Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 313, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1934 — Page 25

-may 11,1934

‘Presented to Royalty’ May Be Dull Twenty-one to Approach English Throne in Few Days. BY GRETTA PALMER Timet Special Writer XTEW YORK. May 11—George TN Washington was madder than hop when he got wind of a kindly plot to crown him king of the United States. So aristocratic Americans have been forced ever since to make a tediou journey across the sea to satisfy the strong.

primeval desire women have to put on a foot of ! ostrich and be presented at court. Twenty-one of them may have made the grade I this year. On May 15 and 16 of this month they will have their moment. Now, these women are no l , being invited to a good party. | Make no mis- \ take about that. ]

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They are going to go through some very grim hours in the course of their stay in England. They will have to learn, first of all, how to execute a deep court curtsy without falling fiat on their faces. They will have to master a great many minor rules of regal etiquette which will plague their memories until they are safely back into their hotels—the ordeal over. Women who squirm and fuss at the chauffeur if their cars are held up five minutes in New York traffic will spend a good two hours in the London streets making slow’ progress t hrough the crowds that swarm about the palace on a presentation day. Urchins and cockney scrubwomen will leap on to their running boards and make frank comments about their costumes. When they finally arrive at the palace itself they will find they have let themselves in for an hour of stiff formality, in w'hich nobody relaxes or chats or tries to put a little life into the party. Being presented at court has never, since the days of the Stuarts, been an occasion that any human being could possibly enjoy. Here’s Why Why df> they go through with it? They do it, mesdames, for the same reason that your husband, who detests golf, .joined the golf club to which the bigwigs in his business belong; for the identical reason that your daughter, who doesn't know a quarter tack from a referee, accepts with enthusiasm an invitation to the Yale-Harvard football game; for the same reason that you yourself, perhaps, have sat through dinner parties that bored you to death —and asked for more —when your hostess was a rotogravure social celebrity. An occasional meal with a per- , sonage may be worth while for personages, regardless of their deficiencies of wit or charm. The W’orst stuffed shirt is worth a few minutes of your time if he has seen things you have not. Sometimes, indeed, it is rather impressive to look at the rather commonplace young mn across the table from you and to realize that > his great granddaddy was an earl 1 or that his grandfather created a great fortune out of nothing but thin air and a talent for piracy. Awe Often aVnishes The awe. unfortunately, is too often dispelled when the young man begins to speak. A little snobbery’ is a very universal trait. But you can pay too high a price in satisfying it if you give up something that would have been fun. A lot of good it does you, doesn’t it. to be seated on ih° deck of the world's handsomest yacht or next to a gentleman with a red ribbon across his chest or standing, in state, next to the British thi’one if you are bored? You might better be at home washing toe dog or going to a good, plebeian shewing of ‘ Mickey Mouse." And the poor women who are presented at court will, we are afraid, be most magnificently bored. Willard Union to Meet Mrs. Floyd E. Knight, 1510 Burdsal parkway, will be hostess for a meeting of Frances Willard Womens Christian Temperance Union at 2 Tuesday. Mrs. Charles Buck will have charge of devotions and Mrs. Harry Surber will preside.

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ZETA TAU ALPHA ALUMNAE ELECTS Mrs. Walter Hendrickson was installed as president of Indianapolis

Daily Recipe SPANISH GUISADO 2 pounds chuck or veck of beef t-!t cup olive oil, or butter. 3 small onions, chopped 2 tablespoons chopped, parsley 1 clove garlic 6 potatoes cubed, or cut into balls 3 green peppers, cut into strips 2 teaspoons salt 1-S teaspoon pepper Flour to thicken Put the olive oil, chopped onions, parsley and garlic into the stew kettle and cook slowly until the onion is a golden brown. Remove the garlic, add the meat cut into pieces about 2 inches across, and cook until cubes of meat are browned on all sides. Add salt, pepper and green pepper shreds, and cover with water. Cover closely and simmer for one hour. Then add the potato balls and continue cooking slowly until potatoes are done and meat is tender. For each cup of liquid stir in one tablespoon flour mixed with an equal quantity of cold water.

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Fete Honors Bride-Elect at Columbus Mrs. Ritters Entertains for Miss Hurd to Wed June 2. Several friends of Miss Elizabeth Hurd, bride-elect, went to Columbus today to attend a luncheon and bridge party given by Mrs. Gordon Ritter. The party was in honor of Miss Hurd, daughter of Charles Henry Hurd, whose marriage to Robert McMurray, son of Mr. and Mrs. Welcome B. McMurray will take place at 4 Saturday afternoon. June 2, in the drawing room of the Propylaeum Club. In the party were Mesdames Dwight Ritter, E. H. Kemper McComb, Kearsley McComb, Paul Moffett, Russell McDermott, Louis Wilson and Arthur Pittenger and Miss Jeanette Harris. Mr. and Mrs. McDermott will entertain at dinner tomorrow night at the opening of the Indianapolis Country Club season for Miss Hurd and Mr. McMurray, and Mr. and Mrs. Moffett will give a buffet supper Sunday afternoon at their home, 4285 North Meridian street. Miss Harris will be maid of honor and Portia and Constance Hurd, nieces of the bride-elect, will be flower girls. Lieutenant Robert Parker Hollis, Ft. Benjamin Harrison. will be Mr. McMurray’s best man. NEEDLEWORK IS *PUT ON DISPLAY In addition to a style show at the dessert luncheon of the Calendar en’s Club tomorrow at the Lincoln. Club of North M. E. church this afternoon, a quilt and modern needle work display was held, i Committees were: Mrs. A. J. McCullough and Mrs. K. W. Bahr, program; Mrs. Homer Britan and Mrs. H. O. Trotter, publicity; Mrs. W. D. Springer, Mrs. E. L. Rollinson and Mrs. W. G. McNab, style show; Mrs. J. W. Esterline and Mrs. H. S. Murphy, quilt and needle work; Mrs. B. E. Trick and Mrs. J. A. Sutton, luncheon; Mrs. T. J. Williamson is chairman of the sponsoring group. Play Scheduled ’“A Night in Spain’’ will be presented by the Young People's Organization of the Central Universalist church Friday, May 16, with Mrs. Sidney R. Esten, chairman. Club Meeting Set Prelude Club of Tudor Hall School will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30 Sunday in the residence.

A Womans Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IS it any wonder mothers are addle-pated? Current Good Housekeeping carries an article urging us to make motherhood safe and reciting the deplorable conditions in New York City alone where, during 1930-32. 2.341 women died in childbirth. Current Scribner's carries another article advocating the total elimination of parents, as such. Louise Maunsell Held argues that the modem parent is now so feeble, so lacking in authority, so careless of responsibility, she can hardly be said to be a parent at all. And since our only remaining function is biological and since it may soon be possible to propagate the race in chemical laboratories, why not consider parents entirely superfluous and permit them to join the dinosaur and the roc in extinction? The idea does not seem absurd when lpoked at in the light of present conditions. We may as well cease to function as parents unless we can hit upon a sane reason for populating the earth. Right now there seems to be none. It is asking too much of women, I feel, when you urge them to reproduce their kind so they may watch two-thirds of their offspring starve or sink into crime or become the targets for high explosives. There is no sense in going on with this business of giving life if, while bestowing it, we prepare constantly to murder our young in every conceivable fiendish fashion. Ana, so far as I am able to see, that’s exactly what we are doing. We talk about saving mothers and babies—-but what for? For grinding poverty, slavish toil, degradation and despair, spiritual disintegration, such as always follows war? Because war is what the nations now seem bent upon, with fanatical zeal. The women might very well rebel, I think; nor would any man dare chide them. Why, pray, should we continue to bear the physical pains of labor to say nothing of the anguish of

A Day’s Menu Breakfast — Diced mixed fruits, cereal, cream, eggs poached in tomato puree, toast, milk, coffee. * Luncheon — Spring soup, toast sticks, cress and apple salad, jelly roll cake, lemonade. Dinner — Casserole of pork sausage, scalloped potatoes, green beans, jellied apple salad, rhubarb Betty, milk, coffee.

love which follows, in order that two or three or half a dozen countries may be able to divert themselves with another major catastrophy? Men manufacture bombs: women produce boys. Competition in this kind of labor is scarcely intelligent. however, and if the aim of parenthood is to furnish material for war making, then we may as well go on a strike at once and save ourselves the ultimate slaughter. MA Y BRIDE-ELECT WILL BE HONORED Miss Lucille Tatum will entertain Tuesday night with a card party in honor of Miss Callie Mudd. whose marriage to C. O. Chesterson will take place May 26. Mrs. Margaret Steiner entertained Wednesday night at her home. 4340 Guilford avenue, with a miscellaneous shower for Miss Mudd. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bradley Jr., and family, 4044 North Pensylvania street, have as their house guest, Mrs. C. H. Bradley, Dubuque, la.

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at the Y. W. C. A. The cast of characters Includes Joe Kerstinf. Brvon Conroy, Mrs. Martha Aarrstedt. Miss Lydia Kersting and Miss Mary Catherine Siler.