Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 May 1895 — Page 6

THE MAIL

Jlk, A ^5!^J A PAPEK run THE PEOPLE.

BAB'S LETTER.

SHE WOULD REVOLUTIONIZE EDUCAVV TIONAL METHODS. 11? ,.1'HP** is A Number of Sound Ideas on Thli Important Question—She Talks of American

Women as Money Spenders—The Mannar In Which English and French Men Deal With Their Wives. iCopyrtght, 1885.] The feminine part of the town Is drank with color. This inebriation is best seen on a clear afternoon when all the womankind of New York cavorts •long the street and exhibits its newest frock and bonnet. From the lady who rules the kitchen and who, it being her Thursday afternoon out, wears a pale laveudor hat, heavy with pink felathers, and gay with blue roses, clear to Mademoiselle Vere de Vere, who lives In a palace on Fifth avenue, and wears a small bonnet of snnburnt straw with a bunch of mignonette on one side and a high cluster of violets on the other, there is a yearning after color that is more than marvelous. The law seems to be simplicity from the ^aist down, richness from the waist up. And so Mademoiselle Vere de Yere wears a black crepon skirt that measures eight yards around the bottom and flares BO that it suggests a master band in the making, while her bodice is the Stuart plaid in velvet decorated with a lace collar and cuffs and huge emerald buttons set around with rhinestones, and her bonnet glows and glistens with color and spangles such as a few years ago were only dedicated to the stage. I think I like it—on the other woman. It m*kes the street look bright and pretty, it sug gests good times coming and muob money spent at present.

MEN ARE SO GENEROUS.' "V*''

What a lot of money American wo men do spend! And how good Ameri can men are to give it to them! Icon sider for my own part that the Ameri

can husband is a jewel. Nine times out of ten he keeps his troubles to himself, only telling his wife about them when they are over. Nine times out of ten he gives her the lion's share of the money he makes and. never asks her what she does with it. And nine times out of ten he thinks she 5s about the best in the woman line that can be gotten. If he were an Englishman, he would tell her his troubles and expect her to help bear them. If he were a Frenchman, he would count on her taking care of the iqpney, expect her to economize and start a bank acpount. And, if he were an Italian, he would have that contempt for her which the sons of Italy do have for women in general as well as for woman in particular. «6o the American husband is a something much to be desired.

It would seem as if they were appreciated, judging from the splurge that is made when they are first gotten, and yet how unimportant a man is at a wedding. He hasn't even the value of a corpse at a funeral—he isn't the center of attraction. The bride, her gnwn and veil, the way she walks, the arrangement of her hair, and the beauty of her jewels are all discussed then the bridesmaids are admired, the ushers are com mented upon, and last of all somebody says, "Did you happen to notice the bridegroom?" And all the women who cried at the wedding forgot him. It seems queer, don't itT But womankind is overwhelming everything nowadays. In some respeots that is as it should be. I like the influence of women to be farreaching and compelling, although I am a positive anti-snffragist. I consider that men were made to represent the State for woman. She has a sufficient

BANKRUPTCY

—of the physical being is the result of drawing incessantly upon the reserve capital of nerve force. The wear, tear and'strain of modern life are concentrated upon the nervous system. The young men of our day become sufferers from nervous debility or exhaustion, nervous prostration or weakness* This may be the result of too much mental worry and excitement, or the result of bad practices and excesses, or pernicious habits, contracted in youth, through ignorance. They feel irritable, weak and nervous with such distressing symptoms as backache, di»incss, shooting pains in head or chestsometimes indigestion. The middle-aged men, as well, Suffer from exhaustion, loss of manly power, low spirits, impaired memory, and many derangements of mind and body. The ill-used brain is morbidly wide awake when the overworked business man attempts to find rest in bed.

The physicians and specialists of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute devote their best energies to reclaiming and restoring such unfortunates to health and happiness. They have written a book of 168 pages, treating of these maladies and setting forth a rational means of home-treatment fortheir cure, it is sent seen rely seated, in plain cn veto fx, on receipt of 10 cents for postage.

Address Wo*LT'S DLSPKNSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.

number of reaponalbllties without longing for a vot®, which would be another one. There are the afternoon teas, the babies (God bless them IJ, Jack's dinner, all of one's friends, the superintendents of the kitchen, which is beyond the power of man, and so, with all these weights on her shoulders, why should woman want to vote?

OIVJI: BAB A OHANOB

I do believe in patting women oh the school commission board—I would like to be a commissioner my self—for women are needed to stem the over-education of children. Women are needed to look after the bad air, the high flights of stall*, and the thoughtless treatment of little people who are the men and woman of the next generation. Along time ago, when a child went to sohool, it arrived at 9 o'olock, stayed until 12, then had two hours for luncheon and play, went baok at 2 o'olock, stayed until 4, and the greater part of the afternoon was devoted to study. Then children knew less about geometry and more about the multiplication table were short on ohemistry and long on spelling were good, dear writers, but knew very little about the|legal position of the anolent Assyrians could read well, but never heard of thej Coptics as sosthetics were healthier and not'so desperately knowing that they were impudent. Sometimes, nowadays, I see a child get into the streetcar carrying eight or ten books. In oolor this child is pale to ghastliness she is thin, invariably wears eyeglasses, and is the result of the over education in the public schools. I would like to be put on a school board to oonvlnoe some of the commissioners that the freesohools teaoh too much, and don't teach it well.

I would throw away the geometries. I WOULD SET FIRE TO THE ALGEBRAS, the books about the Assyrians should have pictures pasted on them, and I would fetch in their places'good spelling books,.good arithemetics and good geographies. Then I would have a teaoher of writing who would make our boys and girls write so their letters could be read, and I would have another .teaoher who would instruct them In the lost art of composing a letter. And^hen, too, I would have all the studying done at the school, so that when those hours were over the^mall people could play and b'e happy, drink in the fresh air and grow strong, eat well and go to bed early, instead of staying up late to study their lessons. Then every tired mother would not have to say, when she was asked as to her weariness, "Well, I had to stay up pretty late to teaoh Mary her lessons for to morrow." "Teaching \Mary her lessons for to-morrow" shouldJbe the work at school, but I suppose it is sttirked be cause it is much easier to hear Mary her lessons than to beat thenrTn to "h&r poor tired head, aching from the b^d air in' the schoolroom and the long hours of confinement. Then, too, if I were on a' school board I should allow no scholar to come free whose people, had sufficient money to pay for its education. The publio sohools were founded, I have al-' ways understood, for those peopler who could not afford to send iheir children to pay schools, and yet wiiph them .to be prepared to go into the ..world otbusi ness that is, to be able to figure "cor reedy, write clearly, and -to know, whether Cleveland was the capital of Pennsylvania, or Richmond in California. I have always been under the impression that those people who wished to fit their children for the world of letters should pay fer it, and that the boy who had to leave sohool when he was IS years old to take a position in an office or a shop was properly fitted by education in the free schools, fitted for it by is no of

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of 13, who stands high in geometry, and who, parrot-like, repeats pages of history when the board visits the school, is unable, nine times out of ten, to write a decent letter—and when I say deoent, I mean correct, either in spelling, writing or composition. Then, too, I should have do question of religion enter the schools. A short prayer addressed to the father of us all, could be said In the morning but the reading of any religiousjbcok, that might be offensive to tbo parents of any child, should be done away with. If the people wish to send their children to religious sohools, let them'eithee pay for it, or let the church of whioh they are members, arrange for the free schools. I never expect to be on a school board—but, thank goodness! I have had an opportunity to say what I think.

MY LADY'S BONNET ADORNMENTS. There must be one comfort in being a man—one doesn't have to put on o^e's hat with a bonnet pin. It is trne the bonnet pin has grown to be a thing of beauty. Its head is studded with diamonds, sometimes real and sometimes not. Sometimes it is a turquoise that is at the top of it and all the lovely colored stones are called into service to make it a joy forever but that doesn't make the pain any the|lesa when its sharp point goes into your bard head. Yon have gotten the bonnet just at the right angle —yon stand quite still, and lol and behold! the pin slips, and you have to place the bonnet afresh. The next time the pin doesn't slip, but it digs into your bead as if it were a strawberry— the he«A» not the pin. And the next time it slides along, and you think it is all right, when suddenly yon find out that the pin has gone through your hair, but not through the bonnet, Now, a man just puts his hat on, and there is no question of a pin, and it is square on bis head and even if the wind comes and goes, that hat stays, as if it knew its business whereas, the carefully-pinned bonnet will go to one side or the other, and the waved hair will blo^ a ae will see one's self in a window street, and an^instant decision that life isn't worth living will be arrived at.

TERRB HATTIB SATURDAY BVBNINfl MAIL, MAY 4,1896.

Yet, the despised bounet pin has its nses. Yon can open a latter with It or pick nuts with it and when yon go to cash a ofceok, you can prod it Into the woman who lain front of you when she don't hurry up. It i* alwa/B an 'acceptable present, ^hen studied with diamonds, and it is rather a low-minded woman who isn't quite willing to give a penny in exchange for a pretty one preventing the sharp point from?cutting the furniture,

THE DREADFUL OAS EXTORTIONERS. Speaking of outting friendship, did you ever hear that you mustn't give a pair of slippers to anybody you are fond of, for assure as you do the? walk away from you and never come baok? I have been thinking of giving a pair to owr gas man, but the result might not be what I wish, as I can't claim to have afriendly feeling toward him. And this Is the reason why. New York has the worst gas In the world. This Is firstly. Last June, when I went awa,y, I tore up all my gas reoelpts. That is secondly. At thirdly comes the dramatic situation, About January the collector began to bring me a bill for, £be May befoie. I Insisted I had paid it, as I had. My receipts only reaohed baok to September, but I had always been told that when you paid a monthly bill, that the last bill reoeipted all others before It. Now that oompany announced that, unless 1 paid that bill $4.00, whioh I had already paid, they would turn to gas oil. And they did. This is fourthly. At the same time the oompany had in posses sion five dollars of my money, on which they were drawing interest, and which was demanded at the time that I first needed the gas. Well, I had to pay that bill. This is fifthly. For

I WAS IN THEIR POWER,

and the oompany in New York is a monopoly, whioh gives poor gas and keeps bad bookkeepers. That five dollars on deposit is a smart trick of theirs. Now, the house in whioh I live pays five dollars a floor for the gas meter being put in, nobody, knows where it is, and oouldn't run away with it, and the company carefully keeps this deposit drawing an income from the various ones ,that come to them. It must amount to an immense sum when

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.what the deposit is in l'arge houses, when five dollars is asked for a single floor. Now, you can understand why I •want to give the gas man a pair of slippers.

And the ffibral.of it all is—keep your receipts. And the climax advice is—pay 'your gas bills by check, and write on the cheok exactly the month, day and date to which the bill is due, and the fact that this check is for that purpose. I am giving this advice because I think it is jgood, and the knowledge has come to me from experience, that detestable old "teacher who forces you to learn whether you want to or not. Still, his lessons are good and seldom forgotten, at least not by BAB.

Helen Morris Lewis.

Miss Helen Morris Lewis, president of the North Carolina E. R. A., was writing a note a few days ago in the office of the Edgefield (S. C.) Chronr ^ioie.'Avheu Lieutenant Governor Timmerman dropped in. Upon being introduced to Miss Lewis, he told her that be,, too, Was a woman suffragist. The editor of The Chroniole says jocosely: "At—this we dropped heavily into our chair. Our jaws fell apart, and our eyes popped entirely out of our head and rolled about pellmell on the floor. Miss Lewis' eyes did not pop out—that is, not -entirely—but they danced and gleamed and sparkled like all the PlefaSes on frolio. It was a pretty scene. Lieutenant Governor Timmerman is a woman suffragist! Miss Lewis has scored one—a big one—in Edgefield."

To Keep Moths Ont of Stuffed Chairs. Turn thorn upside down and saturate the undor side with common spirits of turpentlno. Half a gill of turpentine will not only drive the moths away, but keep thorn from coining back again for yoars. It will not only kill the eggs, but it will destroy the maggots as they hatch out. Shut the chairs up in a warm loom for 48 hours, then air thoroughly for two days more In a strong draft or in a porch, then to dissipate any unpleasant smell pour fow drops of balsam fir oil on the chair seat, which will diffuse a refreshing odor.

Frances Lybrand.

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If the oare of the hair were made a part of a lady's education, we should not see so many gray heads, and the use of Hall's Hair Renewer would be unnecessary.

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The collar consists of a band of velvet fastened with a buckle, and another velvet strap joins the puff to the deep cuff of the sleeve. The gown is suitable for a girl from 10 to 16, "and the bodice is a pretty change from the conventional blouse front and jacket design.—New York World. $til£

The Queen Anne Comb.

The very broad Queen Anne comb has come back to favor. There is no more dignified ornament for the hair than a broad tortoise shell comb, either plain or handsomely carved. Middle aged women who have preserved their hair look most stately in combs of this kind, and they make an admirable support for the smart little arrangements of lace and ribbon termed caps.'' Yoimg girls look very quaint with their shining tresses dressed around the wide, demure Queen Anne comb that bears little resemblance to the lowering irregularly shaped comb of tortoise shell or its imitation which for so long it has been the fashion to thrust' through the coils or braids of hair at any angle, however erratic. The new comb admits of no such frivolity. It stands erect and dignified, with no nonsense about it. To the piquant face it affords a pretty contrast by its rather austere appearance. To the grand dame it gives an added look of dignity and importance.

The New Mantels.

The coverings and draperies of the mantel board are coming down. The heat and dust of summer are to be avoided. Bare boards, smooth wood and few ornaments present to those, assail* ants of cleanliness less ground to work upon.

The polished oak board is the most convenient and the most artistic of any. Its surface should be rubbed until it dimly reflects the rubber's face. Not an inch of drapery should be allowed. As for ornaments, the prettiest are the white and ivorized plaster casts, which can be bought so reasonably and are fashionable. A panel from the Parthenon frieze or Donatello's cherubs hung two inches above the mantel is striking and a few sluall pieces standing upright between photographs that are handsomely trained in leather or metal are all the decorations reeded for a mantel during the heated season. A housekeeper will find one of this variety a pleasure more rtmw a v.-orry.

To FlolT Your Hair.

It is quite the thing to have fluffy tresses again. To do thac your hair must be kept scrupulously clean and free from all oily mattter. A splendid wash for the hair is to break^an egg in a dish and beat it up then apply to the roots of the hair with the fingers, rubbing it well into the scalp. Have ready a big bowl of soft water, or water broken with some borax, and wash the head well in that then rinse in two or three waters, but use no soap. Dry on hot towels and brush for an hour with a olean, moderately stiff brush, being careful not to sTratch the scalp too bard. After that process every hair will stand almost by itself but at the same time will be glossy.—Kansas City Times.

Keep your blood pure and healthy and you will not have rheumatism. Hood's Saraa par ilia gives the blood vitality and richness.

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