Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1938 — Page 17
Does this scene look familiar? It should, because America’s Typical Family pictured during a Mother, Mrs. Nellie Craig, household chores to show
it’s typical evening at home. takes a minute out from
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Alumni of Earlham College To Dine Thursday at Athletic Club.
Times Spectas GREENCASTLE, Oct. Gold Day, DePauw University’s traditional home-coming celebration, will get under way here on the
campus tonight with the first pre-|ta
sentation of the Old Gold Day play, “The Cleanup.” The Manchester-DePauw football
Yi game will be held tomorrow.
4-year-old William a picture book before bedtime. Sis, who is Emma Lou, 8, looks on with interest. And Glen Craig, the typical Dad, relaxes in an easy chair with pipe and newspaper,
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Dr. W. Henry McLean of Indianapolis, grand tribune of Sigma Chi Fraternity, will be the speaker for the Home-coming Chapel tomorrow morning. Between halves of the ManchesterDePauw game, a cross-country ‘meet will be staged by Ball State and DePauw harriers. Following the game, a “mixer” will be held in Bowman gymnasium which will. be at-
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Butler and: Shortridge Instructors to Speak Alumni and former students will attend an Earlham College dinner Thursday night-at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. - : Dr. M. O. Ross, formerly of the Earlham Coilege faculty and now at Butler University, and J. ©. MecLauchlan of the Shortridge High School faculty, will be the principal speakers. Se Dr. William C. Dennis, president
of Earlham College, will extend greetings, and Dr. Millard S. Mar-
kle, head of the school’s biology de-.
partment, will show movies he took of. a trip by Earlham students through the Great Smoky Mounins.
50 Physics Teachers Attend Conventidn
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Saturday Schedules to Be Observed Armistice Day.
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For All, Mrs. Craig Believes
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~—Nellie Craig, leading lady in “The
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Typical American Family” of Muncie, Ind.,, which has come to be conis glad that she is Just average and that
sidered America’s typical town, she married a just average man.
She hopes that her children, Emma Lou, 8, and William, 4, will 8row up to be just average citizens, will be simple and unpretentious, prizing all- things that are real and
wholesome. That they will, when
believe wholeheartedly that those who follow
wisest. Yes, Mrs. Craig’s philosophy of life is a simple, kindly, just average one. There’s nothing spectacular about her views on any subject— political, economic or social. She’s pleased that she and her husband and children were chosen more than a year ago from specifications in Robert-S. and Helen Lynd’s book, “Middletown in Transition,” as being typical as to beliefs, circumstances and economic conditions. But pleased chiefly because being chosen gave them a trip to Chicago with expenses paid, and now a trip to New York.
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While in New York, Mrs. Craig wants to visit all of the widely publicized landmarks—Radio City, the. Empire State Building, the Aquarium, Grant’s Tomb, the Bronx Zoo, the Statue of Liberty. She's not much’ interested in the theater or night clubs. Mrs. Craig was born in Birmingham, Ala, met Mr. Craig at the water company where her father worked. They were married nine years ago in New Jersey at the home of her sister. Before her marriage, she was a bookkeeper. And she hated bookeeping. “I wanted to be a nurse,” the tall, brown-haired, dark-eyed typical wife explained. “I still wanted to be one while I was keeping books. “I'm going to let my children decide for themselves what they want to do. I'd like to have Emma Lou go to college, but Billie must 80. After all, education is nice for girls, but it’s absolutely necessary for boys.”
~ Divorces Not Shocking
Among other thoughts that Nellie Craig has on questions of importance to women are: That careers are all right for the married woman who likes to work, providing she has no children. (“A mother’s place is with her children.”)
That divorce is nothing to be
shocked about. (“But I don’t think any couple ought to resort to divorce until they've spent a great deal of time trying to iron out their problems.”) : That upswept coiffures are for only those who can go to a beauty shop several times a week. (“A’ few
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too. That they, like their parents,
in doubt, be like other people and
the middle course are the
women in Muncie are wearing theirs up now.”) That smoking is all right for women. (“I don’t smoke because I don’t like to smoke, and I couldn't afford to if I did.”) That drinking is all right for those who drink like ladies and gentlemen. (“However, neither I nor my husband drink at all. We wouldn't enjoy it, I'm sure— although we’ve never tried.”
Mr. Craig Pays Bills That kindness should be a kind of religion with all and sundry. (“We go to the Baptist Church regular1y.”) . That it wouldn't be nice of her to discuss politics with interviewers.
The mother of America’s Typi-
(“We voted for Roosevelt at the last election, but I'm not sure that we will again if he decides to run for a third term.”) That budgets look fine on paper
but seldom are as workable and : 3 practical as they look. (“We man-|have. They like euchre befter than age the family finances together. bridge and the radio better than But Mr. Craig always pays the bills.| the movies. I don't like to do it.”) “I have leisure time to do very That the United States is thelittle redding,” the Typical Wife most wonderful country in the world. concluded. “But I find a few min(“Radicals—like Reds, Socialists, | utes every evening to read the comic Atheists, Fascists and Nazis—want | sections of the daily paper to the to interfere with things and wreck children, then to glance at the front American civilization.”) The Craigs do not dance—never
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