Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1928 — Page 6

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Being Able to Laugh at Yourself Will Be Saving Factor in Darkest Day BY MARTHA LEE MiNY of us are deformed. We can’t laugh. And that is a deformity. We have no sense of humor; we can't even smile. It is true we may have a slightly developed capacity for laughing at others, but there are few of us who can laugh at ourselves. Many men play vgolf; many men miss short putts. But try to find a man who loses his temper over such a miss and is

then able to laugh at himself because he made himself ridiculous. Many women play bridge, sand many women make small “benehead” plays. But try to find the woman who can laugh softly at her mistake instead of getting “mad” at herself. Os course, you have met persons like these who can laugh. And now admit that you like them better than the others. I do. The ability to laugh at yourself will some day save you from utter ruin. That recalls a little incident that happened to me this week. I had an appointment to meet a friend at the office at 5 o’clock. The hour came and passed, and at 5:45 I left. The friend came at 6 and waited until almost 7, I found out later. Os course, I was “mad” at the friend, just popping mad. “Why can’t she keep her appointments,” I raved to myself. Getting “mad” putme into a very Unpleasant frame of mind. I didn’t enjoy my dinner that evening as I should. The next day the friend called 'me on the phone. She, too, was “mad.” “It seems to me you could have at least been there on time,” she said. There were other words, and finally I feared our long friendship would be blasted by the argument. But the thing that struck me as funny was the fact that both thought the other was late. Then we discovered that she came to the office on Central Standard time, while The Indianapolis Times operates on daylight saving time. My friend thought it was one of the funniest mistakes we ever had made. She laughed about it. Her laughter was infectious. Soon I was laughing over our mutual blunder. The friendship was saved. I’m sure you can recall incidents like that, too, where a laugh saved the day for every one. But sometimes we become so Involved that we can’t laugh. Then It taakes a super-human effort to make the old smile pop out. I have in mind a problem brought out in the following letter: Dear Martha Lee: I have a 15-vear-old daughter, and I have been married to my Second husband more than five years. My husband seems very much devoted to his stepdaughter, and it seems he doesn’t seem to care for me so much as he did when we were married. I am afraid he is in love with his stepdaughter. He loves and kisses her more than he does me, and be never tells me he loves me any more. I am losing confidence In him. But he is a good husband. He gives us almost anything we want and gives us a good home. He is a home-loving man and don’t run around with other women. From the way he acts with my daughter makes me suspicious, and I believe he ir.

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in love with her. When I correct him about it he flies off the handle and says I insult him. Do vou think it wise to leave him before it is too late? I feel miserable all the time thinking he is in love with my daughter. WORRIED. That you could laugh at yourself before you ruin your own life and that of your husband and daughter. But we women are subject to jealousy, and we have to use stern measures to cure ourselves of the disease. In the first place, your husband is called on to play the most difficult role any man was ever asked to play. He must be a stepfather. He could be mean to your daughter and profess love for you, but would that make you believe he loves you any more? He provides a good home, gives you almost everything you want, loves his home, doesn’t run around with other women, and he is kin * and good tc your daughter. What more c!o you want? There is no wonder he doesn’t make love to you any more. How can a man love a woman who nags him, a woman who doesn’t trust him, a woman who doesn’t love him? Love, you know, is a game for two. Laugh at your own funny little mind before it is too late instead of thinking of leaving your husband. Perhaps he would be justified in leaving you. Change your ways right now. Be cheerful, trust your husband and tell him that yon trust him, and stop being suspicious. If you have told me everything of the conditions at your home, then the prescription of laughter will cure all your ills. Be thankful that your husband doesn’t say he loves you, kick your daughter around, and then run around with other women. “Miss Longer Skirts” suggests the men give the women a dose of their own medicine. Dear Martha Lee: I read your article on short skirts, and I agree with ”KneeSick Husband.” I think It is awful the way some of the gir ! s wear their skirts. The girls would think it terrible if all the men went around with their knees showing. I am a young woman, and I don’t wear my skirts above my knees. A skirt doesn't look pretty so short. Don’t girls believe a man gets tired of seeing knees? LONGER SKIRTS. This letter from a reader of The Indianapolis Times gives several arguments refuting the theory that true love dies after twenty-two. Some wonderful ideas and facts are brought out by this man. Dear Martha Lee: When I was twentytwo years old, I was busy with things other than love. The pleasures of the world, work and other things took up most of my time. I come from a big family, twenty-one children, and there is not one divorce in the family. Six of my brothers and sisters hurried

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State Convention Reports to Re G\ven Thursday At the meeting of the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Indianapolis Thursday evening at the Woman’s Department Club reports will be given by the delegates to the recent State convention held in Michigan City. Daniel Shattuck of the Technical high school quartet, will sing. Dinner will be served at 6 p. m. daylight saving time, and for the forum hour a coach company will show vacation trip pictures and explain this year’s plan. Alumnae Meeting The Indianapolis Alumnae chapter of Sigma Kappa sorority will have a business meeting Friday at 8 p. m., daylight saving time, with Mrs. Robert D. Coleman, 2452 Pierson Ave. Instruction of delegates to the national convention will be given. after they were twenty-five years of age. I had my first love affair after I was thirty-five. She was past twenty-two. True love endures long after the age of twenty-two is past. We may have to wait a long time for it to arrive, but when it does come it is well worth waiting for. A READER OF THE TIMES.

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Mrs. Verne Wysong and Miss Effi? Starr, Elkhart, are guests of Miss Viviap Chapman, 441 N. Rural St., Mrs. Frank McMinn, Peru, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Estella Chapman. Miss Madeline Fowler, Marion, Is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Volney B. Fowler, 3813 Kenwood Ave., for the races. Miss Virginia Edwards and Mrs. John E. Worley and daughter, Bonita, are spending Memorial day in Dayton, Ohio. Dramatic Sorority By United Prcsi BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 30. Nine co-eds at Indiana University, outstanding in dramatics and debating on the campus are recent pledges to Sigma Delta Phi, national honor sorority. Participation in several campus plays or intercollegiate debates is required for membership. The pledges are: Alice Thorn Tipton; Muriel Mattox, Terre Haute; Crystal English. Clay City; Thora Melson, Advance; Janet Cuthill, Joyce Arnstrong and Virginia Moore, Bedford; Dorothy Belle, Finley, and Laura Lackey, Indianapolis.

BY BETSY SCHUYLER NEA Service Writer NEW YORK, May 30.—It’s lilac time in Central Park; hurdy-gurdy time on the East Side; the season for putting pansies in the gaily colored window boxes in Greenwich Village and, of course, new-clothes time all over Gotham. Seeing them up and down Park Ave., in the smart little shops on cross streets and lunching in Marguery’s or Pierre's makes the fact apparent. Getting down to fundamentals, it seems to me that the union of smartness and usefulness in frocks is the elusive secret.

MARYE and ‘MOM’ B B B THEIR LETTERS

Dearest Mom: Florence is on her way, none too happily. She probably will see you before you receive this letter. The, old home town will look rather small and seedy. So I know you will be sweet to her, even if she lets out a bitter word now and then. It , wasn’t only leaving that caused Florence’s face to assume the expression of an early Christian martyr about to go forth to feed a lion—it was leaving Michello, right at the time when she had him going. But I think it was just as well for her that she left. Michello is not so much a man as he is a type. By leaving as she did, she always can cherish the comforting illusion that if she had just stuck around, and worked her feminine wiles, Michello would eventually have begged the honor of escorting her to the altar. Naturally there wasn’t a Chinaman's chance of this. She would have just become more hopelessly sunk, and he would have walked out with his characteristic grace and gallantry. And while she nursed a broken heart, and ruined her loaftn weeping and emoting, he would have been sending roses to other women, looking soulfully into their eyes, and reciting the sort of poetry that makes a man of Alan's type for the nearest exit. I maintain Florence is the winner, as things stand now. When she marries some nice salesman, whose energies will be devoted to paying bills rather than paying compliments, she will have a nice romantic memory to play with. Certaimy_ every woman should have had the experience of having loved and lost an artist or a poet. It is sort of an initiation into life. Living, as I did, in a small town, where poets and artists were scarce, I missed a lot of this sort of thing. That's the reason Pede appeals so to me now. He has all the romance and the beauty in his soul that I never had a chance to develop in mine. I believe that women who have to go through life without diamonds and automobiles are not nearly so unfortunate and so much to be pitied as those who have never had sonnets written to their eyes, and had artists, with beautiful, slender fingers beg to immortalize them on canvas. As I look around, it seems to me that a lot of women I see, who have all the evidences of wealth, look very hard and bitter, as though they were striving for something they never had—and the other day I met a woman at Michello’s studio, who I was told has been adored by all the artists and writers of this generation. She had something, and it wasn’t beauty and it wasn’t Clothes. I was interested. Do write and tell me all about Florence. Lovingly, MARYE.

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SENIORS OF TUDOR TO BE GRADUATED JUNE 8 Commencement for Tudor Hail School for Girls will be held June 8 at the First Presbyterian Church. Members of the graduating class are: Misses Martha Hamilton Butcher. CaroS n .,F 0 ,2i c - v ’ Virginia Susanne Cox. Florence sut,h5 ut ,h Efroymson. Susanne Elliott, Dorothy Cecile Falender, Marcelle G. Feingold, Constance Fowler. Florence Llodv Harmon, Omie Alice Harris, Anna Louise Henry. Anne Chamberlain Hodges. Ruth Laura Holaday. Frances Slcssom. Cecile McKee

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