Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1950 — Page 40
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Barkleys Are Busiest Of All as Social
Rush Gathers
Veep's Bride Captivates: Washington; Secret Service Hampers Truman :
- By ELISE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—Social activity in the capi-
tal has reached a peak for
Trumans and the Barkleys right in the middle of it all— -
particularly the Barkleys.
So many parties are being given in honor of the Vice President and his bride that a quiet evening at home is not only a re-
lef, it's a rarity. Mrs. Barkley
giving “vy dresses
: workout. This week started with d party “in“honor of the Barkleys at the Shore- | ham Hotel, given by the Women's Na- | tional Democratic Club. In thé nine days prior to that particular party, the Barkleys were guests of honor at a dinner, reception, a tea, two luncheons and a
dinner,
own
to have
Elise Morrow
Senate
The President and Mrs. have been getting around, too. a dinner this week in honor of Senator and Mrs. Brien MeMahon of Connecticut at the ultra- exclusive 1935 F Street Club
—-one of many functions. The President, however, suffers a social handicap — the Secret Service.
Secret Service
Whenever the Trumans get involved in a cocktail party mob scene, the Secret Service gets fidgety. If too many people crowd around the President, and too many people usually do, the ~ Becret Service characters take him away, Nobody fusses that way about the Veep. At a recent big party, attended by both the President and Vice President, half a dozen operatives had their eyes on the President every instant, but when a guest asked the head of the detail where Mr. Barkley was, it developed that none of the Secret Service men had the slightest idea. The Veep was located eventually-—in a corner telling a story. Mrs. Barkley, the former Jane Hadley of St. Louis, has utterly captivated Washington. Her husband was the best. loved public figure in the capi tal before he married her, Now, with Jane by his side, the Barkleys are an unbeatable duo in the popularity sweep stakes. One hostess, going allout, summed it up in these words: “Why I'd give a party in their honor even if they weren't importasit at all”
Fabulous Home The starchiest affair of the past week was a white tie reception given by the Secretary of State and Mrs. Dean G. Acheson. This-was held atLarz Anderson house, a 50-year-old mansion with a ballroom big enough and .. high - ceilinged . enough to fly a helicopter in it. The house, in fact, was more interesting than the guests, who were made up of the usual diplomatic and big name crowd. The late Larz Anderson, a very wealthy diplomat, spent $5,000,000 furnishing this establishment in a costly rococo * style best described as early William Randolph Hearst. Now
since arriving in Washington, and she’s
attended a wedding together; starred in a big name amateur night benefit at Constitution Hall, and Mrs. Barkley also attended a tea and a luncheon on her
The Vice President is not supposed on the President's health, but the jovial
Veep has been so busy he was writing personal checks while presiding over the
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the winter season, with the |
hasn't bought any new clothes
the seven dinner and evening included in her trousseau a.real .|
followed by a reception. They
anything to do except keep tabs
the other day. Truman For example, they attended
Mrs, Kurt Hetzel has been handling debuts, but this is the first time in many years that an over-all social-calamity-pre-venting service has been available—and the need is evident,
Auxiliary Sets Meeting
Mrs. Neuschaefer To Speak Tuesday
Members of the Women's Auxillary, National Federation of Post Office Clerks Local 130, will meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Indiana National Bank.
Mrs, Malcolm Neuschaefer, unit parliamentarian and legislative chairman, will speak on “Lesson in Legislative Letter Writing.” Mrs. Mac Miles, president, has announced committee chairmen for the year. They include Mrs. Neuschaefer; Mrs. Bert Persell, by-laws; Mrs, Fred Foster and Mrs. Clyde Charnstrom, year books; Mrs. Harlan Hicks, telephone, and Mrs. Joseph Litel and Mrs. Charles Blake, cheer and card. : ~ Mrs. Neuschaefer, delegate to the Indianapolis Council of Women; Mrs, Persell, delegate to the Seventh District, Indiana Federa-
(Hughes and Mrs. James Alyea,
owned by the Society of the Cincinnati, which makes the place available for big, official functions, Anderson House harbors priceless art objects, jade, paintings and the most con fused system of coat checking in Washington.
~Social-Bureau-Here
Numerous other parties were held ‘during the week, and tomorrow the United Nations Club, having survived a financial catastrophe will make a comeback with a fancy dress Valentine dance. With socializing thus at fits height, an expert on the subject tossed out a lifeline to the quavering hostess who needs help in finding the most refined ~and-elegant way. io. spend. her. money on Very Important Partygoers, Mrs. Carolyn Hag-
ner Shaw, editor of the Social |
List of Washington, this week opened a Social Bureau-—some-
"thing the capital has not had |
since the late Thirties.
Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. Minnegerode |
(old Washington family) Allen, and Mrs. Maxwell widow of a Major General, will, through the bureau, run parties, weddings, debuts, balls,
want to get involved in such things. They will also revive the middie-cadet ball on Christmas night, an old Washington social institution which hasn't been heard from in a decade. Until now, ‘Washington hostesses have had to run their . parties pretty much themselves, with the aid of their social
secretaries if they happened to | have them. Baroness Catherine |
von Schoen has been advising
embassies on. such matters, and !
wwirost, A, G. 8mith, Colin. Lett, Her-|.
“Murray, |
din- | ners and the like for people who |
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tion of Clubs; Mrs. Stephen C.
entertainment; Mrs. Charles Loyd and Mrs, Wallace Whetsell, membership, and Mrs. Charles Lewis and Mrs. William Bishop, ways and means,
Club to Have Card Party
Event Is Set For Feb. 22
The colonial card party of the
| Florence- Nightingale Club will be.
held at 1:30 p. m. Feb. 22 in| Block's Auditorium. Mrs. John Starost is the general chairman. Committee chairmen include Mrs. Harry Johnson and Mrs. Jack Thurston, tickets; Mrs. Herbert Niebergall and Mrs. J. F. Herdrich, Lables and tallies; Mrs. Robert Clegg, assisted by Mrs. E. R. Ruster and Mrs. J. F. Herdrich, table prizes, and Mesdames Sta-
man Willwerth and J, W. Walters, special prizes, Mesdames M. E. Peacock, W. E. Ballard and T. L. Delaney, additional prizes, and Mesdames Norman Brock, C. O, Terrell, Lett and Anna Fate, candy. Hostesses in. costume will be| Mesdames H. P. White, Katherine| Maxime, 'E, E. Gardner, H. W.| Pennington, Edwin G. Baker, R.| A, Linder and Starost. Proceeds will be used to purchase fans for)
pital patients.
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Dorothy Fairfield . . . Valentines are ageless
By JEAN MANEY WHAT'S MORE ROMANTIC than old love letters? Old val- |
entines, of course.
There's a collection of lace edged sentiments that would make Stalin sigh. It's on display this week in the Broad Ripple Branch, Indianapolis Public. Library. Several of the valentines must be nearly 100 years old. _One
is dated 1852 and the others are of the same vintage. They're made of faded parchment and show an incredible amount of patient handwork. Most of the valentines have no verse. They depend on the symbols of love to convey the sentiment. No doubt the giver hoped that the recipient would know the score even without words, One-has white satin, now yellow. with age, pasted onto the parchment, Velvet and satin flowers are worked in the satin and tiny metalic birds, cupids and clasped hands are pasted in the corners. Women, certainly, must have made the cards. The library isn’t. sure where the cards came from —- they've just collected through the years.
Perhaps some of the ladies who created the Valentines were too shy to come right out and
-say “Be My Valentine.” On one
or two of the cards, however; faint heart gave way to messages such as “Affections, hopes are mine to know. With love I feel my bosom glow. To thee my verse I bring. O, scorn me not. My heart is thine—tender and true, my Valentine.” T.@ verses are printed on tiny, inch square pieces of paper and pasted to the cards. They are the only things on the Valentines that are “store bought.”
Mystery Verse One of the cards is a complete mystery to the ey staff. It has a series of words written in a fine Spencerian script. Either the author had a secret code known only to his beloved or he was an early forerunner of Gertrude Stein, The: mysterious verse on the card reads: He. me, he. she, ‘ Only, unto only only Am you am are : You say I you And and and and One same one one Only the only only But for but but Is me lives is : Their requite that their. Therés' a proposal of marriage written on one of the more intricate valentines. The only drawback is that the lady would have to.be a puzzle expert to ever discover that she’s being proposed to. The Valentine looks like a snowflake. It's handcut from parchment and the message is Writtén tn flowlhg script.” By much headturning effort the message was Analy deciphered to read: Sweetest of creatures; To thee I send This knot of love which- hath no end, To let you know my love it true And that to none alive but you. Therefore my honest mind ud bent, Fail not my love to give consent
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Comic Valentines All of the valentines in the collection -aren’t of the hearts and flowers variety, Grandpa liked to send sarcastic messages on Feb, 14, too.
more to part
The newer models haven't.
improved at all on the 19th Century cards. The old verses are printed on large pieces of paper and are decorated with cruel caricatures, One of the verses, dedicated to “An Artist (Perhaps),” is: You think you're an artist when you're but a daub, Pray cease to waste colors and look for a job. At whitevanshing walls, or coloring bricks, . Such artistic colors you'd no doubt well mix; But if at a portrait you'd win high renown, Just paint your own likeness and frighten the town.
World War | Cards
Also in the display are comic valentines that were sold during the First World War to aid the French Relief Fund. The drawings are by Kin Hubbard, McCutcheon and Gaar Williams and the verses were written by George Ade and William Herschell, In this group are cards that would been dear to the hearts of ‘thore recent GI's, The World War I cards and
‘the comic valentines were given
to the library by Mrs. George Phillip Meier, Miss Katrina
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think he’s swell.
[rated as tops by the three teen|agers interviewed this week. They : al approve of. 80 that's ! : |the trio likes bop. le Central High School. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Fred Keesling, Indian Lake. i
ler. It’s funny that he was so pop-|
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Favorite
They Prefer - _ Soft Music
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Bing Crosby and Al Jofson are
soft, swing music, danceable and only one of, Ne
Judith Keesling 1s a junior -
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“Al Jolson is my favorite sing-|
ular when my parents teen-agers and {now he’s on top | again. I think | his best recording is 'Toot, {Toot, Tootsie, | Goodby.” My faall = time | recording is Ray { Bloch’s ’ ‘Mea«And
Judith
opinion,” Judith states. » » ”
ANOTHER junior in Lawrence,
Mrs. Edgar Mock, Oaklandon. Tom is a Bing Crosby fan. “I His recording of ‘Through a Long and Sleepless Night’ is wonderful, Bing) is always good —his voice is so smooth and he seems to . sing without effort. Sammy Kaye's my favorite band leader. IT saw his show when he was here, but didn’t have nerve enough to try to lead the band,” Tom confesses.
Tom
B.5 8 “BING CROSBY is my favorite, too,” Norma Schmidt says. She's a junior in Lawrence Central and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
NANCIE NORTHERN i is The Times’ Teen of the Week. She’s a junior in Howe High School and president of the junior girls’ club, Vihota. First prize winner in the Irvington Art Contest, Nancie describes her sketching as “just a hobby right now.” She hopes to study dress design and interior decorating at Butler University after graduation from Howe, Nancie is vice president of the Chix Club, an honor student and a member of the Tower staff. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Myron C. Northern, 4546 Brookville Road.
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Names Officers
rush party this afternoon in the
LaVonne Matthews, Jackie Polley, Betty Poland, Sandra Stockton and Patty Stone.
New officers of the Pythons
| {Club are Patty. Pray, president; Mike Kelley, vice president; Betty
Kennedy, secretary; Patt Allatatt,
cial chairman.
Nina Ferguson is the new presi dent of the SPD Club. Other offi« cers are Betty Lukenbill, vice president; Betty Payton, secre
urer.
Bev Clendenin and Kay Barry are Hi-Y Sweetheart candidates, The ¢lub members had a Valentine party recently in Alice Farmeer's home. Officers Named Two new members of the CHARMS Club have their club pins. They are Sylvia Lebo and Cynthia Hatfield. New officers of the club are Barb Gerrard, president; Jo Lantz, vice president; Margie Tea~ gul, secretary; Jo Hicks, trease {urer, and Sharon Knisley, cor.
{respondent. The gals are plan.
ining a slumber party for the week of the sectionals.
Members of the DeBatas Club ordered new club pins. The newly
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elected officers are Agnes Cramp. ton, president; Patty Jo Lutz, vice president; Carol Ann Gordon, sec. retary, and Bobby Jo Betzler, treasurer. Mary Ann Kempe is a new member of the club.
The Cherokees Club members are also ordering new club pins,
KEYS Club members celebrated the arrival of their pins recently with a luncheon in Ayres’ Tea~ room. The subdebs had a slume ber party at Patty Haigerty’s. :
Send news of team club aetivities to Jean Maney, The Indianapolis Times, Indian~ apolis 9.
William H. Schmidt, Lawrence. “I -Hke -all -of Crosby's records. I think like Tom does— he’s smooth and effortless, My? favorite: record right now 1» = ‘With My Eyes Wide Open’ and Norma Art Mooney is the best band leader in the country for my money,” Norma thinks. Norma is the lone bop fan in the crowd, but she admits that soft swing music is best for dancing. Norma wants. to be a secretary and she plans to enter IU. She's a yell leader and belongs to GAA, Glee Club, Dramatic Club and the FBLA. Norma's in the band and a member of Job's Daughters and the Amecita Club. (By J. M.)
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preside. Assistant hostesses will be Mesdames Brandt C. Downey,
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