Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1918 — Page 2

The Maid and the Manikin

By BARBARA KERR

(Copyright, Newsp*“This Is a pretty time of night for two respectable maiden schoolmarms to be prowling around looking for lost keyholes,” giggled Bert Wainwright to Louise Laurent, as they were vainly trying to get Into their rooming house without waking the other inhabitants. “I never knew that we were hermetically sealed up from the rest of the world, once we were inside this castle. Let’s ring the bell.” “Oh, no; this is so funny! Here, we can stand on this stool, reach that roof and walk right along to the verandah.” “And get shot I Well, give me your hand." And in a minute more of giggling and clambering they both stood on the upper verandah, when just ahead of them a blind ran up and the window opened, but evidently merely for air, as they heard a man’s voice humming softly, and the wind blowing aside the curtain they beheld a man at work. Both were, rooted to the spot, for it was most unusual work. Mr. Reginald Santerre was draping a manikin with yellow gauze. “Oh,” breathed Louise. “How adorable!” “Sh—for the love of Mike!” whispered Bert, as the draper backed gracefully away from his work, walked to the dresser and picked up a photograph. “Me!” again whispered Bert, when the draper leaned the photograph up against the face of the manikin and smilingly eyed it in mental perspective. She tried to keep Louise from seeing. Was he coming to the window? Hastily they turned'the corner and climbed hurriedly into their own room. “Oh! Oh! Oh!” laughed Bert as she rocked back and forth on the floor. “Oh, wasn’t that the funniest thing? If you ever tell it, Louise Laurent, I’ll murder you! Oh! Ohl” “Tell it? Of course I won’t. But isn’t it the sweetest thing you ever saw?” “What?” demanded Bert “That dress for me?” •'Bert! That’s the dearest dress I ever laid eyes on. I always knew Reggie was a wizard In dry goods. You are the luckiest thing I ever saw! Think of him, working all his evenings designing a dress for you! Aren’t you crazy to get into it?” “No! What do I want with a dress like that? You know—” “Oh, yes, I know you’d rather get into a corduroy hunting suit and tramp aft over the country. But you’ll have to quit that and settle down. The wife of Reginald Santerre —” “Hush, Ouida. Think of a man dressmaker I” “Shame on you, Bert! Think of Worth.” ’ “Worth-less! Of course, not just that; but have I no ambition but to be a dummy to —hang—things on —a Christmas tree?” “Now, Bert Wainright, ever since we were in school in No. 6 I’ve thought sometimes that you were conceited. You ought to be the proudest girl In the wdrid.” But Bert put her hands before her face, and a hard, dry gurgle, much more like a sob than a laugh, escaped her. “Don’t talk to me—don’t. Tm going to bed.” “Are you crying, Bertie? Are you sick?” came softly out of the darkness. “No, I was just telling Reggie goodbye. I was giving him to you.” Louise bounded out of bed, turned on the light and got the thermometer. “You are sick, Bert You’ve got a fever. Open your mouth.” “Fudge! Take that thing away or m bite the end off, and you know what happened to Willy—- " Twas a chilly day for Willy When the mercury went down? Tm not sick. Yon couldn’t understand In a hundred years, Louise, but I couldn’t any . more' marry Mr. Santerre —Why was I such a fool as to think I could?” “You’ll be all right In the morning.” j “You listen to me.” And then and there Bert unfolded the scheme of presenting her lover to her life-long friend, arranging all the details of the renunciation. Louise listened, at first to humor her, but as she went on planning in the darkness she knew that she meant every word of it. So when morning came she felt a little panicky, but Bert was as cool as though they were swapping sweaters, and things happened just as she had planned. It was Sunday, and they met at the breakfast table. The girls related to Reggie how they had gotten in, and were afraid they might have wakened him, saying nothing of the dress. “Well, now, isn’t that strange? I worked late last night,” hesitating a moment “I had an Inspiration for a gown for Miss Wainright” “Adorable! Lucky Bert! Could we see it?” “Ripping!” smiled Bert “And here I am all togged out for a hike. Is it as nice as this?” smoothing out her old brown corduroy. The faintest frown appeared on Reggie’s brow, but the girls hastily arose from the table and all proceeded into his designing room, and the manikin -was wheeled into view. Mildly interested, Bert wanted Ouida to try it on, •o they took it into their room. Re-

turning soon, Ouida pirouetted before the admiring designer. She was more than beautiful. The adventure lent an unusual glow to cheek and lip; her black curling hair was loosened up a little, and tiny ringlets framed her face and fell on her white neck. “Superb! A dream!” murmured the enthralled Reggie, dropping on one knee to fix a place in the hem. There was a knock at the door and Miss Wainright was called out “What A wonderful talent, Mr. Santerre. It’s an exquisite pleasure to be your manikin. I am really crazy about beautiful clothes,” said Ouida, as she admired herself and the gown in the mirror. “And doesn’t it make the biggest difference in one? Why, I’m almost good looking!” she observed innocently. “You are beautiful, Miss Laurent; and so appreciative.” “Oh, Bert is appreciative.” “Oh, Bert is appreciative—indeed she is, but she simply does not care for clothes. Now, I’ve always liked to try things on. I go to the shops and try on things just to enjoy being fussed over. “I think, Miss Louise, you’ll have to keep this, and I will design something else for Miss Wainright—something with —pockets.” Bert pushed the" door open, saying rather coldly: “They’ve called for me. Will you folks mind if I tear myself away?” Then, her eyes falling on the afrighted Louise: “My, but you’re a beauty, Ouida. That ought to be yours. Well, so long; sorry I’m so rushed.” And she hurried away, leaving the man and the manikin to talk dry goods to their hearts’ content. Bert met an old-time friend and a seasoned hiker, Mary Gregory, at the end of the car line, and they trudged off .into the country. That evening Bert wrote a long, frank, sisterly letter to Mr. Santerre, although she expected to see him at least every day for a few days, explaining in the kindest manner possible that they were unsuited to each other; that she could not think of standing in the way of his ambitions, and persuading him to seek a larger field for his unusual talents. She also told him that she and Mary Gregory were going to France to assist in the work that Mr. Henry Allen was trying to do for the Kansas soldiers, winding up with: “And I’ll kiss you good-bye like a little sister if you’ll get the suit with the pockets ready before I go." In the night she was awakened by a little sob. “Bertie, I feel meaner than dirt! Aren’t you a little sorry?” , “Sure thing, Ouida, old pard; but it’s only a wrench, and as time goes by we’ll all honor me because I had the nerve to do the thing that’s going to make us all rise up and call me blessed. Mary and I are going to look for Dick Gregory over there. He likes to hike, and he—likes corduroy. Now, will you cut out the weepy stuff and go to sleep?”

HERE’S THE RIGHT PRINCIPLE

Enunciated by Englishman Who Evb dently Has His Heart Set on Winning the War. “Yes, I know all about it! You are going to tell me that you’ve been doing it ever since the war started,” remarked an Englishman to a London newspaper writer. “You’re going to draw my attention to the price of bread and boot leather, and the fact that you are reduced to taking the kiddies to a cheaper part of the cinema these ‘do without* days. “And you utter the immortal complaint that you are blessed if you know where all the money goes, since you have nothing to show for it. “I sympathize with you there. I used to have that feeling. “I ration my salary now. I spend it only on necessities. Each of my children has a War Savings certificate book, for, I figure out, they are not too young to learn the secret of limiting their wants. “It’s not an easy lesson to learn, J grant you. “But I tell them: ‘Better a War Savings certificate now than a broken and useless toy next week. Better a War Savings certificate and its interest five years hence than a good time today? “And that’s the spirit of my family at the present time. We are going without and yet not going without “The only things we have given up are frivolities and superfluities. “My wife and I no longer wonder where all the money goes.”

Birds Get No Fun Out of Singing.

“ThatJthe singing of birds bears no analogy to the singing of human be ings, and is neither to please themselves nor to please others, is obvious from at least two facts: One is that birds with defective or .only half ar ticulate' voices will sing just as Joyously and persistently as do birds whose Instruments are perfect” John Burroughs writes in Harper’s. “I have witnessed this in the case of the hermit thrush, the bobolink and the cockerel of the barnyard. The bird* of the wood and of the meadow quite ignored their split whistles, and the cockerel arched his neck and inflated his lungs and went through with the motions of crowing Just as proudly and repeatedly as did the cock he was challenging.”

A Necessity.

He —No woman can keep anythin! to herself. She—Yes, she can. He—rd like to know what It Is. She—Her real and private opinioz of her husband. . \

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER. IND.

A Bird in the Hand

(Special Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture.) . WANT WINTER EGGS?—PLAN NOW

The Type of Pullet to Select Now for Winter Egg Production —Strong, Active and Not Undersized.

KEEP ALL EARLY HATCHED LAYERS

Well-Developed Pullets Should Be Selected for Producing Eggs During Winter. HANDLE ALL FOWLS GENTLY Much Depends on Method of Changing From Summer Quarters —Special Attention Should Be Given to Making Hens Comfortable. Pullets that were hatched early last spring and developed properly during the, summer should begin laying in October. These are the pullets that should be selected now to make up the flock that is to produce eggs next winter. Whether they continue to lay next season when eggs are high in price depends upon the way they are fed and the method of changing them from summer conditions to their winter quarters. At this season these are the questions that should receive the attention of every poultry It is desirable that pullets be in the houses they are to occupy during the winter three or four weeks before they are expected to begin laying. However, if pullets are on good range they should not be deprived of this, and may be removed to their winter quarters when good range becomes scarce. The change should then be made gently and carefully, and special attention given to making the hens comfortable and contented in their new home. If this is done the transfer will have only a slight effect on their egg production. Give Pullets Good Start. Gentle handling and good treatment will go a long way toward offsetting the unfavorable effects of moving pullets, whether the change to permanent winter quarters is made before or after winter laying begins. Rapid and rough handling should be avoided. A little extra time and care in moving pullets carefully makes a difference of weeks, and sometimes months, In egg production. The new home should be clean, the floor covered with litter, all nests and feeding and water equipment ready for use. A feed of grain should be scattered in the litter and a drinking vessel filled with water before the transfer is made. When hens are to be changed from one house to another It is best to move them after dark. If only a few birds are to be removed and the distance is short, they may be carried two at a time, not by the feet, with their heads hanging down, but resting in a sitting position on the attendant’s hand and wrist. When a large number of birds are to be transferred a convenient box or coop may be used. The birds should not be overcrowded and should be placed in and removed from the box gently. * - - Laying hens should get a great part of their feed by foraging. When housed in winter quarters the best substitute for this is to make them scratch for the grain in clean litter scattered about the floor. The hens will tyus get the necessary exercise which is essential for good egg production. If hens are placed in winter quarters from free range they should be liberally supplied with vegetable feed, which at this time can be easily obtained from the garden. In fact, laying hens should have vegetable or green feeds as much as possible throughout the winter. This makes ft possible to feed grain heavily ( to promote good egg production and yet keep the birds in the Best of physical condition. The problem of feeding la one of

great importance, and should be carefully considered, for on it depends to a large extent not only the general health of the birds, but also the economy which promotes success. It is a subject, however, which should be studied with a large amount of common sense, for there are no hard and fast rules which can be laid down as applying to every case. The price of feeds and the general environment should be considered in determining the right rations. Profit in Winter Eggs. For the largest profit a good tion of the eggs should be secured during the winter. If two extra eggs per week can be obtained from each hen a good profit will be made, while if the product is increased by only one egg per week in winter, this one egg will pay’for all the feed the hen eats. To obtain this greater production not only should the fowls be young and of a good laying breed, but the feeder should have a full knowledge of the proper feed and its preparation. The nutriment in the feed of laying hens serves a twofold purpose—to repair Waste and furnish heat to the body and to supply the egg-making materials. As only the surplus over what is needed for the body is available for egg production, the proper feeds should be fed in sufficient quantities to Induce this production. In supplying feed to fowls there are three kinds of constituents which should be present in certain fairly well fixed proportions if the desired results are to be obtained most economically. These constituents are mineral, nitrogenous and carbonaceous, all of which are contained in corn, wheat, oats and barley, but not in the right proportions to give the greatest egg yield. In addition some animal feed and green feed should be supplied.

TWO WAR-TIME RATIONS

Green feed, such as cabbage,sprouted oats or any available green vegetables, should be fed with both of these rations. Sprouted oats are also recommended for green feed, but are not as desirable as cabbage or other green vegetables. Mash. 1 part ground oats 2 parte cornmeal 1 part meat scrap 1 part bran or fish meal 1 part middlings Scratch Feed. 1 part cracked 1 part heavy corn oats The second ration contains less beef scrap. Mash. 5 parts mixed feed (bran and middlings) 4 parts corn meal 1 part beef scrap or fish meal Scratch Feed. 1 part cracked corn f

Don’t Waste Feed.

Npt all of the early-hatched pullets will make good winter layers. An earlyhatched pullet that is Undersize at this season will never make a good hen. A late-hatched pullet that is well grown and developed at the time of selecting the birds which are to make up the winter laying flock gives better promthe poorly developed, earlyhatcheffpullet. If proper care is given It should begin laying in midwinter. Don’t waste feed on any except the promising pullets. They should have good care and good feed at all stages. It is impossible to grow pullets carelessly and on short rations until they reach the age when they should be full-grown and mature, and then bring them forward quickly by. a short course of good management. The pullet that is worth keeping as a layer is worth good care and full rations all the time. One that is not considered worth keeping should be eaten or marketed. Undersized birds will not pay for the feed they eat during winter.

SAGE OBSERVATIONS

The world contains an oversupply of Average men. Happiness is often the price of be Ing commonplace. A man may know a dollar at sight and, still not know Its value. It sometimes happens that a man’s bluntness is due to his sharpness. The trouble with most men is that they have to die to be appreciated. Some presidential timber is unavailable because it is too stiff to bend. There is electricity in a kiss, says a scientist. Certainly they can shock. Even the man whose reputation for veracity is unimpeachable cannot afford to lie. If a man draws a blank in a lottery he can tear up the ticket; but it’s different in matrimony. There is always a breath of suspicion about the man who carries cloves in his vest pocket. ■f Though a man may tfilnk himself popular with a widow, he must know that he ish-’t her first choice. Only true friends stand by you when yofi are under a cloud. Swarms of insects surround you when the sun shines. It’s difficult to convince a man that his wife doesn’t love him in the same old way as long as she continues to go through his pockets.

FAMOUS SAYINGS

Corn is the sinews of war.—Works. He did not care a button for it — Works. Nothing is stronger than custom.— The Art of Love. ■■ Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money. —Works. They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen. —The Art of Love. ■rt. It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigor is in our immortal soul. — Metamorphoses. How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?—Works. Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth. —Works.

FLASHLIGHTS

After a man has been secretary of some organization he usually qfiits hungering for office. The reason they say “a fool for luck” Is because if a fool accomplishes anything he has to have luck. The man who has been too busy to be a friend usually finds the world just as busy when he needs one. \ Once In a while you run across an humble man who admits he would not make a good president of the United States. The reason there are two sides to every question is because there are usually two or more people Interested in it.

WITH THE SAGES

There is nothing little, to the really great in spirit.—Dickens. Much of our life is spent in marring our own influence.—George Eliot. Excellence is never granted to a man, but as the result of labor.—Sir Joshua Reynolds. . Individuality is everywhere to be spared and respected as the root of everything good.—Richter. How easily we accept fallacies, when we are looking for an excuse for not doing our full.duty!—Eugene C. Foster. . An inquisitive man is a creature naturally very vacafit of thought itself, and therefore forced to apply ter foreign assistance. —Steele.

ABOUT PERSONS

H. B. Bowlby of Lebanon, N. J., survives a broken neck. , Reeves Timberman of Alloway, N. J., has begun raising buffalo. Aldrich/ seventy, Is learning linotyping in Cawker City, Kan. Frank Larson of Seattle, poor, gives his only horse to the Bed Cross. Joe Spugnardl of Bowling Green, regrets recent death of a pet cat, aged twenty-five. * •

An Hour a Day With Jesus

By REV. HOWARD W. POPE

Moody Bible Institute, Chicago

TEXT—What! Could ye not watch With me one hour?—Matt 28:40. Never was the Master’s rebuke ter the disciples more pertinent than to-

almest a lost art. Man and women too, are using up seven days’ strength in six days’ time, so that Sunday usually finds them completely exhausted. Let me suggest as a Remedy an hour a day with Jesus, emphasizing not so much the amount of time,as the fact of a generous period set apart each day for fellowship with the living and written Word. Our souls need it How much they need it we Shall never know until we adopt the habit. We need it both for our information and inspiration. We need to know God better that we may love him more. • We need to know ourselves better that we may take and keep our proper attitude toward him. And when we know his will we need the constant and constraining influence of the Holy Spirit to incite us to do IL A slumbering church needs it, for if it is ever awakened and set on fire for God it must be through the instrumentality of those who are already on fire, and whose earnest intercession gives God no rest until he establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. A perishing world needs it—for never will it realize that it is dead until it comes in contact with those who pre alive in Christ Jesus. Formal preaching and feeble testimony will never disturb the sleep of the dead, but “the people that do know their God shall be strong, and shall do exploits.” When people hear about the victorious life and see it in their midst they will realize their own need. And Jesus craves it. We are not simply the servants of Jesus who go to him for orders, but he says, “I have called you friends.” and “all things that I have heard of my Father, 1 have made known unto you.” A business man may employ hundreds of women, and daily assign them their work and pay them their wages, but there is one woman whose relation to him is entirely different. He is not her employer but her husband. He did not select her for the work that she could do, but to be his wife and companion. Even so the church is the bride of Christ, and far more than the service that we can render, he prizes our fellowship and love. An hour a day with .Jesus gives deep, abounding Joy. “Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?” It makes our testimony more effective. Some years ago I came in close touch with a ghrap of young people. I soon saw that one of the number was far superior to all the rest in the weight of her testimony and in her knowledge of the Bible. Then I found the secret. She was giving an hour a day to the Study of the Bible and prayer. Her life was beautiful and her influence unique, though her natural gifts were only ordinary. That hour a day with Jesus seemed to cast a halo over all that she said and did. It gives greater power in prayer. In Acts 4:31 we read that when the apostles had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. "And with great power gave they witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jssus; and great grace was upon them all.” And so we come back to our starting point, and leave with you the question, “Could we not manage our households, and carry on our business and accomplish more study, and make more money if we would spend an hour a day with Jesus and the Bible?” A little talk with Jesus, how it smooths the rugged road, How it seems to help me onward, when I faint beneath my load; When my heart is crushed with sorrow, and my eyes with tears are dim. There is naught can give me comfort like a little talk with him. I cannot live without him, nor would I if .1 could; - _ He is my daily portion, my medicine ana food. He’s altogether lovely, none with him can compare, . . . The chiif among ten thousand, the fairest of the fair.

Bible for Every Cottage.

Give to the people who toil and suffer, "for whom this world is hard and. bad, the belief that there is a better made for them. Scatter gospels among the villages, a, Bible for every cottage. —Victor Hugo. t

day. We are living at a rapid rate. Every one seems to be in a mad rush to get there, and multitudes of business men are consciously violating the speed laws of health and safety. It is becoming harder all the while to secure time .for private or family worship, while meditat ion on the Word is, we. fear.