Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1916 — Page 3

Caster in Athens

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By Mabel Gray

"" was going to happen in Athens; this we knew by the spirit of unusual activity on the streets and in the shops, where * everyone seemed preX _ paring for some fesJ tivity. That the event was connected with the church was Indicated by the many temporary stands, decorated with colored tissue paper—which ornamented the street corners, where were sold candles of every size— larger and hollow at the end to fit over a metal point ‘of a many-pronged church candelabrum, and tapering to a sharp point at the other end, where they were tied in bunches by their wicks, and hung in the booths alternating, yellow and white. At the corners hung those of should be there to join in their most unique celebration. Light flashed upon us, however, when we discovered in the hallway of the hotel a calendar, in large Greek type, which read as follows: “March 26, Thursday," and underneath in small type in French: “April 8, Holy Thursday,” showing that the Greek calculation is thirteen days behind the rest of Europe, therefore for them Easter had not yet arrived. That afternoon our discovery was confirmed as we walked through the old part of town, where the shops are. The counter of the public baker, whose shop opened to the street, was lined with rows of round loaves of bread aWaiting the ordeal of the fiery fur-

nace. Each contained five bright-red, hard-boiled eggs, pressed half-way into the soft dough in the shape of a Greek cross; all exactly alike, but each distinguished from its neighbors by a slip of paper sticking to the dough, which bore the name of the housewife who had kneaded it. On Good Friday we directed our course by the dome-crowned spires of the Russian church, where the queen, the sister of the czar, and the Russian minister, occupied opposite boxes, At the close of the beautiful service, the responses of which were sung by a marvelous choir of unaccompanied male voices, the priests brought to the front a representation of a tomb, having a half-draped figure of Christ painted on the top, and the sides covered with rich embroidery of white and gold. The queen advanced, kissed the representation of the dead body, and then the hand of the officiating priest, from whom she received a stalk of white gillyflower, and with the Russian minister, who followed her example, left the church. The others of the audience concluded their worship In the same manner, each bearing away a floral reminder of the coming resurrection. That night these representations of the entombed Christ were borne in solemn procession from the five principal churches, attended by the priests in gorgeous robes, acolytes bearing banners and colored lanterns, and followed by the members of the parish, each carrying a lighted candle. At Intervals, the procession halted and a service was held; then each congregation returned to its own church, and long after all was still, in Athens, the flickering lights of the priests of the Church of St. George could be seen winding up the zigzag path to their sanctuary bn the top of Eykabettos, the pointed hill which rises abruptly from the heart of Athens. With the enshrining of Christ's body in the tomb on Friday a fast was begun, lasting until the morning of his resurrection. Therefore, Saturday was quietly spent until an hour or so before midnight, when streams of people, each person bearing a lighted candle, poured through the streets leading Into the great square before the church of the metropolitan. ■ The great edifice, Illumined by thousands of huge candles in‘chandeliers and candelabra, was packed to the doors, and the square was filled to

MEN AND MATTERS

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overflowing with a restless sea of twinkling lights; the windows and balcohies of the houses facing three sides of the square were ablaze with flickering tapers, and even the courses of the church and its bell towers were outlined by the tiny flames. The stars above looked pale and scattered in comparison. The king and queen and other members of the royal family, also government officials and noted guests, sat upon the edge of the platform erected in the center of the square. At length, the choir boys emerged from the doors of the cathedral, followed by the chanting priests, and finally by the metropolitan himself, arrayed in gorgeous robes, with a miter on his head and a bishop’s crook in his hand. The procession ascended the platform where the venerable, kind-heart-ed man, with flowing white beard, raised his fingers in blessing over the waiting worshipers, .and the beautiful music of the mass floated out on the silent air. . Beside our breakfast plates, on Sunday morning, lay a bright red Easter egg, an emblematic gift —freely exchanged in Greece —but the chief event of this day of rejoicing was the dancing of the soldiers and of the bodyguard of the king. The latter took place in the courtyard of the royal palace, and the members of the guard were attired, as always, in the costume of Thessaly, their native province. As we were unprepared for the sight which met our eyes, our first impression was that an automaton ballet chorus was running down.

They wore very full-plaited skirts of starched -white linen—stopping several inches above the knee —white woolen tights, black garters, with cords and tassels and red pointed shoes with huge pompoms on the tip of the toes. A white linen shirt, a zouave jacket with long flowing sleeves of white wool embroidered with black, and a red cap with a long black silk tassel reaching below the shoulder completed this very unmilitary costume. Monday was a quiet day, distinguished only by doubled carfares and the presence of numerous peasants from surrounding districts, wearing attractive provincial costume. The national independence day fell on Holy Thursday, and being therefore postponed was celebrated on Tuesday morning. From our hotel bal-

Oscar Hammersteln, Impresario and theatrical maanger, once a cigarmaker, through his inventive mind patented several devices for improving the process of manufacturing cigars, one of which netted him over Before becoming head of the United States Steel corporation, Elbert H. Gary is said to have received the largest yearly retaining fee of any lawyer in the United States. » Forty-six thousand citizens of Chicago paid income tax last year.

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cony we viewed the procession and attendant crowds. At the door of the palace across the square the king and queen stepped into their carriage. They were followed in the procession by the Crown Prince Constantine and his wife, the sister of the kaiser, then by Prince George and his bride, the Bonaparte princess, whom the Greeks welcomed with open arms, as the only member of the royal family who is Greek, since the Bonaparte family were residents of Corsica while it was Greek territory, Napoleon being born only a few days after its transfer to France. The procession, accompanied by bands of music and a brilliant array of mounted soldiers, proceeded to the church of the metropolitan where mass was held. On the afternoon of Easter Tuesday all eyes were turned toward Megara, distant from Athens two hours by train, where the far-famed peasant dances take place. In the large public square of the little town the women, dressed in holiday attire, joined hands alternately across each other, forming long, straight lines, and danced, first in one direction and then in the opposite, a performance of no special grace or beauty, but'made attractive by their pretty faces and curious costumes, and the great numbers of lines, tripping one way and then the other. Beneath the black skirts bordered with a broad, red band hung several inches of handmade -thread lace, from the white petticoats, the pride of the industrious wearer. The tight black bodices and yellow head scarfs were adorned with many loops of silver and gold coins, the dowries of the wearers, and some of the more wealthy were resplendent in trimming of gold lace. They were pleased when we admired the beauty of the embroidery which their own hands had wrought on their aprons of bright-colored silk. The crowd of spectators encircling the dancers was so dense that we took refuge in a balcony that overlooked the square and gained a most comprehensive and picturesque view. Here and there the long lines formed into a circle and a single man, attired in the abbreviated costume of the Thessalonians or in a checked gingham jumper with an equally short, full-ruffled skirt, led the -national dance we had seen in Athens, to the accompaniment of stringed instruments., And thus closed the Easter festivities, but not-the holidays, for the panHellenic games were celebrated for four days, beginning with Thursday in the wonderful ancient stadium, restored to pristine glory by the munificence of a Greek of Alexandria. The games engaged in by athletes from all parts of Greece were umpired by Crown Prince Constantine, while the royal seats, covered with crimson velvet, were occupied by other members of the royal* family. There were the usual running, wrestling, pole vaulting, hammer throwing and shot putting, but the day of greatest interest was on Sunday, when the Marathon race was run—begun at the scene of the battle, and covering the course of the original runner, who bore the news of the defeat of the Persians. As the first man came into sight the great middle gates were thrown open—the only time they are ever unlocked, and the runners finished their 26-mile race between the goal posts at the upper end of the stadium, amid thq deafening cheers of the waiting audience.

If Roumanla Is drawn Into the present war its army will be commanded by the crown prince. Secretary of the Interior Lane worked as a newspaper reporter to secure funds to study law. A rabbit canning factory has been started in Argentina in the hope of ridding some portions of the country of a pest In a profitable way. -‘■Operated by an alarm clock, a poultry feeder patented by a Californian opens doors at a set time and permits grain to fall into a trough.

BREAD MADE IN A HURRY

Just as Good as When Done In the Ordinary Way and Quickly Ready for the Table* Break two cakes of yeast into one cup of water at blood temperature. Put a tablespoonful of sugar on the yeast to stimulate its quick growth. While this soaks, warm two cupfuls of milk with one cupful of water. ’This, with the water over the yeast, makes a quart of wetting, sufficient for four loaves. In a large mixing bowl put several sieves of flour and make a depression in the middle of the flour, into which put a level tablespoonful of salt and a heaping tablespoonful of lard. Pour* the liquid and the yeast upon the flour and mix with the hands, working the flour from the outside into the liquid In the middle of the mass. Make a stiff dough and lift the ball out, putting away any remaining flour for future use. If the flour is granular, let the dough He on the board for ten minutes, covered with a warm bowl, that the flour may properly absorb the moisture. If the flour is not granular, this wait is not necessary. Now shape the dough without kneading, lay the ball in a buttered bowl, and butter the surface of the dough to keep it soft. Cover and let it double in a warm place, an hour to an hour and a half. If you wish still further to hurry it, set the bowl in warm water and place a smaller bowl of warm water on the lid of the large bowl containing the dough. When doubled, shape quickly into , the baking pans for the second rising and bake when again light. This recipe is excellent for use when one must have bread in a hurry. Half of the dough may be made into crusty rolls.

TO WASH WINDOWS QUICKLY

As In Most Other Cases, There Is a Right and a Wrong Way of Doing It.

Take a large cloth, a yard long, pat it into a close swab like a sponge. Wet soppy, but not dripping, with water. Dent the center and pour in kerosene and sop it into the face of the cloth. With this swab quickly wash the outside of the windows to loosen all flyspecks, dust, old paint or alkaline deposit. Follow at once with a large, soft and dry cloth. The first cloth leaves it smeary, but the polishing will make it very clean and shiny. This first swab will clean a large number of windows, simply turning so as not to scratch the glass with the dust on it. The polishers need not be renewed until The windows become very brilliant and clean and there is no freezing of water, or wetting the hands, as gloves can be worn. Especially good in cold or windy weather. The same method can be usted inside. Pure kerosene can also be used, but the above combination appears to more quickly soften the varieties of deposit.

Keep Cupboards Clear.

The majority of women do not seem to realize the danger there is in accumulations in closets. The dust and lint from old clothes -are very inflammable. Lighting a match to look for some article in a crowded closet, or taking a candle into such a place often causes fire. Old clothing, rags, waste paper and every sort of rubbish should be cleared out of closets. A spark in a dusty closet has been known to ignite a whole building; even an accumulation under bureaus and sofas is dangerous. If you do discover a fire in your closet close the door and get a bucket of water and a broom. “A wet broom is ” the best fire extinguisher ever invented,” said an official of the fire department. “You can throw a solid sheet of water with it or only a spray; you can beat a fire out with a broom or you can pull down a blazing curtain with it.”

Stuffed Onions.

Place eight large Bermuda onions, peeled and washed, in a baking dish,, Cover with boiling water slightly salted. Bake them half an hour or till a wire will pierce them, then turn off the water, then with a sharp, thinbladed knife take out the heart without breaking the outer walls, fill the cavity with minced cold and fine bread crumbs, seasoned with melted butter. Sprinkle crumbs, buttered, over the dish until it almost touches the top of the onions. Cover them and bake half an hour.

Silver Parfait.

Boil one cupful of sugar in one cupful of water until it threads. Pour it over the stiffly beaten whites of three eggs and beat again. When cool add one pint whipped cream, flavor with two teaspoonfuls of any kind of flar voring desired. Pack in ice and salt and let stand until firm. One day for a company dinner I picked a few choice strawberries, mashed in a sieve and added whole, have also added cherries whole, and the effect is very pretty. —Exchange.

Celery Cutlets.

Mix together one cupful of cold baked beans, one cupful of chopped celery, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter’, two beaten eggs, one scant teaspoonful of lemon juice, salt and pepcracker dust and fry in deep fat.

To Freshen State Bread.

So that it will be like new, dip thtf 1 loaf in cold water, put it in a pan, bake it until it is heated through; then wrap it in a damp cloth and, when cold, it will be like fresh bread

GREATEST in the WORLD

/ / r'| HE GREATEST thing in • * I the world.” That is a large | phrase and an overworked ■* one, and hardened travelers do not take it lightly upon the tongue. Noticeably it is most glibly in use with those who but lately, and for the first-time, have wandered beyond their native state or county. Yet in every sort there is, of course, somewhere “the best thing in the world” of its kind. There is and can be no dispute that the term applies literally to several things in the immediate region of the Grand canyon of Arizona. As has more than once been said, probably no other equal area on earth contains so many supreme marvels of so many kinds — so many astounding sights, so many masterpieces of nature's handiwork, so vast and conclusive an encyclopedia of the world-building processes, so Impressive monuments of prehistoric man, so many triumphs of man still in the tribal relation —as does what has been called the “Southwestern Wonderland.” This includes a large part of New Mexico and Arizona, the area which geographically and ethnographically we may count as the Grand canyon region. A few wonders are: The largest and by far the most beautiful of all petrified forests, with several hundred square miles whose surface is carpeted with agate chips

and dotted with agate trunks two to four feet in diameter; and just across one valley a buried “forest" whose huge silicified —not agatized—logs show their ends under fifty feet of sandstone. The largest natural bridge in the world, 2GO feet high, over 500 feet span and over 600 feet wide, up and down stream, and with an orchard on its top and miles of stalactite caves under Its abutments. The largest variety, and display of geologically recent volcanic action in North America, with 60-mile Java flows, 1,500-foot blankets of creamy tufa cut by scores of cannons; hundreds of craters and thousands of square miles of lava beds, basalt and cinders, and so much “volcanic glass” (obsidian) that it was the chief tool of the prehistoric population. Cave and Cliff Dwellings. The largest and the most impressive villages of cave-dwellings in the world, most of them already abandoned when the “world-seeking Genoese” sailed. The many-storied cliff dwellings, castles and forts and homes, in the faces of wild precipices or tjpon their tops —an aboriginal architecture as remarkable as any in the land. The 26 strange communal town republicsof the descendants of the “cliff dwellers,” the modern Pueblos; some in fertile valleys, some (like Acoma and Hop!) perched on barren and dizzy cliff tops. The strange dances, rites, dress and customs of these ancient peoples who have solved the problem of irrigation, six-story house building and clean self-government, and even women’s rights—‘long before Columbus was born. Some of the most notable tribes of savage nomads, like the Navajos, whose blankets and silver work are pre-eminent, and the Apaches, who man for man, have been probably the most successful warriors in history. Greatest Chasm in the World. At the head of the list stands the Grandcanyon of Arizona; whether It Is the “greatest wonder of the world” depends a little on our definition of “wonder.” Possibly It is no more wonderfut than the fact that so tiny a fraction of the people who confess themselves the smartest' in the world have ever seen it As a people we go abroad to see scenery incomparably inferior. But beyond peradventure it is the greatest chasm in the world, and the

most superb. Enough globe-trotters have seen it to establish that fact. Many have come cynically prepared to be disappointed; to find it overdrawn and really not so stupendous as something else. It is, after all, a hard test that so be-bragged a wonder must endure under the critical scrutiny of them that have seen the earth and the fullness thereof. But never has the most self-satisfied veteran traveler been disappointed in the Grand canyon. or dared to patronize it. The quebrada of the Apu-Rlmac is a marvel of the Andes, with its vertiginous depths and its suspension bridge of wild vines. The Grand canyon of the Arkansas, in Colorado, is a noble little slit in the mountains. The Franconia and White mountain notches in New Hampshire are beautiful. The Yosemite and the Yellowstone canyons surpass the world, each in its way; but if all these were hung up on the opposite wall of the Grand canyon from you, the chances are fifty to one that you could not tell t’other from which, nor any of them from the hundreds of other canyons which rib that vast gorge. If the falls of Niagara were installed in the Grand canyon between your visits —next time you stood on that dizzy rimrock you would probably need good field glasses and much patience before you could locate that cataract which in its place looks pretty big. If Mount Washing-

ton were plucked up bodily by the roots —not from where you see it, but from sea-level —and carefully set down in the Grand canyon you probably would not notice it next morning, unless its dull colors distinguished it in that innumerable congress of larger and painted giants. All this, which is literally true, is a mere trifle of what might be said in trying to fix a standard of comparison for the Grand canyon. You may compare all you will, eloquently and from wide experience, and at last all similes fail. The Grand canyon is just the Grand canyon, and that is all you can say. It is no mere cleft. It is a terrific trough 6,000 to 7,000 feet deep, ten to twenty miles wide, hundreds of miles long, peopled with hundreds of peaks taller than any mountain east of the Rockies, yet not one of them with its head so high as your feet, and all ablaze with such color as no eastern or European landscape ever knew. And as you sit upon the brink the divine scene-shifters give you a new canyon every hour. With each degree of the sun’s course the great counter-sunk mountains fade away and new ones, as terrific, are carved by the westering shadows. •' The Grand canyon country is not only the hugest, but the most varied and instructive example on earth of one of the chief factors of earth-build-ing erosion. It is the mesa country—the land of tables. Nowhere else on the footstool is there such an example of deep-gnawing water or of water high carving. The sandstone mesas of the Southwest, the terracing of canyon walls, the castellation, battlementing and cliff-making, the cutting down of a whole landscape except its precipitous islands of flat-topped rock, the thin lata tablecloths on tables 100 feet high—these are a few of the things which make the Southwest wonderful alike to the scientist and the sightseer. „

Just the Man.

Merchant (to applicant)—What we need is a correspondence clerk who is a rapid writer. By the way, what have you been working at? Applicant—l’ve been a movie actor, sir. Merchant—You have? Well, say, If you can write letters for us with half the speed you movie actors do in those picture scenes, you’re just Ute man we want. - -