Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1911 — Page 3

FEET ARE AWKWARD

Great Many English Women Are Pigeon-Toed Neighbors From France Declare They Should Have School for Teaching of Foot Deportment—Hobble Skirt Blamed. London.—The Englishwoman would ba the most graceful woman in the world if she could only learn the graceful management of her feet. Thia, in effect, was the verdict of a party of Frenchwomen who visited Hyde Park, and who apeared to derive considerable amusement from watchtag the awkward way in which the English women in the penny chairs placed their feet “Maladroit” “gauche,” were a few of the criticisms overheard expressed in tones of varying intensity. It was noticed that the ladies sitting in the row—the objects of these comments—were apparently all unaware of the Criticism their feet were causing. Though not perhaps, the usual habitues of the park/they were mostly well dressed women, wearing the customary "hobble” skirts and the rather conspicuous shoes of today, which are made in various shades of leather to match the stockings. One of London’s leading teachers of- dancing and deportment later in the day said that most English women need a course of “feet discipline.” “It is another example of the danger of adopting a fashion set by a foreign country,” she said. “The ‘hobble’ skirt—the present mode —was evolved by French costumers to suit Frenchand Frenchwomen are renowned the world round for their graceful feet

“English women hastily adopt the fashion without thinking that, practically for the first time in the history of fashion, the feet fdrm a conspicuous part of the tout ensemble. There are no .crinolines or loose plaited bell skirts, to hide them. “Beyond a little drilling in the management of her feet which she gets in the hobbledehoy, short skirted period of her life, the English woman is never taught the necessity of graceful Control of her feet. “Now comes suddenly this tight skirted vogue and her feet are revealed in all their pigeon toed or sprawling awkwardness. Not all of them, of course, for some English women are naturally graceful from the top of the head to the tip of the toe. “English women are fully aware that the new skirt makes smart shoes and stockings absolutely de rigueur, but they forget that smart shoes and stockings draw special attention -to the feet and make it equally compulsory that they should place them gracefully.”

FLY SPREADS DEADLY GERM

Dr. Flexner and Aid of Rockefeller Institute Discover Disseminator of Infantile Disease.

New York. —Experiments carried on In the laboratories’ of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research have demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that the virus of infantile paralysis Is carried from the sick to the well by the common house fly. It had been really understood the poisonous element of the disease is transferred from those suffering from it to persons brought in contact with, the patients; also that healthy persons carry the virus from the sick to the well. But in thinly settled sections of the country the disease has spread in a manner that could not be accounted for by any of the foregoing means of transmission. This led to the suspicion that the common fly was the carrier, and resulted ( in experiments which have been and are still being carried on by Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the institute, assisted by Paul F. Clark, Ph. D.

WOULDN’T GO WITHOUT THEM

Ocean Liner Is Held While Porter in Taxi Speeds to Ship with Wealthy Woman’s Lingerie.

New York.—Miss Elenor Spang, a wealthy unmarried woman, who owns a house in Washington and another in Paris and who recently has been a guest of the Hotel Plaza, was booked to sail on the Kronprlns Wilhelm. .. For several days past she had overseen the packing of her 15 trunks by her French maid, Celeste, who understands little English. She had placed some of her lingerie in a suit case to 'have by her in her cabin. When it came to packing her fishing implements—for Miss Spang is a great tyherwoman—she told Celeste to “leave out the longest reel” Celeste thought she meant the "lingerie.” When Miss Spang arrived at the ship, accompanied by Max Thompson, assistant manager of the Plaza, she found on looking over her baggage that the suit case containing the lingerie was missing. She became panic-stricken. No, it was absolutely impossible for a lady to sail under such conditions. She must have those things. What should she do? Sailing time was only M minutes away. Thompson dashed to a ’phone, called up a porter at the Plaza, gave

AUSTRIAN EMPEROR NOT DYING.

FRANGIS JOSEPH L Emperor of Austria

VIENNA. —Reports that have been sent broadcast to the effect that Emperor Francis Joseph has been attacked by senile decay and is neartag his end are vigorously denied by those close to the venerable ruler and seem to be disproved by the Emperor’s continued activity of mind and body. He still insists on attending personally to state affairs.

WILL FIND DEFORMITY

Child’s Curved Spine Often Escapes Doctor’s Scrutiny.

Dressmakers’ Measurements Disclose Defect When the Time for Any Effective Treatment of Trouble Has Passed. Chicago.—“lf your child has a backache and your doctor can’t cure it, send for the dressmaker; she knows more than the doctor about crooked backs.” Such is the advice given by Prof. Henry D. Thomas of the Northwestern University Medical school in a lecture <to the members of the Chicago Visiting Nurse association at the Wesley hospital. “In the clinic records there are the histories of 4,000 cases of bowed-legs and 3,000 cases of scoliosis, or curvature of the spine, which were treated In the last ten years,” he continued. “In the cases of spinal trouble the disease began when the child was from three to eight years old usually. “No one knew anything of the disease in many cases until the child was old enough to go to the dressmaker. Then it is too late for any effective treatment. The girl’s mother—girls have 75 per cent, of the cases—never sees it, the family doctor overlooks It, and not until the dressmaker begins to do some measuring does the deformity appear. Once started, the process continues with terrible effects. "The number of children who suffer from this disease Is very large. Some estimators state that it is as high as 60 per cent.; others place the figure as low as two per cent My own .calculation, based on an examination df the

instructions where to find the suit case, and ordered him to rush to the Twenty-third street subway line in a taxi. Thompson dispatched another taxi to meet the porter on the Jersey side. Then Thompson begged the captalfi to hold the ship. The captain agreed to wait five minutes —no more. At four minutes past the hour for sailing no tAxi was in sight It looked as though Miss Spang would not sail. But exactly at 10:05 the cab come in sight The porter sprang out and heaved the suit case over the rail, and Miss Spang sailed.

JAPS WILL EAT FROGS’ LEGS

Student Returning Homo From Fastem College Takes Jumpers Along for Breeding Purpose*.

Storrs, Conn.—Kemao Inonya, a Japanese student yho has just ceived his diploma from the Connec tlcut Agricultural college here, is on his way back to Japan, carrying with him, carefully crated, a dozen of the largest and best specimens of bullfrogs he has been able to gather from the ponds In the surrounding country. It Is his intention to use them in the propagation of the species tn his native land, where the frogs are small and not edible.

school children in Chicago, is three per cent My examinations, however, were made without removing the clothing, and so the real figures may be higher. “Sometimes the curvature Is congenial; sometimes it comes from rlcketts; often the position which a child assumes in school is the cause. The child has a slight deafness in one ear, an astigmatism in one eye too slight to be noticed, or perhaps Is simply weak. Sitting all the time in some crooked position day after day and year after year will develop a good case of curvature. “The only way to effect a cure is to begin the treatment early. Hence mothers, family physicians and nurses should examine children very carefully, and especially carefully when the child complains of some weakness or shows signs of being always tired.”

HENS LAY AN EGG EACH DAY

Small Flock of Rhode Island Reda Make Remarkable RecordOwner Has No System.

Wallace, Ida.-Twelve eggs a day, seven days in the week, for twentyeight consecutive weeks is the record of twelve hens kept in the center of the Coeur d’Alene mining district Only in the last-few days, when one of ths number began to sit was .the record spoiled. The twelve hens are Rhode Island Reds and are the property of Peter Caw, who lives seven miles northwest of Wallace. Mr. Caw’s home is Well up in the mountains at an altitude of more than 3,500 feet Throughout nearly nine months the ground is snow covered. It is only now that the last of the snow is leaving. At more than one time during the winter the snow has been banked around the building, nearly ten feet deep.

Mr. Caw has no steam-heated houses for his chickens and he neither cares for them nor feeds by any book system. The home of the fowls is an old barn, their feed selected scraps from the table. With these they have prospered and with clock-like regularity have furnished a neat income. Eggs in Wallace during the months past have ranged from 25 to 50 cents. Figured at the low price, the twelve hens made a grosi earning in the twentyeight weeks of |49.

MARRIAGE ENDS BABY FLATS

Owner Marries Waitress, Who Is Not Fond of Children and Prefers Families Without Them. Brockton, Mass. —Brockton’s famous “Baby Flats,” built exclusively for families with babies, will hereafter bo rented io babyless tenants, says John Hilt Bartlett, the owner, whose venture had resulted in ex-Presldent Roosevelt sending him a personal letter of commendation. Two years ago Mr. Bartlett announced that he saw no reason why families should be barred from tenements because they had children. A years ago he married a waitress. Now ho says he renounces his former opinion of babies. Mr. Bartlett does not express himself as opposed to babies, but Mrs. Bartlett frankly admits she prefers famlMoo without them. r*

WORK FOR EDUCATION

MANY STUDENTS SUPPORT THEMSELVES IN COLLEGE. Statistic* Gathered at PrincSton University Showing the Varied Occu- ? pation* That Were Taken Up by the Young Men. Statistics recently gathered at Princeton, show that 40 per cent, of the students are working their way through college. This means that of the entire enrollment of 1,442 students 577 are helping themselves to gain an education. These figures include all those who are making money in small and large amounts, and do not mean that the men ar* not getting outside assistance of a substantial kind. Students paying half their expenses are Included in 20 per cent, figures, and those paying their way through without any help from others could be put within the ten per cent limit There are scores of ways of making money at Princeton, and the fact that so many students take advantage of them is sufficient evidence that to work a little on the side is considered highly honorable by the student body as a whole, and it explains the further fact, that among those working their way through are some of the most prominent men in college both in athletics and In scholarship. One of the most popular ways ol making enough money to help pay a term .bill or keep the recipient in spending money is work on the college publications. Agencies of various kinds —from laundry work to socks that won’t tear out—give profitable employment. Three principal laundries doing student work have student representatives. These men are usually athletes, as are those who have clothing and athletic goods agencies. Calendars are sold by students at one dollar apiece add cigarettes, tobacco, steins, pennants, sofa pillows, pipes and the like are offered to the students, but to freshmen especially, at the beginning of every college year. Freshmen carry baskets around, well stocked with pretzels and chocolates. Soft hat men come through the dormitories in the fall and straw hat men in the spring.' Shoes are sold by students, and orders for clothing of various kinds are taken. Program privileges on the occasion of athletic events are frequented, and the advertising thereon yields a good return.

Students are agents for typewriters, bicycles, kodaks, golf sticks, caps, canes and the like. The privilege of taking newspaper subscription on the campus is considered a good one. Magazines are represented in Princeton by ’the score. Pressing establishments yield some money.—New York Times. , .

What She Wanted.

“I, for one, am in favor of the bin to abolish the use of aigrettes and paradise plumes in 'ladies’ hats. I favor this bill not only for moral reasons, but for financial ones as well." The speaker was Col. Lionel C. Harris, the well-known ornithologist of Memphis. He resumed: "The cost of these aigrettes and paradise plumes is a dreadful thing for any htfsband to conptemplate. 'I saw yesterday a Virot hat covered with aigrettes that was ticketed |2OO. And that reminds me—“A lady novelist wrote to a publisher last month: “ ‘Please send a check In advance of royalties. I want to buy a new hat for a June wedding.’ “The accommodating publisher sent the lady a check for |SO. She asknowledged it indignantly. "T said,* she wrote, 'that I wanted a hat, not a veil.’ ”

Young Worker’s Tragic Death.

The sweep’s boy—the "ramoneur,” has still to work his tortuous way through the chimneys In France and an accident which has Just occurred at Fleury-sur-Andelles calls attention to the necessity of putting a stop to the practice. A little Savoyard, named Charles Ravolse, fourteen years of age, was sent up the chimney of a baker and at the end of three-quarters of an hour he had not descended. The alarm was given and the boy was perceived blocked In the chimney, which had to be demolished before his dead body could be freed. He was hanging by the neck, having been caught in a portion of the chimney measuring less than six Inches across and asphyxiated.

Birds for Mosqailtoes.

Experience of the past few days has convinced everybody that the scientific war on the mosquito Is a flat failure. Insectivorous birds are the only remedy, and not all of them like mosquitoes. The swallow, which does, Is not a street dweller; the night hawk flies high and Is a rarity, and the bat Is promptly driven out of every house he enters. What’s left but to slap and scratch?— Brooklyn Citizen.

Wagner’s Parentage.

Discussing the autobiography of Richard Wagner, the Oesterrelchische Wochenschrlft says that no one will ever know whether the truth has all been published as to the master’s parentage. “It Is a feet, though, that he was registered at school as Richard Geyer and did not take the name Wagner until he was fourteen years old,” says this authority.

"TUT HER IN BUCKWHEAT"

Young Preacher Who Was Exhorting Mountain Farmers Received Unexpected Solution of Problem. A young preacher had beein sent out by the state mission board to bold evangelistic meetings in the mountains, and at the first one he held he met Lin Dobbins, a tall, lank, rustylooking indilvdual who immediately conceived a great liking for the preacher, and decided to let his crops go while he followed him. So everywhere the minister went, Lin went, too; and he always sat on the front seat with one leg crossed over the other, his chin in his hand, his elboy resting on his knee, looking up at the preacher as if he were some kind of deity. The young preacher knew very little about the methods of the mountain farmers and their haphazard manner of scratching a living out of the rough hillsides; so when he attempted to use illustrations which he fancied would appeal, to their understanding, Lin always became uneasy. “Let me tell you,” said the preacher one night, “of a certain man. who had a piece of ground. The snows melted and the ground lay moist beneath the rays of the early spring sunshine. The many voices of awakening life called to this man, but he heeded them ndt. He failed to plow his ground in due season; and even after the gentle rains came and the buds put forth, his land still lay untouched. Seed time passed away, the summer' sun poured down upon the ground, and the weeds had grown up in rank profusion. The day of harvest was nigh at hand, but he had pown nothing. At that late day, what was to be done?”

He paused to give his words effect, and at this juncture, Lin, who with dropped jaw and open mouth had taken all this in, suddenly threw up his head, made a speaking trumpet of his hand, and exclaimed in a very audible stage whisper: “Put her In buckwheat!" —National tMonthly.

Didn’t Know How.

It Is said that once when Reginald de Koven was touring the country he found himself in the town of Dayton on Sunday. They told Mr. De Koven that an Episcopal church in the neighborhood had a superb organ. Accordingly, he went to that church, ascended the organ loft and sat beside the organist during the morning’s service. “You seem to know something about music," said the organist, In a condescending way. “I’ll let you dismiss the congregation if you like.” “Why, yes,” said Mr. De Koven, "1 would like that very much.” Accordingly, at the end of the recessional, he exchanged places with the organist and began to play Mendelssohn’s “Spring Song.” He played beautifully. The Dayton people, enthralled by the wonderful music, refused to depart. They sat in rapt enjoyment, and after the “Spring Song” was finished Mr. De Koven began something of Chopin. Suddenly a heavy hand was laid on his shoulder and he was pushed off the music stool. “You can’t dismiss a congregation,” said the organist, impatiently; “watch and see how soon I’ll get them out.”

Next!

Mrs. S. T. Rbrer, the well-known cooking expert, compared French and American cooking in a lecture to the girl graduates of Chicago. “American cooking, with its simp dishes and its free use of the grill,'' she said, “is healthful; but the rich sauces of French cooking and the liberal use of the frying pan make the French flabby and dyspeptic. “I was once entertained at a Paris restaurant famous for Its chef. We had such dishes as salmi of becasse, etuve of beef and aubergine au gratin —and 'then my host, leaning back with a satisfied smile, handed me the menu*and said: '“And what’ll we have next, Mrs. Rorer?” < “'Well,’ said I, T think we’ll have Indigestion next***

Art “Criticism.”

Robert Henri, the well-known Ne> York painter, was condemning a stupid critic. “His Interpretations are always wrong,” Mr. Henri said. “He always misunderstands totally an artist’s conception. He reminds me of the Clnnamlnson woman before Millet’s *Angelus.* "When the ‘Angelus’ was on exhibition at Earle’s in Philadelphia, a Cinnaminson woman dropped into see it. She gazed with lively Interest at the two peasants standing reverently In the sunset glow in the quiet meadow. Then she said: "‘A courtin’ couple, hey. Seem a bit shy, don’t they?”’

Not Yet Christened.

The Browns had a new piano, and Jessica was telling two little neighbors all about It “What is the name of your piano?” asked one listener. “Ours is the Pickering.” „ “Why—we haven’t named ours yet," replied Jessica, rather puzzled. "You see, it only came last night.”

Going Back Into the Paet.

A tracer Is sent out by the Western School Journal to ascertain what has become of the old-fashioned country **lisum” In which one of the important debates every year was, "Resolved, That the signs of the times indicate the downfall of the republic.”

Types of the Christian Life

By Dr. Hugh T. Kerr, Chicago

TEJJCT—Jesus loved Martha and her ter and Lazarus.—John U* Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. Jesus loved them aIL Yet he loved each of them. iJirtha' and Mary and Lazarus. Each of them has a place in his heart. Yet they are so different . Jesus doe* not ask for monotony, but variety In his kingdom. The kingdom of grace is like the kingdom of nature. No two varieties are alike. In my Father’s house are many mansions. One family, but many members. One home, but many hearts. That was the revelation of God's character in the Old Testament He was the son of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob. How different they were. Abraham—the faithful, the consecrated, the pathfinder. Isaac—the lackadaisical, the indifferent, the father of an illustrious son, the son of an illustrious father. Jacob—the Jew —crafty and cunning, yet tender-hearted and visionary, and God was the father of each and yet loved them all. The fault with us is we want religion to level human nature at a dead uniformity, and we think Christians should all be conformed to our typfe, forgetting that Christ is the universal type—so universal that we may all be unike each other and yet all be like him. it is the fault that belongs toour education. We grind all our cblldren through the same mill. Black and white, delicate and robust, brilliant and dunderhead, they must all submit to the same polishing process. It Is the fault of our church system, also. We want to level down the whole congregation to our own miserable level. We think Christ his conceived in us the true conception of the saint. There 1* the Sunday school type and the Christian Endeavor type and the prayer meeting type. There is the elde# type and the trustee type. The W. C- T. U. type and the Y. M. C. A. type. The temperance type and the missionary type. There is the Presbyterian and the Methodist and the Baptist type. The Mary and the Martha and 1 the Lazarus type. But the love of God is broader than the measure of man’s mind, and all may be included in his all embracing love. Let us remember that Jesus loved Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Mary the passive, Martha the active, and Lazarus the patient Mary—satisfied to be. Martha to do. Lazarus to do without. Mary—the waiter. Martha —the worker. Lazarus—the watcher. Mary content to sit Martha content to serve. Lazarus content to suffer. And Jesus loved each and he loved all. Jesus loved Martha. That is what the record says. The active, busy serving Christian Martha. She is in the majority today and is greatly in demand. Sometimes she is apt to think she is the only one whom the Lord loves. She has much Scripture to quote in favor of her disposition and she has the authority of great men who favor the strenuous life. What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy. Pure religion and undented before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows In their affliction. "Be

ye doers of the word and not hearers only.” Martha is everywhere respected and honored today because she does things. She is the Sunday school, the prayer meeting, the church services, the missionary society, the ladles' aid. She Is cooking, praying, sewing, visiting, collecting for the kingdom of God, until when night comes she falls asleep too tired to say her prayers. And Jesus loved Martha. And wo must love her too. A religion that finds its joy in service and In consecrated activity is apt to be a moral power. A religion that finds God nearer in moments of sentiment or musical ecstasy, instead of in moments of moral endeavor, is extremely dangerous. Jesus loved Martha. Jesus loved Mary. Mary—the quiet, retiring sister who sat at his feet. Mary’s claim to recognition came from being willing to wait upon his words. She is like the beautiful picture through which you look Into the great far beyond. She is like whispering music singing comfort into troubled hearts. . . In a world of sin and turmoil Mary sat In the confidence of a beautiful trust. She was like another beautiful girl upon whose tombstone her friends carved the words: “It was easier to be good when she was with, us.” That was Mary’s tribute. “What Interests the world in Mr. Gladstone,**’ writes John Morley, “Is even more what he was than what he did.” What interests the world in Jesus la not so much his beautiful teaching as bin more beautiful life. It was a hard lesson for learn. He was the child of the storm and the tempest. Ha lived in tlons and revolutions. “Behold; the Lord passed by, and a great and* strong wind rent the mountains andi brake in pieces the rocks before Jo* hovab •’ My dear friends, let ns not takw away from the boundless power the> love of God. He loved Mary Martha and Lazarus. All with their differences. And they all loved him. Mary sits at his feet Martha hui> rles to aupifly his wants. And 1 Lasara* Is content to glorify him wMh hi* radiant resurrection, glery.. With alt our differences and Ings and selfishness wo love him an* each In turn la loved by him.