Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1916 — Page 3

If the Boy in Blue Is Disabled

(Copyright, 1916.) Then they efaall know their friends though - much Will have teen lost-the help In strife. The thousand sweet, still joys- of such As, hand In hand, face earthly life. Among the many letters which come to me Is one which has touched my

wed. I was called upon for active duty across the border and that event ' has changed the course of my life, I believe, in several skirmishes I sured worse than my companions, being wounded twice. When I„ bade goodby to my sweetheart I was a stalwart fellow, as good to look upon as the general run of young men, ambitious to a fault, anxious to rise to the very height of what an army man may obtain as to position. “One of the wounds Is In the ankle which will leave me crippled for life. The other —an explosion—rhas so seamed and scarred my face that I am repulsive to look upon. The question Is, should I hold the girl I love better than ray life to marry me—if I am destined to return —or write her dissolving the bonds? I cannot bear the thought that she might look upon me with repugnance —that would be a living death to me. You are a womdn and understand the hearts of women better than almost any one else.

A Touch of Handwork.

The business woman can embellish a simple white blouse with her own clever Angers and Impart to it the distinction of handwork. Collar and cuffs on a white georgette blouse can be finished at the edge with an embroidery running stitch in black floss, with tiny jet beads set at regular intervals, A black bow, drawn through button-holed slashes above the waistline, intensifies the black-and-white note. Buttonhole motifs are especially smart. Draw oblongs on the wrong side with a* pencil and pad them with white darning cotton, then put the running stitch with black floss arodnd the edge of the padded oblong.

Mother’s Cook Book.

The world does not care what college or university you graduate from, or how many diplomas you may have, or how many letters after your name; It askß: "WHAT CAN YOU DO?" Cato said: "I would rather the world asked why no statues were erected to my memory, than why they were. Peas on Toast. Cook green peas until tender, then season well with rich cream, salt and pepper, pour aver nicely browned toast that has been lightly buttered. Serve hot. This Is a dish that will take the place of meat. Some time, for a change, take a little peanut butter, thin with water to make a sauce, and serve on vegetables. Nut Gravy for Toast. Add a large tablespoonful of nut butter, rubbed smooth, with a little water, to a pint of hot milk, thicken with flour rubbed smooth in a little of the cold milk, season well and serve either on toast or potatoes.

Vegetable Stew. Cook together a few green peas, some small even-sized onions and small carrots, until tender, letting the liquor remain for additional flavor. Add rich milk seasonings of salt and pepper and two tablespoonfuls of bits of salt pork diced and browned, adding the hot fat also, to give a richness to the stew. Surprise Croquettes. Make small cone-shaped potato croquettes, putting a spoonful of cooked green peas In each as It is being molded. The potato should be mashed and seasoned, and the peas also seasoned. Then fry as usual In deep fat. , Hot Weather Dishes. As little people feel the heat as much as grownups and are not as capable of caring for themselves, It behooves the mother to see that her child is fed properly, pimple meals with fresh vegetables and fruits are the best for both old and young during the hottest weather. Succulent vegetables are refreshing because they are served cold and because of the acids and minerals that they contain. A, few slices of ripe, Juicy tomatoes with a good salad dressing, aerved with a sandwich of, nut bread

By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY.

heart deeply. It Is from one of our boys in £lue, a soldier, and Is In part as follows : “I am In sore distress of mind and am writing to you for not only consolatlno, but advice. While connected with the army at I met and loved a beautiful girl, our commander’s daughter. She returned my alToctlon, and It was settled that we should

Will you tell me what I should do for her happiness nnd mine?” There are few sadder cases of the blasting of love’s young dream, but from one end of the world to the other there exists at the present moment many thousands of such cases which disabled soldiers are trying to fight out on their cots of pain. Unfortunately they do not understand the hearts or oobillty of women under such circumstances. With but few exceptions, when a young girl gives her heart to her lover It is not because of his madly beauty In face or form, his ambition to forge ahead. It Is his winning personality, that wondrous, inexplalnable attraction and influence which draws hearts Intended for each other together. Sorrow and misfortune make the object of a true woman’s affection doubly dear to her. A love that veers when so tested is not the grand, true kind upon which muu can build the hopes and trust of a lifetime. Before harboring the thought of parting; a man should throw himself upon the mercy and wishes of his sweetheart, leaving It with hor to decide. _______ Of the thousands of maimed soldiers abroad who have put this question up to their waiting sweethearts whom they left behind, I am glad, nay, proud, to say it has been vouched for that not one of the wounded heroes had cause to repent giving the strong, enduring love of his heart to the ten-der-hearted girl who In each Instance quickly wrote him that he need have no fear her heart could ever change, and that she would stand by her hero unto death. Such letters are life elixirs to the boys in blue facing the enemy’s shot and shell to guard their country’s honor. The dear loves at home nerve the soldier to do his best. What Joy to know that whatever woe betides him there are wide-stretched arms waiting to clasp him, a heart that is true as the stars of heaven. The love of a true woman cannot alter.

and a simple drink, either hot or cold as seems best, Is a luncheon of sufficient nourishment to satisfy any appetite wisely, during hot weather. This is the time to eliminate rich pastries and puddings, serving meat but once a day at the most.

Telemeter, “Eye of the Gun” Is a Wonderful Instrument

The telemeter, used by all artillerists in some shape or other, is also known as the eye of the gun. It is really a tube with two telescopic lenses, one on each end. The “objectives” of the two lenses are placed inside the instrument and towards the end of the tube. Prisms with five faces act as reflectors, so that the person looking in has mechanically spread his eyes to the two ends of the tube, with a tremendous range of vision. Of course, the ends are so arranged that they may be directed at a single object at the same time, thus making it possible for the observer to see what would otherwise be beyond the power of the human eye and to know, by the angle at which It is viewed, the distance away. It requires a little practice to use this wonderful Instrument, but in a few days the operator ascertains how easily he can determine the precise distance he is from the object he is looking at and by a quick calculation he directs the pointing of the gun so that it cannot fall to strike at the desired spot.

Fashion’s Decrees

Gaberdine grows in favor and use, wearing as well as serge. Some of the new veils are edged with Jet spangles, irregularly worked. Fancy metal bands are coming In for millinery purposes. The nose veil Is very smart and may be seen all winter. Colored linens are much used for children’s wash dresses. The cartridge plait Is retained in the new French costumes. Black net robes for evening are bordered with colored silk. **, , r Broad bands of fur will be seen on the tunics of fall dresses. Gold brocaded silk makes the prettiest of evening slippers. Castor and gray are the best colors —after black —for shoes. Broad-brimmed high-crowned hats are in straw of two colors. The vogue for gray shoes has increased the demand for gray gloves. Cyclamen-colored satin velvet with royal blue net is a new combination. Coatees of white serge are made to be worn with navy taffeta dresses. The modified circular skirt with belt Is in high favor for tailored suits.

Clever Salt Shaker.

Recently a cleverly devised salt shaker was made, the makers of which claim thtit It will loosen clogged salt. It is of clear glass with a noncorrosive white metal top. A spiral loop of wire which occupies the center of the shaker is turned by a twist of the knob above the lid. The collJ)f wire when turned reaches every part of the Interior of the shaker, thus breaking up the salt "■(

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Wearing of Wedding Rings.

German women when engaged wear a wedding ring on the third finger of the right hand. Swiss wives wear the wedding ring on the left hand, but .widows on the right. When engaged Swiss women wear the wedding ring with a jeweled ring under It; when married the wedding ring Is underneath. The married man, by the way, has to show his “condition” by wearing a wedding ring.

The Codicil.

“A penny saved Is a penny earned,” quoted the moral lzer. “But,” rejoined the demoralizer, “the pocket piece you carry for ten years draws no interest.”

SOME DON’TS FOR THE POULTRY RAISER

Don’t overcrowd your chicks. Don't fall to remember that fresh air and plenty of it is vitally necessary to all animal and bird life, chickens included. Don’t fail to supply your fowls with dry quarters. Don’t fail to keep the chicks and layers active, clean and happy. Don’t use inferior, musty or wasteproduct foods for your poultry. Don’t expect record egg yields from old hens. Don’t fail to keep your poultry and all equipment in a sanitary condition. Don’t get lax when things are going well. Don’t expect profitable winter egg yields unless you enforce exercise and supply animal and green food in proper form and quantities. Don’t expect to continue in the poultry business without being able to hatch and rear your chicks. Don't expect livable chicks without vigorous breeding stock. Don’t forget to cull. Kill every weakling In sight. Take no chances In this matter. Don’t use or rely on poor tools with which to work. Don't fail to follow instructions In running your own Incubator. Don’t put eggs Into the incubator when it Is first started. Don’t expect strong chicks from poor eggs. Don’t handle the eggs or the incubator roughly. Don’t fall to have the brooder ready. Don’t pamper the chicks. Don’t feed too much. Little at a time and often is a better rule. Don’t fail to provide sun and shade.

Wise and Otherwise.

Even experience Is unable to teach a fool anything. Every woman Is judge and Jury unto her own husband. All things come to those who stop waiting and go after them. Nothing worries some wives like absence of worry in their husbands. Talk less and think more. This is good advice to give but hard to take. If you never told a lie do not risk spoiling your reputation by saying so. No wonder a yacht Jumps up and down when It Is forced to get on another tack. Books are man’s best friends; when they bore him he ca% shut them up without giving offense. In contemplating what he has done for others, the average man Is prone to forget what the others have done for him. Even with his remarkable memory the oldest inhabitant falls to recall that he has Inflicted his reminiscences on everybody he knows.

To Keep Plants Fresh.

There is a simple way to water ferns and flowers which will be of interest to one who must leave them for a time without care. Take a washing tub and place, three or, four bricks in It and put about two Inches of water In the tub. Place the flowers on these bricks and place the tub where thqy can get the morning sunshine.

CHINESE PIE MAN WELCOME IN CAMP

The Chinese pie man and his little son ure among the most welcome visitors at the camp of the United States soldiers In Mexico. Pie is not Included regularly In the menu prepared tor the boys, when they are given an opportunity to buy a few pies on the side they never let the chance slip.

HOW AMERICAN YOUTH GOT THE FRENCH MEDAL

Wounded Driving Ambulance He Is Given Highest Military Honor. ARE DOING A GREAT WORK American Ambulance Drivers' Remarkable Experiences Shown in Extracts From Letters to Friends and Relatives in This Country. New York. —About 250 young Americans are engaged in driving in the different services of the American Ambulance hospital in Paris. Some idea of the great work they are performing is contained in extracts from letters sent to relatives and friends in this country. The latest of these communications is from William M. Barber, twenty-one-year-old son of J. A. Barber, lawyer of Toledo, and one-time judge in the Ohio courts. Young Barber is now recovering from a serious wound received lb- the performance of his duty at Verdun, where he displayed such exceptional bravery that he was decorated by the French authorities with the Medaille Militaire, the highest - medal for military valor in France.

Young Barber started from this port on May 6 and was wounded on June 26. His captain, Lovering Hill, in reporting his case to the Ambulance hospital, said the boy was driving his ambulance'with three wounded soldiers at midnight along one of the most dangerous roads at Verdun. He was forced to stop by shells bursting ahead of him. During ,a lull in the firing he started again, when a shell burst a few yards away. Many small fragments struck him, one penetrating a lung and another his side. Notwithstanding his wounds he went on until he fell, showing, as his captain Bald, the most splendid pluck, doing dangerous work with enthusiasm and coolness. Recovering from the effects of his wounds, Mr. Barber wrote from his cot In the American Ambulance hospital the following letter on June 30 to his parents: Tore Side and Legs. “Dear Folks at Home, Abroad and Grandma: “Four nights ago I had a pretty narrow escape. I can mention no names ihere, but this is the gist of the story: “I was driving my car, with three wounded soldiers in it, along a road that was being shelled. Well, I got in the midst of a pretty hot shower, so I stopped my car and got under It. A few minutes later I supposed it was blowing over, so I got out. I had no sooner got out when I heard one of those big obuses coming, the loudest I had ever heard. I ran to the front of my car, crouching down in front of the radiator. When it burst it struck my car. “I was only hurt a little. I was not disfigured in any way. It tore my side and legs a little. ‘The French treated me wonderfully. I succeeded In getting the next American ambulance driven by Wheeler (a great boy), who took me to the city of , where our post is. Here I was given first aid, and the medical chief personally conducted me In an American ambulance, in the middle of the night; to a very good hospital. They say I halve the best doctor in France —ln Paris. “Well, I woke up the next day In a bed, and have been recuperating ever since. Everyone Is wonderful to me. General, Petain, * second to Joffre, has stopped in tp shake hands with me, and many are my congratulations, too, for, above., my bed hangs'the Medaille Militaire, the greatest honor the French can give anyone. Really, lam proud, although I don’t deserve It any more than the rest. Please excuse my egotism. Just as Good as New. “In JUae or four days I go fib the

hospital at Neuilly, where I can have every comfort. “Of course you won’t worry about me. , I will be Just as good as new soon, and really this is true. “The Germans peppered the life out of my car. No one goes over the road in daylight, but the fellows brought me back the next day a handful of bullets taken from It, and said they could get me a bushel more If I desired them. “For three days I was not allowed to eat or drink, and could hardly move In bed. My spirits were high, too. I will try to write better and take more pains. Goodby. WILLIAM. “Neuilly-sur-Seine,July 10, 1916.” Later he wrote: .-f “Dear Folks: “Well, I am here and fine. This is a wonderful hospital, and they surely treat you great. I am just getting back to normal and have no temperature. The doctors here are the besfc In the world and surely know their business. . . . “When my wounds heal up, which they are fast doing, I will be just as good as new, no scars at all. lam very happy here and hope every day that you are as happy gnd never worry about me. I think I have done a small part of a great work, and my medatlle shows what the French think of my services. It is given for discipline and valor, by the way, what amuses me, there is an annual pension of IOOf. I have been treated wonderfully since I have it given to me.

“I am the only ambulance boy who has been given a Medaille, and I am told that Mr. Balsley, an American aviator, is the only other American who has it. WILLIAM.’’ Driving Under Fire. Another letter vividly describing the experiences of ambulance drivers at the front, was sent by the young American who volunteered to take charge of the first ambulance provided by members of the New York stock exchange. In that letter to his parents the writer says: “Well, I’m still alive and kicking, but the Lord only knows why. I finally started work at Verdun on the 21st of June. I quit the 7th of July. I hope never to put in a reign of terror like that again. The first night we started we were greeted with a gas attack and had to wear our masks for about three hours. Luckily they were the weeping kind, that is, it makes you cry like the devil. If you breathe enough of it, it makes you very sick, but it wasn’t the asphyxiating kind. We went from Verdun to a poste de secours, just behind the first line trenches, about 500 yards away from the Boches. It was in the cellar of what remained of a house; the rest of the place was nothing but piles of bripks, etc. There was another post half way between, and another a little farther to the left “The road out was under continual shell fire all the time, and the second night they shelled the poste de secours very heavily. I came up the road, and just at the entrance to the little town met Waldo, who said that they were shelling the place and to be careful. I started on, and then whistle and boom —just ahead of me at the side of the road a shower of stones, etc., no damage. I went on, got into a bunch of soup kitchens which were blocking the road and stalled my motor. I got out to crank it, just got it .going, when the next one arrived — something hit me on the ankle and knocked me over. I got up, found my leg all wet and no feeling In It, so I concluded I was wounded.

**l got in the car and started back to Verdun it fixed. I got about three hundred yards away and then began to feel things In It, so I felt it again. It seemed all right, and my hands weren’t red, so I concluded I wasn’t wounded, and it must have been a piece of brick that hit me, so I turned around and went back again, and some more shells arrived. Found Dawson, and we took to a shell hole, and Jay there about fifteen minutes. “Barber and Johnsoq were lying under their cars Just in front of us. It let up for a while and we went on to the poste. Found another man change ing a tire in front of the posteflwlth part of 'the front of his car gone. Be Invited me to aid him. I couldn’t refuse, but I never felt so like killing a person In my life. The crazy idiot, sitting there changing a shoe, with

bursting all around \ Ewiy time he heard a whistle he'd dive under his car. A Narrow Escape. “Two brancardlers were killed right alongside of him and he wasn’t scratched. Weil, we got the tire on In a Jiffy, and he went off. Just a* he got to the end of the town one lit behind him and wounded the three ’blesses’ who were Inside, but didn’t touch him at all. That, was the worst night we had, really. “Our French lieutenant found two shrapnel bails In his clothes, but he wasn’t touched. Waldo bad put hia pocketbook in his left hand breast pocket for the first time In his life that night—a shrapnel ball went clear through It and all the clothes, but he wasn’t touched. Two men were killed right beside him. "The night of the 26th poor Barber got wounded —a piece In his lung, one In his stomach. >nd a large chunk, aa big as your fist; out of his back. However, he Is getting on very well and is very happy, as he had the dlstino* tion of being the only American ambulance driver to have, ever received the Medaiile Mllltaire. The whole section Is also very proud and happy — proud that one of us got It and happy because he Is all right and is getting well.

“I ‘rolled’ all day the 27th, covering 180 kilometers and carrying eighteen ‘couches’ and six ‘qqsis’ all night, so I had twenty-six hours of rolling. Of course, I stopped for a bite of lunch and supper. Then I ‘rolldfl’ every night until we quit. “We are now back on ‘repos,’ and we’re all dead tired. Everybody’s car has holes or mudguards or something smashed. Mine was very lucky, and is whole and intact with the exception of a section of the rear mudguard about a foot long, which was beat up by an artillery wagon. Half the section went into Paris yesterday for forty-eight hours, permission granted for the good work we had done, etc. The French lieutenant gave the other half of us a dinner last night, which was very good fun, at which he announced that Mr. Hill had been dted again. That, being his third citation, will give him a palm leaf, and that Jackson, Clark, and I know you’U be very pleased, I also would receive the Croix de Guerre.

“When he called oat my name 1 was so darned surprised that I most have looked at him very queerly, because he said, ‘Yes, you.* I asked Hill why I got It later, and what he said meant a great deal more to me than receiving the C. 6. However, I know you’ll be pleased. Reign of Terror Over. “The reign of terror ts over and It all seemed like a bad dream. I’ve still got a black and blue spot on my leg where the brick hit me, but that’s all, thank the Lord. I hope we don’t strike anything like that again. “I can’t explain my feelings about It, except that I was terrified absolutely, and how I managed to go out night after night, and on an average of three trips a night, I don’t know. The psychology of the thing Is extraordinary. There were certain spots In the road where you felt perfectly safe, and others where I just had to make myself go through. Verdun, though under continual shell firs, was always a blessed relief. In fact, I slept like a baby there one night from nine until twelve before I startsd. Everybody says the same thing. You can’t Imagine the strain you’re under. Everybody was snapping at each other all the time about nothing, just from want of Bleep. I’ve slept from about ten until five during tbe day, at least I always did. Some of the boys used to get up for lunch, but I slept Instead, and was glad of it, because I lasted much better at Bight that way, “TOM.”-

SOLDIERS SINK WELLS

The scarcity of water in Mexico has proved one of the biggest problems for the army men to solve, Soipe of the soldiers at Pershing’s headquarters at Colonia Dublan, Mexico, have sunk a well in the camp. Here most of the drinking water is obtained. The water from this well Is not like the water from the spring wells in the mountains and Is not cold, but It is free from germs and that Is the main essential.