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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28
NAV have heretofore worn gowns to the

may have heretofore worn gowns to the
shoe tops, yet in their childish simplicity
they were as suggestively youthful as
though the regulation garb of babyhood.
But just change the even alIround full
skirt to the bell shaped draperv, with
slight train, discard the guimpe and
simple little waists, and what have we:
& young lady pure and simple.
Girls anxious to be young ladies often
don these sweeping owns many season
too soon, and in after years regret that
they thus early assumed the garb of
womanhood, for, strange as it may seem,
girls age is reckoned from the time she
puts on her first real long gown. OF
course, this style must needs make q
change in her demcanor, for no matter
how coltish one may feel, the environ
ments of long cloth breadths will effect
ually put stop to the frisky actions Of
early girlhood; therefore new deport
ment comes with the heightened skirt.
The hair likewise from being allowed
to flow loosely acts in inverse ratio tothe
skirt and is taken up higher on the head,
until the little girl of yesterday becomes
tAo youHS tauy VI to-tty, "Hoo' dSN
might be anywhere from seventeen to
twenty-one. Girls, don't be in hurry
to put on long dresses think Of the years
you will have to wear them, and cling to
youth and all its accessories as long as
possible, for at the best it is gone too
soon, though now, in your desire to be-
come full tledged women, who have 50
many enjoyments from which you, owing
to your youth, ar e debarred, you cannot
realize the truth of such statement.
When the dolls are put away, the long
dresses donned and the society manners
replace the childish, unaffected simple
ity of other days, your girlhood is over,
and though in later years you may long
once more for that period SO 1eplete with
happiness it will have vanished forever
with the simple gowns you now so utterly
despise. New York Commercial At
vertiser.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28
AROUND THE HOUSE.

There is nothing which proves such
an economizer of strength and time in
the cleaning of windows as the use of al,
cohol instead of water. 1t clcanses with
magic rapidity, and snot an eNtravs giant
substitute as a prudent person is able to
wash greal many windows with small
bottle of alcohol.
Ammonia is one of the most useful
drugs in the household. It is most eff
fective as an agent in di>soly.lg dirt and
grease. In cleaning of any kind it should
be used in about the proportion of
tablespoonful to quart of water It
makes the water softer than rain water,
and it is especially refreshing in the bath
Nothing will clean lamps, lamp chin
neys, looking glasses and window panes
like ammonia. In using it on colored
cloth, first test it on sample to see
that it does not spot. When a stain is
produced hy lemon juice or any other
acid, nothing is so ctfectual as ammonia
in neutralizing and thus removing it.
A few drops to pint Of watei sprinkled
on the roots Of house plants xii! produce
an abundant growth. Stains on marble
can be removed by rubbing them we'll
with tooth brush dipped III powdered
chalk and ammonia.
The steam radiator pipes arc now a
feature of many winter houses, and with
their garish gliding are a bio, of ugliness
in a handsome parlor. One # the best
ways of conccaling these pipes, without
reducing their usefulness, is to place a
pretty ornamental screen around them,
leaving plenty of room on all sides, to
allow the heat to ra1iatc through the
room. Some clever women arrange q
series of shelves Or single shelf to pro-
jcct Just over the rau1ator, from tho bot
tqtn Of which they hang curtains of soft
Orlent"i ~ills. There is suggestion in
this drapery, however, quite Similar to
the piano legs in pctticoats and the
ornamental screen seems to be "A far more
sensible and artistic way of dealing with
this problem in decoration. Beautiful
Japanese screens may now be had at
very low price in the city shops, for
fashionable people have lately turned
their attention to rocco French screens,
gildcd and hung with brocade, and to
the massive ones which come from
Vienna, for dining rooms and libraries.
and are covered with gilded and painted
leather in renaissance designs
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28
HISTORY OF THE POLICE MATRoN.


Prior to 1885, Portland, Me, Provi-
dence, K. l., and Boston had each one
police matro7, who served certain no, -
OF day and evening. In that year Chicago
had ten matrons day and night for all
arrested women. Now it has twenty
three in divided districts.
In 1897, Massachusetts, after repeated
defeated efforts, encouraged by the result
IN Chicago, passed a law providing for
police matrons for all cities having 30
900 or more inhabitants. Philanthropic
women in New York next took I'D the
work, hindered and discouraged lust as
women III other places have been, but
with like success in the end. Buffalo has
two womao matrons, and one in the I'd,
for which. one women writes, ''we mad
to fight hard and long,"
Philadelphia has eleven police matrons.
who have charge of all women during
the time they are under arrest. Man
chester and Nashua in New Hampshire
have each one matrcn. New Orleans has
one, who serves in the Jail. There is one
In San Francisco, but she never attends
to the most degraded. The Chief of
Police there says he "will allow no
women to be Inundated by such associa-
ton"
But these are the very women who
most need the help of their own sex.
Massachusetts has twenty-five police
natrons, ten in Boston, two each in
Cambridge and T all River, one each in
Lawrence, Lynn, Lowell, New Bedford,
Worcester, Springfield and Holyoke
out number of the larger cities i norc
he enactment which requires matron
where there are 80, 900 inhabitants.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28

gray haired crone had heart to swell with
passion, and her pulses to throb and her
eyes to sparkle. Now nothing remains
but a lovely remembrance, coming as of
old. and stepping in its accustomed path,
not to perform its former object, or for
mer duty-but from long habit. Moth
ing but that Oh! is not that great
deal2
! And the buried mamie was happy to
have passed away as he did. The woman
she was the one to be pitied. With
out doubt she wished many times that
she were laid beside him. And not only
she, thought |, as | cast my eyes on the
solemn memorials around me; but at the
same time there were thousands of others
on earth who painted for the long repose,
as tired child for the night. The grave
the grave-w hat foolish man calls it a
dreadful place? 1t is a kind friend whose
arms SILL compass us round about, and
while we lay our heads upon his bosom
no care, temptation, nor corroding pas
sion shall have power to disturb us.
Then the weary spirit shall no more be
weary; the aching head and the aching
heart shall be strangers to pain; and the
soul that was fretted and sorrowed
away its little life on earth will sorrow
not any more. When the mind has been
roaming abroad in the crowd, and re-
turns sick and tired Of hollow hearts and
of human deceit, let US think Of the
grave and of death and they will seem
like soft and pleasant music. Such
thoughts then soothe and calm our
pulses; they open 8 peaceful prospect
before US. do not dread the grave.
There is many time when I could lay
down and pass my immortal part through
the valley of the shadow, as composedly
as quatf water after q tlrcsome walk.
For what is there of terri in taking our
rest2 What is there here below to draw
us with such fondness? Life is the run
ming of race-a most weary race, some
times Shall we fear the goal merely
because it is shrouded in cloud?
Irose and carefully replaced the parted
flowers and bent my steps carefully home
ward.
If there be any sufficiently interested
in the fate of the aged woman, that they
wish to know further about her, for those
| will add that ere long her affection was
transferred to region where it might
receive the reward of its constancy and
purity Her last desire-and it was com
piled with-was hat she should be
placed midway between the two graves
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28
A Story of a Turtle.

A dead turtle, a turtle with a history,
was found the other Sunday at the foot
of Alderman Donnclly's yard, No. 4l6
Ea>. King street, says Lancaster Penn
paper. There is all authentic record that
this particular turtle was more than
fifty wears old. He had been an inmate
Of the yard as far back as Alderman
Donnelly's recollection goes, and old PEG"
pie in the ncighhorh0od say they knew
him or heard of his presence there when
the property was owned by the Rodgers
family. AS regularly as the first warm
days of spring came around the turtle
would emerge to the surface Of the
ground, and thereafter he would be seen
until late in the fall For the past ten
years the Donnelly household has
watched these appearances with much in
teFest, aud the turtle became known to
the whole Deighborhood.
Several years ago a bpurd Was placed
at the side of all -iiF6n TrorS5t> The focs
Of the yard, and up this inclined plane
the turtle crawlcd each morning to got
drink of water. One time he fell in and
was nearly drowned. Never afterwartl
would he 90 to the trough. H then
made daily visits to the fyelrant in the
front part of the yart, and after qucnch-
ing his thirst he would drag himself
slowly to the other end of the lot He
was last seen late in the fall, aud when
this spring came and he did not appear,
a search WIS made for him. lie was
found among 4 ioj Of stone, tin cans.
etc dead He was slrr1un1r1 on all
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28

"The dreaded disease beribcri is un-
familiar to New York, but on this coast, {"
observes the San Francisco Chronicle,
awe know it we'll because it is brought
here on Sc many vessels from the Orient.
No one has been able to explain its cause.
1t is something like elephantlasis, only
far more swift and dea lily in its effects,
and science has not yet discovered any
cure for it. Tt is like many South Sea
island maladies which show that in an
earthly paradise there is always the trail
of the serpent"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28
FEET IN PLASTER.

The latest within of the San Francisco
girl is fancy for having her feet i'm
mortalized in plaster or marble. In the
studios of the fashionable sculptor the
artist and his assistants are busy reproduce
ing the pedal extrcmities of socicty's
swell matrons and maidcns at $40 & head,
or rather 4 foot, for plaster, and from
so to 500 in the 1awless marble of
Carrara. And this is how it is done {:
Tie woman with the '7retty foot removes
her dainty shoe, and daintier stocking,
dips her feet in oil, delicately perfumed,
of course, and the sculptor forms a mold
of plaster of paris about it, which is
taken off in sections before it is quite
dry. A plaster replica is cast from the
matrix thus formed, and if the marble
fac smile is desired it is chiseled out by
the sculptor's assistants. - New York
Journal.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28
His Curiosity Satisfied.

4 newspaper man, whose custom it is
to take long walks IN the suburbs. one
day, this autumn, as he passed an or
chard, noticed all the trees but one were
we'll filled with apples. -
'That's strange" he remarked to his
companion, brother journalist.
'Wh&t's the reason, do you imaeine?'
asked the other
''H>re comes a boy III ask him" and
the journalist tackled the boy.
Il notice one tree over there lv the
fierce hasn't an apple on it. Do YOU
know why that is?''
"Of course DO.
"Well, my friend here and | are q
little curious, and would like YOU to tell
us if you will. Here's dime ioryour
trouble and loss Of time"
"Certainly. It's cause it's pear
tree, mostly
The man of inquiring mind hung his
head and went on with d firm resolve to
refrain from curiosity in the future. -
New York News.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28
Hydraulic Ram.

4 hydraulic ram can only be operated
by q running stream or fall of water.
The ram is operated by stream carried
into it by pipe ten or twelve feet long;
this stream lifts a valve as soon as it has
gained sufficient velocity, and shuts the
pipes. The flowing stream, being thus
suddenly stopped, is changed in its
course into an air chamber, in which IS a
valve that is opened by the diverted
stream As soon as this stream exhauSts
its force this valve closes, and the pres
sure of the condensed air in the chamber
forces the water which has entered from
the feed pipe into the discharging pipe.
Then the valve in the feed pipe, being no
longer pressed by the stream, drops, and
the stream begins to flow again, and the
process is thus repeated several times
every minute. In this way about one
seventh of the water in the drive pipe is
raised to any desired height, the quantity
Of water being in proportion to the
height of the delivery, less rs the height
is greater. York Times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28
I Foil. EOK KEAITY.

One of the most embarrassing positions
in which woman can be placed at the
table is when she is pouring the tea and
coffee. These adjuncts to the meal are
usually given to the guests at time
when there is lull either in the eating
or conversation, and naturally the atten-
ton Of the company is attracted to the
hostess, more especially SO if she be a
pretty and graceful toman. The English
long ago recognized this fact aud made
a very nEetty provision for it. 1t consists
of a neat woven wire or metal frame
work about eighteen or twenty inches
high, which is placed on tie outside
Of the tea tray, enclosing 1t on either
side, thus partially hiding from view the
fair one who is Loing the honors Gcncr-
ally speaking, the frame is ornamented
with little draperies Of light lowered
silk or some other t1imsy material, and
thus she is shut off from the curious
gaze OF the guests, and can pursue the
even tenor of her pouring without ex-
peri cling the slightest degree of nerv
business. These screens are not, to our
kn "wledge, very we'll known in this coun
Try out once their utility was recog
nized, would doubtless become very
popular. They could be trimmed with
bows of ribbon Or draped with lace or
dellcately painted designs on silk or
satin. Suggestive and Appropriate mot
toes could also be woven in the centre or
IN any other manner that might suggest
itself to the maker. This would greatly
enhance their beauty and make a very
addition to the furnishin gs
of the table. = House Furnishing Re-
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28
CURIOUS FREAK OF NATURE.
The Imprint of a Human Face Up0n
Baby's Hand.

The little hamlet of Roseburgb, s. c. ,
IS to the fore with a curiosity which is
ahead Of all others. This is 3-week-
old baby, whose right hand bears the i'm
print Of a human face. The face occu-
pies nearly the whole palm, and is as
clearly outlined as if drawn on porcelain.
1t IS the countenance Of little child
about three years old lying sleep, with
the eyelashes drawn in fine dark lines on
the full cheeks. The mouth seems to be
slightly parted and the lips are delicately
tinted.
The baby whose palm contains this
singular portraiture is the child of Clarke
Osborne, a thriving merchant of Rose
burg, and Mrs. Osborne declares that the
face in the infants palm is that of little
girl she lost about three months before
the baby's birth. Relatives and intimate
friends also profess to be able to see a
strong resemblance to the dead child.
When the baby was first put in its
mothers arms, she looked at the hands.
and with loud cry tainted away, but on
coming to herself exhibited the little
creatures hands to the attendants. VIII
saw at once the strange likeness to the
dead and gone sister. Mrs. Osborne was
at first much frightened over the singular
circumstance, but at last became con-
WINGED that this strange portrait was sent
to comfort her. Physicians say, how
ever, that the mothers caresses of the
dead child impressed the unborn infant.
who merely repeated her mental pictures
OF the little girl as she last beheld it.
The image on the palm was much
clearer the first few days of the babv's
life than now, and is thought to be grad
lally fading away. The family are verv
sensitive on the subject, and have re-
used to show the child except to rela-
ives and most intimate friends, but a
lime museum manager has already made |
propositions, which have been declined. |
-LPhiladelphia Times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28
AN OLD SONG WITH A NEW
TUNE.

There's saying old and rusty,
But good as any new
s'Never trouble trouble
Till trouble tr ,ubles YOU"
Troubles like a thistle,
That hangs along the way;
1t cannot fail to w und you
Some other bitter day.
But why not walk around it?
That's just what you can do;
Why should you trouble t:ouble
Before it troubles you?
Trouble is humble bee,
It keeps you always vexed;
1t surely m ans to sting you
The next time-or the next.
But bless you, bees think only
Of breakfast dipped in dew;
Keep right ahea !, this trouble
Will never trouble you.
0 merry little travellers,
Along life's sunny ways,
When humble bees and thistles
Alright you at your plays, >
Remember the old promise
That your sorrows shall be few,
II you never trouble trouble
Till trouble troubles you.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28

Says tho st. Louis Republic: A sen
sible innovation which Mrs. Harrison in
troduced at the White House was the
abandonment of handshaking at recep-
tons that made the evening one of tor
lure to all her predecessors. She man.
aged this with much tact, by carrying
fan in one hand and a bouquet in the
other, so that persons seeing her hands
full, were spared the awkwardness of
Offering a handshake she could not accent.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28
FOR THE LADIES.
BLOWN TINTS BOOMING.

Cinnamon brown is the most favorite
color just now both for gowns, mantles
and hats. In the latter it is almost in
variably trimmed with black, whether
fur, feather or velvet. The mantles arc
made with one cape or three, each being
bordered with band of jet some inch or
two in width. The dresses are hemmed
with astrakhan in brown or black, or
trimmed with black galloon, in which
jet may or may not appear. It is be-
coming color, this cinnamon, with bru"
nettc' but is little trying to those
blondes who have any inclination toward
sickly sallowness. 1t is we'll tx void it
unless the tints of the complexion are
clear and soft Chicago Herald.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28

There is an unwritten law among as.
tronomers that when new bodies are dis.
covered in the heavens they are not to
receive the names of their finders, nor OF
any other person. Without exception
the celestial nomenclature is taken from
Greek and Roman mythology-not only
the gods and mortals enjoying this dis.
tinction, but beasts, from Pegasus te
Medusa, and occasionally inanimate
things of NEUROLOGICAL association.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28
$40, neatly wrought with a siIkcn bore

$40, neatly wrought with a siIkcn bore
der.
Long boas and short tonrs-decou of
chiffon, SHRED and tucked into shape,
are among the pretty new things for the
house. They come in pale yellow,
mauve, pink, black and brilliant rect.
finished with long tasscls Of loops Of
baby -ribbon, Or else with an acrordI"I-
plated frill of the chiffon, Or gathered
fall of white lace.
Collarcttes Of two rufIles Of silk but
ton-holcd in scallops on the edges, and
the straight sides joined together, arc
made i'll all light evening colors 10
brighten up dark dresses. They are
quite long, and are passed closely around
the neck, then taken diagonally across
the front, and fastened on the left side.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28

Goodwin Smith spoke at an annexa-
zionist meeting in Ontario, Canada, the
other day, declaring that the whole
country was either at standstill or de.
clining in prosperity
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28

The father Of the Dalton boys, two OF
whom were shot recently while trying to
rob bank in Kansas, says they were iu-
fuepeu to begin their career of crime
by reading sensational detective tales
and other such books.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28

In the last year the American Bible
Society printed and issued from the
Bible House, New York City, 913,678
copies of the Bible, which is more than
two hooks for every minute of the work
ing Days of the year.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28

A Berlin journal makes the admission
that the best and most skilful dentists
in Germany are of american citizen
shin y
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28
A GIRLS FIRST LONG DRESS

THERE'S nothing-no, not even worldly
wisdom-that SO completely metamor-
phoses a girl Of fourteen or fifteen as the
donning Of her fret real long dress. She
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28

CABBAGE SALAD.-Select a solid bead
and one that is white after the outside
leaves are taken off; lay on board, and
with sharp knife cut fine; set in ice box
until ready to use.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28
St. Landry Democrat.
BY L. A. SANDOZ.
Opelousas, - Louisiana.

Ex-senator Edmunds says immigra
ton is the vital problem to-day.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-01-28

might be looking down invisible in the
air and smiling upon her, she was very
careful to have each tomb adorned in
an exactly similar manner. In strange
land and among q strange race, it was
like communion with her own people to
visit that burial mound.
'1f conld only know which to bend
over when my heart feels heavy" thus
finished the sorrowing being as she rose
to depart; "then it would be a happi
ness. But, perhaps, | am blind to nv
dearest mercies. God in His great wis
dom may have meant that / should not
know what grave was his, lest grief over
it should become too common luxury
for me, and melt me away"
L offered to accompany her and sup
port her feeble steps; but she preferred
that it should not be so. With languid
feet she moved on. | watched her pass
through the gate, and under the arch; |
saw her turn, and in little while she
was hidden from my view. Thea [ care
fully parted the flowers upon one of the
graves, and sat down there, and leaned |
ny face in my open hands, and thought. |
What wondrous thing is womans |
owe! Oh, Thou, whose most mighty
ribute is the Incarnation of Love. I
'less Thee that Thou didst make this
air disposition in the human heart, and
lidst root it there SO deepl3 that it is
tronger than all else, and can never be
orn out! Here is this aged wayfarer,
'oman of trials and griefs, decrepit, sore
nd stepped in poverty, the most forlorn of
er kind, and yet, through all the storm
t misfortune and the dark cloud of wears
citing upon her, the memory of her
'ye hovers like beautiful spirit amid
ne gloom; it never deserts her, but
bides with her while life abides. Yes.
MS creature loved this wrinkled, skinny,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-08-18

Great, stupendOus and far reaching i'm
its benefits, boon to the people, pana-
cea to the poor mans pocket. This sale
will stand solitary and alone in the history
of the dry goods business in Bolivar. 1t
cannot be equaled. The man don't live
upon Tennessee soil who will sell goods
cheaper than l offer my stock. l intend
to lead in low prices. The farmers and
laboring classes generally should take adj
vantage of this opportunity to buy cheap
goods. My house is crowded with new
goods from top to bottom. OF course my
stock is too large to mention every article
separately, but l desire to quote a few
prices, and to state that / am receiving
new goods daily. Only last week, a car
load of Shoes was placed in my house.
These Shoes were ordered direct from the
Factory and bought at an immense bar
gain. They are of the latest shapes and