Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1914 — Page 2

fNGINEERS of the United States bureau of mines have recently perfected six devices, five of ‘which indirectly involve the saving of hutnan life and the sixth the saving from waste of natural resources. In tion has been made for patent in order to retain these devices for the use of the people without the payment of royalty and to prevent any commercial concern from gaining a monopoly in their manufacture. Perhaps the most important of the Inventions that are to be dedicated to the free use of the relate to improvements in the rescue apparatus worn by miners following disasters. This apparatus, which supplies oxygen to the rescuer, permits him to enter poisonous gases and carry on his work for a period of two hours. —In the bureau of mines’ experience with this device three rescuers have lost their Rves, and in each instance it is believed their deaths were due to certain defects in the apparatus. This led to a desperate attempt upon the part of the engineers to construct an apparatus that would be reasonably safe. The engineers found considerable difficulty in the absorption of the poisonous matter of the breath in the apparatus, and also in the reduction of the high pressure oxygen carried in the tanks on the back of the rescuers. Both problems were submitted to William E. Gibbs, consulting engineer of the bureau, and after research covering several months the solution of both problems is announced in applications for patents. The caustic soda which is used in the apparatus in taking up the poisonous exhalations of the breath has been so adjusted as to permit a continuous flow of the expired air. A series of successful experiments have already been made upon this device. of the oxygen pressure of 2,000 pounds to the square inch to the proper amount needed by the rescuer—has been accomplished by the invention of a new type of valve. The apparatus at present reduces the oxygen pressure, but supplies the oxygen at a constant rate, no matter how much the wearer needs. With the new valve, the supply of oxygen is regulated by the demands of the wearer oLthe apparatus and no oxygen goes to waste through a relief valve as in the devices now in use. In making these improvements for safety, Mr. Gibbs has succeeded in reducing the weight of the breathing apparatus fully 40 per jcent. The apparatus pt present weighs 40 pounds, which proves a serious handicap to the rescuer in his work. I A third invention la that of a collapsible mine cage for use in rescue work following a mine disaster. Often the mine cage is so badly shattered by the effect of explosions that it cannot be operated. In such Instances, it is claimed, the collapsible cage would save hours of delay in rescue work and perhaps be the means of saving many lives. The designer of this cage is George 8. Rice, the chief mining engineer of the bureau of mines. J. W. Paul, engineer in charge of the mine rescue work of the bureau of mines, is the Inventor of an electrical signaling device for use in shafts, especially following disasters. With this device a person descending a shaft will be able to signal the hoisting engineer. If the man on the cage is overcome and the apparatus falls from his hands, a circuit is immediately closed and a gong in the engine house gives a sudden warning. Such a device, it is claimed by Mr. Paul, would

Reveries of a Schoolmaster.

I suppose that most of the boys whom I taught still exist somewhere. Most of them must be still alive, for they seemed in those days to be enjoying excellent health. There must have been some seven hundred of them. In moments of depression I used to exclaim, “What! will the line stretch till the crack o' doom?” I used to picture myself as a pedagogical wa-ter-wheel, turning, turning, in the educational sluice through which, out of Everywhere into 'the Here, k

UNCLE SAM'S INVENTORS BUSY

have been useful at the Cherry mine fire in Illinois several years ago, where so many men lost their lives. The rescue crews there had to subject themselves to unnecessary dangers in descending the wrecked shaft because of lack of means of signaling. The device is so arranged that in the absence of human intelligence to direct the giving of a prearranged code of signals, the gong on the surface and in the engine house would ring continuously, which, In every case, would be the signal to hoist immediately. The bureau has also applied for a number of patents on processes for extracting vanadium, uranium and radium from ores, such as carnotite ore. These processes are the result of the work of the Denver (Colo.) laboratory of the bureau of mines, and their pur-

REST SEEMS OUT OF DATE

Llttle Possibility of Escaping From the Strenuousness of Life of This Modern Time. Time was when a doctor said to a business man: “You need rest. Take an ocean voyage. Then ydu will be far away from every thought of business. No message can reach you, not even the daily papers. For a whole week you will be absolutely cut off from the world.” Then came Marconi and his wireless. Forthwith the big ocean steamships had their daily newspapers and stock quotations. ' Passengers received private messages from land at all hours of the day and night Men transacted business with their offices practically as well as if they were only detained at home for a few days and employing the telephone as a medium of communication. With the means of keeping in touch with affairs on shore few busy men with large interests could refrain from making use of the agencies at hand, There was little difference between traveling on an ocean liner and staying at a big hotel. Now comes announcement of a fresh invasion of the steamship by forces that properly belong on land. The newest giant liner, recently arrived at New York, introduced ocean vaudeville. The great “lounge” is to be converted into a theater seating 1,500 and entertain men t.will be provided by a company of arusts from a London music hall. If the scheme proves successful musical comedy and seven grand opera may be given later. Of performances will not be free to passengers. The English

stream flowed, agitated me for a while, and disappeared into the Somewhere, leaving nothing behind but a few negligible bubbles. Of all the boys not one has ever been president or governor or senator. If one has written a novel or a play, I have not read it Some appeared above the surface of society for a brief period as halfbacks or third baseman, but only to sink back into the common ruck. This, again, used to worry me. It seemed a reflection upon my teaching; But the years bring the philo-

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pose is to reduce the cost of making radium and to prevent the monopoly which goes with the so-called secret processes. The patents have been asked for in the names of Richard B. Moore, in charge of the Denver laboratory, and Karl Kithil, his assistant With the great demand for radium in the treatment of cancer, the bureau of mines looks upon this invention as another possible means of saving hu< man life. It is estimated that these new methods will cut the cost of radium fully one-half, and perhaps more. They are to be for the use of any citizen of the United States. Still another 5 engineer of the bureau, Alfred C. Heggem, m charge ol oil investigations, has invented a new type of valve to control casing head* for oil wells, a device that will at ones shut off the flow of gas or oil in a new well and in that way stop the enormous waste of these resources that has been going on for years in the United States. The new valve has been tried out in the Cushing field of Oklahoma and has proved successful. It is said that in the past it has been difficult to control many of the wells and that millions of dollars’ worth of oil and gas have gone to waste. This new device, which, like the other patents,, is to be dedicated to the public, is expected to stop much' of this waste.

theatrical manager responsible for the innovation intimates that prices will range from $5 upwards. He expects to draw much of his talent from stage folk traveling from one country to the other to fill engagements, although there will be some permanent members of the ocean company. Poor old tired business man! Go where he will the—vaudevillians still pursue him. It may be said that if he prefers seclusion he can go to his bunk below. Theoretically he can, but in practise it doesn’t work out that way. If there’s any fun a-going he’ll not be able to keep out of it The modern ocean liner emphatically Js not a rest cure. —Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.

Dancing in the Old Days.

Dancing in the woods was the old manner in the classic times and mythology tells of, the worship thus paid by the pagans To the gods. The poets sang of It. The priests of Mars were the principal dancers in the sacred rites to that deity. There was also the religious dancing alluded to in the Old Testament, as when David danced before the ark to express his joy and that of his people, and there were the dances of the Druids round the altars and the mysterious stones. Never, perhaps, in the history of the world, was dancing more popular than it is today—not even in the pleasant time when in England, Ireland and France the people danced on the green. Oliver Goldsmith, traveling on foot, paid his way by playing for the dancers on his flute.

sophic mind. One can but do what one can.—Robert M. Gay, in the Atlantic.

Stretched Cane Seats.

When -the cane seats of chairs have become stretched, take a teaspoonful of washing soda and dissolve in a quart of boiling water. Dip a cloth in this solution and wipe the underside of the seats, leaving the chair turned upside down to dry. This treatment will shrink the cane to its original

TUNICS OF ALL SORTS

GARMENT MAY BE AS VARIED AS WEARER DESIRES. —•— 1 —• No One Particular Style Has Been Selected for Explicit Approval— Frocks That Seem in Fair Way to Be Popular. The catch-word of the season is the tunic. Sometimes it is formed of circle after circle of flounces or formed of shirrings and puffings, and other models show tunics which extend to from three to four inches of the skirt bottom. One very smart and novel model taken from the modes of the time of Louis XVI was made with

fair type of the frocks that will be -seen-at -summer-resorts. One is of. eyelet linen, with a gay touch of color In the way of Roman striped ribbon trimming beading, a frill of the embroidery which forms a fichu, and forming a girdle ending in loops at the front. The skirt has set on founces of the eyelet embroidery. Another frock is of flowered rosecolored and plain taffeta. The blouse

closes with a single row of material buttons, and has a plaited organdy collar trimmed with a frill of lace. The skirt is made with a long tunic and plaited underskirt. Still another model is made of black taffeta. Thite model has the new tight-fitting corselet shaped bodice, with organdy vest and collar. There is a long tunic with a panel of plaits back and front. A cape costume is also in vogue. Undoubtedly the modish cape costume of serge, of satin or of taf-

feta will be seen at every resort this simmer. The cape costume of the r small cut is of white serge, and has broad bands of the material which cross at the front and button to the skirt. The blouse and long plaited tunic are of white crepe de chine, while the underskirt is of cape material. There is a flat turn-down collar of white crepe de chine. Linen has always been worn, in spite of the fact that women have ever grumblingly contended that it gets mussy apd stringy after the first wearing, and women will wear it and will continue—unless the dream, come true of the so-called “uncrushable linens.”

changing Color of eyes

Garniture Has Much to Do With Their Appearance—Some Things Worth Remembering. Have you noticed how the color of your eyes changes sometimes with the weather, and sometimes with the color you wear? With almost everything but the eyes it takes contrast to bring out color. For instance, a portrait of a blonde woman almost Invariably has blue in the background, and somewhere about the portrait of a brunette you will find pink or red, blended to accentuate the dark skin and hair. It is exactly the. opposite with nature; a color brings* out a color. You will see "a rosy-cheeked girl with a rose-colored hat on her head; remove the hat and replace it by a brown or green one and she will look pale. A blue hat-or veil casts a blue shade over the face, so that the sweetest natural complexion will appear as if painted. You can make your blue, eyes or gray-blue eyes deeper in color if you like. If you wear a blue facing or much trimming upon your hat the same shade will be reflected in your eyes.

Richelieu Embroidery.

It is a revival of the old Roman embroidery, of which there are three classes —Venetian, Renaissance and Richelieu. The form usually seen is the machine "cut work.” In all forms of this work Buttonholing outlines the pattern and the spaces between are eat away.

a long tunic of black taffeta, finished at the bottom with deep scallops, and placed over a white lace skirt the underskirt being scarcely visible. Black taffeta or taffeta of some somber tone, considered e x - tremely smart with the white lingerie materials, the somber note usually appearing in the shape of tunic trimming or one of the swathed girdles, which' are so much in vogue. Three frocks recently seen are a

EASY TO HAVE SHAPELY FEET

May * Not Be Perfect, but It Is One's Own Fault If They Are Deformed. A perfect foot is very rare. I heard a fashionable shoemaker say that out of every ten women who came in to be fitted, not more than one has a shapely foot, and the greater proportion have more or less deformed ones. Their feet have been spoiled by carelessness and neglect, by ill-fitting or cramping shoes and by ungainly, ungraceful walking. If you want to keep your feet as shapely as nature made them, and free from corns, calluses and similar disfigurements, observe the following rules: 1. Never forget that the feet are hard workers and have to bear the burden of the whole body. Sit down when tired. Do not rest one foot at the expense of the other. 2. Bathe the feet every night. Use soft warm water, and be liberal with soap. A little stilt aded to the bath water braces and tones the muscles and skin. A few drops of eau-de-co-logne in the rinsing water is soothing whentired.—,— __ __ 3. Thoroughly dfjTTfie feet, dust-“ ing with a mixture pf equal parts of boracic' powder and the finest powdered starch. 4. Massage the feet for a few minutes every night. Begin at the toes and rub with firm, but gentle, pressure with an upward movement toward the leg. Put a little warm cocoa butter on your hands. This treatment helps to make the foot narrow and arched and and ankle slender. 5. Change the stockings every day, and see that they are not overdarned. 6. Never wear cheap shoe leather. It is the reverse of economical. See that your shoes are well made, and not only wide enough, but sufficiently long. Short shoes are a frequent source of corns and Also' they cause the joints to contract and enlarge and otherwise distort jthe foot. Do not constantly wear the same shoes, however comfortable they may be. —Chicago Journal.

PLUMPNESS NOW IN ORDER

Day of the Slim and “Slouchy” Wornan Has Disappeared for the Present. The craze for slimness is passing, and the thin, bony woman is disappearing before the plump, bonny type. Women cheerfully own now to a waist of from 26 inches to 36 inches. In fact, the very slim, “slinker-slouch” woman is now considered to be ugly and’deformed. The craze for slimness, a beauty specialist said, produced the irritable woman, the nervous woman, the neurotic woman, the poseuse. “To be healthy,” the specialist, “a woman should, as everybody knows, have a full bust and an uncramped waist. “If a woman adopts the kind of ‘slinker-slouch’ figure her chest contracts, and nothing is worse for the general health than a contracted chest. “If you want to grow beautiful or to retaiir your beauty, do not indulge in sarcasm'.” This is the advice given by another beauty doctor. ’ “Why should anyone be habitually sarcastic?” she asked. “The person who is always on the alert to ‘take it out’ of someone else has probably just as many faults as those on whom he or she looks with contempt. “The sarcastic woman has the least chance of any woman to keep beautiful. Nothing draws out the wrinkles as much as a sneering countenance. “A woman who really has suffered can retain her beauty even though she is somewhat lined, but the sarcastic woman can never hope to be' beautiful. She becomes dyspeptic and miserable.”

WITH AFTERNOON FROCK

Thio taffeta cape Is especially suit" able to the afternoon frock. The model la of navy blue taffeta with a flounce of white taffeta. Silk kimonos in pale colors am heavily embroidered with silk roses.

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One Hundred Years Ago.

The curious modes which women affect now began as far back as 1798, which is a period we should hardly wish to copy in most respects. A dance hot at all unlike the tango was In vogue at that time, and had many exponents, who danced in loose bodices opening in a V shape from the shoulders almost to the waist Skirts were slit and were often made oi transparent gauze. We may return to the gowns of that period, which were without waists, having simply a girdle to the bust, with skirts caught up rather Short Id front and slightly trained at the back. In 1800 women wore sandals and bare feet Corset belts were only about two inches wide. Some gowns were caught up to the knee with large cameos. Soon fashion overreached It* self and then came crinolines, pointed footgear and unnaturally small waists. Are we coming to this?

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