Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 50, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 June 1896 — Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD. gasi

A KANSAS TOWN THAT IS RULED BY WOMEN OFFICIALS

ChMtronomic Color Sfmphonlet—Mrs. Stowe at —FaslilonmbJe Discomfort

Shirt Wahti and Puawli—Seasonable

Hinu. ^#yr.r The little city of Ellis is enjoying iome notoriety jnsfc now tram the fact that all bat one of its officers are women. Ellis is situated a little west of the oenter of Kansas and has a population of aboat 1,200.

The majority of its citizens are composed of railroad men and their families. The people are largely of eastern birth, the town being originally settled by a colony from the neighborhood of Syracuse. The town is well supplied with churches and schools, and its citisens will compare favorably in point of education with those of any town in the country.

Ever since the prohibitory law went into effect in Kansas spasmodic efforts have been made in Ellis to enforce it, but with indifferent success, the saloons always opening up again after the

flurry

was over. During the past year the liquor element has had its own way more than formerly, and its boldness served to encourage the gambling element as welL

This state of affairs naturally woke up the conservative people, who, while not out and out temperance men, still desired to see the laws enforced, and it became apparent that if something was not done the gambling element would literally own the town. As election day drew near an effort was made to select a ticket that would enforce the laws to the letter, but after a canvass it wan found that no one was willing to run.

Finally a caucus of men was held and after a thorough discussion of the situation, the suggestion was made that seeing it was impossible to secure men with sufficient backbone, a ticket composed of women bo nominated. The idea took at once and the following ticket was arranged: Major, Mrs. M. A.

MRS. M. A. WADE.

Wade police judge, Mrs. Clara Sheldon council, Mrs: Gay lord, Mm Lillian Hussoy, Mrs. Elizabeth Murden, Mrs. Emnia Shields, Mrs. Ella Newcomer. A committee was appointed to notify tho nominees, who in nearly every instance refused to run unless their husbands gave consent. This was finally obtained and the ticket filed.

An opposition ticket composed of men WHS nominated and the issues clearly defined. Tho women for law and order W and tho opposition in favor of letting matters go on as thoy were.

Tho preliminary canvass was about as exciting as a presidential election, the women being not by any means a unit in support of their sisters, and the discussions sometimes became very heated. The opponents of tho women's ticket asserted that tho women would ruin the town, that there would be hair pulling In less than a montji, eto.

Election day dawned bright and fair and found the women ready for the fray and with a grim determination to carry the day if possible.

As the first 10turns came in it looked as though the women's ticket was beaten, and a nuiulx of its supporters went home vowing never to have anything more to do with politics. Later returns proved more favorable, and when the final estimate showed the election of their entire ticket with the exception of police judge, their joy knew no bounds and their supporters proceeded to ring the bells, let off fireworks and make *ther demonstrations of joy.

The ticket as elected was a oosmopol*tan one. The mayor was born of Axnerparents in Canada. Two of the 1 were born in England, one was Irish descent and the other two Amerifmwi»

A good deal of quiet fun is being triced at the husbands of the council omen elect, and they are now referred to as "Mrs. Shields' husband," "Mrs. Newcomer's husband," eta, and asked how they like staying at home taking oare of the children whilo the head of the family is away attending to affairs of state.

The women have been sworn in and are proceeding very cautiously, and are evidently not going to make any mistakes if they can help it The predictions that immediately after their introduction into office they would proceed to tear things is not borne out by their first month's experience. They have already accomplished what the men have failed to do in ten years closed up the saloons, and the probabilities are that they *riU remain closed.

One thing more in regard to the councillors. They are not load mouthed viragos, as commonly depicted in the comic papers, but are women with families who are prominent in church and society circles, and whose sole idea in taking office is to see that the laws are enforced and demonstrate to the world that women have ability to conduct affairs of state as well as men. Kansas is nothing if not radical, and in no state is the Union is women metre thought erf, or given more encouragement to

spread her wings than in th^ Sunflower State.—Ellis (Kan.) Cor. New York Journal.

Gastronomic Color Symphonies.

How to color things without poison ing the guests is something of a puzzle to the ambitious housewife who wants to raise her feasts above the commonplace. The cleverest hostess is the one who gives a "shaded" dinner—the menu and decorations shaded, say, from pale pink to dark red. Commence with a pink soup and finish with a red dessert, deeply, beautifully red, the flow era deepening from the loveliest of blush roses to the crimson of the jacqueminot. Carmine or cherry red or»ichineal tine tare, or the former with a judicious blending of apricot coloring, will produce any and evejy shade of red or pink desired, and as both are harmless and tasteless they can be used without fear. Aspic jelly is the most accommodating bit of edible, fen: it easily takes on ev ery color in a rainbow—if properly treated—and may appear several times in the course of the meal without exciting either surprise or remark, and first pink to garnish pink dish, later red to decorate a rod dish.

For this red dinner the mayonnaise is colored with a tablespoonful or two of currant jelly or a little carmine. The sweetbreads may be smothered in puree of red haricots. Beets, cut in small dice, may be used to garnish another dish. Cherry sance for the lamb is made of cherries boiled in claret and water. Strawberry jam lends a willing hand in the color scheme, and aspic jelly, as before mentioned, colored either red or pink, serves many a purpose. Cream for the meringues must be ool ored red with the carmine, and the cases for the ices must be red—red crape paper, perhaps shaped like a rose. Apricot coloring and saffron will tint anything yellow, and damson blue—which can be bought at the shop—with a little carmine, will make mauve. Lemon jelly and ice cream are easily tinted mauvo or yellow.

Chopped green aspic is the very back bone of a green dinner. Color the aspic with a few drops of spinach juice or apple green. Chopped parsley is also an inevitable aid, and green paper cases and the handles of dishes tied with green ribbons do the rest The sauces, meringues or ices are colored with the spinach juice, and some of the entrees may repose upon spinach. Chicago Times-Herald.

Mrs. Stowe at Eighty-five.

Writing of 'Harriet Beecher St^we at Eighty-five," Richard Burton, in The Ladies1 Home Journal, gives a delight fnl picture of the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin, of her home in Hartford, andjof her daily life. "For some years now," he says, "entirely withdrawn from society, Mrs. Stowe is much afoot in the open air, her strength, for one of her years, being remarkable. In the summer time the 'slight, bent figure, with its white hair crowning the dark, wrinkled face, is a familiar sight to the neighbors, as she wanders under the boughs, gathering consolati from sun and shado and wind, or stray rf* down the steep "bah^ to where a lITtle silvery" stream winds its tortuous length behind the Clemens and Warner grounds. On such walks a trusty attendant is always by her side. It is likely that Mrs. Stowe's fondness for exercise and outdoor lifo has done much to sustain her bodily vigor to her present age. But she comes of a sturdy stock. "Mrs. Stowe's working dfiys have been long over. None of her conspicuous literary productions is associated with her present residence, and her condition requires that she be carefully guarded in every way by her family from the intrusion of strangers. Yet as she walks the

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always followed by a fat lit

tle pug, who is an autocrat in the house (it may be remarked that the Stowe family is devoted to dogs), one often sees lion hunting visitors eager to catch a glimpse of the most noted literary woman of the land. Bequests at the door for a sight of the mistress are not infrequent, while letters petitioning for autographs are, of oourse, legion. Occasionally still the latter favor is granted, or the authoress pens a bit of a note in acknowledgment of some oourtesy.

Her modest way of living implies the fact that the rewards of distinguished success in literature are other than mon etary. Such success is not to be measured by tangible things. The aims and ambitions of those who seek to do work with the pen worthy to live, and help* ul to their fellowmen, are not those of mere practical pursuits. How oan be estimated in dollars the deep moral glow of satisfaction experienced by Mrs. Stowe on the day when the emancipation proclamation was given to the world?" rwMmliU Dieeomfort. little group of women chatting over the various fads, fallacies and follies of the present day indulged in some very just and sensible criticisms on the dress and taste of modern womankind.

If there is one thing for which I shall be devoutly thankful," said one of them, "it will be when these wide skirts go out of style. I am so tired of having yards and yards of stuff flapping around my ankles that I conld almost find it in my heart to adopt bloomers or indeed anything else that would keep these voluminous draperies out of my way. I am fond of walking, but I have been obliged to give it up when I wore my good dresses. The only pleasure I have found in any pedestrian tour for along time has been when putting on an old skirt and mackintosh on a rainy day. Especially if the wind blows, getting about is almost impossible." "And I narrowly escaped a serious accident," said another of the party, "simply because the wind caught my dress and wrapped it around me until I was done up as tight as a paper parcel I

was on a crosswalk, and but for a poUksutsn I would have been run down by a track, for I could not tan a step until he turned me around and released jae from my imprisonment" "And I had an experience, too," pat

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in another. "I was out with a woolen dress, and it got wet The lining was wet also, and with that enormous bulk of cloth the amount of weight I had to carry was a caution. I think the skirt must have weighed 15 pounds by the time I got home. It is bad enough to walk in trim fitting skirts when they are wet, but the amount of moisture that a six yard skirt can absorb is something astonishing."

There are indications that fashion will take a reef in skirts and relieve us of some of this superabundance, and surely the reduction will be a most welcome one to all women who are* fond of out of door exercise.—New York Ledger.

gun Waists and Parasols.

If there were any doubt that the shirt waist occupies the most prominent place in the feminine wardrobe of the coming season, it would be dispelled by the discovery that for each dainty waist of linen or batiste there may be found a parasol of corresponding style and texture. Indications point to an inevitable enlargement of the summer girl's al ready capacious trunks, since they must contain not only shirt waists of every possible fabric and finish, but likewise as many parasols, whose only essential is that they shall "match."

As the linen shirt waist is to be most conspicuously in vogue, the linen para sol, with its frill of fine embroidery and its silk lining of delicate green or rose, will doubtless often est be seen. Yet the simple untrimmed affair of striped cambrio or other light material is just as novel and is fast making its way into fashion because of its congrnity with the unpretentious costumes of summer morning wear. Even the simplest, however, has its silk lining of a harmonizing shade and may have as elaborate a handle as its owner chooses to pay for. Long handles of the always popular dresden, with charming designs in pinks and blues, knots of silver or of crystal overlaid with silver, are among the many varieties that may be chosen.

This year the parasol, which seemed

Handsome Toilets.

Very handsome toilets for afternoon receptions, weddings, etc., says a New York writer, have short, smart looking jacket bodices of black silk or satin, brocaded in fine brilliant designs—roses, daffodils, azaleas, cornflowers, eta, with full vests and wide revers of one color veiled with accordion plaited black chiffon, the brilliant shade of the satin showing handsomely through the airy plaitings. The coats are all short, and the circular basque stands out crisp and full below the waist and is lined with satin the color of the vest

Alice Freeman Palmer.

TEBBE HAUTE SATURDAY JEVKNOTG MAIL, JUKE 6, 1896.

short time since entirely* .to have outgrown its prinlal function of screening its possessor from the sun and to have developed into a useless state of flimsiness, appears to have taken a decided step in the'direction of usefulness and simplicity.—New York World. 'js-f

What the Bridesmaids Wore.

At a recent fashionable wedding the eigne Dridesma'ds wore gowns of white chiffon made up over satin. The satin skirts were edged, each of them, with a frill of the same, and the bodices had fichus and what are oalled rucked sleeves of the same. These are sleeves wrinkled from wrist to elbow and looking a good deal like an elongated Bernhardt glove. White satin sashes were worn with the gowns, and red velvet cloaks or short capes lined with white satin were slung from the shoulders. Completing. the toilets were unusually large white felt picture hats, with ostrich feathers fall-

vet in front. At another weddi^-fj®1 four, bridesmajds wore costpjne^" from one of Romuey's pictures,

ing over the brim and another standing a up with a rosette of scarlet'--hideous when rocking from side

W or-

ing in blue and two in pink pompa&v^ silk and fancy crepe, trimmed with sou cream lace and mousseline. White chip hats trimmed with pink and white tulle and pink moss roses completed these effective and picturesque toilets.—New York Times.

Mrs. Alioe Freeman Palmer, ex-presi-dent of Wellesley college, is now in Venice. She has aocepted the invitation of the American Missionary association to be one of the speakers at the jubilee of the association in Boston next October. Her subject will be 'Educational Equipment For Missionary Service.'' In her letter of acceptance she expresses herself as much interested in all the work that the association is doing.

Mary Turner Carriel.

Mrs.* Mary Turner Carriel has been nominated by the state Republican convention of Illinois as a trustee of ihe State university. Mrs. Carriel believes that women should be allowed to vote on "educational and moral questions,^ but is not in favor of full suffrage. sgg

The high bicycle shoes that lace through eyelets their entire length are said to be preferable to those that lace over pegs at the top, for the reason that the pegs may fret and tear the facing ai the skirt, and might cause a serious accident x'&Qigi

In making black lace dresses where transparent sleeves are desired, if the sleeves are first lined with very fine white net the arms will look much whiter. Ihe lining does not show w^en the sleeves are worn.

Whatever you do don't wear wired pads in your sleeves. It is no longer stylish for the sleeves to go straight oat from the shoulder. Put plai tings of haircloth in the armholea.

Miss H. Frances Joiei of Philadelphia has been chosen one of the presidential electors at large and delegates to the national Prohibition convention.

Mrs. Oelia B. Whitehead is the editor of a new department headed "Woman's here" in The Union County Standard

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WOMEN AND WHEELS.

ltr. Zimmerman Says It Is Time They Were Lectured For Their Awkwardness.

"It is high time some one spoke to women about their position in the saddle, for, taken altogether, there is vast room for improvement among the women cyclists,'' says Mr. Zimmerman, the crack wheelman.

'I do not know just

why it should be so, but women who walk gracefully, and whose dancing, for instance, presents the poetry of motion, are awkward on the wheel. "To overcome that of which I complain I would suggest that all women learn to ride the wheel under the direction of a competent instructor. By that I do not mean to learn how to get on and off the bicycle and to keep from falling off, but to learn the correct position to assume when riding and how to pedal properly. "Women, more than men, must sit up straight in order to get the full benefit from bicycle riding. If the bicycle, as it is rigged at present, does not permit, change the seat and handle bars. If that doesn't do it change the wheel, for it is manifestly better not to ride a wheel than to ride one which is injuring you slowly. The handle bars and saddle can be so arranged that you can assume a natural position. 'The best way to begin is by getting a wheel of the proper size and weight and with a suitable saddle adjusted in the proper position. Those are matters which you can determine for yourself more quickly and easily than I could tell you. The easiest and surest way of getting a saddle that will be just right is to have one made from a mold. "See to it that the saddle is kept in its original form. If it should change form through use have it restored to its original shape, else you will suffer disoomfort and fatigue. Pedal evenly. If you don't pedal evenly now, learn how at onoe. Do not put all the force in pedaling in the downward push. Point the toe downward when the foot is going forward in the circle. Keep the knees in and straight

As between the seat and the pedals do not have the saddle so high that when the pedal is at the lowest part of the cirole the leg is perfectly straight. The correct position at that point is to have the leg slightly bent at the knee with the toe inclined toward the ground. But be careful not to have the saddle so low tfyat the upper and lower portion of the limbs are at more than slight angles. At the same time the arms must be curved .slightly* the hands resting easily on the bars.

Remember what 1 have said before to all bicycle riders—don't rock. It is particularly bad for women to get into the habit. Many wheelmen and wheelwomen seem to think tho rocking motion adds to their speed or helps them along. It does nothing of the kind. On the coutrary, it does a woman positive ir:d distinct injury, as any medical man will tell you. "And if that doesn't appeal to you. ladies, I want to tell you that you real-

Mrs. Ellen C. Johnson,

Mrs. Ellen C. Johnson is said to be the only woman who has held a commission from the governor of Massachusetts continuously during 17 years— since May, 1879. In that month she, with Mrs. Mary G. Ware of Lancaster, waR appointed upon the new board of prison commissioners. Mrs. Ware had been on the advisory board of women several years in prison work, and Mrs. Johnson had had a long experience in private work in prisons. After five years' service as commissioner Mrs. Johnson became the superintendent of Sherborne Prison For Women. Concerning this institution Mr. Warren F. Spalding, secretary of the Massachusetts Prison association, said recently, "The prison now stands among the first in the world for system, methods and results."

A Novel Tea.

Word oomes from Paris of a very novel tea recently given there. The drawing room was lighted neither by gas, oil lamps, electricity nor wax candles, but every object was rendered phosphorescent. The ceiling sparkled as with diamonds. Pictures, flowers, carpets and teacups emitted luminous rays. The chairs gleamed. Light was everywhere and seemed nowhere. La* dies moved about in illuminated dresses, their very complexions sending forth moony beams—all very odd and very Parisian.

A Brave Toons Woman.

Miss Knox of Sunbury, Conn., entered her father'8 office at ah opportune moment to find him struggling with a pet lkm, which had suddenly attacked him., She procured along strap, made a noose, threw it over the lion's head, fastened the other end to a ring in the wall and rescued her father. No one has yet suggested that she was "out of hersphere. —Exchange.

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