, 1875-01-24
private and Church Parties
During the Week.
sncfal Gossip in Evanston and
RavcnSWoO1.
LENT.
HAxTHA WARRINGTON TEA-FAnTIE9.


Thin seems IT, be plain to every one in the fash.
iou.bfe world, aud thare is general rush to get
IN the entertainments over before that season
At pcnjtsnce and prayer shall arrive Viewing
4 nom tho standpoint rhat it is usually regard
I'd tom BY society, this cro*ding scarcely seems
NECESSARY. or course, the weddings must be
eo:teu over, and the big crusnes in the shape oil
hals but the many other entertainments with
which society anuses itself are quite Is suitable
10 Le,t rs to tho present time Why, then, no,
laaye them over until that time7 There are very
fsr PEOPLE who do fast and prny for forty days
without my intermisslon, most OF the world be-
Ing quite as wiling to breathe httle more free
IL. to pause little from the rush OF dissipation,
md take it in mlder form, but stitl unwilling to
e3ys up all amusement To SO to bed at IL
o'clock, perhapa, instead OF or 5; to rise lit
tie exrlier and 60 to church it fashion OF inclina-
ton points that way.
! Bat forty quiet evenings at homo would bo
quite too much to expect Of any one but de-
votes It some other shrine than Faahious. It
would b regarded as equally bad taste to i'll
6ulge in continual succession Of balls, masque-
sades, Germans amateur dramatic entertain
fneuts, OF anything vi that kind. Bat kettle
drums, musicales, conVerHaziones, readiugs,-
md. with those who take very bsond view
pf the subject. quiet card party,-a1e
the proper substitutes for the more elab-
m1te gaycties whlch nre at present
being crowded together with go much eno1 and
p1ofuslon that the fashionable debutaate finds
her health hardly equal to tho strain put upon
Il. The cbaperones, when chaperones there
arc. are getting woin out Willie those younger
people VINO have g'own injured to it hy several
seasoLs OF the sane kind OF hard work End thai
It is beginning to tell.
Wouin it not be sisar, then. to reserve all these
smaller entersa.nmep's for Lent a1nous those
WHO 60 Indulge themselves in that manner. and
ouly g1ve the large parties now, that
must 10 gotten through wlth2 Besides the
psniseutial season begins early this yeaE, aud
therefore ends early, itarins little TINA after
Easter IN which some eDterta- a-ument. might be
given. It would sAve some WorTs and anxiety,
ind in the end be better for all
Acd nov what has Chicago been doing thxt
she has 1iad no Isl ge Martha Was bingson arty.
spnblac Affair in Which i the fashlooable world
should be interested, like those g1sen i'll Wash
ington, New York, and many other cities Z
There have been numerous small ones,
but mona which have been Of suf-
fc1ent e:egance TO warrant more than
psssing notice. Society u Always on the qm s1Ee
for something new, but does not seem IN this
citv to have adopted this fashionable mcaus OF
evpGnG charity Oh = iarG scaie II Chicago has
money On her OWL account 10 say Way, 10 douot
other chlrs ooa1a % touoo "hen "on1u accept
toe boon' II taere Do 20 local excuse Tor aaol T.
tng thls last ne" .asolonao'e eotef1alnment %
Al sucn Eaty, o1 conIso' General
and 91s. washington "ofla 1ecelse;
Ine nce-f1es'aeat' 1onn Aoa@s. aoa
toe beads o. me Uepaltme.te, Jeue. son'
hamuton ana Henry hno1, "atn tne'r respective
no.es woulo oe present. .? httle Ieaolne up
q msso1y l1o1 IL u uouoIiul u an? eHcePt Iew
q the present schooi-el1l lconmunIy Kno" maco
spout tne people VINO nourisnea IN AmetlsA a.
taes saet gleas many lasts meat @ pe euclteo.
sau n IT, s1me nne leo.eau1 ptoauceo me slgng1s
tae ueclnaelon o. lnoepeoasnce na.us4ls
sens 70 coaft. u coatt II enoo4o De
GAleo' Inc uerman em'eIans Hno Went
1om Aa'no TO oootn Oalohna anoouotea-
y nseoPpeo on tneT WAY 20 pay rnelt IeSFecse
sae fatae1 OF ms Goa3sy' Dau'ei oooae
ta'gat oe pfessnt, @no hne ne.' Jnson A'"aeot.
num o.an17lo, Conn, Win nls aIh Ro"n' mae
~ me oen mouse IRON hllk plosuIro 31 1t9n ms
oxn worms "nico nad oeen leo on moloe1!v-
tres OF his own ralslog. HIS was the tl1st slik
eosn maae IN America ana he unaouoteo4y
wen. *ens 70 rm,saeiph'a 70 SNOW II. aeputauon
aom tne Massachueets , Agricultural society.
te to1mea 10 lf92 might also % pfesent: also
aom ne literary 1ns ''suuons tna. hao Ioeif rise
pnl9ns Ml y Gashlngsous Aan1nietrailoi,-- ,--Nhnams