Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 197, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1927 — Page 6

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Club Group to Observe Guest Day . The American home department of the Woman’s Department Club will observe guest day for the Colonial Boston chapter of the International Study Club and the Mothers’ Hound Table with a program at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the clubhouse. The community sing quartet, composed of Mrs. Frank McCaslin, Mrs. Wilson Parker, Mrs. Frank C. Walker and Mrs. R. B. Wilson, will lead in singing Christmas carols. Joe Perrine, accompanied by Mrs. M. D. Didway, will sing “Holy City,” ‘’There’s a Song in the Air” and “Holy Night.” ■ Mrs. S. R. Artman will talk on “Village Folk in the Holy Land,” after which tea will be served. Mrs. Horace G. Cassady is chairman of the hostesses, assisted by Mesdames M. O. Borcherdlng A. P. McLeland John Connor K. F. White Scott Demins E. L. Burnet Edward L. Hall H. L. Foreman Mary E. Nicholson Carl A. Taylor J. J. Martin R. H. Cheyne J. W. Moore Bruce Maxwell John Larison.

Bad Advice by Married Pessimists BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON Marriage is very likely to prejudice us. Here is a woman who writes to say that non-support should be made a capital offense. She believes that electrocution is too good for the fellow who swears to cherish his wife and then, by J his laziness, compels her to earn her living. Furthermore, she warns all girls against tying themselves up to men. After you have read her complaint you can see why she itfught feel bitterly, but you can hardly sympathize with her idea that all men are necessarily like her husband. She was simply unfortunate and married a no-account. But it seems scarcely fair to condemn all marriages merely because one or two, ■or even a thousand, women have found in it naught but illusion. Hampers Clear Thinking In this game of wedlock it is the hardest thing in the world to think straight. Your viewpoint is so likely to be altered by the sort of man your husband turns out to be. And while we all know that it 4 takes great courage to remain sweet and tolerant in the face of the ruins of life, still it pays to cultivate that attitude of mind. It has always seemed to me the wickedest thing in the world for a woman to go about poisoning young minds against the loveliness and sacredness of marriage. Yet you hear them everywhere. Croaking about the unfaithfulness of men, of lying propensities of husbands, of the difficulty of making a living for two, of the awful struggle that comes during the adjustment period of married life. Husband’s Side After you listen to one of these married grouches for half an hour, you not only wonder how any girl who has heard her can ever muster up courage to march to the altar, but you also surmise that her husband’s life is not exactly a bed of roses. . In the great lottery of matrimony, many people draw blanks, but let us keep in mind that that applies to both sexes. The men get fooled just as often as we do. And when you feel yourself getting to the place where you think all the men are impossible, start ifivestigating the dispositions of the worn op around you and maybe you’ll be surprised.

Woman’s Day

BY ALLENE SUMNER Despite the law, a Hindu widow threw herself upon the flaming funeral pyre of her husband not long ago In a frantic attempt to perform the rite of sutee, now illegal in India. She was badly burned before taken from the pyre. Soldiers had to be called to quell the rioters who struggled for a charred piece of her clothing, as such garments are regarded as sacred to the true Hindu. Hindu widows believe that they are guilty because their husbands die and this self-immolation as a final move of reparatiori. We laugh at the Hindu superstitutions, but, after all, the taken-for-granted things in most any American household is that the wife is to blame for whatever goes wrong within the home.- If she doesn’t actually kill herself for fancied wrongs, she loses health and joy in worry over delinquencies so interpreted by herself and others. tt u tt White House Scraps More posthumous scandal! Now it’s Col. Charles R. Forbes, formerly of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, and just released from the penitentiary, who tells a few more tales on the late President Harding. Forbes tells, with dates, about “fearful rows” the Hardings, Mr. and Mrs., had in the White House. He makes special reference to a Christmas Day of 1921 when the President was especially sad and confessed to “a hell of a row with Mrs. last night.” Why anyone should expect that merely happening to reside in the White House guarantees no quarrels between husband and wife is beyond me! What of it and who cares and why not? tt tt tt In Russia While so much to-do is made about “companionate marriage” in this country, Russia has long been calmly practicing the automatic divorce of childless couples who agree to disagree, which is about all that •'companionate marriage” amounts to. Some people will use this as an fjrgument for; others, as a strong (argument “agin.” “Didn’t X tell you

FUR MSES TO PINNACLE OF FASHION

Three striking examples of fur at the peak of fashion (left to right): a muskrat-trimmed cloth wrap; black velvet coat adorned with ermine, and a mink coat.

Astrakan tie and velvet and flowertrimmed muff.

it was one of those there red Ideas?” they will ask. Oh, well! a it a Funny Parenthood The daughter o;’ a blast furnace worker in the steel mills of Gary, Ind., made her debut with Mary Garden in Chicago Grand Opera a few nights ago. Her humble mother and father beamed and wept and smiled in a front box. It is probable that Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Witwer enjoyed this triumph as much as if it were their own. The joys of parenthood which can live in utter need if it can rejoice in the abundance of its offspring’s life is a difficult thing for the childless to understand. But it must be true. Mother Nature is good. n tt For Babies Only Infant mortality is expected, to be increased to an even lower rate than right now when science thought it had everything possible to give the child a fair health start in life. This is by a process invented and now employed by a Toledo baby expert in Toledo hospitals whereby the newborn child is kept in a special room full of controlled air and goes through four climatic changes his first day or few days of life. LEMCKES WILL GIVE DANCE FOR DAUGHTER Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Lemcke will entertain this evening with a dance in honor of their daughter, Miss Cornelia, at Woodstock. The ballroom will be decorated with Christmas colors and the appointments and decorations of the dining room will be carried out in silver. A number of dinner parties will precede the dance. Wet Fur Fur coats that have been in the rain should be shaken vigorously and dried away from artificial heat. Brush when perfectly dry. Colored Glass If you nave a crystal lamp base that doesn’t quite match your room’s decoration, fill with colored water any shade you desire.

THE CONNOISSEUR - - - - - Mr. Van de View Is an Unwilling Santa Claus

Mr. Van de View whose funny-bone is very seldom struck Is apparently affected by a comic sort of luck— For the ladies who adore him have provided a surprise By presenting him with nothing but an overdose of ties.

By JEAN PATOU For NEA Service PARIS, Dec. 26.—How long ago it seems when a fur coat was worn solely as a protection against the cold and was more or less ungainly! The possession of a fpr coat in those days did not represent a small fortune as it does today, but then again it was never considered a thing of beauty. A woman had to be exceedingly pretty and, above all, slim, to be able to avoid lookihg dumpy in one. Little by little, however, the many resources of furs came to be appreciated. I realized that if we could reach that point where a skin could be rendered as supple as a piece of cloth, there would be untold possibilities at my disposal for the creation of new models. Play Important Part Furs have indeed become so important that I now attach as much value to the part they wilf be called upon to play in creating a coat or dress as the material itself. Asa matter of fact, I am always tempted to use furs as I would a piece of cloth or silk and I always strive to convey the impression, when combining fur on a garment, that it is an integral part of it and not Just applied as a trimming. Naturally furs so used must be extiaordinarily supple in order to follow the movement of coat or gown. They should, moreover, contribute' to the line by their coloring as well as by their cut.

Furs always enhance a model and even if sumptuous maetrials like Jamb or velvet are used for an evening cloak, these would lose the greater part of their appearance of richness if they were not trimmed with fur. Preciousness! When I see a woman drapping a lavishly fur-trimmed coat around her she always gives me the impression of preciousness, which becomes her very well in most cases—as well, if not more so, than if she wore a fur coat. The use of imitation furs by creators of fashion I always deplored and I am pleased to say that for the last two seasons these have been replaced by real furs. I use much fox because I find it eminently becoming as a frame to woman’s face and very softening. Mink and ermine are also great favorites of mine. Usually Fox In the case of fox furs, I usually have the skins dyed the exact shade of the material, “lustre” as we call it, and I find this very successful, even in such delicate colors as beige and grey-blue and even beige rose. These pastel-tinted furs will also be used more and more as a complement to Riviera and Palm Beach ensembles, which otherwise might give an impression of hardness. I am a great partisan of fur-lined coats and I think an ideal ensemble for very cold days is such a coat worn over a little marocain frock. The advantage here is that a smart woman can do a morning’s shopping jn her automobile in perfect comfort and still be suitably dressed for a luncheon party. For a morning or afternoon tailored suit the fox tie is the only correct wear and you will frequently meet women in the Bois wearing a blue fox.

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Something different for each one of them he carefully selected And variety was what he rather hopefully expected, But he chuckles very cheei”fully and makes a tidy stack Os the green ones which are figured with a small design of black,

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One of fur’s most popular mediums; a scarf, of blue fox.

Prize Recipes by Readers

NOTE—The ’times wiu give 11 for each recipe submitted by a reader adjudged of sufficient merit to be printed >n this column. One recipe Is printed dally, except Friday, when twentv are flven. Address Recipe Editor of The 'lmes. Prlzea will he mallei to winners Write on one side of sheet only. Only one recipe each week will be accepted from one person Broiled Beef Cakes With the back of a knife, scrape pulp from a piece of round steak. Scrape first on one side and then on the other. Shape in small flat cakes. Rub a hot iron frying pan with a little beef fat, leaving no fat in the pan. Put the cakes into the hot pan. Turn as soon as seared on outside, and keep turning without pricking until the surface is delicately browned. Sprinkle with salt. Place on a hot serving disrf, dot with butter and serve immediately. MRS. VONEDA BRADSHAW. 1031 N. Beville Ave.

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Black lace and black georgette are irresistibly allied in this chemise for wear with black evening gowns. YeUow ribbon trims it.

And the copper tones he separates and puts into a pile With the stamp of his approval as the very latest style, But the one which he has laid aside for wearing right away Is a rusty colored four-in-hand of beautiful moire,

Rite at Home for Wedding on Christmas The marriage of Miss Margaret Mcßoberts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Mcßoberts, to Harold W. Bergen, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Victor Bergen, Franklin, was solemnized Sunday at 4 p. m. at the home of the bride’s parents, 506 N. Bancroft St. The candlelight ceremony was read by the Rev. William Burrow’S of All Saints Episcopal Cathedral, before p, flower-banked altar, which was flanked by two cathedral candies. Preceding the ceremony, Miss Mary Sweeney played Mendelsohn’s "Wedding March” and sang, “I Love You Truly” and "At Dawning.” During the ceremony Miss Sweeney played, “Oh, Promise Me.” The bride’s snly attendant was Miss Juanita Donaldson. Mr. Bergen was attended by Dr. E. S. McRoberts, Chicago. Wears Pink Georgette Miss Donaldson wore a gown of pale pink georgette, made basque style with a long full skirt and long sleeves. Cream lace accentuated the round neckline of the waist and bordered the hem of the skirt. Her arm bouquet was of Cambien roses, tied with a long green satin bow. The bride entering with her father wore an imported French model in beige georgette and darker beige lace. The lace fashioned the long tight sleeves and trimmed the neckline of the waist and the front of the skirt. She carried shower bouquet of Mrs. Aaron Ward roses and lilies of the valley, tied with long rose-beige satin streamers. Reception Follows The ceremony was followed by a reception. Mrs. Mcßoberts received in a straightline dress of pale blue charmeuse, trimmed with pastel pink georgette, edged with rhinestones. Mr. and Mrs. Bergen have gone on a motor trip, the bride traveling in a two-piece tan charmeuse dress, a blue needlepoint hat, and muskrat coat, with tan assessories. The couple will be ?.t home at 506 N. Bancroft St., after Jan. 15.

Dessert Offers Best Means of Balancing Meal Dessert occupies a more important place on today’s bill of fare than ever before in history. From a mere tidbit appended to a meal already complete, dessert has risen to the eminence held by meat, potatoes or bread. All desserts contain sugar and in this fact lies the secret of the.popularity of dessert. It offers a means of introducing sugar into the dietary. Sugar is an energy food and relieves bodily fatigue. In some form or other it should occupy a place at every meal. The great bulk of sugar consumed in America comes from sugar cane and sugar beet, although com and maple sap furnish a small portion of the total. It is Impossible to distinguish between refined cane and beet sugars, since they are chemically identical. One is as useful in the diet as the other and their use in desserts produces precisely ,the same results as far as texture, flavor and food value are concerned. Not only do desserts prove a ready vehicle for the introduction of sugar into the diet, but they may act as a balance for the entire meal. If dinner lacks acid, the fruit dessert will supply it. If more fat is needed, there are the steamed puddings made with suet and the desserts containing whipped cream. Where the meal is meatless, the necessary proteins needed to round out the repast can be introduced in any of the desserts containing eggs, nuts and milk. REPUBLICAN CLUB TO HEAR BARNARD SPEAK The Indfana Woman’s Republican Club will meet at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Columbia Club. Mrs. Jessamine Barclay Fitch will sing and Miss Florence Keepers will give piano numbers. George M. Barnard will speak on “Genuine Republicanism.’’ All Republican women are invited. Dr. Amelia Keller is chairman of the program. Observe Anniversary Mrs. and Mrs. Max Buehler, 1626 N. New Jersey St., celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary Christmas day at their home. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Ruggles, Boston, Mass., and son, Rudy L., who attends Harvard, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Rudy, Park Ave.

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—Photo by 'Pearson. Mrs. C. O. Reiter Before her marriage Thursday afternoon at St. Paul’s M. E. Church, Mrs. C. O. Reiter was Miss Olive Young, niece of Mrs. Claud Taylor, 906 W. TwentyEighth St., Mr. and Mrs. Rgiter will live in Waveland.

Bride-Elect to Be Honored at Dinner Tonight Mrs. Joseph F. Matthews, 1823 Ruckle St., will entertain with a dinner tomght in honor of Miss Katherine Lennox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Lennox, whose marriage to their son, Joseph, will take place Jan. 4 at the Broadway M. E. Church. The appointments for the dinner will be carried out in holiday colors. Red tapers in crystal holders and sprigs of holly will decorate the table. The guests will include Mr. and Mrs. Lennox, Miss Lennox, Mr. Matthews, Mrs. Stella Gordon, Mrs. Lora L. Lennox, Miss Eleanor King, Richard Lennox and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Pedlow.

Family Menus

BY SISTER MARY BREAKFAST—Baked pears, cereal, cream, broiled cottage ham, creamed spinach, whole wheat toast, milk, coffee. LUNCHEON —Baked rice and cheese, French endive with French dressing, floating island, milk, tea. DlNNEß—Stewed chicken, grilled sweet potatoes, creamed onions, stuffed pear salad, fruit jelly with whipped cream, .sponge cake, milk, coffee. Baked Rice and Cheese Two cups boiled rice, two cups canned tomatoes forced through a sieve, one teaspoon salt, two tablespoons minced sweet pepper, two tablespoons minced celfcry, two teaspoons onion juice, two tablespoons butter, one cup grated cheese, four tablespoons buttered crumbs. Combine rice and tomato pulp Mix thoroughly and add salt, pepper, celery and tomato juice. Mix well and stir in melted butter. Place a layer of the mixture in a well buttreed baking dish. Cover with a layer of grated cheese and continue layer for layer until all is used, letting the last layer be of cheese. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake thirty minutes in a moderate oven. Serve from the baking dish.

Martha Lee Says:

“Don’t fuss with a man; one word brings on another one,” is the advice of Mrs. Happy Wife, who writes in reply to one who has said she had an indifferent husband. "I would like her to know I have a husband Just, like hers,” says Mrs. Happy Wife. “He works out of town and the only time he kisses me Is when he comes home at the end of the week and when he says good-by again." “My husband never pays any a attention to what I do in my home,” she writes. “I can change everything in the house, but he doesn’t notice any difference. ”1 could have lost my husband eighteen years ago if I had fussed at every little thing,” says Mrs. Happy Wife, “but I didn't.” Martha Lee thinks these words should be written in big print so that every young wife who finds her husband indifferent might read them, and then be a happy wife, too, after years of marriage. But let her give her own advice: I have one child. I will tell the Woman who wrote you what I do. I get my work done up. dress up, and go somewhere, but always come back home in time to have his meals on the table and look fresh to him. Ho. thinks more of me now, I know, than he did when we were first married, but acts just as indifferent as ever. Don't fuss with a man, one word leads to another. This is the advice of Mrs. Happy Wife after eighteen years of marriage.

And the reddish one with figures of conventional design Mr. Van de View appreciates, regarding it as fine, So admitting that their Judgment and their taste is very good He will thank the charming ladies as a gallant fellow should,

Patterns PATTERN ORDER BLANK Pattern Department, Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Ind. Enclosed find 15 cents for which send Pat- q J 1 Q tern No. o 1 O Size Name Street City

BOUDOIR SMARTNESS A charming wrap for the boudoir revealing interesting Chinese influence in plain and printed silk combination. Design No. 3218 is perforated to be cut apart for the use of contrasting fabrics. A straight back and front sections with long shoulders to Join at side and shoulder seams, set sleeves into armholes and attach applied front band, and it’s finished. Silk velvet, georgette crepe, cctton crepe, sateen, flannel, cashmere and crepe Elizabeth are also appropriate. Pattern in small, medium and large sizes. The medium sizes requires two and threeeighths yards of 40-inch material with two and one-half yards of 9inch banding. Every day The Times prints on this page pictures of the latest fashions, a practical service for readers who wish to make their own clothes. Obtain this pattern by filling out the above cupon, including 15 cents (coin preferred), and mailing it to the Pattern Department of The Times. Delivery is made in about a week

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BEAUTY HOW and WHY a # # THE POWDER IN YOUR VANITY CASE

BY ANN ALYSIS What an intriguing little bauble is the vanity case! Within its dainty metal box, set like jewels, lie delicately tinted and perfumed cakes of powder and rouge, which should be the perfect complements of each other in color. The tiny mirror it contains should be of the kind known as reducing, so that the whole effect of the makeup can be seen at one glance. You have noted a difference in vanity case powder cake as compared with the loose powder on your dressing table. The loose kind, you think, is a trifle finer in grade than the cake. Yet the ingredients used in both, provided, of course, that their brand is the same, are identical, with one exception. Or, rather with one addition. The usual white mineral earths, such as talcum chalk, compounds of zinc, bismuth and magnesium, are tinted, perfumed and triturated together. Tq these ingredients, are added a mucilage made of tragacanth or quince seed or similar gum. This mixture is poured into molds and allowed to dry. It is the mucilage present in the powder tablet that causes the slight difference in fineness in the two forms. For use anywhere except in the privacy of your own room, the cake contained in the vanity case is the most convenient form. New Nighties Delicately flowered chiffons and laces make fitted drop yokes for some of the new gowns of one shade of georgette. New Hats More and more hand-work goes into the new hats. Inserts of lace in felt and all kinds of silf into straw are the mid-season's contributions.

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Why Harp on Women of Today? BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON The world gets better! For that we have the word of a certain philosopher whose lucid writings are matched only by his reasonings. He is supposed to know and one is inspired to believe him: “These young people who scoff at religion, drink, gamble, and brook no interference with their excesses will many, settle down and have children,” is the substance of his statement. Or did he say “have children and settle down”? What Parenthood Does? It was ever thus. The foolish things a parent has done, he is very careful not to allow his children to do, and to attain this end he • must give up his former habits, and take to the straighter and narrower way. I’m glad to see someone stick up for the younger generation. Foolish they may be, but vicious they are not, with few exceptions. Now then, a girl in Ohio murders her husband in cold blood and goes to a bridge party. She’s the life of the party and in every act fallowing the killing gives proof of a startling hardness that makes a world pretty well galvanized to shocks, gasp for air. What happens? The blue-noses point their fingers at. modem youth and shout, “You did it.” Only a ‘modern woman’ could do such a thing!” Now I beg the know-it-alls who are dramatizing themselves more than the girl in question to leave off about this “modern woman” stuff. This girl is no more representative of modem woman than Loeb and Leopold are representative of modern man. Asa matter of fact, most of the murders committed by women are quite noticeably among that class that knows nightclub life only through the movies, and who are decades older than the flapper type. Excuse for Murder There seems to be something particularly obnoxious about a woman murderer, but in reality she is no more obnoxoius than a man murderer. Indeed, considering the more complicated, nervous make-up of a woman it might be natural to suppose that a man has less excuse, if the word may be used in such a case. Why always harp on the modern woman? There may be slackers — there were always slackers! There may be some not too moral, but there were always these, also. As for murder?, it didn’t take “modern” woman to introduce that to a nohe too spotless world.

Glory Be, Girls Eating Sweets Reduces Weight Here's a secret for weight reducing that has the daily dozen, Swedish calisthenics, bending, kicking and other body comforting exercises beat a mile. Eat sweets and get thin. Excessive weight is due to overeating foods of all kinds, rather than indulgence in too many sweets, medical authorities now assert. Sweet desserts are a balancing influence for persons on a weight reducing diet, for they make a slim meal of lettuce salad and black tea satisfying and thus hold the patient to a minimum intake of other sorts of foods. To persons getting rid of excessive avordupois by dieting, sugar is especially necessary because it is quickly and completely digested and relieves exhaustion. Sugar supplies 18 per cent of the total energy supplied by the average person’s food. In the preparation of desserts, preserves and jellies, beet sugar, which is chemically identical with cane and the same in composition, sweetening power and dietetic effect, is recommended by many home economists. Too rapid weight reduction is more dangerous than overweight, according to dietitians. A loss of from three to six pounds a month, however, miy be made without injury to the body. Scarlet Satin A scarlet satin daytime frock has its full skirt topped by cartridge pleats which stand up above a low hipline belt. Double Bow Daffodil yellow crisp moire fashions a princess line frock that takes, for novelty, a huge smashing bow with train on each hip. Short Slip A smari slip, nowadays, ends from four to six inches shorter than the long length of the full skirt of lace or chiffon of its frock. Lovely Linings Every suit may not have its silver lining but at least a lovely one. The mode of lining the coat with the frock's material is growing.

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