Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1913 — Page 3

CAP and BELLS

IMAGINATION 1$ GREAT THING Doctor Who Had Been Attending Old Woman Overlooked Most Important Part of Treatment. • Dr. Edward Sanger, who has abandoned his post as assistant to a celebrated Chicago specialist because he dislikes the latter’s methods, said in New York: “We should not announce cures unless they are real cures. Imagination plays too great a part in a patient’s feelings. “Imagination must always be reckoned with in medicine —sometimes as a friend, sometimes as a foe. I know a doctor who treated an old woman for typhoid, and on each visit he took her temperature by holding a thermometer under her tongue. One day, when she had nearly recovered, the doctor did not bother to take her temperature, and he had hardly got 100 yards from the house when her son called him back. “‘Mother is worse,’ said the man. ‘Come back at once.’ “The doctor returned. On his entry into the sick room the old woman looked up at him with angry and reproachful eyes. “ ‘Doctor,’ she said, ‘why didn’t you give me the Jigger under me tongue today? That always done me more good than all the rest of your trash.’ ” —St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

NOT HER.

Salesman —Maybe your wife would like songs without words. Mr. Henpeck—Say, she doesn’t like anything without words.

Real Sufferers.

"I understand Mr. and Mrs. Poddersly are thinking of separating.” "What’s the trouble?” "It seems that Jdr. Poddersly ’ believes in a system of orietnal philosophy which is quite different from a system of oriental phildsophy believed In by Mrs. Poddersly.” "If that’s the cause of their disagreement, they ought, to be given a divorce for the sake of thier neighbors.”

Lawyer’s Choice.

A judge and joking lawyer were conversing about the doctrine of transmigration of the souls of men Into animals. “Now,” said the judge, “suppose you and I were turned into a horse and an ass, which would you prefer to be?” “The ass, to be replied the lawyer. “Why?” asked the judge. "Because I have heard of an ass being a judge, but a horse, never.”

Exchange of Courteries.

“This man who wants board on credit claims to be a foreign noblem&q.” “Show you any proof?’ aßked the proprietor. “Showed me a photograph of a castle.” “Well, I have no objection to you showing him a photograph of a ham sandwich.”

Father —Young Dobson has asked me for your hand and I have consented. Daughter—You dear old dad! Father—So never mind going to the dentist's tomorrow about that crown work. Wait until you are man tied.

Put on His Mettie.

f “I ■wouldn’t want you to marry me under protest, dear.” "Suppose it was some other fellow who was protestlngT” "Ha! That’s different."

Her Choice.

"So the rich old miser’s bride .Is already a sad wife.” “Yes, but it’s not her fault. If she had the chance, she would much prefer to be a merry widow.”

Thrift.

SMITH ON THE WATER WAGON

Mrs. Jones Understood Friend’s Husband Was Quite a Bibliomaniac, But Finds He Has Changed. Lovely lady drifted into a congressional conversation the other afternoon, and Timothy Woodruff told of Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Smith, who lived in a southern city. Friends in early youth, according to. the story of Mr. Woodruff, they met again a few days ago after a separation of several years. In the meantime yirs. Smith, like her chum, Mrs. Jones, had married. Naturally their talk eventually drifted in that direction. “By the way, Minnie,” was the remark of Mrs. Jones, “I understand that you have been getting married, too. I think I saw something about it in the newspapers. “Yes,” replied Mrs. Smith. “I have been married nearly five years.” "Is it really so long as that?” returned Mrs. Jones. “I have been married six years. I understand your husband is quite a bibliomaniac.” “Oh, no, not any more,” was the prompt rejoinder of Mrs. Smith. "He used to be, but he is on the water wagon now.” —Philadelphia Telegraph.

WOULD HAVE CHANGED THINGS.

'i * Tom —How did you come to be refused both of them? Dick —I reckon neither one knew I was "going to propose to the other one.

Could Be Tempted.

Johnny, who had been forbidden to ask for ice cream cones at the candy store, disobeyed and was kept in the house. ‘Why isn’t JoTinny out playing?” asked the storekeeper of Johnny’s lib tie sister. "Mamma wouldn’t let him because he asked for a cone.” “You wouldn’t ask for a cone, would you?” remarked the pfipprietor. "No,” replied the little girl. “But I would take one.”

Had a Reason.

A young man in Washington who many months ago hung up his shingle as “attorney at law,” has not yet been overwhelmed with clients. A friend, entering the office one day, observed on the desk a cheap alarm clock. “Taking it home, eh?” he observed. “Good thing at this time of the year. Everyone is liable to oversleep these mornings.” The lawyer smiled. “I have not purchased that clock for the reason you mentioned. I keep it here to wake me when It’s time to go home.”

E—S—Q.

“Pa,” said little Willie, “what does es-kew mean?” "Askew?” repeated the old gentleman. “Why, askew means gone wrong, crooked. Why do you ask?” “Why, I notice that after your name on all you rletters they put E—-S —Q, but I didn’t know you’d ever gone wrong or was crooked, pa. What did you do?” asked little Willie. —Harper’s Weekly. ,

To Slow for Him.

A'German farmer was in search of a driving horse. “I’ve got just the horse for you,” said the liveryman. "He’s five years old. sound as a dollar and goes ten miles without stopping.” The German threw his hands skyward. “Not for me,” he said, “not for me. I live eight miles from town and mit dot horse I has to walk back two miles.” —National Monthly.

American View.

“So you don’t approve of those London suffragettes?” “I don’t know much about them,” replied Miss Cayenne, “but I certainly feel that a woman who can’t subdue a few men without the use of dynamite is something of a failure.”

Valuables.

“That rural delivery man says he doesn’t find the cost of living particularly high.” “No, he always comes back over his route after nightfall, and be almost always finds a chicken or two roosting on the mall boxes.”

That's Different.

Bacon —1 understand your friend only earns about S3OO a year. Egbert—What are you talking about ! Why. he gets |3,000 a year. “I'm not talking about what be gets, but what he earns. He’s got a political job, hasn’t he?” *

How the Other Half Lives

"How. now. Geraldine?*’ "I am Investigating the conditions that surround poor working girls.” "Their lot is often trying.” "Indeed It Is. Why, half of them go to work without chaperones, Clar toe.”

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER!, IND.

MAKING The ZONE HEALTHFUL by E.W.PICKARD

Ancon, C. Z.—All the world gives to Col. W. C. Gorgas, chief sanitary officer, and his assistants full credit the wonderful work they have accomplished in making the Panama canal zone healthful and keeping it so. All the world that knows gives equal r greater credit to those American, Italian and English doctors and soldiers who sacrificed their health and in some cases their lives to prove that yellow fever and malaria, the two terrors of tropic America, are transmitted by the bite of mosquitoes. It la not my intention to tell over again the latter story. The devotion of those brave men actually made possible the building of the Panama canal, tot their work has been tak»n full advantage of by ColoneL Gorgas and his forces, and the zone is 'now one of the most healthful places In the world.

Before the coming pf the Americans the isthmus was a veritable pest hole. Tbp French canal builders and their workmen and the laborers on the Panama railway died like flies, usually of malaria or yellow fever. Today a fatal case of malaria is a rarity, the more malignant form being almost unknown, and not a single case of yellow fever has originated in the Bone in several years. The Stegomyia mosquito, the yellow fever bearer, has not been, exceedingly hard to exterminate because it breeds and lives only near human habitations. When the Americans had substituted a regular water system and underground sewers for the rain water -barrels and the open ditches in Coloh, Panama and the other towns, and had fumigated all the dwellings, Stegomyia was practically extinct. That job of fumigat-

Ancon Hill.

tog, by the way, raised a great row among the ignorant inhabitants of Panama. They could not understand why they should be all moved out Into the street and their houses filled with evil-smelling fumes, and they were inclined to offer forcible resistance until the zone police took the matter in hand. Much more difficult has been the task of eradicating malaria, for the Inopheline mosquito, wbieh makes a specialty of carrying this disease, is widespread and of several varieties. It is the female only that bites, and she needs blood —preferably red blood—for the development of her eggs. The eggs are deposited in a ilow moving or stationary water and hatch out into little larvae or “wrigglers.” At least once in two minutes the larva must come to the surface to breathe, and that is where the santary department gets St, usually. As one-wanders about the zone he ■ees at the headwaters of every stream, ditch or other water course, »t frequent Intervals along its banks, and at the edge of every pool, a big tin can or a keg. From this receptacle there is a constant drip, drip, drip of larvacide, a black, olly-looking jompound of crude carbolic acid, caustic soda and resin. This spreads out over the water, an iridescent film, 1 and when little Anophellne larva comes up for air he meets a iwfTt death. To replenish these cans of larvacide a small army of Jamalrans is kept traveling about the zone. r.nd others go around with tanks of the compound strapped on their backs, spraying every pool they come to. Another measure of extermination has been tbe.dralning and filling in of •wampy ground and the straightening gnd clearing of water courses so that their flow will be too swift for Madame Anophellne. The work of drainlag and filling has been extensive and bear the Pacific end of the canal has Resulted in the reclamation of large uact* of land for building sites. Tbs third part of the anti-mosquito

COLON HSPITAL

campaign is the careful screening of buildings occupied by human beingß. Ordinary mosquito netting would not do and only copper wire will stand the climate there. Consequently a fine meshed copper screening is used. If any Anopnelines escape the larvae cide and succeed in gaining entrance to a habitation, the mosquito-killers are summoned and seldom fail to get them. Nine days must elapse after a mosquito has bitten a malarious person before it oecomes infectious, and this gives ths mosquito brigade plenty of time to kill the insects while they are asleep on the walls. The isolation of infected persons in the hospitals helps a lot, for of course the mosquito cannot carry malaria until it has bitten a malarious person. Rats, that carry the bubonic plague, and flies, that transmit various other diseases, have received adequate attention from the sanitary department, and dumb brutes are not neglected. As an instance of the latter fact, every horse and mule in the zone must be placed at night in ona of a series of corrals established by the department and there it is fed and cared for, the owner paying a reasonable fixed charge for the service. These animals, if left out, often are attacked by a disease that is infectious and may be transmitted to human beings. Besides that, the native cannot be persuaded to keep his stable in sanitary condition.

Many other sanitary regulations are imposed on the people of the isthmus. All garbage must be deposited in receptacles to be collected by the department’s wagons and burned in its crematories. Chickens may not be kept within a certain distance of any dwelling. Rain water may not be gathered and kept in open receptacles. That last rule is not easy to enforce, for the Panamanian prefers rain water for drinking purposes. But all these are for the general good, and the United States has the treaty right to attend to the sanitation of Panama a%d Colon as well as of the zone. In addition to the two great hospitals at Ancon and Colon, the department of sanitation maintains a dispensary with physician and nurse at every town along the route of the canal and at Porto Bello, where the commission has a big stone quarry. The larger hospital, on Ancon hill, close to Panama, in the spring of the year had about 900 patients. Its wards and the residences of tbs physicians and nurses are scattered picturesquely though rather inconveniently on the east and north slopes of the beautiful hill, and the grounds are filled with magnificent trees and lovely flowering vines and bushes. A little further around the hill is the hospital for the insane, and it, too, is well filled, for the Jamaican and Barbadian negroes go crazy at the slightest provocation. ■ In Cblon,. stretching along the seashore in the only pretty part of that flat city, is the other hospital, smaller bht no less efficient and well manned than that at Ancon. Its grounds are swept continually by the refreshing winds from the Atlantic and many of its wards are built out over the water. Both hospitals are served by corps of physicians and surgeons, mostly rather young, but able, ambb tious and studious.

One mighty good thing the French company did was to establish a sanitarium on Taboga island, and the Americans, recognizing its value, promptly reopened it for the benefit of white convalescents. These may remain on the pretty island for two weeks, paying |2 a day for room, board and medical attention.’ Taboga lies twelve miles due south of Panama and is as attractive a tropical isle as one will often see. Its curving white beaches in little bays are ideal bathing places; its lofty hills, clad with dense vegetation, afford occupation for the climber, and the small fishing village of Taboga is ancient and not uninteresting. Gorgeous birds and flowers and luscious fruits are everywhere. Nothing more perfectly beautiful can be imagined than an evening on the grassy slopes of the sanitarium grounds. ‘ A myriad stars glitter overhead, the Southern Cross and Canopus swinging above the southern horizon. In the forest night birds sing and a variety of tree locust sends forth a clear, musical note that can be heard a mile. In the little public square of the village the native women and children are laughing and singing as the men set forth on all-night fishing trips. And off to the north, this side of the glow of Panama, wink the light buoys of the canal’s sea channel. If in later years Taboga does not become a favorite winter resort for wealthy Americans, I shall solas my guess.

HAVE DAINTY EFFECT

TABLEWARE OF GLASf? SETS FORTH DINNER TABLE. , 1 • 1 Material Has Largely Superseded the Erst white Use of Heavy Silver— Lends Itself Particularly to Matching Color Schemes. Brilliant glassware enhances the plainest tables and makes the absence of heavy silver scarcely apparent Beautiful glass candlesticks gleam as brightly as silver ones and there is a happy union of beauty and usefulness in these pleasing articles. Thick glass is not more durable than the dainty, thin ware. In fact, it will not withstand hot liquids so well, as it cannot so readily expand. A heavy cut glass punch bowl came to pieces at a dinner party a few nights ago, when hot mulled cider was poured into iL Such accidents may be avoided if the cool ingredients are put in first and a silver ladle placed in the bowl before the hot liquids are added. The silver, being a good conductor, absorbs the heat. All fragile ware will withstand heat if the simple precaution of placing a spoon in the dish, cup or glass Is observed.

New tableware shows glass dishes and plates for uses that glass has never been put to before. There are salad bowls, plates, spoons and forks of this fragile ware that seem very appropriate for crisp green salads. They bear dainty fern-like tracery that harmonizes with the green garnishes. The new individual salt and celery dips and vases now have separate linings of colored glass that may be changed to match the color scheme of the dinner. The mahogany framed glass tray D are also lined with different colors for various affairs.

The mirAjr centerpiece, that is so popular foi table decorating, is now accompanies by individual mirrors on which are placed tne flower holders that mark each place. They multiply the brightness of the flowers and their delicate colors. —— —^ The life of these charming table'accessories may be prolonged by gentle care. The proper method of washing glass is to use warm water and borax in one pah and rinsing water of the same temperature in the second. Clean with a soft cloth and no soap, for soap makes glass cloudy and dull. Glass must not drain after rinsing, or it will show streaks; wash, rinse, dry quickly and polish at once. Soft linen, old sik or tissue paper will make glass gleam brightly. If the articles to be cleaned are obstinate let them soak until the dirt is loosened. Salad bowls, oil cruets, milk glasses and pitchers are troublesome to care for, as the oils have a tendency to their brilliancy. Wash these first in cold water softened with ammonia, then clean as usual. Decanters and water bottles soon acquire a deposit of lime. This may be removed with lemon juice or vinegar.

New Portieres.

Some good looking portieres are made of a fabric known as sun fast madras, a lacy openwork stuff. The manufacturers guarantee that this material will not fade. As for coloring, this new material is shown in soft shades of brown, gold, rose, green and blue; also in two toned effects and a very attractive combination of rose,,brown and green.

Rich Ribbons.

The characteristics of the new ribbons are richness of coloring and very large, bold patterns. Large designs, poppies and orchids and roses are typical. In the velour ribbons dark floral effects will be especially in favor. Moire brocaded ribbons, with floral backgrounds in rich tones, too, will be used for millinery.

APPLYING SOUTACHE BRAID

If the soutache braid is sewed oij, by hand every ether stitch should lie a back-stitch taken through the middle of the braid. A particularly attractive effect is gained if the braid is stitched on one edge so that it stands up straight. This may be done by hand by taking a short stitch on the right side and a long stitch on the back.

Normal Waist Line.

There is not the smallest doubt that the waist is rapidly returning to its normal position on the feminine figure. Even now the front of the smart gown has this line, but it rises slightly toward the back. In a gray mauve crepoline this form is followed. The bodice is cut away at the throat and has bretelles of very handsome mauve, gray and pale amber embroidery, the ends of which, back and front, pass underneath the belt of mauve satin. The kimono sleeves reach only to the elbows and are ihet by long gloves—paiest lemon. - (This, toe, is the more emphatic yellow of last season.)

MAKES A PRETTY OECORATION

Dainty and Original Scheme for Dili* Ing Table That May Be Carried Out at Small Coat. One of the pleasantest of the mtjsf duties of the housewife is certainly that of arranging the decorations of the dinner table, bat it is rather difficult to vary them much, unless, of. course, means are unlimited The suggestion, therefore, contained in the accompanying sketch for a very dainty and original decoration, which may be carried out at a trifling cost, should be welcome to many of our readers. In constructing it, in the first place, the framework of wire shown in the diagram on the right must be made, and no difficulty will be found in doing this. The base consists of a piece of wire bent into a circle, and to thia portion of the framework two hoops of wire are fastened and arranged to cross each other in the center, where they are tied "tightly together with string; when this has been done, the wire

can be painted dark greeu and' left to dry. Rc«:nd this framework leaves of a creeper (ivy can be used in winter when other leaves are not available! are twisted until the wire is entirely hidden, and attached to the top is s smart rosette of broad colored ribbon, with ends banging down. In the center of this decoration, a vase filled with flowers or other ornaments may find a place, and when blossoms are cheap, they can be intermingled with the teaves-amL fastened to the wire with green cotton, and will greatly add to the prettiness oi ' the decoration.

New Kind of Glove.

It is not possible to go out in th» afternoon wearing a frock with a new kind of short sleeve and not wear the long gloves which the manufacturers have Invented to meet the occasion These are 35 buttons in length, and even longer, and they are wrinkled from wrist to shoulder and cover all the arm. The effect is not pretty unless One wears a white or light gown, in which case the long expanse of white kid on the arm is not a decided contrast; hut when one wears a gown of any ordinary color, and especially of black; the white or buff sleeve is too conspicuous for beauty. Yet what is one going to do if one insists upon wearing this new tiny sleeve? The public should be thankful that there has been a glove immediately made to wear with it or ws should no doubt see women going around with bare arms swinging free of their frocks, like prizefighters.

Welcome to Good Old Beige.

A soft biscuit or tan color has always been a favorite with French women. In combination with black or white it has never really -disappeared., But this season some of the handsomest gowns have been made in this color and with other colors it makes all kinds of pretty combinations.

PARIS ADOPTS NEW MATERIAL

Drsp de Taffetas Has Attained Wide Popularity for tht Really Dressy Tailor Made£ Drap de taffetas Is one of the new materials for dressy tailor mades; and very dashing it is, soft and brilliant at the same time. Moire makes • lovely tailor suits, also cashmere de satin, drap de satin, etc. Surah of very coarse rep Is used, but up to the moment has not much following. Foulard silk has not been fashionable U. j Paris for years. This summer we see a few examples of satin foulard, which, however, appear cheap and shiny. Crepe de chine, supple taffetas, charmeuse. charmeur, all these make splendid and practical afternoon costumes, while tulle illusion, hand painted or embroidered, and mousseline de sole, treated the same way, compose frocks for the , women with whom money is of no consequence. One of the houses on the Hue de la Palx is making a specialty of combining many summer materials in one frock. A dress seen today, with the foundation of crepe like shantung, cream color, had a front which formed a rather tight overskirt of very fine embroidered net The corsage was made half of net half of mousseline —always in the same tone —with cuffs and a finish about the tow, round neck of black tulle Illusion in the form of a Pierrot, as the plaited fiat collar to called. At one side of the ceinjgra, which was of shantung, there was a loose velvet orchid in violet. We find the Pierrot collar with cuff to n)atch on many of the summer corsages and blouses.