Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 September 1896 — Page 6

WILL WEAR COSSETS

run PBIXCK OF WALKS SAID TO HAVE SET THE FASHION.

Forty-Two Inches of Girth Drove «Iam my" to Laclac Very Tlgjht.

Late news from London Indicate that men of the smart set there are going In for corsets on a scale not even approached by the dandies of 1835. The haberdashers patronized by the swells carry an extensive stock of men's corstes, and, while t^e sale of them is limited to a comparatively small number, the demand is steadily increasing, and the indications are that a large proportion of the men in swelldom will soon be wearing them. People who make a business of studying the motives of change in the fashions say that the wearing of cor sets by men is the natural consequence of the edict which went forth a couple of months ago, to the effect that women's waists were to be larger by several inches. A Budden jump from twenty-three inches waist measurement to the more mellow figure of twenty-eight inches on the feminine .side of fashion required a complete change in the apparel of the other sex.

It only requires a glance at old fashion plates to note the fact that the styles of men and of women have always gone in opposite directions, says the Chicago Chronicle. Thirty-five years ago, when women wore immensely large hoop skirts and an endless variety of bulging frills and furbelows, the attire of men was sleek and close fitting. At an earlier period, when masculine fashion required very wide trousers, gaudy waistcoats and loose coats, the mode for women was excessively plain So, if women are to glory in the freedom and healthfulness of large and ample waists the curious laws of fashion demand that men must gird on the burdensome yoke of the corset and endure the new agony of pinching in their waists to the minimum figure.

The fashion has not yet progressed sufficiently for any standard to be set regarding the proper waist measurement for men And it is not very probable that such a thing will happen, for the reason that some people attribute the new style to the Prince of Wales and his growing corpulency. If the waist measure of the prince were taken as the correct thing most men could face the fashion with an easy grace, as the girth of his royal highness is said to be forty-two inches. There 1b little doubt that the prince has taken up the corset habit not for the purpose of setting a new style, but as a matter of necessity. He is very vain of his apppearance and within the last year his rapid tendency to increased weight has given him a world of trouble.

From responsible sources it is learned that his physicians have advised him to wear cqrsets, and this should quiet the fears of those who may regard the new style as a forerunner of disease in the masculine body. Of course this refers to the use of corsets in a sensible way and simply as a means for pressing the figure. If a man with a natural girth of forty inches attempts to squeeze his waist down to thirty inches the result would necessarily be injurious. And if the fashion becomes popular, there will, of course, be a large number of such idiotic men. But the use of sensible corsets in a sensible way does not seem to be opposed by the average physician.

A majority of German and French army officers wear corsets, and for the past three or four years the habit has been growing among officers of the English army. The regulations governing the German army are particularly severe and if it were considered injurious for the officers to wear corsets the fashion would be abolished at once. In, European military circles the German army officers are regarded as having the finest figures of any set of men in the world. How much of the praise is due to the corset wearing habit is, of course, a. matter of conjecture. Most of the German officers are men of .ponderous physique and if they can hold in check their tendency to large girths they make a line showing in their tight fitting uniforms.

The thin man is advised by corset wearers of experience to let the new fashion alone. There is no natural reason for him to take ijt up and if he does the result may be harmful. By wearing tight fitting clothes he can gain the same ends attained by the fat man girded in corsets.

During the past year one of the largest haberdasheries in London sold between 1,20ft and 1,300 pairs of men's corsets. The prices range from $6 up to $50, the latter kind being of embroidered silk. In appearance the corsets are quite unlike those worn by women, although made of practically the same material. They are perfectly straight on the sides and front and are laced at the back the same as with women's corsets. Most of the men who wear them are rich enough to have valets, and the duty of lacing the corsets to the proper degree of tightness falls upon those functionaries. The German and French army officers who wear corsets employ the soldiers personally assigned them to do the lacing.

There will be one great bar against the popularity of the corset fashion, and that is that most men-regard it as peculiarly effeminate. But the people who advocate its use argue that the corset is being forced Into a secondary place, as far as women are concerned, by the broad use of the bicycle and other outdoor sports.

THE TOUR OF ASLIPPER.

It Belonarfl to a Pretty Southern Girl and Hao Hecn All Over the Country. The remarkable journey of a dainty red slipper that once contained the foot of a pretty Southern belle is rapidly Hearing its end.

After a ride on fast express trains all over the country the "little red shoe" willl be returned intact to its owner, MioS Daisy Walsh, a young society girl of Chattanooga, Tenn.

The novel idea of sending the slipper on Its long voyage was conceived by W. A. Henderson, cashier of the Southern Express Co. at the point named, says the New York Journal. Under prtense of sending the slipper to a friend of Miss Walsh in New Orleans, the young man, tacking it on a big express receipt book, adding a tag reading: "I am the property of a very pretty young lady, so tie a message to me for her," and started it on its voyage of discovery.

The slipper is a pointed toe affair, high as to instep and heel, and is just about big enough for a 12-year-old girl. Its owner is a blonde. 5 feet 3 inches tall, with curly hair, and weighs nearly 130 pounds.

When it started out fresh from its owner the slipper had known very little of life, but after seeing the country and being fondled by hundreds of devoted admirers, f-om Maine to California, its appearance is decidedly world weary and blase. From its start the unique deadhead rapidly journeyed toward the East.

Thfe first stop made for signatures was *t Albany, where all the employes of the express companies at the West Shore Depot signed their names in the book. One agent wrote, "My best wishes to the young Jady. If not married, I hope her name will 1m Mrs. W. A. Henderson before the year expires." Thomas J. Enright gave other

agents the warning: "Don't let this slipper get to Chicago U&ey have no use for this size there."

Troy and Chicago got into something. Of a wrangle over the size pt the "coDai girl *8" feet, but the agent at Cranston* was more sentimental and sent Miss. Walaii "lots of love and kisses."

A Boston man passes the slipper *»bag with the observation that "Trilby is: not doing business in Boston at present." H. A. Sturtevant of Greenfield, Mass.. is a trifle skeptical, however, and writes a poem called "Seeing is Believing." -a

ONLY IF SOUND MONEY WINS.

Conditional Order From Can* Francisco Sent to a Chicago House. A warning has been borne to Chicago all the way from the golden gate. It torches the workingman more intimately than any other interest. The form in which it ap¥ pears is an order for merchandise. ^Fof twenty years the wholesale iuruiture 'firm cf Ford, Johnson & Co. has been in receipt of an unconditional order from a customer in San Francisco, says the Chicago Post. This year, for the first time in a score of years, the contract is to be optional wit the election of McKinley. Free silver customers are not sending in orders, 'which, in the opinion of local wholesale merchants, shows that they do not place any faith in the plan of buying merchandise at the present panic prices and disposing of them for double value with the establishment of a free silver basis.

In striking contrast to this reverse on the part ofsthe Western free silver men is the reported restoration of good feeling among those who have faith in McKinley and his election. The same firm wnich re% ceived the letter from San Francisco presents an object lesson of its own aside from this conditional order. A few days ago it was announced in the big salesrooms of the company that a sound money league was to be organized among the employes. The movement was a voluntary one in connection with the large parade of business men and employe^ next month. When the hour announced for the meeting of employes- arrived the usual audience of the company's office in the big warehouse at Indiana avenue and Sixteenth street was disturbed by a heavy tramping of feet on the stairs above. Whin it was explained that the employes were responding to the call for the organization of a sound money club .iii attempt was made to reach the upper floors by tube but they were deserted while the men \jrere busy on the second floor placing t'loir names on the rool of honor. "We have only one silver man here," said Reuben A. Hitchcock, one of the firm, today. A test ballot among the men employed by the company resulted in the astounding result announce I by Mr. Hitchcock. The factory employes also present a solid majority for the Republican candidate.

The text of the letter which was received by the firm a few days ago brings the information that withdrawals of bank deposits have been heavy in California and that the political situation is still keeping trade in a state of. comparative inactivity. The letter reads as follows: "Gentlemen—We for the first time send you a conditional order. If tiie election goes for free silver we do not want the goods, if against fr^e silve** we want them shipped November 5th—not later—as they would otherwise arrive too late to do us any good this fall. 0'»r reason for making the order conditional is not political, except incidenta'ly, but financial. We douVt if the country will be absolutely ruined whichever way the election goes, but a fact that those having money on deposit in the banks have been withdrawing it, fearing the result of the election. If free silver wins it will increase their fears and hasten further heavy withdrawals of deposits, calling in of loans, loss of confidence and gaaeral business depression, for the time at least. This is our view of the situation and should that result occur, we do not wish to increase our already very heavy stock of goods, but shall buy absolutely nothing that we are not compelled to have until things readjust themselves to the now basis of values and confidence returns. Of course, if we did-not have faith in the good sense of the American people we should not place even a conditional order at present. We wish now to exercise only ordinary business prudence in view of the possible results.

JAMAICA'S BANANA KING.

Yankee Skipper Who First Brought the Fruit to Cape Col. Something over twenty years ago a New England skipper used to make several trips a year from Boston to the northern ports of Jamaica, and would return to Cape Cod Bay, his fleet schooner laden with bananas, for which he found a ready and remunerative sale, says Harpers'. Other vessel were added to the business, which grew and prospered, and soon became too important longer to depend upon the uncertain winds, and steamers replaced the schooners. Bananas were offered in quantities greater than our Yankee mariner, with his limited means, could handle, and a company was formed in 1877, with a capital of $200,000 and two steamers, and the business of systematically growing the bananas for export to the United States commenced. From such a small beginning sprang the American company, which now practically controls the fruit export trade of Jamaica. Its present capital is $500,000, and it has a surplus of $1,000,000 anti employs twelvesteamers. It ships to the United States every year about 4,000,000 bunches of bananas, besides upward of 6,000,000 coeoanuts and quantities of pimento (allspice), coffee, cocoa and early vegetables. It employs nearly 2,000 men. More than 6,000 mules are daily in harness engaged ii^lrawing to ports of shipment its varied products. It owns and controls more than twenty estates, comprising nearly 50,000 acres. Free schools are provided for the children of its employes. It has brought great prosperity to a languishing country and its president, the man whose foresight began all this great work and whose energy is now pushing it onward, is commonly known among the Jamaicans as the banana king.

Excitement Kills a Monkp). It is believed the monkeys in the zoo knew they were to be removed into betterquarters before it occurred last Friday. They had, no doubt, heard the new mon-key-house talked about as the finest in the world by visitors and keepers, and realized

that there was to be some great change in their condition. This naturally int^-estf^^v^njgbt

them and kept them on the tiptoe "of expectation. For several days before the removal their excitable natures were well wrought up, and on the day of removal their excitement was almost uncontrollable, showing pltinly they had kept posted regarding the eventful day. When the hour arrived a favorite monkey and splendid specimen of his kind was taken by' tiie keeper from the old house to be in the new one. It was seen that he was in a highly excited condition, asul on the way to his new home hesuddenly expired in the keper's arms. It was a clear case of heart disease, brought to a fatal termination by the unusual excitement of the occasion.—Philadelphia Times.

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People often have pale and sallow complexions, the muscles are weak and flabby there is a weak, nervous' feeling' and a general tired and exhausted condition the appetite is gone. The spirits are depressed strength, energy and ambition are lacking the sleep may be disturbed, there may be Neuralgia and rheumatic pains. In fact the entire system lacks vigor of nerves land power of the body. These conditions arise from a disordered st&te of the nerves and blood. What is needed is Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy to build up the wasted, weakened, diseased nerves, and to give ft supply of purer, richer blood.,

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HIS FIRST AND LAST DROP.

A Newspaper Alan's Sensations While Descending by Means of a Parachute. Wilbur W. Judd of the Record staff ascended in a balloon Monday evening from Hanover Park, says the Meridian Record. Newspaper men have made balloon ascensions in cars or baskets attached to a gas balloon managed b? a practical aeronaut, but to manage the air ship alone and to drop With a parachute is entirely unprecedented. About 5,000 people witnessed the ascension. The story of the trip is tpld by Mr. Judd as follows: "The idea of going up in a balloon is associated in the minds of most people with the terrible. The aeronaut is possibly doomed to a horrible death and ha holds the fascinated attention of the spectators, but I feel as if I had just descended from serene world, as though for a few moments I had been transported into a clime where alluring quietude prevailed. It was the pleasant sensation or series of. sensations, that I ever experienced. Of course the?e is some satisfaction in being on, terra firma again, but it was not half so violent an act as I had anticipated. "It was entirely my own idea. I Aide" a detailed study" of the mechanism of the balloon for two weeks and, finding Mr. Gould a very careful and practical man jn the management of the graceful air globe,',when he told me I might go up any time I chose I began to consider the matter more seriously. 'I have never had any tendencies toward the circus ring, and plebean love of ing a sensation is not mine, but it ..would be a novel thing, and the i.dea of flunking never occured to me. Gould, Crosby and Burdette worked assiduously to see that every rope of the parachute lay on the ground in perfect order. At last everything was ready. The balloon swayed with symmetrical fullness, the ropes at the bottom were gathered and the parachute attached. I got into the trapezj, fixed the wrist lock and snapped the catch at my belt. "I stood firmly on the ground. The word was given to let go, the balloon arose from above the pit, the closely folded parachute was drawn up from the ground in a tatit line. It seemed a slow motion enough, but suddenly the trapeze drew me from toy feet, and I was swept with great speed into space. of the trip. I was dragged away from all things tangible the earth was near, so that by comparison I could be aware of my speed, but in a twinkling almost this terror left me. I tried to-grasp by a supreme mental effort the facts of my condition and I became contented.

it seemed as though far

below was spread a wonderful carpet of soft gree nand woven with quaint patterns. The Jake appeared very, nearly under me distances below were to be measured in inches. The spot of water was about as large as a sheet of writing paper. I swept the boundary of the green circle with my eyes. J.I could see counties, villages and several cities and the sound. West Peak was like an ant hill. It is estimated that I ascended 4,000 feet "A pistol shot disturbed me and I rea!ijjed the moment to cut loose had come. No use to meditate on the possible results I had thought of that enough before hand. I reached up ray right hand and, without allowing myslet ttt*tblnk, gave the rope a qiifck and sharp pull. Everything gave beneath me—I fell a dead weight probover 100 feet. I heard the swishing

of the folds over my heMli\t$ep{ fW4 caught a gust of wind, then another, and I seemed to come to a sudden stop. I looked 'up. The parachute had opened and floated like a protecting bird ovar .my head. It took, so I am told, over a minute and half to ride down. "As when I went up the earth seemed to sink, so as I came down the faliV 'carpet danced up to meet me. At last I saw dark figures running in the fields. The houses, woods and fields moved along In a procession. I thought I would land in an open meadow, but I passed over it. Yes, I was about to strike a house-y-I cleared it and fell easily through the branches of a tree. The parachute spread itself over the treetop and I hung in a swing. It was a small tree and I was within fifteen feet of the ground. My first and only ascension was over."- "s

-SEEING THE COMMODORE.

Short Chapter Oat of the Kxperlence of a Newspaper Reporter. "One night, some twenty odd years ago, and when I had not been very long on the paper," said an old newspaper reporter to the New York Sun, "I was sent up to ask Commodore Vanderbilt for some information on certain points relating to the New York Central Railroad.- The commodore lived then in the fine old hou in Washington place, the house in whlci be died. The servant that let me In jok me into the parlor by a door that opened into the hall near the front of the room, and left me there. Presently the commodore came in by a door opening into the hall near the rear of the room. He had on a rather oldfashioned suit of clpthes, including a frock coat with pretty lonk skirts he wore an old-fashioned stand-up collar with high sideboards, that somehow seemed especially suited to him. He was a stately looking gentleman, with more of a kindness than of austerity in his bearing, as he stood over there on the other side of the room looking at me and asking me what I wanted, but still his manner was perfectly emotionless, and I couldn't even have guessed whether he was going to tell me what I wanted to know or not, I thought the chances were a shade against it. But he asked me to come up to his room, and he led the way himself. "The commodore's room was on the second floor,4at the rear of the house the door was opposite the head of the stairs. If it had been at the front of th house it would had been at the front of the house it would bigger than that, and I should think it was twelve or fourteen feet square. There was a fireplace on one side, and in the center of the room there was a table-topped desk with papers lying about on it, and a broad, thin'box of cigars. The roo'n. appear* .1 to be a sort of personal offlse or the commodore's. "He sat down himself in a big, comfortable chair by the side of the fireplace and gave me- a chair by the desV. He told me to open the box and take a cigar. I asked him the questions I had come to ask, and he gave me the desired information. Then he went on talking on his own account, in a calm, self-contained sort of "way, about the Central Road. It seemd as .though his feeling for the road was one of affection. The four-tracking had just begun and the commodore' spoke particularly of that. He said that if he could live to see the Central four-tracked from New York to Buffalo he would be satisfied that it wo ild be the greatest railroad in the world, and he spoke of other things about the road, speaking always in a way that was quiet !nd dignified, tjut at the same time as pleasant and agreeable as oculd be imagined. "Everything that he said was cf interest—some of it was of importance. I w?nt back to the office and wrote out IVe interview. Next morning I had the great pleasure of reading it in print. It was a success, made so by the gracious, kindly old commodore."

IT IS A BOOMERANG RULE.

Tables Turned On a Restaurant Proprietor By a Qaiet Onest. A well dressed, quiet appearing man walked into a Sixth avenue restaurant last night, took a look around the gentlemen's division, sniffed with disgust, then crossed over to the ladies* side, says the New York Journal. He had just seated himself and when a waiter approached him and said in a respectful tone: 'Beg pardon, sir but this is the ladies' side."

Well," returned the man, uncompromisingiy. We—er—don't allow gentlemen on this side," said the waiter, apologetically.

Then these men I see already seated here are not gentlemen?" interrogated the newcomer. "Why, yes," replied the waiter, with some embarrassment. "But they have ladies with them. Gentlemen -without ladies have to be served on the other side."

But," persisted th| man, "I have come here to eat. There are no ^cloths on the tables in the other room. I can't eat on a bare table."

That's all right, sir," returned the waiter briskly "we can easily lay a cloth for you in there." "Now, see here," said tlie other with some show of temper. "Nearly every man in that other room is smoking. I dislike the smell of tobacco as much as any woman ever born. Do you mean to tell me that I am compelled to have my supper served in a place where the smell of smoke will take away all my appetite?" "I don't know anything about that, sir," replied the waiter doggedly, "all I know is

This wasthe only frightful moment that this is the rule. The fact is," he added confidentially, "If we allow gentlemen in here alone they would try to attract the attention of the ladies without escorts." "That is a tacit admission that the place is frequented by improper people," said the gentleman quietly, as he reached for his I first looked down and saw the upturned hat. "I don't think I want to eat here faces fade instantly until could no longer after all.

see anything but a tiny circle. Then I let go of the rope with my right hand, and, taking off my cap, leaned down and waved it. I felt a sense of exhiliration and thought I heard a faint murmur of voices. "Then I looked up the parachute ropes were twisted, but my weight caused them to unwind, and in a moment every cord hunghung straight from the folds of the parr.chute to the ring from which my trapez was suspended. I reached up and took firm hold of this wooden ring and moved njore to the ccnter of rny seat. All feeling of fear was eradicated. "Now I looked down. I could not discern a human being nor a group of human beings. The earth was bathed in a translu-

"Wh'n he had gone the waiter related the conversation in detail to the proprietor at the cash desk. The proprietor looked thoughtful.

Foared th© Klftlon nf Jtrynn. New York, Sept. 19.—Because he feared that William J. Bryan might be elected aiyl his business thus destroyed John S. Robinson, nephew of ex-Governor Roswell I'. Flower and a well known real estate dealer of this city, this morning committed suiside. He was found in his room at 4 "West Forty-seventh street, lying prone upon

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Y. MCKane is to be released from Sine Sing, information comes from a ionrce near to Governor Morton that such is not the case. The that he will not Issue a pardon to McKaae during his term of office, and that McKsiiie should serve the full term for Which .he •was sentenced.

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