Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 48, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 May 1896 — Page 3

WOMAN'S WOULD.

AN INTERESTING MOTHER IN A WASHINGTON LEGATION HOME. S

Bloomers A?v CnpopaUr—The hlnewi Slip—The f.'"S3jer House Ball—The New Hat Mai -—The Ultimate Effect# of

Woman

On© of the inKrestirrr mothers of the legation bc::vs in W -iugtou is Mii.v de Lazo Arr tpa. She is a sunny tempered woman, th a flowerlike face, lighted by the thickest of Spanish eyes and framed by jassses of coal black hair. Her skin is clear like the petals of a lily.

When I called upon her, she wasTjnst taking luwb with her children. She looked so g.rlish that I said they must be quite young children, and how merrily she did laugh! "Why," she said, "I have five children living," And then she added sadly, "We have lost three,"

She is proud of her four bright boys and her pretty little girl. The baby is only about a year old. Mmc. de Lazo is a devoted mother, and, though she keeps a French governess for the children, both she and her husband devote some time each day to going over their studies, for they always superintend the studies and lessons. Madame speaks five languages—Italian, Spanish, French, German and English, iyr children can converse with her in all these, and she takes great pains'With their pronuncia ticm. She admires our system of public school education and thinks that nothing coukl be finer.

Whoa I asked Mmc. de Lazo how she liked Washington society, which she has graced for three'years, she replied: "Oh, very well, indeed. But I have not given a great deal of time to it," she added, with a smile. "Yen see, my little family takes a great deal of my attention and fully fills up my time. Society is very merciful to me and grants me the privilege of being good to my children first." "Oh, no, I do not care for politics," •he replied to my

question.

"Politics

cuts no figure with a mother of five chil-

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dmv, except that she must rear them to make good citizens of any country. I have no other politics. "My husband is perfectly able to support ^11 the honors of his official position," she said, "and he needs no assistance from me, more than any good wife always gives her husband—tho making of his home the best and brightest place on earth, and rearing his children to be an honor to his name.'' Through all that Mme. de Lazo said there ran that tender thought of motherhood and the responsibility that it entailed.

Madame's husband, Senor Don Antonio do Lazo Arriaga, is envoy extraordinary juuI minister plenipotentiary from Guatemala and Honduras, and a splendid specimen of manhood. I asked rnadame if sho liked life in Central America. Sho was born in Cuba, educated in Spain and spent a number of years in New York, where she became a naturalized citizen of this country. "Oh," she said, "it is so beautiful in Ceutral America! It has a beautiful climate, beautiful flowers, beautiful birds and beautiful women. The women there are most artistic in gowning themselves, most of their dresses coming from Paris. Outside of Paris," she added, "I never saw more well dressed women than in Guatemala, a city of about 90, 000 inhabitants."

It may be that there is a kind of glamour hanging about Central America which colors madame's opinion of it When yet a schoolgirl, her health being very fragile, her parents took her to Guatemala. While there she meta handtome young lawyer, who was making a brilliant mark in his profession, and fell deeply in love with him, the attraction being mutual. When she went back to New York, she corresponded with him, and for four years this was kept up, till finally the ardent lover gained permission to visit her in her northern home, and their marriage was soon announced. It was a really and truly love match, and a very happy one.—New York Journal

Bloomer* Are CwfKp«Uar.

It is rather remarkable how the bloomer erase has affected certain cities and disaffected others. It was prophesied by most of the critics last year that when this riding season opened drop frame wheels would be no longer popular among the ladies, but thai all of them, clad in their bloomers, would scorch astride the lightweight diamond frame wheel, mounting and dismounting much in the same manner a* their companions of the opposite sex.

This prediction has not become true, and the bloomer girl Is fast disappearing. a fact which is proved by the increased order* for the drop frame wheel* year's experience has convinced the average American girl who rides a wheel that the so called rational cm* feuae for bicycle riding Is not rational at all, hot is an ill fitting garment which affords lest comfort than the short skirt for riding. Moat of the advocates at tibs bloomers last y«ar rode the ordinary

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^Bamond fname wheels, but this year the dealers state that the drop frame is decidedly Miore popular. The drop frame, by thcAviiy, is orly ridden by those women mho appear in their accustomed skirfis, sotflmr the natural deduction is that the blockers are passing.

Another proof is the maimer in which they ire received. In Syracuse, for inst last year the bloomer costume I became so common upon the streets that even the small boys forgot to make comments as the girls went wheeling by.

But this r:tr then? is a change. Hardly a bloonitr -uit bus appeared in that city, which is at of th most prosperous cycling centers of the countiy. Bloomers are almost tabooed, and only a few of the most hardy mrr.ibers of the sex will wear them. The ume thing is true of Washington, and one has only to watch for the bloomers upon the streets here to be convinced of tli 1! line of the bifurcated garments.—Vv ualiington Post.

The PrlaceM Slip.

The princess slip to wear beneath various semitrunsparent dresses has been once and again suggested as an elegant and economical substitute for silk underbodices and -skirt lining^ sewed in with each separate gown. This season we ^ure glad to notice that this graceful and money saving garment has been introduced in various importing and fancy dry goods houses. The model consists of a petticoat of silk sewed permanently to a close fitting bodice, or a princess effect is given, .the slip being in continuous breadths from neck to hem. Thip slip is quite expensive in the shops, atit is ribbon and lace trimmed and elegantly made. However, the woman who longs for just such a dainty, easy and Frencliy little garment can purchase her 10 or 12 yards of surah, taffeta or else china silk at 60 cents a yard, gooci width and excellent, lustrous qualityand let her home dressmaker construct one for her, fitted to her own figure and not that of a wire model. She cau have it made with high, half high or semilew neck as best suits her taste iskd figure. The most of those on exhibition sleeveless, fastened at the back and cu low in the neck to wear beneath a lace: chiffon or fine French organdie gown.

A half worn taffeta or faille silk, with new silk for the bodice portion, will make over nicely into one of these slips. It can be made of black, white or tintec. Bilk, or even batiste, and can also be heavily boned and worn without a corset. Satin and watered slips with elaborately decorated skirts, showing cascades of lace and furlongs of ribbon, are among the very costly imported slips, and for autumn and winter wear we are likely to see princess slips of sheer wool or of taffeta lined with fine French flannel take the place of a plurality of heavy, cumbersome petticoats.—New York Post.

The Summer House Ball.

The hall in the summer home should 'be next in its inviting appoarance to the broad piazza, which is in reality the most important part of the house. If there is not room for a parlor and large hall, combine the two in one as the liv ing room. It will be found much more enjoyable, giving a greater sense of spaciousness, better air and lending itself readily to picturesque effects in furnishing, says Demorest. The multitude of small details, collections of various sorts, rare bric-a-brac, choice porcelains, etc., which have in recent years turned town bouses into museums, should be «tudiously avoided, for not only is it a weariness to the flesh to take care of these things, but it is actually a strain upon niind and eyes to be confronted At •every turn with a multiplicity of objects.

Therefore a wise restraint should be exercised in the selection of everything of a purely decorative character. Every piece of furniture should be for use and comfort you want no stiff, spindle legged chairs, which invite one only to perch lest they fall beneath one's weight, nor stiff, upholstered ohairs and tete-a-tetes which proclaim their ceremonious purpose.

The great, roomy hall should invite to restful ease, and there should be couches, divans and.lounging chaii^with plenty of soft cushions wherever they can be placed, as well as low willow chain by work and tea tables.

If there can be but one open grate in the house, let it be, by all means, in the hall, where a cheery fire on cool evenings and momings will be most enjoyed, and whence the genial warmth will most easily pervade the whole house and dispel its dampness.

The Mew Hat Malady.

I have been called in by several married ladies who say they suffer from a peculiarly irritable kind of headache, which has commenced to trouble them recently. The husbands of nearly all of them told me privately that never had they found their \wives so disagreeably snappish. Everything seemed to annoy them, especially when they had their hats on. I asked to see the articles and found them to be very much alikelarge structures at sstraw, with masses of flowers and ribbons towering high into the air. The weigh* is itself too heavy for the delicate cranium of a woman, but worst of all is the anxiety a lady must feel in keeping such a thing properly poised on her head. Of course I prescribed the usual remedies for what they call the 'migraine," but strongly advised them to put aside such headgear and wear light, reasonable bonnets. Some of them did and were completely cured others did not and are getting more snappish and disagreeable every day. to such an extent as to threaten the domestic peaces

The same style of hat leads the people known as "Arriets" to drink when they pot it on for bank holidays- In othsr circles it leads to the state of tilings I have described. And is it to be wondered at? Who can calculate the amount of worry to a nun with a tall hat on a windy day? If we were not a strong brained people, our asylums would have been full long ago from that vesy cause. Women are not able to bear the mum

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strain successfully, and if they persist in wearing hats taller and more difficult to manage than men's, nothing but domestic'disaster can ersue.—A Physician in London Telegraph.

The Ultimate Effects of Woman Suffrage.

We may as well consider vrliat changes in human society, and especially in the character and fortunes of woman, the new order cf things sought to be innnp-urated (full political powers) will be iikely to bring about

Immediately and in one geiieratioi not very many cr considerable. Character that has been slowly molded by ct tain influences, acting for long perit f.s. will not be modified immediately by withdrawal cf those influences. WT...I. ever deterioration occurs, whatever nev. hardships make the lot of woman more tragic, will only appear after adverse influences have had their full term oi operation.

Neither in readjusting the duties toward society of the sexes respectively are men likely to insist that, in taking full political powers, women shall surrender any or all of their present immunities and privileges. The relation of the contracting parties is not one that will make any such rigid and hard bargain possible. But that surrender will inevitably be brought about by the indignant disdain of the women who will have effected the social revolution at being the recipients of any privileges which differentiate their situation or hamper them in their complete develop ment. The inevitable ultimate result of subjecting the two human sexes to thr same labors, the same employments, the same care% will be just the same a? when domestic

TEBBE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, MAT 23, 1896.

have

been sub

jected for long 'periods to the same conditions sexual differences, physical and mental, will tend to disappear, and thr two branches of the race will approximate a common type.—George F. Talbot in Popular Science Monthly.

Stylish Piquo Gowns.

Pique in dead white, but with its cords so thick that they make it seem like cloth, is shown in white, wood, Stem green, mazarin and navy blue, a. well as in plaid designs somewhat larger than shepherd's plaid, but with hair lines so crossing each other that an extremely fine plaid is achieved. Scarlet and white, blue and white, black and white, stem green and white and purple and white are the contrasts offered in this plaid. The pique dresses are simplicity itself, and as much care is taken to make them fit well as if they were of cloth. A typical one shows the stem green and white plaid. The skirt has the usual flare, and to increase it there are two rows of skirt boning around the •lower edge. The jacket bodice is somewhat longer than those worn during the winter and flares away from the front to show a waistcoat of. stem green Cloth fastened with bullet pearl buttons. Tho broad revers on the coat are of the pique, and the high stock is of stem green taffeta ribbon with a large bow in the back. The full sleeves sla-ipe into the arms, and each has three rows of the bullet buttons on the upper side. With this is worn a sailor hat of white straw having about it a band of stem green ribbon, while five stiff stalks of mignonette stand up on the left side. The gloves are of white glace kid closing with four large buttons.—Isabel A. Mallon in Ladies' Home Journal

A Woman Hermit.

In the northern part of Lyme, near the boundary line of Salem, Conn., in a lonely clearing, surrounded by woods, stands a dilapidated old house of the seventeenth century style, with as tone chimney on the outside at the gable end. This old house is the home of Miss Desiiih Wilcox, a maiden farmer, who reBides there alone. Informer years she used to keep oxen and cows and till the soil, but she. is getting past heavy work, and her stock now' consists of a horse and a flock of sheep. The only income derived from the farm is the annual clip •of wool and what little hay or timber She may dispose of, which amounts to very little. She has lived alone since the death of her parents and seems perfectly contented and happy.—Boston Herald. .J

Methodist 'Women. J'"'1j-s-

"Women in the .'Methodist Conference"—these words sound as familiar as the notes of thareturning robin. With the coming of spring the Methodist woman always makes a move on conference and conference as regularly makes a move against the Methodist woman. But the persistent sister is steadily edging her way nearer to the coveted goal, and nobody doubts -that she will ultimately get there.—Chicago Advance.

A Triple *«Ut.

It was thought that the height of combination effort was reached in the union suit of the various dress reformers, but a triple suit produced by a fashionable London firm combines low corset cover or chemisette, drawers and underpetticoat in one garment. The

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under thisar.d over the wool gauze vest, leaving nothing to be put on ore,r it before the gown except the bernffled silk petticoat.—New York Timesi

To clean a white sailor hat which i? soiled remove or cover the band and scrub thoroughly with 5 cents' worth of salts of sorrel dissolved in cold water Be careful not to bend the hat out oi shape, as it becomes very stiff when dry. Place in the sun to dry.

There is a fad among girls just now to pose, invariably resting the bands on the hips. When the sleeves are sufficiently bouffant* the effect is quite fetching.

To have tlx silk waist match the lin-a tag of (be jacket of the suit is a necessity of present smart dressing

Ifm D. W. Beard has been elected president of the Tennessee fttato yederation of Women's Clubs.

The mincil state Prohibition tfffn iVrlsrrd for woman

A BUSY WOMAN.

She

Mta a Paper, Manage* a Household and Is Rearing Five Children.

Women who find that it is a great tax Upon them to manage one house and five children should read with admiration cf Mrs. Ann Doherty of North Dakota, who manages a house, five children and newspaper. The newspaper is The Nei

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son County Independent and is a legacy to Mrs. Doherty from her husband, whe died a couple of years ago.

The ^Independent is not an insignifi cant sheet by any means. It is the official paper of the cor.uty, and it is a popular exponent cf the views of the Populists. So that Mrs. Doherty has to be wise in politics as well as in oth( things. But she ccnducts h( paper satisfactorily and is making it even morf of a success than it was under masculine management. Besides this she is briupc ing up her children to the admiration the neighbors and is a housekeeper of repute. —Exchange.

White Wheels and Guest Wheels.

Vagaries of bicycle fashions are numerous. To dress in harmony with cue's machine is one of the latest, now that colored wheels are in use. A woman flashing by the ether morning in a white cloth suit, with white sailor bat, veil and gloves and mounted on a white wheel was a somewhat startling spectacle. Mourning wheels, or, more properly, wheels for use in mourning,- sire a Parisian caprice which the Frenchwoman finds necessary to her a la mode grief. In the metuitime the woman cf taste brings that necessary quality to bear upon her wheeling equipment an upon all others and wears an inconspicuous, suitable dress on as good but not showy a wheel as she can afford.

Speaking of wheels, a smart youn^ woman says that one has to knew how to ride one nowadays, just as one has to know how to play cards or tennis or do any popular thing, to be an agreeable visitor. "If I'm asked to a country house with a party," says this anther ity, "I put in my bicycle suit just as I used to cany my riding habit, for there is sure to be a wheeling expedition arranged. One does not have to take one's wheel either. One need not own one in deed, for it is the very modest house party entertainer these days who has not from one to six wheels at the disposal of her guests."—New York Times.

What Some Women Do.

It has sometimes been hinted by worthy people who sought to praise the American girl at the expense of her English cousin that the latter lacked the in genuity of the former. But. a list of the occupations in which various well born, well bred London women who are lacking in fortune and in training to earn money engage seems to indicate a certain amount of adaptability.

One woman made a specialty of belts and made them in leather, kid and ribbon to suit the prevailing styles. The airy lamp shade and its companion piece for candles gave another woman her living. One who had lived along time in India made and sold delioious chutney and curry powder.

Still others of housewifely tastes and attainments gained a reputation and an income from homemade jam, from salted almonds and deviled biscuits. Their clientele is in each case among personal friends, and the dainties are sold at prices sufficiently below the confectioners' to profit the buyers as well as the sellers.

Some women whose taste runs to dogs take the pet canines of other women out for daily airings. Others take charge of birds, attending to the ornithological rites of feeding, bathing and the like.

Its Note.

A teacher was hearing a class in the infant Sunday school room and was having her scholars finish each sentence to show that they understood her. "The idol had eyes," she said, "but it couldn't"— "See," cried the children. "It had ears, but it couldn't"— "Hear," was the answer. "It h*d lips," went on the teacher, "but it oouldn't"— "Speak," once more replied the class. "It had a nose, bat it couldn't"— "Wipe it," shouted the children. And the lesson bad to stop a moment for the teacher to recover her composure.—New York Times.

What to Call It.

Every girl old enough to read a newspaper takes an interest in weddings, especially in the caka It may interest you to know that the soft icing which comes directly next to the fruit cake is called bliss.

Constipation

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