Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1911 — Page 3

TALESOR COTHAM ANDOTHER CITIES

Footwear of Humming Bird Feathers

MEW YORK.—Women on this side T ±bf 016 bl & Pond learned with interest that their sisters In Paris were wearing shoes made from humming bird feathers, the ridiculously low price of $2,500 a pair placing the fluffy footwear within reach of all. Realizing that It was only a question of a few weeks before the very latest fad in tootsie trappings would reach this olty, and being aware of the fact that humming birds were none too plentiful, the young and old girls began figuring out how many of the gorgeous mites would have to be sacrificed to cover their spoke's. Married men read-the article until they came to the line which told about the price of~the new plumage, and then they dropped In their tracks. When they regained consciousness they equipped their wallet pockets with burglar alarms and hired detectives ,to watch their trousers while they slept. Many of them, unable to. see a ray of hope, went straight to the bankruptcy court and gave themselves up. More than one happy home was

Burro Saves Its Master From Prison

LOS ANGELES, Cal.—That old story of a prospector's love lor his burro, the companion and solace of weary, lonesome hours In a desert search for gold, won freedom from jail for aged Aaron Braunsheldt here. Braunsheidt came into Los Angeles from the desert and mountain land along the Mexican border, riding a decrepit burro. Across his shoulder was slung a rifle. At his saddle, formed by an old frayed comforter, was his camp outfit, pickax and a shovel. His beard, long and straggling, and his long, gray sunburned hair was unkempt. As he passed along the street, P. A. Rambo,* agent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, saw him. The burro’s back and hip bones displayed recent scars. Braunsheldt was surrounded by a curious throng when, as the official placed a detaining hand upon the' burro, he reached for his

old rifle. A wire fastened to one end of the barrel caught In his tattered coat, affording Rambo an opportunity of disarming him. At the offices of the society the old prospector told a story which won sympathy. It was repeated later to a throng of citizens who accompanied Braunsheidt and Rambo to a livery barn, where the burro had been

City Gets 125,000 Post Cards Daily

CHICAGO. —If any one doubts that the friends of Chicagoans do not send them cards from all parts of the world during the vacation Beason, just ask the letter carriers. Chicago’s postoffice Is now receiving 125,000 cards dally, and when the postcard crop Is at Its height, the office will handle 200,000 cards a day. IF all of the postcards that come to Chicago each day at this time of the year from people jaunting throughout the country on vacations were placed end to end, the line would reach a distance of twenty miles. Five hundred poetcards laid on top of each other form a pile one foot high, and so, by careful figuring it is found that the total number of cards coming to Chicago dally will form a

Children Swat Flies for the Bounty

BOSTON, Mass. —An endeavor to rid Worcester of flies through a fly killing contest Is under way In that city and scores of children have entered the competition. Many prizes, aggregating more than |«00, are being offered to the children producing the greatest number of dead flies within the time limit of the con test, and during the few days the competition has been going on several hundred thousand of the germ carrying Insects have been slaughtered. The insects are measured by the quart as they are brought in and throughout the city the little ones are dally engaged in a wholesale fly massacre. One boy tells of catching 10,000 flies tn an old cow stable and thousands more around garbage cons. In their hustling fqr the prises the children are Invading back alleys, stables, markets, setting traps among garbage and dirt of all kinds, and petroling various Insanitary places where the moot flies are found. Few contestants are conflning their

rent with discord by the announcement Women who had the temerity to ask their husband how many humming birds would be necessary in their case were generally told that a whole aviary would not make them a pair Of shoe strings. - It was only natural that there should be much conjecture as to the possible adoption of the new fad by Chicago women. In view of the fact that It takes the whole southwest side of a cow to make one of them a pair of slippers It was' generally agreed that one Chicago order would put the humming bird family out of business. *Tm willing that my wife should have everything within reason,” said a. man whose cut glass display Indicated that he was not dodging any creditors, “but I draw the line at $2,500 a pair for shoes. Just think of it! Shoes that cost $1,250 a foot. She cried and called me a tightwad when I refused to grant her the appropriation, but I told her she would have to stick to the leather kind or get another cash register." “I’ve got a wife and seven daughters,” said another man, “and when I went home to lunch they pulled this humming bird thing on me. Every one of them has feet like and when they Insisted on being In style I turned over my bank books and reserved a place for myself In the bread line.”

stabled. Willing hands reached for pocketbooks and none desired to have him punished. He was released. .As he walked away from the city hall building, one arm placed affectionately about the burro's neck, he was cheered by the men who contributed to provide him and his companion with food. Braunsheldt, known to many pioneers as Aaron Brandt, has won and last fortunes In search of wealth which he believes exists in his gypsum claims near Tucson. For forty years he has prospected. His wife and their only daughter conducted a confectionery In San Francisco. In the great fire Mrs. Braunsheidt And the daughter, Clara, were killed and their little property lost. Since that time Braunsheidt has be'en prospecting. ' The only thing left of his family fortune was the burro, which his daughter had named “Mrs. Buffalo Bill.”

stack 200 feet* high or equal to the height of some of Chicago’s taller One little Innocent postcard often makes the postman walk two or three floors higher than he would go if he were carrying only “legitimate” mall. Frequently the postmen return to the Offices and find that postcards have compelled them to walk one-third farther than the regular mall would have taken them. The Chicago postoffice handles In one day more postcards than any other office in the world 'under on* roof. The vacation period brings onehalf as many cards to the city as does Easter or Christmas time. A downtown novelty dealer declares tfe sells as high as |IOQ worth of postcards a day. Of course, the postoffice has to be just as careful with a little vacation card as with a real letter. But one kind of card is barred, the variety that Is covered with tinsel. Tinsel is poisonous and the clerks are not cothpelled to come in contact with it

attention to homes, for they can gather comparatively few flies there. Some parents look at this feature of the contest with decided disapproval. They fear the children afe very likely to contract diseases in invading such places and handling the flies. Another feature U that each child must kill the flies and then dry them carefully before turning them in. In this way the children directly handle the germ-laden Insects. -- Traps of every shape and description as well as all manner of ingenious methods to kill the insects are being used. Fly catching devices are selling at a premium, and men And women appear as much interested in Um affair as the children.

The Panama Hat

THE Panama hat of today is woven in sizes and shapes to suit the mode and yet retain something of its old characteristics, An insistent American demand finally persuadedlhe native South American WAflvArfl tn vorv th a ahnnoo thov had

thing of its old characteristics, An insistent American demand finally persuadedlhe native South American weavers to vary the shapes they had woven for so long and to make broader brimmed and larger crowned hats. The two models shown In the pictures represent new ideas combined with the old in an entirely harmonious manner. This exquisite straw fabric, the most beautiful of street or outing hats, will perhaps come to be made for all sorts of millinery, but at present we associate it with that for which It seems to have the greatest fitness—the utility millinery, and we like it best with the simplest trimming. A panama of this description holds the same position as that of the first-class strictly tailored gown. It cannot be outclassed. The problem confronting the milliner Is the conversion of the small panama of aether days into an acceptable hat of. today. She has met this difficulty In a number of ways. By turning down the brim and banking wings and chiffon about the' crown. Or by the addition of a border of silk

HANDBAGS OF EVERY STRIPE

Good Point About the Newest Is That They Can Be Made to Match . the Costume. The separate handbag is flat, suspended on a cord and of fabric that Is delightful In its newness and in the possibility of matching costumes with which it is worn at small cost. That is the hopeful message of fashion’s mandate. You can make most of the fabric handbags. > » ’ There’s a tapestry bag with a pointed flap that is called an “envelope bag.” Its edges are bound with linen tape or gilt galloon, and it fastens either by a button and loop or by a patent clasp that can be bought at any notion counter.

Linen bags can be made of odd scraps of goods left from your frocks. There is no reason why you should not have *a little handbag to match every summer street dress. The shapes can be oblong, square, circular, oval. Drawing-strings of cotton cord are easily run through casings or crocheted rings on the outside. Hand embroidery can be added to the top surface of a bag. Soutache braiding Is another effective way. The fabric bags can be finished with metal tops If you wish, but the other method la just as good and a little easier for the maker.

Expensive Accessories.

Fashionable gowns of the more useful description depend almost entirely upon little accessories in the way of collars, cuffs, vests and undersleeves for their success. Without such ornamental addition the average serge or cloth gown of the moment becomes a curiously severe looking affair, distinctly lacking In attractivenasa. It is just these charming oddments which make such heavy raids upon one’s “pin money,'* and the woman who is able to reproduce expensive etceteras in her own sitting room has an enormous advantage over her less skillful sister.

A Trunk Rug.

A trunk rug for the guest room will protect a pretty carpet or matting from the disfiguring marks often made, by a visitor’s trunk. The rug may be of the same material as the floor covering and cut a little larger than a good-sized trunk. Take care to see that an Incoming trunk /s set square tr oa the rug. - - .

or ribbon to the edge of the brim and fancy feather bands of generous proportion about the crown. The flexibility of the crown makes it possible to turn it up or down anywhere. It may be considerably stretched also. Extra width, is sometimes let in the brim In another straw or fabric and concealed by a silk facing on the under brim and a soft scarf or sash on the npper brim. If the shape seems to be passable Without piecing there Is no other trimming better thhn a drapery of light silk or chiffon. The rule Is that the drapery should be light and durable like th'e hat; and In spite of its fragile appearance chiffon may be repeatedly washed. The owner of a panama hat should not use hatpins to fasten It on with. Hat fasteners should be sewed to the head band and thrust Into the hair to secure the hat to the head. It is almost a crime to thrust pins through the beautiful, painstaking weave of which the hat is made. The evidence of carelessness shows a lack of appreciation. When one sees a fine panama punctured with holes it Is a mark of Inelegance in the wearer.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.

IN STRIPED SILK

This pretty waist is of striped silk, with large collar and reverg of the same, which are ornamented with buttons and loops of cord and edged with lace ruffles. The turnover cuffs are trimmed in the same way. The full plastron or chemisette is of mousseline de sole. The girdle is of the striped silk, fastened a little to one side under a knot of the same.

Handbag Made of Apple Pips.

Apple pips are probably amongst the last thing in the world that one would have thought capable of being utilised in the making of such a useful article as a handbag, yet one in the possessoin of a Strand reader was made of nothing else. The pipe have been most skilfully strung together to form a pleasing design and the bag 1s quite large enough to carry a small pocket handkerchief.

Making a Buckle.

When a buckle is required for a dress and you don't care to spend a lot on one try this: Cut out the shape you want in heavy cardboard. Cover it with the material of which the dress is made and then trim it with whatever trimming is being used. A pretty one was madp of row after row of beads to match a dress trimmed with bead fringe. Cover one with lace, gold tisane er anything.

a classic note.

“Archimedes,** read the pupil, "leaped from his bath, shouting: ‘Eureka! Eureka!’” "One moment, James,” the teacher says. "What is the meaning of ‘Eureka?’" " 'Eureka' means *1 have found It*” "Very well What has Achlmedes found F’ James hesitates a moment, then ventures hopefully: "The soap, mum.”—Christian Intelligencer.

Not a Statue.

Father and son were walking the streets and passed a large park In which were many statues. One of them —the largest of an—Was a woman. "Father, what is thatF’ asked the son, pointing to this particular one, which was inscribed “Woman.” “That is not a statue, my son,” answered the father. "It is but a figure of speech.” —Life.

GAVE HIMSELF AWAY.

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Miss Bllyuns—Am I the first one you ever loved? Lord Getthecoyne—-Yes; you’re the first girl I ever knew who had all her money in her own name.

No Temptation.

"I don’t indulge In games of chance,” Said William Finn. The reason why we’ll now advance— He couldn’t win.

Dark Outlook.

”1 see a North Dakota man has patented a hammer with a loop of metal under the face of the head In which a nail can be held for starting It into place without danger of smashing the user's fingers,” said the joke writer’s wife. "The first thing you know,” said the joke writer,, with a long face, “they’ll leave nothing for us fellows to write about”—Yonkers Statesman.

A Glad Rellef.

"Thank heaven, those bills are got rid of,** said Bilkins, fervently, as ho tore up a bundle of statements of account, dated October L “All paid, ehF’ said Mrs. Blikins. “Oh, no,” said Bilkins. “The duplicates dated November I have come in, and I didn’t have to keep them any longer.**—Harper's Wekly.

Where He Lost

"Got a puncture, have you?" "No; I haven’t got a puncture," replied the exasperated one, who didn’t care to answer foolish questions at that moment "I just let the air out of the tire to give it a rest” “Indeed! lam a puncture expert and was going to offer to fix it So long.”

EXALTED.

Bossman—i didn't know that your father was a Mason. Is he high up? Terry Dooian—Sure. He's workln* on the steeple of the new. church yonder.

Stung.

He’s loot his faith In his fellow man And the reason why Is plain. He ordered soup on the a la carte plan. But It looked far more like rain.

Helping Dad.

Johnny—Papa, would you be glad if I saved a dollar for you Papa—Certainly, my son. Johnny—Welt I saved It for you. all right You said if 1 brought a first class report from my teacher this week you would give me a dollar, and I didn’t bring it—Red Hen.

We Don’t Belleve IL.

"He has Invented a trouser skirt that is bound to be the rage.” "What is there peculiar about ItF "The wearer can put it on over her head."—Judge,

SMILES

-AlfJ HtOwhS*’ ' ’ He trfed so hard to stay awakwHls efforts were in vain: A little nap he still would take And soon would dose agala. -- Hi» yawns enormous were to see. His languor was Intense, That poor chap lacked the energy Te. sit upon a fence. His balance there he could not keep. Without some effort made. So stretched him where the grass was deep And slumbered tn the shade.

A trio of professional story tellers was off In a corner of the club, spinning yarns. Brown had just told a most unbelievable story, and the other two glanced t |t each other questloningly. "Wen, 1 assure you, gentlemen,” said frown, ‘if I hadn’t seen It myself I shouldn’t have believed it" “Ha—h’m—well,” said one of the two doubtful ones, "you must remember, old man, that we didn’t see It"— Lippincott’s Magazine.

"Every person should cultivate a spirit of optimism by hoping that things will soon take a turn for the better.” “No doubt Still, there are times when a turn for the better seems impossible.” \ "What do you mean?” "When a son of Italy Is turning a wheezy hand-organ, every turn he makes seems to be a turn for the worse.” ~-

Tommy (looking at the gas meter) —Paw, how does this thing tell how much gas you have to pay for every month? Mr. Tucker—Tommy, that is a great. Inscrutable mystery. It is one of the things we have to accept on faith.

"Gladys Maude seems to be greatly wrought up over the insurrection in Mexico.” "Yes. You see, a- friend once sent her several souvenir postcards from the City of Mexico and that gives her a lively interest in what U going on down tnere.”

Mrs. Stayholme—if you stay out another night until 12 o’clock. Fm going to leave you. Mr. Staybolme—l wish you’d put that on paper.

He played the line with baited breath. As the flsh ran from the shore; The flsh got off—he seised the Jug— And with re-baited breath he swore.

"What did you jump into de river for?” asks Weary Walter. “To wash me shirt," responds Lassitudinous Lewis. > "Why didn’t ye—" "Because I’d ’a’ had to take |t off an’ put It on again,” answers Lassltudinous Lewis, anticipating the remainder of the query.

“And what right have you to call yourself a manager F asked the eminent and irate actress after a stormy rehearsal. “I suppose,” was the deferential reply, “it is because I have managed so long to escape with my life.”

"It gives one a thrill to come unexpectedly upon two loving figures silhouetted against tho moon, ” observed Mr. Wopson. - -' “Indeed It does,” said Mr. Divorcon. “Particularly if one of the loving fig. urea happens to be your wife."

"Pardon me. madam,” said the dame with the subscription book, "but are you a woman suffragist F "Not so you can notice it, ma'am,” smiled the other; “I am a. lady barber."

Mrs. Hussey—Henry, when I hung up my harem skirt last night there was exactly 12.89 in the right-hand pocket, and now f can find only I 1.8&, What do you know about that?—Puck.

"Who gave ye th* black eye, JlmF "Nobody give it f me. I had t* fight ter it"—Life.

THE LAZY MAN.

They Didn't See.

For Instance.

Too Deep for Him.

An Explanation.

JUST SUITED HIM.

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The Lone Fisherman.

Convenience.

WILBUR D. NESBIT.

A Manager.

Speaking From Experience.

Not She.

Old Joke, New Twist.

Fairly Won.