Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1943 — Page 11

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able than the effort that scores of our enlisted men are willing to make with their scanty leave time to go out and visit her. ‘ Princess Te Puea is a kind of

Maori Eleanor Roosevelt. Physically she is quite different from the American woman whom the Maoris during her recent visit here invariably called “Mother Roosevelt,” She is small, with a sensitive, faintly bronze face, 59 years old, married but childless. Trio of Hostesses With Queen Charlotte of the independent kingdom of Tongs, and Mrs, Tui Love, hereditary queen of Rarotonga in the Cook islands and

widow of the commander of the)!

Maori battalion that served in Greece and the middle east, Princess Te Puea is one of the foremost figures in Polynesian life today. All three have entertained Amerfcans in accordance with their means. Her home, however, is not one of those simple but adequate shelters of uprights and palmleaves, like the Fales of Samoa, where Americans have often, during the past two years, eaten the pol and drunk the kava that were so familiar to their whalemen ancestors of a hundred years ago. - The home of the princess is as big as an American country house. Its main room, which was designed as a hospital ward originally, is some 80 feet long by 40 wide, and furnished in a melange of new and

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There are dozens of chairs, asin a royal anteroom. The back of each is covered with a whife Maori winter wraparound cloak, while on .the chair is a big silk cushion, purple, red or blue. The windows are of leaded glass, in a kind of medieval style. But

style, with Americans invited as her guests. Americans who hitherto associ-

ated Polynesians only with warm]

and languorous islands, learned to know a different people and climate here in the valley of the Waikato. It's much too cold for a sarong. There are no coconut palms and no ukelele music. The American soon

more: more land for the 42 families that live under her tutelage. '

Y. M. YULE PARTY SET FOR SOLDIERS

The Central Y. M. C. A. will sponcor an eight-hour Christmas-day party for service men with festivities beginning at 4 p.m, Following a community sing and a buffet dinner for approximately 750, the program will begin. Dance music will be provided by the Commanders’ orchestra. John R. Jones, chairman, is assisted by Carl Douglas, Jom Lowry, Earl Schmidt and Mrs, John Jones Cadettes Mary Johnston, Bobby Jo

‘Vestal, Marie Boyer, Louise Bruner,

Hattie Lou Bridgeford, Arline Bonnewitz, Marian Fultz and Beverly Hall will aid in the entertainment.

ARRANGE YULE DINNER The Big Four American Legion post and auxiliary will hold their annual Christmas dinner at 6:30 p. m. Sunday in the post home, 960 8. Keystone ave.

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