Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1911 — Page 2

MISTAKE OF BRIDES

ARE APT TO BECOME DISAGREEABLE AFTER MARRIAGE. .Change of Temper May Be the Result of Many Causes, but Always ~~ - It Is Greatly to Be Deplored. “Why is It considered sweet-tempered and agreeable before marriage often develop into arbitrary and self-assertive brides?” This question was asked by a mother-in-law, and is worthy of comment. It may "he urged that this girl before marriage set a watch upon her lips and tried to be The unmarried girl has so much more to gain by pleasant personal qualities than a married woman has, for unless girls make themselves pleasant and obliging they are apt to be left out when parties are being arranged and to be abamibhed to their solitary fate by those who would he their Allies. Since girls are not expectedto"T* s ~ turn as much hospitality as they receive, they must of necessity depend upon their personal qualities fpr inTitatlons. On the other hand, a married woman who gives parties gets naked in return, whether she is agreeable or not, ----- • ■ Again, the bride is apt to foster an exaggerated idea of her own importance as the chatelaine of her house. Before marriage she had to get her mother's consent to most of her proceedings—to the invitations she accepted and the friends she asked to the house. x The sudden freedom from restraint and the indulgence of a husband are apt to spoil her character and make her disagreeable to her relatives, especially to those on his side of the house, and immensely patronlzingyto her old friends, particularly those ■who have remained unmarried. —1 Another reason why some girls’ tempers are spoiled by marriage lies lii the trials and annoyances to which a girl with a number of relations 1b subjected. It it hard to please critical persons, and relatives seem particularly addicted to criticism of a

PLAID COAT SUIT.

Illustrated here is a plain tailored vault of wool plaid, with no trimming save buttons and fancy stitching.

In the Nursery.

A cosy covering for an infafit'sbed Is a sheet of thick wadding half a yard tong slipped into a nainsook covering made the shape of an envelope. This case and the flap may be trimmed with lace and frilling and may easily be washed. When the child is tucked up in this cosy bag the flap is turned down over .the counterpane. An iDfant two or three months old always begins to sleep less during the day and will greatly enjoy being placed occasionally upon a soft mattress or soft sofa and allowed to roll and kick as he pleases. Such exercise will greatly tend to develop the muscles, and the child will also learn to use his limbs and walk earlier than If deprived of this freedom of action.

To Clean Bamboo.

Now that bamboo furniture is used ao universally a suggestion about cleaning it may not go unnoticed- Thls Should be done with soap and warm water, to which salt has been added. And the mixture must be put on with • brush and then wiped off with clean cloths until the article Is dry and gll»tons. Ordinary laundry soap will remove the natural gloss of the wood and leave It dull if salt is not added.

Fashing

-brlde]s_ demeanor, her housekeeping and her~dmnesUc_grrangementii. But in spita of undouhfdd'-piiwocai. tlon to ill temper the wise girl should flrfef think of the effect it will have on her husband, before she allows to become disagreeable, instead of the tactful, chgrming girl he courted. ~~T7"; Ideals and Illusions are fragile things and need care. A girl should keep her husband under their spell.— Exchange.

SAVES WEAR ON STOCKINGS

Simple Contrivance Recommended for Girls Who Like to Wear Oxfords. by the slipping up and down of th£ oxford.jor pump can be eliminated by cutting a piece of leather the shape of the heel and pasting ft In TSe stmer-aa, shown in the illustration. The unfln-

Leather Piece Cemented In Heel.

ished side of the leather must be next to the stocking. Pieces of leather the color of the shoes he bought at any leather-findings store for a few .cents. If preferred, a piece of velvet mfty be used instead of the leather Popular Mechanics.

Chamois Gloves.

To wash chamois gloves and keep them soft, first put the gloves on hands, using lukewarm water and pure soap. Wash in this lather until the ~glovex:are_thoroughiy cleansed, then rinse in clear same temperature, but before taking off the gloves cover them again with a lather of the soap. Allow them to dry in the shape. JThe soap prevents them from becoming stiff and hrittlS.

VEIL CASE FOR A QUARTER

SoundsTmpossible, but It Isn’t—Just Follow the DirectTdinr~H«r-ft. ; Given. A veil ease for a quarter! It sounds Impossible, doesn't it? But This is how it is done: : Get half a yard of colored and half a yard of cream mercerized fabric of some sort, a spool of thread to match the colored material, a ball of creamcolored chochet yarn and a quarter of a yard of cotton wadding and half * dozen small buttons. Gut two pieces of the colored goods, each Bxl4 inches; on one piece embroider the word "Veils” with the crochet yarn. Around the other piece plait a frill one inch wide and join _U down one long side to the embroidered part. Now cut the creanTcolored fabric 16x14 inches, lay the wadding on the wrong side and stitch in two directions, to give the effect of quilting, with the colored material all around and fold across the middle. For the rollers take a piece of stiff paper or thin cardboardt 13 Inches long by one wide and cover it with stitched material. Work a each end with yarn to button the case; cover the buttons with the colored goods and sew on three at each end two inches apart.

PINCUSHIONS OF ALL SORTS

Dainty Little Affairs, of Still Daintier Materials, Are Popular Just Now. Dainty little affairs of scrim, with two lovely wreaths and a circlet of forget-me-nots, or an old-fashioned cluster of roses, or a quaint, stiff row of tulips or scarlet sage. —— — Hand-painted cushions, the roses or violets painted on drawnwork, right across the open stitches, on to the satin lining below. Chiffon over net, the two held to

gather by a latticework of baby ribbon. These are especially pretty Tn—three harmonizing shades of the same color. Crosswork and beading on canvas, perhaps a flower basket of crosswork in gold thread and then little ribbon flowers, each with a gold bead at its center, or the flowers worked out in crosswork in the natural coiwfo and a square of gold beads all around the cushion. Dyed lace over white silk, the lace held down by tiny beads of white. Sometimes there Is a light-colored lace over black and the beads are of jet Odd little cushions, the under part of stuffed silk, the upper—no pins, please -rr* circle of little figures in outline under glass, and a round wooden frame fitting tightly over the real cushion beneath.

AS> the battleship Arkansas, Uncle Sam’s newest and biggest fighting craft, started down the ways at Camden, N. J., the other day, Miss STafy L. Macon.daughter of Congressman Robert B. Macon of Arkansas, smashed a bottle of champagne across the bows of the greaTTßßseL—The battleship slid into the water and the launching was most successfully accomplished. In addition to Secretary of the Navy Meyer and numerous other officials from Washington, there were present many people from Arkansas, but the governor and other offlcials_of that state were conspicuous by their absence. This was due to a dispute between the governor and Secretary Meyer concerning the date for the launching. — — _ ,

BIRDS OF PARADISE

Rare Specimens on Way perimental Career in Chicago. Animal Keeper~dT~ttneeinlsartc~2« ; o : Will Try to Duplicate Natural Diet 5 of His Gorgeous Guests From New Guinea. Chicago.—The birdhouse at Lincoln park is all a flutter over the expectedtrrival of two birds of paradise. For the first time in the history of zoological gardens in the United States Cy ie Vry will attempt to keep the large emerald bird in a temperate climate. The new acquisitions were purchased in London from a dealer wßtr had obtained them in New Guinea. Both are males, as they onty possess colors and long aigrette feathers. ======?s ====s =^^ "The birds are an experiment with us,” said Mr. de Vry, seated in his office, surrounded by a group of pet monkeys, a porcupine, a Persian cat sundries, which help him tp think quietly. “Jake the question of feeding. These birds hail from New. Guinea, where the hooks say their menu include all sorts of insects, tropical worms and the grain and seeds which birds find in the jungle. If they arrived here in summer we might supply some flies and a few grasshoppers, with an occasional worm, to their epicurean tastes. ["What can I do in a frozen country? Not very much, but in a way a woman down in Mount Hope, Pa., has come to my rescue. She has started a business of raising mealworms for birds. I order 10,000 at a time. With them and some rice and ether small grain I hope to keep the emerald birds of paradise alive.” According to the stories told by Mr. de Vry no bird in the world is quite as interesting as this emerald~lpictnrenrAll through the middle ages the bird was the subject*of many fables and legends. Occasionally some sailor in The~East Indian seas would bring back the skin and feathers of one. The specimen would always lack legs. This gave rise to the fable that the bird was legless. The legend explained that the bird of paradise never alighted, but was accustomed to float around in space above some East Indian Olympus whence come its godlike name. The narrative continued that the female bird made her nest in the splendid plumage of the male and there hatched her eggs. The difficulty of catching The birds, and even of seeing them, hidden as they usually are in the dense foliage of the teak trees in the thickest parts of the jungles of East India,

kept alive the stories. The actual behavioroT~ttoe~bird-ofL paradise is stated now, according to Mr. de Vry, to be as Interesting as the old legends. When the visitor approaches a bird of paradise, If the bird feels cheerful, the sounds "herhir ho,haw" are uttered as a welcome. When angry or gloomy, a dismal “whock, whock, whock” is all that Is offered the guest. Mr. and Mrs. Patty, the two American black bears, which have been guests of the Lincoln park commissioners some twenty years, were visited by two storks a few nights ago. The little black bears weighed scarcely a pound apiece. They are the first to be born in Lincoln park, and among the first to be bom In capthrKy. ~ The parents are very large, as black bears go. each weighing between 700 and 800 pounds. Their progeny, bowever, were smaller than puppies. The bears are savage all out of proportion to the weight of their offspring, and when Charles Johnson, one of the

BATTLESHIP ARKANSAS AND HER SPONSOR

keepers, called at the Patty cave to pay his respects,—only unprecedented speed in leaving the couple saved his life.

FIND A PREHISTORIC STAMP

Official Seal Uncovered—foy-GanST'Dtg*-gers of Atzcapozalco—Wax Clinging to Face. New York. —One of the most remarkable archaeological and ethnological discoveries made in Mexico since Prof. William Niven found the famous clay tablets of life and death down in the jungles of Gqerrero, has been made amid the buried pile of petrified idols uncovered by the sand diggers of Atzcapo’zaleo. This find consists of nothing legs than an official seal, or stamp, used by some prehistoric emperor or king ?n affixing his O. K. to papers of state, -The-discovery was made about 18 -feet beneath the •kurface-ot-lhe old river, or lake bed, which exists near the pretty suburb above named. This stream or pool has long been dead, .the waters having been diverted by **iiatufe—Ttr-andOigit -direction. so that now it is merely a basin of gravel overlaid with sand. —The_artifact, which is about two inches in diameter, wndjn a perfect of preservation, is remarkable for the fact that it contains, on the side used for stamping, several concentric circles at the margin, then a ring of hieroglyphics much resembling the characters of the ancient Russian alphabet, and around the center three more concentric rings. SS—t The center itself is a corrugated hole, evidently used forithe insertion of a wooden or stone hajftjle. The upper surface of the seah which is, of

Boxing and Crating Good

Assertion That American Style of Protecting Export Shipments Is Faulty Denied. Paris.- —The widespread claim that American goods intended for export, are the worst packed in the world has done more to hurt American foreign trade than any other dozen criticisms, according to James E. Dunning, American consul at Havre, France. The charge is utterly unjustified, it is said. Comparisons of American goods with the products of other countries on the wharves of the great ports of Europe fail to show any negligence in boxing, crating or wrapping. In many ways American methods of packing are more practical than others,—because whiles protecting the goods as much as is necessary, they yet leave them open for easy inspection. “The one example eternally cited as proof of the assertion that our goods are badly packed," said Mr. Dunning, “is baled cotton. The casual observer, seeing a pile of American cotton on the wharf, looking torn and dirty; the cotton itself exposed to dust and weather, is quick to draw a conclusion. 1 have talked with many buyers of American cotton, however, and they tell me, one and all, that the very openness of American bales saves them money, because it may be sampled in a hundredth part of the time It takes to sample cotton from other continents. On the other hahfi, the quantity of cotton spoiled by soiling Is negligible, “Go along the docks in Havre and look at the harvesting machinery sent to France, as indeed to all points of the world, by Chicago firms. You will find heat, tight crates, easy to handle, bound with steel ribbons. - You will

course, circular In shape, is Founded, so that the entire object forms almost hemisphere. On the top are carved in the seal after the clay had hardened, and possibly intended to represent the f'gns of the zodiac, as they were known to the primitive astronomers of Mexico. When found, particles of some black substance, evidently either wax or some ink-like fluid, .were still clinging to the face, showing that the seal had great action by the' waters,—— :

COLD FINE HAIR RESTORER

Explorer Shackleton Asserts Trip to Potar Regions Is Best RemedyGerms Absent. London.—ls you would have a good crop of hair—go to the Polar regions. Extreme cold, it appears, is one of the remedies for strengthening hair. Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antaro tic explorer, said: ,—_____ “All of the men who went with me on the South Pole expedition, with one or Two exceptions, possessed stronger _crops of hair on their return to -civilization.” —■— ■ ■ “Extreme~cold strengthens one’s hair. “As our party approached bearer the South Pole our hair grew more slowly, but hectone thicker and stronger.” —*- A well-known London doctor said That one reason why one’s hair would grow quicker in the Antarctic was the total absence of germs and other impurities which abound in all civilized countries. An official of a London cold storage company said that they had pbt a bald-headed man in their employment. “The men work all day in a temperature of 20 degrees of frost, and the cold undoubtedly makes their hair thicker.”

find piles of heavy wheels wfthotrtvmycrating, because they are strong enough to stand the wear of the Journey unprotected. The delidate machinery is carefully wrapped out of harm’asray. But our American manufacturers have no sympathy sos business methods which entail expenditure of time and material in protecting, articles which in no way suffer by being unprotected. After experience in many parts or Europe I have actually failed to find one case substantiating the criticism that goods exported from the United States are poorly packed."

HISTORIC TABLE IS LOANED

Institute of Architects Use OrtgjNr Which Ghent Treaty Was Blgned In 1812. San Francisco'.—Members of the American Institute of Architects who attended the recent annual convention .held in this city sat at the table upon which was signed the treaty of Ghent, ending the war of 1812 with England. The table became the property of President James Madison after .the signing, of the treaty and was placed in his office at the original White House. The White House was burned soon after and the table was one of the few pieces of furniture rescued. President Madison moved his exeem tive office and the table to Octagon House. In Washington. Octagon House is now the home of the Institute of Architects, but the table has had a vagabond career and has eome into the possession of Mrs. Alfred Voorhies of this city. She loaned It to the architects for the conference.

WERE PROUD OF THEIR PAPA

But Artistic Development of Parent Really Waa Due to His Poor Eyesight. "We are proud of you, papa,” said the man’s three handsome daughters. “Oh, you are?” said he beamingly. “And what have I done now?” “You 'have acquired taste in art,” ■aid the handsomest of the trio. “I don’t mind telling you now that there was a time when we despaired of your over appreciating the classic. Thank goodness, you have iminoved under our tuition until you can pick out the really beautiful every time. Instead of admiring the razzle-dazzle, topsyturvy designs in architecture and decorations that formerly pleased you, you now choose the simple and easy lines of pure ■Part." “Thank yoy, my dears,” said the, man. “I am J glad you kept hammering away at me so persistently.” * ‘ When his daughters had left The room the man took off his glasses and rubbed them thoughtfully. “Well, what do you think of that?” he said. “I have become artistic, have I? And why? Because my eyesight , is so poor. That is the only reason. Those fantastic, curlycue figures that used to please my taste no longer appeal to me, because they hurt my eyes.. I am driven to classic lines in. self-defense. Most people of my age are. I once heard an art dealer say that half the people who thought they ~had,_d„eyeloped the artistic temperament with years had only ruined their eyes and needed glasses. I know now that he was talking That is my case exactly. I like those outlandish patterns in carpets and wall paper and things as well as ever, but I wouldn’t have the girls know it for anything.”

Sacrificed to Fashion.

What devastations of bird life are being wrought at the dictates of fashion are set forth in a vivid manner by an expert who has- devoted years of study to the question. Among ornamental ( feathers assumed for show during the courting season the strangely, beautiful tail of the lyre-bird of Australia is unequaled A few years, ago over four hundred lyre-birds were killed in one district to supply the Lopdon plumage market. It „is not so long ago since some sordid vandals surrounded a patch of scrub in whieh some representatives of this Tast-disapptearing genus were known to be breeding, and setting fire to it Bhot_ down those avian marvels as they struggled through one pitiless ring of fire only to meet their death in another. The lyrate plumes having been cut off, the bodies were thrown aside to rot. The result of .-such ruthless butchery is seen in the fact that fifty-two tails only were catalogued for the past year’s feather sales in London. The egret has been practically exterminated in North America and in China, and is now soscarce that the best selected plumes are fetching forty dollars an ounce.

Campaign Against “Gun Toting."

The Atlanta Constitution’s crusade against ""gun toting” in Georgia 'is bearing fruit. Judgq Brand, of the western Georgia judicial circuit, announces that "he proposes to send pistol carriers to the chain gang, without the option of a fine. This pleased the Constitution mightily, as it probably will all lovers of law and order in Georgia. Wfrtte Judge Brand was holding court at Hosmer, in Banks county, the Constitution says, a poll was taken “of opinion among those attending sessions regarding the striking out of the alternative of a fine. Practically every white, man, and the larger percentage of (he negroes testified their approbation and willingness to cooperate to the end that the law be given systematic enforcement. The retiring grand jury took the same stand.” —New York Tribune.

Noble and Brave.

... Percy had matrimonial designs on a - beautiful and rich heiress. If he could only give her a demonstration of his bravery he knew that he would have a little justification in proposing to her. At length a brilliant idea occurred to him. He was strolling with her along the waterside when he suddenly turned to his fair companion. “I say—aw—Miss Teresa. Could ylSu —aw —manage to fa'll In so that—aw— I could wescue you?” The fair Miss Teresa looked surprised. } "But you can’t swim, can you?” she said. Percy was confused for a moment, then a happy Inspiration came to him. “I’m afraid I can’t swim; but I always carry a police whistle, don’t you know!”

Are Americans Deteriorating?

Are Americans running down phy-< sically since so many of them havet left the farms and the sea to gather in cities? We are moved to the Inquiry because the secretary of war inhis report for 1909 Bays that of 100,999 pen examined for the regular army, 81,878 were rejected as lacking either mental, moral or physical qualifications. The physical lack was most in evidence; and, as the major percentage of the would-be recruits hailed from cities, where recruiting stations are handiest, the result of their physical tests would seem to bear directly on the matter of environment.

Kept Informed.

Green —I understand his wife haa money? Point —He understands it, also.— Brooklyn Life t • —%