The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-16
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY
SOME GOSSIP OF FASHIONABLE DO
INGs IN THE EAST.
A Preachers Fondness for Red-The
Carafe Is No Longer
Au Fait.

A Philadelphia paper tells OF a most in
teresting contest which is being waged
among the unmarried women of an uptown
CONGREGATION in that city. They are, it is
said, literally painting the town red" The
pastor Is also unmarried. and in a recent
discourse ne incidentally mentioned that he
considered red a beautiful color. The next
Sunday the church was a mass or red.
Every woman. young and old, who was not
encountered with a husband. wore the pas
tors fayorite color. There were red waists
without number; some maidens Of doubtful
age wore red skirts, while red ribbons and
red millinery were everywhere. Bicycle
dresses followed in a short time. and the
married members of the church are wonder
ing where the mania will end. In the mean
time the unfortunate clergyman is getting
considerable quiet amusement out Of the
affair.
49,
This item OF dining room lore is CLEANED
from the society columns Of the New York
Commercial Advertiser: The carafe Is no
longer used in the table service in fashion
able circles. Cold water without ice in the
tumbler or goblet is preferred. This is not
possible when the carafe is used unless one
mas q 1Ii6 I'll PAoAAS NANS
water In the carafe, so the glass tankard
with silver mountings has been introduced.
This tankard is a handsome table orna-
ment. as well as a serviceable water YES
sci. It is shaped like the claret and sau-
terne jugs, having a silver lid n handle,
so constructed that when lifted by the ham
die the Id rises automatically just high
enough to allow a stream of water to be
poured into the tumbler, but not high
enough for the ice to slip out. When the
tankard is set back on the table after the
glass is filed the lid falls down, thus keep
ing the ice from melting from contact with
the air. Each tankard has a little silver
saiver In which it stands"
81
"At some London teas" says a woman
who has recently returned from that city,
there came on my plate. with the little
sandwich or hot muffin sometimes offered. a
small, rather wide pair of tongs. with
which, as I soon learned, I was expected to
grasp the sandwich or warm bread in order
not to soil my gloves. The tongs were some
thing like asparagus tongs in their general
appearance. except that they were very
much smaller"
The curious line of social distinction
drawn by certain snobbish people Is Illus
trated In the following story from an East
ern paper:
1.-The young woman who went to town fire.
Quently and came back late for dinner,
looking tired. and whiAe. and cross. was said
to write pieces for newspapers The young
woman who had known her in town and
never suspected her OF de-
Tended her. L am quite sure she Doesn't
she said. stabbing her embroidery vieiously
with her fine needle She knows a great
from any OF them that she did anything :.
But I've seen her writing. persisted
Of the piazza. She uses big pads Of yellow
paper and writes only on one side of a page
Now she wouldn't be apt to write to her
friends that way, would she?
mo, I don't suppose she would adj
mitted the champion OF the woman who
went to town frequently. But even If she
does write. I am sure, quite sure. that she
"And thus the social status of the Pine
tree Hotel was saved"
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In thie part Of the country few people are
taking much thought about the automobile.
but. according to the New York Sun fash
tonable women in society are wondering
what they will say when they want their
friends to go out in these machines with
them. viii you go automobiling with me
this afternoon at 5 o'clock?" is entirely too
much OF a mouthful. Brains are being put
to work to discover or coin another way Of
expressing ones self. AS a woman said the
other day: II can't say. viii you go billing
with me?' nor can 1 say, VIII you go
autoing with me?' I think / shall start the
fashion of saying, viii you take a spin
with me?'" The French women. who are
now wild about automobiles, call their ma
chimes "chauffeurs.' which is a translation
Of the English word 'scorcher," which they
applied to their bicycles when they were so
popular. Some of thu women who nave gone
into automobiling and all its delights are
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. jr., Mrs. Ar
thur Kemp. Mrs. John r. Drexel. Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney, Mrs. ]. F. D. La
nier and Mrs John Jacob Astor.