Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1894 — Page 10

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY -MORNING, FEBRUAR! 21, 1894 TWELVE PAGES.

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PROPER WAY TO REARTHEM IOW MOTHERS MAY MKC 1IOMB ATTRACTIVE TO TIIH CHILDRCN. Ilorr r.scllsl) AVonifn Piei pproprlnte Deroration V iool 'orr"poinJue Plan tarnrhr In Children rhj-nlcal Cwltnre of ChlMrrn. Ther has com? to our house a littl dimpled burden and hlesinsj combined, making four minds to train, four fouIs to L? kept pure! How is thin to bo clone? There seem to be two extremitio?, and one is as danerrous to the child as the other. One mother allows her child to roam the streets at large the Fcond requires her children to stay at home without putting ler5elf to extra trouble to make home attractive. Roth love and intend to do well by their children, but don't stop to think Furiously why it is their children prefer the streets or how the home could be mule the more attractive of the two. Tt dees not require many toys or luxuries. Is it toys the child seeks on the streets? Give the child a cart-load of toys and leave it to itself, and it will Finn tire of them. What I.-? the prent street attraction? Mothers. top and think. "What can it be? Jt is simply this: A mind stronger than the child's, a stronger mind that lend new ideas to the weaker, and these ideas are eagerly praspei and held by the little one, be they grod or bad. This is why a child had always rather play with a. child older than itself. The stronger always attra?ts and influenc-vs the weaker. Now that w have found wherein lies the street attraction, let us find tlv wherewith to make homo more attractive. This seems easy, especially s-inco nature has kindly given the child a. love for mother, home and its own toys. S'indv the mothe-"s mind is stronger than her child's or thfi;tret urchin's. If so, th-n hom can Tv made the more attractive by the mother bevomini; interested in that which interests the child. Many cry out: "I haven't time to invent new plays for my children, r can't stop my v.-ork to rliy with them." You wül not have to ft op your work long-. In foot, yon will not be stopping your work at all. for isn't the watching over and tniinin? cf your children the most necessary and sacred of all the work that the Father has triven you? Take a few hoards and outline a playhu?e, as near where you work po'siMe. for the little srirl. (live her a bo?; or two, some broken dishes, her doll and a few jreneral directions. Show the little boy where and how to make his barn and corrals. Give him some stick horses, string- harness and a hox wagon. Tell them that Mrs. must really go home, ask them to call r;i you. then go about your w rk, and they will go about their play with a will, never thinking of th--streets, and will be as happy as larks and a3 busy as bees for three or four days, providing- that yon suggest something new once in awhile and call on thni at least onto a day. Take your book or paper when you all en them, and do your susrs-sting when they call on you. ami ask questions which will cause them to think of somethingnew to do. For instance: Ask the little boy if his horse is sick. He will say yes and start out in less than a minute to doctor him. Ask the little girl if she ha cleaned house lately, and Fhe will commence at once to change everything in her playhouse. You have your children so near you, you can hear and see what they are doing, and should you hear or see anything wrong call them to you at once and correct that wrong before it has tim? to take root in the heart. Your children wid have plenty of company if you will allow it, and I really thing- it best, providing you have it positively understood that no bad language or misconduct can be indulged in on your premises. In three or four days the children will need a complete change. Let i hurricane pas over th iir house und 1 arns. .You sympathize greatly with them and 6uggest new buildings, churches, schoolhouses or anything- new. A they grow older, this Sü.rne stronger mind, widening cut to more intelligent things and always keeping the lead, will hold the youths and maidens as well as the child. Minneapolis Housekeeper. IIo-w F.nglish "Women IMot. Over in England, where for six months la th? year all th smart folks are staying at each other's houses, the fatal penalty of obosity follows the luxurious ptyle of living, and nobody can keep tdender except by artificial means. The women rise late, and perhaps are driven to the race course or to luncheon with the shooters. Returning home, they do a little nccidlowork or write letters or play some light game until teatime, after whic-h they read or talk until dinner, where Xha inexorable custom of champagne, the temptations thrown in their way by an excellent c hef, the fatal fruits and liqueurs, all tend toward their ruin. And after din . er it is quite on" the cards that a l-lated game of poker may lead to the further indiscretion of a little supper before rt-tirinp;. Of course the result of all this feasting is one which arouses research in the best methods of avoiding the accumulations of flesh, and the latest discovery is that an occasional week's diet on game, chicken and fish, with moderate caution the rest of the time, will avert the disaster. The menu of the day for this week's fast Includes the early cup of tea with saccharine instead of sugar and a squeeze of lrnoru Erc-akfast, frie-U sole. Luncheon, roast pheasant. An hour later, a glass of claret. At teatime, only tea and saccharine and lemon. Dinner, boiled turbot, grilled chicken or boiled rabbit. That is literally all that 1 allowed, excepting salt. A glass of claret may be indulged in an hour or so after dinner, arid in the middle of the morning end at bedtime a glass of boiling water, with or without lemon, should be sipped. Of course this diet i3 no use at all in liardened eai.?G, but the young- transfrressors, those only beginning to go down the primrose path that leads to obesity, will be grateful for the recipe If It i3 faithfully followed once in awhile for a week. X. Y. Sun. Appropriate Decoration. In furnishing a parlor or drawingroom. It is a good idea to carry out a tapestry effect in all fabric decorations. The knowledge of good embroideries and needlework is now so general that there 1- no excuse for using the flimsy stuff which is offered. It is a comparatively rasy matter to make handsome coverings for furniture, and the old-time embroidered chair seat is coming back. But lt us hope that it will come in a more healthful shape than that in which ;t aforetime existed. Instead of crewels c-n canvas, in which long-eared poodhs reposed upon impossible shaped cushions, ihTP are conventionalized Fprays, vines, flowers and arabesques, that r much easier to do and have an infinitely finer effect than the worsted work iu which our grandmothers delighted. And while one Is about it why not luve out the worsted Idea altogether? The market is full of hand.-crne and durable materials that neither moth nor dust will injure. They are cleanable, of fast colors and will last a lifetime. The rop l:n?ns make superb embroideries and. with proper material as a foundation Iave nothing to be desired. There is a rough, handmade. hotnryua linen that Is coming Into u?e as a

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1 mi foundation for embroidering. Wrought with- linen threads, this makes a port of t a pes? t it that will go down through ihe generations to come. Tt is quite as handsome, as silk and much more practical than the finest crewel work that painstaking needles ever executed. Thr is reason and sense in devoting oue"a time to m ikiner beautiful thines of this sort, and the satisfaction one feels j in having done something that will last adds greatly to the pleasure of u?ing thi new and elegant material. X. Y. Ledger. A Good Correspondence Plan. Here j j a good suggestion for the g;r!s. It relates to an injni'Mis scheme devised by a class of young ladies at school together a few years ajfo. One of them, an English girl, thus explains it: "There were nine of us in the class, and we were all promising to write to each other continually, but in our hearts we knew that such a correspondence could never le kej.t up. Finally one -f tho girls siigeoMed a circulating letter, and the idea pleased ns all. "At the expiration of one monlh from the time we parte!, the tlrst Kirl wrote a letter telling what she had Ken doing and everything about herself which would le likely to interest the others. This letter was sent to the second girl, who, after reading it. wrote Ikt own letter and sent the two to the third. "The third, fourth, fifth and all th others in turn added their letters, until lha ninth on th list sent them all to th first. Then the circuit was complete, and we had the circulating letters fairly under way. "Now of course the envelope always contains nine letters, ard each girl, when It comes to her. takes out her own letter, writes a new one telling what she has been doing- hi the meantime, and starts it on its travels again. "You can have no idea how intere-d ing it i to receive the letter, and how anxiously we all await their arrival when our turn comes. "We have kept it up for nearly four years, and each tlmo the letters tome round the pleasure of reading what all the girls have to say seenis to increase." Harper's Young People. rnrnchr In Children. l'arache is a common complaint in some families, and abscesses in the ear of more or less severity follow every time of taking cold. If the child is old enough to hold his head in the proper position gentle syringing with warm, increasing to hot, water. Is Mill a great relief. Every mother of very voting hildren knows that ths is impossible with them. The little head is turned and twisted and water goes everywhere except where it ought into the ear. On a cold night, too, at midnight, the operation is not feasible. A little sweet oil heated with a spoon over a ilame and three drops of laudanum added, poured uiKti a bit of cotton, will usually afford t -..lif Wl.fln Ilm ..an lwirinc in rHcrVin rce ! IV II li It li' il I III, eil in f,.in' -Ii. v n.wp. warm water. In which a little powdered borncic acid has been dissolved, may be used several times a day, and when the trouble seems to be over a physician ought to make an examination to blowout the ear. Parents are realizing that frequent nasal and aural troubles are not the harmless child affections that are to be exiected and overlooked. They often mean, if neglected, serious results later on. A child who is subject to earache should be carefully watched in the winter, kept from too long play in the snow, well protected, but not overheated about the head and ears. On coming in from out of doors let him keep his hat or cap on for a few minutes, and then first dipix-d back before taking quite off, that the change fr un th close covering may be gradual. N. Y. Times. Phywicnl Culture of Children. You can cause plants and trees to grow straight and in proper form. Then why not cause children to grow into well tice and lKy formed men and wom-m? You noa difference In the carriage, pose movement of a well-raised man or from that of one who ha.s had no training. The girl who has taken dancing lessons and practiced school gymnastics is more graceful, if not more mgged, than the girl who has worked hard all of her life and had no other training than that prescribed by necessity. , There is no good excuse for any one being ungainly and awkward. True, there are those who are somewhat lacking in shapeliness, whose figures ate more or less ungainly. Yet if they are easy, self -possessed and unebstrusive they will not suffer by oomiarison with others who are built to correspond more nearly with Mr. Apollo Belvedere or any other Greek model. Nevertheless, more attention should be given to the physical culture of children. For a half century at least we have teen giving all of our attention to mental culture, allowing the delicate bodies of the children to develop in a haphazard way. It is gratifying to know that many of the leaders in school affairs are calling attention to this particular thing anil urging schools everywhere to introduce some easy, practical system of physical culture. nttshurg Commercial Gazette. French "Women Detect I von. One of the high officials of the French detective department is resionsible for the statement that a number of ladies well known in Parisian society do not disdain to offer their services occasionally to the police for cash down. These are the auxiliaries, but there are others who receive regular salaries, varying from SCO francs to 1.200 francs per month. In illustration of what he means, this official relate that one of his friends who had bought a hou? in the neighborhood of the Arc de Triomphe gave a house warming party, and a day or two before the date he called and expressed the hope that the official would not send WHAT ARE THE "BLUES"? Woman's Color is an Unfailinj momrtcr. Thcr SPECIAL TO OIK LADT XFAHEBS A woman's thermometer is her color. She Is red with embarrassment or seme deep emotion; she is white with fright; she is supposed to be green v.ith envy; but when she is Muc it means that she is fic k. It is not the fault of the woman if she has the . Mites and that " want-to-be-lct-a!one " feeling. It is the fanlt of her condition which makes happiness impossible. No woman can he happy and lihthearted when painful female complaints crush out her life. Ifshe is melancholy, excitable, nervous, dizzy, or troubled with sleeplessness or fainting spells, they are symptoms of serious female weakness. A leaf out of the experience of Mrs. Anna Miller, who lives at Duhrinz. P3.t hrws that Lydia K. Pinkham' Veritable C onipound will cure that f errihlfl weaknef s and bearing-down pain 'n the bdomen, the dizziness in the head, the feeling of irritability, and loss of appetite. 'I ran highly recommend your Vegetable Compound," she write?," for all female complaints. It's my greatest friCDi.'

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him any of his spies. "Have you the lit of the 'guests'."" asked a colleague, who happened to be in the room, with a significant smile. Th li?t was handed to this official, who presently returned it with the remark: "It. would useless to trouble you. You have already live her:-." The functionary added that the ladies who made a specialty of foreign polities were los- numerous, but co?.t more. Paris Journal. Style for Small Hoys. In the present admirable catering to the requirements of young people, fashion has by no means neglected the small boy. One example of her provisions in W IT' Ä FAS 4 W ..A4 this line ? a very becoming tiit for boys from live to ten years old, who are well proportioned and growing fast. It is of cloth, braided in black, with coat and waistcoat of remimlitary Myle. A second becoming and practical miü consists of blue ergo jacket and kllii kerboikeis. with r-d blouse and sailor collar braided with whit0. Sitting' Room nnl l.llr.-rj. A coxy room that is lo be both library and sitting room is furnished with a color combination that has impror-pert m as both cheerful, artistic and not loo fine for daily use. The walls of lhroom are a. light terra eotta. The floor is covered with ingrain filling of a warnt olive, and over it is one large eastern rug that contains many colors, but the prevailing tope nf which is terra, eotta, that inclines to deep old pink. The dafiqoit is of dark iuahog;.iny corduroy, with many c.ojored pillows. This study table of mahogany ha.; ormolu mount :i'g. A mahogany rclining chair, much like a s-a cheir, has the back and scat, cuslii. r-d v.ith figured corduroy that is neither green nop blue. A large wicker chair that is stained mahogany ha a cushion of the same color. There arc several smaller chairs of mahogany. Tho book-shelves, which are "built in" on each side of the fireplace that crosses I lie end of the room, and the curtain to them are of flax volour in olive. The drapery curtains ate of ecru grenadine, with cross stripes of light olive and a hairline of old pink. N. Y. Post. The I'acc n nil Index to Dio-ire. Imtiinplete closure of tie- eyelids, rendering the whites of the eyes visible daring sleep, is a symptom in all acute and chronic diseases of a severe type. It is also to be observ dw liest n : l is rendered unsound by pain, wherever sealed. Twitching of the eyelids, as.--ociatei with the oscillation of the eyeballs, or spuinling. heralds the visit of convulsions. "Widening of the orifices of the jvse. with movements of the nostrils to and fro, joints to embarrassed breathing. fr m disease of the lungs or th.ir pleural investment. tVntration of th brows indicates pain in the head: sharpness of the nostrils, pain i:i th" i-li-t. and a drawn tipjver lip. lvin in th abdomen. To make a general rule, it may be stated that the unr-er tl ird of the face is al tered in expression in affection i thbrain. The middle third, in di:-.-ase of the chest, and the lower t.';ird in diseases of the organs contained in the alHlozniii.il cavity. Hygiene of the NuiKory. Weilcllnc: pen sc . There would be no such question as that which often arises on the occasion of a v.edding. as to sharing the expe nse, if one palpable fac t were Lorn-? in mind. The bride is not yd married, and until after the festal day is still inlaienced by that decree which ordains that a woman should not receive monetary assistance from a .man. ConseuU'ntly it is the worst of taste for a groom to pay for anything except the presents which it may seem good to him to make and the clergyman's fee. All other outlay must be as it has been hitherto, attended to by the family of the bride, and n more now that at any former time should the future husband take the burden off thut family's shoulders. His turn berrins on the day after, anil never before that, while those w ho get rid of expense hereafter must bear that for the bridal. Philadelphia Press. nturiil Olxllnncy. "I believe I am naturally obstinate," said a woman recently. "The things I am expected to do I can't bear to do ard am sure to leave till the last minute. I can't think what else it can be but obstinacy and a natural disinclination to do the things that I have to do." Natural obstinacy must be a common complaint. More than one person pleads guilty to it. It Is so much easier to do the things that are not forced upon ns, and the general wear ami tear in the former case are much greater. Surely the woman who has the physical strength and energy to be on the go all the time Is to be envied, if one is to believe all one hears. And the ones who keep up a round of going without a time for rest in between are in the minority, few and far between. Brooklyn Citizen. Table Screen. Small table screens of threefold form, with panels of celluliod, are the newest invention for the preservation of the eyes. They are very dainty, charming trifles, with white enameled frames ami panels, on which flowers are painted, and they serve to shield the eyes without entirely cutting off the light. They can I? easily shifted and moved about to suit the vtrying necessities of the individual who rever occupies a single chair for any length of time, and they are extremely pretty in themselves, so that they serve a double end. The very fact that they stand upon the table and are not connected with the lamp is an advantage, for they so shield the eyes of one without robbing othevs of the group. Decorator and Furnisher. Cron-i:nmlninKr tt Woman. "Tei me give you my dying advice," said Kufus Choate. "Never oro;- examine a woman. It is of no use. They can not disintegrate the story they have once told. They cannot eliminate the part that is for you from that which is against you. They can le-ilner combine nor shade nor qualify. They Ko for the whole thing, and the moment you begin to cross examine one of them, jnsfad of being bitten by a single rattlesnake, you are bitten by a whole bairelful. I never, excepting in a case absolutely desperate, dared to cross examine a woman." Grcn Bag. The tinentn' eel Iclmnk. Speaking of guests, it is a good idea to lave a needlebook with needles threaded and ready for u.'e on the dressing table. A braid or a button js loosened, a sleeve gies way, a bit of cloth is frayed, and the woman away from home, has not. always her workbox with her. A thimble and a n"dlehook furnished as above, with a pair of scissors, are thoughtful additions to cemfort.

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MRS. PARKHURST TALKS. MOMPA SHOT I.D DK 1IAPPV I THKIIt norm snir.nr,. The Sulijert tf Ii a iieron.i Re AVn in Mlileh Mrs. Ptirklinrt llelii Ihr Ooctor in Hin Work Sonic SnsRe!on for the Consideration of Yvc and Molhers. "I believe that a woman's highest vocation in this lire is as a wife nd mother. I do not believe that women are able .r meant to connote with m n. and there is seldom any necessity for them doing po. There js always plenty of work which is purely womanly which we may all go about without unscxing ourselves." said Mrs. Parkhursl. wife of the nev. Or. Parkhurst of Z? B. Thirty-lifth-M. "When interviewed yesterday morning Mrs. Parkhurst was found in the cozy parlor on the second floor of her home. She wore a garnet cashmere tea gown, with a. corded silk front, and made an attractive picture ;l's she sat with hu-bai-k i.gainst a pair of brown plush curtains. "Then you do r.ot believe in women takintr up professions, Mrs. Parkhurst?" said the reporter. "Well, no; I do pot go as far as that, for I understand that it is necesrary fur some women to le professional lios, but I do not like to see a woman look upon a public carter as the highest aim in life. Whenever I bear anything about women who wish to be seen and heard and become noted. I always think of a little speech made by Susan B. Anthony. She was nddresslng a large audience et women and said: 'Some ef you may be fired with the desire for notoriety, but I will tell you something which will make, a. woman more r.obl and womanly than all the glory that a public career can brills: upon her. It is the ordinary fun -t ion of wife und mother. Nothing can be ahead of either of these positions.' "That is the way I look at it; she cannot reach a higher standard in any prf' osi'.n or on any stage. I myself never had the slightest ambition for prominence, ;m 1 I have always believed thai a woman, no matter what her ciuaiilications may be, can find plenty to do at homo. If she has children they need. :w;d have a right to claim, her care. If she is childless she has not far to look outside her home for womanly work by which she can help some one. "I do not think that a woman should ghe up ;dl her time, thoughts and strength to her children, because in doing :o she must kill the grerMcr part of her own individuality, and it is not right for a woman to do that. Among n.y friends there are several women whom 1 look upon as being perfect mothers. One that occurs to me just now has three children who have grown to le a part of herself. She sympathizes with everything tlry do, whether she approves of it or not. For Instance, the oldest boy wishes to 1 lay foot ball, and his mother does p it deem it wise that he should lay himself open to the injuries which nearly always follow such a game. People come to her and say: "Why do you let that boy play foot-ball: you surely cannot approve of if." 'No, sh will answer, "1 d not approve of it. but the boy wants to play, and I do not think that I have any right to forbid him, as his game is very dear to him. and if I forbid hint from playing he would immediately feci that 1 va out of sympathy with his greatest pleasure.' Now, I beli 've my f; Und is right- Those children of hers never think of doing anything without consulting her. I remember a short tim" ngo she was going to give a child's party for th:n, and, just before the little guests began to arrive, she called the three children aside and told them, lhat she would spend her evening upstairs writing, and that they must enjoy themselves as best they could. Any one that could have heard the hue and cry that went up from thove children when they thought their mother was not going to join In their sjort could readily understand how sympathetic she is with them. The Control of Children. "I am afraid that many mothers make a mistake by not controlling their children properly when they are very young. I think they often imagine that the child is so entirely within their command that they allow little things to pass; this should not he. A woman cannot begin with her children too early if she wishes to te in sympathy with them; she must not leave them to nurses cr governesses, or. in short, to anybody but their own mother. Nobody can hire a mother's care, and so many do not realize what a fatal mistake they are miking when they leave a child, no matter how young, to an ignorant nurse. I think that no matter how wealthy a woman is she must take a real motherly interest in her children In everything they do, from their little games right along up through their studies. I think a child who is brought up in ihat way will be more apt to grow tip in a way which will be satisfactory to the parents in their latter years, and between a mother and daughter there cannot he too close a confidence. A daughter should be brought up so as to feel that there is always one person in whom she may confide everything without the slightest fear of rebuke or shame. And that person should be her mother." ""Would you consider that a girl bremght up in that way would need much chaperoning, Mrs. Parkhurst?" was the next question asked. "No, I do not, and I think the theory of chaperoning is dying out to a gTeat extent, and with it several other notions which were equally a.s foolish. One, for instance, that always seemed to me extremely foolish was that if a girl had a gentleman friend call upon her the rest of the family seemed to think it necessary that they must vacate the room and leave her to entertain him. I thlnK people are getting more sensible now, and that the wiser mothers treat their daughters' friends as friends of the family. A girl who is well brought up must surely need no chaperon in her father's house, if her caller was not a gentleman her first impulse should he to tell her mother. t'linperoim nt the Theater. "Does a girl need a chaperon when escorted to the theater?" "No, I see no reason why she should be chaperoned, and on such an occasion. Of course,, is Is the duty of tho girl's parents to see that she goes with no one that they are not very familiar with. I do not approve of girls going out to these little suppers after theaters, unless they are chaperoned, for I have known of "some of the saddest results to the nicest, kind of gills. I think that the majority of girls are inclined to be good, and prove themselves worthy of tru?t when they are trusted. I have great faith in the whole sex." "Then, in that case, you must, be in perfect sympathy with Dr. Parkhurst's work, and with the rveeple he is trying '-.. reach." "I am." answered Mis. Parkhurst, "in perfect sympathy with m.v husband. I have, nlwnys refused lo be interviewed about his work, but 1 never wish to appear otherwise than in the greatest sympathy in all that he ha done fid is doing. One of my greatest pleasures is in helping him to carry out his ides."' "In what way do you help Dr. Parkhurst?" B-sked th" reporter. "Well. I usually attend to all th people who come here to see him. and I have 6cen a great number of women who have come to him for help. They are utually

quite willing to tell m their story, and If I .think it necessary I refer them to the doctor." "In what mode do these women usually come to you, Mrs. Parkhurst? Are they wrathful, or do they seek pity?" Thse were the next questions asked. .""Well, they come In different ways. I have had a few that have come here feeling, very hard to Dr. Parkhurst. but upon investigation I have always found that their feelings have been wrought up by the police. Fully half a dozen women have come hero to me in a very angry humo. and when I have got at their story I have always found that Ihey have ben sent by some member of the police force who Is spitefully inclined toward my husband. One woman came here in a towering passion the other day, saying that she wanted to see the doctor immediately. I thought it was well that she should, and I left them together. She had not talked to hlni for three minutes before she was completely melted, and as she left the house she said to me, 'Why. Dr. Parkhurst Is not so awful, after all. You know the policemen told ni that if I applied to him he would surely send me to the island for six months. "I am sure that peopl are beginning to understand now that my husband is working for a good purpose. The remits are better than I ever expected theni to be on both men and women. One of the most beautiful proofs I have had of this are stories which have lately l eached mo of men who have married the women whom Toe fore they shunned as an evil thing."

A riOMSKR JOrRN'AI.IST. ilr. Inbcl W. nail Has a Double Claim on the Title. Looking back to Hie sixties, we must admit that for a girl in short clothes it seemed then a far cry from a prairie cabin to a desk in the sanctum of some great newspaper and the privileges of a journalist in the counsel of the state and national capitals. This lops:, hard road was traveled by Isabel Worrell, a successful "Washington special correspondent and one of the founders of the "Western authors and artists' dub. Mrs. Rail was born at Hennepin, HI., over thirty years asro. 1 p-r parents were Scotch-Irish, that compound race which MKS. l.SAHKL WOKKELL HALL gave western America many of its most able, thrifty and energetic pioneers. In c hildhood she was a good scholar and in youth studied history and law. At the age of sixteen a weakness of the eyes compelled her to leave school, and about that time her home was transferred to western Kansas. There she turned her hand to cattle herding, became a horsewoman skilled with the lsso and the gun and coaxed back good health by outdoor exercise. She also taught district school and tended store whil-i in hr teens. From IsTG to 1SSG she served as clerk during sessions of the Kansas legislature and also as press reporter. She wrote for the Albuquerque Journal and the Kansas City Times and followed up the construction party of the Atlantic & pacific railroad across Arizona and New Mexico. The work demanded a re; ort er who could live in a gripsack and smile at dancer. Today it was an Indian outbreak of Comanche's or Apaches, and tomorrow a washout or a wreck In the heart of the hostile Indian country, which must be "written up on the spot." She narrowly escaped with her life and once saw two of her companions on the same car shot down while battling with Indians. On her return to civilization she served as editor on various papers, was secretary of the Kansas historical society, and finally, in 1S!U, removed to "Washington. Besides her journalistic work, Mrs. Ball has contributed to the western periodical press. She does not lay claim to drawing-room graces, nor does she care for fashionable life. But she is a moving spirit in the club which she helped create and also a leader among women, though not a suffragist. THEO. HOLLAND. THE BEST Your wife will Anticipating the demand, epecial arrangements to supply

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POINTS OF SUPERIORITY. INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, SEWING MÄCHINE Has the latest deeign of bent woodwork, with skeleton drawer cases, mads in both walnut and oak, highly finished and tht Boost durable made. The stand ia rigid and strong, hating brace from over each nd of treadle rod to table, ha a large balance wheel with belt replace, a very eaey motion of treadle. The head ia free of plate tenMonp, the machine is to Bet that without any chnnpe of upper or lower tension you can cew lrom No. 40 lo No. 150 thread, and by a rery slightchanga of dipc tension on fare plate, you can eew from "the coarsest to the finest thread. It has a self-setting needle and loose pulley device cn hand wheel for winding bobbins without running the machine. It is adjustable in all its benrinee and has less spring than any other sewing machine on the market. It is the quickest to thread, being eelf-threadinp:, except the eye of needle. It Is the easiest machine in cnanging length cf stitch, and is very quiet and easy running.

Address all orders to THE SENTINEL, Indianapolis, Ind. P. S. This Machine is shipped direct from the manufactory to the purchaser, saving ad CUiidle men's profits.

THE LAWS OF HEALTH.

A 1VCLU-KOW. AfTHOR'S IDEA OF DIET, DRKiS AD DISEASE. Mlrinm Coles Harri, the Author, of "Itntlcilgc," !We a Breej- Plea for Right Living Poison Thnt Tnste (iond, nntl Comfortable' Heated Kooni. (Copyright, 1SD1. by American Tress Association.) When, you have poisoned your blood by breathing bad air, and weakened all your organs by living in unwholesome heat, and eaten everything1 calculated to ruin your health, you cry out for help. Having fallen into the hands of two enemies, you call in a. third, and I think the worst of all, to get you out of your trouble. People generally forget that medicine is made for rare emergencies, not for daily use; for remedy, not for sustenance. And nine times. out of ton it hurts more than it help?. If we would throw physio to th dogs and then follow the example of the dogs in joinc ways, we should do better for ourselves. AVhat does a dog do if he gets sick? fJoes down into the cellar, and lies with his nose against the stones for a day or two, and doesn't eat anything, and comes out all light. He is cured bynature and riot by patent medicines. Jn most cases a day or two of dieting would bring us out all right, with no drug disease to be cured after the other disease is conquered. We get bilious. Heavens! Th harm that word has done; Tho poor liver, what nonsense is talked in its name! tJenerally it is no trouble with the liver, but a protest of the stomach at being overloaded, that make people think they are bilious, whatever that may mean. And they begin to dose themselves, when all they need is to diet themselves. Th stomach and liver are near neighbors, and one affects the other. When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. but it is a pity to lay the blame on the one that is probably only remotely implicated to give the severe remedies which are required to stim-ilate the liver when the stomach only is out of order. Any thoughtful person must see the consequences of indiscriminate, irresponsible dosing according to symptoms. The patent medicine is the foundation stone of its inventor's fortune, but the stone about the neck of the poor wret- h who gets In the habit of using it. If you are really ill. send for a good doctor. If you are only suffering from, breaking all the known laws of health, begin to think about it and reform. And with scarcely an exception you will find that a foot bath and a night's rest, will set you all right. The energy of nature to restore is amazing-. Only believe in it and give it a chance. Don't weaken its energy by drugs which it can't fight against. Think of the powerful stuff lone up in those little packages and bottlesthe concent ration of forces that one may well tremble evoke'. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." Ignorant charlatans make up the drugs that men of science would not dare to put in the hands of those ignorant of medicine. "It is cheaper than having the doc-tor." "Well, believe me. those patent medicines are the dearest things you ever Knight. You pay for them with your health, your very life. The cheapest thing is nature; good sense, the next cheapest. But. good heavens, how rare it is! Men and women think alxut other things intelligently enough, but when it cetmes to thinking about preserving health and living rationally they become idiotic. They keep their houses overhot with heated iron because it is comfortable and saves trouble, and they feed themselves with, poison because it "tastes good" and because everybody does it, and they dose themselves at random with pills and potions that may contain hell tire, for aught they know to the contrary, because it is cheaper and dxs not cost as much as sending for the doctor and is easier than studying up the matter. Human nature has no quality more surprising than its absolute childishness, its disinclination to think out everyday matters for itself, its disposition to jog on in the old ruts. The brawny mechanics and wholesome farmers of Great Britain and the sturdy peasants of France and Germany deserve no credit for living longer and being more healthy than our people. Generations of their ancestors have fed on a low diet and lived hardy lives, and they take it for granted that stone Hours, and two or three pieces of green wood on a hearty and gruel and Kans for dinner, and a sour brown loaf for supper are all that can be asked for comfort. It seems only a happy accident that they are not mating poison and lyins down in the fire, for they certainly do not think about it. But in America MACHINE be, in want of a THE SENTINEL has made your wants. On Ruffler, with One Set of 4 Plate One Kinder, Ono Presser Foot. One Heratnr and

One Braider root. One Tucker, One Quilter, One Plate Gaupe, One tdide for Braider, One Oil Can (with Oil), One Thread Cutter,

people do think, leastways about other thimrs. and it is a pity that they cannot be induced to think about that most important of all sciences the science cf everyday life, the making the Tost of our t'Odies, and the oidcring of our households according to the Iv.vs cf health. More evil Js wrought by want of thoucht Than ever by want of heart. You g'X-d American fathers Ptri husbands do not mean to dwarf or kill your children, you do not mean to break down your wives with overwork and unwholesome food, but aro you not doing it all the same? Assistant. Secretary Andrews of the state board of health of Iowa has prepared an interesting tabl of cases of insanity within the sta'e and th alarming growth of the malady, creclallv among the people living in the

rural district? The totM mi mber cf cases Increased from l.r.'." in l1- to 1.143 in is:o. Dr. Andrews says the increase is larger in the rural districts among th farmers, and especially among ther wives and daughters. He is unable to account for it unless by the humdrum, bard-workinc. pleasure-ignoring live they lead. He may be light in putting it down to that, but 1 do i;ot quite agrei with hint. A good, healihy animal dos not lose its wits for a. seui imer.tal eaute. A well-groomed, well-bedded man or woman can pull through pretty hard work and pretty heavy weather and ! none the worse for it. The same work and weather woul1 break down the same man or woman ill-f -d. drugged and stified with lad air. A joyless existence is not good for anybody, but it is n t se bad as one blighted by the material evils we have been contemplating. MIRIAM COLES HARRIS. tiii; tviiAi,!:. Onre f'pon a Time It lind Fonr T.eg nnd Lived Cpnn the I.nnd. Australia is set in th midst of a wha! frequented sea, and it is but mtural, therefore, that Sydney should have l!i lest collation of whales in the world. An observer of the natural hi.-tory -f tho whale writes from ibere; The whali is not a fish at all. It is a warm-blooded, air-breathinc, simple, affectionate animal. It has descended from a family which "one. uiv-iii a time" ii,i,l four !"gs and live! upon the land. The law of nature is that if any organ is not ul It becomes atrophied, useless, and finally disappears. If a man uses Ids tongue t-. much and neglects bis brain Ibe latter will become atrophied. Wo cm see tlit law- working today in New South "Wales. The whale family found tic- life was loo hard o:i shore, so ihe ntcmK-rs too; to the sea, A tail was of more service there than l.öid legs, so tho bind Ish gradually went out of fashion, and the tail devt loped e normously. Then the fore paws were gradually inodific-d into a monster fin. The first time T noticed anything peculiar alout a whale was off the coat of Peru a good many years ago. We bad harpooned a large sperm whale that had a. calf with her. and the whole ,p sire of the mother whale appeared to be to save her babe, which was between twelve and fifteen feet long. "When the mother rose to the surface, gasping? for air, Fho tried to get the baby onto ber great fin and carry her away from th cruel hunters, but the rope attached to the harpoon kept her back. She had tr give way to the merciless power of Ikv pursuers, and her frantic efforts on he. half of her bale only hastened her own doom. After She bad covered the f-e.t with blood and foam and lay "fin up" in death the little one crmo alongside of the dead mother and rubbed its nose against the smooth, black skin and whistled pitifully to the one lhat would answer nevermore. When we had planted our flag on the dead mother's 1-.ly and cut loose from our banoon it bec ame; necessary to kill the little one. A protest arose from all the crew, for .we were human beings, with hearts as( tender as other poop, and we were touched at the sight of the baby whale's grief, but we had to submit to see it harpooned, for its own sake. It had lost the "school" of whales now to v.hic'.i its mother lelngd and it would be starved to death on the trackless sea, or it would fall an easy victim to the swordlish. thrashers, sharks or other pirates of the sea. Mir Tl miked Cod. Mamma (to little daughter! "Never forget to thank God for everything, my ch L" c nild "If I didn't like it. t-o?" Mamma "Yes, always; everything is for the best." Child running In an hour later) "Mamma, thank God I've broke the new pitcher." Harper's Young People. "Women. n l-KK Cooker. There are said to be 125 ways for cookie eggs. All the brides -we know have but one way frying. After they have kept house a number of years they hwvn how to hard boil them. We once heard of a woman who knew how to ook eges four ways, but we regarded it as a Liiry tale. Atchison Globe. ON EARTH ? -.' . n i ' 5 Ho. 4. if it is not as advertised. No,f be furnished with the STATR

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ATTACHMENTS Accompanying; Each EVlpchina ARE AS FOLLOWS:

chirrer Plate, Hemmers, Feller, 1 Attachments In bracket are all interchangeable into hub on presaer tSA I Fix Bobbins, Feven Needles, One Irpe Screw Driver, One Small Screw Driver, One Wrench, One Instruction Book.

WARRANTY. Every Machine is fullv warranted for five years. Anf part proving defective will be replaced free of charge, excepting needles, bobbins and shuttles.