Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1940 — Page 19

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Hats Called By 149 Names

Did you know that there are 149 names in the English language. for different types of hats? And that the number does not even include the many names applied to types of caps, hoods and bonnets? We didn't either until we read £The Language of Fashion” (Funk & Wagnalls). It is a new dictionary and digest written by Mary Brooks Picken, head of the school bearing her name and an authority on. dress and dressmaking. ‘Did you ever hear of the Fashion Doll or Fashion Baby? She was almost indispensable to your greatgrandmother, says Miss Picken. In those pre-Civil War days Grandma was quite as anxious to have the latest mode de Paris as her great-granddaughter. Tailors guarded pattern secrets within their guilds. But Grandma proceeded ta “fox” them by having a doll dressed in London or Paris in the latest mode, carting it

off to America and there eventually |:

renting it out for copying to her green-eyed friends. You see, .it was not until 1863 the first paper pattern was available to seamstresses. : This information about the fashlon doll is included among 8000 words ‘associated with the realm of wearing apparel which are defined in the book. The encyclopedia scope. includes a - complete history of fashion, define§ leathers and their suitability and treats colors and their use. It describes real and imitation furs, styles old and new, stitches, embroideries, weaves, costumes, types of garments and even lists some common trademarks. Chief virtue of the book is that many of the words in fashion usage are not found in the average dictionary and, if located, are not defined from the fashion point of view or assembled for quick comparison. The book i§ designed for the average woman interested in using fashions to her advantage, for designers and manufacturers, retail merchants, sales people, advertising writers, fashion editors,

By ROSETTE HARGROVE PARIS, Feb. 23 (NEA).—Imagine

debutantes, well-known socialites and even the wife of a prominent Cabinet Minister, all engaged on active war service, yet modestly maintaining an anonymity that has earned them this collective . nickname: “The Nameless Women.” ~You don’t have to imagine it. It’s a fact. of the French Red Cross, consist-

ambulances, carry emergency supplies to evacuated civilians and lo and supplies to the troops at the front. Officially it is the ally shortened to S. S. A. The popular nickname “Nameless Women,” derives from the fact that no names are ever allowed to appear in connection with the activities of the group. It is the only feminine auxiliary recognized as an official unit by the Ministry of National Defense.

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ENROLLMENT is made very difficult. There are strict conditions

even considered. There are also a number of innoculations, vaccinations and other formalities to be compiled with, but enrollment is open ta all nationalities and the age limit is generous—18 to 60.

forcement of the stringenf enrollment conditions. Volunteers have been known to drive more than 1000 miles in 48 hours, carrying emergency supplies to evacuated populations and comforts to the troops. Up

Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt at Highland Ave. Home

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D. Wyatt are at home at 21 N. Highland Ave., following their marriage Saturday at the home of the Rev. Eldred Gore Aubrey, 1112 S. Lyndhurst Drive. The bride was Miss Alice May Baker. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Carving

ton were attendants.

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to fulfill before an application ist

‘Nameless Women’ ambulance crews...

180,000 miles, so it is easy to see there is neither time nor energy to spare for half-hearted or physically deficient workers.

“America is white collar crazy,”

night. Americans must learn respect

P.-T. A. Council at Warren Central Young people musi ve trained to do some kind of work, “to stand on their own feet,” the speaker said. “Education is the only answer to our youth problem today. There are still frontiers to be conquered in America, but they cgnnot be conquered with the flintlock. Youth needs a background of education to face them.” Mr. Richey warned his audience of the danger of an “explosion” from idle and ambitious young people if measures are not taken to care for them. “Stalin and Hitler rode to power on the backs of youth,” he said. Concern of Every Citizen

concern of every citizen, Mr. Richey: said, not merely teachers and parents. Provision for the children of the unfortunate, he said, will prevent increased relief costs and reduce present expenditures. The problem could be solved, the

| speaker said, by communities ‘with

Federal assistance. He outlined the

| work of the NYA in giving aid to

high school and college students and in its out-of-school program. C. E. Eash, principal of Warren Central, gave the welcome address. Seated at the speakers’ table with

Logan Hughes, national P.-T. A. vice president; Mrs. president of the Marion County Council, who presided; Mrs. James L. Murray, state president; Mrs. Dale DaVee, state office secretary; John Dora; Marion County safety director, and Mrs. H. E. Rodden, Warren Central vice principal.

Past Presidents Honored Past presidents honored were Mesdames Robert Shank, John Askren, Earl R. James, E. A. Clark, Bruce Maxwell, H. F. Goll, and John B. Lewis. The program included songs oy Miss Mildred Trueblood and by George Mayer and Mrs, Mar on Burtt and music by the Warren Central all-girl orchestra led by Miss Jean Lafeber and by the Warren Central saxophone quintet under the direction of James Miers. Mrs. Lester Boughton, chairman for the banquet, was assisted by Mrs. Claude Risby, program chairman; Mrs. Paul Canaday, tickets; Mrs. Fred Meyers, treasurer; Mrs. George Meyer, music, and Mrs. Vivian Carter, dinner arrangements.

Bertha Walton Baker will review “Tree of Liberty” (Elizabeth Page) 8 p. m. next Wednesday at the

sponsorship of the Parent-Teacher Association. Proceeds will be used to purchase stage curtains. Mrs. E. O. Nelson and Mrs. Ina Steck are in charge.

The Edgewood P.-T. A. Study Club will discuss “Are You a Tired Mother?” at a meeting at 1:30 p. m. Friday, March 1. Mrs. Virgil Peebles will be discussion leader.

GARDEN CITY P.-T. A. will sponsor a. paper -sale at the school next Wednesday. Mrs, William W. Wise, finance chairman, is in charge,

Guild Members Make Three Million Articles

SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. 23.— Fifteen hundred White Cross Guild members in Indianapolis turned out three million articles for the Methodist Hospital last year, said Mrs. John G. Benson, a vice president of the Guild, addressing the Texas Hospital Association’s annual con-

terday. Mrs. Benson's speech on

broadcast over KTSA.

of 58 years,” Mrs. Benson said. Guild is not only to minister to the needs of the sick but to stimulate the interest of Indiana women in the subject of good health and corrective living and furthermore, to secure public unders.anding and support of modern hospitals.”

of thé White Cross—aiding children

student nurses; providing needed

a glass boot in the physiotherapy department and an incubator and

and personal attentions to patients

to date the unit. has covered over

The youth problem should be the] .

Mr. Richey and Mr. Eash were Mrs.|. ' A. H. Hartman,|

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vention at a luncheon session yes- i “Why Women’s. Auxiliaries?” was to “Measured in terms of working Lr" hours of one individual, the accom-| | plishment of White Cross Guild|'! members last year represents a life :

“The purpose of the White Cross |

equipment for the hospital, such as| ’

oxygen tent on the children’s floor,|

The great objective of the Nameless Women’s Unit is to collect enough funds to purchase more refrigerating cupboards and cases for the transport of human blood for

Richey Warns P.-T. A. Group. Of Explosion by Idle Youth

Robert Richey, State NYA director,

told members of the Marion County Parent-Teacher Associations last

for all types of work, Mr. Richey

said in a talk at the annual Past Presidents’ dinner of the Marion County

High School.

Sub-Debs to Meet

Miss Juanita Hope will be hostess at a party for the FM Chapter of the Sub-Deb Club tomorrow night at her home following the Warren Central-Howe High School basketball game. Newly elected officers of the chapter are Miss Marianna Frakes, president; Miss Betty Vogt, vice president; Miss Jane Young, secretary, and Miss Mary Mowry, treasurer.

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80 French Socialites Aid Country as ‘Nameless Women’ Unit

3 fighting starts’ in real earnest. A A cupboard costs approximately $1200, i¥ an ambulance costs a little less, and

lances were drawn up, with their

: by the way, were the gift of a % generous American, Mrs. John R.

: with long basque tops a skirt sufi ficiently wide for scrambling into

services of two crews offered to Finland.

transfusion to the base hospitals. The cases can contain about 20 pounds of packed ice, sufficient to

last the distance from Paris to any

point of the front by fast car.

Women at H. A. C. Will ‘Escort’ Men

Hoosier Athletic Club men will be

“‘squired” by the women tomorrow

night at the club’s Leap Year dance in the Zephyr ballroom. The George Washington membership drive of the club closed yesterday. Mrs. J. Herbert Hartman will be general chairman for the fourth in a series of bridge parties 40 be given March 8 by the H. A. C. Guild. Mrs. Frank P. Huse is guild president. St. Patrick’s Day decorations) will be used.

Circle Club to Meet

The Phete Rho Girls Club will

meet tonight in the I. O. O. F.

Building, 1336 N. Delaware St. A

George Washington party will follow

the meeting.

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These, as well as the cupboards, ‘will be very much needed as soon as

the cases can be had for something like $50. : Recently, 12 brand new ambuteams of drivers in uniform, at the entrance to the now deserted Longchamps race course. They were inspected by: Gen. Weygand, who presented a flag to four members of the Unit, whose services, with two ambulances, were offered. to.the Finnish Government. Ten of the S. S. A. ambulances,

Drexel, to whom the General . expressed his heartfelt thanks in person and on behalf of the French Government.

THE WOMEN'S shaitary Automobile Section wears a very effective uniform. A military looking jacket

the high seats of a truck or ambulance, On active service it is khaki, with khaki shirt, but members: of the unit working in the Paris office, as well as the Headquarters Staff, change into a dark blue uniform with white shirt and gloves. All wear the ‘Deanna Durbin” felt, in brown or navy, replaced by an overseas cap when on active service. A comfortable greatcoat, cut on military lines, is regulation, but for all that, even a uniform will not prevent a Frenchwoman from adding her own touch of individuality, if it’s only in the way she tilts her cap.

Speaks on ‘Liberty’

William Remy spoke on “Liberty” at a Washington’s birthday dinner given recently at the Propylaeum by members of the Jonathan Jennings Chapter of the D. A. R, Mrs. Albert

Seaton, program chairman, was. in charge of arrangements and Mrs, Hughes Patten presided.

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JANE JORDAN

DEAR JANE JORDAN—I am engaged to a young woman 25

years old who still likes to keep a scrapbook of cinema stars.

She

exchanges such pictures with women in other cities, each trying to send the other pictures which she thinks will be liked. To me this

seems very childish and elementary.

garten. My fiancee always complains

I connect it with the kinder-

about not having enough time to

get things done. She works five days a week, has some work of her own to do at home, reads quite a number of hooks and I see her

quite often. I'll grant that she is

being kept very busy by her work,

books and me, but then why keep on with such a childish hobby? I often have wanted to see her Sunday afternoons and she tells

me that she has too many letters

school and have taken some difficult courses. engaged she wanted to drop all such work. I didn't like it.

to write. We both attended night When we became I think

that a certain amount of educational work must always be done. This caused trouble at first, but now we are working together nicely. '. She keeps an eye open for books that I like and reads them

herself.

We also study together to improve our English. But what

about the movie dolls? I don’t want to rob the cradle.

8 ” ” Answer—Granted that it is a

scrapbook .of movie stars, but it also is a very harmless one.

has not some adolescent interest

life because it once gave pleasure?

HENDRIK. 2 2 = very. childish proceeding to keep a Wro which has carried over into adult What about the people who

still go back to college on Home-Coming week and thrill to the

tune of “Where, oh where, is the

What about the men who follow the athletic achievements

staid alumnus?” a f

their Alma Mater and break a leg to get to every game? The world is full of perpetual freshmen and who can begrudge them the- _ pleasure of renewing their carefree youth when the opportunity is

offered ?

I believe that your chief objection to your girl's hobby is not so much that it is an adolescent hangover as it is one that you cannot.

share. When you want to see her

on-Sunday- afternoons she has her

letters to write. Then it is not very flattering to a man to have his : fiancee collect pictures of other men, even though they are person-

ally remote from her life.

However, in the important things, such as keeping up with

books and events, the girl has observed your wishes.

She has ‘tried

to share your chief interest in life in a manner satisfactory to you. She has reserved for herself alone just this one little corner which gives her an outlet for. the unobtainable dreams of her girlhood. Have you the heart to deprive her of it?

JANE JORDAN,

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan he will answer

your questions in

‘Brazil’ to Be Topic ‘Mrs. Petrache Velesscu will talk on “Brazil,” following the George Washington luncheon which the Mayflower Chapter, International

Travel Study Club, will hold Tues-

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day at the Colonial Tearoom. Carol Ann Collier, pianist, and Virgil

Clark, accordion player, will present the musical program. Mrs.. Charles Michael and Mrs. Anna Core will be hostesses for the 12:30 o’clock luncheon.

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