The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-19
PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL.

quries OF a personal character. the re-
sponses to which seem hardly suited for in
sertion In its regular column Of Questions
and Answers" Replies have commonly
been made by mail where addresses were
furnished. but have now been placed in the
hands of a special editor. well qualified as
a general adviser, and answered in a sep
arate department.. Correspondents wishing
to communicate with this department will
please address ''Fidelia," care of the Jour
nall
have light brown hair and ought TO have
a fair complexion 10 go with II. but my skin
is saIlow and muddy. What ought TO do?
Fanny.
Take good care of your health and use
plenty of soap and water and use them
often and plentifully. There is no cosmetic
equal to soap. Lotions and powders will
do you no good.
I have just had present of parrot and
don't know much about feeding him. What
ought I to give him?-Out-of-Town.
Unless you are out OF town far enough to
have no near neighbors. the best thing you
can do with the bird is to take him out to
the chip yard and cut his head
off or have him stuffed and wear
more pestiferous than a squalling parrot
AS to feeding him.. parrot is. believe.
good deal of a vegetarian and may be
safely fed anything in this line of food
that 1t will eat. If you will furnish your
address. will send you the name of bird
dealer who can give you detailed instruc-
tons.
Will you please give me the stamp Ian
guage-that is the meanings of postage
stamps placed on different parts Of the en-
velope?-Mamie r.
No, Mamie, I must decline to give you
this. In the first place, 1 don't know it
and, in the next, have too much regard for
postal clerks to encourage any annoyance
to them such as the irregular placing of
stamps would cause. Put your stamps on
the upper right hand corner and your Ian
guage" inside and you will be all right.
to use tea and coffee? Some say one thing
and some another and / don't know what
TO believe. / have good complexion and
don't want TO spoil Ii, but L hate to give
up coffee.-M. l.. p.
People will differ in regard to the effects
of these beverages as long as they are
part of the daily menu in civilized commu-
subject. One Indianapolis physician has
been heard to say that the individual in
this climate who drinks no coffee is likely
to make it up by consuming an extra guam
city of quinne. Another member of the
profession declares that both coffee and tea.
especially the latter. cause the consumers
skin to take on the texture of leather-and
there you arel You might test this asser-
OF tea and coffee drinkers There is your
own good complexion to start with which
seems to refute the statement.
VIII you give some hints to serve as
guide in hanging pictures? have the usual
miscellaneous collection accumulated in
ten years of housekeeping Z. R.
You set an impossible task / have read
many direction for hanging pictures and
have heard not few artists dis
course on the subject, but have never
known two authorities to agree. 1t
is one of those arts whose rules
vary with each case. and which can
not be taught. If you are not satisfied with
your own arrangement of your pictures get
your artistic friends to take a hand at
them. They will be fiattered by the request,
and may stumble on an improvement.
Buckeye: Yes, a marriage license is re-
quired in Indiana. Better stay at home with
your parents until they are willing for you
to marry, or until you are old enough TO
understand just what an elopement in
wolves.
Florence: The etiquette of divorce is not
yet well formulated. The social observances
TO follow separation are not fixed, each
woman concerned-men are not troubled
about these matters-following such course,
apparently. as seems best to her. An East
ern woman of prominence is said to have
sent to her friends engraved notifications
of the change in her matrimonial state.
This fashion at least has the advantage of
giving information to the persons who do
not read the papers and so preventing en-
barrassing situations. One recent authority
insists that divorced wives who resume
their maiden names should retain the title
Mrs" on the theory, perhaps. that there is
some virtue in it-an idea entertained pre-
sumably by the traditional woman who
married. not because she cared for mar
ried life, but in order that she might have
Mrs" her tombstone.