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1 Mother of 14-Year-Old Daughter Asserts Child Will Never Obey Parents

She Probably Has Had Her Own Way Too Much in Everything, Jane Says, and Advises Boarding School or Girl Scouts. |

Jane Jordan will stady your problem for you and help you with the

Soturion by her answers in this column. Avail yourself of this service ay!

” 2 2 ” » 8 EAR JANE JORDAN—I have a daughter 14 years old who has a good home, clothes, good parents, every advantage that we can give her, which is practically everything she has ever wanted; but we seldom are spoken to with respect and she will disregard an order within an hour after we are out of the house. She says she talks to me that way because I talk cross to her, but she is a caild to whom kind or firm talk makes no difference. She makes friends with boys not of a class she should associate with, not because they are poor, but because they are not of our class. There are classes and classes and that is something we cannot change. I denied her being with these children until she 'met them secretly; so then I allowed them in our home thinking that perhaps it would open her eyes. I haye tried denying her privileges, such as movies, going to girls’ homes, etc, but am not able ‘to conquer regardless of what I do. Perhaps you will say that it is our fault because we have allowed her to get the upper hand, but she has always been a hard child to manage and we have worked at this thing for years but she never improves. It seems that a parent should be able to go out for an evening leaving the child with competent help and come back once in a while and find that orders have been obeyed. CRAZY.

. ANSWER—It would take months of study to find out why and where your daughter got off on the wrong track. Anything I say here will barely scratch.the surface. The key to her behavior lies in the way you handled her as an infant, a period of her life about which I know nothing. Your letter contains only two clues. She has had practically everything she ever wanted, and she chooses boys who are her inferiors. It is a bad preparation for life to give a child everything it wants. There is no condition of life outside of childhood where an individual can get everything he wants. If he has had his major desires gratified since infancy it comes as a severe blow when he encounters the. necessity of giving up something. A baby is the strongest person in his environment because he is the most helpless. He has only to cry to get his wants gratified. Who else can get warmth, food, comfort and -shelter simply by crying for it? You can see why the baby soon regards himsef as omnipotent, an Aladdin who has simply to rub the lamp to make the magician , appear to do his bidding. The parent who fails to let the baby learn that every cry does not gratify every desire is in for the sort of slavery you describe in later life, Why does your daughter prefer her inferiors? Because she wants to occupy the superior position without earning it. She wants to dominate every person and situation as easily as she did in infancy. She is not reconciled to the fact that she is not the monarch she supposed. Every just criticism on the part of her parents is interpreted as a lack of love. She believes that she: is right and you are

| LOCAL FASHIO

By MARJORIE BINFORD WOODS Times Fashion Editor XY may think it premature to talk about spring clothes in January, but the dressmakers don’t. Your spring image is already sauntering up and down their ateliers; and since our duty in the fashion world is to report the goings on in the style centers, we have peeked through some keyholes and caught a few hunches. Here they are: Filmy nets, chiffons and sheers for evening—vaporous, clinging, floating. Pale green, fuchsia, royal blue and black lead the grand march. Under chiffon and net sleeves your jewels will gleam like lights in a fog, or like gold fish under water. ? Empire styles and wide skirts. Capes, elbow-length, waist-length, hip-length, full-length. Women have nursed a tender attachment

Chapter House

wrong.

If you could afford to do so, per

haps the easiest solution would be

to put her in a boarding school far enough away that she would not ; see her parents often. There she would be obliged to develop a new technique of dealing with people. Old methods would not work. No one else would alternate indulgence with discipline with such confusing rapidity. No one else would love so hard or criticize so severely. An organization like the Girl Scouts would help at less expense.

At home, perhaps you should

abandon both criticism and in-

dulgence for the time being and treat the girl more like another adult.

Include her in family decisions.

Ask her advice about clothes, meals,

or anything involving family interests. Show deference to her opinion

about movies, books, people.

her desires, but by recognizing her as a person. : Give her something important to do, involving a trust, I

on her.

Strengthen her ego, not by gratifying

Put responsibility -

do not believe punishment will help except when you refuse. to stand

between her and the consequences of her own acts.

The library is

full of books which will enlarge on what I have said. They ought

to prove helpful.

JANE JORDAN.

Congresswoman Irked Over

She

Taxes

By United Press

Calls Ridiculous

i i tribute of WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Women of America are paying t $1,300,000 a month to their Uncle Sam for the privilege of looking beau-

tiful and at least one of them, Mrs. Mary T. Norton, the Congresswoman: of it. : 4 on lipstick, excises on rouge and levies on’ dship on half, the better half, of the popula-’

from New Jersey, is getting tired She feels that taxes mascara are working a har

tion. ~ She intends, therefore, to®—

fight to the last eyebrow pencil and the ultimate cold cream jar for milady’s right to power her nose tax free. That isn’t all. Mrs. Norton believes it ridiculous for Americans, men and women alike, to pay other, smaller taxes every time they polish

i ther their hands and | Hels anne Lgressional style. It means that Mrs.

wash their faces. She will introduce a bill at the first opportunity, she said, calling for repeal of these hidden levies vn toilet preparations, which the teminine populace has been paying for. five years, mostly without realizing it. “Cosmestics are used for personal adornment,” Mrs. Norton admitted, “put they have become by custom and practice articles of essential

usage.” Art Improves Nature

Other members of Congress, the whiskery ones, may think that cosmetiecs are luxuries for the rich alone, but Mrs. Norton went on record as saying that gll women, however poor, know that art can improve’on nature. Their war paint has become a necessity and the government is a meanie levying high taxes against it. These excises forced Americans, mostly women, to pay into the Federal treasury $6,989,786.70 for the first five months of the current fiscal year. The payments have been rising rapidly recently with the return of better business. The tax on perfumes, rouges and - peauty unguents is 10 per cent of their wholesale cost, so that every time a womam purchases a hox of face power, or a flacon of scent, she pays several sextra pennies to the government. * Swish Means Profits

If she buys half an ounce of perfume for say $10, the tax will amount to about one cent every time she pats a.few drops on the lobes of her ears. Every swish of her lipstick means profits to the government; every dab of her powder puff, and every dip into her jar of vanishing cream brings cash to Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. The tax on tooth paste and toilet

soap isn’t quite so stiff, but it works |

‘ the same way. Congress set it at 5 per cent wholesale, apparently on the theory that keeping clean isn’t quite such a luxury as being beau-

tiful. Mrs. Norton puts the problem

thus: “The existence of a tax on such

articles unknowingly works hardships on the largest class of people to whom the use of these articles should be accessible without the payment of an additional financial burden.” : / That's fighting language, con-

Norton is going to lead the battle

tor fair play for ladies fair, and let the powder fall where it may.

To Be Scene of February Rites

Miss Josette Yelch, daughter of Mrs. 'H. L. Yelch, is to be married

to Edmund Horst, on Feb. 14 at the

Butler University Alpha Chi Omega Sorority house. Announcement of the approaching marriage was made at a bridge party given last night by Mrs. Yelch at the Riley Hotel. Announcements were concealed in pink rosebuds attached to placecards. Decorations were pink and blue, the future bride’s colors. Pink roses and blue delphinium centered the table. Guests with Mrs. Georgé Horst, Mr. Horst’s mother, included Mrs. E. D. Fouts, Miss Yelch’s aunt; Mesdames Louis Dawson, Duane Shute, Max Lewis, Gerald Murnan, Francis Baur, Thomas Arnold, Wendell Brown, Henry Unger, John Hitz, George Yount and Misses Ruth Voorhis, Lottie Irwin, Ruby Gene Beaver, Mary Helen Karnes, Louise Haworth, Marjorie Lytle, Dorothy Stewart, Betty Akin, Grace Weirick, Esther Woodlock, Ruth Fouts, Josephine Bennett, Vera Sudbrock, Margaret Stayton and Mrs. Edwin

/| Mower, Evansville.

Miss Yelch is a Butler University graduate and Alpha Chi Omega Sorority member. Mr. Horst attended Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute and is a graduate of the Indianapolis College of Pharmacy. He is a_Sigma Nu Fraternity member.

Overseas Unit to Meet Miss Florence Martin, 2443 N. Talbot Ave. is to be hostess for a meeting of the Indianapolis Unit, Women’s Overseas Service League, tonight. Miss Martin is to be assisted by Mrs. Addie Lounsberry, Miss Gladys Cline and Miss Grace Hawk. :

Calendar of

Club Events

” MONDAY

Indianapolis Literary Club. D. A. R. Chapter House. Frederick E. Matson, “The Freedom of the Press.”

India olis Florists’ Women’s Society. Postponed until Jan. 18.

Municipal Gardens Woman’s.Department Club. Clubhouse. 11 a. m. business meeting. 11:55 a. m. breakfast, Mrs. O. R. Stevens, hostess. .Group singing. 1:30 p. m. M. T. Collins, “Pleasing the Public in Moving Pictures.” Photo Indorsers’ day. La Phyllis Club. Miss Myrtle Mize, 1040 N. Delaware St., hostess. Irvington Circle, Child Conservation League of America. Mesdames Thomas R. Lyda, Ernest C. Goshorn, hostgsses. 1 o’clock luncheon Mrs. F. B. Hetherington, speaker. Present Day Club. Mrs. W. R. Foltz, Mrs. F. R. Gorman, hostesses. Mrs. C. L. Harkness, “New Orleans and the Evangeline Country.” Lampas Group, Epsilon Sigma Omicron. Mrs. A. H. Off, review, “Vein of Iron,” ‘by Ellen Glasgow. Mrs. Paul Wycoff, discussion leader. Mrs. J. L. Beatty, review, “Abraham Lincoln,” by Carl Sandburg. Mrs. R. A. Foster, discussion leader. Bremen Current Events Club. Mrs. E. W. Polson, hostess. Mrs. Ernest Gass, “Vincennes and the George Rogers Clark Memorial.” Misses Ruth and Fern Gass, piano duet. Response, “Early Indiana History Incidents.” Cervus Club. Claypool Mrs. Joe Mentzer, hostess. meeting, cards. | Welfare Club. Snively tearoom, 1930 N. Alabama /St. Mrs. George Coffin, luncheon chairman. Business meeting. - Chapter - P, P. E. O. Sisterhood. Mrs, M. Case McKinsey, hostess. 1

Hotel. Business

o’clock luncheon. Mrs. Bjorn Winger, assistant.’ :

Il Jamalie Club. 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Fdward D. Cromley, hostess.

Federation of Mothers’ Choruses of Indianapolis Public Schools. Banner-Whitehill auditorium, Mrs. Irvin Yeagy, president. Representatives meeting. ~ Chapter Q, P. E. O. Sisterhood. Y. W. C. A. 5:30 o'clock dinner. Mrs. E. C. Michaels, state president; Mrs. W. R. Craigle, state junior past president; Mrs. Glea Smith, Kokomo, state organizer, honor guests. Mrs. W. P. Houston, Kokomo, guest speaker. Business meeting. Initiation. Mrs. E. N. Smith, presiding. Inter Arts Club. Mrs. O. N. Newton, 6275 Central Ave., hostess. Miss Miriam King, assistant. Mrs. R. K. Brown, Miss Dean Russ, speakers. Veronica Club. 12:30 p. m. luncheon. Mrs. E. J. Giddings, 330 E. 46th St., hostess. Telwarma Service Club. 12:30 p. m. Luncheon. Mrs. C. L. Belifry, 5613 E. Washington ‘St., hostess. Mrs. B. H. Beard, preside. Members to fold - dressings for Public Health Nursing Association. Mrs. E. H. Hughes, guest. : . TUESDAY

Frances Willard W. C. T. U. Mrs. Janet Anderson, hostess. All day meeting. A. M. Gertrude Sherman, devotions. Dr. Rebecca Parrish, speaker. Guest day. Mrs. Mary Buck, presiding. r SKINS

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for capes this winter which can not soon be sundered. 2 8 8 NTELOPE gloves edged with silver fox bracelet borders are worn with nets. Two pompons of the same fur form a hair ornament from which a short black veil falls to the back. Flaring brims jut outward and upward in bright new hats. “Crockersack” mushroom bonnets, as young as the year, focus their attention on trimmings of velvet, wool yarn cords, and colored appliques for resort wear. Open strapped shoes. Gold Kid, important, alone, or in combination with black satin or black sequins. Conversation prints that say things in writing and pictures. “Wally” is written in white all over a rosy wine crinkled pure dye silk. “Cowboy,” “Dancing Chinaman” and “Tepee” are characteristic of the newest. Large floral prints in pastel linens. They are going south now and will return north with the springtime birds. Taffeta for suits, scarfs, blouses. Spring will be crisp, and you can count on looking better than ever!

Batfin Islander Is to Speak at Delta Zeta Tea

Mrs. Elizabeth Blackmore, native of Baffin Island, is to describe her experiences there at a silver tea to be sponsored by the Butler University Delta Zeta Mothers’ Club Tuesday at Banner-Whitehill auditorium. Mrs. Blackmore is a club member, and her daughter, Mrs. Harriet Ford Rucker, is an alumna of the Butler and Indiana Universities’ chapters, Ayars La Mar, pianist, son of Mrs. J. H. La Mar, club member, also is to entertain. : Mrs. H. H. Coburn, club founder, and Mrs. Guy Harrison Gale, sorority province director, are to pour. Mrs. Clarence Sones, hostess chairman, is to be assisted by Mesdames A. E. Campbell, Charles W. Wright, A. L. Miller, J. D. Langdon, R. W. Griffey and John W. Murray.

Austin Clifford Will Lead Forum

Austin V. Clifford, Indianapolis Family Welfare Association president, is to address the Irvington Service Circle of the King’s Daughters at 2 p. m. Thursday at Irving-

ton ‘Masonic Temple. Mr. Clifford ic to lead an open forum on th welfare work. - : Mrs. L. M. Richardson is to lead devotions and Mrs. J. F. Hoff is to review “The Silver Cross.”

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Cleaning Out Closets Gives Housewife Fresh Start In Life.

‘By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

The most common complaint among housewives seems to be about planning meals. “I get so sick going to the telephone and ordering chops and steaks, carrots and cabbage,’ says Mrs. Jones. “What DO people eat that’s different, anyway?” .

Well, some quiet evening when Joe has gone to his meeting, sit down with pencil and seven pieces of paper. Or 14 or 21, or any multiple of seven. Then think over all the things the family likes as a whole, with an occasional special, such as Joe’s favorite gingerbread or Sally’s baked beans. : Mark each card for a day in the week, and then make out simple menus for that day. You have no idea what a help it is. 2

Switch Meal Order

No, the family won't learn to call Monday “hash day” or Thursday “scalloped oyster night” because the charm of it is that you can shu the cards and change when you like. But with those reminders on the wall, you are going to wake up singing and not develop a telephone phobia. Next on this list of Mother’s Little Helpers come the closets and the bureau drawers. Every time .you open one or the other, you shudder, isn’t it true? Things jammed in; coats too good to give away. Blankets you might want year after next for the ironing board. Shoes that Bob wore last year and Brud might grow into someday. Your own hats saved against goodness only knows what. I've lived long enough to know that hats never come back to style under 20 years. 2

(Get Rid of Extras

Well, you will dream of golden glades instead of smothering dark caves and sinister eyes, if you get rid of your extras, for with them will go your complexes. Travel light and cut the work in half. Someone needs that coat of Joe's. He says he wants it for fishing. Well, he’s gone fishing six times and never taken it once. Give it where it is needed. And do the same with the shoes and your old evening togs and hats.

Save Dollar a Week

Watch for a rummage sale and contribute all the things you cannot place usefully. Or, if you lack needy acquaintances, send the moreeasily utilized things to a dispensing organization. With emptier closets, you will get a new start. Third and last, stop trying. to keep up with the Joneses. Be yourself, live as you can, and put a dollar a week in the teapot. With that ace in the hole you will sleep still better. We can control so many of our complexes that it seems worth while trying. And;as I have named only three, you will have to sort out the others. Don’t make 1937 harder. Make it easier. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.)

Uniform Drug Control Urged By Federation

Times Special ] WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—A sustained drive for the enactment in every state of the Uniform Narcotic Act today was announced by the General Federation of Clubs’ legislative department. Mrs. William Dick Sporborg, department chairman, lists the following ways in which clubwomen can give their support to the project “to protect the, youth of the country from the danger of narcotic drugs”: “Learn the dangers of illicit distribution of marihuana; teach others the dangers and pierce the ignorance and indifference of the public toward the menace; urge instruction on the subject and its dangers in the schools; place more literature in the public libraries; work for establishment of a narcotic institution and farm for the segregation

and rehabilitation of drug addicts; |.

find out what action, if any, has been taken in each state on the act and insist upon police and law enforcement in this field.”

Alumnae to Hear Talk on Diamonds

C. B. Dyer is to talk on “Diamonds” at a meeting of the Indianapolis Alumnae Club of Alpha Gamma, Delta tonight at the home

of Mrs. Merton A. Johnston, 3730

N. Pennsylvania St. : An international reunion day is to be discussed by the group with Miss Mary Ann Tall, president, leading the meeting. Mrs. Aloha Carlin is to assist the hostess. a

‘Today’: Contract Problem

South has the contract for three no trump. He wins the second t:ick, then leads a diamond tc the queen in dum=my. Th's holds, and when the diam nd seven is led, East plays tie ten. What card should § uth now play?

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By V. E. WKENNEY American iridge League Secretary

ANDS vhich will produce 10 or 11 t icks for whichever side buys the co: iract are the delight of the player ¢ { duplicate bridge. The reason is iat such combinations produce the “swings,” so dear to the heart of th: earnest seeker after a “top on the board.”

One such and, dealt in the finals of the nati)nal open pair championship of the American Bridge League in duced all sc four spades South, and East and W ist. E. E. Mc 'erran of Indianapolis and John !. Lewis of Pittsburgh made the f ur-heart contract. Mr. and. Mrs. J. ). Pope of Glencoe, Ill, made the fc ir-spade contract. Today’s bi iding was that of McFerran and Lewis. Lewis, who sat East, had 1) difficulty in making his contract, losing a club, a spade and a heart

Where M and Mrs. Pope sat

‘ts of results, including doubled for North and our hearts doubled for

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North and South, Mrs. Pope opened the bidding with the South-hand, and they reached a contract of four spades. In this case only a club and two trump tricks were lost. At the same time, opponents took sets as high as 500, in defending agains adverse game bids. ; So, all in all, it was a hand of many: headaches for the earnest strivers after the open pair championship. (Copyright, 1837, NEA Service, Inc.)

Motion Pictures Are Subject of Department Club

Kenneth T. Collins is to talk on “Pleasing the Public in Motion Pictures” at the Municipal Gardens Woman’s Department Club meeting Monday at the clubhouse. Honor guests are to be Mesdames David Ross, John G. Beale, Blanche B. McNew, Isaac Born and John G. Benson. A breakfast is to precede the program, to include invocation by Miss Mame Jacobs and music ‘by Pasquale Montani, harpist. Hostesses are to be Mesdames Louis Trager, Joseph T. Hancock, H. A. Harlan, Mary Hummell, Lanson Hale, John Lones, Frank Hall, William. W. Hoey, Clifford Hornet and T. A. Washburn.

Sharp Sauce Advised for Brightening

New Garnishes For Steaks and Fish Fillets Given. |

| By NEA Service

A sharp sauce can make a dull meat bright; a smooth sauce gives a: plain meat grace.

Bacon Sauce

One very small onion, 6 strips bacon, 3 tablespoon flour, 1 tea=spoon salt, 1 teaspoon pepper. 1%; tablespoons vinegar, 1 cup boiling water. . Chop onion and bacon. Turn ine to frying pan and cook until brown, Add flour, mix well, and brown, Season with salt and pepper. Stir in vinegar. Lower fire and add 1 cup hot water and cook until sauce begins to thicken. With veal or fowl this sauce goes merrily.

Green Pepper Horseradish Sauce

One cup milk, 2 tablespoons cracker crumbs, 3% cup freshly grated horseradish, 2 tablespoons butter, salt and pepper to taste, %4 cup finely chopped green pepper, - Combine all ingredients in top of double boiler. . Cook over boiling water for 20 minutes. For fish, leftover meat croquettes when hot, and when chilled for meat or fish in gelatin molds, this sauce is a|surefire success. .

Platter Sauce for Broiled Steak

One tablespoon butter, 5 teae spoon dry mustard, 1 teaspoon cone .densed spiced tomato sauce. 1 tea= spoon chili sauce, salt, pepper and cayenne paprika, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley. Rub hot steak platter with garlic. Dot with butter, then dust on the dry ingredients and sprinkle sauces over all. Sprinkle with chopped parsley. When butter melts, tip platter so that butter gathers all the other ingredients and blends them together. When thw» steak is broiled, smack it piping hot on top of this sauce. Turn once, then serve.

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