Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — One Woman’s Odd Industry. [ARTICLE]

One Woman’s Odd Industry.

Women who wear chantoclor hats •honld learn how to crow. Your perfectly equipped aeroplane will have water-tight compartments, Bins hip boots. Instead of the conquests of war, let us enter heart and soul into the effort to conquer disease.. When the cold storage warehouses turn loose eggs they are marked "dlrect from the country." In spite of the high cost of living somebody has had nerve enough to invent a new elixir of life. Every live newspaper knows that the Increase in the price of white paper has added a great deal to the cost of living. Also we concede that Edward Payt°u Weston is the sprightliest young Ban of 71 now running—or walking —at large. The college professor who insists that the dangers of kissing have been Immensely overrated is making a ktrong bid for popularity. According to an eminent entomologist, this is an age of bugs. The line M talk handed out by some college professors makes people think he is tight Oscar Kammerstein retires from the Speratlc field, but he does It with hon>r - The eastern papers state that he takes away “a sum considerably over 12,100,000!" An editor In a Kansas town sold out because he never received sympathy and encouragement. Sympathy Ud encouragement! Is this a euphemtom for wood on subscription? Colonel Roosevelt was compelled when he arrived at Brussels to wait gn hour for his frock coat. No man frver becomes great that the tailor can hot occasionally get him at a disadvantage. One of the ministers thinks churches ought to have press agents, the same as theaters have. But would It be proper for a church press agent to be M imaginative as the theatrical press kgent so often becomes? A Missouri judge has decided that it to criminal negligence to get close to a mule's heels. It is also the rankest kind of foolishness, unless the one who does it wishes to commit suicide and hates to jump Into cold water. A Chicago man has been fined $25 and costs because he sat for 11 hours on the front steps of the house In srhlch his adored one resided and would not stay away when her mother drove him off with a broom. The age of chivalry may be past, but romance continues occasionally to make a twobase hit Santo Domingo to realizing what it means to have Its custom houses In honest and capable hands. In the five rears of the American receivership the ecelpts have been about fourteen million dollars, or about twice as much as in the preceding five years. Nearly One-half of the fourteen millions has been paid on the government debt. Spelling reformers are not without a Sense of humor, else their task would be burdensome. Prof. Brander Matthews said, at a meeting of the reformers, “A friend recently told me that no self-respecting hen would lay an egg with one g, and that no selfrespecting cat would ever begin to purr with one r. I answered that, on the other hand, no self-respecting hen would ever stand on a leg with two g's, and that no self-respecting cat would allow any one to stroke Its fur with two r’s, and my argument squelched him." It Is now ten years since what has become known as the commission form of city government was devised at Galvesfbn, Texas, to meet a special emergency. The Idea spread, until now no fewer than sixty cities with a population of three million people, have adopted the plan In place of the old system of mayor, aidermen, councilmen and department heads. Most of the cities are in the west lowa has been especially hospitable to the innovation. In addition there are many other cities in all parts of the land which have made changes in their charters to embody certain features of the commission plan, as the single council, the recall, the absence of party designations on the ballot, and the referendum. Because he earned the title of the Peacemaker, the world shares the sorrow of England in the loss of her king. However the considered verdict of posterity may rank Edward VII in the long roll of £he British monarchy, the judgment of his own time has placed him high among statesmen, deeming his influence In world politics not only powerful but beneficent Certainly among his own people he had ‘won a personal affection and a personal confidence hardly, if at all, less remarkable than that enjoyed by Queen Victoria, and this although for many years his way of living'was not acceptable to a considerable class of bls subject* But from his tardy accession to jhe throne, his political

gifts, which had had up to that time small chance of employment, developed unexpectedly, and one who was hailed as another “Tailor King” was soon recognized as a master diplomat, perhaps the ablest of his day. In what diplomacy during the last decade has been built upon the statecraft of Edward must be left for history to de-, clare. In both Lansdowne, the Tory, and Grey, the -Liberal, the empire has had as foreign secretaries men of exceptional skill and experience. Yet there to little doubt to-day that to the king himself Is to be ascribed the chief credit for the almost uninterrupted series of successes achieved by England In the readjustment of her foreign relations during his brief reign of nine years. When Edward VII came to the throne England was In a position of "splendid” but disquieting Isolation. The Boer war had proved a staggering blow to her military prestige, and the figure of the German war lord towered threateningly over the world. There were many in those days who believed the sun of England's greatness was setting. There are few of that opinion to-day. The first stroke was the alliance with Japan, a step darkly received, but which powerfully strengthened England in the far east and discouraged any aggressive action which the revelations of her military weakness might have encouraged in that quarter. The alliance with France following the disaster to Russia in the Japanese conflict, compacts with Italy, Spain and Portugal, and a rapprochment with Russia, which has relieved the strain in the near east and on the Indian border, have succeeded one after the other, until England’s foreign relations are now a network of strands supporting her powerfully. She is no longer in splendid but perilous isolation. She is the first of world powers. These have been victories of peace and they have made for the peace of Europe. In all this King Edward was the protagonist. His diplomacy was the new diplomacy. It was straightforward though adroit. It expressed an enlightened, patriotic selfishness, of course, but It Included among Its alms not merely the welfare of his empire but the welfare, through peace, of christendom. Of King Edward’s part in domestic affairs less Is said. Yet it Is now known that he had much to do with the settlement of the great railroad strike; his Influence was for conciliation with the Irish; he urged peace with the Boers. Undoubtedly he gave a new prestige to monarchy In Great Britain. He proved to his people the uses of a wise king. Edward the Peacemaker is a noble title to take Into history.

One, of the most successful frog ranches in California is owned and managed by Miss Katherine Walsh, according to Herbert S. Warden of San Francisco, who is at the Arlington, the Washington Herald says. “Like a good many other people now living in the West, Miss Walsh was forced to leave her native state In the east because of ill health. Being told to live out of doors and forced by necessity to earn her own living, she decided to raise frogs for the market,and now she not only owns one of the most picturesque ranches in Contra Costa county, but supports in comfort her mother and the two children of the dead sister.’' “The net profit of Miss Walsh’s ftoggeries, I was told, was something like $2,000 last year. She sold 3,500 dozen frog legs in San Francisco and thit was the amount cleared. They were all shipped alive to the hotels and restaurants and the price received was from $1 to $8 per dozen. Of course the price of frog legs’, like that of every other variety of game, depends on the size and the season. “The native green frog of California is yery small,” continued Mr. Warden, “and, while the legs are delicious in taste, they bring much less money than when the native frog Is crossed with the large eastern frog. According to epicures, the very best frog for the table is the cross between the California and the Florida species. With carefully selected stock this cross produces exceptionally handsome frogs, and so deliciously flavored as to put to blush the finest Parisian product.”