The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-02
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY.


Miss Alice Adams. of Chicago, will arrive
next week TO visit Miss Elizabeth Dalton,
on Park avenue.
Mrs. Edwin Henry Forrey will be at
home Wednesdays. in April, at her home,
543 North Meridian street.
Mrs. Henry SEVERN and Miss Emily
Fletcher will leave to-day, Tor Martins
vile, to spend ten days.
Mr.. John l.. Grifiths will read his paper.
"Cavour," before the Fortnightly Literary
Club this afternoon instead of the regular
programme.
The local Council of Women will hold its
annual election of officers this afternoon az
the Propylaeum. y large attendance or
delegates is desired.
The Art Association will meet this after
noon at $3.50 o'clock to hear the annual re-
ports of the officers and elect new officers
for the ensuing year.
The Needle Society of the First Presby-
terrain Church will meet with Mrs. j. III.
Taylor. 1926 North Pennsylvania street, this
afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
The Needle Society of the First Presby-
terrain Church will meet this afternoon at
2:30 o'clock with Mrs. James III. Taylor,
1875 North Pennsylvania street.
Miss Stella Adams will leave next week
Tor washington, II. g., to attend the wed
ding of he- cousin, Miss Len Edmonston,
and MIR. Benjamin Rial, of New York.
Mrs. John c. Wright has gone TO New
York TO spend the Easter vacation with
her granddaughter, MISS Mabel IalDOtt,
who is attending school in Washington.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Narcissa Niblack and Mr.. James Thorne.
both OF Chicago. Miss Niblack visits
friends in Indianapolis very frequently and
is we'll known.
day evening, at a family dinner party, at
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry ID.
Pierce, of their daughter. Miss Theresa v.
Pierce. and Mr.. Oscar S. Moore, Jr., OF New
York.
The sixth section of the Ladies' Club will
give a euchre party Saturday afternoon at
the German House. The ladies of that sec
ton are Mrs. Charles krauss. Mrs. J; Beck
er and Miss Lilly Ludorff. There will be a
little side entertainment for the ladies who
do not take part in the euchre party.
A subscription cotillon will be given at the
~Propylaeum April is. the committee for
Stella Adams, Miss Ella Vonnegut, Miss
Mary Wilson, Mr.. Percy Williams, Mr..
Sam Johnston, Mr.. Owen Mothershead. M.
George Pattison and Mr.. Robert Foster.
The April dance of the Woodruff Place
Club will be given on the evening of April
II. The committee which has charge of the
affair includes Mrs. Horace Coldwell, Mrs.
Mrs. J. Fl. Ford, Mrs. McMurray and Mrs.
II II. Trip. Harris orchestra will furnish
the dance music.
Miss Bessie Trout gave a shirt waist tea,
yesterday afternoon, in honor of Miss Bess
oIONh dhd AZ ~iASo
Williamson and Miss Coulter. The guests
included Miss Mabel Pray, Miss Lila ALI
son, Miss Lucia Wiley, Miss Cordelia
Hughes, Miss Regina Ferguson, Miss Maud
Gray, Miss Alice Ballard. Miss Cleo Scott,
Miss Josie Williams, the Misses Stella and
Emma Vondersaar, Miss Gertrude Brown
and Miss Mona Ensey.
A MEPHISTO RECEPTION.
Miss Bess Brown gave a unique entertain
ment last night at her home on North Me-
-;I,,o ~troot -, 49, 80 TO- x,foft4~- ME-
Heating. Miss Williamson and Miss Coul-
ter, all classmates in the Western College
at oxford. The guests were requested to
wear winding sheets, and when they
reached the house five ghostly figures. Miss
Brown and her sister, Miss Gertrude Brown,
and the three visitors. directed the guests 10
the dressing rooms and thence TO the draw
ing room, where Mephisto, Mr.. Percy Wal
ter Pfaff, and the chief imp. Mr.. James
a throne placed in one corner. The halls
and other rooms through the house were
dimly lighted, the lights being shaded with
red shades. Jack-o'-lanterns Inside of which
We're red lights, were placed at close inter
walls on the walls. above the doors and or
the mantels. There were skulls placed
about, in which the red lights also shone,
and crossbones hung from the balustradJ
and were suspended from the chandeliers.
An open door in a vestibule off the dining
room disclosed the most CHASTITY spectacle
of ALA large skeleton wrapped in a wind.
ing sheet and from whose eyes shot a
CLEAN of red Hight. The guests were given
as they entered the drawing room small
cardboard tombstones, on which were writ.
ten the names of a guest and the inscrip-
ton, Sacred to the Memory of" the guests
being asked TO finish the epitaph. Following
this, Mephisto and his assistant related &c
each guest TO what they were doomed In
the hereafter and the reason why. Al 9:J
o'clock a colored quartet silently entered
the rear of the house and sang wierd songs
after which the lights were turned on and
there was dancing. The guests included
Misses Agnes and Mary Hansel. of Chicago,
the Misses Jessie and Marguerite Bass and
Miss Ella Brewer, of Greenwood; Miss Car
cline Wood and Miss Rena Harris. of Nun
Gle, all Western College girls; Miss Mona
Ensey, Miss Bessie Trout, Miss Maud Gun.
bingham, Miss Helen Ballard. Miss Joseph,
Inc Williams. Miss Lila Allison, Miss Bess
McCrea. Miss Helen Sharpe. Miss Alice
Ballard, Miss Gladys Nehrbas, Miss Fanni.
Miner, Miss Regina Ferguson, Mr.. Felix
Ballard, Mr.. William Ballard, Mr.. Mark
Dennis, Mr.. Claud Hyatt. Mr.. Truitt. Mr.
Ashley Davenport. Mr.. Charles m
Mr.. Wallace Taylor, Mr.. Palmer Baumas
Mr.. Richardson, Mr.. Earl Miner. Mr.. FREQ
McCrea, Mr.. Joseph Miner, Mr.. Coburn Al
len, Mr.. Thomas Harvey, Mr.. Edward
Wright, Mr.. Raymond Adams, Mr.. Hofft
Mr. Walter Pfaff, Mr.. Charles Dyer, Mr.
James Randall, MIR. George Posey, Mr.
Webb Adams and Mr. John KfttIa