Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1918 — Page 2

DADSY'S EVENING FAIRY TALE

by MARY GRAHAM BONNER

| MR. SUN'S FRECKLES. “Whatever Is the matter with you, Mr. Sun?” asked the fairies.

"It Was Very Hard to Keep Cool."

mind being sick nearly so much as I would mind looking sick. I’d hate to be a miserable, wretched, pale and forlorn sun. I want to be bright and Strong.” “Well,” said Fairy Twilight Bell who (enjoyed the daytime even though the twilight was her favorite time of the day. “Well,” she repeated, “you needn't worry about being bright and Strong. You certainly aren’t feeling weak!” “Then why should Fairy Princess Joy ask me what is the matter with jne?” inquired Mr. Sun. “I said that you didn’t look ill," answered Fairy Princess Joy. “To be sure you did,” said Mr. Sun. •You told me I looked a little queer.” “I do hope I didn’t hurt your feelings'” said Princess Joy. “You asked me if I thought you looked ill and I didn’t want to say you did —when you most decidedly did not —and too I thought it might worry you to have some one think you looked ill. You might imagine that all sorts of things Were the matter with you if I thought so.” “I don’t believe,” said Mr. Sun slowly, “that I would be so foolish.” “Of course not,” said Fairy Princess Joy. “I am getting very much muddled. Oh, dear, and I never want to make anyone feel unhappy or sad or blue.” ‘T don’t feel blue,” said Mr. Sun, "nor do I feel unhappy and sad. But I do feel a .little spotty!” “The very thing,” said Fairy Princess Joy. “Oh, is that what made you say I looked queer?” asked the sun. “Yes,” she answered. “No wonder you spoke as you did,” said Mr. Sun, and Fairy Princess Joy looked very much pleased that Mr. Sun was really not at all hurt but was simply very understanding. “I must look queer, of course,” Mr. Sun continued. “But there is a reason for It” “I am sure there must be,” said Fairy Princess Joy. “Will you tell us the reason?” asked Fairy Twilight Bell. “Do,” urged all the fairies. “You know what very hot weather we have been having lately?” began Mr. Sun. All ’ the fairies fiddded their heads. “We know, Mr. Sun, it was very hard to* keep cool, especially for the grownups and the children and the horses.” “Well, we’ve had a very, very hot wave. Now the hot wave came to me and said: “ ‘Look here old Sun, folks often say you give them freckles; they say that, after all the good you do. They forget that you cure them and make them well by your sunshine and that you make the flowers grow and the leaves come out in the spring. They just get mad at you if you give them freckles and try to hide their faces from you by broad-brimmed hats and sunshades. What have you got to say to that, old Sun?’ “Now that made me very mad. I always get mad when I hear such

things, and when I get mad of course I blaze and it makes every one still warmer. Well, old Hot Wave talked to me like this and urged me on. “Til help you,’ he said. ‘We’ll get even with them.’ f “So we went on to regular tear—and hasn’t it been hot?”

“It most certainly has,” said the fairies. “But what do you think happened to me?” asked the sun. “The spots,” said the fairies. “Yes,” said Mr. Sun, “the spots are freckles —freckles on the face of the sun. Just fancy that! Mr. Sun was the receiver of a number of freckles during the very hot season! Isn’t that a Joke on me? But I don’t mind. It’s been a record-breaking hot wave.” And learned men they call scientists took pictures of Mr. Sun and his freckles ! t

What It Meant.

■* Sunday School Teacher—What does this verse mean where it says: “And the lot fell upon Jonah?” little Harvie—l guess it means tit* Whois gang jumped on him.

“Why do you ask?” inquired Mr. Sun. “Do I look ill, or dangerously sick in any way?” “No,” said Fairy Princess Joy slowly, “you don’t look a little bit ill or very dangerously so—you just look a little queer, if you will pardon me for saying so, dear Mr. Sun.” “PU pardon you for saying so,” smiled the sun. “I am glad, though, that I haven’t a sick look. Td not

“You Give Them Freckles.”

FOR SUMMER WEAR

Warm Weather Frock Is of Plain and Figured Voile. Charming for Afternoon, Garden 01; Porch Party—Fashioning of Gown a Simple Matter. Plain and figured voile are combined in the dainty little summer frock shown in the sketch. Simplicity continues to be the keynote of all apparel developed, and it is likely that this ruling will hold good for several seasons to come,"with fabrics scarce and rapidly growing more so. The dress shown would be charming for an afternoon garden or porch party in warm weather, and it is so plain that no

Frock of Plain and Printed Voile. great effort will be required for Its fashioning. The little gown fastens in the center back, skirt and waist being joined all around. "“Pink voile may be selected for the frock, with the flowered fabric harmonizing, and If possible the sash should be of navy blue ribbon. Yellow is also a very much approved shade this season. Plain-color voile may be selected, with bands or ruffles of yellow and blue, with blue ribbon sash. Note especially the short sleeves, and bear In mind that sleeves, elbow length or even shorter, appear on a great many summer dresses of the best designers. The skirt of this frock may be drawn in at the bottom, in a modified

COLORS FOR WEDDING GOWNS

English Brides Responsible for Change in Styles That May Relegate White to Rear. Some English brides have been upsetting wedding traditions lately in the choice of costumes for themselves and their attendants, writes a correspondent. Not so very long ago a green-clad bridal procession would have been looked upon as a direct invitation to bad luck, yet four bridesmaids in jade green and silver looked charming indeed at a recent, wedding. Equally pleasing were other bridal attendants ip gowns of turquoise blue and shot metallic tissue. But these were as nothing compared with the wedding gown of the bride of a British general. Deep cream-colored charmeuse brocade was the material. The style was copied from the mediaeval, and the crowning touch of “differentness” was in the bouquet, bright red tulips instead of the conventional mass of whiteness. Then there is a rumor, too, of an all-qink wedding gown being made for someone who declines to submit to the complexiontrying ordeal of wearing white satin in daylight

FRONTS ARE QUITE ALLURING

Sleeveless Gulmpes Appear to Have Favor for Summer WeanShould Be Cool. There always seems to be something hypocritical and of the poseur type about a sleeveless “front” which is only supposed to show one face to the world at large, but this spring the shops abound with these make-believe blouses —for Indeed one must call them that, notes a fashion writer. At least they should be cool, and, after all, there may not be the least occasion to remove one’s street jackets from the time one leaves home to the time one returns; but, personally, the scribe admits a predilection for * blouse that would not embarrass her if some emergency made it essential to doff temporarily the jacket There. Is an incomplete sensation somehow in the wearing of an incomplete garment—a garment that could not bear the light of day in public if anything did happen to make ft necessary to

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harem silhouette, or it may hang entirely straight. In the line-up of sujpmer fabrics all the old-time favorites have appeared again—dotted swiss, organdie, cotton and silk voile, both in plain color and in printed designs; ginghams galore and calico-v*nd for each a great run is predicted. Considering the fabric subject, it is interesting to note that separate skirts, once regarded as utility garments, are also running »the entire fabric gamut. Charming models are shown in dotted swiss, organdie and georgette, three of the sheerest materials imaginable.

EFFECT OF LATEST NECKLINE

Delta Haa Superseded the V and White Collars Seem to Be Doomed, Writer Asserts. In the settlement of fashions there is one predominant feature that interests the majority as well as the minority. It is the hew arrangement of the neckline, observes a fashion writer in the New York Sun. Those who were not observing fashion closely went about with their shirtwaist collars pulled out over the coat collars or the wide collars of guimpes pulled out over the bare edge of a onepiece frock. Then suddenly the whole process seemed to be wrong. The careless public observed that the fastidious crowd had abandoned white collars. They also noticed that the neckline of a one-piece frock was not outlined by a collar except at the back. They noticed that sailor collars had disappeared from fashionable garments. They realized that the neckline instead of being V-shaped was square and deeply decollete, or delta-shaped—-the decolletage that we associate with Dresden shepherdesses, Dolly Varden styles, Mozartian opera and Janice Meredith. This kind of neckline was accepted only .for frocks. But whatever the garment, its neckline was no more hidden and enveloped by a white collar. It is quite probable that this somersault in fashions disturbed the minds of more women than even the incoming of the tight skirt

FRILLS AND FLUFFS

The long scarf is an interesting note of the season. For sports it is eniinently practical and it makes a graceful and attractive wrap for afternoon wear developed in more elaborate style and materials. Trench sweaters in the delicate pastel shades are being worn with plaited white serge skirts. Capes are giving the separate coat a hard run this spring. While coats are made much the same as they have been for two seasons, capes offer many dressy and practical styles. If the adorable bolivia or cashmere velours cape is considered too expensive and frail, there Is a wide choice in full length circular capes in tweeds and checks made severely plain and frankly for utility wear.

Suit Sleeves.

Fancy suit sleeves, such as splitting them horizontally above elbows and inserting vertical tabs giving a box-plait-ed effect, or crossing underarm sections over the upper as an envelope, embellishing the triangular Inset formed thereby with silk braid, are two ideas on misses’ modes.

remove one’s coat. Yet in. themselves these tricky “fronts” are quite alluring, particularly one of blue and white checked organdie with tiny plisse frills of plain blue organdie up and down the front and around a collar that turns over the top of the jacket. There are even the georgette and chiffon guimpes of the sleeveless sort, and tucked organdie and batiste models — all designed to look like the same thing, a really-truly blouse of conventional sort under one’s jacket; „

TWO-PIECE, SLENDER LINES

Slender lines that are almost severe in their straightness are. emphasized In this charming two-piece frock 'ln blue and white. Jersey, the popular material thia spring, is used In this frock, and a girdle marks the waist. IIML 7V—V —— \

SPORTING BLOOD

By JACK LAWTON.

(Copyright, 1918. by Western Newspaper Union.) When the girl had climbed to the nook in the cliff, she drew back at the appearance of an old man ensconced on the rock which was her : favorite resting place. “I beg your pardon,” she said; “I thought no one was here.” The old man smilingly waved his hand. "Well, Tm just no one at all,” he replied, “so make yourself comfortable, and don’t mind me.”, - Janey hesitated, but as he returned to his absorbed contemplation of the scenic panorama, slje sank down upon a lower rock, and was evidently soon lost in troubled thought A deep sigh at last escaped her. “Only the aged should sigh.” the old man remarked pleasantly. Janey turned to look into his shrewd eyes beneath their grizzled white brows, and all at once she felt an impulsive desire to confide in the possessor of these same kindly sympathetic eyes. As though reading her scruples, the old man bent down encouragingly. “Well?” he asked. The girl laughed. “It’s about Billy,” she answered, [the words seeming to say themselves. • “When a young woman sighs,” her odd companion responded, “it usually is about Billy, or Jack er Tom! Has he been called to war?” Janey shook her head. “Not yet,” she said. “Billy is just a little above the age limit. That seems to be his fault; he is always just a little out of —everything.” “And this particular thing in which he fails?” the man persisted. “I am strangely moved to tell you all about it,” Janey said slowly, “though I am sure I don’t know why.” “Most people are moved to tell me things,” he assured her; “sometimes I am fortunate enough to help them; sometimes not. In this instance —’’ “Billy and I had decided to marry,” Janey said. “Father places an obstacle.” The old man nodded.

“My father would like me to marry his own business partner,” she said; “a very promising young man.” “But you wouldn’t like it,” her companion supplemented; “so what is father’s obstacle in Billy’s case?” “Oh! it’s mean,” the girl cried out indignantly, “and it’s unfair! Years ago father sold a cumbersome house and barns On the hills to some stranger who agreed to carry the estate along and make payment when he could. Father was glad, then, to have the taxes taken off his hands. But the man who bought the place went away (he was some sort of a sporting man) and he left the house with caretakers, the barns filled with his horses. Then one day the estate came back into father’s hands. The sporting man was bankrupt, they said. He had paid nothing on the property, and house and barns were all out of repair. They really had abused things shockingly, so father sued for damages, just enough to put the place in selling order again. But his lawyer could get nothing. The sporting man was clever enough always to arrange his affairs that way, they said. And now—” Janey threw’ out her hands despairingly, “this is father’s insurmountable obstacle: Billy must make good by collecting those damages. Father knows this is impossible. And BHly—” a tender smile hovered about the girl’s mouth. “Oh, Billy is so confident of everything.” “I like a man who is sure of winning,” the old man-told her. Janey laughed. “That is the way Billy was sure about me,” she confided. He really is poor, you know, and father is quite rich. Yet Billy came boldly courting, and you see,” her tone was wistful, “Billy won me.

The old man nodded. “Yes,” he answered, “I see. And what was the name of this unscrupulous man who purchased your father’s house to destroy it?” The girl arose. “It was an Irish name,” she replied, “Jerry- Sullivan. And perhaps he did not know how badly the place had been used; he was away, you know. But at any rate,” she sighed, “no one can collect from Jerry Sullivan; that’s his reputation.” Her companion chuckled: then with old-time gallantry he turned to assist her down the cliff. “Now if they’d sent you to him,” he said, “they might have had a different story.” “I wonder," said Janey. with a parting handclasp, From below she waved up to him, then turned to run Into her lover’s arms. "Just hunted you up,” said Billy, “to tell you I’m on the way to Sullivan’s office; he’s in town.” “Billy,” cried the girl, “Mil you sue him today?" The young man shook his head. Any eyes but Billy’s might have been discouraged by the shabby Appearance of Jerry Sullivan’s office. Surely bankruptcy, even poverty was evidenced here. But when he had stated his case, the old man in the chair before him pushed forward pen and paper. “Write out your claim, young man,” he said, “and we will settle the thing right here. And now,” he added, when that feat bad been accomplished with astounding ease, “now, I want you to take a message for me to that girl you are going to marry. “Tell her that she met Jerry Sullivan on the cliff today, and Jerry’s sporting blood wouldn’t let him ace the other fellow win." ~

ALL HE WANTED TO KNOW

Interview With One Dealer Satisfied Shovel Maker That He- Had No Need to Worry. Many delightful villagers appear In Miss Rosalind Richards’ “A Northern Countryside;" there are people amusing and lovable, eccentric and pathetic. Old Eliphalet Marston, hero of one brief anecdote, stands out among them all as the best exemplification of the principles on which real business success is founded. Eliphalet, who built and owned the shovel factory, made it his study to produce the best-wearing and the soundest shovel that could be made. In later life his sontftried to induce him to go about through the country, look up his customers, and do what he could to increase trade. The son was very emphatic about it. It was what every one did, the only way to keep up-to-date and advertise .the business, and Eliphalet must not become mossgrown. The .old man shook his head, but after much discussion consented to start off, although he was not really persuaded of the wisdom of the suggestion. ■ _ He went to a big wholesale dealer in Chicago, but did not mention his name —merely said he was there to talk shovels. “Don’t mention shovels to me,” said the dealer. “There’s just one shovel that’s worth having, just one that’s honest, and that’s the one that Tib handling. There it is,” he Said, producing it. “Look at it! That’s the only shovel that’s made in this country; made by a man named Marston, at Marston Plains, state of ” Eliphalet chuckled and went . home. —Youth’s Companion.

CUSTOM FOR CUSTOM’S SAKE

English Church Authorities Continue to Distribute Coins, Though Reason for Doing So Is Forgotten. In accordance with .ancient custom, six-penny pieces were distributed on Good Friday in the churchyard of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, West Smithfield, to 21 in the parish of St. Bartholomew. The coins were dropped upon one of the flat tombstones by' Corporal W. H. Irons, R. E. (under church warden), and the widows, whose ages ranged from eighty-five to sixtjf'were • required to pick them up. Concerning the origin of the custom, nothing is definitely known. Until Mr. Butterworth, some -thirty years ago, invested a sum of money sufficient to assure what was needed to continue the custom on Good Fridays, the distribution was in danger of being discontinued, Inasmuch as there was no fund from which the money was supplied. Until then the expense was borne by the church wardens. Tlys nave of the church once stood upon the spot where the money Is now distributed, but was destroyed at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries. Mr. Deputy Turner, who died last year, had conducted the ceremony for 30 years.— London Morning Post. •

New Chapter In Anthropology.

It Is an extraordinary chapter In anthropology that Prof; Wood-Jones, of the University of London, reads In the Tai gal skull and associated remains discovered in New South Wales in 1889. The antiquity suggested is far greater than that of the European ancient skulls, and, instead of of the anthropoid apes, the human race is shown to have been so highly developed as to have boats and domesticated dogs before the apes appeared. This skull, distinctly human and highly mineralized, was In a stratum with extinct pouched animals. Bones of dingo dogs were found In a similar stratum, and with them bones of extinct pouched animals that had been gnawed by the dogs. Only pouched animals were known in Australia at the time of Captain Cook. Australia -has been an island since pouched animals were evolved, and it i» argued that the Talgai man must have come in a boat with his family and dogs.

Something to “Greet” About.

Persons casting akout for something to worry about may take pleasure in recalling from “The Little Minister” the manner in which self-styled simple folk in Scotland regard the northern lights—“the devil’s rainbow,” Waster Lunny called it. "I saw it sax‘times in July month,” he said, “and it made me shut my een. You was out admiring it, dominie, but I can never forget that' It was/seen in the year ’l2 just afore the great storm. I was only a laddie then, but I mind hoyv that awful; wind stripped .al the standing corn in the glen in less time than we’ve been here at the water’s edge. It was called the deil’s bosom. My father’s hinmost words to me was, ‘lt’s time ejieuch to greet, laddie, when you see the aurora borealis.’ ’’ Waster Lunny was “greeting” o’er the drought then, but twelve hours later the Quharity was out of its banks, washing out the corn and with-a year’s store of wool on Its crest was dashing out to sea.

How to Use the Telephone.

Telephone experts declare that if a person speaking over a phone holds the transmitter four inches from his mouth it is equivalent to adding about 220 miles* to the line over which he is conversing. Carelessness in using a telephone is one of the common causes for indistinct transmission. The best results are obtained by allowing about half an inch to interyene between the mouth and the transmitter, according to Popular Mechanics Magazine.

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Small Coinage Short.

The Japanese are short of small coinage and are beginning to feel the absence, thereof quite as much as the United States. ( Their government has decided to issue small notes of 50, 20 and 10 sen denominations. The Japanese sen la equal to one-half cent of our currency.

Doing His Bit.

First Moth —Hooverizing? Second Moth —Yes, I am observing two coatless days, a week. Sixty men a thousand are now being killed in the war, and about 150 men out of each 1,000 are wounded.

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