Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1910 — Page 3
MY DREAM OF DREAMS. •Xlone within my house I sit; The lights are not for me, "The music, nor the mirth; and yet I lack not company. ®° gayly go the gay to meet. Nor wait my griefs to mend—“y entertainment is more sweet Than thine, to-night, my friend. * Whilst thou, one blossom In thy hand, Bewail'et my weary hours, "Upon my native hills I stand Waist-deep among the flowers. —Alice Cary.
The Woman Who Listened
The little club at Royat-les-Balns, I was taking the cure, had swallowed up most-'of my ready money, And I was bound to go over to La Bourboule to see my elder brother. Even If I had not been broke I •should not have taken a first-class on such a little side line. A middle-class dglrl got in, and the hot summer night and the question of a draught from the ■window soon got us into conversation. £he confided to me that she had met her mistress in America, that her mistress was a Polish countess, that she was traveling by the same train, that they had been taking the cure at Vichy, were going to complete it at Mont-Dore, that her mistress was certainly young, a widow, and pretty. This, interspersed with what I vouchsafed, occupied Miss King, sor 1 ’ that was her name, and myself till we stepped out into the dark at the little station of Lagueuilles, from which I learned we were to proceed by an omnibus across the mountains to La Bouriboule. We—la comtesse, King and I—were the only passengers, and this, with the fact of my acquaintance with King, and that none of us were English, soon enabled me to get into conversation ■with the little Polish lady who interested me strangely, for she certainly was very young to be a widow, and was a very fragile little beauty with quite ivory skin, jet black hair, large
I SMOKED AND TALKED.
dazzling, turquoise-blue eyes, and a little round red mouth. It was a lovely night, but the heat tn the ’bus was intense, and, therefore, there was nothing unnatural in my remark: “Should we not find It cooler if we went outside?" I was soon helping Mme. La Comtesse to climb by the little ladder on to the roof. “So you have been picking poor King's cotton brains about me. Well, what have you v found out?" “That we both belong to a conquered nation." "You are Irish.” “Yes, who told you?” “King. What else?” "She told me I must find out the rest for myself." “You asked her my name?” "No, Indeed.” "Then, what<” "If you were pretty.” She smiled, but said nothing, as if avoiding an obvious compliment, and then said: “If chance had thrown me into confidences with your valet, I think I should have asked your name.” “Do you know,” said I, “It would be a unique experience to meet as we have met, to woo and win, to continue to the end, and if there never were an end, to part unknown and unknowing, never to meet again, but always wondering and being wondered about, and, therefore, never forgotten.” “Do you think “Oh, yes!” I replied. “Every one else you know, every one else I know, knows all about us—our names, our ages, our likes and dislikes; the gpatpaths we have traveled and will return to; they and we have worn out our interest and ohr love and hate, one for the other. But a new experience would be to part before we wore out our Tbves, never to see one another change or grow old, but always to stay tn each other’s memory as we are, young; never to know the other is dead or married, but always to feel that one thing in the world had not come to an end, believing that. If we met again, we would be the same.” “Go on!” was all she said. I took her little hand. "To exchange names is to label oneself, to establish doubt; fear as to the past and as to what the other will do, or think, or say. Not to give names is to act naturally as if alone, unseen, unwatched, unafraid. She was entranced; her head was on my shoulder. She said dreamily: “Go on! Talk to me!” “If I do not tell you my name, if t
PHILIPPINES PROGRESSING UNDER UNITED STATES RULE
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The Filipino war left desolation in its path, as war always does, though since this war was fought largely in the jungle it left as little desolation and as few bitter feelings behind' it as war ever does. Even Aguinaldo, who had as much reason as any one, perhaps, to resent Uncle Sam’s forcible entrance, has become a good and peaceable American citizen, living in qalet and contentment near Manila and speaklhg in the highest terms of the government he so recently was fighting. After the war came the rinderpest, that swept off nine out of ten, if not ninety-nine out of a hundred, of the carabaos, or water buffaloes, animals which are almost indispensable to the life of the Filipino. Then disastrous typhoon succeeded disastrous typhoon, uprooting homes and whole villages, until it looked as though the very elements were leagued against the American occupation. But worst of all was the long delay of our Congress in recognizing the Philippines as part of the United States in a commercial sense. The old markets of Spain were closed to the poor people, and no new markets were opened to them in America until the last Congress gave them practically free trade with the United States, allowing their sugar, hemp, tobacco and copra to come in duty free. tlde Of P ros P erlt y« 60 lons damned up or diverted from the Philippines, seems to be flowing toward them in a steady stream, and the days of murmuring of the Filipino, let us hope, are ended. Already capital is beginning to flow in. New enterprises are being started; the forests and the gold mines and the coal fields are being exploited and the virgin wealth of the islands, which cannot be estimated, is being explored and developed. One might speak With enthusiasm of the railroads that are pushing up into the country, opening up new fields of wealth with every mile constructed; of the great carriage roads like the one to the new summer capital, which cost $1,000,000. Three new docks recently have been completed to which the largest ships afloat can tie up. New streets are being opened throughout Manila, and the splendid street railway system is being extended in every direction. The church and the schoolhouse came with the pilgrims to Plymouth, and they came to the Philippines with the militant pilgrims of 1898 To say nothing here of the splendid work of the mission churches and schools nearly 1,000 American teachers and 8,000 native pedagogues are teaching the young Filipino Idea how to shoot, at the expense of Uncle Sam
never hear yours, nothing that may ever happen to either of us will matter. If your death were announced, if my name became the most dishonored in the world’s history, it would bring no sorrow or shame to either of us, nor shadow our pleasant memory of to-night which must be eternal.” “The idea has endless possibilities. Names, as you say, are a folly. I will not tell you mine.” I persuaded her to break the journey and we went to our hotels, I to the Iles-Britaniques, she to the Ambassadeurs, chose our rooms, and by agreement, met again and wandered about till we. found a place open to eat supper in. But we ate little. I smoked and talked. She listened with her great eyes intent upon me. At what time I kissed her for the last time and we parted, I do not know. I remember she cried and clung to me, and I promised to call for her after I had seen my brother. This I did, but only to leave a note with King, saying my borther required me to start at once for Paris from which I would return immediately and come straight to her. On the third day I was back, only to learn that the lady I described had gone to Lyons. I followed her there, and after some delay tracked her to Biarritz, and thence to Spain. I was madly In love and I determined to find her. I tracked her till I came to Barcelona, where I could not hear of her having left, and yet where I could not find her anywhere. In my despair, I sent her description to the police. At last they came—there were several of them—and the principal one said: "Do you know her?” “Yes.” “Is her name——" I stopped him with I do not know her name. She Is a Polish countess; where Is she?” “You are quite right, signor. You have been following her all over Spain. We have followed you. We know all about you. You need have no fear.” "Never mind about me. What of her?” "Her name Is——" “I don’t know or wish to know her name. Where is she?" "On her way to Siberia.” "Siberia! Why Siberia?” “She was enticed to a luncheon on board a yacht by the Russian secret police.” _ '‘My God! The police!, What is she supposed to have done?” “They say she is a member of some political secret society.” There was nothing more to say, nothing to be done, but journey back to London, worm myself into the confidence of the Russian embassy, get letters of credit and a passport, become attached to a great newspaper, and start on a mission to prove to the world at large that Russian prisons were all that Is beautiful and good, and the Siberian mines were rest cures. I knew they would be so prepared for me, as they had been so prepared for other traveling Englishmen. 1 found them so, and so reported, and accordingly I was given all information I desired. I played my game well, and was more than discreet, never askIng the one thing about the one person in the world I wanted {o know till I found myself inside the fortress of Saint Peter and Paul, for there I found she had been taken. Her dossier was even shown to me. Tne last word in the document was “Escaped." There is but one means of escape from the prison of Saint Peter and Paul, and that is through a trapdoor In a dark corridor which runs over the river.—M. A. P.
POLITENESS IN RAINSTORM.
Ci t Isen with Umbrella Shows How Courteous New Yorkers Cu Be. The politest man in New York was paying gallant attention to the ladies for two hours at sth avenue and 35th street yesterday afternoon, according to the New York World. F. Hopkins Smith, author, artist and engineer, lamented at the Southern society's dinner the other night that “we live in the most insolent city in the world.” Mr. Smith would have been delighted to study this very polite man. A drizzling, penetrating rain was falling. The polite man carried a very large umbrella. In the most deferential manner he urged women who had been shopping and who waited buses going uptown to find shelter from the naln In the doorways of the shops on the northeast corner and near It. Then, raising his silk hat, he asked each woman courteously if she wanted a sth avenue bus or a Riverside drive bus. As a bus approached he halted it and asked the conductor how many places were vacant Learning this, he told the women waiting In the doorway®, and, In turn, escorted to the bus as many women as there were places for. He protected the women so carefully under his big umbrella that his high hat and seal-lined overcoat soon were soaking wet. Plainly some women were grateful for his attention; some giggled; some resented his addressing them as if they feared his motives. But his decorous, deferential manner never changed. About 6 o’clock, after escorting scores of women to the buses, he started up sth avenue. “Why have you been doing this?” a reporter asked him. “I just wanted to show people that New York men are polite,” he answered. “Will you tell me your name?" "Pardon me. but what has my nam< got to do with the purpose I had in view?”
Personal Magnetism a Great Asset.
There have been great advocates at the bar whose charming manner, like the presence In court of some of the world’s famous beauties, would so sway the jury and the judge as to endanger and sometimes actually divert justice, says Orison Swett Marden <n Success Magazine. A gracious, genial presence, a charming personality, a refined, fascinating manner are welcome where mere beauty Is denied and where mere wealth Is turned away. They will make a better Impression than the best education or the highest attainments. An attractive personality, even without great ability, often advances one when great talent and special training will not. There Is always a premium upon a charming presence. Every business man likes to be surrounded by people of pleasing personality and winning manners. They are regarded as splendid assets. What Is it that often enables one person to walk right Into a position and achieve without difficulty that which another with perhaps greater ability, struggles in vain to accomplish? Everywhere a magnetic personality wins its way.; Young men and young women are constantly being surprised by offers of excellent positions which? come to them because of qualities and characteristics which,, perhaps, they have never thought much about—a fine manner, courtesy, cheerfulness and kindly, obliging, helpful dispositions. No woman’s hair is as long hanging down her back as it looffs to be in the wad on top of her head.
WOMEN'S INTERESTS
Tbousrhta on Domestic Economy. There ar<» xany (households in which the mistress of the establishment doesn’t know her business, writes the Country Contributor. This is a deplorable state of affairs. What right has a woman to marry and take on the responsibility of housekeeping when she doesn’t know the first thing about it? What man would dare attempt life at such hazards? With such a wife a man is truly "up against it” when hard times come. If the woman has been wholly dependent on the cook and the best that the market affords for food for her husband and family, where are they to land when prices rise as they have risen and retrenchment in household expenses is necssary? There are many women who hold this ignorance and incapacity of theirs as a distinction—they imagine that it marks them something above the common herd. Out upon such nonsense! What man at the head of a large manufacturing pr business concern can succeed unless he knows the minutest detail of the business? Why is it that the man “who began as an office boy” so often ends as a millionaire? Simply because he knows .his business from the ground up. If the details of a business, then, are not above the close study and consideration of a financier, why should the minutiae of the day’s work be beneath the notice of the mistress of any sort of house? Why should not the flour bln and the grease can be under her inspection? And why should she not be able to take the place of any servant in the house if necessity presents Itself? To my mind, nothing is more interesting than the preparation of food and the study of domestic problems. Our supper in the kitchen redemonstrated to our minds the fact that we have too much house. Nobody needs a parlor, a living room, a dining room and a kitchen, at least nobody in moderate circumstances. The family life is much alike among rich and poor and we are nestling, close living creatures by nature. A small room with a genial fire draws the family like a magnet, a little circle, needing only love and congeniality to bring happiness. Can we not take a lesson from this regarding the actual essentials of existence?
Fads and Fanies in Dress
Belts appear everywhere and on everything that has a waistline. Anyone possessing a sun-plaited, knife-plaited or. accordion-plaited skirt may rejoice, for these skirts will be all the rage again. Gold and silver, colored and jeweled ■lippers are high in fashion’s favor, yet many of the most careful dressers cling to the blacks. A single polnsetta or a huge rose, more often than not artificial, is pinned on milady’s muff. It gives a pleasing touch of color. To have more than three buttons on the spring suit Is taboo. And what is more, the three must be diagonally arranged to be quite au fait. The guimpe of plain sheer tulle or net is more frequently used than that of tucks. The yoke is extremely shallow, and flesh tint Is the usual color. Drapery Is still a commanding feature. It is quite the thing to wear something loose, that may be -called a wrap, though it Is more an evolution of the scarf. Tan footwear is promised the greatest vogue that It has ever had, and it will, of course, come in some startling new shades, all the way from champagne to ochre. White cotton crepe will be used quite as much this spring and summer as last year. Some waists of this material are now seen, rich with elaborate designs embroidered in colors. The Russian coat is trying to the average figure, and the wise woman will have her general utility coat severe and conventional with the materials and some little details to stamp it this season’s suit.
Old-Time Cures. Of all the homely cures which are still to be discovered In old manuscript books of the past one of the simplest is that of a sliced onion, dipped In salt, and rubbed well over the skin. Another famous remedy consisted ot white mustard, made into a thick, creamy mixture with water and spread over swollen toes at night. Linen rags were then ordered to be wound around, so that no air could cause a chill, if the heat did not prove too great for forbearance, the sufferer was ordered to leave the mustard to dry on, and to remove all traces of It in the morning by means of a soft handkerchief dipped in rain water. Of homemade ointments, one of the least difficult to make is that of a mitture of half an ounce of white wax, an ounce of beef marrow and two ounces of hog’s lard melted over the fire, and then strained through a piece of linen. According to a centuryold recipe, which dates from the time when every housekeeper’s garden was her medicine chest as well, herbs and
For a fashionable wedding the bride’s gown of heavy white satin has been fashioned after the model in the Illustration. It Is cut en prlncesse, t d « q s ar ! y °. ke ot dotted net 18 dra P« d each side with the princess lace in fichu fashion. The lace veil reaching to the knees Is prettily arranged on top of head with orange blossoms. The bridesmaid’s costume is primrose satin, also of princess cut, with cleverly draped tunic arranged as shown in design. The bodice In this gown Is made from self-tone tucked oniffon cloth, with round yoke of white Irish lace. A large black velvet hat, with crown band of gold embroidery and huge pink rose on left Side makes a charming finishing touch.
leaves, compounded with care, had an almost miraculous effect on painful chilblains, although, like all the foregoing recipes, It was only prescribed to be used when the skin was not broken. The mixture consisted of a handful each of common mallow, marshmallow, ground ivy and periwinkle leaves, boiled with a pennyworth of alum and six breakfast cupfuls of water. Boiling was continued until the liquid had reduced to a quart, when it was strained off and stirred Into Six-pennyworth of camphorated spirits. What Girls Are Called. The most popular names for girls—what are they? Statistics have been amassed by someone In a girls’ college, where there is an enrollment of 1,600. Of this number more than 100 have the name of—not Gwendolen, or Gladys, or Patricia, or Doris, dr Juliet, or Marie, or Inez, or Marcia, or Persis, or Eugenie, or Geraldine, or Hortense, or Muriel—but just Helen. Onesixteenth of all the girls bore this name, which means Light. Mary came second with less than ninety. Then folowed Margaret, Ruth, Florence and Elizabeth, In that order. Old-fash-ioned names are frequent. There are still many Hopes and Dorothys, and a few Emilys and Penelopes, but Abigail, Huldah and Hepzibah seem to have outlived their popularity in America.—Chiller’s. Women in the Trades. Only two professions, according to statistics, have so far not been Invaded by the persistent American woman. There are no women sailors in the marine corps and no female linemen for telegraph and telephone systems. The other professions and trades number women as follows: Architects .. 1,041 Packers and Clergymen .. 3,373 shippers .. 19,998 Dentists ... 786 Stenographers 86,118 Electricians. 409 Tel. operators 22,556 Engineers .. 84 Undertakers.. 323 Journalists. 2,190 Carpenters... 545 Lawyers ... 1,010 Masons 167 Teachers ...327,614 Painters and Bookkeepers 85,240 glaziers ... 1,750 Clerks 85,246 Plumbers ... 126 Com. travelers 946 Miners 1,309 Bank officials 496 Blacksmiths.. 133 Man tact urers 8,433 The Untrimmed Hat. The prevailing fashion for having an entirely plain hat on the head is interesting and artistic, but one should not adopt the fashion without knowing its dangers. They are these: That unless the hat has exquisite lines, which means perfection of cut and shape, it looks ungainly. One must pay as much for the shape of the brim in a hat of this kind as for the trimming. Too few women realize this. Raglan Sleeve* Again. It is said that the Raglan shoulder line and a modified kimono sleeve will return to favor. It is true that they were satisfactory and more becoming than the tight sleeves set in small anmholes, which are still in vogue. The same idea Is noticeable ,ln many of the new and beautiful ball gowns, where broad bands of embroidery extend over the shoulder line. Correct Whining Children. For a child’s sake if not for those around him, do not let him whine. The fault finding attitude toward life is all too easy, and it makes for sure unhappiness. The whine of the young
WEDDING COSTUMES.
becomes the chip on the shoulder of maturity and the sour disgruntlement of age, says a writer on child develop: ment. The child who Is taught to take life, as it is without complaints, better yet, to make the best of it or to laugh at its discomforts, Is the child who will go through the world a pleasure to himself and to those who must deal with him. A Novel Hat.
The dashing hat which appears In the drawing is extremely novel. It is of rough straw in the natural color, with a bowl-shaped crown of medium height and a wide brim rolling high on either side—the left sire rolling slightly higher and toward the front. A wide band of black velvet ribbon encircles the crown, passing through the rever oh the left, which is slashed to admit it. Through this is thrust a quill in exquisite shades of peacock blue and green and cut to resemble an arrow. The entire effect is most novel and striking, and yet how simple! Practical Charity. Mrs. Juno Robeson, of, Cleveland, Ohio, has established a practical charIty. She has opened a house in a good neighborhood where working women may find- a home at a cost not exceeding 42 a week. The house accommodates twenty; it has the air of a private home. The women furnish their own meals, but under Mrs. Robeson’s direction. Ta Thread the Machlae Needle. If, for any reason, either poor eyesight or lack of light at machine, one has difficulty in threading the machine needle, try holding a piece of white cloth or paper on the opposite side ot the needle eye, which will then be so prominent that threading will be easy. Keep a bag hanging on the sewing machine to catch scraps. Have scissors hung by a cord or ribbon. __ I’eppers Are Handy. It is $ good plan to have a can of Spanish peppers always in the house. They can be easily and attractively used In an emergency. Sandwiches may be made of them, or they may be used to garnish leftover meats, etc. Cut the meat into cubes, cover with bits of pepper and bread crumbs and brown. Z