The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
ALL FOR PATRIOTISM
SOCIAL FUNCTIONS HAVE A RED,
WHITE AND Blue TINGE.
Numerous Ideas I'm Entertainments
Club Gatherings and Per-
s0nal Notes.

Patriotic entertainments are all the fad
and the ingenuity Of those having them in
charge is taxed TO provide something novel
and attractive. The national colors form
the leading feature in decorations and cos
tunes. the arrangement being left to suit
the individual taste. These take the form
of groups of three flags, bands of the tri-
colors or red carried out in one branch. the
white IN another and the blue in a third
Strawberries and ice cream served on blue
china is one fancy. The table service of six
courses may be served first on one color of
plates and then on another. Flags in every
size and material are used. Really there
seems to be nc end of ideas that are brought
out. Fancies for card parties make the
American and Cuban flags serve as score
cards, and the prizes may be as varied for
a military card party as for any other. An
evening of music and patriotic and military
pictures has been tried, and lawn fetes in
Vulnerable have been and will be given So
far in this city all of the patriotic enter
tainments have been given either as social
affairs or for church funds. None has been
given where the proceeds are to be devoted
to any patriotic cause Perhaps the call for
such funds has not come yet, but women
who remember the civil war also remember
that there were many entertainments given
to swell the resources to help carry on re-
lief service.
At an informal evening company not long
ago young man was coaxed to sing First
one asked him and then another but he re-
fused each and all. Finally a member of
the party said in an aside that he doubted
whether the results were worth the effort
There was a smile at the remark, but each
speaker mentally. second member of the.
party said that he had come to the conclu-
sion some time before that when any one
was asked to play or sing in an informal
company that he or she should play or sing.
and that if the person making the request
had done so through politeness that such
ready acquiescence would make such re-.
currence impossible
story is told of a woman who was tray-
cling, and she was also making a collection
of souvenir spoons. At one shop where she
bought her spoon she saw a strawberry.
pick. She was charmed with the dainty
little affair and made up her mind that as
she had so many spoons that she would
thereafter collect strawberry picks and add
them 10 her souvenir collection. She never
found another
Ii is said that the French woman will do
an act at her friend house that no other
woman on earth will do, and that is, when
she makes fruit stain on the tableclOth
she will at once sprinkle salt on it TO keep
the color from setting, and when the cloth
Is washed the stain will disappear.
The husband of pretty North Side
woman came into the house one day and
began to complain of the odor in the house.
He said it smelled like a stable. The wife
did not say anything, but the second time
when he complained she had to make a con-
fession, and 1t was to the effect that
friend of hers had told her to make mush
room bed I'm her cellar and that she could
have them whenever she wanted them and
would not have to pay such an eXorbitant
price at the market. She had followed the
instructions and at the same time she had
made her house like barn, hoping to sur
prise her husband with a table dainty OF
which he is very fond. The mushroom bed
was removed the same day.
The ladies of Roberts Park Church are
preparing a unique patriotic entertainment
10 be given the second week in June at the
church. There will be an entertainment,
1.-The Praise Of the Nations, and flag
drill. Thirty of the most prominent young
people Of the church will take part and
there will be an orchestra of twenty-four
pieces. Mrs. William f. Perry is director
Of the affair. Miss Nell Purviance will be
the Goddess of Liberty.
The Needle Society of the First Presby
terrain Church will give novel sale and
strawberry tea wednesday afternoon. Inc
fetching fashion of the day Is the revival of
the sunbonnet in tints to match the shirt
waist. All up-to-date maidens play golf in
these bewitching golf sunbonnets At this
sale there will be golf sunbonnets, seaside
sunhonnets. Country Club sunbonnets and
country seal sunbonnets in all the dainty
tints of pink, blue, lavender and the golf
color, scarlet. There will also be for sale
,al DR.
terrain cake book.