Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1911 — Page 2

TRIFLES OF THE WARDROBE

MODES FOR CHILDREN SPRING GARMENTS FOR YOUNG GIRLS ALREADY SHOWN. Tendency Is Toward Full Ungored Skirts, and Collarless Neck Still Rules—Pretty Little Frock of Gingham or Finer Material. “Dear me, how soon spring comes!” the shopper thinks as she goes down the street these last days, for there already are the signs in the windows —yards and yards of dainty wash fabrics, with all their various trimmings, in enchanting spring colors. How the window dressers get the unoat fabrics to look so beautiful —to look so much like flowers and little children—is a mystery to the passerby. But there is everything folded over and puffed out and twisted this way and that in’ just the right manner. And when you inquire about prices the obliging shopman tells you, and truthfully, that everything will be dearer by and by, and that many of the lovely patterns now seen will not be reproduced. Really tiny children are in clover, ;for their frocks are the simplest, long‘bodied affairs, or else Mother Hubbard slips that hang from the shoulders, and at most a pretty yoke or aklrt frill film these, and as quantity in wash things is now much more considered than quality the very modesty of the baby girl clothes makes It pos* sible to have a greater number. of things. The Illustration shows a smart little frock that' might be developed from two kinds of gingham or be a much finer affair in a little silk and wool, .jta the present instance the frock is of a figured chaliie trimmed with plain Silk, and the way the bands are buttoned down over the trimming is a new and smart idea. In the way of color combinations for wash materials the main part of this dress might be made of a blue or pink ehambray and the trimming part of black and white. Or one part of the dress could be in a plain cotton and the trimming of a figured or striped oottnn in the same color. Again, the model is admirably suited to a pretty childish silk, and with this velvet ribbon could be used for the three _hgnds back and front, and chiffon for theSfcirt border* bust band, sleeve edge collar band. In 'fact, there are~tfny number of ways of varying the design, the only restriction being that any figured goods must show a small and childish pattern. For a practical dress, too, the Belt

MOVEABLE CORNER CUPBOARD

ft Has Framework of Wood on Casters So It Can Be Wheeled » About for Cleaning. There are many ways of arranging • cupboard for clothes in the corner of a room, and perhaps the most simple way is to hang a curtain across the corner and cover in the top and then nail boards, furnished with sets of pegs, to the wall on either side. In our sketch we show a great improvement on this plan, in the shape of a framework of wood, made to fit the corner, and with castors screwed on underneath so that the whole cup-

board and contest* can be easily moved (or cleaning and other purposes. The sketch very clearly illustrates the construction of the woodwork, and any amateur carpenter should be able, without much difficulty, to put it together, or a local carpenter would construct it for very little. At the top, on either side, sets of pegs are 1 arranged, and it is an easy matter to fasten a brass rail for a curtain to hjaag in front and entirely inclose the contents. r On the floor of the cupboard there is a nine space for storing boots, shoes, etc., and the roof of the cup- - hoard can also be utilized. In selecting the material for the curtain, the color should be chosen to match or harmonise with the color of lh* wall paper.

would be of the goods and the un|dersleeves of plain lawn or a thin silk. In the way of coats, I would advise the mother who likes the dollquafUy for her baby daughter’s dress to get a pale blue or pink linen or pique for her baby’s summer coat and trim it with a coarse white lace. These deli-cately-tinted wraps, made in the usual sack shape, though with shawl revers that come to the waist, will be very smart, and for the hat the coat material may be used with the head-

piece made after the style of the usual little wash hats with puffed crowns buttoned on to a plain brim. Spring millinery Is shown at this time for children, but the weather is far too unsettled for it to be advisable, unless the hat la of silk and very nearly as warm as the winter one. Many silk hats In the basket and bowl shapes liked for young fry are made of a dark silk or satin, with a wide band, finished at the side with a square bow, of a light, embroidery, r

HINTS FOR BABY’S BATH

Pine Kitchen Table With Sawdd-Off Legs Makes Very Convenient Platform for the Tub. A Buy Just an ordinary pine kitchen table fitted with substantial legs and a spacious drawer. The second size should be chosen for our purpose. A carpenter will readily saw oft the legs to a height of 12 inches, for the table is to serve as a platform to elevate the bathtub, w&en placed upon Its top, to just an easy, comfortable height for the mother, when seated, in a chair, to manipulate the baby without stooping, lifting or a strain. In the drawer should be a center place for washrags, while the side spaces may be subdivided Into several compartments* These may contain powder boxes and bags, and any other things in baby’s toilet These spaces provided and the table cut down to the proper height, the whole Is in readiness to receive the embellishment of paint. A coat of ordinary white paint should be applied first, followed with one of enamel. This last will bear many washings off and much wear without showing defacement

Pretty Opera Bag.

About the simplest possible opera bag is made of a piece of satin, linen or moire, sixteen by seven inches, with a lining of china silk the same size. Sew bag material and lining together and stitch up the sides. Make slots for the drawstrings, thread silk cord through them, and there you are! Of course, if you wish to be a little more elaborate, embroidery and handpainting are In order, and then there are the little pockets Inside for powder puffs, mirror, theater tickets, etc. But the bag is certainly most easily made, and a very pretty and dainty one it is.

Nail Varnish.

Take a few lumps of gum benzoin, place In a bottle and cover with alcohol. 95 per cent., cork tightly and let stand for two weeks and rhake It well twice daily. Filter through absorbent cotton, color with liquid ceraine. Use sufficient alcohol to form a thin liquid. To make liquid carmine, take -a hair-dram carmine, well powdered in a mortar, add threw quarters dram strong ammonia, work until all is dissolved, then add ten ounces of distilled water. Use enough of this liquid to make the varnish the desired shade. Apply to the finger nails with a small brush.

MANY ACCIDENTS OF VETERAN CAR PILOT

Lewis Strang was recently asked if he ever had any narrow escapes and smilingly answered, “No.” But when asked why he replied in that way said he had dozens of accidents, but they were so quickly forgotten that he would not dignify them with the appellation of “narrow escapes.” “The first accident I remember," Baid Strang, “was ip 1904, when I hit an elevated post on Third avenue in 'New York. I wrecked the car, but escaped without injury. Two years later at Elkwood Park, in a midsummer meet, I went through the fence on the Inside of the track. I wraeka/the car in this accident, but again escaped without injury. “I went through the fence at the Parkway turn in the 1906 Brighton Beach twenty-four hour race. This was probably the most fatal accident that has ever occurred in any race. About eighteen persons were seriously injured and five killed outright The car was in the middle of thq track about 3 o’clock in the morning, when the left front wheel collapsed. Swerving around, the machine tore through the fence, breaking up the heavy barrier as if it were so much matchwood, then charged directly through a large crowd of spectators, repair men and race track employees. At tbe coroner’s inquest no blame was attached to me, as the car was beyond*control as soon as the front wheel collapsed, and it was just luck fdr me that it did not roll over and kill me. About two hours after this accident the repair crew had put tbe machine back in running order, replacing the broken radiator, front springs and axles, and I continued the race and finished, but the loss of time had been so great that I was unable to get better than fifth place. “In the next twenty-four hour race on this same track a string of eight or ten kites was sent up, which carried aloft a wire cable to which were hung some large advertising signs. The wind died down about 4 o'clock in the afternoon and the cable looped down

GOPHERS WILL LOSE WALKER

Minnesota Tackle Announces He Will Leave Minnesota and Enter Some Eastern College. Jim Walker; star tackle of the University of Minnesota football team for the last two years, all-western tackle for two years and all-American for 1910. has very probably played his last game of football for the Gophers. Walker, according to the report, will leave Minnesota and enter some big eastern university, likely Yale. Walker has made an enviable record on the football field with the Gophers. He was the unanimous choice for all-western tackle in both-1909 and 1910, and his ability was further recognized during the season recently closed. Walter Camp picked him for

Jim Walker.

his all-American eleven, the highest honor In football. Walker’s loss to Minnesota would be a severe one and his presence on any line of any eastern university would add great strength to the fortunate te^n.

Japs to Meet Cornell.

Cornell expects to have a baseball game next spring with a team from the University or Kioto, Japan, which will, tour the country. The Cornell management has been asked to schedule a game In May, and will consider the applfcatlcn at Ita next meeting.

Lewis Strang.

until it hung across the track. It caught me in the throat and I was thrown from the seat of my machine. “While trying for'the Vanderbilt cup race the same year, and riding around the course with Walter Christie in the Christie car, something happened to the steering gear. The car swerved in a straight stretch while going about eighty-five miles an hour, ran full tilt Into a telegraph pole, breaking the pole and splintering the machine, but I was only cut in the calf of the leg and my front teeth damaged. "In aeroplanes I have had planes turn over with me twice. Once at a height of about 150 feet I had a plane turn over and fall. Outside of, a couple of cuts from splintered spars, I escaped Injury. The other plane that turned over hit a pole in the ground while running on the ground just preparatory to ascending, while going about fifty miles an hour. The engine came down on my back and I was badly burned with hot water. “While testing a racing hydroplane with John Tyson, the owner of the craft, we capsized in the middle of Long Island sound, but this plane was so fast that we had expected an accident and had on heavy oilskins and cork jackets, so we just climbed on the hull and sat there until a yacht, which had been following us a couple of miles behind, picked us up. “One’s feeling the second after an accident is - indescribable. He almost says, ‘Well, you didn’t' get me that time,’ with an inward chuckle or laugh. You often hear the remark made that ‘Nothing is sport unless you take a chance.’ That shows the way the sports of the world are measured; hence the greatest sport must be that which you play for the greatest stake, —life." Strang, who Is shown in the illustration. will act as captain and manager of a team which will participate in the 600-mile international sweepstake race to be run over the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 30.

SPORTING GOSSIP

Mike Donlin is the latest to apply for membership in the Come Backs. Fred Lalce will try his hand as a scout for the Boston National league team. * Grover Land ip being touted as the first catcher on the Cleveland Naps this year. Hartsel played on the 1902, 1905 and 1910 pennant winners of the Athletics. Charley Hall, the Boston Americans’ pitcher, is playing winter ball out In California. Tommy Burns Is training to see if that Injured knee Is strong enough for two more bouts. Politeness will be one of the courses taught along with track athletics at the University of Chicago hereafter. Jeff Pfeffer, the Cub pitcher, who is wintering at Dorchester. Mass., Is keeping In condition by playing golf. George Tebeau will spend $15,000 on his Kansas City ball park to Increase its seating capacity to 14,000. Manager Hal Chase of the New York Highlanders says he intends working hiß pitchers in rotation in 1911. \ "King” Cole says he has discovered a new twHst to put on the horsehide. “King” intends retaining that windup maneuver. 1 Foul tips are sometimes expensive. Mrs. Jennie Fletcher of St. Louis was struck by one and has brought suit for $20,000. It seems to be aH In the fitness of things that a fighter .named Wuest should be doing his best work In Frankfort, Ky. Joe Tinker performed as referee In some wrestling bouts the other nigbt. Now Joe says that baseball playing Is pie and pudding alongside of iL

IRA DAVENPORT IS HONORED

James E. Bullivan Picks Maroon Star as Greatest 440-Yard Runner in United States. An all-American college track team has been selected by James E. Sullivan, secretary and treasurer of -the Amateur Athletic Union. Like the allAmerican football teams, tbe selection has no official significance t and Is merely Mr. Sullivan’s rating of some of the best college athletes in each of the ordinary track and field activities. Ira Davenport of the University of Chicago is placed in a class by hin> self in the 440-yard run. Fourteen men arte named and it la notable that seven of them are from colleges on the western side of the Alleghenies. \ The team chosen is as follows: 110-Yard Run —F. L. Ramsdell, University of Pennsylvania. 220-Yard Run—R. C. Craig, University of Michigan. 440-Yard Run—l. N. Davenport, University of Chicago. 880-Yard Run—Q. H. Whiteley, Princeton. 120-Yard Hurdle—W. A. Edwards, University of California. 220-Yard Hurdle —C. P. Gardner, Harvard. One-Mile Run—A. F. Baker, Oberlin. Two-Mile Run —T. S. Berna, Cornell. ~ Running Broad' Jump- 1 - J. Wasson, Notre Dame. ...» Running High. Jump—K. W. Burdick, University of Pennsylvania. Pole Vault —L. S. Scott, Leland Stanford University. Putting 16-Pound Shot—J. Horner, Jr., University of Michigan.

Ira Davenport.

Throwing the Hammer —Lee Talbot, Pennsylvania State' College. Cross Country Run —T. P. Jones, Cornell.

CERTAIN OF LARGE STADIUM

Chicago University Students Expect Two Athletic Buildings as Result of Gift. Material athletic expansion at the University of Chicago may be one of the early results of John D. Rockefeller’s gift of $10,000,000 to the Maroon institution. Members of the department of physical culture admit that the long-wlshed-for stadium and a new gymnasium for the women students might follow the oil king’s generosity. The matter will be considered by the universityboard of trustees. - Under'the terms of Mr. Rockefeller’s donation the university authorities will be allowed to construct buildings for the use of any existing department, while all new departments are to be made possible by other gifts. Although the trustees assert that building expansion is not probable in the near future owing to the university’s wish to give the first Installments of the $10,000,000 sos endowment purposes, the ultimate erection of the needed buildings is assured. The officials stated that they would reach no decision ,on the building question until later. If the members of the board decide to take advantage of Mr. Rockefeller's permission, the Midway school will have the costliest and most complete department of athletics in the country. The physical culture experts believe that the additional buildings are necessities. President Harry Pratt Judson names the stadium and the' women's gymnasium as two of the four most needed features of the university’s material growth, the other two being a building for the use of the department of geology and geography and an astronomical observatory on the campus for the use of the students. * The location of the prospective star dlum has not been fixed., Coach Stagg la modest In expressing his views, but he has stated his wish that it be located on the ground owned by the university on the south side of t>e Midway Plaisance, between Ellis and Lexington avenues. If the university should remove one flat buildiing from this land a block and a half would ha available for the purpose.

SAVING TIME WITH THE WASH

By This Schema K Really Seems That a Person Can Do Two * Things at Once. To-the housewife who most do most of her own work here te a saving of time. Fold evenly and shake well a sheet, which'lay smoothly on the ironing hoard. On this iron your daintily embroidered waists and underwear. After a waist is half ironed, move sheet along and finish waist. A little experience will show you how to run Iron on along the hems and edges without extra effort Turn sheet over, already folded as above, and Iron another waist. Lo and behold, you have two articles smoothly Ironed. Never sprinkle the sheets. The dampness from the other articles dampens them sufficiently. 'On pillow cases Iron all your and napkins, collars, etc. You will be surprised at the rapidity with which your basket empties and at the scheming you can do to Iron two things at once. Do not iron long on the, same sheet or pillow case—yon will find It yellowed and worn thin. Only iron till It Is nicely smooth. All unstarched articles Iron much easier when just taken from the line. Old ginghams, such as kitchen aprons and old house dresses, Iron smoothly when just dry, and unsprinkled, even though starched. While the woman is finishing the wash you can bte hustling the iron over these things.

FIXING THE TOUGH CHICKEN

One of the Best Ways by Which Venerable Bird May Be Made Tender and Palatable. wiien the ‘‘chicken’* (> ordered by telephone turns out to be a venerable hen or rooster, do not despair. There are several ways of transforming It Into a respectable family piece de resistance. In fact, by the following method such fowls have been made as tender as spring chickens: Let the bird, after drawing, seasoning and stuffing, simmer until over half done. Then place it in the oven with a piece of pork laid: over its breast. Pour the liquor over and around the roast in the pan. Finish the cooking In a very hot oven, basting frequently with the drippings. When ready to serve skim off any superfluous fat that may be In the pan before preparing the gravy. The pork prevents the fowl from becoming dry, and Jtf a small onion iq also added it will have a more savory flavor. The simmering lessens its toughness. In fact, slow simmering is just the thing fer any tough meat, but it should simmer, not boll. Boilihg will toughen the tenderest of meat.

USEFUL LAUNDRY BENCH

The bench should be strongly made and the cross-piece should be about five or six inches wide, upon which the clothes may be laid while being transferred from one tub to another. Provide faucets for the tubs, as it fs easier /to let the water run off than to break one’s back lifting the tubs. The wringer may be placed -on the cross-bar.

Tapioca Prune Dessert.

Put four tablespoonfuls of instantaneous tapioca into a double boiler, and a quarter of a tablespoonful of salt and two cupfuls of milki Cook for a quarter of an hour. Remove from the fire and add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter and two well-beaten eggs. Turn into a buttered pudding dish and bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes. Have ready cupful of prunes that have been steamed till tender and rubbed through a sieve. Spread this puree over the tapioca. When cold, cover with whipped and sweetened cream. Sprinkle a little pink sugar over the top.

Cocoa Pudding.

Put a quarter of a pound of stale breadcrumbs into a saucepan wltfi half a pint of milk, stirring #hile it bolls until it becomes a thick paste; add a cupful of sugar, a tablespoonful of butter, a tablespoonful of prepared cocoa and a little vanilla seasoning. Remove the mixture from the fire. Stir in the yolks and whites of two eggs beaten separately. Put into a buttered pudding dish and bake for half an hour. ’ t

Walnut Taffy.

Place over the fire In a kettle three pounds of sAgar and one pint of water. When the sugar is dissolved then the sirup comes to a boll add onehalf teaapoonful cream tartaf and cook to the crack degree. Spread in a buttered pan a pound and a half of shelled nuts, hickory or walhutß. the boiling candy over them and when cool break into places.

Pumice Stone for Pans.

When washing kitchen u tenses, such as skillets, frying pans, etc., scour with a flat piece of pumice stone, which can be procured at any drug store for a few cents, and lasts for soine time. Tou will find it a good help in keeping such articles bright and clean.