Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1910 — Women of the Future. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Women of the Future.

There is not a country in the land but bristles with Jane Austen women, says a writer. With a good many exceptions, one wpuld not be sorry to see them go. They are kindly, but small—deadly small. The woman of the future is not of this type. She is far too busy to be womanish, but she will never grow out of being feminine. She is shedding her smallness. Like the genie in the Arabian Nights, now the cork has been removed, she is darkening the sky like a pillar of smoke; but presently the smoke will settle into “a figure of gigantic size.” She will be the Meredith woman, softened by reality, as Galatea softened. into life. She will 'not glide about with uplifted finger like Agnes, nor drive tired men to distraction with her prattle, like Dora, nor weep eternally when George is unkind, like Amelia. No, when she feels hysterical she will go and sit on a Himalaya till she is cooler, and when her husband annoys her out of her usual placidity, sticking a few pigs in Texas or India will soon put her straight. And with it all she will wear her frills as well as ever. Comfortable Sweater.

This sweater is rather heavier or closer knit than the regulation garments of this sort. It is all white, in a small block design, and trimmed with large white pearl buttons and large fiat collar, in ribbed stitch matching the belt and cuffs and piece down front The jaunty cap is also knit and makes a chic finish to a very pretty skating or sledding costume. The Home Storeroom. The cellar or other similar room In which vegetables and fruits, elthqr green or canned, are stored for winter should have the windows open on mild days for ventilation and for lowering the temperature of the room for chilling the store. Trie cooler they are held without freezing, the better they will keep. Bacteria which cause fermentation and decay cannot grow and multiply in low < temperature. Dry cold will always hold them in check. Dry Care far Cold*. A French physician has been writing in one of the Paris papers about a cure for colds which he says is very old, but which a long time ago fell into disuse and was practically forgotten. It is a very simple remedy, the only requirement being that the patient refrain from all liquids for a

period of from twenty-four N to fortyeight hojirs. A spoonful of tea or coffee may be taken at meals and a small glass of water at bedtime, If thirst-is very great. it is much better to £o without all liquids entirely, if possible. It is not necessary, says the physician, to remain indoors while the cure is being tried; in fact, he recommends that-the patient get out of doors and breathe the fresh air. He calims that the “dry cure” is infallible.