Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1912 — Page 3

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Show Girls Dance “Bear” and “Tango” in Pulpit

Minneapolis, Minn. — two chorus girls danced a ragtime dance on the platform fk the pulpit of the Rev. G. L. Morrill in Minneapolis the other day, ilusti-ating his sermon on ■“Praise Him With the Dance.” The most amazing and bold dances were ■“put on the boards” by the two girls from a Minneapolis burlesque house and the audience fairly gasped at this. The “Turkey Trot,” the “Crab Crawl,” the “Tortoise Tango,” the “Jolly Wobble,” the “Angle Worm Wriggle,” the “Grizzly” and all others known to these two girls of the stage were danced. Then began the Rev. Mr. Morrill’s •ermon. “Now you have witnessed just how fashionable society carries on when it gets started,” said the Rev. Mr. Morrill. “I admit there is a decent dance, a dance helpful to the body, pleasant

Stop Game of Cards to Get Marriage License

|NDIANAPOLJS, IND.—A suggestion A from friends that they get married ■at once, made half in fun, it is said, caused John Patterson and Miss Xmma Shepp to disturb a penuchle igame in which John Rauch, county clerk, was playing. They sought Rauch in order to get a marriage license, and they aroused Mayor Shank from his slumbers shortly after midnight that the mayor might [perform the ceremony. It was not a full dress affair—far from it. The mayor was clad in a pair of trousers, his nightshirt and a Rrince Albert coat, and also wore a ipair of shoes, which were unlaced. Patterson and Miss Shepp were out calling on friends, when some one suggested they get married at once, ilt was agreed it would be a "lark,” . and aip automobile was called. (Rauch’s home was visited, and he was induced to leave a penuchle game and go to the cqprt house about 11:00 p. m. and issue a license. "Let’s get Mayor Shank," some one suggested. “But the mayor is probably in bed,” said another. “That don’t make any difference,” replied the first “No one but the mayor will do.”

Woman Faints at Movies and Loses a $25 Hat

ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Mr*. John C. Muckermann, wife of the first vice-president* of the local ice company, will hereafter eschew movingpicture shows. The last one Mrs. Muckermann attended cost, besides the price of admission, one new $25 hat, black velvet, trimmed with small red roses. The other night, after the Muckermann family had dinner at their home, at 6054 West Cabanne place, someone suggested a night of amusement at the “movies.” The suggestion was adopted, and Mr. and Mrs. Muckermann, with a party of friends, adjourned to a theater. The atmosphere of the place was bad. Mrs. Muckermann stood it as long as she could, and then fainted.

Revolutionary Ghosts Stirred

NEW YORK. —Ghosts of a score of Central and South American revolutions were stirred from their lurking places in the arms-fllled corners of Westminster Abbey’s “what-not” store, No. 61 Front street, by a fire the other afternoon. Since 1830 it has been possible to get anything from a print of eighteenth century New York to a pound of “good mixed tea at 20 cents” in this store, but munitions of war have been its chief stock, and if seamen’s gossip means anything filibusters have had good reason to know this for more than a generation. Westminster* Abbey—who got his strange name because his father, Jared Abbey, intended him for the church—watched the progress of the fire with tear-filled eyes. "Every one’s got a bug,” he said, "and my bug is my business. I had things in there that you wouldn’t take as a gift, but that I wouldn’t have parted with for any price you could have offered.” Many of these things were ruined by smoke and water, but for the most part the damage was confined to flags and uniforms from half the

to the mind and harmless to the soul, but these rag dances that you have witnessed, not at all exaggerated, will make the devil blush, and he would hesitate to introduce them into purgatory. ‘There was a time when statues were made of graceful dancers, but today there is a crying demand for statutes against dancing which is disgraceful. The dancing whirlpool of society has drawn into its drowning depths many of the best craft that, ever sailed life’s sea. The dance you have witnessed has degenerated from devotion and diversion into dissipation and debauchery! These rag dances are animal in name and nature and often as much more passionate than the oriental dance as Vesuvius is warmer than an ideberg. ‘We seem almost ready for the naked dance proposed by Plato in his ideal republic. The animal world is libeled Mr. Bear and Mrs. L Turkey were never guilty of such antics and. doubtless look with surprise and shame at the dances which bear their names.” As the two chorus girls performed these “rag” dances, now and then a coin would fly toward the pulpit, while the hlg organ of the church pealed forth rag-time music to aocompany the dance.

The couple, accompanied by three young women and a man, went to the mayor’s home and with considerable difficulty aroused him. Rauch, William Brommer, a saloon keeper, and August Pohlman followed in an automobile, wishing to see the fun. Shortly after midnight the ceremony was performed and the couple said they would leave at once for a trip to Pittsburgh. “John was feeling good and I thought we had better get married while he felt like it,” the mayor says the bride explained. Immediately after the ceremony the bride exclaimed: t “Now that I am married I am going to kiss a fat man,” and she kissed a member of the party. The mayor declined to accept a fee. Patterson is a printer. The bride’s home is in Muncie.

Her husband picked her up and started for home. A friend started for the Muckermann garage and got out the automobile. He met Muckermann about a block from the house, and the two lifted the unconscious woman into the car. In the exertion they knocked off Mrs. Muckermann’s hat. “Get her hat,” said the friend. “Oh, that’ll be all right; get it latpr. Hurry up for the house,” replied Muckermann, and they whirled off. When Mrs. Muckermann revived she inquired for her hat. When told that it was lying in the gutter a block away she sent a searching party. Muckermann and his friends dug up lanterns and electric torches and went after the hat. It was gone. A search until midnight failed to reveal the hat and the searchers were compelled to go home and break the news to Mrs. Muckermann.^ But, determined to have that hat back, Mrs. Muckermann published an advertisement and will pay a liberal reward to the person who brings back the missing headgear.

by Abbey Fire

countries in the world; to tenting and fishing tackle; to teas and coffees jumbled in with paint; to prints and etchings, and to some ancient paintings of greater sentimental than artistic worth. Some $50,000 worth of arms and ammunition escaped harm. Perhaps the most valuable retjca owned by Abbey come under this last category. The building occupied - by Abbey was said by the police to be the old* est along Front street. For three generations it has been known as "the shop with the little brass candlestick,” from its trademark, a tiny gun that could hardly carry more than a buckshot, but which is of great age and value. \

Modish Picture Hat

Picture hat of black veivet with sweeping brim and paradise plume as its sole trimming. This is one of the few extra large hats worn ‘this sear son, and then only for formal affairs.

LITTLE NICETIES FOR BABY

Manufacturers Constantly Engaged in Turning Out Pretty Articles That Find Ready Sale. The fascinating little afghans for the baby’s carriage are made of white handkerchief linen. First a strip of the material is cut into three-quarter wide by one and one-half yard long proportions, then a half yard of the length is turned back from what is to be the upper end of the spread. This turnover is daintily embroidered in white and trimmed at either end with huge bows of pink or blue satin ribbon. The lower end is rather more closely hand-embroidered, and finally the entire afghan, including the folded over edge, Is bordered with wide cluny, put on flatly. One of the most substantial and effective afghans is made of macrame, of appearance similar to those of handkerchief linen. But instead of folding over the top of a yard and a half long strip of the macrame allover, the apparent turnback veils coarse unbleached nets, and to this is attached the under section, after# which the macrame edging is sewed flatly upon the sides of the entire spread.

MACRAME HANDBAG IS LIKED

Especially With Evening Wear They Make a Meet Charming Addition to'the Toilette. We have developed a new mania for macrame handbags, and for evening wear these represent a charming addition to the toilette. The foundation of the bag is carried out In ivory or colored poplin, or some other stout silk, the macrame lace completely covering the whole, and being finished with a deep fringe at the base. These bags are looked upon as fully worthy of the handsome gold and silver mounts which form part of the scheme. Many women, who are clever with their fingers and naturally fond of work of this kind, find it a very simple matter to evolve the bag themselves. Another type of bag which is popular is entirely covered with strass and beadwork, in rich and multi-col-ored designs, and this is also often the fruit of the girl’s Industry when emancipated from the routine of school work.

Bead Trimmings.

Many of the smartest evening gowns are trimmed with bead plaques. The beads are so closely set together that there is no space between them. They jaYe wrought upon canvas in the oldfashioned mat and screen designs. These show baskets of flowers and birds unreal-looking In their strange coloring. The peasant fashions are much in vogue, and the suspenders are decorated with beads and embroidery. The most beautiful bead trimmings are those that represent the arabesque designs on black chiffon, crepe de chine, net or taffeta. Among the smartest evening gowns iare those showing heavily beaded tunics over a foundation of chiffon.

Good and Bad Furniture.

The line between good ornament and bad ornament is the line between beauty and ugliness. The only good furniture is that which is both beautiful and useful. All furniture that lacks either beauty or usefulness is bad furniture. Furniture that is well constructed, of good shape, and excellent finish, is good furniture no matter how elaborately it may be decorated. Furniture of bad shape or bad finish, Is bad furniture no matter how free from mereterlcious mounts and carvings.—George Leland |Hunter in Country Life in America.

Novel Shoe Case.

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 undarnable 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 take up no room, cost nothing and act as an absorber of dust. Sometimes the kind of shoes is outlined on the hem to make them more easily distinguishable.

NEW COSTUME FOR TEA COSY

Though Simple, It May Be Made Very Pretty, and Is Almost No Trou- ( ble to Make. If you haven’t time and materials to dress your tea cosy as a French aristocrat or a colonial dame, don’t despair. Instead of allowing the teapot to get cold for want of wearing attire of the conventional type, sally forth to the shopping district, purchase a medium-sized doll, amputate it from the waist down and dress It in a circular cape made of whatever flowered material is in the house. The garment Bhould fit smoothly over the doll’s shoulders and become only gradually wider as it lengthens sufficiently to cover the cosy. In order that the lower- edge shall not crinkle up or sag inward, there should be a hem wide enough to accommodate a whalebone. The fronts of the cloak are joined above an Inner staying strap and may be fitted closely about the neck under a fancy collar of lace or embroTSfery. On the cosy’s head is worn a witch’s cap made of material matching the cape and trimmed in a way to emphasize the tall peak. The cap consists of two triangles of the brocaded or flowered silk, lined with buckram to give it stiffening and adjusted to the head so that the seams come in at the center of the front and back. The practical feature about this new tea cosy costume is that it may be easily removed and dry-cleaned, whereas the more elaborate costumes of this sort nearly always are useless when soiled.

ERMINE MODISH

The stole muff pictured have special grace, because of the rounded ends of the scarf and the effective use of the tails in trimming. Ermine is immensely fashionable for evening wear and is a belt that looks well with frocks of every light color, as well as with dark velvets.

Care of Street Suit

The sensible woman will never T wear her street costume in the house a minute longer than is necessary. With a good-looking* street costume several inexpensive house frocks, gingham for morning and voile for afternoon and evenings, and perhaps an evening frock, a woman in moderate circumstances is well fixed. She will not have her wardrobe crowded with half-worn garments for which she has no use, and which are fast going out of style. These few garments will be worn and will be in vogue until worn out. Then when the seasons change she will feel that she can conscienaiously purchase a new outfit. x

Lace Crib Quilt

Irish lace is widely used for baby garments, and may be seen on all the little things from wee shoes to tiny hats, and particularly on the coats. One of iffc newest uses is for a crib quilt unlined. This is made entirely of the Irish lace, with wide slits in it, through which a broad pale blue satin ribbon runs.

GOOD JOKES

WHAT SURPRISED HIM. “I suppose,” said the interviewer, “you have found many surprising things in our country.” “Yeß," replied the distinguished foreigner, “I shall freely confess that I have.” “Would you mind telling me for publication what particularr thing surprised you most?” “Not at all, my boy, not at all. One thing that has surprised me is the fact that few of your people can spell, but that is not what has most surprised me.” "Whd't, if I may ask, has caused you most surprise?” “I have said that I have been surprised to find that few of your people know how to read. The thing that has most surprised me, Is that inability to spell appears to be regarded as a mark of distinction. Most of your people boast about their ignorance in this particular."

Ideal Match.

"But,” says the candid friend, "1 cannot for the life of me understand why you intend to marry him. He has a wooden leg and the other one is bowed, and he only has one eye and is bald in patches, and positively has the ugliest whiskers I ever saw on a man. Why, no woman in her senses could love him!”. “We shall be ideally happy,” explains the beauteous,; girl. “I shall neTer be jealous of film for the reasons you have cited. And he will always be so glad and proud that I married him that he won’t care how much I flirt.” —Judge’s Library.

They Were Surprised.

"Jinks, who has Just returned from a year's globe trotting, is very wroth at the local paper.” “Why?” “Oh, the editor wrote a column article about him, which he claims ended: ‘His many friends were surprised that he is unchanged,’ but the compositor left the ‘c’ out of ‘unchanged.’" *

LUMP.

Bronson —What have you been burning in your furnace this winter? Woodson —Hundred dollar bill, as usual.

A Chronic Complaint.

A man today 7 Is seldom met. Who doesn’t say; “I’m deep in debt.”

An Advantage.

“You think It is better to have foreign waiters?" “Yes,” replied the thick skinned man. “I realized it this evening. When I gave a waiter a lead half dollar he thanked me in English and later expressed his opinion in a language which, fortunately, I could not understand.”

oh, You Flat-Iron!

Yeast —I see a new electric flat-iron is made of reinforced glass so that it may be turned on end and used as a lamp if desired.’) make a man a bit nervous to have his wife meet him with that sort of a light when he manages to reach the front door in the cold gray hours of dawn.

Local Pride.

“Your baseball team failed to make much of a showing during the past season, I believe.” “Yes, but don’t come here for the purpose of boasting about your onehorse town. Your baseball team finished higher than ours did, I admit; but a cabaret has Just been opened here.” _

A Born Salesman.

"You are wasting your time writing poetry." “But I sell my poetry,” protested the other. “And that convinces me that you can sell anything. Such being the case, why not take up high-class bonds or steel bridges or something big?"

The Hall Mark.

"Isn’t that Marjorie Mincer, the eoubrette star?” "Yes.” “But she hasn’t a particle of makeup on her face.” “She doesn't wear paint and powder on the street any more for fear she might be mistaken for a society leader.”—Life.

The Next Reform.

Mother —This is your new brother. Tommy—Gee! Can’t he be recalled. —New York Sun.

The Tie That Binds.

“It does seem as if you and I ought to get along together without quarreling all the time,” sighed Mrs. Jawback. “It does,” growled Mr. Jawback, "but it seems we can’t. We’re fighting Ilk* cats and dogs from morning to night.” “Cats and dogs? Look at that cat and that dog of ours—they never fight. They live under the same roof peaceably.” "Yes, they do. But tie ’em together so they can’t get loose and see how they’ll act!”

VERY MUCH OF A CALF.

The Easterner —Is that tenderfoot a cowboy? The Westerner —No —only a calf* oby. ,/■

The Gentle Savage.

The stone age men were fierce and rude. Or so the story runs. Yet now they seem a peaceful brood. They never carried guns.

Very Nice About it

At a meeting of business men a die* cussion was started regarding a banker who has the reputation for hard bargaining. “Oh, well,” said one man, "he isn’t so bad. I went to see him to get a> loan of $5,000 and he treated me very courteously.” “Did he lend you the money?" ’was asked. “No,” was the reply, "he didn’t Buti he hesitated a minute before he refused.”

Expensive.

“How often is your motor overhauled, Binks?” asked Dusenberry. “Four times last month,” said Binks. “Four times In one month? Geerusalem! What for?” demanded Dusenberry. * “Speeding,” said Binks. "Twice t»jr the bicycle cop*, once by a deputy sheriff, and once by a plain, common garden, village constable.” — Judge.

Affinities.

The dapper little ribbon clerk gazed languisbingly into the dark eyes of the handsome brunette waitress. “Isn’t it wonderful," he gurgled, “how opposites seem to be attracted to each other?” . • “It sure is,” agreed the beauty. "I noticed only today that the tallest man at the lunch counter ordered short-cake." —Lippincott’s.

Does He Mean Bathing Suits?

Hub (looking up from newspaper)— My dear, have you seen any of those invisible suits yet? Wise —Invisible suits? What are you talking about? Hub — Why, here’s a New York ladies’ tailor advertising: "Suits made to order with or without material.”

NATURALLY.

Joskins —His record is the wont is town. Hoskins —What is his business? Joskins —Weather clerk.

Familiar Neighborhood.

V The poets sing Of Poverty Row: No wonder they dolt’s a place they knowl

Likes Eggs.

Barber —Have a shampoo? Customer —Yes, I suppose so. Barber—What kind will you have? Customer —What kind have TO* got? Barber—Well, the egg shampoo it hard to beat ‘ Customer—All right, gimme one. Eggs are too high to eat, so I’ll try one on my head.

Same Thing.

"She gave me killing glances.” “She looked daggers at. me.’* |