Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 46, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 May 1890 — Page 7

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WOM,Un and home

WAVCFC CREATED BY A YOUNG WOMAN AND HER UMBRELLA

History of Women'* Colleges in America That Awful Cockroach—Lotulun Shop Girls—She Bleep* ID A Garret—The

Now Orloan* Girl.

One rainy day, just before nightfall and When there was the greatest rush of homeward bound people, a handsome, intelligent looking woman, apparently about 31 years old, joined the throng headed for the 'Brooklyn Bridge, Her umbrella was open In her hand, and the way she handled it straightway attracted notice on all sides. Somehow she managed to knock nearly, every umbrella she met from its owner's hands, until, having reached the steps at the entrance to the bridge, she suddenly "Collapsed her own, much to the detriment •o/ the bonnet of another lady who happened to be at her side. Shu then began fumbling for her puree, holding the umbrella in the, meanwhile in tho hand sho was moving, BO that the ferrule described an arc'of about 40 degs. Having found a 4imc she marched to the ticket office, and then, while slowly gathering up her stood with the umbrella tucked ler her arm and protruding across the age to the other ticket office, thus obstructing all movement for others.

At last the seven ccnts was safe in her purse and she passed on. With that umbrella still tucked under her arm she wobbled up the stairs, swaying from side to side, while the man immediately behind her dodged the umbrella's ferrule as well as he could. Suddenly she stepped on her dress, and stopped. Of course, the umbrella jabbed the man in the face.

With a sweet "I beg your pardon," she shifted it so that It struck out sideways and tripped up a man who was hurrying past her.

Finally, with no other mishap than catching the handle of the umbrella in a little girl's hair, the lady got seated in a bridgo car, a little out of breath and somewhat flustered, and placed the umbrella before her so that it stuck out at least two feet toward the middle of the car. On the Brooklyn side the Inst the reporter saw of the lady and her umbrella was as she started to get out of one of the side doors. -She was holding lier umbrella horizontally before her MO it caught on both sides of tho door, and kept twenty-five people waiting while she figured out what was interfering with her progress.—New York Sun.

Women** Col lectin.

The names of three women are associated with the beginning of colleges in America especially for women, that of Mary Lyon being connected with Alt. llolyoke, which was incorporated in 1830. iimina Willard was closely conuected with Troy Female seminary, JUKI Catherine IS. Beecher's name bco ime historical from her association with the Hartford Female academy. Elmira college, Incorporated in 1855, is, so fnr as is known, tho first in tho world to offer to woiucu the same lulvautages us were offered in colleges for men. Women having set the example, men have not been slow in seeing tho advantages afforded by higher institutions of learning.

In 1801 Viwsar college was founded by Matthew Vassar, of Poughkeepsie, who wished to provide such an education for tho women of this country as would be adequate to give them a position of intellectual equality with men in domestic and social life. Another man, Ilenry Wells, founded Wells college at Aurora, N. Y.,in 1868, and Edwin B. Morgan endowed it liberally. Henry Durant founded Wellesley college in 1870, aud donated a farm of 400 acres and tho original buildings. The course at this college covers five years and includes four modern languages and Greek and Latin. Smith college, Northampton's pet institution, founded in 1871 by Miss Sophia Smith, hss an'endowment of $400,000. Of the thirty professors fifteen are men and fifteen aro women.

Bryn Mawr college, in a suburb of Philadelphia, is one of our youngest colleges for 'women, having been founded by tho late ur. Joseph W. Taylor in 1680. This college is said to have tho largest aud best equipped gymnasium of any woman's college In the country. No honorary degrees are offerod here, but annual fellowships in history, biology, Greek and mathematics are

?.warded.

Evelyn eollcgo is an annex of

Mneotou, aud Barnard college of Columbia, but they are separate in management trorn those older colleges. Rutgers Female college iu New York city offers several permanent scholarships to the daughters of missionaries. Most of these colleges have men occupying their presidential chairs, but Wellesley tuul lit. Uolyoke have women prcatoeuta.—Springfield Union.

fW Uo«M«iT«« to Try.

In a baJLUUn issued by tho division of antomologv, department of agriculture. Dr. O. V. Riley, writing of Insect pests or the nousohold, after describing various speciss of •ockroaebm, says: In tha latitude of Washington and further south the crotou bug cots everything which contains pasto, and consequently wall paper, photographs, And especially certain kinds of dloth book binding, suffer severely from their attacks. In Insect Life will be found an account of severe Injury done to oortain of the important Ales In the treasury department In Washington, tho bindings of many important public documents being disfigured And destroyed. In tho office of the United States ooMt and geodetic survey they have become an intolerable nuisance by eating off the surface and particularly the blue And red paint from the drawings of Important maps.

How to kill them and prevent this damAge is the question. Without condemning other useful measures or remedies like borax 1 would repeat that In the free and persistent use of California bnhach or some other fresh and reliable brand of pyrethrum or Persian Insect powder we have the most satisfactory means of dealing with tliis and the other roaches mentioned. Just before nightfall go into the Infested rooms and puff It into all crevioe*. under base boards, into the drawers and cracks of old furniture—to fact, wherever there Is crack—and in the morning the floor will be ooversd with dead and dying or demoralised and paralysed roaches, which may easily be swept np or otherwise collected and burned. With cleanliness and persistency in than* methods the pest may be •ohstantially drivaa out ot a house, and should

session

tqr

Seamlgwata from without.

K—a— (Miop Ctela.

gtaic* dfcutpttne Is usually the ortkr, and whatever advantages either sax mar •rwiss «•*•*,

merited eqnsllty exists as

the An* imposed throughout the day. Thou —rrfrrm frrt imrt^ tgnahilHn^siMito«numerat«thamn}tltu ttms wpportnaWai ptwanted to the war wnyi euwamuchpspst. Thettatof b» found iaadraper^a

check book, and sufficient food for long study is afforded to the "fresh hands" in mastering these details. In fact in some hoiut-3, 'tis said, Ul the regulations are never understood.

Suffice it to mention a few stock offenses, sucfi as too long a meal, late arrival, incorrect bills, incorrect checking? taking bad money, giving wrong change, leaving one's department without a just reason, and many other misdemeanors which trip the unwary. To balance this network of penalties a "spiff" system is usually adopted, spiffs being premiums placed on certain articles, not of the last fashion, indicated by a marvelous hieroglyphic put on the price ticket. These marks are well known by the assistant, and the almost invisible mystic sign explains why an article, wholly unsuitable, is foisted

the jaded cus

tomer as "just the thing." The price marks themselves are often conundrums to "madam," because these, toe. are written in unknown characters, often drawn from a motto code.—Pall Mall Gazette.

Th« New Orleans Girl.

There seems to be a prevailing heresy in some quarters that southern women do not possess the culture and learning which are supposed to mark the advancement of the sex elsewhere it is true that their standard did not originate in the rarified air of Concord, nor are their tastes in sympathy with those whose Mecca is Boston, but that of itself does not imply a defeot, only a difference. In the first place spinsterhood as a vocation is not popular tn the south, and while from numerical reasons alone single blessedness or an early grave must be the lot of some women, still they do not count on that in their education, and hence their talents and time are given to subjects which are most valued from asocial and domestic point of view.

As a rule, the women in the best circles all speak French, not th» average boarding school French, but the French of the Frenchman, with the accent of France, if not always of Paris. They are accomplished musician* and clever artists. Girls are taught to write interesting, spirited letters to become good and often brilliant conversationalists. They try to keep up with the standard literature, both English aud French, and as politics comes natural to a southern gentleman, he generally calls it statesmanship, it follows that cultured women are interested and well up in political issues. In addition to all that they are generally good housekeepers. If they are alSo fond of novels, of bonbons, of dress, of society,who can prove that they have sacrificed higher duties t« these diversions?— Cor. St. Louis Post- Dispatch.

She Sleep# in the Garret.

People like individuality in a room, and an unending vista of blue and white rooms shrouding lily white girls grows monotonous. It is the proper thing but I know I was glad when I came across a girl who had the nerve to depart from it. Her narno I dare not tell, for her courage docs not go that far. She said that she got so tired of tame people and tame amusements that she was bound to have sometliing startling about her. She got her father's consent to have the garret of his big mansion, and she fitted it up in away that would make a tiger shiver. It is an uneven room, dark even at noonday, for the window panes are hardly bigger than the palm of the hand. The floor is covered with leopard skins from which tho round, beady eyes stare in an uncomfortably fierce way. A big gray owl perches in a dark corner, and below it is a dusky black couch with drapery above it that looks for all the world like a glowering big bat. The doors into the alcoves aro hung with the skins of the Kocky mountain lion, and from the sides of the room above the couches are meshes of coiled snakes, from the mouths of which dart lights In a fashion entirely too realistic for comfort.

Instead of a stately samovar there is a regular witch's cauldron in one corner in which the mistress of the room concocts harmless tea for those of her friends who are bold enough to visit her there. By every chair are low tables covered with books, aud the very titles of them would make a proper miss swoon away.—Miss Grundy, Jr.

For an livening at Home.

A unique device that produced unbounded fun for a party storm bound in a small village, was what, to fit in with tho prevailing nonsense of the plan, was called a "soiree musicale operetta." Early in the day each person selected some tune, to which he sang, or tried to sing everything ho wished to say. Many were the slides, slurs and rolling "r's" required to make a request for a book or other article fit to the air of "Home, Sweet Home," or a remark on the violence of the storm fit the sweet cadences of "Annie Laurie." Particularly comical were the remarks of the "Red, White and Blue" mau, who was much given to solemn utterances, quite out of keeping with the tune he had selected. Another member of the party, who had just reoeived a letter from a friend of all, tried to give the uews, which each was interested in. As the only tune he was capable of keeping was "Old Hundred," the incongruity between Its measures and the spicy extracts was more than amusing. So great was the success of the plan for that time, that the company adopted it later, on a number of evenings, always with the same success.—American Agriculturist.

The Child of a Modern "Rocker." One of the great wants of the age Is tho right kind of a cradle and the right kind of a foot to rock it with. We are opposed to the usurpation of "patented self rockers." When I hear a small boy culling his grandfather "old daddy," and see tho youngster try to slap his mother across the face because she will not let him have ice cream and lemonade in the same stomach, and holding his breath till he gets black in the face, so that, to save the child from flfc*. tho mother compelled to give him another dumpling, and he afterwards coos out Into the world stubborn, willful, selfish and intractable, I say that boy was brought up in a '-patented self rocker." The old time mother would have put him down in the old fashioned cradle and sung to him:

Hush, my dear, lie ttlll aod slumber, Holy aacct* guard thy bed

and if that did not take the spunk out of him she would have laid him in an inverted position across her lap, with his face downward, and with A rousing spank make him more susceptible to the music.—T. De Witt Talmage In Ladies' Homo Journal.

Oktoetof Jewelry.

A lady was buying A brooch in a Boston lcr*s the other day. She was A quiet ittle woman, one of those who "go about town In a plain little* brown little tailor made gown," and she knew very well what she wanted—something very simple, wry tasteful, very good. She WAS looking AT pearla. "1 don*t exactly want pearls," she said, hesitating over

jewel little

be allowed to gat full pos

A brooch that tempted

her with all Its qualities. Then she giaaeed appealing!* toward* tbe salesman.

MIt

la for a gift," she said, tn A ton* that tmplkd A wish tiuAaeBMbtilMQldte "Pvrbapa this would be aocept-

MMpoo&ed IM poUfeeealtssas^ push

XERKfiJ HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

ing forward cn the show case a large diamond brooch of many glittering stones. The descendant of several generations of cultivated ancestors shrank back with a look of utter distaste. "Oh! no, no," she murmured, "the person this is for never wears the diamonds she has. I want to find something she would like to wear."— Boston Transcript.

IllilJlIf

Baying: a Wedding: Trousseau.

In buying a trousseau I advise every young woman to commence with underwear, gloves, shoes, hosiery and such articles as do not change much in a year, while the hats and gowns should be the last selected, as then one is mop apt to have the latest styles. Too many gowns for one's position in society, and too few pieces of underwear, ctc., is better reversed. It is customary for a bride to provide table and bed linen and all toweling necessary for her prospective home but this part of the outfit I do not include in my present list. If the bride to be can save a trifle in the buying of her wardrobe, she will find that a small sum is convenient to have to expend in pretty things for her new home, which cannot rightly be included in the furniture. In furnishing a home it is a wise plan to buy for the kitchen first, then bedrooms, dining room, and lastly the parlor for one may do without many things in a parlor, but "where is the man who will do without dining?"—Emma M. Hooper in Ladies' Home Journal.

He Lost Caste.

From out the wild and hoping west there came not long ago ayoung man to dwell in the shadow of Murray Hill. He was well introduced, and things were going on swimmingly for him until the other day, when in a moment of unpardonable ignorance he committed the solecism of sending a dozen napkin rings as a wedding present. That was unpardonable. At his home in the west people used napkin rings, and he thought them a desirable present here. He did not learn until too late that such things have been relegated to other than the very best circles that a napkin ring presupposes the use of a napkin more than one time, and that such a gift was a faux pas hard to overlook. Curious what little things one's standing sometimes rests upon, —New York Press.

The Value of a Mutton Bone.

When tho dish of cold meat has been set aside, cut off all that remains upon the bono, crack the bone with a cleaver, and put it with all the hard, dry bits into the stock pot. When boiled down it may not make more than a small bowlful of jollied stock, but in that bowlful thero is as much material as you would get in flvo of the cups of bouillon served at a lunch counter or druggists for ten cents a cup. If you are not a business, but a domestic woman, living within the shelter of home, cared and provided for, try to earn that fifty cents, not by selling a pieco of fancy work at less than tho cost of materials and instruction, but by actual labor, paid for at its current value in the labor market, then you will recognize the fact that evon a mutton bone is a factor in domestic economy.—Good Housekeeping.

The Courtesy of Swedish Women. The women of tho middle and lower classcs aro little if at all behind their husbands and brothers in this matter. Their good temper and pretty behavior are worthy of all praise. The servant girls in Dalecarlian peasant dress, the cafe mamselles and the young persons omplovedin shops all make the prettiest of all possible bob courtesies, ar so, oddly enough, do the young ladies oi' good family up to the day of their confirmation, which ceremony takes place rather later than with us, generally about the age of 16. From that day forth they put their hair up and take to bowing.—Temple Bar.

Putting a Smile on a Cheek of Brass Nothing is more annoying about the home than the sudden and inexplicable soiling of brass goods. The surface gets dull apparently without cause, and ever so much rubbing seems to have no brightening effect. A very simple method of restoring the lost luster is as follows: Lay tho soiled article for a few minutes in essence of vinegar containing a pinch of salt then take it out and rub it in the hands, dipping them occasionally in the vinegar. When clean, wipe dry with a cloth. In cleansing tinted goods omit the salt, or dip in vinegar and brush with red chalk.—New York Journal.

The ladies of the Rubinstein club insulted tho great Tamagno by inviting him to accept $1,500 for two solos. The irate tenor jumped on tho pretty note with both feet, then picked it up and sent it back to the musical ladles with these few words scrawled across the back: "My price is $1,500 for one song." It is needless to mention that Tamagno's portrait has no place on the club's walls.

Mrs. Bolton Lacy is a fully certificated dentist, who has been practicing for twenty years in Brighton, England. She acquired her skill as assistant to her husband, and after his death was able to carry on his business and support her young family. She is especially successful in persuading timid children to submit cheerfully to needed dental operations.

Grease may be removed from white marble by applying a mixture of two parts washing soda, one part ground pumice stone and one part chalk, all first finely powdered and made into a paste with water rvb well over tho marble and finally wash off with soap and water.

If the material is washable at all, black dye can practically be rendered a fast color by the help of the salt water bath before the general washing is commenced upon. After such a treatment faded black caused by washing will »av*r occur.

Jewelry can be beautifully cleaned by washing in soap suds, in which a few drops of spirits of Ammonia are stirred, shaking off the water and laying in A box of dry sawdust. This method leaves no marks or #car«tch«a./q^,^.

Half A teaspoonful of sugar w02 nearly Always revive A dying fire, and, unlike the few drops of coal oil which servant girls are so fond of using And which have caused so many accidents, la perfectly safe.

A new jewel caae is

»i®S

A most perfect tmftA

tion In oxidhtart silver of A gripsack. On unfastening &nd raising the outside pocket the interior of the

cam,

lined with

sa tin. Is disclosed.

Here are some of the bouquets escribed by brides at fashionable vroridtogr Ordxfcb and orang* blossoms, lilies of the vaBey aad white rosea, white violets, Marechml Kiel ram, lilies of the valley.

T't*—*^ of chewing pfttp*Tt aad drinking vinegar and join adipoae doctors Iced their patients rtw fruit wlthOT^augAr or cream Aad obesity tea.

Trials of Dealing with a Land sp£ Lubber Stove.

LOG BOOK OF PRENTICE MULFORD

Bo Qualifies by Making an Irish Stew, the Only Irish He Could Slake—Vessel "In a Stow" for Weeks—Pies—Duff,

Plum Duff, Plain Buff—DBII^ rl.v

{Copyrighted, 1S89, by the Author.]

S I E as cook and stew*ard of the schooner Henry, bound from San FranIll cisoo for a whal'0 ing, sealing, abalone curing and

general "pick up" voyage along the Lower Californian coast. My acceptance as cook was based on the production of an Irish stew which I cooked for the captain and mate while the Henry was "hove down" on the beach at North point, and undergoing tho process of cleaning her bottom of barnacles. I dan't recollect at this lapse of time where I learned to cook an Irish stew. I will add that it was all I could cook—positively all—and with this astounding capital of culinary ignorance I ventured down upon the great deep to do the maritime housework for twenty great men.

When we were fairly afloat and the Farallones were out of sight, my fearful incapacity for the duties of tho position became apparent. Besides, I was dreadfully seasick, and so remained for two weeks. Yet I cooked. It was purgatory, not only for myself, but all hands. There was a general howl of execration forward and aft at my bread, my lobscouse, my tea, my coffee, my beef, my beans, my cake, my pies. Why the captain continued me in the position, why they didn't throw me overboard, why I was not beaten to a jelly for my continue^ culinary failures, is for me to this day one of tho great mysteries of my existence. We were away nearly ten months. I was three months learning my trade. The sufferings of the crew during those three months were fearful. They had to eat my failures or starve. Several times it was intimated to me by the under officers that I had better resign and go "for'ard" as one of the crew. I would not. I persevered at the expense of many a pound of good flour. 1 conquered and returned a second class sea cook.v

The Henry was a small vessel—the deck was A clutter of whaling gear. Whero my galley or sea kitchen should have been stood tho try works for boiling blubber. They shoved me around anywhere. Sometimes I was moved to the starboard side, sometimes to the larboard, sometimes when cutting in a whale way Astern. I expected eventually to be hoisted into one of the tops mid cook aloft. Any well regulated galley is placed amidships, -where there is the least motion. This is on important consideration for sea cook. At best he is often obliged to make his soup like an acrobat, half on his head and half on his heels, and with the roof of his unsteady kitchen trying to become the floor. My stove was not a marine stove. It had no rail around the edges to guard the pots and kettles from falling off during extra lurches. *,

The Henry waa a most uneasy craft, and always getting up extra lurches or else trying to stand on hfir head or stern. Therefore, as

she

WAS

flew up high

Astern

whoa I was located in that quarter, she has in more than one instance flung me bodily, in an unguarded moment, out of that galley door and over that quarter deck, while a host of kettles, covers and other culinary utensils rushed with clang and clatter out after me and with me as their commander at their head. We all eventually terminated fn the scuppers. I will not, AS usual, say "lee scuppers." Any scupper was alee scupper on that infernal vessel. I endeavored to remedy the lack of a rail about this stove by a system of wires attaching both pots and lids to the galley ceiling. I "guyed" my chief culinary utensils. StUl during furious oscillations of the boat the pots would roll off their holes, and, though prevented from falling, some of them as suspended by these wires would swing like so many pendulums, around and to and fro over the area of that stove.

That was the busiest year of my life. I was the first one up in the morning, and the last, save the watch, to torn in at night. In this dry goods box of A kitohen I had daily to prepare a breakfast for seven men in the cabin, and Another for eleven in the forecastle A dinner for the OAbin and Another for the forecastle likewise sapper for tho SAHM. II

my business to set the Aristocratic cabiu table, dear it off And wAsh the dishes three times dAOy. IhadtoMnre out the tea mod

coffee to the eSrren men

forwArd. The cabin expected hot M* ouft for breAkfast, aad frequently pie and podding for dinner. Above all mm. moat the

eook not only hAve

place

for everything end everything in fie place, but he mod haw* gfwjf thing choked and wedged In Ha place. Too

must wash up your tea things, sometimes holding on to the deck with your toes, and the washtub with one hand, and wedging each plate, so soon as wiped, into a corner, so that it slide not away and smash. And even then the entire dish washing apparatus. yourself included, slides gently across the deck to leeward. You can't leave a fork, or a stove cover, or lid lifter lying about indifferently but what it slides and sneaks away with the roll of the vessel to some secret crevice, and is long lost. When your best dinner is cooked in rough weather, it is a time of trial, terror and tribulation to bestow it safely on the cabin table. You must harbor your kindling and matches as sacredly sis the ancients kept their household gods, for if not, on stormy mornings, with the drift flying over the deck and everything wet and clammy with the water surcharged air of the sea, your breakfast will be hours lace through inability to kindle a fire, whereat the cook catches it from that potentate of the sea, "the old man," and all the mates raise their voices and cry with empty stomachs, "Let him be accursed."

One great trial with me lay in the difficulty of distinguishing fresh water from salt—I mean by the eye. We sea cooks use salt water to boil beef and potatoes in or rather to boil beef and pork and steam the potatoes. So I usually had a pail of salt water and one of fresh standing by the galley door. Sometimes these got mixed up. I always found this out after making saltwater coffee, but then it was too late. They were particular, especially in the cabin, and did not like salt water coffee. On any strictly disciplined vessel the cook, for such an offense, would have been compelled to drink a quart or so of his own ooffee, but some merciful cherub aloft always interfered and got me out of bad scrapes. Another annoyance was the loss of spoons and forks thrown accidentally overboard as I flung away my soup and grease clouded dishwater. It was indeed bitter when, as occupied in these daily washings, I allowed my mind to drift to other and brighter scenes, to see the glitter of a spoon or fork in tho air or sinking in the deep blue sea,and then to reflect that already there wero not enough spoons to go around, or forks either. Our storeroom was the cabin. Among other articles there was a keg of molasses. One evening after draining a quantity I neglected to close the faucet tightly. Molasses, therefore, oozed over the cabin floor all night. Tho cabin was a freshet of molasses. Very early in the morning the captain, getting out of his bunk, jumped both stockinged feet into the saccharine deluge. Some men will swear as vigorously in a foot-bath of molasses as they would in one of coal-tar. He did. It was a very black day for me, and life generally seemed joyless and uninviting but I cooked on.

J-

AWVT

The Henry was full of mice. These little creatures would obtrude themselves in my dough wet up for fresh bread over night, become bemired and die therein. Once a mouse thus dead was unconsciously rolled up in a biscuit, baked with it, and served smoking hot for the morning's meal aft. It was, as it wore, an involuntary meat pie. Of courso the cabin grumbled but they would grumble at anything. They were as particular about their food as an habitue of Delmonico's. I wish now at times I had saved that biscuit to add to my collection of odds and endibles. Still oven the biscuit proved but an episode in my career. I cooked on, and those I served stood aghast, not knowing what would come next.

After five months of self training I graduated on pies. I studied and wrought out the making of pies unassisted and untaught. Mine were sea mince pies material, salt beef soaked to freshness and boiled tender, dried apples and molasses. The cabin pronounced them good. This was one of the few feathers in my culinary cap. Of course, their goodness was relative. On shore such a pie would bo scorned. But on a long sea voyage almost any combination of flour, dried fruit and sugar will pass. Indeed, the appetite, rendered more vigorous and perhaps appreciative by long deprivation from luxuries, will take not kindly to dried apples alone. The changes in the weekly bill-of fare at sea run something thus: Stmdays and Thursdays are "duff days Tuesday, bean day Friday, codfish tu^l potato day some vessels have one W two special days for pork salt beef, hardtack, tea and coffee are fluids and solids to fall back on every day.

I S 7

dreaded the mak

ing of duffs, or flour puddings, to the end of the voyage. Rarely did I attain success with them.

A duff is a quantity of flour mid yeast, or yeast powder, mixed, tied up in a bag and boiled until it is light. Plum duff argues the insertion of a quantity of raisins. Plain duff is duff without raisins. But the proper cooking of a duff is rather a delicate matter. If it boils too long the flour settles into a hard, putty like mass, whereunto there is neither sposginess, lightness, nor that porousness which delights the heart of a cook when he takes his duff from the seething oaldron. If the duff does not boil long enough, the interior is still a paste. If a dull stops boiling for ever so few minutes, great damage results. And sometimes duff won't do properly, anyway. Mine were generally of the hardened spedes, and the plums evinced a tendency to hold mass meetings At the bottom. Twice the hands forward rebelled at my duffs, and their committee on culinary grievances bore them aft to the door of the cabin and deposited them there unbroken and uneaten for the "Old Man's" inspection. Which public demonstration I witnessed from sny galley door, and when the duff deputation had retired, I emerged, and swiftly and silently bore that duff away before the Old Wan had finished hk dinner below. It is a bard ordeal thin to fed one's self the subject of such an outbreak of popular indignation. But my sympathies now ten all with the saikn*. A spoiled duff is a great misfortune In the forecastle of AwhAler, where neither pie nor cake nor anj oSter delicacy, save boiled flour and motasees sauce, come from month's end to month's end.

Pxnmcx MuuroKD.

5/A

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DUSTERS

ARE THE BEST.

100 styles, prices to suit alL Wif. AYBKS fc SONS, Philadelphia. Sold by all dealers.

T^R GEO. MARBACH,

DENTIST.

511K OHIO STREET.

TIT? MEDICAL ELECTRICIAN "DAT.T. l/Xb. CATARRH, HSAD, THROAT, IJU NERVOUS DISEASES,

Moles,Tnmors, Superfluous Hair Removal

115 B. Sixth Street. Hours: 0 to 11 a. m., 2 to 5 p. m.

A RCHITECT.

"W". ZR,- WILSO35T, With Central Manufacturing Co., Office, 9M Poplar Street, Terre Haute, Ind,

Flans and Specifications furnished for all kinds of work.

T^R. W. O. JENKINS,

JL*/ Office, 12 south 7 st. Hours 1:30 to 8:30 Residence, cor. 5th and Linton. Office telephone, No. 40, Baur's Drug Store.

Resident telephone No. 176.

GILLETTE., 3D333STTXST.

Filling of Teeth a Speciality. Office—uorner Seventh and Main streets, im McKeen's new block, opp. Terra Haute House

ROBKRT H. BLACK. JAMBS A. NISBBX*

ji^LAOK & NISBET,

UNDERTAKERS and EMBALMERS, 20 N. Fourth St., Terre Haute, Ind. All calls will receive prompt and careful attention. Open day and night.

JSAAO BALL,

FUNERAL DIRECTOR.

Cor. Third and Cherry Sts., Terre Haute, Ind. Is prepared to executo all orders In hlH lin* with neatness and dispatch.

Embalming a Specialty.

RS. ELDER 6 BAKER, HOMEOPATHIC

PHYSICIANS and

SURGEONS.

OFFICE 102 S. SIXTH STREET, Opposite Savings Bank. Night calls at office will receive prompt attention. Telephone No. 185.

"HE. W. VANVALZAH, JLs

Successor to

RICHARDSON & VAN VALZAH,

[DIEJETTIST.

Office—Southwest corner Fifth and Main Streets, over National State Bank (entrants on Fifth street.

HOLERA HOGS.

Cash paid for dead Hogs at my factory on the island southwest of tne city: also Tallow* Bones and Grouse of all kind. Dead animals removed free of charge. Office No. 13 B. Second. Telephone No. 78 and 84.

HARRISON SMITH.

J. NUGENT. M. J. BROPHY.

£|"TJGENT & CO., PLUMBING and GAS FITTING

A 4 dealer in

Gas Fixtures, Globes and Bnglneer'A Supplies. S05 Ohio Street. T«m

COAL. COAL

We have opened a coal office at950 Main, at the former Kuhn elevator offlco and keep all kinds of

BLOCK & BITUMINOUS GOAL

W. BOlfclt a .bare of the publlo patronage.

JOS. LEE—WM. D0ESEY

Ne Plus Ultra

Dyeing and Renovating Ladies' and Gentlemen's Wear in all desirable shades of any fabric at short notice and moderate prices at

H. F. REINER'S

STEAM DYE WORKS 085 Main Street.

Bstabllsbed 188L Incorporated 1388,

0LIFT & WILLIAMS CO.,

Sneoessoni to CI lit, Williams A Co. J, EL WXLUAJCS, President. J. M. Curr, Bec'y and Treaa.

MAKWAonnBom or

Sash, Doors, Blinds, etc. 4JTX

DKA1XBS

LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES GLASS, PAINTS, OILS AND BUILDERS' HARDWARE.

Mulberry stnet, corner 9th.

R. GAGG,

2MUXSB

ARTISTS' SUPPLIES

Pletcurs Frames to Order. McKeen's Sotk*

17th*

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