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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
Women as Designers.

The cheap production of machine made
ornamentations is doubtless thwartipg to
truly artistic and original design, but the
demand for new patterns and new de-
signs is overwhelming. and manu-
facturers, being for the most part prac-
teal business men and not conscientious
artists, naturally seek to meet the de-
mand by every season producing some
novelty in the decorations of their goods.
Many manufacturers keep their own de-
signers on the premises. Yet many of
the best makers are not averse to buying
designs from outsiders. as they obtain
thereby greater novelty and change
Herein comes the opportunity for work
by trained women designers. But woman
must first be schooled as 10 the needs
of manufacturers. She must learn the
business side of her art,
In these days Of Overcompeition any
scheme that promises even a possibility
of helping women TO help themselves
should arouse interest and attention The
growing desire among the rising genera
ton Of drafters TO earn their own living
does not. think. proceed from desire
TO be selfshly independent of men. but
from the natural and healthy wish to
be free and honest in their thoughts and
actions and to have some higher aim in
life than the society girls wearisome
all women in their youth received a prac-
teal training in some practical craft so
that If necessity demanded they might
be able to earn a living they would be
saved from the fear Of sordid poverty
and be enabled TO work out their own
destinies. and If providence did not see
fit to provide them with a congenial mate
they would still be able to find q fair
field for the employment and remunera-
ton Of their talents. But even If
woman does marry 1t by no means fol-
lows that she is provided for for the
term Of her natural life. The vagaries
of an inexorable destiny in these days
of speculative business and bank failures
often leave a widow and orphans de-
pendent upon the unselfshness of their
relations. It would be invaluable under
such circumstances for a woman TO save
a working knowledge of some art or
craft so that she might be able TO earn
a decent living for herself and her chill
dren.-Mrs. J. Z. II. Gordon in Fort
nightly Review
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
The Long Gown Age.

There is a universal habit INDUCED in
by the girl in her teens that undoubtedly
continues its hold throughout all time.
1t is the systematic exaggeration of her
age-the adding of years that are not
hers by right and the donning of woman
ly gowns and graces that she has no
claim to assume prematurely. The am
bition of every school girl points toward
that eventful day when she may put UP
her hair and let down her frocks.
While she is still engrossed in the care
of a large and interesting doll family
the greatest part of the make believe"
is to put on mothers dress and trail
about feeling very grown up and elegant.
Just as soon as there is the least chance
of success she begins TO coax for attire
that is suggestive of ripper years, and if
the mother consents the world will be
treated to the mystifying transforma-
ton from girlhoOd to We manhood in the
short space of twenty-four hours.
Every girl that ever lived was wild to
get into long gowns, and yet it is safe
to say that not one out of the thou
sands but feel later on that she made a
mistake. for by the time she is twenty
society will look upon her as passee. lust
because it can remember her as grown
up for a dozen years at least. judging by
her frocks. There is no use being too
anxious TO rub the bloom from the peach
Of youth. 1t gets rubbed off quickly
enough, and girlhood is an all too brief
season. long as it may seem to the school
girl DESTROYS of entering upon that new
world which appears 10 her like en-
chanted ground.
With the long gowns come responsible
tiles that cannot lightly be thrown aside.
What is pardOned in the girl is censured
in the woman. Be young just as long
as you can. for as bewitchng as the
grownup modes may be TO your feminine
taste they will not compensate for the
robbery of youth when the first novelty
Of such apparel has worn off.-Philadel-
phia Times.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
a Hisforinn,s Wife.

Mrs. Green. the widow of the historian.
and the editor of his works. had as a
girl an unusual educa ton. Living in the
country, she was compelled to work
alone. and after devoting herself to
Euclid. Greek and theology for some
years she was stopped in her career by
an affection of the eyes, resulting from
oNerwork When she recovered. she
took up various scientific studies. and
after her marriage she did a great deal
of hard reading. Her first attempt at
independent literary work after Mr.
Green's death was her History of
Henry H." All the materials relating to
the period were in Latin. and the author
was obliged to master the language as
W ell as the historical material She is the
daughter of the late Archdeacon Stop
ford. and her grandfather was the bishop
of Meath.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16

foulard showing moss-green back
ground has violet, a single one, thrown
here and there upon it; another with a
mauve ground has a tiny forget-me-not
for its figure, writes Isabel A. Mallon in
an illustrated article on 1.-The Silks of
the Summer in the May Ladies' Home
Journal. The shade known as Trappiste.
which is really a golden brown, is made
effective by pin points of lighter shade
on It's surface. In whites the preference
IS given to a creamy shade and a deep
ecru, but occasionally a dead white is
seen with a flower printed upon 1t, this
Hover being Oftenest an orchid, because
that permits the use Of a Magenta collar
and belt A light blue that is almost a
gray Is liked in summer silks. and is
invariably trimmed with dead white rib
bon or lace. By-the-by, the laces used
are all coarse in design, being either real
or imitation Irish point, or real or imi-
tation point de Venise. She who was
fortunate enough to have gotten some
Irish crochet at the fair last summer
uses it upon her silk gown and knows
that II is what the fashionable women in
London elect shall be given the prefer
eEce over all other laces. The silks made
up for evening or visiting wear are Of
ten OF that curious pink which is first
cousin to dove.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
MINIS for the Table.

1t is too bad to have ones polished ia
bles and stands covered with little rings
where a vase has stood and the water
has overlooked. There is no need of this
either Everybody should have on hand
an abundant supply of mats. These
need not be obtrusive in design. In
fact, no one wants any more the elabor-
ate confections that were once wont to
call attention to their crocheted splendors
in our drawing rooms Make the latter
day vase mats of small rounds of olive
green felt, preferably not ornamented at
all except for ''pinked' border No one
will notice them. but they will keep your
rosewood and mahogany from HARM
household
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16

The best and happiest wife in this and
the next generation is and will be the
self-supporting woman. 1t is so evident
that arguments and proofs seem super
fuous. From a severely practical stand
point, woman who has made her own
living knows the value Of money. has
had experience in making it go as far as
possible. has sown all the wild oats of
small extravagances and subsequent
scrimping that make trouble in many
new homes. A dollar to her represents
so many hours work not a few coaxing
words addressed to papa. She knows what
kind of home it is pleasant TO come TO
after firing days work and what sort
of breakfast is the best foundation for
eight hours toll
She has been used for SO long TO look
after herself that it is almost heaven to
have some one ask if she had her rub
bers on this morning. and the trifling at
tenti0n Will be repaid by a devotion to
socks and buttons which the masculine
mind viii enjoy while it may not en-
tirely understand
No matter how plucky and successful
she has been. the self-supporting woman
has been for years very tired. mentally
and physically. with the weight of re-
sponsibility she has carried. If one week
has been brought to a close successfully.
in comparative comfort and with no
debt incurred she can only draw very
short breath before the next one COM
mences. It may be very selfish, but isn't
It delicious to feel that some one else.
whose shoulders are stronger. has taken
this wearing burden from you and
carries It easily too? What can be more
delightful. after years of rushing down
town Immediately after breakfast or
shutting ones self up in a study or office
early in the morning. than TO draw a COM
Portable. happy breath at the table and
then set about domestic duties? The
sheltered feeling is Undesirable and one
that can not be appreciated by any wo-
man who has not fought her own bat
ties.
Men as a general thing are good
natured and pleasant enough to women
whom they meet in business way,
but however kind they may be the WO-
man never can feel that she is at her
best outside Of her home. Do you think
a self-reliant. plUcky breadwinner, who
is, after all. the more a woman for all
her brave march abreast with men, is
going TO toss her head and give utter
ance to the hackneyed statement about
not giving up her liberty for the best
man living. and is there anything particu-
larry desirable in the liberty which con-
sists in working day after day for food
and clothes and a place to sleep, barely
gained by wages which will be lost the
moment some one else is willing to do
the same work for less money? This
applies TO every wage earning woman,
from the girl who spends her weary
days behind a counter TO the successful
brain worker who is more enT-ied he
los a1.r-- N1,1
women who eat their own bread.-Jessie
NJ. Burogyne in DOnahoe's Magazine.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16

No woman who confines her manicur-
ing to a hasty use of a nailbrush and an
occasional filing will ever have pretty
mails. But she who takes a half hour
every week and ten minutes a day TO the
operation may have beautiful ones.
First the hands must be soaked in warm
water. and when the skin about the nails
is soft and pliable it should be pushed
back and the little rought ends of cuti-
Gle cut off. The nails should be cleaned
with soft orange wood sticks; then they
should be cut, shaped and filed. A vigor-
Gus polishing simply with the channels
polisher. and without any powders or
unguents, will leave them in a delight
full ondition.-America
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
survival of an Old Superstition.

The old theory that lighted fires in the
streets had power to drive away a pesti-
lence has long been exploded, but the
mayor Of Bordeaux evidently believes
there are occasions when public fires of
this kind may be used with advantage.
II appears that there is much poverty
just now in Bordeaux, as alas else
where, and the mayor, being seized with
pity for the condition of the unemployed,
has had huge coal fires placed in certain
parts of the city during the recent Sc
we're weather. The fires, which were
placed, Of course, only in the poorer
quarters. gave much satisfaction, and
thousands awaited themselves of them
TO warm themselves, while some people
even did their cooking by them.-London
News.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
Mammoth Fish Pond.

Col r. +. Goodell has returned from
Washington. He completed the transfer
to the government of Evergreen lakes.
near Leadville, the property of himself
and Messrs Grant and Laws. This gives
the government control of over 1000 acres
and will allow the establishment of a
hatchery to accommodate 100000 fish.
There are three lakes. and each can be
drained separately.
Col Goodell says the Ute Indians are
willing to remove. but that the Opposi-
ton comes from the Pittsburg cattle
company, which has 100000 head of cattle
on the observation-disclosures Times.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
Dress Hints.

High collars destroy graceful CONVEX
sation.
Some of Edwin Russell's laconics on
dress are:
Diamonds decrease in beauty as they
increase in size.
Jet is wicked. Tired, good woman
should never wear jet.
Do not wear selfish clothes. A crude
green dress is its own worst enemy.
Avoid black. Dress effectively and
not subjectively. Women are larger ma
tured I'm light colOrs.
AS you grow older wear lighter colors
White is intensely spiritual gray, in a
lesser degree, also spiritualizes
Large persons should not lose sight OF
their advantages There are good points
in being big-pOwer and grandeur.
Gloves are worn too much Kid gloves
make wrinkles in the face; new ones be-
cause of their newness; old ones because
of their want of responsibility.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
DOGS FOR THE ARCTIC DASH
WALTER wELLMAN WRITES ABOUT
HIS CANINE TEAMS.
They Were Secured at Liege-Fifty-
age Price OF 40 Francs Apice-How
the People of Western Europe Use
Them in Place ofsHOrses.
Copyright, 1894 by Walter wellman. All
rights reserved)

NCOpyrlgnt, 1881. by Walter Wellman. All
rights reserved)
BERGEN, Norway, April 23.-It is a
genuine pleasure to be able to. report
that the Wellman rorth polar expedition
is moving along in good order. 1 was
about to say moving quietly along,
but how could a party composed of a
quartet of live Americans and fifty
three Belgian dogs do anything quietly =?
Our dogs have been a nine days wonder
over in Europe-we and the dogs to-
gether. We have been the innocent
cause of so much establishment among
the natives in two or three countries and
have attracted so much attention en-
route that we scarcely know whether We
are running polar expedition or a cir
Gus. Nor could the old-fashioned coun-
try circus. fitting from town to town be-
tween midnight and morn, experience
more hustling to the square inch than
we have had since leaving London. We
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
Air Your Clothing.

Everyday garments. particularly those
which are not Numbered, should be disin-
fected. Brushing is not sufficient, as it
does not remove the unpleasant odors
which come from long usage Some
women sprinkle their waists and dresses
with scent and use sachet powders to
perfume their bonnets and wraps All
this would be admirable If 1t were avail
ing. Scent needs to be overpowering to
conceal the uDxra grant ernanations from
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16

an old garment Then the bouquet is
fulsome and vulgar. Better than scent
bag and potpourri are a clothespole and
an open window. Turn the garments
wrong side out and let the air and sun
shine disinfect and deordorize them. All
night airing is good, but a day of blow
ing winds and purifying sunlight is bet
tern Y Advertiser
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
MIs. ReppIicr.

The essayist may flourish in the
United States. but we have at least Gull
tivated one who Is a mistress of the art.
As there seems to be but one, need 1
print her name? And yet, though Miss
Repplier does not write great deal, she
has a national reputation She is not
one of those who dash off" their manu-
script pages, # one may Judge by a
writer's style She writes with care and
pafnstal<ing and seems to enjoy her work.
There are touches here and there in her
writings that show that sense of humor
which some cuJT11udgeons would deny
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
WOMAN AND HER HOME.
WORKING GIRLS As WIVES AND
MAKERS OF HAPPY HOMES.

Women rs DcsiSners-The Evolution
of the Daughters-The Long Gown
Age-Ihe Girl JOurnalist-StyIish
Women Pulled the Nail Miss
ReppIier.
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The Evolution of the Daughters.


A great deal of the i'll health of our
delicate girls arises from repression of
their young energy. The boys, too. would
be hysterical if their youth were hedged
in with so many conventional restraints
that there would be TO room left for self
restraint; if everything they wore, every
word they spoke. every youthful grace
and beauty. every intellectual endow-
ment, were habitually looked upon and
openly spoken of as making them more
salable articles. These things belong
only to the ages of slavery, and 1 would
once and for all protest that where there
is a market marriage in its true sense
cannot be said to exist.
Marriage is the free union of the free
taking upon themselves such limitations
of their freedom as will lead them into
the highest realms of liberty. Liberty
implies law, discerned to be the best for
ourselves and our neighbors. the guaran-
tee of a personal and national freedom
This is the sort of freedom this is the
sort Of liberty, which has become a part
of the Englishman's very self-cOnscious-
ness, and it is the same liberty which
our girls are claiming, are taking and
are using well. 1t seems certain that the
result must be to restrain the license
into which men have turned their liberty
In fulfilling the logical sequence which
must give to a nation free women TO
stand by the side of free men. our En-
glish girls are also carrying on the de-
stined work of England for the world
With grievous and daring exceptions
the example and influence of England
have, on the whole, brought hope and
delight and order 10 brutalized and en-
shaved nations, at least to the men of
those nations. Here and there, even in
the darkest recesses of paganism, a hint
a CLEAN of the freedom which Christian
ity means for women has reached the
most dOwn-trOdden and tortured of the
women of the world They groan with
a new apprehension of their misery. and
it will lie in the hands of our daughters.
freed themselves, to carry freedom to
other women.-Contemporar Review.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16

of society. Many in
stores, mills, and
shops, tens of thous-
ands are on the never
Observation-Disclosures
ing their daily food.
All are subject to
the same physical
laws; all suffer alike
from the same physi-
cal disturbance; and
the nature of their
duties in many cases
luicklydrifts them into
he horrors of all kinds
Of female complaints
inflammation Trlpara-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16
WORKING WOMEN.
THEIR HARD STRUGGLE
Made Easier by the Timely lnterVen-
ton of One Woman.

ESPECIAL TO OUR LADY READERsl
All women work. Some in their homes,
some in church, and some in the whirl
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-16

to women. I confess that there are no
Mark Twains or Bill Neys among the
gentler sex unless you incline to rank
the creator Of Josiah Aliens Wife" with
these two funmakers, but l hardly think
that you will. Miss Repplier's humor is
Of the sort that is found in the novels
of George Eliot and Jane Austen, and
in measure such as scintillates
through the pages of LoweIls essays. 1
do not rank Miss Repplier with Lowell
as an essayist. bear in mind, but l say
that she shares with him the gift Of
seeing the humorous side of the question.
and II is a delightful gift, which both
the reader and the writer enjoy.-Critic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05
JANE AUSTIN DEAD.
AUTHOR OF MANY PLEASING
TALES PASSES AWAY.
Standish Of Standish and Betty Alden
Among Her Most Famous Stories
Biographical.

Boston, March 30.-Jane G.. Austin.
the Well-knoWn author, died this morn
ing at the Hotel WaterSon
Jane G. Austin was born in Wor-
ceSter, Mass, in 1881 and traced her
ancestry to the Mayfiower Her ia
Their, Isaac Goodwin, was a lawyer
and an eminent genealogist. Her
mother was a poet. Her brother, John
A. Goodwin, is the author of The Pill
grim Republic, which is perhaps the
best history of the Plymouth colony
ever written.
Mrs. Austin was married in 1850 to
LOring II. Austin and had three chill
dren. Of recent years she has been
living with a married daughter in
Worcester. Her books are as follows:
Fairy Dreams. Dora Darling, Tailor
Boy, CIPHER, Mrs. Beauchamp Brown
and the famous colonial stories en-
titled Standish of Standish, Betty AL
den, NameleSS NObleman and DR.. Lee
Baron and His Daughters. The books
were written in the order in which
they appear here. Standish of Stan
dish and Betty Alden are probably
her most famous stories. They and
her other similar works have been
greatly praised.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05
AFTER THE BALL.
A BAD BLAZE BROKE OUT AT
BARRY, ILL.
Fifty Buildings Burned to the Ground
and Damage of Nearly 100000
Wrought

Quincy, ILL.,, March 3O-A fire this
morning in the opera house at Barry,
after a ball, swept away the business
district. The city building, engine
house and jail, every meat shop in the
place, the largest clothing house in
Pike county are among the buildings
destroyed A rough estimate of the
loss is between $150,O0O and 100000,
about half insured.
Upwards Of fifty buildings and
stores were consumed. Among them:
w. Watson, dwelling house, the Adage
and office, g. d. Mayes & Son, gro
GERS, Charles Ware, books and express
office, e. L. Henner, jeweler, J.B. Wat
son, hardware, G. w. GoOdale, cloth
ing, RObb's bakery, Stearn's meat mar
ket, J. Hudson, harness, S. E. Hake,
boots and shoes, Finders saloon, Geo.
Long, drugs, Charles Brown barber,
William Powell, cigar factory, ]. J.
Gray, jeWeler, E. B. Ladies, millinery,
Fuller & Cleveland, meat market, Dud-
ley & Cleveland barber shop, D. K.
Weiss, drugs, Masonic hall, Gus Sic
gle, saloon, Kirtrights meat market,
Thornton & Pitts, harness, Varney &
Son, grocers, Hill, barber, T. McNeal,
grocer, Hughes furniture and broom
factory, Weisenberger's shoe shop and
Mrs. Churchills dwelling. Many
other buildings were badly burned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-05
SUCCEEDS COLQUITT
NEW SENATOR FROM GEORGIA
APPOINTED.
Patrick Walsh, Editor Of the Augusta
Chronicle Gets the Place
Crisp Refused.

Atlanta, April Gov. Northern
this morning appointed Patrick Walsh,
editor of the Augusta Chronicle, United
States senator to succeed the late AL
fred IL. COlquitt.
Patrick Wish has been for years a
prominent figure in Georgia and is
held in great esteem all over the south.
He has never sought a public office
or held one before. His time has
been given to his newspaper, which
he has been conducting for more than
a quarter of century. He is a ready
extemporaneous speaker and eloquent
on all occasions. He organized and
carried through to success the indus
trial exposition of the south and the
Georgia state fair, which was held at
Augusta last fall. He was a national
commissioner at large from Georgia to
the worlds fair. Mr.. Walsh is about
60 years of age. In manner he is
strilingly courteous, always approch-
able.