Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1911 — Page 2

The ONLOOKER

By WILBUR D. NESBIT

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Maud Muller f’tis & name you know). Stood on the sidewalk, shoveling snow. (Thlis parody, you sea. ’s a thing We write each winter, fall and spring.) The judge came walking down the street With caution where he placed his feet. He saw fair Maud; and doited his hat And thought he'd stop to have a chat. But treacherous ice was hid below. The velvet whiteness of the snow. And while the judge sedately bowed With manner dignified and proud His fget slipped on the hidden ice, He Swayed and stumbled once or twlcs^ He tried in vain to overcome His lack of equilibrium. He gasped and grappled at the air And found no firm support was there. And so with wild and sudden shout He whirled and twirled and spun about And waved his arms, and wrenched his back, - , .. And then came sprawling down, kersmack! The snow scooped up beneath his vest And plastered him by east and west. The back breadths of his coat were tom, And for his language we should mourn. He then arose, deliberate. And stalked away with careful gait ' » < c. * And never gave a backward glance. To Maud, who walled for a chance And when the judge was far away Bhe laughed as .though she laughed for p*y She shrieked, she squealed in girlish mirth . - At how the judge had whacked the earth. And then, too much amused to talk.. She finished shoveling oil walk.

Abreast of the Times.

There was such a cultured beggar here this morning,” says Mrs. Spudsgott to her husband. “Cultured beggar*" “Yes. He did not make the usual whining requests for cold victuals and cast-off shoes. He sent his card up to me, and when I came downstairs he asked if we had any slightly worn automobile coats or caps, and if we would bear him in mind when we washed to throw away our present machine and secure a newer model. I really was impressed by the man's manner and ideals. It shows that good breeding and a knowledge of true social ethics is possible in combination with mere begging."

A Relic.

“Here is the pen with which the peace treaty was signed,” says the collector, exhibiting the relic with pardonable pride. "Ive got one at home that has signed more peace treaties than that one.” asserts the friend. •impossible!” “But I have. I've got the pen old Judge Spllttem always used for signing decrees of divorce while he held the bench in South Dakota."

Same Principle.

“And stolen kisses are sweetest?" ■he asks, coyly. “Yes," he replies. , “I wonder why?" “It must be on the same principle as the getting of a cocktail on Sunday in a prohibition town. It is more the fun of getting it than because one actually wants it."

The T. B. M.

“Come," nays the friend to the tired business man, “let us go to the light and airy musical comedy tonight.” “No. thank you.” replies the man. “But it is advertised as a show for the tired business man, and you look tired, old chap." “So I am—tired of the shows for the tired business man.®

Willing to Purchase Silence.

‘1 have now completely hypnotised the lady," Bald the performer., "and ■he will nob be able >to say a word again until I snap my fingers." “ -< “Look here, professor,” broke In the husband of the subject. ‘Til be willing to give you a fair price If you promise not to snap your fingers for a week."

Costumes for Girls

THE costume on the left would look well in gray serge; the skirt is cut narrow at the foot and trimmed down center of front by widebraid, also Russia braid arranged in a simple design. The coat, which is high to the neck, and doubled-breasted, ii trimmed down front to match skirt, so also are the collar and cuff 3. Hat of gray felt trimmed with black satin ribbon. Materials required: Five yards serge 46 Inches wide, six yards wide and one dozen yards narrow braid, five yards silk or satin for lining. The other is in a style well suited to face cloth; It has a plain skirt turned

ONE COLOR IDEA ABANDONED

Fashion’s Latest Fancy at Least Makes It Easy to Remodel Slightly Worn Gowns.

The fashions have never been so amenable to remodeling as they are at present. They have got barely over that old idea of theirs that a dress had to be made almost entirely of* one material and quite entirely of one color.

It is considered very smart this season to use two or three materials and several colors in one gown. When I was abroad a short time ago I saw practically no monotone dresses, and the smartest frocks that were worn at the race meets and restaurants were always party-colored affairs that looked most attractive after the long run of the one-color idea. So if you haven’t enough material in the dress you want to make over, or if part of it is worn or soiled, you can combine it with some other material and It will not only freshen it beyond recognition, but it will make it much better style than it would be if it had been made all of one material. That is encouraging, isn't it* You can veil a half-shabby silk or satin dress with chiffon, net. marquisette, silk voile or half a dozen other pretty things. You can combine a check, plaid or striped material with a plain color, matching one of the colors in the plaid, etc. You can use two materials of the same color, two weights of the same material; you can combine two different colors or two tones of the same color, or you can use two or three different kinds of materials and several totally unrelated, colors. If you care to. You see you can do practically anything so long as It Is a. little different from anything you have done before. —Exchange. „

HEAD-DRESS IN NEW STYLE

Parisian Milliners Have Evolved ■ Variety of Evening Caps—Aigrettes Not the Real Thing.

Parisian millinery also includes a. variety of evening caps or headdresses. which, while they do not obviate the necessity for a quantity of hair, certainly hide the greater part of the coiffure. Some are mere hollow upright bands, twb or three inches in depth, covered with gold embroidery but without a crown. Others have soft silk or transparent crowns that cap the head softly. One such is of silver tulle with a' band of gold and silver lace. Ai the ljgft side, droopover the hair J jet behind the ears is a big blusb-rosP.

These head-d r esses are not reserved for the opera cr theater, be it understood. but are to be worn with dancing frocks as well, with which they are very coquettish. Some are like skull caps of gauze, studded all over with the tiniest of baby roses. An occasional cap of this sort shows an aigrette or sparkling ornament at the side, tipped with diamond dust or with gold powder. y Let me Add, for the reassuring of bird-lovers, that the smallest possible percentage of the so-called aigrettes are the real thing. Rather they arc skilfully contrived out of the stems of discarded feathers which otherwise would go to waste. —Harper’s Bazar

up with a deep hem. The coat has a yoke back and front, to which the material la plainly set and taken to waist at 'sides and back, but to hem at front* where it joins sides in wrapped seams; the fulness of upper part is drawn in at waist, but the basque is cut to fit plainly, a pocket flap is sewn on each hip. Fur cojlar and cuffs form a trimming, and buttons form fastening down fronts and are also sewn on pockets. Satin-covered hat trimmed with ribbon. Materials required: Six yards cloth 46 inches wide, one flozen buttons, five yards silk or satin for lining coat.

DAINTY EVENING GOWN.

Of pastel blue satin, with underdress of black velvet edged with a wide band of ermine. This dress Is trimmed with handsome embroidery of blue and silver. • <

Trunk Suggestion.

Many girls away from home use their - 'trunks as window seats, but when they need anything from them they find it rather inconvenient to remove the cover and pillows. A better way to dispose of the trunk is as follows: Have a shelf as large as the top of a dressing table fastened to the wall, just high enough to permit your trunk being placed under it. Hang pretty curtains around it and you will have an attractive dressing table, as well as a hidden trunk.

Homemade Frogs.

Frogs for coats are in such vogue this winter that the merchants can scarcely supply the demand. Many women, therefore, buy either plain or fancy braid and make their own frogs, using medium-sized cord for she loops, and crocheted buttons, according to the width of the frogs. These when made up are often prettier and much less expensive than the ready-made articles r .

Tapestry Hats.

Tapestry covered hats, the tapestry In bold patterns of soft and old tints on a light ground stretched tightly over the frame, come lb wide picture shapes and close mushroom models. They are untrimmed

WIRE BROKEN BONES

Silver Strand Hastens Knitting of Fractured Parts.

Wonderful Progress Made In Burgical Bcience Illustrated by Two Oper-ations-—One on Island of Tristan Was Difficult.

London. —The wonderful progress made in surgical science is well illustrated by the accounts of two operations—one from the London hospital and the other from the lonely islarfd of Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic, 2,000 miles west of Cape Town.

The operation at the London hospital was carried out with great success by means of a novel -apparatus for wiring together the ends of a broken bone. The Instrument, which was invented by Professor Lambotti of Paris, consists of a strong, pliable wire of softened German silver, on which a screw thread has been cut. A nut runs loosely on this thread. One surface of the wire for its last* eight inches Is flattened out so that below the nut the wire has one flat surface and one rounded. “In wiring a broken bone,” one of the officials at thehospltarexplained, “the surgeon, after having separated the soft parts covering the fracture, bends the flattened end of the wire into the shape of a button hook, the flat surface being inside and the round threaded surface on the outside. “Slipping this hook under the fragments, he pulls the free end up toward him with a pair of forceps, and then, opposing the two flattened surfaces of t the.wire, he screws the nut down until the loop thus made grasps the bone sufficiently tightly. T*he rest of the wire above the nut is then cut off, and another similar wire support is placed round another section of the break.

“With this instrument an oblique fracture of the thigh bone in a middle aged man was wired in about half the titne it usually takes. An X-ray picture shows that the bones are held in perfect position, instead of being in bed five or six weeks, as used to be customary before the days of wiring, this patient will probably be up in less than three weeks. The wire and the-.nut, which, course, are al-

HOUSE FOR FELINES

Latest Luxury Is Boarding Place for Stylish Cats.

Buffalo Woman Makes- Specialty of Caring for Handsome Persian and Short-Haired Angoras —A Beautiful Animal, -w-

Buffalo, N. Y. —Greenhouses for cats are the latest thing in winter quarters supplied by the mistress of the cats’ boarding house on Hoyt street, who believes in furnishing her boarders with a sun parlor as well as with sleeping and eating apartments. Heavy builder’s paper and tar paper line the rear wall and part of the roof of this new winter runway, but the remainder is glass, secured from a florist, who has retired from business. Those interested in improving the coats of their prize Angoras should see these fourteen good-tem-pered cats frisking around in the almost wintry sunshine, their fur growing thicker and finer and glossier every day.

Whenever the wind blows too nippingly, every cat retreats to the shelter of the house, which has been freshly lined with builder's paper, and has piles of straw to burrow in. Every cat in the establishment is a handsome Persian except the four short-haired cats, who have traveled from the ends of the earth, and who will leave the boarding house to resume their travels shortly. Although the Angoras are a lordly lot, and come to the boarding house

German Has a Talking Dog

Animal Asks for Cakes When Hungry and Alarma Servant When It Enters Kitchen.

Berlin. —The German public has lately been regaled with tales of the increased accomplishments of Don. a talking dog. , For five years Don. who is the property of Herr Ebers. a gamekeeper of the royal hunting preserves of Kol-bltz-Letzlinger. near Hamburg, has been noted for his powers of speech. He began to learn at the age of 6 months, and now has a useful, if limited. vocabulary When the puppy Don was standing by his master's side at dinner time one day Herr Ebers said. "You want something, do you?" To every one's amazement Don replied in a deep, but dear tone. "Haben, haben!” ("WanU aymtrD The gamekeeper at once started to develop the dog’s talent In reply to "What is your name?" he learnt to say “Don." and to "What’s the matter?" he answers "Hunger. He came to’ say ’’’Kucben” (cakes) with particular distinctness. When cakes are In view be repeats. "Kutchea. haben. haben!" any number of times and

SUFFRAGETTES THREATEN A BABY

London. —England’s militant suffragettes are reported to have threatened to kidnap Winston Churchill’s baby, little Miss Diana Churchill, and while the charge is denied by them and their friends, Mr. Churchill places so much credence in the story that he does not allow the child to be taken outside the house without police guard. A detective is employed to accompany the nurse whenever Diana is taking the air.

lowed to remain about the bone after healing, give no inconvenience in after life.”

The operation at Tristan da Cunha was carried out by A. Repello, whoconducts the church services and performs other functions for the ninetynine inhabitants. He writes: “A child wgs injured by a stone coming down the hillside and falling upon her legs, breaking both of them and making four very bad wounds, which got full of sand. 1 attended the child for nearly three months and I suppose it will be two mbre months before the are healed. : J ■ •

loaded down with prejudices about what they should eat and how warm an atmosphere they should be allowed to breathe, gradually the little lady of the house discourages these views until the kittens come to enjoy plain food and blasts of fresh air. ,Just at present she is working hard with a small Angora and her two kittens. They were very feeble on arrival, their eyes closed with hard colds and their bodies limp with weakness. Beauty, the mother cat, has had SSO spent upon her for doctor bills, and all three cats have to be fed goats’ milk from a medicine dropper. The milk costs thirty cents per pint. Although the three kitteps have been at the house only a month, they have grown immensely ,and have such high spirits that the other Persians are beginning to wonder if they have

Colic Halts Baby Lecture

Grandmother Uses Old-Fashioned Remedies, but They Fail—Doctor Scores “Soother.”

Chicago.—" Dressing and Feeding a Baby,” a lecture by Dr. Lena K. Sadler, was interrupted at the public library the other night when an Infant, used to demonstrate the talk, was seized with an attack of the colic. Its grandmother then refused advice from the physician. Old-fashioned cure-alls were used by the grandparent. despite the remonstrances of the doctor. After these failed a little hot

if his plea is unanswered he adds “Hunger!” with a long drawn emphasis on the last syllable.

LONE MULE CLEARS $928.10

Alabama Farmer Demonstrates What He Could Raise With Aid of One Animal.

Tuscumbta, Ala.—A striking illustration of what can be done with one mule in farming during a "short crop” year is shown in figures furnished by L. A. Ford, living near Leighton.. This mule enabled him to raise: Seven bales of cotton weighing 502 pounds each; value at 14 cents, $491.96. Seven thousand pounds of cottonseed. at $1.25 a hundredweight. $87.50. Remnant of seed cotton. $37.14. Two tons of pea vine hay. $36. Thirty-two gallons sorghum. sl6. Three hundred and fifty bushels corn, at 75 cents. $262.50 Total value, $929.60 a. The hired labor employed in producing this crop cost $1.50. The net profit was $928.10.

“I was in great difficulty at first, ns I had to operate on one of the feet, part of which I had to remove, including two toes. I have no surgical instruments. All I had was a littlie cotton wool and a little lint, my instruments consisting of a pair of scissors and a pocket knife. But, thank heaven, she improved wonderfully. "If things were as they used to be when a British warship periodically visited the island, I should be provided with all the necessary things* but now we have not that privilege. But I hope better times are in store Jor us.”

not some low-bred, short-haired blood in their furry bodies. “Taking care of such a lot of valuables,” said the woman of the house, “is a great responsibility. A few weeks ago one of my most distinguished boarders undertook to walk out alone, through a door which I had left open just for a minute. Well, he didn’t come back. I spent a lot of money advertising, and did everything to find that cat. At last a woman who sometimes works here saw a cat which looked dike Smoke In a neighboring house, and we went J after him and brought him home in triumph.”

One of the most beautiful cats in the house is Cinders, whose velvety coat shows all the colors o£ the less brilliant leaves. When the air is not too chilly, Cinders loves to squirm among the leaves which fall from the trees into the open runway, and to dash opt when another cat ambles by, unconscious of his presence, i

water was fed the suffering baby and it went to sleep. The nurse was about to remove the outer clothing to show the proper way to dress a baby in winter when the child began to squall. It was taken back by the grandmother, who rocked the crying infant roughly. "Grandmother, don’t bump the baby. You are only making It worse.” “Let.me alone; I’ve raised children before.” retorted the grandpas ent.

She finally found a "soother,” which calmed the baby. The nuree then heated a few ounces of water which soon put the baby to Bleep. "How often does the baby have colic?” asked the physician. "Nearly every day.” “Does it cry much?” “Nearly all night; we get hardly any rest.” “How often do you feed it?" “Every time It cries.’ ✓ “What do you give the baby for the colic?" “Bacon rind." "Now, grandmother, that soother is the worst thing you could put In the baby’s mouth. It falls on the floor, flies light on it, is 4s covered with germß, and yet you put it in the child’s mouth. Feeding a baby bacon rind is another ancient idea. Give the baby a teaspoonful of orange Juice one hour befcye each feeding and It won’t have colic. Only feed it every three hours.” ; > .

To Appease “Cow Souls.”

Seattle, Wash. Steamer advices tell of the ceremony of the “beef sou’, celebration” recently In Tokyo, for the purpose of appeasing the souls of thousands of cows and oxen killed during the recent war to supply the army in Manchuria. It rsi estimated 130 * day were killed. A monument was erected “to prevent the souls of those slaughtered animals rising In retribution against the butchers.” -