The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-31
AFFAIRS on SOCIETY
LITTLE OF soMBERNEss IN THE
PRESENT LENTEs SEASON.
Carringe Nuisance mt the Theaters-
Movements OF People In and
Out of Town.


these lew weeks before Easter What to get
ana now to have it made are the all-im-
portant Questions. A bright North Meridian
street woman was assured by most of the
clerks where she went to look at materials,
That crepon was the fashionable fabric for
the season. She is careful observer and
can see 1ikenesses which others would pass
unncticed. Walking on the thoroughfare
mat attracts the most trade she saw. what
bnr visible Pc at almost any time, country
Even the country horses are in fashion
TINS year. for their coats have the crepon
erect IL Is quite needless to say that
curry comb. vigorously used, would have
reduced the crepon TO satin.
The members of the committee having
the library masquerade in charge, Mes
DANES II. b. Holman, Charles II. Com
stock, Harry Gates. Hervey Bates, jr..
Hewitt Rowland and J. K. Sharpe, jr., re-
quest that all who have been invited by
the committee and have not reported the
name and title of the book they are to
represent would do so by Thursday of this
week to Mrs. Bement Lyman. No. $40 North
SapItol avenue, so that the catalogues may
oe arranged and duplicates prevented. The
participants will be masked. AT certain
pc TWO rows of seats placed around the
ma nail ,, for those who wish to look on In
Vltations Will be issued soon for the mas
querade, which will take place at the Prop
ylaeum, the evening of April Is, and must
entertainment. BY the enthusiastic few
who have seen the Library party in the
event of the season. Miss Eliza G. Brown
ing VIII be the librarian and her assistants
M 6s Mis- Mss A Mo Wa ;l Miss Susan
Mrs f. I. Hord and Mrs. Fl. III. Rowland.
What do you suppose pay a license for,
anyway" said one of the men who have
public vehicles in front of theaters. After
asking the question he did not wait for an
answer but continued to shout, Here's
your accommodation carriage, right to any
part of the city," The entire space in front
of the theater entrance was blocked by the
public carriages, and those who had pri-
vate carriages had to walk across the street
or several doors either side in order to ge.
10 them. The man who had paid the license
felt that the choice place, when the play
naid s. ,here he conld stand til ii some one
hired his carriage. 1t made no difference
to him that there were dozens who were
ready to get into their own carriages and
get away. With the increase in wealth and
population there are many handsome vehicles
being bought and used One of the luxuries
of owning carriage is generally under
stood to mean that the owner may have
the use Of it, to be driven to and from
the theater parties, shopping and the like
The argument of the friend of the man
he has to make his living with his carriage
Is that any reason why he should take the
center right out of the watermelon? On the
TO move, it was raining hard. Not antici-
pating the rain, no one was prepared for
of their carriages had to go some distance.
while the. hackman held the fort. There
rangement for carriages than that which
exists at present at the theaters.
There has rarely been a winter like the
past for general entertaining. 1t began
long before the holidays and only stopped
with Lent. There are prospects of a re-
vival after Easter. OF course there have
! been many entertainers. Those who have
given companies know that no matter how
we'll their preparations may be arranged
they are liable to become disarranged as
the hour for the company arrives. The
hostess who expects to have eyrythng in
readiness early, so that she way have time
to rest and dress before the guests arrive,
finds that she has to rush into down at
q much later hour than she anticipated.
The plans she made were we'll enough.
but ii took a maid all the time to answer
ceptances of, those who had been invited.
Many persons think 1t polite to send
their own regrets and deliver them verbal
~. The woman who is trying to get ready
ing her her time in this way. livery time eV She
the maid goes to answer the bell is SO
much time lost It is quite proper to send
cards by mail. In the days when the
mail slow it was different. Now a
card note posted at night is delivered
In the morning. Should sudden notice have
to be sent messengers are necessary, but
ordinary regrets for reception If sent by
mail, ara delivered all at once. A hostess
for reception not long ago remarked
that not only was 1T frequent occur
second would have to answer the bell while
the first card or message being deliv-
cred and It na,ppn ,, not few times that
wished to give them verbally and she made
seven trips down stairs in one morning
4,yrf fNr- vxhi NIL Iox t,na
just as we'll made by note. In these busy
times customs are rapidly changing and il
mestic machinery with hand-deliveret
notes on the occasion of an entertainment
the occasion of sudden reason for no,
accepting an invitation to a dinner OIL
luncheon.
Presidents of women's societies are goins
through a process for improving their pa
thence; also training for putting persona
affection behind when rules are beins
broken. The joke maker has truth on his
side at woman's meetings. The duties o.
the president are surely plain enough. Five
minute speeches, when there is a programme
with every minute full, should mean five
minute speeches. When a president finds
N morning or an afternoon or an evening gon
and the programme not nearly finished ii
is her own fault. One of the privileges anc
duties of a president is to preside. Wher
she allows one woman to talk more thar
the allotted time she steals just so mucf
time from another. According to the ole
adage time is money She would mo-
" take money from any one of her audience t.
WI give to another and she has no more righ
20 allow a woman to take the time of an
other than the money. A woman WIG has
allowed too much speaking tried to excuse
herself on the ground that some of those
who took too much time were friends O.
hers and she would hurt their feelings i
where business is being dispatched there ar,
or should be no such relations. Ii was a
one of the affairs of the annual w. c. L
Z. meeting at Roberts Park Church las
November where the presiding officer al
lowed any woman in the audience to ex
press her views as to whether the W. c. T
FL rooms ouss North Pennsylvania stree
~ which had been kept open by the organiza
fion should be continued or closed. Their,
|z were other matters that ought to have beer
&taken up. Members were compelled t,
ieave. Still the talk went on. 1t was pas
The hour for closing, Talk. talk and still
more talk. without coming any nearer TIL
md. what was the final arrangement? TIL
matter of closing or not was left to thu
axecutiye committee. Precious hours wer
gone, not miutes. Another matter on tn
same line is the one of beginning al
Kinds OF meetings begin late and as for a.