Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1913 — Page 3

WOES OF AN ARCHDUCHESS

Kaiser Francis Joseph is cross he ■V / sends for Archduchess ■■/ Maria Jose fa, and Wrmf asks to be soothed. J y Archduchess Marla Befa ls a Saxon prlncess, sister of rigid M/LMmSS King Friedrich August ■fliLp||g§B of Saxony, and widow mmm ot l lv ®ly Archduke Othon. She is the ambitions mother of young Karl Frans Joseph, second heir to the throne. 80 she is a very important person; and she is uncommonly successful at aoothing Kaiser Francis Joseph. But the tale is that when Archduchess Maria Josefa last was summoned to Schoenbrunn to soothe Francis Joseph she needed soothing herself. Francis Joseph was in a terrible rage because the Turks were beaten, and that meant complications, and Maria Josefa was in a terrible rage because of troubles with her pictures. And neither soothed the other. Archduchess Maria Josefa, relatively late in life, aspired to be a great painter. Had she begun sooner she might have succeeded. Painting talent runs in the house of Wettln. Her sister, Princes Mathilde, paints picture posters for charitable. societies, and her brother, the Reverend Prince Max, sketches the Swiss hills So Archduchess Marla Josefa doesn’t see why she shouldn’t develop into a Rosa Bonheur. 0 She began by patronizing other artists and other arts. She ran the Vienna Photographic clulj and the Vienna Oil Color society, and she made modest sketches and studies lr her notebook. The palace of Miramar first Inspired, her to paint on a big scale. Mlrarar is the magic palace built by Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, near Trieste, and it now belongs to Archduchess Maria Josefa who stays, there every summer. Mid-dle-aged as she is, by the way, she can swim three miles straight out to cea. In 1909. Archduchess Maria Josefa exhibited a watlr-color drawing of Miramar with its background of cypresses, and this was so well received that she went in for painting wholesale. '-She traveled about, and started a series of pictures of Dalma tia, Istria. the Herzegovina, the Quarnero and the emerald island of Brionl All were painted in light, aerial col ors. She ended up with an enormous picture of Miramar castle with a white yacht beating down to the little harbor at the rear. Unluckily, this picture of Miramar made universal trouble. The archduchess took her picture very seriously, and resolved that it should be exhibited only in the best artistic society. And here someone swindled her. She sent the picture to an exhibition of a so-called Eclectic Art club, which professed to show only the best modern pictures from all countries. The Eclectic Art club was founded by a

UNIQUE FRAGMENT OF HISTORY

- Without Giving Hit Authority, Wrltor In Harper** Weekly Explain* the Origin of Babpipea. “Where, tire desire to know, did the Scot get the notion that a bagpipe la « musical InstrumentT Or Isn't that the Idea?" —From the Atchison Globe * What Scot ever called the pipes a (musical instrument? Isn't Brother Ed

decadent painter named Alphonse Dueppeln and it was the latest htlng in the outre and esoteric. But a day after the archduchess seniT her picture there _ she saw all Vienna placarded with puffs of the Eclectic club "which has been honored by Archduchess Maria Josefa.” That annoyed the archduchess. What "arfnoyed her more was a little paragraph that appeared In the Neues Wiener Tageblatt The paragraph boldly declared that Herr Dueppeln and his Electlc club were frauds and that many obscure and foolish artists had paid large sums for the useless honor of having their daubs hung in the club. To prove this the Tageblatt. sent a particularly bad daub, done by its office boy, and S2OO to the club, and it had the joy of seeing the S2OO taken and the daub hung ndt three yards away from the archducal Palace of Miramar. This was bad, but things were made worse by the malice of the archducal clique which is opposed Ao Archduchses Maria Josefa land to her son, Karl Franz Joseph. At the head of this clique is supposed to be Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who is a real judge of pictures, though he has never painted anything himself. The rival clique started the wild legfend that the archduchess had herself paid money to have her picture hung, as the regular Vienna exhibition committee had refused to hang it. This was untrue. To prove its untruth Archduchess Maria Josefa organized a large private exhibition of her own pictures. There were views of the bay of Trieste, with wonderful pictures of Orado, Dulno, Sistlano, Grignano, and other beauty spots of the

Best Color for Schoolroom

Green Safeguards Scholars’ Eyes and la Said to Add Greatly to Their Mental Efficiency. Scientific selection of colors for the walls of schoolrooms to safeguard the school children’s ‘eyesight and to Increase their mental efficiency was the main topic before the convention of Master House Painters and Decorators’ association recently. The purpose of the discussion was to prepare the master painters for their part in the fight science Is making against the ravages of eye diseases among school children. Green is the color best suited for schoolrooms, declared A. C. Rapp of Pittsburg. “The experiments conducted by Dr. L. E. Landom of Los Angeles,” he said, "prove beyond doubt that both the eyesight and the mental efficiency of school children can be promoted or impaired by the oholoe of the colors by which they are surrounded. Red paper on wall or ceilings should never be used. Dr. Landom found, after subjecting ten children to Its Influ-

Howe a practical man? Sorely he knows the origin of the pipes. In the old wicked days bands of predat ry English marched over the border. They were as bold and sturdy as the Scots and far greater in number. Cluny MacWhauppert. the Laird of Glengarramoyfy, In desperate need of a sure In secret, and never let a skirl out of them till he faced the Invading

miraculous North Adriatic. The archduchess showed everyone that she has a real, if limited, talent as an artist, and that she could afford to laugh at her malicious enemieß, the other archduchesses who—she is reported to have said—"have never painted anything except their own unbeautiful faces.” ■ Unfortunately, ypu cannpt woo art in a half-hearted way and only a genius can be a great artist and a great political archduchess at the same time. Archduchess Maria Josefa tried this and failed dismally. She designed an ambitious picture . entitled Floreat Austria, which was to contain figures of many distinguished historical Hapsburgs. This she proposed to present to Kaiser Francis Joseph on his next birthday. Her aim was twofold; she would outrival Hans Makart in the giant group line and she would please the old kaiser, from whose will in the end depends the set* tlement of the feud as to the succession. The picture would have undoubtedly pleased Francis Joseph, who has a big share of dynastic pride and quite pardonably holds that the house of Hapsburg-Lorraine is the most illustrious on earth. But with this half-artistic, half-political enterprise Archduches Maria Josefa had no luck. She had got only half way through her picture and was Industriously coloring the imposing profile of Empress Maria Theresa when the blow fell. The morning papers announced that: “His majesty has been pleased to accept from the heir presumptive, his Imperial and royal highness, Archduke Frank Ferdinand of AnstriaEste, a symbolic picture, The FlourIshing of Austria.”

ence for five houra a day, that It stimulated mental activity 50 per cent foir the first hour and that after that it increased the heart action to a dangerous extent and was the cause of severe headaches. "In continuing his experiments with the other colors he' discovered that yellow caused the children to Increase their work 60 per cent, above the normal and also increased their vitality. Its drawback, however, was that It made them restless and mischievous.

“Green he found to be the ideal color for the study room, it promoted mental activity to its proper pitch, was responsible for more and better work than the other colors, and was the least fatiguing on the eyes and the nervous system. For the hospital the most soothing effect is obtained by light gray tints.”— Philadelphia North American. Character is property. It is the noblest 6f possessions. It la an estate in the general good will and respect of men.—Samuel Smiles.

Sassenach on the bloody Held. Then Cluny blew a melody so fierce, eldritch, so grinding and blistering to the soul, that every clansman ripped and slashed his way through the English hordes. Intent on only one thing —to escape the fiendish screeching of the pipes. And that is why every grateful Scot to this day cherishes the bagpipe, the preserver of Scottish Independence. He has beaten hls sword into a plowshire, but he always upholds the pipes to beat the band.— Harper’s Weekly. , .

GREASE WORTH SAVING

ALL KITCHEN BY-PRODUCTS SHOULD BE ISOLATED. ” " 5 * .;-,.| ; ,A ; ;..: J?- .-. • - ; : ; -^ r - r A^—: Haying Only One Common Pot Is Poor Economy—Different Meat Product* Enhance the Flavor of Jthe Various Dishea. All housewives have a grease pot, but they should make it plural, instead of singular, and have pots. The greases from various kinds of meats are the most valuable by-products from the kitchen, if isolated from each other. Dumped carelessly into a common pot, they are fit only for the old-fashioned soap pot. Divided and subdivided they will not only enhance the flavor of the kitchen products, but they will largely contribute to the saving of money. Every one knows that pork grease is a fine thing in which to fry sweet potatoes, and that it gives them a better flavor than lard or butter, but does every one know that ham grease is the best of all? Or, that beef drippings make fried potatoes a joy? Or, that lamb fat is the' finest thing in which to warm over lima beans?

What is needed in the kitchen is not a grease pot, but a number of ,them. The drippings from beefsteak should go into one; that is, the fat which is always cut Off from beefsteak, and which the housewife should ask the butcher to give her; it has a flavor which no other part of the beef fat has, and to this should be added the scraplings of the beefsteak platter, too often, alas! consigned to /the garbage pail. The skimmings from beef stews, and from beef roasts should be put into this pot, and the whole reserved for the frying of white potatoes, and for the flavoring of the lard in which “French fried” potatoes are cooked.

Lard is a perfectly wholesome element in which to cook food, provided that some savory flavor be added to it. The grease from sausage and pork chops, kept in a separate pot, can be added to it, ih case one wishes to fry sweet potatoes or parsnips, which are delicious/ with this flavor permeating them. - - Lamb stews, the juice from lamb chops and veal cutlets (scraped from the platter) should be kept in one pot. This is nice to add to lima bean soup or to common bean soup, and also give an unusual flavor to egg omelets and to “French toast,” which is fried in grease, after having been dipped in batter. The grease from chicken, duck and goose well deserves a pot all by itself, for it is the aristocrat of the grease family and its uses should be confined to the more delicate dishes. An enticing variation on the ordinary boiled cauliflower is to take a head Vhich has previously been cooked and "drained, dip it lightly in batter and fry it in chicken or fowl grease. This is the Italian method and is a wholly new dish to American tables. Asparagus lightly fried in a small but deep pot of fowl grease is also new, and'when sprinkled with grated Parmesan cheese can be used as an entree.

Spanish Soup.

Wash, pare and cut into small pieces four medium sized two onions and a stalk of celery. Cook in one quart of boiling water until soft, drain and turn through a puree strainer. Return to the fire and add one pint of milk, one teaspoonful of salt, a dash of white and a speck of red pepper. Mix two tablespoonfuls of butter with four tablespoonfuls of flour and add to soup. Cook ten minutes. If desired, the beaten yolks of one or two eggs, diluted with a little of the soup, may be added a few minutes before serving. Add pieces of pimento cut in fancy shapes and serve very hot—Good Housekeeping.

Beef Loaf.

Three pounds lean beef, one-quar-ter pound salt pork (chopped together at the market), three eggs well beaten, one cup cracker crumbs rolled fine, one teaspoon black pepper, two tablespoons salt. Mix the salt and pepper with the fine' dry crumbs, then add them ip the eggs and if needed to moisten the crumbs add a little milk; then stir all with the mix thoroughly and divide Into two or three small loaves, knead and press them Into smooth shape. Put in a small baking pan with a little water and bake siawly for 1% or two hours. Add water if needed to the baking pan.

Brown Stew of Celery.

Parboil six-inch stalks of celery In salted water for five minutes, drain and cool. Brown two tablespoonfuls of flour In butter, add two cupfuls of stock and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Season with salt, pepper and grated nutmeg. ' Cook the celery slowly In the sauce until tender. Arrange the celery evenly on the serving dish, strain the sauce over it, and serve Immediately, very hot

Bavlng the Fingers. For those who have to do much hdtasehold work, this hint will be useful. Before putting the bands Into soda water, rub the finger tips and round the nails with vaseline. The water will not then touch them and make them crack.

Macaroni and Nuts.

Cook macaroni until tender. Put layer of macaroni lp baking dish, cover with layer of chopped nuts and continue till dish la full. Season with salt, butter and milk.

Shamrocks

Dear little shamrocks, to lovingly tent Across the Wide tea From Erin Machree, Land of my birth, where my childhood wqt spent. Gazing on them, my thoughts fondly tirey To emerald dtlisg .■ ’XViimw***! Where fairies weave spells From fall of the • night till dawning of day.

A light-hearted youth' through meadows I rose. When lot sweet and dear Then falls on my ear The tong of the blackbird warbling it* loot. Dear Utile shamrocks! You fall at mg feet. ./ lift and replace, With gentle embrace. Breathing tad sight o’er a dreaming to sweet.

ST. PATRICK WON HEARTS BY LOVE

It is remarked by historians that Ireland —the virgin island on which

Christian nations of the north and west of Europe during several centuries succeeding his beneficent career. During the centuries In which Ireland was the lighthouse of religion and humanity she sheltered learning, and art flourished within her borders. It was Irish illuminators who engrossed the Book of Kells, a transcript of the Gospels still famous among connoisseurs &s the most beautiful book in the world. As late as King Alfred’s time—the ninth century—scholars from Ireland were welcomed by the monks of the famous English abbey of Croyland as instructors in the art of illuminating missals and breviaries. That century was a rude age in England, but an age of culture in the Green Isle. , Civilizations rise and fall. The time came, after centuries of enlightenment and peace, when Ireland fell a prey to foreign conquest, the result of strife among her native chiefs. It was in the latter half of the twelfth century that Dermod MacMurrough of Leinster, deposed for his tyranny, negotiated with Henry n. and invited Norman-Engllsh mercenaries to help him in the recovery of his kingdom. From that time dated Ireland’s evil days. But her people under every stress ot misfortune retained ■ their love of liberty and the. morality which has made them singular among the nations. Idealists and enthusiasts — the stuff of which martyrs are made—they remained true amid all vicissitudes to their religious faith. There are other Instances in human history which demonstrate that it is moral qualities that win the end, but no example of this truth is more conspicuous and resplendent than that which is deducible from the history of the Irish people.

OLD BLARNEY CASTLE

Spot beloved of Irishmen and sweet Hi the memory of every visitor to the Emerald Isle. i

woman proconsul never set foot — was the only country In western Europe where the Gospel was planted without a previous conquest of arms. What followed, as a result of the great work of Saint Patrick In Ireland is one of the salient facts In the history of civilization—the uplifting influence of the Irish in the pagan and semi-

Ireland’s Flag

There has been much diversity of opinion and traditional quotation re-

gar ding the origSgwSjjSSl Inal color of the Z3m Irlßh fla ?* The ■) first flag of Ireland 1 , Hi Mazoned with the sunburst, and as the peoples of

X ‘ , __ . remote ages took their color, (Ton, Hill is 422. the most striking colors of the earth, sea and sky, it is quite possible, as some assert, that the first Irish banner was blue—the color of the sky or the blue waters from which the sun seems to rise or sink. It is more likely, however, to have been green, emblematic of the Green Isle, with sunburst added as the colors Of the illustrious people feho subdued the original tribes and railed the first flag on Brin's soil, showing their Asiatic origin and their emblem of worship, they being followers of Zoroaster, or fire worshipers. But although the Celts became the rulers of the soil they had no characteristic banner, each tribe having its own emblem, until the arrival of the Miletian colony from the grand city Miletus, in Asia Minor. Their flag was then accepted by the Celts, and it is generally conceded that all the different kings and princes that afterward reigned and warred with each other clung to the green flag down through the centuries of wars and tumult, leaving Brin’s flag, if possible, greener than ever. During the first year of the Christian era the Irish flag was ornamented with an ancient harp of gold. And as many of the people remained unconverted to Christianity, half of the sunburst was blazoned on the flag. The harp seems to have been heard for the first time in Ireland during the first year of the Christian erg. It was introduced by the famous Timotheua, a celebrated musician and poet, a descendant of Timotheua of Miletus. The people of Ireland were thrown Into a state of such ecstacy by the sweet strains of the harp that they resolved to use It on the flag. And during the first Christian year, when the Psalms of David were being sung with great pomp, tradition points to the fact that the lost harp of King David went to Ireland. The harp became the music of all classes, while the God of David was generally accepted, and the Christians soon outnumbered the Tire Worshipers, who disappeared altogether after two centuries. And it Is hard for the people of the present time to believe that there were ever tribes of Tire Worshipers in the Emerald Isle. There is no place In Ireland that is so hallowed as Tara, where on Easter Sunday of the Christian era fa about

the year 432 St Patrick, or Patricias, was requested to deliver a sermon before King Laoghalre, princes, and serfs at Tara HilL St Patrick attempted to define the Blessed Trinity to that memorable assembly. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost Three in One, in vain. He picked up a sprig of shamrock and showed the assembly three leaves on (me stem, and they believed the sacred mystery, and .unanimously erased the sun, the last emblem of pagan Ireland, from their flag in honor of St Patrick. And as a matter of history the flag, with a green ground, white Shamrock and harp, remained unchanged till the tenth century. On Good Friday there was a great battle to be fought It waa the tenth century. Brian Borothme was the sovereign of all Ireland. The Danes were gaining great power in Ireland. They had crowned their Citric king of Dublin. The majority of the Irish people under the leadership of King Brign determined to drive the Danes from the soil. One of the daughters of the king had designed and embroidered in tapestry with yellow silk a beautiful, banner, and under that precious gift on the following day the forces of King Brian were led to victory. v~ The flag remained with green ground golden black and shamrock until January 1. 1800, when the union with England was consummated. At 12 o’clock the royal standard of Great Britain and Ireland waa hoisted on Dublin castle, a royal salute wan fired from the battery in Phoenix park that announced to Ireland that s * j» •' . *

her Independence was over. Thus ended what la called Henry Grattan’s parliament, the restoration of which has been a source

of Irish agitation to the Union with, and the disturbed ***l condition of the British dominions foq the last 110 years.

The Flag Provious