Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 24, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 December 1896 — Page 6
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
A WOMAN WHO 18 GOING TO JOHANNESBURG TO PRACTICE LAW.
Women Legislator* In Colorado—All Shoes Go For Women—Economy In Fuel—The latMt In Fashion*—A Woman aa an Engineer—Early Victorian Keviral.
Mrs. Nettie Ooke, attorney at law in Fresno, recently Bailed for Johannesburg, South Africa, where she will engage in the practice of the law. Mrs. Coke has become known in Fresno as a woman endowed with unusual plaok and possessing at the same time the happy faculty of being able to make her way in the world with little trouble. Her many friends were astonished somewhat over a year ago when she procured an appointment from Governor Badd as a notary public at Fresno, as she was the only feminine holder of such an •ffloe in that portion of the state. When •he set up her desk, however, and began to reap a golden harvest by administering oaths and affixing seals, they changed their opinion and admired her plaok. Her subsequent admission to the bar only served to add to her popularity,
MRS. NETTIE COKE.
and she is now a conspicuous and respected member of the legal profession in Fresno.
Although she has met with considerable suooess in her profession, Mrs. Coke has decided that she oould never bo contcnt to remain all her life in Fresno or in California, and she has determined to seek broader fields in which to labor. Bho also wants to see more of the world, and it is this latter desire that has influenced her to go to Africa. She will go first to Honolulu, thence to Now Zouliuid and Australia, in all of whioh plucca she will dovote some time to sightseeing. Then she will make her way to Capo Town and Johannesburg. Mrs. Ooko expocts to find ready employment in Johannesburg. Should she fail to succor! in establishing a profitable law practico nho will probably return to Fresno, visiting Enropo on her way home. —Sun Franoisco Chronicle.
Wonion Legislators In Colorado.
Mrs. OJive C. Butler, Mrs. Evangeline Hcartz u:ul Mrs. M. A. B. Conine of Denver havo been elected members of tho Colorado house of representatives on tho Populist fusion ticket. One of these legislators olect.^Mrs. Butler, is a Mussnohr.setts emigrant, a Boston woman, born under the vory shadow of Bunker Hill monument and educated in tho publio and private sohools of Massachusetts. She was marriod, in 1800, to Simpson D. Butlor of Lynn, Mass., whore they residod until 1880. Then they went to Denver. Mrs. Butler if a
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irominout workor in tho Woman's ReCorj, juhI is a post department seofcetary of Colorado aud Wyoming. Mrs. Butlor has always taken a deep interest In public affairs, says tho Denver News, especially siuoo tho right of suffrage was granted tho women of that state.
Mrs. Heartz is a nativo of Prinoe Edward Isln::d. While she is not extensively known in publio life, she has many friends iu her domestic relations. She has taken an interost in city affairs and is closely allied to the labor element through her husband, Mr. John Hearts, who was for flvo years president of the Bricklayers' International union, No. 1, of Denver and is now its treasurer.
Mrs. Conine is a "clubwoman." She is serving second term as president of the North Side Woman's club, an organisation of over 200 members, having been unanimously re-elected last spring. She has for about the same length of timo been chairman of tho legislative committee of the reform department of tho Woman's club of Denver, in which capacity she has spent much time and effort in thoroughly informing herself concerning legislation specially needed by tho state. Mrs. Conine has been interested in reform movements for several years, especially siuoe the ballot was granted to Colorado women. According Ik) tho Dourer News, she was nominated and elected without ever having sat in
convention or attached herself to any !800,1
paity, and that she will do herself, her •ex Mid the parties which selected her credit in the legislature goes without aaying among all who know her.
All fihoM Go For Wotneo.
Women will have a chance to wear out their old shoes this winter, at least wo
far as the fashions are concerned. There is the most convenient variety in the footwear shown now. You will find a little of everything in the windows, picoadilUea and round toes and square toes and New York toes, spring heels, military heels, common sense heels and Louis XV heels, laces and buttons, calfakin and French kid. Everything goes.
There seems to be a little preference In certain directions, however. The majority of winter shoea haw pointed toea, but not of the sharpest variety. They are not pretty. They hare the air of having started out to be around toe and of having suddenly concluded to be pointed. This causes an awkwardness at outline whioh, however, may be compensated lor hy an iaoraaaa of oomforl
Tan shoes are still rmf nraoh in art-
deuce in the windows, bat women do not seem to take kindly to them for autumn and winter wear. Calfskin is the favorite material for heavy shoes. In dress shoes a good many cloth tops are shown, and one Fifth avenue firm dis plays high dress shoes with steel bead embroidery on the toes. Slippers are of all materials apparently, and they all have bows on them. These bows are,' in many oasea, of satin ribbon to match the gown. Sometimes they are merely butterflies of satin, spangled with gold and silver. The pins aud buckles used with them bows are of cT?«*r and colored rbinesu'ues, cut steel, gold and silvnr.
Riding boots have broad, plain top*, minus the wriukles that formerly eb«r* acterised them. Bicycle bouts are mm as regular a feature of a stock as they once wore unknown, Ttwy we shown in the same stylos which prrfftlltni (taring the summer, with the addition of heavier one in calf—Now York San.
KwMMwmy tn CM,
There are wry few faiuiltaa in thil country whm economy it not practiced to some extent at least, or where the bills for fuel are not deemed of sufficient importance to deierve a careful scrutiny. In the majority of households the ooai bill becomes little short »t
a terror, espe
cially during long aud severe winters. Any way in which this expenditure oan be out down is hailed with delight by the great army of breadwinners, most of whom find it by no means easy to make both ends meet when pay day, with its attendant bills, comes around.
Careful personal attention will soon convince any housekeeper that there is a good deal of waste in this department, and that it only requires the prudent hand of an interested person to make a decided difference in the sum expended.
A large percentage of heat from coal goes up the ohimney because the dampers are not properly adjusted. The fire is started, and the heat becomes intense. Instead of shutting off the draft and checking the fire, which is roaring like a blast furnaoe, the idea seems to prevail tbat it must stay in this condition until the boose is heated. By that tim? the first lot of fuel is almost consumed, with little result, exoept to heat the chimney and a portion of the outside air. If, instead of this manner of managing, the dampers were arranged as soon as the fire was well under way, the hot air would circulate through the pipes instead. A high degree of heat may be kept up by putting on coal a couple of shovelfuls at one time. Packing the heater with coal and allowing it to burn out is not the best way to economize.— New York Ledger.
The latest In Fashions.
In examining the French dress models as they are uu boxed it is noticed thi six out of oight of those designed for visiting, promenade and reoeption wear aro formed of very handsome Venetian ladies' or faced cloth of velvety fineness and perfect weave and coloring. With few exoeptions these costumes are decorated with bands of rich fur, and their oost equals that of lyons velvet gowns. Tho majority of oelebrated French ateliers are using these fabrics in preference to any of the craped, crinkled or tho color mixed silk and wool goods even of very high prioe, these textiles being reserved for costumes for more general wear.
There seem to be no fabrios tbat are likoly to rival these rioh plain cloths for certain uses this winter. The new dyes are simply beautiful, and the fashion has not ceasod of using two contrasting colors of the oloth in making the gown. Some handsome shades in deep russian green appear, also silver blue, peacock blue, deep danish red and fawn color. Tho brown dyes were never so rich or beautiful in coloring, and these make ideal costumes with handsome fur trimmings for best wear for women who do not dress extravagantly, but always dress elegantly. Frenoh designers are using oream white mauve, aprioot, silver gray and palest old rose Venetian oloths for bridosmaids' toilets, trimming them with fur and opalescent passementeries and liniug tho gowns with crisp taffeta silk—roso oolor in crenm or silver gray gowns, golden green in white or aprioot, reseda in mauve and shot silks in old rose, oafe au lait aud other delioate dyes. —New York Post
A Woman as an Engineer. "One of the pleasures of camping at Mountain Home, Cal.,"says the Tulare Register, "is an occasional visit to the lumber mill aud a pleasant chat with the engineer, Mrs. Cherbborne of Porterville, wife of the proprietor of the mill" This lady learned her profession many years ago from her father, who was a mill owner. An emergency arising, he wisely concluded tbat the accident of sex neod not deprive him of the assistance of his capable daughter. He therefore instructed her in the mysteries of steam propulsion. She has since added to her practical knowledge the theoretical part taught in books and expects
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competency to run a locomotive. Mrs. Cherbborne is found amid the whirling machinery and flyibg sawdust, arrayed, not in bloomers, but in a neat pink gingham dress, straw bat and strong buckskin gloves.
The work in which Mrs. Cherbborne is engaged has proved a finanoial benefit to herself and family, as she can employ a woman in the kitchen for much less than vould pay an engineer, and she also eujoya her work. She says: "Of course it is easier than housekeeping. It is a man's work, and there is only one thing to attend to, while in housekeeping one must think of a hundred things at onoe."
The subject of this sketch is a woman of ideas and an enthusiastic equal suffragist, and those who have liitoH to her public utterances say that she kea an able and convincing argument for woman's advancement.
Aa Karty ttetertss BeHrot. We are threatened with a revival of the faahiona of that moat unbecotuu^t period, the early Victorian era, in dross.
The hair is now~worn very high the bead in Paris, undulations are out, the large, loose bow of hair we aee in the queen's pictures is I adopted, and Mme. Sarah Bern baa appeared, in a much beflo gown, similar to one of those our grandmothers.
Who does not remember Leech'' ty little women in Punch, with^ ringlets, their flounoes, their shoes and coal scuttle bonnets tiny waists? They were pretty of it grotesqueness of their they never walked, and they staid at home, but to expect our stalwi athletic young ladies to appear in such garments would be mcpt incongruous. It waa before the day* of tweeds, tailor lande gowns and short skirts. Women wore silk dresaoa even in the country, and men went out deer driving—as it is written in the history of the queen's first visit to Sootland Prince Albert did—in a green velvet ooat, plaid trou•era and Tyrolese hat with a feather stuck jauntily on one side. Not Suoh opera comique days oan never now return I—London Graph io.
Fin de Steele Chivalry.
Tho Boston Advertiser says: Two thousand two hundred and thirty-seven members of the Cambridge university "senate" in England have signed a document whose purport, stripped of all verbiage, is that women may be permitted to study at the university, provided they pass entrance examinations as rigid as those required of men, keep up during their oourse of study as high a standard of scholarship as the men do, pay the same fees that the men pay and receive none of the degrees, none of the honors and none of the privileges which are aooorded to men in oonsequenoe of connection with the university. And this dooument emanates from what is known as the "liberal" party in the university senate. The other party wants the women excluded absolutely. The terms upon which the "liberal" party is willing to admit them constitute a very faithful sample, stripped of all glitter and tinsel and othor false pretense, of about nine-tenths of what passes in the world for ohivalry.
Queen Victoria's Gay Dress.
The queer, always had a liking for gay colors, and a lady who was presented to her on her first visit to Deeside gives the following interesting account of the queen's dress: Her majesty wore a bright blue silk dress, with a great number of flounoes of varying depths, each edged with narrow black velvet over a not inconsiderable crinolinc Above this very brilliant garment she wore a royal Stewart tartan shawl in all its rainbow colors, a white chip bonnet trimmed with pink roses apd blre ribbon bows. A white veil and pale lemon colored gloves oompleted what could hardly be oalled a quiet costume. She carried in her hand a small blue silk parasol, with a thick silk fringe of the same shndo and with a white ivory handle and stalk, y-Woman.
Lady Hayter.
Lady Hayter, known in London as the Zenobia of the Liberal party, is not only an accomplished woman of the world, but also one of the most indefatigable of women travelers. With her husband, Sir Arthur Hayter, she has journeyed twice around the world, hunted kangaroos in Australia, elephants in Ceylon and tigers in India and has explored the Yellowstone park and the Yosemite valley. In spite of her taste for outdoor life, she is said to be a consummate artist in dress, and her toilets serve her as the frame to a charming pioturo.
Chicago's Woman's Temple.
Mrs. Matilda B. Carse, who planned the Temple in Chicago which is used for headquarters of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union, The Union Signal and many other important offices, has taken to the platform in order to raise money to liquidate the debt of the Temple. Miss Shentz, an able elocutionist, acoompanies her. Any one desiring to perpetuate the memory of a temperanoe worker can, by the payment of $100 to the building fund, have such name inaoribedon the tablet in WillorU hall in the Temple.
Spangled Trimming*.
The fancy for beaded and spangled decoration oontinues, and these trimmings can be very easily made and at little expense by adding the bends or spangles or both to gimp, velvet bands, ribbon, lace, net, eta These, iu nearly every color of the rainbow, can be bought by the ounce or package at very trifling cost, and the work of sewing them on is nothing.
It is not believed that a literary life impairs vitality. Mrs. Oliphant is a rarely bright woman at 68, Miss Braddon still a prolific novelist in her sixtieth year and Onida as capable as ever of writing startling romances, although ahe confesses that she ia 56 years old.
A woman at the meeting of the Brooklyn Health Culture clnb said: "This crusade for short skirts is only a fad. It won't last, for women haven't courage enough to follow any style but the prevailing one."
Queen Victoria has offered the use^ St James palace to the Needlewj guild of Great Britain for its annj exhibition. The Duoheas of Albany the leading patroneaa
North Nebraska Methodist conference decided by a vote of 69 to 7 that women were eligible as delegates to general ooofexvooe. S
New stationery has the tiny gram io the upper left ban* comer of the sheet rather than in the center, as
The Atlanta Woman Suffrage association ia diactuaring the advisability of calling a state suffrage convention Id tb.totV. .»
TEKKE|HAUTE|SATURDAY EVENINGIMAIiL, DECEMBER 5, 1896. It «s ^V
Collars.
Among minor modes we see that, in j£ace of the huge white sailor collars 'worn last summer, fashion now affects te spreading collarette that is cut in le, with a flaring medici that stands it picturesquely around the face. The inn collar, which is straighter, is also
II in fashion, and this can be brought Lsnugly as a protection against wind Ipld and allowed to fall when not on
A collar of this sort, if well 'ened and of oourse well shaped, a very smart appearance to thq lent it finishes, and the quantity of landsome fur required for it is less than might be supposed. Here again is an opportunity for utilizing remnants of fur and turning them to excellent account
Table Decorations.
No longer are tall flowering plants used for decorating the tabla. Instead there are low dishes tastefully arranged with choice flowers and delicate trailing plants, mingled with appropriate leaves and mosses. Another pretty way to arrange flowers for the table is to fill a low dish with small blocks of ice and sweet smelling buds and blossoms.
If persons would bring to bear the same amount of common sense, in buying a remedy for bronchitis, cough, cold and croup, that they do in the purchase of their family supplies, they would never fail to procure Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup.
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Condemned Petticoats.
In Berlin, at the recent international oongress of women, the pettiooat was condemned as a "ridiculous invention of the sixteenth oentury." The clothing of men was approved from a practical and sensible point of view. The oostnme worn by Queen Louise of Prussia, mother of Emperor William I, was deoidedly favored, and a motion was made to adopt it.
The Strength of Nature. According to the ancient mythology, when Hercules wrestled with Antaeus, every time he was thrown stronger than power from earth. Hercu
he jumped up again ever, gaining fresh every contact with the les conquered him at last only by holding him in the air away from the source of his strength, until he grew weaker and weaker and finally became exhausted.
Antfeus is a perfect symbol of mankind. Nature is the real source of health and vigor. The closerwe keep to Nature's laws the stronger and healthier we grow. When we get away from them we are sure to be overcome by weakness and disease.
When sickness gets hold of a man the
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