Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — Page 3

HAS MESSAGE FOR ALL BOYS

Young Man Draws Lesson From Strange Experience Which. Fell • to His Lot “I wish I could send a message to every boy in the world of a sad and strange coincidence that happened to me when 1 was a boy,” exclaimed a young man the other day. “One hot, sultry July afternoon —the hottest day we had that summer—l had just turned our street corner when I met my father. • ‘“I wish you would deliver this package for me, Joe,’ he said rather weakly, as I remembered afterward. Now I was only thirteen years old and had been out flaying in the hot sun all morning and was all in when I met my father after playing a ten-inning game with our side the losers. My first impulse was to refuse, but one glance at his kind, gentle face stopped me. ‘Surely I will go, father,’ I said pleasantly. “ ‘Thank you, son,’ was the answer. T was going myself, but I don’t feel very well today and I thought you would not refuse, as you have always been a good boy to me, Joe.’ “I walked away thinking father did not care much about his only son, or he would not send me on this jaunt fabout one mile and a half), on such a hot But somehow the words, *1 thought you would not refuse,’ and 'You have always been a good boy to me, Joe,’ seemed to ring in my ears end before I reached the end of my journey I was whistling a merry tune. “Returning home, I saw our doctor’s auto and a crowd of people at our door. One of my aunts hurried to meet me with tears rolling down her cheeks. 'Your father fell dead just as he reached the stoop,’ she said. “I. found out later the last words my father spoke were. ‘You have always been a good boy to me, Joe.’ ”

LAWNS NOW POTATO FIELDS

Velvety*. Parks of the Show Places of France Transformed to Meet Economic Crisis. \ The rare American tourists who visit the chateau of Touraine in France may find the Velvety parks of the most interesting show places transformed into potato patches. — Aristocracy has ttiken up the “tuber campaign” and, beginning with the Countess of Noailles and the DuChess d’Uzes, chatelaineg all over the country have promised to dig up their lawns and plant vegetables. Flower gardens, also, will be consecrated to the solution of the economic crisis. The rose, the vine and the orchard are not to be touched, but all annual . flowers ands all green swards must give way to the democratic potato, in the .interest of the national defense. Since there is not enough labor for the farm lands already under cultivation, the temporary release from the army of a greater number of farmers and the importation of more Indo-Chi-nese and North African labor is expected to count more effectively in solving the agricultural problem than the efforts to transform the chateau parks into vegetable gardens. , *

New Talking “Movies.”

Application has been made for a patent on a very elaborate device which would produce a combination of the cinematograph and the phonograph to give us moving pictures wherein the characters not only move but speak. The idea of such pictures is not new, but the difficulties of synchronizing have hitherto proved Insurmountable. By synchronizing is meant the exact coincidence of the motion picture, projected by one machlpe, with the speech supposed to proceed from the characters, which is produced by quite another. Unless the speech ponies at the right instant, the result is laughable rather than impressive. In the proposed device the actual speech of the character is transmitted by wireless telephone to a phonograph whose complex receiving mechanism is synchronized with the movements of the moving picture camera.

Coin Works Electric Fan.

There is now on the market an electrle fan wh Ichca nbe operated only by placing a coin in its slot, whereupon it operates for a certain length of time, according to the amount of current which the owner desires to supply for the money paid, says the Scientific American. When a coin is dropped into the slot a clock mechanism is wound up in the base of the fan. For a nickle, for instance, the fan may operate one hour, either constantly or intermittently, according to the wishes of the user. Several cpins can be dropped in at one time, Insuring several hours’ use of the fan.

World’s Biggest Fish Net.

The largest fish net In the world will soon be in use in these waters, says the Avalon Islander. It Is 8,400 feet long, 300 feet deep and has five purselike pockets made of a two-inch re-enforced mesh. Two 80-foot tugs and a fleet of small boats will accompany net. The equipment will cost almost SIOO,OOO to fish for three months. What chance for its life will any fish have with such a net combing the channel day and night?

Diet a Matter of Habit.

Our dally food is to a large extent n matter of prejudice and habit. We think we must have certain things because we always have had them. But the war has shown us that by the ex- . ercise of intelligent plannlug-W« can get the necessary nutriment for less money than we have been accustomed <o spend.—Kansas City Star.

BALDNESS DUE TO PET DOGS

Doctor Holds Canines Responsible for Epidemic Which Has Appeared Among in London. From Londoq ? comes a warning to women who have pet dogs. Since the start of the war many English Women have found that they were losing their hair. . A West End hairdresser, observing that he had had more cases of falling hair in the last year than ever before, regarded worry and grief as the cause, but a physician advances another theory: “This explanation is partly correct,” says this physician. “The depressing effect on vitality of fear, anxiety and sorrow reacts with serious consequences on the hair. ,But in my opinion the epidemic, if there is an epidemic; is to be traced mainly to'infection from dogs. “Every hair expert knows that in nine out of ten cases the premature loss of hair is due to dandruff. That condition often results from the presence of microbes whose great source is the dog. Ordinary cleansing with soap or shampoo preparations is'of poetically no use, but simple antiseptics, such as boric ointment, usually bring about a speedy cure. As a preventive measure dispense with the dog.”

RADIUM CURES CANCER CASES

Report of London Institute Shows Success in Treatment of Many Patients in Past Two Years. In the years 1915 and 1916 the Radium institute of London handled 1,400 cases, giving 12,331 separate treatments. These were of many forms of cancer and of skin diseases. Of these, 87 were not treated, 123 were treated too recently to record results, 33 received irradiation merely as a precautionary measure. Of the remaining 1,157, the official report says, 172 “apparently cured,” 52 were “cured,” 498 “Improved,” 215 “not improved,” 147 abandoned treatment and 76 were dead. There were 186 cases of rodent ulcer, which of all forms of malignant disease is most amenable to the action of radium. Lesions which do not affect mucous membrane, bone, or cartilage and which have not previously been treatment with Xray, CO2, ionization, snow, etc., “can almost invariably be cured by one treatment,” says the

Mobilize Yourself.

Mobilize yourself. Speed up. Cut out your wastes. The idler is an ener my of the republic. So is the waster. Mr. Plumber, when you go to John Easyman’s house to stop a leak, and forget to take your tools with you, and charge him up with a dollar’s worth of time while you are getting them," you are subtracting from his ability to pay for the Liberty bond that he has subscribed for, and you have been guilty of an unpatriotic negligence. ■ Mister Hlghrbller, yvhen you are spending a night along the Great White Way you are consuming luxuries which represent the labor of men who should be growing wheat or something that is essential. * Mr. Joyrider; why should you burn gasoline that the transport service needs and serves no useful purpose to you? Mistress Mary, consider what slavery to fashion means in the consumption of wool, cotton, flax and labor. 1 There are many ways of self-mobilization, and each one doing his bit. —Engineering and Mining Journal.

Paraffin Better Than Ambrine.

The so-called ambling, invented by Dr. Barthe de Sandfort and used in France for healing burns and other inflammations, Is almost all paraffin. So are its several American imitations. The Journal of the American Medical Association has been testing them, as well as the many different brands of paraffin, and it finds that the success of treatment with it depends upon the kind of paraffin used. It gives a fotmula with which anyone can make a paraffin film similar in chemical composition, but superior in physical properties to ambrlne. This is: Paraffin 120-122 F., 97.5; olive oil, 1.5; asphalt, 4 drops. And it says it is exceedingly probable that further experience will show that for most purposes simple paraffin will serve as well as, if not better than, any of the mixtures.

Chicken Had Unusual Dressing.

A roasted chicken enabled two prisoners to escape from the county jail at New Brunswick, N. J., despite the inspection of their cells every ten minutes and the armed guards who surrounded the building. To outward appearances the fowl, which was sent to the prison by a brother of the men, was brown, appetizing and Innocent. It was learned later that, instead of bread crumbs and spices, its interior held saws and files. When a keeper made one of his inspections the men were snoring loudly on their cots. Ten minutes later he found that they disappeared by way of the window from which they had wrenched the bars. Still later the brother who brought the chicken; and his high powered automobile, were also founded be gone. b

They, Knew.

“Now, little folk,” said the lovely young teacher, ‘‘does anyone know what g-l-o-v-e-s spells?” - No one did. “Well, that is a pretty hard word for such tiny people, so TH let you guess. What does father wear on his hands when he beats the rugs and spades in the garden?*’ “Blisters!” shrieked a small-sized mvil chorus. . ’

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Airy Fabrics Travel in Pairs

Airy fabrics travel in pairs in this year’s midsummer frocks. Colored voile and swiss organdie, white net colored orga.ndie, net and filmy laces, go hand in hand and refuse to be separated. “United we stand and invite your consideration,” in frocks, parasols and hats and no one will resist the combination of frock and parasol to match made of voile and swiss organdie. In the picture there is the union of white net and fine blue organdie, in a beautiful afternoon dress, to bring home this enchanting blending of two transparent fabrics, to our sense of harmony. The plain net skirt is faced up with the organdie in a deep hem, widened at the front and back into two long points. There is a narrow drop of net above the organdie hem and a wide band of it—finished with the smallest of hem —

Those women who are fortunate enough to know how to embroider may make for themselves t|jte' sort of blouses that bring very high prices in the waist shops. The embroidery in silk floss, on 1 crepe georgette or crepe de chine, that appears in some of the smartest blouses, is not tedious. It is rather easy to do and the work does not take much time; where it is used the work of putting the blouse together, running in tucks, hemming, etc. is also done by hand. A very new and very beautiful model in a blouse of this kind appears In the picture, made of fine, pure white georgette, with real filet insertion in the collar and cuffs. It is embellished with a jabot of the crepe finished with a filet edging. The lace is set with a fine embroidered cording. This exquisite line is used in the collar and cuffs for setting in the insertion

Dainty Tea Gowns.

_ The feminine eye cannot fail to be attracted to the dainty new tea gowns and boudoir gowns, which were never more lovely than they are this season. There is a distinct revival of the essentially feminine, daintily tinted boudoir 1 gowns of flesh-colored georgette crepe' or crepe de chine combined with 'a coatee of wide, sheer lace flouncing.

Marabou Trimming for Sweaters.

No doubt as a consequence of the high and ever higher-price of many of the newest sweaters now show a trimming of marabou. Especially attractive is a combination of soft hrown with a yellow woolen sweater. is no reason why the woman who is clever enough to knit her own sweaters should not also be clever enough to ddvise a marabou trimming from martibou bought by the yard.

New and Beautiful Blouses

about the middle of the skirt. The organdie points appear again on-the net collar. Only tucks —nothing more, narrow in width', are placed in groups of parallel rows on the waist, sleeves, belt and peplum. But a row of crochet buttons at each side of the front of the Waist shows that the designer heeds the mandates of fashion even when creating something entirely hew in net frocks. The buttonless dress might be considered impossible. A slip of white or colored organdie is to be worn under a frock of this kind. Cotton voile and swiss organdie are already pledged to one another and will meet the fortunes of life together in other midsummer frocks this season. Lace is Inconstant and is found in the company of net and voile, organdie and crepe or any other of the sheer materials.

and appears on the sleeves and down each side of the front. Narrow tucks, in groups of three, are placed down the front of the blouse, three groups on each side. Two lepgths of the filet insertion are set in the back with embroidery between them. It is the same design as the embroidery in the sleeves and jabot. The second waist is of georgette also, but is machine-made and far less expensive than the hand-made model. It has a plaited frill at the front and is neatly finished with hemstitching. The sleeves have deep cuffs and the Collar depends upon hemstitching for its orn'amentation. This is a pretty waist for a tailored skirt or to be worn with a suit.

An Unusual Pillow.

Something really new in the pillow line has designed for the porch chair or for any cozy kind of chair that has a hollow at the back aching to be filled by a nice crushable pillow. The beginning of this pillow is Just like any other-—square with rounded corners or round, and made of almost any material to correspond with the rest of the hangings and upholstery. But here comes the important part: There is a tall to this pillow—sort of a stole extension which is probably about six inches wide and weighted wfth tassels and fringe. The idea of the stole Is a ballast to be thrown over the back of the chair and to hold the pillow In {he most Comfortable way by crunching up and not helping to fill the hollows a bit. This cushion is particularly good for a willow chair. . |

CURED BY SERVICE IN ARMY

Confederate Veteran, Condemned by ■ Doctor to Die In Six Months, Alive and Hearty at 77. “It is a curious thing how war service has been the making of many a man in a physical sense,” remarked Maj. W. B. Howard of New Orleans, a Confederate veteran. *When I went into the Confederate army my doctor told me that I had tuberculosis and the chances were against my living for six months loWgen I was weak and emaciated to a painful degree, and I had not the remotest doubt but that my doctor had made a true prophecy. “I had made up my mind to join General anyway, and, after the mournful diagnosis of the physician, I was doubly anxious to go to the front. .‘lf I am going to die of disease,’ thought'!, ‘it were just as well to have my existence terminated by a Yankee bullet.’ Lo and behold! here I am now a sprightly old man of seventy-seven and Y’ith no idea of shuffling off the mortal coil for at least another decade. That four years’ service in the Cefhfederate army made me healthy and*robust, and my experience was that of many another weakling. Life in the open air and sunshine beats all the medicine in the world, and you willflnd that the boys who. come back from the battlefields of Europe, if any of them go over there, will return much better specimens of physical manhood than when they went.”

ALL MUST BE ABLE TO READ

Exemption* in New Immigration Law in Favor of Russian Jews Nullified by Revolution. The new Immigration law assumes a new ’interest in view of the changed conditions In Russia. This law excluded all alien Immigrants more than sixteen years of age who cannot read some language. But it exempts certain classes —exceptions that are inserted mainly in the interest of Russian Jews. Any immigrant who can show that he comes to the United States to escape religious and -economic persecution is admissible whether he can read or not. This is the motive that has impelled practically all the Russian Jewish Immigration of the last 30 years, says World’s Work. Thus the new Immigration law, had conditions remained intact. would have excluded practically no immigrants such as congregate In large numbers on the East side of New York. With the removal of all religious and economic disabilities in Russia as a result of the Russian revolution, this claim can no longer be made, and Russian Jews will now have to be able to read, like all other immigrants.

Toronto Like American City.

Toronto is the most American of the great Canadian cities, and also the most Canadian. “American” is here used as the Canadian uses it, to mean the United States. The mere geographical fact that Canada is .in America does not count for anything with him. When he says the American election or American whisky he means United States. Toronto, being near the border, doing business with and after the fashion of the United States and lacking the picturesque element in its population that makes Montreal and Quebec different, is very much like Buffalo, or any of several cities right across the border. Thwpeople wear the same r klnd of clothes and talk the same 61nd of slang, the buildings are the same and the same articles are sold in the stores.

War Conservation.

“In the midst of monster destruction,” writes Isaac F. Marcovson in Everybody’s, “an enormdbs conservation is achieved. Only the dead are laid away. Nothing is ‘scrapped.’ They make laces out of castoff shoes; redeem shattered guns; convert refuse fat into glycerin; replenish the flickering fires of life Itself. War is not all waste. “And when this moving picture, more animated than any imaginative play ever thrown upon cinema screen, has passed before you, you realize, even before a single shot is fired, that energy and organization of the highest order have been tested to a welbnlgh Incredible extent. “It dawns on you that war is work!”

Apple Fruit of Many Uses.

There is no fruit that lends Itself to so many varied uses as the apple. It may be evaporated or dried and kept an indefinite period and then cooked in much the saiqe way as fresh fruit. There are also many byproducts. The juice is pressed and used according to its age and stages of fermentatipn as sweet cider, haro cider or vinegar. The whole apple and even the parings from the evaporators are used for apple butter, jellies, jams, etc., and in recent years the culls and cores from the evaporators have been dried and sold for $4 a ton for export to Europe and returned "to us later in the form of high priced “imported wines.”

Foodstuffs Instead of Cotton.

Planters in the fertile Laguna district near Torreon, Mexico, are substituting war crops for cotton this year. Having learned that the demand for corn/ wheat and other staple foodstuffs would be heavy and prices correspondingly high, the Mexican hacienda owners have plowed up their cotton lands in this famous cot-ton-growing district of central Mexico and have planted food crops.

SHIPS’ MASCOTS LOSE NERVE

Pet Animal* on British Vessels Show the White Feather When Shell* Begin Exploding. There are some Incidents about the mascots in the big naval battle of Jutland which are worth repeating. The mascot on the Tiger was a bulldog, a. fine fellow. When getting into the battle the crew Were a bit concerned S* to how their favorite would take the crashing of high explosives on th® ship, so they plugged his ears with cotton wool, wrapped his head around a* it he bad a heavy dose of toothache, and a couple of men took the bulldog, much to bls annoyance, to a room that was thought to be as quiet as the ship could provide. The dog didn’t quite fancy being treated as an invalid and resented the coddling, but when the shots began he took it pretty badly and was mighty glad he had a pal sltting on either side holding him by the paws. x a Another boat had a fine, big black cat He was overlooked when they got into action, and the first shell that came aboard this fellow got loose and took a flying dive overboard. As the boat was going about 27 knots, even the most tender-hearted Jack Tar could hardly risk going after Tommy. On another ship they had, a little bantam, which strutted about more proudly than the dinkiest midshipman and with as big a show of courage as the hardiest of old seadogs. The tars were proud of the “swank” their pet could assume before strangers. When the first German shell crashed on board the bantam lost all his fine show and flew down one of the ventilators. When he was rescued and photographed after the fight he presented a bedraggled appearance.—London Post.

MUSIC NEED OF FIGHTING MEN

Blare of Band Instruments Bring* Cheer to Troop* and I* Just a* Necessary as Ammunition. “The blare of the trombone, the shrill note of the piccolo and the drums blending with other band Instruments in a military organization give cheer to the men with the guns and is just as necessary as ammunition,” says Charles H. Parsons of New York. “During the Spanish-American war the tunes happily accepted were those of the vaudeville stage, when ‘There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town T6night’ was said to have led troops to the capture of San Juan hill. The old Civil war melodies having the swing of march cadence were first of all, ‘Dixie,’ probably used, at least hummlngly, by the soldiers of the North, as x those who followed the ‘Stars and Bars.’ And it is worth while to recall that ‘Dixie’ was the most popular of all the melodies strummed in camp and sung in action of all the old-time songs during the war of 1898. “Canned music will give to the boy* at the ffont much of their entertainment evenings to come,” added Mr, Parsons. “The phonographic tecords will cheer many groups. And they will have programs provided by the stars of the operatic world and other entertainers who may not give to them fheir cheer-first hand.”

Would Use Water for Fuel.

Recently an inventor attracted considerable attention by claiming to have Isolated a certain green chemical the addition of which to water would make the water a substitute for gasoline in initial-combustion engines. Now comes another inventor with a process for utilising water as an automobile fuel. He points to the well-known fact that water is decomposed into its elements, hydrogen and oxygen, when a current of electricity passes through it. Hydrogen mixed with air Is more explosive than gasoline vapor. In his patented device the Inventor would convert part of the power generated by the automobile engine into electrical energy, which he would use to decompose water. The hydrogen of the decomposed water he proposes to use to run the engine, securing enough surplus power in the cycle to drive the car.

Knows When to Quit.

Handled intelligently, a mule is • most willing worker; but there are a few unwritten laws that cannot be transgressed with impunity. A mule will seldom make more than two attempts to move a load. On the first strain he will throw his whole force into the collar, and a mule can pull 50 per cent more in relation to his weight than a horse. Science is again dumb at the question whence comes that latent force which neither horse nor ass possesses. After a short rest the mule will makp a second attempt, bnt this is seldom as sustained as the first. If the load still refuses to move the team might as well be unhitched. At times the mules will not even exert enough force on a third attempt to move an empty wagon.

Yielding to Necessity.

There is, as Clenthes pointed out, such a thing as a “noble yielding to necessity," which is accounted divine. A man must, of course, be convinced that what he yields to is in truth necessity. But when that is clear there should be no repining, and no fear of what “others may say.” Until it to clear there should be no yielding. The poet, who was sad because he could not paint a picture, and the painter who mourned because he could write a poem, were surely most unreasonable. They clearly knew nothing of the doctrine of diversity of gifts. The doctrine is not only true but in the highest degree, consoling and eheering.—Exchange. , ■