The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-25
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY
EXPERIENCE OF FOUR YOUNG MEN
AT A RECENT GARDEN PARTY.
New style of Note Paper "for the No.
The Moving Social W orId.

Most of the garden parties were given
several weeks ago and while there were
numerous guests in town Only those who
know the young men of the following story
will be apt to place the occurrence at the
door of the right persons: There were two
young ladies from another town visiting
two sisters in this city. Four young men
invited them to attend a garden party one
evening. When the evening arrived the
young men presented themselves at the
home of the young ladies', ready to take
them to the party. While the young men
waited the mother of the young ladies at
whose house they were came in to speak
to them. She likes nice things, and is
known as rather a stickler for the propri-
cites. She observed the costumes of the
young men, who did not have on dress suits
for a garden party, and she said: You
are not ready for the party are your She
was informed that they were, and she re-
marked that she believed she had read that
dress suits should be worn after o'clock
The. one addressed said that garden par
ties were not understood to be strictly for
NAL affairs, and that they had worn what
they thought to be the correct dress. She
did not press the subject further and the
four young ladies soon after made their
appearance. The mother went to the door
with them and she again had occasion to
make a remark. This was to the effect that
the carriages had not arrived. The speaker
for the male quartet said that the place
was so near they had not thought it neces-
sary to have a carriage for three squares
The mother thought differently. and she
said: Il could not think of such a thing
as allowing my daughters and their guests
to walk, and she said she would order
carriages; Ihey waited, and she went to
ALI
Ihey came IN que time and the eight
young people went to the paIty About
eight days later the young men were as
tonished TO- receive the bills for the car
riages. Able or not, of course, they had
TO pay them. They tod the story them
selves, and are having no end of remarks
made by their friends.
A young lady of this city received a letter
flom literary friend a few days ago that
was written on extremely unique paper
The writer explained that the paper had
been presented to her by the aesthetic Ed
mund Russell. The sheet was of the usual
letter paper width and about fourteen
inches long, opening at the right side. The
paper was of a pale green color and was
lightly embossed with heur-de-lis designs
ABOUT an men in length. DiagOnally across
the upper left hand corner of the first page
were three feur-de-liS figures in silver The
folded sheet was tied around from right to
LETT with gros grain Satin-edged ribbon
of the same tint as the paper and tied in
dainty bow in the center of the page The
envelope held the sheet as it was folded to-
gether once, and it, too was lightly embossed
with the same design. The quality of the pa
per was heavy and smooth. The writer said /:
This paper is only for the nobility but as
nobility don't write to me. / cannot use il
on them and as you are as near a crowned
head as I shall ever know, l use one pre-
cious sheet on you
story is told of wel-known young
man, who took a pretty young widow out
to the Country Club for supper one evening
recently. 1t seems that friends of his went
out in a party the same evening and were
sitting on the broad porch chatting, while
he and the young widow were at the ex-
IRENE end 1t is custom at the Country
Club when persons arrive in the evening
to turn on q little more electric light. and
after they are accustomed to the place the
light is lowered That evening there were
a half dozen or more arrivals and every
time any one came the light went up. The
party understood this, but the young man
and the widow did not A day or so later
the young man met one of the party and
said: THAT was a nice trick you plaved
on me the other night, turning that light
up every few minutes" The one addressed
did not explain but let it go at that until
the next meeting with the young man.
when she said: You thought we were turn
ing up the light, but we did not and then
she told him about the custom at the club
re tried TO explain that when the Widows
hair fell down he was al least five feet from
her, but the more he said the worse he be-
came tangled, and finally he went away
with the joke distinctly on him.
At a supper a few evenings ago where a
few friends had been invited in with the
family there was gathering Of a dozen or
more people. During the conversation some
one suggested pet economies. remarking
that he thought every person had some
few things about which they were careful
of expenditure. Each one added to the dis
cussion by citing his or her own pet econ
omies and those of persons of whom they
knew or had heard. One said that her
mother was careful of matches, that it
was not an unusual thing for her mother
to make a single match light the gas down
stairs and above, and that most careful
trips up the stairs with the lighted match
with enough hurry to get there and not
so much that the match would be blown
out, were an every-night occurrence An
other said that her father was close with
small change, that he would rather give a
check for several dollars to one of his fam
lily than part with a dime he had in his
pocket. Another said that he knew of a
woman who was economical with thread
that she had watched her sew and en-
broider, and that she would use her thread
up till II was scarcely longer than the
used her castings twice and sometimes
three times. that she would waste 10 cents
worth or time saving a mills worth of
thread. Another told of a woman who was
economical with writing paper, and that
the four pages of sheet would be written
on, then the margins and sometimes the
pages hlled the lengthwise of the sheet
right over the other lines of the writing
before she would take a second sheet. An
other case was of q woman who never
would buy enough material for a dress she
was TO have made She always had to go
second and often third time. and more
than once il had happened that the piece
Of goods would be gone before the dress
was completed and she you'd have to finish
out with something else. The talk grew
very interesting, names being frequently
mentioned as the conversation proceeded
There was nstanced the cases of a man
any of his friends, for he would have to
offer a cigar. and the story of girl who
would not buy candy or soda water, and
counted every time she was tempted TO do
either. and would put the nickels that the
candy and soda she did not buy would have
cost to her economy account Then the old
story was told of the woman who took
butter. eggs, spices. milk and all the other
things needed and made a bread pudding
10 save a few slices of a dve-eent loaf
Every one has some pet economy, and
comparison of notes often brings out
amusing and amazing information.
Personal and Society.
Mrs r. V. Shindle is visiting relatives in
Springfield, O.
Dir. Phil Watson has gone TO Block island
Ror the summer.