Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 April 1897 — Page 2
THE WAYS OF WOMEN.
LENTEN DISCIPLINE AND PENITENTIAL DISSIPATION.
Improvement of the Mind Daring Lent. A Hymn For Childish Innocence—Allowance For Wive*—How to Secure a
Good Complexion.
Lenten lectures have grown to be an institution. It is a mild form of dissipation suitable to the season. It is a great delight to do what one ought to do and be mildly entertained at the same time. At other seasons of the year other and more lively occupations leave no room for the improvement of the mind, but during Lent—well, that is one of the things that Lent is for!
I fear that our dear young butterflies area little like the boy who saved up his Lenten money and on Easter eve bought with it large sugar and chocolate eggs, devoured them all on Easter Sunday and was very ill all the week. Her Lenten mental fare is regarded somewhat in the light of a Daniel-like meal of pulse and water, eaten that the delicacies of th king's table at Easter may be the more fully enjoyed. How naively she will throw off her pretty little devotions and her attempted gravity of demeanor when the 40 days are over and delight in the reflection of her charming little face in the Easter bonnet I The discipline, such as it is, has been good, however, and the time of fasting has not been altogether wasted.
Speaking of penitential exercises reminds mo of an occasion when I heard a Lenten hymn sung processionally by a surpliced choir of men and boys in one of the city churches. The procession was headed by tvo little boys of about 8 years, pictures of childish innocence and sweetness, singing with all the strength and earnestness of which their little hearts and throats were capable the following hyirn:
O Lord, tr'n not thy face from me, Who lio in woeful state, Lamuntiru: all my sinful life
Boforo thy mercy gate— A Rate which opens wide to those That do lament tboir sin. Shut not t'-nt gate against me, Lord, but lot mo enter in! And call not to strict account.
How 1 have sojourned here, For then my guilty conscience knows How vile I Khali appear!
Tho thought of Lenten restraints and Easter bonnets conjures up the old legends of wifely extravagance, the old tinio jokes of dressmakers' and milliners' bills. While there are undoubtedly extravagant and inconsiderate wives, as thoro are inoonsidorato and stingy husbands, tho averuge man would, I am suro, allow that his wifo does her share toward saving his money and aids him in tho proper expenditure of it.
To my mind, the whole question of tho running up of long bills by wives and of consequent bickering on the subject of money admits of a clear explanation.
A man holds tho matter of his wife's expenditure in his own hands. His great, his fundamental mistake is in allowing a bill at all. He labors under some strange delusion that in having an account S some large store instead of giving his wifo money to spend he is keeping a check upon her expenditure. Ah a matter of fact ho is doing the exact opposite.
Lot linn try the dSffcWineut himself. Run up'n bill wlffl amiio largo store, and ste how almost urtaceonntably the items have mounted up when the time comes for th settlement of the bill. If this is the ease with a man, who never shops unless he is obligftYifo, how much more is it likely^"b'o so with a woman, who is in and out of her favorite store every day, and consequently is continually seeing things aVHU'Iv she feels are necessary to her existence.
Let a husband give his wife an allowance, as generous aono as he feels is compatible with his ittcomo, and let her understand that that is absolutely all that, she will have with which to garb her dainty self and supply the numerous little feminine needs. Many an unnecessary trinket or piece of lace, which would most certainly havo been carried home had she had an account at the store, will be laid regretfully bat decidedly down if sho knows that its possession will mean tho loss of something more important.
The leauty of a Helen or Cleopatra is not within the hope of tho average woman, nnd absolute beauty is a rare and wonderful exotic, but relative beauty is within the reach of almost all of us did we understand tho laws that govern the condition.
To consider, first, but ono aspect of beauty, lrt u« premise that it is hardly possible to call a woman plain who has a really good complexion.
There is no reason why any woman should not have a good complexion if she is willing to ben little self denying, as is her duty at this season, and follow a few simple rules.
First.—Banish candies and pastry and all fried foxls and eat instead fruit of all kinds, especially oranges and cranberries.
Second.—Eat onions if you can and drink milk rather than tea or coffee. Eat meat once a day only, and fried meat never.
Third.—Take plenty of exercise in the open air, rain or shine, but not immediately after a meal.
Fourth.—Take seven hot baths every week, followed by the cold plunge or sponge and brisk but not severe rubbing.
Fifth.—Sleep nine hours every night It is true that we are worried almost beyond endurance by the delinquencies and shortcomings of our servants that tliev leave us at a moment's notice without regard to our feelings or convenience that they do their work perfunctorily or carelessly that they are oftvn wasteful and unreliable. But in commou justice to the women we employ we ought to remind ourselves that each party to a contract has his own obligation, and that this obligation is as bind
ing on the one Bide as it is on the other. Do we treat our servant with consideratgjt)? Do we remember that her life is aWlte of drudgery and not grudge her her evening's relaxation? Do we express our pleasure when a service is well performed with the same deflniteness of expression that we use when she has been at fault? Do we treat her as a human being, not as a machine?
You may be very sure that as a general rule the result of appreciative, just mistresses will be faithful, satisfactory servants. ALMA HEXSLEY.
TURKISH WOMEN'S WORK.
Every Urge City Has Its Agency Their Needlework Marvels.
For
At this time, when all Christendom is ringing with accounts of the atrocities committed by the Turks upon the aliens within their borders, it becomes peculiarly interesting to discover that the only real help given their own needy women has come from Europeans, and originally from the English.
Soon after the Russo-Turkish war of 1877 a band of English gentlewomen, headed by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts and Lady Layard, wife of the embassador, conceived the idea of turning their
TURKISH NEEDLEWORKERS.
one talent to account. Reared in seclusion and taught little or nothing that deserves tho name of learning, they still had their wonderful knowledge of the needle.
Turkish work was familiar. To obtain a ready and steady sale, this must be separated from that already overflowing the bazaars. Therefore the wise women who had tho movement in charge sent to Paris for materials and so inaugurated the truly superb combination of oriental embroidery upon tho costliest silks, the most delicate chiffons and in conjunction with the finest laces. In the beginning the work was a charity, and the workers were organized under tho name of the "Turkish Compassionate Fund btit after the first few months it became self supporting and today the work bearing the letters "T. C. F." has a recognized place all over the civilized world. Over 2,000 women are kept steadily employed, and there is a surplus which is devoted to the sick and the aged.
Every large city has its agency, and Mme. Tacar,ff, who is herself of Turkish birth and an enthusiast in the work, travels year in and year out in behalf of her less fortunate sisters, who owe their independence largely to her personal efforts. Not long since the sultan conferred upon her the honor of the grand order of the Schefacat, which is highly held and eagerly sought after by all Turks.
Tho workers themselves are a source of perpetual' interest and study. Patience and perseverance are their most marked characteristics, and the eternal stitch, stitch, stitch which has caused rebellion in many a western woman's heart seems only second nature to them. Work so marvelous as to seem possible only under a magnifying glass is their heritage, and they produce results too lovely to seem the work of human hands. Certain stitches are heirlooms and have been handed down from mother to daughter for countless generations. To the connoisseur the stitch and style of work reveal the family, and while these women will work hour after hour without demur the smallest attempt at discovering tho secret is resented at once, *nd the managers have found it necefpary to respect the prejudice it seems impossible to uproot The old, old woman shown in the group is the last of her race, and, while at upward of 90 she did the most delicate and intricate sort of drawn work, it was realized that her time of life must be short and that with her would die one of the mor beautiful stitches known. Long and patiently did the ladies plead with her to impart the knowledge before it was too late, and many were the arguments brought, but only quite recently was she prevailed upon to yield. Now, at nearly if not quite 100 years of age, she has had her property restored and wPl spend her last years free from toil, and on leaving the care of the association she has bequeathed the priceless gift of her secret Two young girls were trained by herself, and they in turn will band it down to future generations.
Without glasses, without artificial aid of any sort, these women weave marvels of beauty and produce results that cannot be rivaled.
While the enterprise has long since ceased to be a charity in the whole sense, it nevr^heless owes its success to the self sacrifice and devotion of the women who stand at the head of the movement Every penny of profit goes to the workers. Those employed receive only such return as is necessary to enable them to carry on the work, and one may be sure that in purchasing a set of doilies that will endure for a lifetime or a pillow that is a work of art she is directly helping some unfortunate worn* an of Turkey to bear the burdens imposed by eastern civilisation.
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A CHURCH WEDDING.
ftmry Kyle Dallas Describes It as a Woeful Function.
A church wedding is supposed to be a joyful occasion, but if any one knows of another function not actually tragic which brings together more uncomfortable people I should like to hear of it
To begin with, there is the bride. She has been hurried to the altar, with no time to recover from the ordeal of shopping, dressmaking, trying on and waiting for the dress which did not come in time for any alterations. She has gone through great trials at home. Her mother has lamented over her as if she were to be buried instead of married that day, and her father has given her a course of good advice, while her maiden aunt, who says that onlookers know more about marriage than married folks can, has bestowed awful warnings.
She is conscious that white satin, high necked and long sleeved, is becoming to few complexions and wonders if her train "wabbled," for all the world to see, as she passed up the aisle.
emn. Jack's cheerful smile was what won her heart. How dare he look like this on his wedding day, as if he was not glad? Poor Jackl She has no idea how tight his boots are and knows not of his awful doubts as to whether a man must respond to the questions in the service by "Yes, sir thanks," or "Amen," or "Certainly." Vainly he wonders whether he will be put through his catechism or required to say his prayers. He wishes he had gone to ohurch oftener or ramembered what they did to his cousin Tom when they married him. But all he can recall of that affair ie that Tom went off in the carriage with three left hand gloves in his pocket. How he feel31 Even his mother, who is furious at the idea of his marrying any one, would try to comfort him if she knew what he suffered. And all those persons staring at himl Why cannot people be united in the holy bonds of matrimony in the depths of coal mines or up in balloons, instead of being exhibited like living curiosities in a museum in ablaze of light? Jack was happy yesterday and will be tomorow, but just at present he is obeying the advice of philosophers and living in the present mom out, and he does not enjoy it.
About the mothers-in-law we know already. What is the use of bringing up a dear girl or boy and devoting one's whole life to his or her interests to have that precious creature stolen from you and carried off just as it has reaohed perfection? The only son of his mother, and she a widow," sobs Jack's mamma. "Our one grown up daughter," sighs the bride's maternal parent. The bride's father feels that the girl belongs to him and has been stolen, and wishes he had followed the precedent of all the fathers in Puck and Judge and in Punch adown the ages and kicked the boy out of the house when he asked him for the "rosebud of his garden of girls." No, pa is not happy either—far from it.
The young man who thinks he might have won the bride if he had asked her first stands leaning against a column in the side aisle looking suicide, and the young lady W?io wanted Jack faints away in the gallery.
The best man is visibly weighed down by the responsibility of getting "poor Jack through the ceremony all right and is very. pale.
The ushers have battles royal with strangers who insist on passing the cordon of white ribbon.
The organist is at odds with his assistant and the bridesmaids, standing over an open register, are visibly roast ing like so many Christian martyrs.
If the officiating clergyman is happy he does not look it He usually wears a more doleful expression of countenance when uniting two young people in the holy bonds of matrimony than at any other time, and he turns the young couple off with a brief summary of all the trials they will be obliged to support each other under and sets the tendeT hearted guests to weeping.
Even the people who have come oo purpose to steal flowers, and stay behind to do so, emerge from the church with countenances expressive at mingler wrath and shame, having been politely ejected by the policemen on duty ii. plain clothes, whom they supposed to tx confederates and having the general effect of a select party from the black maria. MART KYLE DALLAS.
SoBMthlac to Be Thaakfttl For. A Sunday school teacher banded to her scholars little slips of paper on which was printed the question. "What have I to be thankful for?" Among the replies that were given on the following Sunday was this pathetic sentence, written by a little girl who had learned by Utter experience probably the painful truths it implied, "I am thankful there are no saloons in heaven."—Exchange.
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Then Jack worries her by looking sol-
TAKEN AT THE FLOOD.
Henry B. Dixie on the Ups and Downs of Dramatic life. NEW YORE, April 12.—The greatest
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philosophers and the keenest judge of human nature the world ever knew, William Shakespeare, hit the mark happily when he said there is a "tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." With members of the dramatic profession the aphorism applies with peculiar force. I never knew an actor of talent, man or worn an, who did not at some period of his or her career mount the crest of the financial wave. If they afterward sank beneath the billows of poverty and de spair, it was because they failed to realize and seize the opportunity the bard of Avon speaks of. Indeed Dame Fortune seems to be rather partial to Thespians. She frequently comes knocking twice at their door, something people in other walks of life seldom experience.
Forrest Booth, Davenport, McCullough, Barrett and genial Billy Florence detected the tide when it came their way, and they quickly sailed with it. Others were not so fortunate. Charles R. Thorne, John Drew, the elder George S. Knight and poor Sam Rickey, all great artists in their respective lines, were not acute enough to perceive the flood tide and failed to reach prosperity's haven. It is so today with artists before the public. Rose Coghlan, for instance, is conceded to be a highly gifted actress as well as a magnificent woman, yet .today she is comparatively dollarless, while Fanny Davenport, another artist of about the same measure of ability and of physical charms, is easily worth half a million of Uncle Sam's good hard dollars. The explanation is simple. The tide came running by Rose when she was at the height of her popularity at Wallack's old theater in New York, and she did not see it She made tremendous hits in "Rosedale," "The Guv'nor," "Diplomacy, "School For Scandal" and plays of that character. She should have broken loose then and started starring for herself in plays of that kind. The times were propitious. Everybody had money. But no! She waited until the times became somewhat stringent and then started out with an indifferent drama, called "Our Joan." It offered tho lady no opportunity to display to country people who had not yet seen her the scope of her splendid abilities, and—well, she did not achieve the success her friends and admirers ardently hoped for. She tried other new plays, but they were not suited to her and did not catch on.
Now mark Fanny Davenport's keen perception of the flood tide. When at the very acme of her popularity at Daly's New York theater and in the zenith of her glorious beauty, she set up in business on her own account and selecting a fairly good company, started out starring, first in the metropolis and then on the road. She played Shakespearean and standard dramas. She achieved a substantial success, but the golden epoch of her career set in when she acquired the sole American rights of Victorien Sardou's great drama "Fedora, and enacted the title role to the intense enjoyment of the American publio. She had seen Bernhardt in the part in Paris and was shrewd enough to perceive that this powerful drama would make a great hit in Yankeeland and immediately purchased the American privileges. In quick succession she also bought the American rights of "LaTosca," "Gismonda," "Cleopatra" and other strong plays of the great French playwright. Although the amounts paid the Frenchman were enormous, Miss Davenport reaped a golden harvest from the presentation of these plays. It was like having a corner on a gilded Wall street stock.
I could thus go oil indefinitely, but some of my professional associates would not like to have me tip off either their poverty or prosperity. As for Miss Coghlan and Miss Davenport, they* are both good natured as well as good hearted, and I know won't care a jot. This I will say—fine actffrs like Richard Mansfield, Frederick Warde, Maurice Barrymore and others of their standing have not the competence their talents entitle them to. They missed the ^de. They did not perceive that it was running at full force before it became fashionable to import foreign artists and whole companies of foreign actors. I meap no disrespect to artists like Salvini, Bern hardt, Irving, Terry, Duse, John Hare, Beerbohm Tree, the Kendals, Albert Chevalier and their compatriots. They are privileged to enter any field they find profitable, but some of the high salaried freaks and underpaid "actawhs," with nothing to recommend them but their "accent," who have been imported from abroad have hurt our actors considerably.
As regards my humble self I first struck flood tide a dozen years ago in my great run in "Adonis." I did not know it, though, and spent money as fast as I got it I thought the "good thing" would last forever. It didn't.
There are dome men who are unlucky, "born with a copper on,"'as Nat Goodwin puts it who would never strike the tide no matter how marked their abilities. Bandmann, the German tragedian, was one of these. Poor George Knight was another, as was also young Alexander Salvini, who died last fall at his father's home in Italy. They were proud men and morbidly sensitive. They believed they were not properly appreciated by the public, and were moody and discontented. Naturally fortune did not come to them. Young Salvini, his wife says, actually went into a decline, and ultimately into consumption and death, by reason of harsh American criticism of his rendition of Othello. The poet Keats, it will be remembered, really wasted away and died because of a vituperative critic of one of his works. The couplet of Lord Byron on Keats' demise will apply to poor Salvini: Tis strange Um mind, tbat vwry Am partial*. ttwlil itaslf tw aanffed oat by an articto.
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