Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 51, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 June 1897 — Page 3

STYLE EMANCIPATED.

FASHION NOW PERMITS ALMOST ANYTHING ANYWHERE.

The Only Restriction I* That It Mut B« Becoming—X«-w Cycling Attire—Some Dainty Thin Gown*—Exquisite Creations

For Hammer Wear.

[Special Correspondence.!

NEW YORK, June 14.—Time was when a lady of fashion wore "silk gowns for breakfast and satin ones for tea," but now she wears anything and wears it when, where and how she wants to. Iu the morning on these warm days a calico frock or a neat gingham one fills all her requirements nntil it is time to don her beloved bicycle costrune and sail off on the wings of the wind.

As a general rule the young lady rider keeps her bicycle costume on just as long as she can, and no wonder, for it is so easy and comfortable. When she

NEW BICYCLE SUITS.

must, the young lady charfges her costume and comes forth to view as the beautifnl, fluffy summer girl so much admired and so often sung. She puts on the lightest, softest and most transparent of gowns, and the most becoming of hats, and carries the prettiest of parasols, and she looks another creature.

Speaking of the cycling costumes reminds me that I have been remiss in my duty, and I will now make it up by telling of all that I find new in such garments. I think very few, if any, respectable women appeur in bloomers or knickerbockers now, as it has been found that the divided skirt affords safety and eas« with modesty. The other gnrhieuts were adopted and worn only because there had as yet been no skirt invented that could bo all that was required or desired, and now, as I have said, very few ladies would care to wear them, except beneath the short skirt, and this even is no longer necessary with the new ilividod skirt, which is everything in itself

Tho cravanettes and light covert suitings make the most serviceable bicycle suits, and in dust colors they aro best, though where dark brown, blue, gray or even green prove more becoming they aro suitable. So are the neat shepherd's checks iu the linen crashes. Nankeen, an old timo stuff of thick cotton, has been presented for summer wear for wheelwomen. and it has also been made up for other outdoor sports. It is absolutely indestructible, and tastefully trimmed it is not ugly. A favorite way is overlaying it with white lace or blaok lace, and this is stitched down to the fabric closely. Tho lace, however, is suitable only for such dresses as are to be worn at tennis. For cycling it is laid in norfolk plaits, or tailor finished with narrow white or black braid. There are some striped cheviots, light, yet very comfortable, for cool rides. Jaunty jackets over white shirts, with plaid ties and collars, are made to wear with the short skirts. Gaiters of suede canvas or cl«»th are worn with these and the comfortable Boston shoe. A few ladies have high laced boots instead of these low shoes and leggings. They are handsome, those high boots, but I am told net nearly so comfortable or safe. The norfolk jacket and the half fitting blazer are ofteuest seen, but many wear the pretty new sweaters, which are now molded to lit the figure better. They button on the shoulders. They aro in black, white, blue, garnet and red, besides brown and gray. There is a new glove made of waste silk woven so that it looks and feels like suede. It is light and porous, and it is said that as firm a grasp oan be taken with it as with suede or dogskin gloves, and the cost, is but about oue-eighth as much as suede.

All garments and accessories to the toilet should be flistened firmly, so that the rider need never give a thought to any part of her costume when on the wheel. Hats should not only fit the head, but have a good, strong elastic as well as the pius. Sailor straw shapes,

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Tam 0'Shant«rs with straw brims and the crown of anything the wearer may wjsh and alpiaes are the preferred halt for wheeling. Thor may be trimmed to suit individual taste, though good sense would ?ug$rest that what trimming there was should be compact and firmly fast» JHH! and not easily disarranged.

After the hde is over »nd a gentle fatigue makes lounging in a garden over a social ctip of tea a new delight the summer gsrl may pot on her daintiest thin gown, ifomo of these are too ethereal to write about with plain pen and

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ink, but some, again, may be spoken of with bated breath. One of the prettiest was of white organdie, with blue sprigs in large designs all over it. It was lined with dark blue taffeta. Around the bottom were three narrow ruffles with dark blue baby ribbon stitched on. Around the waist were a draped belt and a bow of dark blue silk. Over the shoulders and to the waist was a collarette of dotted swiss, edged with embroidery aud insertion. Baby ribbop was threaded through this. A straw Erglish walking bat bad a full rnffle of cream silk mull bound with blue ribbon and with three pompons of dark blue on top of the crown.

OLIVE HARPER.

A WHALEBONE CENTER.

Ban Frsaetoco Now Outranks the Old New Bedford Port. [Special Correspondence.]

SAN FRANCISCO, June 9.—There is a great deal of money in the whale even yet, although we no longer burn bis oil, and lugubrious tales come to us now and again about the old whaling vessels that are rotting at New Bedford wharfs. Whalebone is still a valuable article of commerce, and the north Pacific fleet, which does the most important fishing, numbers between 40 and 50 vessels. Most of the business is now centered at San Francisco, which sends out about 30 vessels every year, thus outranking the old whaling port of New Bedford. It is nothing unusual for San Francisco to have on band at one time nearly $1 ,000,000 worth of whalebone, ready to ship to New York and to Europe for cutting. The average catch of the fleet on a ten months' voyage is 150 whales, which giveover 300,000 pounds of bone, worth $1,000,000 when it is finally on the market.

Whalebone of commerce is obtained from three species of whales. That which is most valuable comes from the bow head whales of the arctic regions. Then there are the south sea whale and the right whale, which are leas sought for.

The mouth of the whale is lined with "slabs" of bone, as they are called, arranged in rows, quite a number in each row, transversely across the mouth. The first row is set back a little from the front of the mouth, and other rows follow, with about the width of a finger between, back to the throat. These slabs are fastened to the roof of the mouth and hang down very much like so many rows of teeth. They are longest in front, where they sometimes attain a length of 10 or 12 feet, decreasing in length toward the back part of the mouth, where the cavity is of less height, from 3 to 4 feet.

They are shaped about like a common handsaw, being some 13 to 14 inches wide at the root aud tapering nearly to a point. They are thickest at the back, where they measure from a sixteenth to three-eighths of an inch through. In front they come to a sharp edge, which is thickly fringed with coarse black hair 10 to 13 inches in length. In color these slabs are a dead blue black. The shorter slabs are called oullens. These are more wrinkled and are cheaper than the longer ones and are fully as good for general purposes. The slabs weigh from 5 pounds for the larger ones downward, and from 3,000 to 8,000 pounds can be taken from the mouth of a single whale.

The quantity of bone brought into the country has varied materially in the years gone by. In 1858 it was 5,653,300 pounds in 1878 it was 190,000 pounds in 1880itrose to about 400,000 pounds, more than in any other year for some five or six years previous in 1886 the catch was 846,350 pounds, of which about 84,000 pounds was sent to Europe.

The price of the raw stock has also varied with the supply. In 1858 it was worth 85 cents per pound. Very little was used then, but soon after the demand for it ill tho manufacture of corsets, whips, umbrellas and parasols rapidly increased, the market was exhausted and the price went up. In 1857 there were 148 vessels in the Greenland fleet, while iu 1877 there were but 16. In the latter year bone was worth $3.50 per pound, and in 1881 it was sold at $3 per pound. At the present time it is worth about $3.50 per pound.

The principal use of whalebone at the present time is in the manufacture of whips, corsets, dress stays and surgioal instruments

Umbrella frames were once largely made of whalebone, but steel has now to a considerable extent taken its place. A few years ago a very ingenious imitation of whalebone appeared in umbrellas imported from France and could not be told from the genuine article until split open.

Whalebone hats are among the novel* ties of the business. They are made by cutting the bone into very thin strips and then weaving these strips into a bat as man ilia or straw is woven. Such a hat is expensive. The material in it is alone worth $30 and is rarely seen except as an oddity. Ribbon bone is another novelty. It is generally of white bone, worth $30 a pound, and is shaved so thin that common print oan be distinctly read through it. It is often colored pink and bine and other hues and is much in demand by harness makers for rosettes. Whalebone canes are cat from the thickest slabs. The butt is cut off and the strip cut square, planed and rounded, the latter being accomplished by running the square strips through round holes in a steel plate.

There are some secret pioocssoa in

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manufacturing of whalebone, bot far the most part tbe work is simple and does not call for particularly skilled labor. Tbe cutter is tbe most important man in the shop, bat daring tbe last few years, on account of the depression in the trade, he has never been able to more than earn a bare living.

CAKL SCHOTKUX

A Chicago woman says that Joaeph's "coat of many colon** was violet, a combination of all color*. When it was dipped in blodH, it became purple bence the designation "royal purple."

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, JUNE 19, 1897.1

TROPIC BEVERAGES.

Uses and Abases of the West Indian Swizzle Stick-

ISLAND OF SANTA CRCZ, Danish West Indies, June 5.—Although the Americans, meaning tbe inhabitants of tbe United States, have a worldwide reputation for tbe concocting of insidious and palate tickling beverages, we must turn to the tropics for the greatest vari­|several ety of cooling refreshers. While our summer is a season of short duration, and really bot weather is at best but intermittent, below tbe line of 33.38 north latitude, or within tbe tropics, "perpetual summer" is indeed no mere figure of speech.

The hotter the climate in which man dwells, of course, tbe more he.is prone to drink, and it follows, as a matter of course, that people who have dwelt a long time in a tropical region should have a greater variety and more attractive assortment of tipples tban those who have only a taste of warm weather interlarded between long spaces of winter oold. Where, then. Old Sol reigns with undisputed sway, as in the West Indies, the perspiring people are "driven to drink," though not necessarily to drunkenness.

In the4'great houses'' of the old planters, now so lamentably few, the well stocked sideboard is vastly more than a tradition. It is ever in evidence and is tbe first article of furniture which greets the eyes of tbe thirsty traveler as he enters the hospitable mansion, tired and heated from a long ride in the sun.

The planter's wife, or his housekeeper, has already anticipated the stranger's deaires and compounded a pitcher, of drink ere he has landed at the door. Immediately after the introduction and before being taken away by his host to remove the dust from his'garments the newly arrived is invited to wash the dust from his throat. If itbelare in the afternoon arrtl dinner be imminent—as all good travelers fervently pray may be the case—into the pitcher is inserted a queer looking stick, abotat 1% feet in length, and with spreading prongs at tbe brsiness end. This is twirled about rapidly between the perpendicular palAis of the host or hostess, until the contents of the jorum are stirred to a froth, and then tbe stick is withdrawn and tbe liquid poured out, to be sent where it will do the most good.

The drink—well, it may be a gin or brandy cocktail, or the more insidious

MARINO CHANGE.

"shrub" or "cashew" punch, but whatever it is, it will be worth the imbibing, as an experiment if nothing more. As for the stick, it is called a "swizzler," and may be bought in the market place of any of the more southern West Indian islands, such as Guadeloupe, St. Lucia or Barbados. It is found in the fields and forests and brought in for sale by old women and children. It is slender and straight, with four or five prongs at one end, sticking out at right angles to tbe stem, and from its peculiar shape is used as an egg beater and to intimately mix the ingredients of cocktails and tbe like. It creates, even in plain drinks, a peculiar froth, owing to the mucilaginous quality of the cambium layer, or inner bark, which is left on when the stick is peeled.

Thus dovs nature provide fot bibulous man in those regions where he is inclined to imbibe the most and where there is no "liquor law" to interfere with her generous provisions. As tbe old black woman who peddles the swizzles will tell you, it is like "a-flyin in de face ob Goramigbty" to neglect the obvious intention of these articles. "Lookme, massa/'she will say, thrusting the sticks under your nose "you done 'blige to drink da cocktail now, sab, fo' look de stick what Goramighty make fo' stir um wiv!"

She doesn't indulge herself, but she knows the' 'buckra's" weakness and seldom fails to sell him a bunch of swizzle sticks to take home with him as souvenirs of his visit-

Down here drinking is out of all proportion to eating, and perhaps this is very fortunate, as good food, especially meats and table delicacies, is extremely scarce. O. A. FCRBER.

The Important Qualifications.

*'And you say be was tbe art critic 4hd dramatic critic for a Berlin publication?" said tbe vonng woman. "Yes." "But he doesn't know much about pictures or tbe drama." "Not a great deal but be was tbe best posted lawyer in tbe empire as to what constitutes leae majesty."—Wash* ingttm Star.

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A Fireman's Fall.

An incident that happened in a large cotton fire in the lower part of New York some years ago had its comic side and was tbe means of tbe firemen discovering the maiu body of the fire, which for some time they had been endeavoring in vain to locate.

The smoke was pouring out of nearly every part of the building, and although entrances had been made it had been impossible to find the seat of the fire. The chief in charge ordered some windows on the third floor to be "opened up," and a ladder was accordingly raised and a fireman ascended. With tbe aid of a hook he pried open the iron shutters, and, lamp in hand, stepped in—and disappeared. His companion upon tbe ladder, wondering why he had so suddenly vanished from sight, peered in, and found that he had stepped into the elevator shaft that was directly under this window and bad fallen through to tbe basement. Hastily descending, he alarmed the others, and, forcing an entrance, they made their way to the cellar. Here they found their comrade in a sitting position upon a bale of cottou, partly stunned and dazed from the shock of the fall, but otherwise uninjured. In bis hand be still held the wire handle of his lamp—all that remained of it—while in front of him, farther in the basement, blazing merrily, was the fire they bad been en deavoring to find. His fall had led him directly to it. On afterward examining the hatchway, or shaft, through which he had fallen, they found that it had bars running diagonally across at each floor, and in some marvelous way he had escaped each one in his downward flight.—CharlesT. Hill in St. Nicholas.

British and American Business Integrity*

It is in trade especially that the superiority of British honesty is averred to Bbow itself. The British are the greatest traders on earth and have been traders long enough and extensively enough to have learned what standards of commercial honesty pay best in the long run. An American who had traveled in southwestern Europe, in South America and other parts of the world that are somewhat out of the beaten path lately admitted to the present writer that in the countries he had visited the reputation of Americans seemed to him to be low and that of the British very high. In Buenos Ayres, he said, an English merchant's word inspired confidence, but an American merchant's assurances were received with a good deal of skepticism.

This sort of testimony is mortifying to American ears but, if we believe it, we must look for the remedy to spring not from moral reform, but simply from increased knowledge. We expect those who bring this reproach upon us to learn, from information and reflection if possible, but if necessary from experience, that, though an individual rogue may steal or cheat and escape punishment, for a people who can neither hide nor run away from the consequences of their acts honesty is the most sagacious and remunerative course.—Scribner's.

Tossed on thcFoaminx ItlllowB You may never have been, but If you cross the Atlantic, no matter how smooth the watery expanse, without sea sickness you are—well, a lucky voyager, that is all. Old tars who have spent their lives on the ocean waves, who were almost born, so to speak, with their "sea legs on," suffer now and then from sea sickness in very tempestuous weather. 8ea captains, tourists, commercial travelers and yachtsmen say that there is no finer safeguard against nausea than Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, and it has been equally reliable as a preventive by invalids who sometimes suffer as much in those conveyances as ocean travelers do in steamships. Biliousness, constipation, sick headache and disorders of stomrch caused by oppressive climatic influences or unwholesome or unaccustomed food or water, always yield to the Bitters speedily. This popular medicine also remedies, rheumatic, kidney and nervous disorders, and the infirmities incident to Increasing years.

Cure Your Stomach.

You can quickly do this by using South American Nervine. It can cure every case of weak stomach in the world. It always cures, never fails. It knows no failure. It will gladden the heart and put sunshine into hour life. It Is a most surprising cure. A weak stomach aud broken nerves will drag you down to death. South American Nervine will help 'you immediately. No failures always cures never disappoints. Lovely to take. Sold by all wholesale and retail druggists in Terre Haute, Ind.

Try Allen's Foot-Ease,

A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At this season your feet feel swollen and hot, and get tired easily. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and makes walking easy. Cures and prevents swollen and sweating feet, blisters and callous sposs. Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 35c. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.

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In accordance with its old time custom, the Big Four Route will sell cheap excursion tickets at One Fare for the Round Trip from all stations to points on its line within 200 miles from selling point, good going on July 8d, 4th and 9th, and good returning to and including July 8th, 1807. Call on agents Big Four Route for ticket# and full information

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SILENT SUFFERERS.

Women do not Like, to Tell a Doctor the Details of Their Private Ills.

The reason why so many women suffer in silence from the multiple disorders connected with their sexual system is that they cannot bear to broach the subject to a man, even if he is a physician.

No one can blame a modest, sensitive woman for this reticence. It is unnecessary in these times, however, for a woman makes to all afflicted women a most generous offer. Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn, Mass., bids every woman who suffers to write to her and confide every symptom that annoys her, and she will give her advice without charge, and that advice is based upon the greatest experience ever possessed by man or woman in thiscountry, and extends over a period of twenty-three years, and thousands upon thousandsof cases. Why suffer in silence any longer,

my sister, when you can g^thelpfor the asking? Don't fear to tell her everything. The case of Mrs. Colony, whose letter to Mrs. Pinkham we publish, is an illustration of the good to be received from Mrs. Pinkham's advice here is a woman who was sick for years and could get no relief—at last in despair she wrote to Mrs. Pinkham—received in return a prompt, sympathetic and interested reply. Note the result and go and do likewise.

I was troubled with such an aching in my back and hips, and I felt so tired all the time, and had for four years. For the last year it was all I could do to drag around. I would have such a ringing in my head by spells that it seemed as though I would grow crazy. I ached from my shoulders to my feet and was very nervous. I was also troubled with a white discharge. I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., received a prompt reply and followed her advice, and now I have no backache and begin to feel as one ought in fact, I never felt better in ten years than I do now. I thank God that I went doctoring with Mrs. Pinkham when I did, for if I had not I know I would have been in my grave." —MRS. NELLIE E. COLONY, Nahma, Mich.

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