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Tops on Glamour-Gift Lists— Leisure-Time Costumes
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1950
By Louse FLETCHER Times Woman's Editor
INGERIE, from _ wispy chiffon unmentionables to
sweeping hostess gowns, al--
ways heads the list of glamour gifts at Christmastime. This year is no exception and many a wise man, gift list in fist, is making tracks for the departments that dispense such fripperies, Typical are the lounging outfits shown-—from practical “honeymoon coat” in quilted plaid cotton to lush handloomed Chinese brocade pajama topper. The honeymoon coat, by St. Mary's, has washable velvet trim and is $1995. There's a wool flannel counterpart, unquilted, at the same price. . = = FROM a series of Chincse brocade jackets: (also wearable as evening wraps), the one shown is pastel blue and is $19.95. In the photo, it's
worn with black faille pa-
Jamas ($5.95). Flobert designed the antique gold taffeta hostess gown In coachman style with satin collar, cuffs and folded ascot vestee. Also in rose copper, purple aster or blue stone, it's $25. To complete the Yelsurétime costume there are pretty scuffs and mules. Two are pictured — Oomphie brocade
scuffs at $4.50 and Jerro's
hostess mules in pastel satin at $12.95, All the ‘items pictured are
from Ayres’.
The “Honeymoss Coat" in qiied cotton
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Wid SNOW AND SLIPPERY STREETS most of the week, we
have had a tangible reminder of the big storm which made getting around last
week-end especially difficult.
It didn't seem to affect enjoyment of the
many parties, Tea dances for the younger set are such a rarity here that the one -
Mrs. Willlam Byram Gates °
arranges for the Junjor As-
~ sembly is always an event.
This year it was on the third floor of the Athletic Club with. an Hawaiian theme. The tea table, before the fireplace, had a wide band of gold down the center and gold fringe over the edge with gold and yellow leis festooned:at intervals.
flanked by brass tapers.
The junior committee presented a specialty number, the Mexican dance, Raspa. Among the mothers pouring were Mrs. John Hollett
and Mrs, William S. Hall.
With the Snowbound YELLOW CLOTH and yellow flowers decorated the. tea table at the
party given for the artists, members
of the orchestra and their wives by the Indiana State Symphony Society's Women’s Committee in the Murat Sunday afternoon. Mrs. William Fletcher Hodges and Mrs.
Shafer, M Te
THE MAKINGS of a Hoosier Christmas dinner are starting out today for Eng-
land, The dinner ingredients, ' " along with gifts to lend more
Hoosier flavor to an overseas Yuletide, are stowed in the baggage of 18-months-
old Leslie Jeanne Hammer
and her mother, Mrs. Edwin Hammer. Mrs. Hammer and Leslie will sail from New York Friday on the Queen Elizabeth to join Capt. Hammer in Ramsgate, Kent, near Dover, England. He has been there since October as transportation officer with the 3d U. 8. Air Fo tour of overseas duty with the air forces. Going along with Mary Lou Hammer and her daughter are two outsize trunks, a foot locker, four bags and two hat boxes. And each and every one of them, according to Mrs. Hammer, has been repacked three times as Capt. Hammer provided later bulletins on what was and what was not easily available at his new station. » » » THOSE bulletins probably led to inclusion of the Christmas dinner “fixings.” One of these is a fruitcake provided by Leslie's grandma, Mrs. Wahda Causey, 1202 N. Kealing Ave. Mrs. Hammer and her daughter have been visiting there while awaiting passports for the trip abroad. Also among the Yule dinner trimmings will Je rabbit and pheasant ‘shot in Michigan by Mrs. Hammer's Besides that there will be a ham--and quantities of canned meat since the English still are on a %-pound weekly meat ration. “Wish there were some way I could take fresh eggs,” Mrs. Hammer says. “Leslie is used to “scrambled eggs
every morning for break-
fast.” wl Another reason for taking the foodstuffs is that there is no commissary at Capt. Hammer’s base as yet . . . because, so far, only two of the men have been joined by their families. Mrs. Hammer will be the third wife to check in.
BESIDES toodstufrs, she’s taking “lots of warm cloth-
In Manhattan—
Wedding-to Someone Else—
The towering centerpiece of rust chrysanthemums was on a base fashioned of a grass skirt and rhododendron leaves. cdahdlesticks
Division—his third
‘Weather or Not, Parties Still Are Given, Although Some Guests Are Snowbound
By KATY ATKINS
of Mrs.
G. H. A. Clowes poured. regretting the absence William Ball who was to have joined them but was snowbound in Muncie. Mr. and Mrs, Hdl Benham and Mary Elizabeth and Hal Jr. were among the victims of
the storm. Coming back from the game in
floor
lawyers,
home
Mrs. Atkins
It was with yellow
Columbus, they were marooned in Summerford, O. They spent the night on a concrete in the schoel basement, coats, pitifully inadequate garments, doctors, merchants Scout troop and a football coach met and mingled. People in the community took the children into their homes and were wonderful in sharing what they had. When they reached Monday, Mr. and Mrs, they had had a fire in their apartment ... a dreadful climax to a gruelling week-end.
Review Opens Tuesday RAPIDLY GROWING LIST of distinguished guests assures a brilliant opening night for the American Legion-
sponsored review, Tuesday. Governor and Mrs. Schricker, Mayor
where mink
(no “thieves”), a Boy
Benham found
“Red, White and Blue”
and Mrs. Bayt, Dr. and Mrs. M. O. Ross, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles J. Lynn, Strickler, Col. and Mrs. John Gibson, Dr. and Mrai-Herman L. Shibler and Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Maj. Gen. B. L.
Sehmidt are among the special guests plan-
Leslie Jeanne Hammer .
ing” for herself and the babs «+ .and the family Buick. “We may not be able to do much driving during the year-—gasoline is 42 cents a
"gallon, anyway—but my hus-
band will have a 30-day leave
next year and we hope to tour Europe.”
What about a Christmas
tree? Capt. Hammer. is exXa .-pected to produce that-—the
first one Leslie Jeanne will remember. “Last year she was just old enough to tear the tinsel off the tree when she got near it.” Leslie is all set for Christmas, it seems, Orly thing left to do is send a letter to St. Nick. “Dear Santa: After Dec. 13, my address will be Margo House, Ramsgate, Kent, England. Be seeing you. Love, from Leslie Jeanne Hammer.”—By L.F.
Stops Remarriage Rumors
y CHARLES EW YORK, id 2--The other day, Catherine Helwig Osterstock Schell gave us one good reason why current stories
of her imminent
to Johnny Osterstock were silly.
She Pointed git | ‘out iat she has made no move to divorce sports-
man Harry Schel
Johnny Son i an even better reason 4 few days ago,
when he and Maria Martinez, beautiful brunette daughter of a Guatemalan diplomat, were married.
was used by Mr. Osterstock several Rips ago in an atto explain a mysteri-
ning to attend. Having been caught in the usual fall whirl, 1 was especially glad of the opportunity to hear Wilbur Peat at the Junior League meeting Wednesday and to see the paintings in the Holbein exhibition at the Art Museum. Ellen Morse, in a smart red and blue plaid suit with a red hat, Carolyn Lang, Polly Stewart, Ethel Lemaux, Jeannette Danner and Cynthia Rockwood were among the members listening and looking with great interest.
Hoosier Christmas Dinner . . . Fruitcake, Too, Starts the Long Journey to England
. "phones" Daddy i in England.
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She Passes on the Skills
Learned as a Patient
Miss Margaret Hess . . . "more blessed to give."
By OPAL CROCKETT MARGARET HESS is more popular than the postmas around Christmas at Sunnyside Sanatorium. - She passes out the supplies patients use to make gifts for
relatives and friends.
And those gifts, many made by bedfast patients, are more important to them than the gifts they receive.
“It's about time you're getting here,” Miss Hess hears for weeks before Christmas from patients anxious to start
work on their presents. And
Miss Hess hurries. She -un-
derstands how long handcrafts take when doctors limit work to an hour or two a day. She remembers because she learned the handcrafts she now teaches, as occupational therapy aid, while she herself was bedfast for 12 years with tuberculosis. She remembers how long it took her to make a doll, Dixie — how long it took women patients to make Dixie's clothes and men patients to paint Dixie's picture. Miss Hess is more than a teacher to the sick stuffing toys for children at home, dressing dolls for their little girls. She's a haven of hope, for all over the institution she’s known as the “walking miracle” because of her own recovery from advanced tuherculosis.
Teacher Enthusiastic
MISS HESS is just as excited as the patients over the gift - making, exchange of presents, Christmas decorations, and Sunnyside Guild's Christmas party. She's as proud of the jewelry and leather products as a mother and son who turn them out, of the sewing and knitting projects of two sisters, of the handcraft of husbands and wives, all patients together in Sunnyside. Miss Hess, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hess S8r., now
of 1805 Englewood Drive, was just 17 when she became ill —of “a cold,” the family thought. She had entered Washington High School as a junior; planning to go on to college and become an athletic instructor. She was captain of the Memorial Baptist Church
girls’ basketball team, and
one of six children known as “the healthiest kids in school.” Three other members of the family contracted “colds” finally diagnosed as tuberculosis. Margaret and two of her brothers went to Sunny~ side and recovered. Their sister, Ruth Hess McConnell, died of tuberculosis in 1936. Margaret and one brother were patients together in Sunnyside one Christmas. Handcrafts Profitable MARGARET HESS en tered Sunnyside in 1033, left in 1934, and returned in 1938, that time staying eirht years. She took the cure three additional years at home. Miss Hess is but one of many Sunnyside patients who have followed the handcrafts they learned in Sunnyside. Wyman Eccles, a patient at the time she was, operates the Ace Leather Co. with Robert Morris, another expatient at Sunnyside. Francis Arthur, watch repairman, was in her ward. . ‘Miss Hess’ salary is split by Marion County Tuberculosis Association, through its salé of Christmas Seals, and Sunnyside.
Capital Debuts Go Big-Town Style; Tydings’ Daughter Tops Glitter
By DOUGLAS LA WASHINGTON, oy Bl - The Capital's debut season is going strictly big-town- and big-business this year. One of the most fabulous
“début parties ever thrown in =
- Washington i» in the ads vance-planning stage for this winter. And a lavish debu-
tante cotillion, patterned after
the traditional event in Ne
York, already has been added
to the town’s crowded social " calendar, The main event is the. formal presentation to society of pretty Eleanor Tydings,
daughter of the recently-de-:: feated Maryland Senator-Mil-:
lard E. Tydings, and grand-
daughter of the former am-
bassor to Russia, Joseph E. Davies. Speculation on the cost puts it conservatively at
about $50,000 Practically ‘all of the party facilities of the swank May-
flower. Hotel have been reserved for it. The hotel cancelled a big convention in order to handle the gala social event. It is said that contracts for the alone total close to $5000. Most of the details of the plush affair are being kept top secret at this time. But
they are the No. 1 source of
society chit-chat, "n= $n ACTUALLY, the Mayflower debut will be the third one for Miss Tydings. Her grandmother, Mrs. Emlen Knight Davies, the first wife of Joe
‘Davies, presented her in an
ultra-exclusive but small party at the Sulgrave’ Club. She was presented next at the cotillion. After those warm-ups will come the big one for which her grandfather, Joe Davies, is footing the bill. ; The former ambassador is an old hand at financing tremendous parties and living the full life. When he took off for the job in Moscow he took his own physician, 2000
: extremely ; Jooling: Tast Jute she was niin girly’ hen and
since then has svent most of the time touring Europa with
© friands,
‘She is cctuallv: the adont-
flowers
(ELEANOR TYDINGS: two warm-ups, a $5000 po ty
debuts probably pegs. her as the most-discussed deb of the year, she has Soljedition in
partmen : out this season