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Father Held Clue to Ideal For Husband

Wife's Reactions to Mate Are Predetermined, Jane States.

Put your questions in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer them in this column.

DEAR JANE JORDAN—

She is the finest girl I have ever known. She is kind and sympathetic, doesn’t smoke, cheat, drink or do those things which women stoop to these days. As a result of her qualities, the competition was pretty keen, but I won out and we are to be married shortly. While I am very happy I feel no little concern, for I may fail to meet the standards of such a superior woman, Please tell me how to be worthy of this refined girl; how to continue to make her happv. I am in comfortable circumstances, but I know that money doesn’t count so much with her, ANXIOUSLY WAITING. ANSWER-—The key to your fate lies in the girl's father. What manner of man is he? If he brought her up under a strict but tender domination, that is doubtless the sort of treatment she will require from you. On the other hand if he left her free to develop in her own way, refraining from making each | and every little decision for her, she will not tolerate domination from you, Perhaps he overestimated his daughter, hung her up to the moon and thought that the queen could do no wrong. In this case you are on the right track, for you, too, have praised her in glowing terms. | There have been thousands of | generalities written about what | women want in love and marriage. It is pretty generally accepted that they want tenderness and protection and someone to take care of them. Yet we find them living with drunkards, wastrels and men who beat them; we find them working their fingers to the bone to piece out the incomes of men who earn little or nothing; we find them spending their inheritance on playboys and lavishing devotion on men who give them anything but tenderness and protection. When we inquire in exasperation why they don’t leave husbands who do nothing but make them miserable, they baffle us with the same remark, “Strange as it may seem, I still love him.” Some women like men they can look up to; some women like men who lock up to them; some want to be boss and others want to be bossed. There are women who like to be free and women who like to be bound and others who like a little of each. What one woman considers an ideal husband another woman regards as a total loss. A wife’s reaction to her husband has been predetermined by her attitude toward her father or his substitute. She may strive to escape him by choosing his opposite or try to find him again in a man with similar qualities. Your question cannot be answered without knowledge of the girl and her father. If she has no father she has built up an ideal of one which will influence her judgments of her husband.

JANE JORDAN,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

THE MERRIEST LADY IN AMERICA

Defied T vadition by Entertaining Swank Londoners at $4 Party

(Second of a Series)

By ELSA MAXWELL (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.)

N spite of my ambition to reform society and to originate new and vivid standards in party giving, the first party I actually gave was almost impromptu, surprising even myself. It was given before the war, in London, where I then was living. As I look back at it, I realize how daring I must have been, for I broke all the rules then existent in the decidedly plush-upholster=

ed social atmosphere of prewarMayfair. My friends tell me I don't lack courage, but I sometimes think that if I hadn't simply plunged into this affair practically “sight unseen” to use our modern jargon, I just cculd not have carried it through. It was too prepos. terous from the point of view of sturdy old John Bull conventions. One thing it proved to me, and I have never forgotten the lesson. That is, that a party-giv-er can break all the rules save one; the rule of good taste which eternally functions, and no party can or should succeed which flouts it. That season in London I was seeing a great deal of Mrs. Bertjamin Guinness, wife of the international banker, who in turn was descended {rom that almost hierarchic family of brewers whose name is famous the world over. Mrs. Guinness was one of the most beloved women in London. She was brilliant and magnetic and cared only for people who could do things—painters, actors, peets and singers. ” ” OW, I had inherited, thank heaven, from my father, a natural musical gift. I played the piano by ear without any instruction or technical knowledge, but I played with vim and vitality. And, of course, the music that I played was American rythms and not the more meticulous, stilted English style. So, gradually, people were drawn to me because of my music, and, through them and it, Mrs. Guinness. Because I was so hard up she had lent me a couple of rooms in her “mews,” in Carlton House Terrace, overlooking St. James Park, where the great coronation procession passed recently. Oh, that funny little apartment in the Carlton Mews! Everybody who knows London knows those massive stately houses which rise up along the Mall overlooking the park. Magnificent homes since their construction in 1800, they have sheltered more important statesmen, famous hostesses and great families than any other section of London town. Not so many people know the rows of stables with their quaint second stories which are hidden away close by the great terrace. Such were the quarters which my friend lent me when I started my musical career in London. It's interesting that even as an artist, I should have found my habitat, as it were, in the most social quarter of the town.

s ” 2 ELL, as hospitality h a s always been & vice with me,

I was suddenly seized with a desire to entertain. Evérywhere I

SLAM BID BY INFERENCE

Today's Contract Problem ||

South has opened the bidding with one club, West has overcalled with one diamond. In modern bidding practice, should North now bid one spade, one heart, or pass? NORTH AAB32 YKQJT7 $864 S22 Duplicate—All vulnerable.

Solution in next issue. 20

Solution to Previous Problem By WILLIAM E. M’KENNEY American Bridge League Secretary HIS is the second of a series of 12 articles explaining “The Standardized Code of Contract Bridge Bidding,” as explained in the new book, sponsored by the National Committee on standardization. In presenting these explanations of the proposed standardized bidding code, it must be understood that I do not indorse or advocate any one particular system of bidding. Instead, I merely try to present to my readers any new ideas on contract bridge. Perfect partnership harmony in bridge requires a thorough knowledge of conventions, which are special and specific interpretations of certain bids. It also requires knowledge of inferences, which are deductions pointing to certain definite action, but of course requiring no specific action by partner. In the standardized code, are only three conventional calls, the double for a takeout, the overcall in opponent's suit and the 4-5 no-trump convention. Bridge authorities believe that complicated artificial conventions are unnecessary even in expert competition. They prefer rather the free flow of natural inferences. Today's hand shows the approved method of overcalling in opponent’s suit, and natural inferential bidding as the road to a slam. West's opening bid is strong, and North’s overcall certainly is sound.

there

went, and I went a great many places that special day, I heard myself with astonishment inviting people to a party! Counting up that night over the cold ham and salad which formed my evening meal, and which the English call “high tea,” I realized that some 35 people were coming that very evening to supper! Suddenly I was seized with horror. What could I do to entertain these people? And where was the money coming to pay for it?

I always knew in the old days that suppers consisted of fine wines, champagnes, stuffed capons, frogs’ legs, truffles, chicken in aspic, great mousses, pates de fois gras, ices, cakes and so forth. It needed no burrowing in my purse to know that I couldn't manage anything like that.

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NE dear old lady, whom I had met at Mrs. Guinness’ house, was H. R. H. Princess Helene Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria. She had been amused by my songs at the piano and, to my astonishment, had accepted to come! This, of course, should have put the party on a very different basis. Royalty was to be there! I did not know in the least how to entertain royalty, but I said to myself:

“I am not going to let this defeat me. I am going to have a party on the principles that I have always tried to live up to, which are, at the moment my guests cross the threshold, whatever I offer, no matter how simple the fare, should be above criticism. The true law of hospitality means only that.” I looked around and saw there was not enough of anything. But there were some cushions and a good piano, which always

Then as now Mayfair was the symbol of London’s swankiest society, but it failed to daunt Elsa (inset). she invaded, with a lean purse and musical ambiAt left are typical London mews-—the sort of place where Miss Maxwell held her first party.

Maxwell

tions,

Princess Helene Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria, was the only guest at Miss Maxwell's first London party who didn't sit on the floor,

are the only furnishings important to me. I had asked Ivor Novello, Nelson Keys and Elsie Janis, who was at the beginning of her career and was so clever that all London was at her feet.

I remember Lord .Alington came, one of the younger, fascinating bachelors in London. Also

his sister, the Honorable Lois

Above is the prewar Mayfair

Stuart, as she was then, now the wife of Lord Tredegar, a Catholic peer who is attached in an official capacity to the Vatican. She was jolly and full of good fun. And of course, all the Guinness family came. Lowell Guinnes, Mrs. Guinness’ son who was but a boy at that time, is now married to the daughter of the Duke of Rutland. ” ” ” FTER examining my exchequer, I thought over very seriously just how much I could spend on this party to which all these distinguished guests were coming. For, remember, I was taking a great risk. I was the first one who ever dared mix up royalty, society and stage. In those days, people in society huddled together and never asked outsiders, even though they would have added greatly to society's famously dull parties.

Now, what were people to eat? I had an idea.

Hard-boiled eggs, served cold with salt and pepper, might not be bad. I knew it was a picnic dish that people took with them in the woods for a summer meal outdoors. I had never heard of it before as a party dish. But, I bought a few dozen eggs and boiled them with great care and put them out of the window to get cold—one rarely needs ice in London. I then thought that Swiss cheese sandwiches on rye bread would not be a bad idea. I had tasted this in Germany and knew it was a good dish, with German mustard. ” ” ” O I made some delicious Swiss cheese sandwiches. Then I bought some bottles of beer and stout and brewed a great urn of coffee with large cups of hot milk. Bought some stone ginger beer,

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free bid of two hearts, and West, with this knowledge, now overcalls in opponent's bid suit to show no losers.

This, by inference, shows support for hearts. East by his heart rebid shows length in that suit, and when West bid five hearts it is a demand to bid six if he held the ace of hearts. The hand, of course, is a laydown. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.)

Low Heels Urged For Graceful Gait

For that poised and graceful gait so alluring in a woman, wear lowe heeled shoes, a Euproean foot specialist advises. ’ “Observe from the back a woman walking in shoes with high heels,” he declares. “Every step she niakes totters as if trying to find its balance. The step is short because she is compelled to support the body quickly with the free foot, lest she fall forward. This is the reason why most women walking in shoes with high heels take quick, short steps.”

Hosiery Is Lighter Hosiery colors are lighter in tone than those of last fall, the better to blend subtly with the high fash-

ion “mahogany” color range in fabrics and leathers.

when massaged and patted

Proper Uses of Creams Restore Skin to Normal

By ALICIA HART NEA Staff Writer

A very dry complexion, annoying though it is, can be coaxed back to noraml surprisingly quickly. One whose skin feels tight or is inclined to draw after washing, looks parched and flaky or is rough and course textured ought to order a supply of rich creams and renew her attention to lubricating routines. If one or all of these conditions are present, there is every indication to believe that the skin is deficient in certain fats.

For a week or two, use cleansing cream instead of soap and water and be sure that your skin tonic is ever so mild. Night cream, however, ought to be of the richest possible variety—preferably one which can be absorbed rather quickly.

At night, cleanse face and throat with cream, pat on tonic and let it dry, then smooth on a generous layer of emollient. Using upward and outward strokes, massage this into neck-nape as well as throat— over cheeks and across forehead. With finger-tips, pat briskly enough to make skin feel warm and tingling. Keep on patting until much of the cream has disappeared. Remove only the excess, allowing a thin film to remain on while you sleep.

Naturally, you need not expect your complexion to be firm, unwrinkled and smooth after one treatment. However, if you repeat the entire routine each and every night, you should see a definite improvement within a month. After that, if you like, you can go back to soap and water every other night, and sleep with cream on face and throat only three nights a week. Clockwise, rotary motions with fingertips tend to alleviate crows’ feet and other wrinkles around eyes. Dip forefinger in rich cream, press them firmly on edge of eyelids nearest your nose, then rub (lightly) around and around. Vertical lines above bridge of the nose disappear

daily.

U. S. Bureau Gives Hints on Proper Way to Cook Chicken

By MRS. GAYNOR MADDOX NEA Staff Writer \ Men eat chicken. They eat more of it when it's cooked right. Now comes along the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Economics with a hint to women on keeping the home fires burning more brightly.

They urge as follows: To cook a fryer—wash bird outside and in, running water through it. Dry. Do not let whole bird or parts lie in water; the juices will leak out. Split the breast in two. ‘It will cook more easily. Fold wings. With sharp knife, strip out ribs. Salt and flour pieces. Use thick walled skillet for even heat. Have from 1; to % inch melted fat in skillet. Half lard or vegetable oil and half butter makes excellent frying mixture. Get fat hot, but not smoking hot. Put in chicken pieces. Use cover while frying to prevent spitting fat from scorching your disposition. Put bigger pieces in first and don't crowd. Turn as soon as least bit browned. The first pieces won't brown very fast. Split breasts and thighs will take about 20 minutes to get done. . Use moderate heat throughout cooking for juicy results. Don’t over-cook. Make a little cut in meat with sharp pointed knife to test. When pieces are done, remove to hot covered pan. And that’s all. But Uncle Sam is not the only expert interested in chickens. Here's another helpful hint for wives whose men folks like a bit of chicken for Sunday dinner,

Chicken Baked in Cream (4 to 6 servings)

One young fowl, 3% pounds, 2 teaspoons salt, !4 teaspoon pepper, 1 cup heavy cream, 1 small onion, 1% cup top milk. Clean chicken and cut it into serving pieces. The butcher will do this for you if you ask him to. Season with salt and pepper and dip each piece in cream. Place in a well greased two-quart heat-re-sistant glass casserole. Cut an onion in sections to 3% inch of the bottom of the onion, then place it in the center of the casserole. Pour of cream and the milk

over the ‘chicken. Cover. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F.)' until tender, from 11% to 2!2 hours. Remove the onjon, garnish with parsley and take to table in the same dish. This question has been asked by many readers—what is “milk ‘fed chicken?” This feeding usually consists of condensed milk and ground grains, and is resorted to only the last 6 to 10 days before slaughtering. It has a bleaching effect on the fat, and also acts to distribute fat more evenly.

Frozen Juices

Go With Meat

We thrive on contrasts, it is said, and perhaps this quirk in human nature is responsible for the vogue of serving frozen ices with the meat course. But whatever the reason, the vogue is desirable. Mint ice is a favorite with lamb, because it is thought that the flavor of mint enhances that of lamb. It does, but try serving mint ice with ham, and you will agree that the combination is excellent. A combination of orange and grapefruit juice with syrup and frozen is\a real tempter with pork chops or a pork roast. Frozen tomato juice seasoned with a d of onion or lemon juice is ideal when served with roast beef.

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the height of her career in prewar London, when she joined Elsa Maxwell in breaking Mayfair precedents.

an English drink something like soda pop, which tastes so strongly of ginger it makes you sneeze. And there was my supper. It cost exactly 15 shillings and 6 pence, which in our money is just under $4! They all came. The Princess was a most delightful auditor. Everybody roared with laughter as the artists went through their paces and did all their special stunts, something which London society had not experienced before, We imitated Grand Opera, played jazz, which was new to English ears, and sang ‘“Alexander's Rag Time Band,” by Irving Berlin, Well, everybody but the Princess sat on the floor! And everybody helped themselves from the buffet table, making it, incidentally, the first buffet supper party I had ever seen. Before that, everybody always gave what they called “sit-down” suppers. Hard boiled eggs today have become the most popular smart supper dish in the houses of the wealthy and important, ” ” ” T was a great success. It was more than that, for the little ideas which I had been driven to by principles as well as by my material surroundings and pocketbook, were destined to bear fruit. It’s funny sometimes to see your ideas copied all over the world, but such was to be the fate of that little impromptu party in my mews. The principal notion, of course, was to do away with bores, which means “stuffed shirtiness,” and to put people at their ease. And that, by an audacious mingling of several “worlds,” from royalty to the foot-lights, was what I had accomplished. I slept happily that night, the memory of the thanks of my guests ringing in my dreams like Big Ben. Think what a party can accomplish for those who are ambitious, who seek achievement, position, or celebrity! If only they keep their courage and, at the same time, their good sense. ” ” ” II those London days, I was one of the poorest white women in the world. I worked very hard for my living—and every penny I ever made, I spent on a party, because I love parties. Presently, almost as a reward for keeping determinedly gay and in love with life, the world has chosen to think of me as a champion—a champion party-giver. I think of it as a reward for a heaven-sent gift of courage, energy, and capacity for working hard for fun. If you ask me my secret, I can't tell the answer. My only conscious plan is to make every party different. Maybe i enough, if you do it with a will. One thing I have learned. A party doesn’t need massive paraphernalia or intricate programs. The tiniest—the very tiniest— idea, so long as it is really new and congenial, will do the trick.

NEXT—Paris, after Armistice! «+». and how Elsa Maxwell “kidded” Lloyd George and Clemenceau and almost got deported!

Silk Crepes Are Dull

Practically all of the silk crepe fabrics for fall are dull surfaced. The plains show both smooth and rough surfaces emulating romains, heavy georgettes and tiny flatribbed types. The novelty semisheers vary surface interest with small bouclettes, pebbly effects, modified crinkles or “slubs” like a

TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1937

Operation Often Needed To Relieve Patient When Kidney Stones Develop

Numerous Types and Sizes of Obstructions Are Noted; Acute Pain, Nausea and Collapse Are Included Among Symptoms.

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN 1 Editor, American Medical Journal

. There are various types of kidney stones.

First there may be

multiple, fine, gritty stones which are described as sand. These small gritty materials will pass from the body. There are also triangular types of stones which form at the mouth

of the tube leading from the kidney to the bladder.

These may

grow until they make a stone the size of the entire cavity in which

they lie. In other cases there may be

small stones which, however, are

sufficiently large to cause severe pain when they attempt to pass along

othe ureter into the bladder.

Paprika Sauce Tasty on Corn

Corn on the cob, fresh from the garden or even off the huckster’s truck or the distant city vegetable stand, is one of summer's choicest treats. Dripping with butter, seasoned with salt and pepper, it would seem that it had reached the heights of gustatory perfection. The gourmets, however, ever alert for improvement, has found a new way to make corn on the cob and many other corn dishes even more delicious. When the corn has been seasoned and buttered as usual they add generous quantities of sweet paprika. The result is not only pictorially colorful, but tastily different. A new way of serving this vegetable, is also finding many pleased recruits. Each person at the table is given an individual portion of butter sauce made by melting one pat of butter and stirring in salt, pepper and paprika to taste. The sauce is served in a miniature gravy boat or any small dish and is poured over a small section of the ear of corn with a spoon, as needed. Paprika also gives added flavor to corn cut from the cob and served either with plain melted butter or with a thin cream sauce.

Today’s Pattern

HIS diagram pattern (No. 8025) AL is one which mothers, with a dozen and one things on their hands to be done, particularly approve. Not only is it becoming to growing years but it is easy to make and can be finished in a few hours. The kimona sleeve which falls from the yoke is particularly becoming and cool and the darted waistline gives a neat fit to the frock. Pattern 8025 is designed for girls 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 years requires 2% yards of 35inch material. To obtain a pattern and STE?-BY-STEP SEWING INSTRUCTIONS inclose 15 cents in coin together with the above pattern number and your size, your name and address, and mail to Pattern Editor, The Indianapolis Times, 214 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis. The summer selectidn of late dress designs now is ready. It’s 15 cents when purchased separately. Or, if you want to order it with the pattern above, send an additional 10 cents.

One of the most severe pains known to medical science is that associated with the passing of a stone from the kidney. This is called renal colic.

It will begin suddenly, sometimes when a person is in excellent health, The pain starts toward the back, radiating across the abdomen and finally passing down along the course of the ureter to the bladder, With this pain, there may be faintness, nausea, vomiting, cold sweats and actual collapse. The patient may feel constantly stimue lated to urinate and yet not urinate very much because of the blockage of fluid.

Tissve May Be Damaged

With the passing of the stone and the damage to the tissues there may be some slight appearance of blood in the urine. In such cases, the doctor may make a diagnosis by the use of the X-ray as well as through his understanding of the nature of the symptoms. If the stones will pass satisface torily, operation is not, of course, necessary. In many instances, how= ever, it is necesasry to do a surgical operation to get the stone out of the passage. In preventing the formation of kidney stones many physicians have recommended the drinking of large amounts of water. Others have ate tempted to control the diet by elime inating from the diet the foods which form uric acid and oxylates. However, such methods have not really seemed to do much in preventing disturbances from kidney stones in people who are prone to have them. It is, of course, also necessary to make certain that the diet contains adequate vitamins, particuarly vitamin A. It is quite possible for the doctor to prescribe remedies which will be useful in controlling the pain until the stones have passed.

Shoes for Fall Are Designed in

Striking Styles

Although most women are well content to patter along in the colorful summer footwear now in vogue, those who maintain a style pace several steps ahead of the mode-of« the-moment are already beginning to ask, “What next?” There’s plenty of interest in the fall panorama now unfolding. Fall shoes are naturally more subdued than this summer's breath-taking footwear but many of the styles are just as striking. Silhouettes are boldly distinctive. Colors for the most part are vital and warm. Although patterns are more important than trimmings, pert accents add novelty without marring the smart new glove-fitted look that is achjeved by flexible insets and the revolutionary new elastic leather. Black comes first on the list of fall color favorites with rich tones of mahogany, billiard green, wine, gray, and multi-color combinations close runners-up. Suedes for daytime and satins for evening wear are expected to high-light early fall wardrobes while satin and suede combinations form a smart new style team for elaborate afternoon shoes.

Heels Varied

Heels are varied enough to suit both conventional and eccentric standards. Flat blocks, graceful spikes, and highlow heights for style conservatives can be had on foote wear for every occasion and every hour of the day. The built-up heel makes its fall bow in the ever-popular nick-proof classics and in novelties with grooved and fluted surfaces and in other variations that give it a lighter ap= pearance. Some covered heels now simulate the smart built-up pattern, the resemblance, however, being ones of appearance only, Other out-of-the-ordinary models are decorated with contrasting fabrics in multi= colored tones.

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KIMBALL GRAND was $725; like new

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1936 CONSOLE was $335. NOW $147

GEO. P. BENT STUDIO was $105. NOW $98

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