Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 April 1898 — Page 2
KUBBISH OF SPEECH.
SOME TOPICS OF WHICH SHOULD
CONVERSATION BE TABOOED.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Includes Weather, Disease and Scandal Among the Subjects Which Ought to Be Avoided.
Either Keep Still or Talk Sense. [Copyright, 1898, by the Author.]
ID yon ever try at nightfall to recall the conversation yon have heard during the day? And if so, have yon not been appalled at the poverty of ideas and
the sameness of expression of most of your acquaintances? Perhaps the weather has been a blaze of golden splendor during several weeks, but if the last week has contained three rainy or snowy days you are sure to be told by nine among ten people you meet that "the weather has been perfectly terrible of late—so depressing and so disagreeable to get about in."
Why do people so quickly forget the sunshine and so harp upon the shadow? Certainly tbe sun has smiled upon us to a remarkable degree tbe last season, and yet the occasional gloomy day which ocourred has served as a theme of comment and complaint for nearly all our acquaintances if not for ourselves.
Wo all ought to realize what a tremendously stale and stupid thing it is to complain of a stormy day. There is nothing so offensive in silence that we need break its oharm by tbe monotonous stupidity of these wearisome observations on disagreeable weather. It is pardonable, if not new, to praise a pleasant day, for the agreeable is never stale, but he who insists upon calling our attention to tbe unfavorable aspect of the weather adds annoyance to our discomfort.
If you area grumbler of this sort, set about it at once to reform yourself. Let the weather—the bad weather—tell its own story. It has voices enough without yours.
If you must tell about the elements, try and say something good about the stormy days. Say that the rains are oleuring the gutters and oarrying away impurities from the streets that they are laying the dust and refreshing tbe fields. Say that tbe snows are giving thousands of poor people work to do, besides preparing the earth for good harvests.
Say that gray skies are good for one's spiritual growth that they lead one to be introspeotivo and thoughtful. It is a very poor order of mind that depends upon a clear sky for cheerfulness. Do not admit that a4 dark day makes yon "blue and morbid." It is a oonfession of poverty of mental resources. Deny it even to yourself and deoide to overcome it if it is so, aud, having dropped this topic from your list, let me beg of you to discontinue any relation of your physical ills.
Do you like to sit and listen to your acquaintances when they expatiate upon 'their aches and pains? Does not your friend assume the mien of a deadly foe when ho (generally it is she) proceeds to tell in detail all that he
haB
suffered
with malaria, bronchitis or nervous prostratiou since you last saw him? How Monotonous suoh narrations beoome, how wearisome to the listener obliged to assume a polite air of sympa thetio interest! And yet how many, how very many, people make this topio the basis of their conversation.
Do not, I beg of you, add yourself to the list Mot only are you boring your listeners with unpleasant subjects, but you are building brain cells of diseased thought for yourself.
Dr. Elmer Gates in his soientifio investigation has proved that even in one hour by the display of oolored lights a color cell is developed in the brain of a rabbit born and bred in a dark room. Many other similar experiments made by him prove with what unerring oertainty thoughts are building brain cells for animals and men. So every time we let our minds dwell upon our diseases we are forming oells of diseased thought which render it harder and harder for us to be well, and when we force our friends to think of our physioal nilmoi. 0 are inflicting a like injury upou tboui, aside from the fact that wo are boring them inexpressibly.
Besides, there is no necessity for so much sickness If we think right, act right, eat wisely and not too well, avoid stimulants, tea and coffee included, and accustom our bodies to oold, very oold, water onoe or twice a day, we will not suffer from anything short of smallpox or yellow fever.
High living and low thinking cause more than half our ills. To say we have been ill is to say we have been stupid, foolish or wicked. Why should we entertain our friends with an account of our own stupidity or wrongdoing? A mere reference to an illness is quite enough. If we stop at that* few of our friends will urge us to proceed with the subject. Try them and see.
Having tabooed bad weather and your own ill health as subjects of conversation, the ailments of other people and their misdeeds better be added to the rubbish you trundle away from the doorways of speech.
Of course, if our friends are desperately sick or about to be imprisoned for their bad conduct we cannot very well avoid speaking of the matter, but we need not dwell upon the unwholesome details, as most of us are prone to da
Once let all these commonplace and disagreeable topics drop from your mind and yon will be charmed with the variety of pleasing and agreeable sub
maa
jects for conversation which will present themselves to you, just as when yoo pull rank weeds out of the garden soil ferns and flowers spring into view.
Even though you are not a reader of books, if you have eyes and ears and intelligence, there is so much to interest you in an age like this, so much to think and discuss besides storm and disease and gossip^st
He who is silent and watches plants, insects and animals for awhile may write another book of Revelation if he will. Such patience, such system, such wisdom, such love and enlightenment as one who has an alert eye will find in these silent kingdoms—all interesting subjects for thought and conversation!
There is more of mental profit and in terest in watching a hive of bees during one day than in regarding a neighbor hood of people during a month.
Then there are the stars and tbe ele ments and the increasing knowledge concerning them which a little atten tion to the doings of scienoe will impart, and there is the vast beautiful science of spirit ruling matter, with its wonderful facts and its yet unfathomed possibilities, which is an ever interest ing and profitable topio of conversation.
Therefore why shonld any of us harness our speech to dfunp carts of weather, disease and scandal?
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
AN ARTIST ACCOMPANIST.
One Woman Who Has Made a Success by Becoming a Specialist.
It is said that the old occupations are overcrowded. This fact does not seem to greatly discourage clever women determined on a career they simply originate new lines of work. Two years ago Mrs. Florence Buckingham Joyce went to New York from Utica. She is a pianist, but after looking over the field decided that there were already too many solo pianists in tbe field. At home she had been more than usually successful as an accompanist for some of the leading vocalists, and, recalling the statement of a musician that a good aocompanist is rarer than a good singer, she chose her carrer, that of professional accompanist.
Her first work was done in tbe studio of teachers of singing. Tbe pay was small, only 50 cents an bonr, but by listening to the instructions of the teaohers she gained a great deal of valuable information. There, too, she made tbe acquaintance of singers, some professional ones in temporary training and others novices just about to make their debut. Soon singers began to hear about her and engagements for concerts began to pour in. She refused all opportunities to do solo work, insisting that she was not an artist, but an artist acoompanist.
The present season, her third in the metropolis, finds her as well known as and perhaps more sought after than any of the concert soloists, for she is alone in her line. Before going to New York she was an organist in one of Utioa's churches. With the exception of once
NEW YORK, April
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MRS. FLORENCE BUCKINGHAM JOYCB.
filling for several weeks in New York the place of the famous organist, Dr William 0. Carl, she has relinquished the pipe organ. "Organ playing,"she says, "isneither so difficult nor trying as most people believe."
In regard to the playing of aooompaniments Mrs. Joyoe says: "Most pianists play aooompaniments badly for the reason that they are not willing to merge their identity into that of the singer. A good accompanist must not only understand his instrument, but the song he aocompanies. He must understand it as thoroughly as does the singer. When I play the accompaniment for a ballad or an aria, I try to feel the sentiment of the composition exactly as the singer feels it. This is not always easy, as no two soloists execute or understand the same song in quite the same way. A good aocompanist will try to adapt himself to the singer's interpretation, strengthening the vocalist's good points and skillfully covering up defects. A great artist is easier to accompany than an amateur or mediocre singer. I believe that there is an excellent field for the artist accom panist, as singers know from experience the damage an inefficient assistant at the piano can do td the most beautifully executed song." -1,
CAROLINE WKTHKREJU*
The Care of Plants.
Water your plants with water that is lukewarm. Wash tbe leaves off occasionally with warm water. Open the window when the weather is warm enough and let in a little fresh air.
Plant food should be used once in awhile. Do not allow them to become too dry before watering and do not water them too much, as this is liable to make them deoay at the roots.
Keep them it possible in a" room where the gas is not much used. A leakage of gas is destructive to plants. Do not keep the room too warm and in very oold weather turn tha heat only pertly off. Give them plenty of sunlight
Cashmere in all qualities seems to be one of the first favorites for all outdoor gowns, even some of tbe tailor suits, being made of it. Ouir or leather and tan oolors are very popular. These two colors are produced in poplins and in fine broadoloths and they will divide publio affection with the new blues. These tailor suits are made in the tunic form most often and have the lower part differ from tbe other in a greater or lesser degree. For instance, a tan colored cloth had the lower portion of a couple of shades darker and around the bottom there was a narrow but elaborate braiding in two shades of quite dark brown. The basque was made of the two shades. The tight sleeves had short,caps of two shades
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NEW IDEAS IN TAILOR SUITS.
elaborate in tbe way of flat trimming and are intended for sale to be sewed into the different bodices. They
TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, APRIL 30, 1898.
DECREES OF FASHION.
Dainty Cheeks Give Place to Plaids—Style* of Outdoor Gowns. {Special Correspondence.]
25.—Just as the
dainty blue and white checks had caught "be popular fancy there comes word r»-!Qi those powers whose order settles _*11 our fashions saying that checks have had their day, and a pity it is, for while plaids are not ideal designs for tasteful persons the small checks are always neat and refined. The shepherd check has always been more or less in demand, and doubtless will find plenty of friends even when my Lady Multimillionaire finds it too modest. But certain it is that the pretty blue and white taffeta check is going to be a prime favorite fbr young people all this season.
There are so many new fancies in the silks for summer that it is hard to know which to speak of as the most worthy of mention. First we must say there are ohecks, for there are checks of every width and design and in every conceivable combination of oolor. A favorite design is what is called window oheck, the ground being solid blaok, white or heliotrope or some faint tint, with the lines in sharp contrast. A good deal of reseda is seen on the newest silks, and it is always softening and refining. There are striped silks in shaded lines, but tbey do not always run across. Lengthwise stripes are considered more refined, though many persons appear to have an idea that they look better in the bayaderes. But in spite of the new printed, swivel brocaded, striped and plaided effects in silks the open meshed grenadines and thin silk or silk and wool mixtures will be preferred with a lining of taffeta.
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snaaes. .. Sleeves are now almost skin tight. What little concession is made to a feeling of regret for the large sleeves is shown in a puff or cap at the top, which can easily be removed when no longer desired. I was told in one factory that they are busy now weaving Sleeves of jersey mesh, suoh as was used a few years ago for the garments then called jerseys." These sleeves will be quite
fit
the
arm like a glove. There are few blouses among the suits now being made for next fall. Basques of various kinds suoh as we have seen before will take their places, but these basques will have something new about them in point of oolor or ornamentation that will adapt them to the present taste. One thing quite unusual is that the vest fronts—and they nearly all have some sort of a vest—are made of the most vivid shades of green, red or burned orange. The flat collar and lapels of the jacket are also faced with the bright oolor.
I have said so much about ruffles and frillings that I am ashamed to harp so muoh on one string, but I am justified In mentioning them once more when we find some of the finest of the new tailor garments of broadcloth frilled with the same. This is how it is done: There are lovely and stylish redingotes fitting closely in the back and left to hang straight in front. This is a style becoming to every woman, stout or thin. Down each front edge is a frill of the cloth, and beneath that one of pinked out taffeta in a contrasting color. These frills are out in a curve so that while tbe edge sewed to the cloth is stretched smooth the outer edge is "sprung" and forms a ruffle. Itisanew idea and pretty. I should say that the two edges of the redingote hang open all tbe way from the neck. Of tan or leather cloth, with a cardinal frill, this style would be rich. One had a frill of iridescent blue and red and gold.
Anew idea in capes shows the sprang ruffle, about eight inches deep, edged with narrow satin ribbon. The cape in question was of black moire. The upper part had small Jet flower pieoes set irregularly over it Where the raffle and oape joined there was a row of fine jetted passementerie. It was lined with dove colored changeable taffeta and had an inner ruffle of the taffeta. Down the front the two ruffles formed a sort of jabot.
In many cases the* raffles are pat 00 skirt and cape alike. Ouvx
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One Trait of Yankee Inventions.
A French engineer who had been on a tour of inspection in the United States was not impressed by the big things of the country. "I shall report to my government, said he, "that the biggest things in America are the little things Tbe French people are experts in domestic economy and live comfortably by saving what average families in the United States throw away. But Americans are, on the other hand, experts in industrial economy. They make money by saving wastage in business and lose some of it by wastage in domestic econ omy. The attention paid to small de tails in big works is amazing to me. have visited some establishments where I believe that the profits are made not in the manufacture proper, but in the saving of materials and labor by close attention to details that are with us un considered trifles. "For example, I saw a little grind stone in operation at a big works auto matically sharpening lathe and planer tools. This machine costs probably as much as 100 of our ordinary grindstones oost, but I see that it automatically grinds all the tools for 800 high priced mechanics, and it only works a few hours eaoh day. The skilled mechanics in our country frequently stop their reg ular work to grind their own tools, and then they do it imperfectly. In the United States tools are all accurately ground to the best shape by the machine, so that they do more and better work on this account in a given time, believe that that machine has brains— the brains of the inventor—and it has no doubt revolutionized work of this kind in American machine shops. This is but one oase ont of many that I have noted."—Invention.
American Securities Abroad.
The sales of American securities have been, according to London advices, very large abroad of late. If this state of things holds, there will be an increasing influx of British gold into this market. This demonstrates the faith abroad in the stability of our credit. There is another point of faith for which the people not only of this but foreign countries have! good grounds for credence, and that is belief in the efficacy of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for inorganic maladies which affect the stomach, liver, bowels, kidneys and nerves. Dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation and rheumatism are conquered by it. It -hastens convalescence, and diffuses generous warmth and sensation of physical comfort through the system.
Russian liusenters.
The so called Greek Orthodox population of Russia is permeated with sects of dissenters of all possible denomina tions. It is estimated that one-third of that population belongs in reality to some branch of nonconformists. Lutherans, Rationalists, Sabbatarians, Baptists and A^" baptists are represented in various ways among these dissenters, many of whom strive to return to the principles of primitive Christianity, or even to still more ancient forms of society represented in the Old Testament. The right of free interpretation of the Bible is thus carried on all over Russia, and there is no force which oould limit it.
Every village has its own teachersmen and women—who interpret the Bi ble in their own ways, almost always hostile to the present state and to the official church. A powerfnl religious movement is thus growing in Russia, and it is also bound to work in a not remote time as a powerful force against autocracy.—Prince Krapotkin in Oatlook. Afw Al
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A Catch Question. *J"'
Of Bishop Short, who held the see of St Asaph, many curious stories are told. Occasionally he put questions to candidates for ordination that apparently had no conneotion with the discharge of their parochial duties. They tested, probably, their wit or taot, two necessary qualifications to publio, men, but nothing more. One suoh question proposed by tbe bishop was tbe following: "Which has the greatest number...of legs —a oat or no oat?"
As might be expeoted this created a titter, but the bishop would not take a laugh as tbe answer and consequently he repeated the question and desired Bome one to solve the problem. At last one of the candidates, smiling, said, "I should think, my lord, a oat."
No," retorted the biabop "there you are wrong, for a cat has four legs and no cat has five."—London Telegraph.
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Anna Donham vs. Robert Donham et al., to quiet title. Be It known that on the 23d day of April. 1898, said plaintiff filed an affidavit in due form, showing that defendants. Robert Donham and Emeline, his wife, and if they be dead his unknown heirs Peter Pagan, and if he be dead his unknown heirs Harriet Fagan. Martha Ann Pagan and Isaac D. Fagan, and if they be deaa their unknown heirs Jonathan K. Corbley and Ruth Corbley, his wife, and if they be dead their unknown heirs Zachariah Donham. Hugh Ferguson and Thomas P. Donham, Sr., and if they be dead their unknown heirs James Townsley and Nancy Townsley, his wife, and if they be dead their unknown heirs John S. Donham and Rachel Donham, his wife, and if they be dead their unknown heirs Nathaniel Donham and Stephen Fagan, and if they be dead their unknown heirs Robert Fagan unci Nancy Fagan. his wife, and if they be dead their unknown heirs. non-residen1s of the state of Indiana.
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