Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 October 1888 — Page 1

Vol. 19.—No. 16.

THE _MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

Bub Burdette baa got tired of the funny business and is going into the serious line for awhile. He has been licensed to preach in the Baptist church and will Heck a regular charge immediately it Is said. If he does as well at preaching as he has in the field of humor he will have no lack of "calls.1' "Berenda Blount" resumes her interesting "Woman's Chat," and Rose Elizabeth Cleveland contributes to this week's Mail an article on "As Others See Us." Next week the latter will write abont "Real Country Life," of a country home and how to enjoy it, with some memories of the past summer.

A secret organization of Democrats has been discovered in this Htate whose object is to operate corrupt election schemes. It bos also been discovered that the Republicans are arranging to colonixo Chicago negros In the Htate In order to vote for Harrison in November. Both itoms are current news and the reader can take his choice.

flNow here is the thing we want—railway cars constructed entirely of sheet steel, which are absolutely indestructable and Incombustlblo. It Is said that a company has been formed in Washlng•to'n for the building of such cars and that the works will be located near Chicago. If that sort of cars can be made the sooner we get them tho better.

Mr. lllalno does not think highly of women as politicians. He says: "J object to women In the political field for the reason that thoy are unfitted for that kind of work, not only mentally but physically. They havo not had the training and they can't get it and retain their womanliness." Perhaps, after all, he Is more than half right. She can do more effective work as a writer and as a persuader In tho home circle than she oould accomplish by oratorical demon titrations on the stump.

One of tho uotablo delegations of the many that have pilgrimaged to Indian spoils during this campaign will be that of the Chicago Uulon Veteran Club and the Veteran Union League, two of the largest soluler organisations In tlie West, accompanied by tho Young Men's Blaine Club. They were to leave Chicago at 8 o'clock this morning, by the C. «fc E. I. R. K., stopping at several intervening towns whore mass meetings will be held. The train will bo decorated and will be picturesque with a log cat in on one flat carfort on another, tho and a latter provided wlthseveral cannons to be ft red along the way. Indianapolis Iscertalnlv getting her full share of campaign business this year.

The way of tho gum-chewer Is hard but no harder than it ought to bo, It Is a miserable, unseemly crate that should run It* course In short order and retire from the public view. And It will do so If what prominent oculist says Is true, vIK, that the practice Is detrimental to the eyes and will eventually ruin them It persisted in. ThMs accomplished by the overtaxing of the muscles of tho jaw, which are in close sympathy with those connocted with the ey^. The excessive use of thee© muscles enfeebles then* and so weakens the optic nerve that permanently impaired vision and even total blindness may ensue. Think of this, girls, when you are templed to put squid of gum Mn your mouth and "don't." ______ if the young man of to-day doesn't get on in the world it will not be for the want of advice. All the rich men have been appealed to to tell how young men In general may get rich. Russell Sage's recipe Is "caution," Jay Gould's,

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serverauoe," James Gordon Bennett's, "enterprise," and Charles A. Dana's, "brains." This is all well enough in Its way hut there have been multiplied thousands of cautious, persevering, enterprising and even brainy men who have ubt grown rich and there will be many thousands more of such. One man aucce HIS by one thing and another by something else and men fall when there is apparently no reason for doing so. Men with the least brains as ii womun the world, often amass fortune®, while those endowed with the highest Intellectual qualities are notoriously Incompetent in financial affairs, The fact la there are so many elements involved in the practical success of life that It is absurd to predict it upon any •ingle quality. _______

Feminine habits, customs and manners have furnished a theme for many a discourse, homily or witticism but it is doubtful If anyone habit has excited more speculation than that which nearly. If not quite, all thoee who rustle about the atreels in drees fabrics are addicted to and which until recently oped in mystery profound. We refer to the practice they have of mating a glance into the plate glaa* ahow windows a» they pass along Wabash avenue. It was generally supposed to be an exhibition of ftm*1*curiosity to what was on ex

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hibition inside but this was not wholly borne out by the facts in tho case. For instead of a prolonged and curious stare into the windows, it was only a quick, passing glance that they gave. It is, however, no longer a secret and a puzzle, for a maiden fair, yielding, in a moment of weakness, to the importunities of a •Mail man, has revealed it all. This is the interpretation thereof: The lovely dames and more lovely misses desire at all times to be tastefully if not richly attired. The set of a basque or sack, the draping and graceful arrangement of a skirt, are matters of as great concern to them, as the twirl of a moustache or the set of a cravat to one the sterner and less beautiful sex. To this end is the time spent In boudoir, the toilet, with manifold posing before and glances into the mirror. And though everything be pronounced perfect before starting out, yet when once on the street the heart of the fair wearer of e'en the best fitting costume, is ever pilpitating with an ill-de-fined but actually present fear that something is out of order and docs not set well. Hence as no mirror is forthcoming in which to survey herself, she makes use of the highly polished plate glass windows to prove that her dress skirt just clears the walk back of her and that bustle and basque are in place. This is easily accomplished as the lesser light in the store forms the necessary back-ground to the window panes, to make a sufficiently effective reflector for tho purpose named. This revelation will no doubt bring sorrow to many a masculine, who, chancing to sit at a window, has, in the exuberance of his vanity, deemed himself and bis make up the magnet which attracted so many bright eyes to the window behind which he sat, when he learns that his supposed conquests were but looking to see if the back of their skirts hung properly.

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"Mabel" is the 16-year-old daughter of Charles H. Vaughn, a wealthy retired New York merchant, living at Coldwell N.J. "Henry" is Henry Lnpton, his coaehtnan. Tho story could not be told more tersely than M-tbel tells It herself in the note which she left on hor father's table when she and Henry started life ,pn their own hook on Saturday last. Mabel wanted Henry. Mabel* father did not want her to have him and said so. This cloarly made it necessary for

Mnbel to run away In order to have bim. As no American girl Is ever expected to give up anything or anybody she wants, it is very plain that Father Vaughn is alone to blame for the runaway match. There seems to be nothing left for rich fathers who do not want their daughters to marry coachmen but to stop keeping coachmen. There la something abont tho coachman that an American girl|can not resist. Like Mabel she wants him and gets him and the only way to prevent her wanting him is to have

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coach man. The prisoners of the Michigan State Penitentiary have hit upon a new scheme to show to their visitors the degree of esteem each one Is held in by the prison authorities. They havo petitioned fctr tho privilege of wearing a gray suit as a badge of good behavior. The conditions wore prepared by the prisoners themselves, and havo been accepted by tho officers. To entitle tho prisoner to don the gray ho must sign a special agreement to implicitly obey all the rules and regulations of tho prison, In spirit as well as in letter, and must for six months have received the highest possible rating for good behavior. With these conditions fully met the convict becomes entitled to his snit of

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mark of honor. It is believed that this will prove one of the most practical reformatory measures ever ndop'S 1 in prison life. ________

The latest application of instantaneous photography ia that of taking the picture of a marriajr group just as the clergyman is pronouncing the happy couple man and wife. The first photograph of this kind was taken at Netherwood, N. JM on Wednesday evening. The flash light apparatus was placed in the gallery of the chapel and the picture successfully taken at the proper moment, with no ill effect except to frighten the clergyman and some of the spectators who were not in the secret.

A stage version of "The Quick and the Dead*' was presented In New York on Monday evening and seems to have achieved the failure it deserved. It ia said to be quite decent, thus omUIng all that gave popularity to the or aal tale, and the addition of some "ham fat" business did not successfully relieve its dullness. The dramatis particular Invention la the apparii from time to time, of the first husb I'a ghost, produced by the Pepper proceeds.

"ChinchIn" us the Indian word lor: "The roung man who seta out to take the soalp of an enemy is met by a bear and told to return, and cornea back empty-banded to toll a big story." Why nnt we get some each abort word to expreae oar feeling towards the chap who aaya be will pay It back by Saturday.

A Woman's Chat.

BY BKREXDA BtOUST.

Among the women I know and pity is one little woman who comes as neajjj Solomon's ideal as human flesh and bloody can do. She is one of the model wive* and housekeepers, to whom men point with pride and say, "There is thp kincl of woman to win. 8he'U never want td| vote but knows she has all the rights she deserves." T.

Strange to tell, however every time I see that patient, sad faced little creature it sets me to bursting with wrath. 1* have positively lain awake nights to wonder what I could do to give her one happy day—one day of freedom—ah! that word, "freedom" how sweet and impossible a thing it preresents to thousands of women in America! I very well know how she has been a slave to her family for twenty years. I know that thoir solid comfort and growing prosperity is due more to her economy, her days of grinding work, her early rising, ber darning and patching and turning inside out and upside down of the carpets and hor own clothes, than to anything else. But does her Jhusband know It? Do her four big boys know it? Blew you, no! You conldn't beat it into her husband's head in fifty years that they owe nearly all they have and are to "mother." I know know it has been for so long that I have been aching to run off with her, and let them shift for themselves.

It was so long since she had had a ride Into the country, poor little mother! It made her think of her courtship days when John took hor riding every Sundaj\ She had in her a certain fineness of instinct, o, poetic imagination that made ber life seem all the more cruel to me. Some plants never bear flowers, no matter what their cultivation. Others will bear If they can, when the buds are not killed by some unfavoring clroumstance.

So it is with lives. Some are by nature stolid, un flowering. My friend's life had been full of promise but tho finer part of It had boon drowned In the dishpan and the wasbtub. She was fit for something better than she had known and to have made a household

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So one day last week, a gloriou* day It was, with the air all golden and the forests just beginning to be tipped with crimson, I went to her house with my horse and buggy. She hadn't her dinner dishes washed, so 1 rolled up my sleeves and helped her to finish them Then I jnst made her come with me for a ride "Just a little one," pleaded I, "You can let your sewing go till next week and then have it done. What your husband spends for cigars would get all your plain sewing done, so put on your hat and come aloug." When wo did get started it was to be for only an hour. If she had known what my lunch basket contained and that I bad a hammock and some books under the seat, but she didn't know, you see. I could see that she was pleased with the ride. A new light camo into her eyes as we drove along the shining road between flold? yellow with flowers or rich with thesplendid corn crop of this season. Here was a pasturo with cattlegrazing quietly then a hay fluid with immense stacks at one end, yonder a hill side dotted with white sheep and occasionally an prcbard laden-with crimson fruit.

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a woman with such a forohoad wnd such eyes was like putting a fine blooded raoer into the field to plow.

She forgot to tvatch the time and in an hour wo had reached a lonely spot in the depth of a forest of oak and elm trees. The delight of being out In the free air and the enchantment of the forest so wrought upon her that she clapped her hands, exclaiming, "What a lovely place! It makes me think of when I was a little girl."

We fastened the horse and put up the hammock. The pale little vomen ran about like a child, gathering fetnsand and uttering such little snatches of delight as, I am sure, had never passed her lips for years.

At last it was almost six o'clock. She had forgotten time—supper—sewing— family—everything. When I began to arrange our lunch on the gram, however, she came to ber senses. "O, I must go home and get r^perl Mow have you bewitched me, B-_: _nda, so that I should forget how long I have been away?** "Never mind putting on your hat," I said, "my Bridget is to get your supper to-night for yonr family, as my husband is away, and you are going to eat right here with me." I gave her a little vol* ume of Browning and made her corl op among the cushions and read to me while I spread the lunch. She began presently, in an agitated voice, that exquisite little bit, "Love Among the Rains." Every word came as though from her inmost heart. She gave the nt new beauty. I thought It more buufil than ever before, because she appr *t«d it herself. She said the last word* over three timea, "Love to best, Lo^e is test, Love la best.** -A

Through what golden vistas she was treading back—she was young againfull of dreams of roman«e,of enthusiasm. The bright glamor of seven tern yean again filling her life with glory

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the loneliness of living, morning, noon and night with a person who has no originality, who liores you, and who Is no companion to you. There are two kinds of soltitude, they are both sad, but I found that the worst, a thousand times the worst, is not to bo alone by yourself, but alone with another person. Oh, the wretchedness or being imprisoned in ono narrow round of small thoughts and petty worries, tho desolation of living without new ideas. Those only who have never felt the pain of starvation can wonder that others are driven to despair by hunger." My friend was one of those women, but she did not know it so well as I did. We ate our lunch with warm appetites and an orchestral accompaniment of katydids and blue birds. We had a gorgeous sunset with our dessert and it all seemed like a story in a book instead of something real. Wo didn't talk much on the way home. As we drove aloug through the early dusk, all the distant fields and uplands were folded In purple mist. A bauk of cloud, piuk, like applo blooiu, changed to silver In the east. The fragrance of the hay fields and the autumn llowers filled the air, as the early dew settled upon them.

On our way we passed a gypsy camp. They were gathered about blazing fires, gettiug their suppers, and tholr white tents gleamed among the trees like ghosts. As we came down across a long brldgo into the city with its million lights, a little happy sigh awakened me from my owit,revery and we fell to talking in a confidential way that women have. The upshot of It all is that my "slave" friend is to have a kitchen girl this very day and lier husband is going lo surprise her on her forty-second birthday with a horse and phaoton.

There are three things evory one should attend lo who has a dwellingvontilution, pure water and unadulterated food. Difficult as the food question is, with due care it can bo mastered. Pure air, also, can be measurably ae cured, oven if tho residence bo in a malarial district. But tho problem of all most difficult is how to be sure of puro water. The bacterial germs that produce malignant diseases are most easily Introduced into the system by means of apparently puro water. New York City is amazed to find its Croton Lakosystem is now receiving the sewerage of2f 000 people, the largest condensed milk factory in the world, 10.000 cows, 1,200 horses, 15,000 hogs and forty factories. The absolute selfishness and heedlessness of many people is shown in nothing more than their readiness to pollute streams used or liable to be used for drinking by human beings. Probably a good deep well, free from possible contamination of sewerage, is our safest resort.

A colored woman arrested recently in Kansas City for wearing male attire was discharged by the recorder, who said: "There can be no law which prevent* women from dressing In male attire and appealing in public therein so long as they do not conduct themselves in a disorderly manner. Any ordinances to to the contrary are illegal. It is the latest fad for ladies to dress In the garments of the opposite sex, and the women are ^rapidly coming to it. It is the best thing not only for health, but for comfort. I will discharge every woman brought before me under such conditions as the defendant in this case."

"MORE FITNESS IN THINGS." [Philadelphia Ledger.] This Chicago gambling in wheat which seemingly raised the price of real wheat, bnt did not, and that added nothing to the valoe of the article—Is what they call "business" among the dealers in the "wheat pit" in the Chicago Board of Trade. It was not "business It was a conspiracy of gamblers, that was once an infamous offense against the law, and was punished by infamy. It ought to be so in our day, when such conspiracies are worse than they ever were in the olden times, and do more damage. If the leaders, instead of being permitted to masquerade as

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was once more marching out with the wings of her soul to some realm of golden possibilities,where life would be a divine thing, worth *Ae longing for and worth the having. The cares of reality had slipped away from her as a garment and her inmost being was opened to the sunshine. I often wonder if men comprehend the slavery of married women My dear sir, as I see you lolling in your office chair, ordering your clerks about and smoking a ten cent cigar, I wonder If your wife is a slave? Do you ever think about it? I have been reading "My Trivial Life, by a Plain Woman." What a note of pathos she strikes in this little book! I believe that many a woman Is dragged down from her right place in the world by marrying a man her inferior, who never can comprehend any of her finer nature. Let me quote a passage which must strike the heart of every such woman.

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As Others See Us.

MISS CLEVELAND'S VREWS ON AN INTERESTING QUESTION.

The Portraits of Onrtelvesas Others Point Us—Do Others See Us Afore Truly 1 han WcSee Owrsdvesf—No One Shotdd Be a

J\ ihrluit Unless He Can Be a Kcconstruetionist—No Two Persons the World Alike—Life Game of Hide-and-Seek— Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Octnnoi Individualize—As We Appear in the Eye# of Others—An Interesting Question Ably Discussed. [Copyrighted, 1888.] It is probable that no poet, prophet, or priest over breathed a more sincere aspiration in behalf of his kind than did the poet Burns when he said: I "OU, wad some power the gtftl© trie us,

To see ourselves as others see us!" And It must be confessed that this wish arose in the hoart of Burns under a provocation which would have extorted the like from one far less sympathetic. It is probable, also, thut no philanthropic Utterance has ever had more devout repetition It has lived in the eohoos of the succesive generations from Burns down, in the words of Burns but the sentiment he happily and immortally embodied did not wait for Burns to originate. Sinco the race began each individual of the race has had some ardont wellwisher who has devoutly doslred for him that he might see himself as others 8oe him.

The "giftle," which Burns hopelessly Invoked from some superhuman power for his Jennie, has oomo to be considered as of all gifts the most desirable and the most impossible.

It might be an Interesting waste of words tcf attempt to prove this seeing of ourselves by ourselves as we are seen by others a not Impossible thing. Things which involve ad iscussion of the ego are always seen more or leas attractive and lessor more profitable and I have no doubt a very successful multiplication of words could be effected to bring about a darkoning counsel on this subjeot. But the subject admits of no proof. It constantly proves Itself. There is no more common experience ki life than this confronting the portrlats of ourselves as others paint us. Whether we will or no, we are compelled to see ourselves as others see ua.

There is a twofold implication in this famous couplet of Burns, which is false. The first proposition to be inferred is that others see us more truly than wo see ourselves and tho sccond is that we do not see ourselves truly at all. Tho former is received as an axiom, the latter is capable of a vast array of argument to sustain it and both are venerable and mischievous lie*.

One should not pull down unless ho can also build up no one should act in the role of a Nihilist unless he is propared to assume that of a reconstructioniNt.

Having been bold enaugh to deny tho two propositions which I infer from tho famous conplot of Burns, I must dare, as well, to offer substitutes, which I venturo in the following enunciations: First, that every serious-minded individual of the race whose exporlenco in life has been ordinarily comprehensive may and does see himself more truly than does or can any ono else and, second, that it is the exception when others do or can see us truly at all.

Some One—Dr. Holmes, I think—has said that "to every John there are three John's—namely, John's John, my John, and God's John." This is only a clever way of saying that In the contemplation of each character there are three points of view the outside view the inside view, and the overhead view.

Of course the overhead view is the complete one, but that is not the view of which we mortals can talk. God's John is beyond us all at this speaking. This is a thing doubtless to pray about on our knees to think abont over open Bibles to reach after in our highest climbing toward the vita lest truths that concern us. bn It Is not a thing to talk about. The overhead view is the perfect view, but it is not our view.

It is only-John's John snd of "my John" that we can properly speak. lender this clever nomenclature of Dr. Holmes each human being may bo made a trinity. No one of us can escape the subdivision, for the three persons are quite distinct. It is safe to say thst if these three Johns which go to make one John were arranged to confront each ether, no one John would recognize any other John as bis other self.

My John may be immeasurably subdivided. One's self from the view of "others" is never the same. A's John is never B's John, nor is either of the two C*s John. And so it issil the way to the omega of John's observers. Life is a game of hide-and-seek, and in the early and middle stages of the game there are no two John's alike. This is why so many quarrels occur In the game. A's John did a very reprehensible thing, bnt it was not B's John or Cs John, and a dispute arises. A exhibits hUJobn, and claims that the deed is consistent with John's character bnt Band Csbow their Johns, and insist thst John could not be the suthor of such a deed. Later In thegame thing* become clearer there 4

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If all the Johns projected upon the respective retinas of all observers of John could be hung in one gallery for comparison, the exhibition would certainly be amusing and interesting, perhaps instructive and profitable.

I am sure it would teach us quite as much concerning the observers of John as It would of John himself.

If tho original of all these portraits should pay a visit to this gallery he would te vastly confused and vastly fascinated. Sometimes the fascination would be of horror, and es it would be of pleasure. Ho would be quite likely to wish that he could always, or even sometimes, see himsolf as others see him.

He would cast a long lingering look at some one, perhaps more than one, of these other Johns. There is no wretch who lives who can not find in this gallery some picture which so gloriously flatters him as to awaken his ardent wish that it might be a true portrait. There is no John living who is not, in the eyes of one observer at least, beautiful and Important. And, on the other hand, there is no one so beautiful and important in the eyes of many that, in the vision of some one, he will not come out ugly and inslgnificent. Aud John must deny the truth of each to the original. He must sorrowfully relinquish tho one and gladly repudiate the othor.

Ho is noithor so black or so whito as he id painted. On the whole, it is an opon question whether John's visit this gallery will benefit him.

An approximation to this oxperienoe Is not only possiblo to have, but it is impossible to avoid. We cannot only soe ourselves as others seo us, but wo cannot escape the sight and it is a sight which, far from being desired, Is one much to be deprecated.

Views of ourselves are not its important to our growth In any sort of grace as it has been tho good old fashion to consider thom. I am almost suro that the mostobjeotive life is'tho life which makes the best charactor. But If vlows of ourselves are over useful, it Is desirable that these views shall be as near the true views as can be obtained, and these are never, whon we need them most, the views taken of us by others. Even those who love us best and, therefore know us best, do not see us as we see ourselves. I think it a far tnoro legitimate wish on our part that others should see us as we see ourselves rather than that we should seo ourselves as others see us. There are Indeed dark hours of defeat in our lives which tho flattering appreciation of another can lift us suddenly to fresh and valiant endeavor, and theroare times of intolerable self-conceit whon the stinging depreciation of another will give our inflation that saving slash which nothing else could inflict.

To sum up, then: it seems to be true that the seeing of oursolves as others see us is no moro a desirable thlni than is the being seen by othors as we see oursolves nor a more possible thing. In the long run, near its ond, the two vlows coincide moro and more, as experience deepens and widens, does John's John counterpart my John, and both approximate to God's John. Less and loss can I)r. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde individualize.

More and more do we lose power to conceal, or to choose what we will reveal. The thing we aro is seon less and less can we pose for effect. One after another our veils fall away, and tho naked countenance is seen

Others see us, and we see ourselves, and each sees the same person. The point is reached in the game when hide-and-seek changes toseek-and-llnd. Perhaps it is precisely at this point that the fun stops. It is noticeable that the wish is always devoutly made in behalf of another person. No one wishes to seo himself as others see him, but he has some good nnseltlsh friend who wishes he might.

In this connection it is also worthy of notice that if this disinterested wish on the part of John's good, unselfish friend could be realized, John would stand face to face with a very ugly person.

It is a curious fact that when wo most ardently breathe this wish in behalf of a person we desire to benefit by a view of himself, we ourselves view bim in a most unflattering light, and it is our view which we desire him to confront. Nobody wishes to see himself as others see him, nor does any one wish that others would see him exactly as be sees himself. Not quite yet. By snd by, when be more admires himself, is more what he intends to be, a person who shall be wholly admirable. All this while the sands are slipping down the glass, and the time of mutual recognition is approaching.

Time is just. Each man most confront TlmeVmlrror, The reflection will be exact, and to be identified by himself and "others" alike. Herein to oom fort for some aod torror for others but It may be which we will.

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