Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1913 — Page 2

READY FOR THE LADIES OF THE WHITE HOUSE

This is one of the spacious and Inviting verandas of “Harlakenden House” at Cornish, N. H., selected by President Wilson as the summer White House. The ladies of his family preceded him there. The place is the summer home of Winston Churchill, and is situated on a beautiful estate of 700 acres.

IS UNCROWNED KING

Paderewski Meets Royal Reception in Native Land.

Dreamer of a United Poland—Practical Nature of Wife- Has Kept Musician From Leaving Concert Stage for Politics.

Warsaw. —Ignace Paderewski, the pianist, is the uncrowned king of Poland, says Warsaw correspondent. Whenever he appears in any town of the ancient Polish republic he is greeted with that royalty and enthusiam which belongs only to popular monarchs. There is a royal halo about Paderewski's presence in this country, whether it be in the part that lies under Russian, Austrian or German rule. When he goes out, crowds wait below to cheer him as he leaves the hotel. When he enters a theater, those who cannot get inside wait for hours outside in the hope of catching, a glimpse of him and cheering blm'on his way home. When he gives a concert, it is as if a king held audience.

The pianist’s growing popularity troubles the authorities, especially in Germany and Russia Poland. The Russian police have an idea that he will one fine day get himself crowned on the concert platform, between a sonata and a rhapsody. Always an ardent patriot, even when poor and unknown, Paderewski now spends huge sums on his country. If ft were not for the more practical influence of his wife, Paderewski, rich as he is, would be poor. No appeal for his country or less fortunate fellow countrymen can he hear in vain. Mme. Paderewski has made a rule of being present at all tpisiness interviews. This has made her many enemies. Paderewski would like, of all things, to buy an estate in Poland. Mme. Paderewski has, so far. dissuaded him, in spite of friends’ influence pulling the other way. His immense popularity probably would set the authorities against him. And Paderewski gives way. They retire to

HOLD WINE 1,600 YEARS OLD

Famous Bottle in German Museum Was Taken From an Old Roman Tomb.

Berlin. —Wine of the “wonder-year,” 1911, the'higher grade qualities of which are just coming on the wholesale market, is attaining record prices at the auctions at Mayence, Treves and other centers in the Rhine and Moselle districts. Seven thousand marks ($1,725) for a cask of Niersteiner Karnzburg of the vintage of 1893 had for years occupied the top of the list in wine auction at once ran the prices, but the bidders at this year’s auction at once ran the prices for 1911 grades up to almost double this, the record figurb reached for a "fuder” (a cask of about six hundred quarts) of Piesporter from /he vineyard quarts) of Piesporter from the vineyard of Count von Kesselstadt, for which 14,010 marks ($3,500) was paid at the auction at Treves. This is a rate of almost $6 a bottle for two-year-old wine in the cask. The values of wine bring to mind the famous bottle in the historical museum of Speyer. This container is of antique shape and was found in a Roman sarcophagus unearthed in 1867, to which is attributed an age of one thousand six hundred years. The bottle contains a white wine, vovered on top with a resinous substance which was once olive oil, placed by the Romans tn. the necks of wine bottles as a means of excluding the air and preserving liquid. . Analysis proved the fluid to be wine, and other objects in the sarcophagus ■lmw that It dates from about 300 A

Morges after each Polish visit; but this, his friends say, Will be his last out of Poland.

Morges is their Swiss home, where Mme. Paderewski finds life perfectly charming, with her wonderful fowls and parrots. Mme. Paderewski enemies contend that she keeps guard, over him because she fears that he will become so Intensely interested in his own country that he will want to give no more concerts and will thereby be ruined. .Some three years ago, when in Austrian Poland, where in Cracow he unveiled the historical monument he had given to his countrymen in memory of a famous victory over the Germans, many tried to persuade him to enter politics, to become a member of the Austrian parliament, for be is a splendid public speaker. Paderewski hesitated. The suggestion had much charm for him. But reflection, and his wife, persuaded him to refuse the offer. He went back to Morges—and the concert hall.

In England Paderewski’s influence and high social position have made even statesmen like Asquith and Sir Edward Grey, absorbed in larger politics and afraid of offending mighty Russia, interest themselves in the Polish question. The victorious Bulgarians paved the way for their successes in much the same manner. They had no Paderewski, but 'King Ferdinand went around Europe “booming” his little country. Thanks to his efforts, the world heard of Bulgaria, which was merely Turkey’s slave forty years ago. The Slav world Is waking up to great things.

TRIBUTE TO TITANIC HEROES

Fountain In Washington Will Be Memorial to Major Butt and Artist Millet.

Washington.—Work on the foundations for the beautiful fountain to be erected to the memory of Major Archibald W. Butt, military aid to President Taft, and Francis Millet, the artist, who lost their lives in the ti-

Major Archibald W. Butt.

tanic disaster, is to begin in the immediate future, it was announced here. The site of the fountain will be immediately behind the White House grounds and Impressive ceremonies will mark the memorial's dedication. The fountain is the remembrance of friends of the two men from all over United States. The site was given by the government through a special act of congress.

CANE IS NOW PROPER THING

Women Carry Walking Sticks In Fifth Avenue and Central Park, JMew York.

New York. —The women are carrying canes again. The idea is quite in keeping with waistcoats and slashed skirts.

Sometimes a new fad takes a peep at fashiondom; a few alert ones catch at it and appropriate it for a short time. - Especially are Americans slow to take up new and faddish ideas. But on its second appearance it goes like hot cakes. Do you remember the “swagger sticks,” as the English army officers call them, that a few women carried two or three years ago? The ones carried now are larger, some of them, and every excuse under the sun is given for carrying them. In London, Paris and Rome the most fashionable < women, old and young, are carrying them, so that they are quite as usual as a parasol would be here.

The new canes are about a foot longer than the gentleman's cane; that is, about 48 inches. They are much lighter in weight and come in two varieties, one with a small knob and the other with the curved handle. Ebony is perhaps the smartest wood used, with pimento or Malacca a close second. London is quite mad over the partridge wood, although this is distinctly a rougher cross country walking stick. The color is mottled, about the same as the partridge bird; and there are distinct ridges, every two inches which the lines of the feathers. With a rough tweed suit this looks better than the smoother woods do. One of the most delicate, on the other hand, is the throstle wood, a pastel greenish blue, which is dainty enough to be carried with the new silk suits.

Although not a few of the canes have appeared on the avenue, one of the large umbrella houses is selling a dozen a week to the members of the ultraexclusive set. Perhaps the best place to see them is in Central Park in the early morning. This morning or beauty walk has become quite a fad among the debutantes of upper Fifth avenue. 1

POISON ON TOAST FOR CHILD

“The Devil Got Into Me,” Pleads Domestic of Fifteen, Accused of Plot.

Philadelphia, Pa.—Marion Gibbs, fifteen years old, of Neshaming, was arrested on a charge of trying to poison Sarah Schaffer, six years old, daughter of Henry Schaffer. She is said to have admitted that she spread poison on some toast bread she prepared for the girl. Asked to explain her conduct, the girl is al leged to have exclaimed: "The flevil got into me and made me do it! I •did not go to Sunday school." Mr. Schaffer, father of Sarah, said he believed the girl, who was employed in his home, tried tor a long time to murder his daughter by giving her slow doses of poison.

Men Carry Fancy Parasols.

Berlin. —The latest fashion here is the carrying of fancy colored parasols by the men. Silk blouses, marked with plenty of fancy net-work are also considered very fashionable and are worn by the men tn very hot weather.

Roses as Danger Signals.

Philadelphia.—Red rose bushes «et near the Pennsylvania railroad tracks by Edward Bok of Marion were removed because the road officials feared engineers might mistake the blossoms for danger signals.

Pittsburgh.—The "hobble" eklrt not only endangers the life of the wearet but delays street oar traffic. That Is the opinion of local policemen and railroad officials.

CLEVER WOMEN SPIES

LINE OF WORK IN WHICH THEY EASILY OUTDO MEN.

To Unusual Powers of Trickery They Add the Charm of Femininity and Thus Win the Confidence They Seek.

Women from time immemorial have the greatest spies in history. Their charms and resources adapt them to every line of apprehensive endeavor, from tracking the erring New York husband to obtaining the plans and the specifications of the bat* tlesbips and: the forts of the great powers. To those who are acquainted, With the history of espionage, this statement comes as no surprise, for nearly aH the most sensational spying cases of recent years have been engineered by unscrupulous women. For when it comes to trickery there is no match for a clever woman, especially if, as is often the case, she has natural beauty allied to her powers of stealing confidences. Only a few years back an important German fortress had to be entirely rebuilt owing to France obtaining expensive andvaluable Information regarding its armaments and the geography of the important portion of German frontier that it guarded. And this act was made necessary owing to the ramifications of a French woman whose attractive personality enabled her to worm these secrets from important Berlin officials, in whose homes she was implicitly trusted and entertained.

Recently a charming woman who posed as a governess was sentenced to four years’ penal servitude for spying. She was employed by two European powers, and by acting as a governess to the children of naval officers in Paris and Berlin she paved the way to acquaintance with those holding responsible positions. With remarkable audacity she annexed charts and plans and sold them in the right quarters. This she found an easy task, having. In her position of governess, ample means of learning in what part of the house such documents were stored, and it was not until a bunch of duplicate keys of a number of admiralty safes were found in her possession that suspicion fell upon her. Every one remembers the sensation several years ao when most complete plans of the interior of the first British dreadnought were published in a German newspaper. About this time an attractive American woman of German descent disappeared from London’s society circles, where, by rear son of her charming personality and apparent wealth, she had been given a hearty welcome.

An inquiry was held on the affair, and it was suggested that this woman probably knew a good deal about the leakage of these important plans, and probably further proceedings would have been taken had not the honor of several officers of high standing in naval and society circles been involved.

Age of Machine Soldiers.

Particulars of the alleged invention of a machine soldier by a Danish engineer, have been widely published in the French press. The machine soldier consists of a cylindrical device which, in time of peace, could be burled under the ground, and in time of war, by pressing a button, it could rise to the surface, discharge 400 shots and kill the enemy at a distance of 2,000 yards. . The amusing calculation is made that if a line of these mechanical soldiers were placed all the way from Vesoul or Belford to Sedan, a distance of IQO miles could be made ‘practically impassable for any army, especially if the mechanical soldiers were placed at a metre’s interval from each other, and in a line 20 deep. This would require only 3,200,000 mechanical soldiers, and assuming that each cost 500 f, the whole thing could be done by spending £ 64,000,000. By pressing a few electric buttons an army of more than 3,000,000 soldiers would thus spring out of the ground and protect certainly that part of the frontier. But all the ordinary inhabitants would first have to be warned out of the danger zone. Is the age of the soldier automaton :really coming?

George Brown’s Office Boy.

George Brown writes the editorials and attends to the exchange work of a big metropolitan daily newspaper, all of which compels him to read oceans of other papers. It was his habit to send his office boy to the postofflce every day to drag back a tremendous bundle of papers. One day the boy. who was redheaded and hot-tempered, received his bundle in the corridor of the postoffice, cut the strings and scattered the newspapers in wild confusion all over the floor. After that he ran wild among them, kicking them and slapping them about. An official of the postofflce called up Brown's office with the purpose of informing him that he had sent a crazy boy to the office and that he had scattered the papers all over the building. Brown was not in when the call was made, but later the official of the postofflce informed him that, when remonstrance whs made to the boy, ho exclaimed wildly: "That fool gets too many papers, anyway! I'm onto him. I'm the only person on the newspaper that knows he don’t read half of 'em.”—Populai Magazine.

ADVICE FOR THE HOME MILLINER

FOR the mother or big sister who Is anxious to do millinery work at home there are models which may be attempted with every chance of success, especially in hats for children’s Wear. Shapes, as a rule, are becoming to start with. If the home milliner will be satisfied to copy the work of professional milliners at first, and not attempt original designing until copying has trained her taste, she will be able to make certain kinds of hats that will pass muster anywhere? - . Here are three pretty hemp hats. They are the work of special designers of headwqar for children. They look quite simple but they are the result of trained knowledge and expert skill in the making of this particular kind of millinery. Any one can copy them successfully, but everyone cannot originate hats equally good. >, Select a shape that is becoming to the little miss whose needs are to be filled, and be careful to get a hat that fits. This is half the battle. Choose an attractive color—they are rather gay this season—or select a white or natural straw color. Any one of the methods of trimming shown here will add to the beeomingness of. the hat, since none of them interfere with its outlines. The simplest trim consists of a band of soft wide ribbon—Alice blue, perhaps. At the front a fiat bow of four loops is centered with a buckle made of tiny June roses. Sew this trimming to place and avoid that fault which amateurs most often fall into—don’t sew it too flat to the shape. A childish and fascinating method of trimming is shown in the hat adorned with a wreath of targe ox-eyed daisies and three upstanding bows of messaline ribbon. These bows consist of two loops' each, one loop about half as long as the other. The heart of the bow is finished with two small puffs .of ribbon. Tack the bows to the shape with the taller loops standing up and. the shorter extending to the upturn of the brim. It will not be necessary to wire the loops because they are supported by the crown to which they are fastened with a few stitches. The most original of the three designs is shewn with a plaited ribbon and fancy cord used to form the band and “stick up.’’ A silk cord is braided in three strands and applied to the accordion-plaited ribbon which surrounds the crown. A fan or wing at the side is made by sewing three rows of the plaited ribbon to a small piece of rice net cut into the proper shape and wlre< l at the edge. The plaited cord is sewed to this, following its outlines- When this is done a short length of cord is left free to form the knot which finishes the trimming.

FOR SEA BATHING OR MOTOR

Here Is Combination Headwear That is Pretty and Has Additional Merit of Cheapness.

If you love to sea bathe and also to motor and cannot afford to buy distinctive caps for each sport, thete is a new combination in headwear perfectly suited to your purse. It is an affair in white rubber having a gored crown and the three-inch brim finished with rows of machine stitching which distinguishes the regulation beach or steamer cap, and, like that familiar article, is trimmed with 'a band and a bow, also in rubber. The lining of the crown forms an inside cap of rubber which, instead of being pushed upward, is drawn downward, fits closely about the head and protects the half from the water, while the brim protects the eyes from the sun’s glare. Without the hat, the cap may be used for motoring in fine weather as it is light and sheds the dust, but when traveling during a high wind, it is better to use the tight-fitting cap without the upper section.

Chin Ribbons on Hats.

Satin chin ribbons are fastened to some of the white straw hats for little girls. The ribbdn, in pale pink or blue, is attached to the inside of the hat brim, close to one ear, with a small rosette. It Is looped in a permanent bow under the chin and fastens under a rosette at the other side of the hat brim. These soft chin ribbons are especially becoming to the dainty, pretty type of face.

Gifts for Bridesmaids.

One little, bride, with .more ingenuity than money, made photograph frames from material like her wedding dress, placed therein her portrait and that of her fiance, then had the whole thing mounted under glass with a small gilt rim of picture frame molding. Her maids were delighted with the gifts. >

Hairpin Holder.

A hairpin holder for the handbag or the traveling bag is made of suede and bolds a fall package of hairpins of medium length .or large else. It is the shape and length of the package of hairpins and the top clasps down much like a case of scissors. Ribbon Flowers on Parasols. Small bunches of black and white satin'rosebuds appear on the edge of one of the bibs and upon the handle of smart parasols. Medium large pink ribbon roses and foliage are arranged in wreath form around some yarasols.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.

PRETTY SUMMER DRESS

Model of hand-embroidered lingerie, with broad belt of pleated light blue taffeta.

Cutting Beneath Lacs.

In cutting away the good beneath lace insertion one is very likely to cut the lace itself. This can be obviated, however, if a narrow cardboard, pointed at one end, is slipped between the lace and goods whilo cutting.

Flowers.

In selecting flowers for wedding dieorations the white English stock should not be forgotten. This, because of its close-growing blossoms, gives the very whiti effects so desirable is. either church or homo wedding*.