The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-18
The
WOMAN'S
DAY
By Alene Sumner

That old, old question-is friend
ship without love possible between
men and women? Thyra Samter
Wins1ow gives her answer in a cur
rent magazine. She says. "a fifty
fifty deal between the sexes is i'm
possible. Either platonic friendship
ripens into something deeper, or it
drifts into an mountaineering that
becomes pretty much of bore"
And it is the man, says Mrs. Win
slow, who spoils the friendship game
ANery time. Either he insists on
hing to turn friendship into a more
N4horous relationship, or his love af-
fairs with other women make him
neglect his friendships almost en-
tirely."
A smart girl, this Mrs. Winslow!
BY the way, have you read her book,
"Show Business?"
The Queen-yes, we just can't
stop talking about her-wore a
georgette crepe evening gown to the
White House state dinner in her
honor. And her royal Russian moth
er's diamond tiara blazed in her
bobbed chestnut hair, and her moth
er's pearl drop earrings dangled from
the regal ears.
wandered through an evening
gown department the other day and
found a dozen girls buying their
winter dance frocks. Every one Of
these ripply gowns were made Of
geargette, priced from $3.50 to sos.
The average gown bought by the
p. w. G. was S49.50 Downstairs at
the jewelry counter were sets of
pearl drop or rhinestone earrings
with bracelets, chokers, and dinner
rings to match for $5.95, which the
p. w. g. bought too.
What a glorious age we live in!
Our working girls can dress like
queens, thanks to the $25 a week
which at least most of them make,
and thanks to the designers who see
to 1t that the dress standard Of the
age for working girls is silk and not
Bingham.
Meanwhile some social lights wall
that there's no way to tell mere
working girl from society nowadays"
No, thank goodness, there isn't.
&SArc power to the age and day!
Mothers of Tapping sons and
daughters won't like this confess
sion Of Martha Ostenso, young au-
thor of "Wild Geese" and 1.-THE Dark
Dawn" Miss Martha, erstwhile
school teacher who broke into fame
when her "Wild Goose" won a first
novel contest, has bought an old
wherein she gives colorful revels to
her friends. She confesses that most
of her writing is done in the gray
dawn after one of these parties when
she is too weary to go to bed.
Well, there's no one rule for all
people. We ourselves dinly suspect
that really good party composed
Of the right people might move the
Muse!
This may sound rather strong to
women of the old school--the school
that said that the only lot for a
real woman was marriage, the job
of home-making 1t is in Anne Shan
non Monroe's Singing in the Rain"
a chapter called 1.-THE Woman Who
Should Marry"
1--WE know-we women-that in
all time there have been those in
homes who did not belong there:
women who could have honored .
Judges bench, thrilled an audience
cleaned up cities and towns and
Strengthened out governments, writ
.4Np books. painted pictures, or mod
ID in clay, but who never while
Tfe sun shone down could make a
home.
"And homes have been bells, and
women's hearts torture chambers,
and children's lives embittered, and
needed work in the world left un-
done, all because Of mistaken idee
that all women should be showed
drummed. crowded. pushed. coerced
into homes"