Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 October 1885 — Page 8

WOMAN AND HOME.

BITS OF INFORMATION COMPILED

FOR THE FAMILY SCRAP-BOOK.

"Not at Home"—Balld n* BOOM-* Winter Evening Beading—Games far tb« Household—School Girls—

Notes and Paragraph*.

[Compiled.]

Never 1st the tea boiL For rongh bands take lemon juice. Strong lye cleans tainted pork barrels. Tepid milk and water clean oil-cloth without soap.

Bread and oake sbonld be kept in a tin box or stone jar. Sprinkle sasafras bark among dried fruit to keep oat worm'.

Pop corn is a good lnnch for Sunday night with milk for drink. A band fat of bay in a painful of water neutralizes the smell of paint

In tewing anJ winding carpet lags double them with tbe right side out Clean tea or coffee cups with scouring brick make them look as good as new.

Remove ink stains on silk, woolen or cotton by saturating with spirit) of turpentine. Remove flower pot stains from window sills by rubbing with fine wood a*hes and rin-'e with clean water.

Washing pine floor in a solution of one pound of copperas dissolved in one gallon of strong lye gives oak color.

Stovepipes can be cleaned by putting a piece of zinc on the coals of a bot fire. The vapor produced carries off the soot by ohemical decomposition.

If your flat irons trouble you, by dropping black specks from tbe top or sides when irohing, take thorn in a pan of soap^udi and give them a thorough washing, and dry quickly to prevent rusting.

Marks on tables caused by leaving hot jugs or plates thero will disappear under the soothing influence of lamp oil well rubbed in with a soft cloth, finishing with a little spirit of wine or eau de Cologne robbed dry with another cloth.

A very complete filling for open cracks in "floors may be made by thoroughly soaking newspapers in pa*te made of one pound of flour, three quarts of water, and a tablespoonful of alum thoroughly boiled and nixed. Make the final mixture about as thick as putty, and it will harden like papier macho.

No matter how large the spot of oil, any oarpet or woolen stuff can be cleaned by applying buckwheat, plentifully and faithfully, brushing it into a dust pin after a khort time, and putting on fresh nntil the oil has all disappeared. Never put on liquid of any kind to cleanse such a spot

Tbe majority of amateurs who have experimented in preserving colored leaves have failed, these drying or curling, or aracking, after a few days' exposure. Oiling and varnishing have been among tbe processes recommended, but that waxing with yellow wax, as soon ai possible after gathering, gives tho most natural appearance and best preserves foliage.

To make lamp chimneys look beautifully ©lean, wash thorn in worm soap suJs, turn scalding water over thorn, wipe dry with a soft cloth, and rub with a piece of newspaper. This will give a nicer polish than can be obtained in any other way. Windows treated in tbe same way will be found to look much nicer than it simply washed and rinsed.

Paper bags in which many articles are sent from tbe grocery stores, should be saved for use when blacking a stove. You oan slip the band into one of these, and handle tbe brush just as well, aud the hand will not be soiled at all, and when through with them they can be dropped into the stove, being muoh preferable to tbe cloth bag or mitten, which requires frequent washing.

Game* for the Household. [Milton Bradley, in Good Housekeeping-] It is not necessary that a great amount of money be spent in toys and games. If the children are properly encouraged, and directed a little, they may prepare the material* for their own games, thus accomplishing .two desirable things, acquiring manual and mental facility in the manufacture and production of something with which to be afterward instructed and amo-ted.

In card games many can be prepared on plain briatol board cards in manuscript, involving simple facts in history, botany, geography, etc. or tbe always-valuable and tatemting word-making game can be prepared on small bit* of cards by drawing the ^letters with psn and ink, or pasting on let* ten cut from band bills and newspapers, eta

In board games the cover of a paper box serves well for the surface, to be decorated with the pen. pencil or water oolors. In "ye olden times,* when this country was not corned with manufacturers of games, our grandfathers cot tho lines of fox and geese, twelve men morris, and checkers on the sides of pine boards, coloring the spaces, when necessary, with red chalk, and using buttons, rei and white corn or colored beans for counters or men. an 1 it is related by those who claim to know that more pleasure was derived from thee* rude obstructions than the children of the present generation get from their most elegant editions in gold and colors.

Many most valuahie and interesting games have gone out of the market, and are not bo be bought, but which may be reproduced under tbe instruction of so toe older persons who may have played them in their youth and if the details are not fully remembered, others equally good may be originated.

XorslUy of *"Jfo» at Pome*** tLouisville OourtefJouroal.] Tbere is a periodic discussion of tbe morality of the phrase "not at home," and the opinion of really truthful persons are as widely apart upon tbe matter as tbe pole* Many contend, as it is a generally accepted phrae in society, and means only that tbe person called upon is not receiving, it is not untruthful, and no ooe is deceived thereby. Others again, hold that as it Is not tbe absolute troth, its use is productive of harmful revolt* to the Integrity of tbe minds of children and servant!.

Tbe formula used in polite German society, where call* of ceremony are made in the forenoon, la "I am very sorry bot madame has not yet made her toilet* Tbfa explanation is always accepted kindly. Her*, however, where morning oaib are tbe exception, this form can not be employed. The Oordian knot, bosrever, cooli be cot ia a very simple manner without wounding either the weane of truthfulness or the iM teg* at the caller. Wtea It fc impoesibte to receive, the servant fksoM be explicitly told to inform callers that her mistress "Is not receiving to-day.* Sever allow a servant to cay, ia respoow to the query as to whether the mistress Is at borne, "1 don't kaow, but I will sea.* Give a servant la•traction* before callers arrive, and let tbe kforoAliM be conveyed in a set form «f

fUw Feshi—i ef Weariag tfce Rain [Ctocfaaari S»«alter4 Beosntly at Newport Mix James E Pae tor, of Kew York, the baoas amateur am—, wfca km foal tetnmsd Ormm

Europe, made a wmHwi fey I ion of wearing her hair. Instead of being scraped up from the bade of the neck and piled In a mass on top of tbe bead after the prevailing mode, her abundant brown hair itt gathered into large loose loops and hangs well down on her shoulder* nds die declares to be the very latest Parisian fashion, because of its becomingneas and picturesquei

Winter Evening Beading.

[Mrs. E. B. Hooker, in Good Housekeeping.] It is a delightful way to pass the long witer evening', when the children are old enough for it, for the family to take np the plays of Shakespeare, assigning the vcrious parts to different members of tbe family. If your own circle be not sufficiently large, call in your neighbors. Lt*t tbe young people be made to read correctly, intelligently and well thus you are able to accomplish several things. An ease of manner in reading is acquired, a correct ear, a knowledge of tho best use of words, and naturally follows a love of the highest literature.

Then when it become* possible for the children to see some one of these familiar plays on the stage, take tbem yourselves. Thus they will easily see that the theatre is to you a place where something good may be seen and beard possibly you may be able to form so correct a taste in early life as to preclude all desire for inferior actors and plays. Set yoor intellectual standard high and try to keep yourselves in sympathy with the children in every way, and they will have no desire to conceal anything the book, the amusement, the friend, will all tbe more enjoyable because of the presence of the father and mother into their inner life* t*f

In Building a House.

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A landscape pbotograph into which the average trim dwelling intrudes is a proof of how trying to natural beauty is the usual abode of a man in this country. Wellmeaning efforts have been made to remedy this ugliness by tbe addition of adornment, which, however, being for the most part purposeless, and adding to tbe cost without any corresponding benefit, only aggravates the oviL The jig-sawed work drops away, tbe gay paint washes off, and a distressing shabbiness ensues. Even when such a house is kept in smart repair, tbe change of fash* ion In "architectural millinery" makes il look ridiculous, like a woman with a last, years' bonnet

Really good architecture, however, lookr as well fifty years hence as it does to-day Whatever tho prevailing style may be. building a house, tbe true way is to make its plan as convenient as possible, and let ha exterior conform thereto. Symmetrical lines and good proportions give a house its artistic character, and not its ornamenatlon. The best bouses are those which bave little or no ornamentation for ornamentation's sake—although u-eful feature, like verandas, dormers, and bay windows, may serve the purposes of ornamentation,

School Girls and Ureas. [Brattleboro Household.]

A lady who bad taught for over thirty years gave tbe following as a result of her experience: "When a new scholar was introduced," she said, "I always lookod firat at her dresa If that was plain, neat and tidy, I was pretty confident that I bad good material to work with. For the first two or threo years of my teaching I was in tbe habit of scrutinising the features and the formation of the beads, but these came at last to be quite secoudary considerations.

Our school was so expensive that none but daughters ol the wealthy could possibly enter it so when a young lady came to tbe class-room in a plain dress, I was sure that it was on account of her idea of the fitness of things. This argued common sense. Common reuse is always in direct antagonism to vanity, and where tbere is no vanity, there is seldom self-consciousness. So you see a plain dress came to mean a great deal to me. I learned never to expect anything from a girl whose school dress was silk or velvet

An Interchange of Ideas. [Chicago Herald.]

A student of womankind explains that belles acquire em interchange of ideas during the summer, and returns to their bouses to put them into practice during tbe winter. At Saratoga, Long Branch, and other fashionable resorts, women and girls from the most distant part of the country are thrown together in mutual obsorvation, if not in close and social intercourse, and the influence* that are more dominant fix the conventionalities of feminine behavior for tbe ensuing year. New York substantially dictates to the rest of the oountry through the force of numbers, wealth and audacity but their whims are sensibly modified by those of Boston and Philadelphia, both of which differ as radically from each other as they do from New York* doings.

A Woman Xever Forgets. [Bill Arp's Letter.]

A woman never forgets her lovers. Ever and anon she recalls tbem as in a sweet, sad dream, and sbe counts them as the nun count, faer beads in ber devotions. But a man forgets. He don't care modi. A woman at 00 is always serious and sensible, and if left a widow sbe lives true to her memories, and comforts herself with ber children and grandchildren. But a widower of three score years is the biggest fool upon earth. There ought to be a reformatory prison for boys under 16 and widowers over 00. An old widower will put crape an his hat and dye on his beard, and start out on a matrimonial skirmish in two or three months after the foneraL

Buttons and Walking-Sticks tor Ladies. [Court Journal. In London this winter the rage will be for buttons—that is, for ladies' costumes. They bave been big before, but they will be immense now some of them oostly alto, for they are beautifully carved in ivory.

Indies will also patronias walking-sticks again cotftly ones, of coarse, for nothing which they favor Is cheap.

One of tbe items of novelties wbloh ladlae will patronise is tbe newly-discovered combination scarf or fiohu. Tbe scarf pamee right round with a tight twist on the chest, comes forward again over the hipa, and than presents two neatly-centered pockets.

Weasea la tfce Magaslaea. (Boston Advertiser

Lees than one-fourth of our mega sine writers are women, a remit which will probably came MM surprise, that is: of oar Br»t-eiaa mage sines for grown people it la probable that to include children's magastoe* would vary the figures. 11m proportion of women writers is greatest ia Tbe Atlantic Loathly, where sixteen at the dfty-ooe author* are woman it la least In Tbe Qwtury, which has only eleven wnn oat of seventy-six.

The tsfUsk Beoeohsepor. *.". Beeper* Bnsar.] A yoong onllsga graduate, token soddetjy firoaa tbe laboratory and placed at tbe band of a great factory in vtkft be flada no (brenm and no ovettoolmrs, is no* so belpfcse |W tntan end

SM placed at tbe heed of

baB a down sail ante in a beaatlfal b^ow a*w«lalparftfen*

•ctoally are fareaea and overlookers soma whare in the oommonity, and an energetic young man with money at oommand caa find them. But no wealth can obtain fat the American lady that admirable and perfect being, tbe Bnglish housekeeper, so completely adjusted to bar environment thai die seems as if de must have bean created an purpaee, and aent straight down from heaven in a black silk gown, to stand behind ber mistress's chair, looking mom stately than her mistress even when she sry*, with dignified deference, "As you pit-— ma'am."

A Girl and Her Beans. [Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.] Bow queenly it makes a pretty girl to bave a big lot of lovers. How stately are ber stepping*. How merrily she laughs. How serenely she receives the devotions of her admirers. Bat it is a dangerous sea to sail on and many a fair craft has been wrecked on flirtation's reef. The love of many sometimes hardens the heart so that it has no love to return to one, even one Girls with a whole cow pen full of lovers don't encourage a fellow like a girl who has but one or two. Tbe best chanoe for a young is in a town that has a female college with easy regulations, that is to say a oollege that is not a convent

Keep Only One Kye on Profit. [Detroit Free Press.] To "«hi home beautiful, keep only one eye on profit Bast of all, never look away off for happiness. Remember "'tis a plant that only thrives by home cultivation." Never coat up future trials to be borne at the present time, bur live your trials as you exert your faith, a day at a time, remembering that each day makes you stronger and better acquainted with thii grand old world.

Another Name for Indigestion? Bad temper is frequently nothing but another name for indigestion. Irritability, peevishness and dyspepsia are tbe certain results of bolting food when the^ body is weary and the mind preoccupied. w* -•ir^rc

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Gen. D. H. Hill's Daughter. Miss Nannie Hill, daughter of Gen. D. H. Hill, of Confederate fame, is now in Washington, teaching painting, molding, and decorative art in a school for young ladies.

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Englishman in waltzing spin round and round in one direction, apparently indifferent to tbe feeling of giddiness, while Americans constantly reverse. 7 r$

Grapes are served on tbe vines in San Francisco, the bunches being tied with ribbons to match tbe tint of the fruit

Miss Emma Nevada's wedding cake was six feet bigb, weighed 150 pounds, and cost $600. jl-

Eiser is making his fine Caramels, Creams, Taffy.

BEAT HIS

Tbe Absolute Purity and Wholesomeness of Royal Baking Powder.f

It is a noticeable fact that in the numerous battles between tho rival baking powder makers tho absolute purity and wholesomeness of the Royal Baking Powder has never yet been questioned. V--J

The thousands of analyses, many of them by the most celebrated chemists of the world, the most searching scrutiny by scientific bodies in this country and Enrope, the exhaustive tests before the juries of competitive and industrial exhibitions, and all the minute and prejudiced investigations by rivals and their chemists in the endeavor to find something upon which to base the shadow of a fault, have had but one result, to more fully determine and establish the fact that the Royal Baking Powder and all its ingredients arc absolutely pure and wholesome. All reputable chemists, and all but the most ignorant makers of the low test, short weight, lime, alum, and other impure powders, long since ceased to examine the Royal Baking Powder to find anything impure or unwholesome in it.

While the Royal is proud of these unimpeachable indorsements, find highly gratified at the perfect result which it has, by the aid of the most competent chemists, the adoption of every available invention, and the expenditure of great stuns of money, been able to accomplish, its greatest pleasure arises from the fact that its labors have been parallel with those great interests of the public sought in the protection of the lives and health of the people. '1^

The gravity of the danger to the consumer from the many impure and unwholesome baking powders of the market is but faintly appreciated* The small amount of injurious substance imparted to the system at one time in the use of such powders is unfioticcable. They are therefore continued by the consumer in ignorance of the serious results sure to follow from the accumulated effects. This slow, insidious poisoning, because unapparent, is more dangerous than a burger dose at once. All the baking powders upon the market, except Royal, have been found to contain lime, alum, terra alba, or other ingredients that injuriously affect the health of the consumer.

The great advantage to the public of a baking powder like the

whose purity and wholesomeness have never been questioned, and whose practical worth has stood the test of cooking for so many years, will be apparaot to every consumer.

Oar neighborhood was shook np this mornin' over the report that a 'well known business man had beat bis wife. The man has always held a high position in business drkels and in church socials, and hia wife has been regarded as a model woman, in all that goes to make a good wife and mother and nabor. The is pnrty, 'stylish and about thirtyfive years old. Tbe hus

band is a little older. Tbeir house is one of the pleasantest and best ordered in tbe city. The way he cum to beat her was in this way. They bed started down town, and when they got to the Union depot she took a street car and he started at tbe same time to walk, and he beat her badly in tbe race to E. R. Wright's White Frunt grocery, where they found Dressed Dncks, Turkeys and Chickens, Oysters, Celery, Cranberries, Choice Concord Grapes, Oranges, Lemons, Apples, Dried Beef, Smoaked Beef Tongues, Choice Hams, Fresh Quails, Pare Sugar Syrups and Sorgam, Kingan's New Lard and many other things to namerons to mention, at the White Front Grocery.

PSORIQUE cares Itch and Wabash Scratches in 20 minutes. For sale by all druggists.

Moore Pilulus

Area positive cute for all diseases that •"•'arise from •-'w Mi """vva1 i»

Malaria::

Moore's Pilules area certain and speedy malarial antidote dent misunderstand .almost, (if not quite), everybody sufltere .from it dally. This ss tbe remedy,,

Chills and Fever:

Is one of the common forms of Malaria, Moore's Pilules will

Positively Cure

Every case of Chilis and Fever. Dumb Ague, fec.. in which tbey are taken. JJever felled for 11 years.

Moore's Pilules

Are entirely vegetable and harmless. They have no quinine or arsenic, or other injurious substance in them. 'They are sugar coated, lens-shaped, "*iuon, easy to take, always give satlsfac

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We have not missed ONE DAY in three weeks in getting some additions to onr grand

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CL0AK STOCK

What you may see to-day may be sold to-morrow,

and something else filled in.

We have received yesterday an elegant lino of

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Muffs and Collars,

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FUR LINED CIRCULARS.

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In tke city, such as

Underwear, Hosiery, Hoods, Skirts, Infants' Hand Knit Shirts, &c.

HERZ' BJlZAR.

R. GAGG

DKA1.ER IN"'

ARTISTS' SUPPLIES,

Pictures, Frames, Mould iDgs. Picture Frames Made to Order. McKeen's Block, No. 840 Main street, be* tween 6th and th.

NEW ARRIVALS

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Foote's Seed Store.

BULBS—Hyitcintlis, Tulips, Narcissus, etc. FLOW Kit POTS—Common and Fancy. BIRD CAGE&—Grfflt assortment. FLOWER «TAN 1)8-Wood and wire. PURE BIRD FOOD—Not the trash sold In ordinary boxes. MOCKING BIRD FOOD-Headquartera for this fine preparation. BASKETS—Market, lunch, clothcs, laundry and farmer's baskets.

J. A. FOOTE, Seedsman.

317 Main Street.

rpHE "FAVORITE"

COOK STOVE

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Geo. S. Zimmerman Sells,

Is ahead of everytliins out in the cook stove line.

The "Jewel" Soft Coal Base ^.Heating Stove

Keeps fire all night. Be rare and see them at

GEO. S. ZIMMERMAN'S, 648 Main Si McKeen Block.

^OTICE TO N'ON RKSIDKNT.

State of Indiana, County of Vigo, In the Vigo Circuit tfcurt, September term. 1886. Emily Brown vs. Matilda K. Donnelly, James M. Alltn, ct al.

Be it known, that on the 6th day of October, 1885, It was ordered by the Court that the Clerk notify by publication said Caroline ». Wood, impleaded with Peter M. Donnelly et al., in tbe crlginal complaint of said Brown and also on the 10th day of October,

VMVUilV wu, iiuj^iuwuvo 7 Donnelly et al. In tbe crow oomplaintof said Allen in Mid came, as non-resident Defendant of the pendency of this action against ber.

Defendant is therefore hereby notified of the pendency Is said action against ber. and that the same will stand fortml December 8th, 1885, the same being at November term of said Court, in Ihe year 13KL

MERRILL N. SMITH. Clerk.

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TOILET ARTICLES

All proprietary articles and new remedies received us soon as known and continually kept in stock.

We have the largest and most complete retail stock In tbe State of Indiana. LOWEST PRICES

Established 1805. Incorporated 1878

PHOENIX FOUNDRY

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MACHINE WORKS,

Manufacture and deal in all kinds of

Machinery and Machinery Users Supplies.

FL0UB MILL W0BK

Our Specialty.

Have more patterns, larger experience and capacity, and employ more mechanics thau any other similar establishment within sev-enty-five mile of Terre Haute.

Repair mmI Jobbing Work Given special attention. Write or call on ut and see for yourselves. 901 to 335 North Ninth street, near Union Depot. Terre Haute. Ind.

AVOID

Main street fancy prices and leave your: measure with

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The Merchant Tailor,

Corner Sixth and Ohio streets. Best goods and trimmings kept. Good work and per— ect fit guaranteed.

T. J. PATTON & CO.,

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CHOICE MEATS.

Soatfadown Mutton and|I*mb. Sontbenet Corner Fourth and Ohio.

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The ot»deiw%ned has opem-d a '.a*. Boom, Vo. 13sooth Hecubd street. «rt.ne he ts prejutred to receive Boogb Tallow and Urease of any kind. Pork and Btef Cracklings, Dry or Green Bones, for wbleb he will nay tbe Highest Ga*b Prices. He will also, boy Dead Hops by single or ear load. Boa received at tbe Factory, Southwest of the City on tbe Island. Office Wo. 1J aooib (Second street, Terre Haute, Ind.

HARKISOH SMITH, AmHa^lk