Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1917 — Page 3

MORE WHEAT PRIZES

Honors for Western Canada Come Year After Year. At the recent Soli Products Exposition at Peoria, HL, in a keen, contest for the coveted first prize for wheat. Western Canada has again carried off all the honors. Not only has she won the first, but also the second and third prizes. These were won by Mr. S. Larcombe, of Blrtle, Manitoba. In past years the Province of Saskatchewan had the distinguished honor of carrying off the initial prize. Harvesting and threshing are now completed In Western Canada, and while it is early In the season to give exact figures as to the average yield per acre of wheat, oats, barley and flax it is safe to assume that the former will yield about 20 bushels per acre. The price to the farmer will be about $2.00 per bushel, giving him $40.00 an acre of a return. When it is considered that the land upon which this wheat is grown averaged less than S3O an acre, it takes very little figuring to arrive at an estimate of the profit there is to the gram grower of Western Canada. The writer knows where a farmer purchased 160 acres of land in the spring of 1916, broke It up the same year, put it in wheat in 1917. His crop was harvested a few days ago. It yielded 4,800 bushels and he sold it at $2.05 per bushel, giving him $9,840. The land cost him $4,800, breaking, seeding, seed, cutting and threshing, $1,920. His profit was $3,120 after paying for his land and his costs of improving. He has now $3,120 to commence another season with a “paid for in full" Improved farm.

Never has farming offered such profitable returns for labor as at present and nowhere is the large profit equal to that of the low priced, high yielding iands of Western Canada. There has been a big rush during the past few weeks of renters and owners of high priced lands in many parts of the United States to Investigate these 100% profit reports. No better season of the year could be selected by anyone desiring to better their condition and wishing to give Western Canada the “once Over.” Threshing is now completed and the grain being marketed. The weather Is fine and will be pleasant for a couple of months and a visit now to personally investigate the conditions will be "Convincing and profitable. While old home ties and family associations are one of the first considerations in the mind of the reader, who feels that the old five or ten per cent return is sufficient, it behooves the modern and progressive farmer always to be on the alert to grasp the opportunities of the hour. Land in Western Canada that is annually producing a gross return of from $40.00 to SBO.OO per acre is purchasable at from sls to S3O per acre. It can be seen nt a glance that such values cannot help but Increase ns they hnve done in the older agricultural districts of the United States. The new settler will find himself surrounded by same contented and prosperous neighbors. The expense of making one visit to look Into Western Canada’s opportunities is small —a special reduced rate is available and you owe yourself a holiday and a trip may do you good. You owe your dependents a right to better your condition and Western Canada offers that opportunity.—Advertisement.

Japanese Naval Maneuvers.

The grand Japanese naval maneuvers which will take place off Tosa will consist of the first, second and third fleets and several reserve vessels, says the East and West News. The 14-lnch guns mounted on the Yamashiro and Ise will be put to practical test. All vessels participating will assemble at Hiroshima bay in the Inland sea, and the contending forces will use Kure as the base of operations. The sham battle will last ten days.

Liquor Control in Bermuda.

Consul Carl R. Loop of Hamilton, reports that the Bermuda legislature has passed, a law whereby “during the continuance of the present war the sale or supply of intoxicating liquor Iq all clubs and licensed premises is prohibited between, the hours of nine o’clock at night and nine o’clock on the following morning."

A Combination.

"Are you going to fight or raise food?" “Little of both, suh,” replied Erastus Plnkley. “I’s glneter git my chicken coop well populated an’ den I’s glneter hang right over it wif a shotgun.” >

A Big Man.

“Her husband is a big man Id the show business.” “That so? A producer?” “No. Bouncer in a downtown burlesque theater.”

Need to Be Nagged.

ft we were a woman and had to live with some men we know we’d nag them, too.

A Visual Mix-Up.

“The only way for a game like tnls is to go it blind.” “Well, I can’< see it.” When Adam and Efre visited the tree of knowledge they hardly had time to study the higher branches. A weak mind is like a microsc<»i. which magnifies 'trifling things Im cannot perceive great ones.

Gay Colors Seen In New Clothes

New York. —It is often said that the fashion experts dwell too much upon line and material and are given to ignoring the extraordinary value of dolors. The charge is true. At least, the truth of it dominates the majority of dressmaking houses and is present in the majority of women's minds. Color is in reality so vastly important that .it should rule every department of dress. There are colorists w’ho overestimate its value to women, and they are the ones who actually frighten the majority Into a conservatism that often borders on the ugliness. The trouble with the artists lies In the fact that they do not seem to have any tenderness or courtesy toward the coloring of the woman who is to wear the garment. They assimilate and put Into juxtaposition colors that have extraordinary beauty in themselves, but when they are placed next to the human skin, hair and eyes, they kill what nature has done. This Is glorifying the artist at the expense of the woman in a way that is not fair. The gown is predominant; its beauty draws all eyes. The woman is Insignificant; the only time she comes into the question is when the observers think how unattractive she looks in that glorious frock.

Women in the Wrong Colors. There is no temptation in costumery greater than the one offered by a gown built out of an exquisite harmony of colors. It appeals to every woman but the one who is “shocked by a thread of scarlet," as Mrs. Stuart puts it in one of her admirable short stories. Mind you, these women who feel that drab colors are part of the respectability of life and who have a traditional and mystic belief that the color of the scarlet letter used by Hawthorne was in itself an acknowledgment of sin, are not out of existence. The Puritan stock lives on, although it may be in Montana, Texas or Alaska, instead of a small New England village. But aside of this well defined segment in human society that looks upon scarlet as the color of all that should not be, and upon 'black and gray as the colors that spell respectability, emotional limitations and the straight and narrow path, there are thousands 4>f women wh<b are attracted to colors as goldfish to w w. They find in the brilliancy of tone a kind of mental and physical stimulation that the savages probably feel. So it is that when the gifted artistdressmakers, weavers and dyers throw out to the world bits of colored bait, as our forefathers did to the Indians when they Wanted furs, a large segment of women snap up the gifts with delight. Color as an Accessory. The world is .wiser and better dressed when the great artists produce glorious colors as accessories to gowns

Thie evening gown of shrimp pink satin, with polonaise of taupe velvet and silver lace. There are curious peasant sleeves that resemble arm bands. They are attached to the top of the bodice. The necklace that holds up the bodice. Is of silver cloth embroidered with pink beads.

of somber tones. Even then there are a thousand women who go astray to a dozen who go right. The helpful artists in dress will explain to women, with intelligent patience, that any kind of color can be managed in a costume if I it is not placed next-to the skint. It/ is for this reason, and this alone, thatktbose who deal in evening gowns have made an artistic success in choosing the most difficult color for the skin, if they so wish, and then building a, bodice of tulle or crystals that rests against the skin of the neck without doing It any harm. ' * . The fashion which was exploited tn Paris at the August openings ami which is already in America, of wearing a separate evening bodice with a brilliant skirt, is sure to succeed because it allows a woman to Indulge

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that savage strain in her which is not quite dead and which calls for gay colors. Black panne velvet and tulle, as well as jet, have been the fabrics chosen for these separate bodices which are put above Algerian skirts of satin in any of the blues, greens, reds nnd purples that the skin will not tolerate. The' accessories which fashion will spring upon us are gorgeous in color ing. All that need be said is that wotsted embroidery is In high favor. Sometimes, when an artist w r ants to get a bit of brilliant color Into an otherwise demure picture, a cat play-

The material of this waist la lime green handkerchief linen, with the new peasant collar embroidered in threads of tan-colored silk. The deep cuffs are made to match.

ing with balls of colored wool Is thrown recklessly over the background and the effect always catches the’ eye. Taking this as the foundation of the work that is being done by the Paris dressmakers, we can build ourselves up into some sort of colorful picture that will catch the attention wherever we display ourselves. — A dark blue gown is nothing but a dark blue gown to those who know nothing oftheposstbFflties of combining it with something vivid; but when, against the midnight sky surface is put a design of the Dakota Indians, done in vividly colored woolen threads, then the dark blue gown takes to itself a gayety which it has lacked. It is quite true that the designers In Paris will also mingle opposing colors through the use of double faced materials, but they are evidently determined to get the very best they can out of the color scheme in dress by using primitive embroidery against a somber surface. Colored Crystals Used. In the new gowns there will be as much colored crystal work as colored worsted embroidery. It looks as though the crystals will be given over to'the evening costumery and the worsteds to the street clothes. Only a few of the dressmakers have put sequins on clothes, but each and all have taken up colored bead work with enthusiasm and exploited it with all the frankness of vivid colors that is a pad of the American Indian as well as his Southern ancestors.

Lanvin, for example, makes a black satin gown for informal evening wear that is nothing but a series of straight, primitive panels failing over a slim, tight, transparent skirt of periwinkle blue chiffon. The edges of this, skirt are beaded and fringed with periwinkle crystals, in the fashion with which Americans are peculiarly familiar. The bodice is slimly built, of black satin, opening over a panel front of the blue chiffon and crystals, and the long, straight sleefes which are not full, but hang far away from the arm like a panel and are negligently cafight into the wris’t by a tiny bracelet of crystal and chiffon, are made of the blue weighted with great tassels and fringes of periwinkle crystals.

Both Premet and Worth have adopted a smashing touch of color on a dark gown, in the way of a broad sash. Premet ties hers In a big bow at the left side of the back, giving something of the effect of a one-sided bustle, and Worth takes a width of gorgeous material and makes a low waisted girdle of it on a black or gray gown. Smoke gray afternoon and evening frocks have flaming red, deep blue and emerald green sashes, slightly below the normal waistline, made of chiffon or tulle, heavily fringed and tasseled at the end with colored crystals. (Copyright, 1917, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

Knitted Sport Hats.

Knitted sport hats are the fad this fall. And after all, if one can knit rs war helmet one ought to be able to manage a new golf hat. Whole hats of knitted w’orsted are mounted over buckram frames in sailor or inushrbdhk shape, and some young women, fancying the special shapes of their summer sport hats, are knitting hard to get them covered. The sides of the crown can be covered with a straight strip' of knitting, like a broad ribbon band, but it is harder to manage the circular strip for the brim covering and facing, and the circle that covers the top of the crown. Those who find the problem of knitting a hat cover too difficult can abandon it and make a crocheted hat, which is a great deal easier.

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SEE NAPOLEON IN KERENSKY

Many Regard Great Russian Leader, Now Thirty-Six, as Like French Hero. A writer in the National Geographic magazine observes that those who, like Plqtarch, seek for parallels in the lives and characters of men whose genius directs the fate of nations, w r lll find many interesting points of similarity between the man of destiny of the French revolution and the man of the hour in Russia’s day of liberation from -the —oppression—of autocracy. Napoleon was in his thirty-first year when he became first cousul of the French republic; Kerensky, premier of the Russian cabinet and now exercising the powers of dictator in order to restore order in the empire, is just thirty-six. Throughout his career Napoleon suffered from an incurable internal malady, supposedly cancer of the stomach; Kerensky is also tortured by a disease (supposedly tuberculosis of the liver), which prevents his working at fever heat more than a few weeks at a time; then he is forced by weakness to recuperate for three or four days in a sanitarium in the Crimea. Napoleon’s judgment of men was instant and almost infallible; Kerensky Is reputed to possess the same faculty to a remarkable degree. Kerensky is an Impassioned orator of forceful, incisive style. His exhortations to the soldiers of the new Russia have much in common with the inspiring appeals of Napoleon to his soldiers before the Battle of the Pyramids and elsewhere.

Remarkable.

“It has been a remarkable summer.” “Yes. I don’t recall a summer that has given people so many things to talk about besides the climate.”

A girl’s idea of an industrious young man is one who is too busy to propose. Grass seeds germinate in from fourteen to eighteen

Eat More Com! When you eat com instead of wheat you are saving for the boys in France. Com is an admirable cool weather food. ' • ; I . .. Whether or not you like com bread, com muffins, “Johnny Cake”, dr com pone, you are sure to like Post Toasties The newest wrinkle in corn foods—crisp, bubbled flakes of white com—a substantial food dish with an alluring smack—and costs but a trifle. Make Post Toasties Your War Cereal

A Wise Orang-Outang.

Prof. William T. Hornaday, the noted animal preceptor, cites this instance of ape sagacity: “I once became quite chummy with an untrained, caged, menagerie orangoutang by the name of Dohong. He was a sofa of the jungle and intensely concerned in matters that came into his narrow life. All that he learned outside of his Inherited instincts he learned himself. His cage contained a number of horizontal bars attached to brackets on which he took considerable solemn exercise. One day he concluded that the bars ought to come down. Bracing his feet against the solid wall of the cage, he pulled every bar from its fastening and flung it on the floor. Larger bars were substituted, which the ape vainly tried to remove. After straining his back In this futile effort, he walked up and down in his cage and was apparently Intently studying the situation. Eventually he procured the crossbar of his trapeze and using it for a lever, he not only pried every horizontal bar from its brackets, but he likewise pried the iron bars of his cage apart so that he could stick his head through the opening and satisfy his curiosity regarding his neighbor in the adjoining cage.”

Bone Surgery Marvels.

A reserve officer in the United States medical corps who recently returned from Great Britain is loud in his praises of the work in bone surgery being done in British hospitals. He says: “They can take a rib from a man and use it to replace a crushed bone in his arm. Patients who in earlier times would have been considered permanently disabled are now fixed up in a few wfeeks so that they can go back to the front. In a single month, in one hospital, we had 1,350 bone cases,- and 1,000 of them were ready at the end of the month to go back and fight again.”

If we are to judge people by what they say, some men must live on hay and thistles. <

DOBBIN HAS A DAY DREAM

Faithful Old Horae Will Have Regular Thrill When He Casta Off , Hie Shoes. When the automobile and the tin Lizzie shall at last have relegated the “hoss” to the limbo of things obsolete, will the noble animal degenerate and hark back to his ancestral type, or will he simply disappear like the dodo? asks “Zlm” in Cartoons magazine. It has taken a lot of time and patience to def elop Dobbin from the primitive models such as the hydracotrerium, the pachynolophus andthe . eohippus, to make him “whoa,” back and ‘'gitap” and take his meals out of a nosebag. In the process of civilization he has gradually lost hls'toes and has had to accommodate his feet to the horseshoe. Does he still dream perhaps of the delights of having toes —of sinking them down Into the green sqush of the tertiary era and feeling the cool goo trickled up between them? If so, how glad he will be some day to look down and see his Jong-forgotten toes beginning to sprout once again! His will be the thrill of the small boy on-the first warm day of spring when he can cast off his shoes and go barefoot. When the “hoss” discovers for the first time that he can again wiggle his toes, he will doubtless radiate a smile of solid comfort.

What It Does.

“What does golf dp for a man?” “Well, for one thing, it makes him decide to take his vacation in the winter, when he can go south.”

Has Another Think Coming.

The man who thinks he know* it all generally marries a woman who teaches him a lot more. Yon may lead any woman to talk, but you cannot necessarily compel her to think. It all depends. Even though a man stops growing while young, he may grow old.