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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-19
His First Sight of n Corset.

A woman travelling in Japan year ago
spent a night at an Isolated little inn in
the mountains. When her party reached
the place, the landlord, or master of the
house, for the place hardly seemed an &C
credited hotel showed some reluctance to
accommodate the travellers. Finally he sig
nified his willingness on one condition.
When the condition was stated. IL created
CONSERVATION, being a request that the lady
would allow him the privilege of assisting
at that portion of her morning toilet which
had to do with the putting on of her cor
sets. The man had, it seems, heard Of
these strange garments, but had never be-
fore encountered a foreign woman and felt
that the opportunity of his life had come
to appease an inordinate curiosity in the
matter. After some natural hesitation the
American woman consented TO pay this
very odd price for the housing of herself
and friends, and the next morning the in
spection was duly permitted. The Japanese
host was most deferental, but also minute
in the examination, walking around her
smiles, finally approaching gingerly and
touching the bodice of bone and drilling
He was evidently greatly amazed and de-
incase herself, and after his guest had fin
ished her toilet and appeared in the break
fast room his eyes followed her constantly
with an expression of fascinated interest,
which was varied from time TO time by a
shake of the head and a solemn look Of
depreciation, as If one should say, 1t is
true, indeed; but, oh, how dreadful!-N.
Y. Times.
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Cultivate a Capacity for Tears.

capacity for tears-abundant, warm
and ready ones-is, says a physician, one
OF the surest preservatives of feminine
beauty. 1t is a gIievous mistake to think
tears can injure the sweetest eyes or dig
burrows in any face when their rain is
fresh and most frequent. They are the
natural outlet of emotion, a sort of LIQUID
lightning rod in which excitement and
passion are most easily and rapidly dissi-
paled. Sweet Alice, that wept at a frOwn,
retained until late in her career rounded
contours, unfurrowed brows, dimpled lips,
shining eyes and her hair so brown SO do
nearly all weeping women who can let
rivers Of hot salt tears course down over
their cheeks 1t is she who keeps up a
power of thinking, who has few tears to
shed, and those flow with an effort, whose
facial lines and gray hairs come early. A
capacity for tears is worth cultivating,
since not only does a lack OF them score
heavily against ones freshness of face,
but has its marked effect in general tenn
permanent. The women who weep easily
have correspondingly light hearts. tender,
demonstrative and impulsive ways and a
charm the dry-eyed women lack.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-19
BERLIN,s DARING COUNTESS.
She Rides in the Park Clad i'm SOme-
what Masculine style.

The new woman is rampant in con-
servatiYe Berlin. The Countess Fritz
Hohenau is the leader of the set, and, as
she happens to be also society woman, 1t
seems likely that the new woman" may
flourish. The countess is a cousin of the
emperor by a morganatic marriage and she
is a young woman Of athletic prOclivities.
Her latest freak has been TO discard the
feminine riding habit.
She wears a frock coat Of soft and cling
ing material that has even longer tails than
those affected by the great Wilton Lackaye
and the still greater Berry Wall Around
the waist is a light leather girdle. The
countess corduroy knickerbockers, very
wide, reach over the knees, where they
meet with black silk stockings. The latter
are hidden from the vulgar gaze by leather
leggings of the same color as the girdle.
Russet or patent-leather boots, black vel
vet jockey cap or d blue sailor cap complete
the costume, which is very becoming and
far from being suggestive.
The countess did not show herself In the
new dress until she had succeeded in per-
suadng many of her fair sisters to don
similar garb, for Berliners incline to dis
agreeable criticism of any innovation that
appears single-handed among them OF
course. if a whole regiment Of Amazons de-
eide 10 throw e0nyentionality overheard and
sit their horses in the manner best adapted
to the human makeup the stickiers for
etiquet are silenced.
The Berlin park police view the innova-
ton with much favor. One of the mounted
RUNAWAY catchers" said that since ladies
had ceased to brighten their own horses by
their black skirts futtering in the wind,
the horses showed much less tendency to
part company with their riders. THE
ladies'" continued the man, ride now with
out fear of getting entangled in branches
of trees and the underwood. They gallop
along in quite reckless fashion, but keep
their seats as well as the men. ''-Chicago
Times.
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HoweIIs on Dante.

Again / say ii IS a great pity that critl-
cism IS not honest about the masterpieces
of literature, and does not confess that
they are not every moment mastery, that
they are often dull and tough and dry, as
is certainly the case with Dante's, writes
Wfdam Dean Howels in the December
Ladies' Home Journal. Some day, per-
haps, we shall have this way of stating
literature, and the lover of it will not feel
obliged TO cheat himself into the belief that
If he is not Always enjoying himself it is
his own fault. At any rate 1 wi. permit
myself the luxury Of frankly saying that
while 1 had deep sense Of the majesty
and grandeur OF Dante's design, many
points Of its execution bored me, and that
the intermixture of small local facts and
neighborhoOd history in the fabric of his
lofty creation is no part of its noblest eff
feet. What is marvellous in 1t is its express
sion of Dante's personality, and l can
never think that his personalities enhance
its greatness as a work Of art. / enjoyed
them. however. and / enjoyed them the
more. as the innumerab.e perspectives of
Italian history began to open all about me.
Then. indeed. understood the origins, If
L did not understand the aims Of Dante.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-19

So far from living in idleness, no men on
earth work so hard as the missionaries
now in the foreign field. Against fearful
odds, and with 100000 of Christians OPP
posed to 250,0OOO00 of Hindoos, Moham-
medans and other false religions, these
missionaries are trying TO take India for
God. Let the good people Of America
and England and Scotland and OF all
Christendom add 992t per cent. 10 their
appreciation of the fidelity and consecra-
ton OF foreign missionaries. Far away
from Rome, in an eXhauSting climate and
compelled to send their children to En-
gland, Scotland or America so as 10 es-
cape the corrupt conversation and behav-
Tor Of the natives, these men and women
OF God toll On until they drop into their
graves, but they will get their chief APP
probation when their work is over and
the day is won, as it will be won. No
place in heaven will be too good for
them. Some of the ministers at home
who live on salaries of $4,000 or $1,000
year, preaching the gospel Of Him who
had not where to lay His head, will en-
ter heaven and be welcomed. and while
looking for place to sit down they will
be told: "Yonder in the lower line of
thrones you will take your places, not on
the thrones nearest the King. They are
reserved for the missionaries
Cause for GIadness.
Meanwhile let all Christendom be thrilled
with g.adness. About twenty-five thou
sand converts in India every year under
the methodist missions, and about twenty
five thousand converts under the baptist
missions, and about seventy-five thousand
converts under al missions every year.
But. more than that, Christianity is un-
dermining heathenism, and not a city or
town In the neighbOrhOod Of India but di
rect.y or indirectly fees the influence, and
the 0aV SnHn0s when Hinduism will
go down with a crash. There are whole
Wages which have given up their gods,
and where not an idol is left. The serf-
dom Of womanhOod in many places is be-
ing unlOosened, and the iron grip Of caste
is being re.aXed. Human sacrifices have
ceased. and the last spark of the funeral
pyre on which the widow must cap has
been extinguished, and the juggernaut,
stopped, now stands as a curiosity for
travellers to look at. Al India will be
taken for Christ. II any one has disheart-
enments .et him keep them as his own pri-
vate property. He is welcome to all of
them. But If any man has any encour-
agements to utter let him utter them.
What we want in the church and the world
IS .ess croaking owls of the night and
more morning larks with spread wing
ready 10 meet the advancing day. FO-d
up Naomi and "Windham" and give us
Ariel or Mount Pisgah'' or Corona
ton / had the JOY Of preaching in many
Of the cities of India and seeing the dusky
faces Of the natives iilumined with heaven
" anucipatlons. In Calcutta while the
congregation was yet seated took my de-
parture for a railroad train preached
by the watch up to the last minute. \
swift carriage brought me to the station
not more than half a minute before start
ing. I came nearer 10 missing the train
than l hope any one OF US will come to
missing heaven
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-19
THE BUTrONHoLE BOUQUET.
1t Is Called the Coat Flower and Is n
Character Indication.

IT can place man in his proper posi-
ton In society by his boutonniere." said
an observing florist yesterday. THE in
nate tastes of a man. whether refined or
vulgar, will invariably crop out in his
buJtOnhole bouquet. And, by the way,
good New Yorker will not say boutonniere
now, but coat flower.
The other day three young men came
in. They were noisy and egOtistical
Each asked for big yellow chrysanthe-
mum. The flowers were nearly half as big
as their heads. The chrys3nthemums
were pinned on and the young men fol-
lowed their buttonhOle bouquets up the
street. 1 will wager a hundred that those
boys were college students. Soon after
ward came in an actor and asked for
a big bunch of violets for his coat. The
ViOlets would have been suitable for his
wife. Then a member Of the Knicker-
booker club called and said: please put a
few white carnations in my coat How
much more refined was the last Of the
three tastes.
$50 long as I can remember the wear
ing or coat flowers has always been a
custom, but not until the present time
has the custom become an art. If a coat
flower is too small, the wearer looks in
significant. If it is too large he looks
vulgar and shows he has no knowledge of
the art Of personal adOrnment. But if his
buttOnhole flower is just right the wearer
has a refined and a well-balanced personal
appearance. Chrysanthemums are obso-
lete as coat flowers. The flowers used
mostly are bouvardias, gardenias and car
nations, and violets and cornflowers, if
one wishes to wear the fashionable color
known as 'bluet' OF these flowers the
favorites are gardenias, cornflowers and
white carnations. The refined coat flower
is Of white carnations, and is not more
than two and one-half inches in diameter
The green carnatiOn was on the point Of
becoming a favorite when that mysterious
London novel, The Green Carnation.'
came out and signed the death warrant of
the new flower."-N. Y. Sun.
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Re.sonabte Reouest.

Husband-"My dear, / want to ask you
one favor before you go off on that long
visit"
Don't try 10 put the house in order be-
fore you leave"
at isn't hard work"
Perhaps not; but think of the expense
of telegraphing to you every time 1 want
to find anything. Y. Weekly.
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At A H|NDO0 CENTER
THE REV. DIR. TALMAGE's IMPRESS
SION OF BENAREs, INDIA.

the Banks of the River Ganges-
Burning the Dead-FaI<irs, Monkeys
and MissiOnaries-A brighter Pic
ture.
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IMPROVING CONDITIONS UNDER THE
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The Wool Market and Manufacturers
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Life of the Missionary.

And now as to the Industrious malign-
ment Of missionaries. It has been said by
some travellers after their return to Amer
lea or England that the missionaries are
living a life full Of Incidence and luxury.
That is a falsehood that 1 would say is as
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the opposite direction. When strangers
come into these tropical climates, the mis-
sionaries do their best to entertain them,
making sacrifices for that purpose. In the
city of Benares missionary told me that
a gentleman coming from England into
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strength of the Swan,

We all know the tradition about the power of the swans wing-that its blow will break a mans leg. l questioned man who has much to do with swans about the credibility of the tale. and he told me that he. for one. was ready 10 believe 1t. and thought that any other man who has received such a blow from a swans wing as he had suffered would be likely to believe 1t also. He was summoned from his cottage by the news that one of the cygnets was In trouble A boy had been amusing him self with the elegant sport of giving the cygnets meat attached to long string. When the cygnet had swal- lowed the meat we'll down the boy would pull 1t up again by means of the string. It was great fun for the boy; and the cygnet was unable to express its feelings intelligibly. On the occa- sion in question, however, the lump of meat stuck. It would not come out; and the boy fearing consequences, had let slip the string and bolted. The cyg- net did Its best with the string by swal- lowing several yards of 1t, but began to choke before 1t got to the end.
 Al this juncture my friend was sum moned to its aid, and simultaneously. as 1t appeared, the stately parent of the cygnet, who was swimming on the pond close by, perceived that some thing was amiss with its offspring. II swan to the bank and commenced making its way to the young ones as- sstance. But the swans method of progression on land Is as awkward and slow as on the water 1t Is graceful and swift. The swanherd was first to reach the cygnet, and, soon seeing the trou- ble, had calculated to remove it before the parent came up with him. But his calculations had underrated the length of the string or the pedestrian speed of the swan. Just as he had succeeded in eXtricating the lump of meat from the gullet of the distressed youngSter the old bird caught him blow with its wing on that part of the person which is most exposed to attack when a man is stopping and the onset is made from behind.
 He was knocked over on his face, and, continuing the impetus received from the swan by scuttling over the grass on his hands and knees, was able to escape from the birds fury, which was soon transformed to soicitude for it's little one. But the blow had been sufficiently powerful to make the sitting posture uninviting for several days and to in cline him to give credence to any le- gends about the strength of a swans wing.-Macmillan's Magazine.