Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1917 — Page 2

the Out-of-Date Girl

By MARY PARRISH

(Copyright, IW7, by W. G. Chapman.) “Those women look tome like a jumble of cartoons rather badly drawn and crudely painted.’! The speaker, an elderly man with a fine, broad brow, hollow cheeks and an angular frame, looked from the hotel piazza toward the troop of promenaders in the afternoon parade at a summer resort. The other man, quite his opposite in every way except for the Intelligence and quizzical humor of his expression, was young, good-looking, well “set up” in the muscular turn of shoulder and limb, and fashionably dothed. He smiled at the other’s comment, but seemed- to agree "with him. “Yes,” he answered, “that’s just about what they look like. Those freakish, angular things with all kinds of astounding things for decorations, they call hats; those furs muffled up to their ears, with mercury in the eighties, and skirts far, far above the ankles! What will they say some years from now when they look at the pictures of this period? Scott! I’d give something to be able to hear what they will say.” “They will say,” rejoined Arthur Rankin, “that it was only an exceptional few who made those caricatures of themselves, instead of which it is the exceptional few who do not.” “True,” assented young Bailey. “I think I’d like to know that kind of a girl.” “I know one,” said Rankin. “Really?” “Yes.” “It must take courage,’* mused Bailey. “It does, and a lot of common sense.” “Now there, for instance, that girl with the dark blue skirt that comes down to her feet —the one with the white waist and straw hat— ’’ “Yes, I see,” said Rankin. “I saw her around the hotel the first time yesterday. She doesn’t seem to

“I Know One,” Said Rankin.

care a nickel that she’s back some years from the reigning styles; but I don’t suppose there’s a man here that would take her out anywhere.” The elder man looked at him curiously. They had only met about half an hour before, they did not even know each dther’s names, but had spoken as men will on a hotel piazza when both are smokers, and one wants a light. “Do you think,” asked Rankin, “men are all like that?” Tm afraid they are.” “But you—you have just said you’d like to know that kind of a girl.” “I would.” “But you wouldn’t take her out anywhere?” The young man stared at him in a perplexed way. He suddenly found himself confronted with a problem he had not thought about. “Well,” he hedged, “well —I don’t know." Then, as though seeing he must be honest. “No, I don’t suppose I would.” “I thought not There, you see, Is the whole rotten shanr of the entire fool business they call society.” He spoke emphatically, and looked the -younger man squarely in the face. “It’S a sorry time for the young .people of this day when the whole social fabric has to be built on such a poor, wobbly thing as clothes.” “I wouldn’t go quite as far as that," protested Bailey. “I wouldn’t have gone that far before; but you surprise me—yoii, a young man I thought with a pretty good mental equipment—at least a little above the average—you, by your •own confession, believe people are all ‘sized up’ by their clothes. It’s someIthing of a jolt—though I suppose I ought to have known. see, I’ve been living in a rather small world. The few people I care for do not measure their friends by their clothes. . Blit when you’re young, I suppose you must get into the game, andthat girl you spoke of—-she’s young, and’it isn’t quite right for her to b» entirely out of it She probably has more brains in her little finger than most of the ■women here have in their whole make-

up. She has had two poems published that have been noticed, but she has to grind away at teaching to earn a living. She went at it at eighteen. Her father never njade inor'C than enough to just scrape hlong on, and she's had no society, and you might say, no youth.” The young man was stdrtag at him in wonderment. “Oh, then you know her!” he exclaimed. “Yes,” said Rankin. “I knqfv what a clever, splendid girl she is, and If I had the money I'd send today for a consignment of new frocks for her. Why, I don’t think she ever had on a low-neck. dress in. her life. I hope she never will put on one of those such as we saw here last night, where the low neck ends at the waistline on the back." “May I ask you to Introduce me to this young lady?” asked Bailey, at the same time transferring his card to the other man. “What, after—” At this moment, as fate would have it, the girl under discussion ran quickly up the steps and straight to the elder man. *Oh, Uncle Arthur,” she began, and then, seeming to note the presence of the other man, she paused abruptly in confusion. “Janet, let me present Mr. Bailey. My niece, Miss Rankin, Mr. Bailey.” She acknowledged the introduction with quiet dignity, and went in. The young man’s face was one over which ?a less kindly man than Rankin might have gloated in boastful triumph. “I’m more sorry than I can tell you,” he said in crimson mortification. “Now, never mind,” said the other. “You’ve taught me something. Let me thank you instead,” and he put out his hand good-naturedly. Bailey caught it in a firm grasp.

The next day he came upon Janet, ensconced against a sand heap away from the crowd of bathers, reading. He asked if he might interrupt. Janet had no objection. They talked, and the time sped on till his watch warned him he had broken an engagement, and he had to leave. That evening at a hotel dance Janet, with her uncle, sat watching the swirling, rainbow-tinted clouds of tulle and chiffon float past on the modishly arrayed dancers. Her own gown, highnecked and neat, might have suited a woman twice her age. No dne asked her to dance, and. she felt strangely aloof and out of it all. Tugging at her heart was the question, why should she be out of it? She wanted to dance just as much as any of those smiling, happy girl whirling past. She saw Bailey, one of the best dancers on the floor, always with a pretty partner; but he never seemed to see her. Her uncle went out on the piazza to smoke and she was left alone. Her isolation began to be unbearable and she got up and tried to make her way to the door. Suddenly Bailey rushed up to her and asked her to dance. She excused herself and rejoined her uncle. ’The next day a box arrived for Janet. Much bewildered she called in her uncle to look at a dream of an evening dress, and another frock, both in good style. She made him “fess up,” and scolded him for doing it. He declared some royalties on his last book had come in, and that be could afford it. So Janet at the next dance was positively stunning. She was besieged with partners, and allowed Bailey only one turn. In fact she treated him so frigidly, he next day sought Rankin, and begged him to let him know if he had told her what he had said. Rankin replied he had not. But he added: “If you really care to know her better, you’ve got to show her your metal. You’ve got to win her. And just mon? ey won’t do It.” ~ •' Three days later the Rankins left, bufnhot until Bailey had extracted a promise that he might call. After calling several times the young man made a discovery. He imparted it to Janet. She was really surprised. “I wonder if you actually mean it," she said. “Well, please don’t go on wondering,” he cried. “Well, I won’t.” And with a happy little smile she let him take her in hi? arms.

Had Use for Dunning Letters.

A large manufacturing concern sent frequent and urgent demands to a certain delinquent dealer, and, being unable to get so much as a response, dent a representative to personally wait upon him. “Why haven’t you paid your account, or at least written us concerning the matter?” the representative asked. , “My dear sir,” responded the delinquent, smilingly, “those collection letters from your firm are the best I have ever seen, I have had copies made and am sending them out to the trade, and it’s wonderful the number of old accounts I have been able to collect. I haven’t paid my bill, as I felt sure there was another letter In the series. I have some hard customers to deal with and I need the last letter.”

His Misfortune.

“What brought you to this place, my good friend?” inquired a visitor at the prison of a convict. , ■ . “A mere matter of opinion got me here ,slr.” » “Impossible!" “No, sir. I expressed my opinion that I was innocent, and the jury ei-. pressed the opinion that I wasn’t. It’s a hard world, sir.” ;

The Conceit of Him.

■ :x Her Father—Do you think you can make my daughter happy, sir? Suitor—Why, I have already, haven’t I? I’ve asked her to’‘marry me,— Boston Evening Transcript.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND,

VALUE OF SUDAN GRASS AS FORAGE CROP

C United States Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin No. 605, gives a full account of this new haygrass which will be of practical value to many* of the farmers in various parts of the country.” The bulletin says: “Under cultivation in the United States, Sudan grass has shown Itself to be, distinctly an annual. This grass Is very closely related to the cultivated sorghums and hybridizes with them readily. Sudan grass, when seeded broadcast or in drills, averages about three to five feet: in height, and has stems a little smaller than a lead pencil, being about three.-sixteeriths of an inch in dianfbter. If grown in rows arid cultivated, it reaches a height of six to nine feet, and the stems are larger than usual, being about one-fourth of an inch in diameter. The panicle is loose and open, very much like that of Johnson grass, but a little larger and a trifl.6 mOre compact. The hulls, or glumes, are awned, and when in flower often purplish in color. This color usually fades to a light yellow when ripe. The awns are broken. off in threshing, so that the commercial seed rarely has awns. The leaves are broader and more numerous than those of Johnson grass, giving the grass a much more favorable appearance as a hay plant. When given plenty of room the grass stools very freely. It is not uncommon to find over 100 stems arising from one crown. This decided tendency to stool Is most apparent after the first cutting, and this characteristic makes the hay from the second Cutting usually of finer texture than from the first. ' Likes Warm Climate.. ; ‘ Sudan grass, like other sorghums, does best in, a warm climate. In favorable seasons, where the growing period is long, as many as four cuttings can be obtained in one year. It is admirably suited for use as a soiling crop. Sudan grass is not at all exacting in its soil requirements. It does best on a rich loam, but it has been grown successfully on almost every class of soil from a heavy clay to a light sand. To do well, the ground must be well drained and in good condition. Sudan graSS is recommended only as a substitute for millet in its uses as a catch crop or for growing In situations where neither timothy nor alfalfa succeed well. It is said to be well suited to most middle and Atlantic states. The yield from one

ONE BREED OF HENS IS BEST FARM PLAN

Farmer Can Command Prices for Eggs and Poultry of Uniform Size and Color. A mistake made by many farmers is that of keeping more than one breed of poultry. Farmers, of course, can keep several breeds without danger of them mixing, but this can only be done by the building of extra houses and yards. When more than one breed is kept, part of the hens must be denied freeTange, and the feed cost for the penned hens will be greatly Increased. There are other reasons why the farmer should keep but one breed of poultry. He can market a uniform product in eggs and market poultry.

The world is ruled largely by appearances, and the city dealer will think that a coop of broilers which runs uniform in size and color is worth a little more than a lot.of chickens of all sizes and colors. And the same is true of eggs. A vase containing eggs of all sizes and colors will usually command a lower price than one containing eggs that are uniform in size and color.

RATIONS FOR COWS IN WINTER SEASON

Size of Animal, Quantity of Milk She Produces, and Kind of Feed Are Essentials. In feeding cows three things must be considered, the size of the cow, the ’ quantity of milk she produces, and the kind of feed given. • Ordinarily a large cow requires more feed than a small one. Topfoduce 30 pounds of milk a cow may nbt require twice as much feed as to produce 15, but she will nevertheless require a substantial increase. Some feeds are rich in milk-producing materials while oth-

SUDAN GRASS GROWING IN TEXAS.

cutting in this region is not apt to exceed that of German millet, but if handled properly, two cuttings can be obtained in many cases and the quality of the hay is much superior to that of millet hay. When sown broadcast 16 to 24 pounds of good, ■ clean seed per necessary. Grown With Legumes. The suitability of. Sudan grass for growing in mixtures with cowpeas, soy beans and other legumes is at once apparent for several reasons. Sudan grass grows strictly erect, with a stem stiff enough to support the legumes, making the* harvesting easier and the curing quicker. The

Sudan Grass Grown in Rows.

yields obtained from such a mixture in 1913 varied from one to three and one-half tons per acre. The best showing was made at the Maryland experiment station, where the yields averaged about three and one-half tons of cured hay per acre. So far no feeding experiments have been carried out to determine its digestibility. It has been reported by farmers, however, that cattle have doge well when fed on the hay. Numerous analyses of the grass have shown it to be about the same in chemical composition as Johnson grass and timothy hay.

ers arepoor. When a cow is fed the former class, she will not require as many pounds as if she were fed the latter. : ’ Ten pounds of . clover hay, 80 pounds of corn silage, 10 pounds of grain—oats and corn equal parts —make a good ration, both in quantity and kind for a cow weighing 1,000 pounds and giving 30 pounds of milk daily. This may be considered an average ration for an average good, dairy cow during the first six months of her lactation period, provided she freshens in the fall. It is the kind that is fed on an average good dairy farm. With a ration as mentioned above, the average cow will, require one pound of hay and three pounds of silage for every one hundred poundg of her weight. Thus a cow weighing 700 pounds would require seven pounds of hay, and 21 pounds of silage a day, while one weighing 1,500 pounds—an unusual weight—would require 15 pounds of hay and 45 pounds of silage. The amount of grain might remain the same provided 30 pounds of milk were given in each case. —~ With wild timothy hay or bad clover hay and a bundle of corn fodder instead of the silage, we have a different problem. Such hay is low in protein and a cow must eat considerably more of this to get the required amount of milk-making material. In the case of fodder corn, there is usually 30 or 40 per cent of the stock left uneaten. ’This is not the case with silage, so a large quantity of the former would have to -be given. Where there is no clover or alfalfa more grain should be fed and to produce a wellbalanced ration oil cake or cottonseed meal must also be given.

SUCKING COWS ARE NUISANCE

Good-Sized Bull Ring Inserted in Nose Will Stop Practice—DoesnT ~ Hinder Eating. Cows that, get the habit of sucking are a nuisance; but a gO'cd-slzed bull ring, with a couple qf smaller rings hanging from It, and inserted in the nose, will usually put a stop to It It bothers the cow abofat sucking, but does net hinder her eating.

World Citizenship Forced Upon People of United States by New Conditions

Citizenship now has a new definition. Unprecedented events ha\e revolutionized our civic standards. America once stood indifferent to the proceedings of the nations across the sea. The great shielded an adolescent country in large measure from the frenzies of the French revolution and the ambitions of Napoleon. To beware of “entangling alliances was .the warning of Washington. , Later, when Europe again grew restive and the western hemisp ere became a promised land, the Monroe Doctrine halted a growing menace. But Europe still seemed far away and world politics never moved America’s citizenship. The statesman of the day was confined to domestic problems. The voter, the plain citizen, was interested-in nothing further than national affairs. Wars were fought, but even these broug it no realization of international matters to the average American. Citizenship now requires a broad grasp of the world’s affairs, as an essential qualification. You and I do not belong to the nth war , Posey township, or the state of Pennsylvania. We are American citizens, and we are also world citizens, neighbors of troubled friends across tie way. We must therefore accept our international duty and familiarize ourselves with the conditions and purposes of our neighbors moves, cannot profit a man permanently for his neighbor’s house to burn own. Likewise the conflagration across the way will affect us in the future more than in the past. If we are to cope with the situation our citizens up must be internationally trained. Now citizenship means service. Service includes responsibility, obligation, duty, sacrifice. To serve as a citizen is interpreted as the acceptance of responsibility for the nation’s character, the obligation to carry out the nation’s purpose, the realization of a duty to be expressed in fidelity, and the willingness a| all times to make such sacrifices as may be necessary in the interest of the nation’s maintenance and development. . ’ Concretely expressed, this kind of citizenship means the intelligent exercise of the franchise, a consistent effort toward sound and honest living within the, spirit of the law, and universal service for military or any other national co-operative purpose. This is real privilege, a new freedom, betokening a universal democratic citizenship.

Enforced Competition Must Give Way to Co-operation Properly Safeguarded

In the European war we see the filial fight between the waning competitive system and the coming co-operative era. This issue has been decided, and co-operation won, whatever may be the military outcome of the war, for the individualistic nations, even England included, had to adopt the co-pperative organization of their national organism to survive. Against the terrible efficiency of the co-operative industrial organization of the Europe after the war, bur country will have no chance; but, hopelessly outclassed, will sink to second rank as an industrial nation unless we also accept industrial co-operation as the guiding light. This means recognition of the corporation as industry’s most efficient tool. It means tliat we must cease to legislate against industrial cooperation, stop to attempt»%he resurrection of a dead era, that of competition, by man-made laws, which violate the economic laws of nature, but must assist and encourage co-operation and consolidation of corporations into organizations controlling all industries, while at the same time providing such safeguards which, without in the least interfering with the industrial productive efficiency of co-operation, protect the public against any possible abuse of corporate power. Furthermore, we must bring about the co-operation of the worker with the industries by eliminating the three great fears which now hang over the majority of human beings: the feat of unemployment, the fear of sickness, and the fear of old age, by providing an effective unemployment, sickness and old-age insurance. That “Am I my brother’s keeper?” and realize that every one of us in modern society is indeed responsible for the well-being of every other member of our nation. Then the social condition of the masses of our people will be supe-: rior to that in any other nation, then the masses will have an interest in the maintenance of our nation, and without preparedness parades and other vain attempts of creating a sham patriotism, we will again find all the citizens of our nation as patriotic as they were in the days of old. Patriotism means the realization that your own nation is superior to any other, and this can exist only when based on economic facts.

Civilization of United States Menaced by Abnormal Growth of Divorce Evil

What is the reason for the abnormal increase in divorce ? Undoubtedly it is because of the universal condition of social unrest that maintains today in this country and throughout the world,—This condition of social invest engenders a situation where we find people ignoring the fixed customs of society and flouting the conventions that bind together a stable civilization. • - Just these conditions —starting with the overthrow of the home and spreading like a conflagration to the uprooting of human societybrought about the collapse of the great civilizations. Go back over history. Read between the lines of the rise and fall of Babylon, of Athens, of Rome. And now what of the United States? We face a critical situation; we must solve these sociological problems or go down as the other civilizations have done. / What shall we do? Well, in divorce we must take a leaf from Denmark. There it requires two years to get a divorce. A couple desiring permanent separation must apply first to the church where they were wedded. The pastor or pri|st considers the case for a year. Then the legal authorities conduct an inquiry for a year. Finally the government must sanction the remarriage of divorced persons. ~ In states where divorce is so easy we can enact laws that make tt more difficult to secure 8 divorce. That would be a beginning. - ■ ? '.. ' ( . «

By A. G. BRYANT of Chicago

By CHARLES P. STEINMETZ

By MRS. JANE DELETER RIPPIN

Chief Probation Officer Philadelphia Municipal Court