Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1911 — Page 3

The American Home WILLIAM A. RADFORD Editor

Mr. •William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this 'piper. On account'of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he la, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford. Wo. 178 West Jackson boulevard,'Chicago, HL, and only enclose two-cant stamp for reply. To anyone who is interested in home building and who goes about with eyes open to what is going on in the building world, it'is very plainly evident that we are building very much better today ln-America than at any former time; Not only In our designs is better taste being used, but we are building more substantially and are equipping our homes with all modern conveniences to-'make them comiortable, sanitary and labor-sav-to* - W 4 V-M • ‘ ; - It used to be said that there was no such thing as an American style of architecture, and looking at soipe of our residence sections which were built up, say 30 years ago, we are Inclined to agree that at that time there was no American domestic architecture worthy of the name. The styles of our houses were borrowed from every quarter of the globe; very often the same structure containing borrowings from a dozen different lands and foreign climes. Over our land has been scattered a great conglomeration of Queen Anne cottages, Swiss chalets, Italian villas, Indian bungaldws, and more recently art nouveau creations. A few of these have been at peace with their environment and look to be in their natural, appropriate setting; but most of them seem very much otA of place.•However, in the houses that we see going up today there Is a directness of design and a sincerity of treatment that is very satisfying. One of our

philosophers has said, “There is'a settled relation existing between home architecture and the human heart and the expression of that relation should be the ideal of domestic architecture." Today we may be said to be approaching that ideal, for we are insisting first of all that our homes express simple beauty and hospitable comfort and liyeableness. In this; architectural development cement plaster exteriors, stucco work, has played a great and Important part. The use of cement plaster has freed the architect to a certain extent from certain of the old time fixed rules, and has allowed a greater freedom in composition than with either wood, stone or brick. New styles

Fl oor Plan.

hare been evolved and new rules formulated which are in accord with the Ideals of today. Stucco has been used In connection with exterior work for hundreds of years, but only as applied over brick and rough stone buildings, and was ustfSlly ruled off into neat oblongs to t Is hardly surprising that 4s an ImlMm In ronnnf ..... cess, in recent years stucco or cemi »_ t| a |. « waav y v*w» IVI Us wUIIvVuUU WlUg frame buildings has made its snoear- *“* «***•? * wonderful pop- »■

metal lath In a durable cost from onehalf to three-quarters of an inch in thickness, this material produces a very neat and at the same time durable, attractive appearance. It stands on its own merits, It does not Imitate anything. If omafhentatlon is desired, the broad flat surfaces are divided op Into panels in any way to suit the fancy of the architect. Small and irregular spaces, corners, etc., are handled just as easily as the straight, flat work. % It is scarcely to he wondered at that this type of construction has received such favorable attention. The coat is just about the same as fop clapboards or shingles, and It has the advantage of being more Are resisting. One of the problems in connection with this type of construction in the past has been that of waterproofing. Especially where metal lath has been used, this has been a matter for eerfous consideration. Unless particular pains were taken to make the very outer surface thoroughly waterproof moisture was bound to penetrate the thin layer of plaster and get to. the metal, causing rusting and serious weakening of the walls. To solve this problem has been the task of the paint men; and evidences are that they have now solved it* satisfactorily. Numerous paints, Btains, waterproofing compounds, etc., '"trA now on the market to meet every need along these lines. The design Illustrated herewith is a very good example of what can be done with cement plaster In the design and construction of a small-sized house or cottage. This is a four-room cottage which has been built for 12,000, and from that up to $2,500. It is 34 feet 4 inches wide by 35 feet 6 inches long, exclusive of the porch. The exterior Is extremely attractive,

being of the type that Is so popular at the present time—neat, home-ilke, substantial looking, finished with cement plaster. The floor plan shows a very large sized living room, 14 feet 6 inches by 20 feet long. This is to the left of the central.hall, while to the right are two large-sized bedrooms, each with a clothes closet; A large kitchen is in the back of the house and is intended to be used as a dining room also, if desired. The bathroom-, pantry, etc., are very conveniently located. This is a design that works out very well in practical use and prospective home builders cannot do better than to follow it.

Set Him Right.

At Broadway and Forty-second street. New York, a man and fata wife were making valiant efforts to cross the street, dodging among trolleys and automobiles. . They finally landed on less, having, at the last moment, narrowly escaped destruction under the tires of a huge motor car. “I wish," said the man fervently, "that all automobiles were In bade* and the chauf“My dear,” remonstrated his wife, mildly, "you ought to reverse that wish, because in heaven the roads are

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The Real Theaters.

"Why don't you ever drink on mer demanded the bibnlons man. “Got any objections to having a drink on mer “None whatever," answered the other citlsen. “What I object to is drinking on your struggling family"

DISCARD FISH YARNS

They Are Deaf, Dumb and Nearly Blind, Saya Professor. C Brains Are Comparatively Small and Old Btories Must Be Regarded aa Merely Mythical—-Really Doea Not Think at All. London.—All the popular notions about fishes are exploded by Professor Harold Russell, the zoologist He announces, after a series of experiments, that fishes are deaf, dumb and practically color blind. They cannot cry, much less shed tears, as many generations of comic artists would tiave the public believe. ' The old stories of fish which came to be fed when called or when a bell was rung must now he regarded as mythical. All that the fish possesses Is a rudimentary inner ear, and it is a modified part of the so-called “lateral line.’’ the most mysterious thing in Ashes. By taking the cal carious stones sut of the ears, of fish, the fish lose all tense of equilibrium and roll jibout \s If crazy. The brains of fishes, says Professor Russell, are comparatively small, hough the parts and the general poll tioh of the nerves correspond with hose of monkeys and mankind. In a atwt the brain does not half fill the cerebral cavity, the roof of the space »elng occupied by a greasy fluid. In the front of a fish’s brain are the ilfactory lobes, from which the nerves >f smell issue. Behind these lobes ire the cerebrum, the thinking part, rery small and insignificant The xout has no eerebra cortex or “think sox.” Behind the' cerebrum are the sptlc lobes, into which run the nerves from the eye. Lastly comes the cerebellum, which controls the power, at novement . ' Discussing these and other curious features of fish life In the Natural Review, Professor Russell says a fish really does not think at all, but acts by reflexes. A message is sent Inward to the brain, and the muscles at >hce contract. Sensations are changed Into movements, aqd actions take place without thinking. Reflex actions are, therefore, immediately suggested and directed by the influence of external things. A fish is thus an Impressionist. Fear and anger are its chief emotions, and the search for food and for a mate chiefly occupies its activities. Most fishes hunt their foed by sight alone, though the eels depend solely on their sense of smell. The structure of a fish’s eye does not essentially, differ from that of a human eye. •'--.'A. trout has no eyelids and sleeps with Its eyes open. Fishes have no tear glands. Their vision is poor. As a rule, fishes are short-sighted. The fish’s eye is at rest when regarding something close at hand. A man’s eye is at rest when it is directed to' some far-away object, such as a star. How little taste or smell is possessed by fishes la shown by experiments on a conger eel in an aquarium. It devoured with equal avidity fish covered with anchovy extract, cheese, camphor spirits, iodoform and turpentine. Many fishes have no tongue at

BLIND WOMEN’S CLUB

Young and Old All in Dark, Chat Vivaciously. Everybody Beems to Know Everybody Else and Handclapping, as Sign of Appreciation, Is Frequent and Prolonged. New York.—The Blind Women’s club will suggest a picture of Maeterlincklan gloom only to those who have not had the fortune to attend one of its meetings. More than forty women, young and old, all in the dark, chat vivaciously. Everybody seems to know everybody else by voice; handclapping, as a sign of appreciation, is frequent and prolonged. The club is one of the many activities of the Association of the Blind at 118 East Fifty-ninth street. wb!f||p| working to aid'the blind to overcome their'handicap and to make their lives useful and happy. Primarily, the object Of the club Is, by extending their horizons of work and interest, to provide a means for the blind women known to the association to meet and "see" one another, talk over the mutual problems, and also to bring cheer, comfort and happiness into the lives of other blind persons. The business of a recent meeting went with verve and almost all the members took part in the discussions cMr. In moments of quiet there would be heard the weary's the meeting In Braille, the system of earlier nart of the evening her readlast meeting was as faultless and as P n£^ o e Ugh * he J not awggestlmi ofanjunaUve Interest. In the course of the j

LOVER OF FINE ROSES

MRS. CLARENCE WATSON, wife of the new United States senator from 1U West Virginia, is, lice her husband, an enthusiastic admirer of good horses, and they own some remarkably fine animals, which were entered at the recent horse show in Washington. These horses also were entered in the London show, and Mr. and Mrs. Watson were in England at that time and attended the coronation of King George.

all, but' It is conspicuous and well developed in the trout .and its allies. Carp have broad, flat back teeth with which they masticate their food with apparent gusto. A fish’s tqngue is without power of movement. Salivary 'glands are absent In all fishes and their mouths' never water even at sight of the most appetizing flies. Professor Bateson reports that some fish in an aquarium Ignored a straight piece of wire, but eagerly snatched at wire twisted to resemble a worm, and they did not discriminate between white,, blue or yellow wires so twisted. Most fishes have poor taste and bolt their food whole. Fishes taste with their skin, Professor Russell guesses.

secretary written in ink. A lady who saw merely with her eyes was asked to read the letter. Owing to illegibility she bad to stop and finally omit some words. This raised a laugh from all the members who could read with ten eyes, Instead of only two. One woman remarked: “That can’t happen to our letters.". The home teacher of the association, who is a very active member of the club, and who goes into the homes of the blind, teaching them to read Braille, how to play games, how to make baskets and to knit, was telling some oi tier latest experiences in her work. “This .afternoon,” she was saying, “I paid my fourty visit to an old colored mammy of eighty-three, who has . been blind for more than half a century. During this time she has read nothing, has done little or bo work, Jnst sat In brooding Idleness. Oh! she was so anxious to do something to occupy her mind. Today was her fourth reading lesson in Braille, and she read almost perfectly, bln two or three more lessons she *45 be able to read anything.’*

VENDERS ARE “EARLY BIRDS"

“Stake Out Claims” Many Hours Before First Patron Appears—Competition Is Very Keen. Atlantic City, N. J.—Through the arraignment of John Bbain, a hoardwalk flower vender, in recorder’s court, there was revealed a competition In this business so keen that the itinerant merchants select their posts as early as four o'clock in the morning, before the visitors appear, In order-that they may get the most adr venders had arrived on the board-walk the*bopdwalk dte man, recognizing the other's right of

DOLLAR BILL HAS ROMANCE

Man Contemplating Buieide Changes His Mind and Wine Fortune—Getil . Money in Change. Chicago.—A dilapidated one dollar bill, passed out from the ticket window of one of the local theaters, disclosed the other day as Btrange a romance as ever was dreamed of by a writer of fiction. The legal tender, which bore a message of despair written on its face, fell into the owner’s hands after fifteen years of wander* Ing through the west and the gold fields of Alaska. / The man who had written the message was Roy Denton, a native of New York state, who fifteen years ago went west to find his fortune. Bad luck followed his undertakings and sickness followed. JHe spent his last dollar 'for medicine, and in his disheartened condition he wrote on Its face: “This is my last dollar. R. D.” The medicine did not give the desired relief, and in his distressed state of mind, being without funds or friends, he wandered down to the bay. With the intention of ending his life. On the way to the wharf he was discovered by a former schoolmate, to whom he confided his troubles. The meeting resulted in Denton changing bis mind, and the following week the two schoolmates started for Nome, Alaska, where Denton took a claim which yielded him a fortune. Forjhe last three years he has been traveling In the orient, returning to America last month, and was on bis way to his old home. He stopped off in Chicago between trains and accompanied by a friend, went to a local theater. He gave a five-dollar bill in payment for two seats and received in return two one-dollar hills. As the money reached his hands, Alfred 8. Witsenhausen, the ticket seller, noticed the man scrutinizing the bill, turning visibly pale and exclaiming: "There's a dollar I never expected to see again.” hausen to make further Inquiries, and he revealed the story of bis bad luck and subsequent fortune. ■ ’’l wouldn't sell this bUI for all the monev in the world." said Denton, as he walked away from the box office, window. . *,

Started Fifty Years Ago.

Goshen, N. Y.—Gen. Henry L. Burnett, former United States attorney, Hoffman sent huf^watelT“wit* the inscription on the ease: Presented to

RECORD OF ANTIQUITY

BBS? ' ■ ' LIFE IN FORMERJies. '-•* ... 7. Religious Forms-, Business Methods, Historical Events and jMdtty Other Things Revealed 1# Carvings In Btone and Metal. Inscriptions by no are the product of modem learpjyj The ancients left 150,000 thjKpihve been resurrected, translated j§|t' printed, not' counting the epitaphs on'ordinary graves of thousands ofigjhfers ago. which are not deemed wfißkihe trouAncient peoples—Sahaeene, Phoenicians, Etruscans, Oscane, ians. Babylonians, Germanic tribes, Iberians, Celsß, Norse —all carved their records in stone and ’ metal. Paper was not ail common in those days as now. mm*. The permanent records left Include religious forms, btqtfness accounts, royal proclamationsand boasts of deeds accomplished, epitaphs. moTtuary tablets, altars, tepees, aqueducts, tax receipts, etc. Evidently property was not safe in the old days and they had the habit of writing cn seals, gems, vases and <®jp| brick-a-brae by way of identifyifg them. Both in this country and abroad scholars devote much of time to deciphering these mute reebyds of the past, and it is quite likely that the successors to our - such there shall bo—will find information in the Eliot inscription* for their learned tomes. . . WB# In France, along with other acade= mies, they have one of the inscriptions, which is preparing books of the Greek and Latin relics by photography. The experts began this job in 1881. r ’ In 1888 Mommsen and Huebaer, the great historians, projected a-similar task under the Berlin academy and at last accounts the savants who are continning their labors were still collecting. They have published many volumes and have preserved, some 10,00& of the 20,000 extant Greek Inscriptions. ' v ' ' It is a great part that the carved words of bygone ages has played In modem knowledge. The fihding of the Rosetta stone with its identical message in both Egyptian and'Greek the clew that unlocked the mysteries of the Nilene delta’s early Some of the languages tod* most of the history of Asia Minor bilk been preserved by the same method. Also some years ago at Hisjj?jGhorab on the Arabian coast, there' was found a stone, which being deciphered, proclaimed, -according to sofip; that the apple which Eve gave to Adam and thug made us all work fdr a living wasn’t an apple, but a pomegranate. Earth’s oldest inscription belonged to the Phoenicians once, and was hewn out some 3,000 years ago, being a dedicated bronze vessel for the temple of Baal Lebanon by Hiram*, king of the Sidonians. It was found in Cyprus and is now-Jn the Louvrp museum at Paris.

Drastic Kinder.

Women usually find ways of hiving. things done when ftiey want others to do them, and a North side woman seems to take the prize, if the tale of the husband can-be believed, ly the wife gave him a sealed letter, with instructions not to open he reached his offiee. as directed. PSfe “I am obliged to tell you something that will pain you,” the,, letter read. “There Is, however, no help for It. You shall know all. I have felt for some time that it must cpae to this. I can remain silent no longer. ‘Ton must bear part otMm trouble IZ’ZZL? ” ot "•** "* The husband's face was ghMstly, and cold perspiration stood out on Ms brow. He was prepared worst. Trembling, he read on: eM \ ' ”1 have asked you to a load of coal. Maybe you win not forget it this time." The coal was delivered that after noon.-Pittsburg Gazette Times.

Blindness of Justice.

Rastns waa on trial, charged with stealing $7.85. He pleaded »0t guilty, and. as he was unable to hire an attorney. the Judge appointed Lawyer Clearem as counsel. Clearsm pat up a strong plea In defense, and Rastns was acquitted. Counsel sod client met a few minutes later outside the courtroom “Now. Rastus,” said Clearest, “sou know the court allows the counsel vgry little for defending this kind q£ case.* 1 worked bard for you and gotjrou clear. I’m entitled to much moxpfpay than I’m getting for my valuahfeaanrieae. and you should dig up:S goc&alxsd toe. Have you got any money?" “Yes, boss,” replied done got dst seism doliaha and eighty - five cents.”

Starting Badly.

“Look here," exclaimed young • Mr. Cotter Tartar, In desoeratlOti, u la this | or Is It not a wedding tou»r "Why of eoittao," snapped young: Mrs. C. T. “It’s our wedding tour What on earth did yp Upf think it wasr - "Well, rtD beginning ter think H'p a lftture tour- Mow cut it oufcifperw Toledo Blade. - '-M