Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1910 — Page 2

WOMAN'S SHERE

STYLE FOR BRIDES INEXPENSIVE SILKS FOR PERSONS OF MODEST MEANS. Tradition* of Modesty Allow Collarlew Waists With Sleeves That Fall Shor* of Elbow—Stripes and Dots Prevail. New fashions for brides are not always conventional in the matter of the high-necked and long-sleeved bodice. Traditions of modesty waive • point here, allowing collarless waists very often, with sleeves that fall far short of the elbow. The “old-

fashioned” girl and others who find the high stock more becoming accept •only the cuts approved in the past, and surely this correct veiling of the throat and arms seems more proper ■for bridal attire. But yokes and un■dersleeves are all very filmy, and though lined with chiffon or net they are all still diaphanous enough to be becoming. In fact it is the exception to see the wedding frock’s own material carried straight up to the throat, while a sleeve without some underdrop in a more airy textile is altogether behind the times. In point of material many quite inexpensive silks are used by persons of modest means, these with stripes, dots or tiny floral sprays, or else a

HATS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE

Millionaire's Wife Pays, Without Question, Fabulous Prices for Artistic Headgear. The millionaire wife pays anywhere from $25 to S3OO for a hat, and she buys half a dozen hats or so every season. The days are past when the hat plays second fiddle, so to speak, to the gown. The hat and the gown are of equal importance now. "How is it possible to put such a price on a hat?” The question has been asked a thousand times by astonished husbands who pay the bills, and even by the women themselves who buy. Well, in the first place, the plain hat itself is imported from Paris, and costs the milliner from $lO to $25, as against $2 to $lO only ten years ago. This hat, though it follows the prevailing fashion, and though this fashion may be ridiculous in the extreme, is nevertheless, artistic in lines and general form. Perhaps it is desired that the hat should be green. The artist milliner has in her employ a Frenchman whose business it is to color hats to any shade or tint that may be wished. He brings his dyes from Paris ths pale, soft colors he uses are to be had only in that city—and has himself received his training there. No American can do this work. The trimmings and materials for this hat are, of course, imported also. A $75 imported feather may be the body of the trimming. Perhaps on the green ground it is decided that pink and blue roses will harmonize best with the rest of the wearer's outfit. It is in deciding such things as these that the art of the milliner is called into play. It is a French woman, too, who does the work on small hats and toqes. She has been a worker for one of the famous firms in Paris — for Charlotte, possibly, or Georgette, or Camille Rogers. If her specialty is sailor hats, she has probably been w4tih_Marie_Loulse, A woman of wealth buys all her hats between September and July. During the hot months the milliner may fit out a dozen theatrical companies if she chooses, but she cannot do this in the winter time, for the two elements, the social set and the theatrical profession, must come to Che fhilliner’s parlors at different times. Four sets of hats become a necessity to the woman of unlimited means, ■a follows: (1) city hats, (2) country hats and seashore hath, (3) hats •or February and March in the south, H<) hats for European travel.

twilled or corded weave. Marquisette and other fine veilings are much employed in conjunction with satin, rich lace, and chiffon, this combination turning out the most fairylike wedding frocks without great expense. One wedding dress shown by a leading importer was of embroidered batiste over satin. It was short, with a Dutch neck, and fairly incrusted with needlework. It was to be topped by a broad hat wreathed with white crape morning glories and snowy roses in the same airy texture. The materials used show endless shades of white, but pearl, snow-white and a delicate cream are the most satisfactory ones. A pretty arrangement tor the veil is to put it on after the manner of a straight gathered curtain, with the sides covering the cheeks and the rest of the face uncovered. The tulle or fine net used, is left unhemmed and it is shirred to a wire under a round wreath of orange blossoms.

Our illustration suggests an attractive and girlish design for a cloth frock braided with soutache that would be needed for walking or traveling. Here one of the new cloths with a rough finish is employed, the color a delicate tan, with the braiding and other trimming black. The skirt is plaited with a closely fitting yoke, and the upper part is a species of polonaise, with the neck rounded out and kimono sleeves cut with the side portions of the bodice. White net embroidered with black dots is used for the guimpe and undersleeves. Any wool of a solid nature would do for this frock, and machine embroidery may be bought for the trimming If the braiding seems difficult. The upper part of the dress could also be made of veiling and the lower part of silk, and with this arrangement an embroidered guimpe and undersleeves of white batiste would be very pretty. But in seeking for a rich effect remember that a black note in the trimming will always give it, and for that matter, a gown in almost any color might be trimmed solidly with black and be tn excellent style.

Smart Pump Bows.

The newest bows for smart pumps have the advantage of being serviceable as well as good looking. They are made of leather to match the pumps, are small, stiff, with wellpointed ends. Pumps and slippers for evening wear still sport the large rhinestone buckle more than any other bow.

CONVENIENT KNITTING BAG

Will Prevent Many Mishaps and Will Keep Ball Clean and In Good Condition. Few things are more aggravating in a small way than to drop a ball of knitting or crochet wool or thread, more especially as such a mishap only too often ends in a hopeless tangle, while the ball is being hunted tor on the floor. A useful knitting bag of the kind shown In our sketch will altogether prevent any accident of this description, and will, moreover, keep the ball clean and in good condition. This bag is made in silk or linen, lined with soft silk, and interlined with thin cardboard and bound at the edge with wide silk ribbon, which,

in its turn, is edged with a line of stitching. The handle consists of a loop of broad ribbon, tied In a bow .at the top and made sufficiently long to allow the bag to be slung comfortably over the left arm whUe at work. On one side there is a hole through which the thread may be drawn without disturbing the bail, and with no risk of pulling It out of Its place. The sides are of silk or linen to match the front and gathered into a binding of ribbon, while on the front of the bag the word “Knitting” is lightly embroidered in silk, chosen in some contrasting shade of color.

Anti-Ants.

A small quantity of green ga je placed in the cupboard will keep away red ants.

IN PIONEER COURTS

HOW JUSTICE WAS ADMINISTERED IN RUDE SURROUNDINGS. Jurists in Early Days Frequently Were Illiterate, But Made Up in Honesty What They Lacked in Legal Lore. In the days of which I write the judicial system, like the country, was In its Infancy. The circuit court was composed of a president judge, elected by the legislature, and who presided at all the courts in the circuit, and two associate judges, elected in each county by the people. The president judge was always a lawyer of some experience. The associate judges were not lawyers and they made no claims to legal knowledge. As a rule they were typical representatives of the backwoodsmen and very illiterate, yet they had the power to override the presiding judge and give the opinion of the court, and they often did so. In such instances their reasoning was likely to be of a most ludicrous character. However, they made up in honesty what they lacked in other directions, and the results were not as bad as might be imagined. They were usually elected because of their popularity and their well kflown integrity, and though they occasionally went wrong their constituents did not strongly censure tkem because of their mistakes.

The clerks of the pioneer courts were seldom qualified for their duties, and many old time records are the living proofs of this statement. They were uneducated, and some of them barely had the ability to scrawl their own names, yet they did not lack native shrewdness. There was a clerk in one of the pioneer settlements of central Indiana who boasted of his superior qualifications by declaring that he had been sued on every section of the statute, and therefore knew the law, while his opponent had never been sued and therefore could not know the law. He was elected on this platform. The sheriffs were chosen by the people, and the man who could send his voice farthest in the woods from the courthouse door was often the successful candidate. A stentorian voice, physical strength and tried courage were the principal qualifications for this important office. . When the court desired the presence of John Smith as a petit juror or as a witness, it was the sheriff’s duty to stand outside the courthouse or poke his head out of a window and cry three times and with all the power of his lungs, “John Smith, come to court!” and John generally heard the call and obeyed. If he happened to be so remote that he did not hear, there were always plenty of loiterers who esteemed It an honor to go after him. A written summons was seldom resorted to. It was regarded as a waste of material and time, to say nothing of the stupendous tp.sk which the preparation of such a document would place upon a clerk who could ho*d a plow handle or rifle much more effectively than a pen. By far the most Important men who attended the sessions of the courts were the lawyers, especially the younger ones. But nobody called them lawyers. They were squires. To see a young squire with a queu three feet long dangling down his back and tied with an eel skin, strutting backward and forward over the rough-hewn slabs that formed the floor of the ordinary log courthouse, brought the woodsmen from near and far; and to hear him “plead” was worth a wearisome foot journey over ice and snow and across swollen rivers and creeks, through an interminable forest —Case and Comment.

Automobile Nerve.

One of the nerviest spectacles ever seen on an auto raceway occurred in. the Long Island stock car derby at Riverhead last September. Herbert Bailey, mechanician for Louis Disbrow and his No. 1, literally shook hands with death. When the car had passed the stand on its fourth lap and was two miles from the repair pits the pin fell out of the reach rod, disabling the steering gear. The machine' threatened to become unamanageable. What did Bailey do but climb out over the hod, lower himself down on the little cranking rod, and sit facing the radiator with his feet propped against the front axle! With one hand he prevented himself from being dashed under the wheels by holding on to the little water cap on the top of the hood. The other hand held the disabled steering gear together. Bailey rode 20 miles in that manner, with the car going full speed, until the circuit was completed and the repair pits were made. —Hampton’s Magazine.

His Point of View.

“John, dear,” queries the young wife, glancing up from the physical culture magazine she was perusing, "what is your id da of a perfect figure.” “Well,” replied her husband, “100,000 may not be perfection, but It’s near enough to satisfy a man of my simple tastes.”

Careful Calculation.

“Mike,” said Plodding Pete, “dere'g a farmer up de road dat says he’ll give you two dollars for a day’s work.” “What’s de use of tenjptln’ me when you know I ain’t got dp time. You orter understand dat out o’ practise like I am, it ’ud take me at least six weeks to do a day's work.”—Washing. ton Star.

MODE OF GARDEN OF EDEN

Art Instructor Advises Women to Study Leaves in Designing of Dresses. As all know. Eve, the first lady of the land, made herself a, dress of fig leaves. The gown, was an immense success, extremely fashionable; every woman alive wore it. Now, after all these years, comes Henry Turner Bailey, who would revive the fall mode of the garden of Eden, says the Baltimore Star. At least, Mr. Bailey, head of the art instruction department of the board of education, implores women to study the leaves of plants and trees and model their gowns after them. '“Women need not go to Paris for their gowns,” said Mr. Bailey. “They can find the most exquisite styles by simply studying the weeds that grow In our back yards or the leaves of trees or ferns. If every part of a dress were as consistently harmonized in its relative lines as a leaf, that dress would be well worth wearing.” If Mr. Bailey were not an art instructor he would be a baseball pitcher, for he knows all about curves. He proceeds to advise separately women slender as the lily, women built like a cauliflower and women who are just peaches. Says he: “It will not take any woman of taste very long to decide which leaf represents the style that becomes her figure. If she is stout or inclined to stoutness she will select as her inspiration and model those leaves or flowers that have the sharper angles and thinner curves. Take the white oak leaf, with every one of its curves a reversed curve, and the woman to whom that kind of general design applies will have at once an inspiration. “For the woman of less pronounced type there may be found another inspiration in the bud of the lilac, which has gentle reversed curves all through It. Then again we find that the St. John’s wort has a series of little ellipses all through its foliation. The delicate curves of the wild bean are extremely suggestive to any person who will study them, and it seems to me that the average type of American beauty could find in it an inspiration for a dress, just as the type inclined to stoutness would find an inspiration also in the common rosacea, or member of the rose family ” Wedding gowns will follow the curves of the orange leaf, but widows who marry the second time will build their bridal dresses on the model of the chestnut leaf. Small babies’ long dresses will be curved as is the leaf of the milkweed. yVnd so on.

Man’s Sense of Ambition.

Although imitation is one jof the great Instruments used by Providence sh bringing our nature towards Its perfection, yet if men gave themselves up to imitation entirely, and each followed the other, and so on in an eternal circle, it Is easy to see that there never could be any improvement amongst them. Men must remain as brutes do, the same at the end as they are at this day, and that they were in the beginning of the world. To prevent this, God has implanted in man a sense of ambition, and a satisfaction arising from the contemplation of his excelling his fellows In something deemed valuable amongst them. It is this passion that drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves, and that tends to make whatever excites in a man the idea of this distinction so very pleasant. It has been so very strong as to make very miserable men take comfort that they were supreme in misery and certain it is that, where we cannot distinguish ourselves by something excellent, we begin to take a complacency in some singular infirmities, follies, or defects of one kind or other.—Burke.

London Literary Academy.

One respects the nlne-and-twenty gentlemen who are to start the British Academy, and select the words we should-use, and one wonders who shall be in the other eleven who make up the forty who shall finally try to stop the English language from taking its own course. But our language has had its vagaries It has gone through America and Judaism and Spain and—well It is a compound of all the nations on eartu. It’s a greedy language and digests all words. It invented Hindustani and the pigeon English of Shanghai. From the Babu to the naturalized American negro, from the Maori to the Highlander, they talk English, and so many kinds of English.. Each man brings his word from the various countries and continents and lays it on the counter at Charingcross. “That’s English,” he says. And on that counter are placed words from China or West Africa, from America or Australia, English words that have been annexed and imposed. There isn’t room here for a dictionary. But it would not take long to prove that you cannot stop the English language from growing—even by an academy.— London Chronicle.

Desperate Campaigning.

“Why do you insist on staying at a hotel where they have no electric lights?” "Well,” replied Senator Sorghum, “I’ve got to convince some of those backwoods constituents of mine that I am still a plain, unsophisticated feb low citizen, unused to habits of luxury. If necessary I’m going to leave a call with the clerk for a quarter to twelve and blow out the gas at eleven, thirty."

A Comer in Ancestors

O’Seancbain is said to have been the first form (Of the surname Shannon. From O’Seanchain to Shanahan, Shanason, is considered an easy feat to accomplish by those who are skilled in such matters. Then from Shranahan to Shanon or Shannon is as easy as rolling off the proverbial log. Seanchain or Seanchah is composed of two Celtic words, “seancha,” meaning an antiquarian or genealogist, and “an,” one who. Seanchan is, then, one who is an antiquarian. So renowned was one in this line that in time his friends and neighbors called him “Mr. Seanchan” and possibly some light-headed ones added, “the crank.” His son or grandson was O’Seanchan, O showing descent. Is it not a cause for gratitude that

the name now appears as the easily spelled and pronounced one of Shannon? Old records frequently give the name as Shanon, or with one “n.” The O’Seanchains have a£jong pedigree, belonging, as they do, to that branch i of the Celtic race which alone of all European races of the period antedating the Christian era has maintained its identity to the present time. From Ireland the clan went to Scotland and we find among ancestors of the race such pleasing names as Taidlig, Flarthbeartach and Donchadh Dubh. Real aristocrats, without doubt! Aodh, a chieftain of Ulster, was of this line. Perhaps it will con-

Bothe, Boothe, la Boothe, de Boothes, de la Boothe, Bouthe are old forms of the name Booth. “The distinguished Booth family” is the reference In one record. The name Booth was assumed by those who possessed the “lordship of Boothes,” in Lancashire. Adam de Boothes of the county palatine Lancaster, thirteenth century, is perhaps the first of the name of whom any records exist. He was descended of a Norman family of rank that went over with the Conqueror. The people who didn’t go over with William the Norman, or came over in the Mayflower, have much to answer for. However, we need not give pause to this matter, but leave it to descendants who feel aggrieved by lack of foresight upon their ancestors’ part. The derivation of the name Booth is from bowes, meaning a house, or temporary building—a booth. In low Latin, the word Is botha. The original county palatines of England, it may be mentioned, were three only—Lancaster, Cheshire and Durham. We find that the Booths were' Important people, and “married into the best circles.” William de Boothes married Sibill or Sybil, daughter of Gilbert de Brereton, of the ancient family of Chester, the capital of Cheshire. Of Sir John Booth, the sixth in descent from Adam de Boothes, we know that he had 18 children. and two wives. A brave man! It was Sir Felix Booth who fitted out the Ross arctic expedition, and In whose honor Capt. Sir James Ross named a peninsula of the North American coast, “Felix Boothia." A choice of several pilgrim fathers is offered. The Stratford (Conn.) settler, 1640, was Richard Booth, from Bowden, Cheshire; the Southold (L. I.) pilgrim, also 1640, and from Cheshire, was John Booth. Six years later we find Robert Booth helping to found the town of Exeter, N. H. He, too, was of the Cheshire branch, and we are'told that Richard, John and Robert were brothers, and sons, or was it grandsons, of Sir William Booth, knight? The southern branch of the family dates back to Thomas Booth, related, in some way, to Sir George Booth, earl of Warrington. Thomas made a home at Ware, Gloucester county, Va. Qr, if he cannot be counted upon for a progenitor, there is Edwin Thomas Booth of Belair, Maryland. Richard of Connecticut, the immigrant, married Elizabeth, sister of Capt. Joseph Hawley, the first town clerk of Stratford. Richard, too, was an officeholder, and he seems to have

By ELEANOR LEXINGTON

Shannon Family (Copyright by McClure Syndicate)

fuse us to mention that Shan, or Shann, is an ancient word meaning a mountain range. Shannan is one fofm of the name and Schanning another. In Scotland the orthography is usually Shannan. “The king of the Irish commons” was Henry Boyle, earl of Shannon, ,born 1682, at Castlemartyr, Ireland. From the north of Ireland (the ancient Scotland, if the historians say true) the Scots went in 503. To the north of Ireland • many returned in 1612-20; and to America their descendants began to emigrate in 1719 and earlier. They constituted three-fourths or more of the patriots who foqght for American liberty. The immigrant, or pilgrim father, Nathaniel Shannon, born 1655, in Londonderry, was of Scottish ancestry. When 32 years old he came to this country and made his home at Boston, where in 1701 he was a member of the Old South church. Twenty-two years later he died and the stone marking his grave in the old Granary burying ground, Tremont street, Boston, is still standing. Nathaniel’s brother, Robert, was mayor of Londonderry 1689 and Nathaniel was also a man of affairs, holding many town offices. He was the first naval officer of the port of Boston and a merchant of prominence. The papers now preserved in the Massachusetts state archives show that he was a man of good education. His wife was Elizabeth and their children were Nathaniel, Jr., Robert, who is supposed to have died unmarried, and Samuel, who married Ann Miller. Nathaniel the second married Abigail Vaughan, whose father was one of the royal councillors and also chief justice of New Hampshire. Nathaniel and Abigail had two sons, Nathaniel and Cutts. The four children of Nathaniel were his namesake and George, Margaret and Abigail. Nathaniel and his wife, Abigail Vaughan, lived at Portsmouth, N. H., where he was a ship merchant. He also lived at Ipswich. The coat of arms illustrated is blazoned, gules, a bend, or. Crest, a demi-talbot, sable. Arms for the earl of Shannon is per bend, crenellee, argent and gules. Crest, out of a ducal coronet, or a lion’s head, erased, per pale, crenellee, argent and gules. Supporters, two lions, per pale, crenellee; the dexter lion gules and argent; the sinister, argent and gules. Two mottoes are given: Vivlt Post Funera Virtue Virtue lives after death; and Spectemur Agendo—Let us be judged by our actions.

Booth Family

been married twice, for In 1689 he speaks of “my now wife,” a phrase indicative, as then used, of a second marriage. Elizabeth was the mother of his eight children, of whom a

daughter, Elizabeth, married John Minor; Ephraim married Mary Clark; Ebenezer married Elizabeth Jones for second wife, and Joseph surpassed them all, for he had three wives, all told. There was another marriage connection with the Hawleys, Sergt. John, son of Richard the first, married Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Hawley. Sergt. John was in the Pequot war, and his hat, pierced by a bullet, was a precious relic treasured by descendants for fifty years or more, when it disappeared from mortal ken, no one knows where or how. Of the Booths who valiantly bore their part in the revolution may be mentioned Nathaniel of Connecticut, sergeant major. The coat-of-arms Illustrated is blazoned: argent, three boars’ heads, erect, and erased, sable. Crest, a lion passant, argent. Motto, Quod Ero Spero. The motto may be translated freely, “What I hope to accomplish I shall accomplish;” or, “Hope, Perseverance, Success.” This coat-armor dates back 700 years or more, and was perhaps that borne by Adam de Boothes.- It belonged to Sir George Booth, third Lord Delamere, and second earl of Warrington, born about the middle of the eighteenth century. Lady Mary, countess dowager of Stamford, was Sir George’s daughter.