Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — Page 3

FARMERS MUTUAL INSURANCE This Association insures all kinds of farm property against loss by fire or lightning in Benton, Jasper and White counties., It will write risks up to % the cash value of all farm buildings, and in case of total loss pays the full face of policy. In case of loss on personal property or live stock it will pay the appraised value at time of loss. COST OF MEMBERSHIP An owner of farm property can become a member of this company by paying 10c per 1 ... i . one hundred dollars of the amount insured as membership fee, and solicitor’s fee 01 two dollars for examination of premises; this guarantees protection until the next annual assessment. No expense for policy renewal except solicitor fee. The annual assessments average has been lower than 25 cents per one hundred dollars of amount insured for each of the 15 years of the company existence. WHY THE LOW COST OF INSURANCE IN THE MUTUAL? The Mutual pays no dividends or employes expensive agents on high commissions to solicit business; just furnishes protection at actual cost. This company furnishes ideal protection for its members at 50 per cent the cost of commercial companies. No notes or bond required. The directory of the Mutual challenges any reliable company to furnish AS CHEAP, AS SAFE, OR AS FAIR PROTECTION against loss by fire or lightning as do Farmers Mutuals authorized by the state laws. INSURANCE IN FORCE JAN. 1, 1912, $2,325,000 Membership respectfully solicited. Call on your nearest, solicitor or inquire of your neighbor member for further information or the company officers. Solicitors for Jasper county— MAßlON I. ADAMS, Rensselaer; GEORGE BESSE, Remington; WILLIAM MEYERS, Wheatfield; B. D. Comer, Adjuster for north end. w. i. McCullough, Pres., Fowler; FRANK E. FISHER, Secretary, Remington.

Fresh Air

Young Catterburt groaned. Then he shuddered as he regarded the frost on the windows. For he was about to plunge out into the biting cold. It is usually a girl who rouses a young man to deeds heroic or foolish and It was a particularly pretty, fluffy girl named Ethel who was responsible for young Catterburt's risking his peace of mind, to say nothing of his" life, out among the pneumonia germs in the freezing air. If Ethel had been the sort of girl who is content to make magazine cover pictures of herself before a blazing log fire, or if she had loved to preside over steamy chafing dishes young Catterburt would have been extremely happy in her company. But Ethel had a mania for outdoor exercise. Apparently she never remained in the house if she could create an excuse to get out, and young Catterburt, being her constant shadow, had to go along. He didn’t dare not to go, for fear some of his rivals would spring in and usurp his place. This winter Ethel had led him a merry pace. He had not dreamed when he became acquainted with her in the summer than she was going to turn out to be that kind, for she had seemed particularly fragile and clinging. The things she could not invent now to do out of doors could have been recited in half a minute. Sunday afternoons when young Catterburt would drop in for a comfortable call Ethel would greet him with energy. “I’m so glad you’ve come,” she would say. ‘lsn’t it the most perfect day for a walk! I’m simply dy-y-ing to get out. Don’t take off your coat, for I’ll have my things on in a jiffy!” Then she would make young Catterburt tramp nine or eleven miles with a thousand stinging needles of cold jabbing into his agonized countenance and his feet growing so numb that he knew he would have to excuse himself the instant he got back to her door and say, “Beg pardon—l’ll be back just as soon as I get my toes amputated.” She would lead him to the arctic shores of the lake and* ask him if it didnt’ look lovely, while gallons of icy breeze sneaked down his collar. If he asked her to go to the theater she would beg him to take her skating instead. Skating as an amusement appealed to young Catterburt as a very special kind of progressive insanity.

This particular evening another skating expedition was on tjie carpet. Young Catterburt’s face was so cold when he reached Ethel’s that he couldn’t talk. He didn’t want to talk, anyhow, for he was feeling considerably abused and harried by fate. Ethel, so bundled in furs that she looked like an Eskimo, was full of gay chatter. It added to his resentment. Finally even she bent her head to the bitter night wind and plodded on in silence, which was broken only by the clang of their swinging skates. Suddenly Ethel halted. She got around back of young Catterburt, much as though he were an inanimate windbreak, and made queer little noises. They sounded like frozen sobs.

Wbaz zhu matter?” Chatterburt got out. He couldn’t force his numb lips open far enough really to talk. “O-o-oh!” Ethel wept. “It’s simply horrid of you! It’s all your fault! It’s no way to treat a girl! It’s brutal—making me go outdoors in w-w-weather like th-th-this!” •“I —make you?” Catterburt stattered, aghast. “You were d-d-dying to go!” ‘Til prob-prob’ly die, all right,” Ethel told him indignantly, “but it’s your fault! You said once you 1-1-liked athletic, outdoor girls—and I’ve been one all winter, and I hate it, and I simply won’t any more, and I don’t care if I never s-s-see you again! O-o-oh! My eye-lashes are all fr-fr-frozen togeth-gether!” "Ethel,” young Catterburt chattered wildly, “I f-f-feel now that I can love you madly. After we get somewhere and drink about two quarts of hot coffee apiece I’m g-g-golng to t-t-tell you ab-b-bout it!”—Chicago Dally News.

One on the Tenor.

John McCormack, the Irish tenor, told the following story on himself at a dinner of the Irish society in New York recently: "My wife and I had been entertained at dinner by Archbishop Ireland of St Paul," said Mr. McCormack. "After the dinner my wife and I both sang for the prelate, and when Mrs. McCormack had finished the archbishop turned to me and said: ‘You should be very proud of such a talented wife.’ “ Tndeed I am,’ I replied with enthusiasm. < , ’"This is the first time he ever made such a confession,’ said my wife, looking at the archbishop with a twinkle in her eye. “ ‘He couldn’t make a confession in a better place,’ Remarked one of the guests,' indicating the archbishop. < " ‘True,’ smiled the prelate, “but I cannot forgive him,, because he isn’t sorry for it’"

Moslem Faith Growing.

The proportion of Mohammedans to the aggregate population of India has steadily risen since 1881. It is estimated that the number of Moslems under British authority in the Indian empire is now 68.000,000 as compared With 50,000,000 80 years ago. •*

Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the .subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford. No. 17S West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. A house built at right angles to itself is shown in the accompanying plan. For some reasons this style of building has more to recommend it than almost any other It was the first way invented to make a house larger without making it too long. In the early history of building operations, houses were made narrow because window lights were small and it was difficult to light a wide room. It was also more difficult to build a wide house at that time, because they hadn't sawed joists, and they lacked the mechanical contrivances that we now have for putting buildings together. A floor with hewed timber beams more than 16 feet long was altogether too shaky; In fact, floors used to go down into the cellar occasionally when parties of young folks got too boisterous.

Although this way of building a house is several hundred years old, it is still as popular as ever, and the reason is that houses built in this way make very comfortable hoipes. They have a home-like appearance as you stand and look at them, and when you go inside they are so light and cheerful that you feel at home in time.

The only objection is that every room in the house has two or three outside walls, and for this reason it is a little more difficult to heat such houses in cold weather; but we have learned how to protect ourselves against low temperature by using building paper and other non-conduc-tors of heat and cold. Then, when you consider that during the ordinary winter, even in the northern states, we have only a few days of extreme cold against 50 weeks of moderate or warm weather, this objection fades

into insignificance. The fact is most of our winter weather hovers around the freezing point, thawing a little in the daytime and freezing at night. It is easy to keep even a large house comfortable all through with such temperatures, and you can keep part of it warm the coldest days if the house is well built. We value light and fresh air more than our grandfathers did, because we know more about the Importance of such things in regard to health. We understand that people who live In the open air and sunshine usually have very little use for the doctor. We have figured it out scientifically; so we know the reason why. It Is easy to lay out a house of this kind Into good comfortable rooms

First Floox Plan

properly connected for convenience as well as looks. Some house plans are a great puzzle to an architect; but Ulis kind of plan comes easy. You have the space, the difference exposures; you have room for doors where you want to put them; and you have a convenient corner where you can put in a good, comfortable stairway designed for looks as well as service. When it comes to heating, you can place the furnace under the front hall, and carry short pipes to each room; and you can carry the hottest pipe to the bathroom, where it is most needed. plan presents a good many ad-

IDEAS FOR HOME BUILDERS

BY WMARADFORD

vantages and very few disadvantages. Commencing with the front porch, there is an advantage in having it protected on two sides by the bouse. Porches as large as this are often furnished with easy chairs, tables, and even lounges and rugs on the floor. When you have a nice porch furnished up In that way, you like to use It as early in the season as possible and as late as possible In the fall. If this porch looks to the south or east, It will be comfortable on sunny days late in the fall as well as early in the spring; and you will get a month's use of It more than you would of an ordinary straight-way veranda. By« fitting It with screens apd sash, the time may be extended to Include al-

Second Floor Plan

most the round year In some locations. The fashion of screening porches in the summer time to keep out flies and mosquitoes is a good one, and it is easy to lift out the screens in the fall and put sash In their places. There are different ways of managing. Some people like to do things differently from the ordinary; and 1 notice that such folks generally get more out of life. Some families live in their houses; while others make the house a place to stay in when necessary, and get away from It as much and as often as possible A

good deal depends on the house plan in the first place, but more depends on the housekeeper, because one person will make a house comfortable and inviting, while another woman who works just as hard perhaps has the faculty of making .things rather unfrleasant. The chairs may be too nice to sit down in, or there may be a lot of bric-a-brac in the way—stuff you are afraid of breaking or disarranging. The study of a home means much more than the plan and manner of building the house.* This plan may be carried out at a cost of from |2,000 to |2,5<)0.

Short of Coin.

They had not been engaged very long, but already Ernest had made It apparent that the salary of a shop assistant did not admit of an esctatlc existence amid a sea of diamond rings, theater stalls, or even some chocolate creams. Last summer they walked together to a neighboring village. The road was dusty, the evening close, and Amelia felt that life would be better worth living when she had an opportunity of refreshing herself with tea and strawberries. Ernest hesitated outside the only tea shop In the place, and she smiled hopefully. His hand stole tq his trousers pocket; he fumbled nervously for a moment “Er—Amelia,” he said at last “will you have something eat eat now and walk back, or shall we have nothing to eat and go back by train?"

Dignified Rebuke.

Ex-Minister Wu of China was being entertained at a banquet In Chicago. “M r - Wu," said a man who sat beside him. “I hear there’s a movement in China to cut off those pigtails you fellows wear. Why do you wear the fool thing, anyway?” “Why,” responded Wu, eyeing his man as he spoke, “do you wear your fool mustache?” “O,” replied the other, 'Tve got an impossible mouth.” “Er—so I should suppose, from some of your remark*,” said Wu.— World Today. __

Modern Parents

W T IS a thankless task to be a parent in these exacting days, and I I wonder now and then at the temerity which prompts man or woman to assume such hazardous duties. Time was. indeed, when parents lifted their heads loftily in the world, when they were held to be, in the main, useful and responsible persons; when their authority, if unheeded, was at least unquestioned, and when one of the ten commandments was considered to indicate that especial reverence was their due. These simple and primitive convictions lingered on so long that some of us can perhaps remember when they were a part of our youthful creed, and when, in life and in literature, the lesson commonly taught was that the province of jjhe parent is to direct and control, the privilege of the child is to obey, to be exempt from the pninful sense of responsibility which overtakes nim in later years. The children have many powerful advocates, while the parents stand undefended and suffer grievous things. It must surprise some of them occasionally to be warned so often against undue severity. It must amaze them to hear that their Iflzy little boys and girls are suffering from overwork and in danger of mental exhaustion. It must amuse them—if they have any sense of humor—to be told in the columns of the weekly paper, “How to Reprove a Child,” just as they are told “How to Make an Apple Pudding.” ' As for the discipline of the nursery, that has become a matter of supreme importance to <dl whom it does not concern, and the suggestions offered, the methods urged are so varied and conflicting tliat the modern mother can be sure of one thing only—all that she does is wrong. The most popular theory appears to be that whenever a child is naughty it is his parent's fault, and she owes him prompt atonement for his misbehavior. We should be astonished, if not appalled, if we could see in figures the number of times the average child is unnecessarily censured during the first seven years of life. Punishment is altogether out of favor. Its apparent necessity arises from the ill-judged course of the father or mother in refusing to a child control over his own actions. I once knew a father who defended himself for frequently thrashing an only and idolized son—who amply merited each chastisement—by. say-

Callow and Spoony Young Men

By M. S. BOYDSTON

dreams and begins courtship before she ift fitted by education and experience to discern the true from the false. The results too often are a wrecked life or unhappy marriage. The well balanced, self-respecting young people who hold to a high standard of conduct are called prudish and old fashioned. As one young woman indignantly expressed it: “We are relegated to the wall if wo refuse to permit our young man callers to embrace and caress us, or sit up late along with them. They call on girls who give them all the freedom of lovers, without any engagement or intention of marriage.”' This, she said, is the unwritten code among the majority and it disgusts me with young men. It kills the social spirit and entertaining in the home, for the callow youth does not sigh for the family presence and the girl cares only to be alone with him for his caresses. ' Every boarding house keeper has her nerves rasped by these spooners, who hold out till one o’clock. Reserve and less cheapening of jove would result in happier marriages and fewer ending in the divorce court. There is no surer way to congenial unions than the association of young people in sensible friendships that bar out familiarities. To bring out the best in another you must be looking high yourself. Wit, tact, talent and sound sense are to be desired above caresses and kisses.

Men as Pure Minded as Women

By PROF. WM. A. McKEEVER Kan. State Agricultural College

cleanness of thought, speech and Conduct before boys as before girls. Pareiftal ignorance and neglect constitute the first contributing cause of the great prevalence of the social evil. Let American parents rally to the great social obligation of training their, children for pure thinking and clean sexual life, and the race will quickly manifest the splendid manly and womanly qualities inherent in our ordinary human breed. Athletic sports, vigorous and joyful outdoor exercises so both the physical and mental exuberance of youth' may find a wholesome outlet, are recommended. The long-standing theory that every boy must sow his “wild oat*** has been successfully controverted by special iyta.

By P. EVAN JONES

ing that Jack would think him an idiot if he didn’t. That father was lamentably ignorant of much that it> behooves a father now to acquire. He had probably never read a single Rook designed for the instruction and humiliation of parents. He was in a state of barbaric darkness concerning the latest theories of education. But he knew’one thing perfectly, and that one thing is slipping fast from the minds of men—namely, the intention of the Almighty that there should exist for a certain time between childhood and manhood the natural production known as a boy.

Masses of cheap books picture love as a whirlwind of passion, moral or immoral. The noblest examples of love in real life show constancy, unselfishness, self-sacrifice. Such a love is the development of high ideals that uplift and purify the human heart. By association two lives are made beautiful in one. The world is flooded with false ideas and the young read the thrilling story, are impressed, and before they are out of kilts they are enacting the first chapters of the sensational novel. The schoolgirl reads,

Judged from the standpoint of the future well being of the American people, social purity is a more important issue than the tariff or the conservation of natural resources. Boys and girls of all ages should be allowed frequent association with the opposite sex under proper restrictions. The line fence that separates the sexes at school and elsewhere is a shameful ad-, vertisement of our dual standard of morals. Women are not naturally any more pure minded (than men. Take down the line fence; inculcate the same degree of '

Often Warned Against Any Undue Severity