Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1918 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Then when he awoke in the morning he found his boots (shoes) neatly varnished (polished) and “the tub which I had bespoke (ordered) the night before was ready and I had a jolly good splash.’’ But, seriously, these are only surface or environmental differences and the English bear study well. Personally I cannot read the enormous list of killed and wounded and associate with the English officers and men every day and meet some of their women folks without feeling the great manhood and womanhood which* undoubtedly makes England what she is. They are different from.the Americans in superficial ways but I am not the one knowing enough to say one is better than the other. A further study of our French will probably reveal what* we already know, namely, “A man’s a man for a that” —and we are all veneered with our particular environment. The English will continue to drop thedr “H’s” and say “cawnt,” and we will continue to act like cowboys at our football games and speak our minds always, but what of .that? Sincerely, M. D. GWIN.

• A meal for a whole family from one bean is possible now in California. The bean is called the Guinea butterbean, and one offered in the Los Angeles market was almost three feet long and nine inches in circumference. It is said to be excellent eating, similar to the eggplant. In southern Tunisia is a mountain of considerable size called Douirat, which once upon a time was an active volcano. Bubbles of volcanic gases made >it a ven table honeycomb of caves, which in these days are inhabited. In fact, the whole mountain is a city— <ja human anthill, densely populated. ' , ~ '

There are certain hard and fast rules in the English'house of commons governing the donning or doffing of hats at psychological moments of official- procedure. Now Britishers are wondering if these rules will have to he changed or modified to suit the convenience of women members and their hat-pinned headgear. A suitable marker is to be erected in the public Square at Carlisle, Pa., which will contain a complete list of the names of men and women of Cumberland count yin government service durn gthe present war. G. Kasutka, president of the Kasutka Steamship company and member of the house of peers, is planning to build 500 dwelling houses at Nishmada, near Kobe, Japan, intending to lend them to salaried men who are most hard hit by the high cost of living. , Secret service men say that a shiny new quarter that rings "dead” is not necessarily counterfeit. Coins containing minute air holes, invisible to •the eye, sometimes slip part the ini spection tests at the mints; and the slight (imperfection makes the coin | “plunk” like lead. Chicago daily wastes $2,000 worth of milk bottles.