Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1911 — Page 2

The American Home

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Mr. William A. Radford will answer j questton* and give advice FREE OF COST on all subject* pertaining to the subject of building, for the reader* of thta paper. On account of hi* wide experience a* Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he Is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 178 West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. What we need tn houses is more pleasing exteriors and more corA-eni-•nt interiors. I like to notice the houses as I pass along a country road. Some look very comfortable and homelike; but there are too many of the other kind —bare, neglected-looking places, and uninviting, not because of cheapness, but because they lack care and the inspiration born of refinement. In town as well as tn the country, I see both old and new houses that I would not care to enter, just because' the outside appearance is not attractive. An architect can draw a good design, and a builder can put the house up In thorough workmanlike manner; but, after it is finished and the family moves in, unless real good common sense moves with the family, the neighbors will be inclined to admire the fine house from a distance. There is only one right way for a man who is unfamiliar with building operations, and that is to employ a man to draw his plans who has spent years in studying architecture and making house plans, a man who knows how to take advantage of materials and how to lay out the space to the best advantage. It requires a great deal of experience just to read a plan correctly after it is drawn. Plans are drawn to a scale. That is easy to understand; but there is not one novice in a thousand who can look at a plan and get a correct idea of tiie real size, dimensions, and accessibility of the different rooms. He may know in a crude sort of way that a quarter of an inch on the plan represents a foot on the finished work; but, unless he is accustomed to a uniform exaggeration of that kind, he is

sure to feel disappointed in some particular when the house is built The matter of specifications is just as important as the drawings. There are a great many little things to specify, in making a contract that a person unaccustomed to such work will never think of. A person might possibly find a contractor liberal enough to

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do all the thinking, supply all the brains, take a crude plan, and turn out a satisfactory job. But It wouldn’t happen that way more than one time in a million. Contractors are In business to make money. That is all right enough; nobody objects to a con tractor making a fair profit, but what ton want to guard against is an unfair

profit. The only way of letting a contractor know exactly what you want is to tave it- specified both in the drawings and in the contract A man may study a plan a long time and think he knows all about it; but while the house is going up he can always find room for improvement. This leads to alterations, which are generally expensive. The specifications should state that no alterations will be paid for unless

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the consent of the owner is given in writing. I knew of an old-fashioned contractor, familiarly known as “Henry,” who did a great deal of building; and he had a motto which read, “Always charge for extras, and never de-

duct for omissions.” Interpreted, it really means: .‘‘Heads, I win; tails, you lose," in the game of alterations. Plans and specifications cost the owner nothing; in fact, they are likely to save him a good deal of money, besides putting him in the way of getting a house that he wants and will be satisfied with, instead of one that he don’t want and w never like. The house de-ign shown in this plan is 26 feet wide and 44 feet long, exclusive of the porch. The chimneys are so arranged that it may be heated comfortably with stoves, which is helped by the rooms upstairs coming directly over the rooms below, thus giving an opportunity to carry the stovepipes through to the rooms above and to warm them with drums. Houses may be made very comfortable in this way. Stoves burn less coal than a furnace, and a great many prefer them, -t is easy to warm any part of the house, and it is not necercary to keep fire in the rooms that are not used. l

The house is modern and sensible in appearance, and so far as the architect and builder are concerned it is all right as shown on the plans and perspective; but it wfil never be complete as an artistic home until the grounds are laid out and planted with suitable shrubs and flowers. No plain, bare house looks right; 'it shows at once tfet there is something lacking. The only real comfortable homes are surrounded with something more pleasing than brick, mortar and paint A house like this may be built where conditions are favorable, for about $2,000, complete with gas fixtures and plumbing. It may be that the gas fixture* are hot wanted at first; but ft is better to put in the pipes. Recent improvement in small gas plants makes it possible and often desirable to install a little machine jUst for home use. If the pipes are in. the fixtures and burners can be put on at any time. Another thing that should be remembered in building Is the hot-air pipes in the walls in case you ever want They may be easily put in while the building is going up, but ft is as awful job ie tsar out and put them in afterward.

ILLINOIS HAS A GREAT FOOTBALL TEAM

With the game with Minnesota on November 25 to decide the western intercollegiate conference championship as the goal toward which to turn their eyes, the Illini football men -are id grand form. Coaches Hall and Lindgren, both alumni of Illinois, are again back coaching and expect to turn out the banner eleven of the west this year. Only four veterans have been lost to the team by graduation—Captain Butzer, guard; Twist, center, and Bernstein,' halfback. All the other veterans of the team that went through the season last year without losing a

USE OF THE FORWARD PASS

That Play, Intermingled With Others of Open Variety, Indicates Style Yale Will Depend On. In the east Yale so far has made by far the best showing of the big teams which got into action. The Elis took Holy Cross into camp, 26 to 0, in a game in which the forward pass and spectacular runs by Captain Howe and Sid Anderson were the

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features. The constant use of the forward pass, intermingled with other plays of the open variety, plainly shows that Old Eli will depend upon the most open sort of play for its victories.

MANAGER MACK MAY RETIRE

Poor Health and Recent Marriage of Leader of Champion Athletics Assigned as the Reason. This season will probably be the last one for Connie Mack as manager of the Athletics. If the Athletics win the American league pennant and the team ir in good shape for next season. Mack’s retirement is almost certain. Connie is a stockholder in the Athletic club, and when he retires will become an officer of the club, probably president, in which qapacity he would direct the club the same as Charley Comiskey directs the White Sox. Mack is torty-nine, and at times bis health is not good. He has remained at home several times this season when the Athletics made short tripe on the road. Another thing. Connie was married last fall and naturally prefers to remain at home Instead of traveling over the country with his team.

Schulte Wouldn't Quit.

When Frank Schulte was seventeen years old his father offered him SI,OOO- to Burn his uniform and quit baseball. “Wildfire” recently said his daddy thinks differently of the matter now.

Coaches Hall and Lindgren.

game or being scored on against the best there was, with the exception of Minnesota, have weathered the gales of scholastic standing and financial discrepancies and are out on the field getting ready to win the conference championship.

Jake Daubert of the Superbas has set up a world's record this season. Daubert has not muffed a fairly thrown ball at the initial corner during a game. What errors he has committed have been made on wild throws to second and on fumbles.

Perhaps if there were more intrascholastic athletics it might help. Just the same, next year will find the Chicago fans as hopeful as ever. Swindell, the pitcher signed by the Naps, should be a good base stealer. Another rooter's pet notion of nothing to read about is an ante-season football game. Somehow or other Rye doesn’t seem a singularly appropriate name for a golf tournement The golden days of football are past Athletes are obliged to attend classes nowadays. Over in dear ole Lunnon they have a way of letting the opponents to boxing take it out in talk. It is understood some of the high schools have substituted marbles and top spinning for football. The 1911 Carlisle football squad includes the following': She Bear, Half Town, Ez Nez and Wounded Eye. The "old boys" who once played prep school football hate to admit it in these days of the board of control. Aviation has proved the only successful competitor to th,e diamond, game and that was a trifle expensive. One of the best things brought about by changes in the football rules is the interpretation of rules decided upon. One of the best things about automobile races is that no machine seems to be able to win two in succession. Parental objection seems to be as great a bugbear utader the present reformed football rules as under the old ones. ( Suing a ball club for damages after having been ejected on account of disorderly conduct seems the height of fourflushing. Ty Cobb is thinking of training this wir. r in a billiard room. He heard George Sutton made 500 points in four innings. The Yale football candidate who fell out of a Pullman coach and escaped uninjured should have attended Michigan prior to 1906. This year a football official Is considered part of the properties of the field. A ball striking an official is not dead, but continues in play. Bobbie Kerr, who won the 920-yard dash for G«-eat Britain in the last Olympic, got one poor third place in the Canadian championships. Some of the beet baseball recruits this year have come from Texas. The state is bearing out General Sherman's opinion that it is a hotbed. To the uninitiated it seems as if a course in football, track or basket ball ought to be just as much physical training as fancy dancing, even in the -credit' liaa k, ’ '* e

Daubert Makes Record.

Sporting Gossip

ANOTHER GREAT PLAY

"Kid” Elberfeld Redeemed Himself After Making Error. Scrappy Little Third Baseman Made Sensational Catch of Hot Hit Over Third Base and Caught Runner at Home Plate. ,(By "WLD" CONROY.) The greatest play I ever heard of was the one “Tacky Tom” Parrott made when he mistook an English ■parrow for a line fly and caught it with one hand after a hard run. But the greatest I ever saw I believe was one Elberfeld pulled off in a game against New York a couple of years ago. The game was close and up to the ninth, the score was tied, and the way things were breaking it looked as if we had the better chance to win out as we were hitting their pitcher harder than they were hitting ours. Elberfeld was playing tnlrd, and in the ninth inning of the game New York got a base hit, then I kicked one, and finally the kid kicked one and filled the bases with no one out It was Saturday and there was a big crowd out and everyone in the stands seemed to cut loose at once to tell me and the kid what they thought of us as ball players. They called us everything they could think of, and one big fellow over in the bleachers stood up and informed me I was* a disgrace to the Irish. It Just goes to show how quickly a player can turn from a hero to a dub in the eyes of the fans. The next batter hit the ball hard and almost over the top of third base. When he hit it the runners, on first and second were going with the pitch, but for some reason the runner on third was late in starting and that made the play possible. Elberfeld jumped at the ball and stabbed it with one hand back of the base. That might have happened with any fielder. It wasn’t the stop itself that made the play seem so great to me, but the way Elberfeld acted and

“Wid” Conroy.

thought He jumped to third base, touched the bag, forcing the runner coming up from second, and then slammed the ball to the plate—and the catcher tagged out the runner there and made the double play. That saved us and we won out in the tenth. Elberfeld had figured as soon as he got the ball that the only way he could make a double play was backwards, and knowing the batter was fast he played to the plate for the runner who was oft to a bad start. He must have had almost half a second in which to figure it out, but he calculated it perfectly. (Copyright. 1911, by W. G. Chapman.)

MILLERS TO HAVE NEW PARK

If Negotiations Prove Successful Minneapolis Will Have Modern Grandstand in Two Years. Minneapolis followers of the national pastime took notice the other day when the story leaked out that the Cantlllons have in mind the making of a new baseball park within easy walking distance of the center of the business district, to have a seating capacity double that of Nicollet park. The Cantlllons, it is stated, are dlckj ering for coveted property, and the building of the new park hinges wholly upon their ability to close the deal. Even if . the negotiations are successful, it is stated, It is unlikely that the park will be ready for occupancy next season. In the event of purchase the building of a modern grandstand, the bleachers and the diamond will be timed so that/the 1913 season win find the Minneapolis team of the American association in a new and superb home.

Winning Team for Washington.

Manager James McAleer has concluded that the only way to produce a winning team to represent Washing ton Is to weed out the oldsters and supplant them with young bloods. It looks now as If Elberfeld, Conroy, Schaefer and other vets will not wear Senatorial uniforms after this season. McAleer has picked up several promising youngsters and to on the lookout for others.

SOME DAINTY DISHES

IDEAS THAT WILL SERVE TO VARY THE. MENU. -- Excellent Way to Serve Spinach— Creamed Chicken With SweetBreJds and Mushrooms—Stuffed Egg Salad With Mayonnaise. Palusanie.—Pick young, fresh ’spinach, wash and boil ten minutes in boiling spit water, drain and chop. Grate the white -part of cocoanut, press it through a heavy cheesecloth to extractthe milk, mix well with the spinach and pou; into small cups. after adding two beaten eggs. Cook like custard. If you like. it hot add a couple of chopped chill peppers. Creamed Chicken. One chicken, four sweetbreads, one can of mushrooms. Boil the chicken and sweetbreads, when cold, cut up for salad. In a saucepan put a quart of cream, in another four large tablespoons of butter and five even ones of flour., Stir until blended and smooth, then pour on the hot cream, stirring until thickened. Flavor with a small half of a grated onion and a> little grated nutmeg. Season highly with salt, pepper apd a little paprika. Put the chicken with the sweetbreads and mushrooms, cover with bread crumbs and a piece of butter, and bake 20 minutes. Bordeaux Puffs.—Make a sponge cake batter of three eggs, a cup of sugar, a cup of flour and salt to taste. Pry in boiling lard like doughnuts, bn brown paper to absorb the lard.

Make a sauce of a pint of sherry, a pint of water, and the juice of a whole lemon, heated over boiling water. Just before serving pour the hot sauce over the puffs. They are delicious. Waldorf Salad.—-Cut off the tops and hollow out some large red apples. Fill with a mixture of the scraped apple, chopped celery, nuts, grated cheese and mayonnaise. Replace the tops and insert a celery plume for a stem, and serve each apple in a plate bordered with lettuce leaves. Stuffed Egg Salad.—Boil the eggs 12 minutes, cut them in half, remove yolks, mash them sfnd mix with mayonnaise. Return them to the whites, and place them together, then put each one in a scooped out half of a tomato, which is put on a small plate bordered with lettuce leaves. Pour over each a tablespoon of mayonnaise. - Orange Baskets.—Remove the pulp from six oranges, carefully cutting the orange peel in the shape of a little basket with a handle. Make a wine jelly as follows: Cover two cups of gelatine with a cup of cold water for half pn hour. Pour one pint of boiling water over it, stir for a moment until dissolved, add one cup of sherry wine, one cup of sugar and the cringe pulp, one teaspoon of cinnamon, half teaspoon of cloves. Strain through a piece of cheese cloth, and fill the orange baskets with the mixture and put away to jell. , English Puff Paste. —To one cup of lifted flour add salt to taste and nearly half a cup of water. Mix with a spoon until the dough leaves the bowl. Roll out thin and spread all over with lard, then sift flour over the lard. Fold twice, roll out, spread with lard, sift with flour. Do this three times. This' will make three pie crusts, or can be made into pattie crusts and filled with creamed oysters, mushrooms, chicken or jelly.

Plum Butter.

Take the large redrplums that' grow wild in some sections of our country and are known as “wild goose** plums. They are delicious when raw, but are bitter and sharp when cooked. This is on account of the Seed which •‘clings,’’ says Good Housekeeping. Cook the plums until tender and then put through a sieve. Mix with an equal amount of sweet apples and cook until .mashed, then add sugar to taste—almost equal parts. Many plums are impossible when cooked. If they are put in clear water and allowed to heat slowly to the boiling point this objectionable feature, which is in the skin, will be eliminated. Throw away that water and proceed to can or preserve.

Almond Cookies.

One cup chocolate, one teaspoon of mlt, five eggs, two cups of sugar, one teaspoon allspice and cinnamon, half a teaspoon of cloves, quarter teaspoon linger, small glass of brandy, two and a half teaspoons of baking powder, one pound of blanched almonds and Hour enough to make real stiff. Make Into a thin roll and then flatten. Bake very slowly until gray inside. Cut In small slanting strips while hot.'

Screens and Porch Fittings.

In the fall when putting away our porch furniture, for which we select a clear day, the rugs are thrown on the line, the furniture and window screens are placed near by, and every, thing is given a thorough cleaning with a hose. When quite dry the screens are lightly brushed with raw linseed oil to prevent rusting. This oil does not evaporate.

Queen Pudding.

< One pint of nice bread crumbs, one quart of milk, one cup of sugar, the yolks of four eggs, the grated rind of one lemon, a piece of buttes the size of an egg. When baked, spread over the top slices of jelly of any kind and cover the whole with the whites of the eggs beaten stiff, with one cup of sugar and the juice of the lemon. Brown lightly tn the oven.