The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-03
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY
GOSSIP OF THE DAY IN TNDrANapo-
LIS POLITE CIRCLES.
The Fairbanks Reception at wash
ingtOn-A New Social Came.
Movements of People.

A tandem party was given recen+,v
which was enjoyed. The idea is similar 70
a donkey party. On a large canvas was
the picture of a tandem Bicycle with q
man on the back seat I2acl. guest was
given figure Of girl. made OF paper. and
a PIN. The guest was blindfolded. placed in
the center OF the room, turned around three
times and was then told to pin the fo,,ra
she held in her hand on the front seat of
the bicycle. The efforts created amuse-
ment for the others of the party. and n
prize was given to the one who was most
skillfuI.
a couple living on a North-side street
recently entertained a card club which is
one of the many that has no particular
name, As the season is closing, the couple
decided to give theft guests a special treat
aud to that end provided ice cream ana
strawberries. The freezer was delivered
and set in the summer kitchen, where it
was cold. When the time came to serve
the hostess was in thai little flutter of ex-
cltement which always accompanies giving
friends a surprise and she hustled out to
the kitchen to tell her one servant, who
sat with big coIored apron over her neat
white one. that she might get the ice
cream. Meanwhile the hostess began to set
the Plates out and divide her berries evenly
among her twenty guests. She had scarcely
begun, when she heard from the summer
kitchen, Where on earth did that man set
the freezer? 1 thought he put it here" Of
course that brought the hostess to the door.
No freezer was in sight, nor could they
lind it, The face of tho hostess heightened,
instead of broadened and strawberries and
cake furnished the feast. The allowance of
the former looked somewhat sparse. The
next morning there sat the freezer empty.
An alley gate and an easy latch told the
story.
When the black or white elastic cord or
the bonnet strings gave way to the hat pin,
the one who introduced the useful and con-
venient, as well as dangerous and extrava-
giant instrument, little dreamed to what
uses the elongated pin might come. Pri-
marily it is for fastening the hat or bonnet
to the hair, one or several of it's kind being
in the possession of every woman. 1t may
be used as an envelope opener; to cut the
pages of a magazine or paper; to pin cor
sage bouquets of large size in place; to peel
an orange; pick the meat from nuts and
seeds from fruits. A woman at the theater
one night quietly took out a pin from her
hat to push refractory lnorsel from be-
tween her teeth, which her tongue had been
striving to do for some time. 1t has been
served as nail to hold light decorations in
place, and numbers of them have acted as
bracers for weak-stemmed roses. A woman
pinned rip in her carpet together and
then stepped on the head of the pin to break
1t OF, and it probably holds the position of
carpet mendeE to this day. A woman uses
common hat pin in place Of a mucilaee
brush, wiping the paste from the pin and
always having clean, fresh brush
eyesight Intentionally and Internationally,
and only a short time ago there was an
account of murder where the weapon was
hat PIN. Truly how small thing hath
many employments.
AT Washington, Friday, Mrs. Fairbanks
wife Of Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, en-
tertained at an afternoon tex in honor of
Mrs. Mckee Their handsome residence on
Massachusetts avenue was adorned with
American Beauty roses and choice bios
SONS, Bridemaid roses and ferns. An at
.tractive feature of the occasion, and one
which was pleasing to even the most VEN
cradle of the senators, was that all Of the
young ladies who presided in the tearoom
and dispensed tea and punch were friends
OF the hostess, from Indianapolis Assist
ing TO welcome the guests were Mrs. Ho-
bart. Mrs. Mckee, Mrs. John w. Foster
and Mrs. Steenberg. The young ladies were
Miss Hit, of indianapolis, niece of Repre-
sentative Hit; Miss Stella Lacy, Miss Ste
vens, Miss Stitt, Miss Baldwin Miss Bush
nell and the Misses Mallott, of Indianapo-
us, who are guests of Mrs Fairbanks.
Among the guests were Secretary and Mrs.
sherman, Mrs. Gary and the Misses Gary
Judge and Mrs. Day, Mrs Dawes, Senator
and Mrs. Elkins. Senator Turpie, Mrs Han
ma, Miss Phelps, Mrs Warden, Mrs. Davis
senator and Mrs. Lodge, Miss Barber, Sen
ator and Mrs. Walthal, the Chinese min
ister and Nine. WI, and the Misses Nc
kenna.