The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-07
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY
little ENTERTAINING IN INDIAN
APOLIs THIS SUMMER.
A Woman Takes Exception to the
Mother Hubbard-Early Christ
3 mas Gifts.

It is odd that more entertaining is not
done in summer. for people usually like to
entertain and be entertained. AT this sea-
son there are many people out of town, but
there are also many who stay at home
through the warm season. A porch party.
tea. reception or any similar party is easily
arranged, the house may be open so that
no lamps or candles are needed. and the
simple refreshments are an ice and cake.
with perhaps a bowl of lemonade or ice
water 1t is often commented on that if
party is given in the summer the people
who are invited and who are in town usually
attend, no matter how warm the day or
evening. Let any one start off lot of the
war conundrums and the guests readily lend
themselves to the task of guessing the
answers and the party is begun. The
conundrums are particularly good for
porch party, and there are always some
new ones to be repeated by members of the
party. The past week has been an excep-
tional one for the summer, as there have
been a number of companies of different
kinds given
1t may seem early to prepare for Christ
mas, but there are hundreds of women busy
with fancy work these summer mornings,
and when the holiday comes they will have
is staying at home this summer has spent
many mornings on her shady porch with
linens. silks and fancy materials. fashioning
and embroidering articles for gifts She
takes her mornings for this, and neighbors
come in and chat while she sits on the
porch and works. Last summer she made
ever so many pretty center pieces of en-
brodered linen. and then gave a series of
IN, he int md wa
for prizes This year the fancy work is be-
ing made for Christmas gifts.
There is one style that some women think
really ought to go out of fashion. Women,
as a rule, will not wear garments of style
ushered in ten or fifteen years previous to
the present date. and yet there is one gar
ment they persist in having in their ward
robes. That is the Mother Hubbard, So
called. 1t is a gown for night rather than
for day, and yet because it has another
name it is put on in the morning and worn
sometimes all day. There is nothing neat,
tidy or stylish about Mother Hubbard.
One of the sex insists it is only garment
for lazy women, who care so little about
their personal appearance that they are
willing to put themselves into the garment
and wear it, They are well enough for
any respect for herself can appear
wearing this garment at the corner
grocery, the market house or even
at the curbstone to buy vegetables from a
wagon is more than the critic can seeming
ly understand Women, as rule, are sup
posed to care somewhat for their looks, but
no one really does who will appear in pub
lie with this kind of a calico bag for a
ha ia oar
comfortable that they like to wear them;
all Of this may be true, but of all the pat
terms that were ever brought out for gar
ments to be worn as commonly as they are
to-day, these are least graceful and the
most unbecoming.
There is one man who has come home
Disguised with his summer trip. He was
to have two weeks free from business and
planned a most delightful journey, which
should take him to some Of the places he
has read about for years, but had not as
yet visited. The train he was to take was to
leave in the evening, at an hour when he
thought he would have ample time to get
good dinner before he started, and he gave
orders at home TO have the meal a half
hour earlier than usual Dinner was on the
table to the minute named, but he fused
about here and there until he felt he would
be late for the train, and so he was. Then
he had to come home and make arrange
ments to get up at o'clock in the morn
ing for an early train. He oversight and
missed that. He would not take the mid
day train, and so started a day later on his
trip than he first intended He missed his
trains and his boats everywhere, and found
his days slipping away rapidly. He had not
begun to do all that he planned He lost his
grip. in more ways than one. and came
home bereft of all he took. except what he
had on his back and in his pocket. His new
umbrella he left in the sleeping car and
never found and his straw hat blew off into
the sea- An old college chum he particularly
desired to see was not at home, ard alto
gether the traveller wishes he had his money
back and another two weeks to spare. Then
he would see that none of the ills that be-
Get him in the weeks just past should over
take him again. His wife declares that If he
had taken her with him she knows she could
have kept him and his baggage together
and could have made him catch the train
the first and not the third time trying.
PersOnaI and Society
Miss Marie Hall is visiting friends in
Danville.
F. M. Heron is spending a few DAYS in
Mr.. John Chslett has returned from
Georgia bay.
Miss Druslla Sanders is the guest of
friends at Acton.
Miss Mary Fox is visiting friends in r.
Nington for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Morlan are spending
8 week at Niagara Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ruckelhaus are visit
Ing relatives in Lebanon.
Misses Laura and Rose Fitzgerald have
returned from West Baden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick w. Chislett will
leave tnis week for Nantucket.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Keller and children
have returned from Elkhart lake.
Miss Laura Huey will entertain at cards
tomorrow for Miss Virginia Sale.
Messrs. August X. and Frank H. Keller
have gone East for several weeks.
Mrs. Fannie McGinness has gone to To-
!eoo for two weeks visit to friends.
Mr.. James Corners who has been visit
ing his family. has returned to New York
Miss Mary Brock has returned from a
burg.
The Ladies' Society of the Indianano,;s
Maennerchor has arranged to have a Ger
man garden party, with all that the name
impltes-needle work coffee etc-from 2 70
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