Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1919 — Page 2

Outside the Game

By S. B. HACKLEY

(.Copyright, 1919. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) “Rah-Rnh-Rah! Camden!” “Warren! Warren! Warren!” fa m den’s oldest inhabitants could not remember a finer Thanksgiving day—sunny and dry, and the trig yellow chrysanthemums Herman Seidler, Camden's florist, had brought to perfection in his greenhouses near the football grounds, quivered under the volume of yells of the boosters of the rival teams. =? Camden and Warren colleges had taken up athletics In general and football In particular a little late in life; perhaps for this reason their enthusiasm was all the greater. And nearest the two warring teams were the two most enthusiastic football men In Camden town —Branham Rlker, the young professor of Greek in Camden college, and Clement Sen, bookkeeper for Grimes & Quincy, the Camden wholesale grocers. Sea’s enthusiasm was of the silent variety. Though hfs blue eyes saw every move, he stood as quiet as a post. But Hiker’s black eyes flashed; his dark, Spanlsh-looking face glowed or glowered as his team scored or lost. Pretty Jane Fithian, the daughter of the professor of mathematics, fh* twrr~ enthiuaUmfH rattier than the game, a worried expression in her hazel eyes. Clement Sea loved her —that she knew, and Rlker Was going to tell her this evening that he loved her. Which did she care for? Clement had never asked her to marry him; he had not even called on her since Professor Riker had been going out with her so much, hut It wasn’t that he didn't wish to—hut because ho believed she loved Riker. That, too, Jane knew. If she accepted Riker she would be the envy of the other girls of the town. Most any of them would think they were lufky to marry a college professor that looked like Branham Riker.

Out driving the day before in Hiker's new car, Jane saw Clement, released from his afternoon’s work, watching the teams at practice. “It’s a bit queer to see a sissy interested in football,” Riker remarked. “Indeed Clement Sea Is no sissy!” Jane averred Indignantly. Rlker laughed. “Well, anyway, he’s the bind that gets henpecked after marriage and tells everything he knows to his wlfey!” Jane laughed a bit unwillingly, but tinder the spell of his fascination her resentment soon died. “Warren! Warren!” The yell was louder, more exultant than ever. A crowd of visitors from Warren waved Warren’s colors, red and blue. The white and yellow of Camden, too, waved defiantly, but it was evident that Cnmden was playing a losing game. Then the ugly thing happened. The spectators had crowded up close. Jane and one other only saw a sudden mad act. The next Instant the game was won. by Warren. When The “wounded" were helped off the field, it was found that the coach of the Warren team was suffering from three, fractured ribs. When . Jhe young man was treated at the home rs President Sayre, black and blue spots were found on his side, Inflicted by the bard heel of a shoe not in the game and not by accident. Who did it? Jane Fithian could have told. Jane, who, in the twinkling of an eye, had had the cobwebs of fancy swept from her brain and the illusions of attractive personality, unaccompanied by decent self-control, dispelled. The college president entertained the winning team at dinner, and at a twoo’clock feast, held at the home of the English professor, Shelby Frederick. Rlker was one of the guests; Jane Fithian, an animated creature, with brilliant flags of color in her cheeks, another. Soon after the guests left .the’dining room Jane sought her young hostess in the dressing room. “Yon're not'going, Jane?” she exclaimed in surprise. “Are you forgetting we’re all going for a moonlight ride This evening—and—-and isn’t Professor Riker taking you?" “I’ve got to go home, Elsie.” Jane answered. “They’re all dining out—there’s nobody there, and I’ve just rememberedsomething I—perhaps I will come back after a while.” “Let Upton take you In the car if you must go, Jane,” her friend suggested. Jane shook her brown head. “No, I want to walk.” . “I’m behind on my work since I’ve been losing sleep of night. I’ve got to go to the office now and begin a long afternoon’s work,” Jane had heard a man say In refusing a dinner invitation at the grounds that morning. When Clement Sea took down the telephone receiver the voice came over the wire sent his heart leaping. “Vill you please come up to the house —right now?” It said. “I—l am very busy,” he stammered. “Qli, Clementthe voice was tremulous, “I will keep you but a few minutes. I—l must see you”. Five minutes later Jane answered hie ring at the Fithian doorbell and led him. to the parlor. “Why haven’t jqs been §ffiund to

see us this long timet" she demanded lightly. He tried to answer her as lightly, but ended In the stammered truth. ’T—l— Jane, do you think a felToW wanfs t'o hang around the girl he’s loving until his heart aches for her —whenj he knows he’s outside the game?” Jane’s breath came quick, then she smiled coquettiShiy. “Clement," she asked irrelevantly, “who was It hurt Mr/Swift today. Who wis it kicked him when he slipped and fell ?’„’ Clement reddened to the roots of his hair, then as quickly paled. He bad thought he alone saw that rash act. . “Jane —I —m+bedy- would believe me If I told what I saw. I —l mustn’t tell you!” “I would believe you,” she answered. ‘ “That’s all the more reason why I shouldn’t tell you.” he said soberly; “it might make you unhappy. I can’t tell you that, Jane; don’t ask me Jane’s henrt beat a raptflrous tune. “I knew he wouldn’t,” she exulted. “I knew all the time that he wouldn’t!” “I —Clem —” she went on, “if I tell you I want one —do you think you can get Innis or the other jeweler to open his shop this afternoon to —to get me an engagement ring?" The petals of the pink chrysanthemum she held In her fingers fell to the floor. Clement looked at her In a happy agony of incredulity. He felt like the heavens had opened and messenger—had called to him —who had stood for years at the gate, to come in. “Why the engagement ring today, my sweet?” lie demanded tenderly some moments later, of the ear that was not resting on his rough serge cont. “Can’t we be engaged until to-morrow without the ring?” The face that belonged to the ear raised a trifle. s“Clem; there’s a man—no, a thing—* going to ask me to marry him this evening, and I want —I want—” “Go on.” prompted Sen. as she hesitated, holding her a little closer; “I can stand even that now !” “I want to he wearing your ring then!" she cried. “I want to show him I belong— He's so—so dominant and sure, and —and —cruel —I’m afraid of him!” Clement released her. “Little coward,” he said. “Show me the telephone. I think I know where Innis Is spending his afternoon.”

BATHS ON ANCIENT VESSEL

Wonders of Old Greek Ship As They Were Described in Lecture by Harvard Professor. An ancient Syracusan ship—a Greek Mauretania —that carried -vast cargoes and had a gymnasium, bath, lounge and gardens aboard, was described by Prof. W. S. Ferguson of Harvard in a lecture on Greek economic development. Professor Ferguson said it was of the three-deck type, with 20 hanks of oars, that required one whole year in building, and which was manned by a crew of 300 sailors, together with 0(10 marines. In Its hold It would carry 310,000 bushels of wheat, wool, thousands of jars of salt fish and other foodstuffs. Its cabins‘were decorated with elaborate mosaics, one set of them picturing all of the Iliad. Its chambers included a gymnasium, a lounge with a “book shelf.” a bath provided with 50 gallons of water, smils for horses, “gardens” or conservatories,and? In addition to till these luxuries and necessities,'it had •equipment ami engines of defense which gave it the character almost of a ship of war.

Suspicion.

There are minds so habituated to intrigue and mystery in themselves, and so prone to expect it from others, that thev will never accept of a plain reason for a plain fact, if it be possible to devise causes for it that are obscure, far-fetched and usually not worth the carriage. Like the miser of Berkshire, who would ruin a good horse to escape a turnpike, so these gentlemen ride their highbred theories to death, in order to come at truth through bypaths, lanes and alleys, while she herself is Jogging quietly along upon the high and beaten road of common sense. The consequence is, that they who take this mode of arriving at truth are sometimes' before her and sometimes behind her. but very seldom with her. —Anonyriious.

Curious Clock.

Everybody stops to look at a clock in the offices of the Manufacturers’ association in Seattle. Wash. It is a curious timepiece, the works of which are incased in a hollow section of a Douglas fir log. about 250 years old. The section of the log serves admirably as a dial for the clock. The appearance of the clock is not its only claim to distinction. Its size only warrants more than ordinary’ interest. The dial of this clock is more than three and a half feet in diameter and the niinute hand more than four feet long. r / :

Chinese National Art.

The Chinese have a national art In the production of porcelain. Not until the time Palissy and Wedgewood can Europe be said to have entered into rivalry with the best work df China. Chines© work in porcelain represents ideals and symbolic usages, which have their counterpart, in the medieval stained glass to be seen in many of the oldest cathedrals.

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Cape Holds Its Own All Year

Season in and season out Ihe cape flourishes in undiminished popularity. It is not often, declares a fashion authority, that a conspicuous fashion such as this, which quickly attained universal favor, survives for a single season, much less for the four wellrouuded ones which the cape already has to ltß credit, as it enters on the summer solstice with a following as enthusiastic as ever. There are capes long and short, capes slim and straight or draped In voluminous folds, three tiered capes, reversible capes, capes in striking combinations of -two materials In one color or of two colors in the same material, curious and, interesting capes and cobwebby sketches of capes in georgette or tulle boldly accented with fur. One sees much less of the waistcoat in the summer cape models. It Is hard to tell whether the almost total elimination of this feature In all except the strictly sport models is due to the fact that its added warmth is no longer desirable or whether it has been simply done to death. Collar Arrangements. The collar arrangement which wraps around the neck in many folds is still much in evidence, but there are capes with Medici collars, capes with a fit-

Cape of navy blue and biscuit silk poplin, and one of brown tulle over brown chiffon fur trimmed.

ted yoke and high close-fitting collar and capes with no more collar than a band about the shoulders. One of the most useful cape models has a very wide band of the fabric folded sofjly back across the front from hem to hem. This can be gathered snugly about the throat or allowed to fall in gracefully negligent folds around the shoulders as occasion demands. This cape is displayed at its best in two-toned combinations of one material or in different fabrics of identical color. It is handsomely developed in navy blue serge and satin or in and duveteen. There is a peculiar smartness about Ihe circular three-tiered capes, and there are capes on straight lines also with three tiers, the extremely wide cape collar which falls well below the shoulder line forming the upper tier. These capes are at their best in Poiret twill or gabardine, but it is only fair to say that the useful navy blue serge cape has been relegated to the background which useful old friends are so frequently required to grace. In dealing with the summer cape there is not much to be said of woolen fabrics except as they are used in combination with silken stuffs or in their unchallenged field, the sport fitFor Sport Wear. For summer sports the strictly serviceable tailored capes of English worsteds and tweeds may be passed over as year round standbys, but capes of homespun, dyed in soft fruity colors, have by reason of their light open weave a . distinctly summery place in the sport outfit. Wool jersey still has a claim on the summer sportswoman and capes of this fabric are frequently seen, the most popular development of this garment being the detachable cape to be, buttoned beneath the collar of a sleeveless sport suit. A white wool jersey sleeveless sport suit has a cape of navy blue wool jersey, with white facings buttoned back With pearl buttons. This forms a very useful as ’well as an undeniably attractive costume. 6. A sport cape which is comparatively, new and which will interest many women is fashioned of channellette. This wool fabric, apparently knit by hand, but in reality a product of the knitting machine, can be purchased by the yard in a variety of gay and lovely colors. It is 36 inches wide and suffi- . dently expensive, but as capes of this

type are cut very scant and straight a large quantity of the fabric is not required. Narrow Angora knitted wool may also De bought with which capes and sport coats of channellette are bordered, collared and cuffed. A cape has been designed for .country Hear of heavy, soft linen crash, lined with bright gingham, which has a certain bizarre charm of its own but comes dangerously near being an eccentricity. Silk, Satin and Wool? Capes of silken weaves for daytime wear spell summer in every lustrous length of trlcolette or satin and in the crisp and sprightly folds of moire or taffeta. Satin Is often used in combinations with wool, either duveteen, gabardine or wool jersey. The upper part of the cape is usually of satin with a broad band of the woolen fabric at the lower edge. Often the collar Is of wool, but frequently of fur. A delectable cape of this type has the lower half of beige wool jersey, the upper half of brown satin and the collar of summer ermine. Satin as well as taffeta is sometimes reduced to the severe cut of the three-tiered cape, but it is at its best in the more, suave and gracious lines of the draped models. One very love-

ly cape of double-faced satin has a long scarf front and is gathered at the shoulders with a small upstanding frill. The soft, dull blue of the under side is turned back in a wide fold at the neck and down the front over the navy blue of the exterior. Attractive satin capes in henna, black or blue show the plainness of their surface broken by roundabout gathered inserts of georgette. Capes of tricolette. often gathered into wide bands of duveteen or gabardine of the same shade, have a great deal of distinction. Both the plain and fancy weaves are employed, and in the latter case the trimming of wool fabric Is frequently omitted, while a fur collar gives the accent of weight and substance which most summer capes seem to require as a need of their being. A changeable taffeta cape In shades of red, brown and blue is a noticeable exception to this rule. Its quaintly gathered and frilled body Is topped by a yoke in which delicate dull gold embroidery plays an important part. Capes Extraordinarily Smart. Extraordinarily smart capes are developed in moire silk in navy, black, brown or castor and nearly always with the all but inevitable fur collar. One in black has superimposed upon its moire surface brocaded satin figures, the glint of which, added to Its squirrel collar, completes a cape distinguished enough for any occasion. What might b'e called the apotheosis of the summer , cape is now coming very much to the fore in all the more exclusive shops. These exquisite and fragile garments have little to recommend them except sheer charm. Extravagant they are to a degree both in the initial cost and in perishability; and as to warmth, two thicknesses of georgette provide but scant protection even to the most imaginative. They are like Lucy Lockett’s pocket which had nothing in it but the binding round it, and depend altogether for substance on the bandings and mountings of fur which do’ their utmost to hold these thistledown garments hear the earth. Short-hip length georgette capes with armholes banded by fur to match the deep collars are provided for those who have a weakness for these intriguing little affairs.

Fringe Is Popular.

According to the procedure of Agnes, fringe Is not passe, for It is well In evidence on many of her newest dress models, - ’■ 4 l . i

"MERCHANTS' HAVEN"

THE Vikings, scudding about In their little sailing ships to plunder, pretty well controlled commerce a dozen centuries ago. In the course of their scuddings they founded on the north coast of the island of Sjaelland, where nature had provided a protected harbor, a town which they called Kobenhavn, or “merchants’ haven,” and which is now known to the world as Copenhagen, capital of Denmark. The merchandising done at this haweircbiisistediafgeTytnfhbsedays' of receiving stolen treasures from the big blond raiders and providing the sea rovers in return with mead for their drinking horns. The traders flourished and eventually began to find some outlet beyond their own country for their increasing stocks, and thus Copenhagen -grew to commercial importance, so much so, in fact, that it became one of the influential members of the Hanseatic league and a rival of Hamburg, Bremen, Lubeck and the German North sea and Baltic ports. In the Thirty Years’ war Germany was torn and plundered and Copenhagen took a spurt ahead of its German rivals. King Christian IV, recognizing Denmark’s opportunity, promoted trade. In 1620 he built on one of the waterways which cut into the city a house, and that striking, many gabled structure still is used as a stock exchange. It is of red tapestry brick and is surmounted by a spire formed by the twisting together, ropelike of the bodies of four great copper dragons. This spire, green with the verdigris of centuries, may be seen on clear days far out over the Oresund. that separates Denmark from Sweden. Germans Got the Trade. But in later,days the Danish traders lost some of the aggressiveness of Eric the Red and old Christian, while the north Germans became more and more the merchants of the Baltic and the North sea. Then came the theft by Prussia of Schleswig-Holstein and later the digging of the Kiel canal. Copenhagen became an easy-going city of a glorious past, while the ships from the seven seas anchored at Hamburg or Bremen. The world war, however, gave Copenhagen another opportunity, and now the old “Merchants’ Haven” hopes again to take mercantile sea honors from the castle banner of Hamburg. Regarding Copenhagen’s aspirations, Albert E. Haase, writing in the New York Times, says: The war made Copenhagen a clearing house for Europe. As the capital of one of the most important neutral European countries itdjecame a political center of great significance. Changed conditions brought prosperity and a new class of business men assumed control. The financier supplanted the Iproducer. Denmark’s financial system was,, even before the war, sound. Her methods for mobilizing her credits had long been accepted by the financial world. Old banks expanded and new banks came into existence. It is reported that deposits grew to almost four times their pre-war amount. Ihsurance records of old Denmark were shattered in a manner that never had been thought possible; for Copenhagen became the place in which American and European insurance companies placed their reinsurance, a business which -had once gone to the central powers. On the heels of this increased financial Rower came a positive assertion of-Initiative on the part of the Danish business man. World-wide trading organizations came Into being and Copenhagen became the home of these organizations, the branches of which were chiefly in countries at war with Germany. Among these organizations is the Transatlantic company, which was started ip 1916, to compile information regarding foreign trade and to invest capital in firms engaged in foreign trade. This organization has, so far, succeeded in associating itself with seventeen importing and exporting companies. Another important organization is the General Commercial Company, Ltd., started in 1917, which differs fyom the Transatlantic company only in that it is concerned chieflyVith Russia and South America. Though increased financial power and strong commercial organizations free from German influence are sources of stfong assurance to the Danish trader, yet the frOe port has been the foundation of the, confidence upon which they have placed their hopes. Their confidence in Copenhagen’s free port has not been lessened by the constant warnings that Sweden and Norway will not stand with* folded arms while Denmark attempts to gain supremacy in

Canal In Copenhagen.

the Baltic trade. Again and again the warning is made that Malmo and Gothenburg in Sweden, and Bergen and Christiania in Norway, are planning free harbors. The Dane knows that more cities of Scandinavia will be needed to handle the enormous resulting traffic* yet he is well aware of the sact f that the geographical position of either Malmo or Gothenburg is not as favorable as that of Copenhagen. Norway’s claims do not loom large, for Bergen and Christiania cannot be plslced in the same category with” Gothenburg or Malnio. A Free Port 25 Years. The port of Copenhagen has been free for more than 25 years. For a period of years it was not improved, but during the war changes have been made and a real development has taken place. It has been estimated that more than $10,000,000 has been spent thus. Its tonnage capacity, reported to be 1.600,000, has been pronounced as inadequate for the traffic which Copenhagen may expect. This condition, however, may be easily overcome, since the free port, being north of the city, is at a point where it may be enlarged to twice its present capacity. The free port is a semiofficial institution, and is in close connection with the Danish customs department. In fact, it is an agency of that department* Like all other free ports, it offers certain advantages to the foreign manufacturer. Goods may be stored in its buildings free of duty for any length of time. Thus the privilege is afforded to the Baltic distributor of having a convenient storehouse for his goods, which may accumulate during a slack season. When the demand becomes heavy the Baltic trader is in a position to meet the wants of his customers immediately. The cargoes of ocean-go-ing vessels may be unloaded at Copenhagen and distributed in the Baltic regions by the smaller steamers which call at the less important Baltic ports. These steamers would return to Copenhagen with the exports of the Baltic regions, which would form the return cargo of the ocean-going Vessels. The convenience which the Copenhagen free port affords the foreign manufacturer is not confined to the Baltic territory alone; for Copenhagen may well take Hamburg’s place for all Europe. As Hamburg was at one time so Copenhagen is now a terminus for many ships calling at all ports of the world, and chiefly European ports. Hence it offers the same service that Hamburg did in former years, that ia» quick and cheap transshipment of goods, when the demand is heavy, to all important European ports.

The transformation of the fleecy white mass gathered from the bolls into the finished cotton fabric involves many operations. The lint which is dropped into the pickers’ baskets has clinging to its fibers numerous little hard seeds, all of which must be removed. The process of removing the seeds is known as ginning. When the cotton arrives at the factory it is run through various machines, which free it of dirt and form it into a lap or roll. It is then passed through rollers covered with steel wire points, a process which makes the fibers lie in straight parallel rows, except as they curl or twist about other fibers. The curls and twists are straightened out in a stretching frame and the fibers are then twisted and wound on bobbins of decreasing size until the strands are fine enough to be spun into thread or yarn. When the product is ready for the spinning machine it is called roving. From the spinning machine the thread Or yarn is tiair an to the looms to be made into cloth.

Maj. Walford Davies, who wrote the Air Force March, tells of an amusing experience which occurred once while he was hearing a rehearsal of one of his cantatas. “I could not help noticing,” relates the composer, “that the clarionet player, a young man, but a clever and steady lad, jumped a good deal during the progress of the rehearsal. Then I found that his father,* who played the trombone, sat just behjnd him, and every now and then he gave his son a kick, with the remark: ‘Look out, Sammy, there be a flat a-comin’ l’ ”

“A man dat’s always thinkln’ *bont hisself,” said Uncle Eben, “is gineter feel lonesome when he finds out he’s been monopolizin’ dat special branch of human study,*.. - . > • ” TP , . - “*1"

Cotton of Commerce.

The Kick That Told.

Unprofitable Thought.