Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1917 — Untitled [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

opportunity. It has an elastic schedule of hours Which will conform to the time that the seeker after knowledge and efliciency can devote to the opportunity it affords, whether that be day or night. The teachers declare it is . re-educational in the best sense of the word and if young or old have missed - thO' master -stroko ofwilTglve either a new trade or ambition and with. that. new. hope———— Even if a person has a new system of education to test out, the oppbr-

tunity school gives the chance to place that invention before the world. 'Between 500 and 600 day students of both sexes and all ages, rich and poor, are working in the classes between nine and five.. The student roll, day and night, now numbers more than 1,500.' ; The inventor of a new system of shorthand is teaching a class of 25 jhe_ merits of hls wononifCal Clnrographjk lt is an oppiirtunity given to a Denver invention. Side by side the classes of the old system, 250 strong, and of the new are at work. . A one-armed boy walked from the hospital to the school and took up the study of typewriting and stenography. Hope had not had time to get sick, much less to die. An auto repair shop fs about to be built in the basement of one of the school buildings. Women of Gotham Now Hang Their Hats on Dummies NEW YORK. —If you are a woman you don’t keep your hats in a flowerdecorated box under the bed any more, nor on the hatrack in the hall, nor hung on the bust of Schiller in'the parlor. If you're a pampered pet of for

tune, with ten hats or so to a season, you order ten headrests painted After your own image, and stand them up with the hats atop, on a shelf wherever there Is room enough to accommodate them. Pupae, they call the hatrests, which are really glorified dummies. And even if you think the sight of a row of heads on your closet shelf would remind yoti unpleasantly of Bluebeard, you can’t escape seeing them, for they are becoming quite the smart arid necessary bit of window fit-

ting in little hat shops where chapeaux are priced from $-’0 up. l l -tclf l irn anycreditf<>r having invented them,” Miss Frances Simpson tite onlj- girl in America who is making the headpieces, explained when found at tier studio. “They were not unknown to New York. One or two shops here import them from France. I got the idea from seeing some myself in a shop in Paris and started to make them several months after I returned." “ ' ... The hatrests, four or five of them, stood in front of her on a shelf in the studio They are made of papier-mache, are a little less than the Size of a human head and are painted in oil. The features and hair are all painted on the head forms. They are very posterlike in effect and exceedingly piquant and interesting. The idea of having them painted, often in the likeness of the owner,-came originally from sailors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They would carve and paint up ship’s heads, or round balls, to be hung from the top of gangways and name them after people. * “Sometimeswhere a number of them are ordered, a character in history or a famous actress is chosen as a model, as well as one In the likeness of the wearer of the hats,” Miss Stevens <?oncluded. • ■.

Bees Work for Women of Philadelphia’s Suburbs J • - - ■ • - ■ ■PHILADELPHIA. —Give women credit for putting the hoes in the suburbs P Scores of women in the outlying sectionsof the city are becoming ajdansts and the bees are earning pin money for them. Many of the woman beekeepers ana tne nees are ear i are Philadelphia business men

who live inthe suburbs. The apiary takes the place of the garden as a. money-making diversion. Others are wives of farmers for whom beekeeping is becoming more important as a side line. e - ™- Women usually make a success of taking Ih^,—experts say, because they give more diligent attention to details. You can’t turn a swarm of bees loose on a farm or suburban estate ami expect them toreturh profits

without care and attention. All the suburbanite’s wife has to do to become ap expert beekeeper Is to conquerher fear of the bees’ “‘Stingers,” establish iseveral hives in a comer of the backyard, make sure there are buckwheat Oi clover fields, or plenty of wild Howers within reach, and watch that the bees don’t catch disease. Beekeepers iq the Philadelphia district will share SIOO,OOO obtained from the business during 1918. The, average hive will produce about 300 pounds of honey which sells at about ten cents a pound wholesale. This means an income of from S3O S4O a hive. z > Thus the womAn who keeps from ten to thirty hives of boes will have <rom S3OO to S9OO a year for “pin money."