Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 5, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 August 1895 — Page 6

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SARATOGA, N. Y., August 1,18951 It can only be said about thin place it is at once the hottest and most 'vulgar of ail tbe Eastern watering places For awhile It is amusing. It is always using to study humanity. And since

Pope said, so long ago, that the proper udy of mankind was man, it almost 'goes without saying that the proper rjStudy of womankind Is the eternal feminine. Here she Is extreme, and almost every type is represented except that one which, being a man, you would mire. The whole social structure of place Is artificial. Everybody knows that everybody else wears her clothes to be stared at. That it is a continual dress parade, acd that the various types women are always on exhibition, I tempted to say, on sale to the high-

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bidder. THE BOUD YOTTXO WOMAN IS HERB. The most common type is the Extreme -Girl. Tbe puffs of her sleeves and the xoee« in her bat are bigger than anybody else's. Ber hair, which last year was blonde, is cow a violent and assertive Titian red, rolled in a knot that Is higher than that worn by any other woman. Ber waist measures nineteen inches, and her shoulders and hips are so large that padding is suggested. Her shoes are pointed like swoids, and ber frock is wider and flares more than tbe average family umbrella. She is the first on the ballcoom floor and the last to leave it. She knows tbe latest dance and sbe makes up after tbe French fashion, putting a bit of rouge on the lobe of each «ar and around her nostrils, while she ac«eentuates her eyebrows and lashes with some black stuff. Her voice is loud and shrill, and sbe either despises or adores, loves or loathes. There is no between.

She is ready for a midnight drive or an early morning flirtation, and she seems to have but one object in life, that is, to surround herself with as many fast men asposslble and to win compliments from them. She Is about as bad a type as «an be found, and I often wonder if the men who laugh with her ever think of the kind of an old woman she will be. She will never be called an old lady. It Is much more probable that she will be spoken of as an old hag. Dancing all night, flirting all day, with intervals just for dressing and drinking, are not calculated, either physically or mentally, to make an elegant old gentlewoman.

Another type is the horsey young woman. She IS TAILOR MADE, BODY AND SOUL, and her idea of a becoming hat is a stiff sailor with somebody's ^racing colors for the ribbon band. Sbe calls every man friend by his first name and is ready to give odds on anything from the number Of cocktails she will drink to the number of traps that will pass in half an hour. She can give you the pedigree of the best-known racing horse. She can tell you tbe good points, to called, of the most hideous dogs, and she trots but never walks. If she is talking to you, she stands with her hands on her hips aud her jacket thrown baok, and if she Is thinking of something she will bite the end of a cigarette which she has taken out of a gold case that

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monogram on it. Then sbe will invite you to have one, as she tells you that they are pretty good, "made especially for me, old fellow, got my name on them." She don't care much for women, though she has her speoial chum, who is usually her exact opposite, for she Is clever enough to know that one will bring out the pointa of the other. The horsey young woman is usually young, and if

marries tbe right sort

of a man, one who will be her.master, she may reform and become a very proper person but if she unites herself to a dude she will grow harder and harder and less womanly as she grows older.

IMI4t?DBNT CHILDREN ABOUND. A very common type here, and one that is peculiarly American, no other nation would be charitable enough to •ndure it, ts the Infant Phenomenon. She is usually about seven years old, lanky of build, pert of speech and bad of manner. She is frightfully overdressed, wears a pink silk frock trimmed with white lace, a diamond ring, small diamond earrings and some bracelets. In the evening, she is trotted out to do a fancy dance, and people ait around and say how clever she Is, while most of them, in their hearts, wish that Herod was Mayor of Saratoga. This child can be heard of at any time during the day. She makes personal remarks to strangers which her mother thinks are smart, but tor which she ought to be spanked, and she hanga around the men, volunteers to kiss then and induces them to buy ber lemonade with a little bit of claret in

It, Take her for all in all, It may be said that she permeates the whole place, aod Is a general nuisance. At 11 o*olook at night she is carried to bed screaming and kicking, while her mother passive* |y remarks that, "Flossie is so nervous." S What Flossie and her tribe want is a ton ing down. They want to wear cotton frockaj they want to be kept out of the way of older people, and they want to be taught good manners. I like children. I specially like girl children.

But the Infant Phenomenon and her tribe are not children, are not even human beings, and they ought to be wiped off the face of the earth, for they never would be missed. |1U St* ASA CtOTHJM.

By the hundreds there may be counted tbe Clean Young Man. He la pink of ihlrt and whits of eye. He Is bland In

manner and his faoe shines with lono* cence aod soap. He Is Intensely correct in his dress. He knows just what stick suits certain trousers, and just what hat gofs with a certain hour of the day. The sun never shines on his mistakes in dress. He is a trifle languid, but then he has so muoh to think about. He ia quite a dlstauoe from the haberdashers, aod for all he knowa he may be twenty-four hours late in getting a certain kind of tie. And that would be

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talk muoh, but when he does he is very long on silly gossip and very abort on sense. He likes you to know that he has eighty-three scarf pins, and that bis mamma thinks that by next Christmas he will have a hundred. He isn't a sin, be is

blunder but sometimes blunders

make more trouble than absolute vioes. He is not fond of girls. They are too energetio. He thinks they expect "a fel low to muss one's ooat, get one's tie out of order in their nasty, rough old games," and he would rather just sit still. Fortunately, he can do it here, be oause the summer population is largely composed of fools aud knaves, and there are plenty of armchairs. V- *!J

GIRLS WHO ARE AFTKR SPORT. The athletic young woman is less'cdnspicuous here than at some other places, but still she has her representative. She cares nothing whatever about her ap pearance in evening dress. In the ballroom her frock looks as if It had been thrown at her, her gloves are apt to be soiled, and all her belongings have a doubtful look as if they weren't sure whether they were her property or not. All her thought is given to her riding habit and ber bicycle get-up. The fit of ber habit is perfect. When she jumps on ber wheel, from her leggings to her tan hat, from her gloves to her tie, she feels sure she is correct. She can talk about nothing but ber wheel and her horse, with the preference given to the first. She takes no interest in books or needlework, and she looks at men only as good riders or good "bykers." If anybody should object to the bicycle, it seems to her ridiculous, and that a man* might have a fancy for rowing a boat himself strikes her as idiotic. Men are comrades, never admirers. They are good fellows, never pleasant gentlemen. I am not fond of this girl, nor do I admire the bicycle, and Bhe considers me a fool, so that we stand equal.

THIS WOMAN IS VERY LITERARY. Of course, the literary woman is to the fore. She is very willing to tell you of her work and she was kind enough to suggest to me the other evening, who she only knows as an inoffensive person, embroidering a tea cloth, "that it really Isn't difficult to write if one has a certain subject, and that perhaps if you tried and explained it thoroughly, some body might be interested in knowing about embroidery." I thanked her and said that I would hardly like to attempt to write about it because after all I didn't know very much as to fancy stitches myself, and I might not make my reader understand. She finally said: "Perhaps not, and may be it would be better' if you didn't take up anything that you wouldn't succeed in." She is perfectly satisfied with herself. She reads French novels in the original and leaves them on the veranda with her name written on them in large letters and a very sarcastic motto under it. Then somebody returns the book to tbe desk and asks who she is, and says she must be very clever, and the clerk tells her, and she goes upstairs and gets Nordau's book and dallies over it. She gave me a beautiful notice in an out of town paper. She didn't know my name, but she spoke of me as tbe daughter of my mother and described a new bonnet I had aud I bought twenty-five copies of tbe paper and blue-marked it and sent it to my friends. And we all do that. And the literary lady oondescends and calls herself a Bohemian, and told me she wotild introduce me to some people who wrote, and I thanked her and I hope if she sees this she will keep her word because it might help me along. I don't think I ever met anybody who was more willing to help people along than she was, especially people who didn't need her help.

MR. AND MRS. PRIM AND FAMILY. There comes from one of the cottages, for they wouldn't stay at a hotel, the Prim family. It consists of father and mother, two daughters and a son, and before they nre introduced to anybody, they ask in a whisper: "Are they people we would like to know?" If they hear anybody laughing, Mrs. Prim says in a stiff way: "If what you are laughing about is quite innocent, do tell it to me." If somebody says that a certain young man is very handsome, the oldest daughter raises her eyes and inquires: "But is he really good?" They go through tbe world intoxicated with ramrod tea, overooms by the proprieties aod looking foi sinners everywhere. Each holds his lips exactly like the steel mounting of sn old fashioned purse, and if you say a woman is pretty, the mother draws her lips down in away that hints that beauty is a snare and a delusion if you my a man is interesting, the father curls his up as if to insinuate that brains and v.ce usually go hand in hand, and even ifyoo happen to remark that the sunshine is lovely, the son twists his mouth as if be doubted whether sunshine was so desirable after all. They take everything in sips, aod the) bite their words as if •peech were wicked. You can never imagine one of the Prim girls having to pin on a ribbon bow to hide where a button ought to be. Oh, dear, no. Their buttons and buttonholes are wldded.

Their hooks and eyes units, and every part of their wearing apparel is as exact as If it bad been wrought out by Enolid. I don't think they get much pleasure In life. They are too critical. They are the sort of people who, when they go to heaven, will object to harps and want automatic pianos.

Ths Lady with a Fast Is prevalent In

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Saratoga. She Is dreased in the latest fashion, and aooompaoM by a sheep dog tnlddle of age sod dowdy of dress. Last year ber name was Mootmereuoyi this year it is Howard. Heaven only knows what It will be next. It seems scarcely necessary to say that she is going on the stage, and that the stout-looking mau, red-faced aod sparkling with jewels, Is going to baok her. She counts on making a success because of her record, for* getting that the woman who did is getting to be quite tiresome, and that the world at large is more interested in that one with a future, because of the number of pasts. She appears, does this Lady with a Past, about twelve o'clock, and, in harmony with the vulgarity of the piaoe, wears all her diamonds at this hour. It Is possible that she sits near you, while she waits for her escort, and she talks for your benefit, Sbe tells of her French dressmaker{ ahe speaks of many men with titles wboareber friends, and ahe believes that she is impressing you with her gowns and her gems, ber titled friends and general air of richness. Would you not like to know the history of her diamonds? Who gave her that huge orescent? Whose money bought that enormous butterfly? For your benefit she counts the bands of precious stones tiiat are on one arm—seventeen— each with a history. Somebody said that the superb necklace sbe wore at the ball the other night ought to have rubies Instead of diamonds, for it was blood stained. It was the last present from a poor fool who went and shot himself be cause he had stolen the money to please her.

EACH DIAMOND ON HER REPRESENTS the folly of a man, and the wickedness of a woman. And she flaunts in the sunshine, and drives around the lake, and laughs and jests with Innumerable men, as she drinks glass after glass of champagne at the supper table. And innocent women look at her, and think what a good time she must have.

I wonder if she does? I wonder if she ever gets tired of diamonds and. fine clothes and champagne? I wonder if she ever wishes to be quiet, to be simply dressed and to be a good woman? I don't know. Women can be so tad and can be so good that it is absolutely impossible for one to decide about them. The waters of Saratoga are bitter and nasty. They are said to do no good— possibly. The great crowd at Saratoga, taken in a mass, is vulgar and meretricious, but I believe it does do one good to look at it. It makes one think of sweetness, of gentleness and goodness. It makes one hate great, big, noisy hotels, and long for quiet homes, and anything that will make American women do that which is good for them. Don't you think so? I am sure you do I am sure that you are wise and believe that what I have said is true, and that you would put your name to it as an evidence of your belief, as I put mine to this and sign myself—yours for homes, and sweet gentlewomen. BAB.

The electric candle is in great request in England for tbe lighting and decoration of dining and other tables. An ingenious device for lighting the candles is provided by placing small pads tinder the tablecloth, and taking the current from them by means of two pin points in the base of the candlestick. The candles of course are extinguished on being taken from the table and are relighted when they are replaced in the proper position. They are so arranged that the bulb and the glass imitation of a wax candle can be removed, when the candlestick can be used for an ordinary candle. When used with shades of colored silk, the electric candle makes one of the prettiest additions to a dinner table that is possible to imagine.—Machinist.

An-8. Hack's Etequestj

Mrs. Esther C. Mack of Salem, Mass., who died seven years ago, left her large property to Dr. Mack for his life, to revert to public uses after his death. Dr. Mack has recently died, and $200,000 will now go to Alfred Stone of Providence, an architect, in trust, to erect ail industrial school in Salem "for the purpose of teaching the females of the poorer classes of the city such useful and ornamental arts, occupations and trades, by whioh they can support themselves honorably and profitably." A large tract of land, beautifully situated in north Salem, is given to the city as a public park, and there are other useful bequests.

"A Word to the WI» Is Sufficient." I suffered terribly from roaring in my head during an attack of catarrh, and because very deaf, used Ely's Cream Bslm and in three weeks cow id hear as well as ever.—A. E. Newman, Gr&ling, Mich.

One of my children had a very bad discharge from the nose. Physicians prescribed without benefit. After using Ely's Cream Balm a short time tbe dis ease was cured.—O. A. Cary, Corning, N. Y.

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, AUGUST 3, 189S.

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Improving on Natnra.

'*Horrors!*' exclaimed the beautiful society woman. "Do you mean to try to sell me that picture as an artistic presentation at a group of horses?"

Hie great artist paused a moment bewildered. Then a light broke in upon him, and with ft few rapid strokes he painted out all the long, graceful tails on the horses and substituted for each a docked tuft that stuck out straight like a pump handle. "Ah," said the society woman, clapping her hands with pleasure, "now that is a picture worth having.''—Chicago Record. ••Five years ago," tays Anga A. Lewis, Ricard, N. Y., "I bad a constant ooogh, night sweats, was greatly reduced in flesh, and bad been given up by my physicians. I began to take Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and after using two bottles was completely cured*

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A MAN'S LAUGH NEVER CHANGES,

HdW the Fa»* Was Illustrated by an Incident In Chicago. If the Bertillion system of identification had ft phonograph io record of the laughs of criminals it would probably be as near perfect as an identification system oaii be. The fact that man comes iuto the world wailing has been regarded as a sort of prophecy of the truth that as a rule the sorrows of life outnumber the joys when all the returns are in, but an optimist might see an opposite significance in the fact that a man's laugli remains tlio samo through all the changing years. When the cares of manhood succeed to the happy go lucky days of boyhood, this laugh of hia may be called into use, as it were, very littlo, but when it is pnt into operation it is the same old laugh, and every boyhood friend would know it instantly.

An old soldior who fought through tho war with Fred Hartwick, who drives a mail collector's wagon on the North Side, hapjiened to be in Chicago for a week not. long since. He heard that Mr. Hartwick was on its postmaster's staff and went to the federal building to find him. He took his station at a point past which all the carriers filed to report for duty, and as Hartwick came along some one pointed him out.

Without disclosing his own identity the veteran approached and began asking Hartwick if he remembered various incidents in the history of their regiment during the war. Of course he did and very soon fell into conversation, organizing a kind of campfire meeting between themselves. One member of the regiment was in business in New Orleans, another was in a bank down in the state, several were-farming, one was the local manager for one of the big commercial agencies in one of the large oitios, and so on.

Seyeral times Hartwick asked his old companion at arms his name, but the latter only smiled and went on with the conversation. Finally, when it became necessary for* them to separate, as Hartwick was obliged to go out on his run, the man laughed outright as he said: "Well, Fred, I never thought you'd forget me after what we went through together." "The minute he laughed," said Mr. Hartwick, in relating tho incident, "I knew just who he was and all about him, but I hadn't seen him for SO years, and he had changed so I couldn't have told him from Adam. His laugh had grown older, too, of course, but it was the same old laugh.''—Chicago Tribune.

The Tyranny of Etiquette.

It is impossible to read even the least dogmatic books on etiquette without being oppressed with the conviction that a heavy and binding addition has been made to the code of morals in the bylaws which have to do with visiting cards, invitations, conventional phrases and other minor but vigorous formulas. It has been reiterated by writers on these subjeots that not a single rule of etiquette is arbitrary, but that all prove their reason.in the very nature of things, and that those who disregard them simply show their own lack of insight and incapacity to appreciate genuine refinement.

While this is all very well for sooiety people pure and simple or those who have other definite and absorbing work in life compliance with all the thousand and one trifling points of etiquette is an utter impossibility. The question then becomes, Shall such persons be excluded from society or be allowed to enter it on their own terms? Society might be so conducted as to make of it a charming and delightful recreation instead of a tyrannical business, and thefa who see this clearly can do much toward making it so.—Philadelphia Press.

The bent is what you want when you are in need of a medicine. This is why you should insist upon Hood's Sareaparilla.

Mrs. Elizabeth E. Hutter.

Mrs. ^Elizabeth E. Hutter, who recently died in Philadelphia, was widely known as the pioneer in many philanthropic movements in Pennsylvania. She was tho widow of the Rev. Dr. E. W. Hutter, once editor of the Lancaster Intelligencer and afterward private secretary of President Buchanan and assistant secretary of state. During tbe war Mrs. Hotter frequently went to the front, rendering valuable service to the wounded and suffering. She took a conspicuous part in the great sanitary fair held in Philadelphia in 1861, acting as president of tho committee of labor, income and revenue. She is credited with having raised #260,000 for the fair. She was the first woman to cross the line after the desperate three days' battle of Gettysburg. She went in a car provided by President. Scott of the Pennsylvania railroad and by special permission of President Lincoln.—New York Tribune.

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Mr. Epsom Downes' (seated befiide a stranger in a street car)—'What time is it by your watch, please?

Stranger—I don't know. Mr. Epsom—"But you Just looked at it Stranger—Yes. I only wanted to see if it was still there.—London Tit-Bits.

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owner or owners of the land or lots through which It is proposed to open Fourteenth and one-half street as follows, to-wit: From north properly line of Wabash avenue to south line of Eagle street, in the city of Terre Haute, Indiana, as shown by a plat now on file In my office.

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In tbe matter of the estate of Thomas. Beady, deceased. In the Vigo circuit court, September term.

Notice is hereby given that John W. Boyle as administrator of the estate of Thomas Heady, deceased, has presented nnd filed his sccountand vouchers In final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit court, on tbe 2d day of September, 1895, at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear in said court and show caus*. If any there be. why said account and vouchers should not be approved.

Witness the clerk and seal of *aid Vigo Circuit court, at Terre Haut*, Indiana, this 27th day of July, U8S. [BKAXjAttest: 6-3t HUGH D. ROQUET, Clerk.

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