Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1913 — Page 2

The Daily Republican Every Dey Except Sunday HEALEY~& CLARK, Publishers. RENSSELAER. INDIANA

* Jamaica’s torrential rains ought to mollify the ginger. Youth has been defined as Just one darned blunder after another. Prophets are bum leaders. If you dont' believe it, look at Turkey. 4- Parisian hotel will be opened without servants. Also without guests. Skirts slashed; at the knee are the latest fashion. Handy to get at the money. Statistics show that more bachelors than married men become Insane. Why say more? , A New York paper advises its readers to start a pearl farm. Still seed pearls are expensive. That town which seeks to bear the name “1912" can never hope to be up to date next January. Cuba certainly Is learning the game. It is now crying fraud over the election and demanding a recount Money that Europe does not spend on a general war it can invest nicely in buying shoes for the |aby. Our .only fear of a woman in the president’s cabinet Is that she would put scalloped paper on its shelves. Army aviators have Invented a noiseless aeroplane. The harmless one, however, is still uninvented. A St Louis woman threw clocks at her husband, probably with the intention of impressing upon him the fact that time flies. The corset is of some real use to mankind after all. A female impersonator has died because of tight lacing. Now the ypung man who took his girl out In a canoe during the summer, is taking her out on a motorcycle. Tortoises are cultivated in the Seychelles Island for their shell. And lobsters are cultivated on Broadway for their money. The candy trust has been attacked in the courts. Gladsome tidings for the young man who starts courtship this winter. Keeping “a headless cat alive 12 hours” may be a triumph of medical or surgical science, but it is awfully hard on the cat The Illinois supreme court wants to know whether poker is work. Too deep for us, but it's evident that the players aren’t union men. Not only do transatlantic wireless messages promise to be much cheaper, but they may relieve us of the hybrid word “cablegram.” Statistics prove that bachelors go Insane oftener than married men, but any married man knows that bachelors have more time for such activities. Pierre Loti announces that he admires the freshness of the American girl. He is reticent, however, concerning the freshness of the American boy. Twenty-three hundred love letters were found among the effects of an Australian bachelor. Evidently he either had to die or marry to stop them. Some scientists In New York can now keep headless cats alive 12 hours “if necessary." But if put to a referendum of normal cats it would never be necessary. A New York woman wants a divorce because her husband drinks cologne. She can’t be blamed, considering the odor of some of the concoctions classed under that name. Dynamiters boughPularm clocks by the dozen for their Infernal machines, but you cannot make a commuter believe that dynamiting was a bit too good forpn alarm clock. Woman “experts” who tell bow to prepare a meal for six persons for 42 cents are bringing unhappiness to many a poor housewife who Is doing the best she can on the money her husband hands to her. Now a teortst thinks small girls* amusements tend to make them neurotic. But the cold materialism of theory Is going a little too far when It attempts to make little girls stop playing mother with their dolls. A Pittsburg woman wants a divorce because her husband was sober twice in twelve years. We take It that they were not successive occasions. “The Blind Banker of Paris," who was able to get away with 12,000,000 belonging to his clients seems to have had an eye for the main chance. In a New York speed contest typists were writing from 111 to 117 words a minute; Since we have observed that people who wrote as fast as that don’t (•ay much, the pews excites no envy.

PURELY FEMININE

USE FUR TRIMMINGS LEADING MODISTES INSIST ON THIS METHOD OF DECORATION. Small Pieces Enhance the Beauty of Any Costume—Sometimes Serve as Shoulder Straps—Follow Satin and Chiffon. An Idea of the number of ways in which small bits of fur may be used may be had by glancing at any of the afternoon and evening toilettes In these days. A gown of cloth will have epaulettes of fox or squirrel. A dance frock will have a row of little furry heads across the bodice instead of a row of roses, or.the' narrowest possible bands of fur around the edge of the short, filmy sleeves, or a tiny edging on the chiffon tunic. Collars on ever/ sort of gowns are likely to be finished with a bit of fur on the

upper edge, and. sometimes an entire collar, close-fitting as will* be made of the fur —a separate one or attached. Cuffs on tailored suits of velvet and broadcloth and all the novelty goods from Paris are pretty sure to be of fur, and many a suit, as well as a fur coat, boasts big round buttons of seal or mole or ermine. The evening wrap, if it is not made wholly of fur, can hadlly be said to rank high unless it has at least a broad collar and revers of some soft fur, and per-

VALUE OF CONTRASTING COAT

Garment Makes far Real Economy In That It Will Serve for Many Different Costumes. An economy is found in the contrasting coat. The same skirt tailor built and perfectly cut has been made to serve with three or four coats, says the Indianapolis News. Take the favorite black and white stripe, for example. This may be worn with a coat to match and by way of change with a neat, short coat of black habit cloth lined with braid, while a saucy little jacket of scarlet silk will quite transform the toilet. The changes may be rung In the same fashion with the übiquitous navy serge. The survival of this idea is Indicated in the coming evening styles, and one can see how in this case it may be a very real economy, since it often happens that an evening bodice Is unpresentable, while the skirt is still in good condition. The idea of a blouse for evening wear being now hopelessly old-fashioned it is not easy to do much with a skirt, and yet we do not care to see It hanging in the cramped space of the wardrobe. Into this dilemma the taffeta coat introduces Itself with complete success, and the old evening frock becomes fashionably transformed.

New Satin Blouses.

The newest white satin blouses have best effects of Dresden ribbon in soft pastel shadea.set in tor a relieving bit of color. These are trimmed with plala crystal buttons and are very stunning looking.

haps a fur rose or buttons as a fastening. Often it is bordered all around with the fox or ermine, or whatever chances to have been chosen. The best of the French wraps seem designed to give contrast, as except in the case of a few all white models—white velvet edged with ermine or white fox, for instance—a dark fur is usually chosen to ornament a light brocade or velvet, and a white or very light fur on a dark wrap. One of the very attractive accessories of the cloth suit or the afternoon gowns is a large combination collar „and jabot made of fine lace, with fur trimming. This is worn outside the coat of a suit. Sometimes the entire collar is made of the fur, fastened in the back, and there are small sable heads or what not down the center of the large double frill. Narrow band trimmnlgs of fur are used on chiffons, and even laces and sometimes a band of fur serves as a shoulder strap, instead of the more familiar band of rhinestone or pearls. A charming frock of girlish type was seen recently. The blouse and tunic were made of fine shaded lace, and decollete bodice being finished with a row of tiny pink silk roses veiled by the lace. The skirt was bordered by a band of swansdown. The frock pictured is of pale yellow satin and chiffon with a lace tunic. Two narrow bands of skunk extend from the shoulders in straight panel effect down the front to three-quarters the length of the skirt, slanting away to a point at the back. A panel of lace threaded with gold begins below the bust line, extends down between rows of fur and forms the tunic, which reaches below the knees. The skirt crosses over at the left side, forming a slashed effect at the bottom. The other is a frock of silver tissue draped up at the right side, showing an opening at the bottom. The skirt is crossed by a band of black fox. The tunic and bodice are of mother of pearl beading with handsome motifs and fringe. A band of fur encircles the waist and is finished with a velvet flower.

Lace Fichus.

Those who are fortunate possessors of real lace scarves and flounces, especially if the lace has gained the mellow tint of years, will find many opportunities during the next few months of displaying their treasures to the best possible advantage, since on all the newest evening frocks, whether of the smarter or the simpler kind, lace will play a prominent part Fichus and shoulder scarves will be worn separately, and even the former will not need much in the way of arrangement beyond a lightjptltch here and there to keep the precious fabric in position.

Collars.

An lllfltting collar spoils the whole gown. See that the collar is well boned, and the bones placed to suit the wearer. ' The best fitting collar is cut on a straight strip, slightly hollowed out in front if the neck la short. z

Wide Jabots.

The spreading jabots are much In vogue. They may be square, pointed or rounded, tucked or fulled, but they should be made of shadow lace.

RAZOR CASE

A razor case is made of a piece of linen, the length of which is fifteen inches by nine and one-half. Five inches of the linen are folded over to form a flap, and this can be embroidered In forget-me-nots -if you so desire, using pretty pale-blue mercerized cotton for the flowers and a soft shade of green for the leaves. Under the flap a piece of linen is stitched, seven and one-half Inches in width by nine and one-half. This is divided by six rows of machine stitching in pale blue silk, and each division 1s" large enough to hold a razor. The divisions look very attractive ornamented with the “days” of ths week embroidered W them. Many men like a razor for each day in the week, and for such this design is made. Cuff-and-collar sets of Venetian and Bohemian lace in the ecru coloring are'sure to meet with instant favor.

SEEING THE PANAMA CANAL

MARY DEAN.

LOWLR GATUN. NEARING COMPLETION

NOT less than 20,000 Americans, so the rough and ready estimates have it, will go south during the four winter months, beginning with the first of December, and extending to the end of March, to visit the Isthmus of Panama and see what they may of the result of the eight years’ work which Col. George W. Goethals and his army of 35,000 men have brought almost to completion. The Panama canal is nearly done; only the part of another year remains before this $400,000,000 waterway will join the Atlantic and the Pacific. Next September will mark the completion of the task. And flooding of the canal will mean that most of the work will be forever hidden from view.

However many go to the isthmus, it is safe to say not more than ten per cent, of them will come away with more than a vague conception of what has really been accomplished by the engineers. The fault will not have been with the canal. That fairly matches all that han been said about it. The ?ault will have been with the visitor. /For, notwithstanding all his careful guide-book preparations beforehand, he will not, after all, see more than the surface aspect of things down in the Canal Zone. In this manner he will resemble the majority of visitors who have already been to Panama; one of every ten of these, perhaps, can boast that he descended to the bottom of the giant locks, there to grope his way through the concrete culverts or gaze up at the spans, like cathedral arches, of these great steel gates that next year will lock in the waters of the completed canal. One of every twenty, perhaps, can tell you that he climbed down into Culebra cut, to spend a day in the eternal bustle of the deep canyon which man has made through the hills, and which so soon will be the channel of great ships as they plow their way from sea to sea. From the Observation Train. The average visitor to the Panama canal sees the Gatun dam from the broad seat of the observation train that is pushed out over that pile of 21,*00,000 cubic yards of rock, sand, concrete, and earth once a week. For this seat he pays a dollar. Never does he get out and look about for himself. The hired lecturer explains everything so well. To see the locks the average visitor may tiptoe gingerly to the concrete edge, and gaze down for half a minute, only to turn fearfully away and spend the rest of his hour watching busy cement-mixers that are exactly like any other cement-mixers. The tourist’s impression of the Panama canal has not been allowed to sink in. A three days’ stay on the isthmus does not permit of that. The man who has spent seven to nine days at sea from New York, dreaming of the wonders he will find, spends a brief hour at Gatun, half an hour at Miraflores, another hour at Culebra, and then is off to his train or to dinner. Most of the canal he sees from the rear platform of his train on the way across. Deep, wide, and long as is Culebra cut, the view of it from the train as the engine sweeps around the bend is distinctly disappointing. All about are towering hills which dwarf the cut that winds in and out among them. You get out your glasses, but before you get them adjusted, the train has - started, Culebra Is hidden from view, and the concrete tops of the Pedro Miguel locks are seen. Yet because they are only the tops of the locks they appear small, and you get another shock of disappointment. The fact is, it is only by getting out "on the job’’ that one cart obtain a comprehensive understanding of what the canal has cost, in energy and time and brains. One must rub elbows with the workmen and talk with them; he must get down into the culverts beneath the locks and stand by while they lower a forty-ton valve gate into place; he must get out beneath the dam and Into the ent, out over the foot-bridge that sways 200 feet above the locks, and off around the completed parts of the Atlantic and Pacific divisions. Especially one must K be willing to spend days at Culebra cut. From the platform up on the side of the cut you cannot adequately feel that here

it was that the French and American engineers struggled against appalling odds for years. You cannot realize that out of this single stretch of the canal 90,000,000 cubic yards of earth have been dug and that another 10,000,000 will be taken out before the canal is pronounced complete. But begin your day with a climb down the long flank of an earth •’slide” to the bottom of the cut, and then try to scramble out again. If you succeed in either of these ventures, you Will have found at least one way of coming to an appreciation of its stupendous proportion, and what the digging of Culebra cut meant to the mei\ who have almost finished digging it. Down in Culebra cut, where giraffelike drills are boring into the bedrock of the isthmus, and long dirt trains are clattering away with what remains of. the foundations of Mount Culebra and Gold Hill, one is literally overwhelmed by the magnitude of this, the canal-diggers’ greatest accomplishment. At the bottom of the cut you gaze toward the crest of Gold Hill, towering into the sky, a thousand feet above. Up there, where Balboa is said to have climbed to see both the oceans, the tall palm trees are bending to the breeze, but here the workers are sweltering in the dead heat of the midday sun, far down in the foundations of the earth. At the Bottom of the Cut. If you go down to the Panama canal this winter, go down into Culebra cut. Try there to make yourself heard against the din of the steam hammers and drills; against the incessant dull thunder of the dynamite blasts; against the crunch and bite of the steam shovel; against the screamof the locomotives and the crazy clatter of the dirt cars. Dodge about the labyrinth of tracks to escape the ten-mile-an-hour onslaught of the blustering engines, as they make their way toward the sea, hauling their strings of laden cars; get close beneath one of 'those long-armed steam shovels which swings its tons of rock and dirt in every direction with such seeming recklessness. At last lose yourself among the swarms of human ants who are shoveling away the soft dirt that has come down the long slope of Mount Culebra in one of the "slides” that one so often reads about. After all this, if you are not fairly staggered at the immensity of the accomplishment of our engitaeers, then you are of stuff less Impressionable than the isthmian rocks. For Culebra cut is the masterpiece of the $400,000,000 canal job; its completion will represent the ultimate fulfilment of the work. The locks and gates at Gatun, Miraflores, and Pedro Miguel are wonderful, in that they represent the largest of their kind in the world? So also is the Gatun dam, which has made possible the impounding of the dirty Chagres river water in the Gatun lake, and which has made out of an entire countryside an Inland sea. But Culebra cut transcends them all. Here is n6t merely the largest thing of its kind. Here the Continental Divide, the rocky backbone of the Americas, has been carved through, after defying all the efforts of the French for twenty years. A mountain has been hewn away.

Girl and the Game.

A young man took a young woman friend to a ball game for the first time, and in his superior knowledge he asked her after the first Inning was over If there was anything about the game she would like to have explained. “Just one thing,’’ said the sweet young thing. "I wish you would explain how that rheumatic bush-league relic in the box ever gets the ball over the plate without the aid of an express wagon.” And in the silence that followed all that could be heard was the faint chugging of the young man’s Adam’s apple working feverishly up and down.

No Need.

'“Why doesn’t that old millionaire limber up by taking gymnasium exercises?” "He doesn’t need them. He gets enough agile practice dodging his taxes”

HE KNEW WHAT TO AVOID

If Knowing Human Nature Would Do It Thia Man Would Have Made Good Preacher, -Dr John Hayhes Holmes, who preached a Bull Moose sermon to President Taft the Sunday before election day, isn’t like Washington White." said a member of Dr. Holmes* Church of the Messiah in New York. “Washington White was an aged hod /carrier. Laying down hie paper one' evening, he said to his wife over his spectacles: “ ’Martha, I believe I’d make a preacher. Listen, now, and I’ll give you a sermon.’ “The old man then stood up to the table and bellowed out a vigorous discourse on the wickedness of the tors of the Orient. "His wife said at the end • “‘A good enough sermon, Washingtent but you’ve told us all about the sins of the foreigners and never a word about the sins of the folks at home here.’ ’“Ha, ha, ha, I understand preachin’ too well for that,’ laughed the wily old man.”

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