The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-11
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY
THERE ARE VERY FEW WOMEN OF
LEISURE IN INDIANAPOLIS.
Attention Being Given to Coiffures-
A Recent Sight at a
Theater.


There are few women of leisure in these
cud-of-the-century days. The clubs are to
q large extent responsible for this. There
are clubs that meet each week and others
that meet fortnightly. There are very few
that hold only monthly meetings The club
is a regular engagement for woman.
Then, women living in cities go to market
every day. the market not meaning the
market house. but the family grocery
There are very few women who are not en-
gagged in some kind Of charitable work The
voman may have to take her month at Wis
iting the institution for which she is on the
board of managers, or if she belongs to the
Young Womans Christian Association or
to the Woman's Exchange she has to serve
hor time at certain periods in doing some
or the labor of those places If the woman
has family, even if she does not do the
work herself, most Of it is done under her
personal supervision. She has little time for
reading and little for sewing.
It is only the woman who lives in a hotel
or boarding house that is free from many
of these duties. Riding in the elevator of
fashionable hotel one day recently was a
woman who lives at the hotel taking a
guest down to the door, and this is the re-
what to do with myself to-day. 1 thought
1 would go out and take a little walk. the
sun is so bright but do not believe 1 have
enough energy" There are few women of
this kind in this city, and none are so mis-
cradle as the ones who have to kill time.
Such a woman is not even busy with So
ciety. 1t Is much better to wear out than
10 rust out" and the average woman of In
dianapOls, with her clubs, home duties So
cial obligations and church relations seems
to nave chosen the wear out. The woman
of leisure may be numerous other places.
but in this city she is rare.
The members of the Y. W. C. A. recently
gave an entertainment, and they had a
novelty in their grabbing refreshments.
Certain edibles were neatly wrapped in
white tissue paper and the guests had the
privilege Of taking out package from the
bis clothes basket in which they were all
placed. ANY one getting package she did
not IKE had the privilege Of trading it with
another person.
The arrangement of the couture is becom-
ing serious question 1t is growing very
elaborate with some persons, and others,
hoping to have a complicated decoration.
make a terrible mess of it. To have the hair
becomingly fixed and at the same time to
have it neatly done is an art in itself. Now
that the ladies are obliged to remove their
hats at the theater there is opportunity to
STUDY the dressing OF 'Woman'S glory" Re-
Gently woman at the theater had her locks
laid in all sorts of fashions and fastened
with numerous pins, fancy and plain. She
had an aigrette, a velvet bow and a shell
comb, and to finish all she had two stiff lit
tie curls right in the middle of the back,
and they We're not the same shade as her
own hair, but were blonde, while her own
hair brown. She had evidently been
mismatched somewhere. The loose style,
supposedly picturesque, Is often an excuse
Tor lazy person, but il takes a peculiar
beauty TO overcome such seeming negli-
gence. The hair question, as well as the
dress question, is becoming a study that is
One of the latest freaks OF fancy, and
ono which is quite in evidence in some cities,
Is the needed set of pins to fasten the new
plain-back dress skirt. The placket hole is
bound to gap unless it has some encourage
ment TO stay together. The safety hooks
and little bows do very well, but the gold
smith has come to the rescue with three
fancy safety pins Of different sizes, and they
are used by milady.
pretty uptown woman who has been
very luch interested in the anticipating
ordir 100 which has been before the Coun-
ell. and previous to that time was inter
ested in the same subject as brought up in
the Local Council OF Women, thought she
would notice the street as she walked along
She did and the brown splashes which so
dlsfigured 1t made her Disguised, and so she
thought she would walk with her head up.
She looked at the articles high up in the
windows and saw the clouds in the sky and
The hats and capes of the people she met.
She was getting on beautifully and had fully
resolved to go with her head up all the time
when she suddenly found herself in the
snow and mud, for she had tripped
wire that had been stretched where some
men were at work. This Is one more evil
dence that what the men will not cure the
women Will have to endure.
pretty girl who wears a bright red rib
bon high and tight around her throat wears
over it a pretty piece of lace. which she ties
in bow at the front. The lace is soften
ing. and the whole is stylish and pretty.
This lace is white, but different effects can
be made with black lace. The woman can
now get out her short, narrow lace ''barbs'
them IN this way or loan them to her
daughter. There are good many pretty
pieces of real lace in the form of .,barbs."
neatly packed away with the family lace,
which II has been thought from the ugly,
conventional appearance could never be
utilised. Now is the time for them.-New
lady Of this city wore a pretty new
gown recently to reception. Her friends
commented on 1t enthusiastically and adj
mired it. During the afternoon the lady
with the gown was introduced to a guest by
Introduction was acknowledged the newly
introduced lady said: Mrs. NJ and were
just talking about your dress" and the sec
ond lady remarked: will you please walk
one with the new gown walked on-and. did
not return.
German Charity Ball Finances.
Tho German Ladies' Aid Society reports
the last annual charity ball, held at the