The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-24

Louise Cooper and Elise Martin
are coming home from Wellesley for
ten days; Eunice Dissette from
Smith; Cornelia Bowling and Elisa
beth Moore from Walnut Hill; and
Helen Harrison is bringing guest
with her, Miss Connie Botsford of
Hibbing. Minnesota. Life will be one
whirl from luncheon to tea to dance
at the Woodstock, with time out in
between for clothes. Elise and Louise
are taking them to the Indianapolis
Athletic Club Saturday evening to
the dance and supper. and Carolyn
Kiser is having luncheon bridge
for them Tuesday. 1 suppose they'll
all be at the Corpse Club dance the
twenty ninth.
rs I'D you know, Ilene, Indian
uJ apolis people have awfully
- interesting ways of satisfying
their acquisitive instincts? Is there
anything healthier than, a hobby?
Spent an Illuminating evening last
week looking at a collection of book
plates, which belong to Elisabeth
Haerle. Her grandmother, Mrs.
Hollweg, bought up an entire coliec-
ton for her which belonged to an
impoverished German noble and
which contains the book-plates of
Maxim Gorky, Won Hindenburg and
William Hohenzollern. The Kaiser's
is made up of Germany's coat of
arms. Besides foreign celebrities,
she has acquired the plates of Witter
Bynner and A. Edward Newton.
Among the local celebrities are those
of Hildegarde Flanner. Percy Beach,
Charles Major, Marcia Furnas, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Rush. One of
the most exquisite in design and tex.
ture is that of Blasco Ibarez. 1t is
the nude figure of woman pouring
wine, delicately outlined on the
sheerest Of japanese rice paper.
And cid you know that Mrs Louis
Levey has passion for old glass?
She gave a talk on her pet subject
before the Woman's Club not long
ago, "Trencher Treen and Pewter
Bright" My dear, her summer
home in Connecticut is a collectors
dream of early Americans. The
American wing at the Metropolitan
may have a few more details, but l
doubt it.
The house itself is over $50 years
old and forms a perfect setting for
her collection of quaint old furni-
ture, Currier and Ives prints, quilts.
Bennington and lustre ware, and
choicest of all, her wonderful old
glass.
In one of the low-ceilinged living
rooms, the windows are lined with
glass shelves and on these shelves
are grouped the various pieces of
glass according to color.
There are bright canary yellow
dolphin candlesticks, Sandwich crys-
tai cup plates, salt cellars and scent
bottles of delicate amethyst stiegel
flip glasses and tumblers with flow
ers enamelled in bright colors OH
white glass. Nothing in the world
is lovelier than the Connecticut sun
light filtered through these exquisite
bits of early glass of the time when,
as Wallace Nutting says, they had
better manners, spoke better Eng
lish, and made better furniture than
they do now. Everything in her
house is very old from the Betty"
lamp in the living room to the comb
back Windsor rockers in the bed
rooms.
OTIS of indianapolis people
III have visited her there; she
has her guests embroider
their names on patchwork quilt
instead of writing them in guest
book. Mrs. John T. Brush and her
daughter, Mrs. Bennett Gates, Mrs.
John Kern, Mr.. and Mrs, Carl Walk
and Miss Julia Brink, Judge and
Mrs. A. B. Anderson, Miss Lillian
Reeves, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Good
all-these are some of the names.
You've no idea, Ilene, of the peace
and serenity that emanate from old
things. Unconsciously life becomes
simpler and more leisurely and you
have time to enjoy the genial ameni-
ties Of by-gone age.
Barbara FoltzN isn't coming home