The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-08

"A euchre party Is an excellent
IL - place to study the gentler sex
yelooe1SJ at its worst. at other social
tMSI gatherings you will see your fell
iow-creatures Of the feminine
persuasion at their best-but not so at a
euchre party. 1t is at one OF these func-
: tions that your dearest feminine friend Will
) exhibit traits oe character that you would
never have imagined she possessed; 1t Is at
!. affairs of this sort that women have a
chance to bring into play certain individual
> tiles that are to DC noticeable at no other
time or place. Whereas. at other places Of
/, amusement, a woman may be kind, Thought
: fui, generous and tactfui, ct a euch-e party
T she suddenly becomes cautious, distrustfGl,
EXCEPTIONALLY diplomatic and. perhaps.
wee bit dishonest
; At large euchre party the other day,
given for sweet charity's sake, a great
many women paid so cents each to the door
keeper for the privilege OF playing cards
; throughout the afternoon in big, badly
I ventilated Toom-playing with lot of other
women whom they had never seen before
land hoped never TO see again)-playing for
. a prize which not one OF 'em would have
thought OF buying for 20 cents piece. And,
although nobody really wanted the prize.
: the contestants played as IL their very lives
depended upon their determined efforts;
their cheeks became crimson as the after
: noon wore on, their eyes shone with I'M
natural brightness, and before the tourna-
men. had reached It's end, about every
woman present hated every other woman
in the place.
A man who had no business 10 be at the
function, being a rank outsider, lacking
in reverence and proper appreciation of the
Z thing. came anyway. and. like the be-
nigrted young fellow in the jingle. enjoyed
the affair just as much as IL he'd been really
invited. His only excuse for putting in an
appearance was 70 "see how things were
going" And this is how they went:
BY ones, and twos. and threes the players
came into the big public room. They took
off their heavy outer wraps. but left their
hats pinned and tackled gracefully upon
their shapely heads Have you ever otced
that after a certain age a woman always
wears hat whenever II Is possible? The
ladies OF the tournament formed In groups
about the many little tables. talking and ex-
planning how they had ''just come for the
good of the cause and not because they
really cared anything about playing" Some
OF them brazenly told each other that card
playing bored them very much indeed. but
that they felt it their duty to give sweet
charity a boost-or words to that effect.
And you should have seen these same bored
ones playing a little later on. Graciousi
At one table several women sat with their
heads close together. whispering as hard
as they possibly could. Once in awhile
little snatches OF their conversation could be
overheard-wee, happy little filings at other
women, such as She'll get her card
punched twice whenever she can" 1.-The
last time played with her she cheated
dreadfully." "Oh. know she's a regular
card shark. as the men say and so on,
and so on. ls-... -,....-....
Soon all Of the guests had arrived and
trays laden with score cards, half OF them
with blue strings and the other half with
pink strings tied to them. were passed
among the women. The selecting of these
cards was an occasion OF tremendous i'm
portance. Some OF the ladies felt that 1t
would be out of the question for them to
take cards having pink strings, because
OF the fact that pink would not harmonic