Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1915 — Page 2

Latest in Xmas photography at the Parker Studio. Korean rice crop is smaller than it was last year. Photos for Xmas. Parker’s Art Shop. San Francisco Plasterers’ union was formed in 1857. Nice selection of pure toilet arti cles, for sale at Mrs. Purcupile’s. Experiments indicate that fireflies emit a species of X-ray. Xmas shopping made <*‘*sy and inexpensive at Parker’s Art Shop. It is said that a humming bird, when stripped of its feathers, is no larger than a bumble bee. The finest quality of perfumes, talcum, face powder and creams, at Mrs. Purcupile’s. Several Swiss churches are economically heated with electricity obtained from neatfoy waterfalls. For educational motion picture shows and cooking demonstrations where electricity is not available the Louisiana state university has equipped an automobile with a generator.

gr Gilt • Store \ We now have in stock [IP for the holiday trade a .« good line of cut glass, -ST carving sets, silver and fi'| ■ nickle plated ware. ’ | f- - ■ j |i JKL The following is a partial list of articles twe are showing: » 1 Cut Glass Bowls and Oyster Forks |B* Nappies Bullion Spoons Jflh» Carving Sets Pie Servers Silver Plated Knives Bean Pots wg |K» and Forks Casseroles • W| | Spoons Serving Dishes wl g |* Cold Meat Forks And many other suit- | Butter Knives able Christmas gifts. g < ] == jd = .> r n|L I E. D. Rhoades & Son 1 Ci . . Jj j Sk zgjr — .

Hand painted china and fancy work for Christman shoppers at Mr's. Purcupile’s. . The Paris police force is to be increased by the addition of a coips of divers to work in the River Seine. TWO-SEVEN-THREE—Phone this number if you want good hard or soft coal. \ Governor Cantu, of Lower California, in Mexico, lives in royal splendor just over the border in the United States. Dudyjou ever think how accept ibk your Moto would be for Xmas ? See style/at Parker’s. The government of Bilivia is the first to use motion pictures to advertise its industries to businessmen in the United States. Nothing goes as far or is appreciated as much as Xmas photos. Call at Parker’s Art Shop. In an effort to keep the Germans from crossing the Vistula, several hundred women aided the Russian soldiers to dig trenches. Night robes or pajamas make useful gifts, at Traub’s.

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Surprise grandma and grandpa with a Xmas photo of baby from Parker’s Art Shop. Experiments in Italy seem to indicate mat tomatoes planted in vineyards kill the insects that cause phyloxera in grapevines. Cloudy weather makes no difference, with the latest appliances, at Parker’s Art Shop, photos can be made any time. The price of coal is suid to have reached S3O a ton at Rome, and steps are beintr taken to bring it from Japan, where the cost is just onetenth as great You promised that photo. Have it taken for Xmas. See different styles at Parker’s. Experiments are under way in En rand with a new fuel for automobiles that is made from sugar refinery refuse and is said to hav greater power than gasoline. Father, mother, son or daughter would appreciate a photo for Xmas. Have Parker make it. If it is a Xmas gift for men, young fellows, or boys, you will find it at Traub’s.

A new process for the distillation of peat has been patented in Great Britain, which produces coke, fuel, pil, toluol, ammonia, paraffin and acetone of high grade. Gent’s jewelry, cuff buttons, collar buttons, scarf pins, tie clasps, combination sets, make fine Xmas gifts. Select yours from The Clothing House of Traub. • The Atchison Glebe vouches for the small boy, who, returning from p 'first dental experience, was asked: “Did it hurt?” and replied, “No, he just tickled my teeth with his little auto.” Neckwear comes never amiss for Xmas gifts. Select from an endless ! variety, all put up in fancy boxes.— The Clothing House of Wm. Traub. Zinc refining continue sos interest in Canada. The British Columbia government will give financial help to a Victoria reduction company for establishing a demonstration plant at Nelson. Dress shirts. We just received a new shipment; anything you desire in shirts is here for Christmas, 50c to $2.50. —The Clothing House of Wm. Traub.

Edson Murray, and W. C. Babcock, Jr., and Miss Nell Meyers, of Wisconsin university at Madison, are home for the holidays. Misses Mae Clarke and Jane Earkiron are home from Jacksonville, HI., where they attend the Illinois College for Women, to spend the holidays with their parents. >- French hospital attendants have succeeded in impregnating rubber gloves with the salts of certain metals and making them impervious to Xrays for the protection of persons using the rays. R. Sayre, one of the largest individual farm owners in North Dakota, has adopted the slogan, “Song birds forever and a catless w’orld in 1920,” and is offering prizes to persons killing the most cats. Leland Carson, of Enid, Okla., who travels for the Farwefll company and who has been paying a visit to that establishment, came down from Chicago .today for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Carson, and his brother, Ivan Carson and family. Ladies’ and Misses’ hats, the season’s latest styles, from 50c up to $1.95. —Mrs. Orson Peck, Mt. Ayr, Ind.

Teaching Rosalie

"She makes me so nervous I" the first woman on the porch said. "Me, to!” agreed the second. “I never saw a girl like her when it comes to the water! Why, she is a regular fish! She could give Annette Kellerman cards and spades!” “Shdrived off the roof of the ferry boat when it Was at the dock half an hour ago," supplied the third. “Every body was lined up to see her do it!" “She swam across the lake yesterday,” said the first woman. “I thought of course, she would be drowned, but her mother sat and sewed just as unconcernedly ! She said Rosalie was used to swimming! Some women are so stolid! Of course, there was a rowboat following her, but then you never can tell. I think she does it merely to attract attention!” “She’s pretty enough," said the first woman, “so the men don’t hate her because she can swim farther and better than they ean. If she were a homely girl and so superior, Heaven help her!" “First she beats them," continued the second, “and then when they are properly cowed and subdued, she smiles at them beamingly; and they arise and frisk around like puppy dogs in disgrace that have been patted on the head, and forgiven I* "I’ll bet," said the third recklessly, “that she doesn’t get that new man on the string who just came last night! He looks as tho all his grandfathers had ordered people around and eaten off silver plates for breakfast! He’s off golfing now, so he missed Rosalie’s exhibition. I don’t think he’s the sort to be captured by an athletic girl!" The first and second porch women on the opposite side of the vines that evening watching the dancers overheard it. Rosalie and the new man had preempted the bench after a dance. "Well," said Rosalie, meekly, “I’d hardly call iL-swimming—l just paddle around, you know, Mr. Montfort." The first lady gasped and clutched her companion. "Like all girls,” said Montfort, Indulgently. “You could do it if you tried. I suppose you’ve never had expert instruction!” “N-n-no," said Rosalie, quite truthfully. “I’ve just—er—sort of paddled around since I was a child, I guess." “We’ll change all that,” said Mr. Montfort, briskly. "Now, if you like, I’ll be very glad to teach you a few things while Pm here. I’ll guarantee that before I leave you’ll be doing seventy-five or a hundred strokes easily" “Really," gasped Rosalie, ecstatically. The second lady gasped and clutched the first in an overflow of glee.

“Just a little courage and some one to show you the r|ght way,” said the Montfort man, condescendingly. "Oh, that’s so good of you!” cooed Rosalie in her youngest, most delightfully trusting voice. "I’m going to get up at eight o’clock!" hissed the first porch lady to the second. "I wouldn’t miss it for a farm! You’d better come along!" The people who heard Montfort explaining to H>sailie the theory of the breast stroke on the beach the next morning were so stricken dumb that no alien word warned the, gentleman. "It’s the easiest," he told her. “It's all most women ever do—they can’t seem to grasp the other strokes,” "Like this?" asked Rosalie meekly, rnairing some ineffective motions. Montfort sijhed. "Goodness no!” he moaned. "Why will women use their arms like brooms in the water !* 'Tm glad I brought my parasol,* •aid the second porch lady o the first. "Because I’m going to stay!" “I don’t know," Montfort said mournfully after a half hour’s hard work. "You don’t seem to grasp the theory. If you aren’t an instinctive swimmer it isn’t much use. Now, it’s perfectly easy for me! Just watch closely, please!" He swam about fifty feet and back and emerged panting a tr'fle. "My!" said Rosalie admiringly. Walking to the end of the pier she suddenly shot off into space "My goodness!" gasped Montfort, tragically, "she’ll drown! It’s fifteen' feet deep out there! Miss—er —Rosalie!"

Up from the disturbed waters Rosalie’s face smiled impishly at his horror. Deliberately she floated a moment and then in three minutes gave an exhibition of six different strokes. Breaking into the ungainly hut terrific Australian crawl, she struck out apparently for the opposite shore. "Come along!" she shouted hack at htm "Never mind!" hysterically said the onlookers to the reeling Montfort man. "You can belong to our lodge! You’re initiated!" “I see that," replied Montfort, with unlooked for brilliance. "I’m the goat!"

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