Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1911 — Page 2

m JISPER 600NTT DEMOGIRT i. i.BIBCMt.tDIIOHID PBBIIBBH. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second Class Matter June 8, 1408, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. -■ ' ; ' - ~ . Long Distance Telephones Office 315. • Residence 311. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2, 1911.

Humor and Philosophy

By DVNCAN M. SMITH

PERT PARAGRAPHS. rpm: American boy can always find something to celebrate, but even if be couldn't it wouldn't make any difference to him. He would just go on .celebrating anyway. Flattery: is always acceptable provided that it is of the approved brand. Clothes don't make a man, but sometimes his wife’s clothes unmake him. It is easy enough to be comfortable at some one else's expense. The whisky that be didn't diink hurts mo man. It is different with a woman. Supporting a husband keeps lots of women out of the suffrage movement Getting what doesn't belong to us gives us most of our trouble. The man who minds his own business has an easy boss. Many a had man has died in a good cause.

Saving the Crops. Sure! We'll go Or, better still, send a substitute. Who wouldn't stop his work. Drop his whitewash brush, 1 With the job of painting the fence. That the neighbors said Looked scrumptious. Only half done. j Or leave his pen in the air. With the poem on summer But partially completed. And take the train ! To the old stamping grounds For the sole and express purpose of Saving the crops? Heroes respond when their country ; calls To war I And rush up to the cannon’s mouth For the purpose of investigating j To see what it had for breakfast,. If anything. They bite tho dust Though it doesn’t come highly recom- j mended As a health food. And rmai sing their praises And vote their wives a pension. How much more worthy Of a vote of thanks Is he who tosses all else aside And rushes forth To save the crops! All he gets for it Is high wages, Good country board And a chance to flirt With a fair corn fed country girl Who is equally skillful On the piano Or the kitchen range. Isn't he a self sacrificing mortal? "When the nation’s new ode Is written By the journeyman poet He should be incorporated therein. They Were Introduced. “Getting on to jrour automobile?" “Gradually." “You have to know an automobile before you can run it.” “I ought to be acquainted with mine. \ sat four hours with it in the country jrgaing as to whether we would come dome without a horse.” Filled With Language. “No more blue Mondays at our house.” “How does that happen?” “My husband does the washing.” “So that changes the color scheme?” “Yes, It is mostly red.” On the Billboards. “Oh, yes. I can read the signs of the times!” “What do you make out of them?” “That smoking a five cent cigar Is the acme of happiness.” Easy Way.

“He.gets along fine -With his mother- “ Some men can." “She Is In Australia and he is here.”” Job printing of the better class type, ink ancf typography in harmony—The Democrat office.

HINTS FOR THE BUSY HOUSEWIFE

Labor Saving Device For Seeding Cherries.

Most careful cooks stone the cherries before they bake the pie. but that is a long and tedious operation unless performed with the assistance of the seeding machine invented by a Pennsylvania man and shown in the illustration. The machine clamps to the edge of the kitchen table and has attached to it a plate to hold the cherries before the stones are removed. A plunger operates through a ring that holds the fruit. The cherry is laid Over this ring and the plunger pressed down, returning by the action of a spring The downward pressure pushes the pit ahead of the plunger, and it drops into a plate below. The good part of the fruit, cleaned much better and quicker than could be done by hand, drops into another dish. BrAwn Stew. Two pounds and a half of neck and shoulder of fresh beef cut in small pieces. If too fat. remove some of it. wash meat and put on stove in about two quarts or more of hot water in a good sized kettle. Add two onions sliced thin, two good sized carrots cut in dice, three medium potatoes cut up. Stew should cook about three hours and a half. Don’t boil too hard. Should be quite thick and very dark rich brown in color and not fat Put in onions, carrots, salt and pepper when you put on the meat; put in potatoes about half hour before stew is dpne.

Sauce For Spanish Omelet. The sauce for a Spanish omelet 'may be made in the morning or even the day before and be heated when it is wanted. Gook a slice of onion chopped fine in a tablespoonful of butter and then add a cupful of tomatoes and a red and a green pepper, both chopped fine, and cook for fifteen minutes. Add half a cupful of button mushrooms, each cut in two or three pieces, and cook for ten minutes more. Season with salt and paprika. Turn the sauce around an ordinary omeleL Any mushrooms may be usedRhubarb Chutney. Two pounds of rhubarb, cut in pieces; three quarters of a pound of seeded raisins, half a pound of stoned dates. Chop and soak raisins and dates three hours in two and one-half cups of vinegar, add one and one-half pounds of sugar, one ounce each of minced chili peppers, salt, ginger, garlic and one-quarter or one-half teaspoon of cayenne. Cook slowly. When raisins are soft add rhubarb. Cook until thick. Sultana raisins can be used and almonds, one cup, minced, added if liked.

Potato and Nut Croquettes. Mix together three cupfuls of mashed potatoes, one scant cupful of chopped nuts, one tablespoonful of finely chopped onion, one saltspoonful of sage, one beaten egg and pepper and salt to taste. Shape into croquettes, roll in crumbs, dip in beaten egg. roll again in crumbs, let stand one or more hours and fry in deep hot fat Serve with white sauce. Fried Veal. Take a cheap cut of veal and have It cut in thin pieces. Then take one slice of fat salt pork, cut into dice and fry until crisp. Put veal in fat and fry until dark brown all over, season and cover, put in oven or on back of range for about thirty minutes. Before covering put on a cup of boiling water. 1 London Fagots. One pound liver, one-half pound suet and one onion, all chopped fine; one quart stale breadcrumbs, one teaspoonful poultry dressing, salt and pepper to suit taste, one egg or a little milk to moisten it. Mold with flour inti cakes or balls and fry in deep fat Royal Pop Beer. Cream tartar, one pound; ginger, one and a half ounces; white sugar, seven pounds; essence of lemon, one dram; water, six gallons; yeast, one pint. Put in stone bottles if yOU have them and tie corks down tight Sour Milk Pie. One cupful thick sour milk, one cupful chopped raisins seeded, one-half cupful sugar or more if needed, piece of butter size of a walnut nutmeg and cinnamon and egg. Make with ■ two crusts.

GOLD TRIMMED GOWN.

Suitable Costumes For Outdoor Functions In Demand.

AFTERNOON DRESS.

Now is the season of the garden party, the popular diversion for a vast majority of social minded people. Gardens are at present no less a fad than are garden parties, a form of entertainment that we borrow from the old world. Many sober minded and benevolent persons have, learned that there is no form of recreation that will beguile so many dimes and dollars from the pockets of the careless as will a garden party for the benefit of this or that good cause. For private entertaining the garden party is just as successful. The fortunate suburbanite who has an ample lawn well set off by banks of flowers can always count on cheerful responses to invitations to eat ices or drink tea under her vines and fig trees. Consequently garden party gowns and garden party hats are matters of interest to many women other than those of the gay world that summer at Newport or Xarragansett Pier or Bar Harbor. The garden party gown pictured here, while suitable for any afternoon function, would be seen to excellent advantage at a smart afternoon lawn party. The wide picture hat of white chip affords the face the necessary protection from the snn, while the soft shimmering yellow chiffon tunic forms an effective contrast with the delicate green of the garden foliage. The tunic is adjusted over an underdress of white satin, a band of gold embroidery, flash-, ing along the lower part of the tunic.

EMBROIDERED BAG.

Illustrating the Legend of the House That Jack Built. Useful for many household purposes is the little bag shown here. It may save the tired mother many steps if used as a darning or sewing bag. As a collar and cuff or handkerchief bag it is very useful. In a little larger proportions it will also do as a general laundry bag. The embroidery on the bag is a very new and novel effect, designed by the

EMBROIDERED LAUNDRY BAG.

art school of the New York Young Women’s Christian association. This department of the school is under the direction of Miss Mary Bacon Jones, widely known for her writings on needlecraft. The pattern on the bag can be worked in cross stitch or in Kensington stitch. The pattern is a quaint angular one representing the story of Jack and Jill. Jill is standing beside the cow with the crumpled horn,' while on the other side of the “house that Jack built” stands its architect, together with the priest all shaven and shorn.

FINE $350.00 PIANO To be given away by The Democrat ABSOLUTELY FREE (This beautiful $350 piano will be given away to the person receiving the most votes in The Democrat subscription contest, opened Monday, July 17. The contest will close Saturday, December 23, 1911. .. . ... c : . 'A '

■ Description of Piano “BANNER UPRIGHT GRAND” PIANO, standard size, and weighs boxed for shipping, over 800 pounds. The back of the piano is built with G posts, 3% inches wide and 4 inches deep. The wrest plank is made of rock maple, covered with cross band, %-in.ch veneer so that tne piano will stay in tune. The plate or scale is full iron plate. The case is made in mahogany, with double cross band veneer inside and outside to prevent warping or splitting. The action is a first class repeating action with muffler rail attachment on the same. Three pedals of the latest design. Warranted by manufacturer for ten years.

Additional Prizes Besides this elegant high grade piano, two other fine prizes are to be given av/ay. To the person receiving the second highest number of votes, D. M. Worland will give a fine $35 FREE Sewing Machine with handsome 6-drawer, drop-head case, and the best sewing machine made in the world; guaranteed for life. Also G. J. Jessen, the Jeweler, will give an elegant silver set, consisting of 24 pieces—6 each of knives, forks, tablespoons and teaspoons, all in handsome silk-lined case and warranted for 20 years. Piano is Now on Exhibition The piano is now on exhibition in D. M. Worland’s furniture store on Van Rensselaer street, two doors north of The Democrat office, and can be seen and tried by any one at any time. Call around and see it. The Banner Upright Grand will compare favorably with the very best and highest grade pianos made, and is guaranteed for ten years. The person who is successful in this contest will secure one of the finest instruments in the county. Get Started Early Get into the contest right away. An early start may mean the winning of the piano. Get a flying start for the thing you want. You can’t afford to put this matter off a minute. Be the first in the field. The piano is going to be won by some one, and that some one may be you.' How to Secure the Votes Every renewal subscription of $1.50 to The Jasper County Democrat, will entitle the subscriber to 1500 votes; each new subscription, 3,000 votes. Every issue of The Democrat until the close of the contest, December 23, 1911, will contain a coupon good for five votes. Arrangements have been made with a number of the merchants whereby coupons good for one hundred votes will be given with every dollar’s worth of cash purchase. The following merchants now have the coupons on hand:

, . The Following Stores Have Certificates Rensselaer Merchants Merchants Outside of Rensselaer CLEVE EGER, Hardware Remington C. EARL DUVALL, Clothing and Gents Fur- PECK’S DRUG STORE nishings w WORDEN’S HARNESS SHOP D. M. WORLAND, Furniture and Rugs SPENCER’S JEWELRY STORE, B. F. FENDIG, Drug Store „ SAM FENDIG, Dry Goods rarr MRS. MARY MEYER-HEALY, Millinery W. L. WOOD, General Merchandise SCOTT BROS., Harness Aix Groceries AIX STORE, General Merchandise JESSEN, the Jeweler , H DEPOT GROCERY, Groceries Surrey B. N. FENDIG, Exclusive Shoe Dealer SURREY STORE, General Merchandise All these coupons, whether they are obtained with subscriptions of The Democrat, with purchases at the store or are clipped from the papers, must be returned to the office within ten days of the date on the coupon and will be counted for the lady whose name is written on the blank line of the coupon. Coupons will not be given with subscriptions during this contest where the amount is less than $1.50. Address all correspondence pertaining to this contest and make all remittances payable to ' r The Jasper County Democrat Rensselaer, Indiana

CYCLONE INSURANCE. There have been numetous heavy windstorms in the pa£t week, causing enormous damage to property in Other localities. Your 'ocality may be the next. Protect your property with a windstorm policy, thd kind R. Bv Thompson writes, and be safe.

TO FRIENDS OF THE DEMOCRAT. Instruct your attorneys tc bring all legal notices in which you are interested in or have to pay for to The Democrat, and thereby save money and do us a favor that will be much appreciated. All notices—administrator, —executor, or gui.-dian—survey, sale of real

estate, non-resident notices, ditch and highway notices, etc., the clients themselves control and attorneys will take them to the paper you desire for publication, if you mention the matter to them; otherwise they will take them to their own political organs. Please do not forget-this when haying any legal notices to publish.