Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1910 — Page 3

ARMSTRONG DREXEL

New YORK. —The international aviation meet at Belmont Park has had much the air of a social function. This is due not only to the fact that the fashionable set are glad of the opportunity to enjoy new Henaatlnne. but also to the social standing of a number of the bold aeropianists. Among the most prominent of these are Armstrong Drexel and Anthony Drexel, both of whom have distinguished themselves by their skill and daring.

GIRLS LACK HOMES

'London Has No Respectable Refuge for Women. 'Sitter Maggie Has Strikingly Discouraging Experience— Ordinary Lodgings Unfit for HonT~ est Poor. London.— "Slater Maggie," a zealous >nd original worker connected with (the Bloomsbury Social union, Is enigaged In an effort to provide hotels for respectable girls who find thefniselves In London without money or Ifrlends. Sister Maggie claims that [young men are amply provided for In 'this respect, but that the contrary is 'the case as to girls. “In order to test the matter for myiself,” said she, “I disguised myself as a young country girl out of a situation in London and, with only nine pence In my pockets, I walked the streets to find a respectable night’s lodging. This is how I fared. After calling in many places where I was refused admittance because I had not a shilling In my pocket I spoke, to an old woman selling matches at a street corner, who directed me to a home for young women conducted by a religious body. "The first question that was put to ime there by the matron was, ‘Where ils your reference?’ I had to confess ithat I had none, so I was told I was not the ‘sort wanted there’ and was turned out on the street. I spoke to three policemen, but not one of them could help me. No person who kept furnished apartments would let me have a room for the night under the cost of a shilling. Then I went to an ordinary lodging house for women where after some bargaining I was taken in for six pence. “The house was full of women, young and old, many of whom had come to London as young girls from the country. Now every one was a moral wreck; their conversation was indescribable and finally a quarrel ibroke out in the room where they were herded together. “Perhaps because I looked respectable, the landlady blamed me for it, and I was turned out once more. After this I wandered on through street after street, always with an awful dread in my heart and always followed by some man, until at last I was directed to a house in a respectable street. I found at length what I thought was a haven of refuge. Here [the landlady welcomed me most klndlly. It was the only place I found even Ithe suggestion of human sympathy, Ibut before I was there ten minutes women, yes and many young girls of

SWISS BRIDES BE HEALTHY HOBBLE SKIRT AIDS MORALS

(Radical Action Planned by Government of Switzerland In Requiring Physical Teets. London. —That vexed question of «tate medical certificates of the health icf brides is now in the region of practical politics. In all probability Swiss Ibrides will in future be required to (present a certificate of health to their (bridegrooms, so that if any naan marirtes a girl whose health is not good (he will have himself to blame. • Next year, if the rich and influential (body called the Swiss Society of Publllc Utility for Women, which has done much good in Switzerland during the 'last few years, has its way, all young women, wed or unwed, will be physically examined, as are their brothers rwho enter the Swiss army. According to Its report for 1910, the society has launched this daring ischeme, which is said to be receiving (warm support. •>We feel ourselves responsible for Ithe health, the homes and the characters of our people",” the report says In Sealing with the suggested measure. Ut further urges every young woman Ito undergo the ordeal for the sake of herself, her husband and Switzerland.” By three things we learn men—love, .play and win* W

SOCIETY MEN AS DARING AVIATORS

under sixteen, began to come and go through the open door and, to my horror, I discovered the nature of the place, the only roof to which I as a poor girl had been welcomed.” Sister Maggie holds that rescue work is often hopeless and that the thing to do is to fence off the precipice rather than to try to save the pieces below. She recommends that the churches of all denominations bind themselves together to establish properly governed women’s lodging houses or inns. She says the Catholic women of Belgium have accomplished incalculable good in this way. Her idea is that notice boards at the railway stations and in the principal streets should be put up telling girls where s.uch places are to be found. The police, she thinks, might be of assistance to girls whom they meet wandering in the streets at night. Sister Maggie pronounces absolutely against the common lodging house for women. “It is no place,” says she, “to which any respectable woman can be sent.”

PARROT MISTAKEN FOR MAN

Interrupts Young Woman’s Bath and Thon Human Pat Rushes lit, Causing Consternation. Philadelphia.—Pat is a parrot owned by Mr. and Mrs. William' Harrington. The other afternoon, noticing that the door of his cage was unfastened, Pat made for the window and perched on the sill of an adjoining bathroom window. —-— : —-4 Inside there was much splashing l and feminine laughter. Nora, the maid, was giving her young mistress a bath. Not finding the soap in its place, she called to her husband, whose name happened to be Pat: “Fetch the soap, Pat, and be quick about it” The parrot, hearing his name, shrieked: “Who wants Pat?” Hearing the sound from the outside, both women screamed and swooned, thinking some one was endeavoring to enter by the fire escape. The man Pat, hearing the commotion, dashed into the bathroom ahd made matters worse, especially for [the young woman, by breaking Into the room, 11 —• Eighty-Five Per Cent. Have Hookworm Washington.—Elghty-flve per cent, of the inhabitants of American Samoa are suffering from the hookworm disease, according to the report of Capt. F. Parker, governor. This means that about 6,700 natives have the malady. /

High Heels and Peach Basket Hats Proper for Christian Women Bays Boston Divine. Boston.—Rev. Herbert S. Johnson, one of Boston’s foremost divines, champions the cause of the hobble skirt and other ultra-fashions of the fair sex, and advises the American youth in search of a helpmate for life to select a girl who is a close follower of the fashions. “There is no more potent Influence for good in the modern community,” said Doctor Johnson, “than, feminine fashion. Not only are the ever changing fashions of women one of the chief delights of civilized communities, but it is a safe statement to make that we have no more conclusive key to a woman’s mental and moral development than' the clothes she wears. “Much has been said of the high cost of living. The immense sums spent annually in this country on apparently useless articles of women’s personal decoration are cited as arguments of American extravagance when, as a matter of fact, this item is one of our smallest national extravagances. “No woman, however free she may consider herself from the lure-of the

MCARDLE

ANTHONY DREXEL

LOSES TROUSERS FROM TRAIN

Lloyd-George, Chancellor of E» chequer, Travels Into London In Abbreviated Attire. London.—There is a wicked story going the rounds about an adventure of David Lloyd-George, chancellor of the exchequer, the other day. He was coming to London from a little station in—South Wales and sat on the platform ten minutes waiting for his train. He. then took a reserved compartment, but soon found himself alive with ants, in whose nest he had befen sitting. He first shook his coat out of a window and then, becoming desperate, removed his nether garments and shook them the same way. Along came an express on the adjoining track and the garment was whisked out of his hands. The appalled cabineter drew all the blinds and when the train reached the next station shouted for the station master and begged him to supply him with trousers at any cost. The garments couldn’t be produced on short notice, but the official telegraphed ahead and when London Was reached a discreet official handed a pair of corduroys through the window to the minister, who soon emerged in these plebeian togs and jumped into a cab. -

Betrayed by Tickling Fly.

Philadelphia.—Until a fly lighted on his face, Michael Halbert, 30 years old, seemed to be unconscious at Cooper hospital, Camden. Shortly after he was arrested on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, Halbert made a fake effort to end his earthly career by hanging from the lron bars of a cell with his suspenders. He was found by Policeman Clay, apparently unconscious, and hurried to the hospital. ' Doctors were about to bring the man to consciousness, when suddenly he brushed a fly from his nose, the tickling sensation having apparently annpyed him. He was returned to Jail without further ado.

Kills Bear at First Shot.

Pendleton, Ore.—Unusual marksmanship was displayed when Miss Grace Bean, a recent high school graduate and daughter of Judge and Mrs. H. J. Bean of Pendleton, shot and killed a black bear with a 32 caliber rifle. In company with her mother. Miss Bean was riding through the Blue mountains in an automobile. They found an unarmed man who had treed a bear and having tried in vain to lassb it was awaiting developments. Miss Bean stepped from the automobile and, taking careful alm, brought down the bear with a shot through the head.

latest thing in clothes, shoes, hats and gloves can afford to be otherwise than well dressed; and to begin at the beginning, every argument to the contrary is a fallacy. _ The man or woman who dresses the best, whose personal habits are the most Irreproachable, is the man or woman whose mental and moral development is the highest advanced. The hobble skirt, the peach basket hat, high heeled shoes and all the thousand and one foibles of the feminine sex are entertaining and products of good. A girl who does not care about dress and the latest fashions is not a normal girl. “The young man who contemplates marriage may fight shy. of the girl of fashion, but he makes a mistake. He hwy be a gainer at first financially, but in the end he pays a terrible price for his shortsightedness. The girl who is lax about personal appearance is lax mentally and morally. "She is not made of the stuff that turns out self respecting children. She is either a visionary and, as such, an unreliable element in the community, or she is downright lax and shiftless. -4 “In either case she is not a safe proposition for the ordinary young man.” „

TEMPTATION WAS TOO GREAT

Afghan Horse Thief Gave Owner “Real" Exhibition of How Animal Was Stolen. An Indian officer relates some good stories of Peshawur, which in the early “seventies," before British political influence had asserted itself beyond the lonely little forts of “Jamrud” and “Shabkadar,” was a somewhat disturbed locality, in spite of the strength of its garrison. It was at Peshawur (he says) that the medical officer of my regiment was Informed one night that a valuable and favorite Arab of his had been stolen! Over the border, gone for ever—he never expected to see bis horse again, but next day, much to his surprise, there came to him a bearded ruffian, riding bare-backed the stolen steed. He confessed that he had taken the animal, but, learning that it was the property of a hakim, (physician) had brought it back. The horse had been tethered in line with others, with men, women, and children sleeping in the open about them . "How did you manage it?” asked the doctor. “If the sahib will give the necessary order,” he said, “I will show him.” The entire scene was reproduced, even to the night watchman asleep in a corner. Noiselessly the Afghan crawled towards the Arab, threading snakelike through the prostrate forms to where it was standing at the end of the row. Softly hissing to attract the animal’s attention, without causing him alarm, he gently raised himself with arm extended. In his open palm were some lumps of goor (native sugar), beloved of horses, and while the Arab was enjoying these the man was caressing him with the other hand, whence suspended a watering bridle taken from his wallet. Quickly this was adjusted, and then, stroking soothingly, the robber passed his hand over the animal’s back and down th e hindquarters. Swiftly the heel ropes were unhitched, then the headgear released, and with a bound he was asfride* and away his right hand backward flung shouting triumphantly as he passed: “Thus was it done!” The Joke was that he never came back! A double restitution would have been too much of a wrench.

See the Cafe!

“See, the case!” “Yes, a gala scene it is with its brilliant lights and rich furnishings and fashionable women and portly men.” - <_ “Do you know why the men and women come to the case?” I can see well what they are doing. They are eating and drinking.” “Do you know why they are eating and drinking?” I suppose it is because they are hungry and thirsty.” “It is a natural mistake, but such Is not the case.” “Do you, then, O Sage, tell me why they are eating and drinking.” “Because they are not hungry and thirsty.” “You talk in paradoxes.” “Not at all. You do not understand. They do not know what It is to be Jiungry and thirsty. If they were hungry and thirsty they would be in the bread line or at home eating real food instead of dainties and confections and drinking real water instead of stimulants and narcotics.” “But you do not explain why they eat and drink what they do not need.” “To show they have money and to show they have time—money to spend In overVidulgence and time to spend in letting the effects wear off.” “And do they perform no useful service?” “No. To perform useful service Is to produce, which is not respectable. It is respectable only to consume.”— Life.

Cat Catches Burglar.

A woman burglar, her face heavily veiled, and accompanied by a man, was scared away from the house of John Callery, a wealthy coal dealer, living in the Clifton Park section of Weehawken, early the other morning by a servant coming downstairs to let in the cat. The burglars had entered by a front window, which they opened with a jimmy, and had packed up all the silverware, table linen and cut glass ready for removal when the servant girl heard the cat crying outside the kitchen door. As she came down the stairs to let the cat in she beard the swish of a woman’s silk gown. Turning up a light she found the packed bundles ready to be taken away. She ran to the front door and saw a man and woman running down the street

Alfonso Enjoys Joke on Himself.

Alfonso of Spain has a tremendous appetite; like any boy, he is always hungry. He is far from handsome, but like any boy, again, he does not give a rap about his looks. A few months ago, while motoring near La Granfa, the king’s appetite plagued him and he halted at a wayside Inn, where he ate with much relish while cracking jokes with the landlord and a few peasants who happened to be there, being unknown to them, of course. A little girl enterecHo buy wine for her father. “Tell me,” said Dpn Alfonso to the child, “have you seen the king since he has been at La Granfa?” “Only once,” answered the girl. "He had on a beautiful uniform, but he Is very ugly.” Thd king laughed and told the story on himself.

FORBID TWO NAMES

OLD ENGLISH LAV, V3RY DEFINITE AS TO NAMING CHILDREN.

Practise Has Now Become Almost Universal Royal Personages Have Always Been Allowed More Than One.

Middle names, hard as it is to credit in this generation, were once illegal. The old English law was very definite as to the naming of children, and, according to Coke, “A man cannot have two names at baptism.” “It is requisite,” this law goes on, “that the purchaser be named by the name of his baptism and his surname, and that special heed be taken to the name of baptism.” Royal personages have always been allowed to have more than one given name, but as late as 1600, it is said, there were only four persons in all England who had two given names. In 1620 the Mayflower sailed for America, and there was not a man or woman upon it who had a middle name. Even a century and a half ago double names were very uncommon. The English used to dodge the law at times by ingeniously compounding names. Thus old parish registers in England there is occasionally seen such combinations as Fannasabilia, which is Fanny and Sybil joined together, and Annameriar, made up of Anna and Maria. Maris is one of the earliest middle names of record for boys. It was given in honor of the Virgin Mary. As much as they dared beginning along in the 18th century, parents evaded the “one-name law,”

But even as late as 100 years ago custom was against the middle name. If the names of the signers of the declaration of Independence be looked over it will be found that only three of them had middle names. The first five presidents of the United States had only one name each—George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe. Before Grant, 18th of the line, there were only three doublenamed executives John Quincy Adams, William Henry Harrison and James Knox Polk.

When middle names got going and became the fashion, the law having dropped into disuse, parents went to work combining names for their offspring enthusiastically. One custom was done away with in England in consequence of this, the plan of naming the eldest son for the estate, particularly when he succeeds to that estate through his mother. This old idea is still followed to some extent in this country by the mother’s maiden name being given to the eldest son. It identifies the boy when he grows to manhood, and so has a positive value. During the time of the civil war and just after hundreds of parents named sons simply Lincoln and Grant.

Such Instances have, however, been uncommon for the past 50 years. The middle name has become well-nigh universal. Sometimes the .Case arises of a man prominent in public life or literature leaving off Ms first name altogether and becoming known by bis middle name. Grover Cleveland, whose baptismal name was Stephen Grover Cleveland, has been the meat conspicuous example of this.—Harper’s Weekly.

Man’s Rights and Privileges.

One privilege which man exercises is that of being absolutely helpless when it is a question of looking for anything, and he considers it his natural, inherent right to have some woman find things for him. Thp average feminine responds every time, for she realizes the urgency of the situation. When he tries to look for something, as a rule the after-appearance of the place would make chaos, housecleaning and the tall of a cyclone turn pale green at their inefficiency. In the house his wife finds his hat, cravat and other possessions. In fact, ft is a family tradition that great-grand-father used to ask, “Ma, where’s my shirt?” and for great-grandmother to respond, “I’m aware, Mr. Clark, I did not hand it to you, but I laid it right beside your bed." But he asked her next time just the same. She knew he would. In the office he stands in the middle of the room and asks where his letter book is. That book has been always in one spot for the past five years. In the days of the garden of Eden Eve bad to find the apple and give it to Adam. —Life.

The Uplift Movement.

When he left the house Saturday morning Burton yanked at the door as if he would pull it off its hinges. When he couldn’t open It he started to grumble Until his wife came to his assistance. “What’n blueblazes is the matter with this door?” he grumbled, giving It another powerful yank without being able to open it. "The trouble with you, John dear,” the wife ventured, "Is that you are always down on, everything—down In the mouth, down on the world. Let me try it."* „ ’ With a ‘gentle tug upward on the knob she easily opened the door. John was about to sputter out a sar?astlc remark when the force of his wife’s logic sank in his thick skull. “I get it!" he exclaimed. “I get the lesson.” ■ . r That afternoon when his wife viaited his office she saw over his desk a little motto with the words, "M® so» the Uplift.’

STORLES OF cAMP AND WAR

NARRATIVE OF “COL JACK” Gen. John T. Casement at Franklin and His Famous Speech Before the Action There. i ■ I notice in a recent publication th» announcement of the death of our beloved general, John T. Casement, or Colonel Jack, as we of the brigade used to call him. Many instances come to mind of the Atlanta campaign, where he played a conspicuous part. He always had a pleasant word for the private soldier. One day in North Carolina, just before Johnston's surrender, the writer happened to be on guard near Casement’s headquarters on a road that he passed several times in a few hours, and as it was Military rule to salute an officer, of Course, we gave salutes every time he passed, writes A. Mcßride, Company F, Sixty-fifth Indiana, of Marionville. Mo., in the National Tribune. The

Six Men Could Cromss at a Time.

third time he was passing he stopped, returned the salute and said: “I am nobody but Jack Casement, and if I pass here twenty times today I don’t want you to salute me again without there is some officer with me. Some of them want to put on style, but 1 don’t.” At Town Creek, N. C., the confederates held the bridge with a small fort, Casement’s brigade being in front. We were halted near the bridge, when Casement rode up to the head of the-Sixty-flfth Indiana. To an old colored man Casement asked if there was any place to cross the creek below the bridge. He answered: “Why, massa. dare’s nothing but an old rotten boat at de rice mill about a quarter-mile below.” He started off to investigate and found it satisfactory. The creek was narrow and deep. The old boat reached about one-third across. Six men could cross at a time, and the boat was pulled back and forth very fast, and it was a short time before Company F was across and deployed as skirmishers. When the regiment was across the line advanced toward the fort. By this time quite a force had gotten across and were making a flank movement to the right around the fort. At this time General Cox. division commander, and Colonel Jack were passing near where I was stationed. General Cox said: “Colonel, don’t you want some more men here? You seem to have nothing but a skirmish line.” “No,” says Jack; “this is the Sixty-flfth Indiana, and it can jvhip the whole confederacy.” In a short time there wap a sharp rattle of musketry on the opposite side of the fort and all was quiet. The fort surrendered. At Franklin, as all know. Casement’s brigade was on the east side of the pike, the right of the Sixty-flfth Indiana was on the pike. Company F in front of the cotton gin. We had worked all day building breastworks, had them in good shape by three o’clock, had drawn rations, put beef to cook and coffee to boiL ' By four o’clock, when looking to the front we could see Hood’s line advancing. They were coming slowly and steadily. We gathered our traps together, saw that our guns and ammunition were in good order, took our places behind the works, and. shall I say? calmly waited the onslaught. It was an apparent calm, for there was a tempest brewing in the breast of every man. They were steeling their nerves for the great conflict that all knew was almost upon them. About this time General Cox and staff rode up and took a look at the front. About this time a familiar voice was heard to our left. Looking in that direction, we saw ■ Colonel ‘Jack, who was only a few moments from a great event of his life —that | was to change him from Colonel Jack to General Jack Casement. He was encouraging the boys to do their best. When he came in the rear of our company he made what General Schofield termed his far mous speech, but the captain did not quote quite all of it,