Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 24, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 December 1895 — Page 2

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

BAB'S LETTER.

[Copyright, 1806.] NEW YOBK, Dec. 4,1885,

These wooderfal autumn days have "brought oat, especially on Broadway, an Influx, not only of men and women, but color, in away that is marvelous. Never before In the history of fashion were wo men so gaily dressed. A year ago the passing crowd stared and did a little guying when it saw a bright scarlet waistcoat nowadays she who selects to wear a gown of scarlet may do it with the certainty that it will cause no commotion. Frills of lace, coats of velvet, hats with one, two, tbre» and four dif ferent colors upon them, with jeweled pins to fasten the vails, and jeweled buttons to close the coats, are here and there, and altogether, lovely woman Is not only a thing of beauty, but of vivid tints. And yet—somehow we are never happy —my eyes rest with pleasure on the plain dark cloth suit, fitted perfectly and trimmed with fur, preferably sable. That's femininel "Preferably sable!" But there Is something wrong about woman who doesn't like the richest furs, the finest laces, and the daintiest linen, and the old Southern mammy, who sized up a lady by her underwear, wasn't far out of the way.

ACTORS ON THE STHEET.

Here comes a woman—a beauty, the ideal Trilby—Blanche Walsh. If you have any doubt as to the change in fashions, look at the ooat she wears and which tits her as if it were her own skin rather than that of a funny little beast. It is an Eton jacket of beautiful white ermine, with huge sleeves and flaring collar of sealskin, while the Marie Antoinette muff that aeoompanies it is a big one of ermine with a piping of seal around the edge#, and the toque on her, •early inane, is made of apiece of seal, a fan of ermine, two or three feathers and some I'ice, an essentially French mix ture. A year ago nobody saw ermine on the street now if you are the wife of a millionaire, or a successful actress, yon elect to have at least one garment either made of it or trimmed with it.

It i» funny to see English people on Broadway. They are oftonewt stage folk, and the members of the three large companies now here all seem to choose Broadway for their stamping ground. The women have good skins, beautiful hair, but nine times out of ten are overdressed. With them silver jewelry has never grown old-fashioned, and they wear innumerable bangles of silver and ohatelaines, heavy with all sort of silver trinkets intended either for use or orna ment. The men, like all Englishmen, scowl at every man who is a stranger to them, and this soowl always convinces me of the truth of tbe old story of the drowning man who refused to thank man who had saved him beoause he hadn't been introduced.

IRVING'8 PECULIAR WALK,

Occasionally, one sees Mr. Irving sail ing along Broadway. I use the word "nailing" beoause it expresses, to my mind, the peculiar way he walks. Then too, his legs are as much like sails as anything in the world quite like unto them. They curve where other people's don't and are straight where other peo pie's arecrooked and, altogether, achieve an effect that is unlqus. Nobody be lieves It would make the least bit of dif ferenoe which way Irvmg's body was turned—his legs Would suit any position of It, for they have neither Alpha nor Omega from the ordinary standpoint, but slmp!y peculiar wrinkles of their own. And then his voice—I regard Mr. Irving as one of the great stage mana gers of the world, and, in some plays, he is undoubtedly a great actor, but the language he used In "Macbeth" was the strangest I ever heard. It may be the oomliiK English—in which case I am glad that I shall not be here when it arrives—but It ia certainly not English as spoken by any other man but Sir Henry Irving. It combine* all the etleots of a hot potatoe In the mouth with the throat stopped with wool, aud of a speech born in the boots, with an original peculiarity added To *ee living's "Macbeth" you

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want to take your Shakeapeares with yon and it ia one of those times when to have messenger boys sell books of the play would be desirable.

TEE FUNNIK8T SIGHT ON BROADWAY, next to Irving, la one of the great singers from the opera. If he ia going to sing to-morrow, he ia bundled ap to proteot him from everything, including son shine, and he ie aooompanied by a fol lowing, who fret and worry as to whether the aira of heaven will touch him. All the great men singers have, first of all, a secretary, then a business manager, then a personal oompanion, then a valet, and then an assistant valet, to take oare of them and make life easy for them.1 This tribe aooompanies the singer on his walk —tbe business manager to see that no other business manager gets hold of him the secretary, to write a note or a tele gram if he should condescend to enter a publio place to do this the oompanion, to entertain and flatter him the valet, to see if bis ooat should need buttoning or unbuttoning, and the under valet, to do tbe actual work. Famous politicians are nowhere beside famous singers. Any man oan be a senator or a congressman, if he has money enough, but any man oan not have a voice that will sway thou sands of people and make them think tbey know what heaven must be like.

Just behind this contingent from the grand opera comes a woman writer, whose appearanoe .would never suggest her masculine name—John Oliver Hobbes—but after you have looked at her you think of her always as Mrs. Craigie. Rather small, she has a bright face, which, on the street, looks out from under a huge picture hat of black velvet, faoed with rose color and laden with plumes. I always think pleasantly of her, beoause she says such truthful things. It took a woman to say and to realize this: "A dog can put more soul into a look than a kind friend can talk in an hour." Isn't that true? And isn't this true? "Etiquette, my dear, makes tbe difference between man and the brute beast." And isn't this true? "That wheue?er there Is a wife or a husband to be ignored, there is mischief." It seems to me that when you remember what people have said in their books, those books must be interesting.

A JOLLY AUTHORESS PASSES BY.

Following Mrs. Oraigie oomes a woman whose books are known all over the world—Mrs. Amelia Barr—large, matronly looking, I should think about 60 years old, she gives you the impression, as do so many elderly English women, of looking a little like Queen Victoria At tbe same time, Mrs. Barr has an expression of her own, and it is an extremely kind and sympathetic one.

Here is an odd-looking pair. The face of the man is dark and picturesque, and he looks tbe Spaniard that his name would seem to make him. It is David Belasco, the playwright, whose peculiar method of dressing suggests that be is a Catholic priest. With him is the star of bis new and successful play—Mrs. Leslie Carter. Her figure is gtrlish, her face is bright and Intelligent, and the only thing that makes her look different from any other bright, pretty woman, is her wonderful hair. In these degenerate days such hair is rare—it is a bright, Titian red, braided in two plaits that reach to the edge of her skirt. The night she made her debut I was close enough to the stage to see the tears streaming down her faoe as she tried to do her part, and ever since then I have hoped and believed that sho would succeed. It may have been just tbe womanly sympathy that she excited it may have been that Instinct that we women share with dogs, aud which men soorn, but I have always felt that in that slight frame there was a brain that was determined to get the better of everything, and succeed. And she has. As "Maryland, Southern girl, dear to my heart, she does wonderful work—such wonderful work that the theater is packed night after night, and, mercenary as that may. may sound, the crowding of the theater does prove a good play and a good ao tress. Well, she has my best wishes for success, and it was good to have the tears first, for now she oan laugh, and the laughing last is best.

BAB LIKES BEN HARRISON/FF" I get a dignified and polite bow, which I return with all the respect that oan be expressed by a small woman, from Mr. Benjamin Harrison. It is a strange faoe, that faoe of his. To me it tells of much suffering, but of much strength stored up for special oooaslons. I am a Rebel still, but I am a Republican, as far as Mr. Harrioon is concerned. I should like to see him in the White House again, for if we start this third-term business, we might as well have a king at onoe, and. If we do that, we had better take him young, and be sure of his breeding. Then we can train him, and it won't be too much trouble for him to be polite to the nation. It is a curious thing, but the real royalties, the veritable kings and queens, do trouble themselves a great deal more than the Imitation ones, and even the women feel that they owe something to the people, and they pay it. FVmoy the Duohess of York refusing to have a photograph of her baby sold I I have a dear'one. The oaby is in her arms, and the young Duke is leaning over her and looking at it. These are the things that make people loyal. But when our paste-board king has acute development of the head, and forgets that, belonging to tbe masses, be must not cbjeotto the masses looking at his woman and children, he may make up bis

mind that the masses are not going to oare very nauoh for him or them when their loving admiration Is counted of no worth. No, if we want a king, we must do as those men who train the raoe winners. We must catch htm young, and be sure that he has good blood In his veins.

Speaking of men who own race horses, that slender, small, dark little man who just went by owns some I would like to have—it Is Dave Gideon. A good combination of adjective* may be applied to him—-be Is kind sod lucky. Poor Georgie Drew Barry more used to call this well-dressed, fashionable-looking man, "TBI STAR BOA.RDKR OF THX FAMILY."

Ton know who it Is—John Drew. And this great, big, handsome man, wearing a fur trimmed overcoat and walking with a woman whose figure Is fine, but whose face Is ao nan filed up you can't see it, la Melbourne McDowell, and with

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him is Fanny Davenport, his wife. There Is one beautiful thing about Miss Davenport she is the kindest and moet considerate of actresses to the stage folk she is willing to spend her money for them, and she is willing to help themThe people in her oompany, who wish to succeed, are encouraged and assisted by her, and she has never been envious of another actress, or aoted meanly to one. She does her work and does it well, loves and is loyal to her own people, aud deserves to be happy.

All the rest of the people who'pass along are wonderfully alike. T|« society girl is out in full force, Mx^ust now she has anew pose. The k^ywing girl is quite out of style. The j$rl of to-day, with her hair turned off her faoe very softly, must look innooent must try as far as possible to get on her face the look of a baby. She longs to appear absolutely ignorant, but alas! she finds it difficult. I oross over into tbe square, and passing, give a look at the babies In their perambulators.. And

A BOGUS "BAB."

For some unknown reason, a lady, I shouldn't like to think she was anything else, has been kind enough to use my name. She is said to be tall and dark, distinguished attributes that I cannot olaim, as I am small and members of my family, speak of me as "fair." In every instance, this lady tells that she is just recovering from nervous prostration, and that she has been under the oare of a specialist. To be forcible but not gram matioal, she is not me, as I have not been under the oare of any nerve doctor. Far be it from me to interfere with her getting any of the luxuries of life that she can, honestly, and she oan introduce herself as the missing link or Lydia Plnkhatn, but I give you my word of honor that she is not BAB.

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TERRE HATJTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, DECEMBER 7, 1895.

I AM OIi AD I AM NOT A BAST. How would you like to ride in a perambulator when tbe afternoon was very warm, with a fancy, heavy rug' over you, never to have a drink of water K'ven to you, and to be expected, when ou are thiratv or hungry, to be satisfied with sour milk taken through a long black tube like« »pispipr-? Any *en* ble being would KIOK and rage and do, pA]e anything that would call op his Stanic Majesty. Tbe learned doctors say thai babies draw in with the milk that they drink the sort of temperament they are going to have. If that is BO, the coming man is to be dreaded. He will be a sour, nasty, dyspeptic creature. I may be a bit old-fashioned, but I don't believe tbe Lord Intended babies to take their nourishment out of a bottle if He had, there would have been some sort of speolal bottle made for them, and it would not have been left to the doubtful ingenuity of man to contrive.

DOWN SOUTH A MONO THE MAMMIES, when anybody is described as being a 'bottle baby," all bis weakness of brain and heart are forgiven, because of this misfortune I once heard an old darkey exouse a jouug man, who had forged bis father's name, and married a variety actress in this way: "You see, honey, you mustn't jedge too harshly ob de unfortunate soul he never had de advantages of de rest of de family, and laokfn' de mainstay, what can be respected from him? He were marked from de day of his birth as a oreature liable to sin and uncertainty. He were refrained from the natural fountain of youf' an' were given over to dat beastliest of drinkables, de bottle." All the darkies about shook their heads knowingly, and agreed with Aunt Briggsy that "a chile which were raised on de bottle oould not be held reoountable." I don't suppose all tbe talking in the world would make mothers of women who are not built thai way, but at least they migbt try to get somebody to take oare of their babies who wouldn't behave as if the little people were without feeling, and not sua oeptible to such ordinary weaknesses as thirst, hunger and oold or heat. It is time for me to go home, for I have chatted about men, women and babies, but I must say one last thing.

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ever took.,' 8oldTy K. H. Bindley & Co., Terre Haute, Cook, Bell A Black and all druggists.

Exposition Flyer.

The QUEEN A CRESCENT ROUTE has inaugurated a handsome new train, the Atlanta Exposition Flyer. Superb solid train, vestibuled day ooaohes and standard Pullman sleepers Cincinnati to Atlanta without ohange. This train leaves Cincinnati 9:15 p. m. every day during the Exposition, arrives at Atiaata next noon at 12:10. Three hours quicker than any other train on any other line. 109 miles sbortsst route. The superb train service cannot be equalled by any other line In the South. Ask for tickets via Queen A Crescent Route C. W. ZKLI*, D. P. A., ••'/a Cincinnati, O.

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

Try Taylor for fine Boots, try Taylor for warm Shoes and Slippers, try Taylor for anything you want lo Rubbers. 1106 Main street.

Roman's Story.

NARRATIVE OP WOMAN'S ILLS.

Vlgfct T«a«t»g and Lack of Oot-Door Ei•rets* Bring Hath Woe, {From the Detroit Sun.)

The large, pretentions brick residence at 86 Miami avenue, in this city, is the home of the heroine of this interesting story. She is

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Miss Stenbaugh is a pretty girl of about 20 years and is to-day the true picture of the ideal, healthy, robust and jovial American

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She was not always so, as is proven bv made by her. Four years ago," she said, I was such a scrawny, puny little midget, pale and emaciated by an ailment peculiar to us women that my father and mother gave me up to die. The local practitioner, wnose name was Dr. Glassford, (I was at that time living at Scotland, Ont., said it was only a matter ol days when I would be laid away in tbe churchyard. I could not walk. I became so weak, and regularly every night my fathei used to carry me up stairs to my room. I can distinctly remember my telling him thai he wouldn't have to carry me about much longer, and how he said, while the tears glistened in his eyes, that he would be willing to do it always, if he could only have m« with him. "At this time read, or was told by somebody, of the wonderful cures that were being wrought by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for

ford, where lie purchased a couple of boxet from W. Wallace. I commenced taking them, and I thought for a time that they dia me no good, but very shortly I noticed a great ehange. They began to act on my trouble, and In the snort space of six weeks I wai able to walk. I continued taking the pills, and in six months I was in the condition yon see me now. I fully believe that they alone saved me from the grave, and yon will always find myself and the balance of our family ready to talk about the good Dr. Williams? Pink Pills did for me."

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Holiday Excursions.

On December 24th. 25th and 81st, 1805. and January 1st. 1896 the Vandalia Line will sell tickets to all points on its own line and many connecting lines, good to return including January 2d, 1896, ut one and one-third fare for tbe round trip.

Low rate excursions to ATLANTA, Ga. and points in tbe South and SouthweBt. For further information, oall at City Ticket Office, 629 Wabash ave., or Union depot

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DENTIST.

Removed to 671 Main 8t- Terre Haute, Ind

JSAAO BALL & SON,

FUNERAL DIRECTORS.

Corner Third and Cherry streets, Terre Hants, Indn are prepared to execute all order* in their line with neatness and dispatch.

Embalming a Specialty.

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Jostles of the Psaee and Attorne at La*, tt south JM street. Terr* Haate. Ind.

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