Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 24, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 December 1887 — Page 1

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Vol. 18,-No. 24.

THE _MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

A quinine "trust" haw been organized Shake! It its too late in tho day to advise the President to boil his message down, but we hope he has boiled it down.

Anew magazine has sailed into view liearing tho title "The Age of Woman." Who can tell the ago of woman?

The college man who graduates with «lgh honors at foot-ball will be the one who will be looked up to hereafter—can kick the ball high, you know.

Tho American Girl—her cardinal vir-r Cues and defects—whorein she excels and is deficient—as a daughter and a wife, will be Ella Wheeler's theme next week.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox's recent letter on ladios' toilets is reported to have created a Hurry in the almond meal market. Glyeerieno, however is still cheap.

Henry

Ives

can

Winter came down liko a wolf on tho fold last Sunday. A change of thirty or forty dog roes in anight is rather trying •HI the system, bwt it's what ono has to get used to from the Ohio river northward. Fortunately we are so constituted that we can get used to most anything.

(lone is the Indian Summer, the birds haVo llown southward, oven poor Senator .foncH promi^eMtto loave Detroit at last and go

back

ulated

to his native hc&th in

Florida and get even wltlfhis enemies. But tften Congress, the coal man and the plumbor will still be with us %nd we shall tiot ho Jonesome. **»..,

It is reported that a Wisconsin man has found a rich gold mind within a few miles or Washington, T. C. A good many men have found gold mines in Washington, bat of a different kind. The Wisconsin wau should bo congrat

upon finding his a little outside

of tho national capital.

Congress will blow in next Monday. It will be the long session and may run for an indefinite period. Souiotlmos tho long session lasts until .July or August. As the session will be tho last one before the next Presidential election the two parties will probadly play the old juvenilo game of "»«o'8 afraid and the other dason't."

In a recent Uaterview Mr. Charles Dickons, Jr., said in regard to American writers that "what would do admirably for the American public would hardly suit English readers." Mr. Dickens appears to have very much tho samo notion •of American authorship that prevailed among Englishmen a hundred years ago.

Times have changed a good deal since then. James Whileoiub Rllev, the lloosler poet, has just issued a new volume of poem* and made a groat hit by his recitation* at the Authors' meeting in New York last Monday. His performances were perhaps the most enjoyable of any given and were a treat to those who hoard them. All lloosiers everywhere

rejoice

in the growing fame of their fa

vorite poot. The proposition of ex-Senator iHwllttle to give married men two votes, while bachelors should have only one, will hardly become popular. It would be a nort ot underhand plan of wonlan suffrage much like that of giving slaveholder* an increased vote before the war. If women are to be recognised as an element In polities at all, give them the suffrage outright and don't merge them Into their husbands, llesldos, the plan would be more unfair to unmarried women than that which now pre* vails, since these would have no voice either direct or indirect In public affairs.

The cheapness of natural gas as a fuel is almost incredible. At Anderson, Ind., a printing office occupying two entire floors of a building, is supplied with fuel for $12 a year and at Kindlay, Ohio, a hotel with 7S rooms is supplied with fuel at $11.3.1 per month, for heating and cooking purposes. It may not be that artificial gas can IK? made as cheaply as that but there c*n be no doubt that a cheaper fuel can be obtained ia that way than is now had by burning coal in its crude ataus where the larger part of It goes to waste up the chimney. The coal tire nuisance with its smoke, dirt and wastefulness, baa about seen its day. Already fuel gas can be furnUhed at tan cost than coal and the process of manufacturing It will be still further sin^iUUed and cheapened.

The Chicago

keep out of tho

penitentiary ho may get control of the c. II. tV I), road. This

seems

rest

to be about

tho situation when stripped of all the newspaper spctMilation-

Tliere is no longer any doubt that Gorster, the great singer, has lost hor voice. Her proposed tour has been abandonod. Whothor

or the doctors will bo able

to restore tho splendid voice again, only the future can determine.

TERRE HAUTE, END.,

A carious phenomen appeared recently in Southern Illinois. After weeks of drougtb which had exhausted the stream and wells, water suddenly appeared in them without rain or any other visible means of supply. Where tho water came from is an insoluble puzzle to the scientists and others. Something sub tcrranean must have given away. Evidently there are lota of mysteries in this old mother earth that we have not got onto yet.

Tiews

has hail ah .exper

ience that is not very encouraging for the outlook of America, at least in that part of tho country. Some weeks ago it offered prizes for Christmas stories to be written by the school children of Cook county. Ills., promising to publish the best of them. The News haaascertained that about ten per cent, of those selected for publication wore stolen from periodicals and other sources. The youngsters of that section have made an early start iu the devious paths of crookedness that does not promise well for the future.

In the contost over the Del'auw will the sympathy of tho public will be with tho child that was not given an oqual share with the rest. It seems singular that the other heirs would not agree to a fair division of the great property— there being more than enough for all—but the same spirit that animated the father seemsto govern the children. The result wiMbe tho enrichment of several lawyers eu either side by a considerable dissipation of the estate. But, after all, perhaps It will be just as weli if a good slice of tho property shall go into other hands. lawyers as a rule do not hoard their money but spend it freely, thus holplng the community in which they live. It is perhaps as good a way as any to divide up a big estate.

Last winter, when the numerous roasting "accidents" on the railroad causod tho press to send up a united demaud for some safor method of heating cars than tho deadly coal stoves, several railway officials denied that any other practicable method had been discovered. But the ngltation was continued and lias apparently borno good fruit. Some of the companies have already announced that horoafter their cars will be heated by steam, or a system which seems to be entirely practicable, since it has been employed on few roads for sonit# time past. Tho public should sometime past, Tho public should continue the demand for the abolition of lamps and stoves in cars until electricity and steam, or something else as safe, shall take their place.

Dr. Gillum, of Rockville, modestly refuses to declare himself out of the race for the Democratic nomination for Congross in this district.. At the same time, to show that ho Is not yet possossed of such a desire for it that ho cannot consider tho claims of others, he names soveral "available" and "able" gentlemen in tho district and strange to say Mr. Limb's name comes last. Our Democratic rrionds seem loth to see the handwriting on the wall. John E.Lamh will take that nomination if lie wants it and lie wants it bad. When it comes time for the primaries the federal officeholders in this district will be at work at every cross-roads postottice for John K. Lamb delegates and then will arise tho question for the Democaaticbrethren to answer, what are you going to do about it?

Senator Voorhees is announced to appear^in the Senate next Monday iu the role of a groat objector. He has said that If Mr. Turpie is not permitted to take his soat without objection he, Senator Yoorhees, will fobject to all of the new Republican senators. Under the rules one objection Is sufficient to cause the seuator-elect to stand aside and not be sworn in until the case is looked into by the proper committee. The custom is for the new senators to be called up in groups or five, the list being arranged alphatotically. By this custom Mr. Turpie would be in the last group. So it will be seen that Mr. Yoorhees must begin his policy of retaliation before anything has been done warranting such a policy. It would be almost worth the while to abstain from objecting to Turpi© to see tho Tall Sycamore's embarrassment if he l»egins his objections at the opening ot proceedings. However, according to reports from Washington there will be circus enough over the contest, whatever course is taken by the two parties*. ______

The Gresham and Harrison b6bths for President are sure to collide between now and the National convention next year. The managers of the Harrison boom are personally very bitter toward tin aud say he has not been and is not a .hick and thin Republican. It is even charged that be voted for Cleveland and that be I* glad he did. The truth is that Gresham has more active supporters outside of the State than In it. In New York and New England he is particularly strong. The Mugwumps admire him and such newspapers as the New York Times and New York Sun take kindly to him. In Chicago the Republicans are ready to take up arms in his cause and a dispatch a day or ago

Mid

Mayor Rocheandex-Ocmgrsesmen Davis, the leading party managers there, had

gone to New York, Philadelphia and other eastern citios to see how the laud lay for Gresham for President. It wotfld hardly do, however, for a candidate to go before the convention unless the delegation from his own State is for him and it is now practically assured that Indiana will place the name of General Harrison before the convention. Of course if the delegations of any other States should go to the convention strong for Gresham and there was an apparent boom for him the managers of the Harrison campaign would be obliged to yield, gracefully perhaps, but swing into line in any event.

SATVRDA VNIGHT MUSINGS.

"Singular, is it not," said a friend to us the other day, "that one may.^fcve for months within speaking rufstance of those whom we know aud esteem, yet never utter a word or give a glance indicative of so much as a passing memory." It was a simple, friendly remark, but it contained a thought that needs to be stirred and discussed by every human intelligence. Look about you, ye men and women, aud note how many good people yon know who never move a step from self—who are self-isolated, so to speak,—as much apart,from the world as though their days were lived at an island hermitage. Why, we know families whoso lives are spent among themselves year in year in and year out. They are happy enough and satisetid. They are cultured peop e, capable of contributing as well as feoeiving pleasure. Yet here they are—sufficient unto themselves* What is the reason i*.»

Doubtless many of

Sus

JH Gilbert

had more of

pleasure than was good for us iu other years. -Many of us have loarned to regard society as something to avoid rath er than seek. Wo hare fcrewii weary of it, and of its exactions. We tire pleased with large acquaintance, aud, value friends as we never valued thee, before but with age comes habit, and ofttinies sedusiveness, and, somehow or other, while we are pleased to have our friends seek us, we are socially too lazy or too shiftless to seek them* We bavoin mind agentiemaa of our acquaintance. We knew him way back therein other days, when he was full of youngrhope, and before care IMIKI tamedJiirai Theu, he was the life of sooidt$r^He planned andeaP ecu ted social events of every nature and he sought aud was sought. Gradually he tired of this iucossant round of pleasure. It cost too much, both of time and money, aod little by little he withdrew from tho "mad whirl" altogether. Thus it happened that he tasted both extremes Before, he had indulged in social pleasures too oft now, ho was shut up to himself altogether more than was good

Aud the years fled. This gentleman was as well qualified to take a position in society as ever he was. He ghined in culture, possessed broador intelligence, was more sensitive than ever to the rights and feelings of others, and was in every way fitted for gtonial and perhaps h«lpful companionship. His pleasant rooms were open to all who sought him. He was accessible in business and courteous when accosted on thp street but he never ventured out anywhere unless duty ealiod him. Ho was utterly dead to society and society—as a matter of course, was dead to him. It follows that there was loss. But the man suffered the greater lass. Society is greater that the individual, and a single mind is never loog missed. So society swept along as gaily as of old, while the man, bo it said to his regret, retired deeper and deeper within himself and lost a world of experience that might have brought him both joy and protitj No, no! It does not pay to live selfish*5 lives. We each owe to society certain obligations that must forever remain unliqui dated. Friends are bleesings, and it is right that we should seek them. The genial word, the kindly act, the gentle, graceful courtesy, are tithes that we owe and should pay on every fitting occasion. Home is much but home without friends—a home which harbors a feeling and a sense of lonelinees-is not the home which the Almighty intended it should be.

Nothing more quickly curdles the milk of human kindness which irrigates the creamy purity of the bosom of a milkman than for a customer to order a pint of lacteal fluid and then tell him to "chalk it down."

Matthew Bird, a Philadelphia boy, died the other day from smoking cigarettes. Still a word to the unwise will not be sufficient and the wise do not smoke 'em.

The man who moves down life's path and finds it strewn with sweet surprises is be who knows just how it's done, who keeps a store and advertises.*

When a man prefaces his ramarlcs with "Now, I know this isnt any of my business," you may be prstty sure that it Isn't.

An application of warm buckwheat cakes is better than a Uver these frosty mornings

SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3,1887.

/ire Women JCllOUS.

ELLA WfiifeELER SAYS IP THEY ARE, ,£ IT 13 THE FAULT OF THE MEN.

Envy and Jcaltmy—Love*Begets ./•«/- OK*//—Different Tjtyex of Women Who Are Never SusceptUtfe to Jealous Feeling*— Women Made to Ite hovedy JPetted, rmd Appreciated by Matt—Mothers Jealous of their OwnCJrildrrn—Jinxy Women

Seldom Jealous. Special Correspondence of tne Mail. Very few people make a. proper distinction between jealousy and envy. They are. used as synonymous terms, aud ooufounded every day by sifee speakers and writers. Yet they are its unlike as a wild animal and an insect.

Jealousy is often the misbehaved child of noble paren tage. Envy is always base born and pleboian. Jealousy often suffers untold agonies in silenco, or strikes bold blows in the face. Envy stabs in the darkness aud behind the back. Jealousy to bd, must first look in the faco of Love. Envy can exist without ever having looked beyond its own reflection. Jealousy may spring from self-deprecia-tion envy must spring from ssl&adulation.

I heard it once remarked of a worldly belle who courted admiration, but laughed at love, that she was a strange paradox she could not love, yet she ox hibited intense jealousy if any of her numerous admirers bestowod the least attention upon other ladies, This was but another illustration of the misuse of the word. The selfish belle had never known loVe, therefore she could not know jealousy. She was simply envious of the power which any woman possessed to draw her admirers from her side. Sho desired to be a monopolist in the affairs of the heart—a Jay Gouldess iu the affectional market, and she resented tho interference of any small dealer or dabblor in tho stock of Love.

Men exhibit this sort of feeliDg to a degree, though their broad a*nd busy lives prevent them from carrying it to tho extent which mars the progress of woman everywhere.

I have heard physicians of excellent standing decry each othor with rancor tuusieiaus are notoriously envious of one wtfrer amJioi^iete«s.-an| even bus! esshienoftea|^trgc6 that the SvorldIs large enough for all, and that succoss was never obtained by pulling down another man-

But this feeling which takes root in self and directs its venom toward other people's achievements and possessions is not jealousy. It is only foolish envy —the meanest attribute of the hutnau uiiud the little fox which spoils the vines, the rat which undermines the wall of a noble character, the moth which destroys the beautiful fabric of the soul. It is the child of selfishness and the companion of bate. Jealousy is the unworthy child of Love—a bad child who ought to be governed and chastised before be works harm to his parent.

Love may exist without jealousy, as a man may live without offspring. But jealousy cannot live without Love any more than an infant can be born without parents. As the rule of the world is that people beget offsprings, bo it is the rule that Love begets jealousy,

Pocket Books, Cutlery and Stationary, Large Variety, BAKER & WATSON.

If women are more jealous than met), it is only because they live more {wholly in the atmosphere of Loye.

There are two rare types of woman who are never susceptible to jealousy. One is the perfectly bumble being, ut terly devoid of iudividuality, who lives in a state of wondering amazement that she could be the recipient of her lover's least regard. She is grateful for a smile, and overwhelmed at a word of praise. She finds greater joy in loving than in .being loved, and is a faint echo of the masculine mind in all her opinions and ideas. She is willing to be the mat be ueath his feet, to eat the crumbs which fall from his table, to do his most menial labor. She has the nature of a serf, devotion of a dog, and if he neglects her for other women (as he usually does,) she never complains, as in his will she finds her only pleasure. Her nature is mild, patient, and constant, and devoid of passion and intensity

The other type of woman who knows no jealousy is quite her opposite. She is a radiantly happy creature, full of self-confidence, egotism, and satisfaction. She is pleased with life, and with herself. She loves deeply and demands as much aa she gives. She expects to be told every day that she is the most adorable woman on earth, and she is sore to convince a man of the fact. It never enters her happy head that another woman amid IM as charming as herself, or that she could be displaced in the affections of any man she loves. She is a woman who has been accustomed to love and admiration all her life, and ahe knows how to keep her lover, interested and amused. She is safe he finds other women daU in comparison with herself, and she lends him freely to her friends, certain that he will return gladly to her.

The majority of women who toad a monotonous existence live in their imaginations, aud grow morbidly sensitive.

Many a man ruins the peace of his household forever by neglecting to speak

^Copyrighted, 18S7.) la word of praise which his hungrya \\7 1 pi hearted wife has yearned all day to hea

and bestowing it on so nit chance caller or stranger The man who fails to notice the care

ful toilet his wife has made for his sake, and compliments the good tastes in dress exhibited by some neighbor, sows tho soed of jealousy in a disappointed heart.

Woman was made to be loved, putted, and appreciated by man.' Whatever she may achieve in life, shu feels herself cheated out of her birthright unless this happiuess has come to her. She is jealous of whatever and whoevor may stand between her and that desired joy. I have known two mothers who were jealous of their own children. Uuuatural and terrible as it may seem, I felt the greatest sympathy for both women. In each case the husband utterly ignored the wife for her offspring. She was a secondary consideration, neglected and rebukeel where tho children were carressed aud appreciated.

I heard a woman who was a grandmother remark one day that she would never havo lived with her husband an hour if he had ouco told her that he thought that another woman was beautiful aud interesting. Poor man! of course such thoughts had outered his mind, and with what secresy j^o must have guarded them all those years!

Jealousy of such a petty typo an hers is surely the dwarfed and imbeoile child of its parent. Tho woman whose life is full of sensible aud ntfble duties is loss given to unreasoning jealousy than the idler who dwells in a world of her own imagining.

And the woman who receives tho love and devotion which is her birthright seldom feels the pangs of jealousy.

ELLA WHKBLKR Wiu oi

A physician says that the benefit to his patients from a public library is enormous. Most of his patients are poor, aod good books would be beyond their reach but for this system au interesting book is to them something of what chango of air and scene is t6 the rich.

Natural gas has thrown 5,000 men out of employment in Pittsburgh alone. Its one great benefit that it does away with the necessity for the servant girl. ParIAC. liousos tliSt ftave natural gas. rir

'little skrmoxs.

Ivoop your temper. Gain a little knowledge every day. Make few promises, and speak the truth.

Give full measure and weigh with a just balance. Consent to common custom, but not common folly.

Be cautious of believing ill, but thtfi-e cautious of reporting it. Have courage to wear your old yjlothes until you can pay for new ones.

Count your resources find out what you are not fit for, and give up wishing for it.

A BOOM FOR THE BIBLE. I (.Boston Transcript.] Bible reading in parlors will be a feature of society—diversion, shall it be said?—this winter, and will take the place among some of the intellectual that Browning recitals occupied last year. Readers who may conclude from this preface that society is becoming pious will be disappointed when they learn that the new movement finds its supporters among the agnostics, and that the Bible will be ^elected solely with the rhetorical and oratorical possibilities of its stately language in view. It ia understood that a young society man who quite distinguished himself as an amateur reader of Browning, has studied the Psalms this summer for the pi of reading them to the ears sated with "The Flight of the Duchess" and "Rabbi Ben Earn," and is very eager for tho opening of the reading season, which usually dates from about Nov. 15. From the Psalms he hopes to progress to the Book of Job, should society graciously smilo upon the bold experiment in its first phase. Perhaps to a portion of his hearig the Holy Scriptures.

OIGARE7TE SMOKING. The Boston Journal of Health says: One of the most abominable habits which a person can acquire is that of cigarette smoking. Tho.ie who are adicted to ^t not only injure their health more than they realize, but they also render themselves unpleasant to almost everyone whom they meet while practicing it, for not one person in a hundred likos the smell of a cigarette, and to the majority of people it Is simply intolerable. The general impression is that cigarettes are harmless, whereas they are a potent source of evil. They are so dry, the nicotine is thrown off from the moment the tobacco begins to burn, and the smoke being inhaled and coming in contact with the delicate lining of the air passages, the poison is at once absorbed, aud

roduces an immediate effect which can felt even to the tips of the fingers. The sensation which follows is one of ennui, Indolence and muscular hebetude, which soon becomes burdensome, unless the stimulation be renewed and prolonged by a fresh cigarette. Of the two—the young man of the period and the laborer with his T. D. pipe loaded with plug tobacco—the latter snow* the

moat sense, for be Injures his health the least by his indulgence, and certainly he out be no more obnoxious to hls jielghbors than the cigarette smoker.

Eighteenth Year

WOMEN'S WAYS.

Colorado shows the highest averagepaid to women teachers* The thing that a womatt alwars' know*, best is how some other woman ought todress.

Ellen Terry makes uo secret of her liking for the society of men in preference to that of her own sex. §0 •The person who officiat»datfli funeral recently at a little Maine town mentioned particularly in his prayer various relatives of the dead man, but forgot to ask a blessing for the widow. As soon as he said "amen," sho stood up and in remarkably vigorous language, toldhiii* what she thought of him.

Wiiilo the preparations wore beinjc made at Iiockford, 111., last weok for ttH*wedding of Miss Nettie E. Hull, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, and Mr. Edgar H. Scott, the young lady quietly but firmly linked horself to Mr. Charles F. Dunscombe, proprietor of the Fort Dodgo Chronicle, and the couple left for the East on their marriage tour^

Nellie Cook, tho Democratic candidatefor School Commissioner in Wayno county, New York, had a hundred guests at her wedding on Friday, which was one of the most brilliant ever held in that part of the State. After the ceremony every one present kissod the brideWoman's suffrage is likely to beoomemoro popular if this is one of the pnwtical r&ults of hor participation in pol-

itics.

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... --a?-'-2 A Boston newspaper nian sayH that Hi* reckless and ignorant way in which country girls fling themselves into thevortex t»f city life is remarkable and startling. One girl who reached Boston without a cent, being askod what she had expected to do said "I don't know but I supposed there might bo some hotel near the station where I could go, and they would take me in and lfet me work for my board until got a place." Another, showing fifty cents, all tho money she Jiad, said: "There, that's all the. money I have got do you suppose there Is any house In Boston whore I can stay the night for that? I suppose I am sure to got work to-morrow." Others have said: 'Oh, we are going to askjsoine on* at the station what we hatl better do.'* It is proposed to establish a society to protect such foolish young women.

roPiflAR sttwtss ANrP.sotin rTVTtjS. [New York Commercial ArtvertTtfmvj*--'

Speaking in a large way, no songs or the peoplo are written nowadays. Mr. Harrigan, who understands tho art, can barely produce enough for his own plays* and is making his lyrical productions more severely "local" than formerly.

Of tho latter-day composers, Danks, of of sickly sweet "Mollio Darling" and "Silver Threads" fame, is written out* Will 8. Hays, whoso "Poor Old Tramp" and "Gathering Up the Hboll from the Seashore" beat the record as "sellers,'* has a steady "sit" as river reporter on tho Louisville Courier-Journal, and* pours all his wit and versification intA tho "Log at the River." Sholly composes spasmodically, and Eddie Fox ianowhere. A. Banks Winter and hto "White Wings" now can live through an ontire season, and such an atrocity a* Paul Dresser's "Letter That Never Caiuef/" inspires a "reply and an "answer."

Lately the most enduring thiarga'wehave had have been in the fine of soulhorrowing "father" and "mother" sojnm worked over from tho Encllsh. Tne' most pleasing things are the revived old-timers, Mr. Dockstadeu in New York is making a successful spodalty of having sung Stephen C. Foster's immortal negro melodies. A serio-comlo who sings "Annie Laurie" expressively ia indemand in this city.

The variety stage produces nothing worth while now. Tho timewhotiuevaiy song-and-dance man was a son#, wtiter is past, as is the time when vaudeville* performers were educated to their business, and the ability to dance a jj^c or clog as was a jig or clog, and not steps," was not almost a lost art. Sonystuff most of the songs written by imitators of Billy Delenanty and BoMby

Newcoinb were, but many popular gem* were evolved nevertheless. There are no songs to be sung became there is no variety stage worthy of thename. The business has been degraded^ by bar, patent medicine and museoBo* attractions, and as manv of the better people as could do so nave imbedded their specialties in little plays and set. for legitimate actors. First-class variety theaters do not flourish, because therm are not enough first-class traveling combinations to fill in the time. Like the "regulars," vaudeville actors have no h«me ties and no incentive to do work which would make any particular citjr proud of them.

JBut the interstate commerce law—' 11 twin ml I. S. C. L.! There is more hope in it for the specialty stage than for tW drama. The formation of stock companies in variety tbeatftrs may soon b©-

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pin, when there will be schools for peronce more, and the muse will again provoke the song-and-dance artist and the "banjo king."

TI1K PL ACE TCTH TA IN.. Washington (htzrtte. Hoosiers who have left Indiana uu a sad mistake. Except in a few peculiar cases, their condition is not improved. In all the wide west there is no place that Is better than Indiana for the intelligent and Industrous farmer. We don't want to indu* people—at last good people—to leave Indiana. In every respect It is one of the brightest states in the g»fixy of the great states of the Union.

Buckingham's Dye for the Whfskeflp is in one preparation, and never fails Ut color the bound a beautiful brown, or black of a natural shade.

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