Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1891 — Page 9

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TALKS OYER THE TEA-CUPS,

A NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE WOMEN. Other Mstter Teat Interest tti Fair Dr. llglttful Kntlit i. nd Customs Lt Tout I!.to Grow-Tlie Tulip Crnxs In New Yolk Observations. A writer in an eastern paper says: "When a woman goes into a thing she goes with her who! heart, and all of her acquaintance.." There opens Sunday in Washington a pre at national coulc'.I of women, where 10,K0 of them were present, representing 7C0 00 others. It scorns queer that the women of the country should be ofT attending a convention while the ir.en remain at home. This convention is tho outgrowth of the International council hell ut Washington in 1S.SS, when the international anl the national eoumil were formed. The aim of the National council is to combine nil heal societies having the F.unu obj-et, into National societies, those in turn to be eligible to auxiliaryship in the National council. The object of this National council is "unity for the general good of women, and through them of all humanity." Susan It. Anthony was the leading spirit in this vast movement, but the National council is not to be devoted to sunraje and Miss .Anthony refused the presidency of the organization, in order that a:.ti-eiitira.:ists might not be prejudiced against them. Miss Frances Willed was chosen as first president, an office which s) e still holds. Miss Anthony was elected vice-president at largo; Miss M. Louise Thomas, treasurer; Marv F. Ftst-man, recording secretary, and Miss Miy Wright Sew ell of this city, correfj sending secretary. The following noted women aro on the program for papers: Sunday The ltevs. Ida C. IIuHia, Anna If. Shaw, F. Tapper, Jlary A. felord and Lou me y. baker. "Womeu in Charities and Philanthropies," president's address, Francis V- Willsrd. "state Control and Sue'al Care of Impendent Clashes; V onixo's Miare io the Work," A una darlui spencer, ilrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, TJaasi'lr. N. Y. I"h .W1 ot Women in Public Institutions," Ir. Knse Wricht llrynu. "Datits of our I'ecjle to tha Dependent P-wr," Alice C. Field er, Mrs. Thomas A. Ifenihicks, Mrs. Ilsrret A. Tonrrisemt. "Iniu-trial Matin Occupation of Women of Today.'' Mary F. Seymour. "T be Illinou Woman's Allicuce," Corrine S. Drown. "Temperance," Mrs. Mary T. Latlirop. "The Temperance Temple," Mittilda TL Care, Mr-i. Mary Hunt, Airs. James U. Ilobh. Tlie Woinats Temperance Pnbl!sliini Association." Mary Allen West. Mrs. Caroline II. buel, Mr. ZereMa (i. Wallace. "Women in Iteliirious Work: Women's Status in the Church Today," the Iter, ihla F. Topter. "Women in the Methodist Church," Miss Jane M. Ilinrrot't. "The Occidental Hoard of Foreign Missions," Mr-i. K. V. Iiobbins. 'Cu-etlucntion a Tart of Education," Mrs. I.ncirHn 11. Stone. "A New 1'hase of Woman's Education in America Darcard College." Mr. Anne Nathan Meyer. "A r.eT-ew of r.eeent Books on Education of Women," Mis Helen Webster. ".Carried Women in the Public Schools," Mary A. Ilipley, Chr"tine LIJ Fraukhn. "1 he Wotnssn s Club," Ella Dietz Clymer, Mr. Jennie C. Cro'y. "The Moral Influence of Women's Association," Mrs. Chariot:e Kmerson Urown. "Tne Isabella Association," Dr. Julia Holmei Smith. "The Hoard of Lndy Manneers of the Columbian Exposition," Mertha llonore Palmer, Chicazo. "The Political Enfranchisement of Women; The Campaign in boulu Dakota," Mr.. Mary Seymour Howell. "Women in the Farmers' Alliance," Miss Mary K. Leat. -What lo the Signs of the Times Signify?' Mrs. Antoinette Van lloesen Wakeruan. The care with which the program and ppeakcrs have been selected, the hijzh nandins of the women representing the council, an.l the interest which all feel in it, are a sutlicient guarantee that it will be a euccc.s and honor to the country. A CUP OP TEA. Delightful Custom n1 rd la Various Purtt ,f World. Wherever two or three women are gathered there alo will be found the cup that cheers. Whether a woman is the hosdees at a larjr; rect ption, or a lonely old maid in a tare, jthird-floor room, fche has her cup of tea to offer her visitor. Tut two women at a email, round table, fill the delicate e-shedi cupa with amber colored tea ami then listen. The delicate eteamln; aroma which rises will brins a pink plow to the face?, drive the weary look from the eyes and unlock the lips. Secrets that have been rehjrously kept for a month I no woman can keep a secret longer than a month) are told in "atrictest confidence.'' o j otent is the charm of ta that the drinker not only tells all her own affairs out the i-eccine a tririe forgetful and ttd.'ts the eecretaconlided to her by her neighbor. In no one function of her establishment doe a woman liave bo wide a ranre, apparent y, as in the wiving of a cup of te.i. Ihe greatest variety and individuaiitv ia observed in the tea "tray or canister. The Kussian samovar an-1 the Fnglish kettle are alike popular; at one house a tea ball han.'s from a gold or fcilver ring; at another an old laquered canister, from which tho tea is labeled with a tiny pewter bucket, stands close at han.L Or another tea tray wdl be a wide jar with a close cover, from which the tea leaves are taken with a spoon which has been iu the family for generations. Tea cozies too, admit of great variety. The Enirlir-h cozy, a lar?e cone of guilted silk, sometimes handsomely embroidered and Hometime very plain; and the Japan e cozy, a padded case in a wicker cover which fits snugly dow n over the teapot, are rivals for popu ar favor. When it comes to tea itself individual taste is aain displayed. Among the distinctively faxhiouahie teas, is the "caravan" tea, which is the Chinese leaf brought across .Sberia by caravan. Indian tea in another favorite. It is said to be absolutely unadulterated, and it has a delicate flavor, quite unlike Formoso or Oolong. There has been recently introduced into this country gome genuine Chine. tea which is said to be delightful. It is called the "Fung loud imported Chinese celestial tea," and i very scs.rce and highpriced. Instead of leaves this tea comes in dark litthr rods resembling tiny hund.es of fagots, the leaves b-dn? roiled into this form. Then each littio package is tied with bright ribbons. The directions given by the Chinese for the making are tiiese: "fake a half tenepoon'ul for each cup. I:ins.e wed the teapot with boiling water, and alter it ia thoroughly scalded put la

the tea and pour boiling water over it.

l t it draw only live minutes. Thn pour oil the water and you may a id more water to th;; same leaves, as they will admit of several drawings." And now for the tea service itpelf. Tho newest afternoon tea Fcrvice bails from England, the land of afternoon teas. W ho does not remember wading through Knglish novels wheio on every other pao tho heroino drank a cup of tea? However, this dainty tea service is heart shaped. The teajRtt, cups, saucers and even the china tray tire in the form of a heart. Sea-shell pink tints the interior of the cups nnd borders the saucers and plates. In the center of euch on a white ground the owner's monogram or crest should appear. It is the fashion now for a lady to stick her christian name on everything, nnd Maude, Marguerite or Susan appears in flourishing gold letters on everything. All sorts of focial inzenuity is exhausted on species of afternoon tea. " Every flower in tho garden and now t he herbs of the field aro standing sponsor lor these nlfairs. There are lavender tens, the proceeds of w hlch go for thi benefit of a home for old hnl.es, and a catnip tea, the proceeds of which are to be invested in a home lYr indifiit felines, is in prospect. Washington gives a matecito tea, which is simply a litt:e tea party and no; h:n more, nnd New Yorkers have salmon Ua, where the hostess dons a salmon-colored gown, tho service i palmo:i-co!oml, pn 1 a massive cold salmon graces the sideboard. By the way, tho tea-gown, which has reigned supreme for ho long a time, is now turned over to tho cook, and the less poetic house-dress ii taking its p'ace. A wr.Ur, speaking of the house-dress, rays: "A ciose-litting robe, long, cut a la princesse, and draped perhaps a little in trout. It can be. mad- with a hiph or haif low neck, with sleeves or with mere wings of crepe. It can be put on for afternoon tea and worn all eveninz unless there is a dinner party, which m-cesitates a full toilet. It will bear the richest trimming of lace or passementerie or fur, but it does not admit of the loo-e folds and frou-frou peculiar to the tea gown. In these dresses und it) evening dresses the tendency is still to use the finest materials possdiie, and the very handsomest trimmings." I,. A. S. LET YOUR BANCS GROW. Hints Concerning Coming Imiovnt loos ltofiirrilnc enr:ne the Hair. Fndonbtedly the bang is going, says tho Atlanta Cvnftiintion. And in its place what shall there be to grace the brow of womankind? Fashion sternly declares that smooth bands of hair re to curve from their parting in the middle over the ears, as in the pictures of crinolined ladies, taken about the time when last in this country "grimvisaged war put aside his wrinkled front." Would that the ladies had put on wrinkled fronts, for even cat waves would be preferable to those variously colored hair Slasters seen covering the cars of bygone aguerreotvped gentlewomen. A few Atlanta women have almost, but not quite, drawn their tresses over the ears, bringing them down so as to have very much that ell'ect. Eut it is to be observed that these women a low a lew stray ringlets to pecn out from beneath their madonna-like waves, and that their hair is so rarely exipiisite as to make this way of arranging it a.s elective as it is odL For an oval face, with soft, madonna brow and eyes, this serene, bangles arrangement is most ellective; but w hat is the little, piquant flirtatious woman to do without that little mist of ringlets about her brow that mist from which her great eves glance up and weave their spells? Then the dark-eyed, artistic, dreamy cdrl, what will she tlo without the dusky ringlets above her poetic brow? Hut strangt st of all will the actresses appearthe actresses who revel in euch monstrous assortments of bangles and frizz"8. Fancy the chorus girls and ballet girls with parted hair brushed smoothly over the ears as Miss Betsy Trot wood was wont to wear her hair adornment. When this day of queer slgnts comes, however, I suppose it will all seem in keeping, for fashion makes all things fair and appropriate. THE TULIf CRAZE. Another Fad That la Attracting New York Society Womu. There is a veritable tulip craze raging in New York jus: now, says a New York exchange. Society people seem to have wakened up suddet.lv to the keenest appreciation of the graceful form and vivid coloring of the tulip, and are now using them lavishly for the decoration of dinner j tables and ot drawing-rooms. Sax or seven thousand tuups were used by a florist lor the embellishment of two bouses on the occasion of last month's receptions. Ihev were chiefly red and yellow, and their arrangement through the ha Is nnd the drawing-rooms was so effective that the men and women a ive to possibilities on decoration caught on to the tulip idea at once, and since that time the demand for tulips has reached very much larger dimensions. It will be interesting to a great it. any pconle to know that tulips and tulip buibs are by no means so scarce in New York as they were in Amsterdam at the time of the Historical craze there, and therefore not so expensive. Indeed, a great deal of decoration, and comparatively permanent decoration at that, can Le accomplisned on a reasonably small expenditure. Sixty or seventy oi them are planted in a wide, flat wooden box, the sides are covered with silvered paper the box is tied around with white ribbon, meeting in bow at one of the corners, and a decided. y unique result is achieved. The window of the Broadway florist is ablaze with these flowers. They are to be met with in hulf the drawing-roorcg of the town, and the craze givesevery promise of growing. As to their cost the host did not probably pay more than $5. 0 for the (i.OOO plants distributed through the drawing-rooms, while a similar number of roses would have cost thousands. OBSERVATIONS. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett w ill soon return to the United States. She has been writing a new play tluriug her stay iu Europe. Miss Anna W. Kelly of Denver has just been elected reading clerk to the Colorado state senate. She reads rapidly, correctly and with a clearness of accent and pronunciation. Tha oriental craze is on the wane in Erg and and no Japanese pottery is now seen in the best houses. Just now pretty new Devonshire pottery, odd Normandy pitchers, jugs, candlesticks and vases and dainty Comport china are in favor. Table glass is gilded around the edsre, if not alt over, and has the owner's initials in gold letters on each article. It is a pretty fashion to have everything in a bedroom to correspond. A charming room we know of has the bedspread, bureau-cover and wa3hstand splasher all made of pale blue linen "powdered" with yellow primroses. The linen is edged with narrow lac and the white muslin curtains are tied back with primrose yellow ribbons. The carpet is of the same

shade of blue in Brussels "filling," which is, ns you know, a solid color, and tho furniture for this pretty room is of white enamel. When tired of the too often commonplace cloth or whatever is pMeed under the rose-bowl in the center of the diuim!table hide it awry in a dark closet and put in its place a dainty hemstitched linen handUerrhicf which you have yourself adorned with some embroidery in colors to match the tinting of the china or the flow ers. And be sure the embroidery is done in wash silk. If any of your guests do not udmire tho contrast between the texture of the kerchief anil that of the damask on which it lies, set him down as having no soul above turnips and potatoes and a "boiied dinner." Society in the Fast has adopted a fad that is a decided sensation. Dancing", ot the sort executed bv tho ballet dancers across the footlights, is to become a feature of afternoon entertainments. The professional sinzer and elocutionist have taken the places of the young amateurs who formerly sang and recited at receptions and teas. Several society beauties arn nddine tho sk.rt dance to their lit of accomplishments, and will soon try their daring accomplishment before an audience of their friends. Most of the Indies having danced in public in the kirmess will have no f.t'so scruples against imitating the brihiant C'armencita before their friends. Some new brocaded silk bags', for holding flowers upon the dinner table, are thus described by a fashionuble fancy article maker: One delicate pink brocaded sack with its full heading lined with satin springs from a base formed of a large, fullblown roj-e, four or live clo.e rows of petals round the bag. Another much larger one had a broad band dow n the center of dark velvet, covered all over with thick upstanding embroidery of roses, nnd this was flanked on either side by very ILdit b'uish pink s.din. There was a tin inside for the flowers, which fell over tho white heading, but on the outside there was au artificial bramble stem with prominent thorns, wonderfully natural and hlended with this were artiticia! roses, forget-me-nots, and poppies. Sometimes orchiils and begonias, t'en violets and panties, and thrice pretty delicate sprays of ferns. PREPARING FOR THE END.

Fijians Make Their Own Coffins and Some (io In A live. IN. Y. Times. The Fijians spend no inconsiderablo part of their lives making mats in which to t e buried, and every bouse has a greater or smaller pile of them rolled up among the raitcrs. w ith w hich their ow ners will not part for love or money. Wherever graves are ma 1c they aro bottomed with clean dry sand brought from the seashore, and sometimes sarcophagi are made of slabs ot soft sandstone, over w hich, w hen the In dies are placed within, a slab of the same material in lowered, and the grave li.led in with earth. Formerly cave sepulchers were formed by digkrimr straight down for fifteen or twenty feet and then running a shaft horizontally for an equal distance. In a hol-lowel-out chamber at the end of the shaft the body was laid, generally in a reclining position. In the case of very olel per.iocs, to whom it seemed desirable to hint that, as they had outlived tho usefulness, it would be decent for them to accelerate the shuttling nil' of this mortal coil, it was common not to wait for their decease, but to put them in the holo while still alive, leavingthe aperture open, and dropping food down the perpendicular shaft at stated intervals. V hen th food wa observed to be no longer utilized the natural conclusion was that the inniatt bad said farewell to mundane affairs, ami the hole was stopped by rolling a stone over it and covering it with earth. 1'y this considerate action the veteran who lagged superfluous on the stage was gently assisted to that better land for which the sagacity of his relations perceived that he was so wed fitted. A FORGER IN CHURCH. Action of riytuouth Church of Brooklyn i:xcitli Discussion. N. Y. PrcM.l "I have been studying- for some time," said a prominent clergyman to mo yesterday, "over the moral efl'ect of the "recent action of l'lymouth church in Brooklyn in pnssiug a resolution retaining in membership a forger who is now in tho penitentiary. In spite of the injunction tj judge not lest ye be judged, it does not seem that this method of dealing w ith the criminal is good for th'. public or for the church. The man had been a heartless forger. Iiis misdeeds ran through a long series of years. He was discovered, apprehended, punished. Then he became contrite. lie was rejentant only when found out, and he asserted his repentance as being acceotable to his Creator. "So the church decided not to drop him from the rolls, but to extend its helping hand to him in prison. Tins is in accordance with the spirit, 'neither do I condemn thee.' But not in nccordar.ee with the direction that mnn shall do work meet for repentance. The ell'ect of Christian fellowship might have been equally well preserved if the forger had been put on probation, suspend d, or otherwise dealt with so that his future standing in tho church should depend on his future conduct. His eudd.'ii cntritcness and the action of the church look too much like laving the plan to secure his pardon from prison at an early day, and if that should be done it will give tho public an idea that men who steal the livery of heaven to serve tho devil mav have practical immunity fro.n punishment. Did the Doctor I. trn If Fee? Tbs ireeo Bn. J Defendant "Now, docthor, by vartuo of your oath, didn't I say : Kill or cure, eloctor, I'll give you a guinea?' and didn't you say: 'Kill or cure, I'll take it?" Doctcr "You did; and I agreed to the bargain, and I want the guinea accordingly." Defendant "Now, docthor, by vartue of your oath, answer this: 'Did you cure my wife." " Doctor "No; she's dead. Yrou know that." Defendant ''Now, docthor, by vartue of your oath, answer this: 'Did vou kill mv wife?"' Doctor "No; she died of her illness." Defendant (triumphantly to the bench) 'Your worship, see this. You heard him tell our bargain; it was to kill or cure. By vartue of his oath be done neither and he axes his fee!" And Tet Th!r Interiors Need Attention. I rue s.i "Why tlo you think the Indians should be managed by tho war department, instead of by the interior?" ."Because they are warriors; not interiors." Twenty Years at Least. Botnn Courier, J Quidnunc "What makes your hair so much grayer than your whiskers?" Bulfinch "Why, my hair is a great deal older than my whiskers,"

CLIMBING SOCIAL LADDERS.

HOW THE WOMEN CUT ONE ANOTHER. IlnVs" Weekly Hubert or Gossip Klder IIas:r1 Authors Chess rtertil.nrt t ml Wherrln S!i Is Stroll? Sou ThlucsTuat Malts One lire J. New York, Eeb. 20. Copyrighted. We hear every day of people who get black and blue iu their efforts to climb the social ladder. We hear of peop'e who are scornfully spoken of as among tho "focial climbers," and every now and then somebody wonders if they will reach the bight to which they are climbing. They will if they have skins like hippopotamuses and plenty of money; if they do not mind being snubbed by a woman, and then approaching her the next t!;:y with n smile, expecting another snub, willing to take it, and yet to smile again the day after. They must a'so learn that two kicks down the rounds of the ladder which they w ish to climb must only pvc them impetus to ily up five more. Thc-y inut be willing to spend money, and spend it in great quantities, and they must run alter a lion, try to capture him, nnd exhibit him in golden chains in their drawing-rooms; but, above all, they must feed their guests well, and that is whoro the social climber too often makes a mistake. Mrs. Blucblood can afford to offer her guests pale claret cup and wafers, but Mrs. Climber cannot conteut hers with anything lees than fizz, terrapin, and gnme. To make her people satisfied with themselves, she must give them of the best in the land. Her reward? Well, it is in tho hereafter. When she gets where she wants to go, when she has reached tho bight of bliss she can snub women who aro trying to follow her example, and she can cutoff her visiting list a 1 those who hvlped her in her early struggles, but whom she counts as belonging io the iueliicihk'S nowadays. There are always a few women who wili not assist the climber, no matter bow much money she may spend or how entirely she may suimit to being kicked metaphorically, of course. One delightful womnn here will control the people who visit at her house, and once, when a well-known cli-uber went up to her and said "I am going to do myself the pleasure of coming to your next Tuesday," she was locked at through a pair of lorgntttes by a pair of piercing gray eyes, and the answer came with beautiful clearness, "I elo not admit to my ho life people who are not on mv visiting list." Another woman, who thought that by gushing and giving a gTcat deal of personal information she could get to where she wished, grew very familiar with a youm; married woman and said to her, "I wonder that you use roug-j; 1 didn't know anybody but the demi-monde elid that." With a sweet smile ti e haughty young matron answered: "Youjare very fortunate in knowiug anything about ihvir habits or them; my acquaintances have always been in a different set" As this was audible to the entire room, the would-be lamiiiar friend was most beautifully cut. That women is an abomination upon the face of the earth who coes around gessiping to the rest of womankind about the habi'.s, costumes, and special friends of women of the other world. Shecannever really account creditaoly for this knowledge, and her listener has a perfect right to conclude that she has acquaintances among them, although" it is most probable she has gathered her stories from different men. Arnerieran women are learning to do like their 1'rench sisters i. e.f to entirely ignore these ladies, and when they meet them to stare as b.ankly as if there was no material figure near them. This is the art of the woman of the world, who never sees the disagieeable in life. It is probable that nobody lias left such a pleasant impre sion of himself that Is, no Kngosh body as Mr. Ki ier Haggard. He was only here a little while, but during that time both be and his wife were made much of and cntettained, and tbey showed that they thoroughly liked it. Wide travel has taken away from them the iDsular prejudices of the average Jlnglish, and they are prepared to meet the jdeasai.t smile with a pleasant, nod condescending one, and to find gexxl wherever goodliness and kindliness are to be met. Mrs. Haggard is a most devoted wife, her husband's companion wherever ho goes, and so pleased were they with the people whom they saw in New York that they think of returning this way to me'et their new friends again. Haven't you a great liking for the man who wrote "King Solonion'o Mines" and "Cleopatra?" And haven't you a great scorn for those people who, worn out mentally, talk of imagination as if it w ere a language that could be learned, rather than a gut straight from Clod at one's birth? And don't you think these samo priggish writers, who will give you reams on the family purse, discuss woman'8 josition in the political world, whether society women ouht to wear low-neck gowns", ministers white ties, and actors fur-lined overcoats, would be much more des -tide if they had a little imagination? 1 t.i't you suppose that all the people who have g m delight in books, from Shakpeare to 'other Goose, have been people of vivid imagination? It makes ine feel as if 1 should like to be John 1 Sullivan, and fell to the earth thosa commonplace, matter-of-fact critics who dip their pens iu acid end write words that mark them asses. Apropos of writers, it is curious to hear the discussions about them when their pictures have bren seen. Mr. Haggard is extremely picturesque-looking, and a picture of him with an orchid ia his buttonhole is that of a man earnest, bright, imaginative, and agreeable. Two other pictures furnish curious contrasts ; they are those of Jerome K. Jerome and liudyard Kipling. One thing that makes them look alike fer a second is that each man wears a mustache and eyeglasses, and yet when you look into the faces closely you discover bow absolutely dissimilar they are. Jerome's face is that of a man wtio is lovabh?, nnd who would beloved by everybody around him. There is a keen sense of humor and a bit of a pathetic look that reminds one, eveu when he is funniest, how a little pathos will creep in. He looks like a man who would be delightful to live with, who would have good and gentle thoughts of all people, and who would do his best wherever he might he. Now, ltuelyard Kipling. There is an immense amount of originality in that face ; it is the face of a man who at twen-tv-six is forty, and yet it doesn't look as if he were mirroring Ids own experiences but those of other people. It's a face that could be bard, or could be very attractive. It's a face of a cvnical man, but not a cynic. And a cynical man is the one who is sarcastic at the expensa of tho world,

because bis tlearost friend suffered. To, my mind it is a face that suggests that the great know ledge of woman that the man has come to him through bis acquaintance with an older woman, and I wonder it Mrs. Hauksbee had a prototype in India, and if Hudyard Kiphngever knew her well. It is a complex face; you can keep on looking at it : and ou don't seem to solve tho riddb' of it; but when you remember it is th- face of a man who wrote "Danny Deever," you feel bke tak:ng off your hat and bowing to it. That's the way thepictures of three well know men ailccted me, and 1 think you will agree with mc about them. How son, under the cloak of charity, will a game of chess be played with the pieces represented by the handsomest of women and the best looking of men, with smali children ns paw ns? It is the last fr.d in London, and the crush to see the kraine was something marvelous. The costumes were founded on dresses of the Tudor perio I, were perfect iu every detail, while the red queen and king were absolutely superb. The irame was vlayed by two cxpTt chess platers, and long goid wands were used to touch the pieces as a cue for their moving, This was done in th-i most sUtcly way, a peculiar slow Ftcp being chosen and adhered to by all. It is a novel idea, nnd whoever first gets it up hero will certainly make much money for whatever charity it may be played for. The mo.lit religious person in tho world can't object to it, as they might to a game of poker, while the artist who delights in picturesque effects in seeing beautiful women beautifully gowned will have a marvelous treat for his eys offered to him at what seems a marvelously low price. Madame Sarah, as she has announced she prefers to be called, is once more with m. ami once more her marvelous personality has to be acknowledged, l'uttinz tisido for a moment ht-r great geniu, forgetting for a while how she really makes you f-cl that she is the character she represents, what woman i there today who has such a strong individuality indeed that extends over the world? I'eople who have never heard or never thought of tho czarina of Kussia read eagerly every word that is said about Madame Sarah, l'tople who don't care about the toppling of thrones or the upris ng of nations seek for the lat new criticism of a play iu which she has performed, of tho last book she bis approved, or the last picture that has pleased her. It is the woman who com minds this, ami this very fact ought to bring her greater delight than if it were the genii:?, for it proves that, different from all other women, she yet has akingdom that of the world and her subjects are all over it. No woman has ever controlled the fashions as she has, and that is saying more than much. She has been written of by the greatest writers of the day; she has been paiuted by the bestknown artist, and though they come and go, they are here today and there tomorrow, Madame Bernhardt, like the sphinx, is the same. Except that she is better looking r.ow than when she first came to us, there is but little change in her, and the r"port of the fat, one is pleased to chronicle, is simply a filling up ef the angles that is most becoming. A man asked me if I could understand her: he might as well have asked me if I had a secret of that woman who looks out on the Lgyptian sands, who was old when Cleopatra was young, and w ho has never opened her tips to disclose that which the knows so well. There never has been a woman like Madame Bernhardt before. She, like the orchid in its fine-st state cf cultivation, is the product of the nineteenth century. People t!k about Uaebel of her wonderful eenius, of the tragedy that her life was; but it can ne-ver be said of her as it is of Sarah, that she is mistiess of anything she wants to control. I atn firmly convinced that if tomorrow Sarah conclr.de'd to go in for crnnd onera she would rival Pa ti, and the whole world would be convinced tlv.t there never haei been euch a voice. Madame Sarah is a woman of successes, and to success every humnn being in this world mast bow down that is, this sort of succes?, the success of the intellect. It's the time of year when people don't feel very well and complain of being tired, when The massage woman tells you in broken English that all the people in this country are "so," and raises her hands up hiudi and then puts them way down, and von realize that she means that ouo extreme or the other, as far as health or happiness is concerned. But we all do got tired. I am tired hearing the weather discussed. You are; tired of discu.-sing it. 1 am tired of hearing people who don't know the first, meaning of consideration wonder w bother other people live up to their creeds. You are tired of knowing thit they don't. I am tired of bearing women talk, talk, talk about nothing but themselves, their gowns and their admirers. You are tired of being among those women. I am tired of clergymen who trouble themselvco about everything but the poor of their parish. You arc tired of being the pctor. I am tired of men who talk well and act badly. You are tired of knowing the truth about them. I am tired of politicians who writa their promises in th hand. You are tired of seeing the great ocean come up and wash them away. I am tired of seeing children who don't respect their parents. You are tired of seeing parents who do not consider their children. But there, we will get over the tired feeling after a while; vre will take a dose of quinine and sunshine combined, and we will discover that there are things in this worbl that are good and of which we never tire books, babies, sweets, dotrs, pictures, music, and good acting. We agree about this. Tlease don't say you are tired of Bab. A LIFE-SAVING SKIRT.

Th Device of a l.dr to Sit llsrself From Drowning. Detroit Nws. "While my wife nn 1 I were on our last trip to Eur pe," said a gentleman tho other dsy, "we met a middle-aged lady who was going over for her health, and my wife and she became great friend?. One day while sitting in th ladies' private cabin the la-ly said: 'Let me show you my life-preserver,' ami removing her outer skirt my wife behe'd a skirt that was a curiosity if "nothing more. "Kunning np and down tho skirt, at a distance of two or thre-e inches, were soft, flexible rubber bands about two inches wide. They were sewed on at the side of each band and ran all the way around the rkirt, and at the top they were all joined to a broad rubber band" six inches wide. At the top of this band was a rubber tube about two feet long, anol which rati ii the waist io front and was left resting on the top of the corset. "Said the lady, 'You behold one of my own inventions for saving my lif . In case of an accident all I have to do is to take tho 1 end of the rubber tube in mv mouth, and in two roinutes I can fill all of the rubber bands, which aro hollow and air tight with air. Then tying the tube in a hard knot, I am ready for the waves. This

skirt, when I strike the water, will spread out in the shape of a pond iilv leaf, and I will rest on it in an upright position, as easy as though rc'inir.g upon a couch, and l can float around till picked up.'

"As our vovage was a pleasant one, v.e ' did not have an opportunity to see bow it would work, but I have no doubt it would work well." JUDGE BERKSHIRE DEAD. Another of Indiana's Jurists lias i'asel Away. North Vitnvox, Feb. 19. Special. Judge Berkshire is dea l. He pas-e l away this afternoon nt 4:4' and will be j buried Monday next. There has been I little hopes of bis recovery from the bej ginning of bis illness. JudK'e Berkshire was taken ill with a severe cold about two weeks ao, and enfeebled as he was at the time from very close application to his official duties, his svstem was in no condition to withstand the ravages cf the insidious diseas e 'lhe blight cold soon developed into a decided case of pneumotiit, and but a few days required to detenu ine tlu oad. Judge John i. Berkshire, supreme iuJe of the second Indiana ji. strict was bom in Bourbon county, Ky., Nov. 1-. 1S111, and was at the time of bis death in his sixtieth year. With the exception of five years he lived alt of his life in Indiana. InlS")7ho began the practice of law at Versailles, this state.Ho was letted judge of tbl first judiciae distriot in October of 161, and served three terms of six years each. He was the nominee of the republican party for supremo judge in 1SS2, and was defeated, practicing law after that year in Mt. Vernon, where be removed bis .family in 1MN7. In 1RSS he was again nominated by acclamation by the republicans for the supreme judgeship, making tho race more successfully the second time. He has been faithful auei industrious In Iris work e-n the bench, and the resolutions of respect which the bar will pass thn afternoon will express the esteem in which be was held as a lawyer, judge and citizen. JUDGS ELLIOTT INTERVIEWED. Mow th Deceased Ws Us;rdel by Ills Kmkueiit Assoelnte. "The news of Judge Berkshire's death is a startling surpriso to mo," remarked Judge B. K. Elliott to a Skntixkx repot ter last night, "coming as it does so near the recent death of Judge Mitchell. It is perhaps a singular coincidence that these two deaths are the first of any of tha judges er ex-judges who have been my associates on the supreme bench during the ten years of my judicial career. "Judge Berkshire possessed in no ordinary degree the excellent quality of good common sense. He was thoroughly a self-mado man and was fond of telling reminiscetises ' f tho time when iu his early manhood he toiled at the forge, lie afterward attended the law course at Asbury university, and tbcti served for nineteen years ascircuit judge of IJipley county. Two years since he entered upon the duties of the sunremo bench. He labored hard in that ditlieult position too hard, in fact, for he followed the laborious task of preparing opinions most conscientiously. As a judge, he wms honest in his convictions anil earnest in his desire to carry them out. His rectitude is acknowledged by all. He w as a good lawver and a geod judge. To his great credit as a man, despite a certain positivenos of character, he was tender-hearted, generous to a fault and charitable. When the news of Judge Mitchell's demise was announce S to the supreme court, Judtre Berkshire broke down completely and, strong man nhs wa, wept like a child. Most cheering intelligence of a change for the better in his conditijn had reached the court, and 1 can hardly yet realize that he who so lately was with us in apparently the full strength of manhood has heard the call and answered tho dread summons of death." CLEVELAND AND felLVEIt. An Indiana Democrat Kxprenses Ills Op. position to Free Coinnit". To tiih Editor Sir: Your tribute in a recent issue to the courage of ex-President Cleveland on the silver question is graceful aud just. I think you might have gone farther and affirmed that his silver letter is another evidence that Jus mind is accurately informed and that it is a thney warning to his party to ca'l a halt on this question. While the bu'lion value of the two metals is so radically apart, free coinage -that is the light of the producer to have silver coined into dollar.-. simply means that this country vvid be the doubling ground of the sarpius silver of the world, and that even the gold proeluced in this country will cease to seek our mints for coinage. Tor example : You are a mine owner, or if it suit better, tho president of tho farmers' alliance is a mine owner and producer of both metals say GO per cent, of silver and 40 jer cent, of gold. He has the right under "free coinage" to take his bars aud h's bricks; to tho mint. His gold bars aro worth 'J't per cent, more in Ixmdon than his silver bricks. Would not tho voluminous l'ol'c, the president of the alliance, send his gold bars to london and exchange them for silver with the odds of "3 or 20 or even 10 per cent, in his favor? Ho can then bring his bricks to the mint and under free coinage" pocket the profits. This is a gor.d thing lor the in in-.' owners, but what becomes of gold? Is it not clear that it will make us like Ibiskia. Austria and the republics couth of us "a silver nation?" This view is met by tha statement that the same argument was made when silver was restored to the coinage of the country, and that it was untrue then and is not well-founded now. This answer would bo conclusive if there bo no limit to our caIiacity to absorb; but there is a limit, 'ranee found it in a coinairo of $-7iK),000,-000 of 6ilver aud suspeuded silver coinage, and thus maintains ihe double standard. A like ratio would give us about l,10t,- j 000,01 0. So there is no immediate danger if the matter of coi rag 3 I e left with the treasury department. The treasury and therefore the people get the benefit of tho profits on silver coinage instead of the mine owners, w ho are jut such "infants" as the protected barons. Free coina'0 means, in the near future, the debasement of the circulating medium, and the debasement of currency means wild and reckless speculation, panic, and the further oppression of the producing classes. Doi'blk Standard. Ills frecertent. IPuck. "What's the charge against the man?" asked the judge. "He passeei a bad bill off on a car conductor, replied tho prosecutor. "P ease, your honor,' said the prisoner, 'I didn't know it was any harm. I used to be a republican member of congress; and we wasn't anv of us arrested for passI ins bad bills, then."

A TRAGIC JOKE IX PARIS.

HOW TWO YOUNG ARTISTS DIED. Two Deaths Foll iw Ths Joks Prnvt Os Artist to SuicWle, nt When tlis Joker Found th H..tljr II Killed llluisslf. Ever since Paul Cornoyer had drawn landscapes and browsing cattle on his slatj ut school, his mother had believed in his genius, says the New York Ktcninj Sun. She did not hopo that he would becoma an artist some day she knew it. She had treasured his pencil sketches, each one better than the last, and f. It be would make a name for himself when he grew up. Paul's father was a wholesale liquor dealer, a hard-headed man, unsentimental, who measured conscience by dollars, and eauged the world by greenbacks. He did not believe in the soul or art. Ho did not know such a thinir existed ; so when Taut lei t school and talked of Paris and studios and Art wilh a capital A, his father looked at him as if he thought be were crazy. "Send vou to Paris for two vears? Not much, my boy. I've heard a tiling or two about Paris, and as for art well, that's as good an excuse as any fur going to Paris." There was where the mother came in. She came to the oefense. She exhibited, first, the boyish sketches, then the better drawings made by the pencil of the growing voutli, and finally a washy sketch of a dark corner of the warehouse done ia water color. The b'st bit of rcalim caught the obi man's fancy. The clever conception o( sun'ight streaming through the du-t-laden atmosphere, and touching the grimy barrels with a golden light, perhaps reminded him of their value in the same colored metal. How natural the rust on the hoops nnd that cobweb over the rightband window-pane looked to him! But what pleased him most was not the hi autv of the coloring or the composition, but the fact that the boy had not omitted to suggest, faintly, tbo letters on one bar rcl which read: i ! FINK sa-YKAR-OLD KENTUCKY PLL'K GRASS. And he straightway offered Paul the magnificent sum of j-J.oO if he would make the leticrs plainer, so he could uso it as an adveitis ni.euL It would look flue ia thu sample room with a touch of bright red or yellow in it and a $1..'X) gold frame, lie thought. And if the tirm name could be worked into that streak of sunlight ia blue letters how well it would co! This was the extent of the paternal appreciation of the artistic efforts of hia son, but it was appreciated to a certain extent. And the picture won the old man over. It was settled afterward that Taul should go to Paris and work under the eyes of the great artist. "But," sai 1 tho man of gin and whisky in a bulk, "if you do rot get a picture bung up in the big saloon over there after two yenrs, you mustn't expert no more moiii-v from me. for I'll give you nothing. Yon'il have to shift for yourself, and I'll put what I've squandered on you down to profit and loss and close tho books." Paul sailed away with a hopeful heart. He studied under" Benjamin Constant and Ife bvre. and became a faithful and con scientious student. Pora year he worked hard. "Next year," he thought. "Only two years to study before I oiler a picture to the salon, lint it's got to bo done and I'll doit." And so the pile of stndies in his studio erew larger and each one showed a bolder hand and n clearer thought titan its predecessor. Early in the spring of tho see-ond year he staried for the coast of Malaga to conceive what was to be his masterpiece bis picture for tho s:ilon. Poramonth he worked feverishly until he settled down to one subject, then the artistic fever came strong upon him, and it was only when bo slept that his hands did not bear tha burden of brushes and palette. The canvas that so engrossed bis mind was a picture of the coat of Spain near Malac.t, which be was enlarging and composing from faithful sketches done on the spot. The scene was thoroughly Mediterranean. In the foreground wns a sandy done covered with w ild laurels, cactus and aloe, interspersed with silken spears of burned yellow grabs. Ttie brilliant salmon-colored sand showed in patches here and there, while crouched behind this clump of vegetation were three soldiers of the puarda costa. or coast guard, peering through the 1-aves at a felucca, whose orange-colored sail was plainly visible oif shore. The picture was finished, and hebronght it to Paris and sent it to the salon. Then followed the anxious days, until final'- the day came when the decision of the judge was to be announced. Paul sat in a cafe with a dozen other artists, a'l waiting for news from their pictures, when in walked Jack Jenkins, another Yankee artist, who shared Paul's studio, lie had just bad good, good news, and ho felt 60 delighted that bis mind bad conceived a brilliant joke, and he gravely proceeded to carry it out. "Your picture's been reje-cted, old boy," he said, slapping Paul on the back, "and so has mine; but we'll try again, be?"and he w inked at the other artists. Without a word Cornoyer went out. He walked directly to his studio, and Bitting down t a table wroie a brief note. 'Dear mother," it ran. "I'm tired out, and it's no use. My picture was not hung iu the salon, (ioo l-by." An hour later Jenkins came up the slops two at a time. He had been looking for Paul, end wondered where bo bad gone. lie opened the door of the studio and stepped in quickly. II is foot stepped in something wet; he hastily struck a match, and by its flickering light be saw Paul stretched out on the floor with a revolver in his right hand. He w as dead. Jack fctared without uttering a sound. Then he picked up the revolver, lighted another match, and looked into the cylinder. Pour cartridges remained. The match burned elovvn to bis finuer and he dropped it. The burning end fell upon the lloor w here it was wet, and sputtered out as Jack pulled back th hammer. A delegation of friends came to the studio the next day to congratulate the two American artists over the success of their pictures, aud to te 1 Paul that hia picture bad tsken the third medal. They found two bodies, lying one across the other. Folium If. Tuck. Teacher "Where is Ire'and?" Smart Pupil "Under England."

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