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Giant Union Station Santa Greets Swarm Of Holiday Visitors

Several Cocktail Parties Will Precede The Dramatic Club Dance Wednesday By KATY ATKINS THE SWARMS OF YOUNG PEOPLE who started coming in for the holidays the last of the week got a really big welcome in Union Station by “Santa

Colossal.”

Being unable to visualize just how tall 50 feet was, I lined the top of his head up with the top of the circular window in the main concourse and am convinced that he is truly the biggest

Santa in the world.

Mrs, Nathan Graham and Mrs. Post Milliken got back from

visits in the East last Monday, . Nicholson have returned recently from Texas. . . Kysar has gone to Delray, Fla, to be with her aunt, Mrs. ' Mrs. Charles Knapp and her baby boy

Pavis Whitaker. . . . are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weisd. They will be joined by Mr. Knapp for Christmas. . Mrs. Harry Scvhliotz-" hauer has returné&d’™ from Buffalo and is exrecting her daughter. Bunny Burrows, and the baby on Tuesday. Bunny and Mary Schaff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Johnson, are Loming in state in a bed:

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room for two good reason:

The baby and Mary's cocker, Sachet, who is not overly fond of baggage cars. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, with their sons and their wives, were among those at the professiona) tennis matches Thursday night! Except for the weather, one might have thought he was back at Woodstock watching a big summer tournament.

Fans Are on Hand

ALL THE FANS were on hand, including Fred Appel and Brecht Kipp, old doubles partners. The Leslie DeVoes were there, of course. Naturally terested in tennis since. their sons are all good players, especially Chuck. He has recently added to Mis athletic laurels by making the basketball squad at Princeton.

The players’ many friends

~ahiefe were disappointed net to

see more of them since plans for their entertainment had to he canceled. With reports of a storm to warn them, they drove all night from Princeton, N. J., where they fast played and got in just in time for some sleep before their appearance at Strauss’ in the afternoon.

Holiday Visitors NINA AND GENE Eddy come Friday to spend the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Garvin Brown. The latter also will have Mrs. Brown's

. the John Gould Jrs. guests will be many of the

they are intensely in- —

. Mr. and Mrs. Meredith . Ava Saunders

erty has been used in the living room and is stunning over the mantel where its natural grain makes an interesting design. Mrs. Alex Thomson wore a particularly smart hat that day. Its crown was of soft, flat, white feathers while the brim was of curling white ostrich. She is entertaining for her daughter and a

guest during the holidays.

Round of Parties

AMONG the larger cocktail parties before the Dramatic Club dinner - dance next Wednesday will be that of Their

young marrieds, as will those of Mary Boyd and Bill Higgins. The Dave Chambers will have a group at the University Club, One popular couple hopes

to make all three parties—

which will take quite a bit of doing before dinner. At least it/s an indication that we are/due for a gay week.

Poinsettia

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Display Scheduled At Garfield Park

By MARGUERITE SMITH

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nual poinsettia show is opening today. Frank Schubert, head florist, says there will be pink, white and variegated poinsettias on display as well as the more common red ones. = = » “I DON'T know how many thousand plants we have altogether,” Mr, Schubert says. The conservatory will be open from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. today and throughout this week. " The show will be continued after the first of the year if

PATERGUPT Pi FUREY SPINE Winkie Dynes, Martha Seaverns' daughter, arrives just after Christmas and will be with her mother in her re--cently acquired house on 43d t.

hubert advises.

By VICTOR PETERSON THE DOCTOR leaned forward on his desk and faced a tense young couple. The husband cleared his throat, glanced at his wife nervously shifting her feet. “You'll never have children of your own, I'm sorry,” the doctor said kindly.’ Just like that a crushing crisis explodes. For those who love children, want children, a dream world shatters. This is no uncommon scene, but one which realistic couples fight bravely. For all is not lost.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Daniels flew to Florida for a few days the first of the week. but are back and ready for the start of the festivities for the young people in their househoid. I talked to Virginia Turner in New York last week and was glad to hear that she and Harold and little Louise are planning to spend Christmas with her parents, ‘Mr, and Mrs. Frank Binford. 1 saw Alice and Chick Milfer in Darien, Conn., last Sunday. They were guests of the Blake Middletons who bave been here often for the Paces. Alice had been here a few weeks ago, with the Holliday family at Shooters Hill. &he has a Shooters Hill In~ Richmond, Va., as they go pamed their place when they built down there.

News of Hoosier

IN DARIEN, I heard news of another Indianapolis woman who lives there. Josephine Link Nesbitt is .~ith a wellknown industrial design firm, doing splendid work, much of it with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad on their new cars. Her daughter, Janice, has two bables and’ bs ving in Texas. I was quite dated with celebrities one night in New York where I met John Kelly whose new book, “Alexander's ¥east,” has had excellent re-

If true love for children exists, there always is adoption. it, too, promotes a personal crisis, and the step should not be taken lightly, Long and sober thought should back a husbandwife team before they move to accept another's child as their own.

Department Helps THE Marion County Welfare Department stands ready to serve, an agency organized to provide children, make homes complete for adults, promote happiness

views. ‘I admired the way ‘another guest got out of tor alll a hole by saying she had not Many placements do not read it because she was in the channel through the depart-

thices of writing a book herself, Also at the party was John .

ment, but result from personal knowledge by doctors, nurses

La Touche who wrote “Cabin 2nd lawyers of available in the-8ky” and “Ballet Bal- youngsters. . lads” and, unlike many art- In time such cases come

ists, entertained us at the under the eye of department piano half the evening. welfare workers. Before final legal papers clear the adoptive Dream House home, parents and child must MR. AND MRS. Donald be investigated. Welfare recTest had a party one after- ommendations accompany the noon about a week ago in Case into Marion County Protheir lovely new house in Date Court. Brendonwood. Half the Process Simple

guests were made unhappy with envy as it's just the kind THE PROCESS of adoption of house everyone dreams of - outlined by the welfare department is amazingly simple.

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Rising Costs Put Babies in Luxury Class for Many Parents

By AGNES H. OSTROM

“CAN WE afford to have a baby?” The expense of adding to the family has more than kept pace with the rising cost of living the last few years. It is becoming a frightening financial prospect to the middleincome family. Even if they are budget-wise, they are itemizing “baby” in the luxury column.

Hospital costs have taken several rises. Hospital insurance has gone up the past 16 months. The doctor's fee is the only item which seems not to have changed appreci- - ably in the last few years in

Indianapolis. If you add a.

private room and extra pursing care, the costs jump. An average five-day maternity stay in a hospital without: a private room will cost from $67.50 to $82. Add $125 for the doctor, if he's an obstetrician, and around $200 is deducted from the budget.

Hospital Stay Shortened

THE BUREAU of Labor Statistics. shows the cost of living rose 40.4 per cent from 1945 to August, 1949. Of the four Indianapolis hospitals checked, all but one show a higher percentage. The increase in daily costs over that same period runs from 33'; per cent to 81.8 per cent, Over the country, the average doctor fee for a mater nity case (middle-income group; semi- -private “patiént). comes to $150. According to the Indianapolis Medical Society, a recognized specialist here is $125, a general practitioner, $75. The average hospital stay has decreased. In 1945, it was from 10 to 12 days. Today it is five days. In order to alleviate crowded hospital conditions doctors verbally agreed two years ago to shorten ‘the hospital stay of the maternity case.

Insurance Is Help

FAMILIES can bank on one cost-cutting item if they hold hospitalization insurance. The Blue Cross Hospital Plan provides 10 days’ hospital care for a mother and infant, The family cerSikieans through a group must; have pasa in effect for 10; monthS to secure the mater. nity benefits, If they also hold the Blue Shield Surgical Plan, $50 can be deducted from the doctor's fee. The family is entitled to use its own doctor or obstetrician, The hospital plan for standard or semi-private accommodations is $3 a month. With the surgical plan it totals $5. The combined rate was increased 50 cents a month in August of 1948. Costs in all the Indianapolis hospitals are figured as separate items, as room and board for the mother, deliv-

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Local Rates Cited

IN METHODIST Hospital the 1945 $6 a day semi- . private maternity room is now $8, Others range up to $9.50. The average length of stay then was 10 to 12 days. Today it is five days. This adds up to an crease of 3315 per cent in the cost of a reom per day, a 50 per .cent decrease in the length of stay. Individual charges are made for other essential serv-

jces—$15 delivery room, ‘$5

GORE HA TI I

An adopted child . . . happiness for her and the new parents.

cation with the department at

148 E. Market St. They lay bare their personal lives, tell why they want a child and establish inability to bear their own. And there the care rests until a social service worker begins a . searching investigation to establish definitely that the applicants will be good parents. This phase often waits until the agency is relatively certain a suitable child has been found. No hit or miss method, every effort is made to match the child to prospective par. ents in racial background, cdloring, general physical charac-

teristics and mentality, Naturally, the process at times seems needlessly slow, but a misfit brings unhappiness to all concerned,

Time Required MEANWHILE, the «urker Interviews the husband “and wife separately and together to determine if both approach adoption with a healthy attitude—that of developing a child for the child itself rather than for selfish purposes. With the consent of the applicants, workers interview members of their community, They inspect the home for adequacy of space, probe for finan~

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laboratory fee and $1.50 per day for baby care, totaling $67.50 for a minimum stay with basic service.

At St. Francis Hospital a four-day stay, the average there, runs $71. This includes a $9 per day semi-private room; $2 daily baby care; $4.30 for medicine; $15 delivery room; $15 anesthetic; $2.50 surgical dressings, and $1 laboratory. A four-day stay in 1945 would have averaged $43.50. This is a 63.2 per cent increase. A semi-private room in

Modern Methods Prevent Hit- or- Miss Adoptions

cial security, No stress is placed upon lavishness. Money cannot buy love. The study complete, the couple receives notification of acceptance or rejection. When placement is imminent, the parents-to-be undergo. a complete phy sical examination.

Then the child, normally a baby less than a year old, is brought to the home. Here

is climaxed the long wait of usually a year since application. The worker studies the interaction of child and "adult, seeking to discover an intangitte flow of feeling in the important moment. If the couple and the worker agree all is satisfactory, the child" is placed on a year's trial basis.

Surprise Package

SELDOM do adoptive parents ask to return a child. Seldom does the-agency ask one be returned. Placement, however, imposes full care, food, clothing and shelter, upon the couple. Without the pain of childbirth for the woman, the mental strain for the man, the couple become parents. At the year's end, legal papers are filed through Probate Court, and the child assumes all the rights and privileges under law as one born of blood. The steps sound cold, impersonal. They are not. Each day, each week, each month of waiting until thé moment a child. is “born” into the home is rich with anticipation. Babies often are called bundles of joy. In the normal process of birth, arrival can be expected at a given gime. Adoption more often brings the bundle as a surprise package.

Holiday Visit, Party Planned

Mr. and Mrs. Marvin D, Gllardy, Berkeley, Cal, will arrive Thursday to spend Christmas with Mrs. Gllardy's parents, Dr. and Mrs. William E. Gabe, 502 W, Hampton Drive.

» ~ ” . Miss Virgithia Ruddell will entertain with an open house from 8 to 10 p. m., Dee. 30, . in the home of her parents,

-Mr. and Mrs, James H. Rud-

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Coleman Hospital today is $10.60 a day. The nursery is $2 a day; delivery room, $18, and laboratory, $5. A fiveday stay comes to $86. In 1945 the same length stay would have been $55. The difference here is 056.3 per cent, ‘Bt Vv t's Hospital charged a day for semiprivate room in 1945, Today it is $10 a day, an increase f 8 pe!

In A Personal Vein—

Pinata Adds Latin Touch To Yule Time

By MARJORIFE. TURK

Oje amigos, there's a plinata in town. The pinata. or big earthenware jar filled with goodies, is up on the third floor in the home of Miss Mary Alice Uval, 4265 N. Pennsylyania St. The Mexican Christmas custom of suspending the

gaily decorated pinata from the ceiling is being carried on right here in Indianapolis. The pinata, however, is not in very good condition for it was broken with a pole last week. This wasn't through carelessness but it's also part of the old Latin custom.

The Mexicans buy the jars in the open markets and take them home for their holiday parties, The pinata is then hung and the trick is to smash it open so that the candies will spill out. The person doing the smashing is blindfolded to make the procedure more difficult. And if the adults want to masé ‘it harder they hang the pinata in such a manner that it can be moved up and down out of reach of the blinded stick wielder. As soon as someone succeeds in breaking the jar’ there is a scramble to pick up the loot The Pennsylvania St. plnata was broken at a party given this week-end in the Uval home. Besides the pinata there were Latin games and earols, It was the Christmas party

of the Indianapolis Chapter, -

Pan - American Friendship Club, Ine. The friendship clubs. were started by Mac Graham, a former Hoosler from Greensburg who now lives in Los Angeles. Mr. Graham founded the groups with the idea that friendships between people of

the different nationalities could grow if they had parties together.

The local organization got started this fal. And there are several Latins who have

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Last Minute Check of Depariments

Reveals a Number of Presents (Photos on Page 24) Pd By LOUISE FLETCHER, Times Woman's Editor oc AFTER ALL, THE MOST IMPORTANT thing about Christmas giving and receiving is whether or not the small fry get the things they asked from old St, Nick. Late as it is (six more shopping days till Christ. mas), toy departments are still laden with stuff te bring joy to the kids next Sunday morning. If you work - fast, you can grab a goodly number of items before the deadline. A last-minute check of local toy departments revealed a number of toys, games and whatnot, and here they are In alphabetical order by stores. Ayres’ have Amaco finger painting sets to encourage bude ding Raphasls on their way—$1.50 to $4. Also for artists-to-be, a Stencil-Art Rainbow book--$1.50, and Amaco fabric paint box —3$3.00, Very young music makers will go-for the Blow-a-Tune, A gadget operated by the kid's own windpower, plus a crank which runs a perforated disk through the works. With one disk, the player is $1; with 13 tune disks, it's $2.15. .

An educational building toy to intrigue grown-ups as well as youngsters is the Block City (see page 24). Sets, with plan booklet, include interlocking hollow tiles, frames, sills, etc, and are $1.95 and $3.95. Each set has material for a variety of buildings. A kindred item is the Brick Mill ($2.98) which molds clay logs, boards, hollow pipes and tiles, square and blotk bricks, 4 New Lion} siecisic_sngines at UZ30 oiuy. the ants Fe: and New York Central Diese. A shootitl Son at Ayr wt frontier model AS smoker which not only shoots caps but smoke—$1.08.

. Realism holds sway among dolls, particularly in the 1 born ) dolls which ( blank eg voy vodiing of theh Soupl of emailer Sabie e re's . at $8.50 and $7.98.

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NEW-BORN BABY DOLLS are at Boek, Bye Baby is a 21-inch, bis : $0.98. Small mothers who also Tor would lke fn flitior doo

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Presents From a Museum -

A RECENT DISCOVERY is that you ean do mas shopping for children at a museum .. ; Children’s Museum, in this instance, where | Fv have a sales desk set up. As you'd expect, emphasis is on gifts with an educational angle. Games, . for example, include map puzzles (25 cents) and nature card games in full color ($1 a set). Subjects for the attr ate ’ birds, butterflies, flowers or animals. Fof young readers there are books on science and social studies, with good, big, readable print and colorful pictures, Prices are from 25 to 50 cents. There are calendars for the young, =» covers of Natural History They're a dollar. Bronzed models of pelicans, ca and dinosaurs are 30 and 75 cents. | Also on a erals (from the museum's duplicate collection) to encourage Hie young folks to become sollactors. These are 25 cents a package. ”.

Shaver for a Young Shaver

EALISM 18 THE watchword in toys at Charles Mayer's. A plastic shaver “just like Dad's” (see page 24) is a wind-up buzzer affair—75 cents. Carrying realism to the ultimate is Milka-Moo, the milking cow, who comes in her own cardboard stable. She moos . ,.. she ‘milks (if enough Grade-A is poured through an opening on her back) . . . and she's $6.

Fur animals imported from France move either through squeeze-bulb attachments or through wind-up mechanisms. Bulboperated ones are $1.75 and $2.95. Wind-up dancing monkeys and bears are $15. The most realistic wind-up white fur oat extant not only walks and mews but also curls and uncurls its tall, It's $35.

Also from- France are brass horns-—trumpets, saxaphones, ‘ trombones, etc.—with excellent tones. They're $2 to $4.50, From England are water color sets (first since the war)-—-$1.50 to $2.75. Hand-carved chessmen from France (also first since ™ war) are $8.50 a set. Little homemakers will appreciate refreshment sets ot goblets, sherbets, pitcher and plates, all of clear plastic, for $1.50 or $2. Folding ironing boards, red and all-metal, are $2 while wooden ones are $2.75. A complete laundry set with “elec tric” iron, ironing board, -crank-operated washer, clothes bas. ket and drying rack is $7. Little carpet sweepers made by & firm which makes adult-sized ones are $2.98. Bright red kinaergarten chairs are $2 and $2.50, Weave-it looms are 75 cents to $1.50; some with multi-colored cotton loops all ready to start work. A Schilling talking doll ($12.95) says whole sentences, not. just “Mama.” A dolly bonnet basket ($2) comes with hats for, every season, every occasion, : Rocking horses covered with calfskin to look like real al horse. hide are ‘$43.20 while velveteen covered ones are $25. A foot set includes helmet and “shoulders” and is $4.

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Grown-ups as well as the small fry should find’ pleas in .

a revolving musical tree stand at Mayer's. Big enough to a small table-size tree, it has a mi y rim and a sil base, As it revolves it plays i Night." "This 1s $10.50. Music boxes for all ages aré at Mayer's, At $6 and there are some built like Swiss chalets. These are “ to the smallest detail—-the rocks on the roof, for to keep the shingles from ‘blowing oft. <

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