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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-22
ALCOHOL AS A REMEDY.
Some of the Evils of Its Use as a Remedy
for Sickness.

Some of the Evils of Its Use as Remedy
for Sickness
DR.. Felix L. Oswald in Popular scIence Monthly.
l do not intend to deny that the use of
mild alcoholic tonics, as substitute for the
frightful remedies of the medieval Sangra-
dos, is a decided improvement, but still, it
is only lesser evil, first step of progress
i've reform. Alcohol fingers in our hospit-
ais as slavery fingers in the West Indies as
the witchcraft deuson fingers in Southern
Europe. Has alcohol any remedial value
whatever? Let us consider the matter from
a purely empirical standpoint Does alco-
hol protect from malarial fevers? 1t is a we'll
known fact that the human organism can
not support two disease at the
same time. Rheumatism can be
temporarily relieved by producing an artifi-
cial inflammation; a headache yields to
severe toothache. For the same reason the
alcohol fever affords temporary protection
from other febrile symptoms. e., man
might fortify his system against chills and
ague by keeping himself constantly under
the stimulating influence of alcohol. But
sooner or later stimulation is followed by de-
preston, and during that reaction the other
fever gets chance, and rarely misses it. The
history of epidemcs proves that pyretic
diseases are from eight to twelve times more
destructive among dramdrinkers than
among the temperate classes; rich or poor,
young or old, abstainers are only centesi-
mated by diseases thaC Qeclmate QrunkardS.
On no other point IS the testimony of ply
81 clans of all schools. all times, and all coun-
tries, more consistent and unanimous.
Is alcohol peptic stmulant? No more
than Glauber's salt or castor oil. The system
hastens to rid itself of the noxious substance,
the bowels are thrown into state of morbid
activity only to relapse into morbid mac
tivity The effect of every laxative is fol-
lowed by a stringent reaction, and the ha-
bitual use of peptic stimulants leads to
chronic constipation, which yields only to
purgatves of the most virulent kind.
Does alcohol impart strength? Does it
benefit the exhausted system? If WORKOUT
horse drops on the highway. we can rouse it
by sticking knife into its ribs, but, after
staggering ahead fora couple of minutes, it
will drop again. and the second deliquium
will be worse than the first by just as much
as the brutal stimulus has still further ex-
hausted the little remaining strength. In
the same way precisely alcohol rallies the
exhausted energies of the human body. The
PROSTATE vitality rises against the foe and
labors with restless energy till the poison is
expelled. Then comes the reaction. and be-
fore the patient can recover his organism
has to do double work. Nature has to over
come both the original cause of the disease
and the effect OF the stimulant
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upon which two cupids supported medal
lions of the royal couple. Busts of the
parents occupied the four corners of the
upper plateau, festoons of jasmine linking
the whole firmly together. All round the
central plateau-a solid mass of hundred
weight of sugar and cake-were inches
holding emblematic statues of the virtues
and smothered in orange blossoms. The low
est portion-the cake itself-displayed the
arms of Great Britain and Prussia, placed
alternately on panels of white satin, and be-
tween each escutcheon was a medal
lion of the bride and bridegroom en-
circled with bridal Greaths and surmounted
By imperial crowns. Rows of pearls bor-
dered and paneled the cake, and on the
stand were quantity of baskets and vases
sllver-gilt, holding artificial flowers.
Another notable example of the modern
weddng-cake was that of the Duchess of
Connaught 1t was nearly six feet in height
IRON. the stand, the general design being
Greek temple, with Corinthian columns and
vaulted roof. At the four corners of the
main portion-the edible portion-were en-
bematlc figures of the continents. aternat-
ing with horns of plenty and Cuplds chart
oteering swans, while within the balustrades
that encircled it stood Cupid and Psyche,
with the panels round them displaying the
arms of England and Germany.
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Kitchen-Garden Games.

I'VE make the following extract from a
little girls letter to her aunt, in the October
St. Nicholas, about "The Kitchen-garden
school," at which, in the same manner as
the lessons are sugar-coated with fun, it will
be seen that games are but a cloak for in
struction
MY Dear Aunt Katie-I've saved the best
part to the very last. It's about games. We
Just have an ele CANT time when we do games
We have one after every lesson in kitchen
garden. We have a skipping game, when
we skip all round the room with a rope that
has pretty ribbons tied to it, and we keep
time when we skip to a nice tune that the
teacher plays on the piano. And We have a
broom game that is just splendid! We all
have nice brooms. with pretty ribbons on
them, and we do ever so many things with
them, and sing songs all the time we're
doing it. And then some of us make an
arch with our brooms and the rest of us skip
under the brooms all the way through the
arch And we hang up clothes-lines You'd
laugh if you saw all the funny little dolls
clothes hanging on the lines. But it looks
real pretty, too, | think. And we play wait
ing on the door. We have big round circle
of girls, and we skip around and we sing:
Here comes a crowd of merry little girls
Who've lately come TO school,"
Then we ring little bell and we ask, 'Is
Mrs. Brown at homer and we say, Yes,
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THE MODERN BOY.
Probability That He Would BE Benefited by
an Old Fashioned Thrashing.

Probability That He Would Be Benefited by
an Old Fashioned Thrashing.
Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
Mr. Shakespeare says that man has seven
ages, but to my opinion boy has about ten
of his own. He begins with his first pair of
breeches and a stick horse, and climbs up
by degrees TO toy-guns and fire-crackers and
sling-shot and breaking calves and billy
goats and to sure enough guns and a pointer
dog, and the looking-glass age when he
admires himself and greases his hair and
feels of his downy beard and then he joins a
brass band and toots horn, and then he
reads novels and falls in love and rides a
prancing horse and writes perfumed notes to
his girl. When his first love kicks him and
begins to run with another fellow he drops
nto the age OF despair and wants to go to
Texas or some other remote region and sadly
sings
"This world Is all dieting show"
Boys are mighty smart nowadays. They
know as much at ten years we used to
know at twenty, and it is right hard for us to
keep ahead of 'em. Parents used to rule
their children, but children rule their pa
rents now. There is no whipping at home,
and if a boy gets little at school it raises a
row and presentation. to the grand jury.
When my teacher whipped me I never men
toned it at home for fear of getting another.
l got three whippings liz one day when l was
lad. l had fight with another boy and
ne whipped me- and the school teacher
whipped me for fighting and my
father whipped ME because the teacher
did. That was awful wasn't it? But
it was right and it did me good. One of
these modern philanthropists was telling my
knsman the other day how to raise his boy
"Never whip him." said he; raise him on
love and kindness and reason" and then he
appealed to me Tor Endorsement. "And
when that boy is about twelve years DID,"
said l, do you go and talk to him, and, ii
possible persuade him not to whip his
daddy. Tell him that it is wrong and unfilal,
and will injure his reputation in the commu-
nifty"
The modern boy is entirely too bgity.
was at church in Rome last Sunday and saw
two boys there, aged about ten and twelve
years, and after service they lit
their cigarettes and went off smok-
ing. An old-fashioned man looked
at 'em and remarked, II would give
"a quarter to paddle them boys two minutes.
Tll bet their fathers is afraid of EN- right
now" The old-fashioned man never was
afraid of his. He worked 'em hard, but he
gave EN- all reasonable indulgence. He
kept 'em at home of nights and he made
good men of them. They have prospered in
business and acquired wealth, and are rails
ing their children the same way, and they
love and honor the old gentleman for giving
them habits of industry and economy. He
was merchant, and didn't allow his boys to
sweep out a string or a scrap of paper as big
as your hat Habits are the thing, good
habits, habits of industry and economy;
when acquired in youth they stick all
through life.
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Selected Thoughts.

Sincerity is the way to heaven. To think
now to be sincere is the way OF man.-Men-
cius.
Who builds church to God, and not for
fame, will never mark the marble with his
name.-Pope.
Whether happiness may come or not, one
should try and prepare ones self to do with
out it.--George Eliot.
[ came from God, and I'm going back to
God; and l won't have any gaps of death in
the middle of my life-George Macdonald.
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first
principles Have no friends not equal to
yourself. When you have faults, do not
fear to abandon them.-Confucius
There is no great and no small
To the Soul that malIeth all:
Aud, when it cometh, all things are;
And 1t c0meth every where.
r.. w. Emerson.
When God has great work for any one to
do in the world he usually gives him a pc
culiar training for it; and that training is
just what no earthly friend would chose for
him; and sometimes it is so long continued
that there seems to be but little time left for
work.
To do Gods will-that's all
That need concern ns not to carpor ask
The meaning of it; but TO ply our task
Whatever may befall;
Accepting good or i'll as He shall send,
And wait until the end.
Margaret ]. Preston.
Resolve that nothing whatever, either in
your feelings or circumstances, shall deter
you from doing what you think you ought
y Be sensible that even the appear
ance of a wish to show kindness, the attempt
to pay attention and do good, are valued,
and that oftentmes a slight favor, of which
you think nothing will be highly esteemed
by others.-Henry Ware.
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FASHIONS FANCIEs.

The English turban is very popular hat
this season.
Unglazed kid gloves are the most fash
ionable, of dark and medium shade for the
day, medium or light shade for the evening.
Spanish iewelry, showing large leaves and
flowers tinted in their natural colors, and
studded with tiny diamonds and pearls, Is
just now in high vogue.
Embroidered dresses in fine cloth and cash
mere are certain to hold their own. For one
thing they are too handsome to become COM
mon, and so they have taken their place
among standard goods The newest designs
are so wrought that they appear as if raised.
The pelerine or short cape of black velvet
! is now succeeding to that of black lace or OF
| beads and chenille; it is worn with any dress.
Autumn costumes are also frequently MADE
with pelerines of the same fabric as the dress,
especially when this is some sort OF fancy
wooden material.
Among new combinations may be men,
toned Worth's favorite blending of green
and brown, dark blue and gold, red and gold
and brown, dark plum with gold and light
blue, and green in many shades with Grim
son and gold producing shot effects and hair
lines of bright color.
The new ulsters are tight-ftting or almost
tight, and have Langtry hoods or collars, as
the case may be. Some of them are very
narrow at the bottom, fitting the wearer like
an umbrella sheath does an umbrella, while
Others have fullness below the waist arranged
in large, fiat box-pleats.
The odd conceit of uniting two materials
in the way of placing the figured fabric be-
low and the plain above, will be revived,
with also the fashion of wearing plain velvet
basques with different skirt. Some of the
new fabrics for the cold season, are excess
sively coarse and rough, like blankets. Wide
stripes accompany the plain goods.
One fashion which bids fair to be very pop
ular is that of skirt of plaid cut on the bias
and killed to the knee with scarf drapery or
short round apron, also cut on the bias above
the kilt. and worn with a jacket or jersey
basque Of cloth to match, either plain in the
predomnating color of the plaid, or else shot
or in fine check to match similar effect in
the plaid
Plain velvet will be in great use for the au-
tumn and winter. 1t will not only share a
prominent part in millinery, wraps and COS
tunes but will obtain prime importance
in robes of ceremony, forming a distin-
guished component in the rich and elegant
Grecian tea dresses now affected by the ultra
fashionable, and besides its use for reception,
evening and dinner toilets, will also constl-
tute an important factor in handsome wed
ding dresses.
From present indications it would appear
that the greatest latitude is to be allowed in
dress during the coming season. Bodies
plain and bodices full, polonaises and
basques, jackets and jerseys, yoke dresses and
Russian blouses, zouave jackets and Swiss
waists, plain tucked skirts, kits with short
drapery. pulled skirts with much-bunched
tunics-long overskirts almost covering the
lower skirt-all these are shown among new
fashion plates, and on recently-imported
models.
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lay to have transferred to St. Paul's some of
the military monuments which now contrib
ute so much to the overcrowding of West
minister More space will then be left in the
latter sanctuary for those who have contrib
uted to the greatness and the glory of Eng
land through litera ture, art, science, morals
and religion. The change will not lessen the
attractions OF Westminster. 1t will add to
those of st. Paups.
Conductor Harris OF Boston, is trying to
raise fund of $1S 600, to be placed in the
hands of trustees for the construction and
equipment of mission car, to be used in
eYangelistic work among railroad men. The
car is to be constructed after plans and
models suggested by practical railroad men,
and be so arranged as to furnish a room for
meetings, and be supplied with cooking and
sleeping apartments for those engaged in the
work.
1t has for some time been we'll known that
the church which Calvin founded and so
tenderly nursed in Geneva had become large
ly the prey OF rationalism. The form of the
old Protestant Church remained, but the
spirit had fed. Latterly matters have be-
come worse and worse. 1t is now stated on
most reliable authority, that every minister
OF THAT church-elected. by the way, by pop
ular sutfrage-snce 1874 is either an avowed
agnostic or in some way, more or less direct
an opponent OF Christianity local paper,
called the Genevois, unblushngly declares
that nowadays people trouble themselves lit
tie about what is called the salvation of the
soul: that men of well balanced minds
rather give their thoughts to making the
best OF this world; that faith has had its day,
and that religious belief is rapidly becoming
4 thing OF the past. This for Protestant, CAL
whistle Geneva
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-22
Hats and Bonnets.

New York Evening Post
Allusion has already been made to the
great number of shapes in which new au-
tumn bonnets and hats have appeared the
hats rivaling the bonnets in many caprices
of contour and style in which they are
shown, both of which run through small
medium, and immense sizes, the bonnets de-
veloping through numerous notifications
from the dainty French capote into the more
pretentious Drectoire, and ending in the
long fashionable yet still popular poke. In
round hats are many pretty styles, begin
ming with the turbans in "Langtry" and
English" shapes. Then come the usual
eccentricites, dear to the hearts of the err
ratio beings who rush after the latest novel
ties. These extraordinary and most gro
tesque creations are made up of the usual
odd dents and angles, and the wild freaks in
crown and brim, are in keeping with the
garniture, which is fantastic enough for the
taste of any Indian girl on the frontier.
Some of these have high pointed crowns and
peaked brims the whole hat being highly
suggestive of witches black cats, sulphur
and broomsticks.
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ART IN ROME.
A Princess Worth Millions, but Almost a
Pauper.

D. R. Locke, in Toledo Blade
The wonderful amount of art preserved in
Rome, and for that matter, all over Italy, is
due to the fact that in certain families plate,
Jewels and works of art are entailed the same
as the real estate is i'll England, and cannot be
sold and dispersed, which is very fortunate
thing for Italy, and very unfortunate thing
for the unhappy owners. 1t has kept their
old palaces with their priceless art treasures
together. and makes in Rome a hundred
museums of quite as great value as the best
of the public collections-not i'll extent, but
quality.
One noble family in Rome is the happy, or
unhappy, possessor of a palace that contains
10000, 900 of lire, which is 81, 000,0 900, worth
of paintings, statuary and plate, and nothing
else. There is not dollar of revenue, not
dollar in money, not enough to light single
kitchen fire. The unhappy princess cannot
breakfast on Corregios, or dine upon Mi
,chael Angeles, nor can she sell square inch
Of the priceless canvas and marble With
which the immense palace is filled.
So the palace is opened to the visitors and
a snail fee is exacted from each for the care
OF canes, umbrellas, and overcoats, which
are presumed to go to the espectabe-looklng
serving man who performs that office, but it
doesn't. Her Highness keeps a sharp look
ont on him, and every copper he receives
finds its way to her, and from the proceeds
of this exhibition she manages to starve,
though she does ride in a carriage and keep
servants in livery. Being a princess, she
must have carriage and fiunkies in livery,
whether she have money to support the style
or not She receives, if the weather be good
and the city thronged with visitors, as much
as $40 day, and on that she must live, for
she. has nothing but the art in the palace,
and that she can neither sell nor mortgage.
All this is very bad for the Princess. but
very good for Rome. The family pictures
bring visitors who spend money everywhere
except upon the magnet that attracts them.
What she is striving to do is to marry her son
would be willing to pay 800 600 or 5000, 900
for title for his daughter, and her daughter
to rich American or Englishman from
whom she might borrow money as occasion
demands. With all this wealth in her pos.
session she is so poor that meal OF cold
vctuals would be a charity to her,
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SOME UGLY FASHIONS.
How They Originated = The Mischief Done
by the Ex-Empress Eugenie.

by the Ex-Empress Eugenie.
Fortnghty Review.
Never perhaps in the whole history of
female costumes has dress exercised more
powerful and widespread dominion than in
the last half of the nineteenth century.
More than one explanation may be given for
this. 1t may be traced primarily to the III
fuence and example OF one beautiful woman
at the head OF society and in the capital
which from time immemorial has been the
center and startrg-point of fashion. The
ascendancy of the second empire was
paramount in matters of taste, The
Empress Eugene swayed the social world
of Europe more effectively than Napoleon
III the POLITICAL A single circumstance
will sufficiently prove this, Her adoption
of a wide skirt at once reintroduced
the fashion of hoops and brought about the
reign of hIdeous crinoline. This is, so far,
the last instance OF the effect single indi-
vidual in high place can produce upon an
initiative crowd. Social history, indeed, is
full of such cases-of the patch first applied
to hide an ugly wen of cushions carried to
equalze strangely deformed hips of long
skirts to cover ugl y feet and long shoes to
hide an excrescence on the toe. The we'll
known case of Isabeau lace may also be
quoted here; the yellowish- white, dinay-
colored lace (foreshadowing probably the
coffee-colored lace of recent days., which
Archduke Albert's Queen made the fashion
when she Swore she would not change
her linen till Ostend was taken-an
oath which must have cost her much, as 'the
siege, unluckily for her comfort. lasted three
years" The authority of the Empress Ea-
genie was not limited, however, to the pop
ularization of the crinoline. 1t also devel-
oped enormously the rage for smart clothes.
The Empress dressed magnificently and with
lavish expenditure herself, and she expected
every one about her to do the same. Like
Elizabeth Queen of Philip II, she seldom if
ever wore the same dress twice. 1t was dis
pleasing to her when peoples wardrobes
were meager Nassau Senior tells us in his
Conversations" that she had wonderful
memory, and often displayed it by remind
ing some unfortunate woman that she
had admired certain dress already. No
wonder that under this regime the most
noted dressmakers fattened and rapidly
grew rich. The artistic whom the Empress
especially patronized made her fortune in a
few years, and retired into private life, long
before the empire to which she owed it tot
tered to its fall. This same period saw the
foundation of several Partisan houses which
have now a worldwide reputation, one
among them being that established by an
Englishman, a native OF Lincolnshire, Mr..
Worth.
This excessive fondness for display was
not long limited to France. 1t soon spread
to other civilized countries. the United
States was perhaps the first to surrender to
its squandering and engrossing influence,
probably because Americans have always
been connected in very close ties with Paris,
a reason, no doubt, too, for their generally
correct and enlightened taste in dress.
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will you please to low me to show you to
the parlor, and l will speak to her." Then
we go across the ring 1--WE play that s
the halD, and the girls lift up their hands
and we go under 1--WE play that the door),
and then we are in the parlor, you know.
Then we play we have a card with our name
on 1t, and we put it on tray, and the girl
that opens the door, she brings it to the lady,
or else we tell our name
Sometimes Mrs. Brown is not at home"
or else She's engaged" Then we say, "Will
you please to leave a messageP"
Then the other girl,-the lady, you know,
she could leave quite long message if she
could think of one, but she doesn't, very Of
ten.
It's splendid game, Aunt Katie and so is
Little waiting girls" We all stand in a ring
with trays, and we march and sing:
We are little waiting-girls
Just little galting-grls.
We wait on the table
AS well as we are able
For little waiting girls.
We pass the tray like this, we pass the tray like
that,
Try to hold it, always hold it, very, very fat.
It's real funny game. You just ought to
see 1T, Aunt Katie. And Jack and Jill, "
we play that, too, and it's
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To get pail of water,
Jack fell down and broke his crown
A nd Jill came tumbling after"
And the chorus is:
Two should step at the same time
One should not go faster.
Else they'll surely, surely meet
With Jack and Jlll's disaster"
Well Aunt Katie, you ought to see just
everything we dol l know you'd think it
was lovely, and you'd be inst as glad as we
are that Miss Huntington thought about it.
1t don't seem like going TO school at ALL 1t
seems like play But we all learn ever so
much there. Mamma says I've learned a
good deal about housekee ping already.
Dear Aunt Katie Mamma says | need not
write any more because your eyes are so bad.
l give my love to you, Aunt Katie; and |
give nv love to Cousin Baby Grace, and to
Uncle Howard, too
This letter is from your dear little niece,
NAV STpoNG