The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-15
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY.
I.nll IN society.


The second week after Easter has not proven
to bs the social revival anticipated by many,
and the scarcity of parties makes one lady re-
mark, that she is almost forgetting how 20 act
and would be afraid she would say or do some
thing entirely improper If she should be invited
10 one now While that state of affairs 10 not
literally true, il certainly is true that there has
been very little going on Early in the week
the MendeIssohn Society gave q concert and
dance at Pfafain's Hail. with an attendance Of
about two hundred and aside from that all the
lively small, and from present prospects
there VIII not be large party
until some OF the longlooksd-for weddings oc-
cur. May Is said TO be an uulucky month for
wedding. but the superstition has not been held
As one of any certainty, many of the most
fashionable ones occur in that month. There
does not seem to be any good reason for May to
be mouth likely to bring adversely and yet
sne superstition. like many others equally
grouudless. viii have it's believers and followers
April, with it's variety of weather and celebrated
showers wouid seem 90 be the to bring ill
lnck, If any, but They say" the infaIlibls must
be respected. and IL goes, ''May is an un-
lucky month for Wedding"
Funny scenes frequently take place in the
street-car, and the past week was marked for
one in which the ''star' part was taken By an
aspiring vocalist, whose dreams of the future
are that she will assonish the world some day
as q Patti. but who astonished the occupants of
the car in as good pantomime az one would
care 70 see. Her audience consisted OF two
young ladies, middle aged lady, and a police
man, who were seated opposite her. The to-be
diva held two pieces of music in her hand. and
when she had seated herself and opened one on
her lap. she she then in DantOmime
the keys and her mouth gave
form bus no sound to the words. Her gaze
frequently sought the corners of the car and
when tbs iuterlude was reached she played it
and then continued the second verse The
ond piece rehearsed in the same style. and
with the same oblIvious Dir that she would have
worn had she been alone in a room at homo.
Some might have thought that she crazy,
but one OF the audience knew her to be singer
in enc OF the fashionable churches; but her
enthusiasm for music il great that she under
takes com POSITIONS that none but a great singer
or artist attempts.
Al North Side mother is indignant at the
cigarette young man. Not many weeks ago she
Among the arrivals she two couples go up
stairs, and she waited for their appearance in the
parlors. After an unusually long time she went
mp to the dressinR-room TO see what was keep
ing them. The young ladies were seated, and
said they waiting for their escorts. So
she went to the 9entleman's door, which
closed. She raped. and. upon receiving no
nnent to find the young men smoking cigarettes,
and the air thick with smoke that it
sitting Before they could take the young
ladies down to the parlor they thought
this opinion that il young men cannot go to an
evening party without indulginR in that habit
they had better stay at home. The consequence
Of the party was, there were three holes burned
in her best EN- brodered bureau scarf, and the
room was SO foul from the smoke that it could
not be occupied that night.