The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-15
MINOR MENTION.


Pennsylvania Supreme Court in affirming the
right of the State to forbid the manufacture and
sale of oleomargarine or other articles regarded
unwholesome or unfit for food, comes the re-
port OF the Massachusetts State Board of
Health favoring the product. declaring 1T health
ful, wholesome and clean, and the feeling
against it 10 be mere prejudice. Coming from
such an official source this opinion is entitled to
weight; but whether it be correct or not there is
no doubt that the public, strong as its preju-
dices are, consumes vast amount of oleomar-
earine and never knows the difference. The
proof of this lies in the fact that rancid butter
is thing now almost unknown in market or
upon public tables. Where once in hotels and
restaurants the butter regarded with sus-
picioE and sampled warily now it is uniformly
sweet and is eaten freely. Has it not occurred
to the fastidious wayfars= that the cause of this
change Ia not reform in the method of prepar-
ing the bovine product but merely the substitu-
ton of the tsllowy compound. Yet this is true.
scANDALoUs trial in Chicago court. involv-
ing the character of preacher. has drawn out
crowds of women, and the testimony of the re-
porters is that the more indecent the testimony
the more smiles and expressions OF enjoyment
among them. If these women were Of the class
which is naturally supposed to have penchant
for suck nastiness wonder would cease. but
it happe ned they were mainly Respectable"
women, so-called. and members of the church
concerned in the matter The Chicago papers
find it difficult to say anything in apology or ex-
PLANTATION of their conduct, and really there is
nothing to say. The subject should be
sdered by Mrs. Saxon. the woman who discussed
Social Purity" with such vigor, if not modesty,
at the international convention.
COUNT ToLsToI is more practical IN his tenn
perance schemes than IN some of his plans for
reform. The society which he has organized in
Russia directs its attention almost exclusively to
children. teaching them the advantages of absti-
hence, the evils of indulgence in drink and
shielding them from temptation. No time is
wasted on confirmed topers and they are made
use Of only as awful examples for the rising
generation.
REV. OLYMPIA BROWN WILLIS has Jumped
on" the Supreme Court of Wisconsin rough-shod
for its decision in the woman-suffrage case.
Being a woman and o reverend and not an In
diana Democrat Olympia does not 'd--n their \
coward!y souls" but the teeth-gritting manner
IN which she 'leaves them to God suggests
that the powerful influences of and princi-
pie but barely restrain the utterance of naughty
epithets.
If TO see ourselves as others see % were as
sure TO be an experience agreeable as that to
be enjoyed by Roscoe Conkling when he gets
well enough to read the papers, IL might be
worth while 70 go close to deaths door. But the
uncertainty of the outlook. rather the GER
tsinty that the view would not be fsttering,
will deter most prominent citizens from trying
the experiment.
Eoorx ;nva raH IN he nf
the female MayofA and Council at Oska1oosa,
Kan. The women were elected on an Improve
ment ticket" while the opposition, composed al
together of men. was known ss the "Rstrench-
ment ticket" They can't consistently cry econ
omy at the women after having chosen them for |
the express purpose of spending money.
THE Omaha Republican offers to suspend the |
publication of its Monday morning edition IL |
the other papers Of the town will do the same |
In that case what will the preachers who won't |
read the Sunday papers-gotten up Saturday /
do for the news and for something to print |
their Sunday sermons inf
If there is anything in name Harry Sim |
ceres statement that his black and-bIue bruises
are the result of bsatings received at the In |
diana House of Refuge ought to be given cre- |
dence.
1T is very evident that the men who have been |
traffickirR in stolen copies of "Ben-Hur" never |
read the book.