Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1911 — Page 2

That Other Girl

Garry Folger drew the small, dingy lamp nearer, and scraUnlsed Ida hankbook thoughtfully. Then he gazed about the low, cheeriest room. **l don't know as It is anyone’s business It ( want a home," he said aloud to strengthen his faltering determination. Tve earned the money and saved It, every penny, rm sick of living about in people’s kitchens. Their say a- man has a legitimate right to make a fool of himself once tn his lifetime!** And so ft transpired that the little community was elec trifled to boar a few days later that Garry Folger had bought the old Norton place and meant to Uv» there hlmselt “It wtll bo pretty lonesome there by yourself, won’t Itr asked friendly neighbors. “it will bo homo, anyway," Garry always answered. One bright March day he moved luto the pleasant kitchen and the little bedroom adjoining. “But It Is my own kitchen." thought Garry exulttngly. It was the first real home the young man had ever known. He bought n fine young team, a cow. and some chickens. He set the place In order and planted the garden st odd moments between the regular work of the farm. And though he was so busy and so happy In hia new possession, a strange fancy seemed to dominate him. Hs wandered dally through the empty rooms, fighting this new desire as be had fought tha one about buying a home. "Though I don't know “ ha admitted with a queer smile, “that a man Is justified to go on making a fool of himself!" One breathless afternoon late In June, the young man stood helpless and embarrassed In the curtain department of a J»lg city store. A girl In a simple white dress came toward him "Ton wish something r* she asked kindly. H« noticed she looked pale and tired. The kindness In her voice banished his uneasiness. “I want curtains—but I haven't any Mea what kind," he smiled. "Tour wife sent you? She did not specify anything—color—material?" "That ta just the point," said Folger, still smiling. T haven't any wife. But I want to get the kind of curtains that she will like when—when she comes to use them." "Oh, 1 see. Yflu are getting the house ready. And she Is so far sway yon cannot ask her?" “That Is it," be said admiringly. “Do you think you could help me?" "I shall be only too glad. But I wish I could see the house—and the girl!" "It is a low, old-fashioned white house in the country, with roses over the porch and a lilac hedge. And the girl—ls small and gentle and has brown eyes." The girl's eyes grew suddenly wistful. “How lovely it must be! And the curtains—there should be nothing but white muslin In a house like that!"

•’Well, rm glad to know It; I’ve always liked that kind, and could they hare trills?" “Ther certainly can. Come and see." With the utmost patience she took oat boxes and boxes. Tftey are not quite right, someway ” she declared with a perplexed frown. “We have some lovely material here—you could get them made, could you not? That would best.” “I’d rather at home, that “Then suppose you get the measure menia and let me make them? I am only substituting afternoons for one of the regular girls. I shall be only too glad.” Garry Folger found himself In the same store a week later with a careful list of figures in his pocket. “It seems a great deal for you to do." he objected. “But I‘ve nothing else to do mornings. It Is vacation, you see. lam a primary teacher.” "I will send them when they are finished, If you will give me your address,” she said, as he prepared at last to depart. - “No, I’ll come for them," said the young man. “We might want to change them some way.” “Perhaps that will be best," answered Alice Dennison demurely. Tbe following week the curtains were finished. “1 wish you could put them all in place,” he said. “You have no Idea how you have helped mel" “Is everything else ready?" “There — there isn’t anything ready except the curtains." admitted Garry helplessly. “1 wish 1 could get everything 1 need right here and you could help me pick things out.” “Why, I’ll help you any day you can come in the morning," she smiled. “There must certainly be something In that house besides curtains!" The buying of furniture may be made a very Interesting occupation. Alice, her thoughts centered upon the white bouse and the slender girl with the brown eyes, chose wisely. Garry will Ingly paid for anything she thought I m Idea what an Ignorant fellow I ass. JNKUmI CMwiiifsoii*** observed •V ir i f £i

By SUSANNE GLENN

for you with the furniture placed as 1 should have it She can change It to suit herself mien she comes." ‘‘You are too good." declared the young man. Next day the, diagrams arrived and Folger wrote a note of thanks. After a week of silence he wrote again for further information. When he called at the curtain department a week later, he found that she was iU v "It is the warm weather," explained her friend, "The city doesn’t agree with Alice, but she cannot afford to get out of It" Garry Folger drove to meet the afternoon train a month later. “It la Just clear providential," he thought “that this vacancy occurred In our school. It Is certainly just the place for Miss Dennison. 1 hope she will like it and that Squire Green will like her!” The girt looked worn and 111 as she came up to him on the platform. ‘This is so kind of you," she said quickly. 'lt ta just the chance 1 have wanted. I do hope they will want me!" The short drive to Squire Green's was made In silence. Folger waited in the buggy for her. When she came smiling down the walk he knew she had the school. “Will you let me show you the house before you go?” he asked gently. T should love It" she answered, still smiling. When he helped her down at his own gate she wandered about the flow-er-filled garden while he tied the horse and unlocked the door. She followed into the spotless parlor. ' He flung open the windows and turned to her. “No one has ever seen this room except you and myself." he said. "It la lovely," she breathed. “I never Imagined It would be so pretty—and the garden is a dream. You did It alone? How pleased she will be!"

“Listen to me. Miss Dennison. “You do not understand any more than my neighbors do. When 1 was a mere baby Mr. Folger and his wife took me and gave me a name 'and a home. When they were gone I lived about the neighborhood working when I could and going to school as I might “I do not know my name, or my age, or my parents Through all tbe years of my childhood, 1 dreamed of having a mother who cared for mo as other boys’ mothers did. Since 1 have become a man I have dreamed of a home' —and a wife. I had money and 1 bought this place, thinking It would be home to me. But the empty rooms mocked me. It wasn’t home, after all I dreamed of the sort of girl 1 should like to bring here. I filled the garden with flowers for her. I furnished the house —with your heaven-sent help. I have been a fool In a fool’s paradise!” “Then there—ls no girl?” she asked sbftly. “There wasn’t when I began," he answered quietly. “And now that there Is. what have I to offer her?" “You said she was small and gentie and had brown eyes," reproached the girl. “She Is —she has," he responded miserably. “I think you have a great deal to offer her.” The girl’s voice faltered iui her eyes wandered through the muslincurtained window to the fragrant garden. “Alice!" He held out his arms to her. She put her steady tittle hands into his trembling ones. “If you only knew, Garry," she said happily, “how I have envied that other glrll”

An excellent aid toward curing stammering. If there is no absolute malformation of the organs of articulation, is to read aloud with the teeth closed an hour or-more each day. It lime gets Into the eyes when passing buildings that are being torn down bathe with a lktle weak vinegar and water and remove any pieces of lime with a feather or a little abeorbent cotton. In closing the house for the summer If the brass fire iron and tongs are lightly painted with a strong paste made of lime and water they will look like new when cleaned in the autumn. No rust artll affect them while not in use. To revive cut flowers after they have been packed and mailed or expressed, plunge tbe sterna Into boiling water and when the water is cold the flowers will have revived; then cut the stems fresh at the ends and put them Into cold water.

Weary from her long stretch of work, the stenographer sought her September solitude among the healthy hills of Halehearty. The advertisements had attracted her. Halehearty was described as the best, prdraesL finest and everythlng-elaest spot in the wide, wide world. ‘Tell me," she said on her first day, when she met a. stanch old relic of the district, “what Is the death rate In Halehearty?" The local walking advertisement nodded his head reassuringly. “Won’erful steady, ma’am—won'erful steady!" he replied. “One death to each perm right along!"

Things to Remember.

Remarkable, by Jove!

WE present herewith a group of photographs showing certain activities of the army which Italy it pitting against the forces of Turkey in Tripoli.* The pictures show; (1) Italian quick-firing gun In action; (2) artillery on the march; (3) wireless apparatus in the field; (4) ambulance corps on the way to the front

LOP-SIDED CONTRACT

Husband Now Sorry He Signed Paper to Get Wife to Return. Every Privilege Is Given to Woman, Even to Entertaining Former Gentlemen Friends, While He Becomes Slave. Kansas City, Mo.—S. A. Dickson has repudiated the most unique marriage contract ever entered into In tbe history of Kansas City. The document was drawn up by his wife and gave her every privilege, even to the adoption of affinities If she cared so to do. Tbe Dicksons quarreled a few weeks after their marriage, eighteen months ago, and, Dickson says, under duress of Intense love, he signed what he now admits was a very foolish contract to get his wife to return to him. Details of the marital troubles of the Dicksons were made public the other day in a deposition filed In the circuit court in a suit (or divorce filed by Dickson. Dickson admitted he was compelled on several occasions to go on bended knees to his wife and ask her forgiveness. His reward was hot forgiveness. He merely was allowed to bask once more in the light of her beauty, to give her his salary each week and subsist on the crumbs of affection she chose to give him. Mrs. Dickson lives at No. 1120 Tracy avenue, this <?lty. Eighteen months ago they were married. Three weeks later they separated. The husband in his deposition says the separation was due to the faqt that she continued to be a friend td men with whom she went before their marriage. Mrs. Dickson says the reason was that her husband was too exacting and Jealous without cause. Last March, upon the earnest solicitation of the husband, a reconciliation was effected, but not nntll the wife had exacted a written statement from her husband, pledging her Independence aid promulgating herself as boss of the home. The women dictated the statement and Dickson signed it She made no promises. Here is the pledge Dickson took:

MOTORMAN SEES MANY BUGS

Army of Potato Booties Halts Street Car Many Minutes at North Rehoboth, Mass. . Tovidence, IL L—" What is thundery exclaimed a motoiaan on the Taunton A Pawtucket street railway as his car came to a sliding stop at the foot of a hill In North Rehoboth with the power on and the wheels spinning at top speed. Then he stared with fascinated gase at a wide yellow streak waring across the road ahead of him and felt of his haad. “Don’t turn off the power. Charley; keep tho wheels turning bo's they can't inrade the car,” shouted the conductor. “So’s what can’t Inrade the car?" queried the motorman. “Too don’t hare to go batty Just because I’m seein' things." "You're not seeing things. Charley. Them’s potato bugs on a migration.” “/lure enough.** the motorman acquiesced, gaxing at the moring mass. “Gee. just look at the way they dig the grass out by the roots! That’s the cause of all the dust, too, lsat it?" As tar as the curious pair and the passengers coaid see was one moring mass of potato bugs. They kept going by for nearly an hour, It Is said, polishing pebbles on their way. scratching bark off trees, and actually running to each other’s defense and clinging to the legs of birds when attacked. Finally, the motorman managed to get hla car started orer the slippery Insect mass by using sand. When he reached the bam he pat In a requisition for a large can of parts green.

VIEWS OF ITALY'S ARMY IN ACTION

To whom It may concern: I, S. A. Dickson, do hereby agree to all and everything herein mentioned. I agree to allow my wife, T. C. Dickson, to do Just as she feels inclined to do, and to feel just as free to come and go and to visit and to go with whom she feels inclined without giving or showing any Jealousy to her for such acts on her part, nor watch or condemn her for so doing. If she will return and live with me once. more I will not Interfere with her in any way whatever. I wish her to feel Just as free to come and go as the day she was born. I will be good and kind to her and give all my earnings unto her. She is to keep them as she sees fit and best If we should put any of It in the bank, it will be so placed as to require tbe signature of both of ns to draw it out If t fall to live up to this agreement I will allow her to have i legal separation, If she so desires. I further agree to make her the legal heir to all my life Insurance, or whatever may accumulate In the way of property through our association. A few weeks after this the Dicksons resumed marriage relations. Before this, Dickson testified, his wife had permitted him to come and visit her a day each week or two, and on each visit he turned over a part of his salary to her. Dickson donned the apron and went Into the kitchen after the reconciliation. While he washed the dishes, he said, his wife would talk over the ’phone to gentlemen friends. The telephone was in the next room and the door would be open between the two rooms.

STOCK OF GAME FISH MOVED

Thousands of Bass and Many Other Prizes Transferred Because of the Building of Aqueduct New York. —While the period Immediately preceding the - Ist of October is made the occasion of s change of residence by a large proportion of the dwellers of Greater New York and brings a rich harvest to the operators of moving vans, it Is safe to say

English Society Adopts Fad Started by Austrians. Latest Craze Is Being Photographed While Asleep—ldea Comes Prom * Austria, Where It Is Already Very Popular. London. —The latest society erase Is being photographed while asleep. The Idea comes from Austria, where It is already very popular, but It has spread to London, and Inquiries may show that photographers bare begun to follow the fashion or are prepared to do so. One well-known woman professional photographer recently caused s small sensation by an exquisite picture of a group of sleeping children whjjch she took, and other specialists In portrait work are endeavoring to. emulate her. not only in pictures of sleeping children, but in pictures of oblivious grown-ups \ . Discussing the subject. Mr. George Henry, the well-known portrait painter, said he could not understand why anyone whoee waking expression is pleasant should want to be photographed asleep. “Still, there are some people whose faces look better tn repose.” he agreed. “There la no expression to be obtained from the eyes of s slefblng person, of course, but there may he something undesirable banished from the face. "Many people go through life.with a net wiyiinliiii n "purposeful mask’

POSE WHILE ASLEEP

that the unique moving job of the sear son is one that took place recently among a large delegation of the city’s Apery population. In connection with the building of the new aqueduct system which is to give the city a larger water supply It became necessary to drain Kensico lake in the Croton watershed. This has long been known, to anglers as the home of some of the finest bass in this part of .the state. Sooner than lose this valuable collection an appropriation was made to transfer them to another near-by lake and a large force of men has been set to the task of making the transfer with as little injury and Inconvenience to the fish as possible. The fish are taken In big nets, transferred to large cans and carried by motor trucks to their new home, three miles distant Ten thousand game fish have been moved thus far and the work is still under way." As a special mark of distinction the largest of the bass, an eight-pounder, was separated from his fellows and placed In the city aquarium. .

Effects of Chewing Gum.

New York. —Mrs. Lena Stevel was chewing gum In her home, 327 East Ninety-eighth street, when suddenly she shrieked, then gasped. Her family gathered about her, but she could not speak, simply pointing to a place where a false tooth was missing, and then to her throat An ambnlance in charge of Dr. Stole raced from the Presbyterian hospital. 1 “Swallowed your tooth?" asked the doctor. Mrs. Stevel made a great effort and replied: “1 certainly did, and it’s gone dowflt chewing gum and all.” She waj taken to the hospital.

Hope to Find Origin of Life.

Baltimore. Mr. —“No man dares to say that the secret of the origin of life will be discovered, yet scientists are working hopefully toward the unraveling of the mystery." So said Dr. Albrecht Kossel, director of the Physiological Institute of Heidelberg university, who has corns to the Johnß Hopkins university for a series of lectures.

—on their faces, but when asleep they forget that set expression and you catch them as they really are. “The chief difficulty in getting a sleeping photograph is, I Imagine that no one—or few people—can go to sleep at wilL They may close their eyes and pretend to be asleep, but that does not give them a natural sleeping look." ”1 do not say that you Will get true likeness of a person when asleep, but you will certainly get a very In terestlng one,” said a well-known sculptor. “The comparison between a ‘waking* qnd' sleeping portrait of the same Individual should* be very Interesting, “The stress of modem life and conditions generally Use and mark people’s faces, but sleep blots out much of this facial disfigurement, and that is one great reason why women especially should go la for sleep photography. Children, too—although not, of course, for the same reason—ought to be ready and beautiful subjects.”

Takes Malt Order Wife.

Evansville. Ind—Henry Clay Long, a farmer near Fairfield, a few weeks ago advertised for s wife. More than meat and Long finally has selected Miss Bessie Southard of Centertown, Ky . said to be the belle in that seo tion. She arrived at Fairfield the otter day and became Mrs. Long. Whe* Mies Southard departed fio® Kentucky the whole population followed

D NPSRIT p M> XVf _ - .. V fAgrf nrsTr* inruKxr -/ f imn L \J M- 'W *w wL fll W - ,v'. •'. A The tenor of the choir sat down and soft* ly cleared his throat; He hummed and hawed a moment aa though feeling for a note. . : He gazed upon the I*lll of fare his noonday lunch to plan, * Then warbled to the waiter: “Bring—O—bring to me a can— Bring me a can— Me a can— A can— A cantalope!” « " * And then he said: “I wish some gum— I wish some gubo clear.” The watter with a startled face lent an attentive ear; The singer studied tor a while and cleared his throat again Then caroled to the waiter: “Bring—O—Bring to me a ten— Bring me a ten— Me a ten— A ten—v A tender steak!” ”1 want a waif— I want a waif— I want a wafer now,” He trilled unto the waiter with the worry on his brow. But what Induced the waiter to say things that caused remorse Was when the tenor told him: “With my steak I would eat horse— I would, eat horse— Would eat horse— Eat horse— Horseradish sauce.”

Political Prophecy.

Dear sir: The present turmoil over Reno divorces, which is simply a recurrence of the continuing argument over the divorce question, moves me to the suggestion that unless the agitation ceases we will have a Divorce party In this country. There . are enough divorced people—men and suffragets—to cast an Important vote at any election. As things now stand, people may be married .in-one state, single In another, and doubtful In another. A man may be a benedick in Illinois} a Romeo In Nevada, and. a woman-hater in California. He has to look at the geography to find out what he is, if he is traveling. This is too distracting. Unless the question is settled once for all, as I say, we will have a Divorce party. • AL I. MONY.

It Caused a Delay.

“We owe our readers an apology,” says the Bpwersville Clarion, “for failing to appear on time this week. But the festive goat belonging to our genial liveryman, Mr. Patrick Casey, got Into our press room Tuesday night after our entire edition had Been printed, and ate the paper all up. Consequently, the entire resources of our editorial and mechanical forces have been called Into play In a strenuous effort to get out another edition to replace the one that was eaten. While we admire the literary taste of the aforesaid goat, we shall hereafter keep the press room locked.” • .

How They Prove It.

“You men are always prating of your superiority over women,” said the Argumentative Female. “Why do you not show that superiority by demonstrating how to clean house?" “My dear lady,” answered the SelfSatisfied Male, “we show our superiority by refusing to have anything to do with housecleaning.”

All the Same to Her.

“Don’t you think that If I had lived In the days of old 1 would have made a good knight?’’ asked the young man who had been talking andlent history from 8 to 11 p. m. “I don’t care so muoh what you would have made then," wearily observed the young lady, “but you might see what kind of a good night you can make now.”

In the Realm of Shades.

“What Is all that row over there by the Styx?” asked the shade of Napoleon of the shade of Ben Jonson. “Why, that is Bacon, Shakespeare and that newcomer, Donnelly. Each Is trying to convince the other that he is wrong.” r ... ———-r-rr

Could Have Waded.

Mrs. Wooph—What do you think of my new rainy-day costume, dear? Mr. Wbooph—l think that If Noah had thought of II In time be wouldn’t, have built the ark. hi ’g* Jf _ , J _ J0 r 9 ....