Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1911 — Page 2

The GENEVIEVES I KNOW Also their Jamies

The Genevieve Who Took a Boy to Raise

Genevieve was a charming woman. She was, in fact, a charming widow, and that Is very Important indeed. James was as nice a young man as ever executed a clean shave with a safety razor or fretted about the way his trousers were pressed. Though, for the matter of that, James was no ladles’ man either, and not more In love with himself than a young man has a right to be. Genevieve was not only charming; ■he was also several years old. Not an impolite number of course; but more Junes had slipped by her than had cast their roses upon the head of James. She had just about enough money to take lovely care of herself; but she also had to take lovely care of her daughter, who fulfilled to the letter that old, but true saying used by the wise Latin people about “Mater pulchra, Alia pulchrlor,” which, being translated, means that mamma used to be aa good looking as daughter is now. Daughter was sixteen and in a boarding school. James met Genevieve at a dinner, where she was looking lovely, and where he was so happy as to take her in. She was lovely. Her hair was very soft and almost a true corn yellow, and that shade of hair is the easiest thing in the world to keep from turning gray. All a wise woman needs is per— well, never mind what. AH she needs is to take it in time, and ft will never fade at all. Genevieve’s hair was not at all artificial; and her eyes were as blue as could be and had a natural baby-etare that many younger women would have given all their beautiful switches to own. Young Jennie was taller by two inches and her hair was smooth and black and shining. But she was at school. James fell head over heels in love with Genevieve. He was wonderfully good to look at himself, being an athlete and carrying himself with a ■wing and a swagger to his shoulders that spoke of pure, physical arrogance.

"She Let Him Gather Her to His Heart".

Hi* disposition was not arrogant, but ▼ery kind, and so gentle that a lady might lead him. And she did. Genevieve looked at James and thought to herself, “He is a most inconvenient age—just too young for me and just too old for Jennie. I suppose I had better not have him about." But she was not consulte;d because James came calling the very next afternoon in his touring car. And he entered with diffidence tn bls manner and worship In his big. black eyes. Genevieve saw the diffidence and resolutely declined to see the worship. James said, "Do come out for a drive and find out how the spring feels. I am sure you are pale for the need of fresh air." And Genevieve said, “I am always pale, but it is very kind of you, and I shall be charmed.” So she and James motored all that afternoon and James had never had auch a good time in all his life. He had little experience with women, this nice James. James came around the next afterfroon, and then the next. The third time Genevieve was not at home. She gras, in fact, holding a serious conversation with herself. She was saying that James was much too young for her. Of course, anybody knows what that leads to. She could make him happier thin any mere girl—she knew Men, and an unhappy marriage would cause her to appreciate a happy marWhen she doubted about Young Jawif w to bow this would be after • while for him—"He wants me—just she whispered to her doubts and '"dtMhsd them out of sight. Though afr* knew perfectly well the Jook that ■WMM some infertile faces of her friends wbee James was kidnaped, •st She would not think of that, beeaose Gerevfeve was doing that thing

By HELEN HELP

for which people always laugh so at a woman—she was falling headlong in love with a man her junior—twelve years, to be exact. And when she was fifty—which would not be for a long, long time, she told herself—her husband would be just thirty-eight James spoke near the end of a summer of outdoor recreation which had made him neglect his business and reduced her wardrobe to one evening frock and a house dress or two. And when he did speak, she put her two little hands into his and let him gather her right to that throbbing young heart of his. Genevieve felt guilty about not having Jennie to the wedding, which took place in October. But Jennie had visited friends in the west all vacation, and had lost a week of the opening, so she was working vety hard, her teacher said. So Genevieve just wrote and told her; and Jennie was a little hurt and felt that mamma had acted rather rashly without consulting her, and wrote and told her so. Jennie was a capable young woman. James was very happy at the time. Even when she took her hair down, Genevieve was still charming, and that is a test which no woman past thirty likes to meet, unless her husband is a perfectly well-trained husband, and used to her anyway. About Christmas Jennie came home for the holidays. Jennie was now seventeen; and when she was introduced to her stepfather, her new ste> father nearly had a fit. She was as tall as he, and looked old enough to be married herself. When this happens in stories, it is only up to the point of the young man being engaged to the mother of the grownup daughter. Then his father, who has known the mother in his youth, always comes along and rescues his boy at the cost of an Illusion or two. But James was not in the rescuable stage. He was married. That Christmas a college friend of Genevieve came to call on her; and he was stout and bald and had a tall son with him who was in business with his father. Of course, father had married very young.

Then Genevieve had a letter from a girl friend of her youth. “Dear Genevieve,” wrote Kate, “I am to be in your city soon and would so love to see you in your home.” Of course, Kate was invited to see Genevieve in her home. Kate was a bit older than Genevieve, to begin with, and she weighed two hundred. James, tn his anguish of soul, groaned that she was a hundred and weighed three. But one must make allowances. Kate was introduced to James, and she looked down at him—he was so ridiculously young anyway—and then she said, “Why, Genevieve, what a nice boy he is! Just about my Wllyum’s age”—though, goodness knows, Wllyum was five years younger. And then she said, “I am just going to give him a kiss for Wilyum’s sake.” And she did. But James and Genevieve were married. And after a while Jennie had a dear little sister; and she was very vexed about it Now, in this household there are two young people, an old person and a baby. But somehow they are not mated properly. James does not fall in love ■with Jennie. He is a nice man, and he Is sick of falling tn love anyway. And Jennie does not become the victim of a secret passion for her step-papa; because Jennie is a nice girl, and, besides, as things stand, falling In love looks a mighty poor business to Jennie. But to say that they do not feel the Incongruity of their positions would be a dreadful story. However, any incongruity that those two young things feel is a joke, the merest piffle and persiflage to what Genevieve feels. And the other day, when she was out walking with her oldest daughter and her youngest daughter, both of whom are beautiful, they met a gay party of ladles, one of whom exclaimed In an audible voice, “The little girl looks far more like her grandmother than her mother, doesn’t shot” (Copyright, by Associated Literary Press.)

Invited to a Shakedown.

Beddingford Is a good man not to Invite to take luncheon with you these days. This is the reason as he tells it himself: “I was just putting on my hat and coat to go out to my midday milk and crackers banquet when Helm came along and said: “‘Come and lunch with me. I know a swell place not far from here.’ "I accepted, wondering at the same time what had come over Helm, for he is known as the office, ‘tightwad.* It was a swell little place and we did get a good lunch, and when the checks came Helm took them both and then said to the waiter: *Bring us some dice.’ r ' * "I wondered what the dice were for, but when they arrived Helm said: 1 • 'Now, rn ten what well do. We'll shake to see who pays the bin.’ ”

THS photograph of His Holiness Pope Plux X arrived the other day from Rome. It shows him leaving the Vatican in order to take the first carriage ride of his convalescence. To the left is a group of high ecclesiastics; to the right the footman, in the act of opening the carriage door and making an obesience meanwhile. Added interest attaches to this photograph by reason of the fact that the Pope said of it and others that were taken at the same time: "Give them as large a circulation as possible, thus showing to the world my complete recovery." .

SPELL HOLDING WIFE

Woman’s Heart is Breaking Because Friends Forsake Her. Mrs. Charlie Song Endures Seven Years of Torture, but Cannot Break Oriental’s Charm—Was His Sunday School Teacher. New York. —A contrast of religion and hideous vice, of the utmost common place and the fantastic was the story told by Mrs. Charlie Song, who had been seized In Newark, N. J., In a federal raid on Chinese opium smugglers In her rooms in the Newark Chinatown the other afternoon. Mrs. Song is an American woman and graduated to her present position as wife of a Chinese from being his preceptor In a Sunday school. “Seven years of hell,” is the way she characterizes her sojourn among the yellow men. She says her life there has been one long fight against slavery for herself, yet she has been unable to leave because of some subtle spell that her association with them has cast over her. She is not an opium user nor a drinking woman, she says, and In spite of her troubles she has kept her religious enthusiasm At first she was afraid to admit a reporter to her room, as she was afraid of the vengeance of the Chinese whose secrets she holds and who may be Im plicated at the hearing. She probably will be called as a witness. “I was a country girl,” she said. “I married and moved to Newark. My husband and my two children died, and for two years I was very lonely. I had always been religious and interested in missionary work, so to bury my trouble I began to teach a class In the Chinese Sunday school of the Centenary Methodist Episcopal church Charlie Song being among my pupils. “On New Year’s in 1905, he asked me to go to New York with him and see the time celebrated among his own people. Other teachers went on such excursions with their pupils, so I saw nothing wYong in it. “1 refused to have any wine, because I had never drunk any, but he told me the rice wine was harmless. I drank two tiny cups. I could scarcely see the table, the wine went to rny

SHOVE PROVES TO BE LUCKY

Man Is Pushed to Street During Row on Platform of Street Car and He Grabs SSO Bill. Chicago.—Chance working as an automatic claim adjuster recompensed a man who gave his name as Hervey Kingsley, Coldwater, Tex., for a fall the other night from a State street car. Kingley had been arguing with a man on the rear platform. Just as the car reached Thirtieth street the man, by way of emphasizing a point, knocked his opponent into the street. Kingsley rolled along for a few yards in a vain effort to keep up with the suddenly withdrawn motion of the car. Then, with much difficulty, he arose He was dusting bls hands with a piece of paper which he had picked up when a policeman arrived, and asked him if he was hurt * “I'm murdered,” he answered. “Say that guy might have killed me. He's a thug, a big, barn faced, lop eared, swivel eyed—” Kingsley suddenly paused and began examining the piece of paper with which he had been dusting his hands. His eyes opened to an extraordinary width. He turned the paper over two or three tlmea “11l take it all back," he said pres ently. "That guy was sth angel with blue and pink wings. 11l bet the music plays every time he goes by a church, and that he wouldn't hit a mosquito if it lit in hi* hand*.*' The paper was a SSO bill.

Sometimes an officeholder ha* mor* of a pull than a dentist.

POPE PIUS RECOVERS HIS HEALTH

head so. Then he said, 'I love you. I will never let you go away now. You marry me. We go to China, be missionaries together.’ "We went to the home of Rev. George Dowkart at 90 Madison avenue, and he married us. Then we went right home, I to my home and Charlie to his. Next day, when I realized what I had done, it seemed to me that I would die with shame. That has been my hell ever since—to be ashamed, to be cut off from my people, to have everybody think I am an outcast, something unspeakable, the wife of a Chinaman. “Finally we went to living together. The first few months he was a wonderful "lover. Then he changed. “I have been praying and praying this last year that some way would open for me to get away. I have tried to leave, but there Is something, a Sort of hypnotism that draws a woman back. A Chinaman never loses his influence over a woman when he has once had it. You have no Idea how many white women are here in Newark living with Chinese. Some are girls In their early teens."

ANOTHER LONDON RELIC LOST

Apothecaries’ Hall, Quaint Old Building, to Be Supplanted by a More Modern Structure. London. —Old London, which Is disappearing rapidly before the march of improvement, Is about to lost one of its most Interesting buildings, the Apothecaries company having an nounced that it Is about to let on building lease the greater part of Its land In Water Lane, just round the corner from Printing House square, where the London Times Is published This land Is the site of Apothecaries' hall, a quaint old building now almost hidden from sight by the tall business structures that surround it Apothecaries’ hall was first built In 1633* on the site of Lady Howard of Effingham’s town house. This building was destroyed in the great tire of London and the present hall was erected in 1670. It doesn’t amount to much architecturally, but it is packed full of fine carvings, splendid old furniture

BEAUTY BILLS ARE MODEST

London Specialist Says $1,425 Is Small Sum to Spend for Toilet Aocesories—Men Pay Well. London. —Foreign visitors to England are sometimes heard to remark upon the bloom of the Englishwoman's cheeks, and to inquire if it is derived so entirely from an open air life as it is frequently said to be. The beauty specialists of London are able to throw some light on the subject They say the London woman may be as beautiful as she may wish for SSOO a year, but that $2,500 to $5,000 may be spent for more luxurious treatment and more expensive accessories The revived interest in this subject Is due to a Chicago woman, who is I quoted as having said that her bill of $1,875 a year for beauty culture is a modest expenditure. “The average Englishwoman spends considerably less on making herself beautifdl than the American, French or Viennese,” said a Lord street beauty specialist, who has clients from both sides -nf the Atlantic, “because she uses mure hygienic mean* and dis' penses with artificial helps, such as rouges, chin straps, face masks and other devices to develop her figure by unnatural means. I think the $450 which the Chicago woman say* she pays for face powders is an impossl ble sum to spend on powder—over here, at any rate. The Englishwoman s greatest expenditure is In obtaining water softener*. "Many of nay clients spend $1.50 a day on water..softeners, and I have

and Interesting relics of the development of medicine. The Apothecaries company is one of the great London companies whose: members elect the aiderman and the lord mayor. It Is the only one that has retained control of the trade whose name it bears. Originally the apothecaries belonged to the Grovers’ company, but in 1617 they obtained a separate charter from King James L on the ground that “the ignorance and rashness of promiscuous empirics and inexpert men may be restrained, whereby many discommodities, inconveniences and perils do arise to the rude and credulous people." This charter gave the members of the company the sole right of “exercising the art faculty or mystery of an apothecary within the city of London or a radius of seven miles." Among other privileges it granted the company /the right to burn before the offender'* door all impure drugs. Even In those days the prescribing druggist was a problem, and in 1687 the College of Physicians denounced the Apothecaries company for selling advice as well as medicine. The company retaliated by setting up a medical school, and in 1721 the house of lords confirmed the right of its members to prescribe as well as to sell drugs. Many a father of medicine In the American colonies undoubtedly learned his profession in this school.

MAKE CHEAP LUMBER PAPER

Manufacturers Can Turn Out Fiber Board, Largely From Waste Materials. Conservationist Says. Kansas City, Mo.—So nearly perfect is artificial lumber made from paper there is no longer cause for' great worry over forest conservation, said J. B. White, chairman of the executive committee of the National Conservation congress, here the other night He had just returned* from a trip through the eastern states. Much of his time there was spent investigating the manufacture of' "lumber” from paper. “A superior quality of artificial lumber can be manufactured cheaper than natural lumber can be grown," he said. "Taking 57 per cent, waste paper, 22 per cent, straw, 5 per cent jute and 16 per cent, wood fiber, a ton of fiber board, one-fourth Inch thick, or 1,100 feet of inch lumber can be produced."

men customers who spend as much as $2.50 a day in this way.” A year’s beauty bill of a reasonable amount spent by wealthy women in London is about as follows: Water softeners $ 600 Perfumes 125 Powders, creams and face lotions.. 125, Mouth washes and tooth powders... 25 Manicure and polish of the nails, chiropody and polish 250 Electrolysis —. 250 Face cleaning, one treatment weekly 150 Total n.A2S The above figures, however, do not include operations; and. according to a fashionable west end hairdresser, wealthy Englishwomen often spend from $250 to SSOO a year on their hair and hair dressing

Diver Makes Record.

Los Angeles. Cal.—Ford TravUle, a professional diver at Avalon, Catalina inland; has made what is claimed to be a world’s record tor diving uiad in a common nothing suit. Travtile dragged a half-inch rope down 65 feet below the surface and made it fast to an anchor lying on the bottom. Traville was down two minutes.

Grasshoppers Are Aid.

Louisville. Ky Kentucky’s turkey crop will be bounteous this fall. a> cording to reports from points in the state. The drought, while severe on ordinary crops, gave the young turkey, the condition it likes best . Grasshoppers were plentiful.

Winning Others

NECESSITY for WISDOM and TACT POINTED OUT BY -SUCCESSFUL PASTOR.

NE of the most striking characteristics in the life of our Lord was his interest in others. He was deeply moved by the condition of the multitude. Their

need was the magnet which drew him. Their spiritual destitution meant more to him than anything else. His interest was in those possessing no outward attraction. Many were men of the basest sort This profoundly impressed the multitude, who always heard him gladly. In studying his conduct With the people we are impressed with his method of individualizing. All classes ■ought him. We find him spending a night with the learned Nicodemus; then an Interview with the lawyers; again, the rich young man has his attention. He did not neglect those who were deemed socially and religiously unfit for his association. The blind, the lame, the physical and moral lepers, the downtrodden of every kind, moved him, and he sought to bring them, without regard to their social standing, into discipleship. His interest was in men—even men of the baser sort. The mission of the church, as Jesus gives it, is to be the same as his own. He says: "As the Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” What was his mission? Luke 19:10 gives it. “For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” So the mission of the church Is to seek and save the lost. Our mission is winning others. This brings us to the great question, How can it be done? To win others we must first know the truth by being energized by him who is the truth. We must have experienced a personal touch with the Lord before we can hope to pass it on to others. The water of life must be springing up in our inner being before It can flow out from us as a refreshing stream bringing blessings to others. The disciples had to receive the bread from their Lord before they could give it to the multitude. Abide In Jesus. Again, personal contact with Jesus is essential in winning others. We all know of men who have been greatly blessed in soul-winning, but have lost their power. The cause lies largely in the fact that they have not been abiding in him as formerly. They have been content to give out that which they have received by contact and fellowship of other days. To them it has lost its warmth, and so their words fall without power. If we are to be successful in winning others, we must go to them with a message permeated with the compassioneof abiding fellowship with Christ. It is the message which grows from such fellowship that*the Holy Spirit will use in the winning of others. Some of us know by experience that the message which was born in moments of such fellowship resulted in great blessing to ourselves and Others. But how often have we repeated this message that once stirred the people with no results in the winning of others? Factors Are Wisdom and Tact Then wisdom and tact are greatly blessed in soul-winning: “To save an Immortal soul from sin and wrath, to hope and holiness, is honorable and difficult work. It ia a work for wise men, and we lack wisdom.” On this point there Is a special promise from God; those who need wisdom and d.eslre to use it in this work will get it for the asking. The wisdom needed is very different from the wisdom of men. It is very closely allied with the simplicity of a little child. Much of it lies in plain* ness and promptness. Again, we must remember that consistency is essential and indispensable in soul-winning. To say well and do ill brings upon us criticism of “an eloquent tongue and a lying life.” The most potent Influence which a Godly wife can use in winning her ungodly husband to Christ Is, as the Holy Spirit says: “A chaste manner a of life coupled with fear.” (1 Peter 3:1, 2, margin.) This is in accordance with the principle that it Is not what we say we are, but what we are, that tells. There is no speech so powerful as actions seasoned and governed by grace. Bishop Reynolds says: “The star which led the* wise men to Christ, and the pillar of fire which led the children of Israel to Canaan, did not only shine, but went before them.” St, Austin says: “With their doctrines they build, and with their Ilves destroy.” Unspoken action Is more powerful than unperformed speaking.

The Flag.

Let the youth <sf our land read in -the red of the flag the story , of the precious blood that has been shed that our liberties might be secured; let the white thrill them- with the lofty purity of those principles upon which our nation is founded? and may the blue Inspire them with a fidelity to the same and consercration to th* service of mankind at home and abroad. —Rev. George E. Davies, Free byterlan, St. PauL