The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY
MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLE WELL
KNOWN IN INDIANAPOLIS CIRCLES.
Unusual Experiences OF a Local Jok-
er in Minnesota City-Af-
fairs mt Irvington.

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s. popular young man of this city took
trip north this summer and stopped at st.
Paul for short time. He had previously
sent word to a friend, who used to live
here. also well known, that he would be
In St. Paul soon. and would let him know
when he arrived. The morning he reached
there he called up his friend by telephone
and was answered by him. You received
my announcement said the visitor, from
the hotel. The friend in the business house
had tone of surprise In his simple reply
of Yes and then remarked suddenly.
''When did it happen?" This was unex-
pected by the friend at the hotel, but he
was quick to grasp the situation, and, being
fond of a little joke, he said Come up
and take dinner and III tell you all about
it," But who is the girl?" No satisfac-
tory answer was given, but the word came
over the wire. "Yon just come up to dinner
and see her" The young man who lived
in st. Paul supposed his friend was mar
ried, so he accepted the invitation TO dim
ner, and at clock appeared in his dress
suit and with a handsome cluster of flow
ers for the lady The young man from
indianapolis has been known to pass sleep
less nights conjuring up some scheme or
june, ana so ne ala not lnle0u 10 let the
simple matter Of a few hours keep him
from enjoying the surprise of his friend
when he should be presented to the sup
posed bride. In the hotel there was
charming young lady, who was a commons
acquaintance of himself and a married
lady in the hotel where he was stopping.
She wore on her finger the wedding ring
of her dead sister, and also had some flash
ing gems. The common friend was in
weighed into the scheme. and she acceded
to the request of the young man to per-
suade the young lady TO pose as his wife
just for the dinner She consented. The
friend came to dinner, was duly presented,
and was delighted with the supposed bride.
There was a story of the wedding made
up for the occasion, and the friend took il
all in, until the couple could not stand it
any longer, and they told him the joke
they had played on him.
your apartment houses have such queer
Names said a young lady who has been
spending the summer in the city THE
only way ] can remember two of them is
to say Blue shirt and Shallow 'front.'"
The Detroit Free Press has an interest
ing sketch of poker work" This is be-
coming one of the accomplishments of the
artists in wood, and the shops are showing
beautiful articles in it. The sketch says:
Poker work is an interesting occupation,
and many beautiful articles will be the re-
suit of ones labors. The woods which are
the best for cabinet work treated in this
way are bass wood, maple and olive wood.
The first is most in USE The burning APP
paratus consists of a large spirit lamp
holding benzine, to which is attached a tube
which terminates in rubber bulb. An
other tube Is fastened to the lamp. 1t has
a. platinum point, which is the instrument
corresponding to a poker. BY COMPRISING
the bulb the lighted benzne is forced
through the tube and the point is kept hot
In pickering leather a lighter pressure is
given to the bulb so that the point is not
so not. The design TO be executed is first
drawn with pencil on the wood or leather
ana afterward burned out. A beautiful
study table has its entire top burned. In
each corner Is the head of some man of let
tiers. The middle contains a view of West
minister Abbey. The whole has a wrought
background of thimble pattern. The brown
tinting on the light wood makes many at
tractive effects on cabinets, picture frames
or medallions. Portfolios book covers and
card cases are among the articles which
may be made of pokered leather. One am
pltlous woman mas in process or making an
entire set of dining room chairs, the seats
or which are pokered leather and the backs
OF burned maple"
81 went into the house of a friend the
other day" said lady who had been out
making calls. and there was not a chair
or any other kind of a seat in the drawing
room that did not have a cushion on it, so
that one could not sit comfortably in any
chair and had either to take the pillow off
or sit on the edge of the chair. There were
twelve pillows ON the sofa and one on each
chair to say nothing of several piles of
them decorating different parts of the
room" What this lady experienced has
possibly been the same with some man,
about whom 1t was written in q PhiladeI-
phla paper: "One might think the world
hau nothing to do but repOse and not be-
cause we are living in an era of summer
vacations. either" complains a man Go
INTO your neighbors house and take a seat
on the dlVan. You sink into a nest of
feathers which makes you wish she expect
50 you 10 leave. Drop into the private Of
nee or the professional lady who lives
across the street You NAV take WE upvS
choice between a rocker smothered in an
upnolstery OF pillows and a lounge buried
IN them start on picnic, ever so formal
ana II you do not carry six cushions-aver,
age weight, twenty-one pounds each-it is
t pheea4 use you are very unlike a majority of
s sne FEMININE members of the party Go
dor a ride, swing in hammock, lean
aganst the sicls of a porch seat yourself
10 write letter or read a newspaper or
eat lunch, and ten to one some consider
ate member of the family comes I'm ana
4 one you yon sofa pillow, from a dfminu-
I'VE aIar which was kept for q nap on
tne lounge and hurried into the hedroom
WheH visitor was seen coming they have
M Apllcu uhtli they stare from every cor
hef, oEefspread every surface and shelter
ana soften every angle and Granny. Houses
ABOUND IN them, clubrooms overflow with
tnem, furniture dealers revel in them and
women now take as much pride in the mum
per ana variety of their pillows as their
grandmothers took in the pattern of their
bed quilts - 'A0h
Personal and Society
Mr.. Lon r.. Mauzy is visiting relatives IN
Rushville IA
: Mrs Moses Fisher viii return this week
from st. 10, Mich
Miss Joseph Of Shelbyville. is the guest
OF Mrs. Isaac Rice
The Misses Foil are spending a few
weeks in Nashville
= Mrs. Frederick Kennedy, of Shelbyville,
Dr. carolyn McElroy has returned from
a visit TO Delaware o.
James Whitcomb Riley and DR.. Franklin
W. hays are in MartnsVille
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kahn have returned
at