The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-06
The
WOMAN'S
DAY
BY Anene Sumner

II VIII vastly IellcNe the mass OL
American womanhood to learn from
the ruby lips of one Of our fair mo-
ton picture actresses that the club
by finger can be slenderized by wear
ing long-cut diamonds and sapphires
and emeralds, and that the skinny
finger can be shortened by wearing
square-cut diamonds, rubies and so
on. Tired women bent from their
days labor on the farm, can now
rejoice, knowing that with a square
or a long-cut jewel upon their finger
they can regain their husbands love,
and all will be well
Once upon a time there was a
small boy who learned the wonder
of having a garden all his very own
He dug up a little spot of earth in
his rabbit yard. lie had no seeds,
so he dug up some tiny seeding trees
coming up under the picket fence
from the next-door orchard. and
planted them In his little patch.
Then. just as the garden was
growing fine, they moved into an
other house, and the little boy pinned
so for his garden that his father
had all the little trees very carefully
transplanted. II you have aspira-
tons to be a parent who under
stands. read DR. John Bowman's
THE World That Was"
Marriages Of ordinary mortals
don't often hit the news pages, I'M
less there is something eXtraordi-
nary about the ceremony. May and
December" marriages are always
food for newspaper space, especially
when May" is a sweet young thing
Of 16 and December" is a sugar
daddy Of some 20 to 80 winters. Even
more Specializing when December"
Is the lady OF many winters and
May is the callow gosling.
Mrs. Margaret Griggs. 43. down
Ohio way, married Chester Prim-
mer. IS, few days ago. Eloped. too.
no local judge being willing to tie
the knot. He was a farm hand on
her farm. There's much to do about
the why's of It. Simple enough.
Woman's maternal instinct. She
probably darned his socks and want
co full-time job of babying him.
Maybe. too. that's one way OF keep
ing a hired man on the farm.
Which one OF the more than 500
women Dickens wrote about would be
your choice as interesting enough to
merit character sketches? You
might try that question out on your
club program some evening Any
way there's a new book. Some
DickensWomen," worth a club read
ing. The author picks Mrs. Nickle-
by, Madame Defarge, Dora, Betsy
Trotwood. The Deserted Bride, The
Warehouses. Sairey Camp. Mrs.
Sparsit, Miss Wardle, Lizzie Hexam
and Mrs. Lrriper among a few
others.
George Bernard Shaw in the role
of beauty adviser, an authority on
how to keep the skin you love to
touch. Is something new. 1t APP
pears. however, that a recent high
brow luncheon. none the less than
the great Shaw confided that he had
not really washed his face in fifty
years. Neither does he cream 1t
with cleansing unguents nightly. II
just wet It once in a while" They
do say, girls, that 1t is pink and
clear and smooth as a prize infants.
At one time the very name OF EN-
incline Pankhurst caused strong men
to shudder and look about them in
the murky shadows. The first. the
fiercest Of the "Votes-for-W Women
ers." Emmeline slung a wicked
bomb and poured acid at her target
straight. That was i'm the years ago.
Today. a writer tells us who has
dragged forth Mrs. Pankhurst from
her shadow Of oblivion, she is frank
ly old-fashioned, conspicuous in long
skirts and no powder or rouge, EN-
incline Pankhurst is positively ter
rified at this advanced woman for