Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1936 — Page 28

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Girls! Do You Spend So Much? .$1.50 Weekly Budget for Clothing Is Protested. What Do You Think? BY HELEN WELSHIMER I seem to have started somethin k. My head is in a nornet'a nest! I Innocently enough—and all in the day's work—l wrote an interview recently to the effect that an American girl could dress herself, if she had to, on 51.50 a week. Now, from all parts of the country indignant protests are flying at me. Critics charge: Their Charge* That I am helping to tear down the American standard of living: j That I am encouraging sweat-! shop labor; That I am boosting the sales of the 5 and 10 cent stores at the expense of other merchants; That I am taking the Joy out of life for young women, pinning their lives down to a penny-pinching struggle to keep up barest appearanc s. And so on. Written in Good Faith The article, which brought all i this down upon me, resulted from an interview with officials of one of New York’s most highly respected philanthropic institutions, the veryj venerable Association of Improving j the Conditions of the Poor. The association had made an elaborate survey of the matter and there was every reason to believe that its officers knew what they were talking about. Deans of women in colleges heads of department stores, saleswomen and secretaries who never have had to rely on a $1.50 a week clothing budget,, are saying that If can’t be done. Girls, whose weekly incomes of sl2 to sl3 have to aid in the support of a family, are saying that it has to be done!

But, Can It? The question is: Can it? Nobody knows until she tries! Will a dozen 5-cent handkerchiefs stay white and crisp for a year or will they melt in the soapflakes? Will . a 60-cent slip endure 12 months' strain with only one companion slip in the laundry? One that isn’t worth one cent more than the first one? Will two pairs of garters lose their dime’s worth of elasticity along toward the second week or months, or keep seams straight from March to March? Will a dollar pair of rubbers last two years without getting holes in the heels, a most remarkable feat indeed? Only those who have tried wearing such clothing know. Wearer Must Know Suppose a girl has only $77.75 a year to spend on clothes, with no donation from rich aunts, no hand-me-downs from older sisters. Is it better for her to risk it all—or as much of it as she has on hand—on a set of garments, praying that the boss’s son or a traveling salesman will fall in love with her and marry her, or that she will get a raise before she needs another brassiere . . . or is it wiser for her to proceed on the assumption that her bills may be her own for another year—and budget? Is it better for her to buy the cheap qualities and meager quantities suggested, risking a year’s wear, and maybe not getting it, or splurge for a couple of weeks and let the rest of the year be a sartorial hangover? After Money Is Spent? What will she do when the garments from her buying orgy need to be replaced, and her dollar pocketbook is empty? Yes, what will she do when the carefully purchased $5 dresses (four of them) and 60cent nightgowns (two of them) collapse from textile strain? Or can she make the $77.75 wardrobe last four seasons and like it? “She can't,” say the people who have never tried it. "It’s all we can do to get by on a whole lot more!” girls with fairly large pav envelopes add. If a girl has only sl-50 a week for the purpose of dressing—Well—what is she to do? (Copyright, 1938. by NBA Scrvt-e, Inc.) Party Tonight Given in Honor of Miss Leiper Mrs. Ben Harbison Wakefield is to entertain tonight at her home, 2953 Ruckle-st, with a personal shower and bridge party honoring Miss Helen Leiper, whose engagement to James E. Kelly has been announced. Guests with Miss Leiper are tc include Mesdames B. C. Harbison. H. P. Leiper, Walter Heinrichs, Irene Ridge, Russell Young, Arthur Lichtenauer, Hartzell H. Perry, Robert P. Gregg, Emmett Thompson, J. W. Coyle, Albert R. Heffner, Claude Lindemann, Herman E. Otto and Thomas Potter. Others are to include Misses Mary E. Leiper, C. Ethel Drake, Beulah O’Brien. Mary and Jo Mohr, Helen Crouch, Mildred Dietz, Eleanor Kissell, Marie Fehr and Margaret Farmer. MARRIAGERITES TO BE APRIL 18 Miss Alma Frances Royer and Robert J. Regan are to exchange marriage vows at 3:30 Saturday aft-moon, April 18, In McKee Chapel, Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, The Rev. J. Ambrose Dunkel is to officiate. The couple will live in Connersville. The bride-ts-be is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren M. Bird. Mr. Regan's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Regan. Miss Helen Royer is to be her sister’s maid of honor and Charles Lohman is to be Mr. Regan's best man. W. T- Lewis and Durward Bpaley Jr. are to usher. Miss Elinor King is to entertain with a kitchen shower and bridge party Thursday night for the bride-

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Mrs. C. H. Castor (above) is to be among hostesses for the annual luncheon of the Methodist Hospital White Cross Guild at the Claypool, April 22.

Club Plans Installation Newly-elected officers of Kappa Alpha Theta Alumnae Club of Indianapolis are to be installed at a meeting April 11 at the honv> of Mrs. John Atherton, 5060 Pleasant | Run-blvd. Assisting Mrs. Atherton are to be Mesdames Arthur Shultz, hostess ; chairman: George H. Batchelar, J Isabel M. Casad, Blanton Coxen, ’ Earl A. Heassler, Clarence A. Jackson, James Rawlings, Francis H. Inslcy, Bertram C. Day, H. E. Greenwait, and Theodore Locke, and Misses Grace Crowder and Frieda Woerner. Following the installation, Mrs. E. C. Rumpler is to review Lym?*' Beecher Stowe’s book, “Saints, Sinners and Beechers.” Officers to be installed were elected last month and are to take office In October. They include Mrs, Harold Sutherlin, president; Mrs. Dale R. Hodges, vice-president; Mrs. f. Sylvester Taylor, treasurer, and Miss Dorcas Rock, recording secretary. Others are Mrs Elmer Sherwood, corresponding secrtary; Mrs. Henry Ostrom, corresponding editor, and Miss Dorothy Barrett, Pahellenic representative. Mrs. Charles Van Tassell is retiring president. SUPPER PARTY TO BE TUESDAY Mrs. Clifford G. Dunphy, 4711 Rookwood-av, is to entertain members of the Indianapolis Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Alpha lota Sorority at a 6 o'clock supper Tuesday. Assisting Mrs. Dunphy are to be Mrs. Sol Bodner, Mrs. George S. Dailey, Miss Esther Thornton and Miss Edna Phinney. Officers are to be elected. Mrs. Arthur G. Monninger is to play piano solas.

GOOD TO EAT BY LOLA WYMAN

LEFT-OVER DAl r HAVE you often wondered what to do with that cup of canned tomato that takes up room in the refrigerator? So frequently a recipe calls for 1 cup of canned tomato, leaving the remaining cup a problem. Here are three recipes using left-over canned tomato. BAKED TOMATOES AND ONIONS (Canned Tomatoes) Cut in half medium-sized onions and place in a buttered baking dish. Season cooked tomatoes or tomato juice with salt, pepper, chopped parsley and 2 tablespoons of butter. Sweeten with a little sugar. Singing Bee Is Scheduled by Woman’s Club Floyd B. Merriman, Marion County recreation bureau superintendent, is to conduct an old-fashioned singing bee for Municipal Gardens Woman’s Club members at 7 Monday night at the Food Craft Shop. Members are to take ptrt in group singing of old-time favorites following dinner. Mrs. Merriman, pianist, is to accompany the singers. Mrs. Charles Shank is to be chairman of the hostess committee Serving with her are to be Mrs. Clyde Johnson and Mrs. W. P. Willwerth. During the dinner hour Pasquale Montani, harpist, is to Play. Indiana Wanderers are to present a group of Negro spirituals. WOMEN ARE TO PRESENT BOOKS A book collection for the American Settlement is to be presented at a meeting at the settlement house at 2:30 Wednesday. Presentation is to be by members of the Young Women s Christian Association world fellowship committee.

E VENTS PROGRAMS Co-Wa-Ma Club. Tonight. Claypool. Business meeting. Auxiliary to Indianapolis Post 4, American Legion. 12:30 Tues Cos. lumbia Club - Luncheon bridge. Mrs. Harry- Chamberlin, chairman. SORORITIES Phi Kappa Alpha. Mon. Mrs. William Johnson, 1853 West View-dr Fa-Lo-Sis Club. Tonight. Miss Juanita Worth. Julia Smith. Frances Gifler. guests Alpha Chapter, Xi Delta Xi. Tonight. Miss Lillian Morford, 26 E. Regent-st. Phi Tau. Mon. Misses Mary, Mildred Negley, 2212 Carrollton-av Bingo. lodges Pi ospect Chapter 452, O E. S. 7:45 Mon. Prospect Masonic Hall, State, Prospect-sts. Easter program, dancing. Gold Mound Council 445. D. of P. 6:30 Sat. Mrs. Hannah Hiatt, 4800 S. East-st. Covered-dish supper CARD PARTIES Young Men’s Club of Fountain Square. Tonight. Theater building. Third floor. Bingo. Olive Branch Rebekah Lodge 10. 8 Sat. Hall. 1336 N. Delaware-st. Bridge, euchre, bunco. Mrs. Harrv Stout, chairman. Progress Rebelcah Lodge 395. 8 Sat. Hall, 2308 ti W. M^iigan-st

Reception Will Open Art Show Paintings, Other Works to Be Displayed at Institute. Several hundred paintings, prints, woodblocks, bookbindings, glass pottery and toys of Czechoslovakian design are to be displayed for the first time in Indianapolis at a reception at 8 tomorrow .night at the John Herron Art Institute. The Art Association board of directors is giving the reception, marking opening of the Czechoslovakian exhibit shown at the Institute during April. Mrs. G. H. Shadinger and members of her activities’ committee, are to be hostesses. Invitations have been extended to Czechloslovakian families in Indiana and the membership of the Art Association. Invite Consulate General Jaroslav Smetanka, Czechoslovakian consul general, is to be a special guest. The exhibit, assembled in New York by the International School of Art, is touring the country in the interest of displaying European art and promoting a closer friendship between nations. Mrs. Shadinger’s assistants include Mesdames Charles Latham, Albert J. Beveridge Sr., Robert A. Adams, Bowman Elder, A. Dickinson Smith. Robert B. Failey, Frederic M. Ayres, Robert B. Adams, William MacGregor Morris, Herman Kothe, Noble Dean, Christopher Coleman. Mortimer C. Furscott, Archer Sinclair, J. T. Witherspoon, William L. Richardson, Francis Insley, T. G. Wesenberg, Ludwell Denny, Evans Woollen Jr., Lyman S. Ayres. Willis D. Gatch and T. C. Howell. Evans Woollen Sr. is association president; Mrs. Addison Harris, vice president; Mrs. James W'. Fesler, secretary, and Osc%r P. Welbom, treasurer.

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Thursday Lyceum Club members are to become better acquainted with Indianapolis at their next meeting Thursday. The group is to take the second of its annual tours to local points of interest. Following lunch in Ayres tearoom, members are to visit the War Memorial, the State Library and the t telephone plant. Last year they inspected the Eli Lilly Cos. Mrs. T. D. Campbell is club president. Other officers are Mrs. Irving Blue, vice president; Mrs. V. V. Smith, recording secretary; Mrs. Harry Wilson, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Earl Conder, treasurer; Mrs. Helen Brown, critic, and Mrs. M. E. Woolf, publicity cha irman.

Pour over onions and bake until tender, about 1 hour. TOMATOES AND MUSHROOMS (Canned Tomatoes) Cooked stewed or canned tomatoes in butter for 10 minutes. Then add cooked mushrooms cut into small pieces. Season with salt, pepper, celery salt and chopped parsley. Serve very hot on toast points for a luncheon or supper dish. TOMATOES AND CORN FOR 6 (Canned Tomatoes) m cups tomato l!a cups canned corn 3 cups milk. 3 cloves 1 bayleaf 4 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 2 teaspoons sugar Salt, pepper Combine the tomatoes, bayleaf, cloves and sugar. Cook for 15 minutes and then put through a sieve. Melt the butter, add the salt, pepper, flour and hot milk. Cook slowly stirring until smooth. Add com and last the tomatoes, Serve very hot as a vegetable. P. E. O. LEADER . NAMES HER AIDS Mrs. E. C. Michels, new president of the P. E. O. Sisterhood Council, has appointed her committee members. Mrs. Michaels is a member of Chapter P. Members of the by-laws committee are Mesdames B. H. Lybrook, Gibson Adams and William F. Chafee. The courtesy committee includes Mesdames Paul Kilby, Estel Daugherty, I. H. Staley and Herbert H. Young. Hospitality committee members are Mesdames Harry S. Rogers, P. W. Holaday and J. R. Kuebler. Mrs. Elmer W. Piel has returned from a week’s visit to Chicago, wh°re she attended the Chicago flower show on Navy Pier. While there she was the house guest of Mr. anl Mrs. Willard W. Jaques.

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Mrs. Wilbur Johnson (above) has been indorsed by the Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, for state regent. She is vice regent, and has served as chapter regent two terms. Election is to take place at the state conference in Terre Haute in October.

D.A.R. Head Is at Work Mrs. Harry R. Wilson, regent, today studied the year’s program for the Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Election was held at a meeting and tea yesterday at the Propylaeum, with Mrs. Henry W. Buttolph, retiring regent, presiding. Mrs. John N. Shannahan is the new first vice regent. Re-elected officers include Mrs. John E. Hollett, second vice regent; Miss Deborah Moore, chaplain; Mrs. Charles B. Dyer, recording secretary; Mrs. Charles McNaull, treasurer; Mrs. Clarence Forsyth, registrar, and Mrs. Harry H. Clifford. historian. Committee appointments are to be announced at a later date bv the executive board, comprised of chapter officers. The next meeting of the group is set for May 7. Wylie Daniels read a paper on “Early Railroads in Indiana” at yesterday’s meeting. Mesdames Alfred P. Conklin, John T. Martindale, Winfield Miller and Woodbury Treat Morris were tea hostesses. Miss Millett to Be Wedded in City May 5 Miss Muriel Millett names her attendants for her marriage to Dr. W. M. Mount, Rochester, Minn., May 5, at Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. Miss Helen Gearen is to be maid of honor; Mrs. E. Charles Badger Jr. and Miss Nancy Rice, Greenville, Ky„ are to be bridesmaids. Dr. Robert Owsley, Thorntown, is to be best man. Dr. J. Ambrose Dunkel is to read the ceremony. Miss Millett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grover A. Millett, attended De Pauw University and is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. Dr. Mount, son or Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Mount, Kirkland, was graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is a member of Theta Chi and Phi Rho Sigma Fraternities. Fete Is for Bride-to-Be Misses Mary Elizabeth Craig and Betty Price are to entertain with a pre-nuptial shower and bridge party tonight, honoring a bride-to-be, Miss Nancy Kalleen. The marriage of Miss Kalleen, daughter of James L. Kalleen, to Robert E. Russell is to take place April 11 at the Kalleen home, 3841 Wash-ington-blvd. * Misses Patricia Kingsbury, Marv Elizabeth Ikerd and Martha Jane Banister are to entertain Wednesday night at the home of Miss Ikerd for Miss Kalleen. Alumnae to Gather Here Mrs. A. W. Noling is to be hostess to members of the Indiana Wellesley Club at a luncheon at 12:30 Monday at her home, 3419 N. Penn-sylvania-st. Assisting her are to be Mrs. James Gipe and Airs. H. B. Pike. Mrs. Francis Dunn, president, has appointed a nominating committee, which is to submit names for the offices of president and secretary at the luncheon. Nominating committee members are Mrs. Dudley Pfafif, Mrs. Marlow Manion and Mrs. Henry Atkins Jr. Election is in May.

Flapper Fanny Says RCG. U. S. PT, OFF, It’s hard to stem your enthusiasm for Easter lilies.

Find Good in Others, Jane Says You’re Too Wrapped in Own Righteousness, Woman Told. Are yon to blame for what happens to von. or are too a victim of circumstance*? Write to Jane Jordan for an unprejudiced opinion. Dear Jane Jordan—l am 28 years old, have been married ar.d failed through no fault of my own. ’ My husband was not even truthful and I have not been able to find a man or woman who is honest, a square

shooter, fair at all games or on the level. I can find no one else like me. I do not drink or smoke or believe in dirty jokes which young people tell to pass the time. I like to see a lady act like a lady, I am so filled with disgust and disappoint- : ment I know not

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I which way to turn. I am so lone- ! some for friends I could cry but s I can not find the right kind. I am considered pretty and I have g, good ! job. I am the same seven days in the week. Must I spend the rest of my life alone? Isn’t there a man or woman in Indianapolis who wants an honest, broadminded fair player for a friend? Does a girl of this kind get anywhere in this world or must she wait for her reward in the next? LONESOME. u tt Answer—Have you ever heard the statement, “Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone”? You are too sad, too sour, too embittered to attract friends. You can not find people who will pity you as profoundly as you pitjr yourself. I know it is hard to be cheerful when in the grip of a deep disappointment. There is no loneliness more devastating than that which follows emotional dependence on a partner who was not dependable. I do not wish to minimize your problem, which is one of the toughest that can come to a human being. Your whole future depends upon the degree of courage which you bring to your present situation. Other women have lived through desertion and disillusion Without succumbing to such a bleak outlook on life. They have compensated for their failure in one endeavor by success in another. At the risk of wounding your feelings which already have been cruelly lacerated, I remark a fact which those who know you now must find repellant. You are too wrapped in your own righteousness to fit in with your contemporaries. It is you who are right and everybody else who is wrong. In this direction lies madness, for mental hospitals are filled with people who had the same idea. For those who find release from the burden of living in a drink, a smoke or a coarse quip you have nothing but scorn; yet you tolerate a sort of autointoxication produced by gloom, and the results are far more unpleasant. You call yourself broad-minded, yet you exclude all people who have ideas about the good life which differ from your own. You will be obliged to look for better qualities in the people of whom you now disapprove, people who have more capacity for enjoyment than you have, or you must walk alone, unloved and unlovely. For your own sake, snap out of your habit of looking for evil in others and find out what is wrong with yourself. You are only 28. You can find happiness if you will. Sorority Plans Joint Meeting for Initiation ■ ■ Initiation services are to be held ! at a joint meeting of the active and associate chapters of Phi Beta, dramatic sorority, at 2 Sunday at Arthur Jordan Conservatory. Misses Helen Ashby and Virginia Ferrell are to become active members and Misses Lola Echard, Vivian Webster, Rosemary Dowd, Katherine Morris and Mesdames Norman Green, George Cammon and Hazel Hill, associate members. Miss Ruth Pauline Luckey, active president, is to preside at the ceremony assisted by Mrs. Fred Pettijohn. Mrs. Richard Fielding, associate president, and Mrs. Edgar Elsworth, associate secretary, are to preside at the tea table. Violet and gold, sorority colors, are to predominate in appointments. Active group officers with Miss Luckey are Miss Fanchon Fattig, vice president; Miss Helen Myers, secretary; Miss Alberta Speicher, treasurer, and Miss Bernice VanSickle, historian. greenfieldls SCENE OF PARTY Miss Amelia Cook's party tonight at Greenfield is in compliment to Miss Helen Thoms whose marriage to Fred Miller. Washington, is to take place April 16. Mrs. John Stilker and Mrs. Fred Cook are to assist the hostess. Easter appointments are to 5e used. Indianapolis guests are to include Mrs. Ella Thoms, Mrs. Gilbert Franke, Misses Clara Kleeman and Lucille Ginn. Others are to be Mrs. Gilbert Franke, Misses Clara Kleeman and Lucille Ginn. Others are to be Mrs. William Schultze, Chicago; Mrs. O. S. Heller, Greenfield, and a group from Cumberland: Mesdames Frank Puhlman, Wilhelmina Winter, Charles Wittie, Herman Wittie, Henry Schaekle and Frank Buckley and Misses Eleanor Amos, Lucille and Irene Trange and Irene Schaekle. S-PiM* LCNCHSON SET j Hd.-made Cross Stitch or Applique t, on White n /. „ Reg. <1 each, no*> . fc TOi 3> I [j

CONGRESSMAN IS DINNER SPEAKER Rep. Charles A. Halleck. congressman from the Second Indiana District, spoke last night before mem-

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program co-chairmen, and committee members. A musical tea Is to follow the business meeting of the Indianapolis Alumnae Club of Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority, tomorrow afternoon.