Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1919 — Page 2

Show Me, Angela!

By BARBARA KERR

tCopyright, **l*. by tb* McClur* N.w«P*P*r Syndicate.) She was such an alluring hit of femininity. Her dark brown hair was beautifully marcelled —not that site had spent twenty-live perfectly good dollars and had the job done, that is permanently waved at one sitting, but ghe was a twiee-a-weck —customer ax t Mine. Periwig's, and as this was one of the bi-weekly days and she knew that It was thoroughly and efficiently done. She knew that the two curly little horns, one over each ear, were just so, and were skewered into place with innumerable invisible hairjans; that her hair was coached back with a most "Bewitching “cowlick” at the most becoming angle of her forehead, and that her “widow’s peak" was pointed precisely over the left eyebrow. Therefore hy and because of all these signs her coif was the-last word. Her complexion was arrived at by the benzoic method. It was now seven months and twenty-one days since wafer had touched her face.- Her make-up box took up the whole end - «f a clothes closet, and her hills for cosmetics, creams ami other beautifiers were greater than those of her father for clothes. But her devoted parents had no fault to find with Angela's tout ensemble. nor the cost thereof, for stie wus vastly easy for all. to look upon, and a finished feast for the tired eyes of indulgent parents. And to all this Angela Burton was wise. She had capitalized her appear-ance-and knew it. More than once it had brought her what she desired. But now, and it was a tearful, almost —terrifying moment. Tommy Hampton. her old sweetheart, - who bad «Iways stood so In awe of her, was returned from Prance, arid Tn their first minutes he was saying to her: “No use, Angle! You’ve got to show

me something besides good looks — You’re a peaclierino, all right, all right, but I've been around sorin'— I've seen all kinds of girls—and the girl that interests me now is the girl with the goods—and not dry goods, either —” “Oh, I suppose that Lieutenant Hampton Is going to marry money!" retorted Angela scornfutty. ----- “No!" thundered Tommy, “hut if yon don’t, you’ll soon he short of grease to run that complexion of yours.” She sprang to her feet in a rage. “Now that was pretty coarse work, Angie, but it's the honest-to-God truth. I didn’t Start out to be a beast. f; was only going to tell you that m.v ideas on what was inside our heads and not what we were painted up to look like. I’ve seen girls ragged, uncombed —yes, as savage as we were — who’d go with us to the gates of hell and kiss us, and cry over us when we came back. And they looked a good deal more like angels to me than you do. Angie, you and I are a century apart. I’m looking for a mate, not a not. You won’t do, Angie. You’re just scenery—” Clapping her hands over her-ears Angela sped np the stairs and Tommy took his hat and left. . She was too angry for worths. No one in the world had ever before told her she was utterly useless. In order to revive her self-respect and dry her tears with hits of absorbent cotton, she sat down before her mirror. Then her vitalizing sense of humor came to her rescue. “So you’re scenery, Angie?" she mimicked to her reflection. yWell, he didn’t say - you weren’t Interesting scenery—oh. no. but he said a lot!” n«ying Ht herself intently and after a moment’s thought, “No, we’lf not deface the scenery—lt’s all I'm graveling on, just now, but we’ll shotv Mr. Hamßton —” I Angela was nobody’s fool. There were as many convolutions In the brain Inside of her marcelled head as there were waves in her hair. Thoughtfully, preoccupiedly, she went through her closet, took down nn old blue linen, put it on; then laid out on the bed a clean white collar and_cuff set. put on a dig apron and hurried to the phone. “Yes. dad. I’ve some extra time on my hands, and if you want to hring out an old friend to dinner we’ll set him up a nifty little handout. Any one you bring - is all right.” she assured her father. Then she repaired to the kitchen and told her mother what she had done, adding: “But it wouldn’t be any more trouble to fix for two than one. Let’s have Uncle Joab, too.” And they called him. He •was delighted. 7 Angela vas more to him than merely an only sister’s child. She was the charming replica of his mother, long since dead, whom he had Idolized. So when Angie got him off by himself and haltingly proposed to rent his farm he chuckled and with a wise little wink he asked; “Are Tdu The farmc*, Angle, or is there a partner in the background?” “Now, uncle, haven’t I been out there enough with you to Wqw a lot about farming?' Anyway^no one ever said I couldn’t learn.” Then, demurely, “Of course, I might take on a t partner, later. Who knows?” And && 4oOnf. that uhe couldn’t do worse than some of

the tenants he’d had, and she might try, as the present renter was leaving. / ' -k •’And,!" continued Angie, patting his cheek, and straightening his tle w “I’ll have some first : class advice bn ’tap all the time, for I shall keep one room just for you, and whenever the sidewalks begin to hurt your feet you’ll have a place in the country where you can cyme and hibernate. Oh, wo 11 have loads of fun, Nunkie, see if we don’t.” —“But it’s a hard dife” country-life la —for a woman,"- discouraged her upele wistfully. “You’ll have to part with some of y'our style and good looks.” more than some of the girls who are Hying in tbits, half starved, without .•hirh «.r child-—no room for even a caL And those hoarding-house women—why I can Spot them as far as 1 can see them. I've thought it ail out carefully. Uncle Joab, and 1 want to _try —-and you know grandmother lived there and sire was the prettiest woman' in this country when she died. I knew; you’d let me." When everything was planned and almost ready Angela sent her mother to dress. “Now doll up a hit, mother, for my dad, your old steady, likes it.” And sire took off the big apron and put on the white collar and cuffs over her blue linen as became the daughter Dad was hiore than pleased when Angela led him and his tw’h old guests to talk of '(he olden times 1 , how they started in life, what the girls did and tire hardships of the mothers.—The old men were charmed. They resented it when the beli rang and a messenger delivered a note to Angela, who slipped away to her own room to read it. ~ “Monday eventng and lonesome. “I needn't have been such a beast, Ann. 1 could have left if I did not like the artificial makeup. But somehow I can’t be sorry, for it had to come out some time, sooner or laterguess I’ve become uncivilized. Tpa headed for the up-country and when -i get a beginning Tin going to ask ~sn7iie real, grownUU, human girl to marry me. She’ll not get an angel, as you know. S’poct you’ll feel sorry for her. Will leave tomorrow at two.” He started to write "love,” but crossed it out and signed, “llesp’y, Tom.” After Angela had her cry out she went and washed her face with w atel", then indited her reply t “Tuesday, Busy Day. “Dear Mr. Hampton— Fine for you? I’m started on just such a career myself. Uncle Joab is going to let me -manage his farm next year. I’ll have to economize, for It will take lots of grease for complexion and other farm machinery. But I’m figuring to marry later on some competent young man to help run the farm. It will be much cheaper than hiring, but you needn’t feel sorry for him, for I’ll treat him white when he proves to me that he is ~a —full-size man. And 1 shall hot expect him to tell me how to comb my hair. Resp’y, A- BURTON.” The note was handed to Tom an hour before train time. He read it, grinned appreciatively,' then on second reading laughed broadly. He felt that it should be answered at once. “Dear Ann—Have you any one in view for that place? I might be persuaded to take it. Answer. IOML_ And she did, sending It to the stn“tion, where a rather disconsolate and ' crest-fallen Tommy was wondering whether Ann might relent. Yle fairly snatched the note from the hand of the messenger, turned aside from the crowd and read: "“Dear Mr. Hampton: “No. But I never persuade and pay too. You might bring around your recommendations from your last place, and we’ll talk it over. Uncle Joab and I are going out to look over the farm at three. I might add, that I am disposed to give an old soldier preference over other applicants, all being equal. Resp’y. “A. BURTON.” —Toth dismissed the messenger, deciding to answer the note in person. He called at a jeweler’s on the Way and still arrived at Burton’s in time to prove that he was qualified to fill the place), and to go with Angela and Uncle Joab out to look over the farm at three.

New York's First Bank.

Thp first hank in New York cltT. ln_ point of age. is the Bank of New York lif Wall street, which was organized 135 years ago. A number of prominent merchants and citizens met at the Merchants’ coffee house and elected officers of the financial institution. Alexander Hamilton was The real founder of the Bank of New York, but Gen. Alexander McDougall was chosen as its first president, Hamilton drew up the constitution of the bank, which had its first -headquarters in the Walton mansion. 1 ' Both Hamilton and Aaron Burr were stockholders, and the former was a director for years. -For many years after Its organization the Bank of New York, with the Bank of North America in Philadelphia and the Bank of Massachusetts in Boston, held the entire banking capltal of the United States. The Bank of New York has occupied its present site since 1798.

Bargain In Chemicals.

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Now that ostrich feathers have returned to favor the woman that has cared for her plumes will bring them out to find them increased in money value and available ip a number of ways. Fashion approves of ostrich flues in many forms and plumes are nsetj not a lone In millinery but as docorationg for evening dresses and for making the handsomest fans. The Rues form innumerable fancy feather millinery ornaments, neckpieces, wreaths -and fringes and are fashionabie in both the curled and uncurled state. Handsome wreaths for hats Are shown with the feathers along one side of the rib curled and along the other straight. If plumes that have been laid away are in good condition but soiled it is not a difficult matter to clean them, except that the curling process is a little tedious. They may be washed in a lukewarm suds of soft water and castile soap. They are shaken in the Buds and drawn through the hand to squeeze out the soiled water. After they are clean they should be rinsed 1 n warm, clear water and wrapped in cheesecloth or other absorbent material and put through an ordinary clothes wringer. But the rolls of the wringer must not be close enough to damage the feathers. After this washing process they

Already coats for winter, both in cloth and fur, have passed and are daily passing in review before tperchants and buyers and reporters who publish the styles. Certainly no winter was ever heralded by more comfortable or more becoming garments. They are fuller than last year’s mod-els-and the same materials that were so successful then are used to make them. Duvetyn, velours and similar cloths appear In lighter weights than last year so that top coats and suits may be full and draped without being clumsy. This ampleness of cloth makes the top coat easy to slip on and off and adds to its warmth, and there Is room under ltfor panniers and other arrangements of drapery for wide hip effects. These are fairly well established in the styles and must be reckoned with. Heavy homespuns are used in some of the handsonfe and practical new models.

Collars are either of fur or of thfc cloth in the coat. They are very cozy looking In either case. The fur collars are wide and fit snugly, coming up about face and chin and very are managed so as to give the same effect of coziness with the face snuggled down Into them; very often they button across at the front and become a small cape when unbuttoned: The coat shown In the picture is a good example of the new styles in substantial and practical top coats. It Is of be£vy cloth and therefore not as full as dressier models. Its narrow belt of the cloth fastens fit one side, and Its very odd “and smart cuffs "are finished with a single large button.

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Top Coats Are Full and Soft

should be shaken until dry. Holding the feather by the rib it is shaken and gently beaten against the other hand. *lf the little flues cling together this may be corrected by holding them over the spout of a steaming kettle. When the plume is thoroughly dry it is ready for curling. " An ordinary table knife will answer for culling a plume. The plume is drawn -along the edge of the knife between it and the thumb. The trick is to curl the flue only at the end and not too tightly. Each flue is to be enrled-to correspond wkh the others. , A faded plume may be tinted or a white plume given a color by dipping them in gasoline into which a little oil paint, such ? as comes in small tubes, has been—dissolved, -One- has to experiment to get the tint wanted. Gasoline will not affect the curl of a feather. This tinting should be done by an open window in a room that has no fire of any kind in it, or in the open, air. It takes a professional feather manufacturer to make fancy feather ornaments, wreaths and pompons of the flues. There are many new ways of using ostrich flues on the new millinery for fail and winter and the possessor of plumes will not look far before finding a use for them.

TnuTpoekefs are set in. This coat is long and reaches to within six inches of the bottom of the dress skirt, which is almost instep length. Its collar could hardly be improved upon. For street wear or motoring or as a steamer coat this model may be worn with assurance. And the silk hat trimmed with fluted ribbon that bears it company is of just the same character aa the coat.

Feminine Fripperies.

\ Givel HgUicb, vUt "TUI *«X W tUfovfl and applied on capes and evening coats of heavy silk jersey, are an effective trimming. Sometimes they are edged with silkffoss, sometimes with jet or colored beads. For the woman .who enjoys sport togg«iy great ’fctfveloping scarfs of the softest Shetland wool woven on the diagonal and made in the most- fascinating misty colors are to be found in a few of the smartest shops and appear to be finding favor when worn straight around the neck, with the wide soft ends tucked under the belt in front.

Dainty Collars.

Dainty collars make their appeal to the pnrse of the shopper,~both their colors and fabrics. Natural and eolpred linens embroidered in wool »re good. Small collars in filet lace may -the ruffles of georgette- in various shades are always acceptable.

INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES

Old Man Finds Relic of His Boyhood in Museum DENVER —ln the Colorado state museum hangs the tattered little coat of a . ten-year-ohl hoy, with its coarse, brawn,.-homespun weave, its frayed bands of black velvet about the collar and sleeves, its old-fashioned plaid

by his wife, hardly less gray, but with a firmer step. Suddenly the old man gripped the arm of his wife and exclaimed: | “That’s my coat! That's .the coat my mother made for me w r hen I was a boy. And I*hji going to take it back home with me.” ■ , To -Suwrtßtendent James Morrlqft and Curator J, C. Smiley he told the his mother from the neighborhood while the battle was on, returning later to find the house ransacked. To get his request before the board of capltol managers the old man wrote out this: ' **l find in the capltol basement, in case No. 3970, a copt of mine. This , coat was made by my mother during the Civil war, she having spun all the cotton and wool,--then weaving the same into cloth and made the coat from homemade cloth. Part of the battle of Tupelo,- Miss, was fought on my mother’s place. This coat and many other articles were missing after the battle. I would very much appreciate your returning this the first coat of my babyhood days back to me, I was raised in Tupelo, Miss. My present home is in Elgin, Tex. Respectfully yours, J. W. THOMAS.” Confederate Veteran Gets New Pair of Trousers LOS ANGELES. —Ezra L. Bliss, seventy-five years old, who was a sergeant in the Fourth Missouri cavalry during the Civil war and was once a neighbor of Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson, the Confederate leader, declared Jn the

juvenile court that, he had been assaulted; The weapon, it developed', was afonran candle- in the hands et Willie Brown, seventeen years old, a colored high school boy. Willie Brown went to court accompanied by his parents. The extremes met at either end of a long table presided over by Judge Reeve. Sergeant ■RIRsln full‘regfineptals, lobKed every inch the old soldier. He bears a striking likeness to the of Gen.

Robert E. Lee, with whom he said he . . , . . foughtT When the court asked Sergeant Bliss what the trouble was, h replied: “Well, sir, I was assaulted. ■ “What was the weapon V „ , .. — “A roman candle in Downey about ten o’clock at night- This boy fired it at me and two of the balls struck my trousers when I was only six feet awny I have the trousers here, sir, with the holes hurried in them.” The court released Willie Brown into the custody of his parents. “A very good way to straighten up this ‘bunch’ is,” he said, “to make a pool among them and pay Sergeant Bliss for a new pair of trousers. * Willie agreed to do this. ~ . irrpsir-B?rtrt-frrrs- 1 rousers cost from SL2 to sl4. His -pm form made of fine woolen army blankets. Bank Bandit Elucidates the Why and Wherefore n HICAGO —lt was In the new Sixteenth Street State bank at St. Louis avenue. C Behind the cashier’s cage were Jacob A. Kalis, cashier and pretty nine-teen-vear-old Elsie Landauer, collection teller. On a bench, Mrs. Rose Iio " en « J 1022 Central Park avenue, who had

wjis showing a new revolver and telling what he’d do to bank robbers. Elsie was explaining how she’d telephone the police. • .. Then five young men entered with drgwn revolvers. Hands up. the leader. Up went the hands. A bafidit confiscated Jake’s revolver and collected about $5,000. They were so polite that as they left Mr. Maltz said “Why? Why? You’re all young men —fine/ healthy young men. .Why do you risk your lives this way? For this you will be hounded all your lives. Whv do yon. do It?" ——- - “pn fedr ydu wliy,’’ saidthe leader. “1 was In — “I figured if I came back alive things hack Juune would he-wnnderfu! r „ _ “Mv girl was waiting for me when I came back. There were all kinds of cheers and parades. We were married. That was six months ago. Then I started looking for a Job. I couldn’t get a Job. None of us here could get a lob My wife is going to be a mother pretty soon. And no work.’’ J Then he wheeled and the five walked out to a waiting automobile. Missouri Centenarian Who Has Never Quarreled _ RFCKENRIDGE, MO. —In Breckenridge is a man who has made it a lifeB long practice never to quarrel or argue and never to speak ill of any, person And that man is one hundred and one years old. He is Dr. Joseph S.

Halstead, who was Henry Clay’s physician many years. “There is no man equal to Clay in American public life today,” he said. “Yes there is; President Wilson IgJ* interrupted Mrs. Halstead. But the doctor merely shook his head and waived further answer. ' They never have quarreled, these two aged people, who have spent 07 years as* man and wife. The usvHH i family “spat” has been entirely un-

known to them. “We sometimes disa- , ■ ™" “lt b. t « never permit it to go to the extent of an »rgmMn.or qun’rrel,” Mrs. Halstead said. •That is one reason out love for each other la oo <rrpnt as it was when we were married. Dr and Mrs. Halstead are the parents of eight children. They have 88 deSC S,ctOT S Halstead Is an advocate of simpler foods, especially cornbread and mush and thinks them beneficial to the human system. predirt«a-te-W boyhood U°“dnys of practiJ as a physician he underwent aU the strain and hardships that are a part of a ® . * He finally quit practicing and became a farmer that he might be able to lead a life of more regular hours.

lining, its brass buttons, the rents at the shoulders and the legend upon the description card pinned to it, which - treads: —*===. “This hoy’s coat with other clothes was found after the battle of Tupelo, Mississippi, July 14, 1864, by J. R. Wylie, Company D, Forty-fourth lowa volunteers. Present address 175 South Franklin street, Denver.” Axx old man, gray haired and feeble, was among a crowd of visitors the other day. He was. accompanied

just made a deposit, and Mrs. Mary liudnick, of the same address, who had just paid a note, were discussing “Hnlm In 1 “frbnt Of lllb cgshffeT**— cage stood Nathan Maltz, father of Samuel W. Maltz, president of the bank, discussing with David Flyer, -3M-1 West sixteenth street,, the, social unrest antr economic turmoil. - Elsie were—worrying neither of the high cost of!_ living nor of the social unrest. Jake