Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1914 — Page 3

HAPPENINGS in the BIG CITIES

Eviction of Cockroaches Is This Man’s Specialty

ST. PAUL, MINN. —The pronounced unpopularity of cockroaches in restaurant kitchens has given rise to a strange business, of which Charles Geraint, 9 West Delos street, is the chief exponent in St. PauL Geraint guar-

Geraint uses they telephone for a moving van; pick up all their family, and as much breakfast food, flour and custard pie as they can carry and then leave for the South. Sometimes the mere sight of Mr. Geraint is enough to •tart a pilgrimage. Geraint does not pretend to have any influence with mosquitoes, potato [bugs, beetles or gnats. One day a customer who had taken out a guarantee contract lebeled “no cockroaches,” summoned Geraint, pointed to a swarm (of ants crawling over the pantry shelf in the kitchen of the big hotel and looked reproachfully at the cockroach slayer. The ants paid no attention (whatever, but kept on sugarward. The hotel man demanded the instant dismissal of the ants or his money back. 1 . - “Nothing doing," the cockroach specialist said. “They v ain’t mine. I don’t know of anything that will fix ’em.” For nineteen long years, Geralrit has had the cockroaches on the run. [He says that cockroaches are distributed about the city on vegetables, in breakfast food boxes, In groceries and in beer and egg cases.

Joker Scares Whiskers From His 25 Employes

NEW YORK. —John T. Fay came home the other day. He keeps an oyster and chop house In One Hundred and. Twenty-fifth street, and up to the (time of his return had about thirty waiters and kitchen helpers in his place.

but when the proprietor entered and looked about he knew something terrible had struck the place. "John!” he called. "Jake! Jim!” [They were his oldest men. Some Jhad been in his service for twenty years and naturally the proprietor wished to give them a cheery greeting on his home-coming. Three men stood before him. He didn’t know them. He took several looks, turned to his books for a'few moments and once again called the men.

“Here we are,” they answered in chorus. Mr. Fay took a good look. “Wnht th’” —. He looked hard at the men; then at his other waiters. It ■was apparent that something revolutionary had happened. It was an avalanche of whiskers. The men led Mr. Fay back to the kitchen. There, In conspicuous place, was a sign reading: one will be allowed to wear a mustache here in the summer.” Mr. Fay took another look. Not one of his faithful old employes had a mustache- When he started away for a few days’ vacation they had all kinds of adornments. The joker had scared all the employes and within the last few days the barbers had shaved clean just twenty-five of the employes in the restaurant. “I never gave such an order,” said Mr. Fay, who is almost afraid now to come to his restaurant for fear some one in revenge will kidnap him and put him in the same class as his bare-faced staff.

Steady Sausage Diet Wrecked Victim’s Nerves

CHICAGO.— Linked sausage, long drawn out, served for breakfast, dinner, supper and between meals, drove Charles Jensen from his home at 3629 {Harper avenue. It got on. his nerves.

“Once in a while she changed the diet with frankfurters and schnapps. I want steak once in a while. “Honest, judge, it got so bad that every time I heard a dog bark I could smell dinner cooking. I can’t work on a delicatessen diet of sausage all the (time. I earn 135 a week and want steak.” , i “It isn’t sausage. It’s another woman,” declared Mrs. Jensen. “He ran laway from me four months ago and went to another woman somewhere on the Pacific coast. He liked sausage all right until he got ‘moofiy’ over the other woman. Sausage may not be good for married men who love other women." \ - “Sausage or woman—it doesn’t matter,” said Judge Torrison. “It’s just a plain case of nerves. You’ve looked at each other so long across plates of weinerwurst that you’ve got on each other’s nerves. Cut out the sausage ©nee in a while and you will get along all right. Better read a book on the control of the nerves.” . Judge Torrison ordered Jensen to pay his wife sl2 a week.

Barber Wants to Know Just Where He Comes In

■ NDIANAPOLIS, IND.—Rudy Maurath runs a barber shop at the point of I Washington street and Kentucky avenue. Thef other; day Rudy called in > plumber to doctor some looseness. The plumber droned along for about

(three hours at 75 cents an hour. (Toward the close of his stay he decided to rest and get shaved. “Guess I’ll get shaved,” he said, at the same time climbing into Rudy’s chair. "Red men meet tonight and Tve got to took pretty.” Rudy gave him a good shave, (bordered with a lot of hot towels, (plenty of facd lotion and talcum. It must have taken half an hour to got Ithe plumber properly beautified. > The next day Rudy got the plum-

Sr’s bill. It included the half-hour helmd occupied in shaving the pipe doctor. Rudy was shocked, mazed, stupefied! "Get this,” he said to his barbers and the customers. “Get this! I shaved the plumber on his time and he charges 75 cents an hour for it It took me half an hour to fix him up to go to lodge. I charged him 18 cents for the shave. Now he comes back at me wanting 37*4 cents for the time he was in my chair. Say, tell me, where does a poor, honest home-loving, good Christian barber come in when bo’s monkeying with a plumber?"

antees complete immunity from cockroaches at a certain fixed rate for the month or the year. Nothing worse could happen, res-taurant-keepers say, than the finding by a customer of a cockroach in his apple pie. Three hundred young cockroaches at a setting is nothing unusual and a box of breakfast food is one of the most select places for a nest When Mr. and Mrs. Cockroach smell the wonderful powder that

Liverwurst, German sausage, schnapps and bologna is poor diet for a steamfitter who earns |35 a week and wants steak once In -a while. It’s bad tor the nerves. Charles told Municipal Judge Torrison in the court of domestic relations the other day that he had run away from a sausage, his wife and six children. “She gave me bologna for breakfast, liverwurst for dinner and German sausage for supper,” he said.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. IND.

Styles for Coming Fall Coats

THE beet selling styles in outer garments for fall win bo coots with full backs and regulation coat fronts. In some Instances these full backs impart the cape idea, while others are much more modified. Some coats have the fullness so arranged as to fall from a square or round yoke; in others the fullness starts from the shoulders. As a rule, however, the belt does not draw in the garment, but simply holds the fullness in place. The full back coat with belt In front is also much in evidence in the new lines and is meeting with favor. In addition to cape effects, a number of coats with short or medium length capes are being shown. These are generally made detachable and can be easily removed.

In France, the cape is the favorite wrap for daytime wear. A very charming model was made of blue serge with a collar of pique quite high in th*

Late Summer Hats for the Home Milliner

EVERY season an increasing number of women undertake to trim, or rotrim, hats for themselves. There is no reason why they should not succeed. The first requirement is the selection of an untrimmed shape that is becoming. After that the amateur milliner should select a ready trimmed hat, of similar shape, and proceed to copy as closely as possible the work of a professional trimmer. Three attractive late-summer hats are pictured here which the home milliner will find are not difficult to copy. In Fig. 1 a popular shape is trimmed in a very simple but effective manner. A band of leghorn braid, three-quar-ters of a yard of satin and two roses provide the materials required. The braid band may be of other straw or silk braid. The hat is lined with a strip of thin silk or mull. The brim is faced with a bias band of satin, sewed on plain around the edge. The fullness, at the head-size, is disposed of by an occasional plait laid,in the goods. A very fine needle, and silk thread, that matches the leghorn in color, must be used in sewing the facing. On the upper brim make very short stitches, concealed under a fiber of the braid.. The edge is finished by slip-stitching a narrow band about it. Pale pink, blue or cream white, are good colors to choose for the facing. The crown is covered with a circular piece of satin stretched over it and sewed down in shallow plaits. The braid band 18 finished on both edges with a narrow piping of satin. After it is sewed to place, the roses are mounted and sewed down with heavy millinery thread. Three small flat bows made of strips of satin, laid

back. But velvet both for capes and for hats is the rage. The cape of velvet has a full collar. Fur is much used as trimming both on gowns and hats. There is a new shade of brown which blds fair to be the coming color. It has been seen a number of times lately. The latest notes of fashion are now received from Deauville, where the season reaches its height in August. Sweaters are worn with white serge skirts, but not the sweaters of last year. Reaching only to the hips, they are of brilliant hue, saffron yellow being most popular; nattier blue and violet are also fayored. These sweaters are either belted in as are the norfolk jackets, or there is a belt of some other material tied at the side front, the ends of which are gathered and finished with a sill? tassel. The cape coat shown in the illustration is a stylish model of black velvet with coachman’s collar of skunk.

in French folds, are sewed over the stems of the roses. Graceful Shape With Plaited Ribbon Trim. —One of the prettiest and simplest trimmings is shown in Fig. 2. A wide ribbon is accordion plaited and laid about the crown of a graceful crown and more than half way to the edge of the brim. The plaits are stretched so that they stand out from the hat and are tacked with tiny stitches to the straw. There is a wreath made of various wild flowers, buttercups, clover blossoms, etc. It extends about the hat over the plaited ribbon. . Hat With Moderately Wide Brim. — A mode which is full of style is set forth in Fig. 3. It has a moderately wide brim and a low crown and is of hemp braid in amethyst color. The brim is faced with a shirring of pale lavender chiffon. This is made ks a bias strip, folded along the middle and shirred into a narrow ruffle near the folded edge. This shirred chiffon Is slip-stitched to the under brim and gathered to the bandeau at the other edge. A folded strip of satin ribbon, matching the crown in eblor, is laid over the bandeau. The crown is covered with a circular piece of satin of the Same color as the straw. It is put on in a loose puff, the edge is turned under, gathered in a narrow ruffle, and sewed to the base of the crown. At each sVie sprays of wheat, with small garden flowers, are mounted near the back. A bow of ribbon, like that which covers the bandeau, is sewed flat against the under brim at the back. JULIA BOTTOMLEY.

GOOD JOKES

GOOD WISHES FOR JUDGE.

William Hahn, alias Smith, of the "Old Dutch gang,” was sentenced to ten years for burglary, ten years for larceny and sixteen years on an old sentence. \ It will keep Hahn in prison until he is seventy-nine. Going out, Hahn -was heard to mutter. “What’s that he says?" demanded Judge Rosalsky. “He says he hopes you will sleep well after that,” responded the court attendant —New York World. -

Sense of Immunity.

"Why do you assume to criticize affairs of public importance which everybody knows you don’t understand?” "That’s why I feel' so free to criticize,” replied Mr- Jabbles. “Everybody knows I don’t pretend to understand ’em, and therefore nobody ought to take offense.” . .

Process of Elimination.

"What Is the trouble with your motor car?” "Something wrong with the carburetor,” replied Mr. Chuggins, fe. “How do you know?” “Because the carburetor is the only thing about the machine that I haven’t had repaired within the last three weeks.”

Looking Ahead.

- “My baby is very intelligent.” “How so?” "She keeps examining her toes.” "How does that denote superior acumen?" "Why, the intelligent child evidently realizes that one must have perfect toes if one proposes to tango creditably”

A HOT ONE.

Mr., Borem Gude—l but wear a smile over an aching heart Miss Caustique—From your expression I thought it was your face that ached.

The Henpecked One.

She threw things at him all his life. And one day Mr. Henpeck said: •*Tour alm’s good now, bht dear friend wife, I hope you’ll miss me when I’m dead.”

Noble Soul

First Citizen—We have at least one man in this town who devotes his lifo to the uplift movement Second Citizen —Who is ho? First Citizen —The village baker with his yeast

An Exception.

"They tell me, professor, that you are a wonderful linguist any tongue you have found particularly hard to master?” "Oh, yes; my wife’s."

Appropriate.

“Why did Mamie take the Turkish situation for the subject of her graduation essay?” “Why, you see, she thought it would be such a good match for her minaret gown."

No More Victories.

“Up until tin years ago,” related Danny, “Oi had bin in one hoondxed foights an* wuz nlver licked.” "An’ afther thot?" queried Pat. “Afther thot, me bhoy,” continued Danny, "Oi married.”

Old Saying.

“England doesn’t take to baseball." "Pity, too. They could play all kinds of innings.” "What do you mean?” "Why, I’ve often heard that the sun never sets on the British empire."

A Puzzle.

"The equal suffrage orator said that woman ought not to allow man to keep on dictating to her." "But what’s she to do if she’s his stenographer?"

Sporting Proposition.

“What makes you so confident that you are in agreement with /your constituents on this proposition?" "Well," replied Senator Sorghum, “I have guessed ’em wrong four times in succession. The law of averages ought to begin to work by this time.”

Certainly it's Proper.

Bacon—Do you think the expression, “put up or shut up,” is a proper one to use? Egbert—Sure, if you’re talking about an umbrella. .. _ ,

RECEIVED A BLOW.

“it is more blessed to give than to receive.” “Where did the fellow hit yon?"

Passed from this life In his fortieth year; Something went wrong With the Steering gear.

Rescued From Temptation.

“There’s one thing that we can congratulate ourselves on,” said Mm Corntossel, "and that is the fact that our boy Josh doesn’t nurse any at these fool notions about running away and being a pirate.” M No," replied her husband. "look hasn’t any such thought in his mla*. He has been readln* up on pirated Into ly, an’ has got some idea of hew hard a pirate has to work in order to hoM his job.” -

Preferred His Company.

He —You were getting ready to go out, and I’m afraid my call is inopportune. She—Really and truly, I would much rather stay here and talk with you than to keep my engagement this afternoon. “I am delighted. But can the engagement be broken without causing hard feelings.” ) “Oh, yes. The dentist won't mind.* .

Play in Two Scenes.

Miss Wyse—And I may really keep this photograph of you, Mr. Simpkins? ’ Simpkins (flattered) —Delighted, Tuasure! Miss Wyse (later, to her maid)— Marie, take this photograph and whenever the original of it calls, tell him I’m not in.

Paw Knows Everything.

Willie —Paw, are there only tarn commandments? Paw — There are only ten for single men, but there are ten times that many for married men, my sou.

Professor (to horticultural chum)— Upon what kind of trees do the first peaches grow? Young Maa (bashfully)—Family trees. —Judge. _

A Fair Utilitarian.

Madge—What are you doing—studying that warship? Marjorie—l was just thinking what lovely names those Mexican words would make for new dances.—Puck.

Might Work.

"What do you want with that oM dress suit; Hiram?" "I'm figuring oh an experiment wtth the crows. Going to try the effect of a scarecrow in a Tuxedo.”

THE PESSIMIST.

"1 saw an old-fashioned picnic party starting off this morning. It meds aaa feel glad.” “Glad to see others enjoying thaar selves, eh?” "No, glad because I didn’t have to

A Careful Giri.

Patries should bo -■ '■ A soldier. Why? She always keeps Her powder dry.

A Tip for Husbands.

Gibbs—When my wife invitee her woman friends to visit her she’ll never let them so Gibbe—"l used to have the same trouble; but bow if they stay more than two days I begin to make leva to them and my wife does the resL. —Boston Evening Transcript

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