Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1915 — Page 3

GAMES OF ZULU CHILDREN

Youngster* Have Their Own Amusement*, Much as Do Thoae of Other Countries. Zulu children are in moat particulars exceedingly like any other children who chance to arrive in this world with white instead of black skins. They play the same games, or, if girls, love the same dollß, as for the matter of that the old Egyptians did long ago. Indeed, the doll make believe appears to be carried further than is common in civilized countries. Thus the small Kafirs build actual huts for them in place of the houses that here ffre provided ready-made from the toy shop. They give them stones to grind their corn, mats for sleeping, pots for cooking, and so forth. They provide them with a cattle kraal stocked with clay oxen, goats and fowls. They marry them in a realistio manner, singing the appropriate songs. The owner of a boy doll will manufacture and pay away ten clay cattle in order to supply it with a wife or wives in the shape of properly—or improperly—dressed female dolls, and with such married puppets a lad may play, although it is beneath his dignity to amuse himself with ah unwed maiden doll. So it is with everything else. They have their parties which last all night, and their clans that play with/or more generally fight other clans belonging to the next kraal or tribe. The sense of honor is very fully developed In them, and the sense of greediness still more —so much so, indeed, that they will stuff themselves with half-cooked and unplucked birds, caught in the veld, which, did they bring home, they fear would be taken from them and eaten by their elders. They manufacture excellent traps to catch these birds and other wild things, such as mice, which they also eat. They possess an elaborate system of fagging, and a good fight with sticks, not fists, is the Joy of their hearts. As with our children, the boyß look down upon the girls, except on certain occasions, when, for instance, a pair of them will share the Bame pempe, or bird scaring hut, in which they play at being sweethearts, the head boy choosing the best favored girl, or sometimes the prettiest girl selecting her own boy.

Great Man Didn’t Scare.

A student once tried to frighten Cuvier, the great naturalist, and succeeded only in giving the wise man a curious way of showing his knowledge of living things. The student dressed up as a terrible animal and crept into the professor’s bedroom one night “Cuvier,” he cried, in a hollow voice. “Cuvier, I’ve come to eat you!” The naturalist peered at him and immediately broke into a laugh. “What horns and hoofs —graminivorous —you can’t,” he said. He saw that the supposed monster had hoofs and horns and he knew that such animals eat. grain and grasses and not flesh. So he was not in the least afraid of being eaten.

These United States.

The United States has 3,000,000 square miles of territory, 1,903,000,000 acreß of land. There are 878,000,000 acres of land In the farms of the country, but 478,000,000 acres of this area are and unproductive.

Small Comfort.

Asker —He calls me a donkey I Should I challenge him? Tellit—You might—to prove it!

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MODISH AND PRETTY

NEUTRAL TONEB ARE DECIDEDLY - ATTRACTIVE. Also Thera I* Enough Variety to Enable Any Woman to Make a 80lection That Will Please Permanently. It you prefer a dark coloring for your new silk dress, are tired of blue and do not want black, there are such lovely neutral tones to choose from, such as gun-metal grays, very dark olive greens and the almost black shade of brown known as tete de negro, and seal brown. This is a very modish color, and when touched up with a bit of enlivening color of white to relieve the neck and sleeve ends some very rich effects can be achieved. The illustrated design is a splendid one for a development in seal brown, with an interesting vest-girdle, and sleeves of cream-colored taffeta striped with lapis-lazuli blue. There is a high-necked gulmpe of white Georgette crepe, shirred at the neck and wrists to give a generotis fullness. Frills of self-material add a soft finish at the top of the collar and sleeve ends. Over the gulmpe is' worn the attractive Jumper blouse of brown taffeta, widely open in front, slashed over the shoulders and bloused over the top of the striped girdle. The under elbow-length sleeves of striped silk must be attached to the guimpe. A close row of silver buttons trims the center of the draped girdle, to whose lower edge the tunic and drop skirt are applied with a cord finish and narrow heading of plaited silk. China silk will do for the drop skirt, to which the two lower flounces are sewed.. They are circular flounces and finished with narrow plaited ruffles of the goods.

The tunic is a little below knee length, and similarly bordered with a narrow plaiting. Unlike the two

Splendid Design for Seal Brown Taffeta.

flounces, it Is not circular, but is evenly gathered around the hips. The same design may be used for a thin wash fabric, such as voile, organdie or crepe de chine.

ORIGINAL IDEA OF MERIT

Novel Gift That Could Not Fall to Give Delight to the Fortunate Recipient. „: />• . f. # A girl who is hailed among her especial friends &b the only original one fully lived up to her name and reputation by bringing to the last linen shower a most novel gift—and it was not linen. It was intended, however, for the lingerie chest and was the most novel and prettiest of sachets. Apparently, when the eager bride-to-be opened the little flowered, silk-cov-ered box, she saw lying in its silken depth a large creamy satin rose. When she lifted it for further examination a sweet aroma was diffused through the room and the rose was discovered to be nothing more than a number of petal-like bags of aachet attached to a central calyx disk by means of the smallest of gilt safety pins. The petals shaded from light cream at the outer edge to a deep pink in the center. The only original girl admitted to having used a “real rose” as her model, and . shaping the petal sachets accordingly. A clever little verse told the delighted recipient that one petal at a time might be removed and attached to any piece of lingerie she desired. The sachet used was a delicate rose, which had first been laid between thin strips of soft cotton and baked in a slow oven to make the odor more enduring and less pungent

Long Coats for Fall.

In the fall we shall see serge prineeae frocks with coats so long that the skirts will he entirely covered. .

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

MOST USEFUL LETTER BOARD

Simple Contrivance of Especial Service Where There Are Marty Members of the Household. Our sketch shows a useful article to prepare for hanging upon the wall at some convenient spot in the hall of a boarding house, or where there are many members in a family. It is quite easy to make. For its construction, in the first place a piece of thin board measuring 18 inches in length and 8 Inches in width will be

required. This board is covered with pale green casement cloth, the material being turned over at the edges and fastened on at the back with tacks. * Diagram A shows the shape in which the casement cloth should be cut out, the space inclosed by the dotted lines corresponding in size with the surface of the board. Diagram B shows the back with the four flaps folded over and tacked down. Across the front of the board bands of broad white elastic are fastened on with small brass-headed nails, the nails being inserted at each end of each band and also at the points where the bands cross each other. The rack is finished off at thqgedges with a dark green cord, and for suspending it from nails in the wall two ordinary picture rings are screwed into the upper edge.

ROSE COLOR FIRST IN FAVOR

Most Attractive Shade Is Given Preference Over All Others, at the Present Moment, Rose linen is a favorite and rose mull and sweaters in rose and * pink and white embroidery, rose net embroidered in silver, rose girdles and rose garlands are everywhere. And as for millinery, the rosy hats are “all over the place.” Most fascinating to wear with lingerie gowns are rose taffeta Jackets. They are made In a number of beguiling ways. Some are short Eton and others come well below the waist. On the rose-trimmed hats the roses are used in large single ones or wreathß about the crown. A whole crown of them is sometimes used. From the handsome full-blown variety'to the weeniest buds are employed. Even the wild rose, is often pressed flat against the crown in delightful effect. The rosiest of hems of taffeta is used on frocks of chiffon, net or embroidery. Sometimes, too, the only rose the gown may show will be in the hem itself. JThe rose applique trimming used now Is not like the old-fashioned applique. It is far more graceful and has almost the effect of painting. Perhaps the reason that older women may venture into pink these days is because there are so many more with gray hair and pink cheeks. Rose is the first choice in dance frocks, and rose color means anything from deep American beauty to the paleßt pink.

To Restore Worn Leather.

Leather hand bags, purses, card cases and belts, if black, can be restored to original beauty in the following manner: Buy a tube of ivoryblack oil paint and apply it to the leather by rubbing it in with a piece of old stocking. It should be used generously and rubbed In vigorously, so as to leave no noticeable residue. Let it stand 24 hours and if the surface of the leather is rough, polish with a piece of old Turkish toweling. Let stand another 24 hours, and if the dye will be permanently set and none will rub off even on white gloves. By the same method colored leather can be dyed black, but a number of coats would be necessary. Each coat should be given 24 hours to dry, and each, coat must be polished before another is applied. The degree of polish depends on the amount of rubbing.—The Ladles’ World.

Combination Cap and Bag.

A combination bathing cap and bag is made either in rubberized cotton or silk fabric, in black and white stripes, in colored stripes and in Scotch plaids. The bag is made in double-tier effect the upper portions being attached to the lower by means of a heading on an elastic band. The top of the bag, which has a deep heading, is fitted with ribbon drawstrings, and while measuring only fifteen inches in depth the bag is designed to successfully accommodate a bathing suit shoes, comb, brush, eta Upon arrival at the shore the contents of the bag are removed, the base portion inverted, the flbbon drawstrings tightened at the top and the bag is transformed into a bathing tap, the elastic heading serving as a brim.

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Saves Steps.

When the best and happiest housekeeper known to the writer was asked to tell the secret of her speed In housework she replied: “I never Iron with a cold iron, cut with a dull knife or go to my kitchen to prepare a meal without a clean small hand towel pinned to my apron belt on one side and a similar dish towel pinned on the other. Try it, and you will be surprised to see how much time and how many extra steps you will save."

It has been discovered that our system of education makes children wiser tfryn their parents. But the children are no wiser than their parents were at their age. If there is anytning more misleading than the average guaranty, we would glady give up a nickel to see a moving picture of itThe United States produces more talc and soapstone than all of the rest of the world combined.

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Transportation in Calcutta.

To compete with Calcutta’s present street railway system a company has been formed which will place 100 motor buses and 400 cars for freight in service within a year.

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Family Days.

Family occasions ought to be celebrated frequently, even if the celebration is the simplest form of little festival. Bringing the family together helps to promote affection. Whatever the event, birthday or wedding anniversary or a welcome home from a journey, it ought to mean something to every member of the family, and nan be made /an occasion that will remain bright in memory when the family circle is broken.

Good!

In that new banana which Burbank has evolved the skiddy skin is emitted. This may be a gain for the hnnnna and the public, but it’s a painful loss for the professional funmaker. —Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Its Kind.

"I see where they have a little Thimble theater in New York. What kind of plays have they?” Oh, I dare say, they are sew, sew.”

One Left.

"The fag system is obsolete In schools now, isn’t it?” "Yes, except the brain fag." On the whole, it is better tor the small boy to soil his fingers with mamma’s jam *h»n to have them blown off by the cannon cracker.

A woman is apt to envy a parrot If it can talk faster than she can.

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