Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 100, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1934 — Page 7

!PT. 5, 1934

Widow Near 70 Succeeds at Writing Ettie Stephens Prichard Waited Sixty Years to Realize Dream. BY MARY MARGARET M BRIDE MA SMtitt Staff Carrravandrnt NEW YORK. Sept. s.—When the copy of "Old Farm.” her first book, came from the publishers. Ettie Stephens Prichard, who is 67, couldn t bear for a whole day to look at it or even touch it. There was the dearest wish of her life fulfilled, a novel actually written and published, yet now that it was done, she suddenly felt that nobody ever would buy it. Finally, at midnight, she nerved herself to pick the volume up. And from then until dawn, when she finished the last word, she laughed and cried by turns. At the end: "Why, I've written a book.” she said to her daughter. Margaret, in a wondering tone, wiping her eyes. "You see, I couldn't realize it then and I can't even now,” she explained, wistfully. "But when you've wanted anything as much for sixty years as I've wanted to write, then it takes a little time to get accustomed to the knowledge that you have done it at last.” ‘After that, everything happened so fast that I hadn't time even to think.” Mrs. Prichard confided. her candid gray eyes bright with the excitement of remembering. Until two years ago this budding author was just an average housewife in an average small Illinois home. Her husband was county judge, and one daughter married and went east to live. The husband died, the old home was broken up nd Mrs. Prichard and her younger daughter Margaret, who also sold a series of stories, came to New York. “I brought two trunks with me, Mrs. Prichard relates. “One contained my clothes and the other was full of manuscripts that nobody except my husband and children and one or two neighbors had ever heard of. “I was afraid to send any of my precious manuscripts to a magazine. I was too much in awe of the fine writers with grand names whose works they published. But I suppose I must have had a little hope tucked away in my heart; otherwise I'd have left that second trunk behind when Margaret and I set out on our great adventure.” The things Mrs. Prichard had always written about were those she knew best—the sights and sounds and smells of the farm where she was born. “Old Farm”—the motion pictures are interested in it, by the way—gives a series of pictures of a little girl ramed Dood in Illinois sixty years ago and the people who surround the little girl are prototypes of the people who surrounded another girl whose name was Ettie. It isn't quite exact to say that Mrs. Prichard began writing after she reached her sixties. The truth is that she has been writing all her life. But she never began selling until a little while ago when Helen Hull, in whose Columbia university short story writing class she had enrolled, told her she had talent.

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STUDY OF BIBLE TO BE RESUMED At the season opening of the Arnica Club tonight members will continue Bible study. Mrs. Louis Shott, 1414 North Holmes avenue, will be hostess, and Mrs. Thurman Washburn will be in charge of the social hour. Mrs. Bert Everhart present a paper on “John Mark, the Man,” and Mrs. Walter Enoch’s subject will be Galilee. Matthew, Mark and Luke will be included in the year’s study. BRIDGE PLAY WILL BE STARTED FRIDAY Fall season of the women’s contract section of the Honsier Athletic 'Club will be opened Friday with a business meeting at 1:30 followed by duplicate play at 2. Duplicate play will be held at all future meetings. The McFerren cup wi.'l be awarded at the conclusion of ; 'e season. Guest meetings will be a< lounced later. Miss Kephart Weds Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kephart announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Frances Kephart, and Joseph Dunnuck, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Dunnuck, which took place Sunday in Greenfield. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Carrington and Mrs. Cortland V. Carrington have returned from a two weeks’ stay at Eagle Lake, Mich. Mrs. Cortland V. Carrington will leave soon to join Mr. Carrington at Mishawaka, where they will be at home at 802 Lincoln Way West after Sept. 15. Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Mcllvaine are home after visiting in Chicago.

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Fine Arts of Spain to Form Topic To Kalon Club’s Season to Open With Tea for President. During the 1934-35 season of the To Kalon Club the fine arts of Spain will be studied. The ygar will begin with a musicale guest tea in honor of the president, Mrs. Vaughn Cornish, on Oct. 9 at the Highland Golf and Country Club. Mrs. Myron J. McKee will present “A Silhouette of Spain” on Oct. 23, and on Nov. 6 Mrs. C. Frederick Schmidt’s subject will be “Valesquez.” Mrs. Irene Jarrard will present a paper on Spanish folk music at the Nov. 20 meeting. “Spanish Operatic Composers” will be the subject of Mrs. Kearsley Urich on Dec. 4, and the Christmas party will be held Dec. 18. Mrs. Henry Cochrane will describe “Spanish Tapestries and Lace” at the Jan. 8 meeting, and Mrs. Frank Churchman will tell about Spanish dances on Jan. 22. The Feb. 5 meeting will be at the Children’s Museum. Other discussions during the year will be: “Influence of Spanish Music in America,” by Mrs. Frank Hunter, Feb. 19; “Spanish Church Music,” Mrs. Carl W. Bruenger, March 12; “Spanish Musical Strings,” Mrs. Harriett Burtch, March 26; “Spanish Piano Composers,” Mrs. Henry Laut Jr., April 23, and “Murillo, Spanish Painter,” Mrs. F. P. VanDerVeer, May 14. The season will close with a guest tea at the home of Mrs. McKee on May 28. Other officers for the year are Mrs. Hunter, vice-president; Mrs. Frank Churchman, recording secretary; Mrs. Otto N. Mueller, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Lawson O’Malley, treasurer. The program committee is composed of Mrs. Jarrard, Mrs. VanDer Veer and Mrs. O. M. Jones. On the board of directors are Mesdames O. T. Behymer. E. M. Duffey, H. M. Cochrane, C. F. Schmidt and Harriett Burtch. Mrs. Churchman is delegate to the Indianapolis Council of Women, and Mrs. Behymer, alternate; Mrs. McKee, delegate to the Indiana Federation of Women’s Clubs and Mrs. Urich, alternate. Date Changed Benefit entertainment and dance will be held by Auxiliary No. 56, Captain William E. English camp, United Spanish War Veterans, on Oct. 4, at the Antlers instead of Sept. 13 as previously announced. Proceeds will be used for winter welfare work. Mrs. Emma Mootz, 850 Virginia avenue, is chairman.

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Shower Honors Miss Schoener, toWed Shortly Miss Marthalou Schoener with her mother, Mrs. Maxwell R. Schoener, and her sister, Mrs. Walter C. Hiser, New York, were guests this morning at a breakfast given by Miss Evelyn Ifier at her home, 3305 Ruckle street. Guests presented gifts of handkerchiefs to Miss Schoener, whose marriage to Richard T. Hill will take place Saturday at the McKee chapel, Tabernacle Presbyterian church. Others attending the party were Mrs. Burchard Carr, Mrs. C. L. Grisso, Mrs. William Forsyth, Mrs.

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J. R. Shidler, Mrs. Ruell Moore and Miss Lots Sherrill. Mrs. C. H, Pier assisted her daughter. Mrs. Hiser. to be matron of honor, will entertain at a luncheon in Miss Schoener s honor tomorrow, and Mr. and Mrs. Schoener will give a bridal dinner Friday night.

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