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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-13
NEWSPAPER HOLDER.

up neck scarf The white metal buckle
is sewed on the inside of the chest pro-
tector. close to the right hand corner,
and the recipients initials are embrOid-
cred on the lining.
Another present for a man is a pair of
striped silk wristlets. Knit them of two
shades of knitting silk, with a broad
rib and make them double, with the
joining around the middle Of the in
side. Select his favorite racing colors,
or those of his college or club, and let
the stripes be half an inch wide. Press
the wrislets with a warm iron when
they are finished.
or make him a newspaper holder.
where he may tuck his paper out of the
reach of destruction. IL wflk-require a
strip of plush or other strong material
a foot wide and yard long. Embroider
initials or a monogram I'm the middle
of one half, put a line Of embroidery
or a fiat band of fancy ribbon along
each edge and line 1t with silk that will
harmonic with the color of the outside.
but do not use a very light lining as ii
will be soiled by the printers ink.
Double The strip together and sew small
rings along the Joined ends by which
to suspend it to a brass rod with orna-
mental tips. Hang IL up by a chain or
silk cord attached to the ends Of the
rod.
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LegnI Injustice to women.

young man and wife start out to-
gether in a small investment, depending
for profit on the joint labor of one be-
hind the counter or both, as business
may require, the wife being the domes-
tic manager.
Nine times in ten. under my Observa-
ton, the wife works the harder. She
works in the kitchen: she works in the
store. She does not indulge in luxuries.
If after ten years of common toll, in
Guiding the blessed relief Of motherhood
and it's joyful added cares, he, under
our lax divorce laws, should brutally
cast her off on one Of the many pre-
texts found now sufficient the equity
of that wife and mother in the property
Of which she fully halved the making
is not recognized except by caprice Of
courts or license Of flexible statutes.
/ must say that the disposition of the
judiciary has been almost invariably on
the side of equity. but common law and
statutory bars still operate hardly upon
the wife and mother
The mother, however abject her pov-
erty, wants the child or the children
and will work herself to the bone to
maintain and educate them Under the
laws that lie on the books Of most Of
our states she cannot get her mOiety Of
the material goods to which she is in
conscience entitled except after expense
and delay, If she succeeds even then
Sherarely acknowledgement +. Sui
Ivan in DonahOe's Magazine
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Mnmnnn nh Pnvertr.

1t is hard to the woman of small
means and luxurious tastes to keep
within her income and abreast with the
times. but a little sound sense in the
way of finding out short cuts to
economy will work wonders.
The woman who has learned to make
a good appearance upon next to nothing
becomes an object Of envy to her less
fortunate sisters. 1t Is largely a ques-
ton of investigation, Of making 81 buy
81 worth of goods. And only that
severe ACKNOWLEDGEMENT teach
all this. A woman can be dignihed
even if she Is poor, nor should she feel
that because poverty has flung its
somber cloak about her she should draw
its folds still closer and hide herself
from the pure sunshine of the world or
the kindly friendship of her friends.
Too many women are inclined, when
poor. TO withdraw into a shell, snail
fashion. and become grabbed and
poverty spoiled. Poverty is not the
greatest of crimes. as many suppose.
There are lots of things worse than that
and wealth is not the alpha and omega
of happiness.
The woman of fine nature will accept
this fact gracefully, and by her ex-
ample help many disheartened woman
to look on the bright side of life, to look
her finances sqarely in the face and
avoid laying out her money in unneces-
sary expenditure BY a bit of fore
thought small sum of money can work
wonders, as the active, fine natured
woman who has learned it all well
knows.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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square. Cut one of them in four dag
onally, and cut the square and the four
triangleS In scallops around the edge,
making a perforation in each Nscallop.
The square bag containing the lavender
flowers must be of lavender colored
china silk, the right size TO fit just in
side the scallops when it is laid the
square Of celluloid. Arrange the tri-
angular quarters Of the cut square over
the bag and fasten the whole thing to-
getner around the edge and across the
face with baby ribbon a shade deeper
than the bag. laced in and out OF the
perforations in the celluloid. Tie the
ends Of the ribbon in bows and dec
crate the four triangles with simple
design of violets painted in water colors
Beautiful ribbons are being sold at a
low price this season, and ribbon cush-
ion is extremely pretty. If ii is to be
twenty inches square it will require
ten twenty-inch strips of two-inch rib
bon. five Of one color and five Of an
other-gold and olive for example.
Stitch them together on the machine
in alternate stripes, not in a seam, but
by tapping the edges and keeping as
close to the margin possible. Press
the ribbon square on the wrong side
with a warm iron before sewing il to
the other half of the cushion cover,
which should be of a solid color. The
frill for the edge is made of two long
lengths of the ribbon of the two colors
stitched together like the other. gath
cred along the edge of one strip and
sewed on the cushion overland. If
there happen to be a number of odd
pieces of ribbon of different colors they
may be arranged to form a Roman
striped square instead of using only two
shades.
Canvas suspenders, with a pattern
worked in cross stitch, are revival of
old time industry and are a change from
the satin ones so long offered on the
Christmas counters. Two stripes OF cam
vas. twenty-four inches long and one
and one-fourth inches wide, are required.
Use the strong, light purple kind, like
that sold for worsted work only made
of silk instead of cotton. Work a con-
tnuous design in cross stitch along the
whole length, using dull yellow, white,
olive and brown silks and leaving the
plain canvas as a background. Press
the stripes after they are finished and
line them with gold colored satin rib
bon one and one-half inches wide by
the ribbon, turning the extra eighth of
an inch over on the face of the canvas
on each edge and stitching it on the ma
chine as close to the selvedge as posi-
BILE. 1t is better to have the suspenders
mounted at a shop, as ii can be done
more strongly there than at home, and
unless they are strong they are useless.
To make panSy shaving paper case
draw lightly on medium heavy water
color board the outline of a pansy flower
eight inches in diameter, which can be
easily enlarged from one of the small
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Chem RnNinr.

That is the way with a woman. She
will go without rubbers and economic
on flannels. She will save on her down
town luncheons and walk holes in her
shoes rather than waste money on her
fares. She will launder her handker-
chiefs in her own room, Tinsing them in
her wash basin and FASTING them on the
mirror to dry. They will be soapy and
smelly and horrid, but she will use them
herOically, borne up by the knowledge
that she has saved half a dollar out of
the weekly laundry bill.
She will deny herself the pleasure OF
having that dress which she really needs.
though she has the cloth all ready and
waiting, simply because the dreSsmaker
charges so much. She will renCunce
correspondence because stationery and
stamps, you know, really run away with
a good deal of money. She will make q
martyr of herself, and talk about it ami
glory in it until every young man who
knows her (and who isn't old enough to
understand will think what a heroic lit
tie thing she is TO battle with the odds
of poverty.
And then. brave and demure in her
threadbare cloth gown. she happens
across a bargain counter and mOrtga ges
her salary for a month buying impOssi-
bic gauZes: things that won't wash nor
wear nor keep one warm; things that
must be made over stiff and crinkling
silk and trimmed with velvet or ribbons
or lace, and then are only fit for a festal
garb. And the young woman knows that
she cannot afford either the trimmings
or the making" and she really does not
know what she would do with the frOcks
If she could afford them. So she lays the
fragile, useless, shining gauZes away in
the orris powder at the bottom of a
trunk and talks some more about her
poverty And her conscience doesn't
trouble her at all Why? Oh. because
the things that she bought were cheapi
CHICAGO Post
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A Rad Place for women.

The reader can scarcely conceive Of
greater hardships in life than the people
who inhabit the Attic coast of Alaska
endure Life Is to them a serious strug-
gle. Their faces tell it. Women TWEEN
ty years of age show that they have
borne exposure and hardships which
have already made them prematurely
old
The farther south of the Attic circle
they live the less they have to endure
as the struggle to maintain existence is
less of a strain and effort, and the cold
is not so deadly in its work.
All the drudgery in life is done by the
women, and the growing girls get their
enough. Not infrequently by the time
a girl is eiXteen years old she is
mother. Scarcely one child out of
five survives and grows up and it is
not uncommon in winter for both child
and mother to be frozen to death.
In hunting expeditions the women
carry the burdens and do the other hard
work; in whaling they cut up the blub-
Der, drag it to the settlement with the
aid of the dogs and stow it down in
caches, and in the daily routine Of life
the hard work is practically all theirs.
They are devoted to their children, in
fact to all children. never scolding or
Furnishing them, and if a woman sees
child in trouble she will go at once to
its relief. Children who do live are care
fully reared and devOtedly cared for.
In case of a shortage of food supply Of
the settlement the women are the first
to be turned out to die, and they accept
their lot without complaint, willingly
leaving to their husbands and children
whatever chances of living there may
be in the small allowance of food at
hand-N Y Journal.
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A womnn,s commitment.

Absolutely the most satisfactory
compliment that ever drifted my way. -
said woman. Il received the other
day
Il was hurrying through one of the
blocks between Fifth and Sixth-aves.
just below Twenty-third-st when I saw
approaching me a woman whom |
thought / knew. I took her to be an
out of town friend. and my pleasure to
meet her was the greater from it's rar-
ity. l hurried forward, not waiting TO
fairly reach her before beginning nv
delighted greeting The words froze ON
my lips, however, as we actually met
for / saw that though the likeness was
extraordinary. even at close quarters.
she was not the person for whom l had
taken her.
'Ohg / said, with a smile Of apology,
1 beg your pardon. / thought you were
a friend Of mine. She smiled. too, and
then after a second Of survey and hest
tation which subtly pointed the remark.
said. with graceful bow and a charm
ing air Of breeding, L wish / were.
madam. and passed on.
The whole thing took a breath to do,
though II has taken several TO tell. and
she was almost out of hearing before
/ could rally and call Thank you after
her. / shall never see her again OF
course but / shall always remember her
quick tact and delightful courtesy."-
Her Point in n. Y. Times
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Table Decorations.

There is always a cry for fresh table
decorations. Mr.. Whistler has a pretty
taste. and sometimes adorns his dinner
table in a manner unforgetable For in
stance: A long white striped tablecIoth
table napkins OF the finest damask
stamped in the corner with the famous
butterfly. A little-a very little-blue
china, containing single white chrysan-
themums, I'm the middle an ivory bird
cage. and i'm IL some birds hopping from
gilded perch 20 perch. Everything Is
served upon dishes Of choicest empire
silver. The champagne is always en-
carafe. Then Mr. Whistler is very fond
OF the plates that most pleased the diners
of bygone eenturies-peacocks served
with their tails full spread. or a sucking
pig skewered with skewers Of silver. ana
champing a little orange between It's
teeth.-London Gentlewoman.
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A Floral Quilt.

I cut blue denim into forty-two hex
agon pieces five inches long on each
side. These were all hemmed neatly at
one time on the sewing machine and
put in drawer Afterward each one
was worked and laid away until all
were ready for sewing together. Flower
catalogues were bought, figures selected
for each patch and basted on. A bunch
OF carnation pinks was traced with rath-
er coarse thread and outlined as flower
leaf and stem. / took off the paper and
embroidered the design with linen floss
the pattern IN its delicate traoery and
As taste or time permitted l carried out
shading.
When all was done, there were no two
patches alike. There were pansies
sweet peas, geraniums. roses, daffOdiIs
tulips, cereopsis, chrysanthemums, a
large bunch Of clover and holly leaves
and berries. As forty-two is a goodly
number. many designs were needed.
Each design with leaves, stems and
tendrils extended to the patch. Wall
paper often has pretty designs
| sewed the hemmed edges together
In an Overstitch on the right side and
at each corner where they connected
worked a large daisy. The effect was
very pretty. As one lady said, it re-
minded her of snOwhakes magnified.
crocheted fringe Of white and blue
cotton yarn. mixed. in pretty design
For the fringe, put in each stitch a
chain Of thirty stitches Of double cotton
II was lined with unbleached muslin.
As the designs came from the different
floral catalogues, / think the floral quilt
is a good name for IL. In one corner is
worked the year and this verse:
Dream what you wilt,
Beneath this quilt.
May blessings still be yours
-HOusek eeuer
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WOMAN And HOME,

f'Why do so many women have melan-
cholia?" repeated the DOCTOR who has a
large practice among the depressed"
and nervous feminina population.
Because they don't take care 10 avoid
it. BECAUSE they absolutely disregard
the rules of mental and physical well
being. Because they would rather eat
what they like and suffer indigestion
and the blues afterward than to eat
what is good for them. but doesn't tickle
their paIates. Because they'd rather
sit around on down cushions than take
a tramp six miles through the open air
Because they read too much sentimen-
tai stuff Because they haven't enough
to occupy their minds and their hands.
Then the doctor paused to take breath
and began again somewhat less aggres-
sively:
1T is never the women who have cause
to feel blue" he said, who indulge IN
blues The women who have shiftless
husbands hard-hearted landlords. sick
babies and all the usual accompanl-
ments of poverty never grow so de-
pressed that they have to be treated
for it. They are too busy. It's the
woman with an adoring family, social
position and comfortable income who
doesn't find life worth living. 1t isn't
the servant girl who gets up at to
kindle the fire and who slaves all day
who INDUCES in melanchOlia, but the
daughter of the family who arises at s,
dawdles over her breakfast. reads lit
tie. practices a little. shops a little.
Graves excitement with all her heart
and is melancholy because she doesn't
have 1t.
There is no habit which grows upon
one so rapidly" went on the doctor 1T
becomes a disease in a very short time.
Ny own plan, whenever l feel an attack
coming on. is TO put on my walking
boots and tramp vigorously as far as l
can. It is simply impossible to exercise
and feel blue at the same time. OF
course a general care of the health is
necessary, and work is the chief factor
IN enecting cure. Every woman who
has a tendency to melanchOlia should
have an occupation which, If it doesn't
entirely absorb her, will at least keep
her busy. And she should give her mind
up to practical rather than theoretical
affairs. She should study how 10 put
an extra shelf in a closet or how to
make an overshoe that won't come off
at the heel rather than the teachings
of theOSOpnical school or the philosophy
of Herbert Spencer. Ordinarily good
health. plenty Of exercise plenty OF work
and an interest in the affairs of this
world rather than the next are the
great preventives and cures of melan-
chOlfa -
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CHEST PROTECTOR.

if they have a use as we'll as a senti-
ment so much the better. The articles
mentioned below have been selected for
description as being easily made at
home by clever hands and likely to be
welcome to the person who receives
them.
Silk baby. socks are one of the pretti-
est gifts that can be sent TO family
that possesses a baby to wear them.
Choose pale blue knitting silk and
crochet in afghan stitch a strip an inch
and a half wide and two inches long for
the top of the foot. Beginning at the
corner, crochet plain stitch around both
sides and one end of the strip, and then
make a chain long enough to go around
the ankle, for the beginning of the
heel Join this on where the plain row
began, and crochet plain all the way
around, widening by double stitches at
the two front corners. Do this until the
sock is large enough to cover the foot,
and then turn il wrong side out, and
folding it lengthwiSe crochet together
the two edges along the bottom of the
sock. Break off the silk, and turning
the sock right side out crochet around
the ankle opening one row putting the
thread over. and then continue the leg
with plain stitch, finishing the top with
n row of shells. Run pale blue baby
ribbon through the open row around
the ankle. tying il in a bow in front,
and perfume the socks by letting them
lie in sachet until they are presented.
chest protector to wear with even
ing dress is an excellent thing to give
man. 1t should be rather over a foot
long and ten or eleven inches wide
when ii is finished. Make the outside
OF black satin and line il with quilted
white China silk, with a chamois inter
lining. The band TO so around the coll
lar is of white silk stiffened with cam
brio and is sewed on the left side If
4 Trrgsf ft,Cs4 10 fTa. Ffsa.a .ar11
which must taper slightly fasten a bit
Of corset steel two inches long that it
may pass easily through the buckle,
OF use the piece of steel in an old made
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Bedroom Walls

The tendency Of the time is TO separate
the bedroom from the rest Of the house;
TO give it lighter coIors: 10 allow within
IL full scope for individual fancy; to hang
IL with lace and delicate stuffs: to ex-
eiude all seriousness and gloom; TO make
OF 1t a nest, place Of rest, where pleas
ant dreams flourish and tender coIors
hold sway: TO hang within 1t no pictures
OF worth: To display there no articles of
virtu. but to make OF IL "A spot sweet,
attractive. inviting as a whole. And so
its walls are hung with greater license
than those OF more formal rooms They
are made attractive and lovely in them
selves
The dado is altogether banished; the
frieze is brought we'll down upon the
wall: conventionalized flowers are al
lowed to trail about; graceful designs
are sought. No attempt at subduing the
walls into a mere background Is made.
and only the dainty furniture stands
against them and claims their support
The picture as a whole Is made sweet and
inviting. And If some few critics carp
and cry out that IL is wrong, let them
build up rooms that are better suited
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studies now so common. Indicate the
markings carefully and lay on the color
ing in bold water color washes. If it
shows signs of warping, lay clean blot
ting paper over the face and dry it un-
der pressure. Cut two round holes five
inches apart in the top of the upper
petals. The shaving leaves are of white
tissue paper, with corresponding perfor-
atoms. They are attached to the back
Of the pansy by means Of a double rib
bon drawn through the holes. which also
serves to suspend the shaving paper
case.
1t may be added, as a hint to those
who wish to buy presents. that meg seem
to be almost as much pleased with ex-
tract of violet, gloves fine handkerchiefs
and silk hosiery as are their more frivO-
Ious sisters. ISABELLA PROCTOR.
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bination green and white is? If you
don't you ought to find out by trying 1t
for yourself.
There is nothing prettier for house
dress than simple India silk, especially
in the lighter shades. Blue makes up
beautifully One seen the other day was
of the very lightest shade of blue. 1t
was made up with profusion of blue
satin ribbon and soft cream lace. 4
more dainty neglige it would be difficult
to imagine. Perhaps greater contrast
to the foregoing gown than the japanese
house dresses that are now so popular
in the East could not be found. Such
a dress is presented i'm the second illus
tration. 1t is not only of Japanese
stvIe but also of Japanese material.
Birds flowers and all sorts of cross lines
meet in the background in the most de-
lightful affinity
In the medley of modes presented by
the fair DANES in the great pageant of
house gowns by far the prettier are
those which glory in yards and yards Of
ribbon and lace Therefore in selecting
material for such a gown be sure that
IL will harmonic with lace.
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BEAUTIFUL HOUSE GOWNS.
These Are Days When the Display Is
Most Attractive.

A woman Is never so thoroughly
charming as when she is attired in a
beautiful and becoming house gown.
Modistes may rave about the beauties
of street gowns, etc, and although many
of them are marvels OF color and de-
sign, an attractive house gown will over
shadow them all. OF course few wom-
en- will admit this. They will
pretend to be deeply mortified if
a caller chances to find them in such a
gown, but nevertheless they are secretly
pleased. 1t is even safe to assume that
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The Japanese Empress.

Some years ago. when the imperial
palace was burned, the unselhsh en-
press of Japan, amid all the excitement
and discomfort she was called upon to
endure in a hasty flight to a comfort
less old yashiki, thinking first of her
subjects natural concern for her COM
tort sat down and wrote them a dainty
little rhyme, which proclaimed erro-
neous the report that she had changed
her residence. 1t coyly asserted that her
nome had always been in the hearts of
her people, and that she sincerely hoped
that neither by flame nor by cold could
she be driven from that dear abode
Harper's BaZar
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Deformed Children.

An anxious mother once took a child
to physician to have him pass judg-
ment on very ugly shaped jaw. The
lower one protruded, and they did not
set well together. The doctor assured
her that that, or most such blen1ishes
could De treated If the patient We're
taken young enough. In this case the
child has grown to be a pretty woman
with as well-formed mouth as anyone
could desire.-N. Y. Telegram.