The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-04
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY
PEOPLE ARE busy PREPARING FOR
THE SUMNER OUTING.
where some Families VIII spend the
Hot Months-An Ideal Farm
house LOnged For.

This is the season when preparations are
going forward with considerable energy in
the region OF the modiste's and in the pri-
vate sewing rooms. Milady is getting ready
for her summer outing. and she is doing it
with less talk than usual. BY the lst Of
June il is generally known where many
will be for the hot months. With the ex-
ception of the many who are going to Eu-
rope and a few who have taken cottages,
the short vacation is not quite decided 1t
has been a wonder for seFsral weeks why
so many were going to Europe this summer
instead Of next. For several years the ques-
ton has been, Are you going TO Europe in
1902" There may be many who are going
next year, but Indianapolis will contribute
a reasonable number of tourists for Great
Britain and the continent within the next
three months. There is quite little colony
OF Hoosers IN Europe now, with more en-
route and stin there are more TO follow
One woman has made arrangements to go
10 the seashore TO remain until October, and
she feels herseif fortunate IN securing the
last available room at certain hotel where
she planned 10 be a guest. Another family
will 90 10 the mountains Of Virginia and
be within accessible distance OF a large
city, where her husbands business will take
him for part OF the time. Another fam
Kill mountains. which is away from every
body and everything, and where they expect
10 enjoy the summer in a truly unconven-
tiOnal way. No best clothes will be
taken, only those for use. The family ser
wants viii go, and books, hammocks and
enough things for comfort will be taken.
The children expect 10 do something IN the
way OF nature study, but the real hone Is
recreation. The ministers and school teach
ers will spread over the land from sea to
sea, and not few will be found with pas
sage TO a foreign land. The place that
many would like TO go is one of the ideal
places, but too seldom realized to be known
by the many This is the farmhouse, which
has bathroom, screens at the windows
and doors, plenty of hammocks and shade,
good driving horses, roads for wheeling,
nice picnic places, a table with plenty OF
dairy and garden products and a genuine
country cook, who knows how to fry
chicken and make biscuits that melt in the
mouth and where there is a. Refrigerator
with plenty of ice. Such a place is to
dream about, but il is the place that might
charge almost any price for It's privileges
and have house full of summer boarders
IN. Inc Vacation subject is a. weighty one for
the person VINO really needs IL, but who has
slim purse The men and women in bad
ly ventilated stores and workrooms are the
ones VINO need the fresh air, the country
air and the sea and mountain air. but thev
are the last TO get it. But tust al this sea.
son, next TO the gossip, is the subject of va
cations.
The sequel to a smart luncheon given at a
fashionable restaurant a short time ago as
a farewell TO a well-known woman who had
been spending some time in the CITY. is lust
now being told and is interesting enough TO
bear repetition. 1t points moral all too OBJ
vious. The luncheon was for a dozen per-
sons and the one who was to have given
II lives in the suburbs. The day was the
day set for the departure of the visitor. and
the hour for the feast one sufficiently in
advance of train time TO allow for the dis
position Of a liberal repast. With the hour
arrived the ladies. all but the hostess. II
was unfortunate that she was not punctual
Dut a little delay would add ZeSt to appe-
Ute, but when an hour had passed away
ana no hostess put in an appearance a lit
ue CONSERVATION could not be helped. The
CONSERVATION was not allayed by the arrival
or a telegram addressed TO one of the elder
Iaules OF the party and proving TO be from
tne tardy hostess, simply saying she was ill
and would be unable TO get into town Very
Well, the recipient of the telegram thought
1 Will order the luncheon served at once
Of the restaurant she told him to serve the
meal, Serve the meal! What meaI?'' Why,
me luncheon to be sure, Mrs. So and So
nad ordered. Alas! Mrs. So and So had or
dered no luncheon at ALL" the major domo
SAID. Very we'll, then" said the lady
serve a luncheon for twelve and serve it
QUICKLY. 1t was hurried, of course, but the
guest OF honor had no notion of how near
she had come to being compelled 10 start
IOf Boston iuncnleSS- Fully expecting that
next day would bring an explanation, the
pseIdo-hostess paid the BILL But next day.
nor the next, nor the next after that saw
word from the lady in the suburbs. y week
passed, and still nothing came. Then, meet
Ing the husband by chance the other day
she told him OF the occurrence, putting in
some expressions Of opinion, which, in a.
newspaper story, would have been set in
bold type. and called pepper" The result
was a bunch of roses and mere request
mat the bill be sent to the suburbs. Ii was
and accompanying il a note. whose contents
relations between the town and country in
that direction.-Philadelph Times
During a wedding breakfast to which a
mere handful of guests had been hidden last
week, the brides health was proposed in the
usual 1owery terms. After the ceremony
had been duly performed the speaker said:
And that this beaker' holding up a fra
gle, thin-Stemmed glass, may never be de-
Iased to any less gracious use, L will fol-
low the old fashion and shatter ii while it
sun gloWS with the recollection of the poetic
service IT has just performed" He opened
MS hand. and the "beaker'' scattered In
linking fragments on the table.
Ihat glass, remarked the bride S
mother later, was the last Of six that have
been handed down in the family for almost
hundred years. knew wedding in May
would De unluckyi' - Philadelphia North
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