Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1934 — Page 6

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Some City Families Still Observe Christmas With Old Customs of Germany Children Remain in Rooms Until Third Ringing- of Bell Before Viewing Tree Encircled by Plates of Delicacies. BY BEATRICE BURGAN Timet Homin'! race Editor IN rarly days German children stayed awake on Christmas eve in anticipation of the early Christmas morning celebration. They had to keep awake to be sure to hear the third ring of the bell, which meant that they might run down to the Christmas tree. They couldn’t heed the first or second bell, according to tradition. The children were wise. They assigned themselves certain hours to keep watch. When one child had served his turn, he shook his brother awake for his vigil, and so on down the line of children until the bells

began ringing; then every one Jumped to attention. Under the Christmas trees were plates of delicacies for each member of the family. The plates were filled according to the wishes of each child and relative; sometimes they held nuts, marzipan, a tasty almond candy; iruit and various kinds of cookies. The plates were kept under the trees during the holiday season, and each child was ordered to eat only from his plate. The German woman who told us this story explained that the children kept careful count of the pieces, but sometimes found one missing. After breakfast friends came to call, and later the children went out to call on friends. Santa Claus was not known to these children. Instead they had their Kris Kindchen or Kris Kringle, the angel with wings who came in through the window. St. Nich-

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olas came three days before Christmas to discover the wishes of the children. Christmas day was followed bv a second Christmas day. The immediate families celebrated the first day, and more distant relatives joined in the celebration the following day, also observed as a rest day. The Christmas trees came fresh from the forest, and they were kept until New Year s night when the • Plundering'' was held. Presents that were jokes were hung on the trees and one by one they were taken down in a gay celebration.

BRYN MAWR CLUBS LUNCHEON SET

Members of the Indianapolis Bryn Mawr College Club will meet for luncheon Friday at the Propylaeum for the annual holiday gathering and to elect officers. Miss Jeanette Le Saulnier, at home from the college for Christmas. will talk on "Present Activities at Bryn Mawr.” Mrs. Robert A. Hendrickson, president, will preside.

Personals

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gall have been visiting in New York. Miss Rosemary Sequartz, student at Purdue University, is with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. William B. Sequartz, for the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. McCord and children, Pat and Bill, are visiting Mrs. McCord's mother, Mrs. William Fulwiler, Tampa. Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Treat will leave after Christmas for a stay at Sarasota, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shumaker entertained informally Saturday night in honor of Mrs. Shumaker's birthday. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Otto Meyer. Mr. and Mrs. William Shumaker and Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Shumaker. * Mrs. William C. Bobbs, who has been spending the winter in New York, is home for the holidays. She will return to New York the middle of January. Melville Smith. Cleveland, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Max T. Krone. Havens Kahlo will come from Maysville. Ky.. to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Kahlo. Miss Janet Lucille Meditch has arrived from Northwestern University to spend the holidays with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Meditch. Dr. and Mrs. Glenn C. Lord are spending the holidays with Mr. Lord's brother, Dr. Maurice Lord, in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Colin Jameson and son Colin. Cambridge, Mass., are guests here for the holidays of Mrs. Jameson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morton L. Gould. Mr. and Mrs. George R. Hemingway Jr., Oak Park. 111., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Shedd. Mrs. Hemingway formerly was Miss Susan Gray Shedd. Miss Lucille Borinstein, student at Northwestern University, is at home during the holidays. Miss Mary Elizabeth Shannon and Miss Babe Barskin. other students, are also vacationing during the holiday season. Mrs. Florence Kirkwood, Ft. Worth. Tex., is spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Ray S. Kean. Mrs. Henrietta Ransburg and the Rev. and Mrs. Herman Beauchamp. all of Hammond, will spend Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Harper Ransburg. Mrs. Leo Rappoport's sister. Mrs. Lillian Fiickinger. and Miss Ursula Wiesike, both of Beverley Hills. Cal., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Rappa port. Mrs. W. A Havveneyer and S. O. Denham, both of Chicago, will spend the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Henry I. Raymond Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James B. Steep, formerly of Indianapolis, have returned to their home in Detroit after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Raymond. MISS BELZER TO BE LUNCHEON HOSTESS Miss Doris Belzer will entertain with a luncheon Saturday in honor of Mi s Betty Ritchie, who is home during the vacation of Western College. Oxford. O. Guests will be Misses Lillian Calloway. Patsy Boggs. Marian Ellison, Maryan Winterrowd, Virginia Willing. Jean Grumme. Marjorie Pirtle. Winifred Schmoll. Elizabeth „Messick, Betty Pearce, Joy Geupel. Jane Renard. Norma Rahe. Mary Kathryn Harbison, Thalia Ebv and Helen Chappell. Christmas Party Held Board of the Home for Aged Women arranged a program for the Christmas party held Saturday at the home. Mrs. Basil Fausset. soprano, sang Christmas songs, accompanied by Mrs. Frank Edenharter. and Mrs. Borman Snyder told "A Christmas Fantasy." Russia to Be Topic “What the New Russia Offers Her Women" will be discussed by Mrs. C. W. Sommers and “Russian School*" by Mrs. J. E. Kolb at a meeting of the Friday Afternoon Reading Club with Mrs. L. B. Ebert and Mrs. Flora Beck, hostesses.

| The German families here carry on many of the traditions. Grandchildren of Dr. and Mrs. Hugo Pantzer wait for the bell before they join the Christmas eve party. i Tonight Fritzie and Kitzie Pantzer, ! children of Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Pantzer; Dorothy and Peggy Pantzj er, daughters of Mrs. Oscar Pantzer, and Emmv Jean Haerle, daughter of Mrs. Elsa Pantzer Haerle, will j gather at their grandparents’ home. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Kothe will have a Christmas dinner tomorrow i for Prof, and Mrs. Harry B. Longden, Greencastle; Mr. and Mrs. James Nelson, and Albert Nelson, Greenwood; Mr. and Mrs. Grafton i Shubrick and Edmund Shubrick; I Mrs. F. V. Rudd, and their own | sons, Shubrick and Herman Jr. Mrs. H. J. Raffensperger is one of j the daughters of old German fam- , ilies who still makes German Christmas cookies. Long before Christmas aer cooky jars are filled I with zimmet stern, pfeffernusses and tarts and S’s, made from recipes used for years by her ancestors. I Springle is another famous cooky, always impressed with scenes carved in wooden blocks. Many of the molds, made by hand in the Black Forest, have been handed down through families and are used today by modern housewives in their | cooky making. a a a Children of families living in the Golden Hill and Woodstock districts will e joined by their parents in sin& • carols at 4:30 tomorrow afternc . For the second year the i Goli Hill-Woodstock Association J has arranged a Christmas tree party at a spot near Totem Lane and j Pickwick-pl. After the caroling, the singers will go to Woodstock Club for tea.

THARPS WILL GIVE DANCE AT CLUB

College friends of Miss Betty Tharp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Tharp, will attend a dance which Mr. and Mrs. Tharp will give tonight at the Woodstock Club. The clubhouse will be decorated with smilax, holly and Christmas trees. Roland Sinclair, Ireland, cousin of the Miss Dora Sinclair, a vacationing Vassar College student, will be an out-of-town guest. Mr. Sinclair is a guest at the home of Miss Sinclair's parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. Richardson Sinclair. Club Will Meet Mrs. T. William Engle will lead members of the Zetathea Club in singing Christmas carols at a holiday meeting Wednesday with Mis. Fred R. Bokeloh, 1116 N. Hamiltonav. hostess. Mrs. O. E. Laughner and Mrs. A. J. Hueber will assist the hostess. Games and a gift exchange will feature the program.

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Vacationing college students are the busiest holiday celebrants. Misses Marguerite Blackwell, Eleanor McNamara, Gertrude and Louise Hardesty came from St. Mary’s-of-the-Woods at Terre Haute and will join in the round of parties.

Manners and Morals BY JANE JORDAN

Everybody knows the relief from tension that comes from the statement of the case Here is your chance to unload your troubles without revealing your identity. Write Your letter nowl Dear Jane Jordan —I am a married man of 35. I have been married 16 years and have three children The problem is that I have loved my wife's sister for 17 years. My wife and the sister's husband

know this. We have done no wrong. We just have true love for each other. We have told them all several times that we loved each other, but the sister wants to go ahead and rear her two children, and I want to live with my wife and rear my children. My wife is not contented, for she

thinks I can’t love her if I love her sister. I do love her and feel like I couldn't do without her. She is better looking chan her sister and is a good mother and manager. She works every day, even a half day on Sunday. I believe she is about to lose all the love she ever had for me, for she is not the same at all. She says she doesn’t care any more for her sister than she does a stranger, and the brother-in-law won't let his wife come to my house at all. Do you think that her knowledge of my love for her sister would kill all her desire for me, or do you think she has found someone else? Should I blame her if she loves another man? Except for this one fault I

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Students Return to City for Holiday Vacation

Left to right, Misses Marguerite Blackwell, Eleanor McNamara, Ger-trude and Louise Hardesty.

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do everything right except that I am awfully jealous of my wife. I don’t drink or run around at night. There has never been another woman in my life except these tw’o. My wife used not to want me to go to her sister's house, but I would go anyhow. Now she doesn’t care and offers to make dates for me to see her sister, and it kind of got my goat a bit. Sometimes I think n*y wife will walk away and not say a word about going. Please tell me if it would be wise to break up these two homes for our love.

Answer —After reading your letter I am not sure that you are in love with two women at all. It is not uncommon for two sisters to have love needs so identical that they fall in love with the same man. Often the man has a hard time distinguishing between the two. “How happy I could be with either were t’other dear charmer away.” The fact that your wife is better looking than her sister gives us the cue to the whole sorry business. Without research into the childhood of the two we never will know what countless humiliations one little girl suffered because her sister was prettier. Instead of seeking for legitimate compensations she is moved by the unconscious compulsion to take her s ster's husband without benefit of beauty, and thereby prove her supremacy. Os course, she would have to hide her envy beneath the cloak of true, undefiler; love to make her act acceptable to herself. In my opinion you are the helpless victim torn between two sisters who are deadly rivals. The fact that you have been un ible to choose one of the two and stick to her is a reflection on your own emotional stability. Why go you let those women make ducks and drakes of your emotions? Tou are only the symbol of their personal struggle. If you married your sister-in-law you would be no better off, for your wife would retaliate in full. The fact that she is the mother of your children gives her a power which she would use to the limit. It does seem handier for you to stick to her and avoid the pain of upheaval. Besides, it is better for your children. Your wife's instinct to withdraw from her sister is entirely sound and thoroughly justified. I do not hold the sister in the same high regard that you do, for I see through her machinations more clearly than she does herself. Your wife has tired of the silly struggle first, and unless you step lively and check the sister out of the picture you are going to lose your happy home. After 17 years of sharing you. I should say she has every right to look elsewhere for love,. • nan Dear Jane Jordan—l am a young married woman and can't understand my husband. I married into a family which didn't approve of our marriage. My husband goes to see them, but never tries to get them to be friends with me. He never takes me there or asks them to our home. Don't you think if he loved me enough he would do something about it? I have done nothing wrong. MARY ANN. Answer—Be thankful for your husband's protection. He knows his family better than you do and will not expose you to the hurts it is sure to administer. You ought to be glad that you do not have to get into the tangle, for piothing is so deadly as a hostile family.

Patrons and Patronesses Listed for Notre Dame Supper-Dance

At the buffet supper dance of the Indianapolis Club of the University of Notre Dame Wednesday night at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the ballroom will be decorated with poinsettias, holly wreaths and Christmas trees. Harry Scott, president of Indianapolis alumni of Notre Dame, is co-operating with Jerry Shine, gen-

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—Photo by Plowman-Platt. Mrs. George A. McCoy Before her recent marriage, Mrs. George A. McCoy was Miss Delores Vestal, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George K. Vestal. WORKERS CHOSEN FOR GARDEN CLUB Mrs. Rex P. Young, new president of Forest Hills Garden Club, has announced committees. They are: Program, Mesdames Joe G. McFarland, Burke Nicholas and E. H. Bach; lookout, Mrs. John Downing and Mrs. L. B. Hurt; publicity, Mrs. Thomas B. Jackson; historian and critic, Mrs. W'odburn Mason; Garden Monitor, Mrs. B. F. Orr, and flower shows, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. R. R. Scott and Mrs. Marie E. Smith. Other officers are Mrs. Scott, vice president, and Mrs. Ross Smith, sec-retary-treasurer, TWELVE WILL BE GUESTS OF MEEKS Mr. and Mrs. J. Perry Meek will entertain a party of twelve at the Orchard School dance following the Princeton Triangle show New Year s Eve at the Murat. Alpha Upsilon Chapter, Alpha Zeta Beta Sorority, will entertain with its annual holiday dance Saturday. The committee includes Miss May Stuckmeyer, chairman; Misses Romainq Salladay, Kathryn Bryner and Mrs. Russell Fishback.

eral chairman for this, the fifth annual dance. Mr. Shine has announced patrons and the patronesses as follows: Messrs, and Mesdames J. J. Argus, Clyde Bowers, Thad Brown, Charles Bruno, Bernard Burkhart, Thomas Carson. David Connor, Bert Deery, Frank Delaney, Thomas Fitzgerald, E. Y. Killrain, Louis Kirsch, John Langer, Matthew Herold, Francis Miller, Thomas Moynahap, William L. O'Connor, Leo Pheffer, George Sauter, Timothy Sexton, D. b. Shimer, James Foltz and James Rohr. * George A. Smith. M. J. Sullivan, Clarence Sweeney, Leo Welch, Harry Scott, John Minta, Thomas Gillispie, N. J. Connor, William A. Fogarty, Oscar Barry, William McGowan, Arthur Connor, Karl Hardy, J. Robert Hilger, E. Carroll Harper, Charles B. Winegardner, Robert B. Runyan and Edmund H. Bingham Jr. Others are Dr. and Mrs. Paul Kernel, Mesdames William Beck, Clara Slattery and Julia Shine; Messrs. Michael Ford, John V. Carton, John Rocap, Arthur Connor, Robert Peelle and Al Feeney. Milk Fund to Be Benefited by Club Dance Hoagy Carmichael will be guest master of ceremonies at a dance of the Cheer Broadcasters Wednesday on the roof of the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Harry McKee’s Butler University band will play, with Lindy Lou, National Broadcasting star, as one of the entertainers. Mrs. Otis Carmichael, president, and Mrs. C. V. Sorenson, chairman of ways and means committee, have announced the committees. Mrs. Syi- j van G. Bush is co-chairman of ways and means. The committees are: Hospitality, Mesdames W. R. Craigle, Wolf Sussman and A. E. Carrington; general chairman of tickets, Mrs. Robert Mottern, assisted by Mesdames Jerome Prochaska, Everett Hays, George Barcus, Eva Fleming, Alex Goodwin, Clotilda Heitkam, C. K. McDowell, Max Norris, Ruby Strickler. H. P. Wetzell, Mrs. Atkinson, C. L. Coyle, L. C. Ferguson and Edna Sharp; extension committee on tickets, Mrs. W. B. Parker, chairman, Mesdames Wayne Hill, Elsie Brubaker, C. F. Dillinbeck, T. William Engle, Walter Geisel, W. H. Hodgson, W. F. Holmes, J. Lee McDermid, M. ; E. Robbins, Basil Vaught and Cecil Vestal; decorations, Mrs. Earl Rich- ; ardson, chairman, Mesdames Waren Harrell, L. B. Sackett and Herbert Allison, and publicity, Mrs. Thomas F. Shortall. Proceeds of the dance will go to the Pre-Tubercular Milk Fund, which this organization maintains with co-operation of Dr. Herman G. Morgan and the city !3oard of Health. Investigations are made by the board and by the welfare committee of the Cheer Broadcasters. Meeting Scheduled Beta Delphian meeting will be held Thursday at the home of Mrs. Max Bardach, 5624 Washington-, blvd, who will be assisted by Mes- j dames Charles O. Warfel, Arthur Leonard and C. V. Raiser.

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City Bridge Players Will Take Part in Trophy Event Scheduled at Miami Hotel First of Qualifying Games Set for Jan. 5 at Indianapolis Athletic Club; Local Finals on Following Day. BY HELEN LINDSAY INDIANAPOLIS bridge players again have been invited to participate in the annual Miami-Biltmore championship contract bridge tournament for the Miami-Biltmore trophy, which will be presented for the third time this year to the winner by Col. Henry L. Doherty, president of the Florida Year-Round Club. The Indianapolis district championship qualifying sessions will be held in the Indianapolis Athletic Club at 2 and 8 Saturday, Jan. 5. All contestants wall play in both sessions, and scores will be figured on a

percentage basis, pairs with the highest percentage total qualifying for the finals. The Indianapolis finals will be played at 2 Jan. 6 in the Indianapolis Athletic Club, with a consolation game for players who do not qualify. Details for the sections, movements, scoring and number of paiVs to qualify for the finals will be announced at the qualifying sessions. The entrance fee entitles the contestants to enter all three sessions without further fees. Mrs. Kay Cofin and Mrs. Grace Buschmann are chairmen of tht Indianapolis committee. The committee includes Mesdames Frederic M. Ayres, Thaddeus Baker. Hal Benham, Paul Bigler. Melville Cohn, W. H. Coleman, Ray Fox, Harland Hadley, Lawrence Hess, Elmer Ittenbach, John Martindale. Dud-

ley Pfaff, W. H. Thompson. S. B. Sutphin, Robert Stempfel, E. A. Routheau and W. K. Naylor: Messrs. John Folger, Freeman Mac Farland Benham. F. R. Buck, J. E. Cain. John Graham/ Dr. C. M. McCaskey, Lawrence Welch, Fdson T. Wood Jr., Dr. Louis H. Segar. E. E. McFerren, V. R. Rupp and Dr. J. Conley Robinson The special tournament committee includes Joe E. Cam, E. E. McFerren, Dr. Cleon Nafe, Walter Pray, Lieut. E. A. Routheau and John Turpin. National finals, at which Indianapolis will be represented, along with players from New York. Boston. Philadelphia, Washington. Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis ar.d Miami, wilTbe played at the Miami-Biltmore. Winning pairs in each district will come to Florida for; a week of golf, bathing and other winter resort sports at the Miami-Biltmore, as guests of the Florida Year-Raund Club, The finals will be played Jan. 14. 15, 16 and 17. a a a a a a Trophy and Cups to Be Awarded FOUR contract events have been arranged for the finals in Miami. One is the Miami-Biltmore individual championship, in which players enter singly, and have a series of partners. One session will be played at 8:30 Jan. 14. twelve qualifiers playing the finals the following afternoon. The winning player will receive possession of the trophy for a year, while silver cups will go to the first and second winners. Pairs will be teamed by the management for the Miami-Biltmore team-of-four championship, which will be played in one session at 8:30 Jan. 15, the winning team receiving a year’s possession of the trophy, with four silver cups also being awarded. The third event will be the Miami-Biltmore pair championship, which will be a Howell movement game, among the pairs who qualified in i/iic district championships. The winning pair will receive possession for one year of the Miami-Biltmore trophy presented by Colonel Doherty, in addition to silver cups. Second place players also will receive silver cups. This championship will be played in two sessions at 8:30 Jan 16 and 17., a a a a a a Special Train Cars to Carry Players ''T'HE open pair championship will be for players not in the Miami--L Biltmore pair championship, and the winning pair will leceive a year’s possession of the trophy, in addition to two silver cups. This will be played in one session, at 8:30 Jan. 16. Winning players in each district will receive round-trip railroad tickets and Pullman accomodations to Miami, to participate in the national finals. The trip will be made on special recreation cars, with bridge played on electric tables. Entertainment for the trip will include dancing to the music of master musicians, exercise in gymnasiums w’ith electric horses; motion pictures and other diversions. Entry blanks for the trip are available through the Indianapolis committee.

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Miss Mary Elizabeth Binding Lambda Gamma sorority will entertain with a dinner party at the Sheffield Inn Thursday when alumnae, active members and pledges will attend. Miss Mary Elizabeth Bruding is chairman.

Chapter to Meet Castle Craig Chapter, International Travel-Study Club, Inc., will hold its December meeting Thursday at the home of Mrs. Ruth Gisler. Assisting hostesses will be Mrs. Pearl Griggs and Mrs. Robert Caplinger. Mrs. Samuel Artman will lecture. Four Initiated Newly initiated members of Chi Delta Chi Sorority are Mrs. Olga Creager, Mrs. Charles Gisier, Miss Helen Bischoff and Gertrude Groevel. Services were held recently at the Robinwood Inn.

SEASON'S GREETINGS To the thousands of discriminating families in Indianapolis who patronize the Independent Grocers, and who always ask for KO-WE-BA, CUB and LILY brand Canned Foods and Coffees, or the popularpriced NEW DEAL Coffee, we extend best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. KOTHE, WELLS & BAUER CO. An Indianapolis-owned-and-operated bur’ness for 46 years. “ KO-WE-BA Means the Best.”

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CLUB FEDERATION HONORS PRESIDENT Mrs. C. J. Finch, president of Seventh District Federation of Clubs, was presented a federation pin at a meeting Friday morning at the Severin, Mrs. Tilden Greer, first vice president, made the presentation and praised Mrs. Finch’s aid in arranging the state convention of the Indiana Federation last fall. Sorority Gives Program Christmas party was held by Tau Gamma sorority at the Marion County Infirmary Saturday when gifts of jelly were presented. Miss Alice Gentry told a Christmas story; Mrs. Harry Cobb sang; Mrs. Naomi Hess--ner gave a Christmas reading and Misses Marjorie Macy, Loretta Bauman and Edna Bennett, accompanied by Miss Mary Louise Taube, presented a musical program.

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