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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3,

1937

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

PAGE 9

DEPARTMENT CLUB IS TO HEAR HOME MAKING EXPERT

Program Arranged | For Feb. 12

Improvement of Domestic | Life Is Object Of Meeting.

“Searching for a Better Way” is | to be Katharine Fisher's subject at | the Woman's Department Club | American Home Day program, Feb. | 12, at the Wm. H. Block Co. audi- | torium. Miss Fisher is the Good Housekeeping Institute director. American Home Day is an annual observance, sponsored by the club's | American Home Department. All | programs during the year pertain to the improvement of home life. A musical program by Miss Martha Rucker, violinist, accompanied by Mrs. Stewart Greene, is to open the day's program.

Committees Are Named

Mrs. William C. Bartholomew, department acting chairman, is leadthe arrangements committee, assistants include Mrs. Loren vice chairman; Mrs. W. D. Keenan, secretary; Mrs. Clarence Wysong, treasurer; Mrs, William IL. Sharp, publicity chairman, and Mrs. Oliver P. McLeland, ticket chair- | man. Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter is | the section's honorary chairman. | Mrs. Paul T. Rochford is chair- | man of hostesses for a Lincoln | birthday tea to follow the program. Her assistants are Mesdames Alvin | Jose, Luther Shirley, Clarence A. Jackson, Harold M. Trusler, Lewis | G. Ferguson, Clyde Montgomery, Malcolm Lucas, E. A. Kelly, Wil- | liam C. Kassebaum and Miss Mary | Beatrice Whiteman. Mrs. Paul T. Hurt, club president, and Mrs. Warner are to preside at the tea | table The wavs and means charge of ticket sales Mrs. J. R. Farrell, chairman; Mesdames Frank F. Brandt, E. L.. Burt. John Connor, L. A. Cortner Frank A. Curry, G. W. Gordon, Ira M. Holmes, William F. King, | Elwood Morris, William H. Polk, ¥. rances Rumple, Paul V. Wycoff. W. C. Rover, J. T. Hallett, Mrs, Jackson and Mrs, Keenan,

ing Her B. Warner,

committee

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Personals

Darrow, New York, of Indianapolis, has | :ailed from New York for a Mediterannean cruise on the Roma. After leaving Indianapolis last summer, spent several months in Europe Mrs. Harold I. Finkelstein and Mrs. are visiting in Washington going to Miami Beach ‘and Hay ana.

Mrs. Harry and formerly

she Platt, Mrs. Louis

Sara Davidson | before |

shower Tearoom proaching marriage of Miss Josette Yelch and Edmund C.

Mrs. | are to exchange vows in a ceramonyv

| Feb. University |

An anging St. Joan of Arc Club Dance

St. Joan of Arc Women's Club

is to be a Valentine dance

Bridal Shower Sct Tonight tor Josette Yelch

Miss Rosamond Gabriel's tonight at the is occasioned

personal Silver Cup by the ap-

Horst. a daughter of Mr. and Yelech, and Mr. Horst

Miss Yelch H I. 14

in the Butler

Alpha Chi Omega Sorority House.

French Artist. Is to Address [Local Alhance

Max Vivier, French artist and author, is to address the Alliance Francaise at 8 p. m. tomorrow at Hotel Washington. His subject will be “The French Cuisine.” Paul Krauss III is to sing a group fF French songs, accompanied by Jane Hampson. A dinner is be given in the speaker's honor preceding the program. Maj. Vivier is the official lecture: the Federation of the Alliance of New York. He has! numerous American landNew York City scenes exhibited in New York. He is the author of a series historical books for children. | Gen. John J. Pershing wrote the! preface to his book on George Washington. Maj). Vivier was an officer n the French Army at the outbreak f the World War and he saw service in practically every sector of] the Western front. !

Fay 1 McC omisker To Be Honored)

of Chi Delta Chi Rorority are to entertain with a party Sunday for Miss Fay Me- | Comiskey, whose engagement to J. | wayne Fiscus recently was an-| nounced. The party

Maj.

the

of 1 painted scapes and whicih have been

Mmeaise

The members

is to be held at the | home of Mrs, Harold Andrews, 3727 FE. Vermont St. The hostess will be | assisted by Miss Dolly Whetstine and Mrs. David Thomas. Miss McComiskey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Me¢Comiskey, is | to have Miss Jean Woodward as her | maid of honor and Charles J. Gisler will be best man. Mr. Fiscus is a | son of Charles Ficeus,

Mrs, A Steffen Honors Mrs. White at Party

0. E. 8. Unit to Mark 44th Anniversary |

44th anniversary of the of Naomi Chapter 131, is to be observed with a | 8 p. m. Friday in the hall. Mrs. Genevieve Bard, worthy | matron, and William R. Wigal, | worthy patron, are in charge of the | obligation ceremony. Mrs. Leona | Byrkett is program chairman, | The chapter's four living charter members are Mrs. Ella Haller, Dr. C. C. Ritter and A. N. Glosshrenner,

Indi 1s, and Mrs. Mattie Connelly, BIKA,

The founding OE 8S; program at

| clude Miss Yelch | and Mesdames George Horst, Evere Todd, Schwartz, Browning and Misses Sara Jordan, Mulrey, Hasselbring, Leppert, Ring, Laurette Ring, Mary jorie Ziegler, Margaret Cunningham.

and

| ersly, tral afternoon

meeting. |at 12 30 DJ

North Salem: 8

Miss Gabriel's

and her mother Donald Cook, George Buskirk, James and Howland Crawford

Sally Bosman, Irene Doris Simms, Frumann, Agnes Finneran, Hilda Zimmer

Hildegarde Prange,

Theresa Marand Pink and blue colors appointed a luncheon which Mrs. Marge Fouts gave t in honor of her niece,

od 1}

Miss Yelch.

Covers were laid for Miss Yelch her mother and Mesdames George Horst, P. W. Zimmer, Earl Hair, C. W. McCarty, Adrian HamJosette Hvatt and Miss Rosalie DeMess.

After rmath ( Tub to Meet

Mrs. William A. Myers, 4416 CenAve. is to be hostess tomorrow for the Aftermath Club Luncheon is to be served m.

| new drapes and curtains for

Saturday night in the

guests are to in-| it Emery | Katherine |

Helen | Catherine |

| Roosevelt revealed her

Indianapolis

pre-Lenten party ham,

Athletic Club. Orrin Pixley, Faust are cominittee members.

Of Wedding Rite T onight

‘Emma Louise Bachelder | And Dr. Sorum to Exchange Vows

Friends and

| | | |

relatives are to as-| semble tonight at Mr, and Mrs, Wil- | liam Clay Bachelder's home, 1998 | | N. New Jersey St. for the marriage | {of their daughter, Miss Emma ' Louise Bachelder, to Dr. C. Harvey | | Sorum, Madison, Wis. The Rev. | | George Dunn is to read the cere- | mony. Mr. Bachelder is daughter in marriage. The bride is to wear a white satin | | gown, designed princess style with | an alencon lace yoke. Her tulle veil falls from a cap of matching lace. Her bouquet will be of gardenias and lilies of the valley. Miss Mary Jane Bachelder, the bride’s sister, as maid of honor, will wear a blue moire princess-style gown fashioned with full puff sleeves and a silver net yoke. She is to carry a bouquet of chieftain roses and blue budleai. Betty Sue Boyd is to be flower girl. She will wear an ashes of roses taffeta frock and carry a basket of rainbow freesia and sweetheart roses. William Stovail, Madison, Wis, is to be best man, Miss Louise Smith is to play harp music as the vows are exchanged | before a fireplace banked with palins and ferns and white lilies, freesia and budleal. Tall cathedral tapers

to give his |

Home Scene | Committee Aid | Greenery and Blossoms

- Of Indoor Plants Give Cheerful Note to Homes

Conservatories Not Only Places ¢ or Flower apolis Residents Contend; Libraries,

s, Indian Se and

Dining Rooms Are Brightened.

By BEATRICE BURGAN

Society

LD-TIME glass-encased conservatories have passed away

torias. These solariums, smellit

Editor with vice 1g of earth and growing plants are

as scarce as the plush-and-gilt homes with which we associate them.

Modern homes have their bits of greenery, but they

New Camp Fire Council Lists! Dancing Party

Miss Ruby Windhorst is assist ing with arrangements for the benefit bridge party of Epsilon Pi Chapter, Delta Theta Tau Sorority, to pe held Friday in the Columbia Club. Proceeds are to be used for flood relief and the sorority’s philanthropic work, The recently formed Council of

High School Camp Fire Girls is to give a Valentine dance Feb, 13 in

the Woman's Department Club as its first project. The council is composed of two representatives from each high| school group. Mary Lou Hummel is | president; Edna Mae Lewis, secre-| tary, and Virginia Lindemann, | treasurer, Other events to be sponsored by the group will be a rolier skating party during spring vacation and a camping trip during April The council is to meet the last Friday of the month in the Camp

Help Refugees

The Women's Republican Club of Indianapolis is to make a Red Cross flood relief cone tribution with the money previously set aside for a Lincoln Day program. Mrs. A. N. Bobbitt, elub president, has announced that the annual Lincoln observance will be canceled this year and the funds set aside for a speaker will be contributed to the Red Cross. Mrs. Bobbitt today requested

are to burn on both sides of the white satin kneeling bench. Mrs. Bachelder is to attend in a | wine crepe gown, trimmed with | | chiffon and ecru lace. Her corsage | will be of gardenias and Mrs. Finch | | roses. A reception for the guests is to follow the ceremony. Wine and blue decorations are to decorate the dining room. Dr. and Mrs. Philip | Fehland, Springfield, O.; Miss Sarai | Garnett, Salem, Mass, and Miss Gene Matthews, Madison, Wis, are Ito be out-of-town guests. The couple is to leave for Madison where they are 'to live. The bride is to travel in a three piece grav { suit trimmed in matching kidskin. | | Her accessories are wine.

Paul BonJ. Edward

Mesdames

Pete South and

Beta Chapter, new members and officers. Beta Zeta Chapter, Rho Chapter, sconde, 37 W, Alpha Chapter, N. Randolph 8t., hostess. Beta Chapter, Omega Kappa. lotte Twietmeyer,

21st St., hostess.

8p.

1273 N. Raymond St., hostess. Gladstone St., hostess. Covered Evadne Club. 8 p. m hostess. Delta Chapter, Xi Delta Xi. Haverford St., hostess.

8 p

Temple, Pocahontas A. W. T, Club. Thurs. St., hostess. Ladies Auxiliary, sion 92. Today. Mr. and Mrs. hostess. Luncheon.

Women of the Moose. 2:30 p. m.

St. Lenore Zimmer, 628 N. Rural torium. Dance,

Mrs. J. T. Hood, 4818 N. Illinois Mrs. Archie Basset, assistants.

EVENTS

SORORITIES Theta Mu Rho, Tonight. Severin Hotel

Lambda Chi Sigma Beta. 8:15 p.

Phi Theta Delta. Tonight

3523 N. Illinois St. Beta Chapter, Alpha Beta Gamma,

Janet Ada Club, 12:30 p. m. Thurs. Mrs. Margaret Bernlohr,

. today. Miss Mary Langbein,

Kappa Tau Epsilon. Tonight. Mrs. LODGES Millersville Chapter 300, O. E. 8. 8 p. m. today. Millersville Masonic

Covered dish luncheon. Order of Railroad Conductors, Pennsylvania DiviValentine party CARD PARTY Thurs. CHURCH GROUP Philip Neri Church Young Ladies Sodality.

PROGRAM Alexandria Chapter, International Travel-Study

Banquet for

Hotel Lincoln. James Brown-

Omega. Tonight m., today. Mrs. received his Ph. D University of Wisconsin, He is a| member of Alpha Tau Omega and |

Alpha eh Sigma Jraternities,

Miss Barbara Gisler, 432

m. today. Misses Millie and Char-

Tonight. Mrs. Isabel Johnson,

Couple Names 925 N. |

Attendants for Church Nuptial

dish luncheon. 2164 Broadway, m. today. Mrs. Earl Wilson, 6222 Walter Roll, hostess. Miss Rosemary Commons and Harold W. Ross have named the attendants for their wedding which is to take place at 8 a. m. Satur day in St. Joseph Catholic Church. Miss Betty Jo Meeker, niece of the bride-to-be, will be bridesmaid

Mrs. May Stumm, 2620 N. Iilinois

Ralph Dyer, 103 N. Gladstone St.,

versity of Southern California and | . degree from the |

Fire office under the direction of Mrs. Russell B. 8teinhour, sponsor, The committee chairman appoint-

that all club members contribute the money for the cost of luncheon tickets to Mrs. Clarence R. Martin, treasurer, who is to send in the contribution,

Guild Contributes $500 to Flood Fund

| cox; decorations, Martha Lee Bren- | ner,

Child Weltare Head Outlines State's Policy

St. Margaret's

A seven-point child welfare pro- | gram was outlined today by Miss |

| dressed the Indianapolis League of | Women Voters’ meeting in Rauh | Phi Mu State Day is to be ob- | served Saturday, March 13, with a

| Memorial Library. ( | “The Department hopes to make [program at the Marott Hotel, Mrs | Wilbur Shannon, Indianapolis Phi

|. > A A rran Q Ca it possible for every child to remain Mu Club president, anounced today.

a [in his own home when that home { has more to give him than any substitute,” Miss Arnold said. “We want to safeguard family ties by A luncheon js to be at noon and a formal dance in the evening. The committee and chairmen arranging the event include: Budget, { Mrs. O. L, VanHorh; invitations, Mrs, | William Wilcox: tickets, Miss Helen Wagoner; welcoming, Miss Alice Sexton; menu, Mrs. Ross Coffin; decorations, Mrs. Raymond Toler; favors, Mrs. Robert Reed; afternoon entertainment, Mrs. Homer Eberhart, and orchestra, Miss Velma Schaaf.

be removed from his home every relative resource is exhausted before plans are made for foster care, The program also includes: The removal of causes of neglect, aid to physically handicapped children,

foster care facilities, the protection of mentally defective children, and the development of a program to prevent juvenile delinquancy. Mrs. Thomas D. Sheerin, league child welfare department chairman, presided. Mrs. Austin Clifford and Mrs. Perry Lesh presented a report on | juvenile courts with recommenda- |

and Edward Ziegler, best man. The Rev. Fr. Francis B. Dowd is to officiate A wedding breakfast for ate families is to be held pering Winds following mony.’ The couple is Indianapolis, Mrs. James Sullivan entertained with a linen shower last night honoring the bride-to-be. Miss Commons is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs, John Commons and Mr. Ross’ ents are Mr. and Mrs. a,

immediat Whisthe cereto live in

135 N. Delaware St

today. p. m,

8 p.m. Thurs,

Miss

St., hostess, Audi-

Club, Ine. Thurs. 8t., hostess. Mrs. John Lindeborg. Mrs. John Thornburg, “Poland.”

par- |

Ss. Ross,

President Must Select New Drapes for Noted East Room

By FREDERICK OTHMAN

United Press Staff Correepandent 3.—Strikes

| |

WASHINGTON, Feb, and floods are shild's play compared | | with the problem Mis. Franklin D. | | husband is up against now, Mrs. Roosevelt said the President must select personally those $4000 | the

| Bast Room of the White House.

| Arts Commission, and back again,

—Photoe by

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jones Thompson are to make their home in Dayton, O. Mrs. Thompson was formerly Miss Mary Elizabeth Louden nt. Ree W. van. daugh-

ot SiN 8

Payton,

Women's hearts went out to Mr. | Roosevelt when they found that the | Arts Commission must approve his selections. The President has very decided ideas, Mrs. Roosevelt said. So has the Arts Commission. In addition, the President must select a new plano to replace the famous gold one in the East Room which every tourist tries to touch. (It will go to the Smithsonian I'nstitution, so the tourists can still gee it.) Samples of red damask to replace the old gold drapes, samples of plano wood and ideas for decorating the new piano shuttle back and forth from decorators and pianc companies to Mrs. Roosevelt, then to the President, and then to the |

Health Program To Be Featured |

A health program is to feature a | meeting of the Mothers’ Club of | Our Lady of Lourdes Church Friday | in the Parish hall. Dr. Joseph L.|

Conley is to talk on “Prevention”

and Dr. BE. H. MeShay will discuss “The Care of the Teeth.”

Mrs, James Maley is hostess chair- | man, assisted by Mesdames Gordon |

{ | | i

| May, Frank Mayer and Joseph Raf-

erty,

Initiation Service Held

Miss Mae Thigpen presided at [initiation services for Lambda Chi Delta Sorority pledges Monday at the Hotel Antlers. Miss Jean Calvin played piano numbers. A din Bas, ven 18. Noto of the Mew

in the Theodore Roosevelt Admin: listration because

nisi ation Is Set For,

| | |

Candidates

color. Now they have worn out, and | : ; t | the Arts Commission wants to go! ave Ramer and Plies Bul hack to the original plan to decorate | Members attending will be Misses | | the nation’s chief ballroom in red. | Florence Bergman, Mary Bieker, Mrs. Roosevelt selects samples | Zelma Cummings, Joan Hayes, from the great mass submitted. and | Betty Kelly, Mary Lou McClure, turns them over to the President. | | Nellie Morgan, Mary Jane Schenck He makes his choice and tells the | - Chic MOIS : ’ Mesdaimes | and Marie Wilde and Arts Commission. The Arts Com- | Walter Frick, Wayne Gill, J. B. inission hasn't made up its éollective | Ogden, Oscar Smith, Charles D. mind. Entire accord must be | Snider an and Charles Watkins, reached. Mrs. Roosevelt hopes that |

the Senate does not have to confirm | i Poldi Mildner Is

the homination. Guest at Party

No decision had been reached (0- | day. The old gold drapes were bought

Mrs,

Party Chairman

Miss Pauline Schellechmidt and M#fs. Louise 8. Koehne entertained | [with a tea today atl their home, 9017 Washington Blvd, honoring | Poldi Mildner, famous European | pianist. Quests were members of | Sigma Alpha Iota, national musical sorority, of which Miss Mildner is | an honorary member. be Mrs. Anton Scherrer poured at a toa table. Miss Betty Schellschmiat | |

assisted the hostesses

Sodality Dance Set

»*If it covers the poy . . we have it’

UNITED RUG

AND LINOLEUM COMPANY

) WEST WASHINGTON

Mrs. Katherine Hallinan is chairman of a card party to be held Monday in the Hotel Lincoln by the Mother Theodore Circle,

tions for procedure to standards in Marion County. | report w was prepared by a depart-| ment of government and child wel- | fare subcommittee. Miss Constance Roach, organization secretary of the national league, was a guest. Miss Roach is in the city to hold conferences with | State and local league department chairmen. § Mrs. dianapolis league president.

Parties Planned

For Geneva Hall

Wed Recently

Several parties are to be given in| { honor of Miss Geneva Hall, daugh- | ter of Mr. and Mrs, H. C. Hall, | whose engagement to Dr. G. W. Sea- | ton recently was announced. Mrs Ruel Sexton and Mrs. Rilus | Doolittle will be co-hostesses at a! party Friday nighi. Mrs. Robert Tatman is to entertain Monday and | Mrs. Ralph Finley and Miss Thelma | Dawson are to entertain Feb. 10.

Hear Book Review The Indianapolis Section, Na- | tional Council of Jewish Women, heard a book review of “I Found No Peace” given by Mrs. Kathryn Turney Garten at a meeting this morning in the Kirshbaum Community Center.

and Anance, Miss Lindemann. |

| her | coaxes all types of plants to bloom

| seeing to it that when a child must |

the development of adequate county

improve | The |

Clarence Merrell is the In- |

are scattered , about in all parts of the houses, As Mrs. Perry O'Neal's plants bloom in her greenhouse, she transe fers them to the library where they are set in front of a picture window. Now she is waiting for the daffodils to bloom. Often pots of African violets are sentineled in front of the window, which provides a view of the canal winding across the landscape below Shooters Hill, At Christmas time, lilies of the valley provided a spring effect. Late er pink begonias and white hyae cinths took their place.

Fountain Adds to Effect

Mrs. Jewett V. Reed moves plants from her yard to the sunroom in the fall. Pots of azaleas, African violets and other blooming plants are arranged around the fountain | in the room. Mrs. Ralph Reahard brightens her colonial dining room with | potted plants arranged on glass | shelves flanking a window at one end of the room. Through a wine | dow, the sun nourishes flowers | growing on the window ledge. Four rows of glass shelves in the

"| slde cupboards hold n: 6 ments include: Program, Jane Wil- | y Hd evils ahd

violet plants, trailing greenery and odds and ends of ivy and flowers. Mrs, Bowman Elder's sunroom | is brightened by blooming French geraniums, Their red and white blossoms and green leaves grow out of attractive containers arranged

( on benches.

Indoor Plants a Hobby John Ray Newcomb's Mrs. 8. B, Masters, makes plant window a hobby. She

Mrs. mother,

(and grow in a dining room window. | Plants grow out of pebbles in a | zine-lined container on the lower | shelf, and ferns, ivy and blossoming varieties flourish in pots on ass shelves, One of her favorites is the old= Martha Washington jreranium. Avocada pear seeds have [taken root and green shoots have sprouted above the soil, Mrs. Russell Tortune likes white {plants in her dining room window | Cyclamen often blossoms on the (shelves, between a double glass ine { closure, When Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Werbe move into their new home in Andere son, at Easter time, they are to have a fountain room fragrant with | seasonal flowers.

Wisconsin Club To Participate In Anniversary

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The Wisconsin Alumni Club of | Indianapolis is to participate in the { University's 87th anniversary gram Saturday with a buffet supper at the Athenaeum, | Observances of (to be held simultaneously lout the country as listening-in parties are to be formed for a special radio program, Mrs. Reginald W. Garstang is reservations chairman for the supper and Robert Miller, general chaire [ man, George president;

pro=

the founding are

through«

M. Halverson is club Miss Mildred Blacklidge, | vice president; Robert I. Blakeman [ Jr. treasurer, and Mrs. William W. Garstang, secretary.

Polish History Related Mrs. William PF. Rothenburger spoke on the “History of Poland" at a meeting of the Flemish Flane ders Chapter, International Travel Study Club, Inc. last night. Mrs, Walter Summa was hostess, ase sisted by Mrs, Earl Fitchett.

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