Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1914 — Page 2

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Screeching of Parrot Upsets Dignity of Station

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. —A common parlor variety of poll parrot assisted the weather man the other day in making life miserable for terminal station attaches, and made entertainment for waiting passengers at the station until

compelled to wait for some time. Poll voiced displeasure at the delay until he tired himself out with squawking at nothing in particular. Then he cocked his head on one side and took an interest in Stout, who was calling the cars in a big, booming voice. Stout was shouting “Awl-a-board f’r Greenwood, Whiteland, Franklin, Amity, Edinburg, Taylorsville, Columbus," etc., when poll took offense. "Ark! Squawk!!" he screeched in a shrill mezzo-soprano. ——— Stout gave him a look of cold disgust Poll cocked a glassy eye in Stout's direction and screamed. “Hallo, hallo!” Stdut started another spiel—“ Awl-a-board for Car-mel, Nobles-ville, Cicero, Arcadia, Atlanta, Tip-ton, Jackson. Sharpsville, Fair-field, Kokomo " “Ko-ko-mo,” trilled polly. "Awk—hallo.” Stout started to call an Anderson car. He got half way down the list when poll sang out, “Kokomo!” “Awk, hallo —and Kokomo'” chirruped the bird. The passengers giggled. Stout grew hot under the collar and started another spiel. He was fairly well along when poll butted in again with “ —and Kokomo.” Stout became “flustered.” He called Doss Shaffer and ordered him to subdue the bird. “Hallo,” said poll to the cop. Doss knows how to pet a dog and handle a drunk, but he couldn’t do anything with the parrot. It screamed every time Stout started to call a car, until finally Doss, as a last resort, took the bird and its cage to the basement. The last thing it said as it started down the stairs was “ and Kokomo.”

Smallest Policeman Is Arrested by a Woman

CLEVELAND, O. —With all the dignity of a London bobby or one of Kaiser Wilhelm’s schntzmentiF?ji2rTes William Long, who is six years old, and wlyj can walk under a dining room table without bumping his head, started to

arrest all the customers in a downtown department store the ether day. He was dressed like a “sure nuff” policeman, badge, club, pistol, brass buttons and all, and when he waved his cap pistol at a woman she ran. “Wait a minute,"— called Charles William. “Stand still an’ be ’rested. IJow’m I goin’ to ’rest you if you run?” and he tapped the shield on his swelling chest. The attention of Mrs. Sarah Dunleavev. store detective, was attracted

by the commotion and she picked Charles Williams up in her arms and carried him over to the old cmjlrt house. There she turned him over to Probation Officer Lewis. "Why did you let this woman arrest you if you are a policeman?” he was asked. "Huh, she jest picked me up an’ lugged me over here. I did think of ’restin’ her, but she’s too big, an’ besides I don’t ’rest women. I jest ’rest bad men." . ■ The little policeman said that he did not know where he lived, but could find the house “if you’ll only turn me loose.” The boy was taken to the detention home by Patrolman Harry Morgan of the juvenile court after he had escorted him into different streets and had asked him if he could tell where he lived. Pleading for his mother and tired from trying to keep step with the patrolman, the boy fell down pm the sidewalk at East Ninth street and Euclid avenue and wept. When a passer-by remarked that real policemen do not cry, the boy replied: "Well, I want to go home to mother, but nobody can find her for me." ■ Th~e'cTLHa”s^afentk“were T flnallyiocatedr- ——~ — — ,

Cat Shower Is Big Feature of Fire in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE. WlS.—“Merowrr, ps-ss-sss-t, scat, thud!! Owow-wr-wr, pssst, spit, spit, thud!!” These sounds, which cause neighbors to heave a boot at the back fence simply through force of habit, though it was broad daylight,

¥3l Farwell avenue, conducts a home for cats at her house. She feeds and takes care of about 100 felines of all descriptions. Accordingly, when an oil stove in the cellar set Are to rubbish collected in the basement, and smoko filled the upper rooms, pandemonium reigned among the cat lodgers. With the arrival of engine company No. 27 and truck company No. 5 the work of rescue was started. It was unnecessary to carry the rescued down a ladder. Firemen simply grabbed the tabbies and toms by the scruff of the neck and heaved them out of the window, thereby being responsible for the noises referred to above. Miss Hathaway wished to have one big Maltese cat saved in preference to all the rest, and offered a dollar to the fireman that would bring it out. The cat was obdurate, however. She was in no danger and didn’t want to be saved. Of the hundred or more cats in the building only one was suffocated, although the fire caused a damage of approximately SIOO.

Man Plays Horse in Street and Lands in Cell

CHICAGO. —“Giddap!— whoa! —gee! —haw!” yelled John F. Quin, thirtyeight years old, 921 Wells street, as he galloped and pranced up and dowh Hill street early the other morning with a harness over,his shoulders. Crowds

gathered, wondering what sort of vehicle Quin thought he was drawing. He did not seem to mind spectators in the least, however. He trotted, ran and shied. “Come on, you Silverheels! Come on, you Silverheels!” called a couple of spectators. In a moment bets flew. One man staked 100 to 1 that Quin would beat his shadow by a nose, another laid a 1040-1 shot that he could beat bis coat-tatfs. The man who wagered that

he sooa would beat a retreat won all the money. Because Just then police of the Chicago avenue station arrived and for a moment did not know what to make of it. Finally deciding that the man should be arrested, ther took him to the station, and ne was charged with appearing in public disguised as a horse. "I guess be bad been playing with the kid,” volunteered somebody, "sad thinks the small boy is still driving him." >

Doss Shaffer, actor and station police force, t-»ok a hand and relegated “poll” to the deep, dark recesses of the basement. The parrot was a verbose “critter” with a tendency to butt in on all the conversation he heard, and he came ’ near getting the goat of George Stout, traincaller.— He came into the station with Calvin Bookaw, who was waiting for a car to New Albany. The cars were running irregularly and Bookaw was

combined with the arrival of fire appa ratus, startled residents in the vicini ty of Farwell avenue and Kenilworth place shortly after three o'clock on a recent afternoon. A fire is an exciting thing, anyway, and even paterfamilias, enjoying the day of rest with a pipe and the Sunday paper on the davenport, gets up to see the apparatus go by. This particular fire was not only exciting; it was unique. Miss Sarah Hathaway, a kindly old lady living at

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Pannier Gown of Chiffon Taffeta

SOFT and lustrous chiffon taffeta in a light pink tone is employed for making up the smart and novel model pictured here. It promises well among the new styles that are bidding for favor. It is one of' the corsetless models, witness its broad swathing at the waist line. . 1 Such bouffant designs are impossible for the short and plump figure. There are others equally new, with flounces and pannier effects, that in reality do not shorten the figure, and the plump woman must abjure styles which make her look shapeless, confining herself to those designed for her. But the new' gowns, to be worn over the new corsets —which hardly extend above the waist line—or over no corset, have demonstrated one thing. The stout figure looks less stout in the easy styles than it did in a tight highbust corset. There are practically no plain skirts with entirely unbroken lines among the new spring models. Nearly all of them have drapery which adds width to the hip line. Just how successful the puckerings and drapings will become in point of popularity, remain to be proved.

THE “careful carelessness” which is the dominant note in French styles for this coming spring seems not to hold good in the matter of coiffures. Here is a group of recently photographed styles which show the hair waved before it is dressed, and carefully arranged in each case more or less high on the head. Two novel headdresses are also shown, the first one quite unknown and newly introduced to America. It is a plaiting of maline supported by Invisible wires. In the picture it is shown undecorated, but has been developed, with a row of tiny beads or. jewels outlining it. It is one of the most effective and beautiful embellishments that have appeared in a long time. * . Short curts and light fringes of hair a'>out the, face are noticeable in these tiyles. These and the short, soft neck carls seem to be demanded by the new styles in dresses. In all the new coiffures the arrangenent of the hair is rather simple, but n all of thim the hair is waved and .here is uqtich attention to its finish about the sacs No stray ends are

Group of Parisian Coiffures

Voiles, plain and printed, wool challies, novelty weaves in crepe, chiffon taffeta, light weight satins, crepe de chine and similar fabrics are made up in designs similar to that shown in the picture. It is not suited to heavy fabrics. A similar design has a plain underskirt with an overdress reaching from the waist to a point below the hips, that is, about half way to the knees. The overdress is slightly full about the waist and is gathered in at the bottom and sewed to the underskirt. It is long enough to fall over a girdle of ribbon which is placed about Jhe skirt at the bottom of the overdress. The girdle is of messaline ribbon and is tied in the simplest of bows with hanging loops and ends, at the left side. A design of this kind does not shorten a stout figure if the fabric selected is supple so that it clings to the body. Altogether, gowns for spring look as if they mignt prove comfortable. We have never had airier fabrics~more lace or more entirely feminine compositions than are demonstrated in the new modes.

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left uncurled. Across the forehead the little hair that shows is trimmed neatly or curled. The ears are covered. Few coils or braids are in evidence and the hair is apparently loose, spread over the crown or on top of the head, with ends turned under and pinned down. . Inconspicuous shell pins are liked. A splendid headdress shows an embroidered net with beads and silk used in working up the design. It is an oriental inspiration. There is a smagt standing decoration at the front, a double fan of fine plumage. Such a garniture is, of course, intended for the very dressiest of occasions The tendency i« distinctly toward high styles and elaboration in coiffures. As the season grows older certain styles will assert their supremacy, but no one of the new designs has established itself as the favorite as yet.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.

The newest thing in the table da* mask is the severely plain cloth with A broad band woven about the edge. The favorite marking is a seal monogram-

GATHERED SMILES

PEACEFUL HOME

An enthusiastic young minister who followed one of the old type in a sleepy country village was thumping the rostrum a good deal, and disturbed a spider which had found peaceful refuge in one of the crannies for many a day. Wandering up the aisle homeless, it was met by another spider, and the tale of woe was imparted. “I can't stand this new minister thumping and jumping about. I have lived in the pulpit tor many years, but can’t stay there any longer.” Said the Becond spider, actuated by a fine spirit of charity: "Come along with me. I haven’t been disturbed for fifty years. My home’s in the collection box at the door.” —London Sphere.

As He Got It.

A newly married lady was being interviewed by the reporter of the local paper just after the ceremony. “And after the honeymoon where do you intend to settle down?" was his final question. • "At the old manse,” said the bride, ae she hurried away. The reporter thought it sounded a bit familiar, but he decided to use it, so when it appeared in print the report finished up: x “After the honeymoon the happy couple intend to live at the old man’s.”

SHINING EXAMPLE.

Hook—Can a woman keep a secret? Cook —Of course she can. I knew a arl at a mountain resort who kept her engagement a secret for two seasons, and then married another man. r

Terp and the Tango.

Another Muse has met her fate, Though once a merry prancer, Terpsichore Js out of date, She is no tango dancer.

Descriptive.

“The last man that came by askin’ for work,” said the farmer, “was one o’ them writin’-chaps.” . “Did he say he was?” “He didn’t need to; J knowed it .without tellin’. fer he looked' as lonesome as a sheddin’ owl settin’ on a graveyard gate post, an’ as hungry as a possum up a ’Simmon tree that had Jest ben hit by lightnin’!”

She Was Particular.

“Are you sure this is a good cantaloupe?” “Reasonably so, madam.” “Is it sweet and ripe, of good flavor, with not too many'seeds?” “I think it’s all that.” “Hasn’t been picked too long, has it? How about the rind?” The grocer finally got her 15 cents. “I’d hate to try to sell that woman an automobile,” said he to the clerk, wearily.

OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND.

Elephant—l wonder why the giraffe never has hie shoes shined? Hippo—l asked him about that and he said he was so far away from his feet that he hadn't seen ’em since he was a little feller.

Emphasizing the Difference.

“A millionaire says he remembers quite well when he had to work hard for one dollar a day.” “And I guess every time he remembers it he touches a button and orders some additional luxury, just to make the contrast with his present affluence all the greater."

The Way.

“So you’ve been married a year. How do you find your husband?” “By phoning all the cases in the neighborhood, usually. How do you?”

GOOD WORD.

Mrs. Smithon —The people o* the first floor called on us last week. Mr. Smithon —Well, 1 guess it’s about time to retaliate.

Reversed Lever.

Many a cloud a silver lining has, This should illuminate the shroud; But we get mixed and find that anr A silver lining has a cloud.

Counting the Cost.

Patience —Have you been vaccinated lately? Patrice —Yes. . “Does it cost much?” “Does it? Why, say, Fred couldn’t hug me for over three weeks?" \

Rather Embarrassing.

•"Myrtle^—l'was never so embarrassed in all my life. Mabel —What happened? Myrtle—Last night Tom begged me for two hours for a lock of my hair—one that danglbd cutely over right ear. Mabel—Silly. Why didn't you give it to him? Myrtle—And ruin my new $9 switch? I guess not.

Queer.

“There’s something queer about this automobile accident.” “What is it?” “Each of the drivers admits that be was going more than twelve miles an hour at the time.”

EASIEST WAY.

She—Wilson never quarrels with his wife. He—She spends nearly all her time abroad. She—Yes; they get along together by living apart.

The Child’s Gift.

Now please accept, this little gift; I hope your love ’twill win. FIT send you something worth more when My looked-for ship comes in.

Suitable for Umpires.

“Ball players are going into vaudeville right along.” “They are.” “I’m an umpire. I wonder if I couldn’t break in?” “Why not? You’d be just the man to open the bill, while the orchestra is tuning up and the audience is banging the seats. It’s a thankless job.”

Merely an Episode.

“My wife killed 32 rattlesnakes this morning,” remarked the old farmer, “down in the meadow lot.” “Why, that was a fearful experience," gasped the tourist. “It was kind of annoying, anyway. She wasn't out after rattlesnakes. She was after huckleberries.”

The Duke.

“It cost $1,000,000 to land the duke for Helen.” “Goodness! All that money for nothing.”

Um-m!

"I come from the Sahara Desert.” “Then I suppose you arp accustomed to flat life." •”

Avoiding Comparison.

“What is your objection to me as a son-in-law? My character is beyond reproach.” % “That’s just it,” said Mr. Oldsport. “You don’t suppose I want to go through the rest of my life having you held up to me as a shining example!”

Scientific Management Again.

"Our boss is a crank on efficiency.” "What’s he up to now?” "Trying to teach the stenographer to chew her gum in two movements less per minute to the lower Jaw."