Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 November 1890 — Page 1

Vol. 21.-No. 19.

THE_MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

The Inventor of the nickel-in-the-slot-niachine is dead. He and the Kodak camera man will be congenial companions in the world to come.

Ward McAllister says: "A man of fashion is not supposed to be a grammarian, don't yoa know." Very trae. Grammar calls for brain, "don't you know."

A recent idea in cremation is the introduction of electricity in the incinerating furnace. The new agent works to entire satisfaction, not a vestige of a skeleton being left to horrify the friends of the departed.

At a recent Tammany ratification meeting in New York the band played ••Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow." How dreadfully, dreadfully unfortunate that this accidental exposure of Tammany ahould have been so publicly made.

Bam Jones declares that bo owns his own mouth, notwithstanding the general public has been trying to buy the ownership from him for several years. There are several big and costly mouths in this world and his is one of them.

It is plain to be seen that he who can not discuss the tariff is with respect to the present campaign very much like the man who did not go up In the balloon—not in it. The campaigus of 1880 and 1888 wero comparatively mild from this subsequent point of view.

The first shipment of bituminous coal ever made from thiscouutry to England on an order from the British Admiralty for experimental use on the Government cruisers was made this week. England will soon bo depending on the United States for everything of the beat quality.

One of the latest novelties for gentlemen is a mustache trainer. It may be styled a companion to the feminine curl papers. It is-made of a plate of thin metal, shaped like tbo mustache, and is to bo worn at night. The invention is from Paris, and it is said that a good many are already in use in New York.

It seems German matrons have begun a crusado against the unrestricted use of b{u rages in their native cities. At Mettman a number of ladies have petitioned the burgomaster to send bis police officer* to the inns to prevent their husbands and sons from staying there far into the night, while they remain at home.

The new election law will undoubtedly result In tho throwing out of many ballots in tho count subsequent to the closing of the pells. And now which party is it that will suffer most In tho end? It is possible that tho candidate actually receiving the greatest number of votes wilt not le the successful man in the race.

Hewas a genius who said: "Statues grow smaller tho farther we remove from them. Men, on tho other hand, become smaller the nearer wo approach them." Xo doubt tho brilliant idea was first suggested by the average modern politician, who, by the way, is a man deslrtous of "protecting your interests" by consuming your finances.

Still lr. Brown-Sequard, theelixorised medicinal fossil, Is asking, "Has a man two brains or one?" The eminent quack has juggled his orthography to the extent that he spells one as two and none as one. He will be forgiven this bowever for not concluding from his own case that all men are wanting In that organ so requisite to a sensible existence.

Inventive genius is by no means limited to the masculine gender. A young, unmarried woman of Iowa has recently patented a cooking thermometer, which, Instead of registering "Summer heat," "blood heat" and "frwwlng point," marks the boiling point, tbe gently simmering altitude and the varying baking point* of meats, bread, cake and pies. She deserve* th* thanks of the cooking fraternity at large.

The Kellglous Herald overstepped itself In afttrming that "Brilliant talents, graces of person and a continual habit of displaying these advantages, is ail that is aimed at In the education of girls." Such an idea poaalbly prevails In certain circle* of society, but among the sensible girls outside the "400" maelstroms there are other and higher alms which a religious paper fin» of all should recogt»i*e and acknowledge.

And now Ward McAllister la out with a denial of the report that he and Mrs, Vanderbllt have quarreled, He say* such an idea I# absurd, em If he did criticlM her Jadyahlp1* wok. only said that the aforesaid stomach anlhilator went a lit tie too tor in serving "salmi of tame duck for the chand froid." Who could take exception to such a comment from the king of society fads? Why lb* very idea of such a thing f* heartrending, Ward and Mi*. V. qu*ml? Never!

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Germans of the un-Amerieanized type are frequently credited with being a little slow In grasping advanced ideas. Be this true or otherwise, It happens that in the city of Berlin every telephone and telegraph wire is underground, something no American city can boast of. It would be well for us not to speak disrespectfully of German enterprise and progress until we can make abetter showing for ourselves.

Hypnotism is to be experimented with in open court in France, growing out of the claim of a defendant to having been under the Influence of another mind at the time of committing her crime. Drs. Charcot and Voisin, the most celebrated experts in the new science, If such it now is, will test the susceptibility of the woman to hypnotic influences in order to prove or disprove her claim to irresponsibility. The experiment will interest the entire world, for the bearing of hypnotism on crime is now the subject of much difference of opinion.

Geraldine's Letter.

MY BEAK RUTH: It is said that all women have a weakness for diamonds. 1 don't know whether that is true or not. Biamonds are very beautiful, the most beautiful of all the precious stones, but I suspect there are umbers of wom: en who, while they admire diamonds, do not care to possess them, at least are not unhappy because they cannot have them. Jewels have figured largely in the world's history, and a story of the world's famous Jewels would be one of of great interest.

Foster Coatos in tbo Ladles Home Journal, tells of the magnificent diamonds and other jewels owned by New York women. At the Metropolitan Opera House on a gala night, or at one of the society balls, the jewels worn wdukl rivar toose o-f a court ball in Europe. The late Mrs. John Jacob Astor was especially fond of diamonds, yet she never wore them except on state occasions, and then she was fairly ablaze with them. She used to wear a tiara, which few of the crowned heads could match. Mrs. Frank Leslie has a pair of solltairo ear rings of enormous size, and two necklaces, one of graduated stones, the other composed of nineteen diamonds about tho size of a dime, and of the purest water. Mrs. Hicks Lord has a necklace worth $250,000, besides this, she has four other necklaces, and owns the finest pair ofsoltaire ear rings in the country.

Mrs. Frederick Vanderbllt has a very boautiful diamond necklace, and other diamonds mounted in different designs. Mrs. William K. Vanderbllt, besides all her magnificent diamonds, owns a pearl necklace which belonged to the Empress Kugenie, and is worth $200,000. It is a single row of pearls, forty inches long, which she puts around her neck until it falls in successive rows to her waist.

Mrs. William Astor wears a beautiful necklace of three rows of diamonds, graduated. She has another of six rows set so as not to show any gold, giving an effect of the diamonds being strung together.

Mrs. Be Lancy Kane is said to be a conspicuous figure at the opera, because of the splendid jewels she wears.

Mrs. *Vllliam RockafeUer*s pearls are valued at $25,000. These are only a few of the many .who own superb jewels. It la said that three-fifths of all the diamonds in the United States are owned in New York. Last winter at one of the balls on Murray Hill, where the four hundred were gathered together, it wan estimated there were f.%000,000 worth of precious stones worn by the ladies.

Two or three year* ago I w*a in Jordon Marsh's store. The friend I was with called my attention to a queer looking little body, telling me to take a good look at her, for she was one of Harriet Beeeher Stowed daughter* and the wife of a Boston clergymiui whose name I have forgotten. She has a mania lor collecting precious stones, and she always carries them with her in a little box. They are unset and she keeps them merely to look at.

Many actresses have superb jewels. I welt remember Hodje«b% diamond necklace. Emma Abbott has some fine diamonds, and Jaunaachek has a wonderfully beautiful collection. Pattl has magnificent diamonds and many of the ornaments in her jewel case were the gifts of kings and princes.

Mr*. Oevelnnd has quite a collection of onset diamonds, and abe is especially fond of coral, and has a great many ornaments made from It. Mrs. Whitney has a collection of diamond* valued at

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discussing the

Kemmier electrocution Sn its various phases as to success or failure. According te the customs of the profession they canpot even compromise on a verdict, and if the obstinacy continues it will soon be necessary to disinter the remains of the unfortunate criminal in order to convince some of the entire absence of vitality in the remnants of the corpse. _______

Association gave {a novel and interesting entertain men at the Hollla street theatre in Boston last Thursday. It was called "A history of marriage." Mrs. Mary A. Livermore was the historian, and her story was illustrated by Un tableaux. The first a marriage by capture next, and one step in advance, the Oriental marriaga by purchase. In this Some things are said

With one of her costumes Mrs. Leslie wears a wonderful piece of jewelry—a Venetaln necklace containing over 3,0(H) diamonds, combined with blue ename. This neclace has a history. It was made in the fifteenth century for a Venetian countess. Afterward it became the property of Lucrezia de Bardi, who brought it to France in the sixteenth century. This woman was maid of honor of Catherine de Medicls, and must have possessed some of heri blood thirsty mistress'traits, tor it is said that faithless friends and fickle lovers were dealt with by her in amostsummary manner. At the top of this necklace Is a diamond bird with extended wings, and the legend is that within this bird was concealed a most potent and deadly poison, which Donna Lucre*la made use of, and that finally, when likely to be overtaken by the consequences of her sin, she d®* stroyed herself in the same manner."

ABOUT WOMEN.

Lady Alexandra Leveson Gower, the only daughter of the Duke of Sutherland, well known in the United States, is now on probation at one of the most important metropolitan hospitals in London as a trained nurse.

Oulda has abandoned the beautiful

villa of Scandioei, where

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TERRE HAUTE, NT).,,^ ("RDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER. 1,1890.

thirteen diffeitont types of beauty were cousins and about city cousins that are represented. In the Roman wedding quite true,

the Atheme quartette sang a Roman Globe-Democrat. It is not a good plan to chorus. A Japanese marriage. A Swed- keep a list of all relatives we have, with ish wedding, with the quaint dance of the understanding that they are bound the country introduced. A Russian to receive us into their houses and wait wedding feast, which was a perfect re- on us and feed us as long as choose production of the famous picture of that to Stay. But it is not of that I propose name. A runaway match at Gretna to write, for there is little of it nowadays Green was included, and in the Indian to make a text of. Thedeoay of hospltmarriage Pocahontas was fitly repre- ality is what more concerns me, for, if sented. The final tableau was a superb there be any marked contrast between scene representing Westminster Abbey the social relations of fifty years ago and and the Stanley-Tennant wedding. those ot to-day, it is the present absence

The Decorative Art Society held the of any general system of entertaining second meeting of the season yesterday our friends genially and expecting them afternoon with Miss Etta Blake at But- to Welcome us warmly on a return visit, ternut Hill. Mrs. William Mack read I

MRS. FRANK LESLIE.

Mrs. Frank Leslie, the world famous head of the great Frank Leslie Publishing House, has been commissioned by a newspaper syndicate, representing a majority of the leading dailies of the country, to furnish them a series of letters on home and social themes, and it is with a view of obtaining general information of her own country and people that she consents to lecture in some of the largest cities, that she may be brought face to face with the American public. She is now making this tour, and is addressing very large audiences on the subject "The Royal Leaders of society." A fair correspondent, thus describes a favorite wardrobe of Mrs. Leslie. "She wears an exquisite dress of dainty camoe pini The petticoat is of crepe de chine, draped in a very unique and artistic manner, and finished at the bottom with silver lace. The low cut bodlca and court train are of the heaviest satin, richly brocaded with sliver leaves* All the details of the dress—dainty ribbons run here and there through silver

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an interesting paper on the hfSstory of life in cities have an idea that while it water color painting. The Misses El- is exceedingly uncomfortable to take in lison, of Cincinnati, and Mrs. Jere Bax- country friends it is not as difficult for ter, of Nashville, were among the invited the county folks to receive city friends. guests. GKRALDINE.

meshes and delicate silken ruohings- felled by custom to receive every caller give the coHtnme aftAlr^ oi: perfect coip-ik a formal way, and to spend a half pleteness. With this gtoWa are #ora iSour with *u8& one iu a formal w»y,^dojewels of diamond and pearl. The far- ing nothing. So you see if a city visitor famed necklace, composed of three rows of perfect stones, is a part of the ornamentation. The slippers are of bronze, with diamond buckles, and are worn over silk hose of pale pink.

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A GRADUAL, DECLINE BECOMING NOTICE A BLE.—SIMPLER METHODS FOR

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Hospitality is always a tax on time and care, but the farm house is not the easiest place for its cultivation. Those who live retired are accustomed to snug ways: that is, are sure to always have something to do. From day to day the plans are laid for work, and in order to have financial ends meet at the close of the year these plans must not be largely Interrupted. Visiting is not as simple as if used to be in the country. When Aunt Sue came to see her nephews she came expecting to take hold and help. Work was net interrupted. Visiting went on in the big room, and laundry. Here tongues wove and the loom wove the spinning wheel buzzed, while a little spinning of domestic news went on Neighbors never dropped In expecting to be received in a reception room, but went to the back door, and if knitting wis not in their own pockets they soon took up the knitting or sewing that they found In the house. I like this frank and easy way and wish it might be restorted. But now, while I am at least not quite in the city, and am among goodSized fields, where corn looks with hollyhocks at my windows, 1 am com-

comes out to me she must be entertained, and it takes a deal of my,time aud strength. ,. C"

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What I wish to do is to put in a plea for a simple method of "seeing folk." The reception room is a grand invention for keeping gossips and disagreeable people at a distance, but it should never be openedfor a friend. jpoyoa remember theold black bag that every woman carried when she went out calling? It contained work. It held a ball of yarn, with knitting-needles, or an equivalent. No one ever expected to stop her work by visiting a neighbor, or hinder her neighbor's work. It was good fashion to go on doing what was to be done, laughing and chatting at the same time or, in trouble, working and weeping together. Then after a good dinner the friends were pretty sure to take a walk about the fields and the garden. Here they admired the pinks, and promised each other roots or seeds of any new sort that either had secured. Then the barn, and the calves, and the pigs wero looked over, and folklore indulged to a generous extent. I do not find this heaity method now in vogue, but instead a visitor stops work and Is received with folded hands In a dull room of curios and furniture. It would not be tolerable to continue your avocations. Ten callers in a day nearly spoil a day's industries.

But I have a good deal of fault to find with another innovation an our simpler country ways I refer to the fashion of

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wear and tea regal reception robes. t% They must he received at an outlay uot Is said the bill Worth rendered was required by friendlinesa, aaweUaeata OKI, as he selected, planned and made waste of time I have already noted. A every ne of them. fl,«»pergown dis- party of the oiden time cost not one doltaaces all competitton in modest Wash- lar outside of the hurder and clothes-press iagtoa,psd Mrs. Morton will be the beet of the dress«d as weil as the han~

parties that involve on expense

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tor many years and done much of her and safe expenditure. There really is best work, for Florence, where she oe- not a shadow of excuse

cupies the first floor of a spacious old of a farmer indulging in a dress that palace, costs all of one-tenth of his yearly inMl- Mul.il Langdou, the famoo. «™». *°d rf*"* booty, win liken trip to India, return-

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china, is said by the Boston Herald to expected to understand finance but I have recently completed a fish-set which, have a strong conviction that the reason were It exhibited in the work-rooms of farming does not pay nowadays is bethe famous factory on the Seine, or by the unnecessary expenses have any of the leading manufacturers in been so enormously increased. Fifty Europe, would bring her fame. J|J| ymxm agamen ootxld get a living off the

It is easy to tell why Mrs. Morton need land. They could do so now if they livegive no thought to her costumes, as ML. ed with equal economy and *exerd*ed Worth Is their composer. There te plain common sense. seductive tale afloat that she has twenty But the worst of it is genuiha hoapitalthat have never been taken from th*ir ifcy hi disappearing. People dread vislwrapplngs, ten tor carriage and day

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thousand of his city cousin. I protest against tho ruinous innovation. The only escape for those who desire to retain their homes, and avoid an auctioneer, Is to live secluded from society and avoid hospitality.

When I look over the magnificent valley before me, crimsoned with autumn glory, or greened with the rich promises of June. I think how much I have here which I should delight to share with hundreds who can get only the vistas of brick walls and smoky streets. But how can I, in these days of extravagance and unnaturalness, exercise my generosity without also giving so much of time and money as to make it soon impossible for me to remain myself or "wide domians possessed, rivers, hills and vales pastures for the soul, and meadows for the mind?" This problem is on us audit must be in some way solved. Under the hammer our farms are passing, audit is wholly needless.

I am advocating a return, or reaotion, to the hospitable spirit that equalizes comforts without multiplying expenses. We need change of scene, change of environments, more often than we can have them at the cost of hotels. Why are our doors closed to entertainment? I remember when the Aunt Betseys came to us for a month at a time, and no one felt It to be a burden. It was simply one more added to the family, one more helper as well as helped.

Our modern help system has also shaped Itself to exolude hospitality. Our houses are full of servants. They occupy room they absorb all our extra cash. They waste enough to cover the needs of as many more. We no longer need the help of our poorer relations and neighbors. They no longer are willing to assist in work that we assign to menials. There ero hundreds of women who really ueed common comlorts whose lots are vastly inferior to that of our hired servants. I look forward with no regret to the coming exhaustion of the immigrant house-help. It would be better for us If it occurred at once. When it does occur we shall find it possible to live more generouslv and helpfully by each other.

The hotel system of Western civillza* tlon is a nuisance and detestable. It Is cold, heartless and tinhospitable.- The hotel clerk is a miracle of impudence. The vast supply of eatables Is wholly unnecessary. It must, however, be paid for whether oaten or not. From the time you leave home till you again step on the door-stone you are a stranger. No one has any aim but to get your money. It costs as much to spend a day away from homo as fifty ycaisago It cost during a month. The decrease of hospitality pays for the marble fronts of buildings that are multiplied almost beyond estimate. This is the age of holt Ls. May we not hope for a decadence all forms of homelessness and an inca tse of homely hospitality.

RICH MEN'S MASGOTS.

Erastus Wiman believes that there is luck in keeping a Newfoundland dog around the house.

Cyrus W. Field has apiece of the first cable laid between America and Europe. To Mr. Field It la invaluable.

Pierre Lorillard is a firm believer in the efficacy of the horseshoe. There are a dozen or more rusty horseshoes around his establishment.

Henry Villard cherishes with studious care the golden spike with which the last rail which marked the completion of the Northern Pacific railroad was finished.

Jay Gould has a mascot. He has clung to it for seventeen years. It is a penwiper made of blue velvet. It is always on Mr. Gould's desk and he locks it in a special compartment when he leaves the office.

A conspicuous object in the office of Rosseli Sage la an ancient |L bill in a glass frame. Mr. Sage proudly Informs his friends who gaze at it curiously that It is his lucky dollar, the first dollar he ever made.

Washington E. Conner carries an old copper cent of the coinage of 1831. When he plays cribbage or billiards he pulla the ancient coin out and looks at it. He generally wins after going through that performance.

Andrew Carnegie's mascot is an ancient brass telegraph key, such operators urn. He shows it to every visitor, and he would sooner part with one of his rolling-mills than with the emblem of hia early labors.

John H. Starin has a mammoth mascot. It is the tug William H. Vanderbllt, one of tbo largest and handsomest boats of itskind in the world. Mr. Starin be!leva* there is lock In having a boat named after Mr. Vanderbllt.

George Gould carries hl» mascot in a locket which dangles from hla watch chain. Tt Is a miniature painting in oil of his charming wife, nee Miss Edith Klngdon.

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belief in its power to ward off danger.

Herbert Kyan gave an "observation party" to a few of b& friends, last Wednesday evening, the occasaion being birthday. Mt»w Helen Benbrtd^e and Joe Condi recieved fb*t prises,

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Twenty-first Year

COUNT TOLSTOI'S WIFE. If Count Tolstoi is a crank, this cannot be said of his wife. Not long ago he insisted that his property should be distributed among the poor, and that his own family, which includes nine children, should be reduced to the position of beggars. His good wife fnterposed and succeeded in gaiuing the control of his property and preventing him from wasting it in carrying out his notions. His position was not unlike that of the late Mrs. Alcott, wheu her husbaud, "the Sage of Concord," SO years ago or less went to Fruitland to establish a paradise and finally reached the point where ho gave up eating. Mrs. Alcott seconded his efforts the more readily because literally there was nothing to be eaten In the house. When the family had joined him in the efforts to live without eating, it brought tho philosopher to his senses. He could starve himself, but he oould not see his children starving, too. He resigned the headship of the family to Mrs. Alcott, just as Count Tolstoi evidently gave up the management of his property to the countess. In both cases the woman saved the man.

HOW YO UNO MEN PROPOSE. Mary Gay Humphreys, in an article on "The Wedding Season," in Harper's Bazar, has this to say regarding the first preliminary step toward a wedding: For almost all the conventionalities of life the forms are proscribed, but no ono has ever presumed to Issue a handbook of proposals. The terms In which a young man asks a young woman to bo his wife he must formulate for himself. To it he brings all that his love, hope, imagluatlon and a touch of fire can give. Of this eloquence and ardor there remains no echo, except in the heart of his bride.

Now and then in after years we learn? how such an understanding has been arrived at, and the remlnlscenoe is alive with interest and novelty. In Queen Victoria's diary she tells of the wooing of Princess Victoria by the Crown Prince of Germany, which tho blushing girl at once hastened to confide to her mother and it ls as heartfelt and natural as If the kingdoms had not been silently waiting with ears alert.

Then afar be the curious crowds. Let it keep distance, when from shrubbery, conservatory, or having contrived asolitude adieu on the stairway In a crush, these two emerge and ohoose to impart the feofc of their engagement then we too come in, and a rouhtf of so«)r1 vat. •w chinery is set in motion.

OA PE MAY ECHOES,

A novel industry, that is not without interest, is the autograph tray cloth that has boon quite a fad with tho feminine visitors this summer, whose deft fingers accomplish marvels in tbo fancy work line. A cloth of smooth, stout linen is chosen, hemstitched or fringed by way of finish and the owner has her friends mforibe their names upon it in plain characters with a soft lead pencil. These the deft fingers embroider in colored silks, carefully, so as to preserve tho Individuality of each band writing. In the center of the cloth is worked a single word, as "Friendship," or the expressive title "One Summer."

A remarkable feature of the surf this summer has been its even temperature. With the exception of a couple of days the thermometer has marked no greater change than arise and fall between 72 and 70 degrees by the Fahrenheit scale.

The season is practically ended. By a large majority It is voted one of the best the island over had. Socially there has been nothing to complain of, unless a lack of the young man element made the sports of the lawn of less consequence than might be expected. "No question about it, the summer beau has cuta far more prominent figure here this summer than has tbo summer belle. His capers have afforded tbo correspondent more than one musing theme, but he was never quite so funny as when the other morning—the day was cold—he sauntered beachward for his daily surf dip wearing a thick beaver overcoat over hia flannel bathing stilt. Could he have seen, as did the crowds on the beach and board-walk, the ludicrous effect his bare feet and ankles created beneath the shaggy great coat, he would have undoubtedly perished with cold before making the spectacle of himself. But, on the contrary, he seemed to think the exhibition an impressive one and, drawing off the coat as be neared tho water's edge, he cast it grandly to an attendant standing by. This same loitifted on the sands until "my lord's" bath was concluded, then stepped forward and enveloped his stalwart form In the shaggy ooat. Tne grsnde dames at Trouville do these splendid acta, but we have not heard asFirench or London gallants accused of them, so let the credit of originator re*st, with the American exquisite.

The marriage of Miss Jennie Aikmar* to Charles G. Gardiner took place Tuesday evening, October 2Stb, at Mim Aikman's home in Washington, Ind. The wedding

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young people being prominent in the best circle* of that city. Mr. and Mr*. John 8. Aikman and S. Barrel, of this city, attended.