The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-13
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY
THE SEASON or THE YEAR FoR
PORCH PARTIES Is NOW on.
A Discussion of the CoIIege-Bred Girl
and COIIege-Bred Boy-Move-
ments of People.

The season Of the year has come. though
late. when people will begin to live on
their porches. 1t is only within the last
week that chairs. tables. hammocks. flow
ers and all the pretty porch furnishings
have made their appearance, for the even
ings when one could sit out of doors have
been few. A Washington paper saws that
the Vice President and Mrs Hobart will
spend the greater portion of the summer in
the city and that the entire front of their
home is yelled in dainty yellow and white
striped awnings with green vines and yell
low and white flowers that grow from
white tiled window boxes. Yellow and
white are as cool looking colors as there
are, but awnings in indianapolis run mostly
10 blue and white stripe ana brown and
white. A resident of this city who has re-
Gently returned after an absence of months
in New York, is extravagant in her praise
OF the beauty of the city, its wide streets,
which are so clean, and the shade trees,
che lawns and flowers and fountains. AS a
summer resort this city has advantages,
and porch living, shade and cleanliness go
d great way toward making it what it is.
A Philadelphia paper, in its notice of a
wedding, mentioned the bride and said
Miss F. looked very well at her wedding"
II there is time in a girls life when
She SHOULD look well 1t is at her own we'd
ding. She should have happiness written
all over her face, and she should have all
the addition which a beautiful gown can
give. II she did not look well, not d soul
should mention it.
This is the time of year when all of the
womens magazines and departments of
hcme in the papers are running over with
suggestions for house furnishings The
writer insists that a beautiful and com
Portable room may be made out of old flour
barrels, some boards, some soap boxes
from the grocer's hammer and nails, and
then goes on TO cover up the unfinished ug-
illness with pretty and cheap cretonnes
0enms and many other materials. After
weeks OF labOr one may get SufncienI skill
in the carpenter line to make all of the
things which the ready writer tells about,
but in the meantime if time counts for
anything, the would-be furnisher may take
the same amount of money which all of
the cheap things cost and go to any of
the stores and buy furniture that is durable
and much nicer in every way than the
homemade. The dry goods boxes may be
useful for some things but any one who
has gone through the agonies OF occupying
a room made after the home column recipe
will wish that the writer might have turned
his her word talent TO a better use.
The college-bred girls have been coming
home for several years now, and more will
come this year and others next What to
do with the daughters after they come out
of college is a question that the learned
professors like to write about but writing
of it does not always settle it. The girl
who goes through college has great expec-
tations, but much is also expected of her,
and mothers whose daughters have not
gone through college are apt to scrutinize
her rather Closely, not looking out for what
merits she may have but how far snort
he ia llG nj w her
been if she had mad all the money spent on
her that the college girl cost. AT CLUB
meeting in this city paper was read which
spoke of the manners or the college girls
and boys. The graduates were character
lied as having no manners at all. The
women with sons thought the boys were all
right but the girls dreadful, and the moth
ers with daughters thought the girls We're
ladies but the boys perfect rowdies. The
talk waxed warm. and some who had
neither boys nor girls began TO feel that the
conversation was getting entirely too per-
sonal The mothers have talked the mat
ter over in their homes and among their
friends The truth of the matter is that
if not better, than other girls, and the boys
quite as courteous A good deal depends
On me NOME IitiIlIiI5, anu d ma
will allow her daughter or son to be SLOW
emily in speech, manners or dress at home is
the one accountable for it.
The flower target is the name of new
game which is pretty for lawn parties, pic
MICS and other outdoor pleasures. Harper's
Round Table says it is a fashionable game,
and as simple as it is pretty. The target is
a large wire pillow, which the florist will
arrange, or you will find it pleasant amuse-
ment to fix up yourselves. You may use
wild or cultivated flowers, only be careful
10 fasten the stems in well, or the flowers
will fall out during the game. The same
frame will do for a long time, but of course
new flowers must be arranged whenever
the game is played.
Before filing such a frame cut a hole in
the center a foot in diameter; this forms
the target proper.
The game is to stand twenty feet from the
target and toss a solid rubber ball into the
air and then bat 1t with tenniS-racket
until 1t flies through the target. This is not
so easy to do as it reads. Therefore, the ball
may be allowed to be tossed about until the
player has correct aim, and the target may
be held in favor of the player. When how
ever. the player finally bats the ball to go
through and misses, 1t is counted against
MN, but if he succeeds, another player, on
the other side, tries to return the ball in the
same manner and this is kept up until one
or both fail
The game is counted by points. Each time
BAH goes through the hole point is
scored. Whoever first makes ten points
wins.
Like many other games. this will be found
70 require practice and very often the best
pan and tennis players make the poorest
score at flower target. The flowers deceive
the eye. and the more parti-colored they
are the more irregular batting is made, but
n Is pleasant amusement, and girls and
boys may equally enjoy il.
BUY dozen small rubber balls squeeze
them, and let them open in basin of cheap
cologne water. Get them so full that not
drop leaks. Station the players on the
lawn. and, having all the balls in q basket
take one and stand ten feet from the person
You are aiming at. OF course, there is an
amusing tim" trying to catch the ball and
IL is very likely missed; then a second ball
is thrown at some one else. and so on until
an the balls are played not few of the
payers being sprinkled with cologne in the
catching. When all the balls are caught
me successful parties should throw them
PACK into the basket. taking their stand
ten feet from it. This part of the game
gives about as much sport as the first, as so
lew Of the twelve balls will be found to en-
ter Only one throw is allowed. Whoever
can IlrSt pick up ball that does not enter
lne basket may now throw it. and so on
The game continues until all the balls are
once more in place.
Personal and Society.
Colonel and Mrs ELI Lilly have gone to
their summer home at Wawasee
Mrs. Pierre Gray has returned from a
visit to relatives in Union City
Mrs. w. S. Wiekard has gone TO Lake