Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 April 1895 — Page 6

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Short Supply. I Copy right, 1886.] There are always people who are hunt ng tip when things were Invented ou know the kind of people I mean— the people who say pepper was used by the Athenians, Helen of Troy had bubtons on her frook, and that those abominations known as rocking-chairs were spoken of by the venerable Bed© in this -way: "The women now are so luxurious that they do have ohairs with wooden circles on the legs, and which sway back and forth In such sort that It maketh one sick to behold them." 3?or my part I think the venerable Bede must have been a sensible and knowing old chap, for if ever a woman looks silly it is when she is rocking, and it is too queer to see a whole lot of women in a hotel parlor unconsciously rocking in time and looking as if all the brains they ever hacf were in their feet.

These people who know so muoh say brooms were used in Egypt 2000 B. 0. I wonder what they did with them? I wonder If the Egyptian maid of the day, I mean that day, swept, in a debonnaire manner, the dust that was in the middle of the room and carefully omitted the corners, and under the tables, as is the mode to-day I wonder if she expressed

HER TEMPER IN HER BROOM

I wonder if, when she thought of that Easter hat with nodding plumes and pink roses, the broom took swift, short strokes that meant happiness? Or, if objecting to a late dinner on Sunday, or to the fact that the family didn't give her any terrapin, the broom desoribed a «irole in the air, gave a violous dab at the carpet, all of whioh told of oftended dignity? And I wonder still more if the Egyptian maid used the broom as a weapon of defense against 'peddlers, sweeping at them and over them as if they were nothing more than black beetles? •J consider that a woman who can Bweep well, taking in the corners, getting up the pins, discovering that lost ten cent piece, or that dropped dice, not to mention the poker ohip that fell under the sofa, is the Bort of woman who could be trusted to do anything and do it well. A broom is like a weakminded man a strong will Is required to control it, else it slips and slides, hither and thither, and finally falls down helpless. Personally, the chief use to which I put a broom is to bang on the celling with it. This may strike you as strange, but it is meant to express more than a mere thump. The family who live on the floor above me are at once Italian and mnsical consequently, When they feel their musio too much they make an awful lot of noise. And, as they object to carpets, at least we think so from the sounds we hear when they are very lively, they have an inclination to do a little pranolng, and then I call the broom Into service. One knock on the ceiling means "We can't stand this muoh longer" and a series of knocks, ending in a dull, sickening thud, insinuates that the chandelier is slowly, but surely, descending upon two innocont women, and that they politely, but firmly, request that the Italian musical contingent will express their exuberance and their appreciation of sweet sounds less with their feet and oftener with their souls. I suppose there is an opportunity here to make a pun—but I am not a brave woman and I refrain. THE FRENCHMAN AND THE AMERICAN

WOMAN.

I don't often steal, but once in awhile somebody else writes s6mething so clever that I take it, and give them the credit for it, which, by-the-by, isn't stealing after all.* A Frenchman, who, properly enough, appreciates the American woman, has written a little aocount of the gifts that came to all women at their birth. The teller of this little story Is Leon Go*lan,and I make to him my bow in recognition of his politeness on the part of the general Amerloan woman. He says: "When woman was created there appeared a fairy, and of the gifts in her possession she gave to the Castlllan long and blaok hair, in whioh she might wrap herself as if it were a mantilla. "To the Italian, eyes bright and ardent as a midnight eruption of Vesuvius. •'To the Turk, a form round as the moon, and soft as eiderdown. "To the English, the Aurora Borealis, to glorify her cheeks, her Hps, and her shoulders.

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the German, beautiful teeth and an earnest heart, profoundly inclined to love. "To the Russian, the distinction of a queen. "Afterward, she gave gaiety to the Neapolitan, wit to the Irish, good sense to the Flemish. "Now, when the good fairy had given all these attractions to the daughters of Eve, and had, apparently, exhausted her treasures, a gay little figure camedancing up and asked for her share. "4Who are jwu, my dear,' said the geod fairy, rather surprised. "•I—I am a Parlsienne," said the pretty woman. 'Oh, I am grieved!' said the fairyj 'I

have given everything and I have notb Ing left,* "The pretty woman wept with grief, and then the fairy took pity on her, and calling together all the recipient* of her bounty, told the story to them and said 'I have been ©vergeneroua to all of you Now, eaoh of you give a little of your gift to this one woman,'"

And so it happened that the Parlsienne combines in herself all that makes wo man delightful.

At this time the Amerloan woman did not exist. When ahe came, she was told the story and ahe didn't propose to bo without the fascinations that are intense ly feminine. Being like the Howard family of England, who, during the flood had a little boat of their own,

SHE C5AMJKD UP A FAIRY

for her apeoial benefit. This good fairy advised her to imitate the Parlsienne, and, obeying her and adding her own natural wit, she stands to-day the possessor of all good gifts with the added ones of Frenoh chic and American oourage. Henoe, in the opinion of the Frenohman, she in the "most delightful woman in the world."

Speaking of the English Howards naturally suggests the old families in this oountry. Everybody knows of the late Richard Vaux, of Philadelphia, who was the only American who ever had the honor of dancing with the Queen of England. Few people, however, know how his mother looked at it. This gen tlewoman was a member of the Society of Fi lends, and had that peculiar pride of family and o! being a Friend that belongs to them. The story of her son dancing with the Queen was told to her. Friend Vaux listened to it with calmness, and to the astonishment of her visitor replied, very quietly, "Well, I must tell thee I don't altogether look upon that as an honor. There is no knowing what it may lead to. Riohard is a very handsome young man, and the Queen is unmarried, and I should not at all like the idea of Riohard marrying her out of the meeting."

BRIGHTENING UP ON REMINISCENCES. Nowadays one needs to be up in aneodotes. The woman who is invited out muoh always has to have something ready to tell, fox she must not appear to strange woraau to talk about her friends as if she wished to annonnoe exactly her soolal position. If you haven't many stories, a very good way to do, provided, of course, you are going to different houses, is to use the same one for a week and then start with a fresh one the next Monday. Last week I utilized this. Madame de Stael had been very intimate with the Viscomte De Cboiseul, but she heard he said some malioious things about her and was very angry. One day they met at a friend's house. Good manners required that the feud should be forgotten, and that they should speak to eaoh other. Madame de Stael commenced by saying, "It Is along time since I have seen you, Monsieur de Choiseul." "Ah! Madame l'Ambassadrlce, I have been ill." "Seriously, Monsieur?" .r "I bad a narrow escape from' being poisoned." "Alas! Possibly you took a bite at your own tongue?"

This fell like a thunderbolt on the Viscomte, but as it was told all over Paris it was a good lesson for a very notorious backbiter.

For this week, I shall use one told by that clever Fitz Williams, In his monologue. A ventriloquist and his dog, a bull dog, properly enough named Beauty, were stranded in a Western town. For two days they bad nothing to eat. Then the ventriloquist concluded that they must have their dinner. He went into the dining room of the best hotel. He seated himself, and the dog sat on the floofr beside him. A polite waiter took his order, but, as he started for the kitchen, was surprised to hear the dog say: "What's the matter with putting the bill of fare In front of me?" Scarcely knowing what he did, he held

THE MENU IN FRONT OF BEAUTY, who said, "Bring me a bowl of broth, and a bone." The waiter flew Into the kitchen believing the devil was after him, but brought back the dinner for the ventriloquist and the broth and bone for Beauty. Then he sought the proprietor. Trembling with exoltement, he said: "Gome right down into the dining room there is the most remarkable thing there you ever beard of—a talking dog. You ought to buy him, he would fill the house." The proprietor came down, and heard this dialogue: The ventriloquist asked: "Well, Beauty, how do you like your broth?" Beauty answered: "The broth is good enough, but the bone'ain't up to time but, never mind, we'll soon be back to New York." The proprietor said to the ventriloquist: "I've got to have that dog." The ventriloquist shook his head, and said: "Ob, nopFm too fond of Beauty to sell him, and I wouldn't let him go for less than a thousand dollars." The eager pur-

chaser got the thousand dollars, and handed it to the ventriloquist, but to his surprise, Beauty said: "Look here, old man, have you sold me?"

The ventriloquist said "Yes I got a thousand dollars for yon." "You are no friend of mine," ^n nounced Beauty, "If you let me ro for that little sum, bet I'll get even with yon. In the future 111 never speak a d—d word." Tableau. Of course, I shan't use the unpleasant word, bpt I tell the tale now as It was told to me.

A woman I know is going to tell this, whirh to me haa a slight odor of a marron glacee, Still, I may be mistaken. A little girl who is very pious, never omitted saying her prayers. One night, when ahe was very sleepy, ahe only said: "God bless papa and mamma, and all the neighborhood, and deliver us from all our relations."

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One Woman's Salad.

"I went to lunoheon the other day," Mrs. Up-to-Bate said, "and I learned a triok. 'The hostess was far from markets and the hothouse tomato, but nobody missed them. The beauty of her method of covering up their absence was that it deAighted ten palates and cost about 5 oents a plata 'I

am tired of the same old things, and when I see genius I know it 'When salad time arrived, the maid appeared bearing a platter holding a long soar let briok resting on a bed of orisp, oreamy lettuce leaves. She set a bowl of golden mayonnaise beside it and departed. 'My hostess served a slioe of the briok upon a few of the leaves, dipped a spoonful of the dressing upon it and pa&Qd it to ma "I took one taste and was speeohless. She did not need to tell me how she had made it I knew and wondered why I had never thought of it before. "She had run canned tomatoes through a oolander, seasoned them with a faraway thought of shallot, a thread of celery, salt and pepper and frozen them in a mold. "As the salad melted into a frappe in the perfeot mayonnaise on my tongue life beoame worth living."—New York Recorder.

Who's Got the Bntton?

Hunt up all the old metal and jeweled buttons if you. wish to be ohio and smart The dressmakers proolaim that fancy buttons are to be "the rage." They come in metal, studded with bits of imitation stones in all colors br as dainty miniatures for the new gowns. Of course they are expensive. Whoever saw a new fashion that wasn't? However, there's many an attio or garret, I'll wager, that boasts of half forgotten trunks, in the depths of which lie boxes of old buttons, once gay and fashionable. So polish them up, for the wheels of fashion have turned around to them again.

The new ones are selling as high as $10 and $12 a dozen, but these are usually of finely wrought metal holding a store of small rhinestones. Some more exquisite ones are portrait heads, surrounded by these glittering bits of glass. Notable Frenchwomen are the favorite types. I saw a smart sapphire velvet reoeption gown that an Amerioan girl brought over made with a Napoleon jaoket and the heads of Marie Antoij nette, the princess, the Dauphin aha Charlotte Corday on it in the shape of jeweled studded buttons. I asked her if she had no faith in the eternal fitness of things. She looked, so I simply gasped.-—New York Letter.

The Women Didn't Vot| For Women. It is quite evident that the lady voters of Toledo did not come to the support of the lady candidates very numerously. Of what value is this long coveted right of suffrage if the ladies will not turn out and eleot a single lady candidate? The school board will still be composed wholly of the "horrid men."—-Toledo (O.) Commercial.

Connecticut Woipen Totem. Connecticut women have taken in mahy towns a lively interest in the school eleotion. In Bridgeport alone more than 8,000 women voted, and their efforts were crowned with suooess. Wherever there was any contest in choice of sohool committee, women very generally registered and voted.

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TERKE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, APRIL 27,1895

la it true that dotage and aneodotage means the same thing? Some people say they do, but if that is the case, the elderly woman is decidedly to the fore here, for anecdotes are given a vogue they never possessed before. It is dim cult to know whioh «?a chestnuts, but commend me to a group of women frieuda to freeae out the teller of old tales. They haven't even the deoenoy to pretend to laugh they look straight at the unfortunate soul, and in that look they oomblne weariness and scorn, so that for the rest of her natural life that woman becomes a listener. If you don't believe me, go to a ladles' iunoheon. That oft-desoribed festivity which is never aa rollicking as the newspapers make It out to be. Women are toq much oooupied as a general thing in deoidlng who made the bodioe worn by another woman, which decision is reached by the perfection of its back seams, to be very jolly. It Is claimed by those who know, that only a Frenoh dressmaker can evolve a perfect back, and only a woman whose baok Is perfect goes without a wrap and kneels for a very long time in ohuroh. This was told me by a sister woman, and from her judgment— the general sister woman I mean—of our frook, of ourselves, of our homes and of mankind, we need to have a special litany asking to be delivered And when it is properly phrased I am sure it will be eagerly adopted by all the world of women, as well as by— .. BAB.

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Woman's Courtesy Title.

The use of the term "lady is plainly courteous, writes Margaret Deland in

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Irfidy, When Woman," in The

Ladies' Home Journal, Even when the par conductor cautions pa,

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get off, lady, till the oar stops," or the cash girl wails at us, "Here's yonr change, lady,1'and we feel half impatient and half amused, we hardly know why. even tjien, we do realise, I think, and appreciate, that it is meant courteously, "Woman, here's yonr ohange," would be distinctly unpleasant, even though strictly true and not meant to be impolite,

There is, however, another term whioh is coming more and more into use, whioh saves us either of these extremes, mean the old, dignified, noncommittal word, "madam." "A conventional term of address," the dictionary declares it to be, "to women of any dogree."

And There's More to Come, Woman has made headway np to this time uninterrupted in every walk and avenue of activity and preferment If she has not aotnally made the laws or owned the legislatures and the bench, as certain corporations are said to do, she has at her own sweet will hypnotized lawmakers, jurists, attorneys, oourt officers and executives. She has aoquired all the advantages of property ownership and peouniary independence without the usually accompanying responsibilities.

She can inaka oontraots, but she need not keep them, She oan be vested with a separate estate, but her husband cannot Everywhere, heretofore, her superiority, her ascendanoy, her supremacy have been conceded and recognized, and man, more man, dazed, outwitted, oheokmated, enfiladed, mystified and bamboozled, has meekly passed under the yoke.—New York Telegram.

Mrs. Beecher.

Dnring the disoussion on woman suffrage at the recent Utah constitutional convention the following extract from a letter written by Mrs. Henry Ward Beeoher was read: "My life has always been a busy one, with no time and less inclination to allow the question of 'woman's rights,' or 'woman's sphere,' in connection with public affairs, to disturb me. My own legitimate sphere in past years has been larger than I have been able to fill to my own satisfaction, and, as to womah's rights, I have always had more than I could attend to and would have at any time willingly supplied those women who find time hang heavily on their hands for lack of more ontside publio right."

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