Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 November 1897 — Page 3

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SHE'S A BUSY WOMAN

MEANING THE HOUSEKEEPER OF A BJG MODERN HOTEL.

Not a Figurehead Like the Clerk, bat the Executive Head of a Most Important department The Duties, Her Pay and Her Worries.

There is no single member of the manager's staff who contributes more to the success of a great modern hotel than the woman who acts thcf part of "housekeeper.In the eyes of the un thinking transient guest the day clerk and yet more the night clerk may seem of far greater importance, but in reality these functionaries are in a sense only figureheads, whose chief value lies in their power to make themselves personally agreeable to the hotel's patrons But the housekeeper is one of the three or four executive heads who really "run the hotel The responsibility of making the guests comfortable and contented rests as heavily upon her shoulders as it does upon the steward or the chef,

The duties of the housekeeper are pretty accurately described by her title She keeps the house in order. In some of the smaller hotels she supervises what is known as the "back of the house" from kitchen to garret, but the new big establishments in the great cities are so vast that the task of looking after the details of the whol9 would be beyond the power of any one person. This will the more readily be understood when it is remembered that the

THK HOOSKKKKPKH. THE CHAMBERMAID. employees of such a hotel number several hundred and that the administrative machinery of the house is as elaborate as the most extensive mercantile establishment.

The housekeeper of one of the largest and best known hotels in America has direct, charge over her chambermaids, the hall girls, the scrub women and the laundresses, several score in Hiumber all told. Besides the women a good sized group of men are directly responsible to her. They are employed to clean windows, take up and beat carpets, take down beds and move furnituro and do the heavy work around the bedrooms. They are known as the house men. They are selected by the manager and then handed over to the housekeeper for her approval. If she likes them, thoy are engaged, but not otherwise, and if they fail to do their work properly a word from her will insuro their dismissal. The housekeopor has no jurisdiction over the girls employed in the kitchen and dining rooms. They are hired and discharged by the manager and aro under the supervision of the proper department heads.

All the women in her department are hired and discharged by the housekeeper No one else has any control over them whatever. She looks into the references of every one before taking her on When she discharges a girl, she simply makes formal report to the nuumger so that the jxiy roll can be changed when the new girl comes in A certain number of girls is allowed for each line of duty, and when one is discharged another is taken on. The cause of the discharge is never known by any oue but the housekeeper and there is no appeal from her decision. In fact, she is absolute in her dominion.

Nominally the housekeeper is on duty from in the morning until 4 in the afternoon, but she is likely to be called upon at any and all hours of the day or night in case of emergency Her first duty every morning is to make a tour of inspection. She must hove personal knowledge of the condition of every guest's room in the house, since, although the chambermaids are responsi bio to her, she is responsible to the management Of course it is not possible in one of the greater hotels for a single person to inspect everything individual ly every day. and the housekeeper of such a caravansary must rely upon the report of the girls to some extern, but their reliance cau only be partial at the best

The details of this inspection duty are almost iu thine Every room must be kept supplied with every requisite. The bed linen, the towels, the carpets and the crockery must always be in apple pie order The newly arrived guest must not find a cracked water pitcher, a nicked glass, a torn curtain, a damaged carpet or broken furniture in his room Not a day passes in any of the greater new hostelries that some articles rendered useless by the carelessness of guest or servant does not have to be replaced, and even if it be impossible for the housekeeper to visit every part of Her realm each day no day must pass that she does not personally go over some part of it The shrewd housekeeper will of coarse keep her subordinate in constant expectation of her inspection, as this helps in discipline and makes for thorough work on their part

Through the constantly recurring necessity of renewal.** and repairs the housekeeper is daily brought into personal contact with a number of mm about the hot?) who are not directly under her control, yet who must obey her orders under given circumstance*. These are the upholsterer, the carpenter

ana the painter attached to the house and the man in charge of the supply rooHi. These men are supposed to be able to make gcod almost any breaks in woodwork or damage* to furniture and paint. Somewhere in' the hotel, perhaps away up under the roof, perhaps away down in the basement, the painter, carpenter and upholsterer have a shop which is fitted with all the tools of their trades, and the supply room is a regular magazine of fnrniture, carpets and rugs, curtains and material. It is the business of these men promptly to make any and all repairs and renewals the housekeeper may order, and a good part of her time is taken np every day in giving instructions to tfeem.

If she has time after the guests' rooms have been inspected and thor oughly set to rights, the housekeeper should go through the quarters of the "help" every day, or nearly so, since she is. as responsible for that part of the house as any other. She is also responsible for the conduct of the girls while on duty, and unless she is able to maintain the most perfect discipline she is sure to be set down as a failure. As a rule no talking is allowed among the girls when they are on duty. It has been found to lead to arguments and scraps. The housekeeper has to see that they do their work without stopping to gossip in corridors. In some hotels a chambermaid caught talking is discharged. In this respect the housekeeper is not unlike the roundsman of the police force. After work has ended for the day the girls are allowed to go to their rooms, and the housekeeper troubles them no more, unless there is a fight among them, as sometimes happens in the best regulated hotels. In such a case it is the housekeeper who must quell the battle. No one else will have anything to do with her employeea

It is the housekeeper, too, who must look after the morals and the personal appearance of the girls. She must see that they are safely tucked away in bed at a certain hour each night. No girl may stay out late at night without a pass from the housekeeper. Even with such a pass a girl will not be admitted to the hotel later than midnight. Girls have been known through a collusion with a bell boy to slip in late at night without being seen by the housekeeper, but if the latter is a woman who knows her business she will checkmate this move and discharge the girl. Very likely the conniving bell boy will get his walking papers at the same time.

Salaries of hotel housekeepers vary, of course. Oue hundred dollars a month, with board and really handsome apartments, is the highest housekeeper's wage know of, and the range in first cfiss hotels is from $50 up.

SECTION OF BOUDKR FOB COVER.

four inches larger on all sides than the top of the table for which it is designed. For the border cut the goods lengthwise through the middle, which will give a strip 18 6 inches in width. Baste this carefully to the center of the cloth, being very particular to have the corners perfectly mitered. The design given in the illustration is the conventionalized fleur-de-lis, or flag. This should be first drawn in outline and then painted in flat tones with white paint The color used is the ordinary oil color in tubes found at all artists' material shops. When this is thoroughly dry, outline the whole design either with heavy white linen floss or conch with white macreme cord. Just above the seam feather stitch, as shown in drawing, with white floss. About two inches from the outer edge either outline in floss or conch with the cord, according to method, and, in outlining the border, a straight line around the entire cloth. Line the cover with silicia, which should be white to avoid any danger of the colors running in washing, as this cloth may be laundered again and again without injury. The lining shonld be carefully basted on right side, then stitched all around with the exception of a space long enough to admit of turning the cloth. Turn the seams and corners neat-

DXKDI COVER.

ly and baste with small* dose stitches. Dampen aad proas with hot iron oo wrong side, and the cover will be complete.

When ether colon than blue and white are desired, brown denim or linen oaxt be wed is place of the blue. The design could be painted in shade* of dull yellow and oooched with a ahade of macreme oord.

THE BLOUSE WAIST,

Tight Waists, For, Tea Govrap and XeW Millinery. -i [Special Correspondence.]

New York, Nov. 8.—The greatest trouble with any new style that meets popular taste is that it is at once overdone and everybody wears it in and out of season. So it is with the blouse waist From mourning and even tailor mado costumes of the most uncompromising kind to the lightest and flimsiest of dancing dresses we find the blouse waist, and already I see signs of a reaction in favor of tight waists. Blouses are made of strange materials when we think of the loose and baggy effect they have: I saw in one house a regular Russian blouse belt and ail made of Hudson bay sable This had the high storm collar, the pouched front, the little skirt piece' set on with a decided spring and a thick leather belt It didn't look half bad, though the fur is so thick. Still, there

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A Du^n That Combines Durability With Beauty.

A charming table cover may be made of the ever popular denim, which will combine durability with artistic beauty and at the same time involve but little odtlay of rime or monoy. 'J

First select apiece of tfie best quality of blue denim, which may be had for 18 cents a yard. From this cut a piece

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For millinery there are the queerest looking arrangements of stiff feathers imaginable, and it seems as if the only idea was to see how stiff and grotesque

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TEBBE HAUTE SATURDAY JSVE3SI3SU MAIL., NOVEMBER 13, 1897.

WAISTS^^^ifv:-.

is no material, however rich, that can give a blouse a really elegant appearance. Stylish and striking it may be, but not pleasing to the most refined taste. There was a whole suit, skirt and blouse, made of fine black Persian lamb. The skirt was open in front over a panel of plaited black satin ducliesse, but the blouse was closed. The skirt to the basque was piped and faced with black satin. Along the edge of the storm collar was sewed a row of finely cut jet beads as large as peas. The belt worn with the basque was made of black velvet, with rows oi the same kind of beads at the edges. The entire costume, hat and all, was black without a hint of color. It was a costly and sumptuous affair.

Even the oldest ladies wear the blouse waist, but one may say that the blouse of the present day fits closely over the shoulders and around the bust line, all the bagginess being massed toward the front, low down, with the exception of those blouses gathered all the way around to stand out over the belt. Even these are but a very trifle looser anywhere than a snug waist would be, but these few gathers are put where they show very plainly.

There are now many tight waists seen. Somo are cut off short and round and finished with a piping cord or pe^n haps a belt made of bias velvet. These are for the very slender ladies. Fo* those more bountifully endowed the pointed fronts and backs are most often seen or pointed fronts and queer little postilion backs. One of the prettiest of the new ideas is the tab in front. This is becoming to all figures and can be varied to suit.

Fur will be so very much worn this winter that one may be surprised at finding any garment with none on. Even coarse goatskin is used. Fur hats are among the novelties, and some of them are novel enough in all conscience. Seal and undyed beaver, mink, skunk,' otter chinchilla and sable are all seen on hats, but only those of short pile, like seal and beaver, are suitable for making the entire hat. The large picture hats of velvet, with innumerable featherbone shirrings, are also ornamented with fur wherever it can be added. Many felt hats have narrow bindings of fur around the edgesi^f

FOR THE NEW TORK HORSE SHOW.

an affair it can be* made to look. Owl, hawk, turkey and parrot quills are used so are the long, glossy plumes from the barnyard fowls. Whole pheasants are mounted like rpal birds, and they are seated upon the top of the hat as if hatching ideas. The preference in these feathers is for the natural drabs and light browns, with dashes of black or white—in short, the feathers which belong naturally to the large birds. Ostrich plumes are worn and to be worn as much as ever.

I notice in cose house a number of taost beautiful black velvet jackets. These range from the eton to three quarter coat. They are all lined with rich satin, generally black, and either embroidered with heavy silk in raised design, trimmed with silk passementerie, or else beaded with fine cut jet beads. All have the collars bordered with Alaska sable fnr. They are for old and yoong, the shape fitting them far their purpose. Oun Harpkb.

Conldnt Fool the Old Man.

Things had progressed to a point where the young man had been practically received into the family circle. While he hadn't yet mustered np sufficient- courage to ask the old man's consent it was evident that he would in time

Thus it happened that the old man, ^who liked nothing better than a good game of whist or euchre or hearts, invited him to have a little game one evening, and of course he didn't feel that it would be policy to refuse. "You and mother," said the old man, referring to his wife, ^ca^play against

Martha and me, That will be fair. If you and A3 art ha sat opposite each other, von would probiibly persist in looking ititq each other's eyes, to the great detriment cf the game."

Naturally the young woman and the young man blushed, but they said nothing, and the game began.

It wasn't much of a game. While the young woman wasn't sitting opposite the young man she was sitting next to him, and every few minutes one or the other of them forgot to play when it was his or her turn. Then, too, there were frequent inquiries as to who took the last trick and what was trumps, and altogether the old man felt a good deal like swearing on one or two occasions.

Finally he made up his mind that patience had ceased to be virtue. The game had come to a standstill while the young people exchanged confidences in a whisper. It was noticeable also that each one had one hand under the table. "Young man," said the old man sharply, "I should infer from the way you are playing that you haven't much of a hand." "On the contrary, sir," protested the young man, "I think I have as good a hand as I ever held." "Well, suppose you drop' it for a'few minutes and try to play the cards that are on the table," suggested the.^old gentleman gravely. \1

He did. His missing hand appeared above the table almost instantly, and so dirt tiers, and they both blushed.—Chicago Post.

High priced competitors disregard a well established law of physics when they buck against Salvation Oil. It is the best and cheapest. 25c. S v-» nvV They All Knew That. "1 am quite willing to contribute to the—er—amusement of the evening," interposed the amateur poet, who was bursting to read his latest and couldn't get. anybody to take the hints he continually throw out.

There was a sound like a groan from a corner of the room and a guest went out. Tlie others prepared for the worst, except one elderly man who pulled down his waistcoat with an unnecessary show of determination. "The title of this little effort," the poet went on, drawing a roll from an unsuspected pocket, "is 'The Raindrops on the Roof.' "Well, of course it does," exclaimed the elderly man. "Where, would yon expect it to drop? When the rain drops on any well regulated house, it natu rally chooses the roof. Perhaps you expect people to take the roof off when it rains, or you think that we imagine that it drops on the foundation or in the umbrella stand? Everybody else knows that rain drops on the roof, young man, and they don't want you to write a poem to tell 'em. If you can write one that will explain why it always rains when a man goes out in a new hat and without an umbrella we're open to hear it

The poet did not contribute any frather to the amusement,of the evening. —Strand Magazine^

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pianoforte is about 100 yearn

Edw. C. Cook, 513 Adams Ave., Scranton, Pa., states that he considers Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup the .most efficacious remedy for coughs, colds, etc., he has yet found.

It Wili Surprise You.

In order to prove the great merit of Ely's Cream Balm, the most effective cure for Catarrh and Cold in Head, your druggist will supply a generous 10 cent trial size or we will mail for 10 cents. Full size 50 cts.

ELY BROS., 56 Warren St., N. Y. City. Ely's Cream Balm has completely cured me of catarrh when everything else failed. Many acquaintances have used it with excellent results.—Alfred W. Steveas, Caldwell, Ohio. 4As?V-j!%P

Save Yourselves

By using South American Nervine Tonic. The most stupendous of nature's great cures for disease of the Stomach and disease of the Nerves. The cure begins with the first dose. It towers high above all other remedies, because it never fails to cure the stomach and nerves after other remedies have failed. Use it for all cases of Nervous Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Nervous Prostration, it is safe and pleasant, and its powers are such it cannot fail. If you procure it you will be grateful for such a boon, and will have cause for joy for many years to come. Sold by all druggists in Terre Haute, Ind.

Relief in One Day.

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Rdacat« Yowr Bowel* With CMearetM. Candy Cathartic, care constipation forerer. 10c, 2Sc. If C. C. tail, drnwtew refund money.

Rheumatism Cared In Day. "My stlc Cure" for Kbeamatium aad Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 9 days. Its action upon the system Is remarkable and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefit®. S5 cents. Sold by Jacob Banr. Seventh and Maln Sts., Cook, Bell 4c Blick. and all drugjrists in Terre Haute. 3

To Cur* CoMtlfMttoa fwrnt. Take CMcarets Candy Cathartic 10c or 9e. If C. C. C. fall to oue, druggists reload mooey.

Scrofula

Makes life misery to thousands of people. It manifests itself in many different ways, like goitre, swellings, running sores, boils, salt rheum and pimples and other eruptions. Scarcely a man is wholly fjee from it, in some form. It clings tenaciously until the last vestige of scrofulous poison is eradicated by Hood's Sarsaparilla, the

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Thousands of voluntary testimonials tell of suffering from scrofula, often inherited and most tenacious, positively, perfectly and permanently cured by

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ij i* n'u are the best after-dinner llOOQ S .HlllS pills, aid digestion. 25c.

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Winter-Tourist

low round trip rates are now in offect to Florida and other winter resorts for the season of '0T-'98 via the QUEEN & CRESCENT ROUTE from all points North.

The train service of the Queen & Orescent from the north via Cincinnati is the finest in the South. Vestibuled trains make fast schedules, with through sleepers to principal Southern cities.

Write for Information to W. 0. Rlnoafson, General Passenger Agent, Cincinnati, O. Sond 10 ceuts for fine Art colored Lithograph of Lookout Mountain and ChlckamauRa.

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HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR

Also Tallow, Bones, Grease k)F ALL KINDS,

yy on the Island the city. 15?

HARRISON SMITH.

Office 13 S. Second St.

TERRE HAUTE, IND. within ton removed free

Dead Animals miles of the city.

Telephone 73.

J. A. NISBET,

Undertaker and Embalmer,'

103 North Fourth. Terre Haute, Ind.

JOHN M. VOLKERS,

ATTORNEY.

Collections and Notarial Work.

521 OHIO STREET.

pAACJ BALL & SON, d\ FUNERAL DIRECTORSHIP. Cor. Third and Cherry streets, Terro Haute Ind., are prepared to execute all orders io their line witn neatness and dispatch*

Embalming a Specialty.

GEO. HAUCK & CO.

a,,. Dealer in all kinds of

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Telephone 33. 049 Main Street.

Store

Artists' Supplies, Flower Material. Picture Framing a Specialty. 39 gOUTH SIXTH. East Side.

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Wholesale. Retail.

Terre Haute, Ind.

e. W. JOHNSON, maV/

A. M. HIQGIKS. Plaintiff's Attorney.^ gHERIFF'S SALE.

By virtue of an order of sale Issued from the Superior court of Vigo county,-Indiana, to me directed and delivered. In favor of Axel Chytraus and* against the Grand City Coal Company, Benjamin B. Oomegys ana John H. Catherwood. executors of the estate of Daniel Cummins, deceased. Isaac T. Dyer, Edgar Coffee and the Grand City Brick, Tile ana Terra Cotta Company, and Joseph Cusiek. I am ordered to sell the following described real estate situated in Vigo county. Indiana, to-wit:

The southeast quarter of tie northeast quarter of section twenty-one (21). township twelve (12) north, in range ten (10) wests except the right of way of the St. L'^uts, Vandalia & Terre Haute Railroad, and except the further portion of said realty, as follows: Commencing on the east line whore .said railroad crosses the same, thence westerly along the line of said railroad to a point due nortli of a walnut tree, thence south to the south lino of said tract, thence east to the southeast corner of said tract, thence north to the place of beginning, and on SATURDAY, THK 2 7TII DAY OF

NOVEMBER, ISO7,

between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of said day, at the north door of the court house, in Terre Haute. I will offer the rents and profits of the above described real estate, together with all privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging, for a term not exceeding seven years, to the highest bidder for cash, ana upon failure" to realise a sum sufficient to satisfy'said judgment and costs. 1 will then and there offer the fee-simple In and to said real estate. to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy the same.

This 6th day of November, 1897.

OTICE TO UUTLDEHS.

ST.

J)B. L. H. BARTHOLOMEW,

Dentist.

671 Main St. Terre Haute, lad.

J* N. HICKMAN, TT2srxBiB^rjL mam VK3t Mala Street.

All calls will receive the most careful attention. Open day and night.

LOUIS P. SEEllURGKli,

Printer's fee. 310.00. Sheriff.

A. M. Hiogins, Plaintiff's Attorney. QUIERIFF'S SALE.

By virtue of an order of sale Issued from thesuperlor court of Vigo county, I ndiana, to me directed and delivered. In favor of Axel Chytraus and against the Grand City Coal Company, Benjamin B. Comegys and John H. Catherwood. executors of the estate of Daniel Cummins, deceased, Isaac T. Dyer, Edgar Coffee and the Grand City Brick. Tile ana Terra Cotta Company. Iain ordered to sell the following describee real rstate, situated In Vigo county. Indiana, to-wit:

The southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty-one (21). township twelve (12) north In range ton (10) west, except the right of way of the St. Louts, Vandalia & Terro Haute Railroad, and on

SATURDAY, THE \i7th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1 85)7, between the hours of lb o'clock a. m.. and 4 o'clock p. ni. of said day, at the north door of the court house, in Terre Haute. I will offer the rents and profits of the above described real estate, together with all privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging, for a term not exceeding seven years, to the highest bidder for cash, and upoii failure to realize a sum sufficient to satisfy said judgment and costs, I will then and there offer the feoslniplo in and to said real estate to the highest. bidder for cash to satisfy the same.

This 0th day of November. 1W. LOUIS P. SEEBURGER, Pf. S8.00. Sheriff.

QTREET IMPROVEMENT FINAL E^TIMAT 10. Notice Is hereby given that the Hnal estimate report of the cost of the Improvement of sidewalks on Fifteenth street from Wabash avenue to Orchard street, was on the third day of November, 1807, referred to the committee on streets and alloys, and any.person aggrieved by such estimate may appear before said commu te, on the 4t,h day of December, 1807. at the ottlce of the city civil engineer In said city, and make objections thereto, which objections will be reported by said committee to the common council of the city of Terre Haute at the next regular meeting of said council after the said committee shall conclude the hearing upon said objections, and all persons interested may be heard In reference to such object ions before the council.

UIIAS. H. GOODWIN. City Clerk.

QTUEET IMPROVEMENT FINAL ESTIO MATE. Notice Is hereby given that the final estimate report of the cost of tho Improvement of Fourteenth and One-half street from the north curb line of Wabash avenue to the north building line of Eagle street, was, on the 3d day of November, 181)7. referred to the committee on streets and alleys. and any person aggrieved by such estimate may appear before said committee, on the 4tli day of December. 1897, at the ottlce of tho city civil engineer In said city, and make objections thereto, which objections will bo reported by said committee to the common council of tho city of Torre Haute at tho next regular meeting of said council after the said committee shall conclude the hear--lng upon said objections and all persons Interested may be heard in reforenco to such objections before the council.

CHAS. 11. GOODWIN. City Clerk.

Sealed proposals will bo received by the city clerk of Terre Haute, Indiana, until five o'clock p. in. Tuesday, November M. 18117. for furnishing all materials and workmanship.: necessary for the construct Ion of a two-story brick building and shed annex to the city hall.

Plans and specifications can bo seen at the office of the city engineer, and all Information at the office of Cllft & Williams, architects.

Didders will be required to accompany their proposal with a bond In tho sum of $200 to insure the entering Into a contract should tho award be mede.

Common council reserves tho right to reject any and all bids. By ordor of the council.

CHARLES H.GOODWIN, City Clerk.

A Revolution in Heating

Heat. Cheerfulness, Economy. Cleanliness, Comfort Cost, Labor, Attention

THE MAXIMUM of*

THE MINIMUM of

THE BACKU8 PATENT

STEAM RADIATOR AND HEATER Portable. Open, Reflecting and Steam Radiating.

GAS COMPANY

507 Ohio Street.

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We mine our own coal. First-class for all Domestic Use. Furnace trade solicited. Prices very reasonable. "Phone 302.

J. N. & GEO. BROADHURST, Office, 122 South Third.

New York andBaltimore

Oysters

Handsome Complexion

Is one of the greatest charms a woman can poMess. Potzout'a Conrvrnxxon gives it.

JpRANK D. BIOH, M. D. Office and Residence 216 N. Sixth St. TEBBE HAUTE, IND. 4 ,,

Diseases of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Hours—9to 12a.m., 1:90to4p.m. Sundays 9 to 10 b- m.

CP. WILLIAMS, D. D. S.

dentaiPparlors,

Corner Sixth and Hain Street* TEBBE HACTE. IND.

The Rosy Freshness

ft vehretjr softness of the skin is invariably obtained by those who nse Possoai's Complexion Powoer.