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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24

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suamed a sisterhood at Clever. and he said.
A3ood Cod What do you think sne mas
donc2 She has gone and made nerseiI eNace-
~ like a penwiperr
A correspondent OF the Boston Transcript
says that Mr.. Aubrey Beardsley Is coming
to America this spring probably In April.
Mr. Beardsley proposes to lecture upon ms
own peculiar theories of his own peculiar
art He tells the correspondent that he finds
the studies for his women mainly at the ~
James's restaurant, and that he CONSIDERS
the women whom he sees there-anu wno
are all OF one classic be the most uls-
tinctive and interesting types Of. OF mone IN
women, to be found. says: these ,, are
the only women who dress well They are
the type of life to-day.
Some Catholic papers criticise Marion
Crawfords serial story now running IN
the Century magazine and say that parts or
it are an insult to Catholics. They par
ticularly condemn his making the heroine,
a Carmelite nun. break her vows and elope
with Protestant physician. Mr. CRAWFORD
Is said to be a Roman Catholic himself.
Mr.. Outlook is informed that the story, as
printed so far in the Century, is true, ex-
cept that the scene of the actual occur
renee was in South America instead or IN
Italy. The nun who really escaped from a
Carmelite convent with a Scotch surgeon,
was the niece of a bishop. skeleton was
placed in her bed when 1t was fired instead
of a body as In Mr.. Crawfords story
wife reached the seacoast and were taken
aboard an English vessel, whence they
sailed to Scotland and lived for many
years in Edinburgh. The part OF Mr..
ing the punishment visited upon the pair
for their sin. Is imaginary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-10

tainty that cooks are born. not made,
makes it equally certain that some per-
sons never can become good cooks. no
matter what amount of instruction.
training practice they may have As
some persons have no ear for music and
others are naturally color blind, so some
have no talent for cookery. To try to
make good cooks out Of these is like
trying to make ballet dancers out of
club-footed girls or artists out of color
blind people.
Everybody knows that bad cooking is
prolific source of dyspepsia and do
mestic trouble. destroyer of appetite,
a ruiner of stomachs and an aboElina-
ton generally. But not everybody
knows that one Of the most common
and worst forms of bad cooking is half
cooking or undercooking. The things
that can be injured by overlooking are
comparatively few. while those that are
ruined by half cooking or undercooking
are numerous. In other words. half
cooking and undercookng constitutes a
large part of bad bookings No matter
how well things are seasoned, ii they
are undercooked they are not fit to eat
Let any one take a half-cooked dish Of
to-day, especially meats. and cook it as
much more tomorrow, and one will dis
cover the difference between partial and
thorough cooking. With vegetables
thorough cooking brings out their fla
vor, and with meats it makes them ten
der, juicy, palatable and digestible. In
a community where people pay for their
domestic fuel by the year why should
anybody eat undercooked food? The
difference between half-cooked and
thoroughly cooked food represents only
a little time and patience. Left upon
the range long enough. the fire will do
the rest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-10
GAsTRoNoM1cAL HYGIENIcs.

1t is an old subject, yet one of peren-
NAL interest Everybody that exists
eats. Not all persons attach equal i'm
portance to the function. Some eat to
live and others live to eat, but in one
way or another all recognize the necessi-
ty of the practice. While there may
have been cases of life having been
shortened by overeating, there is no in
stance on record of it being prolonged
by starvation. In short, the connection
between living and eating seems to be
logical as well as physiological.
Eating implies food, and food implies
cooking. Rare food is badge of bar
barism. especially as to meats Most
fruits can be eaten raw, if thoroughly
ripe, but in any state short of thorough
ripeness they should be cooked. And
even if ripe they ought to be as nearly
fresh as possible. A peach or an orange
freshly plucked from the tree is very
different from one that has been plucked
green and ripened off the tree, or from
ones plucked ripe and allowed to lie
many days. People who live where or
anges grow declare that those do not
know what the fruit really is who eat
it after it has been <plucked before it
is fully ripe and transported thousand
miles from its parent branch. There is
a vast difference between a ripe water
melon fresh from the vine and cool with
the morning dew and one that has
ripened in freight cars. commission
houses and grocery stores. But even
unripe fruits are improved by cooking,
as, indeed. is almost everything in the
edible line
While it is entirely permissible to eat
raw fruits, the eating of grains raw is
scarcely to be thought of, though some
cranky vegetarians advocate and prac-
tice it. and the eating of raw meats is
barbarous. The effects of the latter can
be sufficiently studied in its influence on
the lower animals. Every sportsman
knows that raw meat blunts hunting
dogs fine sense of smell. as well as his
intelligence, and every dog fancier
knows that it brutalizes them. If raw
meat is bad for dogs it is bad for men
and women. and the better cooked it is
the better
The prominent evils of American
cooking probably are bad cooking and
half cooking Bad cooking Implies lack
of judgment. lack of care. painstaking
and watchfulness, bad seasoning and
want of knowledge how to make things
good. Cooks. like poets. are born, not
made. When Sir Joshua Reynolds was
asked how he mixed his paints he an
swered. with brains and so cooking
should be done. Calves brains can be
made very toothsome dish. but they
need to be capked with human brains
ana Favored with intellect. The GER
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-10
The DRIFT OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS.

That class of demagogues whose only
hope of political preferment lies in the
success they may attain in arousing the
jealOuSieS of the mass of people against
those who are regarded as capitalists
and monopolists are constantly telling
us that the legislation and the decisions
of the privileged few and against the
rights of the masses. AS a matter of
fact, the general tenor of all national
and State legislation in the larger States
for years has uniformly tended to Sc
cure the rights of the masses. In the
same direction have been the decisions
of the higher courts. and particularly
of the Supreme Court of the United
States. The recent decision affecting
patents and practically destroying mo-
nopolies worth hundreds of millions is
not the first or the most important de-
cree of the highest tribunal of the Ma
ton tending to broaden the power of
the people over the great corporations
whose operations affect all citizens
Forty years ago the Supreme Court
would not have held that Congress had
the power to place restrictions upon
what are known as interstate railroads
to the extent of requiring them to give
the same rates for transportation to all
shippers. and even to fix rates which
shall be reasonable. 1t is very doubt
full if the Supreme Court of the United
States, forty years ago, would have af-
frmed the right of States to fix the
rates of transportation, limiting the ex-
ercise OF that power to what is just to
railway companies Within recent years
that tribunal. having rejected the mar
row construction of the Constitution,
has done all these things BY the de-
cisions of that court the railways are
quite as much under the control of gov
eminent as IL they were its property.
The latest decision affecting the life or
patents seems to be based upon the
same principle as that which led the
court to sustain the interstate-commerce
act. which is that the Constitution and
the laws under Il are designed to pro-
mote the welfare of TIE peoole At large
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-10
HUMORISTS AT WAR.

Max O'Rell enters the North American
Review with hop. skip and jump, and
proceeds to haul Mark Twain over the
Goals in a truly artistic manner. Twain
recently read translation of Paul
Bourgeois book on America and criti-
cised it numerically, incidentally in
dulging IN some remarks relative to the
French people which O'Rell considers
coarse and Insulting rather than humor-
Gus. Mr. O'Rell himself regards Bour-
gets work, so far as it's opinions are
concerned. as a huge joke. because no
man can properly have opinions con-
corning country when he has known
it but six months Twain, he declares,
cannot appreciate other peoples jokes,
professional humorists lacking capacity
in that direction. Bourgeois book in the
original is, he says, so beautiful in style
as to make him forget its faults of opin-
ion, but even when the latter are con-
sidered they deserve nothing worse than
light ridicule. Twain, instead, INDUCES
in spiteful filings and vulgar retorts,
quoting, for instance. this pleasantly
from Frenchman: II suppose life can
never get entirely dull to an American,
because whenever he can't strike up any
other way to put in his time, he can al
ways get away with a few years trying
to find who his grandfather was" To
it he replies: II reckon a Frenchman's
got his little standby for a dull tir1e,
too; because when all other interests
fail he can turn in and see if he can't
find out who his father was"
O'Rell considers the first remark
good-natured bit of chatting on Ameri-
can snobbery and the last a gratuitous
charge Of immortality hurled at French
women, and he "roasts'' Mr.. Twain
accordingly. The American acknowl-
edged that he read Zola's la Terre''
when he wanted to know Paris. and
O'Rell says this is as if one visiting the
city on the lake should read Stead's
IF Christ Came to Chicago" as guide
He (Twain) has read La Terre'-this
kind-hearted, refined humorist," says
the Frenchman. When Mark Twain
visits garden does he smell the violets
the roses. the jasmine or the honey
suckle? No, he goes in the far-away
corner where the soil is prepared"
Then Mr.. O'Rell, whose own humor as
commonly known, is light, and delicate,
drops his airy style of satire and habit
of discussing natural traits in toler-
ant, good-humored way, and savagely
proceeds to point out some American
faults and foibles. 1t must be acknowl-
edged that he gets rather the better of
Twain and has no need to apologize for
the quality of his English, which he con-
fesseS. not to find easy writing, but it
is rather a pity that humorists should
fall out and go to scolding. It is true
that Twain's peculiar style of humor is
apt to verge upon the vulgar and bru-
tai, and that he does not grow more re-
fined as he gets on in years. but it was
hardly worth the cost of fit of anger
for the Frenchman to pay heed to him
when Americans do not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-10

A. scientific lecturer before a working
mans club in Philadelphia says the cheap
est gas for general manufacturing purposes
is what is technically known as semi-water
gas, and is made by injecting a continuous
blast of air and steam mixed into a cupola
furnace especially designed for the purpose.
which is filed to depth OF from four feet
to six feet with coal One ton of coal will
furnish between ao.o0o and 10000 cubic feet
of semi-water gas, containing from 100000
to g 600, 600 heat units. He does not mention
the cost of this, tat asserts that a good
quality of Illuminating gas can be put into
the holder for 20 cents per 1000 cubic feet.
He predicts that the time is near when
manufactured gas will be commonly used as
fuel All the facts go to show that the pres
ent profits on manufactured gas are epor-
nous, and it is reasonably certain that even
monopolies will be gradually forced to reduce
their rates. If illuminating gas can be pro-
duced at a cost of % cents a thousand feet,
a quality suitable FOR fuel must cost still
less and this makes the efforts of the Gas
Trust in this city tc establish a meter sys-
tenn and charge consumers 20 cents thou
sand feet for the natural product the more
preposterous. IT will be time to talk of
meters when natural gas gives out entirely.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-10
LITERARY NOTES.

In England they call Bret Harte "the
Dickens of the Sierras."
1t is reported that the title Of Mrs
Humphrey Wards new novel will be .orhe
Story of Bessie Costrell,' and that 1t is a
tale of English village life.
A copy of Shakespeares "Jest Book -
Singers edition, containing nine unpub-
lished and characteristic drawings by
Thackeray, sold in London the other day
for $S7.
Margaret Deland, Sarah Orne Jewett and
Mrs. Burton Harrison will try to settle in
the next number of the Ladies' Home Jour-
nal when the word woman" and when
the term lady should be employed.
Miss Varina Jefferson Davis's novel, 1.-THE
Yelled Doctor which was announced some
weeks ago. will be published by Messrs
Harper & Bros. Those who have seen the
manuscript describe the story as strong
and original
ers manufactured in this country in 1894,
SIT books by English and other foreign
authors made here, and 1.086 books i'm
ported. The largest number of reprints was
in fiction, 297 which falls far behind last
year, when there. were Ss4- The greatest
number OF importationS was in theology
and religion, 2b2
In letter to Edmund Gosse, written by
Stevenson on the very day of his death,
he says: II was not born for age. !.
1 am childless, rather bitter. very clear
eyed, blighted youth And at the end OF
the letter: Il have, in fact, lost the path
to descend the hill. am going at it
straight. And where have got to go down
it is a prec1plce
Julian Hawthorne, the novelist. writes
home from Jamaica. in the West Indies,
that he is delighted with his island home
and is raising sweet potatoes and cultivat-
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work, since there is hardly city payer
anywhere on which they are not regularly
employed The only thing the women 5
edition can do is to show the feminine nor
professional idea of the newspaper-in
short. to exhibit the amateurishness OF the
amateurs. Most specimens of these papers
that have come to hand are wonderfully
constructed There is a great run OF es-
says, as If each contributor had taken the
opportunity to work off old club paper.
good many women discourse upon their
pet hobbies, there is less gush and senti-
ment than might be expected, but a great
lack of real news of the day. There is
very little humor, the enterprise evidently
resting with such weight upon the editors
as to convey an impression of heaviness and
solemnity to the reader who rashly dips
into Its pages. For it is safe to say that
few take more than a dip-only those read
ing the sheet thoroughly who are respons-
ible for it's contents.
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sHREDs AND PATCHES.

Two dinners and postoff1ce seems to have
been the net price of Senator Hill.-Detroit
Tribune
Compliments to Mr.. Reed, and the Demo-
Gratis have billion dollar Congress of their
own.-Atlanta Constitution.
Bfobbs-Why do you call one of your rela-
tives Aunt and the other "Awnt?"
slobbs-Well, the other has money.-Atlanta
Constitution.
1t may be trif1e late for the remark, but
the net used by Count Castellane to catch
his bride was the coronet.-Pittsburg Chron-
icle-Telegraph.
1t is becoming more apparent every day
that the successful bank robber is the one
who draws salary from the institution.
Chicago Post.
Without self-denial 1t is impossible to
carry the conviction of our own sincerity to
General Booth.
There are some good people who will not
assist a man in his trouble until he has adj
nlitted that he has brought it on himself
--Atchison Globe.
The wise man never let's spring beguile
him into swapping his snow shoes for pail
I metto fan and a ticket to the picnic.-Af-
lanta Constitution.
Does your mother know your route?''
was the question of girl to her friend, who
had confided to her the plans of her clope-
ment--Detroit Free Press
Barber-You ought to know the mamie
lives down the street. Customer-Smooth-
faced man? Barber (contemptaously)-N
he shaves himself.-Puck.
The onion is found when analysed to con-
sist of ninety-one parts water. Think what
a majestic vegetable it would be II it were
all onion.-Chicago TRIBUNE.
This is .'the theory and practice OF medi-
cine, You look sick and try to tell the doc
tor what ais you. He looks wise and tries
to give you remedy.-Puck.
1t Is said to be impossible to obtain a di-
vorce In Oklahoma now until the applicant
has been resident of the Territory FORTY
eight hours--Kansas City Journal
With $4,000 year ane the privilege OF re-
marrying. Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt might cas-
ily secure French count for her second
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-10
Use. of Literary CLUBS.

In spite of the existence of the great num-
Der of Indianapolis clubs having a literary
or other intellectual purpose, there is by no
means a unanimity of opinion as to their
unqualified benefits to the membership Some
even among the members are boldly deelar-
ing their belief that the preparation of elab-
crate papers on all sorts of subjects by
people who are without special knowledge,
but must gain their facts from encyclo-
pedias, and who have neither literary abii-
ity nor originality, is not edifying to the
persons compelled to listen, nor of particu-
lar advantage to the writer's. But, how
ever opinions may differ ON this question,
there is no denying that clubs confer a
benefit when they are the means of bring
ing distinguished specialists and men of
genius u here whom otherwise the public
might not have the opportunity of meeting.
The Contemporary Club has done much in
this line, its list of entertainers during the
past two or three years including many
noted names, among them Professor Swing,
Dr. Jordan, Harriet Hosmer, James Lane
Allen, Washington GLADDEN., Professor Won
Hoist and Heinrich Hensoldt. These per-
sons did not meet the general public but
the club membership being large, the adj
vantage to the community from their lee
lures and readings has been widely felt.
When such entertainments are offered with
out the restriction Of club membership, the
favor is of course, greater The Century
Club recently did graceful act in inviting
its friends to listen to Mr.. F. Hopkinson
Smiths happy delineations of life as he has
seen it in all parts of the world. So well
were the listeners pleased that another club,
the Portfolio, in order to meet demand,
has engaged the same gentleman for a Sc
ries of lectures, which will be open to all.
The local columns describe the character of
these, comment upon them not being peril
nent here. A word about the man himself
is not out of place, however, since he is
living reputation of the modern idea that in
order to succeed in life each individual must
devote his energies to following q single
speciality. Mr.. Smith combines successfully
the varied qualifications that go to make
practical man of business, an artist, lit
terateur, reader whose skill is almost that
of the actor, and a lecturer In private life
he is the head of a prosperous civil en-
gineering firm, and attends strictly to its
business for several months of the year.
He became known to the public as an artist
and illustrator before he began to, write for
publication and his Colonel Carter en-
deared him to his readers. Not every man
can follow such a variety of occupations,
because not every man is an alI-around gem
ius, but Mr. Smiths career proves that a
man of aesthetic tastes need not necessarily
abandon their cultivation though he must
spend the most of his time in the grind of
professional work or in commercial pur-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-10

The fact that for the second time the
first prize in the State 'oratorical con-
test has been taken by young woman
should set the young men thinking.
Perhaps good subject for their debat-
ing societies would be Where Are We
and Whittier Are We Drifting?" Incl
dentally, perhaps. it might be well to
inquire of what use is it to the average
young woman to be able to face an au-
dience and make speech, and whether
the time devoted 10 oratory might not
be much more profitably spent in some
other way
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-10

1t is close question whether a bill
that has been vetoed by the Governor
and failed once of passage over his veto
can be called up for another vote The
question on the return of a vetoed bill
is. "Shall the bill pass, the Governors
objections to the contrary notwithstand-
ing?" and as this is the only question
that can be put it would seem that the
vote on it is final Nevertheless. there
is some ground for a different view. and
If the friends of a vetoed measure can
rally votes enough to pass it on sec
ond trial they are justified in testing
the question.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-10

Pennsylvania has an Industrial art
school. which is the only institution or
its kind in the United States. 1t was
established in 1876 and owes its origin
to the increased interest awakened in
artistic manufactures by the centennial
exhibition of that year. It's purpose is
not to teach art. as such, but to furnish
such instruction in drawing, painting
modelling, carving and designing as is
required by designers. superintendents
ana worlmen In factories. In view Of
Iii the aimIess art work on the one
hand and the anxiety on the other
among young people who have spent
uuch dine IA study n ind = means of
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weakness

The Commissioner Of Internal Reve-
nue. has made the following ruling as to
the liability of building and loan assoc
Citations under the income tax law:
F'irst-Building and loan associations.
when clearly exempt by the provisions of
the income tax are not required to make
any character of return.
Second-Building and loan associations are
exempt only when, by the character of
their organization and the conduct of their
business, they fall clearly within the speci-
fed class of such exempt corporations des-
ignated by the law.
The law exempts building and loan
associations which make loans only to
their shareholders Under the Com
missioner's ruling such associations do
not have to make any return at all I'M
der the law, while all associations that
loan to persons not shareholders are
liable to the taxand must make returns.