Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 54, Number 32, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 May 1912 — Page 3

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FASHIONS AND THE HOUSEHOLD

New Idea In Spring Lingerie

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GRANDMOTHER'S ECONOMIES,

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Taking Cr of Hp Wrdrob. Discussions often arise over th ex

aggerated oconoinie of our grandmotii-

ers. We are by no means Inclined to yield the palm to them for every per

fection In the arrangement of their household. The modern girl has profit

ed by her course In domestic icience.

She questions the superiority of her

grandmother's methods, says the Phil

adelphia North America.

When the question of caring for her

wardrobe Is considered the present day

girl must concede the palm to grand

mother. She had the art of keeping

her clothes in good condition. She had

the patience and practical common

HAnsfi nfeeRKfirv to renovate a last

year's wardrobe.

The silk gown was an absolute ne

cessity In those days. It was made to

last for years. Today the gown only

lasts a season.

An infallible remedy for cleaning

black silk or satin was a mixture of

gin and water. A sponge was dipped

The Nurse's Reward

During the Civil War

By PETER BURTON-NEW

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ROW of Union soldiers stood In

line within the walls inclosing a prison yard. A Confederate officer approached and,

standing some twenty paces from them, thus addressed them: "Three Confederates taken in what your Yankee general over there (pointing) calls illegitimate warfare are to be shot this evening at sunset. In retaliation I am ordered to shoot three of your number. You will begin to count from right to left, and every fifth man will btep four paces to the front." A shudder passed along the line. All understood that those men who were to step to the front must die. "Begin, you man on the rfeht there," said the officer. A young girl emerged from a door

leading from the commandant's quar

in this and used to remove the shine j tors and came toward the soldiers. She

from the silk. It was then pressed with a warm iron while damp. To keep woolen dresses and skirts free from dust they were thoroughly beaten. A cat-o'-uine-tails was kept for this purpose. This was a" short stick to which strips of leather were- attached. An old fashioned method of cleaning the first soil from white kid gloves is quite worth repeating. Pure white cnnn was moistened in water. After

the gloves had been tightly drawn upon

the. hands the soap was applied. The soap must not be wet, just softened. A piece of flannel is used to rub the soiled

spots clean.

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Th perfectly fitted and boned corset cover is a necessity nowadays for

under the new spring gowns. The model seen m the cut is somewnat

like a brassltre, but is even better adapted to a slight figure than the bras ire. a It gives more fullness.

When desired the corset cover may be attached to the lingerie petticoat,

and in this way a slim silhouette is assured the wearer.

GIVING LEAP YEAR PARTIES. Original Enttrtairting In Which the Usual Ordr of Things Is Reversed. Leap year affords an opportunity for original entertainments and If j a welcome arrival to the harassed hostess trying to think up something new. There are many ways in which the clever entertainer can assign the usual masculine role to the girls. For instance, one hostess showed her guests into a man's room. On the other hand, the men were given a dressing room in which there were plenty of mirrors, pins and powder. During the evening each man was presented with a needle, thimble, darning thread and two socks to darn. All the socl-s were judged by women, and the nur whose pair was meuded best was a .varded a sewing bag. The girls received masculine souvenirs. At a leap year dance the girls called

THE COOKING SCHOOL.

for their partners in carriages, the expense of which they paid beforehand

Each girl sent the man she was escorting a boutonniere of his favorite flowers. At the dance the girls filled out the men's cards, and they were obliged also to ask the men for their own dances and to write out their names on the cards of all partners. The cotillion leader was a girl. There are the usual leap year dinner parties in which each man is. assigned to a girl, who must put him into his chair and pay the usual assiduous attentions to his comforts that a dinner partner is supposed to give.

It is said that if you are stewing a

chicken that is particularly tough and vou are rather uncertain about its be-

coming tender, if while the cniCKen

is stewing you add a very little pinch

of soda not sufficient to make it taste, this will surely make the chicken tender. If a small amount of soda is used it will give rather a good flavor than an undesirable one. Wash one pound of mushrooms. Tut three tablespooufuls of butter In the chafing dish. When hot put in the

mushrooms, add a seasoning or saic and pepper, then add one cupful of milk. Cover the .chafing dish, cook slowly for a few minutes and stir twice. Moisten one heaping tablespoonful of flour with a little milk, add this to the mushrooms, stir till boiling and serve hot. In making cookies take the whole batch of dough, form it in a long roll about an inch in diameter and cut in one inch slices with a sharp knife. Place them in the pan two inches apart, flattening each slice slightly with the hand. The heat from the baking melts the slices to the required thickness, and the cookies are abso

lutely round.

Gift That Will Please the Msn. Silk handkerchiefs make a useful birthday gift for men. Charming letters can be made by using very pure silk net, and it adds materially to the value of the gift if it Is tastefully decorated by one of these letters.

A Springtime Affinity

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wore an apron and a cap, denoting that

she was a nurse. She had made both herself, for in those days there were 110 uniformed nurses. Lucia Clarke was a northern girl who had gone south to find her brother, Allen Clarke, who was an invalid prisoner of war. Having gained permission to nurse him, she had devoted herself to the sick in the hospital attached to the prison, including Confederates, for in this case the blue and the gray were mingled, till

she had won the admiration of all and

the love of the Confederate commandant. She came forward with a quick step. She had just heard of the order

and knew what was going on.

"One." "Two," "Three," "Four." No.

u said nothing, but tottered forward.

"Six." "Seven," "Eight," "Nine." No. 10 stepped forward with as steady a

tread as if ordered to meet a human enemy. "Eleven." "Twelve," "Thirteen," "Fourteen." While the men had been counting Lucia Clarke had glanced ahead and had seen that her brother Allen would he thp fifteenth man. He was only

discharged from the hospital the day before and now. infirm and with one in five chances of death before him, could scarcely stand. "Fifteen." A feminine voice rang out firm and clear. Lucia, who had wedged herself

in between No. 14 and her brother, stepped four paces to the front. Allen, seeing what his sister had done, moved forward to contest the place with her, but, overcome by his infirmities, fell on the ground behind her. Lucia stood rigid while two Confederate attendants carried him away. As Major Clarence FItz-Hugh, the commandant, looked at the girl standing there in the rank of death .his eye was wet with sympathy. "Miss Clarke," he said gently, but firmly, "all must appreciate the sacrifice you would make, but it cannot be permitted." "Then I will die with my brother if I cannot die for him."

"What can you do?' "I will stand before him when he Is

shot, and the same bullet will end this

fearful struggle for us both."

Sergeant," said the officer, "marcn

the prisoners back. Separate those who

are to be shot from the rest."

"You on the dead line," said the eer-

geant, "right face!"

The five men and the woman turned to the right. "Miss Clarke," said, the major, "you can't go to the men's prison." g "I will," she said firmly. "I take my brother's place. Where he would go I go." A vexed look crossed Major Fitz-

Hugh's face. "Sergeant," he said, "send Miss Clarke to my office under the care of a corporal and two men." With this he turned and went into the building. A few minutes later Lucia Clarke was escorted into his presence. He directed the men who brought her there to withdraw. Then he said to her: "If I promise you that when your brother is led out to die you shall be notified and permitted to go out with him, will you go to your room and remain there till you are called?" "Yes." "Very well; you hav(j my word." Lucia left the office and, going t her room, threw herself on her couch and buried her face in a pillow. Gradually her sufferings gave place to a sort of stupor. Huw long she was there she did not know. She was roused by a knock at the door, and Major FitzHugjrs orderly to!d her to come. She started up with a moan, but gradually mustered strength to go with a firm

step to the prison yard with her guide. There, standing in line, were the three

men vrho had been drawn by lot for execution, among them , her brother. She was about to spring toward him when Major .Fitz-I-Iugh called to her to wait. Then, drawing a paper from his pocket, he began to read: "Special Order No. : "In recognition of the. services of Miss Lucia Clarke in hospital and her klndnes3 to many sick and wounded Confederates, the lives of those Union prisoners drawn for execution in retaliation arc spared. "Sergeant," added the officer, "march the prisoners back." When the sergeant and the three men entered the prison and the door closed behind them the major turned to t he girl, who stood mute beside him. "Lucia Clarke," ho said, "if was the happiest moment of my life when I secured that order from the general commanding." "How can I show you my gratitude V" asked the girl after several un

successful efforts to speak. "By permitting me reverently to love you." The girl stood as if swayed by the wind. Then, extending her hand, she said: "Come to me with the return of peace."

A PLACE FOR THE GI

RLS AMD BOYS

FACTS ABOUT THE DAISY.

It Really Is a Chrysanthemum rn-

grims Named It. Daisies aren't really daisies at all; lev' re chrysanthemums. But when " ...

the pilgrim fathers that you stuuy

about in school came over here to America they couldu't find any little pink tipped daisies like the ones they had in England. But after awhile the seeds of the big white ones came over from England mixed with grain, and they called those daisies so they wouldn't get too homesick. The word "daisy" means "day's eye," because the little pink English daisies always close their petals when thp sun eoes down. An American

woman found that out once when she was in England. She thought the English people didn't appreciate their little pink daisies. They rooted them all out of their lawn with big knives and said they were just weeds. So the American said she was going to wear some at dinner. They said nobody but babies wore daisies. But she picked a bunch of them and worn them. And in the middle of dinner she looked down and found they'd all gone fast asleep, says the New York Sun. Do you know how to make daisy babies? Quite close to the yellow center cut off with a pair of scissors all

the petals adjoining: except two. On the center draw a face with pen and Ink. The little frill of white petals is the baby's cap, and the two long ones are the strings under the chin.

Here's a Five-year-old Chauffeur

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Photo by American Press Association. Master Freddy Newman, an English lad, is perhaps the youngest chauffeur in the world In a miniature automobile built by his father he "speeds" in the vicinitv of his home in London at the limit of his one and a half horsepower motor-four miies an hour. He is here seen taking a "joy" ride with his little sister.

DRUG STORE SIGNS.

Oman World-Hemld.

Getting Plenty of Sleep. Some children wonder why it is that they must always be sent to bed so much earlier than grown folk?; and many of them make all kinds of excuses to stay up a little later. Sleep is nature's provision to enable the body and brain to rest and grow, and most of the growing is done by children while they sleep, so that if they db not go to bed early and get plenty of sleep they must lose some of their growth, both bodily and mentally. In the old days some parents were

very careless about their children's

sleep.

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EveVy one has noticed the beautiful colors in the large glass jars that stand in the drug store windows, but every one does not know why drug stores use that sign. in the old days apothecaries and alchemists were the only druggists, and they made up their own nostrums, the composition of which was supposed to be a great secret. They used to leave their, retorts and jars and stills and bottles in the window to impress upon the passerby the mystery and importance of their business. The modern drug store has no use for retorts and stills. aH the processes being handled by the big chemical factories, but the large jars full of bright colored liquids are still left in the window, just as they were hundreds of years ao.

BIRDS AS SHEPHERDS. Few know of the shepherd birds of South America. They belong to the crane family and are known as yakamiks. These curious birds take care

of large flocks of sheep, leading them to pasture early in the morning and

caring for them all day unaided. If

nnv stray animals approach the Hock

the vakamik attacks them with beak

and wings. They are said to be much

stronger than dogs.

: Religious 3dorfc :

Seventeen hundred churcht art reported to have been abandoned in Illinois within the last ten years. Perhaps a thousand churches are on th inactive list in Missouri and a proportionate number in Kansas and Iowa. These startling statistics, made in a talk by President Henry J. Waters of the Kansas State Afrrlcul tural coil eg before the Bible institute of the Congregational church in Tokepa, hav startled the church people of Kansas. Dr. Watera declared that "doubtlcs many of these abandoned churches represent misdirected denominational enthusiasm and are churches that should never have been tmilt and which from the outset were doomed to die. The facts are that the church has not held its own in th rural districts." Dr. Waters expressed a sentiment that is taking root In scores of communities in Kansas. In the early settlement of the state every little villag and town struggled to keep up two or three church organizations and maintain as many church buildings. Beginning with this year, a dozen small towns have turned to the unionization of these churches. This sentiment was cemented among rhe membership of all churches through union revival services, in which the local ministers and choirs joined. In every one of these towns the people are pleased with th new plan, and one preacher is ministering to all the church members who formerly separated into two or thre little denominational flocks. This growing 'movement will see in another year 1,000 abandoned churches in Kansas

"One educated minister to every 600 to 1,000 souls is all we can afford, and we work him to death and starve his family," Dr. Waters said. "Is it any, wonder that the attendance in the theological seminaries is continually falling off in number and in quality, white in the schools of engineering and agriculture and other so called productive occupations the attendance has doubled on an average of once every ten years? And yet, who dares to say that having, our young men and young women carefully instructed in the basic principles' of moral uprightness, individual and social, is of less importance than is Instruction in the things that will serve to keep them out of the almshouses?" 1 What will become of the abandoned' country churches in Kansas is a question that is being discussed. Already they are mentioned as suitable for Stockhams, and farmers and stockmen' are considering their purchase as soon

as the struggling congregations decide to give them up. In a half dozen communities in the state such negotiations are being considered. Church and Public Health, "We are accustomed to estimate tht state of Christianity by the number of church members and not by the figures of the bureau of vital statistics," said Robert Fulton Cutting recently in speaking of the church and public health. "Can it be that a community vuere the death rate is suspiciously high is at the same time one in which Christianity languishes? The afflictions of humanity, which arc largely preventable, make it unnecessarily difficult for Christianity to fulfill its spiritual responsibilities to the world. Single handed, even with all its abundant resources, the church could not adequately sweep these obstacles from Its

path, but government, clothed with authority of the whole people, if supported by the co-operation of the church, caii wrestle successfully with the problem. Thus, although Christianity nasi established its hospitals, its asylums, homes, dispensaries and its children: visit and minister to the sick and suffering, there remains a multitude of accidents and diseases with which Bb is as yet little acquainted and ove? which she is not sufficiently exercising herself." Mr. Cutting told of the sanitation triumph won by the government in tht canal zone. He said the achievement

had given us an ideal within the reach

of official capacity and new hope for

the health and happiness of the race.

"What philanthropy can compar

with a beneficence which touches 100

per cent of the population?" he .asked. t

"The Christian stands by,M hecontin-)

ued, "and watches this splenaia worn

with sincere gratification. But it do not occur to him that what has beea( done in the canal zone may be don ia

his neighborhood in stamping out tt berculosis, in preventing the spread ol typhoid fever and other infectious diseases and in saving infants' live.

"The church must now learn to dl cern the missionary in the doctor, th4 sanitary eugineer and the health official, and these in turn will learn to appreciable the spiritual function of an r ganization that interprets Christianity by concern for the health of its com4

munjty.'

Tokyo's Story Tellers.

There are UU0 professional story tell-

nvK in Tokvo. who wander from house

to house and spin yarns at the rate of

20 cents an hour. The story toiler learns a new set of stories when he finds the old "ones getting worn. Argonaut.

An Admission and a RbwkA iudicrous story is told of an Edra burgh bailie whose studies in natural history seem to have been limited. The following case came before him: A man who kept a ferret having tor go into the country, left the cg witl the ferret in charge of a neighbor tilt he should return. The neighbor incau-i tiously opened the cage door and th ferret escaped. The owner was very angry and brought a claim aralnst him for damages. The following was the decision 0 the learned bailie: "Nae doot." he said' to the neighbor, "nae doot y was wrang to open the cage door, hmt" he added, turning to the owntr, "y was wrang too. What for did y n clip the brute's w!n?s ;" Ixmdoa TttBita.

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