Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1910 — Page 3

N E wL Y i2 T k <^ Ve hi ! en yea^° ld daughter Maria' a practical training in housekeeping, F. Waldemar Hooslep has built a miniature home for her in the rear of his residence at 71 Linden avenue Brooklyn. Utt]e H hhiMh^ n £ BUP ? ly u!? m ° ney ® ach week > and Bhe must P ay all her bills out of this allowance. The .. 8 budng 18 equipped with every culinary appliapce and everything needed to keep a house in order The JrtLS it delighted with her experience She has a “day-at-home” when her friends drop 'in for a chat around a well arranged tea table. Dominoes is the game, instead of bridge whist. Little Maria has to pay a separate water tax and under the building rules a three-foot stone foundation had to be built.

HOBBLE SKIRT JOKE

Parisian Designers Got Idea From Cleverly Drawn Cartoon. Cartoonist Now Apologizes, Declaring Never Thought Such Mode of Dress Possible—lntended to Ridicule Low Waist. London.—Who is responsible for the invention of the “hobble” skirt? Some famous fashion creator of Paris, every one will say, by no means. W. K. Haselden, the cartoonist, envolved it out of his inner consciousness many months before it was actually created as a dress. On Feb. 14, 1909, he thought of it as a hideous possibility which might some day come The next day his conception of itffjieared as a cartoon, in company with other products of his imagination; later a Parisian fashion expert the cartoon and seized upon the idea. , Some months later the hobble skirt appeared in Paris, and in December, 1909, was actually being worn in London, and speedily became the rage. In one or two cases enthusiastic adopters of it were so overzealous that they had hobble skirts made for them which were so tight they prevented their getting in or out of vehicles, and broken bones resulted. Other wierd dress designs were "the knee-and elbow-room dress,” a quaint conceit which showed balloons round the knees and elbows; the “Punchinello pattern,” the woman in this case wearing an artificial hump and a very voluminous skirt; "the donkey’s ear shoulder,” an ordinary costume with a trailing skirt and two long, pointed projections rising from the shoulders to a distance of three feet above either side of the head; and “the pyramid” and the “diamond” design. These have not "come true,” but Mr. Haselden thinks it highly likely that their day will dawn. Asked upon what lines he worked when creating such fashions, be said: “I think of all the most outlandish things in the way of dress, being at

SQUIRREL MAKES GOOD FIGHT

Administers Severe Bites to Several Youngsters Who Would Hold Animal In Captivity. Birmingham, Ala.—A squirrel, 10 bloody boys and a crowd of curious spectators entered to produce one of the strangest and most amusing incidents that has occurred at the Termjnal station since that place was opened. The incident was the efforts of several boys to hold a small squirrel which did not like captivity.X One youngster grabbed the\quirrel and attempted to place It in a bag. The boy’s hands were lacerated terribly by the captive, .and Imme- , diateiy surrendered Another one. The second tamer gr jjffrithe little animal only tq bfßUabout times* on the hand, tllood spouted over everything nearby. This process of exchanging was gone through with 'until every youngster In the bunch was bitten and scratched by the flghtilng squirrel. Finally a passenger, unableto witness the blood of the kids, suggested the placing of the squirrel itn a paper bag. Strange to say, when this was done the kids walked off with the squirrel perfectly tame and quiet After biting the boys and scratching all of them many of the .men marveled at the tameness of the creature when It was placed In the bag. It could have easily broken through the paper and escaped. The boys, bleeding in several places •tyrt the hands marched off proudly with ths squirrel.

BUILDS MINIATURE HOME FOR HIS CHILD

the same time assured that nothing is too impossible for women to wear. “Indeed, the real difficulty is to invent a’nything that looks impossible. There wai one really sensible thing I invented. This will, not, I fear, ‘come true,’ because it is sensible. I refer to the pneumatic hat for matinees, a drawing of which appeared on Aug. 29, 1908. “It was a large hat blown up with air and capable of being deflated when the wearer had- taken her seat in the theater. “I am afraid that if 1 designed a really artistic and useful dress women would not wear it. “The very last thing on earth I wanted was to get women to wear hobble skirts, but I had a fear. I did not think it unlikely that they would adopt it. It is so very silly, you know. “When I read of the lady, who, owing to a very hobble skirt, broke one of her legs in getting into a taxicab, I felt indirectly responsible. I kept silent about my invention because I did not wish to be found out. “I am very penitent. I know I ought to be broken on the wheel. If any other man had done it I would get up a society to have him broken on the wheel. But I will not get up a society to have myself broken on the wheel. That is for other people to do. “At present, you know, we are going back to eastern dress fashions The thing now is to hide the face and show the figure. You can’t see more of a woman’s face nowadays than her chin. Breaking on the wheels is quite conformable with eastern ideas."

- . vieirncs. London.—Two new games are popular at country house parties this season. One is called tantasio, and is a sort of table bowls on which heavy bets are made. The other is roulette with cards. Four packs are used the players placing stakes on cards idstead of ordinary numbers. Hostesses are delighted with these two games which serve to amuse visitors unable to play bridge.

EXPLORE DIG AUSTRIAN CAVE

Party Runs Short of Food Before Completing Examination of Subterranean Wonder. Vienna. The “mammoth cave of Europe,” as the newly discovered series of subterranean chambers near Obertraun In Austria Is now called is described for the first time by Hermann Boch, an engineer, who with a small party of Alpine climbers explored the cave, which is situated under the Dachstein, a mountain in upper Austria 9,800 feet high. The entrance to the cave is at an elevation of some 4,500 feet Italian road menders knew of the existence of a small grotto here, where they had been looking around for gold. Behind a great boulder at the end of this grotto the party discovered a natural tunnel which a powerful stream In earlier ages had followed out of the rock. At the bottom of this tunnel there was a six-foot deep river bed, formed by what remained of the earlier stream. Here and there pools of crystal clear water continued for 1,000 feet and led to an apparently bottomless abyss. The party crawled along the edge of the precipice and up a gallery 150 feet high, also seafed with the action of dried up mountain torrents. At the top a narrow hole was found which led upward to a series of stalactite caverns and then narrowed down again to a curving passage leading downward for 1,500 feet Suddenly the party came upon a vast hall leading portal like to another still larger dome 340 feet high. Here a cave-in

Two New Popular Games.

GIRL, 16, ON $20,000 A YEAR

New York Woman Estimates What Her Daughter Needs to Live on Comfortably. New York.—A girl of 16 can get along on $20,000 a year and live comfortably, according to the estimate of Mrs. Emily Ladenburg, who has applied to County Judge Edgar Jackson at Mineola, L. 1., for that amount for her daughter, Eugenia. Miss Ladenburg is heir to a fortune, the disposition of which is at present in the hands of the court. Her mother, who is a member of the Meadowbrook colony, filed a petition asking for the allowance mentioned. In the petition Mrs. Ladenburg says that her own income is only $8,900 a year and that it takes all that for the bare necessities of life. Her schedule of what her daughter needs for the next year is: Maid, S2O a month. Governess, S6O a month. Clothing, $67 a month, with SI,OOO more for traveling and evening clothes. Maintenance of an automobile, $2,000 a year. Maintaining- two horses, $34 a month, with extra hprses, amount not specified. Groom, S6OO a year, with extra grooms, amount not specified. Tickets to Europe, Miss Ladenburg and maid, SSOO. Traveling expenses, $240. ‘ F Theaters and other amusements* $250. , Hotel expenses abroad, ten months. $5,500. Maintenance of country place at Westbury, $5,000. Rent of apartment on return from Europe, $720. Tuition and dancing lessons, $1,250. Treatment of teeth and jaw trouble, SI,OOO. Music and incidentals, amount not specified. Decision was reserved.

Walks 800 Miles to Wed.

Tacoma, Wash.—Allan Rowe of Fair, banks, Alaska, walked 800 miles to Forty Mile after navigation had closed, that he might marry Mrs.

had piled up a cone-like heap of debris 250 feet high. From here radiated a maze of other halls, passages and galleries, many of which ended precipitately in dark abysses. As food wad running short the party had to return.

Arrests Rooster to Save Man.

Geneva.—City Marshal Fred Baker arrested a bantam rooster and locked it in the city jail as a possible meanfl of saving the life of Henry Kent, A typhoid fever victim, in the Genet* hospital. The rooster insisted on crowing near Kent’s window and the noise annoyed him so much the physician in charge advised the incarceration of the rooster.

Wireless From Ireland to Canada.

Pisa, Italy.—William Marconi personally directed an exchange of communications between the wireless station at Coltano and the stations at Clifden, Ireland, and Glace bay, Nova Scotia, thus Inaugurating a new service by which it is expected the rates of wireless dispatches to America will be greatly reduced.

Rains Black Cats.

Woodbury, N. J.—The fact that gome one unloaded about two score oi black cats in this city aroused W. T 1 Cozens, an agent of the S. P. c. A The cats, however, all found goj4 homes. They are of jet black variety and as a whole look as though they bad come from a cat farm,

LUCK IS BIGGEST ELEMENT

«o Says Mike Mitchell, Outfielder •nd Heavy Hitter of Cincinnati National League Team, BY MIKE MITCHELL. (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Luck I think is the biggest element in winning baseball games, and in the success of any individual player. I have known many good ball players who were sent back to the minor leagues and have never arisen again because luck broke against them during their early careers and they never were lucky enough to get another chance. > Scoring runs wins, hitting scores runs and luck is the best part of hitting, which is why I reason that luck wins. There are mysteries in batting that even the batters do not understand. I see each season good hard hitters standing up well, hitting the ball hard and squarely, who, to watch them hit you would think were in the .300 class, and yet they are standing away down in the averages. Hitting runs in streaks, too. Often a man will hit hard and steadily without getting safe hits for weeks and then suddenly the luck will turn and everything he hits will go safe. There is no way for a man to learn to bat. I take that back. I think left handed batters who are extremely fast actually can be taught to bat whether they are natural hitters or not. They can learn to poke and push the ball, and chop at it, mixing it up with their swings and by practice become pretty good hitters whether they were so at the start or not. But with the great majority hitting the ball is natural and is the result of a quick eye and steady drive at the ball. Boys just starting the game, however, can cultivate their natural ability to bat. They ought to study ’ themselves to observe how they stand at the plate, how they hold their bats and how they move when the ball is pitched. They may be natural hitters who have not learned to kandle themselves. Try to keep a steady footing, both feet on the ground, but with the body balanced on the balls of the feet Never hit flatflooted. Swing so as to get the force of the body behind the bat, and try to "meet the ball squarely instead of trying to hit it out

Mike Mitchell.

of thp lot. A great many young players make the mistake of swinging too hard. Notice how many batters have two strikes called and then hit the third solidly. Then begin the study of pitchers. No man ought to go into a game without some knowledge of the style of the opposing pitcher, whether he is slow or fast, straight or curve or spit ball, and the more he knows about the other pitchers the better he ought to hit. If a batter knows what the pitcher is likely to do, he is much more likely to hit. The fact is that a majority of hits made in the\ finished game are made when the pitcher is in the hole and the batter is almost certain what is to be pitched. It is a question for each batter to study out for himself, btu perhaps a hint or two may help. Keep cool, watch closely and study all the time and you may hit—if you are lucky.

GOSSIP OF SPORTDOM

Bat Nelson thinks he has several youthful wallops in his haymaker mitt yet. , Dave Barry has been appointed manager and matchmaker of the New Orleans Athletic club. An expert has said Attell’s fighting days are about oyer,, but Abe keeps right on gathering in the coin. Yost’s trickery did trap the Gophers —it was not the double cross, but the double pass that turned the trick. Milnor league magnate? already are planning for that Texas conclave and have Invited President Taft to address them in 1911. ' Mr. Stagg is starting early. He already has predicted a good season for 1911 in football, as far as the Midway school is concerned. Chicago turners do not cater much to indoor ball and basket ball, but wrestling is gaining a strangle grip on their attention just now. Chicago is highly honored in the amateur athletic world. The supreme rulers of both the A. ( A. U. and the A. A. F. hail from the windy city. Those striking hockey skaters can’t see the use in amateurism when they hear the jingle of the coin at the bos office. It is the semipro influence.

This unique, but effective, railway inspection car is formed by removing the propulsion mechanism from an ordinary hand car and the wheels from an automobile and combining the re-

ENGINE WITHOUT FIRE

FIRELESS STEAM LOCOMOTIVES BUILT IN GERMANY. - • Are Very Useful Where Ordinary Locomotives or Electric Motors Would Be Dangerous—Steam Not Generated, but Stored. —The steam locomotive in which the steam is not generated, but merely stored, is not a new idea. When the London Metropolitan underground line was opened, it was proposed to use such motors on it, in order to avoid the inconvenience of smoke. The development of electric traction has made the use of fireless steamlocomotives unnecessary on underground roads, but there are still conditions where they are desirable, and they are now built in considerable numbers at Tegel, near Berlin. The Railway Magazine says: “This type of locomotive is especially suited for use on railways where the question of fire precaution is almost a first consideration, as, for example, powder mills, cotton plants, wharves and other places where the presence of an ordinary type of locomotive, or even electric power, prejudices the insurance. “The simplicity of the flreless locomotives can be understood when it is stated that in the cab the mechanism consists merely of a regulator, re-versing-gear, and brake. Only one man is required to work the engine, thus saving the expense,of a fireman. Flreless locomotives are growing in favor, and lately the Prussian state railway has taken up the type for special service, such as shunting in 1 covered stations, etc. “The locomotive is fireless; it has no fire-box. In general appearance the engine resembles the ordinary type of locomotive minus the fire-box, funnel and sundry other attachments. It must be understood that this type of locomotive is unsuitable for uninterrupted railway service, but is essentially a yard shunting-machine; iif other words, it must keep near its base of supply, and this base of supply is the boiler of some local powerstation, where the tank of the locomotive is filled with steam, and on this supply the machine will run from four to five hours doing ordinary shunting work.” Contrary to one’s natural impression, we are told, steam is not taken into the engine’s tank at high pressure, but at a pressure about the same as that in the boiler of the powerstation. In order to effect this, the boiler is filled with water to about three-fourths its capacity. Steam is admitted by means of a steam coupling from the power-plant, and is mixed thoroughly with the water in the boiler-tank, the effect being to superheat the water and thus raise the pressure in the locomotive boiler practically to that in the boiler of the power-station.—Literary Digest.

The Disciple Trees.

In Shirley, Mass., a generation or two ago, one Mr. Holden set out some trees alongside the highway. This was a good deed in itself, but scarcely noteworthy except for the manner in which he did it. He was a religious man, and it occurred to him to perpetuate the memory of the crime of Judas in this modern day and generation by establishing a lasting reminder and warning to all men. Accordingly,’ he set trees for the 12 disciples, placing 11 flourishing young maples in a row and at the end a pine. These trees have grown up and are today known as the “Disciple Trees.” There is a tradition that Judas hanged himself to a poplar, since which time the leaves have been constantly quaking, but perhaps Mr. Holden had not heard the old legend. At any rate, his idea has failed its purpose to recall the religious significance, for his trees are a monument to himself now. And pine as well as maple, they all furnish grateful shade over the old country road to Shirley.

Secrets.

First Financier—l made my success by putting my money where I could get my hands on it easily. Second Ditto—And I' got mine by putting other people’s where I could get my hands on it easily.—Puck.

AIDS IN RAILROAD INSPECTION

malning parts of the two into one perfect machine. The automobile engine is geared to the rear truck of the hand car by means of a chain drive.

RAIL’S AWFUL TOLL OF DEATH

Gruesome Total of 3,804 Lives LostArraignment of Careless Transportation Methods. The annual compilation of railroad fatalities in this country shows a gruesome total of 3,804 lives lost, and arouses once more the recurrent comment upon the recklessness of our transportation methods. Unless the railroads are to be done away with altogether, however, it is difficult to see how the accidents are going to be avoided. The number of such casualties varies) directly with the amount of traffic, as has been proved conclusively by the statistics. This year it is higher than last year by 1,013 deaths. Business is better than in the preceding period, however—the calculations are made from July to July, It should be remembered—and the cost is duly reckoned) on fate’s books and paid by the nation. In the year before the last the deaths totaled 2,827. In the year next preceding they amounted to 4,759, and tai 1906 they were an even 6,000. So that, while more were killed In 1909 than ta 1908, the number was almost I,oo© lower than In 1907 and only a little more than one-half the total of 1906. It seems fair to say that the American railroads are making decided advances in carefulness. The volume of traffic Is probably smaller to some extent than in 1907 and 1906, but it has certainly not fallen off In anything like the proportion of the reduction ta fatalities. There is a net gain. If a great loss. The totals are stin large, but this Is a large country and ships a large amount of freight over its rails.

Brass Beds on the Train.

Sleeping cars which have brttss beds and every toilet convenience except a bathtub are the newest luxury in travel offered by a leading eastern railroad. Each sleeping car containing the beds is divided into seven apartments,, and each apartment is as large and luxuriously furnished as a private, room in a private car. A new ventilating device gives a supply of fresh, air. Some of the apartments are connected so that they may be occupied, as suites, just as in a hotel or club. Each apartment contains two chairs and a drop table. Opening off ’each apartment is a toilet .annex with washstand, mirror and dresser shelf. There Is also a complete dresser in the apartment. Each room is lighted by electricity and gas and has ani electric fan.

Reasonable Request.

A gentleman riding in a crowded car of a Boston street tunnel train the* other day won the admiration of hia fellow passengers by stoical endurance of pain. A young woman, adorned with a sample of the last, word in millinery, entered at the Winter street station. She slowly revolved to face out the side door, and tbe« edge of her hat brim rubbed into tha man’s face. He bent backward, but the lady continued to revolve. Retreat was impossible because of the crowd. Tears of anguish streamed out of his other eye, yet he did not falter. In a quiet, musical voice he said: “Pardon me, madam. Would you mind removing your hat-brim from my eye for a moment? I desire to wink.”

Monster Suction Hose.

What Is said to be the largest rubber suction hose ever made was recently made for a Philadelphia dredging flrm to be used in a deep water operation about to be undertaken. The outside diameter of this hose is 33 inches, while inside it measures 29. The 1,290-pound spiral spring which comprises the foundation of the hose was rolled cold from a rod one inch in diameter. The rubber and fabric entering into its construction weighed 3,215 pounds. The rubber and duck were applied in alternative layers witnXcoatlng of gum, after which the entire\lece was placed in a container and vulcanized with live steam.

Wouldn’t Lie About Them.

“Yep, Jeff hag gone into bankruptcy,” says the first truck raiser. "Don’t see hovr&e could,” says the second. "Why, he had sixty acres chock full o’ cantaloupes—and they brought higher prices this year than ever before.” “That’s so. But Jeff got religion just as cantaloupes was getting ripe.*