Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1917 — Page 2

DESIGN FOR SPRING

Almost tiny perfectly plain item of outer apparel ma? be listed as a “sports” garment. Women, however, are not at all disturbed by this classification, and select sports skirts and blouses for home and utility wear, and sports suits and coats for general service because this type, of apparel is generally most becoming, a's well as ■'jiuuarl. .—■■ —■—- ■ The sketch illustrates il very chic little .sports blouse or golf shirt, as some prefer to call it, and a sports design. The blouse is made of white wool jersey, cloth. It is of the slip- ‘ over variety. The buttoned-on belt at the front makes this possible. The neck opening is secured by means of buttonholes and loop buttons. If sired, collar, cuffs and pocket edging, :ts well as the detachable front belt; may be of broadcloth in color, although unquestionably more service is guaYqnT teed if the blouse is all white. It is unlined, and, although wool jersey - doth will shrink amazingly If carelessly laundered, this can be avoided by proper handling. To make the blouse two yards of material 36 inches wide will be required.. The skirt, an advance spring model, - as "Staged, Is "forefunner of spring in the select ion of —mat erial plaids will be amazingly popular.

Modish Sports Skirt and Blouse.

Twelve, fifteen and even eighteen-inch-wide plaids are approved by Dame Fashion for spring sports wear. The skirt sketched is laid in wide boxplait panels and plain panels, the latter finished at the bottom with many rows of stitching at the bottom in a color to blend or contrast with the color of the plaid. * Black and white is to be smart, and plaids in very high colors will be strongly approved. As will be noted fay a glance at - the small upper sketch, tlfe plaits extend to the top of the. yoke, giving the skirt an unusual silhouette. 6nly-a slender figure could wear a-oki Ft of this exact type becomingly. A more fitted yoke might, however, easily be substituted. To make the skirt four and a half yards of material 36 inches wide will be required.

BEST EFFECTS IN FURNITURE

Black and White. jn Artistic Deslgns Is Most Popular of Fashionable Furnishings. fad for black and white in interiors still rages. In its present form this fad.is a good one, for now that we 1 have passed the days of overdoing the black-and-white idea we have come upon some really charming effects. The rage for black has taught .us that dark furniture is often far more effective than light furniture. And that is something worth learning. There are places, of course, where dark furniture does not look well. But in u room of rather heterogeneous color aeberoe dark furniture is almost sure to look best. . So if you have on hand any old furniture, even of a dilapidated sort, darken it. Use brown or black stain, and with this stain turn the cherry bedside stand, the golden oak rocking ehair, the battered curly maple writing desk, the green-stained mission bureau and dressing table, the gray enameled , l>ed —turn them all into a dull, dark bedroom suite. Then place them in a ro< <m with mustard yellow or soft blue paper on the wails, with bright chintz or soft cream muslin hangings, and congratulate yourself on the result, which surely be a charming one. - It is really a very Interesting work, this painting and staining of furniture. And the fact that it does bring harmony out of a lack of it, that it does make old and worn furnlture a pleasant possibility, makes the work quite worth while. So get a can of dark oak or dark watiiut stain or of black paint or enamel and go io work to brtiig dark harmony out of your old furniture. Then there is the Jacobean and Elis-

abethan and Tudor furniture, that has a decided vogue at the present time. This Is finished in a soft, dull brown that is very attractive.

SPRING BONNET

Lonely lingerie Smolin “Bluebird” model of pale lavender embroidered batiste, with wide streamer* of paje p i nlc~ahd Igyetidec-rnoi reeribbon caught at the side of the crown with a lange pink rose. The hat. la 41beauty and without a doubt will be a popular ‘favorite during the spring season.

ARE NO LONGER POCKETLESS

Both Gowns and Suits Now Provided With a Plethora of ~Receptacles for the Smaller Accessories. Surely yomen cannot complain nowadays ofpbcketless gowns oi suits? As a matter of fact, pockets are included not only in regulation garments, but are to be found unexpectedly in muffs, pocketbooks andotherunusual places. This is proved in a muff of fur lined with brocaded satin and having op one side a pouch-shaped attachment of the satin bordered with fur at the top and having material drawn in at the bottom aud finished with a handsome tassel. The pocket is large enough to take care of all. the essential trifles which a woman carries about with her, whether shopping, visiting, attending the matinee ox afternoon tea. Paris has recently introduced a muff of suede which is dyed to match the color of the costume. The leather muff may be embroidered - with beads or otherwise decorated, and usually it is suspended from the neck by means of a novelty chain or by knotted strings of the suede itself.

USEFUL PIECE OF FURNITURE

Ottoman Can Be Made of Excellent Service in a Surprising Variety of Ways. These round huinpty ottomans are very useful in a sitting room” they win be. of course, riitide small for a footstool or in larger size for a seat. The first thing to do is to make a round, thick cushion the size decided on; it must be very tightly stuffed so that it is quite firm; any clean pieces of rag might be cut up into small pieces for stuffing the lower part, then

Ottoman for the Floor.

towards the top vegetable down or woolen flocks should be used. Cretonno or furniture brocade may used for covering; for the lower part the sides half way from middle to bottom should be covered; stretch it as tightly as possible and sew it at- the top first; then turn lower edge under the bottom and sew firmly; finish by sewing a circle of lining on to cover all rough edges. The top covering must be cut in h Circle huge enough to allow.Jtor-thh ; and fix it by pins ; get it as tight and smooth as possible, and arrange Lite fullness evenly for frill; stitch it round, then cover the stitches with thick furniture cord; pull this very tight and tie in a loopy bow at the side.

Handkerchief Bureau Scarf.

Take three men's linen handkerchiefs with one’s initials, sew insertion between each one and all around, and then the same with edging all ar on mi,, fulling at the corners. A certain girl made quite a feW of the bureau scarfs for gifts, which were certainly liked, as they are so different from those one can buy. ' v 2 ,

For Young Girls.

In the evening the more diaphanous the dresses of the young girls the more becoming they are, and scarves o£ tulle of every color are twisted round-the figure and neck, just as a pretty woman knows so wqll how to adjust their with the most satisfactory results..... .

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PIGEONS STILL USED IN THE GREAT WAR

Although the trenches and different fighting lines are connected by- telephone, telegraph and wireless, and other convenient methods employedin sending dispatches, the pioneer .of the class is- stfi 11 at work. Pigeons are a necessary adjunct to an army. The photograph shows a pigeon house-oa-wluels ln northern Macedonia, ——

ITALIAN WARSHIPS FOOL AUSTRIANS

Explore Mine-Defended Pola Harbor, Fire Torpedoes and Escape Unscathed. FOE THINK IT AN AIR RAID Searchlights IHuminate the Sky, Batteries Open Fire Wildly and Inefficiently While Quietly Slip Away. Rome. —Three Italian torpedo boats have succeeded in breaking the boom at Pola, the best defined and most fortified naval harbor in the world. They spent two hours “exploring the harbor a few hundreds of yards from the forts and came out’ safely after they had accomplished their most dis- . hcuLt nuinerotispcvi'erful seiffcfillghTsr vainly illuminated sky and sea it nd the batteries tired wildly and inefficiently.” The most difficult and delicate mission consisted in torpedoing a man-o’-war. In fact, when the torjwdo boats reached the “customary anchorage of part of the Austrian fleet,” possibly tiie good roadstead in the channel of Fasana. the ent ranee of which they had successfully forced, torpedoes were tired against a large enemy war vessel, -but it was ascertained that both remained entangled in the nets protecting the ship and as they failed to strike a hard substance their charges were not ignited and the torpedoes clid not explode. Saved by Nets. Hud the torpedoes exploded the Italian warships would not have been able to come otrt of Pola and probably would have been lost. In fact, they owed their safety to the nonexplosion jf the torpedoes. , Three Italian torpedo boats left port on the evening of November 1, and toward midnight they were off Pola. Shortly aft $!- midnight the warships w e re.. ji ea r riin„tmUuace-

COUSIN OF ITALY’S KING

A handsome woman, accompanied by an irreproachably groomed collie, who registered at a New York liwiel as Erma Wriglft, attracted P« ssin « attention A few days laterlame Saleem, all the way from Egypt, and. prostrating himself before tile stranger, addressed her ’as “Madame la Cotintessa.” Miss Wright admitted then that in Italy she had, been the Counted Mira Fiori, cousin by marriage of the present king. She had been traveling incognito in California until a romance began in a moonlit garden in ancient Egypt, followed her half, way around the globe, and disclosed her identity, j The countess is an American by birth. | She has spent tuach ot her time in | Italy, where under the stage name of | Mlle. Blanche Duquesne, she became I popular as an opera singer., After her marriage to the Count Fiori she spent several years among the nobility of Italy. ‘‘

channel. closed by means of iron chains, steel cables, enormous beams and nets extending across the mouth of the'Clifimiel as a i ingCCttHTT ugahisr The -barrier is formidable "anil itk‘ removal seems impossible. A patrol boat is moored alongside the boom. The men on board are supposed to be on watch? instead, they are asleep. Two oitt of the three torpedo boats silently approached the harrier and their crews gut to work. In less than twenty minutes the boom was lowered sufficiently to allow their passage. One of the torpedo boats entered the harbor of Pola and came out after-two hours. There was absolutely no sign of life inside the port and few lights were to be seen on shore. The Austrians relied so much on their mine fields, barriers and batteries that they were quite convinced an attack was impossible either by day or by night, and they slept .soundly without watch-, dug. Results Not Known. The results of the torpedo boat’s exploration inside Pola are of course not known. Undoubtedly-they must havebeen very valuable, judging by the fact that no attempt was made to torpedo :any of the. enemy . Ships . before two hours, and it is to be presumed that

SWITZERLAND HAS MYRIAD OF SPIES

Arrests Are Made Almost Daily and Some Diplomats Are Expelled. POLICE ARE KEPT ON THE GO Of 425 Espionage Caras in Last Six Months 350 Were Austro-German —Government Is Very Strict. Berne, Switzerland. —According to Swiss laxy in generalan'd a special ordinance of tiie federal council dated August 4, 1914, in particular, espionage is prohibited. No foreigner is allowed to organize, favor or carry out espionage on behalf of any belligerent power since the outbrenk of the war and quite recently counter espionage has also been forbidden. Spies, male and female, generally Germans, are arrested almost every day in Switzerland, and most of them lure, tried and convicted. In some cases, however, no trial follows the arrest of . a spy, and this happens whenever the : spy can prove by I’.oAnnentary evidence that he is a diplomat, generally a consular officer <ir commercial agent, a ■ duly accredited military attache or an army officer. In such cases the Swiss police’ invariably accompany the spy to the frontier and there let him loose, and after his repatriation an official annova+ee — intent is made to the_effect that he has : been-.reealled home by his government. - Ordinary "Spies"are Instead tried ami sentenced to a term of imprisonment I and a heavy fine. They are moreover, ; expelled from Switzerland, after serving their sentence, of course, ami threatened witii immediate arrest If j they come back. Espionage Flourishes. As a rule spies of Swiss nationality ate more severely punished than "foreigners. us.. .Swltzeriimd. is deteriuipe<l on .absolute neutrality, but all the same espionage flourishes everywhere to such a great extent that practically all the foreigners in Switzerland, neutrals or belligerents, are spies or dabble in espionage or counter espionage. Comparisons are odious, but it is a fact that out of 425 cases of espionage brought before the Swiss courts during the last six months 350 dealt With Aus-tro-German -spies or with people who were working for the central empires, ami the charges in these latter cases were not of espionage, pure and simple, namely, the securing of information about the enemy, but of a criminal nature, such as attempts against life and property, arson', Blowing up of Tallroads and factories and such intel AustroGerman spies are, after all, nothing else but ordinary criminals. It must be admitted that the Swiss police have a very difficult task In catching Austro-German spies who, aS a rule, are very clever and invariably have good accomplices. For instance, who would have suspected that a most respectable German lady, the widow-of

ITALY FIGHTING ARMY OF 500,000

Rome.—From 30 to 43 Au* trian divisions —300.000 to 516«000 men—are kept engaged along the Italian front, an officipl communication. The statement adds that since Italy entered the war it has conquered 1,200 square miles of territory, shortening the war front from 500 to 375 miles, with an aggregate of 1,875 miles of intrenched lines. .x: xxrfx—±__.. is bging manufactured by 2,170 Italian factories, employing 469,000 workers, including nearly women. The Austrian prisoners now number 85,000, the statement as- ■ T* * serts.

i all this time was not lost. Besides, had so near the torpedo boat Should MW pro 1 onged iter tat-. ploration inside I’ola. It was about five o’clock In the mqrning when the two torpedoes were tired against the Austrian battleship in the Fasana channel, almost simultaneously and Jit a very close range. They itotif got entangled in the n<?ts protecting the ship. Evidently three nets protected the ship, because two were cut, but the third prevented the torpedoes from striking the hull, and their propellers kept going outside the water with a ‘■tend noise resembling that made by the propellers of an airplane. ■■ _, In fact, the Austrians on board the battleship, as well as those on board other ships and on shore, mistook the noise and took it for .granted that I’ola ; had been attacked by hostile air craft. The alarm was raised at once with the rapidity of lightning. Searchlights were put on and illuminated the sky, while all the guns of the aerial defense on the hills and on the islands, as well as all those on the ships and of the shore batteries, opened tire simultaneously, wildly and inefficiently. The Italian torpedo boat headed straight for the barrier. The Austrians in the patrol boat watching the entranced! the channel, who were not quite awake, assumed that she was one of their torpedo boats going out to sea in search of the Italian airplanes that were raiding I’ola.

I’rofessor Mayer, a resident for more than thirty years in the small village Of Oberkirch, near Lucerne, was the accomplice of a famous spy? This old lady, who hated war, loudly proclaimed that she was ashamed of being a German because Germany was responsible for the war, and led a quiet life of solitude and seclusion, living now just the same as she had been living for the last thirty years, was implicated in a famous case of espionage as the principal accomplice of her son and also the notorious German secret service spy, Adolf Walker. The ladj’ and her son were tried and sentenced to ’three months’ imprisonment and expelled from Switzerland. Old Lady Returns. Four months after the trial the old lady was again in Switzerland, on the sly, of course, and this time she escaped, but it was ascertained that she had-accompanied Walker bn a flying visit to Lyons, in France, Alfred Olsen, formerly a sergeant in the German army, has been arrested at Zurich, tried and sentenced to five months imprisonment antF a fine of $1 IM) because the police found out that he was finding situations for Swiss ■ nnrMs-f n - Fmnee and Ttaly and -eneeuraging them to write him long letters. Of course, as the maids were beingpaid,by both their employers and by Olgenr -the number he ” plaeed ’ ’ was considerable. The latest espionage case now going on in Switzerland relates to Heinz Sommer, correspondent of the Wolff lnri , eTTTi.,nr~l’ , rench deserter named An? dre I’onz,’ a young lady of Laqsanne, Rose Schertenleib, and a notorious spy who served both France and Germany by the name of Henry Grimm.

COLLEGE MEALS AT 7 CENTS

Boarding Hall at Kentucky Institution Shows Profit—Feeding'l,4oo at This Rate. Berea, Kv.—ln order to prove that high-eestnf 1 i ving has not reached every part of the country, Berea college, in the Kentucky mountains, Is responsible for the statement that its 1,490 students are fed at a cost of seven cents per meal, that they gained "sevend tons” in weight, and that the boarding hall made a net gain of $559.49. In explaining this record President Frost of the college refers first to the ecbn omy of numbers, some 1,400 students,, being in constant attendance in the five departments. Another explanation of the seven-rent meal is the fact that most of the students are accustomed to plain 4 fare, so that they' almost unanimously choose to go without tea, coffee and butter to reduce expenses. To offset these omissions the “balance ration” has been Introduced.

No Friendship In Pinochle.

—“We were Just playing'a friendly game -of pinochle,” said Richard Watson, with six others of gambling. “There is no "friendship In pinochle.” said Judge Mahoney. He fined Watsuu $25. the others $1 each

Legacy of Peace

By REV. W. W. KETCHUM

director of the Practical Work-Courte, Moody Bible Institute. Chicago

TEXT—Peace I leave with you, my peace I give upto you.—John 14:27. To know that Jesus left a legacy of peace for us is the first step in its possesSome years ago in Chicago a bricklayer, earning five dollars a day at his

Christ has left; the first thing we need to know, if we would possess it, is that he has left it for us. Ignorant of this fact, we would fall to take possession'of our Inheritance. How true it is. that it is not what one has, but what one knows he has that makes him rich. And, we can well add, and what he takes possession of. . It is evident from Christ’s words announcing this legacy that it is a twofold peace. He speaks of leaving peace and giving his peace, These cannot be one and the same thing, for Christ is never guilty of redundancy. The peace Christ left us must be the peace which he made for us hy the blood of his cross; that which Paul calls, “Peace with God.” This we know was effected for us by Christ upon the cross, and became ours when we accepted Ttfm as our Savior. It is an inalienable possession, a blessed, unalterable fact, that w«Lhaye peace with God. if Christ is ours. But what now of this other peace which Christ gives? He expressly calls.it “my peace.” By this, he must mean the peace which he possessed and which filled his own life; not an outward calm, but an inward quietness. Away down in the sea, those who dredge its depths tell us there Is what is called the cushion. "No matter how wildly the wind blows on the surface, nor how tempestuous the waves, down there at the cushion of the sea is an absolute calm. This, it seems to me, represents the peace of Christ. It was the inner quietude of his heart, though his life was swept by storm. This peace, which was Christ’s, he bequeathes to us. What else can it be, but the peace spoken of” by the Apostle as “the peace of God which passeth all understanding.” (Phil. 4:7.) It must be that, for who can understand the quiet poise of a suffering child of God? It is beyond understanding, yet many a child of God with yielded lite has said with one of old, “though he slay me, yet will I trust him.” But how can this peace be possessed? First, by possessing peace with God. There is no use trying to have the second peace, if one does not have the first. Peace with God makes possible the peace of God. The first peace is the portjoiupf every one who truly has nuuto Chrfsu Ids Savior, It isu-bla" whether he feels it or not; and to know ifjte possesses it, he should look not to WjT'feelings, but to the fact that Christ has made peace by the blood of his cross and that he by faith has accepted Christ and the peace which he made. The second peace, namely, the peace of. Gad may be the portion of every believer. It is possessed not by trying, but by trusting. It comes when one yields fully his life to Christ abd relies upon him. Do that and though the storms beat about the head, and the heavens seem ready to fall, the mind will be kept by the peace of God through Christ Jesus. The prophet Isaias expresses this-truth (26:3) when he says: “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.” That is it; mind stayed on the Lord Jehovah experiences the keeping (Tower of, him who is everlasting strength. v There conies to my heart one sweet strain, A glad and a joyous rdf rain, T sffiTJt' agatn fffict agaTH?"" Sweet peace the gift of God’s love. Peace, peace, sweet peace, Wonderful gift from above. Oh wonderful, wonderful peac®, Sweet peace, the gift of God's love. ’

Character.

Stalwart character, Mint Invaluable possession which, partly because it is an invisible possession, often is hard td # understand, is Just the net result of dully devotion to duty. Character is the total effect oh oneself of one’s daily thoughts, words, and actions. When for any period, these fall below our past, average, character is deteriorating;‘w’hen they rise above the past, stalwart character is in the making.

One's First Duty.

Of all the duties, the love of truth, with faith and constancy in it, ranks ,'irsi and highest. To love God and to ove truth are one am* the suine.--Ulvio Peliico. e " ■ ■ • ■ >\ —

trade, received word that he was tieir to a vast estate left by his two granduncles in Australia. The knowledge of this fact was the first thing necessary in securing possession of the fortune. In ig - norance of it, he might have labored on for the rest of his life with his trowel; So it is with the -legacy of peace