Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1951 — Page 31

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By KATY ATKINS EMBERS of the Progressive Club enjoyed an unusual and charming program at their ‘meeting in Mrs. Francis Macomber's home in the country on Monday. The Technical High School .Madrigal Singers, four girls and four boys, gave a, delightful performance, Of course, their songs are unaccompanied and they sit around a table in the madrigal tradition. The girls long, turquoise blue dresses were lovely with a background of C hinese panels framed in glass and a huge bouquet of lilacs. Violets in a bowl on the table added their note to the blending of blues and purples.

These young people not only sing well but have a mingling of old world courtliness and the gaiety of youth that gives great charm to their presentation.

Those responsible for the program were Mrs. Charles Latham, Mrs. Samuel B. Sutphin, Mrs, Joseph J. Daniels, Mrs. Fisk Landers and Mrs. William J. Shafer. Afterwards punch was served on the porch and the guests took advantage of the beautiful day to stroll’ around the

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grounds.

Everybody was thankful for the glorious weather last week-end, especially the sponsors of the Park School Garden Tour. The mothers’ unselfish work was amply rewarded and showed in the tour being better organized thah éver before. The souvenir directory and calendar was a new feature and most welcome. One hes{tates to single out any particular beauty spot but I was

‘It's Fun to Lear

34th Season Ready to Close

By AGNES H. OSTROM HER WORKSHOP— and home—is in the shape

of a shoe. Her children are many. But there similarity of Miss Helene Hibben and

“The Woman in the Shoe” ends. For the founder and director of Irvington's pre-school institution, Hibben School, knows exactly what to do with her youngsters. Since the gray days of world War I she has made learning fun for ¢ to 6year olds. The phrase, “it's fun to learn,” was repeated so often by the children, it {s now the school moto.

Child's World WITH MIND, hand and heart Miss Helene has entered a child’s world, made their work an: adventure. With inherent subtlety she has discreetly opened wide the door to knowledge. And in her face is mirrored the happiness, security and faith she has brought to hundreds of Indianapolis’ moppet set. As sure as a Texas brand, Hibben exposure marks them for life. Come Friday, parents’ visiting day, the close of the school's 34th winter season, 125 youngsters (many Ssec-ond-generation) will demonstrate their routine—letter study, handcraft, folk dancing. ‘music, art and dramatfcs. Assisting the director with + 0:30 to 11 a. m. program will be 10 instructors. And in addition there will be three drivers who have helped her pick up the children this year each Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning over the entire east side.

Only 12 In 1917 ONLY 12 children were enrolled when the school was begun in 1917. It was the first in the city to undertake gerious study for the very young, now grouped as prekindergarten. There wasn't even material

delighted with the * picnic table at Mr. ahd Mrs. Vernon C. MacNabb's.

Set near a huge elm which grows from a perfect saucer of myrtle, its “tools” included a covered dish of dark glazed ware in the shape of a barn.

The salt and pepper shakers were a miniature matching barn and a silo. The pottery plates had farm scenes on them.

‘Brass Coffee Pot

HE HANDLES of the knives and forks were tortoise shell color, keeping the same dark tones. A huge brass coffee pot on a hot-plate shone in the sun as did the brass bands on the keg-shaped wooden thermos standing on a tall trivet. Tea in the school gymnasium is always a pleasant

wind-up. One can not fail to glean ideas from the beautifully set tables and the commercial exhibits, There I saw Mrs. Philip Adler in an unusually attractive frock of grey linen with its scalloped pockets and deép cuffs edged with embroidered

brown baskets filled with lavender flowers. They were made from

material so that they had body and gave the illusion of standing away from the dress. Mrs. Leslie DeVoe and Mrs. Don Carlos Hines were chatting as I went in and I was greeted by Jane Alig who was one of the girls selling candy.

Wild Flowers

: _FRIEN DS of Mr. and

Mrs. Warrack Wallace welcomed the opportunity to see their lovely place in Brendonwood last Saturday. A riot of wild flowers, red, yellow and blue, grow in the woods just to the edge of the formal hedged garden.

A white dogwood stands back of two white iron benches and a statue. It

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makes an effective grouping against the natural green. A pink dogwood is near the terrace. A silver epergne on the dining room table was filled with pink sweet. peas and small pink roses. Among the guests were two young men stationed at Chanute Field, Jeb Howard and Bob Ballard who were house guests of Mr. .and Mrs. Evans Woollen, being friends of Evans Jr. As do people of all ages, they gravitated straight to Mrs. Booth Tarkington. I could not help but notice how much they were enjoying talking with her as, with my other eye, I admired her becoming violet covered hat. Mrs. Donald Test wore an especially smart dress that day. It was navy blue with a band of citron yellow and a deep band of white pique outlining the wide neckline.

At Home

THE ARTHUR Herringtons travel so much

that their friends welcome the month of May which keeps them firmly anchored here because of the Colonel's official capacity for the Race. Mrs. Herrington’s rough white straw hat trimmed with white lilacs was one of

the prettiest’ at the party. Among guests in town the past week have been Winant Johnston and Nelson Rogers of Washington who have been with Mrs. Samuel Johnston. - Mr. and Mrs. Reginald , Sinclair, who live near Colorado Springs and were flying east in their plane which Mr. Sinclair pilots, stopped for a night with Mr. and—Mrs—F Charles Schaf. Winston Dines, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. L. C. Seaverns, left for her home in Colorado with her young son on Friday. Her brothers, Jack and Jim Holliday, entertained for her at Mrs. Seaverns’ on Sunday. Little. Gene held quite a reception of his own from his play pen in the garden. Sally and John Gould have a third son, James Dickerson Gould, who will be known as Jamie.

n'—That's the Motto of Hibben School

STAMP ARTISTRY—Mrs. Nancy Ladd decorates greeting cards

By JEANE JONES “I GUESS I'm just a frustrated cartoonist,” explains Mrs. Nancy Ladd, 1471 N. New Jersey St., when she discusses the artistic greeting card pictures she fashions from cancelled postage stamps. “I always wanted to be a cartoonist,” the 73-year-old homemaker will say, “but I Just never got around to it.” Hanging on the wall to give mute testimony of her talent is a pen and ink sketch

of Admiral Dewey which Mrs. Ladd made 50 years

Instead of drawing pictures, Mrs. IL.add combines ingenuity, a bit of glue and hundreds of green, red, yellow, brown, black and purple stamps into gay, unusual pictures. EJ ” ” THE IDEA came from a Christmas card decorated with a stamp picture that Mrs. Ladd received 10 years ago. “It had just a bowl with some things sticking out of

Times Photo by John Spicklemire.

"IT'S FUN TO LEARN"—Miss Helene Hibben, pioneer pre-school educator, tells a story: to music. Absorbed are Martha Lynne Weisenfluh (bottom row), Lewis Paxton, Judy Anderson and Ronald Coghill (middle row), and Joe Noe, Jeffrey Arthur Baron, Marcia Ann Huffman and

Jimmy Clapham (top row).

even special material for lefthanded. youngsters, not to correct, but aid them. The storybook house in its wooded setting, 5237 Pleasant Run Pkwy., S. Drive, designed by her brother,” Thomas Hibben, now U. 8. representative to Pakistan, is a

starting out in the station wagon, to transport her particular group. And there are Dodge and Plymouth, the trademark ducks, to feed.

None Are Cut

BUT NEVER a flower is cut. Even when the house is

Whitcomb Riley head she sculptured from life is in the Congressional Library. But her main interest remains her school for children. Her war contribution was a day care service to free nurses, school teachers and parents engaged in es-

She Turns Stamps

it. I thought I could improve on it.” And Mrs. Ladd has been “improving” ever since. Pattern ideas come from everywhere — magazine and newspaper pictures, scenery, a friend's vacation trip. “Some seem to come from the stamps themselves,” Mrs. Ladd said. From the “draw-m8” advertisements of several years ago, came the idea for stamp portraits of girls. The black, yellow, red_and brown stamps make it possible for the girls to be blonds, brunets or red heads.

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limit to the patterns. Some of the cards are designed for particular occasions, - with

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winter and Christmas scenes,

Easter ideas or spring themes. . Others have flower pat-

terns. Some {follow a ‘gay nineties” theme, showing oldfashioned automobiles, sleighs and bicycles operated by men with handle bar mustaches and women in flowing gowns. Other cards show men and women promenading in quaint, old-fashioned garb. On some of the cards, showing =aucily from a poke bonnet is the stamp face of Martha Washington, while (George Washington's face is

-lopped bvahigh' hat.

Carriage and bicycle wheels are quickly made from the round stamps on government printed envelopes. Pieces are

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cut out for spokes and hubs. More than 50 tiny pleces are used to make some of the more complicated patterns. Time required varies from a half hour to an hour and a half. ~ » » SOME of the stamps Mrs. Ladd uses are given to her by friends, but most of them are purchhsed by the pound from missionary or church groups. Want to try your own stamp pictures? Here's the procedure.

Wash the stamps and re-

-—move-the excess paper. This

means trimming the edges as well as taking off any paper stuck to the back of the stamp.

Suggest Southern Fried Chicken

As Ideal Memoria

MEMORIAL DAY race plans take the lead in May activities. At least one of Our Readers Write letters asks for a menu and food suggestions for the big day. Send your own questions and answers to Our Readers Write, The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis 9. ” ” n DEAR ORW: I am expecting out-of-town guests over Memorial Day for the Speedway races. I need a good company meal to take with

“us, yet I want something

quite simple to handle and very little trouble to fix. Does anyone know a tasty onedish meal to take along? Mrs. R.R. » - ~ A FORMER Tennessee cook sent us the ‘real way” Southerners fix fried chicken. “I don't want Hoosiers to have the wrong impression about fried chicken,” she writes. “Southern fried is about the best in the world. How else would we have gotten the reputation anyway. “I have some differences of opinion with Mrs. Ed Morris. If you compare the enclosed recipe with hers you can see that we differ from the time we select a chicken.” » ” ” SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN

Select tender, young Ten- .

nessee chicken, one and onehalf to two pounds, ready-to-cook, =Disjoint and cut breast into two side pieces and “pulley bone.” Roll in seasoned flour, using about one-fourth cup flour, three-fourths teaspoon salt and one-fourth teaspoon pepper for each pound of chicken. Place in hot fat (lard or half lard and half butter). Brown quickly, but keep it a light brown since the chicken will brown more during the slow cooking. Turn pieces to brown evenly. Then reduce heat and continue cooking slowly until chicken is tender, crispcrusted and golden brown, about 25 to 30 minutes total. Serve with rice, brown or cream gravy and pickled peaches, :

» » » Shortcake EAR ORW: Father's Day is coming soon and one item I want on

ANSWERING Mrs. R. K. 8. on her French frying oils is Mrs. H. Js O.- She writes, “If I french fry shrimp or onion rings, I purify or take the odor from the oils by

frying a few raw slices in the oil. “This takes all the odor out. I also purify bacon drippings the same way and use them for deep frying.” ” » DEAR ORW: a little girl, I visited my grandmother each spring when school was out. We always picked strawberries and made jam. She made the best Jam I think I've ever eaten, but I don't have the recipe. She didn’t use a modern fruit pectin, and I don't want

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on When I was

to, either. Does any reader have an old - fashioned method? Mrs. D.W.R.

, ” n DEAR ORW: How can I clean a large cotton shag rug on the floor? It is too huge to take up and wash like smaller rugs, yet it gets just as soiled. I have a suggestion to make to other readers, even though no one has presented the problem. I find meringue-

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topped pies will cut more easily if the knife blade is spread with butter or margarine. Zionsville Housewife - ” = DEAR ORW: My small daughter spilled rhubarb on her new white organdy dress last Sunday. I am most anxious to get the stain out, but afraid to use anything on it until I'm sure of a good remedy. Doés anyone know what I should put on it? Mrs. T. K.

Baking Tip ANSWERING Mrs. V. P. on her break-mak-

ing questions is a Beech srove. Reader. She suggests working a small amount of flour into the dough to keep it from being too soft. In handling it, grease the fingers and palms of your hands or flour them a little to prevent the dough from sticking: “You rub the tops of bread when it comes from the oven to get a tender shiny crust. Use unsalted shortening while the bread is cooling on the rack. Use warm water if a harder, chewy crust Is desired.” » ” » DEAR ORW: I would like to make pinch pleat headings on my new curtains; but the fabric is rather limp. I'm afraid the heading will droop. How can I make the pleat stand up? Mrs. G. F.

Into Ingenious Greeting Cards

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with designs made from cancelled stamps.

After that sort the stamps according to color. When a picture has been decided on, the stamps must be worked into the design, and a pattern made for the stamps,

Next comes the painstake ing job of cutting the stamps into the proper size and shape, Then the pieces must be fitted and pasted on the card,

Small detall work such ag grass, horizon lines, etc, may be made with pen and ink. In addition to being a means of artistic aio pin money. Pain

highlight needs of youth in theses times of tens sion, civilian morale in dee fense and the school evisis. The sessions will ol Wednesday. - Other subjects to be discussed include parent edwose tion, recreation prolecte, sevw. ice to rural communities and

implementation of the prow

gram of the Mid White House Conference om Children and Youth, Mrs, John BE. Falls, Ida., NPTC 3 will give the convention keynote address Monday. Hee subject will be “The Oftisen Child—Hig Needs in a Fre World.” —*

Afternoon Panel

Miss Ethel Kawin, Chicago, University of Chicago leo turer, will lead an afternoon panel on parent education. That night Miss Ethel J. Ale penfels, New York University, associate education professor, will talk on “Members One of Another.”

Five section meetings on uppermost subjects of the times are scheduled for Tuesday morning.

There will ba a sightseeing tour in the afternoon. Jesse Stuart, Riverton, Ky., author and lecturer, will be the banquet speaker in the evening, His topic will be “Education for Free People.”

“Our Pledges to America’s Children” will be George D, Stoddard’s subject Wednesday morning. He is University of Illinois president and served as national committee vice chairman for the Midcentury Conference. g Other speakers that day will be Frank Smothers, Chicago, former foreign corre spondent and lecturer, and Congressman Walter H, Judd of Minnesota.

Opening Address

Installation of a anew seeond vice president and four regional vice presidents will close convention Wednesday night. In her opening address, Mrs. Hayes will emphasize the “most important business of our adult generation as being the guidance of ehildren and youth to maturity to stabilize a world which has become a neighborhood before its citizens have achieved

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to bridge the gap between : filled with blossoms, they are sential industries. July 9 DEAR ORW: How can I baby interests and kinder- treasury of objets d'art, ob- always gifts from" the chil- Hibbén's summer outdoor the menu is strawberry short- clean gilt picture frames’ the spirit of neighborliness.” ipment. jects “which fascinate the © cake. I never have had any To do the job, she will garten equip t a 1 dren. Hers she never trims. session forx3'y to 8 year olds luck with a good shortcake Mrs. E. W. '.assert, it is necess for ee But Miss Helene, who had younger set an ustrate Her adult life includes be- will open. g : cilne a. nw 5 adults ary io , Art wonderful stories My family isn’t too particular t adults to change their own studied in the Chicago r ¢ ing a founder of the Irving- Only one with the gift of about whether I serve a bis- DEAR ORW: Is it safe to thinking and to Institute, Art Student's With boundless energy ton Dramatic Club, a char- seeing life through a child's cuit shortcake or a cake base. paint over rust spots on their own beliefs in brother New York and Miss Helene is up at 5 o'clock ter member of Hoosier Motor eyes could carry such a We have eaten both, but 1 metal furniture if the rust jho0d, the worth of the fmdiHerron Art School hers, de- in the morning. These spring Club and a Woman's Rotary schedule, could make Jearn- lack a good recipe for either ls washed off and the spots vidual, morality and spiritusigned and made SOMA 4 4 ¢ days she gardens before Club member, A James ing the fun it is at Hibben, one. Regular Reader, are sanded? Mre. V. P. ality, > | . : ) : > bos : - ¥ I — . : : : : . iid 4 : ks ' ’ g . ; ~\ : : - : : 5 he