Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1938 — Page 13

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FRIDAY, FEB. 4, 1988 Map Plans For Garden Club Session

State Board Meeting on Feb. 25 to Draft Program Details.

Design for living these balmy February days: Retrieve your gay gardening slacks from the mothballs. Dust off your broadbrimmed straw hat and travel to the attic in search of the trowel. Then restrain the impulse to get out in the warm air and dig in the garden, admonishes Mrs. Rex ‘P. Young, Indiana Federation of Garden Clubs corresponding secretary, who lives at 5734 Guilford Ave. She suggests instead that you find the flower seed catalog, settle into an easy chair and revel in gardens of ready-grown and highly-colored roses and dahlias.

And It May Get Cold

Before you get too absorbed, however, remind your husband to bank the furnace, because the mercury will probably drop several degrees while you are sitting. «There isn't much one can do this early except to dig around the evergreens if the soil is soft enough,” Mrs. Young said today. «The best time to pegin cultivation is in April when the tender perennial sprouts have all appeared.” She added that although many garden lovers are starting plants in the house, she plans to wait until March and start her lants in a cold frame. r Although she is fond of beds of violets, lilies, peonies and poppies, she said she raises everything because she doesn’t want to miss anything. Club Plans Advanced

Plans for the Indiana Federation of Garden Clubs convention are requiring nearly as much of Mrs. Walter P. Morton's time as her plans for a garden. She is president of the state federation. Final arrangements for sessions to be held May 11 in the Marott Hotel are to be made at a state board meeting Feb. 25, Mrs. Morton said today. : On the board from Indianapolis are Mrs. Young, Mrs. Minor S. Goulding, publicity chairman; Mrs. Clarence Hughel, yearbook chairman; Mrs. Anna Hosea, historian; Mrs. Joe McFarland, flower show chairman, and Mrs. W. D. Hamer, director. Mrs. Morton raises a wide variety of flowers, although she is particularly fond of roses. She is interested in keeping a succession of blooms from early spring until late fall.

Dahlias Her Favorites

A dahlia-lover is Mrs. McFarland, who captured 17 ribbons last season with her blooms. She is president of the Indianapolis Dahlia Society. «“Dahlias take pampering,” she said today. She likes to work with them best in the early morning or in the late afternoon until dark. “My dahlias literally come from ‘across the railroad tracks,” she said. “The garden plot is located on either side of the track, but the flowers seem to thrive on the soot and grime.”

Glee Club to Sing At Avres Matinee

The Shortridge Girls’ Glee Club js to be featured on the program of the Matinee Musicale to be presented at 3 p. m. Feb. 11 in the L. S. Ayres & Co. auditorium. Billy Shirley, baritone, is to be soloist and Miss Christine Houseman accompanist. Miss Geraldine Trotter is director. Appearing on the program will be Mrs. Lafayette Page and Mrs. Wayne Ritter. pianists, and Miss Ruth Ranier Nessler, harpist.

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Mrs. L. J. Blackmore High Bridge Scorer

Mrs. L. J. Blackmore is winner of the high cumulative score in the Woman's Contract Club for the first half of the year. The announcement was made last night at the club’s annual midseason party at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Mrs. John Kelly was second and Mrs. L. J. Brink third. Winners In last night's game were: Section 1, North and South, Mrs. Emerson Chaille and Mrs. Ruby Frey, first; Mrs. Joseph Brower and Bert Shideler, second; Section 1 East and West winners, Franklin T. Inman and Mrs. Keith Johns; Mr. and Mrs. M. Stanley McComas, second. Section 2, North and South winners, Mrs. Blackmore and Mrs, Ralph Duncan; Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Peterson, second; Section 2. Bast and West winners, Mrs. R. Ralston Jones and Mrs. Virginia M. Mannon:; Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Bannister, second.

2 W. C.T. U. Chapters Will Meet Tuesday

The North East and Frances Willard Unions of the Women's Christian Temperance Union are to meet Tuesday. Mrs. Gladys Bell, 927 N. De Quincy St., will be hostess to an allday meeting of the North East Union, at which devotions and a business meeting will be followed by a covered dish luncheon. Mrs. Romaine Kemerer and the Rev. Ella L. Kroft are to speak. Mrs. Archie V. Hoop is to preside. Mrs. Floyd Knight will lead devotions at the Frances Willard Union meeting in the home of Mrs. Lula Albert, 1340 Edgemont Ave. Mrs. J. Ray Stanton is to speak.

Carnelian Club Party To Aid Child Welfare

Proceeds of the Carnelian Club's annual benefit bridge party this afternoon in the L. S. Ayres & Co. auditorium are to go to child welfare projects, Mrs. H. L. Sunderland, ways and means committee chairman, was assisted by Mrs. William Engle, arrangements cochairman. Heads of committees included Mesdames Elwood Ramsey, M. E. Eistun, Ira

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She has dodged screaming shells, seen her husband bloodied and torn, and presumes to tell generals how not to fight a war. She's Marion Stone Merriman, University of Nevada '32, wife of 29-year-old Major Robert Merriman, ex-professor of economics at the University of California, now chief of staff of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. He leads 1500 Americans fighting for the Spanish Loyalists and is the highest ranking American in Spain. She is an enlisted, uniformed member of the brigade staff, officer in charge of personnel. Mrs. Merriman is home on leave, to tell American ‘women that their countrymen in Spain need the munitions of mercy—medical supplies, sweaters, socks and cigarets. Morale Stiffened She first dodged shells in Madrid. From her experience and observation there Mrs. Merriman presumes to tell generals: “Don’t shell civilians!” Strafing civilians Is a commonplace of the new-fangled wars, but Mrs. Merriman says the effect is the reverse of the desired intimidation. “After your first shock, it makes you white-hot with indignation that such cruel terrorization of noncombatant women and children should be carried on,” she declares. «I was terribly scared, but a Spanish girl put her arm around me and said, ‘Don’t be frightened; it will soon pass.’ “And it did. If the Rebels only knew it, their attacks on defenseless civilians cement resistance rather than create panic.” Like a Rainstorm Mrs. Merriman became as inured to the periodic strafing as were the Madrilenos themselves. “It’s like a rainstorm—everyone runs to shelter, and when it's over, they come out,” she shrugged. She brings a message of gratitude from the women of Spain for the heroic work done by American girls serving as volunteer nurses in the battle zones. The American veolunteer medical unit numbers about 100, half of them nurses. They are invaluable in getting the eager but ignorant Spanish women organized, she said. The war-time efforts of Spanish women were strait-jacketed by ancient traditions of submission and seclusion. They knew nothing of medication, sanitation or industry. Now they are fairly well organized and have even established training schools with intensive courses in industrial production, so that male factory workers are released for the front.

Play Suit Has Skirt

A practical bit of resort tear is the one-piece play suit with matching skirt. Some of the skirts have slide fasteners—some are pleated all the way around. All are either pure silk or rayon crepe. Some of these one-piece suits are made with a dirndl blouse, simply tailored shorts, and a full, removable dirndl skirt.

Fighting for Spanish Loyalists

Mrs. Marion Stone Merriman near the front in Loyalist Spain with her ex-professor husband, Maj. Robert Merriman of the Abraham

Shelling Civilians Big Mistake, American Girl Tells Generals

NEW YORK, Feb. 4—She’s wide-eyed, young, vivacious and pertly pretty, but her looks belie her experiences.

Raising a Family—

Letting Off Steam Good For Parents

Pent-Up Emotions Often Lead to Self-Pity, Says Writer.

(Fifth of a Series)

By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

You and I, good mother, are always “feeling” one way or another about things. In today’s parlance it is called “emotion”—a better name, perhaps, except that oldtimers are prone to think that emotion means hysteria or depression. Actually it is a much bigger. and broader term. Mothers are very likely to be emotional for the simple reascn that they are women. Today, perhaps, we have some new members who have been taught to view the world with detachment and calm, but I claim that the carefully simulated appearance of poise and calm hasn't changed hearts or nerves an iota. A lot of camouflaging is going on. This is not going to be a lecture against emotionalism, but rather a little discussion of it. Psychologists say _solemnly that “mothers should control their feelings,” but never yet has one been able to give a perfect recipe for doing so. I am not going to suggest that you stop being depressed when you can’t; or Trefrain from being disappointed, irritated. over-excited, filled with self-pity, or any of the rest of it. If I could tell you how to govern vour feelings, then I would have the right to ask that you try. Emotion Necessary

First Nighters Display Whims Of Winter Style

(Thrasher Review, Page 18)

All the whims of high midwinter fashions were represented last night by women in the audience that saw “Room Service,” sponsored by the American Association of University Women at English's. Vivid color, beautiful furs and glittering gowns dominated the scene and a note of spring crept in with the first prints of the coming season. Many women chose formal costumes while others were dressed in the tailored or afternoon mode.

Mrs. William H. Wemmer chose a gown cut on pencil-straight lines, of black velvet with a draped bodice of turquoise blue satin. Her tiny bolero was a solid mass of iridescent turquoise sequins and her dinner

long veil falling from the peaked crown. She wore a hip length cape of summer ermine. Seen chatting in the foyer was Mrs. Gilbert J. Hurty. Her gown was of black lacquered lace with which she wore lipstick-red accessories and a long black velvet wrap.

Mrs. Todd Wears Lace

Mrs. Herbert W. Todd also wore black lace, caught at the waist with a huge crimson flower and worn over a taffeta slip with a shirred “dust ruffle” around the hem. Her wrap was a white lapin swagger coat. Nile green satin, fashioned on flowing lines, was the choice of Mrs. Lowell S. Fisher. Mrs. Pauline Moon Haueisen wore

“pattern print” of spring flowers stood out against a black background. Mrs. Conrad Ruckelshaus wore a beige wool crepe afternoon dress, buttoning down the front and with squared shoulders, under her mink coat. Her hat was a draped turban of scarlet silk jersey with a flowing veil. Simple Grecian lines characterized the terra cotta wool afternoon dress worn by Mrs. Alfred Starr Etcheverry. Her accessories were dark brown. “Necklace” Neckline

Mrs. Clifford Arrick’s black afternoon gown was distinguished by a “necklace” neckline of twisted gold. Her high, peaked doeskin turban was decorated with a cluster of red velvet grapes and she wore a black cloth coat, buttoning down the front, with a Buster Brown mink collar. The prevailing mode for the short boxy jacket was demonstrated in Mrs. Bernard W. Kirshbaum’s black skunk coat. With this she wore a black wool dress with gold braid

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{| some other way. | Just replace it. The big enemy of all happiness is self-pity. It's bad, very bad. But I'd rather be the “feeling” kind, who understand other people's troubles, than the too-well-poised-mother, who cannot understand the moods of her own family.

NEXT-—Divorce and the home.

Mrs. Trimpe to Be Hostess

Mrs. Edward Trimpe, president, is | to be hostess for the benefit party to be held at 8:30 p. m. Feb. 28 by the St. Francis Hospital Guild in the Knights of Columbus Hall. This is to be the last event sponsored by the guild under Mrs. Trimpe’s presidency.

forming a line down each side of the skirt and a flared black felt hat. Mrs. Michael J. Duffecy Jr. chose a dubonnet crepe shirtwaist dress and her black wool coat was trimmed with panels of Persian lamb. Miss Laura Frances Haight's Persian lamb trimmed costume suit, with a three-quarter length coat, was worn with matching hat trimmed in the fur. Mrs. Eugene E. Whitehill's afternoon gown was of draped black crepe worn under a mink coat and with a high off-the-face hat. Mrs. Samuel Reid's clipped caracul coat was worn over a black crepe street length dress.

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Only First Lady to Ride in Horse Show

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Badger, rode at the opening of the Ft. Meyer, Va., Mrs. Roosevelt is the

winter horse show Tuesday.

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HE jumper frock in Pattern’ 8108 is very new and adored by growing girls who like details borrowed from grownup fashions in their clothes. The bias cut skirt and the smooth jumper are very flattering and give a grownup look to this school classic. The bodice slimness is emphasized by the blouse cut on soft, full lines and shirred at neck and sleeves. Little sister looks her prettiest in the panty frock shown in Pattern 8115. Note the box pleats in hem of skirt and the angel-wing sleeves, so very demure. The pattern, youthful and fetching, includes panties. Choose a pretty cotton print for these spring dresses. Pattern 8108 is designed for sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 years requires 1% yards of 54-inch material for the jumper and 11-16 yards of 39-inch material for the blouse. Pattern 8115 is designed for sizes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 years. Size 3 requires 2% yards of 35-inch material plus 1% yards of braid to trim. To obtain a pattern and step-by step sewing instructions inclose 19 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., Indian=apolis. The new WINTER PATTERN BOOK is ready for you now. It has 32 pages of attractive designs for every size and every occasion. One pattern and the new Winter Pattern Book—25 cents. Winter Book alone

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Ayres Expert Says Fashions Now Let Milady ‘Be Herself’

By KATHARINE CARTER “Sophisticated Lady” might well have been the fashion theme song

a few springs ago.

That was when you wanted to be blase. You wore long jade earrings

and tried for “effects” in your clothes.

Very fashionable you were. So

was every woman in Indianapolis. A few seasons later, the fashion baton beat a syncopated version of “Hearts and Flowers.” Janet Gaynor in “Sunnyside Up” had caught America’s fancy. You, too, wore ruffles. You looked like every other woman in Indianapolis. One spring, a bit later, the tune might have been “My Man,” because you wore a boyish bob and mannish clothes. You even talked gruffly, just to be consistent. And you were no different from any Indianapolis woman. Another spring is here. Attention, gay lady! The mythical music of fashion is to beat to the tempo of “Nobody but You!” Holds Style Clinic

This season you're going to be the person only you can be successfully —yourself! So predicted Elizabeth M. Patrick, L. S. Ayres & Co. fashion director, at the company’s spring style clinic for employees last night in the auditorium. There will be trends, of course. Coiffures are to sweep upward, because such lines are youthful and flattering. Colors are to become softly muted. Navy blue is to be the basic color. Beige is to be important, and shades of rose significant. Gray, which has shared honors with navy blue for the past several seasons, is to be less prominent, but still good. Bright accessories and worlds of dashing gadgets and flowers are to add touches to plain dresses, according to the Ayres Hit Parade. Outstanding colors to be worn with navy blue are plum, vita red, a deep dull crimson; cloud blue, which describes itself perfectly; leather tan, a vibrant brown, and red and white. Brick dust shades of hosiery are to be less popular than beige shades. Ankle-flattering shoes, more image inative than ever, are to range in style from the streamlined to the Roman open sandal and in material from patent leather, which is to be tops, to print material for informal occasions.

Purses to Be Bulkier

Purses are to be bulkier. Crackercrisp white gloves are to be as important as conservative brown and black kids. Bonnets are to climb down from their high-hats to assume less bizarre lines. Chinstraps and muzzle or wrap-around veils that give one a gay-ninety look are to remain popular. Dresses in general are to be moderately tailored with gadgets

on the collars, lapels and pockets. Silhouette skirts are to be short and rather straight except in cases of featured pleated or draped models. Waistlines are to be less waspish, although shoulders are to remain broad. Dresses this year are highlighting various versions of the jacket and bolero. Included in the “Parade of Classics” was the man-tailored suit, the “softened” or two-piece suit; the wardrobe suit, the camelshair sport coat, the fitted coat, the shirtwaist dress and the sweater, skirt and shirt outfit which is to be worn with a- gay London square about the head. The man-tailored suit, one of the most staple articles in any wardrobe, has undergone minor changes. Although the shoulders are not so broad the waist is less nipped-in and ths coat is longer. You will enjoy studying your features and personality in deciding whether you are the tailored, the feminine or the dramatic type and then choosing your entire wardrobe to highlight your personality

Evening Gowns Vary

Evening gowns modeled at the showing yesterday are typical of the difference in treatment for cach of the three types. For the tailored type was a pink and white striped gown of modified shirtwaist tailoring. A canary yellow belt and shoes and a fish-net turban with a single flower completed the ensemble.

PAGE 13 Some Ideal * Recipes for Valentine's

Cupid Squares Are Just The Thing for That Holiday Party.

By MRS. GAYNOR MADDOX

For the feast of love, cooking must, be done with affection. And because all Valentine sentiments should be on the square, this recipe; is in order: Cupid Squares

(Serves 12)

One package cherry flavored gela= : tin, 1 pint hot water, 1 sheet cake, 1%, cup cream, whipped. Dissolve gelatin in hot water. Pour 1, inch layer into shallow square. pan. Chill until firm. Cut 3-inch squares from cake. Cover tops with plain sweetened whipped cream and sides with whipped cream into which. bits of gelatin have been folded, . Place on lace paper doilies. Cut, hearts from gelatin with small: heart-shaped cutter, and place On. top of cakes. Serve at once. Valentine cakes With butterfly frostings is a thought to turn any - chef into a poet.

Valentine Cakes

(Serves 12) Three cups sifted flour, 3 teaw * spoons baking powder, % teaspoon salt, 1 cup butter or other short= ening, 1% cups sugar, 1, cup milk, . 1% cup water, 1 teaspoon vanilla, % teaspoon almond extract, 3 egg whites, stiffly beaten. nb Sift flour once, measure, add bakes ing powder and salt, and sift to=. gether three times. Cream butter - thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add flour, alternately with liquid, a small amount at a time, beating after each addition until. smooth. Add flavoring; fold in egg whites quickly and thoroughly. Bake in greased shallow pan, 15% by 9%" inches, in moderate oven (375 de-" gress F.) about 40 minutes. When cold, cut with heart-shaped cooki® cutter. Frost with butterfly frosting: tinted pink. On every other cake,

| sprinkle grated coconut.

Butterfly Frostings

Four tablespoons butter, 5 cups sifted confectioner's sugar, 2 egg whites, unbeaten, 2 tablespoons cream (about), 11; teaspoons va= nilla, % teaspoon salt. Cream butter, add part of sugar gradually, blending after each addi« tion. Add remaining sugar, alternately with egg whites, then with cream, until of right consistency to spread. Beat after each addition until smooth. Add vanilla and salt. Divide frosting into fifths. Use one, fifth plain. Flavor another with 1 square melted unsweetened chocolate. and add about 1 tablespoon milk or cream. Tint the remaining frosting, with colorings to give delicate, yeldecided shades of yellow, green and pink. Just a tiny bit of coloring onthe end of a knife, or a few drops of liquid coloring are engugh. =

Jackets Popular *® Short evening jackets are coming in for renewed popularity. Accord« ing to Paris fashion dispatches, Mrs, Charles Boyer chose two Schiaparelll ensembles with 'boxy waist-length

jackets.

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