Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 September 1888 — Page 1

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Vol. 19.—No. 14.

THE _MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Nt.res anl Comment.

The time when "the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock will soon be here.

Won't we all be glad when the campaign is over, the country saved and we can all settle down to business for four years more. _____

The new union depot at Indianapols is now completed and has been formally opened tn the public. It is a very handsome building and not inferior to the fine depots recently constructed in the great cities.

Read the opening chapters of "Mr. Meeson's Will" in this week's Mail. Mr. Haggard's name is sufficient guarantee of the quality of any story and this new serial Is fully up to the high standard of this popular novelist.

Bean-bag parties are to be all the rage among tho young people this winter, the feature of a prize bag being introduced. Well, pitching bean-bags is first rate sport and a more innocent game than gambling for progressive euchre prizes. _____

The two inch standing collar will have to go now. A. Baltimore musician fell asloep with one on and his head dropping, the collar caught him under the windpipe, stoppod tho flow of blood and caused his death. But hold—if the high collar will kill off the dudes in that way let us keep it. _____

A Detroit belle died on the dancing floor Saturday night by the bursting of blood vessel, the result of tight lacing. It was popularly supposed that this barbarism had fallen into "Innocuous desuetude," but It would seem otherwise. The lady and the corset are to be with still—at least until they burst a blood vessel.

The foreign demand for American

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continues active and is liable to remain so. Tho penniless scions of nobility scattered throughout Europe are all anxious to secure American heiresses for wives and, sad to say, there are still American girls with empty heads and full pockets who prefer a titled foreign panpor to a sensible man of thoir own nationality.

The newest fad In warm weather entertainments Is the brewery party. They have had astonishing popularity whereover introduced and ne wonder. Think of along saunter through the deep, cool cellars among Immonse beer vats, to end with a jolly round-up of beer drinking from the oold, fresh kegs just tapped. The brewery party has some strong points to commend it to popular favor.

A San Francisco court has given a woman a divorce because her husband never took a bath. It was shown that •'the dogs barked at him as he passed by" and tho judge held that a woman was not bound to live In such an atmosphere against her will. Tho case is a uovel one but tho Judgment was righteous and it should servo as a warning to husbands who cwrry an atmosphere of beer, whiskoy and stale tobacco wherever they go.

It speaks well for tho heroism of these modern and alleged degonorate days, that ministers, physicians and nurses from all parts of the country are eager to go to Jacksonville In aid of tho yellow fever sufferers. When one recalls the terrible and deadly character of this plsgue—which Is little If at all lees loathsome than the small-pox—it seems hardly credible that men and women would ask to be sent into Its midst. That they do so is evidence that the quality of heroism has not yet become extinct,

Philadelphia, which has discovered so many good things, has recently developed a domestic novelty that promisee happiness to the race. It Is the professional housekeeper, who takes a number of houses and direct* their management, She has direction of the servants In each establishment and superintend* the household routine. There would Mem to be field" for work like this and it should be supplemented by another scheme somewhat akin to It—that of deft ami tidy household helpers who should go to several houses once or twice a week and assist In certain parts of the domestic labor. Many homes that cannot afford the luxury of a permanent domestic under the present expensive system would be glad to avail themselves of snch occasional assistance.

When a physician make* a bad or fatal mistake In his profession he can be sued for malpractice and heavy, very heavy damages can be assessed against him. The same role ought to prevail against an attorney. In the case of the physician you Intrust your body, or your limbs. In his care In the case of thelawver, von entrust your property. When the lawver give* yon bad advke as to a business matter, or conducts your cause badlv if hedisplays a !#«*of fmfeesk»al skill, he should be mulct In damages

Especially, should this be true in the case of a lawyer who encourages his client in going into court and bringing a cause. O* course, when the client is defendent, it is otherwise but, often, a client is induced to bring a suit upon the representation of his lawyer that he has a case. When an attorney thus encourages litigation and fails in his suit be should be made to pay damages and heavy ones, too.

Late advices from London and Paris are to the effect that both Lily Langtry and Mrs. James Brown Potter have been fitting out with marvellous lot of gowns. The Lily has from fifty to sixty gorgeous new costumes for her now plays and Mrs. Potter is not a whit behind her, It i? a matter of secondary interest, if indeed it is of any Interest at all, what these alleged actresses are going to play. Tho only thing thought about is what they are going to wear. And so a column or more of matter Is cabled from Europe to the New York Herald descriptive of the new dresses of these celebrities. Curious kind of acting, isn't it?

The sensationalism of current literature is forcibly illustrated in the case of Amelie Rlvos, who sprang into notoriety recently as Venus sprang full-formed from the sea. There is almost no limit to the demand for her work. Especially is this tri*e of her story "The Quick or the Dead"—a piece of literary work about as disgustingly sensational as anything that has yet appeared. It is decidedly discouraging to the genuine literary spirit when writers of this kind jurrip at once into a popularity that is of large pecuniary profit, while others who write good sense and pure sentiment are slow to win fame and starve as did Hawthorne in the years of his long and struggling apprenticeship. But such appears to bo the spirit of the time and like other crazes it must have its run.

The first cool autumn days bring a vague impression that something is wrong. It has been the study how to avoid hoat, and now it is the study how to escape cold. The intermediate period arranges itself after a few days, and goes on regularly to the extreme of cold but meanwhile the question of fire or no fire, overcoat or no overcoat, blankets or no blankets, disturb the individual who has time to think only of something elso. "Ah," he says in the early morning, as, looking out of the window, he sees indications of frost, "this is something like. We shall have comfortable weather now. Bring on the apparel of autumn and let me don it without dolay and "Ah!" he says some hours thereafter, "the sturdy autumn has lost Itself In the withering and blasting July and the earth perspireth with heat"—for behold yon there is nothing as to variety in April that can begin with the variety of September.

With September comes change In everything. It suddenly occurs to thousands that thore is such a place as home. There is such a desolation at the places of summer frequenting as makes the heart sick and sends the dbor creaking on hlngos, covered with imaginary rust. The closed hotel Is a sarcophagus gotten up In a hurry, and therefore dilapidated, and the locked shutters of the cottages arc the coppers on dead men's eyes, to shut out tho light that, yesterday warm and Intelligent, is to-day a blank, unmeaning stare. The placesr are dead. The life they had has sped its thousand ways to more congenial autumn and winter atmospheres. It is termination for them to bring resumption elsewhere.

Now the schools have got themselves Into what is called full blast. Now the peach Is at its best, and the potato moves in its ripeness for access to the open air. Now the tomato shows, with faint streaks of wlzennes* or frost in its cuticle, that It must be taken in out of the cold. Now the theaters are opening, and there Is much contemplation of social privileges and dutic«. Now there is exceeding politics, and the drum-beats of October, best of months when It is October, are hoard beyond the stretch of woods that are distinct to the unpracticed eye. ____==

At the meeting of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireman at Atlanta this week all the old officers were re-elected:

F. P. Sargent, Grand Master. J. J. Hanrahan, Vice Grand Master. Eugene V. Deba, Secretary and Treasurer, and Manager and Editor of the Locomotive Firemen's Magazine.

The next annual meeting will be held in San rancisco.

Miss Anna Dickinson speaks at the Republican Wigwam on Monday evening. She to one of the most eloquent and interesting orators of the times and will doubtless attract a large ac-^nce. For the comfort of the todies, a will comprise a large portion of the audience, the opera house or Dowllng hall should have been used instead of the wigwam.

T)M Democrats are arranging for one of the blggee* street display* of the campaign to-night, on the occasion of the -}. -Air3 by tlie Boa. R. Q. Mills at tha

••Mr. M*eson's Will," a new serial, commen In this issue will be found one of the mostentartaihing of lCr. Haggard *s stories.

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STANDING TREAT.

No American custom causes more general surprise and amusement among traveling foreigners than that which is known In our saloons as "treating'*—consisting in the entertainment of two or more with refreshment, for which one volunteers to pay. It is pure Americanism all over the republic it is common as in Europe it is unknown. There is probably no mlnutejof a day In the year when two or three hundred citizens of any large city are not guzzling something stronger than water at somebody else's expense.

The casual meeting 'of two" men who have never exchanged a word together is a signal for both to instantly exclaim: "Come, let's have something!" and for both to rush into the nearest saloon. The one who spoke first always insists upon "paying the shot"—the word 'shot' being a metaphorical reference to the deadly character of the contents usually taken into the stomach. If two friends meet, the regular thing to say first is, "Let's drink to old times," and the resident must Invariably treat the stranger.

If there is anything more absurd than the habit, we are unable to put our finger upon it. Men. do not alway "treat" each other to car tickets because they happen to meet on the same seat. We never saw a man take out his pocketbook on encountering anew acquaintance and say: "Ah, George, delighted to see you! Do take a few stamps! Its my treat!" Do men have a mania for paying each other's dills? And is drinking together more "social" than eating or sleeping together?

A traveler may gojili over the continent of Europe, of Asia, of Africa, without seeing any man except a Yankee offer to "treat," and the Frenchmen are quiet social enough, but when they turn into a cafe to sip their wine or brandied coffee together, each man pays for his own. When two Germans long separated meet, they will be very likely to embrace and then turn into an adjacent beer saloon, sit down and drink and eat pretzels and chat, but when they part again each man settles his soore independently. So in Italy. The Italians are probably merry and generous, but each man pays for his own wine, macaroni and cigars. They would as soon think of transfering each other their washerwoman's bills.

The preposterous fashion of "treating" is responsible for the terrible drunkenness in America. There would be less need of temperance societies and prohibitory laws, If this pernicious and insidious habit was abolished. It is, taken all In all, the most ridiculous, the most unreasonable andthe most pestilent custom that ever laid tyrannical hand on civilization.

Rev. Edmond Hese Swem, a baptist minister, about six weeks ago com" menced the delivery of a series of sermons, the object of which was to show up the wickedness of Washington. Last Sunday his subject was "Male and Female Gamblers." He said that many ladies of the capital, whose names figure in the newspapers as the shining lights of society, are gamblers in the fullest sense of the word. "These women," he said, "do here on the sly what Parisians do publicly. Poker-playing is a common thing among Washington ladies of fashion, and I am told that they play for heavy stakes, and are as bold as the women who sit around the boards at Monte Carlo. They will bet their last dollar on a games of cards. Many of them lose as much as $100 at a sitting. Four young ladies and two old matrons sat down to a game of poker one night last winter. One of the girls lost $250. The money was won by one of the matrons. The next day the girl called on the matron and asked that the money be returned said that her father had given her the money which she lost in order to buy dresses, and asked for its return. Did that woman return the money?" asked the preacher in thundering tones. "No she coldly told her victim, Just like a professional gambler, that If she oould not afford to lose she had no business to pUy." _______

Dickens' picture of speculating may be often repeated, and be always appropriate: "Speculation is around game— the players me little or nothing of their cards at first starting. Gains may be great and so may losses. The run of luck went against Mr. Nickleby. A mania prevailed a babble burst. Four stock brokers took villa residences at Floren four hundred nobodies were ruined, and among them Mr. Nickleby." But the villa occupants go next, and the game to a round one still—It always gets around to the chief players at last.

A lady who has given the matter much attention to authority for the declaration that in kissing all men kiss with too much force. A kiss to be appreciated by a girt, she says, must be gentle and not rough, and under no circumstances shi r.Ti have any suggestion of tobacco or *vbn Barleycorn. As the result of comparing notes with many lady friends manico! and engaged, she asserts that the kisses of three-fourths of mankind, ho-' --.'is, lovers and !r*J»ata are

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It seems to be part of man's nature, {woman's as well), to be superstitious, and it is safe to say tenoutof every dozen believe more or less in signs, or some of the superstitions whioh have been handed down from the days of ignorance and darkness. Any one versed in archaeology and mythology can to a certain limit understand the origin of many of the pet and popular beliefs in the, supernatural powers that are claimed to control many things in life. A few whims can be traced to the bible—such as the spilling of salt being an evil omen—this undoubtedly bears connection with Lot's wife being converted into a pillar of salt for disobeying the command of the Almighty as it is purely a superstition of the Jewish and Christain people. The same regarding Friday, but Its origin as an unlucky day is .'rather obscure, for long before the time of Christ It was held so by different races. To review all of the evil days, signs, etc., of the ancient would require years of study, but why people should be superstitious in these days of enlightenment is a matter difficult to understand. But the fact remains that few are free from belief In the great powers of mascots, hoodoos and other horse-shoe-over-the-door whims which have not the slightest influence over laws which control things, only as they create in the fancy of the individual or party. As a race, the colored people are perhaps more superstitious than any other, and they even attach the greatest importance to such simple thing as a shooting meteor. In no other occupation do superstitions rule so generally as among sailors. The theatrical profession is not free from the faith in charms and carefully avoid doiug such little things as raising an umbrella in the inside of any building, believing it drings bad luck. Each base ball club possesses some mascot, whloh Is any thing from a homely-good-for-no-thing colored boy to a pug dog. The belief in dreams Is very common, but such is far more sensible than faith in unlucky days, numbers and other omens, and comes under the mysterious laws of physlcotheology which it is hoped in time may be fully and generally understood.

A young lady of practical Ideas and Independent notions, In a recent conversation on the customary exhibitions of tender regard and affection manifested by newly married couples when traveling, expressed herself as intensely dlsgubtod by such, and firmly resolved never, when called upon to endure the pleasant trials of a bridal tour, to so conduct herself that one would suspect her to be a blushing bride. Questioned as to how she would avoid detection she replied: "Why I shall carry along a stock of magazines and papers which I shall studiously peruse whenever we are on a train or boat or other similiar public place and I shall endeavor to show my unconcern bv commonplace observations upon t*he scenery, whenever it is necessary to talk to him. Should he show any disposition to act silly I shall forthwith call his attention to some outside object that will necessitate his immediate change of position to the other side of the car or boat. O, you may rely upon It when the now unknown and unsuspected husband and I go a journey Ing, we shall not be leaning our heads up against each other for all the world like a couple of nine pins that have just barely escaped being knocked over, nor shall we look soulfully into each other's eyes, oblivious of the jokes and jibes that are being made at our expense, by our fellow passengers to whom we appear more superlatively ridiculous than particularly affectionate." The snap and sparkle in her expressive black eyes gave emphasis to and Imbued sincerity in her remarks. Yet. alas, when once the heart of the strongest minded maid has been transfixed by a shaft from the quiver of the mischievous archer, her one time oaken meditations oft give place to the tenderest of ivy fancies and forgetful of all she entwlneth, cllngoth, ever.

The testimony of Dr. Hoyt, for twenty years Secretary of the State Board of Charities, of New York, before the committee investigating immigration, is full of Interest. His statement was that the foreign born inmates of almshouses, work-houses and correctional institutions outnumber the native born fonr to one, while there are twice as many insane persons of the first as of the second and outdoor charities Is administered to five foreigners for every one native. These are startling statistics from which it would seem that only one conclusion can be drawn, vis: that Europe has been unloading his criminals, paupers and insane persons upon the United States— a charge many times made and repeated ami one which ascertained facte constantly tend to confirm. Ii to time to stop it. ____________

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THEATRICAL DRESSING. Edwin Booth pays little attention what he wean.

Mrs. D. P. Bowers, while an artist in making up, spends but little on dress. Stuart Robson expends a considerable share of his income in dressing himself.

Annie Pixley made a trip to the mines to study up the ways and dress she wears In "M'liss."

Billy Florence's clothes are always absolutely perfect and worth a great many mighty dollars.

Margaret Mather possesses a good working wardrobe, but it is not one to excite special comment. "Dromio" Crane's somewhat fastidious taste in dress Involves an expenditure, it is said, of more than 91,500 year.

Fred Warde spends enormous sums of money on his stage costumes as well as the clothes which he wears in private life.

Clara Morris has one of the largest and most expensive of wardrobes on the American stage. She designs all of her own costumes.

Mrs. Florence Is sixty years old, but she still keeps up as magnificent a wardrobe as when she dazzled the country in "The Mighty Dollar."

For a single front of a dress worn in "Fedora" Fanny Davenport paid Marion Foster, the artist cripple of Mln-srva, O., *1,000.

Lawrence Barrett is the best and most carefully dressed actor on the American stage. His costumes In "Rienzi" cost $2,000.

Louis James will never consent to appear in a garb that is not as near perfect in appearance as it can be made by the outlay of time and money.

Lillian Olcott spent in the neighborhood of $5,000 for her "Theodora" wardrobe, besides weeks of study in the British Museum hunting up plates and prints.

Joseph Jeffereon is very particular in his professional make up. As Bob Acres In "Tho Rivals" he wears one of the most expensive sets of dresses ever made.

Mary Anderson pays but little heed to oostumlng beyond that necessary to meet the requirements of the characters she plays, and has little or no wardrobe to boast of "*A

Marie \vainwright is credited with being the best dressed woman on the American Btage, although many actresscarry more money to the dressmakers than she does.

T. W. Keene spares neither time, trouble nor money in securing a proper and elegant wardrobe. His is said to be the largest and most completo of any one in his line.

Many of Maggie Mitchells dresses have been picked up during years of ramblings,and while inexpensive when considered separately, are worth a pretty penny when considered together.

The dresses worn by Mrs. Langtry in "A Wife's Peril" cost her something like £1,000, while her complete wardrobe including the dresses made this season for "As in a Looking Glass," is valued at $25,000.

ABOUT WOMEN.

At a reception given by Mrs. Marshall Field, of Chicago, the diamonds worn by fthree ladies present represented a value of $250,000. Mrs. Field herself has one of the finest collections of jewels and precious stones in the West.

High heels on ladies' shoes have almost entirely disappeared, and narrow toed shoes are not worn nearly so much as they were. Sensible shoes are the fashion, and mistress and servant are alike taking to comfortable broad soles and heels.

Hie human-like burial of pet dogs is one of the evidences of the pantheistic tendencies of the day. A well-known Philadelphia lady has her lamented setter burled In the family lot at Laurel Hill. The authorities of Greenwood cemetery, New York, are discussing the urgency of removing the dogs buried there. Modjeska, the actress, has just buried/her favorite bloodhound in an expensive rosewood coffin.

Mrs. Belva Lock wood taught school for fifteen years before she went into the law. She found teaching very hard work and very poor pay, and as she bad a family to support, she studied law and was admitted to the bar, and now she never makes lees than 93,000 a year. Mrs. Lockwood says that she can do housework as well as any woman, but that it to cheaper for her to emptor her talents in other directions. Although her ambitions ran in the line of a public and political life, she dresses about as other women do, and finds delight in lace and diamonds.

A matrimonial discovery in New York to that of a store kept by a woman who, as a feature of her business In ladies1 underwear, rents out the linen portions of bridal outfita. She enables a girl of moderate resources to go on a tour, or to spend the honeymoon in town happy in the wearing of tboee portions of a troneelegant as a Fifth avenue belle.

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Minnie Palmer has spent a fortune on stockings alone. Agnes Booth spends vast sums of money on clothes for the stage.

SOME WOMEN WRITERS.

The Duchess of Ruthland has just completed an excellent guide to Hornburg.

Fanny Fern never wrote a word for publication until she had passed her fortieth birthday.

Mrs. Ella Transom has challenged Mrs. Shaw to a whistling match for 9500 a side.

Miss Edgeworth wrote-her stories In a common Bitting room, surrounded by her family.

Miss Helen Martin, of Providence, R. I., not yet twenty, rich and highly connected, is arising literary star.

Mrs. "St. Elmo" Evans Wilson has bought and decorated a luxurious house near Mobile with the proceeds of her gorgeous novels. She writes in a Chinese pagoda bower in the flower garden.

THE ME AT WE EA T.

A BUTCHER TELLS HOW TO BUY.

"I want a nice, tender roast," said a customer, as he stopped and faced the big, good-natured man behind the counter, whose abundantly adipose person was almost concealed behind an immaculate apron.

Along knife flashed back and forth A few times, a polished cloaver fell with a quick stroke, and a luscious-looking slice of meat with a bone in one corner was laid upon the scales with a flourish. "You see I scarcely need scales for the business," he said, as he wrapped the

the weight of any ordinary order of meat within an ounce or two." "But how do I know now that you havo given me tender, juicy meat?" asked the purchaser. "Oh, you'll just have to take my word for it," was the laughing answer. Then more seriously, "111 tell you, sir, It requires years or training to oe a judge of good meat by merely looking at it. But there are some things that are favorable indications. Always look for apiece of bright, fresh, blooa-colored meat. The best quality always has that appearance. Then, little streaks and veins of fat running through the lean area good sign. •Sometimes this is much resembled l)y the severed surfaces of sinews, and woe betide the man who tries to masticate it. It may be safely said that the only certain wav for the average consumer to

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doing that can I always depend upon getting satisfactory returns?" "Well, no—not always, even then. .Sometimes the best of us are deceived. You see, it depends much on the way In which the animal has been fed. Let a steer grow very poor during the winter. then feed him up and put him on ricn pasture during the summer, and when fall comes and be Is fat, his beef will be simply superb. But the worst animals which we get are fancy stock which have been used for exhibiting at fairs and the like. They have always been kept fat. and, while they look beautiful and will deceive the most expert butchers, their flesh Is as tough as their bides. I got a magnificent animal of that kind once." A look of sad retrospection came into the speaker's eye, and he murmured, half to himself, "It was awful."

Then recovering with a start and coming back to the present, he continued: "But the moBt serious thing we have to contend with is the question of bad oooks. "I'll tell you," and here his voice sank to a whisper, "you wouid be astonished to know what an overwhelinproportion of our cooks ruin their meat in preparing It. It is a common thing for us to cut two steaks from the same piece of meat, and have the purchaser of one report, on his next return, that it was most excellent, and the buyer of the other to say bis was simply too tough for human endurance." "Say anything? Of course we don't. We can only murmur we are sorry and will try to do better next time. If we spoke out what we know, we'd lose many a good customer. Every day I am compelled to sell people meat that 1 know, from past observation, they will not do justice to, and will, of course, blame me for anything that is wrong with it when It comes to the table."

GAMBLING ON RACES. [Courier JrtnrnaJ.] Isn't it about time that the turf were taking some steps to free itself from the contamination of the book-makers? The longer this question is deferred the harder it will be for anybody except the book-makers to answer it. If our racing associations can not prosper except under the existing plan of relying upon the book-makers, then the sooner it to known the better: for if this is the case tlie palmy days of the turf are over, and the question of its continued existence is simply a question of time as to how long the public will tolerate a sport degraded into a bunko game for the benefit of professional gamblers.

DUDES WORSE 7HAN TIN HORNS. (Andertoa pttlietln,) Two or three dudes with cigarettes who are trying to attract attention from a couple of girls can do more to disturb a political or any other kind of meeting than forty tin borne.

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Fine textures, elaborate embroidery, and all the whimsical frills known to lingerie are at her command on rental. At an outlay of five or six dollars she can buy a month's use of these beautiful aud soul-satisfying garments. The proprietor said she was doing very well In that line. She had in stock a dozen outfits, as cheap as92 to as dear as 910 per month, and most of the time they are hired out. She altered them to fit her customers, and freshened them up by new embellshments as fast as they showed wear.

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