Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 April 1874 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TKRRE HAUTE, APRIL 25, 1874.

TWO EDITION?

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST KDITION, on Friday Evening, has a large ai reflation mtfce*mo#dta* town, where ft is sold hy%ew«P «4 igsato. The SECOND EDITION, on HaturdayEvening. goo* Into the hands of warty every reading wnwn In the city, and the fartuen of thla immediate vicinity.

Kvery Week* Iwoe is, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS. In which all Advertisement* appear tor

ONE CHARQE.

TEMPERANCE AND ANTl-'lEM-PERANCE UNITED. So far as the coining city election is concerned, there Is not the shadow of a reason why the great mam of those who constitute what are called the temper ance and anti-temperance parties in this city should not be heartily united. Strange as it may sound, yet the feet Is, that there is little real diflerenoe of sentiment between them. They are opposing each other more froqa lack of understanding than from any real dlffferenoe of sentiment.. Of course we do not include the extremists oft either side hi this assertion.

What do the temperance people desire to accomplish in the owning city etoo» tlont Simply two filings. They desire the enforcement of the temperance law and the fixing of a reasonable fee by the city council for permits. Only this and nothing more. These demands, if made to those who arc reckoned anti-temper ance without the heat of antagonism would meet the approval of a large majority of them. Even those who do not approve of the Baxter law agree that It should be enforced so long as it is a law, All good citizens agree to this, and there are many good citiaens who are not in the temperance movement. There Is no difficulty in uniting an overwhelming majority pf both the temperance and an-ti-temperance parties upon a plank of the political platform requiring an impartial enforcement of all laws, Baxter's included.

There is hardly less difficulty in eflfbeting a union in reference to exacting a fee. In feet it is quite as difficult to unite the temperance as the anti-tempera nee element on this plank, because liiany of the former will persist in regarding this as a sort of license, and they are opposed to licensing evil. But the mass of them are more clear-eighted and earnestly desire that the city authorities should exact a reasonable fee from those to whom the Commissioners grant permits to sell liquor. On t^e other hand all the better class of the anti-temperance party, many of the liquor sellers included, are strongly in fevor of a Tee for permits. In feet it is the strong point which they constantly urge in conversation on the subject. They argue against the Baxter bill because it does not require a fee. They argue, and with justice too, that a good round fee would put the business into the hands of a few respectable dealers, shutting up the great multitude ef "doggeries," and keep the business within such bounds that it could be easily watched, and at the same time make it for the interests ef liquor sellers them selves to see that the low places, and all unlicensed places are closed up. This is the very argument of the liquor men in favor of license, and many of them have the penetration—it only needs a very lit-* tie—to see that it applies with equal force to the requirement of a fee. These men are not in fevor of "tree rum" or whisky or beer. They know that this business needs to be regulated, and they desire that it should be. Were it not for the antagonism between the two parties which makes each inclined to oppose anything which the other fevors, there would be very little difficulty In getting three-fourof the people of this city to unite in demanding a fee of|500 for every permit to sell liquor. It is only this misunderstanding of what the temperanpt people are aiming at, and the unfortunate antagonism alluded to above, which keeps the partiefe separate.

For this misunderstanding both pariies are in fenlt. The temperance people have not with sufficient plainness, or in a sufficiently public manner, declared their desires and purpose#. They have understood themselves and supposed that other* have understood them, forgetting that the great mass of the people, and especially the mass of those who are opposed to the general temperance movement, do not attend their meetings, or know what they want. They should in some authoritative manner declare their

On the other hand Urn anti-temperance party is in fenlt for not taking more pains to learn the frets in the case. The truth of tbe matter is that the liquor dealem sad others were awfully seared at the approach of the temperance movement and saw a ghost in a shadow. In their fear, to speak plainly, they made fools of themselves, and put forth their •illy and threatening resolutions. It to an undeniable fret that the temperance movement here lias been very conservative, and, in the main, managed with extreme good sense. So fiwr a* city politics are concerned, there has not been a demand made that any lover of law and order could not have readily eanctiobed. If tbe ikptat toon had kepi cool they would have seen Out there was no occasion for alarm. Outside of city poli* tics the temperance and antMcmpwaaoe parties differ. But in city politics there is very little difference that has not been created by mi-understanding and antagonism.

Why cannot these jarUes unite now,

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the lkjw men (Hirvt h.i i. require enfbn utent of she laws and a fee for permits, and the temperance men agreeing, as they would

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nothing more? By *wi» an agreement several of the candidates could be withdrawn and the beat men elected to the council. "Let oa have peace."

ANOTHER, and if deeper disgrace has frllen upon tbe character of the French sailor. Last week we alluded to the conduct of the officers and crew on the ill-feted Ville du Havre and tile Europe. While we were writing that article the officers and sailors were abandoning another French steamer, the L'Amerique, and now it appears that they were absolutely scared off. The steamer was abandoned entirely, not even a volunteer crew attempting to take it into port, nor the baggage of passengers taken off. After being abandoned it was picked up by a oouple of English steamers and towed safely into port. A series of unavoidable accidents may befell a certain line of steamers, and no blame attached to the company or the sailors. But a series of such examples, of incompetence and cowardice is a disgrace to the sailors, the company, and the nation to which they belong. It will be long before the French name will receive the honor loot by the conduct of those who were in charge of the Ville du Havre, the Europe, and the L'Amerique, and the line of French steamers cannot fail to feel the effect most disastrously. In feet steamship travel generally will suffor in consequence It is said that the number gfllng abroad the coming sum mer has been very decidedly decreased by these misfortunes. It is not encouraging to add to the "perils ef the great deep" the danger of felling into the hands of incompetents andoo wards.

LAST HONORS TO DR. LIVING STONE. The remains of the simple and unpr©' tending Christian missionary, who, for the love of his master, and in his zeal for Christianity, has spent his life in the wild and unknown regions of Africa? were laid to their rest last Satui-day with marks of the very highest honor and appreciation. The great of the earth even the royal family, and the most learned men of his own and other nations, took their places in the funeral procession. The funeral obsequies are reported to have been of the most imposing and impressive kind. In justice to foreign missions, which are often lightly esteemed, it should be remembered that Dr. Livingstone was nothing more nor less than a foreign missionary who went to Africa and labored there chiefly in the interests of Christianity. While his motive and purpose were religious, he has done a service for science for which the world delights to honor him.

And whatever may have been the motives of the New York Herald in sending out Stanley in search of the wanderer, or Stanley's motives in going, this enterprise has reflected great credit upon the American people. But for this expedition of Stanley there is little reason to doubt that the death of the great discoverer and the circumstances attending it, and the results ot his explorations, would have been unknown to the world. It would simply have been supposed that he had died, but when, where or how,there would have been none to tell. So much for newspaper enterprise in America. Stanley occupied the first position of honor among the pall-bearers at the funeral of the great and good man. _____________

THE CITY GO UN OIL AND CORRUPTION. It has become quite the feshion of late to make or insinuate charges of corruption against the city council. Now we feel bound to say that wo do not believo there is any ground whatever lor such charges. That there has been some bungling work done during the past year, or some work done in a bungling manner, and that some foolish things have been done and some extravagance manifested, we do hot deny. The Market House project seems to us entirely needless. The Sewer business has been dreadfully muddled. One or two of the members have been guilty of some silly demagogism. But that t^iere has been dishonesty on the part of members of the council we do not believe. The council as a whole is composed of honest and honorable men, and men too, in spite of their blunders, of a feir degree of common sense. The public may as well dismiss at once any lurking idea that the city has been served by rascals, wolveH in sheeps clothing. Lot these men be held responsible for what mistakes they liave made, but let there be more care about hurling charges or insinuations of "rings" and corruption,

V3ome members of the councSl are not without responsibility for the odium which has attached to that body. In quite a number of the debates members have made damaging insinuations each other. It was doubtless done in tbe beat of debate, but it has had an injurious effect upon the public mind, and the whole council suffers in consequence. It is difficult for men in the same business, or in the same body to learn that to create uitfuat suspicions against aay one of their number to to confidence in all.

The prospect* frvorable for an honest and sensible council during the year to come. All parties have felt tbe need of putting their bent foot forward, or th«r best man in nomination. With or two exceptions the men named for plAece ia the council are at least respectably well fitted for the position, and*some of them are as -good as could be desired, or found.

TITBK* tons of base-ball bate were shipped by a sinstle Vermont manUTactiirer to the Boston market last winter.

AFTER we crusade,cremate• and inflate, let us have peace. 7*

"PEAOB to his Ashes" will have a meaning when cremation becomes common.

TH* New York Graphic is opposed to That balloon business enough inflation for it

TIJIK work* wonders. The St. Louis papers announce thai Oen. Prank P, Blair has united with the Presbyterian ohuraU.

Thk French sailors of the L'Amerique would doubtless have preferred the vessel to have foundered than to have fbund-her.

THK politicians of this country are not the only ones who pay for the whistle, Mr. Gladstone's expenses at the recent English election amounted to $t),til5.

THE Spaniards have a funny way of conducting war. Here comes the telegraphic announcement that "the war ia temporarily postponed on account of the weather."

TIIE spiritualists of this city, progressive enough in some matters, are behind the times in one particular. Over in Keokuk they have put in the Held a city ticket, written on a slate, tied up and held by a medium at a Spiritual seance. It is composed of very good men, and bears the name of one lady.

ONE feature of the farmers' movement deserves special notice. A certain number of the officers in the granges must be women, and no grange can be organized without the attendance of women. The sexes meet in them on a perfect equality, unless the men are willing to pay double fees for the privilege of a state of single blessedness. The women learn parliamentary rules aad practice, and become familiar with the details of business and the rudimental principles of economy. The Grange is a sort of train-ing-school to prepare women for political life.

THE New York World speaking of cremation gives the following instance of the neatness of the thing:

In the Vienna Exposition this matter was practically exemplified. On one of the mysterious shelves was a bottle marked No. 19, containing three-quarter pounds of fertilizing material, the gross result of an Italian gentleman, who had evidently never been in such reduced circumstances before. The entire cost or putting him into a glass case was just two shillings and fourpence, English money. This of itself is an item of sufficient importance to carry conviction to any sane man. It only takes three hours and about half a cord of wood to put a millionaire into a very small glass bottle. The only difficulty to be apprehended is the inevitable increase of family jars. However, after death, it will be always possible to put a stopper in, which, during life, is sometimes difficult."

THE adoption of the postal card has proved to be a blessing to the masses. When it was proposed there were arguments brought against it sufficient to oondemn it in advance. There are nearly as many letters sent as formerly, notwithstanding the grent number of postal cards used. Since Inst May, Now York has used 12,500,000 of them, over 1,000,000 per month, A few days since, 1,000,000 were ordered by the post office of New York city. It is now proposed to issue a return postal card, the price of which will be two cents. This would be very convenient when the sender wished to get a reply to a brief question* It might be arranged with two places for the address and two for writing. The one receiving it could cut off or cross out the part written by the sender, put on his reply and immediately remail it. This plan would do much to insure the prompt answering of questions.

WOMEN AND TAXA TION. Whatever may be thought of the woman's suffrage movement in general, there can be no doubt that great injustice Is done in refusing to give women who own property any voice in reference to taxation. 1 he Smith slattern in Connecticut Is in point. They each pay more taxes than any man In the town, and yet they not only cannot vote, but recently they were reftised the privilege of speaking to the voters In the town hall toward the expense of building which, they pa»d more than any other persons. Hon. Amos Lawrence writes the sisters In reference to this matter »s follows:

Your case has Its parallel In every township of New fCaglniM. In the town where this Is written, a widow payslBto the town treasury mm a year, while 600 mm, a number equal to half thewlM^e number of voter*, pay »4W» l» all- Another lady pays pflfl- Vet neither has a single vote, not even by proxy. Thatis,eschoneof flw men who have no pf©perty. who pay only a noil* tax, and many of whom cannot read or write, have pie power of voting away the property of the town, while the femaiemen* rn nave no power at all."

There is an injustice here that should berighted. and It cannot he done too •&*+»>* 'ir

speedily.

TERKE HAUTE SATURDAY EVJSKIXfi MAIL.

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THERE are eighty-two railroad offices in Indianapolis. Railroad oily, true enough.

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IN Iowa it lias boon proposed to remove curtains, painted glass and other means of concealment from the windows of saloons, making them as public as dry goods storea^^^^^

MICHIGAN ia a happy land for the taxpayer. A resolution has been pussed by the Legislature that In view of the large balance in the State Treasury no tax shall be levied for this year.

BKBCHER disproves tho proverb, fool for luok." He's no fool, and yet he is the luckiest man in the nation. That Woodhull matter only served to increaso liis popularity. His people havo determined to build a |400,000 church, of enormous dimensions, and have voted him a six month's vacation with a continuance of salary and all expenses paid The eccentric man has declined the vacation, and says when he wants a vacation, he will take it 1

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tOUveHarpert Letter to the AHaOftli&rnla.) OessTAjrriwOPUB, Fabruary W4. 1 have read, certainly not leaa that fifty times, elaborate descriptions of genuine Turkish baths, by Bayard Taylor, Ross Browne and others, and I have always had my Imagination filled with the combined ecetooiea of being scrubbed with hot water and perfumed soap and iced sherbet, Mid I made up my mind not to leave Turkey without having had that delightful experience. You lu»ow that I belong to the softer sex. at«d that they do not batho promiscuously hero sa in Baden, Long Branch and many other feshionable places* This bath where I went ia for ladies alone, not even the common herd" being admitted, for the charge is very high. 1 have made a few friends among the natives since I oame here, and can speak a few words of Greek (the predominant tongue,) and owing to tny acquaintance with these la-

in tho usual style, or no style, of Turkish architecture but the interior folly recompenses for the lack of beauty withoftt. ft is in the upper part of Galata, and you have to go in sedan chairs, which wait for you, as you must take the extremist care of yourself in coming out, particularly at this season of the year. A cold after a Turkish bath is almost always fetal,

HIUH-TONRD" BATHING KRESSBS. Four of us went, together with two women servants, who carried our towels, bathing-dresses and lunch. It is an all day'B job, and the ladies all take lunch with them. I had a number of very handsome and curious things given me at the Exposition by the Egyptian and Turkish Commissions, and among them were large bathing towels, with borders of gold woven in also, a bathing-dross similarly decorated. My friends insisted on my taking them, and they made of me while in the bath a person of no ordinary importance, for, as it happens, 110 one but royal ladies are permitted to wear such in public baths however, nobody interfered with my right to. wear them, only admired me, not always from a distance.

On entering wa were conducted to a large room, where we must undress and leave our things. I think there were nearly fifty women there in all stages of undress, who all paused to regard us with curiosity while we disrobed. Men can pull off their most sacred garments, toss them in a heap, and run about as if nothing were amiss, but somehow

I FELT AS EVE DID,

When she had made the discovery that she was a little too thinly clad for the time of the year.

A servant caught up our bathing drees es and left the room, beckoning us to follow. We ran the gauntlet of a hundred pair of eyes before we reached the divan where I was laid, like a defunct, still with no clothes on. I raised my head to see if I could not find a friendly towel, or anything, but' the attendant ducked my head back on the pillow again, as much as to say, "lie there." I did, but rolled my eyes around a little, and saw that there were at least twenty more women lying around in spots like myself but tney all seemed to take it verv easily. The room was very warm and grew wanner perceptibly, though how, I don't know, until I began to feel as if I should suffocate, my heart beat painfully hard and I grow very faint, when oue of the women gave me some lemonade, of which I drank two glasses. Then, all of a sudden, I began to perspire, and I looked like a pumpkin that had laid out all night in a heavy dew. I felt as if I was dissolving, and waited patiently till the end should come, ana I should be but the transparent essence of what was once a very substantial body but that time had not come. I was so sleepy that I felt like calling very hard names, when the woman came and made me get up after she had ,v

RUBBED MK DOWN LIKE A RACE HORSE With a pair of very scratchy gloves, which left my Skin as red as a lobster. Then, we all being in tho same state, wore led into another great, vaulted marble floored room, where the divans are made of 'marble, which is not at all soft to lie on. This room was wanner than tho last, and more vapory, and the vapor was more strongly perfumed with sandal-wood. Alter lying a few moments, the marble grows soft, and a sense of most delicious repose comes over you. You feel a soft languor and a dreamy content, and your eyes close and you lay with a smilo of exquisite laziness on your lips, and your imagirilition flies off in every possible direction, when the sweet repose is again rudely broken and you have again to "move on."

Now, indeed opens the door of Para* dise. You are led, still without other covering than nature gives you, into a large circular room, with marble pillars, supporting the blue dome that is spangled with stare. All round the room ajg| marblo divans, and in the center is

AN IXMKKSE FOUNTAIN,

In tlio basin of which are sixty or seventy girls and women playing in the warm, per Aimed water, or lying iii all attitudes on tho marble edges of the basin. The water rises in one grand column over fifc ty feet, and falls back Into an upper basin, while tho lower one is undisturbed except by the boautiful white forms that it most delights to receive.

On all the divans lay women of all ages and complexions, even to some 110grosses, who only served to make the white bodies and polished limbs appear more lovely than ever. Smaller fountains were placed at regular intervals around the large room, and from thow the attendants poured continuously over the bodies of those who lay on the divans, warm water which was carried off by pipes. One attendant stood at my head, holding my gold-embroidered bathing apparatus, one lathered mo with perftimed soap till I began to imagine myself a gigantic rose, and all those beautiful beings laughing and singing and gliding around me but other specimens of Bowers. Another attendant rubbed me with gloves made of sponge, and another poured warm water over me incessantly, not dsshed it, not let It trickle, but Just emptied the beautifully chased silver ewer over me with the gentlest of motions, till It seemed like a caress. Then soap of bitter almonds was rubbed on mv free, and other of another kind was rubbed in my hair, all done In that tender, caressing way that made it a positive ecstacyj then more perfumed water till 1 felt drowning in a sea of all delights, In which I could distinguish perftunes, flowers, sweet singing voices and forms of heavenly beauty. Time and the outer world were lost in

THIS nKUOHTKtri, TRAWB.

And I desired nothing, nothing else in the world to make my life content for­

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ever. To He there on the marble and dreamily watch the giorieas white of the living statues, with the long biack hair, and the rich dark eyes to see the soft, undulating motions of them swimming in the warm, delicious wator to look at the lovely forma stretched at full length on Hie divans and on the edges of tho fountain, and others laughing, snorting, tinging, mingling with affectionate glances, and wrestling in the water, or on the marble floor, dripping from every limb tbe perfumed water lhat glistened on their bodied and the trickling of the fountains, and the rosy, subdued light that stole in through the jealously guarded windows, were enough to send one of an imagination like mine off into the realms of frncy, and make one believe it the promised land, and cause the whole soul to be satisfied with the picture which needed no imagination to embellish. For after all. what is the Heaven we have been taught to believe in but a place where all is light and perfume, and love and beauty where every sense shall bo satisfied, and every desire filled with a pure and exquisite ftillness? It is true that in this heaven of mine there were not any men, but I did not miss them in my supremo content, nor, I think, did any of the women who were lying about clasped lovingly in each other's arms, or laughing and snorting in the water, and I think now, asl have Defore, 1 had just aa lief have my Paradise an exclusive one where no men could come.

A LfDicrfonr sTtrrrr.

Just as I arrived at this very sensible conclusion, my attendant roused me from my dreams of perfect peace by pointing to the fountain. My four friends then made their appearance with •the servants and our luncheon, and no body can toll of the comical look of us five sitting round the baskets eating, and without any clothes on. I have seen many sights in my life, but w© women around those baskets, with chicken legs in our hands and glasses of wine, and other things, were too perfectly ludicrous for anything, and I laughed till oouldn't eat. If I had only had a nankin to cover my feco I think I should navo lain down and died on the spot. All my dreams of a luxurious, sleepy, sensuous Paradise, filled with undulating figures os" transcendent beauty, were gone, and I was fully possessed of the demon of mirth, ana I provoked the others into my own state of mind a capacity which has never deserted me at any time or place, or with any person, in my life, and we were soon the maddest of the crowd in the perfumed waters. I would be afraid to tell all the freaks wo performed, and antics and pranks we cut. Although it did not in the least startle the natives, it might some who have imagined me to be the model of perfection in deportment.

But then, you must remember that Mrs. Grundy does not live in Constantinople, and she had no one to tell tales out or school except my ownself, and I never tell more than suits me. rr WAS TWO FULL HOCUS Before our wild sport ended, and we slid out of the water and sat talking in little knots of four or five, while the attend ants were drying our hair, and separating it till it stood out in a light puff all around our heads. Not a tangle was left in it, and

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Then we were laid on the same marble divans, though with a thick bathing towel this time uuder us, while the attendants punched and pulled, and rubbed all our joints, and cracked all our knuckles, and elbows and shoulders, till I thought I should be always even more unsteady than ever. They don't give you the least chance to make a protest to this sort of thing. They roll you and rub you, up and down and round and round, till you only want a chance to get vour hands free to "punch their heads," when all at once, panting and perspiring, they grin at you and say pekkey, which means "all nght," and then you can put on your handsome bathingdress, and have your towels spread out on the divan about you. Then the other ladies came about me like bees around a hollyhock, and proceeded to admire me from head to foot. Before, when we were in the water, in the wild revel, I think they did not know I was a foreigner but when they found I was an Aineri can their wonder know no bounds, and I was closely examined from head to feet. They admired my feet in particular, for the Turkish women have very large feet, and "I am (as the politicians say with their hands their shirt bosoms) proud and happy to say that mine are proportioned so that I ean wear number twos." Mv habitual modostv has kept me from acknowledging this feet a longtime, and 110 one can teu how glad I am for this opportunitv of enlightening the public. ISvo of the" loveliest women I ever saw, with eyes like stars, came and began to talk to me, and finally invited me to visit them at their house «ext day. I gave my address, and they said they TOuld send a carriage for me at noon. They were tho two fevorite wives of the Grand Vizer. I promised to go, and then nearly all the women around invited mo in turn to visit them. I shall have enough to do if I accept all their invitations.

Then the attendants came in and we all followed them THROUGH A STJOCKSSIOX OK ROOMS, Resting a short time in each, and drinking lemonade and sherbet, and eating conserves made of roses ana violets—or, At least, flavored with the perfume of those flowers. Then we went into another room, oooler still, where most of the ladies smoked while they chatted of their dresses, husbands, flirtations, etc. One thing surprises me the perfect freedom with which they toll, each other of their flirtations, some of which go somewhat beyond the decorum of our American flirtations even. With all the jealousy and heart-burnings that are openly dlsplaved I should think they would fear each otker's tongues but it seems they do not.

After the ladies had all finished smoking their narghilas and little historion of how they had managed to throw dust Into the eunuch's eyes, etc^ they

FROCKKDKB TO PHRFORX TIUBIR TQl* LKrrn, Something wonderful to see. I am a woman, and I thought I knew all their little feuita and something of the Intricacies of the toilette but I learned more that day than I ever thought any one knew. First, an old woman oaiae to each woman or girl, bearing a dressingcase tilled with the most marvelous of compounds for the Improvement of the beauty under their care. Little lookingglasses were given to each woman, and then commenced the oieration. All the superfluous hairs on the free were removed by little pinoers then the women brought out stiff little brashes made of bristles, and after dipping them into a preparation of arsenic, proceeded to, by means of pulling the skin of the fore tightly, puncture it with the sharp bristle*, which thus leaves an Indelible white beneath the surfroe, which is porfecty deeding in its transparence and brilliancy. Next, the eyebrows are carefaUy brushed with a soft brush, and then the smoke of frankincense, mixed with oil of rose, is laid on while the eyelashes are dyed with some vegetable dye, which leave* theme brtlliantblack, and nnder the eyelids and on the upper Ud la laid a sortof paie brown, which mm I"14

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gives the whole eye a bcaaty and languor most bewitching. Then, when a rieh carmine, or rather rose-leaf pink, is uy spread on the cheeks, and tho flill lips of a deep cherry color, the feoea in their coloring are most lowly. These Colorado not frde nor rub off but stay until another long-protracted bath of vapor and tepid water opens the pore* for another application.

The teeth are attended to with the moat scrupulous care, and it is these old women who perform all needful operations In dentistry, which, however, consists mostly in earing for tbe teeth, and not In pulling or filling them, though they do sometimes do that.

UOIJNKS8 Or THE ATTENDANT*. Some of the beauties of the harems are considered by these old women to have too much blood, and so they are made to sit with ten to twenty leeches upon them while tbe operation of beautifying them goes on. Others are made to drink a villainous compound looking like blood, others to undergo other regimen, etc. These old women are in general the most horrible looking hags imaginable to aee. I aaked of one who seemed to bo on the shady sido of her five hundredth year, how*old slrt» was. She told me 9be was forty-four. Others confessed to about the same age^ and I found, also, that those who looked, even after they were dressed, to be about forty, were from eighteen to twenty. These women fede very rapidly In complexion and their skin takes a shriveled appearance impessibletodescribe. I think it comes from the pernicious habit of using these cosmetic*, as they do from iufuney almost. 11 must be that, for certainly lives tike theirs, free from labor or care such as bows our American "women before their time, does not affect them. They very rarely nurse their babes, because they fear to spoil the contour of their busta by tbe exercise of that holy office, granted to women alone.

THE TOILETTE FINISHED.

The beauties, natural and manufhetured, regarded themselves in their hand glasses with evident satisfaction, and each other with contempt. Some of them, who were quite plain in the water, became beautiful after this operation WJLS complete. Their luxuriaut hair was in general braided and loaded with a profusion of ornaments, not excepting diamond stars and other jewels, and sometimes with long strings of gold coin plaited in, which jingled with every motion. It was a novel sight to see'theso women all sitting about

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with their ancient hand-maidens, all submitting to these intricacies of toilette that are kept BO secret by more civilized women, all seeming here to be a matter of course.

IRISH LADIES.

Physically, Irish women (says a writer) are probably the finest race in the world —I mean taller, better limbed and chested, larger eyed, and with more luxuriant hair, and freer action than any other nation I have observed. The Phoenician and Spanish blood wliich lias run hundreds of years in their veins still kindles its dark fire in their eyes, and with tho vivacity of the Northern mind, and tho bright color of the northern skin, tbeso southern qualities mingle in most admirable and superb harmony. The idea wo form of Italian and Grecian bcautv is never realized in Greeoe and Italy but we find it in Ireland, heightened ana exceeded. Cheeks ana lips of the delicacy and bright tint of carnation, with snowy teeth and eyebrows of jet are what wo should look for on the palette of Apelles, could we recall the painter and reanimate his far-famed models and these varied charms, united, fell very commonly to the snare of the fair Muesian. Modest to a proverb, the Irish woman is as unsuspect.ng of an impropriety as if it were an impossible thing and she is as fearless ana joyous as a midshipman, and sometimes as noisy. In a ball-room she looks ill-dressed, not because her dress was ill put on, but because she dances, not gliaes, sits down without care, pulls her flowers to pieces, and if her headdress incommodes her she will give it a pull or a push. If she is offended, she asks for an explanation. If she does not understand you, she confesses her ignorance. If she wishes to see you next day, she tells you how and when. She is tno child of nature, and her children are not "stvlish."

PLAIN TALK TO GIRLS. Your every day toilet ia part of your character. A girl wholookslike a "fury" or a sloven in tho morning is not to

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tmssted, however finely she may look in the evening. No matter how humble

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our may be, there are eight it should contain, viz: A mirror, washstand, soap, towel, comb, hair, nail and tooth brushes. Those are fust as essential as your breakfast, before which you should make good and free use of them. Parents who fell to provide their children with such appliances, not only make a great mistako. but commit a sin of omission. Look tidy in the morning, and after dinner work is over, improve your toilet. Make ft a rule of your daily life to "dress up" for tho afternoon." Your dress may, or need not be, anything better than calico but with a ribbon, or some bit of ornament, you have an air of self-respect and satisfaction, that invariably comes with being well dressed. A girl with fine sensibilities cannot help feeling embarrassed and awkward in a ragged, dirty dress, with her hair unkempt, if a neighbor or stranger comes In. Moreover, your self-respect should demand the decent appearing of your body. You should make it a point to look as well as you can, even if you know nobody will see you but yourself.—[Household.

J?ACTS ABOUT THE CHIN. Fortune-tellers are generally skil­

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physiognomists, and all the features of the'human free do their share In enlightening the understanding of seem. The chin, at the present day, Is rather difficult to read, on account of the increasing custom of wearing a beard. A jroodchln should neither project nor rereat much. A very retreating chin denotes weakness, ana a very projecting one harsh strength united with firmness amounting to obstlnacv. A pointed chin generally denotes acutenem and craftiness. A soft, fat, double chin generally denotes a love of good living, and an anlar chin judgment and firmness. jtow of ehin implies ooklnew a round, dimpled chin, goodness a chin, fear: sharp indentings in the middle of the chin point to a cool understanding. The oolor and texture of the skin, and of the hair and beard, havo also a direct harmony with tho features these should be studied more than they have been. A feciMy in drawing faces is of great use to the student of physiognomy, as it enables him to note pecuuaritlesof features which no written description would be able of preserving.

Wlille a youthftil oouple were being toined In wedlock In a Justice's Oftart la Vew York, recently, the damsel rather astonished a number of spectator* by suddenly breaking out with, "I want to know wlietln we are to keep honse or board, before going Into this tWng?" The Judge rnlaa the question out of order, and the ceremony proceeded.

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