Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 25, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 December 1883 — Page 10

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

PURELY PERSONAL.

did not shoot on either side.

He is a Kentuckian. 4 The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher seems to give promise that if he lives long enough he will nndo all the good he has done in along life-time.

Mrs. Tabor tells a reporter in Denver that her husband, the ex-Senator, now

away from home, sends her "a postal card every day and once a week, a sweet letter." JThe Rev. D. Talmage says the only way to estimate a man's worth is by his soul. This reminds us that the popular way to estimate a man's soul is to find out bow much he is worth.

Aw Albany miser starved himself for sixty-six years to accumulate money, and when he got 910,000 he committed suicide. It would be interesting to know the thoughts of such a man.

THB mother-in-law has always been considered a deadly domestic ingredient, but the sister-in-law, as a oennubial bliss-destroyer, is rapidly coming to the front. A North Carolina man deserted wife and four children, sold stock and crops, to elope with bis sister-in-law.

George McDonald was pretty near the right of it. In urging the nobility of labor he says: "I would gladly see a boy of mine choose rather to be a black smith or a watchmaker or a book-bin der than a clerk. Production making is a higher tbiug in the scale of reality than any mere transmission, such as buy iug a^d selling:" He believes in having boys educated to a trade, t^

Justice Duffy, of New York, Is marked man, and when woman suffrage becomes general he will be the first individual to be retired to the obscurity of private life. Hear what he has said "Some people say mothers-in-law are an abused class, but since I had been on the bench I have had before me over one thousand cases of abandonment, and in almost every instanoe the aforesaid relative made all the trouble."

President Arthur's life is very simple, although pains have been taken to make him cut a bon vivant. He rises about 9:80, takes a cup of coffee and a roll while dressing, and then wrestles with his mail until about noon, when he eats a light breakfast—no meat, but oatmeal, fish, and fruit. When he dines alone he sits down to table at 6, but when he has company the dinner hour is 7 or 7:80. His family dinners are very plain, and he has a great'liking for a mutton chop with a glass of Bass's ale, or roast beef with a glass of claret, hot baked potatoes, and the fruit of the 8eason"

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SAYINGS AND DOINQS.

ANew York society paper says the most fashionable thing there this winter is to be economical, and it's a good sign.

When a man gets tired of his wife in Liberia he is given twenty-five lashes and a new wife. That wonderfully simplifies divorce.

The New York Evening Poet says that the florists of that city can "tell tales of extravagance that even diamond dealers would not credit."

Scientists says that the reason kissing is so pleasant is because the teeth, jaw bones and lips are full of nerves, and, when the lips meet, an electric current is generated.

In the one line of the St. Joseph, Mo., Gazette, "The southern confederacy is again in the saddle," is the pent-up rage, malice, and the final exultation of twenty years.

A vagrant philosopher observes that a man might well be proud of his ancestry if he only had* the privledge of choosing his parents. In many cases the pride might be greater if parents oould choose their offspring.

ANew York paper says: "In London a child is born every five minutes." The sober Maine Farmer quizzically remarks: "It must after a while become a little unpleasant to tho child to have the process repeated so often." ,, /.4yl

When a widower edges up to a widow or an old maid to tell how lonely his lot is and when she rells her eyes in sympathy and says she hopes the Lord will send him a comforter, it lopJks very much like business.^®',

The New York Mail says that Matthew Arnold is of the opinion that we do not pay enough attention to the education of our stomachs, or to thescienceof eating. Mr. Arnold has not yet visited an American railway eating-house during the period when there are "ten minutes for refresh men ts." 5"

Some of the conclusions of science would indeed be appalling but for their practical barmlesnness. Thus, geologists assert that if the continents and the bottom of the ocean were graded down to a uniform level the whole world would be covered with water a mile deep, so much greater is the depression of the ocean bed than the elevation of the existing land.^^ V*

Helen IWilmans denies that saloons create a demand for strong drink, they simply supply what is demanded— demanded because, "as the race refines and spiritualizes, as it is certainly doing, it calls for more stimulating and spiritualizing sentiment." She goes on to say that "there was an age when man lived on roots and berries, and when the ordinary contents of a modern cuisine would have stimulated his feeble and

animal brain to the verge of insanity."

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Our Stock.

Has always been necessarily large, but oh account of our increase of trade this fall it has been DOUBLED. In our Men's Clothing Department we eunmerate 50 Cottonade Suits at $4 60 heavy Union Cassimeres at 5 and $6 60 heavy Wool and Gassimeres at 8 to $9 40 All-Wool Cassimeres, fancy pattern suits,' at 10 to $11 60 AllWool Oassimeres, Beavers and Cheviot, fancy pattern suits, at 12 to $18 60 fine All-Wool Globe Mills Cassimeres, fancy pattern, style and out, at 16, 16 and $18 60 fine Dress Suits, cut and made as to order, imported goods, at 20, 26, 28 and $80 a suit In MEN'S OYEBCOATS we have 40 Union Cassimeres at $2.50 and $3 40 Overcoats at $4 50 Union Beavers at 5 and $6 60 All-Wool Cassimeres and Beavers at 7, 8 and $9 60 heavy unlined Cassimeres and Beaver, fancy pattern and style at 10,11 and $12 50 fine Kersey and Worsteds, at 14 to $16 60 fine fur, Beaver and Chinchillas, silk lined, at 18, 20, 25, 28, 30 and $35. IN YOUTHS' AND BOY'S DEPARTMENT we have everything a boy can desire from a 2.50 suit to $26 suits in Overcoats, from 2 to $20. IN OUB CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT we would like to enumerate, but it is impossible to name the grades, styles and makes of our suits in short pants, Kilt Suits in one and two prices. Our Children's Overcoats range in price from 2 to $20 in cloth and style from the plain and seasonable to the fine and elaborate. We have 150 short pants to fit children from 2 to 11 years at 75 cents to $3 a pair. We have children's cotton, linen and woolen waists. We have children's cotton and wool hose children's Caps and Leggings. OUR FURNISHING DEPARTMENT comprises all styles, grades and makes of men and boys' wear at JOBBERS* PRICES.

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TERHE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING

A St. Louis clergyman has asked the newspapers not to report bis sermons, since some of his congregation absent themselves from the house of worship because they can read the substance of the discourse at their ease at the breakfast table.

A wealthy young man of Natick, Mass., while much the worse for drink, hired a horse. He fell asleep in the vehicle while the stablers were harnessing the horse, and they let him sleep in the stable. When be awoke he said he had used the quadruped well, and fed him at Newton Lower Falls. He paid 93 for his drive, and went off satisfied.

Marriage is a good thing in its way bat it is foolish to be in too much of a hurry about it. A young woman who willingly and deliberately gives herself for life to a young man, who wears his Sunday clothes every day in the week, and relies on his father for pocket money, ought to wait a little and study up what marriage with suoh a chap really means.

A saloon keeper in Miamisburg, Ohio, is circulating his business card, with the following on its back: "To all whom it may concern—Know ye that, by the payment of 9225, I am permitted to retail intoxicating liquors at my saloon in this city. To the wife who has a drunkard for a husband, or a friend who is unfortunately dissipated, I say emphatically, give me notice in person of such case or cases in which you are interested, and all such shall be excluded from my place. Let mothers, fatkere, sisters and brothers do likewise, and their requests will be kindly regarded. I pay a heavy tax for the privilege of selling liquors, and I want it distincily understood that I have no desire to sell to drunkards or minors, or to the poor or destitute."

LITTLE SERMONS.

Some people never fret because they never feel. Their hearts are stone and no thrill ever moves them.

We cannot do without the world, but it is foolish therefore, to oonclude that the world cannot do without us.

The man who deliberately goes into temptation is like' one who holds a candle that the devil may find him more easily.

There is an old Gaelic saw which runs thus:—"If the best man's faults were written on his forehead it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

Here is a pebble which everybody is flinging at everybody else:— Some people give according to their means, others according to their meanness.

If you wish people to be kindly toward you, you had best begin by being kindly toward them. The man who scatters thorns had better not go, barefoot.

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HOUSEHOLD ART.

THINGS PRETTY AND USEFUL.

Decorative painting for furniture is more popular than ever. Cover your shabby mirror frames with velvet plush. The result will be rich and satisfactory.

New desert dishes take the form of curled leaves, with fruit attached to &e handle or under the edge for decoration.

Square tables of •mahogany for the dining-room are superseding the roundcornered ones of black walnut. Put a piece of heavy canton flannel beneath the table-cloth.

Do not be afraid ot bright colors in your home decorations. A spot of red if properly used, oftentimes gives life to the whole composition. The reds and the yellows are the sunshiny of decoration.

At a recent fashionable dinner party the round table had a tall handle in the center, upon which was affixed a very large Japanese umbrella with lighted lanterns hung around tbe edges.,

A living or sitting room should be bright and cheerful, and of such a character as will tend to promote pleasurable conversation let the paper be bright and cheery in tone, and of such a color as will show off the pictures and engravings that are to be hung upon it articles of value, drawings and a few not ncoessarily expensive trifles scattered about the room lend to and enhance the cheerful effect.

The shapes in parlor frfrniture, it may be said, in a general way are low, giving sense of comfort and ease rather of stateliness. The frames incline to be massive, and, when permitted to show, exhibit elaborate hand-carving and what is termed the "rubbed-down lead finish." While tbe frames are somewhat massive they are broken by tbe ornament, which adds lightness to the strength of the framework.

A great deal of hand embroidery appears on the covers of parlor furnitureembroidery, the designs of which are originated by artists and the elaborate needle-work executed by experts. A new and pleasing feature observable in table, cabinets and other furniture, are the brass feet* in antique patterns and elaborate wood-carving. The peculiar figures of the Renaissance decoration so much sought after render the carving especially effective.

Fashion requires that the modern parlor shall avoid all appearauce of uniformity in its furniture. In a word, every place is expected to have some characteristic not possessed by its neighbor. What is known nowadays to dealers and manufacturers as a "parlor suit" consists of one sofa, one arm chair or two. These may be uniform in style and upholstery. The remainder of the furniture is contributed in odd pieces, differing in style, color and upholstery, yet in harmony with the furniture proper.

Knowinp the Great Boom we are Now Enjoying*

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Our Stock.—Our Prices—Our Presents.

WElitrB&Tr'TfiE FOLLOWING IN RELATION TO THEM: a

1 Our Prices.

Like all others, are made according to the cost of the goods. Our claim to sell from 10 to 25 per cent, lower than any competitor is based

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the following facts.

We manufacture exclusively, or yave a controlling interest in the manufacture of our clothes. We import our fine clothes. We manufacture oiir clothing. We mamufacture exclusively or have the controlling interest in the mills that make our furnishing goods. We deal very extensively, being among the largest in the United States. This alone gives us extraordinary advantages in prices. We place our stock in our store directly from our factories. We sell direct to the customers. With these advantages our stock costs us from 25 to 44) per cent, less than any ordinary dealer. Our extraordinary low prices at this time is due to a very sucessral year at our factories, and the ^purchase of J. A. McKenzie's stock at Indianapolis, at very favorable figures. Our prices are marked in plain figures. One price to all.

WE INVITE THE PUBLIC TO INVESTIGATE OUR STATEMENTS AND VERIFY THEM BY EXAMINING1

UrOUR STOCK, OUR PRICES AND OUR PRESENTS.

OWEN, PIXLEY & CO., Nos. 508 and 510 Main St.

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INTERESTING TO FAT PEOPLE,

JENNY JUNE TELLS THEM HOW TO GET RED OF THE ADIPOSE TISSUE.

People who have been in the habit of attending the opera in New York or of mingling much in any way with the well-to-do olasses must have remarked, and in fact often do, the tendence to stoutness, not to say obesity, on the part of the women. Homilies against tight lacing, against pinching in, and personal discomfort of any kind seem absurd in the presenoe of the masses of oonj/ortable flesh to be seen on all hands, and which excite the wonder of foreigners who have been accustomed to bear American women spoken of as slender, sylphlike, and givep to persistent waist compression. Probably there are no women in the world (civilized) who practice tight lacing less than the educated American women. As girls they are slender and do not need it. As young married women they sometimes make an effort to preserve the gentler outlines of form and face which they have been taught to regard as among the greatest charms. But they do not take kindly to the "misery" of being drawn in, laced, buttoned, hooked, within an inch of their lives, and, besides, with advancing years, find the tendency toward flesh, born of gqod living and little exercise, too much for them, too strong altogether to be kept in check by

THB PLIABLE MODERN OOBSET, One of tbe most harmless of toilet appliances. It is easy to see, however, that redundancy in this particular is not welcome or considered desirable. It is all tbe more disturbing because it is greeted with a chorus of congratulations by friends and acquaintances^ who greet the subject of it with an eternal "how well you're looking," when she does not feel well or feel that she looks well, and she has to bring all her philosophy to bear on the question of increasing avoirdupois, and watches the enlargement of her waist, with something of

feeling that the prisoner of old experi enced when he saw the walls advancing, that told him unmistakably of his doom.

Is fat a sign of health ought long before this to have been settled by a jury of medical experts—if it were possible for a jury all or a trade to settle anything —but it has been left for a woman physician to decide that it is not to assert, on the contrary, that it is positive evidence of disease, and to attack it and cure it accordingly. It is very well known that several beautiful and prominent women in New York society, whose fair thirty or forty years were married only by a too rapid accumulation of protoplastic tissue, have, after a summer of seclusion, suddenly appeared rejuvenated—reduced to refined and admirable proportions, without any loss in color or texture of skin on the contrary, their old brightness superadded to the charms of a purity and delicacy which rival youth itself. "What is the matte What have you done to yourself have been the questions asked on first meeting their friends. "Oh, I have been made over is usually the joking reply but one was found who was more communicative. She gave the name and address of the physician who treats overabundant flesh as a disease and cures it, or at least has produced

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On account of their great value and the unique,atttusing and simple method of awarding them are attracting wide-spread attention.

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is admired by all who see it It is on exhibition in the store opposite* the office.

LADY DOT and OUTFIT

is certainly the IDEAL PRESENT for the little folks. Her name has become a household word in the city and surrounding country. She is the source of much pleasure and amusement to all, especially the children when on exhibition in our show window. She is the cause of much pleasant anticipation and hope of the little ones for her possession. U*

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AND CHAIN* is valuable in material and beautiful in style is warranted to keep time for two years and will be an honor to the recipient

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will make atLEAST ONE MAN HAPPY. The glass globes in our show window continue to be closely studied. They are the source of much pleasant speculation as to their contents, by thegreat number of people competing for the RARE AND VALUABLE REWARDS offered, for the most accurate estimate of the number of shot or beans in each. The guesses are coming in rapidly now. They show a great diversity of opinion on the contents of globe No. 3, the shot, the lowest guess is 1,700, the highest 500,020,36L On globe No. 1, beans, the lowest is 777, the highest 300,000. It is well these globes know how to keep their secret or it would be coaxed out of them.

marvelous results in half a /osen per sonallv authenticated oases. A desire to know

atient and if so, it is not difficult to see widely it must differ from the ordinary system of medical practice.

THE DEAD CHILD.

Few things appear so beautiful as a young ohild in its shroud. The little innocent face looks so sublimely simple and confidiug among the cold terrors of death. Crimeless and fearless, that little mortal has passed alone under the shadow. There is death in its sublimest and purest image no hatred, no hypocrisy, no suspicion, no care for the morrow ever darkened that little face, death has come lovingly upon it there is nothing cruel or harsh in its victory. The yearnings of love, indeed, cannot be stifled for the prattle and smile—all the little world of thoughts that were so delightful—are gone forever. Awe, too will overcast us in its presence for the lonely voyager, for the child has gone, simple and trusting, into the presence of an allwise Father and of such,we know, is the kingdom of Heaven.

A CRUEL JOKE. Mlddletown Mercury.

A group picture of ten of the handsomest yeung ladies of Port Jervis was offered as a prize, to the young man writing the best letter to tbe postmistress of the fair of Carroll Post, G. A. R., in that village. The prize was awarded on Saturday night to Isidore Cohen, but judge of his surprise and chagrin when ne received the picture to find that every face had been carefully concealed hind a veil, fan or parasol, before the photograph was taken."

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press any one a* a quack. Her success/' she attributed to the fact that she had"' satisfied herself that SUPERFLUOUS FLBSH WA8 A DIBKASEJ hadstudfol it, and worked out a cure, for it—a cure which she claims to be permanent and lasts a lifetime. In regard to tbe treatment she was naturally, somewhat reticent, particularly as it varies with difference in constitution and habits, aud what is true of one case,, therefore, might not be true of another/ Of forty cases upon her books no twoH were treated exactly alike, but she exhibited her books, in which was kept^' careful reoord of theTeduction of weight which had followed the treatment from week to week, and of the final return to P* normal conditions. It was freely stated, however, that the principal of cure was*5S largely based upon diet, which was at first nitrogenous but variable, afterwards farinaceous and absolute The liver is attacked and brought into line by a safe and special remedy: hot water is used hot medicated fooi baths, and the number of meals at once reduced. It is. found that very fleshy people are usually fond of sugar and sweets, and these are, tabooed strictly. The reduction of flesh is to the normal standard, to what would be considered the proper weight for the hight of the individual, but the cure is not considered complete when this result is attained. The diet must be prolonged for a cure, and when this is effected the appetite for unwholesome sweets and astrles, and highly stimulating viands, as departed. It is a perfectly natural oure, it is said, and one quite in harmony with the laws of the coustitution of the

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