Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1911 — Page 3

THE BOUDOIR DAME FASHIONS DIARY

COLORS FOR SPRING

EDICT OF FASHION IN CHILDREN’S .' GARMENTS. Should B® Combined With White to Have the Proper Effect—Long Bodice and Bkirt Still - Favored. Children’s fashions all have an especial charm when madto up in spring materials, and this year a look of ununusual novelty is added to this blitheness. Color put on white is lmmense!y in vogue, bands, yokes and cuffs in the most vivid hues showing on snowy tittle frocks and aprons. This color note with white may take the form "of a very effective if simple embroidery

on a fine frock of marquisette, which texture washes like a t rag, and very often the needlework in heavy blocks wHI contain half a dozen rich colors. A deep red, blue of the most Intense sort, black, orange, mahogany and green are tints that appear in this needlework, which, whether haqd or machine made, is called Bulgarian embroidery. Of course the small frocks so treated need to be dry-cleaned as the vivid trimming used cannot be eounted on to stand the rigors of the washtub. - ’ Nevertheless, many a little lawn and linen frock may show needlework in one or three of these rich colors, tnd if the garment comes from a first elass place—perhaps a shop that makes a specialty of juvqnile wear— It is pretty likely to be warranted as washable. With the bordered muslins, lawns, swisses and challies, —for challle is included among the wash materials —the contrasting banding wHI be used with charming effect at the bottom of little skirts, about the cut-out neck and at the edge of sleeveß. All white frocks are seen in plenty and surely nothing could be sweeter for very young children, but when the child haß passed five a touch of color is newer, and it is apt to appear if only in the form of ribbon knots and sashes. As to design, the garments of the girl of seven, perhaps, are pretty apt to show Borne of the lines of her mamma's frocks, for kimono cuts are used for bodices and there are many little one-piece gowns almost identical in line with those for grown-ups. The difference comes in an easy width of the skirt, in a decolletage of the neck and in very short sleeves, all raiment distinctly for summer wear showing these last points.

Models for the tinier children have the babyish features suited to pudgy Infantile figures, and with the dressbp wash frock it is pretty much the rage to have the child look as much tike a French doll as possible. The long bodice and skirt—that is no more than a tiny flounce with, edge somelimes falling short of the child’s knees —still comprise the favored model, but instead of the distinct sleeve the bodice portion of the smart garment is cut in one with these details. In fact, it is well nigh impossible to escape the kimono influence, and allbough it may be run in the ground after awhile for the moment it is all powerful. Among the accessories for little girls are delightful aprons, which, since they are skirt length, may be used on a hot day in the house or country without a frock. These graceful and important details may be of the plainest linens or ginghams, but mothers who like the neatness and coquetry of the apron, often turn out cunning little affairs of dotted swiss with lace edges for wear with quite fine frocks. The "cook’s apron” Is the next style, the rear bands fastening at the shoulders being an exact imitation of some

of the apron cuts used by chefs. The little quantity of goods needed for this apron should recommend it to mothers who like their children to present a neat appearance at home and who cannot afford too many changes of frocks. Then quite a gay and childish look can be given the small garment with the use of a colored cotton with small Mother Goose figures for the banding, one such being employed in this case fifk a brown linen.

FLOWERS ON THE FUR SCARF

Effective Touch That Gives Relief to Somber Garments Worn in Cold Weather. One small touch of color makes sombre garments bloom with brightness. This is quite noticeable since the women began wearing a tiny bunch of artificial flowers or a single satin rose against the dark fur shoulder scarf. This.fashion Began Just a few weeks ago, and it has been widely taken up ever since. It is interesting to watch a thing like this grow. A woman came" into an afternoon tea with a brilliant pink satin rose pinned on a black fox scarf. Twenty women discussed it later and the next day after that half the number were downtown shopping for colored flowers. On the succeeding days there were flowers in plenty on dark furs wherever women were focpgathred. It was a Small touch, but it gave color and brilliancy to the dull tones that women wear on our streets. It was better than a gardenia in the buttonhole, and better than, a bow of colored ribbon, although this fashion is being taken np by those who do not wish to pay the price for a good artificial blossom. The fashion for satin flowers came in last summer, but did not meet with wide success in this particular spot. One saw roses of the material on hats and again on evening gowns as a rival to the rococo affairs of bullion cloth. Empire gowns for young girls carried girdles of tiny satin buds on a green vlneT and even slippers were finished off with a tiny satin blossom. Yet the vogue of the single ""Bower well made and attached to the costume as a note of rich color was not in general, use. Then, without warning, came this attractive method of pinning such a color to one’s furs. In the old days, when a fur piece was something to keep one warm in the Btreet and to be laid aside Indoors, the colored flower woqld not have served half as well as it does now, when furs are retained at all formal daytime affairs except luncheons.

USEFUL HANDBAG

1. Showing how to cut the material. 2. Showing how to_gather the mate rial over a wooden stick, which forms the top. . 3. Showing how to make the inside neat by facing it with colored satin, 4. Useful bag of velvet; the top is made by gathering the velvet over the round sticks to which the cord and tassels are fastened.

LINGERIE THAT IS PRACTICAL

Least Possible Fluffiness In Undergarments Is Now the Order of the Day. Lingerie this season is designed with the least possiblo fluffliness. from the corset cover to the matinee frock. It Is made of the finest of batiste, muslin or cambric and enriched by flat embroifieries, which have replaced the frills and flounces which were usual when the skirts were full and waists permitted much more to be worn under them. Flat, ungathered waists, petticoats that are nearly so, and matinee frocks which are finished without even so much as a frill at the meek or a collar are the sort which all but the most unfashionable adopt. Two-thirds of the lingerie la handqpibroidered and In forms that the needlewoman can easily copy at home. Many women with much leisure time are doing this line work on the summer frocks Which they previously purchased already embroidered

LOOK OUT FOR SWEDEN’S TEAM

“Watch out for Sweden In the Olympic games at Stockholm next year,” said Everett Brown, president of the Amateur Athletic Union of America, just before he left Chicago the other day for New York to attend a meeting of some of the United 'States representatives to the Olympiad. “The ’native sons’ have gone out for ;the world’s athletic. championship with ‘bipod in their eyes,’ and with 'the training they wilt have, added to | the natural ability they displayed in i London in 1908, they are going to cut i considerable figure at Stockholm. “I don’t want to be accused of lack jof patriotism or anything like that because of my statement,” continued the {president. “My aim is to warn the

SP ORTS and ATHLETICS

Owen Moran wants to become an aviator. - Let everybody cheer up and feel better. Johnny Evers wants the base runners to advance on bases on balls. In JPittaburg they are picking the Pirates to pass the pippin Cubs. Fred Tenney has named Mathewson as the greatest slabbist he has ever seen. Baseball is to be the king of sports the coming year and not the sport of kings. Many are falling in line for the Giants as prospective pennant. “coppers” in 1911. Attending dog shows is one of the principal pastimes in New. York. New bill for the legislature to con-„ aider: Resolved, That the toe hold be barred.

THOMPSON GETS BIG BOOST

“Cyclone Jqhnny” Is Getting to Be Great Favorite With Fight Fans in Antipodes. '

After a poor start, “Cyclone Johnny” Thompson has become a great favorite among the fight fans of Australia, according to letters received by fight-'

"Cyclone Johnny" Thompson.

lng men In Chicago. The Sycamore fighter got In "bad” when he first went to Australia because of his failure to make the weight necessary to keep him In the lightweight division, os he had been advertised, but since Thompson has been taking them o&

Everett C. Brown.

athletes of this country that they will have to be up and doing every minute of the time if they want to figure at .the top in the final/ count, for Sweden is going to leave nothing undone to turn the trick. “As a starter, the government is back of the movement by which Ernie Hjertberg, former coach of the New York Irish-Amerlc&n Athletic club, has been secured to train the Swedish athletes, and he has been given free' rein in his work. At present he is engaged in Bcouring the entire couni try for athletes from all stages of life, and every time he lands a man who looks like a ‘comer’ he puts that individual to work with a promise of v a place on the Olympic team if he shows enough class.”

Connie Mack, from all accounts, is still after college ball players. Hans Wagner would rather play ball than servfe on a jury. Coast critics are expecting to see Jess Baker, Dode Brinker and Charley Mullen make good with the White Sox this season. Russell Ford’s activity in the Fletcher movement apparently did not injure him in the eye of Manager Hal Chase. Joe Sugden, the old-time Sox catcher, is to coach the young pitchers of the Detroit team. Hofman was once a Pirate, it has been discovered. He came near being a shark and now he is a TJub bear. “Chick” Evans says the youthful golfer is taking all the -honors in the ancient and honorable pastime. If any doubts this “Chick” will go out to the public links and convince him.

without weight restrictions and going out of his class he has gained an immense following. Rudolph yUnholz, the Fighting Boer, who has returned to America, fought Thompson several times In the lightweight class, and declares he is the greatest fighter In the business. Unholz declares he does not think the light, welter or middleweight lives who can put Thompson out in twenty rounds. Unholz said the other day: * “I think Thompson must be nearly forty years old, and he is certainly a wonder for a man of that age. He is fighting stronger than ever; seems to be getting younger.”

COLLEGES TAKE UP BOXNG

Athletes May Battle for Honor In Ring aa Well In Various Other\ Sports. Athletes representing various colleges soon may battle for honors In the ring as well as on the diamond, gridiron and tennis court. Plans for a boxing league, long In contemplation, were aided when William J. Crombie, physical instructor in the University of Pennsylvania, sent letters to Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Cornell and Columbia suggesting the formation of an intercollegiate boxing association. Pennsylvania has already given attention to boxing. * Bouts at the various weights form a big feature of the May Day sports. The bouts are conducted - under the amatenr rales and never have been marked by one serious accident. Such clever men as Danny Hutchinson, Larry Miller, James Bklnner, Livingston Shilivan, T. D. Barclay and E. D. Roseberry competed In the bouts.

ON INDIAN RAILROADS

PECULIARITIES OF . TRAVEL IN THAT WONDERFUL/ LAND. Problem of Supplying Watdr t* “Caste” Men ,1s Sometimes Hard . " to Overcome Many Carry Their Own Supply. An Indian railway time table affords interesting study, it combines

cerns us here, the other—the prohibition of Intermarriage— having reference to matters outside the radius of a railway official’s activities. - A “caste” man must not partake of food cooked or even handled by one of inferior caste. Food Is a wide term. A very orthodox person would Include medicine compounded by an apothecary. One of more., liberal views might receive, say, a plantain (banana) from the hands of an individual beneath him, for the “unclean” hands of the latter would have come In contact only with the skin and not with the part to be eaten.

The first and most obvious requirement of any long distance traveler in a hot climate is fluid refreshment. The filter and the glass commonly found in an English <jjning car would be no use in India, inasmuch as the native would first of all want to know who put the water in the filter and then who last used the glass. If satisfactorily assured on the latter point, he would nevertheless run no risk of contamination, but would pour the liquid down his throat while holding the glass a few inches above his mouth. .: But the orthodox man, taking no risks at all, carries with him a brass water pot attached to a belt, and even then adopts the further precaution abovfe mentioned. At every station a native patrols the platform carrying a skin with a supply of water. Experience has taught the railway companies to be particular as to who is entrusted with this duty. Continuing, the writer says: ‘1 once traveled with a Brahmin who parched with thirst eagerly called the water carrier at each successive station. But before replenishing his brass pot he cross-examined the man as to his antecedents and ‘not being satisfied that he was of sufflcently high caste continued suffering agonies till a wire was sent on ahead, the result of which was that the holiest man of all the countryside was routed out and Induced to do duty pro tern. “Fortunately very holy people seldom travel and when they do they contrive to let it be known beforehand so that meals may be specially prepared for them in dvance.”

First German Railroad.

Seventy-five years ago the first railway was introduced Into Germany. The experiment was naturally on a modest scale from Ludwigsbann Joining up Nuremberg to Furth. The six kilometers of seventy-five years ago have Increased today to 60,000 kilometers, a kilometer being five-eighths of a mile; and it is claimed that Germany today possesses the finest railway system in Europe. The first locomotive used in the NurembergFurth line was named the Adler and was made under the superintendence of Stephenson in England. It cost £B6O.

Pea Not Equal to Coal.

An attempt to use peat as fuel in locomotives in Sweden has been abandoned. Though coal has to be imported, Its use has been found more economical.

Railroad Coal Burning.

The fourteen biggest railroads in Britain burned in 1909 $28,000,000 in coal.

ENGINEERS FOUND THE MEANS

Successfully Solved Problem Which Seems Formidable One to the Uninitiated. A unique and successful method of transporting heavy casting on cars of much less capacity than the weight to be carried, has been adopted by a Man-

Transporting a Heavy Casting on an English Railway.

chester concern. On two occasions recently, castings weighting 77 tons were transported from Manchester to the Mlddleborough docks for shipment to Japan on 50-ton cart, the exceaa weight being diatributed over two other cars by means of the cantilever ar-

voluminous railway information with a considerable amount of matter particularly .Interesting to the tourist Caste does not cause the railways 90 much trouble as might be imagined, judging by all one hears about it in England. Indeed c&ste distinctions are found to resolve int<j two main principles. One only con-

DANGER SIGNALS ALONG LINES

Some Reason® Why Occasionally They Are Disregarded by the Engineers, Persons unfamiliar with railroad operations doubtless wonder why employees frequently disregard signals when so ‘much depends upon their proper observance of them. An e» planation may be found in the old saw: “Familiarity breeds contempt." Day after dav, night after night, an engineman runs over his road finding signals showing “clear” as they appear wifhin 'range of his vision. It becomes natural to take for granted that they will so appear. Perhaps in a moment of inattention he finds himself running past a red one, and stops his train only to discover that either the train ahead had not quite passed out of the “block” or that the towerman had failed to show the clear signal when he should have done so. One or two experiences like this causes an engineman to feel that ft would not have made much difference if he had continued on his way, and thereafter, especially if he happens to be behind time, he may take chances on going ahead, particularly in the case of a long block. He knows that even if the train ahead was obliged to stop in the block, a brakeman under the rules must go back to warn following trains. But the brakeman also remembers that the towerman IS required to display his signal of danger until the train is reported “out," and he, the brakeman, is consequently not so vigilant about going back in the rear of the halted train as far as the rules require. Consequently, a dangerous condition Is created.—Manufacturers’ Record.

Traveled on Old Ticket.

A curious thing happened the other day when a woman boarded a train on the Tyrone and Clearfield branch of the Pennsylvania railroad and presented a ticket calling for a passage from Wallacetown to Pittsburg which had been issued in 1885. The conductor was curious to know how It had been preserved so long, and the lady explained that twenty-five years ago she had prepared to make a trip to Pittsburg, purchasing her ticket at that time. When the train pulled into the depot at Wallacetown en route to Pittsburg, a friend disembarked for the purpose of visiting her, which made her own trip impossible then. On going home she pat the - ticket away. Finding It the other day she decided to obtain her money’s worth and took the long-planned journey. -

Safes on German Trains.

The latest reform about to be introduced on German railroads Is the placing of safes aboard long distance trains. The safes are to be made of steel, with two keys, one to be kept In the custody of the passenger and the other In that of the train guard, both being necessary for the opening of the safe. The safes are to be placed in the guard's van and to b4> large enough to hold a small grip, Jewel case or similar package. A very moderate charge will be made for the use of the safes, the state taking all risks arising from theft, fire or railway accident, and protecting itself by a system of reinsurance. The reform, which might also be adopted with success on Italian railroads, was suggested by the number of assaults and robberies which occurred last year on certain of the German lines.

Relic of Lincoln.

Mrs. Freeland Young, of Norway, has a stickpin which is a keepsake. It has a small, rounded, gold-plated frame containing a tintype of Abraham Lincoln. •On the frame are the words, “For President, 1864.” Mrs. Young’s father gave her the stickpin when she was a girl and before Lincoln was chosen president the second time. Not many of these small tintypes of Lincoln are now In existence* but the picture is a very fine likeness. —Kennebec Journal.

Make-up of the Dollar Bill.

The American dollar bill is made up of parts gathered from all over the earth. Much of the paper fiber is linen rag from the Orient. The silk comes from Italy and China. The blue ink is made from German or Canadian cobalt. The black ink Is made from Niagara Falls acetylene gas smoke, and most of the green Ink has green color mixed in white zinc sulphite made in Germany. When the treasury seal is printed in red the color comes from Central America.

rangement shown in the illustration, and still two more cars being used to underrun the counterbalance weights. Five tens of packing was first placed on the 50-ton car, and the 77-ton casting placed on this, making the weight to be carried 82 tons. Oak beams, for levemge, were made fast to each end of the load-carrying car, and these were carried over the 40-ton cars on each side. At the outer ends of oacb

of these beams were hung 9-ton counterbalance weights. These weights swung over small well-oars without being attached to them in any way. The oak beams were 3 ft. square, three of different lengths being used on each side.