The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-12
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY
LITTLE CHATS ABOUT POLITE Az
FAIRS IN INDIANAPoLIs.
Rainy-Dny Dress ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Letters-FIOwers for the
"Bestv Girl.

All that is necessary for Indianapolis to
have q rainy-day club is for the women
who ride wheels to wear their short wheel
dresses on the street on rainy days There
will not be need of formal organization,
like the one in Boston and other cities,
where the women who desire to advance
rainy-day dress reform meet, choose Off
GERS and pay dues, and when these occa-
sions are on rainy days arrive with their
long bedrabbled skirts. The comfort of do
ing shopping, particularly through this sea-
son, in "A dress that does not have to be held
up, can hardly be estimated. Laden with
packages, the woman in short dress can
have more peace OF mind than can be real
lied by one who has not tried it. When the
women who ride wheels wear their short
skirts in rainy weather it will not be long
until women who do not ride wheels follow
their example.
There is another epidemic of anonymous
letters. About two years ago some woman
undertook to make herself very disagree
able with such documents, and now she or
some other one is doing the same thing
Such letters are invariably the work of an
envious person, who does not hesitate to
write untruths, but matter how untrue
the person who receives them knows them
to be. they always leave their sting.
A young lady whose engagement was re-
Gently announced, but who does not expect
to be married for a long time, has been APP
preached by two leaders of orchestras who
desired to furnish the music, a florist who
wants to do the decorating, three women
who want to cater for the event, a livery
man who wants to supply carriages, and
she has had numerous advertisements from
Wp00inq
cards.
1t will not be necessary to pay huge
prices for rose stalks hereafter. The long
stemmed roses and chrysanthemums are
not in such high favor. 1t will be quite the
thing for a young woman to carry a rose
at ball. This will not be long stemmed
nor 10 be used for a walking stick 1t is
quite certain that stems a yard long We're
awkward and burden. The polite bouquet
is roses with stems not more than eighteen
Inches, If that long, or flowers like violets,
lilies Of the valley or other small blossoms.
A young lady who is enjoying her second
season has already found the round of teas,
day after day, becoming uneventful, not to
say monotonous. She expects to have a
friend from out of town visit her, and she
was wondering how she could best enter
tain her. A friend suggested a tea. Yes
III give a tea and I'll only serve one thing .
she said in a disguised tone. And what
Will that one thing be?" "CheStnuts," she
snapped.
A well-known gentleman, who has the
reputation for being very agreeable and do
ing and saying pleasant things in company
was at party recently and was speaking
to a gentleman when a second man an
preached. The agreeable man desired to in
troduce them, but could not recall the name
OF one of them. He pronounced the name
of the other clearly. 1t happened that he
was introducing father and son. A lady at
the same party tried to introduce husband
and wife