Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 54, Number 30, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 May 1912 — Page 7

Woman and the Home Sphere

For Spring and

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TtM spring bride drapes her veü arouDd her face In graceful lines that i th hMd Hnd are knotted In front "with orancre blossoms. Veils

of lac, of course, are preferred If the bride's family has a valuable old heirloom of that sort or can afford one of fine real lace. The simple veil of illusion an pictured here looks charming and Is favored this season.

ONE MOTHER'S FINE SCHEME. H Taught Her Children How to Be Useful In Tholr Horn. A mother, wishing to mako her little flaughters belpful, devised the following plan: Each, morning fh wouKI write upon B. blackboard a list of twenty or more ttutlea for the day washing dishes, l weeping, dusting, making beds, etc. A quarter of these were little things that even the five-year-old boy could flkvllkr, bringing In kindling or giving the hen water. Each girl In tarn elected one duty, placing her Initials after ic Ab soon as a duty was completed It was erased from the board. At first the most difficult work fell to mother, but soon even the hard tasks wer being- selected by the daughter! until they all became proficient in most of the necessary branches of homemaking. The plan not only helped the mother and taught the daughters, but also served to prevent shirking, Jealousy and that constant nagging which makes lifo miserable in many homes. What's What In Handkerchiefs. The present stylo in handkerchiefs for men and women is in soft colorings, but there are novel effects In black and highly colored designs that are popular. Browns, blues and greens, with hues of a darker shade, are in demand. Scroll and flowery spray effects hare been superseded by designs involving treatment of birds and animals. TLAJVJVIjWG 8hj I know wll b happy, dearest, lproTt with practice.

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Summer Brides

I frM4 I l 'I' 4 1 USEFUL INFORMATION. A good treatment for soiled coat collars is naphtha applied with a brush. Dip the brush in naphtha until thoroughly saturated, then give the spofor grime a few brisk rubs. The most delicato velvet will yield to this treatment. A teaspoonful of peroxide of hydrogen in a half tub of cold water is a splendid bleach for lingerie and white clothes. Let the clothes remain In the water overnight and after rinsing wash in the usual way. To remove white spots from furniture dip a cloth in hot water nearly to boiling point. Place over the spot, remove quickly and rub the spot with a dry cloth. Alcohol or camphor quickly applied may be used. To prevent glassware from being easily broken put In a kettle of cold water, heat gradually until water has reached boiling point. Set aside and when water is cold take out glass. Milady's Rest Gown. Select a soft, pliable material of silk or wool. The bodice in surplice style is effective, and a fichu of soft lace or white mousseline softens the lines. A plaiting of lace around the sleeves finishes them in a dainty manner. A bow of lace with long ends catches the fichu at the center. Rest gowns may be made of inexpensive material and look very well. l FOH JUßfE and though I cant cook, Im kut FI1 Iftw Xork Evening fltam.

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ON YOUR BAKING DAY. 4 Light, tender doughnuts are made with a cupful of sugar, a teaspoonful of butter, two eggs and a cupful of milk. Mix In a scant pint of ÜQur that has been sifted, with two rounding toaspoonfuls of baking powder, making a paste that Is soft. Stand the bowl containing it on the ieo until it is very cold and then roll it out and fry before it loses its shape. The idea la to make the paste a little softer than can bo rolled before It is stiff with cold and' so to use as little flour as possible. The doughnuts should be turned continually while frying. There is an old fashioned cake which is possible if one has at hand a cupful of sour cream. Cream the yolks of three eggs' with a cupful of sugar and when the mixture is light beat in a cupful of cream in which has been dissolved a scant teaspoonful of soda. Then add a pint of flour, a little salt and a teaspoonful of lemon extract. Bake in an oblong shallow tin. Bread and cake should bo cooled as soon as they come from the oven. It is a mistake to turn bread and cake out on the bread board and (hen cover with a cloth. Instead have a bread and cake qoolcr, which can be made rit small cost. Buy about two feet of ralhor fine heavy fence wire and get the tin man to turn down on each end about four inches of the1 wire and bind the ends with tin to pnevent their scratching Everything with which they come in contact. There could not be a bettor-cover for cake and bread. GERANIUM AS A BAROMETER. It Will Indicate Whether Living Condition of Room is Sanitary. Experiments carried out by Louis Wittbold and Professor William Albert Locy of Northwestern university show that a growing plant is a barometer of the living conditions of a room and none more so than the old fashioned geranium. Almost all kinds of plants require the same things to sustain life as human beings, but show a lack of these necessities quicker, so that their ill health and wilting may give warning of the unhealthy living condition of a room. In order to live a plant must have water, of course, and light in most cases, but few realize that it must have air to breathe as well, for there is respiration in plants as well as in human bei igs. Plants breathe the air through the leaves, and much of their sustenance comes from that medium. If the air in a room is too dry, as in most steam heated rooms, there Is difficulty in making some plants live. The air lacks something that they must have and that is just as necessary to human ' life. Ferns, roses and geraniums are sensitive. The atmosphere in which a geranium will not live is not fit fox human beings. Crab Apple Jelly. When making crab apple jelly place a leaf of rose geranium in the bottom of the tumbler,. It will Impart a delicate rose flavor to the jelly.

For Our Boy an

CONFININGPETSJN CAGES. It Is Selfish to Keep Tham Prisoners For Amusement. If you keep any pets remember to attend to their wants regularly. Do not forget to feed and keep clean any animal you cage, od, better still, refuse to keep any animal or bird in a cage. It is most selfish to keep any pet merely to hear it sing or because it amuses you to watch its vain endeavors to escape. Iiemember how you fcel when illness Keeps you confined, perhaps to one room, and then you will understand in a small way what a bird, taken from a country hedge or wood, must feel like when caged and kept in a dull room, lonely and robbed of all that should make its life healthy and happy. Onr Dumb Animals. FUN WITH A COIN, A pretty trick is to keep a coin spinning by blowing on it throngh a tube. The best Instrument for the purpose Is a length of one-half or onequarter glass tubing, one end of which has been softened in a spirit lamp flame and drawn out to form a nozzle, with an orifice about one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter. The coin will tend to travel in the direction of the blast, but can be kept on the table easily by alterations in the position of the blowpipe. Start the coin spinning with your fingers and blow on one edge of the globelike fljrurt formed by the quick rotation. Spinning Tray. A small circular metal tray of the waiter type is turned face down on the table and raised a few Inches on the left side. Set it vibrating by pressing it smartly at a point between the center and the circumferance with the middle finger of the right hand, withdrawing simultaneously the support of the left hand. If pressed down at regular intervals as it wabbles it continue! to Tibrate indefinitely. With practic ont pick up th knack of timing tht impact! txactly.

NEW RECIPE FOR BEAUTY.

Do Not Laugh if You Wish to Remain Young.' A new plan for attaining or retaining beauty comes out on the average once a week, and some of the suggestions are sulllelcntly weird, but one recently offered has certainly not been surpassed in strangeness, says the New York Times' London correspondent. It Is simply that the person who desires to remain young should refrain from laughter. You must, according to a Jady who described the system, choose between looks and laughter. The two cannot go together. Laughing lines wrinkles the face. "There has lately sprung up in London a sot of expressionless women," she added. "These womenthere are from fifty to eighty oi them at the momentsteadily refuse to laugh at anything. They are all, more or less, forty years old woman's dangerous age and It Is their dally belief that by refraining from laughing they are retaining their looks. 44 1 first met the high priestess of the cult at the last big reception at Stafford House, and a few da's later I went to tea with hor. "She has a beautiful but impassive face. She does more than keep her face from smiling. '1 haven't laughed for two yof.rs, she told me with the nearest approach of joy which she permits herself; also she avoids all manual work and strain. "For example, she began to pour lea aud then, apparently remembering that even this might cause some expression to come into hor face, suddenly stopped and ordered a manservant to do it for her. 'A woman can keep ten years off her face by avoiding doing things like that,' she ex plained. "This woman and her following have almost reduced keeping straight faco3 to a secoud nature." Witticisms of tho French. Society is composed of two great classes, those who have more dinners than appetites and those who have more appetite than dinners. Chamfort. Gravity is a stratagem invented to conceal the poverty of the mind. Le Rochefoucauld. We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority. Mine, de Lambert. If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter the face of the whole world would have been changed. Pascal. The stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as the slave does. E. Souvestre. Society is divided into two classes, the fleecer and the fleeced. Talleyrand. Gentle and True. Who is she that shall command All my heart's devotion? She who's famed for beauty's dower? Beauty lasteth but an hour, "Wrecked so soon by the storms that lower O'er Time's cruel ocean. Who is she, then, that shall noign. All my heart en chaining? She whose gifts are of the mind, Intellect and will combined? Nay; in such I cannot find Any rest remaining. She that's tender, gentle-, true, While her love fails never. Lllco a sunbeam o'er tho land, Showering" good on every hand This Is she that shall command All my heart forever. Forget-Me-Xot. A Grandson

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Photo by American Pra Association. This is the latest pictur of tb fourth son of Crown. Princ Fredtrick William and Crown Princes Cecelia of Germany.

THE GREATEST BLUNDER.

The boys and girls will be Interested in a few of the "blunders' written down by 500 men, to be found in Crerar library: "Reading worthless book. "Did not stick to anything." "Did not take care of money." "Beating some one out of money." "Not layinc money when I young." "Refuaed a iteady position with good firing

WINNING

By GRACt. MARGARITA PIHPPS

HARWELL loped along the lake shore path. The spring wind beat in his face. A mating blackbird trilled In the greening marsh. Harwell in his running pants and jersey, with his bare legs and sandaled feet, with his Ape head tossed back and the muscles of his back rippling beneath his jersey, was as beautiful in his perfection of youth as tho spring landscape. It was getting a little warm for the daily cross country trot, but the spring meets wovrid be on in another week, and after that cap and gown In exchange for jersey during commencement week. Until then Harwell had only three things to remember. First, he was not to overdo. Ho was so near the perfection point now that with the least extra work he would be stale. Second, he must be careful of that right thigh 'muscle. He had strained -it in the fall as quarterback. And, lastly, the third necessity being unknown to the trainer, he must win the hundred yard dash "i'm Suffocating, Harwell." in the Colwell-Wilton meet. The rivalry between Harwell and Small had become more than physical. To win first place in the meet was to win first place in Alice Summer's eyes. He hurdled the pasture bars into the meadow. It was rather wet, and the smell of bruised cowslips and tender new spring mint followed the soft pad of his sandals. At the sand 'pits Harwell halted üt the sound of his name shouted at the top of lusty lungs. Small, in knickerbockers, was pouiulfng away with his geological hammer at a huge bowlder. "I'll chill if I stop!" called Harwell merrily. "Why aren't you running?" "Got this hloomhr five-fifths geology to make up this week of the Kaiser 'Was to fool away my lift when I was at school." "Thinking that my boee ctraW not do without me." "Would not hearken to the advice of older people." "Not keeping my position, but grew alack In my work." "The greatest blunder of my life was not accepting Christ and thereby avoiding many aorrows caused by serving Satan." Pittsburgh Christian Advo-

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HIS RACE

"Too bad!" shouted XIarwall, bounding with his long strides toward tho far side of tho pits, Small looked after him: tben a mallclous look crossed his ores. Tf tC Harwell should got chilled! He sprang to his feet. "Wait: Wattr he rtmred, "T want" then "Gpeat bemt&aar b cried. Then thero was silence. Harwell did not turn his head at Small's call. He grinned appreciatively to hlöiself. "Can't work ie that way," thought "A chill for mo would be very rahmbte to Small, and he crossed the Mttle meadow brook with a eareless bound. Then a vaguo sense of apprehension entered his mind. Small's roar had stopped very suddenly. He wondered why. Perhaps he ought to go back, yet he kept on. But the sense of apprehension grew and would not go. Finally, with a little groan at his own foolishness, Harwell turned and retraced his course to the sand pits, his stride aerer breaking. At tho brow of the slope he gave a startled ejaculation, in springing to his- feet Small had dislodged a great slice of the sand pit Avail. To his armpits. In sand, with face white and senseless aud lb sand creeping constantly down to sift higher and higher about him, was Small. Harwell clashed toward him. As he ran he snatchd up an old tin can half full of rainwater and dashed it in Small's face. Small opened his eyes. "I'm suffocating, Harwell," he said. "Oh, no, you're not not by a longchalk. Here, take this can and dig to beat the band- 111 use thig piece of shovel." lie set to work feverishly. The bit of shovel proved very efficient wielded by Harwell's sinewy arm, and the tin can in Small's hands was not to bo despised. Harwell worked with one eye on tho edge of the pit. The sand layers, one by one, were loosening. If he did not got Small free before they fell well, there was no use In thinking of that. Now Smali was free to his waist line, now to his thighs, now silently, swiftly,' a great wedge of sand gar way and Small was again buried to his shoulders. Harwell looked about. The pits had boon SO long deserted that there was not a board In sight. Yes, half burled and black with age, there was one. Ho pelted across the pit, gave a great wrench and was back gain with the board, which he placed as a bulwark against further sand slides, then to work again with the broken shovel, feverishly, for Small was growingfaint and limp. At last, panting, Harwell helped the half unconscious Small to his feet Then he was suddenly conscious that his hands were blistered, that his feet dragged, that his right thigh muscle ached wearily. But he put his arm about Small and led him slowly from the sand pit down to the turnpike road that was the stralgtitest course to the college dormitory. There was the sound of hoof beats behind them. The two weary flgurea drew to the roadside and waited foi tho .smart little dogcart to pass them. But it stopped. "What In the world Is the matter?" asked Alice Summer. "Small got caught in the sand pit, replied Harwell, both men staring up into the beautiful, sensitive face. The girl gave a little cry of sympathy. "Oh, get in here. Mr. Small, and I'll drive you to the doctor." In a few moments Harwell wti watching the gay painted back of the trap, now occupied by two figures, retreating Into the dusk. His lip quivered a little sensltrrery. "The3r never thought of me," he mattered. "Small has got her, and I Pve got the chill he wanted me to haTe." That evening Harwell sat in the liv ing room of his fraternity house nursing his aching muscles and giving aa occasional sneeze. The hundred yard dash was lost; but, since Alice, too, was lost, he was strangely indifferent. Then he was caDed to the telephone. Miss Alice Summer, who was staying at the hotel with her mother, would be glad to have him call. As Harwell, rery cold and gnfl4. stalked into the reception room AUce her winsome face eager, led him to a quiet corner. "Dick," she said hesttatingly, "did I act very brutal this afternoon?" Dick thought for a moment. Te, he replied firmly. Alice caught her breath. "But bow could I know that you had been so fine? You said nothing." "There was nothing to say. It was Small's inning." "Small!" sniffed Alice. "Don't metion Billy Small to me! I think you are fine, but I could get that from what Billy said only by inference. Dick, dldi I

you get a chill?" Dick nodded, and Alice's face filled, with dismay. With two brothers in college, she understood all the shadings of training. "Oh, Dick!" she said. "Oh, Dickr Something in her tone made Dickj look up. "But you don't care," he said. "Don't I?" she replied. "Well, perhaps I do care, more that you were brave and fine enough to give up all chances in the meet to help a man who was not worth it" The room swam around giddily. Dick clutched the arms of his cüair. "Dick," she whispered, doat ye see that what yon-nave dottt is better than winning ten daabes?" 2