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Medical Association

Meeting Tops Week

Of Important Affairs

Emily Kimbrough, Mary McGinn Address Audiences At Indianapolis Athletic Club By KATY ATKINS THIS HAS BEEN A WEEK of big affairs, big as to size and importance. The 100th anniversary meeting of the Indiana Medical Association brought many interesting women to town as the Women’s Auxiliary to the Asso-

ciation met at the same time.

Two brilliant women spoke at meetings at the Indianapolis Athletic Club.. Wednesday night they had

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Emily Kimbrough, who along with her customary wit and froth, brought a serious message. At luncheon on Wednesday Miss Mary McGinn of Chicago furnished another surprise. In contrast to the dignified appearing Miss Kimbrough, Miss McGinn is a petite red head with a provocative retrousse nose. She wore a fluffy hat and is a most feminine looking person. She is director of the women’s division of the American Medical Association education program and a lawyer as well. She made a stirring plea for women to join the-fight to keep the American way of life. Women, and men too, are

so much more effective when they can give their message with

charm and a lack of grimness. 4 The Symphony Ball at Woodstock last night was a gala

affair. Planned as a Viennese Ball, Der Rosenkavalier furnished the theme for the decorations which were big turquoise velvet bows, silver plumes and silver roses used lavishly in the ball-

room over the doorways, the stage and the wall brackets. The orchestra played many waltzes which displayed to advantage the full skirts that predominated in the women's gowns. Cithy Cunningham Brown's bright red frock with its low round neck and swirling skirt was especially effective. The junior group of the Women’s Committee of the Indiana State Symphony Society has reason to be proud of its sponsorship of the party. ®

Balloons and Gum

THOUGH IT has been over a week since the Trader's Point Hunt party for the farmers, the picture of Louis Schwitzer and his balloons lingers in the mind of all who saw him. They were wonderful balloons with T.P.H. and a horse’s- head-on -each one and he had an inexhaustible supply. Children gathered around him in swarms when he brought them out of the clubhouse. Many balloons

got away and gave color to

the cloudless sky and many were attached, singly and in pairs, to the children’s head gear. Between the balloons and the incredible quantity of bubble gum distributed by Louis Thomas along with his magic, the day was a great success. — Betsy and Al Stokely created quite a sensation in their tweed coats of identical pattern. Betsy's gray flannel skirt was even of the same material as Al's slacks.

Visit New York

MRS. HARRY Reid and her daughter, Margaret, left last Monday for the East where they will spend time in New York, Atlantic City and the the Connecticut countryside. Mrs. Robert Scott and Mrs. Tony Hulman are also in New York. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pughe of Toledo were here for a brief visit last week with Mr, and Mrs. William R. Higgins. They occupied a small house on the Higgins’ property in Woodstock when they lived here and made many friends. Their daughter, Frances, has

a job at Tord and Taylor's in New York and Wells is with General Electric in Schnectady. oles. Henry Pond, the former Helen Sturgis, was here last week from her home in New York state. She enjoyed seeing her old friends, among them Mrs. Theodore Griffith. Incidentally Mr. and Mrs. Griffith are very happy about their new granddaughter, Holly, the child of Sylvia and John Peacock. I saw Lucille and Lije Martindale at “The Red Shoes” the other night. They had been in New York where they dined one night with the Arturo Grassis and saw Nina and Gene Eddy. Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney of Washington arrived yesterday and will be at the Propylaeum this week.

Politics In Spotlight

ST. MARGARET'S Hospital Guild met last Tuesday with Mrs. Russell Williams after which the hostess took off to join her husband in Europe. The buffet luncheon table was unusually festive and appropriate to the season with its forest green cloth and bouquet of mahogany chrysantheums, wheat, cat tails and red hot pokers. Gold candles in silver candelabra extended the length of the table and were banked with the same flowers, The Guild, in its forty-third year of service, had many

special guests at this meet-.

ing, most of them connected with General Hospital where the organization puts in much of its effort. The major political parties held big women’s meetings last week. The most recent was on Thursday when Guy Gabrielson, new - Republican National Committee ' chairman, addressed an overflow crowd of nearly 900 in the Riley Room of the Claypool. Mabel Fraser, state Republican vice chairman, wore the

"type of hat that is so becom-

ing to her and is almost her trade mark. This was a very large black one with a rollback brim and was faced with pale blue beaver cloth. Her speech was as good as she was pretty.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1949

Contrast . . . Mrs. Grace Golden, director, arranges a label by a prehistoric glyptodon and a

modern armadillo. By AGNES H. OSTROM AN OVERSUPFLY of seashells, shelled mammals and reptiles caused

its own crisis in the Chil- ®

dren's Museum of Indianapolis. The result—the museum “shells out” for an entire new wing. Tomorrow the wing, housing two modernly decorated galleries, will be opened formally to the public. The interior of the glass brick structure, bleached pine plywood set off by walls . painted in melon green, will delight old-timer museumgoers. And amaze others who don’t know how attractive a museum can be. The wing adds 3300 square feet of floor space. This includes the exhibit rooms, a children’s workshop and space for the lending department storage. There is an acoustic ceiling and indirect fluorescent lighting.

Prehistoric Exhibit A loud speaker system, recent gift of a retired school teacher, makes possible emergency calls throughout the building. Wired to a recording machine it plays thg music, especially nice on days for the weekly Family -Hours. vy The first galery, a completely new building, connects a once four-car garage to the main building. Prehistory exhibits are in the first gallery and the second holds bird and animal displays. Tom O’Laughlin, Indianapolis portrait artist, has done a mural on the east wall. This shows how early man pursued animals for food and clothing across the Bering Strait to this hemisphere, A giant ground sloth skeleton dubbed “Dinah, the Dinosaur” by the children dominates the center of the prehistory gallery. This prehistoric mammal and plaster replicas of a glyptodon and two mastodon skulls (gifts of Wabash College when the old science hall in Crawfordsville was dismantled) really determined the theme of the room,

Animals Are Alive Beneath the glass bricks on the north and south walls are displayed the artifacts super-

Bird Exhibits . . . on inspection by Miss Thelma Patterson in charge of the bird clubs and field trips. .

imposed against pictures drawn on colored back-

grounds. Today's tools are painted on the backgrounds. Their stone age counterparts are mounted in the glass cases. On the south wall are seven exhibits of fossils, rocks and minerals arranged in relation to science courses of study in the city schools. Varieties of tropical fish, turtles, chameleons, snakes and white mice ‘are featured in the second gallery. A small exhibit in memory of Tom Wainwright shows minerals under fluorescent lights. Children can work the switches themselves to : see the changing colors. The museum building and grounds including the new

by Bill Oates, Times Staff Photographer. the ground bird cases gets a final

wing (built at a cost of $35,000) are valued at $100,000. Untiring work of staff members, generous gifts of citizens and volunteer hours of service by members of the Children’s Museum Guild have added much more to the investment designed for children of the community. Now in its 23d year, the third chikiren’s museum in the United States originally was housed at 1150 N. Meridjan St, It was opened to the public at the present address, 3101 N. Meridian St., Dec. 6, 1946, James R. Chase serves as board of trustees president and Mrs. Grace Golden, director, heads a full-time educational staff of five members.

Junior Leaguers Have Made Their Own Ways, Means Project Pay Off With A Net Profit Of At Least $10,000 A Year Since '43

INDIANAPOLIS MERCHANDISERS take note! The Junior Leaguers of the city have made their one permanent ways and means project pay off as a business venture. The Next-to-New Shop at 3418 N. Illinois St., completely managed by this group of enterprising young women, has chalked up a net profit of at least $10,000 a year since 1943. But, it just didn’t happen. support it actively. Each shop chairman through the years is credited with making some improvement in the business during her regime. One large room, equipped with racks and display tables, constitute the simple furnishings. A partition and curtain in the rear provides an adequate upstairs office. And the basement houses the stock not yet marked and “Sorted for selling. Glass enclosed front windows exhibit the latest in seasonal fashfons. Downstown stores are checked to detérmine possible price range. AH The merchandise? Clothes for every age, books, china,

bric-a-brac and household

Where does it all come from?

All the items are donated’

by League members on a

Merchandise marking is one of the first steps in processing Next-to-New

goods. Hard

at work are (left to right) Mesdames Charles W. Symmes, John A. Rockwood and Abram S. Woodard Jr. Mrs. Woodard is shop committees chairman.

quota basis. Boxes arrive daily with the donor's name attached so her quota may be credited. Sales? Of - course. After an ifem has been in

stock so long, it's reduced. |

December's feature is the big

sale of toys which members

repair during the fall

/Mrs. Abram S:"Woedard Jr. heads the shop committee this /year, Working with her are / Mrs, John W. Gamble and / Mrs. Charles W. Symmes, treasurer and assistant treasurer; Mrs. Francis T. Mayberry, secretary; Mrs. Thomas W. Binford, personnel director, and Mrs. John A. Rockwood, consignment.

In addition 34 volunteer workers are scheduled for

three hours each week. A professional manager and assistant are employed. They keep regular store hours too =—9:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. Tuesday’ through Saturday. Like several downtowf stores, the shop is closed on Mondays.

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And they have their own following of customers.

Provisionals to Sell

Provisionals will work for the first time at the shop this year. Beginning next month they will rotate on a two months training course under supervision of trained volunteers for six months. The League's business story is as old as its history. At the first meeting in 1922 the 50

members (today there are

483) voted to equip and maintain the proposed occupational therapy department in Riley Hospital. To raise the necessary money they started

_ an Exchange which later

evolved into a gift shop. This shop was closed in 1934 to concentrate on a Trading Post, a used goods store, begun by members in 1928. After several moves it was opened ac Next-to-New at the present location ten

Shop proceeds have made possible expansion of the group’s welfare and cultural program. The money . goes into the League's civic pro-

gram fund. It is allocated to’

‘various projets the League supports. include financial and volunteer assistance to the James Whitcomb Riley Child Guidance Clinic, the community braille transcription classes in the League

office and the Community

Puppet Theater and Workshop. Members also serve as gallery guides in Herron Art Institute. (By A. H. 0.)

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Artifacts . . . Miss June J shell hoe is in its proper place.

Society ..22, 23 Fashions ....26 Clubs ......24 Gardening ..27

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yce and Miss Rosemary Skaggs, docents, make certain the Indian

Dinosaurs . . . this prehistoric reptile display was originally made for the old museum by John Quincy Adams, sculptor apprentice on the monument

Counter-Spy—

Sturdy Cradles Hold Heavy Logs In Place for Cheery Winter Fires

. By LOUISE FLETCHER, Times Woman’s Editor WITH ONLY A FEW nippy fall evenings, the family

hearthside begins to work its enchantment. Qut of “the fireplace come’ the pleated paper fans, boxes of : or whatever ha ; re it a summértim appea ened ea or nas Joo end; to ge ia .

In go the logs whose cheery flames make for cheery evenings . . . providing, of course, that the burning question has received the right answer in the way of fireplace equipment. It takes a sturdy base to hold the lengths of wood needed for a good fire... and all too often today’s primarily decorative andirons aren't adequate. Light in construction, they may warp

or bend under continued use. Some have been known to burn completely through. Such things can’t happen with an improvement in log burning apparatus being shown in Vonnegut stores. This is a pair of substantial log cradles designed to straddle the andiron shanks and support the wood fuel. These

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not only keep wood together for better burning, but they slant to the rear so burning logs roll to the back of the fireplace. This is a safety feature and the logs burn better

back there anyway. In 18-

inch depth, a pair costs $5.25; in 22-inch depth, $6.25. If a fireplace opening is quite wide, a pair and a half or two pairs may be bought. n » Ed Also at Vonnegut’s are some realistic, and handsome, fire logs . . . gas burning . . . made to resemble yule oak or birch. Through some magic in the use of clay, portions of these really glow like embers when the concealed burner is lighted. The yule logs circulate clean, convected heat with a goodly amount of radiation. Available in 20, 25 or 30-inch widths, the yule

oak sells for $37.50, $45 or

$53.50. Same widths in birch design sell for $39.50, $47 and $55. i % . = = =» Owners of rolling acres now blanketed with fallen leaves will welcome an estate leaf incinerator. It's a huge metal grillwork basket mounted “pushecart” style on two wheels. Shove it around to gather up the leaves and burn them as you go. Ashes, sifting into a tray-like arrangement below, may be dumped wherever desired. At Vonnegut’s downtown, 38th St. and Broad Ripple stores—$689.50.

This doorstep dachshund keeps watch against shoe soles laden with mud, grass, gravel and all other foreign matter likely to damage rugs and floors. He's a footscraper, velvet black with bright

" red tongue, and he’s heavy ~ enough (30 pounds of solid

cast iron) to stay put without chain or cement anchor. $9.95 at Vonnegut stores.

Good For Gloves

COUPLE of weeks from now comes National Glove Week and with it, probably, the slogan: “Ladies and gentlemen always wear gloves,” Idea, of course, is to sell gloves. But while stores go along with that idea, they're also anxious to help customers take carg/of the gloves they already have. At Ayres’, for example, they have a whole “stable” of glove care items in the first-floor glove department. One of the handiest is the glove tree pictured. These are pretty pink plastic affairs on

which to dry washable gloves (and most of today's are sudsable). Any adult-size glove may be dried on these plastic ' “hands” which have air holes to speed the process and hooks to suspend them from the line. $1 a pair. The department also has French cream (25 cents) for removing spots from glace gloves; Kislav's detergent glove bath at 50 cents for a box of 10 envelopes, and the Glove Association’s G. A. No. 50 shampoo also at 50 cents. Then, for the persistent glove loser, there are glove guards which keep handbag and gloves firmly chained together. Prices range from 89 cents to $2.

The Lean Look

WE JUST found out . that big shots in international business eircles have long favored a necktie—cravat to them—with a narrow look. That's the distinctive characteristic of the Washington. Tremlett tie. Used to be they had to go to the Rue de Rivoli in Paris to get Tremletts. Now the ties are being turned out in this

country by Signet, and college boys are going for-them, too. . Strauss’ have the tie which features restrained variations on small geometric themes. It’s a five-folddnumber which means it forms its own lining. Of pure silk foulard, the ties are $3.50. » "w ¥ Men's ties arem’t the oaly fashion items adopting new proportions. Sears, Roebuck have introduced some new proportioned-fit nylon hosiery for women. These came about after a government survey showed most women could be classified into four different leg types: Short-slender; slender; average, tall. Sleeker, smoother fit is obtained in the proportioned hose and better wear follows. The Royal Purple Carefree hose are $1.39 a pair or three pairs (smart way to buy) for $3.90.

A Real 'Cut-Up'

OMING UP hereabouts in a week or two is a kitchen aid which is going to make slicing, shredding or grating a breeze. It is the Rival Shred-O-Mat, a relative of that efficient wall-type can opener, the Can-O-Mat. This new kitchen wonder is a crank-operated affair with three interchangeable -discs of corrosion-resistant stainless steel. (No discoloring, no rusting, from. contact with fruit or vegetable juices.) A half-hour’s work with paring knife or old-fashioned hand-grater can be done in minutes with the Shred-O-Mat. It has its own base’ with rubber feet to prevent slipping or scratching; there are no clamps to mar working surfaces. No skinned fingers, either. Fruit or vegetable is

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held gently against the dise

as it whirls, fast or slow as

sell for about $6. An allchrome model will be about $8. ;