Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 May 1890 — Page 7

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WOMAN AND HOME

'MYSTERY OF THE ACCORDION BKIRT CLEARED UP AT LAST.

Bentible Bnaarkt on Dr«M—Dignity of Housework—Women Fsmer*—Train the Girl*' Hands—Patent* for Babies.

How to Wash L««es. It has been the good fortune of a reporter to find a solution for what has hitherto been popularly regarded aa a first class mystery—namely, the process of making that manner of garment so beautiful to the •eye and so dear to the fashionable feminine heart, the wonderful "accordion skirt."

The method whereby the so called ao•oordion plait is made has been kept religionsly a secret ever since the introduction •of the novelty. You can procure a skirt 4*0 prepared from any dressmaker, dry

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or sewing machine place but

-/the work is not done on the premises. I To begin with, there is a good sized iron \W box without a cover, with parallel wires atretched across it in two layers, one layer -of wires below the other. Tho stuff to be If ^plaited is first wet and then passed through the wlifes in and out, over an upper wire, under a lower one, then over the next upper wire, under the next lower one, and so -on until as much of the material is taken up as all tho wires will accommodate.

These up# and downs of the cloth form i. -the lines of the plaits, and behind the last IP ot the plaits is a square iron bar running parallel to the wires, which, being screwed tip with a powerful screw, folds up all the wires compactly together like a book, pressing the plaits into the smallest possible •compass. It only remains now to dry the material in that shape, and for this purpose the iron box is taken out of the oven 'with a perforated top and permitted to .bake there, the moisture that evaporates from the stuff going off as steam. When 'sufficient time has elapsed to allow for a thorough drying of the cloth, tho iron box

Is taken out of the oven, the screw is undone, and the cloth is withdrawn bcautifully plaited accordion fashion and ready to be made up. One Baltimore man pro•duces several hundred yurds of accordion plaiting dally, and, inasmuch as the coneumor pays fifty cents a yard for the work, there'must bo a reasonable profit in it. No wonder it is thought worth while to keep the method a secret.

However, it is likely that this monopoly will be wiped out before long by the placing on tho morket of very simple contrivance recently invented, which any woman •can afford to buy and will havo skill enough to use. It will cost less tlyin $1 to manufacture, will be sold for S3, and will do to perfection not only the according plaiting but knife plaiting, the machino consisting •of a little more than two long strips of brass adjustable to a table and a wooden roller. Each plait, after being folded by "the machine, is ironed separately with a hand iron, and tho stuff comes out all ready to bo put on to the belt, supposing that it Is intended for an accordion skirt. But, of course, many other things besides •skirts nro mode accordion fashion nowadays, such us capes, cloaks, lamp shades, etc. It will be cheering news to the ladies that tho fifty cents a yard rate is not likely to be maintained vory long. It will not be a great while beforo every woman who makes her own drosses will porform the accordion process as a matter of course upon tho matorial she buys.—Washington Starw_ Some Sensible Remark* on Dress lie form.

You see wo are grown modest and fearful of some nameli'ss, imaginary moral evil. We havo become ashamed of the way God mode us, and we cover ourselves up, just as if the human figure wore a deformity. Who first invented clothes which make mou look like stiff, forked, shapeless forms? The ancients showed the lines of the female figure and gave a piquancy to its pliancy, its graceful flexibility. Today the women put thomselves in stays and load themselves with bustles and stick themselves out with 'all sorts of improvements until they look —still attractive, but falsely, unhumanly attractive. I don't believe tho Grecian women, those from whoso figures goddesses were modeled, had a bit hotter forms than tho women of today.

Tho race in California is simply wonderful in its development of anatomical beauty, judging by tho display one sees «uy day on the street. But it would be a great deal mora effective if the costumes permitted the supple graoe of nature to be shown. Every now and again the female lecturer comes along to teach new frnls about dress and to air new ideas about hygiene. Tho principle of all health is free•dom of action of the body and plenty of exercise, and the principle of health Is, curiously enough, tho principle of comfort and the principle of beauty of form. When in the olden times men and women wore clothes that looked odd and quaint in cut to us, if they sacrificed comfort, it was to nppcarance. We sacrifice appearance and get no particularj comfort.—San Francisco Chronicle.

The Dignity of ITounrwurk. Clerks in the great banking houses start there as young boys, getting their instruction, of course, from seniors. Something of this kind prevailed in old times, when young girls were taken "to brin up,4' and were taught, by the mistress of the house and her daughters. It is not convenient now or always to have these apprentices, just as the changes in other business have done away with other forms of apprenticeships and indentures.

The orphanage and industrial homes are furnishing a small measure of pupils for such occupation. There ought to be many more. When we can make housework as reputable as shopvrork Is considered to be, then there will be a change. Many ladies now know better how cooking should be done and can do it better than their hired cooks.

The enthusiasm for cooking lessons is helping to put that branch of housekeeping on a more dignified plane. The mora the mistress, now, will know how to do about the house the mora elevated will that employment become in the eyes of the woman who want# a service place.

We an* really on the edge of change in that respect, but we must take care that it is not a shelving edge and that we don't fall off. A wife and mother of moderate means Is better employed in supervising her household and her children than in wearing herself out and into an early grave by running the sewing machine to make their fine clothes,

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In letting them grow

up with an Ignorant young warrant, while she is sewing and sweeping and scrubbing. Philadelphia Ledger.

Women as Fawn***."

Farmers who find the taurine* profitable owsmuch of their success to the good

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Agtmeat of their wire*. It Is conceded by aflthat a fanner without a wife who Is a mod home manager cannot expect to make money. As

general thing farmers' wives

aa skillful

managers aa

tbelr husbands.

and share almost equally with them the burdens and privations of farm life. A woman who haa been reared in the conncry finds pleasure and health in overseeing the dairy, the garden and the poultry yard, as well aa looking after her household duties.

When a farmer haa such a wife he can devote his entire time to his general form work, and at the end of the year the profits will be well nigh doubled.

There are in Indiana a great many women who farm extensively and are as skilled in the business as any of the men. These women have made money out of the business and would not give it up for any other calling. Marion county has quite a number of women who have been giving farming much thought and are equipped to make the business a success. Many of these ladies are members of the connty agricultural societies, and their views are always given as much weight aa those expressed by the male members.

Miss Ida Richardson, who was brought up on a farm south of Indianapolis, believes that successful and enjoyable farming depends largely upon the home management by the wife. She would have the wife be a helpmate to the husband in all things not a slave to work, but a woman who takes an interest in the affairs of the farm and manages the home so as to increase the husband's profits. 8he thinks the country home is, or should be, the ideal one.—Indianapolis News.'

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Painting with the Kwdle.

The nuns of St. Louis, Mo., are famous for their ecclesiastic needlework, which haa no rival In the world outside of Mexico. Their favorite material is a heavy cream white satin, almost rich enough to stand alone, and on this they paint actual piotures with their needles. They use bullion thread only for the scroll designs that outline tho cloth or garment, and these are particularly beautiful in design, being mostly copies of the scrolls that outline the pages of the most noted of the old illuminated missals. Their specialty is the embroidering of faces, which they reprod.. with an accuracy and delicacy equal to the finest miniature painting.

On some of their pieces they have copied figures from the nest of the mediaval stained glass, but generally they are more modern in type, reproductions of faces and figures painted for the purpose by the best artists among them. One altar cloth, made to fill an order from an English cathedral, was of the same cream white satin with a broad border of gold needlework in a design of oriel windows, and set in tho contor of each oriel was a winged cherub's head, each one studied after tho faco of a real child, and each of a different type. Theso heads wero about three inches in diameter, and tho brush of the most famous artist could not have more perfectly reproduced their silkon curls, their tiny wings, their rosy, dimpled beauty, and the childlike faith and adoration in all the limpid, upturned eyes.—Illustrated Ameri-

Traln the Girls' Ilands.

It is highly important in educating a girl to bo an efficient, self reliant woman that her hand should be trained to be useful. Of courso tho details of her education should bo arranged with regard to the social position which- she will probably eventually occupy. In ordinary cases the. hand should be as carefully trained as the brain for to fulfill the ordinary duties which fall to the lot of average women a useful hand is absolutely necessary.

Girls, who have the advantage of studying at our, femal»«ollega»axfcd high sohools, do not, as a rule, belong to tho wealthy and aristocratic circles where every domestic duty is performed by servants. The generality of such girls will not, when they are married, havo a staff of servants and a housekeeper to look after them they will havo to be their own housekeepers for tho most part, with probably only one or two servants under them. In such a household as this the wife must assist if all is to go wok, and her head and hands must be the chart and helm of the domestic ship.

As an assistance In acquiring manual dexterity, such as is often required in housewifery, the teaching of some musical instrument is not to be overlooked. A trained hand can always perform its task, and, guided by an educated brain of average intelligence, will soon learn to porform any ordinary domestic necessity well.—New York Ledger.

How to Wash Laooi.

In selecting soaps and washing fluids some regard must be paid to tho texture of the goods to bo treated. Care must be exercised in sorting the goods, for in an intelligent treatment of different fabrics a large part of tho art of washing consists. Fine laces, for exnuiplc, must be treated by themselves. Very fine lace may bo cloanscd and whitened by folding it smoothly uk! sewing it into a clean linen bag. It is then immersed for twelve hours in pure olive oil. A little fine soap is shared into water, atid tho lace put into this and boiled for fifteen minutes. It must be well rinsed, dipped In starch water, and then taken from the bag and stretched and pinned to dry.

Laces nrc sometimes whitened by putting them in a bowl of soapy water and setting them in the sun. Point lace can be tacked on a suitable cloth, keeping all the points stretched. Then, with a flue brush and a lather of eastile soap, it can be rubbed ijently. When clean on one side the other must be treated In the same way. Then let it be rinsed in clean water, hi which a very little alum has tx-. dissolved to take off the suds. With little starch water go over it on the wrong side, and then iron it. When dry it must be opened and set in order with a bodkin. If notmneh soiled lac© can be cleaned by rubbing in flour or rice powder.—New York World.

Patents for Babtau

Women

have patented many things re­

lating to children, and a California woman invented a baby carriage which netted her over ^0,000.

Children's toys form some of the best paying patents that have ever been invented, and the man who made the rubber ball attached to a little rubber string cleared $300,000 with It, The dancing negro baby gave Its inventor an annual income of $25,000. Pharaoh's serpents, or those jointed wooden snakes, brought In more than $50.000, anil there are tops which have made fortunes. There is a little toy called the wheel of lite which Is si»id to have brought 1300,000 into the inventor's vest pocket, and $10,000 a year Is the incotra w&eh is received from the common needle threader.

Women have^patented all kinds of toys. They have made Improvement* In baby

chairs,

«md one the funny patents Is tlu*

of a Boston girl, which constate of a kiw£of tricycle for dolls. patented in The jwtent holds the doll npright and enables the child to push It around the room on wheels. Washington. Cor. New York World. ,•

Keeps BOBW la TXmem Homes, jut Phi ladelphia there Is who was left a widow two

In Philadelphia there Is a little woman -£0 was left a widow two yews ago, irith 00 scarce of Income sad three small chil­

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dren to support, who today makes

She prepares a daily menu a-week ahead, audits the accounts of tradesmen and very often has the entire supervision over dinner parties and receptions. No detail in the management of a household escapes her, and her employers, without exception, pronounce her a perfect treasure, for at a comparatively trifling cost she takes upon her own fair shoulders the worry and bother of that portion of domestic affairs which are to ladies of fashion most irksome and wearing.—New York Journal.

A 'Kf Pre— of English Women. The English seem strangely indifferent to dress. One can wear almost any kind of apparel here and not excite comment. I have seen things parading the streets here in London that would create a riot in the states, yet here nobody paid any attention to them. The more grotesquely a man is clad the less attention he attracts. At the theatres one sees remarkable sights, male and female. The women wear conspicuous costumes. At'the Criterion one evening I saw a scrofulous red woman clad in a fiery red gown, the corsage of which was actually plastered over with diamonds—not real diamonds, for very few ladies wear the genuine diamonds to the theatres. In fact, it seems to be quite the thing to blossom out in paste. I have noticed that scrofulous red females are all too common here in London the redder the face, the redder the gown. Yet there may be philosophy in this. I recollect that Mme. Modjeska once told me: "Red worn below the -face deadens the complexion worn above the face, heightens the complexion. If, therefore, a woman wishes to subdue the color in the cheeks she should wear a red gown or plenty of red ribbons about her throat on the other hand, if she wishes to give her face a certain touch of color, let her wear a red hat or red flowers in her hair."—Eugene Field's London Letter in Chicago News. '-J?**

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fine living by a profession that is uniquely distinctive. She fca perambulating housekeeper, and boa & dozen or more clients on her list, as many, in fact, as she can comfortably serve.

She goes from house to bouse making weekly visits, and serving two and sometimes more of her customers in one day. Her duties are inspectoral and directors!. She goes over a house from cellar to garret, looks after the linen, furniture, decorations and has authority to give directions to the servants or resident housekeeper ad lib.

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A Monkish Omelet.

It is a remarkable fact that the epicures of tho world should be so largely indebted to the French clergy for the luxuries they enjoy. Two inn keepers at Mont St. Michel are at daggers drawn to this day respecting the right sort of omelet to be put before a hungry traveler who comes their way. One is Ridel, who holds out for the old Gallic omelette aux fines herbes, while Poulard, his rival, contends that the genuine article is an omelet the secret of which has been transmitted down through ages by the antique religious order of the place. Such rivalry is an honor to either party. I have tasted both dishes, and it is difficult to decide between thom. Perhaps that of the monks is tho mora epicurean of the two. It is easily prepared. The whites and the yelks of the eggs are not mixed. The whites are floggedup to a creamy consistency, to obtain which much elbow grease is required the yelks are only slightly beaten. The whole is poured into the frying pan and a large lump of butter put in at the some time. After cooking for two minutes the result is a miracle in its way.—Paris Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean.

How Agues Booth Lives.,

"There is one thing I am very particular about," continued Mrs. Booth, "and that is my morning bath. I bathe to my waist in cold water, but the rest of my bath is made in a warmer temperature—tepid water. I go out for a drive every day in the year—in winter at 1 o'clock, but in summer later—and there is one other habit which I never neglect, and to which I think my good health is partly due. I take off all my clothes and regularly go to bed every afternoon for at least one hour." "But when do you find time to look after new gowns?" I asked, noticing at the same time that, although Mrs, Booth was in a morning dress, it was of a very pleasing design. "My gowns!" said she, with a glance of absolute contempt for the subject, and then, in tones that were almost confidential, as if she disliked to admit tho weakness of the sex in general in this respect, sho said: "How women can spend their days in shops as they do is beyond my comprehension. Why, the bad air stifles me, and the consequence is I never shop."— New York Press.

Harmless for the Complexion A mixture of honey, lemon juice and eau de cologne is exceedingly useful to wlm/on tho hands when discolored by sun, wind or work, and may be kept mixed for the purpose a small toilet jar. T..ke a wineglassful of each ingredient and mix well then pour into the jar and keep tightly corked. This may be applied night or day, and the inside of the fingers rubbed with to a of a

Miss Mattie Mitchell, daughter of Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, has the reputation in Paris of being the most beautiful American woman who has ever been seen in that beauty loving and beauty drawing city. Another very handsome American girl abroad is Miss Ella Russell, who has many accomplishments, and who makes her appearance in grand opera at Covent garden d«i .r.g the season.

It is said that Lady Pauncefote, wife of the British minister at Washington, was much amazed when, in answer to an informal announcement that she would be at home on a certain Saturday afternoon from 4 to 6,1,400 visitors presented themselves, most of whom insis- 'd on shaking hands, although she had never before heard of re

The postmaster general's attention has been called to the condition of abont a hundred women employed in the mail bag repair shop at Washington. They are compelled to mend forty bags daily for $30 per month. The work is hard, the building unhealthful and it is claimed that as & consequence many of the women become sick and die.

Among the popular colors there Is the old fashioned shade known as buff, bat now called "butter color," Another old acquaintance is puce, but its former cradencas is softened to an agreeable shade of heliotrope. "Ophelia1" Is a delicate shade of pinkish mauve, which far a good candle light color, as it lights op well.

Tbe principal loader at The Century office la Mrs. Christine Terhune Herrfck, Marion Harland's daughter, and herself a witter on domestic matters. One of tbe readers at Harper's is LilUe French, who is also a newspaper woman and one of New York's handsomest feminine bachelors, w*

Whale in Sausage Not Gastronomically Inviting.

LOG BOOK OF PBENTICE XULFORD

Shark's Meat—Social Position of tht» Sea Cook—A Uiefal, bat Not Always Honored, Member of Society—SSoxiean Bnt-

Unr and Sugar Fiend*. [Copyrighted, 1889, by the Author.] VL

WAS an experimental cook, and once or twice, while cutting in \^hale, tried them with whale

|U! H|| meat. The flesh lying unI \i derthe blubber somewhat resembles beef in color, and is so tender as easily to be torn apart by the hands. But whale meat is not docile under culinary treatment. Ga8tronomically, it has an individuality of its own, which will keep on asserting itself, no matter how much spice and pepper is put upon it. It is a wild, untamed steed. I propounded it to my guests in the guise of sausages, but when the meal was over the sausages were there still. It can't be done. Shark can Shark's is a sweat meat, much resembling that of the swordfish, but no man will ever eat a whale, at least an old one. The calves might conduct themselves better in the frying-pam We had many about us whose mothers we had killed, but we never thought of frying them. When a whaler is trying out oil, she is blackened with the greasy soot arising from the burning blubber scraps from stem to stern. It falls like a storm of black snowilakes. They sift into the tiniest crevice. Of all this my cookery got its full share. It tinged my bread and even my pies with a funeral tinge of blackness. The deck at such times was covered with "horse pieces" up to the top of the bulwarks. "Horse pieces" are chunks of blubber a foot or so in length, that being one stage of their reduction to the sieo pots. I have introduced them here for the purpose of remarking that on my passagb to and fro, from galley to cabin, while fengaged in laying the cloth and arranging our services of gold plate and Sevres wear, I had to clamber, wade, climb and sometimes, in my white necktie and swallow-tail coat, actually craw! over the greasy niass with the silver tureen full of "consomme" or "soup Julien," while I held the gilt-edged and enameled menu between my teeth. Those were trying-out times for a maritime head butler.

The cook socially does not rank high at sea. He stands very near the bottom round of the ladder. He is the subject of many jests and low comparisons. This should not be. The cook should rank next or near to the captain. It is the cook who prepares the material which shall put mental and physical strength into human bodies. He is, in fact, a chemist, who carries on the last external processes with meat, flour and vegetables necessary to prepare them for their invisible and still more wonderful treatment in Rhe laboratory which every man and woman possesses—the stomach—whereby tiiese raw materials are converted not •inly into blood, bone, nerve, sinew and aluscte, but into thoughts. A good cook may help materially to make good poetry. An indigestible beefsteak, fried in grease to leather, may, in the stomach of a general, lose a battle on which thall depend the fate of nations. A good uook might have won the battle. Of course,.he would receive no credit theretor, save the conviction in his own culin*iry soul, that his beefsteak properly and quickly broiled was thus enabled to digest itself properly in tbe stomach of the general, and thereby transmit to and through the general's organism that amount of nerve force and vigor, which, acting upon the brain, caused all his intelligence and talent to attain its maximum, and thereby conquer his adversary. 'that's what a cook may da This would be afar better and happier world were there more really good cooks on land and sea. And when all cooks are Blots or Soyers, then will we hare a sosietv to be proud of.

While whaling in Marguerita bay, we "kedged" the Henry about one hundred miloa inland, where tbe whales abounded. In so kedging it was necessary to stake out at low water portions of the channel daily, when it ran a mere creek through an expanse of hard sand, sometimes a mile from either shore. At high water, all this would be covered to a depth of six or seven feet. The Henry grounded at each ebb. and often keeled over at an angle of forty-live. From oar bulwarks it was often possible to jump on dry ground. This keeling over process, twice repeated rrery twenty-four hours, was particularly hard on the cook, for the inconvenience resulting from s»di a forty-five degree angle of inclination extended to all things within his province. My stove worked badly at the angle of forty-fire. The kettle oookt be but half filled, and only boiled when tit* water was shallowest insida. The cabin tabie could only be set at an angle of tatty

live. So that while the guests on the upper side had great difficulty in preventing themselves from slipping off their seats on and over that table, those on the lower side had equal difficulty in keeping themselves up to a convenient feeding distance.

Capt. Reynolds, at the head of the board, had a hard lot in the endeavor to maintain his dignity and sitting perpen-. dicularly at the same time on the then permanent and not popular angle of forty-five. But I, steward, butler, cook and cabin boy, bore the hardest tribulation of all in carrying my dishes across the deck, down the cabin stairs, and arranging them on a table at an angle of forty-five. Of course, at this time the rack used' in rough weather to prevent plates and platters from slipping off was brought into permanent use.

Transit from galley to cabin was accomplished by crawling on two legs and one arm, thus making of myself a peripatetic human triangle, while the unoccupied hand with difficulty bore aloft the soup tureen. It was then I appreciated the great advantages afforded in certain circumstances by the prehensile caudal termination/of our possible remote anoestors. With such a properly equipped appendage, the steward might have taken a close hitch around an eyebolt, and let all the rest of himself and his dishes safely down into the little cabin. It is questionable whether man's condition has been physically improved by the process of evolution. He may have lost more than hehss gained. A monkey can well afford to s5orn the relatively clumsy evolutions of the most skillful human brother acrobat.

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In former days while narrating the events of this voyage, which I have done some thousands of times, I used to say

we whaled." But I never whaled, never went in the boats, never pulled an oar. I had other fish to fry in the galley, and now that I commence to realize what a conscience is, I mention this for truth's sake as well as to give variety to the story. We were boarded occasionally by a few Mexicans. There was one melancholy looking Don Somebody who seemed always in a chronic state of corn husk cigarette. When not smoking he was rolling them when not rolling or smoking he was lighting them. He and his companions were persons of some importance, for which reason Capt. Reynolds tendered them the hospitalities of the Henry, and would ask them to whatever meal was nearest ready.

These two Mexicans had enormous stowage for grub. They resembled the gulls. They also seemed unfathomable. There jwas no filling them. What they did at table they did with all their blight, and when they finished, especially when eating by themselves, as they frequently did, there was literally nothing left, "Nothing" in this case meant something, It meant in addition to bread, meat and potatoes, every scrap of butter on the butter plate and every grain of sugar In the sugar bowl. I didn't take the hint the first time they ate with us, deeming the entire absence of butter and sugai at the end of the repast to be owing to lacing a small amount on the table. nC 1118/wuwOi.1 liuwJ remedied this. But on inspection after they had finished I found left only an empty butter plate and sugar bowl. It was so at the third trial. Butter and sugar seem to be regarded as delicacies by the natives of Lower California. Nor do they seem to oomprehend the real mission and import of butter and sugar on the table. They regarded both these articles as regular dishes, and scooped them in. On discovering this, after a consultation with the captain, I put them on allowance. These two men would have eaten up all our butter and sugar in four weeks.

However, it was comparatively a slight toll they levied on us for carrying oft their whale oil, seal and abalone. We were miles within their legal boundaries taking away the wealth of their waters. Twelve other American whalers lay in Marguerita bay that season. It was practically an invasion, only the Mexicans didn't seem to know they were invaded, or didn't care if they did know. So long as they had plenty of butter and sugar on coming on board and tho blubber stripped carcasses which came on shore they seemed satisfied. Theso carcasses they cut open when stranded and extracted the fat about the heart, whfch, on being fried out, would yield from one to four barrels of oil and about three miles of solid stench. They borrowed from us the vessels therewith to boil this fat. I was ordered to loan them all the pots, pans and kettles which could be spared from my culinary laboratory. They never returned them, and I was very glad they did not. No amount of scouring would ever have rid them of the odor of decomposed leviathan. We left them a dozen or so iron vessels the richer. A Mexican, at least on that coast, with a kettle is looked up to as a man of wealth. Beyond serapes, cigarette lighters, saddles and bridles, the gang of natives on shore had few other possessions. They seemed brilliant examples of contented, poverty. The individual Mexican is a more independent being than the citizen of our own boasted "independent" nation. His wants are ten times less.

Some mercantile hopes mav hang on the senoras and senontas. The few we saw wanted calicoes of gay and diverse patterns. The men will eat butter and sugar, but whether they will buy these articles remains to be proved. Perhaps furniture sets of polished and painted horses'skulls might tempt some of the more eesthetic in the matter of household adornment topurchase, if putata reasonable rate. Such are the conclusions drawn regarding the probabilities of trade with Mexico, at least the fragment of Mexico I saw from my galley. If we wanted any service of them they talked dollars at a very high figure. Bat they never abated. They showed no anxiety to tempt a bargain or an engagement. They went on just as ever, full to the brim cf genuine sangfroid, eternally rolling, lighting, and smoking their cigarettes, and looking as if tbey felt themselves a superior race, and knew it all, and didn't want to know any more, until we asked them to eat. Then they seemed in no hurry but clambered lazuy down tbe cabin stairs and lazily set to work to find the bottom of every dish cm the table, including the sugar dish and butter plate. 1 learned on that voyage the true signification of tbe term "greaser."

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Tablets, Markers, Breast Plates, Corner Pests, Etc., Etc.

GRANITE AND MARBLE.

Cottage & Spire Monuments. Stone a Specialty. NEW PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.

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 0S8 Main Street.

Established 1M1. incorporated QT.TFT

& WILLLAMB CO,

Successors to CSllft, Williams 4t Co. J. H. WIMJAMS, President. j. M- Win, 8ec*y and Treas. .• KAVtrrAonnuEHS or

Sash, Doors, Blinds, etc.

JAM DSAUEBS n*

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

Mulberry street, corner HJv

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Psssmcs MCUOBD.

R. GAGG,

DKAUCSXX

ARTISTS' SUPPLIES

PtCttt~yTFo$dln«. Picture Frames to Order.

MeKesa* Bioek. 6* Main st, «th aid 7th.