Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1928 — Page 6

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Young Girl Should Shun Marriage Coupled With Stepmother’s Hard Task BY MARTHA LEE TO REAR children is one of life’s hardest tasks. To rear the children of another woman, a girl must have the love of a mother, the tact of a diplomat, the strength of ten and the patience of Job. I think that a man is wise in remarrying if he can find a woman who has all the necessary qualities to fill the difficult role of stepmother. It is his duty to give his children a home

and a woman’s care. However, from the girl’s point of view, I should hesitate before assuming the great responsibility of being a stepmother. I certainly should not marry a widower with children if I were as young as some of my readers who write asking for advice on this subject. If a girl is old enough to feel that she has the ability to be a good mother to her stepchildren, I think that she is really doing a splendid thing to make some poor motherless little boys and girls happy with a mother’s care. Do not forget, readers, that there are very few women who have the characteristics required for this job of being a substitute mother. Take stock of yourself before you enter into a problem such as this. Dear Miss Lee: I am a young girl engaged to a man several years older than I. I am sure I love him and he acts as though he thinks a lot of me. Everything would be grand If that were all. but he has been married. His wife Is dead and he has a child from this marriage. I am willing to try to make the child happy, but I cannot help wondering if he loves me as much as his first wife. Maybe he Is marrying me so as to have someone to care for the child. Please tell me what you think about It. I have thought until I am dumb. Thanking you, X am yours Dear Mary B.: You are too young to accept the great responsibility of being a stepmother. You should wait at least two years before you decide definitely on the subject. If this man loves you he will understand your point of view and will wait for you. If he merely wants someone to care for his child he will not wait. In these two years you will be able to prepare yourself for your task by reading everything you can on the care of children. Study children and become accustomed to their ways. Jealousy of the first mate is often the cause of much unhappiness in second marriages. There is no method of measuring the amount of love a man has for his first wife and his second and comparing the two. I believe that we love each other each time in a different way, because no two persons have identical characteristics. It would be ridiculous for you to worry about this, Mary B. Brown Eyes: This boy’s parents probably object to your going so constantly with one another. They have perhaps planned a long course of preparation for some career for him, and they realize that if he falls in love it will be impossible for him to carry out their plans. From what you write, I think that this boy’s parents like you personally, but just object to his having “one particular girl.” Disgusted Virginia: If you send me a self-addressed envelope, I should like to send you a personal reply.

Prize Recipes by Readers

NOTE—The Times will give tl tor each recipe submitted by a reader adjudged of sufficient merit to be printed in this column. One recipe Is printed dally, except Friday, when twenty are given. Address Recipe Editor or The Times. Prizes will he mailed to. winners. Write on one side of sheet only. Only one recipe each week will be accepted from one ne-son Pale Green Salad * One box lemon gelatine, one small can sliced pineapple. Drain and heat the juice to boiling, add enough _water to make one pint liquid and mix with gelatine, salt to taste. Use green coloring to make it a clear shade of green. Dice one-half cucumber in small pieces, free of seeds, add to the heated gelatine at once. When cool, put in individual molds, adding pineapple which has been cut in small pieces. Stir occasionally before it settles to keep the cucumber and pineapple mixed through it. For the dressing, use three egg whites, three tablespoons sugar, three tablespoons vinegar, one tablespoon water, pinch of salt. Cook in double boiler until consistancy of thick cream. When cold, add to whipped cream. One-half pint of double cream is used. MISS IRENE VON ALT, 1704 College Ave., Apt. 2, City. i Worth’s Spring Show For Riviera visitors, Worth’s branch at Cannes, France, will show spring models on the afternoon of Feb. 16, which will precede a fashion gala to be held at the same winter resort Feb. 18. The first showing of Worth's spring models in Paris is scheduled for Feb. 8. First Co-Ed Editor Dorothy Dix Markley, a senior at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, is the first co-ed editor of the Witt, humorous periodical. EVAN S' vmw AT ALL GROCERS

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Chapter Tea MeetingWith Mrs. Fischer The home of Mrs. G. A. Fischer, 4231 Sunset Ave., was transformed into a Japanese tea garden for the meeting of the Mandalay chapter of the International Study and Travel Club this afternoon. Tq& was served at 1:30 preceding the program. Mrs. S. R. Artman talked on “Japan,” and Mrs. Richard Fielding of t'he Normandy chapter read a group of Mrs. Artman’s original poems. Assisting hostesses were Mrs. S. E. Litteral and Mrs. Nicholas Hantzis. Mrs. H. Walker De Haven and Mrs. A. Goodman were guests. Mrs. William McGath, 2354 College Ave., was hostess for the Wednesday Afternoon Club today when Mrs. Ray Robertson talked on her trip to New Orleans. Responses were “Bits of Travel,” and Mrs. E. H. Thompson gave the Bible lesson. Miss Louise Edwards gave a group of readings. Mrs. Alice Cosier read a paper on “Our Immigrants and What We Mean to Them,” at the meeting of the Current Events Club this afternoon with Mrs. M. C. Norris, 721 King St. Mrs. Emma Peet was discussion leader. Two papers on the home, one “The Home and the Church” by Mrs. L. C. Trent, the other, “The Ideal Home in the Community,” by Mrs. J. E. Martin were read before the Zetathea Club this afternoon. Roll call was answered with Bible verses concerning the home.

Life’s Niceties Hints on Etiquet

1. What should be the first thought of host and hostess for a visiting guest? 2. What should they be careful to avoid, however? 3. What is one way? The Answers 1. Their comfort and entertainment. 2. Straining themselves so that their guests will feel themselves a burden. 3. By setting parts of each day aside when the guests can entertain themselves. For Byrd Lecture Box holders for the Commander Byrd lecture and pictures to be given Sunday afternoon at the Murat under auspices of the Mothers’ Association of the Boys' Preparatory School, are Mrs. Oscar Sohmidt and Messrs, and Mesdames James T. Barrett J. K. Lilly Jr. Lawrence Cummings Wm. M. Rockwood R. Felix Geddes Wm. B. Burford Jr. Charles B. Sommers G. M. Williams . Norman Perry R. Hartley Sherwood Anton Vonnegut Nicholas H. Noyes E. H. Iglehart For Miss RailsbacJc Mrs. Charles Railsback and daughter, Mrs. Robert D. Armstrong, will entertain informally at tea Thursday at Mrs. Railsback’s home, 1628 N. Illinois St., in honor of Miss Martha Louise Railsback, who is home from South Dakota to visit her parents. There are no invitations. Artemus Club Elects Mrs. Charles Mcßride was elected president of the Artemus Club at the monthly business meeting Tuesday at the home of Mrs. William G. Praed, 4142 Park Ave. Other officers elected were Mrs. D. H. Campbell, first vice president; Mrs. W. J. Hamilton, second vice president; Mrs. Charles Holtman, treasurer, and Mrs. W. G. Praed, secretary. Mrs. Urbahns Elected Mrs. Grace Banta Urbahns, State treasurer, was elected president of the Statehouse Woman’s Republican Club at a dinner and meeting Tuesday night at the Y. M. C. A. Other new officers are: Mrs. William Gremelspacher, vice president; Miss Jane Lamb, treasurer, and Miss Mary Fouts, secretary.

THE CONNOISSEUR - - -

Mr. Van de View in younger days Was hailed by all his mates As thS champion performer of performers on his skates, And although he hasn’t tried his tricks for quite a little while He is going out to give himself a fair and open trial.

ELEPHANTS ON DECORATIVE STAMPEDE

Elephants for luck: (Upper left) A green and cream colored pottery elephant braces his feet to hold a sturdy green candle on his back; (center) the whole elephant family guards the fastening of a gorgeous Chinese brocaded bag; (upper right) an alert modernistic elephant in bright shaded blue porcelain holds his ears and mouth open for ashes in a humorously expectant manner; (lower left) great dignity has the conventional carved wooden elephant who patiently holds a low end table on his back, and (lower right) bridge ans go elephantine on the latest table cover of black satin with a pink elephant across- its center.

BY JULIA BLANSHARD, NEA Service Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—America seems threatened with an elephant epidemic! Everywhere one looks the elephant motif shuffles into view. Elephants, as a matter of fact, are on the high road to becoming the favorite American animal—for decorative purposes. They seem utterly democratic in the way they lend themselves to a wide variety of uses. In the windows of an exclusive Fifth Ave. jewelry shop, tiny twin elephants of delicately hand-carved white jade establish pachyderms as modish for Milady’s earrings. In less , exclusive quarters tiny elephants of gold, silver or enamel dangle from novelty bracelets, neck chains and even anklets. A sports suit takes an embroidered elephant on its shoulder instead of a flower.

Five Women to Obtain Title of Home Maker Bn United Pr<nn LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 11.—The title of Master Farm Homemaker will be conferred on five Indiana farm women Thursday at a special recognition dinner which will be one of the features of the annual Agricultural Conference at Purdue University. The honor will be the first of its kind ever given Indiana rural women and will be conferred by the Farmer’s Wife, St. Paul, Minn., national farm women’s magazine, cooperating with the home economics extension service here. Similar recognitions are scheduled in twenty-four States this year, giving the honor a national aspect. More than-1,200 outstanding farm women will have been nominated in the United States and more than 100 selected. Edward Fillion to Wed Announcement has been made of the coming marriage of Miss Dorothy Piatt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Piatt, Goshen, and Edward Pierre Fillion, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Fillion, 3416 College Ave., which will take place next month. They will live here. Both are graduates of Indiana University, where Miss Piatt is a member of Delta Gamma and Mr. Fillion of Sigma Chi. Trio Party The Trio Club will give card parties Thursday afternoon and evening at 29 Vi S. Delaware St.

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So, ambitiously he takes a turn, deciding on a feat Which will give the other skaters on the pond a thrilling treat, When he notices a brilliant orange sweater flashing by With a speed that makes him wonder if he really ought to try.

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Various accessories for women bea relephants. A gorgeous bag of old Chinese brocade in rich blues and yellows, takes four metal elephants marching across its fastening for novelty. Another has an elephant’s head for the snap that closes its fastening. Scarfs, handkerchiefs, ties and hats use them. Elephants are printed in various sizes, colors and groupings in handblocked linens for nursery curtains and bed-spreads. And a charming new bridge set has a dawn pink elephant plunked in its black center and four little pink china elephants to weigh down its corners. Porcelain elephants are almost as old a vogue in America as the carved ivory ornaments. But what modernists have done to the porcelain, glass and pottery elephant in

BEAUTY HOW awl WHY tt m m TRUE WHITENESS FOR YOUR HANDS

BY ANN ALYSIS How shall we achieve that whiteness of hand of which the poets sing? Constant care and a few simple toilet aids will do the trick. The underlying principle of cleanliness must be invoked. All stains and discolorations must be removed by one of the methods I have previously explained. After using the acid treatment for stains, finish with an alcohol rub and an application of cold cream or other emolient, such as vaseline or oil, or a good lotion. This will smooth the skin, and this very smoothness is a protection against grime settling in the small crevices. Almost every woman knows the value of lemon juice as a whitener of the skin. But it should never be used in undiluted form because, chemically, lemon juice is almost pure citric acid and all acids have a severe action on the sensitive skin. Benzoin is a fragrant gum which has been known to the Oriental beauties for centuries as a skin whitener and beautifier. I will describe in a later article how these bleaching agents may be used, when combined in proper proportion and in the right combination. Husbands Called Bu Timm Snrcinl WEBSTER, Ind., Jan. 11.—A husband calling contest was one of the features of the program today at a meeting of the Webster Township farm bureau.

Mr. Van de View Is Outdone by the Ladies

And courageously determining to try a figure eight He discovers his decision has been made a little late, For a lady in a sweater with a vivid scarlet border Is performing one with skill that puts him sadly out of order.

the name of progress and to what uses they have pressed this willing beast of burden is surprising. He appears in pastel shades and humorous interpretations for candlesticks, banks, candy dishes, pots, ink wells and so on. A squat pair in pinkish and Bluish tones have exaggerated ears that wait patiently for cigaret ashes to be knocked into them. Others hold their trunks up expectantly for the same good useful purpose. In metal, the übiquitous elephant fashions book ends, bases for lamps and even andirons. A unique handcarved wooden end table for davenport use has a lovely carved elephant for its base, with a wide, solid table top resting on his back. Altogether the stolid pachyderm is enjoying popularity such as might easily turn the head of a fightier favorite.

Recent Bride to Be Honored at Several Affairs Mrs. Charles Harrison, Greenwood, will entertain with a bridge party and personal shower Saturday afternoon at the home of her mother, Mrs. George Hasely, 5119 Broadway, in honor of Mrs. Karl E. Stout, who was Miss Dorothy Stephenson before her marriage Dec. 31. Miss Margaret Haldy will entertain Friday night for Mr3. Stout. Miss Dorothy Avels, 53 W. ThirtySecond St., will be hostess for a bridge shower Tuesday night and Jan. 18 Mrs. Harold Mercer, 3340 N. Meridian St., will entertain for Mrs. Stout with a miscellaneous shower. Philip S. Evans Weds The marriage of Philip Saffery Evans 111, brother of Joshua L. Evans, 221 E. Fifteenth St„ and Miss Elizabeth Cotter Gordy of Derby, Conn., took place Jan. 2 at Derby. The bride attended Vassar and Mr. Evans is a graduate of Yale, and a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. They will live in New York. Columbia Club Bridge Covers were laid for 150 at the monthly luncheon bridge party of the Columbia Club today in the ballroom. A rose was used for the centerpiece of each table. Hostesses were Mrs. William F. Clevenger and Mrs. Bernard R. Batty. Social Club Party The Social Club of Sacred Heart will play euchre Thursday at 2:30 p. m. at the hall on Union St.

Committees Present Programs Committees of the Indiana League of Women Voters presented their study programs for the coming year to the State board at its meeting this morning at the State league office, Illinois Bldg. The study subjects were accepted by the board and will be presented to local leagues to be voted on at the State convention in March. Plans were also discussed for the convention. Mrs. T. J. Louden, Bloomington, is program chairman. Standing committee chairmen and members of the finance committee were entertained at dinner Tuesday evening at the home of the State president, Mrs. Frank H. Streightoff, 3343 N. New Jersey St., after which the plans were presented. Mrs. J. D. Boss, Elkhart, chairman of efficiency in government, recommends emphasis on elections, particularly the direct primary and model registration law and study of county administrations and courts. Recommendations of the child welfare committee are: Maternity and infancy hygiene, school attendance and child labor. Mrs. Charles N. Teetor, Hagerstown, chairman of living costs, named four subjects for study—electric power resources, cooperative associations, Federal Trade Commission—and farm relief measures. The committee on legal status of women, Mrs. Pearl Lee Vernon, Martinsville, chairman, recommended removal of legal* discrimination against women, equal property rights and jury service. Mrs. Bertha J. Ehrich, Evansville, chairman of international cooperation to prevent war, lists causes and cures of war with emphasis on economic causes, world cooperation including the study of the League of Nations and the World Court, arbitration and disarmament conference, and the foreign policy and conduct of the American State Department.

Woman s Day

BY ALLENE SUMNER Somehow this--which follows—doesn’t ring exactly, true to me. It sounds moth-eaten. It comes in a brand-new book called “Character and the Conduct of Life,” by William McDougall, professor of psychology in Duke University. In a chapter called “To Girls,” the professor takes his pen in hand to write these mighty words—u ts Words, Idle Words “Your outward beauty is the token and symbol of all that makes life worth living; and, if your inner self should belie your exterior, you fill men with cynicism, render them fierce and brutal, and drive them to despair.” Ho, Hum! The professor, judging by his own words, belongs to a school which makes women responsible for man as well as herself, for in a later paragraph he warns her of the terrible responsibility of her beauty, and exhorts her to be modest and sparing with her display of this beauty lest men be led astray. Ho, hum! a a tt Good Statue, But — Sculptor Bryant Baker has done, in my opinion, a beautiful job in his statue “The Pioneer Woman” which was selected from twelve other statues on the same subject submitted by famous artists. But I can’t say as much for some of his opinions on the modern woman which he has given out in several interviews about the conception of his statue. "Today’s woman is wasting her talents,” he says. "In an age of soft luxuries nothing is asked of her. But her indefatigable pursuit of excitement and her restlessness in our present civilization shows that she merely lacks channels of usefulness, or she might make a contribution comparable to her forebears.” a a tt All Bunk! In a loud firm voice, I wish to disagree with him. In the first place, “in this age of soft luxuries” everything rather than "nothing” is asked of woman. Women can’t “get away” with excuses these days. If a child is sick or puny or their homes are uncomfortable or their meals poor or their furnishings atrocious, the finger of scorn is pointed, as society says, there is no excuse. You are told in a million ways how to do these things properly. All these faults are your own. But yesterday’s woman whom the sculptor praises to high heaven, could lay all mishaps from death to hard biscuits on Providence, and no questions asked. She was not especially supposed to work with science and intelligence. As long as she went through the motions she had done her part.

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And at last, he tries his favorite—the writing of his name— But he finds there’s not a chance of reestablishing his fame, For a lady in a sweater with a figurestripe of green Is monopolizing all the admiration on the scene.

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SMART NEW FLARE Coin dot Liberty blue chiffon velvet frock, in new expression of the mode. Style No. 3219 is designed with slim simplicity—a perfectly straight one-piece affair with shirred drapery attached at left side-front. A stay underneath, just below waistline, holds the garment closely to the figure. The swathed girdle gives uneven hemline. Woo’ crepe, crepe satin, soft woolens and silk crepe are chic. Patterns in sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust, and requires only 3% yards of 40-inch material for the 36inch size. 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 Joins De Pauw Staff Miss Flora E. Vandamant, former dean of women and professor of English at Huntington College, has been appointed a member of the teaching staff of the education department, De Pauw University. Miss Vandamant was graduated from De Pauw in 1907. She received a Masters Degree from the University of Chicago and has done postgraduate work in Columbia University. She has had a numberr of years’ experience in high school and college teaching in Indiana and Washington State. To Install Officers A. D. Straight Circle, No. 16, Ladies of the G. A. R., will install new officers Thursday at 2 p. m. at Ft. Friendly, 512 N. Illinois St. Altar Society Parties Women of the Altar Society of St. Catherine’s Church will give a card party at 2:30 and 8:30 p. m. Thursday at the hall, Shelby ana Tabor Sts. Party Friday St. Patrick’s Social Club will give a card party Friday afternoon in the school hall. Hostesses will be Mrs. Joseph Stetzel, Mrs. P&ul Kulke and Mrs. J. W. Helfrich. Mooseheart Party The women of Moosehart Legion will give a card party at 2:30 p. m. Thursday at the Moose Temple, 135 N. Delaware St.

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General Day Program at Club House General club day at the Woman’s Department Club was observed with a luncheon, business meeting and program today at the club house. Committee reports were heard and other business transacted at the morning session and luncheon was served in the dining room at noon. The table, where officers and speaker were seated was arranged with a low plateau of Butterfly roses in the center and a winter scene in miniature toward the front. Vases were used as centerpieces for the small tables and ferns and f estooms of smilax decorated the entire dining room. Mrs. J. C. Henley was in charge of the luncheon, assisted by Mesdames Edward Johnson, Charles A. Breece, Clarence Anderson, T. S. Martin, M. B. Hedges and Henry Knaff. Mrs. Bessie Williams Boynton, Oak Park, 111., gave a program of “Word and Tone Pictures,” portraying the various forms of art with prose, poetry, mimicry and music. Mrs, Jane Johnson Burroughs, accompanied by Mrs. Charles Vail, sang. Kokomo Y Committees Mrs. Rush Crawford, president of the Kokomo Y. M. C. A., announced the following standing committees for the year: Membership—Mrs. C. C. McFann, chairman: Mrs. Elmer Thomas and Mrs. W. E. Scott. Nominating—Mrs. J. E. Fredrick. Mrs. Harry Broadllck and Mrs. C. N. Hodgen. Finance—Mrs. Casper Butler, chairman: Mrs. Dan Shewmon and Mrs. L. M. K RelFgfous Education—Mrs. L. C. Bentley, chairman: Mrs. Dan Shewmon and Mrs. A. E. Gorton. , , , Secretarial—Mrs. L. M. Knepple, chairman; Mrs. Harry Broadllck and Mrs. J. E. Fredrick. Press—Mrs. D. A. Mclntosh, chairman; Mrs. John Shrock and Mrs. Phil Palmer. Medical Advisor—Dr. Florence Olmstead. Latreian Guest Day Alpha Latreian Club observed guest day with a party Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Carl Taylor, 1500 N. Delaware St., when Mrs. Taylor’s daughter, Mrs. William G. Albershart, and Mrs. Robert Gates werehostesses. The appointments were carried out in a color scheme of pink and green. Mrs. Karl T. Nessler, ■ harpist; Miss Georgia Daumann, violinist, accompanied by Miss Virginia Lucas, and Miss Helen Coffey* whistler, gavev a musical program.

PERSONALS

Miss Susan Kerr, Union City, who has been the guest of Miss Florence Ruby, 1433 N. Pennsylvania St., will return home Thursday. Mrs. Blanche Chenoweth of Teach- : ers’ College will speak at a ParentTeacher meeting in Lebanon Friday afternoon. Dinner at Marott Thirty-two young women of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company; will give a dinner in the Hunter’s loom at the Marott - this evening. Deceiving Scallops A flame georgette gov/n, embroid-i; erec all over in a lace design, has ; its hem scalloped, to enhance further the illusion Os lace. Evening Brown Brown graduates to evening wear. A beige lace gown has a wide sash and smashing side bow of velvet. Brown slippers'are worn. Sorority Meeting Sigma Delta Sigma Sorority will meet tonight at the Marott. SCHLOSBER'S OjlffivE Butter O *tsh ChurnedfmmStahQtam

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