The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-08
BY MRS. C. o. ROBINSON
Times Hobby Editor

Il branch of the NeedleWork
Guild of America joins the other
IT'S American branches and junior
auxiliaries to celebrate the fiftieth
anniversary of the annual round
up as the membership drive and
collection of donations is called.
The first round up was inaugu-
rated by a group of philanthroplc
Philadelphia women who partic-
ularly enjoyed sewing and found
an outlet for their hobby by MAX
ing clothing for others less fortu-
nate. They organized themselves
as the first American branch OF
the NeedleWork Guild, and each
succeeding year thereafter the
guild has made a donation to the
needy.
The first guild was formed in
England by Lady Wolverton as an
exclusive society composed Of
aristocratic women who enjoyed
the oldest and most universal
feminine hobby, sewing, but to-
day the guild no longer is re-
stricted by class, creed, color, ma
tionality, sex or even the ability
to sew. 1t has grown to interna-
tional proportions with branches
in ireland, France, italy, Belgium,
Holland. Australia, Switzerland,
Canada, Hawaii and Panama as
we'll as England and the United
States.
The national organization in
America is headed by Mrs.
Thomas j. Preston, formerly Mrs.
Grover Cleveland, and Mrs. Os-
car L. Pond of this city is the
chairman of the eighteen enthus-
iastic branches in Indiana.
The officers of the indianapolis
branch are Mrs. Hartley Sher-
wood, president; Mesdames oscar
L. Pond, Frank Fishback, Charles
A. Garrard, M. E. Clark, vice.
presidents; Mrs. G. K. Calvert,
secretary; Mrs. Ray Fatout, as
Sistant secretary, and Miss Lillian
Taggart, treasurer. The executive
board members are Mrs. Peter G.
Reilly, Mrs. John R. Sentney,
Miss Juliette w. Bryan, Miss
Elizabeth Berterman, and Miss
Gertrude Baker.
TINE object Of the guild is to
Il collect and distribute new
articles which meet the needs of
hospitals, homes and charitable
organizations, and for member
ship it asks only two new articles
of wearing apparel or household
linen as an entry fee.
OF course, money also is well
come and gives men an oppor-
tunity to do their share although
often some men have preferred to
fashion gifts.
The prince of Wales, who sets
the fashion for the masculine
world, created the precedent by
knitting articles for the London
branch of the Needlework Guild
of which his mother, Queen Mary,
is president.
Some one has called the guild
"the organization of the under
standing heart" because the
members realize how something
new holsters the spirits of those
who have been compelled to wear
hand downs" and made
overs" and who could not rebel as
did small miss of my acquain-
lance.
AS she was the youngest of
three daughters, she always had
worn her sisters clothes altered
to the satisfaction of the family,
but evidently not meeting her
ideals. On her seventh birthday
she issued her declaration of in
dependence by demanding "a
really, truly, all new dress"
Many little girls with a similar
humiliation have found a fairy
godmother in the local junior
auxiliary of the Needlework Guild
for the members with their own
industrious hands make lovely
children's dresses and beautiful
baby clothes which are the pride
of the yearly roundup" and are
appreciated especially by the Free
Kindergarten, the Florence Crit
tenton home and other agencies
that care for wee folk.
The auxiliary is headed by
Miss Elizabeth Berterman, assisted
by Mrs. Peter G. Reilly, and is
composed Of sewing groups formed
by Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts,
Girl Reserves, Junior Catholic
Girls of America, and by sewing
classes at Technical high school
and Tudor Hall.