Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 50, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 June 1895 — Page 6

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

BAB'S LETTER.

WOMAN'S UNBOUNDED FAITH BAB'S POINT OF VIEW.

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Cosmopolitan Cbaraettn as Boarders— 8lmggllnf for Existence Give* Care'# Imprint to a Beautifa) Countenance—

The Allusive That Ended a Fro raising Young: XJfe. [Copyright, 1895.] I was never considered sociable in the house. But I used to sit at the table and look at the people and think.out their atorlea to suit myself. There was3 little old man who ate his dinner as if he feared grim death were after him, and, between the salad and the pie, read a scientific paper. There were a couple of yonng men, just at the age when fancy scarfs and fine clothes are of great importance. There were two or three old maids, two or three married couples, and the usual riffraff that go to make up the average boardinghouse. When she came and was placed opposite me at the table, her fresh color and general air of youth and happiness interested me. She .had all the quaint little ways of the girl from the extreme South, and one day I beard her telling the landlady that she ^Ud not expect to be there very long, and that she wished they would be more careful about getting her letters up to her room justfas soon as they came.

She had a bit of a room on the top iloor, and the boardinghouse maid is not usually very anxious to be over-polite to the people who are up so near to heaven. ~HQW9Ver, she was so pleasant, that she -incited even the stony heart of the lady who governed the ice, and was willing to swear that she had given you a large piece of pie, when it was about the siza of an ordinary egg.

BAB FORMS AN ACQUAINTANCE.

Several times I met her downtown, looking as bright as possible, with a roll of manuscript in her hand and an air of being able to control the world. Not a disagreeable air, you know, but just that happy, girlish look that means certainty. One morning she had stuck in her belt a bunch of old-fashioned flowers down home they call them "bleeding hearts," and.I was perfectly certain they had come to her, done up in cotton, from the far South. As the days went on, we smiled at each other, and after a while the acquaintance got to be so that we bowed on the staircase. Then she heard me speakjof a well-known novel, and I saw by the look in her face that •he would like to read it, so I offered it to her. When she came in to get it, she brought meja bunch of the blossoms, and told me they had been

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from South Carolina. Gradually the little story came out. It was this: She was one of a large family of children had been the belle and the beauty of the small town in which she lived and, just think of it, was engaged to be married to a young man, who, as •he dascribed.ihim, "is the very dearest fellow in the world," but, you know, he comes of a very old family, and it would be perfectly ridiculous to expect him to do any work, and I thought so many women made money with their pencils that I could comejon here and make a lot of money,'and then go back home and furnish a house so that we could get married."

The suggestion on my part that it did not hurt men to work, and that they ought to do It for the women they love, was met with the answer "Oh, well, yon aee, you people here don't look at things as we do. He is a gentleman, you know, and it would look bad for him to take a small salary, and, as he has never been trained to work, he could not get a large one. I don't mind. 1 am mighty glad to think I can make money." How

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CURBS TUB WORST CASES. Mr. HOXXR CLARK, of A'o. *oS West jdSfrrri, Sion* City, /«., writes: "My wife was troubled with female weakness, and ulcers of the at eras.

I She had been doctoring with every doctor of any good reputation, and baa (pent lots of money in fawpitak but to no parpose. She continued to get worse. She was

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Mas. CtAU. advised us to try a bottle. We tried it with the following results: The first bottle did her so much food that we bought aaothertand bave continued until she

much had she made She had taken her drawings to the well-known magazines nobody wanted them. Down home she painted lilies and rosea so that people could not tell them from the real ones and was considered a feminine Raphael but here, somehow she was certain it waa not because her work was bad— they seemed to have more work on hand than she had expected they would. A LIFE THAT WAS ALL DISAPPOINTMENT.

The days went on, and gradually there came in her face the-look that is in the faoes of so many women in New York that look that tells of a deferred hope that look that tells of a daily disappointment, and yet she laughed and was hopeful and blushed over her letters as she read them at the breakfast table, for she could not wait until she got up stairs. Nobody ever saw her out of temper^ or, indeed, anything but kind and loving. At last she told me she had an engagement. It was to do illustrations for a great paper it was not for a pioture, it was just to draw designs for frocks in some big factory. She was essentially artistic, and if she oould see a bit of material, the creative sense in her was so strong that from it a beautiful frook would be developed before her mind. They were going to pay her f5 a week. Her board was|7, and I wondered where the rest of the money that she needed was to oome from. But she worked along and hoped as only a woman can who loves a man dearly, and who looks forward to a happy future. Some days she looked tired, too tired to care for anything. 'i

One day I did not s&e her. I asked for her, and was told that she was not well, and that Maria, the cross Scotch maid, disagreeable to everybody except this one girl, had taken a cup of tea up to hdr. I Went tip and tapped on her door. She was lying on the tiny cot with her face covered with her beautiful hands, through which the tears were streaming. The poor little story was soon told. Miserable as was the pay they were giving her, the people who had employed her could get somebody for less and so she had to be discharged. The little money she had was nearly all gone and there seemed nothing ahead for her. Then she could not understand

SHE HAD NOT HAD A USTTBR

for a week, that is a letter from "him," the only letters worth thinking about. I tried to oheer her up, and sat there until she fell asleep. There was a quaint little work-box on the table, and in it was a sharp stiletto, with an ivory handle, a pair of scissors, also with ivory handles, and bavingJa tiny plate on one with the name "Amelie" engraved upon it. All the mountings were old-fashioned even the little gold thimble was carved in a fashion that seems strange nowadays. It had been her grandmother's box, given to her because she was her namesake. On top was a bit of silk that she had painted in for get-me nots. It looked like a case of some sort, and the little blue ribbons that tied it and that were looped so daintily, seemecfto whisper that in its folds were concealed that which was most precious to her—somebody's letters. .. *1-*

After that I was obliged to go away, and when I came back Maria confided to me that the little Southern lady went out early in the morning whether the day was stormy or sunshiny, looking every place for work, but failing to get it. Then, too, she was in debt for her board. She suffered from that, not because the landlady was unpleasant, for like many a woman who takes boarders, her heart was tender and she was only too glad if she conld give a helping hand to somebody who was in trouble. The Gorgon, who is supposed to be the New York landlady, is a libel, for too many of them are thoroughly kind, and when they are not it is because they have lost faith in the humanity which has treated them too badly, time and time again.

PINING IN SECBBOY. V„

One day when Amelie came in she paid her bill in full, that poor, little bill, but that night I noticed she did not wear her watch still'I never asked her a question. You oould not have offered her money. She got an order to do two or three sketches, and was paid a small sum, but she grew thinner and paler, and even the cross old scientist forgot to hurry bis dinner one day, and told me that the girl had some trouble. I knew it was so. I knew that the long, loving letters, those that meant encouragement to her, had ceased to come. I knew that, although she went about searching for work, she did it without having her heart in the search, and that she could not understand. She would not ask her people, and, though she had written and written, there was no word from her sweetheart. First, she thought he must be ill. Then, she thought be must be dead and yet, it seemed to her, that somebody would have written her about it. For three days she had been up in her room. I had been ill and unabie to go to see her, but the first time I was up 1 met the postman and he handed me a letter and a paper for her, I recognized the writing on both and ran with the greatest glee to her room, dropped them beside her, leaned over and kissed her and left her alone with the message from her lover. V^.

That night we did not see The next morning we heard a wild scream from the top of the house, and all of us wondered and went to see what was the matter. We were certain that Maria bad fallen down the staircase, but it was worse than that. Maria had gone into the little room to awaken its oocupant and found her asleep. Sleeping, that eoand sleep, that long sleep, from which there I* no awakening. In one hand was her lover's letter, on the floor the paper that oame with It, Somebody took the letter*

Somehow, after that, the scientist and I felt a little nearer to each other, because he knew the truth, and I knew the truth, and God knew the truth. That is all. It was just an episode in aboard inghonse—not a romantic place, but, my friends, people live and die there, and nobody knows.- A

TERKE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, JUNE 8,1895.

This was what he said: that brute for whom she had worked, atrived and died: THE FATAL JTIKTTKK. "My Dear Amelie—It seems as if you would never achieve what you started out to, and I fear that, much as I care for you, I cannot wait any longer. The daughter of the president of the railroad that goes through here has been visiting us, and for the sake of my family I have ooncluded that it will be wisest for me to marry her. I am sure my dear, that you will understand this and realise that it is not because I love you less, but that I must consider the position of my birth. I am a gentleman and cannot work, and heaven only knows when you would earn enough to take care of us. Perhaps you will meet some rich Yankee who will ask you to be his wife. Good bye. Always your friend."

HER TRAGIC EXIT.

And he called himself a gentleman/ And he broke the heart of a brave woman.

At least, that is what they all said. But the oross old scientist came to ody room and showed me something that be had picked up and that he wanted nobody to know about but me. It was a tiny out glass bottle with a gold top. On the top was engraved the name of "Amelie." It had oome out of the work box, but that perfume had never permeated it. It was the olose smell of chloroform. Nobody was told of this, and when we dressed poor Amelie for the last time, Maria brought in as her offering, because she said Miss Amelie always liked them, a little bunch of bleeding hearts. I put them in her hand, and so she carried them to her grave. And nobody in the great vast oity knew how that poor heart bled, and nobody knew how one woman had died and how one roan had stamped himself a sooundrel.

Away down South poor Amelie is sleeping, and this Decoration Day there went down from a queer old man, to be put above her grave, a box of roses, while from a crabbed Scotoh servant there was a bunoh of bleeding hearts that bore her name as well as that of

BAB'

Jane C. Harrison.

Miss Jane C. Harrison is about to receive the degree of LL.D. from Aberdeen university. She is a member of the council of the society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and an authority on Greek archaeology. This is the first time a woman has received so high an honorary certificate of intellectual ability from an English college, and it is hoped that the example set by the Soottish5 scholars will be followed all over the world whenever a woman rises who will give distinction to the degree, and for whom the title will be a merited tribute to attainments and character.

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Clubtvomen or any woman who has been practically a committee of one in some managerial scheme, whether it be. for a club day, a church fair or a kindergarten benefit, will appreciate the reply of one so harassed, as reported in Miss Winslow's Boston club column. After she had worked herself nearly to death over a big club affair, and the thing was about accomplished, an out of town member rose to the occasion and telegraphed, "Where can I meet you tomorrow morning at 9:40?" The answer flashed back over the wires was, "In bed or in the bathtub."

Celery.

Are the ex-high livers of our acquaintance aware that celery is the sovereign remedy for gout and rheumatism? When celery is largely eaten, an alkaline blood is the result, and when this is the case there can be neither of these dread maladies. It should be munched raw several times a day by persons predisposed to gout, although it may be eaten alter boiling in small bits in a small quantity of water and served with melted butter. These inherited complaints are not induced by cold or damp, but are developed by them.—Exchange.

A Summer Shoulder Shawl. A shoulder shawl is a convenient article of one'a dress, as the time draws on when one expects to sit more and more upon veranda and lawn. About the easiest made and most effective for the time expended on it is a square of pale colored cashmere, with a crocheted border in zephyr to match the shade used, and worked in shell stitcli. These shells should be edged with floss of the same oolor. "Kathleen Maroarneen." "Kathleen Mavoureen" was written by Mrs. Crawford, an Irish lady, whose Bcmgs 00 years ago were in high repute. Hie music was by Crouch, an eccentric genius, who is his old age and poverty begged his way into a concert given by ritiens that he might hear his own composition fitly sung.

Good

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And good appetite go hand in hand. With the lorn of appetite, the system cannot long sustain Itself. Thus the fortifications of good health are broken down and the system is liable to attacks of disease. It Is In snob cases that the medical powers of Hood's Sarsaparilla are clearly shown. Thousands who have taken Hood's Sarsaparilla testify to Its great merits as a purifier of the blood, Its powers to restore and sharpen the appetite and promote a healthy action of the digestive organs. Thus It is, not what we eay bat what Hood's Sarsaparilla does that telle the story and constitutes the strongest recommendation that ean be urged for any medicine. Why not take Hood'* Sarsaparilla nowf

A BOTTLE TOWER.

Ingoaious Scheme to Keprrsent the Wine Industry at Paris in 1900.

An ingenious scheme to provide attractions at the Paris exposition of 1900 is the bottle plan.

The idea is to build a huge tower in the form of a champagne bottle. It will be divided into chambers in which the "process of manufacturing wine will be exhibited.

In the first chamber, on the ground floor, there will be a charming scene. A vine clad hill at the season of gathering the grapes will be represented, the river Rhone appearing in the background. A yoke of oxen will draw a great load of freshly gathered grapes.

On the next and second story the work of gathering the grapes will be shown in more detail. The arrangement here will be of a somewhat humorous character.

Above that will be a wine press, not such as would be found in the champagne district, because that is too modern and not sufficiently picturesque. This will be a rustic wine press, a charming bit of old fashioned France.

Your ascent will then bring you to a brilliant scene, a striking contrast to the last. This will be a grand ballet, entitled "TheG-rapeHarvest Festival," in which that smiling event will be celebrated in a suitable terpsichorean manner. Most people will be able to see a subtle connection between the ballet and the wine produoing industry, apart from the fact that in this case one is specially devoted to the other.

Above that you will come to a scene of patient industry. Here the work of bottling and labeling will be represented. This will be a peculiarly instructive exhibition, as the bottling of ohampagne will be explained. This is a very elaborate and interesting process and one which is little understood by the genAral public.

The remaining three chambers will be arranged as a monastic cellar, the wineroom and gay place of entertainment and an observatory.—New York World.

New York's Woman's Building. Work has begun on the Woman's building to be erected in New York. The house, whioh is to be for the exclusive use of woihen, will be very handsome and fitted up with every luxury. In the basement, baths, hair dressing rooms, manicure shops, etc., are to be located. Club, reading and assembly rooms, as well as library, offices and a restaurant, will occupy the first floor. The upper floors are to be divided into apartments, single rooms and suits. The building will cost f750,000.

Will Have a Rainmaking Outfit. The Rock Island Railroad company will have a rainmaking outfit, consisting of a train Of six cars, to experiment with nowadays.

Catarrh is a constitutional disease. JKood'6 Sarsaparilla is a constitutional remedy. It cures catarrh. Give it a trial.

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The Oxford Association For the Education of Women has decided to apply to the university to open the door to women for the B. A. degree. This decision was come to by an overwhelming majority, but only after a considerable tuBsle. Strange as it may appear, the advocates at Oxford of the higher education of women are not at one on this subject It ia a good omen, however, that the main resolution was moved by the president of Magdalen and seconded by Miss Smith, the pioneer of the woman's movement at Oxford. The proposal to appeal to the university, although a consequential resolution, was hotly resisted, but the majority for it was eight to one. The battle, however, is not won yet

To Cheek Perspiration.

For" checking undue perspiration place 8 or 4 ounces of oak bark in a pint of boiling water and boil ten minutes. Add half of this to a basinful of hot water, to which also add a dessertspoonful of powdered borax and add the same quantity of fine starch. Sponge the affected parts night and morning. i.

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Since 18611 have been a great sufferer from catarrh. I tried Ely's Cream Balm and to all appearances am cared. Terrible headaches from which I had long suffered are gone.—W. J. Hitchcock, Late Major tT. S. Vol. and A. A. Gen., Bnflklo, N. Y.

Ely Cream Balm has completely cured me of catarrh when everything else failed. Many acquaintance* have used it with exoellenrt results,—-Alfred W. Stevens, Caldwell, Ohio. Price of Cream Balm 1s fifty cents.

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