Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1911 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Manicure | Lady “WAS THERE MUCH happened over here while I was In Europe?” asked the Manicure Lady. “Oh, not much/’ replied the Head Barber. “Colonel Astor is going to get married again, or something of that sort, and Roosevelt has horned into the public eye once more, long enough to confess that he saved the country. He admits it. And I see the young Prince of Wales is getting sick and tlred of his new job and would like to sidestep it I don’t blame him, at that A kid Of his age ought to be playing around some place like Coney Island and not wearing royal robes and funny crowns. And about the only other new thing I can think about is that Brooklyn isn’t going to win the National league pennant. Neither is Boston.’ ”1 suppose the same old gang of rough-work boys came in here to have their nails did while I was abroad?” she asked. “No,” said the Head Barber. “To tell you'the truth the girl who took your place while you were away was one of them refined kids that seems to drag in refined men by the dozen. You old pals Joe Blow, the bookmaker, Davy and Billy Btepheqson—all of that crowd has stayed out while you were away, And maybe you won’t see them again, now that you are back ” “I wouldn't care to see some of them,” said the Manicure Lady, “but I would -sure m’ss Davy, and you don’t need to call him desperate, either. Just because he is a plumber is no sign that he can't take care of his hands. I admire him for At. But what about this girl that took my place, George? I don’t follow you when you tell about her being so refined, unless you mean that she was more refined than me. Goodness knows I never had no private tutor, and never went to no swell boarding school, but I guess I am as refined as any girl that butted In her? to take my place whNe I was abroad. The chances are. that I am more refined. I bet she was fourflushing with all that refined stuff.” “No, she wasn’t,” said the Head Barber, who noticed that he had' somebody’s 'goat* running around the ■hop. “She was really refined, and ■he could make up better poetry than your brother Wilfred. She made up three pieces of verse in one afternoon, and dedicated one of them to me.” “Wasn’t that sweet of her?” said the Manicure Lady, frostily. “It must have been a fine lot of junk.” "It was real good!’* declared the Head Barber. "Some of it sounded like Walt Whittier.” "That shows how much you know about poets,” snapped the Manicure Lady. “You mean Henry Wordsworth Whittier. You make me tired, anyway, George, with ail them a’rs that ycu are a i the time putting ou. U hat yc-. know abo it anything tike poetry? I know that them safety razor fellers have driven some barbers to barns on rainy days, but I ■ever in all my life thought that they would drive one to poetry.” "It was great stuff,” persisted theHead Barber. “I remember three of the lines went like this: “ ‘And so, together. In the waning light We drifted into starlit Arcady And heard the anthems of Eternity.’ ’ - • “That sounds crazy enough to be good,” admitted the Manicure Lady, ‘but I’ll bet she never wrote it. You jan’t make me believe she done ft. I’ll bet she wasn’t educated enough.” "But she was certainly refined,” ■aid the Head Barber again. “That’s nothing,” replied the Manicure Lady. "So is lard.” • CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE Three-quarters of a cupful of butter, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, two and one-quarter cupfuls of lifted flour, three eggs, one-quarter bf a teaspoonful of salt, three tquares of chocolate, three-quarters jf a cupful of milk, one teaspoonful >f vanilla, two teaspoonfuta of baking powder. Scald the milk, dissolve in it the grated chocolate, and set wide until cool. Cream the butter ■nd sugar, add the vanilla and the beaten yolks of the eggs. Add alternately* the flour and the prepared milk, then the stiffly whipped whites; lastly stir in the baking powder, and beat hard for two minutes. Bake tn three layers and when cold put together with the following: The successful business men of this age have not been trained in college, but have got their education in store and shop and counting room. Nor need poor parents feel that because they cannot send their children off to college they are depriving them of the spportunity of developing their minds, in this day of'cheap books and free libraries anybody can get all the culture they can assimilate, and some ol the moat learned people in the world are self educated.