Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1911 — Page 3

The American Home

WILLIAM A. RADFORD Editor

Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building 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 *ll Inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 194 Fifth Ave., Chicago, 111., and only om •lose two-rent stamp for repJtv

In building a house of concrete, no matter what the form of the material may be, the concrete should be strong and sound; It should be wet, far too wet to be delivered from its mold for considerable periods of time. The best artificial stone made, in this country is that made by the wet process, simply because plenty of water is necessary in the setting of the cement. The coming year,will witness a great boom in. cement-house building and the principles that underlie the use of this material are easy for the public to understand. But there are certain limitations in

which the purse of the intending builder is involved. Solid wall cons&uction is very limited In Jts application to dwelling house construction. While we have solved the problem of the factory and mill building in reinforced concrete the same may not be said for dwelling houses of all classes. In the mill and factory structure we have a relatively large amount of concrete as compared with the lumber and labor involved in the making of the forms, whereas, in the dwelling house, with the cut-up surfaces and irregular openings, the ratio of .the cost of forms to the concrete is out of all proportion, and places concrete practically out of the

running In comparison with other material. Moreover, the internal stresses, particularly the shrinkage of concrete in the masß, are such that the walls are apt to crack. They must be furred, or an air space formed, otherwise they will be damp and extremely unsatisfactory. In the fall and spring there is likelihood of condensation on the inside of an uninsulated con crete wall, and, last of all, it is a difficult matter to give a solid concrete wall an architectural treatment that can be called satisfactory, except at a very considerable expense. The wooden house is, of course, highly inflammable and should only be built aB a last resort. Such a house, covered with metal lath and furred, has some excellent architec-

First Floor Plan.

tural possibilities, but when well built will not be foudd to be cheaper than a rough brick wall, for the frame must be sheathed, papered, metal furred and lathed and covered with scratch coat of mortar before it is in condition to receive the stucco. This will be found to approximate closely the cost of brick work. But then It should be considered that the stucco house, although the cost may be the same as that of a rough brick wall, is much more desirable because of Its modern appearanca and attractiveness. Much has been said about the faults of stucco work, but like many another failure in the use of concrete, they are traceable to the Ignorance of the user rather than to the fault of the material. Stucco has been much abused but it will give the best of satisfaction if it is properly made and applied. There are plenty of examples of this style of house the country over which have withstood the test of years and their appearance and durability have been proved to the satisfaction of the owners. We irf prone to judge things in a class by the failures and not by the sue>

cesses. It Is so' with stucco honees. We present here the penpecUve view and the plans of a stucco house of pleasing design. One feature of this house is the economy of the design of the roof. The space is all utilized within a few feet of the top. Care should be used in selecting the site for this house. It should stand on a large lot and be provided with plenty of shrubbery. It will be noted that the upper sashes of the windows are ornamental. The stucco for this residence should be very light iu color and in contrast the roof should

Second Floor Plan.

be painted dark. The house is entered through a wide door that opens into a hall of generous dimensions. As one stands in the hall, at the end of which is the Btairway, one may look through at each side and get the impression of the size of the residence. The width is 46 feet and the length is 29 feet. At the left is a large dining room which is provided with an open grate, while on the right is the large living room. In both the

dining and the living rooms are large circular windows. Back of the living room is a bedroom and at the rear of the dining room is the kitchen. On the second floor are two large bedrooms.

NOVEL MUSEUM IN ENGLAND

The Adult as Weil as the Child la Amused at the Wonderful Ingenuity Displayed. Beneath the shadow of the ruined castle at Bramber, England, there is a novel and interesting museum. The exhibits are principally examples of the art of the taxidermist, sayß the Strand; but the subjects are treated in such a humorous manner as to reader the museum unique in England. From a child’s point of view It is a veritable Wonderland, reminiscent of the strange sights seen by Alice when she made her journey into that delectable country. The adult is no less amused and agreeably surprised at the wonderful Ingenuity thece displayed. The idea of thus combining the art of the taxidermist with that of the humorist was generated in the brain of W. Po(ter. In 1861 Mr. Potter set to work to construct his first set plecd, illustrating the "Death and Burial of Cock Robin." This work was done in Mr. Potter’s spare time and was not completed until seven years bad elapsed. The whole of the incidents in the story are graphically portrayed, and aa evidencing the patience and perseverance exercised by Mr. Potter it may be stated that no fewer than 100 specimens of British birds are Included in the setting. In addition to the birds which figure In the story, there are the cuckoo, nightingale, goldfinch, hawkflnch, bramble finch, wryneck, etc. Much ingenuity is displayed in the atrangcment of the "fish with his dish,” the “fly with his little eye," the owl, the bull, rendered in miniature, the rook, and the mourning birds all a-sighing and a-sobbing.

They Made Her Sick.

“Were you sick on tho way over from Europe?** “Nop. I didn't get until I met the customs inspectors at New Yorjfc.*

Canned.

“What became of that peaeh of ■ hired girl yon had?" “Wife canned her.-

CHAMPION GOTCH MAY MEET "HACK”

There is a bare possibility after all that Frank Gotch, retired wrestling champion of the world, may reconsider his intentions and sign articles to meet Hackenschmidt in a finish bout for th% world's Before leaving Chicago the other day for his home in lowa Gotch told some friends “not for publication” that he • might agree to one more match if there was enough money in sight, but before doing so the lowa farmer said Hack would have to beat all good men in this country, including foreigners Three good American heavyweight wrestlers are ready to work whenever called upon. These are Jess Westergaard, Ordemann and Charley Cutler. Ordemann recently defeated Cutler at Minneapolis, but it was not a satisfactory match, as Cutler sustained a bad-

DAVIS GIVES PLANS TO WIN

Team Which Sets Pace, Compels Other Team to Give Ground and Is Aggressive Is Winner.

BY GEORGE DAVIS.

(Copyright, 1910, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Think quick, act quickly, claim everything in sight and watch every point. Run out every hit, take any kind of chances on the bases, Ynake the other side throw. That is the way to win in baseball. Plainly stated, the team which forces the pace, compels the other club to give ground, assumes the aggressive end of the game and throws the otlier team on the defensive right at the start is the winner. The hustling, aggressive, pushing club, no mat-ter-how much weaker than its adversaries, usually beats them. Team work has been one of my pet theories for many years. I think I knew j good deal of inside baseball

George Davis.

and team work with other teams, but } never realized fully the poesibllities of team work until I was with the White Stockings. I am not claiming any part of the credit, except that I was able to work with two such generals as Comiskey and Jones, and to contribute what I knew of the Inside game to them in return for what I

FRANK GOTCH

ly wrenched knee in the second fall and had to give up after having beaten Ordemann in the first fall. Three foreigners now in America are all after the title held by Gotch. There may be more than three, but so far there are only three worth mentioning, and even one of these may as well be left out of the running. Zbyszko was easy meat for the lowan in the final match last spring, and unless he has improved by. a good measure he would not .be considered by the fans. - The two real good foreigners are Hackenschmidt and Mahmout. One or the other of these should get a chance at the crown before they return to their homes. - Gotch is quoted as saying that he considers Mahmout the best of the lot.

learned. I do not think there ever was a team as perfect in defensive and aggressive team work as the White Stockings were under Jones. Our system of signals was perfect, and besides that jwe had men with wonderfuly acute powers of observation, and every one worked together. One of the principal causes of victory to a pennant winning team is in the selection of pitchers to work against certain teams on certain days. The condition of the sky is studied, the lights and shadows on the grounds, the condition of the grounds and the force and direction of the wind, before a final selection is made. Of course every man on a team knows what pitcher is likely to be effective againßt certain teamst The study of the condition of the pitcher then becomes extremely important. He may have been go3d in his last game, but gone stale or stiff or lost some speed, or his curve. The manager or catcher must study the man in preliminary' practice to discover if there has been any such change. Then the other conditions must be taken into consideration. And, after that is all done, and the manager has thought and worried gray hairs into his head, an umpire may miscall one strike and turn the entire game, which shows how, much any one really knows about how to win.

GOSSIP OF SPORTDOM

They sell the Boston National league team almost every afternoon, now In Beantown. That annual row of the Ice skaters gives promise of coming along on scheduled time. McFarland Insists that he is a lightweight still, but he doesn’t care to work at it Just yet. Frank Gotch may have retired for keeps, but there are a lot of wrestling fans from Missouri who will have to be shown.

Now it is reported that Manager McGraw of the New York Giants visited Chicago recently to swap Murphy out of Johnny Kling. Eastern collegiate basket ball officials want to let the referee decide whether holding and blocking shall constitute a personal foul. If Tulane university professors want to be popular they should know by this time how “incontrovertlbly and unanimously” students regard football. Every year they come across with a lot of changes to increase the batting. The latest is make it impossible for a manager to use more than two pitchers in a game.

Cleveland baseball fans see a pennant in sight for the Naps next year, according to reports from that city. Jackson and Lajole In the outfield are expected to bring it that way. President Murphy of the Cubs is against any change in our baseball code. Why shouldn’t he be? The Cubs could not hope to be more successful under a new set of rules.

The principal ambition of. the heavyweight fighters seems to be not to battle themselves, but to dig up a “white man's hope” who can fight, or at least make a noise like a champion. Gotch when champion never refused to meet any wrestler In the world who had the semblance of a. right to challenge him and be never bet on himself. Aspiring wrestlers, please copy.

WOLGAST WILL FIGHT MORAN

Declares Englishman Will Be Hie First Opponent When He Returns f < Early in the Bpring.

In the following article, published by the Chicago Tribune, Ad Wolgast, the most criticized pugilistic champion in the ring today, attempts to answer his, critics and incidentally tells what his intentions are in regard to Owen Moran and the rest of the lightweights who are clamoring at the championship door for recognition: I am a fighter, hot a press agent, but I have been attacked so much and roasted so generously that I believe it is up to me to tell the public a few facts. All this talk about my alleged loafing does not bother me a bit, for when I get in shape I'll step out and make all my critics take off their hats to me.

And rffeht here let me say that Moran will get the first chance. I held him to a draw in New York when I had never fought anybody but duhs, and had only been in the business a year, 30 does it stand to reason that I fear him now, when I have improved 1,000 per cent, and he is the same scrapper he was three years ago? If Moran wants to fight me right away, why did he sign up for a three months' tour on the stage? Not that I mean that he fears me, but just the same when it comes time to fight see if I am not prepared before he is.

I have had two fights since I won the title from Nelson last February, and there has been an awful yell because I have not boxed oftener. If my "panning” friends would take time to remember they would probably recollect that Nelson did not fight for six months after his first fight with Gang,

“Ad” Wolgast.

And no one roasted him. In' the first bout, that with Redmond in Milwaukee, I broke a small bone in my wrist. I know the accident has been sneered at, but if any sporting writer in the country doubts the seriousness of the injury I will show him the signed affidavits of two of the most prominent doctors of Milwaukee. Stung by the criticism of a lot of Nelson boosters, I took on a young fellow at a small town In Wisconsin two months later to see whether my arm could stand the strain. It was a foolish venture, for I broke the bone in the same place again. Had my arm stood tjie strain I would have signed to box Nelson in November, as I had announced immediately after I won the title.

Just when I will be ready to fight is a question. I have been doing some light work with my bad arm, and it is coming along nicely. Naturally, with a big fight in sight I wish to take matters easily, and you can take It from me that I will not enter the ring again until I am absolutely certain that the wing is O. K. When it gets right, which I think will be in about a month, I will be ready for any and all of them. Fighting is the way I make my living, and the cost of living Is pretty high. I hear that Knockout Brown is on my trail. Who is this Knockout person? I never heard of him until he won from Tommy Murphy, and anyone who cannot beat* Tommy Murphy ought to take to selling hair ribbons. If Mr. Brown wants a fight he will have to get a reputation first Let him fight Moran or Attell, or some one of class, and if he beats them I will be ready to talk to him. There is absolutely no chance of my fighting Nelson unless the, public forces me into it Just by way of closing, I beg the public to wait just a little while. I have had a long rest and feel like a bulldog. When my arm gets the boxing followers of the country will see all they want of the lightweight champion.

No More Challenges.

George Hackenschmidt’s manager sgys that in future the big Russian u(ill refuse to wrestle unless the tiresome custom of Introducing the challengers from Th 6 stage on which he works is done away with. And patrons of the game will applaud this stand, for the practise has gone beyond all limits.

Huge Turk Coming.

Cotrelly, weighing 310 pounds, one of the sultan’s giant Turk wrestlers, is crossing the big pond, to make all other granplers now Inhabiting Chicago and other palaestral centers look like pieces of copper. Mahmout. who says he is now a thoroughbred American. says he does not draw the color line. -

p * We are the children; neither voice nor vote Have we in any counsels of the land. None need observe us; none need to take note Of us. while ever patiently we stand. But the old banner high above your ' head Which typifies a nation's faith and trust One day must float as bravely where wo tread V fC'-rfraßM Or in disgrace be trailing in the dust. We are the children; in the street and school ■' Our little Uvea today are formed and made; We have no part with those who guldw and rule. By no mere words of ours are nations - swayed, rYet this broad land shall some day look to us When we have gained our own matur* estate. . Help us be Citixens; for only thus May any people be entirely great. We are the children. Shall the grip of toll Filch careless laughter from our eager lips? Shall we give up our youth as labor’s spoil. As bond slaves strive before the . . drivers' whips? . i v• ~ We charge you, with the hope high in our hearts r .-,sv|ij That you shall see the future and its good. Shall shield us from the sapping mills and marts And give us sturdy man and woman* hood. We are the children; small are we toi day; We ask but that we keep our childlsiTness, For from our little hours of song and play Must grow the mind and will to curse ot bless. Yet subtly, too,-we must give you theword , That we must hold the structure that you build. Pray that when we our swords and. shields shall gird Upon us, we have fingers fit and ' skilled!

Faulty System.

“My dear,” said the trusting wife.. "I don’t think your rules of economy* are any good.” “You don’t?’ asked the fond hus~ tatfkd. i “No,” she replied, bending anew over the column of flgnres In her beautifully bound expense book. “You told me the way to save money was not to buy things—that thus we could save the amount the goods would have cost us. So I have been careful to set down the exact price of everything 1 have wanted to buy but felt I could not afford. I find, In adding it up, it amounts to 1456.88, hut. I only have $2.35 in cash on hand. There must be something wrong with your theory.” -

Help Wanted.

A swain who would a wooing go. To court a girl named Bertha. Asked where she lived, said: *T doaft know; I think the street is Goethe.” ' The car conductor smiled and said: “ ’Tls plain you do not know the Right way to say that name; instead. Of Goethe It is Goethe."

A Luxury at Hand.

“And there we were,” said the returned polar explorer, “with ouk supply of food almost surrounded completely by the fee jam. Oh, how we longed for some of the good jellies and preserves and things life that which you folks at home w#e enjoying!” "Why didn’t you eat the Jam?” asks the fair young thing with the lustrous eyes aud the aureole of sunny hair.

And They Quarreled.

"The Tiffits had a. sharp spat last 3 “What caused it?” “She bought an advance stylo spring suit and wanted to wear it, and ho said If she did he would rash the season and wear a straw hat and tan shoes to go walking with her “

Unfortunate.

“The worst feature of the canipaifcnH." Raid the eminent' politician. "Is the atrocious cartoons they make of me.” “And the worst feature of the cartoons.” Bald a sympathetic listener, *l* that they resemble you so much “