Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1901 — Page 7

FOR WOMEN AND HOME

ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS AND MATRONS. Don't Toll Your Woos — Soto Tour Friends —Too May Need Them Some D*y — What to Do When Bine —Don’ts for Girls. KEEP YOUR SECRETS. When in a “state of nerves” it is best not to seek human sympathy. Likely as not our friends have troubles of their own and it’s altogether too bad to risk breaking the possible weak link of the chain of friendship. *And this is just what lots of us do. When everything is using us awry we go to see Sue or Kit. If shown the palegreen silk Sue has just L-ought for a waist we remind her how ghastly Louise looked in that- shade of pale green and furthermore acridly admit it’s a color we’d never choose for ourselves. On the other hand, if we favor (?) Kit with our society we probably give her to understand that we think her children ought to be turned out during the visit, or, if she has no children, we perhaps suggest that there ought to be a law compelling people to make their maids wear feltsoled shoes. Or perhaps it’s the dog or the sunshine. And then no doubt we go home and waste time wondering why friends aren’t what they used to be. So take that famous piece of advice and “don’t.” When the blue devils get you just fly away to the park, unless you can get to the country or the seashore. There you may tell your trials to the trees, with no fear of upsetting them. Their nerves are warranted. They'll murmur any amount of consolation and go right along with their work, caring not one whit whether or not you think their choice of autumn garb is a success. Ot go to the clouds. They’ll take on all sorts of shapes for your diversion and still “roll by," none the worse for

1. With soft loose crimps in front, the hair puffed out over the ears at the sides; a twisted knot at the back projecting most in a line with the eyes. 2. Marcel waved puffing in front, loose twists at the back, over a coil. 3. Marcel waved and shaped pompadour, series of coils and puffs at the back, side combs of white horn, with colored gold heading, pompon of green leaves.

DON’TS FOR GIRLS-

Don’t r waste emotion. Life Is very short, and excessive feeling disturbs the brain, weakens the heart and ages-the body. Don’t be proud. Be self-respecting. Let none use you as a stepladder. Offer to assist when you can. Don’t preach; live your sermons. Be honest, virtuous, - obliging, merry and wise, but don’t be Pharisaical. Don’t judge men by their raiment or by their speech. Flattery is a cheap and belittling thing, and many a shabby man has a noble soul, says the Pittsburg Chronicle.

MODEL SUIT.

Of blue broadcloth, trimmed with stitched straps and mink fur.

WOMEN’S INCOMES. It is generally said that in respect of tipping women are not generous. They are Always credited with narrow dealings with cabmen, and they do not fee waiters on the same scale as the other sex. On this subject man always waxes facetious, but he is entirely forgetful of the fact which has been

your attention-, says the Daily News. If even the park is out of question •try it on the dog. He’ll listen with the most flattering attention and if you lay on the agony strong enough he may whimper his sympathy. At any rate, he’ll stay by you and sit close until you take a more roseate view of affairs in this vale of tears. And then he’ll show his glee most, unmistakably. How his tail will fly! Should none of these be within your reach there’s still- one solace left. You can surely recall some person much worse off than yourself. In conning over his or her woes you will at least And comparative comfort At any rate, cave your friends. You may need them some day.

With continued shoulder seams, Stitched strapping and leaf-shaped revers. The coat is half-fitting, with four seams left open for some distance from the bottom.

SOME OF THE LATEST COIFFURES.

pointed out in a recent letter to a dally contemporary on an entirely different subject that women’s incomes are generally controlled by the more “generous” sex. Women’s allowances are more often than not cut down to the slenderest proportions; and it is astonishing what they are expected to do with their money. Men, on the other hand, control their ■own purses; they have no account to give of the way they spend, and if they kept an account of the money they so “generously” give way. they would find that they spend sums which they would account appalling were they on the debit side of wives and sisters. It is a favorite formula of man that woman is reckless and extravagant; but if one comes to go into details, Instead of looking at totals, it” wiU generally be found that the tables can be easily turned, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. In nine cases out of ten, nay, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred could the truth be known, a man tips, and tips generously to save himself trouble, and in order to keep up appearances. A woman, as a rule, has little margin from which to give extras, but when she does, she is not actuated by the same motives. In money matters man is rarely just to woman, and it is for this reason, perhaps, that she has shown symptoms of a revolt.

Many pew and attractive designs of buckles and fancy ornaments are displayed, burnished silver (French gray finish), gilt, Roman gold, combinations of pearls and rhinestones, jet and homeric patterns being among the number. ■ Qun metal is a favorite material this season for buckles, and from it are fashioned also other articles, such as match safes, hatpins, collar and cuff buttons, knife cases, charms, chains, watch cases and purse tops. A novelty in belt sets is the bar arrangement. The belt is made of straps of velvet or satin, and the bars are of gilt studded with turquoise, amethyst or other stones. There are three bars to a set and a buckle matching the bars. One is Placed at the back and the others at each side. The elastic beaded girdles in steel and Jet continue in popularity, says the Brooklyn Eagle. % ■ '-i ‘ J . t r

AUTUMN COATS.

newest buckle ideas.

COURT OF HONOR AT ST. LOUIS.

The general ground plans and perspective views of the buildings of the Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exposition are on exhibition. They are the designs of the most celebrated architects of the country, and their setting among the forest trees on the Forest Park world’s fair site makes a dazzling picture. The working plans for these buildings, which will cost about 18,000,000, are now being prepared, and contracts for their construction will be let about Dec. 1. Other building Plans are to follow. About $4,000,000 will be expended on the grounds in the next six months. Contracts for this work will be let next month. Supervising architect J. Knox Taylor of the United States Treasury Department has made plans for the government building and they have been approved by the government board. The building will be 600 feet long, about 160 feet wide and contain about 100,600 square feet of floor space, without interior columns, the roof being supported on steel trusses. Its construction, Mr. Taylor says, will require about one year, and therefore

THE PAN AMERICAN’S DEFICIT.

The Pan-American Exposition, although a great artistic and educational success, closed with a deficit now estimated at not less than $4,000,000. While jthis is doubtless a disappointment to many of the stockholders who were led to believe that the balance would'be on the other side of the ledger, it is not a surprise to those who are familiar with the history of exposition enterprises and who know something about the cost of the “rainbow city” that was built upon the Niagara frontier by the public-spirited citizens of Buffalo. It was an exhibition of fine courage and business daring when Buffalo undertook to expand what was first intended to be a celebration of the achievement of harnessing the Niagara Cataract into an all-American exposition illustrating the progress of the nations of the western hemisphere. Having undertaken it, however, she carried out the Pan-American idea upon a scale of artistic beauty that captivated all who beheld it. Notwithstanding the financial deficit, the exposition, with its unequaled electrical display, will stand in memory as a superb reminder of the public spirit and enterprise of the City of Buffalo. With the dark shadow of a national tragedy over her at the time when the exposition had hoped to eqter its period of retordmaking attendance, she stilled the blare of trumpets and hushed the noise

Studying Memory of Frogs and Turtles.

Among recent lines of study in the psychological laboratory at Harvard have been the memory and perceptive faculties of the frog and the turtle, the training of new habits in the crayfish, and the symptoms of memory in the newt. Of these the ones involving the frog and the turtle have been the most extensive and the most interesting—if only because of Aesop and his followers down to Joel Chandler Harris and the nights of Uncle Remus. Both animals are -fixed in the imagination of mankind and all grown-up children will be glad to learn that the verdict of the centuries on the comparative judgment.and wisdom of the turtle is confirmed by the exact methods of modern science. In the first place, before making comparisons, it becomes necessary to determine whether these lowly creatures had any faculty of memory at all and this required a special apparatus—handily put together from dry goods boxes. In one box called the “nest” were cool sand' and stones, well shaded with a board—a true haven for a seeking creature. Against it stood another box, with a single opening communicating. This second box was divided into a series of long and comparative narrow compartments by means of sliding pieces, through the bottom of each of which a small opening—or miniature “dog-hole”—had been cut. By spacing the openings at differenr intervals something like a maze was obtained, i The subject of the experiment, tur-

PLAN OF THE COURT OF HONOR WITH PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS.

will be begun as soon as the finishing touches can be given the plfins. In addition to the money to be spent on the world’s fair grounds and buildings at once, by a vote of 48,000 to 9,000 amendments have been adopted authorizing the municipal government to expend before the opening of the world’s fair about $6,000,000 in building sewers, constructing streets and in beautifying the city generally for the reception of its guestß during the fair. -FacsimUa Documents Are In. Chairman Chouteau of the history coinmittee has received from New Orleans facsimile copies of all the principal documents relating to the transfer of the Louisiana Purchase to the United States. The collection is said to be accurate in every detail and is one of only eight sets in existence. It has been announced that the great agricultural building, the largest single building in the world, covering about thirty-one acres, will be located outside the Forest Park site, in order to leave room therein for the various other buildings needed, besides those of the great central exposition plc-

of gala days to bow reverently and anxiously at the bedside of the stricken President. Her demeanor under this trying misfortune commanded the admiration of the nation. A shortage of four million is a small matter compared to the glory of achievement in a great artlffircUHleducational enterprise such as Buffalo bullded in the beautiful [ “Rainbow City.” V

The prediction of the director of census that the United States with her new accessions will have a population of 100,000,000 in 1910 is likely to be fulfilled. We began the present decade with approximately 77,000,000 people in the states and territories, Including Hawaii and Alaska. In the states'there was an increase of about 21 per cent from the figures of 1890, a falling off oi more than 3 per cent from the increase of the preceding decade. The natural order is for the percentage to decline as the country .becomes more thickly settled, but immigration has shown new life during the last four or five years, and we still have an immense amount of unoccupied land to attract newcomers, while the expansion of our manufactures offers new inducements to many kinds of labor There is no apparent reason, therefore, why the rate of increase should decline. Putting it at 20 per cent, the estimate would give us an addition of 15,000,000

HOW THE PROFESSORS AT HARVARD EXPERIMENT WITH THE FROGS AND TURTLES.

•tie or frog, was put in the compartment farthest from the nest and then watched, recorded, and timed as he worked up and down, back and forth, until he had finally made his way to the resting place. The first time he would discover it, probably, by accident; but afterwards the function of memory would influence the result? Ample intervals of rest were allowed between each test, perhaps an hour or two, to avoid fatiguing the little subjects. The first journey might require an hour; but in the fiftieth experiment

One Hundred Million.

ture. The site chosen is across the Skinker road south of the Washington University buildings. Religious'exhibit by all denominations, in a special building erected for the purpose, ar& to be among the attractive features of the world’s fair. The controlling bodies of the several denominations have been invited to send their suggestions as to the plan of the building and also nominations of directors to have charge of their exhibits to the world's fair officials. The railroad and other transportation companies are keeping tab on the progress of world's fair matters. A belt line will be built connecting all tracks with the chief entrance to the exposition grounds, near which will be erected a huge station, with abundant trackage. Union station will be relieved of congestion during the world’s fair by other stations for local trains. One of these relieving stations will be at the west end of Bads Bridge, provided with elevators to transfer passengers between cars on the surface tracks on the bridge tracks and on the elevated road on the levee.

and a total of 92,000,000 in the states and territories if we do not figure upon the latter separately. Furthermore, even if we were to make this distinction, the result would not be seriously affected.

The Scotch-Irish Tunnel.

The project of a Scotch-Irish tunnel is again under discussion In the United Kingdom. There is no longer any question as to the practicability of the undertaking, as many engineers of celebrity have pronounced it entirely feasible. In the recent engineering congress the views of such ex perts as Barton, Mansergh, and Fox were given freely on the subject. Mr. Barton favored a marine tunnel and held that one might be constructed and put in working order between Wigtownshire in Scotland and the County Antrim coast in Ireland within a dozen years. Sir Douglas Fox was confident that less trouble would be encountered from water than had been met with in the case of the tunnel under the Mersey, or that under the Severn. Sir James Mansergh was of the opinion that there would be less trouble from water in a submarine tunnel than in one nearer the surface of the earth. All held that the problem of ventilation could easily be solved by electric power. To commend anarchist crime in a public square is a punishable offense according to French law.

the turtle or frog would fairly scamper to his haven, and even a shifting of the position of the little doors failed in time to throw them out Again, when Inclined platforms, runaways! and blind alleys were introduced the little creatures still continued to learn. Allowed a rest for a day, for severai days, and* then for a longer Interval, traces of memory remained, strengthening with each experience—the turtle, however, coming out first throughout! with the nimble frog the less nimblewitted.

Indiana State News

The annual retreat for Notre Dame students closed at South Bend with the All-Saints' feast. The Rev. Father Nugent of Des Moines was in charge. Benjamin C. Johnson and Cincinnati, Chicago and Louisville capitalists, who are developing coal lands, have purchased the Mayler holdings, north of Shoals. The purchase includes several hundred acres of fine coal lands. The council at Brazil has awarded the city electric lighting contract to the Brasil Brewing company for a period of ten years. A fire was discovered in C. 11. Conrad’s grocery at Knox. A strong breeze was blowing, and within thirty minutes the residence and book store of A. E. Ham, the bowling alley and billiard hall of Roy Conn, the hardware store of J. M. White, and the K. P. hall, the ground floor occupied by Short Bros.’ grocery, were also on fire. All the buildings were frame except the K. P. block. When the flames were extinguished, the dnmage was found to be $50,000. Tuxedo Park at La Porte was burned over and dance pavilions and other buildings wore destroyed. it is stated on good authority that John R. Walsh of Chicago has purchased the famous Trinity Springs near Shoals and a tract of 400 acres. It is claimed that his $300,000 hotel will be built at Trinity Springs, instead of at Indian Springs. It is thought that this means that the Southern Indiana railroad will be extended south, through Trinity Springs to Louisville, by way of Shoals, West Baden and French Lick. Jonathan Noble, a Madison county pioneer, is dead. He had lived at Rigdon half a century., The Fifth District W. R. C. convention was held at Terre Haute. Mrs. Sarah White of Rockville was elected president and Mrs. Hines of Terre Haute vice president. Mrs. Belle Ephlln of Tangier was chosen delegate to the national encampment, with Lizzie Straiton alternate. Charles Van Hook and his 15-year-old wife were arrested at Terre Haute and fined for drunkenness. It developed that she had married when but 12 years old. She said she had been brought here by the keeper of a dive. The court is investigating the case. Their child may be taken from them. Harvey Sconce, the amateur shooter from Sidell, 111., won the Grand Hotel cup in the annual shoot, which was finished at Indianapolis. He broke all the twenty-five targets on Wednesday and missed but one of the twenty-five Thursday, making the remarkable score of 49. The cup was formerly held by E. H. Tripp, president of the club, whose score waß 41 in a possible 50. Sconce also broke 222 targets out of a possible 225, and made one run of 145.

Pensions granted: Original—Robert Long, Indianapolis. $6; Chas. W. Carson, Albany, $6; John Miller, Indlanapolls, >6; Michael Morrlsey, Logansport, $6; (war with Spain) Clarence Ice, Rockport, SB. Increase, restoration, reissue, etc.—Christopher Hellman, Evansville, sl2; Samuel J. Little, Bedford, $10; George W. Favorite, Knox, $8; Geo. W. Louthen, Logansport, $24; Henry J. Landers, Indianapolis, $8; (war with Spain) William T. Roberts, Harmony, $lO. Original, widows, etc.—Emily J. Butterfield, Evansville, $8; Elizabeth J. Christy, McVille, sl2; Rebecca A. Grimes, Brooksburg, sl2; Elizabeth Kriger, Rockport, sl2; Mary J. Kiser, Hendricksvllle, SB. Renewal (widows, etc.) Mahala J. Turner, mother, Kempßton, sl2. An explosion of artificial gas in the taproom of Robert Hickman’s saloon at Warsaw completely wrecked the interior of the establishment. Charles J. Keldall was thrown forty feet into the middle of the street and seriously bruised and cut. Hickman, who caused the explosion by striking a match in the taproom, into which had accumulated escaping gas, was thrown twen-ty-five feet against a brick wall and seriously burned. The explosion broke every piece of glasß in the saloon, and wine, whisky and beer flowed like a brook into the gutter. Loss at $6,000. Peter Evans was arrested at Warsaw for the one hundred and seventieth time within the last fifteen years. During that time Evans has spent 1,439 days in jail and has cost the county $661.96. He has been arrested for drunkenness 130 times. Evans was once one of the wealthiest men in Kosciusko county, but his love for liquor got the best of him and his money. He is about 65 years old. Howard county has .broken into the Indiana oil belt On the farm of Henry Thomas, five miles south of Kokomo, an abandoned and plugged gas well broke its anchor, and a rush of crude oil spread over the barn lot and escaped through an open ditch. The well is said to be flowing a stream the full capacity of its two-inch casing. Enos Neal, an oil expert, went out to the farm to-night to test the flow. This new field is twenty miles from other wells. The largest plate glass in the world* was cast at the Kokomo plant of the Pittsburg Plate Glass company. The plate measures 167x217 inches and weighed, in the rough ( 2,600 pounds. It Is 18 feet 1 Inch long by 13 feet 1 inch wide. The monster plate was successfully ground and polished. Several plates' have been, cast as large as this one, but none of them withstood the finishing, process, breaking to pieces from their own excessive weight The plate Just turned out weighs 1,200 pounds finished, more than half of the thickness being ground away.

At > the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mark P. Vogel in Evans- • ville, Miiss Elwood Vogel was married to Rev. Forrest Stitt of Decatur, 111. Rev. J. L. Marquis, of the Grace Presbyterian church, performed the ceremony. The three-year-oid colt, Tertimin, pacer, was sold at Terre Haute to W. P. Stein of West Virginia for $7,000, the highest price ever paid for an Indiana bred colt. He is by Jersey Wilkes, dam by Abdallah Woodford. He went in 2:24% as a 2-year-old. This year he has paced a mile in 2:08 and a half in 1:00%. Knap McCarthy has arrived at Terre Haute with hia stable and will take charge of the Edge Wood stock farm.

Tho Pan-Handle railroad company, which is just completing a milliondollai- improvement at Hartford City, has another immense project under contemplation in that city. The company will build a bolt line to tho American Window Glass company’s No. 3 plant, and abandon the present switch by which the concern is reached. The proposed line will cross tho farm 3 of Judge W. 11. Carroll and John A. Newbauer and necessitate some heavy grades and a bridge across Lick creek, hut this will cost less to build than a switch on the line of the present one and connecting It with the elevated track. On the new line aro located the Johnston Glass factory. Sans Paretl glass factory, the National rolling mill, the Blackford glass factory and the South Side factory, while other factories are proposed. A brilliant social event in Evansville wub tho marriage of Miss Helen Decker to Dr. Charles C. Reakirt at the home jt the bride’s parents, Rev. C. A. Nickerson of the Walnut Street Presbyterian church officiating. The ingenious women of Marlon are about to solve the servant girl problem. The ever-perplexing question has caused them so much trouble that they have decided to Inaugurate what will he known ns a community club. The members of the club are the ladies of Spencer avenue, the aristocratic street of the city. The plan is a novel one. A house has been rented that is conveniently located; a chef is employed, and the club (b operated on the cooperative plan. The cost of operation will be equally assessed among the members and all will take their meals at the clubhouse. Myrtle Young of Wheatland is mysteriously missing. She left, saying she wbh going to visit a sister at Winslow, but insteud she went-to St. Louis. She had considerable money and it ia feared she has been lured away and met with foul play. The young lady who was arrested and placed in jail at Marion because she was in male attire attempting to elope with John McMahon, is yet in Jail. She received her trunk from Elwood and is now attired in skirts. William Meyer, Jr., president of the Western Baseball association, was given a preliminary hearing at Fort Wayne before Justice Tancey on four charges of embezsllng S6OO from the Columbus, Fort Wayne, Dayton and Marlon baseball clubs. He waived examlnatlon and was bound over to the circuit court under a $2,000 bond, which he furnished. Two additional cases of smallpox have broken out at Geneva, making four in all which have developed there. All the cases have been in one family, and there is little danger of it spreading.

John Ddrby was fined for kissing Mrs. Cephas Gilman, a young bride, when he met her on the street in Terre Haute. .Derby had been one of her admirers and after the congratulatory kiss, he threatened Gilman, for which he has been put under peace bonds, Wabash railroad officials are trying to discover the identity of a schoolgirl of Wabash who stopped the eastbound express train, No. 6, On that line. The girl, in the face of the rapidly advancing express, deliberately laid down on the track and refused to move until the train was brought to a stand. She then scampered away before the angry engineer could reach her. The company officials propose to make an example of the venturesome juvenile. After thirty-one hours the Jury could not agree to the innocence or guilt of Frank Purcell at Washington and was discharged by Judge Houghton. Purcell was charged by his 14-year-old son with kicking Mrs. Purcell to death on .the night of their daughter’s wedding because she was crying over having to give up her daughter. Purcell will bo retried at the January term of court.' After being twenty years a wanderer, George Rowe returned to his home in Kokomo. He found his two children grown and married and his wife with another husband, whom Bhe married years ago, thinking Rowe was dead. Mr. Rowe is staying with a sister. After a few days at home, Mr. Rowe will again go out into the world, and not disturb the present domestic relations of his wife and husband No. 2. The town of Fairmount and the Union Traction company are at war over the failure of the street car company to ballast the track on Main street, Fairmount, which is being improved with brick. The supreme court at Indianapolis has decided that Joseph Keith must be hanged in the state prison at Michigan City for the murder of Nora Klfer, a neighbor’s daughter, at Elberfeld, Ind. Keith was a wealthy man. He is accused of hiding the girl’s body in a well and of later throwing it into a creek where it was found.