Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 March 1895 — Page 6
THE MAIL
SKIS
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
BAB'S LETTER.
w8&
SHE TELLS HOW TO SERVE A MODEL 1 DINNER. O
•'Up-to-Date" Cookery, Attractive Table Decorations and Perfect Service—A St, Patrick's Day Dinner Under Kmbarrasslog Circumstance# The Many Uses to
Which a Woman Puts a Hairpin. f|^ (.Copyright, 1893.] & It was quite worth while listening to a stupid lecture, to be informed that Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu not only introduced inoculation into England, not only had the reputation of being at once the wittiest and dirtiest woman of her day, but, that it was she who presented to thirsty womankind the always delightful milk punch. History does not record whether she found it among the Turkeys, or where in the Orient it had its birth, but it is a deal to know that it came from there and that it has always been popular. The knowing how to make a good milk punch is an art. The milk must be cool, not cold and, it must be, if success is aimed for, half cream and half milk. Then, too, it is necessary that the maker should know just how much brandy is required to make it strengthening, and just bow much rum to make it spicy. There are people who use whiskey in place of brandy, but these are the people who do net realize that the best use in •vhich whiskey oan be put Is as a wash. It is absorbed by the skin, which, thankful for its pleasant qualities, becomes firm in texture and white in color. The putting of nutmeg on the top of milk punch is an insult. When you are smelling rum, tasting milk and being strengthened by brandy you don't want to have your attention distracted by bits of spice, which are really only to be used when it is necessary to hide the ingredients of a drink or a dish.
CATERING TO MAN'S APPETITE. If nothing else would prove that we are growing more civilized, our dinpers would. .They no longer represent millinery shops by cotillion favors, with poor entrees and worse roasts, or rather bakes, but a hostess, if she wishes men to accept her invitations, must give something good to eat. Even if one only has a single maid, it is at once easier and in better taste to serve a dinner a la russe. Mankind was always disgusted with what he called "that ribbon stuff," and which appeared in the form of strips of plush or satin, and menus to correspond. Nowadays these are not seen. The dinner is better, and if a menu appears, it is in the form of a small white card while if there are flowers, they make a low, pretty centre piece, are not heavy with odor, and are
ID!
tones that rest the eyS. A good hostess does not forget that the dinner hour is the restful time of the day, and so she makes her color scheme pleasant to the eyes, but not assertive. Her mahogany is covered by a wide hemstitched cloth, that has, a little to one side of the centre, the initials of the hostess embroidered in white. The napkins are large, hemstitched, and done up without starch, so that they are not dreaded by the young man whose moustache is young. Candles undoubtedly give the most beautiful light, but they will drip, they have away of setting fire to their shades, and so wise women substitute a group of glass lamps in the tenler and one in each corner for the waxen sticks. To have 4 SUCCESSFUL DINNER PARTY, there should not be over ten pflople. Th© round table is again preferred* If floW*» ers are at each plate, theti there is a small knot of violets for each woman, and a single orchid for each man. The napkin is never folded in any fancy
HER ENTRANCE
—into society, and womanhood as well, is an extremely critical period in every girl's life. At this time she needs advice, and, what's more—help of the right sort. If she puts her faith in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription it can bring only good results. It's a medicine that's made especially to build up women's strength and cure women's ailments—an invigorating, restorative tonic, soothing cordial, and bracing nervine purely vegetable, non-alcoholic, and perfectly harmless. For all the functional derangements, painful disorders, chronic weaknesses that afflict wotnanki the "Favorite Prescription is specific.
TERRIBLE PAIN AND FAINTING SPELLS. Meekanicsbvrgh, Cumberland Co.,
JDR.
R. V.
PIKRCB.
A.
Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear Sir— When I commenced taking yonr medicine I was very sickly. I hud frequent spells of fafntlo terrible pain in my hea_, and life was a burden to me. I was attended one of the besi ph cians in our town, with no good results. At last a neighbor advised me to try Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, which I did, and after taking one bottle I felt jmrarfy benefited, 1 would advise all ladies similarly afflicted to try
MRS. JACOBS. Pnvorfte Prescript^/' Yours truly. .. Mrs. SAMUUL A. JACOBS. A book of
168
envelope
pages, entitled "Woman
and Her Diseases," sent
sealed in P1™*
for to cents in J*amps to pay
postage. Address Dr. Pierce aa above.
...
which may be taken apollinarls or soda Claret is served as it used to be, after the desert, when an especially floe brand is required, ohampagne, very dry, constituting the vii» ordinaire. Just before the dessert and fruits are brought on, the glasses are all removed, the Burgundy and liqueur glasses take their place, and one is asked as to whether one will have Madeira or olaret, while with the ooftee comes some odd liqueur, Mocha or Weichselgeist being fanoied just now,
TABLE ODDS AND ENDS.
Old-fashioued salt oellars, the quainter the better, are placed at different corners of the table, and tiny Apostle spoons are beside them with whioh to help one's self the individual salt oellars, thank goodness, being relegated to the kitchen. Small, round cut
1
QUEEN VICTORIA'8 NOBLE TRAITS.
I wonder if you have the same admiration for the Queen of England that I
shape, for nioe people do not think it a way that no burglwr eouldeyer get dainty for a napkin to pass through many hands. Just beside it is the long French roll or square out of bread, without orust. The forks, laid in the order in whioh they are to be used, show first the oyster, and then two others of the ordinary sise, two knives on the right door-bell, hand, and a small butter knife of silver i» at eaoh place, for after these are used pays a visit and her friend la out and _i
the butler can order fresh ones, and it is more desirable to havo only these few because then there is more room for the glasses. Nowadays these are one for white wine, one for sherry, one lowbowled one for ohampagne, and a turn UUWIuU UUP 1UI UUBUIUOKUVI www W ill.. bier with a lump of loe in It, and into and if baby swallows a marble she pries
glass diBhes
have in
them craoked ice, surmounted by bright red radishes, while long ones on a bed of oracked ice hold just the hearts of the celery. Little silver baskets contain fanoy fruits, bon-bons and salted almonds, and as all these are on the table from the beginning, they decorate it very muoh. A specially handsome plate 1b put before one with the individual ice upon it, and this, bye-the-bye, takes the form of a flower, a vegetable, or a fruit. This is quickly followed by another of crystal, on which rests the serviette, and above it the finger bowls. Womankind now remains at the table after the French fashion, and she drinks her mixture of Java and Mocha from a cup the size of an egg shell and quite as thin, and through it she can see, in golden letters, the Christian name of her hostess, which is bye-the-bye, repeated on the saucer. This dainty fashion originated with Lady de Gray, on the inner side of whose cups may be seen, duplicating her own way of writing it, the pretty name of "Gladys/' which is a bit heavier in its gold lines on the saucer. There are people in New York, who still use candles. Among them Mrs. Astor, whose marvellous candelabras, are made more brilliant by the use of pink tapers. The late Mrs. Whitney lighted up3 h^r ball room with 'J 1
FIFTEEN HUNDRED GOLD CANDLES,
While Mrs. Winthrop, when she gives a ball, makes people visible With hundreds gf plain white candles.
I doubt, if among our Womenkind, WS have any who were as witty as Lady Mary Montagu, but 1 doubt if her coarse wit would be fanoied to-day. Think of her saying, when her brother remarked,
Mary, your hands are positively filthy!" "Oh, but you ought to see my feet!" Theu, too, although it has been credited to many, to her belongs that clever remark, "If dirt were trumps, what a splendid hand I'd havel" However, with all her faults and all her virtues, she is of the past, but always to be re membered because of vaooination and milk punches.
wvu .ui vuo he does not need these coveted no have? Of course, that clever mot is ap* gain or keep his friends. All mothers mIIaaVvIa
fA tiAw that a ft nn/tn la Kaaf -aa* l« 41* 4
plicable to her, that a queen is the best ruler because she is influenced by men, but she has always teen wise enough to seleot great oaen, and no one gave a gieater admiration to jLord Beaconsfleld than did the Empress of the Kingdom upon which the sun never sets. Bttt I like her beat as a woman, Her love for her grandchildren, her devotion to her husband aad her afifeotionate wisdom to her people seems to me most marvelous. I never saw her but once, and then I realized how possible It was for a little woman to look majestic, and thai, it was the soul and not the body that gave this impression. I read a little story not long ago, one that ought to make all women feel near to this one good woman. Just before her marriage, the Archbishop of Canterbury went to her and asked her if she wished to have the word "obey" left out in the marriage ceremony. She raised those beautiful, clear, full eyes to him and said very quietly, "I wish to be married as a woman, and not as a queen." Then, loo, when it was suggested that her wedding ring-be set with wonderful gems, she said: "No the wedding ring all over the world is a plain band of gold, and I should not feel myself married unless I had a ring like all other women." And it is on her finger today, thin and worn, but it has never been removed. The woman was stronger than the queen, and she would have the same feeling that you or I had if it were taken off after it had been put on with eaoh sacred words.
HOW USEFUL HAIRPINS ARE I Somebody was talking to me the other day about the certainty of a woman bruising her finger when she used a hammer. I do not attempt to deny it, but I said that a woman had one weapon with her always that a man knew nothing about, and that waa— the hair pin.
She use# it to open a letter. She uses ft to button her gloyes and occasionally her shoes.
She twists it so she can hang a picture by it. She draws a oork with it, and brushes off the burnt part ot a lamp wick With the same weapon. 8he pioks a look with it* and fastens I the catch of the window by it in snoh
past it. She atlok it Into woman who take her place in the line when she buylug tickets for the theater,
She hangs a notice on it for the milk man, and twist* the enda around the
She fitea receipts on it, and, when aha
a /)aa« an /1 alia nsa
nobody answers the door aud she has no oard, she twlata It to form her initial and drops it in the letter-box.
In faot, there la very little she can't do with a hairpin. If pens are aoaroe Bhe wrltea with It,
ll .1 1 kl«. ««t+tl Ifr
it out of his throat with it. If it happena to be studded with diamonds, she not only wears it in her hair, but hiding its ends in the chiffon, as a brooch, and also to fasten a feather in her bonnet.
If ever women become Amaaons, they will not use guns, but enormous hairpins, and they will knock a masculine army out In the firat round.
INGENUITY AND IRI8H 8TEW,
And
Btlll,
men have no objeotion
whatever In aaylng that women laok meohanloal ingenuity. ThiB ia untrue. They have both meohanloal and mental. This was never better proved than when a fool of a man brought a stranger home to dinner and there wasn't muoh else but an Irish stew, and it was too late to get anything. The wise little hostess thought of the date trioked out her table in its best, served the stew and the rice pudding that followed it, and smil ingly told the unexpected that, as it was the 17th of March, she had the special dish in honor of the day. And, as the stew was good and so was the pudding, the unexpected had two helpings of both, and in a glass of Irish whisky drank to a repetition of the dinner and to the health of St. Patriok. What man would have thought of that? Not one. Such things make me proud of being a wom^an, and glad that my name is—
BAB.
I A Lesson In Walking.
A Delsarto toachdr who Is peculiar in knowing something of Delsarte's system of expression says that women oan im: prove their walk without a toaohor, though they can'tloarn all about walking from print. Tho proper length of a step is twice the length of one foot, and it is measured from the hollow of one foot to the hollow of the other, ifow, take a piece of tapo and sew on it bits of flannel at intervals.twioe the length of one of your feet, stretch it across the longest room you have at your disposal, and you are ready for praotice. Maybe you don't know that eaoh foot should oross the same line with each successive step? It should —that is very important—so now you must walk your tape and set first one foot and then tho other over one of those bits of flannel, letting the flannel oome just under the instep. Do this and turn your toes out very well and swing your leg from the thigh, and you are far on the road to a beautiful walk.
Children's Falsehoods,
A Chicago kindergarten teaoher says that she divides children's falsehoods into four classes. The first is the lie of excessive imagination, and the treatment is "inculcation of exaotness of observation, either by precept or in play." The second is the lie of egotism, the remedy for whioh is objective work that will take thought from self. A third class of lies is evolved through fear of punishment, and sympathy is the cure. "In all such cases," the klndergartnerin adds, "the child must be shown the justness of his punishment." The fourth division includes ohildren addicted to tho jealous lie—as saying they have things wliioh they have not because the boy around the corner has them. The cure In this instanoeis love and appreciation, that the child may understand that he does not need these coveted
will be interested in this matter, as few are not called upon to meet these ohlldish prevaricators,
VL Jv,,
fS "Oriental Beauty. '•Vory good looking" is not overenthusiastio praise of an oriental beauty. Dear me, What romanoe the very phrase oriental beauty brings up—raven locks and almond eyes, rosy fingers and languishing looks. Romance gets knocked rather flat by this startling native description of the beauty and attractions of Sharuda, the daughter of Brahma: "She was of yellow oolor, had a nose like the flower of the jasmine, legs tapering like the plantain tree, eyes large like the chief leaf of the lotus, eyebrows whioh extended to her ears, lips red like the young leaves of the mango tree, a face like the full moon, a voice like the sound of the ouckoo, arms which reached to her knees, a throat like that of a pigeon, loins narrow like those of a lion, hair whioh hung in cuila to her feet, teeth like the seeds of a pomegranate and a gait like that of a drunken elephant or a goose."—Chicago Post.
Accidents, .%«•
and bow to deal with them, and other valuable medical information, will be found in Dr. Kaufman's great Medical Work elegant oolored plates. Send three 2 cent stamps to pay postage to A. P. Ordway & Co., Boston, Mass., and re ceive a copy free.
An Industrious Correspondent. The amount of work that Margherita Arlina Hamm does is enormous. Six columns a day are be®ular portion for the New York Mail ana Express, of which she iJso edits the whole Saturday supplement Besides other newspaper correspondence the prepares a special ploture artiole weekly for Leslie's and a suffrage department In Peterson's Magazine. All this is In addition to her regular work as editor of The Journalist.—Woman's Tribune..
The Useful Dining Wagon. What is called a "dinner wagon" is a convenient article of dining room furniture. It is constructed on the principle of a long, narrow camp stool, with the same carpet lined center. Into this go all the soiled dishes as they are removed from the table during the serving of the separate courses. They are then noiselessly taken in bulk to the butler's pantry, the so called "wagon" going smoothly on casters.
Hall's Hair Renewer renders the hair lustrous and silken, gives it an even oolor, and enables women to pat It ap in a great variety of styles.
EVOLUTION OF A BOX.
WITH INGENUITY AND PAINT IT BECOMES FURNITURE,
Blsea and Kinds of Boxes May Be Employed Detailed Instructions For Making a Hanging Cabinet aud a Standing Bookcase.
The possibilities lurking in ordinary boxes, such as shoes, soap or canned goods are packed in, are beyond the imagination of tho uninitiated. These boxes can bo made into attractive pieces of furniture with the addition of putty and paint, brass rods and draperies. A hang ing oabinet for books or brio-a-brao, or both, may be fashioned from the boards of a dry goods box. The oase when finished should be about 80 inches long and 18 inches high from the bottom shelf to the top of the oornioe molding and about 7 to 8 inches deep. It may be backed with boards or left open if desired. It should be provided with a shelf in the middle and a division at
A WALLCABINET
6ne side, tho lower ends of the sides being allowed to project below the bottom of the case and out in bracket shape.
A strip of cornioo molding should cap tho oabinet all around tho top. With several coats of paint of some desirable shade and the addition of a small brass rod, from which curtains may be suspended, the bookcase will bo completed. A few brass hooks can be screwed under the bottom shelf, on which teacups or other articles may be hung.
A convenient and decorative bookcase may be made from a wooden shoebox and a square wooden box such as canned goods come in, the boxes to be screwed fast side by side and a cornice molding nailed around the top of each. Shelves should then be arranged the proper distance apart to receive books of regular size, and six wooden balls made and arranged under the oase to raise it up from the floor. The rough parts of tho wood should be rubbed smooth with sandpaper and all the nailholes puttied up, after which the inside and outside of the case should be painted to har-
Mf?
0
A ttoMlMAftg BOOKCASE.
taonize with other furniture in tlje room. With the addition of bfAfil Ifods and some light curtains, some books arranged on the shelves and brio-a-brac on top, tho standing bookcase will form an attractive and useful piece of furniture.
The foregoing descriptions are only two out of several suggested and illustrated in The Ladies' Home Journal, with a view to assisting ingenious but impecunious housewives in tastefully furnishing their homes. If the reader is not equal to handling hammer, saw and paintbrush, any carpenter will find it an easy matter to duplicate the models here described. These patterns will suggest to inventive minds other forms and combinations with boxes of varying Sizes.
Belief In One Day.
SOUTH AMERICAN NERVINE relieves the worst cases of Nervous Prostration, Nervousness and Nervous Dyspepsia in a single day. No such relief and blessing has overcome to the Invalids of this countij. Its power to cure the stomach are wonderful ln the extreme. It always cures it cannot fail. It radically cures all weakness of the stomach md never disappoints. Its effects are marvellous and surprising. It gladdens the hearts of the suffering and brings immediate relief. It is a luxury to take ami alwaysBafe. Trial bottle 15 cents. Sold by E. H. Bindley A Co. and Cook, Bell A Black and all druggists, Terre Haute, lnd.
"There is Danger in Delay." Since 18611 have been a great sufferer from catarrh. I tried Ely's Cream Balm and to all appearances am cured. Terrible headaches from which I had long suffered are gone.—W. J, Hitchcock, Late Major U. 8. Vol. and A. A. Gen., Buffalo, N. Tf.
Ely's Cream Balm has completely cured me of catarrh when everything else failed. Many acquaintances have used it with excellent results.—Afred W. Stevens, Caldwell, Ohio. Price of Cream Balm is fifty cents.
Rheumatism Cored In a Day. "Mystic Cure" for Rheumatism and Neuralala radically cores In 1 to 3 days, its action upon the system is remarkable and mysterious/ It lemoves at once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits. 75 cents. Sold toy E. H. Bindley A Co., Terre Haute, Cook, Bell
Auttmnyf^-^^twaster of Promise
City. Iowa, says: "I bought one bottle of •Mystic Cure* for Rheumatism and two doses of it did me more good than any mejUelne I ever took.,' Sold oy E. H. Bindley 4 Terre Haute, Cook, Bell Black and all druggists.
Best Bicycles
For Twenty Years
Scott's Emulsion has been endorsed by physicians of the whole world. There is no secret about its ingredients. Physicians prescribe
Scott's Emulsion
JBHBHMHF
jm
because they know what great nourishing and curative properties it contains. They know it is what it is represented to be namely, a perfect emulsion of the best Norway Cod-: liver Oil with the liypophosphites of lime and soda. Por Coughs, Golds, Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Weak Lungs, Consumption, Scrofula, Anaemia, Weak Babies, Thin Children, Biokets, Marasmus, Loss of Plesh, General Debility, and all oonditdons of Wasting.
The only genuine Scott's Emulsion is put in salmoncolored wrapper. Befuse inferior substitutes! u^ », ., Sendfor pamphlet on Scot ft Emulsion. FREE.*" Scott & Bowne, N. Y. All Druggists. 50 cents and $ I.
GOLUMBIAS— THKV IKY ALMOST FIT,
-i 'ws »,
Free at any Columbia agency by mail for two 2-cent stamps.
4
II
COLLEGE ENTRANCE
•8
Neither will medicine. Bicycling will. All you need is to get outdoors and let the tonic of rapid motion put new blood into your veins and tissues/
K»,
Buya..w
J. FRED PROBST,
Agent for the Columbia and Hartford Bicycles, 642 Wabash Avenue, Terre Haute.
THE POSITIVE CURE.
!eLY BROTHERS, 66 Warren St, New York. Prlce60cte^5
Get the very best, and that is the product of the»
TERRE HAUTE BREWING CO.
Artificial Stone "^alks
and PlaMeringtesfil
Moudy & Coffin,
Leave onlen at 1517 Poplar BU, 12(1 South Flftb St.. 901 Main St., Terre Hante, lnd
MATTOX & ZELLAR
SOUTH SIXTH
8MUBET.
PLUMBERS' SUPPLIES, FINE CHANDELIERS AND GLOBES.
Special attention given to Hydraulic & Hand Power Elevator Repairs
MEANS
ISIM®
Or a HARTFORD *80,
2 jys' or Oirly' Hartford?—50.
CM a Colun?l? Catalogue
4
*60.
&
gr.ss •ry-v' tv
•MANOH STORUf
fit-
new Yorlf Chicago Sao rrarjelsco ProvMeoce ft, Buffalo -V
fife* /^fil
YOUNG PEOPLE
CO TO
TERRE HAUTE,
Where a thorough business education is given all students. Book-keeping, Shorthand, Telegraphy
Address W. C. ISBELL, President, TERRE HAUTE, INP.
WHEN YOU ORDER. YOUR.
and
Book-keeping, Shorthand, Telegraphy and Typewriting thoroughly taught by experts. The TtRRE HAUTE .COW* MERCIAL COLLEGE is one of the oldest and largest in tht West. National 111 its character. Students enter at any tiipdr Both sexes. Terms low. Fine illustrated catalogue, free.
typewriting
GASFITTERS-
TBXKPHONK