Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 16 November 1894 — Page 5

©he genwrat DEOATUR, IND. N. BLACKBURN, ... Btng.T»m. A bottle of beer recently exploded In a Chicage court-room. This should further endear the beverage to the anarchist heart. To get good Is animal, to do good Is human, to be good is divine. The true use of a man’s possessions is to help his work; and the best end of all his work is to show us what he is. "Love may be blind, but it generally picks out a man with the most money,” says a gossipy writer. The fact retnaius that there are six fortune hunters among men to every one among women. Miss Monroe Is said to have read her Columbian Ode at New Fork with great dramatic* effect. The circumstance recalls the fact that there is a Miss Monroe add that she did write a poem, and excites a fear that she may write another. Lawyers have almost ceased to appear with the traditional green baa so Inseparably connected with tbe bar in bygone days. With a few exceptions, the members of the bar have tabooed this badge of the profession, and now cling tenaciously to the leather grip. They found that the leather One of the funniest things to be seen anywhere tn this country, says the Sanitary Plumber, Isa man using a gas stove in a closed room and without a chimney connection, and then, in order to “get a proper amount of moisture into the air,” putting a bowl of /water upon his Stove. As the percentage of water thrown into a room by gas is very large,-and usually more than enough for comfort, bls use of a bowl of water is rather laughable. His science needs correction.

A New York paper makes the fi startling accusation that “well ’groomed women from Boston drink ; bottled beer on the cars between that ' city and New York.” Do the dej scendants of the prim Puritans enter an Indignant denial? Do they I denounce the accuser in the vigorous ' yet classical language indigenous to I the “Hub?” Not a bit of it The Boston Herald flippantly responds 1 that it is impossible to get draught beer/m the cars. Such decadence of the old Puritan spirit is indeed lamentable. Richard Brisco is a Kansas undertaker who must have had many a laugh in his sleeve over the grisly joke he played on the local authorities. Kansas has the Murray law for the regulation of liquor selling. ■ No one in ADen could comply witlk its requirements, but it was very evident that a “speak easy” was in full , blast, for drunks were frequent. Suspicion attached to Undertaker . Brisco, bub search failed to supply any incriminating evidence until the Pther day, when every coffin in his sorted si<w,li Al 1..1iri l > the abode of j According to the United States census “2,647,157 women are wageworkers. ” That is, however, a showing of the working-women of the land. The millions of mothers of the land are among the land’s best workers, as are the men who use shovels and planes and drive engines. The wife who makes home bright cheerful and ministers to the wants of the family, at all hours and seasons, does as much as the father and husband who works his eight and ten hours, and holds to the money he earns as if he alone had earned it. There are multitudes of men who fail to appreciate woman’s work, or the large part she performs in flghtingllfe’s battles/ The new style of graduating at Yale, which does away almost entirely with public speaking and completely annihilates the amateur orator, is a step in the right direction. The young man who “boned” through bis entire course to attain the honors of the valedictorian, usually finished with an accumulation of dead knowledge acquired at the expense of physical strength and that more practical information which helps the man of action through the world. Yale has broken from the traditions but she has started the movement which wHi do away with the brief prominence of the self-conscious young man with broad cuffs, tortuous collar, unmanageable hands and abnormally developed, feet. Engineer Melville comes to the defense of Uncle Sam’s navy against

inclined to pronounce it a one-horse affair. He says we have some of the tinestand most formidable ships in the world. They are built on superior models and superior lines. Such battle ships as the Indiana, and such cruisers as the Columbia and the Minneapolis can outfight and outsail anything in the shape of men of war afloat. Although we have fewei ships than the navies of some of the European powers we could give a good account of ourselves in a war against them. , The personnel of a navy counts for much, and tie United States has the largest number of thoroughly educated and trained officers of any navy in the world. AH we need is a few more ships of the modern type to make us the equal in sea power to any nation on earth. The London Dally News recently asked its readers “How can we save?’ 1 and in reply “A Young Wife” shows her personal system, and tells of » fight carried on with astounding pluck against fearful odds. It appears that she and her husband have been striving with small success to keep body and soul together on the miserable pittance of $20,000 a year. Despite the most heroic .economies, this cheerful pair of lunatics outran the banker to the tune of $3,458.60 during their first year of matrimonial bliss. “A Young Wife” gives figures Ito prove her self-denials are not mere assertions. Thus both she and her husband contrived tq, Yh dfning at restaurants, to save expense in the kitchen at home; and during this year of misery and privation they only allowed themselves medical attendance to the extent of <10.50! It is the tale of a noble struggle against remorseless fate, and shows anew the danger of marrying on inadequate means.

It looks now as if the forces united in the warfare upon the so-called theater-hat will carry the day, and the public will be delivered from an evil which it has long suffered in silence. Good, sensible women are coming to the aid of the men. To be sure, some of these women suggest! that at tbe same time the big hat is driven out of the theater, there should be a reform in the manners of men who insist on going out between the acts. It is demanded that when the new social law goes into effect, making it an act of vulgarity for a woman to wear at a the] ater, concert or other place of amusement, a hat so large as to be obstructive to the view, another edict be issued rude and unmannerly the conduct of a man, who, regardless of the comfort of others pushes and crushes his way out of a crowded row of seats between the acts. Doubtless any reasonable concession will be made to secure the abolition of the big hat. Many suggestions are made as to the course tc be pursued. There are some men, v? ho, in a spirit of malignity, not at all surprising in view of the exasperations to which they have been so long subjected, go so far as to meanly hint that the average wearer of the tall hat does not remove it because She knows she would not look well with out this artificial superstructure.

or the the big insinuation is that the woman with the big hat has no other hat, and so is compelled to wear the big one. Allowance must be made for all such slurs uttered in the heat of the campaign. It is a hopeful sign that man j of those who are enlisted in the fight are women. When women declare that the theater hat must go it may be considered as good as gone.

Not the Judge's Usual Size. C A Southern Judge who was in a New York case the other evening ordered for his drink whisky. The waiter brought it in a glass. The Judge looked around, probably foi the decanter, and then, pointing to the glass with the whisky in it* *1 ci Ari * “What’s that?” "Whisky,sir,” answered the waiter. "Wasn’t that what you ordered?” The Judge pushed the glass away impatiently and, sitting erect in his chair, gave the waiter a smile that was beautifully frank and eloquently impressive. “My son,” he said gravely, “when I take a drink of whisky I leave more than that in the glass.”—New York Tribune.

Aluminum Woven with Silk. A writer in a London paper declares it is not impossible that aluminum may be app ied to the making of drapery goods, since itr can be drawn into wires liner than a hair, and yet so tine and supple that they can be woven with silk. It is believed that there is a wonderful future before aluminum, owing to its remarkable lightness and tenacity. There are those who think they see in this material a solution ol the problem of flying machines, and some of the prophets go so far as tc predict an age of aluminum, not very

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STYLISH BODICES, THE LOOSE FRONT WILL SETHI .—itr ♦ roßl*--IrYoii Have Old Laos Make a Jacket of It. The loose front on the new toilettes has been the cause of much comment, but Paquin, the best known of the French designers, is responsible for it. He insists that the ugliest part of a woman’s figure is directly in front, and raves over the blouse effects, as he says it shows the curves of one’s figure at the side. This is all a new theory, as the beautiful woman has never before been told this concerning her form divine, and I hardly know if the blouse will really be the great success he expects it to be. He has sent over so many of his stunning gowns made this way, and in all of the shops and large dressmaking establishments I have been noticing efforts to make the blouse a fashion, and I think they will succeed, if only for this season. One of the prettiest of the Paquin gowns sold this season was purchased by Mrs. Prescott Lawrence. It was a mauve and black check velvetine, made with a perfectly plain skirt, but the waist was lavish in its accessories. It had revers of white satin, with tiny bands of black velvet about ofiequarter of an inch apart. The front was a mixture of the black and ecru lace, and this front hung in a blouse. The bottom of the waist was finished with liberty satin arranged like a full belt, and at either side of the belt were placed two rhinestone buckles. Above the waist line in the back was a high muslinne de soie bow of accordion plaiting, and the collar on this bodice was of the black muslinne de soie, with bows of black at either side. -This is the gown sent over from Paris as one of the finest toilettes for the winter. One of the prettiest importations was a dress of blue crepon, smooth finish, and the skirt was fashioned with stitched folds and satin-corded on the bottom. The waist had the blouse effect, and it was produced by plaited crepon bound with the satin, and small buttons of black satin were the velvet in nartbw~r6hfi>4ifi.iL-Plthe waist added much to the gown, and it was in all one of the prettiest dresses I have seen this fall. I did not wonder it had been selected by three of the fashionable women of the smart set to be copied. In regard to the duplicating of gowns, I asked Madame Modish the other day if she objected to it at all. and how she succeeded in doing it without annoying her “Oh, I prefer to use different models, but what can I do when the women all decide upon one? It is in this way that a certain fashion is taken up and becomes a fad. Twenty gowns on the same lines were worn at the opening of the Horse Show last year. “I’used different colors and materials, and in that way it is made to look different. In fact, this gown you see I have just copied and sent to Boston made up in green with plaid to correspond, and lot me tell you now, I consider plaid velvet thq accessory par excellence for the winter gowns. It will be used in'small quantities on the cloth frocks, but just a touch of it at the nerk and sleeves will improve many a gown, I think. It is to my idea the prettiest trimming that we have had in many a season. This plaid velvet far surpasses all the-libprty satins and fancy silks as it is so much newer.”

A gown made of brown clothshaggy and EnglishJookitig — was trimmed with plaid velvet shading from green.to brown, with just a touch of terracotta. The skirt was plain, with the organ folds at the back, and the waist was simple, for which reason I liked it more than the gown hitherto shown me. The bodice was fastened in the back, ami had a full front drawn down tv narrow plftida and wfts edged MJ t J ie

waist with a narrow fold of the plaid velvet. Sleeves full at the shoulder, tapering down to i jkhius ui Ulh l are trimmed by plaids of another, and one of these smart looking frocks was made of green plaid trimmed with red plaid. Brass buttons were used as an adornment, and the old fashion of using buttons is again in vogue. A number of smart cloth gowns have as their - only accessory these brass buttons. The lace jacket is a new fashion, and it will be popular with the smart women, I am sure. It will fit the figure prettily and will be made of black and ecru lace. This jacket over the silk gown is pretty and extremely swagger-looking. It adds a finish to a theatrical toilette, and one gown made of ecru silk with a dash of gold and heliotrope in the pattern had trimmings of velvet of the same shades of heliotrope and tan. It had a coat of the ecru lace and it was a jaunty finish to the gown. These lace jackets are again revivals of the fashions of half g, centurvago, and I see in so many of the new caprices of Dame Fashion only the resurrection of the fashions of dur i grandmothers. There seems to .be truly little that is really new. If you possess lace heavy and richlooking, have a jacket made, and wear j it with your winter frocks.—[Mildred Madison, in N. Y. Recorder. A GOOD EXAMPLE. The daughters of the late Comte de Paris have set a good example to rich girls who are called into mourning by sending their clothing, in-1 eluding all their colored gowns, et/., l to the people living near Stowe. Eng- . land, their late residence. Fifty | packages of clothes have thus been disposed of among families who find it hard work to dress suitably, and to whom these “cast offs” have a | value aside from mere worth. In these days of rapidly changing fashions it is folly to heard stuffs whose style is as ephemeral as the material composing them.—[Detroit Free Press. y WARDROBE HOOKS FOR WOMEN. In the unapproachable wardrobe hooks the blundering hand of man .fe.again visible. What the world of ] hooks "are ldW," x Bi’SV T UJie—Qf hooks ( hobnob with the floor, and if Uv> 1 hooks are high the poor girl who wants to lift a dress down has <<» keep jumping for it, and then it probably comes down to her in sections, some of it left —like the nice little cherub who looks after poor Jack Tar—sitting up aloft! And yet this is the age of invention. —[New York Advertiser. RIBBON HARNESS. , The pretty ribbon “harness in Vogue many years ago, is the latest novelty on youthful gowns. It consists of bretelles or braces starting from the belt in front under a horizontal bow and passing over the shoulders, where they are tied in fanciful knots, then down the back to meet two rosettes at the belt. The novelty, however, is in the continuation of the ribbons, two behind and two before, at the foot of the skirt, each end beipg tiedin a smart square bow, the long ends flying out with every motion. —[New \ork World. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. Florence Nightingale, who is now seventy-four years of age, is in very poor health. She lives in a quiet ‘'spot in the west of London, but even her neighbors do not know her. To

an American who recently visited her she expressed her thanks for the many, kind letters that she is constantly receiving from America, and she mentioned especially the testimonial presented to her by the American Government in return for her advice with regard to improving our hospital service at the time of the civil war. She has a similar testimonial from France, and has tributes from individuals all over the yygrld; Her rooms are fairly fitted

with jffetures, books, nwdals, and j bits of bnc-fr-brin '•’i J 1: dwwwHmrTTWffne, but whose kindness touches me more than I can say. I wish you would thank my American friends for their kind words that are constantly coming to me. If I have done good in my life, I am being fully rewarded now. What gratifies me above all is that all my hopes have been fulfilled. But it still horrifies me when I think of how our men were treated when they were ill or wounded at the time of the Crimean war. To-day what, with improved hospital service, with trained nurses, with such organizations /is the Red Cross and others, our system is well-nigh perfect.”— [Chicago Inter-Ocean. FASHION NOTES. Some exquisite tints appear in the new silk wrap crepons. Ivy leaves are a lat;e and -unique idea in millinery devisings. Among new colors are tangerine, lemon topaz, maize,, amber and bronze. Independent collars of softly folded chiffon are finished with two rosettes and tiny buckles. « and trimmed about with sable is one of the wraps over which most women ■ ' grow enthusiastic. The hair of every woman, whatever her age, contour or complexion, must be parted to be fashionable. The ribbon used upon the new hats is very wide and a great deal is required to fashion the new bows. Lace and fur are by no means an unusual combination this year. A ' sealskin cape made with a lace yoke i A peacock or pheasant, with the , colors wrought in diamonds, rubies, sapphires and olivines are a fancy of the moment. | Black surah waists are given a ' smart effect by adding a velvet crush collar of canary yellow, cherry, bleuet or pink. One of the latest extravagances seen in the jewelry shops is a gold opera mirror of Louis XIV. design, set with precious stones. Seed pearl collars are in great demand. They are composed of several strands connected by bars so as to , set well artfund the neck." I. n °k collars in black have in India, thirty-lux'iflcuyV,.M,bead waist novelties, exactly like the I handkerchiefs used by the old snuff dippers. A pretty novelty in tortoiseshell is a small candlestick, the tray representing a leaf, and the candle holder a flower. This is all made of tortoiseshell. Toilet cases, trays and fancy boxes of marbloid are manufactuteU for the holiday trade. The toilet articles are fitted with handles to correspond , with the boxes. A very striking novelty is brought out in an Irish point curtain, with a Venetian border and revers of open . work which is used only in the finest : and handsomest curtains. Though the pew fashions are much admired the gown of quaint design L is still in vogue. This may be due’

to the fact that its very antiquitygives it a touch of novelty. A smart little waist that will be much worn is of lining in a fancy color with accordion plaited chiffon to match the skirt while the collar and belt match the lining. To keep abreast with the novelties it is necessary to have in a corner of your parlor a spider’s-web composed of gold tinsel in whose meshes is a red spider obtained at a Japanese store. A waist of bleuet velvet is trimmed with jet and finished with a yellow chiffon collar and yoke, while a waist of deep cerise velvet has a collar and yoke of jet that makes it becoming to any blonde. The tailor-made jacket is the type of wrap for which is anticipated the popular favor. Military styles, in jackets are not without their y9toes t

and are likely to have place in the “fashionables.” Pocket scent bottles are coming in again. Some are made in gold, others in enamel, others again in crystal with gold tops, set with jewels arranged to spell the words “Dearest” and “Regards.” The newest fad in shoes is enameled grain leather. It is an English conceit, and has the same finish as patent leather, but is tougher and proof against cracking. Toes are longer and sharper than ever. , A pretty piece of neckwear is a gathered yoke of novelty crepe bordered with satin ribbon of the same color, overlaid with a cream lace band. The neck is finished with a velvet crush collar with chon rosettes. Silk waists will be more popular this season than ever before. The plainer ones are seif trimmed or with combinations such as a collar and belt of velvet in a contrasting color. The more dressy effects are of striped or figured silk with lace and ribbon trimmings. Pretty and becoming fancies are the bolero jackets made of two strips of guipure lace insertion two inches wide, one forming the outer edge, the other fitting around the arm holes; a strip of lace under each arm and another down the shoulder seam complete this dressy 'little garment. If you make your baby’s quilt of white India silk and embroider it , with wash silks, you lyv^Ai*****— * scolloped here and there irregularly over it. Every color and combination of colors will be represented in the fancy waists but of course the new cherry and bleuet shades will be the most noticeable, as will the black trimmings in ribbon, jet and chiffon. These waists are made in taffeta, gros grain, surah and satin, but the newest and most expensive effects are in chiffon and velvet.

Novel Capture of Whales. At Vancouver island the storms blowing directly from the North Pacific bring many whales which, getting out of their latitude and fatigued with fruitless struggles, are cast upon the coast. As the receding tide leaves the whales they lash their tails, unable to regain deep water, and make a low, guttural sound as they vainly try to spout. The native candy’s, which are made of the trunk of a tree hollowed out by fire, are instantly launched. The only weapon used is a barbed spear, to which is tied a sealskin bag filled with air, and to this a rope made of seaweed is attached, acting as an anchor to the bladder or ropes. A pole is" fitted into a socket in the spear head, and so arranged that it can be easily withdrawn, leaving-the head imbedded in the body* of the whale.

Armed with these primitive weapons, the natives set off in their fragile canoes and cast their spears, catching back the loose handles. In a short time the monster is covered with sealskin bags. When the tide begins to rise the bladders prevent the whale from sinking sufficiently to use his full strength, keeping him on the surface of the water. As the canoe men pull to the shore the lines are tightened, and gradually the poor animal moves slowly and steadily to the land. His struggles to free himself are tremendous, but all in vain; struggling as a fish out of water, he is hopelessly in the power of his liliputian foes. The inhabitants for miles around crowd to the shore, v singing and beating drums made of the hollow bole of a tree, over which is stretched the skin of a sea lion. As soon as the whale is brought beyond low-water mark the work is done and they have only to wait till I the tide leaves it high and dry. the imported nuts, prov lUVU fresh and were fully ripe when gathered. But there is no certainty of the nuts produced being the same variety as those planted, and the probabilities are that not more than one tree in ten of those raised from the imported nuts will yield the same as the parent stock. It is said by English authorities that eighty per cent, of the seedlings will come true, but In our experience eight per cent, would be nearer the truth. The nuts should be planted as soon as received, or at least mixed with moist sand and buried in the ground, where they will remain cool as well as moist during the winter. In early spring’ take out the nuts, plant in shallow drills and cover about two inches deep. If the soil is rich and the season favorable they,will make a growt h from two to three first year, and reach a bearing size in three to four years, after which a fungus common on our native hazel nut will attack the foreign varieties and killthe stems, but rarely their roots.— [New York Sun.

A REAL TRIUMPH. “Lathes and gentlemen,” said the professional hypnotist, as he introduced Wayside Rhodes to the assemblage, “I will now give you a remarkable illustration of hypnotic power. I will lend the subject here before you $5.” “That’sno trick,” said a voice. “And, men,” said the professor, “I will make him return the $5 to me ,”—[Chicago Record. In Paris one person in eighteen live on charity,