Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1889 — Page 11

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MAY,. 19, 1889 SIXTEEN PAGES

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Shirley Dare's Weekly Budget of Infor- , mation and Good Advice for Women. Comfortable and Dainty Things for Summer Wear Novelties in Fabrics Instruction as to Preserving Health and Beauty. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. New York, May 18. A centennial b amine r is predicted by uiso ones who remember the general broil at Philadelphia in lSitx it is warm enough now to taKe a saving interest in light underclothes. It depends on how peoplo dress and how they at whether they suffer from hot summers or not. A very luxury of comfort is shown in tho underwear of the season, beginning ri V. 1. I l : i. :i i t x -i i : shades of azure, cream, gobelin, lavender and Kile greens to suit the toilet, for the undervest shows through the delicate bengalines. laines and veilings of the dress. These pretty silk Tests, with deep-pointed fronts and squares of guipure crochet, are worn over the corset, which, to fiait the compact styles of corsage, is next the skin or over a gauze coat, to keep the corset steels from rusting by perspiration. The silk slip of a Jersey fits like a glove over the short lace stays, taking the place of the cambric chemise. Corsets are reduced to a minimum, and comfort dawns "for their wearers, who reduce their embonpoint by knitted webs and bands which stretch to support the bust and hips, with few or no bones. The Greek corset worn with the recamier dress is nothing more man a nroaa band of seamed knitting in lisle thread, -which holds the figure in shape like the classic ceinture. The nursing corset, -with knit front, prevents the ruin of stays and good dresses in the nursery. These knit corsets are exceedingly cool and easy fitting. Between you and Tne, I should not wish to inquire how longa fashionable girl will wear a five-dollar French corset without sending it to the cleaners, for washing, you know, spoils its perfect set, and French cleaning is expenaive. With the smooth, slim French polonaise, the slenderest amount of closely-fitting iindenvear is imperative, but with a directoire dress one slips on a long chemise of white India washing-silk, whose lower lace and nifties serve as the fir3t skirt. Fullness about the hips is forbidden, and the long opera stocking of silk or thread reaching nearly to the hip does awav with other than the short silk or cambric drawers, mostly laco frills aad insertion. Keadytnade silk underwear in white and tints is found in quantity in every shop of consejnence at prices from $3 for a ' chemise, and $7 for a night-gown. They are simply made in fine cluster tucks, with feather stitching between and on the collars and cutis. JLadies say they wear the eilk as an economy, for it can be washed in a hand-ba?in, with a teaspoonf ul of ammonia in the water, well rinsed, wrung in a towel, not to fray the silk, shaken to take the wrinkles out, and dried, to put on next morning. Half the women at hotels wash their own silk Jerseys and slips in this way, and any fine day you can see the lace kerchiefs drying against the glass in the windows of the Fif tn-avenue Hotel, after their owners have washed them in the toiletbasin, unwilling to trust them to laundresses. It is singular how often a laundress has a neighbor who keeps a calf or a puppy with an appetite for eating up fine lace handkerchiefs and underwear. And then the silk things are so much healthier if worn without ironing, women say. Clara Kellogg, Emma Thursby and Emma Abbott, it is said, never havo their linen, flannels or silks ironed, because it disturbs the electrical state of the fabric next the skin. Silk night-gowns are worn by rheumatic people, and some go so far as to sleep on feather beds in silkticking sheets and coverlet, to get the full lenefit of the electric action. ITT A A A v omen 01 moderate lasies, nowever, are content with the Jersey wear of balbriggan thread, in extra length, which does away with the chemise, except for occasions, to . the great relief of tho family laundry. Tho beauty of this Jersey wear is that it can be washed in live minutes at night, and one may have the luxury or absolutely fresh, clothes every morning, wnich reduces the discomforts of summer quite bearable. The secret of keeping cool is dressing light and keeping clean. Women as a rule do not emulate the rich bachelors at the Windsor who change their shirts three to five timea a day in summer, but no one is refined who can go without a change of clean clothes daily, with the mercury at 83. An improvement in corsets is the rubbercord lacing, an eighth of an inch thick, which renders the back more pliant and easy to the figure. The rubber lacing lasts well, unless one perspires very much, the acids of perspiration always attacking rubber. The little quilted shirts of eilk crape flounced with face, with a white moire bow on one knee are kept for the seaside, . where the fair wearers must gi.'nl against cramp and rheumatism, but for iown the light-striped silk and wool flannel skirt is worn with the long black surah petticoat, flonnced with bpanish lace or real guipure, which is not so extravagant as it seems, considering laundry bills for w hite skirts. Gray linen skirts, trimmed with torchon or gray hand-knit lace, are very serviceable ana there are new mohair flannels in gray stripes, from which -the dust can be beaten, which are desirable for traveling. Skirts of honeycomb linen crash are very cool, clean and durable, and niako , the dress set well without starch or springs. This material is destined to become very popular for skirts and traveling-dresses, as well as for portieres and lounge-covers for summer. When every breadth of woolen stutl or carpeting smells unutterably in warm weather, the cool linen, which resists dust and soil, is most grateful to the senses, and linen will soon become the only furnishing tolerable. Linen sheets are simply a necessity for sickness and summer, when they secure refreshing sleep by their coolness. Considering that they outlast four pairs at least cf cotton, one can hardly object to the cost of full width Union linen at 40 cents a yard, or the hemstitched sheets of pure linen at 4.50 and a tnir. Plain hemstitched pillowcahes, of full size, ready laundried and 1.50 a pair and upward, and this bed linen is of good standard qnalitv and verv well made. Embroidered sheets with . daisies worked in linen floss over the quarter yard of overlay are 3 pair upward. Toilet covers in cut-work and Irish point or embroidered in the charming clusters of clematis or hydrangeas, which are favorite designs, a little lino yellow floss introduced with the effect of gold thread are S13 to $18. These also come in old rose lilac and palo blue embroideries. ' NOVELTIES IX FABRICS. Fine French gingham robes are embroidered in guipure patterns or the French flower festoons, in white and shaded tints of the old pink, heliotrope, dark and light blues and maize color, which are tho choico in washing materials. They cost from 10 to SIS. French summer dimity is an old fabric like a corded lawn, with tiniest sprigs delicately flecking the white ground. Embroidered piques for children's frocks and ladies" morning dresses show the light French white-woven dots, are 23 cents. The white Brighton cutaway jacket worn at English seaside resorts last year is tho jauntiest new fashion, eagerly caught up by women of taste. The cut is the simplest, of hue twilled flannel or serge fastened by a single button at tho throat and over the black lace dress generally Voni for the promenade, is exceedingly chic White will be worn by women of all ages forinorntngand full-dress, and the creamwhite ca&hmere, forty inches wide at fortyfive cents a yard, is a favorite fabric. HOUSEKEEPING IN' TOWN Develops many improvements to lighten its burdens, tho latest of which is the housecleaning company. The company contracts for the cleaning of an entire house by the iob or day, as suits the owner, kalsoznining, cleaning paint, windows, chandeliers, and laying carpets in the very best manner with business promptness and celerity. The work is done by colored men, neat and clever, higblv recommended by tho best sort of people. II

yscn wiiicu uucauui, bjiiiuk, anu sott finish from 50 cents to $1 a yard. Fancy piques' with tiny dots and cluster dots, in mini-

is a great relief to hand the house over to these quiet, dexterous men, who proceed to put everything in perfect order, shutting up ono room at a time to work in. so that the whole house is cleaned, step by step, without the inmates knowing it. The company furnish the best implements and materials, tho men know how to handle valuable mirrors and bric-a-brac, and if they do ask $100 for doing a house, from attic to cellar, it is worth the money to be free of the care of looking after ordinary scrubwomen and carpet men. Nor does the housekeeper's relief end here, in city ways. The best families leave the care of their carpets and hangings for the summer with upholstery firms, who send a man to collect the costly rugs, curtains and wool tapestries in one large room given up to the purpose, where everything moths attack is treated with camphor and aromatic. The trusty man visits the house once a weefc all season to beat the enrtains and brush he chairs and sofas, to dislodge moths which do great mischief in corners just under the slip covers. Soothing less than such care will preserve houses from the ravages of insects, and tapestry panels costing not less than &00 each, and suites of furniture worth thousands, demand costly care to keep them from loss. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Unfortunate "Will you kindly say if there is anything a young man can do to improve his complexion, when he is so situated that he must eat whatever is placed before him, or in other words, a young man away from home, and subject to the tender mercies of a boarding house!" The query is not in the least one for smiling over, indeed 1 am very glad to have the pleasure of answering it. Too many bright, ambitious lads fail in health and die every year from want of good air and needed nutrition; too many mothers' hearts ache over the failing strength and worn looks of hopeful lads, and sisters see themselves worse than widowed in the wreck of brothers, tenderer, more devoted and truer than husbands are, for the question not to have a very serious Bide to it. If boarding-house keepers could be made to feel that their's is no mere money-making, business, but that they are responsible for the lives and vigor of those who find homes with them, they might take new interest in their work and find newsnccess in it. No hostess ought to grudge the trouble necessary to set healthy food before her people, to give them sound, homemade brown bread three times a day. and well-cooked wheaten grits at least twice a day, matters which would change the tempers of bilious, dissatisfied boarders by the magic of health. Let me advise the young man in this case to pay his board promptly, make as little trouble, in the house as he knows how, and tell his hostess he wants such and such food as a matter of health, and keep asking for it till he gets it. Neither vegetables, fruit nor meats can supply to clerks or businessmen the strength of wheat food, which contains phosphates for the nerves, substance for the muscles, and secures tho healthy scouring aud carrying oft' of waste, which is the secret of a fine complexion. Personally the youug man can keep his window open nightSj and toss back tho bedclothes when he rises to have his bed well aired, and never sleep in the same bodyclothing: he wears by day. lie should not sleep in a room with the soiled sweaty clothes worn all day, the soiled socks and strong smelling shoes which throw of their effluvia and poison in his sleeping hours. Hang the clothes next the chimney, or on nails in the sash of an ODen window. After a sound diet is secured, it is well to take moderate doses of alterative medicine of whole white mustard seed, swallowed each morning before breakfast, or as much clean bran taken before each meal is advisable. If right diet is to be had, one finds great benefit in chewing parched ' wheat or wheaten grits. This parched wheat is sostreugtheningand regulating that every mother ought to Keep her boy supplied with it, and it should be sold as commonly as crackers. With a little butter ana salt stirred in while browning, theso grits are very relishing, and aro the best food for sedentary people. The whole wheat should be picked clean, washed, dried in the wind and then in a moderate oven, finishing with heat enough to brown without scorching. The grain must be spread thinly in a baking-pan and stirred to prevent burning as coftee or corn is roasted. A coffee-roaster would parch wheat nicely, and some woman wanting to turn an honest penny could not do a better thing than to furnish this in pound and half-pound packages, -freshly parched daily or weekly to customers. 1. Is there any particular color or colors advisable for a young man to wear in ties or clothes who Has a sandy complexion! 2. Why is any one who has red hair, or hair tending to that color, looked down unon, or made light of! The only sensible reason for the disfavor shown sandy coloring is that it is highly sensitive to changes of temerature and health, and shows ill conditions by unpleasant changes of hue. Healthy sandy hair always tends to the ripe golden hue and clear complexion admired by all, and accompanying an acuteness of faculty found in no other organization. Sandy complexions must be careful about colors or dress. Pencil-gray, russet, snuff-brown or deep indigo suits should be chosen, with black ties dotted with white or minute color, felt or straw hats, with wide black ribbon, and brown gloves. The right shades of beige or light brownish gray, with hats a little darker, often look well with sandy skins, and give th hair a less obnoxious shade, but the right colors can only be found by trial. Never try a bright blue or lavender tie, or the mahogany-hued gloves which retain a singular hold on masculine fancy. Light people should dress very quietly and carefully, avoiding all plaids an- fancy fashions, though a dark check or hairline-gray is well worn by them. One last suggestion, if sandy-haired men wear the hair short and go bareheaded in the Run a good deal it is very apt to either darken the color or brighten it to a golden shade. They should avoid sunburn and use vaseline on the face at night as scrupulously as a woman. 3. A good 8arsaparilla is an excellent spring medicine, but people seldom take enough of it. Koot beer is as safe a form to take it in as any. Fidele and Others Use no salve for bunions, but wet them with refined kerosino night and morning, letting the oil evaporate, A doctor advises pouring over the joint after the shoe is on. Fidele's other queries next week. Inquiries for the toilet mask are answered personally. Direct Shirley Dare, Tribune Uuilding, New York. Nettie J. Freshen surah by sponging with a teaspoon of household ammonia to a quart of water, or with a dessertspoonful of vinegar to a pint of water, and press, while damp, with a moderately hot iron. The liquid must be weak, or it is worse than useless. . D. II. II. Buy a pint of taraxacum and mandrake, costing $1.23, which will answer for six months' use, omitting it every fourth week. Leda and Others What will keep the skiu from wrinkles when powder is daily used! Wash the powder carefully olf at night, then apply the whitest vaseline, any good cold cream or pure sweet cream, letting it lio on tho face and neck a fow minutes and wiping gently with a soft cloth. Next morning wash the face with very hot water, which contracts the skin and wards oil wrinkles. Carrie Fay To soften the complexion and prevent sunburn, use glycerine diluted in this way: Pour four spoonfuls of glycerine into a bottle, cut with one-fourth as much best cologne, and fill with soft water. Rub a spoonful of this over the face before going ' out. A cosmetic, excellent in elfect, but far from pleasant, is buttermilk and oatmeal flakes. Put a handful of the flakes, which are steam cooked and swell rapidly, into a quart jar filled with acid buttermilk, stirring well. In tenininutes the mixture will be a soft paste, which is spread on the face and hands and left to dry, when it is washed off with hot water. The virtures of this paste in whitening the skin, removing tan and freckles are, high ly praised by ladies who have tried it. The sonrer the buttermilk, tho better, as it is the acid which acts as a detergent for tho skin. Shirley Dare. Awful Thought for Tobacco Users Wires. W. C. T. U. Bulletin. Tobacco kills both wives and flies. The Albany Argus accredits a celebrated physician with the following: "At an establishment where they treat patients for the cure of the tobacco habit a man just brought in was washed as clean as soap and water could niako him, and then some flics were allowed to light on him. In rive minutes by the watch they were dead." There was poison enough in the presniration that came out of that man. washed as clean as possible, to kill them. You can imagine what it would be when he was tot washed, perhaps, to spend hours each night in a warm bed with him.

FASHION NOTES. There if no beauty in a small waist when everybody can see tight lacing makes it. Pale apple-green and softest primrose yellow is a favorite combination in charming dresses for the coming season. White satin for brides is goinjj out of fashion ever since somebody said it makes the youngest bride look like an old woman. Jet is by no means discarded. Indeed, it is still very much worn. Many ladies have an idea that its popularity is on the wane. This is undoubtedly a lace eeason-but jet has become a very strong ally in the makeup of lace wraps and gowns. In their first freshness, French sateens look equal to silk, but sateens, however superior in quality, do not endure wear like foulard silks. These latter are the coolest of materials, as they are also the lightest in weight, and stand a wonderful amount of wear. The fashionable tcilette is literally loaded with braid: stylish women prefer this garniture to all their trimmings. Some of the handsomest designs are created for especial custom and never find their way into the shop at all. A dress so trimmed has a distinctive style that lifts it at once above the commonplace. Old rose is a very risky color. It is a distant relation of the pinks and is shown in so many tints that great care is necessary if one would avoid mistakes. Fairhaired women will select only the daintiest and most delicate hue, but dark eyes and dark hair will find in theintensest shade of old rose a charming foundation for a becoming gown. Fancy vests and waistcoats aro in as high vogue as ever, and appear in every sort of uise on gowns of every sort. These aditions are useful as well as ornamental, and invariably add to the appearance of the toilet. An effective style is the double vest, in which the upper one simulates a low-cut waistcoat, and the under one of some lighter material, reaches to the throat. A pretty trimming'for tho house dress of challi is made by cutting the Roods upon the biasyind fringing it out. This, when pleated in single or double box plaits foms a soft, fluffy ruching that is extremely dressy and very becoming, especially if the material is of one of the tender, delicate greens. The niching uiay be of any width desired. This trimming gives a very pretty fullness to the bottom of the plain skirt. The graceful little Moorish jackets with Fedora fronts of China silk, aro once again popular, and are a marked feature ot many chic summer gowns. Tho simplest form of this kind has a square front, which fastens at the throat, falling open quite broadly to a littlo below the. waist line, where it terminates abruptly. The loose vest is finely pleated at the throat and over the chest portion, the pleats feather-stitched, and upon elegant costumes there is rich embroidery or beading. Tho back of the jacket is closely fitted. . , White and black are the only safeguards to which one may cling iu this sea of dazzling and alluring lights and shades. Several American beauties are noted for the persistency with which they adhere to these two reliable colorless colors. A harmonious combination will always produce the happiest results, but it takes tho hand of a clever artist to mix and mingle tho numberless and phosphorescent effects to be found upon every bide, so that a woman's costume may not only bring out all her best points but help to conceal her defects. THE LETTER THAT HE LONGED FOR.

How It Reached Captain Hodges Twentyfour Years After It Was Mailed. St. Loots Globe-Democrat. A Democratic postmaster is responsible for a most remarkable delav of mail matter that has just come to light, but it is not probablo that any complaint will be tiled. In fact. Capt. W. K. Hodges, tno party most interested; says of the man: "He was as brave a soldier as I ever saw, and I hopo the good Lord and Ben Harrison will let him bold his office, notwithstanding he is a Democrat." The gentleman referred to is assistant postmaster at Danville, 111., and was a lieutenant in Captain Hodges's company during tho war. The delayed letter was written to Captain Hodges by his wife in November, 1SC4, and reached him only a few days ago. "That is the letter I longed for." said Captain Hodges, in telling tho story, "and it has finally arrived." He continued: "My wife and I corresponded as regularly as possible during the war, and on comparing notes we found that one letter she wrote in November, 1804. failed to reach me. She addressed tho letter to me at headquarters. Third Brigade, Seventeenth Army Corps. Then she held it until by tho reports from the front she located my command at Savannah, Ga., nutting it in the mail the night before Christmas. That was where she made a mistake. Had 6he mailed it when she wrote it, and simply addressed it to my command, not designating anyplace, it would have been forwarded to me. We left Savannah, and were out one day's march when an array wagon, drawn by four mules, passed us. I hailed the driver and asked what he had and where he was roing. He replied that he had the mail for the Seventeenth Army Corps, and was taking it to Anderson's plantation. 'Here is the Seventeenth Army Corps,' said I, 'marching np this road. Turn your train around and drive back with us.' No I won't,' he replied. 'My orders are to take this mail to Anderson's plantation and he started up. Calling to a colonel of one of the regiments, 1 asked him to detail a squad of men and tako possession of the mail wagon. While this was being done I road ahead and ordered the bovs to clear the road, telling them that I had the mail. The last letter any of us had received was on Oct. 81, and my announcement was received with shouts of joy. The soldiers spread ranks, leaving the road clear, and the mail wagon was started back. As it passed between the double file of soldiers tho boys prodded the mules with their bayouets, and soon had them on a gallop toward the head of the column. That night when we went into camp the mail was distributed, and I believe every man in the corps except myself received a letter. Had my wife put her November letter in thopostoflico when she rote it, it would havo been in that mail, but she didn't, and I was disappointed. Since tho close of hostilities my wife and I have often wondered what became of that letter, and the mystery has just been solved. Capt. Bixby, now assistant postmaster at Danville, 111., was a lieutenant in my company, and remained in Savannah after I left. The letter, when it reached Savannah, was delivered to him, and he Exit it away, intending to forward it, but e forgot it, and it has remained in his possession ever since. A few days ago, while examining some of his military papers to make np a pension record for an old soldieTj he came across my letter, which he immediately mailed to me, with a letter of explanation, and it has just reached me. An interesting reminder of the flight of time is given by a note attached to the letter. On the cornerof oneof the sheets is a big ink blot. Across this my wife writes: The baby did this after I finished my letter.' That 'baby' is now grown, married and has a baby of his own." STORIES FROM MONTE CARLO. A Veteran Relates His Experiences In the Gamblers' Retreat. New Haven Letter in New York Herald. Every Yale man for the past quarter of a cf ntury has known Gus Thieger, who has vended thousands of kegs of lager to the thirsty Yalensians and has profited thereby. He amassed wealth and sold out to one Jules Prokasky, who, before he came here, was in the employ of Delmonico. This man has an entertaining history, and not long since, being in a reminiscent mood, he told something of what he had seen at Monte Carlo, the place where fortunes are won and lost every year. Jules Prokasky was born at Wiesbaden, Germany, forty-two years ago. He speaks several languages with great fluency, and claims an acquaintance with most of the noble families of Europe. When he was nineteen years old he was a soldier in the German army atSadowa. where he received 6ix wounds, one of which created a huge scar on his ri ght cheek that he will carry to his grave. A rifle bullet went through his cheek, knocking out several teeth. Four years afterward he came to the United States and went into the employ of Delmonico. Since that time he has seen enough of all shades and phases of life, and he has au entertaining way of tclliug it when he chooses. For several years Prokasky was manager of the Hotel de Faris, at Monte Carlo. He says Americans there are unfortunate when they are unable to speak French. The attendants at the table speak only in that language. Prokasky says that time and again ho has seen Americans robbed at the tables by unprincipled adventurers. .Prokasky says that once an English Lord wanted to borrow some money from him.

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Great Sale of Seasonable Fabrics OlsTE LOT Cream Canvas Cloth, strictly half wool, and just half-price, at 7c per yard 03STE LOT Half-wool Nun's Veiling, in Creams, Tans, Gobelins, Reseda, Copper, Rose, etc., at 17c. Many of these shades will last but a day. It is a fabric long sought for; low-priced and handsome. ONE LOT Cream all-wool Albatross, 40 in. wide, at 87c, and . we save the purchaser of this item one-third of the price paid. ONE LOT Striped Lusters, in new colorsdust proof, 25c. ONE LOT Double-fold Brilliantines, in mixtures, this week, at 25 c. ONE LOT Yard-wide Henriettas, alight, durable fabric, in all colors, at 2icNEW DESIGNS In English Beiges, for hot weather wear, 12Ac. Fresh invoice of the "Hard-to-get-shades," in Summer Fabrics Serges, Henriettas, etc.; newest things alwavs on hand, at the BOSTON STOKE. Just received, all the new shades in China Silks just the thing tor Sashes, S9c per yard; sold elsewhere at 50c. ONE LOT Black and White Lusters in neat Plaids and Stripes, 40 inches wide, at 4Sc. 40-inch all-wool Albatross, 33c. JACK

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see He declined to lend him any, hut tried to get the bank to assist him in getting enough to get home. The- bank's managers refused, and one afternoon tho luckless Lord walked into the saloon, and over the table where he had lost 5.000 he took out a pistol and blew out his brains, ills dead body was quickly carried out, but not quick enough to prevent many of the infatuated female gamblers present from dipping their handkerchiefs in the warm life blood, in the superstitious belief that the blood would bring them lack. Half an hour later the game was going on if there had never been a suicide within a hundred miles of the place. gyman remonstrated with Prokasky and told him it was very wrong. The next evening Prokasky found him gambling at oneof the tables trying to recover l,700f, which he had dropped inthegame. rsot long after he besought Prokasky to intercede with the hank to buy him a passage back to England. The parson visited Monte Carlo, he said, to look at the vice, hoping to tind in the circumstances a fruitful theme upon which to preach. But as he was human, be became bitten with the desire to get something for not Ling, and had to pay dearly for his experience. Jokes on Mrs. Uvennore. Boston Transcript. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, whoso oratorical triumph was so marked a feature of the historical pageant at the Holhs-street Theater tho other afternoon, has a sense of humor which is strong enough to make her relish a joke, even when it is at her own expense, and to relate it afterward with gusto. There is nothing that she enjoys better than to get a group of co-workers about her and amuse them with stones for a few moments, and then off to work again. Oneof these stories which Mrs. Liverrnoie tells about herself is this: She went to a town in Main to deliver a lecture. A young minister, who felt greatly his Importance in having to introduce so large a light, announced her in these words: "Ladies and gentlemen, you have all heard of the illustrious man across the water, so beloved by his people, and who is known by the sobriquet of the 'grand old man.' I havo now the pleasure of introducing to you a lady beloved in Boston, and known there as the 'grand old woman!'" At another time Mrs. Livermore was introduced by a young sprig as the eminent lady from Boston, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, but whom you have always known under her synonyme of Lucy Stone!7' Ha Knew Her Time. imo. Mra. Hendricks Bertie, your mother is calling yon. Bertie TeaserYes'm. I know it. But 1 guess she don't want me very bad. Mrs. Hendricks-She's called you 6evcn timea already. .... tJ. Bertie Teaser Yes, I know; but she hasn't yelled "Albert" yet Wanted Leisure to Wind It. The Epoch. Judge-Why did yoti kill the man! MurdererTo get his watch. J udge And why did you give yourself upT Murderer-It was a Waterbury.

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STONSTGRE ONE WEEK WASH GOODS We have given more space to our "Wash Goods Department, and, with an increased force, can assure the public of quicker service than we gave them last week. Our Wash Goods are town talk. We have what the people want, at the prices they want, consequently we are rushed. Be on hand this week for the bargains in this department ANOTHER LOT Seersucker Stripes at 6$c; worth .12ic. PRINTED BEIGES. 25 new designs; our price 4zfa as long as they last. CHALLIES in cotton, half-wool and all wool, in infinite variety, from 4c to 50c. SATINES. This is our position on Satines: We have at 1Q tho most fascinating styles to be found, and the quality is equal to the former 20c ones. New designs daily. Old Rose and Gobelin colors are on hand now. 2,000 YARDS FINE SATINES. For six days we will sell a Satine that is called French by many dealers, and 'sold under that name at 35a Our Price, 19c SPECIAL! SPECIAL! Towels! Towels! Towels! 50 dozens at 4c; all linen. 20 dozens at 5c; all linen. 25 dozens at 10c; all linen. These are Damask, Huck, Momie, Glass Plaids, etc., and go without reserve; size, 18x3G. 50 dozen Knotted Fringe bleached Damask Towels, at 12c each. 100 dozen extra large Momie and Damask Towels, strictly best linen, at 19c.

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ONE WEEK CORSETS. Ail Entire Factory's Stock of Corsets Closed Out. 4,788 Pairs Way Under Price. Regular ) Bono Corsets, side At 50c ( steels, double busk, 29o ) embroidered, Regular ) Summer Ventilating At 75c f Corsets, strong and 44.C ) durable, Regular ) French "Woven Cor- At 75c r sets, side steel, 50c ) smoothly ironed, Regular Celebrated Strip Cor- At Jffil.OO set, cut in CP. shape 75c ) best clock spring steels, Every lady who has any thought of buying a Corset now, or a year from now, should avail themselves of this chance and secure a Corset at a saving of fully 83 1-3 per cent. HAMBURGS N. P. U. Unmatched in Quantity, Quality and Price. 40c grades 60c grades 75c grades I 12 inches wide, good At close work, heavy 25c edge. 23 inches wide heavy At cloth, and tine work, 4Oc 23 inches wide, beauti- At ful designs, line and 50c heavy work. 85 Pieces 45-in. Swiss SIdr tings 5Qc quality S And worth 50 cts., but At we will let them go 38c &1.00 I Will bo sold as long as At qualities) they last, G9c -351.25 AU together, none At qualities withheld; as many 98c ) yards as wanted, Worth ) Special lot 45 in., hem- At $$1.50 stitched, beauti- 81.25 ) i'ul pattern, All-overs, Insertions, Edges, iu Swiss and Cambric, to match. In fact, tho most complete assortment ever shown. RIBBONS. 1.000 yards Fancy Block Kibbons at 5c. 50 ct. quality 75 ct. quality $1.00 quality No. 16 Fancy Hat Rib- At bons, all the now 25c colore, Persian effects, 8-inch Stripe Sash Rib- At bons, all colors, 48c 8-inch all-ailk Moiro At Sash Eibbons, rJl 75c colors,

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BUST AT NIOOLL'S. Some of the genus are croaking dull times. It is not dull at Nicoli's. His thirteen hundred styles enable him to suit all tastes, and his moderate prices bring the masses. It is a study to watch the variety of his trade. It bespeaks Nicoli's immense popularity. He makes clothes for the Christian and infidel, the brainy man and the dude, the fat man and the skeleton, the economical German and the intelligent colored man all know they can do better at Nicoli's in fine merchant tailoring than any other house in the city.

Pants to Order,

5 to $10. YM Llm 20 to $40.

Nos. 33 and 35 S. Illinois St., Indianapolis, Samples and rules for self-measure by maiL

NATURAL G-AS STIPrLIES Tablnr.Caslnf.!pOorlAfe,KlIoaDillnc Tool. BrsM Goods. Mailable GllntnU6d iai CuV Iron munfs. Complete lln of House-FUtlojra (or Natural

GEORGE A.. TELEPHONE 3U. Persons desiring to purchase a Kef hould examine THE BALDWIN DRY made both In hard and dry wood.

BOSTON STORE

one week: hosierTsile Trices That Co to the Boot of Iconcny .A.T IO CTS. 1,200 pairs Ladies' Fast Black Hose, guaranteed by us not to stain. .A.T 19 CTS. CS9 pairs Ladies' Foreign Seamless Hosiery, comprising Modes, Tans, Fast Blacks, also Fancies in aU the new ehades. Old Eose, Gobelins, Electric and Tans. THE ACTUAL VALUE OF THIS LOT IS 35 CTS. A.T 25 CTS. Special largo lot of Ladies' Seamless Hosiery, Including Fast Blacks that wo wiU refund money on if stain. t Lislo Threads and elegant styles of Fino Gauze, Fancy Stripes, Boot Patterns, etc., etc., every pair sold elsewhere for S3 cts. Our Price, only 25 cts. .A.T 12 J CTS. Misses' Seamless Black Hose, sizes 7, 7 1-2, 8, 8 1-3. The only Seamless . Hoso sold in America at this low price. A.T 25 CTS. Ono lot Misses' Fast Black , Ribbed Hose, size 6 to 8. Money refunded ii stain. my special 75 ct. ) Ladies' extra, extra fine Jcrquality. sey Cut Vests, low necks, ) very thin, at 25c; cost tho manufacturer 50 cts. to make. SILK MITTS Immense lots to bo sold cheap. Fino Silk Jersey Mitts with points, at 19c Extra long Silk Jersey Mitts, at 50c. Children's Silk Mitts, Tans and Operas, Trorth 25c, at 15c Suits to Order, HIOHJRIDS. 77 South Illinois St.. Indianapolis. Ind rigcrator f UUjY & STAXNiKEB AIR, (A East WwHnrtca Ct,

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