Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1931 — Page 6

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EMPLOYED WOMEN HAIL ‘MATERNITY LEAVE’ PRECEDENT

Penalty on Motherhood Is Removed BY JULIA EL AN SHARD NBA Service Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Married ■women who work just have received great encouragement from Barnard college. This liberal institution has announced a policy of granting maternity leaves to Its faculty members, thereby not only vindicating the woman who holds a job—though married—but granting her the right to have a family without fear of losing her foothold in her profession by so doing. A half year* with full pay or a full ear with half pay is what Barnard ollege now gives any woman member of the administrative or teaching staff, on trustee appointment for ill time, who is expecting a child. Married Teachers Unwanted Many married teachers throughout America this winter face losing heir positions because of their communities’ belief that only single teachers should be hired and that no married woman who has a husoand to support her should take a job w'hile others need one. According to a survey of public school superintendents made recently by The Woman’s Journal,” there is this winter “a rather disquieting number of opinions to the effect that due to the business depression the communities of most of the superintendents who were interviewed would like to see married women teachers staying at home taking care of their husbands and children and leaving public education to unmarried women.” Rochester, N. Y., is one community listed as being very careful about hiring as teachers any married women whose husbands have jobs. Cleveland is listed as one city which hires no married women as beginning teachers.

Plan Not Entirely New Barnard’s maternity leave policy is not an experiment, according Acting Dean George Walker Mullins. During the last six years Barnard has granted four women faculty members who were expecting children a leave of absence. A special committee of trustees had made a thorough study of the matter during this period and the new policy is the result. Alice Duer author, who is a member of the Barnard board of trustees, expressed herself as feeling that this decision makes it seem “as if one era in academic thought had definitely closed and a saner one opened.” She stressed the early prejudices against women as students and women as teachers and the only too recent prejudice against any teacher marrying while on the job, and the feeling in certain communi ;s that child bearing is a "disgraceful illness.” Viewpoints Altered Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer, who remembers when even college prol: ssors avoided the word child--1 aring and spoke of it as “bad health,” said of the Barnard decision: “ One year’s absence on half pay, or six months’ absence on full pay’ for women on the faculty of Barnard college who expect to bear a child! How delightfully clear and straightforward! What an engaging absence of all furtiveness or absurd circumlocution: “In the year 1931 the trustees of Barnard college—consisting of both men and women—succeeded, I am glad say, in discussing the pros and cons of this delicate problem without undue embarrassment.” Mrs. Ogden Reid, chairman of the trustees, said: “I am very proud that Barnard should have taken the lead among women’s colleges in granting a leave of absence with pay to woman members of its teaching and administrative staffs, and I believe it marks a significant step not only in the work of women, but more especially in the processes of education.”

Card Parties

Francis Review No. 8 will have a card party in the Red Men’s hall, Capitol avenue and North street, at 2:30 Wednesday. Altar Society of St. Philip Neri church will hold card parties on Wednesday afternoon and evening in the auditorium at 535 Eastern avenue. Mrs. B. T. Jones is in charge. Social Club of St. Patrick’s church will hold a card party and bake sale 1 at the school hall, 946 Prospect street, at 2:30 and 8:15 Wednesday. Mrs. Carl Kiefer is chairman. P. O. of A. Camp No. 4 will hold a card party at 1:30 Wednesday at Banner-Whitehill Furniture Company. St. Mary’s Social Club will hold a card and lotto party Thursday afternoon in the school hall. 315 North New Jersey street, with Mesdaines Amelia Fritz, Fred Fries, Veronica Gisler and Crist Greiner as hostesses. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers No. 11 will entertain at cards at 8:15 Wednesday at Castle hall. 230 East Ohio street. Altar society of St. Roch’s church will hold its monthly tournament card party Sunday. Mrs. Helen V. Costello : s chairman, assisted by officers of the society. Luncheon will be served from 5 to 7 by Mrs. Henry Hermann. C.A.R. SUPPER-DANCE SLATED NEW YEAR’S C. A. R. New Year's day supperdance will be held at the D. A. R. chapter house with Miss Charlotte Griggs, 4215 Carrollton avenue, as chairman. Supper will be served at 7. Miss Bernice Showers will give a dance specialty. Mrs. A. P. Poorman. state president, will be an honor guest. A number of collegians, members of C. A. R., home for holidays, will attend. Plan Lodge Dance Independent Group of Fraternal Organizations is sponsoring a New Year’s eve dance at the Knights of Columbus auditorium, with Chic Myers and his recording orchestra playing. The program also will include well-known entertainers.

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They influenced Barnard college’s vindication of the working mother. Left to right are Alice Duer Miller, Mrs. Ogden Reid and Mrs. Anna Nathan Meyer.

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MRS. C. W. SMITH IS HOSTESS AT BRIDGE Mrs. Clarance W. Smith, 4905 Broadway, entertained with a bridge party today for Mrs. George Never a Collins, Chicago. Holiday decorations were used at serving time. Guests with Mrs. Collins were: Mesdames Fay H. Irwin, Norris Shelby, Ferdinand Born, Dudley Gallahue. Fred Wasoncr. Walter J. Hubbard Jr., Robert Clarke. Richard M. Hennessey. Fred Cunningham, Roy Deupree and Donald McClues. ' PRINTED BLOUSES GIVE NEW DRESS The fashion for combining printed and plain materials is a lucky break for any one who wants to freshen her mid-winter wardrobe inexpensively. Anew printed blouse with the plain skirt of your fall suit makes anew dress. Or, cut off the top of the wool dress that’s worn at the elbows and wear the bottom part as a skirt with a printed blouse. SILVER PLATES FOR CHILDREN ARE NEW The children are going to like the new sliver plates, mugs and porridge bowls that are decorated with Winnie the Pooch, Christopher Robin and other characters from Milne’s popular children’s books. The silverware comes packed in boxes with illustrations from the books on the 1 lid. a

MAN N£lU and MOl\ALS| By Jan£ Jordan /b

WHAT’s on your mind? If it’s trouble, write to Jane Jordan and ask her what to do about' it. She will answer your letters in this column daily. Uear Jane Jordan—My little sister is only 15 years old and running around with boys 19 or 20 whose worldly knowledge is so much above hers that she doesn’t stand a chance. She has admitted a wrong relationship with one particular boy and says she can not help it. I forbade her to go with him, threatening to tell Mama. I don’t think telling mother would really help. When I say anything to her about my sister’s going out with this boy so much, she accuses me of jealousy. Can you beat that? I reproached the man, but that didn’t help. What worries me is that they're having dates rather steadily now and I'm perfectly powerless to do anything to save my sister. Won't you please advise me what to do? TROUBLED SISTER. Dear troubled sister— you can’t do anything right now, but you can do a lot later. Evidently your sister is one of those girls who will not believe that the stove is hot until she sits on it. When she has burned herself badly enough to suffer pain, she will turn to you for help and comfort. Then her mind will be much more receptive to your ideas and you can help mold her future conduct. Life will teach your sister the lesson which she will not learn from you. Since you can’t reach her through reason, you will have to let her learn through bitter experience. Now she is bent upon making her own mistakes, regardless of the loving hands that are eager to protect her. Force and strenuous opposition will drive her to further excesses and probably away from home. If you could put her to work . . . if you could find some means of ab-

Personals

Mrs. Halley Groesbeck, Cincinnati, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Bailey, 1712 North Pennsylvania street. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ferriday and daughter Ernita, who have been visiting their own daughter, Mrs. Kurt Pantzer and Mr. Pantzer, 4525 North Delaware street, have returned to their home in Wilmington, Del. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Daniels of Brendenwood, are visiting in California. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Fowler, 4007 Washington boulevard, are spending a few days in Chicago at the Edgewater Beach. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lashor, 850 North Pennsylvania street, are at the Edgewater Beach during their stay in Chicago. Mrs. George Nevers Collins, who has been spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Holman, 14 East Twenty-eighth street, will return Thursday to Chicago. Mrs. John L. Mullen and daughter, Sarah Jane, of Detroit, are visiting Mrs. Mullen’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. B. McElroy of 548 East Thirty-third street. ELEANOR JONES IS HOSTESS AT PARTY Miss Eleanor Jones entertained Monday night with a bridge party at her home, 42 North Sheridan avenue, for the following guests: Mesdames William Aspinali. Harrison Collier. Edwin Feree. William Haves. Carl Pate. John W. McPheters. Lansdowne, Pe.; Misses Esther Barclay. Odon: Rosalyn Beale. Katherine Belser. Louise Dauner. Gladys Denison Helen De Veiling. Helen Dirks. Mildred Dirks. Dorothv Dugdale, Marv Alice Epler. Katherine Gilbert. Mildred Helmer. Margaret Linder. Christine Lohrmann. Elizabeth Reed. Edna Rubin, Marcelle Sadlier. Pauline Schofield. Dorothv Sunderland and Bertha and vue Walker. Past Chiefs to Meet Past Chiefs’ Association will meet for a covered dish luncheon at 1 Thursday at the home of Mrs. George Stapp, 716 East Nineteenth street.

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sorbing all her spare time and her energies in something she* loves to do, it would be easier to dissuade her from her present behavior. When she comes to the close of this experience, when the boy tires of her, as he undoubtedly will, be careful that you do not kick her down another step, instead of wisely lifting her up. Below I publish a letter from another girl who has passed through a similar experience and came out of it, anxious to atone for her early mistake, but her stepmother will not let her forget that once she was “not a good girl.” tt n Dear Jane Jordan—l am 19 years old. When petting, smoking and drinking were supposed to be a “vogue” I participated, but only to find out it wasn’t quite as ‘ modern” as classed. I had a misfortune happen to me when I was 17. Since I have tried to hold myself aioot and class myself with better people. But constantly my stepmother reminds me that I was not a good girl at one time. Is there a possibility of a girl living as I have and then changing entirely? Why do people insist on continuing to mar the character of a girl who has done wrong? Won’t you give me some of your helping advice? BILLIE. F'vEAR BlLLlE—Certainly a girl can change. My letters show me that dozen of girls who start off on the wrong foot through lack of education or good judgment, right about face before they have gone too far, and make fine women. Instead of being a menace, your early mistake has been decidedly educational. You know the consequences of indulging desire without the consent of wisdom. Instead of making you a promiscuous woman, your experience has developed your judgment. If possible, you should seek anew environment where your story is not known and start over. Can you earn your own living? Have you friends or relatives who would provide a home for you while you are getting a fresh start? If not, then insist on silence from your stepmother with as much dignity as you can command. She has no right to reopen a dead experience or to demand continued payments on a debt to society that now is paid in full. Can you write a letter through this column to Troubled Sister, whose letter is printed above? Can you tell her the best way to influence her wayward little sister? When you were involved in petting, smoking and drinking, what do you think would have persuaded you to forsake your ways? What is the best approach for a sister who really wants to help? Here is your chance to help another girl from your own experience. I hope to hear from you soon. BRIDGE FETE GIVEN BY MISS COLEMAN Miss Martha Coleman entertained today with a bridge party at her home, 4314 Central avenue, for the following guests: Misses Elizabeth Hall and Marjorie De Prez, Shelbyville; Judith Chambers, Peggy Morrison, Jane Rauch, Mary Bon, Peggy Pearson, Joan Aufderheide, Prances White, Barbara Oakes. Alma Lyon, Catherine Fulton, Dorothy Young. Mary Elan, Virginia Layman, Estelle Burpee, Mary Jane Cllppinger, Estelle Gabriel and Dorothy Du Puy. DINNER TO PRECEDE PLAY AT MURAT Mr. and Mrs. Richardson Sinclair will entertain eight friends of their daughter, Dora, at dinner tonight, after which they will attend “Silver Blades,’’ the performance of thtPrinceton Triangle Club, at the Murat, Mr. and Mrs. A. Ewing Sinclair also will entertain at dinner before the show.

Miss O’Neill Is Bride of Butler Grad Miss Josephine O’Neill of Logansport was married this morning to Henry Hebert of Lamar, Colo., son of Mr. and Mrs. Octave Herbert of 1802 Orleans street. The nuptials were read in quiet ceremony with only the immediate family in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Hebert will go on a short honeymoon and will be at home the mid-January at Lamar, where Hebert is city schools supervisor of music. Mrs. Hebert has been teaching at Manila, Ind., for more than a year. She is a graduate of Butler and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority of which she was president during her senior year. She also was junior prom queen. Hebert also was graduated from Butler and is a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psi, national band fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha, musical fraternity and Scottish Rite. He was president of the first student council, student director of the university band, president of the Men’s Union and director of the first edition of Fairview Follies, annual university musical production. A personal shower in honor of Miss O’Neill was given Monday night by Miss Joan Johnson at her home, 1739 North Pennsylvania street. Mrs. Wilbur Johnson, the hostess’ mother, assisted. The guests included the following members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at Butler: Mesdames Stanley McComas, Eugene Clifford. Royer K. Brown. Bruce Savage and Howard Gauker: Misses Elizabeth Hisey, Margaret Stilz, Betty Jeanne Davis, Margaret Schumaker, Geraldine Bly, Dorothy Grimes, Nancy Kalleen, Myla Smith, Vera Snodgrass. Maxiadna Coburn, Bernice Grant. Jessie Strickland, Jane Wells and Evelyn Poston of Martinsville. Decorations with a Christmas motif were used. ENTERTAINS HOUSE GUEST WITH PARTY Miss Dorothy Hamilton of 517 East Forty-second street, entertained Monday night with a bridge party in honor of her house guest, Miss Alice Diver of Chicago, who formerly lived in Indianapolis, Holiday decorations were used, and Miss Hamilton was assisted by her mother, Mrs. Estelle Hamilton. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Karl Hardey, Misses Catherine Finneran, Margaret Mitchell, Virginia Quigley: Messrs. John Fogarty, John Scanlon, Charles Hamilton, John Rocap and Hardey Adriane. Sorority to Gather Alpha Beta Chi sorority will meet at 8 tonight at the Antlers.

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Miss Janet Adams Makes Bow at Ball at Woodstock Club

Woodstock Country Club was transformed into a Floridan scene Monday night, when Miss Janet Haywood Adams made her debut at a dance given by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Elder Adams. Tall palms reaching to the ceiling, lined the walls of the ballroom, the

Barretts to Be Hosts at Bridal Fete Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Clifford Barrett will entertain tonight with a bridal dinner at their home, 3173 North Delaware street, for their daughter Miss Florence Fletcher Barrett, and Robert William Todd, who will be married at 8:30 Wednesday night at Christ church. Bridal colors of peach and blue will be used in decorations. The tables will be centered with plateaus of Talisman roses and blue chrysanthemums and lighted by peach and blue tapers. Covers will be laid for: Mr. and Mrs. Barrett. Miss Barrett. Mr. Todd. Mrs. Robert I. Todd. Bedford, N. Y.. Mr. and Mrs. Don C. Barrett. Haverford. Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. William Henrv Hulick. Bedford. N. Y.; Miss Cora Fletcher, and the following members of the bridai party: Misses Eleanor Anne Barrett, Martha Jane Maver. Jane Fitton. Julianne Campbell. Marion Bates. Lansing. Mich.: Charles V. Hulick, New York: John Watson. Russell Fortune Jr.. Berkley Duck Jr. and Ernest Clifford Barrett Jr. Miss Eleanor Ann and Ernest Clifford Barrett Jr., will entertain the party at “Silver Blades,” performace of the Princeton Triangle Club at the Murat, following dinner. II AD ASS AH HONOR IS GIVEN FRIEDA BRILL By Times Special NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Miss Frieda Brill, 1919 North Meridian street, Indianapolis, was awarded a cultural fellowship in Junior Hadassah, with three other girls, at the ninth annual convention of the organization in session here. Others who received keys admitting them to the national sorority were Miss Sara Grossman and Miss Mildred Murnick of Philadelphia, and Miss Netti Belazar of Minneapolis, who received her award with special distinction. Plan Tea at Club Woman’s Athletic Club will entertain members and their guests with a tea Saturday in the Chinese room of the Hoosier Athletic Club. Hostesses will include Miss Lucy Court, Miss Margaret Wacker and Miss Vivian Ely.

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background of which was blue, shading from deep blue at the bottom, to the orange and yellow of sunlight at uie top, lighted by soft flood-lamps. Summer flowers and ferns were arranged throughout the recepti i room and lounges with a grass carpet, formed a setting for the receiving line. Miss Adams wore a gown of white chiffon and silver, the flared skirt fashioned with a yoke of silver beads and fitted bodice cut low in the back and held by a center strap caught at the neck with a crystal necklace. Her slippers were of silver and she carried an arm bouquet of red rosjs. Mrs. Adams was gowned in sapphire blue lace with a purple velvet bow at one side below the waistline. She wore purple slippers and her shoulder bouquet was of orchids. Mrs. William H. Macomber of Kendallville, who with Mr. Macomber, received with her parents and sister, W’ore poudre blue chiffon trimmed with brilliants, a corsage of scarlet flowers and scarlet slippers. Among the out-of-town guests were two house guests, former classmates of Miss Adams at Smith college, Miss Louise Farnsworth and Miss Natalie Robertson, Janesville,, Wis.

GOES TO CLEVELAND

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Mr. and Mrs. Dan Tuttle, who were married Christmas eve, have left for Cleveland, where they will reside. Mrs. Tuttle was Miss Fern Owens, 1237 North Meridian street.

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DEC. 29, 1931

lea Is Given in Honor of Miss Baxter Mrs. Arthur Baxter received al tea this afternoon for her daughter Delight, a student at De Pauw university, who is at home for the holidays, at their home, 5110 North Meridian street. Miss Baxter wore a gown of wine colored velvet trimmed in ermine and Mrs. Baxter received in royal blue crepe and lace. The living room was arranged with holiday- decorations and the tea table was centered with a plateau of pink roses and lighted by tall pink tapers. Mesdames O. W. Fifer, Edgar Blake, Norman Baxter, George D. Thornton, Emory Baxter and Louis Hensley poured, and were assisted by Misses Marion Power, Caroline Hitz, Marjorie Devaney, Mary Jewel* Fargo, Helen Louise Titus and Martha Jane Baker. Mrs. Paul M. Fifer and Mrs. Herschell DaviS were in charge of the dining room. Assistants in the living room were Mesdames Brandt Downey, Ed Scoonover. Thomas J. Owens, M. E. Clark and Frank G. Laird.

Novelist Will Lecture Here in February Bryn Mawr Club of Indiana will present Margaret Ayer Barnes in a lecture in February, according to an announcement by Mrs. Mitchell P. Crist, president. Definite plans were made Monday at a holiday luncheon at the Propylaeum. Proceds will go to the scholarship fund maintained by the organization. Mrs. Barnes was awarded the 1930 Pulitzer prize for her novel, “Years of Grace.” * All the officers were re-elected at the business meeting as follows: Mrs. Crist, president; Mrs. Wynn Owen, vice-president and treasurer, and Mrs. Frank Nesbitt, secretary. Others who attended the meeting were: Mesdames Benjamin Hitz, Frank Lewis, Paul White, Murray Hadley, Edgar Evans, Allen Bloom: Misses Jeanette Le Saulnier and Adele Pantzer. Club Holds Open House First open house guest night of the Columbia Monday night was attended by more than 350 persons. The program included bridge, special entertainment and dancing followed by a buffet supper. Attendance prizes were won by Mrs. Richard Sears, Mrs. W. W. Fulton and R. D. Armstrong.