Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1910 — Page 3

CHURCH OF THE SPIRIT.

«!• church Is universal Lova. And whoso dwells therein 'Shall need no customed sacrifice To wash away his sin; And music In Its aisles shall dwell, Of lives upright and true, "Sweet as dreamed sounds of angelharps Down-quivering through the blue. ’They shall not ask a litany. The souls that worship there, jßut every look shall be a hymn. And every word a prayer; "Their service shall be written bright In calm and holy eyes, -And every day from fragrant hearts Fit Incense shall arise. —James Russell Lowell.

She Took a Chance

"ClSHce,” cooed the bride’s dearest <lrl friend, "you've nev'4r told Hie how you and Jack happened to get engaged.” . The bride held back her head and studied the effect of an embroidered tatitlal on something white and fluffy. “I never told a living soul," she said. “Goodness! How exciting! What In the world— r " “Not one living soul! But if you promise you’ll never tell anybody ”• “Clarice! You know me better than to think I’d ever breathe a word.” “Well, it was one night last spring. I'd been writing letters In my den and was bored to death. I’d just broken off with Howard and I hadn’t any hopes of a caller, for Tom was In Canada and Martin was working nights on his law cases and Herbert was out of town and that nice Mr. Seibert you girls were all crazy over ” "I wasn’t, if you mean me, Clarice, you horrid thing! I didn’t think he was nlci at all, and I always said he’d turn out something we didn’t expect.” "Well, he did, when they arrested him for bigamy. But, then, that hasn’t anything to do with how Jack and I got engaged. "It was one of those lovely spring nights, all lilacs and full moon, and people out walking, and I was cooped up in my deij all alone, with every blessed man I knew out of the question, and nobody at home except Mabel studying her Latin on the porch. You know my den opens right off the end of the front hall.” The bride paused. • ' . “I’d just fixed up that den,” she went on, “and I felt so proud of

“GUESS WHO!”

had everybody come In there. So when I heard somebody mount the front steps as If he belonged to the family and then say something to Mabel, I didn’t budge. “When Mabel called, ‘Somebody you know to see yoh, Clarice,’ I just said, *Tell him to come straight to the den t ’ I thought maybe Martin had got tired of his law cases and come over for a few minutes. “Whoever it was walked in as confidently as if he’d been to see me the day before. I llkedi his step. Don’t you think there’s a lot of character in the way people -walk? This man’s walk was firm and even, just as if he knew what he wanted and npver wotild' stop until he got it if it took him years and years. “Then, what do you think? You’d never guess in a thousand years!” "How perfectly romantic!” murmured the girl friend. “I never could guess, so hurry and tell me.” “He came right into the den, and before I could turn around he put his hands over my eyes and said in the nicest voice, ‘Guess who!’ "I racked my brains for a minute, for I knew I’d heard the voice before, though whom it belonged to I hadn’t the slightest idea. * He might be almost anybody, but I knew he was nice, just from the way he walked and the way h|s voice sounded. Besides, I was half crazy for some excitement, and I—l 1 —I think it was just direct Inspiration —I said, softly: ’“There’s only one man In the world who has a right to do that, and I’d know him among a thousand.* "What do you think of that for nerve! But, goodness! I didn’t have time to reflect on what I’d done. Things happened toe fast. "The next thing I remember is that

NEW PHOTOGRAPH OF HEIR TO THE BRITISH THRONE.

This photograph recently taken in London shows Prince Edward as he looked two weeks before his grandfather’s death. ’< ■ ■ ■' / ' '• - ' ■ • - " -

I xyas all bunched up in Jack Phelps’ coat collar and asking him why he’d never written me from Colorado all these years. He’d been away ever since he left college, you know, and he was my first sweetheart —in fact, we were about half engaged when he went away, “When I saw how perfectly dear he was and how handsome he looked—don’t you think he has the loveliest nose? —why, I never said a word; anyway, I was in love with him before I knew what was happening. “He still thinks I remembered his voice and knew who he was when I said that—he thinks it’s perfectly wonderful. Maybe when I’m an old marriel woman and Jack’s baldheaded I’ll tell him about it.” “But not now!” murmured the girl friend, recovering her breath. “Oh, by no means!” said Cllrace. — Chicago Daily News.

ORGANIZED CHARITY.

Kven In 1843 Poor of Cities Admonished to Seek the Farms. When In 1843 Robert M. Hartley, the father of systematic charity In America, organized the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, It was in great measure true that the destitute beggars, who congregated In ouf great cities, suffered either through dense Ignorance of their opportunities or through the lack of the moral and physical stamina that led so many of their sturdier fellows to avail themselves of the boundless natural resources that America offered gratuitously to any who were ready to take a hand in building the nation. Writing In 1845, Hartley, Harper’s says, deplores the fact that In spite of enlarged public and private provisions for the relief of the Indigent, “the streets were still filled with mendicants, the benevolent were harassed with applications, and Importunate impostors were constantly obtaining the aid which was designed only for the needy and deserving.” The attitude of mind created by thebe conditions Hartley expressed In several of the admonitory tracts which, as general agent of the association, he addressed to the city’s poor. “Every able-bodied man In this country," he declared, “may support himself and family comfortably; If you do not, it is probably owing to idleness. Improvidence, or intemperance. You will gossip and smoke, neglect your children and beg, live in filth and discomfort, drink and carouse, do almost anything rather than work, and expect, forsooth, to be supported by charity. Some of you In all honesiy ask not alms but work, but how will you get what does not exist? There are so many more hands than work that by remaining here you are doomed to starve in Idleness or subsist by charity. To- the sober and industrious we say, ‘Stay not here to ping in Idleness and want, when the wide and fertile country offers you employment and all that is needful for comfort and elevation.’ ” ' Those who willfully and stubbornly remained in spite of these admonitions, Hartley and his associated Good Samaritans determined to make the best of "by elevating their moral character and teaching them to depend

upon themselves.” They divided the city into 278 sections, each one in charge of a resident male volunteer—a member always of one of the best families—who pledged himself to withhold all relief from unknown persons, to visit in their homes those who appeared to require benevolent services, and, by discriminating and judicious relief combined with admonitions to prudence, thrift, diligence and temperance, to help them discover those hidden springs of virtue within themselves from which alone their prosperity might flow. But Hartley and his associates did not limit their activities to personal visitation. Almost all the devices for Improving the condition of the poor that are current in our day were devised by them.

TRIED TO ARREST THE KAISER.

Ihought Somethin? Waa Wron* When Emperor Cam* Home. Only quite recently the Kaiser left the Imperial residence at Potsdam clad In an ordinary suit of brown tweeds. The guard, however, seeing him go out, did not know who he was, and questioned an official of the palace shortly afterward concerning the stranger. This aroused some suspicion and the Emperor was followed, still unrecognized. He went to Berlin, where a regular detective was set to watch him, for any stranger at Potsdam is always well -looked after. The Kaiser went to a restaurant, and dined as an ordinary iportal might, for he Is given to these little Incognito excursions, says Cassell's Saturday Journal. He did nothing particular beyond buying some cigarettes at a tobacconist’s, and the detective, joined by another plain-clothes man, dogged the unsuspecting monarch back to the palace, which he entered unconcernedly. The guard saluted, but' the innocent detectives, now convinced that something was wrong, dashed forward and laid their hands on the Kaiser’s shoulders and demanded to know who he was. It took twenty minutes and the corroboration of half the palace to satisfy them that they had "pinched” the Kaiser, who enjoyed the joke hugely. He ordered the crestfallen men to be given a sumptuous dinner and a hundred marks (equal to $25) apiece as an appreciation of their zeal.

At the Ball Game.

Grace —Why does the man behind the knocker wear a muzsle, Harry? Harry—To prevent him from biting the umpire, dear. Many a woman wouldn’t want a • voto if she could boss some voter.

Should Wives Be Paid? One of the objects of tire eight bills affecting the position of womqn which Blr Charles McLaren introduced in the. House of Commons is to secure for wives a share in the property of their husbands. The proposals state that a wife who levoies her whole time to housekeeping and the care of her children shall have a claim on her husband during his life, and on his estate after . her death, for a sum calculated on a scale not exceeding the wages of a housekeeper in her station of life, provided she has not, received any other personal allowance. A wife shall also be a credlto; lor the amount on her husband’s estate in case of his bankruptcy. In the case of dissolution of the marriage or separation, it is laid down that a wife shall be entitled to payment for past services on this scale, should payment not have been made during the marriage. Where the wife Is a wage-earner she shall not be legally liable for the support of her husband or of his children unless her earnings or the inome of her property exceed the minimum necessary for her support. Among other proposals contained in ; the bills are, the following: Wives who work jointly in the same business as their husbands shall be regarded as partners. Fathers and mothers shall be joint guardians of their children. All universities or institutes deriving money from the state shall be open to women. Votes for women and heavier punishment for brutal husbands are features of this “women’s charter.” —Londoh Express.

Fads and Fancies in Dress

Dots and rings are much employed tn the new foulard designs. On Louis XII. coats one sees three pocket flaps, one above the other. Tailor-made gowns of silk will be more in evidence than ever before. The fashionable flower this season is the Bermuda lily in white or pink. Bordered challis are charming this spring and will be a popular fabric for cool day summer gowns. Black chiffon tunics over blue or green or orange satin foundations are among the more favored styles. The Russian blouse in wash maerials will be very popular for wear in place of the regulation linen coat. Russian turbans of flowers, foliage and are trimmed with huge bows of maline at the left and back. .Coarse Russian braid, row’ upon row, soutache in intricate patterns and soutache in hanging knots, constitute the trimming for outdoor garments. Many rows of Russian braid, tubular braid, plain silk braid an eighth of an Inch wide, embroidery and soutache associated, trim the tailored models. Among the new designs in table linen are napkins and square table cloths with circular designs. The corners are filled in with handsome separate patterns. For outing days there is a stunning model of a sailor hat with a slightly rolled brim and trimmed with a plajted cord and two quills placed quite flat at the side. Cotton crepe is correct in colors as well as white. Dresses made of it are both inexpensive, practical and dressy, an almost impossible combination for a woman’s dress. Lace is more and more claiming the attention for trimming hats and gowns. Black and white are most used, and when dcorating skirts it is adjusted in flounces or as a tunic. Skirts‘are drawn back tightly, the fullness massed at each side or directly in the back by a broad strap about a hand wide or sometimes by a band reaching to the sides. Separate foulard waists to go with cloth suits match in color. They are made without collars and worn with round collars of lace or embroidery, Irish lace of course being preferred. A Loveometer. Science, laments the Gentlewoman, Is slowly killing romance. The latest invention is an instrument called* a phethysmograph for scientifically testing the warmth of lovers’ affections. The person whose feelings are to be weighed in the balance puts his or her arm into a rubber bag; which is then drawn tight and filled with water. Names of young men or young women, as tty case may be, are introduced, and if the name stirs the heart the pulse rises and the indicator mounts up. If the name leaves the subject unmoved the pulse remains stationary. • Uelualona in Marrla?e. Sir Charles McLeran is championing in the English commons a series of bills to recognize the marriage service with a view to making it honest. The church service enjoins: “Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands as unto the Lord,” which. Sir Charles says, the ladies have never any intention of doing, and which, Sir Charles’ wife says. Involves an arrogatlon to

FOR AND WOMEN ABOUT

the men of godlike quality which she regards as a characteristic bit of masculine buncombe. Further on the service contains the man's vow: “With all my worldly goods I thee’endow,” which. Sir Charles and Mrs. Sir Charles declare is just a plain lie, He never means it for fifteen minutes after the knot is tied.—Success Magazine. “Cottage” Motor Bonnett.

Among the new spring and summer motor bonnets is one built on lines shown in above sketch. It is exceedingly smart and comes in several different kinds of material —silver sheen silk moire and voile cloth; all pretty and practical. The rosettes are made x from the material, with ends slightly fringed. The Working Woman. Cardinal Gibbons is quite right in saying that the world has a great deal more respect for the woman who toils than it has for her dawdling, idle sister in society. It must be borne in mind, however, that the stigma that attaches to luxurious indolence does not belong to all society women. There are women who have a great deal of money, and who do not have to assume the domestic burden, who look well to the ways of their households, and are earnestly concerned in altruistic causes. Such women are deserving of admiration and honor. There are those who accomplish quietly and apparently without effort, what others do with much bluster and fuss. In “Weir of Hermiston” Stevenson describes the elder Kristie as run ning her household “with her whole intemperate soul, in a hustle, not without buffets.” The women who labor on without letting it appear that they are hard at work do not always get the credit for activity that is awarded by the unthinking to the woman who proclaims from the house tops that she has been busily upheaving the domestic economy from cellar to garret. Not

On the left of our charming trio, the smart little tot is weaHng a froc* of pin-striped navy blue; silk. Note the effective treatment of stripes in back and sides of skirt. The blouse has a little yoke of all-over white lace, and the sash of plain blue velvet ribbon serves as a pretty .waist finish. In the center of group is shown an attractive suit for a half-grown girl. This design was effectively followed in a pretty shade of deep rose voile. The little eton jacket had hn inset vest of white broadcloth trimmed with small pearl buttons, and the girdle and Sash were of black satin. The unique little frock on the right is brown and white check cashmere. A pointed chemisette of soft white silk is bordered by two odd revers of plain brown silk —running from shoulder to shoulder on the right side to hem of skirt on left side, and tapering to a sharp point at end. Bottom of .skirt is edged with box plaitlag of brown silk and the cuffs are also of silk.

THREE YOUNG FASHIONABLES.

every woman is idle because her efllciency, like less Wisdom, doth not cry aloud nor lift up its voice.—-Philadel-phia Public Ledger, Marrying for a Home. In one sense every right-minded woman marries for a home, since the home Is the symbol of her new partnership; the sanctuary of all high and holy hopes. It is as natural for the normal woman to long for a home as it is for her to desire the love of ja good man; but the day has gone by when an American girl need be forced to make a marriage of convenience. With the multiplication of industries and the ever-widening call for women’s work, the number of mercenary alliances in the middle classes has been reduced to a minimum. The educated girl who marries so that she may be supported is either hopelessly lazy or the victim of an unwise training which has failed to fit her for life. So long as love continues to exist in the world —and that means until the human race is extinct—it is safe to say that women will be reluctant to marry for a home, and there is no doubt that economic independence has increased the reluctance. In response to the question, “Do vomen marry for a home?” we should say that a few exceptions prove the rule that American women do not marry to be supported.—New Idea Woman’s Magazine. Keep Children Bn«y. If mothers want to keep their children out of mischief, they should keep them busy, either at work or play. It is a well known fact that idleness is the cause of a great deal of wrongdoing among men and women, so what else can we expect of our children? Give each a task to do each day and they will soon learn to feel responsible for its being done well. After their work is over, give them the time to play, but not to mope or worry some one. Children feel of more importance in the world when they know that they are being depended upon to do something to help. Then when the mother has so much to do, it is a great deal to have so many steps saved. Of course, this applies more especially to homes where there is no outside help kept. Give your little ones something to do and see how much better they are. Remedy for Blackheads. Use soft cloths wrung out of warm water to soften the skin, and then keep it perfectly clean by washing with plenty of good soap'and warm water every night, finishing with cold. A girl of 16 should not have blackheads; they mean that you do not get the dirt out of your skin when you wash it. Wouldn’t Stay Away. A Chicago man has been fined $25 and costs because he for 11 hours on the front steps of the house in which his adored one resided and would not stay away when her mother drove him off with a broom.