Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 8, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 October 1916 — Page 6

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Political Views Divide Many Washington Families

ANYTHING BUT A HIGHBROW! The Ave.g Man Naturally Flinches From the Reputation for Intellectuality. No one really wants to be considered a highbrow. The terra itself, as Van Wyck Brooks says, is derogatory, llere and there a person may be so superior as to be ilattered by the derision of the herd. Undergraduates

I like to think they are. But a man

has to be far gone in superiority before he relishes the notion of being avoided for its sake. Ynn can not imairine a man like

Nietzsche trying to prove that he had a heart any more than you can imagine him shooting the chutes at Coney Island. He is the kind of Olympian whose dignity seems to have been inherent. You would just as soon drink beer out of porcelain as slap a Nietzsche on the back. But the ordinary Olympian, certainly in America, is more anxious to show he is gregarious than to protect his reputation for superiority and intellect. Sou do not have to slap him on the back; he slaps you. If he is running for ofllce, in particular, he wants it to be known that blood, not ice water, flows through his veins. He yearns to indicate that he is a good fellow. He tells funny stories, has himself photographed playing pinochle, is discovered by his interviewer sitting at the organ singing, "Home, Sweet Home." A man may have the temperament of a hermit crab in private life; in public life he must smile cheerily

when a boilermaker crushes his lingers and bellows: "Tommy, put it there." Now Republic.

The Difference in Women

By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY.

ij ASHI&GTON. Meredith Nicholson, the author who was offered a post V? in the diplomatic service by President Wilson, and his wife have agreed to differ on a most Important question. It is that of the candidacy of Mr. Wilson for re-election. Mr. Nichol

son is for him and Mrs. Nicholson is against him and for Mr. Hughes. A number of other equally wellknown families have divided within the last few weeks over the presidential "campaign. Among the couples which have agreed to differ as to presidential candidates are Representative William Kent of California nnd Mrs. Kent, Mr. arid Mrs. Fremont Older of California, Mr. George Middleton and his wife, Fola La Follette,

rimmhfor of Sonntor La Follette of Wisconsin; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. H.

Hopkins of New Jersey, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lloyd Jones of Madison,'

Wis. The wives maintain that for them and for all women no issue is of more fundamental importance than that of national woman suffrage, which has been Indorsed by Mr. Hughes and opposed by Mr. Wilson. For this reason they are out to defeat Mr. AVilson. Rapid Work on the Beautiful Lincoln Memorial ANOTHER step in the building of the Lincoln memorial In Potomac park has been taken that of letting contracts for construction of the terrace walls of the beautiful monument and of the masonry approaches to the ... st

gigantic pile. An appropriation ol $309,500 is available for the building of these features of the memorial, which, according to specifications, are to be of the best granite obtainable. Indications are that the imposing monument to the martyred president of the sixties will be completed months ahead of the time stipulated in the contract. The contract time is March, 1018, but work Is progressing at such n rate on the memorial that the more

optimistic of the officials in charge of the construction are hazarding the belief that the structure will be standing as a complete tribute to the immortal Lincoln by the end of 1917. Already the colonnade and the outside walls of the structure are com

pleted. The interior, mostly of limestone, is almost installed, while the eight tory Whieh makes them tells me that

interior columns are now In place. The ceiling beams of bronze are not yet Morgau ordered usually 5,000 or G.000

fn and the roof is not yet on. at a clip.

Work on the granite terrace walls and the masonry approacnes nas Deen '-There

started, and grading of the mound on which the memorial stands is being pushed forward with all possible speed. Hundreds of workmen and scores of teams are engaged in the work of completing this mound, which necessitates extension of Potomac park in the vicinity of the memorial into the river more than 200 feet. Dredges are employed in the building up of the new ground taking the earth from the river and piling it up behind the new seawall which is being constructed for the purpose. This work means that the park in the vicinity of the memorial, instead of following the line it now docs along the driveway will be bowed out 200 feet farther into the river. Ollicials in charge of the work said that landscaping and grading is one

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of the biggest tasks in the construction or the memorial, ana explained mat out years ago that is, the oldest

while a great part of this work has already been accomplished, it will be Which iS n existence today. I under

weeks before the ground in the locality ot the monument win negin to assume stmd tlmt) iR fice of the British bat

the appearance it is expected to take on according to the plans or tne

memorial.

I hold it true, whate'er befall, I feel It when I sorrow most 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. It is not always smooth sailing for a widower to venture a second time into matrimony.

Despite the fact that it is his business, and his alone, everyone who knows him and many whom he never heard of take a lively in

terest in watching for developments if he is seen in the company of an attractive, marriageable woman. Spinsters look on with keen relish, wives with fear. It is the subject which the

average coniuiential wife feels a delicacy about when she attempts to broach the subject to her husband. Yet she is intensely anxious to know what her heartmate thinks concerning second marriages. The average husband is usually truthfully blunt enough about the matter. The wife introduces the sub-

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ject at the dinner table when they are alone, skirmishing around like a careful general until she reaches the attacking point. "Guess whom I met today when I was out walking," she remarks as she pours his tea. As she has 400 dear bosom friends, he makes no attempt to stretch his ingenuity at guessing. "It was Widower Smith

across the way, and and there was a young woman with him," she adds

slowly.

"Well, what of that?" asks hubby.

feeling that he is expected to rmake some kind of comment. "Do you for

get that his wife is scarcely cold in

her grave?" she queries severely.

ny, us uuee y curis 11. 11 0 u uij :

ejaculates the husband. "Do you sup

pose he is thinking of marrying

asain?" Questions the wife, in that

slow, even, suppressed voice which al

ways preceded a storm. "Why not?" asks hubby. "He was a good husband

to the wife that was taken away.

man cannot live with the dead, you

know, and as for that matter she's as

dead now as she will ever be. A man

must down his sorrow or it will down

him."

"The report is that he is to marry, lie has just bought a fine new house,

furnishing Jit from top to bottom, ant

an automobile. He did not do that

for the first on. She went to House keeping in a tiny flat, did her own

work, pinched and saved, went with

out clothes, having barely enough cov

ering her to keep people from talking.

It was by her thrift that inony enough was saved to start him in business, and now another woman is to cnjöy

what she toiled for," exclaims thewiiu.

T. fieri fV

Hubby was too obtuse lo sea that he was making trouble for himsulC

when he retorted quickly. "The first

wife wanted to work and pinch and save, that was her pleasure. He was poor then ; he's rich now and can afford to giv;e this one comforts, even luxuries. This woman will And no occasion for 'toiling, seeing that he can keep her without. The lirst one loved him through poverty. Probably this one would not have married him at that stage of the game. There's a difference In women, you know." That conversation opened the wife's eyes to the fact that she should crowd as much happiness and sunshine as possible into each day of her life, and, while doing her duty to save for her husband, she should not forget thatj a little recreation from toil now and then was lime and money well spent, she being the gainer thereby in health and cheerfulness, and that although many husbands refuse to admit it, the average man appreciates the wife for whose outing pleasures he must plan and contribute. She must not be his toiling slave. She must be his companion in his joys and an agreeable one at that. A husband should see to it that the wife who toils hard in his interest should have all the comforts and pleasures which he can reasonably afford showered upon her while she is able to enjoy them.

MORGAN'S CIGARS COST $1.25

The Kaiser, Who Is Supptied by Same

Cuban Factory, Pays Ninety Cents Apiece.

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cigars. I held in my hand a few days prow and In order to reach our destined

and we express ourseivea piuijunjr

ago two boxes of his favorite brands.

His after-dinner smokes cost i.

each.

A representative of the Cuban fac-

Thcy found among the effects left by

rierpont Morgan $S,000 worth of AVrftU nnri in order to I int of cream and a cunful of milk, I add salt and nonn.-r ml nnr info

sizzling hot frying pan well greased with butter, add two tablespoonfuls of cream and two tablespoonfuls of chopped red pepper. Serve on toast.

Almond and Celery Soup. Cut in small pieces a bunch of cel

ery, using the leaves and root, add six pepper corns, two bay leaves, a tabled

spoonful of onion juice, a thin slice

of lemon, a teaspoonful of salt, and a stick of cinnamon, cover with a quart of water and cook one hour, strain and again heat, stirring in a cupful of cream, a tablespoonful each of butter and Hour cooked together and a quarter of a cupful of blanched and pounded almonds. Allow it to boil two minutes after the nuts are added. Serve hot with cheese crackers.

are onlv two men in Cuba

who can make that cigar, and nearly all of them are produced Ly one man,"

said this Cuban producer. "We pay him

10 cents to make each cigar and he can

roll about 25 of them in one day."

The king of Wall street smoked a bit

better cigar than does Emperor Wil

liam of Germany. The kaiser's cigar,

made by the same factory in Cuba, is

"Vorth 90 cents.

The oldest brand of cigars was put

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only when we try to maKe tilings oeuei both In ourselves and in our environment. Cream of Pea Soup. Drain and wash a can of green peas, place them with a sprig of mint in a saucepan, add a teaspoonful of onion juice, a pinch of sugar, a half teaspoonful of salt and a dash of cayenne pepper ; cover with a pint of cold water and cook until the peas are soft enough to press through a sieve, lieturn to the fire and gradually stir in a

Would You Be Strong and Healthy? Then Just Walk

"Walking is one of the best exercises

all the (tars he wants -Philadelphia Jl l)erson CJin l)0SSll)1 take Physicians ail ine Clgais iil uauib. imuiueiyum Tq walk propcrly it is necessary

Post Office Department Running a Big Laundry

T MAY not be cenerally known, but Uncle Sam is today running a laundry.

I By this means he is combating the high cost of living. A couple of years ago when the post ofllce department asked for bids for the washing of towels for the department in Washington,

the,fprlces. seemed to be abnormally high for the great number to be laun

dered.

Someone in the department sug-

e-psted that It take over the towel-

washlng business itself as an experi

ment. The suggestion sounded good

to the officials, who purchased a small washing machine, and it was soon

found that the towels were heing

wjishpfl at a rate much below that

quoted. The department has within

the past few weeks, decided to go into the laundry business on an even larger

scale. A new and larger washing machine has been purchased, and it now Dronoses not only to wash the towels of the post office department, but also

those used at the Washington city post office. This will mean that the post office laundry will wash on an average of about 4,000 towels each day. The department has found that it can wash and iron these 4,000 towels

at a cost of not over IS cents per 100 towels. It is said that the bids received

by the department were in the neighborhood of 50 cents per 100. It can thorpfnro bo estimated that the department is saving approximately $500 a

year by doing its own laundry work, and not only has its towels on hand

at all times, but is sure that they are thoroughly washed.

Rat Proves Prediction on Fashions is Correct

T HE latest fashion note that skirts will be higher this season was more than

I vindicated the other night, when a large rat, in his efforts to escape two bulldogs, ran toward a crowd of women who were watching the chase near the

corner of Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue northwest. Through some mysterious agency of "ratdom" a huge rodent escaped sentries and meandered toward the white light of the avenue. As far as can be learned it was but a sightseeing trip, but Sir Rodent had not counted up the carnivorous capacity of other" members of the animal kingdom. Two bulldogs simultaneously

Public Ledger.

Oil Germ Destroyers. Certain essential oils have been

proved to be powerful germ destroy

ers and recent experiments have

shown that they may even give efTec- the exercise and elasticity

to keep the head erect, the shoulders back, and the abdominal muscles tense, so that the abdominal viscera are not allowed to dangle in space or left to drop into the pelvis.

Energy and life must be thrown into

into the

tiveness to preventive vaccines. F. ten in order for it 'to be of benefit.

d'Herelll of the Pasteur institute has Deep abdominal breathing must also

investigated especially the subject of i)C practiced. Of course, care must be

rendering white mice immune to the taken not to overdo at first. A short, bacillus typhi murine, an organism of energetic walk of 15 minutes is of the group producing paratyphoid. At- greater value, mentally and physically,

tempts have been made to prepare a than a listless, spiritless walk of five

vaccine for the mice from a product hours.

pint of cream and a cupful of milk, adding just at the last a tablespoonful of butter blended with one of flour. Serve with pulled bread. Salsify Soup. Scrape twelve good sized roots of oyster plant, throwing them at once into cold water, then cut in thin slices and cover with milk and water, cook until tender, remove from the fire and press through a puree strainer. Reheat, add a pint of milk and a half a pint of cream ; stir in when boiling hot, two tablespoonfuls of butter, season witli salt, pepper and powdered mace. Pour at once into the tureen and servo with small oyster crackers. Dates and Cream.

Cut dates in quarters and spread on a platter, sprinkle with lemon juice and let stand an hour. Whip two cupfuls of cream, sweeten and flavor, fold in the whites of two eggs stiflly beaten and mix with the dates. Serve in sherbet cups. Good Things for the Table.

There are new ways beinir discov

ered daily of using old friends in new

ways, for example scrambled eggs with red pepper. Beat six eggs slightly,

A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING

spied the tourist and both claimed him for their own. Two sets of teeth closed upon Mr. Rat about the same time, and a guttural argument ensued as to rightful ownership. Becoming incensed at the futility of this argument, both dogs loosened their hold upon the rat, who scampered toward what looked to be a wall of protection, but which was really a flock of skirts whose owners had stopped on the corner to witness the struggle. Thea it was that fashion came into her own, for skirts certainly went higher, and hastily departing visions of dainty ank but then, as Kipling would say, "that is another story." His Hatship was captured.

MORE HORSES THAN EVER BEFORE. Nearly everyone believes that the horse is fast disappearing; but they are in error. Census statistics show that there are more horses in this country now than ever before, notwithstanding that 500,000 horses have been gathered up by France and Great Britain and sent to the war front. The motor car and the motor truck, while greatly increasing in numbers, have not caused a corresponding decrease in the use of horses. This is shown by figures gathered in Chicago, where in the last five years motor vehicles increased from 11,000 to 43,000, while torse-drawn vehicles only decreased from 5S.000 to 49,000. Thus 32,000 motor cars came into use, but they displaced only 0,000 horse-drawn vehicles. From these figures it would seem that it will be . long time before horses disappear from the streets.

containing the dead bacilli, but failure has been the result. It was then suggested that some new method of killing the bacilli might have effect. Trials wore made with essential oils, such as those of cinnamon, garlic, thyme, marjoram, cloves and mustard, and the bacilli killed by these were found to be immunizing tinder certain conditions. A white mouse, for instance, is made proof against the living bacilli by injections of a vaccine containing from 500,000 to 10,000,000 corpses of bacilli slain by oil of mustard. But the numbers must be very carefully maintained. With a dose of more than 10,000,000 dead bacilli, the immunity is feeble or non-existenf ; but, on the other hand, the dose must be not less than half a million, no effect resulting

from 150,000. It is concluded that the oil of mustard gives a vaccine that is very active in the right doses.

Firing Gun From Aeroplane. How a machine gun is fired through, a revolving propeller is told in a recent issue of Aeronautics, in an article describing the more important features of two German Fokkers brought down behind the British lines in France. On theee monoplanes, according to the description, the machine gun is fired through the propeller by means of a small lever actuating a Bowden wire. Provision is further made to throw the machine gun mechanism momentarily out of gear as each whirling propeller blade comes into line with the muzzle. This is done very simply by means of a double cam fixed on the engine shaft and acting on a system of levers. The French Morane. after which the Fokker type has been modeled, also fires its machine gun through the tractor screw.

"Instead of raw March winds and cold drafts in other words, outside air of low temperature being the cause of colds and catarrhal affeclinns." snvs Dr. Felix L. Oswald, "it

is the warm, vitiated, indoor air that is the cause while outdoor air is the best remedy. The combination of exercise, abstinence and fresh air will cure the most obstinate cold. "Air is both food and drink to the lungs. It is more like water to the body it washes them clean. One great advantage the persistent walker has is in getting used to all kiuds of weather. Exposure to cold and damp will do him no harm, although it might be fatal to others. "Walking, if resolutely and judiciously followed, is a perfect exercise, which taxes the entire system. When

you walk properly every member and muscle, every nerve and fiber has something to do. The lungs grow strong and sound; the chest enlarges, the limbs are rounded out, the tendons swell and toughen, the figure rises in height and dignity and is clothed with grace and suppleness. Not merely the body, but the whole individual is developed."

Paper Clothes for Soldiers. Both Japanese and Russian soldiers are wearing paper clothes. "Kamiko," as paper clothing is called in Japan, is made of the real Japanese paper manufactured from mulberry bark. The paper has Httle"slze" in it and, though soft and warm, a thin layer of silk wadding is placed between two sheets of paper and the whole is quilted. Its only drawback is that it is not washable.

Wealth Handicap to Student, Says University President Wealth is a handicap to the college student, and the poor boy has the advantage, according to Dr. Bay Lyman Wilbur, president of Leland Stanford, Jr., university. Doctor Wilbur decrees that beginning this year automobiles may not be owned by" students ; that too frequent dances, the purchase of expensive flowers for co-eds and similar luxuries will be banned. He has sent a circular letter to students' parents saying students with too much money are not desired at the school, if they are inclined to spend

their time in the pursuit of pleasure. The letter urges parents to refrain from too liberal allowances and warns them that as the number of entrants this year is limited, those students who fail to show they are doing honest work will not be permitted to remain.

Nearly half of the nomilation of

France was engaged in farming before

the war. Rubber nails for places where metal ones would corrode are a novelty from Germany. Deposits of coal have been discovered in Iceland and efforts will be made to develop them. Rust will disappear from steel if soaked in sweet oil for a day, followed with a rubbing with fresh lime. A miniature automobile horn blown by pressing an electric button has been invented to replace door bells. The thumb print as a means of identification is used in a new English

time recording machine for workmen. The artichoke is a variety of the thistle and grows spontaneously all along the African shore of the Mediterranean. Because of the scarcity of wood in Switzerland about 70 per cent of the

ties on the government railroads are metal. A Jacksonville (Fla.) newspaper digs up the firm name of Shearer & Hare as suitable for a barber shop, and, in fact, used by one. The larger part of Mexico consists of an elevated plateau, with mountains on the east and west. This plateau is of volcanic origin. New apparatus for filling automobile tires with air automatically cuts off the supply when the overinliation danger point is Reached.

Russian engineers soon will begin

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can

be raised profitably in Siberia. Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the bureau of entomology at Washington, D. C, says there is no such tiling known to science as a silent mosquito. A submarine tender built for the Brazilian navy can admit an underwater boat Into its hull and carry It or subject it to extreme water pressure to test it. To carry smaller boats within large craft a Dutch inventor has patented a vessel with hinged doors at one end of the hull, through which boats can be lloated. Around the cemetery in Bowdoln, Me., is an iron fence which was put up 47 years ago and is still in perfect alignment, the. frost, which usually throws fences out of line, not having disturbed this one in the least.

An Excess of Sugar When sugar is taken in excess it undergoes fermentation in the alimentary canal, where it is converted into alcohol, carbonic acid and acetic acids. This fermentation and its products impede the work of the liver and make the system run with friction, prevent the elimination of effete products, and often long-contin-ued use cripples all the processes of life. Cane sugar, especially in strong solution, is an irritant to the stomach. When no sugar is taken in the food the liver makes all the sugar that is needed in the system. In addition to this, all the starch that is taken as food is converted into sugar in the body.

Housewives Will Welcome This.

experiments

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that

will cover

years to ascertain if sugar beets

.Many a housewife has sustained a bad burn by lifting the hot lid of the kettle she was attempting to refill. A teakettle lid has been invented which will render this impossible. The lid has an automatic valve in the center which opens as the flow of water is turned upon it and closes when the water is shut off. This valve Is at the bottom of a depression in the lid, and the concave thus formed is a convenient place to set a cup or other small vessel containing butter to be melted or other ingredients requiring gentle heat. The lid is of aluminum, thoroughly sanitary and indorsed by the cooking experts who hare seen it.

x What Women Are Doing.

London has now women blacksmiths and horseshoers. WonuMi are shoveling malt in the malthouses in England. Girl students at Rryn Mawr college have a military corps. One out of every, four women in this country is a wage-earner. Woman linotype operators In this country number over 15,000. Female clerks employed by the British government receive 6.25 a week. In Silesia, East Prussia, women actually dominate the building Industry. Woman cooks employed by the British army are paid $100 a year and their board. .Mrs. "W. K. Vanderbllt has given a $20,004 station for the wounded in France. An effort Is being made in England to induce women to become ministers of the Gospel. Women employed as conductors on the Prussian railwaj's must wear dark gray trousers. Private employers of female labo in Oreat Britain pay them from $371 to $C pec week.