Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 304, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1927 — Page 5

MARCH 29 1927

WHAT DO MEN THINK OF WOMEN?

One Male Reader Asks Why They Don’t Wear Shoes That Fit Their Feet and Why They Don’t Buckle Up Their Galoshes —Another Criticises Mothers. By Martha Lee “If 1 were a woman, I’d be a sure enough woman,’’ a man writes in to this column, “and I wouldn’t weaken my appeal by trying to act and look like a man.’’ * This man gives us some pungent advice and although lie added the postscript, “Thank God, I’m not a woman,” we think he really meant this for our good. Anyway, this is what he says:

“Why don’t women wear shoes <that fit their feet?—even if they would have to be number twelves? and why can’t they, in wet weather, take an extra minute and buckle up their galoshes? “If I were , *a woman and didn't have a good natural complexion, I might be tempted to use a lip stick and rouge, but I think I’d surely apply them with a mirror in hand and not emerge looking like an Indian on the war path.” Ladies, this may .be food for thought. While we’re on the subject, below Is a letter from another Lman who thinks we need advice: Bet This Man’s a Bachelor Dear Martha Lee: Why don't mothers nowadays give some thought to the proIrssion of motherhood? As far as I have observed, they are trying to do everything else these days, why don't they try to be good mothers? X see young girls pouring into picture shows and dance halls by the score with apparently no one caring or taking care of them. With their greater opportunities it would seem that w.omen should be better mothers than they used to lie. hut are they? MR. GROUCH. Dozens and dozens of my letters indicate that women are feeling a constantly added desire to be good mothers, Mr. Grouch. It’s a tremendous job these days. Shall She - Tel I Him? Dear Martha Lee: Do you think a woman who has given birth to a lovely son out of wedlock does right or wrong to keep the father of this child in ignorance that he has a son on this earth? The child is now 10 months old. The father is well off and could help care for him. The mother went away seven months before the child was born, has never seen the man since or answered his letters. He told her he would do all he could for her if the child was born. Shall 6he tell him? E. 9. On the face of it, it would seem

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that the father should be told, If the child would thereby be benefited. However, the young mother’s going away indicates that the man must be married or have serious other obligations. In that case, she should consider whether she would he doing right to risk the breaking up of a home, or what might develop from this revelation. Man Is Much Older Dear Martha I.ee: What are the possibilities of happiness from a marriage where the man is in the late forties and the girl in the twenties? Isn't it likely in such a marriage as this as the girl is interested in the cold practical proposition of home and matrimony rather than in love? G. W. So much depends upon the girl’s disposition. My observation convinces me that difference in temperament, much more than difference in age, is the deciding factor of happiness in marriage. The girl’s thought may in no way be a selfish one. A serious minded girl often admires matured intelligence and judgment. Shall She Wear Mourning? Dear Martha T.ce: lam a young woman recently widowed. What kind of mourning ought 1 wear? Is a blaCk strip of crepe around the arm proper? MRS. M. K. There Is a marked tendency to not wear mourning garments and I think this is good. Mourning calls attention to one’%,sorrow everywhere the bereaved one goes and the psychological effect is not good. I would not adopt such garments if I were you.

daughter must “come out.” And “coming out" can cost very little less than at least a thousand dollars. and then the fruit punch won’t be as strong as it might ho . It s hard work being a deb in the capital city. First of all. there are .10 girls to every “eligible male," and by "eligible” one means a male whose name is on a social secretary’s list. The Elevator Man #tis occupation doesn’t especially matter. In fact, one girl who danced divinely in the arms of a soulful- I orbed swain at a dinner the night before, found herself riding in the elevator which lie motormans, the next day. Social secretaries are loathe to con fees that elevator motor men are on their priceless "men” lists which are sold for a nice sum. But they don't deny it. Gigolos, being those well groomed members of the genus male who toil not, neither do they drive oar?T unless it he the car of some rich woman, are recognized necessities in Washington. Several social secretaries who will do everything and anything from arranging place cards in the" White House state dining room to teaching a congressman’s lady what to say when introduced, also' keep lists of “personable young men” who will present themselves with a gardenia in the buttonhole to guide a rather stout and • elderly dowager through j the intricate mazes of the dance, if i her check is big enough. Back on Main Street a young man would be insulted unless lie paid tor his girl’s ticket to a show, but in Washington the girl’s family quite often supplies the ticket. Just the old story of supply and demand. Big demand. Small supply. so why should the supply spend money? Sowing of the Deb Crop The sowing of the deb crop is an interesting thing. Strictly speaking, and girl, just anybody, can be a deb i Whether she gets hv or not is another tiling. Many try it, however. There have been at least one and possibly two casualties this season. One girl in the case was fairly pretty the daughter of a grocer who had made money. The family had plenty of money to play the deb pace and was very respectable. There was no scandal in the family’s past, which is more than can,be,said concerning some of the moss prominent families in Washington society. “Rear Entrance” for Tradesmen But the snobbish elite of the capital have always referred to grocers' families as “tradesmen.” It is significant that on every Washington apartment is the sign. and Servants Use Entrance.” Washington society will welcome with open arms the humblest sixth secretary of a foreign legation, but the front door of aristocratic society is always closed to the wealthiest tradesmen. But one social secretary decided to take a chance on the grocer’s daughter. She arranged a “coming out” tea for her at one of the most aristocratic hotels, sent out the engraved invitations—but not six people attended. “The cave dwellers” sharpened their fangs when they heard, for instance, that none less than the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, was “paying attention” to the widow of a “mere tradesman.” The widow was Mrs. Edith Bolling Galt, widow of a jeweler—“quite impossible socially,” according to the edict. But even “cave dwellers” cannot ignore President’s wives, and wlun the “impossible Mrs. Galt” became Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, First Lady of the Land, the first to kow-tow unto her were those who had scratched her to pieces during the wooing days of the President. Few women have ever graced the

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“I suppose I’m a fool, but I want to follow that man, find out where the beggar got out and he got in. lie may have picked up the cab just as old Phil -left it. You sit here, Faith, and if a cop tries to pinch you for parking in the ‘No Parking’ zone, tell him I’m on police business. God knows I hope I ami” And Bob swung out of his car and ran into tlw-building. A uniformed elevator starter had just given the signal for a car to close its door and ascend when Bob reached the row of elevators. Through the glass doors of the ascending cai he clearly saw his man. “Can you tell me who that gentleman is?” he asked the starter. “The last one who entered the car—the man in the gray overcoat and hat, middle-aged, tall and thin?” “Why, that’s Mr. Hutchinson, president of ‘The Modern Terpsichor Company,’ on the seventh floor,” the starter told him. “ ‘The Modern Terpsichore Company’?” Bob smiled. “That’s v a new one, isn’t it? What does he do —teach dancing? He hardly looks the part.’* “Haven't you seen his ads in the papers and magazines?” tfte starter answered with a grin. “How to learn to dance, in ten easy lessons. Mail order stunt, you know. Been in the building six or eight months. Tretty good little busytess. though Mr. Hutchinson leaves* most of the work to his secretary. I understand. She tells me she's working herself to death.” A descending car opened its doors to receive passengers, but Bob thanked his informer with a half dollar and went thoughtfully out of the building. “Did you find out where the beggar got out of the taxi?” Faith asked him when he took his place at the wheel again. “No,” Bob shook liis head. “Let me think a bit. Unless I'm crazy. I'm on tlie trail of something.” lie drove frowningly for a few minutes, then asked abruptly: “You didn’t look into that cab when tiie fare got out. did you. dear?” “No, I didn't,” Faith answered, puzzled. "Why, Boh? Do you think that old Phil could have boon there, that he rode with that handsome business man? it doesn't sound plausible!” “That handsome business man, darling,” Bob grinned at her. but his eyes were still serious with thought, “was Sione other than Brady W. Hutchinson, who was convicted of embezzlement in this town ten or eleven years ago. I didn't recognize him at first— lie looks much older—” “Did your uncle defend him?”

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Faith demanded, her eyes widening with incredulous hope. “He did—and lost the case, of course. Yes, sir, old W. Hutchinson turned up again and is running a mail order dancing academy!” “Brady!” Faith cried. “That’s the B’ who signed the threatening letter! Oh, Bob, I was right! He did hire the crippled beggar to kill your uncle —” “I thought we had both concluded, darling, that old Phil was too horribly crippled up to kill a cat,” Bob reminded her. “But —the plot certainly thickens at an astonishing rate. Shall wc tell Churchill?” “He’d either laugh at us or haul Hutchinson into court on a subpoena to testify in regard to that threatening letter, nad Hutchinson would know good and well that Churchill couldn’t actually pin that letter on him. No, let’s wait and work this thing out ourselves, if possible. We’ve at least found Phil today and connected him with the writer of the threatening letter,” Faith told him. “And now we’d better get back to the trial. It’s past 1:30 now and we may have missed something important.” “I shall at least ask Churchill if Hutchinson is one of the four men whom Crowell checked up on,” Bob told her, as he speeded toward the courthouse. He found his poportunity to Interrogate Churchill while District Attorney Banning was examining an unimportant witness. “Yes, Brady Hutchinson was one of the ex-convicts that Crowell dug up. But Hutch seems on the square now. Got a busincs, even though it is a mail order concern that may overstep the postal laws any time," Churchill answered. "Why?” “Oh, I just ran into him today and recognized him,” Bob answered easily. “I wondered if you had overlooked him, by any chance.” “Don’t waste any time on Hutchnson,” Churchill chuckled. “I believe you’re badly bitten by the amateur detective bug, son.” (To Be Continued) NEXT: On (lie (rail of Phil (he beggar again.

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