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The Indianapolis

SUNDAY, MAY 1, 1049

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.2 Beautiful Parties

Enliven Busy Week In Local Society

Elders Entertain for Son and Fiancee; Miss Ann Bobbs' Engagement Announced By KATY ATKINS : TWO BEAUTIFUL parties last Sunday started the week gaily. Mr. and Mrs. Bowman Elder entertained for their son, Bill, and his fiancee, Joan Boozer, at their lovely place on Moore Road. The lilacs hadn't quite made it but the amaryllis on the glassed porch was really something. 3 : -I envied Mrs. C. Willis Adams, who was pouring while I was there, her opportunity to enjoy the exquisite epergne in the center of the table in which blue bells (martensia to real gardeners) struck a particu--larly colorful note. It was good to see Jane Ryan out for the first time after weeks in a cast. The smartness of her navy blue costume and a slight tan acquired from one day's sitting in the sun belied her long convalescence. The same afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Julian Bobbs announced the engagement. of Mr. Bobbs’ daughter, Ann, to Frank Alig, son of Mrs. Paul Weer. : j Ann was radiant and very pretty in a bright green dress. I admired Mrs. Bobbs’ pink ribbon suit with a wide band of ecru lace around the bottom of the skirt.

Nyharts Back From Honeymoon

ELDON AND Jane Eaglesfield Nyhart were there, just back from their honeymoon in Mexico. They found the populace on holiday during Holy Week and altered their plans to stay longer in Mexico City, which was | operating more or less normally.

Mrs. J. Landon Davis had just got back from an extended motor trip through Virginia and Maryland. She had lunch in Washington with Mr. and Mrs. William Kern, formerly of Indianapolis. She must have been a welcome guest _as she arrived with a {generous box lunch, supplied by her previous hostess. EveryTAR one fell to and had a picnic in the Kerns’ a garden. Ava Saunders Kysar, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Atkins a0 payis, and Elizabeth Munce, daughter of Mr. andsMrs. George Munce, missed the party. After a month's abséncé and 6000 miles driving to and through California, their car broke down 200 miles from home so they didn’t get in until late evening. - oy %

Colonial Dames Hear Mrs. Jameson

MRS. DONALD JAMESON was the speaker at the meeting of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of Indiana on Tuesday at Mrs. Sylvester Johnson's. Her subject, “Kings of a Colony,” provoked interesting discussion over which

~ Mrs. Fletcher Hodges presided. The Johnsons’ daughter, Mary

Schaff, is here for a week from her home in Evanston. Her blond cocker puppy, BSachet, added much to the afternoon. She took a special fancy to Miss Elizabeth Fletcher of Mooresville. Perhaps'she sensed that Miss Fletcher has 11 dogs on her farm and loved her too. Sachet is a direct descendant of My Own Brucie so, considering her lineage, had every right to be at a Colonial Dames meeting.

Entertains Nieces From Italy

TWO INTERESTING young guests were with Mrs. John

Brant and Mrs. Herbert Pinnell at the style show given by the °

Auxiliary to the Boys’ Club Association on Wednesday. They

“were Mrs. Brant’s nieces, Louisa_and Anee Merlo, who have

come from Italy on their way to join a brother in California. Since they speak no English, they didn’t get much out of Mrs. Clifton Hirschman’s review of the Lilly Dache book “Talking Through My Hat.” However they, and everyone else, loved the

Dache hat Mrs. Hirschman PTA Plans

wore-—white with navy lining Convention

for the brim.

Back Home

DR. AND MRS. Gilbert

Quinn are home from Clearwater Beach where Mrs. Quinn was fascinated with shell jewelry. She brought supplies home and is making lovely articles for her friends.

Her son, Mickey, had a big thrill as he and his father,

while fishing, found a boat for which the Coast Guard had been searching. All hands were safe so that had a happy ending. ;

Honor Speaker

THE- DEMONSTRATION Great Books Discussion Thursday evening brought a good turnout. Following the program, Mr. and Mrs,

Samuel Runnells Harrell en- -

tertained informally at their home on Sunset Lane for Dr. Felix Morley, who took: part in the discussion,

Club Holds Ball

THE SMITH College Club’s Apple Blossom Ball at Wood-

stock last night was a fun

party, complete ~ith maypole. That dance aas been an annual event for so long that

the daughters of the original planners have now taken over the responsibility of it.

Tour's Finale

LET'S HOPE that this afternoon fll be pleasant as it’s the last chance for the Park School Garden Tour. No -matter now tired you think you are don't fail to

. go to the =chool to see the

exhibits after you do the gardens.

than ever and Mrs. Norman. Perry and Mrs. Edward Bennet or members of their committee will find you a seat

and a cup of/ tea.

"tional president, will preside _ at the seven general sessions.

Delegates from the city and state Parent-Teacher Associations are making plans

now to attend the 52d annual National PTA Congress May 16 to 18 in St. Louis.

“Home, 8chool and the Child March Forward” has

been chosen as the theme for

the sessions to be held in the St. Louis Opera House, Principal addresses at the congress sessions will be given by Eric A. Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America and chairman of the 1948 national conference on family life; Sidonie M. Gruenberg, chairman, national council on parent education and director of the Child Study Association of America; Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, pastor of the "Marble Collegiate Church, New York; Charles W, Ferguson, Reader's Digest senior editor; the Hon. Chase Going Woodhouse, Connecticut representative, and Miss Emily Kimbrough, author. ;

Slate Announced

Mrs. L. W. Hughes, na-

She will give her president's address at the Monday morning meeting, May 16, when nominations for national officers will be made by the nominating committee, The sjate includes Mrs. Jolin E. Hayes, Twin Falls, 1da., president; Mrs. Newton P. Leonard, Providence, R. I, first vice president; Dr. Ralph H. Ojemann, Iowa City, Iowa, treasurer, and Mrs, Edgar F. Dixon, Little Rock, Ark., sec retary. The election will be held Tuesday morning.

Mesdames James L. Murray, They are more intevesting -Bert.-C, Me OE

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Rieman, Basil Fischer and R. F. Shank have made-early reservations from here. Other voting delegates and auditors will attend.

Tapa bathing ensemble

" Qofal; monkey pod wood

Five Fashion Showings Planned

F INDIANAPOLIS starts talking in soft Hawaiian accents this week it won't be surprising. Set in our midst will be a small and colorful segment of the romantic islands. At Block's they're setting up this bit of Hawaii, some

four or-five thousand miles +

from Honolulu, so Hoosiers

may glimpse the. natural

beauty of the islands as well as merchandise designed and manufactured there. When the store opens tomorrow. it will have become a series of Hawalian scenes.

In the windows, on the street

and second floors, and in the Terrace Tearoom will be settings of native plants and foliage—fernwood, ti leaves, bird of paradise and anthurium blossoms, wood roses, coral. To get all this material here, a steamship line” and

three airlines were brought The Flowers of .

into play.

Hawaii Co. Hilo, helped

with the shipments sent by.’

United, Pan-American and Northwestern Airlines and the Matson Navigation Co. Many of the flowers are being

“truly pative costumes.

'Hawaii in Midwest" for Event af Block's

flown in just before the.curtain® rises, so they'll be at their best during the weéklong event.

Five Style Shows

Highlighting the week's schedule will be five fashion shows of Hawaiian leisure clothes for men, women and children: Three of these will be presented tomorrow in Block's auditorium, at 11 a. m. and at 2 and 5:15 p. m, On Tuesday two shows will be presented, at 11 a. m. and 3:30 p. m, The shows will have a star performer. She is Momikai, whose name means “Pearl of the Sea,” and who directs the dances and costumes for the Hawaiian Room show in New York's Hotel Lexington. She is to sing native songs and do several of the native dances as an Hawaiian string ensemble. plays. After the fashions are modeled, a color and sound film on life and scenery of the islands will be shown,

Fashions will include mod-

— ern variations of native styles

as well as reproductions of The sarong dress pictured in pineapple’ prfht (with its own bolero) fits into the first classification. In native style is the ho-

Tapa print swimsuits for children

loku dress with ruffled train, printed with exotic Hawallan blossoms. The train has a bracelet loop which is used to lift it when the wearer dances. The muu muu dress is another native style.

Pikake Jewelry:

In the beachwear ensemble pictured, the native tapa print is used. This print appears again in the little girl's bathing suit and the boy’s bathing shorts modeled by Linda Lou Day and Billy West. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Day, 3025 N. Temple Ave, and Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow West, 1914 Valley Ave, Men's fashions to be shown will include shorts and aloha shirts 4n bright prints with

pineapple or jellyfish motifs °

as well as tapa designs. The jewelry worn by the models in printed dresses is called pikake jewelry. It's made of strand after strand of tiny shells formed into

bracelets and chokers as well

as leis. The handbags shown are lahala hags of woven straw, The small one at the top combines white and brown tones in straw alone while the hig shoulder strap model at the bottom, also in white and

Baby Week Honors His Royal Highness

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: ia / WW va) ow Pi ii 5 A on Royal Highness, the baby, is enthroned this week as National Baby Week is observed. 2 (News ‘and views on babies, Page 17). rR

| Lahala bags

brown, hag fabric sides and strap. The intermediate-sized model {8 in natural straw, (Prices on these—$§3.95 to $7.98.)

Monkey Pod Wood

A beach bag has a squarish straw base with a drawstring top of tapa print. There are

also such items as cigaret cases made of the woven

straw , . , and great cart-

. wheels of straw in hats, No

tickets are needed for the fashion shows. The Hawalign merchandise will be displayed in a specially arranged section on Block's second floor. In addition to the fashion items, there also will be household ornaments and objects to lend an Hawaiian air to table settings. Shown in one of the photos are coral and some bowls and trays of monkey pod wood. The pieces of this wood come in a wide variety of sizes and shapes—from small nut bowls with matching wood ladles to huge, deep bowls in the shape of tropical leaves—big enough to hold towering arrangements of fruit.

~The foliage motif-is pieked

up, too, in long slender leaves to hold bread or, perhaps, celery. Other pieces look like hollowed halves of some tropical fruit. All of them have a soft patina over their interesting grain. Straw comes into the picture again in the table setting merchandise, There are place mats in plain as well as contrasting woven straw,

Miss Griffin To Speak

MISS LOUISE GRIFFIN -

will be the speaker Friday when the Foster Mothers luncheon of the Auxiliary to the Children’s Bureau of the Indianapolis Orphan Asylum is held. Bhe is the director of the state public welfare .department’s child welfare division. Her talk will. be “Our Responsibility t& Children Who Need Boarding Home Care.” The luncheon will be held in the YWCA. ” r ”

MRS. JOHN SHIRLEY,

who heads the auxiliary, will .

present the speaker, Bpecial music for the event will be played by Mrs. Allan Shimer, violinist, and Mrs. George B. Dalley, harpist.

rm Mrs, Hugh J Ralier. Jr ...

luncheon committee chairman, is being assisted by Mesdames James R. Gregory,

Arthur O. Pittenger, A. T.

Stone and Charles Edward Brown.

“from $3.95 to above $20,

Alabama Housewife Is a Co-Inventor Of New Device to Rip Seams in a Hurry By LOUISE FLETCHER, Times Woman's Editor ; BECAUSE A BIRMINGHAM housewife suddenly turned inventor, it will be easier from now on for home seamstresses to keep up with garment alteration _problems. ; Particularly for mamas of ‘growing children— whose duds always seem to be in need of letting out or

lengthening—will the new gadget be a boon.

It is a small knife-edged instrument which already is hailed as “the most important invention in sewing since the perfection of the sewing machine.” ; Inserted in the needle socket of any sewing machine, the new “ripper”: res moves machine-sewn seams much, much faster than scissors or razor blade will do the job, 3 Mrs. Ruth Lawrence is the inventor who perfected . the “Rip-A-Seam"” with the help of an Army sergeant, Merritt 1. Walls, The latter was on the staff of Mrs. Lawrence's Army colonel husband, the commanding ‘officer of the Alabama military district. / Mrs. Lawrence and Mr. Walls, who share patent rights and have formed the La-Wa Co. to merchandise their invention, explain its operation this way: The secret, they #ay, is that it penetrates material by spreading the weave without cutting the cloth. The machine-sewn seams, being more taut than the material, resist the rippers pressure and are cut. Once the ripper has done its work, all you have to do is pull‘the seam apart. An unsteady hand in following the seam doesn't matter much, either. The inventors say you can miss as many as three or four stitches in a row, yet the material still pulls apart easily without tears or holes. If longer streiches are missed, just back up and start again, ‘ They've been trying out the gadget at Ayres’ where it goes on gale--98 cents--this week.

Speaking of Wedding Gifts . . .

TS AN ESPECIALLY LUCKY brideto-be whose

=. wedding presents are chosen by persons with the

gift of imagination. Too many brides have to send thank-you notes for surplus china, silver and glass while they're short on other household equipment. If, like most young brides, the, one for whom you're choosing a gift will be doing her own cooking, how about giving

her some solid copper cooking utensils , . . the kind that will be

the heirlooms of tomorrow? What brought this to mind was the sight of a new shipment of the famous Jenzo copperware in Charles Mayer's New England Food Pantry. There, in gleaming array, are skillets in

assorted sizes, cooking and baking pans, casseroles, au gratin

and shirring pans. There's also a copper chafing dish, the most magnificent piece in the lot. Prices on the copperware range

Also in the wedding gift category are a couple of mahogany

tables at Mayer's. One is a butler's table—coffee table height with a tray which lifts up and unfolds legs to make a second

table or a double-decker when placéd on top its original base,

This has casters to make it more convenient. The ‘second one is a combination tea cart and serving table with drop leaves. It, too, is mounted on casters to make for easy transportation when it's loaded with viands. There's & drawer at either end of the 36 by 20-inch top and a lower shelf

to carry even more food. With the leaves lifted, the top measures .

36 by 38-inches—big enough for a twosome meal. The butlers:

{able is $145; the tea cart model, §05.

Versatile as a Character Actor HANDBAG with more different guises than a character actor is on deck at Wasson's. If you're looking for a Mother's Day gift, it should fill the bill" because, one way or another, it matches up with the colors of several costumes. Called “The Convertible,” it achieves

its versatility through a fabric slip-cover arrangement. Because this slipcover, which goes over a basic zipper-fas-tened bag, is reversible and, in. addition, has contrasting facings on its triangular flaps, it lends itself to a variety of twists and flips which present numerous faces to view. We're told that 13 distinct effects can achieved, One slipcover, for example, has white, red and navy tones involved in its construction. Other colors are available. . .and the thing is priced at $5.

» . ” Wasson’'s have the answer to the problem of keeping lin gerie out-of sight in the depths of a plunging neckline. It's a “Low 'n’ Behold” Bra which plunges beyond its fened separator. In nylon taffeta there are four colors—pink, white, pale blue and navy. In satin, black is added to these four colors. It's designed by the Peter Pan Co., makers of the mer-ry-go-round cup bra. The satin ones are $3.95; the nylon taffetas

are $5

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‘Also found at Wasson's—a cigaret lighter no bulkier than your lipstick case, . .and jeweled as many lipsticks are. Atop the covering end is a large stone, in your choice of colors, surrounded by smaller stones. The lighter is designed by Sydney Weston who also makes those efficient small-sized keychain

flashlights. “Twinkle Tip” is the lighter's name and it's $2.

é - For the Golfer-in-Earnest HE HONEST-TO-GOODNESS golfer with an earnest interest in his, or her, game should be intrigued by a brand-new piece of practice equipment at Strauss’. It is the Golf Recorder, an ingenious contraption which, when socked with ‘golf club, indicates the yardage that would have been made by the club swinger had he been on a golf course. : ; Not only that, it indicates the sad fact if the golfer has hooked, sliced, gone into the rough or out of bounds. The recorder, 27 inches long and seven inches wide at the dial end, has a rubber disc the size of a golf ball, sticking up in front of a fiber block (fiber so clubs won't be damaged if aim is poor). When club head meets the disc, the latter touches a metal plate to register force and direction of the theoretical golf ball. Costs $24.95. For feminine golfers alone, Strauss’ have those smallish pouches to slide onto golf dress pelts and hold wallet, cigarets and other oddments. Wooden tees @it into loops on thi" outside. In several colois, these are $3.50, A belt to match, if needed, is $1. Just in, in Strauss’ tobacco shop, are some clay pipes from Holland. Clay, they tell us, gives a sweeter smoke because it absorbs all moisture. Your smoke gives out with pure tobacco flavor, and fewer gurgles, we guess. Seme of these are as low in price as 15 cents. They're the plain, unadorned variety. Those with fancy heads are 25 cents. But there are flossier models at $1. ° Among these are some hand-painted with Dutch scenes. Then there's the Dutch skat-

is used in skating races as a baton is used in track Trelays—

own depth by way of RE LZ SEE

Ang pipe, a fragile looking horn.like affajr which. they tell us,

to pass from one racer to the next. Object is to keep it un- i

broken in passing. Most: interesting of the lot is the “mystery pipe.”

When

that one is smoked, the heat of the burning tobacco develops

8 picture on the pips re