Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1913 — Page 2

LENA’S FRENCH DOG

Clever Ruse Whereby Popular Maiden Rids Herself of Superfluous Admirers. By LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY. Miss Lena Walters was troubled in Iter mind. When a girl has four different admirers and can’t say which she prefers, it's a mighty solemn situation. Well might she pause and reflect. Nations have risen or fallen over easier problems than that. No. 1 had curly hair and a lisp. He was simply delightful. No. 2 had a drooping mustache and arched eyebrows. He was charming. No. 3 not only had the poetic expression, but he also wrote sonnets. He had written one sonnet to her eyes and another to her chin. No. 4 sat and sighed most of the time when he called, and he had eyes out of which a lost soul seemed to be gazing. N Mr. Walters was a business man and rather brusque. He paid very little attention to society, and to who came and went, but after pumping against a score of young men in v the hall at one time or other he said to his daughter: ft T~ HT . ~ "Lena, you tell the cook to have her young men come to the kitchen door after this.” “Why, the cook is a married woman,” was.the reply. “Are they chums of the butler?” “Of course not." “Then what do they want here?” ‘Why, papa, they are my callers.” “Humph! Better get rid of all but one. They wear out the rugs.” And, being troubled in her mind, Mis Lena did a much more sensible thing than to retire to her room and fling herself on the bed and weep. She put on her hat and took a stroll to do some serious thinking. The father hadn’t spoken seriously, and none of the four admirers would be bounced, but suppose that crisis had come? Suppose the young lady found herself compelled to say to number one: “Birdie Rockingham, your hair curls in the most delightful profusion and confusion, that lisp is something to make an angel sit up and listen for more, but this is a life of sadness and disappointments. I wish you well, and I will be a sister to you, hut you must make your hike. Find some other angel and be happy with her.” Miss Lena was finding cold chills creeping over her when a voice at her elbow addressed her: “Say, you, don’t you want to buy a dorg?” It was a gamin of about twelve, and in his arms he had a dog—a French bull dog. “Mercy on me, is that a dog?” cried the girl as she started back. “You bet. He’s worth SSO, but F’ll take 25 cents!” The French nation sends us chic dresses and hats and cloaks, but when It comes to bulldogs they are a dead failure. It Is as if they took a coon, a rabbit, a sugar beet and a cabbage head and boiled them down together and poured the hodge-podge into a and ealled lt a dog. They are warranted to scare babies into fits and the elephants of the country in a single night. “He can't be a dog,” protested Miss Lena. “He sure is, miss,” was the reply. “He's homely, but he's all the go in society. The terrier and the poodle are not in it with him.” “But you have stolen him!” “Not a bit of it.” “But you can’t own a SSO dog.” ‘•gay, lemme tell you something. He was given to ipe this morning by a young lady.” “Then he can't'be a nice dog.” “Hold on a minute. Why did she give him to me? Bekase she had bows.” i “That’s no excuse.” “It hain’t, eh? Not when he’s bitten every one of her bows and driven them away? They have all swore that either, the dorg must go or they would.” “He bit the young men that came to call on her, did he?” asked Miss Lena, all at once interested. “Fiercely." “And she gave him to you on that account?” ■ “I’ll cross my heart on it.” “Maybe I’d buy him if he wasn’t so homely.” “That’s what high society Is after — homely dorgs. The homelier the better. Got any bows?” “Yes,” admitted the girl with a blush. “Any you want to get rid of?” "Y-e^s.” “Then don't be two minits closin’ thlß deal! One of your bows come in and bows and scrapes and takes a cheer. About the time he has got his legs crossed and is ready to talk love Nero sneaks around and takes a bite,” “And what follows?" “What follers? Lemme tell you that wbat follers would make a hen laugh! There’s a sudden Jumpin’ up. There’s a sudden swear-word. There’s a giggling tit which you do all the work. Then there’s a sudden ‘good night,* and a-gettin’ out doors, and that bow never comes within a block of the house agin’. Can’t you imagine it?” “You come pack to the house and I’ll get the money for you,” said the girl, as she softly glgled at the picture the hoy had drawn. The money was paid and Nero changed hands. He made no objections, and he seemed so content and gentle that the ndw owner had her

doubts about bis biting anj body. iu fact, her father looked the dog over and doubted if he would bite a muttonchop. r “What did you get such a rat for a dog?” was asked. “To bite some of my callers.’’ “Go ahead. I guess you’ll pick out the right one from the gang. It was the poetic young man’s evening for calling. He had spent the whole day composing a sonnet to Miss Lena's nose, and had finished and brought it along. Such was his impatience to read it, and hear her words of praiße that he took no notice of the dog. He had scarcely been greeted when he took the manuscript from his pocket and began: V “No blooming rose With Lena’s nose, In soft repose Can —the devil!” “Why, Mr. Davis!” exclaimed the owner of the nose. “Some darned thing bit me! There it is—a wretched little rat of a cur!” “Sir!” “Yes, bit me to the hone, and it may be a case of the rabies!!^ “But you can have a case of the rabies and still be a gentleman, can’t you ?” . “No, sir—no, sir, I can’t! If you have started in to keep a mad dog in the house you must —ahem —excuse me from —” And out he bounced and made his way to the first hospital to be treated. It wasn’t the evening of No. 2 to call, but being at the umbrella mender’s on the corner, he thought he’d run in for a moment and aßk Miss Lena If her father’s business had been unfavorably affected by the tariff. He was cordially greeted, but hardly had he opened the subject nearest his heart when he jumped a foot high and yelled out: “Holy smoke, but I’ve run against a live wire!” “It’s only Nero,” the girl calmly assured him. “What, that litle cur? Why, he’s bitten pi§!” “Yes, he bites most every one!” “Well, you must excuse me if I don’t call again until I hear of his death!” “Oh, certainly!” Number sou of the sad eyes and sadder sighs—called the next evening to ask for Lena’s hand and heart. It was patent to her the moment she looked into those sad eyes, and she looked furtively around to see if Nero was on the job. He was. He was looking at the sad-eyed man’s right leg. “Miss Walters —Lena —you must have seen —you must realize that I I thunder and blazes!” “Why, Mr. Pilgrim!” “Your infernal little cur has bitten me!” <. > “Yes?” “And —and —” “And I’m going to keep him right along!” “Then —then,” and out went the sadeyed man, never to call again. There was only one more left —he of the lisp and the curly hair. He called next evening. Nero was ready for him, but the moments fled into hours, and there was no crisis. At length he proposed matrimony and his case was taken under advisement. Next day Miss Lena asked her father: “Papa, will a man who let’s, a (log bite his leg for two hours and never make a complaint make a good husband?” “Tip-top!” was the answer. “Better have the wedding next month!” The bridal tour had been made when the bride said to her husband: “Have you any scars where Nero bit you that night?” “Not a single scar! I was wearing sole-leather leggings!” (Copyright, 1913, bv tbe McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

First Night Critics.

In an article in the American Magazine, Walter Prichard Eaton writes: “The theater door man is an lmportant person on first nights, because as he passes out return checks between acts he heap the comments of the audience. His ears are wide open on such occasions, and, mingling with the crowd in the lobby are other attaches of the theater, all seeking to overhear the comments, and all rushing to report to the manager. Not long ago the last act of a play in New York was entirely changed after the opening night, solely because the women in th 6 audience, as they left the house, were nearly all complaining of the tragic finish. When a piece hangs In the balance between success and failure, when ‘tinkering’ can perhaps turn the scale, these frank comments overheard in the lobby are of great importance to author and manager. In other cases they are a borameter of success or failure, though the ultimate test, of course, is the subtle attitude of the audience in the auditorium, its spontaneous enthusiasm or its coldness and signs of boredom.”

Sand Pot for Flowers.

A sand pot kept conveniently at hand on one of the porch tables, where slips broken accidentally or in the. jecessary pruning from the various bloomers may be stuck immediately, Is a great convenience for the home gardener. The majority of slips will root without further trouble if the sand is kept moist. A novel plan for keeping cut flowers fresh also calls for a sand pot, or an opaque vaße that will not Bhow the sand. Arrange £he flowers in the vase and fill with watpr, as usual; then carefully sift Into the vase, by means of a funnel, sufficient sand to fill it nearly to the top, shaking it to settle the sand about the stems. Cut flowers in ornamental porch vases keep a long time by this method. — Ladles World.

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IS REGULAR BASEBALL CONTRACT VALID?

Artie Hofman and Jim Sheckard, Former Chicago Cub Outfielders.

The regular professional baseball contract—the link which welds together the great chain of organized baseball —is to be tested in the courts at Chicago. Arthur F. (“Artie”) Hofman, former outfielder and utility man of the Chicago National League Baseball team, has filed suit against the club for $3,000 which he claims is due him as back pay through failure of the club management to ’notify him of the termination of his contract. Hofman’s suit is an attack on the validity of the regular baseball contract in that he charges a system of practical peonage, by which the player is handled as a chattel. Through this system, according to Hofman’s suit, baseball players may be “blacklisted” and kept from earning a living at their profession unless in perfect accord with the club owners. The system, Hofman alleges, holds

RIVIERA TO SEE BALL GAMES

Large Crowds Expected to Witness Pastime in Many Countries—Naples Especially Elated. “All signs point to a great baseball season on the Riviera next February,” said Dick Bunnell of Chicago, director of the projected New Yo?k-Chicago world’s baseball tour, while in Paris the other day. Mr. Bunnell has been In Europe several weeks making the necessary arrangements. “I expect the biggest crowds in the Philippines, Japan and Australia, where the game is thoroughly understood,” said Mr. Bunnell, “but Naples is also enthusiastic at the prospect of seeing the great American pastime; The chamber of commerce of that city has offered to build a special grandstand, and invitations to dinner and other festivities are forthcoming from many other cities in southern Europe. “It was originally planned to play in all the leading capitals of Europe, but this will jot be practicable because it is too cold. You cannot get crowds to sit outdoors in February in London, Berlin and Paris, or even Munich and Vienna, and the schedule cannot be lengthened because it would make the players late for their spring training tours. Thus the trip probably will end on the sunny Riviera, where the presence every winter of thousands of wealthy and idle people, including many Americans, promises a fine opportunity for successful games. The players can then visit the rest of Europe privately.”

NOTES of the DIAMOND

Pitcher George McQuillan, the new irate, is a fine tenor singer. * * * Ray Fisher has had a contrary season. He keeps losing and losing, but 'has been pitching uniformly good ball. * • * Hugh Jennings, manager of the Detroit team, says there is nothing but the Giants in the National league race. * * • Hy Jasper, who has Just been parchased by the Chicago club from the Dubuque club, of the I. L I. league, is a spit-baller. • * * Manager Stovall is the only member, of the Browns who Is able to stay up among the .300 hitters in the American league. • * • One of the biggest disappointments Frank Chance has had to face as manager of the Yankees this season has been Russell Ford’s inability to return to his old-time form. *** ' , Third Baseman Wallace Smith, sold by the St. Louis Cardinals to Atlanta last spring, is to come back to the big show. The Bostop Braves will take him at the close of the Southern league season. * * • Numerically right fielders top the list of lead-off men in the batting order. There are five of them just now —Moeller, Daniels, Murphy, Moran ancf Hooper. • • • Oakland of the Coast league has purchased Its second outfield candidate from the Three-I league, Ted Kaylor of Danville being the man. A couple of weeks ago it 'bought Clement from Davenport

Its strength through the ironclad agreement existing between each and every club owner in the National, American and other league operating under the “national agreement.” Hofman was traded to Pittsburgh by the Chicago team, but played with the Pirates but a short time. This season he was released to Nashville of the Southern league. Jimmy Sheckard, another old-time Cub favorite, was released early this season to St. Louis and from there he went to Cincinnati to join Joe Tinker, “Miner” Brown and Johnny Kling, all of whom helped materially to make the Cubs famous. A rumor anent the getting nd of Jimmy Sheckard is that Huggins feared the former Cub outfielder was after his job as manager of the St. St. Louis Cardinals. Accordingly the St. Louis leader let Sheckard go to the Reds for the waiver price.

TEDDY CATHERS MAKES GOOD

Former Scranton Pitcher Is Playing Particularly Well for the Cardinals in the Outfield. Ball players contemplating joining the St. Louis Cardinals should get all possible practice in the outfield, no matter what other positions in the game they may consider as the jobs they are best fitted for You may be a pitcher, third baseman, first sacker, or what not, but if you become a Card the chances are you will be made into an outfielder, says the Sporting News. Lee Magee was a first baseman; Evans also thought that his natural position; Oakes began life in baseball as a pitcher; Whitted made his mark as a third sacker; Teddy Cathers was a pitcher. Now all are fly chasers. Cathers has filled the role particularly well, so well, in fact, that he never is called upon to pitch, no matter how badly the Cardinal staff may be going. His possibilities as a hitter were soon recognized and when not in the outfield he must always hold himself in

Teddy Cathers.

readiness to do a pinch hitting job. While his batting average doeß not rank with that of the Zimmermans and the McDonalds, it is a fact that he seldom fails to deliver in a pinch. As a fielder he is also some class. As a pitcher there is no means of knowing what he can do, but judging from his faculty of making good at everything he tackles it may be reckoned he can twirl some, too, if he gets a chance.

Happiest Ball Players.

Bobby Byrne thinks the Pirates are the happiest lot of ball players in caiiivity. “I never saw a bunch of athletes so full of harmony and eagerness to win as the Pirates,” quoth Bobby, who 1b some optimist. A winning streak has a like effect on almost any club, even a chess team. The. enthusiasm of a chess team is so pronounced that It may almost be heard.

Educating Thorpe.

McGraw has no Intention of letting out Jim Thorpe. He is doing to the Indian the same as he did to Shafer, Merkle, Fletcher and others—giving him a baseball education by letting him watch the same. ’

MANY STARS FROM SOUTHERN

Cutting Quite a Figure In American Association Ranks Just Now— List of the Eligible*. Former Southern leaguers are cutting quite a figure in the American association just now, particularly among the talent quited as sufficiently above part to take a turn in the big show when the season is over and done —or maybe before. In the list of eligible may be found Jim Vaughn, the Kansas City fork hander, who got his first real tryout with the Memphis Turtles some years ago; Sid Smith, the ex-Atlanta backstop, who also has served time twice in the American league; Bronkie, the former Nashville infielder, now a star with Toledo, and A 1 Beumiller, whose name was spelled “Beau” In the Southern circuit when he created a mild furore in 1909 by refusing to report to Charley Babb of Memphis. Following is a list of the eligibles in the Chivington circuit, revised as nearly to date as such things can be: Pitchers —Davis, Columbus; Loudermilk, Louisville; Vaugn, Kansas City; Walker, St. Paul; Slapn/cka and Braun, Milwaukee. Catchers Clemmons, Louisville; Smith, Columbus, and. Krueger, Toledo. First basemen—Miller, Columbus, and Weinberg, Louisville. Second basemen—‘Benson, Columbus. Third basemen —Bronkie, Toledo, and Niehoff, Louisville. Shortstops—Scott, St. Paul; Gerber, Columbus; Beumiller, Louisville. Outfielders —Walker, Kansas City; Shelton, Columbus; Rehg and Riggert, St. Paul; Stansbury, Louisville.

MOST DARING BASE RUNNERS

George Moriarlty and Jimmy Callahan 5 Given Credit for Being Tricky ■ on Base Lines. Asked recently whom he thought ware the best base runners in the American league, catcher Ed Sweeney

George Moriarity.

of the New Yorks replied: “For speed the best are Cobb, Milan and Collins, but if you asked me to name the most daring base runners, I would say George Moriarty and Jimmy Callahan. I consider Moriarty the trickiest base runner in the country.”

ASSUMED NAMES IN FEDERAL

Practice Is Growing Less as New League Establishes Itself on Substantial Basis. With the feeling gaining ground among ball players that the Federal league has been established on a substantial basis, the number of men performing in the organization under assumed names is each day growing less. At the outset it was not unusual for a ball tosser to ally himself with the new company under some cognomen not his own, being fearful lest the league might “blow” before the season was over [ and leave him in some sort of a state resembling embarrassment. i This condition is now almost a thing of the past. One of the last players to come into the league with an adopted “handle” is Ted Warring, former well-known Terre Haute catcher, who is pastiming with Jack O’Connor and his St Louis club here this week as a right fielder under the name of O’Neil. Ted attracted attention to himsetf during the fracas with Umpire Conklin in a recent game, and almost gave himself away. He is known as an aggressive ball player and a capable performer behind the bat

Lauds Lavan.

George Stovall says Marafnville of the Boston Nationals may be a marvel, phenom or anything one wishes to call him. but he will match Lavan, the diminutive shortstop he signed from the University of Michigan, with the National league wonder any old day. That valuable jewels are done up in small packages seems to be the correct dope in the cue oi both Maranvllle and Lavan.

Johnson’s Jinx.

Walter Johnson, the Btar hurler of the American league, says that he seems to lose his effectiveness against Cleveland. “I don't understand It, nut I don't seem able to pitch my game against the Naps any jnore.'N said Johnson.

Cleveland Buys Battery.

Hovlik and Yodng, battery mates for Charleston, have been sold to Cleveland. Young reports at once and Hovllke at the end of the season.

OF PLAIN VEGETABLES

REMARKABLY PRETTY TABLE DECORATIONS MAY BE MADE. \ Call Only for the Exercise of a Little Ingenuity, and the Quality of Food Is Not in the Least Im-paired-Some Examples. There are many artificial ways to make lovely decorations, but in the study of vegetable flowers we can show a simple way of making our everyday meals more appetizing and still not interfere with the palatable part of the dishes we prepare. These things' will appeal to every one who may be interested in making home dishes with pretty garnishes. For instance, the small vegetable can, be cut into flowers, as follows: Beets —Cut beets in fancy shapes; they make a pretty garnish for any salad; cut as cups to serve salad In carries out the red color scheme; sliced and cut like hearts carries out the valentine idea. Cabbage—Cut cabbage head like flower; take out center and make into slaw and serve in head. You can also serve hot cauliflower for luncheon in cabbage head or any other vegetable salad. Cantaloupes —Cut cantaloupe in half, scallop, fill with green grapes and serve as first course; can also servo Ice cream in the halves. Celery—Cut celery about 3 inches long, slash each end with scissors and stand in ice-cold water until it curls; then serve on lettuce leaves with mayonnaise; this makes a good relish Lettuce —Cups are pretty to servo Balad in. Use fresh, crisp lettuce. Potatoes-Boil and cream well by running through ricer ; season with a little butter, milk, white pepper and salt; when a littie warm, color delicately, put into tube, and make into roses, sweet peas, etc., or mold into morning glories or nests and eggs. Make into cups large enough to hold raw egg, run in stove until egg la cooked, and serve around steak. Make mound, serve chops around it, and sprinkle with peas at base. Radishes—Small red radishes can be cut to look like carnations or tulips; they make a beautiful garnish for aspic in green, and are pretty on lettuce with salad; cut in slices, they look pretty on meat salad; cut with celery, they are nice to serve in peppers with a taste of onion. Tomatoes —Cut tomatoes like pond lilies; serve with slices of cucumbers, as a salad. Cut as cups, take out center, mix with cucumber and celery, and serve with mayonnaise; these 4 cups can also be used for sweetbreads and chicken. Serve in slices, with cottage cheese between. Cut nice tomatoes in half and put cheese flowers in center; serve on lettucfe leaves.

Vegetable Soup.

A good vegetable soup is made in this way: Brown in three tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan a sliced onion, a sliced carrot, a sliced tomato, a sliced turnip, a stick of celery and a parsnip. After they have browned slowly for 15 minutes, add a quart and a pint of cold water and three or four tomatoes, two or three more stalks of celery, some parsley and a carrot, and simmer gently for an hour or so. Then add three tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs and rub the iJoup through a strainer. Season well with Pepper and salt, and after it is removed from the fire add a couple of tiblespoonfuis of butter. Serve with finely minced parsley sprinkled ovqr the top and pass croutons with it.

Cold Potatoes.

In summer we will find it very convenient to have cold boiled potatoes for use in potatb salad or for frying for breakfast or lunch or for creamed potatoes. We now find bacon and eggs so agreeable and also so easy to cook with little heating of the house that we can easily dispose of the cold potatoes by frying in bacon fat. This will save using of meat while giving a good tendency to balance the lighter diet so desirable in hot weather.

To Keep Mattresses Clean.

Mattresses become soiled very easy. A good way to keep them clean Is to get unbleached cloth, the cheap kind is just as good and not so heavy to wash. Make a case just large enough to fit the mattress, so it cannot wrinkle. Sew it across the head, leaving the foot open. Slip it on and draw it down smooth, and just sew it here and there, to hold it in place. When it becomes 1 soiled take it off, wash, iron and replace. Cool, clean and surest.

Planked Beefsteak.

Take two pounds of best round steak, pound It well after sifting onehalf cup over it; slice six onlons over the steak, salt and pepper well, shake a dash of red pepper over also; fill dripping pan half full of cold water and place In a hpt oven to bake one hour; do not 4urn the meat. Serve from the dish it was baked in.

About Potatoes.

Put the potatoes to soak a little while with a small .piece of common soda in the Water, and you will find they are much easier to scrape and do not soil the fingers.

For Brick Floors.

' A red-bricked kitchen floor will keep beautifully and clean if instead of Boap a drop of paraffin oil is used in the 1 waters This mixture removes all the grease marks.