Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 297, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1927 — Page 9

MARCH 19,1927

NO POEMS ABOUT STEPFATHERS, BUT THERE SHOULD BE

Martha Lee Pays Tribute to the Men Who Sacrifice Pleasure and Money to Feed, Clothe, Educate Another’s Children. By Martha Lee This is about stepfathers. They are often tlie stuff of which heroes are made. Generally we’ve reversed on the old opinion of stepmothers The wicked kind still exists, but we recognize that the gooc ones are greatly in the majoi’ity. However, little is said of the good stepfathers of the world.

Yet the splendid traits of the Man' Next Door, who because of his love for their mother, gives his best efforts to the task of rearing her children, should not be overlooked. There’s something a bit finer than common clay in the make-up of a man who sacrifices many of his pleasures and much of his time and money that another’s children may be fed, clothed and educated. No poems are written, no songs sung in eulogy of the good stepfathers of the world, but they deserve them! Give Them a Stepfather? Dear Martha Dee: I have a big problem. I am a divorced woman and have two children, a little boy 9 and a girl 5. Their father was cruel to me and it has affected my opinion of men. but some time ago X met a man who seems to worship me. ' He has asked me to marry him and is perfectly willing to take the children and says he will do all in the world for them that he can. But my mother advises me not to marry again. Do you think I can trust this man? MRS. MYRTLE. If you feel sure of this man’s love for you, I think it is a very good risk —that is, if you love him, which you neglected to say. If your mother’s opinion is based only upon prejudice against the children's having a stepfather, I think you should not let that weigh heavily. There are many fine men and women who owe their rearing and education to the unselfish efforts of stepfathers.

Accepted His Gift Dear Martha Lee: I have been employed by a man who recently left the city. Before he left, he remembered some of his friends with gifts and I was among them. He said. “I hope your husband won't mind your accepting this little gift as I give i twith every good intention. Now, Miss Lee. my husband is just raving about this and said X should not have taken it. It's all I hear about morning and inght. What do you think of this? A TIMES READER. It would have been better for you to have very gently refused the gift I believe, but as the man has left the city and as his thought about it was evidently not a personal one, I think your husband should let the matter drop. Not Sure of Herself Dear Martha Lee: I am a young girl, is and I am going with a fellow who has been married but is now divorced. He wants me to marry him. but for some reason I feel doubtful of him and of myself But I don't seem able to give turn up. What do you think of thls -^ ITTY Well at least don’t marry him until you are sure of your own feelings as well as his. I suppose you mean that which we call “intuition” with your full trust in However, it seems scarcely fair to him to doubt him with no definite reason for doing so. Wait a while though and see if your intuition has grounds. He’s Very Jealous Dear Miss Lee: I’m a high school girl and I am in love with a senior. We ve I,,.eii keeping steady company, but Miss l. e. it is something terrible how jealous he is of me—even of my girl friends. We’ve had a quarrel because I went to a him\.pT h a 6 Yes, for the present at least. You are too young to be having steady company and a fellow with such an abnormally jealous disposition will cause you much inharmony. Perhaps when he gets older, he’ll learn more self control. Pupils Will Give Costume Recital Pupils of Signorina Gertrude Conte and a number of assisting artist will give a costume recital at 8 p. m. Thursday at the Irvington public school, E. Washington St. and Hitter Ave. Included in the program is a one-act play, “Her Call,” by Gertrude Conte, and “A Neopolitan Lover’s Quarrel.” “Dawn in Mermaid Sea,” will include numbers by Elizabeth McClure, Robert Halter, Miss Adelaide and Miss Gertrude Conte and a chorus. Among those on the program are: Martha Killion, Dorothy Saltsman, Hontani, Victoria Toggiani, Jlrma Vollrath, Mrs. C. S. Miller, E. w Archenbach, V. Dreese, Mildred Kleine, E. Norris, Cecelia O’Mahoney, J. Rotz, M. Riley, E. Tracy, Joe Perrin, Ernst Heberlein, Cyrilla Tuite, Esther Levkovits, Marjory Hennis, Betty Randall and Katherine Smith. Those having part in the play are Marion Lowman, Thelma Caldwell, Cecelia O’Mahoney, Veda Norman and Mildred Kleine. CLUB HOSTESS Mrs. E. C. Shaffer is hostess for the bridge party Sunday afternoon at the lioosier Athletic Club. PARENT-TEACHER CLUB The March meeting of the ParentTeacher Association of School 10 will be held Wednesday evening at 7:30. An operatta, “The Shut-Up Posey,” will be given by the children of the school.

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MODERATION IN MOTHERHOOD

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson The devoted mother of a son is talking. After having outlined a program of great nobility and selflacrifice, she has given up her social affairs, her clubs, and will devote herself exclusively to her boy. I have brought him into the world; I am responsible for him and feel it my duty to give him my entire attention until he is old enough to leave home. Theoretically this is a beautiful sentiment; practically it will never work. Motherhood, being the highest calling on earth and involving the deepest affections, must be practiced in moderation and the woman who indulges her love too muSh will live to regret it. It is true that many women neglect their children for club work and social affairs, but the other extreme is often more detrimental to both child and parent. For youngsters can become unspeakably bored with too constant attention. Even a mother can become tiresome, especially if she does not keep her mind alert. It is a bad thing to have a child tied to his mother’s apron strings, twit it iS/far worse for a growing boy to have a mother fastened to his coat-tails. The woman who gives up everything for her children is sowing seeds of sorrow. She will become stupid through her immolation, she will fail to keep up with things of interest and importance to her sons and daughters, until finally she will assume the role of martyr, which has killed more love than any other one thing. And when the time comes for the children to leave the home nest she will be a broken-hearted old woman. The self-sacrificing mother of song and story may make a hit in fletiofi, but the modern child needs somebody with a lot more backbone. Our children demand more than mere hand service from their mothers. They want someone of whom they can be proud, who can go anywhere with them and demand a share of attention, who can serve their minds as well as their bodies. The bitterest draught a mother can drink is pressed to her lips when she realizes that her child is ashamed of her, and this potion is always of her own mixing.

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Y.W.C.A NOTES

INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT Theme of the State Industrial Conference to be held at Ft. Wayne, next Saturday and Sunday is “(Group Consciousness.” Locai delegates will meet Monday at 7:15. Miss Annetta Diekmann, National Industrial Secretary from New York will be the executive of the conference. Members of the Dramatic Club under the direction of their advisor, Miss Kathryn Harrod, will be responsible for the dinner program of the Industrial Department next Wednesday night, the theme of whicli will be "An Evening With Paul Lawrence Dunbar.” Dinner will be served at the usual hour 6:15. The Educational Adventures at 8:00 will be Elementary Sociology, with Mrs. Ralph Carter; An Evening With the Stars from the roof garden of Blue Triangle Hall, with Miss Dale Waterbury; dramatics under Miss Kathryn Harrod, and current events, the leader to be announced. A ukulele class under Miss Fern Bowers is also being formed. Preceding supper there will be music and a brief Lenten talk by Miss Pearl B. Forsyth. The Young Business Women’s Department will meet for dinner at 6:30 p. m., followed by a program and theater party. GIRL RESERVE NOTES The club themes for the spring months are ‘ Nature Lore” and “Camp.” Music appreciation is also taking an important part. Each club will /ha#e an Easter service. The next inter-club event on Music Appreciation” will be held April 9. Grade school girl reserve clubs, Schools 14, 15, 33 and 78, met at the end of tile East Michigan car line this, morning, from which point they took a cross country hike. A camp fire with wieners and marshmallows was a feature. The Girl Reserve Club of School 11 had charge of devotions for the Thursday morning assembly. Twelve girls, each representing one of the twelve lines of the girl reserve code took part in a beautiful and impressive service. The Manual Club wall meet Friday with swimming at 4:30, followed by supper at 6. Manual Club held a skating party Frfday night. The girl reserve committee, Mrs. George Gill, chairman, met Wednesday morning. Those present: Mrs. Frank Linton, Mrs. C. M. Starr, secretary; Mrs. Walter P. Morton, Miss Gertrude Gamlin, Mrs. A. Ikoff and Mrs. Harold Hinkle. Mrs. Frank Linton, 'who has charge of inter-club events, announced a vesper service and pageant, “The Resurrection of Our Lord,” to be given by the high school girls, April 10 (Palm Sunday), at 3:30 in Hollenbeck Hall, Y. W. C. A. Miss Annie Moore Daughtry gave a report of the work of the camp committee. The dates decided upon are May 21, Jubilee at Camp Delight; June 13-23, high school period; July 7-18, grade school girls camp period; July 19-29, grade school camp period. April 17-24 to Be U , S, Garden Week National Garden week, with the slogan, “Garden Nation of the World in 1930,” will be observed from April 17 to 24, Miss Vida Newsom, chairman of the garden committee of the Central Federation of Women's clubs, has announced. The project has the indorsement of President Cooltdge and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. “The purpose of National Garden Week,” Miss Newsom said, “is to promote interest and arouse enthusiasm in the planting of gardens as an ennobling avocation, a contribution to the joy of the individual and the community and as an attribute of good citizenship.”

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IS ROAST BEEF SERVED AT WHITE HOUSE AS AN ANTIDOTE FOR CAVIAR?

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The private dining room of President and Mrs. Cooiidge in the White H ouse.

By Allene Sumner CHAPTER XI WASHINGTON, March 19.—“ The President of the United States will be here at 8 tomorrow night." The word goes forth through the big hotels of the capital city. Perhaps it is a cabinet dinner given by a member of portfolio who either lives in a hotel suite without kitchen and servant staff, or whose good lady, feeling utterly unable to cope

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with the job of feeding the President from her own kitchen, prefers to fete him outside. Anyway, the President is coming. Washington hotels do not get unduly fussed because they are constantly prepared for this emergency. It’s just part of their job. Most of them have dined Presidents throughout many generations. They know the party must be held in a private room. They know

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that the secret service will call that day to inspect seating arrangen ents and all entrances and exits., The President may not sit with' his back to any door or window. If he is dining in a private suite, the secret service men find out the family lineage of the families living next door and above and below. The secret service men are given a list of every member of the staff

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who will serve the President—the doorman, the hat boys, the waiters. When the presidential car leaves the White House the manager of the hotel is called by phone. He lines up his reception committee. Presidential Menu The manager, the assistant managers, and an imposing array of subalterns line up at the side entrance which the presidential party enters. One hotel reserves a ground floor suite of huge ball-room and bath for the entire evening when the President is entertained in the hotel, merely so the President may leave his hat and overcoat in an absolutely private room. Hotels of the capital have a regular “Presidential menu." If, in this holy city, you sit down to a dinner which starts with plain fruit cocktail. it’s a pretty sure sign the President is not at the same table with you. But if a waiter deposits before you a Russian caviar canape ($2 per order) it is possible that he is. Million for Official Eating The riddle goes like this, Maitre d’hotels have learned that when a state society or a cabinet family or a something or somebody biggish is entertaining the * President, they think that they must order the most expensive menu possible. Any number of maltr? d'hotels in this city, which spends one million dollars a year in one hotel alone for official “eating,” told me that it is almost Impossible to make even a presidential menu cost more than sls a plate, but that by decorating the table with sunken fountains and fifty dozens of roses, with orchids at the ladies’ plates, they can manage to to make the bill run $5,005, which most entertainers of the President want before they are satisfied. If you are eating with the President, you will probably be fed Russian caviar, green turtle soup, terrapin, English pheasant and a

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myriad more courses of imported food. Roast Beef at the White Ho-.se Perhaps the stock “expensive menu” for the President is why the White House banquets them* selves go in for such mundane things as plain fruit cocktail, tomato soup and roast beef, as a sort of antidote. The inner circle is still talking a little about the menu at the White House when Queen Marie of all the Rumanians was guest of honor. Plain roast beef was the piece de resistance. “It was funny, but at one of the earlier state dinners we had a lovely menu of caviar and green turtle soup and squabs.” said one of the official women guests. “Many of us thought that this plnln roast beef menu was a deliberate attempt to show the queen that we lived simply over here.” Certain fish which have lunge as well as gills have been bred by a London scientist to live on land.

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