Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1910 — Page 2

The Daily Republican Every Day Except Sunday HEALEY & CLARK, Publishers. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

j Hobble, hobble, skirts and trouble. Every bat Is a “picture hat" now•days. Prunes are higher. Telophofio your landlady. What haa become of the old-sash toned man who wore a double-breasted treat? Dynamite may help, but tennis matches are the only reliable cure for droughts. Volcanoes in Alaska are b pouting lire. Very likely the janitor Is trying out the flues. Carrier pigeons will have to equip themselves with electric motors or fall hopelessly behind. Radical changes are announced in the new football rules. There will be no hitting in the clinches. Newport Is said to be crazy over a barefoot dance. This means more work for the chiropodists. By playing tennis on a hot afternoon • fat man learns to despise mere rain a producer of moisture. Dp in Maine an automobile ran into n simple-minded bear. - That was getting art and nature badly mixed.

Duke Franz Joseph says he is in this country after bear, and not a bride. Nevertheless, he may get his eye on a dear. In Porto Rico oysters grow on trees. That is very well, but unfortunately tabasco sauce does not grow on the same limb. 1 ' Germany is going to make laws governing aviators. However, it-is already m capital offense to fall 500 feet yith an aeroplane. It has been proved that a Vassar girl is not afraid of an aeroplane. Still, •n aeroplane does not in the least resemble a mouse. Remember, while copiously watering your lawn, that many a faucet on the second floor is hoarsely muttering. “How dry I am!" Remarks a woman writer: "The work of personal beautifying resembles that of a house decorator.” In respect to calcimine? » Chicago will be a good place for holding the world’s brewers’ congress, ss the tornup streets have given a great impetus to the hop. industry. In some ways the preacher who looks for baseball in heaven is most conservative. When the home team wins baseball is heaven to the fan. A new highball which costs $1.20 is being sold in New York. Some of the sons of Pittsburg mi’llonaires must be spending the summer in New York. There’s no safe atxi sane way to fall out of an aeroplane,” remarks the Toledo Blade. Pooh! There i 3 no safe and sane way to fall out of bed. Aviators are to hAvl dummy bombs at dummy war vessels at Garden City, N. J., and then maybe peace will find it easier to spread her dove-like wings. Some enterprising correspondent •hould now uncover a fleet of Japanese airships ready to spread devastation over the shark-infested waters of the Pacific. Another woman has broken her leg by tripping up in her hobble skirt. It may be necessary to pass a few sumptuary laws or soon the men will have eo dancing partners. The weather man reports that the mean rain fall for July was 2.21 inches less than any July since 1579 *—which shows it was a very mean monthly rainfall Indeed. An Illinois man has invented a safety pin with two points. Half of the adult population, uneasily awaits information as to whether the women will wear them in their belts.

"Be temperate and slow to anger. Bleep and eat regularly, go In for athletics early in life and keep limber.” are some rules for a long life. Also look both ways before crossing the. boulevard. At tbefr recent conver- lon In Denver the dentists decided that kissing would have to be abolished for the purpose of saving the human race. Would a human race that had abolished kissteg be worth saving? A Massachusetts preacher says there will be baseball in heaven. The enjoyment of some of the enthusiasts will be spoiled, however, if it shall be fouhd impossible to throw things at the umpire in heaven. The season for Csh and snake stories has been rather.poor. Both in quality and quantity, the output has ' 'not been up to the standard. It is teared by some theorists that the establishment of the .Ananias club Jut* acted as an early frost to the '

The WATERWAYS of HOLLAND

Tp maintain their national indeI pendence, to assert their commercial supremacy, to resist the encroachment of foreign powers, the men of Holland have endured many wars and achieved great triumphs. The ddya of these Stubborn strifes have gone, for Holland no longer has any pre-eminent greatness to defend, no greedy assaults to repel. From centuries of strenuous effort she has drifted into a quietly prosperous peace, her people well content with the little which they never lack, and bearing with them a dignity and air of simple wellbeing which are the tokens of their ancestry. Yet, unconcerned as they may be with wars and rumors of wars In the world of men, they are still to the daily exercise of the high courage of their race, for they have ever at their gates a foe never weary of attaok, and they know well that the least relaxation of wariness will bring destruction. The peril of the sea at all seasons is a thing which no nation knows as well as Holland knows it_ These men hold their land and bring it to rich cultivation In the face of the great natural forces of the world. Their country lies below sea-level, and is preserved from ruin by great embankments thrown up round the coast and a vast system of canals which make a veritable network of the land.

Herein lies the secret of the Dutchman’s greatness of character. He has had no opportunity of becoming enfeebled by security. The unceasing conflict with the sea has become knit up into the very fibers of the national spirit, and has given to it a strain of silent self-reliance that could have been born of no other cause. Silent — for this warfare is not as the warfare of man with man, accompanied by the clash of arms and blare of trumpets—it is carried on from year to year in grim quietness against an enemy that may be repulsed but that can never be destroyed. It was by no mere chance that the country’s hero was •William the Silent The Dutch landscape reflects the national character in a singularly vivid manner. Narrow roads set with Small red bricks, trimly ordered gardens. the little carts drawn by dogs, the cottages with their little rows of burnished copper and brass pans and bowls set outside to sweeten in the sun, the poles erected to attract the storks at nesting time, the miniature windmills for domestic use, the people Ihemselves In their bright blouses and aprons and white sabots, the scrupulous tidiness that prevails everywhere, all combine to make up the impression of a toy country where everything ts well ordered and mellow. Nowhere is the traveler brought up in bidden and breathless wonder before any gorgeous spectacle, nowhere awed by. any sense of feverish activity. Desolation and grandeur are alike absent. A beggar is hardly ever seen, a ruin never. The absence of these and of all pomp of riches makes one forgetful of theinequality of things. And then in the midst of all this pretty unconcern is the everlasting symbol of the Dutchman’s 'strength—the sails. There is nothing small about these. They are liberal and workmanlike, full of dignity. Greedy for every breath of wind, they bear the heavily laden barges, beautiful from water-line to masthead, down the great canals from sea to sea. They move with a measured dignity which deepens the sense of calm which is over the whole landscape, and adds to it strength and mobility of character. Everything that the Hollander does under the spell of the waters is Informed by a large and generous spirit of power and fitness. If he has to build a house, be atjtempts to achieve' beauty, and beicomes ornate and wholly' undlstlngfnished; but when he turns his hand ft* the great Windmills which girt the

sides of his canaiß, he works by instinct rather than by design, and shows himself to be possessed of a feeling for proportion and line which is Impeccable. It is this innate suggestion of beauty and rightness in the canal life of the country that gives to the wonderful calm of the landscape its crownlng glory. Flat pastures sweep out on all sides to a far horizon where lines and colors stand out with singu lar clearness and brilliance. Sleek black and white cattle are confined to their rightful meadows by smaller canals which serve as hedges, for the people have put their mastery over the water to practical uses at every turn. We are shaded by tall trees that are set along either side of the road, and we know that we are in a land of peace, where hurry and clamor would be unseemly. And yet in all this benign quietude there is nothing lethargic, for always with us are the great canals with their procession of life, quiet and slow, but resolute and unyielding. For variety and richness the English landscape is unapproaehable, yet in this thing a contrast is not uninteresting. As we go through our highways and lanes and woodlands we shall find all the beauty and peace, but the one thing that we shall often miss is movement and life which is wholly in tune with the surroundings and Is, so to speak, essential to the life of the nation as a whole. Trains may be this last, but they destroy the calm Instead of emphasizing It Motorcars are both discordant and Inessential. Even the pleasure boats on a river lend a suggestion of artificiality. A team on the ploughlands, a shepherd folding his sheep, a field of haymakers or reapers, only In these do we find the life that is in exact accord with the scene, and these we can only find at Intervals, in Holland, on the other hand, in places the most remote from cities and the sound of markets and commerce we find always the feeling of seclusion and restfulness heightened and touched to a sense of vitality by the canals and their full-sailed barges. These canals triumphantly redeem the physical characteristics of the country from the charge of dullness. It® general features is undenlably quaint, but quaintness has a charm which is not enduring. After a while we begin to tire of the squareness and orderliness, and to look upon what appeared to be Individuality at first as eccentricity. We grow a little uncomfortable In the land of Lilliput, and fret for change and some patch of wildness. But of the canals we never weary, for in them we see the expression of a nation’s character molded through centuries of stirring and honorable history. We remember the Dutch proverb: “God made the sea, we made the shore,” and we feel that these waterways are not only beautiful and charged with color and atmosphere, but symbolical of a people’s greatness.

The Dutch painters, through whom the national genius has found its most forcible and enduring expression, have realized very completely titles strange blend of calm and strength. To look at one of their portrait groups of, say, a body of hospital governors. Is to understand at once that these men conducted their business thoroughly and well, but scornful of undignified haste, and for untroubled repose Van der Meer’s picture of Delft In the gallery at The Hague could not well be surpassed. In the great Dutch paintings we do not find the tranquillity of the open places and luxuriant haunts of nature, but the deep calm of strong life, sober and not highly Imaginative but entirely satisfying in its degree. The rise and fall of nations Is a phenomenon still unaccounted for and constantly recurring. We know that Rome step by step rose to a splendor the glory of which is immortal, but we cannot grasp the secret of’ this splendor’s decay or of the decline of the other great civilizations of the world. We can but accept the fact, and wonder at the ruined and yet noble monuments of their greatness that still stand as at once a memory and an inspiration. When the time comes that the, peoples of western Europe have also passed Into the shadow of dead glories, we too shall leave something of our works to bear witness to a greatness that has gone. But Holland will be but'a recorded history to the new nations of far-off ages. The sea villi have prevailed, the great canals, which are as truly the essential expression of a re*olute and heroic people as are the palaces of Venice or the Acropolis of the Greeks, will have perished and will bear no testimony.

JOHN DRINXWATER.

THE WOMAN'S CORNER

NEAT HOUSE FROCKS 6MART AND USEFUL GARMENTS FOR- DAINTY HOUSEKEEPERS. Dame Fashion Provides Attractive Models for Making Up Cheap Materials—Becoming Btyles Even In Cooking Aprons. The good housekeeper Is generally a dainty body when it comes to her personal appearance, and If she Is young and good-looking she is sometimes very particular about her working clothes. Dame Fashion knows this, and has provided very attractive models for making up all the numerous materials now so reduced in price. There are becoming styles even in cooking aprons if you please! Those for genuine work are still practically large, covering almost all the gown and very nearly meeting at

the hack. But seams outline the bust and there are pretty bibs, oddly-shap-ed pockets and flounces for the bottom. Then bits of color are used to brighten up a sombre material, blue, red or white pipings showing on dull brown and tan linens, or perhaps a gay plaid will be used, this shaping tfce piping or put on in bias bands. As to more elaborate aprons, they are all the rage—little muslin trifles trimmed with ribbon and lace, tiny, narrow and the height of coquetry for all work that Isn’t real work; sewing aprons made of gandy handkerchiefs, black silk aprons with quaint env

SOME DONT'S FOR MOTHERS

No Surer Love Destroyer Than Mother Who Is Chrorile Fault Finder and Bcold. Don’t let yourself grow old in feelings. It means growing away from your children and bitter, lonely hours. Don’t let yourself rust mentally. The growing girl and boy who can have mother help him out in a tight place in his lessons, or can come to her for a dear answer to a perplexing question, rarely gets that disagreeable know-it-all air so common to young America. Don’t try to force your children's confidence. H from the start you have tried to be a chum of your child the confidence will be given unsolicited; those that are asked are given grudgingly and with a sense of resentment, if not actually refused. Don’t let your children Bee that you are disappointed in them. There is no surer road of self-consciousness and the don’t care attitude than if the boy or girl feels that mother thinks him a failure. Don’t, on she other hand, think your progeny prodigies. IMhe child knbws he isn’t he is conscious of embarrassment and being under a strain; if he agrees with the maternal opinion he becomes insufferably conceited. Don’t, whatever else you do or leave undone, don't nag. There is po surer love destroyer than a mother who never lets up, who Tn» g n<fl P « trifles, who is a chronic fault finder asd scold. He children of such a mother rarely are found in the home —ls they can get out of it , I * <** *

broidered bottoms to r afternoon tea. aprons worn while putting flowers Into the vases and all sorts of aprons for all sorts of purposes. In truth one might very readily write the book of aprons, so varied and charming are the present phases of these useful and always delightfully feminine detailß. The housekeeper’s working frock has also taken many steps upward in charm, and If there is no time to make the needed garment there it is always in the shop, with prices often marvelously cheap. The breakfast gown In two pieces, belted Jacket and skirt, la exploited in unnumbered dainty materials, lacs i&sertlons and edgings and ribbon drawstrings and bows going with these, and every little ready-made model tells you just how the flowered or striped or spotted goods on the next counter would look If yon bought It and made the dress yourself. The shapeless and really Improper wrap per of the long ago Is conspicuoui by ltd absence. The garment that takes its place is a “house gown," and this Is most commonly In Empire style whether the garment Is In smart texture or not Our illustration displays the “house maid’s” apron, which Is so useful foi protecting a pretty dress and yet ii graceful and becoming too. The apron is in one piece, with the shaped flounce gathered full at the bottom and plain at the sides. The ample pockets are made with a long end that runs up Into the belt, thus nap rowing the space very becomingly across the abdomen. The bib is made with straps that cross at the bach and it may be cut without the epaulets If material gives out or the shoulder pieces are not becoming.. For good service white butcher's linen or brown holland would be best for this apron, and In this shape it would do for either mistress or maid. For the gar ment the waitress would wear at a smart dinner or luncheon dotted swiss, dimity and checked muslin are all suitable, and with these a little edge of narrow lace would be pretty. For the medium figure 3% yards oi material 24 inches wide will be needed for this apron.

Food for Children.

Certain suggestions should always be followed when planning food for the little ones. To keep healthy the tiny stomachs in the nursery, one should never serve hot stewed fruit Nothing is better than stewed fruit and baked apples, but they should be cooked the day before, and served up cold. The nursery potatoes should be baked or boiled in, their Jackets. Stewed and fried potatoes, also those boiled without their jackets, supply starch, and yet have lost in the paring the wholesale potash salts which are in the skin, and which during, the process of cooking boll through the potato and render It digestible and nutritive. /

Tulle Roses.

A charming trimming on a pink silk evening dress seen recently consisted of a cluster of five roses, formed of pink tulle, with green tulle stems, twisted over thin wire, sewed to the left side of the low neck. The effect was exceedingly attractive, and showed again the value of the little touches to raise a gown from the commonplace.

EASILY MADE BATH SEAT

Great Convenience In Many Ways and Well Worth the Trouble of Making. A seat to place acroes the bath tub is a great convenience In many ways. The one shown in our illustration la well worth the little trouble that will be entailed In its mating Wood of about an Inch in thickness and about ten or twelve Inches In width should [be used, and the seat should be mAde of sufficient length to extend twp or three Inches on either end, tyo blocks of wood are fastened wit a screws to prevent the possibility -of the seat from slipping out qf 'HTacte, and a glance at the sketch will explain t.M« The seat can, of course, be placed on or removed from the bath in a

moment, and will take up very little space when not required if rested ud against the walL Across the center of the seat and fastened on underneath with tacks. Is a piece of carpet and a remnant of! will be found mo* suit, purpoße - “d * half-yard! will be, quite

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A STUNNER.

Secke—Mrs. Swellington is a stum ring woman, isn’t she? Weeks—l should think so. She hit me with her automobile the other day, and it was two hours before I woke up.

Red Cross Christmas Seals.

.Arrangements for the sale of Red

Cross Christmas Seals for 1910 have been announced by the National Association for thfe Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis and the American Red Cross. “A Million for Tuberculosis” will be the slogan of the 1910 campaign. Two features of the sale this year are unique and will bring considerable capital to thd tuberculosis fighters' American National Red Cross is to issue the stamps as in former years, but this organization will work in close co-operatlpn with the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, which body will share In the proceeds of the sales. The charge to local assochfr tions for the use of the national stamps has been reduced also from 20 per cent to 12% per cent., which will mean at least $50,000 more for tuberculosis work in all parts of the United States. The stamps are to be designated as “Red Cross Seals” this year and are to be placed on the back of letters instead of on the front.

Not That Meaning.

"The doctor said that Bill drunk when we took the poor fellow to have his head attended to last night after he fell.” "Doctor never said anything of the kind!” “Didn’t I hear him? Said it was a Jagged cut.”

Few Marriages in London.

The marriages of London last year represent the lowest percentage of which there is any record.

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