Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1910 — Page 3

THE AMERICAN HOME

Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and. give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the Gliding for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address ‘"3 u ’ r,e » to wl Hlam A. Radford, No. 194 Fifth Ave., Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. It often seems that the style or appearance of the house doesn’t make so much difference as the site on ■which it is built. In every town and village there are examples that prove this. There are delightful little .places set back among shade trees and flowers, the house really very plain and ordinary in design, which «ive one a restful, homelike feeling iby walking past Then for every one of this kind there is one of the other, to keep the balance, probably. Every town has them. The house is large and pompous, quite an architectural creation, in fact; but it is set down on a small lot, crowded in, with all the trees and shrubbery, cut down to make room for it. In spite of its size and cost a residence of this kind is very far from attractive.! The home builder •would scarcely take such as a model; yet many times the real element of success in planning the erection of a home are overlooked and a barren, uninviting place is the result. The experienced home builder will always, if possible, select a rough and •wooded site; if it is slightly hilly so much the better. It is true the labor and expense for grading and preparing the site* for the building and for smoothing up the ground afterward is greater, but the satisfaction and success of the project is also greater, and the attractiveness of the place increases as the years go by, while the extra labor at the beginning is very soon forgotten. Almost any style of house harmonizes well with such surroundings and is Improved in appearance by the natural beauties of the building site. Some materials and some styles of house architecture seem especially well suited, however, for such use. The accompanying design is one of these. It is planned something on the bun-

galow order, with prominent roof, broad on the ground and not overly high. . A distinctive feature of this design la the use of cobblestones in the large chimney and fireplace. These could also be employed very effectively for the foundation of the building. A cobblestone wall can be made very attractive if the man laying it properly understands the work. In any kind of stonework the mason must use his head as well as his hands. The more variety of color, shape and size can be obtained' the more attractive appearance will a cobblestone wall present The stone should be rather large and laid at

First Floor Plan.

random, not in rows, and should fit together closely so that few of the mortar joints are more than one-half Inch thick. The stones should stand out prominently and should not be plastered to a smooth surface with mortar, neither should any broken edges be visible. A good workman, by the proper use of cobblestone, as ghoyn in this design, can secure a Very ornamental effect and one exactly in keeping with the general atmosphere of the rustic site oh which the house is built For the walls of this house either clapboards or shingles may be used. Shingles are always appropriate for the walls of a house of simple design, •specially In connection with cobble-1

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stone work. There are various pleasing ways in which shingles may be laid to suit those who consider the ordinary method of laying the shingles in uniform rows, five inches to the weather, too monotonous. A pleasing variation is to place the shingles in alternate rows of two and eight inches to the weather. This requires no more material or labor and gives a very attractive appearance. The shingles on the roof, however, should always be laid in the regular way. A glance at the floor plans will show a very convenient and domfortable arrangement of space in this house. There is a large central hall.

Second Floor Plan.

with a living room occupying the entire space at the left, while the dining room with the kitchen back of it is at the right. On the second floor there are three bedrooms and a bath room, also four clothes closets. It is a design and arrangement that would be hard to improve upon for anyone desiring a comfortable residence of artistic appearance. The cost is estimated at $4,000, including a good grade of plumbing and lighting and first-class basement heating plant.

KEEP WIFE AS SWEETHEART

Schemes by Which the Husband May Retain the Love of His Spouse. If your wife does not love you as she did when you were married, you must have fallen off in your attentions. Remember that a wife is only a sweet-

heart a few years later. Make believe that she is still your sweetheart When you go home from business have the maid send your name up just as in the old days. A wife likes these little attentions, and if she is the right sort she will send down word that she will be down in a few minutes. Then put a five-pound box of candy in a prominent place and wait patiently. When you hear her coming, run to meet her and kiss her in a manly way as if you had waited all day for the privilege. Then give her the candy. If there is but one chair in the room let her sit in it while you stand. Now tell her the events of the day in the office in a witty way that will appeal to her love of fun. When the dinner bell rings, hand her a bunch of American beauties, pull out her chair for her and tie her napkin round her neck yourself. Then, with a low bow, seat yourself opposite her and begin to praise the food. Ask her to make sprightly remarks, and laugh heartily at them. Urge her to tell you about the cook’s doings. Just before dessert, show her the orchestra seats you have bought for the opera for that night Never light a cigar until you have asked her whether she objects to smoke. She may always say no, but there is no telling when her taste ihajf change, and no gentleman will smoke when his wife objects to, it. Give her twice as much as she wants for an allowance, and always forestall any requests she may be about to make. In this way you will retain your wife’s love and forever lead a Darby and Joan life.—Charles Battell Loomis in the Delineator.

Method in Her Madness.

"It was your wife’s fault you gave up smoking and drinking, wasn’t it?" "Tea." "And you have more money after having given up the habits, have you not?” "Nope, but she has.*

CURE BY INJECTION

Much Hope Offered

In Uss ot Radium.

European Scientists, After Making Experiments, Write Article on Subject for London Lancet— Lupus Vulgaris of Nook. New York.—Several European physicians and surgeons have been experimenting with injections of solutions of radium as a curative measure. Dr. T» Wicham and Dr. M. Degrats have written an article on the subject for the London Lancet The Medical Record says of it: “They allude to a paper presented at the Lisbon congress by several French authors, the conclusions of which are aa follows: “‘When introduced into the animal body the emanation diffuses itself through the structure, and may in this manner reach deep-seated parts. It has a predilection for the glands which form an internal secretion and especially for the suprarenal capsules. It is eliminated by the lungs and the skin, and to a small extent by the kidneys.’

The authors then pass on to relate their own experiences wi|h this mode of therapy, in a case of lupus vulgaris of the neck, a curative change was produced by injections of (1) water rendered radioactive In the proportion of one millogram of pure sulphate of radium per liter, or (2) water impregnated with radium in the proper-, tlon of one millogram of pure bromide of radium per liter. In this case 40 injections of each kind and of from one to two cubic centimeters were given in the course of two months. “They have also presented a case of lupus erythematosus, treating for comparison the lesions on the left side by the application of the radium apparatus and those on the right side by injections. On the left side there was U sharp reaction with destruction of the lupus and a subsequent process of repair. Later there seemed to be a strong cicatrix, but still later there was a recurrence of the lesion at the margin of the tissues of repair. On the right-side there was no visible inflammatory reaction, but there was first a diminution and then a disappearance of the erythema of the lupus,

POETRY IN BILLS

University of Chicago Teacher Makes Unique Statement Professor Wilczynski Announces Advance of Rhythmical Revolution In . “Poetry and Mathematics.” Chicago.—Poetry is booming. The grocer’s bill may now be called a lyric, the butcher’s communication an elegy, and the housewife who checks the charges a literary artist of the subtlest mold. Professor Ernest J. Wilczynski of the University of Chicago mathematics department says so. Profesor Wilczynski, who teaches integral calculus, projective differential geometry and other advanced subjects at the university, announced the advance of the rhythmical revolution in a lecture on "Poetry and Mathematics” the other day at Ryerson Physical Laboratory. Poets and mathematicians, he declared, are expert in each other’s arts, and by no means so different as uninformed persons may imagine. The university authority defined the world as one huge mathematical problem, and his remarks were full of comfort for those who may have felt a lack of the poetical faculty. Bookkeepers as well as tradesmen and kindergarten pupils may squeeze themselves into the poet’s hall of fame by a liberal interpretation of the new theory. "The poetic and mathematical aspects of the human mind have much more in common than is usually realized,” said Professor Wilczynski. “There is no such thing as one faculty of the mind that is without contact with other faculties, and it is true in the case of the mathematics and poetry, of course. “A poem and a mathematical composition are both the expressions of ideas. Goethe said that he disliked mathematicians because they always translated everything Into their own language. But he would not have objected had he known that their language was the most beautiful, perfect and adequate of aIL a “Each art has a peculiar language, and its conventional symbols. Beethoven and Wagner spent many years distributing small black dots over five parallel lines, but ths dots were only the symbols, not the music. In the same way the mathematical equation is only the symbol, but the form is the important thing. This is true of both poetry and mathematics. "Like poetry, mathematics may express Its thought in different' ways and may be of beauty because of its formal element. The peculiar element of poetry may be said to be rhythm and that of mathematics to be solution. Aristotle called attention to the necessity for unity of action tn the drama, and the same necessity bolds for r.<iathematlcs. “Aristotle's famous saying that the probable-impossible Is preferable to the improbable-possible, is true in

by Physicians

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the part assuming a whitish cicatricial aspect “At the time the recurrence was found on the left side the recovery on the right side was maintained, and there had been no reappearance of lupus since that time. In these two cases the doses of radium were extrembly small, but they contained the emanation, an element which is not present in the rays emitted by the radiuip apparatus. “The injection of certain Insoluble salts of radium suspended in an emulsion into structures of small absorbent power prolongs the contact of .the salt with the diseased tissues and intensifies the action of the radiations and of the emanation. This plap was followed In treating a large cancerous nodule, being made in a mixture of paraffin and vaselin. The object was to inject this preparation beneath the nodule, so as to prepare a stratum'underlying the whole of the diseased part. Thus the nodule was exposed to a cross Are, as it were, diminished in size and rapidly disappeared. There

mathematics also. We Insist upon casuallty in mathematics as we do in poetry. "The minds of poets and mathematicians work in the same way, both possess imagination, both hold the idea Important and insist that the essential ideas must be true. The perfect mathematician, then, may be regarded as the perfect poet, and the arts are very similar.”

LONG, HARD WINTER AHEAD

Blackbirds Going South and Chipmunks Getting Into Their Burrows, Says Zoo Keeper. New York.—“We are going to have an early winter this year and a long and severe one," said Head Keeper Snyder of the Central Park menagerie the other day. "AU signs point that way, and I have been studying these things for a quarter of a century. "Blackbirds, chipping sparrows, bluebirds and other summer visitors

West Raising Sacred Sheep

Former Yale Professor Expects to Make Fortune Out of Experiment on Pacific Coast. Tacoma. Wash.—On Hesper island, tn Puget sound, George Sifford. a former Yale professor, is tenderly caring for as choice a bunch of lambs as ever delighted the heart of a gentleman farmer. They are karakuls, or the sacred sheep of Asia and biblical times, and were secured by Sifford after great effort and considerable money. It is said they are the first ever raised in America; they are worth more than 100 times as much as the common sheep of the flocks. The Karakul is the sheep which produces wool used for the finest coats in Europe. Its wool Is almost priceless, and there are comparatively few garments made from the real Karakul. The pure bred sheep are to be found only in the herds of the wealthy noblemen of Bokhara, as the majority of the breed are mixed with Afghan and other species. Sifford, while acting as a missionary to central Asia, brought thirty of the sacred sheep to this country. He secured his first pure-bred sacred sheep because of a favor he did for a Bokhara nobleman. Convinced that such a sheep would soon be a source of great wealth If once adapted to America, he searched around to find others. He was rewarded In his efforts and finally through the aid of a wealthy uncle reached America with the specimens. To find a climate similar to that of Bokhara was the most serious question before Sifford. On the way down Puget sound from' Victoria. B. C., he passed Hesper Island, covered with everygreen trees and luxuriant shrubbery. Reaching Seattle, he returned to the Island to Investigate and found al-

GIANT BRITISH WARSHIP

was no ulceration and there has been no recurrence. "It must be understood that soluble radium when injected is in a free state in the animal body and carries with it gaseous emanations which give rise to the phenomenon of radio-activity. The ealt in radium apparatus does not supply emanation for therapeutic purposes, for this gas does not pass through any solid body, being in this respect unlike the extremely penetrating radium rays. “The authors believe that these experiments offer much hope for the future.”

How a Story Originated.

Tangier.—A report in circulation here that American interests had purchased the greater part of the valuable Anghora country, in southwestern Africa, turns out to have been erroneous. It originated from a small and unimportant purchase of land by a Moor named Hasan Ben Alt, who is a naturalized American citizen.

have been flocking for over a week. I saw a flock of several thousand blackbirds flying southward over the city last week. Migration to the south is dnusually early this season. “The chipmunks are very busy laying up a supply of beech nuts and other provender for a long winter. Woodchucks up the state are going into their burrows for the winter with a big layer of fat on their ribs. Usually they stay out until September. You had better get your fur overcoat out of the tar barrel for an early cold snap, for frost will be here early.”

Mosquitoes Kill Cattle.

Lake Charles, La.—Southwest Louisiana is in the grip of the mosquito plague. Thousands of cattle have been killed by the Insects. They hover in hordes over the fields and marsh lands. At night they fly into towns, making living conditions almost unbearable. It is impossible in some of the towns along the Southern Pacific railroad to go out of doors at night Persons eat dinner with their ankles swathed in protecting clothes; then they get beneath bars and netting, for it is impossible to keep the mosquitoes out of residences.

most the identical glasses and shrubs that grow tn Bokhara, but of different names. Here he took the sacred sheep, and they flourished. Now there are fifteen lambs, and the next summer or two there will be a good-sized flock of the most valuable sheep In the world. The sheep are free from any of the diseases afflicting the common kinds, and the quality of wool produced since reaching American shores indicates an Improvement

EAGER TO GET WEEKLY BATH

English Millionaire Proud of Gorgeous Lavatory In His Elegant Mansion. London.—" Apropos of personal elegance and cleanliness,” so "M. A P.” has related in the evident effort to relieve the holiday pressure, "one is reminded of the story of a certain self-made millionaire who built for himself a gorgeous mansion not far from Hyde Park corner, the wonders of which were talked of far and wide and so excited curiosity that a certain member of royalty expressed his desire to see the Inside. “Very flattered and gratified, the proud owner showed the guest all that there was to be seen—leaving the wonderful' bathroom until the end. Everything here was as near perfection as possible. . Rare marble had been used for the floor, the walls were lined with panels of precious stones and a wonderful flight of stairs with a crystal balustrade led down to the bath Itself. The royal visitor showed his admiration generously. ' "Yes,” said the host, “the man who n^ eW Wh,t ** “bout, a n t he. Do you wonder, your royal '°™"' to 8,l “

STORIES OF CAMP AND WAR

LOWERED FT. SUMPTER FLAG Veteran of Famous Battle Celebrates Anniversary of Event by Playing Billiards. April 13 was the forty-ninth anniversary of the taking of Fort Sumter by the confederate forces. There has Always been some doubt as to the identity of the man who fired the first shot in that famous fight; but there has never been a question as to the identity of the man who, on that 13th of April, 1860, lowered the American, flag from over the fort in the first de-> feat suffered by the Union army ia the Civil war. The man was Lieut. Col. H. W. Hammer, now a resident of Los Angeles, and the old man, now more than seventy years old, celebrated the fall of that famous fort by playing billiards all afternoon with a fellow soldier at his hotel. Although having passed his three score years and ten, the old soldier is hale and hearty, and the hand that held the billiard cue was as steady and the eye as clear as they were 49 years ago, when he lowered the flag. It is his boast that he can outwork many a man 20 years younger than himself. He neither drinks, smokes nor chews, and he thinks nothing of starting out in the morning for a tenmile ramble over the hills. Colonel Hammer’s memory in regard to the taking of the fort is wonderfully clear, and to hear him tell ot the events which took place during the battle, one would think they had happened yesterday instead of nearly half a century ago. “I was regimental quartermaster sergeant, First artillery,” said Colonel Hammer. “I was assigned to Fort Moultrie, but was transferred with two companions of artillery to Fort Sumter, which was located about 1,300 yards from . Moultrie. The reason for abandoning Fort Moultrie was that It could be easily svaept by a rifle fire from the tops of the near-by houses. “The confederate troops were stationed in front of Sumter, and when they saw us transferring all our forces to that fort they begin building batteries. The next day, the 12th of April, they sent a demand to Major Anderson, who was in command of Fort Sumter, to surrender. Anderson refused, and word was sent that unless he surrendered within an hour they would open fire. “Our supplies were low. He had heard that Lincoln was sending relief but whether or not we could hold out until it reached us we did not know. Our ammunition was low, too. “Anderson agreed that unless provisions reached us by the fifteenth we would leave the fort, and meanwhile

Lowered the American Flag Front Over the Fort. he said he would make no hostile movements/ This did not satisfy the confederates, who were under General Beauregard, and between two and three o’clock on the morning of the twelfth they opened fire. The first shot came from a mortar on Johnson’s island. It was afterward said that the first shot was 'fired by former Governor Russo of Virginia from the ironclad battery on Morris’ island, but this is not right. ‘‘So low was our ammunition that we could not afford to waste a shot; every shell had to tell, so we waited until it was light enough for our gunners to take careful aim before reply, ing to the fire of ths confederates. “There is a popular idea that Anderson surrendered the fort. That is not true. We did not surrender, and never would have. We marched out under Anderson’s own terms, with our flag flying and the band played ‘Yankee Doodle,* and we were allowed to board the transport .Isabella, which was lying In the harbor.*’ T 7-? """ 1 ~ 1 • ■ . i -

Gun Ahead of Armor.

Rear Admiral Bacon of the British’ navy believes that, the race between the gun and the armor of a battleship, which has been gofffc on for over halfa century, has been decided, for th* moment, in favor o£ the gun. ,