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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

French organdie and batiste, these trim
mings Including wide and narrow Insertions,
tiny frills. deep f~ounces, edgings, jacket
fronts, blouse draperies, fancy collars,
epaulets, fichu-shaped shoulder capes, sash
lengths and yokes.
In staining, dilute ready-made paints with
about two-thirds turpentine, this will sink
into porous wood and dry Immediately. The
more turpentine is used. the lighter the
color. If hard wood, giva two coats; If
soft wood. three or four: follow the last coat
with a rubbing with hard oil (boiled OLD.
Says the fashion writer of the New York
Post: A young lady in this city preparing
her summer wardrobe has all of her morn
ing dresses made of the pretty ginghams
and dimitieS brought out this year, in order
to put more of her allowance into the pur-
chase of two silk slips and one silk skirt
which she intends to wear beneath various
figured and plain organdies, India mulls,
lawns and a black net and black grenadine.
The black gowns are the only expensive
purchase she has made, and she says that
she expects to save enough on her summer
laundry bills by eschewing white muslin
skirts TO pay twice over for the present
cost of her new silk skirt and slips, one of
which is pure white, one black, the other
a pale pink. which she can wear under
green. cream color, etc, change and
change about. All of her dresses will be
made unlined except the black ones. These
have the waists lined with silk (crisp black
t~affetas) which matches the silk forming
the black skirt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
Women as Speakers.

New York Ledger.
II have come to the conclusion" said a
fair philanthropist, that women as speak
ers are not only more suggestive than men,
which they incontestibly are, but they are
also more logical. Like the heather Chinee,
their ways may be PECULIAR nevertheless,
vulgarly speaking, they cut ice when they
address a meeting, and this the masculine
speakers often do not. l have noticed it
over and over again in the various charita-
BILE organizations in which. L am interested.
While what a man says undoubtedly sounds
better and more virile, the voice, u%tterance
and careful choice of words all giving it eff
feet, there is, in nine cases out of ten, liter
ally nothing you can take hold of after he
has finished-no practical suggestion or
remedy proposed for an existing evil that
can be brought to bear upon the question,
whereas some small woman, with a whiny
voice and discursive manner, will pipe up
and make an address that will cause the
men to smile indulgently, and rather pity
ingly, but which will reach the root of the
whole matter, and uggest a feasible and
common-sense solution of the problem. In
almost every case a man will leave the
meeting just where it was before, and prac-
tically none the better for his eminently
parliamentary and incisive sounding ha-
rangue, while the woman'S address, faulty,
feminine, and, to a superficial critic, inferi-
or, will in all probability suggest the reso-
lutions which are finally adopted by the
men. and are believed by them to be their
own"
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ness l would ask you to surrender your


antness 1 would ask you to surrender your
self and your transport"
The captain thought the matter over for
a while, noted the determined expression
on Major Weston's face and concluded to
oblige him Leaving the captain under
guard with two of his men, Major Weston
and the rest of his command got into the
captains gig and one of the canoes and
rowed out to the transport. where Major
Weston told the officer in charge that his
captain had surrendered and that he had
come to take possession of the boat.
The transport was promptly turned over,
was taken down the river to Montgomery
and there was destroyed. For the success
and daring of this undertaking Congress
awarded to Lieutenant Colonel Weston a
medal of honor.
For which, said the lieutenant colonel
the other day, 81 am very grateful. But
had 1 not succeeded l would have been
promptly court-martialed and probably
abandoning every blooming horse and all
my equipments. So far as 1 know this is
the only instance during the civil war of a
cavalry command capturing a rebel ship"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
Care of the Hair.

Philadelphia Press.
If the hair is naturally dry, alcoholic
washes must never be used. But if there is
an ~oversupply of natural oils a tonic of
fifteen grains of quinine dissolved in one
half pint of alcohol will be found of
astounding benefit.
In Spain there is an old recipe called Por-
tugal extract which makes the hair fine and
lUxuriant and which could be used nicely
in place of the quinine tonic just mentioned.
1t is said that this extract keeps the hair in
a state of moisture most excellent for it's
growth. This is the formula: Equal parts
of essential oil of oranges and alcohol.
just a few drops of this is put in a small
basin of water in which you dip the comb.
padours the extract could be used only at
night and after the brushing. Clipping the
hair every two weeks will keep 1T even and
will snip away the split ends.
Should the hair be inclined to fall out, II
shows most invariably that the physical
condition is not of the best. Worry, over
study and late hours will weaker the hair
and thin it rapidly. Anxiety and i'll health
is sure to cause it to fall or to become gray.
SO it seems that one way to have fine hair
is. first, to nave good health. Pure olive oil
rubbed directly On the scalp after a sham-
poo gives nourishment to the roots and will
ofttimes put new life in them. This tonic,
too, will make the hair grow: Oil of sweet
almonds, sixty grammes; essence of rose
mary, sixty grammes; oil of mace, two
Anoint the scalp with this every night
and wash the hair weekly.
A good cleaning lotion that will do away
with dandruff-that horror of ~womankind-
is made after this formula: Yoik of one
egg, one pint distilled water, one ounce
rosemary spirits; beat up and use warm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
In vanity Fair.

Munsey's Magazine.
When a girl has throttled herself with a
band of rigid linen that paraiyzes her neck
muscles and saws a crimson line beneath
her chin; when she has cut off her breath
ing abruptly at the waist, burdened
her back with Q pondercus mass of swing
ing, dragging cloth. poised a winged and
ribboned monstrosity on her head, and
dazzled her eyesight with futtering dots
and dashes, she looks her very best. She
Is chic, she is good form, she pleases our
distorted vision as no ex oonent of natures
laws ever could.
Seeing her coming, one recognizes at once
that she is possible hat is, that there is
no outer reason why she should not be-
long to the sacred inner circle of Vanity
Fair. The impossible watch her pass with
frank envy, or with a labored Indifference
that betrays the same feeling. The socially
probable Chose who very likely belong to
that inner circle) lean forward in their
hrougbams to sec If she is not a person to
be bowed to. Those who rule the social
world meet her graciously and give her a
fair chance to prove herself worthy of their
get, where an equally deserving person with
an easy going collar and an unrestricted
diaphragm would be passed over indifferent
~. and must cut her way in through a
thicket of pride and prejudice if she is to
enter at all.
A girls other details form a sort of sign
language. and though it takes a social ex-
pert to read 1t with absolute accuracy
no one can miss It's general meaning Inc
more valiantly she has sacrificed person
al comfort to the torturing laws of cor
rect feminine gearing the more the mas
culine spectator wants to know her. and
TO have it seen of men that she knows
him. A quick pace sets her heart TO
pounding angrily at it's barriers, and a
passing wind swirls her into n helpless
mass Of skirts. but she never has to strug-
gle unaided with a heavy swing door or
push an elevator button with her own
fingers, or wait unnoticed at a crowded
counter. The world steps aside for her.
and she walks unjostled in a glittering
social haze. She finds a velvet cloak at
every puddle. Surely bodily freedom is not
q high price 10 pay for all this.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

Come, let US plant the apple tree.
Cleave the tough greensward with the spade;
Wide let it's hollow bed be made;
There gently lay the roots, and there
Sift the dark mold with kindly care
And press it Ger them ~tenderly,
As round the sleeping infants feet,
We softly fold the cradle sheet;
So plant we the apple tree.
What plant we in this apple tree?
Buds, which the breath of summer days
Shall lengthen into leafy sprays;
Boughs where the thrush, with crimson breast
Shall haunt and sing and hide her nest;
We plant, upon the sunny lea,
A shadow of the noontide hour,
A shelter from the summer shower,
When we plant the apple tree.
What plant we in this apple tree?
Sweets for a hundred howery springs
To load the May winds restless wings,
When, from the orchard row, he pours
Its fragrance through our open doors;
A world Of blossoms for the bee,
Flowers for the sick girls silent room,
For the glad infant sprlgs of bloom,
We plant with the apple tree.
William Cullen Bryant.
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the end was reached, and most of the char
acters had been. hanged, shot, starved or
drowned, the author and his publishers were
in more genuine despair than the widows
and orphans of the book.
What is to be done? Suppose your next
story does not take as well as The Mys-
teries of the Russian Court?' Couldn't you
spin the story out to fifty or sixty more in
stallments?"
Spin it out!' exclaimed the novelist,
testify. Il have been thinking of it myself,
but what can | do, seeing that nearly all
my heroes are dead? Spin it OUT
asked the publisher.
Don't put salt to my wounds, please"
the author fired out. IT repent it ,sorely
The man of fame fell to pacing the floor
nervously. Presently he stopped short. his
eyes aflame with sudden inspiration.
Il have hit it! / lave hit it, he shouted,
rubbing his hands with exultation. Have
you ever read a translation of "Ivanhoe'
by the gentle author, Walter Scott? Well,
ing characters-an old Saxon nobleman-
comes to life again after having been dead
for some time. The writer did not want to
do it. but yielded to a request of his pub
my ingenuity and genius. All the dead men
in my novel shall arise from the dead :"
Hebrew. And what is more, it will all
come out smooth and natural, depend upon
it,"
but where are you going to get the plot?
The mysteries you have translated from a
German story, and there is no more of it.
1t ends where you have stopped" said the
publisher, solicitously.
Where will L take the plot? Leave it to
mel" replied the novelist, radiantly. ut is
not for nothing that | am considered to be
a man of genius. Look here. You know the
Nile and the Victim?' It's a wonderful
tale, as long as the 'Mysteries!
But it's quite a different story the
other protested. 1.-The names are different
and the thing has nothing to do with Rus
STA"
"Of course it has not. But that's what
my brains and talent are for. You don't
expect me to translate it literally. do you?
Names and places are changed easily
enough. 1t will form an admirable sequel
to the MYSTERIES - And it did. The "Mys-
teries'' were continued without interruption
for more than a year longer and the au-
thor's name become more famous than
ever.
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SHIP * BY CAVALRY.
How a Confederate Transport Was
Captured by HOrsemen.

Kansas City Journal.
Lieut.. Col. John F. Weston, assistant
ceieved the medal of honor recently award
ed to him by Congress for bravery during
the civil war.
1t seems that this particular act of brav-
cry was performed in 1864, shortly after the
battle of Resaca. Lieutenant Colonel Wes-
ton was then q major of cavalry attached
to General Wilson's division. He and his
men We're in Alabama, about forty miles
from Montgomery. Word came to General
Wilson that there was a Confederate trans
port, laden with food supplies, somewhere
near the junction of the Iallapoosa and the
CCosa rivers. Major Weston was ordered
to proceed up the bank of the T~allapoosa
to locate the transport, capture it if he
could, and. if he couldn't, to report the best
After a march of several miles along the
shore of the Tallapoosa Major Weston saw
on the opposite bank. Of the river two or
three canoes, which he thought might be
more useful TO him in hunting up a trans
port than cavalry horses. The river was
high, however, and there was no bridge IN
sight. Some of the officers under him told
the major that fording the river was out of
the question, and that there was no other
means of getting across. The major had a
different idea, however. and promptly acted
upon it. Hating his command he left most
of his men in charge of the horses. while he
and half a dozen others walked along the
bank, looking for a place where the water
was not so high.
time. Swapping his own revolver on the
top of his head and ordering his men to do
likewise, the major, with six followers,
plunged into the river, swan to the oppo-
site bank, secured the canoes, rowed back
across for all the rest of the save
just enough to guard the horses. and went
on up stream. Reaching the mouth of the
Coosa and rowing up stream a little way,
Major Weston sighted the transport in a
little bayou only a short distance ahead.
Pulling to the shore and Bleaching the
canoes, Major Weston began making sig
nails which might catch the attention of
some one on board the transport. Presently
he IA1 khA AZ ire nf a a 0fT nTICh
off from the transport and come toward
shore. When the gig ran up on the beach
who should step out of il but the captain
Of the rebel supply boat.
What do you want with me?" asked the
captain.
And who may you be-" asked Major
Weston.
II am the captain Of the transport out
there was the reply.
"Ah. then you are just the man l wanted
TO See" said Major Weston. Il am the
major commanding the advance, guard OF
General Wilson's cavalry, which will be
along here in q few minutes several thou
sand strong. and TO save you any unpleas-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
Odds md Ends.

For women with high foreheads the COR
rect way to dress tie hair is to have a few
curls over the temples. This ~softens the face
considerably and is exceedingly becoming
when the hat comes far over on the eyes.
Moisten the ~buttonholes of starched COL
lars. wristbands of cuffs a little Ton the
wrong side) before attempting TO button
them or to insert cuff buttons: they will
more easily button, and the buttonholes
will keep longer intact.
Pique promises to have a sway in the
spring and umner seasons. White pique
will be more in demand than the colored.
OF the latter, however. fax blue and several
shades of soft, pale yellow will be seen. The
piques should be made into tailor gowns.
Old-fashioned lavender perfume has come
back to favor among the many other reViv-
ais of nearly a century ago. 1t appears I'm
the list of French extracts and sachets, and
its delicate fragrance eXhales from the
petals of choice Parisan-made artificial
flowers.
A high polish is not considered desirable
for furniture, as 1t scratches easily. The
backs and arms of chairs become very dirty
with constant use. They should be washed
with warm water. In which there is a little
soap, and then the polish brought back by
kerosene or turpeHtine.
While toilets of the daintiest dissertation
will be the rage next season. Exqufsitely
fine St. Gall embroideries are lavishIy used
on skirts and waists of white India muslin,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
The Blot Upon the Brain.
Dietetic Gazette.


William w. Ireland. in his interesting
psychological studies. gives US some food
for reflection concerning the various forms
of blots with which the brain of humanity
may be afflicted. Opportunities make thieves
as well as saints. merchants as well as
great generals. and the peculiar opportun-
tiles offered by our rapidly changing evo-
lutionary nation forms psychological mon
strosities seen nowhere else. Take some of
our proverbially self-made rich men as an
ami not those who have become so
through the gradual increase of some COM
mercial or industrial pursuit, but those who
have developed a mania for money making
through stock speculations. Such men and
women soon lose all tastes for any civilized
mode of entertaining ones self. A good
dinner, a good book. an entertaining con-
versation. cheerful company, are about as
entertaining TO these lunatics as a lecture
on moral ethics would be TO an Apache In
dian. They have come to know but one en-
Joyment, and that enjoyment is more money
getting. The more they have, the more they
want. and the less they know how to use
il for their beaeht
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
I'm Garref.

What a world of fun we had,
You a lass and l a lad,
Up garrett
In the sweet mysterious dusk.
Redolent of mint and musk,
With the herbs strung overhead,
And the peppers stiff and red,
And, half hid by dangling corn.
Grandpa'S flask and powder horn!
Such a store of treasures rare
We were sure of finding there.
Up garnet!
Hats and coats of pattern quaint;
Dark old paintings blurred and faint;
Spinning wheels whose gossip whir
Might nave startled Aaron Burr;
Old lace caps of saffron hue;
Dishes splashed with villas blue.
You in trailing silk were dressed,
1 wore ~grandpa's figured vest,
Up garnet!
And were married, han in hand.
While the tall-cased clock beheld,
As il doubtless did OF ED,
When at Observation-Disclosures side
Stood his blushing Quaker bride.
Furnished ready to our hand
Was the coy home we planned,
Up garrett
Chairs that any modern belle
Would pronounce antique and SWELL
Chests and dressers that would vie
With the grandest you could buy.
All they didn't know it then,
Save the little maids and men.
All day long in childish wise
We spun out life's mysteries,
Up garrett
In the fragrant, spicy gloom
OF that dear old Taftered room.
O that life in very truth
Were but sweet. protracted youth,
And we all might play our parts
With unwearied, happy hearts!
james Buckham
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
The Club

Margaret II. Welch. in Harper's Bazaar.
Although there IS ample room for further
Improvement. 1t is still evident in many
ways that women as a class are beginning
10 find il possible to assume an impersonal
attitude toward any subject under discus
sion. In the matter of a blackball at a
woman's club. for example. there is no
longer the same horror and sensitiveness of
II. and IL is used much more frequently than
formerly.
IL Is interesting. in this connection, to
note the different point of view from which
a biackbail in a woman's club is regarded
from that of the same action taken by a
mans club. In the latter the casting of the
biackball is a far more significant action
In a woman's club IT means, as a rule,
merely that that particular candidate will
not contribute TO the welfare of that par
ticuIaf club. The policy Of women's clubs
Is radically different one from the other. An
charming and irreproachable wom-
an may find herself rejected In one club.
while In another she will be elected by ac-
clamation, perhaps, and received with open
arms.
1t il. indeed, an evidence of a growing
breadth OF character among women thai
the blackball Is used with the judicious care
that II Is. A loyal club women will black.
ball her dearest friend. sometimes. IN the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
Tempting VaIuables.
New York Evening Post.

NEW 1OEk ENeHlIS TOSt.
TIL recent robbery of a woman in a quiet
corridor of a fashionable uptown hotel by
another woman, who detained her an in
slant to make a casual remark, is matched
by the experience not long ago of a woman
in a New York theater. While the lights
were lowered between scenes she felt a
slight pull at her head and reached her hand
up to find a gold hatpin half out of its
place. She actually touched the hand of
the person who was thus arrested in the eff
turned on and she looked behind her there
was nothing in the face of any one TO midi
cate who had undertaken the bold robbery.
Unwilling to make a scene she let the mat
ter go, not even telling her husband until
they were out of the theater. Women go
about nowadays with too much really val
liable property, which offers easy picking
to the skillful thief. and should be careful.
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To Broil successfully.

Country Gentleman.
That is, to give meat the delicious flavor
characteristic Of a broil and brown the sur
face so quickly that none of the delicate
juices escape is impossible on a fire that
has just been mended or that sends out jets
of gas. A hot. clear fire is indispensable.
The gridiron should be scrupulously clean,
and heated thoroughly before the broil is
put on it. Grease the bars of the gridiron
with suet or kitchen fat; never with but
ter. Meat needs plenty of flare, fish but lit
tie. Put meat so near the fire that it will be
in the flare which the fat drops cause. AS
soon as the surface on one side is Drowned
turn and brown the other side. After this
turn frequently and remove a little from
the fire to finish cooking. Beef an inch
thick will require from fifteen to twenty
minutes broiling. Trim off the skin from
mutton chops, leave only fat enough to
make them palatable and broil about ten
minutes. Serve on a hot dish and put a
piece of butter and a few drops of lemon
juice on each chop. Broil pork chops in
the same way. In turning a broil never
stick a fork into the lean part, as this al
lows the delicate-1avored juices, upon which
its excellence in great part depends 70 es-
onion juice or the like should be added five
minutes before taking it off the fire, but
salt the last thing before serving. Serve on
a hot platter. Place a few bits of soft but
ter on a hot platter, salt on one side of the
broil, lay this side downward. add more
butter and salt and serve. Fish should be
sailed before it is broiled. Slices of halibut
or other large fish should be seasoned with
salt and pepper. rubbed on both sides with
melted butter, then rolled in flour and fried
Immediately. Lay salt mackerel, skin side
uppermost. in cold water over. night. Dry
with a cloth, cut eff the head and tip of
tail. broil, serve on a hot dish and season
with butter and a few drops of lemon juice
or vinegar. Salmon and other larger fish
should be freshened twenty-four hours. Oys-
tiers should be wiped dry by placing them
between the folds of a towel and pressing
lightly. Then roll in beaten egg and bread
crumbs, let them lie fifteen minutes, then
broil on a CREASED gridiron.
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Uses of Old Newspapers.

Home Companion.
Old newspapers form an important item in
domestic economy, and are useful for pol
ishing window glasses, for cleaning lamp
chimneys. for testing and cleaning fiat
irons and for a dozen other things; you
will also need heaps of them when you come
to pack away the winter clothing. The
clothes-moth, like other evil doors, has an
aversion to printers ink. An excellent
moth-proof bag, second only TO the expen-
sive tar paper, and costing nothing. may
be made of two thicknesses of newspaper,
with the edges folded as if for an inch
wide hem. and securely pasted. Bags of the
same kind are about the best thing you can
use for keeping seeds and dried herbs. They
are dust and insect proof, and can be la
beled and hung mp in the storeroom until
needed.
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interests of her organization, fearing that
date may obtrude itself upon the club, to
the clubs detriment.
This is as 1t should be. IL IS this growing
sense of personal responsibility and of or
ganization loyalty, rather than Individual
preference, which is adding to the power
of club development