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Democrats

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES’ Missionary |New Club Director and Officers Confer TE NE BS Name Party Hostesses

Unit's Aims CoO ; Announced ¥ SO ESRURYEE TEE a | Committee List for Event September 14

Selected.

TUESDAY, AUG. 381, 1987

Zut! These | Girls Really ¢ Parlez -Vous §

French Camp Award Winner

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'M. E. Society's Leaders | Are to Meet At Luncheon,

American Slang Gets French Twist by Local Campers.

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By MARJORIE BINFORD WOODS

American slang has taken a French turn among a certain group of young society misses. If you were to listen in on the surprised ejaculations of five local |g schoolgirls who have just returned | Se froin a summer spent at Ecole | Champlain, N. Y. it might be your turn to be surprised. “Zut!” says Amy Jose, daughter | of Mr. and Mrs. Victor R. Jose, with emphasis when she means, “My | |

Mrs. James H. Smiley, president, (Photo, bottom of page) of the Indianapolis District Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, today released an outline of the organization's activity for this year. The program is to be discussed by the organization's executive ul : board members at a luncheon toEs 3 morrow in the home of Mrs, W. T. : 4 Randall. A board meeting is to precede the luncheon, New yearbooks con-

Hostesses and ticket-sales come mittee members for the card party to be given by the Democrats of Marion County Sept. 14 in the Indianapolis Athletic Club were ane nounced today by Mrs. Albert W, Claffey, general arrangements chairman. The party is to be held

under the auspices of local Demo=- | cratic clubs. | Mesdames M. Clifford Townsend,

goodness gracious.”

“Et comment!” is the youthful |

way of saying “And how!” which | :

Townsend Eaglesfield, daughter of |

Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Baglesfield often brings into conversation.

Virginia Binford, daughter of Mr. |

and Mrs. Frank Binford, and Judy Hamer, daughter of Dr, and Mus. Homer G. Hamer, call to each other with a translatable “Hey-over Sherer” when they call out, “He la as.”

“Sae apatier” is a favorite of | 8

Nancy McCown, daughter of Dr. and | §

Mis. P. EB. McCown, when she means something like “Heaven's sake.”

This merry fivesome understands |

one another perfectly, for its mems= bers have spoken French almost exclusively all summer-—-and have won

honor pins for mastering the lan-

guage, besides. English Under Ban

Amy has gone to the head of the | class, for she walked away with the | year’s insignia award last week-end. | in French |

It is the highest honor

which can be awarded to any camp | §8

member, and she was the girl chosen by camp authorities from the group

of 150 campers hailing from all over | ;

the country, It from being the most proficient in| her mastery of this romance lan-

means that aside | §

guage, she also was considered to be | &

lot

“For 53 days I spoke nothing but |

French,” she explained. It was just a daily habit, and express herself in French. She | didn’t make a slip once, it seems. | Even the horses which the girls] rode every day “whoaed” to Frencn | commands, for they were by native Frenchmen and under stood the slightest kick if it was done with a French accent, the girls | laughingly commented. July 4 Linguistic Holiday The 4th of July is the only Jay | on which the campers are permitted | to sing English words to American | songs, according to camp custom. Songfests on other occasions are | made up of popular tunes with French words. “Over There” and “You Can't Take That Aaway From Me” are two tunes which often ring out through the night air camouflaged by French words, according to these youngsters, “It’s all great fun and a help to, school work, too,” Amy summed up as she explained that she plans to make French her major subject when she enters Wheaton College this fall. This summer session marked her third season at Ecole Champlain, and the rest of the local campers encore her when she says, “We all love it there . . . et comment!”

Miss Ittenbach | "To Be Honored

Miss Jane Dungan is to entertain | this evening in honor of Miss Virginja Ittenbach, whose marriage to Robert V. Weaver is to take place Sept. 11 in the St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, The hostess is to be assisted by her mother, Mrs. T. R. Dungan. Decorations and appointments are | to be in the bridal colors, dubonnet ! and light blue.

the best all-around sportsman of the |

like | § brushing her teeth, she says, to think |

taining the outline are to be distributed at that time, and plans are to be completed for the President's Breakfast on Oct. 6 at the Y. W. C. A. Officers of the society's Indiana Conference are to be guests at tomorrow’s luncheon. They are Mesdames J. N Green, L. T. Free-

and Margaret Laughlin. Devotions are to be led tomorrow by Mrs. Howard Lytle, newly elected district spiritual life secre tary. by conference officers. Month's Events Listed { The year's objective, according to

| the yearbook, is to personalize spe- { cial work. Events scheduled this

| | | | |

B® month include a young peopie’s in- § | stitute at the Y. W. C. A. Sept. 14, &# | with Miss Alice Krause in charge;

® | Woman's Day, annual Indiana con- |

Times Photo.

Miss Amy Jose, winner of this year’s insignia award at Ecole

taught | Champlain. arrived home this week with four other local girls who have been summering at this New York French camp.

ing postponed.

Temple,

reports.

VENTS

CARD PARTY Women of the Moose. 2:15 Thurs. Moose Temple, 135 N. Delaware

LODGES Silver Star Review 15, Women's Benefit Association. Sept. 6. Meet

Needle Club, Myrtle Temple. Pythian Sisters. Thurs. noon. Mrs, Beatrice Doyle, 1518 Edgemont St,, hostess. Millersville Chapter, 300. O. E. S. 8 p. m. Wed. Millersville Masonic

PROGRAM

Board of Directors, Indianapolis Flower Mission. 10 a. i. Fletcher Trust Co. Mrs. David Ross, president, presiding, Monthly

REUNION

Deal family. Sun. Scottsburg City Park, Scottsburg. Reuban Deal, president. Eimer C. Deal, secretary.

SORORITIER

Alpha, Omega Phi Tau. Wed. night. Spink Arms Hotel. Miss Dorothy Thomas, newly elected president. to preside. Aipha Beta Gamma, 8 p. m. Wed. Miss Alberta Sicking, 1304 N, Alabama St., hostess. CLUB

Hawaiian Chapter. International Travel Study Club, Inc. 5 p. m. Wed. Christian Park. Families invited,

Thurs,

Road to Wedlock Often Leads

Through Kitchen, Girls Find|

The way to the altar leads through the Kitchen. It's just another use of the old adage about “the way to a man's

| stomach” but cbservers at the Bride's Cooking School. conducted by the

Guests are to include Mesdames | Citizens Gas and Coke Utility, are beginning to believe it. Some young men have been seen recently escorting their best girls

E. J. Ittenbach, V. D. Weaver, W. |

A McKamey, J. T. Feeser, W. L. | to the Home-making class door. They gave them shoves , .

. and then

| ference at the Roberts Park Metho- | dist Church, and the Junior Work-

| ers’ luncheon meeting Sept 20 with |

Mrs. Frances Heagy in charge. | On the October calendar is ths | annual fall meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary City Council at the Fletcher Place Methodist Church; the President's Breakfast: the annual meeting Oct. 6 to 13 in Seattle; a preaching mission Oct. 18 to 21 in the First Baptist Church | and the public prayer service for { Federated Church Women on Oct. | 26 in the Zion Evangelical Church,

Officers Named

District officers are Mrs. James H. Smiley, president; Mrs. Walter Gingery, first vice president; Mrs. Theodore Douglas, Franklin, second vice president; Mrs. W. C. Hartinger, third vice president; Mrs. Edgar Blake, Detroit, honorary vice president; Mrs. L. R. Jones, record=- | ing secretary; Mrs. John P. Robin son, corresponding secretary; Mrs. | 8. D. Clark, treasurer; Miss Alice Krause, young people's secretary; | Mrs. John Faasen, young people's | assistant secretary; Mrs. Heagy, junior secretary: Mrs. H. G. Lytle; | Mrs. P. E. Powell, missionary edu- | cation; Mrs. H. C. Caster, Christian citizenship; Mrs. Clifford Yoh, mis- | sion supplies; Mrs. W. T. Randall, { thank and lenten offering; Mus. J. | R. Flanigan, mite box secretary; Mrs, Oscar Burghard conferencs members; Mrs. J. W. Meyers, perpetual members; Mrs. Henry Os-

| trom, bequest and devise, ML guest of Mrs. Conrad Ruckelshaus | D. Weathers, parliamentarian; S. lat the latter's cottage at Burt Lake, | Morrell Jr.. C. W. Roller, telephone chairman, agich She is to remain until after

and Mrs. Clifford McMurtrey, organist.

Local Women

Are to Attend Moose Parley

A delegation of Indianapolis Women of the Moose members, headed by Mrs. Anna Hill, senior regent, are to attend the first institute for ritualistic instruction S&pt. 3 at the national conference in Cleveland. Those who are to attend are Mesdames Beulah Anderson, Pearl Butze, Kathryn Hansford, Mary Lu { Browning, Phoebe Hart, Gladys Moscrip, Clara Neerman, - Julia Johnson, Oqua Johnson, Edna Mershon, Pearl Beck, Jean Alber and Esther Hansford.

land, W. W. Stockdale, W. W. Reedy

Short talks are to be made

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Mrs. A. S. Ayres (right) is the

the Women's Department Club, who, with Mrs. Carl J. Weinhardt, newly appointed American Home De-

Personal Notes

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Goepper and ( the latter's sister, Mrs. Edna Mar- | tin, have returned home after a week's visit at Clear Lake. The | Goepper's were the guests of their | daughter, Mrs. Ed Anderson. Mrs. | Martin visited her daughter, Murs. | H. C. Atkins. Mrs. Goepper and |

mouth, Mass. Mrs. Betty Brown Fleming is the |

Labor Day. Mrs. William Miller, Chicago, | who has been visiting her sister, | Mrs. Henry C. Thornton Sr. 3055 | N. Meridian St. returned to her home today. Mrs, Thornton is to | leave in a few days for Ottawa, Ill. | to be the guest of her son, Henry C. Thornton Jr, and Mrs. Thornton.

Dr. and Mrs. J. H. P. Gauss, 3055 N. Meridian St., have returned from a short vacation spent at Ephraim, Wis.

Miss Jane Rather, Ionia, Mich, is visiting Miss Laura Rebecca Prescott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Henry Hayden Prescott. Miss Rather and Miss Prescott are classmates at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Mr. Prescott and his daughter motored to Shelby, Mich., Sunday for William Prescott who has been enrolled during the summer months in Camp Miniwonca.

Times Photo. partment chairman, met with other club officers and chairmen yesterday at the clubhouse to discuss plans for the coming year.

new director of

Shower Honors

Martha Heller

Misses Dorothy and Betty Prosch,

cago, formerly + Indianapolis, are spending a i days with Mrs. Coen’s parents, .Ir. and Mrs. William S. Allen, Cold Spring Lane.

Mrs, John H. Vogel has returned home after a vacation spent_at the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleve- | and personal shower last night for On her return trip Mrs. | piss Martha Heller.

a few days. | day to Robert Riggs. Decorations {and appointments were in Mr. and Mrs. Morrell Willeford | bridal colors, peach and blue. The and children, Mary Louise and| hostesses were assisted by their x Little Rock, Ark. are] mother, Mrs. Ernest G. Prosch. Pet ome alter a visit wi T.i Guests were Mesdames J. M. and Mrs. Ralph W. Willeford. Heller, Clifford Voges and Misses Miss Marthellen Ratcliff and Miss Frances Wysong, Ruth Childers, Ruth Marie Price have gone to| Evelyn Mitchell, Margaret Mitchell, Mishawaka. Both teach in the | Rosemary Ford and Louise MickMishawaka public schools. l lovie.

| 624 West Drive, Woodruff Place, | entertained with a buffet supper |

| Miss Heller is to be married Fri- |

the |

{ John W. Kern and Samuel M. Rals|ton head the hostess list. Others | who are to assist are Mesdames | Emery Scholl, Frank T. Dowd, | Marcia Murphy, Albert H. Losche, John H. Bingham, Walter C. | Boetcher, P. C. Kelly, Kenneth | Cooper, Bess Robbins Kaufman and the Misses Hannah Noone, Margaret, Paddock and Emma May. Mesdames Kern and Margaret Linnaman are ticket committee chairmen. Cochairmen named by Mrs, Claffey include Mesdames Joseph McNamara, John Bingham and Kathryn Marshall. Other committee members who are to be busy in the ticket selling drive during the next two weeks are Mesdames Susan Munn, Susan Vonberg, T. C. Kelly, Dryden Yeazel, Frances March, Mary Schakleford, Bessie Meyer, John Donnelly, Emma Jackson, Mary Seay, Kathryn Hodges, Susan Knox, Thomas Bridges, Martha A. Claus, John H. McNellis, Margaret E. Harrington, Norma Amt, Grant Karnes, Josephine Hatfield and Ada Crider. Others include Myrtle Kinesley, Kathryn Coleman, Laura Gray, Mary Rhodes, Mary Hurley, Grace Williams, Raymond Poland, Elsia Shilling, Walter McCord, Gertrude Memmer, Ruby Scott Hollingsworth, Thelma Kosters, Verna Caldwell, Gertrude Smith, Essie Penrod and Goldie Brouhard.

Rosamond Hoagland Wedding Attendant

Times Special LOGANSPORT, Ind, Aug. 31.— Miss Rosamond Hoagland, Indianapolis, was maid of honor at the wedding of Miss Alice Vance and Edwin Whitney here Sunday. Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Lausch, Indianapolis, also were present. The Rev. R. E. Vance officiated at his daughter's wedding. The bride is an Indiana Central College graduate, and the bridegroom a Purdue University graduate.

CORRECTION

In yesterday's editions, The Times erroneously listed an Ine

dianapolis district meeting of the Indiana Congress of ParentTeachers for Sept. 20 at School 37. The meeting of Seventh District clubs will be held on that date, but not at School 37. The session will be held at the North Church and Mrs, Carl J. district director, will

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Madigan, Will'am Sheppler, Clyde | Bowers and the Misses Rosemary | Eller, Jane Hennesy, Margaret . ad : Koesers, | Betty Baier Bernice | {Bs onsoutaly When Lhe Bric be o rity mass in i M ey “ 0 ! - a . = . A pres BY eo arel Blaskwel, Jean |, ns tie laugh into scorn. And | _ Miss Schleicher recalled another Wey, en uise Healy, Mar- | the modern girls are catching on. | bride who baked a cake in one-half garet Menefee, Anna Margaret pe {of the pan. She believed it would

The conierence is held annually in conjunciion with the international convention of the Loyal Order of Moose of the World. The institute is to be a highlight of the conference. Ritual explanations are to be made by the au-

Dr. P. R. Hightower, 501 Buckingham Drive, has gone to Minneapolis, Minn., to attend sessions of the American Psychological Associa(tion's convention. He is to be a { guest at a dinner this evening given | {by the Psychological Corp. execu- |

Durkin and Martha and Dorothy Shepperd.

Mind Your Manners

Test vour knowledge of correct social usage on answering the following questions, then checking against the authoritative answers below: 1. Should one call attention to a person's peculiarities hy giving him a nickname such as “Slim” or “Fatty”? 2. Should one comment on another's loss or gain in weight when it is not in that person's favor? 3. If a good friend has bought a new hat which is not becoming is it good manners to tell her so? 4. If one has been asked to express a frank opinion while on a shopping tour is it all right to do so? 5. Is it tactful to say, “I've always liked that dress on you?

What would you do if— Someone compliments you on how nice you look In an old garment— (A) “Oh, its thing!"? (B) "Thank you. It's nice of . you to say so."? (C) "I am so glad you like it.”?

‘Answers

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1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. Yes. 5. No, the “always” from being tactful.

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Coffee making lessons are in de- | ye loaf-size when done

| mand at Monday cooking It seems to be the test of a good cook, according to Miss Marian E. Schleicher, Home Service Director,

classes | | which have been held this summer.

“On the whole, though, girls of today seem to be fairly well versed [in the culinary arts,” she said. Steak broiling is an accomplish- | ment which many students request

ww “3 . < ~ ir { The bridegrooms are demanding vo be taught.

their actly ‘how long coffee should percolate to be good.” she said. She

‘dium rare explained that nine out of 10 stu- | him?” often is asked by brides, Miss | is

future housewives know ex- |

| “My boy friend likes his steak mehow can I please

dents in the classes request to be | Schleicher added.

taught the art of making coffee, and for a reason: “Grounds for divorce ported this summer by | bride,” a grin. [ It all came about, she explained, when the bride served hubby a cof- | fee cake, She had spent an after- | noon making it. The young cook, | she said, was a literal-minded soul and followed the recipe. It called | for one-half cup coffee . . . so in

were reone class

Chairman

: Kindred Photo. Mrs. Margaret Linnaman is chairman of the ticket sales committee for the card party to be given Sept. 14 by the Democrats of Marion County,

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Miss Schleicher said, with | ng. | Miss Schleicher commented. “But it

N iece to be Honored

Pie and cake baking rudiments. salad tossing and biscuit mastery are taught as well as broiling and roasting of meats and coffee mak-

“Potato mashing is an art. too.”

seems most girls don’t care to pursue it but depend on a capable masculine arm to pound out the lumps if they don't have an electrical device. “The brides seem to love the cooking hour,” she explained. “But when dish washing time arrives they slip off their wedding rings hoy what resembles a disillusioned

“That, of course,” she added, “is the cue for the bridegrooms to walk in and roll up their sleeves.”

By Mrs. Ossenforth

Mrs. Edwin Ossenforth, 816 Parker Ave, is to entertain with a miscellaneous shower tonight for her niece, Miss Irma Agle. Miss Agle is to be married to James Griggs, Levenshulme, Manchester, England, on Sept. 18. The hostess is to be assisted by the mother of the bride-to-be, Mrs.

| thor, Mrs. Agnes O'Hara. Chicago. The new ritual also is to be exemplified by a staff from the Great- | er Cleveland Lodge 22 under the di- | rection of Mrs. Phyllis Tengler, past | senior regent. Mrs. Hart was elected Junior Governess for the ensuing year at a re- | cent meeting. The junior chapter [1S to hold open house Sept. 16 when officers are to be installed.

Coeds’ Campus Hats

Informal in Style | Chicago for the Theta Sigma Phi

Campus hats this fall are informal, usually a soft felt—that sits on the back of the head, or a Scotch bonnet. Accessories most in demand are wide leather belts, pigskin gloves, woolen mittens and quantities of bandanas.

Party Aid

Clara Peters. Guests are to be Mesdames Frank | Von Burg, George Miller, James | Wilson, Anna Ossenforth, Claude | Davis, William Bank. Thaddeus | Tedrowe, Albert Weirick, Edith Metcalf, Martin Haberen, George Michaelis, Louis Baumgaradt, Charles Stephenson and Dewey Byerly, Riverdale, Mich., and Flora Turley, Brownsburg, and the Misses Marie Michealis, Imo Ainsworth Bauke

and Anna

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Porter Photo.

Miss Betty Lou Wright, Fortviile, is cochairman with Miss Jane Howard for the Hawaiian rush party to be given by Alpha Chi Omega SOrOr] Sept 9 in the chapter house al Butler,

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tive committee, |

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hoover and | daughter, Cynthia, have returned to | their home in Hammond after | spending a few days with Mrs. Hoover's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Holmes, 6110 Carrollton Ave. |

Mr. and Mrs. Claude C. Stone. | 3745 N. Capitol Ave, and their granddaughter, Barbara Ann Quinn, are spending this week at the Dunes.

Miss Louise Eleanor Ross is in

journalistic sorority grand council | two-day session there. |

Mr. and Mrs. Cooke Coen, Chi- |

Riviera Group To Have Dance

The annual preschool dance ot the Riviera Royal Reveliers is to be held tomorrow evening at the clubhouse. Wilbur Nagley is general chair- | man and David McNeil cochairman of arrangements. Assisting them are Merrill Schneider, invitations; Robert Strattman, reception, and Richard Bridges and Theodore: Weakley, entertainment. Sherry Watson and his orchestra are to! play. | Tables have been reserved by! Messrs. and Mesdames Nagley, Paui | Pike, Chantilla E. White Jr, Roy Herrin, Miss Betty Barrett and] Messrs. Gilmore Robinson, Dick! Robinett, Howard Wilcox, Harold | Ryan, Charles Bruner, Robert Gard- | ner, John Miller, Kenneth Keene, Jerry Eaton, McNeil and Jack Scat-

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