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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-10
widows of Eminent Frenchmen.


Some, interesting details concerning, the
lives of some dozen eminent French widows
have come to light. 1t appears that Nine.
MacMahon, the wife of the marshal and
President of that name, declined to accept
a. state pension when offered to her. She is,
however, we'll provided for, and during the
winter is to be found in her mansion, stu
ated in the Rue de BellechasSe, but during
the summer months she retireS to her cha
teau in the Loiret. The royalist circles in
which she moves are or a very select and
exclusive nature. Nine. Garnet lives an
extremely retired life, but still receives the
visits of princes and other distinguished
people who come TO condole with her. In
her house she has little chapel, which
she has arranged herself and filled with
like Nine. MacMahon, has declined state
pension.
The wife of the Grand Francais," NJ. DE
LessepS, spends the greater part of the
year at La Chesnage, where her husband
died. She receives a pension of $4,000 a
year from the SueZ Canal Company. NJ
Pasteur's widow. has taken up her resi-
dence at the institute bearing her hus-
sion of S. 600 a year. One of the most act
i've of these ladies is the wife of the his
torian Michelet who lives quite alone, and
occupies her time in bringing out new edi-
lions of her late husbands work, and edit
ing the MSS. he left behind, including his
memoirs. Nine. Alexandra Dumas, too, is
busily engaged but in different way, with
her husbands MSS, for her object is tC
prevent any of the numerous works or
fragments of works he left behind from
being published. The wife of the illustrious
composer Of Faust Mime. Gounod-goes
a step farther than this and refuses tC
allow the performance of some of GounOd's
earlier compositions, on the ground that
might suffer from the criticisms passed
upon them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-10

and are held in at the elbow with band
of shocking, below which is a ruffie.
Instead of pressing silk with a warm
iron, process that destroys the natural
STIFFNESS and that is in many ways unde-
Sirable, it is better to sponge carefully. roll
tightly on smooth round stick and let
stand till dry.
The black silk velvet Russian blouses are
the handsomest of these popular garments
However, they will be worn in many other
colors, including dark green, dahlia color
and brown, and velvet blouses. both plain
and fancy. will be worn with skirts of silk,
satin, cloth, vigogne and drdp d'ete.
To remove ink stains from white cloth
peroxide Of hydrogen should be poured
over the spot and then rinsed cut with
water. Fresh new milk will often accom-
plsh the same purpose. An application OF
lemon juice is sure to do so, il followed
by thorough sprinkling with salt.
Lace gowns of every sort and kind are
fashionable. White Brussels lace, in very
simple design, made over white taffeta, and
plainly hemmed az the bottom. makes one
OF the pretty new evening dresses. 1t has
long transparent sleeves and a fichu
trimmed with Brussels edging draped
around the shoulders.
French women claim credit for a clever
device for decreasing the apparent size of
the abdomen by fastening their stocking
supporters on either side OF the corset steel
directly in front. This holds the corset
down and well in place and has the aGdi-
tional advantage of doing away with The
strain on the hips caused by fastening the
supporters at the side.
In the lighter materials for evening wear,
and also In soft, delicate woods like hen
rietta cloth, cashmere or vigogne, tuckS
are still highly favored. Sleeves are tucked
all the way up, and the frills overhanging
them have a number of tucks at the edge.
In evening bodices of silk muslin the whole
waist is covered with tucked frills, gradu-
ated in width from an inch to the very
narrowest tuck that can be laid.
The new muff is a small mountain in size.
One of novel design, shown among the new
importations is made of black velvet gath
cred in double frills fully two and a half
inches wide These stand up like ruches
all over the foundation, and not in regular
lines, but rather curved around. giving
very peculiar effect. The velvet has the
appearance of being gathered several times
and the threads pulled out, leaving only
the marking of the stitches TO show A
knot of lace and a bunch of violets trim
one side.
Pretty blouse waists for cool mornings
are made of flannel with silk Jokes. A
silver gray has a Gordon plaid yoke;
green flannel has blue and green plaid.
a red one a Rob Roy plaid and a black a
shepherds plaid, etc. White serge yokes
and cuffs are also worn, and are made de-
tacha,ble so that they can be washed.
Yoked skirts are popular, with the yoke
much trimmed. the skirt hanging below it
in full folds. An effective trimming con-
sists of rows of wide mohair braid alter
mated with narrow braid, and showing
about an inch of the material between the
rows. This entirely covers the deep yoke.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-10

Harper's BaZar.

Harpers Bazaar.
The bangle craze has started again.
Girls unlock your jewel cases and get out
your old bangles. Polish them up and put
them on. They have all ''come in again.
Four or five years ago bangles were worn
to a great extent; there were coin bangles.
snake bangles. souvenir bangles and chains
with locks and keys-in fact, all kinds OF
bangles. The girls had them welded on,
and would wear them night and day, jim
Cling on their arms and making them feel
very uncomfortable. But they did not care
for that. Now they are the fashion again.
All the girls who are coming home from
Europe wear bangles. The English women
have always worn them. and not only do
they wear the most bulky, heavy looking
silver bands on their arms, which generally
come from India, but they also wear broad
leather bands strapped around their wrists
with small watches set in them. which they
call watch bangles" If the fashion be-
comes as common among the girls as II
was before it viii be pity. Bracelets
have quite gone out-one never sees them
now If the coming fad" of wearing ban
giles again will be INDUCED in without ex-
aggeration, well and good; but we Ameri.
can girls, unfortunately have decided
tendency to OVERRIDING thing.
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there is a boundless amount OF cheer
to draw upon. o how 1 wish we could make
It real to ourselves that the Lord God waits
beside us with all the perfectness of love
and goodness and spiritual strength for our
reinforcement 1 am afraid sometimes that
the kind people who listen to US preachers
think that what is said about Gods helpful
presence is mere pulpit rhetoric. o. no,
dear friends it is not. / declare to you that
when i read that utterance of Paul's. We
live and move and have our being in God"
and that other triumphant assertion of his,
II can do all things through Christ, who
strengthened me- feel that I am reading
a statement of fact so absolute that it lays
hold upon the very foundations of life.
No, this cmommonplace religion is not an
agreement of theologians. This universe is
The dwelling place of absolute character, of
eternal love, eternal justice, eternal good
ness, and If there be any other supernal
virtues. of them also. Everywhere is God,
and everywhere He is giving Himself as
there is capacity to receive Him. All things
perform their part in the great universe be-
cause the wisdom of God and the constancy
of God do enter into them forever. In the
case of humanity we have physical exist
ence because the life of God pulses in our
goodness Of God impresses itself upon our
souls; we may have happiness if, having
laid the foundation by living truly, we look
st the world and life through eyes which
Gods touch has given the heavenly vision.
OF course, looking to God will rot alone
make life happy. Religion joins inseparably
faith and works. Keep right with God,
and then find natural, healthy employment
for all the energies. A listless mind cannot
enjoy. mind fixed on self-desiring hap
piness-cannot enjoy. Muscle and brain
fiber are increased and toughened in the
same way, health and happiness come by
the same means, viz: exercise, work and
thought.
Plant and care for a garden and you will
sec beauty in the earth and in the growing
plant which you did not know existed.
Work at any trade which draws upon skill
and ingenuity. and respect for, and there
fore enjoyment of, natures opportunities
will increase with you. Study, and what
ever field you probe and survey will fill
with wonder and delight.
Says Ruskin, ITO watch the corn grow or
the blossoms set, to draw hard breath over
plowshare or spade, to read, to think, to
love, to pray-these are the things that
make men happy.">If we will thus employ
ourselves the sky and the earth, the coun-
try road and the city street. the solitude
and the crowd, the company of our neigh
bors and the seclusion of our homes shall
bring us happiness.
Cheerfulness will then become the settled
habit of the mind, and hope, the bright,
beacon star of our future. Cares and
troubles will not pass out of our world but
causeless cares ard useless troubles will,
and we shall be the better able to bear the
first because we shall not have been weak
ened and made insufficient by the last.
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DEFINITION OF A CREOLE.
The Name Improperly Applied to Mu-
IattOes and Mixed Offspring.
Atlanta Journal.

Atlanta journal.
A Creole properly, and in strict sense, is
the child of any foreign parents who is
born on American soil. The accepted use
of the term, however, is one who is born
of French parents in the Franco-Latin
States of the South, especially Louisiana
Alabama and Florida. In those States the
Creole is the high-caste native. but the
term has been misused to designate the
mixed mulatto races, descended from
French or Spanish fathers and Indian or
othe native mothers; but this use is in
correct in toto. The word comes from the
Spanish .'crillo." or the word 'criada," Sig
nifying born here" In the gulf coast re-
gion the generic term "Daygo" Ga corrup-
ton of the Spanish name, "Diego') is used
to cover all the mixed races except the
Creole proper. He is the very Hidaigo of
the coast country. the F. f. V. of the
South as 1t were. He is ever proud of his
blue-b FLOODED descent, and not infrequently
comes from an old and titled family. He
is proud gracious, fond of cigarettes, and
sometimes absinthe, and has Unborn
boycott on labor. The Creole women have
a langud and sinuous beauty and grace
of their own, rarely equaled by those of
colder blood and skies. II is a fad with
the old Creole families of New Orleans not
to mix socially with the American society.
A type of the class is Madame Latour in
De Icons novel. Creole and Puritan" a
grand dame OF eighty. who knows no word
of English and has never crossed Canal
street.
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tried already. It's great advantage is that
IL deals at once with the great difficulty OF
the good plain cook. Why is it not posi-
bic TO cook and send out dinners to those
VINO Tor one reason or another are not able
TO go to the dinners themselves, either at
hotels or clubrooms? This is not a private
idea OF my own. 1t was suggested in half
dozen letters that reached me after the
publication of my last article. The idea is
that of the cooperative kitchen arranged
to supply the daily wants OF fifty or hun
dred families as many more as it is
found in practice to be possible to work
from a single center. This idea has. am
told, already been put into practice in GER
tain continental towns. Geneva is men
toned to me as one of them. 1t has mani
fold advantages. First and foremost, 1t
gets over the cook difficulty. because it
should be as easy to obtain labor to work
cooperative kitchen as to work any 9TH
er industrial undertaking. In the next
place, 1t is. or ought to be. highly econom-
ical. One kitchen fire would do the work
for which fifty or a hundred are at pres
ent employed half a dozen cooks could
take the place of fifty; one complete bat
terie de cuisine would replace the countless
pots and pans of fifty domestic kitchens,
and so on.
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Cooperative Housekeeping.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
Once upon a time. at a woman's club, a
revolutionary woman declared the cure for
bad domestic service was hotels and CO.
operative apartments" where all the serv-
ants would be allowed to go home at night
and so enjoy the same freedom as women
working in shops or factories The fat
revolutionist's ideas were received in as
many different spirits as there were types
of women present. She said that a chorus
of voices complained thus: This is no use
TO US. We cannot all live in hotels or ex-
pensive fats. where the management caters
for you Some of us do not like the life,
others cannot afford it. others have large
families of young children, others either
own our houses or hold them on long leases
or are tied to them by a dozen other con-
siderations.
And TO these wild paints the domestic
philosopher replies: Il quite understand
that, and the question then arises whether
1t is possible to bring the conditions of CO.
operative living to the door of every house
holder. Now. there is one experiment in
this direction which is well worth trying,
and which / am surprised has not been
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-10

Philadelphia Press.
The season is here when the Philadel-
phia maid who numbers among her best
friends university man sets her brains
to work for the concocting of some pretty
trifie to grace his college den"
The comfortable pillows in red and blue
will always be popular for this end, but
the present season shows something newer
in the line of handmade gifts.
This new idea is a bachelors work
basket" and it bids fair to be very popu-
lar with the maid as a gift and the man
as an ACOUSTIC.
The prime requisite for one of these bas-
kets is that it shall be plain and easy to
handle. 1t should be free from all femi-
nine frills, which only serve to embarrass
the masculine toiler
Choose a round, low basket having no
the silk tightly across the floor of the bas-
ket, and full it prettily around the inside
rim. Or the bottom of the basket may be
fitted out with slight cushioning. From
the inside rim are suspended several wee
cushions evoked from satin ribbon These
hold different varieties of pins-black,
white, clasp pins, etc.
BY doubling a quarter of a yard of rib
bon and stitching it off in spaces just wide
enough to hold different papers of needles,
a very convenient needle case is arranged.
A button bag should be added. A button
box. rather, for small box. with lid
easy to adjust, will fall in better with mas
culine ideas of convenience than a thing
of drawing strings and loops
A small pair of scissors go without say
ing. Make for these. in the lining of the
basket, a little sheath of silk or leather
from which they will slip out easily. No
man likes the bother of scissors attached
with tapes or ribbons.
A generous supply of spools should be
added including shoe thread and other
prime necessaries.
AS to the color of the basket, it must, of
course suggest the red and blue. 1 saw a
charming affair last week done in this way.
A plain willow basket had been enameled
in dark blue and the trimmings were in
scarlet silk and ribbons The order can be
reversed with equally pretty effect-basket
being enameled in scarlet with addenda in
n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-10
To Get the New OF.

New York Evening Sum-
1t is regarded as both old-fashioned and
provincial nowadays to wear or to carry,
or to have in ones possession, articles that
are new, that in the least SAVIOR of the band
box and the dressmakerS. This does not
mean, of course, that all such articles must
not be fresh and dainty and above all, free
from any hint or faint of shabbiness; but 1t
does mean that the one-time fancy for the
brand new is out of date. Most women
would rather be pilloried than appear in a
frock, hat or coat for the very first time of
wearing; they prefer to have had some lit
tie preliminary experience. ITO get the
new of''-that is the desideratum nova
days. White gloves are about the only de-
tail of costume that admits of no such pro-
baton, and their defect is constitutional
Suburban women have way OF reno wing
the veneer of novelty by wearing their new
clothes into the city two or three times
before putting them on exhibition in their
own town. A capital way it is, too, consti-
tuting about the only thing for which the
New Yorker has cause to envy her sub
urban sister. Were there no question OF
fashion involved, however, the thing would
naturally appeal to most of US. Every one
knows the inconvenient season that must
elapse before she gets accustomed to a
frock," and how trebly precious 1t becomes
when it reaches this stage, too often de-
layed, alas, until the gown has lost some
thing more than its novelty. In the inter-
eStS of fashion and commerce and the laud-
able impulse to get ahead of other women
new clothes are all very WELL but there's
never half the comfort and satisfaction in
them that there is in old ones It's upon
the same principle. perhaps, that old friends
are so precious. This fancy for articles of
use or wear that have lost their newneas
is we'll exemplifed by the satchel. A wom-
an will any day prefer satchel that is
trife shop-worn to one brand new. Often,
if the dealers are to be believed. she will
ask to have the travelling bag rubbed down
with a soiled rag or banged about for day
by an office boy-anything to denude it of
It's ick-and-spanness before 1t falls into
her hands AT least one shop has recently
found it profitable to reduce the cost of all
it's brand new bags and put an extra price
upon the shop-Worn articles that are so
much more in demand.
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For an Afternoon Card Party.

IdDle Idlk
why not have impromptu refreshments as
a change, using the chatting dish for the
preparation of some simple hot dish, as, for
instance, Welsh rarebit served with toast
or crackers and ale; or shrimps or CLAIMS
a la newburg, with lettuce sandwiches, and
coffee with whipped cream The central
thought is of course, the cooking of the
hot dish, and for this a small table should
be provided, covered with white cloth,
on which is set a large tray. On the tray
is the chatting dish, alcohol flagon, and such
materials and seasonings as may be need
ed for the dish which is to be prepared be-
fore the guests; the spoonful of salt, spices
and other seasonings may be on fancy but
ter plates or in the tiny handleleSS cups
which are to be found in Chinese and Jap
anese stores; the meat, etc, properly
trimmed and cut in larger fancy bowls or
on platters. A second tray holds the plates
and silver. At the conclusion of the game,
these trays are brought in from an ada
cent room, and the hostess, or some one
whom she has invited to assume the re-
sponsibility of preparing the dish, seats
herself at the table While it is being
cooked the guests have the opportunity of
exchanging experiences and recipes, and 1t
is served as soon as ready, the sandwiches,
coffee or other refreshments being passed
by maid. Such dishes should be selected
as can be prepared within ten minutes or
so, such as creamed sweetbreads, eggs ur
fish, oysters la poulette, curried shrimps,
chicken a la newburg, crab toast. With
these dishes can be served sandwiches OF
various Sorts coffee, tea or chocolate.
Sweet waters or small fancy cakes might
really necessary with refreshments of such
a character,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-10
For Winter Wear.

New York Post
Many handsome black gowns and CO.'S
tunes will be worn this winter, partly as
an effective contrast to the very rich colors
that will prevail, and partly because of the
beauty and novelty of the new black ma
terials and the greatly improved appear
ance of the more familiar weaves English
woolens are handsomer than they have
ever been, and those from the Priestly
mills are shown in exquisite and beautiful
varieties. Beginning with the plain and
fancy camel s-hair fabrics, and passing on
through the countless lines of wool reps.
eudoras CLEANLINESS, basket cloths, silky
serges, crossed with lustrous frise bars
and stripes, the cashmeres of various
grades, drap d'ete. henrietta cloth, ladies'
CLOTH and a host of rich French and India
textiles, something elegant and attractive
in black is provided for almost every gar
ment and every possible occasion
The great rage just now Is for the Rus
sian blouse both for street and house wear,
for slender, youthful maidens and matrons.
There are also any number OF unique, at
tractive little Jackets, notifications OF the
bolero and other short, chic models so very
familiar for several years past. These are
braided or nearly covered with straight
rows of wide and narrow soutache, with
often a Figaro vest in addition, covered
with horizontal bands of braid, and very
charming and attractive do they look upon
their appropriate wearers, but they do not
look either of these delightful ways on the
short, stout women far past their youth
who have already elected for their wear.
They are certainly inappropriate, to use
mild term.
In coat shapes for the winter both semi
loose and fitted shapes are favored. The
collars are still the familiar Understanding
bands, finished with braided or hraid-edged
tabs, creneated strips of velvet, fur-bor-
6ered points, and other fancy shapes,
formed and decorated to conform to the
rest of the garment. Most of the sleeves
are very small coat shapes, or else very
much reduced mutton-leg styles, finished
either with a flare at the wrists or turned
back with a deep machine-stitched cuff
The greatest novelty in wraps, aside from
the widely popular Russian model, is the
garment closely fitted back and front, the
jacket slightly pointed and reaching only
a trifie below the waist line on the sides.
Over the very close coat sleeves fall loose
open circular bell sleeves, which are silk
match the jacket trimmings. These little
garments designed to accompany a
calling or church costume, or for other oc-
casions for which a small wrap is requ1-
site A few of these wraps fasten on the
left side and are trimmed across the front
with two rows of rather large buttons,
giving the jacket a double-breasted effect.
These wraps are made of various materials,
including velvet brocade, repped silk, in
heavy cordings, or fine cloth, with hand
some trimming of braiding or paSSemen-
terie in conjunction with fur.