Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1936 — Page 4

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Sister Who Is ‘Nervous’ Irks Writer

Ienore Her Tantrums and Put Her to Work, Jane Advises.

Bring your problems up for discussion In this column. It will help you reach a solution.

[DEAR JANE JORDAN— My sister, aged 26, is a total wreck of nerves and is giving us all an endurance | test, Not a thing ever | pleases her. In childhood she had good health, was very devoted to her mother, extra bright in school. When she was 13 she became sickly. She | had her tonsils and adenoids out Then she had ear. Next her knee cap was knocked out of place and she used a crutch | several months, had a SO On. She is ungrateful for everything, at her mother, threatens with anything, and says her

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ANSWER—Your sister seemed to natural child until she discovered a source | The baby in a of adults little, weak With no other chil- | e with, the baby never succeed with peoAlternately ignored by older people,

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You'll have to start all over vour sister and ignore her tantrums. She is working on the useless side of life. See to it that every useless method she employs to tyrannize over vou fails in its purpose. Let every useful thing she does succeed and be lavish in Ask her to sew for vour little girl. Let her feel needlework makes her

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Flowers, Evergreen and Holly Are Suggested for Table

—Times Photo by Cotterman.

BY MARJORIE BINFORD WOODS Times Fashion Editor

X IS the day before Christmas and all through the house every crea- |

ture is stirring and bustling about with holiday preparations.

Half the fun of getting ready fo

r this party day is the thrill of deco-

thing, whether it is done in the Dellia Robbia manner or in true old-

fashioned holiday spirit.

Nothing offers more distinction for the dining table than fresh flowers |

Todav’s Pattern

“Teen.”

SHIRTWAIST frock (No. 8624) always is the favorite of Miss All the details—peter pan

@®with holly and evergreen decora(tions. Floral shops are | with novel ideas for dressing up the | occasion and you can spend as much or as little as you wish. For instance, there is a new “table { lace” of evergreen, dotted with holly | and blue spruce berries, and the

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| Speech Training ‘Good Investment, Writer Believes

BY ALICIA HART

NEA Service Staff Writer

rating the festive board. To impart cheer and artistry is the principie |

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| proaches while Junior is putting the |

Play Peace

Routine Should Permit Time for Work and | Naps, Writer Says.

BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

| ehirie brings mother running.

“Now, what have you done, you bad boy! You've hurt little sister] and made her cry. Shame on you.” |

“I only tried to get one out of | her mouth and she bit me. She got the box and threw a whole handful | in the fish bowl. She climbed on a! chair.” “Well, she's just a baby. And you | shouldn't let things lie around the | way you do. Hush, darling. Junior's | just a naughty boy!”

Ruffling Disposition

invisible dime in his pocket. She

| A harsh, rasping voice, coming | takes both hands and upsets the |

{from a pretty, well-groomed, care- | fully made up woman, is sure to { jolt the nerves of listeners.

truck sideways. “Mom, oh, Mom,” calls Junior | frantically. “Baby won't let me play. |

| All sensitive ears—and the ears of | She dumped my bricks in the wrong |

{ tiniest pine cones imaginable, which | men, especially—rebel against a flat, |

| hostesses are using

this year as|dull voice or one that screeches and |

| highly decorative table borders for | shouts, and even more against hard- |

| plateau mirrors, or to outline a centerpiece. It is sold by the yard and is quite the loveliest thing we've run across. It is shown (above) border-

|ing a coronation crystal centerpiece | | base, and does a great deal to add |

|an out-of-the-ordinary touch to

| the entire dinner ensemble. |

1 n 8 n OINSETTAS, the typical Christmas flower, are used in the | above setting, to tie in with the |rich ruby glass champagne glasses (and goblets. The formal crystal | spear and star centerpiece, in which | they are placed, are of coronation | pattern and match the plumed | crystal candelabra with their bright [red candles. White-edged English | holly sprays form a design on the filet and linen banquet cloth, | Poinsettas in pots of graduated sizes, tied with gay Christmas balls, are an effective table decoration | which one local housewife is planning for tomorrow. Red roses and heather in bowl arrangements is another woman's idea of a festive table arrangement. Madame Finch | roses with stevia in a large bowl [make an interesting decorative { motif, For the exceptionally large table wild smilax may be used to advantage with red balls and Christmas ribbons for a bright touch. “Auracaria excelsia” is the little | Norfolk pine plant which grows on {and on after the holiday season is | over and is a most effective table | decoration. | If you prefer less formality there |are New England wreaths spotted | with cranberries, kumquats and | small pine cones that may be placed {in the middle of the table, with tall

| ly

collar, bow and pockets—are youth- | red tapers. Pine cones tied with red

ful and smart.

make. For material use thin wool, used as a centerpiece. Patterns | Christmas

jersey or cotton fabrics. are sized 8 to 16 years. short,

with sleeves, |

the bow. To secure a PATTERN

STEP-BY-STEP SEWING IN-|

| STRUCTIONS, inclose 15 cents in | coin together with the above pat- |

tern number and your size, your | name and address, and mail to Pat- | tern Editor, The Indianapolis Times, |

|214 W. Maryland-st, Indianapolis. |

‘Gifts Are Exchanged |

At Christmas Party

Mrs. Carl C. Beck entertained with a dinner and Christmas party | recently, The appointments were carried out in holiday colors. Gifts | were exchanged.

The guests were Misses Lucille | Davis, Helen Eckstein, Daisy Finnell, Mary Marguire, Virginia Mec- | Intire, Helen Schaefer, Doris Shoen | and Loretta Schott.

E. D. R. Menu

By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. — Here is the menu for the Christmas dinner at the White House: Blue Points Saltines Calf's Head Soup Celery Qlives Celery Crackers Turkey and Cranberry Jelly Chestnut Dressing Giblet Gravy Deerfoot Sausages Caulifiower Beans Candied Sweet Potatoes Fresh Pineapple Salad Plum Pudding and Hard Sauce Eggnog Ice Cream kes ‘Coffee

for Him J Hats ® Gloves ® Scarfs | Neckwear ® Socks

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audible, almost-impossible-to-understand conversation.

ers to teach young daughters the

enunciation. Softness doesn’t mean too low tones that are barely above a whisper. One should always speak loud enough to make oneself heard easily. An unpleasant-voiced girl who has enough money for professional faciais, hair treatments, exercise courses and other routines certainly ought to rebudget her beauty allowance, cutting down here and there on these treatments and leaving some money to spend with a speech teacher. It is possible to take ten lessons, get instruction in various voice and speech exercises, then to be able to carry on with them yourself at home. If you mutter, slur words together and leave sentences unfinished, better read aloud for 20 minutes each day. This is one beauty exercise that costs nothing, vet will show definite results within a month. Incorrect breathing often is the cause of jerky, gasping speech. You shoul.. breathe deeply, filling your lungs with air, holding your shoulders quiet and making sure that your diaphragm contracts and expands with each breath.

Sorority Entertains 200 Clinie Children

Two hundred children from the School 5 Public Health Nursing Clinic were entertained recently at a Christmas party by Alpha Chapter, Alpha Omicron Alpha Sorority.

Mrs. Herbert Baker and Mrs.

One matron we know is planning | Louis Carroll were chairmen, as-

Kuhiman,

| president, and Mesdames Ray

and paper-white narcissus, | Wyatt, Charles Baliman, H. Teague,

Pa- | tricia Sentney.

It really is important for moth- |

place.

Put her in her pen, won't you?” |

Ignores SOS But mother, used to these SOS

| calls, does not come.

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Much mutterings and many “Get out of here’s,” came from the parlor.

value of a soft voice and perfect | Then another scream from baby.

“Now what have you done? I declare if you go on teasing vour little sister that way, I'll go crazy. What? Is that all she did? Just upset your wagon. Well, you're a bigger baby than she is if you can’t stand that. | No, I won't put her in her pen. She | needs exercise. You just have to] learn to be generous, Junior, and | help me take care of your sister.” “She won’t play with her own | toys. She's always after mine. I'll go up and play in my room. Can I | Mom?”

Junior’s Plight Is Serious

“No, I don’t want her alone. And I don’t want her in the kitchen. | She’ll be asleep after a while and | you can play then.” “But you make me sleep when |

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1Children | Neat Wrapping of Gifts Urged

The combination of transparent cellophane and paper wrappings,

neatly and artistically tied, mak

look luxurious under the Christmas tree.

es even the simplest gift package

BREAKS OLD PLAYING RULE

Today’s Contract Problem

South is playing the hand at three no trump. On the opening play, East wins with the ace and returns a diamond. If declarer plays the proper card to trick one, West may make the mistake on trick two that should give declarer his contract. Can you follow the piay?

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Solution to Previous Problem BY W. E. M'KENNEY

American Bridge League Secretary

; be Was | HERE are many general prin-|—an honor in hearts, There was |

ciples of bidding and play

They were given toys, candy, apples | trees of silver or white | and oranges, distributed by Santa

Size 10 re- are attractive as a table decoration | Claus from a large tree.

Baby takes a nap. Oh, she’s always around.”’ Kicks his train. “I can’t play with anything. She gets my track and my cars all the time. Everything I touch she grabs. If she was my Kid, T'd-— I'd smack her good.” “Why, you heartless little rascal! You got all those lovely things and that's your thanks. I've a notion to take them away from you.” “I don’t care. They're a—just a great big nuisance. I'm going out.” “No, you aren’t. here and taking care of Baby. And get that look off your face I'm afraid you're going to have a very | nasty disposition.” The day goes | on, as nearly every day does, with | these tempests. | All small children need [time and some place to play in

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{ which every one should master, and [ which should be followed unless

[ there is sound reason for adopting a contrary course. But the real | bridee player has few things which he “always” does, and the word | “never” is equally infrequent in his bridge vocabulary. Today's hand, another contribu- | tion from my friend, Earl Bryan, of | Cleveland, is one on which a con- | tract was made because deglarer | violated one of the “always” com- | mandments laid down by those who seek to teach play. It was taken from one of the recent sessions of the Downtown Duplicate League in Cleveland, and

“only the man who refused to .ollow | tradition fulfilled the contract of | three no trump, which was almost

| { uniformly reached. |

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| The opening lead was won in dummy, and when the declarer [ studied the hand, he saw that he

| had only one entry to his own hand

| no chance to take the spade finesse | twice, hoping for a split in the making

| honors and spade tricks. South had another resource, however, and led the spade four | from dummy. Kast, with a singly guarded king, went up and returned a diamond. Declarer let West hold this trick with the nine, but when West returned the king he won and led a heart to his king. From this point his contract was

thus four

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| ways lead Irom weakness up to |

strength.” (Copyright, 1936, NBA Service, Inc.)

safe, and he made it solely because |

DEC. 24, 1986 East Coast Baked Bean Dish Noted

‘Method to Make Brown | Bread to Go With Them Offered. | ov

| By NFA Service | Is it true what they say about | dietitians? That they take the joy | out of eating and put in vitamins? | Let's nibble and see. At their re. | cent convention in Boston, | American Dietetic Association had | this buffet luncheon: | Vegetable appetizer, pickled crab ‘apples, sweet red pepper jam, | hearts of celery, pickled | then Gloucester codfish balls, Cone | necticut egg sauce, cold sliced ham, { Boston baked beans, Harvard beets, | Boston brown bread, watercress and | lettuce salad, sweet crescent rolls | and for those sturdy dietitians still | standing there was Boston cream | pte and coffee.

Boston Baked Beans

3 tha

relish,

One quart small pea beans, 7 | pound fat salt pork, 1 tablespcon [calt, 3 tablespoons granulated su- | gar, ¥% cup molasses, dark (Porto | Rican), 1, teaspoon mustard, boil ting water. Before telling us what to do about { the ingredients, the girls remind vs (that the Duke of Windsor chose (his chef for his ability to pro- | duce such beans as these. Pick over beans, cover with cold water, and i soak overnight Drain, cover with fresh water, heat slowly (keeping water below boiling point) and cook until the skins burst. Drain beans. Scald pork and scrape, remove inch slice and put in botton of bean pot. Cut through rind of re[maining pork every half inch, making cuts 1 inch deep. Put beans in pot and bury pork in beans, leaving rind exposed. Mix salt, molasses, and sugar, add 1 cup boiling water and pour over heans. Cover bean pot and bake six to eight hours in slow oven (250 degrees F.), uncove (ering last hour of cooking, so that (rind may become brown and crisp. {Add water as needed, | Yield, 15 servings. The ladies of the American Di- | etetic Association remind us that | brown bread used to be steamed | in a kettle hanging from the crane | over the coals. But it's satisfactory | if we have to use a less compli- | cated method.

Boston Brown Bread

One cup rye meal, 1 cup whole wheat flour, 1 cup cornmeal, % teaspoon soda, 1 teapsoon salt, % cup molasses, 2 cups buttermilk, 1% cup | seedless raisins. | Sift dry ingredients together, add raisins and mix welh Add mo- | lasses to buttermilk and stir until well mixed. Add to dry ingredients and beat until a smooth batter is obtained. Fill the greased mold 25 full, Steam from two to two and | a half hours, Yield, two loaves,

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some

peace. Work, naps and general rou- |

| tine often can be arranged to allow for it. Mother is right. Junior

| is getting cross. Baby is old enough | | to understand more than she pre- |

| tends. She need not get all the

i | breaks. / (Copyright, 1936, NBA Ser

vice, Tne.)

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SPECIAL LONG DISTANCE RATES

for Christmas and New Year ‘s

The lowest Long Distance rates [which apply after 7 o'clock every evening ond oll day Sunday) will be in effect both Christmas Day and New Year's Day, making telephone visits on these holidays less expensive thon ever before.

Open until 9 o'clock this evening THE JAPANESE ART STORE stands ready to help you find gorgeous gifts. There's still time and always plenty of artistic things to choose from. Be it a wee little gift for a very young person or an impressive present for a friend's man{sion ... youll find it at 27 E. Ohiost. And now “A Joyous Christmas {to All” from the JAPANESE ART | STORE.

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“A breath from the West” in the form of sagebrush \eandles . . . a fragrant gift ‘quite unknown to me. But next year, we ean order in ‘time to delight our friends ‘who love our western United States.

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In order to “be of good cheer” .. you must have the appropriate appointments. And VONNEGUT'S truly hopes that your <Christmas Day will be a happy one. But | just in case Santa | doesn't know you{ [Tf need new cocktail glasses, a sha or a service trav .. . vou can hurry down to VONNEGUT'S yourself and [be ready to serve “cheer” in real style. 1 wonder if you knew that | VONNEGUT'S has a handsome col- | lection of glasses for every drink {you can think of. The chromium Isets, the crystal and the colored | glass are beautiful to see, During this next week . . . probably more | than any other during the year... your friends will be dropping in. So equip your bar with everything new and efficient from VONNEGUT'S, Main Floor.

I believe I can help you spend your Christmas gift

money . . . and all your gift

certificates, if that's what's

Have wou thought of remembering the ill persons, those sick a-bed, and those convalescents with perhaps an unusually thoughtful service of body massage? Yes, you can send out trained persons to give just that... and it’s such a luxury... for well or sick folks,

oo o Oh. : * "is the night before Christmas”, .. and I'm here to extend my first greetings of the season, I'll be wishing you every good thing before we're through the holidays. And in the meantime, I'll be helping Santa Claus to make all his personal visits tonight. I'll be hoping, too, that all the gifts you and I selected .. . Individually and collectively . . . will make the recipients most happy! Do have yourselves a bigger and better Christmas than ever before (every one else is planning it that way) with plenty of the old-time genuine spirit, Let's telephone, telegraph, write or visit at least one person who's not expecting from

us such thoughtful greeting. That's what makes the world go "round.

| bothering your pretty head. Just call me,

MARTHA WASHINGTON sav “Merry Christmas” in the good old fashioned way . . . in keeping with the old Colonial sentiment tied un with ‘every box of eandy. Just watch . .. your Christmas Day dinner may very well be graced with fancy ice eream desserts or, at lea butter toasted salted nuts from MARTHA WASHINGTON. Both shops, 2301 N. Meridian-st and 5 N Meridian-st will be open Christm Day for your eonvenience. Phone TA-1827,

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The formal season demands immaculate clothes . , . so remember the DENISON SHOP, Penn. and % . %X Ohio-sts. THE DEN. s+, o «ISON B HOP remembers you with a greeta that's hearty and ~ sincere. Ready to serve you throughout the the New Year

holidays and in shoe rebuilding service, hat cleaning and Lustr-Lux dry cleaning. Just phone RI-2375, ” ” ”

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