Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1914 — Page 2

A FOLDING BUNGALOW

HE earliest ex- ") pert on record { , w ho made a I )j scientific study \ gC" JJ of devices for Jjgsgg =c, economizing floor JgHS&S' =al~ space and simplifying the labors SI of housewives was the Old _ Lady in the 40^ Shoe. History tells us that she was .an extreme advocate of decreasing the size of dwellings, for even though seriously handicapped by the possession of a large family, she succeeded in keeping house in an ordinary piece of footwear. However, her home lacked all the modem conveniences usually demanded by people of the present day. She was barely able to feed her babies, and *had not time to dream of such appliances as furnaces,'plumbing and washing machine. Since the days of this aged eccentric woman, our cities have grown up at amazing speed; and since mechanical inventions have raised the standard of living so that even the underpaid clerks insist on all sorts of improvements .in plumbing and fixtures for their residences, the problem of constructing attractive homes in the small space available for the average family perplexes architects and engineers more than ever in the past Tents, portable houses, and cheap apartment buildings are endured where necessary, but none of these is fully satisfactory. An experiment carried on by Adam Int-Hout that has stood the test of weather for a winter and a summer without showing a defect seems to be the best solution offered. Professionally, Mr. Int-Hout is a chemist, but he has studied physics and engineering as an avocation in his interest in settling the housing question, and has designed his own home according to the results of his scientific calculations. On a fifty foot lot, shaded under a pair of arching elm trees, stands his artistic folding bungalow, made in six weeks on a foundation of concrete covered with stucco, the total expense amounting to only $2,000. The flower beds and garden, with the cottage twenty-six feet square seemingly planted in their center, make the spot a pleasant haven in the evening following a day’s work in the torrid city. Still, it is the interior of the little house 4 " where Mr. Int-Hout displays his ingenuity in eliminating many worries of the housekeeper. In acceptance of an invitation to dinner, one crosses an eight by ten foot porch to the door bell, and is received by the host and his wife in a comfortable, large living roem extending nearly the entire width of the house. Mrs. Int-Hout retires for a few moments to the kitchen, where by means of numerous mechanical arrangements she does her housework unassisted more easily than most women with servants. The chemist St once likes to show off the wonders of his edifice, and he directs the visitor up a flight of stairs leading out of one end of the living room. During his climb the guest notices that the balustrade is cleverly planned as a book case, thus serving the owner doubly. At the top of the steps one finds a bedroom, fifteen and one-half feet square. Good ventilation for this chamber is insured by two glass doors, one on the north side and the other on the south. Which lead out on to a pair of sleeping porches. On the main floor again, the host conducts his gueßt into another well furnished bedroom. This apartment to scareiy used, for the inhabitants keep their own beds on the sleeping porches through all seasons of the yea*. The -downstairs bedroom adjoins the bathroom. The chemist then Shows his friend back to the living room and explains that as his wife W*# ** lf "■

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i s preparing the dinner he cannot take the visitor to the kitchen,

the remaining room on the first floor. Both on account of general curiosity and because of his hungry impatience Jor something to eat, the guest by this time is wondering where the dining room can be and why Mr. Int-Hout does not offer him a glimpse of it. He is distracted, however, by noticing the artistic iron grill running from floor to ceiling in the center of one side wall, and apparently serving no particular purpose. At one side of this hang three handsome watqrcolors, and farther along is a swinging door opening into the kitchen, through which Mrs. IntHout at this instant emerges. . The housewife places her hand lightly on a spot in the wall, and the caller rubs his eyes and pinches himself to find whether he is awake when he sees the whole partition, paintings and all, suddenly start to disappear into the kitchen, while on the other side of the revolving wall there comes into view a small sideboard with glass front, and rolling along before the wall comes a large dining table, all white and tempting with its covering of napkins, silverware, and viands. 1 With an easy shove, the table is moved away from the wall and half the parlor is completely transformed into a dining room. When the party Is ready for dessert, Mrs. Int-Hout does not need to excuse herself while she clears the table. She merely turns to the buffet at her back, opens out a drawer on which the next course stands already served and whiclT at the same time is used to keep the soiled plates of the previous course out of sight At the conclusion of the meal, the inventor of the folding bungalow pushes the table over to the wall and sets the machinery in motion, when, presto!—the dining room has van-

MONUMENT TO SOUTHERN WOMEN

This monument to the North Carolina women of the Confederacy is to be unveiled at Raleigh, N. C., on. June 10. It represents a boy holding bis father’s sword and being told the story of the wAr by bis mother. The monument was designed by Augustus Lukeman. ”• L a

An experiment with four blind telephone operators la now being made In the general post office in Turin, Italy.

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ished and the persons have moved to the living room without taking a step. Mr 6. Int-Hout never allows dirty dishes to interfere with her evening pleasure, because in a few odd minutes she can go to the kitchgn, where the dining table stands beside the convertible sink and laundry tub, and with the aid -of an automatic dish washer, installed only recently, can have the room tidied in almost no time. * The chemist has computed accurately the time and work saved by this scheme, and estimates that for every meal his wife prepares, she eliminates half a mile of useless walking back and forth from kitchen to dining room, and he notices a difference in her happiness proportionate to the saving of this wasted energy! .

Between sixty and seventy thousand, men are employed in the metal and machinery trades, of Switzerland.

The evening is not completed, of. course, until the husband has explained to you his heating system,' which is the most important feature of any house to a man. He started his first winter in the building with a single stove placed in a small closet at the center of the first floor -where all four rooms come together. He soon discarded this, however, for a school furnace, protected by a drum. Cold air holes were ordered drilled along the bottom of this drifm to the height of fourteen inches. As it must send heat in every direction the side partitions to the closet were cut off above and below at the same height from the floor as the cold air holes the front partition, beside the revolving wall, was already an open grill. The unpleasant task of carrying coal for the furnace is eliminated in this inventor’s system. There is a ballway two feet wide running to the closet from the outside between the bathroom and kitchen, intended originally

to give access to the gas and water meters, and medicine chest. Now in this narrow space the owner has built a chute, the outside end being at the right height to receive the load from the delivery wagon. The chute holds two tons, and slopes down at such an angle that the coal slides to the bottom by gravitation, and the operator can get a shovelful right at the furnace door. . Another feature of the furnace is a revolving dust pan, in which there is no sinking or dumping to make extra work for either the man or the woman of the family. With this ingenious arrangement absolute suction for drawing in cold air is effected. Its success as the basis of a heating and ventilating scheme is shown by the fact that the house was kept warm all winter on less than five tons of coal.

Riding Underneath the Horse.

During the Russo-Japanese war an oflicer of Cossacks offered to carry a dispatch which ten horsemen had already failed to get through. The general said that the effort was useless. “The others have failed,” the officer insisted, “because they traveled on horseback. I shall go under my horse.” The general was astonished; but the officer’s offer was finally accepted. He started off in the middle of the night, strapped face downward under his horse, which he guided by means of the bridle through the forelegs. The Japanese whistled to what they! thought was a riderless borße. But the animal, egged on by blows from the officers heels, accomplished the journey of 35 miles in safety. Stranger still, officer accomplished the return journey on the following night

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Like an old heirloom is a high chair in pne Wichita family. The chair was purchased seven years ago (or the first olive branch, and when he got a brother the chair automatically fell to him. Last week the youngest son was given the chair by the second boy in a manner that caused the mother’s cheeks to burn fiercely for a minute. “Now, Jack,” said the four-year-old boy, “this chair belongs to you. Harry owned it for two years, then gave it to me. It’s yours till the next one comes along; then you’ll have to give it to him.”-—Wichita Eagle.

Knew Her Bible.

Bobbie—-“I wonder where animals go when they die. Are there any animals in heaven?" Dorothy—“Of course there are, else what became of the horses that took Elijah up there?” — Boston Transcript

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AppHcatien of the Scriptures to the World Today as Sera by Eminent Men in Various Walks o! Life

. ' (Copyright, 19M, by Joseph B. Bowles) GEOLOGICAL PREPARATION FOR THE MARVELOUS HISTORY OF PALESTINE. * , (By G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, LL. D„ F. G. 8. A., Geologist: Author of "The Ice Age in North America,” "Man and the Glacial Period," Etc.) - a v : .! ' '■ ", "My heart has always assured and reassured me that the gospel of Jesus Christ must be a divine reality."— Daniel Webster. The mountain ridge of Judea rises rapidly from the Mediterranean sea to

pact strata. It is to these facts that the fertility of the region is largely due. But its further preparation for the important role which it has played in the religious history of the world 1b due to the geological movement which depressed the valley of the Jordan and Dead sea on the eastward, and the minor valley of Esdraelon which separates Galilee from Judea. The great “fault” or crack in the earth’s surface in which the Jordan valley lies was pronounced by Humboldt “the most remarkable geological feature anywhere to be found in the world.” As you go down from Jerusalem to Jericho, a descent of 4,000 feet, the chalky deposits found on the summit descend with you to the level of the Dead sea; but as you cross the valley ten or fifteen miles to the mountains cf Moab, the chalky deposits are not found upon that low level upon the east side, but the shore is formed by Nubian sandstone whose geological horizon is 4,000 feet lower than that of tye chalk, and the chalk reappears above it at that height to the east. Thus it is seen that on the west side of the Jordan valley the, rocks have slipped down 4,000 feet, thus forming a natural barrier to protect Jude* from the incursion of armies from the east, while the rapid rise from the Mediterranean equally protects it from the west. On the other hand the cross valley of Esdraelon, leading from Mount Carmel to the Jordan, is only 200 feet above the Mediterranean sea, affording a natural line of passage for the Egyptian and Assyrian armies that went out to attack each other, thus leaving Jerusalem at one side in a position of almost complete —safety; When Napoleon was at Acre he wa* asked why he did not capture Jerusalem. He replied: “Its capture would be of no military significance.” Thus the great geological movements in the early age of the world had prepared just such an isolated region as Judea was for the long development of sacred history. The majesty and the extent of these geologioal movements can be perceived only when one notes that the depressed valley of the Jordan and the Dead sea Is only a portion of a deep crevasse in the earth’s crpst which extends for thousands of miles; Indeed from the mouth of the Orontes river In Syria southward between the Lebanon and Anti Lebahon mountains, and past the Dead sea into the Gulf of Akkaba, and through the Red sea, ending only in the \ake regions of Central Africa. When one reads of the earthquakes which accompany slight changes of level throughout this region at the present time he is overwhelmed with the thought, of the earthquakes that must have accompanied the more rapid changes of level that'took place in the forming of this crevasse during early geological ages.

A BOOK OF PRACTICAL WISDOM. (By R. FULTON CUTTING. LL. D., Financier, Philanthropist and Civic Leader, New York City.) “The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.' Down to modern times no state has had a constitution in which the interests of the people art so largely*' taken into account as drawn up for Israel.”—Professor Huxley, agnostic scientist and philosopher. The positivenesß of the Bible’s philosophy makes a mighty appeal. It is on the positive Side alone tlfet man is open to inspiration. The negative finds no responsive j:hord to strike in ,his soul. To “overcome evil with good” is its method of conducting the battle of life and no other campaign can compete with it in the completeness and permanence with which this 1 policy accomplishes Its ends. The Bible’s advice 1b idealized common sense. The clergyman, the business man, the artisan, the laborer can all find in It a practical wisdom that,

a height of about 3,000 feet and then descends still more rapidly to the Dead sea, whose level is 1,300 feet" lower than 'that of the Mediterranean. The summits of this mountain ridge are covered with chalky deposits which readily absorb the water which falls upon them and gives it out in gushing springs where the chalk rests upon com-

' assimilated, will make them more sue. cessful in their respective fields of activity. It makes them all better producers, larger contributors to their own welfare and that of others. Obedience to its teaching means providence, temperance, industry—all the* elements of character that takes men out of the "bread line" and puts them in the class of the self-respecting and self-dependent * f While the Bible everywhere expresses its profound and intense sympathy with the poor, it never glorifies poverty as such nor presents it as the ideal of life. No writers have ever condemned in more burning language the conduct of the unjust rich than thoso whose words are recorded in its. pages, but it expresses its disapprobation also of the conduct of those who worani the unearned "loaves and fishes.” A sublime Justice runs’thrbugh its pages-' it knows no sorts or conditions of . men, discriminating only between those who obey or disobey its truths, but its Indignation is peculiarly poured! out upon those who, having received much, and of whom therefore “there Is much requited,” prove to be thankless and faithless stewards. —i . HOW CHRIST TAUGHT BY EXAMPLE.

(By His Eminence JAMES CARDINAL I GIBBONS.) - "The whole hope of human progress j - is suspended on the ever' growing In- ; fluence of the Bible."—William H. j Seward, Secretary, of State under Lis- i coin. Jesus taught by example before he taught by word. If, like the scribes!

ciples of John the Baptist whether he was the true Messiah, he laid more stress on his deeds than on his preaching. “Go,” he said, “and relate to John what ye have heard and seen. The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed —the poor have the gospel preached to them.” When we hear him saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven," we are impressed with the sublimity of his teaching. But when we see him acting out his words: “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests; 1 but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head,” —oh, then we are made to feel the blessedness of voluntary poverty; we cherish ~and embrace our Teacher, who, when he was rich became poor for our sake. When we hear him say: “He that exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted,” we admire the virtue of humility. But when we see him at the. last supper laying aside his upper gar- , ments, girding himself with a towel, pouring water into a basin, and washing the feet of his disciples, then that virtue assumes for us special attractlons. ", When we hear him sajr; “Blessed are the merciful: for thdy shall obtain mercy,” we are delighted with his doctrine. But we are more profoundly moved when we witness his compassion for the hungering multitude in the desert, and his mercy shown to the erring Magdalen. When he says:l “If you will not forgive- men, neither* will your father forgive you,” he Is clothing an old commandment in new words. But when he prays from the cross for his executioners: “Fathef, forgive thgm, for they knew not what they do,” he gives a sublime lesson of forgiveness never before exhibited by sage or prophet

Costly Literature.

Perhaps the costliest book ever issued was that written and published a few years agoaby a wealthy American, who spent most of his life and a large fortune in the collection of specimens of jade. Only a hundred copies of the book were printed, and these cost over SIBO,OOO, or about SI,BOO per copy. It was a marvelous production, but scarcely so Interesting aB the Hon. Walter Rothschild’s book on "Extinct Birds,” which represented many years of labor and cost its author something like SIOO,OOO to produce. Mr. Rothschild stipulated that the book should be turned out In imperishable form, as It was improbable that the subject would ever ba done again and he wished the work to endure for all time. Only 300 copies were printed In English for private circulation, the price of each copy being $525.

The Fan.

The baseball fan Is a product of America. As a native of the soil, he hi a success. It may safely be said that the national game goes farther in developing and maintaining American good nature than' any other agency operating among us. . . . Looking at it as an aH-around sport, baseball ia a great boon to all Americans, young and old, male and female. While women do not play, they enjoy it. As a tranquilizer, a civilizer, a stimulizer, let us encourage the fan habit. It Is one of our great natimsl assets.— Marion Chronicle, i

and pharisees, he had restricted hisi mission to the preaching of the word, without illustrating that) word by his glorious example, he never would have wrought that; mighty moral revolution which has regenerated the world, nor would he be adored today by millions of disciples from the rising to the setting sun. When asked by the dis-