Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1889 — Page 9

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PASHMS IN FURNISHINGS

Evolution ofTasic in Wiailow Shades Furnishes a Study for 'the Critics. Tapestry and Other Heavy Wall-Han in?s Pronounced Unsanitary a.n J Unsatisfactory Snzsestions and Facts for Ladies. Bjlil to ths Indianapolis JonrnaL Nkw York, Aug. 2. The evolntion of aate in window sbrvdes affords tho critic ltudy. From tho green paper, still seen well preserved in old farra-honses, the next step was the buff Holland, now sacred to kitchen premises; the gray linen, and tho dazring white roller blind, which still puts the eyes out with its high light iu a glaring room. Next fashion in the metropolis took a daring flight, and red parlor h-linds shone down Fifth avenue for a seaAwn, and vanished to quarters impossible to polite acquaintance. They suited too well ! the tastes of gambling dens and fortunetellers. The sober elegance of the soft natural Holland, embroidered in Byzantine colors on the lower border, was the best j tyle and always will be good. This year ' the striped linen blinds reflect foreign ; taste, and are very pretty for country .Jiojusesin the leaf-green and flax stripe, ' the cool,, bright bine and white or rrimson and mixed white, besido tho x 'twilled tape stripes in unbleached t gray and white. The color stripes give a j subdued liveliness to a long, dim summer j itting-roora, or, as housekeepers say. they : furnish a room well. Instead of hemming the sides, a narrow silk binding is stitched on and pressed very flat, which adds a finish and runs better on the roller. Plain hems for the lower edgo are preferred to fringe, which curls and looks shabby. These heavy linen blind are not supposed to need washing or renewal under eight or ten years. A pair of unbleached linen which had been hanging in windows for five years, showed, no need of refreshing. Practically, with the attentive care duo good furnishings, thoy never call for renovating. A soiled curtain or chair, or jlnoken furniture is a witness' against tho "breeding of a family. In English country louses, suits of furniture three hundred years old are shown in good keeping, and pieces exhibited at the Centennial festival, iuite as old. were in better case than modern sets after six years' use. Perhaps. rwhen we can afford things in re'ally good riinish and design, we will perforce learn to -preserve them. The taste for tapestry and lnxurions wall hangings is upon this country, extravagant and unsanitary and unsatisfactory as such things are. In one of those artist dens of the bric-a-brac shops which educate people into this sort of bastard luxury, I heard an ambitious lad. looking at the velvet-lined walls, say to his mother: 'Why can't we have our house like this!'' Why, iudeed, can't people on $2,500 to $0,000 a year cover their walls with green or purple velvet at $13 a yard! What should they want it for if they could afford itf House decorators do not recommend fabrics of any kind for walls on any ground except that of expenso and show. Velvet and tapestry harbor no end of dust, and dust iuvite insects. t Heavy fabric deadens sound so that it is next to impossible to have good music in these padded rooms, and it makes the air stuffy, dead and depressing. Common houses are well nigh intolerable with their turcoman curtains and portieres, which hold stale air of yesterday in their folds, and forbid the free passage of fresh "breath. Fashion, by way of compromise, hangs its walls with panels of Bohemian tapestry, woven of dyed cotton in the panels of old designs, hawking parties, battles or court scenes, very well represented in Tich. dark coloring, which would drive a sensitive person to suicide with its sombre effect, however, after our cheerful home surroundings. The cotton tapestr3 is not prey to moths, does not cost over a panel, or require a man to watch it all summer for fear of injury by damp, mold or buffalo bug, as wool " or velvet does. In the large houses of New York trusty men, employed by upholsterers, go the rounds every week, open tho rugs, curtains and tapestry, and lift the chair covers to brush and beat for moth. Your butler at $40 a week, and housekeeper at $C0, can't be expected to look after such matters or see that any of the twenty house servants do it, , The new artistic sense rejects these cumbrous follies for simple homes. Tapestry would do for facing coarse brick and mortar walls, in times when people of degree did not mind being overrun with vermin under their magnificence. Modern taste tills its panels with painted tapestrj', which closely resembles the woven, and is free from its disabilities. The demand is for washable surfaces, on walls; if not lincrustawith its sprawly decorations, then the tile finished paper, which washes with a sponge, or painted plaster in delicate, cheerful Japanesque designs of fruit, blossoms, reeds and Hyins birds or at least wall-paper of quality which will bear a coat of white shellac varnish, like eggshell finish. Tho finest finish to any wall, and most lasting is given by -white of egg, in which the Italian masters painted their great frescoes, and found their own eggs when popes andpriuces were too stingy to pay for them. The summer cottages aro tailing out with the .tesselated hard-wood carpets, as they are called. In our dry, hot air tho blocks shrink, warp, and in dog days swell again till they are out of place. Then 15 ridget's treatment does not agree with wood, and the general antique eflect of grimy oak and butternut is depressing, and it is not always easy to get a man from town to do the floors every week. So mod-, erate, sagacious folk fall back ou well-laid, painted iJoors. in oak-brown, chestnut, Vandyke brown or terra cott.i, done in oil. with a coating of thin shellac after the last of paint, for giow. 1 his gives a floor which will wear and look as well as a waxed floor, unless special pains are taken with tho latter. The check matting in tea colors and terra cotta or olive check, are favored rather than the largo figured mattings, and bamboo, rattan and splint or rush furniture supersedes all other for summer, though people acquiro a liking for these springy, clean, light chairs and lounges through the 3'ear. The gay jennese tables and cabinets, in light color, painted with bouquets and varnished like facqner. go well with rattan, forof all inconvenient, "wobbly" things, the rattan and other woven tables are the worst. Hright blue and red linen, twilled or plain tiuinh. is the material for cushions, enriched with floss embroideries and short tassel fringes of colors of the work. Portieres are of linen, crash, gay with man- colored cross stitches as a' Uagdad hangiug. and tasseled in Spanish taste. But the bamboo fringe hangings are preferred for warm weather, as they let the air through and make picturesque variety. Then, everywhere you turn in tho new cottages, the new pierced woodwork confronts you. much to the benefit of free ventilation. Transoms over doors and windows, wrought screens in hallways and pierced doors into tho passages or open panels rilled with twisted woodwork let the draught betweeu rooms in unexpected ways. Uy next vear the houses will be pretty much wood filigree, to the relief of stained glass, which reallv tinges one's views of life, there is so much of it. and that is so dreadful. The portable Jserlm iron fire-places which are almost as easy to move as the old hheet-iron air-tight stoves, are beautiful in their artistic modeling, in contrast to the glitter and nickelplate of "parlor stoves," and an open stove is part of every cottage equipment For a week ana more tires have been needed here, near the coast, niirht and morning, and have been cheerful all day sometimes. AXSWKRS TO COI.'llF.srONDKN'TS. "Four hundred and thirteen' writes of a broken nose, caused by a fall in fainting from over-study, some years since. As she is only fifteen now, what sort of routine is it which taxes children not in their teens to the point of fainting;? What would be said ox a convent, a workshop, a relig

ious order which brought young brains to such exhaustion as our schools do, without criticism! Two weeks after the accident it was found tho nose had been broken, but it was thought too late to set it, because the bone had begun to knit, antl a cruel deformity results which only a surgeon can rrmuly. "Four hundred and thirteen7' hIhhjM go to one of tho good hospitals in Philadelphia, near which she Jives, ask for the house physician or superintendent, and ask advice. A hospital is almost the only place where one can expect the atteutiou due any such disfigurement. The best doctors understand the valne of unblemished features, and do not consider the removal of deformities beneath their skill. 'Toots." aged seventeen, having auburn curly hair, coming just to her waist, desires to know how she should wear it. She spells "ware it." and two or three other such slips in her short letter decide it best to tell her at once how to dress her hair that she may have her mind free for needed attention to spelling. Wear a thick curled bang iu front of short hair done upon curlers over night and combed out in the morning. Crimp and wave the hair all over the head in crisp thick waves, to raise its length, as long curl down tho back ore old-fashioned. Tie the back hair with a ribbon, and let it hang down in three or live large love locks, very wavy and closely curled for three inches at the ends. If well done the hair bhonld not fall much below the shoulders. A comb often confine the hair instead of a ribbon, which should be an inch and a half wide, tied in a wido bow with abort ends. "Kate D." goes to college in September and is anxious to take the freckles off her hands before that time. She says she is seventeen and "has spent most of her time trying to make her hands look better." That is because she is only seventeen. She may spend more of her invaluable time washing her hands in cider vinegar, or she may take one-half pound washing soda and the same of chloride of lime, dissolved in three quarts of boiling water, and when cool enough bathe the backs of her hamda with the water, not forgetting to rinse them with water with half a cup of Vinepar to tho quart.. This will remove freckles if anything will, and is sovereign for taking out mildew from fabric. Also try common salt moistened with lemon 'juice to a paste, allowed to dry on the freckles in the sun when dry five minutes, -wash off and apply cold cream, and I hope Kate's studies will do her credit. "Spoilad beauty." Another wise, pretty neck haw a number of little brown moles. "A friend advised the use of nitric acid, but the moles como back, and when I tried it on my face it left a scar, an ugly pinkMh raised place, which I tried to heal with sialt and failed." The acids are unsafe app licationa on ordinary hands. The best Wiiy to remove moles, if loose, is to draw t.jjeni out between thumb and finger, and tie a silk thread around the neck of the moJie, Cut the ends of silk close and leave it on for three days or more, then tie again till tho mole wears off. A small blister will remove the mole sometimes when other means fail. A touch of iodine or lunar causti.s often cures, but care must be taken not to mistake a 'mother's mark" or nature Vs for a mole. Let the scar alone for a few months, only coating it with vaseline or c;trbolio ointment if sore. When the skin heals, try lunar caustic. Five cents' worth from tho druggist's will remove a score of warts and moles. Wet the end of the pencil, in which shape it comes, and rub once on the mole, which will turn black and lessen in size. When the color wears oil apply the caustic again and again till the snot disappear. "Lydia.Ontario County' Your whole trouble, veins showing on the nose, pitted ptres of the face and inflammation ot the intestines, is the result of errors in diet. ITso coarse food, much new cider and apples, take sixty baths of tepid water, enemas of cool water with, one-half teaspoonful carbolic acid to the quart, and vaseline ointment for the relief of hemorrhoids, and bathe daily. I should decline at once and peremptorily to act as consulting physician for the country at large, if it were not for the carelessness and criminal ignorance of too many doctors a state of things deplored by no one more than intelligent members of the faculty, I must repeat, these letters are for cosmetic subjects and matters of dress and furnishing solely. When-people are aware that-the red, pitted base of the nose and cheeks betrays intestinal inflammation they will take to improvement in diet without delay. Questions still come about the toilet musk, which women seem persuaded will at once transform ugliness to beauty. It is a mask of thin, soft rubber, very finely finished and velvety, which ties closely to the face by tapes passing around the head. It undoubtedly is useful in certain cases, but not when thero is a tendency of blood to tho face, and is oppressive for sleeping in hot weather. "Mrs. J. F. J.:" Liver spots arise from derangement of the liver, maladies of women or internal piles, and tho health must be et right before the disfigurement can be cured. People would never know what a repulsive, half-dead condition they exist in if nature did not boldly announce it by unsightly "afliches," of moth, pimples and spots. A course of fruit juice, the fresh pressed juice from berries, peaches or grapes, taken in quantity, at least four large glasses daily at meals and at night, will relieve the system remarkably, no matter what the internal disorders; and liver spots will' disappear in time iu many cases without other special treatmeut. Now is the timo to begin tho fruit-juice cure, which is strengthening and purifying beyond medicine. The juice is more easily absorbed than when whole fruit is eaten. It supplies the increased nutrition which the great doctors are just finding out is demanded for tho enre of debilities and consumption. The American Medical Association, "at its late meeting, spoke very strongly on this point. l)ebouve, tho great French physician, has shown that consumptives and persons in wasting diseases, amentia and spinal ailments can digest quantities of food far in excess of tho needs of a healthy orgauism, and. what is more, they must have it', even in advanced cases, if it must be given by a stomach tube. No such nutrition can bo found for many diseases as the juice of fresh fruits, which is charged with the acids used in medicine, together with gelatine and .blood-producing agents which nejgd the slightest effort of the system to turn directly into the purest blood. Cherries and peaches act most beneficially on the digestion by the small amount of prussic acid and other acid they contain, and the juice furnishes medicinal properties of the fruit without the fibre which may distress weak organs. If women will learn to resort to the fruit enre. season by season, they will not need to write for directions to remove liver spots. The fruit press ought to stand in every orchard town, and owners would no longer be distressed how to dispose of ferishable fruits, plums, nectarines, rasperries and the delicious early pears. Where a press is not available the fruit may be stewed in close stone jars and the juice strained from it through cheese cloth for keening. It should be taken cold, with sugar if liked, and sipped deliberately at meals and whenever desired. Keep it in full bottles, tightly corked, on ice or in a very cold place. Where ice is not attainable wrap the bottle in a wet towel and sot in a pan of water iu a shaded window where, the wind blows. Siiir.LEY Daub.

Only a Partial Indorsement. Jackson Mlsslsslpplaa. Colonel Stone got off a pretty good tJiing on a delegate from one of the rural cotu.ities to the State convention, whom he mit'there for the first time. The Colonel 8 Aid: "I am glad to meet you. I have knoxrri vour father for many years, but never .uad the pleasure of your acquaintance; I see that the son. however is better lookin r than the father." "Look here. Colonel.' said the delegate, "you need not be flattr jringineup, for I am out aud out for Uarksd aJe for Governor, although the old man is for you." "Why. I simply find your better looking than your father, but I did no c say 3on had hnlf as much sense as he has,'1 returned the Colonel. Those standing ATound roared with laughter, in which the -delegate goodhumoredly joined. An Actrets's Auti-I'at. 'Treatment. New Yorlc World. Lillian Russell is the vVjtim of her own beauty, aud the dread o f getting fat keeps her as miserable as th a humblest chorus girl in the Casino coiu.y auy. she can't eat any sort of sweetmer.ts. cake or pastry. Every vegetable is forbidden that grows under ground; no wi tj is allowed to pass her lips, meat is lin jtcd to one meal a da v. and between the fotiH that ! t'iio not eat and does not c w . t0 vuU .(., i,;;- asr is confined to btcd ami butter, lemon aud lettuce. Every thr.y u u compelled to

wnlk ten miles, and. in this hot weather.

the exercise is far from agreeable. She m I.- ..1 1. 1 . .1 uresses in nine iiumiei. wears coih-suiu shoes, a straw hat, witn a moist sponge basted in tho crown, and carries a double-lined sun umbrella. As the object of this exercise is to keep her llesh down she never fails to weigh herself before starting out. so that she knows exactly what reduction is necessary. A part of her outiit consists of long strips of white llauuel, and laid double where tho flesh is too abundant In this snug woolen suit the only Lillian walks until she is a rich rose color and dripping with perspiration, when she is rubbed down with alcohol, refreshed with cold bouillon and put to bed. On her toilet as much care and money aro spent as if she were a princess. Every 'day she receives the visits of a hair-dresser, manicure and pedicure, and a bathing mistress prepares her vapor baths. LOST IN THE MAlllSLK CANYON. Detail of the Drowning of Frank Brown Ills lloat Capsized In a Whirlpool. Colorado Springs Letter la New York Sun. The storv of how three men lost their lives in the perilous rapids of the Marble . canyon of Colorado is recounted by Kooen P. Stanton. Mr. Stanton was chief of the party that proposed an actual survey of the canvon, under the direction of the Denver, Colorado Canyon fc Pacific Kailroad Company. Frank M: Urown, who lost his lifo in the waters of the river, was president of this road, and one of Mr. Stanton's party. The trip was a hazardous one. Last spring a company of sixteen men, whose leaders were Urown and Stanton, left Denver to undertake the perilous work of traveling on the river. About 180 miles had been covered safely when engineer Stanton concluded that a preliminary survey should be made previous to the detailed one, and, according to his ideas, the company of adventurers were divided into two divisions. One remained behind to work along under the forcniauship of W. H. Hush, but Mr. Brown and Mr. Stanton, aud six others started out first to dare the dangers of the tempestuous waters. Lee's Ferry, in Arizona, was tho startingiointof this daring baud of eight. Mr. irown, whose oarsman was Harry McDonald, insisted that betake the lead, liothho and McDonald were powerful men physically, and both fine swimmers. Mr. Stanton and his boat followed as No. 2. The first gorge that spread its grandeur on either side of the pilgrims was the Marble cauvou. Down these waters they glided swiftly. Tho rapids were encountered, but no accident or trouble was experienced on account of them, as they were both passed by portages. Such was the journey of July 9. The next morning Frank Urown. as usual, was the first man in his boat, and it glided into the stream less than half a minute ahead of the boat that carried engineer Stanton. McDonald bent to the oars, and it was plainly seen that ho was dashing down the stream at a more rapid rate than that of his companions behind him. It was known that a short distance ahead were two rapids, but they had been sighted and were pronounced easy, and for that reason it was concluded that portages would be unnecessary. Mr. Urown's b.at was tho first to touch tho head of the first rapids. They had launched at fi:lS3 in the morning. These rapids were just a half milo below the starting point. As his boat touched the head of the lirst rapid, according to his custom, Urown looked at his watch. The time was (1:25. They had traveled a half mile in two minutes. As Mr. Stanton's boat plunged into tho rapids he looked ahead of him. and the first tiling he saw was oarsman McDonald running toward them on the shore. He was waving his hands frantically and crying out some words that were not then intelligible. McDonald was about b()0 feet away when iirst seen, and before Mr. Stanton's boat came within hearing distance it was 150 feet within tho rapids. Then these words wero audible: "Mr. Urown is iu there." The frightened mau pointed to the whirlpool where the body of Frank Urowu had disappeared. Engineer Stanton looked quickly to the right, but nothing was seen. Then ho said to his men: "Tuin into the eddy." --The comunnd was obeyed, and" when the smooth vater was reached he looked to his left, and the note-book of Mr. Urown floated up from the waters and floated oft' ou tho surfaco of the whirlpool. They then pulled back, and, having lauded, two strong men were stationed in a boat awaiting theappearanceof the unfortunate man. hoping for an opportunitv to save him from a terrible fate, but no chance occurred. Two hour9 later Mr. Stanton's steersman picked up the note-book us it was floating down the stream. Oarsman McDonald says they entered tho rapids all right. Mr. Krown saw the rapids ahead, and said: "Now out into the eddy, McDonald. Ahead aro the rapids, which Stanton said should be looked at before entering." McDonald planted his oars firmly to obey the request, when a heavy wave struck the top of the boat with great force. McDonald was hurled out of the boat on to one side, and Mr. Urown on to the other, unfortunately into the whirlpool. McDonald floated down tho stream about 600 feet and landed. Standing on the shore, ho looked back and saw Urown staudingup. Come on, Urown," cried the oarsman. "All right," was the reply, and before tho mind could realize it, the speaker was thrown into the whirlpool and was seeu swimming round and round, bravelj' striving to stem the current. This occurred within 175 feet of the boat of Mr. Stanton, but neither he nor his attendants saw any of it. "It is probable the body ot Urown will mever bo found," said Mr. Stanton. "The iepntation of the river is that it never gives up its de:ul." A similar fato awaited two more members of tho party. It was on July 15 that a perilous rapid was encountered, and it was deemed advisable to swing the boats around by lines. One boat had safely arrived over tii?; dangerous waves. The 6econd boat then prepared for the adventure. This was Mr. Stanton's. "I will walk over the cliff and meet you, boys," said Mr. Stanton. "You'll row better without me, and I'll have plenty of time." A surface of about l.JXK) feet of rough water lay before them as the two men hewn bo guide the skill' over tho rapids. One ialf the way was made in safety, when tho boat was dashed against the side of the cliit. Mr. , Stanton observed the mishap and starttxl forward, when he saw the oarsman placo his hands against the side of the cliff and push out. Tho boat was forced half wav out. "lbere safo now," remarked Stanton to his frjend. The words were scarcely spoken when an undercurrent struck tho bottom of the boat and capsized it. Peter M. ilansbrough, one of the occupants, sank, never to reappear again. II. C. Richards swam for his life. Ho had gone a distance vf 500 feet, when his strength failed him, and he sank. Methods of the Doff-Thlef. P-hnsdelphia Record. Summer is the harvest time of tho dogthief, because everybody in fashionable quarters, where the most valuable dogs are to be found, is away, and many of them leave their dogs at home. There are many ways of stealing dogs, among which the handkerchief trick is regarded as the best. Vouknowhow asafcetida will attract a pigeon. There isachemical that has the same effect on dogs. The thief saturates a banderchief with the drug, and with a companion goes into a fashionable neighborhood, and watches for pugs and other valuable pets. Tho dogs will follow tho handkerchief at one. That's easv enough. "The handkerchief man walks on while his companion follows, and looks after the dogs. When the pair of thieves arrive at their headquarters the dogs are gathered iu. They are then sold to that class of dealers who ask no questions as to where they came irom, or how they were obtained. When tho owner of a valuable dog misses his pet the first thing done is to complain at police headquarters. They expect us to find the dogs at once. If the dogs are not sold the thieves wait to see an advertisement in the papers. If the owner don't advertise within a reasonable time the thief sells. There are plenty of men in this city who make a good living stealing dogs. They work in pairs, aud have regular headQuarters. m Adepts in the Ssme Line, Perhaps. ETnTille Journal. The scbool-book ring is routed, horse, foot and dragoons. Van Antwerp, Uragg JL Co. know how to play it fine, and have "lots of money, hut they cannot buy everybody. They nave met their match. The Iudiaua School-hook Company are no f loaches.

KYFS GOOD TIME IN PARIS

False Modesty and Foolish Fear Are to a Great Extent Done Away With. How Noble Foreigners Obtain Free Board in Our Hotels-In All Probability William Will Return Home Chevalier De Nje. CopjrisM. 1SS9, lay Edir V. Nje, Pakis, July 25. France is getting pretty dry and dusty outside the city, there having been no rain for some time, and so the grass is gettiug brown!, and people who are doing Europe on foot need grooming pretty often. Still farmers are hopeful, and the small French peas you get here with a dash of onion in them are as tender as they were in June. The greeu peas of Paris, as cooked here, would arouse and revive Methuselah if he could get a whiff of them. The fried j potatoes aro also justly celebrated. . I happened to be up late oue evening, on my way home from a visit to a friend who is ill, and I saw an odd sight; coiniug iu from tho country on sq certain road, and passing down by the ArcdeTriompbo, there was an almost endless procession of large, two-wheeled covered carts, drawn by Norman stallions and driven by the bluefrocked farmers of France. These carts contained the vegetables for the Parisian market, and were driven in at midnight because it was cool, and they would thus be. on hand fresh at daylight. The Norman stallion occurs frequently here, patiently drawing huge loads or plodding along bis weary way to or from his toil, with feet that jar the principalities of Europe. They are generally attached to the omnibuses, and tram cars also, and threo big white horses of this variety abreast, going like Ueu-Hur's beautiful steeds in tue chariot race, are worth seeing. It is not an odd sight here to see a peasant's wife, or widow, or daughter driving in from ths country with oue of these enormous dappled, neighing horses, and not the slightest particle worried or nervous about it. I saw a pretty French girl of twenty on a load of ha)' yesterday, driving two horses tandem, either of which would have weighed a ton. She spoke to them as you would to a canary, and whistled at them in the most light-hearted way. although their strength was like that of a locomotive and their heavy baritone voices shook the earth. I am on the track of a title which I can get hold of, if I wait a week or two, at a red-figure sale, I am quite sure. It is owned by a chevalier who is stopping baggagelcss near me in Paris, aud who has intimated to me that it is only a matter of a few days before it will be the Seine or tho sale of his nobility. I havo been dickering with him a little already, and suggesting that, to avoid publicity, he might make a trade with me and no one would know anything about it. 1 could put the title in my inside pocket-he could take my vulgar American money, and all would be well. I could go home as Chevalier De Nye, and he could havo three meals a day, which ho does not have now. Xye Bargaining for a Title. Not long ago I met a "younger son" who was on his way to America to get free board at a seasido hotel. Fossibly the reader has already heard of such a scheme, but this was the first I had known of it. The idea, he said, was to take over to the American seaside resorts a hundred or more hungry sons of the nobility, pay their passage and board them at the hotels for the benefit of the American girl, who swarms at the seaside and yearns for a blue-blooded escort. In fact, she pines for most an y kind of escort, for the pmall number of full-grown men who dawdle away their summers at the seashore makes it mighty disagreeable for the girls who do not like pretty little puttyheads very well. So, to give zest to seasido life, and to fill the hotels with good clothes aud the office wealth, also to make life miserable for the small imitation Englishmen of our own country, who violate the statutes every time they get np in the morning aud put on men men's clothes, these poor younger sous are to be, or have been already, shipped to certain hotels, where they will only havo to eat their meals, dance a little, bathe still less and drawl tho days away. How does that strike you. gentle reader? How does that impress you, sensible, levelheaded American girls? Are you pround of it? Certainly not. You do not care, I am sure, to buy this sort of glory with the money of your father if you are the style I take you to be. If your ancestors shed their good blood for freedom, and later on your lathers and brothers fought to save the KeEublic. you are not going now to make their eroism a laughing stock to all nations, are you? I do not think it of you. As American institutions are all on a big scale, so the American snob is the biggest snob in the - world, and I appeal to the American girl to scorn righteously at an times anything of the kind. Our independence cost too much to swap it for the empty scalp of an old llea-bitten tile with a mortgage on it. I would rather bo the fearless and free Amer1 ican girl, holding my head up all my life. man an ni-ireaieu. cringing ana scanaaiizea duchess; and it is better to be a concierge in the house of the American than to occupy the bridal chamber in a malarial castle where the plumbing is poor. Our American Girl and the Xoble Foreigner. I went to a well-known and very celebrated place of amusement the other evening, feeling sure that all would be proper and nice. There was a good deal which was pleasing and entertaining, even though I did not know what was being said or sung. The acting was excellent and the costumes and stage settings beautiful. About the fourth number on the programme, however, I saw that I had been deceived by somebody. Two young ladles and two young entlian of Pari, came

out and proceeded to dance a new style of dance. At least I never danced that way. It was not like the dance at the Patriarchs' balls nor the war dance of the gory Sioux, but I will never go there anymore to see it. The dance began ver3 qnietly. The men were in evening dress, with crush hats, and looked as if thev might pass tho plate ou Sundavs. The girls looked pious, also, and their clothes were reaily a great deal more quiet and home-like than some I saw at tho American minister's tho other evening. Unt after a while the music seemed to make the dancers more frisky, and they began to improvise and to introduce novelties. Novelties in dress, for instance. Also novelties in calisthenics. A clergyman near me, who is here on a vacation, stood up. I told him to sit down, or I would injure him with my umbrella. He reluctantly sat down. I watched the dance with great interest, because I am going to introduce it to tho attention of the four hundred when I return to America. The gentlemen chassed up aud back, and then crossed over. The ladies did so too. Then the gentlemen threw their feet at the center of the sky. The ladies did the same. It was so odd and so shocking, that I could not. at once, summon the courage to go away. I wondered what my family would say if they knew about it WTe are a verv I roper family. We come from the old 'uritanical stock, whose only relaxation was prayer. And I could not help thinking that if mv ancestors conld have been there, they would havo shuddered two or three times in rapid succession. Then thoy would have, no doubt, remained.

The Can-Can Somewhat Shocks Sim. Every little while new figures, in lace, and new designs, on the beholder, were introduced. I need not describe the dance fully, for those who have seen it will remorsefully remember it, and those who have not will slyly go to 6ee it when they are in Paris. From the can-can to the morgue isarapid change, but I will just allude to the latter incidentally and then close this letter. I went not so much out of curiosity this time, but because I had heard of an American's disappearance and feared that he had gone to the Seine, the last and saddest of all places to seek relief from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. He was not at the morgue, however. There were four people there . representing four dilierent phases of life. The first was an old lady. Her grey hair was decently put back from Ler peaceful brow, and her basket was in her lap. Quietly she ignored the earnest, startled and horrified looks of the eager procession outside the glass. Her rest had come at last. Possibly a worthless and heartless son came to see who was there. Possibly sho was somebody's ill-treated mother-in-law, for the motner-in-law is not encouraged as sho ought to be, even in France. Then came a middle-aged man whose hands were marked with toil. His face was as calm as the skies ou a summer night. There was nothing terrible about it, for he looked like one wno "wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams." Then came a young man with a cap. His clothes were as he wore them and his face was not distorted. The ghastly fishermen of the Seine, like the prowler on tho Thames, so graphically described by Dickens in "Our Mutual Friend." bad found the boy the night before, and had slightly torn the bosom of his shirt in lifting him to the surface, but he was past annoyance over a little thing like that, and his rest was undisturbed even in the face of the multitude, and, like Steerforth, he lay with his arm beneath his head as he had done at school. Then came a young girl. I could not holp thinking of the Rahway mystery, as I saw her there. No one knew her, but every one pushed toward that part of the morgue to 6ee her face and wonder who she might be. The crimp had gone from her fair hair and the light had gone from her prey eyes, but the man who helped to make this picture iu the old, grim morgue probably snaps his fingers at the fates and drinks his absinthe with his friends. He is welcome to the joy he has. Her own peaceful slumber is better. , The Parisian morgue is not horrible. To me it is a history of humanity. In it you may read the last chapter of a life and conjecture what the other chapters were. I do not go there to see horrors, but to see the last tableau and judge as well as I may what the others were before it and what led to all this. There is one feature of the Champs Elysees which has not been heretofore referred to that I know of. and so I speak of it here. It is the array of wet nurses under the trees all the way up to the arc. I refer to it hecause a New York lady called my attention to it to-day, and so it is proper. They are all large, robust women, and as the gorgeous equipages pass by, filled with pomp, pride aud circumstance, these vigorous nurses earn their salary by looking at the procession. It would oe very strange anywhere but in France. Here everything which is necessary and sensible, is correct. False modesty and foolish, mawkish fear of certain things are not noticeable. This is a good thing to remember and consider. These nurses are generally middle-aged and very healthy, otherwise thev would not be emplpyed. They take the little French scions out under the trees of tho Champs Elysees at evening time, and the little Uonrbous may be seen there till dark takiug their meals as the crowds roll by. Bill Nye. 8T. CLAIR'S DEFEAT. A Disastrous Campaign A Chapter from the History of the Miami Tribe of Indians. 8. F. W, in Huntington Herald. The mother of Richardville, chief of the Miamis from 1812 to 1S40, was a sister of Little Turtle, the distinguished Miami diplomat and warrior, who outgeneraled and whipped General Ilarmar. at Fort Wayne, in 1790, and annihilated General St. Clair, at Fort Recovery, iu 1791. The father was Ag-ne-nack-ne, the first chief of the Miamis of whom there is any authentic history. Ag-no-nack-ne, having signed a treaty with the English in 1748. the first treaty of which there is any official record by the Miamis, who were known as "Twightwees" before assuming the name subsequently borne by thera in the treaty and otherwise. The mother was a Mohican, a tribeof proud and intelligent aborigines who peopled New York and tho New England States, and became extinct by dispersion among other tribes. In the parentage of Richardville's mother aud Little Turtle, was represented, very singularly, the first of the Miamis and the last of the Mohicans. Mrs. Christian Fugleman, of "your city, whose maiden name wasArchancel LaFontaiue, is a great graudniece of Little Turtle, aDd a granddaughter of of Richardville. and her father was the last chief of the Miamis dnring the critical period of the carrying out of the treaty which eventuated in the removal of the tribe to Kansas, in 1847. Little Turtle was born at the headwaters of Eel river, in Allen county, about twentylive miles northeast of Huntington, in 1747. Nothiug much is known of his exploits until 1780. In September of that year he became conspicuous as the leader of a surprise and massacre at a point on Aboit creek, about three miles northeast of the present site of Roanoke. An expedition of whites; numbering about sixty men, was recruited at Vincennes, by Lieut LeUalme, to join the French at Detroit. They came up the Wabash and Little rivers, crossed the portage to the St. Mary's and descended the stream to its continence with the St. Joseph the two streams here forming the Mauuiee At h' iMj. tion of the rivers thsre was .!:! Miarri v.Mjgii and a French and Enhh trading-post.

LeBalme took the town bytf urn rise robbed the stores of the traders, who fled with the Indians, aDd after a short occupation retreated with his spoils to Aboit creek, camping for the night near where it is crossed by the W. fc E. canal. Enraged at the outrage, the Indians assembled under Little. Turtle, pursued and surprised Le Ualme and his men, and massacred them without an exception. Tho expeditions of General Ilarmar in 17V0. and of General St. Clair in 17yd, rrere the first ever organized in force by the United States against the Northwest Indians, and both were humiliated 'and almost annihilated by our Eel-river Napoleon". In the first two engagements, one about eight miles northwest ot the present site of Fort Wa3ne, and the other near the same place, fought on succeeding days. Little Turtle completely outgeneraled Col. Harden, who was in command of the Americans, regulars and militia. In the first. Harden was ambushed and surprised an the march in the middle ot the day. After desperate fighting for some hours, during which the Kentucky militia threw awajr their guns and precipitately fled, Little Turtle won the fighL The loss to the Americans was eighty killed, fifty wounded and many prisoners, besides the fugitives. About five hundred men were in this fight. Iu th second battle Harden had six hundred m2. nearly all fresh, and some very ableotlicers. It was a regular pitched contest, and Little Turtle showed himself more than a match for the white oflicers. Ho secured an advantage at the opening of the tight, and drove his enemy to a ground of his own selection for the finishin g strokes. 1 1 was an ably-fought contest, and at its close the wily and artistio Indian warriors remained in possession of the field. Uoth sides lost heavily, but the percentage of . slain, wounded and prisoners was largely against the Americans. Little Turtle was victor in the hardestfought and greatest battle that ever took Slace ou this continent between white soliers and Indian warriors. The battle was fought on the 4th of November. 1791, at the headwaters of the WTabash . river, near where Fort Recovery is located, betweeu seven hundred, or more, Americans under General St. Clair, commander-in-chief of tho American army, a brave and successful Revolutiouory olhcer, and an equal number of Indians under Little Turtle. It was the completest surprise on record, precisely what President Washington had personally warned St. Clair against. About half an hour before sunrise, just after the troops had been dismissed from parade, an unexpected attack was made upon the militia, who lied in the utmost confusion, and rushing into camp throuth the first line of regular troops, which had been formed the instant the first gun was discharged, threw them, too, into disorder. "Such was the panic, and so rapid aud irregular the fight, that the exertions of the ofijeers to recall the men to their sense of duty were unavailing. It was soon perceived that the tire of the Americans could produce no edect on a concealed foe. and that the only hope of victory wasiQ tho bayonet. An impetuous charge was made upon the enemy, who were, with some loss, forced back about 400 yards, but tho want of a sufficient number of riflemen to Ere6S the advantage deprived the olhcer of is benefits, and as soon as he gave over the pursuit the Indians renewed the-attack. In the meautime the left of the right wing was broken, tho artillerists almost to a man kilted, the guns seized and the camp penetrated by the enemy. Charge after charge was made with spirit and momentary success, but all of no avail. To save the remnant of the army was all that now remained to be done, and while one officer was ordered to charge with his regiment a body of Indians who intercepted their retreat and pain the road, another with his battalion was directed to cover tho rear. These orders were executed and then a disorderly flight was commenced. The pursuit was kept up about four miles." About half tho army of St. Clair was killed, nearly all of the ofiicers and all of the horses. When Washington was informed of the disaster he became frantic. Iu the agony of his emotion he struck his clenched hands ' with fearful force against his forehead, and in a paroxysm of anguish exclaimed. 'It's all over; St. Clair's defeated routed, the ofticers nearly all killed, the men by wholesale; that brave army cut to pieces, the rout complete too shocking to think of, and a surprise iu the bargain." He uttered all this with great vehemence. Then he paused and walked about the room several times, agitated but saying nothing. Near the door he stopped short and etocd still a few moments. Then j turning to his Secretary, who stood amazed at the spectacle of Washington in all his terrors, the General, in his wrath, again broke out, saying: "Yes, sir; here, in this very room, on this .'fry spot, I took leavv of him; I wished him euccess and honor. . You have your instructions. I said, from the Secretary of Wj-r; I had a strict eye to them; and I wii! add but one word beware of a surprisxl ' roueM- it, beware of a surprisel You kno hvvr Indians fiahtus- He went off with that asmy last solemn warning thrown in his t.irs. And yet to suffer that -army to be cut t J pieces, backed by a surSrise the very ting I guarded him against, in, God! oh, God! he's worse than a murderer! How can he answer to his country? The blood of ti'5 slain is upon him the curse of widuws and orphans the curse of heaven!' Tl.is totre.ot came out intones appalling. His very irme shook. It was awful,' said his Secretary. More than once he threw his bands up as he hurled imprecations upon St. Clair.1 " The Indin nsme of Little Turtle was Micluvnina. Notwithstanding his nun)3 was six feet high, strong, sius-'-.uar and remarkably dignified in hif pviT.j.' rs, though of a very sour and moro'c euhkUnance. and apparently very ciaftv .nl subtle. His warlike training was of that stern and hardening kind which was noter omitted in his nation." He wa .lira id of General Wayne, and opposed armed resistance to him, though he was in the battle at the Fallen Timbers, near DeL'ance, in 17U4. in a subordinate capacity. In the treaty at Greenville he proVed himself as able iu council as he had been in war, and, after signing; the treaties-returned home and became & steadfast friend of the United States. lie died and was buried at Fort Wayne in 1812, and Richardville became his successor.

Food for Meditation. Doston AdTrtler. The rush of English capital to this country must be especially interesting to thow American Cobdenites who havo been exerting themselves for many recent years to show how highly advantageous the freetrade system is to English manufacturers, and how detrimental the protective system must be to similar industries. The fact that the English capitalists have neglected tho brilliant opportunities which await them at their very doors and have gone to the expense and difficulty of obtaining control of American industries which are languishing under this "cruelly oppressive" protective system, must appear very strange and unaccountable. That these investments wero not sought when President Cleveland made his vigorous attack on the tariff system must seem almost unaccountable. It is, nevertheless, a fact that the foreign investors waited until last year's election h.id settled that the protective system would remain in force before beginning to send their capital here in great amount. Can it really be that the free-trade policy is not so favorable to manufacturing interests as the Cobdenist contingent would hare it appear? , The "Saints as Practical Politicians. Sslt Lake Tribune. As is well known, the Mormons never give any but members of their own organization work. There has been nothing created by them during the present year to require an influx of laborers. Yet they are comin.; from all over the Territory. Each little villace has to supply its quota. Tho contract is believed to be the same as with those from Ephraim. whose names we pnblished on Sunday they are to remain until after the election in February. Thankful for Smalt Favora. Colcsgo M&iL Well, anyway the river has had a muchneeded cleansing, and though we are forced to drink it we are not, thank goodness, compelled to smell it We ought to be thankful for that. A Story for the Mariners. Troy Times. An umbrella that1 has done service for forty years is owned by a Strondsburg. Fa., man and still protects him from the rain.