Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 261, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1932 — Page 10

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Girl Scouts Director Is City Guest Indianapolis Ctrl Scout Council has Miss Alice Kirk, regional director, as its guest today and Friday. Arrangements have been made for a luncheon Friday at the Columbia Club, which will be attended by the following members of the executive board: Mcsdames Edward A. Gardner, C, E. Voyles, Theodore Vonnegut, Ralph E. Cclby, Charles E, Cole, and Miss Jean Adamson, local director. Mrs. C. Willis Adams and Mrs. Maxwelll Broke also will attend. Miss Kirk will discuss plans for the regional conference and training school at Camp Dellwood in June. Following the luncheon. Miss Kirk will attend a party given by Troop 49 celebrating the twentieth bidrthday of Girl Scouting. A program of music, dancing and a Girl Scout playlet, “Friendly Neighbors,” directed by Mary Jane Bayer of Troop 28, will be presented. The birthday cake with twenty candles will be cut by Miss Kirk, who will relay a message of greeting to the girls from Mrs. Frederick Edey, president of the Girl Scout organization. The American branch of Girl Scouting was organized in Savannah. Ga., in 1912, by Mrs. Juliette Lowe. The first American Girl Scout, Mrs. Lowe’s niece, Mrs. Samuel C. Lawrence, now is living in that city. The steady growth of Girl Scouting during the last two decades is proof of how well the program is adapted to the needs of the modern American girl. The original “White Rose” patrol of eleven girls, formed in Savannah in 1912, has grown to 10,500 troops, numbering more than 300,000 girls. Interest in the movement is shown by the fact that courses were given in leadership training in fifty-, nine colleges last year, with an enrollment of 1,935 students. Indianapolis has fifty-five troops, embracing more than 1,600 Girl Scouts. The original troop here was formed in 1921, in Irvington, under the leadership of Miss India Wilson, who later became local director. Urge Action to Aid Relief of Tuberculosis A resolution for furthering tubercular relief work in the city has been adopted by the Women’s Auxiliary to the Railway Mail Association. The resolution states that in the light of th' real emergency existing in the city for isolating tuberculous patients and danger of infection to others in caring for these patients in their home, the offer of the Indianapolis Flower Mission of an appreciable sum of money for the building of a hospital unit to care for indigent and insurable tuberclous patients be accepted by the city council, and funds be provided for its maintenance. The resolution has been signed by Mrs. Jeraul McDermott, president; Mrs. F, W. Doddridge, secretary, and Mcsdames C. J. Finch, Frank E. Wilson and John R. Ladd, health committee.

EASTERN STARS TO HONOR WASHINGTON

Queen Esther auxiliary, Order of the Eastern Star, will meet at 2:30 Friday at the Masonic temple, 525 North Illinois street. Mrs. R. E. Smith will t>e the hostess, assisted by a committee of twelve. A musical program will be presented, in keeping with the George Washington bicentennial. Tho.se taking part in the pi*ogram will be Misses E. Leona Wright, Harriett Burtch and Elizabeth Cross, who will appear in Colonial costume, and Robert Halter, who will sing.

CIVIC LEAGUE WILL SPONSOR PROGRAM

Northwest Civic League will sponsor a Washington bi-centennial program at 8 Friday following the regular meeting in Winamac hall. Dramatic readings will be given by Mrs. T. B. Wright and Mrs. Lewis Balz, and a group of Washington’s fovorite songs, by Miss Esther Thornton, accompanied by Mrs. Ruth Johnson, will precede a scene taken from the lives of Mary Ball and Martha Washington, to be presented by Mrs. Joe Rand'Beckett and Mrs. L. H. Millikan. A social hour will follow the program. The public is invited. CHURCH CAST TO PRESENT COMEDY ‘‘A Southern Cinderella,” a threeact comedy, will be presented by the Garden City Christian church at 8 Friday night in school No. 8, 4800 Rockville road. Jasper Riley is directing. Members of the cast are: Mesdamcs Violet Riley, Winifred MosserKmith, Helen Wise. La Verne Hummel. Ethel Whitmire, Lula Pugh and Hazel Miller. TOOTH MANS FETED ON ANNIVERSARY Mrs. Verna Toothman entertained with a surprise party in honor of ■her son, R. D. Toothman and Mrs. Toothman. at their home. 1523 East Kelly street, Wednesday night, in celebration of their seventh wedding anniversary. Fourteen guests were present. The evening was spent with cards.

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Nikki Knows Her Hats and Tells Her Patrons Just How to Wear Them

BY JULIA BLAXSHARD NBA Service Writer NEW YORK. March 10.—The smartest Easter bonnet in the world can’t make you stop the fashion parade unless you know i Just how to put it on! That is the admonition of Nicole jof New York and Paris, milliner • de luxe, who hats an impressive list of celebrities and is just as apt as ! not to give, along with hat advice, | valuable pointers on what clothes, coiffures, colors and perfumes you !should use to ‘‘get your man!” “Always put your hats on from (the back forward,” is her first rule j of chapeau chic. ‘‘Put your right thumb exactly in the middle of the front edge of the crown and hold it there with | your first finger inside the crown,” i Nicole specifically directs you. | “Put your left thumb exactly in j the middle of the back and hold it | there firmly with your first finger I inside the crown. Bea Wee Bit Wicked “Now plant your left thumb firmly against the center of the back of your head, your hat suspended perpendicularly, and hold it! “Calculate at just what angle your hat should slant and with your right hand, stiff holding the center front firmly, puil the hat forward and down. “If you yourself admit that your mirrored portrait insinuates that you are just a little bit wicked, then your hat is at its right angle!” Nicole’s last bit of advice is: “Never leave a shop content until you have put your new chapeau on several times and your milliner personally has told you just how it should be worn.” Os course, receiving such an opinion from Nicole herself may not be so easy. For once you ask her advice, you get it! She is refreshingly frank. And naughtily gay in the way she tells you what’s what and why. She Likes or Hates You Meeting her for the first time is usually as devastating as a tornado. She is terribly impulsive. Her likes and dislikes are as intensely Parisian as she herself is. If she likes you, she calls you by your first name at sight. If she doesn’t, you are "Madame,” and on some pretext or other she will ! get one of her clerks to wait on you. Go to her in your oldest frock, with a tired down-at-the-heels feeling and the conviction that you never were more badly dressed. She will diagnose your face and your needs at once and make your round face oval or your thin face rounded, with just the right high hat or bit of brim. Her deft fingers will take a shimmering length of chartreuse ribbon, a cartwheel of black, and make a hat that will transform you into the femme fatale of your dreams and make you peep happily at yourself in every shop window you pass. New to Business The strange part about Nicole’s success is that she has been in business only a comparatively short time. Ask her how she came by her talent and she will shrug her expressive shoulders and say that women from the south of France are noted for their marvelous complexions and gifted fingers. In Pau, where she lived, the daughter of a large and wealthy family, she used to be called upon to arrange the bridal veils of all the village girls. She always has made her own hats and her sister’s. When the war broke out, she came to America to raise money for the French Red Cross at the instigation of the Marquis Fabre de Parell, her brother-in-law. One taste of New York and 22-year-old Nicole had found an environment vigorous enough, young and hopeful enough to want it for her own. She came back after the war and later opened her typically French salon where buying a hat is a ritual and an education in chic. Celebrities Her Patrons To her hat shop with its subdued green coloring, it chastely Fiench furnishings and decorations, many celebrities flock, including the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, Frieda Hempel, Joan Crawford, Ina Claire, Kay Francis, Lilyan Tashman. To them all she is “Nikki,” and none is too famous to have “Nikki” give her angles of chic on how the new hats should be worn. Though Nicole has heard about the depression this winter, among her early spring hats were several with jeweled ornaments that several well-known actresses bought for SIO,OOO each. MUSIC PROGRAM FOR ALTRUSA LUNCHEON The music committee will have charge of the Friday'luncheon program of Altrusa Club at the Columbia Club. Song practice will follow the business session at which Mrs. Elizabeth Boyle, president, will proside. Club members have been invited by Miss Grace Bennett, a former member, to inspect her occupational therapy department at city hospital Sunday and also the new wing which just has been equipped by Eli Lilly and Company. Visitors will meet at 3 at the main entrance at Tenth and Locke streets, and tea will be served after the tour in Miss Bennett’s department. STUDENT GROUP TO PRESENT PROGRAM Active section of the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale has invited the student section to present a musical program in sculpture court of John Herron Art Institute at 3 Friday. The program has been arranged by Mrs. C. Harold Larsh. Mrs. J. Harry Green will be as- j sisted during the social hour by j : Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs and Miss Ida Belle Sweenie, who will pour tea. Miss Bauman Hostess Miss Ada Bauman, 1035 Hosbrook avenue will entertain tonight with a bridge party at her home. Guests will be: Mrs. De Ording, Misses Edith Curran, Edith Decker, Lucille Stutz, Kay Luick, Amelia Bauman and Joan Johnson. P'-T. A. Hears Chorus University Heights Choral Club presented a musical program at a meeting of the Beech Grove Par- | ent-Teacligr Association Wednesday i I afternoons I

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If you want your Easter hat at the chic right angle, begin at the back to put it on. That’s the advice of Nicole, dynamic milliner of Paris and New York, whose hats—sometimes at SIO,OOO apiece—are worn by many famous women.

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DON’T nurse your troubles. Write to Jane Jordan, who always is interested in them, from the smallest woe to the greatest problem. Your questions will be answered in this column. Dear Jane Jordan—l am a jealous wife. But wait before you condemn me. I am not jealous of other women, but of my husband’s club. He spends two niphts of every week just chetving the rag with other men, leaving me to sit at home alone. We have been married only

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two years and he started this bad habit almost at once. He says he loves me, but if he really did. I can’t see why he would rather spend his time at the club, where he lived as a bachelor, than ;n ® wn which is more attractive. What can I do to keep him with me? DISCONTENTED. Dear Discontented—l believe that Romeo himself would have craved the companionship of other men I after six months of being married jto Juliet! Each man feels a definite need for masculine society, no | nnatter how much he loves his wife. | The surest way for you to kill your ! husband's love is to give him an overdose of yourself, j The sexes never thoroughly un- | derstand each other. Most men j find the workings of the feminine mind incomprehensible, and while ' reasonable contact with w’omen is not only fascinating, but absolutely essential, continuous companionship with the fair sex palls and begets a longing for the familiar and bet- ; ter-understood reactions of men. The same thing is true of you. j If you lived in a world of men, it | wouldn’t be long until you would | give your eye teeth for the sight of a woman. You almost would perish for one of those feminine powwows where two girls take down their back hair and chatter about w-hat “he said” and “she said” and all the other feminine folderol which men hold up to such contempt. As it is, your day is largely spent with your women friends . . .at luncheons, tea parties, bridge games and shopping expeditions, where you have ample opportunity to exchange ideas with your own sex. Your husband’s daytime contacts wtih men are spent in business deals ... in pitting his wits against the w'its of his fellows in the ageold struggle for survival. This is not the same type of satisfaction which he seeks at the club. If you have any wisdom at all, you will urge your husband to keep his club. You will welcome the evenings he spends there as a safeguard against that fatal disease of marriage which has wiped out so many homes that should have been happy. I mean the deplorable condition that we call ennui. u tt Dear Jane Jordan—l am an interested reader of your column, but it appalls me to see how often you advise women to divorce their husbands. Don't you believe that the sanctitv of the home should be protected by law. rather than broken by it? I am anxious to hear vour opinion. INQUIRER. Dear Inquirer—l am not an advocate of divorce, except as a surg- j ical operation to remove an incur- | able condition. I certainly believe that the stability of the nation is j dependent upon the health and happiness of its homes. I know of < nothing in the w'orld w'hich the human heart craves so much as an enduring love and a satisfactory home life. It crops out in almost , eever letter I receive. However, the phrase “sanctity of the home” becomes a misnomer when the home harbors hate instead of love. What is sacred about j quarreling and violence and misery? j Love is one thing that can not be legislated, even in a nation which ! seems to believe that you can cure j anything merely by passing a law ! against it. Divorce is an evil when it comes to a home which has been produc- j tive of children, because it deprives them of one of their parents, when two parents are necessary for their I well-being. But it becomes a lesser of two evils if its only alternative j is the rearing of those children in ! an atmosphere of malice and hate. n n * Dear Jane Jordan—l certainly felt I sorry for that woman whose husband tell her that he loved her. My husband wrote to you. He said he didn’t like to never makes love to me either. Surely he can not know how hungry I get just to hear him say something nice! Isn’t | there any way that we women can i change our husbands who work so hard for us. but remain so cold and indif- 1 ferent? WONDERING WIFE. Dear Wondering Wife—Mme. Du Deffand once said the following: “For life to be at all bearable, one must take things as they come,! and men as they are.” Women who set out definitely to change their husbands nearly always come to grief. His hard work for you is his means of expressing love and devotion. His inability to put it into words is probably a hangover from his childhood, when the softer emo- . tions were considered somewhat * “sissy.”

Clubwomen Elect New Officers Mrs. Alva M. Cradiek unanimously was re-elected president of the Children's Sunshine Club of Sunnyside, at a meeting Wednesday afternoon in the directors’ room at the Fletcher American bank. 'Others chosen were: Mesdames August Souter. first vice-presi-dent; William Peake, second vice-presi-dent; Ray D. Everson, recording secretary; William Lindholm. financial secretary; B. L. Byrket, treasurer; Robert Griswold, corresponding secretary; Harry Kennett and Albert L. Marsh, directors at large. Election also was held Wednesday by the Wednesday Afternoon Club. Mrs. Herbert Renard. recording secretary, and Mrs. J. R. Horne, critic, were chosen, and all others being re-elected. They are: Mesdames Robert Guedel. president: ! John H. Gill, first vice-president: William j Burcham, second vice-president; Fred ’Chastain, assistant secretary-; Homer Jones. ! treasurer; C. L. Hackerd. parliamentarian, j and C. C. Shaffer, permanent custodian. The election followed a luncheon, held at the home of Mrs. Charles H. Trotter, 3335 West Michigan street. New officers of the New Augusta Parent-Teacher Association are Mesdames Delia Marcum, president; Floyd Bass, vice-president; Grover ; Wagle, treasurer, and Joseph Highshue, secretary. The association has a membership of seventy-four parents and teachers. GRIEG’S ‘BERGLIOT TO BE PRESENTED Mrs. Carl H Lieber will present ths poetry of Grieg's "Bergliot,” with orchestral accompaniment and interludes, as the feature of the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra’s all-Scandinavian program, to be presented at 8:30 Saturday night in Caleb Mills hall. Ferdinand Schaefer, conductor of the orchestra, says that this will be one of the few times the poems has received a performance. It Is based on Bjornson’s poem by the same name, and is characteristic of Grieg. CLUB WILLHAVE CHINESE SUPPER Spencer Bridge Club wall meet at 8 tonight in the Chinese room of the Bamboo inn. A Chinese supper will be served at 11. Covers will be laid for: Mesdames Robert E. Hollowell. Schuyler Mowrer. Ashton Wood. Irvin Swain. T. E. Shelburne. Port Seidensticker. Lucille Forler. Margaret Wevmouth Jackson. Lawrence Royer. Andrew Hepburn. Misses Elizabeth Workman and Ann Wevmouth. who is hostess for the evening.

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Overseas Service League Will Honor World War Nurses

Nurses at the Veterans’ hospital who saw service overseas during the World war will be guests of honor at a meeting of the Hoosier unit. Women’s Overseas Service League, tonight at the home of Mrs. Otto Gresham, 3111 Washington boulevard. Mrs. Gresham will be assisted by Miss June Gray. The honor guests will be Misses Mary Culbertson, chief nurse; Elizabeth McDade, Mary Cody, Pearl Larsen, Elizabeth Cabler and Katherine Monahan. The league has arranged to sponsor a program at Fort Benjamin Harrison each Sunday night for the next six weeks, at the request of Major S. J. Miller, chaplain at the

Central Avenue M. E. Pastor Will Be Honored at Dinner

The Rev. Charles Drake Skinner, new pastor of the Central Avenue Methodist Episcopal church/ and Mrs. Skinner, will be honored at a dinner to be given Friday night at the church. More than five hundred are expected to attend. Dr. Skinner was formerly pastor of the Grand Avenue temple, Kansas City, Mo., and preached his first sermon here Sunday. The dinner will be in the nature of a birthday celebration, with twelve tables arranged, each to represent one month in the year, and

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Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hoga“i, 3103 North Meridian street, are in Chicago for a few days, and are registered at the Edgewater Beach hotel. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Thompson are at the Hotel Windermere in Chicago. Mrs. A. W. Early has returned to the Marott after a sojurn in California. The Rev. Geoffrey D. Johnson of Ireland, who, with Mrs. Johnson, has been the house guest this winter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Hartley Sherwood of 2847 North Meridian street, has received a call from the Central Presbyterian church of Frankfort, Ont., Canada, and will go there in the spring to take up his work. He is a graduate of Dublin university, ind took his theological work at Princeton, and Assembly’s college in Ireland. They will remain with Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood until their departure. Mrs. Henry Blatt, Mrs. Isaac Marks and Miss Emma Gelman will return tonight from Cincinnati, where they went Wednesday to attend the annual “Give or Get” luncheon given by the Cincinnati chapter of Hadassah. Play to Be Repeated Mothers’ chorus of School No. 82 at 4700 English avenue will repeat its production, “The Spinsters’ Convention,” at 7:30 Friday night at the school house, for the benefit of the P.-T. A.‘fund.

fort. A guest speaker will appear each week. Those who will speak are: The Rev. E F. Scheider, Col. Earl F. Hites, Merle Sidener, the Rev. R. T/Gwynn, the Rev. O. W. Fifer and the Rev. W. D. Grose. The service work of the unite is directed by Miss Gray. Plans will be made at the meeting tonight for entertainment to be held at the hospital in co-opera-tion with the Red Cross and for other work with the occupational therapy department at the city hospital, Miller cottage, soldiers’ home of Dayton and the Marion soldiers’ home. A card party was held at the hospital last week.

decorated accordingly. Guests will be seated at the tables representing their birth months. Large cakes will be presented to the three tables most appropriately decorated. Entertainment will consist of a musical program by the Sunday school orchestra, directed by J. W. Lewis, and fellowship singing led by the Rev. Virgil P. Brock, secretary of the Indianapolis Christian Church Union, and Mrs. Brock. E. W. Stockdale, superintendent of the Sunday school, is in charge of arrangements, assisted by A. B. Cornelius. PARTY is GIVEN MRS. CYE SMITH Mrs. F. B. Parker, 1120 North Shannon street, entertained for Mrs. Cye Smith Wednesday night with a surprise shower and a bridge party, she was assisted by her mother, Mrs. C. M. Amacher. Guests included: Mesdames J. H. Wright. Minnie Randall, H. W Stivey. Frank Siefert. Misses Lucille Dickman. Cleo Small, Ruth Thomas and Thelma Wabnitz.

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Reviewer Is Speaker at Club Parley General club of the Woman's Department Club held election of officers at the clubhouse WednesI day followed by a program when ! Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, who conducts a book department for Good Housekeeping magazine, spoke on, "Books That Have Significance.” Mrs. R. O. McAlexander was j elected president, with other officers ;as follows: Mesdames Madison Swadener, first vice-president; John F. Engelke, recording secretary; A. Edgar Shirley, membership secreI tary; Horace G. Casady, treasurer, j and Victor C. Kendall. Harry E. i Watson, and Lawrence F. Orr, directors. It was announced at the business : session that Mrs. J. K. Cooper has made a gift of SIOO to the Susan H. iE. Perkins memorial scholarship fund. The S3O realized on the club’s I birthday celebration also was given ' to the fund by Mrs. Edward Fergcr, and her birthday committee. Explains Significance In presenting her subject, Mrs. ! Blair explained that “books that have significance are those that start chains of inferences in our i minds.” Mrs. Blair also answered a quesi tion of particular interest to every- | one: “What does a critic do with ail the books he receives?” Mrs. Blair j sends her overflow to hospitals for tuberculosis patients, the women's penitentiary, children’s homes and to her Joplin Woman's Club. Books of general significance that started chains of inferences resuming in widespread revolution nf ! thought or action, according to Mrs. Blair, are “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” "Don Quixote" and those of Rousseau and Marx. Suggest Experiments She spoke of the works of Eugene O'Neil as starting chains of inference in the minds of other writters which may result in an entirely new literary form. His ex- | periments suggest further experiments, Mrs. Blair asserted, and may ; be the stating point of anew form i of drama. "It is wrong to say that literary expression has reached the highest point of perfection,” Mrs. Blair said. She believes it can be carried much farther in adaptability and ! brevity. “Reading must compete with the , radio, the moving picture and all other demands on our attention. If | the writer can be more economical I of time in his expression, he will sell more books,” she declared. Examples Cited Mrs. Blair mentioned as significant book, now being widely read, “Only Yesterday,” by Frederick Lewis Allen; “Epic of America,” by John Adams; “Can Europe Keep Peace,” by Frank Simons; “How to Be Happy, Though Human," and other bocks popularizing the latest ! finding of psychology; “The Good i Earth.” by Pearl S. Buck; “The HarJ bor Master,” by William McFee, ! and "The Albatross,” by G. Shelj ton. "Significant books are not poul- | tices,” Mrs. Blair said in conclui sion. “They act as mustard plasters.” She named books of Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser in the latter category. Mrs. Pfeiffer Hostess Mrs. A. J. Pfeiffer was hostess for a St. Patrick’s luncheon at the Marott today. She entertained the following guests: Mesdames C. B. Krets, Roy Hornaday, Joseph McFarland, Burnside Smith, T. A. Bell and Harold Watson.