Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 August 1897 — Page 3

FOR GROWING GIRLS.

FASHION INFORMATION THAT WILL BE INTERESTING TO MOTHERS.

White Linen Tape ud Ita Multlfarlouj lifi—Other Popular Garnitures—A Tennis Salt For Sweet Sixteen—Gowns For

Late Summer.

[Special Correspondence.]

NEW YOKK, Aug. 9.—The use of flat tape as dress trimming is a small mat* ter in itself, but after all nearly everything is made up of small matters. I White linen tape sewed on snch garments as it is suitable for is undeniably pretty, particularly when it is flanked on either side by a row of serpentine 1 tape. Linens, crashes and all cotton goods are made prettier and more dressy by its application. Sometimes there I will be a line of white serpentine tape with a line of narrow bobbin cord sewed I

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neatly each side of it, but the finest effects are gained by the use of the flat tape. There is also a very narrow tape woven in blue and white, red and white, etc. This is often sewed beside the white tape, and in one particular instance it was sewed beside the white, flat tape, with a row of narrow serpentine at its edge. It was on a gray linen blouse. Tb« fold in frout had a row of serpentine in the center, a red and white tape each side of that and wide white tape outside of this. It made a very striking ornamentation, particularly when taken with the double flat collar and re vers, each carrying out the same scheme of trimming and color. On the bottom of the blouse the tape was set on the edge as it was on the collar and revers. There was a line down the outside seam of the sleeves and around the wrists and a short distance up the under seam.

I havo spoken at length of this pretty trimming that clever mothers may understand how it is made. It is a very neat and effective trimming, adapted for children's wear as well as for their elders, and it is cheaper than anything anywhero approaching it for beauty. The tape may be all white, flat and smooth and in varied widths. It makes a neat trimming when sewed around a skirt in six or seven narrow lines and around a blouse in clusters of three linen. There are dozens of ways of applying it There is also a rather thick, flat cord, white or ivory. This is generally used to produce the loops on semimilitary shapes of bodices. These are often seen in the crashes and linens.

A neat little tennis suit for a girl of 16 had the skirt of blue and white check in heavy gingham. Around the bottom were seven rows of white tape, each upper one being narrower than the one below. The blouse was of indigo blue linen. The yoke, collar, pockets, fold and cuffs all had one narrow lino of tape to define them. It mado a very pretty and girlish costume. The tape is a durable trimming, as may be imagined. and therefore is very satisfactory.

For a girl in her teens there was a very dainty dress made of white canvas over sulphur yellow taffeta, whioh allowed faintly through. The skirt was snug all around, but shirred a little in the back. Around the bottom was a deep white silk muslin flounce accordion plaited. The skirt above it was cut in deep vandyke points, each bordered with a double gauffering of the silk muslin. The effect was very dressy. The bodice was a blouse, with the front composed of plaiting* of white Valenciennes, with a full jabot vest front reacbiug from the

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neck to the belt. The neck was finished with a ruffle of the plaitiug, and the upturned cuffs of the elbow sleeves were also bordered with it.

A gown on this model made of liberty gilk would be very dainty, India silks in large madras phials are novel and used for many bodir.. They are often veiled with thin grenadine* or other thin stuff.

OUVK HARPER.

Iced Tip*.

While iced tea may be made from either Mark or given tea, the mixed tea is

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It six nii be made stronger than for hot tea a ml should be crxiled and set in the ice box till wanted. Then serve in glasses with sujjar to taste, a dash of lemnn jnire, a slice oar two of lemon and some cracked ice.

'THE MOTHER CHURCH."

The First Church of Christ, Scientist, In Boston, Bears That Title. [Special Correspondence^

BOSTON, Aug. 9.—The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in this city, is the mother chnrch of the whole sect of Christian Scientists. It has over 6,000 members all over the world, and many Scientists have moved to Boston in order to live near it. All churches of the sect are named in this way, but are numbered in any city in the order organized.

This mother church, the only edifice of the denomination in Boston, is dedicated to Mrs. Mary Baker Q. Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy's home is at Conoord, N. H., and she has only been in this church three times. In it is a room called "mother's room," fitted up for her use when here. It was the offering of some 4,000 little children of the sect. There is probably not a more expensive private room in Boston. It is a circular apartment with stained glass windows which symbolize, as does everything in the church, some thought connected with religion.

The furniture is of white mahogany, beautifully carved, the chairs upholstered in white and gold satin. A couch filled entirely with down in place of hair is one of the luxuries of the room. A writing desk sumptuously fitted up has in its stationery case paper stamped in gold "Mother'sBoom." An exquisite cabinet holds a complete edition of Mrs. Eddy's writings bound in tbe prevailing white and gold. The mantel is a costly affair of Mexican onyx, holding a very elegant French clock, candelabra and imported vases. There is also a most beautiful onyx table.

One of tbe rugs is a blanket made en tirely of down from the eider duck. The skins of hundreds of duoks have gone to make up this rare and priceless rug

A curious memento in this room is probably placed there for the benefit of others than Mrs. Eddy. It is a large canvas set on tbe floor, draped with velvet and lighted from the top be bind the folds of drapery. It cannot be called a picture, but it is the painted facsimile of the chair, an old fashioned haircloth rocker, in which Mrs. Eddy sat when she wrote "Science and Health," tbe textbook of Christian Science. Some scattered sheets of manuscript lie on the floor and on tbe end of a table covered with an old fashioned black embroidered red cloth, shown beside the chair. A dressing room on one

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side and on tbe other a bathroom done in African marble, with gold plated pipes and faucets, complete the apartment.

The room is entered from the upper and main hallway, just opposite the central church door. A marble archway, on either side of which in niches stand white pots holding delicate palms, leads to the tiny entrance vestibule of the room. The archway is draped with dark velvet hangings, and the vestibule is lighted from above, the light shining down on the door of the room, over which, on a white marble tablet, is inscribed in gold the word "Love."

In this, as in every Christian Science church, an effort is made to dispense with all unnecessary form. A Scientist who wishes to join makes application in writing, which is considered by committee. If favorable, they simply inscribe the new name on tbe church roll.

There is no pastor now, though there was at one time. Mrs. Eddy, whom Scientists call "mother" many of them, in writing open letters to her through the organ of the sect, The Christian Science Journal, address her as "dearest mother"—has designated the Bible and her book "Science and Health, With Key to the Scriptures," as the impersonal preachers of tbe churches. The "lesson sermon" is an antipbonal reading from both books. A man called "the first reader" reads from the Bible, and a woman, "tbe second reader," reads from "Science and Health." These lesson sermons are prepared by a committee and published in quarterlies. The readers are chosen by the year. The pulpit or platform contains desks for the two readers. Otherwise it is just I like a pulpit in any church. The choir aits behind this.

High on tbe wall back of the pnlpit are two small windows with open books painted on them. One is the Bible, the other "Science and Health." Texu from both are inscribed upon the walls. Tbe organ is a gift from one man, a thank offering for the recovery of his wife through Christian Science healing. The windows of tbe chnrch are noticeably beautiful in coloring. Most of them represent scenes from the Bible. There are no memorial windows, it being tbe idea of tbe Christian Scientist to keep the thoughts ever turned away from death as well as sin and sickness. Twice a year a communion service is held. It is entirely spiritual, tbe only outward form used being the kneeling posture. Every Friday evening a "testimonial meeting" is held in lien of the prayer meeting in other chorchea.

ANME ISABEL WILL*

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Ait advertisement of a Mexican rail way promise* strawberries every day is the year.

The question is often asked, What is tbe probable increase in speed to be in the future and in what direction are we to look for improvements with a view to obtain it? One evident mode of increasing speed is by augmenting the size of the vessel and its machinery, as, if the proportion of weight allotted to the machinery is the same a greater speed will be obtained. To secure speed by this means, however, does not involve any special skill or anything in tbe nature of improvement. All that is necessary is simply to reproduce the same description of hnll and engines, but of a larger size.

Greater skill is 6hown where an exceptional speed is obtained within small dimensions, and in this respect the results obtained by M. Norm and of Havre in his latest achievements are specially creditable. No doubt material of greater strength than generally adopted would admit of lighter scantlings for the hulla Probably the engines themselves may be driven at a higher number of revolutions and possibly improvements in water tube boilers may enable a reduction of weight to be secured without loss of efficiency. Aluminium may also be introduced as a substitute for heavier metals. It is in the saving of weight for power that advance may be looked for in tbe immediate future, and the shipbuilder can now see his way to obtain from 82 to 84 knots.—A. F. Yarrow in Cassier's Magazine.

The Eye In Old Age.

Dr. Chevallereau is one of the foremost eye specialists in Paris and tbe medical world. His opinion was therefore sought upon the effect upon eyesight in these times of omnivorous reading, which is such a characteristic of the age.

Speaking to a Herald correspondent, he said it was very difficult, in fact, almost impossible, to lay down any general rule on the matter. A frequent malady of the eye, as old age comes on, is cataract. This is gradual, so much so that it is often advanced far before it is noticed.

It is not probable, however, that tbe eyesight will suddenly fail, unless there is some extraneous cause, such as heu orrhage of tbe retina, which sometimes is to be feared when the patient is ad vanced in age.

Dr. Abadie of 9 Rue Volney gave practically the same opinion, pointing ont that it was hardly likely that any one who had enjoyed normal eyesight would at an advanced age suffer from the sudden failure of the sight unless it were caused by some shock or great emotion. —Paris Herald.

Tommy Was a Strategist.

A little boy dropped his drumstick into a well. In vain he entreated his parents, the gardener, the footman, the coachman, the cook, the housemaids to go down into the well to recover his drumstick. In his distress a brilliant expedient occurred to Master Tommy— he secretly carried off all the plate from tbe sideboard and threw it into the well. Great was the consternation when tbe plate was missed, and an active search for the robbers took place. In the midst of the alarm and the confusion Master Tommy ran with the news that he had found the plate. "Where?" was the cry. "Down the well," replied Tommy. "I saw it quite plain shining at the bottom—spoons, ladles, bread baskets, salvers and all." The housemaid hurried to the well, at the bottom of which, sure enough, the plate was seen. A ladder was procured, a servant descended and the plate was brought up. Just before the last drticle was fished up Master Tommy whispered to him, "John, please bring up my drumstick when you go down for the soup ladle. "—St. LouiR Post-Dispatch.

Information From London.

The debasing effect of Scott's lords and ladies is nowhere stronger than in young ladies' colleges in tbe United States. Girls there imagine that persons who live in old castles and sleep in rooms hung for hundreds of years with tapestry must be far above the ordinary level. Their dream is to become, through dollars and feminine charm, mistresses of these imposing abodes and bear the titles connected with them. An American lady married to a prosaic British nobleman with a euphonious title had filled her imagination with thoughts of Kenilworth. She was more than disappointed to find that earls were not belted and that- a Howard could be a matter of fact burly person, fond of plain food and plain in all bis ways.—London World.

Circumference and Diameter.

The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter was first ascertained to some degree of exactness by Van Centen, a Dutchman. He found that if tbe diameter of a circle was 1 the circumference would be 8.141592663689793238462643383279502884 nearly, which is exactly true to 36 places of decimals and was effected by the continual bisection of an arc of a circle, a method so extremely laborious that it cost him incredible pains.

National Aim.

The national airs of gteat countries are short, says the Buffalo Morning Times, while those of little countries are long. "God Save the Queen" consists of bat 14 bars the Russian hymn is 16 bars, and "Hail, Columbia," has 88 bars. Siam's national hymn has 76 bars, that of Uruguay 70 and Chile's 46.

Paper For Floors.

Paper floors are in use in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. It is laid in a pasty mass, smoothed and then pressed. Footsteps 1 on it are noiseless.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, AUGUST 14, 1897.

Speed In Torpedo BosGk

The development of speed in torpedo boats is a study of special interest, and the effect of tbe rapid increase of speed in this class of vessel is by no means confined to it, as a basis is thus formed for the introduction of many, improvements, and consequent higher speed, in vessels of large size.

Elegant English Crooks.

Pickpockets, or "hooks," as they are termed in tbe criminal vernacular, are often well educated and of genteel appea raj ce and manners. Those who work the "tubs" (omnibuses) are exceptionally respectable in their dress and quiet in demeanor. As stated in the printed warning exhibited in railway stations and omnibuses, pickpockets are "both male and female," but the proportion of the latter is small, probably less than 10 per cent

The best educated and most genteel are generally experts at devices such as card sharping and tossing for money, and, speaking several languages, are enabled to travel all over the world. This class is especially dangerous on board the large Atlantic liners.

Bepresenting themselves as gentlemen of property traveling for pleasure, they disarm suspicion by their liberal conduct in paying for champagne and cigars. But woe to any unfortunate passenger who plays at cards with one of these vampires.

The victim is possibly gently handled for the first few nights, until confidence is fully established, when larger stakes are proposed. He is then plied with drink, and after losing nearly all his money is "kindly" assisted to his berth by his "friend," who coolly rifles his pockets of the remainder. On awaking he is unable to recollect the exact amount of his losses and can only come to the conclusion that he has been very "unluoky."—Pearson's Weekly.

A Gracious Reply to Royalty.

The queen was once informed by the manager of her Shaw farm that a Mr. Elliott, a. Scottish farmer, was a breeder of superior collie dogs, and she thereupon expressed a wish to possess ono of them. Accordingly Mr. Elliott forwarded two beautiful dogs, and her majesty was so enraptured with them that she gave orders that the next time he came to tbe farm he should immediately be taken up to the castle.

Mr. Elliott was somewhat uneasy as to how he should comport himself in the presence of royalty, and the manager spent a considerable time in putting him through bis facings. At last tbe fateful day arrived, and he was ushered into the presence of tbe queen.

Her majesty shook hands with him and said: "Oh, Mr. Elliott, I have to thank yoa for the two beautiful collies you sent me."

And to this graoious remark Mr. El liott replied: "Touts, touts, wummanl Hand yer tongue! What's the matter o' a pair o' dowgs between you and me?"—London Answers.

The Young Member.

Grantley Berkeley tells, in his "Life and Becollections," how a member for Ludlow, in tbe last parliament of William IV., "tried to make a maiden speech, and, risiug in his place with a very bald bead, known, too, as he was to everybody, as one of the oldest stagers in all the ways of the world, he began with great affectation of inexperience and with an exceedingly mild voice, 'Mr. Speaker, I am but a young member.' On hearing this assertion from so well known and crafty a man, possessing so venerable a pate, the entire house roared with laughter. Twice he stopped, and three times he commenced with these words, but it was useless. Tbe bouse would not listen, and he never to my knowledge essayed to speak again, or, if he cfid, the sight of his bald head set his audience in a roar." Parliamentary manners are milder in these times, but a titter has gone round the chamber, even during the existence of the present house of commons, when a venerable looking member of 60 claimed indulgence fur his maiden speech.—Gentleman's Magazine.

A Slight Difference.

The nearest fixed star whose distance has been measured by the astronomers, is Alpha Centanri, as you know. Its parallax was determined many years ago, and its distance found to be about seventy-one millions of millions ol miles. Not that an expression of those figdres can possibly give you any conception of tbe space between us and the star. but that is tbe way tbe observers have to put it.

Now, it s-ems, another determination of this star's parallax has been made, which bripg* the twinkler about eighteen millions of millions of miles nearer to us than we thought it was. That is a mighty big difference, or it would be in most things, but millions and billions and trillions of miles seem to be mere trifles wbtfn we are considering tbe depths of outer space.—Philadelphia Times.

Attractive I)reas.

A circle enclosing the words "Purity, Strength, Perfection," makes the label used on Cleveland's baking powder particularly attractive.

The Cleveland Baking Powder Co. has not only set a high standard for quality of goods, but has adopted a frank method of dealing with the public, which should be followed more generally. All the ingredients used in this baking powder are published on every label.

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