Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1943 — Page 12
Members of Christamore Aid Society
MRS. WILLIAM C. GRIFFITH was to be hostess toy at a 12:30 p. m. luncheon at her home for members
ation.
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e Christamore Aid society. She is president of the The assistant hostesses were to be Mesdames Morris
Brown, J. I. Cummings, Jeremiah L. Cadick, Burford: ner and Edward VanRiper and Miss Betly Berter-
Wilbur D. Peat, director of John Herron Art museum, will be
he speaker Saturday for a guest day program planned jatharine Merrill club at the museum. He will talk on
the French Revolution.”
by the “Art of
_ Hostesses for the day will be Mesdames Harold Ochsner, George
Vright, Evans Emmett Hall.
Southern Club Meeting ‘SATURDAY, APRIL 3, has
ern club's annual business meeting and election " meeting will be at the Caroline Scott Harrison, D. A. R,
house. : The program, covering the “1043 ration style” dinner for their food, including coffee. An the evening and there will given during the
ments, assisted by Messrs. and . Foley and Charles C. Josey.
Theater Parties Are Planned
, party will carry out the Mr. and Mrs. Leslie M. DeVoe will Mesdames Roland B. Burch, T. P.
Woollen Jr, Hugh Carpenter, Homer Hamer and J.
April 3
been set as the date for the South-
of officers. The chapter
history of the club, will follow a which the guests will bring part of old-time movie will be shown durbe several surprise features. Prizes
wartime motif. : be in charge of arrange-
: / SEVERAL THEATER PARTIES are being arranged for the
Friday and Saturday performances this week.
, party of six.
On the opening night, have guests with them and Dr. and Mrs.
of “Jason” at the Civic theater Mr. and Mrs. Fred Luker will J. E. Holnlan have planned
Mr. and Mrs, George H. Marshall's party will include six and
‘Mr. and Mrs. theater. Others planning to
! Brackett Green and Miss Jeannette also will be at the theater.
. One large party attending on
Kurt PF. Pantzer will have two entertain that night are Mrs. Virginia
guests with them at the ; Mr, and Mrs.
Saturday night will include 31
: Tudor Hall school students. Reservations for a party of six have
been made by Clyde Bowers
are arranging a party of eight. Mrs. F,
guests at the performance.
and Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Weinhardt
E. English also will have
Golden Wheel Committee to Meet
THE GOLDEN WHEEL
chapter; D. A. R.,, will. meet at 8 p. m. Carrollton ave. of the WAVES’ recruiting office will be
Mrs. Lowell C. Reed, 3544 Ensign Mary Richmond the guest speaker at the meeting. ” ” J George Jo Mess, assembling the current Herron Art museum, will
committee of Caroline Scott Harrison
tomorrow at the home of
who served as chairman of the committee exhibition of American prints at John give a demonstration Sunday afternoon at
the museum on the making of etchings. wa
On the following Sunday, Carl Zigrosser, curator
of prints of
the Pennsylvania museum in Philadelphia, will lecture at 3:30 o’clock on “The Enjoyment of Fine Prints.”
JANE JORDAN
DEAR JANE JORDAN—I am a ‘girl of 17 and I am in love with a boy of 19. He says he loves me very much and has asked me to marry (him, He left for the navy last “% month. He doesn't want to get married until the war is over. ; I love him very much but after I
“told him I would marry him he started to go with another girl
Lit but just kissed me and didn’t answer. This other girl loves him, too.
I don’t want fo be selfish with
three years and have been ento him for five months. What should I do about this situation? Please try to help me as I am very desperate. , LUCKY. Answer—The trouble with you is t you got engaged too soon. Very few 19-year-old boys are ready to settle down to one girl. The boy gone with you since he was 16, and although he may have had other dates during this time, his exrience is still too limited to suit
him. He wants the excitement of
MILLERS
WH [STLESTOP for Toles
PIONEER WOMAN
meeting somebody new. It doesn’t mean that he doesn't care for you, but simply that he isn’t settled enough to be an engaged man. The chances are he wouldn't have mentioned marriage at this time except for the war which creback home. +8 About all you him free to have as he wanfs and do lik yo You needn't cut the boy off list completely or even break
of com n
than afterward.
worrying. JANE JORDAN.
Today's ‘pioneer woman doesn't. even
“have a covered wagon to ride in—
she walks and stands — doing a
job to release a; man. She
* knows ‘hat’
1. ‘Miller's "Whis-
tlestop’ gives her work-
energy and smart looks.
ates the urge to tie to something
can do is to set{gue : 4 any sais espe s f. your he engagement if he doesn’t want you |citizens. I believe to do so. You must be willing tojand agree, but I go through a period of testing [also act upon be-
when you both see other hoys and!liefs. I do wonder girls in order to have a better basis|how you can so]
parison, ' If, after the testing period, you find that you still prefer Sain Other Mrs, Walter Fer-i# to all others, then you y have n. Who and} something upon which to build a Suse! is such af marriage. If either of you is more, son put thef attracted to someone eise, it is bet- nonentity that ter to discover it before marriage ....; Mr. Wal-
The one thing you should not do is to sit home to weep and worry while he does all the testing. You should reserve the same right for yourself and let him do part of the
« |ers don’t care, and to every reader 1
dered cotton with bright green ribbon insertion following the line of the lapels. A green straw sailor hat had a hatband of the lingerie paved in green cabochon stones.
Light brown, straw tricorne (left) with open sections in the crown to show the hair and tiny black velvet bows around the brim. This was shown with a
Clubs a rs Gilbert Forbes
Wednesday Club
|nighlight club meetings this week.
the Irvington Methodist church,
Woman's Viewpoint— Mrs. Ferguson Answers One
Of Her Readers
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON ‘Times Special Writer
FROM Mrs. Gladys Gilles Stern of Bayside, N. Y., comes a letter which I would like to answer here, because her question bobs up fre-
She says: “You often write urging women to think and act for themselves—to be individuals and
believe and go through life as
ter Ferguson. I decided in 1920 that my husband would certainly not live after marriage as Mr. Gladys Gilles. Neither did I wish to divorce myself from the person I had been over 20 years, Who are you really?” | I started life as Lucia Loomis, but I am really Mrs, Walter Ferguson, perhaps because I was born 30 years too soon. Yet had it not been for Walter Ferguson I would not be writing this column. : Married at 19, I had never been inside a newspaper ‘office until I stepped into our little one as a bride. It was his encouragement that started me to work, and his persuasion and help that is responsible for my newspaper career. So in every sense, I am his journalistice creation. $ s = 8 IN THOSE DAYS it was the ‘fashion for married women to be wives. I loved my husband and when he died to drop his name, like a cast-off garment, would have been as piercingly painful to me as to blot out deliberately his memory and that of our life together.
to hold fast to their identities, al-
very great deal of difference what we are called, so long as we speak and act sincerely. Catchy names are g literary and journalistic fad. Maybe I made a
My friends know who I am—strang-
am a different person anyway. .I did not regard my marriage as
used to know Walter well. He was certainly a great guy’-—well, frankIy I like to hear that quite as much as I like to get nice letters from column readers. That's just how old fashioned I really am.
Democratic Women
Book Meeting The monthly meeting of
I believe modefn women are wise|
mistake to stick to my stodgy, home-| : ly one. But this is the way 1 see it.
a slave state. So today when some- |: body says, beaming on me, “So you're Mrs, Walter Ferguson. Ij:
. | Second Ward Democ: Wom-| en’s club will be held at 8 p. m.|
{today in the home of Mrs. Pearl
to Be Speaker For Irvington Club Union;
to Elect
The appearances of guest Speakers and an election of officers will A.
Gilbert Forbes, news commentator, will be the guest speaker Thursday at a meeting of the IRVINGTON UNION OF CLUBS at 2 p, m. in
Officers will be elected tomorrow by the WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON club meeting with Mrs, Ross Hal-
gren, 115 E. 48th st. Mrs. Paul
Ameter will be the assistant hostess and Mrs. R. C, Vermillion will con-
duct the Bible spudy. Mrs. V. C. Wiley will be hostess
tomorrow for the MINERVA club |nethodist church. meeting to hear Mrs, E. W. Stockdale speak on “What We Didn't
Know About Russia.”
Continuing its study of South America, the EPHAMAR LITER ARY club tomorrow will hear talks on Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay by Mesdames Floyd W. Hughett, Ray Compton and Frank McCracken. Mrs. Edward” C. Wischmeier,. 510 N. Riley ave, will be hostess, assisted by Mrs. Lloyd Kirk and Mrs. Laura Craig Poland.
A card party will be given at 1:30 p. m: Thursday in Block's auditorium by the PROGRESSIVE club. All games will be played and Mrs. Martin Sanders and Mrs. Herman Grote will be in charge. !
The MANDALAY chapter, INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL-STUDY club, will meet at 12:30 p. m. tomorrow with Mrs. Herbert Sawyer. A. W. Place will be the speaker and Mrs. Hilda Ann Peabody, violinist, will play, accompanied .by Mrs. LeRoy Plumbley. _ The assistant Lostesses will be Mesdames C. A. Sisk, Bertha E. Brooks, S. K. Grow and Frank Walker,
_. Mrs. Dorsey Dodd will be the speaker tomorrow for the RIO DE JANEIRO chapter, INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL-STUDY club, at a 10:30 a. m. meeting at the home of Mrs. Kenneth Irwin, 5917 Laurel st. Mrs. Anthony Ackerman and Mrs. Philip Hulskamp will be assistant hostesses.
Since Friday is the international day of prayer, the March meeting of the GOLDEN GLOW GARDEN club is being postponed to March 19. Mrs. Ralph Mason, 1315 W, 31st st., will be the hostess and Floyd Bass the speaker, : :
Miss Kelly Hostess Miss Alice Kelly, 3355 Graceland ave, will entertain tomorrow night for Alpha chapter, Phi Theta Delta sorority. :
Wed Feb. 27
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| Miss: Evelyn McGinley, 1501 E.
spool print dress, black crepe patterned in light brown spools unwhite thread, To go with it, a short topcoat in brown wool.
Dinner Meeting To Be Held by AU W. Dr. Sunder Joshi, Indian Slue
sity of Chicago faculty, will be the guest speaker tonight at the March dinner meeting of thé American Association of University Women. His subject will be “Democracy East of Suez.” The dinner will be at 6:15 p. m. in the Broadway
At the present time Dr. Joshi is teaching courses in Oriental civilization, culture, history and politics ‘at the Indiana university extension division at Gary and Hammond. He received his A..B. degree from the University of Bombay’ and did graduate work in English and French universities before coming to the United States, where he obtained his master’s degree at Harvard and the Ph. D. at the University of Chicago. For the past 20 years. he has lectured throughout this country. » 8 ® The children’s radio programs study group of the A. A, U, W. will meet at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the home of Mrs. Alfred E. Kuerst. The group will study and compile the results of a recent survey of radio programs for children. 4 The evening contemporary literature group will meet at 7:30 p. m. next ‘Tuesday at the home of Miss Marjorie Pyke. “Head Hunting in the Solomon Islands” (Mytinger) will be reviewed by Miss Dorothy Campbell- of the Anderson branch, A.A. UW. or : A survey of nursery school educa tion in Indianapolis will be the theme of a prog for the parental education pre-school group at its meeting at 1:30 p. m., March 19, in the home of Mrs. Herbert Russell, president . of the Indianapolis branch, A. A. U. W. Mrs. Emmett Lamb will be co-hostess. '
Mrs, Bradley Speaker
“The Year of the Wild Boar” (Mears) will be reviewed by Mrs. Paul Summers for the afternoon contemporary literature group at 1:30 p. m. March 22 at the home of Mrs. Russell Hippensteel. Mrs. Florence Thacker Bradley, attorney; will speak before the evening discussion group at its dinner meeting at 6:15 p. m. March 23 at the Y. W. C. A. Her subject will be “Something to Hope For.” “Victory Gardens” will be the subject presented for the consumers’ problems group at its meeting
March 24 at 1:30 p. nm. in the home ||
of Mrs. Murray Conner. Mrs, Clarence Hughel, Indiana Garden club president and educational director of the victory garden program, will be the speaker.
Tri Delts Hold
‘green ribbon band and bow. Large discs of hats, one of red felt, another of black straw, were worn slanted to one side-to show of the very effective flounce of black veiling under the brim. Most of the little sailors were worn far forward, but there were eciting new versions of the flower spikes sometimes stitched to tiny caps, again to just a bow, to - punctuate an‘upswept hairdo with all the authority of an aigrette.
- lette, the latter a drop-shouldered but short-sleeved clress of black crepe with graceful fullness to the back of the short skirt. A taffeta sash and bow is par; of the jacket. Prints are always beautifully handled here, but a new record was set in the use of giant rose motifs widely spaced on: black crepe. A dinner gown, draped into a bustle back, sprayed the roses + with the stems down on one side of the bodice, the roses with the stems up at the cinter front of the skirt, the rest of the gown solid black. This wai shown under a short coolie cpat of black satin just as artfully lintd in the rose. arrangeraent. : Long, slender evening gowns of printed silks contiriue to feature
Plunging necklines and slit skirts identified print evening dresses that covered the shoulders in Bergdorf - Goodman's slowing of custom-made styles. This one (right) has shaggy purple flowers on green crepe, applique of the flowers at the slit. The wilst is wrapped in purple jersey.
Sororities— Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Will Have Guest Tea Saturday; Kappa Alpha Gamma to Meet
A ten and a guest program are among activities scheduled this week by sorority groups. 3 The Indianapolis alumnae club of PI BETA" PHI will have a tea at 2 p. m. Saturday in the Butler uriversity chapter house, 831 W. Hampton drive. Mrs. Virginia Brackett (Green, president, has announced 7 thai; members may bring guests. A review of “Time of Peace” (Ben Ames Williams) will be given by Mrs. J. P. Lahr, and Mrs. Robert Orbison will sing. Mrs. Robert S, will and Mrs. Jasper P. Scott will pour. Mrs. John L. Goldthwaite, tea chairman, will be assisted by Mesdames Scott C. Legge, Charles K. Hepburn, Lee Fox, Arthur Campbell, Robert Morris and Harlan Pfaff and Miss Katherine Parrish. Hostesses assisting Mrs. Olin Norman, hospitality chairman, will be Mrs. Raymond S. Davis, Mrs. George Pittman, Misses Ethel Curryer, Agnes Brown and Sarah Birk.
A guest program ‘will be given at 7:45 p. m. today in the Wilking auditorium by Alpha chapter, KAPPA ALPHA GAMMA. Mrs. Gladys McColgin will serve as narrator for a program on Tschaikowsky's “Nutcracker Suite.” : : Others appearing will be Mesdames Martha Frakes, Sarah Jane Hull, Eva Maurice, Lulu Singer, Ruth Miller, Beth Barnard and Helen Sheets and Miss Margarte Chamlin.
The monthly educational and business meeting of Indiana Alpha chapter, ZETA BETA CHI, will be held at 7:45 p. m. today in the Hotel Lincoln. Clarence . Farrington, past president of the National Livestock Exchange association, will speak on “Megts.” He will be introduced by Mrs. Georgid” Hanshew. Following his talk, Miss Lucille Larirnore will preside at the business meeting. Initiation of new members will be discussed and the rushees will be special guests.
+ SIGMA "PHI GAMMA'S Upsilon chapier will hold a business meeting nt 8 p. m. today in the Hotel Lincoln, with Mrs. Philip Elrod presiding. Psi chapter, ALPHA OMICRON ALPHA, will be entertained tomorrow by Mrs. L. W. Marriott, 5715 E. 10th st. ; 4
To Entertain Club
Tri-O-Dice club members will be enterfdined at 7:45 p. m. tomorrow by Mrs. Bob Richey, 253 W. Westfield blvd.
Medical Group To Sponsor Talk on Cancer
Lieut. Col. F. C. Potter of the army medical corps and chief of laboratory . service at Billings hospital, will speak on ‘Cancer from the Labcratory Viewpeint” March 25 ‘at a meeting in Ayres’ auditorium, sponsored by the Auxiliary to the Indianapolis Madical society. The public is invited to the lecture at 1:30 p. m. A technicolor film, ~ “Vitamin-B ‘Complex,” also will bie shown. Mrs. William: Tinne}’ is in ¢harge of the meeting, assisted by Mesdames Matthew Winters, Byron K. Rust, Harold M. Truslér and Wayne Carson. On: the social committee are Mrs. Harry Kerr, chairman, and Mesdames B. E. Ellis, J. 8S. McBride, John Brayton and Russell Hippensteel. A
Piel- Thom Vows Read
Ensign and Mrs. Alfred H. Piel are at home in Jacksonville, Fla. following their wedding Feb. 27 at the home of the briie’s parents, Comm. and Mrs. Joka O. Thom, U. S. naval station, Algiers, La. The bride was Miss Margo! Thom. The bridegroom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred L. Piel,/8310 N. Meridian st, attended th ony and James Ross of In polis was best man, Ensign Piel is stationed at the naval air station in Jacksonville. He recently received his commission at Corpus Christi, Tex, de Both the bride and bridegroom attended the University of Michigan, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and he of Sigms Chi fraternity.
Service Men To Be Guests: At Dance
Officers and soldiers of Ff. Bene jamin Harrison will be honor guests at a dance and party given Sature day - by the Municipal Gardens Women’s Department club. Belle’s Sharps and Flats will provide music for the event which is to be from 8 to 11:30 p. m. at the club house on the Lafayette road. The . Butler - Jordan Philharmonie choir will sing under the direction of Prof. Joseph Lautner. In charge of the dance are Mrs. Paul W. Oren, chairman; Mrs. Wil» liam Hodgson, co-chairman, and Mrs. Joseph Hancock, president. Sub-committee chairmen are. Mrs, Loren Tracy, door hostess; Kosta Maxime, refreshments; Mrs, E. C. Ball, card tables; Mrs. George Holmes, table tennis; Mrs. Paul Hubbell, special prizes; Mrs. Leon Thompson, surprise and novelty acts; Mrs. Hancock, special guest, and Mrs. Clyde Johnson, dining room decorations.
On Committees
Mrs. Leon Tracy, attendance; Mrs, Cadman Starr, Chinese checke ers; Mrs. Elsie Everett, punch; Mrs, Oren, floor show; Mrs. Harald Hayes, talent; Mrs. Ida Gritton, general hostess; Mrs. William Hodgson, fireside chat; Mrs. Everett Smith, registration; Mrs. H. C. Stearns, war letters; Mrs. Toney Flack, hospitality. « Mr. Oren will be master of ceremonies; Mrs. Hodgson will be the flag bearer preceding the grand march, and Mr. and Mrs. Hancock will lead the grand march. : In the receiving line will be Mess dames Hancock, N. D. Richardson, ‘Ball, Clifford Horney, H. P. White, J. C. Starr and Harold Hayes and Miss Carrie Hoag. Honored guests will be Mesdames R. F. Grosskopf, Donovan A. Turk, Laura E. Ray, M. E. Robbins, Hezzie Pike, Harry L. Fo! , Norman Koster and Eleanor Koster and Messrs. Frank Luzar and Clifford Beeker.
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