Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1893 — Page 11

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If people would only realize how very, rery easy It is to teach children pood manners when they are little It seems 10 me they never would neglect to attend to It. The youngster is allowed to po his own way, to violate every rule of courtesy, sometimes of decency, until his habits are to an extent formed. Then there is a great breaking up of established notions, and the child is punished and nagged and worried for doinff that which it has heretofore been permitted to do without criticism. It becomes anfrered, sullen, unsettled and Irritable, and if it has a stronj? sense of justice which, by the way. Is more common in children than people, as a rule, Rive them credit for It feels outraged and abused and becomes unmanagtable and rebellious. The best school of manners for a child Is the parents' example and home training. Company manners are by all odds the worst element that ever entered into a family. Just why people should indulge themselves In all sorts of careless, indifferent and ill-bred habits when they are alone at home and put on a veneer of courtesy, amiability and polish when somebody comes is one of the many mysteries of this very mysterious thing which we call life. How much easier it would be to maintain the steady, uniform deportment, to follow out the same theories and h,old to the same principles Sunday and week days, storm and shine, alone or in society! Veneers are a makeshift. They may have their usep, but are far less desirable than the solid material all through. One lasts for a little while; the other weathers the storms of time, hard usage and the wear and tear of everyday life. One i3 temporary and wears out with a little contact with the world; the other grows better with every passing year. The earliest training of a child should be in btrict conformation with the most approved society into which it is born. That which is known as Sunday manners or good bt-havinr should be the inHexiWe rule of the household. One of the prettiest sights in the world was witnessed in a public il.i the other day when a boy of nine years ttepped out in advance of his mother and older sister, opened the door, held it with one hand, courteously raised his cap with the other and waited fur them to pass through. It put the blush 011 more than one mature cheek and fausf 1 many a .mother with growing children to wonder why it was that her boys never did anything of that sort. The simple reason was that in that household courtesy was enforced from th cradK. The boy had never been permitted to suppose that he could pass through a door and allow it to swlnpr back into lh" face of his seniors. At the age t f nine years he could offer his mother his arm. escort her to the table, place her chair for her, pick up her fan, handkerchief or gloves and perform any of the little polite acts of everyday existence with the dignity and grace of a courtier. To pay that he was admired by every one would not Ik? in the least an exaggeration. In what striking contrast was his conduct with the indifferent, lounging carelessness of most of the boys with whom he was associated! Hut to attain this degree of ea.se and polish it is scarcely necessary to say that the strictest rules (if good breeding were constantly observed in that family. It may be said that such thing take too much time and trouble, ami that one's home is a place for relaxation and Indulgence in one's personal peculiarities. While this maj' be so, the question would immediately nrise just what habits and practices should be allowed, and whether, under any circumstances, bad manners, loafing and extreme carelessness are to be tolerated. When once one is trained to gooi form, some of the most objectionable features of everyday indulgence become as distasteful as they were aforetime thought comfortable and almost necessary. All of which gos to pioe the truth of thold quotation, "How ue doth work a habit in a man!" N. Y. Ledger. I. on la Alrotl'n Start. In Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's lecture on Louisa Alcott it is mentioned that, at the ape of nineteen, the family circumstances being still very narrow, Louisa embraced an opportunity of service in a family, in which she had every reason to suppose that she could have the position of a friend and companion. The result proved far otherwise, and Miss Alcott has given us some idea of the treatment which she did receive In the etory. written at a later date, of "How I Went Out of Serivce." Her first effort of this kind was written at sixteen, and being published brought her in After various efforts at teaching, sewing and so on. she established herself in a pleasant and highly respectable boarding house in Hoston. The one room was a sky parlor. Here Fhe studied and wrote, and from this little retreat she made descents upon the Boston of that time, profiting hy many of it3 good opportunities. Her Sunday evenings were often spent at Theodore Parker's kindly home, where she would have met Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison and other rotable reformers. Sewing, poorly paid, one fears, helped her to eke out her scanty income, and she usually managed to combine this with her other work. And so, what between teaching and sewing and doing the housework when at home, the time of greatest trial wore away, and we find Louisa, in I860, writing for the Atlantic Monthly and receiving pay v. lileh enabled her to place her sister May at the Boston school for design. She contributed stories to many periodicals, commanding better prices. She now began a wori of more ambitious scope, a romance called "Moods," In which she essayed real studies of character and succeeded so veil as to cause her father to exclaim on reading her manuscript, "Where did you get your metaphysics?" forgetting perhaps how largely he had administered his own to his family. "Little Women" was published In 1S68 and still affords an income to Miss Alcott's heirs. It has been translated into French, German and Dutch. St. Louis (J lobe-Democrat. Why Women Should Marry. If Mrs. Rose M. Crawshay is a very eerious advocate of equal rights for the sexes, she is also a dear lover of a joke and can enjoy one even when it turns against her. Recently at one of her favorite clubs, the Pioneer, Mrs. Crawshay says that a lecture, "Should Women Marry?" was announced. At all previous lectures members of the club had been asked to bring their friends, but this lecture was felt to be so fccrlous that any possible frivolity was warded against by the announcement that none but "Pioneers" would be admitted. Well, Mrs. Crawshay says there were a great many serious reasons given, both in negation and affirmation, and at last one lady rose and declared that the most powerful argument In favor of women marrying had not yet been named. "It is well." she said, "'that women should marry, as however tyrannical a husband may prove, she has, at any rate, put herself out' of reach of the tyranny of her blood relations." It was very seriously and solemnly spoken, but we have Mrs. Crawshay's word for It that all the "Pioneers" laug-hed heartily as they realized whit

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a complete antithesis It was to the old adage, "Better deal with a devil you do know than with one whom you don't know." Chicago Post. "Mother" In ProTfrhn. No language was ever spoken that did not Immortalize the word "mother" in Its proverbs and legends. "Mother, mother! lie who hath her cries tor her. lie who hath her not misses her!" says the Venetian. And the Bergamosk sings, "Mother mine, always mine, whether I be rich or poor." The Hindoo believes "that a mother's love Is best of all," and the Neapolitan says very quaintly, "When the mother is dead the father grows blind." "Children without a mother are like bees without a queen," declares the Russian. The German language has any number of proverbs in which the word "mother" occurs, and which make direct reference to her. "Mother love is always new." "It Is better to lose a rich father than a poor mother," "No matter how poor the mother may be, she will always keep her children warm," "What reaches to the mother's heart stops at the father's knee," are some of the most prominent proverbial sayings. Another qvaint Russian proverb Is the following: "A mother's prayer raises things from the bottom of the sea." "A mother's hand is soft, even when It chastises," says the czech. 'One of the proverbs known to almost every language Is as follows: "A mother can better take care of seven children than seven children of one mother." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Children's Rath. In families where the children are many and the servants are few It Is an excellent plan to have all the children take their morning sponge baths In the bath-room instead of on their own particular rubber mat before their own particular washrtands. It will save the i maid or the mother who has the cham ber work to do a great deal of unnecessary labor. It should be the proud but probably unsought position of the eldest to have the first ten minutes each morning for his or her splash, and each of the others should follow in order of their age. It will be an excellent plan for the mother to have screwed into the wall a set of shelves say three or four one for each child. Each one's own particular mug, blushes, sjMinge, washrag and soapdish should stand upon his own shelf, and he should be taught to respect it. A chest of drawers, with plenty of fresh towels damask, huckaback and Turkishshould te anion? the furnishings of the room. The children should be taught to rinse their brushes and other l-elongings and to carry them into their own rooms, where they may be treated to a thorough sunning and p.'ring on the window III. St. Louis Republic. A Lemon I.nnelieun. One of the prettiest luncheons we have ever attended was also one of the simplest. It was called a lemon luncheon, and all the decorations and dishes carried out the form or color of a lemon. In the center of the table was a small lemon tree in a pot, bearing a couple of specimens of the fruit. The centerpiece was of lemon colored silk. The soup was cream of peas, with the yolk of two eggs beaten and added Just before taking from the fire to give the right color. Fillets of flounder were served with egg sauce and garnished with slices of lemon. The chicken a la supreme in its sauce was of the desired tint. Ices were frozen in the form of lemons, and the Roman punch was flavored and colored with lemon. At each plate lay a souvenir in the form of a large lemon, tied with yellow satin iilaon .jtml lying on u bank of green l.moi leaves. It was really a lemon from which the Inside had been scooped and then tilled with pale yellow cotton batting. In which were concealed tiny gold souvenir pins with lemon heads. Exchange. President Meade Experience. Mrs. Elizabeth Storrs Meade, the stately president of Mt. Holyoke college, told the girls lately a funny story at her own expense. She had been visit in g Springfield to attend a temperance meeting and was rather confused by conllicting directions as to the place- where the conference was to be held. At length she walked into a large room and a large crowd and settled herself comfortably, looking about her with smiles of satisfaction that so many men were interested in the cause of prohibition and were present to discuss it. Then it dawned upon her as equally strange and not so gratifying that her own sex was sparsely represented. She felt a vague di.-tiust and leaned over to a neighbor. "This is the methodist church. Isn't It?" she inquired. "No, ma'am," was the bland answer, "it's the police court." A IiOpk I. oat Friend. Let us offer a prize, or better still let us call a woman's congress on the revival of the pocket. Much valuable breath has been wasted on theosophy and kindred subjects remote from practical life. Whv not bend the common 1 sense of the world to so large a prob lem as how to recover to woman her greatest earthly good, the lost pocket? The following program is suggested for the congress: "The History of the Pocket." "The Career of Woman as Influenced by the Loss of Pocket." "The Possible Future of Woman with a Restored Pocket." "Pocket versus Brains." "The Use and Abuse of the Pocket If We Had One." "Pockets For All, With No Distinction of Sex." Congregationalism llnw n Ilnby "Arqnlrrn. At birth a child is simply "organized suction." He is a lit'tle bundle of animal appetites and propensities, with latent potentiality for good or bad. He is simply what he Is by Inheritance, as he has yet acquired nothing. He develops in body ami mind according tf natural laws. At first hereditary tendencies predominate; then, finally, through environment and education, acquired tendencies prevail, and life Is thus made, up of predisposition and acquisition. Predisposition, or hereditary tendency, determines greatly the nature, quality and extent of all acquisitions physical, mental or moral. It Is essential, therefore, that children should be well born as well as properly trained. Training should precede birth. Nursery Guide. A Rnchelor'M Hint. Here is a crumb of comfort for those whose wardrobe Is limited to a few becoming gowns only. A nice yountj btichelor confided the following comments to his neighbor at dinner the other evening: "I do like a woman who sticks to one or two becoming dresses. She and her dress then become identified with each other, and one gets a distinct Idea of a girl in one's mind. Hut if she is one day in blue and another In yellow, and the next if. red, the individuality of the wearer is quite subservient to that of the gown, and. it is Just like looking at so many fashion plates or a kaleidoscope." Exchange. From Fault to Virtue. It is related of Miss Mary E. Wilklna that ht-c kind thoughtfulness for others Is a marked trait In her character, and that at one time being spoken to -about It she replied: "If I possess such a virtue. It is the result of contrition over my Juvenile manners. I Jiad a party when I was a little girl, and having no sash I wore a blue ribbon round my

waist Another little girl came in resplendent with a sash, and such was my envy that I at once took occasion to tell her that sashes were all out of fashion. My penitence over that piece of feminine cattlshness ought to have done " me rood, and I hope it has." Ram's Horn.

Croan i ntr thr Legra. Women are allowed far less latitude of position than men, and now it is said that the simple crossing of the legs should not be Indulged in even In the privacy of our own rooms, since It invites serious physical ills. Men. when free from restraint, seldom sit with their two feet on the floor. They raise one. till, the ankle rests lightly across the other knee, and no harm Is done. Women rest the entire weight of one leg upon the upper part of the other. The pressure Injures the sensitive nerves and muscles, and often produces sciatica and other serious troubles. Exchange. "Women' In Ranlne. Curious positions are held by some of our American women. For Instance, in Buffalo a woman runs a street cleaning bureau; In Kansas City a woman Is the head of the fire department; a Louisville lady makes special shopping trips to Paris; another in . New York makes fiat furnishing a business; still another in New Hampshire Is president of a street railway company, while Chicago has a ' "Woman embalmer. American Woman's" Journal. (Inecn Victoria RIaea Punctually. Her majesty, while at Balmoral, is always awakened at 8 o'clock by the "dresser," - whose duty It Is to do so. Tea, chocolate and coffee are always in readiness at 8 o'clock, with dry toast and plain biscuits for the queen to make her choice.. The queer.' s earliest question to her attendant is respecting the weather, and she will very frequently plan an expedition from what she hears. Child Training. A mother should have tender and loving but firm control of her child from its first breath. She should as carefully shield it from self consciousness, conceit and willfulness as she does from sce'rtiet fever and whooping cough. She should, above all things, set it a daily example of Justice and truthfulness in the smallest affairs. Exchange. Women StadylnK Lair. The women's class in the law school of the unhersity of New York has opened again and with nearly one hundred students. This is doing better than in any previous year since the class was i organized. THE IIKI.I.S OK LOICi.W. A War-Swept Village Restored by a Devoted I'rient. A few weeks ago at Batilly, at Mars-la-Tour and at Sougy. monuments were erected to the memory of our soldiers who fell for independence and honor. Now it is Loigny which in its turn awakes the sad echoes of the past by calling all faithful hearts to a truly national solemnity, the consecration of its church at last reconstructed, with its belfry once more raised up into the air, and those bells which, after a silence of twenty-three years, recovering the tones that were hushed by the cannon, will now send forth through the immense plain of la Beance their appeals to memory, to prayer and to hope. Our readers know of the church of Loigny. They have heard of the prodigious efforts of charity, of perseverance, and of ingenuity which were made by the worthy Abbe Thoure, the cure of the parish, to lift it from its ruins. Almost all the houses of the village had been destroyed by shells. The ancient church. perforated by projectiles, tumbled down amid the flames. Not a greenary remained standing; not a single portion of a wall remained intact. The cemetery itself, the bloody theater cf a desperate combat that lasted until night, was completely wrecked and its monuments tossed In confusion. All was to be reconstructed. Everywhere life was to be brought out of the debris. It was to this arduous task that the humble priest, who during the war had proved himself .a hero, admired and respected even by. the Germans themselves, devoted hin self with incomparable zeal. He conceived the idea of exhuming the bones that lay buried on the battlefield, and of gathering them under a splendid monument. . He started a subscription, and as soon as he had collected 100,000 francs, he began work. About four thousand Frenchmen, and at least as many Germans, lay dead upon the field on that, cold day of Dec. 2. 1S70. But the enemy, to conceal his losses, consumed with petroleum during the night the bodies of his dead. "I saw," writes the Abbe Theure. "the bodies of the Prussians blocking up the streets to such an extent that. In order to make room for the passage of their cavalry, the enemy were obliged to pile up their dead by the side of the houses and along the fences. I believe that I do not exaggerate when I say that the number of dead Germans in the village alone was between one thousand and twelve hundred, figures which prove sufficiently that the chassepot and the bayonet had done their work. During the night the petroleum also performed its part, for in the morning all that remained was about twenty dead Prussians, left there purposely beyond a doubt to create the belief that that was the extent of theii loss. They were burled with our soldiers, and their remains are now in the ossuary with 1,200 Frenchmen, all mingled in the Christian equality of death." The good cure continued his work until the village and the new church were restored completely. Indeed, it may be said that this church is in reality a vast mausoleum, an enormous ossuary, the most monumental and beautiful of all Europe, .even In the Judgment of the Germans themselves. On enternlg the village of Loigny you read upon a house of the main street the following Inscription: FRENCHMEN. STOP! Think of your brothers who fell here resisting the Prussian Invasion on the 2d of December, 1870. And In front stands the old Inn of St. Jacques, where the Thirty-seventh infantry held out stubbornly until the night. It was here and in the neighboring cemetery that the battle raged In all its fury. Old M. de Fouchler, who commanded that regiment, has at last, after twenty-three years, broken his silence, and is now publishing a pamphlet entitled "One Hundred and Fifty Days with the Army of the Loire; Recollections of the Thirty-seventh Regiment of Infantry. 1S70-1871." The writer modestly holds himself in the shade, but it was impossible for him to emit his famous answer to the Prussian general. The latter, moved by admiration and pity at the sight of our last remaining soldiers struggling like lions against tertlfic odds, and constantly diminishing in number under the hail of bullets, could not help crying out, "Resistance is useless! Cease firing!" "Sir," replied the commander with calm pride, "it Is not my business to stop the fire of my soldiers; It is yours." And the' struggle continued furiously and without mercy until the greater number of the French officers were killed and wounded, and the commander himself, struck by a ball, fell amid the debris of his command. The ceremonies were, splendid. The old bells rang out In triumph, and the pope sent his benediction to Loigny. to the ossuary, and to all present at the consecration. Paris Figaro. To Charity In deed thou llvs't and not In word, Bright gem of philanthropy's coronet; Oft seen art thou, but never heard Like to some perennial floweret. Upon the evil and the JustOn all is bestowed thy beneficence; When Fame's great monuments are dust Still perfect shall be thy magnificence! RICHARI OWEN. Spencer, Nov. 3X

SOCIETY'S NEW DANCES.

SOME nEAlTIFl'L EFFECTS WniCH 31 AY BE EASILY PR OD ICED. The nottern" and Jnrfl"-Hw These Pretty Dnnres May He Hone in n I'm r lor Popular Kntrrlaininrnt for Winter KvrnlnKn How the Dest Results May lie Obtalued. The latest New York fad is the dance exhibition to be given by the younger members of a family as social gatherings during the winter. There are many persons gifted with limited saltatorlal ability, and ."instructors of the art of Terpsichore are constantly racking their brains to invent new figures and novel poses for their pupils. The ordinary round and square dances, while good enough' for ordinary formal functions, are now considered out of date by the Jeunesse doree of New York who are inclined to affect the very latest, or, as one slangy young miss recently expressed, "absolutely the up-to-datesf thing on the-market" The "Jewel" dance is one of the latest. For this an electric battery is necessary. The battery is concealed in a belt which is worn around th drappery of the THE "BUTTERFLY" DANCE. dancer. The belt may be as pretty as is desired, and it need in no way show that It Is different from an ordinary piece of cloth. The dancer, dressed In graceful, flowing robes, flits on the "stage" a corner of the parlor partitioned off by ferns and palms and executes a few graceful steps to slow music, while the audience is enjoying the brilliant colors which are being turned off and on. The color effect is accomplished at the dancer's will by the manipulating of a string, which is passed from the el"Ctric belt through the armhole of the dress and down the sleeve into the hand, where it lies unnoticed. Around the dancer's neck, over her head and for trimming to her dress theie are little incandescent lights which become illuminated as the dancer pulls the string. The most complete way to do the "jewel" dance is to have six young ladies, each representing a separate jewel and each adorned with lights to flash forth different colors, according to the jewel which is to be shown. The "butterfly" dance is another which is appropriate for the evening entertainment of a party of people in the parlor. This is not difficult to learn, because there are few steps to be taken, as the "butterfly" effects are' done principally with the arms and draperies. The most difficult thing about it is the dress which must be of some soft material, with a narrow skirt and broad, winglike pieces fastened upon the sides so that they can be lifted and outstretched like the wings of a butterfly. The parlor "butterfly" dance is like a picture with only enough action to make the wings "lly." The music for the dance is a waltz, and the wings must be so twirled and managed that there is a continual suggestion of the butterfly wings. It is easily learned, and with a little experimenting any young ladies who are graceful pupils of Terpsichore will have learned the trick in a few hours. And for an evening entertainment there is nothing prettier nor more restful and pleasing to the eye. The "angel" dance Is like the butterfly in some respects, only the gowns are pure white, and there are double wings made by placing draperies to hang from the shoulder as well as from under the arms. The "angel" flutters to waltz time and masters the art of the quic k glide which carries her rapidly across the floor without visible steps. The draperies are of the finest sheen and flutter even with the motions of the fans in the audience. The hands in this dance are kept busy managing the gauzy material and .re not visible at all. The neck is dressed high and the head has wings upon It of jeweled pins and glistening gauze lace. The "angel" tableaux are very pretty. Any of the new round dances are beautiful, arranged as the solo dances. Let several young ladies join hands and dance the new deux temps across the room and back, giving. In a slightly exaggerated way. the steps and keeping exact time to the music, and the effect will be found charming. Tha young laA PRETTY TABLEAU. dies can agree upon harmonious dresses and can arrange themselves so that blond and brunette alternate in a very picturesque manner. One of the prettiest parlor dances of the summer was given at one of the palace hotels at a big watering place one evening when a sudden shower kept all Indoors. The dance was only the military schottische, familiar to all dancers for the last year, but the beauty lay in the way it was arranged. Five pretty girls who happened to be dressed respectively in pale pink, light blue, salmon pink, lemon and white, joined the tips of their fingers at the head of the parlor and danced gayly down the full length of the room to the strains of "Dancing in the Barn." What made the dance prettier was that the young ladles were of different types of beauty. These are but a few suggestions of the many . fashionable new parlor dances. Silver and C'lilnu. There Is no doubt that r.lerced silver will be the fashion for man? a long day to come. The large fruit baskets are magnificent. Cups with silver mounts carry all before them. Very chaste are "the pure white china cups, slipped into two silver bands, to which the eilver handle Is attached. Coalport china of a delicate yellow tone Is most effective with the pierced silver mounts. Ijow small dishes of decorated china or of cut glass are used for bonbons, and longer low dishes for celery. A turquoise 'tinted bowl with a fiat cover of enamel Is a pretty saJt cellar. Fluted bowls of china or cut glass ars liked for salads. Olass vaws of green or gold, white and gold or violet tinted are pretty for flowers.

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