Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 282, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1934 — Page 9

APRIL 5, 1934.

‘Mere Wife’ v Has Easier Role Today Lessening of Drudgery in Home Created New Situation. BY GRETTA PALMER limn Special Writer NEW YORK. April 5.—"1 do not wart to be Just a wife,” writes an 18-year-old young woman of zip and ambition ‘‘l am not that old fashioned.” It would be interesting to discover the origin of the rather wide-spread belief that a woman who is ‘‘just a

wife” is carrying on the traditions of the dark ages. Perhaps it is because the history textbooks so largely neglect to tell us what the women of the past were up to while the wars were being waged that they were sheltered from the crude realities of elbow grease. A peek into the household records of the

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fifteenth century probably would disabuse us of any idea that the 9 to 5 stenographer of today is the first of her sex to know what hard work really means. Even the ladies of the manor and the robber baron's missus must have had their hands fairly full with overlooking the work of the dairy and the butchering yard, the kitchens and the spinning rooms, to say nothing of keeping up the proper moral tone among the peasants at the foot of the hill. Even in more recent times the average married woman in comfortable circumstances was kept busy. My grandmother was not “just a wife,” and neither was yours. If those women were not doing manual labor in the home they were acting as hard-pressed executives of a complicated household. And their biennial chiidbirths alone gave them something more to think about than the task of finding favor in their good men’s eyes. “Just a Wife” Is Modem The woman who is “just a wife” is indeed one of the most remarksable innovations of the last fifty Tears. Only the removal of a large part of her household drudgery could ever have made it possible for her even to aspire to such a role. In order that a woman’s entire life may revolve around her husband’s happiness it is first necessary to eliminate any very pressing interests of her own. The woman who makes a career out of marriage today and does a reasonably good job probably spends three times as much time on her personal appearance as any wife in history. The endless conferences with her hairdresser and dressmaker and milliner—all to the end that she may appear at her best at dinner time —are a luxury which very few married women in the past were able to afford. Primping was not a major industry of the home until recent times. Relieved of Hard Tasks The woman who devotes herself to being a wife today is relieved of the grubby part of housekeeping, but she is able to devote herself to its niceties, to the ferreting out of unusual dishes to tempt her tired husband, to the creation of an atmosphere in which the little of fine entertainment may flourish. And whatever is left of her day, after all that, she can devote to gaining an intelligent understanding of her husband's business problems. so 'that his remarks need never be stressed to even the most decorative blank walls.

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Women’s Group of Church Will Give Luncheon Iris luncheon will be given by members of the Women’s Association of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church at 1 Tuesday. Reservations may be made at the church office. A Japanese song cycle by Cadman will be presented in costume by Mrs. Paul Dorsey and Mrs. Harry Orsen, accompanied by Mrs. J. K. Vance Jr. Miss Betty Wolfe, in costume of the nineties, will present a group of readings. The newly organized circle with Mrs. Henry Leonard president is in charge of the party. Mrs. Leonard will be assisted by Mrs. Hugh Johnson, Mrs. J. B. Alles and a committee of hostesses. Mrs. Arthur R. Dewey arranged the program to follow the luncheon. Mrs. George Lacey will lead the devotions, Frances Willard W. C. T. U. will meet at the home of Mrs. Thomas Anderson, 3415 Clifton, Tuesday, for a covered dish luncheon. Meeting will open at 10:30. A special program wil be presented at 1:30 with Mrs. Grace Surber presiding. Ladies’ Aid Society of the Broad Ripple Christian church will serve a supper from 5 to 7 tomorrow night in the church dining room.

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Club Chosen as Scene of Spring Fete University Women Will Entertain on May 5. Members of the fellowship committee of the Indianapolis branch, American Association of University Women, with Miss Mary Rigg, chairman, are arranging for a spring party to be held Saturday, May 5, at the Woodstock Club. Mrs. John Waldo is chairman of transportation for the bridge-lunch-eon and Mrs. Frank Cox is prize chairman. Fourth biennial conference of the northeast-central section of the association is scheduled for April 20 and 21 in Cincinnati. Any members of the local branch may attend, announces Mrs. Walter P. Morton, president. Ten members will be eligible as voting delegates. “The Selection of Music for Children” was discussed by Mrs. Lenora Coffin, instructor in music appreciation at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, as the third in a series of ten music talks. Mrs. Coffin addressed a group this morning at the Rauh Memorial library. Language study group will meet Monday at the home of Mrs. W. L. Richardson, 110 Hampton drive. Mrs. Jacqueline Uldrich will present an adaptation of the opera “Thais” as arranged by Massenet. Additional art talks are scheduled for three Thursdays, April 12, 19 and 26. The next in the series will be held at 10 at the Scottish Rite cathedral with David Neafus, carillonneur of the cathedral, speaker. Robert Schultz of Shortridge high school will speak at the fifth in the series. April 19, at the Rauh library, and Miss Ruth Gant will tell “The Story of the Piano” at 10, April 26, at the home of Mrs. Harry L. Foreman, 3835 Washington boulevard. Round table discussion on “Is Isolation Possible or Desirable,” will feature the first in the series of six talks on the United States’ foreign policy at 2, April 13, at the Y. W. C. A. Disarmament will be discussed at the second meeting to be held April 23 at the home of Mrs. Richardson. Two Into One If you have a jacket dress of which you’ve grown a little tired, why not transform it into a onepiece model? Cut the sleeves out of the jacket and put them into the sieeveless dress and, if the frock needs a collar, make one out of the material in the back of the little coat.

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A Womans Viewpoint i BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

MUCH as I admire her excellent judgment and sound sense, I can’t trail along with Mrs. Roosevelt to the shooting gallery. If we are to have any of the larger leisure, I hope we shall not use it by perfecting ourselves in the use of firearms. Yet, we are informed reliably, through the press, that the mothers of Bordentown. N. J., at the suggestion of the President’s wife, are taking lessons in marksmanship from a professor of military science and tactics in order to protect their homes from kidnapers. It won’t turn the trick, ladies. Rogues and rascals are not to be so easily cowed. Intrepid American motherhood should arm itself but not with revolvers. How about buckling on the armor of righteous indignation, and taking up the sword of good citizenship? The hours spent in target practice could, you know, be used in finding out what is wrong with a social system that breeds kidnapers as profusely as a tree bears fruit in a good season. Mothers are a part of the system. Why not, then, be an intelligent part by exercising the power each decent person has—the power to investigate what goes on in business and politics, the power to raise your voice against

Daily Recipe ORANGE COCOANUT FUDGE 1 lb. white sugar 1 cup evaporated milk *4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup cocoanut Grated rind of 1 orange (2 teaspoons) 2 tablespoons butter Boil sugar, milk and salt to soft ball stage, 235 degrees. Remove from fire and cool. Spread orange rind and a layer of cocoanut in bottom of buttered pan. Add butter and remainder of cocoanut to candy and beat until mixture begins to stiffen. Pour into pan over cocoanut and orange rind. Cut into squares. The cocoanut and orange rind form a very pretty topping when the candy is turned upside down. Be sure to cool the mixture before beating, and fine grain will result. The darker varieties of fudge are familiar to everybody. This light colored kind will both surprise and please.

injustice wherever you see it, the ; power to work for the reforms needed to make the American home safe for babies? , There is something particularly repellent in the fact that we have built the sort of nation in which it is thought necessary and even good for mothers to resort to guns to protect their children. Yet, the evils which crouch just outside our doors are not those we can destroy with bullets. And grim and terrible as they are, we have made them. Those of us who live in American hemes, the fathers and mothers of the U. S. A., are responsible in a large measure for bandits, kidnapers and thugs of all kinds, because we have been consistently negligent of our public duty. You can’t be a good mother these days unless you are also willing to be a good citizen. PATRONESS LIST GIVEN FOR PARTY Mothers’ Club of Sigma Nu fraternity announces a partial list of patronesses for the spring card party to be held Monday at Ban-ner-Whitehill auditorium. The list includes Mesdames J. W. Esterline, Agnes Brown. Malcolm Sewell, E. P. Brennan, Ora Wingfield, Max Hosea, Maude Osborne, M. L. Johnston, L. P. Highley, O. C. Walker, Homer Stephens, R. C. Terry, Minnie Burden, Harry Mackey, Fred Virtue, Frank White, Bert Delph, L. C. Sparks, Glenn Campbell, Edward Goeke, Clyde Montgomery, Clyde Deputy, Josephine McNevin, A. Halstead, A. W. Macy, H. M. Mounts, O. S. Guio; O. Hockett, Zerona, N. J.; Mrs. Joseph Belcher, Beatrice Fitzpatrick, J. F. Gilbert, D. W. Hedges and H. K. Dalvell. Additional patronesses are Mesdames B. E. Trick, Carl Day, Robert Brewer, Carry E. Williams, Frank Roach, Grace Robeson. E. M. Lichtenauer, C. Jackson, William J. Bradley, L. C. Boggs, Wilma Bradley, Charles Barry, John Quinn, George M. Connell, John Flaherty, Jesse Tilford, L. R. Hertenstein and Dora Vliet; Misses Margaret Esterline and Agnes Brown. Miss Eleanor Holmes will entertain the Gamma Phi Alpha sorority tonight at her home, 426 North Beville avenue.

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Initiation to Be Held April 21 by Music Group Zeta chapter. Sigma Alpha lota, national professional mus :al sorority, will hold initiation services Saturday, April 21, at the Indianapolis Country Club. Mrs. Carl F. Cox. Mrs. J. HarryGreen and Miss Mae Henri Lane will be in charge of the service. Officers of the chapter recently

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elected at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music are Mrs. Cox. president; Mrs. Carl Moore, vice-president; Mrs. James H. Lowry, treasurer; Mrs. Elmer O. Roberts, recording secretary; Miss Lane, chaplain; Mrs. Harold Amholter, editor, and Mrs. Earl Noggle, sergeant-at-arms. Mr. and Mrs. Frederic C. Bartlett of Beverley, Mass., will arrive today and will be guests of Mrs. Bartlett's father. William Fortune. Mrs. Bartlett's exhibit of paintings will be held at the John Herron Art Museum next week.

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