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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27

very long. If people would avoid missing
in the gravy with their salt-spo0n. all
would be well. but the thoughtless are
prone TO make this mistake just the same
as they are also apt to stir their coffee with
the sugar-spoon awhile, before returning
il. A little salt-box with salt in it. for
each guest, and holes in the top which will
allow the salt to escape. VIII always be en-
rapport;
easily dyed with a decoction of hazel-bark.
logwood and copperas, making q hrst-rate
opera overcoat for this winter. Cavalry
trousers will be worn this season by a great
many of the eligible young women OF
Standing Rock agency. who have organ
lied a pelsarte movement ana anti-corset
club.
Since the custom among gentlemen of
pressing the pantaloons at night between
the mattresses of the bed has obtained.
fat men, whose trousers were formerly the
quickest to lose their shape. are now in q
good deal the best form.
The custom of allowing pet dogs to sleep
in the same room with the children at night
is found to be so unbealthful that it will
not be long continued. 1t soon breaks
down the strongest dog to breath the viii
ated air required by a child.
A good winter mansel is made by cutting
it square in front. with brass fender. iron
revers and ashes Of hickory facings.
The covers and tableclOths are no longer
cut en- train. Guests got to surreptitiously
wiping their patent-leather shoes on them
while distracting the attention OF the host
ess by telling mirth-provoklng anecdotes
from English joke-books. and so now the
tablecloths are cut smaller. The big ones
will not be discarded, however. They will
be used for napkins.
vaseline is a good thing to use in
Frightening up, blase patent leather
silk hat. unless the hat has been sat upon
by q grown person.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27

William Lends q Helping Hand-and Foot.
self inside a sleeping-car berth. is and has
been to many thinking minds, a dark and
pleasing mystery.
The great progress in the female dress in
the matter of sense and beauty, noticeable
IN the past half century, is q good sign of
better days in the future. Fifty years ago
bodices. for instance. were cut horizontally
instead of on the bias. and SO. at evening
parties, 1t was no ncomm thing to see a
growing girl trying. by means of pass
words. grips and signals, to work her way
Pack into her costume. Skirt and bodice.
we are told, were mad of one piece. and
art could only assert itself by putting a
large number of fiounces on the dress,
whereas nowadays skirts are draped. ac-
Gordon plated, and made to look first rate
even if the material be plain.
a favorite waist has q short. square
jacket front, opening over a full waiSt-cOat
and folded belt with half open. short. angel
sleeves over leg-of-mutton or bishop sleeves
with deep cuffs to the elbow. Be careful
to nave the angel sleeves over the bishop
sleeves OF you will be criticised.
Asparagus may be mulched about six
inches deep with debris from the barn, and
thus it will be ready with its coat off, in
early spring. TO grow at a rapid rate.
Girls should not marry before they are
from twenty-fOur TO twenty-siX years old,
unless requested to do SO by some one in
whom they AVE confidence.
A correspondent writes to know what is
the limit of propriety in the use of the
finger-bowl, and this affords me an oppor-
tunity to give a purely personal opinion re-
garding it. l do not say that it is a sound
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27
MRS. HARR1soNs BUSY LIFE.
She Personally Superintends the Household
Affairs of the White House.

She Personally Superintends the Household
Affairs of the White House.
New York Herald.
Mrs. Harrison is the first mistress of the
White House since Mrs. Hayes's time who
really supervises the entire domestic ma
chinery. She has the Whole of it well in
hand, from the cellars to the attic. She
goes over the most of it every day. Both
the President and Mrs. Harrison are early
r%isers. and the days work gets started by 8
o'clock.
There is no hOuse-keeper. but Mrs. Har-
position, as well as to more confidential re-
latiOns with her mistress. Breakfast is
served at $50, but before that the house
hold joins with DR.. Scott in morning devO-
tions. When the venerable clergyman is
not up in time the President conducts the
family prayers himself.
After breakfast the President crosses the
upper corridor to his Office, and his visitors
every day know how the interval is spent
until luncheon: This meal is a substantial
repast, to which it is q pleasure for both
the President and his wife to invite friends.
This private dining-room is always fra
grant with flowers. At the 9 O'clock din
ner there is a more elaborate decoration.
After dinner Is q favorite time for the fam
lily to see their more intimate friends, or
for the President and Mrs. Harrison to paw
visits to old acquaintances.
Mrs. Harrison is a busy woman every
III mute Oh Tue Jay. SHo SETS W every mousse
hold matter and is especially fond of visit
ing the conservatories, which are at present
being put in trim for the winter. When
her grandchildren are here they are always
with her. Now that they are absent she
has leisure for painting. books, magazines,
daily papers and her mail.
She drives out often in the morning on
shopping excursions, and goes In and out
the busiest store without exciting the least
attention.
Lately the President has given up his
afternoon walks and takes his wife ont
driving instead: They 90 spinning over
the country roads in the mail cart. the
President driving, and get back to the
White House in time for dinner.
The President has not given up his Sun
day afternoon stroll. He makes a four or
five mile tramp between 4 and g. He often
meets the OutpOuring congregations from
the uptown churches and sometimes joins
the fashionable thropg o n Connecticut
avenue. He is very seldom alone in these
jaunts, but never fails, no matter how
busily engaged he is in conversation, to
return every salutation made him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27
Cleanliness Is Ner, 10 Goodness.

one. or absolutely correct, but it is mine
own. as one might say. 1t seems to
me q little bit depressing, after din
man not only rinse off the ends Of Ahis s
fingers but actually takes off his cuffs and
battle his wrists. Then if he should also
shampoo his whiskers and fill his mouth
from the little perfumed goblet of water
connected with some tinger-bowl layouts,
and after rinsing of his tonsils and garg-
ling his massive lungs. squirt tho results
into the finer-bowl with q noise like the
best efforts of Excelsior Hose Company,
home. When such things become proper
and acknowledging they may be. l pre-
sumo, in case some titled ass should decide
to do it once or twice. shall have to fol-
low the custom. i presume. for | am the alb
ject slave of fashion; but l shall go further
than that and. at the close of the meal. roll
into the d%ining-rO0m o portable bathing
pavilion for each guest.
Two thousand years ago people batbcd
each others feet after dinner, but they did
not remove their artificial teeth and play
on them with the garden hose. or shampoo
a large head of whiskers and manicure
their chilblains. We should draw the line
somewhere. i think. and l draw it at the
sitz bath. Cleanliness is reputed TO be
next to goodness, but there are some styles
Of cleanliness which destroy my faith in
almost everything. 1t Is a great cross for
me to speak thus plainly In a fashion and
household letter. hut / do not see how it
can he avoided
Ali waists this winter will have surplices.
bretelled, plastrons, waist-coats and revers.
/ state this to show young men of this age
what possibilities are almost within their
grasp.
Fine laces may be cleaned by immersing
in acids for a week. ~rinsing out in benzine.
afterward in soft rain-water and then dry
ing by pressing in a Copy of DIR. Gums
Family Physician, between pages 40S and
400. The dirt will then be found to have
been removed. Also the lace.
Among the long mantles sent from Paris
this winter is a beautiful one of r~oyal-pnr-
pie velvet with pulled sleeves and Queen
Anne collar bordered with black ostrich.
feathers. trimming and braid ornaments.
1t is first rate and does not cost more than
q compile of good milch cows.
Bots in horses cannot be removed by the
use of insect powder. Bots like insect pow
der. So dc all other insects. / had a con-
press of. cockroaches at my country seat
this summer. and / tried Persian powder
ON them. Gout was all the harm il caused
them. Children are the only mammals or
insects know of who do not thrive on in
sect powder and Rough on Rats.
The salt-cellar on the table is again trv-
ing to assert itself. but it cannot endure
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27
EMPEROR WILLIAMS ORDER.
Ofacers Of the German Army Forbidden to
Visit the Paris Exposition.

Visit the Paris Exposition.
Lucy Hooper. In Philadelphia Telegraph
Speaking of / was told Just be-
fore the exhibition opened that the present
Emperor of Germany. Immediately after
his accession to the throne. had issued an
order to the effect that no officer of the Ger
man army should. on any pretext. visit
France. i did not then believe the story.
] could not imagine that any sovereign in
this nineteenth century could act in SO petty
and spiteful n way towards a great nation,
In the legitimate exercise of its powers in
planning for itself SO vast a victory of peace.
But have heard from an American gentle
man, two OF whose daughters are married to
Prussian officers. that the edict exists, and
was one of the first put forth by the Em-
peror after his accession to the throne. The
friends and admirers of William the Little
(small in mind as he is in ~stature) declare
that his purpose in promulgating that order
was the preservation OF peace, as Germany
would have considered it as a casus belli
had any one of her army officers been in
suited whilst wearing his uniform. 1t seems
to me that an order for no Gernan officer
to appear in uniform while on French soil
would rave been all sufficient. Moreover,
. danger that was not apparent to his
grandfather in 1878, when the pangs and
~prejudices produced by the Fra~nco-Prussian
war were much more recent and more viru-
lent than they now are, could hardly be
very imminent just now. But the truth
OF the matter, IS that his imperial
majesty mas oteu 80 ueVOufeQ With
hatred of all things French and with
the irritation produced by the splen-
did success of the Paris exhibition. that he
acted after the fashion of the little bow
who. because he was prevented from
smashing another boys playthiugs, re-
lieved his mind by pulling his own sisters
hair. William the Little could do nothing
to hinder the success of the exhibition. so
be has made himself unpleasant to his own
army officers in consequence. L have been
told by persons who know something
about the home life of the Emperor thai
the i'll health from which he has been suf-
feriDg for some time past was largely dne
to the evaporation caused by the
unprecedented success of the exhibition.
But that. / think. is an exaggeration.
He takes so little interest In anything that
Is not military that | cannot imagine his
being deeply touched by a triumph all
made MP of art. and commerce, and peace,
and industry. and unaccompanied by the
roar of cannon. and the slaughter of SOL
diers. and the devastation of territory.
There is. / hear. some talk of getting up a
universal exhibition in Berlin. in 1898. I
doubt If the project will ever be realized.
1t would not he military Those Great
ures so heartily despised by the present
German court aud by German society.
namely. artists. and inventors. and manu-
facturers, and the like. would have too
much To do with il. Germany must be
content with being first in war" and must
leave 10 France the distinction of being
first In Deace.D
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27

THE time has passed from my mind when
/ could say / was we'll and free from pain.
i have been doctoring for
II LAST SIX YEARS,
and while some of the doctors would help
me they never seemed to reach the seat of
the trouble. ] always had a heavy, deep
seated pain just above the eyes, which was
always increased by a slight cold. and I
always took cold ON the slightest provoca-
ton. My nose was STOPPED up. and nv
eyes We're weak and watery. and / would
notice little black spots float before my eyes
when l would read or try to do any fancy
work. My stomach gave me a great deal of
trouble 1t would feel full and heavy after
eating, and l often noticed that my heart
was not right. 1t would jump and throb
violently upon the least excitement or
exertion. / was always tired and weak in
the morning, and scarcely had energy
enough to attend to my household duties.
After so many failures 1 had almost de-
SPARED of ever regainlng my health. but
Miss Browning induced me to try the Blair
Treatment. and it has proven very success
full and efficient In my case. / now feel
like my old self and can do all my work
without firing me. j owe my restoration
fully to the Blair Treatment
Mrs. Julia Eaton lives at No. 173 Harrison
street, and will be pleased to verify this
statement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27
HONEST And STRAIGHTFORWARD
Public Statements Actuated by Graft
tude Alone.
Mrs. Julia Eaton. of No. 173 Harrison Street,
Will Be Pleased to See Any One Wishing
to Investigate for Themselves.

"For the last two years there has not
been a week pass that l have not noticed
the statement of one or more persons in he
daily papers of the great benefit derived
from n thorough and faithful trial of he
Blair Treatment in Catarrhal and Chronic
diseases. i am thoroughly convinced that
they are the honest and straightforward
statements OF persons who have been cured-
l Am loath to acquire any publicity or noto-
riety of any kind. but / cannot help telling
the truth, and / feel that it is due the
Treatment as we'll as many who are
troubled as I was.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27
Games for Hailow Fen.

Ladies' Home Journal.
The charmed number, sever $50 called by
the superstitious), rules the evening. So the
girl who catches seven nuts or any larger
number which is a multiple of seven. is
considered most fortunate. The one who
secures the largest number of all (f it can
be divided by seven) is declared the fairy
godmother, and she becomes arbitress of
the Shake"
Seven baskets are brought, into which the
nuts which lave fallen upon the blankets
are gathered.
Double nuts are said to signify an early
wedding; clusters of three, a legacy; Jour
indicate great wealth; five, a voyage across
the sea; six. fame as a public speaker; sew
Ell. the possession of the gift most desired
by the finder.
The fires are now. probably. sufficiently
advanced so that the roasting of nuts, APP
pies and late planted corn may begin. So
with l%Ong-p0inted sticks some spear the
corn and apples. while others bury nuts and
apples in the hot ashes. Still others name
the red hot Goals, watching with deepest
interest what their behay i0r while roasting
If the nuts roast quietly, it ~fortells long
and trne friendships. If they fly about
or more bursts. loss of money is to be ex-
pected. Those that keep moving are unsta-
bic, and such as fly off the shovel will re-
main single still another year.
The same mystical interest and meaning
must enter into the apple roasting. Apples
are named, likewise, for those present. after
which the apples must be turned seven times
about on the palm of the hand before being
consigned to the ashes. If an apple cooks
evenly to the core without scorching, and
the seeds number seven or fourteen, or pos
sibly, twenty-one. great good fortune may
be expected. If the core proves hard or
w~orm-eaten, and less than seven seeds may
be counted, bad fortune is anticipated. If
the apple bursts it's skin and flies in pieces
it indicates great wealth, if it fails to cook
at all. there is little hope of a wedding
ring during the year.
Again, the corn roasting must &c. on IN
der the mysterious influence of the fairy
folk. The unhusked ears are placed by
sevens in baskets. Each person chooses
one. If the kernels are full and run in
straight lines the full length of the ear, a
prosperous year is heraIded; if the lines
run unevenly, and the kernels are not
found in full numbers and we'll filled out,
bad fortune is at hand. If the kernels.
however, number seven, or some multiple
of seven. the evil omens may be overcome.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27
Mr.. NYE'SHOUSEHOLD HINTS
An Interesting Chapter of Autumnal
Notes, Dress Chat and Fashion Gossip.
Fishermen Still Use the Bated Breath-Postage
Stamps Should Be Rubbed on the Hair-New
Iron Lap-Robe for Elevated Trains.
tcopyrisht, 1883. by Edgar W. Nye.l

~ yA@ShI @U~s W 80
With the approach of winter every one
turns to consider first of all the question of
what we shall wear. and while l am justly
proud to know that SO many look to this
column for the last and best verdict In the
matter of dress, it is, after all. a great re-
sponsibihty-one that at times l am
tempted to wade. preferring the obscurity
and comfort which protecti-responsibility,
rather than the cark and care. the anxiety
and unrest, which come to those who have
attained the proad eminence from which
they are expected to from time
to time the rulings of remorseless fashion.
1t is needless to say that yachting suits,
tennis togs aud grabbing costumes are now
laid aside for the season. some Young peo-
pie do MP these ~]annels in camphor for the
the winter, while others recklessly turn
them over to their parents to be worn IN
derneath other clothing during the cold
weather.
The old blue army overcoat will still be
worn by small wo0d brokers nj vendors of
straw during the winter months. also for
street wear among the working classes.
The buffalo overcoat with no hair onto it
will also be de rigor in the extreme month.
worn plain. The fisherman will also use
the customary bated breath He will bait
it with the same bait used on previous sea-
sons.
With single ladies. the tight coat sleeve
is entirely played out. Some married ladies
will still continue TO wear them and ex-
pect their husbands to extricate them from
anne at eventide, but how a yOnng lady
with plump arms, travelling alone through
life, ever succeeded In emanclpatlng her
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27
At IT Again.

Piftsburg Chronicle.
OF late years there has been a general
assault on the cigarette, the form in which
most of the younger males in cur country
nmrm IoDair ns anc ~ c 1as o ;n no charged; and
that the apparently innocuous cigarette is
O deadly poison, sapping not only the
physical bnt the mental powers of those
who indulge in it, and bringing in its train
brain paralysis and death.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27
The Natural-Gas Blow.Up.

NebTa8ka JOurnAl.
There may be a good deal in the alarm of
the British scientists. Pennsylvania and
Ohio will probably mount skyward first,
and the tidal wave that browns out Great
Britain will be the first news they get of
the disaster over there. The natural-gas
fend Will, however. 60 right on So long as
there Is money in wells. careless of the i'm
minency of the danger.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27

Office at 2os North Illinois street. Hours
% to IL a. m. 1 TO 4 p. m. and z to s p. m.
Sundays. o to IL a. m, 2 to 4 p. m. Consul
tation. 81. No letters answered unless &C
'companied by 4 cents in stamps. Address
all mail to Blair Treatment, 203 North ILL.,
nois street, Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27
The Lost Novel.


Alas, my summer novel;
mourn IL with a sigh;
The day I rashly bought II
A friend was standing by.
Forthwith the book he borrowed,
To be returned that night;
And since that fatal moment
1t ne'er has blessed my sight.
He lent il to his cousin.
And she enjoyed Ii so
She lent IL TO a neighbor,
Who kept it on the go,
And lent it to her uncle,
Who lentit 10 his girl,
Who lent II TO her teacher,
Who, with another whirl,
Sent it unto n nephew,
Who lent ii tn a friend,
Who sent Ii to a roommate,
And, oh, where will IL endf
Throughout this maddening business
One hope alone I see;
Mayhap- in all this lending
Ii may be lent to me.
Boston Traveller.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27

Washington Pc

WashIngfon Post
The exceedingly liberal, not to say prodi.
gal. manner In which many of the wealthy
citizens of New York are giving advice as
to the best plan of raising money for a
worlds fair is equaled by nothing but the
svnchronous unanimity with which they
do not give anything else.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27

Yale University evidently does not in
tend that Harvard shall rave any prece-
dence in the matter of properly hoporing
colorrd students. Harvard elected a negro
class orator. and Yale goes her one better
and elects q coiored man TO a place on her
football eleven.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27
Hasn't struck the @Chicago Gait

Louisville Courier Journal.
There is an unwritten law in Indiana
which says n man must not marry two
weeks after his wife's death. 1t is n very
good one. certainly How Is il possible for
the grief of q widower TO be assuaged in
We weeksf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27

on Hallow Eve to n walnut tree and walk
around IL three times, crying out each time,
Let him for her) that is to be my true love
bring me some walnuts,' the future wife or
husband will be seen in the tree gathering
its fruit. The poet Gay thus refers in his
"Pastorals" to this custom:
Last Hallow Eve 1 sought a walnut tree
In hopes my true loves face that might see.
Three tunes called, three times ! walked apace,
Inen In the tree i saw my true loves face.
A very old Hallow Eve d~ivination, for
merly much practiced by English rustlcs to
tell from what quarter of the compass
the future husband or wife will
come. is performed by stealing. out.
small lock of hair from ones
head and casting il to the breeze. What
ever direction it is blown toward is believed
to be the location OF the future matrimon-
ial partner. This divination is also men,
toned by Gay in his "Pastorals," as fol-
lows:
I pluck this lock of hair from ont my head,
To tell whence comes the once that l shall wed.
Fly, sllken hair; fly all the World around -..
found.
There can be no question that many of
the observances of Hallow Eve are de-
rived from those of the old Roman festival
of Pomona. when ivinations and the con
sulting of oracles and omens were univer-
sally practiced. Lighting bontires is one
of the oldest and most universal of Hallow
Eve usages, yet the Germanic and Celtic
nations were both accustomed to kindle
them on Oct. 81. centuries before they ever
heard of the Christian religion, and its
vigil of All Hallow Eve. 1t is probable
that the boys of those old races indulged,
on that date. In the same mischieyOus
practices which now afford SO much pleas
ure to our OWN youngsters, and no doubt
the little sons and daughters of the ancient
Romans. Germans and Celts carminated
the municipality Tor in the vulgar. paint
ed the town red"1 quite as extensively as
our own children do now by ringing door
bells and running away before they can be
doors with cabbage heads, misplacing
signs. gates and fences, and raising Old
Nick generally.