The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28
EUents of the Past
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The month OF roses Is about gone and
with its end will come practically the end
of the weddings and wedding festivities
with which the season has been unwontediy
full. even for the favored Junetide. That
brides hold 10 the timehonored sentiment
about June weddings is indicated by the ar
rangement of this weeks calendar. Usual
ly most of the weeks weddings are set for
wednesday in accordance with another
wedding sentiment. but this week 1t Is
Tuesday that is full to overlooking with
wedding arrangements. Tuesday, the last
day OF June. appeals to the bride-elect as
being a much filter day to be married on
than Wednesday. the 1st day of July.
Consequently Tuesday will about the
last of the summer brides of, TO go "trip
ping through the East or elsewhere" as
one of the smaller town journals puts 1t.
There will be a few scattered weddings
through the summer months. but there will
probably be no rush for marriage licenses
and wedding bells and rice until golden
October rolls around. Then the lovely
autumn bride will dawn on the horizon.
With the going OF the brides. society will
grow materially duller too. There are still
number of dances and informal entertain
ments to be given for the young people
Just home for the holidays and their
guests. but by far the greater number Of
companies which have made the early sum-
mer 50 gay have been for the maidens
about to enter the bonds of matrimony.
And so society will miss the brides in more
ways than one.
indianapolis has discovered a new sum-
nd
making use Of its discovery Everybody
knows that Indianapolis is slow to take up
with new fads and fancies, not that the
town Is not progressive. but simply that
1t Is ultra conservative. This conservatism
Is evidenced even in the summer resort
habit: those people who have been going
to Mainkuckee or Wawasee or Harbor
Point for years keep on going just because
they have been going for years. But for
some reason this summer marks an epoch
IN the matter, and any number or people
are turning their backs on the usual lake
and river resorts and going down instead
10 the quaint old town OF Madison to stay
anywhere from a week to the whole sum
mer.
One explanation of the popularity of the
pretty town il that there is a considerable
\colony Of Madison people in Indianapolis.
md most OF them seem to have selected this
particular summer the to spend
at their old home. Their example, however,
influences others who have never belonged
to Madison. but after a first visit to the
place they want to belong to II a summer
vacations worth at least. One of the ar
tistic women of the city, who has recently
returned from few days stay in the town.
declares her intention Of going back as
coon as possible to stay as long possible.
She says that the houses have quaint old
world look, and with their gardens full Of
the glow OF vari-colored hollyhocks, the
town Is just now paradise for painters.
at have always thought Indianapolis a
beautiful city," she says, but when came
back to It's squares upon squares of frame
houses with Eat lawns. it looked the most
commonplace of towns
Another reason for the prestige of Mad
ison as summering town lies probably In
the popularity of the Kentucky river trip.
A great number OF Indianapolis people are
taking the trip this year, and so they have
an opportunity incidentally TO see the at
fractions of Madison. and the first view
seems always to be convincing.
This Is a love story-the story of a first
and second love. The hero OF the tale Is a
very youthful gentleman-so youthful that
he has but recently attained to the dignity
OF long trousers. Still he is old
enough to have fallen in love.
not once, but twice. Such is
the Inconsistency OF even miniature man.
The first heroine is one of the most charm
ing girls in town-pretty and chic and in
teresting. Grown-up men like her for her
beauty and then go on liking her for her
brightness Her admirers are not wont to
be tickle. Heroine No. is a petite damsel
not much bigger than Hero. but Of unusual
understanding
For two or three years the small boy had
adored Miss Blank. He talked necessarily
Of her, and sent her gifts and valentines
when occasion offered; when she came TO
dinner he insisted upon sitting next to her.
and the fact that he sometimes sat in a
high chair, sometimes on the dictionary,
detracted not bit from his devotion.
He had a real case.
But one day he started to kindergarten.
That was the beginning OF the end. The
first day he took notice of Mary Adelaide.
who was a co-pupil. Mary Adelaide knew