Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1911 — Page 2

The GENEVIEVES I KNOW (Also their Jamies)

The Genevieve Who Is Due Another Look

Genevieve, be honest with me—has someone been telling you that you know James like a Uttle song? Has some wise person been putting It into your pretty bead that James is, to your eye, as transparent as a piece of window glass as that you can see right through him? Have you been getting all puffed up with the theory that you are as mysterious as anything—and that James isn't? Forgot it, my dear, forget it entirely. Wove in from the suburbs yet there is time. »' Perhaps even James has been feeding you on this dope: “Nobody can tell what a woman will do anyway. You are a queer set, and the man who pretends to understood you is a mere four flusher." Even in this case, pause upon the brink and let me tell you about It Because, it James amounts to a row of pins, there is a lot to him beside heart throbs—and heart throbs are about all you are calculating on. Take it from me, Genevieve heart throbs, taken alone, make a shaky foundation for your knowledge of James. There is a lot more to James than heart throbs. That is the trouble with your married life, Genevieve. You are trying to take James entirely on a basis of heart throbs. Because he courted you that way, you have an idea that this Is about all —just heart throbs. Why, even in an ideal world, where every James was not making an honest effort to corral your James' job, heart throbs would wax tolerably wobbly after a bit, as the sple anjl on foundation for you and James to get along on. But as things are arranged In our present state of society, they are not only bad as a steady diet, but they axe absolutely annoying to James because they are calculated to Interfere ■with business. When yoii married James you married him on a basis of heart throbs? Weil, then, re-incorporate, taking in a

“You Cried on His Shoulder, Too.”

larger capital. Or you may find yourself going bankrupt in a land of plenty. ----- James is a business man. Do you know him as a business man? When you talk about your little penny can<Ue peering into and lighting up all the corners of James, has it ever shed its rays into James when his eyes look like steel, and his mouth shuts like a trap, and his voice gets so silky and quiet ’and friendly, so that you feel lovely one minute and scared to death the next? Have you ever got a glimpse of this transparent James of yours when he sat at his desk, thinking, thinking—forehead all In lines, fingers holding a pencil, the little dots it makes representing things to the mind of James? Have you ever taken a glimpse into ’the interior of James when he was out with a crowd of business men —or politicians to whom he was being polite in the interests of business? Have you noted the jovial laugh and the hearty handshake on the surface, and has your candle lighted up the cold, determined purpose of James hidden well within the secret places? And when ho has come home after one of these sessions, what have you .said to him? Have you said, “Well, did you get what you went after? You worked hard for it;” or have you said, “You ought to be ashamed of yourself, staying out to this hour. You ought to be ashamed to think so much more of that rough set of men" —really, they are nice enough men—“than you do of your own family. If . you were half a man you would be at home where you belong.” Yea, and If he were half a man, and half a man Only, he would be at honM with his family every night of Ala, life, putting on his old coat and

By HELEN HELP

preparing to rock the baby to sleepy while you go out into the kitchen and get dinner, at which you will have 'round steak and worry about the rising price of potatoes. Because, if James is half a man, he Is working entirely for someone else who is paying him just as little salary as James can possibly live on. But if he is an entire man he is making good on the job on a commission basis. Have you ever thought about the friend that James had before he married you, you mysterious thing? You never liked Jones much. Your chum was a sweet girl, but Jones— James asked him to the house, but ndt often. Have you ever wondered just where James buried him? James loved his friend as men can love each other. Dare you say your little candle can cast its beams into the quiet, lonely place he buried him —for you? Then there was that offer he had to. go to South America for his firm. It was a big chance—but you skid it would break your heart. The firm wanted James to go because he was their best man and it would make his everlasting fortune, he told you. You cried —on his shoulder, too—andxsald it would kill you. Well, you would have - been pretty lonesome, and then he might have been killed by the natives like that poor young German you told him about. Your husband stayed at home with you and the children. Another superseded him as the firm's best man. That man made his everlasting fortune and is now a member of the firm. James takes orders from him.

You shut your eyes when yon member this. It was his duty to stay at home, of course. Can your candle reach to just what this transparent creature suffered at the lost chance? Do you ever read the market reports? No? Well, they • are mysterious things, to be sure. James reads them, however. Perhaps you might look at those connected with his business and try to puzzle them out. They get easier as you go along. But at first, I assure you, they will seem just as mysterious as you are supposed to be. The thing is to get a clue. , The clue you have been using on James is just heart throbs. There are others, leading to different parts of his nature. The heart throbs are fine, Genevieve. They mean much that is great and thrilling and beautiful tn life. But they do not mean all of it. A man has to wdrk.~ -You have looked so long at that home-life that you are hypnotized. James has another side to him—many another side. So, when anyone comes around telling you that you are as mysterious as anything and that James is an open book, you tell him polite, to look again. You are not a mere heart throb yourself. You have some sense. (Copyright, by Associated Literary Press.)

Rastus was honest and industrious, but, in the opinion of the new minister, unsociable. "Neighborliness, my dear friend," said the dominie, “is brotherliness. Do you take the trouble to see much of your neighbors?” “Ah reckon ah sees as much of them as dey sees of me,” Rastus replied. “Perhaps,” said the clergyman, “but do you love your neighbors as yourself?" “Ah reckon ah does, pahson,” Rastus replied, “but you know, suh, I ain’t p*tic’larly stuck on mahself neither.”—Success.

Friendliness is, after all, but little more than courtesy. Any man can be courteous without much effort, but apparently only a few connect the two. Friendliness is the development of courtesy, which makes it warm. Somehow it puts a little heart into the acts which are cold and inclined to formality when one is merely courteous. And yet courtesy has at its root a word meaning heart, which indicates that it is supposed to spring from the heart, leading one to desire to be of service to another.—Cleveland Universe.

If there is not a proverb, there ought to be one to the effect that famaliar letters in the hands of a foolish friend are as a poniard in the hand of an enemy. If letters have sometimes gained immortality for some men or women, they have undone others. In those moments of slippered ease we catch the writer unawares, and those moments outweigh hours of buskined dignity.—* Holbrook White, in the Atlantic.

Purist —How Is this? Your card reads “R. E. Vise, Rectifier and Compounder," and yon tell me you are a proofreader. R. E. Vise—Why, yes; I rectify rors and compound words—Judge

A Qualification.

Friendliness.

Proverb Wanted!

Sometimes.

STEAMING down the Ohio river, the copy of Nicholas Roosevelt's vessel, New Orleans, is carrying on a continuous celebration of the centennial of steam navigation on that highway of commerce. The christening of the little boat at Pittsburgh was a gala event, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth being the sponsor. President Taft and many othqr prominent men saw the New Orleans start on Its trip.

DISCHARGING A COOK

Found to Be a Hard Task in Chicago Household. V K Police Unable to Dislodge Obdurate Servant Whom the Householder ( Wishes to Dismiss—She Says It Takes Two to "Fire.” Chicago.—Clara Klppe, a cook employed in the residence of Dr. Edwin J. Kuh at 4330 Drexel avenue, brought about a new pqlice rule which will discomfort Chicago householders. Hereafter persons who cannot discharge their cooks need not appeal to the police. The latter have decided they have no power in the matter. Dr. Kuh and two policemen strove manufully all day to discharge Clara. They failed utterly. Just as the shades of night were falling and Dr. Kuh and the policemen were retiring vanquished from the scene, Clara discharged herself. It was Sunday evening, in’ fact, when Dr. Kuh essayed to separate Clara from her jub. “Miss Klppe," said the doctor,, diffidently, “owing—er, ah—to a variety of circumstances it will be necessary —ah—it becomes imperative, in fact —ah—that you should no longer continue in my employ." “I suppose,” replied Miss Klppe calmly, casting a chilling glance in the doctor’s direction, “|hat you mean that I am canned —fired?" “Well,” said the doctor, “I trust that I am too much of a gentleman, to put it in that crude, not to say, undiplomatic fashion.” “Don’t chew your words when you are talking to me,” said Clara sharply. “Now," she went on, “as to your firing anybody, why, that’s different. It takes two to make a firing. Now, I don’t Intend to be fired. I always fire myself. You just go back and attend to your business, and I’ll attend • to mine." Dr. Kuh went to the telephone and explained the situation to the police.

Woman On Glacier

Base of Her Camp Made at Height of Over 16,000 Feet—Explorer Caught in Monsoon While on Mountain. Paris. —Writing from "Camp, September 9,” Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman, the mountain climber, in a letter posted at Skarkle on September 25, gives further details of her exploration of the Himalayan glaciers. Mrs. Workman says the climax of the summer’s work was the crossing of the Saltoro pass at a height of 18,300 feet on August 19 and a visit of three weeks to the great Slacken, or Rose glacier, reputed to be the largest and longest in Asia. It has never yet been measured, but Is probably 50 miles long. It cannot be ascended from the tongue from May 15 to September 15 owing to the depth of the Nubra river, which flows therefrom, and the presence of dangerous quicksand*. The only summer approach is by the great Saltoro pass and the descent of the Saltoro glacier, which taps the Salchen at a height of 16.000 feet. The first European to cross the Saltoro was Dr. Longstaff. who accomplished this feat in June. 1900. and descended toward the Salchen. remaining one day on the glacier and returning by the same route. Baltistan, Mrs. Workman’s Italian guide, with porter* and 80 eooliea. reached the barren mountain on the flank of the upper Salchen on August 30 In a violent snowstorm. The base of,her camp was made at a height of

OHIO RIVER NAVIGATION CENTENNIAL

Patrolman John Gessord was sent to the Kuh home. “On your way,” said Clara, “or I’U bate you with this pot of tomato BOUp.” y Gessord went back to the station. Pretty soon Dr. Kuh called up again. Another policeman, this one , Patrolman Charles Pearl, arrived. “What,” said Clara, ’’'another onel WW; And I sappase* you are all swelled up qn yourself, thinking you are going to succeed where that other policeman failed. Well, you’re not. 1 fire myself, see. Whenever 1 want any help I’ll send far you.” So Policeman went his way. A little later Clara sent for Dr. Kuh. He came quite submissively. “Doctor,” said Clara, “I don’t like this place. There are too many policeman around. Good night”

Cubter, S. D. —Rattlesnakes won for Charles Pringle just as he was about to be rejected by Mary Clark, a pretty school teacher. About to be bitten Mary rescued Charles and they will marry. He killed the' snake.

Sandals for Women Urged

German Savant Predict* Four Toed Foot From Present Style of Shoes —Change Now in Progress. Los Angeles, Cal. —"American women will have only four toes on each foot a thousand years from now, because they wear shoes too small-for them. This in time will pinch the little toe of each foot out of existence.” This was the assertion of Dr. Franz Bergman, a noted phydjcian of Berlin, touring the United States to study American life. "It will take) generations to bring about this change in the anatomy of the foot, but it is coming,” he continued. “In fact, it is already in progress. "The toes of American women are cramped out of their natural shape.

over 16,000 feet The minimum temperature for two nights was five degrees Fahrenheit when it cleared up and a rush was made for the source of the glacier, 15 miles to the northwest / | One of the highest branches was ascended to its origin at a height of 10,000 feet After descending to another base, where Mrs. Workman saw a few patches of grass, she’ fjAnd a second affluent, and ascended to a height of 19,000/ feet and stopped in a great snow platform. ! A 31,000 foot mountain was ascend-

Disappointed Taxicab Pilot Astonishes European “Fare” by Strange Disposition of Largesse. ————- •. New York.—Women were discarding their wraps in the lobby of the St Regis at the dinner hour when's tall man from Ehirope entered the hotel through the huge revolving doors. There was a loud rattle-rattle-rattle on the glass. The man from Ehirope turned hastily and looking about asked the guard tn gold braid: ••What was that?” "1 don’t know, sir. I saw nothing, sir,” the braided one replied. "Very strange/* said a man in the lobby, stepping up. “Quite a loud report Must have come from the outside." “Ah, there, guard! Step oat and

Rattlesnakes Aid a Lover.

Five-Cent Tip Is Spurned

CAT HAS SOUL OF DEAU KING

Sacred Siamese Feline, Personal Gift of Prince DJamahranji of, Royal Siam Family, Is Stolen. Boston. —A sacred Siamese cat, In which the soul of a departed Siamese emperor is alleged to reside, has been stolen from its owner, Miss Florsell Silverado, No. 24 Somerset street. The cat Is a personal gift to Miss Silveiado from Prince Djamahranji of the royal family of Siam, having been given, to Mr. in Bangkok. Siam. The Siamese believe in the transmigration of souls, the souls of emperors taking up their habitation in the bodies of this species of cats. Accordingly, the cats are kept only in the royal palaces as objects of religious . veneration, with capital punishment prescribed for the man who kills one.

Alters Long Name.

Terre Haute, Ind. —“I am glad of the opportunity to have my name changed,” said Miss Katherine Ottorordemgentschenfelde, twenty-three years old, the other day, as she was handed the papers which gave her the privilege to change the burdensome appelatiqn. She will be married to Louis Kalen, a farmer. k ’ ■

One year they wear high heels, the next low. Some seasons their toes are pinched by shoes narrowing in front to a point and others shoved upward or sideways by shoes that represent the changing styles. The only way to save the little toes of future generations is to start women in America wearing sandals.”

Men Learn to Cook.

Logan, Utah. —'The domestic science classes of Utah Agricultural college ho longer are sacred to - women. Harley Greaves and John Short, prominent in college affairs, have enrolled. “We intend to homestead 320 acres of desert land apiece,” said Greaves, “and we’re not going to starve to death while we are doing it.”

ed, on which the party was caught’in a monsoon and driven back to*camp. Thirty miles of the glacier were traversed without any sign of wood. A number of large ibexes were seen. Notwithstanding the storms and the difficulty of obtaining supplies, the expedition remained on the Salchen until September 15, and secured new and Interesting glaciologjcal and geographical information. Mrs. Workman !» the first woman who ever set foot on the Rose glacier. She concludes her story *by saying: J “We placed eight big stone cairns on the Salchen and its affluents and explored much where no human foot had trod, but much remains to be done before the problem* of this glorious snow area are solved.” .

see!" thundered the assistant manager. The man went out trembling. The result of his inquiry was -astonishing to the man from Europe. He had returned to the St Regis in a “tramp" taxicab, and after paying his fare gave the chauffeur a nickel for himself. The latter threw it with all his force at the glass ’door. “Rwas thoughtless,” murmured the man from Enrobe. “Undoubtedly he is a gentleman chauffeur and too proud to take a tip."

Police Whistles for Car Men.

New York.—Because street car em~ ployes often need the assistance of police and are unable to leave their car* to find officers police commissioner WaMo win supply them with polio* ’ rthu “-

ARE YOU "Born Again?"

By Rev. J.B. WADDINGTON

■HE Spirit of God is an Almighty Spirit; the Spirit of Gol has changed the hardest hearts;’ he has saved the very vilest; he has done it already; he has often done it, and he can do it again. Our Lord Jesus Christ is here (John 3) speaking of this great change to a man occupying, d high and prominent position in the *Ol4 Testament church —a ruler of the Jews, a member of their great ecclesiastical council, the Janhedrim —a most moral, respectable and conscientious man. If we were to hint that such a man required converting to God nowadays, we should be said to be uncharitable, should we not? . Suppose we knew such a man, earnest, zealous, conscientious in the discharge of his duties, his heart in his work, highly esteemed. Suppose we were to suggest such a question: “Has that man ever been born again?” people would say: ’ “Of course he hasyou have/no right to suggest a doubt on the subject.” But there is no “of course” in the matter. Our blessed Lord singled out about the very best and most' religious man whoj ever came to him, and perhaps the best educated man who ever came to him. He told that man he would have to be born - again, and that if he was not born again he could never’•get to heaven; that all his religion, morality and respectability would not save him from hell. x

My dear fellow sinner, be honest with yourself and put the question to yourself: “Have I ever undergone the change?’* A, highly educated man heard a sermon on the text, John ill: 3, and the verse awakened in him each solemn thoughts that- after the sermon he went Into the vestry and said to the clergyman: “Mr. , not . your seripon, but your text, has made a deep impression upon me, and have serious thoughts in my mind as to whether I have really undergone the change. • Awakened to His Duty. “I used to think I was a good churchman, and attended to my religious duties, and I was doing what I could to improve those around me, and I hoped ail would be well; but that text, ‘Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God,’ has awakened very painful misgivings as to my state before God. I shall be very much obliged if you will answer my question, If you will not - think it impertinent and made from trivial curiosity, because I want help to my own soul. Now, sir (to the clergyman), have you ever been born again yourself? Have you ever undergone this great change?”’ The clergyman could not answer, and was obliged to acknowledge and say: “I am very sorry I cannot answer your question.” The gentleman went away unsatisfied. But the result was that, by the grace of God. both of them —the minister, an unconverted, earnest clergyman, and his conscientious hearer, such a man as Nicodemus—underwent this great change. When I have gone upon mission work, it is remarkable that the conversions which have taken place have generally been first among the churchmembers and workers. I remember when I was holding mission services in a large chufch in Hull, We had such a body of fine young fellows going out every evening, giving out papers and inviting, people to the mission. One evening they did not go. Instead of turning out, they came to us in a body. The vichr asked: “How is ‘it you have not gone out?” A y° un £ man said: “You have set us to do what we can for the conversion of the people in'the parish, but, do you know, we are finding out that we have never undergone this change ourselves! We have been Sunday school teafihera, church workers, and communicants —some of us for years—working as we thought for the salvation of others, and have not been saved ourselves! ” Question All Must Answer. I dare not exclude any from this question: “Have you undergone thia great change?" It is absolutely necessary. We have inherited a fallen, corrupt, sinful nature from our first perents. “By one man sin entered into the world, and so death passed upon all men, for 'that all have sinned" (Rom. v:12). We are all by nature sinful polluted beings, and in our hearts have the seeds of every crime which ever disgraced any great city. Therefore, the solemn, searching words of the Holy Ghost by Jeremiah (2?;9) are: “The heart (there is the source) is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it?” What we have to deal with is not just the outward life conduct; we want to go to the very fountain head and source, and there must be a new Divine nature implanted. If there fa one real desire to be saved—a desire to be free from sin—to have It pardoned. to overcome it, to have power against it—-it must be by the Divine Spirit, who, having shown us our need of a Saviour, will lead us to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as our sin-bear-er and substitute. Read John 111:14- •» "*** \ r