Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — Page 2

CARE OF CUT GLASS

HOW LUSTER OF BEAUTIFUL ARTICLES CAN BE PRESERVED. ttantlonand Car* Than Make Wash Water Tepid, Add Ammonia and Use Good White Soap. It is seldom that the girl who sells the cut glass in the big department stores can tell you precisely what to do in order to preserve these beautiful and expensive articles, but one young lady, who owns several costly pieces and who is overly enthusiastic concerning them, says that with the proper care they are a joy forever and a delight to behold. As a warning she says that it requires considerable more care and attention than does silverware, as cot glass will not stand any rough handling while being polished. This brittle article is actually the most fragile in tho world of the housewife; it seems to await its chance to chatter, and, therefore, if the following rules are adhered to, breakage will be reduced to the smallest percentage. Keep It in a china closet that has a rail or support that will avert its slipping. Make sure that the shelf is strong to hold the weight If the pieces are large. Never rinse under running water. Prepare water for washing in a wooden pan or dish tub, and' fold a towel on the bottom so that the pieces can rest on its cushiony layers, Make the water tepid and add ammonia; use a good white soap, a cam «lß‘ hair brush (sold for this purpose) and a lintless cloth. Rinse with water of the same ternperature and dry with a soft towel, polishing afterward* with tissue paper that comes Tor this purpose, or you can use a new clean chamois. Do not put grease of any kind In these pieces, not even butter, as grease makes them cloudy and you can never polish them as brightly after so using. Brushing should always be done with the softest brushes procurable; ■tiff brushes scratch unmercifully. But a brush must be used to clean the crevices so it cannot be dispensed With. Never use tacks or buckshot to dean the Inside of bottles, jugs and pitchers, but the ground shell of an egg, salt and lemon or a little white vinegar. A piece of raw potato, soaked in a carafe or any of the deeper pieces will help to make brightening a light task and cleaning still easier.

HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS

Do not use soap on window panes. Either alcohol or ammonia will give a fine polish. Remove stains or discolorations from tinware by dipping a damp cloth in common baking soda and robbing briskly. __i To remove white spots from varnished furniture moisten a soft cloth with alcohol and wipe the spots, being careful not to rub too hard, or the varnish will come off. To prevent cakes bursting on top 4o not allow them to bake too fast. They should not begin to brown or crust until fully raised. A pan of cold water set on the grate above will keep them from browning too rapidly.

Varnished Floor.

An expert painter and Interior decorator says that when wishing to freshen up varnished woodwork or floors to take a piece of new cheesecloth about one yard square, dip it In the varnish and squeeze out until yon can handle easily. Then go over the woodwork the same as if using a cloth to wipe off. Of course the woodwork or floors should be perfectly clean. It does not take a third of the time it does to use a brush and the finished work looks equally well. It does not, of course, put on as heavy a coating of varnish as when using a brush, but being so much easier to do one can afford to do it oftener.

Russian Salad.

Simmer a can of tomatoes, one bay leaf, 12 cloves, blade of mace, slice of onion, six sprigs of parsley, for ten minutes, then strain. Add to hot liquor three-fourths of a box of gelatin dissolved in a little water, two tablespoonfuls of tarragon, vinegar, one teaspoonful salt, obe-fourth teaspoonful paprika. Fill a border mold threefourths full of oold cooked chicken and celery cut fine; then pour in the Jlly; set on ice until firm, fill oenter with blanched lettuce, circle outside with chilled cucumbers.

Grape Juice.

Here is a beverage you may like. Take a long glass and put in some shaved ice and the juice of one lime. Hie fruit itself may also be left in if desired. Now add a wineglass of grape juice .and fill up the glass with apollinaris water. « *

Brownies.

One cup sugar, two eggs, one-half clip butter, one-half cup flour, two squares melted chocolate, one-half potmdwatouts, ch°PPed, °r* teaspoon

CARE OF LEATHER FURNITURE

Mixture of Vinegar, Whites of Eggs and Turpentine Makes Good Cloaninp Compound. The cleaning of leather upholstered furniture is a question that concerns almost every housewife, for those who do not possess one or more pieces of the padded leather kind have at least the leather seated diners, that require refurbishing three or four times a year. In preparing to clean such a piece it is best to have the necessary materials at hand, so that the work can be finished at once and without risk of injuring the furniture, as there would be a liability if the different operations of the work were not done in rapid sequence. Procure three large size cheesecloths, a basinful of tepid or nearly warm water, to which has been added a little vinegar, say a tablespoonful, and a mixture of the whites of two eggs and a half pint of turpentine. The mixture is best made by first beating the eggs to a froth and placing it in a bottle before the turpentine, and then before each application it is well shaken in the bottle.

Large pieces of leather furniture are gone over in sections, first with the cheesecloth, which has been dipped in the warm water to which has been added the vinegar, and then after being carefully wiped with a dry cheesecloth, it is polished with a cheesecloth or chamois lightly saturated with the egg white and turpentine mixture, after this the article Is carefully wiped dry with other cloths. Seats of the dining chairs can be done one at a time with ease. Any leather covered article, such as seat pads and even go-carts, not leaving out the dull calf or gunmetal shoe, can be renovated after a fashion by the same process, and shiny leather thus treated will admit of a polish more readily than before it is applied. - -

USE OF RICE AS VEGETABLE

Flavor May Be Constantly Varied by Cooking Cereal in Essence of Vegetables. Wash the rice thoroughly, rubbing the grains between the hands and using many waters, until all starchiness disappears. Then let the rice aoak In cold water for at least 15 minutes —longer if possible. Cut three or four large carrots in long, thin strips, as for soup, and boil them In one quart of water until it Is reduced to a pint Then throw away the carrots and use the water, which will contain their essence, to cook the rice. Melt one tabiespoonful butter in a double cooker, placing it, for the time being, directly over the fire, and let the rice fry in it for a few minutes until it shows a tendency to brown, stirring constantly.. Then add tbe water in which the carrots were cooked, one teaspeonful of curry powder, and salt and cayenne pepper to suit the taste. Place the rice cooker in its proper vessel and let it cook until all the liquid Is absorbed and the rice is well done. Test the rice by pressing a grain of it between the thumb and finger. If- it crushes readily, it is sufficiently cooked. The essence of any vegetable, secured In the same way as that of .the carrots described In this recipe, may be used for choking rice as a vegetable, and thus the flavor may be constantly varied.

ANTI-DRIP STRAINER

A tea or coffee strainer that will not drip haa been invented by a Wis-

what higher than that of the coffee or tea pot. The cup is attached to the by a strong wire clamp. Inside of the cup and shaped to fit it is the strainer proper of fine wire mesh. The device is attached to the pot by means of a strong wire clamp and when the coffee or tea is poured the drippings fall into the cup of the strainer. —Popular Mechanics.

Cocoa Cake.

Cream one-half cup butter and one cup sugar,' add beaten yolks of two eggs and beat well; mix one and onehalf cups flour, one and one-half teaspoons baking powder and two teaspoons of cocoa thoroughly. Beat whites of eggs stiff, measure one-half cup milk and then add a little milk and flour mixture alternately to the egg mixture. Lastly add whites of eggs and one teaspoon vanilla. Bake In shallow pan about 20 minutes and frost with the following: Plain Cocoa Frosting.—Mix one-half teaspoon cocoa with one cup powdered sugar, add one tablespoon lemon juice and one tablespoon boiling water, or enough to mix the sugar Into a paste. That settles to a level the moment yon stop stirring. Spread at once on hot cake.

The Use of the Broom.

Few people handle a broom properly, although accustomed to Its use every day of their lives. Always draw your broom by leaning it forward, because this allows the dirt to be moved along more gefltly and will not raise much du»*. Most sweepers thrust the broom ahead of them in a sort of digging way, with the handle toward the sweeper. This breaks the bVoom, wears out the carpet, flirts up dust and makes the sweeping much more laborious.

consin man. The device consists of a small metal cup with a spout that, normally, is some-

LAST OF FAMOUS PHILADELPHIA TEAM

Larry Lajoie, Second Baseman for Cleveland.

Larry Lajoie is about the last of the old gang that wore the Philadelphia uniform In Harry Wright’s managerial days. Wright rounded up a great team of hitters for the Philadelphia National league club in the early ’9os. Clements and Cross were .350 hitters. Ed Delehanty, Billy Hamilton and Sam Thompson, the three outfielders, were also .350 sluggers. Bill Douglas, Larry Lajoie, Joe Sullivan and Bill Nash composed the infield. While Billy Hallman was playing second base for the team Lajoie covered first base. Hallman was the weakest hitter o nthe club. The other infielders were all smashing stickers. When Jack Taylor was pitching for the club every man on the team hit over .300.

MERKLE MAKES STUPID PLAY

Emulates John Anderson by Attempting to Bteal Third Base While That Sack Is Occupied. Some bffßlde iriformation of ik e St 7 Louis Cardinals’ recent visit to New York is to the effect that a “Merkle" play distinctly characteristic of the man who lost the Giants a pennant helped Bill Steele get away with his victory over the New Yorkers. Steele was pretty freely hit in the game he pitched. He was beginning to wabble and totter In seventh Inning and the Giants were going after him hard. With one gone Murray and

Fred Merkle.

Merkle singled, and with Murray on third Merkle stole second. Bridwell tapped to the box and Steele nailed him at first That made two out hut with men on second and third and strong Indications of o&e of those famous Giant rallies, it still looked pretty uncertain for the Cardinals. Then

Clements, the catcher, was a left handed hitter, and could hit the ball a mile. The year Harry Diddlebock managed the Browns for Chris Von der Ahe and Ben Muckenfuss, Theodore Breitenstein almost pitched a uohit game against the hard hitting Phillies. The score was Itoo In the last half of the ninth. Breitenstein started off by walking Billy Hallman. Harry Wright then sent Clements up to bat for “Klondyke Bill” Douglas, who was catching. ' Brietenstein, a left hander, thought Clements, a left handed hitter, would prove easy picking and tossed one over. Clements pickled it, driving the ball over the right fielder’s head. It landed in the shoot-the-chutes pond and the game was over.

what did Merkle do? He stole third base! And Murray holding down that cushion. Necessarily, the rules not providing for two men holding one station, the Giant rally was cracked then and there.

Scattering Notes of Diamond

Ed Ruelbach shows he likes the heat. George Browne is back in the big league again. “Skell” Roach evidently has Jimmy Callahan tied as the "come back” player. Pitcher Barger of the Brooklyns Is coming to be regarded as a pinch hitter. ' Artie Hofman has been 'making good at first base since he started playing that position. Muggsy McGraw has the college idea also, signing Steve White of Pennsylvania. If the White Sox can overcome their old hoodoo, Cleveland, the Chicago fans will be satisfied. Birdie Cree, the diminutive outfielder of the Highlanders, has been doing some great batting this year. Howard Camnlts* come back abilities do not seem to be so lasting as Jljnmy Callahan’s and Fred Tenney’s. Hughey Jennings’ men are popular on the road, winning or losing—preferably losing, even If they are not so st home. Manager Duffy is beginning to get the college player craze. He has Blgned Third Baseman Howard of Cornell. Rock Island has sent Outfielder Hunter to Brandon In the Western Canada league, getting Outfielder Jack Olsen in exchange. Catcher Jack Kleinow goes Into the Eastern league from Boston. Another veteran’s name Is crossed off In the big league ledger.

PECULIAR RECORD OF TRIO

Chance, Jennings and Welch Often Hit flrWtched Ball—Unable to Dodge Coming Sphere. '/ Frank Chance, the leader oC the •Cabs, was overcome by heat the other day and the physician In charge says he cannot play ball again this year. This is a severe Wow to the Cuba Chance Is one of the unhickiest Wayera In the league. He is one of the' three men who stood oat above all others when it came to being hit by•pitched balls. The other two are Hughey Jennings and Curtis Welch. The strangest thing of all, as far as two of these men were concerned, was the fact that they didh’t mean it They were game all right, but not game enough to voluntarily run the risks they seemed to take, and the countless bruises they received were not endured to help their teams, but because they couldn’t dodge. a sact —Hugh Jennlngb could not dodge a ball, and Frank Chance cannot duck one now. As for Curtis Welch, he was a different proposition. He got hit intentionally time after time, and never, perhaps, without full meaning. The box Scores of the old Baltimore games seldom went Into print without the words,’ “Hit by pitched ball, Jen.nlngs.” Time after time Hughey was cannonaded, and, as a rule, was bumped hard. His nerve and gtmeness were widely praised, while some of the cribles said he was simply foolhardy. The latter opinion was almost universal when, after Baltimore had safely won the flag, Hughey continued to get thumped, and to get hlt as well. All these years he had been unable to dodge. He seemed unable to convey the sense of danger from his brain to his limbs quickly enough to spring aside, and on several occasions he was knocked cold when he knew the ball was coming, when he waa eager to get out of the way, and simply couldn’t make his muscles move in time. Frank Chance has been hit in the head 38 times, and stunned on 30 oc-

caslons, while he has received innumerable smashes on shoulders, ribs or legs. Chance wants to get out of the way, but cant He stands flatfooted, resting heavily on his pins, when batting, almost Imbedding them in the ground, and he cannot sidestep or make his feet move in time to save him. He can’t even dodge a alow ball, his feet move so rebelliously, and. yet, once on bases, he is a lightning runner. Curtis Welch stood lightly set upon his feet and could swing away from the fastest pitching if he desired. But he didn't desire, and so agile, so snakelike was he that he could seem to be grazed by purest accident every time. He' even developed a way of glancing t(he ball off his forearm, apparently dodging, yet leaving the arm exposed and letting the ball tick against It.

Jack Haskell, the Western league umpire, tells the following at tne expense of Wichita: ‘lt was down there a few weeks ago,” said Jack, “when things were looking shaky. During one game of the Omaha series there were only 23 people in the stand, while the bleachers contained one lone and lonesome fan. The humor of the situation Btruck me, and before the game I found out the name of the faithful one in the bleachers, which was Johnson. “Then, when it was time, I walked over in front of the bleachers, and. dolling my cap I announced: ‘Mr. Johnson, the batteries for this afternoon will be fer Wichita, Jarnlgsn and Shaw, and for Omaha, etc.’ “Thank you, Mr. Haskell,' replied Johnson."

It Is hardly a state secret, but it is a fact, that the Athletics are furiously efgw to win the championship this year in the American league, for they believe that the Giants are probable winners of the National league championship. and they wish to play them for the world** championship.

Manager Frank Chance.

Haskell Tells Funny Story.

Why Mackmen Want Flag.

WHEN THE HORSE WONT PULL

Giving a Team a Tow is Not So Com* mon in Summer as in Winter. Winter ia the time when moat commonly one driver helps out another, when the going is bad with heavy snow, bat such help may also be extended in summer occasionally, when the going is all right, and a team has been exhausted by the heat This waa such a case, but it had complications. Here was a small double truck with a load that weighed perhaps a ton. scarcely more than that and a pair of horses not the best pair in town, but a team that could easily haul the load; but now here was this team halted, while ahead a driver was turning the horses of his truck back to the truck that was halted, to give that truck a life, an unusual sight for the season. What-was the matter? Why couldn’t that team with a comparatively light load on get away with it without help? The explanation was simple. One of the horses in the stalled team has a mind of his own. You couldn’t call him a balky horse, nor is he jx horse that lies down on the job, and yet there comes times when he won’t pull, and when you can’t make him, as on a day and in a place like this. On a hot hard day when he gets hot and sweaty and tired be may make up his mind to stop for a time and then he does stop and you can’t start him. He wants a rest and he insists on taking it, but when he has rested that way for 10 or 15 minutes he’ll put his neak into the collar again and go on. He had stopped like this and the place where he had now stopped was a little up grade, but this time he didn’t stop .as .long, .as usual .for this is a tolerable busy locality and pretty soon the traffic policeman got the outfit moving. He commandeered a passing truck and got the truckman to give the stalled truck a line, and when the line had been made fast and the towing truck started up both horses of the stalled team started pulling too. “It’s a hot day,’’ said the traffic policeman, “but It’s not a heavy load. They’ll take it along all right when you get 'em up on the level."

Lightning Rod Investigation.

There has always been more dr less controversy as to the efficiency of the lightning rod, but this matetr is likely to be settled at no distant time beyond all question of doubt. The authorities of the University of Illinois have undertaken to do this and bave been at work on the problem for some time. Last summer some valuable experiments were conducted but the results were not entirely satisfactory for the lack of suitable apparatus. During the coming summer the work will be continued on a very elaborate basis. The use of an open' field has been secured for the entire season and 'the investigation will be continued during the entire season In which thunder storms may be reasonably expected. In this field twelve 40-foot poles have been erected. Six of these are equipped with devices for registering the effect of lightning strokes at or near the poles. There Is a series of spark gaps with induction, resistance and capacity figures, so that the lightning may jump across the gaps or pass arovnd through shunt circuits. Any action due to lightning will be recorded on a moving strip of paper driven by clockwork so that the exact time of the electrical discharge can be told from the record. Three of the poles have been equipped with sharp needle points and three with brass balls.

Where Our Dead Go.

Maj. S. Harris, one of the Australians who fought in the South African war, visited British Columbia and finally settled down in Vancouver, says the Argonaut. Now he tells of a man in his province who went over to see London for the first time last year and was being shown through Westminster abbey. He got into conversation with a tourist agent who was showing a party about and at Intervals the man who was explaining asked the British Columbian questions about Vancouver. “I suppose that in your country you have no place like the abbey?” he suggested. "No,” replied the other. “Then what, may I ask, do you do with your illustrious dead?” “First," replied the British Columbian, “we appoint a commission to see whether the man- is really dead, and then if the commission decides in the affirmative, we send him to the legislature.’’

The 17-Year Locust.

The 17-year cicada which is wrongly called the 17-year locust, is the longest lived of any known insect, as the grub or nymph lives for over 16 years sucking the roots of the forest trees, often several feet below the ‘surface; In the last spring it finished its transformations, and usually at the last of May or the beginning of June, issues sh enormous numbers from the ground. This appearance of the 17-year brood dates aa far back as 1633. At the present time each year has its brood, or broods, each limited, as a rule, to a well defined distriot. There are 30 of such broods scattered over a large area in the Atlantic and central states. The southern limits are northern Georgia and the western limits eastern Nebraska and Kansas. v -

The Chief Objection.

“A thoughtful writer Bays dry Martinis inspire song." “No doubt, bat what the world needs is a stimulant without a flarefeack.”