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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-31

new IOfk commercial Advertiser.
Public opinion has ruined the peace OF
mind of the woman who formerly wore a
big hat to the play, and even the little
bonnet, If jt happens to have a tall aigrette
or tuft of tips among it's velvet bows, is
frOwned upon, mutteTed at and finally re-
moved from its throne to the Ian of it's
wearer The reformation is fraught with
delight for 1.-The man behind" but it's re-
suits are not altogether pleasing in effect
Rows and rows of badly coiffed women meet
ones gaze now, at the theaters, where once
picturesque, beplumed hats or smart lit
tie toques turned the orchestra seats into
a flower bed OF color.
The American woman Is not vain about
her hair. She may arrange it from caprice
or for fun when the notion takes her, but
she reappears next day in the same old
becoming too-seVere or too-frowsy coifure
and waits for another inspiration before
arranging her elf-locks becomngly. Max
O'Rell-who is a philosophical person, de-
spite his frivolity--says that one of the
reasons why French wives are never tire
some is that they keep up the appearance
of novelty and variety. They may be in
extensively gowned, but they are always
well coiffed, and they never wear one par
ticular style OF couture for more than two
months at time.
If the theater-going woman would spend
an hour with q hairdresser before coming
10 the play, 10 one would celcb rate the
dearth of theater hats more enthusia teal
ly than the writer, but, as ii is. uncurled or
ill-coi6ed heads are unsuitable accompani-
ments to pretty gowns and painful objects
to the eye of the oeholdcr.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-31
~Learning without Tears"

HarperS Bazaar.
There are people-women generally-who
form what may be called the class habit,
becoming members OF class after class, and
sitting quiescent while a thin stream from
the deep we'll of knowledge plays upon their
minds in an attractive spray for some
hours each week. Any waters from this
lovely source will, however slender the tap
ping-pipe contain some vivifying power,
and some good is necessarily gained and
carried away. But when no impulse has
been reused that leads to following this
stream back to it's source, no delight in dis
covery, no longing to lave the whole body
in the deeper waters, if Rise and seek for
word, then the single lecture or group OF
lectures, whichever it may be- is a distinct
failure:. and, more than that; II mas zone
harm, for IL has in all likelihood satisfied
the minds of the audience with the lueSl
that they are working, whereas they are
not working any more than the Dapy WORKS
when it opens its mouth Tor 1ood-not SO
much, sometimes for the chlld must ulSCSt
the food given it, whereas victims or the
class habit too often escape oolng even so
much as that for themselves.
IT may be argued that there are many
who would learn nothing II not thus learn
ing without tears, but it is douotIul II TINS
order of mind gains enough in the chance
good to pay for the harm cone us next
neighbor, whose fairly original mind is SUI
fefing injury through lack OF marc ploWlng
and sowing Of seed. There are rev Things
in the world more harmful and exterminat-
ing than the coddling process applied TO
anything, and to coddle the mind, or all
things. is little short of criminal How other
than coddlng can we regard the growing
habit of learning without tears from lee
lures not selected because they make the
mind work and the attention gasp IN the
effort to follow and hold the pace, but Sc
lected only because they amuse listened 70
idly, too often Qli the case or Won b, WITH
IN
stitches comnlingling with the facts or
fancies that trickle in at the ear!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-31

able men who have a decidedly limited
power of expression But what we COM
monty distinguish as intellectual effort is
merely one of many modes in which ability
may become manifest. II you want 10
comprehend the forces which govern the
world in which you live, dishniss from your
mind the idea that il is only the man who
can say things that other men will quote
who is worthy Of attention. / have found
your smart takers amount to very little,
as rule, and | have never found man
who talked much who succeeded in at
tracing any large share OF the confidence
OF his fellow-men. You may sneer as much
as you like at the kind of ability that pre-
walls in party management but illiterate
as It's posseSsor often may be, you will find
that it is not distinguished from the quail
tiles that chiefly enter into the equipment
of the most distinguished diplomatsts and
statesmen. l hold that the highest type
of ability is that which gives to the man
owning 1t power or influence over his fell
question of how much or how little he has
of what passes for culture is quite irrele-
want. He may be unable to write six sem
fences dramatically, but he is all the
same leader Of men by process of nat
ural selection that you may be able neither
to analyze nor explain, but about which
you shall only display your ignorance by
assuming him TO be d knave, and those
who follow him fools"
Il am an emperor, and above the rules
OF grammar, as the great Roman re-
marked, " added the PHILOSOPHER
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-31
TeIepathy Parties.

New Orleans Letter.
Telepathy is one of the fads of the hour
in New Orleans. Palmistry and astrolcgy
have both had their sway for two seasons.
Now people want to see if transmission or
thought is possible, and if they can compel
others to do their bidding by an unspoken
desire So invitation to "a telepathy party
is the very latest idea. OF course the affair
is entirely informal in its essential details.
The modus operandi is to arrange the
guests in a circle, each holding the others
hands Perfect silence is enjoined and must
be observed.
The leader, one held TO possess unusual
power, concentrates her mind upon a GER
tain thought and she must will it that the
thought i'll her brain be transmitted to the
person whose hand she holds. The receiver
of this thought adds something to it, and in
turn sends It on through the electric cur
rent of her fingers to her neighbours BRAIN
The transmission is thus continued around
the circle.
When the last guest is reached the hands
remain in touch, while each person relates
the product OF her brain, and to be up TO
professional standard, the thought should
have grown as naturally as an acorn on an
oak Telepathy parties are not always COM
posed of our sex. Cnbelieving men are In
weighed into coming; especially those who
boast of strong minds. For" said a bright
can prove the ownership of stronger
minds" Nor does the evening consist of
the one variety of trial mentioned A MEM
Der OF the party is sent from the ROOM ana
the circle sit like silent jury deciding
that he should do as they will He plays
the piano, nnds hidden articles, pours out
glass of water and hands ii to designated
guest etc. The parties are the source OF
much merrlment, IN which there IS always
food for Intellectual thought and serious
discussion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-31

To produce an appearance OF slenderness
where 1t does not exist and to emphasize
slmness where 1t is natural, appears TO be
the aim OF all dressmakers at present.
The rage for the Russian blouse will last
all winter Not only does the garment form
a part Of street costumes, out blouses ana
blouse effects appear on gowns ana toilets
both for demi-dress and full-dress wear.
Coats, single or double breasted, are
equally la mode, and many OF them are de-
with one and all outdoor garments the
very high collar is Indispensable. indeed,
in dress as we'll as masltles there is de-
cded favoring of Medici styles.
Few housekeepers know how easily flour
abSorbS the odor of other Things placed
cool place Flour barrels should be placed
on q rack that lifts them few inches
above the floor. This prevents their draw
ing dampness to the bottom or the parrei,
as they do when set on the moor. rlour
barrels should be kept closely covered.
Mrs. S. r. Rorer gives this recipe for
making Welsh rarebit: Put into a sauce
pan a tablespoonful of tomato catsup, a
teaSpoonful of Worcestershire sauce ana
one pound of chopped sort Emerican
dash Of red pepper and gill OF water.
Stand this over the fire. stir and beat rap
idly until smooth. Pour at once over toast
ed bread and serve"
A perfectly safe "reviver" for polished
furniture consists of the best unbOiled lin
seed oil and spirits of turpentine IN pro-
portion OF one part oil 10 two or turpentine.
Dust the furniture thoroughly, using a
brush of hristles to dust carved work.
When the furniture is clean apply the re-
viver with a flannel cloth. Wipe off the
wood and then polish ii with hard pad
made OF cotton cloth
To ascertain the freshness of an egg.
without breaking, hold 1t before strong
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-31
The Closed House.

(The House-Spirit Speaks.)
The clocks are Ginning through the hall.
The lonesome echoes rise and fall,
And round my gables and my caves
The whining wind of winter grievess
But where are all the faces fair
That smiled at morning the stair,
Or waltzed in evening rlffs and frills
Beneath my groiaings and my grilles?
And where are they. whose willing feet
Came bounding toward me from the street.
Upon my shivering northern door
Their welcome shadows fall more.
Nc more the shrilling laugh is heard.
The music struck, the curtain stirred;
No more the songs in sweet accord,
The clink of glasses at the board.
For she whose words were kind and wise.
And she who spoke with smiling eyes.
Have fed my portals for a time
To dwell in some serener CLINE.
And one ana all have hied them forth
From frosted prairies Of the North,
Where I in darkness still may hear
The wolves Of winter drawing near
The empty rockers pose in state,
The shaken ashes strew the crate.
And inexpensive. dumb despair
Looks out upon me everywhere.
But soon shall winter come and go,
Again my cheerful hearth shall glow,
And Jolly lips around the blaze
Shall tell of other haunts and days.
River Falls Wis Edwin T. Reed
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washing FIannels.

Mrs. Rorer, in Ladies' Home Journal.
Shave quarter of a pound of soap into a
granite saucepan, add one quart of boiling
water, stir over the fire until dissolved.
Pour this into a tub half filled with water
al a temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mix well. Have on the left side of the tub
a bucket of clear, warm water. 100 degrees
Fahrenheit, into which you put half-tea-
spoonful of household ammonia. Take each
piece of flannel singly and immense it in
the suds Soap should never be rubbed on
fiannels, nor should flannels ever be rubbed
on board. Wash them by pressing and
drawing through the hands, rubbing the
at once IN clear water, and wiring by press
ing one hand under t.e other, o. through
wringer. Never twist in the wringing.
Shake well and hang to dry immedia ely;
then proceed TO wash the second piece. The
hannels when nearly dry must be taken
from the limo and pressed with a hot iron.
Be careful that il is not, however too hot,
or il viii destroy the color. Flannels
washed in this way will retain their soft
texture and original size until completely
worn out. No deviations from these direc-
lions, however, be made. For colored
fannelS make a suds, above. To the
warm water for rinsing add four table
spoonfus of white-wine vinegar, or tiny
bit of acetic acid which has been thorough
ly dissolved. Ii is always well 10 wait for
a bright day before washing fannels They
should be dried as quickly as possible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-31
BEE-KEEPING II CITIES.
Apiaries IN Washington and One ON
the Roof of a Business House.
NArn Shinntnn I otter in New York Sun

the ROOT Oh a. buNlnGSB E1OuSGs
Washington Letter in New York Sun.
If the busy tolers in the great cities de-
sire recreation and pleasure, attended with
a small profit let them turn their attention
to the keeping OF bees This is the lesson
to be drawn from a recent essay on bee
keeping prepared by Frank Benton, of the
Department Of Agriculture. He says that
any place where farming or fruit raising
can be successfully followed Is adapted to
the keeping of bees. This pursuit may be
limited extent in large cities. In some in
stances bees in cities or towns find more
abundant pasturage than in country loca-
lions which are considered fair. The city
of Washington is an example of this. Bees
here are doing better during the spring and
summer months than those in the surround
ing country owing to the bee pasturage
found in the numerous gardens and parks
and the nectar yielding shade trees along
the streets. This is due mainly to the fact
that the linden, or Eastwood, which is rare
~ seen in the country about Washington
has been planted extensively IN the parks
and for miles on both sides OF many of the
streets and avenues of the city.
Mr.. Benton has practiced with profit the
transportation of nearly hundred colonies
from the city, to Washington for the linden
and sweet clover yield He says that he
has seen a pros eerous apiary kept on the
roof OF a business house in the heart of
New York. and on several occasions has
visited another apiary of from thirty to
forty colonies located on the roof of store
in Cincinnati where from thirty 70 forty
pounds of honey were annually obtained
from each colony.
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of Orion, somewhere about the. year 1924,
where she employed potter and made the
famous Faience q Orion.
She was a widow, cultured, and OF arts
tic skill and instincts. A collection of her
crayon portraits is said to have been pre-
served; but it was not in this, but in. the
manufacture of the china that she made
name for herself. Not more than fifty
pieces are now known to be in existence.
All of them are small, but or SURPRISING
beauty. and supposed to have been made
only as gifts or souvenirs for friends. Tney
have an inlaid ornament of interlaclng
bands or scrolls, arabesques, and geometrl-
cal forms of tinted clays, yellow and brown,
relieved with soft colors on cream-Whlte
ground forming a smooth surface, ana COW
cred with q soft glaze. Such was the oc-
cupation that filed the leisure hours OF TINS
Lady of Hangest, and We may fancy her IN
the quaint costume of her time dabbllng IN
the soft clays, and wish we knew more OF
her plans and experiments, of the trials ana
failures that led up to her success; Tor she
must have had many before she brought
her unique productions, unlike anything
made in that or later days, up to the per-
lection she did. We do know the interest
with which she watched the nflng Oh me. her
furnace and the anxious hours or waiting
before it could be opened ana It's story tod
Then the feeling of delight when the re-
ward of success came, or the reasoning out
of the cause of failure and the plans for an
other trial, with renewed pluck and de-
termination, for when woman wills, she
will" Who that fires kiln and is FOL
lowing up line of experiments does not
understand the fascination of it?
And she must have poSs eSsed strongly
marked taste and individuality, which she
carried out in her own way, for it is said
that after her death, when the pottery
passed into the hands of her son, who kept
it up for many years, the wares while still
fine lost their beautiful simplicity, became
more elaborate; and modelled forms, both
plant and animal, were added
Surely it is a lesson that women of wealth
and leisure of to-day might profit by How
many there are who could set up. small
workshop of some kind! And If they lack
tha.tna al xfaC
employ some she to work out choice designs
for them gifts that would be worth the
giving-metal work in its different branches.
pottery and decoration, leather and wood
carving many an artist artisan might
thus be given chance to develop schemes
that can never be carried out for lack Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-31

New York Evening Sun.
Whatever you decide concerning the
makeup of your pretty winter gowns, as
TO cut and color, pray be sure and throw
gayety and character into the finishing of
the collar That is the salient point in all
oreSsmaking for the season. Let the cos
tune itself be as sober as you please, but
make the collar a touch so bright and
unique that every woman will give you a
kindly little glance of admiring envy in
passing But above all things, and whatever
you do. let your collar of dress or coat be
high. NemeInber that long-necked women
are very much the fashion at this moment
ard that the dressmakers have been at in
finite pains to plot and plan and give even
short, full-thToated patrons the aspect Of
holding their heads high and on slender
QUINN. One way of gaining this point Is
not only to interline the collar with a crino-
line of steel-like stiffness, but to set a
couple of short whalebones inside ribbon
stocks. just back of the ears. so that the
folds of satin can never be pressed down.
1t is q good thing to be able TO say that
the ribbon stock still stanchly holds its own.
The vast difference now lies in the ribbon
it rs made of. For neckwear we have a
score of new ana most lovely weaves. No
hair end silk suede arc the newest fns
iirst is woven exactly like any high grade
brilliant mohair with possibly a rather law
ish internliXtare of Silk, finished with a
simple edge and colored in The latest plaid
PntitSAi-o- II AAfNS q stLNAAA Va NAAN 49,
quality and almost refuses to Wrinkle.
Silk suede is yet newer than the
mohair, and really it is velvet
closer than moles fur 1t comes ia the
new tones of the castor gray and the nee
tarine red. that are rep,acing the long-ad-
mired mastic brown and watermelon pink
Ribbon fouT-in-hand neckties promise TO
make their presence felt far into the
season. and for this purpose women who
wear plaid silk shirt waists with white
linen collars use four-in- hands of ribbon
coiored in small vivid checks and fastened
on either side the knot OF the bow with
short gilt stick pins. tipped with cora
knobs. Suede gloves are appearing more
and more universally every day as the sea
son advances. Their backs are heavily
stitched and mahogany red is the color
chosen for dress occasions. This is color
not seen before, and in place of the heavy
giace kids for morning and shopping use
.fashionable hands are encased in stout cas-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-31

tor gray and oak brown antelope skin
gloves, four-buttoned and stitched with
black silk. There is no gainsaying the fact
that antelope skin outwears even the heav-
lest kid and having an undressed surface,
it fits right in with the demand for
change from the finished skins. Perhaps
the most interesting departure made so far
in the manner of dressing pretty hands is
the selection of new colors in the long
srede evening gloves. Black and white.
pearl gray and tan of all shades are ig-
nored for the novelties in rich moss green,
pure dull, or. as it is technically called. an
tique gold and poppy red dancing giants de
suede This may sound daring departure,
but the effect of white gown worn with
moss-colored mousquetaires wrinlSled to
criticism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-31

on the tongue inside the shoe end with the
long string lace over and over those first
five pairs of holes, each time the string is
carried across, crossing under the idle
string. With the sixth pair of holes take
the two strings and lace across, as is Gus
tomary. There is nothing a man considers
so sissyish and what wouldn't a woman
do not to be sissyish--''as a shoe laced with
the two strings crossing each other from
top to toe The next time you are In room
or in a car with y number of men II you
they are well dressed every shoe has the
lace crossing over and over at the first five
holes" And when the. girl who knows was
country, she sat down then and there in the
country road and laced her shoes in the
proper manner.
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WHAT ALLIED THE HASN'T
All Binghamton Has Wanted to Know
Since the Presbyterian supper.

Binghamton Special to New York Sun.
on last Friday evening the women of the
Emmanuel Presbyterian Church gave a
hash supper TO raise funds for the purchase
of church furniture. All sorts of schemes
for the raising Of money had been devised
but the corned beef hash supper will go
down in history as the most successful
financially. Yet 1t is safe to assert that the
entertainment will not be repeated, at least
during the present generation.
The novelty of the entertainment brought
TO the church large portion OF the North
hash, were assured by the committee in
charge that the article to be served would
be of a giIt-edged variety and free from
any mysterious ingredients. II was to be
simply corned beef hash-the kind that
mother used to make, and not of the
restaurant or boarding house kind. Mrs
w A. Watrous. a weli-known church
worker. who had furnished the finest
baked beans and most palatable pumpkin
pies for church suppers for years, was put
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Measure of Mental Power.


You gentlemen are very apt to make the
faculty of expression the measure of brain
power" SAID the judge. settling himself
back 20 deliver an authoritative opinion
Now / apprehend that the manifestations
Of strength of mind as various as the
forms of human activity. Even in the
purely intellectual field there are some very
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New York Times.

INtW TUX IIIIItS.
Don't above all things says the girl
who knows all about it, ''cross the lacings
of your shoes from the first holes nearess
The toe all the way up. In the first five pairs
of holes the lace should go over. TO do 1t
nave one string little longer than the 9TH
e.. Let the short string rest in the center
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what a Woman Cam Do.

Art Amateur.
A pleasant story is that OF the Lady
Helene de Hangest-Genlis. who set up
small pottery on her estate. the old Chateau
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-13
An Old Settler.

When the rheumatism first preempts
certain tracts of your anatomy it may
be ousted easily, but when it becomes
an old settler it is pretty hard TO
bulge Remember this when you eX-
perience the first twinges of this OBJ
stinate and agonizing disease, and at
tack it with Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters. 1t viii then make tracks," and
possibly leave you unmolested and iii
peaceab BILE possession of your own COM
fort in the future. Peril ALWAYS at
tends rheumatism. if it becomes chronic,
on account of its tendency to attack
the heart. Usually it is complicated
with kidney trouble. Certain il is that
the Kidneys when aroused by the Bit
tiers, will eliminate impurities which
give rise to rheumatism and drODsv.
In inclement or wet conditions of the
weather. the Bitters, taken in ad-
vance. Will often avert rheumatic
trouble. Use this genial family medi-
cine for dyspepsia, biliousness, head
ache and constipation.