Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 12 April 1890 — Page 2
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DAILY JOURNAL.
SATURDAY, APRIT 12, 1800.
Ivow AmoiiK the Cities.
Scat-tie—We've got the biggest Wash In th« Union. Jackson—Ami wo the prettiest Miss.
Philadelphia—And we the wealthiest Pa, Hot Spriups—But we aru tho most ancient we have got the Ark.
Bangor—And what's the matter with Mel Now York—Hush, children, about your foibles you will t*»nke little Chicago 111 with envy.—New York Herald.
AcroM Ilia Father.
Irate Father—I can see through you, you little sneakt Suffering Roy—You ought to In) able to I'm trans-|Kiren"t.—Life.
Not Against the I^\\r.
"Is this the pn]ice station?" queried a female voice through tho telephono tho other day. "Yes'm." "Well. I want you to arrest tny husband." "What for?'1 "lie's carrying on theawfulest you ever saw.'' "HnwrV. /.-: "Why, lie's gone and got a crowbar, and be wiys ho is going to dash out my canary bird's brains. He k«*cps making the awfulest motions you ever saw, ami I know ho intends '--to commit murder." "I'm afraid wo can't do anything/' "Isn't it against tho law lor a great big •man to strike a wee httle canary bird with a
CFG* bar or sled £6 hammer .. "Hordly, ma'am." "Well, thato a pretty state of affairs, and shows what kind of a country we live in! •.Good-bv, and*'
The crowbar probably descended with a "sqush" just at that time, as she closed tho telephone with a snap.—Detroit Free Press.
Wh«j« the I*uck Comes In.
8adkigh—Did
you hear of Mr. Garner's
midden death? It was very sad. Just as he had finished the accumulation of a large fortune, and had made up his mind to retire and enjoy himself for the remainder of his life, he wa* suddenly struck down from nervous exhaustion, it is terrible!
McPnlii Yes, but isn't it fortunato he can't rake his fortune with him? Tho fellow who jfvts it without the nervous exhaustion .is in ltick.— I'ohtoti Transcript.
fepcenlutlro Heredity*
Mnterfrirmlras—Imogen, 1 don't think I could ever approve of your marrying George Rockpate. IshouMdmto to think that any of my grandchildron would be like him. Ho was such hard headed boy, and it runs in the family.
Imogen—Yes, mamma, I know all the .-Hoekpates are awfully «ard headed, but you must rcmeniK»r that there is softening of "tho brain ii» our famiiv.—-Life.
Win Mistake.
"What were you about to remark?" "Ncthinr at all, I assure you," replied Wiilit Washington. "But you looked as if you had something to say "Ya-as I'm verwy deceptive that way. .Pvcorlten thought, myself that I had something to fay, and discovahed aftah I said it tkat 1 hadn't."—Washington Post.
IlcroUm Keirarded.
Railway OClcial—Li this the man that has just wtvtni tlio train from destruction! Sovornl Bystanders—'Yes, this is tho man.
Railway Official (with emotion)—My friend, you have raved a hundred human lives and many tliouwiiid dollars' worth of property. 1 will K-o thnt you ure rewarded. (To subordinate): Wilkins, take up a collection among the posMMigurs.—Chicago Tribune.
II* Hail.
"You shouldn't speak so harshly of your fellow mail," said a merchant to his clerk. "You ought to remember tlio admonition to return good for mil. That's what I've just done an.i I did itwith a vengoauce." "ilow "I gave a mnn change for a counterfeit $10 ti ill. "—Washington Post.
They Usnally Io.
"Did you make much on your last stock deal!" "No lost f700." "But I thought that MacDollars gavo you pointer." "lie did but it proved to bo a disappoistar, Instead."—lluusey's Weekly.
Aflnr
Muny Days.
"VThv beaming, Briefless!" "Congratulate me. I have got a client at last." "Indefld!" "Yes, 6ir mysolf. My landlord Is string rent."—Now York Sun.
Mother, Wife and Daughter, Those dull, tired looks and unpleasant footings speak volumes. Dr. Kilmer's Female Remedy builds up quickly a run down constitution and brings baok youthful beauty. Price $1. Pamphlet free. lilnghampton, N. Y. Sold, recommended and guaranteed by Lew Fisher.
Children Cry for PitcherYCastorla?
OF THE DIVIDED. SKIRT.
13 IT AN EVOLUTION OR DID IT COME INTO BEING COMPLETE?
Floronoe FtnchKcl)y Compare* It to the
Bloomer, tho Trout*r» of the Turkish Womnn and the l)r«w of the Chinese
Woman.
[Copyright, 1800.]
Slowly but surely tlio divided skirt question is setting womankind against itself—bifurcating feminine opinion as distinctly as tliu skirt itself is divided. Tho views pro and con are as emphatic as feminine viows arc apt to be, on whatever subject, and the question gets argued between beliovers and unbelievers, wearers and non-wearere. an increasing number of times every day.
THK DIVIDED SKIRT.
For. undoubtedly, the divided skirt is paining ground and has won already a large army to its vep-ing and defense. It has been oniv three years since it sprang, full gathered, trimmed and divided, from tlie brain of tho lady for whom it has achieved distinction, into the talk of women and the news columns, headlines and paragraphs of the newspapers.
Throe years ago nobody had even thought of a divided skirt. One woman, more inventive than practical, had sewed her petticoat together, back and front,and had tried to wear it in that shape. But the attempt to -make Siamese twins out of her propelling members had not proved entirely successful and comfortable, and she had gone back to the orthodox form in petticoats gladly and gratefully.
Now patterns by the hundred are sent out by the firm of the lady to whom all tho talk about it is due, and the same firm carries a large stock of the made goods in all materials from red flannel to soft, lace trimmed silk. Several dry goods houses keep it always on hand. One of them spends a good deal of money advertising that they keep.it. It no longer attracts curious crowds when it is displayed in the store windows.
The fact that several actresses, among them Rosina Yokes, wear the article, made from dainty and costly materials, has given it additional prestige. And very recently the mighty el ix from the queen city of fashion, has sent out a model of a divided skirt that is one beautiful and bewildering mass of lace and frills and silk—a thing that Minerva herself would lie willing tosell her 1 a 1 crown to get. So that the divided skirt is now a
Parisian fashion. The Irish laundress has become so well accustomed to the article that she no longerasks,assho did at ilrst, "Do yez gin'rally have it counted two or wan?" The wois no longer an to her feminine
ONEIDA COMMUNITY LJLOOMER. man who wears one object of curiosity
friends, for a goodly number of those friends have probably donned it themselves.
But the divided skirt lias not gone unchallenged in its career as a conquerer. It still has enemies who rail at it, enemies who sneer at it, enemies who ridicule it. Every woman who wears it hears such expressions as these whenever the subject comes up for discussion among her women friends: "How perfectly hideous!" "The very idea of wearing such a thing is diBgusting!" "Really, it's immodest!" But if one may judge from the apparent amount of demand for the skirt, it is gradually making its way into the ranks of standard articles of feminine apparel.
Is the divided skirt an evolution of the bloomers of forty years ago? Did the idea come from China or Turkey? Or did it "just grow?" Or was it simply born "as is?" There aro those who say it is descended, in direct line, from the bloomer costume. If so, it does great and much needed credit to its foremother. It would be difficult to imagine a costume more ungainly and ungraceful than the bloomer—unless it were tho distended hoopskirts, pinched waists and bedraggled trains, against which the bloomer was a protest. But the divided skirt, when made of pretty materials, is a very dainty and a very witching garment and certainly has beauty and grace in its favor, whatever else may be said of it. But when it isn't made of pretty materials—well, it is then fit company for the bloomer. But it is so different, in form and intention, from the bloomer that it cannot be claimed as an
evolution from that bravo but unbeautiful nylo of dress. It is oven less akin to tho trousers of tho Turkish woman. They aro her outward and distinctive raimont. The bloomer was their next of kin, and ashamed of the connection, which it sought to liido with tho skirt of compromise. In form the divided skirt is moro liko tho Chinese woman's trousers than it is liko any other pioce of feminino apparel, barbarous or civilized. But oven here the resemblance is very remote. Celestial trousers aro long and flapping and ugly, and take the placo of the civilised woman's dress. Tho divided skirt is shorter, makes no display of itself, confines itself to its original purpose of supplanting tho underskirt, and makes no overt attacks upon the outside dress. Therein lies tho difference between tho American divided skirt and the feminine trouBers of the Chineso or any other nation. It is simply a shy little underskirt that wouldn't attempt to bo anything olso for tho world, and which wishes to bo kept well covered by a gown of orthodox length.
The truth is, tho divided skirt is liko no other article of raiment known to the feminino half of the world. It is a product of tho bifurcating tendency of evolution—that tendency which split chopsticks into two tined forks, divided single pronged hair skewers into two pronged hairpins, changcd the toga of the Romans into the modern trousers, and, perhaps—who can say?—gave mankind two legs instead of one.
That same birfurcating tendency has been at work upon woman's apparel this many a day. Time was, and not so very long ago, when each a»ticlo of her raiment would have lyiswered fairly well to tho Turkish woman's description of Lady Monatgue's dress—trousers with one leg. And now there is leSt, at least among that large section of womankind that has "adopted the divided skirt and its concomitants, but one single article, tho outside gown, that is safe from the attacks of division and still keeps its circling, enveloping form and purpose.
TURKISH WOMAN'S DRESS.
And there is a rumor that even this, in tho specific form of riding habit, is about to be attacked by the bifurcating impulse. "Do tell mo." I said to a woman who sings the praises of her divided skirt at every opportunity, "what there is about that garment which makes every woman who wears ono so anxious to convert every other woman to the faith?" "Oh, it is such a dainty, pretty garment and fits around the waist and over the hips so neatly and brings out so beautifully every pretty curve and falls in such soft, graceful lines, and is altogether so fetching, that I stand before niv glass and admire it every time I reach that stage of dressing or undressing. "Besides, it never gets wet, or soiled, or bedraggled from the street, no matter how lmr'l it rains or how king you are out. It is so light that you hardly know you have anything of tho kind on, and so lessens the necessary weight of the clothing and makes backaches less frequent. You can have better command of all your muscles anil handle yourself better and lw more graceful. You can walk more easily and danco more gracefully, and do everything that you want to do with more ease and pleasure—except cross your knees, and if you attempt to do that with a divided skirt on you'll wish you hadn't. And nobody who wasn't initiated would ever guess that you weren't dressed underneath your
CHIXESB WOMAN'S DRESS.
gown just like other women. And that's why I like my divided skirt, and shall never, never wear any other kind."
FLORENCE FINCH-KELLY.
WOMAN'S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Work, Wit) mid Walt—The Changed Ideal of Feminine Iltmuty.
[Copyright, 1B00.J
Tlio chango in tho ideal of feminino beauty in the last generation is striking. Tho present generation will remember tho pictures hanging in their mother's parlors of ideally beautiful women. These pictures represented a female with a largo, bulging forehead, hollow chest, sloping shoulders and a thin neck, curved something liko a crooked necked squash. A genera! consumptive expression pervaded tho female's face, tho moro consumptive tho moro lovoly. Long curls drooped about her checks, and generally a full blown red rose was perched in her hair above the left ear. The picture usually bore the name "Isabella," "llosabella" or "Angelina." But all this, which Tfnay bo called the crooked neckod squash stylo of feminino beauty, has vanished from the earth. The tailor made girl is now the beauty. She has squaro Bhoulders, a full neck, a flat back, and carries her head erect. Tho ancient sloping shoulder lino, which artists of that day considered the curve of ideal beauty, in our timo would stamp a girl as round shouldered to a deformity, and Bond her in haste to tho gymnasium to practice exercises that would send her out again flat of back, square of shoulder aud full and deep of chest. The ideal feminine beauty has now a suggestion of strength that it. has not had in modern times and which brings it nearer to tho ancient Greek model than it has ever been before. Wo begin to understand tliot strength combined with harmonious development constitutes perfect beauty.
Tho women artiste of New York havo set a good example to their sex elsowhere. A number of the strongest of them have formed a club of their own, called tho Woman's Art club. Thoy have grown in influence and numbers till they are now able to give art receptions of their owu, and very creditable ones, too.
The newpapers announced that Bishop Hurst's wife "died at tho residence of her husband." Cannot a woman have a home of her owu even to dio in?
A minister writes in The Chicago Advanco that he had lately attended a banquet at which 150 women wore present, and many of them in vie dinner speeches. They had toasts and a toast master and a rule forbidding any woman to speak more than two minutes. The speeches were not only able and witty, but they were audible. "I shall now," said the minister, "feel more at liberty to urge the women to take part in prayer meetings."
Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant is ono of the most versatile of writers. Once she proposed to the editor of Blackwood's Magazine to write all of one number, 'the serial story on which she wns then engaged, and five other articles on different topics and in different styles.
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Purls Fiuihlonft.
PARIS. March 2S.—The other night I was at a dinner at the ltussian embassy and I could not help falling in love with the toilet worn by the young Duchess de Blignv. Iler robe was cut high in the neck and with long sleeves, becauso her shoulders and arms are so plump that it would not be keeping Lent strict-
TOILET OF TIIE DUCHESS DE BLIQNY. ly to display them. Her dress was of pink surah, embroidered delicately with silver. Over this was a train of navy bluo velvet, also embroidered with silver. Tlio arrangement of it across the front was peculiar and very stylish, as you will see.
I noticed a pretty and decidedly stylish a young lady who is visiting Mine. Carnot. She is a young married lady, and does honor to Mine. Carnot, who is not so very tasteful as she ought to bo to uphold the honor of her sex and nation. Tlio costume in question is of old rosocolored poult do soie, liordered with five rows of narrow velvet, in lightershado tho skirt very slighta A dainty basquo wrap was worn with it of tan or trimmed with brown vol vet and dark brown braid PARISIAN CHIC. and long flots of velvet ribbon. The hat was of Tuscan, in tan color, faced with brown velvet, and with old rose colored plumes. Just the last touch was added in the tan colored gloves, and the pretty wearer caught tho grace and chic of Paris, and displayed it, too.
MARQUISE D'A.
ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanscs the system effectually, dispels colds, hcadaclies and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is tho only remedy^ of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste aud acceptable to tlio stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it tho most popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and 81 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure, it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL,
LOUISVILLE. KY,
ATIV
YORK.
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A Moving Tnwn.
A whole town on tlio mov", l»!is and SnipRaise, is very unusual spoetiu-lii. hut, Colorado tm.s jut witiiess«*d it. Tin- entire ]opulation of tliu town of Wild, situated near the soutli'-rn lino Powers county, and located by eastern jieople, passed through Rooky Ford aud located at Oxford, .'i0 miles vast pf Pueblo, in tlio Arkansas vallev. Besides about thirty families, the outfit "consisted of their houses (taken apart), bl&cktitrrith shop, stores, etc. Tlia reason for moving was loss of crops tut account of a shortage of water und a desire to get into the prosjterous Arkansas valley.—Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
There is more catarrh In this part of Lhe country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a number ol years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local reme dies, and by constantly failing to euro it a re at on it in curablo. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hull's Catarah Cure, manuiuetured by F. J. Chfney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is on it on a re market. Itis taken Internally in doses of 10 drops to a teaspoonfui. It acts directly on the blood and mucus surfaces ot the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it falls cure. Send for circular and testimonials. Address,
J. F. CHENEY Jb CO., Toledo, 0.Sold Dy druggists. 7fc.
Ueclucotl Kates via Motion Uoutc. Louisville, Now Albany .t Chicago Railway commencing April 8th end continuing until further notice. Tickets will bo sold at the following figures: Crawfordsville to
Kansas City St. Joseph. Mo Alchlson. Kan
Fir 1 f'la-s srecnml ("lass
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.IO/J.-I 7.",") 1 .ii) .10.70 .10.70 7o .10.70 n.Tii .xn.40 1 1 10 .13.40 11
10
Colorado Springs 17.75 I'uehlo 17.7") Uuliith 17.-I0 15.40
But ono chango of cars by this route. Ouo colonist sleeping cor from Chicago. H. S. WATSON, Agt.
—Kemembor tho first series of our "atlas sale" closes on Saturday, April 12111. Everybody should come to the front this woek at
ENBIAXOBR & SEAWNLOHT'S.
—Every lady iH invited to oall and jee the now styles in Cashmere Ombre, something new in dress goods.
Louis Biscnor.
To Cure Bad Cough
Vso "Dr. Kilmer's Cough euro (Consumption Oil)" It relievos quickly, stops tickling in tho throat, hacking, catarrh-dropping, decline, ulght-sweat uid prevents death from comsumptlon. Price 2fio. Pamphlet free. Blnghamptcn, N. Y. Sold, recommended and guaranteedby Lew Fisher.
CATABRH CUBED, health and sweot broath secured, by Shlloh's catarrh remedy. Price 50 conts. Nasal injector free. Moflett, Morgans Co-
CBOUP, WHOOPING OOUGH and Bronchitis lmmodlatoh relieved by Shiloh's cure. Moffott, Morgan ACo.
When Baby wns side, we gave her Costotfo. When she wda a Child, alio cried for Costorl% When she became Hiss, she clung to Castorla* When she had Children, she gave them Castori*
DRUGS,
TOILET -A l!Tin.|.
Lew Fishe
Music
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Saturday Eve, April
SL'KCI AIJ KVKXT.
Lord Tennyson's Wonderful
mance of the Sea.
Newton Beer's Superb Lvr
Scenic Production.
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PRAISED liV
.Pulpitand Pub
P1UCES 50
J. K. BLANDIN will ope
Laundry in Crawfordsvillc
April
14,
Sold only by Ensminger & SeawigM
and will do a yene
laundry business.
Do not send your laundry
of town when you can ^et it ,di
at home at the same price
just as good. If it is not, and
will let me know, it will not
you a cent. Remember welai
dry lace curtains. We will
at your homes for the wort a
deliver it free of charge. LcaJ 4it at the Old Reliable and he will
see that your goods are always
ready. J. K. BI.ANDIN.
While Waiting for Natural Ga^
WE MUST I1CI
Wood and
Call at my establishment! north of city building, and get prices.
MORT BECKNER.
MAGIC FLUID
For cleaning all stains, grease sp W out of all kinds of goods or carpett. All orders promptly iillod on short tico. Leave ordors at Cash
Fry's grocery.
John Butcher.
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RBMOVBD-
DR. E. H.
COWAN!
—HAS nEMOVED Ills OITICE Til-
ROOM No. 1, SECOND STORV] CRAWFORD'S STONE KKONT. Same Stairway as Old Ofl'ca
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