Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1916 — Page 3

STORIES from the BIG CITIES

Fantastic Initiation of New York College Boy —— ft NEW YORK.—There is an elm tree on Seventh avenue near the corner of One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street. Around the elm tree is a puddle. In some places the puddle may be six Inches deep. Oblivious of snow, sleet

every five minutes he spat into the cuspidor. It was the hour for early churchgoers. So many of them stopped to see what kind of fish he was catching that Patrolman Hartwig strolled up to see what the crowd was doing. Patrolman Gabel joined him. _ “Whatche doing?*’ said Hartwig. The chubby youth was silent. “What’s yer name?” Still the sphinxlike silence. “Come along with us then, and we’ll soon show you what you’re doing.” He was George Edward Peppis, eighteen, a sophomore in the College of the City of New York. At eight o’clock in the morning he had reported, as per instructions, at the chapter house of the Tau Delta Phi fraternity. There he had been dressed up, bundled into, an automobile and taken to Seventh avenue, where he had been left with instructions not to stir or speak until the boys came back for him. He was also instructed to violate the municipal health ordinance every five minutes. “What kind of a stunt do you call that?” asked the lieutenant. “Getting initiated,” replied. "Sure, I call it disorderly conduct,” said the lieutenant.

Minneapolis Chinaman Makes Midnight Music

MINNEAPOLIS. —Charley Wing is a Chinese who loves music. He loves it so much he stays up nights to play his two-string fiddle. He also owns a laundry. Like a thrifty Chinese, he does not allow his music to interfere with

his business, but the neighborhood knows. And every frequenter of Franklin avenue and Fifteenth street at midnight and the wee hours of the morning also knows. When the wash is on the line Charley plays. To save light he usually sits in front of the laundry’s big plate-glass window, which faces the strong arc light on the Bloomington transfer point. So the late travelers also know. From midnight to 2 a. m. are fils

favorite practicing hours. Ordinarily it is the violin, but on special occasions Charley has a weird oriental makeshift made of bamboo and bits of snakeskin, and called in Chinese parlance the “geeyzin,” which he plays. Charley’s music is of the low, haunting kind and little disturbs the night, but close neighbors who enjoy the full force of the serenade have come to recognize the shrieking sounds wherein the Chinese finds his music, and are said to have remonstrated loudly at the new school of music.

Philadelphia Church Is Built of Grindstones

PHILADELPHIA.— The dedication of Tacony Baptist church, Disston and Hagerman streets, marked the completion of the only church edifice in the world built of worn-out grindstones and finished a chapter of self-sacrifice

The stones, which were used for the grinding of saws, were thrown to one side after they no longer were of use in the business to lie in a waste pile until Mr. Tryon, seeing that the available stones, would not complete the structure, proceeded to locate the buried stones and thereby finished his church. It required approximately 2,500 grindstones to complete the edifice, and all the hauling and the setting of the stones was done under the direct supervision of the pastor,,who attended to the operation every day in order that the best materials would be placed in the structure.

Argumedo's Big Bale of Money (Mex.) Is Found

NEW YORK.—When Deputy Sheriff Sinnott opened the safety deposit compartment in the Woolworth building leased by former Gov. Abel O. Argumedo of Yucatan, a bale of Mexican paper money fell out. It was so large

Sinnott was unable to lift it. The deputy sheriff was armed with an order to search the compartment for enough cash to satisfy a judgment for $472,000, American money, obtained against Argumedo by the Yucatan-gov-ernment, it being alleged that when Argumedo fled from the country several months ago he took the war chest with him. Sinnott expected to find much gold, as it had been said the former governor had changed much paper into

metal when he reached Havana, but the deputy found only bills, tied in small packages, which were roped together in a big bale. The bills had been issued by various banks and by the government. Some were good, others nearly worthless. When the bundle had been hoisted to a table, an expert on Mexican money was called in and three hours were devoted to counting the bills and establishing their worth. The expert placed the total value at SBO,OOO tq $90,000. In Mexican it would figure up to about $500,000, he said.

A steamship which recently made the port of San Francisco reports having sailed in a sea of pumice, near Sydney, New South Wales, about January 6, Apparently the material had been cast up by a submarine volcanic outbreak, and chunks ranging in size from that of a marble to a plug hat were thrown on deck by the waves. The vessel was several houra in passing through tha affected region. Tn japan devilfish weighing up to 200 pounds are sometimes caught. These fish are amphibious; they are often seen wabbling on their tentacles like spiders, in search of patches of sweet potatoes. The natives kill them with clubs.’ In the water they are caught in jars lowered to the bottom, which the octopus enters, thinking them a good retreat from which to osich his food.

and rain, a chubby youth sat by that puddle on a recent morning fishing. His feet were clad in large shoes in a state of partial decay. His eyes were obscured by a tattered brown hat and his shirt was red. He had no collar, but eleven yards of -bright red ribbon were wound about his neck. At his right was an alarm clock; at his left one of those unhygienic vessels which adorn the lobbies of cheap hotels. Ever and anon he gazed anxiously at the alarm clock, and

on the part of the pastor in securing enough stones to finish the building. The pastor is Rev. George W. Tryon. It was through his own personal sacrifice that the church was ■fnade possible and a building erected large enough to accommodate the greatly increasing number of members. With hip boots and pick and shovel the hustling pastor, in water to his knees, helped dig the old grindstones which had been buried for sev< eral years under great piles of dirt

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER? IND.

FASHIONS’ EDICTS

SUMMER FROCK OF DOTTED ORGANDIE Organdie is just sheer and wiry enough to make the tucked and ruffled frocks of today seem the daintiest and most girlish that were ever fashioned. It is made in all the wanted light colors, as well as in white, and may be had with dots or threadlike stripes ior crossbars over its surface. It is more sheer than voile or crepe and airier than net —altogether a material for the girl graduate to glory in. Ah ideal model for an organdie frock Is shown in the picture. The material is exactly suited to the design and the design is exactly suited to the youthful maids who neeg a frilly dress for graduation or for any other unusual occasion. It is made with a full skirt gathered in at the waist-line. Where a narrow belt joins it to the full bloused bodice. The skirt opens in a short, placket at the left side. Six frills, each two and a half inches in width, are set on the skirt, with the distance be-

AN UNUSUAL NEW BLOUSE Here is pictured a blouse which contrives to be unusual merely by means of its odd ’construction. Its designer has taken his cue from those who have made coats this season so successfully by departing from all precedent in cutting them. In this blouse of lace, with raised flowers in velvet, the -sleeves and back are in one piece. It is lined with white chiffon, and draped, collared, and cuffed with black satin. Very much the same effect would result if the blouse were cut with a regulation raglan sleeve, and the model suggests ’the effectiveness of printed chiffons made up in this way. The deep cuffs and drapery of satin will prove useful in harmonizing the blouse with a particular skirt, or they may be of black, whatever the colors in the chiffon. The blouse as pictured is worn with • skirt as black taffeta. It’is one of many in which two materials are combined to make an overblouse to be

INSTRUCTIONS AND ADVICE BY JULIA BOTTOMLEY

tween them a little greater than the width of the frills. These frills may be set on the skirt with machine-made hemstitching, and they may be edged with it. Or the narrowest of lace edgings and insertions may be used instead. The bodice has full sleeves reaching to the elbow, where a frill is set on. It opens in a V at the front and is finished with a fichu, bordered with two frills. There is a girdle of wide soft ribbon with hanging loops and short ends at the back. If one were to search the history of the modes seeking an inspiration, in designing a frock for a youthful wearer, nothing better than this could be found. Nothing quite so good if organdie is the material to be used. Having arrived at the frills and the fichus of 1830, what more could be wished for? A taffeta petticoat with a net flounce, or a petticoat of lawn, should be worn over a skirt of heavier muslin, with frocks of this kind.

worn over a crepe or chiffon under blouse when the fabrics are tnansparent A combination of plain crepe georgette and plaid taffeta, or one of satin and crepe, is more to be desired than a blouse of one material, since combinations of two or more fabrics are characteristic of the present season. A pretty import Was made with a yoke having a round neck of taffeta. This yoke was trimmed into points over the sleeves, and in the middle of the front and back, midway between the points in the front, it was extended into two tabs. The remainder of the blouse was of georgette crepe laid in fine tucks where it was set onto the yoke. The tabs of taffeta were slipped through slashes cuf in the crepe just pver the bust Their ends were polnt«d.Md Jlnialied with, embroidery.. Very deep cuffs of taffeta finished the sleeves. A narrow galloon outlined the round neck and the flaring cuffs. A collar, high at the back, and cuffs of organdie completed this example of French elaboration. It buttoned down the front

GATHERD SMILES

A PARTING SHOT. “Perhaps it is best after all,” remarked the rejected suitor as he lingered in the hall. “A man of twentyfive would probably soon tire of a wife who hovered around the thirty-two 4 mark.” “Why, Mr. Ardent,” said the woman in the case, “how very ungallant you are to Insinuate that I am thirty-two.” “Well, perhaps you are not,” he replied, “but it certainly struck me that you were somewhere near the freezing point” And with this parting shot he crawled into his ulster, let his person through the front door, and hastened to flag the next car headed downtown.

Some Name.

A little colored girl, a newcomer in Sunday school, gave her name to the teacher as "Fertilizer Johnson." Later the teacher asked the child’s mother if that was right. “Yes, ma’am, dat’s her name," said the fond parent. “You see, she was named fer me and her father. Her father am Ferdinand and my name is Liza. So we named her Fertilizer.”

Close Accountant.

“How much is beefsteak a pound?” asked the man with the hurried manner. The meat merchant told him and added, “how many pounds will you have?” “I don’t want any. I wanted to ascertain how much I am saving by eating scrapple.”

Difficult Undertaking.

"It’s harder than the old fifteen puzzle,” said Senator Sorghum as he pushed aside the manuscript of a speech. "I have rearranged my ideas a dozen times.” “What are you trying to do?” "I’m trying to fix up a consistent argument that will arrange for safety first and preparedness last."

AFTER THREE YEARS.

She —I can’t carry both the baby and the basket. He —Well, give the basket to the baby to carry.

Flirting with Fear.

Some men will frame with gloom Intense Forebodings of some future ill. Not based on fact or Inference, But just because they want a thrill.

Popular Pose.

"Do all these prominent citizens who make frequent to Washington go there for the purpose of attending to business?” “I don’t think so. Some men seem to think that by rushing off to the nar tional capital every now and then they acquire national importance.”

A Shame.

‘Tm going back south?” “Why?" "These people up here are such liars. On the lake yesterday a man warned me to keep away from an airhole, and when I fell into it I found it was a water hole, and I nearly froze.”

Out of His Element.

“I like to meet people on equal ground,” said the precise individual. “So do I,” answered the low-browed person, “but what are you going to do when a fellow insists on quoting a lot ot old fogies who made speeches 1,000 years ago?"

Cruel Comfort

“If you don’t mawwy me, Miss Gladys, I'll blow out my brains.” “Would you put the poor coroner to a microscopic inquest to determine thq cause of death?” .

Had Two.

Mrs. Newwed—What is your husband’s favorite fiction? Mrs. Oldwed —It’s a toss up between “detained-at-the-offlce-on business,” or “meeting-of-the-lodge” story.

Gradual Condensation.

"Diplomacy requires a lifetime of study." “Yes, and after you have read whole libraries of books, the point at issue is liable to narrow down to half a dozen words of definition in the dic- . t inn ary" „ ■

Its Class.

“It was a mad revel at the banquet last night” "Yes, I noticed that even the champagne bottles were frothing at the mouth.”

SURE THING.

“Strive to excel in your own line* my boy, no matter how humble.” "No doubt it pays, dad.” “Invariably. Even a good woodchopper can get into vaudeville.”

An Exposure.

Little drops of water, Littie grains of sand. == Make the village grocer A power in the land.

Safety First.

"Miss Gadder has a wonderful pair of eyes.” "Well, what if she has?" "But, my dear fellow, don’t you admire beautiful eyes?" "Oh, yes, but when I have an idea that they never light up except when they rest on some expensive object, I prefer to do my admiring at a safe distance.”

Erudition.

“How is your boy Josh getting along with his books?" “First rate.” replied Farmer Corntossel. "He's learned a whole lot” "Knows more than you do, I bet.” "I won’t say that. But he kin tell me a lot of things I already know in language I can’t understand.”

Modem Campaigning.

“What are your views on this question?” “Come around tomorrow and see ’em," replied Senator Sorghum. * iou mean 'hear them,’ don’t you?" “No. I mean ’see them.’ I’ve secured the very latest and best set of motion pictures on the subject.”

His Advantage.

Lawyer—l say, doctor, why are you always running lawyers down? Doctor (dryly)—Well, ydur profession doesn’t make angels of men, does it? Lawyer—Why, no; you certainly have the advantage of us there, doctor.

Safety First.

Mrs. Newed —Will you have a piece of this angel cake, darling? Newed (cautiously) —Well, dear, you —er—know I don’t care much for cake. Did you make ttf Mrs. Newed —No; mamma sent it over. NeWed —Give me two pieces, please.

Mind Reading.

“Do you think there is any such thing as mind reading?’ asked the eminent diplomat. ''Oh, yes,” replied Miss Cayenne. "If I pay very close attention to what you say and analyze it carefully, I often fancy I get a glimmer or what you are thinking about.”

WHICH?

Miss Kittish —Oh! dear. It’s a positive affliction to be as shy as I am. I always run at the sight of a man. Miss Sharp —From him or toward him?

Occasional and Habitual.

We make mistakes; for Fate wilt mock The hopes which fondly are arrayed. But why keep old mistakes in stock . ▲nd’ bring them forward, ready-made?

Couldn’t Fool Her.

boarder is either a married man or a widower. Pretty Daughter—Why, ma. he says he is a bachelor. Landlady—Well, I don’t believe it When he opens his pocketbook to pay his board he always turns his back to