The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06
DIVERSION DURING LENT
CARD PARTIES SEEM TO HAVE THE
CALL IN THIS CITY.
Some Of the Characters at a Party
Sunbonnets for Golf
Players.



Her well-kept house is almost wrecked.
But little else could she expect,
And Oh twas such bore!
The fragments OF a shattered vase
Some sadly mangled real old lace,
Almost compel a sob;
While coffee stains on treasured rug
Persistent at her heart-strings tug
And cause her head to throb.
macaroon on Wilton mashed.
Some punch on her rare damask splashed-
And some one there has spilled an ice
Upon a book that knows no price
Each glance around gives pain
HAD such q lovely time, you know
$50 glad you camel" What, must you go?'
Are ringing in her head
One group Of petty debts is paid
Were all included? She's afraid
So lies awake in bed.
Wood Levette Wilson. in Brooklyn Life.
Cards are said to be the true lenten di-
version and so all of the card clubs are
having meetings, and numerous ladies who
desire to entertain do so with cards. A fire.
quenter of card parties has come to the
conclusion that there is no place where a
woman's character is better shown than at
a card party. A woman who is ordinarily
sweet tempered may become excited and
be irritable, but as rule the women hold
themselves under very good control wom-
an who is amiable at a general company
will get tantalizing over a game, and again
the reverse Is the case. A woman who is
punctilious to penny at her grocer's may
not hesitate to cheat at cards. One woman
will agrayate the others at her table, be-
cause she is so cautious that she will not
name a trump. Another woman will rather
follow her leader and smiles pleasantly,
bid low, takes part graciously, but in such
a way that the others feel that she is try
ing to be pleasant and has no interest in
the score. The nervous woman is the dread
of a company at cards as she is the dread
anywhere. She does not seem TO know one
card from another, hesitates, wonders if
she shall play this one, no, she thinks she
will play another and the bell rings at the
head table before the game is half done
at the liervo - womans table There is the
woman vino never knows what is truInps
and asks at least twice and often three
times in the same game, sometimes feel
ing her way by saying lis it black or red?''
and, Of course, some one tells, her the
trump. There is the careful player, who
plays as if the game was to save a man
from the gallows and who makes the others
nervous and vexed because she takes so
long to decide. When the card finally goes
down she looks around the table with an
air which plainly says, 20 I'm boss
player" There is the woman who always
says IF 1 had only had the king or
who tells what hands she held in games
gone by, and expects ''ohs' and "ahs''
when she tells of them There is the woman
who always asks member of the quartet,
s'Why didn't you play that king first" and
then tells what she might have taken. i'm
plying that the partner is stupid and
al. fe,
an who almost gets intoxicated ever the
game, an6 talks and laughs until no one
but herself can remember what is trumps
or what has been played. One of the bless
iHgs of progressive cards is that one does
not have to play ALL the afternoon or the
evening with the same set of players, so
that the same pleasures or annoyances of
the game are seldom repeated twice in sue
cssion. Scientific whist which is so preva-
lent in clubs, is not the rule for general
card party, is not euchre and cinque and
hearts share in the pastime of Lent.
1t is said that any scoffer at lenten self
aenials should visit the candy shops and
have the makers of sweets and CONNECTIONS
tell them how their trade falls off during
the six weeks OF fasting. You would be
surprised to know what grandmother aenies
herself during Lent said "a young woman
recently. The one addressed said that 1t
must be butter, because that seemed to be
the easiest to get along without. NO."
said the young woman, grandmother is
almost seventy, and she does without
candy. Any time during the year you may
so into basket iii the corner of her room
and you win find a box OF candy. She
nihbles on it, sometimes every day, and
again she will not touch it for week. but
abe likes to know that she has a sweet close
1t hand. During Lent there is not a bit of
candy in the room. We always know what
TO give her for an Easter present. and that
is two-pound box of candy and every bit
of it will be gone in a week"
One of the features of the coming sum-
mer's styles is the golf sunbonnet. 1t is
pretty variety of the old-time sunbonnef,
with a little more flare, SO that one can see
ana hear better than in the old close-fitting
affair The new ones are said to be ex-
tremely becoming They are made of mus
lin with rosebuds or blue flowers on white
ground. and have large white muslin bows
to tie under the chin.
1t is said that the father of bride-to-be
is seriously contemplating having the we'd
ding cards sent out as he wants them. The
invitations will be after the regulation
style, but on one of the cards Enclosed he
wishes to have engraved mo presents" and
Friends of the family are particularly re-
quested not to throw rice or old Shoes"
The daughter does not know whether he is
trying to tease her or whether he will actu-
ally insist on having such an announce
ment The father argues that it is perfectly
permissible to lave mo flowers" after a
funeral notice, and he does not see why he
should have lot of wedding presents for
his daughter when he does not wish her to
receive them. If the announcement is made
there win be long signs OF relief from those
invited, but the daughter does not want to
be the bride to inaugurate the new style.
She has seen her friends receive rugs,
chairs, china, cut glass silver and gold,
not to say anything of checks, which she
hopes she may get to pay for the wedding
trip and buy something in New York, and
she cannot quite make up her mind. The
matter OF a trousseau vaniShes into thin
air compared to this yexed question of an
extra card with the invitation.
The newest glove is a heavy two-clasp
make of a light maroon shade. Now that
the greens and puppies have gone out the
maroon has come in.
The exclusive set In New York has had
some curious performances ''for fun' this
season There was the vegetable ball, then
some one gave a bath tank tea, then some
one else gave a cat bali, in which the
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