Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 105, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1923 — Page 6

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ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN BLAMED FOR DIVORCE EVIL

Martha Lee Says Plot Good for Movies Slips Into Real Life

A motherless, well-to-do girl, left to her own devises and **rtmnio.’ wild.” A strange man. A two-year trial marriage. Those are the ingredients for a strange plot, not in the movies, as one would suppose, but in real life. It is told in a letter 1 have just received.

gOCIAL Activities ENTERTAINMENTS WEDDINGS BETROTHALS

Irp 1 HE members of the Debonette I Club -will entertain tonight J with a guest party at the home of Miss Wilma Taflinger, 1514 E. Twelfth St. There will be eight tables for bunco during the eenving. Mrs. Betty Anderson will give a group of interpretative dances. The rooms will be arranged with baskets of black-eyed Susans and thistle blossoms and fall garden flowers. The guests will include Mrs. Wanda Clark. Mrs. Elsie Rose. Mrs. Eleanor fchrenbach, Mrs. Gladys Wilkins, and Misses Carley Redding, Florence Strawm, Margaret Coldgrove, Kathleen Harrold, Marie Metcalf. Alice Fish. Mary Jane Carle, Edna Wilding, Jessie Younts.

The active members are Mrs. Ruby Shouse, Mrs. Evelyn Boltz, Mrs. Betty Anderson, Mrs. Lucille Robinette and Misses Lavina Fischer, Ruth Hoyt, Margaret Hoyt, Mildred Mathers. Hilda Bonnett, Alpha Eates, Wilma Taflinger, Alice Ruabeck, Marie Wilding, Hilda Wetzel, Mary White and Naomi Bixler. • • • Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Bressler, 3017 Barnes Ave., entertained on Tuesday evening with a dinner party at their home. A centerpiece of lavender fall flowers decorated the table, at which covers were laid for twelve. The guests: Mr. and Mrs. Bert MeWhinney, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Wynne. Mr. and Mrs. John Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. Lawhead, Mrs. Rollin Phillips and Charles Goff. • • • The home of Miss Martha Stubbs, 46 Johnson Ave., was attractively arranged with garden flowers Wednesday evening when, she entertained with a dinner party, followed by a theater party, in honor of Don Thomas and Robs Ewart, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Miss Stubbs was resisted by her mother, Mrs. Martha J. Stubbs. Miss Stubbs will leave on Thursday for Indiana University, where she Is taking a medical course. • • • The wedding of Miss Irma Thlesing. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. ThiesJng, 660 E. Warty-Second St., and Russell Miller of Dayton. Ohio, will take place tonight with a pretty ceremony at the St. Paul's Evangelical Church, the Rev. J. C. Frohne officiating. The bride will be attended by her sister. Miss Elsie Thlesing. maid of honor, who will wear green georgette and Arry an arm bouquet of pink roses. Miss Alberta Gramse, bridesmaid, will a frock of pink georgette and carry Ophelia roses. Little Miss Mildred Thlesing, niece of the bride, in a frock of lavender organdie, will be flower girl. She will carry a basket of Ophelia roses. Edward Thiesing will be best man and Otto Shultz, groomsman. Oswald Nosske and Henry Gramse will be ushers. Miss Minnie Knop. accompanied by Miss Thirza Isensee, organist, will sing the bridal music. The bride will wear a gown of white flat crepe with a veil of white tulle arranged in cap style, caught with orange blossoms. She will carry a shower bouquet of bride’s roses and valley lilies. After the ceremony there will be a reception at the home of the bride’s parents. The bride and groom will go on a short wedidng trip, after which they will be at home in Dayton. Ohio.

The home of Miss Catherine Morro, 6S N. Irvington Ave., was the scene of a pretty luncheon today when she entertained in honor of Misses Kathryn and Virginia Lee Hosmer who are leaving shortly for Vassar and Michigan University, respectively; Miss Grace Thomas, who will go to "Ward Belmont; Miss Grace Pritchard who will go to Eureka College, Eureka, 111., and Miss Helen Pritchard, who will go to Hiram College, Hiram. Ohio. Covers were laid for sixteen at a table prettily arranged with a centerpiece of pink and white cosmos. The guests; Misses Lois and Mary Alice Wlshard, Marian Barney, Em ma Deal, Martha Armstrong, Kather ine Bowlby, Mary Ann Huggins, Gertrude Insley, Emily Brossman. Martha Zoercker, Laura Templeton and Dorothy Hill. Many parties have been given for these girls before their departure. They were the honor guests at a luncheon bridge Saturday at the home of Miss Gertrude Insley and Monday afternoon Miss Laura Templeton entertained in their honor. Monday evening Mrs. Edgar Perkins, 5457 Julian Ave., was the hostess for a clever party for them, at which a playlet, written and directed by Rodney Clinton Perkins, was presented. The cast Included Masses Beatrice Maude Jones, Dorotha Wilson, Virginia Lee Hostmer, Kathryn Hosrper, Eugene Underwood and Rodney Perkins. • • • The Omega Nu Tau Sorority, Ino.. will entertain with a dinner party Thursday evening at the Spink-Arma In honor of Miss Dorothy Felton, who will leave for Indiana University Sunday. Miss Florence Monford is chairman of the amngement* and will be assisted by Mls Lillian Reinking. The members who wiM h- 1 ' 1 -'re; Norma Ernsting. L ith Mon\ford. Ruth Reinking, Anna Ernsting, |juilllan Reinking. Florence Monforri, jMarie Semmer, Anna Mae Simpson, jfcffargarite Copenhaven, Evelyn O'Mant ~~ fe ~ ' ' K^rtS -

It proves that “truth is stranger than fiction.” It proves, too. sordid though It is, that the faith of other people gives us faith in ourselves. ■ Read it: Like Movie Plot Martha Lee: At the agre of 16 I waa a no-aeeount girl from a well-to-do family. My mother died when I was a baby. Father left me at the agre of 10. Left to my brother and sister, I soon was looking out for myself. Almost two years ago 1 was just about to the bottom when I met my stranger husband on the street. The second time we met he asked me to marry him for two years, that I might get a hold on myself and live a life worth while. I | wouldn't be any worse off. At the end of two years he would leave. I am happy in the wonderful life 1 was never to know. As soon as we were married 1 got an honest job. It was hard, but j I was game. Our two years are almost up. I love my dream man.' but I am afraid he will laugh if I tell him. I wish we were married for life. Why did he insist that I work and save, when he makes a large salary and our account is in four figures? Why did he buy a house and give it to me? Why does he talk of our future? If he cares for me at all. why does he tell me everything is business? He seems afraid, at times, that I want him to hold me and to love me as I love him. He tells me nothing about his family, except that he is from New York. Sometimes he talks about his mother. Is he going to leave in the night, or will he stay? That is my chief worry. A STRANGE WIFE. Truly, it would be hard to find a story stranger than yours. Whatever your husband’s motives, he has given you anew life. I cannot tell what he will do. If he speaks of the future. It seems probable he does not intend to leave, unless you want him to. Having you work and save is part of his program of regeneration for i you, I should judge.

riage to Russell Cook will take place in October, was the honor guest this afternoon at a bridge party and kitchen shower given by Miss Dorothy Marquette and Mrs. Dudley A. Smith at the home of Miss Marquette, 6055 E. Washington St. Baskets of snapdragons and fall garden flowers were used to decorate the rooms. The guests: Mesdames George Browne. W. B. Gates. Rlatton Coxen, Curtis McCoy, Elvin Vliet and Misses Mary Janet O'Reilly, Helen Neal. Lois Williamson, Mary Norwood, Dorothy Reynolds, Dorothy Darmody, Elizabeth Clune, Betty Burgess, Maixne Harry. Harriet Caylor, Mary Elizabeth Hollister. The hostesses were assisted by Mrs. Harry Marquette. • ♦ • The wedding of Miss Ruth Michael, daughter of Mrs. Grace Michael, 512 E. Twenty-Fifth St., to Dr. John H. Warvel, of Greenville, Ohio, took place this afternoon with a pretty ceremony at the Moravian Episcopal Church, the Rev. C. O. Weber, officiating. The church was beautifully decorated with ferns, white clematis and asters and lighted with cathedral candles. Miss Helen Louise Quig, organist, and Miss Katherine Quig, violinist, played bridal music and accompanied Mrs. Louise Campbell, who sang "Oh Promise Me,” and Charles Michael, who sang “At Dawning.” Miss Edith Gilkey, maid of honor, wore a gown of pale pink lace and a corsage of Mrs. Aaron Ward roses. The bridesmaids. Misses Lois Michael, Bessie Bittrich, Irene Whittaker, and Hazel Geckler, all wore frocks of pink Canton crepe and Mrs. Aaron Ward roses. Clarence Campbell, was best man and the ushers were Dr. C. H. Keever, Robert Ball, Dr. Fred Denny, and Fred Cheney. The bride was lovely in a gown of white satin trimmed with pearls and a veil of white tulle arranged in fan shape with a bandeau of pearls and orange blossoms. After the ceremony a reception was held at the home of the bride. The bridesmaids assisted Mrs. Michael in the dining room. Dr. and Mrs. Warvel will go to Farida, for two weeks on a wedding trip, after which they will be at home at 3944 Broadway.

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MISS RUTH O'NEIL BELEW

Miss Rutli O'Neil Belew, 327 W. Thirty-Ninth St., winner of the 1923 city championship in aesthetic danc-

A $2 Cigaret Pii United Xetrs NEW YORK, Sept. 12. The first flapper caught puffing a cigarette on a city owned ferry boat was .lean Albright, 18, society debutante. Miss Albright, daughter of a wealthy rubber manufacturer, was lectured by Magistrate Frothingham on the perils at sea and fined $2.

tyDr. C.CRobinson YOUR BREATH ■ J FFENSIVE breath is not djui gerous, but it's extremely unI X-/1 pleasant and not very sociable. It can be prevented and cured. The causes are all well known. The nose, mouth and digestive tract are the offenders. A good pleasing mouth wash used regularly and a gargle for the throat will afford adequate prevention in most cases. The teeth are frequently the cause of bad breath. Remove all food material from your teeth by careful brushing and use of dental floss. Infection of the nasal sinuses, the nose and throat cause bad breath. Certain types of catarrhal trouble are offensive. Careful treatment is necessary. If you have allowed “dry” or chronic catarrh to affect you. Consult your physician without further delay. PusInfected tonsils also cause bad breath.

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ing, will again enter the interpretative dancing classes at the Hoosier Athletic Club this fall.

I Have them removed on your phvsi- | clan’s advice. Diseases of the digestive organs | cause bad breath. If you have a | coated tongue in the morning, your breath is offensive. The cause may ibe the result of a diet which doeß not demand complete mastication and i you overeat. Reverse peristalsis may ‘.occur. This Is a backward contractile movement from the stomach or duodenum which will deposit the yellow ! coat "from the bile” on the back of | the tongue. j Don't bolt your food or wash it down with tea or coffee. Don’t soak your food to avoid chewing. You will rob your stomach of the necessary salvia, which Is the first digestive aid. If gastric fermentation or constipation troubles you, bad breath will , result. N

Came 400 Miles to Have His Teeth Extracted With Maxoline IT WAS WORTH MY TRIP AND TIME TO COME AND HAVE TEN TEETH EX TRACTED BY THE MAXOLINE METHOD. I CAME FROM SOI THE AST MISSOURI, MOKE THAN 400 MILES. I WAS ADVISED TO DO SO BY MY WIFE. SHE MADE THE SAME TRIP TWO YEARS AGO—THEY WERE EXTRACTED W ITHOCT PAIN. - A. H. HUDSON, EAST PRAIRIE, MO„ R. R. 1. Came 500 Miles to Have Her Teeth Extracted With Maxoline I CAME ALL TIIE 4VAY FROM KANSAS CITY, MO., OVER 500 MILES, TO HAVE SIX TEETH EXTRACTED. AS I HAD HAD TEETH EXTRACTED BEFORE BY THE MAXOLINE METHOD AND KNEW THAT IT WOULD NOT HURT. WHILE LIVING IN ILLINOIS I HAD SOME TEETH EXTRACTED BY A N O T II E R METHOD, AND IT NEARLY KILLED ME. I SAID THEN THAT I WOULD NEVER TRY NEW METHODS AGAIN AS LONG AS I COULD GET MAXOLINE. THE SIX TEETH WERE EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN. MRS. A. E. JACKSON. 1413 N. BENTON HLVD.. KANSAS CITY, MO.

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Judge Lindsey, Denver Juvenile Jurist, Believes New Standard of Sex Relationship is Being Established — Ministers and Reformers Disagree. By United Pre.ee DENVER, Colo., Sept. 12.—Establishment of economic independence by women and their refusal to be dominated by men, are contributing to the great increase in divorces in America, Judge Ben B. Lindsey, famous Denver juvenile judge, said today. “Women’s economic independence has won marital independence for them and husbands in many instances fail to adjust themselves to this condition,” Lindsey said.

Billy Sunday Sees Beginning of End in Sin Bu United Prege WINONA LAKE, Ind., Sept. 12. —Increase in "sexual sin” marks “the beginning of the end,” the Rev. Billy Sunday declared today, commenting on Judge B. Lindsey's statement that modern young folks are Inclined to abandon marriage and establish new sex standards. "They may talk about new sex standards, but God has only one law. and that is Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,’ " Sunday asserted. "The disregard for the laws of God is terrific. Sexual sin is the sweeping offense of the world. It seems to me this is the beginning of the end.”

Clubs & Meetings The Eleventh Ward League of Women Voters will hold an organizallon meeting Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Blanche McFadden, 9f7 Lexington Ave. The assistant hostesses will be Mesdames Mattie Hinchman, Minnie Duncan, Elizabeth Kuhns, Anna B. Markay, W. C. De Miller, and Miss May Heller. The speakers will be Judge Clinton Givan, and Mrs. M. B. Spellman. The meeting of the office auxiliary to the P. H. N. A., which was to have been held Friday, Sept. 14. at the home of -Mrs. W. C. Given, 3101 N. New Jersey St., has been postponed t* Friday, Bept. 21. The Hollister Review, W. B. A. will give a card party on Thursday after noon at the hall at 230 E. Ohio St. The Loma Nashah Club will meet on Wednesday evening at the home of Miss Helen Roth. 133 N. Oriental St. The following pledges will be initiated: Misses Kathyleen Kelly. Helen Krumrine, Vera Miller. Marv Rvan.

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Judge Lindsey, who believes anew standard of sex relationship is being established by many unmarried couples living together as man and wife, declares real religion and proper education are the only remedies. YOUTHS r USUAL~ errors Los Angelce Pastor Declares He Sees No Evidence of New Standard. Bu United Prees I/OS ANGELES, Cal.. Sept. 12. Los Angeles, national “emotion center" and continually In the limelight for its sensational movie divorces, shows no evidence of any widespread tendency to new sex standard as noted by Judge Lindsey of Denver, Rev. Whitcomb Brougher of the Temple Baptist Church said today. Brougher, liberal pastor of Los Angeles' largest flock seemed to think the youth of the Nation is muddling through with its usual errors but eventually approaching a goal of happiness just the same. “Os course,” the pastor said, "we cannot have a lowering of the old standards of modesty and dress and deportment without a corresponding falling off in the old morale standards! “Young girls in our city may lose their virtue more often than In the past. That Is to be expected under modern conditions where religion fails to reach a vast number of homes.” MINISTERS OPPOSE LINDSEY Home Blamed for Immorality and Improper Sex Standards. Bu I nited Prree CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—Chicago ministers and reformers united today in opposition to Lindsey, Denver juvenile Jurist, \fho warned increasing number of divorces was leading to anew standard of sex relationship. “On the foundation of the American home our standards of sex relationship stands firmly against the assault of the divorce evil,” Arthur Bun-age Farweil. president of the Chicago law and order league, declared. "Contrary to Judge Lindsey, I think the seat of the trouble is the home. An unclean home starts a vicious circle. the young people learning improper standards and growing up to propagate them.

LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO MRS. MARY ALDEN PRESCOTT MY DEAR JACK’S MOTHER: I don't think you quite realized how you hurt me In the last letter which you wrote me. Surely you must know that I am too devoted to your son to do anything in all the world to make his mother unhappy. I have been very ill and Jack has kept from me anything that would fret me, consequently I had never seen one of your letters or one of the letters by your friend, Miss Bradford, that he has received. Os course you know my mind was somewhat unsettled after the loss of my baby and nothing seemed to interest me in any particular until they brought to me the darlingest baby boy I have ever seen. Oh I know if you could see him you would

Dame Fashion Speaks Bu United Xeiee CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—1f one really hopes to be in the feminine fashion swim this year, according to additional pointers given Tuesday at the convention of the fashion art league of America, one must have: A sweater coat fallincr to the heels. A “boa” collar of varn attached, worn high. A character theatrical fan for evening wear. A “moon-shaped” vanity case containing space for one’s opera glasses and a puff for powdering one’s hack. A Paisley pocketbook rather than a Paisley shawl A knitted dress adorned with knitted lace panels. A wrist powder puff, worn like a wrist watch.

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love him. You would not think for one moment I was foolish, and besides, it has always seemed to me that taking a baby -who otherwise might not have any joy or comfort or content in its life and giving it some of these is the greatest good anyone can do. I am very sorry you have not been well and I hope you will understand after getting this letter that 1 have not been neglectful of you. but I have been so ill myself that everything which could possibly in any way disturb me, my mother and Jack have kept from me. We grow a little selfish oer our own ills, do we not? Now, my dear “Jack's mother,” I am sending you today my check for the amount of money you said you needed. I cannot understand why Jack has not sent it to you before. I would hate to know for one moment you had a feeling that because Jack had married me he was neglectful of you. I want you to feel you have not lost your son but you have cained a daughter. I hope you will forgiev me. however, if I say to you that probably one of the reasons of this misunderstanding between Jack and you is that he has resented the interference of Miss Bradford. I did not see her letters but from what Jack said about them I know he thought she had been "rather catty.” Surely you know your own son well enough to realize that he always is exasperated when anyone “butt* in” as he says into a family affair. Even I would not presume to advise him as to his conduct toward you. Os course I understand that to you Miss Bradford is perhaps a dear and valued friend, but Jack probably felt she was almost a stranger to him, as she is an utter stranger to me. Please do not misunderstand me. dear “Jack’s mother,” because I am only trying to unravel the tangle, one of the little tangles in that big tangle which we call life. Most sincerely, LESLIE PRESCOTt. (Copyright. 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) NEXT:. SaDy Atherton to Beatrice (trimshaw—Trouble with Sam. The Central W. C. T. U. will have a meeting Friday from 2 to 4 p. m. at the Fletcher American Bank building. There wifi be election of officers and anpointment of delegates to the State convention to be held at Frankfort in October, and ether important business.