Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1911 — Page 3

THE BOUDOIR

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VOGUE OF HANDBAG INDISPENSABLE SINCE POCKETB WENT OUT OF FASHION. Girl With True Sense of Value of Detail in Dress Will Have Bag to Match Each Gown. Pockets In women’s dresses went out of fashion so many years ago that we are really beginning to forget that there ever were such things, and to carry one’s belongings, purse, handkerchief, etc., in a handbag has almost become second nature. The shape and size of these bags change from year to year, and their infinite variety is only equaled by their number, for the girl who has a true sense of "the immense

Beaded Bag.

value of detail in dress will have a bag to match each separate gown. And it is just in this way that the girl with clever fingers can make herself Innumerable pretty and dainty bags at very small cost. Thereby, too, she may save uncounted shillings, the price of buying the bags in a shop. Of course, for morning use, to carry when out shopping in a coat and skirt, the bag must be of leather. This at first seems an Insuperable obstacle from the homeworker’s point of view, and it is true that the big leather bags with square gilt mounts, which have been so much seen of late, must be bought readymade, but there are other designs which are every whit as useful. Lengths of soft suede are nowadays to

SOFT HATS WORN BY WOMEN

Made of Ratine or Velours In Black or Beal Brown and Are Very Becoming. Some smart, odd soft hats are being ■worn by older girls and women to whom they are becoming. They are made of ratine or velours, usually in black or deep Beal brown, and lined, either with quilted silk or sateen interlined with sheet wadding. They are about ten inches high and are made of a.single strip of the chosen material seamed at one place only. The top portion is brought together like a cone, by means of four evenly placed darts, and all the seams are pressed and steamed so that they are scarcely perceived. The cone point is then pressed down like the crown of an alpine hat, and a single quill is stuck in the back of the hat, pointing forward. The lower edge of the hat may be rolled up or not. Generally a slight roll is given to the side of the front.—Harper’s Bazar.

For Sewing Room.

With the new net scarfs an applique of small velvet flowers is very pretty. They are both in terracotta, the flowers in a border, narrow at the •ides and wide at the ends. In padding a button-hole edge or a design for solid embroidery, the white padding shows through the color that is afterward stitched under it in many eases. This is especially disagreeable in & dark shade. The problem has been solved by doing the padding in cotton as near the shade of the silk as possible. The result is satisfactory and is not extravagant when it is considered that cotton costs only a few cents a spool. , A sharpened-down orange-wood stick is a good piercer for embroidery. •This makes a nice, clean hole and does not tear the material. Many needle-workers prefer the orange-wood •ticks to the, steel or ivory implements.

Dolly Varden Hat.

The Dolly Varden hat in its new guise is more fascinating than ever, and becomes the young girl to perfection, pale-colored soft felts and the new Ironed beavers having vivid linings under the brim, which give a most piquant effect. Another' shape which, however, is not so kind and becomes only the woman with regular features, is between a Dutch bonnet and an aeroplane hat. It fits the head closely, completely hiding the hair; the front and sides to the ears are rolled back irregularly in rather big and not strongly doflned curves: A band of ribbon with one flower is all the decoration that is vouchsafed. For this hat. too, the contracting lining Is used ea the brim with pleasing results.

be bought in every Imaginable shade of color, and these are not difficult to make into bags of the shape that is known by the name of “Dorothy.” Cut a strip of suede, the width of the bag and twice the length or depth, and with further strips, one-eighth of an inch in width, join it up the sides, over-sewing it through tiny slits cut for the purpose with a sharp penknife. More slits are made round the top a couple of Inches from the edge, and through these an inch-wide piece of ribbon or strip of suede is passed to draw it up and carry it by, and the bottom may be finished off 1 with a leather fringe. For afternoon use beaded or velvet bags are exceedingly fashionable, and these may quite well be home-made. Gilt mounts may be bought for very little, and sometimes beautiful old silver mounts, are to be picked up very cheaply in curiosity shops, these latter, of course, being more suitable for a velvet bag.' Beaded bags are made of fine canvas, and may be worked in any cross-stitch design, flower wreaths, such as our grandmothers worked in Berlin wools, being very popular. The work la done with strong, light-col-ored thread, one bead to each square of canvas, and the bag lined with silk to match, whilst a fringe of loops of the different colored beads will be found to make a pretty and effective finish.

Novel Ornament.

A very pretty gown seen recently was of gray chiffon over soft silk, simply cut and practically its only ornament, besides a gold-colored silk yoke of Chinese chrysanthemum embroidery, was an enormous ribbon chrysanthemum at the # belt Each petal of the flower was a strip of narrow ribbon, with a triangular fold in the Middle of it, that turned it over and gave a little heavier portion to weigh it down. These folds were ironed heavily into the ribbon, and then the innumerable petals were sewed in chrysanthemum shapes at the waist line with gold thread (the ribbon itself was gold color). Nearly all the petals were allowed to droop and fall in the natural way, only enough being tacked back to give the fluffy flower effect And that ribbon chrysanthemums made all the difference between simply a charming gown and a really stunning gown.

PARTY DRESS FOR A GIRL

Good Material for This Pretty Little Gown Is Cream Liberty Batin. Cream liberty satin is a very good material to use for this little dress. The bodice is cut In one, the neck and edge of the sleeves being trimmed with cream lace of vandyked pattern embroidered lightly with silver thread.

The skirt Is trimmed at the edge with deep lace to match that on bodice. A sash of soft blue satin ritibou is passed round the waist; the ends are drawn to the front and knotted. Materials required; Three and onehalf yards satin 44 inches wide. 1% yard wide lace; IV4 yard narrow lace, yards ribbon. \ —

Suede Gloves.

When women stopped wearing the chamois gloves they did not Altogether abandon this type of glove, for tbe< soft mocha and velvety suede seem to have quite taken their place. ‘These skins are so soft and fine, so exquisite In texture, that it is small wonder a dainty, fastidious woman enjoys wearing them. Black Is always wanted, of oourse; white Is quite fashionable, and delicate champagne shades, pearly grays and •oft fawn colors ire equally modish. Two clasps Is the roguish fastening on these dainty handoovertags.

REAL START WAS AT OMAHA

Jack Pfiester. Premier Left-Handed Pitcher of Chicago Cubs, Tells of Early Days. By JOHN PFIESTER. (Copyright. 1910, by Joseph B. Bowles.) The. way I got my start in professional baseball was funny. A man-, ager saw me make three base hits in a game and tempted me to go out into the minor leagues. He informed me he didn’t think much of my pitching, but wanted me for my hitting. Those who do not understand the joke please refer to the batting averages. I„was pitching in the “bottoms” at Cincinnati and working at my trade. I preferred pitching to working at the trade in those days. In fact as I was born and raised within a short distance of the National League park I had the “baseball bug” by the time I was old enough to go to school, and school and baseball conflicted for a long time. I landed finally with the Shamrocks, one of the star semiprofessional teams of the city, and after hopping in and out of the minors and up and down from the big league I finally landed at Omaha, where I made what I regard as my real start- Before that I had been falling more 'through lack of experience than anything else and under Bill Roufke I got about all the experience and work anyone needed. I worked every other day and in a lot of double headers. It was at Omaha that I began to see the big possibilities of pitching and I realized that If I was going to get along in the game I would have to do a lot of work and studying. I found I had been using myself and my arm up uselessly and altered my pitching styles so as to get the most on the ball at the least expense to the “salary whip.” In other words, I began to make my head help my arm —and from that time on I was a much better pitcher. I had been tried so many places that a lot of the scouts and others who were seeking pitchers began to pass me over without a thought, assuming I wouldn’t do because I hadn’t done. At any rate I was in a funny position. I had a non-reserve contract so that at the end of the season I woul<j be at liberty to sign with,any team I chose —providing it wanted me. The Chicago team scouts had noticed the change in my pitching style and came after me. I did not know it, because C was not told, for some time. Final-

Jack Pfiester.

ly I was brought t 6 Chicago by my manager, and sold myself to the Chicago club. I had wanted to join Chicago for some time and was ready to sell myself cheap to get there.

Swimming Popular at Yale.

Swimming ia the most popular form of athletics at Yale, according to the report of Prof. William G. Anderson, director of the university gymnasium. Of the thirty-three hundred students enrolled at Yale nearly two thousand take part in some branch of athletics. The men are divided among the various sports as follows; Swimming, 600; squash, 150; lawn tennis, 115; handball, 100; rowing, 80; football, 50; cross-country running, 75; track athletics, 65; basket ball, 40; baseball, 25; soccer football, 35; golf, 20; gym* nasties, 25; fencing, 15; boxing, 40; wrestling, 40; bowling, 70; and trap shooting, 25.

Cornell Plans Better Football.

In making plans for the next football season the Cornell athletic officers are considering a football game with Syracuse. Athletic relations were broken by the two institutions many years ago. It Is thought that it would be a good plan to substitute Syracuse for Harvard, and some people here believe Harvard would play Princeton In such an event. It is also planned to secure a good professional football coach who will stay In Ithaca all the year found and be assisted in the fall by * squad ol graduates. -

MANY DEATHS IN 1910 IN PRIZE RING

The year 1910 saw more fatalities In the prize ring than any other year in the history of fisticuffs from the days of Jim figg, the founder of pugilism, down. The list of deaths reaches the unusually high fiumber of 16., The death at Presque Isle, Me., recently of Billy Dunning made the sixteenth fatality of the prize ,ring in 1910, while there are at least two other boxers now lying at death’s point in hospitals, one being the veteran Andy Daly, famous ten years ago. These fatalities of the prize ring have extended from the eastern coast of Maine to the Pacific ocean and as far south as Blueflelds, Nicaragua, where a corporal in Uncle Sam’s service met his death in a friendly contest with the gloves. In the past two' or three deaths in a season from boxing have been sufficient to attract general attention, while many years not a single prize ring fatality has been reported. In the majority of instances the victims have been experienced boxers whose injuries were received in scheduled bouts before recognized fight club. One of the deaths occurred in a ring contest in which Owen Moran, the English lightweight who knocked out Battling Nelson In San Francisco not long ago, was a principal. Tommy McCarthy, a San Francisco boy, was Moran’s opponent. In the sixteenth round of their battle in Dreamland rink, in San Francisco, April 28, McCarthy was knocked down by a heavy swing to the jaw, dying at St. Mary’s hospital the next day without regaining consciousness.

IS AFTER CUE CHAMPIONSHIP

George Sutton, Chicago Billlardlst, 'Want* to Play Willie Hoppe for the World’* Title. George Sutton, the Chicago billiard* Ist, has challenged Willie Hoppe for the championship, and these two cue experts are expected to meet before long and fight for mastery. Sutton had not been in good health for some

George Button.

time and has not cut much figure in billiard circles for a year or more. Now he Is back in former shape and Is ready to give the young champion a hard battle for the 18.1 or 18.2 title. Sutton, when at his best, Is one of the greatest performers with the cue ta

Owen Moran, English Lightweight.

Two of the deaths were the result of bouts in Philadelphia rings. In one Frank Cole, who had attained quite a reputation as a lightweight, was the victim. He was sparring at .Tack O’Brien’s club against Stanley Rodgers when he received a solar plexus blow in the third round, Bending him to the mat with terrific force. The crowd began cheering the apparent knockout, but when the club’s doctor failed to restore Cole to consciousness the spectators were dismissed and subsequently Cole died in a Quaker town hospital. The other Philadelphia death was that of Frederick Castor, aged twenty, in the sixth and last round of a bout at the Frankfort Athletic club In that city against "Spike" Sullivan. Castor had been having all the better of the argument and was striking for a knockout punch in the final round, when he suddenly fell unconscious, and, although rushed to a hospital, never regained consciousness. One of the saddest of all the accidents was that of Max Landy, a Boston boy, whose ring engagements were the only means of support of a widowed mother. Landy had a bout in Brockton,. Mass., early in the year and after the fight, in which there was no knockout. Landy was one of the party chartering a special electric to take them back to Boston. Landy chaffed and fooled on the Homeward trip, having apparently experienced no ill effects from the battle. The next morning his mother found him dead in bed. Over-exertion the night before was attributed as the cause of his death.

the world. He is noted for the long brilliant runs which he executes on the greencloth table. He has defeated Hoppe, Slosson, Cutler and all of the other cue stars in matches and has held the title of world’s champion. He is Hoppe’s strongest rival in the game today. Billiard lovers will await his match with Hoppe with keen interest.

GOSSIP OF SPORTDOM

Ban Johnson is known in New York as an after-dinner speaker. One cannot make basketball a major sport by resolution. Barney Dreyfnss is* not in favor of disposing of Pitcher Camnltz. Jimmy McAleer has announced Walter Johnson will not be traded. Fielder Jones is kept as busy denying he Is coming back as is Frank Gotch. During the 1910 season the major leagues drew more than 9,000,000 paid admissions. President Comlskey favors more batting—that is. when the White Sox are at the plate. Toiiimy Burns will not mourn if he is down for the count in pugilism. He is said to be worth $280,000. It doesn’t matter how often Bat Nelson gets it slipped over on him in the ring, he Is a stage card just the same. Cy Falkenburg, the tallest human being in the American league, is to quit smoking in order to put on weight.

!il iliti- lili i ''litlußML/ - ' <y < I lMHASKiiillbii'J «»>- ——--—■ —— - MHBBMPTV _ ' Under his great ancestral tree Baronet Black-Smythe stands; The Bart, a noble man is he, With tremors in his hands. And his hyphen is the only thine Left him of all his lands. His hair is limp and straggly, too, And has the hue of bran; He oft forgets his pressing debts, He borrows where he can— < He looks the whole world in/the purse Fore he owes 'most every man. Week in, week out, from dusk to dawn You can hear him puff and blow. You can hear him spice his table talk With "rawther" and Y know/' And he murmurs things to the listening belle When the lights are dim and low. The debutantes, home from school. Greet him at the open door; They love to think of coronets But And him half a bore— He has a stiffening of the knees From kneeling on the floor. He goes on Sunday to the church And sits among the pews. Then seeks among the heiresses The one that he must choose— For his castle needs another roof And he needs clothes and shoea Smiling, invoicing, borrowing, Onward through life he goes; One evening sees some suit begun. Next evening sees ttg-close. Wooing attempted, nothing won— And yet he bolds his pose. Thanks, thanks to thee, our noble fritOML For the lesson thou hast taught; If they’ll provide the numeral You’ll furnish every naught. 'Tis with titles, not with indexes. That heiresses are. caught.

Man With the Conundrum.

The man with the exuberant ears comes in and crosses to the desk, ot the pale slave with the widening spot, who is bending over his work, feverishly endeavoring to finish It in time to catch the 6:18 train. “I’ve got a good one for you,” says the man with the exuberant ears. “It’s a little conundrum I’ve been thinking up for several days. You can go ahead and use it if yon like. Here it is: What is the difference between a man walking into your house, carrying a Gila monster as a birthday present for you, and a glblet stew?" “And a glblet stew l" asks the ™»n with the bald spot, thoughtfully chewing his pencil. “Yes. What is the difference between a man walking into your house, carrying a Gila monster as a birthday present so “I remember that part of It all right. You needn’t repeat it I don’t see that there is so much difference. I wouldn’t want the Gila monster, and I never eat glblet stew. I’m a vegetarian." “Oh, that has nothing to do with It. It’s just a funny conundrum. You can write it down and use it any time you like. What is the difference between a man walking into your house with a Gila—" “There is no choioe." “Huh! .One is the giver and the 11aard, the other is the giasard 'and the liver. It took me two weeks to think that up." Slowly and sadly the other men arises, puts on his coat and starts home, while the man with the exuberant ears follows him, going more'sad more into detail as to the conundrum,'* >

Advance.

“In the old days,” observes the mad ' with the dyed whiskers, “the 1 physicians believed that blood letting was a sovereign remedy ftp whatever ailed a patient. They froUld bleed him tor gunshot wounds or anything else.” “So I have read," comments the * man with the hay fever. ■ - > - “But, of course, as human know)- .* adge broadened the medical profSeslon came to the knowledge that— ’’ “That If a man needed to Be bled they didn’t have to stick a scalpel lata '■*' bis arm,” finished the man who ha&> gone to fifteen specialists to be cured of rheumatism. '* v y.,-* „ . a . ■> x i *

Intellectual Pride.

“Harold, you must not play* with that Jlgglns boy. lam afraid hie wttl' ' teach you to say bad words." -** X "Why, mamma, we counted up this morning and I know 16 more bad words than be dees,” }