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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20
What Women Spend on Dress
As There's No
An Indisn Lady Views

gowns, so that the best frocks OF last sea-
son. with a little furnishing up. will do
beautifully for second-best wear this sea-
son.
The modish women who go out a great
deal pay anywhere from SIS 10 $50 apiece
for their frocks. whether they have two or
ionable gown builders here turn out any
frock, even the simplest Of walking suits.
for less than the former price. and in cases
where the gown Is OF rich fabric, with
much trimming, its cost il OF course great
ly increased. In addition there are thN
summer gowns. the house frocks. the hats,
shoes, slippers and stockings. the dainty
underwear. and all the thousand and ono
little things that go 10 make up the toilet
Of the weil-dressed woman. so that the total
outlay for the year depends entirely upon
the taste and the income OF the woman
herself One OF the best-dressed women In
Indianapolis declares that any woman can
dress herself in perfect taste and In accord
ance with the modes on an income OF SO
month. She herself does not keep always
within this limit. for now and then she In
dulges herself I'm frock or an evening
wrap whose cost alone amounts TO four or
five months income at that figure. But she
can keep within Il when she likes and sim
of those rarely dainty women whose gowns
are almost as immaculate at the end OF the
season as they are s,. az the .e oegin na
she says. Ito keep ones wardrobe In per-
feet condition. Each time a gown Is worn
IL should be looked over, any spot or speck
fully away. In this manner a gown Is kept
so fresh that with little touching up IL n
as good the second season as IL was the
first"
one of this woman's happy methods Of
keeping her wardrobe up 10 date on q conn
paratfvely small expenditure Is TO buy the
trimmings and Embellishments that will do
duty for one gown or hat after another-a
bit of real lace or rich embroidery or the
handsome ostrich plume-things that do not
alter in style. but are available season after
season.
The other type OF woman. the improvident
one, who buys the extreme things without
regard for their real value. who pays large
amounts for that inefable touch OF style
which next season Is worth nothing. may
spend far more on her gowning than the
first without attaining better results There
is still another type OF woman who spends
far less than $50 month-chiefiy because
she has far less TO spend-out who IL
clever with her needle and 50 happy IN the
way she wears her Clothes that she man
ages 10 look neat trim and stylish a com.
paratfvely infinitesimal outlay.
The matter OF expenditure In dress Is 3
matter OF individual decision and all the
discussion in the world cannot make 40
otherwise. The 5000 q year lady knows
what she wants and takes her own methods
OF getting IL, but IL Is 20 be hoped that her
methods Will not appeal 70 many ox her ots.
tiers. even II she v successful
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20
WHAT TO GIVE YOUR WIFE.
Suggestions to the Puzzled Man Of
the House.
Philadelphia Telegraph.

Philadelphia Telegraph.
Give her a pair. of rubber gloves; for not
to play on, and it is hard to do right jby
both. with the same pair of hands.
Give her pretty, comfortable pair OF
house shoes. Her feet run hither and
all the members of the family, and while
old shoes can be had a-plenty they are not
pretty. and in many cases uncomfortable;
independent little pine trees, which will
flourish In an atmosphere which kills the
palm and lays low the stubborn rubber
plant. 1nclose with IL pretty jardiniere.
Give her a good brush. a dainty comb
and a satisfactory handmirror. The odds
are ten to one that she has for her own
use wispy brush, tin comb and a
cracked handglass she has owned ever
since you were married.
Give her some fine, dainty handker-
chiefs. These she never buys for herself.
but uses any old rag that is handy
Give her a jar of some sort of stuff to
make her hands soft and white. Her
bread dough. in stove blacking. in ashes.
In everything that has to be done around
the house.
with a pretty sentiment written by your
own hand attached to them. and see her
blush with pleasure.
Give her pretty. medium price opera
cloak. then take her to the theater Christ
mas night, and afterwards that she
has chance to wear the cloak quite fire.
quently.
Give her a photograph OF yourself
framed in a good frame.
Give her a lot OF new music; things that
she has long wanted but would never buy.
Give her a set OF fine china or a silver tea
set. or some pretty cut glass articles.
Give her set of furs. Take her down
town and let her select them; then have
supper and go to the theater afterwards.
Oh. yes the children can spare her.
Give her surprise party during the
holidays. Let II be an old-fashioned pound
party, and a real surprise
Give her pretty clothes. pretty jewelry,
pretty gloves, pretty shoes AID stockings,
pretty laces or pretty ribbons. These things
she denies herself but yearns for.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20
The CellulOid Sets.

He is a dear old gentleman, and not for
worlds would he do anything to hurt the
feelings of that best of women, his wife.
Consequently, directly after Thanksgiving
each year he burdens his mind with the
fact that Christmas is coming and he must
look up a present that will please her.
Each morning he reminds himself of this,
and each evening he reminds himself that
his duty is still undone and must be at
tended to next day. 1t is invariably the day
before Christmas-or, to be more exact,
the night before-that he realizes that it is
still undone and must be attended to that
night. Then he rushes down town and
buys-anything. anywhere. Three Christ
masses ago he made his annual night-before
journey. He landed in one Of the sparkling
shops before the counter where the array
of brushes, combs and mirrors is displayed.
Some sets in celluloid took his undiscrimi-
mating cyclone in white. one in blue, one in
pink He chose the white one and bore it
proudly home.
His devoted wife opened her Christmas
parcel with eager interest which changed
to rapt satisfaction she viewed it be-
meath her husbands eye. The next day,
however. she quietly removed the celluloid
set from the piano where the Christmas
gifts were laid, and tucked IL away in an
upstairs closet.
The next Christmas morning she un-
did the wrappings of a blue celluloid set.
Her husband, In his usual Christmas de-
spair probably. had some faint giimmering
OF an idea that such a set had once APP
pealed TO him as a suitable gift. but no
recollection that he had ever before pur-
chased one. So he acted upon the giimmer-
ing The blue set was silently laid away
beside the white one, and az time went on
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20

He swung out of the door OF a
crowded shop, her arms full of
unwieldy parcels, which en-
crossed her attention. Conse-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20

amusing and bright colored jumping jack
the very thing which mother long has de-
sired, the arrangement OF ones Christmas
greetings is an easy affair. But after one
reaches the greater age when wisdom rath-
err than inclination prompts the selection,
the thing gets more complicated.
In most households the members Of the
family present each other on Christmas
morning with an array OF useful and need
ed articles. The masculine members of the
family may count with definiteness on a
certain number of ties of greater or less
desirabiiity; on pairs of fancy hose which
may or may not suit their particular fancy;
on muffiers. handkerehiefs, slippers and a
small variety OF other wel-neant and who'll
" unastonisking gifts For two or three
weeks before Christmas the women OF the
household drop little hints as TO the things
which they need and which will be accept
able 10 them. and Christmas morning they
are sure OF finding those very things beside
their breakfast plates
eve been sitting up nights lately trying
TO think OF something that L really need
that the family can give me for Christmas"
said one girl the other day to a little group
OF women engaged in a Christmas confaL,
ssbut II Just seems 10 me that I've got about
all the things L need: and the things that
II occurs 10 me that I'd just rather like to
have 1 reject the next day because I think
oh, well, 1 can get along without them ="
'well. why under the sun don't you just
leave them alone and let them give you
what they will?' said the fuffy-haIred girl
In the corner OF the davenport II never
take any JOY in the dress pattern. or the new
shoes no mater how swell. or the silk petit
coat that the practical members OF the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20


az | what Is said TO be the most
unique reason for divorce ever
M&M presented to the courts, and she
S asks that she be separated from
her husband because he is not in receipt of
an income of 5000 year. The pair have been
married 70. eleven years. but IN all that
time, except in the first five months, the
woman has steadily refused TO live with
her husband until his income reached the
figure which seemed to her to represent
the acme of bliss. Now she has evidently
grown tired of waiting for him to acquire
the necessary thousands and so she asks
for release. If her divorce is granted there
will be a precedent established which will
be available to vast number of women
IL they care to avail themselves Of it.
Also, it will open up the way for a long
list of discussions on rs Marriage Fail
ure on Less Than 5000 Year, and How
TO be Happy though Married TO Yearly
Income Of $780," and other like sub
jects.
The English lady does not set forth in
her complaint the precise reasons why
she found her husbands income INSULT
cient for her nceds-or for her wants.
rather, which are not always the same
things. 1t Is safe TO assume. however,
income would not permit them to live COM
fortably and still enable her TO have all
the frills and furbelows she liked. Dress
makers and milliners' bills are usually at
the bottom OF financial disagreements In
domestic circles and this particular woman
probably found IL hard to fit her ideas to
an allowance which TO many women would
have seemed wealth.
The subject suggests question which is
always a source OF discussion. How much
does the average woman spend yearly on
dress? That Is a question to which taflors
and modistes say there IL no answer, per-
haps because there Is no average woman.
The number of women who can spend all
the money they like on gowns and hats Is
necessarily small. The number of women
who spend practically nothing n year on
dress Is vast. But in between the two ex-
trefnes there are the women who spend
varying amounts on their clothes. and there
are almost as many variations OF the
amount as there are women. For that rea-
SON there IS no possibility of striking the
average sum-
Here in indianapolis there are few wom-
en- who have fifteen or twenty modish
gowns during the season There are many
women who have seven or eight gowns
made by fashionable niodistes: but the
greater number, say the gown builders,
have two or three These latter however,
are likely to take exceptional care Of their
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20

A Fragment of n BOOk-Lark.
Among the most enjoyable book features
of the merry Christmas time is the oppor-
tunity offered for what is known to the in
itiate as "a book-lark." The book-lark
proper is not necessarily book-purchas-
ing tour of the book shops. 1t is rather the
reward of merit granted by two highly
congenial book-lovers to themselves, after
all Christmas-gift books are chosen, paid
for and safely housed. Then again sally
forth the book-lovers to haunt the book
shops with nothing on their minds but TO
prowl and feast among the books which
cannot be bought, to watch the dear book
buying public in its delightful, dazed
moods, and the book-selling clerks, ofttimes
of no clearer intellectual condition. To look
and to listen in the precious. always en-
pertaining atmosphere of the Christmas
book shops is the high, rare and innocent
felicity of the book-larkers.
1--WE sold another Portuguese" trium-
phantly calls one clerk across tall piles Of
books to another.
"Have you?" answers the fellow-clerk,
with a pleasant grimace. WELL may be
we'll work off all the Portuguese yet"
Several other clerks, idle for the moment,
look up and laugh. The lightly NEEDING
make inquiry:
what do you mean by the Portuguese?"
one asks the nearest clerk
oh" he answers readily, we're stuck on
The Portuguese Sonnets'-Mrs Browning,
you know. Last year somebody, We can't
find out who, just bought stacks and stacks
of the Portuguese Every book we picked
up was a Portuguese, and you couldn I
find anything without falling over bundles
of the Portuguese. They don't sell very
well, either and we are all working to see
who can sell the most of them. One OF the
head men here has got so that he calls the
book that blamed thing but / think We III
get rid of them. I've sold five Portuguese
myself in three weeks
Just here a burly man walks up to the
clerk and says he wants to buy book.
What kind of a book? the clerk in
quires.
"Oh, 1 don't know; 1 want book that's
easy readin' and kind O. thrillin, too.
The clerk leads him off behind the book
piles-no Portuguese customer he. evidently;
and the book-larkers turn happily back TO
their feasting and browsing.
Up comes tall, slim lady to the book
counter, timid a bit in appearance and clad
i'm stylish black.
81 want Russell's poems" she says
sRussell's poems?' the book clerk re-
p4ats. Have Russells poems?" he
passes the query on TO an older clerk.
says positively. "Are you sure that is the
manner"
Yes: Russells poems-James Russelfs
'Oh." the relieved clerk exclaims. James
Russell Lowel's is what you want.
Maybe il is" the blushing lady agrees;
'let me see the book, please"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20

"Since Cleopatra died." Long years are past
In Antonys fancy since the deed was done
Love counts epochs from to sun.
But by the heart throb. Mercilessly fast
Time has swept onward since she looked her last
ON life a Queen For him the sands have run
Whole ages through their glass. and kings have
won
And lost their empires DER earth's surface vast
Since Cleopatra died. All. Love and Pain
Make their measure OF all things that be-
No clocks slow ticking marks their deathless
strain.
The life they own Is not the life we see:
Loves single moment IL eternity;
Eternity. thought In Shakspeare's brain.
IT. w. Higginson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20

and doesn't want. This business Of Christmas
giving becomes serious one when people
attain years of discretion. When one is
yet in that blessed state of childhood when
a needlebook of perforated cardboard
worked with bright colored woods seems a
most appropriate gift for father and an
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20
Odd Happenings Of Holiday Time

7HE swung out of the door OF a
crowded shop, her arms full of
unwieldy parcels, which en-
lExI crossed her attention. Conse-
- quently she did not the big
man who stood just outside the door. AS
the big man had his back turned to the
door he did not see her.
Her contact with him was vigorous to the
point of rudeness. He, however, was SUI
avity itself, though he accepted her apollo
gies with something of a dazed cir, evil
IDENTIFY looking about him for something
even while\he brushed off the ashes which
had been sprinkled from his cigar over
her shoulders and parcels.
After their mutual apologies had been
completed she resumed her shopping. All
through the afternoon she noted that peo-
pie looked a. her now and then with curl
osity. Their glances did not bother her
at all. however. A sedate little white-haired
person, inconscipuous in gowning, she knew
herself to be: so she made her way serenely
through the crowded street and stores.
When she climbed aboard the crowded car
homeward-bound she found a seat beside
the Rev. DR.. Fourthly, her revered rector.
She talked with him fiteully; her attention
was distracted by the odor or a strong
cigar which hung about him much to her
surprise and disgust; his attention seemed
to wander strangely to the proper little
bonnet which crowned her head. When
she entered the coy library at home an
odor of very strong cigar smoke greeted
her. John, you've been smoking in here"
she cried reproachfully, but her husband
made vigorous denial She removed her
coat shifting the air suspiciously as she
folded her veil and took the hatpins from
her bonnet. AS she removed the latter from
her head something dropped to the floor.
why, what'-exclaimed her husband.
and her daughter, STOPPING over the object.
cried: "Oh, mother.'
They picked 1t up. 1t was a big, black
cigar Of powerful odor, not more than half
smoked. mo wonder people stared
moaned the mother as she wondered just
how her hat trimming had appealed to her
beloved DR.. Fourthly, and remembered with
remorse how she had shuddered at his at
mosphere of strong cigar smoke.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20

IS time somebody started a SYM
postum on whether it is more
blessed TO receive Christmas gifts
that one wants and doesn't need,
or to receive those that he needs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20

Y Englishwoman has discovered
what Is said TO be the most
unique reason for divorce ever
presented to the courts. and she
asks that she be separated from
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-07-15
Cosmos"
la emigration v ell cafe

Saludamos cordialmente la nueva
e interesante revista decenal que ha en-
pezado yer la luz en- Yauco.
Su primer nt1mero contiene trabaios
de merito y trae fotograbados, entire los
cuales fgura Tin retrato del venerable
y muy querido Padre Pieretti.
Tratando la question palpitante, es-
cribe ell sefIor Torres en- dicha revista:
20 hay que levantar de su postraci6n
Ia riqueza CAFETERIA, medic million de
habitantes tiene que salir del pals, so
pena de expoAerse a perecer por falta
de recurSos." :"
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-07-15
Tribunal de Distrito
LA MANANA DE HOY

Celebrates varios juicios orales, re-
sultaron absueltos Manuel Duprey hijo,
por no estar derostrada su culpabili-
dad en- Ia falsifcacion de los cheques
librados por ell pagador de la ofcina del
Attorney General.
Belen Fuentes y otra, que habian in
terpuesto recurso de apelaci6n contra
sentencia del Juez de paz de Cathedral,
en- causa por alterar la paz p1blica y
cometer actos deshonestos, tambien fue-
ron absueltas con costas de ofcio.
Manuel Garcia Marrero, acusado de
delito contra la salud p6blica, fue igual-
mente absue1to, con costas de ofcio
hacienda uso el Tribunal de la facultad
que le confere ell art1cu1o 257 de la ley
de Enjuiciamiento Criminal, este es:
estimar insuficientes las pruebas para
juStificar la declaration de culpabilidad.
Quedo transigido el asunto que di6
margen al sumario instruido contra Ra-
mon Pifieiro, por abuse de confanza, en-
virtud de haber reconocido la periudi-
cada que recibio la reparaci6n por el
daiIo causado. Attlculo 445 de Eniui-
ciamiento Criminal.
Yen ell proceso por libelo infamato-
rio, seguido contra don Joaquin Perez
Acosta, despues de practjcadas las prize.
bas, el Tribunal 10 declare culpabe y
le impuso cincuenta dollars de multas
y las costas. El delito de 1belo esta
penado con multa maxima de cinco mil
dollars 8 carcel, por III termino maxi
mo de un aflo, sin que Sc sellale el mi
nimum.
El Gbelo aparece de una carta diri-
gida por ell acusado don Sandalio
Montilla, que no lego a su destino.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-07-15
la question
pal pitante
Lo del mercado

Emilio Alfonso, contratista de
la recaudacion de los arbitrios
de la Plaza del Mercado, ha pre-
sentado en- la maflana de aver al
Alcalde Todd, TN escrito indi-
candO la solucion del conficto,
de modo satisfactorio para todos.
Alfonso dice que 81 ell Ayun-
tamiento quiere restablecer la
disposition que Sc dice fue die
tada en- 1900, eximiendo a los
campesinos del pago de ese ar
bitrio. desde luego acepta esa
solucion, pero considerandose
rescindido su contrato, con de-
volucion de la fanza consigna-
da, hacienda renuncia de toda
reclamation contra ell Municipio
de San Juan y reservandose Ell
lerecho de optar a la nueva su-
basta, que habra de celebrarse
bajo otras condolences y tipo.
Pide asi mismo Alfonso que,
restablecida esa disposition y
rescindido el contrato sc liquide
la dozava parte que tiene salts
fecha por adelantado en- la si-
guiente forma:
Del al 9 del actual, bajo Ell
tipo de remate 8 sea a razon de
22 dollars diarios.
Del 10 al IA (ayer), ell importe
del arrendamiento mensual de
las habitaciones y 10 recaudado
en- esos dias por las mesas de
carnes, pescado y mondongo.
Ell Concejo municipal debe
aceptar las proposiciones del
senior Alfonso, 8 dar una que sea
mejor, pero Immediate de todos
mOdOS.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-07-15

En- los distritos del centro y los del
O, todas las cosechas han meiorado
durante la Semana que telrnino el dia
IL, y ahora presentan buen aspecto.
Las caiIas han adelantado bien me-
jorado en- color.
El arroz ha sufrido algo, local
mente, por causa de los fuertes soles,
pero por 10 general los informes pro-
meten una buena cosecha.
Ell cafe esta madurando bien de
a'gunas localidades informan que las
matas est&n dobladas, de tanto fruto en-
estado de madurez que contienen.
El algodon sigue bien esta fore
ciendo en- la vecindad de Las Marias,
Sc esta recogiendo una abundante
cosecha de inaiz.
Sc han recogido algunas habichuelas
zero la cosecha es peque1a.
Legumbres y viandas estan abun-
dantisimas y los mercados estan bien
surtidos de aguacates, quenepas y man
(gos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-07-15
La question escoIar
Asunto muy importante
ULTIMA HORA

El Honorable Gobernador INFERNO,
Mr.. Hartzell, ha dirigido, con fecha de
hoy, una carta los sefiores que COM
ponen la Camata de Delegates de
Puerto-Eico, consult andoles So opinion
sobre estar 6 no dispuestos a pasar un
"bill," en- la pr6xima legislatnra del
1904, para cubrir el defcit que existe
en- ell presupuesto escolar y poder abrir
en- Septiembre ell misno n1mero de
escuelas que en- ell pasado ejercicio.
Maaana publicaremos fntegra la
carta. Hoy no 10 hacemos por 10 avan-
zado de la hora.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-07-15

Orden de la Velada Lirico L:teraria
con que esta sociedad conmemora su
tercer aniversario Ell dia 10 de los CO.
rrientes, sujeto al siguiente
P r 0 G r A Nd A
Primera Parte:
10 Sinfonla "Campauone, eject
tada por la orquesta que dirije ell repu-
tado professor, Sr. Duchesne.
20 Discourse, pronunciado por ell
presidente de la Sociedad, Sr. Casimiro
Duchesne (hijo)
80 Poesia, LA Flor de la Sabana"
de Manuel Padil!a, recitada por la Srta.
Conception Ruvira.
a. Poesfa, "A Bornquen" de Die
go V. Tejera, recitada por ei Sr. Balbi-
no Apellanlz.
50 Poesfa, 'Amor Triste" de lose
Fournariz, recitada por la Srta. Teo-
ella Ruvira.
60 Discourse, pronunciado por ell
Sr. Carlos Segnet.
Segunda Parte.
10 Discourse pronunciado Dor ell
Sr. Jose Gaigel.
20 Dia'ogo "El gran Galeoto" de
Juan de Dios Pea, recitado por la
Srta. Eduvigis Fuentes ell Sr. Luis
Galfndez.
80 Poesfa, "Niebla de Ausencia" I"
de Dolores R. de Ti6, recitada por la
Srta. Josefa Pujals.
40 Poesfa, "Deber Cumplido" de
Vicente Jordan, recitada por ell Sr.
Manuel Chabrian.
50 Poesfa, Sin Luz" de Manuel
Caballero, recitada por la Srta. Antonia
Gorgas Rosa.
60 Clausura del acto, por el Sr.
Rafael Rodriguez.
Por la Comision: Eduardo Alvarez,
Presidente; Manuel Chabriau. Secre-
tario. f