The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-27
NEW YORK SOCIETY ECHOES.
Mail and EXPRESS.

MAIL anu INITeSS.
what lovely Jacquemnots!" exclaimed Wis.
itor admitting Mrs Parvenu's flowers. rs that
what you call ern2" said Mrs. z. why, the n an
said they were roses. / bought 'em on Broad
way and paid quarter for each one, too"
To show how shamefully particular some peo-
pie are, it is related of fashionable woman of
Murray Hill that she refused to accept an invita-
ton to dinner from lady acquaintance, be-
cause in her note she spelled pleasure With q
capital "P.n
Quite a number of conspicuous women of fash
ion have been Impressed" with the mission
services of the Episcopal Church, and now re-
gard this the Christmas season, most op-
perfume for discarding much Of their frivoities
and fashions
Some people of wealth think it only necessary
to leave their native places, come to Gotham,
| rent house and send out cards to people they
do not know to reception In order ''to get into
society" This method has never been perma-
nently successful except in novels.
One reason assigned for the fashionable craze
for passing the holidays in the country is that it
| is English, quite English, you know" But be-
tween our rural Christmas festivities and the
British provincial gayeties there is difference
as pronounced as between a black dog and q
white cat.
By com mon consent the debutantes of the
season are declared to be ''uncommoniy pretty"
and what is better still. the report has gone
abroa d that their good qualitias of mind and
there man with soul so dead, who never to him.
self has sad, This is the best thing I've ever
read"
Mrs. Sinesong, entertaining Baron von
Stoopid, OF Berlin, at dinner, RECALLED him with q
funny story she had read in the wspaper which,
unfortunately, he had heard before at somebody
else's dinner. "Ah, ha p he laughed, thinking to
obs erve the fashionable club expression in this
country governing Joe Mllers-''-Ah, hal
Meeses Singson, dot ish--vat you call hint
doughnuds. aind ids" The titled foreigner meant
chestnut"
fashionable life in New York, there is always be-
meath the frivolous surface current of real
charity and benevolence running under the
guidance OF men and women of highest social
fashion, by right of birth aud circumstances but
whose names do not appear in the list of guests
at Mesdames Tom, Dick and Harrys receptions.
But they are nobody" in the eyes of fashion
able society"
A published account of the recent ball of the
Junior Patriarchs in a weekly paper says: "One
of the bellies of the ball was Miss - Her
toilette was Of white Ottoman silk, decollette,
with front of silver tulle, embroidered in silk.
Her ornaments were costly diamonds" 1t used
to be that ball had but one belle, and she was
not decollete. either. The idea of wearing dia-
monds not costly" to ball would be simply
hysterical.
Almost everything fashionable nowadays, in
social sense, requires assistance. 1t takes two
or three clergymen to perform a marriage.
ladies who give receptions have two or three lady
friends 20 assist them in receiving, glee club OK
professional humorist helps host and hostess get
through with dinner party, and so on through
the list. 1.-The social climate is SO trying you
know, and socetys duties have become ro-
bust that assistance is absolutely necessary"
It bothers some young men who attend debut
parties and receptionS-Some papers call them
'balls'-to know what pretty speech to make to
the blushing beauty laboring to stand up under
her load of flowers. The weather is obsolete,
there are no dog or horse shows now, no anise-
seed hunting, and no new prominent woman in
trouble. by Jove, you know, it's doosed hard
to think of something, you know, to say, don't you
know" Why not take up subject the rapid
growth of asininity in midst.