Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1887 — Page 3

THE LADIES.

Budget of Breezy Gossip Renting Exclusively to the Fair Sex. Accompanied by Some Jiotes on llie Ever Changing Styles in Feminine Attire. Fancy Fad. 4. SHOPPING baos. As the useful and serviceable leather bag is now decidedly “out,” our lady readers will be glad of an opportunity to use the shabby ones which are too good to throw away, and look too badly to carry. Our illustration sliows how one may utilize -discarded bag tops—in fact, fasten the new bag on the outside of the old one. The

material is of black velvet or satin, the two .pieces measuring abont ten inches by jeight. The upper corners are slightly toonded and the lower ones sloped until the lower edge measures only live inches across. The velvet is then embroidered iwith silk and fine chenille—the leaves and sterns with green and brown silks, in satin :Overcast and feather stitch; the flowers with loops of bright-colored chenille. The ibag is then lined, the parts sewed together, jand the upper part plaited or shirred, and .fastened into the steel clasp on the outside jof the old bag. MUSIC PORTFOLIO. A handsome present to a Indy of musical [tendencies is made as follows: Cut four pieces of cardboard fifteen by eleven inches square. Cover two of them with silesia for the inside. The outside covering is of dark red f&atin, cloth or velvet, embroidered in chain and feather-stitch, the pattern representing the flower known as the bachelor's button or ragged sailor. Colors used for working ..should be shaded blue and pink for the iflowers, and the olive shade for the vine and leaves. When the embroidery is finished, stretch over the cardboard, nud then overhand au inside and outside piece together. Finish the edge all round with a cord, and make handles of the same. The hinges are made of ribbon sewed across and tied in bows afterward; or cord and tassels can take the place of ribbon and be far more effective. Humbuggery. Human nature loves humbug. People are voluntarily duped constantly. They even willfully humbug themselves. They shut their eyes and prefer the fictitious to the genuine. They assume the unreal for the real in regard even to their own personality. They kiss themselves with a Judas kiss. They rummage around in their imaginings until they decide they exist with such and such characteristics, while none such give indications of their presence. The meekest, couldn’t-kill-a-flv man will conclude he is a desperado of the deepest dye, a carbon-chewer from away back. You perhaps have been puzzled to determine just what was peculiar in a rolypoly man, who couldn’t keep the good-hu-mor out of his walk to save himself, yet whose light brows were wrinkled over his mild blue eyes as he cast them at you oat of their narrowest corner, while his gener-ous-lipped mouth was pursed up into a protruding pout. Next time recognize him as one of the above deluded dupes. You surely have had a confiding young girl acquaintance, who is always in a sea of despair because she is fearful her heartlessness is going to be the occasion of some desperate act on the part of a rejected admirer. When vou ask her what cause she has for her perturbation of mind, “Did he tell you he would kill himself?” she says. “Oh, I did not reject him in so many words, but when he looked at me pleadingly, I turned away, and when I turned round he was looking another way, and did not notice me again. 1 have had the same thing happen to me before, and it always turned out awful. I can’t help being such a wicked flirt.”

Her look and manner at this moment indicated all the pain and sorrow she felt at being so fascinating, so irresistible, while all the time it was perfectly patent to the most casual observer that -she was nothing of the kind; that the young cub in whom she is interested has never given her a second thought, if he ever gave her that first glance- However, she will go on believing herself a moving holocaust and destroyer of men’s peace of mind. We know an old man, one of the most learned of citizens, whom you would expect to be level-headed on all subjects. His physician ordered the exercise of horseback riding to save him from the grave by way of an apoplectic fit, he had grown so old and phlegmatic. The prescription has proved so exhilarating that this fat old porpoise goes out with the rakish accompaniments of white leather upholstering for his horse, while his patent leather boots and velvet breeches only fade into insignificance under the radiance of his buccaneer coat and shining hat. Every lunge of his bulky body tells you he is paying his irrepressibie juvenile tribute to this degenerate but athletic age. The great sadness of it all is, he humbugs no one but himself. History and onr common life is full of these instances, which tend to show that our poor humanity is prone to accept persistently what it wishes to be true for the time. It more often loves the strange and re-

fuses to accept plain reason and, too often, good common sense. * * * * * * This is a pretty good world to live in, at any rate you can have a round, jolly good time in it if you make up your determination to try to do so. However, a counoisseur can detect flaws in apparently perfect stones, and if your digestion is slightly out of order, or the spring weather gets in ahead of your spring clothes, you can find some things you would like to have ch-nged, a few yon might like forbidden by law. One thing fashion says is growing in favor, and that we should like to see nipped in the bud by an iron bound edict from the.country’B solons, is the lav.sh and indiscriminate use of perfumes. If thero is anything to which it would seem we~ have a right in this world, it is to have pure air to breathe. You can not ride in a street car, yon can not go to the theater, or chnrch—indeed, you can not walk along the streets—without being suffocated by overpowering whiffs of cheap perfumes. Weak women turn pale from them, strong men grow morose, and they remind us of a summer spent in a farm house where we had the misfortune to meet an indigenous swain wi.omadens very weary and who oiled his -flowing locks with bear s grease. Ugh! There is another nuisance which will require the law’s strong arm to check: the right of ugly people to have their pictures taken. This also reminds us of that country beau. He had his picture taken. The remembrance of that picture dwells—and dwells only there—in our memory. The radiance of his smile in it was only equaled by the redolence of his hair out of it. However, ic would probably be impossible to regulate this evil, in these days when the standard of taste varies so prodigiously, and when amateur photography makes a myth of ugly people breaking cameras. But is there no escape from accepting unsolicited presents of these photos? They are always of a size too large to be hidden away among one hundred others in an album, and the donor expects them to adorn some conspicuous place iu your domestic economy. The photo fiend is only excelled by the distributer of free chromo cards. His is a very insidious iniquity. It fosters the desire of women for plunder. They do so love to get something for nothing! They squander such a lot of time in their frantic frolics accumulating the rubbish! Any variegated slip of paper or embellished scrap becomes their sole ebject in life to possess, if there is a rumor it will be given away. The introduction of the interstate law in regard to free passes is the move in the right direction. Tea-stores and givers of elaborate dinners and germans will soon be forced into line—let us hope. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals should see that their edicts reach to overdressed children. The child who during the hot summer months cannot have loose-fitting, cool clothing iu which to romp and be merry and take part in other cbildrtu’s games, but must be loaded with finery she dare not rumple, and in which she cannot feel natural and lovable, is as worthy of commiseration as a draught-horse belabored with a whip and made to work under a galling collar. Money should not be wanting to legislate a bill through Congress for the suppression of this evil. The attention of philanthropists is hereby directed to the desirability of establishing a home—a quiet retreat, something after the plan of the Home for Incurables—for people who are abused. Life is too short for the general run of people who have something to do to make a living, to listen to the plaints of these well-meaning but most harrowing individuals. They are full of grievances, and, of course, much sinned against, for they say so, and the world generally lakes a man pretty much at his own valuation. They are generally well-meaning souls, but in the cause of common morality they should be protected, taken within shelter. Their function is to be trodden upon. When at large they go through life constantly making others offend. They entice the meekest individual to maltreat theca. Such an insidious evil should be snpEressed; such a constant cause for his rother’s offending should be taken in out of the cold. Women in the World. Lily Curry loaves this month for an extended trip abroad. Miss Braddon, the novelist, started in life as an actress in the English provinces. Mme. Patti has as household companions three dogs and six talking parrots, besides Nicolini. Minnie Hauk’s papa was a shoemaker, but Minnie had a sole for song, and she valued her talent above awl.

Mrs. Kellogg, mother of Clara the divine, put herself to many straits to give her daughter a good musical education. Miss Ella Russell, the American singer, has made a very successful debut in London at Covent Garden in “Rigoletto.” Miss Tillif. May Forney, daughter of the late J. W. Forney, founder of the Philadelphia Press , is announced as assistant editor of the Philadelphia Leisure Hours. Mbs. Gladstone never fails to accompany her husband to the House of Commons. He is so absent-minded and careless that he does not know how to take care of himself. Miss Anita Lucille Cody, daughter of “Buffalo Bill,” is a beautiful brunette of twenty-two summers; is tall, has a pretty figure, is vivacious, well educated; and looks like her father. Prince William, eldest son of the Crown Prince Of Prussia, shuns the society of his wife, who has an absolute dread of her husband. He does not maltreat her beyond studied neglect. Here is how Senator Hearst describes his son’s ed torial methods: “My son has none but Harvard fellows on the paper. You see, he graduated at Harvard. But he’s mighty independent about it. If they don’t suit he fires them right out, and sends for more Harvard men.” The Popular Science News offers as an incident of heredity the fact that a gentleman who was born left-handed, And by practice acquired dexterity with both hands, has two sons who are ambidextrous.

THE NATIONAL GAME.

Standing of the Clubs in the Race for the Base*Bali Champion* ship. A Nip-and-Tuck Tight Between Detroit and Boston— Chicago’s Chances Improving. [CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.] Chicago, June 21.—The eighth week of the League championship games has come jmd gone, and the teams in the race have settled down to their work in a style that presages one of the greatest struggles for championship honors ever recorded in the history of the game professionally. Beyond all question last week's games with Detroit were the most interesting ever seen at White Stocking Park, and the magnificent batting of both teams during the series gave the fielders work enough to make every game lively beyond description from start to finish. On leaving the grand stand after Fridav’s game your correspondent met a base-ball enthusiast, who boasts of not having missed a game upon the home grounds in seven years. “Well, what do you think of Detroit?” I aeked him. “Thus far,” said he, “Detroit has done the best ball playing we have seen in Chicago this season. It may not be considered by some the acme of skillfnl ball playing, but it has suited the people a deal better, just the same. A Ito 0 game must necessarily be a close and prettily contested affair, but there is something in the game in which runs are being scored at the rate of two or three an inning, as tbe result of good hard work with the stick, that the rank and file of those who attend the games like, and when yon hear of a game in which the batting has been brisk and timely you are pretty safe in assuming that the grand stand and opens held an interested and enthusiastic crowd. If there is any pleasure in watching a pitcher strike out five or six men in two successive innings and then see him retire as many more on foul tips, pop-up flies or short hits to the infield in the next two innings, I myself have not yet discovered the meat in that kind of a game. Why, tako Thursday's game for instance. Could anything have put more life into that crowd than did the heavy batting work of the Chicago boys in the fourth inning? It caught the people, because it kept them in a high state of expectation until the innings ended, aira because it gave ample opportunity for quick movement and fielding and baserunning ability. I will .bet there was not a man present at game who loft the grand stand dissatisfied with the exhibition he had seen, unless of course he may have been one of tho.-e fellows who happened to have a case note or two upon Detroit. You can always expect lots of fun and an interesting game when you get together a couple of hard-hitting teams like Chicago and Detroit.” It will be remembered that when Baldwin first made Bis appearance here he w'as very wild in his delivery. This was owing to his fear that he would hit the batsman. Baldwin broke one of Jevne’s ribs in a Northwestern League game last year, and it has taken him. until now to recover from the fright which he suffered that day. When at his best Baldwin pitches with tremendous speed, and it is little wonder that he sometimes gets alarmed at the risk batsmen take when they face him. The Philadelphia team is playing about the same game it played last yoar—just good enough to be bothersome, but not of sufficient steadiness to carry the train to the front. Ferguson continues to pitch superb ball, but his support is often weak and discouraging. Nobody can foretell what the Washingtons are going to'do when they step into the diamond. They are more erratic than the Phillies in their play, and fully as troublesome. The following table shows the standing of the League clubs up to date: THE LEAGUE. •a 0 . i* #I! I Clubs. ®Sl32g.*'23 ft « « o Ps Zi > £0 Detroit aJ 1 3 4 5 5 928 Boston 2 .71 3 2 8 3 7 328 New York 24.. 1630325 Chicago, 5 1 2.. 2 2 1 821 Philadelphia 4 5 2.. 2 4 320 Pittsburgh 2 1 1 4 1.. 1 515 Washington 1 2i 6 3 1 .. .. 114 Indianapolis.. l| 1 3 .. 4 1 .. 10 Games lost 12114119 IHj 2-3119125132 ..

In the Association race St. Louis leads, as it has done for six weeks past, and in a style which shows it to be away out of its class in that organization. St. Louis should play in the League; it will probably do so next season. Following is the record of the Association teams to Tuesday, June 21: ASSOCIATION. •I |.-l • g • ©Ls I * 3 \rS ®i - . ° • Isl j aS! 3=2 i-T «t? Clubs. I | - 2 | V & s « ® .9 * -9 ■ ® « P S 2 ~228i2 >3 -5 9 3 «sj2 S 3 * < aln lulu « 2 J. o Athletic 1 2 til 0 sj 4 325 Baltimore 6 1 41 0 5i 41 127 Brooklyn 1 3 Cincinnati 2 3 5 6 1 li| 225 Cleveland 2.. 21— 2 4..|1l Louisville 5 2 4 4 3 Metropolitan 1 .. 1 1 2 4 2|ll St. Louis 5673466—| .7 Games lost 22j15 22 26 33 24 33 li)|.. The clubs of the Northwestern League are playing some very fine ball this season, and the prospects for that association becoming one of the most prosperous of our professional base-bail organizations seems assured. Following is the record of the teams to date: • 5! m . ri l S'B I • e • i ' Clubs. g A gj2 '§ g m » a w,® Milwaukee ..4 3 5 3 5 2 022 Duluth 0.. 2 3 4 1 1 ojll Minneapolis 1 2 .. 1 2 I 3 111 Dea Moines 1 2 2.. 4 2| 4 318 Eau Claire 0 1 2 1.. 0 2 0,6 Oshkosh 1 2 2 4 4.. 2 318 LaCroase 2 3 0 2 3 3.. 114 Stt Paul. 4 1 1 1 3 2 2 .. 14 Games loat 1.... 9 1512 17 2314 16 s|,. Con Cregan.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—At Bird's-eye, a station east of Hnntingsbnrg on the Louisville. Evansville and St. Louis Bail way, James and T boons Kendall, two biotliers, were stricken down by a stroke of lightning and instantly killed. They wore seated upou a shaving horse, under a tree, daring a sevei e thunder storm, at work making ax handies, wl.en the lightning struck a tree some fifteen yards distant and was transmitted to the tree under which they were seated by a metallic clothes line. It is supposed that the line, fully charged with electricity, struck them, setting their clothes on fire. Their aged mother, who was standing near, was stricken senseless, and but little hope is entertained for her recovery. The Kendall brothers were well known throughout the county as good honest citizens. —A well-authenticated case of faith cure has occurred at Huntington. Mrs. B. F. Howe had been an invalid for over three years, most of the time being confined, to her bed, unable to walk or move, Becently, a bnnd of half a dozen ladies has been meeting with her and uniting in prayer for the recovery of her health. One day, after prayers, she rose from her bed, walked about the house, and ate supper in the evening with her family. She arose the next morning, got the family breakfast, and is now able to look after her household duties for the first time in over three years. The case excites considerable interest, and iß,one of the most complete evidences of faith cure which have yet been made public. —A trio of drovers—Joseph Levi, of Marion, D. M. Clark, of Johnson’s Station, and Isaac Lopgnocker, of Lynn,—had a perilous midnight ride into Bichmoud that unaccountably did not prove a ride 1o death. They were en route to Cincinnati, asleep in a caboose, which, with half a dozen cars, broke loose from the train, and ran back down a grade, gaining speed constantly, into Bickmond, where it collidod with an out-going Panhandle engine. The occupants of the cab jumped, but the caboose passengers wont into the wreck and out with but temporary injuries, despite the fact that the caboose, which telescoped on the engine, completely stripping it, was literally mashed to splinters. —The subject of co-education has been brought up for several years in the meetings of the Trustees of Wabash College, and this year the subject was pressed more strongly than ever, but to no definite results, though tbe subject is being thorouphly investigated. It seems that a majority of the faculty are opposed to coeducation, and this has a tendency to keep the Trustees from acting. This year the Princeton plan was urged upon the college authorities, and it is understood that this is being more favorably talkod about. There is no doubt but that Wabash could have double the number of students that she now has if young ladies were admitted. —Jarrett Ingram, a farmer residing in the vicinity of Somerville, Gibson County, was found dead recently, a few miles from his honw. It is supposed he committed suicide by shooting, although no cause is assigned for the deed. He left home last week to hunt squirrels, and was not seen again until discovered dead. His body was in an advanced stuto of decomposition. Some of Ingrain’s friends entertain the belief that he was murdered. —A freight train ran into a funeral procession crossing the railroad track near Brownsville, Union County, causing a stampede among the horses, resulting in a number ot runaways, and tumbling buggies and occupants down a hill into a barbed-wire fence. A number of women and children were badly cut and crippled by tbe fence, and several horses ruined, while the wrecks of half a dozen buggies lay piled along the road. —ln going over the books at the Southern Prison, it has been discovered that the Government is indebted to the institntion, on account of prisoners sent there for violating United States laws, in the sum of $7,300. There is also due from counties sending criminals to the prison for safe keeping, $3,000. An attempt will be made at once to collect the amounts.

—Wm. Morgan, a fonrteen-year convict, from Daviess County, for manslanghier, now confined in the Southern Prison, is thought to ba hopelessly ill of consumption. His brother has been to the prison and made the necessary arrangements for the shipping of his remains to his former home when death ensues. —A 3-year-old child of Mrs. Elizabeth Bottomly, of Evansville, swallowed half an ounce of laudanum while its mother was absent from the house. When the mother returned she fonnd the little fellow suffering from the effects of the drug. She summoned medical assistance, bat the child died. —-Jacob Hatter, a prominent citizen of Bolling Prairie, was bitten by a mad dog which had taken refuge in his house. The brute had snapped at his child and wife, and in attempting to drive it from under a bed be was wounded in the hand. --Civil Service Commissioner Edgerton, who has jnst returned to his home in Fort Wayne, has been re-elected President of the City Board of School Trustees. He has held this position for years. He has famished a bond for $60,000. —The dwelling-house and sfore of George W. Doughet, of Mud Lick, Jefferson County, were totally destroyed by fire, scarcely anything being saved, the fire burned so rapidly. Loss over $3,000. —Andrew J. Keyset, an old resident of Plymouth, was driving a team which became unmanageable and ran away. Keyser was thrown out of the wagon and run over, receiving fatal injuries. —A boy named Debruler, was drowned in the St. Joe River at Fort Wayne.

HUMOR.

Well trained—Railroad employe*. When is water not water? When it is dripping. A cool thousand— l,ooo pounds of ice. Washington Hat het. Fish are generally found in schools, and, like all scholars, they are inclined to “play hookey."— lioxton Post. There are two things whose drawing power has never been excelled—the circus and the porous plaster. The difference between the lover and the epicure is, one lives to love and the other loves to live.— Texas Siftirlgs. “The gold enslaves me that I make," Jay Gould, 'tls said, has stated; We ll tear his fetters so he may Become emancipated. —Texas Siftings. Lightning nover strikes twice in the same place, but a youug widow isn’t afraid to try it again.— Newman's Independent. “What are you doing there, you rascal?” “Merely takiug cold, sir." “It looks to me as if you were stealing ice.” “Well, yes, perhaps it will bear that construction.” In the dining-room of respectable society it is not considered correct to put your fingers into the plate before you. But at ohurch, into the plate that is set before you, all are expected to put their alms. Punch. Texan —Yes, mebbe you wouldn't think it, but I made my pile out of watered stock. New Yorker—l shouldn’t judgo so from your appearance. Texan —No, perhaps not; but you can’t expect to make much out of the creeturs if you let ’em go thirsty. — N(w Haven News. “Have you ‘Hours of Idleness’ here ?” the maiden asked, as she sauntered into the second-hand book store. “No, wo haven’t, Miss,” said the youth behind the counter. “The boss is an old skinflint, and when we ain’t doing any business he keeps us dusting the books.”— Poston Courier. “Well, I never quarrel with any one," remarked a quiet but crossgrained and sarcastic individual in a down-town office. “No, jierhaps not,” remarked a gentleman seated near, “but you give others plenty of opportunity of quarroling with you.” Did you ever have such an acquaintance? Philadelphia Call. THE WAIL OK A LOVER. In pious garb Clorinda goes, Her Backcloth fits, ’tie tailor-made, , And on her head ashes—of roso 1 A Donnot of roliglous shade. Her conversation, onoe so chic, Is all of charities and slums ; Her bang looks out of curl and meot, The curate now iu favor oomos. Tbe pompous fellow little knows Upon what dangerous ground he’s troading; When Easter comes I’ll pardon foes; He shall officiate at our wedding. —Life.

“1 was out across the prairie about ten miles west of here, ” said a Dakota man in a part of the Territory recently opened to settlement, "and I noticed that they appear to be starting a town out there.” “Lots of houses going up?” "There wasnjt a house in sight, but there was a man out on the prairie with a hand-press printing a newspaEer and some more men digging a big ole in the ground—l guess they were workmen starting a soldiers’ home or normal school or some such public institut on that the Legislature must have located there.” —Dakota Bell.

Value of a Wife’s Work.

The low price paid for woman’s work is possibly one reason why a wife, who is the nurse, cook, seamstress and laundress of the family, doing the work of a half dozen hirelings at once, is said to be supported by her husband. An incident that occurred not many years since partially illustrates the value of a wife’s work. A wedded pair began life with small means, but by years of industry and frugality on the part of both they accumulated a property worth $2,50(> when the husband died without a will, and leaving no children. His brothers were his legal heirs, aud tried to defraud the widow of the use even of onethird of the estate, as the law allowed widows. They searched the records, and finding some defect in the marriage license instituted a suit for the whole estate, claiming that the widow had not been a legal wife. She entered no defense and it was so decided. Then she brought a suit against the estate for the value of her services during the years she had lived as lus wife, amounting to something more than the whole estate, and the Court allowed the whole of her claim. As in the case of these brothers, inordinate greed sometimes defeats itself.

Overrun with Business.

The druggist took the prescription from the customer and gazed at it curious y, then he called the clerk to him, and they looked it over together and shook their heads. The pharma* cist turned to the customer again: “I’m sorry, but I guess we can’t make this up for you.” “Why,” said the customer, “what’s the matter with it? It is a simple prescription; you do a prescription business, don’t you?” “Well, yes, we do, but the pres ription clerk isn’t in just now. In fact, I had to discharge him. You see, the trade in cigars and fancy goodH, together with the soda fountain, took up so much of our time that we had to give up something, so I have temporarily closed the prescription department. You can get that filled in the next town, however; stage leaves Tuesdays and t ridays. ” Brooklyn Eagle. Culture: The pursuit of social folly haring its origin in the lore of singularity. —Life.