Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1915 — Page 2

EMBALMED in CUSTOMS of 3.000 YEARS AGO

» HAT thin strip upon the eastern coast of the Mediterranean sea, the Holy Land, sacred to the bet lievers of three world-re-L? ligions, to Christians, •LjHKI] rjj. Jews and Moslems, and ground wherein were fCrFffltAflr cradled ideals which have made almost all ; tsp civilization tributary, is ** a bridge between th* Moslem power in Asia Minor and the Moslem power in Egypt, and so assumes strategic importance in the war of the nations. Yet the Holy Land is * land embalmed in the spirit and customs of 3,000 years ago. according to a description of village life there as prepared by John D. Whiting for the National Geographic society: “Manners and customs which prevailed in Palestine in Biblical days are still unchanged. While the townspeople are losing their ancient customs and quaint costumes, the villagers are, in these things, as they were 3,000 years ago. Three distinct classes inhabit the land; the Bedouin, a nomadic, war-loving race; the Fellaheen, agriculturists, shepherds and village dwellers; and the Madaniyeh, who live in the towns and cities and are artisans.

“The present-day villages are located, as a rule, either on the tops of hills, originally for protection, or near some spring or source of water. Many are built upon the foundations of buildings whose origin dates back thousands of years. There does not exist a single example of a peasant village that has been founded in modern! 'times.

“Village streets are crooked, narrow and unpaved. The farmers’ houses are crowded close together for protection. These houses consist of one large room, usually square. About two-thirds of the space within is devoted to a raised, masonry platform, some 8 to 10 feet above the ground, and this is the kitchen, storeroom, bedroom and living room of the family. Below this platform, the cattle and flocks are housed, goats and sheep, a few work cattle, and perhaps a donkey or camel. “Each village has a guest chamber

HAS BRAWN IN SPITE OF BRAIN

Winner of Mile Run Explodes AngloAmerican Tradition That One Man Can’t Have Both.

That the possession of brawn does not necessarily preclude the possession of brains is the lesson taught us by young Norman S. Taber, lately an Oxford Rhodes scholar, who recently in the Harvard stadium established a new world s record of four minutes twelve and three-fifths seconds for the mile run. breaking by three-twentieths of a second the record of four minutes twelve and three-fourths seconds, which was established by W. G. George of England twenty-nine years ago. Stop watches today record fifths — not fourths —of a second. It may seem like pitting too tine a point upon a running race to time it to twentieths of a second; but in this age of specialization nothing is more highly specialized than athletics; and as five of the most reliable watch holders in the country all caught Mr. Taber's time alike, there is little doubt that he fairly tied the record and that technically he certainly broke it. But, as we said before, the interesting thing about this achievement of wind and muscle is that it was ac-

USES ACETYLINE IN FOREST

Foresters Utilize it to Flash Messages by Morse Telegraph Cod*. H The new acetylene signal lantern wed in the national forest service for signaling by the Morse telegraphic code works so successfully that messages ran be read by the naked eye at a distance of fifteen miles in dear weather and the lantern has been worked to good advantage over a dis

which is the social center for all the village men, who love companionship and are great gossips. Each day, by turn, one of the villagers furnishes the coffee, beans and sugar, to be served to the men who gather at the guest chamber. He, also, supplies the food and bedding if some ordinary guests come along. “They are, of course, great respecters of persons; so that if a common man happens in, a couple of fried eggs with bread and olives will do for him. If a more important personage arrives, a pair of roast chickens is provided for his supper; but if a still more honored one or a company of men apear, a lamb or kid is killed. The village guestchamber is a club of the village men. “Children in the peasant families are always welcomed. The father prides himself on his boys. Even the mother prefers them, and when questioned as to the number of her off-

complished by a man of more than ordinary intellectual development. Mr. Taber is an American who, after his graduation from Brown university, went to Oxford as A Rhodes scholar. He was a runner of ability when at Brown; he continued to develop brain and body together at Oxford, and his running has improved as his mind has broadened and matured. There is a special reason why Americans should be proud of Mr. Taber's achievement, however. Until recently it had been a tradition that, while Americans were supreme in the dashes, and field events, which require tense skill and quick effort rather than endurance, they were usually inferior to their British cousins in the long runs, which require what the Englishman calls “bottom,’’ or what the American youth less euphoniously terms "guts.” Mr. Taber has helped to shatter this tradition and vindicate the American staying power.

How Far New York Trains Travel.

The subway and elevated trains in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. New York city, travel every day a distance of more than twice the circumference of the globe.

tance of nineteen miles when good binoculars were used at the receiving station.

The gas is produced by the ordinary carbide and water, and the tank, which is adjustable to the back of the lantern, is sufficiently large for about three hours of signaling. When burning normally only enough gas is admitted to the lantern to maintain a minute flame, but when the controlling key is depressed the gas aperture is enlarged and the flame flares up Instantly, producing a

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spring, she will say she has five children and two girls or whatever the numbers may be. This is the more strange since the would-be husband must pay his father-in-law a handsome price for the girl, while boys are a heavy expense, and their wives and weddings are costly affairs.

“Women are looked upon as something inferior. The woman may never call her husband by his first name, but ‘Oh father of Ahmed’, or whatever the eldest son’s name may be. The wife likewise takes the name of her first-born son. The husband will never say ‘my wife’ or mention her first name, but will say either ‘the mother of Ahmed’ or 'my family’, ‘the relative in. my house’, ‘the forbidden’, or the daughter of my uncle!’ The reason for this last title is that the village man in the Holy Land marries his first cousin in preference to anyone else, and in fact she cannot marry‘another if he wants her.

“When the fellah or peasant child is born, its tender skin, without being washed, is rubbed with olive oil and salt. For seven consecutive days it is reoiled, and when a week old gets its first bath and is again oiled. In some localities they consider it unsafe to bathe the baby before it is 40 days old. Mortality among the babies is great, and it is not to be wondered at, for in view of the rough treatment they receive, it becomes a question of the survival of the fittest.

“The ways of these village folk, their methods of agriculture, of administration,’ of household and community, and of sanitation are primitive reminiscences of the days before the coming of Christ. The refuse of their villages are piled in great heaps around it, and there left to fester. Their plowing is a bare scratching of the ground with wooden plows, while they thresh their grain by flailing and treading, and mill it in stone mortars. “The marriage customs of these people are interesting. Young men marry at about twenty, and girls be twees twelve and sixteen. The son, on coming of marriageable age, picks his wife by choice of sight —no courtship is allowed —when his father arranges all further details. The girl has ns voice in the matter. The price of a bride depends on her age, beauty, usefulness and family connections. It ranges, in our money, from SIOO tc $400." ...

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The Instinct of Precedence.

“Of course, your wife favors votes for women?” "Yes,” replied Mr. Meekton; “but I suspect she’ll find it hard to ap prove of any plan that allows seme of the women she know* Co vote Just the same as she does." .........

TURN TO THE PANNIER

FRENCH MODIBTEB TAKE UP THE NEW STYLE. Old Fashion Revived and In Pronounced Form—Ha* Much to Recommend It From the Point of Beauty.

At the Newport fashion show as well as at the openings in Paris, there was an undoubted preference shown to the pannier. Lucille has advocated it for six months and will continue to-do bo, as her new and wonderfully lovely costumes for Florence Walton have proved. In these she makes the pannier of tulle or gold lace, sometimes wired to stand out, again bunched high tn masses of materials. She has also returned to favor the afternoon frock of colored silk with a fichu of organdie and high—loopings of the fabric over the skirt, a kind of Mocartian costume which is quite fetching. Paris has shown an even more pronounced form of the pannier borrowed from Marie Antoinette’s day. The skirt of the special frock that has caused much comment has a flounce of blue, chiffon edged with velvet ribbon, over which are panniers of flowered yellow taffeta. This fabric extends above the belt to form half of the bodice, the other half being built of chiffon with shoulder straps of blue velvet.

Panniers are not exactly the kind of thing that one wears well in the street, but for the evening they are charming. Made of the soft taffeta that will remain fashionable this winter, or in tulle edged with brilliant metal embroidery, they present a pleasing contrast to the type of evening frock that the designers have given us for several seasons. If the fashion for combining lace with satin or flowered silk is actually taken up as it deserves to be, then the pannier will be the most expressive way of handling these two materials in juxtaposition. Silk that is embossed with large flowers of

metal will have its place among the evening fabrics and no one wants more than a yard or two of it on a gown. To use it as a pannier or side drapery of some kind will be displaying it to its best advantage over tulle or tea-col-ored lace. (Copyright. 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

Patch Bag.

Now just where do you keep your patches? Do you let them lie in an untidy fashion in a bureau drawer? Do you throw them into the sewing basket with the rest of your sewing materials or do you keep them in a

PRETTY AND EASY TO MAKE

Costume for Small Girl That Will Give Very Little Trouble to Her Mother.

With finely embroidered fiounclngs one can turn out, as if by magic, the

adorable, tiny confections that make up a tiny girl’s wardrobe. The edging does away with the necessity of a hem; it can be tied over the shoulders with ribbons and | gathered around the neck so that there are practically but two kinds to be run the underarm and a placket at the back, and the dress is made.

I never tried, but I am sure it would not be beyond one T s powers to turn out two such little frocks in an afternoon, for they seem do more than doll’s clothes.

The cunning little design shown here concedes a trifle more to elaboration, for there are many tiny tucks run through the material to hold it in at a high waist line. They should not be more than an inch and a half long, and there are a few others half that length distributed around the top of the dress under the cord that marks the rounded neck. Wee sleeves in the shape of a ruffle edge of the embroidery are set around the armholes and caught up •q the shoulders with bows of colored

BROADCLOTH SUIT

Black chiffon broadcloth sulf with circular skirt scalloped at the bottom and plaited around the hips- The jacket Is short, coming to the waist, and buttons down the front. High collar opens at the neck. A largo butterfly bow is tied in the back. The cuffs are high and plaited, coming to a point.

box or bag? Either one of the last two places is the most convenient receptacle for the purpose. The latter can be made of white or tan linen or rep. A very artistic patch bag seen recently was made of white rep. It was rectangular in shape and its opening was concealed by means of a flap. On the flap were cubist designs which were quite appropriate for the type of bag they adorned.

MAKING USE OF “SQUARES”

Hint for Those Who Have an Oversupply of Those Always Useful Little Articles.

“I have a number of these square crash doilies which I had intended for a luncheon set before I was married,” said Mrs. Bride-of-a-Month, “but 1 have so many luncheon sets now for wedding and shower gifts that I know I’ll never use them. It’s such a shame to see good work going to and I hate little doilies lying promiscuously around under vases and such.”

“I know just how you feel," interrupted Mrs. Bride-of-a-Year. “I had a half dozen beautiful little squares all embroidered in dull blue on crash, bu{ I made use of them. First of all, I joined three of them with rather wide cluny insertion to make a. scarf for my blue-and-white guest room dressing table. Then —I~ edged twt more with the narrow cluny edging, cut a round hole in the middle and used them as candleshades for the glass candlesticks for the same dressing table, and the sixth made half of a cute little bag that every feminine guest can use when she finds it hanging on her dressing table. I could have used several more pincushions and tray covers and I did have an idea of making four more and joining them together for a boudoir pillow. I may do it yet"

ribbon or black velvet Dotted swiss or plain sheer batiste are both lovely fabrics for this quaint and simple little garment —Lillian Young in Washington Star.

Crocheted Hatbands.

To match the delightful silk sport coats that ‘‘everyone” is wearing, there are being displayed narrow crocheted hatbands in all the bright sports colors. Some of the purples, greens, reds and yellows show daring enough borders to revive the old joke of “listening to the band on your hat” However, they are most attractive, these crocheted bands, and offer an excuse for the eager worker to exercise her originality and artistic taste. Many of them are finished with a fringe of twisted silk. Usually the bands are about two inches wide and long enough to wind about the average size crown and (1° in a knot and short ends at one side. Hatband, necktie and belt to match would make a beautiful gift for the girl with athletic tastes.

Everything Now to Be Beaded.

The woman who wants to have new furs for old will be able to acquire the former by using her ermine, moleskin or seal scarf and muff as the foundation for elaborate embroideries done in bead work.

In fact, this is the latest fashion mandate from Paris. Everything is to be beaded, from hats to siu'es, and even the choicest furs will not be exempt from the bead craze. Of course, it is not likely that beaded furs will become general, but they are interesting as indicating a new de partlire in modish Delta.

Home Town Helps

CONCRETE IN THE BASEMENT Four-Inch Slab Is Recommended by Expert as Giving Best Possible Results. Over the entire floor area of the basement a four-inch slab of concrete should be laid after the earth has been firmly tamped down. This slab of concrete should be insisted upon, wether the finished floor is to be of cement, brick, tile, or wood; and it is well to re-enforce it against shrinkage, stresses, and to bridge pny soft places In the ground, by imbedding In the concrete some form of coarse wire mesh or expanded metal, says Ernest I. Freese in the House Beautiful. Where cement finish is desired, this should be not less than three-quarters of an inch in thickness, and it Should be applied before the concrete has become “set” —otherwise the cement finish will not properly unite with the concrete base. In rooms having a cement floor, the cement can be carried up on the walls to a height of six or eight inches above the floor, thus'formlng a waterproof and sanitary base. Then, if the floor is slightly graded to a sump connected with the underground drainage system, the floor can easily be kept clean by turning the hose on it occasionally. All cement floor finish should be jointed at regular intervals, not exceeding three feet, so as to concentrate at these jointings any-probable shrinkage cracks. Here again, a simple, inexpensive wire mesh imbedded in the cement finish will react against the shrinkage strains and lessen the liability of cracking. For this re-en-forcement, common chicken-wire mesh answers admirably.

LOOKING TO CIVIC BEAUTY

Builders Have Come to Recognize Value of Good Appearance of Buildings and Streets.

Gradually all phases of commercial .industry are coming under the influence of the city-beautiful movement, comments the San Francisco Call. Factories erected today secure sufficient ground area to have some landscape gardening round-about the building or buildings. Even railroads, those supposed “soulless corporations,” are now quite generally embellishing station grounds and rights of way. The schoolhouses, both rural and city, are being much Improved in surrounds, being much helped by the school gardens, and the whole land is becoming, each year, more deeply engrossed in making a more beautiful America, and California is well up in the list. Let us not grow faint-hearted in the work.

IMPROVING NEIGHBORHOOD There’s much talk of conservation Of the trees and rivers grand. For we know their preservation f Helps to beautify the land. * We admit that talk like this will Benefit the public good, - But at present your first job is To improve your neighborhood. Small beginnings have big endings. And if you will make the start. You will see how quick your neighbor Pitches in and does his part. Then you’ll find that It’s contagious; Every house upon your street Will be vying with each other To keep looking clean and neat. Paint and varnish are conserving. You can prove beyond a doubt, They’re th> best for the preserving Of the house. Inside and out. —Exchange.

New School Architecture.

A one-story schoolhouse, built Jn the form of a square around < courtyard, and so constructed that, by raising a series of sashes, it can be converted into what will be practically an openair school, is the type of structure that marks a new departure in modern school architecture. It provides healthful surroundings ..for the children, keeps them near the ground, so that the danger of fire and panic is reduced to a minimum, and at the same time affords exercise.

The open-air sashes face on an Inner corridor, which will eventually form a sort of cloister around the courtyard. As the needs of the community require, other wings will be added on the three remaining sides of the central square. It is intended eventually to have a gymnasium and swimming pool in a basement under the courtyard.

Gophers in the Garden.

Gophers still infest gardens except In the central portions of large cities, and are hard to exterminate where many vacant lots are found. Garden owners do not care to keep poison and traps on hand, and how easily to accomplish the death of the gopher becomes a problem. Last week one threw up a little mound in the writer’s garden, having burrowed under the fence from an adjoining vacant lot. A messenger was hastily sent to a nearby drug store for a bottle of carbon bisulphid. The hole was opened, a half cupful poured in, the hole closed and firmed with damp soil. The fiext day the soil was dug out and thaOole followed but three feet into the Bfcant lot. and there his gophership reposed, dead. ’