Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1911 — Page 3

HAND-PAINTED CARDS .: % i ; PRETTY REMEMBRANCEB FOR THE NATAL. DAY. Nothing More Welcome Can Be Offered Friend Than Something That Is One's Own Work—Two Gold Designs Here. Perhaps you number among your friends or, relations some one who has a birthday this month. If so, let me suggest that you send a handmade birthday card to the one who is growing old. 1 • The simple drawings before you should he traced on cards or paper. With delicate colors they should be painted, and an* appreciative verse written as your good wish. Pale yellow and green can be used on the border of tulips. The little verse should he written at the top. The side arrangement of ribbon and roses is another style. Blues and

pinks and yellows can be used. Indeed, the real colors need not be adhered to strictly. Any delicate “blossomy” effect will do.

ALL ADORNED WITH FLOWERS

Innumerable Designs ' for Millinery Trimmings Have Found Favory With Parisians. * Would you know the flowers that are being made by the thousands over in Paris so that they may blossom opt on the millinery of the Frenchwomen? First of all, there are the small June roses in pink, rich red and yellow shades. Violets are answering the call and are now being sold in all Bhades of purple, yellow and white, if you wish. Lilacs in white and lavender; wistaria in its graceful, drooping form, and delicately tinted hydrangeas are here to be massed on crowns or to form huge bunches on large straw shapes. Moss roses and lilies-of-the-valley are so frequently combined on a hat ’ that these flowers are Bold in bunches over in Paris already massed in their white and colored forms. Poppies in the light pink, the deep Ted and the glowing yellow colors are to be picked from the counters in single and double form. Cerise velvet poppies, immense in 1 size, for the hat with only onelflower, are much in demand.

Skirt Draperies.

In the introduction of new tunic outlines fashion goes a step further and even introduces drapery. Thus many of the models have a new and refreshing aspect. Scarf draperies are particularly noticeable. One point of special Interest among the many scarf like draperies for skirts Is the application of the scarf in the form of a train. The train Is in reality only a scarf suspended at one side of the robe. Because of its narrow width and great length, provision is made for carrying the train. Thus, it is carelessly thrown over one arm, or Is held by a loop through which one of the fingers may pass. It is not expected to trail out behind the skirt, but rather is a graceful accessory, adding charm to the movements of the wearer. »

Rich Street Gowns.

With the exception of a very few costumes, street gowns In.the present season are matters of such elaboration as to make them particularly difficult to describe in a class by themselves. To be sure, there are numbers of twopiece costumes composed of a skirt and a coat for which a waist must be designed unless the shirtwaist is resorted to; hut the majority of street costumes of today represent an underdress of great richness, especially at the top, with a coat that Is modifylngly plain, perhaps, but not necessarily so. There are charming cotton voile waists s offered for use with the skirt* and-coat costume, and jiorel chiffon waist tops for the plainer complete underdresses. —Harper’s -Bator.

A New-Old Styie.

The newest sashes have their long ends, or even the one end when there 1b bat one, gathered Into a plaque or a pliable beaded Qr embroidered motif aa n finish. This is only a revival of the mode of the twelfth or thirteenth century, when the leather belt was finished at the end by being run through a buckle like the one which fastened it at the waist

The HOME DEPARTMENT

Then there is a card with the trees in bloom. Pale green, covered with, pink blossoms, gives a lovely effect This is a delightful little orchard to send to your friends. The wreath and ribbon can be done in a favorite color. Yellow and pale green, pink flowers, white and green

with colored ribbon are suggestions for coloring. Here are some little verses to inscribe: The daisies peep from every field. The violets sweet odor yield: . The purple blossom paints the thorn, The stream reflects the blush of morn. '’ - . ’ • « The newborn May, As cradled yet In April’s lap she lay. Born in yon blase of orient sky. Sweet May! Thy radiant form unfold. And wave thy shadowy locks of gold. 'Tls like the birthday of the world. When earth was born In bloom. The light Is made of many dyes. The air Is all perfume. Hebe's here. May Is here! The air is fresh and sunny: And the miser-bees are busy / Hoarding golden honey. Wreaths for the May: for happy spring Today shall all, her dowry bring— The love of kind, the joy, the grace. Hymen of element and race. -i For thee, sweet month, the groves green liveries wear, -If not the first, the fairest of' the year. —Exchange.

CLOTH OR SERGE COSTUME

In Either Material This Design Would Make Up Moat Effectively, With Russian Coat. Cloth or serge might be used for this costume, which is very smart style; it has the skirt cut narrow at

foot, and trimmed with two pieces of wide fancy braid taken round lower part as far as side of fronts, where other pieces are sewn.' The Russian coat has the left side of front quite plain, while the right side is trimmed with one wide rever edged with brain, which also edges neck, forms waistband and trims euffs. Hat of Tagal to match, trimmed with a feather mount Materials required: 5% yards 38 Inches wide, 6 yards braid, 5% yards silk for lining oqat

To Mske a. Bran Bath.

Bran baths are frequently of service in rough state* of the skin. Place a closely tied cotton bag holding a small teacupful of bran in a quart of boiling water. Keep it hot for half an hour. Then add the water to four gallons of hot water and squeeze the bag.

To Darn Linen.

When you are hemming new table linen save the strip you cut off, and later, when the linen must be darned, pull this strip into threads for the on* pose. %

FIRST TO PHOTOGRAPH HUMAN FACE

IN the old building of the New York university on Washington square, the birthplace of the telegraph of Morse, there waß taken in 1839 the first photograph Of the human face. The photograph w&b that of Miss Dorothy Catherine Draper, and the man who took it was her brother, Dr. John William Draper, professor of chemistry in the university. He gone a step beyond Daguerre and by thjs photograph he established himself as one of The great inventors of the nineteenth century. Not long a£o occurred the hundredth anniversary of Doctor Draper’s birth and it was celebrated in the auditorium of the university at Aqueduct avenue and One Hundred and Eighty-first street. It was on the roof of the old building on Washington place that there was set up, in 1840, the first photograph gallery in the world. To this gallery there came to be amazed and delighted all the notables of the day, including Theodore Frelinghuysen, the candidate for vice-president on the Henry Clay ticket Professor Draper took the pictures. His camera was a cigar box and his lense the glass from a pair of spectacles. Doctor Draper’s assistant in this gallery, the man who posed the sitters and attended to the artistic details, was Prof. 8. 7. B. Morse, who only five years before and in the same building had operated the first telegraph line. The pictures taken in this gallery were developed by Professor Draper, for It was his experiments in regard to the chemical action of light that had enabled him to Improve the process of Daguerre almost as soon as the latter’s discovery was made known. It was in 1839 that Daguerre gave his process to the world, but It was not then adaptable to landscapes or portraits. In the same year Professor Draper announced that he had found the way to photograph the human face and to overcome those obstacles which made the Frenchman’s process imperfect and impractical. In these kodak days the directions which Doctor Draper gave at this time for taking a photograph are interesting. At first, he said, he had tried dusting the face of a sister with white powder, but he later found that this was unnecessary. On a bright day and with a sensitive plate, he announced, portraits could be obtained in the course of five or seven minutes. “The hands of the sitter,” he said in these directions to the camera fiends of that day, “should never rest upon the chest, for the motion of respiration disturbs them so much as to make them of a thick and clumsy appearance, destroying also the representation of the veins on the back, which, if they are held motionless, are copied with surprising beauty. “A person dressed in a black coat and open waistcoat of the same color must put on a temporary front of a drab or flesh color or by the time that his face and the fine shadows of his woolen clothing are evolved his shirt will be solarized and will be blue and black with a white halo around It. “Owing to the circumstances that yellow and yellowish browns require a long time to impress the substance of the daguerrqtype, persons whose faces are freckled all over give rise to the most ludicrous results, a white portrait mottled with Juat as many black dots as the sitter has yellow ones.”

On March 22, 1840, Doctor Draper took from the roof of the-building the first photograph ever'taken of. the moon. His plate was exposed 20 minutes and the Image *as about an inch ih diameter. The photograph was presented to what was then the Lyceum of Natural History. It created a great sensation at the time, not only here but abroad. Daguerre’s name was

given to the photographic process for many years after this. The man whom New York university is about to honor as the first photographer and a great chemist was born an Englishman. He came to this country at the age of twenty-two, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1836 and was appointed professor of natural philosophy, chemistry and physiology at Hamp-den-Sydney college in Virginia. It was from there that he was called in 1839 to be professor of chemistry at New York university, and he signalized his change of residence by announcing almost Immediately thereafter his photographic process. He was connected with the university until his death in 1882. Doctor Draper has frequently been described as a pioneer in the science of prismatic analysis. His discoveries In this field covered a wide range. He even anticipated the incandescent light of Edison when he suggested as- a standard for photometry for white light a piece of platinum foil of given area and thickness heated to Incandescent by an electric current of specified strength. t Gapillai'y attraction was the subject of his first researches and from them arose his discovery as to how the blood is purified, a mystery which had baffled the scientists up to that time. It was in 1847 that he explained the circulation and purification of the blood in a work that attracted wideattention. Doctor Draper is still, remembered at New York university as one of the moat prodigious workers ever known. Besides his extensive research work he found time -to publish more than a hundred books, monographs and addresses. He wrote a history of the Civil war in three volumes and his "History of the Intellectual Development of Europe" was translated into every civilized tongue.

A Lazy Man’s Job.

Tip, since his early Wanderings on tbe plains, has always said that Jhe softest lazy man’s Job on earth was raising sheep. Sheep are bush feeders. They will thrive on eating anything from dead sage-brush to railroad snow fences. They will tunnel their muzzles through snow to gßt a stick underneath for food. Of course they eat the snow when they get thirsty. Now Tip learns from an official government report that an island ofT the coast of Nova Scotia has been a great success. Not an attendant with food, not a copper cent of cost to tbe owners, and through tpro bitterly cold,, hard winters those sheep have fattened and flourished to splendid form and fleece.-~-New York Press.

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‘‘And what is her reason for asking for a divorce?" “Because her husband was in the habit of throwing her dresses all over tbe house/' “That’s a funny reason.” ‘‘Yes, but as a general thing she was inside the dresses when he threw them." . , '• Ood helps those that help themselves.

The American Home WILLIAM A. RADFORD Editor

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A well known architect has said that good house planning is the simplest gnd yet the most complex, the clearest and yet the most subtle, the plainest and yet the most difficult, of anything connected with building. Whea it comes to the discussion of design, not even the architects themselves cap agree. The- intricacies of the subject are bound to get anyone discussing it into a tangle when he comes to explain how a thing ought to be and why it should be so. And, after all, house designing is a matter of taste. And while that taste is, in the first place, that of the architect who is responsible for the planß, in reality it is the taste of those who are to live within the house and have it for their home, which should be considered. Some general principles of house designing may be mentioned for the assistance of those who will be planning and building new houses this season. A house should be rectangular in general outline, not square. Skillful, Indeed must be the architect who would design a perfectly square house to be attractive in exterior appearance. It has been done with one device or another, but more often utter failure has resulted from the selection of a perfectly square outline to begin on. Such a house is a box, and it is very hard to make it look like anything else than a box. If a house were simply a shelter, depending entirely on a tight roof and firm foundations and walls; in other words, erected solely for use, such a plain box-like structure would be all right However, the sensible and public spirited home builder requires

something more than these. He wants a residence that will be pleasing in appearance and will conform in a way to its natural surroundings, adding somewhat tp the general architectural appearance of the town. With a house of rectangular outline, it is a simple problem of design to produce a structure of agreeable, wall-pVoportioned appearance. The interior arrangement will also be found to work out better with a rectangular plan, as it allows a better distribution of rooms. A glance at the accompanying perspective and floor plans, will show

First Floor Plan

wnat is meant by a rectangular plan, elaborated In a way to bring out the best features of house designing. The long side walls on each side are broken up and the monotony relieved by means of broad bay windows, extending from the foundation clear to the roof and topped with gable ends as a part of the roof. This also breaks up the long straight side of the hip roof. The small gable added to the front completes this idea, balancing the design. Tbe large, showy porch is also strik-

ingly executed and is an important feature in the design of this house. Through these simple means, the exterior la made attractive, while the simple straightforwardness of the rectangular plan is preserved. A house all cut up with wings and ells may look very nice from the outside, but it is expensive to Jbuild and is seldom so convenient as a compact, rectangular dwelling of this kind. The floor plans show five good, wenlighted, large-sized rooms on the first floor, and five rooms and bath on the second floor. These rooms are nicely arranged for convenience in the necessary labor of housekeeping. * On the first floor, the parlor, sitting 1 room, and dining room are exceptional-

Second Floor Plan

ly large and pleasant rooms, all opening together, with wfifl» openings and sliding doors, so that all can be used together. This is a great convenience where there is much company and for social gatherings. It will be noticed that a good-sized bedroom is provided on the first floor in this house. This is a feature that is not included as often as it should be in present day houses. If situated

a little apart from the main portions of the house, as in this case, a first floor bedroom will be found to be a very desirable feature. * • : The exterior of this residence is of beveled siding. Cement blocks are used for the porch, with wood columns supporting the porch roof. Cement blocks are used for the fojm<Jatfon and base courses. The roof is-shingled. This house, having a width of 31 feet 6 inches and a length of 48 ffeCt, exclusive of the porches, is estimated Ur cost $4,000. It is a dignified, attractive design. t*: •“

A Japanese Room.

Upstairs I have drifted into the Japanese, although I have got confined myself to it to a painful degree. There are only three bedrooms. In the first I have light gray snails, the woodwork stained a deeper shade of gray, and the on the simplest cottage lines, also stained _ The curtains are of lavender and light bine cotton crepe with a fascinating, iris design. The rugs are handhralded of heavy lavender wool with bits of the blue mixed In. Tbe bedspread is at gray homespun linen with a monogram embroidered In white. The dressing table Is draped with the crepe, and has a glass top. There are qpfty a few pictures and those are all gray photographs of white bircbfts with darker gray frames.—Jane Caltygun. in Harper’s Bazar.

Mean Suggestion.

Mr. Plumpleigh, fat and 50, wan paying a visit to the country, and, arriving at the deserted station after dark, he was at a loss to find the exit. After be had roamed around for several minutes a ragged urchin peeped through the railings. The boy appeared to be vastly amused at the visitor’s solid dimensions. “Can you show me the way out* of this confounded Btation?” thunderhd Plumpleigh. The lad eyed him from top to toe. ‘Have you tried sideways?" b» asked.