The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-22

ready as a group of women and children
came down the aisle.
Can | interest you in these soft rubber
hair curriers'? They are manufactured from
the natural rubber, and may be washed ana
cleansed from all impurities. They do not
break the hair. They are especially bene-
hcial for the hair of children, but are also
valuable for the hair of grown-up persons,
giving the soft effect of natural curls. The
smooth hair dressing Is going out entirely,
and these curriers' enable you TO dress your
hair in the latest modes. They produce
a beautiful ringlet I'm twenty minutes.
Who could resist such an argument. Not
a woman, surely. Everybody knows by
this time that it is the hair, rot the hat,
that makes woman attractive and curlS
IN twenty minutes would win any woman
attention; so about everything feminine
that wanders down that aisle from the
prim Puritanic spinster who scOrns most
artificial aids to beauty 10 the small girl
into fuzziless pigtails, but who still has
hopes. stops to see the wonders wrought
on the blonde head of Miss Dolly.
One little group held a peaSant-faced
woman who wanted specific information.
Would those be nice to do up little girls
hair? I've got a little girl and shes got
curly. but she gets so heated up with IT
hanging around her face-and L think il
takes all the natural curl out to braid it,;
now don't you? Do you think they would
be nice to do up her hair on?"
OF course, the demonstrators thinks that
they would be nice, and the inquiring lady
has demonstration all her own on the
exact do-up a little girls hair, four years
old, in the way il should go.
Nom, / won't take them right this
minute. I've got consid'ab!e more shop
ping TO do yet, but I'll buy them while I'm
still in the hall. I'm going TO the grocery
department TO buy a dollars worth of
graduated sugar-they've got a sale on
graduated sugar to-day. Where is the
A second member Of the group was a
woman whose gray locks were obviously
more than four years old, but she thought
that the curriers' would be equally nice for
ton carefully and went off with a set of
the gray rubber curriers' tucked away in
her shopping bag. The remaining members
or the group were woman and two small
red-haired daughters. Both small red
heads were braided into a state of I'M
comfortable neatness, and they lowered
anxiously on the outskirts of mother while
she viewed the demonstration Ger. 1t
seemed almost too good 10 be true when a
card of the auburn colored rubbers went
into mothers possession, and the group
moved Oft the sm'll readheads probably
filled with ecstatic dreams of future ring
let's.
Unique in demonstrations in Indianapolis
was the free embroidery class recently held
here Most women are more or less UNI
der the fascination of the dainty embroidery
stitches. and the classes, held without
charge. were attended by women young
and old. One might suppose that one or
or temper But
There were other tempers Now wouldn' [
anybody suppose that when a woman was
getting the benefit Of free instruction in a
difficult art, that she would make things
as easy for the teacher and other pupils as
possible? But you never can count on a
woman. So 1t was not surprising that one
young mother brought her small girl TO
most OF the meetings of the class. Now
1 n q lThr tor vial
bright little girl. but when ones mind is
filled up with the mysteries of cross stitch
and whether she said to use the scarlet
or the orange here and did she say work
from the left to the right or was it the
other way round?-the incessant prattle of
a child is a bit disconcerting
Mamma, I'm goin' to put a blue stem TO
this viet-Wouldn you, mamma? Say man.
ma, you got TO buy me a skin o. white to
make a barder-I want a white barber
mamma, yes l do. Mamma, I'm goin TO
| finish mine to-day-are you goin' to finish
| two pupils in embroidery would be enough
| to tax any teacher but this particular
| demonstration managed ten or twelve al
| a time without any dimunition OF interest
J yours, mamma? Say now. mamma, amt
| you mos sorry you didn't brought my lid
! die thimbul?-I jus a stickin my finger
all the time. oh, looky. mamma, the bleed
| from my fingers getting on my vi'let. Say
mamma. will they put these in the winder
/ when We get 'em done-an then after they
| put EN- in the winder will you have to buy
4 EN-, mamma. say. mamma, aren't gOln
to work any more to-day. I'm gettin' orfu
| tired. Say, I'm goin over by that lady
| there-no. ! won't be in her way now
neither I'm tired a sittin still. SO there
now, l am.
Dear little thing-isn't she cut?'' said tine
woman who was stitching away at al
| American beauty centerpiece; then she
| added under her breath, Il could do JUS
| twice much IL she wasn't in the class
What does anybody want to bring a child
| TO an embroidery class for anyhow"
/ ing lectures which are given now and agar
| for various purposes are perhaps the mos
| interestil of all demonstrations from al
/ viewpoints The eternal feminine is OF
course interested in all culinary matter:
| and the mere announcement of free course
| OF cooking talks brings together a gather.
| ing OF women ike magic COOK ladies ell
| bow grande danes, debutantes with spark
| ling engagement rings sit shoulder to shouk
| der with withered bachelor maids, al
breathlessiy interested in the question OF
| whether il is better to put in the beaten
| white of eggs before II Is stirred or the
| other way round. There is unity OF in
terest that one seldom runs up against in
| gathering of women.
| And there is sometimes something else
| too-and that is a shocking lot of bad man
/ ners. For be IL known that one or the prin
| cipal items in the cooking lecture is tn,
| tasting of its fruits, and women will 81
| TO almost any lengths to get the taste o.
| the special disheS-which she feels belons
| to her. At one of the cooking lessons giveI
| woman and a friend were among the seek
| ers after knowledge. One of the dishes wa
| a toothsome though somewhat sloppy-look
ing dish. consisting OF strips of toast soakeC
| and covered with a rich tomato sauce
| When the big platter reached Mrs. Clul
| Woman she grasped il firmly with on
| hand. while Friend hung on with dealt
grip TO the other side. and both womeI
| swOoped the spoons in their disengage,
| hands into the mixture again and again
| The women about them began TO get i'm
| patient over the delay of the dainty, an,
| at last one reached out a determined han,
| and laid IL on the platter. Ii was yielded
| up but as slowly 5 possible, and just a
| IL left her hand Mrs Club Woman mad
| one last sally. got a brimming teaspoonfu
| of the mixture, which she trailed all owe
| her skirt and bodice, 10 deposit the few
| remaining drops and crumbs in her mouth
! and all the women about murmured
| "Serves her right" they saw her scrub
| bling away minute later at the spots Oh
| her garments
! Fortunately Mrs. Club Woman is a rar
| specimen, not a type; but IL must be ad
| mitted that the woman at the cooking lee
| ture or demonstration, is always ready Il
| claim her rights in the matter OF tastes
But the proof of the pudding is in the eat
| inz-and how, after all, can she tell what :