Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 November 1896 — Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

POPULARITY OF THE WIFE C~ PRESIDENT Or MEXICO.

THE

8ew« In Soda! Intrteonm—Fashions In Hearth*—Fifteen Cento a Goest—Stained Furniture—Impatient Women—A Debutante's Revolt.

Mme. de Diaz, tbe wife of the president of Mexico, is not only the first lady of the country, but is the most popolai woman in the republic. Senora Dona Carmen Romero Rnbio de Diaz is known* among her people, from the mansions of the rich In tbe brilliant capital to the humblest hot on the fron tier, as Carmelita, meaniDg "our little Carmen." Her popularity ever increases, for each year sees a larger number of good works dispensed by this

MME. DB DIAZ.

generous woman, who uses her power to improve the lot of along oppressed and nubappy people.

Mme. Diaz is often appealed to, on behalf of some one or other sentenced to long imprisonment or death. Offlcinl pardon is delicate power for any one to hold, rnd tho president's wife is naturally careful for the justioe of her case before alio goes to her lord to plead for executive clemency. But the president himself is of a forgiving nature, and not infrcqnently the pardon is granted.4 •Neither the president nor his wife attends tho brilliant bat brutal bullfights, and in every way they use their influence against the degrading spectacle.

It is certain that he will entirely prohibit (bent us soon as public sentiment gives any hope of upholding his wishes.

Sense In Social Inter coarse. Fashion is mending her ways in tbe idireotion of sense and sincerity in linos «f social intercourse. The woman who designates upon her viaitiug card i«n "at homo" day must always, whatever temptation may arise to be elsewhere, toe tastefully gowned and ready to receive h( friends at the appointed time. T?be ho^ioss who does not restriot tbe visits of acquaintances to any day may still retain their good will and her own self respect She is no longer "not nt 1bome," but more truthfully "regrets that sbo is engaged," by this message protecting her own conscience and that of her servant as well. The well bred visitor will uocc'pt this graciously, knowing from expcrieuce bow impossible it often proves under existing circumstances to set aside pressing duties for the obr.neo caller. Formal visiting is now limited to afternoon hours, as less liable to conflict with necessary appointments of daily life. The latchstring cf hospitality still remains ont for closo friends, who drop in at all times according to impulse and convenience.

A fino line of ooortesy leads the visitor not to offer her card to tbe servant, T)ut to inquire if Mrs. Blank is receiving. If answered in the affirmative asks if Rho will see Mrs. S If in the negative, then the card is left in evidenco of the call. Cards are in a measure falling into disuse, the Englisa method of announcing guests being very genera!) accepted in the best circles of society—a pasteboard only left when the lady is cut or not receiving. At social functions, asido from tbe dinner of ceremony, ruests M"®

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leave cf host and hostess when departing, a curd left on tbe hall table covering thi point of civility. This method Is tbe outcome of afternoon teas and eveiling receptions, at which people Momo and go constantly between tbe hours prescribed by invitation, keeping the hostess occupied in receiving from first to last, These affairs afford oppcrtunity to entertain twice the number ol guests without the discomfort of a crowd when tho service in the dining room is continuous. Perfect independence is granted each hostess in the matter cf menu and decorations, light refreshments and A few ont flowers now regarded as true hospitality in the same degree as tho more elaborate efforts of florist and caterer. The woman who "oanno* afford to entertain" at the present day is hindered by pride and ignorance of society'sways rat her than alight pooketbook. We have much to thank oar sisters across the water for in this matter, to surely bnt certainly are the charming little functions of foreign life asserting themselves in this country.— Table Talk. ...

Paahiora ta Hearth*.

It is the library fireplace that is alvr»j* reeerved for Kane charming inscription done on the panel below thr shelt awl what tbe inscription shall be depends on the type of mantel selected.

If it is done in the delft tiles, new somewhat waning la popularity, a quaint Biblical quotation in antique tch lettering i# the proper thing. But it is an English hearth, built with i&fllennoks, then go through tbe old for a suggestive set of lines or from Burns a couplet to have carved or burnt into the board below

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whole 4eptb of the chimney extend into the room and fitting up the corners formed by the wall and chimney, or by placing seats right inside the deep fireplace itself.

Now, in an Ingle nook fireplace no such abomination as gas logs, ml quartz embers or a stingy little hook grate filled with small lumps of anthracite coal are allowed. Don't have ingle nooks at ail unless you can afford a low, broad, basket grate and keep flaming lumps of Welsh cannel blazing in it.

Of oourse, if you have money to burn, in tbe literal sense, you can have your ingle nook fireplace built out half way into the room and raised on a dais of three shallow marble steps, the great hooded chimney set on a row of columns, and the rest of the decorations done in glass mosaic. Then, when the fire is lighted, the designs in the mosaic show )'ke those in a stained glass window.

As for bedroom fireplaces, nothing could be more charming than their most recent mani'istation.

The least expensive ones are done in red brick, t' fireplace proper no longex a square cavern, but a low, deep arch cut in the brick, with brass andirons showing sunflower tops, and a shallow coal basket swung between them. This is a type of quaint decorative chimney place it is possible to have for an outlay of $20, and so modeled that, as is now the prevailing demand, it can be used for ooal or wood.—Boston Advertiser.

Fifteen Centa a Guest.

It's easy when you know bow. In this day and age of the world he&Vy, cqstly luncheons with ostentatious hospitality argue laok of experience and taste. Money is a small portion of tbe requisites.

At least that is what a well known sooiety woman of Cbioago is demonstrating just now. She gives lunoheons whioh are simple, elegant and satisfactory to her guests. Moreover, she limits the cost to 15 cents for each guest. She has undertaken to show the elegance of simplicity in the matter of hospitality and is giving a series of noonday lunoheons that are the admiration of all who are so fortunat- as to be invited.

Instead of the conventional, stand up, walk around party, late hours and insomnia producing suppers, there are lit tie gatherings of up to date women, vivaciously bent upon discussing the problems of the day. The viands served are prepared by the hostess herself, no pains being spared to make them dainty and appetizing. The following menu, with an accompanying itemized list of ingredients used, was furnished as showing how a company of 14 may be given a generous, wholesome and delioious "spread" for the trifling Aum of $2.10:

First Course.—Potato puree, with whipped cream. Second Course.—Lobster farcie, slices of lem on, graham bread.

Third Course.—Paris eggs, Boston brown bread, pickled pears. Fourth Course.—Beef and rloe, outlets, hot roll*, potato balls, green peas in Ramarkin dishes, coffee.

Fifth Coarse. Snow pudding, whipped cream, nut oake. Ingredients Used.—Cream, 60cents peas, 10 cents eggs, 10 cents lobster, 23 cents butter, 10 centa lemons, 10 oents gelatin, IS cents meat, 10 cents rioe, 4 cents coffee, 10 cents rolls, 16 cents sugar, 16 cents nuts, 6 oents potatoes, 6 oents flour and molasses, 10 cents total, 12.10. —Letter in Boston Journal.

Stained Furniture.

Up to date women are rejoicing in furniture grained—not painted—all the oolors of tho rainbow. And energetio women are doing the staining themselves. Th« wood must be light—oak, maple, yellow or white pine—and tl. more grained the better, as the heavy markings come out particularly well through the transluoent color. By sending a special order to the manufacturers it is easy to ?et sets of furniture without paint or varnish, but if it is an old piece that is to be renovated it must be thoroughly scraped. Put the stain on quite thick and rub it off with a linen or cotton ra^. A coat of hard oil finish may be applied as a filler, and then, after it is dry, it Bhould be rubbed all over with the prepared beeswax that oomes in cans for floors. After the was is rubbed on it should be allowed to harden before polishing it with a flannel cloth till it is quite shiny and bright.

Tbe most fashionable stoin at present is a good, old fashioned regular green, whioh, when rubbed well into the pores of the wood and polished, is really beautiful. Tbe two transparent oolors Prussian blue and raw sienna make, when mixed together, an exoellent green, or, if a brighter tint is desired, gambogo and prussian blue. A very little of the latter gees a great way, as It is altogether the most powerful color known. Prussian bine alone makes a very pretty peacock blue stain, raw sienna a yellow or orange, according to tbe amount of color used, crimson lake a loyely red, burnt sienna an almost exact imitation of new mahogany. In staining it should be borne in mind that it is not paint, but stain, and that a very little should be used, a pound being sufficient to stain a whole set of furniture. —^Chicago Times-Herald.

Impatient Women.

It is commonly said that women are more patient than men. Perhaps this is so as regards the bearing of unkindness, Illness or privation, though the important admission must be made that, when a woman is impatient, she is ten times worse than a man. But if we can endure pain and anxiety better than our lords and master*, says the Loader Lady, there is one thing we do lessw. ii than, they, and that is to wait. "If a woman wants a thing, she want* it right away," ssy the Antmcus, and tfcrr are right. A man will toil for ye#' scheme, endure rebuffs, fijrht hi* W«T through obstacles, gehis on with patience from year's mI toy .n in pursuance of nm: aiuhitn^, SMJUend In life. He will not te or to left* nor grumble at the t.r% which be takes almost as course. But a woman, if *h» i*. v. i,. will do so at the cost ci .u :„©vc nerve wear and tear which would be in

comprehensible to fiun. We are capable of heroic acts on the spur the moment. When we are strung up to the effort, we can stand fatigues that would overcome many a man. What we cannot endure is monotony. How many men there are who, after 30 years erf hard routine work and worry, are fresh and hale still 1 Whereas, a woman, unless she have change, either breaks down altogether or becomes prematurely aged. It is this radical difference in the temperament pf the sexes that seems to oppose nature's "non possumus" to tue theory that all employments followod by men are egually suitable to women.

A Debutante's Revolt.

.' 'I think it is so vulgar to oome out!" said a coming debutante to her mother, half crying as she spoke. "Why, my dear?" exclaimed the latter, astonished. "What reason have you to say such an absurd thing as that?" "But I do," persisted tbe girl. "Boys xjever oome out What is the reason of it all, I should likQ to know? It is really to announce to the world that we de ol a marriageable age and that we are upon the market. And then the way people have of discussing us and our chances and whether we are 'a success' or notl It is perfectly Intolerable. I think we are like victims decked for sacrifice. Do you for one instant suppose that papa would pay the enormous bills from the dressmaker and milliner and allow you to give a series of expensive dinners if it were not for that? He does not say i, and you do not say so, but you both wit is true. Of coarse if I am not & sud06S&—that Is, if I do not have attention and marry off—you will both be kind to me and resign yourself to olroumstances, but I know you will consider me a failure all tbe same. Then the oriticism a girl is exposed to is almost as bad—her looks, her dress, he* manners, her powers of conversation, are all discussed and decided upon. 1 together it'f a horrid ordeal, and I wish you would give me the money it will cost and let me start in business," concluded this new young woman to ti .3 undissembled horror of her mamma.— Boston Transoript. j-

How to Remodel a Sleeve.

The sleeve question still continues io be a perplexing one. It is all rght to have new, narrow, long sleeves, with their wrinkles and bell cuffs on a new gown, but when a last season's gown is to be remodeled that is a different matter. Here is an ingenious way to fix up a last years sleeve: Rip it apart and take out the lining. Out a tight fitting lining for a foundation. Then take

Mlaa Anna Millar.

The fact that Miss Anna Millar is tbe business manager of Tbeodore Thomas' orchestra is interesting. The amount of planning and detail work neoessarily connected with such a position is enormous. Miss Millar was born on a farm near Musoatine, la. She is most successful in her work. She is described as being attraoth and thoroughly womanly, and she handles the great orchestra', business with absolute ease and corroot-

A XJecnae to Preach.

Mrs. Caroline B. Buell of East Hampton, Conn., well known as tbe corresponding secretary for 13 years of the National W. O. T. U-, was given a license to preach the gospel by tbe Lii*: •nd Advent union at its recent annual meeting. The offer was entirely unexpected by Mia. Buell, but will not be declined.

Mice are particularly fond of the birds which are now worn cm modish bats. This is said in friendly warning to those who leave their cbapeaus in placefe where the little rodents can get at them. Take heed, lest the greatest marvel in millinery will look as though a cyclone had struck it.

At Melbourne, Victoria, on Oct. 9, the assembly, after an all night sitting, passed the second reading of the bill establishing woman suffrage, and "one man, one vote."

MUe Alice Snyder has been appointed assistant to Dr. Mosher, the new dean of tbe women's department of Hie Uaivermity of Michigan.

dotheepins boiled a few minutes oncc or twice a month and quickly dried be» oome mote durable.

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sleeve itself. Out the lower part of it as long and as narrow as possible, shortening the puff for that purpose. Tb fasten it to tbe lining with three shirrings—one at the front seam, another on top, and the third beneath. These shirrings should run to the eye of the arm, thus dividing the puff into three smaller ones, or, to be more exaot, making of an old fashioned Bleeve one with very timely lines 'V

Vasaar's New Buildings.

The new buildings at Vassar are under headway. The president's house will soon be ready for occupancy, his rooms in the main building having been turned into apartments and offloes for the lady principal, offloes for the president, secretary and faculty and accommodations for 11 students. Mr. John D. Rockefeller has given the funds for the new reoitation hall, while tbe other trustees have presented the dormitory.

Miss Laura Wylie, Ph. D., has been made assooiate professor of English, and among the new members of the faculty are Miss Rogers, Miss Start, Miss Oarter and MIBS Ida HubbelL

MIM Nordhofli Bookbinder. Miss Ethol Nordhoff, a daughter of Charles Nordhoff, is another one of the young women of tho day who are making new departures by entering paths of work hitherto trodden almost entirely by men. Miss Nordhoff has ohosen book\{ binding as her profession and has fitted herself for it by a course of preparation under Mr. Cobden Sanderson, at the Dove bindery, near London, whence issue the delightful bindings de luxe that are the ohoice treasures of their happy owners.

I« Chant and Lady Somerset. Mr& Ormiston Chant of London was a delegate from the World's W. C. T. U. to the national council of women lately held at Berlin. In her address she expressed her regret at being unable to speak German. Mrs. Chant said: "I have hitherto been so busy trying to live the four lives of mother, minister, housekeeper and writer in one that I have not had time to venture a fifth as a linguist I began to learn German only a month ago, and, though it takes but an hour to learn to love it, it takes a lifetime to learn to speak it" Mrs. Chant presented greetings from the first president of the international council of women,'Mrs. Fawoett, and paid a high tribute to her, to tbe American women who organized the first international congress of women at Washington in 1888, and to Frances E. Willard.

Of Lady Henry Somerset Mrs. Chant said: "Belonging to the high anoestral nobility of our country, she has consecrated her rank, wealth and socinj influence to the great work of upliiting the ethical standard of her .j and country. One of our finest spep.krrs, intellectually in the front rank as a thinker, her beautiful life in private is a shining track marked out by generous acts of pity and womanly succor of the victims of cruelty and sin. With 'Noblesse oblige' for ber motto, she has done what the English aristocracy ought to have done oenturies ago, and of hex it shall be said in days to. come, "the blessing of him that was ready to perisb came upon her.'"—Boston Woman's Journal.

A Craze For Braided Gown#. All manner of odd conceits are brought into play with the new crazo for braided gowns. It requires a master hand to turn out a successful braided gown. Every bit of it must look as perfect as a die, yet it must be all hand work, or it is not up to date. Black braid is put upon gowns of all colors, from pale grays and tans to black, and with equally good effect. Shades of brown braid are also employed nioely upon certain shades of blue, tan and smoke gray. A fetching gown in tbe latter dainty color is made up of smooth English meiton, lined throughout with rustling golden brown taffeta and richly braided with the same shade of silk braid. The skirt is cut to measure five yards at the foot and is trimmed with a curved border of broVvn braid set on in a fantastic way. The blouse bodioe is drawn into a belt of brown velvet. The entire body is braided over in rows, ending in figures to match the skirt, the braiding extending over the hips a short distance and over the tops of the leg of mutton sleeves. Double cuffs of the velvet and an odd double collar finish the waist. Military effects are much used in braiding. Very little is put upon the skirt, but quantities are lavished upon the bodices. Sometimes the entire sleeves are braided over in narrow, curved lines, finished with tiny loops.' A gown of white alppoa is enriched by the bodice being braided elaborately with black outing appliqued figures of royal purple broadcloth. —Chicago Times-Herald.

The Russian Translator of Dickens.

Irinarch lvanevich Vredensky was the eon of a poor but intelligent villat,e pope, or priest, who tilled his glebe to feed and clothe his large family of daughters and this only son, to whom be still found time to impart the rudiments of education. Irinarch was a sickly and lonesome boy, cut off from all playfellows by his ascetic though well meaning father, and be grew up to manhood in bitter poverty, having sometimes literally nowhere to lay his head. Yet, in spite of all obstaoles, he became a distinguished scholar, a versatile linguist and a beloved pedagogue in the military schools at St. Petersburg.

He was growing in -fame and favor with the authorities and had been called upon to undertake educational work of the highest importance, when his blindness and premature death cut short his brave oareer. His translations of Diokens, Thackeray, Fenimore Cooper, etc., are classical and laid the foundation of the wonderful popularity which their works still on joy in Russia.—Notes and Queries.

The Fountain of Youth.

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Thousands of people who seemed to have lost their youth by disease and suffering have found it again through the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, the most perfectly natural and scientific rejuvenator of the physical forces ever known to medical science.

It gives the blood-making organs power to make new blood, full of the life-giving red corpuscles which drive ont disease, ouild

up fresh tissue, solid muscular flesh and healthy nerve force. It gives constitutional power, deep and full and strong: rounds out hollow cheeks and emaciated forms gives plumpness, color and animation.

It does not make flabby fiat like cod liver oOL On this account, it is a perfect tonic for corpulent people.

It aim* digestion and the natural action of tbe liver, and by feeding the nerves with highly vitalised blood banishes nervousaeas, neuralgia and insomnia.

Where constipated condition exists, the Discovery should he used in conjunction with Dr. Pierce'* Pleasant Pellets, which are the aort perfect, mild and natural laxative in the world. There is nothing else jnsi as good." There is nothing that will do the work so thoroughly, soely and comfortably-

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