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commonly recognized as perilous to the
wearer, except il may be in that
subtle sense in which they minister to
feminine vanity and fondness for "trip
perics. Women manage their skirts.
even trailing ones. with considerable
skill, and if there is a case where the
wearer failed to ''Ret there" namely, to
the goal of her ambition, because of her
too voluminous attire, it is not on record.
Another account states that the reform
skirt must be short enough so that
the wearer can go mp and down
stairs without risk to persons following
Immediately after-that is, SO that
the drapery will not get under the feet
of these persons and trip them up. This
seems to locate the danger in another
place. IL is not the woman herself, but
the individuals who happen to be on the
be protected. This is a roundabout
way of accomplishing the desired end,
and is hardly worthy of the great minds
ut Chicago assembled. Why cut off
skirts, when the direct course to reform
is to establish a training-school where
tho male person, who invariably does
the stumbling, can be cured of his awk-
wardness7 And consider, too, how
much must be cut off so that the skirts
will not touch the steps as the woman
walks down them. To the knees, at
most, would be their EXTREMIST length.
Is there no danger in skirts thus alb
breviatedi Ask OF the moralists who
inveigh against the ballet as a horrible
snare to Innocent youth. Is it to be
thought for a moment that the legs Of
reformers-non-professional legs, so to
speak, or shall we say ankles7-which it
is proposed to thrust before the gaze
of the world are less shapely OF N
ticing than those which twinkle on
the stagef The National Council, as one
woman. will repel such suggestion.
What. then. is the danger hat is done
away with by cutting'off the petticOats?
There be those-nOt reformers nor adj
vanced persons. alas!-who hold that
peril aud petticoats are words almost
Synonymous, but apparently the Ma
tional Council believes that this fatal
Characteristic turks in the supert1uous
folds about the feet. Unless the coun-
ell makes it's meaning a little clearer,
there is reason to fear that the woman
the every day woman who is going to
the worlds fair-will go right ahead
and have her gowns made of the usual
length, without caring a pin for the risks
they threaten to the persons who shall
be in her neighborhood. The average
woman is singularly devoid of the re-
form spirit when it comes to the making
of her gowns
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18
PERIL IN PETTIcoATs.

The executive committee of the Ma
tionai Council of Women met in Chi
cago. during the past week. to start the
wheels going which shall eventually Sc
cure reform gowns. uniform divorce
and marriage laws, better wages for
women. good biscuits, and may other
benefits for ~womankind and the
world at large. Reports of the
meeting are. however, devoted main
ly to the action regarding dress.
thus showing the engrossiDg in
terest of the male reporters in that
subject. What the committee did about
wages and divorce and the rest was a
small matter in the opinion of these per-
sons compared with the proposed revo-
luton in feminine garb. But, after all,
the various accounts of the proceedings
relating to this question differ. Ac-
cording to one, the skirt decided upon
and recommended was to be SO short
that il could not be a source of danger.
But danger TO whom-the woman her.
self Women have worn skirts n good
while, and though they may be incon-
venient at times. they are not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18
TYPICAL MlSSOURIAN IN zinc.
Worlds Fair Statue for Which a Kansas City
Man Wanted to Pose and Pay $4,000.

KANSAS CITY. No.. Dec. 17.-Missouri
will be represented at the world's fair by q
statue in solid zinc represe ntirg the ~ p
ical Missourian. Not long ago some one re-
motely connected with the worlds fair
board OF this State suggested TO q leading
real-estate-dealer that If he would pay
s.. 1000 he would be permitted to pose. After
some elaboration he agreed to paw
the price aud the proposition was laid
before the board. 1t was the subject
of the most violent quarreling. Several
Of the country members of the COM
mission objected most seriously. Finally,
however. the offer of the real-estaJe man
was accepted. The statue was TO cost $751;
600. which left 5000 TO be raised. Then
the thrifty real-estate man came forward
and demanded that the advertisement of
his firm be cast IN the pedestal. Then there
was an uproar. and tho offer was again
thrown aside. As the matter now stands
the advocates of the statue scheme are
casting about for o man who wants 60 pay
$4,000 TO be modelled In zinc. This State
produces three-fousths of all the zinc
mined in this country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18

THE business of Indianapolis as out
lined by the advertisements in this issue
of the Journal shows An extent and de-
gree Of prosperity which must be graf
flying to every citizen. Never before
were merchants so well prepared to
supply every want in all classes of goods,
and it is O common remark of those who
have been accustomed to do o large part
of their shopping elsewhere that In
dianapolis now offers goods of a quality
and price that leave no inducements to
90 to Chicago or New York. To deal with
home merchants whenever possible al
ways tends to increase the prosperity of
the city. and the enterprise of local deal
ers n meeting the demands of all classes
of customers cannot be too highly com
mended. The Journal offers no apology
for giving up SO large a part of its
twenty pages to-day to its advertisers,
believing, as it does, that at this season
of the year this species of literature has
q greater attraction for a large number
of readers than any other.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18
AGE.
What o Defense It Is to Her If It Isn't
Given Away.

What o Defense 1t IL to Her If Il Isn't
Given Away.
New York World.
A woman has nothing but her age to de-
fend her. u she does her best to keep
that age as young as possible, because she
knows that the fewer years it carries in
the eyes of others the greater its power 70
charm, the surer it's strength to win her
victories in the big battle OF life. She has
an arcanum for IL just as she has for che
wad of false hair that she wears IN q bogus
Psyche knot at the back of her neck and
for the little painttnbe ont of which she
squeezes the cherriDesso of her lips
The mau who tears away the veil from
this sanctum sanct0rum of innocent and
harmless W hite lies deserves a hereafter of
bornswoRgllnR in which q perpetual pro-
cession of houris tramplo over his tremb-
ling heart ana Cupid ever hovers neal with
his thumb to his nose and his fingers spread
him.
In a recent breach of promise case the
brother of the defendant. in a cruel. desc
crafive way. went TO work aud reveaied
the alleged real age Of not one woman. but
of six. The fair plaintiff says she Is TWEEN
ty-seven. The age unmasker says he has
records which prove that she Is thirfy-four.
and these same records boost the ages of
plaintiffs five sisters ACROSS the same seven
years of time.
Isn't it awful? How hGrd-hesrted a man
must be to publicly declare that a W oman
il seven years older han she says che isi
Where il our boosted modern cbivairyf
What has become OF the worlds supply of
Chesterfieldismi And how abont the THING
we used 10 call gallantrvf Evidently they
are not n drug in the market Just now.
From this time out q woman whose age has
holes in il doesn't want TO court the glare
of the pnblic eve very much. breac h-of.
promieely or ctherwiso.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18

A COMMITTEE of tho Federation of
Labor has recommended that a board of
one commissioner from each congress
sional district. chosen by the people,
shall be created to call out the militia
after investigation Of labor difficulties
in conjunction with the Governor. and
that it shall be unlawful for the Gov
ernor to call out the militie for the sup
preston of any labor difficulties except
upon q petition signed by one-fourth of
the voters of the county in which such
troubles may occur. 1t will be seen
that these propositions are impractical.
In the case of public disturbance in
which life and property and the free
dom of citizens are in peril there al be
no divided authority-no dozen Driven
ty assistant Governors to be assembled
to investigate and then issue orders.
The Anarchists in Chicago. assuming
the guise of workmen, might hold high
carnival while a dozen assistant gov
ernors were deciding to call out the mi
litia. In Pittsburg a mob under the
name of labor destroyed four million
dollars worth of property, but were
finally checked by armed force. Such a
mob might destroy a whole town while
representatives from the t%wenty-nine
congressional districts of Pennsylvania
should be summoned to give the Gov
ernor power to call ont the militia.
The Governor is charged with the en-
forcement of the laws. He must pro-
tect life and property-the lives of
those who desire to work as we'll as
those who refuse to work unless they
can fix their wages. The law is for all
for men who do not belong to organ
i~zations as well as those who do. The
hostility of the Federation to the Pink
ertons is reasonable. They are outside
the law, or were at Homestead. If the
militia had been first called. there
would have been no ~bloodshed, and the
difficulties would have been adjusted
without the great loss and the suffering
which has occurred.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18

The excitement in France over the
Panama scandal has caused sucha press
ure upon the government that President
Carnot is said to contemplate the pro-
priety of resigning. This is not because
he is in any way involved, but because
some of the leading supporters of the
republic are. and this fact has led its
enemies to attack the government with
. degree of success that threatens its
overthrow. If President Carnot should
resign. q conspiracy might be formed
by the imperialists. royalists, anarchists
and other enemies of the republican
form of government which might cause
its overthrow. Thousands OF poor peo-
pie have been robbed in this wretched
Panama affair, and the connecting of
trusted officials of the republican regime
with it will very likely cause them to
join any movement which will tend TO
punish those who have despoiled them.
Slighter causes have overthrown gov
ernments in France. Under the repub-
lie France has been prosperous and its
people have enjoyed a season of tran
quiility. Itwould bea calamity if popu-
lar government should be overthrown
in France, since it would be O great
victory for monarchism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


COLUMBIA COLLEGE has just received o
gift of $4,000 for it's library. half to go for
the biological department. and half for the
department. of history.
Is of the few women able to speak the
Irish language is ninety-year-old Kathleen
Huppmau, of Philadelphia. She holds as
one of her dearest possessions Q letter writ
ten by Robert Emmett.
Rev. MARY L. WHITNEY has been in
stalled as pasIer of the Unitarian Church
at West Somerville, Mass. She Is q New
Yorker. Her maiden name was Traffarn.
and she is descended from an old Hugrenot
family.
AMONG the Asiatics studying at the Uni
versity of Oxford is q native Of Afghsnis.
tan named Fida Mohammed Kahn. He is
the onlv Afghan in England. and intends
TO become y barrister before returning to
his country.
KENTUCKY man recently got o prize
for the following definition of a gentleman:
"A man Of refinement and culture whose
aims are noble. whose truth is constant,
and not only constant in It's kind, but elc-
,yered IN its degree: whose want o.. means
bees inake5 him simple. and who can look
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18
PRESIDENTIAL CoURTEsIEs.
Two Favors Which Harrison Granted o
the Request OF Nj. Cleveland.

the Request OF Mr.. Cleveland.
Washington Special TO ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
When a President goes out of office he
usually asks some small favor OF his sue
cessor. The latter usually grants these
favors. Politics has nothing to do with
them. Courtesy dictates. When Mr.. Cleve-
land went out, for years ago. he let Presi-
dent Harrison understand that il would be
grateful to his feelings il Cousin Ben Fol-
som could be left ~undisturbed In the
Cousin Ben still holds on: He. also inti-
mated that the reJentlon of Jacob Scbenck-
elberger as pension agent at Buffalo was a
personal matter. Mr.. Observation-Disclosures has
continued to dlsburse pensions until now.
The name of his successor wss sent TO the
Senate to-day. The President probably
reasoned that be had done all that courtesy
required in leaving Mr.. Cleveland's per-
sonal friend undIsturbed three years, nine
months and eleven days.
The relations which prompted the request
for the Buffalo pension agents retention
were not those of co~nssnguinify. They
were those which naturally grow MP be-
tween q Woodworking lawyer who likes a
glass of good beer and the man who served
him year after year with that good beer.
Mr.. Schenckelberger kept the saloon on
Main street. near where Mr.. Cleveland bad
his law Office. as the story goes. After the
first Inauguration some Buffalo swells
who had not had much use for him
when he was sheriff. came down TO see
Grover" with an idea that they owned the
earth and the White House thereof. They
spread the report In Buffalo that Mr.. Cleye-
land was almost above speaking 10 his fell
l-ow-townsmen. Later. when the admins
tration was fairly under way. Mr.. Schenck-
elberger visited Washington. Mindful
OF what the other B~uffalenians had told.
hs did not 60 near the White House.
One day Mr.. Bissell or somebody
else told the President bis old friend
was in town. Mr.. Cleveland immediately
started Dan Lamont in search of Jake
aud when Jake was found the President
made him come to the White House and
stop there q week. IL is even said that
after Office hours the President tried his
voice once more on the fsvorite ~roundelay
which he and BIssell and Jake used 10
chant:
There's a hole in the bottom OF the sea. etc.
At any rate, Mr.. Schenckelberger was the
guest of honor. and when the pension
agency ct Buffalo. worth $4,000 q year. was
created. he got it, and has held 1t ever
since.
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Tennyson az . Religious Teacher.

Archdeacon farrar, IN heVleW OF heFleNa
Let fools and s~epsualists say what they
will, il is the glory OF rowniDg ana Ten
nyson that In an age in which so much
prurlent literature was detiled with the
empoisoped honey of French realism. they
did not grope in the foul ADVISES OF human
degradation, Ibut ever lifted their eyes to
the true grandeur of humanity
with spiritual IRE.
The poets have made Inc brighter. Zap
pier, more hopeful 10 Us by teaching US 10
see. n what to see. and how 10 see it. by
opening our minds To the true. our eyes TO
the beautiful; By opening our ears 10 the
voices of the mountain and the sea; by
quickening our sensibility TO the sweet in
f~iuences of the fields and Of the ocean. A
thousand things which we should have
never noticed, IN which we should
never have read Gods autographs of beauty
and of blessing. Tenpyson has now
taught MS TO observe with delight and
love-fbe black ash bids In spring; the rosy
plumelets which tuft the iarcb; the pure
green streaks on the white leaves of the
~snowdrop; the gummy chestnut buds which
glisten in the April blue; the sea-wind sing
ing shrlll. chilled with fakes of foam; the
liquid azure bloom OF the sea; the Pieiades
glIttering like fire-fiies in n silver braid:
the little pink. five-beaded baby soles; the
light feet which. tresdipg on the DAISIES.
makes the meadows rosy; the dragon-tiy's
sapphire flash Of living light; the river
sioplng TO plunee in cataract. ehattering
OF black blocks It's breath OF thunder:
Myriads OF rIvulets ~hurrying ,hroagh the land.
The moan OF doves I'm inmen.orial elms,
And murmur or innumerable bees
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18
WOMEN Fog SCHOOL OFFICERS.

A law of Indiana. passed in 1881. pro-
vides that "any woman, married or
single, of the age of twenty-one years
and upwards, and possessing the quail
f~ications prescribed for men, shall be
eligible TO any Office under the general
or special school laws of this State"
Under this law a woman may serve as
member of a school board or as county
superintendent. 1t is somewhat singu-
lar thar. although this law has been in
force eleven years. no woman has ever
been elected or appointed to a school
Office under it, nor, so far as known to
the Journal, has any woman ever sought
such a position. The agitation for wom-
ans rights and woman suffrage has been
going on more or less actively all the
sought to promote the cause by awaiting
herself of her legal right to become a
candidate for member OF a school board
or an applicant for the position of
county superintendent. This cannot be
because there are no women in the
State qualified for these positions. for
everybody knows there are thousands
of such. The positions referred to have
been filed by many men no AS we'll
qualified AS their own or some of their
n~eighbors' wives, and in many instances
school interests have suffered through
the unfitness and incompetence of school
officers, yet in no single case has an at
tempt been made to remedy matters by
electing or appointing a This
seems to argue, first. that men are not
disposed to avail themselves of their
privilege in regard TO securing the serv-
ices of Women as school officers, and
second, that women are as little dis
posed to assert their rights in the prem
Uses.
The fitness Of women to serve in such
positions has been demonstrated beyond
question by experience in several States
and in many cities. In some States they
are allowed not only to hold school
Offices but to vote for candidates for
such Offices and some of the best county
superintendent in these States are
m There have been two or three
women on the school board of New
York city for several years past. and
two were elected at the recent election
in Boston. In every case where the ex-
pertinent has been tried it has worked
to the satisfaction of the public, and. it
is believed. to the advantage of the
schools. This is especially the case
where women have been elected to school
positions who have graduated in the
public schools and served as teachers,
thus adding special qualifications and
experience to their natural aptitude for
such service.
The Journal believes it would be to
the advantage of the public schools in
this city, and, perhaps, in other cities
and towns throughout the State, to have
a fair proportion of women on the School
Board. There are hundreds of women
in this city as we'll qualified to fill the
position as any member of the present
board, and much better qualified than
some of them. There ought to be at
least two women on tho boa~d.
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not believe il. but she is as com paratively
tame and quiet as IL real high kicking and
rapid whirline were arts unknown 10 her.
But, aside from these few exceptions. a
person in search Of things to be shocked &C
would spend mis- time far more probably
at 9 little table IN front of any cafeIn any Of
tacle is more ~scandalizing. and has the
added charm of infnite variety. for the
streets of Paris are never monotonous IL
the eyes are sound and one has the price
Of q drink or q chair when one is tired
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18

II the trustees of Wabash College de-
cido against admitting women as stu
dents they viii be likely soon to find
that institution in a decided minority
among higher educational institutions.
The modern movement in favor of the
higher education Of ome and Of CO.
education of the sexes has become SO
strong that to oppose it will soon be re-
earded a . mark Of educational retro
eression. Without discussing here the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18

Aroad congress for the state of Indiana
has lately been held. Ii Was attended by
about three hundred delegates represent
ing almost every county. In the opinion
of Governor Chase. who made the address
of welcome. the convention was one of the
most important assembled m indianapolis
in many years. and the question it wac
called to consider 10 of more vital interest
TO the State than any other now pending.
IL 10 gratifying To hear such words from
the Governor of Indiana. and it rs TO be
hoped that his views are widely shared.
not only ip Indiana. but IN other States as
well. There is undenia oly n Drafonnd in
terest in the subject OF improved hign-
ways. and practical resnlts of large benefit
to all may flow from it
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18

III is not to the credit of the Georgia
Legislature that it has refused q small
appropriation to maintain q home for
the crippled and WORKOUT men who
served it in the confederate army. They
were on the wrong side, but Georgia
called them. md they responded and
served with q valor that challenged the
admiration of the world.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL SUNDAY, DECEMBER Is, 1892

community the jury ave a verdict in
his favor. In the face of that verdict.
which went straight to the mark regard
less of outside issues and petty person.
~alitles. the "molders of opinion" look
rather small, and probably the good
Shepard is not so sanity but that he
enjoys his triumph to an unholy degree.
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TWENTY PAGES

BETWEEN the explanations of the
Catholic prelates who do not agree and
the proceedings of Presbyterian tribu-
nails to try heretics, the person who
reads the whole of his newspaper will
get a great deal of doctrine if not much
r~oof.oa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18

PERSONS who expect to visit the CO.
lumbar worlds exposition will be
pleased to know that the coroner of
Cook county is making arrangements to
establish a branch Office at the fair
grounds and place for taking care of
dead bodies. He will appoint an extra
free of deputies and do all in his power
to make it pleasant for persons who may
be murdered or accidentally killed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18

THE Chicago Times, in speaking of
Mr.. Blaine, expresses the sentiment of
hll really intelligent people when it says
that 'tattle about the bedside of a coz
s~picuous man, i'll possibly unto death.
is unworthy of indulgence by a sober
minded people or a serious newspaper
prasau
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18

ALL the past week correspondents
were constructing all sorts of theories
upon the assumption that Father Ducey
had been visiting the Blaine family.
Now that Mrs. Blaine, in a note to the
public, asserts that that priest has not
been in the Blaine residence, will this
exercise of the ~newspaperial ingenuity
,o-&-r-o0
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Justifable.

Eyes, your Honor, 1 killed him." admitted the
prisoner, while the high light Of conscious inno-
cence shone upon his brow. He was my dearest
friend. But, your honor, when ne told me he
had. written a play that would ontiast Uncle
Toms Cabin 1 thought it my duty to remove
him before he could put il on the stage"
The truest Socialist is the small boy. He has
much more respect for tho man who makes
things than the man who buys them.
About the time a man gets old enough to fall
in love with some judgment he rorgets how.