Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1891 — Page 12

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THE IXDIA.XA. STATE SEXTIXKL, WEDNESDAY MORXim JAXUAJIY 23. 1591-TWELVE PAGES.

THE SWELL GIRL'S BOUDOIR

A PICTURE OF THE DAINTY TEMPLE. Bab" Tails All Abal It How to Tall an Honest Wtmaa Interesting Feminine Hands and Tio Wltioh Make the) World Happy.

Nov TYors, Jan. 23. Copyright. If you happen to be the chum of a fashionable frirl you will have an opportunity to visit her bouloir. t the lirst clam-e you will conclude that you are in a temple, anl so you ars a tempie dedicated to the worship of the beautiful. Although wh-n the niht-time comes she has plenty of lirht to see ju?t how to mako her toilette, in the day-time a gloom pervades that apnrtment that eugsesta not a religious darkness, for you are certain to stumble over the stools, but a darkness thai has a tendency to increase the violence of your temper and the vert&tility of your lanjruae. The roum that hen come the nearest to the nwell girl's idea of what her temple ehould be has a dull purplish looking carpet on tho tloor and couches, low stools and cushions ga'oro all about the room. "The cushions are heavily embroidered in gold with most my tic-looking liurea that mny be construed a -itluT Egyptian, Hebrew or Chaldaic; but anyhow you aro not supposed to know what they are. The curtains are curious black ones embroidered in gold, allowed to fall and keep out the lirht of day. The dressing-table, which looka like an altar, has a curious old altar c oth for its cover, and a priest's vestment, bought at eome auction fate, for the drart-ry in front. The mirror is framed in silver, and under it are tiny hanginz lamps that look exactly like the Ikon9 that th devout Russian puts under tho picture of saint. All the ioil"t paraphernalia is spread out and jut in front is alow etoo!, upholstered in black and gold, upon whic h the fair mistress may bit while her assistant at mysterious rites brushes hc-r hair. Bel-Bbazzar-Iike, there is handwriting on the wall; on y iu tim instance the mottoes are those of encouragement, the one just over the toilet tal.de reading, "(iet patience, swr-et maid, if thou wouldat be lovely." It is rather a ppooky room and the visitor therein has a sort of feeling that ahe had better not .-peak above a whisper, and that materialized jrhosts are likely to ap pear at any moment. On a low shelf near one of the couches is a collection of books on "Woman," how to increase her beauty, how to make her attractive, her fau.ts, her virtue?, her tiny vices and her large ones. In this tfmple her ladyship must concentrate her ideas. To do this she requires one thing, and that is her crystal, and thi stands in a purple; velvet case on the table. When she conies in she calls her maid, whose Frem-h name he ha-twi.-ted into 1ms. and bids her ''Bring me the well of bore." It w brought and she begins to look in it; she drives every tboujht oat of her mind until it i an absolute vacftnry and then she declares that whatever thought she wishes wi.l come to her. I am a tolerably orthodox person, rever havimr had any tendency to spiritualism, pr?6iiiim, agnosticism, or tneosophy, but being tided with optimism, which I take to be the religion of hope; but, being a woman, I thouht I would like to try it aud se what the crystal would do for me. Acting upon the advice of my friend, I thought nothing. I just looked .into that clear ball; then after I had iooked for a whi e, it dawned on uc that I had looked once before in a ball, but I couldn't ted where it was. I stopped looking and said this, and I was advi-ed to think of that, of that alone, and I would see it in the ball. 1 looked and looked intently, I thouuht and thought with dest.eraiion ; staring in that gnat plobe, I seemed 'o see a beautiful large room, a room full of pictures and with cabinets in the center, in which were lovely porcelains an l a great number of the crystal ha! la. I saw a tali, slender, scholarly man, and beside him a small, dcIcate looking trl with braids of yellow hair down her hack, who hel l in ti r hand a crystal. To her the mmi said, "o, that was made in the Last thousands of years ago; they can't make the n here," and then 1 knew who it was. I knew that I was the littl c;rl, and I remembered where I h.d first looked into the crysU s, first wondered about them, and who at rtt toid me the story. The explanation? Well, ray friend insisted that it was magic, but somehow ever :nre I had my fortune told I haven't believed in magic, so 1 went where I always when in trouble to a man. I asked him to explain it to me, and he aid. "What do you remember best?" and I said, "Thing that happened years ago." "Very well." ho sail; "bad you ever touched a crystal between the time you first saw one and the day you held the other in your hand? You had not. Your mind was a blank, you have a wonderfully retentive memory, and in endeavoring to think where you had first seen the crystal the m nd photographed the time and place and the eye 8 w the mental photograph. If you had shut your eyes and laid back on a couch you would have seen just the earn-. It was simply the action of memory, and you would never see in the crystal anything that hadn't happened." fjo the magic is explained away. Nobody gives a party nowadays unless they have a specialist in it. I don't mean one to curt? the aches and ills of humanity, but one w ho is the best among the banjo players, the best among the palmist?, the best am-ng the comic singers or jarylers. Enormous prices are paid to these people, but an immense amount of innocent amusement is gotten out of what they do. It is interesting to note the opinion the different palmists have of yon. Within the past week 1 have been told that I had a violent temper (anl no woman waa ever more easily duped or deladed In the world l, that I should never marry, and if .ever I hal to earn my living- I had better paint pictures. In my early daya I took drawin lesons until my drawing teacher paid thpre was noue in my mother wai injr her money ; and as for painting pictures, I can't even nut a transfer picture on a vase correctly. If I am to start a new school and throw the paint-pot at the wall, I might make a success, for I am pretty correct in my aim, but otherwise I scarcely think I should earn enough to buy ihe license for my dog. This same indignant fen. ale forgot me and read my hand at another party ; there she told me that I was amiable, not easily roused, but when I was that I wa3 very determined, (i can be persuaded to do anything if people go ahout it In the right way). Sh aso said, that I would marry twice, and that if I ever needed to earn my own living I had better go on the tag, as I had great dramatic ability. Either she was wrong or the lines In my hand changed during the intervals that I saw her, but it was ad very funny. She tebs every man that he is gelrish and conceited, and he an nooticeg that och tririal thing as love affairs should not he considered, which is rather mean in her! 8he never gives an vbody any children, and she always tells yvi that your last days are going to be

your best, and then jTou have the pleasure of thinking what a weary time it will be before they come ! 1 fear that I am not a baliever in palmistry. Nobo.lv can doubt that tho hand teiis a great deal about tho person, but it isn't tho l.nes; it is its shape and the way it is used. Fanny Davenport, iu Cleoptra, used her hands most expressively; and in one scene the one where she listened to Marc Antony while he maae love to his wife her hands told the story of her emotions as well as did her face. You knew that the long sleuder fingers wero aching to choke him as he said each loving word. You knew that th-y opened and pressed each other with delight as she heard him defend her. You anew that as they were drawn up they meint war, fierce war, and as she clutched the side of the couch that it was to aid her in keeping quiet when her anger grew too great. At times she seemed to beckon him to come to her, although a curtain was between them, aud at others thoise beautiful, cruel white hands fell despairingly, and you know how she tuf fercd. There ara bands, long, slender, nervous ones that nature meant to hold the lru-h or the pen ; there are others a little shorter, but with very slender tins that can touch the eys of a piano or do anything that requires quickness of motion. There is the fat, dimpled hand that is expressionlcK', though it may be allectionate, and there is the short, square one that hespeiks determination of will, a taint if coaraenees and atemper that will smoulder like a dub lire and break out and rage some day. Trust a woman who sits with ner thumbs up ; she may b determined, but she is not a liar. The ono who coucea:a her thumbs is apt to b3 deceitful and untru;hful. Iook at the thumb if you want to judge of people's intellectual strength, for the longer it is, proportionately, the stronger the brain. Wo forget the individ'ia.itv of the thumb; wa forget that in days gone by, when men did not write, they made their m.irks by impr nting their thumbs in so:"t sea.ing-wax ; that was a man'd s gn manual. And just remember, too, that J?ir Isaac Newton paid: "If any one ever doubted the existence of a God he has only to watch the action of tho thumb of a man." Mrs. Kendal and Mrs. Langtry have hand very much alike, large, white, firm, well bhaprd and betokening strong wi is. Ada lit-ban has an Uiily, ill-formed, decidedly coarse-looking hand. Lillian ltuasell has a white, slender, small hand that ariects you first as essential y the hand of a woman and alterward as the hand of a musician. Mr. Brown-Totter has slender, nervous hands that seem to be certain of everything, but never suggest success in anything. if you want to see a collection of curious hands, interesting hands, you should s-e those belonging to the members of the Woman's press club hands made to hold pens, hands that have taught themselves to hold pens, hands brimming over with mentality, and hands t.at have gather d mental strength wherever th?y went. You n-ed only sit and look at them to get at the brin histories of the women, and I can assure you some of them are very interesting. lint, fter a 1, tho hands that interest us most are the hands tiiat we love. Tht is a good hand whieh is put out to help some one who has fallen by the wayside. That is a good hand winch knorvs how to make pain easier and headaches vanish. That is a good hand which knosvs Low to trie heartily and freely. 'lhat is a good hand which is pet out to help you or me as wu walk along in life w hen w e feel that we need somebody to protect us. That is a good hand which never wrote anything of which it was ashamed and which never put its name to fraud or dishonesty. That is a -l hand which helps alongthe nek and the weak, the helpless and the poor. T nat is a cool han 1 which does its work well; wliatev r it may be, wherever it tr ay be, it do;h not erow weary, and it does its work so that it is worth its wnge. That is a good hind which, after having gosRiped and bubbled, suddenly discovers that it i time to nay good-by and sin its chatter by the name of the writer thereof. Bab. A REPORTER'S CLOSE CALL.

II Got UK Interview, flat lie Was Larky to Get Away With His Llf. "You know I hnve been in the newspaper business a long time and 1 was never known to shirk, not even during a r.ot or blizzard," says an old-timer in the fcst, Louis Jirjmb;ic. "Well, I tame very near tossing up the pencd a fjw nights ago. It was very cold and I had to call on Bishop in reference to mm church matters. Taking a car down town I s on reached the street on which the bishop lived. It was just striking the hour of 1 J. But I had to se the biahop. Wed, sir, I hunted for the number iu tho dark for some time. Not finding it, I waited to see if I could meet some straggler who lived in the neighborhood, l'retty soon along came a nice y dre-sed young fellow in a rather mellow condition. I asked him if he lived in the neighborhood and he said yes'. The truth is the young man was none other than the bihop's son. He told me in a icmi-articulate way that he would go up to his father's room and speak with him about the matter in question. "Headline tho out r-door he unlocked it and asked n.o to walk in. I stepped in, he opened the second door am 1 I walked into the house. Both doors were now locked. The gta had been turned otF. We hunted for a match in vain. We'd, tho young fellow lett me in darkness, uttering a drowsy promise to return soon. I heard him stagger up the stairs all right. Ho went back several paces until I could detect his footsteps no more. lie failed to return. I bedeve he foil asleep and forgot ad about me. I stood thero for about fifteen minutes, not knowing what to do. "I made a modest noise. No result. A more decided noise. Tho same resu'.L I began to walk about, purposely bumping against the furniture. Then something happened. I heard a hoarse voice rbout: 'Tnrow up your hands or you aro a dead man.' "Up went my hands like a shot. "Whiz, bang, bang three bullets rattled over my head. I thought my timo was up. "Io vou know, it ssemg as if I lived my whole fife over in the few minutes 1 was stauding there. When the 'as was lighted the first person I saw was a big burly negro. "The shots brought the bishop out in bis gown and his young son with him. Exp.auations followed. The bouse had been robled a few ni.-hts before, and the negro had been placed in the basement to watch. He fed asleep. My walking about aroused him. He came up stairs, and seeing my shining bat, which I had forgotten to tak oh", he banged away at it. 1 secured the interview, lougiit a new hat the next day, and vowed never to wait in a dark hall, no matter who owned the house." The 11-at Point. Benton Courier. Dr. Toolong "I hope you enjoyed my ermonthis morning."" Miss Frailax "Oh, I did; very much indeed!" Dr. Toolong "What part did you enjoy most?" Miss Pmilax "Oh. that part where you said, "and now finally, brethren." Cuts, sprains, scalds and burns speedily cured by Salvation UiL Trice 25 cents.

CHRISTMAS IX GERMANY.

AN INDIANAPOLIS LADY IN BERLIN. Temperance) Sentiments lleapected Water Bad on Teeth Bad Cake, Hat Goad Coffee Salartea and Vage Cheap Flowers Strange Customs, Etc. Berlin-, Dec. 20. Special. Wise peop'e often make very unwise remarks. Here is one. A lady paw an ox on shipboard, and said she was thankful her bahy wouid have fresh milk all the way. I was standing before a tall Christmas tree with a young woman who had been studying here four years. "Trees are dear this year," she said dreamily. "I suppose where they get them it has not been a good j'ear for this kind of trees." An if fir trees were raised every year from tho seed like cabbages! A German Christmas is something never to bo forgotten. The gay booths, the brilliant display in the shop windows and the forests of Christmas trees make a real fairy land. And as for flowers, there are nearly as many stores where they are for sale as bakeries, and they excel here in making beautiful designs. An Indianapolis young man apologizing for not taking a young lady to bear Patti said he did notbtlievo in cheap ways to win a sirl' heart. Here a young man has no such fear in svnding a friend a floral odoring. One such gift I know of contained ten Marechl Niel roses, several sprays of liiies-of-tho-valley, several bunches of Fngiish violets, delivered, and ad for 2-3 cents. The favorite decoration is the wreath made of every kind of preen material or flowers tied with long ribbons. These re always placed on top of the high four-lcggvd cofBns at funerals, and knowing this I heard a sigh of sympathy every time I saw one carried in the street. But it st ems they are always used for birthday celehrationn, for feasts and often for git' s. Wedneeday afu moon the state (Lutheran) churches had Christmas trees. In the evening we took a walk to see the family trees. The curtains were not drawn and it w as a pretty sight to pas one brillinn tree alter another. Instead of fanta 0 aus they have an angel on top of the tree. We bad an American feast, tree and general good time at the home of the pastor of the American church. Christmas afternoon we went to the German uaethodhst church, where two blazing trees and the exerries by the children made it very pKisant. It" is remarkable how well these little children spe k lierman. The day alter Christmas is the second feast day, lor the celebration lasts threo days here. We were invited to the home of some friend who cannot speak a word of Knglih. When people call here they always expec rffreshment" wine.orbeer, or co ee. There is no cabing the wy American ladies do. The ttermans are much perplexed when Americans reiuse their wine. At this same house, on Te-tu-ni.ng ii'v friend's f,t visit, she thought I refused her w ine b'-cau- it was not good enough. It wa very diificult to exp ain our position with only a feAv German words at com n and. At this dinner they had only canned raspberry ju ce in honor of our temperance eentimeuts. A favorite pudding sauce is canned frr.it juice, and it i better than jehy. When guests are invited to a party coliV-e is usually served on a- rivin?, and it is not iashio'i.ible to be late. Then la'er comes the dinner or supper. Right here the Germans break every known hygienic rule laid dow n in the book'. They live on brer a d wine ni l strong coffee. One young lady seeing me drink water said it was very bad for the teeth. They eo to work ia the morning with only a cup of co lee and one or two rolis. At 11 they take a light lunch; at 2 they eat dinner. No bread or butter, but meat and vegetables. The poorer people cook it a'l together in a big kettle. So i e of then, eat lard on their tread. Their cooking i pecul ar. Everything s greasy and highly seasoned, and d-cidediy mixed. Choeolr.te is put in soup, or sometime nutmeg and spices. As 5 o'clock comes, "cofl'ee" again, and at bed time a hearty supper. Of course they have dyspepsia? They ouht to, but thv don't. They are the healthiest, heartiest people, in spite of a cohol and constant smoking. (Cf course I would not mention this in a temperance lecture.) We took supper one evening with a baron-s. That sounds Imh she lives on the fourth floor but as each chil 1 takes its father's rank without his money, a great m ny title i people here giv les-ons ortake in boarders. i?he lived i'i pleas-ant apartment?, full of beautiful things that looked as if she bad had ancestors. A favorite way hre is to serve tin feast on a tahle in the par or, the guests sitting on the sofa as the place of honor. The china and linen are just lovely. For supper we had lour or tine courses. Eggs, some kind of salted fish, wenier worst, ham, fried meat cakes, cheese, tea, several kinds ol bread, cake, nuts and fruit. This laly had been in Amer.ra, and we were rru- h edihed over her dtci iption of that country. Hie told us all Americans drank, but instead of having it on their tables they took it on the sly. She said Americans ioved gingerbread better than anything else. Then she showed me something she knew I had never seen in America. It wa3 a strip of carpet. "You can't guess what that is made of," she said. As if I had not sewed carpet-rags at a cent a pound in my childhood days! The world is a good deal alike after it L At this dinner I begun describing they had what we children used to call "fishworm" eoup. "Wo have this soup in America, and call it noodle soup," I remarked. "The samo name here," they cried, much pleased. Tho roast veal migh't have once roamed over Malott park, and tho potatoes and stewed apples were neither strange nor peculiar. But the pudding was. It was made of grated potatoes, whites of eight eggs and sugar, and with fruit juice it was delicious. The only trouble was, seeing the pitcher of juice near my plate, I accepted their invitation to put some in my water. Not wanting to act proud, I took a good deal, and then, when I found it was for tha pudding, I felt like pending myself in the corner. It is a German custom to urge you to cat or to stay beyond any reason. But they are B polite and kindhearted any little mistake is eoon forgotten. We sat at the table from 1 o'clock to 3. Then candy, fruit and nuts wrre brought on. At 5 o'clock coffee and cako were served. The Germans can not make good cake nor pie, but in coffee they excel. It is never boded, and sometimes put in boiling water and stirred vigorous y with a long wooden stirer. More boiling water poured in. Then it sits on the stov until it settles. But the better way is to put a tight ly covered steamer over a china coffee pot in which the coffee is placed. Boiling water is poured in and the coffea drips for ten minutes and is delicious. We enjoyed comparing notes on the difference between German and Ameriean customs. The eldest son is in America near our friends and they werw anxious have eome of his letters explained. They Children Cry for

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were perfectly amazed at the distances. Thevhad suppo-'-d Chicago near New York. Then American wage9 seemed almost incredible. The eon at h' me has a wrood place iu the Natural history museum and gets 15 a month. He was fifteen years a soldier and got. besides board and clothes, 50 cents every ten days for wages. The German papers repres-nt the Indians as ready to scalp all tho American citizens and our fricids were much disappointed when they heard how few and iow harmless the poor braves were. We talked over the woman question, of course. They were amazed to see an American papa devote himself to his baby. Of course this led said father to exalt his position. ' WliHt 1" ex l umed the ladb-s, throwing up their hands in horror. 'Tr America will the father wunn the milk at ni.ht?" The answer was he whs a lucky man to tret off that easv. The ladies declared they would go to America, where women never worked, but were waited on and Holized by the men. Then it took all the German vocnbu ry the American woman pos- sed entirely regardless of gemb-is and ten- s to txpl.iin American husbands were not quite Hisgela though near them at times, and wives did not sit with folded hands except in nowls. We left thinking Germ m h me dfe very p.easant aud wondering why so many lett their native laud. The answer is, simplv for money. A young chemistof our acquaintance is what is called a "cierk extrodinary," and yet he g.-ts only $ a week. Good servant girls get 2 and $3 a month. Th best cooks sometimes as high as $T a month. They are treated like slaves, eat1 UK rye bread, and never the luxuries the family have. Many sleep in little closets over the pantry a low, dark, cold rom, reached by a BteMadder from the kitchen below. It is quite annoying at first to have to fee every body for everything, hut it is a custom of the country. About 5 cents does very well. Even "thd street car conductors expect it, and supp'ement their wazes of h ss than $J0O a year that way. The waiters often depend on that as their only m-ans of support. Americans are allsupposed to be rich and they are bled on every occasion. If you snyj'l have little money," the answer i?, "You must be rich or you could not come so far. Only very rich peop.i can travel." Tut unless you have a bill to settle with them the Germans are all ono could ask. There are v any strange customs, but the meanest is that the drivers have, the right of way. If you are run over yu are ararrested ami tlned for stopp mthe wheels of progress. I makes me think of a father who was down a deep we 1. There was no curb around it, and every mo i ent ho expected two or threo children to tumb.e in on him. "The first child that falls in thit well shad have a gooiJ whipping," he shouted. This made the children so indignant they stepped back, and while they were consulting upon this cruel threat the father was abio to get out. So whi e thinking of the mean regulation you keen out of the way of the horses, for it would be hard enough ti have a broken leg without paving the city ior the privilege. Is-w Year's lay is a great tin.e here. Everybody tai s the day otf. The American ladies have a reception at the house of the pastor of the- American church. The German methodists have a reception at their church, supper seven centn. New Year's niht the policemen withdraw from the streets and riot rules as it does after an American election. It is to the boy here what Hallowe'en is in America. The Germans have family reunions and give parties, and it seems to add to tho occasion to know that they will have a hard time to get home. The tin born ia the favorite musical instrument, and no doubt each reader of this paper has lately used up several. Myra Godwin Plactz. J'oor Fruit n J.p-tn. Chlcszo Tribuna. "My wife and I have been Yokohama seventeen years," sai I Thomas L. Boag, recently, "and wo are goin back to England to live, Japan is a jrood enough place to live in " "If you can't get away" put in Mrs. Boag. "The climate is pleasant, but its only a place to make money in. Old married people, euch a3 we are, can get along, but it's lonely for a young man. It isn't like home." '"There's not, ft fruit there fit to cat except grant s," said Mrs. Boag, "aud they're woolly.'' "Yes, the grapes have a few hairs on them, and they taste queer," admitted Mr. Boag. "They have tried apples and pears up in the northern part of the Island of Yeddo, ami they are fine. But the nearect thing to an apple in Yokohama is 'nashi,' which has meat like a coarse pear, and a Huvor like nothing else I know of." A Weak TenHmonml. IFlUgndeBIUr. "Well, doctor, bow do you find our beefsteak?" "Very small for its age." Ask your f riend who have taken Ilood's Sarsaparilla what they think of it, and the replies will bo jei ive in i's favor. Truly the beet advertisin!? which Hood s Sareapari da receives is the hearty indorsement of its army of friends. Pitcher's Caotorla. :

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