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tx FROM MAIN ST. to Fifth Ave, crisp autumn days send women Ppping in Sarnest Lior Watns Wintel coats. #= “This year, buying a coat is a problem with many new angles,” js Clarice Scott, clothing specialis arty of A : ge. “The moment a woman starts ‘just looking’ she notes the effects national and international situations. « ° 4

Hm, are on the taxable luxury list. Jansequently, many of this season's Pats stress simplicity both of style Hil of material. Especially popular g* the low-price. range probably Will be the smart unfurred box and iifhncess styles that may be worn of many seasons without becoming #¥n line with the general accent off conservation of materials, a woman will be wise this year to give closer attention than ever to details of coat quality,” says Miss Scott. “The coat may have to last a little longer than usual. Careful buying will enable her to get the best materials she can afford in a well-made coat.” Many are the details of coat quality. Some of these can be checked easily by looking at, feeling of and trying on the coat. Other qualities gre hidden—such as colorfastness and shrinkage. A big help in judging these hidden qualities are printed .tags or labels with factual information on them. If there are no labels or if the labels are incomplete, clerk or them.

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Guideposts to Shopping

For the convenience of this year’s cont buyer, Miss, Scott gives here me guideposts to coat shopping. +FIT—Youwll probably be wearing a-coat for several years, so take the time now to check every detail of fit before you buy. Uncomfortable shoulders—a collar that rides up on the neck—armholes that are too lotise or too tight will make you dissatisfled with your coat every time you wear it. See if the sleeves aré long enough. Can you walk, sit reach in the coat comfortably? Can you button the collar without choking? For maximum warmth, get sldeves shaped to the wrists, a straight skirt with a wide front overlap, and fastenings placed to keep the coat from blowing open. {OUTSIDE MATERIAL—Find out first of all about its content. This year you'll see a new kind of helpful label to help you. The new Wool Products Labeling Act, effective since last July, makes it compulsory that a wool coat be honestly labeled as to its exact wool -content—the kind of wool in it—and the manufacturer’s name. Also there must be listed the amount of any other fiber in the material that makes up as much as 5 per cent of the total. +A wool coat may be made of new wpool—reprocessed wool—or re-used wool. “afl wool” or “all virgin wool” must actually be 100 per cent new wool. Reprocessed wool has been made up once, never used, then unraveled ahd woven again. Reused wool has béen woven and actually used, then réwoven.,” ;

Good reprocessed -wool is better than poor quality new wool. Reused wool sometimes called “shoddy” may gite better service than a poor reprocessed wool. But in general, it isamot as good a buy as similar giades of new or processed wool. LINING—Rayon linings have been taking the place of more and more silk linings in the past few years, Pure-dye silk, of course, has long been a favorite, but—with the ban on’ raw silk imports—how long this 1 be available is somewhat uncéftain right now. Weighted silks ate short-lived. For most purposes, good quality rayon is highly satigfactory. Such linings last well. Be sure seams in rayon linings are generous and well-stitched. Otherwise they may fray badly. INTERLINING—If the coat is closed at the lower edge, ask the clerk to rip it in one place so you can see the interlining. Wool interlinings are lightweight, warm, and not bulky. Napped cotton is not heavy enough for coats for frigid

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The coat is hemmed and finished off with ribbon binding. The coat front is faced back and was sewed securely before the lining was sewed on—thus preventing an unattractive front roll. Coat lining fits into the outside coat smoothly. Around the lining edges, armholes, and shoulders it is sewed with invisible hand stitching. The lining hem is sewed separately, joined to the coat at the bottom only at the front facings and tacked at each seam. A pleat about threefourths of an inch deep runs the full length of the center back. This is tacked at waistline and lower edge.

We, the Women—

Mother Should Keep in Step | With Times

By RUTH MILLETT . MANY MOTHERS will tell you that from the time she is 13 or 14, until she is 18 or older, a daughter is a trial and tribulation, if not an actual ‘pain in the neck. According to these mamas, darling daughter wants. .to dress older than she should, wear makeup that is downright “tacky” od one her age. She thinks her mother is unreasonably strict about the hours she keeps, the places she goes, turns up her nose at the way the living room is decorated, the way the' meals are served. She is sure she could improve on the table manners, : - grammar, and Ruth Millett public behavior of most of the members of her family, That is the way it looks to Mama. But it wouldn't be quite so one--sided a picture if Mama {tried as hard to keep up with a growing daughter as she .tried in the first years of her marriage to keep up with a maturing, ambitious husband. A young daughter naturally has young ideas, and though a lot of them aren’t practical, some of them are bound to be good just because

» #” » THE MOTHER who is horrified at the thought of daughter wearing lipstick just because she, herself, didn’t wear it at that age, is all out of step with the times. If the majority of girls her daughter's age, who belong to respectable families, wear lipstick, then her daughter is right in thinking she should be allowed to. Mama just doesn’t know or won't accept what passes for good taste in her daughter’s world. The slang that drives a mother crazy wouldn’t bother her so much if she knew where it came from and realized that it was as much a part of the lingo of her daughter’s friends as her old-fashioned slang is a part of the ‘chatter of her own bridge club. As for her daughter’s thinking the living room drab and painfully out of date—maybe it is, Maybe mother hasn't kept up with modern decorating idews, but has stubbornly shut her mind to new trends with the self-sdtisfied notion that what she thought was perfect taste when she decorated her home 15 years ago is still good taste today. #" ” o AND AS for a young girl's critical attitude toward her family —it is usually much too hard and super-

weather. Chamois-like material is|ficial. But she is at an age when very warm, and can take the sting|she judges everything by what other out of the most sweeping northeast-|people will think of it. And if er. Quilted wool is exceptionally|Mama really were honest, she would warm but somewhat bulky. If the|admit tHat she still has a slight inferlining and lining are seamed|tendency toward that fault herself. separately the coat will look better| Any mother would find her ayid fit better, daughter less of a trial if she would : K8 OF A WELL-MADE |make up her mind to try to see her COAT—A number of other easy-to-|daughter's point of view. To do that check details 'show you whether or|she must get acquainted with boys not the coat has been made care.~|and girls her daughter's age, read at least some of the things her

"Al coat that'is cut accurately with the grain of the cloth hangs #aight all around when you try it ofi.| Right front laps evenly over left front. Seams lie flat, are bound with pre- tape. Thread throughout is strong and matches tite coat materials.

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Vatkins Unit

Post - is being planned at Gregg Farms Sunoay at 3 p. m.

The children in Division 2 of tke Knightstown Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Children’s Home will be guests at a wiener roast given them by the members of the JOHN H. HOLLIDAY JR. POST 186 and AUXIARY of the ‘American Legion Sunday -at 2:30 p. m. Reservations for the picnic may be made by calling Mrs. G. I. Seybert, Knightstown Home chairman.

To Play Bridge . Mrs. V. R. Rupp has announced : that the ¢ game of the duplicate con! bridge tournament this

will be held at 12:30 p. m. Sunday.

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It will be a pair game,

Butler to Note Art Week

One of the highlights of American Art Week in Indianapolis the first week of November will be a reception and art exhibit at Butler University on the evening of Nov. 4 at 8:15 o’clock. Wilbur D. Peat, director of the John Herron Art Institute, will speak on “Artists Who Have Painted Indiana Governors.” An exhibition of art work by wives of faculty members of Butler University and Herron Art Institute is planned in the recreation room of Jordan Hall. Mrs. James H, Peeling is chairman of arrangements, Exhibitors will include Mesdames Donald M. Mattison, Henrik M. Mayer, Charles M. West Jr., Amos B, Carlile, Charles C. Josey, James H. Peeling, George A, Schumacher, Bruce Kershner, Clarence W. Efroymson and Gerard DeGre. Invitations have been issued to members of the board of trustees of both schools, as well &s to faculty members and their wives. Governor and Mrs. Henry F. Schricker will be honor guests.

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Mothers’ Groups

receptions and book reviews. A tea honoring the mothers of will be given by the

ware St. “Red Cross” a student of St. Agnes Academy.

Miss Mary Ellen the latter two also students at the Mrs. George Rice and Mrs. Edward C. Wakelam will pour. Mrs. John Deery, chairman, will be assisted by Mésdames Thomas Lanahan, Leticia Evard, William H. Rohr, William Snodgrass and Helen Joyce.

The CARNELIAN CLUB will have a luncheon meeting Monday at the Sundial Tearoom, 3531 N. College. Hostesses will be Mesdames John G. Loucks, John 8. Engelke and M. E, Elstun. Bridge will follow the business meeting. ;

The ZETA TAU ALPHA MOTHERS’ CLUB of the Butler University Chapter, will entertain with a luncheon for new members Tuesday. Mrs, Florence Schulz will be hostess at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L. M. DeVoe, 7345 N. Meridian St. , 4 Mothers of new pledges and out-of-state members of the sorority who will be honor guests will include Mesdames E, Glen White, M. L. Ober, William C. Spridgeon, R.C. Gardner, D. R. Thompson, Carl Nickerson, Charles Hendrix, W, K. Peacock, E. W. McHvaine, E. E. Van Matre, W. H. Roberts, Fletcher Johnson, Elizabeth Thornhill, R. B. Morrison, Lester Morris and R. L. Morris, Huntington, and Mrs. Joseph Gergely, Gary. ¥

The MAGAZINE CLUB of Indianapolis will meet at the home of Mrs. H. O. Warren, ‘5434 N. Illinois St., tomorrow afternoon. “Hoosiers In the News” will be the subject of a talk by Miss Nellie Love. Assisting the hostess will be Mrs. ‘Edward J. Wolfarth, Mrs. Louis Bland and Miss Jessie Patterson,

«Robert Burns” will be the subject of Albert Stump when he addresses the BUTLER INDEPENDENT ASSOCIATION MOTHERS’

room of Jordan Hall house meeting is in honor of newly pledged members of the Association and their parents. Earl Struckenbruch, graduate student of religion at Butler, will present a musical

i of the program is Mrs : : P ? Robert Hamill. Mrs. Earnest man will preside. Mrs. J. C. Goodlet and Mrs. Earl! S. Blessing are on the committee in the Utility

A card party will be given Citizens’ Gas and , Coke

Friday, Nov. 7. Mrs. Paul Brown, finance charge.

ston Churchill): will be re the BUTLER ALUMN

recent books. Mrs. Raymond S. Hiatt, 5204 E, 10th St., will be hostess.

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Brooklyn, tomorrow. ‘A b will hike.

Carnelian Club Lunches Monday;

Plan Various Activities

Club activities during the nekt few days include teas, luncheons,

NEWMAN MOTHERS’ Tuesday at 2 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Frank Thompson, 5885 N. Delawill be the subject of a talk by Miss Lois Hafner,

A program of songs will be presented by Mrs. Fred Green, Gingrich, violinist, and Miss Erna Santa Rossa, pianist,

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new members of the Newman Club CLUB of Butler University

vocalist; Academy.

Raymond Grant, M. P. Crickmore and Raymond Lucas. A fall card party and children’s style show will be held in Block’s auditorium next Friday.

Oliver Kennedy To Take Bride

The First Methodist Church of Beech Grove will be the scene, at 8:30 o'clock this evening, of the

and Oliver Kennedy, sO Catherine Kennedy, 108 S. 13th St. Beech Grove. The bride’s “mother is Mrs. Savannah Brandon, 48 8. 11th St., Beech Grove. . The Rev. Amos S. Bastin, pastor, will officiate at a candle-lighted altar - decorated * with palms and dahlias. Mrs. Herbert Brunsma, organist, will play. Mrs. E. W. Rainey, the bride’s sister, will sing. The bride’s attendants will be gowned in pastel-toned frocks and}; will wear matching ostrich tips in|f¥ their hair. They are to carry French | ; bouquets of yellow. and bronze chrysanthemums and gladiol. Miss Josephine Brandon, her sister’s maid of honor, will wear rose; Mrs. Albert Bailey, matron of honor, blue;. Miss Helen Trueblood, green, and Miss Mary Schellert, orchid. Sergt. Sam Brandon, Camp Forrest, Tulahoma, Tenn, brother of the bride, will be best man and ushers will be William Kennedy and

[Benefit Booked | JANE JORDAN

[By Osric Mills |

DEAR JANE JORDAN—My husband and I have been married: - for 21 years. I'am 39 and he is 40. We have a grown ‘son and a ‘little boy of six. We have lived happily together until about two: years ago when he changed toward us all, even Lis mother and his: family. He never had drunk but he started to drink at taverns’ out SF owx:ond gragually got worse. Now he stays out two nights. a ‘week and I know there are women involved as I have heard it from fellows where he works. He keeps promising me that he will. - quit drinking but his promises do not mean a thing. I love him and dread terribly to break up my home. I have been to a lawyer’ for advice but my husband tells me he will go to ‘the dogs if I. divorce him. = Nie \ : : I feel desperate sometimes .with the uncertainty of his actions. . If I divorce him I might have a little peace of mind; yet I would wonder what he was doing all the time and divorce is the last thing : all 4 person can take just so much. His mother er it.- I feel that she is the best friend I have against him and sees how wrong he is. Hoping’ I am. WORRIED WIFE WD 8 8 ® oh I don’t know the answer to your problem. I. wish I did.” I only know that you aren't ready to divorce your hus band and would be more miserable alone than you are now. As it is your home is still intact and you always have hope that your tiusband is going through a phase which will pass, a hope which is by no means an idle one. Many men do burst fortk: in some belated fling only, to settle down to te conservative lives later. - If your husband knows that you have consulted a lawyer and such action has not deterred him even though he doesn’t want di~ vorce, then it is reasonable to suppose that threats will not stop him. You cannot condone his behavior but you can express a quiet, even and firm disapproval while you steadfastly stick to your post. .. Since the man’s mother is your only egmfort I hate to tell you not to side with: her against him, but it is important that you give # up the combine, What your husband is going through is comparable to a second adolescence, and revolt against authority, the mother’s authority in particular, is part of it. The more you identify yourself with her, the more you come in for his revolt. The wise thing for her to do is to retire from the problem and maintain a strictly neutral attitude, taking sides with no one. Usually a person drinks to escape the burdens of maturity. Alcohol dulls the centers of inhibition and enables the drinker to regress to whatever phase of youth seemed most desirable. With your husband it appears to be adolescence when he was free to cavort with the boys and flirt with the girls. If you have the stamina to stand by, he may become reconciled to the fact that he is 40, married, and a father, and give up the irresponsibility of his vanished teens. : JANE JORDAN

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer your questions : 3 in this column daily. :

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Mr. Brunsma. Given in marriage by another brother, J. D. ‘Brandon, Chicago, the bride will wear a white gown styled like those of her attendants with yelvet top and corded faille skirt. A small Juliet cap of white velvet will hold, her fingertip veil and she will carry white chrysanthemums and reses in a French bouquet. : ) The families and bridal party will

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