Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1951 — Page 28

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Section Three

You Cen Start All Over—

First of Writer's Four Lives Was Secure One of Minister's Daughter

‘By MARJORIE HILLIS ROULSTON THESE CHAPTERS aren’t something dreamed up to sugar-coat an easy, overoptimistic confidence. They

are the expression of a strong conviction. I believe that when life brings a devastating change, leaving one alone and desolate, one can start all over. For I have done just that, three different times, two of them for

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THE FIRST of my four lives was spent as a minister's

daughter.

It was not only a respectable life, it was a secure one, too—security not being the matter of money most people think it is. It was full of variety and. interest and fun, perhaps

because my father had great stores of all three. : We traveled and read a great deal, and -we laughed more than most people seem to. But: our position as the minister's family set us slightly apart. It gave us advantages, perhaps, but it kept us in a very special world, which was, as I have said, almost conspicuous by its respectability. It ended, not all in a -moment, but with sufficient.rapidity to leave me shaken and to make a new start difficult.. My mother died about a year after my father, and my sister married six weeks after my. mother’s death. = = 2 AS MY brother had already been married for some time, I found myself in a position where I would once have been referred to as a spinster or a maiden - aunt,-and-a solitary one at that. I hope I never was, but avoiding it took some doing. I already was launched, in a tentative sort of way, as a career woman, and now the career was suddenly a neces-

sity, whether I liked it or not. .

I had found myself a job on the editorial staff of’ a fashion magazine. Thus, I was settled in a good job, and it was my personal life that I had to begin all over. Like everyone else in a simflar position, I went through all the difficulties of readjustment, the inevitable period of frayed nerves, the mistakes and hurts and loneliness. But eventually I made that life pretty much what 1 wanted it to be. Before it ended, I had an apartment in

Mrs. Roulston

Shortly before the last war, Marjorie Hillis wrote a wise and gay. best-seller called “Live Alone and Like It.” Then she became Mrs. Roulston, stopped living alone. After 10 years of happy married life, her husband recently died. Nowshe finds herself alone again. Here she writes about her new problems with such wisdom and tact she will help everyone who faces a personal tragedy. This is the first of 12 articles from her new book, “You Can Start Al Over,” just published by Harper & Bros.

New York that I liked and in which I could entertain my friends. T had many of the things I wanted surrounding me and a pleasantly full engagement book. =u » » THIS SECOND life lasted some eight or nine years and then I started ald over once more. This tinie, it was married life that I started—and-again it couldn't have been more different from what preceded it.

My husband's friends were largely successful businessmen and their wives and their interests were as remote from the two worlds I had known as Samoa from Salt Lake City.

The greatest difference, however, was in Whay happened to me. For, as a career Womin, I had become an extremely independent. female and I married a man with the endearing quality of wanting to take good care of his helpless little wife. I let him, as any woman with a grain of sense would have done. It was quite a change. (An easy one to make, however—I "would be the first to admit that the other way around would be much harder.) ” 5 ” THIS PHASE ended abruptly when my husband died. I found that no one else regarded me as a helpless little woman. The life we had workéd out together was impossible for anyone alone. The interests we had shared were no longer ‘ interesting without him. Once again, and for the third time, I had to start all ‘over. I'm not going to claim that it wasn't harder this time, as I think it would be for anyone. Yowre older each time, and you're probably a shade more settled in your ways. .. But I do claim that it can be done, whether the need is brought about by death, divorce or some other equally unhappy reason. = n : : IT HAS to be done, if you're not going to become a nuisance to your family and

friends and of very little use -

to yourself. I know, because I've done it.’ I have also looked carefully at a large number of other women who have done it, and a few who have failed to do it. It is too soon to say what this fourth life of mine will be, but it is not too soon to know that it can be full of interest and color, as life can be for anyone with a little spunk © and = determination, That, I think, i8 the way those who have left me would have me live.

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‘Mothers Help More Youngsters To Enjoy Spring.

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SERIOUS SPRINGTIME BUSINESS—Gracia Johnson (seated) isn't so sure about this swinging, but Brad Thurston thinks it's great.

UP SHE GOES—Ann Fairchild can tell you even a youngster has hor ups

and downs.

April Fool Day Is With Us Once Again;

So Take Heed and Watch Your Step

By KATY ATKINS

STEP WARILY this April Fool Day unless you are habitually alert about

falling into a. prankster’s trap. I invariably do it, usually for an elaborate and plaus-

ible telepnone call. And sometimes they aren't

even plausible. A man at our house once almost agreed to drive a schariot in what was said to be a forthcoming production of “Ben Hur” by the Dramatic Club. We always solemnly agree to fool the fooler the next year and then forget it. No fooling, however, about the egg hunt Ann and Noble Dean had last Sunday afternoon. Though eight telephone calls in the morning thinned the ranks because of bouts of flu, several families were on hand. While the parents gathered indoors, the children hunted well-hidden eggs in the yard.

When they found them, they hid them all over again and kept occupied all afternoon. Carol Holliday, who came a little late with her parents, the Alex Hollidays, had no eggs, so young Bill Donley hid some for her and, just for good measure, his sister, Diane, took her by the hand to show her where each one was. Jack and Jane Rauch, Tippa and Don Test, the Carson Donleys and the John Deans were among the parents at the party.

Mrs. Atkins

Painted Bunny

USAN CADICK'S BUNNY, painted on the big mirror in the Woodstock Ballroom, was the center of attraction for the club's week-end festivities, It was an enormous pink one with. a tallcoat, a white vest, a pink bow tie and a basket of colored éggs in one paw. Fastened. to the handle of the basket were three balloons. A stuffed bunny, surrounded with flowers, was on the table in the hall. Baskets with

. balloons tied on the handle were given to each

child for the afternoon egg hunt on Saturday. Phyllis Holliday, chairman of the committee,

pressed John and Mary Scott and Bunce Johnson Into service to blow up and tie thase balloons, an incredible number.

for a long time. About 100 children turned up, ranging in age from 18 months to 10 years, so the eggs weren't too equitably distributed, but everyone had a grand time. A movie was shown, then ice cream in paper containers, and cookies in a big wooden bowl were served. Little David Smith was busy as a bee and very snappy in a red and white checked coat. A number of grandparents were there but David had the distinction of having the only great grandmother at the party, charming Mrs. J. W. O'Bannon.

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IN A COUPLE of years, Joan and Bill Elder's boy.amd Flo and Pom Binford’s-daugh-ter will be joining the Easter parties. They were born a week apart, William L. Elder Jr. ang Florence Wilson Binford.

It took all ° “Horning and they can do without balloons

A GOOD CROWD turned out for the dance at-Woodstock that night.- The Tom Kackleys and the Bill Tomlinsons were in the same party. The Fred Andersons, John Watsons, Bill Ruggs and Reily Adams were together, as wege the Howard Fiebers and the Don Kellers. The latter were just back from Naples, Fla., Sunny looking simply ravishing, with a deep tan contrasting her black hair and a short, full-skirted, honey-colored frock completing the picture.

Lovely Gowns

BEAUTIFUL GOWNS were in ovidents at St. Vincent's Hospital Guild's Star-

lite Symphony Ball in the Indianapolis Athletic Club last night. The president, Mrs. John R. Kelley, wore ndvy with a tulle overskirt and a cascade of white embroidered flowers falling from thé shoulder.

Among the guests were Mrs. Fred ‘Mahaffey in white lace and chiffon over black, accented by red sandals. Mrs. George Hoster was ‘n a two-toned chiffon frock of Kelly green and gray with green slippers. Mrs. Joseph H. Argus also chose chiffon. Her dress was alternate panels of tomato and white.

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MRS. H.-A. SHUMAKER, with butterflies in her tummy, is leaving for California by plane tomorrow with her son, Fritz . . . all because she couldn’t bear to break tradition by missing the party as she would have had to do if they went by train. She wore a real portrait gown at the ball. The skirt was layers of blue and mauve net over a rose taffeta petticoat. Pleating around the bottom of the skirt swagged up to the waist where it was caught by a blue hydrangea. The same pleating, ina fan shape, formed the bodice. * Twinkling silver stars on the tables, on the orchestra backdrop and in the southern smilax used lavishly in the ballroom and hall carried out the green, silver and white theme. White flowers in vases in the hall and broad green ribbons and white candles, in star holders, on white tablecloths furthered the effect.

Ballroom Filled

HE BALLROOM was filled to capacity at the Columbia Club for the

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day. . Bowls with variegated roses were on each table. Prizes were emerald crystal flower containers with a green ‘frog that held a candle in each. A special coveted prize, won by Mrs. Lloyd W. Beall of New Castle, was a planter lamp with a cranberry shade.

Fashion-wise suits were the order of the.

day. Mrs. R. 8. Sailor, Mrs. N. K. Hurst, Mrs. John M. Williams and Mrs. Charles Moreland made up a table, all looking very smart. Mrs. Sailor wore a gray and blue checked suit with a gray sallér trimmed with a striped ribbon cocarde, Mrs, Hurst wore a pastel gabardine with toast accessories and a toast hat trimmed in brown. Mrs, Williams’ suit was nayy and her hat a red and white straw pillbox, while Mrs. Moreland yas in & sea breeze green suit with beige ace ries’ and’a beige sailor with a red band.

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ON THEIR WAY—David Raber, Martha Susan Johnson,

Wynn Stem floft to righ) get set for the big ride.

HAND IN HAND—Bll Ferree and Judy Gilliom make the

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ITs FOR KEEPS—_If s rly a ‘game but in dead earnest are the youthful Sicipants. Players al to right) are Jahony Gardner, Paul Fletcher and Albert Smith.

By JEAN ENGELKE THEIR mothers know. They know, come spring, youngsters like to swing .and slide. They like to play marbles and skate. And these children's mothers . . “ all members of the Junjor Auxiliary to the Indianapolis, Day Nursery... know something else, They know there are other youngsters, not less loved but less fortunate than their own. They know they, too, like to swing and slide and skate, to roll marbles and to teetertotter, ” ” ” THAT'S WHY, on" Apr. 14, the Auxiliary will have .a “Billets Doux Ball” in the

~ Woodstock Club. Mrs. Joseph

A. Miner Jr. is general chairman. Assisting her as committees heads will be Mrs. Joseph W. Barr, Mrs. Frederick €: Tucker Jr. and Mrs. A. Malcolm McVie Jr. When the fun ‘is over and the money is counted, the proceeds will be used to purchase new playground equipment for the two nurseries, on Lockerbie St. and Fletcher Ave, And mothers forced through circumstances to leave their children while they work will see the. bright shining new play equipment from the other mothers. reef psp ——

JUNIOR AUXIL TARY

mothers of children pictured are Mrs, Emsley Johnson, 5745 N. Pennsylvania St; Mrs. Robert Raber, 6036 Haverford Ave.; Mrs. Frank Fairchild, 6034 Haverford Ave.; Mrs. Elbert Gilllom, 6969 Warwick Road; Mrs. Dale Stenz, 7001 Central Ave.; Mrs, Joseph W, Ferree, 6933 Park Ave.; Mrs, Sprague H. Gardiner, 46 W, 52d St.; Mrs. Robert F. Heimburger, 4101 N. Capitol Ave.; Mrs,

. John E. Thurston, 4078 Cen-

tral Ave.; Mrs. J.. Albert Smith, 4530 Park Ave. and

Mrs. Robert E.. Jones, 6384 °

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The Social Calendar—

Big Events Due In April

Spring Activities Are Scheduled

Swinging into Spring, April brings forth a round of colorful activities. Golfers will tee off for the season. The Circle Players will make their debut. Indianapolis Country Club members will enjoy an “April in Paris” evening. The Lambs Club will frolic, and the Children's Museum Guild will hold a white elephant sale. In all . . . dances, luncheons, lectures, benefits and meetings jam the month's 30 days. The calendar for the month follows: Apr. 1 — Booth Tarkington ‘ivic Theater backstage party 8.p. m. Apr. 1—Herron Art Museum gallery talk on “Famous Prints of the Last 50 Years” by Garo Antreasian at 4 p. m. Apr. 1-—Exhibit, Herron Art Museum, “European and American Prints of the Last .50 Years," Sontinuing : through May 8. nem Apr. 1 — Propylasum buttet ‘ supper with H. Frederick Willkie oi “Double Chocolate Marshallow Sundae for Everyone—With Nuts” 6 p. m. Apr. 2-—Women's Auxiliary of the Athenaeum Turners dinner meeting at 6 p. m. Apr. 3—8t. Margaret's Guild luncheon meeting..at 12:30

p. m, Apr. 4—Indianapolis Athletis Club ladles Juncheon-bridge party. / Apr. 4—Women's Comumitiss, 2 Indiana State mp : Society board mee