The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-24
THEIR OUTINGS At HOME
INDIANAPOLIS PEOPLE WHO ENJOY
OUT-OF-DOOR LIFE IN THE CITY.
Breakfast and supper Served in the
Garden-A wOman's Untimely
visfts--sOcfaI Affairs.

Indianapolis people are beginning to enjoy
bit of outdoor life in the city. The open
Ing OF the German House garden is probably
as responsible for this change in affairs as
any one thing. There are more lawn parties
this season than ever before and still an
other feature is the serving of breakfast
and supper in the garden In the rear of a
cozy uptown house is lawn with flower
beds making border on three sides. A
great maple tree and the house form the
shade while grape arbor the length of the
garden serves as a wall on the west and
also shuts off the view from the neighbors
An old dining table with red cloth stands
out in the garden under the tree and here
each morning breakfast is served from the
convenient kitchen and there each evening
The cold tea is spread. The midday meal is
taken in the cool of the dining room which
- kept dark except for the short time when
thinner is served. A family party took sup
per rev evenings ago on another lawn,
Wnicn is protected from the street by trees
ana SHRUBS. There many people who
take their coffee out of doors in the morn
ing and there are any number of persons
who have wire inclosed porches where they
lake breakfast every morning during the
season when 1t is not too cool or too damp
1t Is beginning TO be understood that MANY
comforts may be taken within the confines
weather and people might take many more
than they do If they would go to a small
part OF the trouble and expense which a
trip costs.
1t was once my misfortune to make the
acquaintance of woman who had more
leisure on her hands than she knew what
TO do with" said one of the busiest of busy
women, land the martyrdom L suffered at
tnat Womans hands is really beyond words
70 describe. 1t seemed to me that she came
at times when she specially upset my cal
culatlons and when it was most inconven-
lent to receive her. And the worst of the sit
uation was that she appeared incapable of
taking any hint as to the desrabiIity of her
society at that or any other time 1 came
TO know her through intimate friends of
my family. and once or twice accepted some
OF the courtesies that she always insisted
upon offering. / was warned before I met
her that she was most uncomfortable in
nicttons but matters came about so that I
was powerless to avoid the acquaintance.
You know have certain duties that must
pc attended to every day, whether or no.
II J am interrupted or delayed 1 must make
~ up out or my hours of rest. Scores. of
times I have worked until the wee sYna'
hours, Just because that woman lacked the
ness. even after had told her that / was
1tmSst at my wits ends on account Of be-
ing behindhand with my regular work. I
remember one day when the situation was
particularly aggravating. 1 had long since
ceased asking her to caH, and had for more
IMAM q year declined all invitations and
courtesies One day was working for dear
life to get my allotted task off my hands
on account of some guests who were to dine
remarked that looked tired. and took the
opportunity to tell her that had a big Job
on my hands that must be finished before
dinner time, as expected friends to dinner
at g. 1t was about 1:30 when she came and
she stuck by until quarter of 4, cutting out
the very heart of my afternoons work. OF
course, the day went on in a continual
strain, and some hours of night work and
a severe nervous headache were among the
results of this untimely visitation. If this
had happened but one or twice it might he
overlooked, but when it occurs often II
makes rather serious inroads upor ones
time, temper and powers of endurance
Exchange.
A lady who lives very comfortably in one
Of the leading hotels went to visit a friend
for month. This friend has most of the
luxuries of life-a beautiful house and serv
/ ants, including pretty waitress, who wears
caps and spotless gowns, and the house is
away from the heat, noise and dust of the
city. The visitor thoroughly enjoyed the
homo for month. and at the end of that
time returned to the hotel. She was dis
gusted, and wondered how she had ever
been able to endure the noise and the hurry
of the hotel dining room. Her things in her
room looked coarse, the bed was hard and
the sheets cotton, and really she thought
she could not live there any longer About
ten days after her return to the hotel she
was invited by party of friends to go to
Chickamauga to visit relatives in camp
She went walked half mile or more back
and forth each day to her meals or to see
the relatives. lived on miserable fare and
slept on bed that was tick filled with
straw that seemed to be nothing but hills
and hot. and the fact that She
was seeing. the boys about to be
ordered to the front was the only pleas
IRE, and that sad one. She came back to
the hotel after her second experience and
the hotel looked like paradise to her, the
bed seemed down, the curtains at the win
dows fairy-like lace and the table was fit
for the gods She is inclined to think she
took her trips in about the right order for
her to enjoy the remainder Of the summer
at her home in the hotel.