Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 313, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1928 — Page 14

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Even in Darkest Day, More Courage Required to Live Than End Life BY MARTHA LEE THE darkest hour is just before the dawn. I imagine somehow that this time-worn adage has brought a certain amount of comfort to many unhappy and desperaate people. I am reminded of it today because of a curious lettef that I received this morning. It has puzzled me all day. I gather from the contents and handwriting that the writer is an old person, in poor health and poorer circumstances, who

is contemplating suicide. Not contemplating it perhaps so much as fearing his inability to resist. To that person and any other in the same frame of mind or suffering from depressing circumstances, I can only say that it is more courageous to live than to die. It takes more real bravery to face life with all its trials, to steel oneself to face somehow a bleak and hopeless future or to make something out of the remnants of a broken life than it does to end that life in the river or more slowly by the poison route. To one in poor health an attempt at suicide might prove unsuccessful and result in worse health and unimaginable suffering. It’s doubtless “Pollyannish” to say that nothing is so bad that it can’t be worse, but it is true none the less. There is always an end to the long dark hour that means the sun will rise presently. It may never be so bright as it used to be. It may be impossible to recapture the love of life or even the desire to live. But courage is a beautiful thing and well worth the effort.

Dear Miss Lee: Will you tell me what to do? This is my trouble: I have been in bad health for ten years. Last year I thought X was going to get well. We had bad luck and I had to sleep until December without a heating stove. I took a deep cold. I know my health is going back. Mv hearing is getting bad. my eves are bad and I have nothing to do with. Now. Miss Lee, here is the worst trouble— I am scared f will do a fierce thing. If I do, will I find peace and happiness? A TIMES READER. Dear Reader: I can’t tell you whether you will find peace and happiness—if I could tell that, I would be a most unusual person. I can only tell you that I believe you will be much happier and you will find a certain peace in trying to fight it out here and now to the best of your ability. I suggest that you appeal to one of the city’s charitable organizations for help and medical care. They will see that you have both. Don’t take your own life —no matter how great the temptation. Asserts Men Get Advantages by Marriage , Law Bit United Press CHICAGO, April 27.—Marriage and law, from the standpoint of woman, are not all they should be, the convention of the National League of Women Voters was told here. It seems men get the best of the bargain in each case. And when a man stands before the marriage altar' and makes assertions that he will share his assets with his wife, he is, perhaps, laughing up his sleeve. The assertion that man gets everything and woman nothing by the marriage pact was made from the convention floor by Dr. Sophonisiba Breckenridge, head of the social economics department of the University of Chicago. Dr. Breckenridge declared that when a man says, “with all my worldly goods I thee endow’’ he doesn’t endow his bride with anything. “What he does do is endow himself with all her property,” Dr. Breckenridge said. “Marriage makes them one, and man is it.” She urged equal guardianship of children, abolition of common law marriages and the safeguarding of women’s marraige rights. Dance Program The pupils of Ruth Ann Kersting, dancing teacher, will give a program at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Masonic Temple for the benefit of Center Lodge No. 230, F. and A. M. Miss Ellene Purdy will direct the dance and those in the cast are: Hazel Clifford, Leona Benson, Lavera Anacker, Mabel Dobbins, Betty McGuire, Maxine Wheeler, Virginia Swartz, Doris Nuhart, Bernice Hessell, Alma Elizabeth Edmonds, Reba Mayhew, Maxine Lambert, Eleanor Seitz, La Vonne Pfeiffer, La Vonne Maloof, Marjorie McComb, Lydia Kerstine, Joseph Kersting and Janet Cohen.

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BY ALLENE SUMNER A little 10-year-old girl of Cleveland, Ohio, was stopped by a downtown movie house doorman the other day. The small one had no ticket. Investigation revealed that Sylvia had seen more than 3,000 movies in her brief life without ever paying a cent for them. She readily revealed her method to juvenile court authorities. “I always went in behind big fat men and ladies with big fur coats on,” she explained. Slyvia had done her One Eyed Connolly stuff about a half dozen times a week for the past five years, it seems. tt # a Camilla Wants Escort It must come as a shock to garden variety girls to learn that even beautiful famous ladies meet with the universal problems of piocuring male companionship. For instance, Camilla Horn, considered by many the most beautiful woman on the screen, says she can hardly wait till her husband comes from abroad so that she can go to dances “and things.” “I really know only two men,” says this blonde lady. “One of them is nice but a poor dancer .and the other is a good dancer but not so nice.” So Camilla stays home for the time being.

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BREAKFAST—Orange juice, cereal, cream, fresh beef on toast, extra toast, milk, coffee. LUNCHEON Cheese fondue, stewed canned tomatoes, rye bread, scalloped apples, milk, tea. DlNNEß—Stewed chicken with gravy, mashed potatoes, baking powder biscuits, fresh asparagus in butter, stuffed celery, radishes, carrot straws, maple parfait, crisp cookies, milk, coffee. One pound round steak ground, two tablespoons butter, one small onion, one tablespoon minced parsley, one cup milk, one tablespoon flour, one-half teaspoon salt, onefourth teaspoon pepper, triangles of toast. Melt butter and add onion finely minced. Stir and cook over a low fire for five minutes. Add chopped meat and stir well. Increase the heat and cook ten minutes, stirring frequeiftly. Add milk, salt, pepper and parsley. Stir flour to a smooth paste with a little cold milk. Bring meat to the boiling point and stir in flour. Cook until thickened and smooth, stirring constantly. Serve on hot toast arranged on a hot platter. Mothers’ Club Party The following women will act as hostesses for the meeting at 2 p. m. Tuesday of the Mothers’ Club of Cathedral high school in the cafeteria: Mrs. William Houppet, chairman, assisted by Mesdames Carl' J. Hendel, Ed Grimmell, Paul Hoffman, M. J. Herold, C. E. Hohl, Bernard Galleghor, John Griffin, M. E. Griffin, James H. Hagerty, Nelson C. Holly, James C. Holmes,-Agnes Goedecker and Clinton Hayes. Anew street sandal divides from tip to heel to have one side black lizard and the other lavender sharkskin. The joining is openwork stitching.

RUFFLES RETURN TO POPULARITY

A distinctively elegant afternoon frock is pictured at the left; it features hand-rolled circularly cut ruffles and a wide girdle caught in front with a rose-quartz buckle. Right is a summer ensemble; the printed frock has tiers of ruffles on the skirt; the beige crepella coat of plain cut and full lengths; the hat is of black ' baku with rose airgrette and black bow trim.

BY HENRI BENDEL For NEA Searvlce NEW YORK, April 27.—Last year, with straight ups-and-downs the modish thing, a ruffle might have been defined as “something that used to adorn a petticoat when there were petticoats.” This year the woman who does not know ruffles as an exterior adornment does not know her styles. Volants, as the French call them, are singularly expressive of the undulating feminine grace in which the new modes revel. They are the perfect trimming for summer, for their airiness and fluffiness have much in common with the breezes that charm us in summer. From pajamas for the boudoir to gowns for formal Newport and Southampton functions, ruffles are eminently correct for trimming this year. Finds Repetition Effective The majority of them are of selfmaterial. Especially this fact is true if the fabric is printed chiffon, georgette, crepe de chine, satin or handkerchief linen. Ruffles that pose diagonally across a skirt are likely to follow the same line of chic across the waist and then emphasize it on the sleeves. The same is true of curves. Repetition has its value in this particular field. In addition to the geometric line along which ruffles are applied, the kinds, width and fullness of ruffles' give endless variety to this kind of trim. The pert oneinch figured ruffles cut on straight lines and gathered very full so they stick out to show’ their color, full pipings have only distant relation to the svelte, gently undulating, circular ruffle that is gathered not at all. Add to this the faqt that their edges may be notched, scalloped, tucked, lace-edged, . or colorfully bound, and one can see that I mean “endless” variety as ruffle possibilities. Black flat crepe is one of the most successful materials for ruffle trirnminq for the reason that unless lace be rich or embroidery

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just the right sort, this material demands self ornamentation. I show today an import that is extremely simple and yet has distinctive elegance—a little afternoon frock in which its wearer would feel equal to any function. The bodice is cut simply, with an interesting neckline consisting of an inset band forming a V that reaches to the center of the waist where the ruffles begin. These ruffles are rows of rows of hand-rolled circularly cut affairs. Their nonchalance, it seems to me, would inevitably be transmitted to their wearer. A wide girdle is caught in front with a rose-quartz buckle outlined in brilliants, the only touch of color. I also show one of my new summer ensembles, a printed frock and Mine. Galli Curci to Be Greeted by Camp Fire Girls Camp Fire Girls of Indianapolis, with their guardians, council members and officers, will meet Mme. Amelita Galli-Curci’s train Saturday afternoon when she arrives to give a concert Sunday afternoon at the Murat under auspices of the Ona B. Talbott Fine Arts Enterprises. Several years ago Mme. GalliCurci was made a member of the Camp Fire Girls and invested, with the name of “Cantawastee,” meaning “Singing Heart." The Camp Fire Girls group will present flowers in the name of their organization. Sorority Banco Rho Delta sorority will give a bunco party this evening at the home of Miss Alice Goodrich, 644 N. Temple Ave. The decorations will be in the sorority colors of orchid and rose.

plain coat of beige crepella that makes great use of ruffle. Rose, beige and black are the dominating colors. Ruffles tier the skirt and curving around the bodice, suggest a bolero. Every ruffle is bound with brown, a color which is picked up in the border of the kerchief scarf. The coat is full length and lined with the printed silk. The hat I choose for this ensemble is a Reboux creation of black baku with a rose aigrette and black bow trim. Suggestive of a wheat field under the summer’s breezes is another printed frock—both because of the soft tans and greens of its design on its shimmering surface and because of the waving manner in which its ruffles are applied. Circular ruffles tier the skirt In a waving, circular manner, follow the same rippling around the bodice and repeat the rhythm around the sleeves. These ruffles are bound alternately in green and in tans, increasing the rippling illusion. With this a green baku straw hat is worn, smart in its smallness, chic in its trim. Normal Dean Weds Announcement is made of the marriage of Dr. John W. Carr, dean of the Normal College at Murray, Ky„ formerly of Bloomington, and Miss Mary Willia Moss, dean of women of the same college, which took place Thursday morning in Louisville, Ky. Euchre, Bunco A euchre and bunco party will be given at 8 p. m. Saturday by the Mothers’ Club df the Herman Lauter memorial at the clubhouse, W. Market and Greeley Sts.

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Girl Reserve Body to Hold Conference The inter-club council of the high school Girl Reserves of the city will hold its annual spring conference all day Saturday. The officers of the Shortridge, Technical, Manual and Washington High School clubs, about fifty, will be present. The theme of the discussion will be “The Charm of the Impossible.” Mrs. B. S. Goodwin, chairman of high school Girl Reserve work will be hostess for the session. Business will include election of anew interclub president, and election of delegates to Camp Gray on Lake Michigan. Evelyn Wolford, Technical, will lead a discussion on programs, and Eleanor Graham, Manual, of membership, Marian Ratcliffe, Washington High, will conduct the service, and Helen Frances Starr, Shortridge, will talk on social activities of the clubs. Marjorie Bell, Technical, has written a ceremonial in which all the officers will participate. A noon luncheon will be followed by a camp fire supper which will close the conference. Mrs. George Gill, representative of Girl Reserve work on the Y. W. C. A. board of directors will take a quotation of Kipling’s as the theme of her talk: “Some-

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Miss Catherine Mitchell Miss Catherine Mitchell, 554 Eastern Ave., is chairman of a Y. L. S. committee which will give a dance at St. Phillip Hall, North St. and Eastern Ave., May 2. Stunt Party Miss Nigel Haley was hostess for a stunt party for members, pledges and guests of the Tau Gamma sorority Thursday evening.

thing Lost Behind the Ranges; Lost and Waiting for You. Go!” Mrs. Hertha Casperon will talk on star lore.

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JUNIOR LEAGUE ELECTS MRS. JOHNSON AS HEAD Mrs. Sylvester Johnson was elected president of the Junior League at the annual business meeting Thursday at the Propylaeum. Other officers: Mrs. Benjamin Hitz, vice president; Mrs. Charles Harvey Bradley, treasurer; Mrs. R. T. Owen, recording secretary; Miss Anna Louise Griffith, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. John Gould, city editor. At Vassar Luncheon New officers who will preside at the Founders day luncheon ol the Indiana Vassar Club Saturday at Woodstock are: Mrs. Pierre F. Goodrich, president; Miss Cerene Ohr, vice president; Mrs. Clarence Merrill, secretary, and Mrs. Wayne Kinnaird, treasurer. The new directors are Mesdames Albert Rabb, Walter Biehling, Charles E. Rush, Eugene C. Miller, Albert Seaton, Harry Fitton, Montgomery Lewis, and Charles D. LaFollette; Misses Evelyn Barnes and Margaret Shipp, and Miss Elizabeth Ball, Muncie. Honor Mrs. Gavin Mrs. James L. Gavin, newly elected vice president-general of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, will ba honored at a reception Tuesday to be given by Caroline Scott Hairisoii Chapter, D. A. R. With District Clubs The Ninth District Federation of Women’s Clubs convention was held in Covington Thursday.

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