Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1915 — Page 2

STPROES from the BIG CITIES

School Whose Pupils Speak Eleven Languages NEW YORK. —Uncle Sam conducts In New York a school for little folk, the like of which will be found in no other place In the world. It is a school of all nations. Do not judge by this that it is big. for it is not Sometimes

• Slav, Roumanian. German, Bulgarian and Yiddish. Each morning the mothers come with their children and sit at the farther end of the big room sewing *nd knitting for the soldiers. For it is all in the same building that they eat, sleep and lire. The little pupils can see from their windows the tall buildings of the city across the bay. What they do not know is that for some reason their parents have been forbidden to land and as soon as the terrible war is over they all will be sent back to their old homes. The ladles of the International institute learned about these children and knew that it might be many months before they could be deported, so they suggested the school and in December last sent Miss U. L. Polukalsaky to take charge of it. Some of the youngsters have been there since last summer. When the school was started they were very much happier, and already they understand enough English to talk to each other and some can even write little letters. Their teacher is a very wonderful lady and can understand anything they ask her, no matter what the language. But very soon they will all be able to talk "United States,” as a little boy from Denmark said. Every morning they copy in letters and figures many times, as they repeat after the teacher their names. Then she writes words on the blackboard and they learn these, also. They are given prints of animals and flowers and these they color with crayon pencils. Next they have a gymnasium lesson, drilling with swordlike sticks, marching and learning how to breathe properly. After luncheon they play all manner of games and have lots of fun. A little girl from far away Russia, for instance, tells how she used to play at home and the rest will all join her. Before long most of these children will be promoted to a higher class; then they will have another teacher. But whether these little friends are allowed to land in this country or are obliged to return to their own, it is safe to say that never will they forget each other, or the things they have teamed or the fun they had through the kindness and patience of their Hungarian teacher.

Madison Students Like Malted Milk and “Cigs”

MADISON WlS.—About 141,200 malted milks are consumed annually by the students of the University of Wisconsin, at a cost of 114,120, enough money to buy a good meal for 56.480 people. This is not a mere guess, but

carefully compiled figures submitted by dealers in the university district The straws used in the malted milks if placed in a direct line would reach 13 miles. The malted milk consumed would fill a reservoir of 13,000 gallons. Over three tons of the dry powder is consumed a year. Figures show that 1,040,000 cigarettes are consumed annually by students, at a cost of $7,800. The cigarettes, If placed in a direct line, would reach around Lake Mendota

twice. There is enough paper in the cigarettes consumed to make 1,300 library books of 100 pages each. ’ There are enough cigarettes consumed to supply every one of the 6,000 students with 170 cigarettes a year. Uncle Sam’s share of the tax which the student pays amounts to about $1,250. If one man smoked the cigarettes continually for 18 hours a day It would take him six years to smoke all the cigarettes consumed by the students in one year. The total cost of the malted milks and cigarettes amounts to $21,920, enough to put 73 students through one year of the university. The total amount spent for these luxuries would buy libraries of the best literature for 300 families, supplying 100 books to each family.

Atlanta Thief Specializes in Electric Lights

ATLANTA- —The Fulton county, Alabama, courthouse has been invaded re cently by a mysterious burglar. His operations are the most daring . recorded in Atlanta in a long while. Officials are stirred up, also sorely

Reid on the sixth floor, of its lights, taking 12 globes. Judge Reid saw the thief —a well-dressed young white man —at work in the courtroom, and, when discovered, the latter posed as an electrician. Judge Reid asked the stranger to place a light in one of his anterooms, and the “electrician'’ obligingly promised to do so. A few minutes later Judge Reid found all of his electric lights gone.

How Chicago Nearly Had the Laugh on St. Louis

CHICAGO. —For a few minutes the other day Chicago had the laugh on St Louis and then John Museritis of 2722 Emerald avenue had to come along and spill the beans. Tony Bardos started 'things when he appeared before

Judge Caverly along with 25 other panhandlers picked up in West Madison street That is, Tony appeared disguised behind a blanket of soot end grime. H« admitted an antipathy to soap and asserted water, even as a beverage, was poor stuff. “I just blew in from St Louie,” he said. “Well, you can’t mix with our bums without first taking a bath — $5,” said the court It was only a few minutes later

that Mrs A ante Museritis faced her husband in the court of domestic rel> Hops. j “I couldn’t stand to live with him any longer," she said. “He has not taken a bath in seven months.” “Go home and bathe daily, and if you miss one day during the next month the bridewell will be your bathhouse," was the court’s warning.

there are as many as 50 pupils there, but usually the average is 25. The sessions are held in a long, bright and sunny corridor on Ellis island, where emigrants are landed. Sometimes you will find at study "the whole world in children," as a deeply impressed visitor recently observed. A photograph taken at a time when the school was not particularly well attended, shows kiddies who are Bohemian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, Danish,

perplexed. The burglar’s specialty is electric lights. While two “eagleeyed” officers mingled with the crowds in the courthouse and with officials in the various offices and courtroom, watching for the thief, the latter made a raid on the seventh floor and stole 21 globes, leaving the private offices and courtrooms of Judge T. O. Hathcock and L. Z. Rosser, Jr., of the municipal court bare of lights. A day or two before the thief cleared the courtroom of Judge H. M.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

Concerning the Made-Over Gown

Some of the season’s styles, but not many of them, lend themselves to the remodeling of gowns. Women who are clever at this work have been quick to grasp the possibilities of those models in which two fabrics are used for constructing the body of the gown. The difficulty lies nearly always in widening the skirt. If one possesses a last season’s gown very wide and voluminous as to the hips and very scant as to the hem, it Is sometimes possible to simply reverse it. That is, the bottom of the skirt last year becomes the top this year. The fashion of wearing yokes to which the lower part of the skirt is set on helps out, and the vogue for very short skirts is also to be reckoned with in making over things. Other features in the present modes that encourage remodeling are the use of wide bands of silk about the bottom of skirts as a finish, and the introduction of two or three bands in the body of the skirt. The same silk may supply new sleeves and a part of the bodice. Wide, loose girdles of silk that swathe the figure and obliterate the waist line are good style and will be for another season, at least. The separate tunic, or two-piece skirt, and the small coat, made in a

Not within the memory of the oldest observer of fashions has there been a time when women gave so much attention to their footwear, or the makers of shoes to their designers. The new shoes, high or low, for summer wear are nothing less than marvels of workmanship in which combinations of colored leathers or of cloth and leather are wrought into the daintiest and snappiest of crisp-looking clothing for the feet The plain shoe comes in for little consideration, for even the utility shoe of tan leather takes unto itself tips and bands in deeper, shades of tan or in gray, and revels in decorative stitchings. Also it laces up at unheard of positions, all, it must be confessed, to the advantage of the wearer as to the appearance of her feet A fine example of a low shoe of this kind is shown in the group pictured here. The other low shoe is designed for more dressy wear, showing a combination of black patent leather with a colored cloth. Beautiful stitching and graceful shaping in the emplacements of leather make this a gem to be considered. The Inside lace is really a great improvement over the

Footwear That Is Smart

color sharply contrasting with that of the gown, are items in the mode that offer very interesting features to the economist. The tunic skirt is graceful and popular, and last year’s skirt Is easily converted into a tunic over a drop skirt of another material. Long sleeves of chiffon or other diaphanous material may solve the problem when new sleeves must be used. A pretty and gown of two mar terials is shown in the picture given here. The skirt, which is short and faced upon the under side, is attached to a gathered yoke of silk by a piping of silk over cable cord. Last year’s coat becomes this year’s bodice by means of a wide girdle of silk finished with flat loops and ends at the right side. This girdle is provided with buttonholes at the front and back which fasten over decorative buttons. A rolling collar of silk and long cuffs set on with a piping to the sleeve complete a design completely in the fashion of the present time.

Hand Embroidery.

Hand embroidery plays a prominent part in the trimming of thin frocks. There are many lovely frocks of net almost covered with embroidery.

front lace, if not for greater convenience, for beauty. Except for ornamental stitching nothing is used in the way of decoration on the new shoes. No buckles or bows could be used where the body of the shoe furnishes all the variety in composition needed. A certain trimness, too, in the designs compels the absence of decoration, also. It is a case of realizing the force of that adage against painting the illy and adorning the rose. The high shoes pictured are combinations of patent leather and colored cloth. They are shown with the front and the side lace.' Similar shoes for midsummer made in a combination of black and white leather will vie with low shoes to be worn with white dresses and with combinations of black and white. The vogue of colored cloth and unusual colors in leather combined with black for shoes promises to remain with us for some time. Already those who make the cloths used in footwear are matching up the colors in dress goods which manufacturers are making ready for fall. JULfA BOTTOMLEY.

GATHERED AMILES

A SINCERE INVESTIGATOR. S “You have been away from home some time.” "Yes; traveling in the Interests of science. I have been engaged in some research among the rural population.” "Some question of agriculture?” “Na Philology. I have been reading dialect stories, and I have been traveling all' through the rural districts trying to locate a farmer who really said ‘by Heck.’ "

There’s Room at the Top.

He entered the barber shop, sat himself down, resigned to his fate. The barber shaved him. "Shampoo, sir?" asked the tonsorialist “No,” replied the man, gazing at his bald dome in the reflective mirror; “shine.”—Philadelphia Ledger.

Youth Will Have Its Fling.

City Visitor—Your son at college is quite an athlete, I understand. Great at throwing the hammer. Farmer Hawbuck —Yes, gol durn it! Last time he was daown I gave him a hammer to fix the barn an’ he threw it so fur I hain’t seen it sence. —Boston Evening Transcript.

A Hustler From Hustleville.

Senior Partner—How’s the new traveling man? Is he selling any goods? Junior Partner—Not at present. I had to lay him off because he sold too many. He sold them cheaper than we could manufacture them.

Feeling Cheap.

Bacon —My boy was out fishing yesterday, and he caught a skate with only a bent pin and a worm. Egbert—That fish, I’ll bet, felt like a “cheap skate” all right.

His Wish.

"Don’t you wish you had sense enough to make a million?” "No. I wish I had sense enough to make a quarter of a million and stop with that and enjoy it.”

His Place.

“Is young Jaggs going under as fast as they say?” “I guess so. He is generally either under his automobile or under a cloud.**

ACTION WANTED.

Orville Stayer—Well, I must think about going. Vera Weereigh—Oh! please don’t think of it! .

Merely a Hint.

There’s nothing like the grist of gab, So talk to the point when you can; Heed, however, this bit of advice — Talk, but don’t get gay, young man.

Gentle Hint.

Tramp—l’d like to borry a medical almanac, ma’am. Housekeeper—What for? Tramp —I wants ter see wot th’ doctors recommend for an empty feelin’ in th’ stummick.

Everybody Satisfied.

Said He—l’m nothing if not original. I like to be different from other people. Said She —Well, that’s a good idea — and doubtless other people are more than satisfied to have it that way.

Awful Spats.

Patience —Do you know the Styles? Patrice —Oh, yes. “Is it true that they have aWful spats ?” “Oh, yes; she has a pink pair and he has a blue pair.”

Current Styles.

“Just because a girl wears a 11810’ hat is no sign that she’s an angel.” “Certainly not. And just because she wears a harem veil is no sign that she’s a Turk, either.”

Tribute.

“Give me a box of those expensive cigars.” “These are very fine,” said the tobacconist. “All right I’ll give those to the Janitor. Now let me have some cheap ones to smoke myself.”

A Proof of It.

“I hear the Smiths are people of the greatest integrity." “Sure. Why, they wouldn’t even have anything else in their house but an upright piano"

Rubbing It In.

Miss Knox —I have a good joke on cousin Clara. Without her glasses, you know, it is almost impossible for her to distinguish one person from another, and this morning she actually talked to a dummy in front of a clothing store for ten minutes, thinking’ it was you. Sapleigh—Weally; and how did she —aw —discovah her mistake?. Miss Knox—She didn’t; that’s where the joke comes in.

Candid Misgivings.

“When I go home at night,” said! the querulous man, “my wife always seems glad to see me." “Is there anything surprising about that?” "I don’t know how to look at the matter. When I look into the glass I can’t help feeling that anybody who is glad to see me must have mighty little artistic sense.”

HIS SCHEME.

Visitor —Well, it’s an ill wind that blows nobody good. Farmer —That’s right. The last cyclone blew my house away before my mother-in-law could get out of it.

Faded Recollections.

A fight Is something to regret. It leaves mankind downhearted; Before It’s ended they forget Just how and why It started.

We Remember.

Bacon—lt is said that tin is used to weight silk to such an extent that many a woman’s dress would assay as highly as what is considered good tin ore. Egbert—Yes. and then the women get a lot of “tin” out of our clothes, too, you must remember.

Food Supply.

Redd —Don’t you think automobiles are useful in times of war? Greene —Not as useful as'horses.** “Why not?” “ ’Cause you can eat horses.”

Walking Advertisement.

“What do you do during the winter months?” “Oh, I’m well fixed,” said the famous baseball player. “I’ve got a job smoking El Punko cigarettes.”

Accounted For.

“Why are these people continually sending petitions for redress of some grievance?” “I suppose they think it is a good way to write their wrongs.”

Appropriate III.

“That athlete has troubles to match.” “What do you mean?” “Says he has a jumping toothache.”

SCARCELY WORTH MENTIONING.

Aeronaut —I expect to take a few; books with me, as'the trip is likely to be a long one. Reporter—They’ll be useful for bat last, too, ; I presume. Aeronaut —Not in the least. I shall take nothing, but light fiction.

Squaring Himself.

“How did I know that you would scream if I tried to kiss you?” “You didn’t know it, but you might have guessed it” “Perhaps, but I wanted to make sure and trying to kiss you was the only way I could find out”

A Gastronomic Suggestion.

“If those lines are printed from that address, I will make the author eat his words.” ' '-l “Then it would be a good Idea to make them 'pi’ lines.”