Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 November 1895 — Page 2

fHE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE,

BAB'S LETTER.

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lUopyrtght, 1895.)

frJ am going to be an etiquetter, so to say. I don't think font word appears in the dictionary, bntl these days when we are all free and equal, either in the

United States senate or on a Broadway oable car, the coining of a word is a small privilege. My reason for adopting this profession, for the time being, Is, as an editor would say, in answer to many inquiries. I do think most emphatically that it is wise for those who are poor, bat not vulgar, those who have high minds and thin purses, to have a day "at home." For then the hostess is certain to have all things in order, to assume a pretty frock, and with it her best manners, and be prepared to greet the lady who calls. Some of the ladies who call are beautifully systematic. I may seem to jeer at them, but I do not—I envy them. It is a beautiful thing to be able to keep a book that has on one side the calls you have paid, and on the other the calls that are due you from other lady callers, for it proves that you have a pure heart and are without malice, for you eouldn't possibly like all these people. However, when you are great on etiquette you have no dislikes.

I do not approve of giving A COMING OUT PAKTY, in what is known, commonly, as a long flat that is, one of those which has a straight, long passageway, and many doore on one side of it. Among the five hundred people invited to the comingout party, some will be certain to go into the wrong rooms, which will aggravate their hostess, mnrtifv them, and, if many diamonds are laying around loose, prove a great temptation to a pro fessioual lady caller. My parent says that people living in long flats do not have many diamonds, bnt she is not well up in the ways of this world. I have seen a girl, who couldn't pay her landlady $5 a week, wear three marquise ring*, large headlights in her ears, a diamond brooob, a diamond locket, one of that debased kind known as the Trilby, and two diamond bracelets. She said something about her gentleman friend, but that is another story. A gentleman friend and an etiquetter do not harmonize.

Really, though, it is a good thing if you happen to have many friends, and do not keep an extensive establishment, to select a special afternoon to see all your women friends, and give them a little of the cup that cheers. Speaking about the cup that cheers, I would like to say that very often it nearly poisons But that is when the hostess has invited a young girl to preside over the urn She Is usually staok on her frock, and determined to have as little trouble as possible, so Rhe dumps about a pound of tea in the teapot, starts the kettle and and pours on water until those poor tea leaveH lose all flavor, and the last caller gets a cup of tepid water. Now everybody knows the effect of tepid water, Hot water or cold water is possible, but tepid water reduces the last caller to such a situation that, after the call, she stands on the ed«e of the sidewalk while a kiudly policeman holds her, and she throws np her belief in a third term. During this episode small boys stand around and jeer, and an elderly woman with a white ribbon in her buttonhole, says in aloud, shrill voice, "What can we expect of the poor men wh^n the women drink?"

TEA, FOOD AND DKES8 GOSSIP

This stale, stewed tea is a disgrace. Nobody offers stale beer, or cold vegetables. to her friend*, but these long standing drugs are counted as proper, and the lady who

receiving thasiks the

girls who stew the tea for being so sweet and industrious. Another way of mak-

Nervous Prostration

Gould Not Sleep Had No Appetite

Ourtd In Body and Mind by Hood^i Sarsaparllla "I suffered very maoh for a long time

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prostration. I had about given up all hopes of ever getting better when Hood*

Sursaparilla Tit recommended ne and I bailers ray doty to 1*1 other at» flar know the benefit I derived from ft. I Could Not Sloop at night, waswitfc* oat appstltst and what little I dli •at I was suable

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oa my stomach. After taking Ike trs* bottle of Hood* SarsapartUa, whlol to Ao me

Be Sure

to Get Hood's

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good, I tried a

and continued to feel bslim.

gatapteallag Bright and Kefreahod fla tfco morning. continued with the medicine and am cured, body and mind, oan sleep well and feel better in every tray. I gladly recommend Hood's Sarsaparllla to others." J. EDWJJUO Rurjnua, IM Madison Are., Allegheny, Pa.

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ing tea, favored by young ladies who like to flirt, and who think nothing of the stomachs of the lady oallers, is to put the tea In the oopper kettle, keep adding fresh leaves, and letting it boil all the afternoon. Strong? it would not only make your hair ourl, but it would raise the top of your head. Still, the dear girls are capable of doing anything when it comes to ohoosing between work or play. It was a ladies' luncheon that the other letter was about. In giving a luncheon to women alone, the dishes are usually fancy and uneatable. What else ean be expected? When a woman has to put all her money in favors and decorations, there Is so little left for food that, what in England are called hashes and in France entrees are the only things possible. The charm of the ladles' lunoheon is, that as one only plays with the dishes offered, there is muoh time for talk, and lovely women oan lie—I didn't mean to say that word, for it isn't nice—I mean lovely woman can accept the compliments about her frock, and shrug her shoulders, and say it is a little thing that was made for her in Paris, and only cost two hundred dollars. This gives the woman next to her a chance to pinch the leg of the woman next her and whisper, "It was made right here in New York, and she was cheated if it cost over fifty."

SMALL TALK THAT HURTS.

Then the unmarried women are sweet and humble and tell of the men who proposed to them in the years gone by, and whose wives are now present. They look at Mrs. Jones and say "I know, Sweetheart, you won't mind, but, of course, Charlie hadn't met you then, and I was his first love." But Mrs. Jones does mind, and later on Mra. Jones has an unpleasant quarter of an hour. Then, with the coffee there usually appears two or three of the cheap compounds sold at the large shops, where you can get a diamond broooh or a scrubbing brush, a Worth frock or a rat trap and called by the saleswoman "liquors,'' "French likkers," she explains. The hostess has told her husband how muoh cheaper she can get them here than at the wine shop, and after be has tasted them he wonders that they are not given awav with the guessing contests in the Sunday papers. However, the women drink them, aud the first woman to depart is the one who suffers. Her hostess says, "I don't want to seem inhospitable—I like all my friends to have the best that I have and as much as they care for, but did you notice how many glasses of liquor dear Ethel took And everybody sighs and groans, and one woman oloses her eyes in a lackadaisical sort of manner and says, "I will not discuss it, but, dear child, I will say a prayer for her." And then everybody sighs softly again and, after the lady who is so generous with her prayers departs, the girl who sat next to her makes a face and says, "Old hypocrite 1 She'd a good sight better be praying for that son of hers and let Ethel alone."

THE TREATMENT OP GUESTS^

By this time everybody had verged around to Ethel's side and h$d their glasses filled, and the hostess plaintively asks: "Does anybody suppose I would say a word against anyone of my guests?" And her most intimate friend answers: "No, Clarice you are honorable." Then for a few minutes everybody talks about Clarice's honor, and she is rosy red with delight and indigestion, and inquires: "Are you asked to the Brown's dinner dance?" Everybody is except one girl, arid she remarks, never mentioning the fact that she hasn't gotten a card: "Well, of course, you oan all go if you like to, but mamma objects to seeing my name among the people present, for we know how Mr. Brown made his money." Then she says goodbye to everybody, and one woman pins a bunch of violets on her coat, and another kisses her on each cheek, and now the one who decorated her with flowers murmurs, as a sort of elegy: "Poor Mollie, it is funny to hear her talking about her mother, and what her mother will let her do and what her mother won't let her do, for it is nlany a long day sinoe she dapped hands for mammn." '.v

The girl who kissed Mollie says: "Oh, Mrs. Jones, that's slang. But, indeed, dear Mollie is too utterly ridiculous." And so it goes on until at last there is nobody left but the hostess and her deareat friend. And she inquires:

AIN'T TOU GLAD IT IS ALL OVER?" and the hostess answers: "Indeed I am, but I havA wiped off my list all that tribe." This is the average dove lunoheon. Of course, there are hospitable women, and there are times when two or three meet togotber, two or three pleasant women, and have a thoroughly good time. The fanoy that exists jast at present for calling women friends by over-affectionate names Is especially notioeable at a dove lunoheon. Somebody addresses the hostess as "Sweetheart"} a square*jawed woman, who looks as though she had never known the meaning of the word, Is called "Love" a girl who lisps addresses everybody as "Dearest," while "Dear" is as oommon as postage stamps. I confess to not liking it. A woman wants to be "dearest" and "sweetest" and

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a man, and when she calls anybody by those endearing terms, she wanta to address a baby. Hence their Inappropriate* ness between women*.

TOPICS WOMRN MS0U8B.

The other letter that oame to me about etiquette, asked aboutan afternoon visit. From its tone I Imagine the writer is one of the kind who arrives promptly at three and remains until quarter past six, and then finds you are not quite pleasant because yon don't ask her to stay to dinner.

Twenty minutes Is long enough for a lady oilier to inflict herself on a kind hearted hostess, and the brighter and more delightful she is, the more certain she wlU.be of appreciation if she departs

I FEEL SORRT FOR THE YOUNG MAN.

"The Oommon People,"

As Abraham Lincoln called them, do not care to argue about their ailments. What they want is a medicine that will cure them. The simple, honest statement, "I know that Hood's Sarsaparllla oured me," is the best argument in favor of this medtoine, and this is what many thousands voluntarily say.

Hood's Pills are the best after-dinner pills, assist digestion, ours headache. 260.. ,A

Exposition Flyer.

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TEKRB HATJTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, NOVEMBER 30, 1895.

while her charms are still fresh, She who writes wlahea to know what constitutes small talk. I soaroely know myself, so I listened to five lady oallers. The first one told all about her diseases, and after listening attentively to her, I knew more about the feminine Interior department than I had ever believed would be possible except to a doctor. The second took for her topic that neverending and always beautiful one—the children. She dilated on the oleverness of one, the remarkable sensitiveness of another, she repeated the last cunning speeoh of a small boy, and told of the baby's determination, during the quiet hours of the night, to keep herself before them. But for her general appearance I should have thought her a nurse in an orphan asylum. The third lady, metaphorically, never got Into the parlor at all. Her mind never rose above the kitoben, and she talked servants until, well, until I wondered why she kept them if they worried her so, mentally and physically. The fourth lady had just gotten back from seeking green fields and pastures new on the other side the ncenn, and rather expected she vouM tell us of gr^at paintings, notable people, or bpiutiul seennry. But her talk ran thia "A1 Geneva, I g-«t some lace very uaeap, aud at a nuop in Regent street some beautiful undurweur but bonnets are quite as costly as they are here. In Rome, we picked up some pretty jewelry, and in Venice Fanny found some beads that went very well with that clasp she bought last year." These were her impressions of travel. The fifth lady, thank goodness, had a fad. She was a suffragist, and she talked about the ability of women, the greatness of women, the trueness of women and the honesty of woman in a way that was convincing to herself, if not to others. That 1b all that I know about small talk as gleaned from lady oallers. 5 A VERY DELICATE QUESTION.

The other question is a delicate one. He hasn't asked her to marry him, but she feels sure that he will. Under these circumstances, is it wrong for him to hold her hand? As I have been asked this straight out, I should like to say that she will be wiser if she keeps her band to herself, and lets him have noth* ing at all to do with it until there glitters upon it the ring whioh means that his life is no longer his own. After that, he oan hold her hand, and he oan kiss her good night with, impunity and whatever pleasure may result therefrom. The position of the young woman engaged to be married is usually spoken of asadelloate one. I am sure I don't know why, for if ever a human being looked like a captor dragging around a miserable viotlm, it may be said to be the newly engaged girl and her young man. She commands him, and if he dares to disobey she gives him a look that would strike awe among kings. She expects him to follow her like a pet dog, but, unlike a pet dog, he can demand no privileges. Any courtesy she shows him he mustaccept, not only with pleasure, but with an expressed gratitude, perferably In a tangible form, jewelry, sweets, flowers or fruit being preferred.

However, according to the melodrama, his time will come, and it is to be hoped he will enjoy himself. While he is merely somebody's betrothed, he is, to be slangy, in the Mulligatawney, and I bet you don't know what or where that Is. It is a dirty river in Persia. It rises in the Caspian Sea, flows past Teheran and empties itself into the Red Sea. The soup named for it is supposed to resemble it, and too often it tastes like it.

A bow is made. The etiquetter feels that she has done her best. She grins with delight, and begs to say that if there are people who want to know anything oovered by this word, etiquette, which really means a ticket, she will do her best to answer them, if they will write their questions on postal cards and address them to BAB.

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Bud Woolsey, olerk of the Yandalia testifies: I have been a sufferer for four years with stomach trouble, and was compelled to live on bread aud milk for four weeks lost 16 lbs. In flesh in only a few weeks got in such a condition eould not sleep. I have taken the Cascade Treatment only three weeks* oan eat like a horse, sleep welt, have gained 6 tbs in flesh, and still gainiog* I take pleasure In recommending this Cascade Treatment to all of my friends.

BUD WOOLSEY,

Clerk for chief engineer Yandalia. Consult Dr. Gully, Magnetic Mineral Springs, foot of Walnut street.

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Cincinnati, 0.

Editor Heard.

RY FROM CAYUGA CO.^.Y.

Illaa Pennell, at If lie*, Bf. T«, Tells «f a Mtracl* of tUe KlneteenUi Ccatnry. (JVOM Out Oayuga Co., N. T„ Independent.)

Hearing through Messrs. Alien & Burch, druggists of Nlles, that Mr. Silas Z. Pensell, a respected citizen of that town had been oared of a bad case of sciatic rheumatism by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, the editor of the Cayuga County Independent determined to know the truth or the matter and went out to Niles. Hr. Pennell is a farmer and has a neat and comfortable home near Niles. We asked Hr. Pennell if it was true that he had been cured of a bad oase of rheumatism by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. He said that three years ago in August 1891, he was seized with severe pains in the hip, just where the sciatic nerve is, which gradually ran down his leg making life a misery to him but not preventing him from doing some work on thefiurm. Boon after he was loading hay when he slipped off the load and hit his hip on the wneel. After this he was worse, auffering great agony, and for some time waa unable to do any work. He took such medicines as his physician prescribed and improved somewhat so that he could help some around the farm again. About Thanksgiving time he was helping put away some barrels of cider which he nad made, when he strained himself and ngni became helpless. He then tried another

hyxicten who felt confident of curing him th* use of the electric battery and mediI

cine? which he prescribed. But failure was the result, he got no better, and another physician was tried and treated him for tome time. By this time his whole body was affected. Sharp pains would start in his hand or foot, run up one side of his body, over his shoulders and then down the other side and then pass off for a short time. These pains would return regularly, affect ing his whole body, and nothing seemed to relieve him and he began to despair of ever being well. In the spring of 1892 a relative in another county read of a case very similar to Hr. Pennell's, which had been cured by Pink Pills, and sent the article to him, asking if it did not suit his case. It wa very similar and he determined to try them. He commenced taking Pink Pills and soon felt better, the pains became less violent with longer intervals between them. He felt encouraged and persevered in their use and soon became able to work on the farm, and in April or Hay he felt so free from pain that he considered himself a well man again. He says he has probably taken 2G boxes and able to do as good a day's work as any other man, and we can say that he looks like a hale and hearty man who had never knawn sickness.

Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for sale by all druggists, or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams' Hedicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., for 60c. per box, or six boxes for $2.50.

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Postmaster of Promise

City, Iowa, says: "I bought onf bottle of 'Mystic Cure' for Rheumatism and two doses of Uridine more good than any medicine I ever took.,' Sold oy E. H. Bindley at Co., Terre Haute, Cook, Bell & Black nnd all druggists.

To make your Sunday dinner complete, go to Fiess & Herman, 27 north Fourth street, where you will always find an abundance of the choicest meats of all kinds. They have also on hand sausages of all kin|s of their own make. Telephone 252.

For Your Sunday Dinner.

Spring Lamb, Steer Beef, Sweet Breads, Pig Pork,i'Tenderloins, Spare Ribs,

Beef Tenderloins.

C. H. EHRMANN, Fourth and Ohio. Clean Meat Market. Telephone 220.

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On sale each day until December 15th. Quick time via a choice of routes. Excursions to the South and Bouthwest at very low rates.

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We want a few men to sell a Cholee Line of Nursery stock.

We cannot make you rich in a month but can give you Steady Employment and will pay ran well for It. Our prices correspond with the times. Write for terms and territory.

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THE BHILLIA1T TBELSBACB BURNER The new and im

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BARTHOLOMEW,

DENTIST

Hejnoved to 971 Main St. Ten* Haute, lad

IF YOU DESIRE TO BE=

Holiday and Wedding Goods

At extremely Low Prices for

The Next Thirty Days.

Only well known makes in Sterling Ware, Cut Glass, Clpcks, Opera Glasses, Leather Goods, etc. Would like to convince you by showing you through the stock/-

WHEN WE MAKE YOU

STANDARD^

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325 WABASH AVE

LOWEST PRICES

ARE YOU OFFENDED?

when we offer you an assortment of Holiday goods, consisting of Toys of all de?ci iptions, Dolls of all pizes and prices, or

§t| a special offer on House Fu mailing Goods, CrocksSfii ery, Glassware and Tinwire, thereby guacAnteeing

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AN IMMENSE SAVING?

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ORIGINATORS Of LOW PRICES*

325 WABASH AVE.

GEORGE C. ROSS ELL, Proprietor.

inufactured at Terre Haute, Irid.

materials and workmanship, durable, economical and guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction. .V' It

Examine the patent ventilated oven. To introduce them quick, prices are made very low—from $18.00 to $55.00.

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At Bottom Prices, Consult us.

Builders' Hardware, FurnaeesY"

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B. F. BOIvINGER

Invites you to inspect bis stock of

Builders' Hardware, Guns, Loaded 5hells,

Ska tea, Boys' Wagons, Coal Hods, Stove Pipe.

HelMay (Mi la Catlerjr and otber SeaseosHe Articles. 323 MAIN STREET.

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