Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1949 — Page 14

Socio Can For Too Ma

sk Mrs. Manners—

Wreck ny Lives

DEAR MRS. MANNERS! WHY DON'T

and respect. Few women talk with the de-|

into an appalling muddle. {

peed Yo take Inventory, ‘too. “There's so much that is good In| the worst of us and so much that, is bad in the best of us that It| hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.” Often the nicest man I'll ever know asks, after a woman's long telephone conversation: “Don’t| you think women are a little un-| fair to each other?” -I check up. He's right. I like what you write. Whoever you are, you have a sound mind! MRS. 8. 8, North Side. The worst gossiper Is the person who gets you to tell |

things she wants sald about | people. |

She wants to hear of failures | because she's made her own life empty and dull. She doesn’t want to be known as a

™ dress’ will seem like the shroud of an-! other woman. I'm afraid ance

long time, We never had exciting love like

Li ae Re =

Disraeli said: “Lite is too short to be little.”

| many times you’

' Really, itis.

Joerats intention of being mean. my first husband, but he is ond. ost gossip starts with chit-chat! made him happy while he was alive, 1 can't do anything now. I was sure this man was the To. stop it, start with yourself. right person for me until he said: Build happy human relationships “Just one thing. Don't ever try J instead of gossiping. Men may to take her place.” /

TROUBLED. You'd be playing around with a ghost whatever you did. She'd mess around your kitchen, frowning at your methods. She

| woulll be perched at your dress-

ing table enjoying your baggy eyes. She'd be laughing when yo: were waiting for your husand to tell you what you were sure ae fold her, ahd meant it. You couldn't please a man living In the past. He's made up his mind. His crankiness wonld be coupled with a guilt | complex over a second marriage. He'd want everyone to Ww you were second choice. | You'd want everyone to think You had made him forget his

| first wife.

I'd find a man living in the present and lovi me, Too think he didn’t love you without being reminded of the first wife you know he loved. She'd be around, without his encouragement. With him demanding that she keep head place ~~ jo them | Son" together — sunk.

—Khere is fam that he |

meant to be yourself—not a copy of a wife he likes to remember as more perfect than she was. He may have meant second love isn’t quite lke first love. Those two slants make sense. But I have a feeling he wants a housekeeper to keep Baume the way Ais Brat wife would want it to look.

Let Mrs, Manners and readers of the column share your problems. Write in care of The Times, 214 W. Maryland St,

Burton Holmes to Give

New Mexico Travelog

we women check ourselves before we gossip? ask: “Is it true? Is it kind! Is it necessary?” BE ip aon Leng ng happiness or peace of mind. Iti § fs foolish to kill time with it as well as lose people's confidence, love

Burton Holmes will be at tne!

fi- Murat Theater in person Tuesday

to marry the ghost of {to lecture on “New Mexico,” {fourth presentation in his cur-

{rent series of travelogs. The travelog will

“Switzerland,” which was orig-

inally scheduled for Nov. 22, will

cover the didn't exactly ex- natural and scenic beauties of

: 1 Fir a widow." 4 cl Mexico, as well as the loa cation for the atomic bomb test, I

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Heed in his caged run “and individual Nonneh is one of Mrs, Louise Wood's "pets"

in her refuge in Morgan County.

By DONNA MIKELS AN INDIANAPOLIS woman who regards dogs as “a symbol of all the helpless and oppressed of this world” Is putting her personal fortune into a dog refuge.

|. Mrs—Louise Wood, 2002 N.

Alabama St. said she decided to establish the canine home after she studied and reached a none too complimentary con-

clusion about the human race.

The refuge, at the top of Copperhead Canyon in hilly Morgan County; include 12 buildings on a 65-acre tract, said Mrs, Wood, who is widely known in Indianapolis as “the

dog woman. She has worked with dogs for years. “1 essayed to try to help when 1 began to realize how foully dogs are treated by people 1 do not heir » . EVER SINCE last year when she withdrew from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for what she called

Earlier last month Mrs. Wood was taken into city court here charged with accumulating filth and an overflow of dogs in her N. Alabama St. home. The case is still pending, but Judge Alex Clark o eatth her foo open the house to he in-

aan are my enemies reaching out after me,” sald the woman who turned from human beings to dogs after studying peyenology. :

“1 HAVE been persecuted in Indianapolis,” she said. “I have been hauled into court, treated as if 1 had blood on my hands. The Health Board goes

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through my house like it was the terminal station. They tell me to rid the dogs from my home. “Indianapolis has been unkind to us and we have fled to the hills.” She added a warning: “They must not-try -to-follow-us because the laws of the hills are primitive and we will follow those laws if they try to take our dogs.” ® MRS. WOOD termed\hardly worth answering the complaint to state police that she “starved” her dogs, and that she picked up strays on Indianapolis streets,

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Entrance to "Wood's Sanctuary.” Neatby is o statue of St. Francis, patron saint of animals.

She sald she buys $78 worth of dog food every three days. The pets on the farm-—she says she doesn’t know if there are 200 or more—are all “my own” or are the sick, abandoned or afflicted. Born in Connecticut, Mrs.

Wood -was_educated in ° this

country and abroad. She moved into the frame home on Alabama St, as the bride of Attorney Allen Wood. After his death in 1927, she studied psychology in the University of Chicago, and later turned her attention and finances to gr Her first dog, she recalls, was “Dear Sir of Sacred Memory.” Her collection of sick starved

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After shudying the human race, Mrs. Wood 1s putfing her money info a refuge for dogs.

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the years. : The clear-eyed, black clad womsn said she knew people called her a “crackpot.”

A » . “1 BELIEVE there is ample evidence at this time that the dead live after death” she “I just don't go to Church on Easter Supday to sing about it. I believe in it. This makes me a crackpot on one count. “The second count is that

fm overenthusiastic about.

dogs. The third count is that l won't take any money for it. [ spend my own. “The fourth is my natural crackpot tendency.”

MORE SERIOUSLY, she added: : “My whole work since my husband died has been the obliteration of the individual I feel the individual is immate= rial in this world except for

_what he does.” Mrs. Wood sald she Will Bot

move completely from Indianapolis to her refuge. “They cannot drive me out. By the grace of God I will stay here a little longer but my soul's affiliation is in the hills, “The thing that matters now is that I am left alone by my enemies with my pets.”

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