Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — Page 3

DRESSING THE WINDOW

SCHEME FOR DECORATION THAT WILL APPEAL TO HOUSEWIFE. Anyone With Least Bit of Artistic Bense Can Follow These Simple Directions—Very Few Materials Are Required. As windows vary in size, you will have to Btudy the illustration and measure your window accordingly before making your purchases. Three pieces of light wood, a few nails, a pole, a few yards of heavy olive-green doth, thread and gimp tacks, are all the materials necessary. To ascertain the quantity of goods for the curtains measure your window as follows: Place yardstick at center of top of window casing. Find

the distance from this point to the bottom of the window trim. This represents the finished length of your curtain, and if four Inches is allowed ifor the pole opening, you may estimate the required yardage. For windows of the ordinary width, a piece of 60-inch goods may be split, allowing >26 inches to the curtain. Now examine the lambrequin box tin the .illustration. Your first procedure should be the building of this ! box, the ends of which should [be about six inches wide and twelve inches long. The front piece should be a foot wide and of a length sufficient to meet the side pieces when ■they are nailed to the sides of the 'window casings. Before fastening the front to the sides of the lambrequin box, it will be wise to fasten two pole sockets close to the outside edges of the sides, taking care that they occupy corresponding positions on each side. Sockets for a lacecurtain pole may be placed Just back of the pole sockets, If you wish to use laces. Cover the outside of the lambrequin box with the same goods

HOW STAINS CAN BE REMOVED

Fruit Stains Should Be Treated at Once With Soap and Salt and Water. Fruit stains should be treated at once. Rub the stain with soft soap or good yellow soap, well wetted, and then with a paste of salt and water. If the fingers are stained from walnuts dip them in strong tea, rubbing the nails well with it, with a nail brush and wash the hands at once in warm water and the stains will disappear. If grass stains are rubbed with pure alcohol they will disappear, but this should be done at once. For claret stains soak the cloth at once in skim milk and wash out in cold water. White stains on polished wood caused by upsetting any spirit or by overhot dishes or plates may be removed by applying to these spots a feather dipped in spirits of camphor. This must be used very sparingly and the furniture rubbed well with a cloth dipped in sweet oil, repeating the process is necessary. When the stain is completely removed polish well with beeswax and turpentine or any good furniture polish. To clean ivory rub the stains with lemon juice, then with whiting made into a soft paste with lemon juice; allow this to dry on and when perfectly dry rub off with a soft cloth.

A French Novelty.

Some months ago there was imported from Parts a delightful little novelty In the form of a miniature gold chafing dish, a few inches In height. In which perfume might be burned. It may be found nowadays complete, 'with two special bottles of Fsench perfume for burning and a jar for the alcohol, in * small case.

The HOME DEPARTMENT

used to make the hangings. Gimp tacks should be employed to hold It in place, and these may be obtained at the hardware store for a few cents. Take a portion of the curtain goods and boxpleat It by tacking along the lower-inner edge of the box, making a flounce ten inches long. lambrequin Is now ready for the'window and may be secured by nailing to the side of the window casings. Should youjyish, a border may be worked with worsted yarn, or a tapestry border tacked on the lambrequin box as the picture shows. The lambrequin box should conceal all fixtures for window shades, lace curtains, etc.

COLLARS MADE AT HOME

3ailor Pattern Has First Place This Summer Among Girls Who Follow Fashion’s Dictates. This summer the sailor collar has first place, and the girl who has not a goodly supply of them must replenish her wardrobe. This can be done at small cost. All that is needed are ideas. Get a well-fitting sailor pattern, adjust it to your neck, and vary the designs and shapes with each new collar. As the deeper ones are only effective on the young and slender, make more of the shallow ones. With the sailor backs the fronts can be varied; sometimes brought to a shallow point, again reach to the bust line with a plastron inserted; squared across the front dr shaped into revors. A smart shape has back and front is, a small square cut out of each corner. A yard or tfiro of cotton marquisette, lawn, or dotted muslin will make many. Short lengths of lace and insertion or bits of all-over embroidery may be used. As many of the newest collars have a contrasting binding or are combined of several kinds of material, the deft girl can often get a good-looking collar for little. A good style collar, is in sheer linen, lawn or a fine pique covered with conventional designs in hand embroidery. A combination of vines done in eyelet and solid dots is effective, or medallions of lace in the corners of the collar and at back can be connected with lines of dots or delicate vinery in satin stitch. Do not put too much work on these collars. All-over embroidered batiste, flowered Swiss and open embroidery, or nets, give the same effect A handsome collar, resembling a fichu in front, 1b made from white lawn, edged with inch-wide Cluny insertion and stiped diagonally with harrow insertion. Outlining the collar is a double frill of finely plaited mull with a finished edge. This is sewed to the Insertion and is rounded quite fully acrss the narrow squared fronts. A quickly made collar of lawn has an edging of heavy lace with insertion to match run diagonally from corners to match at back and brought straight across the squared fronts. Medallions of the same lace are used across the lower edge of the collar or rows of diamond shapes alternating with a large coin dot all worked In heavily padded satin stitch in white. A smart-looking eollar of white pique with dark blue or red dots can have binding of plain white pique or of the same tone as the dots. These need careful laundering.

DRESS FOR A GIRL

This style is for a girl of 8 to 10 years, and Is In plain and striped sephyr. The dress Itself Is of the plain; the wide straps that form trimming are. of the stripe cut on the cross. The yoke and short undersleeves are of thick piece lace. Material required: Two and one--half yards 40 inches wide, one yard stripe 40 Inches wide, three-quarters yard lace 18 Inches wide. __

THE fetes in celebration of the thousandth anniversary of the duchy of Normandy have attracted crowds of Europeans and Americans to Rome. A vast amount of labor and much money were expended to make the many historical- tableaux correct in setting and costuming.

BIRTH RATE IS LOWER

Dr. BertHlon Says Figures “Spell National Annihilation.” Glimmer of Hope Seen In Passing of Law Abolishing Few of Amazing Formalities Surrounding Marriage in France. Paris. —Dr. Jacques Bertlllon, head of the statistical department of Paris, declares that the birth ''and death rates for 1910 “spell national annihilation.” The births were 774,368 and the deaths 703,777, difference of only 70,581. , The number of births is the lowest for the past century, barring that for 1909, which was 4,000 less. In 1859 more than a million children were born In Franca This figure remained about stationary till 1868, when the number was over 980,000. "‘The births exceeded 900,000 for 18 years, but fell to 899,000 in 1886. For the following 20 years they exceeded 800,000 annually. - During the past four years the figure of births has begun with a seven. The Increase in 1910 over 1909 Dr. Bertlllon considers insignificant. The decrease In the death rate also fails to give him any hope. He points out that it Is solely due to the dwindling birth rate. The reduction is observable only among children under one year. The only reason, therefore, why there are fewer deaths Is that fewer children are born. Meanwhile, as Dr. Bertlllon remarks despondently, the excess of births over deaths in the German empire last year was 884,000, as compared with under 71,000 in France. The returns give him only one ray of hope. A law was passed in 1907 abolishing a few of the amazing formalities surrounding marriage in France. It Is still difficult to get married in this country, but it was almost impossible to do so before June, 1907. Now, for instance, a man or woman more than thirty years of age may marry in France without troubling to obtain his or her parents* consent Before 1907 such consent, verbal or written, was needed. If the father

Tons of Cash Fill Dock

Money Treasure on Pier Unguarded Because Face Value Doesn't Exceed $4 —Comes From Korea. New York. —Fourteen hundred tons of cash money was tossed ashore the other day when the steamship Seneca came alongside her pier at the Bush docks. Brooklyn, but no special police were on hand to guard the treasure, for the face value of all this money would not aggregate $4. The Seneca comes from various eastern ports. She takes out oil from New York and returns with a nondescript assortment of freight Coincident with the annexation of Korea, the Japanese government announced the substitution of Japanese money for the Korean coinage. The Korean banks immediately called in all the existing currency and the Korean mints started working overtime to make yen. The Korean, who is not in the habit of buying luxuries, seldom carried anything larger than "cash," a coin about the size of an American cent. A thousand "cash” were the equivalent of an American dollar. As the native scorns a purse, and as the women never wear stockings, the government thoughtfully stamps a square aperture through the center of the coin so that the native may string them together and carry, them around his neck. To the Korean mind that is both convenient and ornamental. In fact, the Korean society belle used to get quite worked up if her particular rival carried more strings of "cash” than she did. It was not long before an American syndicate learned that all the wealth of Korea was lying around in heaps.

PICTURESQUE CELEBRATION IN NORMANDY

and mother and the two grandfathers' and grandmothers of either of the parties were dead, that party could not get married unless he or she produced the certificate of death of all six forbears. These are still required if the man or woman in the case be under thirty. However, the simplifications Introduced, such as they are, were sufficient to "send up the marriage rate wonderfully. Dr. Bertlllon notes with delight that the number of weddings celebrated in France last year—to wit, 309,289 —is one of the highest on record since the passage of the law of 1907. The marriage rate has since then gone up some 5,000 a year. Dr. Bertlllon has therefore some glimmer of hope that the birth rate may rise, too, though he is the first to acknowledge that, though French people marry more that is no proof that they will increase the population.

Find Bone of Mastodon

Presented to Department of Zoology at University of Minnesota and Installed In Museum—Two v Other Bpecimer^£ St. Paul, Minn.—A vertebra of a prehistoric mastodon who roamed the plains of Minnesota 200,000 years ago, before the glaciers sweeping down from the north had devastated the feeding grounds of its kind, exhumed at Albert Lea by workmen excavating for a cellar, has just been received by the department of zoology at the university and installed in the museum. Discovered In a state where little research work In prehistoric life has been done, it Is considered by unlvexv sity specialists as a most valuable contribution to world-wide science. It is tiie second discovery of the kind made in Minnesota. Seven years ago a knee bone and leg bone of a mastodon were found at Brainerd, near White Fish lake, by a workman digging a ditch, and sent to the university museum. A year ago the head of a mastodon, found near

and that moss was growing on it Negotiations were started and before long the tons of accumulated cash had been purchased and the consignment on the Seneca is the first shipment brought to this port The syndicate will melt the coins and extract from their the silver and the copper of which they are made. The silver and copper will be sold to the government whose mints will use them in turning <mp big sliver dollars" anc little red cents.

AEROPLANE BOWLS OVER COW

Low Flying Machine Strikes Roesy, Spills Aviator and Bails Two Miles Without Pilot Los Angeles, Cal.—Bryle Williams, who is trying for a license as an air pilot struck a cow while sailing a Curtis biplane the other afternoon, and was hurled to the ground by the shock, while the machine went careening along a distance of two miles without a pilot Williams was flying about ten feet above the ground. Suddenly, as he passed over the brow of a hill, he came upon bosny, grazing peacefully. Some part of the machine struck her, knocking her several feet and turning her over and over. William stumbled from his seat, but was unhurt The machine was finally halted by a friendly hay stack which received Its wearied wings in g soft embrace. The embrace lasted until friends o t Williams in an auto reached the machine and stopped the propeller, which was still bussing.

BAKED BEANS ARE REPLACED

Spaghetti Is Now Popular Dish In Boston—One Merchant Alone Imported 500,000 Cases. Boston. —Who hath done murder to Boston bean? Boston is honeycombed with restaurants and eats persistently, earnest1. and enthusiastically. The dish that characterizes its eating is spaghetti. One Boston merchant imported 600,000 cases of spaghetti* in 1905. Last year he Imported more than 90Q,000 cases. This is something over 12,000 tons. This year all records are expected to go by the board. And this in the town where the bill of fare is supposed to be beans, beads, beans, occasionally varied with the beloved cod, though the testimony of restaurant men is that Boston eats no more beans per capita than other cities, but holds the spaghetti championship of the western hemisphere. The consumption of beans is falling off yearly in contrast with the gain made by spaghetti.

Valentine, Neb., consisting of the upper jaws, tusks and neck bones, was sent to the university, where It is now on exhibition. The three exhibits, representing the different parts of the body, give a good idea of the size and shape of the pre-glacial beast. The vertebra discovered at Albert Lea was found 12 feet below the surface of the ground, in the glacial drift, by Charles E. May. It is called the atlas bone, a vertebra located at the neck, and is of enormous sixe, measuring two feet across from shoulder to shoulder. From the top of the neck down it Is fully a foot deep. The bone is carefully preserved in every detail, there being no sign of crumbling or decay. Though the excavation at Albert Lea was prolonged in the hope of discovering other parts of the skeleton, none was discovered. The absence of other bones, however, is easily explained by experts in paleontology at the university. Members of the department say carnivorous beasts of that period who preyed upon the mastodon may. have detached the bone from the skeleton and carried It to the spot where it was found, either to eat the meet from it or play with it as a modern coyote, tiger or cat frequently plays with Its prey, or separating itself from the carcass as it decomposed, it may have rolled down a prehistoric hillside ho longer existing or have been carried there by the glaciers.

HE IS HEIR TO MICE MONEY

Floor Repairer Finds Roll of Bills Only Partly Chewed—Thousands of Dollars In Lot. Trenton, N. J. — In repairing the floor of an old house he recently bought, Patrolman Patrick Kerwick found hidden between joists a large roll of bills. Many of them had been cbewed by mice, but that did not prevent Kerwick recognizing the $100 mark on them. How the money got there is a mystery, but it is supposed the house formerly was owned by somebody who distrusted banks and who died without having confided the secret to anybody. Kerwick says he will send the chewed bills to the treasury department for redemption. He did not reveal just how many thousands of dollars were in the lot.

Catch Gigantic Ball Fish.

Paris. —A huge sail fish, a fish rarely met with in the Atlantic, has been captured by fishermen oft Concarneau and towed to that port. The fish measures eight yards long- and four yards In circumference and weighs four tons. The fishermen are greatly disturbed over the presence in the vicinity of the fish's female companion, who followed her captured lord throughout the whole of the night be was being towed to port

ALL OVER IN A WEEK

WILLIAMS' STAY IN BOARDINOi HOUBE SHORT AND B#BET. Gave Every Evidence »f Being Experienced Boarder and Hte Smart Sayings and Mannerisms Were Talk of House. 5 -V .4 : ' • When young Mr. Williams came to our boarding house it was plain to every one that this was not his first experience at boarding. In fact, his actions seemed to indi-! cate that he,was old and experienced! in the life of boarding, and that hoi had come to us from some others boarding house, or possibly from a succession of them. It was shown in the aplomb with which he assured Mrs. Hicks that he; invariably paid his board on pay day,; and that his pay day came on Satur-i day, ignoring her somewhat distorted i statement that she insisted on pay in advance in every case. It was further shown in the way; he skilfully flipped the covering off! the bed in his hall bedrootn and ap- : praised the condition of the sheets; with judicial eye, his opinion, good; or bad, being represented by a noncommltal grunt. He was a normal young man, was Mr. Williams. He had just the normal amount of baggage. His face was; so nearly normal that people he knew would forget to speak to him. He-, was of medium height and'weight, and so far as we could see had but one suit of clothes, and that an ordinary dusty, brownish gray. His appetite,- too, proved normal. He had a typical boarding house appetite that pushed aside those things it* did not want and insisted on a double supply of those it did. It was a discriminating appetite that refused to accept things the nature of which did not appear on the surface. Immediately after supper Mr. Williams sat on the front steps and regarded fellow boarders with speculative eye. Being a normal boarder, with what might be called an abnormal nerve, he easily decided that Miss Amy Crothsweight, who was a stenographer in the roller mills office, was the only one of us worthy of his attention. And in fifteen minutes, he and Miss Amy went for a walk, heading, of course, toward the drug store soda fountain. Miss Amy, herself upon her dignity. When they came back Mr. Williams had some chewing gum, which he passed about. Next day he was wearing a tie we recognized as belonging to Ifr. Willoughby. Mr. Willoughby, when pressed, admitted that he and - Mr. Williams had become somewhat chummy. Toward the end df the week Mrs. Hicks was taking an unusual interest in Mr, Williams. She quoted him to the girls, and would tell the boys bow smart he was. He was the most ingratiating person, was young Mr. Williams, and, as everybody got to liking him, Ids sayings and mannerisms were the talk of the house. On Saturday be did net appear at the table. Mrs. Micks said he was called out of town. He didn’t come back either. His trunk was hauled by Jim, the porter, to the junk room, and we did; the best we could to forget him. We have often wondered if be went : abroad, or was killed by a motorcycle, but have never learned. It’s always that way, for people come and go like guests at our-board-ing house.—Dallas News.

Puzzling Words.

The Ladies' Aid women were talking about a conversation they had overheard before the meeting between a man and his wife. "They must have been to the zoo," Mrs. A. Said, “because I heard her mention‘a trained deer.'" "Goodness me!” Mrs. B. laughed. "What queer hearing you must have! They were talking about going away, and she said, ‘Find out about the train, dear.'” "Well, did anybody ever?" Mrs. C. exclaimed. "I am sure they were talking about musicians, for she said ‘a trained ear/ as distinctly as could be." The discussion began to warm*up, and In the midst of it the woman her-, self appeared. They carried their, case to her promptly, and asked for a settlement , “Well, well, you do beat all!" she exclaimed, after hearing each one. "I’d been out to the country over night, and was asking my husband if it rained here last night” ||r / After which the three disputants retired abashed and in silence.—Lippincott’s Magazine.

Rank in Kentucky.

"Yes, sir,” the Kentuckian said, as they sat by the stove, “you can tell a man’s rank in this state tbuaiy: If you see a man with his feet on t<fti of the stove he’s a gineral; if his feet is on that rail half way up he’s a colonel, and if he keeps them on the floor he's "Ah. yes/’ his companion atid;: "that’s good as far as it goes: but how are you going to distinguish a captain or a lieutenant V’ “Stranger, we don’t go no lower than major in Kentucky.”—Ltpplncotfs.

Economy.

First Aeronaut —When I founfflE htad! won the prise I simply walked on air! Second Ditto—Geo whls! That wag} a big saving of gasoline. |