Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 December 1887 — Page 12

WIVES IN THE CITY.

LITTLE REDRESS FOR WOMEN DESERTED BY THEIR HUSBANDS.

Ital Trouble* Broacht to IJgbt In tiM Police Courts of Hew York City—Cholee Between Pauperism Md NteratlM. Delinquent Husband*.

Men tired of their wives occupy more than a fair share of the time and attention of the police magistrate*. The law gives very life* tie redress to women deserted by their huebands. Before a magistrate can interfere at all in behalf of the woman she is obliged to apply to tho commissioners of charities and correction for a requisition to the magistrate In the district in which sbc resides. This requisition empowers, or nit her orders, the magistrate to issue a warrant for the arrest of the delinquent husband. Before obtaining this order on the magistrate tho applicant is obliged to swear that she is without means of rapport, and that she will be obliged to call on the city to supjxjrt her if her husband is not compelled to provide for her. If she asks for any of the luxuries of life she will not get them, because, having secured the arrest of her husband, she merely occupies the position of a witness in the police court. She has •worn that she will have to be supported by the city if the city does not compel her husband to provide for her therefore the city takes charge of the unfortunate woman's affairs, and takes the husband into custody merely to protect itself from having another pauper to sup|»ort.

FIVE DOLLARS PER WHEK.

This being the case, the woman is rarely allowed moru th/in $5 per week by the magistrate for the support of herself and perhaps two or three children. If she has no children and can do work, or has children who are able to work, and who turn any of their earnings over to hor, those facts arc taken into consideration and the amount the husband is ordered to pay her is correspondingly lessened.

Tho husband may have made tho wife's life so miserable that she cannot live with him. He boldly announces, howover: "I never refused to live with her. She loft me. I am willing to take her homo with me now and support her." "How is this? Is he tolling the truth?' the magistrate inquires. "I could not live with him. He abused me, called me all manner of vile names and •aid he wished I would leave him,"'the woman answers.

Although the magistrate may believe

(«very

word tho woman says ho is powerless to do anything but tell her to go home %ith the husband, and, if ho abuses her, to oomo back and havo him arrested for disorderly conduct or assault. If tho woman refuses the justice has no alternative but to dismiss tho case and lot the woman starvo or becomo a jauper, supported by the city.

Many of these applicants for support have not been actually abandoned, but have been doing more than their share toward maintaining tho household, whilo the delinquent husband has been turning a mere pittance of his oamings into the house, drinking up the remainder and abusing his family every time ho got drunk. "If you would only give him a talking to and make him promiso to do better, judge," the wifo says. "Don't lock him up. Tho littlo money I got from him is better than none, nnd if ho is locked up he can't earn anything."

LECTURING THE DELINQUENT. Tho magistrate thus appealed to delivers a lecture to tho delinquent and dismisses him with tho threat of prompt imprisonment if he does not treat his family bettor. The justice, however, rarely belioves that this will havo any lasting effect, and it very rarely does. In most instances tho man is more firmly convinced than over that his family art' unable to get along without him, and he feel.) sure that his abused wifo will not dare to np|cal again to tho court through fear that her little income will be still further decreased by his imprisonment Accordingly, he usually acts worn than before. If he continues to pivo some little support to his family his wife bears hiaabuso as best she can.

Sometimes such men become so reckless that thoy cense to be of the slightest benefit to their families and are looked up. The law Is next to powerless with men whoso ineomo will allow them to live apart from their wives. If such men ehixsw to contribute to the support of their wives thoy may abandon them at will and a police magistrate can do nothing to aid the d«nrt«l wifo. Many wives aro unable to swear truthfully that they arc liable to become pauiiers. Many otlu'ra will not submit to tho humiliation of swearing so even if it is true.

Many refined, well educated women submit to all the humiliating preliminaries to securing the abandonment warrants, because) of their just indignation at lieing abandoned for women whose physical olmrms are superior to their own. Such applicants are surprised to learn that tho law is not framed to punish such ofteuivs, but merely to prevent an increase of the number of paupers. The delinquent is merely called uion to give bonds to give his wife a certain amount each week. lLurv indeed do such meu face their injured wives, even once a week. Some place has to be provided for the receipt and deliver .' of the weekly stipend. This has led the sergeants of tho various police courts to assume a duty, which has of late grown to such proportions that it has become decidedly onerous. Sergeants of the police courts have more than fifty men on their lists who are thus handing in their weekly installments. These are passed over to the deserted wives, ami receipts taken. In many of the busier courts this list will include from 10P to ISO names*--New York Evening Sun.

Harpooning Board* at the Docks. Among the flotsam of orr docks damaged boards are often found in considerable nam* bora. The other day an Italian Ashed for them very systematically just above tho foot of IMmMm street. He used around piece of heavy wood, about three inches in diameter and eighteen long. One end of this was armed with a sharp pointed spike, while to the other end was attached about twe've feet of ctotheslina. Takiu# the stick In hi* hand, the Italian darted the spike into the stvA of a board. t»o as a sailor would harpoon a whale, ands carefully drew it up to that he ootid reach it with his hands and |«:!1 is on the dock. The spike would •omutimm pail oat when the board was •litKMt widb ranch, and one jartiei: sdy attractive one had to be bat] »d a rfwneo times before the Italian co.. call it bis own. man dark* the boanu timratghly, Ibest chops them iato kin :ag (d, wfckli his wife «$£ts. II* is at.4 to askinga fair livm# oat of the I osineia.—X«w Y*k Ewariag^ia.

The Kala l*fl*»t tirWly Mkstni. A little Sunday school girl, hm Itmm had been It ttf f.rry ftnrrrsts* was t«Ui^ l-«:t -km mamma,* die aaid, "that nsafMy aj hasted an ovxsa jaattt hot as he iito get it, pat three good turn in and MjWal cook a bttr^-Syreewe Herald.

AM0R080.

Sad. sad their lot, who know not aught of love— Who know not passion's tears and sonny vsnihst Bat drift adouro the coast of barren aisles, IS or landing make in some sequestered grove. Yet sadder they whose longing lips ne'er prest

The dainty month of one to them most dear— Who in fond arms hare never yet found'rest, Bot agonlzinz vait the bliss so near. O rarest joy !—0 bliss more than divine!

Our mutual love—it never matched hath been! So deep, intense, the world hath never seen So wild and strong—my own sweet Lore,

Mjr fond eres gaze into thine own, dear pet They searching look—it thrife and fills me yet. —Luther G. Biggs in Arkansaw Traveler.

THE ART OF MASSAGE.

Its Early History—Several Kinds of Manipulation*—How Practiced. Use art of massage is of. great antiquity. There are always some kind folk who will take the time and trouble to search deep down into the annals of the past and transmit to as the facts they there find recorded. On the question of massage, those who have traced out its history tell us that this system was practiced in very early times by the Chinese, and that the Greeks and Romans nian resorted to its aid, evidences of which appear in the literature of those two great countries. This ancient art has been revived, in the present day, on the Continent and in America, as well as in England, and is being very extensively practiced.

I have spoken of massage as a mechanical mode of treatment—and so it is bnt those who undertake to perform it ought to have some head knowledge concerning their work as well as finger dexterity. The masseuse has to make herself acquainted with the structure and the function of the tissues and muscles on which she is called upon to operate, and therefore some study of bookB on this part of the subject is required. Then there are the necessary dexterous manipulations to be acquired these particular movements can only be learned from actual demonstrations, and nothing but patient practice will attain the manual dexterity needful to perform the process. The general term of massage includes several kinds of manipulations these are also designated by French names. One of these is known as effleurage this consists in gently stroking the part under treatment, which stroking increases in strength, and terminates in a firm rubbing of the skin with the palm of the hand. Under the effect of this treatment hardness and dryness of tho skin give way to softness, and tho effect is very soothing.

Another form of treatment is named petrissage. This process consists in pressing and kneading and rolling the skin and muscles— a form of massage brought into use in cases where the patient is deprived by infirmity or accident from taking bodily exercise. The advocates of massage affirm that the use of petrissage also soothes and reinvigorates tb.overtired and fatigued limbs of those who have gono through an unusual amount of physical exertion. Tapotement is a rapid mechanical movement used as a stimulus for rousing into action organs which are inclined to remain dormant. Massage a friction may be described as a series of circular rubbing with the finger tips, performed in a rapid manner, the object of which process is to squeexe out the waste products formed in the tissues of joints.—Caasell's Family Magazine.

Seedsmen Bnsy All the Year.

"What does the sectlman do in winter?" A gentleman connected with a prominent house which deals in plant germs, roots, seeds, bulbs and slips, repeated this question of a reporter the other lay. "There seems to bo a general impression, which is erroneous," said he, "that there is nothing for the soedsmcn to do through the winter, but it is far from being the dullest season of the year with them. Really, the only busy season is from March 1 to Juno 10, although some of tho market gardeners who start their early vegetables under glass, purchase their stock of seeds as early as February. "The very dullest season is in the middle of summer, which nature designed for the growth and fructifying, and not tho germination of vegetable life. During that part of tho year no seeds are put into tho ground. Until tho ground is frozen pretty stiff there is considerable for us to do. We put on our stock of now seeds and sell some. Up to Thanksgiving peoplo set out bulbs, hyacinths and crocuses. Currants, berries and grape vines arc also sot out in the fall, and that is tho season, too, when the perennials, daisies, carnations, digitalis, hollyhocks, cardinal flowers, pansies, petunias, mignonette, heliotrope and verbenas are sown for early flowering. "There aro several months of tho year when tlio seedsman has much less to do than those of the late fall and winter."—New York Evening World.

"J it ..

'In an English Car.

Now, tho American car and tho English carriage run on two different principles. Tho English railway manager expects yon to do a great deal for yourself. He expects you to buy a rug to wrap around your legs, and you do it Ho experts you to buy a shnwl to put around your shoulders, and you do it. He expects you to buy a reading lamp if you are to travel by night, and you do it. Ho doesn't provide you with any drinking water, as he expects you to buy a glass of Uer if you feel thirsty, and you do it A traveler in winter in an English carriage sits muffled up so that he can hardly move. He dresses for the occasion as I would if I were going to enjoy an afternoon sit down on the banks of the Detroit river with the thermometer below sera Sow, an American doesut like that sort of thing. If the car is not hot enough for him to sit in his seat in the same costume he would use in his own house h« travels by snow other road. If the lamps are not bright lie blow* ap the conductor, and if there i* no water in the tank all that section of country will hear from him.—Loko Sharp in IK-tn»it Free hm \Jfe" if je

Darwin** natal Itrlaxatioa. Chartas Darwin found backgammon' a great mental relaxation, and h* was very fond of novels for the suae purpose*. The great naturalist did most of his writing sitting in a large horse hair chair by the Srs, upon board stretched arrow the arms. When be had many or long irfiers to writ* be dictated them from raagfa ••opfcs written on the backs manuscripts or proof sheet*. He kept all the lettSh he received—a habit caught front hfe father. Whm his letters wen* finished be lay oti awifa ia his bedroom and had novels read him, while he awfed a eigwvUB or rvgailed his m*itnfc with auulf. Harper^ ffeuouv

A ThwSsht.

Utile Sister «augrtly» u« d» what I

r.rotbnr—«f eoot

Yivu, •wit. *4»f I frt wish wr w*i^ "nap .a'w».« my I u»ml World,

Tfc-r* i* a sSn.^ IQmmw bttwwn a fh -nkt iu-did aud a crwfcod chiaa dab, wl t*l dMaw«M*?fftlly that it otrtfaufr ou». "~~d whole one, which by a single imlv ivo* ii dashed to ntow,-& Marie kaikr.

TYPEWRITERS WOES.

COMPELLED TO STANO A BATTERY OF PITILESS QUESTIONS.

Experience of a Working Girl While Hanting for a Boarding I'laco—MereiQolzziBE»"'o Room" for a Well

Dressed Young Lady.

sboo'd like to give you an idea of how we girls are treated wherever we go to lode for boordiiig places in this city," said a young typewriter to a reporter the other day. "You meu can obtain board wherever yon please, and so long as yon pay your board hiii« and behave yourselves there are no questions asked but with a girl it is different When I came to Sew York I was fresh from New England, unknown and without friends here to give me help or hints. Consequently I had to hunt up a boarding place for myself. After considerable looking around I found a quiet appearing house where the sign stated that a ball room was vacant and that boarders were wanted. "In answer to my ring a kindly looking matron inquired my business.

When I told

her that I was looking for a loarding place a visible change came over her face. 'Who are youf was her somewhat abrupt question. Then she scanned mo as if I were a suspected thief, for whose capture a reward had been offered,

and

witb^p^giving me tune

to answer this pertinent question, she continued:

u'Are

you married? ••••*.• 'No, 1 am not,' I said as pleasantly as my mortification would allow. «'What do you expect to do for a living? was her next query. 'I am a tyjiewriter.'

14'A

typewriter? This was said with a

sneer that might mean volumes. 'Have you a brother in the city or any male friend who will call orryonf 'No, my family all live inXonneetlcut' 'Do you keep company with any young mAn Really, I was beginning to lose all patience, but I managed to say, calmly: 'I do not, but what has that to do with the question of my hiring a room and paying for it in advancef

REFERENCES—CHARACTER—SELF MC8PECT. 'Have you got any references?

don't see why I submitted to so much quizzing. That woman coifUFbeat a reporter asking questions. 'No,' 1 replied, 'but if you want them, I suppose I couh^jzet them from home in two or three days.' 'Well, I guess we haven't any room now, and, besides, I'd rather have gentlemen,' was the worthy matron's decision, as she opened the front door only to shut it quickly behind me. I think I went to fully a dozen places, only to be treated in the same way. At last I went to th% Young Woman's Christian association, where I should have gone first. I never was more thankful in my life than when, after I had been at work for a year and desired to change my place, one of the girls in our office invited me to share her room until I was able to find another place. This may all sound very funny to you, but it was not a funny experience for me and my experience is by no means unusual. A man can get rooms and board where he chooses, without references and without questions, but when a girl tries to get board for herself, if she is well dressed her character is doubted, and there is 'no room' for her people wonder where she gets her money. jshe is poorly dressed she is naturally not wanted, because she will lower the reputation of the house. She rnusti in aelf -defense, 'at lekrt becomo engaged if she has no male relative under whose protection she is. fit does seem as if something might be done for the poor girls who come to the city in this way. There ought to be somebody willing to take them and care for them respectably and economically, and do this without sacrificing the self respect of the girl.—New York Tribune.

Keade's Notes and Clippings. 5 Have you read Iho "Memoir of Charles Reade? There is one thing in* it that has proved to me how general is the inclination to collect notes and clippings, imagining they will be of great value, and then do nothing with them. He talks about "my notebooks, my invaluable notebooks, with which I have done nothing, literally nothing, up to date." It would be very nice to keep as ho did a book of comments on people, but in this century of curiosity it would be sure to bo read r.c.d published before one was dead, and then njcinl and material crucifixion would be one's fate.—"Bab"' in New York Star.

The sale of

machinery of the law cannot be put at work too speedily a or too vigorously against the wholesale adulteration of the things

The Elevator Man's Veaaary. "It is not hard to memoriae the situation of the different offices." said a man who runs an elevator in the Field building. "The difficult thing is to recollect when the different people get down to work in the morning. When a person fails to find a man in his office the first thing he does is to ask me at what time he usually arrives. If I make a mistake or cant answer at ail I am complained of to the boss, so to bold my job-1 must not only be a walking directory but an oraclo as well This building is made up entirely of small offices, and many of the tenants employ no help. On this account I am obliged to know exactly when each man is in the habit of getting down in the morning. If a man always comes at the same time each day it would be a simple matter, bnt in calculating I havo to make allowance for a queer feature in human nature which you have probably never heard of before. "The average man finds it harder to keep good resolutions than to make them. When he sits at home on Sunday and thinks over the past week he feels that he could have done much bettor than he did do if he had got down to the offlccmuch earlier than he did. He remembered that it was almost time for luncheon when he had finished discussing his morning paper, so he resolves to turn over anew leaf for the coming week. The result is that he gets down here on Monday morning before we have the steam up. The next day he is half an hour late, and on Wednesday he is an hour behind. When it is time to turn out on Thursday morning he feels discouraged at being unable to live up to his resolution, so he turns over and takes another nap. By Saturday he has returned to his lazy habits. Thus it goes on year in and year out When I'm asked when a man will be down in the morning I don't look at the clock but at tho calendar."—New Y^rk Evening Sun.

Gladstone's Vitality and Versatility. Perhaps it is in private life that Mr. Glad* Btone's vitality and versatility are most remarkable. It is a great sight to watch him at dinner with a few friends. He never talks for the sake of talking, but listens attentively to every one else, and is eager to draw out from his company all they can tell him. But they feel the influence of & master mind in the smallest details. Mr. Glads ton asks a dozen searching questions in a few moments, and presents the subject in an entirely new light by some exposition that the listeners never dreamt of. Ho is full of reminiscences, and seems to imagine that everybody's memory ought to be as tenacious as his own.

Ono night when he was prime minister he sat on the treasury bench with only one colleague beside him. He was apparently asleep, and the other man thought he might indulge in a doze. But presently a Tory speaker ventured upon some historical statoment Mi*. Gladstone was on the alert at once. Turning to his companion, he said: "That is entirely wrong. This fellow is mixing up his facts and his dates. Don't you remember Then he proceeded to explain some obscure passage of political history of which -his unfortunate colleague was obliged to confess entire ignorance. Mr. Gladstone looked at liirn for a moment in pitying wonder and as soon as he dai*od tho hapless man slunk awny. Meeting a friend, he *nid: "I'm going home: I can't stand that fiendish old man any mora. Why, he actually cross examined me about something that happened before I was born? —London Cor. Philadelphia Times,

PURE CANDIES for v, Christmas at SAGE'S*^

WARNING!

Occupants of houses should secure their Windows and Doors at once against the Cold Drafts oi the coming Winter by buying Weather Strips for Windows and Doors, which entirely exclude

Cold Drafts

In Winter, saving half your fuel. Windows can be raised or lowered as usual for ventilation. For sale by

FINKBINER & DUENWEG,

Dealers in Hardware, 420 Main st.

PROTECT OUR BREAD.

eat. Both the health and,the pockets of the people demand. protection. •t* There is no article of food in general use more wickedly adulterated than the lower grades of baking powder.

JPor raising bread, biscuit or other food only the very best and purest baking powder should be employed. The use of the ordinary cream of tartar, or of baking powders containing lime, alum and phosphates, carries" deleterious ingredients into the food to the prejudice of the life and health of the consumer.

adulterated

baking powders has been prohibited

by statute in several localities. It will be in the interests of the ppublic health when their sale is made a misdemeanor everywhere, and the penalties of the law are rigidly enforced.

The ordinary baking powder contains either lime, which, introduced into the system in too free quantities, causes serious disorders of the kidneys alum, a corrosive poison, or lime phosphates, which are condemned by physicians as deleterious in their effect when taken under certain physical conditions. The Royal is the only baking powder on the market that is free from lime, alum and phosphates, and absolutely pore.

The absolute parity of the Royal Baking Powder makes It pre-eminently the most useful and wholesome leavening agent known. Containing no lime, alum, phosphate or other impurityf it leaves no alkaline or other residuum in the food, and its use always insures pure, light and sweet bread, biscuit and cake, that are perfectly digestible and wholesome whether hot or cold, fresh or stale Its leavening power has been determined the highest whenever tested by official authority, and all chemists Mid writers on food hygiene commend it for its sterling qualities.

QOOD.AND

631 Main Street.

:Pfij

M-isf

Clothing "for Bojs

We are selling boys' overcoats very fast. This is the story of overcoat trade this season with us. Customers like the freshness. They are buying—they can see it from comparisons along the streete—the novel, the finest, the most stylish overcoats anywhere in sight for boys. We know there are no such overcoats elsewhere. We have twice as many overcoats as last year and we'll sell twice as many. It cost wisdom as well as money to get up such a stock of overcoats. It isn't prices only that buyers like, it's value. We have fine medium^ low-priced moderate of cloth, beaver, fur beaver, kersey, storm overooats, ulsters. We don't see a loophole left that a customer can say:

haven't the kind I want.' We have all kinds and all that come under the title of overcoats.

Leading Clothiers, Corner Fourth and Main Streets.

THE UFA IS OFF!

^•g IS

Come and See for yourself. i*

Christmas Turkeys, the finest in the city without question. Christ--1^ mas Trees, Christmas goods of all kinds, Stick Candies, per pound 10c. Mixed Candies, per pound 10c, Nuts, all kinds Almonds, Filberts, lirassil Nuts, English Walnuts, Pecans, all cheap. Raisins, per pound 10o.*, Citron, lemon peel, Oysters, Celery, Jersey buckwheat, Flour, pure or money refunded. Comb Honey, Strained Honey, new New OrleanH Molasses, Hubbard Squashes, New York Cream Cheese, Apples, Oranges*,* Fresh Eggs, per dozen 25c, Fresh Butter, per pound 20c, Sugar Cured Shoulders, per pound 7H'c, Sweet Cider, Cranberries, per quart 10c. We have everything you want in the way of table supplies. Wo have a housefull of goods. They must be sold. We are going to sell them. You miss bargains by not calling. .•*

W. W. OLIVER,"

uYou

prices

Terre Haute, Ind*

GEO. S. ZIMMERMAN,

pfp INVITES YOU TO CAI.I. AT HIS

If" STOVE STOGIE

,/r No. 866 Wabash Ave -ukuw. AND 8KB HIS

TOY STOVES for the Girls. TOY LOCOMOTIVES for the Bojl

Pearl Agate Tea nnd Coffee Pots, Fancy Coal Vases, and Other Holiday Goyrtfs£|

*(3/

Grand Opportunity,

if* TO BUY P'./l

fibst:class CLOTHING

CHEAP.

Dec. 1st Wo Began to Sell

Our Entire Stock Of

Ready-made Clothing at Wholesale

FOR CASH ONLY.

if We undoubtedly have the best stock of Men's.

Youths', Boys' aud Children's

SUITS and OVERCOATS

srW -'inUi

I DRINK PURE WATER

'BY USING THE 11

Bucket Pump kiid Water JPtfrifiei

X''

In Your Wells and Cisterns.

A Model Invention Hand in Band with Sanitary Science which, for Superioil Merita over all other Pumps, Challenges the World."

Endorsed by All Scientists, the Medical Profession and all whs are using them

rt •i-*

In the city. All previously marked in plain figures, you can f-oe just wnat von save on every dollars worth you purchase from 10 to 20 per '&c cent. We invite your inspection. Strictly ono I

msi 'priceJ. T. H. MILLER,-

522 Wabash Avenue, City, North Side.

-.i- *.-j:

The Kpread of sanitary iclence harittAde most hOUKbhold whether In city or country, aware of the prime important] of looking well to the water supply. They know that foi fhe ignorant and careless in soeh matter* death lurks it' the pipes, and disease In the tmgtiarded well or cistern. Ye many people are to-day using water from wells In danger-! ous proximity to sources of pollution, from cistern* that' a short time accumulate from the washing* of the roof unsightly sediment, composed of dust from the public, highway, droppings of birds, decayed leaves, and exuviae o, 1 dead Insects, and contlnne to use such water only brcau* I tbey have not learned that the danger to life and health! thereby incurred, may be obviated by a simple and inex-1 achl

secure we uiorougn oxygenation ana ventilation or trie) water. OxygenaSion is reratlon. This Is accomplished bi the Socket Pump and Water Purifier, Illustrated herewith which combines the easiest and cheapest method of draw-! ing water from wells or cisterns, wltn a purification of thai water so perfect and so thoroughly In accordance wlttM scientific principles, as to render the foulest well or cistern] absolutely pure, sweet and healthful within ten days aftcil Its introduction. And in every Instance where it falls to dog this, the price paid will be refunded,. A

Every Pump Warranted for 5 yearsJ

Call at our place of business, No. 15 south Second street* west of Sew Court House, and see glass model, showing thoaction of the air on the water.

No. 15 South Second Street, Terre Haute, Ind*