The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-28
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY
LARGE NUMBER OF WEDDINGS TO
OCCUR The COMING SEASON.
indianapolis Promises 10 BE Very Gay
-Out-Of-rOwn Visitors Enter
tanned Last Week.

The city has kept a general open house
during the last week. AS an entertainer In
dianapolis has had about as much as she
has ever been called upon to do. In both a
public and private way everything has been
done to show a genuine hospitality. There
have been a number of young people WIS.,
itors, besides the members of the several
secret orders, and companies have been
given for them, so that, altogether, the past
week has been the gayest and most inter-
esting of the summer. What has gone be-
fore, however. is nothing compared to the
prospect Of the coming social season. Near
ly every one in town can count at least
twenty brides-to-be between now and the
holidays, and there are numerous young
people who have made engaged couples a
study, and who say that even thirty brides
IS too small number With so many we'd
dings on the tapis, there will be the conse-
Quent entertainments for them, and the
showers will be a perfect flood Not only
the parties before the wedding but those
given for the new couples will be many and
great, and small companies promise to be
numerous. Then there are a number of
debutantes to be brought out at teas and
receptions, and in addition there are always
d
Of pleasure and besides all this are parties.
receptions, teas, dinners and Iuncheons.
with card parties now and then, and clubs.
The very thought of so much TO come will
rejoice the heart Of the modistes and for
lists and those who cater for the companies.
and, indeed, gay social season is a sure
gay season for more than the buds. bellies
and beaux.
AT luncheon given it so happened that
at the table there were a dozen or more
guests, and the name of each was a word
tnat is common noun. The fact was sud
denly discovered by one of the party. who
made comment on the strange set of
names 1t proved a subject for conversa-
ton and brought out a series of accounts of
condolences in names and combinations of
names In marriages that proved interest
ing. Names generally were discussed and
then signs, and soon the morning was spent.
One morning, not so very long ago. a LADY,
received call from a young married friend
who seemed to know her very well indeed.
The caller asked after various members of
her family by name, but the hostess could
not remember the face or name of her call
er. BY the questions which the latter asked
she knew that 1T was some one who knew
her well, so well, in fact, that the hostess
name. The caller said that friend was
coming to visit her from out of town. and.
as she had been in the city previously and
mad met the lady to whom the caller was
talking, the caller would like to have her
come and see her friend. She did rot in
tend to have any party OF any kind, but she
would be at home one afternoon (Which she
named), and would like to have her call in
formally. Meanwhile the hostess was won
derinS who the caller was and where she
hVed. She tried to think of the callers
family, her husband, her house. anything
that would bring to her mind the name, but
she could not. She allowed the caller to go
without asking her name. thinking that it
would come to her later. The day named
FOR the informal reception came, but she
ala not know where to go to see the visitor.
She knew the name of the visitor, and so
she took her files of the daily papers for a
week or more and scanned the society col
umns carefully. The name was not there.
She called up the society reporters. think
ing they might help her, but none of them
knew. Then she got on her wheel and rode
all around the different neighborhoods
where she had lived. Not q house did she
see that helped her in the least She called
on several friends IN different sets of So
clety; none Of them could aid her. She has
not yet found out who the cordial caller.
with the guest from out Of town, was.
In some of the Eastern cities they nre
playing croquet with golf sticks. There is
some hope now for the Western girls who
have known how to play croquet for sew
eral years, but to whom golf sticks have
been unknown.
The Philadelphia Press gives the following
account OF one way to raise funds for a
Charitable project:
"A clever woman has invented the conun-
drum supper for raising money for Cuban
relief or other charitable ends. 1t is great
run for the guests she says and highly
remunerative to the philanthropsts' The
pan Is 10 serve a supper a la carte, pre-
cara written IN enigma. From this he must
order at random Here is a specimen menu:
fused and mixed Women os Of 4N grts Herald Tehi
OF the dawn. New England speciality
Ro ef9 fro ceIebrqtsd watering place
olke nuggets. One who embarked on the
ark; Fragrant beans from Arabia Earth
apple salad Cane fruits OF course, the
guests order blindly from the card All
manner of laughable mistakes and surprises
are sure to follow. For. If a man choose
sure of a good cup OF coffee, at least But
II he order springs Offering a glass of
the dawn stands for bird Choose
confused and mixed you will receive a
etuSApuo ulSu Oh pickles. women OF grit
will bring forth couple of delicious sand
witches. Wood from a celebrated watering
place. when simmered down, amounts 10
Saratoga chips Pearl gatherers' stand
for oysters on ice. 'Boston's overthrow
means cup of tea. Cane fruits are sugar
plums. 'Klondike nuggets will bring differ
ent varieties of ices. One who embarked
en- the ark will furnish (cold boiled1
ham. And these are but few of the puz-
zles that ten minutes thought will suggest.
Each dish is paid for at its regulation res
taurant value. so that the end of the affair
means a goodish little sum in the hands of
the phianthropists, and yet each guest has
received his moneys worth"
Personal and Society.
Mrs. John Heth. OF Corydon, is visiting
friends here.
Mrs. T. Lizius and son have returned from
MaXinkuckee.
Miss Isabel Daniels has returned from
Lake Wawasee.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. f. DAILY have returned
from Atlantic City
Miss Wiegand has gone N TusbvfIIa 70
spend several weeks.