The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY
PORCH PARTIES AND TROLLEY PAR
TIES ARE STILL ALL THE VOGUE.
to Evening Partfes-MOve-
ments of People.

The warm weather has resolved enter
tanning into two forms, the porch party
and the trolley party. One is reserved for
morning and the other for evenings while
the middle of the day is given up to re-
cu2eration. The morning party is sim
pie affair. or should be. with the surround
ing ground we'll sprinkled and a supply of
seats and fans for the guests. Any sim
pie guessing game may be introduced, but
anything that will be tax TO the mind
should be carefully avoided. The refresn-
ment includes cup of cold Russian tea or
lemonade as the guests arrive and ices just
before they go. The trolley party is the
other entertainment. the chief difficulty of
which is to have all of the guests prompt
In attendance when the car is ordered for
a certain hour single motor car is usu-
ally the one selected, with forty guests to
fill ii. The company decorates the car all
that is necessary, and this is with circle
of colored electric lights on the edge of the
car roof 1t gives a particularly gala APP
pearance and saves a hostess the trouble
and expense of decoration. The ride may
be for any length of time and over several
lines, the route TO the two parks being pre-
ferred. All this cool breezes possible are
found on the car, and the seats are so
faced that conversation is easy and change
of seats made without trouble. The hour
or more after the ride is spent at the home
of the hostess, who serves ices and cake
in the garden or on the porch. One hostess
provided peanuts, candy and popcorn as
the refreshment for the trip. The ride and
conversation is all that is necessary, and
whatever is provided further is a matter
of taste with those entertaining. A trolley
ride given last week was to Broad Ripple,
where supper was served, and the evening
was spent in a boat ride on the double
decker" which had been chartered with a
return to the city late in the evening.
mo, | do not take wine when l am out
in company, and you may think the rea-
son is rather odd. l do not reject on &C
count of scruples, exactly. l do not like
wine. If any wants to drink should
not object. but the reason l turn my glass
down is that if 1 do say anything no
one can criticise me, giving the fact that 1
had been drinking as the reason" The
speech was made by young lady who has
attended dinners and Dutch lunches, but
who has not been known to imbibe any
thing stronger than lemonade Apolli-
naris water.
There is a great grooming among the men
who are invited to any sort of an evening
company in hot weather, for the simple
reason that they think a dress suit is in
dispensabie. At a garden fete last week
the dress suits were in the minority, and
the men wore white linen or duck, either
the entire suits the white trousers and a
dark coat They added much more to the
picturesqueness Of the scene than If they
wore the conventional black.
ha hot riphtS az tha last Of the week
were such that there were few houses in
which one could sleep comfortably. In
spacious residence on the North Side mat
tresses were taken down into the back par
lor and the library, on the north side of
the house, and occupied, and they were
left there through the day. The mornings
were spent on the porch, no visitors in the
afternoons the evenings were given to a
car ride or a drive and in this way the
family managed to keep comfortable.
The way in which the men have taken to
duck, linen and crash suits in the last few
days has seldom been surpassed in this
city. A bright young woman who has
known the trouble of having things laun-
dered and the consequent shrinkage, charac-
terzed the fate of the coarse wash suits
in this way: 1.-The first time they are
worn they are all right, but after the first
washing they are knickerbockers, and after
the second washing they may be worn as
collars"
1t is notifying to note how many per-
sons pay little heed TO what may be
styled the etiquette of introductions To
the lover of good form there is something
that sets ones teeth on edge on hearing an
introduction so worded that a woman is
presented to man or elderly woman to
a young one. The rules with regard to in
Productions are so simple and sensible that
it would seem that the wayfaring man or
woman, though a fool, could scarcely err
therein. A man is always introduced to
woman, and it may be well in passing to
add that ladys permission should usually
be asked before such presentation is
made. 1t is a simple matter to say, Miss
Smith, may L present to you Mr.. Jones ?''
before uttering the formal, Miss Smith,
allow me to introduce Mr.. jones' The
woman whom he is to meet the woman
should never be led to the man. These
rules might seem SuperfluOuS were Ii not
that one so often observes their infraction
among people who should know better. AT
tea a matfon who years before had
rived at the dignity OF a grandmother was
piloted by her hostess 10 q young girl OF
twenty and they were made known to each
other In the well-meant words: Mrs
Knight, want 10 present you to my dear
little friend Mabel Day. Mabel dear this
is Mrs Knight, OF whom you have so often
heard me speak" If the ladies were amused
that knowledge of good form in which their
hostess was lacking that they showed no
consciousness or her error.-Harpers Bazaar.
Personal and Society.
Miss Ida Peterson is visiting in Rockville