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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
Simple Desserts.

It is a great waste of time and fire.
quently of money for the woman who
does her own work or has only the help
of one servant to indulge in elaborate
desserts. Some sort of dessert is neces-
sary after every dinner. 1t is the proper
course to ''linger over" Lingering over
cold roast and chilly vegetables would
lack the charm which attracts to daily
ing with dessert But because desserts
are graceful and necessary for the dainty
finishing Of a dinner is no reason why
the cook or The mother should spend
hours every day in Stoning raiSinS and
similar occupations.
A jar of preserved ginger is compare
lively inexpensive, and from il may be
made desserts for a family of ordinary
size. With delicate buiscuits and a cup
of coffee 1t forms a delicious ending for
an evening meal. Fruit and nuts are
quite as cheap and much more whole
some than pies and buildings. Half d
dozen oranges for Is cents will make a
better dessert for six people than one
pie costing Is cents. Apples polished
and attractively arranged might often
be substituted for buildings and sauces.
Boiled custard is a very easily pre-
pared dish. and where poured over cake
which is beginning to grow hard makes
a delicate dessert. Crackers and cheese
may be served with the coffee instead of
the regular dessert and are quite as
much as most people care for who have
eaten a substantial dinner. Figs and
dates are moderate in price, easily ar
ranged and wholesome In fact, by a
little forethought a housekeeper should
be able TO furnish desserts for five days
out of every 1even without recourse TO
the cookbook or the stOve.-St Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
Women in business.

1t is one of the most difficult things
in the world to map out suitable and
in every way satisfactory career for a
young woman Of the present day. The
evolution Of events has brought woman
prominently into business circles. That
she will stay there seems to be a fore
gone conclusion-at least she is likely
to remain there for the present-and the
question is, what is the best way for
her to get along with the new situation
that confronts her?
In most cases she has gone into bust
ness life because she must 1t was alb
solutely necessary for her to be her
own breadwinner or else to take her por-
ton from some reluctant hand. I'm
willing to do this and unable to endure
the humiliation of what has been for a
long time to many women an alternative
only a few removes from begging she
has carved out her own way and patient
ly and cOntentedly walks therein, salts
fed if she can win comfortable subsist-
ence from an always grasping and tyran-
nical world.
The great outcry that women will lose
their distinctively feminine qualities once
they get fairly launched into business
has proved not only false, but foolish,
for the sensible daughters of sensible
parents have learned long ere this that
there must be no nonsense in their daily
walk and conversation, and that the
department that they have been taught
for the drawing room is quite as useful
in the office and counting house as in
the social assembly. A gentlewoman
never loses her distinctive qualities
wherever she may be placed, and
whether II may be at the typewriter, the
ashier's desk or in any other of the
departments Of business her innate re-
finement will show itself, and early ira
ditions will never leave her.-N. Y.
cd ger
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
4 Girls HerOism.

A correspondent Of the London Daily
News gives the following story: The
Hamildie Kurds fell on Herfev. an Ar
menian village, and asked that the beauti-
full daughter of the priest be delivered to
them The girl. hearing that the vii
layers really intended to deliver her to
them, in order to get rid of their bar
barities, hid herself. and at night sue
ceeded in making her way, with her
brother, toward Russian territory.
When the Kurds heard of this escape
they followed them. and overlook them
in the mountains. The brother and sister
defended themselves from behind rock
until they had fired all their cartridges
but two. The sister then threw herself
into the arms of her brother, and begged
him to shoot her with one of the cart
ridges. so that she might not fall into
the hands of the Kurds, nor see the
death of her brother. and that with the
second he should deliver himself also
from the hands of the Kurds. This was
done. The sister was killed, but the
brother was taken half head and de-
livered to the Turkish authorities, and
is now in prison
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
BURIED ALIVE.
A Remarkable story Told by the Late
Guy de HInupassant.

There was published few days ago a
story of young woman who was buried
alive during a trance produced by the
administration of gas for the purpose of
having her tooth pulled. Luckily these
occurrences are very rare, and do not
always have so terrible a termination.
A recent French paper contains a story
of such an occurrence and sold by the
late Guy de Maupassant which has been
condensed and translated for the De-
troit News.
Juliet, the daughter of a prosperous
French gentleman, was afflicted with a
disorder of the heart. She one day fell
dead as was supposed, and after suit
able time was laid away in the family
vault. Her body was arrayed in her
first ball dress, with her rings, bracelets,
necklaces and other jewelry. Her faith
er, Frustrated with grief, returned to the
house and sought his chamber. His va
let. who had assisted in the burial, wait
ed upon him, attended to his few wants,
and retired The gentleman passed a
sad and terrible night. 1t was cold, the
wind howled outside. the snow flew. and
he could think only of his beloved daugh-
ter in the tomb.
Suddenly. at 8 o'clock in the morning.
he was startled by the ringing of the
front door bell. He jumped to his feet,
wondering who could arrive at such an
hour.
Again the bell rang. The servants
either did not hear II or reared TO go to
the door He took a candle and de-
seconded the stairs, but. before opening
the door, demanded: who is there?"
There was no answer, and in his weak
ness and grief, feeble with fright. he
slowly opened the door. In the shadow
he saw a ghostlike figure dressed all in
white. He fell back, stammering: Who
are your"
at is I, papar'
1t was his daughter. He thought he
was going crazy. He recoiled from her
and motioned her back with his hand.
Do not fear, papa. l was not dead.
Some one robbed me of one of my rings
and cut off my finger. The blood began
to run and that revived me-"
He saw then that she was covered
with blood. Then, recovering himself
he appreciated the good fortune that had
come to him. He took her up TO his
chamber and rang for his valet to re-
kindle the fire, procure some nourish-
ment. and go for the doctor. But when
the man entered he uttered a piercing
cry and expired. 1t he who had
broken into the tomb, knowing that the
corpse had been attired with the valua-
BILE Jewels, mutilated her hand, and left
her. as he supposed. dead. When he saw
her standing in the room he thought 1t
was her ghost come back to denounce
him, and he was frightened to death.
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How She Entered JournaIism

Mrs Margaret f. Sullivan is one of
The best editorial writer's in the country.
and strangely enough it was in this very
capacity, so seldom filled by a woman,
that she did her first newspaper work.
She was a sixten-year-old school girl
when some subject in which, as It hap
pened. she was particularly interested
and about which, she was very well in
formed came up for discussion in the
newspapers. She read the editorials
which were written about 1t, but realized
that they did not go to the root of the
matter and after few days wrote her
own views on the subject and sent the
article to the Chicago Tribune. She did
not sign her full name.
It was promptly printed and a request
sent her for another article on the same
subject. She sent one, and it came out
with the same fiattering promptness
Then a note was sent asking her to come
20 the Tribune office. She went, a school
girl, in short skirts and with her hair
down her back. and the grave and rev.
erend seigniors of the big paper were
astonished when they saw her. After
they had got their breath they said ii
must be a mistake. They wanted to see
the man who had written those edito-
rails. The young girl assured them that
she had written them. Then the learned
gentlemen limited that it was worse than
O mistake. That there was, er-well
they did not accuse her outright of lying
but they Enthusiastically looked their
doubt
The girl from school then said she
would be glad to accommodate them by
sitting down and writing a few edito-
rails while they watched the wheels 60
round She was taken at her word and
Tor several days wrote brilliant editorials
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
one of the WORLDS Heroines.

One of the worlds heroines of whom
we hear inadequately little Is Miss Clara
Barton OF course in a general way ev-
cry one knows that Clara Barton repre-
sents the Red Cross society, and her
name IS associated with relief work
wherever needed from whatever cause.
But it is not so well known that Miss
BartOn's life from early girlhood to the
present has been one of indefatigable
effort in the cause of suffering humanity
She has been the recipient of many mag
nificent testimonials of appreciation from
crowned heads and high dignitaries in
Europe Queen Victoria has pinned an
English decoration upon her breast with
her own royal hand. Queen Natalie has
bestowed upon her the Servian decora-
ton sof the Red Cross, and in point of
fact she has had much greater honor
shown her abroad than in her own coun-
try-not a peculiar experience, however
Miss Barton was born in Massachusetts,
sixty-four years ago. She was a farm
er's daughter and has been self-support-
ing in variety of ways-taught a coun-
try school, worked in a factory, held a
position in the patent Office at Wash
ington and has been on the lecture plat
form
Her life has been one prolonged minis
tration 10 her fellow-men, beginning with
her efforts in behalf of union soldiers
her persistent efforts that the Red Cross
of Geneva has found its way to Amer
lea The national society now has its
headquarters in Washington City, and il
Is there that Miss Barton makes her
home when not afield, so to speak.
Perhaps no form of disaster has over
taken this country in the last thirty
years that Clara Barton's name has not
figured in connection with it as that of
an angel Of mercy and help. When in
1882 the Mississippi floods rendered thou
sands homeless and destitute, she sta
toned herself at Cincinnati, sending out
relief wisely and frugally, and wired
for help in every direction.
The droughts of Texas, the earth
quake Of Charleston, the disasters of
JohnStown. the Beaufort horror, one and
all touched the quick sympa thies and felt
the wise helpfulnesS of this truly good
and great woman. whose last thought in
any juncture is self.-N. Y. Mail and
Express.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
NIothers as GxnmnIe..

Not every mother thinks at all as she
goes about her daily task, her little ones
tagging at her heels. that then they are
getting their first character lessons and
are forming the habits of lifetime. 1t
is then they learn to be patient and
brave or fretful and cowardly. 1t is then
they learn to think kindly Of people or
to be suspicious and selfish. 1t is the
mother who teaches good manners, and
she cannot teach them by making po-
litic thing of it. The child is too shrewd
for that. He will soon learn that he can
be polite here and rude there and suit
his manner to his company. But If that
dear and gentle mother tries to make her
little ones feel that they are in a world
full of brothers and sisters-that every
body is in a sweet sense kin-why, then
the politenesS comes out as a flower
blows and is as natural as breathing
Philadelphia Times.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
Consider the chiIdren.s Tastes.

What shall make of my SOM" is
question often heard from the lips of
perplexed parents. Perhaps the more
sensible. but none the less anxious
query, might be, What will my son
make of himself?" Before you try to
make anything of boy except TO lay
the foundation for his becoming a good
and honorable man, give him a chance
to show his own preferences. In nine
cases out of ten he will hit upon the
right thing. We are constantly being
treated TO the sorry spectacle of boy
in an office pouring over musty accounts
who will loiter when chance permits a.
the open door of a machine shop, and
whose greatest delight is to pore over
and repair a refractory sewing machine
or typewriter-anything that permits
him to use his brain in studying the in
tricacies of machinery. L know young
newspaper man who is more at home
on an engine or In railroad yard than
in a newspaper office-at home in the
sense of feeling happy.
It was a mother who hit upon a plan
early in her children's lives Of giving
them scrapbooks and telling them to fill
them with whatever they liked best, and
now the boy whose book was filled with
pictures and stories of bugs and insects
and all manner of creeping things is a
noted scientist in that line / have been
told that at the tender age of three he
would bring in a stray ladybug or some
insect from the garden, build a house
for it with his blocks and lovingly watch
and care for it.
Another son, whose name you would
all know as that of a railway magnate,
filed his with locomotives and cars and
driving wheels and cogs and all sorts of
engines.
Give the boys, and girls, too a chance
TO be original. The scrapbook plan is
worth trying. If a baby girl of four
summers shows exceptional taste in
dressing her doll, foster that taste Big
salaries await persons with original
ideas in any line of business or trade
n. Y. Recorder.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09

ROSE COLORED DRESSING GOWN.
dressing gown is a moment Of sweet re-
lease 1t has been confidently stated for
many years past that literary ladies wear
their dressing gowns all day. and al
though this is not known positively TO
be a fact ii is safe TO take it for granted
that if a woman is the author of a par
ticularly meritorious article. poem or
novel she wrote it under the fostering
influence of the dressing gown
Thin wrapper flannel is the most suita-
BILE goods for this garment 1t comes in
plain tints. stripes. plaids and figures,
through the entire gamut Of colors. Deli
cate tones are usually preferred, both
for dressing gowns and for the COM
Portable little breakfast jackets so much
worn. The latter are made with a fitted
back and loose front. and when they
are trimmed with fluff Of lace around
the shoulders they are pretty as any
body need desire.
Pongee is a good material for sum-
mer dressing gown, although it is better
to have a flannel one at hand all the
year round. The pretty blue and white
japanese cottons are also utilized for this
purpose. made up in the fashion of
kirnonos. These have the additional
merit of being washable, and they are
certainly picturesque.
A sketch is given of a dressing gown
made of rose cOlored flannel. 1t has a
fitted vatican back and a loose front
with a gathered yoke outlined above the
bust by a band Of black and gold
galloon. Gathered epaulets bordered
with galloon fall over the tops of the
bishop sleeves. At the wrist the sleeve
which falls a f1ounce of the flannel A
belt of galloon. beginning at the under
arm seams, confines the fullneSs of the
front Of the gown. JUDO CHOLLET.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
scandnI,of railway Receiverships.

Another evil of railway administra-
ton in the United States lies in the
courts themselves, in reference to rail-
way receiverships
A railway official, in consequence of
his incapacity or misfortune, or as a
victim Of a vicious system Dit does not
much matter which,, brings a railway
into bankruptcy. He then-supported
often by the trustee of the mortgag e-is
appointed receiver by the courts, on the
application either of the company or
of the complacent trustee or of an
equally complacent creditor, and, in his
capacity as receiver. continues to earn
probably a larger salary than he did as
president The only excuse for such an
appointment is that such receiver has
the requisite knowledge of details neces-
sary for the continued administration of
the property. This is a monstrous evil.
Simon Sterne in the March Forum.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson.

Mrs. Stevenson is quite small and has
dark eyes, hair and complexion. Her
figure is graceful and extremely quick
In action, a nervous restlessness charac-
terizing her every movement. Her hands
are beautiful enough to betray discreet
friends into indiscreet praise. In their
forma ton they are as nearly perfect as
in capability and usefulness they are
active. Mrs. Stevenson paints with con-
siderable skill, writes with more than
usual ability, is a clever botanist and
practical gardener and an amateur engi-
neer of practical capacity. AS a house
keeper her ability in the culinary depart
ment stands her in good stead when ma
tive cooks are ignorant and imported
ones ttainable.-Ladies' Home Jour
nal
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
AN OLD POINT COMFORT BELLE.
Her Mnnifestntion of Self-POssessiOn
in Very Trying Emergency.

1.-The most elf-possessed woman
ever saw is just now enc of the bellies
down at Old Point Comfort" said Ar
thur Spalding of Bridgeport to a Wash
ington Star man. she is perfect Juno
as to figure, and half the manly heads
of the place have been turned by her
and the other half would give all their
hopes of the hereafter to be called as
she calls her spaniel, Sweetheart The
young lady has played no favorites
among her admirers, however, and an
examination of her card at. any of the
dances would show a list of names as
different as those on the register yon-
der
THE other day she went up for her
usual promenade on the ramparts Of
the fort, and, as usual, was accompanied
by her aunt, who is her chaperon-one
of her rigid rules being to allow no man
to escort her when she takes her morn
ing constitutional. BY some aggravatin e
cause she lost an article which is an
important part of the feminine apparel
1t happened that a bright young devil
Of an army officer came along and picked
it up. He caressed the narrow strip of
blue silk, admired the artistic workman
ship of the gold contraptions on either
end of it, and, upon closer eXamina tion
deciphered initials that agreed with those
borne by the charming creature who was
swaying along the path a hundred yards
In front of him. With characteristic
honesty he hurried after her, and, catch
ing up, handed out the article with a
bow of consummate grace, saying: Miss
b, pardon me, but l believe this
property is yours
''She thanked him with a cordialty
that made him almost stutter, and, turn
ing to her aunt, remarked with appar-
entity unconscious naivete:
" Sweetheart is such a careless fellow
Come here, you rascal. Then, as the
spaniel responded to her call, she fast
ened the dainty creation around his
neck. and bowling sweetly to the officer
passed on, with the wondering animal
scampering in front of her. If her pet
had been a toy terrier she would have
been lost. 1t is scarcely necessary to
add that when Sweetheart returned to
the hotel he was not sporting a blue silk
collar with gold clasps on it,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
Lowell az a Great Letter Writer.

In no respect do these letters show us
Lowell at greater advantage than in the
various relations of friendship and af-
lection that enriched his life. He had
the warmest heart, the kindest DISPOSE
ton, In the world. There are letters
here that must have made the men and
women who received them wonder what
they had done that God should be so
good and give them such friend.
These. with the rest, will give TO
LowelPs literary work a background OF
personality that will bring it into clear
relief, and make that and him even
more dear to the whole English-speak-
ing world than they have been hereto
fore.-John W. Chadwick in the March
TNo,~
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
Picking ont n Husband.

For a mans birth look 10 his linen and
finger nails and observe the infections
of his voice. For his tastes study the
color Of his ties. the pattern and hang
of his trousers. his friends and his rings,
If any. For his propensities walk round
and look carefully at the back of his
head and remember. girls, never to
marry man whose neck bulges ever so
little over his collar. If you want a sue
cessful man see that he has a neat foot.
He will move quicker, get over obstacles
faster. than a mai who falls over his
own toes and trips up other folks with
'em. too. For breeding talk sentiment
to him when he is starving and ask him
to carry a bandbox down the public
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
The sickroom.

When nursing a person who is likely
to be i'll some time, move her into a
sunny room and also the largest you
have. Remove all curtains and super
fiuous drapery and unnecessary furni-
ture. In sickness wear a washing gown
and shoes without high heels. Remove
all flowers from the room each night at
bedtime and always reject cut flowers
that are at all withered. Keep all soda
tives and strong drugs out of the pa
tents reach and if possible under lock
and key. | have known several cases
Of self-destrucJion from the patients
helping themselves to a soothing drug
and taking an enthusiastically Maya
zine.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
Our Greatest strength and weakness.

There is probably no government in
the world today as stable as that of the
United States. The chief advantage of
democratic government is, in a country
like this. the enormous force it can COM
mand on an emergency. BY "emer-
gency'' 1 mean the suppression of an
insurrection in the conduct of foreign
war. But it is not equally strong in the
ordinary work of administration. A good
many governments, by far inferior to it
in strength, fill the offices, collect the
taxes or administer justice, and do the
work of legislation with much greater
efficiency.-E. L. Godkln, in the March
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
An Able Boston Woman.

There is an exceedingly able woman
in Boston who can report a speech de-
livered rapidly in German, she first
translating the speech into English and
then recording it in stenographic charac-
tsrs. Such CELEBRITY of thought is only
approached by the tradition respecting
X ossuth who is said to have thought in
Hungarian translated into Latin and
resransiated and uttered at rapid rate
the choicest English. born of a study of
the bible and speare.--BostOn Con-
gTega tiOnalSt
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-09
Women of the French salon.

Women are today clamoring perhaps
more vociferously than in any previous
age of the world for their rights. and
yet il is very doubtful if the world will
ever again see women exercising that
subtle influence that was welded in the
French salon by women who dressed
for men, talked for men and made
jumping-jac of them al their own i'm
periOus wills.
Just imagine one Of Marie Antoinette's
small and earlies'' being attended by
women exclusively. or conceive, if you
can. how Nine. de Stael would have
withered you with scorn if you had
given her a female audience alone for
her brilliant sallies. And yet Napoleon
was afraid of her.-Jeannette H. Wal
worth