Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1929 — Page 21

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Standard of Decency Is ( T nc'nanged BY MARTHA LEE A correspondent writes. ‘The question has been brought up as to what a decent girl of today should be. We would like to see an article on this subject.” Intrinsically, a decent girl of toriav should be 'and is> exactly what she always has been. The outward signs of change have absolutely no effect whatever. Just because our mothers and grandmothers did not make their lip vermilion with lipstick and cut their hair conveniently short and disclose their knees to the eyes of the ' multitude is no sign these ■oungsters have deteriorated morally. Most of the racket comes over the changing mode of doing things, it seems. Take bobbed hair, for instance. In our grandmother's day. girls were not allowed in the business world. They spent their days at home.* sewing, knitting, playing the harpsichord, and getting themselves ready for the inrush of male member of the family after business hours. No Time for Fussing Now these same grandmothers ha’e granddaughters who dash rioT n ever." morning to a job that requires all their attention for at hast eight hours of the day. Who has time to make these intricate pompadours, figure eights, and psyches that somehow seem to be linked with virtue and femininity In the minds of many people? Take long skirts. Graceful, yes. Feminine, yes. Modest, decidedly. Put wouldn't it be a riot to see a . enographei or a clerk go sweeping a round in one of those affairs? Those things don't fit in this age, that's all. Electricity has been responsible to a crpat extent, for the increasing use of cosmetics. A woman can be posi-ti-ely beautiful in candlelight au natural, but put her under the glare r r Mazda and she looks like one of the four horsemen, namely "Famine," without the use of makeup. And 1* is just unfortunate that tome girls, can not distinguish between what looks good in thf> daylight and what looks good in the a relight. Entertainment Is Different Rut that has nothing whatever to do with the goodness or badness of a cirl. Another favorite groan goes with the growing tendency to seek entertainment outside the home. Well, my dear, when grandmother was a girl, where else WAS there to find entertainment but the home? I ask you. No shows. A dance a season. Dining out was as distant as the airplane. The home was the place, the one and only place. Just because these youngsters, cooped up in offices all day long, go outside the family shelter for their evening's amusement is no sign they are not decent. The standards of decency do not change. A modern girl bases her decency on the same ideals by which her grandmother measured her own goodness and virtue. Smoking and slang phrases, abbreviated skirts and a little too much paint do not mean a thing. Standards Are Same A girl, to be decent, should be just what girls of other generations have been. And added to these other qualities the modern girl has frankness 'a distinctly twentieth century virtue), courage, honesty, and the same standards of personal virtue

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Miss Vica Jane Head, who will be married in June, was the guest of honor at a miscellaneous shower given Thursday night by Mrs. Clarence Aikin. 614 Carlyle place. The hostess was assisted by her mother. Mrs. John Sturgeon. Guests were Mrs. Sidney Houck, Mrs. Clarence Holding. Mrs. Ernest Howes, Mrs. Ray Roberson, Mrs. Henry Glesing. Mrs. Arnold Smith, Mrs. Joseph Gospodarck, Mrs. C. R. Wiese, Mrs. Ewell Ewing. Mrs. Eunice Eichinger, Mrs. John Bredewee, Mrs. Edward Wolfarth. Miss Leona Griffin. Miss Edith Peterson and Miss Rita. Gardner. that have been recognized since the beginning of time. The modern girl can have infinitely more fun than was allowed her mother or grandmother. She has twice as much freedom and privileges. But her idea of what a decent girl is has not changed. If she is intrinsically good, these outward changes will have no effect upon her character.

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Americans Chided for Opera Pose BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON Mme. Elsa Alsen. Polish opera singer, asks naively: ‘T think it is so funny that you Americans will sit and listen to operas in German. French, and Italian. You should not want to listen .to plays in a language not your own. Then, why opera?” And everybody heaves a great sigh of relief and also wonders why, Why do we pretend that we enjoy hearing things sung in a foreign menus in a jumble of French? Why do we name our litte stores ‘ Bon Marche” or “Ye Olde Shoppe?” Why do we have our music and dance programs done with a silly 7 conglomeration of languages? Why do we prefer “pettits-fours” to little cakes? Why do we howl about 100 per cent Americans and yet want all our culture.with a foreign emphasis? Idea is Ridiculous As for opera, the thing is so palpably ridiculous that it's a wonder somebody hasn't made fun of us long ago. although* perhaps Mme. Alsen really was not doing that, but only asking for honest information. Personally. I don't believe that one person in a hundred likes grand opera in a foreign tongue. Why should he? Only the man who is a finished musician himself can understand the fine technique of consruction. Only the women who has studied voice can grasp the difficulties of range. This leaves the average person with only an average musical education and a below the average ear perhaps for tone and harmony sitting quite outside the charmed circle and utterly lost in the maze of German or Italian he hears. Die For Culture Society has done a lot for grand opera and for us. Going to the opera is an expensive piece of business unless you are content to sit in the top galleries because you honestly love it. But with the rich and notable patronizing it and assuring the rest of us that German opera is the Thing, we find ourselves bravely marching forth to endure or die for culture. It was prophesied when our single effort to change this rule was made

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CLUB MEETINGS SATURDAY

Miss Orpha King, 4930 Central avenue, will be hostess f . the meeting of the Alpha Delta Latreian Club. Miss Reva Thompson will review ‘‘The Enemy.” Members of the Butler Alumnae Literary Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Thomas R, Lyde. 15 North Campbell avenue. Miss Katherine Quinn. Mrs. James C. Morrison and Msr. Louis Kirkhoff will give reviews. Chapter G. P. E. O. Sisterhood, will celebrate the seventh anniversary of the founding of the chapter with a luncheon meeting at the home of Miss Geraldine Hadley. 640 Middle drive, Woodruff lace. Mrs. H. C. Gemmer, Miss Goddard and Miss Adelaide Conte will talk on “American Women Who Have Achieved Prominence in Literature.” and ‘‘The King's Henchman” was produced that it would fail because it was written in a language we could all understand. This may have been true. If so. it is no compliment to our intelligence or our patriotism.

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President of Sorority to Be Honored Members of Alpha chapter. Phi Theta Delta sorority, will entertain I with a formal dinner party tonight at 7:30 at the Columbia Club in honor of Miss Dorothy Gibson, president ct me chapter, whose marriage to Clavbouine Blue will take place June 1. The table will be decorated with i sweet peas in shades of pink and lilies of the valley, and lighted with tapers in the pastel shades. Favors will be wrist corsages of sweet peas. Covers will be laid for Miss Gibson. Mrs. Ruth Sweetland, Miss Kathryn Gibson, who will toastmistress; Miss Helen Louise Ziegler. Chicago: Miss June Woodworth. Miss Alice Miller. Miss Mary Lou Matlock. Miss Alice Montgomery, Miss Carolyn Lachnut, Miss Elizabeth Clark. Miss Ellen Clark. Miss Elizabeth McCracken, Miss Gene-

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Y. W. C.A. Club Will Give Play to Help Camp Members of the Ella McCrea Club of the young business and professional women's department of the Y. W C. A. will present a three-act play, “Alicia Perks Up,” in Hollen•beck hall at 8:15 tonight. Mr. and Mrs. C. Gorman Green have been in charge of directing the production. Miss Mayme Sims is b.isiness Bernice White, stage director: Miss

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