Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 February 1894 — Page 6

WOMAN AND HOME.

A FEW VALUABLE HINTS ABOUT THE CARE OF BEDDING.

Wouldn't Give I'p Corsets—TIib RislitSnrt W a S A a \Y«m"n .rmvi: --—Married Woman's "iiu'.ics"—"Thl Woman Business."

Thi' young hoiiM'wife who when buying .* house fur:''«-!iiogscan afford a littl :(!,itir!K!l outlay for slip coverings for pil'o-.vs, lK)!s?f rs and mattresses will save her,.. !f much tires mv labor and eventually considerable e.\ nse. These slips for mattresses are the most satisfactory when m.'.de if cheap CVJJU'. of blue and white ticking—flint which retails for about 10 cents. Heiri# !i«hf :wl thin, it waBhes easily and \H ntiU ht'rivy enough to serve the purpose of keeping the mattress clean.

When ranking pillows and bolsters, it is better to use muslin to contain the feathers, or dewn, having a good quality of feather ticking outside, which can easily be removed and laundered when soiled without the nece^ity of emptying the feat hers as our mothers and grandmothers HKed (o do.

I remember once calling on a young housekeeper, whom found on a side porch gingerly dipping feathers with her hands out of a pillow tick into a barrel. Her gray flannel dress and pretty bangs were fluffy with down, and altogether it seemed that if she had prepared for the occasion she could hardly have made matters worse.

We were old friends, so I took the liberty of offering assistance. Picking up the remaining u.iopened pillow, I asked for the case that, had been on it and a needle and thread. After shaking the feathers into the end of the tick opposite the end to be opened 1 a basting thread all along about two inches frona the latter, ripped the seam and basted the ripped edges all around the ope-n end of the pillowcase. Then 1 drew out the first basting thread, shook the fen'hers out of the tick into the pillowcase, basted the latter across the end and cut the stitches which united the tw o, when the tick was ready for the laundry with scarcely any waste or mussing. Where slip coverings are not used, this is the easiest method of preparing pillowticks for the '.vash.

When fini«ning bed comfortables, they should alwa hare a half yard strip ol cheesecloth (lie back breadths of worn gingham dresses of a pretty light shade would do nicely—basted across tlieeuds to keep them neat and fresh as long as possi ble. It is a question whether comfortables are really a cheaper led covering than blankets, hough 1 believe that delusion still exists with .most housekeepers. The latter make the ideal covering for cool weather, been line of lightness and loose texture, which admits a free passage of the exhalations of the body, and because of the ease and thoroughness with which they can be frequently cleansed. Of late years there has been a white, heavily fleeced cotton flannel blanket put upon the market, which makes a desirable subst itute for quilt.'t in summer weather. These retail at from 90 cents to $1.50 a pair. They aro also to be had in soft shades of gray, just the thing for schoolboys and farm help. One defect is their meager dimensions. Iu order to remedy this I have sometimes torn one blanket in two and sewed the two halves on the ends of two other blankets, using the sewing machine for the work and felling down the rough edge*. Of course the blankets thus pieced were used crosswise the bed instead of lengthwise, as before.

Bedding in constant use should daily be exposed for several hours to a current of fresh air and to the sunlight as often aspossible. Once a week hang on the clothesline for the day.—Minneapolis House keeper.

Wouldn't Give Up Corsets.

One of the most prominent merchant* became convinced that the young women in one of the departments of his establish ment were injuring themselves by their constant wearing of tightly laced corsets and isHiicd a notification that in future no corsets should bo worn during working hours. Instantly there was indignation, and the85 young women appointed a committee of three to wait upon their employer for a redress of grievances. The employer received the committee very affably and assured the young women that his order had been issued in their interest. He pointed out that their wearing of corsets did not improve (heir appearance in the eyes of any one but themselves, as they worked in a iNisenient. where no visitors were admitted, lie further read them a lit tie lecture on the evil of wearing corsets, and being by nature a well disposed soul he gave a dinner to all the young women in that department- one evening, at which he had present a we'll known physician, who told how injurious a thing a corset is. The girls ate the dinner and listened respectfully. but the next day the committee called again upon that employer and as -tired him that they must ask to bo al lowed to wear corsets. "Hut you will admit,," said the mer chant, "that the wearing of the corsets at your work is injurious to you7"

The committee admitted the fact, but declared thai the experiment of going without them all had made them look horrid in their own eyes.

So the employer yielded the point as giacefully as he could. He is a man whose name is as prominent as thatof any retail merchant in New York. Xew York Cor respondent.

The ttight Sort of Wife.

In conversation with a man whose opin iou is worth something we were enlightened as to the feelings of tho majority of mankind regarding tho sort of wife they would prefer if the choice lay letween the austere, worldly wise feminiue and the pretty faced doll. "Yon see," said this man, "a husKind does not like to feel that his wife is his better half save from a moral standpoint He may admire her intellect and her rare Judgment, but just the same he wants to think himself superior and is much better pleased to have a woman look up to him as something infinitely wiser than herself than to have her assume little airs that tell him as plainly as so many words that she hasn't very exalted opinion of hi mental abilities. "The doll you can treat like a doll. Not expecting much from her save to have her always look |vrtty and dressed well, there is DO disappointment when she does not proffer ndvk and candidly admits that •he knows no.hiug of business and has no desire to be enlightened. Of course ahe is not a companion to be proud of, yet she is preferable to the hard, unbending sister mentally her superior. "There is another sort, thoogh—tbe ideal wife who ntien her husband with a rod of iron, yetnever show* her power aggrrwdTalf. Sbe goreriwi fcy Ucl, and the •inn tfcinks *.11 rt»e ke \m lMrrtaff bW

own way when in reality it is hers. She is bright and witty, but not to the extent of putting bira in theshade. She isacapable hostess and an ornament to his home. He never tires of her, because he never really knows her. That is the ideal wife. But how few men meet their ideals!"—Philadelphia Times.

Woman and Success.

If you area young woman starting out in tho world, don't you believe any one who tells you you can't do a thing you feel a strong impulse to try. There, is no profession which you can choose where you won't be told it's overcrowded and th*ro is nothing in it worth working for. There is something in every profession wort7' working for, or all these people wouldn't be in it. One reason that they warn you back is their fear of dislodgment. But you go right ahead with that ideal of yours and keep it just as high as you can. Don't be afraid to place it beyond yocr limit. Your limit will expand every time you lift your eyes to the ideal, just as the limit of the suflshine on the floor moves and moves imperceptibly as the old earth follows its god, the sun, around the circle. There is always a limit to what one can do surely, but that limit moves, and tomorrow the climax of your strength will be higher than it is today. I knew a girl —I know her yet, in fact—who spent two valuable years of her life fretting and fuming over th« fact that she was doing nothing and trying to get people to believe that she could do great things if she had the opportunity. One day a woman said to her, "Why don't you wade right in and do something and not keep saying you can?" That was a new thought to Jher, but she tried it, and it worked splendidly. The world is always ready to take good work. It makes no difference in what line you start if you do your work well, you'll succeed. Only keep the ideal high and see that your limit of ability moves-forward. —Chicago Times.

American Women Growing. The average of the measures taken at the big dressmaking shops shows pretty well the development of the American women, says -.n exchange. If these figures are to be believed, the American woman is constantly getting bigger. A few years ago the average skirt length was 42 inches, and that was the length used for all model gowns sent over here from Paris. Now, however, the model length is 45, while the increase in other measurements is proportionate. While the middle aged women show an inclination to grow broader across the hips and shoulders and through the arms,' frequently cultivating disfiguring corporations through indolent and indulgent habits of life, the college graduate, the university woman and the debutante grow more like the English lady every

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rear. Not only is she from two to four from the waist down, but her waist is getting longer, her chest fuller and her limbs narrower. She is supple, agile and compact and light and graceful of movement. This long waist, long skirt and athletic beauty are due to physical exercise, particularly tennis playing. To quote an observer who has considerable to do with the dressing of the new generation, the woman of the period has jumped herself into good condition, and cold baths have kept her so.

Married Women's "Duties." Many women seem to think that as soon as they marry their duty to home and husband requires that they should give up all the pretty accomplishments and graces that made them so attractive as girls.

Yes, my dear, conscientious young wife, you do owe a duty to home and husband, and that duty is to keep the home comfortable and charming and tj keep yourself charming as well. Everybody knows that a housekeeper can't find time to

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and acquire accomplishments as she did when a girl, but is it not reckless extravagance to cast aside so much that was acquired by long, hard study and your father's loving expenditure? For the Bake of your husband and the children that come to you keep up your own self culture, set apart some time each day for your own use and strive to keep ia touch with what is going on in the world. Read the papers just as your husband does, that he may not outgrow you in intelligence. And if you are wise you will lio down and rest a half hour each afternoon,

that when

your better half comes home you will not feel too tired to talk over with him the interesting news of the day. Take my word for it, he will like this much better than an extra elaborate dish cooked for supper. —Homo Queen.

"This Woman Business."

"There's no use denying tho fact," said a portly drummer as he leaned back in his car seat as if exhausted, "we men are bound to have the fata of the Indian and be Bwept off the face of the universe unless this woman business is stopped. 1 went down to the hotel oflice and found a young woman clerk there, as pleasant as you please. I wanted to send a telegram, and, by the piper that played before Moses, the operator was a pretty girl, with a smell of violets about her, and I clean got mixed up, and I know the old man will be wondering where I was all night to

such a telegram in the morning. I

made a bolt for the station, and, whether you believe me or not, the station agent was a plump and pretty girl, wearing a cap with gold lace and shield, and on the shield was'station agent.' I went clear off my usual track to get a word out of her, but she meant business, and I might have been a tin man for all she cared. I got into the car here, and I'm thanking Qod the conductor isn't a fetching thing in a uniform, and the brakeman doesn't wear an Eton suit and put on a gingham apron when he wants to open the windows or poke up the fire or whistle at the engi neer."—Boston Post.

Ellen Terry's Wit.

Miss Ellen Terry, having once received special courtesy from' a newspaper critic, offered to introduce him to Mr. Irving, but unfortuuHtely when the opportunity of doiug so presented itself she had utter ly forgotten his name. Naturally, how ever, she felt that it would be a poor com pliment to tell him so. Her ready wit did not forsake her in this trying emergency, and she promptly said to him: "Do you know that I've made a wager with Mr. Irving, and you can decide it? He says you spell your name one way, and I say another. Write it for me."

All unaware of the trick that was being played on him, the gentleman wrote down his name ami handed it to the aetress. She gianccu at it hastily, laughed and said gayiy: "I've won the bet

It was such a realistic bit of acting that the newspaper man, although it was bis business to criticise plays and players, never detected it.—London Tit-Bit*.

Ellubeth P. Pf*bodj'» Rabuc*.

moot interesting story told of

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«b*Ch Palmer Peabody. It is that she was ••Caged to marry Nathaniel Hawtliorne

b*fiore he saw her sister Sophia, and that, soon discovering the state of the case be? tween those two, she paid to them at once that she had room for them together in her heart. What is still stranger is the further intelligence that Elizabeth Peabody was the heroine of Mrs. Browning's poem of abnegation, "Bertha In the Lane'! —that is, Mrs. Browning made the poenf out of this mere suggestion of Elizal: th* surrender of her lover who didn't love hi to the sister whom he did love, for ever thing else is as unlike as possible to story of Elizabeth Pea body, whose life

A "Homy" House.

"A Homy House" is the title given to an article on decoration, and it sounds so true a note that it may well be copied here. Hominess is a characteristic to be desired before all others, and yet is the one most seldom seen. Splendor is often cold and forbidding. Absolutely correct treatment may lack in the essentials of a living room, but wherever homelike qualities exist success has been attained. A certain facility of arrangement is sure to be the foundation, and whether Jjbe perfect result be the reward of study or of accident no one can or will fail to .appreciate the delight it offers, for the "homy" house is a place in which to live, a place in which to be happy, a place in which to sorrow, if need be, but always a place that is one's own, and that offers repose for every tired nerve—a tonic for every need.

A Mollified Daughter.

The present Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page, as is already known, was a widow. Her little daughter of 9 or' 10 years was the one person above all others to whom she dreaded to break the news of the engagement with Mr. Page. It at length became necessary to do this, however, and she set about her task with all possible diplomacy. As she had feared, the little girl on learning the fact that her mother was to be married again wept profusely. Finally the mother said: "But you haven't yet heard who it is that I'm going to marry. It's Mr. Page."

The sobs of the little girl suddenly ceased. "You ought to have told me that at first," she said in a mollified tone. "Why, I've been in love with him myself for over a year!"—New York Recorder.

Victory's Aversion to Furs. Royalty must be exceedingly "difficult" to get on with at times. One of the English queen's little vagaries is a dislike for the smell of furs. She never wears them herself, which is all very well. But neither will she permit any one else to wear them when driving with her. As an invitation to go to ride with her is equivalent to a command, and as another little queenly vagary is a fondness for an open carriage in all seasons, the unhappy recipients of her invitations feel like making their wills before starting on a pleasure drive with their sovereign.—London Correspondent.

Babies'Bibs.

A set of bibs is a very acceptable present to make a little baby, who is as much in the way of receiving gifts now ris a bride. They may "be ornamented wjth the richest of embroidery and trimmed to the most ornate of taste. But the fitst consideration is that they should be-thick, with no appearance of clumsiness, and sinr enough at least that they may be washed. After this all beauty^Sf design to be approved, but a bib must be useful first.

Ribbon Bookmarks.

A bookmark that will keep more than one place at a time is often called into play. Such a one is easily concocted of three pieces of ribbon of blending or contrasting colors, all half a yard in length and about half an inch in width. These are sewed together at one end over a tiny buttonholed ring. At the free end they are each of them turned over to make a triangle, and to the apex is sewed a small tassel.

Mrs. Blake's Views.

Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, president of New York Woman Suffrage league, says: "Woman suffrage would first reform woman. The reformation would be in converting woman from a condition of apathy and indifference to her absurd position to a state of lively interest, in which she would claim recognition in all departments of life, for responsibility educates, and care broadens our lives."

Mary Hallock Foote.

Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote, whose artisticwork with both pen and pencil is so well known to all magazine readers, lives in Boise City. In her home life, aB in larger undertakings, she has been most fortunate. She is the mother of three charming children—two girls and a boy— all of whom are said to inherit something of their mother's genius.

Victoria's Present*.

All the servants who were in Queen Victoria's household during the lifetime of the prince consort receive each Christmas pieces of Bolid silver in any shape they prefer np to a certain value. They are sent with a large black bordered card inscribed, "With good wishes from her majesty and the prince consort."—Chicago Herald.

She Has No Wrinkles.

One of the prettiest women in London society is said to plunge a towel in very hot water, wring it out and leave it on her face for half an hour every night before going to bed instead of washing, and this lady has no wrinkles.—London Fashion Journal.

Many seamstresses darn worsted stockings with worsted. This is a blunder the consequences of which will show themselves very rapidly. The worsted always shrinks, and then the darn is contorted and drawn up out of shape, to the wearer's distress.

The association of women for raising the moral tone of society in the Netherlands has over 4,000 members in the 197 places where it is represented. Refuges for young women are maintained very generally.

Swedish women are said to excel in wood carving, lithography, modeling, decorative painting and art embroideries. For many years a woman has been engraver of medals in the royal mint at Stockholm.

I .ay a thick piece of canton flannel under your "tablecloth. Even coarse napery will look a much better quality with a subcoverthan if itpread directly over the bare table top.

Connecticut, the "land of steady habits," boasts of six cities with polics matrons and has a school suffrage law.

TERRE HATJTE SATURDAY ETENING MATL. FEBRUARY 17, 1894.

fo useful and happy in its usefulness. will seem odd to associate this alert, active, cheery and somewhat quaint woman with a poem of so intense ardor and sacrifice as "Bertha In the Lane," whose heroine dies.—Springfield Republican.

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Questions That Are Constantly Asked by Thousands—A Prominent Business Man Gives Advice Needed by Everybody.

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could not do any work on account of nervous prostration. I was thoroughly discouraged. A friend advised me to try Dr. Greene's Nervura biood and nerve remedy. "I had to have something to help me immediately or I could not live long.

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I could not help having faith in this wonderful medicine even if I wanted to. It cured me completely. Before I took it I was so dizzy did not dare go away to work alone, I would fall down and hurt, trie badly. Since taking Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve rein edy, my health is good and my nerves are steady. I know it is the best medicine and advise all to use it."

If you are weak, sickly, nervous, run down, or have any nervous or chron disease, -^ake Dr. Greene's Nervura blood ana nerve remedy. It will surely cure you. The spriug the best Ifciipe to take it. You can always be cured quickest at this season. Every body needs a sjpring medicine, and there is none which will do as much for you as Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. It is a positive cure. Try it. It is purely vegetable and harmless and is the discover}' of Dr. Greene, of -'to West 14th street, New York Uitv, the most successful specialist in curing nervous and chronic diseases. He can be consulted personally or by letter, free of charge.

Artificial Snow.

A very beautiful and interesting effect may be obtained by a simple experiment with sulphuret of carbon. This is a colorlees liquid, formed by the union of sulphur and carbon. It should be handled with ex treme caution, as it is highly inflammable. To produce the effect shown in the illustration, you have but to fill a small flask with sulphuret of carbon. Pierce a hole through the center of the cork stopper. Roll up finely a piece of white paper apd pass it

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through the hole in the cork until the lower end touches the bottom of the flask. The upper end should project somewhat above the cork and be cut into narrow strips like a fringe, each strip being made to st"nd out well from the rest. Let the apparatus stand, and at the end of ir minutes you will find the cut paper covered with little particles of snow.

The liquid has mounted in the paper by capillary attraction. Coming .in contact with the air, its rapid evaporation can -«*s such a sudden drop in the temperature of the air immediately surrounding it that the moisture contained in the atmosphere congeals and appears in the form of snow. This experiment may be successfully tr ed in midsummer and in full sunshine. It is advisable, however, owing to the power ul and disagreeable ©dor of the liquid employed, to conduct the -operation out ot doors or on a window silL

How Janie Settled It.

"Here comes mamma," said Janie. "Oh. mamma, must I save some of my candy for Grace?" "I think a good little sister would." "But Grace didn't give me any of her® yesterday." "Didn't she? How did you like that?" "I didn't like it at ail. And I want to make her n«t like it, too, because I think she was real mean." "Dear, dear! And is mamma to have two mean little girls, then?"

Janie looked at her mother and was quiet a minute. Then she ran and threw her arms around her neck and said: "No, so.

mamma dear you shall not have any mean little girls at all. I guess Grace forgot, and I'll go and give her some of my candy now, so she won't ever forget again.''

Her mother smiled. "I think that is the way to make her remember," she said. "And I am so glad I am to have two kind little girls.'—Picture World.

How to Make a Wlll-o'-the-wisp. Of course you know that a real will-o' the-wisp is the effect of hydrocarbon gas generated by decomposing organic matter in a marsh and in a state of combustion But did you know that you could produce this phenomenon in your homes? Take an open mouthed glass jar and place some baking soda in the bottom, over which pour a little diluted sulphuric acid, muriatic acid or strong vinegar. Then the jar will fill with carbonic acid gas.

Now lower alighted candle into the gas until it goes out, leaving the top of the flame still burning upon the surface of the invisible gas. The flame will be fed by 'he gases coming from the smoldering wick. This will-o'-the-wisp lasts but a short time, but it may be reproduced by raising the candle until the wick relights, then lowering it again. In order to make a success of this experiment see that the air of the room is very still.

A Soft Answer.

Said the wise man,"A soft answer turneth away wrath." A lady who believed in this precept said to her 7-year-old Nellie, who is somewhat quick tempered, "If one of your playmates speaks rudely to you, return a soft answer." "Soft?" "Yes. Now run along and play. Mamma is busy.'" The child went out on the lawn, where a neighbor's boy was mending a kite. She accidentally broke the kite still more, whereby the boy was made angry. "1 don't like you. You're a horrid thing," he said. Little Nellie's eyes flashed, and she was about to reply with a very unkind re mark whan suddenly recalling her mother's ml vice about a soft answer she looked the boy right in the eye and sSid meekly and slowly, "Mush!"—Boston Woman's Journal.

He Stood on His Dignity.

On Sundays Alfonso XIII is "at home" to the little sous and daughters oft he Span ish court dignitaries, Part of the enter tainment, consists of dancing. One after noon the 4-year-old king, after dancing with asenorita of his own age, tried to kiss the damsel, according to the custom at these juvenile entertainments. The little one, however, retreated before the royal salute. Next Sunday the two danced together again, but when the lady tried to make up for her sins of omission of the previous dance and offered to kiss her monarch the latter, instead of giving her his cheek, of fered her the back of his baby hand, saying. "I am the king."—All the Year Round.

The Merry Go Round Afloat.

Skipper Jonathan Gumption Yankee VanWas a very kind hearted and amiable man. When his children four Found travel a bore. He rigged up a merry go round on his boatIt was quite the merriest thing afloat— And, like the knights in the tourney of old, With little toy swords his children grew bold And speared all the doughnuts his good wiltmade. And these were the prizes—'twas thus they played. If how it was done should puzzle your brain, Jnst look at the picture, and all will he plain. --Lee Carter In St. Nicholas.

Life Is Misery

To many people who have the taint scrofula' in their blood. The agonies caused by the dreadful mooing sores and other manifestations of this disease are beyond description. There -is no other remedy equal to Hood's Karaa pariKa for scrofula, salt rhenin and every form ol blood disease. It is reasonably sure to benefit all who give it a fair trial.

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OWE MY LIFE TO YOU."

A Wilton, X. J., Girl's Experience With a .Noted MnssacliuseHs Woman.

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Life is never more precious tlinn in the. heyday of youth, when every dream is a promise, and every thought an inspiration.

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THE FAMOUS "BROWNIES," by Palmer Cox, wlil also be a feature of Sr. Niciioi.AM.

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