Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 77, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1931 — Page 9

RUG. 8, 1931

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r auu ttuuut wnai ume x expect to oe DacK. ‘That wouldn't be so bad. But If my companion is someone whom she doesn’t particularly like, I get nagged about the kind of company I keep. Very often the situation has been so trying tha t at the last minute I'd decide to stay at home rather than go out. The trouble is, Mr. Broun, I feel that the years are slipping away and I’m not getting njy share of run out of life. I couldn't start going places until I was ’way past 21. When I did finally make a break for some kind of freedom, I was so shy and frightened that it took years to really learn how to be myself and get a little joy out . of life. j - - -

“And still I am watched and reprimanded and advised about bow a nice girl should conduct herself. Oh, hell! .. .” nun Live and Let Live MY first impulse on reading this letter was to advise X. V. Z. to leave home and live her life before it is too late. Asa matter of fact, I still think it is a good idea. However, no doubt there are circumstances that would prevent such a drastic step. Being a man, I never had to contend with this problem of parental surveillance. And I don’t see why a woman should have to contend with it, either. Certainly in this day and age, when women are economically independent, they should have the privilege of conducting their lives without interference from anyone else—even a parent. If they make mistakes, they have only themselves to blame. And, after all, that’s part of the supreme adventure of living. It has been proved time and again that we chn not learn from the experiences of our elders. In fact, we’d have little or no regard for the man or woman afraid to take risks because of parental warning. It is only the lessons we learn ourselves that make a lasting impression. tt tt tt Eleventh Commandment I’D like to sponsor a movement wherein it would be necessary for parents to take a course in etiquet. I am using the word in Its broadest sense. Most parents seem to think that just because they brought children into the world, forever after those children must answer to them for their actions. They take liberties with their children’s lives which they would consider absolutely taboo so far as their friends and acquaintances die concerned.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.— The Editor.

Once children have reached their majority (and I am being conservative now) they should most certainly be permitted to pick their own friends and the things which appeal to them. Tyrannical supervision never has prevented sons and daughters from stepping off the very straight and narrow path. Even in the good old days of chaperons and duennas the modest, though ingenious young maiden found ways and means to escape the watchful guardian and have her fun. And, provided she was clever enough not to get caught, her conscience did not bother her. But the modern girl with a nagging parent has a much worse time of it. Her newly acquired sense of responsibility is in many cases not sufficiently strong to counteract the bugaboo of parental disapproval. The result is that she learns to hedge and lie about even the most innocent indulgences. tt tt t 1 Do It Now! George Bernard shaw once wrote that it would be a good idea to take children aw r ay from their parents at birth, put them in a field and let them grow up by themselves. Os course, such procedure would not be entirely feasible, considering the helpnessness of the human animal in its infancy. But the basic idea is excellent. Too many lives have been blighted*by overzealous or selfish parents. Therefore. I would advise X. Y. Z. to put her foot down. Undoubtedly she is suffering from a childhood hangover and takes too seriously her mother’s admonitions. She must learn to stand on her own two feet, even at the risk of being considered heartless and ungrateful. It is quite possible otherwise that she may evolve into a disillusioned, anti-social creature. Even mothers can be trained to be discreet and like it. (Copyright. 1931, bv The Times)

A Day's Menu Breakfast — Bartlett pears, cereal, cream, crisp broiled bacon, blueberry muffins, milk, coffee. tt tt tt Luncheon — Spinach ring filled with creamed eggs and mushrooms, tomato and banana salad, ginger ale cooler. tt tt U Dinner — Fried chicken, cauliflower au gratin, peppers stuffed and baked head lettuce with chiffonade dressing, muscovite of watermelon, milk, coffee.

It Seems to Me - —By Hey wood Broun ■ - - -■ - * m M •

I WAS quite surprised to learn the other day that there still are some old-fashioned mothers left. I mean old-fashioned in its worst sense. “What shall I do?” writes X. Y. Z. “I’m past 30. have a swell job and a small circle of very nice friends. But every time I prepare for an evening out I have the same problem to contend with. My mother wants to know' where I am going, with whom and about what time I expect to be back.

Bridge for You n n n nun nun A Remarkable Grand Slam

Secretary American Bridge Lea rue THE one point most vividly brought out at the recent national bridge championship tournament was that the experts make very few original forcing two bids. A remarkable grand slam hand is given below.

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The Bidding South the dealer, holding five and one-half tricks under any man’s count, opened the contracting with one club. West passed and North, who employed the One over One forcing bid, bid one spade. East passed and South now stopped to do a little counting. The spade bid shows a biddable suit and at least one and onehalf tricks. Assuming that North holds five spades, it surely is headed by the queen. H 6 most certainly has the king of diamonds and the ace of hearts to justify the bid. The only chance that South is taking to bid six spades is that North may hold three clubs and three hearts, but even then, the fourth club may be set to discard the losing heart on. So South correctly bids six spades. North feels that he has a great deal more than South has a right to figure him for and takes the contract to seven spades. tt tt u The Play East has the opening lead. Feeling quite confident that North and South have all suits protected, East decides to open the eight of trump which might prevent a ruff. South, the dummy, wins the trick with the ace and follows it with the king of spades, then playing the jack of spades. West plays the five of hearts and the declarer overtakes it in his own hand with the queen of spades, East dropping a diamond. Declarer plays the nine of trump, discarding the three of hearts from dummy. West plays the seven of hearts. The four of clubs is then led by declarer, dummy winning the trick with the king-, West dropping the seven. Declarer then plays the ace of diamonds from dummy and then the deuce of diamonds, winning

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Most Parents Seem to Think Children Must Answer to Them For Their Actions.

in his ow r n hand with the king. Declarer plays the seven of spades, East dropping a diamond, the six of clubs is discarded from dummy and West has to protect his queen of hearts so discards the five of clubs. This gives the declarer a key to the hand. West is endeavoring to proect his hearts and also holds the queen of clubs. Therefore, the declarer’s next play is the eight of clubs, winning in the dummy with the ace of clubs, West playing the ten spot. The small heart is returned from dummy and won by declarer with the ace of. hearts, East following with the ten of hearts. North swings his last trump, the five of spades, East plays the ten of diamonds, South discards the jack of clubs and West is helpless. If he drops the queen of clubs, the declarer’s nine will be good. If he plays the nine of hearts, declarer will lead the deuce of hearts and the two good hearts in dummy are good. With the aid of one of the rarest squeeze plays known in bridge—the Vienna coup—the declarer has made his contract of seven spades.

\ T m 11* P 1-1 sI A DorCt Worry Your Boy and Girl by 17 jtt VJllllQ Constant References to the Heat. \ 0151* i j.0H1.0 , „ £>?/ Olive Roberts Barton

DO children “feel” the heat? Yes, they do, but not in the way you and I notice it. That is to say, they have no emotional reaction toward it. They do not resent it, thereby putting their minds into such a state of unhappiness that they send messages to every part of the body that it is time to be miserable. It has taken me years of constant battle to learn my lesson. I feel the heat, I am miserable in summer. I know that I am sick, only when I have time to think. When I am very busy and my mind is too much occupied to send out any silly messages to my steaming flesh, the heat never occurs to me. I can work to the point of exhaustion before I realize that I am little more than a sublimated grease spot. Then, when that realization comes, how I suffer 1 tt tt tt CHILDREN are not that way, at least to any extent. They have no emotion toward discomfort, and it is the greatest blessing in the world. Any ill effects from heat with

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Ten Newcomers to the Talkies r Who's i + rj. This T By Dan Thomas NE >vrfu7 ice £_ One? J

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HOLLYWOOD, Aug. B.—She’s a bronco-bustin’ daughter of the southwest. . . , Riding cow ponies gave her poise and rhythm. . . . Throwing a lariat gave her grace. . . . Swimming, climbing trees and “skinning the cat” gave her health. . . . And Flo Ziegfeld gave her a job in the Follies when she left her Pine Bluff (Ark.) home to visit New York. . . . She learned to dance in six weeks. . . . Appeared in fifteen Broadway “ops” and several big successes. . . . Then came to Hollywood and got a break when Clara Bow went starring with Richard Arlen in her first picture, “The Secret Call.” . . . She’s a red-head and has plenty of “It,” too. She is Peggy Shannon. NEXT—She made her New York debut at the age of 5 and her baby has been called an “Act of God.” Who is she?

them is purely physical, resulting from over exposure, too much hard exercise, unwise eating. To bring the two poles together, ourselves and the children, it is time to say that we can make the children as emotionally unhappy about the heat as we are ourselves IF WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT before them. If we persistently fuss and fret and exclaim, “Oh, isn’t this heat

Heaven for Fishermen

'T'ORONTO, Ontario, Aug. B.—Ontario may be regarded as the haven A for many a thirsty soul below the Canadian bordry, but for the sportive American the province offers some of the most attractive fishing possibilities on the continent. Thousands of tourists are driving northward to enjoy the fishing in the 41,000 square miles of fresh water within the boundaries of Ontario.

It is not necessary to go far from the main motor roads to enjoy the fishing. There are the Kawartha, Rideau and Muskoka lakes, all within a short distance of Toronto, which is on the main paved highway connecting the ports of entry into Ontario from Montreal, Ogdensburg, Detroit, Buffalo and Sarnia. Farther north, yet within motoring distance, are the forest reserves of Northern Ontario, including Timagami and Algonquin parks. Timagami and Algonquin Parks are vast preserves where forest rangers keep guard, where shooting is not allowed and where each traveler has to register on entry. Timagami has a fine scenic motor road through a section of it, which is part of the main road from Toronto to Cochrane, just 140 miles south of James bay, Asa region for the angler, Timagami has the reputation of being the finest on the continent. The rivers and streams are alive with speckled trout. Lake trout of from ten to fifteen pounds are frequent, while some have been caught weighing thirty pounds. Black bass from ten to twenty inches in length are found over the whole area. Algonquin park, 200 miles north of Toronto and 169 miles from Ottawa, has 1,200 lakes connected in a huge network by a myriad of streams. Lake and stream are filled mainly with speckled and lake trout, pike, lunge, bass and pickerel, as well as salmon trout, steelhead salmon and rainbow trout. In western Ontario there are more fishing districts. From Port Arthur and Ft. William, motorists coming up from the western states through Duluth will find a motor road to Nipigon and the forest reserve of that name. Here are speckled trout galore with the average weighing five pounds and the record catch one of fourteen and one-half pounds. Nipigon park is just north of Lake Superior. Still farther west is the Lake of the Woods and Rainy river region, reached by highw-ay. Black bass, sturgeon and speckled trout abound in the lakes and rivers of this area, while the scenery is of the finest. Combination Swim Suits Black-and-white combinations are showing up on the beaches this month. The half-and-half idea in the bathing suit of fine jersey is smart the color divided diagonally making half the suit black and the other half white. .

dreadful!” and rush to look at the thermometer (a plague on thermometers) every half hour, our heat malaise soon becomes as contagious as measles. Nothing spreads like an attitude of mind and this is not talk, it is a fact. The craving in our mind for sympathy reaches out and tries to include every one around us, in its own complex. Not knowing this we yell about

Believe It or Not Registered u. S. Patent Office.

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” which appeared in Friday’s Times: A 328-Pound Black Sea Bass Caught by Elmer Latz— ln a forty-two-minute fight with the giant 328-pound black sea bass, July 8, 1928, Latz succeeded in landing it, using only a nine-strand line,

Steppin’ in N. Y. -** * * ——By Gilbert Swan Bna **

Smoke T e ste r on “Tobacco T rail" Has Interesting Job on Interesting Street.

they saw one; and so it has been ever since. And In case you have put a gift cigar in your mouth, let me explain that tobacco arrives in fragrant clusters and that these samples are the result of years of prowung over tobacco farmlands near and far. , ® urnatra tobacco arrived in New York about 1853, and it was only some twentv-five years later that the Duys came also. Being somewhat of a smoker myself, I was interested to discover that while Havana may furnish most of the fillers for cigars, Connecticut furnishes a considerable percentage of the wrappers used

Wliat’s in Fashion

Waistline-Length Sweaters —.———. Directed by Amos Parrish .—.—.—..

NEW YORK, Aug. 8. —Fashionable sweaters don’t go to great lengths to be smart. But that’s one reason why they are bo smart looking.

Short and snappy is the idea, waistline. Some a little longer (but still looking short) just touch the top of the hipbone. And all of them decidedly snappy in their cut, their patterns and their combinations of colors. Short as they are, they have the look of blouses. One good reason why so many well-dressed women are putting more sweaters into their wardrobes than they’ve had for years. They wear them with suit and with skirts just as they wear blouses, and they pull them on over dresses to give the fashionable two-piece look to the costume. * a a Waistband Adds Accent THE brief length of these sweaters is usually accented by a waistband of some sort. A ribbed band that goes all the way around or a band that ties over at the side when the sweater closes in surplice blouse fashion. Sweaters most in fashion look as though they were made by hand. And of course many of them actually are hand-made. This follows the fashion for hand work that you see all through the

our misery loud and long. The children get it and suddenly find themselves miserable. tt tt tt OH, no, we cannot disregard it entirely, nor mention it to the family. That is not human and it is not necessary. In warning the children about too much sun, too much eating, too much exercise, it is, on the other hand, quite necessary to speak of it. But not emotionally. Try not to plant in their heads the idea that heat is only to be despised. We owe so much to it; we could not live through winter if we did not have it in the summer; besides, God put people where they could live. If we cannot live through heat, it is our fault, not His. We can cultivate a philosophy about it and spread it to the children. (Copyright. 1931. by NEA Service. Inc.)

which is supposed to support only eighten pounds dead weight. Latz, who lives at 1227 South Central. Glendale, Cal., weighed only 128 pounds at the time. The accomplishment is verified by the Southern California Rod ana Reel Club, Los Angeles. Monday—“A Man Who Was Too Proud to Speak.”

NEW YORK, Aug. B.—“ Tobacco trail” is an inconspicuous and relatively short section of Water street, a portion of old Manhattan that lies east by south in the district where New York’s history began. It is there that tobacco comes in bulging bundles from Sumatra, Java, Connecticut, Ohio, Pennsylvania and way points. And there it was that I encountered John Duys, whose ancestors knew a tobacco leaf when

Some so short they just hit the summer costume, whether it's knitted or sewed together. Those openwork, lacy patterns you're seeing wherever smart women gather, look like handwork, don’t they? So do those flat surface ones in the same effect you get when you knit one row and purl the next. So do the sweaters (and there are many of them) that combine a plain knit body with a yoke in fancy stitch. * tt Angora for Sports ONE of the best looking real sports sweaters is also one of the simplest. It’s plain with a ribbed band at the waist and sleeves and a plain crew neck. You'll find this kind in many different weights and wools, but it looks particularly well in angora. You’re going to see even more, of these in the fall, too, with long sleeves, waiting to keep you warm under your topcoat in football season. Another good sports type . . . and quite new ... is the natural color kashimir jersey with a yoke of heavy yarns in brown and yellow and the heavy yarn used for the ribbing at the waist. For dressier sweaters there’s the open-work lacy one with the frill or jabot down the front or a frill around the neckline. This looks more like a blouse than any other kind, especially when it's white. Another sweater is dressy, too. This combines a plain body with a yoke in fancy mesh stitch, giving the plastron effect that you’re going to find in many fall dresses. Plain knitted wool or jersey sweaters often add a scarf or yoke or bands in two or three contrasting colors. And they make a fine gay spot on the sidelines of sports events. (Copyright. 1931. by Amos Parrish) Next: Amos Parrish reports on the fashion for red in the August costume. Old-Fashioned Bracelets If you have any old-fashioned wide gold bracelets tucked away the kind your mother or grandmother might have worn—you’ll want to get them out to wear with the new fall costumes that have such an old-fashioned look.

BY RIPLEY On request, sent with stamped addressed envelope. Mr. Ripley will furnish proof of anrhtimr depicted by him.

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in the east. Tobacco, far from being a faraway industry’, has been proving an important farming commodity right here in the dear old U. S. A, 808 Tobacco Conscious Connecticut Yankees have been tobacco conscious for many a generation, and the shade-grown” product of that state is so called because it is developed under tents or similar shelters. If the soil fails to conform to the last word in tests from Java and Sumatra, there’s no one to blame but nature; and man has learned how to overcome handicaps of climate and earth. Ohio, Wisconson and Pennsylvania, it seems, have remained a few laps behind Connecticut, and the crop of those states, I was told, goes into the 5-cent cigar which, one has been constantly reminded, is what the nation needs. tt tt a “Test Smoker ” on Job OUT in Amsterdam, where most of the Manhattan wholesalers, including M%inherr Duys, go to look over the colonial stock, it seems there is a perfect job. It’s that of the “test smoker.” This gent—there are many, as a matter of fact—merely has to sit back in his chair, light a cigar and make his money. Good, bad or indifferent, he has to smoke it, even as at an American banquet, which is why he may earn his dough. And the buyers stand around waiting. His is not the job of critic, or he would be more highly paid. What the buyers are waiting for is a peep at the ash. If this comes out a certain combination of whites and grays, the ideal is on. If there is no black rim around the lighted sector, again the deal is on. Once the demonstration has been made, the sampler can toss the cigar away and take up another. In the course of a working day he demonstrates 150 cigars, more or less. Every two hours he is given a bottle of milk to soothe his palate. tt tt a Girls Can Spot ’Em AND whereas the Sumatra and Java farms have Chinese who are to the tobacco born, and can expert the crop almost from the roof, America is rearing a generation of young women whose decisions are hard to overrule. Hundreds of girls are used in the Connecticut tobacco farms

and are as quick at noting the quality of the leaf as any Chinese coolie in the Dutch colonies. The hardboiled leaf selectors have a way of taking the lighted end of a cigar and pressing it against a leaf. If it bums evenly in a cir-

cle they are impressed as to Its potentialities as a future wrapper. If it smolders, they hardly can recommend it for 10-cent brands, let alone “two-fers” or higher, i Copyright. 1931. by NEA Servlc*. Ine.)

A Good Tip to the Golfer

What is the difference between the swings for the drive and for the mid-iron? u tt a Generally, the swing for a midiron is the same as with the driver, except in one detail. Because the shaft of a mid-iron is shorter than t? 3 driver, one must stand closer to the ball. This makes the swing more upright and changes the stance to one slightly more open. No more than a three-quarter swing is necessary for mid-iron shots. It should be shorter than for the drive. If the distance to be covered is more than 180 yards a more powerful club should be used. With the shorter swing, the player should find himself with better control and should be able more certainly to apply force in hitting the ball.

Daily Recipe tt 9 tt BAKED HAM AND PINEAPPLE Put a slice of ham in a baking pan. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.) until almost tender. Pour off fat. Spread over the ham a pineapple and brown sugar mixture (proportion: 1 cup shredded pineapple to V 4 cup brown sugar). Return to oven and continue baking until meat is tender and the pineapple is delicately browned.