Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 264, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1934 — Page 9

MARCH 15, 1934.

First Lady ' s Brings U.S. Social Ease Mrs. Roosevelt Smashes All Precedents of Aloofness. by gretta palmer. Ti mr% Spful Writrr VJEW YORK, March 15.—“1 want lN to see the clippings about Mrs. Roa-ovelt." I asked the man in the reference library—inelegantly known on a newspaper as the morgue. “Well,” he said, “you'd better get a boy to h<-lp you carry them. There are nine lull packages."

"How many did the other Presidents' wives have?” I asked. We looked them over. The last two First Ladies before the present one had three and four, respectively. And Mrs. Roosevelt has three years more to go! Vital persons, who are interested in many problems, get their names in the papers a

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gr-at deal. There is no chance of their retaining a ladylike reticence or of treasuring their privacy on the public familiar \v,th their actions is not quite nice. Mrs Roosevelt has been more in the limelight than any Presidents wife we have ever had —and there is good reason that she should be. Sir inis sacrificed many of the plea, .res of home life and all hope of leisure in order to indicate her sympathy with organizations which are working for causes with which she sympathizes. She has tossed to the winds the aloof formality which formerly surround* and our Presidents’ wives and has :■ fused police protection as being too much bother. She has permitted cobwebs to gather on the private railroad cars and jumped nimbly into a Pullman or a plane two or three times a week. And she has introduced to the Whie House a gay lack of formality which shocks the die-hard dowagers. Mrs Hoover broke precedent by driving her own car. But Mrs scrambles eggs. She also earns her own living by writing, teaching or editing—whichever is at hand. And she was unconventional enough to invite the girl her son had recently divorced to visit her at the White House. Her own family can not keep up with her. There is an anecdote told, which may or may not be true, of the President's recently receiving an old gardener who had worked i< r him at Hyde Park. He is said to have sent an usher to ask Mrs. Roosevelt to come and speak to the man. Tl usher is reputed to have returned m a few minutes and said: “I am sorry. Mr. Roosevelt. Mrs. R os* velt has been in New York for three days. Better authentication can be offer* and for the scene described by a writer recently given an interview with the President. Sistie and Buzz were there in tb* President’s office,’’ he said. “They were at the piano. Every now and then Mr. Roosevelt would say. Now. about our relations with

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England' and one of the kids '.vould drown him out with chopsticks. It is.” he said, “the cosiest White House that you ever saw.” That is the kind of White House Mrs. Roosevelt, wants, and. being m individualist, she was bound to •jet it. When she has made up her mind to accomplish something, no lorce of public opinion can stop her. When her son James expressed disapproval of the child labor amendment she did not hesitate to tell the press that she had tried to argue him over to the other side. When a large camping party had to be entertained she did not hesitate to serve hot dogs—and to cook them over an open fire herself. Mrs. Roosevelt in one short year has brought to the social life of the nation a democracy, an ease and a common sense that it never had before. She has shown what one woman can accomplish if she has the energy and independence to go ahead and do it. A lot of work and time and energy went into the making of those nine envelopes of clippings.

HEADS CLUB

Mrs. W- D. Keenan Monday Club elected Mrs. W. D. Keenan president at a recent meeting at the Severin. other officers include Mrs. M. E. Costin, first vice-president: Mrs. w. A. Pierson, second vice-president; Mrs. D. V. Lucas, recording secretary; Mrs. E. F. Hamaker, corresponding secretary, and Miss Minnie Kiefer, treasurer.

Party to Honor Miss Burkert to Wed This Week Parties continue to fete Miss Anna Louise Burkert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Burkert, whose marriage to Edwin Dugal Cree, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dugal Cree, Chicago, will take place Saturday. Mrs. Adrian Nail will entertain tonight at her. home. 4612 Guilford avenue, with a bridge party and bridal shower. Appointments will be carried out in white. The hostess will be assisted by Mrs. Douglas Hoskins. Guests with Miss Burkert will be Mesdames Ray De Vaney, Edward Kirkpatrick. Malcolm Campbell, Charles Walker. Carleton Heiberger, Karl Hardey and Guy Dixon; Misses Mary Hannah Peterson, Pauline Becker and Jane Messick.

A Woman's Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

"t jc THAT is this thing known as VV masculine pride? An unworthy. small-souled. ignoble vice, if you ask me. A quality the world could very well do without. A hint of its devastating stubbornness comes in a letter today. Throughout the long period of business distress stacks of such messages have arrived from women. all reciting the same tale of man's woeful misconception of dignity. Listen to this, ladies and gentlemen: "Mv husband has been out of work for two years. As soon as his salary was cut I hunted a job and finally found one in a ladies’ ready-to-wear shop. I helped support the family—we have one 5-year-old girl—for nearly three years, and for twelve months what I earned is all we have had. During the time I have worked I kept a maid because I have been told so often what a dreadful thing it is for a man's morale to be broken and I wanted to spare my husband the indignity of doing kitchen work. But now with prices going up I find it desperately hard to get along. Do you think I should ask him to help with the house work or is it true that when men are forced to such tasks they never regain their lost pride?” My brave woman, I think such pride might just as well be lost. It seems to contribute very little

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Couple Wed in Service at Marott Miss Jennie Efroymson and Jack B. Kammins United by Rabbi. Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht read the marriage ceremony this morning at the Marott for Miss Jennie Efroymson and Jack B. Kammins. The bride, daughter of Mrs. Isaac Efroymson. was graduated from Butler university, and Mr. Kammins. son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kammins, is a graduate of Butler and the University of Chicago law school. Only immediate relatives attended the ceremony. The bride, given in marriage by her brother, Meyer A. Efroymson, was gowned in blue lace over blue satin, with a three-quarter length coat. Her flowers were a shower bouquet of gardenias and roses. Following a wedding breakfast at the hotel, the couple left for Chicago, the bride traveling in a grey suit with broadtail trim, worn with black accessories and a corsage of gardenias. The at-home address is for 3537 North Pennsylvania street. Among the out-of-town guests were Mrs. Mendel Wolf, Shelbyville, and Mr. and Mrs. Morris Kamminsky, Hammond. BUTLER GROUP TO PRESENT COMEDY “The Prince of Liars,” a three-act comedy, will be given at 7:30 tonight 'by members of Thespis, Butler university dramatic society, in the workshop in Arthur Jordan memorial hall. Leads will be taken by Walter Judd and Miss Martha Haworth. Others in the cast will be Virginia Ferrell, Lois Gerdts, Wendell Taylor, Dorothy Thompson, Harold Miller, Martha Rose Scott and Samuel Martinez. The play is being direct|ed by Marion Sperry. Miss Francis Beik is faculty adviser.

Personals

Mrs. Walker H. Judd and daughter Jane have returned to their heme, 325 Berkeley road, after an extended visit in Miami, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Lawrence are in Florida. Miss Marion Barnard has returned from a visit in Boston and New- York. Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter has left to visit her daughter, Mrs. Thomas D. Scoggins, and family in Nashville. Tenn. Mrs. Frances P. Buckley is visiting in New York.

Announcements

Mrs. William McKibben, 549 North Emerson avenue, entertained with a surprise birthday dinner Monday in honor of Miss Grace L. O'Brien. Ami-Per-On Club, composed ri Catholic high school girls, elected officers recently. They are: Mary Kumann, president; Dorothy Lee, vice-president; Harriet Lord, secretary; Marjorie Butcher, treasurer; Helen Thomas, social editor, and Catherine Baecher, sergeant-at-arms. Lo Sin Loy Club will meet at 7:30 tonight at the home of Miss Bernice McWhorter, 2036 North Talbot street. Mrs. Stella Kirk, 1020 Kenwood avenue, will be hostess for a meeting of the Bonnie Briar Club tomorrow afternoon. Officers will be installed. Alpha chapter, Sigma Delta Tau sorority, will entertain tonight with a shamrock dance at Sky Harbor. Mrs. Rex Behrman, chairman, will be assisted by Misses Henee Brown and Margot Mueller. Ladies Auxiliary of Hoosier Post. Veterans cf Foreign Wars, will hold a supper and card party Saturdaynight at 143 East Ohio street. Supper will be served from 5 to 7. The public may attend.

A Day’s Menu Breakfast — Baked pears, cereal, cream, creamed salt codfish on rye toast, milk, coffee. Luncheon — Stuffed baked peppers, creamed celery. grape juice, cookies. Dinner — Pot roast of beef, brown gravy, mashed potatoes, o uttered new turnips, molded carrot salad, quince pudding, milk, coffee.

to the family welfare a*nd nothing at all to individual happiness. And why on earth should house i work be such a shameful task that ! husbands in emergencies must not I soil their hands with it? It doesn’t j hurt men to sweep floors and cook meals and bathe children. I should think a person would be glad to add thus to his accomplishments. By learning to do even those j humble tasks he might obtain a new realization of the depth and j richness and loveliness of family ! life. Men had much better toss this silly pride of theirs out of their j high windows instead of jumping out themselves. Their quick sus- | ceptibility to despair when finan- j cial reverses come doesn’t prove j the essential manliness they have ! so loudly boasted. No husband would want to do 1 house work permanently. I’m sure, but masculine dignity is a pretty poor excuse for refusing to do it in an emergency. If homes ; are a national asset then they’re well worth a man’s doing a hand’s turn in them once in a while. NISLEY^o* New Spring Price / on all styles except , ARCH COMFORTS . . $4.4 5 1 44 JN. Penn St.

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A girl who doesn’t plan to leave any stone unturned in her rise to fame as a sculptress is lovely Jane Wasey, above, 21-year-old daughter of Louis R. Wasey, New York advertising executive. Despite the hardships- of rounding up quantities of rock for her models in busy Manhattan, and getting it up weak elevators and through narrow doors, Miss Wasey had ready several notable creations for the Montross Gallery show. One of them, “The Head,”-she is shown posing with.

PROGRAM OFFERED AT HOME FOR AGED Mrs. John A. George was in charge of the program presented by the Welfare Club this afternoon at the Home for Aged Women. Assisting Mrs. George were Mrs. E. E. Martin, Mrs. Charles W. Roller and Mrs. A. G. Wills. Musical program was presented by the Hutchings-Otte trio. Miss Ruth Otte, pianist and vocol soloist, sang “When Irish Eves Are Smiling,” “Song of Songs” and “My Wild Irish Rose.” Miss Ruth

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Hutchings, pianist and harpist, presented “Danny Boy,” “Londonderry Air,” sextet from “Lucia,” “Old Refrain” and “Humoresque.” Miss Thelma Fulkerson was violinist. Members of the trio play in the Indianapolis Symphony. Chapter to Give Party Hawaiian chapter, International Travel-Study Club, Inc., will entertain with a benefit card party at 2 Tuesday at the Banner-Whitehill auditorium. Mrs. John J. O'Neal, chairman, will be assisted by Mrs. Phillip Mann and Mrs. Horace G. Daugherty.

Mrs. Fletcher to be Hostess for Smith Club Third of a series of scholarship luncheons will be held by the Smith College club of Indiana at 1 Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Jesse Fletcher, 4131 North Meridian street. The luncheons are given by the group to raise money to send students to Smith college. Mrs. Frederic M. Ayres is club president. Hostesses for the day will bo Mrs. Frederick Holliday. Mrs. Berkley Duck, Miss Eunice Dissette, Mrs. George Denny. Mrs. Stacey Lindley, Mrs. Harland D. Wilson. Mrs. John P. Collett, Miss Katharine Brown and Mrs. Edward S Norvell.

ENTERTAINS FOR SISTER-IN-LAW

Mrs. James Foster was honor guest at a luncheon and bridge party yesterday given by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Walter Meyers. Mrs. Meyers entertained at her home, 1129 North Gale street, assisted by Mrs. Laurel Wallace and Mrs. Arthur Rahke. Guests included Mesdames Harry Carvin. Roland Mitchum. Tom Boyd. Jack Cohl, Ross Woods, Jess Dell, Walter Debilt, Albert Shell, Orville Von Canon, Charles Sinex, George Boenkamp. Robert Foster, Arthur Faster, Will Fahey, Albert Leidolf and Clara Meyers. PUPPET SHOW WILL BE GIVEN BY CLUB Pup' * show will be given at 10 Saturu. '*”ch 24, by the Mothers’ Club of kindergarten at the Tabt -Henan church. “The Ln ’s Rao„ v o wanted Red Wings" and “Litu. Riding Hood" will be presented beth Ray’s puppets. Mrs. x_ Weirick, chairman, will be assists by Mrs. Howard Foltz. Mrs. Edward Reese, Mrs. Merritt Reed and Mrs. Iva Lee. Official to Be Visitor Mrs. Edward C. Prophet, Lansing, Mich., will arrive today to visit the Butler university chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha. Mrs. Prophet is rfational inspector of the sorority.

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MISS RUBIN TO BE SORORITY HOSTESS Miss Dorothy Rubin. 1005 North Delaware street, will be hostess at 8 tomorrow night for a meeting of the Delta Sigma Epsilon alumnae. Miss Marjorie Campbell will assist Miss Rubm. Plans will be made for an evening bridge party in April and a dance. The organization is a national educational sorority of Butler university.

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