Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1912 — Page 6

SHOWING PA HOW TO BRING PEACE

Mrs. Remsen Knew Proper Wa> to Manage Lovers’ Quarrels.

By CLARA INEZ DEACON.

(Copyright. 1912. by Associated Literary I Press.) After farmer Remsen’s wife had •trained the evening milk and got things ready for an early breakfast she came out on the veranda where her husband sat smoking and sat down with a bump and a sigh. Two or three minutes passed and then the husband remarked:' “I’m gittin’ riled up.” “You don’t mean mad?” was asked “Yes. I do." “But what in beeswax has riled The spotted cow didn’t kick you again tonight, did she?” -e "No, it aip’t the spotted cow. It’s the way things are goin* around this house and the time has come when I want to know all about it." “I didn’t know as anything dreadful had happened,” replied the wife after a moment. “The meals are being cooked and the t beds made the same as usual. I guess you’ve got prickly heat.” “And I guess you’n Kitty take me for a fool! ” “Look here, pa,” said the wife in a soothing way, “it would be better for you to ’tend to the outdoor work and leave me to manage inside. But if you won’t do it I tell you something. It don’t amount to shucks, but you’ve got to know or bust. Our Kitty and Earl Andrews have quarreled.” “You don’t say!” exclaimed pa with such vigor that he bit off the stem of his pipe. - "There you go! You’ll be falling off your chair ne^t!” “But they’ve quarreled! Bless my cats, but I thought something was up. I asked about Earl three or four days ago and you turned me off. So they’ve had a row and won’t get married?” ’ “What a man you are, pa! S’pose they have quarreled? Young folks in love always quarrel. You’n me quafreled.” “But we made it up.” “So will they if some idiot don’t spile everything.” “And that’s the reason Kitty is moonin’ around and eatin’ nuthin’ but tea and toast?” he asked after hitching around for a while. “She ain’t goin’ to die over it. I don’t want you to say a word or to pretend to notice anything. It’s not for the girl’s father to mix in such things. You jest leave it to me.” “But women ain’t got heads for business.” “Is this business, you old sunflow-

“Gosh All Hemlock!”

er?” exclaimed the wife. “Do you think you can patch up a lovers’ quarrel the same as you sell butter’n eggs? No, sir, and that’s why I tell you to keep hands oft.” “Yes; but mebbe I’ll have to go to Earl and threaten to lick him.” “Hiram Remsen, have you lost the little sense you ever had?” was flung at him like a stone. “Jest hear me, now. You shet up as tight as a clam! Don’t you peep! Don’t you notice anything! Don’t you mix in ’tall, If you do !” When Miss Kitty returned from school there had been admiration, love, an engagement and a quarrel. There are forty different things lovers can do and quarrel about, and so why specify the one thing in this case? It Is sufficient to say that both were agreed they had made a great mistake in thinking they were for each other, and all the time they knew they were making a great mistake in saying so. “You will find the right man and be happy with him," sighed the young man as he left the house. “And you the right'girl.” It was very sad. It was so sad that Miss Kitty wenMirto the house and kicked the cat, and the young lover scuffed two long miles down to the vilalge through the dust and wished a tramp were at hand to kick him. Pa Remaen’s curiosity was not half satisfied, hut ma bossed the roost and had a sharp tongue, and he kept hands off. It was a hard task for him, and when the spotted cow kicked him he kicked back with great vigor. One day there wps a report in the village that Miss Kitty Remsen was going to Arizona to teach school at $75 a month, and thsre were those '

who said that she would marry Boms rich cattleman within a year. Following on the heels of the first report came one that Mias Kitty had had an offer of SSO a week to go on the stage and play the part of little Eva in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Her good looks and her talent would insure her marriage to a millionaire before the end of the second season. The third report was to the effect that Miss Kitty was to accompany a rich Boston lady as companion on a trip around the world, to be gone two years, and that in Paris she would surely find a count to fall in love and propose to her.

The three reports were rather indefinite, but the fourth was vouchtd for by the county paper. It could state on the best of authority, it said, that Miss Kitty Remsen, daughter of the well-known and highly esteemed farmer Remsen, had been knocked down by a running hog and had her left leg broken. The bone had been set by D. Cummings, the popular medico, and the patient was doing well.

Earl Andrews’ father had given him a start in life by buying him a flouring mill. As the sad-hearted young man ground the wheat into flour the gossip of the village reached his ears and gave him cold chills. He had loved and lost. He had meant to love, hut the lost was a different matter. He had rather picked the fuss for the sake of making up. He even knew just what he would reply when a penitent note from Kitty brought him hack to the farm house 1 , and with tears in her eyes she asked forgiveness. He would pretend to think the matter over for a couple of minutes and then say:

“Very well, but don’t let it happen again.”

The sum of money which that young man would have given to put things back two weeks he figured out on one of his paper flour sacks at $3,850,224.85. He figured it three times, so there could be no mistake about it. The words “loved and lost!” rang in his ears above the grinding of the mill. Pa Remsen had heard all the reports as they came out, and at length the time came when he must talk. “Ma, what does It all mean ?” he! asked. "Oh, it’s you, is it?” was answered. “Didn’t I tell you to keep your nose out?" “Yes; but “And you do it!” “But what’s Kitty doing out in the orchard? Some tramp >may come along and yell at her. I guess I’ll—” “You guess nothing! Don’t you go near the orchard, and don’t you call her!” ’ He went off to work in the cornfield, but an hour later came tiptoeing back to the house to say: “Martha, there’s a tramp skulking in the orchard!" “Tramp nothing, you old hen. I really believe you are getting blind! Go back to your work!” It was only half an hour this time before pa returned to say: “There’s a tramp right up to Kitty and talkin’ with her! I’m goin’ out and- ” He was whirled around and flung down on a chair, and It. was two or three minutes before the wife said: “Now you can get ready to ask Earl Andrews to stay to supper. It’s him out there with Kitty!” “Gosh all hemlock!” “And you’d have spilt the hull thing!” “Then—then ” “Then you shot up! I never did see what cabbage beads men are over makln’ up lovers’ quarrels! Jest go out and hang around the back door in a keerless way. and when they come up you ask Earl to have a glass of buttermilk to stay his stomach ’till I can get the love-feast ready!”

APPEALED TO THEIR CUPIDITY

Comparatively Well-to-Do Residents of Yokohama Got Rice Intended For the Poor. The nearest Japan has yet come to the “free soup kitchen” idea, so common in the western countries in times of scarcity, says the Japanese Advertiser, was the “poor man’s rice market” at Toeb and Motomachi In hama Sunday. This market opened Sunday morning and will continue for a week, during which the needy can purchase Rangoon rice at the cost of 16 sen a cho. The opening of the market was a signal for considerable disorder, sharp trading and deceit. The promoters of the sale, Mr. Abe, a director of the Yokohama Rice Exchange, and his associates were disconcerted at the close of the day’s business to learn that many well to do persons had visited one or the other of the stores and had purchased five cho of Rangoon rice, which was the maximum limit for the purchaser. In fact the number of those who were sufficiently well to do to purchase rice at the outside market price wrns so numerous that many of the deserving poor who came to the sale were crowded out and returned to their homee at the close of business for the day with empty baskets. The miscarriage of plans In this way led the promoters to seek the aid of the police and yesterday the storekeepers were Instructed to sell rice to no person unless he or she produced a certificate from the city office that he was poor and deserving. The scenes at the two stores were boisterous and caused the police to be called in on several occasions to get the crowds in order. The wouldbe purchasers came from all parts of Kanagawa prefecture. 1

The Old, Old Story

HIS NEW YEAR THOUGHTS

The Eloquent Hopelessness of the Well-Known Author, Robert Louis Stevenson. Beautiful in its simplicity and eloquence is the following gem for New Year meditation, culled from the magic pages of that lamented master of English prose—Robert Louis Stev- j enson. “To be honest, to be kind—to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make the whole family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but those without capitulation—above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself—here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful.”

New Year’s Eve—He Says: My dear, As the old year is departing I am thinking Of what the new May have in store for us, For you and me and EtheL I sit here smoking, Burning up money needlessly, Depriving myself and family Of life's necessities And possibly luxuries. Let’s add and multiply These nickels I destroy; Let us figure interest and compound it. Why, they make dollars— They make bank accounts. Without the weed I should have been a millionaire. I quit it now. This night shall be my last Of useless waste. These nickels shall make of me A Rockefeller, a Morgan or a Carnegie. They mean an automobile, A powerful, big red car. Oh! such comfort as it will bring With summer nights, So smoothly gliding Beneath the twinkling stars! There is a college course for Ethel In the nickels I will save, And she shall pick the best. No common boarding school Or female seminary for her, But one in keeping With the standing of her old dad. And, too. that trip to Europe We have often dreamed about. That’s possible now With smoking out. You’d .better begin planning for it soon. __ And then, just possibly, We might conclude To keep right on and circle this old globe. Won’t that be grand? And just to think These things will come From cutting out a useless habit And now, my dear, Let’s go another step. There’s candy for yourself and Ethel; It’s needless waste. Just figure what it means. See what life would be without It. Why,- in a year or two I could quit the daily grind And tell the “old man” to "go hang.” Ahd with the interest compounded We three would live at ease. We’ll call it done right now And candy will be barred. If only all the world Would stop and think, Would Just apply a little sound horse sense, These New Year resolutions Would bring the millenlum. The cost of living Would no longer be a problem. Old age would have no terrecs For the poof. * Hall to the year nineteen thirteen.

by Wright A. Patterson

FIDO’S RESOLUTION.

He resolve* to be kind to all stray cats.

Evening, January s—She Says: John, What is it I smell? An odor of nicqtine, A vile cigar. I know you have been smoking. So soon you have forgotten The plans we made, The automobile, The trip to Europe, The school for Ethel. It is but five short days ago That I believed you. So go the plans I made, The dreams I dreamed, All spoiled, all ruined, All evaporated into useless smoke Because of man’s weak nature. But ’tis all that women may expect, To drudge and toil, To skimp and save That man may not be denied His cigars.

He Says: How dare you criticise! How dare you condemn! This morning I saw the candy box You thought so carefully concealed. And I refuse to be the only victim Of New Year resolutions. They can go hang— The automobile, The trip tb Europe, The school for Ethel. If I must slave all through my days # shall have some comfort, If only of the weed.

They Say: Here’s to nineteen thirteen. We’ll live it as we’ve lived before/ We’ll enjoy it, We’ll have the little things we wanti We will not dream of the impossible. The figures lied , And we were fooled, But only for a few short days. Here’s to nineteen thirteen— And life.

MAKING THE BEST OF ROOM

With a Little Care and Arrangement Much Extra Bpace In, Attic May Be Contrived. There are thousands of thousands of homes where attic rooms are “done off,” and In almost every Instance a lot of space Is wasted. This can be overcome in moßt cases. Making a room In a top floor or "attic” is generally done by panelling or plastering the walls, and where the roof slopes down to the floor, or almost to the floor, a large place is cut off by building a short partition down from the roof to the floor. The partition or “wall” of such a room Is generally not high enough for the average bureau or dresser with Its swivel mirror; no old-fash-ioned bureau without a mirror is high enough for a chiffonier. And so a Bmall one is generally placed against this wall. This takes up a lot of space, sticking out into the alrdfey small room. This can be avoided If, when the room is done off, instead of cutting

Simple But Valuable Method for Saving Space in Attic Rooms.

off this space back of the short partition, a. series of drawers is built in. The bottom drawer would be deep and wide and the other three or four drawers would taper up, the top one being' quite narrow as the roof is sloping toward this shqrt partition all the time. With two such built-in bureaus or sets of drawers’ the entire floor space of the room remains for the bed, chairs and table, and yet there are plenty of drawers handy.

VEILS ARE MANY AND VARIED

Woman May Have Her Choice of Immense Variety and Style This Happy Season.

The woman who dotes on shopping Is sure to be allured to the veil counter. When the most* strenuous shopper can think of nothing else to buy, there is always the veil. The magpie effects in veils are the leaders today. They are not now, but they are becoming. There is something softening in these veils of black and white. They may be white, with a faint tracery of design in a black thread, or they may be black with the design sketched in with a white thread. The former, however, are, as a rule, more becoming than the latter. The woman on a hunt for a motor veil will find a magnificent one of chiffon which is arranged to cling to the brim of the hat by the elastic on the shirring at the top. The plaited frill at the bottom of the veil acts as a pretty plaited cqjlar around the neck. These veils come in all colors and are really quite “dressy.” For the motorist who likes to see through her veil there is a veil of chiffon consistency with a window of fancy mesh set In right over the eye space. They are much more becoming than the veil with isinglass openings; In fact, they are very fetching.

Handy Pocket.

The breast pocket that a man finds so indispensable, is seldom put into a woman’s coat, except by the best and most inaccessible tailors. After once discovering -one in a coat of mine I have always had one put in, Bays a writer for Good Housekeeping. It is a simple matter and one of the greatest convenience. The opening is in the slant at the edge of the lining. About six inches from the shoulder seam, rip the ljning for the space of another six inches. Into this insert a bag of heavy satin or sateen about ten inches long and six inches wide at the bottoto. The opening is on a slant. One side of the mouth of the pocket is faced down on the coat and the other is faced to the loose edge of the lining. It is thus easily reached and does not, in the usual loose coat, interfere with the lit.

fashion's Fancies

Broad brimmed hats are worn at rakish angles. All evening gowns are, long and most of them have extended brims. The most brilliant shades are fancied for stockings, and shoes have almost invariably the fancy tops. The train may form an integral part of the gown or it may hang a separate appendage from the waist line. j. It is the exceptional person who does not wear a touch of color about the feet, if only a bright colored shoe lace. There Is a great fancy at the present time to show the ankle in the opening at the buttoned part. This is the outcome of the rsge for colored hose. A charming diagonal effect is given by a jabot of lace starting at one side of the waist line and falling down the entire length of the skirt and carried out upon the train.

BROOKLYN TABERNACIE

KNOW OF THE DOCTRINE. Dec. 29. ••If any man tcilleth to do Bis will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of Ood, or whether 1 speak of Myself."—John t Hi, rr. CHE word doctrine seems to be offensive to the majority of Christians. Each denomina-. tion realizes that its doctrines are undefendable. Hence by mutual consent Christians seem disposed to Ignore doctrines, believing that the matter never will be clear to anybody. All this is a mistake; the doctrines of Christ, as presented by the Great Teacher and His Apostles, were a great Message, of which none were ashamed. The difficulty is that we gradually fell away from those doctrines into bondage to human traditions and creeds. We need the doctrines of Christ and the Apostles to

break down our creed fences, which have separated God’s people into various denominational folds, contrary to the Divine arrangement; for God has but one fold for all Hlb “sheep” of this Age. If as God's people we put away 1 sectarianism and the creeds of our fore-

fathers, and go with sincere hearts tx> the Lord and His Word, we shall there find the “oue Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God and Father over aM, and one Lord and Savior Jesus dhrist” and one “Church of the First-Born, whose names are written in heaven.” The Doctrines of Christ. What .God's people need is to put away other gospels, other messages of hope, aside from the one which the Bible presents. Theosophy is one of these, Evolution another. New Theology another. These hold out a different gospel from that of Jesus and the Apostles—the one given to us for our sanctification. The doctrines oT Christ are those presented in the Bible by Jesus and

‘‘Wise virgins will be able to understand the deep things of Ood."

and everlasting life through resurrection of the dead. Someone may inquire. Why are the doctrines of Christ so misunderstood that six hundred different denominations have resulted from the differences of theory respecting them? The explanation is that, shortly after the death of the Aposties. the Adversary sowed the seeds of false doctrines, using human lilts and pens in his service, through pride and ambition. The darkness became so great that we speak of the period as the “Dark Ages.” The various denominations of Christendom are evidences of honesty, perseverance and love of the Truth, because our forefather’s who made thesecreeds: Were each trying to get back into the true Light. They all made tbe mistake, however, of holding too much to the creeds and theories of the past. God, who foretold through the Prophets this darkness, and who has blessed and guided His children throughout it. has promised that with the End of this Age will come a great enlightenment upon His people, scattering the darkness. “The wise shall understand, but none of the wicked shall understand.” We are in the dawning of this New Age, and see clearly the Divine character and Plan for human salvation., . Willeth to Do His Will. Today’s study Is a message from the Master’s own lips. He gives us the key to a clear knowledge of His doctrines; namely, that the student must be fully consecrated to God and fully desirous of knowing His 1 will and His Plan. In order to see the Truth, from the standpoint of Divine Revelation, , we must draw near to God in the ' spirit of our minds, consecrated In our heart. We must will to do His will. God’s will represents actual perfection of thought, word and deed toward* God and toward all mankind. This is the Divine Standard, but we are no more able to fulfill its demauds than were the Jews: The best we can do Is to will to do right, and to the best of our ability carry out that covenant. But for those who have come Into harmony with God through Christ, their Advocate, a provision has been made whereby all desiring to do the Divine will and mauifestiug endeavors so to do. are counted as righteous—as though they did the Divine will perfectly. This class are the prospective members of the Body of Christ. To these the promises of our text apply. They shall know if *our Lord merely made up these teachings, or whether He Was the active Agent of .Jehovah. Onl the threshold of a new year shall we not determine to give our hearts fully to tbe Lord—to do God’s will? If so, we shall doubtless be enabled fully to understand the doctrines of Christ—the deep things of God. revealed to this Class by the Spirit of God.

“The doctrines of Christ will break down our creed fences.”

the Apostles. These doctrines relate to the Church and to the world, and God’s blessing for each: to sin and its forgiveness: the terms of that forgiveness, the basis of that forgiveness the death of Jesus and the hope of that forgiveness, release from Divine condemnation, fellowship with God,