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The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17

scores before Lajoie broke into the
iimelight. is back again ip the role of
utility infielder with the Cards.
His comeback marks finis To Il 10
year absence from the National league.
for he jumped from the Cardinals back
Browns. who were making their first
start I'm ST. Louis. His long years of
service with the Browns and his ulu-
mate release is remembered by all fans
today Ii seemed only natural that Wal
lace should step down and out and
when he was made member OF the
Wichita (Western league) club the ma
Iors bid him gooday for all time.
But Wallace is back. and the own
ers of the Cardinals figure that he *
valuable asset. In which they are
more than likely To be upheld by his
work whenever the occasion arises 10
use him in the lineup.
The return of the veteran Wallace
recalls the fact that 1917 has seen a
number of players In the veteran class
return 10 the big tent while hundreds
OF youngsters are pining their young
lives away in the bush leagues for n
chance. Ping Bodle. purchased last
winter from the San Francisco club by
Connie Mack. has made good with q
vim since his return. Harry Walter
aud Charley Deal. brought back from
the minor leagues by the Cubs. and
Jim Thorpe. recalled by the Giants
aud later sold to the Reds, are Other
examples.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
DRAIN PIPE UMBRELLA STAND
Great Convenience Where Space Is
Limited, and Can Be Made At
tractive When Treated Properly.
The hat sh'

A drain-pipe umbrella stand is no
new idea, but a stand of this kind is
great convenience in a small hall
where there is no space for larger
article, and also q drain pipe is not
expensive to buy.
The sketch shows q pipe treated in
n novel and very pretty manner that
will appeal to those who are artiStical-
iy inclined, and, incidentally, decorat-
ing drain pipes in the way illustrated
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
WHITE FROCKS FOR STREET
Revival of Muslin, Wolfe and Chiffon
New and Unexpected Feature of
Seasons Fashions.

It is difficult to remember when
white frocks were worn on city streets
in the summer as they are now. The
revival Of muslin, voile and chiffon in
dead white, with the addition Of huge
straw hat to give color to the costume
through its chaplet Of flowers, is q
striking note this summer, says New
York correspondent.
The checked and striped ginghams.
the wool Jerseys, embroidered in col
ored or metal threads, the Scotch plaid
skirts with coats of solid color, are fea-
lures Of fashion with which we have
been familiar since May 1, but the re-
vival of white frocks for all the af-
fairs that are taking place in the
city's life is something quite new and
unexpected.
Along with these white gowns are
launched alluring ones of lowered
muslins, Irish dimities and figured
voiles. At any one OF the smart res
taurantS at the lunch hour large ma
iority of women look as il they were
dressed for garden parties, Short
skirts. slightly draped founces, over
skirts, simple bodices and cape collars
of muslin are exploited in the kind OF
lowered design which we associate
with tea under the trees.
Sashes in pale blue. citron. hello
trope and deep yellow have come back
+ into the picture of clothes. They are
made of satin, taffeta. and. often, or
chiffon. They are wrapped around the
waist once or twice and tied in the
traditional bow and ends at the back.
or looped In Easter fashion at the
/ side.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
PLAYERS "WlTH A PAST"
ARE POPULAR THIS YEAR
Return to Big Leagues of Bobby Wal
lace, Veteran of Veterans, Shows
Trend of the Times.

Major league magnates and mana
gers are showing q strong preference
this year for ball players with a
past"
I'm ordinary times the big league
pilots pay little attention to pill toss
ers who have seesawed back and forth
from the minors to the big show. They
usually break their necks bidding for
the ''phenoms" who spring up in the
tall and uncut sticks. and they have
paid some fabulous prices for this class
OF players.
But 1917 is no ordinary year. The
ma jors have been slow TO sign young
sters aud seemingly eager to jump at
the chance of getting players who
have had big league experience, but
who. because of age or some minor
defects. have failed to stick on big
time.
The recent signing Of Bobby Wal
lace by the Cardinals is most vivid
example of this tendency. Bobby
Wallace, the veteran of veterans; a
player whose name appeared in the box
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
A Turkish Love Story.

A Turk knocked at his bcloved's
door, and a voice answered from with
in, Whose thereI'
Then he answered, 1T is J."
Then the voice said. This house will
not hold thee and me-"
And the door was not opened.
Then went the lover into the desert.
where there is nothing but Allah, and
tasted and prayed in solitude.
And after a year he returned and
knocked again at the door
And again the voice asked, "Who is
there"
And he said. 1T is thyself."
And the door was opened 10 him.
Exchange.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
CornmeaI Pancakes.

Take two cupfuls of flour sifted
with teaspOonful and half of bak-
ing powder with the same amount of
salt. Add a cupful and half of boil
ing water to half-cupful of cOrnmeal,
cook five minutes. turn into q bowl and
add one and a fourth cupfuls of milk,
one beaten egg. third of Il cupful of
sugar and the flour mixture. Stir well,
then add two tablespoonfuls OF melted
shortening. Cook on a creased griddle.
Mush that has been nodded makes n
delicious breakfast dish, by frying the
slices in little hot fat.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17

slippers and pink roses, looked very
alluring. He has taken her home from
dances, perhaps half-dozen times and
at the end OF that time proposed mar
riage. Neither had peeped beyond the
first chapter of the book of life. Their
entire conversation had been about
other girls and b0ys-what jolly good
or barn dance. Yet these two killings
considered themselves in love and had
the notion that they ought to wed.
The boys father does his best to
have a serious talk with his son, en-
deavoring TO make him understand
that married life Is something more
than continuous love-making; that it
entails obligations. such as winning
the support of two, 10 start with; that
a pretty sweetheart transferred to the
companion youth fondly believes
she would be.
The girls parents do their best to
make her understand that young man
should have at least start In life be-
fore he essays matrimony; that all
love-making, no work, would put out
the kitchen fire. If, despite earnest
parental advice on both sides. the
young people take their own heads
and marry. they have only themselves
to blame for much of the tribulatiOns
that may follow. Parents on both
sides should be eager for the match,
then it will turn out happily.
lCnnVriPhf 1917
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17

during the coming autumn and winter.
From shoulder to hem the coat falls in
absolutely straight lines and the
sleeves are quite loose, the fragile ma
terials of which they are composed pre-
venting any appearance of heaviness.
This model would be lovely copied
I'm black silk jersey cloth and black
voile, or in deep blue charmeuse, with
dull silver embroideries and blue crepe
de chine.
The hat shown in this sketch is one
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
Umbrella Stand.

might prove a remunerative occupation
for the spare time of anyone who Is
proficient in painting flowers.
The exterior of the pipe is first COW
cred with cream-colored or white en-
amel. and then the floral design can be
painted upon ii with oil colors. The
pipe from which the sketch was made
was decorated with iris; only the side
which is visible need be painted upon.
There are, of course. many other
suitable floral designs that might be
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
flashlights.

About ali that jealousy asks
TO make trouble is Il chance.
Fair as women are. even they
are no excuse for the So-called
ladies' man.
No matter how much a man
may neglect his wife it always
makes him mad TO discover that
some other man is slightly inter
eSted in her.
This world may owe you liv-
ing. but If you don't care enough
for il 20 hustle round and col
Iect it, the world isn't going To
do ANY worrying.
Luck doesn't play nearly so
big part in the other fellows
success aS You imagine.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
MARRYING AGAINST
WISHES OF FAMILY
By LAURA JEAN liBBEY.

An old farmhouse with meadows wide.
Sweet with clover on either side,
A bright-eyed youth. who looks from out
The door with woodbine wreathed with
out,
Wished this one thought all the day:
ooh. IL could but fly away
From this duh spot the world to see,
How happy | would be-"
What youth of one and twenty and
maid of sweet sixteen If they happened
to become enamored OF one another
would not tell you that there is just
one person I'm the world for them, and
each has met that one? 1t is all in
vain for relatives or friends TO attempt
to dissuade them from their feeling.
The young man declares he will leave
home and all belonging to him and go
out into the world to earn fame and
fortune for the girl he has chosen.
The maid declares that IL she cannot
wed the hero of her heart she will
never. never marry. Though her lips
may not complain her sad eyes Will
be q reproach to those who have sep
arated her from her love for all time
to come.
How the parents are TO deal with
such q determined young couple is Il
problem. The youths parents know
that Ii Is his nature to fall quickly in
love. and as quickly climb cut Of it.
The girls parents realize that the kind
of man who fills her fancy at sixteen
she would possibly be heartily tired of
at two and twenty.
They met at ball. The girl In her
tuIle party dress, white gloves. white
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
Nuu h~f~s ~seQ-
V'r e'v vrv rt VlT t'T eev VT w tt Vt t~
EPlGRHYMES:

I'd like TO be as FORTUNAI Z
as lots of MEN l know who
rouse an agitation in all
hearts where'er they go. Now
take YOUR old friends Tyrus
Cobb; he leads the COUNTRY,
fans. In clever execution of
the tricks Hugh Jennings plans.
And then, in little, old New
York. LIVES "Muggsy," John Nc
Graw. and many other nOtables
who follow flame" quite raw
BECAUSE it's served to them
so fast there is no time TO
cook the adulatiOn that they
get each blessed way they look.
You've got to hand it to these
chaps: they've earned all they
have won, and it's worth while
to rouse the shout: Gee!
Attaboy! Well done" But, humDiy'
may 1 ask of you TO ponder
Garfield's thought: Behold our
land. in twenty years, and see
the men who fought in this, we
pray. the final war for ever
lasting peace. and hear all
nations cry of thanks which
nevermore shall cease. And then
imagine, if you can, that
reverence multiplied ten thou
sand times ten thousand, for
the Fighting Men-who DIED!
Robert Russell
Fortunate men your country
lives because you died.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17

units have risen from thousands TO mil
lions of inen, and fields of operations
stretch from sea to sea. and more am
munition is expended in Il single en-
gagement than was employed in entire
wars of other days, absolute serenity
prevails 1t is only when your imagina-
ton conjures up tie picture of flame
and fury that lies beyond the horizon
line that you get Ghrill.-Isaac f.
Marcosson in Everybody's.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
Serenity in Thick of BroIl.

The environment of the commander
in chief. Sir Douglas Haig, is strongly
suggestive of his conduct of the war.
Before war became thing of precise
science the headquarters of an army
head seethed with all the picturesque
details so common TO pictures of mar
tial life. Couriers mounted on foam
flecked horses dashed 10 and fro; the
air was vibrant with action; tie fate
OF battle showed on the face OF the
humblest orderly. But today things
are totally different. Although army
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The System

what you are taking. as the formula is
printed on every label. showing il Is
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The
Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
cornmeal Douuhnuts.

Put three-fourths of cupful of milk
and III cupfuls of cornmeal into a
double boiler and heat together ten
minutes. Add three-fourths of cup
full of sugar and fourth of cupful
of shortening. Sift together 1A cup
fuls of wheat flour with Il teaspoonful
of cinnamon and two teaspoonfuls OF
baking powder. add these and two
well-beaten eggs to the meal. Roll out
on a well-foured board, cut and fry in
hot deep fat.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
Ostrich Trimming.

Now there is a big fad for ostrich.
While ostrich has always been In de-
mand more or less, sometimes for
fan, boa or trimming for hat,
there has never been a time within
years when the feathery product or
the ostrich was seen upon hat, shoulder
cape and bag all at the same time.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17

Cook a half cupful of cornmeal,
added very gradually to a cupful and
half of boiling water. for 20 minutes,
then add cupful and half of milk.
three cupfulS of flour, three tablespoon
fuls of sugar. III tablespoonfuls of
baking powder. IL teaspoonfulS of
salt. the yolks and whites of two eggs
beaten separately. When all is well
mixed. add two tablespOOnfuls of melt
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17

Bill-Hello. Home from your hon.
eymoOn trip already?
Gill-Oh, yes.
Rather short, wasn't IT."
"Oh, yes. Ny new wife seemed rath-
er anxious to get home and try her
cooking on me-"
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
Wise Precaution.

Visitor-When writing about China
do you refer to it as a republic or a
monarchy?
Editor-Always the opposite 70
what it is at the moment. It's bound
10 be the other by the time the ar
ticle gets into print.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
Mothers
Cook Book

The woman Of moderate means, who
her arm, often gets better goods for
less money than her wealthy sister,
who trusts TO servants or the telephone
and takes what the market merchant
chooses to send her, in blissful igno-
rance of food values or food quality.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
LINES ARE SIMPLE

Of the latest models. You will notice
that the crown is quite high and large;
also that the hat is practically un-
trimmed. This model in fine felt will
be feature OF the autumn season.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
Indian PuddinQ-

Cook FIVE cupfuls of milk and third
of cupful of cornmeal in double
boiler, a half cupful of molasses. tea
spoonful each OF salt and ginger. Mix
all together and pour into buttered
baking dish and bake two hours in
slow oven; serve with cream.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
To Save Silk Hose.

Before wearing silk hose rub little
wax on each toe and heel, where the
wear comes, and repeat after each
laundering-so treated silk hose wear
as well IS cotton.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
Reduce Iivjno Costs.

Alice Pork and Beans are much
cheaper than meat. Yet they contain
more fat and much more protein than
lean beef. This gives them their high
food Yalue.=Adv.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
Some Cornmeal Dishes.

The rainy consistency of cOrnmeal is
an advantage when used in griddle
cakes or watfles, for it renders them
very tender.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17
He Read a Book.

First Tramp-What did Exhausted
Ernest die of?
Second Tramp-Starvation He read
In a doctors book that you mustn't eat
when you're tired
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17

After you do a man a favor he is
apt TO be afflicted with a partial loss Of
memory.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17

used, and pink roses and green leaves
would look very pretty upon a cream
background.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17

eel shortening. just before adding the
stifIly beaten whites.
The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-08-17

The coming of the fall season brings
and smart afternoon costumes, OF
which the one shown above is the most
attractive.
The dress is Of gray georgette COM
bined with dark blue satin trimmed
with dark blue beading. The combina-
tion is striking and most pleasing to
experienced eyes. The hat is of blue
velvet with facing of gray gourka
feathers.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-15
Bound to Eight. Anyhow.

Early last year, says a contributor
to an English weekly, a grocer in a
Scottish village decided that either he
or his assistant must enlist. As he
was single and his mother and sisters
were well provided for from their in
terest in the shop, he thought it was
his duty to go.
Mackay, the assistant, agreed
promptly, and presently found himself
in command of the business.
But a few months later the master
was dumfounded to meet his late as
sistant, attired in khaki, Somewhere
in France"
''Hi, mon,' he said angri!y, what are
We doin' here? Did no tell ye tae stay
at hame in charge O. ma shop?"
$50 l thocht at the time, maister,"
replied Mackay, "bit 1 sune fun oot 1t
wisna only the shop was in charge
O., but a yer womanfolk. Man says
/ tae maself, gin we've got to fecht,
gang and fecht someone ye can hitr
So jined. d."-YOuth's Companion.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-15

Something queerly like laugh
broke his voice when he answered
"oh, you darllngl Yes. It's all right
That isn't why I'm crying. It's jun
because I'm so happy"
"But the babyw she persisted
"Why isn't It here?"
Rodney turned and spoke TO some.
one else. "She wants to see." he
said. MAY she?"
And then woman's voice (why
1t was the nurse. of coursel Miss
Harris, who had come last night said
In an indulgent, soothing tone: "Why
! surely she may. Wait just a minute
But the wait seemed hours. Why
didn't they bring the baby--her baby
There Miss Harris was coming at
last, with a queer, bulky, shapeless
bundle. Rodney stepped in between
: and cut Off the view, but only to slide
an arm under mattress and pillow
: and raise her little so that she could
see.
And then, under her eyes, dark red
and hairy against the whiteness of the
pillow, were two small heads-two
small, shapeless masses leading away
from them, twitching, squirmlng. She
stared bewlldered.
There were twins, Rose" she heard
Rodney explaining triumphantly, but
still with something that wasn't quite
a laugh, "a boy and a girl. They're
perfectly splendid. One weighs seven
pounds and the other six"
Her eyes wldened and she looked
up into his face so that the pltlful
bewilderment In hers was revealed to
him.
"But the baby" she said. Her wide
eyes filled with tears and her voice
broke weakly. ~ wanted a baby"
you've got baby" he insisted,
and now laughed outright. "There are
two of them. Don't you understand,
dear?"
Her eyes dropped shut, but the
tears came yelling out along her
lashes. "Please take them away" she
begged. And then, with a little sob,
she whispered: II wanted a baby
not those"
Rodney started to speak, but some
sort of admonitory signal from the
nurse silenced him.
The nurse went away with her bun
die, and Rodney stayed stroking
Roses limp hand.
In the dark, ever so much later,
she awoke, stirred little restlessly,
and the nurse, from her cot, came
quickly and stood beside her bed. She
had something in her hands for Rose
to drink and Rose drank 1t dutifully.
rs there anything else?" the nurse
asked.
II just want to know" Rose said;
"have l been dreaming, or is 1t true?
Is there a baby, or are there twins?"
''Twins, to be sure" said the nurse
cheerfully. "The lOveliest, liveliest
little pair you ever saw"
"Thank you" said Rose. 81 just
wanted to know"
She shut her eyes and pretended
to go to sleep. But she didn't. 1t was
true then. Her miracle, it seemed
somehow, had gone ludicrously awry.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-15
Knowing that they have plenty
Of money to raise twins properly,
why should Rose resent the fact
that she has been presented with
two babies instead Of one7
(To BE CoNTINUEDJ
EASY TO TELL REAL DIAMOND
There Are Many Ways in Which the
Finest limitations May Be Detect
ed, Even by the inexperienced.

The experienced eye does not find II
difficult to decide whether a diamond
| is genuine, for the facets of real ones
are seldom so regular as those Of fine
| limitations. With the latter the great
est care is taken in grinding to polish
and smooth the whole stone so that
there will be irregularity in the reflec-
Ttlon or refraction of the light. A neces-
sary tool for testing is the file, which
cannot scratch a real diamond, al
though it quickly leaves its mark on
an imitation. Better than the file is the
sapphire, for the sapphire is the next
hardest stone to the diamond. Any
stone that sapphire can scratch is
assuredly not diamond.
If you put a small drop Of water on
the upper facet of brilliant and touch
it with the point of a pencil the drop
will keep it's rounded form, but ths
stone will remain clean and dry. In
case of an imitation the drop immedi-
ately spreads out. Plunge a diamond
into water and it will be plainly visible
and will glitter through the liquid, but
an imitation stone is almost invisible.
If you look through a diamond, as
through bit of glass, at black dot
on sheet Of white paper you will see
one single point clearly. If you see sew
eral points or blur of black it is an
imitation. The white sapphire, the
white tonaz and rock CRYSTAL ara fro.
quently sold as diamonds, but imita-
tions are more commonly made of
glass.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-15

had heard
front the
Then she traid fair ladya
geher-a nearly squares Then
took
"You dropped a package didn't your
Hghened lad picked t
"No picked he had
to
mercy didn't insult him; Just
don't the
will gass-f
hard lines walk
marathon just
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-15
CHAPTER xI-continued.

But she went steadily on. "You
were always so dear about 1t. But
tonight-oh Rodney " Her
silly, ragged voice chOked there and
stopped, and the tears brimmed uI
and spilled down her cheeks. But
she kept her face steadfastly turned
to his.
"That's what l said about being
married and not sowing wild oats,
suppose" he said glumly. ut was q
joke. Do you suppose I'd have said 1t
If l meant it?"
''It wasn't only that" she managed
to go on. ut was the way they looked
at the house; the way you apologi2ed
for my dress; the way you looked
when you tried to get out of answer
ing Barry Lakes questions about
what you were doing. Oh, how l
despised myself And how / knew
you and they must be despising me !"
"The one thing l felt about you ali
the evening"" he said, with the pa
tience that marks the last stage of
WuS plluts NuS luLh-
er crazily proud of you"
"As my lover you were proud of
me-" she said. "But the other man
the man that's more truly you-was
ashamed, as l was ashamed. Oh, it
doesn't matter Being ashamed won't
accomplish anything. But what We'll
do is going to accomplish something"
"What do you mean to do?" he
asked.
II want you to tell me first" she
said, "how much money we have, and
how much we've been spending"
Il don't know" he said stubbOrnly.
II don't know exactly"
you've got enough, haven't you,
enough that comes in every year, to
live on, if you didn't earn a cent by
practicing law? Well, what l want
to do, is to live on that. want to
live, however and wherever we have
toto live on that-out in the suburbs
somewhere, or in fiat, so that you
will be free; and can work-be some
sort of help"
you can wash the dishes and scrub
the floors," he supplemented, "and
can carry my lunch to the office with
me in a little tin box" He looked at
his watch. "And now that the things
reduced to an absurdity, let's go to
bed. It's getting along toward two
o'clock"
"You don't have to get to the office
till nine tomorrow morning" said
Rose. "And 1 want to talk it out
now. And 1 don't think 1 said any
thing that was absurd"
II shouldn't have called it absurd"
he admitted after rather long ST.
lence. "But it's exaggerated and un-
necessary. Next October, when the