Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 110, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1924 — Page 6

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American Archaeologist Discovers Sacrificial Well Into Which Girls Were Thrown to Appease Gods

Bones and Skulls Found at Scene of Ancient Ceremony, By ALMA REED Copyright. 1924. XEA Service “IHICHEN-ITZA. Yuc a t an, Sept. 15. —Science follows a i___ lovely phantom down the great Sacrificial Well of ChickeiiItza. For, it is the weird romance of the Maya mai den that has prompted the dredging of the muddy depths of the famous ‘'Sacred Cenote" in the heart of the ruined city. This maiden of flawless beauty .is the sweetest and the most tragic figure in Maya tradition. She first steps into the ahcient picture at the entrance to the temple that crowns the lofty pyramid. She wears a bridal wreath of white roses as the black-masked priests lead her from the sculptured halls. The beating of the death drum, the mocking notes of a highpitched flute and the shrill screeching of a whistle announces her descent of the imposing stairway. Below, await the officials and the r.obles in solemn procession. Trembling and helpless, she joins them in the march along the Sacred Road. They come to a halt at the edge of a huge circular pool which gapes like an open wound in the dark fores*. Priest Chants Voices are raised in prayer. Precious jewels, treasured ornaments and smoking incense vessels are flung into the pale green water. Then comes the moment for appeasing the offending deity with the supreme sacrifice. A priest chants, while another tears the clapper from the tiny bell which the maiden wears around her neck. To the Maya, the process signifies death. She has been mercifully drugged with ‘•balche,” the sacred nectar. Her whole life has been a conscious preparation for this hour. She believes that her symbolic marriage to the water god in the depths of the cenote will save her people from impending evil, that her watery grave is only the door to immortal happiness. But the urge of youth to live and love is stronger than drug or faith, and a shriek of despair pierces the forest as she is hurled headlong into the yawning waterpit. Throughout the centuries this scene was enacted whenever pestilence, famine or military defeat threatened the “holy and learned Itzaes.” Invariably the spectators waited a while for the return of the lovely victim, believing that such a miracle would mean immediate answer to their prayers. An ancient chronicle records, rather vaguely, that once a maiden did tome back. Proved Location The tradition of the Sacrificial Well was translated into historic fact Dy Edward H. Thompson. American archaeologist, and owner of the hacienda on which the ruins of Chichen-Itza are located. After years of devoted, lonely labor, he proved that the Sacred Cenote was the Maya place of human sacrifice. He not only succeeded in bringing the bones and skulls of young girls to the surface, but a quantity of precious objects which constitute the most important discovery in the history of American archaeology. Part of the remarkable collection is now on exhibition at Peabody Mseum of Harvard University.

Household Suggestion.

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TOP PHOTO SHOWS THE “SACRED CENOTE'—THE SACRIFICIAL WELL OF CHICHEN-ITZA OF YUCATAN, WHERE LIVING SACRIFICES WERE MADE IN YEARS GONE BY. BELOW IS A GROUP OF TYPICAL MAYA MAIDENS. GIRLS OF THIS TYUE WERE USED AS SACRIFICES.

Parties, Meetings and Social Activities

PISS MARGARET SHOUSE. a bride-elect of October, was entertained Monday at a daintily appointed bridge and mis eell&neous shower given by Mrs. Major P. Harrison, 2035 N. Meridian St. Decorations of garden flowers in Dresden shades with the bride’s colors, blue and orchid, predominating were used. Shower gifts were concealed in a mound of flowers on a tray on the dining table. The guests with Miss Shouse were Mrs. W. P. Phillips of South Bend; Mrs. John J. Ector, Yakima, Wash.; Mrs. Ewing Shields. Greenfield; Mesdames Russell C. Fish, R. B. Orr. Stewart William La Rue, Asa Smith, Cleon Nafe and William Barnes. • • • Mr. and Mrs. John J Ferris. 2209 X. Delaware St., entertain,>d Sunday night with an informal dinner party honoring their son, Edwin M., and his fiancee. Miss Marie Frances Thompson, who are to he married Tuesday morning. Fourteen covers were Jaid for members of the bridal party and the immediate families of the bride and bridegroom. * * • Miss Alice Oswald of New York and Mrs. Roy Danks of New Haven. Conn., who are visiting Mrs Danks' mother, Mrs. Daniel Brown, 3916 Fall Creek Blvd.. spent the weekend motoring in southern Indiana. * • • Mrs. R. T. Sweeney. 262 Holmes Ave., entertained Saturday afternoon celebrating the fifth birthday anniversary of her little daughter, Bernadette. A birthday cake in the center of the able was lighted with tiny pink candles and on the bark of each small guests’ chair was a large bow of pink and green tulle. Fall flowers were arranged throughout the rooms and pink and green were used in all the appointments. There were covers for twelve little guests. Assisting Mrs. Sweeney were Mrs. J. McCarble and Mrs. James Sweeney.

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Suess, 1717 E. New York St., celebrated their golden weding anniversary Saturday. * • • Mr. and Mrs. A E. La Porte of Pesacola. Fla., who have been visiting Mr. La Porte's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. La Porte, 32 Gladstone Ave., have returned home, accompanied by Mr. La Porte's mother. * * Mrs. Charles C. Metzger and her mother, Mps. Mary Rice of Chillicothe, Ohio, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Farnsworth. 1034 E. Washington St. • * * Mr. and Mrs. C. Franklin I,ong left Monday for Unlontown, Pa., io live. Saturday night the Phi Gamma Tau sorority, of which Mrs. Long is a member, entertained wi‘l a farewell dance for them at the Pleasant Run Golf and Country Club. About forty couples were enter tained. Bobbie Young, professional specialty dancer, gave a program of dances and Mrs. Long and Miss Violet Deckard gave costume dances. Lavender and w'hite balloons and flowers decorated the ball, which was lighted with Japanese lanterns. The chaperons were Mrs. George

FABLES ON HEALTH Coarse Food Helpful

' " “TIHAT foods are cleansing to W teeth? Few people could tell you, but the Manns found out when they took their brood of youngsters to the dentist. Give children coarse dry toast, hardtack, crusts of stale bread or any good coarse dry food. Let them chew on it long and well. This is both excellent exercise and

'D. Williams, Mrs. T. B. Buskirk, Mrs. Harry Fitch, Mrs. A. R. Thomas and Mrs. Dan White. The marriage of Miss Ruth louise Augstein of Birmingham, Ala., to P.uss,‘ll E. Keller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elso Keller, 553 N. Temple Ave.,

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MRS. F. H. JENNE * Mrs. F. H. Jenne. 4333 Carrollton Ave.. is the president of Beta Beta chapter of Alpha Chi Omega, for whom president’s day was observed Saturday at her home. Assisting, her daughter, Mrs. Robert E. Wolfe.

took place Saturday night at the home of the bridgeroom’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Keller will be at home at 515 Maple St., after Nov. 1. * * * Victor Landis is in charge of a party to be given Wednesday night by the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity at the Lincoln. Miss Marie Rickhoff. Miss Jessie Hall and Merle Calvert will take part in the program. * * • The first anniversary of the Theta Sigma Chi sorority was observed Sunday night with a banquet at the Jack-O-Lantern Gardens. Covers for twenty-two were laid at a table attractively appointed in the sorority colors, peach and apple green, with a center decoration of butterfly roses, i The guests were presented with bouttoniers of roses and leather memorandum books with the sorority’s name in gold letters on the front. Members received hammered silver bar pins and corsages of butterfly roses. Mrs. Albert Volpp, president, was toast mistress. * • * The 59th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, held their fortieth

a first aid to stronger gums. Fruits, through their acids, have a good reactioff- upon the mouth and teeth and nothing is better than some raw vegetables for the kids to nibble upon. If they want a raw carrot or Borne raw cabbage, let them have it. Such food will supply the minerals so necessary in building solid teeth and bones In the young.

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reunion Sunday in Gosport. Seventeen members were present and thirty-nine, who could not be present, wrote le.tters of greeting. Fourteen members of o’her regiment o were gio-sts. They were guests of the Gosport W. C. T. U. The reunion will he held at Gosport again next year. • * * Lavelle Gossett Post. Veterans of Foreign Wars, will have a card party Tuesday night in the hail. 902 N. Pershing Ave. The Ladies Auxiliary to the B of L. TANARUS., will have a card party Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 in Trainmen's hall. 1002 E. Washington St. The Wlnematßocial Club will have a eucher party in the hall at Seventeenth St. and Roosevelt Ave., Tuesday evening at 8:30.

Menus for a Family

Tested by Sister Mary

Breakfast—Peaches with cream, ready to serve cereal for the members of the family over <> and cooked cereal for those under, toasted whole wheat bread, fish, hash, milk, coffee. Luncheon Boiled rice with poached egg, spinach, fruit salad, milk, iced tea, whole wheat bread and butter sandwiches, salad rolls. Dinner Vegetable soup, cold boiled corned beef, baked squash, cucumber salad, apple custard, coffee, milk. Serve plain sliced, perfectly ripe peaches to the young person of 6 or 7 years and the juice of the fruit to the 4 or 5-year-old. The soup, squash custard, bread and butter and milk should form the dinner for any child under 10 years. If a child has carried his luncheon to school a broiled lamb chop may be prepared specially for him, but if the lunch basket is packed with care and thought this t xtra at dinner will be quite unnecessary. The fruit salad, iced tea and salad rolls suggested in the luncheon menu are for grown-ups only. Boiled Rice With Poached Egg One cup rice, 8 cups boiling water, 2 teaspoons salt, 1 tablespoon butter, four eggs. Wash rice through many waters. Add slowly to rapidly boiling salted water. Boil until tender. The length of time for cooking rice depends on HOME FURNISHING Center Lights for Parties ~ jj flilii C 1” FILING fixtures in living rooms are kept unlighted nowadays, except for gay parties and other social occasions. Otherwise, the lamps and side fixtures should illuminate the room pleasantly enough, especially with the use of the soft amber lights so’ popular today.

cwqmglQ LETTER FROM BEATRICE GRIMSHAW SUMMERS TO SALLY ATHERTON DEAR SALLY: Well, Here I am, at this notable and notorious Hollywood, and up to date it does not seem very much different from any other city of 120,000 inhabitants, except that it’s almost unbelievably beautiful with its frame of purple foothills reaching up to the white-capped, soft gray mountains beyond. You drive through street after street lined each side with gorgeous pink and blue and green and gray and yellow bungalows that look like great doll houses set back on lawns of green dotted with flowers of every kind and hue. lam delighted with' it, and lam really mad about my little hilltop home which Dick purchased before he went east. We drove directly from the station to the house. Dick had told me nothing about it. I was greeted at the door by a Jap houseman and a colored cook. As we crossed the threshold after viewing all Los Angeles which lay behind us from the veranda outside, Dick said: “Welcome, Bee. to your home,” and going to the mantel he took from it a little box in which was the deed to this lovely place made out in my name. Wasn't he dear to think of this? He had put that box on that mantel before he left, and planned the whole dramatic homecoming. No wonder they want him in moving pictures! I wish you could see it all, dear girl. Through a regular tangle of trees and shrubs you go up a winding walk of steps and flat places made of brick until you reach an outdoor staircase of old Spanish wrought iron. From there you look all over the city nestling below you among what seems to be a wooded landscape. The inside of the house was only furnished .is far as a few essentials j are concerned. But they are very ! beautiful, artistic and unobstrusive. Dick said he had asked Miss Perier to oversee the work of some decorator who might furnish the house in all its entirety, but she said that wouid be very foolish of him. Being a woman she knew that j one of the thrills of a bride's life ! would be furnishing her own home. “So here you have it. rny dear,” | he said, “and here is a check for ; 53,000 to pay for the remainder of ; the doodads you may want to put l into it.” 1 I found Paula Perier charming, ! Sally—very vivacious and a little | temperamental, but that is what one \ must expect to find in one as beaui tiful and as successfully artistic as j she. There is quite a mystery about her. I think. I told this to Dick and !he laughed at me, hut I have noticed her when she has thought no jr.ne was observing her. Her sparkling eyes always grow and her I mouth droops at the corners. She ! always then makes me think of the Mater Dolorosa. I am sure that this drew me to her more than all the rest. I want/vi to comfort her. I wanted to be j her friend. Perhaps that's the : secret of her popularity, for even on the screen vou get flashes of some j thing which gives you the feeling | that you are looking into a hidden | place within an almost breaking ; heart. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service. Inc.) Next: The letter continued.

its age. New rice cooks more quickly than old rice. When a kernel of rice is soft when pressed between thumb and finger the rice is done. It will take at least half an hour to cook rice. Drain in a colander and pour through rice 2 quarts boiling water. Melt butter In a tightly covered kettle, add rice and shake well. Cover and let stand in a warm oven or beside the fire until the kernels separate. Spread on a hot platter, make four depressions and in each drop a poached egg. Serve with cheese sauce to adults. Cheese SauceTwo tablespoons butter, IVi tablespoons flour, pinch mustard, V£ teaspoon salt, Vi teaspoon paprika, 1 cup milk, Vi cup finely chopped cheese. Melt butter and stir in flour well mixed with mustard, salt and paprika. When smooth, slowly add milk, stirring constantly. When thick and smooth add cheese and cook over hot water until cheese is melted. Serve In a sauce boat. Poached Eggs Melt enough butter in a frying pan to make the bottom very shiny. Fill pan two-thirds full of boiling water. Add from one to three teaspoons salt. Reduce the heat to keep the water at the boiling point, ljut not bubbling when the eggs are dropped in. Break each egg into a saucer and slide carefully into the scalding water. Cover and cook until the tops are white. It will take about eight minutes. Remove from the water with a buttered perforated skimmer. Perfectly fresh eggs must be used for poaching. (Copyright, 1924, NFA Serv'ce, Inc.) Short Jacket A short jacket of royal blue kasha cloth is wo’-n with a one-piece frock of white kasha, and designs of the white material are appliqued on the coatee. Wearing Flowers The chic Parisienne is rarely seen these days without a single flower perched on the shoulder or In her lapel. Usually the flower Is a red or white one. Narrow Brims Square-crown and narrow-brim hats, the new models for fall and winter, usually have very gorgeous buckles as trimmings. Cut Velvets Cut velvets and velvet brocades and those dyed so they have two distinct tones are shown extensively In Paris gown collections.

Pearls Bring Luck

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The great indoor and outdoor sport at Deauville is losing a fortune at baccarat. Our millionaires and titled foreigners can't resist it. But Mile. Edmonde Guy, the famous Parisian beauty, played in

Martha Lee Says Short-Haired Mothers Criticised by Daughter

Bob-haired daughters are all right, but bob-haired mothers are all wrong, in the opinion of one girl writer to my column.

In answer to Miss Kathryne Dyer, IT, winner of a prize for hav* ing the prettiest bob in Washington, D. C., who is sorry her hair, is bobbed, “Miss Bob" defends short hair for girls vigorously. And just as vigorously she denounces older j women who have their matronly ' locks shorn. “It makes them look as if they were trying to be young again, but it does not really make them look young." she writes. “The style doesn't suit them and they look foolish.” The “ayes” had the best of it today in the discussion of bobbed hair. The offensive against the bob seemed to have slackened some- , what, while the defensive put in several strokes. However, those who did voice protest against bobbed hair make up in the strength of their denunciations for the weakness of their numbers. Some of the letters: Not for Mother Dear Mls Lee Miss Pyer is wrong. I think I have had my hair bobbed for several years and always ha\e been glad, and I think other girls fee! the same way. I think bobbed hair is becoming to almost any young girl Put I don't like it on our mothers It makes them look as if they were trying to be young again, but it does not really make them look young The style does not suit them and they look foolish. My mother has beautiful gray hair and 1 don't know what I would do if she cut it But for young girls. I surely do believe in bobbed hair. MISS 808. Hubby Likes It Pear Martha Le: I am 19 years old and married I have bobbed hair My husband and I never have had any trouble over my hair. In fact, he wanted it bobbed I have a sister-in-law who also has bobbed hair. She is Id years old. Angirl who has bobbed hair and does not lik„ it must not look very becoming. If other girls want to have long hair and fuss with It and mtn it by ruffing it, we don't. If we nad long hair tomorrow we would cut It again. We don't curl our hair. If every one lets her hair grow- we will.

Paid Political Advertisement $50,000 A DAY The STATE Administration of Indiana is spending $50,000 a day more in this year of 1924 than it spent in the year 1920. This does not include school houses or local taxes. The Indiana Year Book, official publication of the state, shows the state expenses of 1920 were $16,749,798. This year of 1924 they will run from 32 to 35 million dollars, an increase of more than $15,000,000. Counting eight hours a day, six days a week and 300 working days a year, which is more time than our state officials work, the increase this year over four years ago amounts to $6,250 an hour. $50,000 a day. $300,000 a week. $15,000,000 a year. With this vast sum an army of 10,000 more employes at $5 a day could be hired throughout the year. The taxpayers foot the bill. An important part of this spendthrift administration, under which expenses have increased $50,000 a day, is the Secretary of State, who is now the Republican candidate for Governor. No voter has heard him criticise this enormous increase of taxes. Is it worth $50,000 a day to have a part of this administration at the head of the state government the next four years?

luck the first time she took a hand, and arose from the table winner by 100,000 francs. She wore the cap of pearls you see in the photograph, and says It brought her luck.

too. because we will have to be in style. But until then, we say'keep bobbed hair. BILLY AND BOBBY. She’s Sorry, Too Pear Miss Lee: Miss Dyer most certainly is right when she says if girls with bobbed hair would tell the truth they would rather hive long hair. I have had my hair cut only a little more than a week, and if I had it to do over I never would have it cut off again, al- ! though e\-ry one tells me it has im- | proved my .'oks. I had very long, thick hair. J. E. C. HOME FURNISHING Bay Windows for Sofa Bp||| I [ If there is a bay of windows in your living room, this would be a good spot for your sofa, when a change is made in the room's furniture grouping. Shawl Collars Shawl collars of fur are very’ effectively’ used on the new coats, and are frequently coupled with mous quetaire cuffs of fur.

MONDAY, SEPT. 15, 1924.

DR. COOK’S FRIEND WASHING DISHES AT LEAVENWORTH Seymour Cox, Bogus Oil Promoter, Violates Prison Rules, Bu Times Special FT. WORTH, Texas, Sept. 15. —If Seymour E. J. Cox, bogus oil promoter and business associate of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, ever chooses to write a history of his life, he can make the title read “From Million aire to Dishwasher.” Cox, who once lived in luxury at local hotels and owned several airplanes which he used for making duck-hunting trips, today is bathing the crockery in the kitchen at Leavenworth Penitentiary. He has such a good job with Uncle Sam that the latter—or rather, the Federal courts —have given him a contract for the next eight y'ears. Virtually penniless, Mrs. Cox and her 13-year-old son recently walked most of the way from Houston to Leavenworth to visit him. They found the former manipulator of millions busy with the kitchen chores. When he was first sent to the penitentiary he had an easier job, but by’ some violation of the prison rules he lost his privileges. From Leavenworth. Mrs. Cox and her son intended to proceed afoot to Lyons, Mich., where Mrs. Cox has & sister. Once before when Mrs. Cox took her son across the country they traveled by airplane. This trip was I from Houston to New York, where | Mrs. Cox took her boy to place him in an expensive private school. Cox is serving a term imposed on : him by the Federal Courts of Ft Worth and Houston. He and Dr. : Cook, fake discoverer of the North Pole, were two of the ring-leaders in | The crooked oil promotion game that | flourished here a few years ago and : fleeced millions of investors, includI ing widows and orphans, all over the • L’nited States. FIRST VOTERS ORGANIZE Sponsored by Democratic Women’s Clubs Here. Officers for the First Voters Club organized by the Seventh District Democratic Women’s Club are Evans 1 Woollen Jr., president; Cushman Hoke, Edward Raub Jr. and Thomas i Smith, vice presidents; Miss Elizaj beth Robbins, secretary, and Miss j Edna Rink, treasurer. The first open meeting of the club will be held in the clubroom on the second floor of the Indiana Democratic Club, 22 E. Vermont St., : Tuesday’ night.

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