Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1915 — Page 2

INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES

Climber Disturbs a Fashionable Set in Chicago C* HICAGO. —The youngest set of North aide society held forth on a. recent afternoon in the new "mtlllon-dollar” playground at Delaware place and Lake Shore drive. Nursemaids and governesses, anxious to please, ran

climber was on the street side of the fence. With one unbuttoned shoe firmly placed in the mesh of the fence a foot above the sidewalk, the climber had started to shin into society. It was a dirty-faced and grimy-handed little climber who sought entrance to the playground—a girl of somewhere between three and four, with ungartered formerly white stockings tumbling about her shoe tops and wearing a torn dress of uncertain color. The climber was doing her best to surmount the wire fence when Joe Waltner, head attendant at the playground, arrived. He was ruAßtag and greatly distressed. Then he ran around outside the fence and asked the cHmber who she was and where she came from. The climber began to cry. The climber, in tears, was no longer a menace to the tranquillity of the mlllion-dollar playground. Waltner relented and Immediately Anna found herself in real society—right in the Casino clubhouse, where none but the elite and the elect may enter. Waltner took her there while he telephoned to tho Chicago avenue police station. Until evening Anna, climber no longer, amused herself with an endlesß procession of brass buttons as she was passed from one policeman to another. Then her father called for her and took her back to her home on Erie street

San Francisco Visitors Ask About Barbary Coast

SAN FRANCISCO. —“Oh, officer, where did it come from? I mean the name ‘Barbary Coast* ” Just ask that question of the first policeman you meet and then watch him squirm and “stall,” for every policeman is asking

the same thing of every other policenaan, and of some persons who are not Now, the “Barbary Coast” as a name for that section suggestive of red lights and French restaurants, dance halls and Chinese orchestras, has long passed unquestioned with us by reason of long usage. Not so, however, with tourists and others here to see the exposition, and all that goes with It They mean to have its derivation, its history and

the reason why—therefore, they pick on policemen. And anything a policeman doesn’t know, he answers anyway with, “Yes, m'am; two blocks up and turn to your right” But tourists are insistent and so policemen are trying to solve the riddle of "Barbary Coast.” “Well, now, ril tell you, ma'am,” explained one' harassed bluecoat to a determined little woman from the middle W r est. "I think it comes from a barber shop.” “Why, are there many barbers there?” “No, ma'am, but they do say you're liable to get 'trimmed' if you go there.” And while a lot of similar explanations are being dispensed by our guardians of the peace, those who know, or claim to, say that “Barbary Coast” was saddled on San Francisco’s tenderloin by seafaring men who likened it to the real Barbary coast of Africa, recognised as the haunt of pirates and a tough place in general. If anyone has a better explanation to offer, please tell it to a policeman, for he wants to know.

Strange Disease That Affects the Liberty Bell

F[ ILADELPHI A. —Liberty bell, tbe most precious relic of the birth of this nation, is afflicted with an insidious disease of so serious a character that metallurgical experts have advised against sending it to San Francisco for

which the experts have discovered. Visible manifestations of the disease exist in the new crack, which begins at the top of the vertical old one and extends diagonally around the upper portion of the bell for more than a quarter of its circumference. As in the case of a human patients there has been a diagnosis and a course of treatment prescribed. The old bell’s doctor is Alexander E. Outerbridge, Jr., who holds the chair of metallurgy at Franklin institute, Philadelphia. In his report to the curator of the museum where the bell rests Mr. Outerbrldge wrote: “It is no hyperbolical figure of speech to say that the venerated Liberty bell is afflicted with a serious disease. Metallurgists have adopted into their technical phraseology the term ‘diseases of metals.’ and recognise several BUC h maladies. I myself have no hesitation in saying that the bell has a distemper which should insure its most careful preservation from all shocks such as it would be subjected to in a long journey."

Blackwells Island Has Its Own Exclusive Set

Nv'W YORK. —Blackwells Island has Its aristocracy—its first families of the workhouse. The social register, say those who understand the life behind the bars, is Identical with the prison register, for no one in the

woman’s wing can be recognized as "in society” unless she has attained four commitments. Two commitments, or three, leave one in the limbo of the parvenus; while even a good round term in the penitentiary does not remove the stigma upon the "climber.” It takes four sojourns in the Blackwells workhouse to pass muster. As for neophytes, the way of the light transgressor is exceedingly hard. One of the officials recently came

upon a woman in tears. “None of these girls will have a thing to do with “What were yon committed for?” "Tenement house law, but then —sob—you see it was only the first time." “But don't they respect you for that?” They respected her, it appeared, to the extent of freezing her out. No one would share sandwiches with her, talk to her, allow her to ace as a picket the keepers In case some one chanced to hake some smigglec Her ostrecfr"” seemed to cut as deeply as do any other social •nubs. . a. a of fact, the workhouse to many an old-timer is borne—the only place where As may feel In harmony with her environment. _

hither and yon, retrieving lost tennis balls, playing backstop' for amateur baseball catchers. With grace and dexterity the grandchildren of the grand dames were playing a game less intricate but more active than whist—an inconsequential matter called “bean bag.” Entirely surrounding the youngest set at play was a stout and high wire fence. Thus things stood when appeared the terror of society, a climber. The

exhibition at the Panama-Pacific exposition. Liberty bell made the journey to New Orleans in 1885, to Chicago in 1893, to Charleston in 1902, to Atlanta in 1895, to Boston in 1903 and to St. Louis in 1904. But since its return from that last journey to Its home in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, the crack which has disfigured the old bell for the last 80 years has widened and extended alarmingly —a result of the strange disease

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

Three Chic Hats for General Wear

In the matter of hats for general wear women are growing more and more exacting. They demand simplicity—in appearance, at least —excellence in lines and workmanship, and elegance in effect. That is, a hat which deserves to be called tailored is made to serve for the same sort of wear as a tailored gown. But an examination of real tailored millinery reveals that its simplicity is only a matter of appearance, while its construction is anything but simple. In the best grades of hats of this kind every one concerned in their manufacture and finishing must give the best of his talent. The tricorne reappears each season, with modifications in size and contour, among the favorite shapes for tailored millinery. A pretty example of it appears here in a dark brown “liseret” straw with flat crown of brown velvet which forms also a border for the coronet. The coronet is wider at the left side, giving a good upwardsweeping line across the face, twohandsome quills, in the brown and tan and gray colorings which are marvels of beauty in pheasant feathers, are mounted at the right side, one of them parallel with the right coronet and one springing upward across the crown to the high point of the cor-

For open-throated bodices of silk and chiffon the sheerest and coolestlooklng vestees and collars have been made of batiste or organdie, and of net. Hemstitching and small patterns in embroidery are used in decorating them. The tiniest buttons, set on in rows, look no larger or more useful than French knots, but are really practical for fastening the collars. They slip through the little openings in the hemstitching that finishes the edges. This machine hemstitching is proving its usefulness in the flnißh of edges, where it often replaces a narrow hem or takes the place of buttonhole stitching. The vestee and collar combination, either open or closed at the throat, is cooler looking than even the openthroated waist worn without it. Some of those made with a high collar are left unfastened at the throat and turn back or flare slightly open. It Is because these small accessories are so easy to keep dean that they make so strong am appeal for summer wear. A liberal supply of them keeps the bodices and blouses fresh looking and is & real protection to them as well.

Two of the vestees and collars shown in tbe picture given here are made with plain standing collars, one of them of organdie and one of net. Both are finished with narrow hems hemstitching and decorated with email embroidered flower sprays. They fasten with tiny pearl buttons that ■Up through the hemstitching, or, in many cases, through loops of fine cord sewed along the edge. The third collar supports a shaped circular piece that stands out about the neck, suggesting a ruff, but without fullness. This is one of several odd developments of the vestee and collar; the moat popular, with the exception of the plain standing collar, is the square turnover collar extending across the back, with the turnover portion cut away at the sides and the collar sloping to a small V at the

Vestees and High Collars

onet at the left aide. The hat is worn tilted upward at the left, and forms a graceful and becoming bead covering on which the two glorious quills call attention to the incomparable markings and shadings in natural leathers. A pretty hat in* black is made of milan straw braid is a shape which suggests the shepherdess. The crown is oval and the brim curves upward and widens a little at the left It is trimmed with a collar of white satin, and a black feather pompon poised at the right side, near the front. Lines are beautifully balanced in this shape, and black and white as a combination make the hat available with any color that may be chosen in the costume. A remarkable achievement in millinery art is shown in the third hat. It is made of several thicknesses of black malines stretched over a fine wire frame. Rows of “ripper’' straws *1 black are applied to the malines on the brim and side crown. The top crown is soft, without supporting wires, Since airy malines have been made waterproof, it is thoroughly practical for ordinary wear, and the transparent black hat so beautifully made is perfect millinery. It is trimmed with a fan of goura feathers dyed black and mounted at the right front.

Very small wire supports, with little loops at each end for sewing, are fastened in at each side and in the back of the standing collars. The wire is covered with cotton or silk cord and does not have to he removed for the laundry. ( Vestees and collars are to be had with the opening either at the back or front. When they are bought readymade those that fasten at the back must be bought in a length that will allow a half-inch overlap. They are easily adjusted and fasten with beauty pins. Collars bought with front fastening must be just the right size.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.

SELECT THE BEST FASHIONS

la These Days of Conflicting Styles Woman Need Not Be a Martyr. It behooves every woman to take a day off and study the conflicting fashions that beset one on every side. One can bring chaos to order if the mind and judgment is strong and concentration is all that the moralists tell us it is; a virtue that can make a barefoot boy into the multimillionaire. (You know the style of the average interview with the plutocrat) If you find fault with the full skirt you are within the law. It is an ugly fashion, full of ways that are vain and tricks that are dark, as someone sang of a race inferior to our own. If it is long, it has depths of awkwardness that none can dive into and remedy. If it is ultra short none but the young and the slim with the well-turned ankle and foot can wear it The fashion for the high-heeled shoe has already been brought info being by adoption of this abbreviated skirt and the woman who is too tall or too sensible to teeter along on a pair of curved stilts on the cobble Sterna of the public thoroughfares is aware that this swirling skirt is not for her;

GOOD JOKES

FRUIT OF KNOWLEDGE. A certain English gardener was the father of numerous sons, so numerous, In fact, that it became necessary to pal| the roll at bedtime to see if all were present. This method was also followed at meal time, each being served when he answered to his name. One day when all were assembled the usual proceeding commenced. " ’Orace!" called the father. “ 'Ere, sir!” said Horace. "’Arry!" “Present,” was the reply. “’Enry!” Now, Henry- was, just commencing Latin and he saw a good chance to air his newly acquired knowledge, 90 on hearing his name he called “Adsum!” “Well,” said the father, on whom this learning was evidently IOBt, "stand back and give ’em as ain’t a chance.” —National Monthly. „

THE USUAL WAY.

First Autoist—ls that the same automobile you bought this spring? Second Autoist—All except the body and three wheels.

Different Kinds.

One optimist will seek to grow A wiser race than this; " Another merely strives to show That ignorance is bliss.

The Place to Sleep.

Church —I see it is said that a botanist in Philadelphia has succeeded in putting a plant to sleep. Gotham—ln Philadelphia, did you say? “Yes. in Philadelphia.” “Don’t suppose they’ll ever be able to wake it, then.”

Merely Bluffing.

“Somehow I always suspect the promoter who says: ‘We court the fullest investigation.’ M “Why so?’’ "He reminds me of a man who shouts, ‘I want justice!’ and then quakes at the thought of getting it.”

Kings.

“The time is fast approaching when the world will have no kings,” said the plain eitizen. “How are you going to play cards without ’em?” asked the practical one.

Cutting Wood.

Bill—You know the authorities won’t let you cut a particle of wood in the Adirondacks now. Jill —But Suppose a person wanted to sharpen a lead pencil?

Her Only Chance.

“Confound that woman! I wish she would quit talking to her husband all through the play.” “You ought not to blame her. He's gone during each intermission.”

PAT WAS NOT A GRAFTER.

"Patrick Henry may have been a statesman, but he wasn’t an up-to-date politician.” “That’s so; he should have said •Give me graft or give me death-’”

Why He Mourns.

The bard-worked humorist is sad It must not be forgotten. Some days his stuff is merely bad And others simply rotten.

Difficult Situation.

“Well, women vote in your district now.” “Yes, and I hardly know how to campaign among ’em” “You have a good line of homespun oratory.” “But I dunno if women will like being appealed to as the plain people.”

Modem Facilities.

"Do you live in the city or the country?" “My residence is what you Bright

"Young man,-what profession do you expect to follow when you grow upr Tm going to be a doctor,” answered #the young man, taking out a notebook and penciL “May I count on you to save your appendix far met” —Judge.

A Planter, All Right.

Church —This is my uncle from the South. Gotham —Oh, indeed! Glad to meet him. “He's a Southern planter." “Oh, yes—a tiller of the soil?*’ “Oh, no; he’s a Florida undertaker.”

Mrs. Dearborn—My husband reads a great deal. He’s a regular bookbug. • Mrs. Wabash—l wouldn’t dignify him by calling him a bug. Call him a bookworm.

Bill —I see Manchester, England, last year imported #O,OOO barrels of American apples. Jill —Yes, England gets a lot of our ‘pippins,’ I know.

"Aren’t you forgetting yourself?” said the sweet young thing, as an arm stole around her. “Oh, no,” was the man’s reply; “I’m enjoying it as much as you are.”

The Realistic Drama.

The Ghost —I could a tale unfold to you whose slightest word would make each particular hair stand on end. Hamlet —Useless labor, old chap; my hair’s naturally pompadour.

Amy—Jimson is the lightweight champion of the district. Fanny—That so? I didn’t know ho was a boxer. Amy—He isn’t He’s the grocer.

Cholly—You say she threw you over without any warning? , Willy —No; she warned me if I ever came around again, she’d set the dog on me.

Sartorially Speaking.

Behold the classic dancer. Applauded everywhere. She makes the barest living. But she has coin to spare.

Mrs. Myles—This paper says that in Japan pearl fishing is almost exclusively done by women. Mr. Styles—ln this country the women usually “fish” for diamonds.

Financial Strabismus.

“I’m afraid our new treasurer will ruin this concern,” remarked the head of the trust. ‘Why, what’s he doing?” “He talks of paying our debts instead of refunding them.” —Philadel r phia Ledger.

Church—lt is said the area of all New England is less than half that of Montana. Gotham—And yet it’s a safe bet that New England feels a good deal bigger.

“There seems to be a great change in that man I took for one of the big guns of the establishment” “No wonder; he’s going to be fired.”

Too Angry to Sleep.

"Do you ever wake up your wife -getting in late nights?” "Never.” “How the dence do. you manage it?” “She is never asleep.”

His Honor Gets Cynical.

Judge—What was the cause of the rumpus? Policeman —Well, you see, judge, this man here and that woman there are married. Judge—Yes, yes, I knpw; but what was the other cause?

Nothing to Talk About.

“Is Mrs. Crabson enjoying good health now?" - /

His Ambition.

Bounded Worse.

They Marry Titles.

Misunderstood.

Not a Pugilist

WARNED.

Fishing Women.

Big Feeling.

Accounting for It