Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 88, Decatur, Adams County, 12 April 1916 — Page 3

|High Time You Were | Ready For Easter I > 0 I [A I' T i I If I I ! ■ Elk Brand We Have Some Things You Are Going To Need Very Badly On Easter Day— I You ought to slip into one of our I $17.00 Styleplus Suits THEY WILL PLEASE YOU Get one of our new hats at $2.00 $3.00 and $4.00. One of those new Cluett shirts for $1.50, a new tie, a pair of Interwoven Silk Hose at 50c and a lot of other things of interest that YOU WILL WANT. WE AWAIT YOUR CALL Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson Democrat Want Ads Bring Results

i——Ml—Mi<nvM— m .wgy-1 UMU .-•_ *awvu >a*‘ n f7) ■ “It Didn't Shrink" BACK FROM THE LAUNDRY FITTING as PERFECT- | LY AS EVER TUB DRESS IT NEVER NON-SHRINKABLE SHRINKS ” ______Any other cotton dress would I have been nearly ruined—but Snot so the Marguerite NonShrinkable Tub Dress— it’s material was pre-shrunk in the factory. It just cannot shrink now, no matter what you do with it. We guarantee it—so do its makers. It fits first and always. This is the end of your Tub Dress troubles. Look for the Trade Mark. GASS & MEIBERS — ._■■■■■■!■ .1 _ - m j L'L

Fred Orion and McQuay ■> Two sound, grade Belgian stallions, wili stand for mares at my barn, five miles northeast of Decatur, Indiana, this season. Fred Orion is a sorrel with tight mane and tail, six years old, weight a ton. McQuay is a sorrel, with stripe, white mane and tall, will weigh a ton when matured. He is four years old. They are a fine pair of Belgian horses, have proven that they are excellent and sure breeders. Terms: Ten dollars to insure a colt to stand and suck. Owners parting with mares will be held for insurance. We solicit your patronage. J. A. FLEMING & SON Owners. Dr. L. K. Magley VETERINARIAN Comer Third and Monroe Streets. Phones “otoAse DECATUR. IND. B. C. HENRICKS D. C. YOUR CHIROPRACTOR Above Voglewede’s Shoe Store. Phone 660 Office Hours Ito 5 7to 8 ’ LADY ATTENDANT Decatur, Ind. DECATUR’S CHIROPRACTOR PIONEER Office Over Vance & Hite’s U Allf . e 1:30 to 5:00 Hours 6:30 to 8:00 I PHONE 650. 0. L Burgener, D. C. [No Drugs No Surgery No Osteopathy

From My Narrow ’ [ little Window By THE HOOSIER OBSERVER “BASTINGS”

Bastings. You \vhose mouths water on the last provocation will think I mean “drippings” that are laved over the breast of a roasting turkey or other fowl, won’t you? But I don’t. I mean the threads that are temporarily put into a dress or coat or other garment to hold it into shape until it is fitted and sewed and finely finished for permanent wear. The bastings are then pulled out and the shapely garment is done. • • • • I learned all about bastings after I got out of high school and went to “learn the trade” of a dressmaker. Sewing was not taught in school then, and some of the girls were turned out of high school when they were graduated, about as impractical, in the matter of technical handicraft, as a lily that is plucked and thrown out into the sun and told to spin its cloth first and then make it up into an awning—if it wanted to keep from wilting. Os course we girls had made doll clothes from our earliest days. We were considered quite skillful (for children) with the needle; and even clever in the making of our own patterns and the designing of wonderful afternoon and evening clothes for our dolls. They even had opera capes and hats for every occasion. BUT our imagination supplied much that was lacking in many ways, for they were often without sleeves (those little tubes so aggravating to , make), or their silken folds hid. 1 whited-sepulchre fashion, much rawness of seams and puckering of stitches. So, when we had finished fluffing our brains with Tennyson’s poetry; had waded through four years of Latin, from “amo, amas, amat,” “all Gaul;” slumbered through Cicero's speeches and sailed with Virgil over the fierce mains; through four years of ancient, medieval and modern history; four years of higher mathematics; four years of chemistry and physics—about the most practical part of the course, wrote essays so four years on "Glass,” “Iron,” “Bones” and maybe a few other things that we didn’t need to read about first; learned how to play “The Ma’den’s Prayer” “by heart” and probably the allegretto movement from “Beethoven’s Moonlight Sontata” —we decided that probably a course in sewing would be "kinda” practical. • « « • And seW I did. The evidence of my talent in that way was that I had made up all by my-.elf, a black and red percale dress to wear to a barbecue at Monroeville. The girls said it looked very nice'—of course they always said that to each other —and, blinded with the pride of creation — I thought it did, too. But I know better, now! • • » » So I went to “learn” the trade as a useful accomplishment, if not a. lucrative one. In view of the fact that 1 had made such a lovely dress to wear to tho barbecue, before I had even gone to “learn the trade” it did not surprise me when the dress maker put me to v oik on the finishing of seams and the sewing of and braids and trimming whereon fine stitches were required. I was somewhat puffed up when I saw girls who had been there much longer than I, doing “the basting,” while 1 was doing the . "fancy” work. Os course the barbecue dress, I thought, had much to do with my promotion. ' KEEP LOOKING YOUNG It’s Easy — If You Know Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets The secret of keeping young Is to feei young—to do this you must watch your liver and bowels—there’s no need of having a sallow complexion—dark rings under your eyes—pimples—a billious look in your face—dull eyes with no sparkle. Your doctor will tell you ninety per cent of all sickness comes from inactive bowels and liver. Dr. Edwards, a well-known physician In Ohio, perfected a vegetable compound, mixed with olive oil to act on the liver and bowels, which he gave to his patients for years. » Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets, the substitute for calomel, are gentle in their action, yet always effective. They bring about that exuberance of epiril, that natural buoyancy which should be enjoyed by everyone, by toning up the liver and clearing the system of impurities. You will know Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets by their olive eolor. 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. The Olive Tablet Company, Columbus, Q, DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BIG

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I began much farther advanced than s the other girls. I thought, and therei fore I could skip bastings. Great was 1 my surprise and chagrin, even though ’ unvoiced, to find the dressmaker, who no doubt could read some of my mind, i saying that in a few weeks, maybe. 1 I might try my hand at the bastings, t too; but that I must begin on eas- - ler and less important work. t Now, I had not even always basted 1 my doll goods before sewing it; if I • did, it was In a careless, haphazzard way—anything to hold the goods toI gether to make the final sewing a i little easier. I had supposed hasting • was a convenient, but unnecessary 1 evil! 3 • » • • f But I soon learned different. The , dress maker told me that upon bast- - Ing, hung the final "fit” and “set” I of the garment. If it were not bast--3 ed properly, before the final perma t nent sewing, it would never "hang o right.” Basting, she said, was the most important and most particular I part of the whole work —more dee pended upon it for the final hang of r the garment, than even the cutn ting. It was the very foundation a of the finished garment. The lining i- must be “basted” smoothly upon the s outside goods witli the weave running a in just the exact direction or the goods i. would “pouch;” tho seams must be h joined exactly and held together r nicely with the bastings, or the dress s would be “whopper-jawed;” the o stretching must be exact and held so 1. by the bastings; there must be no r- slipping. Careful attention to the f little details of basting made the perfect garment. With the foundation g laid right, the nice, fine stitches in ; | finishing, were of course necessary, f but minor things. However nicely II my barbecue dress may have been s “finished” I began to learn why it did r not escape that puckeriness and wobs bliness that is os the rage now. I >- hadn't basted it properly. ■. » » » • That lesson about “bastings” has f clung to me all these years. I have r learned therefrom that oftentimes ” that which we think the least import tant, is the most important; and, ; therefore, in order to get the best s results, it is best if we do every lit--3 tie thing well. It is another case of - the rejected Stone, becoming the Cor--1 ner Stone! r * * * * I wonder if parents or teachers realize the importance of “bastings” f ia the child's life. Those little every--1 day things they do. that so soon beI come habits, are really “bastings.” . They help to hold the young life to--1 gether, until the finer, nicer stitches r are placed, and the life, which was shaped at first by those seemingly . unimportant little "bastings” is made . or marred by the first stitches, however much or many the “fancy” stitches or trimmings may be spread } on afterwards. Those little habits that shape the , life so early may be plucked away as ' useless dater but they have shaped I the garment of life and you can nevI er ease the puckering or smooth out the cloth without ripping it up and , going back to the beginning and makJ ing it all over again. Fancy braid and buttons do not make a fine gar- ‘ ment out of one “whopper-jawed” through careless basting. So it is with a life. 0 , . Ta ■ J WORT WAYNE AND i SPRINGFIELD TRACTION Leave Decatur. J A M.—5:50. 8:30, 11:30. P M.—2:30. 5:45, 9:30. Leave Fort Wayne. A M.—7:00, 10:00. P. M.—1:00, 4:00, 7:30. 11:00. Freight car leaves Decatur at 7:55 i m„ and leaves Fort Wayne at 12 ; n.. arriving in Decatur at 1:45 p. m. j HOMER RUHL, Agent. | o- [ FOR SALE. One set of heavy harness, 1 set ot ! I farm harness, 1 set of buggy harness, : all new, hand made. Harness oil right, as long as it lasts. Stop at 506 So. 13th St., and get the price. 12-f-s-4uks W. H. AMRINE. ’[ PIANO TUNING. Mr. Krimmel, the piano tuner, of Fort Wayne, is here for a few days, ! Orders can be left at the Murray ho-1 tel; phone, 57. 50t2 • II

■CLOSING OUT SALE! Because of our being unable to secure a suitable Location we have decided to close out Our Big Stock of good Jewelry at rc- | duced prices including:i WATCHES. RINGS, UMBRELLAS, CLOCKS, PINS, LAVALEERS, BRACELETS, SILVER WARE, TABLE WARE, CUT GLASS WARE. AND IM FACT EVERYTHING COME IN AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY TTauthT son Rear Room Peoples Loan & Trust Co. On Madison Street.

Dr. C. V. Connell VETERINARIAN Ph rm a Office 102 1 OOUe Residence 143 WANTED —Ladies or man and wife to room and board. —111 North sth St. ’Phone 544. It

—■■ ■ - . 1 DR. FRUTH Specialist, In Chronic, Nervous and Special Diseases, Treated by New, Modern and Scientific Methods. ? For more complete Information see ad appearing In this paper,

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April 27, 28 and 29. Dr. Fruth will be at Decatur, Hotel durray, one day only, TUESDAY, MAY 2ND, and will return every 28 days thereafter. Consultation, examination and Professional Advice FREE.

r"—~ — —W. . .. Xtirri.. . .. ua>A ufra Pain! crn’t be Told by Looks Paint of the sham variety was never known to produce permanently satisfactory work. / It may pass muster for a while, but looks alone cannot Hip stand up against persistent, ravag- /' ing attacks of rain and shine. Looks <1 A* 'iC j' i must be backed up by weather- $ 1 v resistance as it is in paint made from — t Dutch Boy Tv EeteKln VW? White Le&d 27 and pure linseed oil. Protects against X-• I decay and gives good looks at minimum Y * I . <; cost. Just the thing, too, for inside J../• > walls and woodwork. { We are headquarters for high-class \ T painting necessaries. Write, ’phone or J call aoout paint for your property. / TkSSb? ”’4 4 IJnP® HOLTHOUSE kJ /MKI CU.AIi>ANY / L———i-iisil — —a — ■mhhxmmimmhmmkibbrimhmmkhb g ■KC.' III IliF^IS J WtK STIr« » II / « sO r ’A/ s i )ear i fiose pains ? 5 f single bottle will M li ' convince you g / W Sloan’s Hj 5 i Liniment |f||l Arrests Inflammation. I | M Prevents severe compli- I ■ M cations. Just put a few 1 qgjpggfr W W? drops on the painful E| a| w spot and the pain dis- K kIhS.MIN J jg appears.

4>*4-4>4'***<l>***** * PLENTY OF MONEY * * to Joan on ♦ * IMPROVED FARMS * * at 5 Per Cent * * Abstracts made on short * | * Notice. ♦ * SCHURGER’S ♦ * Abstract Office. ♦ Democrat Wants Ads Pay. LIVE STOCK and General Auctioneering thank you for your past favors I am still on the job. Telephone at my expense. J. N. Burkhead Monroe, Ind.