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Mother of 8 Parisian Hat Designer

Has Husband Who Drinks

Drunkard Can’t Be Cured Against His Will, Jane Says. Tut your problems in a letter to Jane

Jordan, who your questions in this column,

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I

will answer

nice children. They are

married, I always job and worked we Just gt SO

then good but

vears and

have had a all the time can't because he drinks time he gets his pay. At such times he uses vulgar language to me and my 17-year-old daughter and curses us until I think my brains will fall cut of my head. He comes home drunk and fights and gets so crazy he even runs my neighbors and young girls and their boy friends off the place with iron pokers and shotguns, We are buying our littla home of one acre, but he tells me to leave if I don't He much he can't

anywhere

heavily every

like it has been

trouble

in so own a « so I bought one four years apo and the second c¢ them. I am getup in years and 1 feel like I stand much more, He promme he will quit drinking, but I think he will, Will please advise me just the thing 10 ICY WATERS

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things you describe However, you will have to make up your mind which is the lesser of evils: To Live with your husband without for the chances of his are very slim. You simply drunkard unless he wants to be cured, and even then it is no easy task. His promises are valueless, as you have seen. Alcohol, te him, represents an escape from the repressions of the civilized world to the casy standards of the primitive, Drunkenness without

or him, reform

cannot cure a

gives him pleasure blame, for no matter what he does, he can say, “I was drunk when I did it,” and most people will excuse him from the responsibility for Alcohol answers an infantile wish which the sober man cannot tolerate. There is nothing you can do about it as long as he likes himself as he is, un on DEAR JANE JORDAN-I am girl in my late teens, very much in love with a boy five years older than I am. He has the drinking habit but has promised to reform. Do you think it would be all right for me to marry him, knowing this?

his own acts.

Please don't say for me to give him | up because that would be impossible. |

EVERYDAY READER. ANSWER-—Let the first letter published, which came in the same mail with speak for me. Would you rather marry him and write such a letter to the column in five or 10 years? JANE JORDAN,

yours,

y . "' Nazis Will Correct Pampered Children By United Press BERLIN, Feb. 18 pampered by over relatives—may be brought up in| correctional schools and made the | sort of men the Nazi state wants the Government warned today. A Ministry of Interior statement called public attention to a Court of Appeals decree refusing to restore to his well-to-do mother her 15-year-old only son, taken from her and put in one of the schools.

“Sissies”--bovs | fond mothers or |

Flowers ordinarily do not grow Erik, Paris’ “mad hatter,” makes tl spring, black and white flowers, The net

The upside down flower pot

out of the bottom of the pot, but rem do it in this new creation for is of black silk, surmounted by veil drapes over both shoulders.

Employers and Servants Both

Have Pecul

larities of Tastes

By MARJORIE BINFORD WOODS

I have a size 16 uniform and I'd like a maid to fit it.” An Indianapolis housewife made this request to the Indiana State

Todav’s Pattern

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ITTLE SISTER will love the princess frock (No. 8875), which can be made in two differ- | ent ways. One style features long or short sleeves with tucked fold, | and the other is plain without the fold and with either choice of sleeves, Different collar and cuff sets can be used to add interest. Make it in print or plain silk or | taffeta for 2 best trock, or in cot- | tons for school. Patterns come in | sizes 8 to 16 years. Size 10 re- | quires 2% yards of 39-inch ma- | terial, plus !'s yard of 35-inch ma- | torial for the collar. With short sleeves, 2% yards of 35-inch ma- | terial is required, To secure a PATTERN and | STEP-BY-STEP SEWING IN. | STRUCTIONS, inclose 15 cents irr| coin togegther 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.

[ new servants,

into her household

Employment Service today. She'd like the maid to be well trained, refined, of good disposition, industrious and between the ages of 20 and 25. But, above all, she must

| wear size 16,

like a difficult bill to similar demands are being | local employment

It sounds fill, but made daily at agencies,

Employers aren't the only ones |

[ who have rigid requirements.

There's the case of the efficient |

maid who walked out on her new

mistress when she was called upon to bathe the pet Pekinese. Many servants resent wearing caps with their uniforms. Cooks Are Fussy Too

Cooks are cranky about the

| kitchens they work in these modern | | days.

They refuse to walk a city block each day from stove to sink and they expect a full line of electrical gadgets to help them save elbow grease. A nap at 2 o'clock every afternoon is the demand of another maid, whose mistress is obliged to schedule her own day accordingly.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Does Some Surprising T. hings

Violette Marsan depends on pique to pique the interest of smart

Parisiennes in her pre-spring creation of heavy black grosgrain.

is meant to be worn with a fur coat, hence the high crown; but the I touch of white gives a between-seasons air,

FORCED INTO

SAFETY PLAY

Today's Contract Problem

South has the contract for .8ix spades. He must lose a trump trick, regardless; but can he find a way to limit his loss to that trick alone?

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Opener—¥ Q. 11

Solution to Previous Problem By WILLIAM E. M'KENNEY American Bridge League Secretary OSSIBLY South did not want to make a safety play in today's ‘hand in his handling of the trumps. | He might have preferred the timeworn device of the finesse, although

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Opening lead—% 8 11

of a mild fit in one or both His spade suit was so much

sort suits,

[longer that he preferred to play it |

at that declaration. Besides, in [ duplicate, one can hardly afford to play in a minor, if a major game is possible. | The opening lead of the eight of | hearts was covered by the nine in dummy, East played the jack and

Mrs, Clifford Arrick has a plan [the distribution of the trump suit | South ruffed. After carefully study-

with new servants that has proved successful for her. She makes a

| practice of having an impromptu | dinner party on her maid's first day,

as a tryout, “Then my cook is under no mis-

| apprehensions as to what to expect in our household,” explained this matron, who entertains frequently.

Mrs. Arrick doesn't thrust her | own ideas of management on her |

organize their work in their own way, then follows with suggestions. Results Count “One of the mistakes many wom- | en make with their maids is to dictate the exact procedure for wash- | ing dishes or making beds,” said Mrs. Joseph Ostrander of the Indi- | ana Employment Service. “Results |

are what count. Employers get more |

out of intelligent servants if they |

| permit them to use their own initi- | ative in the organization of their work.”

Swedish and German maids are

lin greater demand than other na-

tionalities in this city, according to employment agency authorities, Great time and thought should

|be given to employing a maid, in

the opinion of Stuhldreher,

Mrs. Walter J. She never takes one until she has interviewed her several times and has a definite understanding to all duties. When she does employ a new servant she is certain that she is the right one for her family. This policy is recommended hy employment agencies, It saves them, they say, from having to find new girls to fit leftover uniforms.

—NISLEY — CLEAR CHIFFO) Pure

"Silk HOSIERY

5 Q: PERFECT

QUALITY

imi? N. Penn,

NY CAMELS AS

| WANT!”

says SIG BUCHMAYR,

She permits them to |

as |

could not prevent him from losing [8 trick in it, But the lack of entries into the aummy forced him to adopt the course that would be followed by (experts, and which had in its fa[vor the fact that there was everys- | thing to gain and nothing to lose, The bidding was reasonably sound. South felt that North would not bid three no trump without some

Book Review Scheduled Mrs. Kathryn Turney Garten is to review “Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell at the Phi Beta Tau Sorority meeting tomorrow night in Banner-Whitehill torium. Miss Helen Underwood, meeting chairman, will be assisted by Miss May Shields, cochairman; Miss Ruth Anderson and Mrs. Ralph Johnson.

Audi=- |

[ing the dummy, declarer saw that, | if he were to make his contract, he | could afford to lose only one trump trick, as he had a loser in diamonds {and one in clubs. Dummy was short of entries, so | declarer decided to lay down the | ace of spades, an dthe king dropped | from the West hand. South now led his singleton club. West hopped up with the ace and led another heart, Two rounds of trumps were taken putting East in the lead East played a diamond, which West won with the ace. The balance of the tricks were won by declarer. Had South attempted to enter | the dummy to take a finesse against | the trump king, he would have lost {the hand, as he then would have had to give up two trump tricks and two aces. (Convright, 1937 NEA Service, Tne)

Home Held Right Place For Parents

Pleasure-Seeking Is Dis- | rupting Force, Writer | Says.

By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON | Writers on the home and the | child are, to a certain extent, regular Gramammy Tippy Toes. 1 myself am old-fashioned and like | to think of Papa coming home to [his clapboard house at 6 o'clock, a bunch of youngsters on the porch

| yelling, “Here he comes,” | bag of jelly beans being fished out lof his pocket, But most of all, T picture Mama,

[the kitchen waft | eat | All writers | their theses, and the above is the fone I like,

and don'ts of behavior. Yet, every sane soul today

| knows that such homes are only

[A fraction of all homes. | Pleasure Seeking Blow | Arctie | where

like the from no-

and out children. alleys, from apartments, and country

a whistle, lemmings, pour the crowded stately

canyons

come from

FOVH and from city lanes Some two some have have none,

children are not

have parents, some

have several

Many No,

one, and

all sand-

ing their roots in a pleasant suburb | mother,

or village with dad and Brud ang Sis, and the dog. I wirh were, Or out on the farm Brud could help with the and Sis with the chickens Or in a clean city with wide streets and some grass, where the sun could tan them in season. However, the most confirmed dreamers among us who harp on the children day after day, are not 0 dead to reality that we blink the trend of the times or the pull of the world. Not for children, this time, with their rushings and returnings, using home only for a filling and service station, but for many parents themselves, The pleasuresmad mother and father

they where ROrses

Who separate themselves daily and | nightly from the children and live cocktail |

in a realm composed of jackets and bridge scores, of dinner dancing and the engrossing affairs of their crowd.

Separation Bad for Children

I do not mean to sound like John | Knox. I hate finger wagging and |

beard stroking. And strongly advise the stick-at-home parents to get out and try the merry life.

| better than to lay out the silver slippers and get going. But I could wish that the tooworldly woman, and her husband who does his selling at parties, would get a perspective on this con= stant separation from Brud and Sis jand the baby, and note how this “world-apart” wraps them in cellophane that permits of no real warmth in family ties. Even though the youngsters are well-cared for in

and a |

take a standard for |

It is a working basis, | (20 to say, for suggesting the do's |

Disrupts Family |

They |

It will | ‘do them good. I myself like nothing |

| | | |

| |

Mrs. Marshall C. Allen was Miss Mildred Zabel, daughter of Mrs, Edith Zabel, before her marriage.

Mind Your Manners

recent

Test your knowledge of correct social usages by answers the following questions, then checking against the authotis tative answers below 1. Need a woman her glove before hands? 2. Is

remove shaking it the man's or the woman's place to say, “I am glad to have met vou” when the two part after having been introduced? 3. Is it correct for a man to take a woman by the elbow? 4, Should a girl take a man’s arm in walking across a dance floor? hb. Is it customary for en to keep on their during a luncheon?

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wom = hats

What would vou do if You are offered a cocktail when everyone in the crowd is drinking and vet you never drink--A. Say, “No thank don't drink.” B. Be a “good drink one, C. Acknowledge the proffer graciously and say, “No thank you,”

vou, 1

sport” and

Answers

1. No, nor should ogize for not doing so 2. The man's place woman says “Thank vou.” 3. Only if he is assisting ner where her footing is dangerous 4, No, only during a grand march or when going in to supper, 5. Yes, unless in a small group of friends and the host ess suggests that the guests take off their hats, o

she apols

The

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Bast “What Would You Do?” solution-«C, (Copyright, 1037, NEA B:rvies, Tne)

Commercial Artist To Speak at Supper

Frederick Polley, artist, is to dis-

| |

ried a

THURSDAY, FEB. 18 1937 Wed Recently "T'wo Women

Write Book On Tamales Tortillas Are Staff

Life to Descendants of Ancient Aztecs.

By MRS, GAYNOR MADDOX

NEA Nervice Neaff Writes

Blanche MgoNeil, Virginian, Mars

Texas Edna McNeil is and the two women wrote a book about hot tamales, They call America.” nearly spirations to enchiladas, tamales (the genuine Mexican tamale is not, %0 hot as ill-advised Americans think), little whimsical dishes, an the authors call them. known to the Mexicans as antojitos, and a wealth of other recipes which will confound the American school of Whipped cream cookery It's an exciting book, particularly for thoxa who delight in that resta with mirth on the tongue Bread may be the staff of life ta the American. But to a descendant of the Aztecg the tortilla I8 life, Armed with a wealth of first-hand material and family tradition, the

new spaperman

her sistersi law,

it "First There's a

Food:

tortilla on

every page, authentic ins

novelty

authors explain the tortilla

| cuss “Why a Commercial Artist?” |

a physical sense, there is something |

spiritually essential about parents at home a good percentage of the time. That parent who coolly desires it thus and has no faith in the necessity of affectionate contact, has a right to choose. But many do not

think about it at all. So it would be |

an excellent plan to put the whole situation under a glass and look it over carefully, Perhaps a certain feeling of restless unhappiness and an engulfing bog of loneliness will find an answer, (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Ine.)

William Hug, Milwaukee, is to be a week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs, Newell Munson, Mrs. Ralph Fisher, 5316 Carrollton Ave, is visiting in Chicago, SKINS

F U R FOR HATS

INDIANA FUR CO,

29 E. Ohio St,

COLLARS

Tortillas (12 tortillas) One 15=0unce can hominy, 1 tables

spoon cornmeal, 2 tablespoons cold water, Masa is

paste which is not the same as

the Mexican cornmeal

our

cornmeal. Canned hominy, drained

and put through the chopper aps

that produced

the masa so well

proximates genuine results can be with it, Drain hominy, put chopper twice, Add water and mix well hands into small biscuits about inches in diameter and thick, Put a moist napkin breadboard. Place masa biscuit on napkin and cover with another moist napkin, Place a second bread board on top of upper napkin and exert an even pressure on the board until the masa has a waferlike thins ness, When the napkins are fully removed the masa (biscuit) will have become perfectly round with smooth edges, Bake on an exs tremely hot, slightly greased griddle, After 2 or 3 minutes, turn with pans cake turner, When slightly browned, remove and place in receptacle hes tween cloths to keep warm

through food cornmeal and Roll dough with 1'4 inch

on a

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“SKIING TAKES GOOD DIGESTION and healthy nerves,” this great skiing master (above) explains. “Camels definitely help my digestion—don’t get on my nerves or rasp my throat.”

SOCIETY HOSTESS (»/¢hs). Mrs. Nicholas G. Penniman III, of Baltimore, says: “Camels brighten any party. And I've noticed Camels help digestion too.” Make it Camels and enjoy a sense of well-being. They set you right!

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