The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-09
FOR FEMININE READERS
EXPERIENCES OF A GIRL WHO DE-
SIRED To BE A SOCIAL SUCCESS.
The Fine Art of Making Pun Paste
Women of Arrested Development
How TO Sign Your Name.

/ dropped In TO see Mollie the other day
and found her surrounded by several vol
umes OF Browning. the works of Emerson.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. and what looked
ike textbooks on the great masters in
music. the meaning of symphonies. and
others of that like, says a writer in the
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Goodness sakes." 1 exclaimed. 'Wha
are you doing? Preparing a club paper?"
Club paper? I wish L could transcribe
the scorn In her tone. mot much. / am
going on a visit to Boston"
But what"
"Of course, you don't understand. you
goosey. But when one Is a guest one
should be a social success. It's a duty TO
ones hostess and it's not unpleasant, any
way" she concluded, demurely.
Now, you are told that all hat is
needed TO make a man think you an angel
Is TO find out his hobby and draw him
out to talk on it. That's all very well.
cut where is the recipe for discovering
the mans hobby. and if il is some un-
earthly subject you don't know anything
about. how are you going to draw him
out?
1T doesn't make any difference to me
whether my dinner man is a Hittite in
scription hend or draft on placer mining.
But l haven't a college education and l
nave to prepare for such occasions. L
went TO Inner once with a troglodyts
man. Dc you know Via trolodytes are?"
admitted / didn't.
Neither do /. 1 gathered they were
some sort of bugs. L tried to look intelli-
- L& .o, H., aoIr fnnn oil thu
tune L would make some awful break. And
you can't be interesting when your blood
is frozen with that dread, combined with
the thought of Jugs. L don't think a
hostess ought TO thrust a troglodyte man
OF: a girl without warning.
Then there was a heavenly Engnsh-
man L met who was crazy about Persian
poetry, L had TO be a positively mute the
hrst evening with him. But, thanks to a
XII = Providence, / was given a second
chsace, and by that time L could go bull
buling about like a nightingale and could
quote Khayyam in my sleep. Hence those
American Beauty roses"
But is il worth while?" / questioned
doubtfully. My head was already swim
ming at the thought of mastering such
widely different subjects.
lis it worth while? That depends on
what you like. l Xix men and American
Beauty roses"
But how do you know what to study up
when you don't know whom you'll meet?'
'Well, IL you're invited to met some big
gun, study his specialties. II it's just an
ordinary dinner party and you're sure or
nothing and nobody, fix up a few good
stories and clever ideas, and then figure
out ways to drag them in by the heels. But
best of all, If you visit much, is TO make
a study of local matters. Did you ever
visit Pittsburgh"
/ admitted | hadn't.
well, if you ever do you want TO go In for
machinery. There's lots of driving and iii
ing there, and that means talking. TIL first
night L was in town we went to a lovely
dinner, and I was taken down by a charm
ing man. He talked motors TO me all
through the meal. BY the time dessert
came / could nave built a motor without a
screw missing. The next night / met a
hydraulic hammer, and so IL went. Now,
before L go TO Pittsburg 1 mentally con-
struct an engine, look up the price OF steel
rails and armor plate, and I'm ready for
Carnegie himself.
sIn Washington it's politics. l could
write an Almanach de Gotha from what l
know of the royal families, while as for
heather Chinee, the Beers, Russia's East
ern policy and the rest or the muddleS,
we'll, / know enough TO look wise and put
in the right question at the right time. In
Denver its mines, in Iowa corn and wheat,
in Wisconsin lumber, while in OHIO L Just
ooZe oil at every pore.
Now I'm getting ready for Boston. 1
hear it's music, Browning, waldo n
Oliver up there. I've learned ten quotations
from Emerson warranted TO cover every
subject, and when l get a little better ac-
auainted with some of these impressive
sounding musical terms / think I'll do
How about Philadelphia" l inquired.
WELL" she said m~usingly, 'its best to
put on a pretty dinner frock and trust to
your guardian angel, though 1t wouldn't be
a bad investment to go long on old fami-
liac