Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1915 — Page 2

Dr. Maiden’s Uplift Talks

By ORISON SWETT MARDEN.

-HADN'T TIME TO MAKE FfeIENDV Not long ago Mr. Mellen, the former president of the New Haven railroad, and most bitterly talked about railroad man of his time, said: “I thought If a man knew his business and worked at it hard and produced the beat product he could with the materials available, that was enough. But apparently it was not." "It Is enough until a storm breaks," said the newspaper man to whom Mr. Mellen was talking. "I thought I was strong enough to meet any storm," he answered. "What should a man do to prepare for the kind of storm that hit me?” "He might have made more friends outside of the line of business —friends with the public.” “But I hadn’t the time. I was too busy. I have had six weeks* vacation In 44 yeans. How could I find the time to meet your newspaper reporters and cultivate the good will of editors? I engaged a man to do that work. Well, we shall see. I may have a little more time now to make friends." After all, what does that thing which we call success amount to if we have sacrificed onr friendships, if we have sacrificed the most sacred things in life in getting it? One of the most beautiful things that can ever be said of a human being is that he has a host of friends. When Lincoln’s friends were proposing him for the presidency he was poor and comparatively unknown and people said: "Why, Lincoln has no rich men back of # hiin; he has no political pull, no money, not much of anything excepting a lot of friends." This Is true, but what friends they were! They made his presidency possible. Only he has friends worth while who 1b willing to pay the price for making and keeping them. He may not have quite as large a fortune as if he gave all of his time to business and moneymaking. But wouldn’t you rather have more good, stanch friends who believe In you and who would stand by you in the severest adversity than have a little more money? What will enrich the life so much as hosts of good, loyal friends? Most of us attend, to everything else first, and if we have any little scrape of time left we give them to our friends, when we ought to make a business of our friendships. Are they not worth it? The faith of friends Is a perpetual stimulus. How It nerves and encourages us to do our best when we feel that scqj-es of friends really believe in us! ~ It means a great deal to have enthusiastic friends always looking out for our interests, working for us all the time, saying a good *fls at every opportunity, -supporting us, - speakJuE'for ns In our absence when we "need a friend, stopping slanders, shielding our sensitive, weak spots, killing lies which would injure us, correcting false impressions, trying to set us right, overcoming the prejudices created by some mistake or slip or a first bad impression we made, who are always doing something to give us & lift or help us along! One reason why bo many people are disappointed with what life has for them is because they have never cultivated the capacity for friendship. Friendship is no one-sided affair, but an exchange of soul qualities. There be no friendship without reciprocity. Many people are not capable of forming great friendships, because they do not have the qualities themselves which attract noble qualities In others. If you are crammed with despicable qualities, you cannot expect any one to care for you. If you are uncharitable, intolerant, if you lack generosity, cordiality; if you are narrow and bigoted, unsympathetic, you cannot expect that generous, largehearted, noble characters will flock around you.

THE INDIVIDUAL IN YOUR CHILD

“When I was a little girl/' a friend of mine once told me, “I was always so glad when company came to the house. My mother would change so. She would be cheerful and kind to company and would stop scolding and criticizing me. Sometimes I used to wish I could just be company all the time —she would hare been so kind to me always then.” How long could we hold the confidence and affection of our friends if we treated them as many of us treat our children? Most fathers and mothers ,do not seem to realise that the qualities which attract children to them and which secure their confidence are the same qualities which attract their friends and the good JfWth of the people with whom they associate. A father might as well pummel and abuse a friend every little while and then expect him to respect and love him as to pound and Abuse a child and. expect to gain his sere. Just because he belongs to him. Manx Barents seem to thtwk that ’because their own children are dependent upon them for their food, Clothing, shelter sad education, that fthey own their respect, gratitude and Jove, regardless of how they are pasted. The sense of relationship bs»

nothing whatever to do with a child’s feelings towards his tether, it te test as Impossible to compel the respect of octet child sa It ts to compel some other person to love us. You must earn Ms respect, just ss 700 would earn the respect of s friend. It costs you something to keep the good will and friendship of your children. The greatest hold the parent hai upon the child 1b Its companionship. How often we hear fathers and mothers say that they mo longer have any control over their son; that he has passed beyond their reach, and they do not know what to do with him. Now, my parent friends, have you ever tried to make a companion of your boy; tried to make him feel that you were his best friend, by sympathizing with him in his little troubles and trials? Do you take an inte&st In his hopes and ambitions? Have you tried to encourage him when he was down-hearted, had made a serious mistake." Have you sympathised with him in his struggles for self-control? Any business man would be horrified at the suggestion that he was ruining his son by neglect, that his absorption In business would result in the undoing of his own son. But if you have been In the habit of driving him away from you because you did not want to be bothered every time he asked a question or came to you with his little heartaches for your sympathy and your help, you cannot expect to have much influence over him. One of the bitterest' things in many a business man’s life has been the discovery, after he had made his money, that he had lost his hold, upon his boy, and he would give a large part of his fortune to recover hla loss. Every father should think of the child as a sacred trust, bringing into the world with him a sealed message, which he is bound to deliver like a man and a hero, and that this sealed message within him is sacred. It may not be even Tor the father to read; but it is each father’s duty to help his boy to live up to it It is comparatively easy for you to gain your boy’s confidence, If you begin early enough. From infancy, he should grow up to feel that no one else can take your place, that you stand In a peculiar relation to him, which no one else can fill. Every boy Is going to have a confidant, some one to whom he can tell his secrets mil whisper .his hopes and ambitions, which he would not breathe to others, and this some one should be his father.

Are Foxes Vegetarians?

Foxes are not generally accredited with vegetarian Instincts. You never see their tracks, as you see those of the rabbits, around a young oak-tree shoot which has been nibbled down to the tough stem. But Esop evidently thought otherwise when he wrote his fable of the BOur grapes, and there Is plenty of testimony that Esop was right. Foxes do eat wild grapes, as many observers have testified, climbing A. considerable way to get them; and probably at times they ekt berries and perhaps apples. I have . t-'Aixid their tracks, at ary -Tate, beneath apple-tree", i have also been confidently assured that they eat the persimmons in Virginia; that the “ol* houn' dawgs” know how good this fruit Is, too, and if you wish to find the very best tree, take a “dawg” with you.—Walter Prichard Eaton, In Harper's Magazine.

Bank Notes of Silk.

Bank notes made of silk of a par" ticUlar shade that will baffle the banknote foTger are now possible. As is known, most of the expert banknote forgers use photography to obtain their best results; but a recent invention makes it possible to manufacture silk of a particular shade that cannot possibly be photographed. Discovered by a woman, this invention is a new process of waterpropfing fabrics without rubber and dyeing them in the same operation. Linen, cotton or other materials to be treats ed by this process are placed white into one end of the machine and brought out at the other end a few minutes later colored, .waterproofed, and dry. Fabrics so produced, the inventor maintains, can be used in hundreds of trades, from aeroplane building to banknote making.

Old Maid's Opinion of Boys

‘ln the Woman’s Home ‘ Companion, Zona Gale, writing a story of an old maid wise suddenly found Jierself face tp face with the responsibility of taking care of a small boy, presents the bid maid as making the following observation: “ "Though I love the human race and. admire to see it took care of, I couldn’t sense my way clear to taking a boy into my house. Boys belong to the human race, to be sure, just as whirling egg beaters belong to omelets; but much as I set store by omelets. I couldn’t Invite a whirling egg beater into my home permanent "‘And I don’t ever rent to ’em. They ain’t got enough silence to ’em.*

A Long Huzzah.

The, new pontiff, if in stature he matches the shortest monarch In the present world, his contemporary in Rome, has at any rate a longer name, in Italian, than any of his predecessors for many a day. It is almost unmanageably long for .acclamation. "Vlvl Pio Decline," used to go off like artillery, and "Viva Pip None” was even a sharper shot BqJ. “Viva Benedetto Decimoquinto” does not, it must be confessed, linger and rumble. It Us longer than the shout for Leone Dechaoterza"

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, INP.

LAZY HAPPY BORDEAUX

BURDIGALA, better known by Its everyday name of Bordeaux, the new capital of my country, a patch of France upon which the sun and Dionysus have smiled —the land of palatable red wine and pleasant, dark women. To most newspaper-reading people Bordeaux is Interesting Just now because of the change that has happened to it; for me Bordeaux is interesting because it does not change. So writes Marthe Troly-Curtin, in the London Sketch. Bordeaux does not want to change—it is a lazy, happy, bourgeois, wellfed town; it is snug and contented, warmed for nine months of the year by a very clement climate, and all the year round by the rutilant glow of its claret. Bordeaux has a few large and fine streets, and many old-fashioned and insanitary ones, the Improvement of which nobody really cares about, least pf all the dwellers of those particular streets, the bad air of which seems to agree with them to an extraordinary degree. The Bond street of Bordeaux is the Rue Sainte Catherine, a narrow, dark, cobbled street, wherein you can buy quite smart hats, and where fish-wives and their wares spread themselves on the threshold of fashionable modistes. In Bordeaux life counts more years, and summers more days than in most other towns. It seldom snows, but often rains; ice on lakes or ponds is a wonder to be talked about at many “feeve o’clocks” for many weeks after. Well do I remember the year In Bordeaux when the lake of the Jardin Public did freeze; the Bordeaux papers had leading articles on the event: ’ “One could almost skate on the lake,” they said, “so thick was the ice.” AH the fashionable people of the town as-

sembled to view the wonder; a score of them had even brought skates with them. Rash people! The ice melted away under the warmth of their enthusiasm, and the daredevils took what the Anglophile Bordelais calls a “tob” —a short immersion in cold water! Conservative and Comfortable... The population of Bordeaux is conservative and comfortable —conservative by nature, and comfortable by principles. In the, heart of the city there is a large open sppee called Les Quinconces, where twice a year a big fair is Jield, A real fair with a real giantess, a dwarf no less real and a real glass-spinner, gingerbread shops, booths of all sorts and mournfully real merry-go-rounds. Everyone In Bordeaux and the Bordelais district goes to the fair —the somebodies to show their Paris frocks, made in Bordeaux (and very well made, too!), the nobodies to eat gingerbread jpind have their teeth pulled out, net by the gingerbread, but by a gorgeous being In a red-and-gold dress with a big drum,

a mighty wrist, and a monstrous pair of pincers! Bordeaux has no motor omnibuses and very few taxicabs, even in time of peace, as nobody in Bordeaux is really ever in a hurry; they know there that one should always postpone until tomorrow what one could have done today, thanks to which principle one achieves fewer follies. It is not so clean as Lyon, hut how much more smiling a town! —and it gives an impression of greater cleanliness because of its clarity, because of the sun, the space of its center and fine quays, and the whiteness of the magnificent stones of its buildings. It is not so animated as Marseilles, but its population is more stable —everybody knows everybody else, and —well, it saves surprises and social slips. There are two events in the year—the horse show, which, like the fair, is held on the Quinconces; and the ball, the ball at the prefecture, an invitation to which is’the hallmark of a satisfactory status. Society Wholesomely Mixed. Its “society" is admirably and wholesomely mixed, for it is a university, military and business town, and, Bordeaux not being very large, those diverse elements have to form a certain alliance through the constant jostling, meeting, and living close together. In a certain part of the province there is a strange streak among the people, many Of- them having blue eyes, blond or ginger hair, and fresh complexions, quite the English type. The Black Prince and his army occupied the Aquitaine, of which he was governor; his son, Richard 11, was even born there in a castle, the ruins of which can still be seen. It is a

long while ago, _ grant you, but until of late years French people, especially of the provinces, traveled very lit tie and Intermarried much, which might justify the suftnlse that those two facts are related, and that many among the Medocalns are of English descent , v What else can I tell yen of Bordeaux that will sound less pedantic? That nowhere else in the world can they accommodate mushrooms in such truly inspired manner; that it has a fine theater, the staircase of which, they say, served as model for that of the Paris opera; that Bordeaux is a great productive place, not only of good wines, but of rich voices, as are her sister towns. Marseilles and Toulouse; and that there is a cathedral, lovely and lovable, motherly, homely* and awfully stately, dating from the eleventh century, with the dearest gargoyles crawling along every oor> nice, and such.a collection of. stone saints on the portal that one '■wonders if they b*ve left any roop for "« others” in paradise.

COPY BELGIAN STYLES

MODISTEB QUICK TO BEIZE THEIR OPPORTUNITY. ) _ 1 With That Country 8» Much In the Limelight It Was Perhaps Inevitable—Collars of Many and Pretty Designs. There Is no doubt that we win have an epidemic of Belgian styles new and old. - Callot has already sent over a gown of velvet trimmed with tiny white porcelain beads aad fur, which she calls Belgian, and the Flemish peasants will surely furnish much that is colorful and pictorial in the new fashions. Everything contributes to this domination of fashions in the near future by the country and the people who have stirred the minds asd hearts and Imagination of the people more than any other factor in this world war. As one writer has said* Germany may have occupied the place where Belgium ’was, but its soul has escaped to all the peoples on the planet. One has a thrill of pride in even wearing a garment or a hat that goes by that name and has been suggested by that country. It is like being touched by the mantle of courage. The most amusing touch anent the high collar that the American woman is taking up is the fact that she haa decided to leave a deep V-shaped wedge of her chest exposed beneath It. She saunters in the street in the coldest weather with her coat cut down almost to the top of her corset, showing a flicker of bare skin between, and her neck enveloped in a for stock that is warm enough to do duty in the Russian trenches. The new blouses also have high boned collars and the coats reach to the ears. Some have the directoire collars that rise high and turn back on themselves in a straight line; others have the consulate collar, which goes straight across the back of the neck, also high and turned over and made of some brightly colored stiff

Smart Black Silk Beaver Hat, With Long Quill Ornament, Modeled on the Belgian Soldier's Cap.

silk thickly lncrusted with gold or silver arabesques. The smartest ontside collar is of fur as wide as it is possible to wear it. It is made like a clown’s ruff in that it rises to the chin and does not bind the neck under the chin. It fastens at the left front with a rosette of velvet ribbon, or with braid buttons and lbops. High Mack velvet dog collars are again in style with house blouses that are cut In a deep surplice opening in

USEFUL GIFT

The wide, detachable collars so much worn these days are an pwk--ward shape to put away without ■wrinkling. A 1 case to hold tfrem can be by covering two leets of cardboard about 15 by 10 h» tee with «mw. Across the toner a [face of ■one put two strips of the lin 1 with a buttonhole in the ends to n# st a button on the case. These vil told the wiihni in place. Attach tht Wo sections at the bottom, hinge fat ion. and sew two rings ta the top, on in each corner. Suspend the cas« .by the

hmt Clever woman use thee* on extends in » awlice effect to the bust has had it* by. j Copyright, XeCtar* Nrwgpoper Syndicate)

SOWN DESIGNED IN AMERICA

Of White Faille and BUver Brocade, | It Achieved Distinct Triumph In New York Exhibition. This charming evening gown ts called "La Femme a la Mode.” It is cf white fame and Silver brocade, embodying all the points of the “Louis fhlMppe” model harking back to the

1860’s. The decolletage of the gown is marked stiffly by a plaiting of white fame which makes almost a straight line across the bosom and shoulders. This gown, quaint and beautiful, was perhaps the most decided Btyle exhibited. The gown was auctioned off November 4 by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., the money thus gained being donated to the war relief fund as are all the proceeds of the fete arranged by America’s society leaders and “vogue" at the Ritz-Carlton, New York. ;

NECKWEAR OF THE MOMENT

Styles Are as Pretty as Those of the Bummer, Though Materials Are Different. Just as last summer the lovely touch of white neckwear was organdie and lawn, so now it is of cream net and lace in the finer costumes, and of pique in those dresses that smack of Die tailormado. There is less wiring of the collars to make them stand up, as the necks are higher as far as decollete is concerned; they can, however, be lightly wired if they are more becoming. Fine venise, applique and point laces are noted in the collars of the new dress models, and there is always enough net added to the neck decoration to keep the lace from looking too hard against the skin. Some of the lace guimpes are of embroidered net of the applique type of lace, and they finish at the top with a round neck that does not come quite up to the base of the throat.

Fur Crown With Brim of Gold Lace.

Fur of many kinds is used to trim the autumn hats. One good model shows a puffed fur crown with a brim of gold or silver lace, mounted on wire. There is a big metallic rose for the sole trimming. v

collar. Then close by. a tape loop about the button at the top.

FASHION’S FANCY IN FURS

Coats and Capes Follow Practically One Style—-Most Attractive Designs In Bealskin. £ The furcoats and capes are all “a godets.” A handsome long coat is in a very line quality of seal musquash. The big shawl revere are in bright yellow fox, also the cuffs. The wide godets wrap over at the bottom. Much fitch fur is seen with long silky hair. Russian fur is to the fore. Collars and cuffs in a different fur. Some of the fur capes have coat fronts, which Tri » fco them much warmer. These capes fit well on the body, but are very wide on the sides. Here is a sealskin coat demi-ajuste, mid reaching the knees. From the waist it widens out to wrap right over the the bottom. On the sides are big godets. The sleeves are very loose and baggy, from the shoulder to the elbow, but ifit w«H os: the lower part of the arm and well up at the •witaw Small shawl collar and cuffs ~ failing over the hand, and bottom at coat in putofau

Curitag Feathers.

In this season of ostrich plumes it is necessary to keep them beautifully curled. There are two methods. One life the curling by hand of each frond pver the blunt edge of a knife. The other method Is that of sprinkling salt on a coal fire and holding the plume over it, shaking it continuously. Try thee*