The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-10-07
SOCIAL GOSSIP,

So long as it terriiies hell is needed, After
that, it is useless.
Persecution has made more hypocrites
than it has cured leretics.
How feeble is the tie of blood in the veins
by the side of love in the heart.-Helen
Hunt Jackson.
The awful effects of blue stoekingism is
manifest in Boston, whose population con-
tains Is 600 mora women than men.
There is nothing so sweet as duty, and all
the best pleasures of life come in the wake
OF duties done.-Jean lngelow.
English ladies now use the Mahdi note pa
per and envelope, which is fiery red in color
and is nothing, if not significantly fashion
able.
A religious family of evangelical tenden-
cies recently advertised in an English
religious paper for IA parlOr maid who
knew her place and feared the Lord
The old superstition about the pearl, that it
brings bad luck a wedding gift seems to
have gone over entirely, and now ii is said
that emeralds and sapphires are the "unfor-
tunate stones to give for bride presents.
The increasing masculinity of English girls
is topic for many London essayists. In
dress, talk ami manners it is the fashion with
daughters of wealth and refinement to be as
much like their brothers as decoFum will al
low.
VI.
to assist in smashing the antique nonsense
about the harmful effects of late suppers, by
declaring that he does his best work at night,
and is greatly assisted in his literary la
bors by the best and biggest suppers he can
eat.
DR.. Talmage says that no man can be
Christian if his stomach is out of order. ere
ligion itself" he says, twill not keep a man
cheerful if he has dyspepsia. A cup of coffee
and an egg is no kind of equipment for a
days work / take three good meals aud eat
more on sunday than any other day OF the
week.
A curiosity in the way of funeral notices
is one lately printed in Brooklyn papers. 1t
is published in the columns OF notices OF
deaths, and is in the usual form in every re-
spect except that it ends with the suggestive
sentence: HE has bequeathed to his young
widow $25, 000."
kindly word and a tender tone
To only God is our virtue known!
They can lift from the dust the AFFECT head,
The heart close barred with passion and pride,
Will fling at their knock its portal wide
And the hate that bites and the seorn that sears
Will melt in the fountain of childlike tears.
What ice bound beliefs have been broken,
What rivers of love have been stirred,
By word in kindness spoken,
BY only gentle word.
The London World SAYS tbs cost OF obtain
ing the pope's dispensatIon to the marriage
between Prince Waldemar of Denmark and
Princess Marie of Orleans was $4,000. Its
most important conditions are that the
daughters who may be born of the marriage
are 10 be brought up in the Catholic faith,
but the sons as Protestants.
1t is now said that Bright's disease and
other affections of the kidneys are due to
the immOderate use of ice water. A physi-
clan says when people slaked their thirst
with fresh water from a well or pump, kid
ney disease was virtually unknown. Now,
however the general use of ice-water and
the multiplication of soda fountains cause
thousands of persons to abruptly shock their
internal organs with freezing draughts.
a professional bouquet builder gives this
instruction: Having collected the flowers to
be used on tray, all the superfiuous leaves
should be stripped from the stems; and by
placing the flowers side by side, you can cas-
lily see the order in which they will be most
advantageOusly displayed in the bouquet A
very pretty style of hand bouquet can be
made by taking a small straight stick, not
over a quarter of an inch in diameter, tie a
string Tor a very fine wire is better TO the
top, and begin by fastening on few delicate
flowers, or one handsome one for the centre
piece, winding the wire about each stem as
you add the flowers and leaves to the bou-
quet. Always place the flowers with the
shortest stems at the top, all those with
longer stems being reserved for the base;
then finish off the bouquet with fringe Of
finely cut foliage. Then cut all the stems
evenly, wrap damp cotton wool about them
and cover the stems with paper cut out in
pretty lace designs.
According to an exchange "Goaded by
jealousy a husband out in Ohio shot pro-
fessOr of roller skating in the head. The ply
sicians left the bullet where it was imbedded,
plugged the hole up with a cork, and the
professor skates as well and knows as much
as ever he did" The physicians Certainly
did not understand their business or they
would never have plugged the hole.
In the British Medical Journal, DIR. Foth-
ergill says that patient dying of exhaustion
is generally dying of starvation. 1--WE give
him beef tea, calfs-foot jelly, alcohol, liter,
and milk; that is, a small quanty of sugar
poorest sort of food, and the beef tea mere
contains the very strength of the meat is a
terrible error; it has no food value"
A missionary among the Hawaiian island
ers, IN replying recently to charge of
heather practices.urged against a number of
native converts says: "Going back to ancient
heathenism is not the danger to which the
Hawaiians OF to-day are exposed; the danger
to which they are exposed rather being that
they will drop down into modern heathen-
ism, and become what the Slums of our cities
are-permanently sensual, vicious and GRIM
inal."
II seems that from the scientific point of
view, perfectly clean hands are an impossi-
bility. In the Gazetta Medica Italian, DIR.
Forster says that fter the most diligent
washings and brushings with soap and wa
ter and rinsing with carbolic acid and other
disinfectants, the hands remained so impure
that un0n fouchin0 tho fiuoers IN cfarilizpd