Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1911 — Page 3

TALLS of GOTHAM AND OTHER CITIES

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r:w YORK.—A Jury in the supreme court found that a man who dances around with a cut-glass bowl on his head for a helmet, even though he Is worth a million dollars and made it by means of his own ingenuity, is not in any mental condition to make a will. The eccentric testator was Alexander Miller of Brooklyn, owner of the Vulcan Iron Works, and he made a will in which he cut oil his widow, Mrs. Mary Ella Miller, with *12,500, leaving the great bulk of his estate to his brother and sister. Mrs. Miller, by her own testimony and through the testimony of other witnesses, proved that her husband was eccentric beyond the highest known Brooklyn records for eccentricity. . Before his death two years ago Mr. Miller manifested his scorn for the conventions by giving barefoot dln-

Lure of the City Reaches Out to Farms

ST. LOUIS, MO.—Sixty per cent, of the young men who wear blue uniforms on the trolley cars are farmers’ sons. Most of them have pulled and tugged at plow lines over the backs of refractory mules long before they ever pulled a bell cord in this city. Half the clerks in the big railway offices in St. Louis are boys from the smaller cities and the little railway stations where the fast trains never stop. Fifty out of every hundred of the young men who are putting kinks in their spineß and ruining their eyesight over long columns of freight earnings and “ton miles,” know when to plant potatoes and how to ,plow corn. ' Every other waitress in the quick lunch places down town was once a countqr lassie. That is, they were born and raised up in one of those little towns that dot and speckle the state maps. Thirty out of 40 of the men who run train*, hammer telegraph keys and make out bills of lading for the railway systems were recruited from the farms. Many of the little stenographers who scurry in and out of the office buildings at lunch hour were once upon a time little pigtailed lassies, who played about the big yards of some little half forgotten town with elm shaded streets. When a middle aged man or woman goes Ipto the city to make his or

Home-Made Bread Declared Murderous

KANSAS CITY, MO.—The National Association of Master Bakers devoted’a part of their annual convention to the housewife who bakes her own bread! She was pictured in every position. The bakers showed their sorrow for her by applauding every reference to the hot kitchen in which she has to work to turn out the homemade . product for her family. They declared she should be rescued from her slavery and the only way to effect a rescue was through bakers’ bread. \ That the modern housewife produces a soggy article of bread‘and is committing murder In allowing it to be eaten, was the statement made by . Paul Schulze of Chicago, president of the association. “This country is full of housewives who are proud of their cooking and who think they are doing

Notorious Firebug Gang is Revealed

Cm HICAGO.—Six men are in custody here and the arrest of another has been ordered by the police in connection with the operations of an alleged arson ring which caused a property loss of $1,000,000 during the last twelve months. Three other men, Including a former policeman, hre being sought by the police in connection with the alleged conspiracy. The arrests were made after David Rorshah, the alleged feeder -of the * rebug gang, had made a statement Implicating several business men in the alleged arson conspiracy. Korshak in a statement made to the police declared that 7V per cent of all Urea in Chicago in the last five years were of Incendiary origin, and were either the worit of the proprietors of the building or of professional firebugs. He tays there are more thsn s hundred men in Chicago who make a good living by setting fire to buildings, to enable the owners to collect large sums of insurance; that the firebug Is usually paid a lump sum In advance, but that sometimes he works on commission, receiving a percentage of the insurance money. • I yf r Asr *? •' . JS/v V’v© % •'/*> sty

at the festive board in his undershirt. If the guests appeared to Mr. Miller in any way bored he got up and performed for them. His favorite stunt waß to put the cut glass salad bowl on his head and then dance a sprightly saraband around the table. The millionaire iron manufacturer also possessed original ideas on serving oysters. He had a basket of bivalves taken into the library, where he opened them on a-mahogany table. As he opened each oyster he hurled the Bhells at the portraits of his ancestors' which decorated the wall. ' Whenever he scored a hit upon the countenance of an ancestor in oil, Mr. Miller would pause in his bombardment to carve the initials of said ancestor on the mahogany table, calling upon his guests to follow his example. He decorated much of his costly furniture lh this manner. , Mrs. Miller declared that her late husband was .very fond of playing mumblypeg on the mahogany chairs. It also gave him unbounded amusement to drive his wife out into the street, then rush out after her and beg her to come back.

her home thpre, it is nine chances t# ten that they have failed at everything they have ever tried In the lit tie cities, and have come to the big town to Btart a boarding or a room ing house. ' i And nine out of every ten of them is certain that the city, any city, ii the very wickedest of wicked places Back in the country, where they com* from, the big town was held up to them as a symbol of sin. The older folks talked in low tones of its snares and pitfalls, of the sin and degrada tion that were everywhere in the big town. Why do they come? Many of them fail to drag themselves back to take up life where they left it out oh the farms. The great majority manage to live on the salaries they receive or the wages they are able to earn. A few of them become wealthy and successful, and are able to go back and buy up a whole township around the old homestead, if they desire.

their duty by baking at home,” Mr. Schulze said. “The long-suffering stomachs of their families continue to pay the penalty of this mistaken sense of duty. “The American housewife the American mother —of today is an earnest and sensible individual, but very set in her ways.’ She is still influenced by the working methods adopted In her girlhood. “One, thing which we bakers in the larger titles see most plainly today is the absolute necessity of educating the housewife to quit baking at home. Let us come forward. Let us show these women that home baking is wrong. Let us show them the overwhelming benefits of buying bread baked in a sanitary bakery." Mr. Schulze told of a Chicago woman who had built up a business selling “health bread,” a home product. She brought* him a loaf and wanted to sell the formula. “I cut into the loaf,” said Mr. Schulze, “and saw that the center was unbaked dough. I have been wondering since what effect that woman’s ‘health bread’ has had on the death rate in Chicago. She was unquestionably committing murder.”

Korshak said that in all his fires he used jugs filled with gasoline, to which he set fire, with the result that flames rapidly spread to all parts of the structure. He fled from Chicago after he was charged with having set fire to the store of Leopold Dreyfus A Co., wholesale clothiers, June $, this year. />; ; Both Leopold and Laatard Dreyfus, members of the firm, were arrested on suspicion immediately after the fire. Three dsye lpter Leopold Dreyfus mede e statement Implicating Korshak and then committed suicide. Lasard Dreyfus was charged with conspiracy, and the case again**, him la pending. Three barrels of gasoline are said to have been nae< in firing the plant of the Northwestern Can company* -,i

Early Fall Hats

THREE hats, of distinctly different types, are pictured here, each one Of them an example of excellent millinery. The alpine shape, with folded overcrown is a soft braid in yellow with facing of black velvet and wide collar of the same. The tall pointed “mother goose” crown is flattened and brought down to the brim at the left, where a bunch of velvet cherries in the natural colors, with twigs and foliage, provide a touch of brilliant color. It is a dashing hat, with a hint of the “boyish” in it, especially suited to some girls. The. soft cap made of rather heavy messaline, and trimmed with a big wire bow of the silk, looks niuch like a bathing cap. It is a beautiful piece of work and illustrates the season's trend toward simple effects, arrived at through intricate and painstaking work on the part of the milliner. It is very beautiful made of soft, changeable taffetas in the rich color combination which appear in this fabric. It needs no additional trimming, although many models shown in this type with lace falling about the faoe, and tiny flowers or bunches of small velvet fruit, in one or two points

INDIVIDUAL SETS OF CHINA

Can Be Bought Now Comparatively Cheap— Expenditure Ik Consld- . ered a Good One. --i A shop here in town which I discovered the other day is Intended, to my way of thinking, for the woman who wishes individual china. Here they import the plain , white china in the most delicate and beautiful shape* I have ever seen and decorate it to suit the customers’ ideas, room, table decorations or anything the customer chooses. And the best point is that although this work is done beautifully in gold and colors which are lasting and in patterns which are of unusual beauty to say the least, the charge is very reasonable. '• For Instance a dinner set of fine French china, consisting of one hundred pieces (and the customer may choose these to a certain extent—that is. ope does not have to buy useless covered dishes and soup turepns, but may substitute other pieces) with a monogram of any style, sells for SSO; usually sold at that price I only wonder why everybody who has SSO to spend doesn’t order this china. For there la nothing in better taste than a simple fine gold-bordered china, and the Individuality of one’s monogram adds greatly to its beauty.—Smprt Set

Crudities In Color.

Colors are still being blended end crude bright effects continue to claim our allegiance, though there are evidences of a coming change in this direction. Meantime, however, one of the most exclusive and refined of dress designs offers an emerald green evening gowp, semi-empire in style, with green and blue jeweled motifs for trimming and dark red rosea on the corsage, which has a decolletage drapery of pink net with a sash of the same net teaseled with brilliants and colored beads. It sounds rather remarkable. bet it was done so harmoniously that its effect was distinctly pleasing as well as chic.

Skirt Pads.

Soma dressmakers frequently have great difficulty in making skirts cnt with the raised waist line hang straight in front at the line at the normal waist. At this point the skirt breaks and Is apt to show an ugly wrinkle, especially when the wearer la seated. This can be avoided by making a small oblong pad of the same material as the Skirt and Inserting It directly In front The pad Is made four Inches long find two inches wide and Is placed lengthwise with the skirt It ■na be to place.

above the frill. It is suited to matrons as well as maids and resembles the corday (of pleasant memory) except that It is smaller —a veritable cap. The bonnet-like shape of velvet* faced with silk, has a soft crown shaped over a crinoline foundation. Here again one sees the fashion of using the same materials for the body of the hat and the trimming. The wings are of velvet like the hat, lined with silk like its facing. They are carefully made and finished with fine silk braid. There is nothing startlingly new in this shape but it will be all the more popular for that. For of many similar shapes, it is about the most artistic and becoming. The lift or upturn at the back of the brim is a characteristic of the season which is being featured by many designers here and especially by one of the foremost in Paris. This shape Is not becoming, as a rule to older women. It looks best on round faces; and then must possess a truth of girlishness. The same brimlines, with a different crown and trimming, however, have ‘ proven their worth for older wearers.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.

SHANTUNG DESIGN.

For a between season’* dress, Shantung la a moat, useful material, as it to light In weight yet s little warmer than muslin or lawn. The dress we Illustrate here is in Japanese blue, trimmed with straps of golden brown and black silk and black buttons with simulated buttonholes. The skirt is slightly full at the waist where it is gathered; points of the fancy silk stand up from the waist each side front. The deep collar which is square at the back and pointed in front is bound with silk and ornamented with buttons, the sleeves being trimmed to match. ; Golden brown straw hat. trimmed with feathers of the same color as the dress. Materials required: Seven yards Shantung thirty-four inches wide, one and one-quarter yard silk twenty-two inches wide, thirty buttons.

GATHERED SMILES

fm* A BCARY HORSE. - who““ desirous oT">urchasing a horse for the use of his wife, recently ** aa ° M Wlth * , “Mow. I'm not so particular about speed," said the prospective purchaser, “but 1 must have a gentle “Oise. “Here la one that I’ll warrant to he perfectly safe," said the dealer. Indicating a sad looking steed near by. “Are you sure he Is not afraid of anything r insisted the man. The dealer assumed an air of deep reflection. 'Well,” he said, “there's one thing he has always appeared to be afraid of ever since I got him. It seems as If he’s scared to death for fear some one might say *whoar and he not hear It.”—lAppincotfs.

independence of Mother-in-Law.

“Wefi, Binksey.” said Jiggers, genially. did you celebrate the Fourth W July in fitting manner?” ; : \ “You bet I did” said Blnksey, with a swelling chest - “What did you dor asked Jiggers. “I read the Declaration of Independence to my mother-in-law,” said Blnksey. , . “Phee-ewr whistled Jiggers- “You are a brave man, aren't your “Ob. not so very." said Blnksey. “I -did it over the long-distance wire.” — Harper's Weekly.

Plain Henglish.

Proprietor and Author of Musie Hall Sketch (to a member of his company)—The manager of the Grandiose Is complainin’ of your grammar. ’E tells me that you say on enterin', ‘Old Varlet. what are ye a-doin’T P’raps In future you’ll be edlcated enough to speak wot I’ve wrote, ’Old Varlet. wot are ye a-doin’ ov?"—London Tatler.

Useless.

“Why did you decide to come out of hldingr r- vf:,;'>:■' “Ah, my friend.” replied the ex-dlo-tator, "you have never tasted of fame. What satisfaction can there be in remaining hidden when tbe public no longer displays the slightest curiosity ss to your whereabouts?”

Per Program.

A man having fallen into the water was suddenly given considerable concern by his past life flashing upon him In a series of pictures. “Bless me, I must have sunk for the third time!” he exclaimed. Tbe gift of ready conjecture Is often of great service in an emergency.—Puck.

HIS PREFERENCE.

forehead Orlando—And get a bang in the month. Oh! no. But 1 must say I like your cheek.

Revised.

A Mean Disposition.

“Do you enjoy a cross-country trek ley rider “Oh, yea* “And what is the most enjoyable featurer “The number of automobfllsts one sees all along the route, fuming over their disabled machines.* ' "J

Can’t See Out

"Do yoo know it’s a fact that tew women are in the habit of looking aheadr "1 hadn't thought much about the matter. How do you account for ttr “Well, at the present time their failure U> look ahead may' be due to the kind of hats they ere wearing,"

Hie Suffragette Wife.

"Does your wife insist on belng attowed to voter “Tea," replied Mr. Meekton. "She le sot content with baring the last word ’« a political argument She must go lo the poll* and put in e postscript"— Bed Hen.

There Yet

“Brink, you spend about half your time tinkering with that motor boat What Is there shout It that's so attractive r "The $750 I put into It old chap."

Small Chance.

Tommy—Pop. does liquor Improve ‘with sget - 1 ”* Tommy's Pop—Yes. my atm. but the trouble Is the average man won’t let it -

GREATLY EXAGGERATED.

She bad been at the seaside and In , the country for the holidays, and her industrious fiance had been working and waiting for her during the long, long days. Now she bad returned and he had been hearing many things of her, and was sore displeased. , "They teii me" he said. "that you flirted desperately with no = fewer than six men." Her cheeks flushed and her eyes blazed. "Who told you thatT" she asked, angrily. "Several people, ft has becomel: common talk.” Her anger gave way to sobe. "Oh, Frank,” she pleaded, as she flung herself on his neck, ft isn't true —it true." A great load was lifted from his heart. “No, Frank,” she went on. "it isn't true; there were only four.'

IN THE COUNTRY.

The Fanner's Wtfe —Ezry, do you think that ere is tended enough for roasting? The Fanner (a Joker) — Axe her. ■

A Vacation Tip.

▼v iu P*®® ro^mi# Anen comprozniN ? j iw/uif aomm.

A Girl’s Way.

“Why do you keep asking me to be f ' t * , .V „ . 1. „ *

Reasons for some Recent Failures.

Laundryman—Clothes competition. Musician —Unable to discount his notes. * Jeweler—Too much time on Ido bands. Doctor—Losing bis “patients.” Builder—Making op stories without foundations. Im Glazier—A pane In the sldet The Dentist—He lost his puli.— Life. '

A Community of Interests.

There were only two lafayers fie the Tillage. “Sir," said the lady client, “yoor Mil for services Is outrageous! t shall take legal advice before paying . It" “I tell you frankly, ma’am, there's no use your going to the other lawyer, ma’am," said the able attorney. "We always share whatever we get."

In Plain Words.

Father (to his daughter., whom he sees whispering to her mother) —Ek ale, bow often have I told you not to do that? Speak out if you want anything Elsie—Well, father, i wanted to know why the woman near me has such a red nose.—Fliegende Bl&etter.

"ONE TOUCH OF NATURE," ETC.

of poetry about the moon,” ain't there? no po try In anythin- wot so often gits down to Its las' quarter. Jj

His Excuse.

Immortal !• our present plight. fjllfSl For each mao who ta fuddled, g • Pleads when ho stasKara homo at sight, “a cause too waters muddled.

Couldn’t Help Himself.

Well, have you found an honest raaar “Tee —In jail/’ “Queer place, wasn't it to find one?* -No; he bag to bo honest there." ,