Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — Page 3

HASHIMURA TOGO

Dear Mr. Editor: When Hon. Chris Columbus dishcovered America, he do so at his own risk. It are muchly the same with Gen. Housework all persons must be entirely careful about what they find out, because they can t always do something with it. I know because I try. My last former address was home of Hon. Mrs. J. B. Cluck, Canton, O. I am now employed there as an absentee. - This Hod. Cluck lady suddenly approach up to me last Tues. a. m. • •ay with voice, / "Togo," she say'so, “I am delightful reader or this newspaper." “You are one in several 1,000,000,” I snatch back, with expression of rapid circulation. “In this wonderfully home-made paper,” she divulge, "I are frequently •uprlsed to read one department what tell considerable knowledge to ladles what require to make housework unexpected. “It seem insulting' to sell so. much wisdom for so small price," I contuse. “Recipes like this,” decry Hon. Mrs., “are good ways to know. Every servant girl, whether male or female, should read this department & attempt to do so also. New things can be thought of only by thinking of something new. Therefore, remember I expect you to make some useful Dlshcovery each week you are in this home.” With such language, she suddenly eloped away, leaving my hands in thoughtful dishwater. With frequent occasionality, Hon. Mrs. Cluck approach and dement. “You find that dishcovery yet, Togo?” Wedsday pass, Thursday pass while Fryday & Satday proceed in similar manner. At last it was Sunday. This Sunday are devoted to stay-home amusement by Hon. Cluck, who are a bald-haired gentleman of medium oldness. He spend this vacation by setting in slippers and enjoying quarters he is too busy to attend to other days. When these is finished, he reads comical supplements until fatigued by humor, when he spreads Hon. Comic page over his bald hair and commences to snore. “Oh!!” This from her. “If I could dishcover some way for to keep you from going to sleep every time you sat in that chair, I should be submerged by much gratitude.” I was standing in next room near keyhole trying to listen when I axidentally hear her make this dialogue. Zizz!! Intellectual flash arrive to brain: I should make one dishcovery what would give Hon. Cluck happy-home wakefulness when setting in that chair. Banzai! I stogger backwards with Edison feeling of thumbs. Next a. m. while Hon. Mrs. were absentee at Dept Store squandering money on hair-pins, I approach Hon. Chair where husband love to dream. With artistic hammer & nails, I attach Hon. Chair to rope in next room which were pulled by neat derangement of pulleys. He were a Mawruss Chair, full of pads and very fat, and I was proud to see the expression of calm comfort what he wear while setting there awaiting happy home-come of Hon. Mr. Cluck. At 6:47 hour, Hon. Cluck return back In usual mood of joyless anticipation. He say several nouns expressing lateness of Japanese cookery, then he remifve off coat, collar, neckbow & shoeware, expecting to put on house slippers and smoke-jacket and manufacture comfort. "If Togo shall take till breakfast preparing dinner, I shall go to my Mawruss Chair and enjoy slight kitten nap,” Hon. Mister glump. “If you had more regular profiles, you would be a sleeping beauty,” contuse Hon. Mrs. “If this home was run right, it would not be run down! combust him. “If you was not a fungus, you might be a genius,” detone her. I were deliciously relieved to hear them talk that way, because I knew they would get interested in unpleasantness that Hon. Cluck would forget to go sleep in Mawrus? Chair until after dinner was ate. And then I would have time to show my dishcovery. And so it was. While I prepare what hash I could find, Hon. Cluck spent time pacing backwards and reverse with Expression peculiar to Admirals on

"I Did It,” I Explode, Emerging Forth From Curtains Like Prima Donna.

July 4th. At lastly dinner set himself on table while Hon. Cluck devoured trig dinner amidst usual steam-roller grumbel about my unhappy cooking. “Can’t you recall some sweet language to make marriage pleasant? renag Mrs. Cluck, “Marriage are only pleasant when he are asleep, he peruse, looking cxpectfully to Mawruss Chair. When it come to pie time, I could already observe dormatory expression of lodging-house crowling over fatty 1 face of Hon. Boss. Yawns by him. Stretches. At lastly, he arose upwards', lit cigar, rubbed his tired business eyes & started for library. “I think one slight little nap in Mawruss Chair will prepare me, fee say to Wife. — “Prepare you for what?" she dlb back at Hon. Husband. “For fco to bed,” he resnort. He make sluggardly walk toward Mawruss Chair Now I knew it were time for activity, if my dishcovery would be useful So I ran with silent of cats toward other room where end of rope was. Through library door, I could see Hon. Chair setting there with dimpled pads. I grabb rope detatched to pulleys what led to Hon. Chair. Next thing I could see Hon. Cluck back up towartis Chair, stretch lovingly, and crouch his knees as if intending to set down. But he wasn't. YANKS!!! With hero strength, I pull rope which cause Hon. Chair to aidle backwards on castor. Consequence of this was large. Hon. Cluck, suddenly dejected from his set down, fell on his collar button, arriving to carpet eo hlppoponderously that entire home were jarred loose. “O darling Mr, Husband, are you gone?” require Mrs. Wife, lopping over Mm with heroine expression peculiar to Mary Pickford. ' "Can’t you tell lam here by the noise?” he gubble. “What spirituous medium has came here to pull away my chair wlth unseen hands?” “I do it!” I explode with great quickness suddenly emerging forth from curtains like prlma-donna making first entrance when band play with great exuberance. you done It?” Both Hon. Mister and Hon. Mrs. spoke together. "It was fault of you & dally newspaper,” I snuggest to her. "Did you rot tell me every servant girl should make dishcovery of something needed In the home?” "Perhapsly I did," Hon. Mrs. rosp back with question-mark. "Did y O u not tell Hon. Husband s6mething must be. did to keep him from deeping In Mawruss Chair after big dinner every day?" "I said thusly.” "Well!" This from me. \“I have cooked up an Invention what will keep Hon. Sir from all snores. Reward me, please!” — ... For immediate payment, Hon. Cluck arouse up with voice peculiar to zoology. He annexed me by the seat of my collar & left me outside, where 1 stood long time. — Mr. Editor, if you wish this dishcovery for your household page It will bo wours for the cheapness of dirt. ■ Hoping you are the same, ■ >- Tours truly, HASHIMURA TOGO. (Copyrtsht, by Frees Bureau.) ,

by WALLACE IRWIN

TOGO MAKES DISHCOVERIES

DOMESTIC SCIENTIST

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

CAPE FOR THE KIDDIE

Adopted as Summer Wrap Even for the Little Girl.

Extra Military Effect Given by Soldierly Looking Buttons Used on Collar and Belt Even the kiddles are wearing capes. The little model shown in the sketch is made of navy blue gaberdine, with col-, lar, armhole edging, belt and bottom finish of gendarme red taffeta. As an extra military note a very soldierly looking brass button is used to fasten the collar and serve the belt in a similar manner. Every little girl needs a summer wrap, and surely now that capes have been adopted as the favorite mode of mothers and grown-up sisters there seems to be no reason at all why the younger member of the family should not Insist that she, too, have one, says a writer in the Washington Star. The cape is an ideal spring and summer wrap, as It gives all the warmth and protection ordinarily required, and can

Military Cape for Small Girl.

be slipped on over the filmiest of frocks without mussing the frock as a coat with sleeves would. Many capes developed for adults show set-in vests or inside sections, with loose flowing outer part. This arrangement, however, would not be satisfactory for the smaller models. To make a cape comfortable and just right for the little girl, at the same time giving it an unusual style touch so it isn’t merely one of the stereotyped Red Riding Hood affairs, this little cape is cut off at the waistline back and front and fullness let in by means of plaits. To make this cape for a girl of six or eight years two yards of material 36 inches wide will be required. If desired, the cape may be lined throughout with the red, and this is recommended if the trifling additional weight Is not objected to.

FOR THE LUNCHBOX

Here are some suggestions for luncheons that are inexpensive and pleasing: Potato salad, with sandwiches made with hard-boiled eggs. Graham bread and lettuce with mayonnaise and cold fish. Cold pork, lamb or mutton chops preserved in waxed paper. Pecan and celery sandwiches seasoned with onion juice. Cold baked beans with brown bread and lettuce. Corned beef, with rye bread, horse radish and shredded cabbage.

Smart Traveling Togs.

Tailleurs of beige, blue and gray serge of cheviot, waistcoats of checked woolen stuffs in odd colors —there is a pretty one of green and beige checked cheviot with a mere line of black — manteaux of jersey or checked and plain cheviot, hats of satin, cloth or tricot. de laine; nothing is forgotten, says Vogue. The blouse figures again in the traveling outfit. In fact, in view of dust and cinders, the blouse is almost indispensable. It may be in the form of a smart gllet with a guimpe of soft muslin, or it may be a peplum blouse of crepe de chine, satin or tinted muslin. Of the traveling frock may be a sleeveless-slip of serge or tussah, with a sleeved guimpe of some thin stuff. Very like the old “jumper” is this last mentioned travel* Ing frock, which, by the way, is much liked.

Uneven Hangs the Hem.

There is a great diversity of opinion as to the sort of hems deemed proper for the smartest of skirts. Many favor the uneven hem, even for wood tailleurs. Some skirts are shorter and somewhat fuller than the even-edged models. Practically all of the leading couturiers turn np the hem of some of their soft satin and chiffon models, while Worth makes nearly all of his skirts with this charming double effect Several of his very lovely afternoon dresses of charmeuse show this skirt topped by simple kimono blouses, opening over waistcoats embroidered In gold.—Harper’s Bazai,

PEASANT LACE IS ADOPTED

Paris Designers Go to Roumania for Heavy Colored Trimming Used Extensively in That Country. It may be that the Incoming of lace as a powerful fashion for the summer may not bring forth the best of results In costumery. What a woman owns in the way of fine lace she will not cut and reshape except under the lash of conviction that she can do nothing less if she is to make use of her possession, observes a fashion authority. A few of the French designers have gone to Roumania for the heavy string colored lace used by the peasantry, and have built tunic frocks of It, mounting It on slips of bright-colored satin or silk. One tunic that reaches nearly to the ankles is girdled a trifle below the waist, and again above it, with rolled sashes of blue silk, and there is a foundation of this silk to give color through the wide meshes of the coarsely woven lace. Although the finer laces, such as point, Venetian, Bruges, d’Alencon, and their sisters, are used on the handsomer gowns, there is a return to a design that is conspicuously open and appears to be a more artistic sprawling of threads finely knotted together.

NEW TRIMMING FOR CUSHIONS

Use of Tassels, Not Only at Corners, but All Over Pillow, Is Novel Idea in Trimming. Did it every occur to you to trim a cushion with tassels? Yet that is what an exclusive decorator has done —not just tassels at the corners, but tassels all over the pillow. The cushion was covered with an old-fashioned changeable taffeta in old rose and tapestry blue, a material and two colors which are well combined In decorating at present. The tassels then carried out the color scheme by being made of blue and rose silk threads. They were attached to the pillow top at a distance of about six Inches apart. One could make such a pillow very easily at home, choosing a round shape and attaching the tassels only at the edge. The tassels can be made from embroidery twist in the colors wanted by looping the thread to the proper length, binding it off at the top with a lot more of the same silk of the proper color or a dull gilt braid and cutting the loops at the bottom.

MAKE OLD PETTICOATS NEW

Detachable Flounces Also Enable One to Have an Underskirt to Match Every Dress. Decidedly practical are the tailored petticoat flounces which will give a new lease of life to the underskirt whose upper section is in good condition but whose plaitings have become frayed or shabby. The latter may be removed and the attachable petticoat flounces put on. They are made with a drawstring adjustable to the old petticoat or to the new. In width they measure about two yards and in depth about nine inches. According to one’s preference the attachable flounces are to be had in chiffon, taffeta or messaline. For the knockabout petticoat there are flounces of sateen or percaline in a variety of colors so that by merely changing the flounce to match the tone of the dress one may have, to all intents and purposes, several petticoats by merely possessing several flounces.

FOR THE STOUT WOMAN

Stout women, especially In the summer time, frequently find difficulty in selecting a gown that will In no way emphasfre their largeness. The latest styles aim at slenderness of appearance. This costume is a specially designed sveltline model with long girdle ends, rows of buttons, and overdrapery, all of which gives a svelt fashionable appearance. This looks cool and comfortable and there is small doubt that any woman of generous size may look quite as stylish and attractive if she has her gowns made along the same lines. _ _

EACH HAS ONE PECULIARITY

That of Mrs. Bi 11 tops. Remarks Her Spouse, Is Belief That She Can Go Out in Rain and Not Get Wet “It is my observation,” said Mr. Bill-, tops, "that we all of us have, consciously or unconsciously, some one peculiarity in which our friends must indulge us. “Now take Mrs. Bllltops; the gentlest, the most forbearing, the most serenely patient person on the face of the earth. You wouldn’t think that Mrs. Bllltops had any strange notion In which she must be humored. But she has Just one, the same .being thgt it is possible to carry an umbrella over her In such a manner as to shelter her completely. In this notion I humor her as far as I can, but I know that whenever we go anywhere In the rain I am in for trouble. ■> “I hold the umbrella way over on her side, always protecting her hat as far as possible, and calmly letting the rain drip down on my own hat and shoulder, but no matter how I carry -it I simply cannot carry it to suit her. I always carry it wrong in some way, not far enough over or too high or too low. “ ‘Can’t you see that It’s crushing my feather?’ Mrs. Bllltops says to me in a tone low but of great concentration, at which I raise the umbrella a little, and then a moment later: “ ‘Don’t you see that the rain is blowing in on my hat?’ she says, and then I hold it a little lower again, and I keep right on all the time doing the best I know how, though the simple fact is that no man living could shelter any woman completely under an umbrella unless he had one as big as the dome of the capitol at Washington. “It is a time of trial when I go out with Mrs. Bllltops with an umbrella, Its culmination coming after we get home, when she shakes her coat and her skirts and says: ‘I am just soaking !’ But it is soon over after that. “You might think that these occasions would be a dread to me, but the fact is quite to the contrary; for it is by these little human lapses on Mrs. Billtop’s part that I am made to realize more fully and gratefully the blessing of her all but perennial serenity.”

Boston's Historic Hill.

Copps hill was the most northerly of the three hills which were the distinguishing feature of Boston at the time of its settlement. At one time It was known as Windmill hill, from the fact that at one time a big mill stood on the summit. Later it was known as Snow hill. The name Copps hill is supposed to have come from William Copp, a cobbler, who lived on his own homestead near the hill. Copps hill was the second burying ground which was established in the town on the summit of the hill where the old mill had stood. It was first used for interments in 1660, and for a long time was known as the “Old North burying ground.” The oldest inscription it contains, dated August 15, 1662, purporting to commemorate the deaths of John Thwlng in 1620 and Grace Berry, in 1625, both some years before the founding of the colony, are thought to have been altered by some mischievous boy with his knife. It is related that the British soldiers, while occupying the burying ground as a military station, used the gravestones for targets and marks of the bullets were visible for years after the -revolution.

Kingdom of Israel.

The kingdom of Israel lasted several hundred years, during which there were more than twenty kings, beginning with Saul, who reigned from 1095 B. C to 1055 B. C.; followed in succession by David, Solomon and others to Zedekiah, who became king 597 B. C. Saul, the first of the line, was chosen and anointed as king by the propbet Samuel, who also designated David as Saul’s successor. The office was not strictly hereditary, but was supposed to spring from divine authority. All of the kings are mentioned by name in the Biblical book of Kings.

True Contentment.

Let us learn to be content with what we have. Let us get rid of our false estimates, set up all the higher ideals —a quiet home; vines of our own planting; a few books full of the inspiration of genius; a few friends worthy of being loved and able to love us in turn; a hundred Innocent pleasures that bring no pain or sorrow; a devotion to the right that will nevef swerve; a simple religion empty of all bigotry, full of trust and hope and love; and to such a philosophy this world will give up all the emuty joy it has.—David Swing.

Assisted Home.

“By the way,” said Mr. Jagsby, trying to appear unconcerned at the breakfast table. “What became of my friend last night?” “What friend?” asked Mrs. Jagsby. “Why, the man I came home with?” “Oh, I guess he went back to his beat,” answered Mrs. Jagsby, and the silence that ensued was painful.

Enough Disorder, Now.

’ “My dear sir,” began the man with the visionary expression on his face, “let me interest you in an invention which will revolutionize the world.” “Take it away; take it away!” moaned the capitalist in alarm. hat are you; an anarchist?”

The One Crop It’s Good For.

"We ipusn’t kick about that three days’ rain. The farmers needed it?” “Great Scott. v Are all the farmer! raising watercress?” —r-— — :

THEIR TWO WAYS

Women Shoppers Show There Arei Two Methods of Killing a Cat One Gets Grudging Service by Sharp* Demands While Other Wine Salesgirl by Her Pleasant Word*. It was three days before Christmas. In many departments of Bolivar & Clark’s great store girts with tired eyes were trying, usually with patience, to serve the never-ending line of customers. In the gingham department, however, the clerks were having an easy time. Few persons buy ginghams at Christmas time. The girls, grown careless, were talking together, taking It for granted that any chance visltoi’ to the department was on her way to the sijk department beyond. So it happened that two women stood for several minutes in front of the seersuckers without being noticed. Presently one of them walked across to the group where Madge Harkness was graphically describing the Christmas that she would have if she had a thousand dollars to spend. Her voice cut sharply through Madge's gay tone. “I want to see seersuckers, and I have no time to waste. Will one of you come and wait upon me, or shall I call a floorwalker?” A hot color flamed in Madge’s face. She turned at once and began taking down seersuckers. She answered every question distinctly; there was not a thing with which her customer could find fault, and yet her whole manner radiated antagonism. When she took the order she shrugged her shoulders behind her customer’s back. “The old cat!” she said to Minnie Dixon, as her customer left. “I’d like to fling the seersucker at her head. I’d like to put her behind the counter to wait upon herself. Wouldn’t she be a sweet one? She’d be fired at the end of the first day.” Just then the other woman stepped up to the counter. She was a little, white-haired, old lady, but there was a twinkle in her eyes. She smiled into Madge’s sullen face with a warmhearted friendliness. “I hope you w’on’t mind my saying it,” she remarked, “but what pretty girls you have at this counter! Old ladles love to see them, you know.” For a moment Madge stared. Then she began to laugh, and the old lady laughed with her. “Of course, I’d have to give you anything you want for that,” she said. “Of course,” the old lady agreed, twinkling again, “I expected you to. But all the same,” she added, when her order was taken and she was turning away, "I meant it, too.” “Taffy!” Madge exclaimed as she went back to the others. -“But I believe she meant it. Anyway, it made you feel good. Who’d have thought an old lady like that would be so foxy 1” The old lady herself was smiling as she went toward the elevator, but it was a tender smile, for she really loved girls. And the interested bystander who had seen it all went on her way smiling, too. —Youth’s

“Putting Off.”

Give up the very unwise habit of “putting off.” Putting off will result only in your giving up your good intentions. There is never any time like the present, and no matter how busy a woman may be, she can always find time to show some little kindness or extend some little courtesy that may be the means of cheering or strengthening another around her less strongwilled. Putting off until tomorrow what you could do today is a sure way to upset things in general, for procrastination is surely the thief of time. Before one realizes just how it happened the days have flown by and we have not accomplished one-half the things we had intended to. There is no time like the present, and if we were wise we would use every minute we are sure of instead of “putting off” until that future that may not come. —Exchange.

Making Life Joyous.

It is not the great tragedies which make life so disappointing. It is far more the lack of the world that might perfectly well have been spoken, the letter which might have been written, the visit that might have been paid. It takes very little sometimes to set life at the full again, and when our hearts do leap with joy it is more often than not because something old has flourished again. Why hunt UP novelties when by just a touch on some old spring the whole world will look like a new world to someone you know? Is there one of us who does not know two or three exact spots where he can make that happen?

How England Obtained Canada.

Acadia—now Nova Scotia and New Brunswick—and the Hudson’s Bay territory were ceded to Great Britain by France by the treaty of Utrecht in 1715. To be sure, Britain had an older title to the Hudson’s Bay territory by reason of discovery and occupation, and the territory came to mean about all the Canadian West of today.- Old Canada— today the provinces of Quebec and Ontario—were ceded to Great Britain by France by the treaty of Paris, signed on February 10, 1763. By this same treaty France gave up any claim to the Ohio valley and other territory now forming much of the central West of the United-States,