The Indianapolis journal., 1896-09-06
AUTUMN WEDDING TRIPS
TWENTY-FIVE OR MORE INDIANAP-
OILS GIRLS WILL TAKE THEM.
some of These Marriages VIII BE
Surprises-Peoplc Returning from
summer Trips-PersonaI Mention.

In another week most of the Indianapolis
neople who have been away will have re-
turned home They have been everywhere
and they bring home not only souvenirs of
their trips but accounts of their various
experiences. Some of them have barely es-
capped drowning. One family missed ter
ribe railroad accident by one train They
have had peaceful times at country places
and gay times at the lakes and mountains
and interesting visits to many notable
places. The prospective journeys for the
autumn wedding trips. and there are to
be many. 1t is said that no.less than TWEEN
tv-fve young ladies, who are well known
will take such trips before the new year
october is to have it's usual number of
weddings, and November and December
will in the future be the months in which
marriage anniversaries will be observed
counting from 1896. Some of the weddings
will be surprises and others have been
more or less talked about for weeks,
months or years.
one day, recently, a number of relatives
and intimate friends, which made quite a
party went out to the Country Club to
spend the day. 1t happened to be the birth
dav anniversary of one of the ladies, and
bv accident one of her friends found it out
She made a confidante of her information
to one of the party and asked her to go
down town with her to buy a present for
the one TO have the birthday. They bought
numerous articles and had them wrapped
in individual packages, some of them in
many papers and in boxes. The morning
of the day they went early to the club
house and took their things Before dinner
was served they went into the dining room
and marked the seat of honor with a great
stalk of sunfiowers. After dinner the gifts
were presented, and the member with the
birthday was greatly surprised. but not
more so than the other guests, for they
knew nothing about the affair and in ad-
dition each gift was marked with the name
and the good wishes of the donor, there
being gift from every person at the ta-
Bile The hilarity caused was something
that will make the event memorable one
in the calendar of birthdays.
Where" queried a sweet old lady, who,
from the lines of the chaperones, watched
society a-dance, has ballroom courtesy
gone to? When I was a girl it would
have been considered an insult for any
young man to lead his partner on to the
floor with such an air of bored indifference.
In those days a young gentleman begged
for the honor of d dance now they saun-
ter up to whom they may fancy and say
Want to dance this? Have a turn?' or
There goes a two-step; come on And
what's more. the girls don't seem to re-
sist it.
Last evening I actually overheard young
Mr. A. ask that pretty brunette in yellow
to dance a waltz. She said she was tired
just then. Later on, perhaps
g" You'd better take me while you can
get me-. broke in Mr. A. with a laugh,
and if you'n believe me. that girl got up
and danced the waltz with him.
Have mothers given up teaching their
sons and daughters social etiquette?'
A writer lets out a secret regarding the
way in which young women read novels.
1t was in the car and two girls were talk
ing of what they read. "Oh, | choose a
novel easy enough said one. Il go to
the circulating library and look at the last
chapters. If | find the rain softly and
sadly dropping over one or two lonely
graves l don't have it, but if the morning
sun is glimmering over bridal robes of
white satin L know it's all right and take
it, and start to buy sweets to eat while
l read it,
Already people are beginning to talk
about winter clothes, and even about furs, -
says a fashion writer. Among the most
popular furs ermine promises to lead, and
it will be worn by young and Did alike
''It is vastly becoming and 50 surprisingly
rich that it gives tone to any costume.
Ermine is, of course, an evening fur, and
is seen in the daylight only the smartest
of functions. wonderfully fetching cloak
fashioned for elderly lady, whose crown
of silvery hair makes her a dainty subject
for any dressing, has a large full cape of
silvery gray broadcloth, pleated into a
yoke over which falls a collarette with
stole ends reaching to the foot of the cape,
of ermine.
THE entire wrap is heavily wadded and
lined throughout with crisp white taffeta.
This Grape is worn over charming gown
of silvery gray crepon made up over gray
taffeta and heavily trimmed with gray
velvet and numbers of small cut steel but
tons A small toque composed of Parma
violets with huge pink rose at the
center, is topped off by a nodding black
plume at the back"