Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 June 1889 — Page 6

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The Fashionable Widows at the Seashore are Bathioff in .... Mourning.

AN ATHLETIC GIRL'S TERRIBLE HUG OF A DUDE.

Gossip About Women Fashion •a Notes —Some Good Hints to Houskeepers..

It is rigidly exacted of fashionable widows that they shall bathe in mourning, says the New York World. This is a little hard on them, because it is almost an impossibility to find a black J,hat will not "crock" in salt water, and many are their tribulations in consequence. If the dear departed is a recent lose, they must mourn from head to foot, and have not a touch of any color, not even white, about them if time has somewhat assuaged the anguish of widowhood the bathing dress may be embroidered in white and have collar and covers of the same, and if a year and a half has elapsed since her husband became an angel, even the most rigid consider her justified in having her bathing dress.made either of gray, white or violet serge This fashion was started by the pretty widow of O'Donnell, of Baltimore, who was called upon to mourn a rich yonng husband who died after a very brief union. This occurred in the spring, and when summer came the doctors insisted that sea bathing was necessary as a cure for her nervous relaxation brought on by mental suffering, and she appeared, shrouded in crepe, at the fashionable watering-place.

Then the ques

tion arose concerning the bathing dress. No one ever wore black bathing dresses, and the afflicted relict utterly refused to appear anywhere, even in the sea, except in garments of th® deepest sable. There was a visible sensation when Bhe came down to the beach one morning all in black from top to toe, with her very white arms and shoulders bare and a little black handkerchief tied coquettishly over her golden hair. Before a week was over every man in the place was occupied in securing an introduction to that pathetic little black figure, and the cheerful women in their light-colored gowns were nowhere at all. Since that time widows all over the country have adopted the fashion and regulated it by fixed laws. Miss Hargous brings back from Europe with her a bathing suit that is all of scarlet. There is not much bathing as a rule among the fashionable people at Newport, but an effort was made last summer to revive the custom, and it had sufficient popularity to justify those who intend spending the summer there in preparing themselves with a swimmiDg toilet. These scarlet bathing dresses are very fashionable in France with the brunettes, leaving white and pale blue for the blondes. One of the fashionable dressmakers of this city has imported some bathing dresses of light green serge in reply to this year's demand for all things verdant in tint. They are embroidered* and braided in white, and have been specially treated with chemicals so that the colors may stand the action of sea water, and she assures those who buy them that they will fade no more quickly than the dark blue serge which is usually worn for this purpose. With most of the bathing stockings sold this season is a pair of slippers of either canvas or some sort of heavy cloth, the foot of the stocking being carefully fastened into the slipper in such away that the latter cannot be washed off, which has heretofore always been the difficulty about wearing bathing slippers.

A Girl Swimmer's Hut.

An ability to swim has become as much a part of the fashionable New Yorker's equipment as the fencing, dancing, riding and tennis upon which she spends so large a part of her energy in order to make herself perfect at each one of them. What the result of this athletio training is was shown last summer by a little incident at Newport. A certain well known New York girl, who is an all-around athlete, and can swim, ride, fence, play tennis and sail a boat against any man between the two seas, was being persecuted by a frolicsome youth of that type which is vulgarly classed under the slang name of aude. He had not gone into athletics much himself, and had far too great a fondness for cocktails and cigarettes to have his muscles in good condition. The girl had borne this assiduity as long as she could finally her patience became exhausted, and one day on board of a yacht, after he had fatigued her to death by declaring himself consumed with passion for her and pleading for a kiss, she called to the rest of the party and when the twenty or more had collected around her she said: "Mr. Saphead has been begging me to kiss him, and I am going to do it, but only on one condition, and I want you all to witness that the bargain is fairly carried out. I am willing to kiss him if he will permit himself afterwards to be hugged by me." This was received with shouts of laughter, and the embarrassed Saphead found her firm, rosy cheek turned toward him and nothing left for him to do but put his lips to it before the whole crowd. The instant the deed was done the young girl turned like a flash and threw her strong, round arms about him and held him in so iron a grip that in three seconds he had grown purple in the face, and was helplessly begging for mercy. He struggled to unfasten her clasp, but was absolutely helpless in her hands until she choose to let him go in a halffainting condition, and it is needless to Bay that during the entireseason no man ever dared to be impertinent to that girl again.

Oodftlp About Women,

Mme. Pauline Lucca is ill. A labor lyceum for women has been organized in St. Paul.

Sf»enty-five women in the United States are practicing lawyers. Mme. Patti-Nicolini is dubbed "the queen" at Craig-y-Nos-Castle.

A women's exchange has been opened in Brook street, London. Mrs. Mary J. Holmes is in Italy gathering points for anew Btory.

Mra D. G. Croly is about to start a new paper called the Woman's Century. The military girl is an established institution at the university of Minnesota.

The Woman's Penny Paper in London has recently been enlarged to twelve pages.

Women interviewers are said to be far more successful than men on London newspapers.

Miss Juliet Corson has become so much of an invalid that

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land who carry on the business of dress and mantle making. Nearly one-quarter of the white girls of Alabama, between the ages of 15 and 21, can not write their own names.

The long handled double eyeglasses now used so much by ladies seem to empower them with the privilege to stare.

Dr. Uiusepina Cattani is a woman, and she has been appointed lecturer on pathology at the university of Bologna, Italy.

A young woman who has her own living to make needs to disembarrass herself of all false pride, says a writer in Harper's Bazar.

Four of Archdeacon Parrar's daughters have'married clergymen, and three out of the four have chosen curates in their father's church.

The new duchess of Portland ranks eighteen in the list of peeresses, and the American duchess of Marlborough takes precedence of- her.

FASHION NOTES.

Ecru pongee is used for petticoats. Summer gowns are trimmed but not draped.

GloveB of chamois skin are used for shopping. The newest thing in work baskets is a Japanese lantern.

Rhinestone belt buckleB are countenanced this summer. Selvedges form the trimming to some of the summer gowns. •Soft finished piques are sometimes used for tennis costumes.

Tan colored leather is used extensively for trimming dresses. White china silk is one of the favorite fabrics for summer dresses.

Chantilly inserted forms stripes in afternoon dresses of mousseline de soie. Englishmen who effect the single eyeglass use one encircled with a gold rim.

TuckB on the skirt, tucks on the sleeves, tucks on the waist, tucks everywhere!

Silk gowns in black and white are most fashionable when designed in scrolls.

Creped mousseline de soie is a new material for afternoon and reception dresses.

Batiste dresses with parasol to match will serve as all day dresses at the watering places.

Fancy sleeves of some thin fabric are worn this season in tennis blouses of thick material.

A French waist has the neck cut a little low and in square tabs, which lie over frills of lace.

Metal belts, gold and silver not. excluded, are among the pleasing novelties of the present moment.

Stout women should avoid belts, horizontal rows of trimming and ornamentation at the top of sleeves.

Afternoon tea aprons, which have almost gone out of fashion here, are in great favor with English ladies.

Turbans are trimmed low, the edge of the crown being simply followed with ribbon or birds' feathers.

Hlnta to Housekeepers.

Water house plants with cold tea. For poison oak, bath* in cream and gunpowder twice a day till cared.

Green vegetables will retain their color if cooked in an anooverad vaeBel. To make tin shine wash in hot soap

MT HEART'S DELIGHT.

world would be a gloom world, With-out one ray of Mi®, 2. My home would just a shel-ter be, A dull and dis-mal place,

1. mil lor scenes One face I chanced to miss 2. her sweet voicc, The sun shine of her face

I? light. All oth er moid ens she out shines In beau ty and in worth 2 light. C£^,- Thus smooth ly, sweet ly glide the years, And I, in-deed, am blest

-Copyright—Kunkel Bros** 1888—KUNKIX'S ROYAL EDITION.-

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suds, dip a dampened cloth in fine sifted coal ashes, then polish with dry ashes. To cleanse white zephyr shawls, rub well with dry flour and hang in the wind.

Wash gilding with water in which onion has teen boiled, and dry with a soft cloth.

A room with a low ceiling will seem higher if the window curtains hang to the floor. Lambrequins may be used to extend the curtains to the ceiling, and thus carry out the effect.

A London medical man says: "Be careful in your dealings with horseradish. It irritates the stomach far more than spice, and an overdose will bring on an unpleasant sensation for days."

Coffee pounded in a mortar and roasted on an iron plate, sugar burned on hot coals, and vinegar boiled with myrrh and sprinkled on the floor and furniture of a sick-room are excellent deodorizers.

Ink stains are entirely removed by the immediate application of dry salt before the ink has dried. When the salt_ becomes discolored by absorbing the ink, brush it off and apply more wet slightly. Continue this till the ink is all removed.

There is no economy in purchasing brown sugar. The moisture it contains more than makes up for the difference in price but for

some

things, such as

dark cake and mince pies, many cooks prefer it. Granulated sugar is the purest and best for ordinary uses.

S' USE OF OPIDM IN CHINA.

Some Valuable Information From a Cnstoms Yellow-Book.

A Chinese customs yellow-book contains some valuable and interesting information on the growth and consumption of opium in China. The growth of native opium has assumed large proportions during recent years,

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ers'Magazine. Every province produces it, the only large area where it is not grown being the islands of Formosa and Hainan. The opium is chiefly consumed locally, only a comparatively small percentage going out of the district or province where it is grown. The quality of the native article has much improved, and this fact, combined with the increased growth, has led to a great reduction in the import of foreign opium, as the falling off in the Indian revenue testifies. Even at the treaty ports native opium is used very largely.

It is preferred in many cases because it can be smoked seven or eight times, while the foreign drug can be smoked three times at the most. The native is often mixed with the foreign, but smokers object to this being done, because it spoils the ashes, which command a price. Economy oomee into the question of preference, for only the wealthiest consume the foreign article. A great deal of smuggling goes on in order to evade the tax. In the far west, where cash and silver are scarce, opium takes the place of money in many localities, as the basis of barter. When starting on a journey, a native carries his estimated expenses in the form of opium, selling here and there just as much as he requires. Even students going to Pekin carry their funds in the form of opium.

Colored Drew Coat*.

Light or dark blue, gray, brown, bot-tle-green, purple and lilac dress coats are coming in rage in London, with metal or braaB buttons.

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SET A BEAR ON FIRE.

The Bear Set a Creek to Blaring and There Waa a Fiery Time Generally.

"Folks may not know it," was the remark of a man from the oil regions, in the hearing of a New York Sun reporter, "but bears can

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know whether they can dive or not, but if they can, one bear that I remember made the mistake of his life once by not diving, and that not only, but in not swimming under water from one bank of the stream he was in to the other bank before he came out again. The fate of that bear was a fearful one, and a warning to all of the bear family to stick to terra flrma in the oil regions. "I was one of the first seekers after riches that went up along the Cherry Tree run in Venango county to put down oil wells. Good paying territory had been found and a number of wells put down in the vicinity of Cherry Tree. Trout fishing was excellent in those mountain streams then, oil not having yet been produced along them in sufficient quantities to mingle with the water and spoil it for fishing. I was an enthusiastic trout fisherman, and one day in June, early in the days of the rush to the Oil creek valley, a friend of mine and I went very near to the headwaters of one of the Bmall creeks that emptied into Cherry Tree run for a big day's fishing. It was getting along toward dark by the time we had fished to the mouth of the creek, and we were loaded down with trout, and about as near tired out 88 two vigorous young men could well be. In fact we were so near tuckered out that we concluded to camp at the mouth of the creek for the night, although

were within three

miles of the shanty where we were sinking a welL We ate a hearty supper of trout, built a big camp fire, and lay down on the ground by the side of it to Bleep.

The fire threw a glare clear

across Cherry Tree run, which was wide and deep there. "I wasn't long in falling asleep. I never knew what woke me up, but I awoke Bome time in the night, suddenly and wide. The camp fire was still burning brightly, and as I lay there looking at the broad pathway of light it oast across the run, I saw the water where the light rested upon suddenly become agitated, and I soon became aware that some big object was swimming the stream, and coming directly toward where we were lying. It was a spooky sort of a situation, and, to tell the truth, I was scared, so much so that I couldn't Btir. I lay there, scaroely daring to breathe, with my eyes fixed immovably on the approaching object. It pulled deliberately across the creek, and as it crawled out on the shore I discovered that it was an enormous bear. He didn't pause a Becond, but slouched right on toward the fire, evidently prompted by bear cariosity. The spot where we had camped wasn't more than twenty feet from either stream. The appearanoe of the big bear and his advance upon our camp broke the spell under which I had been lying, and I sprang to my feet, grabbed a blazing stick from the fire, and hurled it at the approaching animal, which waa then almost within an arm's length of me. rhe brand struck the bear. If I had been frightened at the first appearance of the animal in the ran, I was simply terrified when the burning stick hit him, for like a flash of gunpowder the poor bea*t buret into flame from anoat to taiV' "With a howl that filled th* woods with frightful echoes and binfaght my sleeping friend to his feet in terror, the

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blazing bear turned and fled to the creek and jumped into the water. If he had expected to find help there he was wofully mistaken, for in an inBtant the creek, froin bank to bank and far above and below us, became a line of leaping fire, lighting up the gloom of the forest for rods on either side, and forming one of the most awful spectacles I ever witnessed, and such a one as I never hope to witness again. There came from that roaring stream of flame one long, unearthly wail of agony. For a second we saw the blazing form of the wretched bear writhe in torture in the burning creek. Then we saw and heard him no more. The terrible beat from the fire drove us back into the woods, where we remained for an hour or more, two terror-stricken, trembling spectators of that sudden apparition of flame. Then it died gradually away and became extinct, leaving upon us such a sense of gloom and ghostlinsss that neither of us had the courage to remain longer on the spot, and we lost no time in making our way in the darkness to our shanty up the creek. "We learned, on reaching there, that an oil tank had spruag a leak that evening, and before it could be stopped a great quantity of oil had run into the stream and floated down on the surface. The unfortunate bear had struck this inflammable stuff when he swam the creek, and his fur had become saturated with it. My firebrand had ignited it instantly, and in jumping back into the creek, all ablaze, the bear had set the whole oily Burface on fire, and met his frightful fate."

They Would Create Quite a Sensation on Broadway,

What a curious crowd it iB and how queer are the people, writes a Bangkok correspondent. I feel myself blushing as I look at the women. Young and old, the most of them have nothing but a strip of cotton cloth a yard wide and perhaps three yards long wound around their hipe, and the end pulled through between the legs and tucked into the belt at the back.

The dressy people among them add to this another strip of equally thin cotton, which they pull tightly around the bare body under the armpits and fasten with a knot just over the bust. There is throe inches of bare skin between that and the waist cloth and the neck, and the Bhoulders are decidedly bare. The bust is always decollete, and this cotton hidss none of the outlinee of beauty. There is bsauty, too, in the outlines of those plump, straight, lithe-limbed Siamese maidens.

Apart of their education is the bending of the joints back and forth to make them suple, and they are as straight as so many pine treee, and they move with the grace of the india rubber man in the circua. Their step is a light one, for they walk without shoes, and all native Siam goes barefooted. They are all short-haired, and these Siamese girls have heads which seem to be afflicted with a perpetual cowlick, and their short, wiry hair, black and oiljr, stands up like a ahoebrosh all over their heads.

The LOHM of War.

^rom 1852 to 1877 war killsd 1,948,000 'people, and, what is still mere wonderful, the killing of each man cost more than £3^00- The total oost waa £2,413,000,000 so that peace baa its good points from an soonomical side.

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A DIET OF TACKS.^

It Doesn't Hurt the Stomach as Much as One Might Suppose.

Medical authorities assert that there is far less risk attendant upon swallowing a tack than is generally supposed, and that such a preformance is sometimee productive of beneficial results. The freak who swallowed a single tack or a handful of them is seized with an abnormal desire for food, and it is to this fact that the harmlessness of the Bwallowing of tacks is ascribed. Curiously, the tasks invariably pass through the stomach with their heads ''bowed down in reverence" and placed in the center of the food

that they do not touch

the walls of the intestines. Even when the points of the tacks penetrate the lining of the stomach the result is not

dangerous as would be supposed. The reason was explained in a very simple manner yesterdav, says the Philadelphia Record,by Dr. T. S. K.Morton, who said: "These tack-swallowere generally have very strong stomachs, and the amount of gastric juice in them dissolves the iron, and the result is a liquified mass similar id nature to the oxide of iron, which we prescribe to sick persons as a tonic. Really there is a certain amount of benefit attached to the swallowing of tacks, and yet there is always danger of a serious result in consequence of such an act. I have never known of any person who has been compelled to go to a hospital from

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causes, however. "But I remember the case of a horse that

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a large-sized tack. After

his death we cut open his stomach. We found there a solidified mass of a stony nature. When this hard substance was split open we found that the tack constituted its nucleus. A similar effect would take place in a person's stomach if the tack should happen to stick for any length of time in the walls of the intestines."

Married on the Train.

A novel wedding occurred on a Georgia train last night between Atlanta and Decatur. The couple was Mr. John Owens, who has been living in Atlanta about a year, and Miss Laura Pinson, of Greenville, S. C.

Miss Pinson was on a visit to Atlanta, and she and Mr. Owens decided to go to Decatur last night and get married. They left the city on the Georgia train at 10:15 o'clock. Among the passengers was. Dr. D. M. Breaker, a venerable minister, of Greenville, S. C., on his way to Augusta. Miss Pinson saw and knew him. Dr. Breaker was asked to perform the ceremony on the train, and he consented.

The couple stood up in the aisle, and the preacher joined their hands. Decatur is only six miles from Atlanta, and there was no time to be lost. Without superfluous words the ceremony was quickly performed. "I pronounce you husband and wife.

The train whistled for Decatur and Mr. and Mrs. Owens stepped off.—[Atlanta Journal.

Coat of ChlnMe Labor.

R. J. Franklin, the United States oonsul at Hankow, haa published an intereating description of rioe culture in central China. He states that the working clasass subsist almost wholly on rioe, and that the coat of living tor a family of aix persona is about twenty eeata a day. This account* for the cheapness of Chinsae labor. Field hands receive from

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seven and a half to ten and a half dollars per year, besides food and lodging.

Not Far Advanced.

Dinguss—Mr. Snip, have you finished that suit of clothes I ordered the other day?

Tailor (well acquainted with Dinguss) —Why, no, Dinguss. It—it isn't exactly finished yet. ...

Dinguss—I suppose, then, it is pretty. well advanced by this time? Tailor—Er—no. It's the advance I waiting for, Mr. Dinguss.—[Chicago Tribune. .p^

New Hampshire's Ague Belt.

A facetious exchange drops into poetry, and describes a certain boarding house in the mountain regions as follows: In a certain part of New.Hampshire ,, Where the true name should "lie ••Oanipsnlre.

Where the chills and fever reign the summer through A tavern unpretetenllous.

Has a host so conscientious

That he calls his boarding house the Montague.

Well Qualified.

"Have you a magnificent wardrobe?" asked the manager, addressing the actress who had just applied for an engagement. "Why, no," she replied "I have no wardrobe at all. I'm in the burlesque line, you know."

And she was engaged on the spot.— [Boston Courier.

After-Dinner Speeches.

Algernon—Say, grandpa, here's a picture of a Roman banquet, and they are all lying down to eat. They don't do that way now. do they?

Grandpa—Er—well,yes there is more or less lying done at public dinners still.. —[Toronto Grip.

A Trying Situation.

First Bohemian—I never knew what, fear was except once. Second B.—What was that?

First B.—I was seated penniless in a beer saloon, a friend entered, and I wasafraid he wouldn't treat.—[Epoch.

Boarding House Motto.

Mrs. Nuborder—That's a very pretty motto you are working, Mrs. BrownsHash! "Learn to say No." Is it for your son?

Mrs. Browns-Hash—No it's for the-dining-room.—[Puck.

In a Safe Place.

Mrs. A.—I found a 8100 bill to-day— Mrs. B.—Did you try to find the owner?

Mrs. A.—No I hid it in the family Bible.—[Epoch.

Explaining HU SmallneM.

"How is it your Tommy is so small of his age, Mrs. Briggs?" "Ob, the little dear alwaya waa a shrinking child," explained his mother. —[New York Sun.

The United Btatea' Extremities.

The most eastern point of the UnitedStates is Quoddy Head, Me. the moat northern point is Point Barrows, Alaska the most western ia Alton island, and the moat southern Key West.

The man who gueasea at probabilitiaa often overreachee the man who waita for the truth.