The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-11
THE REALM OF SOCIETY
LITTLE ITEMS ABOUT PEOPLE WELL
KNOWN IN THE CITY.
a suggestion as to Fixing Hours for
Afternoon Social Affairs-New Fad
in Note Paper.


when invitations are sent out and the
guests are expected to be promptly on
hand that n single hour be named, thus:
..Tea at 4 o'clock" or simply "A o'clock
or any other hour. but when the guests are
TO have the privilege of attending at any
time after certain hour that two hours
be named. thus: IS until s. II to g. to
3" When it is an evening party single
our. O clock is all that is necessary but
for the innumerahle afternoon companies a
single hour should mean promptness and
two hours pleasure.
Il shall be glad when the day comes that
a man invited to address club or assem-
blage of women will omit the fulsome fiat
terry and compliment that they seem
TO think ought to preface their remarks
said a woman few days ago. Il have yet
to go TO single meeting whore man adj
dresses such an audience that he does not
waste a few minutes donating sweets.
Women who deserve praise ought to have
il would sound to deluge men, who are
gagged in earnest and noble work. with
verbal sugar plums
The last new craze in Paris is said to be
the wearing of lighted lantern as a per-
sonal ornament. The fashion originated
with a speculative manufacturer, whose
'petites lanternes'' were bought by tens of
tern is very small and neat, and made in
Gothic form, after an ancient model. 1T is
only of tin, but is sufficiently solid 1t has
well-ftted glass plates is about the size of
a walnut. burns for hours, and is
sold at the price of six sous Almost ev-
erybody who returned from. the Neuilly
fair to Paris, as a correspondent tells us,
looked as if he was outwardly symbolizing
the midsummer, saint, John the Baptist, "a
boys had the little lanterns in their hats
and the ladies carried them i'll their bou-
quets.
The man or woman who desires to in
dulge in the very latest style of stationery
will use celestial blue or royal red"
The blue has been used to some extent al
ready and has been adopted by those who
like fine paper adorned with monogram or
of the brightest shade, rich in tone and
handsome in quality. 1t is marked like
leather. Strange as it may seem, all kinds
of ink are perfectly clear on it.
The great spectacle of the Yelled Proph-
cts took place at St. Louis during the past
week and this opening paragraph. used by
the graphic reporter of the Republic of that
city, described the event, and not heaven
might be inferred:
"A great and stately building glowing
With light and beautiful within and without
as though touched by the wand of
Jur@ of the enchanted times. From its
majestic ballroom, scene of fairy fair
ness, the soft strains of wooing music ris-
feet, starlit night. Within the ballroom
the most brilliant aSsemblage of fashion
and beauty yet known in the social history
of st: Louis, fashion and beauty amid all
the intoxicating surroundings of vivid
bloom and graceful foliage and many coll
cred decora tons. Upon the smooth and
snowy dancing floor. the august Yelled
Prophet and his coStumed retinue, the ra-
diant Queen of the Ball. and by right of
that royal rank the queen of the society
season of 1896. with her three fair maids of
honor, the quartet of courtly young women
crowned as fitted their high station.
I'm rising tier after tier of crimson-cov>
cred seats along all sides of the vast hall
P 4e g g t5 of the veea
spectacle known to this continent Such is
the outline picture of the Yelled Prophets
Ball of 1896 as that picture took form and
life and color at 11:10 O'Clock last night.
For hours before that time the streets of
st. Louis vivid with lights had been
thronged with crowds equaling massed
mics in their numerical strength.
Through these crowds down the stately
Prophets pageant of 1896 had pursued it's
imperial way, a succession of bewildering
enes iliustra ting the gentler arts of life;
the rich glow of colored lights illuminating
the panoramic procession, the crash of mu-
tic accompanying it
"rhe brilliant and regal ball was the cli-
max of the night begun by the imposing
parade. Poetry has not died out of life
when such evenings of enchanJment are
possible in the closing years of the nine
teenth century. The august Yelled Prophet
is the master conjurer of the ages. He de-
fies the prosaic present and carries grateful
mankind back to the days when the race
dreamed dreams and was happy in it's
dreaming.
Personal and Society.
Mrs. Hord, of Chicago, is visiting Mrs
Frances Hord, in Woodruff Place.
Miss Zerelda w. Beatty left yesterday for
Philadelphia to be absent fortnight.
DR.. A. e. Buchanan returned Saturday
from a weeks visit in Kansas City.
Mrs Lydia Pratt OF Martinsville, is visit
ing relatives at No. 334 North Illinois street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold b. Hibben will
turn from Il short trip to New York to-
night.
Mrs. Daniel E. Brink, who has been Wis
iting friends here, Will return home to-
morrow.
Miss Lyall and Miss Foster of New York
lexington.
Mrs Mary B. Fletcher entertained a num-
Der of friends Friday evening for Miss Kate
Wheelock.
The Philamathean Club will meet Friday
The conversation will be led by Miss Dor
othy Foster.
Miss Anna Spann will give a tea to-mor-
row afternoon for her guest, Miss Denny,
of Worcester.
Mrs. John Reaume will entertain the
Chapel Club Wednesday evening. and gen.
tlemen are invited.
Mrs. Charles w. Fairbanks and daughter
Adelaide win go TO Lake Forest this week
to spend two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. p. Hendrickson will leave
to-day for New York, where they will spend
three or four weeks.
Mrs. Emma winsor and Miss Anna Dun
lop are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs John c.
Dean for few days
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest NJ. Wiles are spend
ing week with friends in Kansas City, at
tending family reunion
Mr.. and Mrs. frank Rogers entertained
few friends last evening a dinner at their
home in Woodruff Place.
Miss Pearl Davidson. of North Illinois
street, has gone to Cincinnati to visit rela-
tives for an indefinite time.
Miss Knippenberg viii entertain Tuesday
afternoon for Miss Erwin, who is to be
married the following week.
Mrs w. c. Elsasser and family have
turned home from a two months visit with
relatives and friends in Canada.
Mrs Theodore Potter will receive her
friends informally Wednesday afternoon
with her mother, Mrs. Jacob Fox.
Mrs. r. X. syfers gave a handsome
luncheon to few friends Friday in honor
of Mrs. Louis Haughey, of Chicago.
Mrs. j. II. Reynolds. of Madison. will
come to-day to make an extended visit TO
her daughter. Mrs. Louis r. Levey.
Mrs. Thomas Bassett and niece, Miss Ella
Waite, have returned from visit TO
Massachusetts relatives and friends.