Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1912 — Page 2

THE AMERICAN HOME

Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and~«lve advice" FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience Sa 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. An eight-room house, somewhat on the bungalow order, is given in this plan. A bungalow, properly “speaking, has only one floor; but this plan provides for three bedrooms above, and a kitchen is added at the back, with a lower roof. The bungalow developed in this country on the Pacific coast The Idea, probably, was originally brought from India, although a. great many architects claim that the modern bungalow really is the outgrowth of the log cabins and the sod adobe houses of the early inhabitants of the United States, probably bungalow architectural ideas could be traced back to all these sources. The result is that we have a very comfortable low cost house called a bungalow, which is being extensively built in different parts of the country, and its popularity is constantly increasing. ~~ Within easy reach" of large cities, bungalows are going up by the hundreds and the idea is a good one. People are tired of being crowded into •mall, unhealthful quarters, and are taking this means of providing themselves with good, sensible homes at a reasonable outlay. The original bungalow roof was low and broad; but in order to get more sleeping accommodation, the ridge was raised just enough at first to get one room. Builders, however, have repeatedly pushed it up higher, until we see a good many houses built very much after this plan, with about three bedrooms in the roof. It costs but little more to build a seven or eight room house in this way, than to build a five room house with the rooms all on the level. The rafters, of course, are longer, and It

takes more shingles; but the work on the roof is not much different, and, as far as the inside is concerned, you simply add the finishing up of three extra rooms. The foundation is no larger; and the only addition on the first floor is the stairway, which, ip this case, is built in and closed with a door at the bottom. You seldom see an open stairway in a bungalow house. It seems to be out of keeping with the general layout. Even in larger houses, people’s ideas regarding stairways have' undergone some modification. The question has often come up: Why should we build a fancy open stair directly opposite the main entrance door as

First Floor Plan.

though every person entering must receive an Invitation tp go up aloft? The fact is that not one stranger in « dozen entering the front door goes upstairs; but it makes a considerable difference to the members of the family where the stairway j is "placed, fjirery often it would be much handier In the middle of the house. It would take up less room, too, and save njouey, and save the architect a headache. The fapt Is, we pay too much

% S ARADFORD 12 EDITOR

attention to fashion or custom. One person is afraid to do anything different, and each one follows along after his neighbor without knowing why. I have watched the development of the bungalow idea in bouse building with a great deal of satisfaction, because I think I can see in it the means of providing thousands of homes at prices within the reach of those who would never own houses of their own if they had to buy houses or to build on the regular orthodox lines laid out in the old-fashioned way. I have nothing to say against large two

Second Floor Plan.

story solid houses as heavy as any one wants them. They are all right in their right place; but what suits one does not suit another, either in plan, in appearance, or in cost; and the bungalow has added a chapter to house building which meets the view of a large and increasing number of persons. Thiß house plan gives an opportunity for young people to start in with a home of their own without a great outlay in cash. As designed, the house i- built without a cellar; but a cellar may be added at any time.

While the children are small, it is not absolutely necessary to finish the bedrooms on the second floor. The house is complete downstairs. I know men with families of five or six children to build a house like this, occupy it for a year or two, then add a cellar, sleeping rooms in the attic, a porch at thd back or side, and many other attractive featuses as they felt they could afford the expense. And very often the money saved in rent has paid -for these improvements. I particularly like to see thrift of this kind, and I aid optimistic enough to believe that similar sentiments are increasing as the country becomes more thickly populated. I see evidences of economy that I never noticed before except in isolated cases. Economy is one of the greatest virtues. Economy and ignorance seldom go together. It requires a person of more than average intelligence to practice economy, sensibly. Economy is not stinginess; there is a wide distinction. A house after this plan can be built for SI,OOO or $1,500, according to the location, coßt of material?, and the price of skilled labor.

Useful.

A breezy western lumber saiMmnn stopped at the Walton for a few days, returning from a trip abroad. In the course of his second evening he had made friends with half a dozen men from other cities: “Yes, beys,” he said, insisting that they take wine. "I can well afford to pay for the bubbles. Why, when I was in Europe I pulled off a little deal that’ll net me more than the cost of a thousand trips over the pond. •‘You see, 1 trade principally in white woods free from knots. Of course, pine knots are waste: only for firewood. But I just made a deal with a Swiss factory, and I'l send all the knots and knot holes I—" “What do they use 'em for?” asked the ingulsltive one. “Ear boles for wooden horses." capse back the answer.—Philadelphia Tidies. -T?-

TO EXHIBIT LACROSSE AND EDUCATE FANS

firm Jones, owner bf the Vancouver (B. C.) lacrosse team, has a tremendous new scheme on for next year. Instead of playing his championship matches in British Columbia he intends- to make what he calls a tour of “lacrosse educatipn” throughout Canada and the United States and schedule his matches in such a way that the majority of them can be played in the United States, while he will have enough left to make a finish good for the benefit of the New Westminster and Vancouver people. Every match will count toward the championship and,- naturally, the possession of the Minto cup, but it win be played in some place outside of the province of. British Columbia, excepting the last few.

ANXIOUS FOR BIGGER SCORES

Football, Men Want to Change Rule* 8o Higher Counts Can Be Made Possible—Some Suggestions. Football experts the college club, their number Including several of the official rulemakers, are pretty well agreed that some radical changes In the rules will be necessary before the next season. The chief clamor for reform Is a demand for plays which will allow more scoring. Possibly this relief wllL be found by returning to a 5-yard gain for first down Inside the 25-yard line, by increasing the number of downs allowed to gain 10 yards to four, or by allowing first down after a 7 instead of a 10-yard gain. dames at Cambridge and Philadelphia show the Inefficiency of the new rules. The Army-Navy game shewed little footballexcept kicking. Dalton’s toe carried the day. Yale and Harvard dabbled with all the wrinkles of the new game, but had to resort to kicking. This constant punting becomes very monotonous to the spectator. It has entirely changed the complexion of American football. The punt was originally put Into the game not as a feature play, but as a last resort when the ball could be carried no farther by the players.. Under the present-rules the*kjck is the main thing' and the game becomes a kicking contest between two men, with the chance of picking up a fumble the chief reliance, for touchdowns scoring. Touchdowns, is pointed out, are' more satisfactory than field, goals; they are what t,he players and spectators would rather see. They represent more jfootball skill, more team skill and more actual football What is wanted of the rulemakers this winter is a game which will not further increase the risk of injuries, but which will beget some degree of finality in advancing the ball.

HITCH IN A BASEBALL DEAL

Trade Between Rochester and Washing Clubs Involving Several Players Held Up. There Is a hitch in the deal between the Rochester and Washington clubs

Shortstop Foster.

Spencer of Rochester, and Groom and Lelivelt of Washington.

Reaching for a High One.

Notes of Sportdom

Do those who favor changing the baseball code want revision downward? Citizens of Georgia are beginning to realize the greatness of Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Waiter Camp wants four downs instead of three. Isn’t it hard enough “to stop them now?” Many football critics favor abolishing the forward pass. The hands are used too much anyway. Walter Camp -can't see a western man on his all-star selections. He failed to come west in 1911. Walter Camp says the new football rules which cut down the number of injuries in football have come to stay. Connie Mack* thinks he has discovered another pitching, wonder. Does he want to get a perpdtUayien on the bunting? /*- * Rudy .tJnholz, the Boer boxe?, threatens to “break in” once more. Bat Nelson, it seems, has a bad example.. When football is- perfected what will the experts do during the winter months in place of revising the rules? _ . " If Horace Fogel “butted in!’ as Chpxley Dooin says, who Is the real works behind the thrOne on the Phillies, anyway!* -» . Some people have the happy faculty of seeing “sport” in everything. It Isn’t a bad thing for the appetite or the conscience, either. Ad Wolgast has the largest doctor bill known to the profession for some time. It cost Ad more than $50,000 in lost purses to be cut up. “Raicevitch, the giant wrestler, is here to challenge ’the world,” says a report. The only thing against him is that he has been here before. Jimmy McAleer is to scout for the Boston Red Sox. Since. Jimmy has always been a “good old scout” he ought to shine in his dual capacity.

The university of Michigan will be represented by hockey teams this winter. At a meeting the other night enough candidates for the several departmental teams turned out to insure the university authorities tlje sport has attained a firm footing. Four, and possibly six, teams are expected to compete. It has not been announced whether games will be played this season with other university teams.

A prominent Vienna horseman, R. Schlessinger, who comes to America every year In search of trotting sjtock, made two important purchases recently, the three-year-old stallion Jack §wift, 2:10%, and the seven-year-old mare Maud Light, 2:07%. Schlessinger also bought through Charles E. Dean the black mare Black Silk, 2:09%, which Dean raced successfully in 1908. She will be used as a brood mare, but the other two Will be raced.

Jack Donaldson of Sputh Africa, according to reports received from Melbourne, won the world’s championship in professional sprlnta from A. B. Postle of Australia at Melbourne. Postle won the -gfryard sprint in :07 4-5, Ijut Donaldson took the 100 and 110-yard dashes. The 100 was made in :09 3-5 and the ' latter In U 0 4-5. All the races were run cm «r-‘ • , \ .K' •' V grass.

Hockey at Ann Arbor.

After American Trotters.

Jack Donaldson Wins.

BOXERS LACK ONE ESSENTIAL

Some Are Bhy of Intelligence, While Others Are Deficient in Game'Aeee In Ring. - - ** —r “To my way of thinking a fighter who is deficient in the brain department is just as badly handicapped as the fellow, who lacks heart,” said Bug Slattery at a little session of fistic celebrities in Jimmy Dunn’s gymnasium yesterday afternoon. N “Who are you driving at now, Mr; Slattery?” asked Tommy McGinity, the clever lightweight boxer, who la Dunn’s principal instructor at the gym. “I have no jiarticular pugilist ~ in mind,” replied the sport philosopher. “I am speaking in a general way. You know we have in the Sighting game boys who are naturally timid and who could never learn to be game. Such fellows sometimes get to be topnotchers because they have everything else. They may have speed, skill and the punch and lack gameness and still get along all right. Such fellows, as a rule, are seldom called upon to stand. a severe test as to gamenesß, for they are so clever, and so fast that other fighters can’t hurt thep. “But usually such boxers are much better in a gymnasium than in a real ring contest. Steve O’Donnell, the Australian heavyweight, and Bob Armstrong, were good illustrations of this type. They were two of the fastest and most skillful big fellows in the history of pugilism, but outside of a gymnasium they were absolutely no good. I have seen Bob Armstrong make Fitzsimmons look like a fool In gymnasium workouts, while in the real battle Fltz would lick him in a round. • “O’Donnell was the same way. He. used to make them all look cheap at the training camps, hut in the ring he could hardly ever get started. Peter Maher knocked him out twice in less than two or three minutes, for no other reason than that Steve’s heart failed him before entering the ring. He was good enough to beat fellows like Maher with the greatest of ease. If O’Donnell had been a game man Peter Maher could never have placed a glove on him. I have known many of the same sort.” “Your dope is dead right on that score, Bug,” said big A 1 Williams. Dunn’s white hope, “for I have met men who boxed both O'Donnell and Armstrong.”

HOWARD WILL FIGHT CHANGE

Former Manager of the Louisvlllfi American Association Team Refuses to Be Exchanged. Former Manager Del Howard of thß Louisville team, is going to make a, hard fight against any effort that Manager Jack Tighe of the Colonels may make toward disposal of hip .services. Tight was in Louisville and announced that HeWard would be sold. A close friend jpf the former leader says Howard* had a restrictive contract, wfth a ' -i, .• - , . -a*

provision that la case he be deposed as manager he should be given his release as a player. However, President Grayson has not carried out any such agreement if there be one. Howard. Grayson states, cost him $2,500 as a player when purchased from the Cubs.

Del Howard.

KEEP WELL AND WARM

FRESH, PURE AIR IS ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH. Furnace Fire Must Be Attended To, Twit Not to the “Entire Neglect of the Important Factor of Ventilation. First on the list of requisites for saaod health In winter is not the furnace fire, but a good continuous supply of fresh, pure air! True, the furnace fire must be attended to, bat not to the entire neglect of that equally important health factor,ventilation. It Is a generally accepted theory that the best way to admit a supply of fresh air into a room is to lower the windows from the top. But is it? This admits a cold incoming current—and then, what happens? The heat from the registers or radiators, being lighter than the surrounding atmosphere of the room, immediately rises toward the ceiling, and rapidly finds its way out of the window! While, on the other hand, the impure gas (carbon dioxide) which We exhale from the lungs, being heavier than air, does not rise when expelled fromthe bodyf but gradually settles down in the lower part of the room. Thus, a room ventilated in this way, has three layers of air; the. carbon dioxide at the bottom of the room; the hot air, all at the top (on its way out of the window); and in between the two an incoming current of fresh air, which, although it brings in oxygen near the region of thftcarbon dioxide, feels cold and rawTbecause it does not get an opportunity to mingle "with the heated air at the top of the room. A much better way to ventilate a room is to open the window at the bottom. This gives an outlet for"the carbon dioxide; and at the center of the window, where the sashes intersect, there is an incoming current of air to mingle with the neat coming from the radiators before it all rises toward the ceiling. To prevent uncomfortable drafts from blowing in, a device 1b now made by window manufacturers which consists of a small wooden frame filled in with glass and resembling a transom. This fits in between the frames and the sash and can be opened out as far as desired, to carry off the Impure gas as well as to admit the air. Many people have homemade devices that answer the same purpose. The idea of having the windows open both at the top and bottom is unnecessary, except for carrying off overheated air. Drafts from window frames and dbor jambs should be stopped up with feather strips of either rubber or canvas. These can be bought for a moderate price, anywhere. These strips be tacked on with nails placed quite close together, otherwise tbeT strain of opening and shutting doors and windows will rip them out. A great deal of cold can also be kept out of the house by inside window curtains of burlap, or denim, lined with some cotton material. At night when dfbWn together, these curtains prove to be a great protection, especially in isolated country houses that have to withstand the force of the winds. If floors are cold, line all the rugs or carpets with heavy canvas, or sailcloth. Such a lining not only helps to keep the feet warm, but prevents the warp threadß from wearing away too fast. If used under a rug, cut the lining to fit exactly, joining any seams so that they will lie flat like a fell. Turn under the edges of the lining, and tack it to the border of the mg with stout linen thread, placing the tackings about three inches 1 apart. If carpets are used, put between the lining and the carpqt, a layer of newspapers. These will not only keep out the cold from the floor beneath, but will collect all the dirt sifted through the carpet. Then, when housecleaning time comes, the dirt can be gathered up in the newspapers, leaving the lining comparatively clean. —The Housekeeper.

Old-Fashioned Dressing.

Have enough bread soaked in cold water to fill the turkey. As soon as softened drain off all the water, press fine and mix with the crumbs a heaping tablespoonful of butter or a little raw chopped pork. Season with salt and pepper,’ add sweet herbs, particularly sage and parsley—Just enough “to animate the whole.” An egg Injhe dressing makes it smooth when'cut. A little lemon peel grated or a quarter of a nutmeg added would be an improvement.

Molasses Candy.

_ One cupful of New Orleans molasses, one cupful of brown sugar, a teaspoonful of vinegar, an ounce of butter. Mix together and boll, being careful not to stir until the syrup hardens In oold water. Stir In a teaspoonful of baking soda and pour into buttered plats. When cool enough,, pull with the ends of the fingers.

Left-Overs.

When beets are left from dinner wash them and rinse In boiling water: to free them from butter or sauce, and! drop into weak tinegar. In this ode-, dition they may be kept for a long l time and can be used as. needed for* filftdn gnd garnishing.

Use Cold Water.

Bilk stockings will wear twice as> ' long if washed out in cold water each' time after wearing. The cold water does not fade them as war* water does*.