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WDC Art Department Relishes ‘Artist of the Day’ Novelty

By AGNES H. OSTROM

Times Woman's Editor

YOULL find no happier unit within the woman’s Department Club than

the art department. The reason? Each member— sooner or later—is “having her

say.” Secret of this success is a feature, “Artist of the Day.” It’s an innovation resourceful Mrs. Earl O. Jeffries, Carmel, began when she took over department leadership two years ago. Just who will make her appearance is a secret until time of the Monday once-a-month meetings in the clubhouse. Each member is licensed to present her talk with any fad or fashion she chooses. Some bring their first and newest canvas—a happy contrast; some show slides; some

theorize. End result is information which aids and encourages

latent talent of their colleagues whether amateur or professional wielders of the brush. Artistic stimulation and knowl: edge is the department aim. Many members have turned into bona fide artists. s

o ¥ BROWN - HAIRED Harriet Hawkins Jeffries, current guiding genius of this creative group—some 125 strong —classifies herself as a “borderline” professional. “I don’t paint for a living but I do exhibit and paint ‘on order.” , Her first showing was at the Hoosier Art Salon in 1944, This winter she had jwo salon entries. As an Indiana Artists Club member she exhibits each October in its show. Organizer of the still-new Hamilton County Art Association, made up of women 18 years and up, she’s busy now planning for a May 16 Spring Festival in Noblesville. Feature will be a sidewalk show.

” » ” HEREDITY and environment both contributed to her art interest. A grandmother and three aunts painted. She lived for a time in Carmel next door to Franklin Booth, who ‘died recently, one of the country’s best known pen and ink artists. However, she was a grandmother béfore she became an artist.

Soon her garage-studio on the Jeffries’ home will be trans-

planted into the new Bedford ‘stone ranch home she and her husband have under construc-

tion. In addition there will be a elassroom where she'll coach students she teaches now in Indianapolis and Noblesville... Of] landscapes are her favor-

ites. As for style—she feels she’s still developing it. Speaking as a landscape painter she declares, “To an artist a house is a sphere, a tree is a cylinder or cone and a road offers a means of entry into a picture. They are shapes and forms to be painted with all of the artist's skill as a craftsman and his gift of expression. “If he’s successful his rendering is accepted as a work of art. If unsuccessful it will be just another ca to store away with the countless others.” She also feels that “to be imitative is the easy way. To be creative is the hard way.”

- # . THE ARTIST admits painters often compromise to please juries. “Once I get my foot firmly con the bottom rung of the success ladder, I expect to paint for myself alone. A true

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artist is a builder with a plan and a method,” states this determined. painter, Qualifications for a landscape artist? She lists them this way: Open-mindedness, imagination, courage, inventiveness, plenty of downright spunk and daring because the public, for the most part, still expects a landscape to be an exact copy of the portion of nature depicted.”

Department interest has been stimulated by active Mrs. Jeffries. Membership has gained. Currently the annual department exhibit of members’ painting is showing in the clubhouse Mary Q. Burnet Room. A former department chairman, Mrs. Lawrence 8. Carter is holding a “one-man” show through Apr. 30 in the Hoosier Art Salon Galleries. And she’s serving tea for friends there from 2 to 4 p. m. tomorrow.

SPRING COLOR—A bed of creamy hyacinths,

Country Estate Is Feature of May 3-4 Park Garden- Tour

By MARGUERITE SMITH and JEAN .SPICKLEMIRE BEAUTY with emphasis on easy maintenance is the key to the house and garden Park School Garden Tour visitors will see at the E. A. Block estate on Wilson Road in Traders Point. The tour will be May 3 and 4.

That means many evergreens, both broad leaved azaleas and rhododendrons and conifers for year ‘round good looks. “For nothing looks more forlorn in winter than bare flower beds,” believes Mrs. Block. ” » ” AN EVERGREEN CONIFER hedge that gives the house privacy from the driveway, for example; is -faced on the house side with the broad-leaved flower-bearers. And all the care they need, even on Indiana limestone soil, says Mrs. Block, is a trowelful of aluminum sulfate around each plant spring and fall, plus a deep mulch of rotted manure and leaves. That's needed to keep their shallow roots cool. It also means no weeding necessary. Flower beds are comparatively few. But spring bulbs naturalized under a ground cover of myrtle in the woods near house and cabin provide plenty of spring color. A notable bulb bed is a mass of creamy yellow hyacinths near the front gateway. ’ i ' » ” . AMERICAN HOLLY TREES at the front of the house are completely hardy but gave their admirers a bad time a few years back. “Then I found,” comments Mrs. Block, “that cottonseed meal took care of their yellowing .leaves.” Now they get regular doses. Fruit trees line the sweeping driveway from house to cabin. An irregular formation in the hills, the - “Indian mound” is covered with more myrtle, and dotted with spring bulbs. “We tried for irregularity of pattern,” says Mrs. Block, “within reason, of course, to fit the informality of country

living.” - o ” THE DECORATIVE VALUE of evergreens with little work goes right into the porches, too. There wall and corner brackets hold massed 10ited {vies and philodendrons. “Ivy is really easy to raise’ recording to Mrs. Block, “if you repot. when (it seems crowded and use peat moss to teep the soil loose. Then I try to keep the plants switched around so each gets its share f Hight.” . The 30 or more acres of lawn et a soll analysis each year nefore fertilizer goes on. Golf ourse equipment takes care of ‘he mowing job. Altogether the backyard ;ardener who visits the Block estate will ind many ideas for !mpler maintenance of his own yard and garden without any acrifice of beauty. » n n

PINE-PANELED and beautiful, the Block's country house was built to complement the delightful grounds in which it is

set. Two of its rooms will be open to tour participants. Mrs. Block who likes any color so long as it's green, used the shade profusely. “I wanted the house to look bright in bad weather, too,” she said, “so I used lots of white also.” Mint green wall-to-wall carpeting underlines the paneled living room and pine and white plaster ceiling. The combination brings spring and summer into the home all year ‘round. » » n 5 A SILK PRINT, “Spring Snow,” covers a dining group of chairs, is repeated again in window cornices. The soft green and white of the design 8 a perfect foil for the stark white pique draperies, white wooden front door and dramatic white and striped Dorothy Liebea print in mohair used on other upholstered pieces. Built-in cupboards match the paneling, hold heirloom silver. The pine is burnished to a ruddy + glow, achieved through an annual soap and water bath and polish. Wide bookshelves do .a balancing. act .at the opposite -end of the room. " Modern cordovan card tables rise to dining height, match the armless chairs. All tables in the house have stain-re-sistant tops. “Life is too short to worry about furniture upkeep,” Mrs. Biock assertg practically. » ~ ” THE MODERN ITALIAN trio of tables inserts a lush touch in a house planned for comfort above everything else. The den, which runs behind the living room, is bounded by white clapboard and a window wall. Wrought iron chairs and tables and bamboo pieces mix easily, provide loads of seating space for big parties. When necessary, the tables are pushed together to accommodate dinner events. The dramatic drapery fabric also covers ' the seating pieces. Repetition is a home decoration theory Mrs, Block prac tices. In the den is the television set, fieldstone fireplace and bamboo bar, the latter yet to be added. The white cotton carpeting again adds the light touch, comes up completely in warm weather. Draperies are lined with wool so the rqom can be used in the winter, too. ” ~ ” HORIZONTAL VARNISHED ceiling planks; long, low room;

glass-topped tables, all give feeling of vastness. Valance lighting is used for dreary days, not at night. “Direct lamps are more flattering to complexions,” Mrs. Block believes.

Also open to the P¥rk School tourers will be the cabin, guest house on the estate. Its rustic look is accentuated with brown and white heavy draperies, a fireplace that's used on damp days even in 'summer and wall-to-wall textured modern carpeting. Wagon wheels studded with white candles serve as chandeliers here,

Card Party Is Announced

Delta Chapter, Psi Tota Xi Sorority, will sponsor a public benefit card party at 1:30 p. m. May 8 in Block's Auditorium. Proceeds will be used for charity projects of the sorority, including .the purchase of thermos pitchers for General Hospital, Mrs, James Carr is general chairman of the benefit. Other committee members are Mesdames Houston Whijpen,

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Charles Cox, Robert Berry, Harold Chloupek and Leo Goodman. : Mesdames Robert Holdcroft, Robert Wente, Robert King, A. M. Llewellyn, Marshall Armstrong, J. W. Johnson, Frank Russell, Robert McDermond, Don Rosenberry, Janies Chenoweth, Robert Bryant, B. R. Purcell and Ted Grisell, Misses Elizabeth Durment, Jean Forrester and Lois Sitler,

APs, SWEEPING DRIVEWAY —It winds to the cabin and house.

Times photos by Dean ermas,

BEAMED ELEGANCE—Mrs. E. A. Block surveys living room corner, luxuriously

Colorful ‘Ballerinas’ Whirl At Auxiliary’s ‘Butterfly Ball’

By KATY ATKINS: ALLERINA length skirts were predominant at the beautifully decorated “Butterfly Ball” given last night in Wood-

stock by the Indianapolis Day Nursery Junior Auxiliary.

Mrs. William C. Power Jr., whose committee was responsible for the butterflies, wore taffeta and lace in navy blue, and ; red shoes. Mrs. John E. Thurston, general chairman, chose a frock of white organdie, embroidered all around in black circles with a black lace stole. ‘Marjorie Murray's cotton metallic dress of green and gold was accented with a gold belt, Proceeds from this party will augment Community Chest funds, @* & 9

THE, AUXILIARY TO THE CHILDREN'S BUREAU of .the Indianapolis Orphans Asylum raises: money for a graduate scholarship in the Indiana University School of Social Work. The recipient will join the agency's staff on graduation, ®

On Thursday the auxiliary sponsored a fashion show and tea in Block's Auditorium. As a change from the usual pattern, tea was served from two tables right in the auditorium instead of in the tearoom. Yellow roses were used on the tables and the color was repeated in the icing of the petits fours served with coffee and chicken salad. Virginia Williams, Jane Duck, Eleanore Moore and Mrs. Silas Reagan, all members of the board of managers of the agency, poured.

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WHEN ZEE AND NORMA METZGER sail or Europe on the Queen Mary this Wednesday, ey will Teel they have had a side trip to Mexico. Last Tuesday Ruth and Henry Severin and

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Helen Sheerin gave them a small going away

party at the Severins. Inspired by Helen's recent trip to Mexico, it had a Mexican theme with appropriate decorations, food and costumes,

Mrs. George Kuhn Sr. has the pleasant habit of bringing back a native costume from each country she visits, so Zee borrowed a Mexican one from Mildred Kuhn. ' The long skirt is of dark blue cotton trimmed with Wide bands of wihte lace. A 10-inch band of lace formed the top of the white blouse she wore with it, ) Helen's skirt was of hand-woven native mats:

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rial In teal blue with wide stripes of the blue and lavender forming a deep border at the bottom. A few guests allergic to costumes solved the problem by going in their own clothes as tourists. : 4 : Sip Ed ’ A CHARMING CUSTOM from Mexican care nival time was repeated for the party. Dyed egg shells are filled with confetti and sealed with a strip of paper, These are called “cascarones.” The boys tap them on the girls’ heads to break them which showers the girls with confetti, While other people were dying Easter eggs, the hostesses for the party were coping with reproducing this complicated gadget. Needless to say they made a great hit,

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THE PARTY JUDGE AND MRS MICHAEL FANSLER and Mr. and Mrs. Elder Blackledge gave last Bunday for Patricia Wilcox of Grand Rapids and her flance, Mike Fansler, Judge Fansler's nephew, was gay and fun. Black ties on a Sunday night gave it an extra festive air as did the plano and accordion music,

It was a buffet dinner, * The table had a beautiful bouquet, while sfock and white tulips, on it, Patricia, who {is tall and willowy with chests nut hair, wore a black organza frock. Lutle Appel and Florence Jameson both woré become ing shades of red. After dinnér Elder Blackledge was prevailed on to do some of his wonderful “magic.” The guests were most appreciative, > © < 0 :

HELEN BUELL WAS a “portrait in black” all by herself in the lovely black gown she wore in the Civic play of that name last week, Harold Buell was in the audience the night I was there,

looking as though it were all fresh to him.

Among others glimpsed in the lobby were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weiss, Mr. and Mrs. J, T. McDermott, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Morse and the George Fotheringhams. Re It was a pleasant change to be seated at" tables in the Marott Hotel ballroom and be

served coffee at the half-way point of the Indis'

anapolis Junior League annual meeting, Re« turning to an old custom, the retiring president, Punch Harris, gave a summary of the year's activities ‘and accomplishments in a closing ‘speech. ? ! 1 : : The new president, Jeanette Danner, made gracious acknowledgement of her election, looked very pretty in navy with crisp lar and cuffs. Her small navy hat had a

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