Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — Page 2

Woman’s Duty to Serve and Conserve

Woman’s duty is to serve and conserve—to serve those who have left their homes, and to conserve the homes they have left. It is a man’s place, with his strength, to serve at the front. The woman’s place is to follow him who serves with sympathy and support. She can be a nurse at the base hospital back of the firing line. In that capacity she has a consecrated mission, for in serving humanity she is serving God. \ \ , ■ Back of the base hospital she can work at home. She can supply hospitals with equipment, the work of her own Wads; she can preserve in the home all the erstwhile virtues that peade promoted-; she can keep alive the flame of purest patriotism so that the little ones may be reared in the true meanipg of patriotism. X. ' The home is a place of service and it is only in time of war that we realize the real significance of service. Too many of our young people think the home is They care only for enough money for honeymooning, and expect after that to drift around from place to place. Women must keep the home so that those who return may find a welcome, where the torch of patriotism is unquenched and the faith of other days preserved. ■

SOME SMILES

Luxuriousness.

His Knowledge of Green. "What sort of a man is Green?” "Fine. The best ever.” “Is he trustworthy?” “Very.” “Would you lend money to him?” “As to that I can’t say. I’ve never lent him any. I’ve only borrowed from him.” Didn’t Let Him Resign. “It’s not being discharged that 1 object to; it’s the nasty way they had of doing it.” “What was wrong?” “They just came up and told me that they wouldn’t need my services any longer. They might, at least, have given me the privilege of resigning.” Served Him Right. “Serves me right for pretending.” “Huh?” “I talked a lot of highbrow talk to my new girl and now she has gone and bought me a set of Emerson’s essays for a birthday present. I could have used a fancy vesL” ' k A Matter of Necessity. She (pouting) —I believe you would sooner play cards with papa than sit in the parlor with me. He —No, darling, I wouldn’t; but we must have the money to get married on. A Free Man at Last. “Jdbbles has gone into business for himself.” "Good.” "There was a celebration out at his house the other day. The family gathered around Jobbles in the backyard while he smashed the alarm clock that has woke him up every morning for sixteen years.” The Way They'd Like to Do It.

"How much is this hat?” askeq Mrs. Spender sweetly, of the salesgirl. “I don’t know, lady,” admitted lue girl. “How much have you

got?” He Got It Judge—What do you mean, young man, by getting into trouble of this kind? Miscreant —Why, you see, your honor, I was just out for a little time. Judge —All right; 11l not disappoint you. Sixty days. Without Doubt. "Mrs. Offenwed,” asked her friend, “weren’t you nearly distracted when you heard of the death of your fifth husband?” “My goodness. I should say so! Absolutely unmanned.”

Going, Going, Gone.

Few blackTaced comedians ever evoked louder applause-than did Ben Jones in police court, says the .Detroit Free Press. Ben was up for drunkenness. Because he was a very meek and apologetic sort of colored man, Justice Seilers relented and said, “You can go, Ben —if you keep on going and get out of the city." “Ma gosh!” ejaculated Ben. “Goodby, judge; ah’m gone!” He wheeled around and dashed in the general direction of the door, but catapulted into a group of policemen. “Sorry, gen’lemen,” he said, backing away. “And good-by, po-llce-men! Ah’m, gone!” Again he wheeled and made a dash, this time crashing into a group of spectators. Once more he apologized, then, standing in the'middle of the room,*he made his lust farewell. “Good-by, people!” he said. “Goodby, police! Good-by, judge! Good-by, (. city! Good-by, Detroit! Ben Jones—is—gone!” And be went

By ARCHBISHOP JOHN J. GLENNON.

"You should be content with simple fare.” "It can’t be managed. The prices now entitle everything edible to be classed as a luxury.”

Silenced.

“I ain't predictin’ nothin’ now,” Said Hezekiah Bings. “I ain’t pertendin’ to know how To do such lofty things As mappin' out a nation's fate. * In days of anxious care. I'm willin’ now to stand an’ wait My turn to do my share. “I ain't predictin’. What's the uSe Of wastin’ time an’ strength, A-turnirt’ your opinions loose, Vociferous and at length? The hope an’ pride that’s in my heart Is silent, stanch an' true. I’m ready,- should the action start, But as for talk, I'm through." —Washington Evening Star.

Prominent Men in Khaki.

A striking instance of the quality of Uncle Sam’s reserve engineers was furnished at the ceremonies when Columbia university conferred the honorary doctorates on Marshal Joffre, Vice Premier Viviani, Lord Cunliffe, and the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour. One of the chief dignitaries at that ceremony was William Barclay Parsons, chairman of the board of trustees of the university and one of the most distinguished engineers in the city, who presided in Ills khaki uniform as a major of engineers. Another prominent figure was Arthur S. Dwight, internationally known as a metallurgist, also a major In the engineer corps.

A Small Message of Cheer.

It is a mistake to think that everything has gone up on account of the war. Ostrich feathers, for instance, are lower than ever. This will be a message of cheer to suffering millions. —Cleveland Plain Dealer.

POULTRY

Get the little chicks out on the ground for a little exercise on every fair day, but be sure they do not get chilled. After chicks are ten days old they can usually be allowed to run in and out of the brooder house or brood coop whenever they like, provided the weather is fair. Do not neglect the old stock now that the chicks take up your attention, but be sure that the fowls get plenty of good feed, and have airy, healthful quarters to live in. < • • *4 Never allow chicks to run in the yard where the fowls are,, and never keep them in the same house with fowls, if you want them to be free from disease and to grow fast. x In order to grow well, chicks must have a variety of food so that they can obtain from that food the different elements needed to make bone, muscle, blood and feathers. If the fowls are kept in small yards, be sure that the yardkaye cleaned as much as possible, and if the ground is bare of grass it is a good plan to plow up the yards or scrape off the top of the ground. Every farmer should raise a large .flock of poultry this season, n,ot only because prices of poultry products will be high, but because this country and -Its allies in the war will need all the poultry and eggs that can be produced.

Claims Chorus Girls Should Make the Best Housewives.

Chorus girls ought to make the best housewives, provided they were given a chance, according to Else Adler, a hiusical comedy prima donna. She reasons this way: “Viewed from the standpoint of the actual qualities that nature has bestowed upon her, the American chorus girl, as a class. Is best equipped to be the mother of our next generation. She has beauty, high spirits, a sense of humor, and Is naturally warmhearted and affectionate. She is generous and sympathetic, and a real worker. All of these,are good wifehood and motherhood qualities. And it is for these reasons, I believe, that she gets more proposals -to marry than girls in other professions. “The reason many chorus girls are not a success after marriage is because they have not been trained in practical

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.'

SHUT YOUR EYES AND SWING HARD, PING BODIE’S PLAN

“You’ve Got to Take Old Man Confidence to the Plate With You,” Says the Fence Buster. If you have an ambition to attain fame all that is necessary is to outguess the pitcher, grab your bat like It was your last dime and swing with all your might. Then hope and hope hard. That’s Ping Bodie’s recipe for busting the fences In any league where he may happen to be playing. Inasmuch as it has brought him back to the American league and a chance at more fame as a big league outfielder, there must be some truth in it. Ping says swing hard the first time, go Inhx second speed on the second, and thenXf you’ve got to do it again turn on alXtbe gas, jam down the accelerator and swing I Ping cracked oiit twenty home runs while "amassing A battingaverage of something over .300 last year on the Pacific coast “It’s all in the way you grab your bat and swing,” said Ping. “The pitcher who can throw harder than I cun

Ping Bodie.

swing ain’t been found; If you miss the first two, whang again, and you’ve got to take Old Man Confidence to the plate with you. “You gotta think you’re going to make the fences rattle or you’re done for. Watch the pitcher, outguess, him, and you’ve gotta hang onto your bat like grim death and swing your head off to set a new ground record.”

Flashlights.

The reason a big man will -stand around and listen when his wife is jawing him and have mighty little to say In his own behalf is because he knows that she is 99 per cent right. The trouble with most of us is that we look on our country as a place where we can get the best of everything without giving our best in return. When the other fellow’s faults begin to look big to you just stop and consider how big your faults must look to the other fellow. Nothing tones down a troublemaker quite so quickly as bumping into someone he isn’t dead sure he can li.ck. The reason a man always throws his overcoat over the back of the nearest chair is because he knows every hook in rhe house is busy holding up his wife’s garments.

housewifery. Cooking, marketing, house managing and child psychology will be attempted by a number of girls who have joined the class I have recently organized. Child psychology will be useful not only in bringing up one’s children but in managing one’s husband. “No woman, no matter how clever, can understand any man, ho matter how wise, unless she thoroughly understands child nature.”

Honey Regarded as a Luxury Rather Than Standard Sweet.

We seem to regard honey as a luxury rather than as a standard sweet. Its use is supposed to encourage ths consumption of warm biscuits and pancakes, and while we are endeavoring to economize on food this is thought undesirable. Little use is made of honey in cook ing, examination of half a dozen cookbooks disclosing a single recipe In which honey was a /actor. But some years ago apiarists circulated leaflets s embodying directions for making use qf honey instead of sugar in cakes, cookies and other concoctions known to housewives, several of them distributing samples as corroborative evidence.T 7 ~~ Instead of giving children so much candy, which Is often adulterated, natural graving might be satisfied by a sweet which comes to the table in a pure and wholesome form, not added to or subtracted from by any chemical process. The use of butter might be diminished by serving honey, for to use butter and honey together Is to “paint” the Hly-gastroDomlcaUgt—* Exchange.

METHOD OF DESTROYING CABBAGE WORM

(By GEORGE A. DEAN, Professor of Entomology, Kansas State Agricultural College.) A short time before the earliest cabbage Is set in the spring, the familiar white butterfly with black spots on the 'wings may be seen flying about near the ground. When cabbage Is set, the butterflies deposit their eggs on the leaves. The eggs hatch In about a week into small green larvae or “worms.” These worms eat the cabbage leaves, making their way down to the tender crown of the plant, and sheltering among the outer leaves of the head. After about two weeks of rapid growth, the velvety green worms are more than an Inch long. Each transforms to an angular pupa, attached to a cabbage leaf or other object, and, in about another week, there burst from these pupae another generation of white butterflies which deposit eggs to produce more worms. Since all stages in the life, of a cab-

INJURIOUS EFFECTS OF WORK OF CABBAGE WORM.

bage butterfly are passed in about one month, there may be as many as four generations or more in one year, and thus the worms become very numerous on the later cabbage. The pupae from worms of the last generation that were fortunate enough to have been formed in a sheltered place where they are undisturbed, survive the winter, the butterflies emerging early in spring. Control Measures. The commercial growers destroy the worms by means of Paris green pr lead arsenate, which is applied to the plants by either dusting or spraying. For dusting, mix one pound of Paris green or five pounds of finely powdered lead arsenate with ten pounds of hydrated lime or dry flour. Place this mixture in a flour sack or in a can with the top or bottom finely perforated. The operator walks between two

KEEP TRACTORS BUSY

“Help your neighbors” is the keynote of a special appeal to tractor owners issued by Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Carl Vrooman. “Every farmer who owns a tractor,” he says, “owes it to his country this spring to do all the custom or exchange work he can do without neglecting his own work. Every hour that his tractor would otherwise be idle it ought to be at work helping a neighbor who is behindhand with his plowing or harrowing. Make your outfit work from dawn to dark; make it work all night if you have enough opera-, tors to fill the shifts. The acreage to be harvested this fall hangs on the plow. Don’t let an acre that might otherwise be planted go untllled because your tractor is in the shed. Help your neighbors and thus do your part in strengthening the allied lines on the battle fronts of Eu-

LARGE CROP OF SOY BEANS IS REQUIRED

Farmers Should Greatly Increase Acreage of This Crop for Oil and Human Food. Although farmers have planned to grow a far larger crop of soy beans In 1917 than ever before, they should now greatly increase the acreage of this crop. The department of farm crops of the Missouri college of agriculture predicts that as a result of the war the crop will be In demand as a feeding concentrate, for oil and "for human food in addition to its normal use as a forage crop. —< • —— Experiments have shown soy bean meal to have about the same feeding value as cottonseed meal; and cottonseed meal will probably be so high next fall that it cannot be afforded for feeding. There Is sound reason then for anticipating a great demand on the crop for use as a feeding concentrate. Because of the present shortage of fats and oils throughout the world, due to war consumption and low production in Europe, all available

rows with a bag or can in each hand, shaking them so that the poisonous dust settles on the cabbage leaves. Worms eating off the dusted Leaves will die in a day or tw.o. Dusting should be done when the leaves are dry and there is little wind, and repeated at Intervals of from one to two weeks, depending on how often the rains cofhe. Should there be no rains, the interval' between dustings should not be longer than two weeks, or the new growth may be Injured. Sprayers are expensive, even the small hand machine costing from $7 to $lO. Besides, spraying a small patch requires much ibore time than dusting it. Growers with three acres or more would be justified in buying a barrel pump or other, large sprayer, such as is easily obtained ,on the market. For spraying, use one-half pound of Paris green, or two pounds of powdered lead arsenate, or four pounds of paste lead

arsenate, stirred into 50 gallons of water. The cabbage leaves are so smooth that the spray tends to collect in drops that roll off. To make the liquid spread and remain on the leaves, use two pounds of soap or three pounds of flour in paste form to each 50 gallons of water used. Paris green and lead arsenate are violent poisons, and should be kept ouf: of reach of children and live stock. However, it Is safe to use them on cabbage, as the head grows from the inside. The poison, falling on the outer leaves, is practically all removed with them, so very little, If any, ever reaches the table. In the average dusting of cabbage, careful tests have shown that if the poison remained oh the cabbage a person would have to eat 28 cabbages at once to secure poisonous effects.

sources of these necessary materials will presently be utilized. Although the soy bean is not considered a source for oil in this part of the country, in Virginia and North Carolina, the threshed crop is sold mainly to the cotton oil mills, where the oil is expressed and the residue, or cake, ground into meal. Indeed soy bean seed is actually second only to cottonseed as a source of vegetable oils. It now seems certain that the demand for soy bean oil will soon become greater than can be supplied by the Eastern crop and that the Missouri crop will be drawn on to meet the need.

During the war, when foodstuffs of all kinds will continually diminish, many unusual kinds of human food will be brought into use. The soy bean is one of the crops which will be utilized. Already several manufacturers in the East have successfully substituted soy beans for navy beans in baked pork and beans. Indeed the demand In the East for soy c beans for packing and for planting has been so great since last fall that the cotton oil mills have practically ceased crushing seed and are turning them to the planters and packers. One mill which last fall bought 10,000 bushels of seed and planned to crush at least 100,000 bushels did not crush any seed but disposed of the whole stock for food and planting. Only the yellow-seeded varieties are used for food, "*

With the war-time demand on /he soy bean crop for an animal concentrate, for human food, and for oil, in addition to the normal for forage and seed for planting, there Is no doubt that high prices will be maintained. Soy beans are now selling at $3.50 to $4.00 a bushel —at double the usual price—and farmers should not fail to plant the largest possible acreage. It will be a profitable and patriotic enterprise.

PROPER SUNSHINE FOR HOGS

Blistered Backs and Comfort Do Not Go Well Together—Provide Shelter for Porkers. Hogs like the sunshine all right—if It is not too hot. Still, how few men ever think of providing anything like shelter for the porkers on hot days! Blistered backs and comfort do not go well together, which means that you will not have as- much pork to sell by and by as you would have if you had been fair to the hogs.

A QUIET TALK

“When a fellow gets so he can’t discuss a subject without gettiWJ* mad," said Casey, the coal man, to his neighbor, Weisenheimer, “he ought to shut! up and not talk at all. When a .fellow i begins to get mad It’s a sure sign to me that he’s run out of arguments.” “Certainly,” said Weisenheimer. “We should be tolerant of one another’s opinions. If we didn’t exchange opinions about things, we’d never learn anything, and the best sign of culture 1 —and good common sense, for that, mattier —to my mind is the consideration we give to other people’s ideas. When I was at Heidelberg—” “That’s what I say,” Interposed Casey, earnestly. “L tell you it pays to listen to the other fellow. You’ll get a different angle on the thing. After all, none of us are always right —the other fellow is right sometimes —and just because he happens to differ with you is no reason whyj you shouldn’t listen to what he says—he may be right that particular time.” “Certainly. Besides, the ability to discuss matters with others from an absolutely unprejudiced standpoint, and from an honest desire to improve our knowledge upon the subject discussed, is the highest test of intellectual poise. Our old professor of metaphysics used to say—” “You’re right, old man —that’s the point,” said Casey. “There’s nothing makes me so sore as a fellow that absolutely can’t and won’t see but one side to a question. ... I see old Wilson has fired another shot at the kaiser —” “Shot? What kind of a shot this time, Brother Casey?” asked Weisenheimer, blandly. “About those Yarrowdale prisoners that the kaiser is holding over there — Wilson tells him, cold turkey, he’s got to come across with them without any more parley—that last note was straight from the shoulder.” “Yes —that’s good. I hope they will be released. This unfortunate war —” “Unfortunate? It’s a blamed outrage, that’s what this war is. The idea of raising all that fuss about an Austrian archduke, or whatever he was —” “Oh, there’s a good deal more to this war than that little affair, Mr. Casey. That was a mere Incident. The underlying causes are deep and fundamental. It is really a struggle between two antagonistic Ideas of civilization and progress— ’ “Oh, back up with that stuff, Welsey —that makes me sick. There ain’t anything to this war but old Bill Hohenzollern’s rule-or-ruin policy. He’s going to run things over there or bust ’em up. He is just a big political boss, with a big army to back him up, that’s all Bill is—” “I beg pardon, Mr. Casey/ now, really, that don’t sound good from a man of 'your intelligence. If you’ve read the ‘White Book’—” “White fiddlesticks —I hope you are not falling for that bunc?” “Before I would talk about this war I would read the official documents, if I were you—what’s the use of talking to a fellow like you, that don’t read anything—” “Don’t read anything? Now, there you go, Welsey—why, I don’t do anything but read about the war. If there’s anything about the war that I don’t know, I’m darn sure you can’t tell me. The trouble with you, Welsey, is you’re prejudiced;” “The trouble with you, Casey, is that you’re a bonehead —” “Bonehead? Bonehead? Say, Welsey, if I had a head as hard as yours, I’d soak it in something, like they do wood pulp, to soften it up, so you can get an outside idea into it once in a while. You think you know it all, and you don’t know nothing.” "Casey, there’s two kinds of people I won’t argue with, Idiots and children—and you’re no child, Til say that much for you—” “Argue? Why, you can’t argue. You know a fact If you saw It coming up the middle of the street, with an affidavit on each side of It. Argue? You just think yon are saying something when you’re just making funny sounds. If I had a head as thick as yours, Welsey^" —~~~ “Aw, you ought to be going to school instead of trying to sell shale for coal —” ‘‘Say, you better go back to Heidelberg—” “You ignoramus.” “You ivory-headed nut.” "Idiot.” "Bonehead.”

Bleeders and the Fruit Diet

The fruit diet is a sur#. and positive cure for what is popularly known as bleeding and for persons usually designated as bleeders; persons who cannot stop the flow of blood once it Is started from a Wound of other cause. The fruit diet will supply the blood with fibrin. Fibrin is the substance out of which nature fabricates flesh and muscle. A person on the fruit diet hardly bleeds at all when he cuts himself accidentally with a knife, or when, for anterior reasons, a dentist is forced to draw one of his teeth. The blood coagulates almost instantaneously. If you believe none of this Just try It. The experience is safe and sane.—Los Angeles Times.

Very Essential.

“Is it necessary to Indose stamps?” asked the poet. “More necessary even than to Indus® poetry,” the experienced author. —New York Sun.