Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 246, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1934 — Page 8

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Mrs. Mess Is Devoted to Etching City Artist Founds State Organization of Craftsmen. BY BEATRICE BCRGAN Timr< Woman * Page Editor 'T'HE variety of subjects and the spontaneity of their expression in Evelynne Mess’ exhibition of prints at the John Herron Ait Institute inspired me to inquire into their execution. I wondered how a few indispensable lines were transferred from copper plates to

the exquisite print form. When Ii stopped in at Mrs Mess’ home I was impressed : i m m e and iately | with its indi- j viduality. “A charming home- i maker,” I observed to myself. I noticed an un- j usual setting in the room adjoining her studio living room. The huge wheel of her press was :

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silhouetted against a colorful India print. The press once was used by an engraving company, and the huge wheel was corroded with ink from hands of the printers. Mrs. Mess, less than five feet tall, stretched to reach the rungs to turn the wheel. "I collect bottles,” she said as I glanced at the bay windows, shelved with glass holding a variety of odd shaped colored and crystal bottles. "I'm always looking tor jugs, too.” The room with the press is her workshop. She sits there for hours drawing designs. ' The frosty mornings kept me busy, running from one window’ to another trying to choose their designs,” she said. One provided the inspiration for an aqua-tint in her exhibition. Many people who admire prints have no idea how they're made,” she said. “I always draw my designs directly on the copper plates instead of making pencil sketches first. Then I don’t lose any of the freshness of my inspiration.” She had innumerable tools before her —steel needles which cut through the wax grounds spread over the plates for etchings and a diamond pointed instrument used for the dry points. Much Patience Required

I was amazed at the amount of patience required to complete an etching as she explained its processes, one as important as another. “Mistakes are difficult to correct. Deep lines must be scraped out with a sharp tool or burnished with charcoal,” she explained. The etching process follows: Acid bites out the lines. To vary the depth and width of the lines more patience is required. For very fine lines the plate must be removed from the acid and the lines covered with a stopping out varnish. The plate is returned to etch other lines deeper. This process is repeated as many times as there are gradations of tone. “When the plate looks satisfactory. i'm eager to make an expression on the moistened paper. Sometimes I have to make several prints, and make changes in the etching before I am satisfied with the result,” she said. The printing is as important as the drawing and etching. The ink must be rubbed into the lines and the surplus removed. “I use my palm to rub out the ink to satisfy me. Some women etchers don't like to make their own prints, because this part of the process is too dirty. I like the thrill of seeing the final result of my work.” Attended French School Mrs. Mess, wife of George Mess, artist, as a very young painter read everything she could about etching, but it wasn’t until about six years ago that she studied it at the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts for American students at the palace of Fontainebleau in France. She and her husband attended together. When she went with classes for landscape painting, she slipped in her kit copper plates, so she could “steal” time to draw the scenes for etchings. “I love the palace with its treasure of decorations. The small town is hemmed in and the chateau is shaded by a forest. Walls of the fresco studio bear nainting of the students.” she said. So interested in etching is Mrs. Mess that she brought together the print makers of Indianapolis last month and formed the Indiana Society of Print Makers, which met last night at the institute, when Wilbur Peat, director, talked on the “Psychology of Line.” Frederick Polley is president; Miss Constance Forsyth, vice-presi-dent: Paul Shideler. chairman of the admissions committee: Loreen Wingerd, chairman of exhibitions, and Mrs. Mess, secretary-treasurer. Enters National Show Since 1931 she has exhibited in the Society of American Etchers show in New York, a tribute to her ability. Mrs. Mess delights in planning attractive dishes for her meals. She decorates her own home. Recently she arranged her bedroom in modernistic style. She silvered the walls, and silver stars twinkle in the black ceiling. She has taught crafts. She plays the piano, and is teaching herself to play the violin. She has pets, a dog. cat and a fish in a pool. She entices birds to her yard. She builds snow men and loves the out-of-doors. ALUMNAE MEETS WITH MRS. LAN AG AN Mrs. J. B. Lanagan entertained twenty-four members of the Indianapolis Alumnae of St. Mary's college, Notre Dame, last night at her home. 523 Highland drive. Mrs. Lanagan was assisted by Mrs. Roxane Harting and Miss Frances Beik. Women Sponsor Dance Dance will be held tomorrow night in St. Anns hall. Mars Hill, under auspices of men of St. Ann parish. Music will be provided by Al. Andy and Dec.

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Left to Right—Miss Hildred Funk, Miss Louise Eleanor Ross, Miss Winifred Smith and Miss Bertha Corya. Miss Naomi Buck. St. Louis, Mo., will speak at the annual state Matrix Table of Theta Sigma Phi, national journalistic sorority, Saturday night, March 3, at the Spink Arms. Miss Bertha Corya. president of Indianapolis alumnae, is general chairman of the dinner, assisted by Miss Hildred Funk, Miss Louise Eleanor Ross and Miss Winifred Smith.

Manners and Morals

Jane Jordan is the one person you always can count on as being interested in your troubles. This is your chance to talk about yourself to an interested audience. Write your letter today!

Dear Jane Jordan:—My mind is in adesperate situation. I have been a married woman for seven years. During the early part of my married life, my husband was untrue to me and spoiled every thing that was beautiful and fine in my love for him. We were separated three times. Each time I would take him back and try anew. But he never would take me anywhere, and acted as though he didn’t care to be with me. Two years ago I met a married man whom I was very fond of. I had dates with him one night each week until a month ago when my husband caught me. He was going to leave me, but never said he loved me and therefore couldn't leave. Now he doesn't trust me and won’t let me out to visit my girl friends or relatives. Os course you can't blame him, for I was intimate with this man. I am not sorry for what I have done. I didn't realize how much I missed this man until I stopped seeing him. I am so dissatisfied, so restless. If it wasn't for my job I don't believe I could stand it. Don't you think a separation would help me to decide if I really cared to go on with my husband or not? I have about decided that I never was really in love. A RECKLESS WIFE. Answer—l am inclined to agree with you that you never were really in love. You have been much more concerned with how much men loved you than with how much you loved them. When your husband was unfaithful, wasn't it the fact that you weren't getting as much love as you felt entitled to that upset you? Did you honestly try to understand the man’s problem, or were you mostly concerned with

the outrage to your own feelings? Then that affair you had with a married man. Wasn't it an attempt to assuage your wounded pride and to prove that you were all ra c t ive to somebody after all, even if unappreciated by your husband? I imagine you were secretly

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gratified when he caught you, and that's why you aren’t sorry. Not that I blame you. I can see that there would be a certain satisfaction in showing him that he wasn't the only man on your horizon. though it's a type of satisfaction that contains nothing ot lasting value. All I mean to do is to show you that I agree with you in your diagnosis that you have never been in love. Emotions arising from such motives hardly can be called unselfish love, no matter what they lock like on the surface. No woman ever really loves the man who serves as her consolation prize. It is only when she is free from her first relationship and free from the necessity of avenging herself upon the man who disappointed her. that she can fall wholeheartedly in love with somebody else. You have been separated from your husband three times without solving anything. Therefore. I don't see what good a fourth separation would do. I imagine you would leave the man for good if your pride could bear to admit defeat. You still want to see him humbled and hear him say, “I love you.” If you have more love for the man than I credit you with, you will let go of the wish to punish him for his perfidy. Maybe I'm wrong, but he doesn't sound like a person worth stewing over. You are just letting a bunch of good energies go wrong when you use them trying to make him over into a person who can satisfy your yearning to be loved. Don't expect perfection from him. You won't get it. o o n Dear Jane Jordan—l am very 7 much in love with a nice boy. Some girl on our street who is much better looking than I am told him some things that were not true about me. We quarreled and he will nt tven speak to me unless I speak first. Do you think I should start the conversation? Or do you think I shouldn't pay any attention to him? WALL FLOWER. Answer—ls the stories he heard about you were not true, why did you get angry? And if he believes others in preference to you, why bother with him? 0 Dear Jane Jordan—l am a girl 19 and have been going with a boy 21 for eight months. I really love this boy and he means everything in the world to me. but I know he is not true to me. I enjoy going with other boys but he will not stand for it even though he goes with other girls. We live in

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different towns so we can not be together very much. My friends kid me because he is seen in the company of other girls. He swears that these girls mean nothing to him, that he doesn’t even kiss them goodnight. It makes me miserable to know that he is out with someone else. What would you suggest? DISCOURAGED. Answer—l see no reason for you to give up your other boy friends for this selfish youth, and no reason whatever for worrying over his perfectly natural desire to be with other girls when he can not be with you. You're simply afraid that you haven’t enough charm to hold him against these others. All jealousy comes from a desire to dominate the love object and to possess it exclusively. There’s nothing wrong with the situation; it’s your attitude that makes you miserable. nun Dear Jane Jordan—l am almost 17 and the boy whom I simply worship possesses one of the most charming personalities I have ever known. He seems to like me, but has never asked me for a date. I have tried not to show that I see much interesting in him, but I can't help it. I don’t go out much and I get so lonesome I almost die. The boredom is almost killing me. My home makes me like this. There is always a fuss or a fight going on. I look younger than I am. Do you think a boy likes to go out with a girl who reminds him every time he looks at her that he has robbed a Cradle? How can I begin dating more boys? ELLA CINDERS. Answer—lt is a mistake to hide your interest in the boy you wish to charm. All of us tend to like the people who like us. The point is not to pursue hin} or to assume a possessive, overanxious attitude. Don’t let your interest narrow down to one boy and your attitude will take care of itself. Your youth is more of an asset than a handicap, so don’t worry about that. Please remember that the love interest is not the only one in life. Education, work, an allabsorbing hobby are other means of escaping from an unhappy family atmosphere. Such things make you more attractive to young men and will help you with your dates.

TWO WILL DIRECT SORORITY MEETING Misses Mary Janet Flaskamp and May Ruth Biere will be in charge of initiation and installation to be held Saturday night at the Columbia Club by Phi chapter, Delta Chi Sigma sorority. Decorations will be carried out in the sorority colors, black and gold. Initiates include Misses Charlotte Biere and Jennie Kannblum. Officers to be installed are Miss Beverly Yarborough, president; Miss Elizabeth Ann Jones, vice-presi-dent; Miss Kathryn Spurgeon, recording secretary; Miss May Ruth Biere, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Helen Kennedy, treasurer; Mrs. Betty Anderson, pledge captain; Miss Margaret Cunningham, parliamentarian; Miss Margaret Johnson, mistress of ceremonies, and Miss Mary Katherine Kerr, society editor. Card Parties Brightwood chapter, Order of Eastern Star, will sponsor a card party Friday at the Banner-White-hill auditorium. Mrs. E. V. Mitchell is chairman. Oriental Shrine Drum Corps will hold a card party and dance at 7:30 Tuesday night at the Riverside Olympic club house. Music will be presented by Haskell Blakeman, Leonard Mills, Charles Deckert, Lonnie Heightchew and Harold Percifield. Prospect Club will entertain with a card party Saturday night in the hall. 1025 Prospect street. PARTY SERIES OF D. .4. R. IS BEGUN First of a series of parties sponsored by the finance committee of Caroline Scott Harrison chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution, was held yesterday at the home of Mrs. Frank F. Wocher. 5694 North Pennsylvania street. Mrs. Wocher was assisted by Mrs. W. E. Rossetter. Mrs. Herbert E. Fieber and Mrs. James M. Ogden. Personals Mrs. Gladys Dietz and daughter, Miss Diana Dietz, are visiting Miss Dorothy Dietz in New York. Bullitt Reaches Paris By United Pregt PARIS, Feb. 22.—William C. Bullitt. American ambassador to Russia, arrived today on his way to his post at Moscow.

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Bridge Party Be Benefit for Nutrition Camp Alpha Gamma Latreian Club will entertain with a benefit bridge party Saturday afternoon, March 3, in Ayres auditorium. Style show will be presented. Proceeds from the annual party will be used for the nutrition camp at Bridgeport, operated by the Marion County Tuberculosis Association. The club donates yearly to the camp. The arrangements committee includes Misses Bess Bordon, Edith Ball and Zella Ann Grossman. Miss Dorothy Lyons is club president, assisted by Miss Alice Dimmick, vice-president; Miss Hortense St. Lorenz, recording secretary; Miss Helen Hittle, corresponding secretary; Miss Marie Jeffries, treasurer; Miss Mary Helen Borcherding, delegate to Seventh district federation, and Miss Anna Louise Cochrane, delegate to state federation. Mrs. Bert S. Gadd is counsellor.

TUDOR HALL CLASS TO GIVE PLAY,

“A Romantic Young Lady” will oe presented by the sophomore class of Tudor Hall at 8:15 Saturday night in the school auditorium. Miss Katrine VanDyck Bucher, dramatic instructor, is directing the presentation, assisted by Miss Mary Dickey. The cast includes Miss Dickey, Misses Patricia DePrez, Betty Amos, Marjorie Bunch, Jane Carrington, Lucina Ball, Jane Turner, Barbara Frantz, Betty Boaz, Betty Farber and Anita Cohen.

Kappa Chapter Members to Be Guests of Patroness

Mrs. Norman L. Schneider, patroness of Kappa chapter, Mu Phi Epsilon, national honorary musical sorority, will be hostess for the active group Tuesday night at her home, 685 Middle drive, Woodruff Place. Mrs. A. Leon Hicks is chairman of arrangements, assisted by Mrs. Charles A. Scearcy, Mrs. Florence

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Miss Jean Foley Kappa Alpha Sigma sorority will entertain with a benefit bridge party at 2:30 Saturday afternoon at the Banner-Whitehill auditorium. Miss Jean Foley, Miss Mary Hinkle and Miss Estella May Disz will be hostesses. PLAYERS’ CLUB CASTS ARE ANNOUNCED Casts have been announced for the February performance to be held by the Players’ Club Tuesday night at the Civic Theater playhouse. “Whom the Lord Loveth,” to be directed by Jack Harding, will be presented by Marshall Dale, Raymond Mead, Percy Weer and Mr. Harding. Otto Janus is directing the production of "The Lady in Red,” which includes the following cast: Dr. Frederick Taylor, Hiram McKee. Robert F. Daggett, Mrs. Ralph Lieber and Stuart Dean. Mr. and Mrs. August C. Bohlen are chairmen of the production, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Janus, Mr. and Mrs. Dale and Dr. Taylor. Board Meeting Set Mothers’ Council of Butler university will hold a board meeting at 10 tomorrow morning at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house. 809 Hampton drive. Mrs. A. L. Gilliom will preside. Mrs. Burton Entertains Members of the Happy Hour Club attended a luncheon today at the home of Mrs. Charles E. Burton, 1320 East Market street.

Couple Wed in Morning Rite at Club Miss Lea Traugott and Henry Cassell Take Vows Today. Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht read the marriage ceremony this morning at the Columbia Club for Miss Lea Traugott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Traugott, and Arthur Cassell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Cassell. Two seven-branch candelabra lighted the windows which were banked with palms- and potted spring flowers, forming the altar. Mrs. Fanny Kiser Rosenback, harpist, played “Beautiful Memories” and "To a Wild Rose,” and Mrs. Louis Traugott, aunt of the bride, sang “At Dawning” and "Ich Liebe Dich.” Bride Wears Blue The blue chiffon gown worn by the bride was fashioned with wind blow skirt with cascade train. The high tucked neckline in front ended in a low decolletage. She wore a halo turban and carried a real lace handkerchief, an heirloom in the Cassell family. Her flowers were an arm bouquet of talisman roses and orchids. Mrs. Traugott wore a brown jacket dress of mossy crepe trimmed with citron crepe. Mrs. Dora Joseph, grandmother of the bride, was gowned in black Bordeaux chiffon with deep cream colored lace yoke. Both wore shoulder corsages oi talisman roses. Mrs. Cassell appeared in a brown chiffon outfit. The bride was unattended. Bernard Cassell was his brother’s best man. Breakfast Follows Rite A wedding breakfast for thirty guests followed the service. The C-shaped table was centered with a three-tiered wedding cake banked with spring flowers. Pastel-colored tapers were mounted on plateaux of spring flowers. Out-of-town guests included Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Joseph, Ligonier; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cassell, Ft. Wayne; Miss Rae Cassell, and Alex Cassell, Morocco; Henry Solomon, Chicago; B. J. Gibson, Danville,fill.; Paul Umberger, Pittsburgh, Pa.; C. C. Moon, Huntington, W. Va.; Frank Robeson, Danville, 111., and E. L. Rohrbach, Detroit. The couple left on a ivedding trip, the bride traveling in a blue crepe peplum dress with lapels and cuffs ! of roman stripes worn with blue accessories and gray broadtail coat. The at-home address is for 3012 North Meridian street after March 15. The bride attended Ohio State university and is a member of Sigma Delta Tau sorority; Mr. Cassell attended the University of Illinois and is a member of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. Bridge to Be Played Mrs. Earl R. Garrett, 1720 Woodlawn avenue, will entertain the Semper Fidelis Bridge Club this afternoon.

Keepers Lewis, Miss Ramona Wilson and Miss Frances Wishard. Miss Imogene Pierson has arranged the program, which will begin at 8:15. A paper, “Music of South America,” written by Miss Pierson, will be read by Miss Helen Brooks. The program will be as follow's: “Cerdana” De Severac “Peruvian Air” iPopular) Mompou “Brazilian Rhapsody” Nieman Miss Geneva Potts “Group of Folk Tunes of Latin America”— Mrs. Charles Scearcey and Miss Geraldine Trotter, accompanist. "La Gitana” Kreisler Mrs. Lorinda Cottingham Howell Quartet —“Cordova” Albeniz “Coro di Cacciatori” .. A. Carlos Gomes Miss Marguerite Billo and Mrs. Howell. violins: Miss Marcena Camp Bell, ’cello: Florence Lewis, piano. Sororities Mrs. Morris Corbin. 727 Fairfield avenue, will be hostess for a meeting of Phi Zeta Delta sorority at 7:30 tomorrow night. Pledge services will be held tonight by Alpha chapter, Rho Delta sorority, at the home of Miss Betty Moss, 907 North Capitol avenue, for Misses Mabelle Schumacher, Violet Friend, Margaret Stevens and Maxine Simpson. Miss Catherine Mootz w'ill entertain members of the Carpe Diem Club at her home, 1960 Carrollton avenue, Sunday afternoon. Initiation services will be held. Miss Mootz will be assisted by Misses Mary Ellen Harahan, Charlotte Ries and Betty Williams. STATE MAYFLOWER DINNER CANCELED Due to illness, the meeting of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in Indiana, scheduled for tomorrow night, will be held Thursday night, March 1, at the home of Dr. 1 and Mrs. Leon Zerfas, 4203 North I Pennsylvania street. HOSPITAL GUILD'S ROUNDUP IS SET Miss Alice Velsey, 1421 North Delaware street, will be hostess at 2 Tuesday for a guest meeting and annual roundup of the Riley Hospital Cheer Guild. Articles made by members for child patients of the hospital will be displayed. .4. 0. A. Club Elects Members of the A. O. A. Club met Tuesday night with Miss Mary Triller, 34 Karcher street. The following officers were elected: Miss Louise Sauter, president; Miss Ruth Shaughnesy, vice-president: Miss Thelma Daufel, secretary, and Miss Triller. treasurer. WIN Y. M.~ C. A. DRIVE The educational department team took first place in the Y. M. C. A. annual membership drive, it was announced at the report dinner last night at the Central Y. M. C. A. building. The physical department team was second. New members thus far registered total approximately one-third of the goal, C. O. Mcgg, campaign chairman, announced.

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Jobs Daughters of Indianapolis will entertain with a skating party tomorrow night at the Riverside rink. Miss Martha Caskey of Bethel 9 is in charge of arrangements, assisted by Misses Phyllis Ent. Opal Mae Watts, Elaine James and Marjorie Farree.

Alumnae to Be Hostesses for Benefit Party Benefit bridge party is planned by the Indianapolis aiumnae chapter of Delta Zeta sorority for 2 Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Robert B. Berner, 5858 Carrollton avenue. Assisting Mrs. Berner will be Mrs. R. D. Armstrong, Mrs. Colin Dunbar, Mrs. Frank Miller, Mrs. Robert Hueslein and Miss Anne Stuprich. Alpha Nu Alumnae group of the sorprity will meet at 7:30 Wednesday night at the Butler university chapter house, 4711 Rookwood avenue. Miss Mary Carriger, president, will be in charge. Tri-Kappas to Mark Founding With Banqeut Two hundred members, representing more than fifty chapters of Kappa Kappa Kappa sorority throughout the state, will attend the annual founders’ day banquet tonight at the Claypool. Officers and founders will extend greetings, and a musical program will be presented by the Chicago Concert company and the Piano Twins. Mrs. J. E. P. Holland, Bloomington, who founded the sorority in 1902 at the May Wright Sewall Classical school in Indianapolis, and who is a life member of the council, will attend, and other founders to be present will be Mrs. Charles A. Greathouse, Mrs. Gertrude Shoemaker, Danville, and Mrs. Frances G. Gallaher, Dayton, O. Mrs. Paul V. McNutt, member of the Bloomington chapter, will be an honor guest with Mrs. Harry G. Leslie, Lafayette; Mrs. Lafayette Porter, Greencastle, and the following past grand presidents: Miss Mary Hicks, Bloomington; Mrs. Tom Knipe, Kokomo; Miss Mary Rieman, Connersville, and Mrs. Joseph W. Walker. Fifteen members will come from Greensburg, and reservations also have been made for Mrs. Hallie Bortz Schafer, Ft. Wayne, grand president; Mrs. Irene Mueller, Terre Haute, vice-president; Mrs. O. M. Kinnison. Goshen, treasurer, and Mrs. Ray Marr, Columbus, secretary.

MRS. KELLY TO BE GUILD SPEAKER Mrs. John Kelly will talk on the life of Dolly Madison at the meeting of the Monday Guild at 1:30 Monday at the Woman’s Department club. The guild is a section of the community welfare department for sightless women. Musical program will be presented by Forest Goodenough and Walter Cicenas, students of W. T. Shannon, director of music at the Indiana School for the Blind. Mrs. Ina Smith will talk on “My Favorite Radio Star,” and Mrs. Mary Guthrie will conduct group singing. Mrs. William C. Smith will be hostess for a tea and social hour to follow. Mrs. John Connor will preside. BRIDGE PARTY TO BE HELD AT CLUB Second semi-monthly duplicate contract bridge play at the Hoosier Athletic Club will be held at 8:15 tonight at the club house. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Tiffany, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Rouse, Mr. and Mrs. V. R. Rupp and Mr. and Mrs. M. Orval Gaskins will be hosts and hostesses for the party. L. H. Riggs, card chairman, has announced a bonus of five match points will be given those entrants ready for play at 8:15. CLUB ENTERTAINED BY MRS. BOEMLER Members of the Arbor Vitae Club were entertained tbday at the home of Mrs. Walter Boemier, 3130 Park avenue. Mrs. Harold M. Trusler was in charge of the program. Luncheon appointments were in keeping with Washington’s birthday. COSTUME BALL SET BY CIVIC THEATER Mrs. Irving Fauvre is to be in charge of the annual costume ball of the Civic theater, scheduled for April 7 at the Athenaeum. A circus motif is planned. See ‘Alice’ Film Teachers, mothers and pupils of the Fall Creek branch, Indianapolis Free Kindergarten Society, attendied “Alice in Wonderland” this morning. New heels New colors in Nisley Spring Styles all priced at '-s = except Arch Comforts $4.45 44 N. Penn St.

Gingerbread Mix Makers Offer Addition to Lore About George Washington Recipe Said to Be Based on One L sed by Mother of First President, Who V as Fond of Delicacy in Boyhood. BY HELEN LINDSAY has been a good boy, and I am sure he will do his duty." VJ These are the words that biographers attribute to Man - Ball Washington, mother of George Washington, to whom is given credit for his moral and religious training. Mary Ball Washington was the second wife of George Washington’s father, and George was the eldest of her children. Many anecdotes are

told of the early family life of the Washington family, in connection with George Washington’s boyhood. The famous cherry tree episode is the best known: it. like many of the others, has not been given absolute historical backing, but makes interesting data for the patriot seeking human interest in the life of the "Father of His Country.” Now the makers of Dromedary Gingerbread Mix, a new prepared gingerbread which recently has been introduced through Indianapolis groceries, tell another story. According to them, George Washington was fond of gingerbread when he was a little boy. His own mother made it for him, while the hungry little boy stood close by the old oven, waiting for it to be baked. Another story they tell of the gingerbread which Mary Ball Washington made concerns Lafayette's visit to America in 1784. When Washington's mother served Lafayette with the famous gingerbread, according to

this story, Lafayette was so delighted with it that he was inspired to make the oft-quoted remark about her, "I have met the only Roman matron'of my day!” The new Dromedary Gingerbread Mix is said to be based on the recipe which Mary Ball Washington used. Before it was put on the market, samples in blind packages were given to 300 housewives, picked at random, with instructions to fill out the questionnaire which accompanied the package. One hundred and thirteen of the women said it made better gingerbread than that of their own baking; 88 said it was as good as their own; 96 said it was the best gingerbread they had tasted; two said it was good, but not as good as their own, and only one failed to reply. The packaged gingerbread mix, like many of the other prepared breads and cakes now available, needs only to be mixed with water and baked. tt tt tt a tt tt Toweling Appears in Evening Wear FASHION notes from Florida, where many Indianapolis folk are spending their winter vacations, reports that the Turkish towel has graduated from the bathroom to the ballroom. Toweling has been used for some time in beach robes. This season it is reported as having been seen in evening gowns, coats and sports wear. At a recent dinner dance at the Miami Biltmore, one of the guests wore a white toweling evening gown, cut on lines of classic simplicity. With it was worn a loose three-quarter mandarin coat of the same material, with the wide sleeves banded in white fox. At the Cabana Sun C’ub recently a spectator's sports suit was made of toweling. It was of white and navy blue checked terry cloth, with Norfolk jacket and wrap-around skirt. Plain white toweling beach robes are seen at the club, cut in polo coat style, while both men and women are seen in robes of the same material in pastel colors or in variations of the Mexican striped toweling beach cape, which ties around the neck with a draw-string. On a deep sea fishing trip from the Key Largo Anglers’ Club, the masculine polo shirt was seen made of toweling and fastening with a zipper closing. a a tt a a tt Coal and Shells Used, as Fastenings THE Paris designers are using all kinds of queer trimming detail on their new creations, according to cabled news. Some of the highlights are tinted scallop shells, which Vera Borea is using in various sizes for clips on beach and day clothes. She also uses polished oyster and snail shells for trimmings on evening and afternoon things. Alix Barton, who has gained in a short career a reputation as an exceptional designer, places all of her fastenings at the back, among them hunks of coal, Geisha girl hairpin effects, coolie hats in pewter, golf pins in pairs, and hollow ivory tubes. Heim's fastenings are of metal. For example, a ball and metal square holds together coat fronts that do not meet; three pairs of gold balls close a high-necked cocktail frock, and twisted gold fastens black suede belts.

White Cross Music Guild Gives Luncheon at Hillcrest Club

One hundred attended the colonial luncheon of the White Cross Music guild of the Methodist hospital center today at the Hillcrest Country Club. The luncheon tables were centered with miniature stage coaches and figures of Martha and George LANDSCAPE CONCERN OFFICIAL TO SPEAK “The Gardener’s Jewel Box” will be the subject for a talk to be given by Lloyd Hoover Galiher at 11 Tuesday morning at the Central Y. W. C. A. Mr. Galiher is secretary of the Hillsdale Landscape Company. At the next meeting, the third in the series on gardening, Mrs. Perry O’Neal will talk on “Growing Your Own Plants.” Mrs. Alma C. Gardner is arranging the series. Miss Marie Boles is general chairman of a supper party to be held at 6:30 tomorrow night at the Foodcraft shop under the auspices of the industrial department of the Y. W. C. A. Mrs. Kenneth Campbell, department chairman, and Mr. Campbell, will be guests. Miss Dora Fox is in charge of the evening’s entertainment. Alumnae to Give Dance Plans for the annual dance and an evening bridge party will be made at the meeting of alumnae of Delta Sigma Epsilon, national educational sorority of Butler university, tomorrow night at the home of Miss Alta Keelor, East Raymond street.

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Washington and lighted with red, white and club candles. Cherry trees were given as favors. Musical program was presented following the luncheon. Mrs. Will Hitz, president of the guild, was general chairman, with the following assistants: Mrs. S. M. Partlowe, program; Mrs. A. M. Hetherington, hostesses; Mrs. O. M. Richardson, decorations; Mrs. C. A. Lloyd, reservations, and Mrs. Lawrence Hayes, publicity. The guild will celebrate its first anniversary Thursday, March 1, with an all-day meeting at the nerses’ home of the Methodist hospital. Sixty charter members will be honor guests. Society to Meet Girls Friendly Society of Christ church will meet Tuesday in the parish house w'ith a program to be presented by each member. Dinner will be served at 6. CAMWK4SFS HARD FIBRE to Your / REPAIRING" j GA%PHL 51 Monument Circle " | Near Circle Theatre