The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-25


but there is a vague sort of impression
abroad that a certain amount of capital is
required TO provide the clothes, and that to
be king of dudes' signifies the possession
of wealth. Such, it seems, is not the case.
Even a king of dudes may attain that title
without the amount of financial backing
that would suffice to set mp a corner peanut
stand. At all events, this is the conclusion
to be drawn from the testimony in n law
suit brought by f. Berry Wallis tailor to
recover the cost of high-priced garments
furnished to that gorgeous yOung man,
who has for some years OutdOne Solomon
in all his glory in the matter of apparel.
E. Berry testified that he had no property
which could be transmitted INTO cash suffi-
cient to pay for his clothes. and itemized
his effects as follows. to-wit: One Water
bury watch. a small scarf pin. a pair of
sleeve links and two canes, the aggregate
value of which was less than $500. The
moral of this disclosure is that any young
man whose ambition inspires him with q
desire to dazzle his fellow-beings with a
varied array of loud-patterned and ex-
pensive clothes need not be restrained by
the ~fatness Of his pocket-book. All that is
necessary is to find a tailor who can be
stood off" and to cultivate the faculty of
standing him of. The young man can be
sure of distinction for a longer or shorter
t~ime-usually a shorter; but then nobody
has said that every dude must have his
day. Half a day is quite enough.
AND now. when. after much tribulation.
and the sacrifice of many f~avOrite articles
of food; after we have learned to consider
our stomachs by avoiding hot bread, and
raspiDg our threats with brown, along
comes a medical writer-medical writers
are responsible for all dietetic notiOns-and
says we are mistaken. Instead of brown
bread being full of nourishment, it is COM
posed of poor flour. mixed with bran and a
little molasses; or, if of good -four. contains
no nutriment not found in white
-four as now prepared. This writer de-
clares further that hot bread agrees with
many persons who do not readily digest
dry and stale bread, and is only injurious
when not properly chewed. 1t is also as
serted that pie-crnst. if properly made. is
well digested by good, healthy stomachs.
As the most of US eat pie whether our
stomachs are good and healthy" or not
this decision will make little difference in
the total consumption of the edible, but it
| will add immensely to the comfort of the
consumer. There is always q satisfaction
in having medical authority for doing
something of doubtful wisdom, and the sat
isfactiOn is s%uperlative when it upholds lis
in following our own inclinations. The
anti brOwn-bread man meets a long-felt
want.
n railroad In South America, which is
slowly approaching completion, will sur
pass in engineering feats and difficulty of
construction any in this country. This is
q road across the Andes. from Buenos
Ayres. On the Atlantic side. to Valparaiso,
on the Pacific. The road will be 81 miles
in length. and about 40 miles are now COM
pleted. The work was begun nineteen
years ago. and will probably be finished by
1892. The road will cross the Andes at a
height of 10.45O feet above sea-Ievel, the
passage. even at that elevation, being
effected by a tunnel more than three miles
long. For a considerable distance the
grades are oyer four hundred feet to the
mile. The work has been enormously ex-
pensive.
|
THE Philadelphia Nationalist Club has
turned its attention to cooperative house,
keeping, and members grow enthusiastic
over the prospect this system offers, in
theory, of solving the vexed domestic prob
lens. For years. and long enough before
| the heavenly state of things in Bellamy's
book was thought of, Mrs. Livermore was
an eloquent advocate of this method of
housekeeping, and still urges it in her lect-
ures. Other advocates spring up in the
papers and magazines every now and then,
but it cannot be learned that any of them
practice what they preach. An object les
son in this direction would 60 much further
than a bushel of lectures. The way to CO.
7 operate is to cooperate.
SOME of the leading Hebrews of Cincin-
natl have arranged for q course of lectures
on the Christian Sabbath. Rabbi Wise,
president of the Hebrew Union College,
and widely known for his learning, is hos
tile to the enterprise. He says;
Ihaye always been opposed to any concession
to the Acknowledgement of the Christian Sab
bath. admonshed my congregation last Satur-
day never TO force upon their pastor a duty so
repulsive; but i hope that this was hardly neces-
sary, as this congregation, the Oldest and fore
most in the modern reforms OF the West. would
never desire anything which may tend to weaken
the sanctity of the ancient sabbath.
The Jews are consistent on this question,
and if they choose TO adhere to the ancient
Sabbath. they can ind strong biblical and
historical authority for the position.
CHICAGO has been talking about sum-
varying from $1,000. 900 to 5000 600 as al.
ready subscribed for her worlds fair stock
but up to date bona fide subscriptions Of
s69S.S30 have been published, and the pub.
LEGATION is being strung out at the RAE OF
about 100000 per day. Is it possible that
a goodly portion of the amount boosted OF
is winds
THE courts having decided hat the con;
tested legacy of SlO.OO0rleft to Henry Georg'
by one Hutchins. of New Jersey. for the
! dissemination of the single-tax theories