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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-13
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
ONE WAY OF EARNING MONEY
WITHOUT SPECIAL SKILL.
Girls Must Seek Ont Original ways
for Using Their TaIents-Takes
Thought to Dress We'll.

Each town and city, large or small, in
the United States. requires the services of
young women to Introduce new foods or
inventions TO the public, says Everybody 5
Magazine. They are called demonstrators,
and are in demand because: 1t has been
established that no better way exists to
bring the goods to the direct notice of the
prospective buyers; and because new goods
are constantly made and new inventions
require introduction.
A demonstrated needs no special training.
Any self-reliant, painstaking woman can
succeed. Full instructions and all mater
ials are supplied by the inventor or the
originator, who also bears all expenses.
Thus a practical. agreeable avenue of sup
port is opened
In Chicago department store the writer
recently saw a row of booths attractively
draped in white and green, in each of which
a demonstration, attired I'm snowy white
was busily engaged in displaying the beau
ties Of her exhibit. These varied greatly
There were shown the invaluable Christy
knives; a new roasting pan; a device for
toasting bread on a gas or gasoline stove;
gelatine and the graceful forms for mold
ing same; cocoa served in tiny cups, as
also tea; ice cream made while you wait;
coffee from up-to-date coffee pots; cereal
foods served with cream i'm dainty sauccrs;
salads. artistically garnished, served indi-
vidually, introducing the salad dressing;
vegetable slicers, which cut potatoes, car
rots, etc, into fancy shapes; meat grind
ers, to fill long-fet want; and the latest
idea in cake tins; everything practical, use
full and labor-saving, or desirable as food.
Other stores have demonstrators showing
new ways in which to apply the fashionable
braid for trimming dresses, new styles of
health corsets devices for joining shirt
waists and skirts, and still others who eX
plain to purchasers how to embroider fine
center cloths and doilies Every section
of our big country can be reached, and any
bright woman can do this work, with sub
stantial returns, either in her own town or
in neighboring ones. All pure food shows,
and various other eXpOsitiOns, require dem
onstratOrs and there are hundreds of eX-
hibits from which to choose. A farmers
wife might make it known to new firms
that she will demonstrate" i'm her locality,
and thus make pin money: for other farm
er's wives would be interested always to
see the latest invention, or to sample the
latest foods.
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The Soft White Hand.

Philadelphia Times.
We cannot every one of us have beautiful
hands. but we can all have well-kept hands.
Even the woman who must do her own
homework can do much TO preserve the
appearance of her hands by wearing, when
ever possible, old gloves. The time is past
when precaution such as this is to be re-
garded a manifestation of reprehensible
vanity. Ii is a woman's duty TO make her
self as attractive as possible.
Keeping the hands long in hot water or
in very cold water should be avoided. In
washing the hands only tepid water should
be used. Care should be taken to dry them
thoroughly before exposing them to the air.
Oatmeal rubbed over the hands to dry
them after washing is softening to the skin,
but IL is apt to be too drying when used
often. One woman manages TO keep her
hands white and smooth by using the fol-
lowing lotion: Rosewater, one ounce; gly-
cerine, one ounce; bay rum, one ounce /;
juice of half d lemon Apply while the
hands are wet after bathing, allowing the
lotion to dry in.
Moist hands may be made more comfort
bic by washing and brushing them i'm tepid
water in which a few grains of alum or a
few drops of aromatic sulphuric acid have
been dissolved. Dry them with rough
towel and dust the palms with talcum pow
der.
For excessive perspiration of the hands,
rub them after they have been well washed
and dried, with powdered orris root
a paste made of powdered chalk and
sweet-almond oil spread thickly on the
hanGs, when retiring, for two or three
nights, will improve their appearance.
For rough hands a liniment or lotion COM
posed of the following ingredients will be
found soothing: Olive oil drachms; spr-
its of turpentine, q ounce; tincture of OPT
UNI, "a ounce; liquor ammoniac, "a ounce.
Place all together in a bottle and shake
well before using. After washing and dry
ing the hands, in the morning, at noon and
in the evening, pour a teaspoonful of the
liniment into one hand, rub the fingers and
palms together as though washing them,
and do the same with the other hand
a mixture of equal parts of glycerine and
lemon juice is effective for whitening the
hands.
The yolk of egg, almond and chestnut
meal, oatmeal and bran. are all useful for
whitening and refining the skin Of the
hands.
a simple way TO keep the hands soft is to
rub them at night with sweet-almond oil.
wearing loose gloves to protect the bed
linen.
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Of dresses. the field in which to find sheer
fabrics at their finest is evening attire.
Here the finest possibilities of the gauze-
like weaves are realized. Plain and figured
stuffs are chosen, with embroidered and
plain mousselines and chiffons, organizes
and crepe de chimes liked especially we'll
Skirts are beautifully trimmed with lace,
embroidery, tucking and fine silk gimp.
Bodices are very low and in basque fash
ion, or confined at the waist with fancy
belt of soft satin ribbon or velvet. Fichu
draping and full lace collars are usual for
the cut-out. Sleeves are either elbow or a
mere puff at the shoulder. If elbow sleeves,
they are finished with fluffy ruffies of lace
or chiffon, or have deep puffs caught at the
elbow with narrow bands OF velvet White
is the prevailing color, with a touch of
some delicate shade in belt or bodice trim
ming Two white evening gowns are shown
here. That on the seated figure was crepe
de, chine, and its trimmings included en-
broidery of corn flowers and leaves, white
silk gimp, ecru lace and delicate Lousine
ribbon. The other was white mousseline
embroidered with pale blue dots and with
a design done in silver thread Cream lace
and white chiffon roses trimmed the bod
ice, the bodice was pale blue panne velvet
and all was over silver gray silk. Embroi-
dered mulls. chiffons and mousselines make
up charmingly over delicate color or plain
white. All are unlined and may be worn
over almost any shade of silk underdress,
but some trimming on the bodice should
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ural that writer's OF nature books began to
give her commissions for COlOred plates de-
picting the flora of various countries. which
compelled her To travel since she painted
direct from nature. In this way she became
visited every quarter Of the globe in the
interest OF science and literature, which she
illustrates by her art. Recently when the
American botanist. Alice LOunsberry. eN-
plored the South for her book, Southern
Wild Flowers and Trees" Mrs. Rowan was
her companion. and for the first time at
tempted pen and ink representation OF
flowers making 200 of the latter. besides
many water colors for the work. Mrs. Row
ans now enormous collection of flower
painting includes rare orchids and blooms
previously unknown. so that II Is even more
valuable from botanical standpoint than
from an artistic The German government
offered her So, 900 for the Australian collec-
ton alone, but she refused Her collection
of the flora of New Zealand. the West IN
dies and the United States are quite as
valuable. Already they have won for her
ten gold medals at many European eN-
hlbitions. and Queen Victoria had the pic
lures taken twice TO Windsor for a private
view. while famous botanists have enthusl-
asucally indorsed her work. Making color
studies for seed catalogues may seem an
humble office for art. but how much of the
world would Mrs. Rowan have seen and
how much of her present fame and wealth
would she now enjoy if she had turned up
her nose at anything less artistic than
decorating china or painting yards or
roses p
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crepe de chimes, silks and moussehnes for
more dressy use. Lovely gowns are made
of white crepe de chine. combined with net.
which forms the circular fiounce striped
around with bands of crepe. Medallions Of
Irish lace inset In the waist, and the
yoke and collar are of net striped with
bands Quite handsome any of the
white gowns are those of batiste with hand
embroidery and fine tucks covering al
most the entire surface. These thin gowns
are unlined, and are 10 BE- worn over col
ored silk slips a pretty underdress.
Chiffon is also made i'm this way. Change
able silks are used underneath plain veil
ings TO give the iridescent effect that fash
iOnables seek again. Wool laces and wool
embrOideries in white. in combination with
ecru guipure. form one Of the many modish
trimmings for white wool. and still another
is drawn work, which is effective on white
yelling and batiste. The drawn work is
done on the fabric itself. White gauze
waists are worn if the skirts are made OF
this material
Though semi-transparent and even thinner
stuffs are unusually abundant in ali grades
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nearly or quite match the under color.
Moires are much used for evening gowns.
too. Irish crochet and heavy guipHre being
put on literally.
Long black silk cloaks are stylish for
evening. carriage wear and travelling. They
are of taffeta. MORE or peau de Sole and
arc finished with white, pale blue. pink,
delicate green or bright red. For evening
they are elaborate. with handsome embroi-
derry in white gold. silver or Persian col
ors. and with trimming OF cream and black
lace. They are loose all around and usually
have large flowing sleeves trimmed with
lace ruffies. That the artist shows here was
black peau de sole. had white satin lining
embroidery of gold and silver. and collar
of white chiffon. For the street these gar
ments are loose or semi-ftted. Some have
lace collars. others have collar and revers
faced with white peau de sole or MORE.
plain or embroidered. Three-auarter cioaks
are also seen. Soft. satiny broadcloths In
very delicate tints are made either in long
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Now York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
my cook is warranted to make any
chicken tender and savory, that is any
that a right health department will permit
to be sold i'm the market" said a house
keeper the other day. Though we buy the
best we can find the best is often far from
perfect, and to a Southern palate there is
no greater culinary offense than the ordi-
nary market chicken.
But my cook is "A genius-just a plain,
Southern colOred girl, without any expert
ence of chefs, though. She carefully cleans
her chicken, taking out every Vestige of pin
feathers, snges it. then washes thoroughly
the skin, even using "A brush. OF course,
the chicken is drawn.
she then sOaks it in clean, cold water
for an hour or more, to plump it up
Butchers often do this, but the water
dry picked chiCkenS-not soaked.
'In the chicken she puts an onion. some
celery and salt 10 flavor, and over it
squeezes a few drops of lemon, to take off
the feather taste She then lays ii on the
bars of a steaming pan. taking care to
cover the chicken with A wet clean cheese
cloth. She pours into the pan about half a
She places the steaming pan in a slow
oven-far back from the fire.
"A fire is kept all night, and often the
last thing the cook sets her steaming pan
in the oven, leaves the door ajar and in
the morning the chicken is as tender as a
young bird and ready to be fried "A any
hour required. In this way we have a
the season or price of broilers. for we do
not require broilers. My cooks way turns
time backward. and | DEFY the most fas-
tidious TO name the age of her chicken"
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not to mind. and if he is content to be the
father of hyphenated children no one else
has any ground to complain. One would
rather ones children should be articulate,
perhaps, than hyphenated, but there is no
conclusive obstacle TO their being both.
though If a hyphenated child upon reach
ing maturity should develop high gift OF
articulation and make a literary reputation
of its own there might be certain meas
ure of resulting embarrassment.
II is of questionable profit for a child to
be too readily and closely identified with a
famous parent 1T makes comparisons too
easy. and such comparisons are usually
dsadvantageOus TO the child. especially in
the earlier stages of achievement. Perhaps
that is one reason why Mr.. Crawford
cousins. the Howes, have never become
Ward-HOwes. For this latter form of
hyphenation, which joins the mother S
name to the fathers. there is a great deal
10 be said. the most obvious objection to it
being that if it should become common 1t
would mean that family names would vary
with every generation.
Mr.. Crawford still has sole use of his
first name. Francis. He is not hyphen-
ated person, though his children are.
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occupant of the heaven-kissing hall bed
room Is not at home. So the tired or
lazy servitor is apt 70 guess that the
boarder is out, without taking the trou-
bic to ascend the stairs and TO say with
the assurance OF conviction.
Now, here is a tale of the elevatorless
boarding house and the lazy hallboy. as
told by one who vOuched for il. A small
youth and maid loved each other dearly.
She was eight and he was nine, but they
felt that they were made for each other.
The boy said: III be the papa and you
be the mamma; will your She said
Yes, and they were married with due
solemnity by an obliging companion Of
ten, who was willing 10 be the minister.
year passed. and when the boy lover
was ten and the girl was nine the families
moved 10 different cities and the pair were
separated. Years went by, and when he
was, say, twenty-five. and she confessed
70 twenty or so. the young man heard that
ms chlld-loVe mad come 10 i've IN the same
city. Neither had forgotten the other. and
he at once called on her. 10 find her living
in one of these aforementioned lofty
boarding houses. The tired hallboy heard
with suppressed Indignation the inquiry Tor
A fourth-fioOr ledger. took the gentleman's
card disa ppeared for moment. which ne
occupied I'm resting on the lower steps OF
the second-story stairs. and came back
with the announcement that Miss --
was not I'm. The gentleman left his card,
and later called again with the same result.
After the fifth unsuccessful call he con-
Guided that the lady did not desire 10 see
him. and like a sensible man turned TO
other pastures. Bearing in mind Mrs
Stoves saying about prODinquity being the
great matchmaker. he promptly married
his own landladv's daughter. who lived on
lower levels. The marriage was. of course,
an unhappy one. the man still pining for
his lost love. After year the unc0ngenial
wife conveniently died. The widoWer acct
dentally met his first love al "A reception a
little later He told of his repeated calls
and was informed that his visits had never
even been announced by tho faithless serv-
ant The pair were eventually married and
lived happily ever after What a burden
would be on that lazy haliboys soul m ne
had one. for his interference with the
happy denouement OF the early romance!
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what to DO with Their skill.


Dallas News.
Many girls who must enter tho lists with
the wage-earners have been blessed with A
good degree OF artistic taste and talent. of
no great promise, perhaps. but sufficient TO
bias them in making choice of a profession.
To paint little and TO play little are ac-
complishments most girls acquire, but
when they have their living TO earn by
these means, they find that there is mu-
sic teacher under every chip. and that dec
Grating score cards and programmes or
now and then d china plate Is uncertain in
its returns. 1t takes genius and eXtraordi-
nary perseverance to succeed in the arts,
as the long struggles. bitter poverty and
chary successes OF many really gifted viii
bear out. The girl is wise who refuses To
be misled by fond friends and tiattering ac-
Quaintances. who see in her amateur daubs
the prophecy of a great future. AT the same
time. II she loves art and feels that she
could be happier and just as successful in
the pursuit or n. there are many forms OF
In that pay q good living almost from the
first, and can be made 4 stepping-stone 10
better things. II fame. like lightning. is
bound 20 strike
Take. for example. the success that has
smiled on Mrs. Eiis Rowan. frail little
Enghshwoman Nho trst turned her love
for flowers and rainfinG 10 account by
making nluSfFst C-.. -4- floral seed cata-
lcgues and ootanies. Her work was so nat
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or three-quarter coats. The latter are used
for driving. and are made ornate with en-
broidery, lace and ribbon.
Stencilling is appearing again, and many
of the designs are commendabe. White
and linen-colored linens, batistes. gauzes,
veilings canvas and broadcloths are thus
treated Entire costumes sometimes are
covered with IT, II separate skirts OF broad
cloth are worn they are covered with mar
row circular ruffies, the edges of each
stenciled. Embroideries and laees also are
shown stenciIed and look very pretty. To
all this treatment the charge of extrava-
gance holds. of course, and even when its
beauties are of very high degree, as they
often are the recklessness of the shipping
is most apparent.
New York April II.
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The Good Old Names
New York Evening sun.


How rarely do We find any one nowadays
In any walk in life blessed with 4 good.
plain, old-fashiOned. scrviceable Christian
name Ia the tenements. IN the kitchen.
among tho nursery maids. the shop girls
ana seamStresses one finds nothing but
Gladyses and Niolets and lsabels and Hide
gardes and 30 forth. Every one Of these.
OF course, has a perfect right To her high
sounding name II Is only that such names
are naturally identified with high-sounding
Things. The fitness Of things should be OBJ
served with regard 10 nomenclature as 10
all else A misfit name n as unfortunate
IS a misfit anything Besides. IL should he
borne in mind very few high-sounding
names wear well. Say them over several
times day and you will long for the plain.
serviceable James and Marys. In Maine
boarding house last summer the guests
We're waited upon az table by Florence.
an AntOinettc. an Ethel a Maude and a
BeetriCe. Their rooms were attended 10 oy
Louise. a Natalie. a Mildred and a Gene
We've The cooks name was Winfred the
man of all work Reginald the chore boy
Cecil. 1T was with positive RELIEF. said
one Of the bOarders. THAT I turned 70 my
own youngsters. named Martha. Anna and
John" The fancy names are the result or
the rage for that sort OF thing 50 rampant
few years ago having but lately reached
unfas hionable folk Fashionable folk gave
up the vogue some time ago. and with
sudden accession of good sense turned 20
The substantial cognomens that are 80 popu-
Tar to-day. The Clares and Gwendoiins OF
the present kitchen merely represent sur
givai OF the Unhttest.
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WORLD-FAMoUs PORCELAIN.
Ceramic Attraction from America
for the Coronation Year.
L.nndnn Mail

London Mail
For once in a way the old country has
got the better of America i'm an art deal"
and many almost priceless porcelains taken
from Europe to the United States during
the last decade or two will shortly find their
way back.
The Garland collection. which Messrs
Duveen. of Old Bond street, have just pur-
chased in New York at the colossal figure of
e12o.OOO. is the finest of its kind in the
world
director of the First National Bank OF
America. an enthusiastic collector of
Chinese and Oriental porcelains. Whenever
there were good pieces for sale he spared
neither trouble nor money in their acquis-
ton.
Ten years ago he lent the collection to the
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
where a wing was specially built for its
accommodation. When Mr.. Garland died
a little while ago he did not, contrary to
expectation. leave his treasures 10 the
museum, which was granted, however, the
first option of purchase.
At this point Messrs Duveen stepped in.
their offer of &120OO0 was accepted and by
the beginning of May the Garland collec-
ton will be on view i'm their show rooms.
The whole will be brought over intact, for
Messrs. Duveen have resolved to dispose of
none of 1T in America. IT will be unique
ceramic attraction for the coronation year,
for never before has such splendid lot OF
Chinese porcelains been got together.
The collection consists OF hundreds of
pieces or rare workmanship ana may rough
ly be divided into five classes-black ground
Oriental, famille verte, blue and white,
famille rose and powder blue.
Included in il are the celebrated Benheim
hawthorn" pot which fetched 200 at
the Marlborough sale fifteen years ago and
is now estimated TO be worth several thou
sands more: the splendid pink hawthorn
vase with black ground. standing four feet
high. and the only one of its kind in the
world. the gem of the famous Sailing coll
lection. subsequently, acquired for the South
kensington Museum, and the beautiful egg
shell lanterns in famille rose, from the
Marquis collection of Paris. for which the
late Mr.. Garland paid thousands of pounds.
COnnoisseurs here are considerably elated
urpS
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elites. This is like canvas yelling. is of
hand-twisted threads, wears splendidly and
4 double width. Some veilings have flow
cred borders that may serve as trimming.
These goods are available for tho street as
well as for dress-ups. Wool batstes and
wool challes are inexpensive and fashion
able. Any fabric that is light. thin and more
or less transparent Is accepted without
question. yet there is fair showing of
foulards Dainty rather small patterns rule
and are great Improvement on the large,
sprs Wing designs. Gray green gray blue.
navy Dluc. white and dull red pink are
a. the fore. Irish lace is much used on fou-
lsrds Nouccablv pretty blends are possible
with the new ColOrs Thus gray with green's
aud blues. and browns With reds are very
effective.
Despite the pretty tints, white is TO be
worn = great deal IN summer. and for oil
cccaslonr. m has q hold on all materials.
fanuels. -crgcr. mohairs. piques ana linens
Der morning wear. pretty veilings, bareges.
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Religion of Siam.
London Leader

The story OF Dean Stanley and Or. Vance
Smith reminds the London correspondent
of the Manchester Guardian that a lati-
tudinarian dean whose thirst for informa-
ton makes him the dread of the society in
which he moves recently catechised one of
the Samese princes about the religion Of
Siam. The prince replied that il was
Buddhist.
Yes. replied the dean, II know that
Buddhism is the religion of the common
people But what is the religion of the
upper and educated classes?"
All" replied the prince with an engag-
ing smile. I'VE are what YOU call broad
church. We profess to believe and do not -
The catechism was brought 10 an abrupt
conclusion.