The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-29
Fifth-Avenue Chit Chat.

| New York Mail aud Express.
| When the fashionable physicians wife gives
| reception she is sometimes undecided about in
| vitipg all of her husbands patients.
| Chinchilla-lined cloth wraps are supposed to
touch the high water mark of elegance, and some
| who wear them sustain this impression.
| To go to Washington without knowing any
body, is like attending fashionable church
Easter and expecting the very best pew.
Enough women to fill hall have yet to learn
that turning down visiting cards is obsolete. and
only an evidence of exceeding ''waybacksm."
The lamp and table combined is not only orna-
mental but useful, and the inventor is to be CON
graduated upon filling to the top a "long felt
want"
Hired girls do not take kindly to the new cleo
trio clock operated by a wire from milady's bed
ROOM and regard it as wicked invocation of the
enemy.
large fairy lamp in the center of the table,
and smaller ones at each plate is a dinner party
fashion that is productive OF pretty and brilliant
results.
During Lent small personal ornaments of an
ecclesiastical character. a leading jeweler says.
will be fashionable here, as they were In Paris
year ago.
The least man who partakes of his hostess's
canvas back, terrapin and champagne do is
to try and make himself agreeable, even if he
"don's dance"
Lace trimmed tablecloths and napkins are
properly voted vulgar Our best people cling
to plain heavy white damask, and they know
they're right.
Just why men should cloth CATERS in
winter is something in the line of a riddle, ex-
cepting, of course, they are all out of any but
low-cus shoes.
The newest Partisan Derby hat has lower
crown and wider brim than the one in vogue
here. 1t is almost heavy enough to make little
Frenchmen totter.
There is nothing quite so conducive to ont
and-out. DOWNRIGHT, real ugliness toboggan
suit girl of the period. IA fright" is no
name for 1t.
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now Society appears to have gone mad
them, and talks. too, about them as if it were
really crazy.
What's going on in the world is easily aseer-
tanned at luncheon party when fifty women sit
around ten small tables and indulge in tourna-
ment of tongues.
A reward of $75 for pet cat that has gone
astray. or has been purloined to help line cir
cular for servant girls, indicates they still IN
fashionable favor.
Men who resort to manicures for dainty finger
nails are the one who. IN the event of a fire,
would escape themselves and forget to rescue
women and children.
bride last week sent to the tn irty inmates
of charitable home for women wooden dress
each, and a box containing variety of good and
palatable things
New effects in drawing room illuuin alton at
evening parties have been introduced with a
view of enhancing the beauty OF the complexion
OF the woment present.
There are more bright and shining lights than
when they by and once in q while there
comes awkward scene.
Overindulgence In champagne at some enter
tainments has caused some people to question
the wisdom of supplying it to the youths whose
brains are mostly in their heels.
Dancing classes for young girls ssnot yet out"
are one OF the forcing processes now operated In
Vanity Fair under the delusion that it is fashion
ably beneficial aud advantageous.
They are social ravens who think it is per-
haps just as well that the fashionable season
ends three weeks hence. with Stock Exchange
seats declining and coal advancing in price
Valentines are very elaborate and costly, and
take the form OF souvenirs that are practical,
useful and everlasting This years display al
ready made would delight the heart of wooden
girl
The amount CT money represented by carriage
furs and robes this winter makes an anti pow
ertyite 60 out of sight and weep as a whang-
doodle mourning the kidnapping of her
young
A bit of tule over an elongated ''V"-shaped
waist is sarcastically called "modesty piece"
by Flora McFllmsey, who is fast drifting back
into the channel where propriety ends and in
decancy begins in evepinO dreas this saason