Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1936 — Page 16

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: eader Takes Exception to Statement That | Such Salary, Is Insufficient; J. ordan Outlines Family's Burden.

1f you do not agree with the opinions you read in this column, feel free to disagree in a letter of your own!

DEAR JANE JORDAN--I have been a constant reader of your column for a long time and I have admired the sane psychological manner you have used in aiding those who consult you. Tonight, however, I'am writing in regard to your answer Aug. 7 (to a woman who could not support a family of four comfortably on $100 a month), which I - think was inadequate. I do not know upon which financial plane you “live, but you must have a thorough knowledge of present conditions, One hundred dollars a month today is considered above the average, is it not? I read the letter aloud to our family, When I finished the sentence closing “slowly losing our sanity” one member replied, “Well, they have already lost their sanity!” Any mother who can not manage a five-room home with only a husband and two children not _ above grade school age on $100 a month certainly needs to enlist the service of some one trained in’ budget planning. Why it would be necessary for them to live in undesirable parts of Indianapolis is

Jane Jordan Jo ilies in

beyond my comprehension. I actually know of famIndianapolis who are sending sons and

~ daughters to college on salaries that never have exceeded the $100 mark, I feel extremely sorry for this woman's children, for their father's pay check probably won't increase a great deal. You didn't help much. Why didn’t you suggest a budget that would work? Either these people are spending very foolishly for unnecessary things or else the wife is trying

to find trouble where it doesn’t exist.

Was this an authentic letter? INTERESTED.

Answer—The letter was indeed authentic, although it was teo

fong to print in its entirety. sanitarium and was home again,

One of the children had been in a

requiring special. food.. The wife

"had electrical appliances left from better days which were in need s:0f repair and there was no money for such repair. Certain insurances ‘taken out in better times had to be kept up and so on until the family {felt that it was on the down grade indeed. Nevertheless there is truth in what you say. To many families $100. a month seems like a fortune. ‘What one thinks of $100 a ‘month as an income depends upon the scale to which one is ac-

customed,

Those who have had enough to pay for expensive

ilinesses when they come and to lay aside a reserve after reasonable comforts and a few luxuries have been ‘purchased are apt to regard life on $100 as a severe deprivation. "1 think your suggestion that the woman get some one to help’ her plan a budget for her income is excellent. However, I would not wish to withdraw all hope for regaining lost territory in the field of earning. Ambitious people can surmount the most astounding obstales under pressure, I know many people who have been batted down by the depression and who have regained all their losses by this time. There are two ways to meet a reduction in income: One is by pulling ‘down and the other by forging ahéad. In my opinion this family should use a combination of the two methods.

JANE ‘JORDAN.

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SHOWER ARRANGED FOR RECENT BRIDE

' Mrs. Virgil Whitecotton, recent % bride, 1s to receive linen gifts from ‘fyiends-at a party to be given to- * ‘fight by Mrs. R. W. Matthews. Guests ‘are to ‘be Misses Mary Leslie, Luedna and Grace Mae McCloud, Geneva and Helen Whitecotton, Ella and Sylvia Spurlock; Mesdames Steve McCord,

Curfman, Clarence Davis, Harvey Whitecotton, Jesse Lasley, Bennie Asbury, William Stewart, Robert

Paul, Ora Curfman, William Mc-,

Cormick, Noel McCormick, William Gill.and Don: T. Hoover. =

Entertains Bridge Club

Mrs. Russell Sweeney entertained members of her bridge club at a

Keith | luncheon yesterday at the Marott Miller, Robert Jackson, Lawrence 'Hote Lawrence | Hotel.

Today's Patterns

Covers were laid for 16.

At SN

—-Times Photo ‘by ‘Wheeler.

BY MARJORIE BINFORD WOODS Times Fashion Editor

-8 alumnae rush captain of Beta Beta Chapter of Alpha Chi Omega A Sorority, Mrs. Richard H. Oberreich (above) is bound to make a “hit .with co-eds throughout the state when she appears in this Scotch

plaid outfit on her counselor trips to the various colleges. 1 Influenced, no doubt, by the clan costumes worn by Katharine Hep-

burn in the movie version of ‘Mary of Scotland, which is to make its local appearance tomorrow, this Stuart plaid is typical of Woollens that

are being adopted for campus wear. Behold the celebrated tunic style so smartly fashioned {or sports wear! There is an “innocence

abroad” look about the ensemble |

with its stiffly starched choir boy collar and perky pleated sleeves. A navy wool crepe skirt is worn beneath the bright red plaid tunic, which is as sturdy and Scotch as La bagpipe” tune. "Navy "buckskin ghillfes, laced calfskin bag of Koret design, navy pigskin gloves ‘with brown peach-stone button and a jaunty beret with red leather band complete the peure,

VEN Hoy aire, her small com-

panion, is breathless with ad- |

miration for his collegiate-looking

mistress. Mrs. Oberreich, in discussing

clothes for college girls, agrees with

i {| the -dictates of that new book “Co- |: | | Ediquette,” by Elizabeth Eldridge,

which is truly a guide book for girls going away to school. : It says, “Wear sports clothes on the campus; trig little sweaters and skirts, tailored woolen dresses. With

them wear flat heeled (but becom-| ing) shoes. No hats’ is the rule|:

on :most. campuses, but tams, berets

or ‘ tailored felts go nicely with’

clothes to wear to classes. If you can not afford to spend much money, buy fewer outfits and get If you follow these rules you'll be right at home on any campus,

COUPLE TO LIVE

- Etiquette

By PATRICIA | a

~L Notes ‘of invitation "Seldom

are written except for very informal| Mrs, ‘Mary Hobbs, grandmother of affairs or house parties. The hostess | Miss Pasho, is to assist Mrs. Woolley

may use her visiting card for informal invitations. she writes: To meet Mrs. William Howard Tuesday; June the 8th Dancing = 10 o'clock

Wednesday, June 6th | Bridge at 4 o'clock | R. 8S. V. P. sc | Visiting card jiivitations are. correct for informal dances, mi bridge parties and teas. The answers always are worded f a

JACK LOUDERMILK, MISS STEELE WED

7 oys, Note to

Children Says|

Boys and Girls. Asked to

to make mother worry. But she idk worry; she can’t help it. If

| you leave your wagon too near. the

edge of the terrace, Jack, and it decides to race down into the street

| to be ‘smashed by a car,’ of course

Charlotte Pasho Isto Be Honored at Party Tonight

Miscellaneous gifts are to be presented to Miss Charlotte Pasho, a bride-to-be, at a party which Mrs. Edna Woolley, St. Petersburg, Fla " is to give tonight at the: home of VST CARD INVITATONS Mrs. William Pasho, 1902 N. Tal-

bot-st.

and Mrs. Pasho with hospitalities.

Across the card Invited guests ‘include Mesdames Marjorie Young, ‘Mary Wales, M. C.

Mackey, Thomas Vollmer, Evelyn

McClain, Mary Emerson, Priscilla

Bartee; ‘Prank Sisson and Missés

Thelma Land, Lucille Lindsey, Edna: Ruth Mitchell, Clara Freda

Pivecoats, Hughett, Winifred

Boenke, Ollie Woodall, Grace An-

derson, Erna Miller and Jessie Poe. Miss Pasho entertained members

she worries. Or if your doll cart, Mary; the one you were so proud of on your birthday, ‘is left gusics rained on hard, d spoiled, ’m not surprised if she even cries.

+ Mended Toys Ignored

She can have your wagon fixed, Jack—perhaps—and a new lining put in the “pram,” Mary, but you know every kind of repair work costs money. And besides there is a pretty good chance that you won't be very proud of the fixed-over toys ever again. When things are hurt, we lose interest in ‘them. And that's too bad. “Oh, that old thing,” you will be saying, perhaps. “Mom, can’t I have a new one?" And maybe mother will look a pit upset, because it seems such & short time since she decided to do without new cups and saucers to get you that now-ruined present. And she is still using the old cups, all cracked and chipped from a thousand washings, because she wanted you to be happy. Things wear out just as mother’s cups did, from what we call “wear and tear.” But that is different. That takes time. We expect those

things. What we don’t expect is to.

have them spoiled long: before their | # time by carelessness, or forgetfulness or laziness. ; Carelessness Expensive When yoii lose’ your cap or sweat-

er or raincoat, it is almost the same as though you had lost a dollar, or

several dollars. I'm afraid that’s

just about the way we have to look at it. Because it takes money to re-

|'place the lost piece, and money is a | | hard, hard thing to‘get. You will |,

Miss Mildred Habig (&bove) ERY Poe as “Annee, Mr. oT Mr Ae . at home at 918 ‘Sumner-st. :

Ears Emphasized

| Procedure for : Sour Milk Use

Add Soda to Neutralize

Cooking Mixture, .She Says. « BY LOLA WYMAN

What to do with sour milk now that sultry weather is upon us—

Jnany women want to. know just that. They also ask me haw to use

sour milk in baking and if, St can

by New Coiffure, |a

Women Are Told "5

BY ALICIA HART Times Special Writer = ~ The new brushed-backward coiffures are not for women wih unusually large ears, If yours are entirely too ent, cover them: up. rather small and nicely shaped, make the most of them. You ought to use your complexion brush or a rough wash-cloth on ears as well as face and throat. If they have a tendency to become dry or chapped during cool weather, massage them with cream. Always cover them with suntan oil or lotion before you go to the beach. Sunburned ears with peeling edges are not exactly pretty. The vogue for putting rouge on’ ear lobes is dead. Smartly groomed women. with _all-revealing hairdresses generally dust their ears with face powder, but they no Jonger touch them with rouge. Gone, too, are the: ‘days of rouge under ‘the .chin and in the. hollow of the throat. - Makeup experts agree that artificial color belongs only on the cheeks. Ever there, it should be used sparingly, blended carefully and kept well upward. Unless you are very young and have a short, full face, never put rouge below the center of your cheeks.

promin-

{When smoothed on below the cen-

ter; it gives the face a dragged-down, old -look. - ‘ Lipstick shouldn't be “applied: be-

yond the outer edges of the natural’ line of your lips. The way to make |

a too-small mouth look larger is to

{use lip rouge lavishly. An extreme-

ly large ‘mouth appears smaller

: when it is lightly lipsticked.

H eady-Duke Reunion Set

The Heady-Duke reunion is to be held Sunday; Aug. 30, at the old Duke Homestead, four miles east and one-half mile south of State Road 22, Kokomo. re

learn some day ‘just how hard. And]

besides, when méney. is’ spent: for

one thing, it can’t be spent for any- |

thing else. Did mother ever say, “Pll have to buy you a new hat in place of the one you lost, Jack, so now I can not get you your. new shoes?” And it makes her ‘feel dreadful, those shoes do. Boys and pms ‘usually learn to take care of their possessions in time, but often they are grown up before this happens. And’ even then some péople never learn. What

a pity. Because for everything lost, |

.powder- from the recipe. .

But if they are |

Gv b

y when is 1 . the general, s” to use one-half teaspoon . s¢ for one cup of sour milk; i nia event, omit one teaspoon of of tartar or two. teaspoons of baking

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_How to Use Sodd’ Diaby

Baking soda. by. itself. is not ordinarily to be. recommended -as a leaven, although it is often used alone in’ making ginger breads, spice and cholocate cakes and:cookies. «There's always the question-as: to whether. soda should -be used dry

rand sifted with: the dry ity ingredients

or mixed with liquid and ‘added the last thing before baking. - :Most old-fashioned cooks mix the soda with a liquid ‘and nearly-every modern. scientific cook-sifis it: with the dry:ingredients. ; There's. amgument oo both sides. I believe if you mix soda with liquid you do lose some of it potency because ‘a certain amount of the leavening gas ‘escapes before ‘it shas a chance to act -on-the mixture to be baked. :But ‘you don’t wun: the risk ‘of having tiny: bitter brown spots through your food. = If you mix and sift dry-ingredients very thoroughly, repeating the process several times until you are: sure that the soda is: evenly distributed

‘through’ the flour, you:will:find the

result satisfactory and you’ will-gain the full" ‘bénefit. of "the Soda ~“axh a leavening agent. Ha :

CHOIRS OF RURAL

‘CHURCHES T VIE

Country “church choirs are ‘fo compete in a contest at an annual picnic of the Marion County Old Settlers - Association Aug. 20 ‘at Broad Ripple Park. © ~ -/ - ‘The contest is open to all country church choirs in Marion County. A basket dinner is to be “served at noon. Emsley W, Johnsen is asso~ ciation presifient. 3; 5 i.

” 46,000 INDIANAPOLIS.“ “X WOMEN HAVE USED Sor! ’ NO WONDER—TRYIT au /

or destroyed, or spoiled SOME ONE | \

ALWAYS HAS TO WORRY. ‘Usual-

:|ly ft is mother. And that really|

| doesn’t ‘seem fair,

The marriage of Miss Martha Desk

Robert 8.

Hansen, bearer Steele and Jack Loudermilk, son of | George Grieb, Charles Muse, Stan-

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Loudermilk, has been announced by. her parents, Mr,

and Mrs. Wayne Steele. ‘Mr. and Mrs, Loudermilk are make ‘their home in the i are

HERE AFTER TRIP|

Mr. and Mrs. Howard P. Bettge

are to be home after Sept. 1 in thei Blackstone Apartments. They left |

the the Ohio River. ‘ “Mrs. Bettge ‘was Miss Olive Stroud; daughter of Mrs. Mary E. Stroud, 1040 W. 29th-st. Mr. Bettge

following their marriage last night] Cincinnati and a boat trip on ;

is a sort of Mr. and Mrs. Henry P.

Bettge.

The wedding took place last night |

in the Seventh Christian Church, with the Rev. E. S*Farmer officiating. Greenery, interspersed with

candelabra, formed a background «| for the ceremony. Bridal music was _|'played.by Miss Edith Loftin, pianist,

and Mrs. Marjorie Chappell, violin=

“now is ready, It's 15 cents when purchased

ley and. Gerald Maas, ushers.

‘Earl W. Kiger, his son, Richard,

, |and daughters, Elizabeth, Barbara to] and Carolyn, have returned from. a

when a little thought, a. little trying and a little trouble could prevent it. “It does

1 seem worth while, don’t you think? |

(Copyright, 1936. NEA Service, Inc.) 193)

Visitor Entertains Here

Mrs. Lester Noerr, Madison, Wis, |

who is visiting here, entertained recently for Miss Josephine Tacoma,

Yeoontly. was announced.

whose engagement. to Edwin Ristow | ; | /

BOY, THOSE WERE THE | BEST FRENCH FRIES.