Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1911 — Page 3

THE AMERICAN HOME

aft*. William A. Radford will answer cations and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining: to the subject of buliaingr, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he Is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all Inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 178 West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply.

The best citizen In any community is the man who owns his home. It has been said that the foundation of the best society Is the hearthstone, for upon it has been erected the greatest glory t>f the world’s greatest achievements. It Indicates stability, sturdy character and honest worth. A people without permanent homes never become a nation, bat remain a tribe. It does 'not progress, but stands still and deteriorates. It cannot have the highest sense of morality, because the home is the bulwark of morality. If this is true, as appears, we owe a great deal indeed in this country to the real estate operators, the speculative builders. Seventy-five per cent, of all the small and mediumsized dwellings put up In the larger towns and in the city suburbs are built by them. These houses are not built to the specific instructions or requirements of particular clients, but the speculative builder aims to provide a bouse that will be generally useful, or at any rate, generally salable. Now, this is a perfectly legitimate and by no means an unreasonable method of providing for the needs of a community. The requirements of a great number of families are very much the same and there seems no reason why a builder, or a company which is opening up a large tract of {land, should not erect upon it houses of the size and kind that are most readily salable, at the same time effecting economies through buying in large quantities, the duplication of special details, etc. Strange as it may seem, however, speculative builders as a class are not held ih the' highest esteem, but,have rather a reputation for trickery; they "skin the job.” Now, there is nothing essentially

base In producing houses and more than producing other needed commodities, as a commercial speculation; but it must unfortunately be admitted that modern competitive conditions are not favorable to the maintenance of a high standard of excellence in design and construction in the houses built by speculative builders. Althotgh there are houses built speculatively which reach a high standard of design and construction, these are in the minority. There is no reason, however, why a higher standard should not be generaL

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Very much depends on the education of the public in this matter. Every decent builder and every decent workman would rather build food houses than bad ones, it rests with the public to make this possible. They must not expect good houses at the price of bad ones, and they should regard a builder’s reputation for good work as of more consequence than his reputation for cheapness, It might be asked what Ideals a home builder should have in planning and constructing his dwelling. He should seek almost before everything to express restfulness and simple comfort. These are the qualities which mark the difference ha-

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tween a mere lodging and a home. Mach of ths striving after prettiness and picturesqueness, which characterizes many modern houses, destroys the quality, of restfulness. Beauty the house must have, but it should comp naturally as the outcome of substantial construction and good proportions. Never should beauty be sought by applying ornaments to a structure which has no beauty in itself; the attempt will be futile and wasteful, and it may he that the last state of such a house will be worse than the first A small house, and , every other building, should avoid shams. This does not necessarily mean the ostentatious showing of every beam, but it'does mean the avoidance of such tawdry, devices as nailing strips of thin wood Into facades to

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give a “quaint” appearance in imitation of the old half-timber construction. It is better to have a glorified cottage than a cramped and impoverished mansion. The owner of a small vM&ge or suburban house will have other ideals than those of the house agent who measures the value of a house by the number of its “reception rooms.” A house should be built for the family that will inhabit it, not for the visitors

who will come but occasionally. instead'of cutting up the limited space into several small rooms in view of the expectation of visitors, the family will, require all the available space for the dining room and common sitting room. Hospitality need not, indeed, be omitted from consideration, but it should be of a very simple type. The accompanying design illustrates a house that embodies the best of these features to an unusual degree. It has individuality of appearance, being “different” from the ordinary. The lower floor is arranged for maximum comfort and convenience, providing a square reception stair hall and a very large living room with connecting dining room. The kitchen and pantry are conveniently arranged. On the second floor are two nice bedrooms, with closets and bath. This house, in else 27 by 36 feet, can be built for $2,000. It Is a worthwhile model for the man who wants a thoroughly substantial, first-class residence, different in style and arrangement from those usually built

Missed Seeing the “Crack" Place.

A few years ago one of the oddest and most •‘original’’ of American travelers did a short European stunt with some friends, most of the “doin’s"'belog in Paris. When he returned he was asked if he had seen everything In the brilliant French metropolis. “Oh, sure,” he answered In his droll, squeaky voice. “We saw all the great bullyards, and the Champs Eliza, and the Boys der Bologna, though there wasn't a sassldge in sight, and the Jardam Mobile, and the Mooley Rooge, and the rest of the things with names I couldn’t get any tongue around, all but one place which had a sign on all the bussesand street cars. That was ‘complet.’ I told the boys It must be a great place, hut I Hever could get them to go there. They shld the word meant that the darn thing was full, do seat left, nor straps to hang to, but I’m sure It was the name of some crack place, and If Pd been alone I’d sure got there."

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, noted writer and Btudent of public affairs, who has just returned from a visit to the Isthmus of Panama, is most enthusiastic over the way in which the government forces, under Colonel Oorgas, have improved health conditions In the canal zone. "Nothing the canal can produce,” says Mr. Adams, “is so significant, so infinitely important to the human race, as the scientific demonstration that life in the tropics can be made healthful and pleasant. In the sanitation of the Isthmian canal the United States has given an object lesson to the world of such overwhelming importance that one Is lost in contemplation of it.”

SHOW BLOOD GERMS

Flashed on Screen to Illustrate Popular Lecture. 'i" Pictures Taken at Pasteur Institute and Brought to This Country to Illustrate Doctor Lee’s Address on Medicine. New York.—Weird objects wriggled over ther moving picture screen at the American Museum of Natural History a few nights ago, when Dr. Frederic S. Lee, professor of physiology in Columbia, showed his audiences how the germs of the sleeping sickness thrive amid the blood corpuscles. He also had pictures showing how the movement of a rabbit’s heart is studied, and a series illustrating how scientists inoculated monkeys with feVer germs in order to study the disease, a very similar process to the one which resulted in the recent discovery of a meningitis serum, he said. The last picture showed the simians restored to health and mischief. The pictures were taken at the Pasteur Institute and brought to this country to illustrate Doctor Lee’s address, whieh was the last of the Jesup lectures on scientific features of modern medicine, under the auspices of Columbia university. Pictures of the germs working among the blood corpuscles, and, apparently, feeding on them, were received with astonishment by .the audience. ’ - In speaking of his animal pictures, Doctor Lee, who is a leader in confuting the antlvivisectlonists, made tempered remarks concerning them. “In view of the great extension of the commendable humane movement ot the past half century,” said he, “it is, perhaps, not surprising that opposition to the use of animals for scientific purposes is hotly maintained by a few individuals., This opposition sometimes wilfully denies the value of animal experimentation in scientific advances; it sometimes assumes the extreme and ethically Indefensible attitude of denying the right of a man to use animals at all as experimental objects, and it has as Its practical aim the establishment of legal restrictions against the practice. These vary in degree from slight limitations to total prohibition. “The antlvfvißectlonlßt view is psychologically of great interest It rests on a low intellectual and ethical Jevel and bxhibits In an elemental simplicity the qualities and power of emotion. Its abnormal sympathy for animals blinds Its possessor to a normal sympathy for human beings. It assumes the present existence of cruelty In laboratories. As an evidence of such cruelty it either recites for the thousandth time one of a half-dozen classic Instances of experimental procedures that date from an early period, before the use of anaesthetics became general, or'lt misinterprets instances of modern procedure. Many antlrivisectionlsts are frequently sin cere, and undoubtedly undergo great mental anguish over the supposed unwarranted sufferings of animals. But thfey are fighting a monster that does not exist", The speaker said that one of the main causes of distrust of medicine and doctors, which, he said, had existed since ancient days and was still In force, was “the appalling Ignorance which people possess of their own bodies and bodily processes. “The ordinary man feels certain symptoms,” said the lecturer, "but he does not understand their real significance. He knows not whether they are Important or unimportant, or whether o.‘ not they demand a doc-

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tor’s knowledge. He trusts blindly to the hope that if he neglects them they will pass away. If they persist, he diagnoses his own case and attempts to treat it. If, at last, he ft forced to appeal to the doctor, he learns that of the real significance of his disease he knows nothing, except what the doctor may tell him." After the lecture, it being the concluding one of a series, there was an Impromptu reception to Doctor Lee. Doctors and medical students, as well as lay members who were in the audience, greeted him. One woman told thq doctor she was seventy-four years old, but, in spite of that, had not one of his lectures.

PLANT FRUIT ON HIGHWAYS

Wyandotte County (Kansas) Commissioners Planning an InnovationProduct Given, Farmers. Kansas City, Mo. —Within a few years fruits and nuts will be easily obtained in Wyandotte county, Kansas, across the state line from here. If the plans of the county commissioners are carried out, for it has been decided to plant fruit and nut trees along all of the highways of the county. The office of commlsloner of parks is to be created and that official will have charge of cultivating the trees. The fruit is to be given to the farmers.

LOSS TO METROPOLIS

Says Population of London Will Shrink. Englishman Declares Opening Up of New Residence Districts Away Out From City Will Take Many People. London. —Much Interest was aroused in the report of the London traffic branch of the board of trade recommending 100 miles of new roads leading out of and around London. Sir Herbert Jekyll couples the scheme with the provision of new “garden suburbs" in the districts traversed by these roads. He urges Its Immediate adoption on the ground that, heavy as the cost will be now, it will be twice aa heavy seven or eight years hence. The report thus opens the prospect ot what London may be like in 1920. The Labor party la in favor of the proposed roads being put in hand as soon as possible. “They would find work," said a Labor M. P. yesterday, “for thousands of men now walking about half-starved." One of the oldest West End real estate agents, discussing the report, said: “1 foresee the time when London proper, the business and shopping quarters, will be as deserted at night time as the city is today. I have seen this change coming for a long time. The difficulty of letting houses in the West End Increases every year. People who can afford to live farther ont simply will not stay in town. "The scheme of the report if it is ever carried ont, will make every one able to afford It Then, instead of streets blocked by every kind of vehicle, there will be plenty of room In the center for the necessary traffic. “There is clearly a great future for garden suburbs. The better kind of people will not live In the ordinary builder’s house how. They want something more distinctive, nicer to look at I take It there will be gar*

HEIFER FRIGHTENS THE COOK

Surprised Bervant Seeks Refuge Undtt the Kitchen Blnk Until Young Animal Flounced Out St Louis.—While scrubbing the kitchen floor at a boarding house conducted by Mrs. Lena Frenzle, Lizzie Stewart bad the fright of her Ilfs when a red heifer dashed in at the front door and made an unceremonious call on her. The heifer also was having ths fright of its life, hut Lizzie did not know that until afterward. In the meantiine she sought safety by diving under the kitchen sink, remaining there until the bellowing animal flounced out through the rear door. The heifer stampeded first through a hallway into a court, and after being driven out of there ran Into the Frenzie dining room and out through the kitchen. From the back yard it ran into Lizzie’s room and out again, went out through the hallway Into the street, leaving a trail of scattered dishes and disarranged furniture. It then ran through a rolling mill and sank exhausted on a pile of scrap. ' ' V

Chicken With Outriggers.

Cincinnati. A live four-legged chicken that bosses all other fowl in the yard Is owned by Thomas Tanner of 1249 West Sixth street. The extra legs protrude, one from the front and one from the rear right side. They In no way interfere with its movements, and the owner says it will put up a winning battle with any dog.

den villages pretty well all round London. Along the wide avenues leading out east and west there will pass every morning thousands of men from homes as far as out as Brentford and Uxbridge, between Ealing and Uxbridge, between Brentford and Romford, there are stretches of country only waiting to he inhabited. Fortunately, the town planning act will prevent them from being ’developed’ by the speculative builder In the bad old way. “I am not among those who think the population of London will go on increasing. As people lease the town, therefore, the houses they have given up are likely either to remain empty or to be turned Into warrens for the lowest class. It Us a serious outlook for those who own land or who have long leases on bouse property. I do not suppose that Belgravia wIU ever recover, for example. “Factories are going out ot London, too. There Is a regular ‘empty belt* round the city, especially in South London, which used to be busy till Its machines and work people wers whisked off into the country.”

DOG SENDS IN FIRE ALARM

name of Big New Haven Buslneee Block Lights Up the Waters of Long Island Bound. New Haven, Conn. —Fire swept away the Killlam block, a $200,004 loft building in the downtown factory section of this .city. - The stocks of four business tenants were destroyed and three tenement houses adjoining were burned. A bulldog in thh building gave the alarm by barking, but before the firemen could get Into action there was g terrific explosion, apparently of gasoline or other oils, which drove the fire throughout the entire building. When the smoke of the explosion cleared the flames had spread to all five flows. ■ 'IS*

MOST LUSCIOUS FRUIT

THREE WAYS OR SERVING DELIC* lOUB STRAWBERRY. ■%*'. • rr \-^ffß&SSSiisSmnKKm ' A# a Sauce It Will Be Appreciated— Method of Preparing Individual Short-Cake Combination With Rice Something New. ' ' -T.. Strawberry Sauce—Rub one cupful .of sugar and a ball a cupful of butter to a cream. Add the beaten whit* of one egg and one cupful of strawberries thoroughly washed. Individual Strawberry ShortcakeMake dough of one pint of dour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, onehalf teaspoonful of salt, two table- . spoonfuls of sugar, four tablespoonfule of butter. Mix and sift, add butter and milk enough to make a dough that will roll easily; roll and cut with large cutter and bake in trfrt or gem tins. This will make twelve cakes. Filling for shells: One quart of berries, one cupful of powdered sugar creamed with tablespoonful of butter, and mixed with crushed berries. Serve with a mound of whipped cream. This makes an attractive dessert for luncheon or tea. Peaches make a nice filling also. Rice and Strawberries.—Pour two cups of boiling water oti one cup of well washed rice, add one teaspoon salt, cook in double boiler thirty minutes. Add a pint or more of milk and a heaping ;tableepoonful of butter, boll until perfectly tender and not too dry. Pour into a dish and let stand until cold. Dressing: Ond cup powdered sugar, one tablespoonful butter, beat to a cream; one cup fresh ripe atrawberrlee and the well beaten white of an egg added last. In serving it put into each sauce some rice and on the rice place a liberal portion of the dressing.

CHOCOLATE AND FRUIT TARTS

Recipe for Dessert Dishes That Has the Sanction es Leading Woman’s Journal. . Make the tarts of puff pastry, leaving as large a space as possible for the filling. In each tart place canned peaches or apricots, from which all the juice has been drained away, and pour over them a chocolate sauce. The sauce is made as follows: Boil onehalf pint of milk and grate three ounces of chocolate. Mix a little of the milk with the chocolate until it is smooth; add the rest of the milk and let It boll up; then add one ounce of sugar and a tablespoonful of vanilla. If the tarts are to be used hot pour on the sauce as soon as it is finished and serve immediately, covering the top with whipped cream. The tarts may also be used cold, and in poured over them. —Harper’s Bazar.

ALL AROUND THE HOUSE

Iron silk on the wrong side—the Iron will make the right side shiny. Always keep a little water in woodenpails or tubs, otherwise they will crack and fall apart A bit of sugar dissolved In the water in which cut flowers are standing is an English way of keeping the blossoms fresh. To keep pancakes from being greasy and flabby, do not have the batter too thick, and be sure that the fat la piping hot j Bronze ornaments should be cleaned with a little sweet oil, polished with A duster and afterwards robbed well with a soft chamois. When postage stamps stick together do not soak In hot water; instead, lay a piece of sheer paper on top and pass over with a hot iron. This will loosen the stamp# and not remove the gum on the back.

Turkey Filling Sandwiches.

Chop finely the meat of a left-over turkey. Put. Into saucepan, adding two tablespoonfuls of finely chopped celery, with salt and pepper to taste. Btir over the Are until hot Then add A soft-boiled egg, and leave until cold. Spread the turkey mixture upon thin slices of buttered toast Cat Into halves or quarters, and place mi a folded napkin.

Rusks.

Two cups raised dough, one cup sugar, one-half cup butter, two well beaten eggs, flour enough to make it A stiff dough; set it to raise and when light mold to high biscuits and set to rise again; place in oven. When done rub tops with granulated sugar and milk and place -in oven to dry.

Economical Sponge Cake.

Two eggs, whites and yolks beaten g well separately. Mix nearly all of qua jj cup of sugar with the whites, the rent with the yolks; add one cup floor and one heaping teaspoonful baking powder. After mixing all these well together, add one-half cup boiling water* ' flavor and salt.

Beating Carpets.

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