Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1919 — Page 2

Inspection Invited

By ZONA FROST

<Copyrirht,_ 1918, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) “There, by crickets,” said Tommy, •yeing with pride the brand-new sign he had just dangled from the old arm on the end of the gate post. "If that don’t fetch ’em. nothing will, Gwen. Pretty nifty, ain’t it. even if your little brad did do it for you." Gwyn rested from her labors and smiled with deep satisfaction. The sign was conspicuous, but not rudely so, and it was to the point. FINEST HAND LAUNDERING. INSPECTION INVITED. “It was hard to get it all there, too, I want you to know.” added Tom. “Think folks’ll talk much?’ "Who cares how much they talk; go ’long, boy!” Uncle Peter brushed him to one side disdainfully. "Miss Gwen ain’t goin’ ter touch any washin*, is she? She’s Jes' the official negotiator. Julia’s goin’ ter turn out all de hand washin’ dey send along.” "Wouldn’t the major just chew nails if he could see it?" Gwen smiled happily. "It's so nice to have an illustrious father who never comes to see you. and is around on the other side of the world most of the time. I really thjnk dad believes we live on honey and cream and sunshine. Tommy. We'll get some good -roast beef once more and a whole barrel of flour at once, instead of rations. You’ve got to drive after all laundry and deliver it on Saturday, Tom. Hl do it week days.” Glendale was treated to the surprise of years when the full significance of the Sign on the old Hilbert place dawned on its inhabitants. Certainly the two Hilbert children were liable to do anything radical, coming from the stock they- did, but at least they were supposed to keep to the line, socially. When Gwen drove calmly around the small town tn her smart yellow cart calling for and delivering laundry as if she were scattering blessings broadcast, even little Miss Carey, the dressmaker, said it did seem as if all shame and decency had gone out of folks when they could take in washing. But oddly enough the new laundry prospered amazingly. lor the guests at the two hotels at the springs had never heard of Major Hilbert or his children, and after the first samples of Aunt Julia's washing reached customers, Gwen found she could control the summer trade. So the big grove back of the smoke house became a huge open-air laundry where Aunt Jutin reigned su-’ prerne over five helpers, and I ncle Peter drove the yellow cart now instead of Gwen. It was quite enough work to manage the little office she had opened off the dining room, and keep track of everything. And before the first month was over there was such a wonderful balance to the good that Gwen ran out to the grove and hugged Aunt Julia before everybody, and cried allttleon her ample shoulder. “We’ll pay up every last blessed bill in three months if this keeps up.” she exclaimed. “You darling, you. Aunt Julia. I declare I'll give you a pale pink velvet robe of glory for this. Do you know we’ve got every one of the new guests, every last one? This Mrs. Ramsen is .a dear old thing. She’s got two sons eomlng on from somewhere today. and she says they always wear pongee pajamas. and she’s never yet fopnd a laundry could do them up right. We will; won’t we. auntie?” ’ . The next morning the yellow cart stopped outside the iron rail fence, and Gwen saw that Uncle Peter had some one with him. some one> who hurried up the walk to the veranda and rang the bell outside the screen door energetically. She answered it herself. . He seemed very nice and very tall and boyish. “Well, you see.” he began cheerfully. “you’re Miss Hilbert, aren't you? I’m Dick Remsen. My brother and I came on last night from New York and I promised your father I'd call at once—” “Dad? Is he r over here?” gasped Gwen, glancing at the sign instinctively. “Oh, horrors!” “He's not hurt a bit.” Dick assured her earnestly. “He’s in fine condition, but he can’t come oh for a while yet. I’m awfully glad to meet you. He’s talked about you all so much, you know. I felt as if I could not wait to meet you." Gwen smiled up at him teasing!)’. “Are the pongee pajamas yours? Be-, cause, if they are. I can tell you right now we’ll do them up beautifully. Come on and sit-down and tell. me all about my forgetful father. Do you thipk it will shock him to .find me in business?” , “It won't shock him. Miss Hilbert.” Dick hesitated a minute and plunged? After all, she would have .to know sooner or later. “It may startle Mrs.* Hilbert, but she's all You’ll like her.” “Mrs. Hilbert!” repeated Gwen slowly. “You mean dad is married to somebody? That he Is bringing any one here —a new wife !” < “Mother likes her imfhensely. She’s an American and very charming. SJie’s due here today or tomorrow. Going to stay with mother first until the toajor can join her.” “But she mustn’t do that” Gwen tried to jet a grlpbn her senses. “She

must come here, of course. Dad would wish that. It’S the right thing to .do.” And then she looked at the sign again And it mocked her. “Inspection Invited” —AirtThwe rae seiged wl'tti a longing tusnatch It do w u and bide it from tiie scorning gaze of the interloper.i "Won’t you please find out when she is to arrive, and —and I’ll meet her with your mother." ' The major came on a /week later, handsomer than ever, and hungry for a sight of the big old house on a knob Of the Cumberlands. All the way he wondered how he was going to make peace between Gwen and the new. mother, and when train drew in he saw the two standing together, comrades already, with Dick behind them and Uncle Peter waving and wiping his eyes from the express truck. All the story of the laundry was told on the way home, and at every remonstrance from the major Mrs. Hilbert took Gwen's part. It had been wonderful and remarkable of her, she said, even to trv to swing such an Undertaking. Gwen's lashes lifted once only to her father’s grim fqce. "I’ve paid up every last dollar we owed with- those soapsuds. Dad." "And, dear,” added his wife, firmly, “I can assure you when we were doing canteen work very often we women did not-only our own washing, but that of others who needed help.” "Mother says our pongee pajamas—” began Dick; then stopped, flushed violently at Gwen’s look. "You needn't have told them about those," she said as they two stood for a moment on the veranda steps together, after the house was reached. "I’m not going to have that sign up all my life. I hope.” “I hope not, too.” Dick assented fervently. "I made up my mind the first day I saw it that I'd take It down myself just the minute you gave me a . chance. And I’m going to ask for the chance mighty soon, too.” Gwen drew in a deep breath of relief. After all. a good soldier may be permitted to be glad when the war is o\'er. “I don’t care how soon you try It, Dick.” she said, and slipped by his reaching arms into the house.

Beautiful Yellowstone Lake.

The Yellowstone lake is a beautiful sheet of water nestling in the mountains, nearly 8.000 feet above the sea. Its waters flow northward, forming the Yellowstone river, a tributary of the Missouri. Ttf many persons, the falls and canyon of this river are the greatest wonders of the park. Soon after leaving the lake, the stream narrows and quickens, and the water leaps 109 feet directly downward. A short distance farther it tumbles 308 feet, or almost twice the height of Niagara. The river then runs-between steep wails, which rise LOG© feet above It. _ This canyon is .somewhat winding,- with numerous bold cliffs jutting far out into the abyss; and from these <liffs grand views may be obtained. Far below one sees the silvery stream, too distant to he heard as it dashes along. Across the chasm, a half mile away, dark green pines fringe the bank, and between the water and these woods are gorgeously colored rock walls, having all the tints of the rainbow.

Novel Way to Promote Men.

who I think will exactly fit it, I do not go to him and tell him feo," writes a factory executive in System, the magazine of business. “Instead, I find some opportunity to tell him about the job incidentally, perhaps just as one of the problems I am having to meet, and without connecting it with him at all. Usually, if he is as well fitted for the work as I think he is, he gives mean opening to ask him if he would tike to try it—if he himself has not already asked for the chance to-try it. "It is a good deal better, I believe, to let the man-take the job by his own choice this way than just to give him the job. You have his uninfluenced opinion as wel? as your own then as to his fitness for it. And the responsibility for his making good rests on him rather than you. Which means, usually, that he will try just so much harder to make good.”

African Golf His Hoodoo.

"’African golf’ proved my undoing,” said Private Clarence E. Bruce; Pittsburgh. just back from the war. "I was a sergeant once and in charge of a heavy gun. I was the boss. But I couldn't hold that job when the boys began ‘African golf right under my nose. When the bones started to roll I began to slip. Well, it was buck private again for me when the officers found me down on my knees shooting sevens and elevens. "But. say maybe those guns of ours didn't do some execution. We cleaned up one town so clean that there wasn’t anything alive or whole when tl;e infantry went in. No, sir, not even a dead chicken for our boys.”

Valuable Government Report.

The United States geological survey, department of the Interior, has issued a report that may be of great value in the search for underground water..oil and gas. This report, prepared by Joseph A. Cushman and Issued as Survey Bulletin 676 contains descriptions of some species of Foraminifera from the miocene and pliocene .formation of the costal plain of the United States and Is ahuftdftntly illustrated with figures, many times magnified, of these minute organisms.

Circumstances.'

It Is our relation to,, circumstances that determines their influence over us. The Same wind that carries one vessel Into port may blow another off shore. —Buyee.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

BALANCED FEED, AIR, SUNSHINE AND SHADE REQUIRED DURING HOT SEASON

Green Feed Helps Hens to Keep Down to Good Laying Weight.

(Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Hen obesity and hen languor are opposed to pnffitable poultry production because excessively fat hens, as well as languid, lazy hens, lay few eggs and devote their energies to storing up surplus avoirdupois instead of concentrating on the manufacture of an egg every other day. Hustle yourself, old lady hen, and do not develop ennui to the extent .that you bectnne portly and ambitionless. Remember that all the consumers love a fat hen on the table while all 'the producers deplore too fat a hen in the flock. Hence, he forewarned and forearmed — doff your sluggish, phlegmatic tendencies, or else you'll have to execute some clever dodging to escape the ax. Early molting hens may lay well during the spring season, but when the summer is on Jn all its glory they slump and decline in production to the extent that it is extravagant to keep them longer in the flock. Good spring layers often are not good summer layers. No hen should be sold while she continues to lay. Occasionally a hen that has become broody may again resume laying after a brief period and continue profitable production throughout the summer. Generally speaking, all hens that begin to molt in June or July should be disposed of as soon as they stop laying, advise United States department of agriculture specialists. Keep Egg Basket Full. Where a full egg basket is desired, it is essential to provide the flock with plenty of fresh air and sunshine during the summer as well as an abundance of shade, as hens cannot withstand excessive heat. It is necessary to provide plenty of green feed, such as beet, turnip, carrot and onion tcfcs, as wetl as waste leaves from cabbage and lettuce and also such material as potato peelings, watermelon and canta-

GIVE CHICKS RIGHT CARE IN HOT SEASON

Prevent Overheating by Exposure to the Sun. • / Brooder Should Be Sheltered, With Good Circulation of Air Around It —Milk of Any Kind Is Most Excellent Feed. (Prepared by the United States DepartIn extremely hot w r eather special care is necessary to prevent chicks from being overheated by exposure to the sun, confinement where ventilation is bad, or overcrowding. The brooder should be under shelter, with good circulation of air around it, and the number of chicks should not be greater than it will accommodate comfortably under hot-weather conditions. Skim milk, either sweet or sour, and buttermilk are especially valuable feeds in hot weather, making the diet lighter without reducing its nutritive value. The milk should be fed in a drinking fountain or in a dish covered with wire "netting so that the chicks can not get into it and become soiled with milk. The use of milk does not do away with the use of water, which should be given as usual. Unless the premises where ehicks are kept and all appliances used are kqown to be absolutely free from lice and mites, and it is certain that chicks have never been exposed to them, it is a wise precaution to paint or spray the brooder with a mixture of 4 parts crude petroleum and 1 part kerosene, allowing it to dry thoroughly’ before using. About once a week puffs of insect powder on the chicks w©en in the brooder will destroy any lice that may be on them.

PREPARE SOIL FOR ORCHARDS

If Work Is Done as Thoroughly as in Garden Growth of Trees Will Repay Farmer. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) If the prospective home orchardist prepares the soil where his fruits are to stand as thoroughly as he does his garden before planting vegetable seeds, the subsequent rapid growth of his fruit trees will amply repay him, says the United States department of agriculture.

loupe rinds and grass clippings. Bread and cake crumbs make desirable filling food for . the hens. The suburban housewife whose neighbors do not maintain flocks should request them to save their cake and bread crumbs as well as their table scraps for her hens. In the main, the small flock can be maintained in this manner at slight expense while the fowl will be provided with plenty of essential food. Meat scraps from the table, with such bug£ and worms as the range provides, supply plenty of animal food. It is preferable to run the meat scraps through a meat grieder and then to mix them with three narts of cornmeal and one part of wheat bran. This mixture should be fed at midday, while the grain supply, consisting of cracked or whole corn or oats —about one-half a. pint to ten hens —should be fed in the litter during the morning so that the birds will scratch for it. If table scraps are not available in plenty, grain should also be fed at night. In case the hens show a tendency to get too fat it is advisable to reduce the amount of grain. Buy Beef Scraps. In case the meat left-overs from the family table are not sufficient to provide scraps for the hens, it is desirable to purchase and feed beef scraps. Furthermore, the hens should be given constant access to grit or small stones which the fowl can readily swallow’, and they should also be supplied with crushed oyster or clam shells. Laying hens, during the period of hot weather, require plenty of fresh, clean water which should be kept in a clean fountain or pan placed in the shade. Such provisions for the comfort and convenience of the flock are usually responsible for a steady and continuous flow of eggs during the period when eggs can be produced at the minimum expense.

MARKET MALE BIRDS

(Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) All cockerels not intended to be kept or sold for breeders should* be marketed when they reach suitable size. Such birds confined in a home-made fattening battery or coop and fed a fattening ration for a we|k or ten days will not, only increase in weight but bring a better price on the market, because of improved quality.

IDEAL FEED FOR CHICKENS

Poultrymen Advised to Sift All Cracked Corn to Save Finest Material —Sieving Favored. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Where poultrymen purchase cracked corn, feeding this grain In the litter, there is always a loss of about 20 per cent of the finest grain, which is wasted and thrown out with the chaff. Specialists advise poultrymen to sift all cracked corn they purchase or prepare at home in order to remove the finest ground material, which they can mix witK pinhead oats and cracked wheat in order to make an Ideal feed for young chickens or use in the mash for laying hens. Where cracked corn costs about $3 a bag a loss of about 60 cents’ worth of the very fine grain ordinarily occurs. Practice of the sieving method recommended will minimize this loss.

POUITRY NOTES

Turkeys are ler” expensive to raise than any other fowls on the farm, as they roam the pastures and fields and eat so many weed and grass seeds, acorns and the like. A turkey hen never goes far from her nest till the litpe ones are a week or so old. Poults, as little turkeys are called, have been successfully hatched in incubators and reared in brooders. •♦• # - Brood coops for turkey hens with broods should be larger than’ those used for ordinary poultry. • » • Feeds that »re suitable for little chicks are suitable for little turkeys.

OF INTEREST TO WOMEN

Miss Ruth Law, the American ayiatrix. is now in .Japan, where she is teaching progressive Japanese women the science of flying. Trained nurses for rural school districts under supervision of the Red Cross is now one of the subjects engrossing this organization. Club women are now occupying themselves with, the 1 question of memorials to soldiers killed in the war, opinion favoring community buildings. Miss Josephine Heron, an American girl who took motion pictures at the front for the Y. M. C. A., frequently worked under German shell fire for weeks at a time. Miss Louise Gilman, industrial secretary of the metropolitan board of the Y. W. C. A., is to tour New York state in the Interests of protective legislation for women.

WORDS OF WISDOM

Every man is worth just as much as the things are worth about which he is concerned. The one thing we have no power to buy, either for ourselves or for others, Is happiness. We must create it If we wish to possess or to bestow ft Sincerity Is to speak as we think; to do as we pretend and profess; to perform and make good w’hat we promise; and really be what we would seem and appear to be.

IN SPARE MOMENTS

Klrke learned Greek while walking to and fro from a lawyer’s office. A celebrated physician in London translated Lucretius while riding in his carriage upon his dally rounds. Dagnesseau, one of the chancellors of France, wrote an able and bulky work in the successive Intervals of waiting for dinner. Elihu Burritt, while earn' ig his living as a blacksmith, learned eighteen languages and twenty-two dialects by simply Improving “odd moments.” Darwin composed nearly all of his works in the same way, writing down his thoughts in a memorandum book which he carried for the purpose. Madam de Genlis composed several of her charming volumes while waiting la the schoolroom for the tardy princess to whom she gave daily lessons.

SAGE REFLCETIONS

All true love is founded on esteem. —Buckingham. None preaches better than., the ant, and she says nothing. —Franklin. Of all- commentaries upon the Scriptures, good examples are the best and the liveliest. —Donne. Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places —at the foot of the cross and in the grave.—Colton. In orde? to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend. —Mad. Swetchine. Do ye not laugh, oh, listening friends, when men praise those dead whose virtues they discovered not when living? It takes much marble to build the sepulcher. How little of lath and plaster would have repaired the garret! —Bulwer. If envy, like anger, did not bum itself in its own fire, and consume and destroy those persons it possesses before it can destroy those it wishes worst to, it would set the whole world on fire, and leave the most excellent persons the most miserable. Before undertaking any design weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt. If the glory outweigh the danger it is cowardice to neglect it; if the danger exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt it; if the balances stand poised, let thine own genius cast them. —Quarles. ■ >

MORE OR LESS WISE

Eyes will hot see when the heart wishes them to be blind. Desire conceals truth, as darkness does the earth. —Seneca. The flowering of; civilization is the finished man —the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power—the gentleman. —Emerson. All my experience of the world teaches me that in 99 cases out of 100 the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. —Mrs. Jamesons Many have been ruined by y their fortunes and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great'have become little, and the little great.—Zimmermann.

A SHOPPING SPREE

By LYDIA L. ROBERTS.

(Copyright, 1919, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Mrs. Barton shut the front door with a satisfied bang and hurried down the steps. Her next door neighbor tapped on the window and came to the door. “Are you going shopping, Anna?” she asked. “Lucky woman’ - I want to go, but I haven’t any money. If only prices weren’t so high. I just love to go on a shopping spree, but I can’t this week.” “Come with me today, Alice,** laughed Mrs. Barton. “Have you thirty cents you can spare?” “Yes, of course, I have that much, but—” . “Come along quick, then, for that’s my spending money today. I admit I’m going on a shopping spree, but remember this is not before the war but after; a sort of a post-war, moneyless spree! I’m off for three hours, while mother takes care of the children. I need a rest and a change and some variety.” “Going to get it for thirty cents?” teased Alice. “Yes, indeed, and so are you; but you must do exactly as I say.” When they left the train and got on the boat Alice Brown started to go inside. “Come out,” insisted Anna. “Remember, we are out to get some air,” Alice hurried for the car after they got off the boat, but her friend smilingly ■pulled her coat. "We’re housebound home makers, my dear, out for exercise and air, and we get it by walking and saving our carfare.” “Our first stop on this tour," chanted Anna as they reached the shopping district, “is before the window of this big grocery store. Isn’t it a picture! .“I do wish our grocers would take hints from these artistic fruits in here and make their windows pretty and sunshiny,” said Alice. “We will now turn into one of the little narrow streets that holds great treasures in small spaces,” continued. Anna. “Here is a store full of exquisite butterfly artcraft. Talk about colors! Look at the shimmering lights on that one butterfly wing I” “Press your nose close to this big window pane and gaze at the wonderful paintings,” commanded Anna as. they walked on. “The next store gives you the latest news in books.” “Oh, bless ’em, see the puppies I**! cried Alice at the next window. “Five little curly haired puppies, all white, too, and a box full of bunnies and some dear little white kittens. I must bring the children in to see these cute, frolicsome animals and I’ll make up bedtime stories about them.” “Come,” said Anna, “there’s another street near here w r here we can see weaving done and the beautiful arts and crafts work and a big florist shop.” As they came to the flower store Alice stopped. “Anna, dear, that one window alone is worth coming to see!” she exclaimed. Annn nodded and they stood silent before the loveliness of the massed calla lilies in deep blue bowls and jars standing in the dull green and delicate yellow background of other plants. “The most beautiful lily in the world,” said Anna, “and I never saw enough of them before.” “White calla lilies in a quaint blue bowl Bring joy to the eyes and peace to the soul.” With sighs of satisfaction finally the friends turned away. “I hate to bring you down from the heights of poetry and lilies, dear,” said Alice, “but I’ve just remembered that I need some closet hooks.” “I’m down on the ground again. Well, my practical friend, you may spend just ten cents and get your old hooks,” laughed Anna. As they came out of the store Anna met a friend and they stood talking a few minutes. "I’ve been buying postcards,” the newcomer said. “I buy them wholesale and sell retail to the girls in the office and put the profits in our sickness fund. Then if a girl is out sick we use the money for flowers or fruit for her.” “Let me see them,” said Anna. T need a few now and I can spend just one dime. Because,” she explained, “we are out shopping with our eyes, buying goods that cost nothing. “I have six cents left, besides my carfare home,” said Alice as they walked along. “Yes, we will spend that right here, replied Anna, stopping before a tiny store. “We are a little tired from walking, sq much and need a nice cup of Coffee and cream. Sit down in comfort and refreshments will now be served.” When they were Tested Anna said, "Now it is time to get our train.- The children will be coming home from school and we must be back on our jobs again.” “I’ve had a lovely time, dear,” earnestly said Alice. “I never dreamed I would get so much enjoyment for thirty cents. Fourteen cents for carfare, ten cents for our purchases and six cents for refreshments Is some spree!” * “Before the war,” answered Anna, "a shopping spree meant candy, flowers, expensive lunch, things we might use, etc. But now we cheerfully get our air and lilies and exercise for thirty cents and give the rest to Uncle Sam for bonds and Thrift stamps and the Red Cross.”