Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1911 — Page 3

HAPPLNINGS IN THE CITILS

Crow Heads Puzzle the Officials

INDIANAPOLIS IND. 4 —Here is a pretty kettle of fish. The offices of the county clerks in Indiana are being filled to oversowing with the heads of dead crows, and the result is not pleasing to the sense of smell, to say the least. Came about this way: At the last session of the legislature of the state succeeded in having a law enacted which placed a bounty of ten oents upon the head ,of every crow. The farmers argued that the crows destroyed much of their crops by eating the seeds after they were scattered on the ground and were a nuisance in general. Everybody thought it would be a good scheme to abolißh the pest by killing off a large number of the prolific crows/ And so it came to pass that the law was enacted and ’most everybody thought the question way solved at once and for all time. But it wasn’t. The county clerks are the sufferers and complainants now. The farmer boys spend their

Chinese Queues for Milady’s Wig

CHICAGO.— Prices of coiffures are due for a slump and “milady of the boulevards” may soon be promenading down Michigan avenue bedecked in the very latest of late imported puffs which but recently formed the most conspicuous part of the hirsute adornment of the Celestials of South Clark street. It may seem strange that the most fashionable of Chicago’s smart set will be able to purchase real "imported” puffs, curls, braids, switches and rats which were once the queues of Chicago chop qpey waiters and Chinese laundrymen, but the fact remains indisputable, for according to the edict recently passed 1 " China 90 per cent ot all the Celestials in the United States have divorced themselves from one of the most typically distinguishing features of the race—the queue. Following a similar move in the Chinatown of New York, San Francisco and other cities, the Chinese of Chicago the other day kept the barbers busy with the shears and by night there were few left along South Clark street who. could boast of the “pigtails” which were their pride of other days. Hip Lung, mayor of Chicago’s Chinatown, and the leaders of the

Wife Rifles Pockets! Then Beat Her

PROVIDENCE, It I.—Judge C. M. Lee of the superior court, in the course of a separation suit brought by Elizabeth T. England against her husband, John E. England, stated that a man la Justified in chastising his spouse if she rifles his pockets. The > England! have beeh married about fire years, and recently there has been trouble in the" household. Mrs. England wanted separate support from her husband when she Came into court She told on the witness stand that they had three children and had been living happily enough until a short time agq. One night, she related, Mr. England arrived at his home on Warren street about 8 a. m., and prooeeded to curl up on the floor. Mrs. England admitted that she thought he was asleep and started to go through his pockets

Aero Landing and Lake on Roof

NEW YORK.—New York within a year is to have one of the most remarkable buildings on earth. It la designed to replace Madison Square Garden, and not the least of its features will be a landing stage for flying machines. A $2,000,000 structure is to be reared on the site of tbe old Brewster carriage factory on tbe west side of Broadway between Forty-sev-enth nnd Forty-Eighth streets. It will be used mainly for exhibition purposes and various trades in tbe sporting line. The Broadway project Is backed by interests identified With the Schlits Brewing oompanr of Milwaukee, represented in New York by John Ohmels, restauranteur, and Oscar Schmidt The building will be erected by the Atlas Development company, which in January of last year took a long lease on the Brewster site from the Sutphln estate. The new building Is to be adapted particularly to the needs of tbe automobile, motor boat and aviation industries and their allied trades. With

“off rainy days” hunting crows. They are bringing them to the county seats by hundreds. The heads are strung like so many beads or pearls, and often the strings measure four or five feet in length. In communities where the crows are plentiful—and that seems to be all over Indiana —the gunners can bag enough crows in a day to realize a good compensation for their work. Here Is where the rub comes in. The county clerk who receives and pays for the crow heads muss keep them until his books, stock and office materials are audited by the county commissioners, which is once a year. Now what is the county clerk going to do with the hundreds and hundreds of crow heads brought to his office? Surely he cannot put them away in the safe with other valuables. Neither can he throw them away, for in that event he would have to stand the bounty money,, from his own pocket. The result is that hia office smells to high heaven, and even the sale of marriage licenses has suffered . a slump. v i-',-And that is the reason the county clerks of Indiana have signed a round robin and forwarded it to Governor Marshall, praying him to offer a solution, or at least appoint a commission for that end.

famous Moy family, Moy Tong Gee and Moy Tong Hoy, all bowed with good grace before the power of the scissors. The hair is being shipped by the Chinese to London where large English hair dealers will convert It into coiffures of the latest fashions and of various shades, and then ship “real imported” puffs back to American soil. The money which the Chinese in this country will receive for the hair is to be sent back to China. Some time ago an edict was passed to the effect that til citizens or former citizens of China might cut off their queues or retain them as they saw fit. It was formerly one of the strictest laws of the country that every citizen must wear a queue, and those without them were not allowed to return to the empire on pain of severe punishment.

in search of a watch and ring which she claimed belong to ber. But Mr. England woke up and gave her a slap in the face. She tried to go through his pockets again and testified that he gave her a kick in the back. Under cross-ex-amination Mrs. England told that she had struck her husband with a shoe. After listening to considerable of this testimony, Judge Lee stated In his opinion this couple ought to be brought together and become reconciled. He brought out the fact that the woman only wanted separate support and probably would become reconciled to her husband some time, and thought tbe present a good time. Judge Lee conferred with Lawyer Thomas F. Cooney, who represented "Mrs. England, and Lawyer Arthur Cushing, representing Mr. England, and they agreed, to do what they could to effect a reconciliation. "But you must tell your client,” admonished Judge Lee, with a smile, In addressing Lawyer Cooney, "that she must not go through her husband’s pockets again. A man is Justified In slappjng bis wife if she goes through his pockets.” ~

this end in view, certain unusual structural features have been planned, such as s starting and landing track on the roof for flying machines, a lake 60 by 126 feet, also on tbe roof, for the display of motor boats, sad an enormous freight and passenger -elevator, 26 by s|, capable of carrying an aeroplane, a 60-foot motor boat or about 400 persona at one trip. ~ The basement, which will have a very high celling, will contain a restaurant seating 6,000 or 7,000 persons and run on the plan of the famous rathskellers of Berlin and Munich. Tbe roof will be used as an open sir garden in the summer. The lake is to be utilised as a skajtlng rink in tbe winter. 4

Three Preţy Styles

rE coat and skirt costume on the figure at the left is made in a gray and white flecked tweed With a herringbone stripe, and is intended for girls from fifteen to eighteen years old. -< The skirt has a panel. back and front and is cut off at the sides and finished with plaitings. The simple, half-fitting coat is made with lapped seams and fashioned with three buttons covered with tpe material. 'The little boy’s coat is of cream serge, fastening at the side and finished at the neck with a turnover collar. 'lt is trimmed with silk braid to

FROM HEAVY LINEN SKIRT

Many and Lasting Doilies Made by One Cleveland Resourceful ‘ . Woman. The housekeeper whose supply of dollies is getting low should look over her summer wardrobe and see if there are any heavy linen skirts not worth making over, but whose material will last for years. ; These can be cut into dollies ot various sizes. One woman from the best parts of a nine-gored skirt cut an oval centerpiece, twelve plate doilies and twelve tumbler dollies to match, with four smaller ovals for under dishes. The plate dollies were nine inches in diameter finished and the tumbler doilies five inches. There was no extra cost for stamping, as the edges were finished with a grouped scallop, the central one being twice the size of that on each side. This -applied to the doily brought two of the smaller scallops side by side, with a large one between every two.'' The scallops were padded with chain-stitch and worked in No. 30 mercerized white cotton, in a close buttonhole stitoh. -; * In the center of each scallop was worked an eyelet, that in the big scallop being larger than the others. A second row of the smaller size was added, placed opposite the point where the two small scallops join. This gives a pyramidal effect alternating with the larger eyelets. At one side of each doily was embroidered initials in small block letters. This design is easy to copy if (me experiments with the correct sized scallop for each dolly. v

For a Butterfly Fete.

At tbe sapper table have a bowl or bed of flowers with butterflies hover* Ing above and poised on the blossoms as a centerpiece. Let tbe candle shades be flower-trimmed, with a brilliant ‘moth with, outspread wings glued to the side of each. Have the place cards butterfly outlines cat from art pager mad daintily colored. The dessert could be Ice cream In butterfly shape and If so desired tbe delicious little "butterfly cream” cakes, which say baker can supply. Candies In flower forms are particularly pretty for the bonbon dishes at such a fete.

Among the Silks.

Another old-tUner which the modes are reviving again this season is grenadine. It is soft and filmy of weave, of silken texture and charming for the modish draped gowns and veiled effects. Quite new are the two-toned silk grenadines. These are quite wide, some In numerous color combinations, and are not extremely expensive. They are most suitable for afternoon, reception and dinner gowns.

Fine Cotton Crepe.

One of tbe new fabrics > which attracts the shopper’s eye is a new Japanese crepe in plain colors, as well as all the fascinating floral patterns. This differs from the usual run of cotton crepe in that the crinkle is extremely line, in fact, as the moef expensive crepe de chine. - * «■-V • 4

match and has a white kid bell With this is worn a cream corded silk hat. The little girl’s coat is an entirely new model; this one is made of champagne-colored clQth, trimmed* at the bottom with a broad band of stitched cloth over the ends, of which the fronts form points, fastened with buttons. : , The wide collar is faced with shantung silk to. match, on which are scattered in an irregular way snail orange-colored spots. The buttons on this coat are covered in a very original* fashion, partly with the cloth and partly with the shantung silk.

CHILD’S PUMPS FOR DANCING

New Idea Has Many Points of Importance That Are Well Worth Consideration. A party of young women who were training to dance in private’theatricals were told by their instructress to buy children’s patent leather dancing pumps, with rounded toes, low heels and narrow strap over the instep. They rather begrudged the money as they thought the pumps were for one occa#on only. So comfortable .did they prove that every one of those girls will wear nothing else around the house in the'evening. It Baves their handsomer slippers and the low heels are restful to the back and incidentally to nerves. For a very tall girl, these pumps are especially suitable as the lowness of the heels reduce her height and bring her into more normal stature.

BOY’S SERGE SUIT.

Serge or drill ere the materials generally chosen tor a suit like this, either white or nary; when the suit is white, the collar should be blue, and with a nary suit a white collar looks well; the singlot may be of fins flannel or drill, embroidered with an anchor Material required: Two yards 46 inches wide.

The Newest Sleeves.

Two-thirds of the dresses sent out by smart designers hare fancy sleeves, often transparent, sometimes by no means so. The dimensions of the sleeres are always small when the material la of dose wears; and about half the elaborate erenlng frocks, particularly for matrons, are sleeveless, with Inch-wide bretelles to support the waists, many of which are astonishlngty decollete.—Harper's Baser.

Good Jokes

BIOE LIGHTS ON HIB CAREER.' A deputation from the Literary guild had waited on Dr. Samuel Johnson and asked him to make a speech before that body on a certain date.” “Gentlemen,” he said, "I shall have to refer you to my press agent, Mr. Boswell. Jim, have I got to make a spiel anywhere next Tuesday night?” “Why, no, doctor,” answered Boswell, in an undertone, “but you’ll have to pass it up. You know it will be two weeks yet before you get your glad rags out of hock. Gentlemen," he added, turning to'the callers, "1 regret to say that Dr. Johnson’s time will be fully occupied for the next fortnight" This incident, on mature reflection, was suppressed by Mr. Boswell when he came to write that Immortal biography.

Diverse Tactics.

Both boys had been rude to their mother. She put them to bed earlier than usual, and then complained to their father about them. So he started up the stairway, and they heard him coming. "Here comes papa,” said Maurice. “I’m going to make believe I’m asleep." “I’m not,” said Harry. - “I’m going to get up and put something on.”* — Harper's Monthly.

A Life Subscription.

He sits on the sofa, from time to time opening his lips as though about to say something Important, but each time hesitating. At last the fair young thing looks up at him with a radiant smile, her red lips parting deliciously over her ivory teeth and her glowing eyes thrilling him to the souL "Obey that impulse 1” she murmurs. He did, and in June she took him for life.”—Life. .

Then We’re All Guilty.

"Homer Davenport Is asking for a divorce on the grounds that his wife has treated him in a cruel and inhuBoan manner." “Then he ought tp have it.” “But how could she have done tnat when he weighs over 200 pounds?” “Perhaps she laughed at one of his cartoons."

THESE COPPER MINES.

The Artist —I should like to paint your portrait. Were you ever done in oil? The Countryman—No, but I was done in copper once.

Matrimony.

“Man wants but little hers below.** You've heard It said: That's what he gets, the records show. When once he’s wed.

Story Got the Near-Sighted Man.

“While I think 1 am rather inclined to give, yet 1 try to be discriminating, not to give to every beggar with an idle and obviously untrue tale, but." said the near-sighted man, “I fell Impulsively for a story new to me thin morning. “ ‘Boss,’ said the man as be looked st me, 3‘ve lost my spectacles and I’m. trying to get together enough money to buy another pair/ “You know if I should lose my speotacles I should be lost myself and on that story I gave up without another thought.”

Useless Talk.

"How's business?” said the man In the barber’s chair. “Oh, I’ve plenty of it, but a lot of It is unsatisfactory.” “What do you mean by unsatisfactory?" “Why, you know, 1 shave tbe men up in the deaf and dumb asylum!”— Yonkers Statesman.

She Was Suspicious.

Cashier—l’m sorry, madam, but 1 can’t honor this check. Your bun band’s account is overdrawn.” Lady—Huh! I thought there was something wrong when be wrote this check without Waiting for me to get hysterical”

the Part She Won’t Like.

“She thinks that man with the medal is a hero because he doesn’t pose.” „■ ' "She’ll think him something else soon.” "Why?” -a - , “He doesn’t pro-pose, either."

TROUBLE.

All kinds of trouble! ' i You can pick and choose. If you want a cause to kick, t -• There’s more than you can use. You can hear the war cry* Any time you jotease. Sometimes It’s idFSpanlsh, And sometimes In Japanese ‘ . •-Sraasy All kinds of trouble! Anything you like! The trusts are out for plunder. There are rumors of a strike. And yet we’re takin' notice. Without meanin’ for to boast. The things that never happen Are the things that fret us-most

Why They Change.

Ashley—l have noticed that men are the most changeable creatures in the world; lots of them part their hair in the middle when the are young, but hardly one in a hundred keeps the practice, up. Seymour—Why is that? Ashley—Principally ‘because hardly pne In a hundred has any hair in the middle to part.

THE RETORT UNPLEASANT.

Mrs. Hoyle—They teach children very differently - from the way they did when I was a girl. Mrs. Doyle—l didn’t suppose there were any schools at all 6 you were a girl.

A Rash Promise.

Whene'er it comes my time to die And Join the ghostly pack. You won’t hear me exclaiming: "I Will send a message back."

Still He Refused.

The poet had asked Father Time to turn backward In his flight, and had encountered a stern refusal. “If yon don’t," stormed the poet. “I’ll recite aH the stanzas of It to you!” - Pale but determined, old Father Time took bis medicine like a little man.

In the Morning.

"When I awake in the morning, tbe drst thing I do is to congratulate myself upon the fact that I have lived to see another day.” - *1 don’t The first thing I do when I awake in the mornifig is yawn and wish I didn’t have to get up tor another hour.”

Wee a Terror.

Conceited Fop—l warn you to beware of me for they say I am a dangerous man with the ladies. Debutante —Do you really dance as awkwardly as that?—Meggendorfer Blatter.

Harmless Amusement.

“I see somebody has sold you a gold brick at one time.”

“Yes,” said Farmer Whilfletrees. "I paid $2 fer that brick. It’s worth its weight In gold to amuse the summer boarders.”

A Sad Canlne.

Giles —There goes a handsome woman who is leading an unhappy llfei Miles —How do you know? ... ■ ' Giles—Why, don’t you see her dragging that poor dog along at the end of a string?

HARD TO GET THERE.

■ <■ i The Preacher—There is always room at the top. The Deacon—Yes—but the'elevator is not always running.

Hardly.

This Russian dancer, so far as We are concerned will get ’the hook; No man on earth can dance a way That we'd think worth three plunks a , look.

Neither.

Seymour—ls Register’s hotel conducted on the American or the Euro-1 pean plan? Ashley—Neither, I should sky; Judging from the appearance or the cooks and the waiters it’s conducted on the African plan.

Beats Washday.

Citlchap—What do you consider tbe moat delightful season in the suburbs? Mrs. Urban—Bpriog All our neighbors clean house tben and their ruga and carpets are exposed to rlew.