Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1910 — Page 3

Odd News From Big Cities

Stories of Strange Happenings in the Metropolitan Towns

Soldier Victim of Rare Affliction

p ORTLAND, Ore.—Sojourning here the last several weeks has been a man who has attracted widespread attrition in medical circles. He is Thomas P. Dunn, a native of Montana, who, as a member of the First Montana volunteers in, the SpanishAmerican war, was shot through the Head at Caloocan in the Philippines tnore than twelve years ago and is alive to tell of It today. When Dunn fell wounded on the battlefield of Caloocan he was carried to the ward where the fatally Injured were placed and no one paid any attention to him for two days, as there were too many other wounded ■whom the physicians and surgednif in charge believed had better chances .or recovery. At the end of two days, during which the Montana boy lay practically without attention, the surgeon in charge remarked upon his vitality and decided to try to save his life. ‘ A Mauser bullet had entered the left side of his head Just above tbe temple and emerged Worn the right side just below the temple, a wound that had previously proved fatal as far as any of the medical men who have examined Dunn ever heard.

Woman Laughs Her Jaw Out of Joint

YORK. —Tee-hee-hee! Hawhaw! Cra-a-a-ack!!! Mrs. Cecilia Goldberg’s birthday party was an enjoyable occasion up to this point, or, to be exact, until she dislocated her jaw laughing at her mistake in kissing the wrong man. The occasion was the eighteenth anniversary of Mrs. Goldberg’s arrival In Harlem, where she has since become duly popular in her set. She is a pretty young woman, and her parents invited all their friends and relatives to come around and celebrate. They came by the dozens, and it was one of those “a-gorgeous-time was-had-by-all” affairs. The tables groaned with good things to eat, and there was a decorous but all sufficient dampness out in the vicinity of the ice box. Along about midnight, when the young folks began thinking of going home, some on suggested that “blind man’s buff” was a good game to taper oft with. The music was stopped and

Day Spent in Circus Beats School

SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—“No session of the public schools of Springfield after ten o’clock a. m. on circus day." This edict from the office of Prof. Jonathan Fairbanks* life-long educator and for 36 years superintendent of the public schools of Springfield, brought Joy to the hearts of 9,000 school children, for it meant that at ten o'clock on the morning of circus days the city schools closed for the day. “A circus is something every' child ought to see,” Superintendent Fairbanks said, in explaining his orders, “for it is a veritable education in itself. You can see for a small sum attractions that have been grouped together at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and which would oost large sums to see outside a circus. “School cuildren read of lions and

No Missionary Cash for the Indians

MUSKOGEE, Okla. —The Methodist church in Oklahoma has decided upon a new policy relative to religious work among the Indians. At a meeting here of the executive board of the church it was decided to combine all of the five civilised tribes. Creeks, Cherokees. Chlckaaaws, Choctaws and Seminoles. in one district, under the supervision of one presiding elder, and to reauire the Indians to support their own pastors without the aid of foreign missionary money. ft was al ßo decided to request the bishop to transfer every English-

His remarkable recovery and the fact that he retains his reason are the most remarkahle features of this case. While he is alive, in good health and able to walk around the streets and converse with his friends and acquaintances, Dunn is handicapped by the loss of all sense of smell or taste and has lost the sight of his right eye. Despite these afflictions he bears his lot with fortitude. He cannot enjoy a meal,'for no matter what choice 'viands he may order, he cannot relish them any more than he would hardtack and salt pork. The loss of the sense of he looks upon as his worst affliction. Tommy Dunn, as he is known among his friends, is a ward of the government, though not of his own choosing, for he has relatives and influential friends who take care of him and look after his comfort at all times. His impaired eyesight has proved an obstacle toward his securing emplbyment, and idleness is something he dreads because of his afflictions. His only amusement is to Join several congenial companions and tell stories of past experiences, or to take street car rides or journevs through the country in automobiles. He cannot go to the theater, being handicapped by partial blindness and fearful lest the glare ol the lights shall impair the sight ol his remaining eye. As a ward of the government Dunn must report at Washington or some other military headquarters at certain periods and to undergo the periodical examination required by the surgeon general’s office.

Mrs. Goldberg was chosen as the first to be the blind one. She was blindfolded and led into the parlor. She was entitled to kiss any man she could catch, and she supposed that Jim, her husband, tyould be on the Job and see that he was caught. But a young man named Harry was caught by Mrs. Goldberg and was kissed. Jim was just a second too late. Then they pulled the blindfold off and Mrs. Goldberg saw whom she had kissed. The crowd combined in a roar of glee and Mrs. Goldberg graciously joined in the laughter. But she overexerted herself. In the midst of an unusually loud "Ha-ha!” she grabbed her Jaws and began to dance about the room. She gasped and groaned, and Policeman Mott, rushing upstairs, found the company in confusion and hysteria. Mrs. Goldberg seemed unable to close her mouth, and nobody could hold her long enough to close it for her. A policeman gaVe all the first aid he could muster without result, so he called a doctor from the Harlem hospital. The doctor made a hasty examination and diagnosed the trouble as a dislocated Jaw. He finally succeeded in getting it back in place, and advised the patient not to laugh again for a day or so. She won't for a week at least.

Bee pictures of them, but they don’t really know what a lion is until they see one. Merely seeing the animals in the open cages of a circus parade is of great value to children. They see many animals with which they are not familiar and get a real knowledge of animals of which they have read but which they have little opportunity to Bee. In the menagerie there are animals from all parts ol the world and the child who goes to the circus learns more about animals in one day than he can learn from the teacher of a nature study class in a year. “Then schoolroom work is done in the most perfunctory way when there is a circus in town. The minds of the children—not nearly all of the children are there—are not upon the work, and the teacher can put no life in his or her tasks. The teacher knows all the work will have to be gone over the following day.” Professor Fairbanks is almost eighty years old, and he has been elected superintendent of the public schools here almost without opposition 36 times.

speaking congregation of Indians to some white charge. This is for the purpose of getting the Indians under a white pastor in order that educar tlonal as well. as religious work may be carried on. The old idea of teaching a white missionary to speak the Indian tongue and sending him among the Indians to preach In their own language is to be abandoned. . It was pointed out that, under the state government, the Indian and the white man are the same socially and politically, that the state schools are being extended into every Indian settlement, and that the Indian children everywhere are being taught English. It is expected that other religious organisations will take the same step, it being practically foroed upon them by the new conditions arising from the adoption of state government aad state schools.

French Toilettes

THE toilet at the left is of black and white checked wool. Tho skirt is composed of two breadths cut on the bias and trimmed wjth straightway bands of the material. The blouse has a yoke of the material which is cut in one piece with the sleeves and trimmed with the straightaway bands, also with folds of yellow satin and buttons. The girdle is of black liberty and the little guimpe, hardly more than a collar, is of embroidered batiste or lace. The blouse fastens in the back. The other toilet is of dark blue cloth. The upper part of the skirt is slightly gathered and is finished with

SIMPLE FROCKS FOR GIRLS

Trimmings and Decorations, by No Means Elaborate, Will Accomplish Wonders. Many of the simple frocks for girls are made smart by the addition of flat, stiff bows, small or large, but usually the latter, placed at all sorts of unexpected places—upon a flounce, at a single pocket, or low cm the skirt, near the hem, says a writeh Such bows may form the sole r trimming of a hat. One may be pressed against an upturned brim, which it appears in turn to press against the crown, or it may be set on or against the crown itself. There is a fancy which later in the year will be more generally seen for trimming the front of the seamless blouse with a large loose velvet or vel-vet-finished silk bow. Slits are made in the waist a few inches below the neck on each side of the center line, which slits are finished with a regular binding; or they are buttonholed or soutached. From the under side wide ribbon is drawn through these slits, and the bow is tied so as to hang exactly in the center of the waist. It very pleasantly varies the scant effect of many of these waists. These bows are seen with equal frequency upon stiff linen and upon transparent muslin frocks.

STILL THE STRAIGHT LINE

French Style Specialists Will Continue to Insist Upon Perpendicular. There is no uncertainty as to the edict of the French style specialists regarding fall fashions. They have drawn the line, and it is perpendicular. Straight, straighter, straightest are the new lines for coats, skirts and sleeves. This, according to Grace Margaret Gould, writing in the fall fashion number of the Woman’s Home Companion, means a lot to American women, but will be accepted only according to its practicability. No woman in the world cares more to be in style than the American woman. She appreciates that the French have Inherited taste, that they fairly breathe charm, and that the ideas.that come from Paris are, generally speaking, good ones. But she looks upon these ideas as suggestions, not edicts. What is possible in style she will follow, but she will think long and seriously of herself, her advantages and her limitations before she will adopt a style which will make her appear ridiculous.

Here’s a New Fall Hat.

Among the new display of fall hats for the little ones I noticed a fine French felt, white, and in the new droopy mushroom shape. The trimming was a soft ribbon passed around the crown and held down with trim little rosettes of the ribbon, one over each ear. The left rosette was encircled by a dainty wreath of holly of the variegated kind, the soft creamy white and pale green leaves, with tiny crimson berries. The ties were of soft white ribbon and altogether It was a most attractive bit of millinery '•Exchange.

a deep plain flounce which is set on with a beading and trimmed v?ith braid. The blouse is made with radiating box plaits which open out and is encircled about midway with a tuck, above which, at the sides, are straps of the braid with insertions of red velvet. The girdle is made like tho straps and the blouse is finished around the neck with the braid and a fold of the red velvet. . The sleeves are cut in one pieco with the body of the waist and are finished with turnover cuffs of tho material. The long, close-fitting undersleeves and the guimpe are of laco.

LITTLE GIRL’S DRESS.

This pretty dress is of blue silk voile, trimmed with printed bands in cashmere colors and design. The skirt is slightly gathered at the top and encircled at the bottom with a band of the trimming. The waist forms a fichu over an underblouse of lace or batißte, which is finished at the neck and sleeves wish ruffles of lace and bands and knots of narrow black velvet. The girdle is of black velvet or liberty.

Fall Millinery.

Nobody knows anything about it, of course. But there are prognostications. White beavers are already being prepared for the late August trade, warm idea though it may be. Many of the latest shapes show the mushroom tendency again. Some models are cut awa> or indented directly in the front. Tam O’Shanter crowns are apparently in favor. Hindoo turbans are shown here and there, which argues a possibility of draped oriental effects for late autumn. Bell-shaped hqts there are, further emphasizing the mushroom tendency, but little store may be placed in these facts, while millinery fashions are in so variable a state.

Chiffon Wrap.

The girl who wants a chiffon clotb wrap, but has not thg price, can make one for herself. ,\ L At this season the chifTon cloth can be bought, -reduced, in desirable shades. Silk fringe to match is also to be found at bargain prices. The simplest wrap of this sort is made with a deep square at back, railing well below the hips; with shawl ends in Jront. All edges are fi nl shed with fringe

GATHERED SMOLES

HOT TIMES. Jimmie Hay, one of the bright young men of the Washington Times, who “covers” the White Souse and usually travels with President Taft, was sent to Beverly when the president went to the summer capital. There was not much doing and the managing editor wired Jimmie to come back, thinking he would be of more use In Washington. One of Hay’s associates on the paper, who has the office reputation of being very close-fisted, thought to have some fun with Jimmie and telegraphed him: “Welcome back to our fair city. Temperature is 104 at the Kiosk today.” Whereupon Jimmie replied: "It must be hotter than that in Washington to melt the price of a telegram off your roll."—Saturday Evening Post.

NATURALLY.

She—l saw a handsome picture of Mr. Rockefeller the other day. He—Oil, I suppose.

Up-to-Date Mythology.

Said Cerebus to Pandora: “What’s In your bandbox flat?” Said Pandora to Cerebus: “A chanticleer hat!"

Louis Wain’s Cats.

Here is a good story of Louis Wain —the well-known artist whose drawings of cats are world-wide in their reputation. He strolled into a variety theater one night, and was introduced to a man there. Casually his friend remarked that this was Louis Wain, whose cats were so famous. The man, after studying his program, turned suddenly to Mr. Wain, remarking: “And what time, sir, does your cat turn come along here? I don’t see it mentioned in the program!”

Stopped the Confab.

The honeymoon had disappeared behind a domestic cloud. “Was there any fool Jn love with you before I married you?” he demanded angrily. “Yes, one,” she answered. “Well,” he snapped, "I’m sorry you rejected him.” “But I didn’t reject him,” she rejoined. "He married me.”

Looking Ahead.

Somekins—DeVine is doing all he can to make his prospective married life inexpensive. Lymans—What is he doing speclalSomekins—Encouraging his fiancee to buy all the clothes she can coax her father to pay for.

Proper Name.

“Why do you call that a still T’ asked the innocent youth who bad wan r dered into the mountains of Tenner see. “Because.” explained the moonshin er, "we have to work It on the quiet."

THE DIFFERENCE.

“Jones is a newspaper man, isn’t he?” \ “No. He’s a Journalist. He touches you for a loan every time be meets you." -

What Might Happen.

False putts are harmless. Just suppose The pretty dears Should want to wear an extra nose Or seven earq.

The Fountain Sealed.

Chief —Tell me, sir, why have you so utterly failed to get a clew to this crime? -, Detective — r Tain’t my fault. The reporters are down on me, an’ they won’t tell me nothing!

What Did He Mean?

“John, did my summer at tbs* seashore oost too much?" *- "It cost a whole tot, dear, but It vas worth It.“

THE BILL GAME.

I ■£ ! hat money carries germs. For I ha\-e often seen evidence that full confirms This sordid fact and mean l i Ve felt the awf “l truth. And suffered from the crash „ at often rises from the truth That there be germs In cash. I loved a maiden sweet and fair, I loved her deeply, too: AH golden was her bonny hair. Her eyes were wond’rous blue, one promised one day to be mine My own beloved'wife, nßre with Joyousness divine The dark ways of my life. And then a bunch of money came— Alas, that it should be! And she I’d thought to bear my nam» Turned chilly unto me. «f e the summer days had sped My heart was sorely hit—that fickle maiden skipped and wed lhe germ that came with It! John Kendrick Bangs, In Puck.

Weather and the Man.

”• i u me iVId n • Hear the man! What does he say so vociferously? He says: " I don’t like this summer. It keeps a fellow naif roasted all the time. I like th« cold weather when the air puts new life Into a man. It’s the good old winter for mine every time!” Have you seen the man before 1 Yes; last winter. What did the say then? He said: Hang this cold weather! It keeps a fellow half frozen all the time. I like Warm weather, when the winds are soft and balmy. It’s the good old summer for mine every time!” Strange. Isn’t it?—Puck.

After-Dinner Walks.

The tramp was bolting the meal provided by the kind-hearted housewife. “I think you’d greatly improve your health if you practised Fletcherism,” commented the lady, good-naturedly! “ ’Tain’t necessary, ma’am,” said the tramp between mouthfuls; “you see, I keeps me appetite so healthy practisin’ Westonism."—Puck.

As Indicated.

Professor—To what class of maladies does insomnia belong? Bright Student—Why—er—-insomnia is a contagious disease. Professor—Where did ybu ’learn that? Bright Student—From experience. When my neighbor’s dog can’t sleep at night I can’t either.

WANTED TO KNOW.

Higgs—l had been in Boston only two days when I had a terrible ohm Hoggs—What was the girl’s name?

Happy Porker.

One little pig went to market. And how happily he did squeal' For, you see. this porker waa worth ton plunks And rode in an automobile.

Not Always Necessary.

A prominent lawyer’s wife had fads about hygiene sleeping. She once asked her husband: “Is it better to lie on the right side or on the other?" He answered, absently: “My dear, when one" is on the right side it gen! erally is not necessary to do much lying.”—lndex.

English as She Is Spoke.

A girl who 1b considered as belongs Jng to the high-brow crowd was the object of a serenade the other night, and in telling a friend about it said: "I don’t think there is nothing more hleer than to be woken up at night witM vocal singing.”—Alma SignaL ’

Wasn’t Sorely Tried.

“Speaking of patience," remarked the suburbanite. “Job’s wasn’t so great" "How do you figure that oat?" queried the Innocent bystander. “His next-door neighbor didn’t own a phonograph," explained the other.

Mud Flats.

“Yes,” said the Chicago man who had been down the Mississippi, “you have some fine swimming holes around St Louis." “Than yon *ook a dlpr spoke up the St Louis man. "And whst did you do after enjoying a good swim In the broad Mississippi r’ “1 went home and took a bath."

The Inevitable.

“What a discontented expression Mrs. de Woozy wears.” . “Yes. she worries ail the time—and unhappily the cause of her worry continually increases.” “Poor woman! What does ikf sorry about T “Growing old."