Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 48, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 May 1898 — Page 2

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"WOMEN AND THE WAR

NOT ALL OF THE GENTLER SEX ARE

FOR PEACE.

gome Womon ITor Whom SsUonf H»w Fought—Why Society Women Are Moved to XSnllst Red Cross N arses—The.Xlttle Boy and UI* Drum.

[Copyright, 1898, by American Pre«s Association.]

Alrs. Theodore W. Birnfty, president of the mothers' congress in Washington, made a speech in opening that assemblage which bids fair to set the American women wild with indignation. Mrs. Birney says that the American small boy is badly brought up because the small boy's hankering after toy dtams and flags and muskets and tin trumpets is ministered unto by the American woman. "The most recent development of war," says this lady, "has illustrated the wonderful power that rests in- a 'common cause.' Every paper contains an account of some outburst of enthusiasm, while the sight or mention of the flag brings a sparkle to the eye, color to the cheek and cheers to the lip. We are but children after all, pleased with a symbol, and often mistaking vanity for patriotism, emotion and false sentiment for strong porpose and high resolve. Let us eliminate from childhood the swords and guns and caps, the toy cannon and other destructive emblems of war. Let us eduoate our children away from false ideas of patriotism. War, with its attendant horrors, is as false a god as any Juggernaut to which fanatic mothers ever threw their infant ohil-

A MINBTEKING ANGEL.

dren, and the time will come when no oivilized nation or mother will glorify in such saorifioo of human life, but will say humanity is better served by arbitration and by peace."

Now, Mrs. Birney and the women who applauded so rapturously this well sounding oratory may flatter themselves that they are preaching the gospel of peace instead they are merely the prophets of the new sentimentality. Doubtless they have forgotten the philosopher who said it is "war which makes pcaco possible." They may have forgotten, too, that if it were not for women wars would go out of fashion. Women have made more wars than ever toy druniH and trumpets and swords are likely to stir. It was Pascal, cynical old fellow, was it not. who said that "if Oleopatra's nose had been longer the whole face of the world would have been different."

Zenobia, Semiramis, Cleopatra, Helen of Troy. Brunhild, Maria Theresa, Catherine of Russia, Elizabeth of England, Mary of Scotland, Catherine de' Medici, Yittoria Colouua, Marguerite de Valois, Jeanno d'Arc and Euguuio of France have inspired battles. It was poor, unhappy little Evangeliua Cisneros who by her beauty and misfortuue aroused tbo whole Americau people's sympathies for Cuba and a* much as anything etili-ted them as the enemies of Spain. The youthful Moses, David, Cyrus, Alexander, Cresar, Napoleon, Washington aud Graut were very likely foud of military toys aud got tbem, but it would be a very thoughtless person who would say that they were brought up by foolish wonieu.

The trouble with most of us in this age is that we lack good red blood in our vtins aud good wholesome thoughts in our braius. If there was more fighting goiug on, tbure would be fewer au®mio, introspective men and women making a specialty of the degenerate. The Elizabethau era. in which war was the fashion, resulted in more that was ennobling to the human heart and mind than any other period brought to the Anglo-Saxon race. The greatest things in art aud literature and music have been in a wtty depeudent on the expression of tbo free and fearless spirit of a free and fearless people, ready to back their word of mouth with the sterner argument of the sword.

Until all little boys are as good as the little boy who "won't slap back" the world is goiug to have the old story of the tyrant and the oppressor. Moral suasion, it is to be regretted, does not count for much either with small urchins or nations.

Ever since prehistoric man, clad in *n auroch'a skin, went forth to conquer or be conquered vrJmen have worshiped the "waving banners and the plumes of war." It is an instinct and was designed for a wise purpose. Nations that do not go to war much are weak and namby painby and suffer quite as painfully from ennui as from the aggressions of their neighbors.

Bloodletting is a good thing now and then, and war has often proved itself a wholesome moral surgeon. Everywhere and at every time there ha* been some nation or man wiser and stronger and more progressive than all the others, and it is well for human progress that, as a rale, these men and peoples have been able to stamp their individuality upon the weaker and leas clear seeing. It is of course unfortunate that to effect this a lew men have died, but—

Tc erwy ou upon Utia *rtk D«*h eoaseth won or l»t*. And how *n taaa die t*t«®r

Than freta« fearful odds #\or the ef Ms IMliws A&d tb« tempi** of W*

Women's ideas of war influence the

modes of warfare. It is to the humanity of women that the more merciful principles which govern the laws of civilized warfare may be attributed The Bed Cross society is due to the humanity of a woman. So have been all the great movements whose object has been the alleviation of the miseries of soldiers. Women do not care to aim a musket or level a cannon, but they have in cases of bitter necessity proved that they could do so when the honor of their country was at stake. Women prefer that men should do the fighting, aud they like tbem better for being able to do so and wishing to fight. When men &s a class become weak, effeminate creatures, then women, because they do not believe in men's courage or ability to protect them, will want to do the fighting themselves. Nine cases out of ten the wonld be amazon has been associated with sissy men or dudes or degenerates. The woman whose father, brothers, husband and cousins and friends are great, strong armed, brave hearted fellows are never in the least inclined to organize a regiment or don a uniform. If one recollects how many society women are anxious to go to the front as Red Cross nurses or in any capacity the country will accept tbem, the truth of this will be seen. The average society man as a specimen of American manhood does not as a rule inspire either confidence or admiration.

It is therefore foolish to say that "if women had any say" there would be no wars. When war becomes so fearful that it uucans mutual annihilation, then wars may cease, but so long as they have not reached that perfection the nations will go on fighting and little boys will like their toy drums and trumpets. '. CAROLINE WETHEBBCL.

THE NEW WOMAN.

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One Preacher's View of Woman as a Guide.

A blatherskite preaoher says, "CJnder Woman's guidance man sinks incomprehensibly low." Undoubtedly the blatherskite preacher judges all women by his own wife and mother, but he has no right to do it. If, however, woman desires to reach the very loftiest pinnacle of moral purity and superiority to baser passions, we know that all she has to do is to submit herself entirely toman's will and guidanoe. How low women would sink, to be sure, if they did not have men to keep them up to the high mark of goodness and purity!

The new constitution of Louisiana confers suffrage on taxpaying women in all matters pertaining to the levying of taxes. Once more the Bun do move.

Miss Edith J. Qriswold, a successful patent solicitor of New York city, has written for The Alumnas News an admirable article on "Women as Patent Solicitors." She thinks this department of work is one which offers success and encouragement to women, and she gives some excellent advice on how to learn the business and gain a foothold in it.

A snip of a young man in the Ohio legislature, that, too, the son of a good equal rights champion, the martyred President Uarfield, had the gall to rise and say that women should not have suffrage because they were "too inexperienced in public matters to be intrusted with votes." Great heavens, but this is delicious I

Some one has said that the saddest thing on earth is a childless woman. Considering what so many women's children are, I doubt the statement very much.

Frances Willard proved her truly enlightened and progressive ideas by leaving directions that her body should be cremated. After a time all the world will see that oremation is as truly ortbo dox away of disposing of dead bodies as any other, besides being the only sanitary method. What a horror this pure, sweet earth would be if we were to make it one huge charnel bouse!

It is not generally known that Smith oollege for women was founded by a woman, Miss Smith.

There is no need for women to be jealous of one another in competing in the industrial field. If each does her own task as well as it can be done, that is enough. She has no need to fear anybody. To be jealous of the advancement of another is to confess your own inferiority. Give a generous hand and helpful word to every sister woman you oan. It will be returned to* you a hundredfold. RIJSA ABCHARD CONNER. ,»

A Portable Bookeaee,

A bookcase that is invaluable to per sons who want their books about them in temporary lodgings was invented by a Methodist clergyman who looked upon all his habitations as temporary. The books are packed for transportation in

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THE WAKDKRKR'S BOOKCASE.

boxes of graduated widths, and whan they bare arrived ai their destination no unpacking follows. The lids have been screwed on tbem and are now simply unscrewed and the boxes piled one on another. The screw boles can be filled with putty, aad then wbea a £rsab ooat of stain is applied (after the bona are in position is the best way) tbe effect Is entirely neat A rod and emlain are easily attached if desired.

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A NEW FIELD.

Benfey* the American Story Teller and Her Work.

A remarkable young woman who is arranging to bring out tbe book of Job as a dramatic reading in New York, an adaptation which has never been tried before, is Miss Ida Benfey, "tbe American story teller," who came here from California a few years ago with nothing but her indomitable pluck and talent to recommend her, and who has attained a material and artistio success which has never been excelled in Gotham.

Miss Benfey has been & public reader ever since she was 9 years old. "In mv salad days," she says, '*1 was an ortb*. dox elocutionist, but before I had goad far in my career the scales drop&ed from my eyes and I began to learn f?e«n the book of nature. It was at this time I began to accomplish something, for I had reached the plane where I was free."

But the people of California loved her quite as well in the old days as

MISS IDA BENFEY.

Miss Benfey is well known in London, where she has read at the Duke of Sutherland's, the Duke of Westminster's, at Alma-Tadema's, Dr. LenoxBrown's and other houses of similar prominenoe. The Princess Christian, who was presont at the reading given at tbe Duke of Sutherland's, was infinitely amused at her droll interpretation of one of Mary Wilkins' stories of New England life.

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they do now, when they give her the tremendous ovation every year which welcomes her back to her old home.

As regards the matter of the Job reading Miss Benfey said: "I regard Job as the greatest tragedy in literature* It is the epic of the inner life, the symbolic relation between man and God. Only great people, such as Froude and Carlyle, know Job. It is already in the most dramatio form possible. I would as soon think of changing a star."

Miss Benfey got her idea of the Job reading from Professor Felix Adler cf the School of Ethioal Culture, who is most enthusiasticover the literary qualities of Job and Isaiah. She intends also making a great comedy reading of Jonab, whioh the Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott calls "the Piokwiok Papers of the Bible."

She has been working up this reading for three years, but within six weeks of its proposed delivery has not committed it to memory, because she "prefers not to be hampered with the exact language of the text too long in advance."

Miss Benfey has dramatized "Adam Bade," "The Mill on the Floss," Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities" and Hugo's "Les Miserables." She does not read detached scenes from these works, but by skillful manipulation presents the story of an entire novel in a single evening. This is done by reading tbe most dramatio chapters and explaining their connection with the rest of the book in her own forceful language. Her interpretation of these great stories is wonderful in its dramatio power. In herself she embodies a whole company of players. She is a marvelous impersonator.

JENNY LIND HOPKINS,

Odd Whist Farors.

Odd and pretty whist favors may be simply and inexpensively made by using an ordinary shipping tag 5 inches in length and 3*4 in width, as follows: After removing the oord from the tog, a piece of yellow satin ribbon one-quar-ter of an inoh in width and 4 inches in length is folded once, thus making a loop. The ends which are brought together are sewed to the tag about half an inch from the end opposite the opening by a small bow of the same ribbon. A piece of red ribbon, the same width as tbe yellow ribbon and 10 inohes in length, is drawn throngh the loop made by the yellow ribbon and both ends are then drawn through the opening in tbe tag.

Upon each end of the red ribbon is sewed a small silver bell. Them bells may be procured from tbe toy stores. Now place the card updn a table with the bow at the left and write plainly on tbe upper side, "Take the red ribbon from the yellow without injuring the card."

This may be done by pulling tbe red ribbon, holding both ends together until tbe yellow is drawn through the opening, thus bonding tbe card, but not injuring it

Dainty Haadkerchiefk.

You may make your own dainty handkerchiefs from shear linen, hemstitching by band. Buy one yard of tbe finest linen. Cut in squares of tbe size you desire. To make common handkerchiefs, cut three bars from one oorner, the bar nearest tbe border being toe longest, while tbe succeeding ones are shorter than the preceding one, and make insertions of Valenciennes.

Another pretty way is simply to hemstitch the border Mid trim tbe edge with a neat Valenciennes lace. Monograms are unpopular, but single letters, very «mall, or sometimes three initials placed In a row, if one can embroider, may be worked In fine linen float In tbe otanan. Those make dainty fancy wotk and afford very pretty bandkssobtafa at a small ooat

AN ERA OF SILK.

Coming Splendors Wide In Both Measurement and Price. [Special Correspondence.]

NEW YORK, May 23.—It has always been a puzzle to me to know where fashions for different things go to after they are "out." I can tell now wh^t is to become of one fashion, and that is the taffeta rilk and all other thin weaves of that fabric which have been worn far so many successive seasons. They will all go to line the new silks, which are to be of almost unparalleled richness. Some of the fall silks are already on the way here, and how magnificent they are no words of mine can telL But the smallest natural fold is at least six inches deep. There are silks where the body is. in thick, lustrous cord, with other cords five times as thick laid over it in so many different designs that I despair utterly of being able to fitly sing it& beauty. Waved lines of heavy cords with finer cords waved in the same pattern between the wide ones are among them. Others have very thick cords woven over the superb foundation in chevron and sharp zigzaga There are others where the foundation is of a weave almost as heavy as Irish poplin, and laid in plaids are satin weave lines thrown up over the surface. In the center of each block is a small flower also in brocade satin. These have a very odd, old fashioned effect, and when they are all black on a black surface the effect lfi unusually fina

All the rich new fall silks will be very wide, these that I have just mentioned being 44 inches, but, alas, the price is quite as wide, being from $4 to $7 a yard! But these superb materials require next to no trimming. The changeable taffetas are all now given

SHIRT WAISTS AND BODICES

over to the petticoat makers and to the dressmakers for lining to skirts, and taffeta is out,for probably a couple ol generations. %f fj:

In their place, aside from the silks mentioned above, will be seen the new crepons made of mohair and Australian wool and a lot of new ideas in fine woolens treated in different ways, with the result of producing such beautiful goods that none will mourn for taffetas. The mohair crepons have a wool backing, and the crinkle is woven in with this and raised above the surface in irregular ridges, some nearly half an inch high. This is a solid and durable material, which is not the case, unfortunately, with the other, and all silk crepon. The general tendency of all oi the fall goods so far shown by advance samples is ridged and embossed effects. Soft and nice woolen stuffs have mostly scroll or geometrical designs or dots raised above the surface. This is not Only for cloaks and wraps, but for dresses as well. As yet these are only seen in black, but I am told that they may, and doubtless will, be presented in colors, where the foundation and the ridges will be of two shades of the same color or possibly two colors oombined.

Among the finest of the new fall wools we find some old, old favorites, f».mnng them the prunella of our sainted grandmothers, and this is made entirely waterproof by the same process as that which now makes the English mourning crape, the Priestley coverts and cravanettes like the proverbial duck's back Prunella, whipcords, serge and some cheviots are also made impervious to water. I wish they would discover a way of making hats and plumes waterproof too. v'

Speaking of hate makes me think of a hat I saw yesterday. It was an exact reproduction of the "saucer" of the days when hoops were worn and dress skirts were looped over the ugly balmoral petticoats, only this was a little larger. The front tipped down, covering the whole forehead, and it stood up at an angle of 35 degrees. There was no crown, but a very full puffing of white malines, overlaid with leaves of black chantilly. These met in the center. Now, no hat could hold on any head at that angle therefore the back, being tilted up so high, had a thick half wreath Of pink roses-—the hat was green and white braid—and beneath the roses was a row of choux of black silk muslin with a cloud of pink malines over it By the way, since the taking of Manilla, malines lace has been rechristened and is now called manilla. This we used to call tulle or illusion, a&d of it are bridal veils made. It is used so much on seasonable millinery that I thought it deserved special mention, and for cravat bows and ties it is very much liked. For cravats it is usually gathered in four loops, two considerably longer than the others, and then the manilla is twisted snugly around the center, making quite a stiff little point of separation under the chin.

Shirt waists abound.

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Joseph's ooat, of many kinds and colors. Many have plain backs and full fronts. "You pays your money and yon takes your choice.!'

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Earliest Japanese Sculpture. Professor Ernest F. Fenollosa contributes to Tho Century "An Outline of Japanese Art," with unique and unpublished examples. Professor Fenollosa says:

By the year 600 of our era not only had the Japanese empress Suiko beoomo the devoted patron of Buddhism, but Shotoku, the imperial prince, himself a priest, was expounding the new religion at court and sending to Korea for arobiteots, bronze casters, weavers and scholars, with whose help he designed to erect and maintain Japan's first groat monastery, Horiujl. Still in existence, it is her finest art museum today, though few parts of its architecture date further baok than the end of the seventh century. Jnpanese artists were associated with their Korean teachers in this work of years, and the temple's bronze altar piece, a trinity of small statues ou the Korean model, is said to have been designed and cast by Japan's first professional sculptor, Tori.

But the flrat great original Japanese statue was carved, nearly lifo size, out of hard, dark wood, by Prince Shotoku himself. It represents the Spirit of Providence, seated in thoughtful attitude. Severe and unornamented, without losing Chineso dignity, it adds to Korean spir ituality a more human proportion and a more human charm of naive sweetness. Nude from the waisc up, its abstract beau-, ty disdains without offense all suggestion of musoular detail, and, though it is almost clumsy in parts, its presenoe at the nunnery Chuguji is so powerful as almost to compel tbe obeisance of tbe beholder.

Asdelay increases suffering, always keep Dr. Bull's Pills on hand. They are the best medicine to take for a weak and rundown system. Dr. John W. Bull's Pills are the only genuine. is? teilros?

As to Horseback Riding.

The Eentuokian was talking freely about horses. Although it was ajsale stable, he was speaking his mind. He had made the proper speeches about the gait of the beautiful oreatures the darky trainer trotted up and down he had not lost his look of grave acquiesoenoe when he heard things about tbe horse who trots. But a chance word touolfed his true thought, and be spoke tbe faith of Kentnckians and westerners, Texans and Californians, in something this wise: "That's right. It ain't really rid ing to jolt up and down and look stylish on a trotting horse. Youoan'tsaymuoh about it in Boston, or anywhere in cities where people don't care about the easy steps. They don't know what you're talking about. It's a queer notion and one my folks in Kentucky can't get used to—that a trotting horse can be a saddle horse. Women want to be stylish, though, everywhere, and they would learn how to rise up like the Boston women. But they didn't keep it up. A steal away and the gallop's the thing for country Amerioan riding."—Boston Transcript^ "The weakest must go to the wall." Salvation Oil, the best of liniments is bound to outstrip all competitors^ It is good and cheap. 25 cents. ts

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Give the Children a Drlnk&i? called Grain-O. It is a delicous. appetizing, nourishing food drink to take the place of coffee. Sold by all grocers and liked by all who have used it because when properly prepared it tastes like the finest coffee but is free from all its injurious properties. Grain-O aids digestion and strengthens tbe nerves. It is not a stimmulant but a health builder, and children, as well as adults, can drink it with great benefit Costs about as much as coffee. 15 and S5e. Jfy

To make your Sunday dinner complete, go to Fiees & Herman, 27 north Fourth street, where you will always find an abundance of tbe choicest meats of all kinds. They have also on hand sausages of all kinds of their own make. Telephone 252. fcaoke To*r life AWsy.

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An Honest' Corset Talk

There are degrees of excellence in Corsets, as in in else. Some a re

Wood, others lire better* 'but—

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Is Best.

The mere assertion ol this fact unbacked by

proof, might fail to carry

conviction hence the following: Cresco Corsets Cannot Break at ,0' the Waist Line.

All old style corsets possess this most annoying weakness. Not a woman in your community but will acknowledge the truth of this statement.

By a disconnection at the waist line, and elastic gores at sides, the cause of breakage is removed, and at the same time the Corset retains its symmetrical proportions Being convinced of its superiority over other corsets, we Introduce it to the buying public. When next you buy a Corset try the CRESCO.

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