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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
INDIANAPoL1s JoURNAIs SUNDAY. sEprEMBER g. 1888

may be treated as if newly taken from the vines
that is, boiling water poured over them to remove
the skin sliced. and made into the usual salad,
with little oil, small quantity of chopped
onion, pepper, salt and vinegar The vinegar In
the jar may be used for any other purpose, pro-
vlded care was taken in wiping the tomatoes.
A writer in the New York Mail and Express
expresses a pointed way, thought that must
have occurred TO many women:
1t won't do to pronounce things pretty or ugly
at the within of changeable designer The
fashion of hanging draperies about houses will
soon wear out, and people will be glad to fail
back into using polished wood and stone or tile
mantels, with just enough draperies to protect
windows and arches from drafts. The litter of
drapery twisted on picture frames, mantel cur
tains which are both out of place and dangerous;
towels tied in the middle for chair tides, and
festoons in odd corners, will be put out of sight,
as they ought to be. Draperies need a nice hand
to arrange them, and too often look like poor
millinery. They catch dust in q tiresome way,
and the doctors begin to protest that budding
rooms up with SO much drapery is stufy. and
unhealthy They object to plush, which simply
nils with dust, and takes a continual slavery to
keep In good condition, and declare that tiles,
enamel finish for walls, marble brick and stone
llntels and glass for interiors must Danish
fabrics, wallpaper and carpets for the greater
part of the year. At least, there is in
working mantel pantalettes in anything more
absorbent than linen lace, and marble shelves
with wreaths aud coronals may be again un-
covered and admired freely to their owners
content,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
How to Eat Wisely,


AS a universal rule in health, and with very
rare exceptions. in disease, that is best to be
eaten which the appetite Graves or the taste
relishes.
Persons rarely err in the quality of the food
tors in this respect.
The great sources of mischief from eating are
three-quantity frequency, rapidity; and from
| these come the horrible dyspepsias which make
OF human life burden, torture, living death.
Rapldlty-By eating fast the stomach, like q
bottle being filled through funnel, is full and
overlooking before we know it. But the most
important reason is, the food is swallowed
before time has been allowed to divide it in
sufficiently small pieces with the teeth for like
ice in tumbler of water, the smaller the bits
are the sooner are they dissolved. 1t has been
seen with the naked eye that if solid food is cut
up In pieces small as half pea it digests almost
as soon without being chewe6 at all as if it had
been well masticated The best plan, therefore.
is for all persons to thus comminute their food,
for even If it is well chewed the communion is
no injury while it is of very great Importance in
case of hurry. forgetfulness or bad teeth Cheer
ful conversation prevents rapid eating.
Frequency-lt requires about five hours for
common meal to dissolve and pass out of the
stomach during which time this organ is inces-
sanity at work, when it must have repose. as
any other muscle or set of muscles, after such
length of effort Hence persons should not eat
within less than five hours's interval. The
heart itself is at rest more than onethird of it's
time. The brain perishes without repose Never
force food on the stomach.
Quantty-It is variety which tempts to ex-
cess few will err as to quantity who eat very
slowly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
"A Fine Scene.
Sunday School Advocate.

Sunday School Advocate.
Two boys were in a schooroom alone togeth-
er. and exploded some fireworks, contrary to the
masters express prohibition. The one boy de-
MED it. The other, Ben Christie, would neither
admit nor deny it. and was severely logged for
his obstinacy. When the boys got alone again
why didn't you deny itl" asked the real
offender
Because there were only we two and one of
us must have lied, said Ben.
'Then why not say did it,"
Because you said you didn't and would
spare the liar"
The boys heart was melted Bens moral
gaantry subdued him. When school reasseM-
bled the young cuprit marched up to the mas
ter's desk and said:
please sir, | can't bear to be liar let off
the squlbs." And he burst into tears.
The masters eye glistened on the sef-accuser,
and the undeserved punishment he had inflicted
on the other boy smote his conscience. Before
the whole school, hand in hand with the culprit.
as if he and the other boy we're Joined in the
confession, the master walked down to where
young Christie sat, and said aloud
ben. Ben. lad he and I beg your pardon
We are both to blame"
The school was husEed and still as other
schools are apt to be when something true aud
noble is being done-so still they might almost
have heard Ben's big boy tears dropping on his
book as he sat enjoying the moral triumph which
suhdued himself as well as the rest. And when,
from want of something else to say, he gently
cried, Master foreyerv the loud shout of the
the scholars filled the old mans eyes with some
thing behind his spectacles which made him
wipe them before he sat down again
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06

gentleman offered toast and said, General
will you not favor me by drinking glass of
wines" The General. in q very gentlemanly
way begged to be excused. He was again urged
to join in glass of wine. This was too much
He rose from his seat and said, in the most dig
nifed manner: Gentlemen, l have twice re-
fused to partake of the wine-cup. / hope that
will be sufficient Though you press the matter
ever so much. not drop shall pass my lips.
made a resolve when / started in life that
would avoid strong drink. That VOW have
never broken. | am one of a class of seventeen
young men who graduated at college together.
The other sixteen members of my class now fill
drunkards' graves, and all from the pernicious
habit of wine-drinkng. I owe all my health, my
happiness and prosperity to that resolution.
Would you urge me TO break it now2"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
For Girls ONLY.
San Francisco Chronicle.

San Francisco Chronicle.
''She won't do, Marie; she won't do" said the
man of the house, just in time to upset the
negotiations between the mistress and a new
nursery maid"
why dear, don't you like her?"
''Shes not young enough"
That's why was engaging her She's not
young"
'That's why object
Henry, what do you meanq"
II want young, pretty, bright girl, with
clean, white apron and pretty cap"
''Oh, yes; suppose you do"
'You are wrong my dear do not mean
that"
whats"
''Your tone was significant. No. have
theory. think that children grow up a good
deal like the people who take care of them"
oh" and she began to cry, II suppose you
don't like to have your children grow up like
their mother"
my dear, don't be ridiculous. I mean that
they get to speak and act like their nurses and
I wish my children to have no mannersms that
will be offensive"
What kind of nurse did you have, Henry"
MADAM" he said. rather confusedly II had
colored nurse, but it doesn't work with boys. +"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
Superstitions About Flowers.

New York Evening Post
what is that for9' asked a visitor of a florist
as a lady bowed and crossed herself before a
gaudily colored plant "'Sh~ said the proprie-
tor, shes one of my best customers 1 suppose
she's Catholic or something of the kind, for
there are half dozen plants that she bows and
crosses herself at That one is the passion
flower, and good many show their respect for
it in variety of ways. They are merely doing
as they have been taught. The superstitionS
are 60 thoroughly engrafted that it is almost
impossible to treak them Up, and when you
come to think of 1t, showing reverence to beau
tlful flower that has a supposed likeness to tha
crown OF thorns, is much more sensible than to
do the same to an image"
Among the early Greeks are found number
less superstitions regarding flowers and plants.
The old Greek doctors were in the habit of pre-
scribing the bark and leaves of the vitex agnus
castus, er a decoction made from them as Ger.
tain to secure chastity and good morals. Our
common apple is looked upon with certain
amount of generation by some nations, and
legends concerning it are very common.
The supersttions regarding plants to-day are
very many. Take the mandrake as an example,
the most remarkable of them all. The ideas
concerning the mandrake differ in different coun-
tries; thus in Germany and France it is believed
that the mandrake grows only where criminals
nave been, consequently they are very
common about places of execution and
spots where murders have been committed
In many old works can be found letters
from persons who have used the mandrake and
received change of luck. To-day in Europe
pieces of mandrake are carried about by the
superstltious to prevent them from dreaming
and to insure them good luck as long as worn
Il very often" said the florists, ''have people
come here in good faith and ask what plants
bring the best luck. Colored people have num-
Der of plants that are considered sovereign pre-
ventatives of witchcraft. This is only another
form of superstition, held by majority of the
early settlers of this country. The st. Johns
wort (hypericum), if collected on the night of st.
John Baptists day, was considered a sovereign
remedy 1t was hung over doors, just as many
people hang horse shoes, for good luck To
gather fern seed on Mdsummers eve was
thought good luck
1.-The numbers of flowers by which fortunes
gre told are legion. You remember in 'FausT
Marguerite picks the petals from flower one by
one. saying softly, He loves me, he loves me
not exactly as you young ladies doing to-day
with the daisy and others. This CUSTOM and
that of cracking flowers, can be traced at least
to the time of Theocriuus As said before
this passion flower is still reyered by many; the
believer sees in the curious flower the cross,
scourge, hammer, nails and other accessories of
the crucifxion. In some of the old cuts the
flowers are drawn to suit the imaginatons of the
devotees, and the various implements are shown
with remarkable faithfulness."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
The Graveyard at You Bet.

Henry De Groot, in September Overland.
There on that knoll is the ancient metropolis
of You Bet and the camps around, and there
within it's precincts have been gathered many of
the early inhabitants of these pioneer towns.
Though the hues of ruin have crept over the
place, the ground itself. as is almost everywhere
the case with these old graveyards, remains in
tact You will say it is to the credit of the
miners that these homes of the dead have been
so generally respected. Not especially So In
looking for a spot for sepulture, the early miner
was apt to select some rocky ridge or knoll
which stood apart from the digeings, and which,
being supposed to contain little or no gold, he
had reason to think would never be disturbed.
Had it ever been found that they contained pay
dirt, these consecrated grounds would have been
attacked and run off to had-rnck LONG aRn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
Baby ASleeu.

Creeping so swiftly all over the floor:
Now here by the window, now there by the door;
Herself pulling up by chair and by bed,
Getting many bump her dear little head.
Little sharp eyes spying every stray pin,
Little mouth open to put them all in;
Laughing and growing with frolicsome glee,
AS merry child as youl anywhere see,
Our dear little wideawake baby.
A little warm thing cuddled down in heap
Her soft cheeks afush with the roses of sleep;
Little smiles hidden all safely away.
To be brought forth again at the dawn of the day;
Little feet resting, and little hands, too
Which is more than by daylight they ever can do;
Tucked in with many kiss and caress;
May angels watch Ger her! May God ever bless
Our dear lite sound asleep baby
-Rabv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
Untimely Curiosity,

Arkansaw Traveller.
traveller stopped at toll gate and asked the
keeper if he had any good, cool water. John, "
said the keeper, turning to his son, fetch me
the gun-the one loaded with buckshot."
Hold on" said the traveller Il meant no
harm"
"Well. then, I'll let you off,"
The traveller rode on, wondering why the
question had caused offense. He stopped at a
house and asked a man if he could tell him why
the gate-keeper became angry.
Yes, can tell you. He has to carry water
about mile and half, and it's always warm by
the time he gets home with it. Every one that
comes along asks if he's got good cool water.
He scarcely hears anything else from morning
until night The man who kept the gate last
year went crazy. but this fellow seems to stand
it better. He is rather even tempered, and
although he has kept the gate several months,
he has only killed two drummers and crippled a
boy. kept that gate once"
did the people annoy youl"
Not much l only had to knock down one
man and stab another one; but only kept the
gate a week"
why don't the fellow dig wellg"
Now, look here; a thousand men have asked
me that question. Stranger, reckon you'd
better mosey."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06

We took long forsakeu road
Green naples bending over;
Between the deep-sunk cart ruts, showed
A narrow, grassy border, CAV
With Shepherds purse and caraway
And rabbitfoot and clover?
We saw, about the silent lake,
Thick ranks of glossy laurel;
The hill was crowned with brush and brake
And wild spiraas rosy spires,
The crumbling wall was choked in briers
The fields were red with sorrel.
The MONDAY fell on waste and wood;
Deep glowed the golden weather:
In green, encircling solitude
We felt our meeting glance confess:
with love there is no loneliness
No loneliness together!"
Again we take the winding track
No change by Hill or hollow;
We watch the forest stretching back,
The same slow moss on stock and stone,
The same red roses overbown--
They beckon and we follow!
Yet oh! is this til enchanted way?
is this the happy weather?
Mysterious change that blots the day!
Long momentsxwhen our eyes confess
The pang of silent loneliness
We're lonely here together!
Dora Read Goodale
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
9Th. H." as a Critic.

Flora Haines Apponyi, in September Overland.
.'Never use an obscure phrase an unusual
word when direct language or simple term will
express your meaning" is a principle l have
often heard her enjoin.
Mercilessly as she could condemn in general
izations, she showed the most delicate considera
ton when she made personal application. She
often prefaced some little criticism of my work
with the remark
Now, you won't mind if / call your attention
to an expression here that I don't likel l don't
find fault with the thought, but here is word
that must be changed. You understand that
this is all mere mechanical matter-just like
any other trade. I have had a little more
experience than you, and am little better
artisan; that is all. 1t is nothing but artisan
ship"
fOh, Mrs. Jackson! Drop those three extra
syllables, and call it art"
mo, artisanship!' she would insist with en-
pha sis.
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A Little Coward.
st. Louis Republican.

st. Louis Republican.
Jimmy Howard was twelve years old. and
away from home for the first time in MIS- life
His mother was an invalid, and his parents had
sent him to boarding school, He had expected
it would be grand FIN, and he had enioved the
first day very much, but it ended. and here
he was in his room with four other boys and he
had promised his mother to read few verses in
his Testament and pray every night
II can't" he said to himself. Il know these
fellows never pray; see how full of fun they
are"
'But you promised" Conscience whispered
'Mother never half knew how hard it would
be, or she would never have asked me- Why,
shouldn't wonder if they throw their shoes at
me- There wouldn't be any comfort praying
that way. I'll just jump into bed and say my
prayers there, and III read my Testament to-
morrow when they are not looking"
So he quieted the voice of conscience and
slipped into bed pulled the clothing over his
face to shut out the clatter and tried to pray
But he was not happy and the words would not
come. Presently it grew quiet, and he heard
one of the boys say, John, it's your turn to
read tonight"
$50 it's" was the answer.
And then he listened as John read aloud the
fifth chapter of Ephesians. '"Fhis is my verse
boys" John said, as he finished: ''Be not
drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filed
with the spirit"
''That one about 'redeeming the time is
mine" said one Of the others.
"Seems to me that one about foolish talking
and testing comes home to us pretty well.
never knew that that was in the Bible, did you,
joint
Eyes, mother read it to me once, but it is an
awful hard one to live up to-"
''What is your verse!" he asked of lazvlook
| ing boy who was lounging on the foot of his bed.
II haven't any" he drawled out
where's the new boyf" asked John Then,
| seeing where he was II say, Jimmy Howard
amt you ashamed of yourself to get into bed
| without saying your prayersp
Eyes am, sure as you're alive" the boy said
| rolling out I'm regular little coward;
thought you'd all laugh at me, and couldn't
| stand it,"
| And as he dropped upon his knees with the
others he remembered Sunday-school lesson Of
several months before, about the Prophet
| Elijah, under the juniper tree. bewailing the
| fact that he was the only one who did not wor
| ship Baal, when there were thousands in Israe
| who had not bowed the knee to that false god.
The next day Jimmy Howard wrote to hi:
| mother full confession of his wrong, not for
| getting to tell how he had been comforted, Will,
| begging for forgiveness, in the thought that tn
| great Prophet Elijah had at one time been jus
| as weak and cowardly as he.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
The Name of the Cheese.

Boston Record.
cheeses-knows all about them, and buys all
sorts of them. Lately he had an Edam cheese
on the table After dinner Regulus wandered
over to neighbours who liked to know about
things
.sWell, Reg" said she "what kind of cheese
did you have for dinner to day2"
'Oh. it vast was-some kind of dam
cheese" said the boy.
The neighbor was shocked, but told him to find
out what it really was, and remember it, SO that
when he came over next day he could tell her.
Next day he came again
'.Well, now" said the neighbor, what kind of
q cheese was it you had yesterdays"
The answer told the story of alphabetical
coaching:
"Oh, it was an A, B, C-dam cheese!"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
Good Little Samuel.

Samuel came home the other day from school
with clothes torn. and burst into the sitting
room where his mother and sisters were planning
with some ladies how to advance the good man
His mother had already descanted at length Oh
Samuel, his virtues and helpfulness to his play
mates
why, here is himself" she proudly shouted.
as he came in, threw his Second Reader on the
tail
What have you done at school to-dayY" asks
one of the visitors.
''Oh, had bully time" And without mo-
ments hesitation he opens with grin bo-
grimed mouth, and in the cavity thus created
appears bloody ridge along the jaw, minus
four or FIVE teeth. ''Oh ma. 1 licked two boys
bigger than I am. Can't I have my picture
taken with my mouth open to send Uncle JackP'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06

Holy Place of the Dial lake. 1t is kept in a
times during the festival The crowd is kept at
considerable distance. the larger number being
IN boats Gu the lake. 1t is only with difficulty
that the box can be seen. But the very difficulty
adds to the eagerness and anxiety of the onlook-
er, giving intensity to the devotional sentiment,
The hands are clasped together. and the head is
bowed In veneration, after the Mohammeda1
fashion The festival, accounts of which have
Just been received, was this year attended by an
immense multitude
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The laziness and impudence of the waiter Of
an Austin restaurant surpass belief. Col Percy
Yerger had ordered hasty beefsreak. He said
to the waiter
Hurry up that beefsteak. I want to catch
the south bound train that leaves for San An
tonic in half an hour"
Use putty sure, boss" replied the waiter,
dat de steak amt gwinter be done in time for
the souf bound train for San Antonio, but you
can get your steak in time to catch the norf-
bound train what goes to Dallas in an hour and
a half
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A Boston Tragedy.

New York Graphic.
/ Mr.. Jones-That was shocking tragedy last
night
Miss De Silva (of BOSTON, What was it9
Mr.. Jones-A man went down in the Bowery
last night, and killed woman he never saw be-
fore, without the slightest provocation.
Miss De Silya-He had never been introduced
to her?
Mr.. Jones-Never. Now what would you say
of an occurrence of that sort in Boston.
Miss De Silva VERY much shockedl-i should
certainly say that he very rude
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06

Henry G. Vedder, in Christian Union.
Some five and twenty years ago CHANGED, for
time, to live in the village of Cincinnatus, N.
Y. and an inscription on tombstone there was
wonder and delight to me. 1t ran as follows:
Anne Chittenden was my name
America my nation,
Cincinnatus my dwelling place,
And Christ is my salvation;
The rose is red, the grass is green,
The days are past that we have seer;
The days past, but let remember
That Jesus Christ is our great Redeemer
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Satisfactory Results.
New York Life


Clerical looking Gentleman Ito boy)-"My
little man, can you direct me to the camp-m
ingl"
Little Boy lin great haste -"Yessir. It's jest
on de odder side of de hill"
Gentleman-"Ah, thanks. suppose the at
tendance is large and the results satisfactory
Little Boy with enthusasm)-" de re-
suits is Very satisfactory. Me fadder tapped a
kag O beer jest outside de groun's an sold it all
in less n an hour. I'm goin' for an odder kag"
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The Champion Lazy Boy.

Texas Strings.
Mrs. Fizzletop, not being satisfied with tne
progress made by her son at the UNIVERSITY Of
Texas, called on his teacher.
Professor - 80 WV can Tobrrv corninp IN
IN hfs studiesl" she asked anxiously.
81 have great hopes of him, madame, great
hopes"
II am so glad to hear that"
Eyes. madame, he is phenomenally lazy.
nomenally lazy"
II understood you to say that you had great
hopes in him."
$50 have. for think if he ever begins to
study he is too lazy eyer to STOP
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MIR. Endicott and the Pettieoats.

MT. EnuIcOtG anu ING F6tLIcOat5s
Pittsburg Dispatch.
In the contest as to whether the Secretary OF
War petticoat influence is most powerful in
Washington, the subtle forces of the softer sex
seem to be getting the upper hand. The order
of the Secretary for the return of the staff Off
GERS, who have been for many years on detailed
duty, still stands-on paper. But Mr.. Endicott
provided loophole in the shape of special excep-
tions, and the fact that the exemptions which he
has granted are on grounds which will let the
whole crowd stay, seems to indicate that the
ladies of Washington still rule, and are able to
keep their beaux