The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-11
THE PASSING OF LENT
ONLY A FEW MODEST ENTERTAIN
MENTs BEING GIVEN.
Personal Gossip of People In and Out
of Town-PeopIe Who
Look Cross.

II have often been amused" said a
woman the other day. lat the way men
and women. BOTH stop before the mirrors
in the shop windows and arrange their
toilets. They seem so fastidious If there
= anything out of order but / often won
der Why more mirrors cannot be placed.
if they would only tempt people TO look at
their facial expressions | rode up town
IN a car one day and there was a woman
across the aisle who looked as cross as
meat ak Her face would have been
good model for some OF Dore's heads for
the Inferno and there are hundreds of
people We meet every day who ought to
have a mirror held before them just once.
for they would ever after wonder how they
could look as cross and disagreeable as
they do. Ii was IN connection with this
conversation that another woman said: Il
think / am cured, and cured 10 stay. Of
the habit OF looking cross in public. 1 was
in one of the dry-gOods stores to-day where
the elevator IS SLOW and II was crowded.
j was going uD to the top floor. ana L
caught sight of a face that seemed familiar
heavens, ! thought. what "a suur-loOking
oman What in the world makes women
look so? Then 1 looked again. Ii was my
own face IN the glass and-well, if ! ever
look cross IN pubic again IL will be be-
cause Ne forgotten that face
Al one of the many card parties given
within the last two weeks the following is
the acceptance which one hostess received:
My Dear Mrs. -: Thank you so very
much for your kind invitation for Wednes-
day. | shall he most happy to accept. with
pTovisO: Please do give my name
10 the newspapers in your list OF guests.
YOu know | am a member of - tan kpis-
ccpal church was here namely. ana /
should not like IL To be generally known
that / had been playing cards in Lent. |
Know. my dear Mrs. -. that you will be
so very kind, and ] shall enjoy the after
noon with you and your friends.
The following is from St. Louis paper
or d recent date: OF course you know that
sweet love song by Rogers called AT Part
ing" And how the last verse goes
''The sweetest flower that grows,
4 give you part;
You think il but rose
All, me! 1t is my heart
| must tell you a little story apropos of
this ballad which girl wrote me not long
ago. 1t seems that a certain st. Louis bach
elor. who owns an effective tenor voice. by
the by, and cultivates it's dulcet tones
when his insurance duties will let him, be-
came engaged to an indianapolis belle dur
ing her visit here in December
The affair was not announced, however,
and people only guessed things from the
fact that his attentions very pro-
nounced. But the maid was fair, and alas,
tor the tenor's hopes, very. very tickle. She
went DdSh 10 Indianapolis ana forgot ner
St Louis lover. She not only forgot him.
but promised TO marry another man, and
did last week.
When the tenor received her wedding
cards. which the jilt was heartless enough
20 send him. he did Immediately seek a
quick death by cold poison or do anything
similarly rash and reckless. He merely
rolled up his much-worn copy of this love
song. with all it's tender memories of the
many times he had sung Ii to her, tied
about il perfect American Beauty rose
and expressed the whole TO Indianapolis
that it would reach her on her wedding day
The bridesmaid who wrote me about the
little affair SAYS Miss HeartlesS Jilt was SC
affected on receiving the package that she
cried.
But. la me, she married the other mar
Just the same.