Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1941 — Page 17

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San Francisco housewives are likely to have blackout paint, blackout paper, sacks of sand, and such materials on their shopping lists nowadays. This merchandise has had a big boom since San Francisep

has become a tempting air blitz target.

Mrs. San Francisco Clears Domestic Decks to Meet Sudden Demands of War Time

By ETHEL BOGARDUS Times Special Writer SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26—Mrs. San Francisco has taken on a new job. To her daily tasks have been added the defense of her home. When war reached over the ocean and struck her island neighbor, it revolutionized her household routine. - Now the hand that rocks the cradle is rolling bandages, too. Instead of counting tricks, housewives are counting vitamins—and the black sateen bridge table cover is doing blackout duty over the Kitchen gistrict above the Golden Gate. She window, has rallied the neighbors in a ~ Mrs. San Francisco is not onlyl«phiock organization,” for mutual doing her own housework, but she’s|assistance. A mimeographed list of taking classes in first aid, home|ngmes addresses, and telephone nursing and nutrition. She is vol-| numbers of each family in the block unteering as many hours as she can has heen distributed. When Mrs. L. manage for Red Cross and Civilian |goes out to her first aid class, she Defense. And she’s being a 00d jeaves the baby with Mrs. Y. On hostess to the service man WwithiR|the nights Mr. R. is on air raid the gates of her city. warden duty, he knows phat the folks next door will keep watch Blackouts Change Met over his home. Every person knows Chief problems are blacking out,| where the nearest doctor lives, and household assistance, and keeping

Oi a nurse in the block has given the children calm. Food isn't much | instructions for emergency action. of a problem—although San Fran- or}

1-{Each house has a ladder that ciscans are not getting one of their

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We, the Women

Go After Man To Get Him, Says Millett

By RUTH MILLETT TWO YEARS ago there were two girls—friends—who lived in the same small town. Both wanted husbands. The girls were equally attractive, and had there been any eligible men around, neither would have had any trouble landing

small towns, there was a decided scarcity of eligible young men, One of the girls (well call her Sue) after giving the mat-

reaches to its roof—and the people favorite delicacies, crab. Cold and are finding they like meeting new empty are the crab pots that used to

boil cheerfully along Fisherman's Wharf. The blue and white fishing boats are tied up at the wharf. No more nightly sojourns out beyond the bay. bi ¢ Cooks are definitely nutritionconscious—though for a week after that first terrifying blackout, produce merchants complained that people weren't buying green vegetables. It seemed that after a day of Christmas shopping and Red Cross work, women hurried home to serve dinner out of cans, so the dishes could be washed before the air raid alarm sounded. Hardest problem to solve now is that of household assistance. Until the day of that treacherous bombing, the problem had been bad enough, for girls were deserting the| kitchens for more lucrative jobs in| defense industries. Now the Japanese cleaning boys are gone, too. San Franciscans to a great extent depended on the 30 or more Japanese housework agencies to attend to the weekly housecleaning. Togo would arrive regularly with vacuum cleaner and wihdow washing equipment, and go through the house like | a small brown whirlwind. Now—

Do Own Work

Mrs. M's case is typical. She had always employed a maid and a cook. Now she gets up at dawn, cooks her husband's breakfast, feeds the children their cereal, and gets them 0. to school. She knows theyll be safe there, for schools are instructed to keep children indoors should an alarm sound by day. Mothers are requested not to call for them. So Mrs. M. “reds up” the house, then inspects the furnace room to decide whether it would be safer to put the children there at night, or if it would be wiser to leave them undisturbed in their own room. She compromises by moving the beds away from the windows. This makes the room look out of proportion, and she’s sure to crash into the beds in the dark, but it’s better than risking shattered glass. She checks to see that the dog hasn't appropriated the bucket of sand that she brought home Sunday from the vacant lot across the street. (San Francisco's Italian scavengers donated their time and their trucks on Sunday to bring sand from the ocean beach to accessible spots throughout the city.) Then she turned her attention to blackout curtains. These necessities have been a headache to every Bay Region housewife. The Emporium, San Francisco's largest store, sold out of black sateen the day after the city’s first blackout. Other dark colors in sateen or interlining are pinch hitting. The next day, advertisements began to appear in the papers for blackout s, and drapery firms were doing a land office business. Blackout screens were advertised for “as low as 25 cents a window,” and black tar paint is selling for 75 cents a gallon. Necessity bred many an ingeniie ane unt aout por those t ckou or sitting

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with the lights out gets tiresome. Blankets were the first line

of defense, some women even lining| & them with gaily colored percale,|§

to make them look prettier.

Activities Re-organized People are re-discovering their homes, to the distress of the neigh-

friends.

my that the siren means “our Army

and Navy and our fliers are out there protecting us.”

Explain te Children Explaining to children about the

enemy is mother’s hardest task— next to keeping them calm when

he siren shrieks. At the first alarm,

one 6-year-old demanded:

“Mother, why do they do that to stomach?” Mother explained

“How do you know good Japs

from bad Japs?” is a hard question to answer when it's asked by children whose Japanese schoolmates are friends, as a matter of course.

But women are tackling it. They're

deserting the golf links to use their cars in Red Cross messenger serv-

ce. Theyre commandeering their

husband's restaurant kitchens to make coffee for the mobile canteens. Theyre bragging not about bridge scores, but their new map reading skill. Theyre accepting new jobs with the eagerness that inspired one worker to exclaim:

“I forgot all about my heart

trouble!”

Try This Frosting On Next Cake

On your next cake, try this new

kind of frosting. It's easily prepared, and the children will love it. GYPSY CHOCOLATE FROSTING

1 cup confectioners’ sugar 2 tablespoons hot water 4 l-ounce squares unsweetened chocolate 2 eggs 3 tablespoons shortening 3 tablespoons butter

Melt chocolate in enameled double

boiler. Remove, add sugar and |forfeited all sureness of getting what

water, and blend. Add eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly after each egg is added. Add shortening and butter. Beat ly. Chill until partially set.

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ter considerable thought, decided to do something about the situation before she got any older.

her job, kissed her family and her comfortable home goodby, and went to a nearby big city where she got a job. On that first job, she found she wasn't meeting any more eligible men than she had met back in Podunk, so she looked around until she found one that was better from that point of view. Next, she realized that her social life would be pretty and spinsterish as long as she lived in a woman's hotel, with no place to entertain. So she teamed up with another attractive girl and rented an apartment. Then she put her mind to entertaining the people she met through her work and the few social contacts she had made. Today, Sue has a husband—the thing she wanted most in the world two years

Miss Millett

ago. She has him because she was smart enough to know that whatever you want—you have to go out and get. » ” 2

MARY, the other giri, just as anxious as Sue to be married, lacked Sue's get-up-and-get. She is still living in the same small town, working at the same dull job. She has even fewer dates than she had two years ago, and she doesn’t even know a man she'd consider marrying. Time is hurrying along and Mary is getting less, rather than more, attractive because the discontent she feels is beginning to show in her personality. Mary still half-way plans on marrying some day. But chances are she never will. Because she

she wanted when she refused to go after it herself,

BEAUTY

YOU DIDN'T catch Grandma dousing on perfume just as she left the house. Neither did she, worse yet, forget all about per-

She didn’t often have the benefit of such fine perfumes as are avail-

and sewn into homemade

If she lived in New England, or almost anywhere the flowers grew, she had her roses or lavender, and the delicate odor of one or the other clung to her handkerchief case, her lingerie, even her stockin

gs. And Grandma had the right idea. She used her similarly i prepara

temples—day in and day out. It's even easier to achieve perfume harmony nowadays.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Society—

Dinner Parties will Precede Tudor Hall Alumnae Dance

ADDITIONAL PATRONS AND PATRONESSES for the annual Christmas dinner dance of the Tudor Hall Alumnae Association tomorrow night at the Woodstock Club have been announced. They are Messrs: and Mesdames J. K. Lilly Jr., Herbert M. Woollen, Charles May-

er and Clemens O. Mueller.

Several dinner parties have been planned to attend the event. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Elder Adams have arranged a party for their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Macomber of

. Kendallville, who were here for Christmas with their children,

Janet, Billy, Anne and Marshall. Others in the party will be another son-in-law and daughter of the Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lanville Brown; Messrs. and Mesdames Jeremiah I. Cadick, John Cooper, Willlam Kothe, Hobson Wilson and Louis MecClennen. Mr. and Mrs. Brown will entertain informally at their home for the group before going to the club. In a party entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Coppock will bé Mrs. Coppock’s daughters, Misses Margaret and Barbara Winslow; Misses Carolyn Culp, Eleanor Winslow, Susannah Milner, Virginia Smith, Louise Wilde, Margaret Ann Knappen of Tulsa, Okla., and Lloyd Hull of Ft. Wayne; Mrs. Henry H. Hornbrook, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Oberreich, Joseph Fisher, Juneau, Alaska; Harrison Young Jr. Tulsa; Charles Huston, Joseph Seagle, Charles Rockwood Jr, Charles M. Smith, Arthur Northrup, Roger Sheridan, Roger Budrow and James M. Dill Jr. Miss Sallie Eaglesfield’s dinner guests at the club will be Miss Jane Haueisen, Miss Heberton Weiss, Alexander I. Taggart III, Robert Doeppers and John Spalding. Others who have made reservations for dinner parties at the club are Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rynnels Harrell and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Whitehill.

Saddle Horse Association Names Committees

THE INDIANA SADDLE HORSE ASSOCIATION this week announced committees for the coming year. E. A. Crane, president, heads the advancement and planning committee with Mrs. Fred Abemathy, George V. Aikman, Charles T. Coats, P. O. Ferrel, Kyle Herder, Harold Johnson, Alex Metzger, Oscar Perine, John Royse and William H. Wemmer, Indianapolis, and Dr. K. D. Graves of Lafayette, as aids. Mr. Herder is chairman of the audit committee, assisted by Walter Porter. Other committees include: Advisory—Mr. Royse, chairman, and Cornelius O. Alig, August C. Bohlen, Charles F. Gregg, Maurice Mendenhall, J. R. McNutt, Russell IL. White and Dr. C. F. Stout, Indianapolis, and Dr. Graves. By-laws—Mr. Wemmer, chairman, with Robert Coleman and Richard Fox; equestrian and publicity—Mr. Perine, chairman, with Hal R. Keeling and Ethel Miller; grievance—Dr. Graves, chairman, with Donald IL. Bose. Horse interest—Mr. Coats, chairman, with Woods Caperton, Charles Cropper, Russell Fortune, Howard J. Lacy, Dr. C. C. Sanders, Dr. Russell Spivey and Dr. H. A. VanOsdol, Indianapolis; Prof. R, B. Cooley, West Lafayette; P. C. Dooley, Ft. Wayne; Homer W. Fitterling, South Bend; Garth Freeman, Richmond; Harold Ingersoll, New Castle; Major T. Jester, Shelbyville; W. H. Kivits, Terre Haute; John McCabe, Crawfordsville; George A. Schilling, Lafayette; Fred Sharp, Franklin; Dr. T. A. Sigler, Greencastle, and Mrs. Merrill H. Smith, Muncie. Horse shows—Mr. Metzger, chairman, with Robert H. Brown, Mr. Ferrel, Mesdames A. Hastings Fiske, M. H. Fuller, Clayton O, Mogg, Verne K. Reeder, John B. Stokely and Dorothy Thomas, Mr. Earl Marple and Mr. Dudley Williston, all of Indianapolis; Don Alexander, Rushville; Mrs. William H. Ball, Muncie; Mrs. John Berghoff, Ft. Wayne; L. A. McKinzie, Williamsport; E. M. Morris, South Bend; Mrs. Carl Steins, Williamsburg; William Thom, Bloomington; Dr, Gordon Thomas, Lafayette, and Dr. W. H. Williams, Lebanon.

Marilyn Richards Heads Junior Group

JUNITOR—MISS MARILYN RICHARDS, chairman, with Misses Frances Bloch, Nancy Chatfield, Mary C. Lyday and Sue Reeder; Jimmie Aikman, Jim McNutt, Ab Metzer, Bob Perine and Larry Schnepf, all of Indianapolis; Miss Virginia Carmack, New Castle; Miss Jacquelyn Joseph, Shelbyville; Miss Sally Leonard, Bloomington; Miss Mary Ann Lucket, Terre Haute; Miss Nancy Moore, Yorktown; Revere Reese, Muncie, and Miss Martha Ryan, Frankfort. Indianapolis members of the state-wide committee, headed by Mr. Johnson, are Walter Berg, Dr. P. O. Bonham, Harold Bridge, Loren Carter, J. Herbert Elliott, Wes Fancher, Bud Gray, William C. Hunter, Dale McCune, Max Norris, George Pattison, Robert B. Rhoads, R. R. Sands, W. G. Schnepf, Gordon Sutton, William Topmiller and Russel S. Williams. Out-state members of the committee are Hubert Alexander, Rushville; Jerry Beebe, Peru; Roy Campbell, Richmond; Floyd Culp, Goshen; Marshall Dale, Ft. Wayne; T. L.. Dougherty, Bedford; George Feltman, Union City; George Flanagan, Richmond; A. J. Hoffman, Evansville; Harlan Holmes, Knox: R. E. Horner and Ray McClure, Winamac; Roy Kelley, Marion; Ralph Kelsch, Brownsburg; Russell Kistner, Elkhart; Cecil Lake, Muncie; Dr. M. P. Lord, Lafayette; Mr, Morris, South Bend; Richard E. Sandy, Greencastle; E. A. Sheets, Crawfordsville; Dr. Seth W, Shields, Seymour; Kenneth Short, Zionsville; E. S. Stephens, Terre Haute; James Stitzle, Brazil; Dan Striebel, Michigan City; Charles Switzer, Lafayette; Wayne Templeton, Sullivan; Dr. W. H. Williams, Lebanon; Dr. R, C. Wilson, Franklin, and Chester C. Wingate, Muncie. George V. Aikman, chairman of the trails committee, will have as assistants Dr. Bonham, Joe Beatty, Mr. Bridge, Max J, deVietien and Mr. Cropper, all of Indianapolis. Members of the Round-up committee, which Mr. Ferrel is to head, will be announced later. The entertinment committee also is to be appointed later,

Euvola Club to Have Victory Dance

THE ANNUAL FORMAL DANCE of the Euvola Club, to be held Monday at the Columbia Club, will be a “Victory Dance” with proceeds to be donated for national defense, Bobby Byrne's orchestra will play for dancing from 9 p. m. to 1 a. m. Both high school students and those home from colleges for the holidays are being invited. Chaperons will be Messrs. and Mesdames Marvin E. Curle, John W. Walker and K. E. Yates and Mr. Russell S. Williams. Committee chairmen include Miss Dorothy Yates, invitations; Miss Mary Walker, publicity, and Miss Marie Lichtenberg, decorations. Officers and members are Miss Jane Barbara Williams, president; Miss Lichtenberg, vice president; Miss Yates, secretary: Miss Mary Jane Catterson, treasurer; Misses Joan Beckett, Joan Goss, Ruth Ford, Eleanor Hazen, Evelyn Horton, Helen Lingeman, Marilyn Richards, Grace Snyder, Sally Stewart, Mary Walker, Jane Curle, Jean Gates, Elizabeth Harding, Katherine Kixmiller, Peggy Lenahan, Suzanne Ramey, Eileen Smith, Jean Stackhouse, Joan Wilson, Jean Hixon and June Hoatson. * Today's Pattern

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Jim Barnes, Stew Tompkins and Frank Throop (left to right) are arranging for the organization’s dance tonight at the Columbia Club.

FRIDAY, Arrange Corpse Club Dance

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DEAR JANE JORDAN-—I am a young girl of 19. I have gone with a grand boy my age off and on for eight years. We went together all through grade school and the first year of high school. We had many disagreements but always made up. Finally he got a job and worked after school until 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning. We drifted apart and didn’t go together for almost a year and a half. During this time we both graduated. A little over a month ago we went out together and he seemed very glad to be with me. I was tickled to death to be with him. We started seeing each other every night again and he told me how much he cared for me and wanted me to marry him later on. We were getting along just swell until one night I started a fuss and he got mad and left. I feel that it was my fault that we quarreled and that I should make the first move to make up. Do you think I should write to him? We often wrote letters to each other. Or should I go to his house and see him? I often went over to his house as he lives just over on the next street. I miss him so and wouldn’t think of going out with anyone else now or ever. Please tell me what to do. SHORTY. = ” » Answer—When a girl is definitely in the wrong it behooves her to say so once and then keep still. If the boy doesn’t respond to this one peace move there is nothing she can do but let him alone. The trouble is that when a girl goes after a boy too eagerly it doesn’t raise her stock in his estimation. Few boys like to be pursued and do not value that which comes too easily. I doubt the wisdom of your calling at the boy’s house or writing a letter. Better make some occasion to see him in a casual encounter and simply mention the fact that you feel you behaved very badly and are sorry to have been the cause of breaking up a’ pleasant friendship. You make a mistake in not going with other boys when you are not definitely engaged. After all you might meet someone else who appeals to you more than he does if you give yourself a chance. In any

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Dorothy Ellis Lists Bridge Winners

Ellis, director of the

love affair it is not a good idea for a girl to be more serious than a boy. If he can get along without you, you should be able to get along without him. No matter how you feel, don’t stay at home and pine.

DEAR JANE JORDAN-I am 18 and the man I love is 19. He is a very good football player and at first I though it was only hero worship but now I am convinced it is love. He has asked me to marry him and I would marry him right away if my parents did not object. They both say we are too young and his parents feel the same. We are talking of eloping. Should we carry out our plans of eloping or wait until we are both older? BAFFLED.

s os » Answer—If you were as sure of your love as you think you are, you wouldn’t be afraid to wait. One of the tasks of life is to learn how to postpone the desires of the present in the interests of a more satisfactory future.

DEAR JANE JORDAN—I am a young lady out of school and working. I'm in love with a capable young man who has a good job. He is apout seven months younger than I am. This is a disadvantage, at least at times I feel that it is. He wants t6 marry but I wonder if two people could be happy when their ages vary as ours do. I have other boy friends, but none can take his place. He is much older than myself in his actions. Do you think we could be happy? Do other survive when there is a difference in

"jages such as ours? ls. 8. ” ” ” Answer—I do not think that]

seven months difference in ages is enough to worry about since you are so congenial in other ways. Regardless of the fact that the boy

lis a little younger, you say that - {actually he is more mature than

you are. If you didn’t know how

Lois Marie Walker Is Married To Ralph Decker Jr. in Rite at Episcopal Church of Advent

A reception at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. ®, Walker, 3924 N. Capitol Ave, will follow the 2:30 o'clock marriage this . afternoon of Miss Lois Marie Walker to Ralph S. Decker Jr. The Rev, George S. Southworth will officiate at the service in the Episcopal Church of the Advent. Ralph S. Decker, 120 W, 41st St, is the bride-

groom’s father. Mrs. Edna Sanders, organist, will . QUESTION BOX

play before and during the ceremony. As the bride enters on the Q-—My family dislikes to use soap after the cake has worn thin, and

arm of her father, she will wear s0 I have a great many small pieces

a gown of white taffeta made with a slight train. Her fingertip length veil will fall from a halo of orange blossoms. The maid of honor, Miss Bettina McVay, will wear a pink lace and chiffon dress with a tiara of flowers

in her hair. The bride’s sister, Miss Rosemary Virginia Walker, will be a bridesmaid. She is to wear gold taffeta. The junior bridesmaid, Miss Joan Lorraine Walker, another sister of the bride, will wear a blue taffeta frock and will carry a French bouquet. William Walker, brother of the bride, and David Decker will be ushers, Don King will serve as best man. The bride’s mother, Mrs. Walker, will wear a blue wool frock in street length with black accessories. Assistants at the reception will he Miss Gladys Morlan and Miss Mary Jane Stainer. When the couple leaves for a short wedding trip, the bride will travel in a blue wool dress, trimmed ‘in angora, and worn with brown accessories. After Sunday they will be at home in the Ellis Apartments at 35th and Illinois Sts. : Mr. Decker attended Purdue University and is a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity.

Blakes to Give Bridal Dinner

Dr. and Mrs. Robert White Blake will entertain tonight at the Marott Hotel with a bridal dinner honoring their daughter, Dorothy Jane, and her fiance, Dr. Edward Cline Lidikay. Their marriage will be at 4:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in McKee Chapel of Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. Among the guests will be the prospective bridegroom’s mother, Mrs. Edna B. Lidikay, Ladoga; the bride-to-be’s aunt, Miss Cloude Blake, Mansfield, O.; Mr. and Mrs. Hernly Royd, Cambridge City; Dr. and Mrs. Roy Ewing Vale, Mr, and Mrs. Richard Lowther, Miss Virginia Davis, Jack Hatfield and Robert W. Blake Jr.

At Home From School

Miss Mildred Manring came from the Traphagen School of Fashion in New York to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, R. M. Manring, 2228 W. Washington St. She received first prize in the school’s Christmas packaging contest recently.

of soap which I can't afford to throw away. Is there any way to melt them into one bar? A—Put the soap bits in an enamel pan and set in another pan con=taining water—a double boiler in effect. Boil the water and the heat will eventually melt the soap in the upper pan, after which the molten soap may be left to cool and harden in the pan, or it can be poured into molds of any desired shape.

Q—Just what part of the wedding expenses is the groom supposed to pay? Does he pay for the bouquets of the bridesmaids? I am to be married in the near future and there seems to be considerable difference of opinion on the subject.

A-—The groom may, if he desires, purchase the bouquets for the bridesmaids, but he is not obligated to do so. His expenses include a wedding present for the bride, the marriage license, a personal gift to the best man and each of the ushers, the bride’s bouquet, the wed« ding ring, the clergyman’s fee and conveyance afer the ceremony, and the wedding trip.

Q—In the sanitarium where I spent about a month recuperating from a severe illness, nuts were served in some form every, day and at almost every meal. Do they have

‘high food value?

A—Nuts are a very concentrated food and most varieties are ex= tremely rich in fat. The starchy chestnut is the one exception. The pecan contains over 70 per cent of fat; the Brazil nut, butternut, filbert, hickory nut, and English wale nut, over 60 per cent. The eastern black walnut, almond, beechnut, and pistache have over 50 per cent; and the cashew, pine nut, and pea= nut have over 40 per cent. Fresh coconut contains about 35 per cent. In the diet, it is better to consider nuts as a source of fat and to use them interchangeably with other fatty foods, such as butter, oils, cream, chocolate and bacon. Most nuts are rich sources of phosphorus and some are good sources of iron, The peanut, pecan, chestnut, al mond, English walnut, filbert and Brazil nut are good sources of vitae min B.

Q—Is bleached cabbage as good a source of vitamins as green cabe bage? A—No.

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