The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
AFFAIRS OF SOCIETY
VARIOUS MATTERS OF SOCIAL IN
TEREsT DISCUSSED.
Something of the Events of the Conn
ing Week-club Meetings
Personal Notes.

The rage for the red white ard blue con-
tinues to spread and the merchants have
begun TO bring out any number of articles
in the tri-colors. The shirt waist, which
reigns supreme may be bought in all kinds
OF materials for these waists, and the women
are buying and wearing them. They come
in the most glaring checks and in stripes
an inch wide. They are in pin lines that
are not so conspicuous and in small squares
that might be called subdued, if red and
blue may be said to be subdued. The white
shirt waist has red belt and a blue sailor
hat, or vice versa, and the girl who can
have a genuine battle ship band for
her sailor hat is the envy of her associates.
To be genuinely patriotic every woman has
to show her colors, and those colcrs belong
to her country. She may shop in the morn
ing with a blue cloth skirt, a white waist
and red belt and tie. she may call in the
afternoon with a silk gown of one or more
of the colors, and she beams forth in the
evening with a white organdie and the
other colors waving in sashes or ribbons.
To have a company and no flag decorations
is simply out of the question, and three
months ago the woman who brought out a
flag for decoration was considered a little
weak mentally. and the woman who wore
any such combination as the red, white and
blue was sure to have some one make a
remark to the effect that she was patriotic.
In such a short time has the fashion been
changed, and every one follows the fashion
Not to wear colors. a small flag, button or
pin shows a truly degenerate condition for
man, woman or child.
A pretty girl in town has an officers
buckle for her belt, a large army button for
Ia,r hat ,,sR, hoN ae.1f,1 hon haV-
sailor hat. which she wears frequently. Co
ing up in the elevator one day the boy who
rises and falls for a business remarked,
Hello, have you joined the militia?"
1t is said that the Boston girl and even
the Chicago girl is filled with a desire to go
to war, and both for the same reason-they
want to be killed off with the men. They
say that war always kills off the best men
in the country and makes men of any kind
scarce, and that there are enough horrid
old maids in the country already. They are
perfectly willing TO be sacrificed with the
men, but they are not willing to endure the
agony of single blessedness and live at
home. The Boston. girls say that their
State is full of old maids now as the result
Of the civil war, and to infiict as many or
more on the community fills them with
dread, and they would rather die on the bat
tlefied than to be the butt of the youth and
the derision of the married for years to
come. Can such sacrifice be called pa
triotism?"
Preparations are well under way for an
escape from home to some place for the
summer. 1t is quite probable that the in
land lake resorts will have more patronage
this season than ever before because so
many persons are unwilling to venture to
the seashore as usual A New York corre-
spondent says that people who own cottages
at Newport are going to them without fear,
but that they are abandoning their usual
trips to Europe for six or eight weeks
earlier IN the season. Europe will miss
many millions of dollars in American in
dividual patronage this year and the home
places will have the benefit of good part
of it. Cottages at the Michigan resorts are
said to be in great demand, so that fairly
sgood house costs twice as much as last sea-
SON. Secluded places on the Atlantic coast
will be more popular than the crowded ones,
where Spanish shells might be liable to
drop in for a brief call at almost any time
The situation may not be pleasant for the
coast hotels. but the managers Of lake re-
sorts are happy.