Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 280, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1931 — Page 16

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BRIDE, WIDOW, AND DIVORCEE HAVE NEW WEDDING RINGS

Three Types of Circlets Are Shown BY JULIA 3L AN SHARI) NEA Service Writer NEW YORK, April 3.—April showers—provided they are the kind given for brides—have a way of bringing in their wake June wedding rings as well as May flowers. The rings that will be given as pledges of the marriage vows this year are lovely little circlets, delicately engraved, sometimes set with gems, individual, distinctive. The good old-fashioned plain yellow gold wedding ring that was good enough for mother is not daughter’s choice. White gold, platinum, these are the new rings, and there are many different styles to choose from Some have hearts and flowers, daring to be sentimental and thereby poviding that the world is changing. Some Have Rosettes Others have rosettes of beautifully engraved diminutive orange blossoms, with diamonds gleaming between the rosettes. Still others have carved olive leaves, symbol of the beautiful peace that the union promises. Tn fact, any bride with originality can draw up her own design or specify what she wants and the bridegrom will have it made up in platinum or one of the other white metals. Two new and very distinctive wedding rings make their appearance this year. One is the divorcee’s wedding ring. The other is the widow's wedding ring. Divorcee Has Ring The first, the divorcee’s wedding ring, is a beautifully engraved platinum wedding ring with a cleft around the center of the ring to denote the disunion. Tt is said to have originated in Reno, but certainly it is appearing on the Atlantic seaboard, and for women who wish their rings to signify their marital state, it speaks for them to the sophisticates and spares them any embarrassment. The second ring, the widow’s ring, is a narrow platinum wedding ring with black enamel band around it. It is to be worn as a guard to the wedding ring that has meant so much to a woman through her happily married years. Shows Widowhood Quietly Paris originated this ring, for in France they make much of mourning. Americans, however, are copying the style and instead ot the wide sleeve band of mourning which publicly flaunts one's bereavement, this simple band on the ring finger states the same fact in quiet, suave manner. Men’s wedding rings are growing interesting, as there is an increase in the double ring service here, which is used so much abroad. A man’s ring may be merely a larger duplicate of a woman’s wedding ring .provided the design is a personal one with meaning to the couple. Or it may be a conventionalized leaf or flower design, done in one of the white metals. Have Two Rings For the June bride it may be of interest to note that the well-mar-ried lady of today is supposed to have a couple of wedding rings—her conventional wedding ring with which the bridegroom pledged his troth and a second, or dinner ring, for dress-up evening occasions. This latter, also usually of white metal such as platinum, is a gleaming jeweled circlet, set in diamonds, or rubies, emeralds or anything else a bride desires, even opals, if she defies superstition, so sure is she of her heart’s choice.

Card Parties

Circle No. 3, St. Anthony's Altar Society, will hold its annual Easter card party Sunday at the hall, 373 North Warman avenue. Games will start at 2:30 and 8:30. Supper vail be served from sto 7. Mrs. John Collins is chairman. Monumental Division 128, Grand International auxiliary to Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, will entertain at cards at 8 Saturday night in Clark hall, Twenty-fifth and Station streets. Altar Society, Sacred Heart church, will give its annual Easter Monday card party and luncheon at 2:30 Monday at Sacred Heart hall, and St. Ceclia hall. There will be tables for euchre, pinochle, bridge, five hundred, lotto and bunco. Mrs. Henry Zoderer, president, is in charge, assisted by the other officers, Mesdames John Schmalz, Urban Haag; Misses Mary Zink and Julia Busald. The Saturday Night Social Club will give a card party at 8 Saturday night at South Side Turners hall. ELECT SIGMA RHO HEADS FOR YEAR New officers Ssf Sigma Rho Delta sorority are Misses Feme Conrad, president; Helen Bottema, vicepresident; Helen Beier, secretary; Ethel Cutter, treasurer, and Grace Curran, sergeant-at-arms. The retiring officers are: Misses Ethel Beck, president; Helen Crooke, vice-president; Conrad, secretary; Lorena Curran, treasurer, and Bottema, sergeant-at-arms. Pledge Services Slated Pledge services for Miss Josephine Whitten will be held following the regular business meeting of the Alpha chapter. Rho Delta sorority, at 8 tonight at the Antlers.

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OU’LL KNOW THEM BY THE BANDS ON THEIR FINGERS

New wedding rings for the 1931 bride prefer white metal and are very individual in style. There are three classes of wedding rings, for the widow, the bride and the divorcee. Left to Right—The widow’s ring is of platinum, with black enamel around the center, and is worn as a guard ring with one’s wedding

Just Every Day Sense

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

“TT7HAT do you think of Fran- - cis Bushman and his flock of 'want-add replies?’ ” snippily inquires a man who Is not so high on my sex, and resents the action of the actor who advertised for a rich wife. Well, I think he’s a smart guy, and I hope he gets a nice wife with a fat bank account and that they live happily ever after. It might be a risky investment for the woman, of course, since a man who already has run through six million is likely to be a bit careless about handling money. And going to the poorhouse with Mr. Bushman would not be so pleasant as showing off his chin at fashionable teas. “But for the life of me I can’t see anything wrong with the idea of a luxuriously Inclined man marrying a woman for money. The ladies have been doing that quite shamelessly and openly for a long time now and are considered clever when they get away with it. Mothers do not feel that they are disgracing themselves when they angle for rich or titled sons-

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in-law. And most papas smile more fondly on a wealthy eligible than on a poor one. a a a THE thing that has upset everybody about the Bushman incident is that he is trying to do honestly what goes on constantly in secret. When you try to analyze our reasons for doing things, you will find that we are a very illogical bunch. And nothing is mo unreasonable than to cry down Mr. Bushman’s methods. It isn’t considered wicked for a woman to marry a man for his money. Why then make such a hub-bub because a man does it? And Mr. Bushman has been admirably frank. For that he deserves the highest commendation. He is not deceiving any one, not even the woman he marries. And that is something. The guy who slinks around and pretends to be in love while his heart hankers after the bank account is the fellow to criticise. And I see no need for casting slurs at the women who have applied for the job of supplying Mr. Bushman with cash. They are doing it with their eyes open, and probably have no more illusions about either men or marriage. Anyway, what’s the use of haring a fortune if you can’t buy a handsome husband with it?

Sorority Elects Leaders Alpha Beta Chi sorority recently elected the following officers: Mrs. Mary Pope, president; Miss Dean Bowman, vice-president; Mrs. Nellie Smith, treasurer; Mrs. Irene Thom- ! as, secretary, and Miss Marie Tu- : dor, sergeant-at-arms. Mrs. R. W. Houser, Kewanee, 111., jis the house guest of Mrs. M. E. Ccstin, 4216 Broadway.

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(Rings courtesy Baker and Company. Newark. N. J.) ring. Delicate and beautiful is the new rosette wedding ring, for the spring bride, made of engraved platinum, with diamonds set between the rosettes. The divorcee’s ring is of carved platinum, with a cleft of plain platinum down the center, to denote that there has been a separation.

Mrs. Conklin Is Re-Elected as D. A. R. Leader Mrs. Alfred P. Conklin was reelected regent of the Cornelia Cole Fairbanks chapter, D. A. R., at a meeting Thursday at the Propylaeum. Mrs. Henry W. Buttolph was elected first vice-regent and Mrs. Allan Kendricks, treasurer. Other officers who were re-elected are: Mesdames Edgar H. Evans, second vice-regent; Newton Todd, recording secretary; John E. Hoilett. corresponding secretary; Clarence Forsythe, registrar, and Albert Rabb. historian. Mrs. Demarchus Brown spoke during the afternoon on “The Life of Lafayette.” The Junior League glee club sang.

NAME TOASTMASTER FOR ANNUAL DANCE

Dr. Edwin McShay has been named

toastmaster for the annual dinner dance to be held by the En-Av-Ant Club on Monday night at the Antlers. Decorations will carry out the club colors of blue and white. Speakers will include Francis McCarthy, William Eich, Edward Feeney and Urban Renner. Music will be furnished by Stiles Collegians.

Personals

Mrs. A. W. Early, 2625 North Meridian street, is sojourning at the El Mirador, Palm Springs, Cal., on the American desert. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Cole, Marott, are spending some time in New York. Mrs. Josephine Ives and Miss Hazel D. McKee, 3115 North Meridian street, are spending a few days in Martinsville at the Home Lawn sanitarium. Miss Mary Alice Purves, 5261 Carrollton avenue, will have as her guests at dinner tonight Misses Alice Evans of De Pauw university Helen Kapen and Charlotte Merchant of Denison university, who are spending the spring holidays at their homes here. . Miss Celeste Jordan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jordan, 578 Audubon road, a student in Franklin college, is spending the Easter holidays at her home. Howard Robertson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Robertson, 5050 East New York street, a student in Franklin college, is spending the spring vacation in Sedalia, Mo., as guest of Damon Hieronymus.

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Mrs. Miller to Preside Over Clubs Ninth district Federation of Clubs will hold its twenty-second annual convention at Sheridan Wednesday, with the Federated clubs of Hamilton county as hostesses. Mrs. Bert Miller, Lebanon, district president, will preside. The main address will be given by Mrs. Edwin F. Miller, Peru, president of the state federation. A musical program to be given by the Girls Glee Club of Sheridan has been arranged by Mrs. Charles Commela, Noblesville. Mrs. Jane Parlon, New Richmond; I Mrs. J. M. Thistlethwaite, Sheridan, and Mrs. M. B. Rawland, Craw- | fordsville, district officers, also will be on the program. Mrs. Harry Snyder, Winamac, was elected president of the Woman’s Club to fill the place of Mrs. Russell Fry, whose illness caused her to resign. At a recent meeting a fifty-dollar student, loan fund was established. Mrs. Harry Lee Beshore, Marion, county federation chairman and Eleven' h district vice-chairman, spoke on “tYhat It Means to Bea Mjmber of a* Federated Club,” at a meeting of the Wednesday evening Study Club at Jonesboro last week. At the close of the talk plans for anew club were formulated, and Mrs. E. W. Tucker was appointed chairman of the new group. Mrs. Burt Cedare was re-elected president of the Howard County Federation of Clubs Wednesday at the convention. Mrs. H. B. Davis, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. C. O. Hazeltine, corresponding secretary, were re-elected. New officers named are Mrs. H. R. Nation, vice-president, and Mrs. Hanley Pickett, treasurer. Ruthven Byrum, Anderson, was lunchecn speaker. Mrs. Edwin F. Miller addressed the afernoon session. Hamilton county federation officers, elected at a recent meeting at Sheriden, are Mesdames Fred McDonald, president; Clifton Caca, Noblesville; R. R. Williamson, Sheriden, and J. F. Bales, Westfield. Carmel was selected as the place for the next meeting. Professor John J. Haramy, Indiana Central college, will address the twenty-third annual convention of the Fifth district convention at Clinton next Friday. His subject will be “America’s Gift to the World.” The morning session will begin at 9 and the afternoon at 1:45. Vermilion county officers, Mrs. Ora Doyle, president, will make up the reception committee. Mrs. Edwin F. Miller addressed the 21st annual convention of the Thirteenth district federation held at Rochester Wednesday on “Our Common Goal.” Mrs. H. R. Misener, Michigan City, spoke on “Our Legislative Program and Results.” More than 200 were present. Mrs.

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Miss Marcella Hunt

The Franklin college chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha will entertain with a formal dance Friday night, April 17, at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Miss Marcella Hunt. Frank.'in, is in charge of arrangements.

Bridc/e Party to Be Held Miss Margaret Ralston, Rushville. will entertain Saturday at a bridge party at her home. Indianapolis I guests will include Misses Mary and Frances Russell, Thelma O'Reilly, Harriet Clary, Margaret Smith, Martha and Bess Cross and Ruth Lanham. Sorority to Hold Sale Alpha Theta Chi sorority will have a bake sale Saturday at Kruge’s radio shop, 2405 East Tenth street. Claude S. Steele, Knox, district president, presided, and members of the Rochester Woman’s Club acted as hostesses. Mrs. Steele, Mrs. W. I. Ellison, Winona Lake, vice-president: Mrs. E. N. Cook, Plymouth, secretary, and Mrs. Frank Brown, Elkhart, treasurer, were elected to serve another year. The next meeting will be held at La Porte in 1932. Federated clubs of Fountain county met Thursday, March 18, at Kingman. A large attendance was present. Mrs. J. Frank McDermond Jr., Attica, county president, presided. Following are the officers elected: Masdames W. S. Higel, Covington, president; Fred Parham, Veedersburg, first vice-president; Vern Corey, Kingman, second vice-presi-dent; J. E. Romine, Covington, recording secretary; Ed Roembke, Hillsboro, corresponding secretary, and Harry Wilbur, Attica, treasurer. Mrs. Bert Miller spoke during the afternoon. State merit prize for club reports was awarded Friday to the Friday Study Club of Veedersburg. County merit prize was awarded to the Hillsboro Harmony Club.

.APRIL 3, 1931'

Easter Fete to Be Held by T Club Friends and families of the Wa-Ki-Ye Club. Y. W. C A. mercantile group, will be entertained with an Easter party Saturday night at the Central Association. The group is composed of girls employed at Pettis Dry Goods Company, William H. Block Company, Laurie s. K. p. Wasson Company, tne Ciaypocl hotel and C. B. Cones overall factory The name. Wa-Ki-\e. translated, means, "We wish to serve.” Members of the committee in charge of arrangements are Miss Catherine Van Sickle, chairman; Misses Vanell Hodapp, Mary Spellman and Mrs. Noel Maclnnish. Miss Florence Quinn is president of the club. Invitations, in the form of cracked Easter eggs, have been issued to 100 guests. Rabbits, both stuffed and alive. w.ll provide decoration and entertainment. A special rabbit dance will be given during the intermission, and favors will be colored Easter eggs.

Miss Durnell to Be Bride of Dan MacLaren Mr. and Mrs. Charles Durnell, 3307 East Twenty-fifth street, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Dorothea Winifred Durnell, to Dan B. MacLaren, son of Mr. and Mrs. David MacLaren. The wedding will take place Saturday, April 11. Miss Durnell attended Butler university and is a member of Alpha Delta Theta sorority. Mr. MacLaren was graduated from Purdue university and is a member of Theta Tau engineering fraternity. Miss Durnell will be honor guest at a party to be held Saturday at the Lumley tea room by Miss Olive Montel. CHILDREN TO FROLIC AT FRENCH LICK By Times Special FRENCH LICK. Ind., April 3. Easter Sunday will be observed at French Lick Springs with a flower show and egg hunt for children. Among the arrivals from Indianapolis at the hotel are: Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Clippingcn Mr. and Mrs. O A Braun. Mrs. Paul Payne. Mrs. H. R. Wilson, Morgan Springer. L. F. Mead, Edwin N. Eaton and James B. Darlington. 0. E. S. to Hold Sale Ladies’ auxiliary, Prospect chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, will hold a bake sale Saturday at the Prospect Masonic hall, Prospect and State streets. Mrs. Charles Sabins is chairman.