Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 301, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1900 — Page 10

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for the United States Navy." It gives the rates of pay and other Information, and then holds out as an inducement to enlist that the yearly additions to the navy will make a large increase In the number of warrant ofHcers necessary, these being portions to which naval apprentices can Immediately aspire end which pay $30 to T0 per month with rations. As 1 the case with the military and naval cadets at West Point and Annapolis, the dally routine for naval apprentices Is carefully arranged and divided between work, instruction and rest- The day begins at 5:2) o'clock every morning (except Sunday) witlssrevellle and ends with taps at 3 o'clock at night. They are Instructed !.i the elementary branches of learning, and drilled In gymnastics, seamanship, signaling, artillery and Infantry tactics on land and spar, sails and gunnery at sea. It Is worth noticing that a graduate of the Newport Training School had charge of one of the forward guns of the Olympia during Dewey's .battle In Manila bay. Besides those things every boy is taught cookery, being required to serve in the kitchen for certain periods during his enlistment. The menus prepared by these juvenile chefs show a selection of foods especially adapted to youths who are growing into manhood, and at the same time there la variety enough to suit almost any appetlto. At the same time they are supplied with a proper quantity of toothsome dainties specially tempting to the. youthful palate, cakes, ginger snaps, Jelly or fruit being a part of the bill of fare at supper every day, while on Sunday ice cream Is served for dessert at dinner and cakes at eupper. On holidays there are special dinners, which means, of course, roast turkey and cranberry sauce at dinner with plum pudding and mince pie for dessert. Canned vegetables end canned meats are only" used when, owing to the season or other causes,-fresh vegetables and meats cannot be obtained. "Tho Quantities of the above diet," says the regulations, "are unrestricted, each apprentice to have all he wishes to eat." Tobacco, however, Is

forbidden. The wardrobe furnished by Uncle Sara to ach of his naval apprentices includes mattresses, blankets, mattress covers, four uniform suits, underwear, a jersey, two palra of shoes, three caps and two white hats, overcoat, rubber boots, rubber blanket, knife and lanyard, neckerchiefs, leggings, soap, scrubbing brush, blacking brush and blacking, scissors, whiskbroom, thimble, buttons, needles, black and white thread and sewing silk. The apprentices are divided Into sections cf eighteen lads each, which ere In charge of two boy petty officers. The bugle squad consists of ten apprentices, chosen for their knowledge of music and probable aptitude Cor playing the bugle.. PUNISHMENT. The punishment provided for disobedljnce, obstreperous conduct and other offenses varies In form and severity, but is a very necessary adjunct to the code of the training establishments. A system of demerits Is provided for tardiness, untidiness, whistling. . Inattention, talking or 'skylarging" In ranks, mlchlevous conduct, neglect of duty, profanity, lying, petty theft, obscene or disrespectful language, insubordination, assault, etc. The demerits run from two to ten, and then merge into tnoro severe forms of punishment. Six demerits impose on the boy receiving them one hour of extra duty, which means hard work In the boatswain's gang orv sentry or police duty. Apprentices guilty of stealing, disobedience of orders, gross insubordination or obscenity, desertion or attempting to desert, drunkenness or other serious offenses are confined with or without irons, single or double, solitary confinement on bread and water, solitary confinement or extra duties. Particular attention is paid to the instruction of apprentices in gunnery and marksmanship with large and small arms. The value of this instruction was illustrated during the famous battle of Manila bay and at the destruction of Cervera's Epanlsh fleet off Santiago. Some of the best shots were made during those memorable encounters by gunners who served their apprenticeships at Uncle Sam's Naval Training School. The boys In the gunnery classes are Instructed in the general description of ordnance, care in handling arms and ammunition, sighting, aiming, and the care and cleaning of guns. Advantage is taken of every opportunity for target practice with big guns, and breechloadlng small arms, revolvers and rifles. ai a boy cannot swim when he enlists he Is soon taught that athletic art preservative. During warm weather, when the temperature of the water is above 70 degrees Fahrenheit, there are swimming and swimming lesions every morning at 6:50 o'clock. The swimming school is In charge of the boatswain's mate, who has the lifeboat properly manned and provided with life preservers to prevent accidents. All boys except those excused by the surgeon are required to swim daily at the above hour. Every Friday the apprentices participate la the fire drill after the buglers have ecu-.ded the "fire alarm." The boys are provided with a post shoemaker, tailor and barber and are required to pay them small prescribed sums for the work they perform for them. They also have a library and are required to attend divine services, Catholic or Protestant, every Sunday. One of the ironclad regulations of the apprentice service Is this: "Never question, but obey all orders promptly, whether coming from an officer, petty officer, a marine on duty or boy petty ofllcer. After an order lias been obeyed, if it is thought an In justice has been done, report the fact to the executive officer." When responding to an officer's command to rerform some service boys are not permitted to reply, "AH right Blr," or "Very well." They must reply in the prescribed sailorman form, which is almost as old asthe sea itself. "Aye aye mir. .inere are numerous Incentives to proficiency, good morals and behavior, including the Bailey medal, instituted bv the late rear-admiral Theodore Bailey for prolacienry. wmcn is awarded annually on Lec. il. The naval apprentice system of the United States is regarded by foreisrn officer who have examined It. as the best in the world. The graduated apprentice can go uDoaru a war vessel capable of any r,od Hon on shipboard from ordinary seaman to warrant officer of the highest rank. Thev receive their instruction at the hands of competent ajid experienced officers and in years to come these same boys will he found manning the big guns and navigatlnthe peerless battleships, monitors and cruisers or the American navy. SLAVES TO UIIIC-A-IIUAC. EdfTftrd Bok Says AY omen Have ShocklDB Dad Taile. Ladies Home Journal. There are no wnnl rn -,,. - - - - w i ic täte at ine earth who litter up the rooms of their homes with so much useless and conse-,4UllUi-Vlu lurnisnmg as no the Americans. The rurs nf th a i. , . , ; , " - "'rviii uom iowe feel that we can freely breathe Is so rare that we ar Instinct - when we see one. It Is the exception rather üu uic iuic ui.ii we m o a restful room As a matter of fact, to this common error of overfurnlshing so many of our homes are - direct! v du mnv r.r k - breakdowns of our women. The averaee n.rtu uuiari is u. perieci slave to the J'eltes rubtrfsh. which she has In her rooms. Thi3 mbb!sh. Of a rnstlv r,,.,M plenty exists and of a cheap and tawdry

character in homes of moderate Income, is making housekeeping a nerve-racking burden. A serious phase of thi3 furnishing is that hundreds of women believe these jlmcracks ornament their rooms'. They refuso to believe that useless ornamentation always disfigures and never ornaments. Simplicity is the only thing that ornaments. It does more; it dignifies. The most artistic rooms are made not by what Is in them, but by what has been left out of them. One can never quarrel with simplicity, and nothing goes to make for perfect good taste so surely as a simple effect. A tasteful effect Is generally reached by what has been left undone. And that is the lesson most needed In America to-day: not what we can put Into a room, but what we can leave out of It. , QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. P. C, Indianapolis: If you will send your name and address Information you ask will be sent by mail. -t r- -TAt what time did the death of Sir Charles Russell occur? Student. On Aug. 10, 1300. Where and when was Alice Cary born? 2. What is Gath's" true name?-A. G. April 20. 1820. eight miles from Cincinnati, O. 2. George Alfred Townsend. ... -r- -r- r"What is the address of Justin McCarthy, and (2) where was he born? C. A. M. Ashleydene. Roxburgh Road. Westgate,-cn-Sea, England. 2. At Cork, Ireland. How did the word "cracker" come to be applied to Southern country folk? -G. A diet chiefly consisting of cracked corn is said to be responsible for the nickname.. When was the first capture of Cartagena, United States of Colombia, by the French? Both Sides. In 1544, eleven years after the city was founded. TT "f T Are children of foreign-born parents born in the United States entitled to citizenship without process of law when the parents have never renounced allegiance to their former governmnt? D. E. Yes; birth In this country confers citizenship without regard to the citizenship of the parents.

Where was the first "rummage sale" given, and who was the originator of the same? Subscriber, Winchester. It is the understanding of the ladies who have conducted such affairs in Indianapolis that the first sale of the kind was in New Orleans. J ... Why does not the passage of the electric current over.'a telegraph wire kill the birds on it? T. D. R. The current does not leave the wire, only an infinitesimal portion of it going through the bird. Should any part of the bird touch another wire, the current might be turned through its body and kill it. i What is the capital stock of the Standard Oil Company? What amount of business do they do annually? Subscriber, Connersville. In round numbers, $100,000,000. We have no way of ascertaining amount of business done. A 20 per cent, dividend was de clared in 1S39. Please give the total vote in Cook county, 111., in presidential election 1SD6: also vote of Chicago as separate vote on President, same year Old subscriber, Sullivan. The total vote of Cook county In 1S05 was 379.G0S. The separate vote of Chicago is not given In any election table in the po litical year book. Will you publish directions how to cook and serve a "Wiener schnitzel." This is a very popular short-order dish in Germany. C. S. J., Indianapolis. Weiner schnitzel is breaded veal cutlet. and is usually served with tomato sauce and with chopped pickles, beets and sardels (a small fish) laid . on top. "What is meant in iron working by pud dling? 2. "Which melts easier, cast or wrought Iron? 3. Why is magnetic iron ere especially valuable? T. M. W. The process of ridding melted rig iron of carbon and other impurities and turning It Into wrought iron. 2. Cast, by some 700 degrees of Fahrenheit. 3. Because of the very large proportion of iron it contains. Will you kindly give us the authorshiD or tne ioiiowmg: "Count Ahat day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done." E. E. F., Indianapolis. According to Bartlett the authorship Is unknown. The lines are found in Standlfora s "Art of Reading," published In Bos ton In 1S03. 1. mi Are newspapers in Pennsylvania allowed to publish a marriage license if the per sons to whom the license Is Issued object to It? If you do not know where can I find out? I. Z. J., Indianapolis. You can probably get the information you want by writing to a Pennsylvania newspaper Pittsburg Dispatch or Phila delphia Press, for instance and inclosing stamp. What is the British coastguard ? E. M. S. A body of men stationed along the coasts of England and Ireland to prevent smug gling and to serve as a defensive force. Originally it was part of the customs serv ice, but in 1S56 it was transferred to the navy. Coast guardsmen are instructed In naval gunnery, signaling and gunboat ex ercise, are liable In time of war to be called on for naval duty, and number about 4,000. x x Does a woman of foreign birth who is married Jo a citizen of the United States have to Rake out naturalization papers to vote at a general election in Idaho? F. A. B. No; a wife's citizenship is that of her husband, and an alien woman who mar ries a citizen thereby becomes a citizen; and when both husband and wife are aliens she becomes a citizen when he is naturalized. What ten States have the largest savings bank deposits, the amount of deposits in each State, and the number of depositors? W. S. Van S. New York, deposits, 1600,303,718; depos itors, 1,331,551; Massachusetts, 5172,505,503 and 1.098,193; California, fl24.123.237 and 176.425; Pennsylvania. J11S,713,GS4 and 371,617; Connecticut, J117.S60.031 and 263,902; Ohio, $33,433,153 and 157,377; Maine, JH.766.93S and 120,024; Michigan. $,S14,430 and 112.133; NewJersey. JO5.2Ö7.07S and 123,247; New Hampshire. J33.791.916 and SS.239. -J "i- "t" Kindly state if the Original of the follow ing verse should be "twenty" or "forty" years ago. I nnil them ootn used in print. By whom were they written? M. I wandered to the village Tom, and sat be neath the tree, Upon the schoolhouse playing ground, that Fheltered you and mc; But none were there to greet me, Tom, and lew were leit to know. Who played with me upon the green. Just years ago. The correct title is "Just Twenty Years Ago." The name of the author of the words seems to be lost, as it does not appear on the sheet music. The music was written by B. B. Sanford in 1S5S. What is used in gilding to make cold leaf suck? Gold-size, a priming whose adherent quality is glue; or, chiefly for work that will have exposure to the weather, oil size, which is a varnish of linseed oil and ochre. Gilding put on books is made to adhere by pressure and heat, or by the uso of gelatine. The former method Is for cloth covers, the latter for leather bind tags. -T "fPlease print text of Spanish treaty, when adopted and when ratified. State when the present war In the Philippines began Maximus, Indianapolis. We cannot clve cpaca to ta document

at this time. You can see the text at any

time on calling at the Journal office, or the public library. It was formally ratliied by the United States Senate on Feb. 6, 1S0S; was signed by President McKinley on Feb. 10, and by the Queen Regent of Spain on March 17. Formal ratifications were ex changed in Washington on April 11. The trouble in the Philippines began shortly after the arrival of the first United States troops at Manila In July, 1S33. Aguinaldo at once beginning to stir up rebellion. -i -i-... Did our playing cards originate in China? Crib. Many accounts have it so, their appear ance in Europe being credited to the Saracens, who are said to have brought them from India, China and other Asiatic coun tries. But these claims are doubted, and It seems quite as likely that the cards origi nated in Europe la the fourteenth century. Before them cards bearing emblematic pic tures were used in fortune telling, and early playing cards had, in place of the present suit, symbols, cups, money, clubs and swords in Spain and Italy, and hearts. bells, acorns and leaves in Germany. The fifty-two card pack, substantially like that of to-day,, dates back to the fifteenth cen tury. -f- -- -TDo all kinds of birds build nests of some tort or other? A. F. No; a few lay their eggs directly on the ground, more numerous are those that deposit their eggs on shelves of seaside cliffs, and still others take deserted nests of other birds, in some cases first driving away the rightful owners. The most curious ex ception of all is the bird that lays egg? in the nests of another kind of bird, leaving the latter to hatch the eggs and at tend to the young. Our cowbird, or cowbunting. Is of this class, choosing such smaller birds as finches and warblers as foster parents for its offspring. The sum mer yellow bird is also thus tricked, but sometimes turns th3 tables by elevating his nest, building over the unwelcome egg, and thus avoiding adopting a family. Are fish that are artificially hatched fed before being liberated? If so, what is the food? 2. I have been told that iish eggs are shipped by hatchers before they are entirely hatched; if this is true, will you tell how and why It is done? L. D. P. The fry of marine fishes and of such fresh water sorts as shad and pike-percn are not ,fed, but are turned loose soon after hatching. Other fish, like trout or fcalmon are fed, though the yolk sac sustains them for a month or more. Larvae of Insects and crustaceans and finely ground meat are fed. 2. Your informa tion is correct. Some are shipped as soon as the eye spots appear; others before. They are put between layers of damp cot ton or moss, and the temperature is kept low by ice, or sometimes they are put in trays lined with snow. This is much easier and cheaper than shipping fish. MEDICAL NOTES. (Prepared for the Sunday Journal by an Old Practitioner.) The exhibit of the Transsiberian Railroad at Paris Is of medical interest as an object lesson both in hygiene and comfort. The walls of the cars are of smooth wood or tiles. The seats are covered with real or artificial leather. Appliances are provided for cooling and purifying the air. The water in the coolers has been boiled. Above all, there .are skilled sanitary cfllcials on each train ready to give assistance to passen gers Jn need of their service. The draperies are reduced to a minimum and every precaution is taken to insure cleanliness. All this in marked contrast to our own overdecorated and much upholstered cars, in which luxury seems to be confounded with comfort. As a fact, stuffed seats covered with plush are not only uncomfortable but unhcalthf ul, and this applies as well to the home as to public furniture, it being a generally accepted, theory that stuffed seats cause piles and other diseases duo to overheating of the parts. Draperies, as well as the plush of the seats, make the car stuffy and are actually nets for the enmeshing of disease germs, which may later be transmitted to other occupants of the car. Carpets are open to the same objection. The hygienic car 13 of the plainest description, with no superfluous trimmings to catch dust and germs, and with all surfaces of such material that they can be washed and rubbed clean. It would be for the interest of the railroad companies to use plainer cars, but the public demand Is for extravagant display in public conveyances, and public opinion alone can bring about the use of hygienic cars, which, while they may be comfortable, shall also be clean in a sanitary sense. Dr. Johnson, a medical missionary, tells some very curious things about the practice of medicine in China. The Chinese are very trying patients, as they can never be trusted to tell the truth about themselves. They will not follow directions and will eat all sorts of indigestible things, on the sly, such as green peanuts, pickled pig's stom ach, decayed fish roe, raw turnips and Chi nese pears, which are as hard as a rock. At first medical advice and service was given free, but the charity was abused and a fee table was given out, a quinine pow der, for example, costing 5 cash, equivalent to about a quarter of a cent, while a minor surgical operation was scheduled at 2,000 cash. One of the hospitals at Che-Foo placed a box at the gate with a notlc re questing contributions from patients according to their, means. A German visitor started the fund with J23. After a month's service, during which 900 patients were treated, the box was opened and It was found empty, even the J25 having disappeared. Large fees are charged and col lected In private practice from the wealthy classes, but practice is subject Id many inconveniences. Dr. Johnson, for example. attented a wealthy woman and was obliged to feel her pulse by means of a silken cord tied to her wrist and conducted out of the bedroom to the anteroom, where the doctor was obliged to remain while making his diagnosis. For this farcical treatment the doctor received $100. It is commonly admitted that a deficiency In proper diet is the cause of scurvy in children, and, according to Coolette, the lacking element is citric acid. Citric acid is a normal constituent of milk in the form of a lime salt (calcium citrate). This salt is less soluble in boiling water than in cold, and as a consequence during the pro cess of sterilizing milk a portion of this essential ingredient is eliminated. In pas teurized milk, however, the heat required Is less, and children fed on pasteurized milk are less liable to scurvy. Other things being equal, fresh milk is the best for chil dren, but if boiled milk must be used, lime Juice should be given at the same time. The water required as a diluent should be added before the milk is boiled; the milk should be removed from the fire as soon as possible after boiling; it should bo allowed to become cold, and be well stirred before it is poured from the ves sei in which it is boiled. Aside from . the nauseating odor arising from the swill bucket there are real elements of danger in it which threaten the health of the individual and the commun ity. Swill is usually dumped in any out of-the-way place, in the back yard, during the summer, and is then comparatively harmless, owing to the oxidization of. the organic matter by the air, but in the win ter it is often stored for a week or two in a ccrc.tr cx th cellar, where it t enatata

and putrefies to perfection. Hot-air furnaces disseminate the germs bred. In this festering mass, and no doubt cause disease in the members of the household. The most satisfactory method of 'disposing of all such waste Is to burn it at once. True, hls may cause a disagreeable smell for a moment, but fire effectually kills all elements of possible disease, and the smell, while it may be nauseous, is Innocuous. Collect all the waste in a wire basket, allowing the fluid to drain off into the waste pipe. Add this waste, little by little, to the fire, and open all the drafts for a moment while it is burning. When the first portion has been disposed of add -.another, but do not put enough into the fire at any time to deaden it. In this way all bad odors will be carried off up the chimney and the fire will be clear. A state of affairs has been shown up by the raining strike which seems to be little short of robbery. It is that of the company doctor. According to the Philadelphia Medical Journal every miner is charged seventy-five cents a month, while the single man escapes with fifty cents. Taking the Markle operation as a basis, and averaging 2,400 employes at fifty cets, a company would get $1,200 monthly. At Jeddo there are three physicians. The chief of this staff receives about J20) per month, while the assistants receive $00 per month. This would leave JXK) reverting to the company as clear profit on the medical service alone. One of the demands of the miners Is that each man be free to choose his own physician for himself and his family. Sev

eral of the companies deny that they employ contract doctors and state that their employes aro free to select their own phy sicians, and make no charge for medical service, but they do not deny that seme of the smaller operators do charge for medical service and employ company doctors. f f Even health officers are not always wise n their rulings or actions. A few months ago a doctor from India arrived In Aus tralia with some bubonic germs cultivated in gelatine. The health officers believed that these germs constituted a grave public danger, but could not at first think of any way of gaining possession of them. The Customs Department, however, came to their aid and declared that as gelatine was liable to duty the said gelatine had been smuggled and was therefore confis cated. It was then burned, and all Mel bourne breathed freely again. The doctor who owned the gelatine declared that later the authorities wrould regret their .action, and sure enough they did, for when the plague itself arrived they needed serum lor inoculation, but were obliged to wait until the needed supply could be obtained. . Dr. Hunter, of Toronto, In a plea for a broader and freer application of sanitary science in the building of our homes, schools, churches, theaters, etc., believes that no dwelling house should be con structed except under the supervision of an architect and a physician versed in sanitary science. It would hardly be worth while for an architect to spend several years in the study of medicine, but there is no reason why some of the many physicians disappointed in mediclne(as a moneymaking profession should not fake up sani tary architecture and become celebrated if not wealthy. . ' To remove blood from the hands they should first be washed in pure water, whicJi dissolves the blood more rapidly than soap and water. Whenever tho hands are smeared with blood In the dressing and cleaning of poultry and meat it should be speedily removed, as it may be absorbed and cause sores and blood poisoning. This Is more essential In"; handling men which has been kept some time, as then tho element of danger Is greater, owing te putrefactive processes. Any obstruction of natural breathing through the nose In children should be remedied as soon as possible, as it leads to permanent and serious ear, throat and lung troubles in after life. Prescriptions. The following Is recommended for the treatment of comedones or black heads: Sulphuric ether, 1 ounce; carbonate of ammonia, 1 drachm; boric acid, 0 grains; water sufficient to make two ounces. This is to be applied locally over the comedones or the pimples caused by them. An excellent dressing for the protection and cure cf varicose veins, ulcers, etc., is composed of glycerine, oxide of zinc and gelatine, of each one part, water three parts. The gelatine is soaked In the watei until soft and then melted by heat. The, glycerine is then added and the oxide of zinc stirred in. It is to be applied warm with a brush, several coats being applied one over the other. L. N., il. D. BACILLUS OF PRINTERS' INK. Everybody Write a llook and Xo End Is in Sight. Maurice Thompson, in Saturday Evening Post. Said Sir Philip Sidney: "Overmastered by some thoughts, I yielded ah Inky tribute unto them." The dash of black crinkles trailed across a white page has had an irresistible fascination ever since the Cadmean Invention reached a fluid state. From Sidney's days to ours the passion for the "inky tribute" has grown almost immeasurably. Indeed, writing seems to have got beyond the bounds of practical control, so that It threatens to pas3 into the automatic stage. Once upon a day authorship was a distinction, even In some measure a consecration; now it is one df the human passions to be listed with anger, hatred, revenge, love, reverence, ambition, despair and golf. Every body writes a book. The most remarkable part of this literary madness is the high quality of its results. Never before in the world's history has there been such a flood of good books as we are now having poured upon us. Probably we do not realize the splendor to which we have gradually become accustomed. Of course, each one of us feels perfectly sure-footed on a lone, high peak of Parnassus; but this self-satisfaction does not aid in the matter of taking a comprehensive and sympathetic estimate of contemporary literature. A hundred years hence there may be due appreciation at least of our enthusiasm and our universal literary devotion; unless the desire for making inky tribute to every thought shall increase un til the love of letters shall be smothered under Its own harvest heaps, the very im menslty of the richej cloying ambition and crushing the power of appreciation. It is not mere art activity at which one's eyes turn with a blurred vision as the pens increase and the ink spreads farther and wider. Every nook and corner of life de mands expression, every business, calling. taste, every variation of experience, every aspiration, practical or Impractical, clam ors, so to say, for a place in literature. Indeed, we no longer expect a fewfmastera of form and style to lord it as of old in the pages of our Journals and magazines. The leading artiae may be by a prize-fighter. a horse-tamer or a baseball player, while following it comes a parade of essays by statesmen, soldiers and goldmlners. Poems appear here and there, squeezed flat and thin between the heavy literature of sei ence and war. The presses run night and day to keep up the indiscriminate deluge of "literature," while the name is fast dis soclatlng itself from the select and special art which once gladdened the world with a rare bouquet of genius. Ours is a wonderful age; its literature is of colossal proportions; some of it marvelously Imbued with human energy; but when again shall the book-lover pick up something as fresh to his age as was the poetry of Keats to the readers who haunted the bookstall Civcaty 1 years ago?

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UXPLEASAXT LITTLE 1IAI1ITS AND 3IANXEKIS3IS OFTEX XOTICED. Remarkable Woman Clnb In an'Ohio City Dread of Middle Age Foolish Women Who Try to Write. "She sits down like a baked apple," said a candid friend, dismissing the claims of the person under discussion to be a beauty. "A pretty face is not everything. She doesn't know how to move." In our minds, says a. -writer in the Chi cago Evening Post, we all beheld that handsome woman as she sat, all In a heap, careless, squashy, with her garments crumpled any way about her a helpless, spine less ort of person. And that, in our critical friend's eyes, destroyed the effect of her lovely countenance. "It Is astonishing:," went on our critic. V -vy t4iolAca Imarlan x?rm n a ta o rrni t A these personal details. You all know the blight, animated little woman who faises her eyebrows and furrows her forehead as she talks.' The wrinkles have become permanent years before they should. A French mother would have broken her daughter of that facial trick if she had to take a stick to her. "You all know the woman whostf laugh displays not only every tooth she has in her head, but the whole upper row of gums as weih French caricatures, by the way, represent all English women as given to this habit. This, as Mark Twain said about the report of his death, is 'gross exaggeration. Yet we have to admit that the defect is peculiar to our British cous ins and ourselves. A French or Italian woman, unless of the lowest class, would correct it. She would learn to let a row of pearls gleam between prettily parted Hps, and her smile would be a radiance instead of a disfigurement. No one wants to see the setting of the pearls. Gumsare not necessarily for publication, it is like having underclothing stick out in " a gap between waist and skirt. "There is no excuse for the stooping. round-shouldered women we see. An English mother considers it a crime to let her girls grow up round-shouldered. She makes them drill with a rod passed through both elbows, lie flat for so many hours on an inclined plane, walk about balancing books on their heads anything to avert so dire a calamity. Consequently well-bred English girls grow up with backs as straight and shoulders as broad and flat as Uncle Sam's West Pointers. "You all know the woman who shows her feet too much. And It is never a woman who could wear Cinderella's slipper. No; the larger a woman's feet are the more she seems inclined to stick them out from un der her skirt. If in addition her shoes are badly fitting or unblacked you may stake your little all that she will lose no chance of displaying them. It isn't exactly display, either. As George Eliot says. 'What in beauty looks like display, in ugliness is unconscious exposure.' "iou all know the woman who cannot en ter a room simply and easily. She drifts in, veering aimlessly from side to side like a bad steered ship. If she stands to talk a few minutes she hitches about, leans against the wall, rests first on one foot and then on the other and eventually moves oft again in the same . halting, uncertain course. What she should have had as a girl was more dancing school and athletics and not so much science. I hate a person who does not know how to manage her body." We all looked at each other a little consciously as our critical friend moved off. , "Am I round-shouldered?" "Have I a gummy smile?" "Do I, oh, do I! sit down like a baked apple?" There Is Art in Dress. Philadelphia Press. There is need of mention that only those with a pointed, oval face that is, where the chin is pointed can, with becomingness, wear the neck of a gown cut out In a 'round manner. Round faces look their best In V-shaped openings to bodies. It assists in suggesting the oval which is lacking, but a purely oval face will harmonize with almost any style of bodice cpening. The Idea of proportion is so often violated that the task of inducing a remedy seems hopeles3. Women with slender, narrow shoulders are constantly wearing revers and shoulder-collars entirely too large for them, with the idea that they are broadened out becomingly. Big hats sin wofully in this respect, the misguided woman looking all head. Too long train -worn by a short woman is a perfect deformity, as in a skirt too elaborately trimmed. Neckbands often distress the eye by being worn too high, giving an effect of strangulation; others, by being stiff and plain, and fitted to a very small neck thereby destroy the proportion which should exist of properly supporting the head upon the shoulders. A very stout neck needs to be dressed with a neckband as plain and flat as possible, without any trimming which Is liable to project beyond the surface and thus add to the circumference. On the other hand, thin necks need to be enlarged by ruchings, gatherings of laces, and any soft, fluffy treatment. Necks which are In perfect proportion need to have their size maintained In exactness, and are never more beautiful than when bare of all covering. It is a pity that fashion has obliged women for years to dress their necks with such high and unyielding bandages as we have worn, stiffened with canvas and cloth, thick velvets, etc. That the neck loses much of its beauty by this compression, this lack of air and light, and that both skin and muscle lose a certain vitality is unquestioned. When women reach a certain age, after years of this style of dressing, their necks always a revealing part of woman's decline when youth has flown shows these harmful results deplorably. That the neck Is bared indoors by modish decree is a blessing which should be taken advantage of by those who are young enough not to have been injured, and by others whose necks are still preventable, but will gain by recuperation. Fashionable Trimmings. New York Sun. kThere may be no accounting for the gold epidemic which has appeared, but it has taken possession of everything in the line of dress to the extent of having no rival in any other one kind of trimming. Dainty gold buttons were the forerunners of this craze and while they have Increased in size and splendor, they are still doing duty, to' fasten all sorts of little taos, ana straps or velvet, and are sewn on Li groups to decorate bands, accompanied by rows of narrow gold braid. A pretty decoration for collars Is a narrow band of bias velvet or velvet ribbon, a third of an inch wide with tiny little gold beads sewn on each edge a little distance apart. ' They are also used on wider bands of silk, much like French knots, for waist trimmings. Guipure insertions with straight edges are brought up to date by threading one, two or three rows of fine gold cord through the meshes on-each edge. Two rows of fine black silk cord, with a gold cord between, make a very effective decoration, quRe changing the appearance of the lace. Another mode of decorating lace, especially in the cream and ecru tints, is on rvvorwrnn !?ht mbroiderv of cold thread which is said not to tarnish. Gold and jet sequins on gold net form one of the very elaborate trimmings, and then there is the A trtiA cloth used in various ways for vests and yokes under lace, and sewn around cloth skirts in a band above another band or rur. rinMon tissue la the foundation for manv a lace evening costume, veiled with chiffon. cimntr fnn-nn nf xrhitft chiffon are Drettv with tha trnld tissue underneath, a cold galloon belt, and bows of black velvet on the bodice. It is well not to lose sight of the importance or steel in xnis craze ior meiaiuc erfr,v it 1 nuitf as rood stvle s rrold. or. ivr t!i?'1vpv sed cn th" ncit fnrhlonable hl-h-priced gowns. Cteel ornar c-- xii-i calx cf cxavcu crl terra

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ana wnue uraia is c?pfvii , net i ornaments on our -. . uniess we prefer to walk with the masea In the gold-decorated procession. A Last Resource. Margaret Sangster. in Collier's Weekly. When a woman is suddenly thrown upon her own resources, when she loses her hus band or her fortune, her first thought is apparently that she can now turn tc authorthip. Quite oblivious of the iact that writing is a trade like any other, and. moreover, a trade which is unusually crowded, where the laborers are many and the rewards are few, she sits down. pen in hand, to write her poem. Her story. her essay, and then sends it timidly yeijinnafniitf fA.tii' tv Vior it is as dear as her own child,, and If it returns to her Mlincd with thanks." she is crlCVOUSly wounded, and fails to understand her disonnnintmAnt Tho wnvs of editors appear to her inscrutable. She confidently asserts her belief in their partiality, anu oeciares t Vi a nnlv nnthnra nHth TIATTieS aild aSSUred reputations have the ghost of a chance to succeed. Tet this is only a nau-imui. u It be true at all. Editors and publishers pm uftArt tr thA spventh heaven when a A V W - - - . new star brightens their firmament. The nnVnnTFTi writ cr nehrk mmcs With StrOnfiT. fresh and original work is hailed with Joy. V TT - - o flnr njArfh rvlphrfl 1 1 P T with acclamations. The trouble is that fewpeople of genius are ever existent at tne same period, while in the general diffusion or educational and intelligence hosts of people express themselves agreeably and write of commonplace tnings in a sensiuie fashion, while the majority either stop at dlv deficient In technimip: n woman would attempt to make a gown without serving an apprenticeship, or to paint a picture without first sitting at the feet of a master. Why should she, ... ... m a 1 who Is in want, hurl nersen into a wniripool of struggling writers, when for writinc cha rtfia miA.i nr jiripmiate oreoaration? And why should she blame the longsuffering eaitor wnen, as a crmc irum me outside, she knows nothing of the difficul ties which beset his path? A Successful Club. Home Companion. One of the most inspiring illustrations of what the wage-earning woman whose "I will" Is in good working order may accom plish comes from the Young Women's League of Dayton. O. Five years ago ten bright girls sent out seductive postal cards to working women for consultation as to a "literary lunchroom." Fifty an swered the Invitation in person, and eacn promised to secure one other $2 member within the week. At tne appointed ume one hundred and ten were reported, and so the organization was perfected. Then followed a marvelous growth, it was intended to use the $200 to furnish a few rooms, but in one month after organ ization there were 400 members, so an en tire house was rented at $G00 a year. At the end of three years the league purChased a fifteen-room house in a prominent part of Dayton for J23.&00. The first catn payment was $6,500, part of which was earned by a big bazaar. Other payments have been regularly made, and the membership has grown steadily, so to-day the club numbers 700 bread winners. Most of these members belong to the various study classes and enjoy the companionable priv ileges of the lunchroom each day. Somewhat of its strength may be under stood from . the statement that it has opened branches in different parts of the city, where sewing schools and social clubs for young girls are successfully conducted. All of which is a very fine record for the ten original promoters who had as capital only a few postal cards. The Terrible Age of Women. Harper's Bazar. "Oh, but it is not old age I mind; it is middle age." These lines, uttered by Mrs. Langtry in the role of the matured heroine of The Degenerates are something more than a brilliant flash of cynicism. Middle age Is above all others that a woman needs to dread not because here she stands lonely on a neutral ground of life, void of the admiration a woman's youth excites and as yet uncheered by the veneration old age in puffs, cap, and kerchief may command. It is because the middle-aged woman is in great danger of falling Int6 the common ness of life of filling her waking hours and her dreams with nothing better than the wliole world does, and ceasing to care about it. Says Dr. Mahan, a celebrated mystic of the Church of England, whose keen Insight has an enlivening gift of expression, "What I dread most fcr myself and for others Is the gradual, almost unconscious, descent Into an air of worldliness, which quenches the ideal, without making one, however, less useful, less moral, or less respectable in every way." To hold to your ideals at thirty-five as resolutely as you hold to your marriage vows that is the one bit of heroism in a woman's life most worthy of admiration and achievement. "Woman's Wasted Strength. Home Companion. It has been vaguely asserted that health Is already fashionable and it probably is in some isolated circles but it is certainly not throughout the great mass of well-to-do women, in spite of the Increase In golfplaying, tennis, boating and "physical culture" among women. Look around you In a single walk down any fashionable avenue in any large city on a pleasant day. You will see nearly every woman whom you meet with a more wasplike waist than ever before, and with clothes more hampering, more voluminous, heavier. Among your own acquaintances count up the eases of nervous exhaustion and various kinds of "itis." Women cannot be strong and healthy when the paltry $10 worth of strength which she has to spend every day (and she may be sure that it is a fixed amount, and better represented by 10 cents than dollars) has to be frittered away in resisting the pressure of several pounds to the square inch, of her coxset around her body, and in carrying skirts which weigh Irom two to ten pounds more than they ought to. The handicap is too great for any woman to bear without paying the penalty. Odds and Ends. Shaded suede belts studded with stel, gold or enamel and fastened with handsome buckles to match are very much worn. A little lemon Juice added to the water In which rice la boiled will keep the grains separate. A cut lemon, too, may be used instead of vinegar to make tough meat tender. Hub thoroughly and let stand three or four minutes before cooking. One way in which tea stains may be removed from a table cloth is by dipping the stained part in sugar and water. The solution should be stroug, and the cloth should soak for a few moments. Then rinse it in clear, soft water and the stain will have disappeared. Transparent stocks are made of guipure lace striped around in various ways with rarrow bands of velvet rihbon ithnr i ored or black, dotted along the edges with gem Deaos. ine rinoon forms a bow and ends in front, and is decorated with beads in the same manner. Long coats of black ratln with fine stitched down tucks from the empire yoke to a little way above the hem are one variety of winter wrap which Is to be very much worn. They are made effective with yokes of Jet and silk applique and lined with white brocaded silk. The latest sleeve model Is quite close and pam ior me entire length except at the einow, wnere there is a full puff. Whether mis -win una iavor or not is not a settled question, but Just at present the bell shape with the lingerie or silk undersleeve prevails. Fancy coats have the bell sleeves a little more flaring than those used in gowns and the undersleeve la very often of velvet with a gold decorated waist band. The variety of neckwear hn astonishingly with the Impetus which gold uns given 10 xni3 special nranch of fashion uoia nraid and black velvet form some of the most serviceable stocks, the velvet bias and finished around the edge with a fine geld braid forming the cravat with a knot xn front. Inch-wide eold hmM 1 O rr -v4 as! around above this, and then there are folds oi velvet witn more flne braid. Very frivolous and TvHohhi nb- , fles or boas are made of chiffon edgfd with chenille, and of white taffeta silk In a series of points edged with tiny black and whitfc silk frlnfff l.atr nnA va,. ,.... i.i cj ------ . iVI J EUUilUlK for winter are the collarettes of stitched mirror velvet bordered with fur and finished with long stole ends well decorated with chiffon, frills and tail, it be quite up to date your collarette, muff ana toque must maicn. A DOlnt to remember is -tha. nft Izzli of any kind have been vrorhed ihev should never be wiped Cry, but chould be

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Castlie soap suds. The brush con the box. Ilinse them in rif.nr r,.-'-. ' .Jva jA YAXKCC MOXTE CUISTO. Slarrelous Career of Hrnry Slels n Chile and Tern. Douglas White, la Ainslee's Magazine. No tale of the fortunes which Lave h. built up by North Americana in th r,.. lies of Latin America would te for-, without reference to the career of liVry Meiggs. His operations in Chile an J i't-M form the most spectacular t-tury of ?-Ur're which South America has ever I ur:;i and beyond a doubt, had he beo:i grintVi uui ei icw iiiujc jt-ara ui mc, tie wo '1 have died one of the richest, if not richest, men In the world. To Mm amouut of money involved In a trarifi ... cut no ngurc. and ne aoait m rr.iliior.s v. ha less worry than ordinary operators Lani;. thousands. " Henry Meiggs learned the lesson rt finance in a school where large figure were common. As a young man he x-a.! through the years when California was tw. norm s r-iuuiuuo anu oiu was more plentiful in some sections than was the u with which to wash it. He ro?e to the crt of the golden wave, and his fortune a rsumaieu men ai several millions. Tiä time of reaction caught him load-.d wi-h properties upon which he could not quickly realize ready coin. and. with main ethers, he sank before the llood. r.ot cnly lowing his rroperty, but burled under an ava. lanche cf debt. "In October. 1SS4. Meiggs left San Fran cisco not only a ruined man, but a fuc'-lv debtor." "For several years his whereabouts wPr unknown, and then word came up frcm the South raclfic of the gigantic operations then being engineered by a dari-g speculator named Meiggs. luve stlatloa showed this to be none other than Hec.ry Meiggs, the man who had fled from drbt in California. Then Melggs's creditors bran to near irom mm, and one Dy one the Cal ifornia debts were wiped out. Uvtn a washerwoman to whom he owed a few dollars was sought out by his agents, ho were instructed not only to pay tho lousstanding laundry bill, but to add eno-jga gold to place the poor woman forever beyond want. One lot of debts Meigsrs declined to pay until, by a readjustment, the run amount or tne claims might be ra?.-el to the original creditors. These wer claims which had been purchased for a song by speculators when the first rurr.or of Meiggs's South American fuccoji reached the California coast. To the clamorous brokers he turned a deaf car, but declared himself teady at any time to rr.ctt the full obligations, with interest. f he could pay the sum claimed into the hani of the original creditors. For a time the brokers held out. but as Meiggs wr.s safe from attack they finally were obliged to yield, and the money for thousands cf Meiggs's debts was thus forced by him into the possession of Its rightful owtts. "Meanwhile the South American fertur. had grown. Meiggs cleared a full million ' from a contract for the building of Chile's first railway, between the port of Valpa raiso and Santiago de Chile. "Next came the construction of Peru's original railway line between Mollendo and Arequlpa. which doubled Meiggs's fortune. Every contract was made directly with the government of the republic wherein the road was to be built. Scheme after scheme, each more gigantic than the other, was successfully carried out. Meiggs at one time offered to build a breakwater at the mouth of Valparaiso's harbor if the Chilean government would give him a ninety-nine year lease of its sheltered f-lie. Forty millions would this venture have cost, but the principal harbor of Chile would have, been rendered safe for all time. The Chileans feared Meiggs's rapid FtrUts to wealth, and demanded a large price for the rental of the sheltered side of the breakwater, even should the work be done without cost to the republic. Consequently the project failed, and to-day the Windswept bay is without protection. "In 1S70 the financial world was amazed by the magnitude of a contract entered into between Meiggs and the Peruvian govern ment. This called for the construction rr a complete Peruvian railway system, even to a line crossing the summit of the Ans. Meiggs was to deliver the lines ready for operation and receive the sum of one hun dred and twenty-five millions in gold, pay able In installments, as the . work progressed. "At first tho money came promptly, men Peru was forced to borrow to meet the Meiggs contract, and finally, when European loans could not be effected. Me!ccs accepted the obligations of tho Peruvian government until he practically owned the republic. Even the assassination of his friend. Colonel Calta, then president oi Peru, failed to Interfere with the railway plans. "Finally Peru could do no more, ar.a Meiggs' own fortune was tied up in the building of the railways. So for lack of money the work was stopped. Negotiations for a further loan from Europe, with Meiggs' assistance, were almost consummated when in 1S77 death cut off the most remarkable career of any Yankee in South America. With his death the loan negotiations failed, and then followed reru's unfortunate war with Chile. Until 14 the Meiggs railway operations slumbcrel. In that year when peace came to the two republics the firm of W. It. Grace & Co. took up the Meiggs contract, and the work has since been pushed intermittently. "In spite of his success, Meiggs never revisited the State of California. His trials there seemed to have created in him an aversion for the place. Even a resolution passed by the California Legislature asking him to return, failed to influence him to visit the State. "One of the pecullailtics which characterized this brilliant operator was that h always worked alone. There never was a partner In his dealings,' and he never sought advice. He looked Into the future through no mind save his own, and when once his course was shaped he never "Ilfs personality was most attractive, his manner never changing no matter what the provocation. His lightest speech 1npplred the confidence, and to this fact is due in a great measure the succcm h-s achieved in the manipulation of his trigantic speculation. Neither of the American continents will ever show . another career exactly paralleling that of this daring operator." Mt-ry Wflk!nss Marriage. Roswell Field, In Chicago Post. Miss Mary Wilkin s merely carries out a correct literary principle In delaying her marriage to Dr. Freeman until she has finished the book on which flic Is ersg.ttrf-d. Business before pleasure. The dal'y p.nv rs have kindly given us a picture of lr. Freeman and the Metuchen home to whk-h ne will bear his brHe. We regret to say that we do not wholly admire the home a rrf Fented: it boars too much the aspect of a Cape Cod bathhouse at low tide-. However, the artist may have failed Jr. tho le'.:r.5itlon. It has jdeased vs to learn that th doctor has so prospered In his lumber b' 'stress and his rral ctate Investments that he has been enabled to give up the practice of medicine, and therefore ha no settled dally grind. This would be unfortunate as indicating that h would pend too much of his time about tho hoi:e, ni nothing Is so ditre?Ing and eTnrprntlr.g to a loving wife with literary ten-V-'cle a man who is oortarttly loafinr nb't nome. Utut it further happens tha. the doctor Is "an enthusiastic golfer." ?o we rr.xy reasonably infer that if he report rtr'larly for mesils he will consider that h i doing his whole duty as a husband. Altogether we are Inclined to look on he rropeets of the Freeman a t-art!c''!arly r-?r. and we dare to pay that Metuchen will b henceforth to New York what c.-tm.!n wIn the days of Whitman to Philadelphia and what Hooneton has teen uatll very recently to Chicago. Cdors of Antnmn. ' C. C. Abbott, In Upplncott. I recently chose a favorable day went cdor-huntlnsr. cays the naturalist. It was no childish whim nor aimless undertaking. What In the minds of many Is the freak of a fool may have weightier purpose than the crowd wots of. I h?.v always known sweet birch and passafras. spice-wood and pennyroyal, but thef nre but four of a full four hundred. Delightful as are the odors of oak and hickory, tlu-y must yield to the walnut, and all give c'.ace, perhaps, to the white crowns of-balm 'r dingy clusters of aromatic yarrow. Th long, narrow knolls that divide the wiie marsh meadows, and that only the gre-atcr floods shut out from view, appeal at present to neither eye nor car, but ctoop low and sniff the damp air that tests upon the dead grass, and these same knolls will prove Fomething vtry different from what you supposed. So doing, you discover the Spice islands. All your life you thought them in the far-off Indian ocean; but here they are, too, in the valley of the Delaware, as they are, alro, In ti:s valleys of all our rivers.