Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1911 — Page 3

How Two Wrongs Made a Right

The maid who brought the mail to [Vernon’s room that morning .had her hands full, In the most literal sense. [There were several of the long, bulky [envelopes whose appearance brings Rejection to the heart of the aspiring [writer. There were one or two of the envelopes which keep such dejection [from becoming chronle, also bearing the name of a periodical, but too thin to contain anything In the shape of a returned”manuscript. It was even possible that they conveyed checks. But, Vernon brushed these all aside, ;dfid even let the letters from home lie [unnoticed in favor of a square envelope directed in a small, neat hand to !Mr. Vernon Hamilton Field. This the (girl Regarded with an amused smile, jand opened first of all. ■“Mr. Vernon Hamilton Field: “Dear Sir —Your admirable story i‘Chums’ has been sent me for illustration. I read so many colorless and [flavorless tales for boys that it is a relief to come across one bearing indications that Its author has not forgotten his own youth. The vigor and [vivacity of ‘Chums’ is a positive in[splratlon to a busy illustrator, who too [often is forced into mechanical work |by the very insipidity of the stuff subjmftted. j “As I am about to bfegln the illustrations for the story, I should like to [ask your idea as to the age of the [girls Introduced Into the picnic epljsode. I should be sorry to havfe my . [work disappointing in any way to the [author who has given me such pleasure. Very sincerely yours, ’ "Leslie M. Eskine.” f j The long envelopes and the letter [from home lay In a negjected heap I while Vernoh perused this communl- | cation for the second time. Her jeyes were dreamy, and one or two un[expected dimples had made their appearance. “It’s the nicest compliment I ever got!” she cried. ‘To think [that I can write a boys’ story in such ja realistic way as to make an experljenced reader believe that I was once ia boy myself. Leslie Eskine, you’re ja dear girl. I could love you for your [blunder. ' » It was not till she went to .her desk [to answer the query contained in her complimentary letter that a sudden [mischievous idea took possession of [her. She sat with her fountain pen ' [poised in air, while she considered. “What is the use of going into explanations? 11l see if I can disguise ;my identity as well in my note as I 'did In my story.’’ She drew down the corners of her mouth ih conformity to Iher ideas of masculine dignity, and Ibegan her reply, “My dear Miss Es!kine.” It was a clever letter, the youthful author decided, as she read it over before enclosing it in its envelope. All traces of femininity had been carefully suppressed. She had cultivated a rather bluff cordiality, and had introduced one or „ two slang [phrases with telling effect/ She laughied outright as she sealed the letter. The next day a broad-shouldered lyotmg fellow sitting before an easel, In a snug studio whose fittings were Ifar from suggesting artistic poverty, ptared with amazement at an envelope addressed to “Miss Leslie M. Esjkine.” His nmazeanent was, howjever, tempered with evident chagrin. “Miss Leslie,” he repeated Gously. “Now I wonder what gave le fellow that impression. Well, let’s »ee what he says.” £ For altogether (TOerent reasons [from those which had moved the author of the letter to self-congratula-tion, Mr. Leslie Eskine approved it. “He's tie right sort, plain enough," was his verdict. ‘That letter'll a dandy. Maybe,” he added with a grin, “he wouldn’t have taken quite so much pains if' he hadn’t supposed he was writing to a girl. Well, there’s no harm in keeping him in the dark a little.” It .was rather surprising how many reasons these two young people found for exchanging letters. -Mr. Leslie EBkine lost no opportunity of conveying tb Vernon his appreciation of her work, and when Vernon came across some of his illustrations in one of the current magazines, she oould do no less than write, expressing her admiration, which was sincere. “I think your experiences must have been unlike those of the average woman,” Vernon wrote. “There is such vigor and breadth in your drawings. One would almost call it virility.” On one occasion the truth nearly >came out For Eskine, reading one of Vernon’B stories in a woman's magazine. so far departed from his customary complimentary attitude as to* iflnd fault with It “Of course, It’s well written," he explained. “You’re so extraordinarily versatile that even when you depart from your legitimate line, you’re equal to the occasion. What [i object to Is the decision the heroine (reaches in the concluding paragraph. [No woman, much less the woman you have pictured, would take this course, fit’s entirely unnatuAl." : Vernon was frankly angry. She lay iawake several hours that night composing a reply which would crush Miss Leslie Eskine to the dust. She would begtm by saying that she considered herself as well qualified as anybody to judge what coarse a woman would take under given drcumistances, and after launching this than-

By HARRIET LUMMIS SMITH

derbolt, she would reveal the fact that she was Miss Field. Sy morning her mood had changed. The whole thing had become a Joke. She replied with a very humble letter, saying that undoubtedly Miss Esklne’s criticism was Just. “I will be very\glad,” wrote Vernon, giggling ecstatically as she penned the words, “to profit by your more intimate knowledge of t,he workings the feminine mind." And a certain broadshouldered young man who read tKfe letter grinned sheepishly, and, addressing a suit of armor in a corner of the studio, observed confidentially that he guessed he had put his foot in It. The frigid silence preserved by the recipient of these confidences (seemed to give consent. When the anniversary of Eskine’s first letter came around, and Eskine wrote with unusual cordiality in commemoration of the event, Vernon’s sleeping conscience woke up. Thera had been something in the letter that had made her vaguely uneasy. The enthusiastic references her correspondent bad made to the inspiration of the singular friendship brought before her thoughts very distinctly the misunderstanding under which Leslie Eskine was laboring. “She thinks I’m a man,” thought Vernon, consciencestricken. “And It’s even possible that , she might fall In love with me.” She wrote a long letter that same afternoon. It was a frank letter. She explained as well as possible the mischievous impulse which had led her to allow Miss Eskine to continue In her misapprehension, and laid emphasis on the fact that she had grown to value the friendship. “Indeed, if you are angrg with me for continuing this childish deception,” Vernon wrote, “I shall be frankly miserable.” At this point she was compelled to have recourse to her pocket handkerchief. It was extraordinary how blank the future seemed without the cordial encouragement of Leslie Eskine. Even her criticisms were preferable to silence. It was a damp little wad of a handkerchief that was restored to Vernon’s pocket at last. She sent the maid to the corner with the letter, and devoted herself to writing humorous verses. She was half way through the second poem when Mary Ann trudged up the stairs to say that a gentleman wished to see' her. “Leastways, he asked for Mr. Field," explained MaiV Ann. “But since you’re the honly hindividual so named, It’s you he must ’a meant." “Let me see thfe card,” said Vef* non, cautiously, and heM out hes hand. The next minute she was* oh her feet, gripping Mary Ann’s shoul* der. “Mary Ann, did you say a gentle* man? Isn’t It a lady? Stop and think, Mary Ann.” Mary Ann’s respectable British backbone stiffened. “In that case, miss,” she replied, “It’s the most hextraordlnary type of female ever 1 In this ’ouse, for it’s In breeches and with a mustache.” There was a long silence. "Tell — him,” said Vernon at last, gulping over the pronoun, “that I will be down very soon." When she descended the stairs, Vernon Field did not look like a rising young writer, whose stories had been accepted by some of the best magazines. Instead, her manner suggested a naughty child, anticipating an Interview likely to fesult In Jier being sent supperless to bed. And the young man in the parlor who rose at her entrance looked anything but a successful illustrator. He was llujihed, awkward, uncomfortable —yet it was he whq first found his voice. “I beg your pardon,” he said, "but I wished to see Mr. Field—Mr. Vernon Hamilton Field. “Perhaps,” he added hopefully, “you are his sister.” Vernon sat down. She did It hastily, for her knees were giving way. “No," she replied, frankly, ‘Tm not his sister. I’m he!” “What!" exclaimed Mr. Eskine, explosively. “I mean I’m she. I’m Vernon Hamilton Field —the only one there is." • "And J,” said the caller, "am Leslie Eskine.” They looked at each other, and the explanations and apologies trembling on the lips of each were never spoken. Vernon gave way to hysterical laughter and Eskine chimed in. And when they wiped their moist eyes and regained breath for serious speech all was understood and all was forgiven. “We were both wronm” Eskine said, when he bade her gobdbye several hours later. “We were both wrong, but this may be one of the rare cases when two wrongs make a right. Don’t you think so?” "I don’t know whst you mean,” Vernon answered. But her eyes, dropping before his and alluring In their very shyness, told a different story.

Matched.

“So yon are engaged to Miss Blondle?" “Yea.” ~ ; J “And do you think you are suited to one another?” “I think so. we are both liars ” “Both Bare?* "Tea. I told her she waa the only glri I had ever loved and she told me that I was the only man that had ever kissed her.” v -

-V i, . ./••;- % Loudon.—Owing to the recent decease of Lady Meux, who owned Temple Bar. a movement has been put on foot to bring back to London that famous feature of the old city. The project already has the support of lovers of historic London and seems likely to take tangible form. It has been suggested that Temple Bar might well be re-erected In front of the Adelphi, with flights of steps connecting with the Adelphl Terrace and its historic houses. When Temple Bar was torn in 1878, as an obstruction to traffic it was purchased by the late Sir Henry Metlx and re-erected In Theobald’s park, where It now stands. I •

READING AS A CURE

To Prevent Seasickness Read Exciting Story. za-.T. . 0 University es Chicago Professor Saves Particularly Engrossing Dstectlve Narrative Until Big Btorm la Threatened. Chicago.—lnteresting literature as a preventative of seasickness is advocated by a University of Chicago professor, who declares that his own personal experience Upon the rolling seas has been such as to demonstrate the practicability of his plan. In ordinary weather aboard ship in midocean the professor reads a sentimental story. If the waves are tossing high and the wind is blowing hard he fastens bis attention to a tale of exciting adventure or deep mystery. He boldly makes the assertion that his scheme has never failed to ward off impending seasickness and, adds that, while his traveling companions are In the throes of distress/he sits engrossed In his reading, unmindful of the rise and fall of the vessel. “I gauge the Intensity of the story I read by the roughness of the seas and the height of the waves,” the professor laughed. “Yes, I know It Is a unique cure for seasickness, but In my case and in the case of another professor here at the university to whom I preached the strange doctrine it has been uniformly successful. T have been In some bad storms, but I have yet to feel my first pang of seasickness. 4 “I have one detective story which as yet I have never been called upon to use,” he went on. “I am saving it for some awful storm, and when that time comes I shall have More faith In that detective story as a sure preventive than the - old-fashioned grandmothers had in goose grease as a-pana-cea for children’ ills. If the,waves sweep over the vessel’s bow aft to the stern I’ll wager that I will still be reading in My cabin, as devoid of seasickness as an electric light bulb Is of air.” “How do you explain your unique method of prevention?” he was asked. ‘Concentration of the mind upon some other subject than the height of the waves or the possibility that the boat may sink,” was the reply. “I often have occasion to do ocean traveling and I have found fear of seasickness and constant dwelling of the mind upon its related horrors are largely responsible. So I have devised a way to keep from having the illness. Keep yofr mind off it and keep your mind busy by reading an absorbing book. If you like detective stories get out the most exciting one you own when the captain tells you that a storm Is approaching from the starboard quarter. Interest yourself In the story and you'll scarcely notice that a storm has struck when it does come. “Whenever my students signify their Intention of taking a trip abroad I never fall to give them my scheme

TOO MUCH NOISE FOR GERMAN

After Ride In Subway and Sight of Tall Buildings In Gotham Farmer Decides to Return. New York.—One hour of New York was enough to convince Julios Larenzen, a German fanner, that he waa better off in his own country, and be will sail back on the next steamer. He will take back with him Intact the $3,500 which he brought over to invest in an American farm. ' Larenzen was met at Ellis Island by a friend who took him to see the sights. They entered the subway at tbe Battery, bound uptown. At Wall street, tbe second stop, Larenzen decided to get out as he was afraid the “tunnql would collapse." His fright, was not lessened In the streets. The towering buildings In the financial district overcame him entirely. He told his friend that after one hour in New York he did not want to be an American fanner and begged to b) taken back to Ellis laland. *

LONDON WANTS TEMPLE BAR BROUGHT BACK

for dispelling danger of seasickness. And they have reported to me upon their return that the method was successful. i Perhaps if they did not apply themselves in their reading—did not become sufficiently interested, I mean —they were seized with the Illness, but those who really Interested themselves In their books crossed the ocoan and were in tiptop physical condition the whole Way over.” The professor’s unique views have caused considerable comment among his fellow educators at the university, many of whom make It a practice to go to Europe or some other transoceanic point every two years. Some have taken the suggestion as a joke, Its exponent declares, and others have takqn It seriously. In most cases the ones who take it as it Is given—4n all seriousness—are the ones who are not taken with seasickness, - while those who think It Is a joke are kept In their cabins for three or four days. Certain advanced classes of students at the university, especially classes In the divinity -school, make pilgrimages In a body to tlje holy land. 6n the eve of their departure this professor never misses an opportunity to Impart to them his discovery.

WARD FOR NERVOUS DISEASES

Treatment by Psycho-Analysis *to Be Made on Patients In Johns Hopkins Hospital. Baltimore, h^d.—Johns Hopkins hospital will soon have the first ward in the world for the treatment of nervous diseases under what Is known as psycho-analysis, or soul analysis. Experiments will be made oq patients during sleep in this new department of the Henry Phipps psychiatlc clinic, which is being built with money given by the New York mUlionalre. The theory on which the new treatment is based is that every person Is

LONDON PENNY BETS

Much Gambling Carried on by Poorest of Children. Boys Deprive Themselves of Necessities of Life to Place Wagers on Horse Races Youngsters Pass Coppers to Tout. London. —T. H. Manners Howe contributes an article to the Graphic which he beads "Demoralized Boy Workers” and which contains a painful a count of the gambling that goes on among the poorest of the children of this city. It Is a subject that previously has been little Investigated, and Mr. Howe’s article has created an unpleasant sensation. Mr. Howe describes how a friend of his, the manager of a large London warehouse, found one of the boys employed In It In a dead faint. He made an Investigation, and Brand that tbe boy was earning less than two dollars a week. He lived with his parents, who took the greater part of his earnings, and allowed him 36 cents a week for his car fare and midday meals. Instead of spending the 36 cents for these purposes, however, the boy walked to and from the office, ate nothing away from home, and spent every penny he obtained In backing horses and repaying the “gutter usurer” to whom he bad been driven when be got Into debt. This boy. says Mr. Howe, was only a type of numerous others —selfstarved, worried young weaklings, with lives Incessantly exposed to the persistent attacks of "those evil geniuses of the street, the penny bookie and petty usurer of the gutter” Mr. Howe goes on to say: ‘1 have studied this question of Juvenile betting for some years, and have seen the evil of It working among the lads. It has become such a profitable business that there are bookies who devote themselves to It exclusively. The transactions are entirely in coppers, and a boy fa allowed to have a bet In

possessed of two personalities, com' scions and subconscious. It is held that when ajtprson is asleep the conscious personality Is at rest and the subconscious is predominant, hence dreams are the natural interpretation of the repressed of {the subconscious personality. “Dream analysis” is the chief method employed In tfie diagnosis which affords a guide to the proper treatment of the disease. In completeness of Its equipment the ward is without parallel In the world and it is believed that' it will bring much light on the treatment of nervousness, an affection so common in this country that It come to he known among physicians as the “American” disease. Psycho-analysis will he jyraotlced In the hospital by Dr. Trtgant Burrow, who has been studying this science for three years In Europe under Doo l tor Freud and Doctor Jung of Zurich, Switzerland, who are authorities. The treatment alms at the unification of the personalities. Knowing the wishes and wants of the conscious personality as derived from the conversation of the patient, there remain to be ascertained the wishes and wants of the subconscious personality. Thfe principle of the school is that! there lurks in every dream, often die* guised, a repressed wish for meat Although this phase of the treatment of nervous diseases will be itj the hands of Doctor Burrow,’lt Is due In great part to the efforts of Dr. Adolf Meyer, head of the department for the treatment of neurotic disease, that the ward will be established. Doctof* Meyer is a native of Zurich, Switzerland. He came to Johns Hopkins last year from the New York State Pathological Institute at Wards island, New York city.

Quarter Million Dead Rata.

London.—Rat catchers reported at the last meeting of the Ten<)ring district council that they had killed 260,000 rodents in the crusade started by fear of cholera. *

a single penny. But he has to pay for the privilege by submitting to a severe handicap, which, although of-* sering the bait of a proportionately large prize, places nearly all the chances In the hands of the bookie. “This handicap Is embodied in what is known as the composite system. That is to say, the boy is compelled to spot three placed horses in three separate races. He Is not allowed, when betting In coppers; to win by backing one horse only. His task is, of course, a much harder one, and his chances of losing his money far greater. “In spite of this, however, the lads, with wages averaging from 6s to 10s a week, most of which goes to their parents, literally swarm around these pestilent tempters, who haunt the entrances to the big warehouses and printing establishments. At the crowded dinner hour, when the streets are fullest of bustle, the youngsters pass their coppers and slips of paper Into the ready hands of the tout, darting away with their heads full of the prospect of a win or the tip for some fresh race which Jie tout has confidentially Imparted. "Only a little while ago a friend of mine j was standing Idly at a street comer looking about him, when suddenly a small, dlngy-looklng lad thrust something Into his hand and instantly bolted. My friend found he had been presented with a couple of coppers wrapped In a piece of paper Inscribed with the names of three horses entered tor as many forthcoming races. He had evidently been mistaken for some street bookie who—the Inference Is—must have been'ln the habit of appearing In a very decent guise." The Ingenuity of these street bookmakers in baffling the police Is dei scribed as beyond belief. They an£ the other parasites, the small money lenders, who advance sums from if cents up, are responsible for the rtdq of thousands of young lives, tumln# promising boys Into street Via fern hooligans and wastrels.

FOR DELICATE BREAD

EXCELLENT RECIPEB THAT ARB WELL WORTH NOTING. <: : May Be Made of Whole Wheat; Gluten, Rice or Corn—The Most Nourishing of Food—Pudding for Children. y Whole Wheat Crisps (especially good for children)—One cup riefif cream, sweet or sour, onq-quarter cup sugar, one salt spoonful sugar, two cups fine granulated wheat flour, or enough to make a stiff dough. Knead fifteen minutes, or till stiff enough to roll out thin as a wafer. Cut with a biscuit cutter, and bake on ungreased tins in hot oven. The sugar will sweeten the soar cream sufficiently. Rice Crusts —Cook one cup of cold boiled rice in the double boiler In milk enough to make a thin mixture, and until the rice is very soft. Add one tablespoon full of sugar, a little salt, one egg and i flour enough to make it hold together. Spread on the pan, haying the mixture one-third of an inch thick. Bake in hot oven. Split and eat with syrup. “ Wafer Biscuit (for Invalids) —One pint flour, one -tablespoonful butter, one saltspoonful salt, white of one egg, warm new milk enough to make a stiff dough.' Mix salt with flour; rub in the butter, add tbe beaten white of egg and milk enough to make a stiff dough. Beat half an hour with a rolling pin without ceasing. Break off a little piece of dough at a time and roll it out as t&n as paper. Cut into large rounds. Prick with small wooden skewer and bake quickly without burning. Gluten Wafers (gluten is a preparation of wheat flour without the starch —Half a cup of sweet cream and one saltspoonful of salt. Stir In gluten flour enough to make a stiff dough. Knead and roll out very thin. Cut into rounds and hake a delicate brown on an ungreased tin. Hasty Pudding—Put one quart of water on to boil. Mix one pint of com meal, one teaspoonful of salt slid one tablespoonful of flour with one pint of cpld milk. Stir this gradually into the boiling water and boll half an hour, stirring often. Eat It hot with inilk and only In cold weather.

To Launder Wool Caps.

Wash cap in luke warm water with ivory soap that has been boiled to a Jelly, add a little borax, do not mb cap, just squeeze with hands, as rubbing pulls cap out of shape. Rinse in lukewarm water with a little borax; do not hang cap on clothes line; make a head form as near to the shape of the cap and the size of the head to be worn on, as possible. Make firm by sewing a piece of muslin the shape of cap. Stuff fork with excelsior or clothes; hate tom stuffed tight and evenly; if eap has shrunk, make form* larger than cap; if inclined to stretch make smaller; put cap on form to dry In a hot place. If above directions are followed your cap will not look as if it had been laundered; but it win look as if U just came from the store, and will, not be out of shape.

Baked Fish Wl' Oatmeal Balls.

For this dish the middle cut of a good cod is the best. A convenient size is about two pounds in weight. Wash It, remove the skin and allow it to stand with a little salt sprinkled over it for a few hours. Then dry it and place in a large pudding dish that has been well buttered. Pour in one cupful of milk and the same of water, and bake for half an hour. Mix together half a pound of oatmeal, six ounces of chopped suet, and seasoning of salt, pepper and chopped parsley. Bind with a beaten egg and a little water. Make into small balls, cover wkh fine dry oatmeal, and dip into the pudding dish. Allow all to cook for another half hour.

Hickory Nut Ice Cream.

Pound one pound of shelled hickory nut meats in a mortar until they are a fine paste; add them to a quart of cream and set one side while you prepare a custard made from a pint of milk, three eggs and a cup of sugar; keep stirring until it thickens, so that it will not curdle; take from the Are. add another cup of sugar, and set where it will cool; when quite cold add the cream with the hickory nut meats, then freeze.

Creamed Celery and Egg.

A leftover of creamed celery was re-warmed by setting dish in cold water and letting come to boil, then .pushed to less' fiot place on store. Just before removing from heat two leftover hard-boiled eggs were chopped and cut into the cream. Served on toast as a •upper' dish.

Hot Milk Cake.

One cupful of sugar, two eggs, one cupful of flour, pinch of salt, one teaspoonful baking powder, and one-half cupful of hot milk. Beat well and bake. A little grated chocolate may be added for a dark cake or a few nuts or cocoanut.

Splendid Cake.

Two cups sugar, one cup butter, tour eggs, tour cups flour, one cup warm water, one-half teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cream of tartar, one teaspoon extract lemon, one-half teaspoon vanilla. One-half of above tor one cake.