Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 54, Number 49, Jasper, Dubois County, 13 September 1912 — Page 3

LOOK WELL IN WHITE VARYING SHADES ALL SUITABLE FOR BRIDAL FINERY. .Modiste of Experience WIN Study the Complexion of Her Customer io Determine the Proper Hue to Bty Employed. In the olden times it was a com mon thing to hear people say of some i bride or other, who hitherto had seemed quite good enough to look upon, "How ugly she looks in white!" This speech is very nearly impossi'blo today, for the very good reason that fashion considers types and complexions in all of her ideas for the wedding gown; which is to say that A smart gown model Is tinkered with until it just suits the wearer, and before this the dressmaker tries every conceivable shade of white against the face of her customer to see which one goes best with her skin. In white, as in color, there are a number of tones dead white, pearl white, oyster white, cobweb white, pale cream white, etc. Try buying a length of satin or lace out of a bargan basket and then try to match the color to a T with more material of the same sort to go with it. The feat is well nigh impossible although it will not matter so much if the purchase is a line bit of lace in a length big enough to be used alone, for grayish white lace the tone called cobweb is sometimes superb in a pure white veiling or net The bride looking for absolute becomingness in her wedding fixings, SHOES DEMAND PROPER CARE Will Respond to Good Treatment and Are Quick to Resent Neglect or Carelessness. Not very long ago the average woman felt she was becoming quite gay and extravagant when she indulged in the luxury of buying each season manf pairs of shoes. Today she believes it is economy. Shoes, even the best of them, need rest; and, if they are to last long and always appear at their best, they demand it. And incidentally there Is something very restful to one's feet in a change of fihoes. If you have few shoes or many, be pure to remember that you must treat them with consideration. The shoe which is carelessly kicked off and allowed to lie where it has been kicked will soon retallato for this treatment by looking Its ugliest. All shoes should be wiped off carefully before they are put away; and the shoe tree Is as essential to the shoe as the coat hanger ia to the coat. Each help3 to preserve the original shapo. Remember, a shoe tree tised is a pair of shoes saved. "Woman's Home Companion. FRESHENING UP OLD GOWN Little Touches That Will Give New Appearance to Garment One Is Tired Of. Bvory woman has a serge or dark llk dress in her wardrobe for cool days. Before the summer U half over utie feels that she is tired of it and that it looks a bit shabby. For such people let me suggest buying a set of

STRIPED COTTON DRESS.

White cambric with a blue stripe is used for this dress. The plain skirt is set to the bodice with a narrow band of plain blue material, this is also used for collar and cuffs and tab below collar; buttons are sewn on it. Materials required: Four and onehalf wards 27 inches wide, one-half yard plain for trimming, three buttons. then, must be particular about the shade of white she chooses, and if much satin is used for her .bodice she must also get a very delicate lace web for her guimpe, for the heavier laces are by no means so becoming as the silk tulle and filmy nets used for this portion of the altar gown. The illustration presents an indoor dress of many possibilities and in a very girlish style, and it is bound to be liked by the bride who wants to look young and appears best in simple raiment. The dress comprises a bod ice with a rounded peplum and a perfectly plain skirt, so by lengthening the sleeves and wearing a high guimpe inside the rolling collar the design would be sufficiently severe for street use. As shown by the sonsy maid of the picture, the frock is of a striped and plain silk, the plain appearing alone in the trimmings of the bodice., This dress likewise presents possi bilities for a verr convenient travel ing costume, for the lines are suited to corduroy and serge and cloth, anä the peplum gives enough coat sugges tion to make the costume in keeping with traveling styles. With a change of guimpes, lawn or linen severely made for actual traveling and muslin for hotel use, at a pinch this single costume could take the place of sev eral. the new collar and cuffs made of white dull kid with deep border in dull black leather. They have just appear ed the last few days. The collar is the round Dutch shape, about three and a half or four inches deep, with inchwide hem of the black. This is joined to the white part by means of cat stitching in coarse black thread, which gives it a crude but nobby effect. The plainness of the whole thing is re lieved by tiny straps of the white leather which fasten to small gun metal buckles. The cuffs match ex actly and are about five inches wide. This set worn with a clinging black Charmeuse gown, but in perfectly plain straight linos would, as you can easily Imagine, set it off most completely. Moonlight Blue Gowns. A beautiful gown for a recent ocasIon was made In a shade of moonlight blue satin of the softest consis tency known as peau de suede. The gown opened over a petticoat of the mousseline-de-soie, while one side of the corsage was likewise of the filmy fabric relieved with trimmings of dull gold. Another gown for the same occa sion, was in a supple and beautiful gold tissue shot with flageolet greenThe front of the gown was draped with a spoon-shaped panel of fiowerpatterned Brussels lace, veiled with a shadowy drapery of .iageolet-green tulle Illusion, while the tissue was left uncovered at the back. The corsage itself was hidden under a soft fichu drapery of Brussels lace, showing a little gathered tucker of pure white chiffon, while over it was the samfe soft shadow veiling of green tulle illusion, the drapery entiroly hiding th sleeves.

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ICE BOX EASILY MADE KITCHEN RECEPTACLE MAY BE . PUT TOGETHER AT HOME. Inexpensive and Really Cleaner and More Sanitary Than Those Packed With Sawdust and Other Materials. The construction of a good ice box consists essentially of two. boxes made of tongned and grooved lumber threefourthn of an inch thick. The two boxes were made of such dimensions that the smaller one will fit into the larger one with an inch to spare all around and on the bottom, the boxes being held firmly together by having inch strips nailed to the inside of the larger one at intervals of a foot apart. Before these strips are put in place. building paper should be tacked to the inside of the outer box, and to the outside of the inner one, then after the paper is on, the space between the boxes is carefully measured and the inch strips planed down so that it will be a snug fit when the box is placed within the other. The construction of the cover is the same as the sides and bottom, except that there is a flange at the front and sides of-the cover. The corners of the outside box are strengthened and made tighter by having a strip of building paper tacked over them, and corner boards öS,-4" 3' Home-Made ice Box. an inch thick nailed over it, like the corner-boards of a building. Cleats nailed on the bottom at each end will strengthen the box and make it more easy to move about. The inside of the box is lined with zinc or galvanized iron, the latter be ing much, cheaper, and just as good for several years. After the box is put together a strip of thin lumber covers the upper space between the boxes, thus making a dead-air space. A short piece of half-inch pipe is inserted in the bottom of the box to provide drainage, and the lower end of this outlet should be kept immersed in a vessel of water to prevent air getIng into the box. This ice box is much cleaner and more sanitary than those packed with sawdust and similar materials. Apple Sago. To make apple sago put 1 cups sago in a quart of tepid water, with a pinch of salt, and soak 1 hour. Take 6 or 8 apples, pare and core or quartered and steamed tender, and put in the pudding dish. Boil and stir the sago until clear, adding water to make it thin, and pour it over the apples. Bake 1 hour. This is good tfot with butter and sugar. As apples are hard to get now, make it this way: One quart milk, 4 tablespoons sago boiled in the milk till soft. Set dish in kettle of hot water and let the sago swell gradually. Beat up 3 eggs and stir into cooked milk and sago; salt and sugar to taste. Then put in oven and bake very lightly. Serve with creamy sauce. Vermont Blueberry Cake. Cream together half a cupful of butter and a scant cupful of granulated sugar, adding one well-beaten egg, a tiny pinch of grated nutmeg, half a teaspoonful of lemon juice, half a cupful of sweet milk, and two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted with sufficient pastry flour to form a cake batter. Beat the mixture until very light and fold in a large cupful of blueberries. Bake in a shallow oblong pan in a rather quick oven for 25 minutes. When baked, dust the top thickly with powdered sugar and serve hot. Cut into squares or the squares may be torn lightly apart and spread with butter. Corn Slitters. A new way of eating corn on the cob is to slit the corn hulls while on the cob with a small nickel "slitter," says the New York Tlnte3. This cuts five rows ot the corn hulls at one time, so that one eats the grain and leaves the hulls on the cob, or it is used to extract, for cooking, the milky grains from the hulls and leaves all the hard part on the cob as waste. The "slitters" cost 35 cents each. When used at table, of course thtjre must be Individual provision in the number placed. Pineapple Sauce for Fritters. To the syrup drained from the pineapple slices and heated to boiling point, add a cup of sugar, sifted with a level tablespoonful of cornstarch; let boll six or eight minutes; tint with green color paste or liquid if dosired. Add the juice of halfen lemon and kirsch to taste. Sausages. Separate, roll in a little butter, salt and pepper. Put in a small paper bag seal up and place on broiler. Allow 20 minutes in a very hot oven.

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PROPER USE OF CASSEROLE

Should Always First Be Tempered Sudden Changes of Temperature to Be Avoided. Before using a casserole for the first time, it is well to temper it; this is best done by covering it with cold water, then letting the water come to the boiling point, remove from the fire, and let the casserole remain in the water until it is cold. Under no circumstances let the casserole be put on the stove without water or fat in it, says the Indianapolis News. If this is done the dish will crac Avoid sudden changes of temperature with the casserole; that is, do not take it from the hot stove or oven and place it in cold water or in a wet sink; this will prove disastrous to the dish. Casserole cooking requires only moderate heat; if something is being cooked in the casserole at the same time that intense heat is required for something else, take the precaution of setting the casserole in a pan of water. If the cover of the casserole does not set very closely, thus allowing steam to escape too freely, it is well to spread a strip of cloth wet with a flour and water paste and press it over the joining of cover and casserole before setting the dish in the oven. When ready to serve, the strip is readily pulled off. In cooking anything in a cas&erole, it is well to allow twice the time for cooking that would be required were the stew or vegetables or fruit cooked in the ordinary way. TAKE UP ENGLISH DELICACY Orange Marmalade Has Become Pop ular Dish in America How It Should Be Served. America has become addicted to the orange-marmalade habit. That which is bought, much of it shipped from over seas, is never quite so good as that which can be made at home. For every dozen thin-skinned oranges al low three lemons, all the fruit being washed and sliced as thin as paper. Then cover it with water in the proportion of one and a half quarts of water to every quart of fruit, and allow it to stand over night. Next morn ing the mixture is cooked slowly for two hours, sometimes a little more. Sugar equal in amount to the cooked fruit is added and the cooking is re sumed until the mixture jellies from a spoon, which will be in from a half to a full hour. There should be no guess work in adding the sugar. Measure the cooked fruit carefully to get at the amount of sugar to be used. Chicken Baked with Salt Pork. Clean the required number of young chickens. Cut them down through the backbone, open, and flatten breast with a cleaver. In a large covered roasting pan lay several slices of salt pork. Place the chickens on these, skin side up. Dredge with flour and lay several slices of very thin salt pork on top. Add two cups of boil ing water and bake slowly two hours, basting frequently and dredging very lightly Wxth flour after each basting. More broth may be added if necessary. There should be at least eight bastings. Place buttered toast on a platter, arrange chicken on it, gar nish with parsley. Thicken gravy with flour, add one teaspoonful of butter and one cupful of rich cream, salt and pepper to taste, and pour over chicken. Curry of Beef. Cut up the meat in small pieces, add two very finely chopped peeled onions, one teaspoon of curry powder, one peeled and chopped apple, one-half tea spoon of sugar, a little lemon juice. Add one teaspoon of flour, one-half of a tumblerful of boiling milk and a banana and tomato if liked. Mix to gether. Place in the paper bag and then on broiler at once. Allow 45 minutes in a hot oven. Rice to be boiled and served separately if de sired. Plum Salad. For a plum salad pare and pit small plums and fill the cavity in each with chopped nuts, says the New Haven Journal-Courier. Arrange on serving dish in circles of sliced bananas and top each plum and each of the banana slices with a bit of whipped egg dress ing. Serve immediately with a gar nish of crisp cress. Maplewood Pie. Pare and grate some sweet, mellow apples, about a dozen; to a pint of the grated pulp put a pint of milk. two eggs, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, the grated peel of a lemon and half a wineglass of brandy; sweeten to your taste; to be baked in a deep plate, with only a lower crust. Chicken Fritters. Cut pieces as large as possible from a cold, cooked chicken or turkey, season to taste, dip in fritter batter und fry a golden brown; serve with sauce tartare. The chicken may be dipped in eggs and crumbs instead of bSitter. Ginger Snaps. The secret of good ginger snaps is to use boiling water when mixing, then cover the dough and let it stand for sev eral hours before baking. Home De partment, National Magazine. Cottage Cheese Salad. Add rich cream to the desired quantity of cottage cheese; place a spoonful on a lettuce leaf, and sprinkle over the top some finely cut onions.

HOOSIER NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Bloomington. Tolbert H. Sudbury, seventy-five years old. twice treas urer of Monroe county, Democrat ic ticket, Civil war veteran and loage member, is dead in Bloomington. He was a member of the Fourteenth Indiana and received three gunshot wounds during his service. One of them tore through the base of his right lung and it was trouble from that lung that caused his death. He is survived by one son, Bedford Sudbury of Des Moines, la. Michigan City. Herman Hahn, twenty years old, under parole from the reform school, was bound over on the charge of grand larceny. It is alleged that he stole a $650 certi ficate of deposit from his father, Will iam Hahn, indorsed it and got $60, which lasted him two days. When he went to the bank for $300 more he was arrested. Aloysius Spychalski, seventeen years old, also under parole from Plainfield, was arrested as Hahn's accomplice. Elkhart. A 'posse of men Is scouring the country about here for an unidentified negro who attacked Bernice Vincent, seven years old. The negrQ, it is said, approached the little girl and, after sending her brother after candy, dragged her to a clump of bushes in the city park. Two men working in a lumber yard near the park heard the girl's screams and gave chase to the assailant. He Is believed to have boarded a freight train and escaped. Frankfort. The longest jail sen tence ever given in the local police court was that handed Earl Preel, nineteen years old, of Crawfordsville, when arraigned before Mayor O. W. Edmonds, charged with the theft of $36 from his employer, Joseph Dikes of Kokomo. Upon his plea of guilty, he was fined $75 and sentenced to serve six months. Being without funds, he was sent to jail for 268 days. Laporte. The Valparaiso district Christian Endeavorers has ad journed, after naming Crown Point for the next meeting. Officers elected were: Secretary, Miss Vada McNey of Crown Point; missionary superintendent, Mrs. F. E. Walton of Gary; junior superintendent, Prof. J. F. Griffey of Laporte. Miss Lanham of Indianapo lis, state secretary, was here for the meeting and led several interesting sessions. Laporte. Solomon Shippee. sixtytwo years old, drove upon the Lake Shore track, after he had been signaled that the crossing was clear, and was cut into an unrecognizable mass of flesh and bones by the train. . Ashley Fermen, the gatekeeper, who had only filled the position of watch man four days, was reported to be a maniac. The horse was killed and the buggy splintered to pieces. Shelbyville. Ernest Strickler, twen ty years old, who accidentally shot himself in the head July 7 last with a revolver, was able to leave his home for the first time since the acci dent. The bullet is still in his brain and his recovery is regarded as one of the most remarkable ones on record. He made a trip of three miles to Boggstown and return with his father and did not seem to suffer any ill effects from the exertion. Petersburg. Fires destroyed the stock barns of Richard Sullivan and Pearl Postlethwaite, ten miles east of here. The fires were with in a few hours of each other and located two miles apart. Sullivan lost one mule, besides the contents of the barn. Loss, $1,500, with no insurance. Postlethwaite's loss is $1,200, withno insurance. Incendiaries are suspected. Sullivan. Tom Shepherd, one of the principals in a recent pistol battle at Dugger, in which his brother was killed and three others were shot, was indicted on a charge of attempt ing to kill Code Burch. Henry Cushman, who shot and killed James Pipes at Dugger several days ago, was in dicted on a charge of murder in the first degree. Shelbyville. Failure of the motorman to see a passenger car on the Indianapolis & Cincinnati traction line approaching a freight car and trailer which he was attempting to run on the viaduct at Falrland, caused a collision, In which the trac tion company suffered a loss of $10,000. Ebvood. Driving an automobile, Öeorge Dehority collided with a motorcycle ridden by Maybon Humphreys. The smaller machine was demolished and Humphreys' clothing catching on the auto, ho was dragged 50 feet before the car could be stopped. He was badly cut and bruised, but will recover. Scottsburg. -D. C. Ward, forty years old, luperlntendent of the Indianapolis & Louisville Traction company, is dead at his home in this city, following an illness of four weeks with typhoid fever. Mr. Ward Is survived by the widow and two daughters, Mrs. Maude Wahl and Miss Edith Ward. Mr. Ward began his career In the traction business with the Indianapolis Terminal company as a motorman, later serving respectively ,as trainmaster, general manager, roadmaster and superintendent of the I. L. Une.

PROPHECY WAS TRUE

Tragedy Rests on House Nearj Grave of Slain Wooer. St Curse That Rests Over Place Naif St. Joseph, Mo., Had Its inception When Two Rival Gypsies Fought Over Girl. St. Joseph, Mo. Built upon. the unmarked grave of a mur dered wooer, a little house stands upon a lonely knoll near Saxton station, seven miles east of St. Joe, Mo., & thing accursed audi shunned by those who know its his tory. They fsar the baleful influx ences which are said to surround it. During the 12 years it has been, standing eight lives have been blotted out by violent means, illness and ill fortune have followed the advent of, new tenants, the crops have failed, while those on neighboring farms prospered and a sequence of misfortunes has dogged the footsteps of those who have braved the place and Its curse. The curse that hangs over the placebegan before the houso was built. It had its inception when two young gypsies, rivals for the hand of a daughter of the tribe, fell out over their love affairs and fought. The vanquished one stole up behind hit sleeping rival that night and plunged a knife into his back. Then he went to the king of the band and confessed what he had done. Whatever the motive which inspirod the king whether his heart was with the murderer or whether he did not want an investigation by the authorities he ordered that the body of the slain man be taken to the knoll near by and buried. It was years later that Christopher Schroers, a young farmer, building the house to shelter the wife whom he soon proposed to take, looked down from the roof he was shingling to see standing at the foot of his ladder an aged gypsy crone. She expressed a desire to tell his fortune. "The fates are unkind," said the gypsy dolefully, shaking her head. "You are soon to be married You dream of a long life ahead. You think to gather with your children and grandchildren about this place. But in your hand I see naught but trouble. Your dreams will not come House on Which Curse Rests. true. You will meet a death of violence, and your widow will be left to mourn alone." M Get out with your bad-luck tales," said Schroers and laughed again. "I read a-truly," said the gypsy. M The house that you build shall be a house of 111 luck. Beneath one of the trees that shades it there lies a body one of my own tribe who was buried there by the hands of his friends. His spirit cries out for vengeance and a peaceful, hallowed grave. Until this is accomplished there shall be no rest for those who live here' Schroers returned to his work whist" ling. If he ever thought of the gypsy woman's prophecy he did not mention it to the girl he soon married and took to live in the new house. A few months later, returning from St. Joseph one night, Schroers allowed his wagon to tarry a moment too long on the railway crossing almost in front of his own gate. They picked up his mangled body a hundred feet away, and the wreck of his wagon was scattered along the right of way. Tragedy has marked the place ever since. BAD ROADS COST MILLIONS Farmer Lose That Amount Yearly,( Says A. C. Trumbo of Muskogee, Okia. 1 Denver, Col. A. C. Trumbo of Muskogee, Okla., president of the trans-, Mississippi congress, which met Salt Lake City, declared that the pro-j ducers cf agricultural products In America lose annually $25C.O0O,OO0 j over their European neighbors through cot of transportation. j The solution of th problem, taidj Mr. Trumbo, la in good roads, a que-j tlon which he says the forthcoming) congress is going to ake parasaemeC