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Homemaking— "First Fashions of America" | Depict the Native Influence
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“FIRST FASHIONS OF AMERICA”—that’s the imprint on labels which will appear soon on a group of suits, blouses, dresses, millinery and jewelry throughout the country. Called F. F. A. fashions for short, the clothes are made by a group of designers to depict the purely native influence — America as the
source of design ideas.
Martha Stephenson, style analyst, was delegated to do the research
work on the fashions. She was accustomed to making yearly trips to
Paris and other fashion centers
abroad for the significant. fashion news. With America beginning to look homeward rather than abroad for inspiration, she set about recording the key patterns for scenes and shrines that are intimately associated with American history. This meant much traveling with patient burrowing in old records, photographing buildings, monuments, gateways, reproducing old paintings . and documents and
browsing in old houses and gardens.
One manufacturer is making a door-knocker print from one of her “finds.” The door-knocker of a lion’s head with a ring in his nose was used as the motif for an all-
“over design.
A Pilgrim jacket was copied from 8 simple; high-buttoned coat, affected by the Pilgrim gentlemen. Worn with a high necked print frock, buttoning to the chin and finished with a small white judge's collar, this jacket has an authentic
Another cqllar that owes inspiration to the styles affected by the Gay Cavaliers is the squared off pleated collar on the long torso suit. The wide collar of the blouse with pleated edging was copied: from collars worn by the welldressed members of the Massachusetts Pilgrim colony in the 17th century.
Among the most interesting work 1s that done with costume jewelry. In the group is a wide variety of lapel or bodice pins which are inspired by early Americana—motifs that spring from the pioneer days. Some were taken = from the architecture of an earlier day as in the case of a clock tower in Rhode Island which was copied for a clever lapel gadget; others show
little figures in the quaint dress of the Puritans or the Revolutionary soldiers and still others are based on the utensils of the early times such. as lanterns and spinning wheels.
A church tewer and portrait of a Pilgrim inspired these pins.
The girl who wears a Puritan collar will want to touch her costume off with a stunning little pin called “Priscilla” or a pair of pins showing Priscilla and her suitor, John Alden. If the girl likes a wind-blown look she will choose a
lapel pin, which reproduces the figurehead on the prow of an early American sailing ship. For her sweater there are little leather figures in bright, gay colors showing the figures of George and Martha Washington. Or she can choose old Peter Stuyvesant with his wooden leg and a little Dutch girl as his companion.- There is another of the town crier who used to walk through the villages ringing his bell and still another of the country housewife at her spinning wheel.
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tal stemware has come back to the dining room table as part of the present vogue for Victorian decoration. These tall tinkling glasses provide rich elegance to the table setting. ; Because of their fragility, extra care is needed when they are washed. One way to help avoid breakage is to line the dishpan of sudsy water with a thick turkish towel. Another precaution is to wash one glass at a time. While washing, do not let go of it. Hold the glass with one hand while using a soft dish cloth or dishmop with the other. Then rinse carefully, either by holding the glass under a gentle stream of hot water or by letting it lie in clear hot water in a second dishpan also lined with a turkish towel. Dry with a lintless towel and put away immediately before anyone knocks them over. If you have had your crystal stemware hibernating on a top shelf until it came back into fashion, it will very likely have accumulated deeply imbedded dust in the designs. This can be removed most easily by a preliminary soaking in sudsy water and then by applying suds to the stubborn places with a medium stiff brush.
Skating Party Friday The Parent-Teacher Association of School 8 will give a skating party Friday from 7:30 to 10:30 p. m. at the Riverside Rink.
Miss Fields Hostess
Delta Upsilon Delta Club members will meet at 7:30 p. nr. tomorrow at the home of Miss LaVerne Fields, 208 Hendricks: Place.
Manners for Cooks Without
Manors
You can pull an amazing dinner out of your new spring hat if only you know kitchenette etiquette, according to the April issue of Esquire magazine. Writing mostly for the benefit of the man who hobbies in a kitchen, Iles Brody in Esquire sets down the 10 commandments that make two by four kitchenettes as satisfactory stamping grounds as huge hotel kitchens. not “for men only.” With these rules in mind, a woman should: be able to dish up the fanciest of the gourmet treats in a miniature kitchen. 1. Plan your dinner carefully, in advance. 2. Prepare the course in chronological order (that is, prepare your soup and other things that may be reheated, and in fact gain in flavor by reheating, and lay them aside in the refrigerator). 3. Prepare all raw ingredients beforehand; set them aside, and clear the kitchen of all debris. 4. Use a pressure cooker in the kitchenette * for vegetables; they work very fast. : - 5. Wash the salad in advance and put it in the refrigerator where it will stay erisp, and make your salad dressing in advance, but always fresh and just enough for the occasion. Don’t ever put salad dressing away for another meal. 6. Serve cheese either on the same plate with salad, or serve dessert and then no cheese. Don’t serve both. (This may save you a set. of platgs.) To give the meal a sweet flavor, serve liqueur with the black coffee. 7. Do not serve butter and bread —there is no space for bread and butter plates. Besides, there is a generous amount of butter in good focd. It is a bad habit to stuff oneself with bread. and butter between courses. Just place a piece of bread on the napkin of each diner. 8. Pile the used dishes in the sink and let the hot water run over them for a time; forget about them until the morning, when you will find them easier to do, or if you, have a maid, she’ll find them ready to scrub. . 8.. Do not try to be pretentious and serve too elaborate a meal. 10. Be unselfish and get up toward the end of the meal and start the coffee, Naturally, always make it Iresh,
Zillson to Talk On Greece
Activities planned by the Womans Lecture Club include a talk Friday by William Zillson, attorney, on “The Glory of Greece” and two card parties for Greek War Relief at 2 and 8 p. m. Wednesday in the Mearott Hotel. Other clubs and organizations of the city are co-operating with the Lecture Club with plans for the parties. Proceeds will go to the Greek War Relief Association in memory of the late Mrs. Demarchus C. Brown, who was chairman of the local branch at the time of her death this winter. Mrs. Lee R. Reed, general chairman, has appointed the following committees: Mrs. Norman Loomis, cards and tables; Mrs. Lee Ingling, special prizes; Mrs. E. D. Mackey and Mrs. R. C. Howenstein, tickets; Mrs. A. H. Moore and Mrs. J. W. Parrett, table prizes; Mrs. Harry Spurgeon and Mrs. Earl Bach, reservations; Mesdames Albert Michel, S. W. Downing, Walter Rose, A. H. Warne, Louis Bernatz, C. H. Klais-
ler, Gilbert Harris and Harry Sharp, hostesses.
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Vegetable Garden Can Be Hobby |And Military
Prize winners both!
(Third of a Series)
By HENRY PREE Times Special Writer HEALTHFUL, soothing hobby can be an aid to the family budget, also, in the creation of a home vegetable garden. An added
|advantage is that in it you may
produce for your family the new and choice varieties of vegetables. Unless you have much land for this purpose and many helping hands, it is advisable not to plant staple vegetables that can be purchased at the stores. Plant only what the family wants, and can be consumed and canned.
Choose a site which permits planting long north and south rows. As the summer sun moves from east to west, it shines on both sides of north-south rows, but only on one side of the east-west rows.
The soil should be well prepared; that is, loosened to a depth of eight to 10 inches, cleaned of all objectionable matter and with manure and plant food added. Remember that leafy vegetables need a fertilizer strong in nitrogen such as a 10-6-4 mixture, while others, like potatoes and carrots, should have food strong in phosphorus, as in a 4-12-4 mixture. Plan your garden! Perennial vegetables such as asparagus, rhubarb and artichokes should be grouped at one end or side near the tool shed, water supply, hotbeds and cold frames. Tall growing vegetables should 'be planted on the north side so as not to cast shade on the lower growing sorts. ”
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Selection Is Recommended
THERE are many fine varieties of vegetable seeds, but this article will mention only the All-America Selection for 1941. SWEET BANANA PEPPER is a very early, heavy cropping, long
pointed ~ellow pepper with thick and very sweet flesh. Its pods, which measure about 6% by 1% inches, turn bright red at maturity.
{ket garden snap bean.
Cos type Bavarian endive, left, and tender pod bush bean.
YANKEE HYBRID S8QUASH looks about the same as the previous winners Early Prolific Straightneck a n d Connecticut Straightneck, but it averaged a week earlier and was more productive. It has superior, hybrid vigor, uniformity of yellow fruit and heavy bearing. . VICTOR TOMATO is a cross between All-red and Break o’Day. It gives us a vigorous, compact plant, allowing closer planting than staadard varieties, is extra early, evenripening, uniform scarlet coloring over the whole fruit, and is selfpruning. ALLEGHENY HYBRID SWEET CORN is the new medium late variety of medium yellow color and with 18 to 22 rows of deep, very narrow grain. The plant is ‘tall, vigorous, dark green and a prolific bearer of large ears.
TENDER POD BUSH BEAN is a new high yielding, home and marIts plants are medium sized and very sturdy. Heavy bearing comes medium early, with medium length, round, rich green, stringless pods at all stages. Tender Pod is tender and of fine quality. : »
New Endive Featured
HONEY GOLD CANTALOUPE is recommended for the northern tier of states, protected Canadian locations and other short season situations. COS-TYPE BAVARIAN ENDIVE brings us a new broadleaf escarolle type with upright growth. The leaves are longer and wider than the previous winner, Full Heart, standing erect and folding in at the top like Cos Lettuce. It is distinct; its heart is full and well-blanched. SPANCROSS HYBRID SWEET CORN, another Connecticut variety, is valuable for extreme earliness and shore-season sections, although flavor is somewhat lacking. Spancross is resistant to bacterial wilt and is cold-hardy, for earliest spring planting. It matures in 64 days in central sections, and the six to seven-inch ears have 12 rows of grain.
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JANE JORDAN
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Booth Tarkington, as a member of the board of directors of the
Indianapolis Art Association, has written an open letter of appreciation to Mrs. James W. Fesler, association president, upon the recent completion of the John Herron Art Museum’s interior remodeling. The famed Indiana author says: “This change, this rebirth of a noble institution, accomplished in part by means of the McDonald (Mrs. Josephine Farnsworth McDonald) bequest, has been in your hands from the beginning to the end .. . “It is from them (your assistants), never from yourself, that we learn of your continuous daily toil, of your sacrifices of time and energy, of your constantly correct decisions, and of the unlimited financial gen-
WALTER GIESEKING
The great pianist says: “It has the most beautiful tone I have ever heard in a piano.” —Walter Gieseking.
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Answer—A physician would be much more capable of advising you correctly than I. I do not know how urgent the change may be in his case. Plenty of people get cured of tuberculosis right here in
Separation between married couples isn’t always fatal. real love and congeniality exists it always survives the separation. Many couples have been parted longer than two months by illness without ceasing to love each other. For the present, do whatever is best for your husband's health and work out your other problems
are more mature at 18 than others. others bewail their lost youth. The young man is 23 years old, and if he is financially able to marry soon, he will not enjoy waiting until the girl thinks she is old enough to assume her responsibilities. You have his side of the question to consider, too. No one can decide for you. You must make up your mind alone.
17 years old, married, and have a
baby 11 months old. Recently we found out that my husband, who is 20 years old, has tuberculosis and should go west. He thinks he could make enough to support himself. I am willing to go and live with his parents and find work to keep the baby and myself. He thinks he could send for us in two months, but he won't go unless
I've heard that things like this break up marriages. We're both very much in love with each other now. Do you think it wise for me to let him go or should I insist on waiting a year or two until we have enough money saved so that both of us can go at once? His cough seems to get worse every day and he is losing weight. I love him so I hate to be parted from him even for a short time.
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tuberculosis sanitarium for a cure
while you get a job and support yourself and baby? As I understand it, the benefit derived from a change of climate
enough fresh air and sunshine in able to get the proper amount of
There may be factors in your husband’s case which I do not know. If your doctor says the West is the place for him, then what You wouldn't want the responsibility of refusing for if things didn’t turn out well you would regret your
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DEAR JANE JORDAN—I am a girl of 18, very much in love with a man of 23. Although we are not engaged, we have discussed
to get married in the near future.
I want to wait until I am at least 20. -I think that is plenty young for a girl to get married. I do want to marry him and would not I have gone with him for over a ye. and a half. He makes good money and it would be unnecessary for me to work if we got married. Do you think it wise
for me to marry am older? RUTH. ” '
which I can’t answer. Some girls Some can settle down and
JANE JORDAN.
Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer your questions . in this column daily.
Tarkington Praises Institute
erosity that saw the work done as it needed to be done and carried it through to the triumphant conclusion now visible to the eyes of your fellow citizens. 3 “Today, after many months of expended intelligence, - labor and money, Indianapolis has a modern and beautiful Museum of the Fine Arts, a place of revelation wherein a schoolboy or a connoisseur or ‘the common man’ may find pleasures and profits that are not: elsewhere.”
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Annual Purim
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The 29th annual Purim and Military Ball, sponsored by the Jewish Educational Association, will be giv-
‘len Sunday evening at the Kirsh-
baum Center. Service men will be guests and invited through the local Jewish Welfare Board Army and Navy Committee, a branch of the national organization which looks after the social welfare needs of Army and Navy men in this country and its possessions. An Ameri-Conga Revue, at which Phil Levan will be master of ceremonies, will be given. A flag presentation by the color guard of the Jewish War Veterans and a Boy Scout drum and bugle corps will open the program. The National Anthem will be sung by the audience. The Conga chorus is composed of Miss Sophie Levy, Miss Doris Sarfaty, Miss Mimi Bluestein, Miss Ginger Pinkus, Miss Sylvia Hochman and Miss Lee Nahmias, Miss Jacqueline Karsh, toe dancer, will present a patriotic number, “America I Love You” and the “Cycle of Dances” will be given by William Holmes and Miss Mavis Moore, Arthur Murray dancers. Other cast members are Miss Nancy Evans, vocalist with the Biltmore Boys; Dr. Harold Jaffe, violinist; Bertha Abravaya in “The South American Way”; William Levin, impersonations; Morris Mitchell, special numbers, and Melvin Unger, soloist with the Indiana University Glee Club. Ben Blieden, Sam Marcus and Ben Shalansky will present their
‘| versions of the Conga in minstrel
style and Bill Hart's orchestra will play for both the show and dance. Gammg, Alpha Beta Fraternity will give a quiz skit during the dance intermission. Those who will participate are Sid Tuchman, James Schwartz, Sanford Rothschild, Joseph - Baer, Bernard Nathanson, William Berger, Harris Sentir, Stuart Schwartz, Herbert Marer, Marvin Markowitz, Morris Jacobs, Sid Litvak and Sid Goldberg. Mrs. Herman Chalfie and Aaron Ungar are co-chairmen for the ball. Committee chairmen include Mrs. Harold I. Platt, Seymour Pinkus, Mrs. Louis Silverman, David Hollander, Leo Talesnick, Miss Jean Joffee, Mrs. Jack Fogle, Mrs. Rudolph Domont, Julius Falander, H. T. Cohen, Dr. Philip Fallander, Max Plesser, Philip Greenwald, Edward Dayan, Harry S. Joseph. Mrs. Roy Leve is in charge of dance routines. The first Purim ball was held in 1912. The association operates the Hebrew School System of the city.
Welfare Club's Party Booked
April 16 has been set as the date for the Welfare Club's annual spring card party. Plans for the party to be held at 2:15 p. m. in Block’s auditorium were made at a recent meeting at the home of Mrs. Frank J. Haight, 145 Fall Creek Blvd. Officers elected at the same meeting are Mrs. Raleigh Fisher, president; Mrs. Harry Kuhn, first vice president; Mrs. G. G. Schmidt, second vice president; Mrs. William Bartlett, third vice president; Mrs. Paul M. Goldrick, recording secretary; Mrs. R. A. Holcomb, assistant recording secretary; Mrs. Frank Gleaves, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. F. F. Rumple, treasurer. Mesdames Goldrick, Holcomb and Gleaves were re-elected. Directors chosen are Mesedames Major Poole, W. R. Hatton, Ralph Middleton, O. L. Hatton Sr. and J. R. Davidson.
St. Patrick’s Day
Dance Planned
The annual St. Patrick's Day dance of the Medical and Dental Business Bureau's Employers’ Association will be held Friday night at the Lake Shore Country Club and will feature Harry Bason’s orchestra. M. Bedford Zumpe, president of the organization, has appointed John Duncan in charge of entertainment and ticket sales for the dance.
Osriec Mills Watkins Auxiliary to Meet
The Pan-American Union will be discussed tomorrow at a meeting of the Osric Mills Watkins Unit, American Legion Auxiliary, by Mesdames David Munro, Paul Rhoadarmer and Al G. Feist. The program and- a business meeting directed by Mrs. Clinton J. Ancker will follow a 12:30 o'clock luncheon with Mrs. Lynn Knowlton, 3357 Broadway, as hostess, and Mrs. O. D. Waldon as co-hostess . Reports will be given by Mrs. H. E. Taylor on community service work, by Mrs. R. D. McDaniel on the recent 12th district meeting, by Mrs. John Ross on child welfare activities and Mrs. Kurt Schmidt on rehabilitation. Mrs. Ancker will appoint a nominating committee.
Tr: Chis to Meet
Alpha Chapter of Tri Chi Sorority will hold a social meeting at 7:30 o'clock this evening at the home of Miss Mary Lou Rasico, 622 N. DeQuincy St.
Box Social Scheduled
The Flying Devils Skating Club will have a box social Friday at 8 p. m. in the hall, 701 N, King Ave.
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Auxiliary Notes Annyversary
The Juvenile Detention Home Auxiliary’s birthday luncheon at 12:30 o'clock Monday in the Central Y. W. C. A. will be followed by a talk on “Girls of the Y. W. C. A.” by Miss Essie L. Maguire, of the Y. W. staff. : Mrs. Irvin Yeagy, Auxiliary president, has calleg a board meeting for 11 a. m. precéding the luncheon. She will preside at an election of officers and directors during the afternoon. Luncheon arrangements have been made by Mrs. Walter H. Geisel and Mrs. W. G. Stayton. Mrs. Donald Smith is receiving reservations until Friday noon, Twelve Indianapolis women were charter members of the Auxiliary, founded by Mrs. William H. Hodgson in March, 1935. Its philanthropic work at the Home is now aided by 13 affiliated clubs.
Sponsor Card Party
A card party will be sponsored at 7:30 p. m, tomorrow in the hall at Hoyt Ave. and S. State St., by the Ladies’ Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Firemen and Locomotive Engineers. Mrs. J. B, Correll will
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