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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-27
BY r. F. FOSTER.

Taken in the aggregate, probably the
most expensive mistake in auction is
making free bids second hand on cards
that present no prospect of going game
unless the partner has a no-trumper.
There are many persons who seem I'M
able to get rid of the idea that they must
| make a bid if they have any suit with a
few good cards in it. In teaching, L mo
the best cure for this is to ask the player
to drop the usual form, "One diamond,
or Two clubs and to say: Il can win
seven tricks with these cards if diamonds
are trumps," which often has the desired
! result of showing them the absurdity OF
| the declaration.
The majority of those who play auc-
ton continually overlook the two great
facts in the game: First, that a bid is a
contract against which there stands a
heavy forfeit for failure. Second, that
PLAYER should never undertake contract
until he has heard from as many of the
other bidders as possible. If you were
bidding on a contract to supply certain
line of goods you must admit that you
would consider it a great advantage to
know what your competitors figures We're
before you fixed your own.
The most common fault in this respect
is when the secoRd hand has free bid
that is when he is not obliged to bid al
ALL there being no danger and no hurry,
and the occasion for this mistake usually
arises when the dealer has started out
with a spade call. With very ordinary
suit, nothing particular to support IL, and
no prospect of going game on the hand
the second player viii calmly pull the
dealer out of his spade make.
| The dealer is not going to be left with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-27

provised cooling compartments is a large
flower pot of the ordinary clay variety.
Seal the hole in the bottom of the pot
with plaster of paris. Have the sealed
pot large enough to contain the milk
bottle and a small crock of butter Cover
1t with a crockery top that fits well into
the top. Fill it with water to a depth
such as will just escape reaching the top
Of the butter crock or the milk bottle.
Place it In the open air where the sun
will not strike it, but where 1T Will be In
the way of breeze.
The evaporation on the outside OF the
porous pot keeps the contents firm and
sweet much longer than they would be
otherwise. The stronger the breeze the
cooler will be the effect, owing to accel-
Grated evaporation.
A clever housewife has devised a base
ment cellarette of which she is pardona-
bly, proud. In the cool corner of her eel
lar she had dug a trench three feet long
twenty inches wide and ten inches deep
This trench is lined with cement compos-
ed of one part cement and five parts
sand, the wall being an inch thick or
both sides and bottom. Over this was
fitted a wooden lid. which allowed nc
warm air to penetrate into the cellarette
The idea is one worthy of adoption b.
those who cannot afford or are unable t.
obtain ice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-27

thinking of those tender. young carrots
that he just had to come and get some
before sunup, and he is very much obliged
to you for telling him about them. He
says they are the finest young carrots
that he ever tasted said the Merry Lit
tie Breeze.
The heart Of Reddy Fox was filled
with rage, but he did not let the Merry
Little Breeze know 1t. He just smiled
and sent the Merry Little Breeze back
to Peter Rabbit to tell him how glad he
was that Peter enjoyed the carrots, and
to invite Peter to meet him the next
morning on the edge of the old brier
patch at sunup TO go with him to bed
of sweet clover which he had just found
near the old hickory tree.
The Merry Little Breeze danced off
with the message and pretty soon he
was back to say that Peter Rabbit would
be delighted to go to the sweet clover bed
the next morning.
Reddy grinned to himself as he trudged
off home. "Pll just be at the clover
patch an hour before sunup tomorrow
morning, and then We'll see." said he.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-27
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.

Old Granny Fox was not feeling well.
For three DAYS she had been unable to
go out hunting. and for three days Red
DIV Fox had tried to find something to
tempt Granny's appetite. He had brought
In a tender young chicken from Farmer
Browns hen yard and he had stolen a
plump trout from Billy Minlas storehouse,
but Granny had just turned up her nose.
What | need said Granny Fox, lis a
tender young rabbit
Now, Reddy Fox is very fond of
Granny Fox and when she said that
she needed tender young rabbit Reddy
made up his mind that he would get it
for her, though how he was going to do
it he didn't know. Dozens of times he
had tried to catch Peter Rabbit and every
time Peters long legs had taken him to a
place of safety. I'll just have to fool
Peter Rabbit said Reddy Fox, as he sat
on his door steps and looked over the
Green Meadows.
that it is hard work to be sure when
he is honest and when he Is playing a
trick AS he sat on his door steps look
ing across the Green Meadows he saw
the Merry Little Breezes coming his
way. Reddy smiled to himself. When
them.
..Will you do something for me?'' he
asked.
"Of course we will" shouted the Merry
Little Breezes, who are always delighted
to do something for others.
Il wish you would find Peter Rabbit
and tell him that / have found new bed
of tender young carrots in Farmer
Browns garden and invite him to go
there with me tomorrow morning at sun
up said Reddy Fox
Away race the Merry Little Breezes
| to find Peter Rabbit and give him the
| invitation of Reddy Fox. Pretty soon
| back they came to tell Reddy that Peter
Rabbit would be delighted to meet Reddy
| Fox on the edge of the old hrier patch
| at sunup the next morning and go with
| him to get some tender young carrots
Reddy smiled to himself, for now he was
| sure that he would get Peter Rabbit for
Granny's breakfast.
Fox started down the Lone Little Path
and hurried across the Green Meadows
| to the old brier patch Reddy was
dressed in his very best suit of clothes
and very smart and handsome he looked
| When he reached the o,u brier patch he
could see nothing of Peter Rabbit. He
waited and waited and waited but still
| Peter Rabbit did not come. Finally he
gave 1t up and decided that he would go
over and have a look at the young carrots
| in Farmer Browns garden. When he got
there what do you think he saw? Why,
| all around that bed of tender young car
| rots were footprints, and the footprints
were Peter Rabbits.
Reddy Fox ground his teeth and
snarled wickedly. for he knew then that
instead OF fooling Peter Rabbit Peter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-27
Latest American Fashions
BY CORA MOORE.

With the craze there is for one piece
dresses it would be a natural sequence for
the tailored suit to be pressed into the
| background. This is not the case,
| however The tailored suit and it's
| sister, the semi-tailored model, is, If pos
| sible, more popular than ever and a great
| deal more irresistible. Dresses themselves
| do not show more variety or more novelty
| In the way of cut and finishing details
than the coat and skirt suits that fash
| ion has decreed for this summer.
| The trig, French-back coat, buttoned
primly up the front, and the plain skirt
are occasionally seen and are always at
tractive but far in the majority are the
suits in which the coat at least is of
| more or less complicated cut
Considerable preference is shown for
| the plain skirt. There are several new
| long tailored coats that promise to be-
| come favorites, mostly in cutaway eff
| fects, although some are of the directoire
| persuasion, and very attractive and
! jaunty looking, providing the skirt is of
different material; stripes. for instance,
| when the coat is of a plain weave. or.
as one of the most recent models has it.
| a skirt accordion plated and the coat
| very long and sharply pointed at the
back. This latter, however, is rather
| heavy looking except for linens. There is,
| however. another new model in which a
plain skirt top has the length completed
from the knees with side plating, and
| this is suitable for practically any ma
teral.
| The coat that goes with it is also some
thing of a novelty. 1t fastens straight
| down the front with frogs the two edges
| just meeting, and below the waist is
| slashed into two tabs that, like the neck,
are finished all around with silk bind
| ing. From the top of the incision the
material is cut away into long tails. A
| patent leather belt slips across the front
holding down the tabs, under the side and
| through eyeet holes across the back.
Elbow-length sleeves with cuffs are set
into large finished armsides.
| Revers and cuffs are often faced with
a bright color. and models which REQUIRE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-27

The pannier sash is perhaps the one
of leading Importance at the moment.
This only starts from the waist line at
the back, where it usually hooks on the
gown, and drops in two wide loose bands
TO about the knees. where 1t is again
caught to the dress with an ornament
and a line of fringe. These bands are
not taut from the waist to the knee. but
hang so that they form little loop. 1t
is from this looping that the name of
pannier is obtained
White remains the most popular and
modish of colors The latest phase of
the white preference is in the form of
summer frocks made entirely of crepe dc
chine. crepe meteor or of taffeta.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-27
Little Stories for Bedtime.
Reddy Fox Invites Peter Rabbit to AXE Walk.

! Rabbit had fooled him. Just then up
came one of the Merry Little BreeZeS OF
Old Mother West Wind.
Good Morning. Reddy Fox said the
Merry Little Breeze.
Good morning replied Reddy Fox.
and if you could have seen him and
heard him you would never have suS-
pected how illtempered he was feeling.
Peter Rabbit asked me to come and
tell you that he Is very sorry that he
could not meet you at the brier patch
this morning hut that he grew so hungry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-27
SOME SUBSTITUTES
FOR THE ICE BOX

So many housewives are denied the
comfort, or more properly the luxury. Of
ice that few simple methods for keep
ing the butter and milk cool are CRATE
fully received. Many times ice is lux
ury for economical reasons. Again, it
is a comfort because, though the pocket
book would cover the expenses of a re-
frigerator, the housewife is so far from
the base of supplies that she 10 unable to
obtain reliable delivery.
One Of the most successful Of the Inn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-27
Doctors Boyish Face
Reveals Skin Remover

l heard the other day the story of the
physician with so admirable skin that
all his women patients asked the secret.
He told one, who generously told others,
that, knowing the remarkable absorbent
property OF ordinary mercolized wax, he
concluded this substance would make an
excellent complexion remover and pre-
server. Knowing the WAX could not harm
the skin. ne began using it after shaving.
He coon observed that the old. withered,
colorless cuticle was being gradually alb
sorbed and replaced by younger. healthier
skin. This was the simple secret of the
silver-haired doctor with the boyish face.
The secret became public property. Now
women everywhere use mercolized wax.
applying II nights like cold cream. wash
ing 1t of mornngs-continuing until the
complexion is entirely renovated. An
ounce of this wax. procurable at any drug
gist's. will Danish the worst complexion.
Another valuable rejuveDator used by
this doctor was wrinkle remover and
preventive in the form OF a face bath,
made by dissolving an ounce OF saxolite
in a half pint witch hazel. This also has
become famous.-Aurelia in Fashion Re-
visW.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-27
Mistakes in Bidding at Auction
FREE BIDS SECOND HAND.

spade if any one at the table has a
hand that is worth anything, SO there will
be plenty of time for the second hand to
make a bid when it comes round to him
again. BY that time the player will have
line on the situation. The great Objec-
ton to these second hand free bids is that
they take the opponents out of difficulty
and at the same time make them cautious
about overcalling. Take this case:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-22

for the best propositions in this line
Many come Many seek for the slightest hint that
good piece of property is to be offered special figure
followed up You can study lists with profit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-22
The Homes With tine Largest
Back Yards i'm NV.

The location here is high, 200 feet above 9th
and SITS. One of the coolest spots in town. In
addition to good size front lawn, you have over
90 feet of actual back yard If you have children
this means health and pleasure for them, to say
nothing of flowers, vegetables, chickens, ETC., for
which you have ample space These yards arc
hard to get in a six-room house, and in order to
appreciate the value they add to this property they
should be by every or woman who IS
considering the purchase of home. Come out
today or Sunday. For those who cannot see them
during the day we are keeping sample house
open and lighted every night until o'clock.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-03


ties. It is very evident, however,
that all of the federal departments
confined are. not now doing for the
urban population as such, work which
compares in thoroughness or effici-
ncy wit that done by the department
of agriculture for the rural population
OF the United States.
In its editorial comment on this
subject, the American City likens the
United States to great university,
and the cities, towns and villages OF
the country to. schools wherein mI-
nicipal problems are being studied, 1t
emphasizes the folly of depending on
local experience when in many cases
there Is similar experience gained
elsewhere which might serve as a
guide. That the administration of the
city of Washington might be placed
under the direction OF the proposed
department or bureau of municipali
ties, and that the capital city might
thus become in reality an experimental
school of municipal betterment for the
nation as whole, is one of the inter
osting suggestions offered.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-03

Miss Martha Van Rensselaer,, profess
sor of home economics in Cornell Uni
yersity, says that there is new
woman" on the farm, who is eager to
learn all she can, and this woman
will think nothing of driving ten miles
to hear a lecture on domestic science,
while city woman would not walk
around the corner to learn about it.
The men have begun to realize, she
says. that women need the tools OF
their trade as well as the men need
farm machinery, and are more willing
to invest in them than the more con
sentative woman. She thinks that do.
mestic science teachers would find
good fields in rural communities. II
took long time for Cornell to admit
a woman professor but it came to
it at last.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-03


would still be some prejudice, but
there would be no persecution, such as
blackened the early pages of our his
tory. And then perhaps in yer,
short time, Nauvoo would begin to
grow with marvellous speed, and the
town would grow in beauty and aided
by her magnificent location, there
might be built the most beautiful and
one of the most prosperous cities on
the whole mighty river
1t is to be taken for granted that
the people who have been booming
Nauvoo, these many years, will be
very glad to see that boom arrive,
and will have no objection 10 the
twentieth century Mormons, II they
should be behind that BOOM They
would welcome everybody, who woulo
make their dream come true. who
would arouse the ancient village, that
has been dreaming and brooding
these seventy years. and again make
her hustling. wide-awake, progres.
sive city. one of the coming great cen
tiers of the Mississippi valley. To all
of which the big dam may contribute
very much.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-03
DoN,Ts FOB HUSBANDS.

A few Sundays ago Rev. Albert
Marion Hyde of the Porter church in
Brockton, Mass, gave out ten com
mandments for wives. AS a sequel to
them he last Sunday promulgated a
number of .don'ts'' for husbands, as
follows:
Don't forget and leave your little
courtesies and gentle K1ndnesses at
some hotel on your wedding trip.
Don't unbo5om yourself about your
family troubles to your stenographer,
your college friend, member of your
club or even a brother or sister in
your church.
Don't support the wife and children
OF the saloon keeper at the expense
of your own wife and children.
Don't have nervous prostration
when your wife asks you to go out
With her for an evening.
Don't make your wife stranger to
your check book.
Don't make your wife pack horse
harnessed to the kitchen stove, wash
tubs and mending bag.
Don't carry all Your religion in
your wife's name. You will not be
able TO realize on it here or hereafter.
decalogue of Moses is still on the
statute books. 1t is intended for hus-
band as well as wife.
Don't forget that the happiest spot
on earth is your home. Your wife may
not be an angel-you would be lone,
some with her if she were
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-03
suMMlTvILLE AND MooAR.
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Andrew Keethler and family are
visiting the Keethler home at SUM
mityille.
The Christmas entertainment Christ.
mas night at the Christian church at
Summittville, was just grand. The
church looked very pretty. Charlie
Schilling in acting his Irish part, kept
everybody laughing. A large crowd
was present and all went home well
pleased.
The United Presbyterian church had
fine program Wednesday night. s
! The Misses Matte and Nellie Rob
ertson, Flossie and Nellie Brown, Mrs
Chas. Robertson, Mrs. Henry Philip
Mr.. Pearl Webster and wife, all OF
Summitville were passengers on the
north road train Thursday.
Mrs. John Meginnis' sister. Fanny
is visiting the Meginnis' home al
Summityille.
/ Mrs. ]. Hardy spent Christmas day
with her daughter, Mrs. Webster at
Mooar
1 Charles Lake and wife and Johf,
Sheriff. and wife Of Mooar attended
the entertainment at Summitville
i Christmas night
Amer Hawkins and wife of Keokul;
and Robert Boyd and wife of Sandusky
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-03
MEN ARE HELPLESS
AS CHILDREN
When Taken Suddenly IlI-Here Is /.
common-scnse Safeguard.

Big, strong man is as a helpless in.
FAINT when be is suddenly i'll.
The sturdiest chap in town usually
loses his self-control. and is utterly
unable to regard his condition with
the common sense that characterizes
his everyday actions.
For example: He comes home tired
eats heavy dinner and sits down to
read and smoke away quiet evening
Suddenly he notices a weight on his
stomach; then sharp pains around his
heart. and feeling OF suffocation.
Thoughts of heart disease rush over
him. and in his agony he fears the
worst
His trouble was acute indigestion.
brought on b. overlooking his tired
stoTach.
\ couple OF Rexall Dyspepsia Tab
lets might have given him relief
might have saved him hours of suffer.
ing.
Carry package of Rexall Dyspep-
sia Tablets in your vest pocket or
keep them in your room. Take one AFT.
ter each heavy meal, and ward off in.
digestion.
Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets relieve
stomach troubles by aiding nature to
supply those elements, the absence Of
which in the gastric juices. causes in.
digestion and dyspepsia. They tend
to aid the stomach to digest all kinds
Of foods and to quickly convert it in
to rich red blood.
We know what Rexall Dyspepsia
Tablets are and what they will do We
guarantee them 10 relieve indigestion
and dyspepsia. If they fail, We will
refund your money
Three sizes. 25 cents, 50 cents and
sl.co- Sold only at our stores or by
mail Remember you can obtain Rex.
al Remedies in this community only
at our store-The Rexali store. Nc.
Grati Bros. Drug Co, corner Firth
and Main Streets.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-03
Marriage Licenses
SALEM.
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Prof. G. X. Hayes returned TO his
duties at Iowa Wesleyan University
Tuesday. His mother, Mrs. Minnie
Hayes accompanied him. They will re.
main at the Sherman Judy home a
few months, while Mrs. Judy and her
three sons will visit Mrs. Judy's par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Cramer at
Los Angeles, Calf.
Grant Corsbie has purchased proper.
ty at Winfield, where he will conduct
a meat market. Mr.. Corsbie shipped
his household goods Friday. He and
his family are now at their new home
Rev. Y. II. Ruring of the Congrega.
lonal church took for his Sunday
morning subject Facing the Future.
In the evening he gave an interesting
ADDRESS on How to Make the sun
Stand Still
Miss Marie Pfister and Miss Hoyer
came from Mt. Hamill and attended
the entertainment at the opera house
Friday evening. They returned home
Saturday.
Principal Paul paclzer OF TT. Madi.
son school spent vacation at the par.
entail home Mr.. and Mrs. Mal,lon
Packer.
Mr.. and Mrs. ] Il. Collins are al
Paola. Kansas, called thcae b. The
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-03
ANCIENT CONCRETE.

A strange discovery lately made in
the walls of the old palace of the
Louvre shows that REINFORCED con-
crete was by no means unknown in
Paris as far back as the sixteenth cen
tury. when the rebuilding Of the
Louvre was undertaken by that in
dustrious builder, Francis l. The
Builder states that when executing
works in connection with the applica-
ton of a modern lift. the workmen en-
ployed found it necessary to cut
through some of the old walls, which
were apparently of dressed masonry.
But, TO the surprise of the contractors,
lit was found that the stone was moth
| ing but the outer shell of construction,
largely composed of kind of re-en-
! forced concrete.
! In view CT the generally entertained
! belief that this is an essentially mod
ern variety Of structural material. the
proof of its employment between 800
and 400 years ago is distinctiyely in
iteresting. Our contemporary states
that some one with archaeological
tastes has taken the trouble to search
the archives for records left By the
architects of the epoch in question
4 with the result that no mention was
found of anything but dressed stone
for use in the walls. II seems, there
i fore. that the original contractors
with more wisdom than honesty, de
cided to make sure Of reaping the
benefit attending the adoption of re
enforced concrete as a substitute for
stone masonry.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-03
The Ideal site.

Burlington Hawk-Eye The finest
site for a big city in this section of
the west, was at Nauvoo. Those old
Mormons knew thing or two. They
gazed into the future and here as in
Utah, they were real builders. After
the followers OF Joseph Smith had
been driven out-because probably
they we're more prosperous than their
neighbors, even as the Jews are hated
and prosecuted in Russia-Nauyoo
went down, and despite the honest
and untiring effort of some of he,
people, she is not making the progress
which ought to have been hers.
Now that the river is being dam
med at keokuk, the question is being
asked, how will the formation OF the
big lake affect Keokuk The answer
seems to be that it will be a grand
thing for Nauyoo and that there Is re
newed hope among the loyal friends OF
the town who have never ceased tc
point out the advantages OF the loca
ton and TO urge that Nauvoo be made
what she ought 10 be. Perhaps the
children or the grandchildren of the
exiled Mormons may again turn their
footsteps to Nauyoo. Perhaps there