The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-13
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A SOCIETY for the Suppression of Crochets"
is proposed. In itself the idea is good one but
it would be a dreadful thing TO see three-fourths
of the population of the country thrown out Of
employment.
The author of the Bread-Wnners" is Gail Y
becoming a more complex Individual The
Critic hazards three-fold guess that he is a
man, that he is not dead man, and that he has
been hitherto an unknown in literary circles.
If the crusade against theater nuisances has
been inaugurated, let not the cart-wheel hat be
forgotten. Many man of toll has spent his
hard-earned dollar for an evenings entertain
ment, and carries home with him only a vivid
remembrance of a revolving disk of flowers and
feathers.
The libelous novel may not please the rigid
moralist, but it pays, as five editions of ga
Newport Quarelle' have been exhausted. For
the benefit of those who have mislaid their
French dictionaries, it may be stated that an
"aquarelle" is painting in water colors.
THE announced volume of the Famous
Women" series, on "Margaret Fuller" by Julia
Ward Howe is looked for with great interest by
all Margaret Fuller's admirers. With equal in
terest is expected the Book of sibyls," by Anne
Thackeray, which is to contain, among Others
an essay on Jane Austen. The quality of admi-
ration elected by Jane Austen's charming stories
is seldom tepd but her biographies ave been
few in number.
AN elegantly dressed young lady who landed
on her return from Europe last week, was ana
lyzed in the New York custoni-house, and fou nd
TO be base mixture, composed of one part girl
to three parts lace, velvet, kid gloves, and other
dutiable goods. Her trunks were similarly
treated aud the whole value of the precipitation
was $4,000. Women said to be more moral
than men, but then there are temptations and
temptations.
Don't. a Manual of ImprOpretes in Speech
and Conduct" objects to the use of "he" or
'she" in referring to husband or wife. This
seems an unnecessary and unwarranted re-
stricton laid upon the doubly-blessed. To
every well regulated woman there is but one
che" in the world, and no discriminating nearer
would ever suffer any confusion of ideas in re-
gard to "hs" identity. In this age of matrimo-
NAL elasticity, the man or woman who evinces
this laudabe, devotional, If uneuphonious
spirit, should be admired and encouraged, not
criticised.
ENGLISH journals are entitled to general com =
mendation for their courteous mention of Amer
lean actresses, who are almost invarab spoken
of as "AIiss Minnie Palmer, Miss Mary Ander-
son." etc. The demands OF American newspaper
readers are of such n free and easy character
that foreign actresses are generally given
merely the last name, without any title what
ever, and they may consider themselves lucky
if they get out OF the country without being
styled "Sal. Bernhardt," all. Langtry," and
"Lyd, Thompson" There is one thing in our
favor, however. We do not often send England
the kind of actresses she sends us.
THE rum0r is slowly gaining ground that fore
heads are soon to be fashionable, bangs and
frizzes TO be voted out of style. Edmund Yates
flies to the defense of bangs and says that "a
fringe on the brow of graceful lady is a thing
OF beauty, and that many faces will look bleak
without it," There surface Indications that
this is a reform advocated by those believing a
bare forehead Indicative of a high degree of in
tellect In some instances, there is nothing
more ugly than what is termed the intellectual
forehead and if women cannot prove their title
to brains otherwise than by the too-candid rev.
citation of a bleak, harsh-looking brow. the quail
ifcatons granted the sex are Indeed in vain.
Edmund Yates, "fOr man." has very proper
conceptions of the artistic value of bangs.