The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-16
TALKS ON LIVE TOPICS
LOCAL DEALERS ALREADY PREPAR-
ING FOR ST. VALENTINES DAY.
Interurban Lines a Blessing to MIN
rods of This City-The Passing
OF the Mustache.

At this time of the year, when dealers
in toys, novelties and notions are giving
most of their attention to their Christmas
offerings, ii is rather surprising to the av-
erage man TO learn that great preparations
are now going on among the importers for
next st. Valentines day, away of In the
shadowy future. One Indianapolis man. at
least, has been giving all of his attention
of late to valentines. 1T may seem out
of season to discuss such things" re-
marked Marshall Moore, who is the val
entine specialist for the biggest firm of
novelty importers in the city, but I've
never in all my experience seen such at
tractive valentines as the dealers in Ger
many are now sending out for next Febru-
airy. Large boxes of them have just reached
Indianapolis from Munich and Nuremburg,
and although / have bought and sold val
entines for the last twenty years I've never
become quite so interested in the dainty
love tokens before. / can assure the
young people right now that they have sur
prises in store for them when February
comes and the beautiful new ideas in val
entines are exhibited in the shop windows
for the first time.
"Munich and Nuremburg have for a long
time been great rivals in the manufacture
of valentines, and 1 think that each has
tried hard to Guido the other this year in
the development of new effects never at
tempted before, for I am sure that next
February's love cards will be away ahead
of anything of the kin ever seen hereto
fore in this country. The principal feature
of the new valentines from both Of the
German cities is a sort of delicate paper
lace arrangement in the center of 7 beau
tifully-colored pictorial card, and when you
hold the card upright the lace unwinds it
self in spiral form until it becomes a dainty
cage with a lovely little Cupid inside.
Nothing could be more ingenious and ar
tistic. The designs were made in London,
but all of the fine work and lithographing
were done in the German cities. which are
noted throughout the world for the bril-
liant coloring and exquisite finish of all
their photographic work. If these new val
entines do not create something of a sem
| sation among people who care for such
things / miss my guess by a good DEAL"
XXX
do you know that the many interurban
car lines now entering Indianapolis are
proving a great blessing to the Nimrods of
the city?'' said a prominent local Hy-fsher-
nan OhC AAOAA AAho A"eN
the corner of Washington and Meridian
streets waiting for a Greenfield car. He
| carried a small satchel in one hand and a
fy-rod case in the other. 1.-THE fishing en-
thusiasts of the town are beginning to APP
preciate the advantages afforded them by
the long-distance electric lines to reach
good fishing waters within an hour or so.
There hasn't been any good fishing in the
"a D.. .;os~;t - JpIion nnn1iC for Soxy-
eral years, and until lately the fellow with
the hip boots and the flexible fly-rod has
been obliged to take at least a couple of
days off from work IL he wanted to enjoy
some of his favorite sport. But now he
can board an early morning interurban car
that will take him near some good fishing
stream in a jiffy, and he car indulge in a
half-day's fishing and be back home again
in time for any engagement he may have
the same evening.
BASS has been rising with an eagerness
that is. more than pleasing in many of the
streams within twenty or thirty miles of
indianapolis, and quite a number of local
fishermen have been passengers on the early
morning outgoing interurban cars during
the last two weeks. 1 know of one excel
lent fishing place near Brooklyn, on the
Martinsville line. but I'm keeping the Sc
cret pretty much to myself. The bait and
fly fishermen have been doing equally we'll.
L recently read that bass will strike at any
thing of a bright color. and so the other
day / tried an experiment. 1 fastened a
piece of yellow paper to a spoon hook, made
a splendid cast into a shallow place where
the current was swift, and my hook had
scarcely touched the water when the rod
bent nearly double under the weight of a
two-pound plymouth bass. On another
occasion L -" But at this instant a
Greenfield car turned the corner and the
recording angel above, who had been pre-
pairing to take dow the next Ole, sadly
closed his book.
II believe the day is coming when all
men will keep their faces shaved smooth
observed a barber in one of the large hotel
shaving parlors. 'Have you noticed that
a surprisingly large number of men about
town, who used TO wear boards, now have
smooth-shaven faces? Two years ago 1
was called upon to trim Van Dykes two
or three times a day, but now 1 have so
little of that sort of work to do that I'm
actually getting out of practice. There has
been for some time a growing tendency
among Eastern men to keep the upper lip
shaved smooth as well as the rest of the
face, and the Westerners are following
their Example Nearly all of the Eastern
drummers, actors and other travelling men
that 1 have shaved lately have had smooth
faces and / know that I have shaved off
more mustaches among Indianapolis men
during this last year than in any preceding
year since / have been in the business.
81 think the face massage, which has be-
come so popular during the last three or
four years. especially in the East, has been
largely responsible for the discarding of
boards and mustaches. Men are learning
that they can retain their good looks and