Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 51, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 June 1898 — Page 2

TO MEET IN DENVER

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THOUSANDS OF CLUBWOMEN WILL GATHER THERE JUNE 22. 4

The Biennial Convention of Their Gtoml Federation Promises to Be One of the Moat Interesting Krenta of tbe Kind

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The biennial convention of the General Federation of Women's clubs to be hold in Denver, beginning June 22, promises to be the most largely attended and most interesting of the meetings of that body since it was first organized in 1892.

Composed as it is of over 600 women's clubs, with a membership of 50,000 in the United States and foifign countries, the delegates attending the convention will come from all sections of this country, while not a few representative women will be present from abroad. They will represent all interests regarded as of vital importance by educated women, and their discussions and deliberations at the various xneet-

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lngs can scarcely fail to be regarded as interesting and instructive by all intelligent members of the community.

The gathering will be held in the Broadway theater, which specially recommends itself for such purposes both for the amplo accommodation it affords and for its acoustic properties. The adlresses of welcome will be made by the governor of the state and the mayor of Denver and by Mrs. E. M. Ashley, speaking for the clubwomen of Colorado.

A notable feature of the biennial will be the fact that distinguished women preachors will occupy many of the pulpits of the city churches on the Sunday of biennial week. Among those will be Mrs. Hannah Solomon, president of the National Jewish Womon Mrs. Cornelius Stovonson of Philadelphia, Rev. Caroline Bartlott Crane of Kalamazoo, Mich. Mrs. Celia Parker Wooloy of Chicago, Dr. Annetta Shaw of Wisconsin, Mrs. J. A. Robert of Ohio, Rev. Floreuco R. Crooker of New York, Mrs. Ellen S. Mussey of Washington, Miss Margaret J. Evans of Minnesota, Miss Jano Addams, Hull House, Chicago Mrs. Bollo M. Stentenborough of Nebraska and Mrs. J. C. Learned of Missouri.

This novel phase, to be introduced during the continuanco of the convention, has the heartiest approval of Mrs. Ellen M. Honrotin, the president of the General Federation. She attaches great significance to this feature and expects salutary results

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public discussion on the religious aspects of the club movement To afford gentlemen the privilege of being present some of the most interesting meetings of the biennial will be hold in tho evening. Of those the most entertaining promises to bo the one devoted to music, when the Denver Tuesday Musical club will display before the visitors to the Rocky mountain city thoir highest possible achievements in tho divine art

Thoso of tho visiting ladies who are members of various patriotic, oivic and bouovolent organizations will have the opportunity of meeting those ladies in tho city belonging to similar societies. The Daughters of tho Revolution, Daughters of the American Revolution and Colonial Dames in Denver will keep open house in the Unity hotel for meeting visiting ladies belonging to these organization a Women interested in the Georgo Washington Memorial association work will also have quarters wlioro they can discuss their special society work. Advocates of female suffrage attending tho convention will be able to meet the representative women suffragists of the state. In tho interchange of views upon this subject new methods of procedure may be suggested and adopted, which may have an important effect so far as the attainment of the object aimed at is concerned.

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Other excursions we also planned, and doubtless Pike's peak and the canyons anH crystal ranges of this magnificent region will be explored by many of the1 party before returning to their homes.

Mrs. W. G. Fisher, the chairman

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paper women at the biennial, many of them attending as delegates and others as representatives of their paper*. Among the more prominent names are Mrs. J. Q. Ooly (Jamie Juno), the historian of tho club menrement Sallie J. White, a pioneer newspaper woman of Boston Miss Jessie B. Waite of Burlington. la. Mrs. Harriet B. KoLLb of Boswell, N. M. Mra Welch, representing Harper's Basar authors like Agnes Bepplier, Mary Halleck Foot© and others almost equally well known.

A most interesting meeting of the convention will be an informal conference on club matters

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of June 84. This meeting will be in charge of Mrs. Cyrus E Parkins of Grand Rapids, who has had much experience in matters relating to club or* ganintion.

On Saturday, the fourth day of tbe contention* a big special train will take the delegates on an all day trip ymrtng the Bockles. Tbe party will have luncheon at Idaho Springs, a beautiful mountain town* whose clubwoman have offered to entertain the viritots.

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the entertainment committee of tbe local board, is one of the wealthiest women in the west and has many friends in tbe east, especially in New York state. Upon her devolves the delicate of assigning delegates to the various Denver homes open to them. From the arrangements

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it may be concluded with certainty that the visiting delegate# Will have no cause to complain of Denver hospitality.

A large party of New England club, women, personally conducted by Mrs. Winslow, editor of The Club Woman, will join the New YorJjdelegates under the charge of Mrs. Wufiam Tod Helmuth at New York. Thence the combined party will proceed to Denver in a special train. ji:g.

SUSAN MANSFIELD MKRBY.

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THE SUMMER LAWN.

Things Ton Need to Get the Most Comfort From It. Lovely as summer is not one person in a dozen knows how to get the best out of it To properly enjoy a June day are needed rustic surroundings in which figure roses, grass, country air and in which hammocks play a prominent part.

Hammocks on the piazza are of course an indispensable part of the furnishing of every country house, but the hammock swings are not quite so well known. On any lawn which has a large tree with wide spreading limbs to afford a comfortable shade die swing hammock is a luxury. It is a large and comfortable canvas chair, supplied with a broad rest for the feet and with a projecting awning of striped cloth or bamboo to protect the occupant from the sun or Blight showers, ."WSSKi

The ropes which suspend the hammock from the tree branch allows it to sway to and fro in the breeze in away that is calculated to woo to gentle slumber in 15 minutes the most hopeless insomaniao on record. With a book, a box of candy and a swing hammock the most exacting woman who ever lived oould enjoy happiness. Where there is no tree on which to anchor the hammock a swinging hammock chair arrangement can be bought. This in every way resembles the swing hammock except that it is supplied with a wooden frame, to whicb'it is attached.

A hammock reclining chair for the comfort of tired and lazy men who are enjoying an outing or have been temporarily banished from the house to smoke is also made of stout canvas and has a durable awning to protect the occupant from the weather. A stout frame with an awning is made for the benefit of those who have no tree or shrubbery from which to hang their hammocks.

With one of these hammocks located in the vicinity of a lawn fountain or

ON THE LAWK.

the lawn sprinkler many a sultry summer evening in the city has been made tolerable, although as a rule a cigar to drive away the mosquitoes is a comfortable adjunct to this arrangement

As to the hammocks, never before were they so handsome or so cheap. They appear in the shops in handsome colors, with plain grounds or gorgeously 8tripod. The side piece or valence is this season rather longer than last year and ruffled just like the new Paris gowns. Scallops or deep fringes finish the edges of the flounces. ^1**.'

ETHEL DKVKRB.

THE NEW WOMAN.

Mrs. a S. Valentine, better known by her pen name of Myra V. Norys, is writing for The Feather a series of paperson how women may make money in poultry. The papers will be published in book form after the series is finished. Mr& Valentine is a graduate of the Rhode Island Poultry school and die believes there ia a good living for many women in the rearing of domestic fowls and the sale of fresh eggs. No doubt of it The poultry business is one especially adapted to sensible and persevering women.

Professor Mary A. Willcox of Wellesley college studied at the University of Zurich and received there the degree of pj^ 1 -f,*

Senator John D. Morgan of Alabama expresses the opinion that women are well adapted to fill the places of war or re on a

It was announced that no women wonld officially be allowed to go with the United States army. The prohibition has been lifted, however, in the case of Alice Lewis and Annie Sands Anderson, officers in the Salvation Army. They have been supplied with official passes by the United States government and go to Cuba with the troops. They not only do nurse work, but sing and pray and preaoh to the soldiers. Thus tbqjr doctor both soul sad bodj.

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THE MILITARY GULL.

SUMMER MAIDEN OF TODAY IS A MODERN MINERVA.

OK AJfocts the Trapping* of War, Bmlutes In Soldier Style* Stakes Twentytwo Inch Step and Is Altogether Delightfully Martial Ia All Her Doings.

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The American girl, under the exigent circumstances confronting the country, even if prevented from serving on deck or on the field of battle, ever fertile in resources, as tbe sex generally is, finds relief for her pent up enthusiasm and patriotic fervor in various ways open to females. She offers her services for hos-

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pital duty in the army, joins soldier relief associations, the Red Cross association or any other organization that has some relationship, however remote, to the military. Should she fail in her efforts to actively participate in the aid or relief of the soldiery she at least is not precluded from a display of her sympathies in her dress.

The summer girl, whether enjoying the cool breezes and surf bathing at the seaside resorts or rusticating amid woodland retreats and mountain solitudes, has been for a number of years the subject of much comment, not always of the most favorable kind. Flirtations, hoydenish abandon, many escapades and a disregard of conventionalities, which were supreme regulators of her life at other times, have been attributed to her, perhaps not without good and sufficient reasons. But though straitlaced matrons and staid, conservative gentlemen might stare disapprovingly at her antios it must be confessed that the summer girl has been delightfully fresh and inspiring.

Inclined to be bizarre and faddish in summer resort get up in the past, she will undoubtedly surprise people still more this summer by the military character of her bearing and costuming. If not exactly armed cap-a-pie, she will make as near an approach to it as possible and will conform as far as she can to a soldier's uniform in her dress.

But in this display of her military proclivities and her belligerent attitude toward Spain the summer girl will have innumerable imitators. Women throughout the country, young and old, are almost universally displaying the national colors—red, white and blue. Sometimes it may be by means of a simple ribbon, bow or badge. At other times it may be by the rather startling combinations of a blue skirt, with a red jacket and awhile vest. |J|3

The crossed guns frrffi soldiers* caps are highly prized for decorative purposes, as also the crossed swords of the cavalry and the cannons of the artillery. Cap cords, gilt braid and epaulets are still more highly prized, 1 presume because the possession of such articles might lead to the inference that the fair wearer had some officer friends in the army. I

Girls With sweethearts or relatives in the volunteer army have gathered many mementos of military social functions, such as buttons, pins, emblems and badges. When they walk abroad now, they make a brilliant display in those spoils of the past And, furthermore, many of them make their dresses harmonize with the adornments.

Thp girl oI today is martial, if nothing more. Her navy blue jacket is of military cut, and down its front area double row of buttons detached from soldiers' coats. On her stand up collar are embroidered the letters

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across her sleeve is the glittering braid of a noncommissioned officer. War medals are probably worn at the throat, a leather belt fastened with a big army buckle confines her waist, and a scarfpin of crossed guns completes the ensemble of her military adornments.

In fact, the' military summer girl of 1898 will dress, walk, eat and sleep in the national colors. Even in the matters of bearing and manners she will be changed. She will adopt a military stride in walking and will attempt, if possible, the regulation 32 inch step. With head erect, looking neither to the left or the right* she will look, as doubtless also she feels, a modern Minerva, fully armed for bloodless conquests at the various summer resorts.

When die meets her young lady friends, she will not greet them with the gushing effusiveness of other days and instead of bestowing the welcoming in— will stand to attention and award them a frigid military salute.

The number of miUtary phxtts&i heard nowadays is interesting, though apt to startle the hearer as a marked innovation. That they sxe almost invariably inappropriate in the connection in which they axe used hi a fact that apparently does not appeal to the consciousness

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those that employ them. They are military or are such by implication, and that alone is sufficient to recommend their

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THE DEWEY SHIRT WAIST.

Lavish Display This Be—on of Ribbons awl LMSM For Dreas Trimming. [Special Correspondence.]

NEW YORK, June 13.—"Look at the ball dresses, Mirandy," said a countryman to his quaintly dressed but comfortably fat wife, and the mention of her size makes me wonder if all country wives and country husbands look like this. He was as thin as she was fat Well, they stood in front of a big show window on Twenty-third street and looked at the display of the silk pettiooats therein.

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"Them ain't ball frocks, Elder. Them's underpetticoats." "Land sakes! I don't wonder then that folks is warned ag'inst the city folks."

The crowd pushed us apart, and I shall never hear the end of that old man's horror stricken argument, but I saw the petticoats in question and think with him that they are altogether too pretty to be used for undergarments. They are cut nearly circular, so as to give no fullness to the top, but from half the length downward human ingenuity must have been taxed severely to invent ways to sew on more lace ruffles and ribbon until the lower part is as fluffy as the top of a big wave just ready to dash on the shore. A favorite manner of applying the trimming was to have one deep ruffle, say 15 inches. At the bottom of this is another of six inches and on this another of three. These are all of the silk,„ .- Over each of

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the two lower ones were ruffles of white laoe, while the upper one was latticed with narrow white lace insertion. Under the hem was a triple ruffle of pinked out silk to make it hold out very full. A few of the light silken skirts had ruffles hemmed up quite deeply, with piping bone run in. Some are made of blue silk, with red ribbon and white lace trimming. A favorite mode of ribbon trimming now is to have satin ribbon with corded edge. The cord is pulled and the ribbon slipped- along it until it forms a dainty frilling. The lace is narrow and gathered and sewed to the lower edge of the ribbon. It is very effective. I saw a lady today with a lackluster poplin, with the waist nearly covered with black satin ribbon frilling half an inch wide. A number of waists are trimmed very elegantly with little puffs of the ribbon half an inch wide, the edges being pulled, as for the other. It is then sewed to the goods both sides. It is naturally expensive, as it requires much ribbon and much painstaking labor. It is only suitable for self colored goods.'

In another of our best stores are two immense windows where all the very newest of the new things are shown. There were 40 or 50 pieces of rich royal blue pique in wide cords and soft finish. Draped from one piece to another was lace six and eight inches wide which is to be used most lavishly as trimming. In the other window there were more pieces of pique of the same quality, only in a very bright new red, not quite so rare as the late cerise. Lace, too, is provided for this. The solid colors in these goods make them very desirable, but if ladies wear them in the country they must keep a close watch for Mr. Cow.

There is a very pretty new sort of a canvas. The ground is a soft gray, with white and pale green stripes forming a lattice plaid over it This is almost transparent, and made up over green silk it was very pleasing. The bodice might be anything the wearer found suitable, but the model was of gray faille in a sort of jacket with a pink silk mull vest front aftd pale green silk revers. This canvas is also produced in self color, one model gown being in rich ultramarine blue made over a golden orange silk. There was an opening in the blouse ftt the top, and this was filled in with orange silk puffed between a latticework of blade velvet

The gowns where the outside is transparent are often seen, the simplest being the lawns and organdies, but there are also many kinds of blade nets and deep laoe flouncings, and nothing could be prettier. The chantilly flouncing for this purpose is 43 indies wide, and four yards of it is enough for a skirl There are some brilliant effects wrought by spangles an silk muslin, net and tulle. The foundation and thin overdress must be black, and the most of the spangles, too, but some very artistic fancies are wrought by iridescent spangles. Those shading from bronze to gold or bronze to emerald green are the most striking. They are laid in all sorts of designs, the same general plan being carried out in the bodice too. The quills and wings lor hats ax* brilliant with spangles, and while there is no special rage for them as there was a few seasons ago many are worn now.

A new patriotic device is called the Dewey shirt waist. The material is of blue and white striped percale or silk and is cut so that all the stripes are on the bias, save the sleeves. The collar, cuffs and belt are of red. It is a very swell affair altogether.

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Ia Xpplng Toisst.

Mt P. Anderson Graham, in Longman's Magasine, mentions the regrettable fact that all but the commonest wild flowers are disappearing from Epping forest Not only do the urchins pluck them, but the venders who go about the suburbs offering roots and flowers for sale carry them off wholesale. The primrose has in this way been practically cleared out of the forest, so has the once common Solomon's seal, and the foxglove and others are vary nearly extinct If the anemones, bluebells and violets still survive, it is only owing to the fact that they grow in such astonishing numbers that the armfuls carried away make no difference.

The most obviously thriving and multiplying quadrupeds in the forest, Mr. Graham mentions, are the rabbit and the squirrel. Hares occasionally make their form in the heather or fern. The small camivora are as plentiful as might be expected where vermin are protected as much as game. Stoats and weasels are the most common. So far the rarer marten and polecat have not been tempted back to their old haunts. Foxes are occasionally to be seen. Mr. Buxton introduced a few pairs of badgers 10 or 12 years ago, and they have bred and prospered. Rats, mice, moles and "such small deer" have a happy time of it in the woods, ft,'***•"-1

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A teetotal lecturer at West Bromwich, in order to illustrate the horrors of drinking, told his audience a story of a wooden legged toper who was so drunk one night that he took off his wooden leg to wind the clock. Tho story was told in all simplicity by the lecturer as he had heard it in his childhood. Strange to say, it applied exactly to the husband of a lady who happened to be one of the audience. After the lecture the lady waited on the lecturer behind the hail. "Wretch!" she said. "How dare you hold my husband to publio ridicule?" "But, my dear madam"— "Now don't deny it, fori heard you."

Scratch, scratch, scratch! ^Thatlecturer is now undergoing repairs. He will be more careful of his choice of illustrations next time.—Birmingham Mail.

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