The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-13
A NEW THING AT WEDDINGS
The Ominous TurquOis-A Superior Young
WOman-Dry Dinners-Gothnm's New
Smart Game RepArtee - Some
Things That We Hope For.

NEW YORK, May 7.-[Special. You are
nothing today if you haven't keen APP
probation of flowers. You must appre-
ciate the redness of one rose, the dead
wilderness of another; you must be able to
discriminate between violets and know to
dot the good points of an orchid. II you
! are going to make a call on some woman
of whom you are fond, you stop by the
way, get a bunch of roses, a single orchid,
or lily, whatever indeed happens to be
her favorite flower, and then, when you 90
in, you tell her how, long before the ma
terial body got there, she was in your
heart, and you have brought her the
flower that she would have chosen.
II You 20 TO a wedding, you carry as
beautiful bouquet as possible, tied with
long satin ribbons, and in the loops are
hidden your own visiting card, with your
best wishes for the bride written upon it,
This you leave as you go out, If it is
house wedding; if it is church wedding,
with no reception after, you hold your
bouquet while you are in church, and
then. as you come out, drive rapidly to the
the door. It's pretty custom that works
well in two ways. You have the advan-
tage of the bouquet, while you are on ex-
hibition, so to say, and the bride knows
that you remember her when you leave it
behind you. OF course, enormous sums
are spent on these bridal bouquets, for
very large roses, orchids or gardenias are
used for them. The roses are not made
UP stiffly. and are tied together with broad
white ribbon, while yellow or a curious
shade of green are given over to the other
flowers. Ii your costume happens 10 be
some peculiar color, with which none OF
these shades harmonic, then it is per-
mit,ed you to have any ribbon you please,
there being prejudice, however, against
the dark shades.
Apropos of dark colors at wedding be-
| ing unucky, | am reminded OF an old SUI
perstiton about the turquois and how l
saw it verified last week A beautiful tur-
| quois had been given TO young woman
and she had sent it, with a number of
| other Jewels, to the bank while she was to
| be a bird of passage. She was taken very
| i'll, months went by and the Jewels were
never required. A week ago she was able
, to go out in the sunshine and concluded
| to get some OF her rings that she might
have the pleasure OF looking at them.
! When the turquois was taken out OF its
box it had turned the most positive green
imaginable. This would not have seemed
strange if it had been an inferior stone,
but 1t had been bought at a world-famous
shop, and an enormous price had been
given for it. You know the theory that
when the possessor OF a turquois is in Ill
u 81,
its colors. Now, it has been given to a
woman who is in perfect health and she
Is wearing it while everybody who knows
about II Is eagerly watching to see If the
| stone goes back to its heavenly hue.
There are people who are above this sort
| of thing, and the superior young woman
is one. Tell her story like this and she
| glares at you until you wish she could be
| sentenced to imprisonment and hard labor
until she Outgrew her superiority, and be-
came an ordinarily inferior person Moth
| ing suits her. II she goes out for walk
with YOU she refuses TO look in the shop
windows at the pretty things, she declines
to see the nice babies or agreeable dogs,
but she holds her head high up in the air
and says: Il am out for rational exercise.
and propose 10 get it." Ask her to have
some sweets and glass of soda water, and
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care for it / will wait while you get it." If
/ you can imagine a woman, made of flesh
and blood waiting while you drank soda,
your imagination is extremely good. Tell
her about novel that is immensely
amusing, offer il to her, and she puts up
her lorgnette and calmly freezes you bv
| saying, THANK you. But after all, from
an intellectual standpoint what will
| gain from it?" You don't like TO suggest
| it is just possible a certain amount of
pleasure may come to her-for pleasure
seems to her very frivolous and undesir-
| able thing
She doesn't 90 to the theater unless she
can see something really improving, and
as far as can be discovered the only really
| improving things that have come to her
are those nasty plays of Ibsen's. The su-
| perlOr young woman is an absolute incen-
tive to sin, for she makes everybody hate
her. As young woman she is insuflera-
| BILE, as wife she makes her husband a
| pitiable creature, and really the only time
when she Is in her proper position is when
| she is the chief parsonage, in still way,
at funeral. Then the world regards her
| with complacency. / haven't the slight
est doubt, though, that she tells the
spooks all about the examinations she has
passed and how well up she is in Greek
and Latin, and it may be that the future
punishment of some people who don't
vote the proper ticket will be to have close
acquaintanceship with the superior young
woman in the unpleasant future booked
for them. Nothing more dreadful could
| come.
Have you gotten any dinner invitations
with bit of blue ribbon tied in one cor
ner? That is the hostess's way of telling
that there will be no wines served, and
really after all it's better to inform you Of
this beforehand aud to let you know that
you will have to come down to apollinaris
water, not having even a glass OF claret to
| take with your dinner, so give you an OPP
portunity to decline. When will people
| understand the real meaning of temper
ance, and when will people comprehend
| that the taking away of glass OF light
wine and the giving a tumbler of ice wa
ter will not reform a single drunkard and
| will make no end of dyspeptics? Have
YOU ever lived with ANYBODY who had the
! dyspepsia. and didn't you feel that you
hated your kind after a week of it? Well,
this is apt to be the result if the nation is
given over to ice-I mean melted ice in
| the shape of water.
New York is dull-inexpressibly. insult
ferably dull. A few dinner parties are
heard of, more card parties, but the same
moan is made everywhere, that the season