The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-29
And Proposes that the Matrimonially In
clined Young Man Shall Not Be Permitted
to Call on His Best Girl on the Sabbath.
Secretary Whitney's Successful Career
as InspectOr-General of Bonnets.
Matrimeny in the Kittson Family-Hard
Work of a Girl in Mr.. Eyarts's House.
Special to the rndiapapoIis journal.

the church where DR.. Stephen Tying formerly
| preached, at Forty-second street and Madison
| avenue. a great deal of interest was excited by
the proposition to contest the law forbidding the
| importation of laborers to this country under
| contract. That matter eventually settled,
| but it called such attention to DR.. Warren as no
| other event could, unless it be the proposition
! that this clergyman has now made to his church.
| DR.. Warren has proposed that the young ladies
| in his church shall make agreement
! not to visit receive visits on Sun
days. When this matter was put TO
vote before an association of the young people
of his parish, they agreed unanimously to put it
into force. This undoubtedly, however, was
due to the magnetic influence of DIR. Warren
when he made the suggestion. He is about fifty
seven years old, with moderate supply of silver
side-whiskers, and pleasant smile and voice
He is energetic worker and thorough going
evangelist When the young people came to
think the matter over, the sober second thought
began to have it's effect. and it is quite doubtful
whether Mr.. Warren will find it an easy matter
to break in thus upon a we'll l-estabshed Ameri-
can custom. One of the young men in his par
isb, in speaking of it, said to the writer when
the proposition first laid before us we were
enthusiastic about it, because we had
felt like taking hold of DR.. Warren and helping
him make his work here grandly successful, but
as to this project cannot help looking at it
now as something of an injustice, and unneces-
ssry at that. To who work all the week.
with no time for social enjoyment, Sunday
comes as a genuine day of rest. and. apart from
the religious features of the day, it gives
opportunity fo- innocent enjoyment that could
not possibly be had at any other time during the
week Sunday is recognized as the one day of
all
his best girl, and, inasmuch as there is nothing
sacrilegous about that, I cannot see why I
should be compelled to abandon it. It is not
like ordinary call between neigh
bors, or friends, or ! relatives who have
known each other and been established in their
relations with each other for a great many
years 1t is the cultivation of relations
which are apt to be and generally prove to be
very sacred and dear to all parties concerned.
1t is matter of good religion that man sho uld
have good family, and the prohibition of doing
anything upon the Sabbath toward securing a
helpmate to establishing q good family is some
thing that church ought not to demand. I
very much doubt, therefore. that Mr.. Warren's
project will prove successful, and I certainly
hope that preachers elsewhere. especially in the
country districts. will not be led to initiate his
example"
Secretary Whitney is bigger man in Wash
ington than he is in New YORK. This is perhaps
natural in the head of the United States navy.
But he would be larger in New York if he didn't
belong here, and was stranger forced to go
to otel while in town. AS it is, he keeps up
elaborate establishment, and has only to
drive home and disappear from view until ready
to return to his train. His wife does nearly all
her shopping here, except In trivial m atters and
frequently these expeditions the Secretary is
her devoted attendant. They are not encount-
cred on the promenades for they drive every
where. Those who know Mr. Whitney only as
the Cabinet officer should see him while on these
little excursions. What metamorphosis! He
stepped onsboard the Washington express the
personifcatiOn OF energetic business man;
he steps into fashionable Fifth-avenue
milliner's beaush attachment to a lady
Away with armored cruisers and seacoast
defeuces! BonDets are the order of the day.
And to tell the truth, he applies himself as as
siduously to the study of the latter as he did a
few hours before to the former. He will pick up
hat, inspect IL from all sides, criticise this
shade and that curve. and after his wife has ad-
jusIed the wonder on her head will repeat the
operation of viewing it from all sides. He is
very proud of his better half and, strange to say
she defers unques tioningly to his taste hats
and several other matters of personal adorn-
ment. He does not insist upon being actually
present when she is measured for a gown, but
this is doubtless "a concession to the dreesmakers
feelings. More than one milliner in New York
wishes In h6r soul tnat ne would exercise this
consideration in other directions. and they
unanimous in voting him nuisance. But this
doesn't annoy the Secretary of the Navy, and re-
suits in his wife dressing to suit her husband
As long as this is SO the navy is secure.
The amount OF privacy which Mrs. Langtry
manages to secure during spell of rest at her
city home. and at the same time keep herself
constantly advertised to the public eye, is in
itself an indisputable proof of the woman's clev-
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the wrath.of certain selfish neighbors who com
plain because her new English six-foot fence
built to defy the curious, rests upon the stoop-
line instead of upon the house-line, her dwelling
standing about thirty feet back. By the
way, it has been suggested. and with
parent cause. that the Lilys success as
unhappy wife is due not 20 acquired but to
inherited accomplishment. A New York
lady, while in London recently, came in contact
with who had known Mrs. Langtry's family
well the island of Jersey. Says this friend
Il cannot help thinking. wnen read of her do
mestic troubles, of certain infelicities in her
glrlhoo6's home Her father, as you know, was
a clergy man. and her beauty was her mothers.
This fatal beauty. however. attracted another
than her clerical husband TO the mothers side.
aud the result was unhappiness in the home"
Then who shall say that the finger of fate has
not indicated Mrs. Lanetry's rough roadl
Ats Broadway hotel this week, were registered
''Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Baker. ST. Paul" They are
on a wedding tour. The bride, a charming and
handsome girl of about eighteen, was last spring
a pupil at a school IN Fifth avenue, and a favor
ite among her companions She was then Bessie
Kittson, one of the four daughters of Commo-
dore Kittson. the famous turfman of the North
west. At the summer vacation she returned
home and next reappeared here with all the
bushing honors o. brand new name upon her.
Now her old schoolmates smile and say: Bessie
Kittson married. WY. the idea-she's only
girl" The Commodore has parted with three of
his children by marriage within the last few
months. Last fall the eldest daughter welded
Mr. Louis Baker, a brother of the present BRIDE
groom. and went off to Europe for the honey
moon. she had also been a schoolgirl
in New York Then his son, L. C.
Kittson. took unto himself beauti-
full bride. The Kittson family, in one