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~The Indianapolis Times
Section Three
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1950
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Club Speaker Discovers
Classmate at Meeting
By KATY ATKINS HEN ATTRACTIVE Margery Foster came to Indianapolis last week to speak to the local Wellesley Club, she found at least one classmate at the meetIng which was at Mrs. Francis Dunn's. Mrs. Dunn got in from Ft. Wayne almost as the first guests arrived. Neverthe“less, she and the committee gave them a delicious luncheon = Harriet Miller and Miss Foster were in the class of '34. Miss Foster spoke of Wellesley as it is today, and looked very pretty in a dark suit with a yellow corsage. Mrs. Maxwell Coppock was at the meeting, having just J returned from the East where de she visited Wellesley, and saw ypc Atkins her grandchildren in. Washington (their parents, too, of course). Mrs. Karl Stegemeler, president, Mrs. Jesse Cameron Moore and Mrs. John Roberts were among those at the meeting. . . . Mrs. Jere-miah-Cadiek has been at her alma mater, Vassar; where she attended a meeting. While in New York she had dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Rezin Davis who made. many friends here when they were residents during the war. Mrs. Thomas Bell ‘Sweeney returned. to Washington yesterday, having arrived Tuesday. She came out on the train with Mr. and
__Mrs. Nicholas Noyes who were coming home.
. Mrs. Harry Schlotzhauer of Buffalo was here last week with Mrs. Russell Ryan. Mrs. Schlotzhauer had been staying with her daughter and son-in-law, Bunny and George Burrows, outside Chicago. Mrs. Ryan joined her for a glimpse of the babies and the new house.
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BEAUTIFUL SUNSHINE last Sunday made follewing the Traders Point Hunt's run more than usually pleasant. More than 30 were in the field which included guests from the 28th Division at Camp Atterbury. Mrs. William E. Munk, Mrs, William H. Wemmer, her daughter Hildegarde, Dr. and Mrs. James Leffel, Lucius Hamilton and four members of the Cornelius, 0. Alig family were among the members riding. The hunt started. from Capt. and Mrs. Fred Heslar's place. Waiting for people to assemble gave an ' opportunity to admire Capt. Heslar's study which is his quarters on the “Hawk” transferred bodily. The panelling has been rubbed and worn to a lovely color and the red luster tiles around the opening of the fireplace, where tea. was brewed on the ship, are a. collector's dream. One large and several small shells, presented as souvenirs by various boys at Great Lakes, have been ingeniously made into a radio. Mr. and Mrs. A. Kiefer Mayer were followIng the hunt in their car. They left Wednesday
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- “Phyllis Christopher
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By AGNES H. OSTROM
IF YOU CHAT with Phyllis Brownson these days you compete with the doorbell, the telephone, Western Union and a veritable open house for her own and neighborhood children. ’ The opén house is part of daily routine for the wife of Indiana's new 11th District Republican Congressman. the result of Tuesday's
But the other activities are new GOP victory. “It's. the most exciting thing I've ever known,” confides Charles B. Brownson's partner. between brush strokes through her daugh-
“My
planted firmly on terra firma during the weeks of her husband's suceessful campaign. md
» n 8 DEEP circles under her n eves still reveal the result of = her own ‘‘behind the scenes” activity. There ' was more than one morning when she and Chuck returned home with the milkman .after allnight sieges in neadquarters.
help
election
— and Mrs,
: Nancy {with Blackie) and Judy Brownsen .
family hobby,” declares Mrs. Brownson, who celebrated her: 35th# birthday * Thursday. “There's no point in ‘having one if you don’t enjoy them.” ' ‘And it's evident that among hér happiest hours are those ] playing, train switch engine is my favorite” a second floor bedroom. Or having™ young in the kitchen as she tries to keep the cookie jar
SHE'S found from experience a “sense of humor is the greatest asset I can' have.” And she even employed it night. long-distanced her Mr. and Mrs. Tra Augspurger, in Ft. Wayne, she discovered
for their winter ‘home in Tucson. Thev had given a farewell dinner for their friends the night before the hunt at the University Club. The horseshoe-shaped- table had a stunning low arrangement of yellow-roses and shaggy yellow chrysanthemums . right -through the middle. Trout, flown in for the occasion, was a great treat.
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“N[R-AND MRS: WILLIAM A- ATKINS
entertained that night at dinner for Mrs. Ruth Murphy, who moved into her 36th St. last Tuesday. Junior League "Evening in Paris’ ball at the Woodstock Club that Saturday was a affair. The floor show and decorations were clever and amusing with the guests adding to the Mrs. Irving Fauvre was outstanding in a pink satin evening gowr? with a winter blue satin stole. Mrs. George Ziegler wore crimson velvet. Mrs. William Wissman of Columbus Ind., who with Dr. Wissman was in a party with Laura and Dick Gaus, was in black trimmed with turquoise satin... Mr. and: Mrs. Henry Jameson of Milwaukee were with Mr. Evans Woollen. Mary and Bunny Hitch of Cincinnati were guests of the Joe Cains.
new apartment at 1 F . + . The Indianapolis
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latter.
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Bobbs are back from a visit in California with Jane and Art Lathrop and, what is of more interest to their
friends, promise to settle down and stay for awhile, . Mrs. Noah Dixon of Springfield, Ill, was here with Mrs. Louis Seaverns for a brief stay last week. Mrs. Seaverns entertained informally for her Wednesday afternoon. . . . Mr. and -Mrs. Sylvester Johnson's “little house” has new and ¢harming occupants. Mrs. Conway Roulon-Miller and Mrs Samuel Roulon-Miller and their children find it a wonderful place to live while their husbands’ are stationed at Camp Atterbury. HE NATIONAL SOCIETY of -Colonial Dames of America in the
State of Indiana met with Mrs. Harry
Wilson Wednesday. Mrs: James - Carter's paper, “Dune Acres,” was most interesting.
Blue and gold being the society's colors, Mrs, Wilson used small yellow roses and button chrysanthemums dyed blue in an exquisite big silver epergne on the tea table Mrs, Bowman Elder and Mrs. Albert Rabb poured. Among out-of-town members at the meeting were Mrs. H. Brooke Sale of Ft
Wayne and Mrs. Edmund Burke Ball of Muncie. FRIENDS of Winant Johnston, .native
born Hoosier, are much interested in his new book, “These Innocents.” The illustrations printed from wood and linoleum cuts made by him add to the charm of the book which is fascinating as to plot and beautifully written. :
‘Just Like a Clock That's All Wound Up...
+ the new 11th District Con-
ecutive of the Central Wall"paper and .Paint Corp., after an l18-month courtship. They had met romantically enough at a wedding reception. ” n ” FOR MOST of the war years Phyllis Brownson sat out Chuck's service in a little hquse at 6032 Norwaldo Ave; in Broad Ripple, with her first baby daughter. * Here she learned how wonderful friends and neighbots can be. And the new Congreéssman’s wife. doesn’t intend to get very far away from these Hoosiers either. She'll run the Pennsylvania St. house. and join Chuck in Washington when he needs her. :
is ‘my only
especially “the little
feminine
3ut home-base will be near 2 the public grade school where she is a PTA hostess and in the 5th precinct, - 4th ward, where she's a vice chairman and block captain. She’ll hope her husband has time to escort her occasion: ally to the theater they hoth
When she
parents,
Even tnough her fingers they had heard via the radio fave angio perie tre ol. arid arms ached from con- an hour before Chuck was 8 te areiully hun ed stant typing and desk work, victorious. : ot in hook shape en lazy Born and ‘reared in the Al- Saturday afternoons a long
she showered Guickly. Jie ened her threé youngsters and sent {wo of them down the street before School 60's tardy bell rang. g
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a second ‘grader. Two-year-old blond Christopher, Chris for short, still bounces around the Brownson spacious home, designed for family living, at 3561 N. Pennsylvania St. SH
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len County-seat, she was graduated from South Side High ‘School. A/ depression baby, she took a business course and went to work in the Lincoln National Life Insurance’
In &chool she: had wantedto be An interior decorator . . » and also went to the Ft. “Wayhe Art School. But. Oct. 1 22, 1938, she married the $x- ning.
time ago. Washington's social life doesn’t particularly interest her. “I' will’ enjoy it on special occasions and not get involved in its undercurrents.” There's only one thing she’s - sure about doing—Iletting her young Americans see their country from atop the Washington monument as she and Chuck did one spring eve-
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ls There Any Need for Fear?
Intelligent Approach Usually Can Spare Women
From Unnecessary Suffering Each Month , By GEORGE KEANEY, Times Special Writer HERE'S VERY LITTLE WRONG with being a woman that a little education and, perhaps, medical
assistance won't fix.
Most women, to-be sure, take their physiological
peculiarities without
batting a
wellsmascaraed eye.
‘There's a well-founded rumer that the mass of women
wouldn't have it otherwise, despite the inconvenience that may be a corollary of certain of their biological functions.
But, though the fairer sex can give the male cards, spades,
and muscles, go through childbirth once or a nalf-dozen times
and still_outlive him, on the average hv proportion of. women live in dread of
Much of the: fear is
‘actual suffering, much of it is unnecessary.
tive vearg, a sizable their destiny, unwarranted. And, where there is
Thousands of
women, reconciled to what they assume is their fate, go through
—— life from puberty through menopause, suffering as regularly as the calendar ticks off another month.
greatly. The Victorion Age concept of .menstruation and” how to treat it, with retirement to bed in an aura of patent medicine and smelling salts, has pretty much gone. But there is still much to be learned by women about this comparatively simple biological function which, even today, presents -a formidable economic problem in forced absence from employment. And many an-emplover wishes they would learn. Concerning ourselves with just the physiolcgsignl aspects of menstruation, we, mere men, are here to tell women that, unless their cases are exceptioral, they can put that fear away. And they can stop being sorry for themselves.
. Phase in Cycle THE LATIN word for month, ‘“mensis,” is the root of the English name for—this peculiarly womanly custom. Perhaps it should be stated here what the process is. This phase of the reproductive ‘cycle indicates that the ~ girl is reaching full develop ment. In the two weeks following the end of a menstrual period the lining of the womb...develops, preparatory to receiving the egg from the ovary, if it is fertilized. The thickened lining has an increased blood supply. When the egg is not fertilized by the male sperm the womb doesn’t need the excess lining. (If the egg is fertilized, of course, menstruation is temporarily not a problem.) So the body sloughs -it off, with accompanying blood . loss. The process of closing up “the blood vessels takes four to five days, or maybe a week. It’s generally when menstruation becomes dysmenorrhea, world's fancy word for painful and difficult menstruation; that it leads to the fear women have of it, e: A minimum amount of
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pain can be expected with any
menstruation, but no more than would require a mild sedative. If Pain Severe IF THE -PAIN—is
either severe or persistént, something should be done about it, and usually
Pr; Thomas C. Peightal, gynecol-
In Manhattan—
Formal Etiquet Given
i The Old Heave Ho
which. is- the médical
About one in 10 suffers
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This is the::second article
of a five-part series by
George Keaney, prize-win-ning science’ reporter, which discusses frankly and authoritatively the chief biological problems confronting a woman. They were prepared with the close co-operation of the
Academy of Medicine and leading: medical authorities,
: Society. : 30, 3! y : Clubs...... 3
Teens...... 34 Amusements ............ 38,
Food....... Gardening. .
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In the absence of a knowing approach to the prob
lem herself, the woman who suffers each
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month can be helped by her doctor, Surgery usually is not necessary.
ogist at Noosevelt Hospital in New York, less than 25 per cent of women menstruate without pain. Much of the accompanies menstruation can be blamed on mothers, gynecologists feel.” As boys learn about girls on the street corner or in the pool room, girls learn about girls, too
trouble that
often, from their companions. -
But they learn poorly. Badly prepared for their first blood
loss, they often build up nervous tensions about it that ‘bother thém through life. -
Let Mother Tell :
MOTHERS should tell
their daughters when: to expect their menses and what it means, that it's as normal as digestion, and is abnormal. only if there's a disabling amount of flow or pain. (It's one of the ironies of life that people try to deo something about indigestion, but women will suffer dysmenorrhea all’ their productive lives.) The appearance of struation differs with background, family mate. Periodicity is handed on through family. In the warmer —elimates it —usuatty “Starts earlier than in the cooler ones, g
menracial “> and cli-
By CHARLES VENTURA, Times Special Writer NEW YORK. Nov. 11 Social sticklers (net to be confused
with" stinkers) that
imba of ‘gocial news, Possibly the most Bl thé SREEAVed-CATd Solas] “rot Correspondence will be the news that Norma Cohane, the ‘curvaceous model who has been the apple of Phil Amniidown's eve for several
up-with-mental
years, is sporting.a beautiful =
star sapphire engagement ring and 'a plain gold wedding band. T Norma and Phil. who is one of society's best-known architects, aren't talking. hut close friends say they have been secretly wed for several wéeks. Botli are in Miami, and Norma is not trying to bide the tattletale gold band. Tall, tacitugp Mr, Ammidown" got out of the social . announcement’ habit his--marriage to the present Mrs. Andre Embiricos. He wed the former Betty Rvan. then told the world about it later, :
Same Old Emerald |
WHILE on the subject of give-away rings, we noticed that beauteous, blonde Janet Malley Paterno, heiress to a Malley department store fortune, was wearing the same emerald ring that Sir Charles -Hubbard gave her two years ago, when we saw her with
lovely [Louise ~ Fiske and James B. Johnson Jr. at the’ National Horse Show: in
. “Madison Square Garden,
Sir Charles, a twig on the English branch of the Woolworth. dime-store family, is rallying - around again, but the inside story is that Janet ‘still 1s marking time until a
certain Manhattan eligible is :
imawherncthey- try to digest
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who ‘wouldn't he seen embalmed at a function hadn't -heen” Haughtily . heralded by
embossed’. cards.may
indigestible Crumb "for the graduates
No Shock THERE was quite an in"teresting telephone conversation recently between hand- + some 19-vear-old Peter Howard and his . mother, Mrs. George Vanderbilt, who is in California. Peter called mater from his suite at the Plaza to tell her that he and Betsy Von Furstenberg, slim, glam-
orous daughter of Count and ~
Countess , Von Furstenberg. are going tc. be married this spring. Instead of waiting for the Countess to send out the formal announcements, Betsy and Peter are blithely telling +all ‘and sundry it's official. Pete bypassed Yale, where he . was scheduled to matriculate, and got himself a job so they could wed as soon as possible, Betsy hadn't told her titled mater about her betrothal when we last checked, but it won't he too much of a shock. Parents on both sides actually have been surreptitiously egging the two toward. the altar for months. There may be: a ‘bit of parental.,barking over the haste in broadcast-
ing the news—and.the fact , ‘that they-are rather young. _
to wed.
Mayfair Montage UE THINK the story. of Joe Paterno’'s meeting with his first,” second and third wives at the Little Club is almost as funny as the frontpaged account of how he and
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In this area menstruation can be expected to begin at about 13 or 14. But there's nothing to get excited about if it appears at 9 or 10, or doesn’t start until 16, So, too, menstruation is likely to be irregular in its first. few appearances, “It
should not cause alarm if in——
stead of appearing on a 28 to 30 day schedule, there's a week's variation at the onset. And it's not unusual to have only three or four menstruations the first year. But by the second year a regular pattern should have been set. The duration of the fiow can vary greatly and still be normal. In one case it may Iast two or three dave and be scanty. In another it may be profuse for a week. The average fs four-to- five days
W hat to Do GIRLS should be instructed as to exercise in times of menstruation. The Victorian idea of none is out, Dr. Peightal says. And so is the other extreme, preached in some schools, that any exercise can be taken 2 Gynecologists advocate swimming the English ‘Channel during menstruation, but do advocate suiting exercise to the girl's pattern. In dysmenorrhea exercise is in-
don't
~ advisable,
If the menstruation isn't
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“sides” taking a patent
normal, what can he done medicine? Of patent medicines, by the way, it can be said that, if they don't do much good, most won't do any harm. They have what is called an “antispasmodic in them, or an alcohol base. They have about the same effect as a slug of whisky, or a couple of spoonfuls of gin,
the latter a homely and com--
mon treatment,
Drugs Used LOTS can be done for the victim of dysmenorrhea. Gynecologists now
spasm-relaxing drugs taken a week before
have to - be
the-attaek Sona dysmenor-
rhea is due to a hormone imbalance. And the estrogen or progesterone which the ovary generally secrefes can be administered If the pain is gery divides the sympathetic neives to the womb so pain impulses can't be transmjtted. This, without interfering with menstruation or childbirth. If dysmenorrhed is acquired it almost always means a doctor. And it may often lead to surgery, which, could be preferable to a lifetime of periodic agony. A certain displacement of the womb in childbirth may
severe, sur-
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. Hoosier pioneer boys Guille Harvey and Ronald Kovener (in air) demonstrate leapfrog for their admiring audience, Barbara Demlow and Dorothy Logan. This is one of the pioneer feats to be shown by Shortridge High School students during the AAUW Book and Toy Exhibit this week in Ayres’. The high school program will beat 4 p. m. Wednesday.
- JUST WHAT did Indiana pioneers do for entertainment a
century ago?
No movies, no automobiles, no football, basketball, radio or
TV. Must have been dull. But don’t believe it,
History shows those stusdy Hoosier
settlers were ingenious. While their-entertainment, games and
athletics were- usually the quiet, relaxing kind, like kifeflying contests, ‘even an: Ohio State University first string gridironer would have been challenged. by some "of the feats. | ;
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: It was a case of Jrowing :
how. And that s what a group of Shortridge High School students will demonstrate as a 4 p.'m, feature Wednesday during the Book and Toy Ex- ,
hibit in Ayres’ Auditorium.
INDIANA'S sesquicenten-
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The fear and suffering __of the period so often are * unwarranted.
show up later In menstrual pain. It can be corrected by use of a ringlike gadget called a pessary which acts as a ‘truss to a hernia. (On the other hand, some women with menstrual troubles lose them after they have a baby.) -
No Bugaboo SURGERY may be necessary if the dysmen--orrhea is due to the growth of nonmalignant tumors called fibroids on the wall of the womb, or if the lining of the wall of the womb becomes so overactive it grows too deeply into the wall itself. There are also some cases of dysmenorrhea which are due to inflammatory diseases ‘of the fallopian tubes that require surgery. If worst comes to worst and a woman, after several years of not menstruating, starts to again, she should be examined for cancer of the womb. Even then there is —hope;~ if -the-canceris-eaught in time, The womb can be removed and, if necessary, the other reproductive organs with it and the woman can live a normal life. And even pe happy. : / No. close the subject of menstruation, it needn’t be the bugaboo -it is ‘often pietured. Women ean 1) stop being afraid of it and (2) stop suffering from it. In. tine. —of- course, in. the y0s to the early 50s, it will disappear of its own acBut that's another
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“nial year has inspired the theme for the 18th annual event, “Our Hoosier Heritage in Books. Toys and Hobbies» sponsored by the Ir Branch, American tion ‘of University Women, Tuesday through Saturday. 4 In the days gone by a : log-rolling, quilting, ——y : of fruit-peeling bes =
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