The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-14
GIRL ABOUT
TOWN
BY MARILYN'

By MARILYN
wasn't a bit successful in talk
ing Bah Finley into going. out to
Phantom Valley ranch in4Colorado
with me in August. She just looked
'sortuv" vague and unhappy and
said: We'll, you never can tell what
I'm apt to do in Augustus one of
my more irresponsible months" and
I don't think 1 ought to buy a
white tweed riding habit and red
leather boots on the strength of that
remark, do you? But I positively
won't go alone and take the entire
responsibility for myself, especially
when my horseback riding and my
plumbing abilities are about on a
par. Once when I was taking rid<
ing lessons at the Playground, Elisa
beth Haerle said that the reverberat-
ing thuds every time / hit the horse
we're heard plainly out at the Wood
stock! I've never felt quite the
same toward that girl. But I know
perfectly we'll if I go out West alone
it won't be long before they will be
wiring mother "Marilyn in appall-
ing condition Stop Shall we assem-
BILE the parts or send them on home
severally Stop.
Mrs. William Wishard and Miss
Genevieve Scoville gave a tea in
honor of Mrs. Scoville Wishard,
who. with Mr.. Wishard. has re-
Gently returned from oxford. Eng
land and 1t was almost the first
tea of the season where the girls
we're all in dainty summary frocks
and where it was warm enough to
have the whole house flung open
to sun and the garden. Everybody
looked gay and wispish in the pas
tel shades of chiffon, and hats were
conspicuously big and dropping.
Miss Adele Painter wore a cool
green printed chiffon afternoon
frock with large fioppy black hat.
Miss Julia Fletcher was in a beige
outfit and wore a. clever pair of
stockings that I just finished look
ing at this very moment in a
Franklin Simon brochure of what
the smart girl is wearing this sum-
mer. I was so intrigued with them
I stumbled twice as I was follow
ing her out to the rose garden.
They we're beige in color and woven
in an intricate pattern that was
simply swell.
Miss Anna Louise Griffith arrived
very late. looking exactly like a
Lanvin model or a breath Of the
Rue de Ia Falkland l use breath
advisedly-she wouldn't eat a thing.
1t nearly broke my heart to see her
pass up those beautiful strawberry
creams-I could have eaten six more.
She wore a long light blue crepe de
chine coat with white scalloped
collar. With nude hose she wore
light blue fabric slippers, and her
hat was just the right shade of
delicate pink with painted flowers on
the rim and crown. She looked ter
ribly smart and was most informa-
tory. She told me that Bertha and
Elliot Smith are sailing Saturday
on the Rochambeau and are plan
ming to be gone six weeks.
There was a. nice murmur of con-
versational patter going on in the
dining room where Miss Winter was
serving tea. which resolved itself
into Mrs. j. lowering Evans, Mrs.
Evans Woollen Jr., Mrs. Erwin Stout,
Mrs. Runnells Harrel, Miss Sarah
Frances Kackley and Mrs Elias At
kins. They were colorful and
decorative grouped around the tea
table.
There are two more teas this
week, Thursday and Friday. and
then the Tudor Hall breakfast Sat-
urday, after being exposed to which
I just know I shall be so drenched
in femininity that I shall probably
hotfoot it out to Gods country,
where men or men and you know.
a Il
Have you read Behind That
Curtain" by Earl Derr Biggers? It's
a simply swell murder story with
everybody suspected, and he doesn't
let you down in the end. Oh, Of
course, it isn't another Greene
Murder Case" but you can't expect
everything, although some people
do. But it's real 3-o'clock-in-th the
morning one.
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I wish I weren't so helpful. I've
just got the most helpful DISPOSE
ton you ever knew and it's all
wrong. Now I'm Illuminating on my
latest sin. In girIish burst of en-
thuSiaSm I recommended Isadora
Duncan's autobiography to Mr.. and
Mrs. Augustus Mason, and now
have that awful feeling that
should have been more careful
you know how that is? They are
at Little Bears Head, N. H., for the
summer. Well, I suppose I'll just
have to sit around and wait for
developments, and if big black
cloud rolls out of the East, I'll know
I've done the wrong thing again
The very next helpful impulse 1
have I'm going to sit on and
throttle. But don't depend on it.