The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY
THE MAKING OF DAINTY HANDNER-
CHIEFS A SUMMER DIVERSION.
Old-TIme Game Of CrOquet Returning
to PopularIty-The LOoking-GIass
Habits-Notes of People.

The young woman who has remained at
home all summer, and many of those who
have had hours TO spend at the resorts have
busted their fingers making handkerchiefs.
These handkerehiefs have not been the old
time squares of hem-stitched linen. but have
been of odd shapes of thin, sheer linen
lawn, the edges daintly rolled and the
borders being made of lace and insertion or
full ruffies of footing. There is nothing
prettier in pretty hands than this fine work,
ana IN addition to forming a picture good 10
see 1t has element of the practical, for
the handkerchiefs, we'll made, will stand
wear ana they furnish suitable articles Tor
gifts. Another style of handkerchief that
has "A few devotees is the drawn linen, but
these are not so popular, as they require
the most careful, close work, and the sum-
mer girl is not given to too much applica-
ton either at home or abroad recent
bride carried a handkerchief that was MADE
by her maid of honor. 1t was edged with
lace and side the full maiden
name OF the bride, exqulsltely emprolu r5i,
while on the opposite side was the brides
monogram-to-be.
An Eastern paper comments on the look
ing-glass habit. That there is such a habit
can be proved almost any day as walks
on the downtown streets where the win
dows frequently have mirrors or where the
huge plates of glass are of themselves re-
Electors. The mirror habit is stronger In
men than in women. The former will de-
nDerately stop in front of the mirror ana
arrange any little disorder of the toilet. A
man was seer last week to deliberately pull
out the knot of his tie and make the bow
over again. He seemed perfectly Obvious
TO the fact that scores of people were look
ing at him as they passed. but finishing
the bow to his satisfaction, he reset his hat,
pulled his coat into shape, took final look
at himself and passed on. The girls and
women look into the mirrors, but they sell
dom go so far as to go through any SUCH
elaborate performance as the man just men
toned. A fixing of the hat and a feeling
of the meeting or not meeting of the belt
and the shirt waist is about the limit. Ii
may possibly be that the latter uses her
glass more freely at home, but there are
hundreds Of persons every day who take
peep at themselves in the mirrors while
pretending to look al the wares displayed
within. The lookng-glass habit is not dan
gerous but it is liable to cause an Increase
OF vanity which is violent enough already.
There is to be a return to croquet as a
fashionable game. 1t is so many years since
croquet was the most popular Of all out
door games that it is comparatively I'M
known to the younger generations and. like
the return of so many old styles it has
come in again with renewed yisor. It has
never been quite out of dar in ru.'al dis
tricts, for the "croQuet set has been care
fully kept and brought out only on rare
occasions Long ago the smart set put
croquet away in the background with ten
mis- and later golf and other diversions, but
this summer croquet has been set on the
lawns at the mountain resorts and other
places, and knocking the balls from post
TO wicket and back again has been one or
the most absorbing pG5tmeS. Circulars ad
quet scenes among their most prominent
pictures.