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FEMININE WINDOWS.

OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

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One Wife'* Mind—The Optimistic Woman. VdorabJy Amiable and .Shockingly Irreligious—Kindness to Animals—Charity and Jnitlct, ,,

[Copyright, 1S97, by the Author.]

READ a pretty fentence in a little French story the other day, "Woman is the window through which man sees life."

Nothing cotild be truer. I have observed that sons and hus­

bands regard the world very much as their mothers and wives regard it. They see first with the mother's eyes, afterward with the wife'a I have known hopeful, happy men to become despondent pessimists after marriage, and vice versa. This is a fact which it would be well for women to meditate upon. The girl who is at all uncertain of her vocation in life might use her time to excellent advantage by polishing up the windows of her mind and keeping them free from dust and cobwebs and frost for the benefit of a future husband and son who will see life through them. If the husband and son never appear, the labor is not lost. If thoy do appear, the benefit which she is bestowing on the world may prove far beyond her imaginings.

Women nowadays *regnrd themselves of far too great importance in every way except the right way.

Their real importance in the scheme of the universo they seem to ignore. Recently I heard a pretty, pampered young wife whoso husband gives her everything which lovo and money can furnish declare her ambition to "put men down," ns she expressed it, on general principles. "They get tho best of everything," she said, "and I would like to see them suffer a little more. Our baby has nover kept us awake a niglit yet, and sometimes I wish he would just to givo my husband a little of tho trouble of bringing up a child. Ho is away all day and never sees any of my trials with it, and so I think he ought to be worried nights. Men have altogether tho best of things." Well, yes, men bavp tho best of things when they havo agreeable, faithful and sensible wives, and only then. Young, wealthy and popular as this husband is, it does not strike me that he has "the best of things." 1 would not liko to look at life through tho window of that wifo'^niiud.

Thero is nothing else on earth so delightful as an agreeable and optimistic woman. 1 wonder more young girls do not choose to develop themselves along those lines. I believe tho "amiable woman" went out of fashion some years ago and was put away with crinoline mid other old styles. Sho was supposed to be devoid of spirit. But there never was greater mistake. Real amiability springs from spiritual repose and mental refinement, and often accompanies tho highest intellectual qualities. Women give the atmosphere to a home and are "windows" for its occupants of either sex. 1 remember a period of my life when I was obliged to associate with some intellectual women who despised the word "amiable." They gloried in their own aggressive qualities and in what eaeh deemed her positive individuality. 1 recall my experience with these people as one recalls a painful dream. It seems to me 1 viewed lifo through clouded windows while in their atmosphere I never think of the association without, remembering heart bruises

In recompense life has since givt nie companionship with two adorably amiable women. One of them has recently passed on to anew phase of existence, God rest her sweet soul! Sho lived 65 years to prove herself a benediction to every lifo which even temporarily touched her own. She was a fragrant flower in the garden of girlhood. As a wife sho transformed a despondent, restless and discontented man into an agreeable and optimistic husband. Children who were uervons invalids she gave cheerful views of lifo and caused them to laugh themselves into good health. Even with poverty and sickness in her home the house was a haven of rest and peace to enter, so permeated was it with her beautiful spirit She had sympathy ftud affection for every one who appealed to her, no matter how burdened with her own cares I regard her as the greatest woman 1 have ever known.

A little foreign widow who our language imperfectly and who is working hard to educate four children dependent upon her expressed great astonishment the other day to learn that any educated or brainy people were religious. She- said she had come to the belief that religion was merely ignorant superstition and that education was the only divine power in existence.

I confess 1 could not help feeling greater pity for the woman on account of hex^iews on this* subject than for her loneliness in a strange land.

There is always something shocking to me in an absolutely irreligious -woman. Faith belongs to a woman as naturally as skirts. An atheistical woman in bloomers is the a one of the inartistic.

All the "education" this poor little mother can bestow upon her children ran never recompense them for what they are losing in spiritual training, for the spirit needs its methods and time for practice quite as much as the mind or body.

I think a child who learns the principles of spiritual concentration is better equipped for the battles of life, even without education, than the most learned materialist. He who learns how to look into his own spirit and finds its close connection with deity will obtain more useful wisdom than the greatest bookworm who ever lived and believed only in human intellect.

It is the mother who should be the first spiritual teacher. She need not necessarily teach her child creeds, but let her train the young mind tendril to cling about something greater than hu man intellect if she wants to confer a lasting benefit upon it.

The need of the day is "a religion whose cornerstone is kindness to all created things. Nothing more horrible can be conceived than a clergyman and a schoolteacher attempting to convey a moral lesson by killing animals in the presence of sensitive women and children.

A clergyman recently illustrated to his congregation the evil effects of tobacco by killing two" cats in his pulpit with nicotine.

A schoolteacher caused a panic by chloroforming a cat and then dissecting it in the presence of the children, many of whom fainted or became hysterical.

If this is modern orthodoxy, it cer tainly is not Christianity. No man has the love of God or the spirit of Christ in his heart who could even sit still and witness such an act without a protest. No woman is fit to be teacher of the young who could deliberately take the life of any iuoffen sive animal. She is a monster at heart and worse than a brute by nature.

No "religion" is of any value or worth in the world which does not teach sympathy for and kindness to animals, They are just as much a part of God's system as we are. Henry Bergh has done more to evangelize the world than most clergymen who have preached creeds to us during the last 20 years The woman who can take the life of happy little animal and proceed to dissect its warm body iu the presence of young children is most certainly a "degenerate, and her influence is pernicious.

That is not the sort of "window" through which the growing generation should regard life.

The precise location of 9 cat's spinal cord is not necessary knowledge for any child to obtain, especially at the sacrifice of kind and sympathetiq feelings. We need missionaries from India to convert such women and such clergymen to a more humane and divine religion.

Wealthy women, women with mil lions of money, would never think of asking a seamstress to sew for them and take thanks and compliments as pay ment. They never imagine it settles the confectioner's account if they tell him the ices he served their guests were de licious, yet not infrequently they ask the services of self supporting young musicians in their homes and consider the compliment of the request sufficient payment.

A young woman who is striving to support herself in New York with her really wonderful voice has during the last month sung by request in the homes of two millionaires, peopldf whose names are known wherever civilization extends, and no reference to remuneration was made by either hostess. One of these ladies is very liberal in her gifts to the paupers and to the churches. Would it not be a wiser charity to help a talented and proud young girl to support herself honestly?

I understand these cases are not infrequent. Women of large means and prominent social position often consider tho compliment they confer upon a young artist sufficient remuneration for services rendered, but a $10 or $20 check would go farther toward paying board bills than compliments.

If wealth helpod mora people who are striving to climb, it would not be obliged to assist so many who are down.

A little more thoughtfulness toward the struggling, and there would be less need of alms for the crushed and defeated. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

WOMEN'S NEWS AND VIEWS.

More and more women are awakening to the truth that eacfc individual carries about with him an atmosphere that affects others. The peevish, sour, whining woman's atmosphere reacts on others and, like a boomerang, returns to herself. For the sake of our own health we should shun ill natured people and those who see nothing but the faults of others. The sweet tempered, pure minded, merry hearted woman is a real son of light and warmth.

The New York College of Pharmacy has numerous young women among its students this year. Speaking of the fact, Mr. Macmahan, one of the trustees of the college, prophesied this, "Eventually the retail drug business will pass into the hands of women."

Mrs. Ida Moore Lachmund is captain of the Mississippi river tow boat Robert Dodd& She lives in Clinton, la. Her boat is engaged in the freight trade and tows great rafts of logs down the river to the sawmills where they are in demand. She handles $600,000..worth, of logs every year.

Women who talk constantly of clothes reveal their own shallowness. They show they are capable of seeing only the outside.

The National Prohibition party hu nt itself against woman suffrage. Yea Woman suffrage will become universal long before the Prohibition party electa one of its candidates* however.

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OUTSIDE GARMENTS.

THE NEW,, ^STYLES IN COATS.

ties of Blouse Waists.

[Copyright.

1887,

WINTER COATS.

hercules braid covered the collar and, in s^ort, nearly the whole cape. 1 cannot remember of having seen a richer, more elegant wrap. It was intended for a middle aged lady. I thought then of the law of compensation, which makes fashion reserve for those whose youth and freshness have flown the richest and most sumptuous of garments.

Next to the capes come the threequarter coats in point of elaborateness and elegance. These are of smooth finish goods, and the designs in soutache surpass anything ever before done in that line. In some of them the pattern covers almost the whole surface, leaving free only the upper part of the sleeves. In others the front only is braided and the back left entirely plain. Cne design has a large storm collar of black marten and the fronts and sleeves closely braidr ed in a very rich design of scrollwork. This is all sewed by machine and is very firm and wonderfully accurate. Still another of these beautiful coats has a graceful pattern wrought in flat soutache braid down the front, around the sides and up the center plait in the back. The whole waist- was covered, the back of the collar and the sleeves up to the elbows. The collar was bordered with Alaska sable. These three quarter coats are made in dark green, blifts, prune, terra cotta and black, also tan and biscuit. These latter have brown braiding and are permissible only for the young. Those of darker hue may be worn by even white haired grandmothars. There are many other three-quarter coats with next to no trimming made with fly fronts and also double breasted. Short jackets are very popular, too, and often match gowns.

The furs are now all on exhibition in the showrooms of the big fur houses. The prevailing idea is very odd and very old. Tippets and quaint little capes something like victonnes, with long square tabs, each having two tails, are among the newest These have enormous Elizabethan ruff and look best when made of ermine with shoulder pieces of creamy white moufflon. Tippets having double rows of tails are odd and pretty for young folks Une had a row of four at the top and four just below them. With this was a curiously shaped muff like a butterfly, with a little head and three tails where the body would be. One cape was made of yellow fox skins, only the center of eaeh being used. The collar was iu shape of a boa, made of the tails. 1 don't know how many skins were in the pelerine, but there were five tails in the boa. A very full short cape had round plaits held in place by many rows of featherbone, and at the back of the neck there was a ribbon bow with a little bt-ad and three long tails. One of the finest of the new cloaks was a regular red mgore

DRESSES FOR HOVE ASP V1SITISO.

of dark gray camel's hair, close ami fine, with straggling white hairs. This whole garment was lined with Siberian squirrels, and down the fronts were revers and what one might call facings on the skirt The collar was high and rolling, and there were square epaulets of far. With this beautifui coat was a plain round muff to match.

Some of the new muffs are remarkable in size and shape. One was made with a center of moufflon in Hgb brownish white, with three tails hanging down. On each side was a wide plait* ing of doubled sealskin Sealskin is very much in evidence tikis season in plain reefer shaped jackets with Lafayette collar* Pelerines made of sealskin have Metdlea of sable or moofion and tabs with eight tails of the last named

TEBBE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENTNG MAIL, IsOVEMBER 6, 1897.

CAPES AND

goiv.e of the Fashionable Muffh Kassian Blouses—Flounces For Walking Dreme* Bayadere Stripe*—New Varie­

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Capes there are in endless variety of shape, length and material. Some of file mantles are particularly rich and elegant. One was made of a dark blue kersey with a surface like satin and as thick as a board. This was nearly 36 inches deep and lined with heavy black satin. The high storm collar was bordered

glossy Alaska sable and an

elegant design in narrow and wide black

for. Wide sweep capes are made of astrakhan with seal revers, and blouse waists of iistrakhan and Persian are belted in, and they have yokes and folds of sealskin. These have no sleeves, but only the cape out over the arms. There are plain 30 and 36 inch military capes of seal, and these are lined with black satin astrakhan and Persian jackets fitting tightly aud with or without hussar braiding are among the prettiest. Rich kersey capes are lined and bordered with fur, of whatever kind is suitable for the color of the cloth.

One Russian blouse of astrakhan had three rich knotted cords with piquets on the front and a fluted collar. A muff to match was draped like a saddlecloth and bordered with light yellow fur. On the lower side there was a puffing of the astrakhan between the borders. Some of the capes have wide sweep and others fit nearly close. Jackets of one kind of fur have storm collars and sharp revers of another kind and color of fur. White krimmer and Persian lamb in light gray are made into short reefer coats for young girls and very jaunty little eton jackets with full bell sleeves are shown for young ladies. Muffs are particularly ugly find cumbersome. Plaited Russian blouses, with the lower part six to eight inches deep, are very stylish. 1 may add as a parting word about furs, you who have grandmothers and great-grandmothers should go and coax them to overhaul their old trunks. If you are fortunate enough to find one of the fur garments or muffs that she used to wear, just put it on and go down the street with a proud sense of being precisely in the best style of today. There is a great deal of comfort of a mental quality to be found in furs other than that afforded by their warmth.

Flounces are put upon some of the walking dresses to such an extent that we, like the senator we heard about, do not know exactly "where we are at" And yet one rarely meets one in the street. Flounces as a decoration to home gowns look well, but are hardly as pretty in such materiafs as are usually worn abroad. They ripple in soft undulations very gracefully when put upon the light evening silks or thin stuffs. There seems to be no limits as to the width or number of the flotuSces one can put upon her gown. One dress for home had 22 narrow ruffles. Another for a ball had three, and so it is. You can do as you like.

Bayadere stripes have not appeared much in public, though probably they will later on, when the social functions are in full swing. The annual horse show is the great day here, and it is then that each ladv tries to kill her dearest foe with ervy It is to be hoped that the fad of having hats and toque bonnets made 01 wnoie owls will have died out. This odd caprice has brought out some such atrocious witticisms that one is in a state of collapse, each minute expecting some one to say, "Owl you have it?" or some other equally brilliant pun. But as a small boy expressed it, When sister Nan puts on her owl hat, sho don't look so worse, I don't t'ink."

There are more varieties than ever in the blouse waisA*, and one can hardly go amiss when making any kind of a gown to have the fronts bag. Tucked waists, sleeves and yokes are- all seen, and so is every other kind of thing. 1 notice some new open thread wool very like boating, oqly soft and thick. This is produced only in Black and made up over bright colored lining. It is very pleasing *?,

Not so, however, aro the sky blue, purple and emerald green gloves. They are anything but elegant. Tan hosiery is a favorite now. So is black. There are many monstrosities in plaids and other designs. Refined ladies look at them, but do not purchase them.

HKNKIKTTK ROUSSKAO.

THE NEW WOMAN.

The Clubwoman is tho name of anew monthly published in Boston. It is as handsome and able as its editor, Miss Helen M. Wmslow. One of its useful features will be a department devoted to parliamentary usage. There is great need among women of a correct knowledge of how to conduct meetings. Another field of vast usefulness before The Clubwoman is the promoting and fostering of co-operative and housekeeping clubs among working girls and women. Among all the multitudes of women's associations these have an economio value that helps directly in a material way those belonging to them. Properly managed such clubs can give a real home to a working woman who is alone, with comfort and even luxury that she could scarcely obtain otherwise with twice the money. V*

Mrs. John Vance Cheney, in connection with Mrs. Lucia Gale Barber and Mr. T. S. Fritz, has established in Chicago a school for instruction in physical "culture, music, oratory and dramatic art. These teachers believe that all instruction should begin by unfolding the pupil's faculties from within outward, and that will be the underlying principle of their methods. Mrs. Cheney herself has devised a system of music which abolishes the terrible, inoessant pound, pound of the finger ends npan piano keya

Most women hare faults—plenty of them—and their intimate friends are usually proficient in telling what the are. But 1 would rather be the woman guilty of all the faults the others criticise than the horrible, clawing creatures who nose oat the faults and enlarge on them.

Mia Helen A. Whittier of Lowell, Maw, is at the head of (me of the largest cotton mills in the United States.

Mra Clara Foltz, the brilliant lawyer, is president of the Idaho-Klondike Gold Mining company, organized to develop and work mining lands. May the company pay large dividend* 1

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He Was Not In It.

"%-A man who was offering for sale a small Newfoundland puppy on Chestnut street quite unintentionally afforded a gcod deal of amusement to the promenaders. Of course he was pleased at the notice which he attracted, but he couldn't see what there was so funny about either himself or his dog. He had bought one of those ready made handbills, such as are pasted upon houses, reading: "For Sale, inquire Within." With an ordinary lead pencil he had crossed off the word "within," and, making a period aiter "inquire," tied it around the poppy's body. But the lines of erasure were so faint that ten feet away the handbill appeared in its original form. A small boy who saw the joke approached the man and asked, "Say, mister, did de growler swaller bis owner?" "No. Don't git gay, Johnuy," said the man. "Well, den, who do youse ask fur w'en youse gits inside?" gueried the small boy. Then the man ^aw the point and tore off the lower tUalf of tho placard, so that it read simply, "For Sale.''—Philadelphia Record.

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Collateral.

A soilier in the guards came to me in Queen's square to swear to his having lost his duplicate. I looked at the affidavit to see if it were military accouterinents, etc., that he had pawned, when to my surprise I found that lie had pawned a £2 bank note for 10s. 6d. On asking an explanation of this odd circumstance, he said he received the £2 note *and was resolved to pass a jolly evening, but not to spend more than a half guinea, and to insure this he pawned the note for that sum and destroyed the duplicate afterward that he might not be able to raise money on it in case his resolution should give way while he was drinking with his companions.—Cornhill Magazine.

R. A. Lindsay, late of No„ 3 Engine Company Baltimore City Fjjre Department says, that the members of his company have used Salvation Oil in cases of sprains and soreness with most gratifying results. It is the best. Only 25 cents

f. No Time Going to Wanto.

"Willie, what does that man want out there in the hall?" "He's waiting to see you, but he says there's no hurry." "How long has he been there?" "About half an hour." "Who is he?" "He's the plumber. He's come to do Eome work ycu spoke to

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Examine your ton&ue is itcoated? Have you bad breath, sick stomach with soar belchingsP If so, take Dr. Bull's Pills as directed for dyspepsia and you will be cured. 10 and 25 cents.

A Real Catarrh Cure.

The 10 cent trial size of Ely's Cream Balm which can be had of the druggist is sufficient to domonsti'ate its great merit. Send 10 cents, we will mail it. Full size 50c.

ELY BROS., 56 Warren St., N. Y. City. Catarrh caused difficulty in speaking and to a great extent loss of hearing. By the use of Ely's Cream Balm dropping of mucus has ceased, voice and hearing have greatly improved.--J. W. Davidson, Att'y at Law, Monmouth, 111.

Jr Save Yourselves

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The Vulgar One.

Cornhill Magazine tells a story of an Englishwoman of high station who bewailed to a friend the loss by death of a scsnewbat ill bred but extremely wealthy neighbor who had been very liberal in his help to her country charities. "Mr. X. is dead," said she. "He was so good and kind and helpful to me in all sorts of ways. He was* so vulgar, poor, dear fellow, we could not know him in London, but we shall meet in heaven

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Sdacate Tour llowoln YVltli ('uxraretH. Candy Cathartic, euro constipation fore\er.' 10c, 25c. If C, C. C. fail, druggists refund money.

safe Hhpuinatiam Cured In a Day. •'My stic Cure" for Rheumatism and Neural gia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action upon the system is remarkable aud mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits. 75 cents. Sold by Jacob Baur. Seventh and Main Sts., Cook. Bell & Black, and all druggists in Terre Haute.

To Cur« I'uu-tti|ution l-'urover. TnUo Chvscuvets Cumly Cathartic. 10c or 25c. If C. O. full to euro, tinimrists r«'funtl money.

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It is quickly absorbed. Gives relief at once.

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other day, but he says he'll wait till you're—what are you hurrying for, papa?!'—Chicago Tribune.

Fame.

"Mr. Cumro^s wife entertains very brilliantly,'' said a young woman. She is always being spoken of in the newspapers, but her husband is never mentioned. "Thero are different kinds of fame," returned Miss Cayenne. "It's true that Mr. Cnmrox's name doesn't get in the newspapers, but it is to be found in more ledgers than that of any other man in the city. "—Washington Star.

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A Handsome Complexion

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Office and Residence 210 N. Sixth St. TERRE HACJTE, IND. Diseases of Eye, Ear, Noso and Throat. Honrs—9 to 18 a. m., 1:80 to 4 p. m. Sundays 9 to 10 a. m.

JOHN M. VQLKERS, ATTORNEY.,

Collections and Notarial Work.

5«1 OHIO STREET.

jHAAC BALL & SON, FUNERAL DIRECTORS,

Cor. Third and Cherry streets, Terre Haute Ind., aro prepared to execute all orders In their line withneatness and dispatch.

Embalming a Specialty. i.:

GEO. HAUCK & CO.

Dealer in all kinds of

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Telephone w. 1)11) Main Street.

MART Store

Artists' Supplies, Flower Material. Picture Framing a Specialty.

SO SOUTH SIXTHS East Side,

Fresh

Wholesale. Retail.

.Terre Haute, Ind,

New York and Baltimore

Oysters

E. W. JOHNSON,

COAL.

We mine our own coal. First-class for all Domestic Use. Furnace trade solicited. Prices very reasonable. 'Phone 202.

J. N. & GEO. BROADHURST, Office, 132 South Third.

CRUSHED COARSE...

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GAS COMPANY

507 Ohio Street.

C. F. WILLIAMS, D. D. S.

DENTAL PARLORS,

Corner Sixth and Main Streets, TEBBE HAUTE. IND.

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-i'! Lawyer, Notary Public.

ttoom* STand 4.617H Wabash avenue. Telephone. 457.

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