Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 46, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 May 1897 — Page 2

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GIRLS IN THE HOME.

WHY OUR DAUGHTERS FAIL AS MODEL HOUSEWIVES.

Shortsighted KJndnea* of Mothers—Knowledge of Kitchen and Household Economy of Far More Value Than That of

Greek Root# and Latin Derivatives.

There is an old saying that the sons of great men are never the eqaals of their fathers, which may be accounted for by some reversionary order of nature or by the lack of the self education and developing circumstances which had formed the characters of their parents. What is true of the sons of remarkable men is also sometimes equally true of the daughters of women who are efficient in the home, and the reasons are often easy to discover.

The vigorous and competent mistress of a household who, through long and faithful service, has become as expert in its management and oversight as the head of a banking house or business firm in these respective positions sometimes makes the mistake of exacting no assistance from her daughters, thereby depriving them of valuable knowledge, which might prove to be of incalculable benefit in later years. "It is easier to do a thing myself than to show any one how to do it," says one housewife. Another thinks that her grown up daughters must not be tried with any household details, as their time must be reserved for their music, their French, their dancing lessons and the claims of society.

Hho unselfishly desires that this time of life may be a period of perfeot happiness and thinks that girls of so much intelligence as her own are possessed of will, when occasion requires, develop every necessary qualification for model housewives and mothers of families. But, alas, this is not always true, and the short sighted kindness of tho mothers sometimes proves the vain regret of the daughters in later years. It is a mistake to fancy that this period of life should be devoted to ceasoless dressing and ploasuro or even to intellectual culture, to tho total exclusion of all other knowledge. Tho girl who is fitting herself fo (tarn her living in any way will bo benefited by a preliminary course of domestic training, which (for girls marry who plan different careers for themselves) may serve her in good stead, and tho girl who looks forward to matrimony as tho natural desidera tnm for a woman is handicapped and ill fitted at tho very outset of her career witli this education lacking. There are many women who in somo critical do mestie situation would thankfully part with some of their knowledge of Greek roots and Latin derivatives for a little skill in nursing a delicate infant and practical information about preparing its food on which its life depends in some transition period, or even in some trying cpisodo iu the kitchen, to be able to make a loaf of good bread, a cup of fragrant coffee and to give intelligent'direotions about, tho preparations for dinner to the chance Milesian whom she may be forced temporarily to accept as the presiding occupant of the kitchen. There is nothing like a little practical experience in household as in other, matters. Tho girl who lias had 110 training of this kind, when she has a Itomo of her own, may suffer painfully from her inexperience, with currants thatwill not "jell" and loaves of heavy cake which she is forced to burn to hide her ignorance.

In a well to do family which I once knew, where the mother made all the purchases (which, by the way, is also excellent practice for tho daughters), the fiirls were expected to take turns each week in the care and oversight of the largo parlors, sweeping them with a carpet sweeper, brushing the plush furniture and dusting carefully the books and ornaments, and in tho ordering, superintendence and actual making of the dosser** for dinner each day and cake for supper or luncheon, and the exercise iu the care of the minis was just as beneficial to the health as some of the gymnastics so fashionable nowadays, and tho practice and skill acquired iu the making of cakes and dessert were quite as interesting as and a great deal more useful than much of the fancy work on which young women spend so much time and eyesight.

To know how to make golden, light sponge cake without the use of soda or baking powder, gxd, wholesomo gingerbread. delicate, nutritious desserts aud jellies, is an accomplishment not to be despised hv even an intellectual girl, for the stuff sold by many bakers tinder these names is in comparison as chaff to wheat. It is true that there are now exchanges where these may be purchased in many places, but one may be situated far from any of theiu or the means may be lacking to purchase them.

I knew one girl, an only daughter, who was brought up in a luxurious home, whom a mother and two aunts carried ou the most exquisite system of housekeeping, aided by the best servants that money could procure. The daughter either inherited or seemed to imbibe unconsciously a knowledge of all the details of the work in the different departments of the household, tho up stairs work, the kitchen, the laundry, for, although as a girl she was shielded from every burden, when she was at the head of her own household she became as efficient and competent a house mistress as her mother had been before her. But this was an exceptional case, and as a gift for languages, for music, for poetry, for art, is sometimes native genius, so, too, I think, a talent for housekeeping and nursing are occasionally instinctive and intuitional, and those not endowed in this way must learn by instruction and persistent practice.

In conclusion, whatever is to be the future of our daughters, some instruction iu domestic science and household knowledge is as necessary as preliminary and cornerstone as their A C's areto their intellectual acquirements.

ASNA OIXOTT

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IRON ELBOWS.

Sfary Kyle Dallas on the Woman Owns Them.

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I never heard of any one being made with iron elbows, but it must be that some women are. I have felt them as they dug them into my sides or chest or back when they wanted to be first at a box office of a theater or at the window of the registry department in the postoffice or the cashier's grating of a bank. Iron elbows, I am sure. I used to be el bowed away from car seats with them from the straps by which we hang to the roof at the busy hour when there is standing room only in the public vehi cles of the city. I have been deprived of my rights by those iron elbows in the days when I was young and tender and lamblike and constantly remembered that it was my duty to be polite to strangers.

That time is past experienced has toughened me. I hope I am civil to all who deserve it, but I have come to the concusion that the woman with iron elbows is not one of these. Nowadays when she uses those machines to prod me away from a point of vantage which she desires to occupy I oppose to her irresistible force my immovable body, stand like a rock, being fortunately able to hold my own against sudden attack, and astonish her.

I advise all my sister women to do likewise—yes, and to do the same when the elbows are metaphorical and used to thrust you from a place yon have a right to hold, but which she desires to snatch from you.

Resist tho iron elbows with all your might, and like satan they will flee from you.

Civility and consideration only make women of that sort more impudent. MARY KYLE DAJ^LAR

A CLEVER YOUNG WOMAN.

She Puts High Value Into Commonplace Things.

There are people of science in art in America as well as in London who quite understand how to give the homely things of life an estimable value.

Such is Miss Lily Marshall, well known as the partner of the Van Oost studios. She is an English girl who graduated from the best art schools in London and who not only makes designs for this busines firm, but disposes of the wares after they are made. This olever young woman is talented in the art of chic carving, the coloring of oopper ware, and is a designer of silver and gold done either in chased or repousse work,

MISS UI,Y MARSHALL.

and articles rich in beauty and used for every sort of gifts, wedding and the like. This artist makes for the ornamentation of any piece of work in which metals are used, first, a black and white sketch on paper which is accurately copied beforo tho article is hammered into shape. Often, if silver is the sired plan, a flower effect is grouped directly from nature or sometimes a conventional pattern in gold is full of artistic merit.

After a certain number of orders are completed Miss Marshall, like the true business woman she is, makes a tour of the different towns and cities to sell or obtain orders for a number of these artistic wares, which find their way into the homes of celebrated people. For some years now Miss Marshall has contributed articles for the art magazines, showing with distinctness how a simple pine box can be converted into a jewel stand of marvelous beauty and how the bones of animals can be ground down and highly colored in beautiful tints and made to do duty as napkin rings, vases, cologne bottles and the like. Whenever a sketch is made, then the design is destroyed, so that really only one pattern is used. Aud as these iridescent specialties are not found in any store their value naturally increases from year to year. This season Mrs. Cleveland ordered a special piece for a wedding present, while Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry carried with them to England some of these novelties. Among these choice gesigns this season the pap spoon is revived—the exact pattern of those used in England many years ago. In the making of these beautiful ornamentations Miss Marshall believes the simpler the form the more intrinsic the value.

Miss Marshall is very English in appearance, her stature small and set off by a trim little figure. Her work, she declares, is one in which much patience should be exercised, especially in, the designing, for a choice variety has to be given to meet the demand.

MRS. O. B. BLTTCK.

Augusta Holmes, the woman composer whose marvelous opera, "La Montague Noire," has been performed in the Grand Opera at Paris, wrote not only the music, but also the words of her work. She likewise designed the scenery and costume* and directed the rehearsals. Her parents were Irish, but she was born mod has lived in France. The French consider bar a very great genius.

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Mrs. wi» 1/owery Moseley and Her Editorial Work.

Mrs. Ella Lowery Moseley has charge of a progressive and interesting worn an's page in the Birmingham (Ala.) Times, of which her husband, Dr. R_ A Moseley, a prominent southern JEfcepub lican, is the editor. Mrs. Moseley is a native Alabamian and was educated at the normal school in Florence, in that state. After graduating with high bon ors from that institution she became a teacher in the city schools in Montgom ery, where she remained until her mar riage.

A prose writer of marked strength she also shows the true poetio faculty in

MBS. ELLA L. MOSKLF.T.

her verses. Some of her poems have had a wide circulation and possess a peculiar quality which only a gifted imagination can impart The following lines, writ ten by her and published originally in The Home Journal, illustrate this fact very prettily:

GOLDENROD.

They beckoned me with laxightnjr mien Far down the road which gleamoth fair, These witching sprites bedecked In green,

With radiant shocks of yellow hair. Prom where the fence, time worn and gray, Goes wandering restless, in and out, They peep and whisper, "Come this way,"

Then toss their sunny heads ubout. And down the meadow, up the hill, Beguilingly the coquettes stand, And seek to draw my footsteps still •-farther on in fairyland. But, nol I'll go no more their way.

It is a bold and flouting throng That dons this costliest array To sing the summer's funeral song. -N. E. H.

Take a Back Seat, Ladles!

"My experience shows that some men make up as much as women, if not more," said a retired barber who had kept an establishment in a fashionable part of New York. 'The amount of black cosmetic I used to sell was enormous. It is used to rub over bald patches that may show themselves, so that they cannot be noticed except on very close observation. When rubbed into the hair, it also darkens and conceals the gray streaks. Besides, not a few use it to darken their eyebrows.

There is also a great demand for mustache bristles, which are urfed' to thicken and improve the mustache, and quite a thriving trade is done in them.

Some elderly swells, upon whose faces time has left an unmistakable impress, actually enamel their faces. Though it hides wrinkles, it is very uncomfortable, for those who wear it dare not laugh too heartily for fear of cracking it."

An Empire Shade.

The latest fad in lamp shades is the empire, and, bought complete, it costs as much as does a fairly handsome lamp, but if made at home need not exceed a modest sum. All that is required to ensure success is patience combined with neatness. There is no technical skill involved, unless one undertakes to paint the figures or flowers, which is not essential.

Select a wire frame, such as can be found at any shop devoted to artists' supplies, in any size you may prefer. Then cut from heavy water color paper a piece in the shape shown in the diagram just large enough to fit round and lap over one-half inch. Paste the two edges firmly together. When that is done, select three or four suitable pictures, preferably figures in empire costume, either water colors or prints, and place them at intervals upon the shade. Mark an irregular opening for each, as indicated, and cut out the heavy paper, pasting the pictures upon the inner side of the openings. Around each and around

both the upper and lower edges of the frame draw the outline of a border like that given. Fill in between all these line* with the paste for raised work that can be purchased from any dealer in supplies, with full directions for use, and when it is dry paint over the whole with liquid gold, wljen the shade will be complete. If the pictures are well chosen, it will make a good effect at all times, but when the lamp is lighted it gains an additional beauty from the fact that the light shining back of the pictures lends them a quality wirch greatly enhances their value Flowers ana •mall landscapes can be and are used, but the picturesque figures are at once more fashionable and more desirable from the standpoint of fitness. Suitable subjects can be found in almost any volume of prints or can be purchased from the dealer who supplies all such needs.

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TERR HAUTE SATURDAY ETENLNG MALL, MAY 15, 1897.

JOURNALIST AND POET.

MUSHROOM RAISING.

How the Indsattry Originated In Frsnes. Its Present Extent.

It was noticed when Milan beds were firs made in France that quantities of mushrooms grew on the fresh earth mounds. They proved to be so profitable that investigations were made to ascertain whether a regular crop might not be obtained. They have succeeded very well, and the mushroom industry is today quite a profitable one, and the consumption of mushrooms in France is something enormous.

The beds are made as follows: A dry, olean place is selected. One near the mouth of a cave is preferred, as the mushrooms are whiter when the sunlight does not reach them. The spot is covered with manure and then left undisturbed for a few days. The bed is then worked over and pressed and beaten down into shape. This is allowed to remain about a week, at the end of which time the process is repeated and the beds watered. At the end of another week the first turning must be repeated and the mass allowed to rest for three days.

The temperature is carefully watched, and the first heat of fermentation is allowed to pass off before the spawn is sown. After this has been planted the beds are covered thinly with a prepared earth called goptage. It is kept quite moist for 40 days, at the end of which time the mushrooms begin to come up.

A continuous crop for three months may be expected, if the beds receive the proper care. The seed, or blanc, is obtained by the market gardeners. It is made into bricks or cakes, which will be good at the end of two or three years, if kept in a dry, airy place.

How to Preserve Furs.

There are various ways of preserving furs against moths. At one establishment it was said that they had found the best means to be constant attention. The furs were carefully inspected and then put away, not in chests with preservatives for the summer, but in light, dry closets, and at frequent intervals until they were again required for use they were carefully inspected. They were returned in the fall in as perfect condition as when they were received, and without any of the odors often noticeable about furs when first taken out of storage.

How to Launder Organdie and Swiss.

After washing and drying the clothes make about a quart of thin raw starch by dissolving a tablespoonful of dry starch in a quart of water. Dissolve a little soap in the mixture by rinsing a small bar of white soap in it until it is soapy. Test the starch by wetting a lit tie of the cloth in it and ironing it while it is still wet If the cloth is not stiff enough, use more dry starch in mixing it.

Wring out the article in the raw starch, and after thoroughly clapping it lay it in a sheet and roll it up firmly. In an hour iron it out on the wrong side. If the lawn is dark colored, it must be starched with glue. Dissolve a tablespoonful of common glue in a quart of boiling water, and when the lumps are gone stir it into a two gallon pailful of warm water. Starch the goods in the mixture, after testing it to obtain exactly the proper consistency for the goods when done up. Dry the article starched in glue starch and sprinkle it and roll it.

Iron it carefully on the wrong side. It is a great mistake, even in the present time of the revival of starch, to make dresses or petticoats too stiff. They should be stiffened to the consistency of new cloth. Petticoats may be a trifle stiffer, but they should not be stiff enough to rattle.

How to Bake Banana*.

Peel the bananas and lay them on a buttered biscuit pan, leaving a space between each one. Mix 3 tablespoonfuls of sherry wine or lemon juioe with 8 tablespoonfuls of sugar and 3 of butter. Place the dish containing the mixture in a pan of hot water to holu the butter. Put the pan holding the fruit in a moderate oven and bake for half an hour, basting the bananas with the prepared butter until it is all used.

How to Treat Neuralgia.

Neuralgic people are always sensitive to ohanges of temperature and sudden chills, and to avoid the risk of these they should wear wcolei#anderclothing.

Very often neuralgia is complained of when, in reality, the half forgotten stump of an old tooth is at the root of the matter. If there is any doubt about it, a visit to a good dentist would decide the question once for alL

In cases of acute neuralgia relief may be affofded by rubbing together equal parts of chloral and powdered camphor and painting the painful spot with it.

Many people cannot take quinine, but thoee who can will find it the best remedy of all.

A local application said to be very effective also is equal parts of benzoin and peppermint oiL It may be rubbed on the affected part, or a cloth wrung out of hot water may be sprinkled with it

How to Make Lja,

Lye is an excellent thing to keep on hand for scrubbing. To make it, dissolve a box of potash in hot water. Let it settle and drain off in a jug. A spoonful or two of this in a bucket of water makes an excellent scrubbing mixture.

How to Cook Wltlioat WIm,

One of the best substitutes for wine In cookery is boiled cider. It is well for the housekeeper to know that sweet cider can be bottled for use. Boil and pour hoi into bottles andseaL Use in making trait cake, plum padding, minoe pies and pudding sancea.

How to Teat BRS.

A bad egg can be told by the way It rests in the water—always up, never on its aide. Any egg that lies flat is good to eat QDd can be depended upon.

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Shakespeare and Dogs.

Shakespeare loved dogs and has paid them many a tribute. See, for instance, the graphic description of hounds in the dialogue between Theseus and Hippolyta in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (iv. 1, 108-132), and the talk of the hunters about the dogs in' 'The Taming of the Shrew" (ind. 1, 16-29), which are both too long for quotation here. In "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (i. 1, 96-104) Page defends his "fallow greyhound" against the criticisms of Slender and Shallow takes his part. Launce's praise of his dog Crab, though it was a worthless cur, in "The Two Gentlemeu of Verona," is also in point, to say nothing of minor references to dogs in the plays and poems. The passage in "Macbeth" (iii. 1, 92-101) says in substance that there are dogs and dog3, as there are men ftnd men. The First Murderer has said, "We are men, my liege," and Macbeth replies: Aye, in the catalogue ye go for men, As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water rugs, and demiwolves are cleped All by the name of dogs the valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Bath in him clos'd, whereby he does receive Particular addition, from the bill That writes them all alike, and so of men.

That is, in a general list of dogs we include all kinds, good, bad and indifferent, but "the valued file"—a list which classes them with reference to their value—distinguishes them according to their natural gifts or qualities, giving to each the' 'particular addition" (title, denomination, as often in Shakespeare) he deserves. Thus, "the housekeeper" (watchdog) and "the huntei" are superior to the "common cry of curs," etc.—Critic.

As Good as He Gave.

The Viscountess Sherbrooke, wife of Robert Lowe, was in the habit of saying whatever came into her mind at the moment. The French embassador one day said to her somewhat patronizingly: "You know, England is said to be a land of shopkeepers. I had no idea of finding there such great military displays. "Ah," she replied, "the people of different countries do not understand each other. Now, I have aotually been under the impression that the French were a great military nation."

Li Hung Chang was over six feet in height before age bowed his head and bent his shoulders. His left eye is partially closed by a paralytic stroke.

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