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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1930
Page
6
The piece surveys the wedding ritual and the bride's bouquet moment, noting the thrill and superstition of who will catch the bouquet and marry next. It blends reflections on love, fate, and the appeal of romance with playful questions about the future of brides and their careers.
Miss Louise Mann and Decimus Cates quietly married in Shreveport on June 14 1930 while the bride was visiting El Dorado relatives. They reside in El Dorado where Cates works with Henderson Oil Co. The groom is from the Mann family by marriage to Louise, daughter of Mr and Mrs J H Mann.
Social event in Monroe features Miss Sara Larche and Miss Juanita Seele as honorees at a putt-putt gathering hosted by Mrs. L N Larche. Guests include Miss Louise Page and many couples, with trophies awarded and a long supper at the Business and Professional Women's club house. Mrs G F Bancks returns home after visiting relatives and attends nephew Henry B Crawford’s graduation.
The Monroe area sees a wide summer exodus with residents headed inland to the Great Lakes and coasts while others plan inland trips and Gulf coast vacations. Faculty and locals share travel plans with many to Columbia University post graduate work, Baton Rouge teaching, Kentucky mountains, and Wisconsin camps. The Baptist Northeast Louisiana encampment opens June 24 with a 1200 seat auditorium and tent camping, plus a box supper at West Monroe church to support Epworth League members.
Mr. H. G. Cooper Jr. underwent an appendicitis operation at St. Francis sanitarium. A New York visit is planned with Durwood Ellett's home. Miss Mary Munholland, Miss Drew to Columbia for postgraduate study. Willie Mae Garrett leaves for Tulane University with sister Frances Blazier to join later in South Louisiana. Mrs. Roy Stiltner travels to New Mexico for a month with her sister. Winners Florence Ferguson and Robert Cann invited to Saenger Theatre showing of Safety In Numbers. Mrs. Kate Ensminger ill at Riverside sanitarium. Siblings Stanley and Howard Weaver with Dr. S. E. Weaver host at Galveston and Baylor University events. Other Weaver guests include Mrs. C. B. Sims and Clara Sims Henley of Memphis.
The piece argues the ideal of a perfect mother is outdated as social and economic conditions shift. Modern mothers integrate personal independence with family life, seeking new value scales and relational goals for children and self. It discusses Peter Pan as a metaphor for childhood desires and the parental task of guiding this imagination within reality.
Madge coolly weighs Dicky's suggestion to drive Edith Fairfax home as Edith's envy grows. Lillian Underwood teases and Mary Veritzen bears quiet resentment while Madge and Dicky share a staged conjugal amiability on the ride to Edith's studio.
The passage urges balanced encouragement of imagination in children. Parents should avoid crushing fantasies while guiding essential real-world adjustment. Foster dramatization, storytelling, and creative art with a passive, sympathetic stance to keep a bridge between fact and joyful escape.
Mary Low Lete arrives in London and is snubbed by Bryn mor Whittemore who calls her a nice girl. She seeks fun with Tony Titherington, a wealthy pilot, while Brynmor Whittemore has an affair with dancer Cierice Day. Mary Lou rejects Brynmor and pursues romance with Tony.
Tony grills Mary Lou about a secret bogey as he drives her to a freak party at Gwendolyn Carruthers' residence. Mary Lou weighs real versus pretened secrets while Tony remarks on her speed of learning and a tabulated profile.
Mary Lou accompanies Tony into a mansion gathering where two girls gossip about his plan to bring a country girl to meet his aunt. Gwendolyn’s room houses ornate dolls as Mary Lou overhears plans and reflects on Tony's liaisons.
Mary Lou and Tony clash over being called nice. He reveals a fear of falling for the wrong girl and dreams of a world flying machine, Gay Girl, while Gwendolyn Carruthers observes. Aunt Ethelberta finances the scheme, but stays wary as Mary Lou awaits tomorrow’s continuation.
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