Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1911 — Page 2

WOMANS INTERESTS

TO MAKE IN CROCHET DIRECTIONS FOR WORKING OF EFFECTIVE TRIMMING. Lover of This Form of Ornamentation Will Be Quick to Recognise Ito Worth end to Copy It. , Work 7 chain stitches, turn, pui 1, a double crochet in each of the other «. turn with l chain. • 6 double crochets, 9 chain into the end stitch Of the previous row, turn and work under the chain loop. 3 double crochets, then a plcot (4 chain back to the Erst). 8 more double crochets, an* other picot, 3 more double crochets;

ail these 9 double crochets should bo under 7 of the 9 chain, then a double crochet into each of the other two and 1 into each of tht next 4 stitches, leaving the last two unworked, turn with 1 chain 6 double crochets, turn, 8 chain, pass one, a double crochet tn each of the other 2 chain and 1 on each of the next 4 stitches, turn with 1 chain and repeat from *,tor length of lace required. Second strip: Seven chain, turn, pass one, a doubh crochet In each of the other «, turn with 1 chain, ", C double crochets, 3 chain. turn, pass one. a double crochet on each of the other 3 chain and 1 on each of the next 4 stitches, leaving the remaining 2 unworked, turn with 1 chain, and repeat from * until the second strip is of the same length as the first. These two strips are connected by catching 3 chain across from point to point, first placing the strips so that the ribs or rows slant in opposing directions. See illustration. On the top of the second strip work 7 chain from point to point, and upon thia row work 3 chain from the middle of one loop to the diddle of the next •one, and finishing with a double crochet in each chain stitch ot last row.

THINGS WORTH KNOWING

Teeth kept clean mean small dent* lets' bills and little time wasted in toothache. Hair kept clean means that no time be wasted for the prevention of baldness later on Skin kept clean means no loss of time In Illness. In fact, it Is hard to say in what depart- . inent of life cleanliness does not save time. For the Irritation and inflammation that Is brought on by the stings of mosquitoes and other insects there is no better cure than to bathe the part In hot water and apply a little of this .mixture: Ammonia, one-half ounce; the same amount of eau de cologne, boraclc acid powder and a little aromatic vinegar. Bage tea Is made by steeping two ounces of green tea and dried sage in three quarts of boiling water until the liquid makes two quarts. It stands until cold, when It is strained. To use, the hair must be washed and dried, and the tea is put on evenly, at night, with a brush, repeating until the desired shade is attained.

GOLD BEADS AGAIN IN AVOR

Revival of Old Fashion Will Bring These Ornaments From Their Hiding Places. ■' r- **’ •? ./.? There has been a revival of gold beads Old strings oftheee that have fata Mie for years can now. be taken fry* their biding places and worn around tbs neck. In case they are tapntahed they can be cleaned with hot aosHpeods or a good polish. The new beads are somewhat larger than the OlddMblooed ones; some are even ao targe as a small marble although they are not considered In very good toots. A novelty is a string of alterapto pfata and chased beads. Often to keep clean. A cottar effect made <rf rows of

BRIGHT COLOR GIVES RELIEF Applied to Take Away Effect of Somberness In Drosses and Sults of Young Girls. The vogue for reversible fabrics and color contrasts is applied to the fashions for girls of all ages, as well ss to those of women. Black seems rather a somber color for a girl in her early teens, but when you relievo a black coat of heavy, woolly goods with huge rovers and cuffs of light blue, then It becomes at once a girlish garment White or cream color is liked for contrasting with the dark colors on girls’ dresses and suits. One of the smartest suits brought out recently is of dark blue cloth—a three-piece model—wfth a sailor collar and cuffs on the coat and inch-wide bands on the blouse of creamy ratine. Plaid also is used to s great extent for facings and trimmings on every sort of garment for young folks. ... - A shepherd's plaid dress, which would look severely plain, is brightened and made distinctive by a yoke front, shaped band and cuffs of red serge worked in black soutache. A scarlet patent leather belt matches the rod trimmings on another dress of shepherd’s plaid. A coat of dark blue serge for a child of twelve or so has a shield and collar to match and a broad belt of dark blue suede. A black velvet hat for a miss of sixteen or so has three immense rosettes of velvet, each with a heart of gold, which touch at the edges, completely encircling the hat One Is of purple, one of Alice blue and one of brown. Small boys will blossom forth tn gray raiment this fall. If their natural boyish instinct does not revolt against some of the rather effeminate styles prepared for them. In stockings they will wear real silk in gray colors, Roman plaids and such solid shades as garnet On some of the roughfinish hats there are stuck perky little bunches of Yankee Doodle feathers at one side.

Wide Latltude In Reveres.

Striped cloths and silks are made up with swathing collars, revers and cuffs of woolly materials such as ratine and polo doth, or with silkyhaired ones like camel’s hair, and its counterpart, zibeline. Then there are a number of new smooth-surfaced English cloths that come in plain and striking plaid effects that are used equally for the body of the garment* and for trimming, and there is the usual quota of double-faced materials that are always to be depended upon for novel manipulation.

BOTH HANDSOME AND USEFUL

Book Marker Made of Ribbon and Blastic, With a Bllk Tassel Ornament. 1 This useful marker is made from ribbon and elastic; the strip of ribbon at back is about 1% Inches wide and 7% to 8 inches in length; a strip of buckram the same length but rather narrower, covered with plain ribbon.

is laid at back and all are stitched together at edges. A strip of inch-wide elastic, same length as ribbon, is attached on the inner side at each end; a silk tassel with bow of ribbon ornaments lower end and a bow only at the top. The elastic can be easily slipped over the edges of book to keep the place required.

Waist Measure at Present.

According to feminine statistics, the waist measure is more normal at the present day than any time since woman began to wear corsets. When one quotes a waist measure of 2« or even inches the lissome corsetiere no longer raises her brow in that cultivated sort of covert dismay that she was ones prone to assume and when the general Improvement tn the health and comfort of the "weaker** sea to taken Into consideration it I to to bo wondered at that the ateliers Of the Parts drapers did hot sooner some to the conclusion (hat the women of today do not want 1.1-inch (Catbertn. 41 Msdkfl rolddal waists.

YOUNGSTER’S FAST BALL JUMPS A FOOT

Grover Cleveland Alexander of Phillles.

Manager Charles Dooin of the Phillies declares that be has the greatest young pitcher in the National league In the person of young Alexander, the recruit. —x x 1 This young Alexander is supposed to possess a finer assortment of deceivers than any other youngster in the game. His fast one is the most deceptive, according to Manager Dooin, and the red-haired boss will take oath that this jumps anywhere from fourteeii to fifteen inches. An exaggeration f The manager of the Phillies says no. He

PITCHERS LOSE THEIR NERVE

Manager John McGraw of New York Giants Says Managers Ruin Young Hurlers by Changing. The custom has grown upon managers to suddenly shift pitchers if they happen to be batted hard. For that reason ball teams are carrying more pitchers in comparison with the actual work that they do on a ball field than they ever did. If pitchers who happen to be hit hard were to be kept in the game in-

Manager John McGrew.

stead of being sent to the bench It might be that the team would rally as quickly behind him as It would behind a fresh pitcher, and it frequently has been demonstrated In baseball that a pitcher may be bit hard In one Inning and after that hold a team to almost nothing. John McGraw to slow to change a pitcher who happens to be hit for the reason that he wants the pitcher to have every opportunity to help himself out of the trouble Into which he has fdllen. When be notes that a nitcher is not himself he |s likely to

says it is an actual fact that the fast one of his youngster Jumps more than a foot ' Alexander isn’t exactly built on the endifrance order, and yet he has always had the reputation of being a pitcher who could do a lot of work in a season. Last year he was with the Syracuse team of the New York State league. He pitched 46 games In that league. Alexander is* a youngster, being but twenty-three years old. He is a westerner, his home being ln x St. Paul, Neb. He stands six feet two'inches.

change in a hurry, whether he is an old or a young player. There are days when the best pitchers are less effective than is usually the case when they are In the box. Before It was baseball etiquette to have almost as many pitchers on a team as there are other players combined the time was when a pitcher would be rapped for three or four runs In the rather early part of the game and yet stick through and win.

HARLEY PARKER JOKE VICTIM

Vice-President Sherman Causes *Ai> rest” of Newly Appointed American League Umpire. Umpire Harley Parker was the vlotim of a practical Joke played on him by Vice-President Sherman when the White Sox were meeting the Senators recently in Washington. Parker was sitting in the lobby of the' Driscoll hotel chatting with friends. An officer from the United States senate came into the hotel and began “looking, them over.” "Is there a man named Parker?” Inquired the officer. y “That’s my name.” replied the startled baseball official. “Is it the nmpire you want?” “You are the fellow I am looking for,” replied the officer. “I have a warrant here for you." “Well, I guess there Is nothing for me but to go with you.”' replied Parker. , The officer of Uncle Sam .marched the unsuspicious arbitrator up to the desk of Vice-President Sherman in the senate, the most august assemblage tn the United States. “I guess I’ve got your man at last,” said the officer as he Introduced Um pire Parker to the vice-president of the United States. , “I sent for you to inquire about that play when Germany Schaefer went back to first after stealing second the other day,” explained “Sunny Jim,” and Parker drew a big sigh of relief. It was Just like eating pie for Parker to explain the play and he did so to the satisfaction of all concerned. Sherman admitted the play bothered him more than any problem that had come up in the extra session of congress and that was going some.

Can't Stop Sheckard.

Referee Time is haring a dreadtu. flurry counting out Jimmy Sheckard of the Cubs. For three seasons expectant fans have been looking for the fatal toll to start, but each year James bobs up brighter, fresher and more capable than ever. Sheckard is still one of the best lead-off men in baseball. Some time back in baseball history Chicago handed Brooklyn four or five players for this star. Sheckard Is still shining more brightly than ever, while the men who went to Brooklyn have faded from sight for the most part.

Jackson Hits Hard.

Joe Jackson ot the Naps finds Highlander flinging the easiest of any in the Ban Johnson circuit. In the recent Highlander-Nap series in the Forest City Joey made nine hits in twelve times at bat, an average of .750. Joe has an especial ■ fondness for the wares of Ray Fisher and Jack Quinn.

Three Promising Pitchers.

The American league has three pitchers this year that came from the Pacific Coast league of last year. Walter Nagle, now with the Red Sox. Jack Lively with the Tigers, and Venn Gregg with the Naps are throe youngsters who look Rhe real finds

CANTILLON IS TRICKED

Washington Manager Fooled at His Own Game. ElevatocPltcher’s Box 80 That White Sox Twlrlers Couldn’t Get Ball Over Plate—Comiskey Lowers His. "Long ago, when the world was young,” says Joe Cantlllon, once manager of Washington, “Charlie Comlskey and I were running rival- teams in the old Western league, and what wo didn’t plan in the way of Jobs and tricks upon each other wasn't worth putting in the Book of Frauds. I always figured the great-hearted Comiskey as my legitimate meat, and Do soon learned a few things on his own account, so that the score was kept fairly even as the days went by. < “One time, when Commy’s team was slated for a series on my grounds, a really great idea struck me. In those days there were no rules restricting the height of the pitching . mound, and some awful elevations were constructed round the circuit. 1 resolved on making a hill such as no pitcher ever used before, and I made IL too. The ground-keeper at my park built up a mountain, and I trained my hurlers on that mountain every morning for four days. When Comlskey's gang arrived they were dtunfounded to see that Mount Whitney of a pitching hill, towering up above the diamond, and with my pitchers grinning down at them. But they kicked in vain; there was no rule to stop me, and the game began. For three days we had rich fun with Commy’s men. My pitchers sent the ball swooping downward with a speed and an angle of direction that they couldn't touch, while Commy’s pitchers, unused to such an altitude, were helpless, hitting the batters on the feet and rebounding the ball from the turf for wild pitches.

"We arrived in Comlskey's burg two weeks later, and I felt pretty sure that we had a cinch. No matter how the old Roman might elevate his pitching mound, he couldn’t fool us, for my pitchers were all trained to the hill work, and could not be rattled or put to the bad, even if they were asked to throw from the summit of a steeple. But when we got to Commy’s field we let go one long, lingering yell of anguish and despair. ■ We were tricked, beaten, slim-slammed and skinned alive. "Immediately after his return from my town, so it seems, Comiskey got busy with his plans for a dark revenge. He had his groundkeeper dig a grave at the pitcher’s slab —an excavation abput up to the hips of the average man—and then he trained his curving force, day by day, to that most difficult of feats —throwing uphill. It is awful labor, but, of course, a man can learn to do it, and by the time we appeared in the vicinity they all had it down to perfection.- Can you Imagine the finish? “My pitchers, trained to throwing downward from a mountain, were absolutely done/ They couldn’t get the ball anywhere near the batters and man after man walked, while the few feeble tosses that came over the plate were batted half a mile. For three days the carnage went on and we were trimmed 12 to 2, 11 to 2 and 17 to 5. Then Comiskey and I got together, agreed to restore our pitching slabs to their normal altitude and never again to try anything on each other.**

BALL AND BAT NOTES

Roy Thomas is still on the pay roll of the Quakers. His services nowar days are confined to acting as pinch hitter. Of the five players Cleveland gets from the Central league, two are hitting over .300, while another is close up to that mark. ' First Baseman M. M. Kilihar of Petersburg, Va.. who starred In the Virginia State league, has reported to Fred Clarke for a try-out. The St Louis Browps have acquired a pitcher named Spencer from Quincy, BL The purchase has been delayed somewhat in announcement. , Owners of the Decatur (Ala.) club of the Southeastern league deny the reports that their city will not be represented in the circuit next season. The announcement that James MeAleer might get a controlling interest In the Washington club was greeted with general approval over the American league circuit, v . ~ Cincinnati asked waiters on Larry McLean and all dubs said "Sure.’’ But Larry will remain a Red; it was Just to show him that he's not the backbone of the national game. One of the records claimed by the Henderson team of the Kitty league for the season, was three consecutive shut-outs over Fulton. The scores wore 1 to 0, 5 to 0 and 4 to 0. Kentucky sporting blood was stirred In the post-season series between Paris and Shelbyville in the Blue Grass league. A purse of 11.000 a side was proposed for a series of five games. Husk Chance, while driving his new auto from Boston to Now York, put on a little too much speed and was bold up by a real constable. R cost the Cubs* leader a five spot to square accounts.

ODD RAIN-MAKIMG CUSTOMS

How the People at Russia and Rowmania Try to Break the -'Drought Besides the use of bad language as a popular means of procuring rain, there are various other tricks to which members of the human race have recourse In time of drought There is a village in Russia, for instance, where three men used to climb certain fir trees in seasons of drought one of the three having a vessel of water which he would sprinkle all around. One of the other two hammered on a kettle or made some similar noise in the hope of thereby producing thunder, and the third scattered sparks from firebrands as a warning to the lightning to make haste. In Roumanla, Servia and other countries the charm for rain Is more picturesque. Here a troop of girls, the leader of whom is naked save for a covering of leaves, herbs and flowers, goes in procession from house to house through the village, and as they pass singing for rain the householders drench them with buckets of water. The ceremony, says a writer in the London Daily News, regularly takes place all over Roumanla on the third Tuesday after Easter, but it may be expected at any time of drought during the summer. There is yet another wetting Roumanian custom described. Sometimes when rain is needed the Roumanians make a day figure to represent droughL cover it with a pall, and place it in an open coffin. Girls crouch round the coffin and lament, saying: "Drought is dead! Lord, give us rain!" Then the coffin is carried by children in funeral prodession, with a burning wax candle before IL while lamentations fill the air. Finally, they throw the coffin and the candle into a stream or well. In unspoilt parts of Russia the popular methods of influencing the weather are less funereal Sometimes, for Instance, after service in church the priest In his robes has been thrown down on the ground and drenched with water by his parishioners. Ip Kursk, a province qj-southern Russia, when, rain is much wanted the women seize a passing stranger and throw him into the river or souse him from bead to foot •

Old-Time Office Boy Gone.

Exit the office boy, enter the disdainful monarch, watchful of the entrance to the sacred sanctum. • The race of cigarette-smoking urchin office boy has becomp extinct, say business men. The new office boy is a sedate little man who smokes two-for-quarter Havanas and who has a supreme scorn of cuspidors and brooms. Office boys of today receive the princely salary of >4BO a year, hence the change, say employers. The civil service commission has placed their salaries at that figure. “Office boys at >lO a week become czars,” said R. A. Wlddowson, secretary of the civil service commission. "The old-time three dollar ft week boy could be but employers cannot cope with the >lO ones of today, who demand reserved seats with cushions at a prominent point in the office." Clerks range in salaries from >960 to >4,200, according to the new grading of positions made by the commission. The >960 positions are filled by original entry examinations. Promotional „ examinations govern all other jobs. Six and a half years would be required to rise from the first position to the highest.—Chicago Record-Herald.

Everything Has Its Use.

The newly-made lord stood in his newly-made grounds, with a newlymade smile of proprietorship upon his face. He was monarch of all he surveyed. Beyond the gilded gates that divided his estate from the road he espied a couple of old country women. They were gazing through the bars with admiration depicted in every furrowed line of their features. "Some of my parishioners, by Jove!* drawled the lordly -one, turning to his companion. **The admiration of the poor’s very amusin’. I wonder what they're sayin' As they drew within earshot they heard the elder woman exclaim: "Just what I was thinking myself, Jane—what a lovely spot that would make to dry the washing on!”—Answers.

Mrs. Logan Keeps Busy.

Time has touched lightly Mrs. John A. Logan, and the cause of her preservation is found in the constant occupation of mind through all the years of her life. She, was a busy Woman during her husband's life, and after his death, although well provided for, she refused to be idle, and devoted her time and energies to editorial and literary work, giving lectures and writing for magazines and newspapers. She has also been identified with many large charitable undertakings, and in many ways keeping up her undiminished mental activities.

Found a Mummified Cat.

Stone masons altering the front of the Episcopal diocesan house. 41« Lafayette place, New York, taro out tho stonework at the top of the second story- Patrick Shine, the boss mason, found a dusty object which he dug out with a trowel. It was a mummified rot, “a perfectly good cat except for lack of breath,- said Shine. The diocesan house was built la / 13J8, so Shine easily figured that the cat was bora eighty-three years ago st least. He said he would give tho mummy to a relative, a taxidermist. to mount. ’ « ,■' ' ■ ' ar ’• • •