The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-27
PERSONAL And SOCIETY
A NEW CHURCH ARRANGEsfENT FOR
wEDDINGs%N ysGyH.
NO More Extensive Troussenux for the
Up-tO-Date Bride-Move-
ments of People.

weddings is for them to ask ten or twelve
of the most intimate girl friends to sit in
the front pews during the ceremony. The
girls all wear white and carry bouquets of
flowers just as bridesmaids do The bride
enters with her father, preceded by as
many ushers, friends of the groom. as there
are girls in the front pews The groom en-
ters from the vestry with the minister, and
there is not girl about the chancel to de-
tract in any way from the bride. The
effect of the wedding gown is enhanced
among the black suits of the men. In pass
ing from the church the bride and groom go
first, the minister and the father next and
the girls pass out from the pews and form
couples with the ushers. The girls and the
ushers form the bridal party and receive all
attentions and souvenirs from the bride that
bridesmaids do. The plan has been tried
with charming success in an Eastern city
With a large church wedding it is less in
vogue to have a large reception too and
so the bridal party and the families are
the only ones invited to the house.
A young lady who has recently returned
from an extended absence to the Pacific
coast was in conversation recently with a
friend. There was a subject in which both
were somewhat interested and that was
the Japanese. This people had been dis
cussed as to their condition in California.
their position, costumes and customs and
finally the one who had been West told of
an experience she had once with o. young
Japanese who was attending a California
university. He came to call on her one
evening soon after supper. Conversation
began and the young lady who is apt in
speech, kept talking The first hour passed
and then the second and the third, then
the fourth and fifth, and, finally, when it
was half hour past midnight she thought
she could not stand it any longer and she
made her excuses and left the room, and
the caller left. The young lady and the
japanese had a common friend, and the
Japanese conf1ded to him the next day that
he thought the young lady very agreeable
but very queer. When asked for the ex-
result of customs which are exactly con-
trary in America and Japan. The young
lady in Japan excuses herself when the
mans call has been long enough, and the
Japanese had only been waiting, with ia
tigue, for the young lady on whom he was
calling in America to give him a sign to
make his adieu.
The bride at this end of the century is not
making any great quantity of lingerie and
having dozens of gowns fashioned for the
nuptial event. 1t is supposed that she is
marrying man who afford to give
her a new dress occasionally if she needs
it and she has no closet full of old-fash-
Toned gowns to wear out just because she
has them. The proper amount of dresses
which a fashion writer deems necessary
for an outfit includes a tailor frock,
sbiTt WIZ ic1 uSIhs g Ign "a an6
almost any kind of a season at any place
she may want to go.
Princess of Wales custom may be
adopted with profit even in this city. An
exchange says: "No housewife need shrink
from criticism because of her desire to have
every article of furniture and ornament
in her rooms kept in its appropriate place.
The most distinguished women in this and
other lands have this notion, if such it
may be called, in high degree of develop
ment. The Princess of Wales, if any piece
offurniture in Marlborough house is moved
from its usual place at once seeks an ex-
lists with the position of the various articles
marked thereon, thus facilitating their re-
placement after cleaning operations. This
is a capital idea, and one that the Astors
and Vanderbilts have adopted in their town
and country palaces, whether in imitation
of royalty or simply because the best DO
mestics are generally short OF memory
and not trained to observe as they
should. Many a housekeeper Will under
stand the annoyance of having to rearrange
all the ornaments of a room after IL has
undergone the weekly sweeping and admire
things in their right places Mrs. William
Astor goes so far as to have each chair or
maids who place 1t one hair s breadth TO
the right or left. Visitors will, of course
disturb the Arrangement but as soon as
they depart everything is readjusted as be-
fore The artistic confusion of modest
drawing room is well-studied, we'll
thought-of composition, but, having once
designed it, this picture of still life must
not be disturbed on any account. Women
who are accused of being too particular
by their servants may take comfort in
knowing that the Princess of Wales also
comes under that category"
Every woman of taste does not know that
a color often produces more effect than a
style. 1t was a man who gave cure
for blues in hot weather Go out and take
a look at girl in a white dress" Pink
would not have answered nor yellow or red
White, which is cool to wear, is cool to see,
and in warm weather we should be unseltish
enough to make those around us feel COM
Portable If mere colorS can do So. Pink
red yellow and blue are all typical sum-
mer colors and are all beautiful, satisfying
and ornamental but when it is question
of cooling ones neighbor by the sight of
ones frock, green, lilac and White are the
tones to choose. A combination OF green
and white is as charming for warm weather
ices and ginger ale and lilac with sill
very tinge is as soothing to ones sense of
rest on warm day as pink pillow or
big fan.
The cornhower boutonniere now rules the
hour and cornfower blue reigns with all,
and even a supremacy in advance of last
year, ACCORDING 10 a L AliduelA1hid WHICH
Every third frock that one sees in walks
abroad is a blue and white challie or India
silk which materials lend themselves SO
well to the tiny ruffies and pleatings. the
broad tucks and the lace Fittings of the
period and every third one of these blue
frocks has the ultra popular trimmings of
apple green.
4 massing of Bachelors buttons in
quaint blue porcelain basket were the flow
erS used at a Delft breakfast given for the
bride of a well-known bachelor. White cam
dies in tall Delft candlestcks graced the
four corners of the table, the service was
blue and white Canton china, the menu
consistently began with blue points and
the favors were long silver flower
pins topped with corntlowers in blue
enamel. There has come recent sudden
demand for wild flowers notably Glow
ers, both pink and white, and here is
little story that perhaps matches the de-
mand AT "A certain delightful Sunday 3
o'clock" of some two weeks ago, the rooms
of the hostess were filled with great bowls
of white clover. those large, white blooms
with q pale pink tingeing, which grow to
such perfection down on Long island. Il
wore a great mass of these flowers to
church this morning" said me bright
hostess. land a leading florist. who sat near
me, scarcely took his eyes off them during
the whole of the service. Who knows but
we shall have a clover craZe?" And, wit
ness among the floral offerings sent to a
young woman on one of the outgoing steam
ers was small wicker hamper, such as the
trunk shops so widely offer, tied with a