The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-07
FOR FEMININE READERS
woMEN'S WAY OF ELECTIONEERING
As SEEN IN NEW YORK sOROSIS.
suggestions to Women Who Must BE
Feature of Dining-Odds and Ends.

Soross was all excitement yesterday. says
the New York Evening Sun. Every aigrette
of every bonnet of every member showed
it, while the very air was tense with sup
pressed emotion. 1t wasn't the subject for
discussion that the cause of it all; no.
nor the able way i'm which the subject was
discussed. 1t takes more than Some Re-
cent Events and Their Relation to Wom-
en-" even when handled by ten women.
each with a three-ply name, so 10 arouse
this staid and dignified society. The real
reason for the unwonted exhilaration was
the fact that yesterday was the last meet
ing of the club before its annual election.
The first Monday. of next month would wit
ness an entirely different order of things.
As the three years constitutional limita-
ton would then be up yesterday was,
therefore, the last time that Mrs. Helmuth
would occupy the presidential chair All
the members thought of this yesterday
when they weren't thinking of who would
be called upon TO occupy the chair for the
next three years. The very gavel thought
of it; at all events it went kersmash at the
very first tap. There remarked senti-
mental member sitting on the seventh row,
"even that senseless piece of wood realizes
that it is positively her last appearance.
1t is just possible that Mrs. Helmuth
thought of it herself. She was certainly
costumed as even she had never before been
costumed. King Solomon in all his glory
not to speak of the Queen of Sheba,-
couldn't have held candle to her. Her
gown was a royal purple velvet, win
glimpSeS of green satin and touches OF yell
low lace, the kind of a frock that would
draw a ten-deep crowd at any opening. As
for her bonnet-but why attempt to put the
unutterable into words? Isn't il enough to
say that il surpassed all previous efforts
either Of Sorosis or it's president in the way
of millinery? Mrs. Helmuth has become
and it is not too much TO say
that her appearance yesterday was
her very best. even if it was also
her very last But Mrs. Helmuth wasn't the
only one who was gorgeously gowned. In
| her role of the vanishing Lady she was
, all that was effective but hers wasn't the
| for instance. 1t is lie Roi est mort, Nive
| lie Roi, even in women'S clubs, and already
| the SOrosisters are wondering who their
| next head will be. OF course it's all a very
impersOnal and diSinterested wonder. Not
a member of them who wouldn't tell you il
! you asked her that she hadn't the slight
| healthy desire for the good of the club
| at large. you know. etc. For all that,
though. 1T wasn't possible to come within
| yesterday without hearing a queer little
humming noise, i'm some cases louder than
| in others, of course, but all due 70 the same
cause.-the buZzing of the presidential bee
Many members made open bids for future
| votes. There was one creature resplendent
| In cherry colored moire-moire of the thick
| est and sheeniest, cherry color of the clear
est and widest. How the lorgnetteS were
| leveled at her The frock was cut prin-
| cesse. and the wearer had a truly regal
figure, the effect was nothing less than
stunning. A black velvet hat of Brobding-
nagian proportions and heavy with ostrich
plumeS, completed the costume. 'Wouldn'
she look handsome on the PLATFORM?
| What a presiding officer she'd make. "
| That's the sort of woman We want fol-
| president, were the remarks heard on all
sides. Another woman evidently cunning
| for the presidential chair was at
tired in one of those MORE pop
tern an invisible plaid This was
| trimmed with plain lilac silk and point lace
i Among other aspirants may be mentioned
| woman in dark red, with much fine en-
| broidery in black about the bodice dfapery
| back and front. while the sides of the
| corsage and the yoke were of black, braided
| bonnet with this frock. Yet another
member who plainly had presidential bee
| in her bonnet was clad in quite a bright
| blue cloth with lots of silver braiding upon
the velvet ZOuave and a green and blue
| bonnet. All the clothes were unusually
| smart yesterday. though. Only a few very
| striking costumes, such as those mentioned
could stand out among many elegant
ones. Mrs Hemuth's three years of office
have not been in vain. As a sartorial mis-
| sionary III darkest SorosiS her work has
been most successful. To realize this one
| has only to compare the clothes OF those
| same members three years ago with the
clothes they wore yesterday Why the
very standards of the society have beer
| changed As one woman was heard TO put
| IL yesterday to her out-of-town guest
| Now, aren't they well-dressed crowd
| Did you ever see smarter Clothes? i know
| that years ago a lot of old frumps belonged
| to the thing. but, thank fortune they've
| all died off or dropped out, and nowadays
| you won't find any club whose gowns and
| bonnets can compare TO Sorosis." Shades
| of Alice and Phoebe Cary! Ii was another
| woman who after a final survey of the dis
| play. observed: We'll, the question WON
be Who shall be our next president? bu
| which one shall we choose OF all thes,
| women who have to-day shown themselve:
so eminently fit for the Officer