Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1951 — Page 31

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SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1951

Unusual Touch Seen At Variety of Parties

For Spring Brides

Show Careful Planning and Ingenuity; New Twist Given Athletic Club Dinner By KATY ATKINS THE EARLY SPRING BRIDES are in a real whirl. Each of the parties we hear about has an unusual

touch. Not that they are so elaborate but they do show ingenuity and careful planning which 4s complimentary.

A new twist was given to a dinner at the Indianapolis . Athletic Club with Mr. and Mrs. Telford QOrhison of New Albaxy and Mr. and Mrs. Royer Coats as hosts. It N - was in honor of Sue Schell and Mark Henderson but—instead of the .bride-to-be—the future bridegroom was the recipient of the

kitchen shower gifts,

Sue is still in school so just in case she is "ever late getting home from class, her mother produced a hamper of ready-mixed

foods.

Each place was marked with a symbol for the guests and they seated themselves accordingly. Dick Henderson, a senior at Miami, had a graduate in cap and gown. A brand-new grandmother got a white-haired

Mrs. Atkins

grandma in a rocking chair. And the father of the bride was unmistakable. The, table looked lovely with a centerpiecé of pink geraniums surrounded by pink carnations

with tiny pink bells attached to them. Before dinner everyone gathered at the Coats’, cutouts in hand. Each guest made a page of a scrapbook which was then fastened together. Sue wore a, beige pleated dress and a black hat trimmed in gold that night.

_Dinnet Party ME: AND MRS, HUGH

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CARPENTER entertained with a dinner at'the

Propylaeum Sunday night for Harriet Smith and Harry Rybolt.) The bridal colors of yellow and blue were used for the flowers on the table and repeated in tiny bouquets on the placecards. Harriet wore a black crepe dress with stiff black lace across the shoulders and pink roses in her black hat. Mrs, Thomas Rybolt, Harry's mother, chose a navy and red print,

Linen Shower

PK WAS the theme for a luncheon, linen

shower given at the In-

dianapolis Athletic Club by Mrs. J. M. Heffelfinger and Mrs. Scott Grimes for Marilyn Hooley. The ubiquitous Easter bonnet was suggested by a halfopen shallow hatbox in the center of the table. It was covered with star-studded pink net ruching around its base. Pink camellias cascaded from a huge pink satin bow on the lid. A pink camellia was on the table for each guest. The tables were marked with match packs covered in pink satin flowered ribbon—a new trick to me. A “treasure chest” on a side table made a pretty background for the attractively wrapped gifts. The chest was lined with glittery pink satin and was filled with pink

snapdragons.

Lectures Here

JOWELL THOMAS JR. drove from Cleveland

for his lecture last Sunday

night and right on to Chicago after it, so his friends here had no time to entertain for him. However, a few had a moment’s chat with him backstage. Among them were Lianne and Jack Holliday and Rosalie and Philip Willkie. Perry Lesh and my son were in Lowell Thomas’ class at Taft School and we watch with interest the mark this young man is making. Current news from Taft is the election of Chuck Greathouse to his class committee. .

” ” ~ PERRY'S brother and sis. ter-in-law, Fred and Nanc¥ Lesh, distinguished themselves by their splendid performances in the recent Dramatic Club play. Peter Dye, another newcomer to the boards, proved to be an outstanding juvenile lead. Peter's father came over from Urbana for the play and Nancy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Early of Cincinnati, were here, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Perry W. Lesh.

A Gay Party

"THE PARTY at Wood-

stock was a gay one. The Dramatic Club cast

table was unusually pretty, graced with two green urns in which were conical-shaped trees of red and pink carnations spiraled alternately. Huge hurricane lamps in wooden salad bowls lined with cabbage leaves were at each end of the table, Packets of garden seeds were attached to the trees and strewn on the table with lengths of raffia giving a “time to wake up the garden” impression.

. Pink leaf rakes rose high

above a large flower arranges ment in the hall, while seed packets were fastened on the pots of spring flowers on the small tables.

Rights Purchased

I SAW RIAH COX at the Norway Foundation Guild meeting last week and was thrilled to learn that her son-in-law, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, has had two more stories accepted by Collier's and that Literary Cavalcade has bought the reprint rights on “All the King's Men.” We seem to be full of news of the distinguished younger generation this morning. That guild was just an idea in three persons’ minds when I

, went away recently and I re-

turned to find it with a constitution, members, officers and plans for work. . So a salute to Harriet

Crumpaéker, its fast-moving,

enthusiastic and altogether charming president. a

Want a Man?...Be a Su

All That a Girl Needs Is Everything To Measure Up As a Dream Lass

By LOUISE FLETCHER and DONNA MIKELS

HY IS A BACHELOR?

Many a girl, biting the nails of a ringless left hand, has wondered. Is he a fugitive from matrimony because he’s allergic to love—or what? Seven of the town’s young (top age, 30) bachelors came across this past week with an answer to that question.

They're not allergic.

All they're doing, it seems, is just looking for some-

thing special in the way of girls. Not

you understand, but, well, you know . . . Six-sevenths of them dre not even allergic to matrimony.

They've thought’ about it , . . consider it if he meets his “ideal.”

sometimes,

(The seventh will

Her specifications? “Age:

96. Assets: $47 million and a bad cough.”)

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THE SEVEN WHO PUT themselves on record about women

and matrimony are all veterans of World War II.

Bud Young

(Harold E. on formal occasions) was an infantry staff sergeant

in the European theater.

Now a sales representative: for the

Flesch-Miller Tractor Co. he lives at 2535 E. 38th St. Ed Causey, 1202 N. Kealing Ave., is an expediter in the pur

chasing department at Allison's.

He's a captain in the Afr

Force Reserve and was & pilot with the 15th Air Force in

Europe during the past war.

Ben Boleman, now an ensign in the USNR supply corps after serving in the World War II Navy, is a real estate salesman with F. M, Knight Co. He lives at 1 W. 28th St.

Jack Kirby was with the army in Europe.

His home is an

apartment at 39 E. 9th St. and he’s in the advertising business, with Shaw-Barton of Coshocton, O. Te Jack Fitzwater, field representative for Aetna Casualty and Surety Co., was in the Pacific with the submarine service. A newcomer to town last November, from Washington, he lives at

4522 E. Washington St. Sportscaster for WIBC, Sid Collins is another veteran of the European theater. There

for three years, he was a first

lieutenant before he came back to civilian life. Also with the army in Europe was Joe Barry, 4502 Central Ave. Now.he's in the family business, Barry Co., wholesale plumbing supplies firm.

Those are the seven. And all a girl needs to get the at-

tention of six of them is-this: °

She has. to be attractive, neat, natural, unaffected, poised, sincere, discreet, understanding, genuine, tender, gentle and considerate. She should know how to cook and shouldn’t want a ‘career,” permanently,” that is. She should have a sénse of humor and a sense.of responsibility. It’s also nice if she loves the guy. That's all that six of them ask. No. 7T doesn’t care about culinary ability. ‘Never thought of it, because I want to stay single anyway.” Also, what's that stuff about responsibility? “I don’t have any either, so why should ‘she?”

” » » ON ONE thing the bachel-

‘ors are unanimous. Each

dnd every one wants the Js he dates to be neat. ery neat, they say, “Not

only with herself but with all her possessions,” adds Ed. They all give attractiveness a high rating, too. But they are all quick to say they don’t especially mean ‘beautiful’ b that. Only one, Ben, tacked on any physical description. “It would be nice _ if she were five-feet-eight and had black hair, a nice figure and brown eyes.” (He is six~ feet-one.) To most of them “attractive” means possessing “personality.”

a “perfect” girl,

Girls with ‘burning desires ~:° :

for careers after inarriage leave the bachelors cold. “No, a girl shouldn't work after marriage, if the man. can afford to keep her,’ Joe declares. “No working just to afford little whims,” he says. “If it's necessary to get a family launched, OK-—but only a short-term job, not a ‘career.’ ” Sid rather goes along with this. “I'd have no objection if a girl wanted to work, if she'd quit anytime I thought it necessary. Marrying a girl who wanted a career might keep a man from accepting some job opportunities himself.” “No, I wouldn't want her to work,” another said firmly. “I like kids.” That sums up the bachelors’ ideas: Jobholding wives, maybe; jobholding mothers, no. »

2 = = A HOME is more important, they insist . . . more important than the money a wife would bring in. “A girl CAN be a homemaker and a careerist at the same time,” Ben admits, “if she's efficient. I've seen them do it. But I don’t particularly care for it.” That brings up the cooking angle. Jack Fitzwater thinks she could learn that (along with a sense of responsibility) after marriage, if she had to. She ought to learn fast, Joe believes . . . “in a couple of weeks” if she already has the cookery fundamentals mastered. : Most of the bachelors would stand for a little ‘practice cooking” after marriage, but Ed wants “not just ham and eggs; she has to cook ‘special’ dishes.” Burned biscuits shouldn't upset the applecart with any of the seven bachelors (or “ex-bachelors” by then). They all value a sense of humor in women. “Makes for emoother relations,” Ben says. “That's a big part of personality,” according to Bud. Jack Kirby likes someone who can enjoy jokes as much as he does. Jack Fitzwater thinks a girl should be able to laugh at herself as well as at other things. Sid, in the entertainment field as he is, not only appreciates but expects response to humorous situations. And Ed claims only a girl with a

‘Ed Causey

sturdy sense of humor ‘‘could put up with me.” Cd EJ » ” NO GIGGLY girls, though. Not according to Jack Fitzwater. They're out. Tossed out with them by seven pairs of strong arms are all girls who act affected on dates. “If she’s like that,” Jack Kirby says, “I don’t even go out with her the second time.” Naturalness and poise are traits Sid likes, too. “No loud talk in restaurants; no showoff tendencies,” he insists.

“If she isn't genuine, I get a headache and go home,” is Ed's way of stating it. “Putting on?” Bud asks. “That is strictly out. Poise is a girl's most essential trait.”

“When a girl acts affected, I'm annoyed,” comes from Ben. “A girl's being coy or kittenish is my pet peeve.” Almost as repulsive, it seems, is the girl who expects to be entertained expensively on all her dates. “I want her to enjoy being with ME wherever I go,” one bachelor says. Another: “Most girls know what their men can afford.” Still another “Expensive entertainment? NO on that!” And another: “She just doesn’t get it.” A couple of the boys admit they themselves enjoy expensive places once in a while—but they don't like their girls to be impressed by sham or to be materialistic, n ” ” ¢ ONE THING the local girls don’t have to worry about! The bachelors like them better, on most counts, than the girls they met overseas. *

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Times photos by Lloyd B, Walton and Dean Timmerman.

Bud Young

“I met a lot of European girls,” Bid says, “but I still choose the American girl.” Another bachelor is even more forceful. “Me for American girls. I am used to them. Their tastes match mine, They're cleaner, and they demand more respect from men.”

(Cynical note sounded by one bachelor: “Difference between European and American girls is the Americans can afford more foundation garments and more makeup.”) The women overseas drew some compliments, however.

- “The European woman's first

thought is to make her man happy and HE is boss . . . English girls are very considerate, and they achieve a mature viewpoint at 17 or 18 rather than at age 25 . . , The Australian girl isn’t so sharp or well-dressed or welleducated as the American, but her attitude toward men Is more flattering.” There's no comparing the average European and average American girl, one of the boys proclaims. “It's like comparing 1890 and today-— European girls just don't show up.” » » ~

LET THAT not lead to complacency. The bachelors have a list of pet peeves a mile long. From Ed: “1 don't like women who wear dark, thick powder, and lipstick where they don’t have lips.” . More “don’t likes” follow. Joe: Women who try to

»

Sid Collins

Clubs. ...32, 33 Gardening. . 3 Fashions.... 34 Food....... 39 Society..... 36 Teens....., 4!

lead on the dance floor. Jack Kirby: The attentiongetter; the scene-stealer; the

- girl who goes in for public

displays of affection. (“But I don’t let them irritate me: I go away.”) Ben: Girls who talk too much; just “yak” about nothing—and those who expect too much attention— and the ones who are domineering.

Bud: Artificial | women and the ones who go to extremes on new fashions— the shortest short hair or the longest long skirts.

A few other peeves tossed in by the bachelors include girls who act “as if they had a ‘corner on the education market.” Girls who “like one thing one day, something else the next.” . . . AND GIRLS WHO ARE - TOO EAGER TO LAND THE MALE. . ~ * » BEING a dream girl takes doing. In one instance the girl (outdoor variety) has to be able to climb over a fence if she's out hunting but has to be helped up a curb.

She has to make a man

forget other women.

She has to be considerate. “That covers everything . . . sincerity, constancy.” On the other hand, she mustn't be perfect. The bachelors don’t think they could live up to that . . . or stand it. All right, just what does a bachelor want when he marries? “Oh, I don’t know,” one of them sald. “A girl, I guess.”

Our Readers Write—

Seek Recipe

For White Cake

Like Angel Food, Reader Says

(CHEESE CAKE, rhu« barb pie and sweet corn pone recipes lead requests in Our Readers Write today. This is your column so send your recipes or ask for those you lack. o » » DEAR ORW: I wonder if any reader could give me a recipe for cheese cake using cottage cheese. The recipe I . want makes a snow white cake resembling angel food. I've tried many, but all were yellow in color, using the egg yolks as well as thewhites. Mrs. Mabe) Kelly. > " Ld » ~ DEAR ORW: Can anyone tell me how to make a good old-fashioned sweet corn pone? Mrs. L.F.8,, Greenfield.

48 9 = - A BROCCOLI ONION casserole for Mrs, A.M.T. is quite easy to make. Steam brocooll and onions until tender; put in casserole. Pour over it a cream sauce made of cream

. or part milk. Season to taste.

It is the same sauce used on peas or creamed potatoes, Cook the sauce before poure ing over broccoli and onions, Bake in moderate oven. ‘Mrs, L.F.8., Greenfield.

Rhubarb Pie TEAR ORW: I tried to make a rhubarb pie recently, and it got so

runny it boiled over on the bottom of my oven. I've eaten rhubarb pie that was

_ much thicker in consistency.

I understand there is a way ° to thicken it with either egg or tapioca. Can anyone give me an old-fashioned that is sure insurance against failure? Mrs. M. ¥.

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2 tbsps. melted butter 1% ec. thin cream Mix well and bake in une baked pie crust at 425 degrees F. for 15 minutes. Then reduce heat to 350 degrees FV, for 45 minutes,

White Lacquer ME: T- R. 8. will find that water white

lacquer is as colorless as

possible, according to Mrs. T. K. 8 8 8 DEAR ORW: I certainly enjoy your column, for cooke ing is my hobby. Mrs. E. Campbell, Danville, can buy baking ammonia at the drug stores in cube form. Also available there is oil of lemon which is stronger than the extract used in lemon crackers, Enclosed also, is a Bob-Andy pie which may be what Mrs, L. J. 8. has been seeking. Mrs. Grace Ryan. BOB-ANDY PIE 2 ec. sugar 3 heaping tbsps. flour 1 level tsp. cinnamon 15 tsp. cloves 1 heaping tbsp. butter 3 eggs beaten 2 c. sweet milk, Mix together sugar, flour, cinnamon and cloves. Add butter, beaten egg yolks and sweet milk. Then fold in the beaten egg whites, stirring the mixture constantly so the spices do not settle. Bake until a nice brown.

On Cleaning DEAR ORW: How shall I clean a light colored leather table top? Mrs. L. Q.

” » » DEAR ORW: I enjoy your recipes very much and wish to send my recipe for old fashioned cream pie to Mrs. L. J. 8. Mrs. H. Jarrett. OLD-FASHIONED CREAM PIE 4 level thsps. corn starch 1 ¢. brown or granulated sugar 14 tsp. Mutmeg 1 tsp. vanilla 14 tap. salt 1 tbsp. butter or margarine. 1 pint rich cream (use coffee cream or canned milk) Mix together well, corn starch, sugar, nutmeg and salt,” Add cream and stir well. Add vanilla and pour in unbaked pie shell. Dot with bits of butter and a little more nutmeg, if you care for nutmeg. Bake in a moderate oven until set ( about 25 or 30 minutes), p

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