The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03

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Ruth McEnery Stuart. in Harper's Bazaar.
describes what she names Y Ladye
Orchid" and il is SO %cleverly named and
drawn that each one must feel perfectly
well acquainted with women who might
have posed for the picture. A portion of
her article is as follows:
A perfectly familiar and delightful draw
ing-room figure Is the woman of remark
able toilets, TO whom anything approach
ing conventiOnality In dress eeems an i'm
possibility.
She is q woman of decided though
unique ideas of color combinations and
very pronounced theories as to style. her
only authority, however. being her W in
dlvldual taste, beyond which there is no
hesItates at nothing. If she be middle
aged and sallOw. she no more shrinks from
q daisy-covered bonnet than she does from
a rose-colored gown or a sash of baby-blue
drawn diegOnally from shoulder TO waist.
after the fashion of an Odd-fellow on
parsde-lf the bonnet. gown or sash chance
10 please her fancy.
Perhaps she affects mlttens for evening
wear, while her more conservative sisters
are gloved In kid TO the shoulders, and the
hue of her bonnet strings-and she is much
given to strings-swears at her gown.
while her f1arlng parasol catches up the
profanity and blaZes away promiscuously
IN oil directions =.
She is q sweet woman many times. and
always to a degree ingenious.
IL is not uncommon for her more con-
bervative sisters TO nudge one another as
she passes. and the ILL and malicious
do sometimes call her a fright. This Is all
wrong. The trouble Is that she has never
been properly classified or introduced.
This, friends, is Ye Ladye Orchid
There Is surely nothing original In liken-
ing a woman unto q flower. Ever since the
earliest recorded beginning of things, when
the damsel Eve surprised herself in q gar
den-which. we are told. was, fashioned,
like herself. in full fiower-a few days be-
fore her debut. women have been associa-
ted with flowers and compared to them.
guerites, and DAISIES, our rosebud gar
dens of girls" our bouquets" OF lovely
women. Why not orchidsf
Y The orchid TO no one for where,
when or how it chooses to throw out q
petal, nor for the color. shape or cont0r-
tons of the same. It's leaves are it's own.
It is the orchids affair. 1t sends them ND
or down or on q circumperam bulating tour
whenever it Dleases, and paints them any
tint.
So with our sweet sister. Ladye Orchid.
There is no point on her person from W hich
she Will promise you not to send out O
feather, attach a bow, or introduce o bunch
of Fuckers The common error 10 in re-
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contrary. a bowling success-as an orchid.
That she does not pose as one Is q family
trait. They never do. We have our doubts
whether any of the connection really know
themselves to be orchids or not. Their
very last thought is of the ego. If license
is one distinguishing characteristic of the
orchid family. Inconsistencies is perhaps
Its next conspicuous quality.
Ye Ladye Orchid is often of q literary
turn of mind. She is O woman of concon-
frafinn snanAtnn haraalf in ma thaa af q
time, and when that idea materializes in a
bonnet IL Is o bonnet of genius. If she
thought of two things at once. she might
perchance contemplate together herself
and her bonnet. and having regarded the
combination. she. being a woman of true
perception and q sense of humor, would
sever the connection.
1t takes character. INDEPENDENCE. indi-
yiduality. and; with an underlying con,
fidence in ones self. a delicious uncon-
seriousness of incOngruities to be an orchid.
Personal Mention.
Miss Flora Anderegg has returned from
Hot Springs. Ark.
Mrs. ID. w. Grassland has gone to Cincin-
natl TO make a visit.
Mrs. Lewis. of Madison, who has been
visiting friends here. has returned home.
Mrs. A. NJ. Robertson has gone TO st
Louis to visit her parents for q short time.
Miss Carrie Martin will go TO Chicago
Thursday to visit her brother and family.
Mrs. j. w. Ansel. of Denison, o.. is visit.
Ing Mrs. &. l. Divine. at III East St. Clan
street
Miss Eta Swisher, of Cambridge. is the
guest of DR.. Lolita Swisher, on Circle
street.
Mrs. G. w. Stanley and son Clarence will
spend next week with relatives at Con.
nersyille.
Miss Peal Kindleberger has gone to
Eaton, o.. to spend several weeks will
relatives.
Mr.. Lloyd Hammond, of Lebanon. il the
guest of Mr.. Wingate Hammel, on NORTH
Alabama street.
Mrs. J. w. Gordon, who has been the
guest Of Madison friends for q fortnight.
has returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Griffiths were called
to Lafayette last evening by tho serious
illness of the latters father.
Mrs. Allen Sammons, of Michigan City, il
visiting her mother. Mrs. James Z. Robert.
SOD, on North Alabama street.
Mrs. W. b. Fletcher left yesterday fol
Mayield. Cal. to visit her daughters and
others for an indefinite period.
Mrs. Mary Stark, Of H~enryv,lle. will
spend this week with her daughter, Mrs
X. b. Mundell. on North Pennsylvania
street.
The Misses Matte and Mary Noble, twin
sisters, of Centreville, Ind, are visiting
their sister. Mrs. q. b. Stats. ON Eleventh
street.
Mrs. Lucy Evans and daughters. OF
Frankfort. KY. formerly of this city, have
again removed here. and have taken a
house on West First street.
Mrs. w. T.. Sharpe and Miss Percy
Walker are visiting their aunt, Mrs. Ems
wiler. at Peru. Last week Mrs. Sharpe
and Miss Sadie Walker assisted at q con
cert that was given there for NJ. Constant
o violinist.
Social Events.
The Amity Club will give a social hop a,
Gresh's Dancing Academy Thursday even
ing.
The marriage of Miss Eva Johnson and
Mr.. William Fausett will occur Thursday
morning.
The Duckworth Club rendered a birth
day party In honor of Miss Anna Wiehen.
stroth Thursday evening.
Mrs. Charles f. Dark has issued invita-
tions for q reception Thursday, from 2 TO 5
In honor of Mrs. Rondtbaler.
The engagement of Mr.. William Clifford
and Miss Caroly ne X. Morse is announced
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