Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1951 — Page 19

SOCIETY

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1951

MINIATURE MASTERPIECES—Flowers, place cards and corsages.

Times photos by Lloyd B. Walton.

Sometimes Birds, Babies ‘Grow’ on Trees

By JEANE JONES | S blossom time year-round in the workshops of Miss Myrtle Munson. Crepe paper flowers—32 varieties of them—bloom there in profusion. Tiny birds with brilliant plumage, strange and familiar trees, quaint birdhouses and dainty paper butterflies add to the garden effect. Skill and a bit of love for things botanical turn crepe paper, velour, wire, cotton and glue into miniature floral

masterpieces, according to Miss Mangos. » 2 s

“YOU HAVE TO like flowers to ri “able to make flowers.” Sn Her own interest in flowers and flower making developed and deepened during the 34 years she worked in the party departments of several local stationery stores. There she made party favors and taught classes in flower making. Six years ago she started the Munson Miniature Flower business. Today she supplies more than 4000 stores and gift shops. Munson Miniatures travel from 31215 E. Washington St. throughout the country.

EJ THE BUSINESS has expanded to six full-time em-

ployees and more than 50 part-time “gardeners.”

Ideas for her unusual arrangements and designs come

from watching real gardens grow, Miss Munson says.

Trees, birds, butterflies and bird houses add realism.

Fun Tops Agenda Of 250 Club

By JEAN TABBERT

THE 250 CLUB is a party club. When it meets five. times a year, the members,

250 young married

couples, set out to enjoy themselves.

Fun tops the agenda.

“meeting” includes the fox

trot, waltz, rhumba, tango

and mamba. : Purely a social group, the club’s main interest is dancing. So popular is the idea there is a long waiting list for membership. Club personnel changes only when couples move out of town. Then new members are admitted on the recommendation of present couples, after they've been registered with the secretary. Club doors have been closed for this season. Idea for the group originated in Muncie. It cropped up here when an enthusiastic 250 couple ‘from there moved to Indianapolis. So far as the

club knows, there's just.

one other in the state, at

Kokomo. i ”

” » RULES ARE FEW. Nonprofit, the group pays only nominal dues. There are no projects, just the over-all one of relaxation and merriment. At the last dance, any _ surplus funds on the books after the expenses have been paid, are “returned” to members. The “return” comes in

the form of table radios, card tables and chairs,

: toasters, mixers or roaster

Oveas, These are wor".

Broken down, a typical

by lucky couples in a special sort of selection method. This year the club is

_ setting a precedent. At

the Christmas formal dance (there’s just one dress-up event a year), club members only will be allowed. Otherwise two couples a year may be guests of members.

THE SCHEDULE of dances to come is the “Candy Cane Capers” party Saturday, and informal Feb. 9 and May 3 events, Karl Kiefer will play for the first dance, Charlie Bowers for the second and Mr. Kiefer for the last. Officers serve as a team with husband and wife sharing the duties of an office. They include Mr. and Mrs. Carey Spicer, president; Mr. and Mrs. William 8. Collings, vice president; ‘Mr. and Mrs. Robert Plessinger, secretary; Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Hughes, treasurer, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Foisey, program chairmen. These, together with the holdover officers, compose

the board of - directors,

which steers the club. The holdovers are Mr. and Me Hildon Lacey, Mr.

«= son and Mr. and Mrs. Jos-

THERE ARE ABOUT 25 different birds now. More will be added in the next few months when Miss Munson begins making place cards decorated with state birds and flowers.

Artist Munson is not content to “just copy nature.” “I like to make very large or very small flowers” Miss Munson says.

This creative nature is evidenced in the Munson trees. There are the traditional flowering dogwood, pussy willow and palm trees, even a tree resplendent in autumn foliage. But Miss Munson also makes a “bird tree” and a “tree of life.”

# 8 " ® = » THE BIRD TREE has no leaves. Seated in the limbs are tiny birds. Fruit of the tree of life is babies. Tiny plastic babies are fastened to the pink tree limbs with blue ribbon. In other unusual flower decorations, large roses become holders for candles. In another design, a rose forms a tiny plastic baby. = = 5 » . » MISS MUNSON ALSO designs place cards and holiday favors. Miniature snow men, Christmas wreaths imitation candy canes and tiny Santa Clauses are very much in evidence in her workshop now. Munson Miniatures have cheered hundreds of shutins and have added a bit of riotous color in many homes. But the flowers also bring happiness to the makers.

oF CHRISTMAS PLANNERS—Mesdames William Spicklemire, George A. Sporleder, James L. Simmons and Thomas A. Walsh (left to right) fashion candy canes for the 250 Club dunce Saturday. Karl Kiefer will play for the event.

and Mrs. Dwight E. Poss Thomas Walsh, chairmen, and Messrs, and Mesdames James Simmons, William Spicklemire, George Sporleder, Leonard Sullivan,

eph McMahon. Planning the Christmas dance are Mr. and Mrs.

Tudor Hall Holiday Program Is Tonight

UDOR Hall School Prelude Club will present its traditional pro-. gram, “A Southern Christmas,” at 7:30 p. m.

a table will sing. They also will dance the minuet. Readings will be given by Miss Betty Lou Bryant, Miss I. Hilda Stewart and Miss Nell - McMillin

today in the school resi- - Frazier. Director is Mrs. dence. Carol Nelson. Carolers seated around Taking part will be Miss

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in the 4300 block of Spann Ave. husbands work at night,” Miss Munson explained. work together in the evenings."

sible,” is the difference between handmade and homemade.”

Miss Rachel Boys, Urbana, Rossin, . Anderson.

Barbara Brown, Marjorie Becherer, Anne Mahaffey, Jane Holton and Martha

Stacy. -

TREE OF LIFE—Babies blossom

DESIGNER—Miss Myrtle Munson and flower arrangements.

“It could never happen again, but one woman paid off the mortgage on her house with the money she earned making flowers,” Miss Munson said. “That was several years ago and the mortgage was a small one,” Miss Munson added. A number of Miss Munson's part time employees live “They are wives whose “They

“We want our flowers to be as nearly perfect as posMiss Munson says. ' “Actually it is neatness that

That is the secret of the success of Munson Miniature

Flowers.

Yule Events Announced By Students

(CHRISTMAS will be celebrated in a special way

and their seniors:

The Children’s Museum Guild will celebrate with a party Friday in the Naval Armory. Epicureah baskets will be presented at the 1 p. m. luncheon. Reservations will be accepted until Wednesday. Mrs. Earl W. Mericle, chairman, will be assisted . by Mesdames Dudley Gallahue, Edward Gallahue and Robert Stafford. Santa Claus will’ distribute gifts ~ at the party. » » » OVER 150 LOCAL col-

lege freshmen have been invited to the Christmas

Cotillion scheduled from 9 p. m. to 1 a. m., Deé. 27, in the Columbia Club. Sponsored by the girl graduates of the class of 1951 of Shortridge and Broad Ripple High Schools and Tudor Hall School, the Taylor, Ronald Simpson * dance will feature music by and Charles McLaughlin. Nick Craig's orchestra. It will be in the Antlers Goel. Hotel. COMMITTEES assisting Miss Barbara Smith, chairman, will be Misses Jane Collett, Lynn Holliday, Donna Knox, Carolyn Myers and Susan Cadick, executive committee; Miss Billie Clingman, invitations, and Miss Knox and Miss Myers; Miss Cadick, refreshments, and Miss Jane Johnson and Miss Betty MeLeokl decorations.

Times photo by Dean Timmerman,

Carl Sunderberg, Jack

Marian Proctor, Pana, Ill.; Ill, and Miss Mary Ellen

Misses Janet Larsen,

by both the college crowd

Mountain of Presents Awaits Newlyweds

By KATY ATKINS STOPPING in Marcella Parry's one day last week, I found her shifting wedding presents to give herself a little room until Ann and Myron McKee come home from their honeymoon to move them to their apartment. No mothers ever looked prettier at their children's

Wedding than Mrs. McKee and Marcella. The former was

in slate blue taffeta with deep fuchsia velvet and a corsage. of tiny fuchsia spray orchid. The bride’s mother wore winter green taffeta with a halo hat from which a green veil fell to her waist. * Meridian Hills Country Club was a charming spot for the reception follow oh 3 ing the ceremony at St, Paul's Episcopal Katy Atkins Church. » . " ” » ” IT WAS NICE TO HAVE Shirley and Ed Stephenson in téwn that day and to meet young Addison Parry and his wife who were here from Dayton.

Among the guests were Mr: and Mrs. Edgar Evans, Mr, and Mrs. Raymond Mead, Dr. and Mrs. Cleon Nafe, the Alex Taggarts Jr., the Howard Fiebers and the Joe Cains. With them they had Julie who got a big thrill from the proceedings. Harriet and Joe have recently returned from abroad.

When Lucina and Sam Moxley entertained for Bomar

Cramer after his concert last Sunday, their guests were delighted with the centerpiece in the dining room.

” - Ld . ” . IT COMBINED Mr. Cramer’s two careers by featur. ing a silvered toy piano and a palette with red carnations in the holes to represent blobs of red paint. More red carnations and English holly completed the arrangement. It was a day for novel effects because at the Conrad Ruckelshaus’ party for the Traders Point Hunt, the center piece on the dining room table was an exquisite porcelain

, coach and four surrounded by red and pink carnations

and English holly.

THe hunt note was struck at the entrance where the stunning stone figures of hounds on each side of the front door wore burgundy and robin’s egg satin ribbon bows. Betty wore gray taffeta with a lavender cast and her mother, Mrs. Frank Binford, who poured tea in the library, was in teal blue,

» » ” " # H EVERYONE WAS thrilled over the lovely new house with its many pink and purple accents. Those guests who were enterprising enough to locate little Bettina in her nursery found her riding a hobby horse with all the energy and skill her parents show in the hunting field. A pre-Christmas spirit brought lots of women out in red. Mary Hulman chose a dark shade with a matching hat while Evy Cadick and Lucille Williams both wore a brighter tone. * Martha Lee Williams had on a pariicilarly smart bright red taffeta with an " eggshell rolled collar and a blonde hat. i ; oxo. TRE re B ‘THE BIG NEWS that day was the arrival of Martha and Tom Madden's fifth daughter. H. M. Woollen

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