The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-12
MINOR MENTION.
natl.

NEWSPAPER gossips are having good deal to
say about the seasons 'rosebuds," meaning
thereby the young girls just making their formal
debut into society. The term rosebud seems
singularly inappropriate to the young woman
even the very young woman, of the day. Girls
of the period are. perhaps, in their hearts and
souls, what the sentlmentalists call their inner
natures, very much like their mothers and grand
mothers at the same period of lfe but there is q
difference in the outward development Some
how, to the average observer, they do not sug-
| gest rosebuds. That term fitly described the
timid, shy, shrinking maiden in white muslin and
bushes, who had her being in the novels
of the first half of the century and possibly an
existence out of them. She figured in art too,
as q subject not a worker, and may be
seen in all her quaint grace in old portraits In
her innocent, fresh beauty the first object of
comparison which rises to the mind is that of
the rose. Her granddaughter may be quite as
innocent and fair. but she brings suggestions of
other things. There are flowers and flowers
The rose is TO some the best of ALL but there are
others both beautiful and attractive. There is
the paony, the dahlia and the sunfower, the
morning glory, the trumpet-fower-all re-
spectacle and gorgeous blossoms Cali the girls by
any one OF these names, but do not class them all
as rose buds. They may be and are all daisies, !"
but some of them, at least, should pass by an
other name than "rose"
A NEEDED reform has been inaugurated in
| New York in a movement for the removal of
| ladies' hats during theatrical performances. At
one of the leading theaters the following notice
was conspicuously displayed few nights since:
'For the convenience Of ladies who may desire
1t, cloak and hat-room has been set aside for
their on the lobby floor, ad joining the ticket
Office, where they may deposit their hats and
wraps without charge. Lady attendant"
AS result a great many ladies, including
some well-known social leaders. left their hats
and bonnets in the cloak-room The New YORK
World says:
"Looking back from the orchestra chairs was
| like watching family party in a drawing room.
1t is an undeniable and significant fact that the
ladies who had removed their bonnets looked far
more beautiful than the few who did not do so"
The necessity for the reform is universally
recognized. and if ladies can only be persuaded
that they look more beautiful without their bon
nets than with them. the victory will be won.
MRS. MIRANDA PALMER, twenty years ago
blooming widow of Pittsburg, and still widow,
but not so blooming, sued Mr. James McAller
for breach of promise, averring that the false
and perfdious man had asked her to marry him
in 1866; that she had consented, and had been
waiting for him to fulfill the engagement ever
since; but that although the wedding day had
been set as often as twice q year, James had
never come to time The aggrieved and injured
lady demanded 500, 900 as balm for her wound
ed affections, but the jury of twelve heartless
men considered that 5000 would cover the dam.
ages, and awarded her that sum. Ten dollars
year seems rather a low rate of recompense for
blasted love, but the jury probably argued that
a broken heart was not worth as much as a
sound one, especially as it was second hand
organ when McAller first entered the field It
is possible, too, that the jury had been reading
that recent work entitled Ten Dollars Enough
THE Memphis Avalanche, in mentioning the
arrival at that place of the Harper advertising
party, headed by Charles Dudley Warner re-
marks. as if there were no room for difference
of opinion, that the leading literary lights of
the United States are Lowell, Whittier Mark
Twain, Holmes and Warner. 1t is possible that
few admirers of that amusing work "My Sum-
mer in Garden, will agree that its author Is
entitled to stand in line with the three distin-
guished men named in the list but it is in the
nature of shock to learn that man can be
found who classes Mark Twain, the writer of
"Huekleberry Finn" with Holmes and Whit
tier. In the mama Of american literature, we
must protest
Association" has been started by an enterprising
aud benevolent citizen of New Jersey town.
The thought doubtless occurred to this consid-
crate person that the officials in CHARGE of the
fund would soon be forced to draw upon the
principal to cover their expenses, and that in
time. By the gradual diminishing Of the sum,