Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1947 — Page 15

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* MONDAY, JULY 21, 1947

nternational

Sets Meeting In Toronto

Bloomington Woman

Planning tp Attend WASHINGTON, July 21.-Two hundred delegates of the American’ & Association of University Women . will join representatives from 30! other countries at the first post-| war conference of the International Federation of University Women at

This will be the first time the, I. F.U. W.conference has been held outside Europe. Conferences are! scheduled at three-year intervals, but none could he held during the war. The Jast one was in Stock-. hoim in 193%. i Since V-E day, 26 of the 40 National Associations of University Women formerly affiliated with the I. FP. U. W., have become active again in the organization, the maJority with a membership greater than before the war. i Czechoslovakia, Greece, Hungary, Austria and Italy are seeking readmission at the Toronto meeting Associations’ in China and the Philippines are applying for affiliation as new members. i Dr. Stanislawa Adamowicz of the Btate School of Hygiene at Warsaw. Poland, is president of the I. F. U.. W. Other officers ge Prof. Karin Kock, Stockholm, | Sweden; Mlle. Germaine Hanne-| * vart, Brussels, and Dr. J. Eder, | Zurich, Swifgerland, first, second | and third vice presidents.

National President

Will Be Delegate | The new national president of! the A. A. U. W, Dr. Althea Kratz| Hottel of the University of Penn-| sylvania, will attend the conference | as a voting delegate. ! Dr. Helen C. White of ®the ‘Uni- ~ versity of Wisconsin, who served as A. A. UW, president during the last six years, will be one of the principal speakers. She will’ address the conference on the cultural significance of UNESCO. Dr. White served as a consultant to the preparatory commission to, UNESCO in London and Paris last summer,

JUVENILE AUXILIARY

will ‘center around the work of | UNESCO and the relationship of | _' etree

this international, educational and | Frances Zo ok

cultural organization to the I. F. U. UNESCO have invited the co-| \X/ 1 WwW operation of non-governmental in. | : 1 Be ed

" ternational agericies.

Several distinguished ‘women from | To M Ir . Ko n k | c |

the American association have been invited to lead special interest! An informal ceremony will unite] discussions at the Toronto confer- | Miss Frances Barbara Zook and] ence. Robert Keith Konkle at 4:30 p. m.| Among them are Dr. Nancy Scott, [today in McKee chapel of the Tab- | professor of Russian history at ernacle Presbyterian church. The Western Michigan State Teachers |Rev. Harry R. Mercer will officiate. | college, Kalamazoo; Dr. Jeanette| Mr. and Mrs. Clair Zook, 3213 Col- | Nichols, Swarthmore, Pa. dis-|lege ave. are the .parents of the! tinguished economist and historian; | bride, and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie, Dr. Elizabeth L. ,Fackt, assistant | Konkle, Versailles, are the bridedirector of the Social Science foun- | groom's parents. . dation, University of Denver, and | Mr. and Mrs. Frank Konkle will Judge Dorothy Kenyon, New York, be the attendants. Mrs. Konkle will! second vice president of A. A. U. W. be dressed in a pastel blue shantung

Mrs. R. W. Holmstedt - dress- with white accessories.

* . The bride will wear a white gabWill Attend Meeting Uw ardine suit with navy blue accestoting delegates” will clude’ Dr. 075, HU Tel Wb, Nhe White; Dr. Kathryn McHale, Wash- | be : oe ington; Dr. Louise Pearce, Princeton, N. J, and Dr. Hope Hibbard Oberlin, O. Dr. Pearce will represent the American association in the I, P. U.

{ate families of the couple will be ' held at the home of the hride's parents. After ‘a trip to the Smoky | mountaing, the couple will live in

W. council, executive body of thé Columbus, Ind. The bride is a grad-| international federation, which also uate of the St. Vincent hospital will hold meetings in Toronto. Dr. School of Nursing. Meta Glass, president emeritus of | UR RR TY Sweet Briar college, is cqnvenor of FLAN Smorgasbord the 1.'P. U. W. finance committee.| Alpha chapter, Beta Chi Theta | Mrs. R. W. Holmstedt, Blooming- | sorority, will meet at 6:30 p. m. ton, Ind. is among the A.'A. U. w.| Wednesday in the Claypool hotel

and theater party.

Return from East Mr. and Mrs. Earl B. Barnes,|

attend the conference. Foreign delegates who arrive be-| fore the conference will visit Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington. In each city the local|1326 N. Meridian st. have returned A A. U. W. branch is planning from a two-week stay at the Walentertainment and sightseeing trips. dorf-Astor in New York.

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airman of the ways and means committee of the Juvenile Center auxiliary, talks over plans with Mrs. Frank E. Weimer (left) and Mrs. Emory Cowley, president Much of the conference discussion| of the group, for the group's latest project. The auxiliary will use the proceeds at Riverside Amusement park July 30 and 31 to buy equipment for the center.

Correspondent Finds Prices Are Moderate By MARIE SETON : PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, July| 21.—Life is .a great deal easier for the wonien of Czechoslavakia today, than for those of England;”France! {or Italy, | Food is ample, for one thing, and, though there is plenty of lament | over prices, gracious living is quite | possible. i In fact, especially in the cities, Czech’ women are almost as well {off ‘as’ their American sisters. | Prague's women, for instance, do {not have to stand in long, patient! lines only to find nothing left to]! take home or everything beyond their means. There is little black rket in Czechoslavakia. foravia and Slovakia are highly agricultural and the Germans saw to it that valuable inclustrial de- { velopment of Czech laads was not | destroyed.

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of Paris or Rome. But there is a great deal here to please any sensi{ble woman, i The first thing I noticed, for example, were women's gloves. The |nands of women on busses and | J Streetcars look like prosperity with | a capital P. A trip to the shops soon showed {why practically every: woman in, ' | Prague wears gloves that only Gold | Coast matrons or debutantes from | Oyster Bay can afford.

Hand-Stitched Gloves | ‘Can Be Bought for $4

| Ravishing hand-stitched calf, kid lor suede, or leather palms in one| | color with ingenious knitted backs | in another are on all counters. And the best gloves cost only $4 with many purchaseable for $450 lor less. | Then I looked feet. Czechoslovakia's women are the best and most comfortably shod | lin Europe. Almost all shoes are lof finest calf with practical flat | heels. Many are moccasin types.

scarcely 8 hardship. For $10- the {best shoe In Europe, the Bata, can

{be had. Though the Bata company

are sold everywhere in Czecho-| slovakia;

Club to Visit :

substantial. These never even heard,of a fabric or| plastic bag. Bags here, like shoes, come’ in the best leathers. d

| Prague has none of the glamour, {

English friends who had begged

me to sell them some odd plates parrel and Kinzey's department

at the women's (And _ glasses before I went 10|giore had 1500 ladies’ straw -bon-

TEEN TOGS—A Puritan Miss is Susie Sharp wearing this plaid dress with long ties in front and that so-wide collar with eyelet trim. Susie is to be a senior at Broad Ripple high school and belongs to the G. A. B. chub.

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Nine Cents Buys Cake Or a Meat Sandwich In England there is not a cake turing | Shoes are rationed, but since of soap to spare, a new set of charged 25 cents for adults, 13 cents: . they wear extremely well, this is dishes. a cocktail glass; while in France and Italy every imdginable luxury can be had, but’ at prohib- really hit, the Tribune advertised

{has been nationalized, its shoes | (tive prices.

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Rents Were ‘Sky High’ Following Civil War By ROBERT RICHARDS. United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, July 21.—High | prices hitting you where it hurts? Take a quick «glance at history. | You're not doing so bad. On May 3, 1850, for instance, the

| New York Tribune adverfised a

{house to let in Brooklyn, It was a

. |nifty, too. A three-story brick, 12 - | rooms, hot and cold running water,

All water closets positively conRental price: [$350 a year. ; Then came the civil war . . . wham, Prices sturted climbing. The Tribune of May 1, 1867, bal< lyhooed an elght-room cottage for rent in New Jeisey but it cost $400 a year, And there was also a furnished four-story brownstone for rent in Brooklyn Heights, but the good old days were gone. The owner asked $150 a month. That's just about what youd pay for it now, In 1859 stores sold men's vests for $1, trousers for $2, and suits for as low as $10. Shirts with selfadjusting bustles went at $1.31. But in 1867, after the north and {south quit shooting at each other, prices went wild just as they have [in 1947. Men's vests hopped to $5, suits were retailing at $18 to $235, while trousers alone sold for a big $7. A duplex ecliptic double spring I skirt (minus prewar bustle) had | gone up to $13.

Coffee Up From 10¢ To 40c per Pound

Women buyers got so sore that f they almost quit wearing skirts. | In grand‘ old 1859, coffee sold at {10!2 cents a bag, flour was $5 &

nets at 12 cents each. Parasols were 25 cents, while gloves sold at 6 cents a pair. Barnum's American museum, fea. “Uncle Tom's Cabin,

for children. (The same show on: Broadway today costs $4.40). | Then in 1867, when high prices

{coffee at 40 cents a pound.

I went into several cafeterias on Sloves were as high as $1.25 and

Miss Barbara Shirley

Society—

to Be Feted

At Numerous Pre-Nuptial Parties

Spring Mill

wiches, looking like exotic flower However, everyone here deplores arrangements, were spread before the quality and price of clothes,ime. And the price! Nine cents for with the exception of linen, which'a large sandwich. Another counter is superb, But, even though my | flaunted cakes.of-every shape and

'the Vaclavske and found myself in| Parasols went to an impossible $2. Purses are equally beautiful and , gourmet’s paradise. Nowhere in people have the world is food so beautifully prepared at such low prices. Whole - counters of meat sand-

Barnum got excited along with the rest and raised his prices to 30 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. 3 In 1916 women could buy summer! frocks for $7.50 to $12.50 but had: to pay $5 for a straw bonnet thas * had cost 12 cents in 1859. Men's: suits were $35 to $40 with silk shirts

A buffet supper for the immedi-"

z ; So Many parties have been planned for Miss Barbara (make its first annual travel ‘tour

Shirley, the bride-to-be of Harry C. Sheridan II. The couple

will be married Aug. 22 Redeemer.

Mrs. Robert Turner will give a luncheon-bridge party for the future bride in her home at 1 p. m. Thursday. A | dessert-bridge will be given by Mrs. H. R. Overly and her daughter, | Miss Polly Overly, in their home on Friday afternpon. i Invited to Mrs. Turner's party are Mrs. Walter LL." Shirley, the

in the Lutheran Church of Our

mother of the bride-to-be: Mesdames James McCoy, Charles Sipe, Earl | N. Armbrust, Roscoe, Turner; Miss Paula Carr and Miss Sue Smith. Mrs. Overly will have as her guests Mrs. Shirley and Mrs. Lawrence. V. Sheridan, mothers of the engaged couple; Mrs. Roderick K. Sheri- | dan: Misses Suzanne Ramey, Carita Sadler, Anne Rickardt, Marion

and Jane Osborn, Patricia Hartley and Nancy Adair.

Conner, New York, has planned a luncheon and pathroom shower Saturday in Meridian Hills Country club. Mrs. Charles Sipe will give a tea and linen shower ‘in her home July 30, and the night of Aug. 5 Miss Carita" Sadler and Miss Minxie Harrison will give a kitchen

Mrs. Clay

! shower in Miss Sadler's home.

Miss Patricia Hartley will entertain the afternoon of Aug. 7 in her home for Miss Shirley, and Mrs. G. Lawrence Ramey will give a supper and .shower the night of Aug. 10.

Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Fye To Give Bridal Dinner

The gold room of the Marott hotel will be the setting for the bridal dinner to be given by Mr. and Mrs. HZ F. Fye for their daughter, Roxana, and her fiance, Sydney Johnson, at 7 p. m. Saturday.

Miss Pye and Mr. Johnson will be wed Sunday in All ‘Souls | Unitarian church by Dr. E.

Burdette Backus. | Guests at the dinner will be Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Johnson, the parents of the prospective bridegroom: Mr. and Mrs. D. L Fye, Washington; Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Glenn, Lafayette; Robert Ladd, West Lafaette; Mrs. Phyllis Schnackenberg, Miss

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‘Miss LaFlower Is Married

A reception at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus LaFlower, Beech Grove, followed the wedding of their daughter, Dorothy, and Wayne Burris yester~ day. The ceremony was read at 1:30 p. m. in the home of the Rev. Robert Banks, Beech Grove, pastor of! the Beech Grove Christian church.! Miss Caroline Busald and Donald Hale were the attendants, Miss Busald wore a navy blue silk dress with white accessories. The bride was dressed in an aqua silk dress with white accessories.

ys 4 Will Enter DePauw Miss Helen Dunlop, 3607 Wash|ington blvd, who was graduated from William Woods college, Fulton, Mo., this spring, will enter DePauw university in the fall. She has re- | turned home from visiting friends lin Evanston, II.

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Friday

club will [Czech friends constantly lament paying $24 for a suit and about

he Grandmothers

Friday. The trip will include Spring Mill state, park, where the group

to me. Moreover, they come

iley rinch, the home of Mrs. Grace |chic are most comfortable looking.

(Gray. Me : Lovely Table Cloths rs. Gray is executive secretary | b 5 of the National Grandmothers club. Cost On y Al out $1.50 | ‘She will -be chairman of the! ~In-the home Czech women; furnational convention of the group thermore, still live . graciously. to be -held here Oct. 10-12. The| Table cloths are plain, in lovely] club will discuss plans for the .con- | pastel colors and sell for about vention with Mrs. Gray. Jas. Rulis Munlord is general/ WEE BONS: Lo Ce he out She 18 8" cruty here. (In England_even| Henry Thake, E. J. Ruddle, C. L. | paper napkins have disappeared.) | Steinmier and Ernest Cohee. It is an absolute pleasure to go to] Mrs. H. P. Willwerth will pre- tea or dinper in Prague, just to} side at the business meeting pre- see % Butopean (able that actuglly ceeding the luncheon. Mrs. Gray 100ks like peacetime. Wil be guest speaker. the greatest surpr, bought a new tea I for six; a white service of fine glaze with a delicate geometric band in bright

Dinner Is Planned

Gamma Beta Chi sorority will entertain at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday |red. ¢ night with a dinner at Whispering] “You're thinking what it cost,” Winds. Guests will be Misses Betty|she sald smiling, Carter, Edna Clayton, Marguerite; “Right,” I replied. Clayton, Ruth Flick, Mary” Scott,|' “Four dollars.” Pear! Taylor, Ruby Wagener; Mes-| I gasped. ’ dames Charles Bfird, Gus Bisesi,| Next day I walked down the Leolo Duepner, Clarence Flick, Wil-| Vaclavske. Sure enough, there were llam Hankins, Russ Holler, Harry good tea services as well as exLord, Vera McDaniel, George Rinier,| quisite sets of cocktail and water Essae Weirick and Cecile York. glasses for $4. I thought of my

flavor at the same price each.

A third and fourth counter were half that for a light wool dress, devoted to cheese, cold fish and their clothes look remarkably guod {meat in gelatin or aspic forms.| the smart guys sald. i in {Along one wall were hot dishes; y will have ‘luncheon, and Mitchell, [unusual colors and have a style of |a Vienna steak dinner with potatoes where the club will visit Spice Val-|their own which though not exactly jand trimmings Such as jettuce salad

for 60 cents.

I thought of how litile food 60 cents buys in Paris; the depressing! In

selling for $3.50. Women's night gowns were 75 cents, “Prices just can’t go any higher,”

World War | Brought Rise in Prices, Too

found out.

1919 women's fashionable,

tastelessness of food in London's) dresses were advertised at $75 to! cafeterias where, since 1939, secre-! §145—just about what they cost

ing day in and day out.

Yes, Czechoslovakia's women are

Europe's fortunate today. «| $1.50; embroidered and hand drawn | Cope 1947, by The on soll Tunes

d The Chicago Daily News, Inc. Hann-Dykstra Vows Read

Miss Hilda Dykstra was wed to My friend, Hana Budin, gave me Raymond E. Hann at 10 o'clock She had Saturday morning at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dykstra, New Bethel. The Rev. William F. Buckner, of the New Bethel Baptist church, ofmciated. Mr. ‘and Mrs. Ernest Hann, 1310 N. Bosart ave. are the pareits of

the bridegroom.

Mrs. Harry Shelby, the bride's sister, was her only attendant, and Arthur E. Sheldon was. the best

man.

A reception Saturday was held at

the Dykstra home,

[taries and salesgirls have been eat- now. Men's suits Jumped to from

[$60 to $73, with 10 per cent add for any buyer larger than size 44 Women's nighties leaped from 78 cents to $15 and they began wearing: bathing suits that cost around $12.50. In 1019 two large meat wholesale houses began to apologize for the high cost. of their product. They said, in large 10-point type, that the boom wouldn't last—and that's: just about where we are today. There was also another item in 1919 advertising that brings to mind’ 1047. You could buy a truck for $5000.

Units to Meet The following units of the White Cross guild of the Methodist hospital will meet this week at the service center: Today—Plainfield! and Rebekah, Tuesday — North church and Southport, Wednesday —Quaker, Thursday—Irvington and Brookside, Friday — Brightwood, Victory and Cheerful.

Our Motto — for 39 Years:-

“No-

Excellence Without Great Effort”

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Then world war I came and they!

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