perfect Behavior,” by Stewart, and “Outline of History," by Wells.
are Just a few Introductions to flowers: “Os course every one has Daffodils and loves them. I should expect everything that I have said before or since to have no weight, if I attempt for one moment to deny or criticise their loveliness and charm, but associated with their name to tne Is a certain sadness not unmixed with irritation, in that I have not been able to make them as happy in my garden as I could wish, though I have tried them in every available spot.” “To Narcissus Poeticus I turn for comfort, and do not turn in vain, for there I find it in full measure pressed down ad running over. These luminous refreshing flowers swarm all over my garden with the greatest amiability, never questioning anything; a theirs-but-to do-not die spirit that I find a great relief after so much of the opposite.” “But even in tulips, I must be pardoned a discriminating taste. No double ones finds sar.ctu;u-y with me, nor any parrots—those tortured travesties on flowers.” “The Goldenrod has, if any—for with that slighting reservation we are too apt to accept the gifts of unselfishness —a more adaptable soul. The Black-Eyed Susans, too,
'agreeable, and the thorny Teasel will travel any distance with you in unperturbed equanimity. It is not tindecorative, either, that Teasel, though perhaps it might be called a bit rattlebrained.” There Can Be Rebellions Even in a Garden, The author makes this confession: “Julius Caesar and I would have been great pals, we have so much in common. I know it must give him the greatest gratification—tempered possibly with some slight astonishment — that a kindred spirit is waving him a greeting across the centuries. My garden is my Gaul, and over it I hold an imperial eye, searching for and continually finding rebellion to put down —rebellion that never stays put down, hut that springs up again with renewed vigor the moment my back is turned, just as his did. Like his. my Gaul is divided into three parts”— To those who have gardens, “Garden Whimseys” will prove a real guide. To those of us who haven't the good fori tune to have a real garden, they will I welcome this chance to have their own mental garden. I like this book. It is delightful experience to really know flowers. MAN IS HELD FOR WOOD FRAUD Alleged Embezzler Arrested After Fight With Police, By United Press LOS ANGELES, May 15— Andrew L. Helper, alias L. H. White and W. H. Henry is under arrest here today on a- charge of embezzling $200,000 from citizens of Butler, Pa., through an insurance and mortgage concern. Officers fired three shots at Helper j and beat him into submission after he had attempted to escape and then engaged them In a fist fight. Police said letters Identified him as a man who disappeared from Mar tin's Ferry in November. At that j time bis automobile was found In the river and his wife reported to authorities he was drowned. Victim of Street Playing MUNGIE, Ind., May 15. —Glen Nall inger, 5, while wrestling on the street I with another child, fell In front of an automobile driven by Roma Retherford, and two wheels of the car passed over him. He suffered Internal Injuries. His condition Is critical. Dusters From Stockings Sew together the legs of your discarded stockings and make good serviceable dusters.
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