Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1917 — Page 3

VILLAGERS ON THE BANKS OF THE TIGRIS

THE other day there was the report that some of the British soldiers on the Tigris had come across a village of Red Heads. Strange people are these Red Heads, writes J. C. Bristow-Noble In the London Globe. They are the last of the Baal worshipers. The men wear red caps, hence their name Red Heads. They also wear red knotted cords around their necks. The cord is put on during babyhood and is never removed. It is Interred with the body after death. They shave their heads except for a patch on the top, and here they allow the hair to grow long, and plait it into pigtails, which hang about their ears. ’ They are tall, wiry fellows, with enormous appetites for both food and drink. The women, who do not veil themselves, and who dress simply In loose fitting garments, are thin and spare, but wonderfully strong. In their homes they wear breeches as well as skirts. There is no wife-beating among the Red Heads, but plenty of husband beating. The husbands take their frequent chastisements meekly and patiently. They employ themselves, both the women and the men, in agriculture and theft. They produce a couple of crops—tobacco and durra; the rest of their time is given up to looting the Turks’ crops and cattle. Their little whitewashed, low-roofed dwellings, with small unglazed, but shuttered, windows are divided into three apartments ; a kitchen, a ‘ guest room, a sleeping room. A few earthenware jars, about five feet in height and filled with grain and dried fruits, are kept in the guest room, and the guests help themselves. Tree Their Sanctuary. In the center of every village there is a small circle railed off, and in this space there Is planted the special rellglous emblem, an evergreen oak. No one except the father priest of the village'enters the inclosed ground, which 'ls decorated with small flags, strings of coins, and bright-colored beads. Around and about the circle the Red Heads celebrate the only religious festival known to them, the Gathering of the New Moon, which takes place every month. Directly a new moon makes its appearance the people are called together by a lay priest beating a bar-rel-shaped drum stuck end up on the ground. Here they Come, the women In long, clean, white gowns, and bringing pots and pans and vegetables and spices and wine, and the men, all arrayed In their smartest garments, driving a flock of sheep before them and carrying bundles of kindling wood and a quantity of charcoal. Fires are lit, cooking utensils 'placed thereon, and the sheep killed by the priest, who sprinkles a little of the animals’ blood on the oak, and the carcasses flayed and cut up into joints, and the latter cooked over the fires, before which millet and wheat cakes are by this time baking on huge flags, in the meantime tables oil trestles are set up and laid with wooden plates, horn spoons and steel knives and forks, and soon the feasting begins. The women wait on the men, who gorge steadily for about an hour, and then, while their wives and-daughters are clearing up the little they have left, indulge in dancing, drinking and general merriment No religious formality marks the feast, no blessing or benediction or grace. Indeed, not at birth or burial or marriage do these survivors of the ancient Baal worshipers employ any formula or observe anything in the nature of a religious ceremony. They have no bible, no prayer book, no liturgy, no place of worship. Their one and only sanctuary is the sacred tree Inclosure, their only religious symbol the evergreen oak. All Babies Are Salted. _ When a baby is born it Is warmly clothed, placed on a large wooden platter and taken to the priest, who, in front of the sacred tree, strips it and salts it Probably this accounts for the few Red Heads that now survive, it being said that their numbers have dwindled to a mere 7,000 or 8,000. For -the service the priest is given a shoulder from the sheep which it is usual to kill on such occasions and which

Last Of the Baal Worshipers

forms the principal item in the birth feast. Other duties that the priest has to carry out are the cutting of three horizontal cuts with a dagger just above the level of the eyebrows on the forehead of the dead, and the settling of all disputes. When a couple becomes engaged the woman spends most of her time cooking dainty and tasty dishes and trotting around with them to her lover’s home, followed by her father with wine and spirits. Breach-of-promise Is almost unknown, for the youth who jilts has his throat cut. The paramour of a married woman is hanged on some remote tree by the red cord he wears round his neck and the body is left as a warning to others. The erring wife mysteriously disappears, and no questions are asked. A man who deserts his wife also is hanged, while the woman who deserts her husband is compelled to return to him. There is a secret ceremony of initiation which every Red Head is compelled to undergo on attabing his seventeenth birthday. It involves seclusion for seven days and going without food and drink for three days. At the termination of this preliminary test the youth is taught certain passwords and grips by which he m»y recognize his brethren and a red circle is tattooed on his breast The strange people live on terms of friendship with the whole of their neighbors with the exception of the Turks, whom they hate and treat accordingly.

ALL IN THE WAY YOU SEE IT

Attitude Which Makes the Worst of a Situation Always Makes a Fail- ( ure of It, Says Writer. Any attitude which makes the worst of the situation makes a failure of It. Concentrating your mind on the hurt of a headache or the pain of a cut, fairly makes either one throb to order. Agitating yourself over how you are going to meet the payments on your talking machine takes all the music out of every record It plays, writes an optimist. If you must have your appendix removed next Saturday, why fill the days between now and Saturday with dismal forebodings of how you are going to feel when you wake up from the ether sleep? You will have to have the operation performed, anyway, and you might as well come to It with as much reserve strength and buoyancy as possible. A glad heart goes the whole day long and a sad one tires in a mile, as has been told with poetic fervor. But that does not make us work hard enough for a cheerful viewpoint, for the same determination to see the best of life which really makes the best in life a tangible thing to all of us.

Mozart’s Music.

A recent biographer says of Mozart that the most wonderful fact' about him was that he directed his art toward success without any sacrifice of himself, and his music was always written with regard to its effect upon the public. Somehow It does not lose by this, and it says exactly what he wishes it to say. In this he was helped by his delicate perceptions, his shrewdness and his sens# of irony. He despised his audience, but he held himself in great esteem. He made no concession that he need blush'for; h,e deceived the public, but he guided it as well. He gave the people the illusion that they understood his idea, while, as a matter of fact, the applause that greeted his work was excited only by passages which were solely composed for applause.

The Resourceful Dentist.

“It was a dreadful moment," said the dentist. “I was bathing quietly, when the great cavernous jaws of the shark opened before me." “Whit did you doF’ asked one of the ladles. “I took my forceps out of the pocket of my bathing suit and pulled his teeth before he had a chance to seize me It was the quickest and neatest bit of work I ever did.”

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER, IND.

FOR THE SMALL GIRL

High-Waisted Effects Seen in New Fall Coats. One Smart Model Would Develop Attractively in Bright Red Velour With Black Collar and Cuff?. The little coat here shown, designed for a girl of six to ten years, is decidedly small, but it is simple enough for the average home dressmaker. A soft fabric of medium weight should be selected. Yoke and sleeves only require lining, as the overlapping plaits of the lower part give It weight and warmth. The deep yoke with upper part of Sleeves cut in one with it is a feature of the garment. The lower part of the sleeve is attached with several rows of stitching in heavy silk twist marking the seam, and the same slight trimming touch should be applied to the lower part of the yoke. The simple little rolled collar may be of velvet or of self-fabric. If velvet in contrasting color is used the narrow cuffs should also be of velvet. This little coat would develop attractively In bright red velour with . collar and cuffs of black velvet. Navy ranks first, as usual, in the juvenile color card, but many vivid reds and greens are also used, and various tan and brown shades are also favored in coats. It is interesting to note that all manner of liberties have been taken with the juvenile waistline also. High'walsted effects for girls of four to eight years are featured considerably, but the normal and low placing of the waistline are shown as often. In many coats for the winter of 1917-18 this elusive line is ignored, the garments being cut straight from neck to hem. To make the little coat shown In the sketch for a girl of six to eight years, two and a quarter yards of material 86 inches wide will be required, with

TEA GOWN OF BEAUTY

Changeable coloring, especially when the colors are gold and green, are an almost sure method of making miladi see beauty. This tea gown of those colors with an Iridescent patch chiffon tea coat combined makes a tea gown of regal beauty.

FOULARD MORE WIDELY USED

Dressmakers Contrive Way to Use Material in Frocks Intended for Wear In the Afternoon. Mme. Jenny gets the credit for introducing the combination of white organdie and blue and white foulard. This model did not meet with as much success in the spring as it did later. Those who did not accept it in its entirety built up an adapted gown which was quite successful. There was a knife-pleated skirt of blue foulard, with loose Russian blouse of white organdie, belted, collared and cuffed with the foulard. This is still considered one of the attractive frocks of the season. The majority of women, however, prefer veiling a • foulard frock with dark blue voile. This deadens the design and renders the staring white dot vague and mist-like. The combination of voile and foulard is kept for Informai hours, but the dressmakers now 866 a way in which foulard can be made to serve for the afternoon. This is done by draping it in combination with cream chiffon, using a weave of silk that is dyed in nnusual colors. In one such frock the foulard is in broad stripgjtof cream and old rose. The skirt is made of a separate piece qf the material, with a coin dot border, and the selvedge is allowed to drop at each side in order to show a panel at the cream chiffon skirt, Therq

a quarter of a yard of velvet for collar and cuffs. Three buttons on the yoke and three others at the bottom of the qkirt effect TKe'TasKhTngTTHfibugh the "fivetage small girl will probably disregard the

Fall Coat for Small Girl.

latter three and allow the coat to swing open or stay closed, according to the weather.

are loose sleeves of the chiffon, a panel of the foulard at the back and the front of the bodice and a deep collar of the much sought after Van Dyke lace, .

DAINTY PATTERNS NO MORE

Loud Colors and Most Daring of Designs Now Predominate in All Sport Costumes. In general, delicate shades and dainty patterns have vanished from sport costumes. It’s a splash of brilliant color today and the most daring of designs. Gone are the sprays of rosebuds and sprigs of forget-me-nots. Instead we have bjg dots, wide stripes, bold checks and durious Chinese, Japanese and Egyptian symbols. The sheerest of crepes flaunt a design that used to be thought suitable only for a sport fabric. Shantung, so fashionable, is striped in the loudest of colors or shows a big embroidered dot. The crinkled khaki kool, not satisfied with its last season’s beauty, now shows a jacquard design or the widest of fancy stripes. There are cottons with a crepe weave and cottons and tussahs combined, splashed with dots, in colors that fairly dazzle the unprotected eye. Circles, both on cottons and silks, are favorite designs. A white khaki kool shows circles of Chinese blue or steel and another shows citron-colored dots.

DOING AWAY WITH THE HIPS

Exercise Is Essential and It May Be Obtained Outdoors or In One’s Room Morning or Night. Exercise is essential if you would reduce the hips. In case it is impossible to walk or exercise outdoors during the day, you can obtain the same results by exercising In your room morning and night, says an expert on this subject. Even a few minutes will produce results in time if this exercise is taken regularly. It sounds very simple, but you may find it hard at first. Walk rapidly around the room on your tiptoes, raising each knee as high as you can without losing your balance. Continue for at least five minutes, and then take a cold sponge and a brisk rub. At night, after you have taken the exercise; dip a Turkish towel in very hot water and drop it about your hips, placfng a dry towel outside and keeping it in place until cool. Repeat this at least six times; the effect will be much the same as if you had steamed your face, and you should apply alcohol to close the pores.

No Waistline In Sight

So far as any change that one might predict In the matter of new corsets planned for the coming season, the novelty all depends on fabric, trimming and workmanship. Perhaps pink will be used rather more than ever before. But as far as silhouette goes things will go on much the same as ever. Designers and dressmakers who hoped to have a more shapely—-or one might say a more substantial foundation Upon which to fit the gowns of the coming seasori are doomed to. disappointment, for the woman of fashion will still go on with her figure very little confined. The woman who likes t< be comfortable, and who knows that in comfort is grace, will be glad to know that among the new corset models there will be rather more rubber inserts td give elasticity where- it i« needed most, according to the type of figure for which the particular corset is designed.

The rent Need.

The prince of Udine, head of the Italian commission, said at a luncheon in New York: i “The Germans need, above all things, a spiritual bath or cleansing. When I contemplate them I feel like the restaurateur. "A restaurateur In the galleria In Milan was Waited on by a tramp who -wanted' work.™ Ing short-handed, agreed to take the tramp on. But, heavens, he was dirty. “Til put you at the dish-washing," said the restaurateur, and then he took out a two-lira note. ‘But, here, take this first, and go and get a bath.' “As the tramp, Vowing and scraping, started off, the restaurateur called him back and said: “There may be some change. In that event, take another

A Helpful Hint.

“Do you think it really necessary to go to the trouble of having the suspected courtplaster analyzed by a bacteriologist?” asked J. Fuller Gloom. “Haven't you a brother-in-law that you can try it on?" —Kansas City Star.

A Message to Mothers YOU know the real human doctors right around in your neighborhood! the doctors made of flesh and blood just like you: the doctors with souls and hearts: those men who are responding to your call in the dead of night as readily as in the broad daylight; they are ready to tell you the good that Fletcher’s Castoria has done, is doing and will do, from their experience and their love for children. Fletcher’s Castoria is nothing new. We are not asking you to try an experiment. We just want to impress upon you the importance of buying Fletcher’s. Your physician will tell you this, as he knows there are a number of imitations on the market, and he is particularly interested in the welfare of your baby. Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of

Canada’s Überal Offer of Wheat Land to Settlers “h is open to you—to every farmer or farmer’s son —y who is anxious to establish for lOjr himself a happy home and prosperity. Canada’s hearty T*4l I invitation this year is more attractive MBMaFjgRgX I fJryi NI than ever. Wheat is much higher but i I her fertile farm land just as cheap, and WfflUZp 4 MJ in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskat- WwfjvZX&A J J chewan and Alberta dw K M M 100 Acre Homwteidi An Actually Fmto Settlm I ▼> a Id ud Other Land Sold at from sls t. |2O per Am f J ®1 The great demand for Canadian Wheat will MiKtlwi keep up the price. Where a fanner can get <to J/ —rx ■ near $2 for wheat and raiae2oto4s bushels to ■jgUVXUC JP'B 1 , uX"■ the acre he i» bound to make money —that's ■WKaV Jr— 7• J J what you can expect in Western Canada. Won- ■dgdjj'jnKXW derful yields also of Oats. Barley and Flax. KwATIMr t Jr TBk )■ Mixed Farming in Western Canada to fully as whwiMfciß Profitable an industry as grain raising. (iJ SiZ' The excellent grasses, full of nutrition, are the only ■MMiyTMT/ ImWBH food required either for beef or dairy purposes ■*AaiV“W V—“S. JIEWMS/M Good schools, churches, markets convenient, climate ■MMiX exceUent. There Is an unusual demand for farm VVW —k X-.-. TJ> 1 Hl lffiM labor to replace the many young men who have H/w fmV- mL. /—* MV IM volunteered for the war. Write for literature and IMUIH particulars as to reduced railway rates to Supt.of ■AfnAKW Ottawa, Can., or to C. J. Broughton, Room 412, 112 W. Adama B Street. Chicago. Ill.; M. V. Maclnnrse. 17a W Hmß Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich. BtWpWjgIJESES IIUI F® Canadian Government Agents jH

Such Is Fame.

Many years ago Wilbur D. Nesbit, the author of “Your Flag and My Flag," was known to the little village of Cedarville, 0., his native home, as only one of the neighborhood. Recently he returned to Cedarville after a long absence. Of course, his coming was heralded by the local newspaper, so he was expected. When he was walking quietly through the town (he tells this tale himself), he overheard this conversation between two old yillagers: “I understand by the paper that Will Nesbit Is back in tofan today.” “So they say. I wonder what he looks like now?” “Oh, he didn’t ever amount to much. He went off to college and that Is about the last good he ever did.” “And to think what he is doin’ now. Of all the easy things, writin’ poetry I”

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Governed by Impulse.

“Any questions?” asked the instructor of the Second battery of the Ninth division, after the completion of a morning period which the men had spent on horseback at Fort Harrison. “Captain,” answered Ralph Lockwood of Indianapolis, “wouldn’t it be possible to develop artillery horses that would start and stop like automobiles, and would guide with a steering wheel? This horse I have seems to be governed by impulses over which I have no control.” —Indianapolis News.

Plausible.

Tllle Clinger says taht the reason she thinks her new boss’ wife Is keeping cool through the hot weather is because her telephone voice sounds as if If were right off the ice.—Galveston News.

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Natural Feeling.

“How Is that stitch in your side?” “Oh, It is only sew-sew.” —Baltimore American.

Idleness Makes a Fortune.

“If you sit idly you will lose money every minute;” is a liberal paraphrase of a w-eli-known Japanese proverb and serves as a protest against idleness, but the Tokyo Herald cites the case at the great Buddha at. Nara, which, despite inaction, is reaping a fortune. During the year ending June 25 the Buddha received 351,000 visitors, whe paid admission fees aggregating $9350. The exaction of a fee to visit the big Buddha began in 1911, sinee which time $127,500 gate money has been received.

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