Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-30

brain for early Christmas shopping
ought to be awarded an iron cross or a
Carnegie medal or a Cecil Rhodes
scholarship. Just the other day some
one was telling of friend who wan
ders through the shops and gathers
up all sorts of pretty and unusual
things and puts them away in big
chest Truly this is in line with the
preparedness movement, for. at this
time of the year, many things that
cannot be found in the winter time
are at every turn of the department
store aisles and then, too. they are
much cheaper now. This friend of
iadys puts the pretty things away
until Christmas and when everybody
else is scrambling around through mud
and among the other bargain hunters
she sits calmly by her fireside and ties
up her packages, and when everybody
have been sold to every other person
her packages have reached their desti-
nations"
Were you ever invited to an infare
dinner? asks a writer in the St Louis
Globe Democrat
Return of the In You are familiar
for with the III u e.
warming" that is as
any other season, and if you are a bust
ness man you cannot have escaped the
demand for floral tribute when some
new firm has embarked in your partic-
ular line Of trade or profession. But
the chances are that if you know any,
thing definite about an infare dinner
you are either too old to care about dis
cussIhe IL or you are of Scotch or north
Oh England origin, unless. of course,
you happen to have spent most of YOUR
life in Indiana In the latter event vo,,
learned all about a charming custom
from your mother or grandmother In
rural Indiana the old ceremonial has
even yet not gone the way of most of
the ceremonial practices of our ances-
Tors, for it is still observed in modi-
hed form However, there is no sinister
meaning attached to it's omission as
was the case two generations ago
IN the Gays of our grandparents if
the groom mother failed to invite the
bride to the infare dinner the day fol,
fowlhg the wedding il meant one thing
ana one thing only, that she was not to
pc REGARDED as a member of her hus-
pand S family. The dinner was usuaIl,
more elaborate affair than the we'd
dihg supper at the brides fathers house
me previous evening. 1t was served at
nlgn noon and included the entire bridal
parry although in Scotland the bride
dred behind when she went 70 .,t IT,
aihher cooked by her mother-in-law.
II Is safe to predict that the girls
VINO nave whirled away to the fash
ionable resorts
a Wise Suggestion are not having
in Tb;. 9aif the o d
times that are
being enjoyed by the stay-at-home
damsels, who are having all the best
of it in the way of having a clear field
and no favor, with the men who per-
force are obliged to remain in the city
for business reasons, says the ST. Louis
Globe Democrat.
These same men, in the absence of
erstwhile more favored bellies, never
theless have not failed to find ample
solace in the presence of the stay-at-
homes, proof of which is found in
the numbers of girls with their escorts
seen every evening following afternoon
or morning at the pleasure resorts, on
the golf links or whirling out the
country roads on pleasure bent.
When the girl who has enjoyed dali
lance al the seaside resort returns it
is much to be feared that she will have
to look for new conquests for she
SWANS securely bound in the chains of
the wise stayat- home maiden.
Not only does the stay-at-home girl
enjoy the undivided attention of the
men, but with her girl friends finds
many sources of pleasure. such as
slumber parties, when ten or dozen
girls gather at the home of one. each
armed with a pillow, and, after jolly
evening of merryrnaking. all betake
themselves to the sleeping porch for a
coy night of gossip, for. of course, no
but, on the contrary. they discuss their
hearts secrets in thrilling whispers
| throughout the fragrant darkness of
the summer night.