Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1927 — Page 9

JAN. 22, 1927

TRIAL DIVORCES, NOT TRIAL MARRIAGES, ARE NEEDED

Martha Lee Believes Many Couples Separate Thinking 1 They Have Ceased to Love Each Other Only to Realize Mistake Too Late. By Martha Lee Often we hear someone talk about trial marriages, advocated as a precautionary measure against a trip to Reno, but here’s anew suggestion that’s much more sensible —trial divorces.

Those who have are putting this idea forward are going on the theory that many husbands and wives think they have ceased to love each other, when they’re only fed up on each other’s society. Many persons, it seems, long for freedom when they only need a rest. They think of divorce as a panacea for every ill, but find out when they try it that the remedy is worse than the disease. Hardly have they carted home (heir divorce decree, than distance lending enchantment to the estranged, one, they begin to remember his or her good points. Husband may have been grumpy and cross, but he was a good provider, -he will reflect. Wifie was a bit off n some respects, but she certainly ,as a good cook, he’ll reflect, etc. ’.oth will at times feel lonelier than 'iji islanders on Broadway. If their divorce had been a trial ■ne, It wouldn’t be many moons until he’d be making biscuits for him i gain and he, with the memory of i lonely boarding house behind him, would make renewed efforts to be a I pleasant husband, according to Hoyle. Trial divorces really do seem to have good points. Prefers Husband No, 1 Dear Martha Lee: Will you please offer your advice? I am now separated from my husband, the father of my children. I have married again. Husband number two won t work and he drinks and I've left him am living in rooms with the children. Their father comes to Bee them and wants me to get a divorce from my present husband and remarry him. We have both had our lesson and I'm sure I could he a good and loyal wife and mother. Pon t you think the children need both father and mother? MRS. M. L. Too bad you didn't realize that before you divorced your husband, Mrs. M. L. Os course, there is small nuestion that the children would be better off with both of their natural parents, and I hope, for their sakes, it works out that way. However, you can scarcely dismiss your present husband with no more thought than you would a last year’s hat. Proceed carefullly and be sure you are right before you go ahead. Jokingly Said Yes Dear Martha Lee: You have helped hers—perhaps you can help me. I am >!• years old. Mv problem is about a an, of course. They cause all the trou- ’ 'e, don't they? I went with a fellow hr,ut a year, but we split up because I ■ hln’t know when I was well off and had idee fellow. My cousin says he still I have been going with another fellow, asked me to marry him and I‘ jokingly '•id. "Yes" Now he wants to take me ; t my word. He is a fine fellow, but J :u t forget the first one. What shall I Cos? FLOSSIE. Feeling as you do, you are treating the last man unfairly. Tell l.tm I frankly at once that you did not fnean what you said and give him the choice of being your friend, not your lover if he wishes. You will feel better satisfed If you know whether the first man has replaced you in his heart, so see if your cousin can’t arrange for you two to meet and perhaps you can then judge of his feelings. Suspense gnaws at the heart, so get this over if you can. Never Looks for Work Dear Miss Lee: I am a girl of 18. I have been married a year. My husband lias been out of work for fully two months. We roomed in an apartment until we ran short of money, and now we staying with his people. But I do not seem to get along with them. My Viusband never looks for work, lo'd him if he didn’t get a job soon I ■•as going to get one and then room bv myself. Miss Lee, do you think he would et a job if I did this? He says he loves •ne. but don’t seem to care how much my •emus are hurt by staying here. Or vould I be doing wrong by leaving him ? Please give mo your advice. MARGIE. Don’t leave him, Margie. Maybe your life Is miserable with you Inlaws, but remember they keep a roof over your head which your husband wouldn't be able to do at the present time. Have you talked with him and told him that you and his folks couldn’t get along and that you preferred what every wife prefers—a home of her own? Tell him he is not acting the part of the real husband, that he is more like a dependent and helpless relative that you must care for. but that ou demand he get out and work. If you take this assertive manner mayhap he will wake up. He only needs a good poke to jar him out of I,is dreaming, but be sure you don't hit too hard. You might find yourself without any help at all.

Big Four Will Hold Minstrel Jan . 27

J. P. Kestlei will be one of the end men in the minstrel show to t be given by the Big Four Athletic Association at the new National Guard Armory, 711 N. Pennsylvania St., Jan. 27. The other fun makers will be W. G. McDonald. Charles Williams, H. Seitz, J. P. Dorsey and H. Hoffmeister.

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Musical features will include solos by Clarence H. Witt, E. E. Hamblin, Lee E. Davis, Z. E. Day, Mr. .Saunders, and Miss Patra Kennedy, also selections by string and vocai quartets, and a mixed chorus of 50 voices. The Big Four Athletic Association Band will give a concert preceding the minstrel show, beginning at 8 I* M. A LITTLE SALT Nearly every cake or muffin recipe needs a little salt—about a half level teaspoon for an average caltc. DEEP JARS Deep jars for growing plants make t— healthy roots.

EMERGENCY SHELF AIDS POT-LUCK It Should Contain Full Meal From Soup to Dessert. By Sister Mary Do you have an “emergency shelf” in your pantry? If you don’t you will find it very much worth while to put one in. Often some friend happens in and, because we feel the forthcoming meal is lacking some necessary elements, we fail to urge her to take “pot-luck” with us. Os course an emergency shelf must be composed chiefly of canned products , and here your knowledge of the different brands of canned goods will stand you in good stead. Choose only the best meats and vegetables, fruits and condiments for the shelf, remembering that often there isn’t time for that dressing up and manipulating that makes the cheaper brands attractive and appetizing. As the shelf is stocked, plan definitely just what each article of food will be usedfor at the time of emergency. You might have a small grocery store at your elbow, but without a variety that will furnish a well-bal anced and appetizing meal the emergency shelf is lacking in its mission. If possible your shelf should contain the makings of a full meal—soup meat, vegetables, salad and desert — each article chosen for its compatibility with other foods so that the effect of an impromptu and hit-or-miss meal is effaced. 4 Don’t Repeat Flavors In planning meals, avoid any repetition of flavors. For instance, don’t serve a cream of tomato soup followed by scalloped tomatoes or eggs of fish in a tomatd sauce. If nuts appear in the salad, don't repeat them in the desert. If a fruit cocktail begins the meal, keep away from a fruit salad. It is quite seldom that a whole meal must be arranged from the emergency shelf—usually just an additional or "company” touch is needed. For this extra touch, Keep a can of nuts ill cracked and picked out ready to use, a tin box of marshmallows, a tin of extra fine salad wafers, a bottle of olives, a jar of mayonnaise and a package of the long-keeping variety of cheese. Home-made catsup or chili sauce added to the mayonanise will mako a Russian dressing to serve with head lettuce for a dinner salad that is sure to please. Or the nuts and olives can be finely chopped combined with cheese and made into tiny balls served on lettuce leaves if the amount of lettuce Is short and must be augmemted. The salad wafers, lightly buttered and quickly toasted add much to any salad but are particularly acceptable if the portions must be stretched to go ’round. A can of salmon tuna fish, crab meat, shrimp or boned chicken will solve a luncheon salad problem or the luncheon main dish. Any one of the fish or the chicken will be most satisfactory if served in a well-sea-soned cream sauce on hot, split baking powder biscuit. The hot biscuits preclude any idea of emergency, yet. take but a few extra minutes to make. A can of rich chicken soup and a can of tomato soup are invaluable. The chicken soup needs only to be reheated without even the addition of water. The tomato soup requires reheating with a pinch of soda and the addition of milk or cream. Lady fingers and macaroons can be kept fresh in cans and are always good with canned fruit or a plain many varieties of canned puddingS

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on the market that can be served with little preparation. The canned plum pudding is good with a quickly made lemon sauce. Keep Shelf Stocked The vegetables are almost legion, but perhaps a few suggestions about serving them may be welcome. Serve asparagus on toast with melted butter poured over. This will “stretch” the vegetable satisfactorily for din ner, or with a fish salad provide ari acceptable main hot dish for luncheon. Poached eggs can be served on toast with the asparagus to make a heartier dish. Peas are excellent served in a thin cream sauce. Corn is delicious baked like custard with eggs and milk Stewed tomatoes gain distinction if like a custard with, eggs and milk, tiny crisp cubes of toast are sprinkle over the top. Canned spinach should be carefully seasoned with butter and lemon juice and garnished with hard cooked egg. Once more suggestion. As soon as you use anything from the shelf, replace it. Otherwise you will soon find the shelf depleted and valueless. And don't use the stock uneless it’s a real emergency. This tends toward extravagance and inefficiency.

The WOMAN’S DAY ' B.v Allene Sumner

FARMER BEAUTY SHOPS If the poor, abused, drudging farmer’s wife could get to a beauty shop more readily and there, midst rose and gold cretonnes and the fragrance of spicy unguents, yield herself to the beautifler’s ministrations, there would not be such a problem of how you gonna keep the women down on the farm. This, according to the theory of a lady farm bureau director. She says that more beauty parlors, more roadhouses and more tea rooms in the rural regions would keep wives in those great open spaces of rurality. Tell this to farm wives of this nation and see their expressions of disdain. Most of them will tell you what they need first is plumbing and electric lights. WOMEN WANT HARD WORK Lady Cynthia Mosley of England, canvassing the country for her husband, Oswald Mosley, Socialist can-

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Robert Lieber, president of the First National Pictures, who is also vice president of the Circle Theater Company in Indianapolis, is shown

dldate, told the harassed wives of miners, farm tenants and tho like, that the Socialist system would give them nurses for their children and permit them to send the children to the seaside. • To her surprise, this promise did not receive an over-gracious reception. The reason is simple. Carp and bemoan their hard lot as women will, they resent any attempt to

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making his famous telephone conversation with London, England, when he addressed a sales convention of First National Pictures.

wrest any of their many jobs from j them. They glory in their own ne- : cessity, and seem to have no other interests with which to All up the gaps as one set of jobs is takep from them. SHAKE A SAUCEPAN! Mrs. Michael Angelo's art dinner created out of vegetables was as great a masterpiece as her famed husband’s colossal “Moses" in marMe, the only difference being that hers was transient and his permanent. This is the point of view set forth by a lady writer who extols the glories of cooking as she declares that women must shoo themselves back into the kitchens. The lady says that women can no longer look to servants for salvation. She says that restricted immigration laws have smothered the influx of Irish colleens and others eager to be “willing workers" in “a lady’s kitchen,” and that wives themselves must be the cooks of the future, if we do not starve. She is clever in making her approach to “the new woman” via philosophy, as she insists that cookery is a high and worthy art, with a perfect meal “leaving an imperishable record in the soul.” Someone has said that you can get today’s woman to do anything if you smother the “anything” in enough “high-sounding talk.”

BOXHOLDERS LISTED Will Attend Little Theatre’s Arabian Night Ball. Boxholders for the Little Theatre “Arabian Night* ball to be given Friday evening at the Athenaeum are: Messrs, and Mesdames O. H. Bradway, Robert Brewer, C. Fred Davis, James B. Steep, Donald Morris, T. W. Dellass, M. C. Furscott, C. C. Karrer, Walter Lieber, Robert Winslow, J. C. Pierce, Wayne Reddick, Julian Gardner Rogers, Everett Schofield, Walter Montgomery, Stuart Dean, Hartley Sherwood, Arthur t Woodard, Robert Wild, Col. John | Reynolds, Dr. A. F. Weyerbacker ! and Mrs. Edna Christian will be ! hostess to the Delta Gamma girls of Sutler University. The Riley Hospital Cheer Guild , will meet Tuesday at 2 at the ' Chamber of Commerce, instead of the Clay pool.

TO ELECT OFFICERS Woman’s City Club Will Choose New Heads Wednesday. The following names will appear un the ballot for election of the Woman's City Club at a meeting Wednesday evening at the Chamber if Commerce: Mrs. Hazel Workman .'or president: Miss Lola I. Perkins, vice president: Miss Erminie Young, reasurer; Miss Mayme Blades, treasurer; Miss Harriett Bateman, auditor, and the directors for three years: Mrs. Sara Major Abery, Mrs. Izona Shirley and Miss Mary Peacock. Proposed revision* of the by-laws will be taken up. Reservations may lie made with Miss Bateman at the Kahn Tailoring Company. crease spots Remove grease spots from the wall paper by spreading blotting paper over them and then pressing with a warm iron. WHITE LACE Delicate wnite lace should he washed in skim milk to which a little bluing has been added. RUBBER GLOVES Rubber gloves should be dried inside and out before they / are put away, to prevent rotting.

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Saint and Sinner By ANNE AUSTIN

Wealthy RALPH CLUNY. 68. was murdered just before he was to have married frivolous CHERRY LANE. 18. Immediately Cherry disappears leaving a note lor her sister FAITH, sa.vins she eould not go on with the wedding, Cherry’s elopement with CHRIS WILEY becomes known. News of the murder is kept from Cherry’s invalid mother, but she knows of Cherry's marriage. Cherry has been engaged several Once she tried to run away with ALBERT ETTELSON. a married traveling salesman, and was rescued by her sister and BOfi HATHAWAY. Faith s flange and nephew of Cluny. Cherry admits that Cluny attempted to force the marriage but protests her innocence. , _ T , ... Faith suspects Chris Wiley thinking he knew that Cluny had willed much money to Cherry. Charles Reilly Neff who drew 1 up the will, testifies that Cluny made Cherry his chief beneficiary whether or not she rimmed him. The coroner's jury releases Cherry, but immediately she, and her husband are arrested by DEVLIN, deputy district attorney. . Faith is furious when Boh tells her ATTORNEY STEPHEN CHURCHILL, whom he employed, thinks circumstances are against Cherry and suggests a plea of self-defense as the best chance of her freedom. , ... , Peculiar footprints and a bit of torn strap suggest that the murderer might be a cripple, but this evidence is not presented. Cherry is indicted for first-degree murder. Dr. Atkins asked them to wait for a moment outside the closed door of the room in which Martha Lane had died, while he conferred for a moment with the interne and the nurse who were keeping vigil within. When he opened the door, the nurse, a slim, bobbed-haired, healthyiooking little girl, slipped, with a rustle of her starched skirts, past the huddled group at the door. Even in her grief, Faith could not keep from wondering, in a detached, resentful way, what the girl really thought about death, how much she really cared that her patient had died so suddenly and so dramatically. The three who had loved Martha Lane because she belonged to them, and had served for many years, before heart trouble and diabetes had turned her into a querulous, com-

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plaining semi-invalid, took each other’s hands and advanced on tiptoe to the bed where they had laid her. The mass of pillows which had been necessary to make breathing comfort able, had been discarded. For the first time in years. Faith saw her mother lying almost prone, only one smooth pillow beneath the heavy, gray-haired head. The covers—only a sheet and counterpane were needed now—were folded back across the broad bosom with the mathematical precision of hospital bedmaking. “Don’t cry so, daughter,” Jim Lane begged, as Faith Hung herself down by the bed and laid her head for the last time on her mother's breast. Junior leaned against the curved iron headpiece of the bed and cried, ■n rough, hard gasps, as his hand stroked the graying hair from the cold, serene forehead. Even as she wept. Faith saw the pity of that, too. While his mother lived, Jur.ior had shown her only an occasional shyaffection —a hasty kiss on the cheek, an arm flung carelessly about her great, fat shoulders. And in all her life. Faith had never sat In her mother's lap and cuddled her head on her breast, telling her secrets or sobbing out childish griefs. But Cherry had —Cherry had—and it was Cherry who had killed her mother. "Wasn't Cherry really a murderess now? Cherry, who had loved her mother, had given her more trouble than all the other children put together, Faith reflected bitterly. But Cherry had loved her —that after all, was the ini portant thing. “Oh, Mother!” Faith’s wailing sob scream in the tensely quiet room, of utter grief and remorse rose to a “Come away, Faith,” Bob Hatha way, standing just behind her, com manded her suddenly. “You’re mak ing yourself ill. And making it hard er for your father, too.” Faith rose unsteadily, with the aid of Bob's arms, and turned blindly toward her father. Jim Lane’s arm? went out mechanically to but his dazed, staring eyes did no> leave his dead wife’s face. His fact was grayer, more like clay from which life has fled, than hers. Al ways inarticulate, humble, he had m words now for the grief which he ap parently accepted, as he had a< cepted every tragedy. which had come into his thwarted life. “She —she looks natural, don’t she?” as asked dully, of no one iii particular. "Martha was always & mighty pretty girl. Martha—” Bui this time the word was spoken to he, 'dead ears, as he shuffled to the bed and looked down upon the face ol tha woman with whom he had lived for more than twenty-three years "Martha —I'll do my best for the chi) dren—for—for Cher.-y-” He spok* tho last word very softly, in hit husky, dull voice, as if he thought the very sound of that beloved na’.m could stir those quiet eye-lids. (Copyright, TOST, NEA Service, Inc.) NEXT: Obscure Martha Lam* achieves fame b.v dying.