Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1911 — Page 3

IDEA FOR BEDSPREAD HOME-MADE ARTICLE BETTER THAN CAN BE BOUGHT. J -

Cost Not by Any Means Prohibitive, and the Work Will Be Enjoyed If One Has the Time te-■ to Spare. A good bedspread Is, as a rule, an expensive luxury, and one that all housekeepers like to Indulge in, so any new ideas on this subject are welcome, particularly when the outlay is small and the result elegant and uncommon. The bedspread here described is handsome, and the whole arrangement costs less than many bedspreads which cannot compare •with it. The motif is poker work onvelvet. The four squares are employed, made of ivory white velveteen, and as they are each 18 inches square, two yards of velveteen will be required; divide this into four strips, then make a square of each strip—a few inches of each portion must be torn off to make the square. Remember to always tear velveteen; never cut It. The decoration of the square is an arrangement of the wild rose, the delicate coloring of which tones with almost any color scheme; the design is simple and those workers who cannot draw well will be able to trace the pattern on velvet by means of strong tracing paper; the tracing must, of course, be repeated into the other three squares. Work one square at a time, and when the drawing is complete go quickly over it with the poker point; do not burn deeply, as this particular .-design needs delicate handling. The painting must not be too strong, but of such quality as to give a realistic appearance, and great care must be taken to keep the colors pure. For the leaves use a little Prussian blue mixed with lemon chromq, and her and there they can be varied by touches oT burnt sienna, deep chrome and crimson. Paint the stalks with delicate green, and the siennas, and the roses themselves must be very lightly touched; permanent crimson is a good color for them, and where the petals are quite rosy, brush a little of this an pure; wipe all coloroff the brush and gently soften the color down. Very little if any white must be used, as it is apt to give the roses a leaden, heavy look, but if just

DESIGNED FOR HOME WEAR

Simple Dress That Yet Hae Many Points That Will Recommend It to Wearer.

Here we show quite a simple little home dress made up In smoke gray cashmere; the skirt has the lbwer part joined to the upper In a wrapped

■Mm; a “V" shaped opening !■ eat In front. The sleeve and upper part of back and front of bodice are cut together; the front is continued to waist in a plastron; the sides are fulled on under the wrapped seams; buttons and loops trim the sides. Tucked silk is used for the yoke and undersleeves. Bands of black velvet add an effective finish. Materials required: 6 yards cashmere 4« inches wide, • buttons, onehalf yard velvet, three-quarter yard tucked silk. ,

WOMAN'S WAYS.

coucnea wun ramt, pure color iww suit will be fresh-looking flowers. The chief difficulty of the work 1* now explained and the squares require to Kb made up. : The lace, which must be fairly thick, must be of the same shade ,of velvet and the kind selected will, of course, depend upon how much the worker can give; the lace that is used for some window blinds will be found .suitable. . : A. . ''-J ~ The insertion must be of the same style as the border, and to insure perfect fitting join the insertion together in the shape of a Maltese cross and lay a square into each angle. To complete this handsome piece of work it should be lined with a cheap cream satin; this not only makes it more complete, but the satin, Bhowing through the insertion, wilT give an added richness to the spread. This idea will be found easy to carry out and a magnificent piece of work will be produced at a much less cost than is usually spent on the best bedspread one could buy.

BOTH COMFORT AND STYLE

Happy Combination In This Warm Wrap That the Child Will Wear With Pleasure. Just at this time of year any suggestions are welcome for sensible warm wraps for the little ones to be worn underneath a cost, and that may be easily put on and will not slip out Of ' In our sketch we show a very good thing of this description that can bej practically cut out in one piece, and'

should be made of cashmere and lined with two or three thicknesses of flannel and then quilted and bound at the edge with braid or ribbon. It fastens on the left shoulder with a button -and buttonhole, and is furnished on either side with straps that button together and so prevent the possibility of the wrap front, slipping out of place.

AID FOR THE COMPLEXION

- What Might Be Called the QrapeCure Is Bald to Be Astonishingly Effective. In counting over beauty’s necessities a good complexion takes the first place. Consequently the girl who Joins the ranks of the beauty seekers is constantly In search of things that will at least Improve her complexion, If they do not succeed in making it really beautiful. The latest novelty for this purpose la the grape cure. This new prescription for beautifying the complexion recommends itself by Its simplicity, A wineglass full of the Juice of freshly squeezed grapes Is taken each morning an hour before breakfast. Each night, before retiring, the face and neck are to be spatted with fresh cream, which is allowed to stay on for about ten minutes. This Is then washed off with hot w&tefc, but not too hot; a good soap, or oatmeal, and the skin dried by softly dabbing It with a fine towel. Here one may mention that the face fcbodld never be rubbed with a coarse towel. When the skin Is quite dry the finger-tips are dipped In fresh grapeJulce and the face and neck spatted with It. Leave the Juice to dry on and then lightly massage to remove the rather drawn feeling, taking ears to rub any lines on the face the opposite way; for example, the ’’laughter" wrinkles under the eyes should be smoothed from the corner of the eye to the nose lightly but firmly. Persevere in this treatment, we are told, and in a week or so one will see Improvement, the eyes will be clearer, the result of the morning dose, and the skin finer from the treatment

French Plumes.

Popular though the graceful and beautiful M wlllow’’ plume may be, it is not this Mather which the smartest Parisian modistes use In adorning their creations. They much prefer the French plume and use it accordingly. There are really but-few ways in which the willow plume meg be used and perhaps it Is for this reason that the French plume Is so often seen. It may be used in numberless fashions—curllr.p gracefully over the side, drooping over the brim, standing upright, arranged in the hew French fashion from the back, or twisted and bent Into whatever way the milliner deems most effective and striking. And in view of tbs fact that the French plume may be used over and over, and may be recurled at small expense, It Is also more economical then the much In-evldenoe willow plame.

HONESTY OF THE CHINESE

Always Pay for Being Smuggled Into This Country Even If Sent Back. “A talk with any smuggler who ever engaged in the business of bringing Chinese into the United States contrary to the immigration laws will suffice to establish the Chinaman’s proverbial honesty tn business transactions,” said Guy E. Runyan of Detroit ■■", ‘T know of one old French Canadian who in his younger days was a professional smuggler and operated on thq Canadian border. He did not deal in furs or any articles of eomseroe. He made a practise of smuggling Chinamen across the border, and according to his own statement amassed enough money to set himself up in a comfortable business. “He has often said that the duty of a professional smuggler ended when the Chinaman was landed on the sot! of the United States. Then it was that the smuggler got his money. After that it did not fall to him to look out for the Oriental who had been his charge. Ninety-niUe times out of a hundred the Chinaman was apprehended and sent back to his former abode by the Immigration authorities. “Nevertheless the smuggler received h»U pay. Never, according to the story told me by the old man and fiutnerous others who have been connected in different ways with the smuggling of Chinamen, has there been known an instance where the smuggler was defrauded of the price promised him. :This illustrates the predominant trait of honesty in the Chinese character.”

Satisfied Ignorance.

At the recent French cooks’ show jin Duluth Armand Guillenant, a veteran who once cooked for Baron ; Rothschild, said: t “American cooking would be bettter If American cooks would take lessons [from France. But many American i cooks are very independent. They rather remind me 4n their independence, of the Senegalese, who visited i Paris. “These men, on their return to Senegal, recounted, fit a gathering of the tribe, what they, had seen. An old woman said: “ ‘But, chiefs, were ye hot embarrassed by your ignorance of the language?’ “The head chief frowned and answered haughtily: “It’s true, as ye say, woman, that we could make neither head nor tail of all their chatter. But what of that, what of that? They were as bad off with our tongue as we with theirs.’ ”

It’s a Gay Life.

The musician has the gayest lot, from Moscow down to Cuba. Just think, he only has to blow all day upon a tuba or beat the box with fevered hands, and dish up dashing airs, or tease a fiddle all night long. His life is free from cares. He rises late and grabs his food, and crams It In hls mouth, then beats it for the noon express, and leaves unshaved his brush. He hits the job at 12 a. m. and wheases through his horn, all afternoon and through the night, and into early morn. Calliope was some swell dash, but Time has cheapened her; the time is here when she is slashed by men at eighteen per. I’d rather be a home-' less “bo” or fever struck in Cuba than spend my precious time and wind in blowing on a tuba. The hours are tong, the pay is poor, musicians never play; it’s plug along both day and night I’d rather far make hay..

The New Year.

The late Julia Ward Howe was no believer In New Tear's resolutions. “We should make and keep good resolutions all the year round,’’ the celebrated author once said In Boston. "I am no great believer in New Tear's vows, for, although they are splendid things, they really don’t amount to much more than Oliver Wendell Holmes’ tobacco resolution. “Mr. Holmes, with affected gravity, said to a friend on the first day of the year: “’I really must not smoke so persistently; I must turn over a new leaf —a tobacco leaf—and have a cigar only after each —” here he paused as If, to say "meal,” but he continued—"after each cigar.’"

Made It Stronger.

In the Mate department 1{ a colored doorkeeper who Is unusually well educated, and his language is set off with a lot of long and surprising words. Now and then Huntington Wilson, assistant secretary of state, stops on his way out of the building and asks the doorkeeper a question to bring forth an amusing answer. One afternoon Wilson saw a "»«« walking down a corridor as If under the influence of strong drink. “That man," he remarked, “seems to be navigating with difficulty.’’ "I fancy,” said the doorkeeper, "that bis axolds would not present s satisfactory appearance If viewed through the azimuth compass.’’—The Bunday Magazine.

Woman Civil Engineer.

Miss Lena R. Haas, the civil engineer of Los Angeles, writes her name 1* R. Haas, consequently when the applied for entrance to the course of engineering at Colombia College, she wm told to come on, and it was not until she arrived that her sex was discovered. She was the one girl In a clasa o t ISO men, but she proved that she could do the work with the tffipt of ttmn.

BIRTH OF SUCCULENT “DUFF”

Pudding That Is the Favorite of Sailors Given Name by Itllterats* Boatswain's Mate. ■ i Captain Turner of the Mauretania recounted the other day the birth 0( plum duff, the dish of sailors. '“Duff,” he said, “had a Christmas origin. One Christmas day, hundreds of years ago, at sea, a ahip in a storm was swept by a comber that carried off her cook, her crate of chickens, her turkeys —in a word, the whole raw material of her Christmas dinner. But the sailors were determined to pudding. They knew nothing-about cooking, and they drew lots for their new cook. The lot fell to the boatswain’s mate, "This chap fished up a cook book from the bottom of his sea cheßt, ran over the pudding recipes, and chose one that began: “ ’Make a stiff dough.* “He made a pudding after this recipe- It wse stuffed with Malaga raisins and covered witft a rich sauce. The men were delighted. “ 'Put a name to It,’ they said. 'Put a name to It.’ J ; : “And the boatswain's mate, knowing that ‘r-o-u-g-h’ was pronounced 'rougV and thinking ‘d-o-u-g-h’ followed the same rule, answered readily: “ It’s called duff, mates,”’

Beauty as an Asset.

To the profession of show girls of Industry, says Miriam Finn Bcott in Success Magazine, belong the demonstrator, who, with her fine complexion, wealth of hair or good teeth, advertises alleged merits of different toilet articles; the milliner’s model, who tries on hats before the fashionable customer, and whose pretty head Juad handsome face make the headgear more attractive in the eyes of the customer; the “figure lady,” who tries on rich, ready-made gowns and cloaks, and whose form and beauty emphasize the style of the garment; the girl who poses for fashion plates; the manicure and hairdresser, in public shops; the stenographer in many positions; saleswomen in certain departments; the ticket seller at cheap shows, and a number of other varieties that will suggest themselves to the average woman shopper. Skill, of course, Is required in such work, but as one girl said to me: "It’s your looks that hold your job.”

The Way That Wins In Kentucky.

"Going into the old feud districts of Kentucky to sell goods was once regarded as an extremely hazardous undertaking,” says Beech Wood Smith. “A friend of mine—a hardware salesman—once went down into that region with all sorts of warnings. My friend was conveyed over the htn« to a little town twenty miles from a railroad. Pulling out his revolver, he walked into the only hardware store in town. - - “‘Boss,’ he said, leveling his gun at the first man he saw, Tm not looking for an illicit distillery. Neither am I a holdup man. lam a traveling salesman. Here is my card. May I talk business with yous ‘“Put down your gun, stranger,; said, the hardware man. ‘You have come here in the right spirit’ And he proceeded to give my friend an order for over S6OO worth of goods.”— Cleveland Leader.

Wonderful Iceberg.

One of the biggest icebergs seen for years near ocean liners is told about by the skipper of the Ora via. He saw it in the south Atlantic, y* |L ing Falkland islands. “The night was cloudy. There was a cutting wind and the temperature of the sea was down to 38 degrees when the great iceberg came into view—a huge five hundred feet high, partly covered with mist, a long, shelving shore of ice, with the sea breaking upon it as upon a wide, desolate beach. When the moon appeared the sight was one never to be forgotten. We gazed upon what seemed to be a floating city of ice as large as Boston, with its towers, its temples, its tapering monuments shooting up in fantastic architecture shimmering in the moonlight like polished silver. It is the lot of few to see such a sight"— New York Press.

Health Value of a Whistle.

Boys should be encouraged to whistle. It’s a good thing for the lungs and can be made something of an accomplishment by daily practise. To learn to whistle musically one must begin with the scales and then by combination of sharps and flats. After a time a single song may be tried with piano -aooompanlment. It Is surprising what a range of music can be whistled. One can turn from a bass solo to a tenor selection without effort Band music can be whistled. Any selection for the voice can be chirped through puckered lips. It is said that whistling boys are seldom troubled with bronchitis or pneumonia. Many medical men urge patients with weak lungs to whistle as often and as much as they possibly can without causing positive annoyanoe.

College Girls' Work.

Prevention is better than sure, is the watchword of modern philanthropy aa well aa medicine. Mias Maud Miner la secretary of the Probation Association of New York, in which Mrs. Russell Sage and Mias Anne Morgan are deeply interested. She Is a graduate of Smith College and a beautiful young woman, but she finds her life Interest among the poor and outcast, whom she tries to take from the street and redeem.

Winter Months on the Farm

How to Improve Them

Every farm should be equipped with a farm shop in which the owner can repair broken parte of farm machines or make new ones and thereby save both time and mohey by making use of the winter dayß when other work Is slack. The shop may be either a small building by itself or simply corner of the barn or implement shed fitted up as a 'shop. One' rule however should be rigidly enforced; that the shop is a storehouse for the tools, and that every tool should be returned to its place in the shop after being used. The Farm Workshop. Among the essentials in the farm shop are a strong, durable work bench, an iron vise, an efficient forge, anvil, and a supply of carpenter’s tools corresponding to the needs of the individual farmer. A good forge suitable for general farm work con be purchased for $6 to sl2, or where an extra large one, is desired- it will cost

Plan of a good farm shop to be built On the end of a machine shed. about S3O. In some cases one can build his own forge and'the only expense will be for the bellows, which will cost about $4, second-hand. The best plan is to got a forge of No. 6 size, which will cost about $lO, and is both practical and efficient. The supply of carpenter's tools in the shop will vary with the individual, l>ut a few of the necessary tools include a cross-cut saw, rip saw, compass of keyhole saw, hammers, drawshave, hatchets, axes, saw set, saw file, 3 chisels (%, 1 and 2 inches), brace and set of bits, 3 planes, smoothing, finishing and block), a steel square, tri-square, bevel-square, and a spirit level. With such an equipment the average farmer can .do the greater part of his repairing on the home farm. Home Carpentry for Farmers. Among the various tasks which should occupy the farm mechanic during the slack winter period are building or repairing chicken houses, hay racks, wagon boxes, hog racks, portable panel hurdles, farm gates and various other implements, which the amateur carpenter can successfully construct or remodel. The matter of farm gates seems simple, yet on numbers of farms the makeshift gates in use are a disgrace. A serviceable and attractive gate can be easily built with double cleats at each end and the middle, and a double brace running diagonally from the top of each end cleat to the bottom of the middle cleat for re-enforcement. Repairing Tools. The farm mechanic can use his forge to excellent advantage in repairing machinery parts, broken tools, horseshoeing, and in numerous other odd Jobs which are oontlnually turning up around the farm. With a little practice he can soon acquire ability to weld together broken parts. He can also use his forge in repairing or tempering shovels, pickaxes, grubaxes, broken log chains, and other articles

PLAN OF HAY KACK.

of this nature. Practice Is the only essential necessary to make the fanner proficient in both welding and tempering. Concrete Work. The farm shop, or a portion of one of the barns where it la warm enough to keep concrete from freesing, la an excellent place in which to make concrete feeding troughs, fence poets or other devices during the winter. The feeding troughs are made either Vshaped or half-round like a hollowed out tree trunk. The concrete poets may oe either hollow or solid, and are re-enforced with steel or iron rods. For the feeding troughs the forms are made of green lumber, in the form of two boxes, one about four inches larger than the other. Turn the smaller one upside down on a smooth floor and put the second, which has no bottom, around the first. Fill the space with concrete and cover the bottom of the smaller box four or six Inches deep to form the bottom of tbe trough. After the concrete Is thoroughly hardened these, forma can be knocked off. In case of tbe V-shgped trough there are two triangular end boards, and the twe aide boards united al tbe bottom of the trough.

Work for Farm Mechanics Impumy Duß D«r» With Haatiy

By PROF. C. A. OCOCK

Wisconsin CoOtf H jfgrladtar*

The mixture used in feeding troughs is a 1-3-6 combination; that is, 1 part cement, 3 parts sand and 6 parts clean broken stone or gravel. The stone or gravel should not be larger than onehalf inch in diameter. The sand should be free from sticks, straw or dirt, and the cement * good grade of Portland. Place the cement in the center of the pile of sand at one corner of the mixing box and mix dry until the mixture has the same color throughout. In the opposite corner place the stone and wet thoroughly; after this mix stone, sand, and cement, adding water until the whole miss has a medium consistency. Use a mason’s brick trowel' to. work out all air bubbles; leaving a smooth surface. When desired a finishing coat of 1 part cement and 2 parts sand can be used. , _ The re-enforcement can be either 3-16 inch steel or ’iron rods or double twisted barb wire. Place the re-en-forcement the same distance from the surface as its own diameter. The reenforcements should run lengthwise of the trough, with a strand at each end and one in the middle running crosswise. Making-Concrete Fence Posts. _ln making solid concrete posts a mixture of one put cement, 2% parts sand, and 6 parts clean broken stone or gravel is used. The preparation of the concrete is the same as for the troughs. The post forms should be made of a fair grade of rather green lumber, should have the inner surface Bmooth, and all joints tight, to prevent the cement from leaking away with the water. The forms permit of the post being made 7 feet long and 4x4 Inches square at the ends. The bottom board has boles to correspond to the dowel pin in the side boards, the iron clamps used preventing the side boards from spreading. The same re-enforcement as for feed troughs can be used. When filling the form with concrete, place % to % inch in the bottom of the form, then lay in two rods one on each side; continue the filling until within %~lnch of the fop, when the remaining two rods should be properly laid in. Each rod should have a hook at

Forma and cores for molding solid and hollow concrete posts. At A Is shown the parts of a form for.a solid post. At B those parts are assembled ready for making the solid post. At C la shown the same forms with the core In it for a hoi* low post. At D a tapering metal core, and at E a solid wooden core In four parts, which are-separated at F to show details of construction. each end about I Inch long to prevent the steel from slipping in the concrete when a strain is put upon the post. To provide for fastening the wtra fence to the post use the longest galvanized iron staples that can be purchased, and while the cement is still soft set them the same as you would drive them Into a wooden post Hollow Concrete Post. For hollow concrete posts the operation is the same except that there la a hole left In ohe of the end gates of the form to receive the galvanized iron core. This core should taper from 2ft inches In diameter at the bottom to 1 inch at the top. In using the cors it should be covered with a coat of oil or grease end then It can be removed In from 3 to 6 hours after the post la molded. The wood core la made in tour pieces. The two sides are flat Inside and curved outside. The two central pieces are 1 Inch thick and taper from 1% Inches to 1 inch in width. This core is 2lk inches In diameter for its entire Whan using the wooden core It Ja mom desimhie to make the post square* Iran*, epp i» bottom. To successfully use this, core, wrap It with old t *ewa»a»ev nr* thin wrapping paper. Tht* -prevents the cement from coming in direct contact with the wood and permits of the removal of the core in 10 to 20 minutes after the poet la finished. Curing the Poets. The side boards of tbe forms should be removed In 24 to 48 hours after pouring, but thd” posts should not be moved for at least one week aad then very carefully. In the meantime they should be sprinkled with water several times dally and protected from sun and wind-and from frost if it be freezing weather. Posts should cure at least 60 days before being set la the ground. During this period they should, If possible, be placed upon % bed of mold sand and thoroughly wetted each day. of material* may vary in different localities, belt the average price Including tabor will range from 18 to 30 cents per post-