Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1915 — Page 2

Newest National Playground

THE latest addition to our family of national playgrounds is the Rocky Mountain National park of Colorado. It is the thirteenth in number and the fourth in size, embracing 280,000 acres. After • long controversy and hard-fought battle as to the proper boundaries, congress has passed a bill and President Wilson has signed it, creating the park. The state of Colorado rejoices and the people of the United SUtes, who know anything about the glory of western mountain peak and valley, rejoice. For all time this beautiful, lofty region is dedicated to the people, says James Hamilton Byrd in Grit It is full time that Colorado, truly the mountain state of America, should be distinguished with a great national park. There are more than a hundred mountain peaks in this great backbone of the United States which are above 14,000 feet in height, while in all the other states combined there are less than a score of mountains of such commanding altitudes, so that it Is altogether fitting that the portion of the great continental divide which traverses Colorado, and where the raindrops from the descending storm find their way, part of them to the Atlantic and part of them to the Pacific, should be set aside as a national playground. The campaigif that has been waged during the past five or six years to obtain the creation of this park was in the hands of Representative E. W. Taylor of Denver. Mr. Taylor’s speech on the floor of the house in favor of the Rocky Mountain National park would lead one to believe that for beauty, grandeur and absolutely unrivaled magnificence

ABOVE THE TIMBER LINE

there is nothing else in the United States than Colorado, and especially Ihe Rocky Mountain park region. However, except as comparisons where different portions of the United States are concerned are sometimes dangerous, it would be difficult to overestimate the glory and sublime grandeur of the Colorado Continental Divide, While of this region the new park area is more than representative. Long’s Peak a Feature. Long’s peak, a wonderful feature of the park, is a second Mont Blanc, rearing its splintered horn 14,255 feet above sea level.- From its height the traveler’s eye with a single sweep may take in through the clear atmosphere a distance of 300 miles—-that distance to the west, north and south being made up of scores of mountains, ten, eleven,<.twelve and thirteen thousand feet in height, dominated by Gray’s peak and the great mass of Pike's peak, both over 14,000 feet in height. Long’s peak is 145 feet higher than the famous Pike’s peak, and has been termed “a jewel set in the crest of the Rockies.” The Roeky Mountain park region is no uninhabited wilderness. Even with the first year of its existence it will vie with the renowned Yellowstone park in popular favor, for already its beauties are enjoyed annually by thousands of visitors. Last summer 20,250 people visited the Yellowstone, but at the samel time over 50,000. people camped ana dwelt among the mountains and valleys of the Rocky Mountain park. Gjf.the new park region the moving ipirit for the past half-dozen years las been a small, slight, wiry, mountain-loving man (With a shock of red hair and a mouth Jlke a steel trap, Enos A. Mills, the and writer. In season and out he his fought for the park, stubbornly and even viciously and always confident of ultimate victory in the btace off «t times apparently insur-

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mountable difficulties and controversies. The Rocky Mountain park will be a money maker for the state of Colorado and for the United States. It rivals Switzerland, and with the other national parks it will be the means of keeping in America a great deal of good American coin that heretofore has annually been dropped into the ample pockets of Alpine scenery capitalists. The European war will result in turning westward during the coming seasons many thousands of tourists, and once they have “seen America first” they will be inclined to see it first, last and all the time. The outbreak of hostilities in Europe last summer and the stranding of thousands of American travelers in European countries brought home to us the astounding fact that fully $500,000,000 has been spent abroad every year by sightseers and tourists. Easy of Access. The fact that the Rocky Mountain park is situated at the gates of Denver and only 30 hours from Chicago makes it the most accessible of all the national parks for those seeking rest and recreation and the splendid outdoor life which the mountains afford. Hunting will not be allowed in this park, as it is not in any of the other national parks, and this protection of the wild animal life will soon cause the area to become well stocked with many kinds of our four-footed friends, leading their happy, unmolested lives. The wild animal life of this great mountain state is now hunted from valley to peak and from peak to valley. The army of sportsmen wbich annually invades even th 6 most remote portions of Colorado allows the deer and the elk and the bear no peace, no respite; they flee from one party and run foul of another fusillade of the high-ipw-er, smokeless guns. Surely they wftl welcome a refuge of a quarter of a million acres in which the terrifying crack of the rifle and the occasional deadly thud of the bullet will be no longer heard. The Rocky Mountain park contains many lofty mountain peaks from 10,000 feet in altitude to over 14,000, many profound canyons and grassy valleys, furnishing ideal camping places, gay with hundreds of species of mountain flowers, glaciers and glacial lakes, rushing and foaming streams alive with brisk trout, and waterfalls and rapids. Of the beauties of this region a glimpse is obtained from a paragraph of Chief Geographer Marshall's report: “There is no predominant, commanding national feature in the park,” he states, “such as is found in thte Crater Lake, the Yellowstone or the Yosemite parks, or along the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. The region as a whole, however, is as beautiful as any to be found in the United States, or, indeed, in the world. There is spread before the eye a gorgeous assemblage of wonderful mountain sculpture, surrounded by fantastic and ever-chang-ing clouds, suspended in an apparently atomless space. At first view, as one beholds the scenes in awe and amazement, the effect is as of an enormous painting, a vast panorama stretching away for illimitable distances; gradually this idea of distance disappears, the magnificent work of nature seems to draw nearer and nearer, reduced apparently by an unseen microscope to the refinement of a delicate cameo. Each view becomes a refined miniature, framed by another more fascinating, the whole presenting an impressive picture, never to be forgotten.”

Wonderful Rose.

Many wonderful things are done by the Chinese, Japanese, and Siamese in raising flowers. One of their most remarkable productions is known as “the changeable rose.” The bloom of this rose is white in the shade and red in the sunlight. After dark, or when it is in a dark room, this rose has a pure waxy-white blossom. When it is taken into the sunlight, a wonderful transformation occurs. First the petals take on a kind of washed or faded blue color, which rapidly change to a faint blush or pink. The pink color gradually deepens in hue until at last this rose, which was lily white, becomes as red as the reddest peony that ever bloomed.

Fruit From Tasmania.

It has been estimated that 400,000 cases of fruit will be available for export from Tasmania this season. Early shipments have recently arrived i* England. ■■

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

GARMENTS FOR BRIDE

THEIR SELECTION A MATTER OF IMPORTANCE. * Going-Away Suit May Be Made to Do Duty on Many Occasions—Always Well to Include One Costume of Serge. For her silk going-away suit, the bride may choose shantung and pongee, and assure hereelf thereby of a most satisfactory garment. A simple blouse will make this suit exactly what she wants for a shopping expedition, and a smart frilly one will make it appropriate for a luncheon -on a matinee. If the "silent colors” are not becoming to her, she may consult the sample books of faille and ottoman; and if she wants the newest thing of all, she will take grenadine or voile. A white net blouse, quite plain but for a frock of tiny plaited frills at neck and wrist, is an attractive novelty. There is great piquancy of effect in its black Stock-ribbon bound around the neck between the feathery ruffles. It is well to Include a serge suit in one’s outfit for the really chilly weather that sometimes happens in the best regulated summers, but it need not n«ceßsarily be a brand new one, unless

Evening Frock of Yellow Taffeta With Sash of Gold-Beaded Net—The Bodice and Underskirt Are of Chiffon Finished With Bands of Black Velvet.

one likes. A one-piece dress, dark and serviceable, for a day’s traveling or shopping will be found useful; and the new redingotes of silk, which completely cover a gown, are the latest thing in daytime wraps. In the evening, the bride of 1915 will want to envelop herself in a cloud of pale colored tulle, with a pointed taffeta bodice, or turn herself into a sort of walking morning glory flower by her flaring skirt of taffeta or gros de londres. A pair of gold slippers to wear with her short-skirted dancing dress will be found a sensible investment. They are expensive, it is true, but they

DAINTY LITTLE PEN WIPER

Can Be Made From Old Dress Pattern or Almost Any Kind of Discarded Remnant. New ideas for dainty little pen wipers are alw'ays welcome, as they are articles that can be made from old dress patterns or almost any kind of small remnants of material and they always find a ready sale at a bazaar. We give a sketch of a pretty little hanging pen wiper that can be quick-

ly made. It measures two inches in width at the top and three inches in width at the bottom, and it is three inches in length. t Our sketch clearly shows the shape lu which it should be cut out, and for the interior any kind of small pieces of material can be utilized. The cover la made of dark green

go well with all the pale colors thac are fashionable for evening, and they are a good deal more economical in the end than slippers and stockings to match each gown. Evening wraps are simply ravishing—-voluminous affairs of coral, turquoise or purple silk, lined with chiffon, edged with Georgian ruches and decked with silver embroidery, or trimmed with white fur. A white fok neckpiece to wear with them would make a gift for which any bride would be pathetically grateful. Hats are always important, for they can make or mar the ensemble. Por traveling, the bride should make her head as neat and trim and as small as possible. When she reaches her destination she may let her headgear be as large and frivolous as she pleases. Wide sailor-shapes in howery cretonne and tussore colored to match the silk wreath are charming with white clothes for mornings. For afternoon, there are the transparent fantasies in black, white or pale colors, or the old-fashioned leghorn wreathed with flowers and ribbons. Sports hats are seen in supple hemp or tucked and corded silk. If one is really serious, there are practical affairs in panama and soft felt. White kid hats are new, if rather heavy. The all-white or all-black hat is always a good choice. (Copyright, 1915. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

SIMPLE DRESS FOR A CHILD

Pretty Design That Few Mothers Would Have Much Difficulty In Copying to Perfection. In the window of a store where children’s dresses are sold is a dress which draws remarks from every observer. The dress is so effective and so simple that every woman standing before the window feels sure she can make one just like it for her daughter and for half the price quoted on the tag. And every woman filled with such confidence has the right idea, for the dress is made in simple jumper effect, being of pink linen, and the underbody or guimpe is of white batiste. At either side front of the dress is a daisy outlined with coronation braid, and from the daisy a stem and several tiny leaves grow for a distance of four inches from the top and bottom of the flower. The coronation braid is white and the leaves and stems are outlined in white mercerized cotton. Turned back cuffs and a lay-down collar on the guimpe are edged with finely plaited batiste, and both sides of the front box plait are edged with narrower plaiting. A wide black velvet belt, slipped through embroidered slots, adds distinction to the little frock. Duplicate this model in all white, in a combination of blue and white, yellow and white or brown and white, and you will cause rejoicing in the heart of the little girl who is to wear it. —New York Press.

Dressy Neckband.

A band which fits snugly around the neck with a small bow in front is intended to be worn either with a low collar or at the base of the high stock collar. It consists of a narrow halfinch velvet neckband, finished with a small tailored bow at the front, from which depends two strings of beans, seven and eight inches in length, caught to a strip of the velvet ribbon ~ These neckbands are in all colors. For instance, one of rose-colored velvet has beads of •crystal and rose color.

Use Shabby Dress.

The dress that has become too shabby or out of fashion to wear should not take closet space. If you have not an old trunk in the attic in which the dress can repose in a made-up shape, rip it up and neatly fold the pieces in a roll and put them into a drawer. -There will come a time when the material will be just the thing you need. *

cloth and the design that appears upon it and which can quite well be worked from our illustration is embroidered with silk of an old rose color. The pieces of material are cut into points at the base of the pen wiper, and they are securely bound together at the top with a strip of black kid and possibly a portion of an old glove may be used for this purpose. For suspending the pen wiper from a nail in the wall, or perhaps one of the handles of the drawers in the writing table, an ordinary key ring is sewn on in the center at the top.

Something New Is a "Middy."

A pleasing change from the oldstlye, sailor-collared middy blouse for tennis wear, is this smart tunic with its belt passing under the front panel, and its unusual arrangement of collar. Skirt and tunic are of fine white cotton percale, the skirt in a gore-flared cut and the tunic having wide armholes and slashes at the hip so that it is very roomy and comfortable for active exercises. The trimmings are of Dutch blue chambray. This maiden wears a sensible tennis hat of lightweight straw with shady brim. Her feet are shod with tennis shoes of white cotton duck trimmed with tan calf.

Colored Handkerchiefs.

Colored handkerchiefs are perhaps more usual nowadays than plain white leapt handkerchiefs showing some color, even if only a little. There are pretty ones of crepe de chine in plain light colors —yellow, pink, violet and blue. There are others with colored borders and many with colored embroidery. ' •-*-

Eph Wiley says the most inharmonious combination Is a street car conductor and his necktie. Drink Denison's Coffee. Always pure and delicious.

He'll Get It.

“How about going to a show tonight, Jimr ' “Not for me. I’m going to Jiggins’ party." "Oh, come on with me. The Jigglnses are dead slow. You never have any fun at their house." "I know, but 1 napd a new hat"

Oh, That Lash!

Tommy had watched the high-hatted and frock-coated ringmaster for some time. He was particularly interested In the way he handled the whip with the long lash. “Well, Tommy,” said his father, “what do you think of that fellow ?” The whip cracked again as Tommy replied: “I’m glad he isn’t my father.”

Just Like a Man.

“Tom,” said the bride of a week, "didn’t you promise faithfully to give up smoking the day I married you?” “Yes, my dear," replied Tom, "I believe I did.” “And now,” she continued, "I find you puffing a cigar, just as though I weren’t in existence. What explanation have you to offer?” “Well, I kept my promise,” replied the husband. "I didn’t smoke a single cigar on our wedding day.”—Philadelphia Public Lledger.

How It Happened.

“It was this way,’’ said the tattooed man to his circle of interested listeners. “I was marooned on an island In the South Pacific and captured by a band of savages. They demanded a thousand dollars for my release. I was in a terrible predicament —all my money was in a New York bank, and I hadn’t a cent with me.” “What did you do ?” asked one of the listeners as the tattooed man paused for breath. “I told them to draw on me, and they did.”

Horse Chestnut.

"I was sitting on the bootblack’s stand,” said the story-teller, “when the parade came along, the grand marshal riding a big bay horse at its head. Well, just as the head of the parade came opposite me, it stopped The grand marshal’s horse wouldn’t go another step." “Recognized you as his long lost half brother, I suppose,” said one of his listeners maliciously. “Think you’re smart, don’t you? Well, I'll tell you, anyhow. It was pride that made that horse stop—nothing but pride. He wanted his shoes shined.”

Corn on the Cob —the Roasting Ear 0 is not more delicious than \ > ’ '• ■ Post Toasties —the toasted sweet of the com Helds! In the growth of corn there is a period when the kernels are plumped out with a vegetable milk, most nutritious. As it slowly ripens this hardens and finally becomes almost flinty. Only this part of the com is used in making Post Toasties, the husk, germ and all waste being rejected. This nutritious part is cooked, seasoned “just right,” rolled and toasted to a crackly golden-brown crispness— -Post Toasties —-the * Superior Corn Flakes And they cost no more than the ordinary “com flakes.” Insist upon having Post Toastie*. y. —sold by Grocers everywhere. —

tai MW / Just open and serve. Excellent for sandwiches. Insist on Libby’m at your grocer's. Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago

Delays Are Dangerous.

“How is it that Jones always acts before he thinks?” “If he thought first he’d never act.”

Thoughtful Old Soul.

“My dear, I’ve an idea,” said old Mrs. Goodart to her caller. “You know we frequently read of the soldiers making sorties. Now why not make up a lot of those sorties and send them to the poor fellows at the front?” —Boston Evening Transcript.

The Look in French Faces.

Almost all the faces about these crowded tables (in the case at Chalonß) —young or old, plain or handsome, distinguished or average—have the same look of quiet authority; it is as though all “nervosity,” fussiness, little personal oddities, meanness and vulgarities, had been burned away In a great flame of self-dedication. It is a wonderful example of the rapidity with which purpose models the human countenance. —Edith Wharton in Scribner’s Magazine.

Reason for His Politeness.

"Shoestring’s untied, ma’am,” a small boy called out to the stout woman who moved majestically up the street. “I’ll tie it for you.” Even a less haughty woman would have found it difficult to treat with disdain so kind an offer, and she drew back her skirt in acceptance of his attention. The little boy pulled the string tight and smiled up at her. “My mother’s fat, too,” he explained.—The Independent.