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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06

Australia. Here is a field for promoters Of
the flying machine and perpetual motion
order to cultivate.
One of the men who will be most in the
public eye during the next month or two
is Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode
Island. Senator Aldrich has been in the
upper house of Congress for sixteen years,
and his third term win expire in 1899. His
career is a striking illustration of the sue
cess which attends tireless attention TO de-
tails in legislative speciality, when backed
by comprehensive grasp of affairs in
large way. When Senator Aldrich was first
given a place on the finance committee he
found among many Of the older members
shocking lack Of exact information about
many matters that struck him as of the
highest Importance. TO supply himself with
information he began grubbing for it, and
he has been grubbing ever since, until he
is now recognized as the leading authority
in Congress on tariff and revenue matters.
lie knows more about more things that
enter into the manufacturing and products
of this country than any man living, it is
claimed. and he has this vast store of
knowledge constantly on tap. where it is
available for instant use. His mind is a
necessary to the intelligent formation of a
tariff BILL BY natural selection he is given
the management of the bill by his Repub-
lican colleagues. and is bearing the brunt
of the debate on their behalf In appear
ance Senator Aldrich is like tens of thou
sands Of other prosperous, practical busi-
ness men. He is white haired, large
framed, big headed, square-jawed and alert
both intellectually and DhVsicallV being
quick Of action and prompt of speech at all
times.
The use Of the mails for the commission
Of frauds is less now than ever before in
tne history OF the government. Some little
petty swindling is going on, of course, but
the laws against the improper use of the
mails are so very rigid and so severely en-
forced that swindlers find it to their advan-
tage to employ their talents elsewhere En-
forcement of the law against the use of the
mails for lottery schemes has driven these
enterprises out of the field entirely. Lot
teries or drawing of prizes by the wheel
methods or similar devices are things of
the past in this country, and will never re-
turn. One or two foreign lotteries do a
precarious business by illicit methods, but
they steer clear of the mails in the DISPOSE
ton of their merchandise. The Postofice
Department has not succeeded in entirely
graduating the bond lottery schemes. but
its agents are breaking up these institu-
lions as fast as they appear. The depart
ment has been of great service during the
past few months in stopping wholesale
swindling by means of fraudulent specula-
tive pools in grain and stocks
W. c.. NICHOLAS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06

The Picturesque and Peculiar City of
Saba, in the West Indies.

ST. Nicholas.
a1 II you will 1T take down yqgr Biographies
will notice. between the islands of Santa
CRUZ and st. Christopher, two small isIets
which, unless your map is unusually
large ana complete one, will have no names
gwen. These two islands belong to the
Dutch, and the most northerly and westerly
of them is called Saba.
The Dutch are noted for their odd and
quaint customs and for their perseverance,
Holland being sometimes called the Land
OF OF Pluck but | doubt If anywhere in all
their possessions have these curious people
shown their queer and eccentric habits to
greater advantage than in the little out-of-
the-Way island of Saba.
The island is small, its greatest diameter
being not over two and one-half miles and
II is nothing more than an isolated noun
tam top rising out of the sea. The sides
are very steep and high, rising in places for
a sheer 1000 feet. There is no harbor, no
peach, no safe anchorage, and no large
trees on the island. Although Saba has
population of over $500 yet you might sail
al around 1t without seeing any signs Of
houses or settlements. If you wished to
you would have TO do so on a shelving rock
on the southern side of the island, and here
you would ind steep, winding flight OF
side.
Following these steps. which number eight
hundred, and are called THE Ladder" you
at last reach the top of the mountain, and.
looking inland see d small grassy plain
covered with neat white. red-roofed houses.
the whole surrounded on every side by tow
ering peaks and precipices covered with
beautiful fern trees, bamboos and wild
plantains. This little town. the only one on
the island, is known as The Bottom "a
curious name, surely; but it is well named,
nevertheless, for the plain on which it IS
built Is nothing more than the bottom OF the
crater Of an extinct volcano
Descending the slope into this queerest Of
queer towns you find the streets simply
narrow paths walled with stone higher in
places than your head while every inch OF
earth Is cultivated with true Dutch thrift
ana industry Here and there small patches
OF sugar cane, yams and arrOWroot are side
by side with beans, corn and potatoes, with
PAIN ana banana trees rising over all. The
population consists of whites and negroes IN
nearly equal numbers. while the blue-eyed
and tow-headed children play with black
skinned and curly-haired pickaninnies. but
all are Dutch in speech, manners and looks.
The houses, shops, gardens-everytning Is
Dutch.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06
What They Wear.

New York Commercial Advertiser
Creamy India null waists for dressy aft
ernoon wear will in many instances take
the place of white chiffon for blouses and
surplice waists this summer, for the reason
that while India null has all the soft trans
parent effect of chiffon, it is very much
more durable. The new null waists from
Paris follow the conventional lines of the
fascinating models of silk and Liberty
satin, but they can be fashioned by various
deft modistes in a pretty and simple style
suggested by each individual Wearer. A
very pretty model from Paris of exquisitely
fine, sheer null is laid in tiny tucks with
rows of lace insertion alternating, then
gathered full about the neck into a folded
satin collar Elegant lace caps fall over
the short sleeye-puffs, and the insertion
shows on the , closely htted sleeve from
short-sleeve under bodice lace trimmed and
very snug low in the neck, and designed to
show the shoulders delicately through the
semi-diaphanous textile of the waist proper
Most of the shirt waists designed for gen.
eral wear are finished with pure white linen
collars and cuffs, but there are not a few
women who cannot wear these sttttiy
starched additions, and it is an easy matter
to remove these adjustable articles and to
substitute in their place the pretty and be-
coming little Paquin points that are sold by
the dozen, more or less, in all the fancy dry
goods houses. There are also waists of UNI
dressed China silk with turn-down collars,
the pleated front fastened with small pearl
studs, and soft-finished striped and dotted
percale, chambray, dimity, zephyr goods.
and fine French flannels briar-stitched and
finished with a ribbon stock and bow. The
smart little Etons to be worn with these
waists are variously priced, according to
the material and amount of elaboration be-
slowed upon them.
Many Of the hot weather gowns are made
with surplice bodices most gracefully ar
ranged The skirts are garnished with
ruches, frilling, flounces, ribbon in rows or
lace edgingS and insertions put on in every
manner that modern taste and ingenuity
can devise.
The boero, the Elton and all the trim
and natty little jacket effects continue to
be very much in evidence among the sea-
sons latest importations. and midsummer
will find them as Omnipresent as the birds
and butterflies. These Jackets, however in
no way interfere with the host of charm
ing and stylish basque bodices the Louis
XIV, Louis XVI, Victorian, and other his
torical coats or the pretty round waists
Breton corsages. the shirTed, corded, puffed
and tucked bodices, with skirts decorated
to correspond. Some of the very smart
models for summer gowns show the skirt
laid in alternate knife-kiltings and narrow
braided panels. Robe dresses of plain and
machine-embroidered linen, batiste or the
lighter grass linen are particularly effec-
tive so made up, and in MORE, satins, or
failles, in combination with implicated
nets, grenadines, crepe de chine, or silk
etamine, some extremely elegant costumes
are shown,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06
Odds and Ends.

A box seat is a useful piece of the porch
furniture for summer. This may hold extra
wraps, or cushions, or magazines etc. They
will then be at hand, at a moments notice
and yet not in the way when not wanted.
A very fine cream salad dressing is made
with the yolks of three hard-boiled eggs
rubbed smooth with one tablespoonful of
olive oil. Add taragon vinegar 10 taste and
then beat in slowly one cup of cream which
has been whipped stiff and dry.
gardener, one of the observant old
fashioned sort gives a suggestion that may
be, OF value to suburban residents. 1t is in
relation to the currant worm which he
says can be kept away, or. ii established
driven away. by a sprig of pine thrust in
the center of each bush.
A doctor who prides himself on his sue
cess in treating nervous dyspeptics recently
gave thin tired woman this set Of
rules" which, if carefully followed he as
sured her would make her look years
younger. feel worlds better and gain tea
pounds of flesh On rising, or one hour be-
fore breakfast, drink q glass of hot water.
For breakfast. eat soft boiled eggs, brown
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06
Summer Furnishing.
New York Mail and Express.

new YORK Mail and Express.
Every room has life and character of its
own. To have it at is best requires at
tention and action. The best housewife is
she who changes it's style to meet the
changing requirements of the year.
A room is like human being in this re-
spect 1t ought to have summer clothing
and winter clothing. In the warm season
the heavy garments should be laid away to
rest, and in cold weather the apparel of
the dog days should be likewise confined
to the storeroom. If a room is carpeted in
winter the carpet should be removed in
May and replaced by a Canton or Japan
csc mating.
DO not buy mattings in hurry. Do not
BUY them as you do kindling wood and
coal. Do not forget the fact that there are
as much beauty, variety and excellence in
mattlngS as in the coStliest rugs which ever
came out of India.
The artists of the Orient have toiled for
ages and have invented more mattings than
there are years in their everlasting calen-
dars.
You can get a mating scarcely thicker
than writing paper, so fine and smoothly
woven that in hot countries it is en-
ployed as sheet for the bed Or, on the
other hand, you can obtain a mating as
thick as a plank They can, be got in
II you have blue Delft room you can
get white and blue mating If you have
Moorish room you can obtain a mating
-.
blues and puppies make patterns as rich as
the tinted stones of the Alhambra.
Besides using mattings for the floor you
can employ them for wanscoting, for wall
covering and for upholstcrng.
Nothing is more comfortable than the old
fashioned settee, upholstered and padded
with thick mating. The rule which applies
to carpets and mattings applies with an
equal force to curtains, lambrequins and the
hangings of doors and windows.
AS the windows are going to be open in
the summer something is suitable for cur
tains and hangiEgs which can be blown to
and fro III the wind without injury. Brighter
cclors are permissible and brilliant effects
seem more in keeping with the season. For
this kind of work the Japanese straws and
beads are inimitable. OF almost equal
beauty are the California curtains made of
silk cocOons. The m3creme lace of France
is second material of which too little is
seen. The fine fishnets strung here and
there with ribbons, which charming Boston
ians employ upon windows the Maine
coast, are also to be recommended. while for
lambrequirs stamped leather or Ieatherette
strings of pine cones, the new cretons nib
erty goods and Madras and Indian goods
are all that can be desired.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06
THE VAUDEVILLE FAD
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS NOW INVEST
ED IN A LOSING VENTURE.
New York Managers Now See the
WanesOf Popular Craze-Other
Theatrical Gossip.

A dispatch from New York sounds the
death knel of the vaudeville craze in the
metropolis. There are millions of dollars
invested in New York music halls, variety
houses and theaters devoted to specially
performers, and unless there is a turn in
the receding tide of popular support there
is serious trouble ahead for at least a dozen
of these places. 1t is no secret that the
music hall managers are in a Quandary as
to what to do in order to check the fall
ing off in their receipts. The public few
seasons ago was vaudeville mad" ana
packed the music halls all winter and the
roof gardens all summer. But the appe-
title for that style of entertainment seems
to have been satiated, and even the most
expensive foreign attractions no longer
draw one-Quarter the patronage they did
a couple of years ago.
When the rush began a few seasons ago
to the music haIs-using the term compre-
hensively, to cover all amusement places of
this ,kind-they coined money AS high as
$l80000 clear profit has been made at one
house during a season. Such mine was
like the opening up of the gold fields of
Cripple Creek. Others rushed in and the
thing was worked to death in no time Mu-
sic halls multiplied. Where $4,000 was ex-
pended in one place, 1000 was soon in
vested in another, and SO it went on until
Olympia capped the climax with a two
million-dollar building.
Multiplication of theaters meant a COM
pound increase of the sharpest manager
ial rivalry. Ten dollars a week performers
gave way to list of $50 a night artists -
Actors We're fought for by competing man
ayers, who carried the battle into the Eu-
ropean specially markets, and salaries
leaped higher and higher, until Mile Gull
bert was brought over to the Olympic at
$4,000 a week, only to be followed by Chev-
alier and Loie Fuller at Roster & Balls
on salary and percentage equaling
probably that sum. Even at these salary
OUTLAWS enormous profits were made on all
these early engagements. Any one of the
three you choose to name played to over
$4,000 a week, and the managers were in
the heyday of their prosperity.
But the tide has turned and it is an open
secret that many well-known managers are
in water well up to their chins. If some
genius does not arise with a scheme capable
of drawing dollars from the public, as they
were drawn two years ago, this summer
will see Broadway strewn with wrecks OF
gigantic theatrical ventures.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06

LeSle'S Weekly.
And what is your new girls name?" nv
neighbor asked, we fingered over the 5
o'clock tea cups.
Her name is Gertrude"
DO you think she will live up to it?''
She may. 1 never knew a Gertrude who
did, outside of novel; And 1 asked her
her name and began to call her by it at
once, as if l had a perfect right to do SO. -
My dear, hadn't your'
NO real right, OF course; only the right
or lmpertinent custom. Think how l would
nave stared IL she had asked me my name
and then proceeded to call me Doris y
My neighbor herself stared for moment
or Two.
Exactly parallel. Gertrude Anderson
gives me her services for what we call a
sufficient compensation, though she knows
and | know, that the benefit is largely on
my side, but this places our relationship on
a purely business foundation. There is
nothing in me that entities me to any Serv-
ice from any human being, except that for
which 1 can give an equivalent. So while
l pay Gertrude we stand on equal grounds.
and If | were really a lady L would call her,
Miss Anderson"
All that theory is very nice. but it would
never work; servants as class, are too
1T is the class feeling that makes them
so-our attitude of placing ourselves above
them. Nature has not placed us there We
are al God women, and while 1 might be
able TO teach my housemaid 20 play a
sonata. she might. in return give me les
sons in some far higher grace. | know the
woman grandest in Christian virtues who
ever came into my life was a little Irish
washerwoman, with a face like a saint and
a soul TO match It. When she told me the
history of her early days | felt that / could
sit at her feet and learn to be noble. And
| she did not know the greatness of the life
she unfolded before met She spoke depre-
catingly-'a ashamed ITO trouble me with her
| troubles. She did not realize that she had
! taught me lesson In courage, i'm loving
/ lkindnes-yes, in subimity of soul that has
| helped me TO be a better woman ever
SINCE
We'll, you will certainly admit that she
was the exception TO the ruler?
Just as a specially high-minded woman
Is the exception 10 the rule in what we
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06
Had to Have Helm,
Kansas City journal

The old women say that If a girl is pes
tered by an undesirable admrer ii is her
own fault, for any girl can send a fellow
about his business if she half tries. This
would seem to be contradicted by a little
affair down in Franklin county the other
day. Mr.. j. @. Steel is a farmer and he
has a pretty daughter, who has been pur..
sued by a lovesick swain by the name Of
Denver Drum. Miss Steel complained TO
her father that the attentions of young
Drum We're distasteful to her; Last SUNDAY
the young fellow called at the Steel home
and insisted upon taking the girl TO church:
The father had already gone there, and
when the young couple arrived he stepped
up TO Drum on the church porch and gave
him a whipping that he will remember TO
his grave. The next day the father was
an Il, anu Ra s1e me or VI. ~ TN an
cannot discover how Miss Steel looks upon
his attentions until he is licked by her
go to singing school principally alone this
summer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06

Baltimore American.

BALTIMORE AMerlCan.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
TO Animals succeeded in having a prom
inen9 horseman in New Jersey heavily fined
for docking his horses tail, attention being
drawn to the case by the cries of the ami
nal itself under torture. 1t is to be hoped
that in time this cruel and dishguring prac-
tice will entirely pass away, and other
States would do we'll to follow the example
of New Jersey in Fastening its decay by Sc
we're laws, strictly applied to every proven
case. The senseless and brutal idea that
namental needs a humane and efficient
check
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06
Notes of the stage.

Nine. Sembrich, it is said is arranging
for visit to America next season.
Miss Hope Ross is going to London TO sue
coed Odette Tyler in Secret Service"
H. Grattan Donnelly will write a farce
comedy for the Hawthorne Sisters, which
viii be produced in November.
Mime. Modjeska will make another at
tempt to play next season. She has offered
the position OF leading man TO Maurice
Barrymore.
Elsie De Wolfe has gone to Paris for the
summer and expects to return with a play
by March Provost, in which she will star
next season.
II. Y. Leavitt has written a darky'
song. .By-by. Belinda" which is said to be
as good as anything of the kind that has
been heard In New York in a long time.
Miss Josephine Sabel sang it for the first
time last week at the Olympia Roof Garden,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06
A New Game.
New York Evening Sun.

New York Evening Sun.
A game that is likely to prove a boon to
the summer boarding place this season is
called Initials Any number Of persons
may play it, and also any kind of person,
from the fussy old man whose snoring in
the veranda hammock after dinner browns
out the voice of the mosquito to the small
boy who steals the wrenches out of the
other boarders' bicycle kits. The summer
girl and the summer man Will find the game
admirably suited to their needs, as it adj
mitS all sorts of treason being talked with
out a suspicion from the crowd. The man.
ner of playing the game is aS follows: All
the players save one sit in circle. the ex-
cepted one being seated in the middle with
a list of written questions in his hand.
These questions read something like this:
What are you?" What is your favorite
book?" who is your favorite actor?"
What is your pet ambition" and SO forth,
and they are put in turn to each member
of the circle. The point lies IN the fact that
each must give his answer in words begin
ming with his own initials. For instance
to the question, What are your a man
initiated wv. p. B." might answer, will
ing. patient bicyclist;" a woman with the
initials I'M. c. D." could reply Merry
contented damsel." OF course, the zest of
the game and the wit of the players is
as in letter of the answers and Also of
course. there is nothing very erudite or
esoteric about any Of it. But ii may serve
to relieve the deadly torpor that all too
often Seizes the occupants Of the summer
hotel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06

call our class Not long ago / met, at a
woman's club of aesthetic tendencie5, half
dozen women whom / knew we'll and
who employed each from one TO four
servants. One of these .mistresses before
her fortunate marriage, had made sheets
a sewing machine for dollar and a half
a dozen. Another had walked through snow
and rain ill-fed and ill-clad to sing in the
chorus of an opera. Another had waited
in a restaurant where only men resorted-
slang and perhaps language less permits
sible occasionally. Another had spent the
best years of her life behind a counter, sell
these women had had the advantages of
education. Two of them could not write
nor word an ordinary letter with perfect
correctness; yet these were the women who
talked of servants as "a class creatures of
nature inferior'-not to be considered as
beings on the same plane with US.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06

this young scion of the famous Davenport
mas amoltons 10 star next season and re-
fused the tempting offer In London Mar
lowe will confer with her new manager
Charles b. Dillingham;, who is now doing
the London press work for Frohman's pro-
duction of Gillette's Secret Service. and
COMPLETED. ~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06
WHO'S Afraid in the Dark /.

"Oh. not ]" said the owl,
And he gave a great scowl,
And he wiped his eye
And fluffed his jowl, ''Tu whoo!"
Said the dog Il bark
Out loud in the l&rk, Boo-oo!'
Said the cat: ''Aii-ew,
I'll scratch any one who
Dare say that / do
Feel afraid. Mi-ew!'
Afraid said the mouse,
''Of the dark in the house!
Hear scatter
Whatever's the matter.
Squeak
Then the toad in his hole
And the bug in the ground,
They both shook their heads
And passed the word around;
And the bird in the tree
The fish, and the bee,
They declared all three
That you never did see
One of them afraid
In the dark
But the little boy who had gone to bed
Just raised the bedclothes and covered his head.
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