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Mrs. Perle Mesta as the new before the guest of honor does.
Queen of Washington society. friend of Mrs. Mesta's woke up President of the United States.
Supported Truman
but Mrs. Mesta was helped further by circumstances. any private convictions she might have held, she was one of the
few who ‘ought tooth and nail judgment of a woman who is Plenty of courage—and a lot of to get Harry Truman re-elected. merely lively and only occasion- Potitical allies. By 1930 Vice Presomes ident Charles Curtis was putting
It was only natural that she
ate, when nobody dreamed the Senator from Missouri would wind up in the President's chair. Harry Truman paid off by let. ting Perle Mesta run the social gide of his inauguration and thereby stamping aér the Admin{stration’s official hostess. In return, Mrs. Mesta bas shown the town something unique in hostesses—a hostess who had no ax to grind and no 16bby to push. « For her heavy Washington calendar, Mrs. Mesta last fall rented a large_ English-typse house on proper Foxhall Road. There she gives an average of (wo dinner es a week, with a luncheon two thrown in for good measure. Mrs. Mesta can seat 30 persons comfortably for dinner and her fixings are eminently fashionable ~-partridge and guinea hen un-
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¢ ally boistereus, and who ¢ should, of course—she had been by it all quite naturally. a“friend of the Trumans since
' the President's days in the Sen- ancestors had a stateroom on the at her Newport home.
{ Mayflower, but she needn't worry. {Bhe is a typical exampl [typical American [western pioneer stock who came
In short, they behave pretty got around to moving into her It is, simply, that a very good much as guests do in any aver- mansion—turned her back on If - they Pittsburgh. She tried Boston for one morning to find himself Gidn’'t—if the noise ever fell be- two weeks and a cattle ranch in {low the dedfening point—Perie Arizona for a few months before [Mesta would feel the party was| settling in Newport, where she ia flop. 1 i That would have been enough,| Recause of auch unorthodox Point, near the fabulous Belmont philosophies, some of Perle MesDespite 13's more austere contemporaries lare apt to dismiss Her as rowdy matrons gave Perle a hard time 18 harsh of it for a while, but she had
age American home.
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Probably none of Perle Mesta's
east .and married a second generation European. Back in Oklahoma, the oldtimers - still talk about Perle's father, Bill Skirvin, and
the area.
Sent East Perle Bkirvin attended the University of Oklahoma for two years and then was sent east for the finishing touches. There, in 1917, she married a handsome blond Italian engineer named George Mesta, who had parlayed several minof inventions into the million-dollar Mesta Machine Co. of Pittsburgh.
Under Perle’s prodding, George
der. glass are familiar items on Mesta stepped out into society. the menu and there is always! Once the war ended, the Mestas plenty of vintage champagne. But were abroad practically the year once the guests have sampled ‘round. He also built her a $600,
* TUESDAY, APR. 26,
th ynwe-{ef1}-and- Poor, in-thei Texas home. Reigning Queen of Washington Society Is Termed a ‘Typical’ American
this aristocratic fare they're al-,000 house on plush Beechwood lowed to have a little fun. They|Blvd. and gave enough money to ' | Inia Reel and singithe Coolidge campaign to win.his people have overlooked the only “My Old Kentucky Home.” They wife three overnight visits to logical They * watch « jugSome of them even leave! But in 1825, George Mesta
eof the rated dy the atmosphere of the —a child of country's poMtical soctety. Wash-
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the clincher on her climb to] social success by spending a week
| Perle Mesta had been exhila-
| unquestionably was her {field. So in 1941 with considerably {more than a few million dollars {in her personal kitty, she moved.
glance from the Republican to the Democratic Party, because, she Says, “Those Republicans were so mean to Wendell Wilkie.” Now in her early sixties, Perle Mesta is a short, stocky woman with graying brown hair, grayblue eyes and nervous hands. She is the kind of stoutish woman who looks almost slender in a tailored suit, but seems to acquire
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Ruth Millett,” Author of "We the Women,’ Does Feature for Over 500 Newspapers “GOT AN IDEA YET, MOM?” | - - When Ruth Millett looks up from hér typewriter and sees a pair of blond youngsters in the doorway, she knows it's time to wrap up her writing chores for the day. Her
twin son and daughter are home from school and her |
surgeon-husband, Dr. Frederick Lowry, is expected any
moment, 7 &
|” Ruth Millett writes her column for The Indianapolis Times
and more than 500 other NEA Service client newspapers in a
modern, ranch-style home in Texas. She was born in the Lone
Star state, but lived in a half-dozen other states before returning there with her family. Ry She spent her teen-age years in Tennessee. Her father, Ralph L. Millett, is associate editor of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, and her brother, Ralph Jr, works for the Knoxville News-Sentinel. Miss Millett was graduated from the University of Iowa's School of Journalism in 1934, and joined the faculty of the Northwest
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* As assistant dean of women, she advised the coeds on everything from dress and etiquet to more serious personality dificulties, After writing a textbook on “do's and don'ts" for women, Miss Millett sold the idea 45 a ‘newspaper feature, to NEA. She also worked in radio and wrote “soap operas” In Memphis. :
Column Since 1938 In 1938 her column was born
in New York. She sold it to’ NEA and began her career as
—-the author of “We, the Women."
Miss Millett survived a period of New York and then moved to Iowa after her marriage. Hollywood's version of a newsvaper woman just doesn’t fit Ruth Millett. She's more like your next door neighbor—struggling with two youngsters and the job of a homemaker. She's slender, with red hair and green eyes and she speaks in the soft, unhurried accents of the Southwest. Selecting a subject is the toughest part of writing a daily newspaper column, she reports. Her seven year old twins, Peter and Lynne, know that once “Mom” has the idea the rest won't take long. She draws her ideas from many sources-—daily mail, newspapers, current magazines and books and even from the chance remark of a clerk or a speaker at a club meeting.
Recalls War Columns
Her columns to servicemen and their wives during the war years rang true because the was living the life’ of every young army wife, Her home for a year was an Army camp | and then she waited at home while her husband served overseas, “Your family life 1s about to get the biggest jolt that
The Bridal Scene— Couple Sets Nuptial Date
The approaching marriage of Miss Elizabeth Ann McMahon and George M. Wolverton is announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold McMahon, Noblesville. The prospective bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clair Wolverton,
all sorts of oversize curves in an evening gown. Her complexion i.) clear and usually deeply tanned) and she's never gotten rid of all her teen-age freckles. She rises] every morning at eight and] {neither smokes nor drinks.
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Talks Like Politician, |
| Regardless of what critics may! say or of how seriously some of| her colleagues regard’ her, Mrs. i Mesta 18 in sarnest about working at politics; She has even started to talk ‘like a politician. In an interview,|
. | phases like “off the record” and
| "no comment” roll off her tongue,
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| party matters are discussed which | +ahe feels people expect her to! ‘know about, she has a way of {smiling wisely as though apolo-| | gizing for her sealed lips. | That smile comes to her face her reported romance with bounc-| ‘ing, healthy Vice President Alben | Barkley. “No comment,” says {Perle Mesta--just like a real politician,
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Plans Made
! The annual May Day luncheon| of the Gov. Oliver Perry Morton Chapter, Daughters of the Union, will be at noon. Monday ‘in the West Washington St. Branch, In‘diana Nation&l Bank. | Mrs. W. 1. Hoag, regent, will! présent Mrs. E. C. Wischmeler,| program chairman, afd Mrs. Ferd Dedert, music chairman, who have charge of the program. © | “Indiana Veterans of All Wars” (will be discussed by. Harvey Bi |Btout, service officer of the In. ‘diana: Veteran Affairs Depart. bet of the state cothmittes on em-| ployment for the - American | Legion and the national legion ‘committee for veteran preference. jon the national congress held recently in New York. She was) 'elected first vice national president | general at that meeting. |
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3002 Caroline Ave. The rite will be May 6 in the First Methodist Church in Noblesville." Attending the future bride will be her sister, Miss Mary Jane McMahon, maid of honor, and Mrs. Esther Goodwin and Mrs. Jeanne McMahon, all of Noblesville, bridesmalds, 8am Newman, New York, will be the best man, and the ushers are to include Richard Grayson, Chicago; Kennedy Wolverton, La-| fayette, and Philip Wolverton. Miss McMahon attended MacMurray College for Women, Jacksonville, Ill, and was graduated from Indiana University and the
University of Michigan, The bride-| } groom «to - be Attended Wabash:
College and will be graduated in June from the School 6f Medicine, | Indiana University. i
” » ” i Miss Rachel Gillen of Green-| castle will become the bride of | Donald W. Bedell, Washington, in
{& ceremony. t0 be read at 2.30
p.m. Saturday, May, 21. in the| Gobin Memorial Methodist Church in Greencastle, ' The parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. C. C, Gillen, Green-/| castle, and Mr. and Mrs. George| H. Bedell, Cincinnati. The an-i nounicement was made at a tea| ven by Mrs. James M. Oliver and Mrs. Simpson M. Stoner, both
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Tudor Hall School had an open
house yesterday afternoon in the school for parents and pros. pective students. These members of the association are (left. fo ight}-Mrs.- Joh Williams, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Raymond Pe.
ts, and Mrs. J. Perry- Meek, pres.
~ Counter-Spy— ¥ = Electric Paint Spray Makes Decorating Job Easier
By LOUISE FL HER, Times Woman's Editor HE CLEAN-UP, PAINT-UP urge which hit early this year is bringing forth some cryptic conversations. “What's that streak on your leg?" is likely to evoke “That? Oh, that's the kitchen . . . and this spot here on my arm is the hall ceiling® Ultimately you catch on that the spots and streaks follow vigdrous
War Mothers Plan Meeting
Mrs. Mabel Staples To Be Honor Guest
Mrs, Mabel Staples, Kansas City, Mo., national president of the American War Mothers, will he the honor guest at a 10 a. m, meeting tomotrow in the Marott Hotel ballroom, The hostess chapter will be the
flourishing of the paint brush by an amateur decorator. Marion County AWM, headed by
Such splattering can be . cut way down by the person ~ fortunate enough to own an electric paint spray like one they have at Block's. Painting becomes an easy “push button” operation . . . and A speedy one, too -- especially for such hard-to-do-peinting jobs as those on screens, reed furniture, radiators, picket fences and car fenders. The Hudson Speedway LektrikSpray has a very light-weight motor hooked onto a webbing shoulder strap. Attached to this is a glass jar (1-qt. capacity) with a handgrip and thumb control which adjusts the nozzle to deliver a fine spray of paint, enamel, stain, lacquer or varnish, Without the mess, time and work of brush painting. a factory-like finish is produced on the toughest of paint jobs. Complete with motor, the spray costs $34.85 in Block's fifth
floor paint center. for Party Cakes
Candle Ring NCE THE SPRING D RATING is done,
everyone will be in a party mood, ready to celebrate the refurbishing. Parties mean cakes, which brings up a brand new gadget at Charles May“er's—a candle holder to do away with the sficky busi, ness of trying to anchor candles in a cake. Called the Lady Ellen Magic Ring candieholder, it can be uséd to surround a birthday cake or A floral centerpiece. It's a flexible metal circle adjust. able to 7 to 15-inch diame*ters. On this are clipped silvertoned candle sockets to take the desired number of candies, Expanded to jts full eircumference, the, ring will hold 70 candles. The ring, eight holders and eight 3%;-inch candles come boxed for $2.50, \
-Fi { H Save the Fingernails | SETTING YOUR HAIR AT HOME pays off IF you don't break a fingernail or ruin a manicure trying to open tightly ‘élamped hair setting pins. (Some women, we hear, are reckless enough to endanger their tooth enamel prying the darn things apart.) None of these sad things need happen with a new curl setting pin spotted on local department, drug and dime store counters. It's the De Long Pin and a tricky bend plus a satin-smooth gilvery finish allow the pin to open itself, as it slides over the “ curl. The ‘highly polished silvery finish (instead of the conventional black or brown jnamel) makes the pin rustproof and resistant to ‘all types of hair solutions. <The curl turns out smoothly, too, because the pin holds it without a trace of crease. What's more, there's no tugging to get the pin out. It slides off as easily as it slips on. (Cards of the pins:are 10 and 25 cents. / ~
- » ” : ” » Notions departments are fascinating spots; always some: thing new cropping up. Spied at Ayres’ were three fresh items, . Toran. sewers there's the Speed-E Undermarker which saves time dnd work by indicating darts, hems, notches and perforations. This is a rigid plastic sheet which comes with transfer sheets and pencils. Before the pattern is removed {rom the out. out garment parts, the marker goes beneath both pieces of fabric, with a transfer sheet facing up. The pencil marks the top fabric layer; the transfer sheet leaves a corresponding mark on the under layer. The layout costs but $1. ~ Alsd new is & garment storage bag with an insert containing something to py hob with moths, their eggs and larvae. The bags, called Stor.-Aids with Btor-o-Cide moth killer, are Reavy, clear plastic with quilted tops:and trim. Fresh moth-Kill ing Inserts are available when needed, Jumbo and eight-gar-ment sizes are $4.98 and there's a suit bag at $4.50. 3 Then there's the fragrant “Harn of Loveliness.” a plastic af-
i ‘fatr shaped like an old powder horn to be suspended by its cord | in clothes closets. It is filled with dried roses and comés ia
green, rode, yellow or blue. The price tag says $1. :
Brightwood Librarian | Train Women Leaders
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Pp ents of the couple are Mr. and | Mrs. Robert Mains, 835 S. Shef.
turchased in the United States eld Ave. and Mr. and Mrs. In 1947 was op the’ lives of, Stephen A. Hendrickson, 4231
(Hotel Lincoln. Miss Libby Evans,
TOKYO — Leadership training. oades, Bright. courses constantly are being held , will. speakifor women in’ cultural groups, on “Community Library Service”|labor unions and non-partisan at the luncheon meeting of the ; Soroptimist Club tomorrow in the in Japan.
political education organizations
‘acting chdirman of the program (Advertisement) 3 committee, will introduce the i speaker. What Is the Secret
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Mrs, Charles Dongus. Other special guests will be Mrs, Giadys Thomas, Lafayette, national magasine editor; Mrs. Thelma Prather, state president; Mrs, Hattie hamber, Eaton; Mrs. Mae Baker, Muncie; Mrs. Nellie Savage, and Mrs. Ruth Wagner, stats vice presidents;
Mra, Minnie a, treasurer; Mri. Jes-
coords; Mra. Laura Leisure, Kmightstown, memory tree chairman, and other past state and chapter presidents. Mrs, Baker will be leader for
the d G. ing will . be groups from Shelbyville, Connersville, Knightstown and the Indianapolis and University Heights local
American War Mothers are sponsoring a Mother's -Day gift shop in the Veterans Hospital, Billings Hospital and the Marion (Ind.) Mental Hospital. Bach veteran is given the choice of a gift to be sent to his mother, { The annual Carnation Day sale will: be May % Proceeds will be {used for services work of the or|ganization.
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‘Named Hostess { Mrs. Orman McKinley, 3830 E. 162d Bt. will be hostess for to-‘morrow's-1 p. m. meeting of the newly organized Wanderlust {Chapter,’ ITSC. Officers will be Yinstalied.
Shower Held ifs rma Frazier was the hon-
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Classes, Workshops
HOLLYWOOD, Fla, Apr. 26
58th convention of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs opened here today with more than %
1 delegates attacking worl
Resolutions urging uniform marriage and divorce laws in the United States, continuation of the {Congressional Committee on Un-
" [American Activities and abolition
of the Electoral College ' were scheduled for introduction and possible action at’ today's ses sions, :
{covered dozens of projects ranging from letter campaigns for selling demooracy to 5,000,000 women abroad to mental hygiens and youth conservation, Classes and workshops will in struct thé clubwomen on interna: tional law, public speaking, the American home, education, lagislation, citisenship, fine. arts and international relation. The convention will last five days.”
approve a resolution opposing “socialized medicine.” The Florida Federation of Women's Clubs ap{proved a similar measure in pres {convention session yesterday. { The resolution urging continua. {tion of the Un-American Activie {ties Committees. was expected to
contain -a--clause calling for an
"adequate safeguard to civil lb. lerties” in the committee's code of |pFocedure,
Sen. Pepper Speaks The clubwomen had already been ‘warned that the com-« placency of the American peopie~~women in particular-is
{America's greatest weakness “in
the cold war, Mrs, John L. Whitehurst of Baltimore, Md., chairman of the |General Federal Council of Inter. {national- Clubs, told a junior {session on convention eve that the “frivolity and apathy” of American women ia injurious to democracy. Last night at the formal opening banquet, Ben, Claude Pe (D. Fla.) mid that “definite progress” is being made toward world peace, “Although grave lasues are upon us,” Pepper sald, “don't Jet anyone tell you that the danger i» not much less than it was”
the ashington K. Lindley; L.F. Chapman, superintendent of
Florida State Prisons, Henry Lester Bmtih, educator,
Bride-Elect To Be Feted
Miss Billie Barr Lawrence will
shower tomorrow night when Mrs. A. Don Lewis and her daughters,
Dongus, entertain in the Lewis homs, 260 Buckingham Drive. Miss Lawrence, daughter of Mr. and Mray Bdgar Tom Lawrence, 5014 Broadway, will bs married May 7 to Wallace O. MacLellan, son of Mr, and Mrs. Bruce J. MacLellan, 1628 N. Alabama St. Guests with the bride-to-be will be her mother and thé mother of the p 4 Mesdames : Burke, Ed A Walsh, Herbert L. {Frenth, H. R. Throckmorton, {John Murray, Stanley McDonald and L. L. Dunbar, and Mrs. L. B. {Morris and Mrs. Robert Carr, {both of Danville. { Others will be Misses Esther {Jane Throckmorton, Betty Crippin, Charlyn Murray, Charlotte
-glest at a kitchen-shower SA The and Ruth Ann Densford,
{en Baturday by Mrs. Charles A. {Purdy, 1603 Central Ave. Miss {Frazier is engaged to Charles E. Linton.
The engaged couple was enter tained Saturday night at a buffet
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“Building better communities at . {home and abroad” was the con- ~ |vention them¥. But the subject
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Mrs. C. L. Palin and Mrs. G. H.
{supper in the home of Mr. and :
| A joint open house will be held
trom 2 to 8 p. m. SBunddy in the a of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin H.
Shadday, Td Ingen 3 oeuve. again to Have. hn eve a -d her husband, Mr, fair she missed with him? Bee
{daughter an ‘and Mrs: Benjamin 8. McGilliard,
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