Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1912 — Page 3

Tales of GOTHAM and other CITIES

What Occurred When the Big Liner Pulled Out

NEW YORK. —The last visitor had gone ashore from a big liner the. other morning. The last adieu had been said. The second cabin gangplank had been drawn in. Fussy little tugs were drawing tight on the hawsers preparatory to pulling the liner but of the pier. Sailormen were unlashing the first cabin gangway, ready to haul her on board. The captain and his officers were on the bridge telegraphing to the engine room— But the steamer did 'not sail on time. Through the hundreds on the pier, whose waving handkerchiefs and flags were bidding goodby to departing ones, a woman came dashing like Bam White through a Harvard line-up. She was not to be denied, for she was a suffragette and she looked it. In a trice she bounded onto the first cabin gangplank, nor would she budge. “My husband,” she shrieked in accents wild, as the poets say. “My hus-

Wife Turns at Last a nd Beats Tiny Spouse

CHICAGO.— Peter Lombard of 617 South Halsted street weighs about 125 poundß. His wife weighs 200, and is about four inches taller than her husband. In spite of these discrepancies, Lombard beat her he took the notion —and the notion struck him frequently in the last three years—according to her testimony before Municipal Judge Caverly the other day. —— The night before, she said, he came home in fighting mood again. Mrs. Lombard objected to taking a beating, but her husband insisted she was looking at the subject in a wrong light Then she lost her patience, picked up an iron pot from the kitchen stove and whaled him over the head with it. The argument was effective. Lombard appeared in court with his head bandaged. Big Mrs. Lombard took the witness stand and explained what happened to little Mr. Lombard. “We were married about four years ago,” she said. “A year later my husband decided he wouldn’t work any longer. So he retired. The fact that he hadn’t any money didn’t seem to bother him, but I worried about it. I got hungry occasionally. “So I went to work, and have supported him and myself for three years. He didn’t do anything; once

What a Reporter Saw in the Room of Dread

KANSAS CITY, MO. —A reporter for a local newspaper wanted to be taken on a sight-seeing tour of the General hospital. Dr. L. W. Luscher, superintendent of the institution, granted the request “I'll take you myself and we’ll start in on the third floor,” he said. The particular part of the third floor in which they began their visit seemed an unusual place, even to the visitor, unaccustomed to qights in a hospital. Nurses and orderlies appeared ghostly in white garments and heavy white masks entirely covering the face and head, with-only room enough to see. They also wore rubber gloves. The masks were so arranged that the air they breathed was filtered by passing through them. The visitor saw two rows of ten beds each, separated by a wide aisle.

Boy Pirates Hush Baby’s Cries With Cookies

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Just like lw all the money in the world was the way $23 looked to two twelve-year-old robbers'who looted the till of a Lake street grocery, fed a baby gingersnaps to keep it quiet while they .made the raid, and then fled to Lake 'Minnetonka, where they planned to become pirateß, with a cave on Michael’s island for headquarters. The pirate flag was never raised, for the sight of two youngsters buying ice cream- sodas by the half dozen and dickering with boatmen to charter a launch was too bizarre to escape the notice of Chief of Police John Powers of Excelsior. With but $5 of the money spent, the pirate cruise ended in the city Jail The boys told their own story when they were locked up, They said, they went into Gust Johnson’s grocery, 623 East Lake street. Just to spend a few pennies. They found the store de-

band,” she repeated, "he has deserted me! he has deserted me!” “Well, who can blame the poor fellow?” demanded an irrreverent bachelor, and was literally transfixed for bis temerity. The ship was five minutes late and she was a mail steamer, too. The woman would not budge from the gang-plank and the sailormen could not pull it In without dropping her into the North river. The steamer was getting later every minute. “My husband,” she shrieked. “Where is he?- He has deserted me. I won’t sail without him!” “Well, go ashore and let us sail,” ejaculated an exasperated sailorman. The liner was now ten minutes late. Then he came through the crowd. He didn’t seem to be making any undue effort to hurry. Perhaps he couldn’t. He was a bespectacled little man, laden down with more bundles than a Baxter street peddler. “My husband,” she shrieked. “There he is. I thought, he was deserting me.” ' “I am Gustav Atesb,” was all he had time to tell a shipnews reporter before she dragged him up the first cabin gangway, and as the liner headed out into the stream she Could be seen dragging him back toward the second cabin. The big vessel sailed fifteen minutes late.

in awhile he would ask me for money, and when I didn’t have It he would proceed to beat me. I never fought back. “But last night I lost my temper. He came home and demanded money. I had none. Then. he struck me. I picked up that iron pot, and just gave him a good whack over the head with it. He seemed surprised.’’ Judge Caverly looked Lombard over and smiled. “You look like a man who has been tamed,” he said. "I don’t think you’ll beat your wife again. Take him borne, Mrs. Lombard, and the next time he starts a massacre, you know about what to do. And don’t you ever come before me again, Lombard, on a charge of wife beating. If you do, I’ll have to take care of you.” Lombard and his wife departed arm-in-arm, their domestic troubles —like Lombard’s head —apparently patched up.

Thirteen of the beds were occupied. The hands and feet of a few were bound to prevent them from tossing about in , their beds and falling out. The visitor was deeply Impressed by the strange scene. He had so strongly sympathized with the patients that he had not aaked the superintendent any questions. As he waß leaving the big room he wanted to know about the masks, the restraining bonds on the hands and feet of the patients, and finally the disease with which they were infected. “That big room is the isolation ward for patients infected with cerebro-spinal meningitis,” replied the superintendent The visitor’s spine began to creep. Then he thought of his heels and took to them as fast as he could, reaching the elevator just as it had passed out of sight While the visitor waited Dr. Luscher continued: “Those masks are to prevent possible infection, but the attendants do not know whether or not they are immune from infection with the deadly germß. They work blindly, as all do in caring for meningitis patients. They are heroes and heroines, facing death aB long as—" but the eulogy never was finished, for the visitor hurried into the elevator.

serted save for Lucile. Johnson's babj daughter. "We opened the cash register," said one of the prisoners. "Then the baby cried. 1 gave it a ginger-cooky out of a box near the register. It laughed and stopped crying. We took $22 from the register. We went downtown right away, and took a car for the lake We slept back of a store all night, and the* we looked around. We thought we would dig a cave os the island and live there**

Two pretty evening gowns are shown here which may be made of any of the supple materials suitable for evening wear. Silks, crepes, challies and mulls offer a wide variety in choice. The necks may be filled in with shadow lace made with yoke and high collar, or the Dutch neck. Plain fine net makes a lovely guimpe, with round Dutch neck gathered into a row of rhinestone beading or a narrow strip of passementerie.

MAKING DINNER A SUCCESS

Next to Cuisine, Most Important Point Is the Proper Seating of the Assembled Guests. You may have a dinner with the best appointment and cuisine, and if your guests are badly chosen the dinner will be a social failure. Certain elements will not coalesce, and the woman who tries to force the process Is courting an explosion. Choose guests as you would shoes- — because they fit. You may be catholic in your taste and enjoy the butterfly without a brain and the woman who is all brain but without social grace, the artist or musician, the snob who distrusts all she clever coterie, the man who loves a gay story and the woman who is easily shocked. But gather those friends around a common board and you may count on their boredom. If you must have a mixed dinner pfay for tact in the seating. “A man csres what he eats; a woman cares whom she sits next.” Never seat your guests according to social position. The practice makes neither the dinner nor the hostess popular. If you pufe»the socially unimportant together your entertaining will never be a success. Custom has it that those who sit on the right and left of the host and hostess may feel themselves singled out for attention —but choose for reasons. Do not give your guests a chance to gibe at you as a money worshiper or one with an axe to grind. Do not have dinners so large as to prevent general conversation. Not all who go out to dinner are blessed with manners, and the hostess should have it in her power to go to the rescue of the guest who is neglected by her neighbors.

Millinery Notes.

Ostrich novelties are the livest numbers on the market at present, according to the Dry Goodß Economist. The better class trade are calling for all sorts of odd effects in ostrich, in the way of wings, buckles, feather dusters, shaving brushes, trees, fringes, etc. Two-toned effects are a leading feature, especially In plumes. The simpler effects in ostrich fancies ~ are meeting with success with the popu-lar-price trade. One of the most novel and effective trimming arrangements, noted recently, was that of a huge, white plush bow fringed with white ostrich. This bow was perched jauntily on the brim of a white plush sailor. Another striking effect was obtained by the combination of long ostrich flues with white wing trimming.

Novel Engagement Ring.

A new engagement ring will be fancied by the girl who likes unusual and interesting trinkets. Instead of being Bet with the conventional solitaire, this ring has two sunken stones; one the birthstone of the groom and the other the bride’s special luck talisman. There is a hidden clasp under the setting and the ring may be broken apart between the two sunken Jewels. On the inner faces of gold which form the halves of the separated ring are inscribed the names of the engaged pair, or any tender sentiment never intended for alien eyes.

Neck Chains Match Gowns.

Women are now wearing, as far as possible, jewels, especially in neck chains and pendants, to match the gown or the predominant trimming on the gown. This affords great joy to the collector of bizarre gems and is decidedly lovely from the spectator’s point of view. ,j

White Satin in Daytime.

For daytime wear whits satin has become a craze. White should be carefully chosen. For one sort of complexion ivory is the shade, and for another complexion cream tone. The chalky tint and extra glossy surface white satin is becoming.

pretty Evening gowns

Laces, embroidered bands, ball trimmings, and ornaments, used sparingly, made up with the fabrics already mentioned, make the petticoat gowns. There are many shades of blue, pink and yellow, some of light green and of lavender, which are bewitching with delicate laces. An over-draping of chiffon is .often used, and small roses, made of silk or chiffon, are among the most desirable decorations for these alluring party gowns. JULIA BOTTOMLEY.

NOTHING LIKE SILKEN HOSE

Substitute for That Expensive Material Would Be Welcomed by the Fashionable Woman. Always the fastidious woman loves that her hose should be soft and luxurious, and there is not one of ua who would not for the sake of its coolness, its pleasant feeling and the fine elegance which it gives to foot and ankle, wear silk habitually were it not so expensive to keep up the agreeable practice. The substitute that looks as well and feels as delightful in its contact with the skin has still to be discovered. Closely woven silk hose, with clocks, if they are to the taste of the wearer, but with no other embroidery, are in the best possible taste, and are chosen by well dressed women rather than any other kind of stocking. Colors are seen, but black is preferred, and with summer toilettes there has been a great deal of white worn with the fashionable black and white shoe of the promenade.

WALKING COSTUME

A style like this, so simple and well cut, is sure to please our read* era; it might be made in any firm woolen material. ' as The skirt has a panel down back and front, set on with narrow wrapped seams. The coat is semi-fitting and short, and has the collar faced with black Batin, while the revers and caffs are of the material Hat of black satin, trimmed with white wings. Materials required: Four and onehalf yards 48 inches wide, four yards silk or satin for lining coat, onefourth yard for collar.

Shoe Bags.

A woman who is hard on her silk stockings has learned to utilize the tops for bags for her shoes and slippers. When the runs, and holes get Uhdarnable the tops of the stockings are cut off 'midway of the leg and the lower edge sewed across in a French seam. A shoe is kept in each of these stocking bags, which takas up no room sad costs nothing

THAT THANKLESS JOB

80METHING THAT SEEMS TO BE ALWAYB WITH ÜB. Evidence of Its Presence to Be Noted Wherever You May Look—Some Comfort In Remembering Words of Ruskin. One of the most constant and distressing quantities in everyday life is the thankless job. It is firmly fixed .in the established Order of things that while we often rebel, we continue to accept. It seems immutably placed, and is illustrated in every circle of friendship or business. ( The mother who sacrifices, oh, so much, for her children and is Immediately relegated to second place, if not utterly neglected, when Tom, Dick or Mayme decides to marry; the daughter or son who after years of faithful, tender service in the home, is accused of ingratitude when opportunities for a life of wider effort present themselves and are accepted; the generous hearted sister, who, having refused to listen to her own love story and having kept house for years for brother Bill and brother Bill’s brood of motherless bairns, is told nonchalantly cne morning that he, Bill, is to be married and “the boss of that particular ranch” hereafter will be the new wife; the white haired clerk who is either discharged or placed in a position that is an insult to his years of service, not to mention his intellect —these are but • a few examples of the' little thanks that loyalty commands. Here’s what Ruskin says on this subject: "Generally, good, useful work, whether of the hand or head, is either ill-paid, or not paid at all. I don’t say it should be sq, but it always is so. People, as a rule, only,pay for being amused or being cheated, not for being served. Five thousand a year to your talker, and a shilling a day to your fighter, digger, and thinker,, is the rule. None of the best headwork in art, literature or science is ever paid for. How much do you think Homer got for his Iliad or Dante for. his Paradise? Only bitter bread and salt, and going up and down other people’s stairs. In science, the man who discovered the telescope and first saw heaven was paid with a dungeon; the man who invented the microscope and first saw earth died of starvation, driven from his home; it is indeed very clear that God means all thoroughly good work and talk to be done for nothing. Bafuch, the scribe, did not get a penny a line for writing Jeremiah’s second roll for him, I fancy; and St. Stephen did not get bishop’s pay for that long sermon of his to the Pharisees; nothing but stones.” True, work earnestly and loyally performed brings to a degree its own reward. The sweetness of doing something for either one’s very own or the people out in the great, busy ’ world is real and heart-warming but, even so, it doesn’t satisfy any kind of man or woman outside of the ultrasaintly and excessively humble who, by the way, are few and far between. Men and women of everyday life need a tangible evidence of gratitude.

Napoleon at St. Helena.

Describing the food which was placed on his table to his physician, Doctor Antommarchi, he said: "Physicians have the right of regulating the table; it is fit I should give you an account of mine. Behold what it consists of: A basin of soup, two plates of meat, one of vegetables, a salad when I can take it, compose the whole service; half a bottle of claret, which I dilute with a good deal of water, serves me for drink; I drink a little of it. pure toward the end of the repast. Sometimes, when I feel fatigued, I substitute champagne for claret; it is a sure means of giving a fillip to the stomach.” The doctor having expressed his surprise at this temperate mode of living, he replied:. “In my marches with the army of Italy I never failed to put in the bow of my saddle a bottle of wine, some bread and cold fowl. This provision sufficed for the wants of the day; I may even say I often shared it with others. I thus gained time; the economy of my table turned to account on the field of battle. For the rest I eat fast, masticate little; my meals do not consume my hours. This is not what you will approve the most; but in my present situation what signifies it?”

No Amusements in Zanzibar.

There would appear to be no present market in Zanzibar for merry-go rounds and other amusement devices. There are no public resorts in the American sense of the term. On the occasion of the various Mohammedan feasts and festivals and at other times flimsy wheels and meny-go-rounds are set up on the beach near Zanzibar, and perhaps for two days these are well filled by natives who pay one-half cent for a rather long ride. The equipment, however, is of the poorest character, and, while evidently popular, the patronage apparently does not warrant owners in continuing to Tun them after the day or two of feasting Is over. Furthermore, the various tribal dances which obtain all over the district hold first place in the hearts of the natives, and the extreme simplicity of theirHfe and the absence of money are further deterrents to the Introduction of up-to-date amusement devices. —From jponsul Alexander W. Weddell, Zanzibar.

“NERVE," BUT NOT "NERVES"

Possession of the One Is Desirable, While the Other Can Mean Nothfng but Misery. It is one thing to have nerve and quite another matter to have nerves. When you possess a nerve— a good, big nerve, of course—you will ride or walk rough shod over everybody and every object in your path, likewise in any path that isn’t yours, but happens to catch your fancy; but afflicted with the plural, nerves, you are fit only to be trod upon. With a nerve you can take Wall street by the throat and bleed it; with nerves you are subject to torture from the poorest or meanest of creatures. With a nerve you can drive racing cars and fly aeroplanes; with nerve 3 you are unable to pass within hearing distance of either monster without imagining it will turn from its course to run you down. Possessed of nerves you ar9 given spells of misery and weeping; possessed of a nerve yon laugh triumphantly and make others do the weeping. Nerves get out of order and lead to all sorts of physical and mental distress; but a big nerve grows by daily use, its happy owner waxing ever more and more sleek and prosperous. If you have too many nerves you are prone to prostration; if you have lots of nerve you may reach the loftiest elevation among your fellows. Many a man, and woman, too, of mediocre talent, has been carried to the pinnacle of success and fame on the strength of a single superb nerve; many another, gifted and brilliant, has been held back by better to be nervy than nervous. Therefore if you find nerves sprouting, cut them back as the florists do with the American Beauty rose.

Luxury of Being Rich.

When the Emperor Joseph 11. was In Paris, in the reign of Louis XVI. he was in the habit of walking about the city incognito. One morning he went into an elegant coffee honse and asked for a cup of chocolate. He was plainly dressed, and the waiters insolently refused It, saying it was too early. Without making any reply, he walked out, and went into a little coffee house. He asked for a, cup of chocolate, and the landlord politely answered that It should be ready in a moment. While he waited for it, as the coffee house was empty, he walked up and down, and was conversing on different subjects, when the landlord’s daughter, a very pretty girl, made her appearance. The emperor wished her a good day, according to the French mode; and observed 'to her father that it was time she should be married, "/tfi!” replied the old man; “If I had but a thousand crowns, I could marry her to a man who is very fond of her —but, sir—the chocolate is ready." The emperor called for pen. Ink and \ paper; the girl ran to fetch them; and he gave her an order on his banker for 6,000 livres.

Verlaine’s First Book

A letter fished out of the collection of an autograph hunter reveals the occasion on which Verlaine’s work first attracted the attention of a critic. It was written, in 1867 by Eugene Vermersch to the editor of an ephemeral review entitled L’Esprit Nduveau, and it runs as follow: "My Dear Editor. —I owe you every apology for not responding sooner to your kind invitation to contribute to L’Esprit Nouveau, but I had not an idla in my head, and I did not like to send you any rubbish, as that would have been Impolite and ungrateful. If your columns are still open to me, I will ask for space for a review—an appreciation of the ‘Poemes Saturnlens,’ by Paul Verlaine, the unknown work of an unknown poet, which has fallen into my hands by accident Will you allow it to pass unobserved like ‘a star in the daytime or a flower by night’ as Monselet puts it? No you will not, you who style yourself L’Esprit Nouveau.” That was Verlaine's first review, but few people read it, and it failed to make him famous..

Power From Sea Waves.

At a recent meeting of the British association the question of economical production of power from tides and winds was under discussion, and it has been taken up widely by scientific journals in Europe. In Francs attention has been called to a system of utilizing the power of sea waves to actuate a dynamo which has been employed for some time past at the mouth of the River Gironde. An airchamber Is connected with a well which communicates with the sea at a depth below the level of the lowest tides. By the advance and recession of the waves changes of pressure are produced in the air-, chamber, and a system of valves enables the resulting air currents to be applied to rotating a kind of turbine. It is reported that the apparatus works equally well in calm and stormy weather. —Harper's Weekly.

Make Women Clean Streets.

Of the many systems of street cleaning adopted by various countries that used by the French government of Porto Novo, Dahomey, West Africa, is most economical. The native police examine the streets, and at any part which requires cleaning they stop the women and girls who happen to be passing at the time, and order them to sweep the rubbish into heaps. The men are exempt ftrom this ua*paid work, as, naturally, it would interfere and retard the trade es the colony.