Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1951 — Page 30
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‘COMFORT FOR CANCER P
ATIENTS—Mrs. John Innis (left) and Mrs. Harold Toon deliver to
The Little Red Door pieces of a hospital bed which the Bunker Hill Community Club of Franklin Township is giving to the Marion County Cancer Society.
Canines Top Dogs In a Week Full of Social Activities
Hoosier Kennel Club Affair at Fair Grounds Attended by Unusually Large Crowd
By KATY ATKINS ERHAPS THE TOP event of an unusually full week was the dog show presented by the Hoosier Kennel
Club at the State Fair Grounds last Sunday. It was a performance where, in addition to the regular enthusiasts, mildly interested people dropped in for an hour and found themselves
staying all day.
Harold Tharp, president, and other officers were enormously gratified at the unusually big crowd. Lucy Woodard was justly excited over her German shepherd puppy, Cawalier of Silver
Lane, taking best of winners. She has raised him from two weeks and showed him herself. Mrs. Posey Denning and Mrs. Bon Aspy were among the admirers of the Hastings Fiskes' magnificent imported white miniature poodles. Mrs. Charles Schaf was on hand with her daughter, Lutie Appel, to see Alan Appel's Irish setter puppy make its first appearance in a show. Elizabe t h and Tom Carruthers of Cincinnati were there as Tom judged the terriers. The Carruthers used to live in Indianapolis and were warmly welcomed by many friends. Elizabeth went home Sunday afternoon to meet her daughter who was returning from Florida. But after .the show, Ceci Crom, Ed Wiest, Liz and Vest Johnson and Tom came’ to our house where the conversation somehow got on-
Mrs. Atkins
the days when all the town*, bachelors, Tom among them °
then, lived at the Glenn Martin or Livingston. It was wonderful for hostesses who could always find an attractive man for dinner.
Show at Civic HE PLAYERS had its - first show at the re-
modeled Civic Theater fol-
lowed by a dance at Woodstock a week ago last night. tunice Dissette, who directed “Rumors Wanted,” wore a
black net dress with a stun- -
ning black lace stole. Stoles were very much in evidence at the party, Betty Taggart wore one that matched her white point d'esprit frock which had a wide ruffle around the hem line: 4 A band of bright blue sequins topped Olive Carpenter's blue gown while a heavy pear! and gold necklace accented Helen Hood's cham-
pagne crepe. Kitty Pantzer, who appeared in a skit with Jack Harding, also chose the champagne shade, her own being of lace.
Week-End Visits
RS. WILLIAM PEARSON BIGGS and her daughter and son-in-law, Sarah and Bruce Payne, left Monday after a week-end visit with Mrs. Biggs’ sister, Mrs. John A. MacDonald and Dr. MacDonald. f Friends of Mrs. Biggs and contemporaries of the Paynes had an opportunity to see them one afternoon at the MacDonalds. The charming old house was at its mellow best with white tulips on the mantel in the hall, white iris on the tea table, candlelight and firelight. Miss Margaret Blanchard assisted in the dining room. Mrs. Larz Whitcomb, Mrs. James Fesler, Miss Florence Latham, the Fritz Taylors, Warren Ruddells and Alfred Stokelys were among the guests,
Coming .Events
oT OF PEOPLE have lots of work to.do to
get their gardens ready for the Park School Garden Tour next month. Sponsored by the Mothers Association for the scholarship fund, it will have Sybil Mead as chairman. The tour has become an outstanding annual event, but like all good things it started in a small way. - In 1935 when Mrs. G. H. A. Clowes was president of what was then the Mothers Club, she and Mrs. James Carroll had the idea for a garden tour. Mrs. Clowers was chair= man and Mrs. Carroll handled the publicity. Others on the first committee were Mrs. Eugene Miller, Mrs. J. K. Lilly Jr., Mrs. August Bohlen, Mrs. ‘Donald Test, Mrs. Cornelius Alig, Mrs. Walter Kuhn, Mrs. D. Foscue Modrall and Mrs. Bowman Elder.
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MAKING SURGICAL DRESSINGS—These eight members of Washington Township Homemakers Club spend hours each week in The Little Red Door workrooms cutting and making surgical dressings. They are (left to right) Mesdames
Our Readers Write—
Asks Recipe For Mush
Husband Wants It 'Like Mother's’
AN OLD - FASHIONED recipe for flavorful mush is Mrs. F. W.s request this week. Send your own questions and answers to Our Readers Write, The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis 9. » ” ” DEAR ORW: My husband wants me to make mush “just like his mother's.” 1 have no idea how she made it, or even what goes into mush. Can some reader tell me where to begin? Mrs. F, W. n » o DEAR ORW: My youngest son spilled India ink on my prized Oriental rug. I've tried to locate some information on how to remove the ink, but to no avail. Where do I go from here? Mrs. C. T. " " n DEAR ORW: My husband spilled gravy on a tie: Is there any way to remove the spot? It is on the, handpainted decoration. Mrs. J. H. O'D. 5 o » KEEPING sirup from going back to sugar will be no problem for Mrs. Guy Pounds if she follows the advice of Mrs. Nellie B. Jordan, Brownsburg, and Mrs. L. F. Strahl, Greenfield. Each one suggests she add white corn sirup to her mixture of sugar and water, Proportions are one - half pound medium brown sugar, one cup granulated sugar, one cup white corn sirup and one cup water. Boil this mixture approximately eight minutes.
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Behind A Red Door—Aid To C
Educational Campaign Under Way, Adding to Activities of Busy Group
By LOUISE FLETCHER
Times Woman's Editor
HE DOOR IS VIVID RED and it opens into the rambling frame building at 1101 W. 10th St. It also opens
upon comfort and help for the victims of cancer and
their families. Carrying the legend, ‘The Little Red Door,” it lis the entrance to the headquarters of the Marion County Cancer
Society.
Behind it are two large rooms and a smaller one . “Loan Closet."
latter known as the
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rooms is the scene of greater activity than usual. The cancer society is conducting an educational campaign in place of its
usual solicitation of funds.
(Fund raising this year will be
done in conjunction with the Community Chest.) During the month thousands of pieces of educational literature on cancer are being mailed. Even at normal times The
Take the month of February as an example, Mrs. V. E, Bryant, as chairman of Little Red Door services, gives the story of that month. (Mrs. Bryant, 5510 N. Kessler Blvd,, is first vice-chairman of the cancer society.)
The total number of women who worked actively as volunteers for the society during that month was 350, she says. Broken down into organizations, this meant seven groups which worked in the center and 17 which came to the office for supplies and took them back to church and other groups for work. In addition, a number of individuals did clerical work in the office.
Volunteers’ Aim HE VOLUNTEERS have one aim, to alle-
viate the suffering caused
by cancer, whether of the patient himself or of his family and friends. The volunteers turn their hands to anything that needs doing . . . making dressings, sponges, bandages, coHecting sickroom supplies and delivering them. he February volunteers turned out 312 dozen dressings and 850 gauze sponges. They packed the sterilized cans in which these supplies are delivered. Preparing such supplies also does much to relieve the work of persons caring for cancer patients. The “Loan Closet” at the center is kept filled by tHe volunteer workers. It is stocked with’ almost every sick-room need except individual prescriptions. From it, during February, 35 different items were lent. They ranged from two hospi-
. Little Red Door is the scene of much activity.
tal beds with mattresses to hospital gowns and back rests. The Closet also contains talcum powder, rubbing oil and alcohol.
Provide Aid
LL TYPES of organ-
izations contribute their services to The Little Red Door . . . sororities,
church groups, fraternal auxiliaries, homemakers’ clubs. Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, for example, does the motor corps work, collecting and distributing the needed supplies. A few of the other volunteer groups are Theta Chapter of Omega Phi Tau Sorority, the Social Order of Beauceant, the Dorcas Welfare Society of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, the Sahara Grotto Band Auxiliary, the Linwood Christian Church, the Woman's Department Club, the Mary Circle of St. Mark's Methodist Church the Washington Township Homemakers Club. The Little Red Doar is a source of counsel for patients and friends. During February, 66 inquiries were made by persons seeking help. Supplies were given to 59 patients or relatives who applied at the center—eight of them new patients. The volunteers spent a total of 1235 hours at work in February. » ” » * GUIDING the efforts of the many volunteers: is Mrs. Dorothy F. Buschmann, the cancer society's executive secretary. At present, Mrs. Buschmann is leading a kind of “dual” existence. She has been “lent” part-time by the
You Can Start All Over Again—
Do Widows Have to Wear Mourning?
By MARJORIE ROULSTON PRACTICALLY every widow wants to know what is customary in her position. She will find that few people believe in the rigid conventions of the past. The matter of wearing mourning is an example. There is a lessening inthe old strict attitude. Opinion has swung so far that, today, a widow doesn't have to wear
mourning at all, if she doesn’t want to--though she usually does so at her husband's funeral, at least. This is a matter for you to decide according to your own feelings, but perhaps you should be warned that mourning, like most customs, does have ‘some reason behind it. , It can save you from some pretty’ difficult moments during the first period of grief.
cancer society so she might reactivate the Service Men's Center, Just outside her office, partitioned off in one corner of the Little Red Door entrance room, is the desk of Mrs. Winona Bivens, office secretary.
No Charge
HERE IS no charge for any service from the Little Red Door .
and no restrictions about financial status of those seekIng help. If persons borrowing hospital beds are able to pay drayage charges, they are asked to .do so. Otherwise, beds are delivered and called for without charge. Drayage is the only item about which money is mentioned. The majority of volunteers devoting time to the Marion County Cancer Society ‘do it because they have had cancer deaths in their immediate familles or among close friends. They do it because they know, now, that many of the deaths might have been prevented by prompt, proper diagnosis. They seek to fight
the FEAR of cancer as much as the disease itself, That is the purpose of this month's educational campaign, and one of the main ideas of the hard-working volunteers who help The Little Red Door carry on.
ancer-Stricken
VOLUNTEERS—Mrs. George W. Stark seated) and Mrs. V. E. Bryant, chairman of LitHe Red Door Services, "mastermind" the routing of the volunteer motor corps on its errands
of mercy.
MOTOR CORPS AT WORK—Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority members staff the cancer society's
motor corps which delivers supplies to cancer patients’ homes. Three volunteers are (left to ri Mrs. C. F. Steger, Mrs. Adrian E. Wilhoite and Mrs. Thomas H. Thompson. :
James A. Wonnell, W, H. Kitchens, Ernest W. YanHart, Carlin H. Smith, Blanche E. Chapman, William Doering, Harold Sheets and Ruby: St. Clair. Mrs, Smith is committee chairman.
Times photos by Bill Oates ON CLERICAL STAFF—Helping address some of the thousands of pieces of educational literature being sent out this month by the cancer society are volunteers Mrs. R. A. McKay (left) and Mrs,'H. E. Fahrenbach.
Not everyone —- not even ail your best friends—will know of your loss, and it {8 definitely shattering to have one of these come up to you in a public place, greet you enthusiastically and ask “How's your husband?” in a hearty voice, Also, the first time you go to a gathering of any size--a woman's club or a church
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Sewing Tools
Important
Tips for Entrants
In Times Contest By JEANE JELL PROPER sewing equipment kept in good repair will help make home sewing a pleasure. Here are a few tips on the choosing and the care of sewing tools and aids for the benefit nf those entering The Times Sewing Contest. Have a pair of dressmak-
. ing shears to use only for
cutting cloth. In cutting fabrics, use shears at least eight inches long. Scissors three to six inches long with pointed blades are good for cutting button holes, trimming and snipping. Pinking shears are more satisfactory on medium or lightweight fabrics.
In cutting out material, use long, even strokes. Be careful not to strain the blades by cutting. fabrics too thick for the size of the shears. The cutting edge will be improved
by putting a little oil on the —
inside of the blades and
screws. Oil cloth, wrong side up on the table, makes a good cutting surface. A bath towel fastened over the sewing machine leaf will keep the fabric from slipping.
Needles
Use good quality needles. English needles are made of hand-ground steel with smoothly finished eyes that do not cut thes thread. Goldeasy to thread. Needles come in different lengths and thicknesses so choose needles according to use. Fine needles should be
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AAUW Head to Speaker
1951 Convention Opens Monday"
Times Special ATLANTIC CITY, Apr, 7—How America . . .
and individual Americans . .. can contribute to the reality of freedom in the world will be discussed here Moneday by Dr. Althea K. Hottel, President of the American Associationof University Women, she speaks at the opening session of the organization’s 1951 convention. The biennial event starts Monday afternoon. More than 1000 delegates and vise itors are expected to attend. The convention will adjourn Friday. Dr. Hoftel will say that if this country is to make a contribution to the reality of freedom “we must maintain a spiritual and intellectual defense against the invasion of the right to think for oure selves, must achieve the reality of freedom.”
Program Theme
R EPRESENTAT IVES of AAUW's 115,000
members and 1160 local branches , will hear freedom and its meaning in the world today analyzed. They themselves will discuss the theme, “Freedom-— Our Responsibility,” as it pertains to the AAUW program, The annual $2500 achievement award of the association will be presented to a distin guished woman scholar on Thursday. At the final session Friday an international dinner featuring speakers on the United Nations will be held.
Two Speakers
N INTRODUCING the convention theme Mon« day night, Dr. Roy F. Nichols, University of Pennsylvania history department
head, will tell delegates they must be vigilant if freedom is
Be
. not to be destroyed by little
noticed, gradual undermining. Norman Cousins, Saturday Review of Literature editor, will talk on freedom and the individual at the Tuesday morning session. Climaxing the night meeting will be an address by Dr. Helen D. Bragdon, new AAUW general director. Thursday, legislative items to be supported in the next two, years will be voted on.
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