Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1888 — Page 3

FOR THE LADIES.

A Palatable (Mia Podrida Prepared Specially for Our Fair Readers. Paddons ia Drees, Notes on Housekeeping Affairs, and Other Topics of Interest [SPECIAL NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.] It is timely to consider the summer girl. She knows pretty well now what she is going to wear. Here is a portrait of a June specimen found on the Broadway promenade. She is presented here as a type of current elegance, quite devoid of exaggeration, and yet exemplifying several new ideas in fashions. • Her bonnet is one of the approved shapes, and her manner of filling its high, pointed front with a fluff of her own hair is an innovation. She also expresses neatly a new notion of using a single material for a whole dress. This is a small fact as compared with the greater one, that of employing different and often incongruous colors and embodying them in one toilet. She belongs to the few who dislike to be in accord with the many, and who are, therefore, ahead of the majority. The dotted fabric of her gown is wool of a very light gray speckled with black. The black lace around her neck and down her front is in accordance with the newest use of lace as an embellishment. She is a type of the neat and quiet summer girl for 1888. If she were not pretty, she would easily pass unnoticed among many more gaudy creatures in the throng. No more than a rod behind her sauntered a young woman in a sombrero hat, made of very fine light felt, and with its brim rolled up coquettishly in front. Her hair was cut off squarely at the ends, and was left hanging loose to a point a trifle below her neck. Thus her whole head ■ lacked only a moustache to be an idealization of Buffalo Bill. Such hats are likely to be worn considerably during the hot weather at the resorts, and they will be serviceable as shades as well as admirable for picturesqueness; but in

A JUNE TOILET.

the city they are decidedly too extravagant, and one is apt to rate the wearer as a social scout of too daring a character. The number and variety of wide-brimmed hats is as great as the many strange ways in which the brims are bent. They are turned up in front, at the back, or at the sides; some have wide wing-like side brims, others have the front excessively wide and straight, and many of the Tuscan straw capelines have the brim held down by the strings. Masses of trimming, generally •consisting of ribbon and flowers, are heaped on these. It is in a jacket that Mrs. James Brown Potter, who quit our highest society circles to become an actress, is more ridiculous than sublime at a city theater. She is enacting Pauline in ‘‘The Lady of Lyons,” and she has undertaken to introduce originality into the Directoire costumes of the period of the play. Mrs.” Potter is a long-limbed, angular beauty, well enough adapted to the short-waisted dresses in question, but in her efforts at variation from the usual thing, she has in one instance run into the grotesque. The waists of all these gowns, as you know, stop short within two or three inches of the arm-pit, and from that point to the feet stretches a length of drapery unbroken, save when the wearer introduces rectangles by sitting down. These rigs are graceful enough in pose, but motion is pretty certain to render them awkward. We have become so accustomed to hanging our skirts at the waist, and our ideas of graceful locomotion are so associated with that division of the feminine anatomy, that it strikes us as absurd to see a skirt hang from the breast line and not to be agitated at all until a point a third of the way down is reached when the wearer begins to walk. Now, Mrs. Potter, or the designer of her wardrobe, seems to have been struck by the idea that miniature coat-tails attached to a very abbreviated jacket would impart interest to one of her costumes. The result is not a success. When she faces the audience in this particular robe, the outlines are acceptable to artistic judgment, but when she turns around and shows her back, the incipient coat-tails hanging over her shoulder blades—for all the world like the comic short coat of a negro minstrel, so familiar in burnt cork fun—the spectators are inclined to titter, not-

withstanding that the fair Pauline is at that moment listening to Claude Melnotte’s poetic description of the Lake of Como. If Mrs. Potter is wise, she will take a pair of shears and cut those tails off her jacket; and if any feminine observer is at all inclined to copy that costume for summer wear, let me assure het that she will excite more laughter than admiration. Lawn tennis is a diversion in which the summer girl usually allows herself wide latitude. This season she will pretty generally take to the blouse waists. These are an importation from England, not from Paris or Berlin, and our belles have been slow to put them on for ordinary occasions of dress; but a round of the more fashionable dressmaking establishments convinces me that they will be adopted generally for lawn tennis playing, in place of the bygone jersey waists. They are equally

A COSTUME FOR TENNIS.

conducive to an expression of pliability, and their seeming looseness conveys an impression of even greater suppleness than the jersey imparted. Sad to say, however, they are likely to induce tight-lacing, instead of the ease of stays which their appearance suggests. The girl who cannot comfortably wear an eighteen-inch belt or less with a blouse, manages to do so by means of violent compression, and so the lawn tennis player may not be what she seems as to untrammeled condition of clothes.

Paper fabric will actually take the place of genuine cloth to some extent in the forthcoming summer toilets. A modification of wliat we used to call Fedora fronts is herewith sketched. But the rather startling novelty about it is that the chemisette, or at least a portion of it disclosed between the front edges of the j acket, is composed of paper stamped and cut in imitation of lace and embroidery. lam told that this innovation was premeditated to the extent that an order was sent to China more than a year ago for the manufacture of the stuff in the fibrous sort of paper produced only in that country. Thus it is that the masculine example of paper collars and cuffs has been followed, in an idealized manner, by a feminine acceptance of paper chemisettes. The paper looks exactly like soft, unlaundried linen, and is quite tough enough, it is well to say, to prevent easy accidents in the way of rents. Patterns are ingenious imitations, not only of plain fine muslin, but of lace. That is timely, because there is a tendency to use lace more generously with demi-toilets for the afternoon. Some ladies are returning to the handsome real laces so long laid aside, while the merchants still find their best profit in the fine hand-woven imitation laces so long popular. Gauzes, net, blonde, and silk muslins, together with ribbons, are combined with frills and jabots of lace in plastrons, vests, and fichus of various kinds. Even for full-dress toilets, the senorita jackets, like the one seen in the picture, are worn with a full

A PAPER CHEMISETTE.

blouse of cream-white China crape.— Chicago Ledger. Low neck-cut bodices are not fashionable at theater, concert, or dinners, or evening parties without dancing. Black or dark toilets are open a little at the neck, but good taste demands light dresses, as it is a compliment to the hostess to brighten up the scene by wearing light and bright colors as a relief to the somber effect of gentlemen’s full-dress attire. Anyone who does not care to go to the expense of china crape can avail herself of a cheaper sort or combine muslin with a summer silk and trim it with dull silver gimp with very pretty effect. Three and four-button cutawavs are proper for morning wear and halfdress.

THURMAN WINS.

The Old Roman Selected by Acclamation as Cleveland’s Yokemate. The Gray Men Make a Stubborn Contest, but Are Overborne by Numbers. Third a»d Last Day’s Proceedings of the National Democratic Convention. St. Louis, June 7,1888. The convention was called to order by Chairman Collins at 10:35 a. m., and the Rev. Dr. Brank offered prayer. Immediately the report of the Committee on Resolutions, submitting the platform, was read and Chairman Watterson and Senator Gorman spoke in its support. On motion of Mr. Watterson the platform was adopted, and the Hon. W. L. Scott presented this resolution for the committee: “Resolved, That this convention hereby indorses and recommends the early passage of the bill for

ALLEN G. THURMAN.

I the reduction of the revenue now pending in the ; House of Representatives." [Cheers and ap- , plause.] The convention then, amid great excitement, 1 proceeded to the nomination of a candidate for Vice President. When in the call of the States California was reached, Mr. Tarpey, of that State, arose and nominated Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, in.a highly eulogistic speech. Mr. Patterson, of Colorado, nominated Gen. J. C. Black, of Illinois. Connecticut, through Delegate Piggott, also seconded Thurman’s nomination. Senator Voorhees, on behalf of Indiana, presented the name of I sane P. Gray, and made an eloquent plea for his nomination. Georgia nnd Kentucky, through Delegates Cox and Settle, seconded Gray's nomination. They were followed in turn by Delegates Dryden of Missouri, Green of New Jersey, and Dorsey of Nevada, who presented the claims’of the old Roman. Then followed Delegates Raines of New York, Strange of North Carolina, Dawson of South Carolina, Lillard of Tennessee, and Throckmorton of Texas, all of whom spoke eulogistic of the Ohio man, and seconded his nomination. Senator Daniel of Virginia closed the speech-making with an impetuous panegyric of Thurman. The Secretary then called the roll of the States with the following result: Thurman. Gray. Black. Alabama .15 4 1 Arkansas 14 California 16 .. 6 Connecticut 12 Delaware 3 3 Florida 8 Georgia 7 17 Illinois 10 17 17 Indiana...... 30 Kansas 14 2 2 Kentucky 8 17 1 Louisiana 16 Maine 12 Maryland 16 ! Massachusetts...... ...19 7 1 i Michigan 23 .. 3 Minnesota... 13 1 Mississippi 18 Missouri 28 4 Nebraska 8 2 Nevada 6 New Hampshire 8 New Jersey 18 New. York 72 North Carolina 22 Ohio 45 1 Oregon 6 Pennsylvania. x...... 60 Rhode Island . 8 South Carolina 18 Tennessee 34 Texas , 36 Vjprmont 8 Virginia 24 West Virginia 11 When the State of Florida was called the Chairman of the delegation said: "Florida rnefets California half way, and gives her eight votes for that highest type of American citizen —Alien G. Thurman." lowa was passed at the request of its Chairman. There were cheers when Kansas cast fourteen votes for Thurman. Enthusiastic applause and cheers greeted New York when the seventy-two delegates voted solidly for Thurman, and the scene was repeated when Pennsylvania’s sixty votes were cast the same way. When the State of Wisconsin was called every delegate in the hall arose and again began a scene which rivaled the uproar when Mr. Cleveland was nominated. The uproar was quieted in a measure, and the clerk again called the State of Wisconsin, and the roll-call was completed, the following States and Territories casting the votes given for Thurman. Wisconsin 22,1dah0 2 lowa 26|Montana 2 Alaska 2 New Mexico. 2 Arizona 2lUtah 2 Dakota 2(Washington 2 District of Columbia.. 2’Wyoming 2 Mr. Patterson of Colorado—“ Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the friends of Gen. John C. Black of Illinois and other States I am requested to formally withdraw his name and move that the nomination of Allen G. Thurman for Vice President be made unanimous.” [Loud cheers.] The Chairman—“ The vote of Colorado will first be changed as requested by the chairman of that delegation from Block to Thurman.” A delegate from Ohio —“The State of Ohio is entitled to forty-six votes, and she wishes to cast her vote solid for Allen G. Thurman." Mr. Shanklin of Indiana—“ Mr. Chairman and , gentlemen of the convention, I will not add one drop to the flood of perspiration by attempting to start another flood of eloquence. [Laughter.] I arise for the purpose of withdrawing the nthpe of Isaac P. Gray and of moving this convention that the nomination of Allen G. Thurman of Ohio be made unanimous." [Loud cheers.] The Chairman—“lt is moved by Mr. Patterson of Colorado, and seconded by Mr. Shanklin of Indiana, that Allen G. Thurman of Ohio be nominated by this convention by accle&natien. Those in favor of that motion will say aye." At this point the convention rose en masse and shouted forth a lopg, loud and unanimous aye. The Chair then put the other side of the question, but there were none left to vote. The Chairman—The Chairman of this convention declares Allen G. Thurman,, of Ohio, to be the unanimous choice of this convention for the office of Vice President of the United States. [Loud appialise and cheering.] A resolution of thanks for the services of the Hon. Frederick O. Prince, of Boston, the retiring Secretary of the National Committee, was adopted. A long resolution eulogizing Hancock, Tilden, Seymour, and McClellan, and expressing a deep sense of the party’s great lose in their death, with the usual resolutions |of thanks, was passed, and the convention adjourned "to meet at the polls in November."

THE PLATFORM.

Declarations of the Democratic Party on the Issues of the Coming Campaign. Text of the Resolutions Adopted by the National Convention at St. Loots. The Democratic party of the United States, in national convention assembled, renews the pledge of its fidelity to the Democratic faith, and reaffirms the platform adopted by its representatives in the convention of 1884, and indorses the views expressed by President Cleveland in his last earnest message to Congress as the correct interpretation of that platform upon the question of tariff reduction ; and also indorses the efforts of our Democratic representatives in Congress to secure a reduction of excessive taxation. Chief among its principles of party faith are the maintenance of an indissoluble union of free and indestructible States, now about to enter upon its second century of unexampled progress and renown ; devotion to a plan of government regulated by a written Constitution strictly specifying every granted power, and expressly reserving to the States or people the entire ungranted residue of power; the encouragement of a jealous popular vigilance, directed to all who have been chosen for brief terms to enact and execute the laws, and are charged with the duty of preserving peace, insuring equality, 'and establishing justice. The Democratic party welcomes an exacting scrutiny of the administration of the executive power, which four years ago was committed to its trust in the election of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, and it challenges the most searching inquiry concerning its fidelity and devotion to the pledges which then invited the suffrages of the people. During a most critical period of our financial affairs, resulting from over-taxation, the anomalous condition of our currency, and a public debt unmatured, it has by the adoption of a wise and statesmanlike course not only averted disaster but greatly promoted the prosperity of the people. It has reversed the improvident and unwise policy of the Republican party touching the public domain, ana has reclaimed from corporations and syndicates alien and domestic, and restored to the people, nearly one hundred millions of acres of valuable land, to be sacredly held as homesteads for our citizens. While carefully guarding the interests of the people, consistent with the principles of justice and equity, it has paid out more for pensions and bounties to the soldiers and sailors of the Republic than was ever paid before during an equal period. It has adopted, consistently pursued, a firm and prudent foreign policy, preserving peace with all nations while scrupulously maintaining all the rights and interests of our own Government and people at home and abroad. The exclusion from our " shores of Chinese laborers has been effectually secured under the provision of a treaty, the operation of which has been postponed by the action of a Republican majority in the Senate. Honest reform in the civil service has been inaugurated and maintained by President Cleveland, and he has brought the public service to the highest standard of efficiency, not only by rule and precept but by the example of his own untiring and unselfish administration of public affairs. In every branch and department of the Government under Democratic control, the rights and the welfare of all the people have been guarded and defended; every public interest has been protected, and the equality of all our citizens before the law, without regard to race or color, has been steadfastly maintained. Upon its record thus exhibited and upon the pledge of a continuance to the people of the benefits of Democracy it invokes a renewal of popular trust by the re-election of a Ohief Magistrate who has been faithful, able, and prudent, and invokes in addition to that trust the transfer also to the Democracy of the entire legislative power. The Republican party, controlling the Senate and resisting in both houses of Congress a reformation of unjust and unequal tax laws, which have outlasted the necessities of war, and are now undermining the abundance of a long period of peace, deny to the people equality before the law, and the fairness and the justice which are their right. The cry of American labor for a better share in the rewards of industry is stifled with false pretenses, enterprise is fettered, and bound down to home markets ; capital is discouraged with doubt, and unequal, unjust laws can neither be properly amended nor repealed. The Democratic party will continue, with all the power confided to it, the struggle to reform these laws in accordance with the pledges of its last platform, indorsed at the ballot-box by the suffrages of the people. Of all the industrious freeman of our lan<U the immense majority, including every tiller of the soil, gain no advantage from excessive tax laws, but the price of nearly everything they buy is increased by the favoritism of an unequal system of tax legislution. All unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation. It is repugnant to the creed of Democracy that taxation the cost of the necessaries of life should be unjustifiably increased to all our people. Judged by Democratic principles, the interests of the people are betrayed when, by unnecessary taxation, trusts and combinations are permitted to exist which, while unduly enriching the few that combine, rob the body of our citizens by depriving them of the benefits of natural competition Every rule of governmental action is vioMted, when, through unnecessary taxation a vast sum of money far beyond the needs of an economical administration is drawn from the people, the channels of trade and accumulated as a demoralizing surplus In the National Treasury. The money now lying idle in the Federal Treasury resulting from superfluous taxation amounts to more than one hundred and twentyfive millions, and the surplus collected is reaching the sum of more than sixty millions annually. Debauched by this immense temptation, the remedy of the Republican party is to meet and exhaust by extravagant appropriations and expenses, whether constitutional or not, the accumulatlpn of extravagant taxation. The Democratic policy is to enforce frugality in public expense and abolish unnecessary taxation. Our established domestic industries and enterprises should not and need not be endangered by the reduction and correction of the burdens of taxation. On the contrary, a fair and careful Ollr ax awH ' 'with due allowance for the difference between the wages of American and foreign labor, must promote and encourage every branch of such industries and enterprises by giving them assurance of on extended market and steady and continuous operations. In the interests of American labor, which should in no event be neglected, the revision of our tax laws contemplated by the Democratic party should promote the advantage of such labor by cheapening the cost of necessaries of life in the home of every workingman, and at the same time securing to him steady and remunerative employment. Upon this question of tariff reform, so closely concerning every phase of our national life, and upon every question involved' in the problem of good government, the Democratic party submits its principles and professions to the intelligent suffrages of the American people.

The Mother at Home.

The mother is the heart of the home. She it is who determines its characteristics and diffuses through it that subtle atmosphere which every sensitive person can feel when introduced into the home circle, and from which can quickly be inferred the ruling spirit of the home. There can be no doubt that the most effective training for children is the training of example, and this truth the mother needs constantly to bear in mind. How can the impatient, querulous, fault-finding mother teach patience and kindness and good temper? How can the vain mother teach humility? How can the mother greatly absorbed in keeping up with the pompo and vanities of life, eager for place and show, teach her children the true principles of a happy life? How can the selfish mother teach generosity or kindness, or the discontented mother teach contentment?— Mrs. Helen E. Starrett. - < - Jelly. —For jelly, I always take a pound 3f white sugar to one of juice, place over •he fire and let boil hard for just three minutes, allow to cool a little, put in glass nnd set in an east window for three or four lays.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

An Unfortunate Trip. A most deplorable drowning occurred at Spencer. Prof. Anderson, Principal of the High School, and a large party of ladies and gentlemen organized a sort of a Heet of rowboats and started for a pleasure trip up White River to a summer resort called McCormick’s Creek, three miles north of Spencer. Prof. Anderson was in a rickety boat with two ladies. Misses Clara and Lillie Hornaday, the latter a teacher in the same school with the Professor. An 11-year-old brother of the young ladies was also an occupant of the boat. When about a mile up the river. Prof. Anderson’s boat fell somewhat behind the remainder of the party, and could not be seen on account of a bend in the river. All at once the pleasure-seekers were startled by a terrific screams for help, and the entire party speedily rowed down around the bend to note the cause of the alarm. All that could be seen upon arriving at the spot indicated by the agonizing shrieks ,was the prostrate form of the 11-year-old boy on the bank of the river. He was weeping and moaning bitterly. The boat was also found floating along upside down, and the shocking truth dawned upon the rest of the party that the Professor and his two young lady companions were beneath the waves. The scene was most heart-rending, and the strongest hearts were prostrated with grief at the appalling calamity. The water was thirty feet deep. The only living witness of the distressing scene of the drowning was the 11-year-old brother of the Misses Hornaday, who told the painful tale that he dung to his eldest sister till he was exhausted and then swam to the shore. Minor State Items. —The State Pharmaceutical Association held their annual convention at Fort Wayne, and there was a large attendance. The proceedings were instructive and interesting throughout, and the display in the exhibition rooms very elaborate. The following officers were elected: President, Prof. Arthur Green, of Purdue University; First Vice President, Mr. Davenport, of Indianapolis; Second Vice President, Mr. Dreier, of Fort Wayne; Third Vice President, Mr. Lohman, of Lafayette; Secretary, J. R. Perry, of Indianapolis; Treasurer, H. C. Pomeroy, of Indianapolis; Executive Committee, Messrs. Gross, of Fort Wayne; Ross, of Richmond, and Benson, of Crawfordsville.

—lt is estimated that the Pennsylvania oil well, two miles west of Portland, will yield one hundred barrels a day. A large number of operators from Pennsylvania are leasing laud and will drill wells at |once. —William H. Stewart, whose family reside at Seymour, was instantly killed at Jeffersonville, where he was working in the capacity of bridge carpenter. He alighted from a train, and stepping on a side-track was struck by another train which was passing. —On the farm of Christ. Riedel, near Mount Vernon, Henry Roedel, his 10-year-old son, was kicked to death by a mule. The boy was tying the cnimal, when a sportsman fired a gun in the vicinity, scaring the mule and causing it to kick the boy, . —Albert Frey, night; clerk at the O. andM. Railroad ticket office, at Seymour, was dangerously injured|while in the act of alighting from a moving passenger train. He was thrown to the ground, his head coming in contact with a cross-tie. Frey is a young married man, been in*the habit of riding to the eastern part of the city, near his home on the evening express. —Edward Armend was killed in a runaway at Madison. —Mrs. Esther Rhoads, of Hartsville, celebrated her one hundredth birthday. —Charley Suggs, of Evansville, a colored boy, aged 12 years, while fishing, fell into the river from a sawlog on which he was standing, and was drowned before assistance could reach him. —Gustav Schranger fell under a freight train at New Haven and was fatally injured. —lndianapolis laborers threaten to use force unless Italians employed by the Gas Trust Company of that city are summarily discharged. —A team valued at SSOO, belonging to D..& C. H. Uhl, was drowned while crossing the Wabash, near Logansport. The driver narrowly escaped a watery grave.

—A story of inherited wealth by an old German farmer, for many years resided near Noblesville, Charles Boden, who is past 70 years of age, came to the United States in early life to escape military service in Germany. He made two trips to California, the first in 1835, and again in 1851. On his second trip he saved from his gold-digging a sum sufficient to buy a good farm, on which he settled, and by the utmost economy and hard work he has accumulated quite a fortune Domestic troubles have rendered his home life unpleasant. When Boden left Germany he left behind him a brother, who died recently and left a vast estate, from which Charles, it is said, will realize the comfortable sum of $9,000,000. He has employed attorneys, who are now on their way to Germany to look after his immense wealth, and Boden is now waiting for his ship to come in.