Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1911 — Page 4

Plant Clothes Best in Office

.ANXIOUS to "do the right thing” and yet fearful a* to what t&ia might he, a girl writes to me of the quandary she is in in her office. "I have only been working four months,” she says, •*nnd my employer •Hm* to be well satisfied with me. | have met several other girls working in th« same building going up and down in the elevator and we are now quite friendly, and I would be quite happy u it were not fo r my per. plexity. “Ttere is only myself in the office most of the day, for after Mr. 8 comes in and gives me the work to do he leaves for several hours, and, in fact, is gone most of the morning and afternoon. “Mr. has a business friend, a young man, who comes in almost every morning, and for the last three or four weeks has made a point of coming in after Mr. S has left, and « friendship ha* sprung up between us.” The letter goes on to say tLat she has always thought it the .beat taste to dress very plainly in office hours, but this man has often admired the clothes of the girls she met going up In the elevators, and they, it seems, wore FrendMreeled slippers, picture hats, had their hair elaborately coifed, and, in fact, looked more suitable for the theater than the office. Th« gist of the letter is that this little girl Is torn between the desire to please her new friend and the knowledge that such clothes are very bad taste and altogether unsuitable for the office. And here again ia the old, old story of a girl wanting to dress to please * nun, and possibly she thinks him her Prince Charming, although if gte did hut realise it, the fairy prince is not likely to be wandering around the office and shops during working fco^rs. I would ssy most emphatically do not Imitate those other girls, with their cobwebby blouses and s'.riking clothes. In the beat offices and shops the girls and women who receive the most respect from employers and their employers* friends, and who are put in the highest positions and command the largest salary are those who take their work seriously.

Sheer Materials Show Pretty New Borders

Many of the materials which bave pome only in plain patterns heretofore are shown in borders this season. These include foulards &nd chalJis, of course, as well as percale, gingham, lawn, swiss, organdy and several others in the sheer materials. Moat of these are within the purse of every one and there are various pretty ways of adapting tie borders |n the thinner materials. Many of the striped patterns show additional ornamentation of flowers at regular intervals along the stripes, the borders being developed in the flower design.

Maple Sugar Cake.

Cream one-half cupful of butter with two cupfuls of sugar until well mixed. Beat and stir in alternately one cupful of milk and two and one-half cupfuls of flour sifted with three teaspoonfuls of baking powder and onehalf teaspoonful of Balt Then cut and fold in the whites of five eggs beaten to a dry stiff froth. Bake in three layers until done and put together with maple filling made as follows: Cook three cupfuls of maple sugar with one-half cupful of water until it threads when dropped from the tines of a fork. Beat the syrup into the of two eggs beaten until stiff luid dry. When the filling is stiff enough to spread put it between tbe layers and on top of the cake.

Salads

I know of no prettier supper or •luncheon dish than this: Cut a piece from the blossom end of each fair .ripe tomato of fair size and dig out the pulp. Fill the cavity thus made .with cold boiled sluamps (canned are good for this purpose). Arrange them neatly with the backs up. Line a chilled dish with endive or with lettuce leaves and set the tomatoes within these. Or Iky each upon a separate bed of leaves upon individual plates. In either case send around mayonnaise dressing with it In a sauceboat. Crab salad—Make as above, using crab meat instead of shrimps.

Pineapple Lemonade

A delicious drink for invalids may 'he made by mixing one-half cup of grated pineapple with the juice of c*e lemon, two tablespoons of sugar, Mid one-half cup of boiling water. When cool, add a cup of cold water, strain, and serve.

Pretty Barette

New baret es of tortoise stell, reaJ sod imitation are outlined with nari«w ban da of gold and silver. These art sometimes inlaid with rhinestone* and other semiprecious stones and form a change from the plainly carved barette usually seen. Useful poaching pans which will cook three eggs in a pretty round shape may be bought for 80 cents. The eggs in these sure poached by steam and not by being Immersed In hotting water.

TOMBS OF SAND.

Cape Cod’s Treacherous Shoals and the Prey They Grip. Secrets of the sands of Cape Cod are constantly being disclosed by the sea. In the many storm tides that flood the desolate beached the hulks of stanch ships \p&t along the coast on the half hundred miles of beaches between MoDomoy st Chatham and Wood End at Provlncctown are frequently exhumed from tombs of sand. Sometimes a wreck appears that baa been buried a century or more, as in the case a few years ago of the bones of the British frigate Somerset, whose timbers of oak were disclosed to view back of Provincetown, near the life saving station In Dead Men's Hollow. The Somerset was lost on Peaked Hill bars Nov. 2 or 3, 1778. Once a vessel Is gripped by the sands the process of entombing her goes on with great rapidity, the craft appearing to sink 6teadily in the yielding beach. All around the doomed vessel the sand piles up in great drifts, like snow. Every crevice of the hull is quickly filled. The sand rises in a solid barrier outside it and flows about It as the tides'flood the shelving beaches. Finally it sweeps over the wreck, and the process of entombing goes on until tbe entombed craft is covered many feet deep.—Boston Globs.

SURE TO BE MISSED.

A Famous Cssk’s Lament on ths Death es Hit Royal Master. The most successful book that wgs published by William Harrison Ainsworth during his first year of business. says Mr. 8. M. Ellis in his biography of the English author and publisher. was a cookbook. It was “The French Cook," by Lonls Eustacbe Ude. “the Gil Bias of the kitchen.” This unique study of the culinary art brought in a handsome sum to the astute young publisher who had purchased tbe copyright, and the book was in tbe hands of every gourmet in London. Ude bad been chef of Louis XVI., of Mme. Leticia Bonaparte and then of the Earl of Sefton. at a salary of 300 guineas a year. At another time be presided over the-cullnnry department of the Crock fords, but his favorite master was Frederick, duke of York. When the royal gormand died his bereaved chef pathetically ejaculated: “Ah, mon pauvre due. how much you will miss me. wherever you are gone to. r ’

Odd Word Survivals.

Far away back in the days when the English language was in its infancy" there were poets who wrote of the blossoms on the trees in the spring. They didn’t write “blossom,’’ however, but used the word “blow” and made It rhyme with snow and flow. When they wished to sing of the beautiful mass of apple or hawthorn flowers they called it' the “biowth.” This word is found in the dictionaries, which assert that it is obseiete, but it Is very much alive in Rockingham county, N. H„ and Tork county. Me. The orebardist thereabout speaks of a “full biowth” or “light biowth” on his trees in May and predicts a good or poor “set" of the fruit in consequence. “Orts" are supposed to be refuse of some kind, but in tbe valley where the Piscataqua river mingles with tbe sea “orts” is the name for “swill.’’—Exchange.

Tricking the Bobby.

A Dublin eccentric a shhrt time ago entered a purveyor's shop and bought a ham. Having paid for his purchase, he requested that it should be hung outside the shop door, saying that be would call back for it The customer then paced np and down outside tbe shop till s policeman came In sight, and just as the man in bine canght his eye he grabbed the bam and bolted. The constable, however, soon collared the thief, as he thought, and hauled him back to the sbop. Having explained tbe nature of the alleged crime to the sbop assistant, he asked the latter to charge the offender. “But,” sMd the assistant as he realized the joke, “it's bis own bam. He was quite at liberty to take It in any circumstances be chose.”—London Answers.

Weatherwise Birds and Fish.

Tbe seagull makes a splendid living barometer. If a covey of seagulls fly seaward early in tbe morning sailors and fishermen know that the day will be fine and the wind fair, but if the birds keep inland, though there be no haze hanging out toward the sea to denote unpleasant weather, interested folk know that the elements will he unfavorable Of all weatherwfm fish the dolphin is tbe most remarkable During a fierce gale or a storm at sea the mariner knows that the end of It la near if he can see a dolphin or a number of that fish sporting on the high sea wavee

Faith Destroyed.

*TII never believe in phrenology •gain.” “Whyr “We had a phrenologist In our bouse the other night and got him to feel ths cook’s bead. Fte said her bump of destruction was small.”—Chicago RecordHerald.

Easy.

“Women.” remarked the grocer, *aie not hard to please." “So 7 interrogated the bachelor. “Yes.- continued the grocer. “AH yon bare to do is to let them have their own way."-Chicago News. That which comes after erer conforms to that which has gone befoew.— Marcos Aurelius.

SUGGESTIONS FOR MAKING THE HOME BEAUTIFUL

Many Little Things Which Count For Much in the General Effect. THERE ARE HUNDREDS of little items that go toward making the home a house beautiful. Indeed, the :hief attraction of one’e home can generally be laid to the thousand and one little things that many housewives consider not worth painstaking attention. But the up-to-date wives of today—those trained to use modern methods—a-w quick to recognize the fact that the little things are all important To select the furniture for a home In a sort of haphazard manner is little abort es criminal. The simple designs seem to be much in favor at the present time, mlsaio* furniture, in modified style, being quite popular. The only way to select furniture properly is to take each room in turn, adout a certain style for it and adhere to this set style. In case the dining room ia to be mission the whole effect will me marred if the massive table is surrounded by spindle-legged chairs, even though these chairs themselves are quite pretty. The same unpleasant effect can be obtained in a mission dining room if, for example, the serving table is bright golden oak and the remainder of the furniture in the dark wood finish. Nothing ia easier than to spoil the whole effect of a library by thrusting a golden oak bookcase alongside other pieces in Flemish oak. This tdead holds good vrith other rooms of the home, and all Bet schemes should be carried out as fa? as the housewife can go. Even the picture frames play an important part, and their selection can be made to conform with or spoil the room fittings. There is quite a fad at present of picking np old style furniture for the drawing room. The. Florentine and Renaissance styles can be reproduced most attractively nowadays, and if one is so fortunate as to own a few Revolutionary heirlooms an especially attractive Colonial parlor can be made. Brocaded upholstery tabes away the somber effect of ib&hogany furniture to a certain effect Some of the new ’waved oaks make pretty and attractive rooms. Oilt furniture looks well In many homes, yet it is not as popular as it once was. For those who admire the styles of the French Louis the gilt furniture is quite appropriate. One of the necessities of a home is the cozy comer, where the head of the house can hie himself after his day’s work is finished. This cozy corner, an old idea with American home builders, is appropriate for all homes, and does more to make the home thoroughly enjoyable than probably anything else. It can be arranged according to the ideas of the housewives, but it must be so arranged that It will be a comfortable lounging place. The fact that Americans are taking ieal Interest in their homes is shown in the demand for more expensive lines of curtains. As a consequence the local markets now contain patterns and designs in moderately expensive curtains that a few years ago came only within the reach of the wealthy. It is now possible to get the best, either in the original lace or in exquisitely wrought replicas of the same. All sorts of pretty draperies are being shown, and some of the effects are so attractive that this form of curtain bids fair to have an extended vogue. One honaekeper has dented a tiny V at the top of/the wire carpet beater and used it to slip under pictures sires, to lift them from the wall. This rontrivance is also used to replace them. Most pictures can be lifted down in this manner. Such a device Is handy for women, who are in danger when climbing up and down stepladders during housecleaning season. To insure the proper hanging of curtains the frames to which they are stretched should stand straight. Carefully stretched, the next special feature is "the pressing. All points are carefully pressed, the edges being ■team-dampened by using the iron over a wet cloth. Hook holes along the plain edge are obliterated by dampening and working between the fingerk. A taped edge, made wavy and irregular by the hooks, is straightened out by working the steam-dampei curves outward with one hand, while pressing with the other. Any slack or tension of material may be steamed out with a wet cloth and iron. The 6ame process, using several thicknesses of cloth, will remove traces of unfortunate scorching—a fact not generally known by housewives. An old tennis racquet, threaded with stout cord, will make an attractive flower rack for trailing plants. Cut off half the handle, sharpen the end and drive it into the flower pot. Clothes sprinkled with boiling water instead of cold water will dampen much mors rapidly, and, in consequence. can be ironed more quickly. To dean windows and mirrors dab over thoroughly with whiting, tied up In a piece of muslin, and smooth with a damp doth. Follow with a lather, rubbed an freely, and wipe off with justed to different heights to save martin. An old piano stool may be found useful in the kitchen, as it can be ad-, backaches. A good carpet cleaner may be made by shading a pure white soap in a gallon of water, allowing it to boll until dissolved. To this add an oubce of ether and scrub the carpets thoroughly with the mixture, later rinee with fresh water. Anl varniah-oovwred wall paper may be wiped with a damp doth, but for other papers soft bread ia the best cleaner. Heavy, solid colored papers may be lightly gone over with fine sandpaper to remove the smudges. To Insure finely flavored coffee heat the dry ground coffee before adding boiling wnter.

Another Young Soldier Writes Back to Old Friends.

The following letter is from Harry Hickman, better known as “Pood,” who recently enlisted in tbe coast artillery service of the U. S. Army: “Well, I have been some time writing but I could not stand it after reading the “spell” Warren wrote about our 10-inch disappearing guns. I am really on the 12-inch mortars, where we shoot from a big cement pit at a target we can not see at all, our sighting information coming from tbe range finding stations in the rear. There are four of these big mortars in a pit and it requires 12 men to operate each of them. Believe me, they make some noise when" they are discharged. We had service practice last month from the 25th to the 29th, and I want to tell you that they shoot some. “Well, the regulars are aD right, and I am not sorry I enlisted. We have some mighty good times and find our work instructive and interesting. I made the football team and am playing right end, and say, man, we have some teams, too. We play these teams: Richmond, Va., Lynchburg, Va., Fort Washington, Md., and Washington, D. C. I am going to Norfolk tomorrow and expect to see Emerson Coen, who is in the navy, on the U. S. S. New Hampshire. Warren went there today and we had expected to go together, but I could not get off, as I was on prison guard until 5 o’clock. Tell all my friends that I am well pleased. It's fine dope. Tell thejrays to get busy and write to me. Some of them owe me about three letters each. I will close now, but will try to write more next time. My address is Harry Hickman, 168th Co., C. A. C., Fort Monroe, Va.” \

Former Lowell Girl Trys to Suicide by Drowning in Lake.

Valparaiso Messenger. Cecile Esty, the 22-year-old Lowell young woman who was rescued from Lake. Michigan by two men in Chicago, following her deliberate attempt at suicide, was at one time a student at Valparaiso University. Miss Esty became infused with the reformer idea and determined upon the life of a settlement worker. Contrary to the wishes of her parents, who desired her to remain at home, get married and settle down, she went to Chicago, following a course of study here. After a two weeks’ starvation, she joined the White Cross mission. Her experiences are best told in her own words: “I found everything just as horrible as I supposed it would be, but I didn’t find the work of betterment so easy. Also I discovered social service doesn’t pay enough to live on. A good many times I went hungry. Eventually I decided to get outside work. “I knew nothing of stenography, bookkeeping, or any other kind of business work. I could tell the exact amount of money spent in Berlin for philanthropic work in 1910, but that was about the limit of my accomplishments. I went to work in a box factory, and couldn’t live on the wages. Hne day I awoke without a cent. That afternoon I went to work in a restaurant. It gives me a living, but that is all. “I don’t know why I tried to drown myself. It wasn’t a love affair. I was just tired and despondent, and the water looked restful.” J. M. Studebaker, millionaire vehicle manufacturer, is seriously ill at his home in South Bend. He contracted a cold recently, which has kept him at home for several days. Judge Remster at Indianapolis Friday granted sixty days for an appeal to the supreme court of the so-called “Tom Marshal constitution,” which he recently declared irregular and unconstitutional. Daniel G. Reid, of New York, who is visiting his old home in Richmond, this state, has announced a gift of |25,000 to the Y. M. C. A. of Richmond, contingent on a like sum being raised by subscription among the citizens. Sidney W. Conger, 61, prominent member of the Indiana state board of agriculture and formerly state supervisor of oil inspection, died Friday at Fletcher’s sanitarium in Indianapolis, after a year’s illness of cancer of the throat Banks, saloons and other institu-. tions which close their doors on legal holidays will not close Columbus day, October 12, Gov. Marshall and Attor-ney-General Honan holding the act of 1911, which created the day a legal holiday, to be invalid. The Indiana free employment agency conducted by tbe state of Indiana will not solicit employes to take the place of the strikers on the Illinois Central and Harriman railroad systems. .Orders' were sent out Monday from Indianapolis to the Evansville, Ft. Wayne, Terre Haute and South Bend offices that the state agencies must “keep hands off” In the strike. ' Have your sale bills printed at Tbe Republican office.

< fa * i ir The new, big,,stylish 36-hp Maxwell, *I2BO r T'HE car we have been telling you about -*■ has arrived —the new Maxwell Special —a big, stylish, powerful 36-h.p. 5-passenger touringcar —attheremarkablepriceofsl2Bo. - We want you to prove to your own satisfaction —beyond the shadow of a doubt — that this 1912 Maxwell Special is unequaled by any car within SSOO of ite price, Come and see it—inspect it thoroughly—ride in it—put it through every test. We will * gladly demonstrate this car in any manner, at . anytime. Deliveries will be made in rotation. -* N. C. SHAFER, Dealer, Rensselaer, Ind. JtGock&ll 112 A

ADDITIONAL TODAY’S LOCALS. Dave Warren, who was called here to attend the funeral of his brother, Harrison Warren, expects to start for his home in Chester, Neb., Saturday or Sunday. Dave is quite a baseball fan and will probably stop over in Chicago a few days and visit his sister, Mrs. Ellen Oram, and attend a couple of the Sox-Cubs games. Will Daugherty, who has been living on the Benj. Harris Barkley township farm for several years, and who bought 80 acres of land from Charles Pull ins a year ago, has sold that 80 to Mrs. Alda Parkinson and has purchased the Eastburn farm of 240 acres. The farm is in Barkley township and is well improved and Mr. Daugherty will move there in the spring. Trustee May, Samuel Bowman and Charles Welch, of Carpenter township, were over today for the supplies for the Saturday interurban subsidy election of which they are to be inspectors. There is considerable indifference there about the election and it is probable that a small vote will be polled. Some favor the subsidy as a progressive movement but it is doubtful if the election carries in that township, according to the three inspectors. Tom Brown and family have arrived from Grand Rapids, N. Dak., where he moved two years ago. His first year was an almost total failure. This year he had a fair crop and another year might be better, but he was not satisfied and decided to return to old Jasper. He is moving into the Jas. Passons property on Scott 6treet and is on the lookout for a good farm, and being a mighty good farmer he ought to have no trouble in finding one. Tbe first game of the world’s series to settle the championship between the Ameriacn and National pennant winners will take place Saturday. The New York and Philadelphia teams are keyed up to a great pitch of rivalry and great throngs will attend the games, the attendance probably being the largest' of any of the world’s series so far held. In the west the most interesting contest will be between the Sox and Cubs in Chicago. These games start Friday. The first game will be held at the Comiskey park and tbe games after that will alternate. Three men saved their lives by holding on to a sack of cabbage and floating ashore when the explosion of the engine on a launch caused it to sink in White river near Hazelton Friday afternoon. Henry Wallace, aged 55, a fourth member of the party, was drowned. Troubled in mind because of infirmities attendant upon advanced years, Enos Futrell, 77 years old, residing three miles northwest of Jalapa, in Grant county, ended his life by drowning himself in a creek near his home. His body was recovered by his daughter, Mrs. R. Friermood. A discrepancy of over between the material On hand and that called for by the books of the Washington navy yard was shown by the inventory of yard just completed, according to an announcement by Secretary of the Navy Meyer. The discrepancy is attributed to loose bookkeeping methods, which Secretary Meyer set ost some time ago to correct n-

A Classified Adv. will rent iL

Excursion TO CHICAGO TIA tteg ((a Sunday,Oct. 15 LOW RATES and SPECIAL TRAIN as fellows: Stations Time Fare Lv. Monon 8:20 aan. SI.OO Lv. Lee 8:30 aan. .90 Lv. McCoysburg 8:35 aan. M Lv. Pleasant Ridge .. 8.40 a.m. .80 Lv. Rensselaer ...... 8:48 aan. .75 Lt. Surrey .... 8:57 aan. .75 Lv. Parr 9:02 aan. .75 Lv. Fair Oaks 9:09 aan. .75 Lv. RoselaWn 9:20 aan. .75 Lt. Thayer 9:25 aan. .75 Lv. Shelby 9:28 a.m. .75 Ar. Chicago 11:30 aan. Special train will stop at Cedar Lake In both directions. Returning, train will leave Chicago at 11:30 P. M., Sunday, October 15.

Ellis Theatre J. H. S. ELLIS, Manager. One Night Only 10 THURSDAY, OCT. I L THE EVENT OF THE SEASON THE EVER POPULAR BOM ANTE MARIE CORELLI’S “ClKlma” A STORY OF JTHE NORTHLANH ALL SPECIAL SCENERY WONDERFUL ELECTRIC EFFECTS SEE The Midnight San SEE The Horning Viking * SEE The Rainbow of Death SEE The Vision of The Valkjrie The Booh is Good—The Play Is Better Order Your Seats at Once—Do It Now PRICES, Special—Boxes and First Fonr Rows fro* the Stage 76c Six Rows In Back Part of House and Balcony ..... 60c Gallery • . . . -86 c SEATS AT LESSENS Reduced Rates to Indianapolis. On account of the Improved Order of Red Men Great Council of Indiana, Oct. 17-19 at Indianapolis, the Monon Route will sell tickets at one and onehalf fare for the round trip. Tickets will be on sale Oct 16-17 and 18, and will be good to return until Oct 80. For further information call on Monon ticket agept. Do you wjmt to rent your property? A classified adv. in ThS Republican will, find you a tenant A Classified Ady. will sell it