Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 261, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1925 — Page 16

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Younger Generation of 1898 Was Criticised Like Flappers of Today

FSnilß senate young men and I women you see above arc i ULJ the fond parents of the much-criticised “young generation” of today. They are, in fact, the “younger generation” of yea- , terday, or, to be exact, of 1898. That was when they were graduated from Shortridge High School. “Then surely,” ypu suggest, "this criticism of the young people Is a recent thing. There could be nothing to criticise In a groujKho modest In dress and apparently 1 ,, '(in manner.” ... Always Criticism Eugene Mueller, history instructor, who has been at Shortridge continuously fpr thirty-thrrn. years, would t >‘ell you otherwise. Not that he t links the young % folks of the nineteenth century 1 deserved the criticism they grot. | any more thin he thinks the | “sheiks” and “flappers” of today J are not quite all right. “The young folks always have ’ been criticised by the older ones, and always will be,” he -said-.-■'Why, when the girls wore their hair in ‘waterfalls* they were called ‘extreme.’ And when they appeared with bustles they were frowned on.” It was at the i^Uer-skating rink, instead of to the dance hall, that the more “frivolous” youths and maidens of that day spent their lighter moments. Before that, back in the days when Mueller was a boy, ice-skating rinks were the center ofc attrac .on, even in summer. Picnics and Moonlight Mueller remembers, too, how he would take the schoolboys and girls out on picnics. “We would bundle ourselves into several large vans, start the horses, and off we'd go to Beech Grove—a real beech grove then 1 -?

HOODOO FRIDAY LUCKYEOR ELKS Lodge 13 to Present New Home Tonight, Friday the 13th Is a lucky day for Elks Lodge No. 13. Their new $1,500,000 club home St. Clair and Meridian Sts. will be presented to members and their families tonight at a dinner dance at 5:30 p. m., J. H. Tudbali, exUted ruler, announced. About 1,500 perrons are expected to attend tonlgnt and Saturday night. The day and date has been one of good fortune for the order. The old home was dedicated Friday June i3, 1902. I Thom is Hughes, chairman of the ooard of Governors, Is In charge of the presentation of the new building. Hubert S. Riley is chairman of the dedication committee arranging formal dedication March 29-31, when national officers will be present. Ben V. Young, new exalted ruler, will take office April 7.

El*!® m ob one I nother dagJ©ring in your old || atter may M 1 allow you full value on it. M iltors a I and HowSrdOC 'l ill) | y set: Ps*i■ y r r' I :>bal ma iM H iiiiinii * Yowr ou WiXtchl I I3W feste I ELGIN WACOM ioUdwhitefold'; 1755 0 p 17-jewel green or will o gold $45.00, I l r.m. InBD, lur b.ntlfMl UC, ",** tali. 1" ~1. %jD selection dfc all types of j 4 - . ~ • CREDIT AT CASH QgICES wfeT g f WINDSOR^ M JEWELRY COMPANY j ./ric Theatre Building * 135 North lII#- , treat B

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or perhaps to Maywood,” he reminisced. “Sometimes we weuld spend the time picking bluebells. ~..‘.‘Sometimes we would get back, .befoce dark, ’jf It were a moon-[ EX - HOOSIER ARRESTED Bu United Pre .DETROIT, March 13.-George F. billings, 35, former wealthy cattle farmer of Henry County, Indiana, who was arrested here Saturday, was leaving today with H. C. Webster of Indianapolis, superintendent of the Indiana Bankers Association of Indianapolis, to return to his home, where he is wanted on charges of swindling, v Webster charges Dillings. swindled six Indiana, banks of 144,200 and took $17,000 in Liberty bonds from his mother’s safety deposit vault. The prisoner has been a fugitive since last fall WHAT’S IN A DATE? Friday the thirteenth was responsible for a busy day at the city building commissioner's office Thurs day. Several applicants for' build, lng permits rushed in late in the aDer&con, saying they wanted )*rnits dated March 13 and not the fatal" th.. jsenth. - To Stop a Cold in One Day Take Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets. (The First and Original Cold and Grip Tablet.) A Safe and Proven Remedy. The box bears signature of E. W. Grov<\ 30c.—Advertisement.

The “Younger Generation” of Twenty-Seven Years Ago—the Shortridge High School Graduation Class of 1898.

light night, we might wait and ride home at night.” Petting? The word wasn’t known in. those day 6. Oh, of ,U*re' might have been some hand-holding. Mueller didn't thal )hers‘was—or that thero Wasn’f. ' An • Old Annual Mueller's reminiscences were started hy Some old Shortridge annuals, dating from 1884 to 1904, sold by a group of girls under direction of Mrs. Della Thompson, dean of girls, to buy school equipment. * Discussing the criticisms directed aga'nst high schoo l students of 1904, the atymtal of that year says: "U is probably >ue thatVmahy persons, not closely -connected with any high school and rot thoroughly acquainted with its purposes and methods, have, become .imbued wtsh the idea that the student body of the high setoni*, of .-America today Is frivolous ini' nin-loMJng only; that study is a neglected and despised Issue Undoubtedly, the crltlcis of our student bodies Judge us by our excrescences. T he y fail to look beneath and do not perceive the sound and healthy growth of the body.” It might have been written yesterday ir? defense of the flapper. ~~ -• Money, Money 1 Again we And, back in 1894. the row familiar cry that America is money-mad: “Money! Money! Money! The great fault of the Amercan nation, the fault of the age, lies in those words. The boy of today asks what good Latin

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and Greek will do him in the business he intends to follow.” The “younger generation” of the nineteenth century had its “waterfall,” Its huaUe, its skating parties. That ol today has Its bobs, its knickers, ts dances. And it still has its critics. The Class Graduates of the class of June, 1898, at Shortridge High School were: Obie Smith, president; Margaret Don nan, vice-president; Edna Lane, secretary: Fred Beck, treasurer; Adella Chambers, prophet; Stella Tutewiler, historian; Florence Morrison, poet. Charles Adams, Frances Adams, Margaret .Vilen, Jessie Anderson, Clara Armstrong, Leo Axtell, Elliot Ayres, Grace Baird. William Baird, Fred Beck, Herbert Boaler, Margaret Brooks. Adella Chambers, Anna Chandler, Loula Coates, Mabel. Cook. Margaret Cookson, Grace Cowan, Eunice Curtis, Ursula Daggett, Berenice Davis, Anna Dean, Elisabeth Defrees, Hauel Diets, Margaret Don nan, Louise Dryer, Adelaide Duncan. Elmer Eckhouse, Mary Egan, Samuel Elbert, Delbert Funkhouser, Grace Gelsel, Martha Hale, Josephine Hall, Avis Hargraves. Frank Hasselm&n, Daisy Herdman. Anna Hess, Rosa Heston, Paxton Hibben, Anna Hogan, Harold Jones, Florence Kahn. May Kellog, Gertruds Kely. Violet Kelvie, Louise Kendall, Jans Ketcham. Amy Kothe. Dors Kryter. Edna Lane, Florence Liebert, William Lilly, Flora Logan, Clyde Lowry, Dan McAbee, Janie McDermott, Josephine McDowell, Amy McMillan and Alexis Many. Nina Mayfield, Gertrude Miller, Maud Miller, Pearl Miller. Marguerite Miner. Nettie Mitchell.

Planting Time Is Here We Are Ready, Are You? BEAUTIFUL HOMES * k _ ' _ .. and shade trees and milt tr**>a to mid to The Joy and profit. Tha eanlCn9^>8> " Seasonable suggestions plant thorn, the wore certain wltl bo your success, and tbo longer your ea* for March juyment of them. "< f*

In Hotbed or Home Brussels sprout*, cabbare. cauliflower, celery, est plant, kohlrabi, lettuce, pepper, tomato and some kinds of flower seeds. We have them for you. In Open Ground g* r *!*• leek, onion seed and set*, peas, potatoes. ■ radishes, spinach, turnips, sweet peas, nasturtiums, all hardy shrubs, climber# and perennials, fruit and shads trees; rose boshes, traps vines, berry bushes, etc. We have them for you. f\mOLWoUf' March is the ysStflSm r?„”? n V: MW w e t. weather establishes it before the hot, dry summer. Don’t put it off. One pound, 300 square feet __ of new lawn, or reluvonatss 600 square feet of old. Nearly every lawn needs a spnnklmr of this sesd In PHce P thjS" week on Sunny Grade. fgfjte UWiFKr. Lawn Fertilizer i’j-. 100 lbs., ns.oo. Theta Indispensable shrubs vary in stse. color of flowers and season of bloominr. Ws have ths best four kinds. Van Hnnteii (Bridal wrsth>. Tau 110UlCll MlM 0 f white flowers. April and May, 8 to 8 feet. 3r* and KOe* each; *.t.2ft and M4.Sp dozen. Thiirlipreis white flowar# in i nuroergia proflwlon ln Maj , 3 to feel, ftOe each: 3 for Anthony Waterer from early sprint until fall. Dwarf, i Ts- tt*T Jsrwj** ! Billiardii t * tor " I,AOi dMeß ' Spires Special ;* w, JR* one-alflith off of the rerular prices. If by parcel post, add 10c for one, lie for three. 30c for doaen.

PRIVET For edging walkA and for border# no pla.nt ia more appropriate than the l'rivete. *o have the best four kind*. California °5 srcar - Do *- 7rit4>: uamorwa M for JOO iOT MT Two- year. Dozen. 301.25: 50 for *4.50; 100 for Sfl.BO. Amnnr Rivor Thls '• tbe btrdieat of amoor wver m. Jlttt u prtUy M the California, but never winter kill*. One year. Dosen. *1.20; 60 for HA: 100 for AIA- Two roar, Doran, *2: 60 for AT: 100 for *l2.

We DeljTer Reasonable Site Ordera la tbe City free. Catalogue Free. 227 Wert T ' VO s JORES 5 Nort}l

Florence Morrison, Lelan Mother■head. Fawn Murfcarger, Ray Newcomb, Louie Niccum, Frieda Noelke, Charlotte Nowland, Pearl Patterson, Bertha Peck, Emma Plngpank. Florence Plum, May Porterfield, Anna Reade, Cuba Reaga, Alice Reed, Fred Reid,

CALL THEM UP Look over our list of Used Car owners, select any five or six —and call them up. They’ll tell you whether it pays to buy from a reputable . / dealer. USED CAR STORE C. H. Wallerich Cos. Dedgo Brothers Meter Cars I IS. n W. NSW York St. Lincoln SOM. - Open Sn.rn.TlU 1:90 p. m., Dolly and Sunday Dodbct Brothers Ocalsrs Sea good usen Cars

March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, Is tha SWEET PEAS* 0 ** AND NASTURTIUMS wMnjr Any othar day is as rood if planted early. Ara universal There can always be a *■ t _ A I I or back yard to plant a row I rrffajS&J j Spencer Giant—Lata Flowering Spencer Giant— Early Flowering rSaas* 30 *‘ u f\Wk * iffjijr (Sokfort’s Orandlf lora £ \\|W - Hflr A class. M*py of the flowers are as laree fFIC) L'l abundance of flowers 0* \ R ©apoortou trouble. Succeed everywhere, even ij£j ' f olora—Yellow, rose. pink. " crimson, scariyw rahcavaiariJB 1 * * **• Wm, % '/Tl Glsnt Dwarf or Bedding . /.\ It Separate Colors—Golden purple, bronze, dark / P3& ifhxr >*-*•*- (ilMs ; -HI '•'" EB '”-V™rr,g , - r 11 "" (Jw

Ikntia Spreading and tall growing, auuua The h€rdJeit 0 f th * group. RS'|S!sp , vaa'^e : 0 55 jfffiktgag: Wv^WTrflS Lodentc Dttarf variety making a very- donee growth, exypy&°ssr„“&‘wyfc ii: is i.fSfea.*'*Privet Special JK| SMJ'St-SF&.’XiJLa. You ought to aoe our fine etocks.

Charles Ripley, Edith Robinson, Roy Ross. Franklin Rude, Estella Ryan. Winifred Ryan, Emma Schmidt, May Sellers, Hines Share, Maurice Shearer, Florence Skinner, Leora Smith, Oble Smith, Rose Solomon, Bells Somerville, Mary Stonf,

Spray ff".ysa swSterttg spraying for the San Joae acale. Spray-' ora -tlO* P- we have a spray .Os Ti powder for ercrv ill. Bird seed. food*. remedies and . accewories. Try ours igKWk.

alary Stubbs, Golie Stucker, Bertha Sweeny, Letlatl Thuemmler, Merrill Talbot, Ross Thomas, Inez Thurston, Stella Ttuewller, Balnea Weakly, Fannie White, Mabel Whitenack, Emma Whitsit, Estella Willis, Charles Wilson, Edward Wright.

Second Floor Kresge Bldg. J|jMMPpig Cor. Wash, and Penn.

New Spring Shoe Styles At Rock Bottom Prices Women’s Patents, Men’s Low and Satins and Kid High Leathers Shoes $3.05 and $4.5 School Shoes, n0w.51.98 Men’s Work Shoei, army Children’* Shoe*, down to’?f.... $2.48 HOW ~,1, Men's Shoes, down to fI.BB HEID’S SHOE STORE 1546 N. Illinois St. 233 E. Washington, Opp. Courthouse

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NOONDAY MEETINGS END Texas Minister Called Home By Death of Father. Dr. George W. Truett, Dallas, Texas, who was called home because of the death of his father, will not be able to complete the series of meetings at First Baptist church. Dr. Frederick E. Taylor, pastor of the First Baptist church, conducted the last noon-day meeting at Keith’s Theater today. Are You One of the 98% ? Recently the Lydia E. Plnkhrm Medicine Cos., of Lynn, MasA, sent out over one hundred thousand questionnaires to women who had used Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, asking If they had bscn helped by its use,. From the replies received 98 per cent of women, from all walks of life, answered In the affirmative, telling how they had been relieved from the various ailments for which they had taken ft. Isn't this a wonderful recommendulion for the efficiency of this oldfashioned root and herb medicine,— Advertisement.

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