Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 126, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1934 — Page 21

OCT. 5, 1934.

Possessive Love Lacks Endurance Play, ‘No More Ladies,’ Wife in Mean Role. BY HELEN WELSHIMER \F A DttTkt Staff Writer THERE is a popular play on Broadway called "No More Ladles,’’ in which an attractive young woman puts herself to a lot of inconvenience In order to embarrass her husband for an indiscretion for which he has already sought forgiveness.

She plans a week-end house party. She Invites a woman of whom her husband was briefly fond in his premarriage days; the woman's exhusband and her present husband, and completes the unhappy circle with the entertainer who has assisted her own husband in his

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extra-curricular romance. She couldn’t have a setup more conducive to her husband's embarrassment. Then she feigns a romance with the husband of the other woman, all of which shows her own husband how badly she felt in the hope that he will feel the same way. We aren't discussing the husband's morals. But after all, he loved his wife, he was sorry, and if she had grown in stature as she should have, she would have known that the richness and the deepness of the affection between her and her husband was irrevocably theirs. That what she had was hers, and w ould always be, and that it was not affected by winds and storms and floods. That as long as It stood, she had something of utter beauty. In fact, we would have sympathized with the husband had he become downright angry with his wife's cruelty. The desire to hurt back when one has been wounded is a primitive urge that dates back to that day in the Garden of Eden when the animals were created. But we have come far since that lush green morning when the first nightingales sang and the first coyotes went calling to their ipates. Those whose love has grown in stature will not wound intentionally, not even to demonstrate the depth of their own affliction. When they give way and do. their own regret surpasses the suffering that they have inflicted. They grow up and work harder after that. In brief, they have learned good taste and the value of the relationship which exists between one man and one woman. Forgiving by Silence The heroine in the play violated her husband s faith i n her when she used such a shoddy method of injuring him. He would have appreciated her graciousness if she had said: "Os course I understand. Let's go on from here!” There is! a quality which women need which | Dorothy Parker, w'ith keen and! kindly shrewdness, calls unspoken i forgiveness. After all, no one person can never possess another person. Each of us Is a unity, a husband and wife I twain may become one flesh but j nothing is said of one mind or one heart. A man or a woman who can be put in an emotional pen and taken j out on a leash can hold little in- • terest for a red-blooded, imaginative person, if love must be guarded I ihat way, it will rot and decay and must be thrown out some day. Understanding Counts Most Only a relationship in which a man and woman understand that j what they have is irrevocably theirs, i and can not be affected by other in- I terests—business, pleasures, even a j passing glance at a gypsy’s gay red | mouth or a languorous sigh for a! matinee idol—ls worth anything. A current fiction story draws a : parallel between quicksilver and! love, if you try to hold on to quick- i silver, a maid remarks, it gets away! from you, for it won't all stay in ] one place unless It Is loose. Love,j so the wife in the story realizes, is I the same. What she has is hers and lothing can change that. If the wife in the play had real- i izcd that maybe there wouldn't! have been a play, but she would not j have subjected the one she loved most to a situation which made him appear ludicrous. But it is to be hoped that she grew up at the end of the play. That she knew that one | goes on learning, step by step, that banns of posession can never be! published. Love molds and understanding strengthens them and the j two who are bound go their own I ways happily, not knowing that there is a bondage. i Copyright, 1934, XEA Bervice. Inc.) BROOKSIDE CLUB TO SPOXSOR SHOW Plans are being made by the Brookside Kindergarten Mothers’ Club for a show to be presented by the Indiana Society of Magicians at at 8:15 Monday night. Nov. 5. at the Brookside community house. Proceeds will be used for the Indian- j noplis Free Kindergarten's charity fund. Mrs. W S. Zarich. president, has announced her years committee chairmen as Mrs. Emil Deuser, finance: Mrs. Ralph Kennedy, mem- | bership: Mrs. Lymond Osting. host- i ess: Mrs. Abram Lorber. publicity,' and Mrs. Gilbert C. Templeton, be* c movies.

A Day’s Menu Breakfast — Sliced peaches with cereal and cream, creamed dried beef with browned tomatoes, pop-overs, milk, coffee. Luncheon — Vegetable soup, toasted cheese sandwiches, tapioca cream pudding, nonic, (ML Dinner — Lamb pie, creamed new turnips, honeydew and stuffed pepper salad, plum cobbler, milk, coffee.

A Womans Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TN a certain state where sterilization has been made legal, fiftyeight women are submitting to the operation. Most of them have children and are willing, even anxious.

to undergo the ordeaL I am Informed by a man In authority that women seldom rebel at state interference with their rights of parenthood. Most of them, instead, come asking for help. But the men theirs is a vastly different story! Nearly all of them fight the measure. Anybody

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with an imagination can understand their resentment. Perhaps every Individual has an innate desire to perpetuate himself and thus gain a measure of immortality. But here are the incomprehensible facts. Most of the men who are considered fit subjects for sterilization already have from six to a dozen children. They have put the stamp of insanity, incompetence, disease or evil upon what I should say was a sufficient number of their kind. Many

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return from prison to impregnate worn-out wives and increase the number of individuals who depend upon public charity. Yet these are the men who howl loudest about their rights. They howl while they themselves feel no responsibility whatever for their own children, because they can walk jauntily off from half-starved families, leaving their wives to bear their babies in poverty and pain and to support them afterward. They not only desert their posts of duty but they scatter their illegitimate children about, apparently unmoved by their helpless plight. It's quite time, I think, that somebody spoke to them about the citizenship rights of hard-working men and women who are going to have to support the youngsters they sire so carelessly. The person who deliberately refuses to accept responsibility for his own family shouldn’t be pennitted to increase it, to say the least. Men expect certain rights from their governments; well, a government should expect in return a certain kind of loyalty from its citizens. A baby, after all, is a citizen, too, and the man who doesn’t regard it as such has no business to be a father. Anyway, the facts speak for them-

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Mothers Will Be Complimented by Pi Beta Phi Mothers of new pledges of Pi Beta Phi sorority will be entertained at luncheon Monday at the chapter house with Mrs. Forest B. Kellogg, presiding. Mrs. Leroy Flint will speak on the history of the sorority and the work of the organization at Us settlement school at Gatlinburg. Tenn. Misses Mary and Margaret Kapp will present piano and violin numbers. Mrs. Henry Holt, luncheon chairmap, will be assisted by Mesdames Bert Beasley, Forest Kellogg, E. J. Baker, Theo E. Root and J. D. Dungan. Birthday Celebrated Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Pierpont entertained with a birthday party for their son, William, Wednesday night at their home, 5443 Julian avenue. selves and their story is eloquent. Women begging to be sterilized; men fighting it. Perhaps we are too much schooled to submission, or perhaps the male ego is dangerously dominant. Explain it to suit yourself.

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Membership dance will be held by Kappa Delta Phi sorority from 10 to 2 tomorrow night at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, with music by Jack Tilson and his orchestra. Mrs. Stella Simmons is assisting with the arrangements.

Event Arranged for Workers in Y.W.C.A. Drive Leaders and workers in the Young Women's Christian Association’s annual membership round-up will meet for luncheon Monday In the social hall of the association. Mrs. W. H. Adams and Mrs. J. W. Atherton have announced the names of their workers. In Mrs. Adams’ division, representing the Council of Federated Church Women, are Mesdames Chris A. Wagner, N. J. Williamson. Timothy Harrison, Harry Krause, W. B. Mullin, J. M. Pearson, P. E. Powell. C. F. Nagel, Margaret Schmidt, William C. Harrison, George Burkhart,

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S. M. Rom. Melinda Kolthoff and Min Josephine English. Mrs, Atherton’s division has as its goal the renewal of former memberships and will work according to sections of the city. Members are as follows: North side. Mrs. E L. Evans, group leader, with Mesdames Samuel Ashby, Norman Green, C. H. Brackett, A. M. Mendenhall, J. E. Seybert, A. W. Bowen, S. W. Benham, Louis Wolff, Glen Diddel, George Combs. William Herbert Gibbs, Paul E. Tombaugh, Walter P. Morton, Kenneth Campbell, B. F. Goodwin and Miss Marion Davis. East side, Mesdames Walter Reynolds, Charles A. Mueller, L. G. Hughes, J. W. Atherton, R. P. Engelken, Harry E. Barnard, R. B. Long, Grant K. Lewis, R. H. Graves, George Buck, James A. Crain, W. T. Deßolt, E. D. Fivecoat, T. Forsyth, Harry Kuhn, Henry Newlund,

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William E. White and Miss Ann Thatcher. South side, Mesdames Frank Young, Loy Bush, S. G. Kramer, Henry R. Meyer, James Nangle, H. S. Osborne, Jeanette Salm, James O. Snyder. C. F. Tarklngton, I. R. Yeagey, Roy Gray and Lelia Hendrickson. West side, Mesdames Celia Abel, Ada Bohannon, Susan Holsapple, Hazel Price and Adele Rohr. Xi chapter. Pi Omicron sorority, will meet at 8 Tuesday night at the Columbia Club. TJHedkated! Ingredients of Vick* Vapoßub in Convenient Candy Form* VICKS COUGH DROP