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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24

tations Of sentence. and no pardons-
There is simply condign and inevitable
punishment. The evil OF fast eating is
obvious. The forcing OF unchewed or
partially chewed food into the stomach
is suicidal. It is dishonest in that it
tries to cheat nature, and unfair in hat
it puts on one riga work which should
be done by another. 1t is an attempt
by one member of a firm to perpetrate
a fraud ON another. 1t is an effort on
the part of the mouth to make the
tomac do extra work. and work.
moreover. which It was never intended
that the m should do and which
it is not equipped for doing. No won
der it rebels and retaIiates with dys-
pepsia.
Few persons realize what an impor-
tant part saliva plays as a digestive
agent. 1t daes a work which cannot be
performed unaided by the gastric juice,
and it's work is continued after the food
reaches the stomach. It is therefore of
great Importance that food, before
reaching the stomach, should be COM
pletely saturated with saliva. and this
can only be done by thorough and de-
liberate mastieation. A medical author
ity says:
It is more than probable that hasty mas
tication is one of the principal causes of
dyspepsia in Americans. The gastric juice
cannot act upon the starch in food; it can
only act upon gluten and other heterogeneous
elements OF bread and other cereal foods
after these elements have been set free by
the action of the saliva upon the starch,
which constitutes the greater bulk of these
food substances. This neglect of i1aStica-
ton and resulting salivary indigestion ex-
plain the enormous demand for malt prep
~arations 1--WE do not refer to beer, Which is
worthless as a digestive agent which has
sprung up within the last few years. The
product of malt digestion, or maltese, is
precisely the same as that of salivary oil
gestion, the action of the saliva upon the
starch resulting in the production, not OF
glucose, as was formerly supposed, but OF
maltese
Tt has been demonstrated, also, that
the saliva which is taken into the stom-
ach with food stimulates the secretion
of gastric juice. thus performing an in
direct as well as a direct function in
digestion.
The best cure for dyspepsia, and the
one that is likely to prove most lasting
and effective, is, first, the avoidance of
indigestible food, and, second, the thor
ough ma~stication of h is eaten. The
complete pulverization of every parti-
Gle of solid food and it's complete satu-
ration, not with water. but with saliva,
is natures cure for dyspepsia.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Chicago VIGOROUSLY announces that there
are two hundred s1iterary persons and
poets living there now.
Buffalo detectives who saw Eugene
Fields photograph, without knowing his
name, pronounced him IAN all round crook.
willing to take anything from a nickel up"
In a recent address in San Francisco the
Rev. H. r. Haweis, the well-known Eng
fish clergyman, said that Moses was an adj
yocate of polygamy and slavery. The state
ment has made the clergy of the city very
Indignant.
The wife of the Japanese Mikado is a
w~ide-awake little woman who is very active
physically and mentally She takes much
interest in public affairs. and it is said that
the Mikado has learned to put a great deal
Of confidence in her Judgment regarding af-
fairs of great moment.
A lady asked Rabbi SCHNEIDER, OF Boston.
the other day if Jonah was really swallowed
by a whale. His answer, given with a
pleasant little accent, was as follows: II
don't know anything about Ehonah, and l
don't know anything about the whale: it's
all the same as Drilby-it's a MOTEL"
Lieutenant William Fl. Beach, OF Milwau-
kee. who served during the war in the First
New York Cavalry, under Sheridan. Ayerin
and others in the Snenancoah valley. pro-
noses to make a bicycle tour of the valley
his summer for the purpose OF gathering
material for a history of the regiment
The tearing down of the old Blaine house
in Washington has caused a demand from
all parts OF the country for relics of the
great Secretary. Many people ask for bricks
for souvenirs. 1t is prnposed to reproduce
in the thea.er that Is to be erected on the
site the room in which Blaine died and to
make 1t a museum Tor Blaine relics.
News received from Teheran Is I'd the ef-
feet that the Ii of Persia c-ontemplates
paying another vint TO Europe. He VIII
sfart III May next, and cone w Nay % 81.
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Homes of wealthy People.
Illustrated American


The alacrity with which Mrs. Astor seized
upon the opportunity of DESERVING the
house which New Workers have for years
pointed out to strangers as being the abid-
ing place of the queen of American society
has called forth much comment upon the
lack of pride Americans take in clinging to
the homes Of their forefathers. Though this
Is true to a great extent, happily there are
exceptions to the rule-notably, Mrs. As
tors own brother, w. c.. Schermerhorn.
His large mansion, on Twenty-third
street, between Broadway and Sixth ave-
nue., turns a. placid face towards the many
shops that confront and surround it. The
Schermerhorls are types Of the old school
for their courage to live where and as their
ancestors did. Nothing could be more
charming than their entertainments, where
one sees hospitality in its truest sense. Mr..
and Mrs. Schermerhorn are both very mu-
steal. and invariably give their friends the
pleasure of hearing really good talent at
most Of their functions. Their musicales
this winter have been particularly delight
Plancon singing Ca va sans dire"
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sHREDs AND PATCHES.

He hath a poor spirit who is not planted
above petty wrongs.-Feltham.
1t begins to look as il the dust would be
shaken off the Monroe doctrine.-Detro
Tribune.
1t will puzzle posterity to make out why
some of her forefathers were given monu-
ments.-Ram's Horn.
You were embarrassed when you pro-
posed to me, George, were you not?" eyes.
1 owed over $50, 0o0."-Life.
For a question that was settled the Brit
ish Nicaragua matter seems to be quite
Hvely.-Phfladelphia Press.
The discovery of argon further confirms
the old suspicion that there is something
in the air.-DetrOit Tribune.
Happily, however, the two more years or
Grover are attended with mitigating cir
cumstances-Detroit Tribune.
who first discovered that we are having an
early spring.-Boston Transcript.
Some people seem to think that Cuba
would look we'll in the greater United
States.-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
We notice from the newspaper pictures
that very few of Ohio's pretty young wom-
en- are dabbling in politics.-Washington
Post.
The total depravity man, who drops in
occasionally, says he knows a good many
people, but not many good p-eople.-Boston
Courier
81 understand that Freddy is getting
ready to be married What is he doing?'
Taking lessons at the cooking school,"
Judge.
Still, we believe that If it had been Eng
land instead of Spain, Mr.. Greshatn's de-
mands would have been less saucy.-Kan-
sas City Journal.
ut seems so strange and unusual, all
this praise as Gresham probably has re-
marked to the Observation-Disclosures
North American.
The Prince of Wales is said to have the
impression that he will never be King Of
England. His mother is helping to confirm
him in his impression.-New York Mail and
Express.
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supERsTITIoUs NEGROES.
Education Unable to Do Away with
Their Belief I'm Fetfchism.

W
.Fetichism among Southern negroes is as
devoutly believed IN and as generally prac-
ticed as 1t ever was said Orr Carter, OF
Mobile, at Wizards yesterday. The ig-
norant blacks place absolute reliance in the
efficacy of certain charms. and Will never
admit the magic is at fault in case the
fates are not propitious 10 them.
"A particularly sad instance of this
fanaticism came under my observation not
long ago. A colored child on the place had
a severe attack of Group, and its old grand
mother said she would cure 1t right away.
She sent one of the boys down TO the swamp
to kill a snake, and when the reptile was
brought to her she burned its head to
ashes and made a lotion of them and put
it on the child's neck and then stripped it
naked and put IL in a cold clubhouse. OF
course the child died. When the old crea-
ture was called to account for the affair
she stoutiy maintained that she wasn't TO
blame, but the boy was because he had
brought her a black snake instead OF q
water moccasin, and she was so old and
blind that she could not tell the difference
when preparing the charm. This might
seem insanity on her part, but she brought
a dozen younger colored women, who sol
EMMY swore that they had cured their own
children of Group by the same treatment
where they used the ashes of a water
moccasin's head, and all agreed that the
child would have lived If the mistake had
not been made in the species of snake.
This is only a case in point, to illustrate the
wild practices of the ignorant darkies OF
the South
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The bicycle and Dress Reform.

Rate f1elU.
The bicycle is doing more for dress reform
than all the homilies that ever We're
preached. 1t is not possible TO sit comfort
able on a bicycle and be tramr1eled either
above or below the waist. Blouses ana
short skirts arc the result, and very pretty
they can be made, as 1 saw at that for
women only meeting of the Women's Coun-
ell the other day, A. clever Boston dress
maker exhibited herself in a capital bicycle
costume that could be worn in walking with
out exciting remark, yet was so gored in
the skirt as to resemble a riding habit.
This gore prevents displacement. which is SO
aggravating In wheeling. AT the same meet
ing she exhibited a walking dress that could
be shortened at will to suit the weather;
She also presented a house dress modelled
after the first Empire fashion that pleased
me amazingly. The waist line came where
it should, under the bosom, and yet so eX-
cellent was the cut and the trimming of rib
bon as to remove all suspicion of the outre.
These are reforms that are not only pos
sible but probable. Riding, cycling, tennis
and golf are convincing the younger genera
ton of women of the need of rational gar
ments for at least certain portions of the
day. When girls discover that they can
be as healthy as their brothers, that Nat
ure has not made them wretched invalids,
the sensation of good health will create a
gradual but certain revolution.
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COMPLAINT ABOUT school, HIsTO-
RIES.


1t is stated that one of the subjects
which will be discussed by the Grand
Army Encamprnent at Muncie this week
is the unsatisfactory character Of the
so-called histories which are used as
textbooks in his and other States. "A
committee has quietly been giving the
subject .protracted consideration. Its
members have read and discussed all
the textbooks, and, as the result, it is
intimated that a scathing report will
be p~resentedfto the encampment-
The subject is not new. Years ago
those who had occasion to read the
school histories covering the war period
found them defective and Inaccurate.
In some of them fewer pages are de-
voted to the civil war than to the war
of 1872. A few years ago the agent of
a schoolbook publisher was presenting
to the Indiana teachers convention the
prospectus of a school history which
was declared to be free from the mar
rowness of New England opinions. An
other ambitious house had a history
prepared which would be satisfactory
to both sections. Those who have read
that history Know that it has been
made satisfactory to the friends of the
late C~onfederacy, but not to the friends
of the Union.
The idea of teaching patriotism in the
public schools has caused a new inter-
est in this subject. The flag over the
schoolhouse and the patriotic salutes
are in the right direction, and now a
still more practical purpose to teach
the truth in the school histories has
made itself manifest. 1t appeared in
the action of the National Encamp-
ment and in the interest which 6. COM
mittee of all the Grand Army posts in
this city has given to detecting the
errors and omissions of The school his
tories. The work of eradication will
be an arduous and the struggle
may be ~protracted, but all patriotic peo-
pie will Join with the Union veterans
in demanding a history which shall con-
tain an impartial statement of the
causes of the war. the policies of both
sides and the results of campaigns.
Concerning the valor of the contend
ing armies, it may be said that one side
cannot honestly disparage the other.
- tHc%S OAtS IL ~ 49,
tories carries the impression that nearly
all of the valor and all of the leader
ship were m~onoDolized by the South.
h feature dismissed, the school his
tory should give a clear statement of
the causes which led to the war. the
aims of the leaders on both sides, de-
rived from their words, and the poll
cies which each pursued to attain their
respective objects. The accounts of
battles I'M campaigns should be briefly
but impartially written. Such a his
tory could be prepared, which would
not keep alive or create prejudice so
many years after the a Moreover,
the war for the Union was an event of
SO great magnitude and of such far
reaching consequences as to demand
for it in the school history as much
space as is given to the war of the rev.
olution.
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April Lippincott.

April Ilpplncott.
/ always rose late. as a tourist does i)est
to do, and started the day with bread good
French nrRaG never needs butter, and a
bowl of chocolate or cafe an lait. bought
In an occasional fit OF ex-travagance at a
creamery for 5 cents q for the drink and
i for the Ereaal, but generally or a choco-
late woman for , cents q for the drink and
far the bread.1 These chocolate women
have regular stands, IN pasSageways and
on street corners, 10 which they come with
the dawn. About 10 O'Clock in the forenoon
they leave 10 work in their homes CIR at
tend 10 their other business. They provide
workinrmen and bourgeois with a marvel
Gus combination or nutrition. cheapness and
savoriness, by the help OF two chatting irons.
4 small wooden table. a few bowls and Il
chair or two. For a slight additional sum
they win send the bread and chocolate to
your room. though why any man should
pre- fer d lone some room to the smiles and
bright talk OF the chocolate women I can
not understand. Soup women appear and
dixappear at the same time as the chocolate
women They also have two chafinx ironsH
Tor soup and for hot water. .krenchmela
and zol1n.s some one has 4AId> AR con
vertf6le terms Whenever = Ersnr1m&n n
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case of light-minded readers, but with
those having power to- appreciate the
best. Du Maurier told a story that
charmed the world, but he was teaching
no system of ethics.
And the people who say there are nc
stories to tell in this unromantic, un-
eventful end Of the century-let them
read a single issue of a daily paper and
change their views. In yesterdays
Journal, for example. there are the
themes for a dozen novels-and the CEN
trail thought is all the skillful writer
wants, whether a pure a tale
of adventure or a detective story is to
be produced. iii the news columns yes
terday there is the story of a Cana
dian. a bookkeeper in a florists shop.
who, after a thirty years battle with
adverse fate. has fallen heir to a Scot
fish earldom through a series of deaths
in other branches of his family. That
is a subject for Gilbert Parker. There
is a will contest for a millionaire es-
tate-a theme well worn in fiction, but
always popular; there are suggestions
of wild adventure in the Cuban and
South American news, there is the ac-
count of the mysterious woman in
black who sets fire to churches. There
is the indiana farmer who went insane
over the building of a gravel road;
there is a .sfaith-cure" death-themes
that would be sufficient for a Miss Will
kins. There is the story of a man who
p~ersonated his brother, applied for a
pensions, was detected, tried and sem
fenced, and died suddenly on his way
to prison-incidents suggesting detec-
tive possibilities and dramatic handling.
There is the strange story of a woman
who for twenty-six years has wandered
about the world dressed in mems cloth
ing and without discovery. All these
things, of course must pass through
the alembic of a gifted imagination and
must be invested with a glamour of
reality that bare facts do not have. The
great trouble, indeed, is not that ro-
nance no longer exists or that adven-
ture is no more; these will last while
the human creature is what he is. The
lack is of writer's who are equal. to the
occasion. England is developing a num-
Der of such novelists, out in this coun-
try the supply is short, and no one can
say why.
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Men a. Tea Drinkers.
Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times.
1t would be strange If, after all, just
when the women have almost run tea drink
ing into the ground, that the men should
take it up. Yet II looks very much that
way. A great deal of notice is taken of the
fact that the new reform executive of New
York city, Mayor Strong. drinks tea all
through business hours, and, when a partic-
ular guest comes in, passes the cup around
There is nothing new about 1t, however.
A Justice of the Supreme Court OF Penn
sylvania and more than one of the city
judges refresh themselves regularly with
this beverage, and more than one business
man and not a few doctors of Philadelphia
have tea kettles and all the necessary ad-
juncts ready. The custom is evidentiilyI
owing and doubtless before long II VIII
be very much the same here as il is In Eng
land, where hey drink tea at the bank, IN
Parliament, on Change and at the clubs.
A cup of good tea. properly made, rs some
thing not to Se d~espased, and a man may
drink many things much worse for MS Oh
geStiOn.
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The M-etaphvsical club. OF BOSTON. co.

The metaphysical Cub, OF Boston, COM
posed of women, nave christened their club
house 1.-THE Procopaii,' the Greek word for
progress This is not so absurd as
"Wimodaughsis," and almost equal to
'Propylaeum.'' BY the way, it may interest
some who are striving after the unknow-
able to learn that physic science has estab-
lished the fact that there is the higher and
lower self; that the higher self is the soul,
which has existed from all eternity, and
which has stored up infinite resources of
knowledge and experience; that the lower
or temporal self is the product of this part
of its lifetime-of the temporal world, and
has in his own right only that knowledge,
only those resources of experience which it
has acquired or achieved during the twenty,
fifty or eighty years of it's sojourn here
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rhe western Editor.
Mary d. stickney. in Llppincott.

MARY 4. SticKnfy, III LlppIICUtr
Whatever the profit in actual dollars and
cents. however, there seems a certain charm
about the life that is endlessly sustaining:
1t may be the stimulating effect OF the light
atmosphere that makes hope seem most or
all eternal in the Western breast ana the
Western editor is, of all men. most bound
his best bravely. according to his lights.
living like a philosopher and working like a
,lorse. and if success does not I'LL his cup
TO OVERLOOKING, he at least may find COM
pensating satisfaction in the proud rehec-
tion Enthusiastically expressed in a Boul-
der p,ol1 paper Microbes do not gather
upon the busins IS end of our enterprise"
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BOsIOu ITdTsITIPF-
Men who are worrying as to what the
women's clubs may have in store for them
will be interested TO know that the Friday
club. Of Everett. last week devoted a whole
meeting TO their interests. The subject.
man. was opened by an excellent paper
on ssPrehistcric Man. by Mrs. A. l.. Hall.
Miss NJ. e. Foster followed with a paper on
primitive Man." written In her usual
bright ard entertaining manner. After this
Miss l.. F.. Ingram gave a most interesting
talk on Man of the Middle Ages and
the afternoon closed with an enjoyable pa
per on Man of To-day by Mrs. X. T.
Harhins, who drew her illustrations from
noted men OF the present time.
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When the Bell Telephone Company re-
duces it's rentals from $40 a year to $12
q year for dwellings and SIS for stores.
as it has in Decatur, ILL.,, it is evident
that If the company can pay expenses
at these reduced rates it has been maxi
Ing a great deal of money heretofore.
1t is also evident that with the advan-
tage the Bell now has it can prevent
new capital from being invested in COM
peting plants.
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The Spanish government made a mis-
take in not accepting the resignation
of Senior Muruaga, minister at Wash
ington, which was rendered recently.
The minister has committed some Ia
grznt violations of official etiquette in
his conversations with newspaper men
concerning the Alliance affair, and has
made himself personally SO offensive to
the Secretary of State that his recall
will undoubtedly be asked for. As
Spain cannot refuse to comply with this
request when it is made. she would bet
ter have accepted the minister's resig-
nation when it was rendered.
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The Central Telephone Company offers to
reduce its rates to subscribers. for which
favor thanks are due; but what the In
dianapolis patrons would like to know is
why their rates are still held SO much
higher than those of the small towns.
There may be a reasonable explanation of
the fact, but they are not able to under
stand it without a diagram In other lines
of business the larger the sale of a COM
modify the lower the dealers can afford
to put the price. In the telephone business
an opposite system seems to be in force.
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Edinburgh, Scotland, has a new club
called the Walter Scott Club, the object
of which is to foster the reading and study
of SCOTS works by the young people. This
is rather surprising, since the common sup
position is that Scotch youth are fed with
Scott along with their porridge.
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The long suffering public has hardly
recovered from the description of Miss
Gould's bridal outfit before it is bombarded
with advance notices of that of Miss Letter.
of Chicago. who is soon to marry an Eng
lish M. r. 1t is thrilling to learn that the
skirt of one of Miss Letters dresses will
be not less than nine yards around the bot
tow, M
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The Monroe doctrine has not prevent
ed European nations from capturing
and enjoying for years past the great
bulk of South American trade. While
we have been sticking about the inter-
probation of a phrase they have quietly
converted nearly ali the South Ameri-
can states into European commercial
-eDendeucie
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the proposal shall have been made to
three different women or to the same
woman three different times. but in
either case 1t seems no more than Just.
A mar who has been rejected three
times either by the same woman or by
different ones is entitled to sympathy.
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BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
strange.

"Wasn't there a suicide club in your town
once?"
Yes; but the fad became a chestnut and
it died a natural DEATH