Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1949 — Page 27

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Local Group Hears Dr. Elton Trueblood

Talk on Social Work

Earlham College Professor Honor Guest At Tea Given by Mrs. Higgins

By KATY ATKINS DR. ELTON TRUEBLOOD, head of the Department of Philosophy at Earlham College, was an interesting visitor to the city last week. He was the guest of honor at a tea given by Mrs, William R. Higgins on Friday, where he spoke of the work done by the Anherican Friends Service Committee. This ranges from relief and rehabilitation in war damaged countries to service in mental hospitals in the United States; and from sponsoring self-help housing projects to maintaining close touch with the United Nations. Mr. Alphonse Miller of Philadelphia, secretary of the committee, brought greetings from the national home office. Assisting Mrs. Higgins were her Woodstodk neighbors, Mesdames Edwin Biltcliffe, Donald Mattison, Norman Kevers, and Robert Hensel, her sister-in-law, Mrs. Henry Buttolph, and Mesdames Francis Dunn, Roy' Sahm, Robert B. Evans and Harold

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Mrs. Atkins

green lace dress.

The Indianapolis Garaen Op Was host r two days to the central west zone m is the eon Club of America. The high point of the conference was a beautiful dinner Wednesday night at the Woodstock Club for guests, members bles were Be deep red roses in silver wine coolers and tall silver candelabra. The speaker, Paul Sears, noted ecologist of Oberlin College, was introduced by Mrs. Perry O'Neal. As _chairman of the conference, Mrs. O'Neal had a big job which she must have taken in her stride. She was calm and lovely in a dainty pale The zone chairman, Mrs. Theodore Dormann

and their husbands. - All of arranged with dark blue

of Cincinnati, was the house guest of Mrs. William A. Atkin. Mrs, Keyes W. Atkins, president of the Indianapolis club, had

Mrs. Stanley Rowe, also of Cincinnati, with her. and Mrs. Atkins are both Memp

joyed being together.

Mrs. Rowe

his women and very much enMrs. Robert Spilman of Charleston,

W. Va, who is the ‘mother of Mrs. Samuel Reid Sutphin, stayed with Mrs. Samuel B. Sutphin. It was good to have news

of Mrs. Sinclair Walbridge, the sister of Dr. Hamilton Row, from Mrs. A. L. Bentley of Toledo who was the guest of Mrs, Charles Latham. Mrs. Latham is off to Bloomington tomorrow for two days of opera. On Wednesday she goes to Lafayette for the performance of “Mignon” and the Bonnet Breakfast at Purdue University where Howard Hodge will be. It is sponsored by the Lafayette branch of the Women’s Committee of the Indiana State :

" Symphony Society. Mrs.

Latham and Mrs. Ruth Murphy will stay at McCormick's Creek Canyon Inn Monday night while Mesdames George Parry, Mitchell Crist and Post Milliken have reservations in Bloomington.

. ®] Visit Ryans MRS. MILLIKEN is looking forward to having her daugh-ter-in-law, Mrs. Walter Milljken of Wilmington, Del., with her later in the week and to Walter's arrival Saturday, Mr. and Mrs, Russell Ryan have as their guests Mrs. Ryan's brother and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Mayer of Bennington, Vt. They, with Jane and John Ryan and Mr. and Mrs. John Rau, will make another party going to Bloomington. # = = The Progressive Club had a very interesting and wellattended meeting last Monday at Mrs. Archer Sinclair's in Golden Hill. Garvin Brown read a paper on Indianapolis during the Civil War. He quoted from his grandfather's diary and that of Calvin Fletcher. Knowing Mr. Brown's long association with the Dramatic Club, his audience especially enjoyed hearing how his grandfather was in Cincinnati with a small road show when war was declared. Ten people showed up in the audience so that was the end of the theatrical venture.

Chimes Rang

A BIT of church history was that the then rector of Christ Church, a Mr. Stringfellow, being a southern sympathizer, had the chimes rung for a southern victory. His indignant congregation promptly demanded his resignation. After the war he became the first rector of St Paul's, founded by a group willing to forget the recent bitterness. I have always liked the story about the bust of Governor Oliver Morton fin the state house, presented by southerners in appreciation of the kind treatment given prisoners in the camp on the present site of Morton Place. Mrs. Sinclair had a great oblong mass of lilies of the valley with pale pink roses and a touch of blue on the tea table. Mrs. Joseph Danfels, a member of the committee for the meeting, poured. Among the members on hand were Mesdames Thor Wesenberg, William Mode Taylor, and Larz Whitcomb and Miss * May Shipp. . ” . Among the most enthanis ing things I have seen for a long time are the croquet

wickets on the lawn at Norways. They are the figures of little men, made of brightly painted iron, and came from the old Gerry Sanborn home on Michigan Road.

BPW Names Officers

Run-Off Election

Is Necessary Times State Service FRENCH LICK, Ind., May 14—Nominations from the floor here today made a second election for first and second vice presidents of the Indiana Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs necessary. The federation’s three-day convention is being held in the French Lick Springs Hotel. Mrs. Lura Bond, Anderson, was nominated for first vice president, and Miss Ruth Lewman, Indianapolis, for second vice president. In the runoff election held tonight, both won. Officers elected this afternoon were: Mrs. Bessie Thornton, South Bend, president; Carol Dawson, Auburn, recording secretary; Irene L. Hiss, South Bend, corresponding secretary; Helen Beck and Nora West, both of Lebanon, treasurer and assistant treasurer,

On Committee

Five new members of the nominating committe chosen were: Adah O. Frost, Greenfield, chairman; Jean Benbow, Richmond; Virginia Rowland, Portland; Opal Carmichael, Monticello, and Dr. Bonnell Souders, Auburn. The committee will nominate officers to be voted on at the 1950 convention. The Cumberland club, for the second straight year, won the Jennie Rae Hirsch award for a 74.5 per cent attendance at its meetings this year. The Adah Frost trophy went to the Jasper club for having 22 of its 40 members at the convention. Voting delegates here for the 31st annual convention number 516, representing 116 state clubs. A total membership in the state organization of 8581 was reported today. Highlight of today's sessions was an address tonight by Mrs. Lillian T. Majally, New York, national BPW representative. Her topic was “Women in the New World.”

Workshops Held

She conducted a program workshop this afternoon on “What Can Women Do? Mrs. Melanie Menderson, Cincinnati, national parliamentarian, was in charge of a second workshop, “Just How to Do It.” Mrs. LaVonne DeVore, Shelbyville, state president, presided at today's sessions. Scheduled for tomorrow morning at the International Breakfast is an address by Mrs. Julia B. H. Miller on “Peoples of Other Lands.” Assisting her will be mem-~ bers of the state BPW committee on international relations. These, and women holding individual memberships in the International BPW, will appear in native costumes. Following installation of new officers at 10 o'clock, the convention will be adjourned.

Of Pre-Kindergarten Age How to Work and Amuse Selves

Mrs. R. ©. Jones starts daughter to play school.

SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1949

Play School Organized In Broad Ripple Teaches Children Counter-Spy—

Battersby and Susag Stadler.

Four Busy Mothers of Four Tiny Pupils Originate Idea For Training at Home By RUTH ANN HAMILTON 7 THE SCHOOL bell doesn't ring yet for four pre-kinder-garten little girls who live in Broad Ripple. But they're going to school just the same—to a unique “play school” which originated last fall in the minds of their

four busy mothers.

The four tiny “pupils”-—Sandra Jean Brown, 4, daughter

of Mr. and Mrs. George Bréwn; Susan Stadler, 3, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Harold E. Stadler; Sara Ann Battersby, 3%, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J, 8. Battersby, and Mary Margaret Jones, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben 'G. Jones—all live in the 6200 block of Washington Blvd. :

Their mothers had talked and wondered for a long time about the idea of some sort of organized play for four little girls who lived so close together and were so nearly the same age. Shortly after the city schools opened last

fall, the “play school” began to meet two days a week—on Tuesday and Thursday mornings—from 9 to 11 o'clock.

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Story hour , . Battersby reads to Susan.

Human Nature

“BRIDGE is part chance, part skill . . . and mostly just plain understanding human nature.” That's the way Easley Rutland Blackwood, originator ot the famous Blackwood convention, sums up a game that’s knitted the brows of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Mr. Blackwood, author of a book on bridge that’s appearing serially in The Indianapolis Times, had to become shrewd at cards as early as age 11 in order to complete a family foursome that included his father, mother and grandmother. “Bridge,” he explains, “was my family’s favorite hobby, I had to learn—or else!” A native of Birmingham, Ala., young Easley started to work right out of high school as a clerk in the Birmingham office of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Last month, he observed his 28th anniversary with Metropolitan. Company assignments have taken him to Baltimore, Chicago and Decatur, Ill, and he's been manager of the Indianapolis office since 1932. As president of the Indianapolis Association of Life Underwriters, he’s lectured widely and written for insurance journals. . » . MR. BLACKWOOD'S education didn’t stop with high school in Birmingham. He's always enrolled in evening courses at Butler University and Indiana University extension, “He's been going to school ever since I've known him,” observes Mrs. Blackwood. Her husband’s choice of subjects ranges from philosophy to biology, but there's always room for his favorite study— mathematics, “Mathematics and bridge are nothing short of insepara-

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“ALTHOUGH we knew there were nursery schools available,” Mrs. Jones recalls, “we thought we could do just as well at home.”

Basic idea of the play school was to widen the scope of the children’s experience to teach them to work and play together and to get along with each other. Each mother takes her turn at holding school in her home. In bad weather, the curriculum may include finger painting, listening to rec« ords, singing nursery rhymes, or hearing a story read aloud. On fine days the mother in-charge may take the little girls for a hike in nearby Holliday park, or for a visit to the fire station. They may help her in the garden, or they may simply ‘play together In the yard. Special holidays like Valentine's Day and Easter are always observed by making cards andlittle decorations. . The mid-point in the morn+ ing program fis set aside for a “snack” of fruit juice and crackers. » " . “THE companionship the children have here has done wonders in teaching them to get along with each other,” Mrs. Brown observes. “They've learned to take turns and to share their toys.” “We've learned a lot, too,” adds Mrs. Stadler, The mothers left free on play school mornings enjoy a chance to do marketing, shopping or housework without interruption. Mrs. Battersby uses her time to attend a water-color class at

Big Part of Bridge, Blackirood

ble,” he declares. “All games of chance are based on probabilities, and being able to predict those probabilities plus skill and humanics— makes a good bridge player.” Mr. Blackwood evolved the bidding system that bears his name in the early 1930's, when bidding systems were still largely in the experimental stage. He sent his first article on the new convention

to Ely Culbertson’s magazine, “Bridge World,” only to receive a rejection slip because his system disagreed with Culbertson’s. Since then, the magazine has pressed him for more articles, as have publi-

Sharing toys in sandpile (left fo right) Mary Margaret Jones, Sandra Brown, Sara Ann

Listening to records . . . Mrs. George Brown plays for Sara Ann and Sandra (on floor) and Susan and Mary Margaret (in

chairs).

the John Herron Art Institute. The four mothers involved in the play school project are well qualified by training and background to carry out their plan. Mrs. Brown, a graduate of the University of Illinois, was formerly a primary teacher in Clifton, Ill. Mrs. Jones, a graduate nurse, did private nursing in Baton Rouge, La.

cations like “Good Housekeeping” and “Esquire.” Mr. Blackwood won his first bridge tournament right here in Indianapolis in 1935. Today he has enough trophies to fill a good-sized den—but they're

all kept boxed up in the basement. » . ” “WE USED to play tournament bridge as a team,” recounts Mrs. Blackwood, “but we've stopped playing partners. He's so much better than I. Besides, he claims I play ‘ladies’ bridge’. Second to bridge as a Blackwood hobby comes correspondence chess, a slow-

When Ealay Blackwood (right) plays correspondence chess, the whole family kibitzes. igh) ply ?

Mrs. Stadler and Mrs. Battersby have both done social work involving children— Mrs. Stadler for the Marion County Welfare department and Mrs. Battersby in the State Department of Public Welfare.

The four women plan to continue the play school activity for another year, until their daughters are ready for kindergarten,

Discovers

moving, brainy operation that involves communication by mail with players all over the United States and Canada. Mr. Blackwood can keep from 12 to 15 of these games going at once, but the games take from three months to two years to finish. Both Mr. and Mrs. Blackwood are rated as “A” players in correspondence chess—a rating based on how many games they've won or lost. It seems impossible, with the press of business, writing, bridge, chess and classes, that there could be room for another hobby in the Blackwood household. But there is another — music -— and it makes a strong play for top interest. Mrs. Blackwood, as chairman of the State Council of the Women’s Committee of the Indiana State Symphony Society, devotes much of her time to work in support of the symphony. Both the Blackwoods are enthusiastic listeners. “Our house is crammed so full of phonograph records,” Mrs. Blackwood remarks, “sometimes I feel we should move out to make room for them.” Their 16-year-old son, Easley Jr., is a brilliant pianist in his'own right. In 1946, as winner of the Young Indiana Artists’ Contest, he appeared as soloist with the Indianapolis 8S8ymphony. Last month he presented a solo recital at the Indiana World War Memorial. A student at Bhortridge High School, he'd like to attend the Juilliard School of Music, , Mr. Blackwood's serialized book, soon to be released to other newspapers by General Features Byndicate, is to be published eventually by the Droke House of Indianapolis. (By R. A. H)

“flounce—plus the lace,

Fashions .....3! Food .ce0s..36

Traveler May Pack Frilly Lingerie If It's Knitted Nylon

Ruffles, Flounces of Nylonette, Lace— Like Tricot Body—Need No Pressing

By LOUISE FLETCHER, Times Woman's Editor HE LINGERIE WHICH GOES TRAVELING with a woman vacationer can be just as frilly and femie nine as any in her wardrobe . . , if it's knitted nylon. Because nylon tricot undies wash and dry in a matter of minutes, they've been welcomed with open arms by women travelers. (They're so easy to launder that fewer pieces of lingerie will see the vacationer through her travels.) But lots of the gals have been clinging to tailored styles, forgetting that Nylonette trimming and nylon laces, like the body of the nylon knit, don't need the touch of a pressing iron. As feminine as you please are some new Van Raalte nylon Sheerio undies they're showing at Ayres’, The Sheerio itself is supple and soft draping—and it's trimmed, in many styles, with wide bandings, ruffles or flounces of Nylonette or nylon lace. The Sheerio tricot never stretches or shrinks in washing and just letting it hang for a while after unpacking takes out all packing wrinkles, Of course, it never needs ironing after laundering. It doesn’t wash out of shape because it is “thermo set” and so dries to exact original dimensions without a wrinkle, (Because it holds its correct size, sales persons advise against the usual habit of buying knit undies larger to provide for shrinkage.) The matching trio of slip, panties and gown sketched combine Bheerio, Nylonette : and lace. Lace edges the top PF of _the slip and serves as an insert above a w!de hemline flounce of Nylonette, More lace encircles the legs of the briefs. In the Empire style gown are Nylonette shoulder ruffies. as well as hemline This trio comes in Cloud White (leading color favorite), Horizon Blue (close runnerup) and Dawn Glow (petal pink). The gown is $14.95; the slip $8.95; briefs $3.50. A half-slip (not sketched) is $5.95. For flattering fit, the Van Raalte gowns are stitched ; at the waistline with elastic thread. And, because the nylon garments outwear any elastic obtainable, the waistline casing in panties and briefs has a buttonhole-stitched opening to make

elastic replacement easier, styles in the Van Raalte nah

There are numerous other tion—one of the sets including a midriff style slip with Nylonette banding the scalloped top and hemline detail. The gown, half-slip and panties have thé same scalloped motif. Prices: Gown $12.95; slip (sizes 32 to 42) $7.95; half-slip $3.95; panties $3. Van Raalte’s famous “Slither Slip,” lace-topped and hemmed, is $8.95 and, in plain-tailored version, is $6.95. su ss» un Most lush of the Van Raalte Sheerlo lot is a trio fit for a trousseau. It comes in Cloud White and is all hand-made even to the seams which are sewn with nylon thread. Top and hemline edges are hand-embroidered, in iris motif, to Nylonette bandings, If the set were of hand-made woven nylon, it would be way up there in price. In the nylon knit, the prices are lower than you'd dream for hand-made undies. The gown is $306; the slip $25, and the pantie $10.05, (There is no half-slip with this set.) P. 8, If you want a bra to go with the Van Raalte undies, there's a plain tailored one at $2.50 which comes in all the colors of the other pieces. :

. Shantung Afoot and in Hand OME OF THE MOST STRIKING shoes destined for summer wear have been trotted out in Block's shoe department. They're Andrew Geller styles made in pure silk shantung . . . both printed and plain. Introduction of shantung into the shoe picture brings forth a rival for linen shoes ~-particularly where color to Jnatch a costume is desired. The natural shantung models may be dyed any wanted shade, There are three styles in the lot: A closed toe and heel shell pump with asymmetrical stitching on the vamp ($16.95) ; and two ankle-strap sandal styles ($18.95). One of the ankle-straps has open heel and toe and comes in printed shantung with blue, brown or parchment backegrounds. The other, with closed heel, draped vamp and open toe, comes in plain colors — periwinkle, topaz (a lime tone); mint, Wedgwood blue, yellow, orange, brown and natural, To make the shoes even better as summer accessories, there are handbags to match, These, $14.85, come in two styles. A draped pouch model with knotted strap comes in plain tones. The season's favored small satchel type is available in print as well as plain tones. The bags are made by Surrey.

For a More Pleasant Journey R THOSE TAKING THEIR VACATIONS by motor, there is special equipment to make the journey easier and more pleasant. One of these is the plastic garment bag for hanging up your duds in the automobile . . . keeping them free of dust while they also avoid the danger of wrinkling which comes with cramming them into luggage. At Wasson's they are showing Bee-Bafe storage and travel bags in clear plastic which hold up to eight garments. There's a 42-inch length for suits and blouses (59 cents) and a 60-incher (69 cents) for dresses. These come without hangers and have a metal plece at the bottom

to clamp the rolled-up edge after the garments have been inserted. . » .

» . . If there's a spot of laundry work to do en route, a clothes, line is a big help. One which comes packed into a two-inch-square box has metal pieces at the ends to hook over tree branches, bathroom fixtures or nails. Called the Traveline, it’s yours for 50 cents, also at Wasson's. ~ » . :

» ” » A sewing kit comes in handy, too, when you're on the road. A small leatherette number contains 11 small spools of thread in assorted colors; eight spools of darning cotton; a thin! hy needles and scissors. $1.50 at Wasson's. i

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