The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-04
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY
PEOPLE BLOCKING HOME DESPITE
THE VERY WARM WEATHER..
sPreparing, Children for school-Oc-
tober Brides BEGINNING 10 Look
After Their Trousseaus.

TIE last few days has marked the return
OF the summer travellers from all directions.
There is a general feeling that people who
go away for the summer must return home
when the summer months are past. The
summer weather seems to have nothing to
do with the case. every train in the last
week brought home its full quota of people.
There are those who have been gone since
June and those who have completed simply
a vacation of two weeks. the usual limit.
At the Union Station the men come in look
ing fairly clean and tidy. but the women
and children are begrimed with dust, their
clothes are mussy and their hair is in any
thing but good order. Handkerchiefs are
used for mops, and line of black marks
the place where the handkerchief has
passed. 1t has been known for years that
September is the most disagreeable month
of the twelve, and yet folks will take their
trips earlier and come home in time for
the hot, dry spell. Women must come with
their children TO prepare them for school,
which also begins in hot weather, and there
is always shopping to be done. 1t is the
schools which are largely responsible for
"the return of the natives" but school
must begin, and the traditional 'cool
breezes in the SUM- when summer is gone
are expected at almost any time. The
suffering of the people who stay at home
and expect hot weather is not to be COM
pared to that of those who come from the
mountains. the sea and the north where
I'VE have been sleeping under double ban-
kets all summer and enjoying CRATE fires for
weeks" 1t is truly pitiabIe, for however
vigorous and fresh they may feel the sud-
den change is sure to make them droop like
flowers under the hot direct rays of this
September sun. One happy thought for the
stay-at~hone is that there is no return to
be made to tropical weather from the cool
Businesses of a trip away.
The sewing season is on hand, but the
great drawback is that most of the modistes
are away seeking the new styles, and the
sewing women are taking vacation. There
is the bride that has to have her trousseau,
and there is the young lady who is going
away to school, and who thinks she must
take everything she will need for year,
just as If there were no express companies.
The October bride is standing up to be fitted
to her taiIor-made suit, and so is the coll
lege girl. during these hot days, while the
mothers and daughters, whether the latter
enter matrimony or college, are plying
needle and thread getting the lingerie ready
with all the other little things that are
deemed necessary. 1t has always seemed
odd that a bride must lay in a store of
clothes to serve her for two or three years,
TO get yellow, perhaps, waiting to be worn,
or that girl about TO go away to school
must have her clothes all at once. There
is so much pleasure in getting box from
home that a belated gown, or hat or a pair
Of gloves or shoes, or any other article COM
ing unexpectedly is three times more appre-
ciated than the same things that have been
occupying trunk or dresser waiting to be
worn, and with nothing fresh and new about
economical
sending OF new things, for then the entire
expense does not come at the same time.
when the travelling expenses and the tuition
has to be paid. Expressage is not such a
great item to be considered. The girl who
receives new garment during the term is
more to be envied than the girl who arrives
early with years outfit, even If the former
has several less dresses and hats than the
latter. When the sewing and getting ready
has to be done with the thermometer in the
ntneties. the girl and her mother should be
glad to have as little as possible to do.
The pretty little town of Ladoga boasts
of Bachelor Maid Culture Club. There
are eighty-five members in the town. which
only numbers fifteen hundred inhabitants.
The club has a suite of rooms in the up
town district. and these rooms are furnished
in an attractive style. The object of the
club is to promote social. musical and liter
airy culture. The club does not call on any
outside friends for help. for it is self-sus-
tanning 1t has the hearty good Will and
Endorsement of the community. in which it
has the reputation of being beneficial in
many ways among the people. 1t also has
found itself to have an influence for the
best. Miss Anna Storer is the founder of
the CLUB which was organized in the pres
ent year. The-officers of the club are: Pres
ident, Mrs. Rose; vice president. Miss We
nard; secretary Miss Ida Kay: correspond
ing secretary, Miss Anderson librarian,
Miss Cooper; treasurer Miss Ida Venard:
marshal, Miss Jenkins There is also pro-
gramme committee, a relief committee and
social committee.