Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1919 — Page 2

Making Home Grounds Attractive

In laying nut the grounds arpund the farmhouse it is important to have them no larger than the available labor can keep in good condition. Small grounds well cared for are much more attractive than larger ones which have been allowed to run down. On the majority of farms, say specialists in the United States department of agriculture, two acres will be found sufficient for all the needs of the farmstead. nnfl Gardens for fruits, vegetables and flowers should always be pro Oded, and thev are located near tin* house they will not only be convenient, but they will add greatly to the appearance of the whole place. Three-fourths of an

A Bank Covered by Wichuriana (Memorial) Roses, With Rugosa Roses Against the Summer House in the Background.

acre to an acre will furnish about all thefruit and vegetables a farmer’s family will "need. The fruit orchard may also be utilized as a chicken run. there should always be provision - for a clothes jrard 'or a place_ where clothes mav be hung out to dry, arid for a service yard, where wood may be conveniently piled for use. These yards, however, should be as secluded as possible, and it may be necessary to shut them off«by the skillful planting of bushes and vines. The yards themselves, however, should not be cut up by putting shrubs or beds of flowers in them. In planting trees and shrubbery a complete plan should be drawn up beforehand and then carried out as circumstances permit. This is much more satisfactory in the end than haphazard planting each year, because It permits ultimately *of the completion of-a well-thought-out scheme for the beautificaAmong the objects that one should have In view should be the screening of such objectionable sights ns dilapidated buildings, barnyards, piles of discarded rubbish, etc. Attractive views may be framed in foliage and a border of plants around a lawn enhances the beauty of the well-cared-for grass In the selection of plants It is unnecessary and. in fact, inadvisable, to pick out a great number of different varieties. It is much better to se ect a few that are known to do well in the locality in question. Among those that thrbg over a wide area are splrea, privet, dogwood, honeysuckle, hydrangea, mock orange wild rose and forsythia. Coniferous evergreens ami broad-leaved evergreen shrubs should also be planted in order that there may be some touch of color around the place even in the winter. It is not necessary to Rnend a lar«e amount of money in obtaining appropriate plants or trees. Many native shrubs like dogwood, elder, sumach, etc., may be brought from near-by S tte X or the labor. ».«! vine, like bittersweet, Uve-teaved Ivy. honeysuckle, clematis, etc., may be obtained without cost. A very few cents will provide flower and grass seeds which properly used will work a transformation in the grounds.

TIPS FOR POULTRY GROWERS

Those who neglectlto for their hens during the trying summer months are likely to regret it. The fowls must have comfort as well as food. If the yards have no shade it will pay to provide it even though It takes .some time and labor. Shade is regarded as one of the important items in the care of the flock for the summer. - When the hot days come on many poultry breeders transfer the hens and young chickens to the orchard or to a woodlot. here shade is not available a temporary structure six by ten feet square and four is erected ; this is covered with burlap or canvas. An ideal place for young fowls is near to the edge of a corn fi?ld where they can have shade, scratching places and can find many insects.

Australia Lost 307,900 Men Out of an Army of 400,000

——— u Australia’s total casualties during th*'war, with figures brought up to February. 1919. totaled 307,900. according to a statement made public by the government of the commonwealth. The total forces of Australiaoraised by voluntary enlistment numbered 400.0UQ out of a total population of less than 5,000.000. The casualties are divided ’ as follows: Dead, 58.035; missing. 193; prisoners, 438; wounded, 166,606; sick, 82,409; unspecified, 219.

PARTING SHOTS

Swatting the fly is pretty risky business for the ballplayer, if there is a good outfield on the job. E Pluribus Unum on the sliver dollar means, of course, it takes many where one used to do the work. . Think of the argument the world would have been deprived of if the whale had kept its mouth shut around Jonah.

(By the U. S. Department of Agriculture)

Indiana Youngsters Make Good Profit in Operating Back Yard Fish-Worm Farm

This is a worm story and it concerns fishermen, angleworms, three boys and the unusual but profitable business in which the lads are engaged. All the facts scrambled together and the result —the angle’worm company of Indianapolis, Mike Cain," aged twelve, . president. Three years agoi the boys, who were playmates, were offered a dime, by a merchant to get him a quart of angle worms. That was their start, and during the seasons for angle worms since then they have built up a trade which last year called- for them to supply about ten galloris of worms a week to fishermen. At the cTbse of the 1918 season they decided to form a company and announcements were sent to customers recently that the company would supply the worms to the trade this year. A “worm farm” has been developed in the back yard of the president. The worms are fed at regular intervals and cared for as a farmer wquld his live stock or a poultry faricier his chickens. .Almost every day boys add to the stock on hand by digging in places where experience has taught them Worms are certain to be found. If one wants ordinary worms he can ! get them cheaper than he can “the big ! striped, fat ones” which the company advertises as -choice, andcheones fish in Creeks and rivers- like best. The “choice" stock is retailed at 10 cents i a quart more than the ordinary worms. . The company pays no taxes, no rent, has bought only an occasional spade or bucket, aud has no financial losses. .However, the president, saidheis nOt certain some of the. worms have not crawled away.

Fox Raising Real Industry.

An industry that was begun someyears ago as a hobby, that of fox farming. has now grown into a real industry profitable to those engaged in it. In all the provinces of Canada and in many of the northern states fox-rais-ing Iscarried on extensively. The Japanese and alsoare developing this ide's. having suitable climatic conditions for the raising of foxes for the fur market. . . 1

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

Trials and Tribulations Of the; Ever-Patient and Careful Schoolteacher

A schoolteacher Is a person who teaches things to people when they nre young. The teacher comes to school at 8:30 o’clock, and when she has gotten enough children for a mess in her home she teaches them reading. writing, geography, grammar, arithmetic, music, drr.wlng, cooking, board sawing, crocheting, deep breathing, bird calls, scientific eating, patriotism, plain and fancy bathing, forestry, civics, and other sciences too numerous to mention. When school is out, she stays behind with five or six of her worst scholars and tries to save the state the job of reforming them later on. After that she hurries home to make herself a new dress and snatch a hasty supper before going back to attend a lecture by an imported specialist on the history of tribal law In Patagonia, which the superintendent thinks may be useful in her school work some day. A great many lecturers raid the country, preying on schoolteachers, and some of them are very cruel, talking to them so long that the poor things have to sit up until morning, when they get home to get their daily test papers corrected. Schoolteachers’ salaries range from S3O a month up, but not far enough up to make them dizzy. On her salary the teacher must dress nicely, buy herself things for her work which the city is too poor to get. go to 29 lectures and concerts a year, buy helpful books on peda county and state institutes, and enjoy herself during a three-months’ vacation. which her salary takes every year. In addition, the teacher is supposed to hoard away vast sums of money, so that when she becomes too nervous and cross to teach, at the age of fifty or thereabouts, she can retire and live happily ever after on her income. —Philadelphia Bulletin.

Origin of Word “Miniature,” Small, Hand-Painted Portrait

The origin of the “miniature” is. as follows: In the golden days of Roman literature, to be a successful author was to be as great as a king, for kings looked to their poets for immortality, as Augustus Caesar did to Horace. Hence it was to be expected that authors would feel their importance and display more or less vanity. One of their Weaknesses was to see their portrai.t p;llnted In artistic . fashion In their parchment books. This work was intrusted to artists called “miniatores,” that is, artists whose work was largely done in vermilion, a color extracted from cinnabar, and called by the Romans “minimum.” The “miniatores” chose the oval form for their beautiful brilliant portraits on the parchment books, and hence the origin of the term “miniature,” a small hand-painted oval or round portrait.

SMILES FOR ALL

Off Duty. “When the reporter called on Mme. Topoffsky she was reclining on a divan in a ‘Lucille’ negligee, smoking a cigarette and feeding bonbons to her poodle while a solicitous maid hovered in the background.” •‘What’are you describing anyway? A prinia donna in her boudoir? “No. One of our parfor bolshevik! resting after a strenuous meeting held in behalf of the downtrodden masses.” Lame Excuse. “H enr y. I’m

Brutal Materialism. “Too many husbands,” said Senator Kendrick in a discussion of divorce, “take a brutally materialistic view of marriage. , “ ‘I don’t want my wife to go away,’ a banker said in my hearing the other day. “Moved, I patted him on the arm. “ *Ah, you dread the separation, eh?’ I said. - \ “ ‘Yep,’ he “‘answered curtly—*the separation from the coin.’ ”

Taken by Surprise.

“What happened! in the parloj, sis?” I ‘‘Mr. Timmtd I started to kiss me.” “Weren’t you surprised?” “Yes, I was so surprised that I fear I got matters all bungled up.” ■ s

. Had to Be. “I hear' the newlyweds across the street had a falling out yesterday.” “How was that?” “Their rear tire blew up.” V. ' Better Case. “I wonder why Jones allows his wife to domineer over him. He has the natural right to rule in the family.” - “Yes. but she has the rich uncle?,'

ashamed of you.” “What’s the matter, my dear?" “I caught you flirting with that waitress.” *TwasjusttryI Ing to establish the entente cordlale, my love. That’s the only way to get any service in this place.”

French Tribute to First Americans to Fall

Eulogy Spoken During Ceremony of Burial by a French Officer

The following eulogy was spoken during the ceremony of burial by a French officer as the French tribute, to the first American soldiers who fell in battle: ’ “In the name of the division, in the name of the French army, and in the name of France I bid farewell to Private Enright, Private Gresham and Private Hay of the American army. Of their own free will they left a prosperous and happy country to come over here. They knew war was continuing in Europe; they knew that the forces fighting for honor, love of justice and civilization were still checked by the longprepared forces serving the powers of brutal domination, oppression and barbarity. They knew that efforts were still necessary. They wished to give us their generous hearts, and they have not forgotten old historical memories, while others forgot more recent ones. They ignored nothing of the circumstances and nothing has been concealed from them —neither the length and hardships of war nor the violence of battle, nor the dreadfulness of new weapons, nor the perfidy of the foe. Nothing stopped them. They accepted the hard and strenuous life; they crossed the ocean at great peril; they took their places on the front by our side, and they have fallen facing the foe in a hard and desperate hand-to-hand fight. Honor to them. Their families, friends and fellow citizens will be proud when they learn of their deaths. Men! These graves, the first to be dug in our national soil, and but a short distance from the enemy, are as a mark of the mighty land we and our allies firmly cling to in the common task, confirming the will of the people and the army of the United States to fight with us tb the finish, ready to sacrifice as long as is necessary until the final victory for the most noble of causes, that of the liberty of nations, the weak as well as the mighty. Thus the deaths of these humble soldiers apoear to us with extraordinary grandeur. We will therefore ask that the mortal remains of these young men be left here, left with us forever. We inscribe on the tombs, ‘Here lie the first soldiers of the republic of the United States to fall on the soil of France for liberty and justice.’ The passer by will stop and uncover his head. Travelers and men of heart will go out of their way to come here to pay^their respective tributes. Private Enright, Private Graham, Private Hay!_ In the name of France I thank you. God receive your souls. Farewell.”

Luxury Tax Law

Affects Refreshments as Well as Wearing Apparel

The so-called luxury taxes provided In the new internal revenue law affects Ice creain, sodas, sundaes, and all soft drinks, all bottled beverages made of cereals or substitutes and containing less than one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol, unfermented grape juice, root beer, sarsaparilla, pop, artificial mineral waters. While not classed particularly as luxuries, carpets, rugs, picture frames, trunks, portable lighting fixtures, umbrellas, fans, women’s and misses hats, bonnets and hoods and men’s and boys’ hats, shoes, neckties, shirts and pajamas also are taxed. The tax on ice cream and soft drinks Is 1 cent for each 10 cents or fraction thereof- of the amount paid by the consumer. Of bottled beverages the tax Is 15 per cent, while on grape juice, ginger ale, root beer, sarsaparilla, pop and mineral waters the tax is 10 per cent. - The tax on carpets, rugs, etc., is 10 per cent of x the price paid in excess of a certain amount fixed, which, in the case of women’s hats is sls, and in the case of men's and boys’ hats, neckwear, shirts,, etc., is $5. . .. Before June 30 owners of pleasure boats will be taxed $1.25, and on July 1 a tax of $1 to $lO, basAl on the length and power of such craft, will be due.

Millions of Boys and Girls Have Physical Defects Which Impede Their Development

Fifty per cent of 25,000,000 boys and girls of school age in this country have physical defects and * ailments which impede their normal development, according to the annual report of the executive committee of the national physical education service. The estimate was made following numerous investigations conducted by members of the committed. A lack of proper physical education, such as play, athletics, work and gymnastics was attributed by the committee as the cause for the physical disability, and a broad program of state and federal legislation for the required education was urged as a means of bringing children to the proper standard. . Members of the executive committee include Major-General W. .CL .. Gorges, Dr. Charles Mayo, John Mitchell, Dr. Thomas A. Storey, William Kent, Dr. Richard C. Cabot.-Dr. J. H- McCurdy, Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker and Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Affectation is a greater enemy ■ to the face than smallpox. Affection is the broadest basis ■ : of a good life.—George Eliot. Affliction is the wholesome : i soil of virtue. , Africa always brings some-'-; : thing new. —Latin proverb. Arms and money require good • hands. —Spanish Proverb. : A headless army fights badly. : —Danish Proverb.

Polar Star and Some of the Wonders of This Great Beacon of the Far North

Most people, if they know nothing else of astronomy, at any rate know j the pole star, the one star which seems to keep its place in the heavens without movement of any kind. There are a great many, however, says the Rehoboth- Sunday Herfld, who do not know what a wonderful'thing it is, in the first place, it can be seen when looked at through a good telescope to be two stars and not one. There is one fairly bright one, of what is known as the second magnitude, and another of the ninth magnitude close to it. But that is not all. The brighter of the two is really three stars revolving round one another, or, rather, round , their common center of gravity, like three children playing “ring a ring of roses.’-’ This secret is revealed to us by is perhaps the most astonishing of all scientific instruments, the spectroscope. It not only tells us what the stars are made of, but whether they are moving toward us or away from us. When you stand facing the star you are always facing north. The reason that it does not appear to move as- the others do is that it is nearly in line with the axis of the earth. Its distance from us is enormous. This can be judged from the fact that although the earth in its journey around the sun is today about 190,000,000 miles from where it was six months ago, that makes no appreciable difference to its distance from the pole star. It must therefore be many times 190,000,000 miles away.

BUDDING TIME TOO BRIEF

O little buds, break not so fast! The Spring's but new, The skie'g. will yet be brighter blue. And sunny, too. '* I would you might thus sweetly last Till this glad season’s overpast. Nor hasten through. It is so exquisite to feel The light, warm sun; To merely know the winter done. And life begun; And to my heart no blooms appeal For tenderness so deep and real. As anyone. Of these first April buds, that hold The hint of spring’s Rare perfectness that May-time brings. So take not wings! Oh, linger, linger, nor unfold Too swiftly through the mellow mould. Sweet growing things! And errant birds, and honey bees, “Seek not to wile; And, sun, let not your warmest smile Quite yet beguile , The young peach-boughs and apple trees To trust their beauty to the breeze; Wait yet awhile! a . '—Evareen Stein.

Presidential Winners.

Tfie successful candidates for president since 1860 were: In 1860, Abraham Lincoln received 180 electoral votes out of a total of 303; In 1864 he received 216 out of 237; in 1868 Grant received 214; in 1876, Hayes, 185 out of 369; in 1880, Garfield, 214 out of 369; in 1884, Cleveland, 219 out of 401; in 1888, Benjamin Harrison, 233 out of 401; in 1892, Cleveland, 277 out of 444; in 1896, McKinley, 271 out of 447;.1n 1900, McKinley, 292 out of 447;in 1904, Roosevelt;-336 out of 476; in 1908, Taft, 321 out of 483; in 1912, Wilson, 435 out of 531; in 1916, Wilson, 276 out of 53L \

Cincinnati Reds Get Two in One When Slim Sallee Is Taken From New York

Sometimes when a ball club signs some particular player It really gets the equivalent of two athletes by a simple mathematical process, adding one man to its own roster and removing one from some other club — a fellow who has’been special poison to the team. For instance, the signing by the Cincinnati Reds of Slim Sallee. In acquiring Sal the Reds get a good left-hander —one ~of the best of them all in his day, and

Slim Sallee.

with probably another good season ini his composition. But, ing a southpaw to the the Reds remove from the New York team a man who was arsenic and prussic, acid to the Cincinnati club —a pitcher, who could always beat Cincinnati and was sure to take at least five or six games away from the Reds each summer. ......

Mother’s Cook Book.

The art of cooking cannot be learned i out of a book any more than the art [ of swimming or the art of painting. The best teacher is practice; the best guide sentiment. . “ • *- ■-—~ - Seasonable Food for the Family. A dainty breakfast or any other meal well served with a few well-pre-pared dishes is of far more value to the family than the mere food as nutrition; a good meal has a moral influence which we often fail to appreciate. Fillet of Beef With Vegetables. Wipe a three-pound fillet of beef and brown in a hot frying pan in hot drippings; when the entire surface is seared over, turn occasionally, cooking for thirty minutes. Remove the meat to a serving dish and garnish with a cupful each of cooked peas and carrots, the carrots cut in fancy shapes and well seasoned; add onehalf pound of mushrooms sauted in a little butter for five minutes and serve with Mushroom Sauce. Take one-fourth of a cupful of fat, add five tabiespoonfuls of flour and stir until well browned; add a cupful of soup stock, a third of a cupful of mushroom liquor and half a pound of mushrooms cut in pieces and cooked in butter fivS minutes. Season with salt, pepper, and just before serving add a little more of the fat left from the frying pan. To obtain mushroom liquor cook the stems of the mushrooms in cold water to cover and reduce to. a third of a cup. Apricot Shortcake. Prepare a rich biscuit dough, roll out rather thin, butter and place In two layers with the butter between. When the cake is baked it will split easily. Cover the shortcake when baked with stewed and slightly thickened apricots and juice. A little butter spread on the cake adds to Its flavor. Rice With Bananas. Peel and scrape three ripe bananas and mash them until creamy, adding a few drops of lemon juice. Stir this lightly into cold, cooked rice and serve with sweetened cream. This is a dessert especially liked by the little people. i Savory Toast. Chicken gravy poured over buttered toast makes a nice supper dish or good for luncheon. Served with a crisp salad and a cup of cocoa one has a fine meal. . Another dish similar to the above, is a white sauce with chopped hard cooked eggs, poured over toast The eggs may be leftovers from breakfast pate Salad. Arrange stoned dates cut in quarters on lettuce with a small spoonful of mayonnaise in the center, with the dates forming rays like the petals of a flower. This is a salad which the children will be allowed to eat