Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1952 — Page 4

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A Little Knowledge Would Take Out Dent

In Lady Drivers Ego

v ELIZABETH TOOMEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, June 9—This could easily be the most uncomfortable month of the year for women, if the word

gets around.

It’s national “Get the Dents Out of Your Fenders”

month, and as might be suspected, the committee finally got around to the ladies’ part in all this. They didn't pick the month to pick on women drivers, but to help conserve cars and steel Jeplacements and to promote safe driving, according to a spokesman for the automotive industry. But somebody on the committee did turn up a local psychblogist who advised that women learn to feel more at home in repair shops. Or better yet, that women do a little more poking around under the hood of the car. The psychologist, Dr. Ernest Dichter, means it as no reflection on women drivers. » ” ~ “THEY ARE,” he said, “every bit as good as the men. In fact, women may react more calmly than men under hazardous conditions. “But there is no reason why women shouldn't be interested in the repair of a car. It used to take a lot of strength to do most. repair jobs. But not any more. We just haven't modernized our thinking while we've modernized our tools.” Dr. Dichter thinks a housewife could get the same satisfaction out of tinkering with the carburetor as her husband. “Nobody takes the time to explain it to her properly, that's all.” he said. “Maybe some big automobile company could -put out a car manual for women, Not condescending, but just one that explains a motor in terms a woman would understand.” . ~

AS FOR DENTS in the: fen: .

ders, a toughy subject around any house, the doctor thinks women should . quit being’ on the defensive about their driving. - “Right now women are sort of caught in the middle,” he said. “They may half believe the stories on women drivers themselves. When something goes wrong, they may wonder if the stories are true, The rest of the time they deny all criticisms of their driving.” The solution, Dr. Dichter thinks, is for women to “laugh off the comments. Demongtrate to the men they don't believe they're serious about criticizing them. Just point out every time they're asked to pick up the children or drive the man to the station.” Seems there are just as many dented egos among women drivers as there: are fenders on family cars, only so far there's no week dedicated to removing them.

Sorority to

Hear Author

Miss Emily Kimbrough, author of “Innocents from Indiana” and others, will be chief guest speaker at the annual summer convention of Psi Iota Xi Sorority Friday and Saturday in Elkhart. Mrs. Emmons Hougland, Franklin, grand president, will be in charge of all business sessions. Miss Kimbrough, formerly of Muncie and now living in Haverford, Pa. has written many novels and co-authored “Our Hearts Were Young and Gay” with Cornelia Otis Skinner. Guests at the convention from Indianapolis will include Mesdames Ted Grisell, A, M. Llewellyn; Robert Bryant, John Cockley, Roy Mitch, Glenn Marshall, Robert Christian and Pershing Meyers, Miss Marie Barton and Miss Lois Sitler, Those attending from Speedway city are Mesdames Ralph Johnson, Paul Sawyers, Kenneth Thorne and Harold Marvel, The theme of the convention Is “.., harmony in all things.”

Group Sets Bridge Party

* The Federation Junior Woman’s Club will meet for luncheon and a bridge party tomorrow in Hillcrest Country Club. New officers will be installed.

They are Mrs, Carl E. Scheidker Jr, president: Mrs. David Hocker, vice president:

Mrs. Phillip Kappes and Mrs, John Mackey, recording and corresponding secretaries; Mrs. Victor Kingdon, treasurer. Mrs. John Carson, historian; Mrs. Guy Foreman Jr., auditor: Mrs. John G. Harris, parliamentarian, and Mrs. Gordon Foxworthy, district delegate,

Pot Luck Picnic Listed

The WE Garden Club will have a potluck picnic at 9:30 &, m. Friday in Hillsdale Nursery. New officers to be installed are Mrs. John F. Cunat, president; Mrs. N. M. Johnson, vice president; Mrs. Edward Blankenstein; secretary, and Mrs. George Wilson, treasurer. Mrs. Louis Clairy is bird chairman. The nominating committee were Mrs. Frank LeCren and Mrs. Willis Reed. .

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Jr. League Plans Picnic

At Carmel

A PICNIC at Rhoads End Farm, the Carmel home of Mr. and Mrs. Rob-

ert B. Rhoads Jr., will be held June 17 by the Junior league of Indianapolis for, the 18 new provisional members. The history of the Association of Junior Leagues of Amerjea will be given by Mrs. Tarkington Danner, president, and the work of the committees will be described by the board members. Special emphasis will be placed on the report of the falf orientation course for the new

provisionals. They are Mesdames William Allerdice, GG, James Burke, Richard K. Fowler, Peter H. Hackleman, Harry Mallinson, Owen J. Neighbours, Stewart E. Ruch, Russell J. Ryan Jr, John

Thompson, King R. Traub, Edward Wingenroth, Otis L.. Hubbard Jr. and Edward J, Wolf. Misses Anne H. Collett, Mary Jean Milner, Katharine F. Pantzer, Jeanne Robinson and Elizabeth I. Wade. Mrs. Harry Stephenson, provisional chairman, is being assisted by Mesdames Neil rarber, Earl Larsen, Robert ir Reid, Albert Metzger,” Thomas Selleys. Howard Young ' Jr,

Harry Hendrickson, John Kellum, Sumner Sadler and Wil

liam MecMurtrie.

Set Card Party

Silver Star Review 15 will spansor a pillow slip card party in the Food Craft Shop at 1:30 p. m. Friday,

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"Now I lay me down to sleep ...” She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delmer

Young Love Is a Tender Thing to Handle

By MURIEL LAWRENCE HEN a neighborhood . theater revived Walt Disney's “Snow White and

the Seven Dwarfs,” Julie's mother decided to make it her child's first movie. In preparation for this exciting experience, she told Julie the story! ahead of time, When the afternoon arrived, Julie skipped and chattered happily all the way to the theater. But when the movie began, this everyday kind of happiness disappeared. She grew very still and silent. Though her new red pocketbook fell from her lap, she did notenotice it as she watched the enthraling shape, color, voice and

Mrs, Lawrence

Group to Sponsor Day At Retreat House

88, Peter and Paul Cathedral Unit, National Council of Catholic Women, will sponsor a day of recollection at Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 111 E. Raymond St, from 8:30 a.m, to 4 p. m, next Monday.

The Rev. Times D. Moriarty,

director of the Retreat House, ~

‘will give the talks, Miss Jane Lamb is chairman, tions must be made by June 17.

Reserva-

movement of the creatures of her own imagination,

On their .way out, Julie's mother asked enthusiastically, “How did you enjoy it, darling?” “It was nice,” Julie said.

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A BLOCK fronmr home, she and her mother met a neighbor. This time, when Julie was asked to report on her emotion for the neighbor, she said, “Please let's go home now.”

As the mother was opening the front door, Julie spoke again. She lifted her still-en-chanted eyes to her mother, and struggling painfully for words

to express herself, whispered, ‘Please don't tell any more people about Dopey. Please don’t teil even daddy or grandma or anyone about Dopey until 1 say so.”

Staring at the desperately

serious race so close to her own, Julie's mother thought bewildered, “Why the child's in

love! She's fallen in love with Dopey

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So Julie had. And right there on the stoop, Julie's moth-

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love untibd the person who felt it had grown more used to it. Little boys and girls often fall in Jove like this with things or people in which they sense beauty, gentleness or comfort that are hidden from us. When this happens, they protect their private feeling against ridicule or curiosity by not talking about it. Unless we are alert to recognize their sudden quietness as a sign of their enchantment, we can go blundering as I once did. = ~ ” IT HAPPENED a long time ago. 1 had taken a young person who is dear to me shopping for a new spring hat, It was late and I wanted to get the .shopping done. When I found a plain green straw that matched her new green coat, I was relieved. Apparently, I found no loveliness in some lilacs on a dreadful little number with navy blue ribbon streamers down the back.

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TEA PARTY —Mrs. Lloyd Kirk, new president of the Methodist City Council Auxiliary (left), pours tea for (second from left to right) Mrs. E. T. Freeland, historian; Mrs. Blanchard Edwards, treasurer, and Mrs. Kyle Mayhall, second vice president. Other officers are Mesdames H. F. Ayres, Clell Bet. ner and Furman Washburn, vice presidents; Mrs. L. H. Kendall and Mrs. R. T. Giddons, recording ond assistant ‘secretaries; Miss Anna Mock, corresponding secretary and Mrs. C. G. Shriver,

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YOU MEET another woman whose manner to you seems aloof and disinterested, WRONG: Try to treat her even more cooly than she feems to be treating you. RIGHT: Don't lose your own charm in trying to match another woman's ap-

— = parent lack of it. RememMd Harold Hartley writes Ingi- ber, her own seeming

Weekly Dances Set In Riviera Club

First of the summer series of weekly dances in the Riviera Club will begin at 9 p. m. Friday. There will be a dip in the pool at 10:30 p. m. and refreshments at 11:30 p, m. Charles Corbin, program chairman and vice president of the ' Boosters, has announced that for the first dance entertainment will be furnished by the Marimba-Tones including

Just one of those things? It didn't turn out to be. Two weeks ago, when I came home one day, I found the same young person, now . nearly grownup, busily working on a white straw hat. In the hands that had once stroked those flowers so lovingly on the hat I didn’t buy were bunches of lilacs and yards of navy blue ribbon. » : » » “THIS?” SHE SAID. “Oh, I'm just making a hat Eve always wanted. I know I'm too big for streamers down my back, but I'm going Yo have them. See, isn’t it lovely the way that lilac looks on the navy blue? It looks exactly the way I hoped it would look—exactly the way I remember , . .” I sank down on the chair as we do on such occasions. “But why didn't you speak?” I demanded. “Why didn’t you SAY you wanted that hat?” “I couldn't,” said my nearly grownup young person. “It wasn't, something I felt like talking about.”

Women Plan

Fair Exhibit

An historical exhibit emphasizing changes that have taken place in Indiana during the

last hundred years will be the |

feature attraction in the Women’s Building at the Indiana State Fair,

The exhibit, in keeping with the Fair's centennial. celebration, will be directed by Mrs. Karolyn - Holloway = who has charge of the Women's -Building. Assisting will be Miss Dorothy Benson, interior decorator: ’ Four rooms will show scenes as they were in a middle-class

‘ Indiana home in 1852. There

will also be a log cabin, the one-room type common in many sections of Indiana a century ago. All furnishings will be authentic items that were in use many years ago. Co-operating in making up the exhibit are the

The Younger Set—

Grown-Up Look C

By BETTY LOCHER TL ASHION has never been closer to the toddling set

and never more fun for

mother to buy than this season. The “grown-up look” has definitely come to the nursery. Two-piece and three-piece toddler ensembles consist of tiny dresses with matching dusters, diminutive Spencer jackets, boleros, bonnets and even panties. . - » . GROWN-UP fabrics in new surface treatments with stiff, standout finishes and unusual textures are much in_ evidence. Typical of these new fashions is the charming summer ensemble photograph here. The full skirted dress and matching duster are made of

white clokay, a blistered cotton -

fabric that requires no ironing. Gay plaid cotton, either predominately blue or red, makes the weskit bodice and trims the duster, The skirt is faced with a three-inch plaid hem, which, when it is time to lengthen, makes a plaid band around the bottom. Little plaid apples are embroidered around the skirt, The ensemble is available in sizes 1 to 3 for $4.98 in Block's Downstairs Store Toddler's Department. : . ” # DRESSES THAT NEED no ironing are, of course, a boon to mother and you will find them in every shop. Of special charm is a pin-checked nylonorlon dress that comes in blue, green or red in Ayres’ Toddler Department, Fourth Floor. Also there you will find a pink organdy pinafore with a tiny stuffed doll in a pinafore to match, that just fits in the pocket of the dress. Accessories are a “must” these days from the cradle up. In Ayres’ baby accessory bar, Fourth Floor, there are wee white nylon gloves, jewelry, gay little parasols and an array of tiny pocketbooks.

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BATHING SUITS have =a babyworld charm of their own.

-At. Ayres’ you will find one of

coral lastex with the “bra” top sprinkled with lace daisies. Another one has a skirt of flower petals. At Wasson's there's one of ‘yellow terry cloth that looks like a baby duck with tiny padded wings on the hack. The top is a duck face with padded bill and buttons for eyes. It is $3.98 by Catalina. Also in Wasson's, Fourth Floor, is a sanforized chintz sundress, available in pink or blue and trimmed with white rick rack. Full panties to

MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1952

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FASHION BEGINS EARLY—Toddler's fashions follow adult trends, Nannette’s sundress of white clokay and red or blue plaid has three-inch plaid hem facing to give petticoat effect and its own matching “duster.” The ensemble is $4.98, sizes 1 to 3, in Block's : Downstairs Store.

match make the skirt. stand -

out... Iris $598. Youll find a whole “family” of dresses to~ match, here. There are smart

* seersuckers with ~st¥dw belts,

a smart navy pique trimmed

with “white,” and. gay prints

scaled to size. These dresses come in 3*to”8, T to 14 and 12 to 186, all moderately priced.

IU Breakfast Is Arranged

r Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, June 9— The annual Indiana University breakfast for alumnae and senfor women will be held at 8:30 a. m. Sunday in Alumni Hall of the Union Building. A coffee hour will precede the breakfast. The program will include the awarding of fellowships to outstanding seniors and recogni-

tion of two persons who have been of outstanding service to the University. Mrs. Arthur B. Clark is chairman of the breakfast. Assisting her will be Mesdames Bert Laws Paul Brown, Theodore Ellis and Helen Weatherwax. Mrs. Frank Howard Jr, Crawfordsville, be toastmistress. . : v

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State Department of Conserva- |

tion and the Commission, Ind,

Set Guild Meetings The following units of the White Cross Guild. of the Methodist Hospital will meet this week in the Service Center: Tomorrow -— Grace Methodist, Calvary Baptist and Bellaire; Wednesday Broadway Methodist, Quaker and Perry Township; Thursday—Temple Sisterhood, Municipal Garden and Ben Davis; Friday--Tabernacle Garden, Marytha, Wesleyan

and Beta Sigma Phi.

Garden Club to Meet

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LAY IN YOUR WINTER SUPPLY OF POCAHONTAS COAL at Lower Summer Prices! Ml Sighs arc. now abundanily available.

HOUSEHOLD FURNACE, NUT and STOKER sizes are recommended for utmost economy,

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