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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
A SERMON ON Carpets.

In buying carpets of any or all kinds
the housewife will be better pleased if
she buys those of small designs. either
arabesque or conventionalized floral, and
which largely cover the ground floor
both as a background to furniture, old
and new, and as rest to the eye. Car
pets so chosen will not become monOto-
nous and will readily adapt themselves to
changes from one room to another. Dark
carpets are seldom satisfactory, as they
are too somBber and show dust badly.
They are only suitable for rooms of many
windows. Light carpets soil easily and
add to the glare of very light rooms
while those of medium tone are best
adapted, to wear and to the cheerful fur
nishing of usual rooms. Ingram, tapes
try. body brussels and all grades of vel
vet have bordering woven to match. This
is priced by the yard. according to its
width. which may be from nine to TWEEN
ty-two and one-half inches. Square or
large rooms look more thoroughly fin
ished If the carpet has a border, while in
aong, narrow rooms a border unpleasant
ly defines the lack of width. Carpets
without borders make over better. and
in rented houses it is undoubtedly bet
ter management to have borderless car
pets in al rooms.-DecoratO and Fur
nisheT.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
WOMAN AND HER HOME.
MRS. HARRISON CAUSES A REVOLT
TIcN IN LIFE INSURANCE.
Wrfters-Nerve Needs OF Women
They Surprised the Doctor-A Ser
mon on Carpets-A Married wom-
ans Name. ~

No more successful insurance agent
lives in San Francisco than Mrs. NJ. L.
Harrison, who handles in that city the
woman's department business Of the Pa
cific states life company. She is the only
woman in the country holding such po-
sition. Some years ago. having through
bereavement found herself thrown on her
own resources, she turned her attention
to the insurance business. She devoured
vast quantities of literature on the atti-
tude Of various companies toward women
policy holders and found that In every
instance they were charged at the rate
of So a thousand more than men were.
This she regarded as rank injustice, and
she set about seeing if there was not
some remedy for the state Of affairs. She
hunted up statistics and consulted bus
iness men on the subject and finally
evolved a plan to eliminate sex entirely
from the proposition. She unfolded her
plan TO the president and directors of the
Pacific states company and succeeded in
convincing them that a plan she pro-
posed was feasible. A special depart
ment was created for her, rooms were
fitted up in the Stock Exchange building,
and the new agent was given a corps of
female assistants. Mrs. Harrison has two
style and receives her agents there. She
Is a thoroughly capable business woman
and full of graceful tact. She has a
great desk that is bristiing with papers
and documents and pamphlets and can
enthuse her women agents as easily as
she can write a policy. She pays her
agents the same rates as the men solic-
itors are paid in the other departments,
and from dependent to wealthy insurer
sall rise up and call her blessed. This lit
le woman isn't the least bit in the world
like ones idea of an advanced creatu
OF her sex. but is as dainty and lovely
as a piece Of Dresden china. She has
two young daughters. whom she is go
= ing TO train intO being insurance women.
: Before bringing the company's officials
/ TO her way of thinking she had a hard
flight. One of The difficulties in the way Of
doing away with the 50 extra charge for
women was the supposed unreliability of
women in regard to telling their correct
age, and in insurance policy is liable to
be forfeited if such a missta tement is dis
covered. Secondly. the claim was made
that women We're more liable to die young
than men. And third objection was
that II a WOman's life could be insured as
cheaply as mans the companies ran
greater risk of her husbands putting her
out Of the way for the sake Of the money
involved. All these objections were finally
abandoned by the cOmpany's representa-
tives, every one of whom is now ready to
acknowledge that Mrs. Harrison's plan
IS good one.-San Francisco Examiner.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
Nerve Needs of Women.

DR.. Louise Flske Bryson, who has made
a study OF the nerve needs of women,
thus advises her sex concerning rest: one
reason. she says in the Christian Advo-
cate, why women get too tired is that
the memory is overtaxed with trifas.
There are too many things TO remember.
An effort is made to carry in the mind
all manner of small necessities, engage
ments. measures, petty duties and details
that 1t is always better to hand over to
pencil and paper, TO a memorandum book
or Journal. This can be called upon at
al hours.
A diary less tInn four inches long and
two and One-half inches wide is one Of
the best for the purpose. There is a page
for every day in the year-pages for
memoranda, where can be recorded such
facts as the amount of goods needed for
any garment or for trimming, the sizes Of
gloves, stockings and shoes, the number
of the handbook, bicycle etc, and for adj
dresses, which are always wanted for
ready reference. An eTTand or engage
ment for a certain day is put down, with
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
Little Milton and the Clock.

Little Milton, aged four inquired what
time his grandma would get there. His
mamma told him at O'Clock.
well, where will the hands of the clock
be then?' he asked.
His mamma pointed out the respective
positions Of the hands to indicate the sixth
hour. Some time after the mother Glanced
TO look at the clock and was surprised to
find 1t all wrong. Remembering her con-
versation with Milton the Wise, she called
him and inquired what had happened to
the clock.
why, mamma" explained the boy,
clipping his hands. and his eyes dancing
with expectation, II just run the hands
around, so grandma would come right
straight off,
The same bright boy tells time in an
entirely original way. He looks carefully
at the clock and stretches out his little
arms in the exact position Of the hands
He win go to his mamma and say, 1.-The
little hand is here and the big hand is
there" And so accurate is he in imitat-
ing that one can tell the time to very
few minutes.-Newark Call.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
A Fit of "DIcak House"

BY the demolition of some old houses in
Catherine-st Strand, and in Drury-lane,
what may be regarded as classic spot
has been exposed to view. This is the
old churchyard which Charles Dickens
graphically described in BLEAK House, F."
and which is approached by a narrow pas
sage leading from Russell court. The
churchyard on the left hand side of
Drury-lane- higher up, has frequently been
talked of as Joe's churchyard" but the
miserable burial ground which received the
remains of poor Memo is that on which
sunlight is now allowed to shine through
the clearing away of the rookeries which
previously hemmed it in east and west.
At the end of Russell court passage the
gates with its iron bars, through which
Joe pointed out to Lady Dedlock' the
grave of his benefactor, still hangs on its
rusty hinges. although the graveyard itself
has been ssphalted over and turned into
a playground. Some thousands OF the ad-
mirers Of Dici1ens's works. including a
large number of Americans, have visited
the spot within the last few weeks.-West-
minister Review.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
WINTER FASHIONS.
Brocades. VeIvets and Costly Furs
VIII BE In Vogue.

Extremely rich materials are to be no
less fashionable this winter than they
were last. Brocades and velvets Of an
cient fashion in exquisite combinations
are shown and magnificent antique laces.
mOusseline de sole and oriental gauzes iE
rainbow tints arc used to soften the effect
OF these splendOrs. while the new passe-
menteries harmonic in color and value.
Gold appears in many of them, in combi-
nation with color, or the patterns ere
worked upon the gown fabric itself, with
applications of guipure or old point.
Black passementerie is no less rich and
is to be much used upon winter wraps.
Jet is still favored by the authorities,
real jet being very expensive and giving,
it is considered. the last touch of refined
fashion to a garment on which it ap-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
They Surprised the Doctor.

"A physician nowadays" remarked one
of them recently, has to keep up with
the times, whether he will or not. His
women patients are his chief goads in the
matter. The mother Of family of chill
dren is a person for whose medical l1nowl-
edge 1 have profound respect 1 meet
them every day among my patients who
would surprise me, If / were not used to
it, by their technical intelligence in my
profession. Newspapers, particularly the
women's pages are. 1 think, largely re-
sponsible for this relief of ignorance of es-
sential points in sanitation, and women
must have natural taste for the subject
because they grasp it so intelligently.
lone day I was asked to talk to a club
Of women on a semi-professional topic
and 1 carefully thought out my address,
to couch it in the most easily understood
language. When ! sat down, a woman
got up and opened the discussion in a very
technical and professional way, and every
woman who followed her spoke so intelli-
gently on the subject in hand that / asked
my introducer, in some surprise. if the
club was made up of women physicians.
Why she replied promptly, there isn't a
doctor in the whole membership Their
grasp of the matter, for laity. was really
remarkable. Her Point of View in n.
Times
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
The Plain Woman.

Did you ever go to a beauty lecture"
and notice the audience? 1t is worth
while. A congregation of hOmler women
could not be found in or outside of the
city limits. A man once said to me that
It was only pretty women who used cos
metics and ''makeups." The homely
woman, he argued, knew that they
couldn't be pretty anyway and went
their ways contently, never trying to
compass the impossible, but the pretty
women kept right on trying to be pref
tier
Poor man. He had never been to a
beauty lecture. He had not seen the row
upon row of plain faces scanned with
wrinkles and irradiated by the light of a
great hope. de had never watched the
eager look in pale, dim eyes as they fol-
lowed the speaker nor seen their hands
working unconsciOusly in a sympathetic
massage. If he had. he would have
known that the elderly woman, the IL
favored ones and the passe crowd the
house at beauty matinee" They are
laUgaable-yes, for young and lovely
Eac" is as rare among them as snow in
June, and they are terribly in earnest,
but they are frighful withal.
Women are largely what men have
made them, and physical beauty has come
to mean love. devotion, Il home, power
every thing Tor which a woman most longs
To be plain means TO be a wall1oWer at
balls, nobody in the social world and
weak factor even in the home. So the
story Of these faded, anxious faces runs
1t Is not pleasant story to read, but the
truth IS seldom pleasant. 1t is grimly
true, bur it explains many things. Why
women will suffer pain, temporary dis
fgurement. and even face death for
beauty's sake becomes no longer a mar
vel.
A new thing? No. With a vision Of
scanned foreheads, snub noses, unlovely
contours, scanty locks and i'll complex
ions, as seen at a beauty matinee, there
come recollection of the milk baths of the
Romans, the henna and kohl of the orient
and the still more strenuous remedy Of
Elizabeth BathOry, COmtesse Nadasdy.
who lived in Hungary in the sixteenth
century.-Jeannette H WaIWOrth
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
Women ns Letter writers.

Would you desire at this day." says
De Quincy, Ito read our noble language
IN its native beauty. picturesque from
idiomatic prOpriety, racy in its phrase
ology. delicate yet sinewy in its
composition, steal the mailbags and
break open all the letters in
female handwriting" Nor is De
Quincy alone in his opinion. 1t is gener-
ally admitted that women write more
interesting letters than men, the chief
reason of which is probably their closer
observation OF details, these being the
one thing needful in ordinary correspond
ence. Philosophy and logic are entirely
unimpOrtant, if not actually out of place,
and so are method, order and combina-
ton. according to rule. De Quincy him
self attributes the superiority of women
aetter-Writers to the fact that they are
more openly emotional and eXcitable.
There is not in the world" he says, $50
certain a guarantee for pure idiomatic
dictiOn without trick or affectation as
case of genuine excitement. Real situa-
tons are always pledges of a real nat
ural language. It is in counterfeit pas
sion. in the mimical situations of novels
or in poems that are efforts of ingenuity
that women fail. OF course, both men
and women are Influenced by current
fashion in letter-writing, and in this, as
in other details, the latter are not I'M
fairly supposed to be more under the
control Of convention. Letter-writing
changes its mode as decidedly, If not as
often. as the gowns Of the letter-writers.
The "epistOlary correspondence" of a
past day or generation, with fits elaborate
and sounding phrases, sometimes inflated
TO an absurd degree, has happily gone
out" and racy colloquial style has to
a great extent superseded it. letter
10 be well written and entertaining
which is one Of its legitimate functions,
must be direct, graphic, simple, avoid
overelaboration and steer wide of any
approach 70 an inflated style.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
Lady Churchi1rs Decoration.

There are certain women Of the world
who capture public attention to that de-
gree that everything they do is promptly
chronicled. Lady Randolph Churchill is
one of them.
When returning home from India with
Lord Randolph, she noticed a British SOL
der tattooing a deckhand. 1t dlspe.led
the ennui that had seized upon her as an
incident Of ship life, and from watching
the operation from her deck chair she
concluded to try il herself.
She had the artist brought before her
and asked him for some designs. He sug-
gested the Talmudic symbol Of eternity
a snake holding it's tail in its mouth. Lady
Randolph was charmed and barred her
arm for the operation. Lord Randolph
swore and protested. But the tattooing
was done-so It Is said. at least-and 1t is
described as beautifully executed snake,
dark blue in color. with green eyes and
red jaws. AS a general thing. it is hidden
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14

hospital. have done good wherever j
could from he time I stole chickens for
the poor boys in the army hospital TO the
last day l had n pitcher of milk to share
with my neighbor on Pine-st. God bless
us. but 1 must make the best of it.
suppose"
The woman's husbands sister, by the
way, Is the wife of Frank Mayo. and a
distant relative was Judge Patterson of
the Allegheny county bench in Pennsyl-
Yania.
So Lizzie Bryan. after her battles and
sacrifices, with wounds, that do not pain,
but keep her limbs twitching with strange,
nervous action and which were got fight
ing like man for the union at a time
when she had money enough TO live in
luxury, has gone TO the poor house.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
A Convenient Arrangement.

Wide. movable seats of rattan of differ
ing lengths and without back are sold
as window seats. They are used in the
natural color, or stained or enameled 10
match the room. They are used either
with or without "a loose cushion and have
"A valance or not, as one chooses. The
seats of rattan chairs, when worn to
shabbineSs, may have wide, heavy tapes
like oilcloth binding fastened across them
and drawn as tight as possible. so that
the seat will not sag. over this founda-
ton tack a piece of unbleached muslin:
then put on a layer of cotton or hair, not
enough to give the seat a fat, cushiony
effect, and over that fasten a cretOnne
covering with small nails and finish the
edge with a cotton gimp. a loose, fiat
cushion is sometimes liked better for
covering the worn seat. When the Gre
tonne is soiled, clean with naphtha or
take It off and wash tn. Y. Post.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14

Lizzie Bryan. distinguished by her kind
ly face and the alert and intelligent eye
that lit it up, is today an inmate of the
county almshouse, says the San Francisco
Call. Not SO many ears ago this same
Lizzie Bryan owned a gold watch that was
given to her by Gen. Grant for having
saved his life; Lizzie Bryan has still three
scars received in battle for the union
Lizzie Bryan was n spy and was ac-
customed to ride from command to COM
mand through the thickest of many fights
carrying dispatches; Lizzie Bryan was
captured and was in Libby prison.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
4 Ghost Censua.

Have you ever seen a ghost? Such. in
simple words, is the extremely Interesting
question addressed by the English socie-
ty of psychical research to some 1900
persons, male and female. The results
are included in "A Report on the Census
of Authorizations, published in the latest
edition of the proceedings of the society.
Out Of the 1900 persons INTERCEPTED,
IL. 31e answered in the negative leaving
only a meager 3 per cent. of the people
who had been favored by extraordinary
experiences. But the relative proportion
of men and women who saw visions and
dreamed dreams is still more remarkable.
Only $50 males answered in the affirma-
tive, but as many 1.o29 females.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
Convenient Wall Pockets.

Convenient wal pockets can be quickly
and easily made from the boxes that oat-
meal. rolled wheat and such things come
in. using the two-pound size. Cut out
the front and sides to suit, leaving the
back as it is. Cover with cloth, paper
or ve.vet, according to their use, and
fasten to the wall. In the kitchen or din
ing room they are handy to hold busters,
stockholders, etc. In the library they are
nice for clippings, extra envelopes. spe-
ei3i letters or other things. while in
bed rooms they can be used for many
purposes.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
An ingenious Ornament.

Even a cracked wal may have its ad-
vantages," explained an ingenious wom-
an whole little drawing room, in which
there was much green and white, had a
wal over which there trailed many yards
of Hartford fern with an effect that was
truly artistic. Il couldn't afford TO fiji
of an antique design, and two ways of
up those cracks and paper the wall, and
it occurred to me that those pressed
ferns following the lines of the cracks
would be the very thing"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
Black SILK Scraps.

Never throw away a scrap Of black silk
An inch strip Of black silk is a boon
sometimes. After ripping up the old
gown take thres or four old kid gloves and
put them to boil in a pint of water Let
them boil for an hour, strain through a
cloth and put in the liquid a quart or
mora of hot water and a tablespoonful Of
borax. Lay your silk fiat on a perfectly
c-e2n table that has no seams or cracks in
j. and rub every inch Of the silk with the
mixture till it is thoroughly saturated and
al spots are removed. Then fix a tub Of
warm water. in which put a liberal guam
tity OF ,borax and pick the silk up by the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
Use for Plated Ware Relics.

Women who think that old plated ware
relics are valueless make a great blunder
The old designs are copies of those in
Old silver and have a distinctive beauty
on that account. If you have a cake
basket or tray. see if it is plated on cop
per, a fact which insures its considerab BILE
age. as it is many years since that pro-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14

cess was in use. If the red shows through
in the worn places. you may be certain
preserving is beauty are open to you.
one is to have it replated. but more
unique and more often done by those WHO
like unusual things is 20 take it to the
silversmith versed in treating antiquities
to have an acid applied which removes
all the silver veneer. Then the copper IS
beautifully FURNISHED and your sideboard
has a valuable addition. Snuner trays
and snuffers are often treated in this
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
Thc Hor:leninkcr.

one of the secrets of being able to have
ones plans frustrated without serious in
convenience is in being forehanded.
Never allow work to accumulate if it is
possible to do it. Keep everything in
such order that q .itt,e neglect VIII noc
show. Occupy spare moments of the
days that are not very busy ones in doing
work a litt-e ahead of time when il IS
actually needed. Then one wiz be the
mistress and not the slave of her house
work and the true work of the home
maker viii be accompiished.-DemOr
NdagaZin
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14

the address. on the page where It belongs.
When the errand is done, the engagement
kept. a line is drawn through the mem
orandum. At night this artificial memory
is reviewed. Anything forgotten is trans
ferred TO the next page and marked off
on the original pages by little crosses IN
stead of straight lines. Thus nothing is
left unthought of. and the work of each
day is roughly blocked out in advance.
Danish unnecessary self control and self