Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 December 1896 — Page 1

ON THE QUI VIVE.

It Is reported that within the next few months the handsome Presbyterian church at the oorner of Sixth street and Washing ton avenue, known an the Washington Avwme Presbyterian church, will become the property of the Methodists by par chase, and will thereafter be known as a Methodist chnrch. The reason assigned is 4hat the members of the Presbyterian chnrch are unable to meet the obligations assumed in the tmilding of the church, In ctading cost of erection, street improvements, etc., and their only way out seems to be in a sale to the Methodists, who have a small church on Willow street, a few squares away, but who are anxioms to secure a larger one. The church was built *. through the efforts of a few men, notably,

Judge Baskin E. Rhoads, C. B. King, formerly a member of the city council, in which he p/layed an important part, but now a resident of Indianapolis, B. C. Stimson, R. B. Stimson, J. T. Scovell, and a few others, who went down into their pockets to a large extent in order to increase the Presbyterian strength in that nelghbo hood, in which the largest Presbyterian female college in Indiana, Coates college, is situated. It is said that Mr. King laid away -every year for church purposes a certain proportion of his salary and earnings, and as he drew a large salary from the Kingan's it amounted to quite a good •t

deal. The others named contributed as literally to the new church, and as a namber of them put up quite freely for Coates college, they began to grow tired of the constant drain on their purses. The hard times have affected practical results in church work, us everything else, and the financial prosfiects of the new church were not as bright as they should be, with no immediate chance for betterment. So the men who have been going down into their pockets to keep the new chnrch going have Anally made up their minds that the only tiling for them to do is to sell the property to the Methndists, who, whatever their shortcomings may lie, seem to be able to pull out of any hole into which their zeal may lead them. The deal for the transfer has not

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what is considered the best authority, that the next few months will witness the formal transfer of the handsome Sixth street church to the disciples of John Wesley The Methodists had the first church In the village »of Terre Haute, as they now have the finest, and if they get hold of the Washington avenue church they will be in a position to say that they are certainly the loading denomination in the Prairie City.

The city of Terre Hautestarts in the new year in the best condition financially that she has experinced for many a long day. The new tax duplicate shows the taxable property of the city, real and personal, to Is* in the neighborhood of t&),500,000, thus giving the city a right to contract a debt of ft 10,000, on the 2 percent, basis. Asa matter of fact the debt of the city at this time is but $U&,000, all in bonds, there being no floating debt. This gives the city a margin of something that has not occurred in a long time, although the financial credit has leeh gilt-edged always. Of this debt, $182,000, city funding bonds of IMM, bears 44 per cent, interest, the remainder drawing but 4 per cet. Since July 1st the debt has been reduced #40.000. The reduction fo the debt seems more notable when it is considered that ill the past few year* thou winds and thousands of dollars have

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expended in cx|tenslve street im­

provements. more in fact, than the city has before spent in its entire existence for such purposes. This has lieen in the way of the cost of street intersections for such expensive streets as Fifth ami Seventh, {laved with asphalt. Main and Sixth with brick, and the various intersecting brick strvets in the business quarter. Add to this the Improvements to the city building, the water fountains, etc.. and it will I* seen that in the face of unusually large expenditures during recent years the city has managed to save money is evidence that her affairs have been well managed.

Mayor Ro*s will present to the council at its next meeting a petition of a lady of this city asking for the enactment of an anti-cigarette ordinance, similar to those enacted in other cities, practically prohibitIng the'sale of cigarettes by establishing a license of #1.000 for their sate. A number of the members of the council have had under consideration for some time past an ordinance of this kind, and It is likely that one will lie presented at some future meeting.

A movement is said to be on foot to establish a non-sectarian church in this city on lines similar to that established In Gbi-

court house under the auspice* of the Central l,«lHr I'nion last week, will be the pastor. Brook* is understood to he a sociality and in the recent campaign made speeches for the free silver cause^ The foundation of the church, accordjng to those who are interested is the "Teachings of Jtiiu Christ..**

At the farmers' institute last week, John Royse, who was formerly president at the Institute, made the statement that be wanted to answer the question frequently propounded, "Why the boya leave the Carta.'' He said the reason, was that It is to furnish students for ootk «, jodjpes few oar court*, and to furnish for podh lions tit society and government*" It la a striking commentary on ttoXMennt to know of the present officers of this eocwty*

cago since the election, which is known as aUssMattie Adams, worthy matron Thoa. the frw- silver church. If the movement {xxig. worthy patron: Mrs. Clara A. succeed* Elder Brooks, a Christian M«-lrilk\ associate matron: Miss Sallks minister, of PsrK who lectured at the

that both judges, the auditor, treasurer and three commissioners, all began life on the farm, and the reason given by Mr. Royse for leaving the farm found a practical verification right here in Vigo county.

Raise Mushrooms at Home. To be fashionable nowadays raise mash rooms in yoar cellar. This is the edict that has been promulgated by the mistress of all things social. Fashion has decided ts take lessons from nature, and in stead of botanizing throughout the rural districts in the most charming time of the year, will turn her attention to the methods of growing that most succulent of additions to the porterhouse steak daring the winter season.

It is a brand new idea, so far as the mansions of wealth and cnlture are concerned. Heretofore the cellars have been supposed to be floored with cement and the temperature kept at a comfortable degree when the weather outside was of that nature which calls for heavy overcoats. Now, however, all this is changed. Mashrooms must be grown in cold cellars, and hence all cellars must be cold. This new departure is not the result of mere theory, or the faddist notion of some one who to be odd and thus conspicuous, but is fathered by no less a personage than Mr. David Frazer, of Mahwah, N. J., an authority on gardening.

Receiver Malott, of the Vandalia, has his snickersnee out, and is cutting and slashing among the officials and salaries of that road. H. I. Miller, who has been general superintendent of the system, has been made superintendent of the main line, succeeding E. C. Deane, who came here from Pittsburg, and who will go back there as trainmaster of the Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania The title of general superintendent and the salary at tached to it will be cnt off. There has been a general reduction of salaries among the officials, although it is said that the retrenchment will not reach the employes on the road and in the shops. The road under the receiver's management is getting back into something like the shape it was in during Mr. McKeen'sand Mr. Williams' management, when there were not so many officials with immense salaries and high-sounding titles, but when the earniugs were such as to satisfy the stockholders. It is said on top of the recent change**)!officials and salarina.that t,ha end is not yet, and subordinates are looking for unpleasant developments in the cutting down programme.

As a result of a Christmas eve fracas in Isadora Mulvaney's saloon at Sandford, in Fayette township, John Tosser, a resident of Edgar county, Illinois, was shot and killed. There are many conflicting stories about the cause of the affray, Tosser making a dying statement to the prosecuting attorney yesterday that he had been killed while trying to defend himself from attack. Isadora Mulvaney, Ed Harmon and Bud Wolfe, all residents of Sandford, are in jail charged with murder, although each claims that while there was shooting done it was in stlf defense. Tosser had a reputation of being a bad man, and with a companion had come over into the little village to show the people how to celebrate Christmas. The men charged with the crime will have their preliminary hearing on Monday.

County Recorder Chas. Denny made bis first settlement with the county commissioners this week on the basis of the salary law enacted in 1X1)1, which provides that all fees shall be turned into the county treasury. His salary is $3,700 per year, and he turned into the treasury $942.80 more than his salary amounted to. for the year ending Dec. 1st. He made the settlement under protest, reserving to himself all the rights he may have should the law be decided unconstitutional. The same day he made the settlement the Supreme court of the state decided that the law of 1885 which took the place of that of was constitutional, in a case taken up from Yanderburg county.

St, Stephen's church has made an innovation in its manner of conducting its affairs, by deciding to rent its pews no more, making them altogether free. The chnrch will be supported entirely by subscriptions. The reason given for the charge is that while the pews have all been rented, so that new comers cannot •cure any, the prices paid were not sufficient for the running expenses of the chntvh. The new step has met with much favor, and the pew renters In many cases have largely increased their subscriptions over the amount paid as rent.

Terre Haute Chapter, No. 4S, Order of Eastern Star, elected the following officers at the annual meeting Tuesday night:

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secretary: Mrs. Helen Reynolds,

treasurer. Miss Margaret Korta, conductress, and Mrs. Laura Burns, associate condnctreea. The officers will be Installed on the 5th of Jannarv.

The Terre Haute Manufacturing Oft, which Is oor&ftag a section of the building of the IVrre Hattt* Carriage & Buggy Co., started np this week In manufacturing the

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apparently a good demand. Ftor the present the eotfe* force will be occupied in the taMegii manufact-!-% and later the ao tn le aewiag oui aewill betaken op.

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That beautiful iastitatioe, St. Mary's of the Wood*, already on* of the noat at* (mover cm the face of the earth, sadoothtractiv* places in this region, is to be still tag la my mind is so unsuitable far a wo farther beautified the oot&iag year, by tan man aa a "tmrinws" which takes her oat provwnrats that it wOl cost over of the blessed realm of home, from which

ABOUT WOMEN.

The modern mother cannot permit herself the simpler methods in dealing with her children. She is weighted down with tons of advice from childless people, and the learned precepts of her mother classes, which teach every thought and emotion of a child to be pregnant with deep meaning. The result has been that« cathode ray has been turned on childhood, under which all its innocence and artlessness has been shriveled and died. It is a significant fact that mothers would do well to remember that the men and women who have made our history great have been reared in the greatest simplicity. About their early days was thrown none of the complex system of education that careful mothers now begin in their baby's cradles. They were left to think their own thpughts, develop in their own way, depend on their own strength, and BO had a chance to grow into setae originality, and not to be snipped and pruned until they were as like every other human creature as two plants in a hedge. Great and wonderful and valuable are the advantages of good training to childhood, but the best thing may be overdone. Undoubtedly the kindest thing that could happen to many a child of a careful mother would be a little wholesome neglect, and a return to the simplicity with which its parents were raised.

A woman expert in the matter of cooking declares that no woman who has other things to attend should attempt to cook a meal, adding that "it would be absurd to say that all women should thoroughly understand cooking as to want them to be lawyers or physicians," meaning thereby able to look after the family litigation and the family diseases.

To this view a writer in an Eastern publication takes exception. "It is not necessary," he says, "that a wife should be a professional cook in order to keep the husband and children from starving. If she gives a dinner to a few friends it does not follow that she should stand over the range or watch the roast as it is being done to a turn. If she can tell beef from sausages and soup from gravy she can simply keep her weather eye on the cook and the dinner will be a success. A woman should know something about cooking, but it is saofc--JfttiottaaqMter httrtotake the -thi third degree of perfection any more than for a locomotive engineer to build the machine which he runs. "Domestic felicity rests securely on the digestive organs, and it makes some difference in a man's food whether he can get his fork into his beefsteak or not, but It is not important for his wife to cook that steak. 'There are others, who will do it, and if she knows when it is properly done, what more can any reasonable man ask?"

If any of the girl friends of Mrs. Juliet V. Strauss, of the Rockville Tribune, take to the stage for a livelihood, it will be against her advice. Writing on this subject in this week's Tribune, she says: Every little while I hear a bright, attractive girl, just on the verge of womanhood, confess that she is "stage struck." In most instances, the good providence, that in the main, seems to^.JbMort of interest in our lives, has not given the dear child enough talent to render her penchant, for the stage at all dangerous, and as she grows older her ambition dies out as, happily for us, so many of our youthful ambitions do die out, but whenever I hear a girl talk of going on the stage, I shudder, lest some latent spark of genias might develop in her and lure her away to this, to me, most tragically melancholy of all professions. What does not a woman have to lay aside in order to become an actress? Of all the renunciation which life requires of its bright, particular stars, who give themselves into the hands of that relentless tyrant, fame, none seems to me so complete as that demanded of an actor or actress "Before the Public." It is an expression fascinating to some, but horrible to those who know a little of what it means, and of all the people who are before the public, none have a task so thankless as has the actor. The actress bargains with the big, unfeeling, fickle world, not only for her brain, her time, her labor, but her actual flesh and blood. It seta a value upon her arms, her neck, her face, her hair and all of her proportion*, and she mast give them all up to the gaze of all sorts of men, to be appraised in the market like a piece of horse flesh, and, not this alone, the woman most go "on the road." Think of it, yon women whose horns nest ts so warm and sweet. Think of the long journeys, the hotel rooms, the gloomy rehearsals, and then the night's actual work of both mental and physical character. How soon the novelty of dressing and painting and applause would wear away, and one be left with merely the drudgery, by which, in nine cases oat of ten. Fame alone comes. There are few, indeed, of the great army of talented people to whom the heartless future has shown an ignis fata us light, whoever become in their

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music or the drama, more than mere wage But the artist who hrromes merely a painting teaches-, the musician who works on a salary, and the poor liteiary hack, all may at least have some permanent abode, some refuge which they call home, where, in the simple joys of domesticity, they may for a time each day, find some comfort and posit, some sense of security of peaet But the actor is a

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the modern Satan, Progress, has so lately been seeking to tempt her.

The well-groomed girl is one who has learned the lesson of true gowning. She knows that the body itself must be carefully considered to make a gown successful. A girl who is employed all day quickly remarks: "But she has time. We haven't." Asa matter of fact, it isn't time that is required—it is eternal vigilance. How long woald it take one to consider when she is walking with head foryrardand knees bent that she mast stn$gl|^& up and walk briskly if she would be graoeful? How much longer would her disrobing take her if when she were rpady to retire she would go through the ialisthenic exercises taught in any school? How much longer woald it take to energetically rub the body with cold water after the daily bath? Yet these are the things which make or mar a gown. Govras are like laws—they are not made in a day, but are the thoughtful result of the experience of years. The girl who understands this may perhaps have a gown of the most inexpensive material, just because' she understands herself, and buys something that will when she wears it seem to be but a part of herself.

OBITUARY.

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HENRY C. NEVITT Henry C. Nevitt, who was one of the

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brightest and most prominent members of the Terre Haute bar during his residence h^fe, but who for several years had made his home in Albany, N. Y., died at St. Anthony's hospital Monday, after a long illness caused by tumorous growths at the base of the brain. He had suffered with the trouble for nearly a year and a half, and for a greater portion of the time had been confined to his bed. He suffered great agony'and for many weeks was unable to occupy but one position, on his right side. It is thought the trouble arose from a fall on the back of his head, while skating so me ten years ago. From the first the physician at Albany gave him but little promise of recovery, and finally realizing that it was a question of only a short time until death would result, his wife brought him here on the 12th inst., and he was plAced in St. Anthony's hospital, where all that medical skill and loving care could do was fuitaished him. but without relief. thert whose home is in Washing-

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the Republicans in the spring of 1887. In Albany, where he attained prominence in his profession and received a number of important political appointments.

He was married in this city in 1885 to Miss Laura Glavis, a niece of the late James Ross. She, with three children, the eldest eight years of age and the youngest two years old, survives him.

Mr. Nevitt was an Episcopalian and for many years was superintendent of St. Stephen's chnrch here.

He was literary in his tastes and contributed a number of papers of value to the Terre Haute Literary club in which he served a number of times as secretary and also as president. He was a man of active temperament, of great ambition and energy and made his influence felt in any community in which he resided.

His death, at a comparatively early age is a terrible blow to his aged mother, and to his wife wad children hat his sufferings have been so intense and so prolonged and his recovery so hopeless that his friends have some compensation for their loss in the thought that he is now enjoying that peaceful test to which his upright life entitled him.

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TerreHaate Council, No. S, R. AS. M.. will work the Royal, Select and So perExcellent Masters degrees at Masonic Ball next Tuesday evening, thos closing «p the work of tit}* body for the present

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months past, and accompanied him here. Deceased was born in Washington, D. C., August 31, 1857, and was the son bf Robert and Mary Nevitt. He was a graduate of Columbia law school, and after graduation filled a position of clerk In the treasury department. The possibilities open to him there, however, did not satisfy him, and he therefore resigned his place, and struck out for himself. He came to this city, and engaged in the practice of law in which he soon made a reputation for himself. He was associated for a long time with the late Judge Harvey D. Scott, in the practice of law, and after Judge Scott's removal to California succeeded to the entire business. In 1886 he was nominated by the Republicans as a candidate for Superior Judge, and made a gallant canvass against his Democratic opponent, the late Mayor Allen. He had the united support of the different labor organizations of the city, but in the face of all this he was defeated. During Jndge Mack's incumbency of the Circuit bench he many times sat as special judge, on every occasion performing the responsible duties of the position with great credit to himself. He acted for a long time as the attorney for the Savings bank, and at the time he removed from this city in 1887, was acting city attorney to which position he had been elected by

FOUR LITTLE STOCKINGS.

Hung in the dusk of the chimney place, Are four little stockings, all in a row Waiting the smiling of Santa Ciaus' face,

As he carefully fills them fron? top to toe Four little stockings waiting there. Hung by the eager, childish hands. Left in the mystery-laden air.

For oce who comes from the Christmaslands. Four little sleepers, fair and sweet.

Half forgetting their coming guest. And the sound of his reindeers' prancing feet,

Lie in perfect and dreamless rest Swift comes Santa with jolly load. Silently filling each empty sock. Then off again on his skyward road.

For the door he enters has never a lock. Then at dusk of the morning light. Ere snowy hills are pick with the SUD. By the chimney-place is a happy sight.

When the children see what Santa has done Treasures of Afric less sweet and fair.

Seem to princess and kings, I know, Than Santa Claus' presents waiting there, Hidden away in the stocking's toe. Gone are those years and aJas. no more.

Lingers anear me that merry band. For ah, they have passed to the unseen shore.

To a fairer land than the Christinas Land So shall I not smile and softly say, Thank God for the beautiful long ago. For the sweetness of many a Christinas day,

When four little stockings hung in a row!" —Alice Jean Cleator.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

On every voyage of a first-class ocean steamer about three thousand pieces of glassware and crockery are broken.

The loss of property caused by the tornado at St. Louis in May last has been estimated by expert assessors to have been $10,230,000.

The keen political discrimination of Todd county, Ky., turkey was learned after its death when a McKinley button was found in its crop.

The lady manager of one of the leading insurance companies of California receives $10,000 a year. This salary to a woman is the largest on record.

Hamburg claims to have now the largest central telephone office in the world, with 10,000 connections, nearly double the number in Paris, London or Berlin, fe

Instead of his usual Sunday evening sermons, a clergyman of Chapman, Kan., is reading to his congregation a continued story, entitled, "Jake, the Merchant," which he wrote himself.

Forty-one thousand acres have been purchased in Brown county, this state, with a view of establishing a Dunkard colony. Over 100 families are expected to move fjom Miama county some time during the spring.

After a long and luxurious yawn one morning a Westwood, Mich., man couldn't close his mouth. His jaw had been dis located. He was so frightened that since it was set he doesn't dare even to smile broadly.

Rev. Benjamin T. Trego, graduate of Nashota seminary, Wisconsin, rector of St. John's Episcopal church at Saginaw, Mich., and a high churchman, has sent in his resignation, to take effect Jan I. He will go on the stage in Shakespearean roles.

A reform against nature is in progress in Bridgeport, Conn. A bachelor's club is attempting to force unfaithful members to abstain from Sunday evening courting. Last Sunday night the club visited houses where their weaker hrethen were making calls and abducted the tender hearted youths.

According to the latest estimates of population in several states, nine of them, namely, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois. Ohio, Missouri, Texas, Indiana, Michigan and Iowa, have an aggregate population of 88,225,000, or more than half the population of the entire onion, which is aboat 72,000,000.

Miss Ella Colins will be the first Ameri can woman raised to a throne by marriage, Her fiance, Col. John Hobbs, reigns over the people of the Jilka islands in the New Hebrides gronp. Col. Hobbs has had life full of strange adventures, and is now king over 1.200 people under the name of Oumaules.

Booker T. Washington, principal of the state normal and industrial college for negroes at Tuskegee, Ala., is being vigor ously pushed by his negro friend* in Georgia and Alabama for a place in McKinley's cabinent. Washington has been in the east for some time, ostensibly in the interest of raising fonds for the betterment of his school.

Catherine Cushetiberry died lately at Chillicotbe, O., at the age of 116 years. It might be difficult to be assured of her age, but records in Virginia show ber sale in 17», at the age of twelve year*. In 1808 ber son purchased her freedom and took her to Chilicotbe. The last thirty years of her lite were passed in total blindness, bat otherwise her faculties remained uaim paired until a short time before her death.

At the Hotel Alcazar. St Augustine, Fla., a letter was received the other day which has been constantly on the go since the middle of last July, when it arrived under a foreign postmark at the Grand Hotel, in New York, sddrassed to Catherine Wynn. The proprietor of tbe Grand was requested to forward it if Catherine wasn't at his boteL He did so, and each hotel man who has received it since has also forwarded it. The Alcacar manager did Bkewfcs, and if the addressee's same is fcMwra.i&aatjr of the big hotels in America

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she is likely to get her letter some day. It has been down the Atlantic coast and as far west as St. Louis. It has now been sent to Asheville and will travel through the South.

DONT'S FOR LETTER WRITERS.

Warnings That Help You to Avoid tbe Common Errors of Correspondence. Don't write your letters or notes in paragraphs write continuously.

Don't leave any margin at either side of the page this is schoolgirlish and obsolete. Don't put the date at the upper right hand corner put it at the lower left hand corner, at the end of the letter, and write it all out, have no figures at all in very formal notes, but in the informal one the year in figures is permissible, but the day of the month, never.

Don't write a very formal note in the first person always in the third. Don't have any heading or signature to a note in the third person.

Don't ever sign your name prefixed by Miss or Mrs. That is your title, not your name, and it is very unrefined to do so. When it is necessary in a business communciation for your title to be known put it in parentheses, a little to the left of your name, so: (Miss) Alice Brown.

Don't ever let a careless letter leave your hand. Strive to be bright and chatty in your style but, failing this, you can at least be neat and particular.

Don't thiuk "My Dear" So and So betokens familiarity of affection. This is the prescribed form of address in formal notes to mere acquaintances as well as to your nearest and dearest. Of course, purely business epistles are commenced Dear Sir, preceded by the name and address.

Don't sign letters of friendship or social notes with truly or respectfully—sincerely or cordially is considered much better form, and can be preceded by very or most, if preferred.

Don't write notes on octavo size paper. Billet is the size for notes, octavo for letters.

Don't have a long envelope with the sheet folded twice if you wish to be correct. A square envelope with the sheet doubled in half is the proper vogue.

Don't hesitate about using old blue bond paper very many of society's leaders prefer aud use it. Dream linen also is always good taste.

Don't have the address or monogram put in the upper right-hand corner good form prescribes it shall be in the centre of the page.

Don't write on each side of the sheet one after the other use the front sheet first, the back next, and then, if necessary, the other side of the front sheet, writing crosswise from botttom to top, and so on down, filling both sheets inside. This is considered to be the nicest way among ths nice people.

REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

Women aren't the only gossips. When we talk about social conventions the angels must laugh.

As soon as he heard there was a woman in the garden the serpent took a day off to celebrate.

When a woman says something against a man you don't like always insist that she doesn't do him justice.

The girls that work hardest getting up a church social aren't always the ones who wash the dishes at home.

When a woman decides that a man is in love with her she sends him a photograph of herself in which her eyes have a mournful, symyathetic look.

FRILLS FOR FAIR ONES.

The box-plaited bolero is a chic design. Blues and greens have swamped every other color in the market.

Borrowing a stage fad, the girl who wears violets pins them on the cuff of her left sleeve.

The woman subject to headaches welcomes tbe new light head-pieces of straw and chenille.

Your collarette must match the ribbon on your hat awhile, but this fancy won't last long it gives too "home-made" an air to the chapean.

Hald-ileaded Men.

Baldness among men is on the increase, and to an extent which promises that orchestra chairs in the future will not be noticeably distinguished from balcony seats on ballet nights.

Medical men are divided as to the causes of baldness. Hats have been held to be accountable for it by some others contend that it is a germ disease and that tbe barber is the means of disseminating it. With hands fresh from the scalp of a man with falling hair be plunges them into a thicket of healthy locks, spreading tbe contagion. "Yon seldom or never see a bald woman," said a medical man, in discussing the subject they don't have their hair cat they don't wash their beads so often ss tbe men do, aod when they do they restore some of the oil which Is washed oat the don't patronise barbers they don't have their heads closely covered at any time.

As to the increase of baldness among men it may be remarked that thirty years ago hair oil was in universal use. In my opinion, that was a good thing and the lack of It may account for the growth of bald-Nf.^ aess to a very considerable degree.

Anyhow, baldness is more widespread than it ever was, aod one of these days the reflection from bald heads In

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parquet may hart the eyes of spectators in the lint balcony. But the first baloony won't have any room to laugh."